tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189039704965243822024-03-05T18:17:37.267-06:00Flip This BurgerHalf-coherent ramblings on an embarrassingly narrow range of subjects from this proud "Racist", "Right-wing Extremist", "Right-wing Terrorist", "Member of the Mob", as defined by The Obama Administration & Democrat Leaders of Congress.El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-59966318794292868602010-09-25T00:50:00.001-05:002010-09-25T00:51:31.796-05:00The Last Best Hope<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6weDMH-SCOE?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6weDMH-SCOE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-2544351124755007722010-09-15T19:54:00.002-05:002010-09-15T20:00:06.049-05:00Karl Rove, you ignorant slut.Your services are no longer required. That'll be all.El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-56848827955785939442010-08-22T13:23:00.006-05:002010-08-22T13:32:48.774-05:00AP Orders Staff: STOP USING THE PHRASE 'GROUND ZERO MOSQUE'<span style="font-style:italic;">Nope, no media bias here. No siree. </span> <br /><br /><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/alana-goodman/2010/08/19/ap-orders-staff-stop-using-phrase-ground-zero-mosque">In an unusual move</a>, the Associated Press has publicly released an advisory memo [1] to its reporters on how to cover the Ground Zero mosque story - and the first rule is that journalists must immediately stop calling it the "Ground Zero mosque" story. <br /><br />"We should continue to avoid the phrase ‘Ground zero mosque' or ‘mosque at ground zero' on all platforms," reads the advisory, which was issued by the AP's Standards Center.<br /><br />Instead of the "Ground Zero mosque," AP recommends that reporters use the terms "mosque 2 blocks from WTC site," "Muslim (or Islamic) center near WTC site," "mosque near ground zero," or "mosque near WTC site."<br /><br />The AP suggests that it might "useful in some stories to note that Muslim prayer services have been held since 2009 in the building that the new project will replace." In addition, the news service offers a "succinct summary of President Obama's position" on the mosque, but doesn't include the positions of any other politicians.<br /><br />Also included in the advisory is a "Fact Check" to provide "additional background" for reporters.<br /><br />(an excerpt)El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-63419132579837458962010-08-03T22:09:00.004-05:002010-08-03T22:16:57.300-05:00Missouri Voters reject Obamacare by a 3-1 margin!“The several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government.”<br />–Thomas Jefferson<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/08/03/nullification-movement-gains-steam-missouri-rejects-healthcare-mandates/">75% Vote for the nullification of Obamacare.</a> <br /><br />Today, voters in Missouri helped bring the Jeffersonian principle of Nullification one step closer to the mainstream by approving Proposition C – the Health Care Freedom Act. <br /><br />The new Missouri statute is nearly identical to Virginia’s Health Care Freedom Act – which is being defended by Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli, and was given the green light to proceed in court by a Federal Judge this week. The Missouri proposition passed the Senate on May 4th by a 26-8 vote, and the House on May 11th by 108-47 vote. Today, voters approved Prop C by a wide margin – early returns showed over 75% in favor.<br /><br />The legislation provides that:<br /><br />No law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system.<br /><br />and<br /><br />A person or employer may pay directly for lawful health care services and shall not be required by law or rule to pay penalties or fines for paying directly for lawful health care services. A health care provider may accept direct payment for lawful health care services and shall not be required by law or rule to pay penalties or fines for accepting direct payment from a person or employer for lawful health care services.El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-34913354402875230492010-06-11T09:47:00.001-05:002010-06-11T09:48:42.853-05:00BP Spills Coffee<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2AAa0gd7ClM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2AAa0gd7ClM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-46422644664730987502010-03-08T21:00:00.001-06:002010-03-08T21:02:15.207-06:00Obama UnpluggedAlthough I disagree with him in just about every way imaginable, Barack Obama makes some really fine points here.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o1qXbsTxRbk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o1qXbsTxRbk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-33674373505362506532010-03-03T08:37:00.007-06:002010-03-03T09:16:44.338-06:00Obama, Pelosi & Reid along with the other Traitorous Hypocrites say 'To Hell With The People', We're Going Nuclear<a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/obama-democrats-will-use-reconciliation-to-pass-senate-health-care-bill.html">President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix</a><br /><br />Here is Obama, Pelosi, Reid and many many other socialist/democrats back in 2005 railing against the Bush Administration for contemplating using reconciliation or what they termed "The Nuclear Option".<br /><br />Obama called the process "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" and said that it would change the character of the Senate forever. He went on to say that this would be against what the Founders intended.<br /><br />Sen. Biden called this process a "naked power grab" and warned the Republicans that they wouldn't always have a majority.<br /><br />Sen. Baucus, "This is the way a Democracy ends..."<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SjdbjrXiobQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SjdbjrXiobQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />And as is the usual now, the democrats/socialists (and their media minions) many of whom were in this video, say that this didn't really happen in the same context. They argue what they were protesting is different that what they are proposing doing today. <br /><br />Putting aside the complex senatorial procedural protocols away for just a minute, the democrats here are simply trying to use a 51 vote majority in The U.S. Senate chambers to enact <strong>brand new legislation</strong>.<br /><br />There it is. The Republicans used reconciliation to <strong>amend</strong> budgetary items inside legislation already enacted (which had to be passed originally with 60 votes).<br /><br />This blatant power-grab against the will of the majority of Americans united against ObamaCare is shocking. Especially only 45 days from when Scott Brown was elected into Teddy Kennedy's Massachusetts seat, by saying that he would represent the 41st vote to kill ObamaCare.El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-3883764425739168122010-01-25T10:41:00.001-06:002010-01-25T10:43:26.017-06:00U.S. Gov't Manipulating The Markets - YOU MUST SEE THIS!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cQyFxBG6dhY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cQyFxBG6dhY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-15988810809160383942010-01-19T20:52:00.000-06:002010-01-19T20:53:48.341-06:00THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION BEGINS TODAY!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DwQbPgouUYo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DwQbPgouUYo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-64256876441677547432009-11-22T14:44:00.002-06:002009-11-22T14:46:35.587-06:00SNL rips Obama a new one...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dKrmUOVEfAg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dKrmUOVEfAg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-61390878320331221692009-10-30T21:07:00.000-05:002009-10-30T21:08:53.901-05:00Democrats: "Whaaaa!!!"<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FE_0UdjElNQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FE_0UdjElNQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-20224727901538151332009-10-04T16:51:00.004-05:002009-10-04T16:57:39.939-05:00CNBC allows a non-cheerleader to speakJim Rickards: "Federal Reserve needs to cut US Dollar in half over next 14 years."<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBi9iLspoRc&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBi9iLspoRc&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-77633179048390616022009-09-27T21:36:00.003-05:002009-09-27T21:44:16.971-05:00Alan Grayson vs. The Federal Reserve General CounselCould you define the meaning of "manipulating the stock market/futures market to the tune of one trillion by front-running and insider trading"?<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mXmNpdYpfnk&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mXmNpdYpfnk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-43357468194690564242009-09-20T01:10:00.004-05:002009-09-20T01:18:37.640-05:00Obama Criticism Flow Charthttp://www.missourah.com/2009/09/15/obama-criticism-flow-chart/<br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/2yjopl3.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-62947688610678951212009-09-17T00:55:00.003-05:002009-09-17T01:06:42.234-05:00Congressman Mike Rogers on Obamacare.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G44NCvNDLfc&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G44NCvNDLfc&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />My response:<br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/11hugz7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-14750827210821360212009-09-11T06:47:00.005-05:002009-09-11T07:10:16.422-05:00State-run Media says DOUBLE DIGIT JUMP in support for Obamacare after speech<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/10/cnn-poll-double-digit-post-speech-jump-for-obama-plan/">Of course, here is the fine print</a>:<br /><br /><em>The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted just before and just after the president's speech, with 427 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.<br /><br />The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican. Our best estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates that the sample is about 8-10 points more Democratic than the population as a whole.</em><br /><br />What GREAT news for President Obama and his healthcontrol debacle, right?!<br /><br />Only sample 18% Republicans and you will get this kind of result everytime. Good job State-run Media. Dear Leader Approves, and you will be seeing TARP money real soon.<br /><br />In other news, Obama has a <strong>90% approval rate </strong>according to CNN's latest poll just released this hour. The random non-partisan polling data reveals that CNN asked one representative from an organization/company how they thought Obama was doing in overall job performance as President.<br /><br />Small-business Owner<br />ACORN Executive<br />SEIU Executive<br />ACLU Executive<br />DNC Official (H. Dean, whoever that is)<br />NBC Executive<br />Screen Actors Guild Executive<br />Goldman Sachs Executive<br />Socialist Party USA Official<br />A randomly chosen Boston ghetto residentEl Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-10778554184575642792009-09-02T23:06:00.007-05:002009-09-03T01:15:19.517-05:00WAKE UP AND THEN STAND UP FOR AMERICA.Our Great Country is going through a most perilous journey as I type this blogpost. It has not been a good last few years for America, to say the least. And there is plenty of blame to spread around, lest this be just about our current President Obama. <br /><br />George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress literally opened pandora's box with the Patriot Act, and for allowing, nay championing, the first Bailout for more than three-fourths of a trillion dollars in the Fall of 2008. <br /><br />Bush will forever be known for this sad quotation: "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oetNPJJcuAE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oetNPJJcuAE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />What has transpired in the last 9 months, since President Obama has taken over has been truly breathtaking. Not breathtaking like seeing The Grand Canyon for the first time, or holding your first child in your arms minutes after they were born. No, breathtaking in that same sense where you just witnessed the death and destruction of a massive eighty car pileup on the interstate in front of you.<br /><br />Not even fully going into the debacle that is Obama's (hopefully) failed socialized medicene, errr..."Public Option Plan" in the last few weeks, here are some other top priority scares that We The People need to be aware of, and stop. <br /><br />President Obama has surrounded himself with czars or "advisors to the President" who are outright communists/socialists/fascists or have these evil tendencies at their core. Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, John Holdren & Mark Lloyd are just a few of the radicals Obama has chosen to advise him on critical issues that are worthy of 'change'. <br /><br />Van Jones, Green Jobs Czar, is a self-admitted COMMUNIST who started the group STORM, and has been quoted as saying, "Spread the wealth, change the whole system."<br /><br />Where have I heard that phrase "Spread the wealth" before? Oh, that's right, it was during the 2008 Presidential campaign from Barack Obama.<br /><br /> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RZcEHLr4gBg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RZcEHLr4gBg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <br /><br />Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar, has lobbied for legal rights for animals, not that he probably cares for the animals, no it's a means to enact environmental/societal change on America. <br /><br />John Holdren, Science Czar, has written how it would be "Constitutional for the Government to use sterilization methods on its people in order to control population...and that it would be easier to sterilize women at the hospital after the 2nd or 3rd child than to track down the men for sterilization"<br /><br />Mark Lloyd, FCC Diversity Czar, opined how great it was that Venezuela's Chavez took control over the media and turned it into state controlled media. (Research NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, GE & Goldman Sachs to how they all tie in)<br /><br />Obama and the Dept. of Education in the last few days have prepared a mandatory speech to all of the school-aged kids in America. They have provided cirriculum that asks the students how they can help President Obama. No, not help America, or help the community, it asks how they can help a politician.<br /><br />The National Endowment for the Arts, has recently been caught communicating with left-leaning artist groups on how they can enact change on the debate for healthcare reform and other vital policy propaganda for Barack Obama. So, we the taxpayers get to fund the NEA whereby they use that money to bribe artists to create propaganda. <br /><br />Barack Obama and his wife, along with his Czars and other political appointees, have been consistent at least. They have all maintained that they want to "fundamentally change America".<br /><br />I, for one, am taking their word for it, and just using the above examples of the kinds of people Obama has surrounded himself, is truly frightening.<br /><br />It is not much of a leap to start connecting the dots here and seeing what Obama is up to and his grand plan objectives. <br /><br />Bottomline, I really don't care if you are a Conservative or a Democrat, an Independant, a Liberal or a Republican, as long as you are an American is all that matters.<br /><br />READ THIS CAREFULLY!<br /><br />You cannot allow any one man to enact this type of change on Your Country, no matter what political party symbol is beside his name. You must understand that unless he can pull off the truly unthinkable, and become a dictator like the left's favorite Chavez and Castro, the opposite party of yours will be in positions of power again. <br /><br />You will be allowing this President to create "precedent", that you will surely be raising hell about should you find yourself in the political minority again, and you will.<br /><br />The next successor might use the tools Obama gave him to finally take away all of our rights some day. <br /><br />Since the birth of The United States of America, her citizens have been freedom-loving capitalists who cherished The Bill of Rights as was given to them by God, not man. Meaning, these rights were not up for debate, and could not be taken away by man.<br /><br />The founders knew all to well, that in the future, powerful men with evil hearts could destroy the Republic if certain steps were not taken to make this virtually impossible from the start.<br /><br />So, great men like Madison, Franklin & Hamilton wrote the Constitution and The Bill of Rights, specifically limiting the powers of the federal government, and granting to the people (states) as having <strong>ALL</strong> the rest. <br /><br />The Tenth Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<br /><br />Wake up and then stand up for America.El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-55913928181000600982009-08-02T02:32:00.004-05:002009-08-02T02:39:51.193-05:00Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk5_M_eulfqHkBHT9Q1HC_-A51UULAG05YglnS-XHS-8FHl5djjXiPedB0sHrAJ5sa7YMekX0RTA73-noy5jpjQVZV9ObJKVT3hKVqw1619uV8eAMIGtODJhgZHagZwcMiKRQLV1BP0D4/s1600-h/obamajoker1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk5_M_eulfqHkBHT9Q1HC_-A51UULAG05YglnS-XHS-8FHl5djjXiPedB0sHrAJ5sa7YMekX0RTA73-noy5jpjQVZV9ObJKVT3hKVqw1619uV8eAMIGtODJhgZHagZwcMiKRQLV1BP0D4/s320/obamajoker1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365266875081051538" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx91H16iEdP9xxzAfwBwoUccSYZDMBUV3uE8o31i4IWlGT2WU1vHcB2FyCep1PkisR4nG2EQKDUfb473ythZjb9OlYEPtWOPeTr1wXo7WApnNxWMoLevmNip3_EuhvLXMWaC-yXVjfqA/s1600-h/Obama_Joker.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx91H16iEdP9xxzAfwBwoUccSYZDMBUV3uE8o31i4IWlGT2WU1vHcB2FyCep1PkisR4nG2EQKDUfb473ythZjb9OlYEPtWOPeTr1wXo7WApnNxWMoLevmNip3_EuhvLXMWaC-yXVjfqA/s400/Obama_Joker.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365266411293881058" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/01/obama-joker-poster-popping-los-angeles">Read the story from Noel Sheppard @ Newsbusters</a>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-33810977994531736962009-07-28T22:38:00.001-05:002009-07-28T22:40:17.752-05:00US Soldier Demands Apology From Senator Claire McCaskill at Town Hall<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y98HxYbsdBM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y98HxYbsdBM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-52905917371921302552009-04-27T12:30:00.001-05:002009-04-27T12:33:24.961-05:00Ahmed and Salim - Episode 1<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rXMIQDVOs98&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rXMIQDVOs98&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Found this at http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2009/04/israeli-made-south-park-like-cartoon-of.htmlEl Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-63767454299158267922009-03-25T18:21:00.001-05:002009-03-25T18:24:26.979-05:00Can we trade Obama for this guy?<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-1874963074034959472009-03-18T08:49:00.000-05:002009-03-18T08:51:00.102-05:00Different Presidents, A Different Corps<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xIHz5tevLAw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xIHz5tevLAw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-85058086113109262632009-03-16T19:23:00.002-05:002009-03-16T19:27:47.032-05:00Is stimulus spending cash into 'black hole'?<a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/finance/is-stimulus-spending-cash-into-black-hole-41277902.html?viewAllComments=y">Winnipeg Free Press<br />By: Ray Turchansky<br />3-15-09 </a><br /><br /><blockquote>There is a growing list of educated people predicting that the trillions of dollars spent by governments around the world to stimulate a moribund economy will not work.<br /><br />There's already Peter Schiff, head of Euro Pacific Capital in Connecticut, and Peter Morici, professor at the University of Maryland and former chief economist of the U.S. International Trade Commission. And you can add the name of Allan Brennan, manager of economic analysis and forecasting with the Alberta government's Department of Infrastructure and Transportation.<br /><br />"Stimulus packages will not help the economy at all," Brennan said in a presentation with Dundee Private Investors branch manager Trevor Hamon.<br /><br />"A lot of money is going to banks, but unless you get that money to consumers, things will not improve. Money is going down the black hole. If you think they're going to start consuming wildly, I don't think it's going to happen."<br /><br />Brennan said that within a year, we will face a cataclysmic event that will shake world finances to the roots, leading to a major period of either deflation or hyperinflation, either of which will rock the global economy. Just what that event will be, he's not sure.<br /><br />It could be the failure of eastern European countries, or the collapse of the U.S. dollar. If it causes hyperinflation, investors can prosper by letting stock prices plummet for a couple of months, and then invest in commodities, with copper leading the rebound.<br /><br />"With deflation, you would end up with a very violent, very short, very deep recession, and within three years you'd start climbing out of that. With inflation, it could go on for 20 years."<br /><br />Brennan explained that we are in this mess where banks are going under because they used over-the-counter derivatives, instruments whose value is based on underlying assets, in many cases the debt from subprime housing mortgages in the U.S.<br /><br />"When it fails big-time, a lot of people will be hurt. If you think we're having trouble now, just wait until the mountain of garbage goes rotten.<br /><br />"Debt is 470 per cent of the current economy, and the last time things were bad, in 1979, it was 300 per cent. We are probably beyond the point where that debt can ever be saved. This is a solvency crisis, not a liquidity crisis."<br /><br />Portugal, Italy, Greece, Ireland and Spain are all near bankruptcy. So is the state of California.<br /><br />"The United States has actually lost sovereignty over its own interest rates and the value of the dollar."<br /><br />Hamon warned that banks have lured people into home-equity lines of credit, and they are now retiring while in debt.<br /><br />"In the next couple of years, the art of investing will be not losing your principal," Brennan said. "The way out of this, in the long term, is for people to start saving." Then they can start spending again, without being in debt.<br /><br />"The new economy that comes out of this mess will not resemble this economy at all."<br /><br />Brennan said the nationalization of banks in many countries is inevitable, but it will be done "under the table," as governments buy in and reduce the equity value of other shareholders. He sees the British pound disappearing as an independent currency, the U.S. dollar in peril as the reserve currency, and the euro perhaps splitting into a strong Nordic euro and a weak Latin one.<br /><br />In the end, Hamon said, we will return to the way we used to live a generation or two ago. That means grandparents living with their children. Workers taking lunch pails to work. One-income families. People raising their own children and cutting their own grass. Camping instead of cruising.<br /><br />"There will be a reduction in living standards," Brennan said.<br /><br />-- Canwest News Service </blockquote>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-26597334030722347872009-03-03T00:37:00.002-06:002009-03-03T00:45:47.055-06:00New Era of Responsibility? - Whatever.(Source Yahoo Finance)<br /><br />The late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005) offered the following observation several years ago and it bears poignant significance today:<br /><br /><blockquote>"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich out of freedom.<br /><br />What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.<br /><br />The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else.<br /><br />When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them,<br /><br />and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for,<br /><br />that my dear friend is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply the wealth by dividing it."</blockquote>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818903970496524382.post-55881852370954568372008-12-23T22:46:00.004-06:002008-12-23T22:58:33.259-06:0010 things that won't survive the recession<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/23/10_things_that_wont_survive_the_recession_1.html">Tight times, and budgets, will hasten the end for some things.</a> <br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">The government says we've been in a recession for the past year. Experts say it'll be at least another year before it's over. And everybody says it's the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. <br /><br />Nice sound bite. What does that mean?<br /><br />Who knows? We can be sure that this downturn will differ totally from the Depression, and also different from the many recessions we've suffered every decade or every other decade since the '30s. I'm not an economist or a historian, but it seems to me that this recession will be something unprecedented.</span></blockquote>El Scorchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379096563880208362noreply@blogger.com0