Almost another month has past

I can't even muster the rage to write. It is all so disgusting.

The AG of the USA refuses to proceed against Black Panthers for voter intimidation captured on video. Bare naked voter threats. And we go around the world telling others how to run their elections.

We give money in "stimulus" to the very "community organizers" that were caught in voter fraud. Massive urban voter fraud that may have tilted the election to Obama. But the AG's office can't seem to get it together to go after these people. Somehow.

But the AG's office seems to find it critical to root out overzealous CIA officers and bring them to heel ... for their interrogations of terrorists. Make no mistake, if they were at Gitmo, they were not there by accident. If they were picked up after a firefight in Helmand Province, it was not because they were only growing poppies. So rather than prosecute people who were committing felonies in the US, subverting our very political system, Obama's men feel the need to conduct a witch hunt against people who may have prevented another 9-11.

Sort of fits: go around the world apologizing for America's keeping them free for the last 50 years and then seek to crucify those who work made it possible.

This man hates the United States. The AG's office is his internal hit squad, his revolutionary guard, his Khymer Rouge.

Instead Obama appoints czars ... all to get government out of the hands of morons in Congress (where they might be subject to the will of the people and hence less than enthusiastic about his coup). He appoints an avowed communist to his Green Jobs Czar. He appoints a questionable jurist to the Supreme Court -- one who just skated by obvious racist tendencies.

The Obamas carry on the Clintonian tradition of star-worship on MV, along with buddy Gates. There is something so wrong about the bleeding heart liberal establishment all vacationing together on an exclusive island, away from the prying eyes of those who might be able to recognize hypocrisy. Wine, dine and schmooze on the Vineyard -- put a clamp in place to prevent the press (assuming that any would have the cojones to accurately report on what they see) from reporting anything but the idylic vacation of the First Family. And this is different from the WASPy millionaires in which way?

And you can't take pictures of the First Family, because they want their privacy ... they want their cake and the ability to eat it too. Precisely what the press has never afforded any conservative Chief Executive. Because when you become President of the United States, you give that up. You BELONG to the people ... and NOT the other way around.

Time to write again

Had to take some months off ... too busy, too annoyed, too something to deal with the present political disaster.

Some comments, then.

The Cash for Clunkers deal: doesn't anyone see this as pure income redistribution? Consider who is doing it, what is being traded in, and most importantly, what is being bought? Moderately affluent Americans have already either, (a) traded to a more sensible car, or (b) don't care what the gas mileage is on their car.

But 'po folk are driving around in rat-bags ... always have and always will. So the plan is to take a 'po person driving a total rat-bag clunker (say a 1990 Chrysler mini-van or early model Explorer) and give (MY MONEY) to them so that they can buy a a shiny new car, "stimulating the economy." What could a sensible person possibly have against this?

Let's list them:

(1) it is the tax payer's money (that you worked for -- while you studied hard, earned scholarships and took part-time jobs, others smoked dope and played on various varsity sports teams, dropped out, dealt drugs, etc.);
(2) it is pure socialism -- which has NOT ONE example of economic success;
(3) it will buy votes from the recipients ... to enable the Socialists (Obama's government and Democrat House and Senate leadership) to more of this;
(4) it doesn't stimulate a gnat's ass ... 6 out of 10 of the cars that are being bought are from foreign owned manufacturers or actually made abroad, and the cash headed to the auto firms was going to be stolen from the taxpayers anyway, rather than creating new jobs and demand;
(5) the amount of "green" impact is negligible -- and a very expensive way to achieve it (small, or even large gains in mileage offset by the environmental costs of building new cars in the first place and the disposal of perfectly viable cars -- see the top 10 trade-ins below) ;
(6) it takes our attention away from the real theft ... which is about to occur on a scale that will blow all other examples away for eternity ... Obama-care;
(7) it prolongs the death-dance of Government Motors and Chrysler ... let's bite the bullet now;
(8) it is another handout in kind to the UAW, staunch supporters of Obama's bid to "change" the country ... into a fetid Socialist poop-hole.

There is some element of "social justice" that I want to address: why should I have to pay others because I have been a careful investor, paid my taxes, tried to build wealth to live the "American Dream?" How is it "just" that someone who has been content to live on margins, working 9 to 5 on some factory line, scraping by, driving some old rat-bag should suddenly be presented with $4500 to buy a shiny new car? Where is the incentive to work hard and save?

And all along these same people driving these rat-bags could have opted for a fuel efficient smaller car: your basic $1000 clunker comes in more varieties than Ford Explorers? Why do the poor (if those are in fact the only people involved in this scheme) feel they need to drive SUVs and large gas-hog vehicles? Why should I bail them out of their poor choices? The top ten trade-ins are:

1. 1998 Ford Explorer

2. 1997 Ford Explorer

3. 1996 Ford Explorer

4. 1999 Ford Explorer

5. Jeep Grand Cherokee

6. Jeep Cherokee

7. 1995 Ford Explorer

8. 1994 Ford Explorer

9. 1997 Ford Windstar

10. 1999 Dodge Caravan

I don't get it?! If you really want to remove gas-hogs from the street and help the environment, then put $1.00 a gallon tax on gas. Or $2.00. That will remove them and quickly. To protect those who apparently need protection, you can offer them low-interest loans to buy new AMERICAN cars (you can couch that in terms that will not violate trade agreements, just like the Europeans do). And if you feel like driving and Escalade ... then you can pay for it, just as they do in Germany where people drive large Mercedes and BMWs with large engines (and lousy fuel economy) and have paid $8.00 per gallon for fuel. It IS a non-renewable resource.

But no. Obama/Reid/Pelosi are truly gut-less wonders. THAT might cost them the votes from their constituency, so they are not THAT interested in fixing the problems before us. Far better to tax the mythical "rich" and "redistribute" ... a short-term "fix" that can only lead to stagnation, indolence and long-term economic disaster.