Contrails ....

First look at one of the clips .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMdHBgHtNE
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9GNuW4-JTY

Now -- nobody is knows what it was. Let's get a few things straight: it was not a jet contrail. It was a missile. A big one. I grew up watching missiles go up from Vandenberg, big ones like Titan IIs and smaller ones designed to test ICBMs and put small launch packages in low orbit.  I know what they look like. Once, seen never forgotten.

So, let's put aside the BS. The next big question is who did it and why? The most likely scenario is a U.S. sub off of our coast in a routine test of launch capability -- just maybe perhaps to show that Chinese that we are thinking about them.  But if so, this was rather crude. There was no need to launch in sight of the U.S. coast to alert the Chinese that we can do this from the Continental shelf. It is guaranteed that within 90 seconds into the boost phase, phones were ringing in Beijing demanding probable impact sites, anyway.

Secondly, there islands off of the Los Angeles Coast ... specifically San Nicolas Island. Which happens to be part of the Pacific Missile Range and is controlled by the U.S. Navy.  Don't even try to come close to the Island or bad things will happen. Try looking at 33"15' N by 119"28 W.  The island was considered as an alternative to White Sands in 1945 ... look it up if that means nothing to you. So while all these hand-wringing morons are shooting their mouths off on TV ... the whole thing makes perfect sense. And since when would the Pentagon, stand up and say "yep, that was one of ours ... a MIRV'd Trident shot from the pad on San Nic (or from a Boomer off the island and monitored by the land-based station)?"

So could it be a simple miscalculation as to sundown? Someone forgot? A message to others? Where was the downrange target? For NORAD and the Pentagon "not to know" would be one thing, but also guaranteed they know to within a few yards of where that payload splashed.

But what if ... what if it wasn't the U.S. Navy or SAC doing the shooting? What if, it was the Chinese showing that they could sneak a boomer onto the U.S. continental shelf, next to one of America's largest cities, and then popping off a rocket to show that they could do it too? Hmmm? How about that? Obama is widely perceived as a weenie in international power politics anyway, so why not "goose" him a little?  Would we admit that the Chinese could do it? Say the sub was in international waters right between the islands out there -- they they shoot one out over the Pacific: NORAD would know within a few 1000ft of boost that the missile was no threat to the continental U.S., so alerts would be muted, thinking they might have not been told by the Navy.

Or the Russians, for kicks? Right now the Chinese are being very strident about our financial machinations. They hate what the Fed is doing, and their very way of life depends on the U.S. continuing to buy their junk. What if it was a message and WE are the recipients?

Spin ... right off the road

Obama's spin meisters are trying to characterize the election drubbing suffered by Democrats across the country (the worst since 1938 ... coincidentally where their socio-commie legislation failed to revive the country from the Great Depression) as purely about jobs and (as in 1938) about the pace of recovery.

In 1938, FDR's plans for a great socialist nation essentially came to a grinding halt: there was no money to pay for the social reform plans and infrastructure programs didn't produce long-lasting jobs. Business was loathe to hire when the risks were too great that further government legislation would scupper their strategic planning.

Also, less well reported, was a general feeling among the nation that these guys (meaning FDR's minions) hadn't the faintest clue of what they were doing and were basically ripping apart the fabric of America.

In 2010, we had another wanna-be Democrat emperor, Democrat controlled House and Senate, ineffectual "stimulus" which turns out to be nothing more than transfer payments, a Fed determined to re-inflate our way out of financial stagnation (and pay off the loans with debased dollars), businesses unwilling to hire or recapitalize out of sheer fear of more economic insanity propagated in Washington --- and we are being told that the American people are just upset at the pace of recovery.

Mr. Obama ... and Democrats everywhere ... you are either being extremely dishonest or extremely stupid (for many of the faithful, I suspect the later and for the [p]resident, I suspect the former): the reason you were handed a "shellacking" is that you not representing the people of this country. You are pushing through legislation that the VAST majority (like over 70%) do not want, and are ignoring your promises.

Obama (in his speech to the Nation "the day after") stated that Democrats and Republicans needed to start to work together. "We were so busy doing things that we didn't focus on how to do them." Translated: when we got those absolute majorities, we didn't need you to push through our progressive agenda, so we cut you out of the process. You lying two faced schmuck! You PROMISED that you would work with the opposition. You PROMISED that you would be bi-partisan. You PROMISED that "this time things would be different." You campaigned on hope and CHANGE. NONE OF THIS HAPPENED. In fact, you made the Bush administration look positively cooperative. Pelosi stated (for the cameras) "we won the election, so we can do what we want."  But we expected more from you Mr. [p]resident ... we expected even a modicum of honesty. We didn't get it. You lied like a rug and got hammered for it.

Why was OBAMA (this election was a referendum on Obama, make no mistake about it) so badly mauled -- note that this is not about the jobs only? What created the Tea Party?

1. Transparency --
(a) The Obama Administration is the least transparent in modern history. It makes Richard Nixon look like an information tele-prompter.
(b) Congress did their deals in the dead of night with no meaningful (and often completely none) consultation with the opposition -- committees met behind closed doors, the GOP was barred from entering at any level.
(c) Legislation was passed without ANY legislator having actually read the text, and not just any legislation, but matters involving TRILLIONS of dollars, Pelosi told the Nation: we just have to pass it so that you can see what's in it. Such a thing is simply unheard of except in places like North Korea, China, the former German Reich and the former Soviet Union. Does that ring any alarm bells for anyone? Huh? We were PROMISED that legislation would be posted on the internet for 72 hours before a vote was taken.
(d) Obama promised deliberations on CSPAN ... PROMISED MANY TIMES ... and we have yet to seen any of it.
(e) Who are you Mr. O? Release your transcripts, your school applications, a real birth certificate. Release information to show where you were able to afford college at all? A foreign student?
(f) Czars. NEVER has there been so many un-elected officials directing the actions of the Executive Branch. Unaccountable, powerful and taking their orders from you, Obama. Sounds like the NKVD, FSA, Stasi and KGB.

2. A fabric-rending Socialist Agenda
(a) Obama has stated for the cameras that "a little wealth distribution is a good thing." Only he didn't mean a little, he meant a lot.
(b) ObamaCare -- more than any single piece of legislation, this one really sticks in our national craw: this is income redistribution writ large and for the benefit of the uninvited. NOWHERE ON EARTH does a government provide cradle to grave medical care for persons who are not citizens of that country. Nowhere. Except, perhaps, now the United States does. We cannot afford it. None of the European countries can afford it even for their own citizens, really -- and they don't have 30 million illegals draining the system without return.  Yet, $500 billion is going to be drained from "waste" and from excess/needless care for our seniors (elimination of the one program that works MediCare Advantage). The long-delayed cuts reimbursement rates for doctors, so conveniently delayed at every session of Congress will take effect ... probably in 2013, by which time either these crooks have another 4 years, or it becomes someone else's problem.  ALL OF OUR RATES WILL GO UP. Massachusetts has experience a 30% increase in rates since Romney care (that alone will cost him a Presidential election unless he just fesses up and says that he was wrong) -- and Massachusetts is the model for Obamacare. This will kill us.
(c) Cap and Trade. So if you cannot get it through the House the way you want -- too many legislators saw that this was political death for them -- you do an end-run through Federal Agencies arbitrarily making new standards and procedures that has the same effect as legislation ... but without any scrutiny by the public or even legislators.
(d) Refusal to enforce federal laws: our borders are meant to protect our country. They are not meant to be porous. Illegal immigrants are by the nature of the concept  ILLEGAL. We normal American citizens are forced to obey the laws by threat of incarceration -- but this HUGE 30 million segment of the population can drive around without insurance, use our hospitals as free medical care, get free housing, food stamps, education for their children, dishonor our flag, spend billions of dollars on English as a second language, billions more on bilingual signs, posters, pamphlets, medical requirements, translators in courts ... lost productivity. Billions ever year, flushed down the toilet needlessly.  Massachusetts could close its budget gap simply by eliminating spending on illegals -- just the ones that admit they are here, let along the undocumented illegals.... That even sounds like a contradiction in terms, but its not.
(e) A morally corrupt application of the laws that are enforced. How about indicting the Black Panthers for election fraud and interference with people's rights to vote? Or is it because the people losing their vote are white? There is film footage and dozens of witnesses ... but your flunky Eric Holder won't prosecute. Why? But he WILL file suite against Arizona which only sought to enforce the Federal Borders -- this NPR story about the private prison system is a red herring and completely ignores the reality of Arizona-- you are more likely to be kidnapped in Phoenix than just about anywhere in the the Western Hemisphere.

3. Hatred of America
(a) You hate America when you disrespect the Nation and your Office. You cannot do any more world apology tours. Stop it right now. We could not bear you going around kissing the ass of just about every despot on the face of the Globe. We couldn't believe you dissing our troops at every given point. We despised you bowing to the Saudi King and Chinese Chairman. You should not apologize for America having kept the world largely free of oppressive dictatorships over the last 60 years.
(b) The Boy Scouts of America represent a large segment of what is good about our country. You repudiated this and what they stand for by doing a campaign fund raiser instead of attending the BSA 100th jamboree. You disrespected every Boy or Girl Scout there ever was or will be. That includes me.
(c) Your wife clearly hates America -- that's the first time I was ever proud to be an American.  Fine. Go live somewhere else -- if they would have you.

4. The Race Card
(a) Black Liberation Theology.  Obama, you cannot just get away with attending a church that espouses hatred of races, hatred of America.  The church you attended for 20 years and in which faith you baptized your children, on whose roles and ledgers you signed up is a hate institution. If it was a "white church" giving those sermons, we'd call it the KKK. And you would perforce be a member. But since it is an African-American church and its minister the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. is African-American somehow you get a pass? 
(b) Back to Eric Holder .... how does this clown determine what and where to prosecute? Mr. Obama, you are his boss.
(c) Aunty Zaituny --- Do you suppose that the Federal Judge valued not having their next posting somewhere like Fargo?

4. Other Broken Promises
(a) How about DOMA -- the Defense of Marriage Act? A truly disgusting piece of legislation if there ever was one. But with absolute majorities in the Congress you failed to do anything about this in the 18 months you could have absolutely rammed it through?
(b) Don't ask, don't tell. As with 4(a) above, you had all the opportunity in the world.
(c) Cut taxes -- just maybe on its face ... although since just under 50% of the nation pays not federal income taxes anyway, who cares? Who is the middle class anyway? BUT, when you look at all the back-door matters -- increased health care, increased energy costs, bailouts across the board will have to be paid for by taxpayers -- and your backdoor cap and trade WILL increase energy costs directly, and it WILL be regressive ... and failure to make permanent the Bush tax cuts: when you add the whole shebang up, we all owe a lot more each year than we did prior to 2008. And it will only get worse.
(d) Katrina ... what? Oh, I meant the absolute fiasco in the Gulf. George Bush must have been laughing his ass off. Your pathetic visits to the Gulf, dragging your family along for 8 hours to vacation.... Are you on drugs? Do you not see that the American Public understands this for what it is? You have an imperial Presidency -- you are not part of the "Common Man", you are a classic ivory tower  liberal who believes in "do as I say, and don't do as I do."
(e) Going to run a "green Presidency." So that is why you take Air Force One for a night out in New York City? Why you have played more golf during your presidency than Bush and Clinton combined -- in only 18 months. Where Michelle takes convoys of cars to go to the Farmer's Markets? Why you take Air Force One to Copenhagen to bid for Chicago for the Olympics? Why you are taking 34 warships, 50 cars and 10 747-loads of personnel to India for a 3 day trip?

The list could go on. All of these are reasons that count for the election drubbing. You are so out of touch that it is truly remarkable. And this is why WE THE PEOPLE want you and your kind (both Democrat and Republican) gone. For good. Electoral dust. The Tea Party is not about right-wing nut jobs. It is not about vote the Democrats out and Republicans in. It is about being a good American - law-abiding, family-oriented and hard working. Not lying or cheating. Gender and color neutral. Honest. Americans.

We remain a very divided nation

I wish I could drag one of those interactive map to this blog; let's see if this works....

http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/election-map-2010/#race=racesInPlay&pres=false&tab=house&state=us-house

Nah.  The map is essentially red. Those parts that are blue are Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of the "far left" coast, as well as rust belt urban and native American reservations. That part of America that actually works for a living voted "for change." That is, against Obama.

Those parts that didn't have an uncanny ability to suspend reality. Let's look at a few Massachusetts races .... Barney Frank beat Sean Bielat. Barney Frank is going back to Washington for the 16th time ... 30 years of theft under his belt and another 2 to come. Frank will lose his chair on the Finance committee -- and as a consequence, some of his oratory platform. But he is a liar: there is so much tape from his statements in the early 2000's that conflict directly with what he said in the last two years. Not the least of which are his statements that Fannie and Freddy were sound and should continue their lending practices ... repeated in 2005-2006.  Now, "Fanny and Freddy suffered from Bush's policies, but they should continue to promote "affordable" housing." Huh? Is that saying, ok so they are broken, but let's continue anyway? Frank is perhaps the lead architect of the financial crisis, yet he continues to sail along changing his story every 20 minutes. Only in Massachusetts or the urban California could this idiot continue to be elected.

Another Massachusetts race: John Tierney. His wife just plead guilty for $7 million in money laundering related to campaign finance. Supposedly, Tierney knew nothing. Right. And he was just re-elected.  All this just happened - this is not long-ago history.

Suzanne Bump -- is a tax cheat. Yet, she just got elected State Auditor.  She claims that she inadvertently claimed two primary residences on her taxes ... because Massachusetts treats your secondary residence rather unfairly (it socks it to the owner). Bump furthermore ran on her managerial skills ... her experience consists of working for a trade association, as a state legislator and in the Executive Office of Labor. Her competitor is actually a practicing CPA and ran the audit department for the Masspike.   No matter, Bump got elected.

Cadillac Deval managed to achieve almost nothing in his first term, despite the Dems having despotic control of both Mass Houses. No new cops. No local aid. Higher taxes. Higher health care cost -- all primary and failed first campaign promises. Couple that with a refusal to enforce immigration laws, a desire to appoint friends to patronage posts (one of which was open for a decade before he saw the urgent need to appoint the $160K a year post), give credit cards to welfare recipients that are also valid for liquor purchases, slots and dog track gambling. Huh? Support card check? Boycott Arizona? Also cars to illegals, phones to welfare recipients, Aunty Zaituni in Dorchester, more redecoration ....  Not to be believed.

And this is the paradigm, for Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, too. Rhode Island has long made Massachusetts look good ... Democrat corruption there is simply breath-taking, even the locals joke about it ... but continue to vote the bums in: The Dems have figured out that if they steal enough to hand out to their supporters, all will be forgiven.

The GOP / Tea Party scored incredible gains across the nation in a repudiation of Obama and the Democrat's policies ... this is a NATIONAL thing. Except for some idiots living in cocoons of non-reality in Berkeley, Cambridge, NYC, Newton, Cleveland and LA. The GOP even scored wins in Michigan .... 

And the votes are being counted

Barney Frank has .. once again ... been elected by the morons that make up part of the electorate of Massachusetts.  And Markey. And Tsongas.

What the hell is wrong with this State? What is wrong with the people? Why can they not understand the magnitude of the lies they have been fed? How come they cannot understand that the these people seek to pick their pockets and could care less about the people of the Commonwealth?

The State's moron in chief -- Deval Patrick -- looks also to be re-elected. He has done nothing for the State. His campaign promises are largely unmet. A 10-1 ratio of Democrats in the State House and Senate coupled with a Democrat governor ... and still they cannot get our state into shape? It is NOT the GOP ... because they don't really exist here. People still run unopposed for Congress or the State House. Yet, the people don't vote the bums out. We lost 20,000 jobs in September ... yet, this is a vote of confidence for Deval? Are we collectively stupid?

I can only pray that the rest of the country sees the light.

I voted already.

8 a.m., bright and early at the polls. And there were a large number of Democrat flunkies outside waving their Deval, Bump and Markey signs. Also a few of the local Democrat State Rep weenies, too ... I wonder what on Earth their pay-off can be? Are there people so motivated by their "party" that they will stand out in the cold to hold signs for the Second-Assistant Dog Catcher? Er?

I stood outside awhile looking them over ... then I rotated 90 degrees to look at the people coming from the polls: grim-faced or happy, what or who could they have voted for? I sort of believe that the grim-faced ones came out determined ... determined to throw the bums out. The happy-smiley types just had to have voted for Ed Markey. Only someone so dim as to take Markey seriously could have that beatific expression on their faces on a morning of change.

One small glitch, though .... I had to first state my street and number to get my ballot card. Then my name. Fine. So I took my ballot card and voted for Baker, Mary Z, Dembrowski (Markey challenger), Georgountzos (State Rep) and whoever it was running against Galvin (of the deny the military their votes fame) and Coakley (I'd vote for Saddam in preference ... you know he could enforce the laws of the Commonwealth). In short, if you were an incumbent, I voted against you.  Back to the story ... so to hand the ballot in, I had to repeat my name and street number. So I did. Then they asked me for my full name -- so I gave it to them, even though I can read upside down very well and fast (a skill developed in countless legal meetings where it helps to be able to read opposing counsel's notes at least as fast as he can), and my full name was not next to my street address, only first and last.

They made me repeat it again ... at which point I stated"I have already given you my name three times, is there a problem?"
"No, we just have to check."
"Check what?"
"Check that you are who you say you are." A three second pause.
"Izzatso?" After a full-on stare at them, during which time they visibly and physically recoiled, I turned and walked to the vote machine and fed my ballot in.

Exactly WTF was happening there? I mean, it was not as though we need to show any ID in Massholechusetts to vote -- a measure I would be TOTALLY in favor of. But as it stands, my full name is not any of their business and could not be checked in any event. If they/you misheard, then state so and I will gladly repeat it as many times as you/they need to be clear. So why the grilling? Were/are they able to read upside down as proficiently as I can, and in so doing spotted an apparent rogue GOP interloper in their midst? It was slightly surreal ... one of those times where the fabric of space/time seems to slow and everything becomes crystal clear.  Interestingly, I had one of those slightly deja-vu moments driving to the polls, as if waiting for some oddity to occur.

Which brings me to results. I can't help but feel that there is going to be massive Democrat-inspired voter fraud today. It won't help stem the tide against them, but it might temper matters where it counts. I also feel change in the air and the people against whom the tide is turning are not going to let this slide by without a fight. Tempers are going to flare and charges are going to be leveled.  More of the Jill Stein -- Al Gore won in 2000 crap (which every study by serious investigators -- from both sides of the aisle -- now concede was a Bush victory, however unfortunate for us).

Get out and vote the bums out.