“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun   If saying good-bye to my husband, being injured and worried, and a long trip ahead of me wasn't tragic enough, I had a 15 hour wait for my flight out of New Zealand. I think it's pretty bad when you arrive before sunrise and leave way past sundown, but that seems to ... Read More

We see more and more evidences of Obama just doing what he wants. He bypasses the Congress, the Constitution, and the will of the American people. From Judicial Watch The Obama Administration has given a former director at Joe McGavin the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) nearly half a billion dollars to offer “struggling” Illinois homeowners mortgage assistance, a Judicial Watch investigation has found. It means the ACORN official (Joe McGavin) will go from operating a corrupt leftist community group ... Read More

Just when you think you have heard everything. Believe it or not, Obama has sunk to a new low. He must REALLY be worried about getting re-elected. He has asked people getting married to forgo the wedding gifts, to ask people to donate to his campaign instead. Found this on his blog/website just a few minutes ago:   Nothing mentioned on civil unions. Next it will be, forget CHRISTMAS, give to Obama!     ... Read More

If the Solyndra scandal wasn't enough for you to believe that Obama at his core is either incompetent or downright working t he system for his own gain, then how about 11 more scandals just like it? Using YOUR money to do it, I might add. Gee, even mainstream media can't ignore it: CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson takes a look at 11 more Solyndras that were part of Obama's Energy program. Attkisson was one of the original reporters that uncovered the Solyndra ... Read More

  According to Barclays... "Italy is now mathematically beyond point of no return." First Greece, now Italy. Why can't we in the United States and others around the world live within their means? Why do we act like some money fairy will wave a wand and fix things? That is childish thinking from the leaders and the people that voted them in there. According to My Government Cost: United States can expect to find itself upon given its current debt-financed government spending binge, although here, ... Read More

  Well it seems that Occupy Wall Street is moving their protest at least closer to the mark, or at least got the right town. I have always felt that the White House would be a good place to air their complaints. What I don't understand is why they picked the Air and Space Museum? From The Post The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the Mall was abruptly closed Saturday afternoon after a “large group of protesters” tried to push past security ... Read More

President Obama seems to think that throwing money at a problem, solves the problem, even though it hasn't worked before. His "jobs speech" was exactly what I expected. Spend more money or "stimulus". Which hasn't worked any times that it's been implemented, and that includes George Bush's stimulus. So, there will be some in Washington with enough common sense to oppose the jobs bill. They will be accused of not caring about the staggering unemployment in our nation. If you're one of ... Read More

From Investors.com No one has made more money from climate change hype than Gore. According to the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper, just one of the "green" companies in which Gore has invested has received over half a billion dollars in subsidies from the Energy Department. Financial disclosure documents released before the 2000 election put the Gore family's net worth at $1 million to $2 million. A mere decade later, estimates are that he is worth $100 million. He's been touted in the press ... Read More

From Human Events Last year, right before Earth Day, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn traveled to the White House to announce a wondrous $20 million federal grant to create “green jobs” in the weatherization industry.  Insulating houses would create at least 2,000 jobs, and save the Earth by reducing Seattle’s carbon footprint. A year later, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer surveys the ruins of another in the long, long, long string of miserable Obama failures: As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and ... Read More

We all know how insane the economy is, we also know that the spending in Washington is only driving us deeper in debt and ruining it into a state like Greece has now. With that in mind, Jim sent me an analogy, assuming all the figures are correct, should make us stop and think. What if we ran our households like Congress runs this country? The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people ... Read More

Even though Pelosi said she would run the most ethical congress ever, and she didn't, even though she and her democrats were going to FIX the "skyrocketing" gas prices that we had under Bush and didn't, even though unemployment is higher than ever with no solution in sight during her reign, don't think this has been a bad time for her... From The Hill: Pelosi's wealth grows by 62 percent House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saw her net worth rise ... Read More

From Sarah Palin's Facebook: Obama’s Strange Strategy: Borrow Foreign Money to Give to Foreign Countries Should we be borrowing money from China to turn around and give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?   Given that we are running massive deficits and are drowning in more than $14 trillion in debt, and despite not knowing who will rule Egypt until its election this fall, this strange strategy may be the end result given President Obama’s announcement that he is committing $2 billion ... Read More

Look at the earnings from Michael Moore's 'mockumentaries' and his comments about his audience to understand his motivations. In his films, Moore condemns the automotive, energy, health-care, and other industries, claiming their intense greed compromises their ethics. In contrast to the small to negative profit margins of the targets of his critiques, Moore the 'philanthropist' on the other hand, enjoys a 94% margin from his films, earning $292 million: Roger and Me - $8 million Bowling for Columbine $54 million Fahrenheit 9-11 $216 million Sicko ... Read More

Found on RedState The American Thinker points out that, thanks to the refusal of the Wisconsin Democratic party to admit that last November’s elections mattered, a deadline for reducing the debt servicing load of the state of Wisconsin by $165,000,000 expires today.  The money was to help pay a court case settlement involving a $200,000,000 raid on the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund in 2007 by the previous Doyle (D) administration; the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that using ... Read More

Some say no. 1. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the US Government allocated approximately $1 billion in aid. Of that, only a couple hundred million actually got to the Haitian people for emergency assistance (medical, food, water, etc). The rest was to fund the cost of sending the 82nd Airborne and military down to Haiti to stabilize the country – as the UN mission was very badly hit by the earthquake. 2. Another $1.5 billion was ... Read More

It seems Silas wants to go with us to Australia too. He sat down and said, "Nana, I am going to miss you. I want to go to Australia!" "But you can't Silas, you don't have a ticket." Silas, not stopping exclaimed, "Well, I will get a ticket!" "But it cost a lot of money." "I will get a whole bunch of money!" he persisted. "How does a person get money, Silas?" I asked him. "I don't know," he finally slowed down on that one. "You need a ... Read More

A sound file was sent to me today and I quickly went to look it up on YouTube. Well I am speechless after hearing Jo from Florida. I know nothing about the show's host, and I don't like the way he talked to the woman, but I can understand his frustration. The subject matter was illegal immigration, and from what I can gather, he takes calls of all views, and this lady had the opposite view from the previous caller. She called to ... Read More

On Real Clear Politics, Obama is quoted as saying... "Now, what we’re doing, I want to be clear, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." With the forced health insurance, rising unemployment and the higher taxes most of us can be expecting, how on earth is he worried about making 'enough money'. Well how much is 'enough'? The Obamas made $5 million ... Read More

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." ~Thomas Jefferson From Glenn Beck's Common Sense : There was a time when our political leaders cited their leadership, temperament, experience, judgment, character, and merit in order to gain the trust and support of a skeptical electorate. Today they purchase votes and campaign cash by boasting about the pork they've secured for their pet projects or the billions they've passed ... Read More

In a video-taped interview by a group known as foundingbloggers.com, Walesa indicated that the U.S. was heading toward socialism because of two factors: "The issue with the banks; and the government wastes all the money; they build a bureaucracy; just for itself." He nailed it. "The government wastes all the money, they build a bureaucracy.....JUST FOR ITSELF. That just says it all, doesn't it? He went on to reassure: "But we will not let you devolve to communism here. The U.S. is a superpower.  ... Read More

While everyone is stuck on the Tiger Woods story, I'd like to point out that the BIGGER story over the weekend is that scientists who are predicting gloom and doom of global warming have been caught manipulating the data and scheming to show that the earth is warming in order to help the entity that is Al Gore and friends control our every day lives and more important our wallets. Along with that, now scientists now admit to throwing away the ... Read More

We have all seen the pie charts how much education takes from our budget, be it on a federal level or state level. It's usually very substantial and schools are always crying for more. (I wonder how much of those taxes the schools actually get to use, and how much ends up in bureaucratic pockets?)   I think a lot ends up in someone's pockets because schools are always using students (and their tax-paying parents) to peddle the latest chocolates ... Read More

My mama told me to watch this. I better had, if she said so. The collapse of our money system? ... Read More

Car dealers are saying, "Show me the money" when it comes to their participation in the government's Cash for Clunkers. Here's the figure: $2.878 billion. That's how much money the government owes car dealers for the "Cash for Clunkers" program. "Out of 142 deals they owe us for, we've gotten paid on seven," Lou Tornabeni of Ettleson Hyundai said. "We had 102 cash for clunkers," Carm Scarpace of Westfield Ford said. "We've been paid for one." With each Cash for Clunkers deal worth ... Read More

I thought this was interesting. Taken from Business Pundit: 25. Raghib “Rocket” Ismael Notre Dame/Dallas Cowboys star; received the largest 3-year deal in football history Estimated lifetime earnings: $20 Million No jail time, drug charges or bankruptcy here, just bad business moves. Financial vultures bled Ismael’s riches by selling him their “fool-proof” investments. After bypassing the NFL as the presumptive #1 pick, Ismael went to the Canadian Football League and signed the largest deal in their history. He played two years in Canada and 10 ... Read More

If you haven't heard this headline yet, and maybe you haven't nor won't, it's because this is the huge kind of news that gets neglected while most lap up the "cutesy stories" like the latest outfit Michelle Obama is wearing or the little girl who got an excuse for missing school from the president himself. The Italian Publication, The AgeziaDellaDogone is reporting that Italian authorities have detained 2 Japanese nationals who were attempting to cross into Switzerland with $134.5 BILLION in ... Read More

A little lesson from my daughter's Government Book: "And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." Acts 12:22 and Herod believed their words. The belief that t hose who rule are self-styled gods, independent of God's sovereignty over them, is a grand delusion for which Herod fell. God did not take long to remind King Herod that all rulers are subject to His sovereignty and law. "And immediately the angel of the ... Read More

This is the only way to explain how an organization under investigation, indited for voter fraud, can receive bailout money and stimulus money. Obama owes them. ACORN employees across the country have been indicted for voter fraud and, by its own admission, the group has submitted at least 400,000 questionable voter documents, according to a New York Times report dated October 24, 2008. Now, two whistle blowers, Anita MonCrief and Marcel Reed, who used to work for ACORN, have testified under oath ... Read More

Reading an article today by Paul Craig Roberts, this line stood out, "The "free American" starts off with a 30% tax rate, the position of a medieval serf." The premise of his article is to show that what the Obama administration is really doing is "taxing ordinary people in order ... Read More

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, receiving support from the Canadian economist Prof Mundell and Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell, is proposing a one world currency, the Acmetal. Mr Nazarbayev's coining of "acmetal'' combines the Greek word "acme,'' meaning peak or best, and "capital.''   Mr Nazarbayev and Prof Mundell urged the Group of 20 leading developed and developing economies to form a working group on the proposal at their summit on the global economic crisis in London on April 2. "We should deliver our thoughts and the thoughts of ... Read More

How much do you make an hour? How about, how much can you SPEND an hour? Congress can spend $1 billion an hour. From Politico: Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has come up with a vivid new way to express his contention that the nation is spending way too much money it doesn’t have. McConnell includes the tweaks in his opening remarks on the Senate floor on the 51st day that President Obama has been in office. “In just 50 days, Congress has voted to ... Read More

Northern Trust, a Chicago based bank, a bank that received $1.6 billion in bailout money, was caught by TMZ, recently spending a fortune hosting a series of lavish parties and concerts to go along with a Golf Tournament. We're told Northern Trust paid millions to sponsor the PGA event which ended Sunday, but what happened off the golf course is even more shocking. Northern Trust flew hundreds of clients and employees to L.A. and put many of them up at some of ... Read More

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Yes we've heard all about the $5 donations that helped build Obama's record-breaking $742 million campaign funds, but what is the whole story? Ever since he ran for the Senate in 2004, Barack Obama has had a wealth of 10-figure tycoons advising - and funding - him. ...Barack Obama has had a slew of billionaire backers with him on his journey to the White House--plutocrats who provide economic and political advice and help to raise money. Lots of money. Since campaign contributions are ... Read More

"We Are One, but Some Are More One Than Others," says Kriston Capps, a little disenchanted with how the Inauguration is being handled. The theme is "We Are One" but Kriston saw fit to rename it. She was speaking of the Inaugural Concert held Sunday. The concert was supposed to be part of "the people's party," said Shawn Paterniti, who had come with his wife Mia from Columbia, Md., to see the show. "But still, you have the VIPs who want their ... Read More