Democrats are as corrupt and hypocritical as the day is long

Remember when Congress hysterically demanded that the auto executives show empathy for the plight of regular Americans by not flying private corporate jets to Washington but, they should drive stupid hybrids instead, to come beg for money? Now, that Obama has appropriated trillions in tax-payer largess, chief hypocrite and vile, loathsome wretch Nancy Pelosi has allowed the purchase by congress of three Gulfstream jets at a cost to the taxpayer of $200million. It seems that two Georgia congressmen(Gulfstream is located in Savannah) slipped this purchase into the bill after receiving huge donations from Gulfstream.

Where's the transparency Nancy? Why aren't members of congress flying coach like the rest of us? Why do you need private luxury Gulfstreams to travel when the economy is in the tank? Wouldn't $200million be better spent elsewhere....such as in tax breaks for Americans who pay taxes?

It's as if Democrats don't give a crap what the people think or how hypocritical, corrupt, and self-serving they are, they feel totally invincible and they are going to do exactly as they please regardless of any consideration of right and wrong. They are the elite, ruling class and neither morals or ethics apply to them. I'm telling you now like I've been telling you for six months and I'll keep telling you for another year, if we don't make these people pay in 2010, for their wickedness, deceit, and treachery, we've nobody to blame but ourselves for the collapse of our country.

Obama wants you......to be a snitch!

Perhaps you've heard this story already but in case you haven't, on the administration's health-care website, they have an unusual request...

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Obama wants you to sniff around your place of employment, neighborhood, gym, or coffee shop for anybody who's saying derisive or unflattering things about his preposterous health-care take-over, and rat them out to the government. Remember the last time a government had citizens snitching on other citizens for thought and speech crimes.....that's right, Nazi Germany for crying out loud!!!

Since when in America does the federal government keep tabs on regular citizens for speaking in a dissenting manner about government policy? I realize this administration has thrown out the 10th amendment entirely, and the 2nd amendment and parts of the 5th are under attack but, the free-speech part of the 1st amendment applies specifically to political speech. No government has a right to keep tabs on law-abiding citizens solely based on speech unless it is threatening or advocating violence in some manner.

UPDATE: So here's something fun to do. It's absolutely harmless but cathartic in a way too. See up there where it says to notify them if you come across something that seems fishy? Well, start sending the white house links to actual fish. Go to Wikipedia or some other googled site for fish and send the link to flag@whitehouse.gov. Look at it as your little way of poking Rahm Emanual in the eye with a sharp stick.

Alabama finally achieves #1 in something.....largest municipal bankruptcy....EVAH!!!

Regular reader BBC wondered about this story earlier this week so I thought I'd address it here. Perhaps you've heard that Jefferson County, Alabama, where I live, is about to declare the single largest municipal bankruptcy in US history over $4billion in sewer bonds it cannot afford to pay. And you thought Chicago politics were corrupt to the core....

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The sheriff in Alabama's most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, after a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff's budget and hopes dimmed for a quick end to a budget crisis.

Circuit Judge Joseph L. Boohaker ruled that leaders in Jefferson County — now trying to head off a municipal bankruptcy filing of historic proportions — could go ahead with plans to slash $4.1 million from the budget of Sheriff Mike Hale, who had filed a lawsuit that temporarily blocked spending cuts for his office.

About 1,000 county workers already are on unpaid leave because courts threw out a key county tax, and Hale has warned that reductions to his budget would mean fewer patrols by deputies and decreased courthouse security.

A spokesman for Hale, Randy Christian, said the sheriff told Gov. Bob Riley after the ruling that state assistance may be needed to perform basic law enforcement tasks once the department's current funding is exhausted in early September.

"We will certainly be looking at calling in the National Guard," said Christian.

Combine corruption, greed, nepotism, and incompetence with the repeal of an unconstitutional, occupational tax and you have the makings of one of the biggest municipal collapses in US history. For the last 20 years, Jefferson Co. has been seizing a percentage of the paychecks of anybody who works here, even if you don't live here. Not surprisingly, doctors and of course lawyers who wrote the tax, are exempt. A judge recently ruled it to be unconstitutional so it cut the county budget by about 1/3.

Then you have the JeffCo Commission who have been as corrupt, wasteful, and incompetent as any you can imagine, losing billions down various rat holes with nothing to show for it and no accountability. There are literally unaccounted-for billions. Nobody knows what happened to it.

With the county on the brink of bankruptcy and only vital workers still being paid, there is a shortage of cops, prison guards, and admin. workers to run the county. You may have heard that Birmingham always ranks in the top 5 in murders per capita in the US. We like to call ourselves the Detroit of the South. We're very proud! So who's going to tamp down the north-side riff-raff when they get wind that there aren't any cops to shoot at them when they terrorize their own neighborhoods? The national guard, that's who. It'll be like post-Katrina New Orleans but, without the hurricane and cannibalism.

Cash-for-Clunkers....just another tax-payer funded hand out disguised as economic policy

A lot of Americans took advantage of the Cash-for-Clunkers program to the point that it ran out of a billion dollars in less than a week. So the government appropriated $2billion more of your money to extend the program but, is this what government should be doing with taxpayer money?

-Who says the auto companies aren't jacking up the prices like all stores do, just before they have a big sale?
-Don't be fooled when the Obama administration uses the phony sales statistics to claim that they alone saved the American auto industry when all they did was bribe people, using your money, into buying new cars they couldn't otherwise afford.
-Perhaps these people are driving clunkers because they can't afford new cars. So I'd like to see how many of these new-car owners default on their payments after 6 months. Obama and the media will hide those statistics.
-Did the government not learn a lesson about meddling in markets when they put people into mortgages who have no business committing to house payments....people who need to be renting, or if you understand the analogy, need to be driving a clunker and can't afford a new car?
-Finally, why is our tax money being used to pay for other peoples' cars? People should buy their own stupid cars.

I swear! To Obama and his cabal of socialists, there is no problem whether it's social or economic that can't be solved by the heavy hand of government intervention.

The thought police in the UK even tax grief

The once Great Britain descends further from idiotic nanny-State into a little shop of horrors...

A grieving mother in Britain was fined $173 for spending too long at her son's coffin before it was taken away for cremation.

Terrie Rouse, 32, said her grief turned to shock when officials told her she had taken too long to say goodbye, The Daily Mail reported.

"The vicar had asked if I would like to spend a bit more time saying goodbye," she said. "I sat by the coffin for 10 minutes, telling my son how much we loved him and begging him not to be scared."

Are there so many funerals in the UK that they have to keep a tight schedule such that you can't grieve for longer than 30minutes? And more preposterously, there's a fine for exceeding your allotted time limit....unbelievable! It's bad enough that the UK government controls and monitors every part of life there but, now they're taking control of the dead too.

Once the imperial nanny-State gets a toe-hold and isn't rightly put down by public resistance, it creeps insidiously into every facet of life no matter how private. We in the US could learn a lesson from our Mother Country that is but a shadow of her former self.

WOW......just WOW!!!

Lest you think the concept of 24/7, government surveillance in your home was just a nightmarish figment of George Orwell's fertile imagination....I present you, Airstrip One, the name of England in his book, "1984"...

The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes.

They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.

Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks.

How long before they expand the justification for home-monitoring to include enforcement of recycling, limiting anti-Muslim "hate-speech", restricting politically-incorrect gatherings, punishing divisive talk regarding the government, etc?

This is precisely what Orwell predicted for London in "1984". It's coming to pass. How sad and pathetic that the people who established the British Empire have let their once-great country descend into this!

Islamic women should know their place

Here's the latest outrage from the Religion of Peace....

KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Sudanese female journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public in violation of the country's strict Islamic laws told a packed Khartoum courtroom Wednesday she is resigning from a U.N. job that grants her immunity so she can challenge the law on women's public dress code.

Lubna Hussein was among 13 women arrested July 3 in a raid by members of the public order police force on a popular Khartoum cafe for wearing trousers, considered indecent by the strict interpretation of Islamic law adopted by Sudan's Islamic regime. All but three of the women were flogged at a police station two days later.

Flogged for wearing pants. It would be comical if flogging didn't hurt so much. Seriously, if Islam, as it's practiced under Sharia, is not the most barbaric cult of backward, third-world savages, I don't know what is.

Obama lied.....promises died

Obama to the middle class during the campaign..."you will not see your taxes go up one single dime."

Wavering on an emphatic promise he made in the spring, top White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers would not rule out middle-class tax increases Sunday as a way for the Obama administration to pay for a sweeping health care plan.

The statement, which was echoed by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Sunday's talk shows, pries open a door to the kinds of broad tax increases that Mr. Obama opposed in his campaign and that he and his advisers have ruled out since taking office in January.

What a bunch of braying jack-asses Obama-administration guys are! Obama got elected largely because he promised middle-class idiots that they can have their cake and eat it too because, the evil rich will be paying for everything. Turns out the economic realities aren't so cut and dried. You cannot deliver free, universal health care to a country of 300million on the backs of 1.5million rich people, even if you took every penny they earned.

Obama knew this when he lied about it in the campaign but, to liberals, the seizure of power is the end that justifies whatever means are necessary.

How's that hopeychange working out for you now, middle-class, democrat morons? Every thing's not so great when it's your back Obama is riding to pay for everything, is it? IDIOTS!!!

Obama....our narcissist overlord

Picture borrowed from Moonbattery.

Lest there be any lingering doubt about whether our overlord Obama is a narcissistic elitist, look at this picture from the "beer-summit". President Obama would have us believe that professor Gates is a good friend of his yet, Obama glides across the white-house lawn with his nose in the air, obviously concerned more about the cameras and reporters than about the well-being of his "friend". And it is the "rogue, racist cop" Crowley that assists the infirm, race-baiting Gates down the steps, not Obama.

Is this the HopeyChange all you morons who voted for him were expecting? When he succeeds in destroying the country that he hates so much, the responsibility will be on the hands of each and every voter who fell for his glycerin-tongued rhetoric and skin color.

Punishing achievement and success

Barack Obama complains regularly about how the Constitution doesn't adequately address the issue of "redistributive justice", meaning there's not enough money taken away from people who've earned it, to be given to derelicts who haven't. Well, I beg to differ Mr. President.....

Newly released data from the IRS clearly debunks the conventional Beltway rhetoric that the "rich" are not paying their fair share of taxes.

Indeed, the IRS data shows that in 2007—the most recent data available—the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government.

Remarkably, the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. In 2007, the bottom 95 percent paid 39.4 percent of the income tax burden. This is down from the 58 percent of the total income tax burden they paid twenty years ago.

To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.

You cannot continue to ratchet up punishment on the successful in order to reward those who've failed. Liberals have demonized and taxed the achievers in America to the point that they'll just stop achieving, or go somewhere their efforts are appreciated. Why continue to earn, provide, and succeed when your government hates you and punishes you for it? Margaret Thatcher said it best, "Socialism never works because eventually you run out of other peoples' money."

Wealth redistribution in this country is outrageous already and Obama wants to push it into the realm of the absurd.