the Ol' Foolosifer

If you were a dog, what kind would you be?

Let's suppose our leaders were dogs. Which kind are the top echelon and what are their duties.

We have all sorts of dogs. We have lap dogs that lay in your lap and yap, there are watch dogs that protect your property. We have seeing eye dogs that help guide the blind and drug dogs that find illegal drugs for the cops. There are stock dogs that herd cattle and keep the wolves away from the sheep. But there is always the old yard dog that lays around all day, only moving when hungry or thirsty.

In my neighbor hood we have a very special dog. He is none of the above, but still is an icon. His claim to fame is, simply the name he has earned, ROAD DOG, because all he does is lay in the middle of the road watching the cars go by. He only moves when he goes to eat and then back to his spot. It seems that his greatest ambition is to see if any cars run over him! No common sense!

Who in our government is "ROAD DOG"?

This is a cartoon that in my estimation reminds me of many of the Obamabots.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/umedia/20090426/cp.d68ccdb46...

Do you enjoy your freedom and liberty? This was just Emailed to me.

We have to get to work and get him stopped......

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN REPEALED

By DICK MORRIS

Published on DickMorris.com on April 6, 2009

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On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London. The joint communiqué essentially announces a global economic union with uniform regulations and bylaws for all nations, including the United States. Henceforth, our SEC, Commodities Trading Commission, Federal Reserve Board and other regulators will have to march to the beat of drums pounded by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a body of central bankers from each of the G-20 states and the European Union.

The mandate conferred on the FSB is remarkable for its scope and open-endedness. It is to set a "framework of internationally agreed high standards that a global financial system requires." These standards are to include the extension of "regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments, and markets...[including] systemically important hedge funds."

Note the key word: "all." If the FSB, in its international wisdom, considers an institution or company "systemically important", it may regulate and over see it. This provision extends and internationalizes the proposals of the Obama Administration to regulate all firms, in whatever sector of the economy that it deems to be "too big to fail."

The FSB is also charged with "implementing...tough new principles on pay and compensation and to support sustainable compensation schemes and the corporate social responsibility of all firms."

That means that the FSB will regulate how much executives are to be paid and will enforce its idea of corporate social responsibility at "all firms."

The head of the Financial Stability Forum, the precursor to the new FSB, is Mario Draghi, Italy's central bank president. In a speech on February 21, 2009, he gave us clues to his thinking. He noted that "the progress we have made in revising the global regulatory framework...would have been unthinkable just months ago."

He said that "every financial institution capable of creating systemic risk will be subject to supervision." He adds that "it is envisaged that, at international level, the governance of financial institutions, executive compensation, and the special duties of intermediaries to protect retail investors will be subject to explicit supervision."

In remarks right before the London conference, Draghi said that while "I don't see the FSF [now the FSB] as a global regulator at the present time...it should be a standard setter that coordinates national agencies."

This "coordination of national agencies" and the "setting" of "standards" is an explicit statement of the mandate the FSB will have over our national regulatory agencies.

Obama, perhaps feeling guilty for the US role in triggering the international crisis, has, indeed, given away the store. Now we may no longer look to presidential appointees, confirmed by the Senate, to make policy for our economy. These decisions will be made internationally.

And Europe will dominate them. The FSF and, presumably, the FSB, is now composed of the central bankers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus representatives of the World Bank, the European Union, the IMF, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Europe, in other words, has six of the twelve national members. The G-20 will enlarge the FSB to include all its member nations, but the pro-European bias will be clear. The United States, with a GDP three times that of the next largest G-20 member (Japan), will have one vote. So will Italy.

The Europeans have been trying to get their hands on our financial system for decades. It is essential to them that they rein in American free enterprise so that their socialist heaven will not be polluted by vices such as the profit motive. Now, with President Obama's approval, they have done it.

What can we do now but fight for survival!

If you have ever read the legends of the Hopi and other Native American tribes, it might make one think about how we live. This is a part of a legend on the end times. Notice how some of it appears to be today's happenings.

"Life has become out of balance. When people are so out of balance, some one will hear our voice and our White Brother will answer the call and clean away the evil ones. According to prophecy, when the purification is over only a handful of people will survive in every nation overseas. Then they will come to this continent, which we call heaven. This is where the Creator first lived and that’s what he called it. He sent his own son from Oraibi to Bethlehem in order to be born there. The Hopi already knew that the morning star would rise one day and someone special would be born...

"In our prophecies there are two brothers, one dark-skinned younger brother and the light-skinned elder who we call the White Brother. Together they will decide how the purification will be accomplished.

"The two brothers were with us when we first came to this continent. When their father passed away, the elder brother went out in the direction of the sunrise and the younger brother stayed here. They had agreed the elder brother would go, but would not stay away too long. He would return when people would travel on a road built in the air. At that time we would know that the earth had been corrupted to the point that it must be purified.

"We’ve come to that point now. Everything has been corrupted. Because we are out of balance, we don’t obey the laws.... It’s too late now for gradual voluntary corrections...

"As Hopis... we are calling for the purification because it is our obligation. We’re ready, we want it to happen... We’ve already gone over the time limit that was given to us in the prophecy..." (7)

What are your thoughts?

http://www.manataka.org/page239.html

On this one be serious!

Let's say that they both went against his wishes, and he thought he could do better, Who or what could he get in trade?

Is there a chance for a peaceful solution in Afghanistan other than just walking out as we did in Vietnam and Korea?

It seems, we extend a hand toward a peace talk and they bite it. We offer a possible solution and the Taliban spits on it.

KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents reject a U.S. offer of "honorable reconciliation," a top spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a "lunatic idea" and saying the only way to end the war was to withdraw foreign troops.

With the Afghan conflict now in its eighth year, NATO-led forces and the Taliban are locked in a bloody stalemate with violence set to rise further this year as more U.S. troops arrive and seek to contain the insurgency ahead of August elections.

President Barack Obama is redoubling U.S. efforts with more troops, more diplomatic effort and more economic assistance, but he has also already spoken of the need for an "exit strategy."

If the U.S. plan fails to show results, analysts say, time is on the Taliban side.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday that those members of the Taliban who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honorable form of reconciliation."

"This matter was also raised in the past," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, referring to comments last month by Obama, who spoke of reaching out to moderate Taliban.

"They have to go and find the moderate Taliban, their leader and speak to them. This is a lunatic idea," Mujahid said by telephone from an unknown location."

What is left for the allied forces in the battle against the Jihadists, "carpet bombing", nuclear attacks or isolation? Victory is improbable by conventional means.

It seems that the White House is moving it's agenda forward another step toward the socialism of America. Will he change the spelling to Amerika next, or just make it the U.S.S.A.?

By TOM KRISHER and KEN THOMAS, Associated Press Writers Tom Krisher And Ken Thomas, Associated Press Writers – 19 mins ago

DETROIT – General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, administration officials said Sunday. The news comes as President Obama prepares to unveil additional restructuring efforts designed to save the domestic auto industry.

The officials asked not to be identified because details of the restructuring plan have not yet been made public. On Monday, Obama is to announce plans to restructure GM and Chrysler LLC in exchange for additional government loans. The companies have been living on $17.4 billion in government aid and have requested $21.6 billion more.

Wagoner's departure indicates that more management changes may be part of the deal. Wagoner, 56, has repeatedly said he felt it was better for the company if he led it through the crisis, but he has faced sharp criticism on Capitol Hill for what many lawmakers regard as years of missteps, mistakes and arrogance by the Big Three automakers.

Wagoner joined GM in 1977, serving in several capacities in the U.S., Brazil and Europe. He became president and chief executive in 2000 and has served as chairman and CEO since May 2003.

Obama said Sunday that GM and Chrysler and all those with a stake in their survival need to take more hard steps to help the struggling automakers restructure for the future. In an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" broadcast Sunday, Obama said the companies must do more to receive additional financial aid from the government.

"They're not there yet," he said.

A person familiar with Obama's plans said last week they would go deeper than what the Bush administration demanded when it approved the initial loans last year.

Wagoner, in an interview with The Associated Press in December, had declined to speculate on suggestions from some members of Congress that GM's leadership team should step down as part of any rescue package.

"I'm doing what I do because it adds a lot of value to the company," Wagoner said in a Dec. 4 interview as GM sought federal aid from the Bush administration. "It's not clear to me that experience in this industry should be viewed as a negative but I'm going to do what's right for the company and I'll do it in consultation with the (GM) board (of directors)."

Wagoner has been credited by auto industry analysts with doing more to restructure the giant, bureaucratic automaker than any other executive. But given that he has been at GM's helm for so long, many of his critics say he moved far too slowly to take on the United Auto Workers and shrink the company as its market share tumbled.

While GM has improved its cars in the last two years, critics say the company relied for too long on sales of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles for its profits and was unprepared for a drastic market shift when gasoline prices hit $4 per gallon last year.

During the Congressional debate over whether to give GM and Chrysler loans last year, many lawmakers criticized Wagoner, including Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Banking Committee.

He accused automakers' top management of having a "head-in-the-sand" approach to problems and said Wagoner "has to move on" as part of a government-run restructuring that should be a condition of financial life support for the auto industry.

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Associated Press Writer Ken Thomas reported from Washington, D.C.

This is a joke but I know people who would use this as an argument.

WND JOKE OF THE DAY

What makes 'natural born' better?

College student challenges 'constitutional requirement'

In a Seattle, Wash., college classroom, students

were discussing the qualifications to be president of the United States. It was pretty simple - the candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years age.

However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen.

In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.

The class was taking it in and letting her rant, but everyone's jaw hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating, "What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C Section?"

Do you have an opinion?

Congress votes to bail out an ailing company and one of our geniuses think it is time to put them out of business. Still the tax payer will be left holding the bag.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday mounted a full-scale push for government authority to shut down troubled institutions like insurer AIG to avoid the need for future bailouts.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, testifying before lawmakers still fuming about big bonuses for executives at bailout recipient AIG, called on Congress for new powers to take over big non-bank financial firms that run amok.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke strongly backed Geithner in testimony before the same committee, and President Barack Obama took the case public during a televised news conference on Tuesday evening.

The next thing we know, they'll be wanting to stop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the auto makers and Wall Street! If only they would put an end to the real problem, the Federal Reserve Bank and it's band of thieves.

I often wonder what some of our leaders and their cohorts are smoking or if they ate too much lead paint when they were kids!

It seems that when Bush left the White House, he left a little reminder for our new president. It is only a little gift but it makes a big boom! The propensity to make little mistakes into bid boo boos seems to have rubbed off on O baa ma! He's as big a flub as was old George, so it appears.

Barack Obama has incurred the fury of France. He sent a letter to former French President Jacques Chirac rather than their current President Nicolas Sarkozy. Whoops. Huées! Another faux pas! The French don’t seem to think its funny.

Oh dear. It seems the French are mad at us! I know this isn’t an uncommon occurrence. The French have seemed to take pride in being mad at us, but until now we really haven’t given them that much cause to be snotty towards us. Now, our President, the King of Gaffs, has given them just cause and they are nothing short of appalled.

Today’s Obama Gaff and embarrassment has to do with a letter he sent to French President Jacques Chirac that read: “I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world.”

The list of Obama gaffs and diplomatic messes seems almost endless. I’ve lost track. There are several a day it seems. Of course, the media hardly notices, presumably because they are still covering for his lack of experience and sophistication. The affront is just not as important as the glow that emanates from the person of Obama.

Besides, how can people be so judgmental of him? He’s insulted British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who still can’t watch the movies Obama gave him cause Obama apparently didn’t realize DVDs are formated differently in Europe. Or he didn’t care. Now he’s insulted the French President Nicholas Sarkosy. The news in Britain and France is all the place. They are debating the Sarkosy snub and the Gordon Brown snub. They are making fun of our President for his lack of polish and outraged that he’s insulting our allies.

But its all in a day’s work for Obama.

What can anyone expect? There are like HUNDREDS of countries out there and all of them have people who are in charge of them. There tons of names for the people in charge. Some of them are presidents, some are prime ministers. There’s Dear Leaders and Supreme Ayatollahs. There’s Chancellors, Kings, Queens, Emperors and Empresses. How is a man supposed to have learned all of them in just two short months? Not to mention, he has to learn all their names too and which country they go with. It has to be so confusing!! Like a crash study course before a big exam. Remember cramming for the test? It was so easy to forget which answer went with which question. Its kind of like that. Does Sarkozy go with France or Belgium? Is Brown a Prime Minister or President? Is Queen Elizabeth the Queen of England or of Europe? Look at Putin, he’s president and then prime minister of Russia. How’s someone supposed to keep that straight?

Have you ever read some of their names? They are confusing and hard to pronounce. Why do people expect him to have all of this memorized already? I bet you’d have trouble remembering it all.

Of course, most Presidents have people who remember stuff for them, but Obama hasn’t gotten around to filling all those cabinet positions yet. That’s a lot of work and he has comedy shows to do and tons of American capital to spend.

So, Obama sent a letter to the former French President rather than to their current president. The French think that Obama snubbed Sarkozy. They are saying stuff like Obama avez le cervau d’un sandwich au fromage et es betes comme tes pieds. Ewww. That’s not pretty! They are also saying that the American people will brûlez dans l’enfer and are êtes stupide for electing him.

No one in the Obama administration has commented on this faux pas because no one knows who to contact about it cause no one has appointed anyone to the office that handles faux pas as yet. We strongly suggest that the Obama Administration consider yet another layer of bureaucracy by creating an Office of Gaff Management. It would be a very busy office.

After the election, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin decided to do her best to heal the wounds with her rivals in the bitter campaign.

She invited the ticket

that defeated John McCain and her, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, to a moose-hunting trip.

She hired three prominent experts in their fields to assist.

Dick Cheney would lead them on the hunt.

Ted Kennedy would drive them back to their cabins each evening.

And Bill Clinton would entertain their wives and daughters.

This was posted in the World News Daily today, and It actually made me smile, especially the last line.

It sort of reminds me of the joke about the game warden and the red neck fishing with dynamite. "You gonna talk or fish?"

And will our Commander and Chief try to talk peace with them or act as our military leader?

Can his smooth talk keep North Korea from doing our troops and allies any damage as they have their war games?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96Q4L200&...

I'm sitting here watching my Japanese TV, typing on a Chinese computer, drinking a 6 pack of imported Russian beer, have a picture of Obummer on the wall, as I eat a bag of pork skins, a bowl of Yams and a big plate of Piglosi pork chops!

Do I need anything else to be a Liberal, just for tonight?

I must be a bad boy because my last question got kicked out. "Trouble, pain, misery and woe.." It had to do with Rahm Emmanuel living free for 5 years and not paying taxes. At the end I asked what would be the next thing out of Pandora's box?

Where is the violation? Except with Yahoo nit picking!

What is Freedom and liberty worth to you?

It looks as if Congress and our illustrious President think it is worth $20 a week for as long as your job lasts!

I just read the headlines in the news and it is stated that if the stimulus?? passes it will mean about twenty dollars extra a week on your paycheck. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a bad thing, but in today's economy, especially with manufacturing mostly heading south and west beyond our borders, to Mexico, India, Pakistan and China, how long will you have a job, unless you work in the office, in local sales or such.

For the many, who push wires, screw, bolt and glue on the assembly line, each day might be their last, because of the cheaper wages overseas. I'm sure there are some manufacturers that are patriotic enough that they will try to stay and will get a few concessions but they will only employ a few hundred. The rest are left standing!

If it came down to passing this spending bill, stimulus for that twenty dollars a week and shortly after wards watching our country go bankrupt and turn into a socialists nation anyway because of no jobs, or holding on to your freedom and liberty, Which will you choose?

And they are shouting 'Buy American' !! Where can we find an American T.V., clothes and in many cases American grown food, Not at WalMart? If we buy only American made clothes, in a very short time we will be "Nude America"!

Since the money for the bail out isn't real money and the Fed is only printing it out of thin air, and our tax dollars are supposed to be used to pay back the loan? Our tax dollars are real money so why should our government have to pay interest on "air money" with real money. I say let's just pay the initial loan with no interest.

As the detainees have been going through rehabilitation and are still returning to their Al Qaeda groups, wouldn't it be a good idea of equipping them with a chip similar to those used on our pets so we can find them again?

I am not saying that they are less human or trying to be insulting, but this would be a way to keep tabs on them and follow their movements leading us to other terrorist organizations.

I believe that in the near future we will all be tagged in a similar way.

There have been many that have made statement about people on welfare and It made me wonder about our generations and their past work histories.

If this country was just beginning, without the technology we have today, but had the same people we have and the present mind set, which would we be driving , model T's or mules?

A brief history of the things I did to exist, and mind you that, I have not had any college and only an average high school education.

Caddy at a golf course, dishwasher, cook, dirt track racer, U.S. Marine, 6 years, Taxi driver, truck driver, automotive sales, automotive warehouseman, home construction, machinist, welder, Food service warehouse man and load master, Hot tar roofer, sewing machine operator, sewing machine mechanic, automotive mechanic and body man, deputy sheriff, professional musician, ordained preacher, factory manager, heavy equipment operator, assembly line worker, fence builder, farmer, livestock handler, gardner/yardman, lumberjack and father.

I am now 67 years old and retired. I have used my body like one would a demolition derby car, having drove the wheels off several time and am now on my last set. Many of the jobs I did were part time but I always had at least one full time job and several part timers at the same time.

Shouldn't we expect the same out of our younger generation or will they be content to ride the mule?

The Government earmarked $700 billion for the bailout effort of failing banks. We the tax payer are the suppliers of this money and we work hard in a deflated market for this money. We have to live and pay bills on usually to little and each month we have too much month left and not enough money.

We put our money in the banks and write checks to those we owe and if we spend more than we have the bank charges us for the overdraft. We are required to keep track of our cash flow and if we fail we are penalized, therefore we must be accountable for each little penny or the bank hangs us out to dry.

Now I am not opposed to helping the banks, the auto makers or anyone else, but should they not be held to the same standard that the bank holds us to? Should not the banks not be held accountable for each little penny of the money we gave them?

The same banks that require us to keep tabs on our money don't know where all the bailout money is going, and say they won't discuss it with reporters, stated AP reporter Matt Apuzzo in an article on internet news.

link: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20081222/d957NEHO...