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Advertising Ain't Free


I would imagine that most of the companies that advertise hire advertising firms to come up with ads that bombard us when watching TV.  But, I just don't understand some of the ads I see. 

Why is some woman talking about a colon cleanser at a wedding reception?  What's the idea behind that?  I'm so put off by the concept of the commercial that I've never paid attention to the product being hawked.


Why is there a commercial about toilet paper that links to the website "enjoythego.com"?  Really?  Enjoy the go? 

What about the commercial from Mercedes that shows a car with chains on the doors?  When the car accelerates and goes far enough, the chains pull the doors off.  Well, what did they think was going to happen?  What's the message of the commercial?  Don't put chains on your doors and then drive away? 

And what about pcmatic.com?  The commercial opens with a guy starting to walk out the door because there's something wrong with his computer.  He's going to the store, but leaving his computer at home? How's the tech going to work on it? 

Then there's the PetMed commercial.  Get all the pet medicine you need without leaving home.  How do you know what you need unless you've first taken your pet to the vet?


This goes hand-in-hand with the contact lens commercial about delivering contacts to your home, as though you didn't have to go see the eye doctor first. 

And I simply do not get the ED medicine commercial that shows two people sitting in separate bathtubs on the top of a hill. 

Hiring the advertising firm costs money.  Running the ads cost money.  If these ads were the "winners", i.e., the ones the company chose to go with, just imagine what the losing ads were like.




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Kind of a Drag


The democrats would like to retake the House in 2012.  Pelosi is just itching to be speaker again.  The magic number is 25 seats.  Here are some assessments of their odds:

"It's going to be a really tough battle.  Democrats are all going to have to distinguish themselves from the president."  Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)

"It didn't have to be this way.  Obama's presidency has fizzled.  It's going to be every person for himself in 2012.  There just won't be any coattails, and any effect he does have on the ballot will hurt us."  House democrat speaking anonymously.

"It's hard because we're inherently linked to the president and his number.  It's got us all pessimistic."  Top democratic operative close to party leadership, speaking anonymously.

Translation:  We're going to have to run against Obama, not with him. 

Democrat lobbyist Steve Elmendorf said, "We're only going to win if a larger wave of anger with Washington develops.  And Obama has to be doing well."


Meanwhile, in the Senate, democrats are defending twice as many seats as Republicans.  Democrat Kent Conrad has already thrown in the towel and announced his "retirement.

The ace-in-the-hole for Republicans, besides Obama, are population shifts and redistricting.  As a direct result of the 2010 elections, Republicans are in charge of redistricting in a number of key states, such as Michigan, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania
.

The best case scenario is a Republican president and Republican congress.  The next best is Obama restrained by a Republican congress.



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Loser of the Week


Michelle ObamaFresh from her taxpayer-funded trip to visit her brother in Oregon - complete with 11-car motorcade - the missus just couldn't wait for her hubby to return to the White House and took off to Martha's Vineyard without him.  Her refusal to wait until they could go together cost us about $100,000.  The Obamas are only required to reimburse us the price of a first-class ticket.  We pay for absolutely everything else.  Of course, the Obamas are paying for their lodging and food, but we pay for the motorcade and security and all the planes necessary to get everything back and forth.

When you get right down to it, Michelle Obama is a nobody.  Her husband is the somebody, unfortunately.  If something were to happen to him, she'd get a 30-day notice to quit and it's back to Chicago for her.

What right on earth does she have to travel anywhere she wants on our dime?  America is hurting, and this despicable creature just parties on.  She shows absolutely no regard for what is going on in this country.  America is just one big candy store for her.  Fits right in with her thinking that she wasn't proud of this country until it did the stupidest thing it could - nominate her husband for an office he is completely unqualified for.

The Obamas have used America for their own purposes.  They have no love for this country.  They have no love for its people.  You never love what you've used for your own purposes.  Michelle Obama just proved it again.



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Farewell


Another member of The Greatest Generation has passed on.  My uncle, Dawson C. Pope, passed away at the ripe young age of 92.

Uncle Dawson was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  When his youngest son, who made the Navy his home, tried to get his Pearl Harbor Survivor medal, he discovered that there had been a fire at the base where the records were stored.  Not willing to give up, it was discovered that Dawson's mother had kept all of the letters he had written her . . . including the envelopes.  Thanks to the postal stamp on at least one of those envelopes, my cousin was able to get his father his Pearl Harbor Survivor medal.

Uncle Dawson leaves behind his wife of 62 years, my wonderful Aunt Lela, along with 4 children, 4 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild.

Go in peace
.




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Losers of the Week


Justice Douglas Ginsburg of the DC Circuit Court for ruling that the TSA's scanners do not violate the constitutional rights of Americans.  Now Hear This!  Every time a law-abiding citizen is strip-searched (scanned) or sexually assaulted under color of authority (patted down), it is a violation of the 4th Amendment, which states:  "The right of the people to be secure in their persons . . . against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated."  Yo Doug, if you want to make a name for yourself, issue a well thought out, well reasoned opinion that is actually based on the Constitution or the law and not your own personal feelings or your desire to get your name in the paper.

Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) for saying:  "I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor.

"Read between the lines," she continued. "What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"

By screaming racism every time they don't get their own way, the real racists among us actually foment racism where it doesn't exist.  Hey Sheila, maybe, just maybe, the reason Obama isn't getting his way on the debt ceiling is because we've never been in this much debt before.  You should have been more intent on the consequences of the policies you put into place, and less intent on doing whatever Obama wanted simply because he was black.

Those left-wing commentators who preach that Obama's problem isn't his policies, it's his communication.  Really.  The silver-tongued devil, whose only real ability is giving speeches can't communicate?  What these individuals are really saying is that Obama isn't dumbing down his speeches enough to make us idiots out here understand all the wonderful things he's trying to do for us.  He's so much smarter than us yokels out here that he's incapable of expressing himself in a way we can understand.  Yea right.  That's the problem.


 

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The Unraveling Has Begun


The Republicans have been slogging it out on the debt-ceiling negotiations for awhile now.  Not inclined to actually be President, as opposed to playing one on TV, Obama dispatched Biden.  Meanwhile, he golfed, partied, and fundraised.  (Don't forget that Obama appointed a commission to work on this and summarily rejected their proposal and has never submitted one of his own.)

Now that the time is fast approaching for something to actually be done, the Adolescent-in-Chief has returned to DC and is absolutely appalled by the fact that the Republicans are not scurrying to do his bidding.

In Obamaland, this was never supposed to happen.  Obama would give a speech, everyone would see the brilliance of his proposal, congress would rush to pass whatever, and then he would sign it.  Obama thought he could be President of the United States, Leader of the Free World without ever breaking a sweat.  Never having really worked a day in his life - other than at his own self-promotion - he wasn't about to start now

As it always does, reality has now intruded on the fantasies of Obama, and he ain't liking it.  He attended one recent meeting for only 2 hours before storming out.  He was the first to threat Social Security recipients unless he got his way.  If no deal is made and Social Security payments are cut off, you can bet your very last dollar that the lapdogs in the MSM will dutifully report it as the fault of Republicans

In his latest effort to get support, Obama has announced that 80% of the American public support increased taxes.  "The American people are sold" he says.  "It's going to be in the interests of everybody who wants to serve in this town to make sure they are on the right side of that impression."

Well if that's the case, "everybody who wants to serve in this town" might want to check out the latest Rasmussen polling, which indicates that only 34% think a tax hike should be included in any debt-ceiling deal, while 55% do not.  34% is a long, long, long way from
80%.

One, he's unhappy that he even has to attend these talks.  Two, he's not getting his way and storming out of meetings.  Three, he's issuing threats.  Four, he's flat out lying.  The mask is falling off No-Drama Obama, and what's underneath is a petulant, spoiled brat who will say and do anything, step on anyone or anything, just to get his own way

Too bad the Constitution only has a chronological age and not an emotional one.



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What A Baby!


Obama is crowing about the new country of South Sudan, which broke away from the islamofaschism of Sudan.  As with the killing of Osama bin Laden, it was the programs and policies of George W. Bush that made it possible.  Of course, you wouldn't know that from anything put out by this White House. 

The South Sudanese, one of whom was quoted by the Los Angeles Times times as saying "It was George Bush and the Christian fundamentalists who heard the cry of South Sudan," know it, however.  Crowds in the new capital of Juba cheered Bush, and one man held a sign that said, "Thank you, President Bush."  The new president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, donned a cowboy hat given to him by Bush in 2006
.

Would it really have been so difficult for Obama to give credit where credit is due.  Is there no end to his petty, adolescent behavior.  Is he really that insecure.  Then again, maybe he's just rude. 

In any event, there was no excuse for his behavior. 

And now, and now comes the coup de grace.  Obama is threatening to hold up Social Security checks if he doesn't get his way on the debt ceiling talks.  What does he care about those who need those monthly checks in order to survive.  He doesn't care a whit.  And you can bet your very last dollar that he and the entire left, including the MSM, will blame the Republicans.

There is only one thing in the universe that Obama cares about:  getting his own way.  If his golden rhetoric doesn't seal the deal, then out come the threats. 

Obama is a walking, talking disaster.  Like Marco Rubio said, every aspect of American life is worse since Obama took office.  And if he has to make it worse yet just to get his way, he will. 

Does the left really not see through this loser, or are they just holding their tongues because they know that to condemn him, they condemn themselves. 



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Thanks A Lot, Tim


It would seem that Tim Geithner and Barack Obama are not on the best of terms lately.  How else to explain Geithner's economic comment yesterday on Meet the Press that for a lot of people "it's going to feel very hard, harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come." 

Obama claims that all the bad news we're hearing are nothing more than "bumps in the road."  DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claims that democrats "own" the economy and turned it around.  (Too bad she was referring to a U-turn.) 

Now comes Geithner making liars out of both of them, saying that things are going to be bad for a long time to come.  Heckuva campaign slogan
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We Need Help


Since Obama demonstrates every day - in every way - that he's completely and utterly unqualified for the job he holds, he has fallen back on doing the one thing he does well, i.e., give speeches.  Hoping to regain the magic that, tragically, got him to where he is, he now runs off at the mouth pretty much all the time.  He's okay when sticking to the teleprompter, but when he goes off script, others have to clean up after him.

When asked recently what mistakes he had made in handling the recession, here was his answer:  he could have done a better job explaining how long it was going to take to get out.  Really?  That's his answer?  If he had just told us how long it was going to take to get out, everything would have been fine?

He also attempted to downplay his incompetence by saying that the magnitude of the worst US recession since the Great Depression "escaped" him when he first stepped into office.  Escaped him?  Bad economic new was in all the papers, all over the internet, and all over the TV.  Normal, everyday people could see what was going on.  How on earth can a sitting US senator claim not to have any knowledge of these things?

Obama is safe and secure in the knowledge that the lapdog MSM will not call him on such statements. Having surrendered any pretense of neutrality and objectivity in order to get him elected, they are not about to point out that he's in over his head.  After all, what would that say about them. 

We need help, serious help, because what we've got at the helm is a spoiled, arrogant brat who views the problems facing our nation as nothing more than things that get in the way of him having a good time . . . on our dime.



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What an Idiot


At a recent hearing on immigration, in a room full of illegal immigrants used as props, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) said this, "When I look around this room, I see America's future.  Our doctors, our teachers, our nurses, our engineers, our scientists, our soldiers, our Congressman, our Senators and maybe our President."

Just another lefty proving yet again what he thinks of the Constitution.



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The Real Agenda of the Left


What's the real agenda of the left?  In a word, POWER. 

The sexual assault under color of authority now going on by the TSA isn't about national security.  It's about the power of The State to put its hands on us any time it wants for any reason it wants.  It's about the power of The State to tell us that we no longer have 4th Amendment rights.  It's about the power of The State to degrade us and humiliate us any time it wants . . . and then laugh and tell us there's nothing we can do about it. 

Texas tried passing (and again trying to pass) a bill against what the TSA is doing, and the Obama administration said that planes would no longer be allowed to fly into Texas. 

Awhile back, I wrote about a man who wanted global warming deniers put on trial Nuremberg style.  Now comes former Colorado senator Timothy Wirth, currently president of the UN Foundation (which was founded by Ted Turner) who stated:  "Third, we have to, I think, against as I've suggested before, undertake an aggressive program to go after those who are among the deniers, who are putting out these mistruths, and really call them for what they're doing and make a battle out of it.  They've had pretty much of a free ride so far, and that time has got to stop." 

Those who exercise their 1st Amendment right to speak out against the global warming hoax have "had pretty much of a free ride so far, and that time has got to stop."  Really.

In other words, those who disagree with The State are to be silenced.  Are we to be imprisoned?  Reconditioned?  Retrained?  Killed?

We are heading into very dangerous times, but to say what the real agenda of Obama and the left is is to risk being called a nut.  A conspiracy theorist. 

Speak out now . . . before the left realizes its goal of a totalitarian police state.



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What An Endorsement!


Dmitry Medevedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's puppet president of Russia, has indicated that he would really like it if Obama won next year . . . because he has improved Russian-U.S. ties. 

Think we'll see that endorsement in any of Obama's campaign ads?



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Let's Look At The Numbers


Unemployment rate:
     January 2009 - 7.5% (11.6 million unemployed)
     May 2011 - 9.1% (13.9 million unemployed
)

Change:  +21% 

US Debt:
     January 2009 - $10.6 trillion 
     May 2011 - $14.3 trillion 

Change:  +35%


(Bush added $4.9 trillion in 8 years;  Obama added $3.7 trillion in less than 2-1/2 years


US Deficit
     January 2009 - $485.2 billion
     May 2011 - $927.4 billion

Change:  +91%

(Obama predicts that the total deficit for 2011 will be $1.65 trillion)

Price of gas:  (national average)
     January 2009 - $1.84 gallon
     May 2011 - $4.00 gallon

Change:  +117%

I can see the change.  Where's the hope?




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Losers of the Week


Anthony Weiner (D-NY)

Marco Gonzalez
, a lawyer with the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, for filing a lawsuit to stop the 4th of July fireworks in La Jolla California, and Judge Linda Quinn for going along with him.  The ruling means that those who apply for certain special-events permits, such as fireworks displays, must now undertake the cost of a lower-level analysis by the California Environmental Quality Act
In other words, an environmental impact report. 

Is there no end to what the bullies will do under the guise of eco-do-goodism
?







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The Liberal Mind


Barbara Walters, who peaked years (and years) ago, recently made a statement showing exactly what is wrong with the liberal mind.  After Anthony Weiner came clean about his juvenile antics, she said ". . . If Sarah Palin can still ride around on her bus and be considered as a possible president, this man can override this, stay in congress and just hope there is another scandal that will take him." 

Now, the conservative mind knows that there is no conceivable similarity between a private citizen taking a bus around the country, even if that private citizen is thinking about running for president, and a sitting member of congress taking to the airwaves to lie and lie and lie some more. 

Nancy Pelosi has called for an ethics investigation.  Why?  Weiner has admitted that he lied.  There is absolutely no question whatsoever that he looked the American people in the eye and lied.  The only thing that needs to be investigated, apparently, is whether blatantly lying to We the People is considered a breach of ethics.  Really?  There's actually a question of whether or not this is wrong? 

But, let's get back to the liberal mind.  Austan Goolsbee is leaving his post as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.  He succeeded Christina Romer, who left the post on September 3, 2010.  Both of them are returning to academia, from whence they came.  Neither of them could solve America's economic problems because neither of them has any real world experience.  (At nine months, Mr. Goolsbee is considered one of Obama's "longest-serving" policy advisers.)

Both are full of book knowledge and they probably have all kinds of charts and computer models and scholarly papers.  But, neither of them seemed to be able to grasp that there's a huge difference between how things "should" work and how they really work.  When the plans they hatched failed, they just quit and went back to the insulated world of academe, where things always work on paper.

Liberals are big on book learning but fail miserably at common sense.  We are told that Obama is "intelligent" because he went to Columbia and Harvard.  (George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard but was called stupid.  But I digress.)  Yet the most brilliant man to ever occupy the planet is absolutely clueless about how to fix things.  He has surrounded himself with people who have all kinds of book learning, but no real world experience.  Despite the fact that this has been going on for over two years, Obama and his fellow liberals can't see that academics may not be the right choice, and that maybe, just maybe, a businessman (or two or three) might be able to help.  (It should be noted that Obama picked another academic, Lawrence Summers, as his senior economics council and director of the National Economics Council.)

Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  If Obama picks yet another academic to replace Mr. Goolsbee, won't that be proof positive that he is insane?



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