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Oxymoron - Unity for Change

Posted by BPeters on Friday, June 27, 2008 2:07:39 PM
    Here's the definition of 'Oxymoron':   a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.  
 
    C'mon dear reader, think about what the 'Obama' Campaign with the Hillary camp came up with:  UNITY FOR CHANGE.  Huh?
   
    So....one 'unites' to 'change'......?  
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The BirdsEyeView

Posted by BPeters on Friday, June 27, 2008 2:01:33 PM
Photos of Bald Eagle, Chugach National Forest    Yes, I"m watching. 
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Stock, drop and roll

Posted by BPeters on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:53:39 PM
   Seen a headline via Drudge, all it said was 'Fear'.   Seems those in the stock market have put most of their eggs in one basket if the cost of oil is making them so nervous with their money, they have to sell, sell, sell.   Good time to break out Eddie Murphury/Dan Ackryd's, Trading Places and just laugh it off.  The sun will set today, rise tomorrow.  God hasn't given His trumphet warnings that the time has come....yet.  Though if I were in California...I'd move. 
 
    This is a decently written story, seems a 'reporter' actually did their job:  
 
Wall Street loses more ground as oil rises; personal spending, incomes jump

 -- Stocks slumped again Friday after a sharp dive in the previous session, with investors anxious about a new oil price record and dubious that personal income and spending will remain resilient.

The Commerce Department said spending rose 0.8 percent in May, as taxpayers started receiving their stimulus checks. The increase was higher than the 0.7 percent economists predicted. The report also said personal incomes surged 1.9 percent -- significantly more than anticipated. After taxes, incomes surged 5.7 percent, the largest amount in 33 years.

But the data provided only a bit of solace to investors nervous about the average consumer struggling with rising prices, falling home values and the shaky job market.

"They're saying that's great, but what's going to happen in July and August, when we don't have the help from the stimulus checks?" said Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment officer of Johnson Illington Advisors.

With many commodities on a seemingly unstoppable incline, Wall Street remains concerned they will slam consumers with not only elevated costs for energy and food, but also for other goods if cash-strapped companies decide to pass along the rising costs. Early Friday, crude was up more than $1 above $141 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after briefly surpassing $142 in pre-market trading. Corn and soybean prices have also been hitting new all-time highs.

"If you're looking for problems that face investors, that face the U.S. economy, they're everywhere," Johnson said, pointing also to still-tight credit conditions for the nation's banks.

The major indexes changed direction several times in the first hour of trading, and then turned lower by late morning trading. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 78.25, or 0.68 percent, at 11,375.17, sinking to levels not seen since September 2006 and compounding Thursday's nearly 360-point skid.

Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 3.93, or 0.31 percent, to 1,279.22, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 15.14, or 0.65 percent, to 2,306.23.

Bond prices edged higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which tends to move opposite its price, was at 3.99 percent, down from 4.03 percent late Thursday. The dollar was lower against other major currencies, while gold prices rose.

Thursday's drop came on a combination of worries about oil prices and the financial, automotive and technology sectors. General Motors Corp. shares dropped to their lowest level in more than three decades.

GM shares rose 3 cents to $11.40 on Friday.

In other economic news, the University of Michigan's June index of consumer sentiment came in at 56.4, a bit lower than its reading in May and slightly below the average analyst estimate.

Also Friday, a Lehman Brothers analyst lifted his prediction of Merrill Lynch & Co.'s asset markdowns in the second quarter. His write-down estimate rose to $5.4 billion from $3 billion. On Thursday, a Goldman Sachs analyst forecast a $4.2 billion write-down at Merrill and a nearly $9 billion write-down at Citigroup Inc.

Merrill shares slipped 11 cents to $32.90, and Citigroup shares fell 28 cents to $17.39.

Keeping investors nervous about the tech sector, Palm Inc. posted a worse-than-expected quarterly loss after the market closed Thursday. The smart phone maker said sales of Treo phones were slowing.

Palm Inc. shares fell 52 cents, or 8 percent, to $6.02.

Another smart phone maker, Research In Motion Ltd., extended its sharp decline from Thursday, when it issued a downbeat forecast. The BlackBerry maker fell $4.96, or 4 percent, to $118.50.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 4.36, or 0.62 percent, to 694.06.

Declining issues narrowly outnumbered advancers on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 376.9 million shares.

Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 2.01 percent after Wall Street's tumble. In afternoon trading, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.30
percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.09 percent, and France's CAC-40 lost 0.30 percent.
 
    First off, Americans need to invest into their fellow Ameicans.  Those who are making tremendous strides in making the US a Nation independent of foreign oil.  Invest in water.  Invest in storing, moving, and processing water.  Invest in the companies, the Mom & Pop that is building their proven prototypes.  Invest in America.  The large mega Corporations need to show how they are helping 'Americans' and not just the Corporate Board pocketbooks.   This Nation is at a huge and critical crossroad in it's history.  Investing smartly will be one of the best ways to ensure continued growth and success. 
   I see the small independents still making advances in this Nation.  The small independent individual, small company, they are 'growing' and their jobs are continuing.  It's the 'large' overextended corporations that are floundering.  Two examples:  one guy I know has a embroidering/print shop for clothes.  He's backlogged now 25 orders of  20 - 300 items per customer.  He's been this way for the past four months, and he continues to grow.  Another guy has a 'pump' business.  He has more jobs than he can handle, his suppliers are the only thing slowing him down.    Another small company, that has 'petroleum' auto products....get a weekly delivery (note I had to stop there and do 'work' since I'm doing this during my breaks today at work).  One of the sales/supply drivers has been back twice to get resupplied.  That company is doing well.  Helps to have good products too.
    I know a few sales people that have been nothing but busy.  So where's the economy crashing and why is Wall Street panicking??  Over invested in oil maybe???  Over invested in giant auto makers??
    Invest in what made this Nation great, small business, and the return will beneficial for all.
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Pelosi and Not-So-Right to Free Speech

Posted by BPeters on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:49:22 PM
       Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
 
Hugo_Chavez.jpg   Venezuelan Socialist Dictator(for life)  Hugo Chavez
 
      

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.
Continental Congress Declaration, 1775

     The Speaker of the House, who's 'job' intended by it's inception, was to be the final arbitor between the different 'factions' inside our Congress.   But Nancy Pelosi, like her 'comrade' from Venezuela, has and is going to continue to pursue personal power over the Constitution of the United States by attacking one of the primary principles of our Constitution.  Free speech. 
 
     As written by our Fore Fathers:  Amendment 1 of the United States Constitution:  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble; and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
 
     Pelosi Supports 'Fairness Doctrine'
by John Gizzi 
Posted 06/25/2008 ET
The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) to outlaw the “Fairness Doctrine” (which a liberal administration could use to silence Rush Limbaugh, other radio talk show hosts and much of the new alternative media) would not see the light of day in Congress during ’08.  In ruling out a vote on Pence’s proposed Broadcaster's Freedom Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA.) also signaled her strong support for revival of the “Fairness Doctrine” -- which would require radio station owners to provide equal time to radio commentary when it is requested.

Experts say that the “Fairness Doctrine,” which was ended under the Reagan Administration, would put a major burden on small radio stations in providing equal time to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative broadcasters, who are a potent political force.  Rather than engage in the costly practice of providing that time, the experts conclude, many stations would simply not carry Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk show hosts who are likely to generate demands for equal time.

At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year.

“No,” the Speaker replied, without hesitation.  She added that “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.”

Pelosi pointed out that, after it returns from its Fourth of July recess, the House will only meet for another three weeks in July and three weeks in the fall.  There are a lot of bills it has to deal with before adjournment, she said, such as FISA and an energy bill.

 “So I don’t see it [the Pence bill] coming to the floor,” Pelosi said.

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation

Pelosi to Senate:  Filibuster FISA

Although Speaker Pelosi would not specifically call for Sen. Barack Obama to lead a filibuster against Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation in the Senate, she did send a strong signal that she was positive about the talk of filibuster against the surveillance measure by Democratic Sens. Christopher Dodd (CT.) and Russ Feingold (Wisc.)

Recalling that there were many issues before the Senate that she felt deserved but did not get a filibuster -- on the war in Iraq and expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that the Administration vetoed, for example -- Pelosi voiced her opinion that “a filibuster focuses on a very important issue” and that the importance of FISA “justifies that.”

The Speaker pointed out that “if the Senate has the ability to filibuster, and “I think there is a great appetite in the public for such a debate on [FISA] to take place.  And I think it would be healthy and wholesome.”

Of her own unusual vote for the surveillance bill coupled with an admonition to colleagues that they were not obliged to do the same, Pelosi was pressed by nationally syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

“It’s better than the underlying FISA law,” Pelosi told Novak, “It’s better than what the Senate had sent us.  It’s not good enough, as far as I’m concerned.  But I did for it because, again, we have our choices to make and I viewed my role as saving the world, the House, the Congress, from the Senate bill, and  the Protect America Act, the Administration’s bill.  But it isn’;t the bill I would have written.” 
 
 
     There you go dear reader, the right to free speech will definitely be under major attack in the near future, with or without 'Obama' in the White House.   When a person answers with a quick 'yes' or 'no', you know that their mind is made up, a decision has already been made.
    I think an old name should be revived for Nancy Pelosi and her supporters....United Empire Loyalist.   They fought against 'republican ideals' of the Colonist of the American Revolutionary War and supported King George III.  King George III, was born of privilege and wealth, lived that lifestyle, tax the poor and middle class constantly and into personal ruin,  maintained that a strong 'central' government was the answer to how to govern all the lands they governed over.  Modern day Socialist/DNC are like the government of King George III.   Did you know Nancy Pelosi's daughter is a 'super delegate' for the DNC??   Born into 'privilege'......and how to 'govern'......
   If she gets her way, this blog will no doubt cease to exist under her 'Fairness Doctrine'......because I will have to find a person with opposing views to be able to write on my blog as a 'counterpoint'.   My word count no doubt will be limited, and their's unlimited. 
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US Supreme Court - Out of Touch

Posted by BPeters on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:13:19 PM
    The U.S. Supreme Court is out of touch in two major ways.  They are out of touch with the common American and the values, ideals, and law set forth by our Fore Fathers, whom most 'avearge' Americans support and defend.   The U.S. Supreme Court is also....out of touch by the average American.  If the average American could really have their say, most of those so-called 'judges', would be fired for incompetence, dereliction of duty, and charges bordering on treason to the American People. 
    I can not believe the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in the rape of a child.  Here's the story:
 
Court rejects death penalty for raping children

The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child.

In a 5-4 vote, the court says the law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in cases of child rape violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

"The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.

There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years.
 
      I imagine Justice Kennedy would not be man enough to defend his own child or grandchildren against a rapist, nor would the other 'liberal' Justices that voted in favor of defending sick no-use-to-society criminals.  They would prefer their 'children' just be raped and the consequences that they have to live with the rest of their lives are inconsequential compared to the life of a child rapist.  A rapist who would, if caught, live out the rest of their lives in a nice, clean, air conditioned prison, getting fed 3 times a day, writing a book on his crimes, then come up for early release by a 'liberal' review board.   Then he would go out and do it again to some other one's child. 
    Let's just stack our prison's up with more waste of human flesh.   They are not ever going to become an asset to society, they are only going to be predators upon society, espeically children.   Why keep a person like that...alive?  
    A warrior understands, as long as he/she is alive, they still have a chance to fight.  Same goes for the hardend and sick criminal...as long as he/she is alive, they still have the chance of committing another crime and bide their time for that chance.  Same mentality of homicide bombers.  
    The 'Law' on how long a U.S. Supreme Court Justice can serve....needs to be reviewed and rewritten.  Then applied as well to Federal Congress.  Appointments for life tend to give a person 'subconscience' immunity to reality.  Like tenured Professors who forget what 'teaching' is really all about, being to become political or very narrow focused upon one item to the point of obsession.  Our Justices, and members of Congress, who get 'lifetime' positions due to law or money, begin to feel immune to the 'real world' that the rest of America lives by daily.   They loose 'sight' of what their job is supposed to really be all about.  They loose 'conviction' to do what their position really demands of them. 
    The U.S. Supreme Court, same five members, gave our Constitutional Rights to 'terrorist'.  Now they give purpose and empower child rapist, who know they shall not fear the death penalty.   Time for real 'change' to our Federal system, not just a feel good Presidency...
 
   "It's called the death penalty, not the death deterrent".  Roman Rivet, Haffia, Israel
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Kalifornification strikes Oregon elemtary school

Posted by BPeters on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:19:37 PM
   More of the worst of California has now inserted itself upon second graders of an Oregon Elementary school.  Fox News reported this story: 

Little 'Barbie Brat' Bullies Become Concern in Schools

Monday , June 23, 2008

Recess was Allie Long's favorite part of the day until the second grade, when some of her friends on the playground pressured her to join their whisper campaign against a classmate.

Allie shrugged. She didn't want to hear their rumor or help spread it around. In an instant, her best friends since kindergarten became her tormenters.

"They started taunting and teasing her," said Allie's mom, Trudy Ludwig. "She was on this play structure and they blocked all of the exits and wouldn't let her off. They started moving closer to her. Allie just freaked out. One of the girls realized it was getting out of hand and got a teacher to help."

Bullying among adolescents has captured the attention of researchers, educators and parents alarmed by a parade of mean girls and cyber-bullies caught in mid-punch on viral video. But such aggression may not just happen in a whirl of adolescent hormones, some in the growing anti-bully movement argue.

Some older bullies were "Barbie brats" first.

In Allie's case, the kids were talked to, but things weren't the same at her Beaverton, Ore., school.

"My daughter cried herself to sleep on and off for several months," Ludwig said. "She had stomachaches. The phone stopped ringing. No playdates. No invitations to sleepovers."

They were just 7 years old.

    How does this kind of behavior start?  Where is the underlaying influence, empowerment, and support coming from??  Start at home.  Then look at what is coming into that home in the way of 'media'.   Do you ever watch 'the Disney Channel'?   My oldest step daughter whom is in her 20's, watches it from time to time and I don't see shows about Mickey Mouse.  I see agressive programing that depicts 'children' making adult decisions and living lives as if they were adults.  That's how 'Hollywood' which is in.....California, writes those stories.  Some of those shows are very sexually suggestive, some are bordering on 'satanistic' religion being valued over what made this Country great, being the Christian-Judaeu values.  Cartoon Network....it isn't Scooby Doo or Bugs Bunny. 
    What age group was the "Harry Potter" movies targeted at?   Didn't see many ads on during primetime did we??
    'Bratz' dolls, clothing, cartoons.....and the 'Mother's' of these 2nd graders probably think it's soooo cute and let their kids watch it without even thinking twice.   Fathers....don't have time to even bother, too busy working, getting together with 'the boys' for golf or softball.  These are daughters anyway right, no place for a man to be sticking his nose into how their daugther is raised and what influences are attacking the mind of that daughter daily. 
     Trace the origins back to California who boldly tout, so goes California, so goes the Nation.  No wonder God is burning it to the very ground and is about to dump it into the sea.   Too bad the cancer of California spread with the 'White flight' of the 80's and 90's.  Don't think that's possible...you doubt me dear reader?!  Then explain how the mass influx of people from New Orleans have had such primarily negative consequences upon their 'host' communities?? 
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TWUSA Alert - Chinese Invasion of USA

Posted by BPeters on Monday, June 23, 2008 9:34:58 PM
    With the gas prices that have gone up like a rouge vulcano, the soot and ash fall out are taking affect.   People are drastically cutting back on traveling, every frills such a Starbucks frappuchino, the purchase of 'wants' v. needs.   Now with the floods in America's bread basket, our food prices will soon see more rising besides the cost of gas tranpsorting our food goods.  These are now givens and things you no doubt are well aware of.
    So what am I talking about an Chinese Invasion about?  
    On NBC Nightly News, they did a story about Chinese coming to the United States in droves as 'tourist'.  Gasp.  The PRC is giving more and more freedom to the growing Chinese Middle Class, who are now traveling more around the World and to here, the U.S.A.
    Both my wife and I noticed this during a Memorial Day trip to Biloxi, there was an incredible number of Chinese tourist in the casinos. 
    Americans, are now becoming more 'home bound' due to the economy, whereas people in other countries are now becoming the majority of tourist. 
    Keep checking those items you spend your dollars on.....'Made In China' has more significance that you thought.  Your dollars are building a new middle class, in China.  Whereas our middle class is disappearing daily....and becoming....the servants for the new tourist. 
    I imagine those 900 United Airline pilots that are being layed off won't be traveling much soon either, nor the 1200 other U.A. support staff that are losing their jobs.   Maybe they can get jobs at a hotel busing tables, for Chinese tourist. 
    Don't get angry at the Chinese people that coming here being tourist either.  You've shot yourselves in the foot, you've bought at Wal Mart and not Mom & Pops Corner Store.   You've continued to funnel kids into a university system that is nothing more than a glorified baby sitting institution   http://www.campusgrotto.com/best-party-schools.html   where it's more important to go drinking than learn academics.  I could put in other websites showing 'your college kids' but Townhall would ban me....yes, they are that bad and they are your sons and daughters.
    Everything is connected to TWUSA.  How it came to be, everything I've talked about in various postings here.  I heard also tonight that our beloved and trusted Government went behind our backs on the Dubai ports deal and did it anyway.   If your daughter has blond hair, blue eyes, she will fair better with the coming Shieks and Chinese businessmen in a Third World USA.
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The Coming Hypocrisy of Clinton-Obama campaigning

Posted by BPeters on Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:10:32 PM
    I'm hitting the wires ahead of the upcoming Hillary-Barak joint campaign appearances.  What I would like you to focus on dear reader, is how this coming week, Tuesday I believe, that when Hillary and Barak are side by side, like best friends, recall their earlier words towards each other.   Then ask yourself, are these people being HONEST with America?  Do you really believe that these people had it in their hearts and minds to become the President of the United States, and then turn around so quick and be 'BFF's'???  Is this how you, dear reader, cultivate and base your friendships and trust upon?  Are people who say something one day with so much conviction, then turn around the next say something else, actually speaking the 'truth' whenever they talk??!!  Could you trust someone with your children who made statements in such a style one day and reverse it the next??  The Socialist (they call themselves Democrats, Liberals), and their lap dog media of CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, will be coming out with stories of 'Party unity' with these coming joint appearances of Hillary and Barak, and how 'wonderful' it is seeing them together for 'the Nation'.  So when you're watching any of this coming propoganda* campaigning of Barak's this week, recall some of their earlier words towards each other, and ask yourself, at which time were they speaking the truth, then or now?   
*Merriam Webster  pro-pa-gan-da  noun:  Congregation for propagating the faith, organization established by Pope Gregory XVI : the spreading of ideas or information to further or damage a cause; also: ideas or allegations spread for such a purpose. 
 
    What they said earlier:
        2-14-08:   At a campaign stop at a General Motors Corp. plant in Youngstown, Ohio, the senator from New York accused Obama of caving in to special interests.

"My opponent says that he'll take on the special interests," she said. "Well, he told people he stood up to the nuclear industry and passed a bill against them. But he actually let the nuclear industry water down his bill -- the bill never actually passed."

Clinton also accused Obama of supporting "billions of dollars of breaks for the oil industry" by voting for an energy bill she opposed and said he did not support the workers of a Maytag Corp. plant that closed in his home state of Illinois.
 
   

  10-22-07:  An e-mail sent out by the Clinton campaign on Thursday night – Hillary’s 60th birthday – declared:

“Stagnant in the polls and struggling to revive his once-buoyant campaign, Senator Obama has abandoned the politics of hope and embarked on a journey in search of a campaign issue to use against Senator Clinton.

“Never mind that he made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006. Never mind that he co-sponsored a bill designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a global terrorist group back in April.”
 
    4-26-07:  As Obama was telling his life story during a recent appearance with Al Sharpton in New York, Sharpton's cell phone rang. "Is that Hillary calling?" Obama joked. "Breaking my flow?"
 
    3-08-08:  With little margin for error, Clinton stepped up a range of attacks, including ads questioning whether Obama has the experience to protect families in the event of an international crisis.
 
    10-28-07:   In the interview with The New York Times that appeared in Sunday's edition, while en route to a campaign stop in Ohio, Obama accused Clinton of "trying to sound or vote like Republicans, when it comes to national security issues," and of "kicking the can down the road" on Social Security.
    "The case I’m making is not that she’s a terrible person or would be a terrible president, the case I’m making is that I would be better at those things that the country needs right now."
 
     12-3-07:  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed Barack Obama Monday for dodging key abortion, gun and Iran votes -- as a USA Today/Gallup poll showed her national support slipping significantly.  "You decide which makes more sense: entrusting our country to someone who is ready on day one ... or to put America in the hands of someone with little national or international experience who started running for president when he arrived in the United States Senate," she said....
 
    3-09-08:  "If it had been up to me, we would have never been in this war. It was because of George Bush, with an assist from Hillary Clinton and John McCain, that we got into this war.  "Senator Clinton is not even willing to acknowledge that she voted for war. She says she voted for diplomacy despite the title that said 'Authorisation to use US armed forces in Iraq'."
           Addressing a town hall meeting in Casper, he accused his rival of helping President George W Bush to kick-start the war by voting for it in the Senate, and declared: "She has no standing to question my position on this issue.
 
    2-25-08: "Ten years after NAFTA passed, Sen. Clinton said it was good for America. ... Well, I don't think NAFTA has been good for America - and I never have," Obama said during a campaign stop at a wallboard factory. "The fact is, she was saying great things about NAFTA until she started running for President."
 
   2-25-08:  Clinton cracked, "Now, I could stand up here and say, 'Let's just get everybody together. Let's get unified. The sky will open. The light will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.'"

Her remarks drew chuckles from a supportive audience gathered at Rhode Island College.

"Maybe I've just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be," she said. "You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear."
   
    2-25-08:  "Ten years after NAFTA passed, Sen. Clinton said it was good for America. ... Well, I don't think NAFTA has been good for America - and I never have," Obama said during a campaign stop at a wallboard factory. "The fact is, she was saying great things about NAFTA until she started running for President."
 
    4-13-08:  Obama said he expected such from McCain. But he proclaimed himself "a little disappointed" in Clinton's response. We doubt that, but it set up a refrain he then used to punctuate his defense of himself: "She knows better; shame on her."

He really got rolling when he ridiculed her ... 

as a sudden defender of the culture of sportsmen. With a smile on his face and to the amusement of his crowd, he characterized Clinton as "talking like Annie Oakley" and acting like "she's out in the duck blind every Sunday, packing a six-shooter."

He added, laughingly: "I want to see that picture of her out in the duck blind." 
    There's just a few examples dear reader, of statements documented by various journalist and new organizations that Hillary and Barak have made towards each other.  I'm quite certain there exist better statements behind closed doors that other's in each camp have heard as well.  The truth...with Hillary and Barak, what is it?   What they said then, tomorrow, next week??   You decide. 
     
     
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The "Audacity" of Obama

Posted by BPeters on Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:49:52 AM
      
    Taking the great Seal of the President of the United States, and altering it to use it as a 'campaign' prop, shows again, more of what Barak Obama is really all about.  He does not show proper respect and decorum towards such an icon as the Presidential Seal.  This is a clear middle finger stick in the eye towards America's 'historical' heritage. 
   To Barak Obama, his Campaign staff, and supporters, it's clear that American Historical Heritage, has no value to them at all other than to be 'abused' and used to their whim.  Soon, they will be rewriting the Declaration of Independence as a campaign slogan.  But it all does show the subliminal reference that they do intend to 'change' the Constitution of the United States that was born of blood of our Fore Fathers, and Mothers.   This campaign is about 'them', not this Nation and it's People.
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Stupid White Kids

Posted by BPeters on Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:17:17 PM
   Often, stereotypes rant that those minorities, all they do is get pregnant no matter what the age.  This story breaking across the wires just shows how wrong that is.   This story also illustrates, how progressive generational liberalism has affected an affluent and properous group of people.   A great Psych study to be done here, especially since this area is predominently 'caucasion' and financially well off.  Is this why our Grandfathers won World War Two?  For their Grandchildren and great Grandchildren to end up being so.....stupid.  Just more fodder for TWUSA.
 
  

Gloucester Teens Had Pact To Get Pregnant

GLOUCESTER (WBZ) ? There's a stunning twist to the sudden rise in teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School. Seventeen students there are expecting and many of them became that way on purpose. 

  Time Magazine first reported that nearly half of the girls confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. None of them is older than 16.

Schools Superintendent Christopher Farmer told WBZ's Bill Shields Thursday the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant."

Farmer said these are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life."

Principal Joseph Sullivan has not returned calls from WBZ for comment.

Sullivan told the magazine that the pact wasn't the only shocking incident.

"We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," he told Time.

Last month, two top officials at the high school's health center resigned in a fight over contraceptives distribution.

Medical Director Dr. Brian Orr and chief nurse practitioner Kim Daly support confidentially giving contraceptives to students. They were outraged about resistance from Addison Gilbert Hospital, which administers the state public health grant that funds the school clinic.

Normally, the school has about four pregnancies per school year.

According to Time, school officials started looking into the spike in pregnancies after an unusual number of girls came to the school clinic for pregnancy tests. Some came by several times.

"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan told the magazine.

The pregnant girls and their parents turned down requests to be interviewed.

A recent graduate who had a baby during her freshman year told Time she knows why the girls wanted to get pregnant.

"They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Amanda Ireland, 18, said. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."

WBZ has also tried to contact Mayor Carolyn Kirk and Public Health Director Jack Vondras. Both are said to be out of town this week.
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Freedom - between a rock and a hard Court

Posted by BPeters on Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:04:42 PM
   Here ya go, another reason why our entire Judicial system is OUT OF CONTROL.  
 
  

Ky. grand jury indicts Ohio man in rock dispute

Published: 6/19/08, 1:06 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. - An Ohio historian could face hard time, all because of a rock.

Prosecutor Cliff Duvall says a Kentucky grand jury has indicted Steve Shaffer of Ironton, Ohio, who led the effort to remove an 8-ton boulder from the Ohio River.

Shaffer is accused of removing a protected archaeological object from the river that separates Kentucky and Ohio. He could face one to five years in prison if convicted.

Shaffer says he's "really surprised" by the indictment and plans to fight it.

The rock bears numerous carvings of initials, names and a crude face. It had been submerged from the 1920s until last September, when Shaffer led a crew to extract it.

Shaffer has said the rock was neglected and in danger of being damaged.
 
    It's a rock.  Common sense says, were there any signs posted saying "It's against the law to pick up rocks from this river." posted anywhere???   Kind of like speed signs....there is a law where they are to be posted and the distance that those signs by law 'enforce' the speed of the defined area.   No sign, no law broken, waste of time, money, resources....RESOURCES....gas, electricity, paper, all because someone filed the suit aginst Mr. Shaffer before checking the 'common sense' book.
   Any U.S. Lawmaker....here's your challenge, here's your goal,  create the COMMON SENSE LAW and enact it through an act of Congress.  Nutshell explaination:  Common sense must be applied and proven before committing to any pursuant for either a prosecutor or defense lawyer can file a lawful action, notice, writ, injunction, etc.   I.E. of Common Sense:  Was there a sign posted stating this/that.  Does the person understand what 'hot' means, if not that person should be declared mentality incompetent and directed to immediate psychiatric care.  Was that person a member of an legitiment Govermental organization such as a recognized militia or military? 
    The CSL could take care of so many wasted court hours.  But that is ......let's say it together....common sense. 
    How do you find 'common sense'?   What is 'common' among the populace.  Since all the politicial parties like to waste a lot of money sending out useless flyers, no taxpayer money shall be given to any political party until the CSL is passed.    That money shall be used in sending out a 200 questionaire to one million registered, tax paying, Americans.   Also, for one month, this same questionaire shall be given at Malls across the country on a voluntary basis.  By the third month, all questionaires tabulated, the results are defined, the law written, then passed.  Then our tax dollars that are wasted on political parties, can once again, be wasted in what's called 'public campaign financing'. 
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Pit Bull kills - again

Posted by BPeters on Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:18:16 PM
   Dear reader, if you've followed my blog at all, you know that I've been following the stories about Pit Bull attacks since a local senior citizen was viciously and unprokedly, attacked by a pair of pit bull dogs.  That incident happened about two years ago, and since then I catch a story every few months of pit bulls attacking people and pets without provocation.   This breed MUST be outlawed before another attack, especially one upon a human being.  Here's today's story:
 
 

Pit bull incident

Until May 13 I thought pit bulls got a bad rap. I thought it was strictly how they were raised. I was so wrong.

I was walking my 15-week-old, 8-pound mini-Daschund (Mac) on his leash when he was attacked and viciously killed by a pit bull.

Our sweet puppy was killed on the end of the leash I was holding. If I'd had time to pick him up, I'm certain I would have been attacked as well. Pit bulls should be outlawed. They are a dangerous and unpredictable breed.

I would like to thank Andy from across the street for coming to my aid and very possibly saving my life. I would also like everyone to know that you and your pets are in good hands with the animal control office. My utmost appreciation and gratitude goes out to dangerous animal control officer Jankowski and supervisor Chapman for their prompt and professional attention to this case.

Officer Jankowski did not back off until this dog was legally removed and held until this matter is resolved.

This was a great relief to us and I'm sure the neighbors as well. We appreciate everyone at the Animal Shelter for performing a difficult and thankless job. We also want to thank the neighbors who stepped up to help bring this to a rapid conclusion.

— Terry Q
Thomas M
     I removed the last names and town to protect the 'innocent' against reprisals from gang bangers, drug dealers that make money from pit bull fighting.   Picture this dear reader, your missing dog or cat.   A dark heavily tinted windowed car, excessively loud thumping music that rattles the frame and plastic connections on the car, drives through your nice suburban neighborhood.  Your cat or dog are out front near the street while you are not near for whatever reason.   The car stops and using a large fish net, your pet is scooped up and the car speeds off.   Later that night at an abondoned warehouse or rural farm, your pet is cut with razor blades just enough to bleed.  It's then tossed into an arena where a single pit bull is enticed by the smell of blood and people yelling.   Your pet is scared witless, hoping you would pick it up and take it home...safe....instead, the pit bull is let loose and the end is ugly.  Then these 'people', after using your pets to wind these pit bulls up, send the pit bulls after each other while these 'people' cheer and laugh.  Now these pit bulls are taken back to whatever neighborhoods these 'people' reside in....even being in your neighborhood or maybe a few blocks over....but the pit bull breaks it's lease and a pet or child or senior citizen is attacked again.  Continue to do nothing....I'll post another story of an attack soon.
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"It was a security problem,"

Posted by BPeters on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:18:14 PM
     Ever notice a reoccuring theme in monster movies?   The monster, just being itself, somehow appears in mankinds territory or mankind in it's territory, and in the end, man kills it.  King Kong is the classic tale, Creature from the Black Lagoon, are two that come immediately to my mind.  Now I read where life imitates art.  Un-bleeping-real. 
 
 
    Icelandic police said Wednesday they had shot and killed a polar bear discovered earlier this week on the island, which is hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the threatened species' natural habitat.

"It was shot last night (Tuesday)," a police spokesman in the northern town of Saudarkrokkur told AFP.

Polar bears are rare sightings on Iceland, since they have to swim hundreds of kilometres through icy waters to reach the island from their natural Arctic habitats, but the bear discovered Monday was the second spotted and killed on the island in the past two weeks.

Icelandic authorities had been harshly criticised for killing the first bear and had indicated they would try to capture the second animal, which was discovered by a 12-year-old girl as she was out walking her dog.

The chief veterinarian from the Copenhagen zoo had been flown in late Tuesday to help.

The police "tried to get close to (the bear) with our vet, but they did not get close enough to shoot it with the anaesthetiser," zoo spokesman Bengt Holst told AFP.

"Then the bear started running, so the police were frightened they would lose control. The bear could run very close to the populated area, so they decided to shoot it," he added.

Holst said he believed Icelandic authorities had made the right decision.

"It was a security problem," he said.

That two polar bears that have made their way to Iceland in recent weeks could lend credence to warnings from experts that climate change is creating a more perilous environment for the majestic Arctic animals.

A warming climate means the ice -- where the bears usually hunt their favourite prey, the seals -- is receding and literally melting under their paws, forcing them to swim ever greater distances.

Environmental and animal conservation groups have long warned the polar bear was in danger, and recent studies indicated melting Arctic sea ice could cut their population by two-thirds over the next 50 years.

The United States last month listed the polar bear as a "threatened species," meaning it is at risk of becoming "endangered" within the near future.

Animals are listed as endangered when they face imminent extinction.
 
 
   HUH??!! A SECURITY problem??!!
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Inside Barak's Castle and more portends of Obama

Posted by BPeters on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:16:08 PM
    Okay dear reader, I have a few BirdsEyeView observations from a top this tree.  Despite the near lightning hits, torrential rain, and wind....I see a few things scurrying about.   Let's start here:
   'Biggest 'F--- you' I have ever seen in politics'
Hillraiser claims Clinton loyalists livid over Obama's chief of staff pick
 June 16, 2008
10:00 pm Eastern

WorldNetDaily

 


Patti Solis Doyle

Barak Obama choice of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the future vice presidential nominee is the "biggest f--- you I have ever seen in politics," a former bundler for Hillary Clinton said.

According to a New York Observer report, Clinton and Doyle have intense feelings of animosity toward one another and have refused to speak since the senator fired Solis Doyle from her position as campaign manager. The donor said the Clinton camp has sneaking suspicions that she is on the prowl for a book deal and provided inside information for a scathing article about Bill Clinton in Vanity Fair.

"Either one of two things happen," the bundler told the Observer. "Hillary is selected as vice president and they fire Patti, or Hillary is not going to be the vice president."
 
 
 
 
 
 
      One thing for certain, this is a major poke in the eye from Obama to Hillary, and it's a very large entended middle finger to Hillary supporters.  If this guy, Barak, really wants to be the President of the United States, he would have known that this action would cause all kinds of ill among 'fellow Democrats' and would not have allowed that action to have taken place.   That's a small * hint at his 'diplomatic' skills!!  I recently finished watching a great samurai epic series.   In this show, one Feudal Lord would often have a spy or two within the 'castle' of their enemy or ally, to relay infomation back, seek defections, or cause chaos.  Sometimes allied 'lords' would switch sides in mid battle.    So I wonder...who is Patti S. Doyle truely serving??  Hmmm.
 
      Barak is now trying his best to get 'big union' backing.   Barak has also gave speeches about taxing to the max, the big Corporations that hire these 'union' workers.  So, I'm sure, there are many CEO,CIO,CFO's huddling together across the Nation looking at how to protect their own bottom line and pocket book.   There are many that are like GM, Ford, and others that are closing plants.  There are many that are planning ahead to move operations overseas, sell to overseas buyers - who will not hire union workers as readily as American owners.....They're anticipating an Obama Presidency/Pelsoi-Reid Congress swinging major axes at their corporations which could cost billions of dollars.  So to protect their own money, moving operations overseas would be a wise move.  Banking most of their money out of the United States, keeping enough to live comfortably here, while hundreds of thousands of 'union' workers go broke.
    Their families losing everything, due to a Obama tax the rich mentality Presidency and Socialist mindset Democratic party leaders.
    The Unions might really want to consider whom to support.  
     Ever see a big or small battle in a war, then once it's all over, a few wounded enemy stragglers are in retreat mode, some moron rides up and says, I"m here to help win the fight -  Al Gore endorsed Obama yesterday......
     I heard something about Obama trying to bring in a former Clintonite retired flag officer into his camp.   As Rush said, so much for 'Change'.   Same ol' faces, same ol' politics, more flip flops from Obama.   If the phone rings at 3a.m.....will Obama really be able to make a decision and stick to it??
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Much needed Brain Candy

Posted by BPeters on Monday, June 16, 2008 9:43:21 PM
    After reading and blogging about those 'parents'....I needed something to escape to.  Going through my saved 'Fav's' I found this little nugget:  http://www.melaman2.com/cartoons/index2.html    Go through the A - Z and Extra's and listen to the wonderful childhood sounds of yesterday....there's a few moderns in there, but acceptable.   I never watched Betty Boop, but it was nice to hear the theme song.  I hope you find this place to escape to enjoyable and relaxing as I do.   A better time, long ago, in a great Nation..........
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