We have been instructed by those souls, quietly standing with placards, that we must ban nukes. Radiation lasts 1000 years; it is the most insidious thing on earth. What happens to that radiation that lasts 1000 years?

In 1945 two cities were going to find out the long term effects of the most invidious creation on earth. They did, as these photos attest.

 64 YEARS LATER

ANOTHER PLACE VISITED…

Which is more insidious - the A-bomb, or Progressive/Socialist welfare programs?

Which is more invidious- ending a war and saving millions of lives by not having to invade or destroying lives through promises created to buy the votes of those who want someone to take care of them?

Which has caused more long term destruction.

  Only a Progressive/Socialist could care less.

Want to bet this SOW votes?
Here’s the best reason for photo ID for voting, just like for banking, getting on a plane and driving.
I’d require removal from the voting rolls when one goes on welfare.
Get off welfare, get back on the voting rolls.

A product of the public schools, dumbed down to absolute cretin status.

The EU is undergoing the bombardment now; WE’RE next! OPM is DEAD!

When Other People’s Money runs out

Its culture of self-sufficiency, always at risk in a welfare state, broke down. In the U.S., too much credit and too little regulation revealed the flaws of our form of capitalism.
[snip]
Unlike capitalism, collectivization runs riot at a snail’s pace in democracies. But there, too, culture broke down — the culture of self-sufficiency, which is always at risk in a welfare state. And just as they did here, people there spent more than they earned, even if their governments did the borrowing and spending for them. In both places, elected leaders are loath to let creditors take a bad haircut for fear of dragging the entire system down. [snip]

Attitudes toward lenders, who in both Europe and the U.S. seem at last to have awakened from their greedy trance, are remarkably parallel. Over here, people are mad at bankers and investors for lending us so much in the first place. And over there, anger arises because lenders are increasingly unwilling to lend at all, potentially leaving Greece and God knows who else unable to finance their deficits. It’s remarkable that in both capitalism and socialism, the trouble is the same: Sooner or later you run out of OPM.

If the recent American financial crisis filled our European frenemies with delicious Schadenfreude, it now seems that it’s our turn to take pleasure and say “I told you so!” [snip]

U.S. Debt Shock May Hit In 2018, Maybe As Soon As 2013: Moody’s

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532490
[snip]
The key data point in Moody’s view is the size of federal interest payments on the public debt as a percentage of tax revenue. For the U.S., debt service of 18%-20% of federal revenue is the outer limit of AAA-territory, Moody’s managing director Pierre Cailleteau confirmed in an e-mail.

Under the Obama budget, interest would top 18% of revenue in 2018 and 20% in 2020, CBO projects.

But under more adverse scenarios than the CBO considered, including higher interest rates, Moody’s projects that debt service could hit 22.4% of revenue by 2013.

“While we see limited risk of a U.S. sovereign debt downgrade in the next 2-3 years, beyond that we cannot be so certain,” wrote Societe Generale’s economics team in a recent report. [snip]

The U.S. economic recovery is on shakier ground.

The growing European debt crisis has sent stock markets on a wild ride. A weaker European economy could sap demand for U.S. exports and hurt sales by U.S. companies in Europe. U.S. banks that hold European government debt also could cut back on lending to conserve cash.
“The perception of risk has just changed in a major way,” said Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities. “Business leaders now think there is more risk in the world economy than they did 30 days ago.”

Half of U.S. Home Loan Modifications Default Again

March 25 (Bloomberg) — More than half of U.S. borrowers who received loan modifications on delinquent mortgages defaulted again after nine months, according to a federal report.

The re-default rate of loans modified in the first quarter of 2009 was 51.5 percent by the end of the year, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision said in a joint report today. The figure, which measures payments at least 30 days late, climbed to 57.9 percent for changes made in the prior 12 months. [snip]

The Democrats during Carter and Clinton Regimes insisted banks lend to borrowers that could not meet normal borrowing requirements. The Congress kept this policy ongoing and thwarted Bush’s attempt to change the program.

Modifications are “clearly not working well and it’s not a surprise,” said Sam Khater, a senior economist at First American CoreLogic in Tysons Corner, Virginia. “It’s pointless to rewrite these loans because they’re underwater.”

Socialism doesn’t work.
One cannot run a State/Country on OPM without requiring repayment of all that money at interest on time.
Only very high taxes on every citizen of the population can give “free” benefits to the recipients of that entity. No exceptions!

Clinton alludes to 1995 bombing, says words matter

Thanks for the reach around, Bill
More to the point though,  just how damn dense can you get?
People in LARGE crowds at the Capitol, in Congressman’s offices, via phone calls and faxes gave voice to the word NO to Obama’s* policies! Harry Reid and Pelosi told the Country to stuff it!
(*Anyone know who is Nehemiah Scudder)

Former President Bill Clinton warned of a slippery slope from angry anti-government rhetoric to violence like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, saying “the words we use really do matter.” [snip]

They do, Words like “VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY” and politics of personal destruction are YOUR words Bill. Like now as then, complicit still is TASS, aka, the MSM. Remember, how you had your Presidential johnson stepped on in the mid-terms. The people were not anywhere near as pissed then as they are now.

On April 19, 1995, an anti-government conspiracy led by Army veteran Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people.

“What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold - but that the words we use really do matter, because there’s this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike,” he said. [snip]

He also alluded to the anti-government tea party movement, which held protests in several states Thursday. At the Washington rally, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota railed against “gangster government.”
Clinton argued that the Boston Tea Party was in response to taxation without representation. [snip]

I strongly suggest the same taxation without representation pant load is on going in DC today with one party rule. Cap&Tax, Amnesty for illegals, government handouts to big banks, bailouts of homeowners who bought houses they could never afford, systemic destruction of small businesses by onerous laws, roll back of welfare reforms, failure to deal with the bankruptcy of Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid and the idea of businesses being “Too Big to Fail.”

Clinton thinks this is about words?
DUMB PUTZ!

Here’s a tip for you when you need to go to the emergency room.
If you’re like me, you don’t have the time to sit there for four or more hours, so put on your old military fatigues.

Download this patch from the Internet; stick on the left pocket of the fatigue jacket. When I went into the ER, I noticed that ¾ of the people got up and left. I guess they weren’t that sick.

Anyway, this will cut at least 3 hours off your waiting time. If you’re in need of quick emergency service, there’s no sense of waiting around.

Here’s the patch. Feel free to use it.

This gets right to
the heart of the matter.

Call her RACIST!

The Shummy* and Shap* Karaoke Bar in Montpelier is open.
Every Prog  and freebooter is singing the new Vermont Anthem.

*Speaker Pro tem & *Speaker of the House

For those that don’t know the words:

One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I’m not turning
I’m headin for a land that’s far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we’ll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there’s a land that’s fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer’s trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I’m bound to go where there ain’t no snow
Where the rain don’t fall and the wind don’t blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There’s a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around ‘em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain’t no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I’m a goin to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I’ll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

The Community Organizer will take note of past attempts authored by Frank W. Taussig, Henry Simons, John Kenneth Galbraith. More recently, Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood, who believe ration coupons are the bees knees, will be his guidon.
He will ignore the dreadful results of Nixon’s price controls (1971-1973), which gave everyone a taste of the daily breathtaking life in a socialist milieu.
The ONE will flout Peanuts Carter’s wonderful foray into socialist economics as a resolution to rising gas prices.
Those that missed the agony of Nixon’s solution certainly enjoyed Peanuts’ malice. Some of us endured both.

Price Controls

Governments have been trying to set maximum or minimum prices since ancient times. The Old Testament prohibited interest on loans to fellow Israelites; medieval governments fixed the maximum price of bread; and in recent years, governments in the United States have fixed the price of gasoline, the rent on apartments in New York City, and the wage of unskilled labor, to name a few. At times, governments go beyond fixing specific prices and try to control the general level of prices, as was done in the United States during both world wars and the Korean War, and by the Nixon administration from 1971 to 1973.

The appeal of price controls is understandable. Even though they fail to protect many consumers and hurt others, controls hold out the promise of protecting groups that are particularly hard-pressed to meet price increases. Thus, the prohibition against usury—charging high interest on loans—was intended to protect someone forced to borrow out of desperation; the maximum price for bread was supposed to protect the poor, who depended on bread to survive; and rent controls were supposed to protect those who were renting when the demand for apartments exceeded the supply, and landlords were preparing to “gouge” their tenants. [snip]

The study of price controls teaches important lessons about free competitive markets. By examining cases in which controls have prevented the price mechanism from working, we gain a better appreciation of its usual elegance and efficiency. This does not mean that there are no circumstances in which temporary controls may be effective. But a fair reading of economic history shows just how rare those circumstances are.

Read the article; you do want to prepare yourself for the oncoming stupidity. Washington cannot help but screw up the results.
Need proof, Katrina people are just being told they are no longer able to live on the dole. New Orleans is still a mess, but FEMA is ON THE JOB. That’s Obama’s FEMA now!

It belonged to him since Election Day when
he created the “Office of the President-Elect.”

NO REPRESENTATION

WITHOUT TAXATION

Stop them from voting higher welfare benefits and keeping these slugs in office.When they want more money, let them work for it.

No more OPM!

I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up.
“President,” she replied quickly, “I want to be President some day.”
Both of her parents, flaming liberals, were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?”

She replied, “I would give food and houses to all the homeless people.” Her parents absolutely glowed.

”Wow…what a worthy goal; but why wait until you’re President to do that.
Come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50.”
“Then we’ll go down to Burlington where the homeless guys hang out, and you can give one of them the $50 to use toward food and a new house,” I told her.

After thinking that over for a few seconds, she looked me dead in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy just come over and do the work, and you just pay him the $50?”

I said, “Welcome to Conservative America.”

Her parents still won’t speak to me.

If the State sent individuals with manacles every week to seize you, your wife or husband to toil unpaid for 12 or more hours, depending upon what you make, would you be content?

Your work will consist of serving non-working capable adults in their daily habits such as shopping for them or taking them shopping, driving them in your vehicle to the park, pools day care and doctor visits. See that they get to the cable company to order more channels, to get high speed Internet service and take them wherever else they wish to go. Additionally, cleaning off sidewalks of snow, maintaining common living areas, painting their rentals and picking up their garbage is also your job,
If fact anyone that obtains social services of any kind, you will work for them throughout your allotted work time. Every week 52 weeks a year, you, your husband or wife and working kids if any will do this under consequence without surcease.

You take it every payday when the Government decrees that you pay for non-working capable adults to sit on their bums, ride in taxis to shop, watch cable TV, use the Internet, live in paid housing and get health care you cannot afford. All those services in Vermont are worth about $40 to 45K a year. Are you making that much AFTER taxes?

Socialism is slavery. It takes by force leaving no choice. We fought a war over this very idea, did we not?

How did all those blacks get into Washington DC in freezing temps for Inauguration day when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans at 85 degrees with four days notice.

Anyone have an answer to this?

The stimulus plan currently under discussion won’t boost the economy much.  The few parts that aren’t welfare, like more spending on health care, target state and city governments, society’s least efficient economic engines.  Any multiplier effect will be seriously curtailed by this delivery mechanism. 

And, when you examine what some of these cities want to do with the money, it’s not hard to see zero being the net economic multiplier:

The package would include spending millions to fix roads and sidewalks, making the city more green with energy efficient lights and heating, and $1.6 million for a system to collect and clean all the run off water that pollutes the lake at Durand Eastman Beach.

Sidewalks for economic growth?  Oy vey!  The stimulus is turning into a real charlie foxtrot.  The best alternative idea out there is lowering payroll taxes.  It would help employers hire and retain workers while also not generating more dependents for the government dole.  After all, what happens to the sidewalk builders when they finish: they beg for stimulus package version 3.0.

Maybe MA can help itself out by taking a page out of CA. book.

Ed Mann says Vermont did with this post at Vermont Loon Watch:

Tax’em till they drop

From the moment Barack Obama announced his intentions to run for POTUS, I assumed that he would win.   The Clinton machine was worn out, and there were social forces and irrefutable facts that no “conservative” candidate could overcome.  Everything was in place when it came time to vote.  Briefly….

First, demographics:  Immigration and generational changes have eclipsed the Euro-centered, Post WWII electorate.  The young don’t care about Bill Ayers or radicalism any more than my generation cared about Tokyo Rose and Henry Wallace; the world of the young today is so bizarre and free-wheeling that nothing as tame as Jeremiah Wright can stand out and get serious attention.   Immigrants - most of whom have come here from despotic or chaotic countries - are seeking advantage through political power, and Barack Obama poses no threat to their conception of liberty.  They also don’t give a damn about Ben Franklin or Paul Revere, if you get my point.

Second, The Welfare State, or the same thing by other names:  Has grown in every administration since 1936, with a lapse during WWII.  All administrations have supported and expanded Human Resources and Defense ”superfunctions”, until it accounts for almost 62% of federal outlays since 1940 (adjusted for inflation). Everyone gets a piece, including those who call themselves conservatives.  Arguments about The Welfare State are window-dressing, because no faction or party seriously argues about its existence, and none attempt to define its sufficient size.

Third, popular conservatism itself, today, is a side show.   Buckley’s generation-long efforts to make conservatism respectable expired along with his sincerity, good sense and originality.  His heirs - like the bore George Will,  have made the essential muscularity of conservatism into a watery, disgusting gruel fit only for bow-tie wearing drama queens.   George W. Bush’s incoherence and government by passive silence has earned the detestation of almost every political perspective, especially the paleoconservatives.  Compassionate conservatism appeared to be ritualistic soul-cleansing, where things not belonging to you could be freely given to others.  Watch Barack Obama on this issue, too.

On the radio side, conservatism is dished up in the same old tropes, accompanied by country music, audio cuts of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and Wright’s squeals, and endless hammering on the anvils of American Exceptionalism and Rugged Individualism.  Together, their conclusions about why conservatism is moribund, is that voters dismayed by Republican cowardice and cupidity, punished them by voting for liberal Democrats.  Brilliant.   With analysis like this, we can win the T-Shirt slogan contest and forget the battle of ideas.

Speaking of ideas, that was McCain’s fatal problem.  He didn’t have any; he had a maverick personality, a biography, and expected us to generate ideas from there.  Obama projected plainly liquid and uncertain ideas, and his persona expanded like a Macy’s Parade balloon while McCain turned into a homunculus. Why this happened is unclear, and material for another post.

Right now I’m damned angry.   We’re exchanging one set of fools and poltroons who are clueless about the rationale, modes and aspirations of conservatism, for another set who are clueless about life, human nature, and the dangers in the world at large.  Great.