This website is generally conservative, (and somewhat tinfoil-hat) but generally makes good points.

Go here for a somewhat long (but worth the read) chart of where England and the British empire once was and is now, and how we are poised to follow them into obscurity.

Do we want the US to become irrelevant to the outcome of world affairs? I don’t.

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OOPS! Wrong word…

You’d think, that with all the millions (billions?) (trillions?) we spend on the state department, that they’d have decent translator available for dealing with countries like the Soviet Union. It’s not like Russian is an uncommon language or anything….

Yet Hillary Clinton appears to be incompetent (as well as the Obama Administration) because of things like this. And they want to be taken seriously…

“Overcharged” vs “reset”….. yeah, I can see where the mistake could be made…..

If nothing else, they can check it at Babelfish.com in the future…..

All the way through to the end.

This is worth reading. Seriously.

If it doesn’t get your eyes watery, then you aren’t human.

Found it on Instapundit

Blame the GOP for our current issues.

No, really, blame the GOP. Not for the reasons that you think, but for the specific reason that they ran a RHINO like John McCain instead of someone else. Someone new. Someone that was, if not exciting, wasn’t off-putting to so many people. Someone who had a conservative agenda—A Real Conservative Agenda. Someone who we could get behind and support. Someone who people could vote for?

If Sarah Palin was All That, then why was she not put forth in the primaries as a presidential candidate? Why did the RNC support McCain instead of pushing Bobby Jindal or even Fred Thompson? Was it just a payoff to McCain for all of his years of loyal service? Why him and not a true conservative?

Make no mistake, I voted for McCain. But it was under protest. I’d have voted for nearly any other member of the RNC had that choice been offered to me. I think that that is true of a lot of others as well. And for those who were fence sitters between Obama and McCain, why should they have voted for McCain? What did he offer? Dinosaur like policies that were really not composed of conservative values? (Let’s not forget McCain-Feingold!). Did he offer anything new or exciting? Not for me, and apparently not for anyone else either. Obama at least offered something new (although that “change” is not turning out very well, is it?). People wanted something new. And the GOP didn’t give it to them.

Or was the run for president just a sop to McCain, with no expectation of winning? Was the plan all along to fail in order to let a real conservative into the White House and pick up the pieces in 2012? Was it more than that?

Seriously, WTF were they thinking? Abandon the principles of the GOP (at least as I understand them to be) and run a liberal as a GOP candidate? Free markets? Free speech? Welfare reform? Border security? 2ND amendment? Personal responsibility vs nanny state? John McCain was not a conservative on any of these issues. Why did they not give the voters something to vote FOR rather than something to vote against?

And because of that decision to run McCain, we have what we are currently experiencing. A redistributionist president who seems not to care that he is destroying the country and impoverishing it’s citizens, who is removing the incentives for people to strive to get ahead and succeed, and destroying all that which has made this country the best and most productive society in the world for so many years. We have a president who seems to want to push this country into socialism…that same socialism which has made once great Britain into a second rate shadow of what it once was and a laughingstock to the rest of the world. Socialism which has destroyed France (although that seems to be slowly changing under Nicholas Sarkozky). Socialism in which there is not any reason to strive, and which, in the interest of “Multiculturalism” and “fairness” destroys the fabric of law and common sense and the underlying social contract that once let this country excel and gave anyone on the soil of the US an even chance to succeed.

An economy, which once his policies are enacted, (or even suggested!) is tanking as fast as it can. A policy which will reward failure and tax success. One in which those who have chosen not to take advantage of the freedoms and benefits which gives us the chance to succeed (and therefore, the chance to fail) are to be given the rewards that those who did take advantage and who took risks and strived for success have earned. One in which success and strife are discouraged rather than encouraged, by removing the reward of success.

As I said, it’s all the fault of the GOP. They gave the country nothing to vote FOR, and a lot to vote against. And thus we are here today.

This is a LONG read….But it is worth it.

It is, of course, an anti-Obama rant. Having stated that, it is educational and interesting.

Even if you are (unlikely if you are reading this blog) an Obama supporter.

My vote is on clueless. For both him and his advisers. Perhaps, because he has led a fairly sheltered life post academia, he has not gained the sense and knowledge that most of us pick up by the time we are 18 or so and get a life away from the protections of parents and family.

Either way, it’s an interesting read.

And here, I thought that it was I that needed a tinfoil hat.

Seems like I am not the only one that thinks that Obama might have a plan to destroy the US economically. Perhaps he hates the US? Or perhaps he is the “Manchurian Candidate“

My bet, however, is still on clueless.

But hey, the majority wanted “change”.

Obama, in the interest of “fairness” and to help those who are down on their luck is going to give some folks (some animals are more equal than others, apparently) reduced interest mortgages down to 2%..

I’d really like to see my mortgage reduced to 2% too.

So people who are a bad credit risk get the lowest rate of interest courtesy of those who are still solvent and pay taxes. How much longer will those who are frugal and realistic in their purchases of homes be able to support the burden of those who aren’t? How much longer will the folks who are productive be willing to carry those who aren’t? And eventually, they are gonna ask, “Why should we” ?

How long can this go on? When will we take the rope and trees and pitchforks and the politicians and assemble them properly?

I guess that all those who said that he was a communist/socialist/Maoist were right……

Scientists are baffled as to what is causing the “global warming” trend to change to a holding pattern, where temps are flat since 2001.

Never mind that many scientists never joined the “consensus” and never mind that the scientific method says that when your model does not fit the facts, that there must be something wrong with your model (not something wrong with the facts, as the GW crowd would have us believe).

No matter how much they pout, and how much they spin the observations, it appears that Global warming is halted, and that there is no explanation in the global warming (AKA: climate change) models for the current observations.

Maybe it’s just bad science…Or maybe it was just a ploy to make AlGore a lot of money?

Some pigs are more equal than others

“The pot has issued the kettle an ultimatum: tax dodgers beware.