Doesn't anyone else find it disappointing that so many of our distinctly American companies are being sold to foreign buyers? It's bad enough that we don't manufacture much of anything here anymore. Much of what we do make is for our consumer market yet the profits from those enterprises do not stay in America, they go to their foreign owners. Now we can add to a list that already includes Milwaukee Power Tool (now owned by the Chinese). Several formerly U.S. owned furniture manufacturers whose Chinese buyers closed the U.S. factories and kept just the names of those businesses to try to maintain some credibility in our market. Countless other small corporations who have been absorbed by foreign conglomerates.....and now perhaps the most iconic and distinctly American brand out there.....Budwieser.
InBev, the new owner of Bud, is a Belgian company run primarily by Brazilians.....Okay, the Belgians can make a good beer. Brazil? I have my doubts.....At any rate, other than stock dividends all the profit from Anheuser Busch will now be flowing like a smooth cold Bud into Belgian bank accounts.....
To InBev I have just one thing to say.....
A toast to celebrate your purchase of my formerly favorite beverage.....This MGD is for you!
Unless you buy Miller Brewing too.....
Good day!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Margasak on Helms.....
I read with much disdain Larry Margasak's brief "story" about the political life of the late Senator Jesse Helms.....I'll confess to not know for certain Mr. Margasak's political leanings, but I would suspect everything on his left gets far more use than anything on his right.
This was a hack job pure and simple, and one that he dared not write while Helms was alive because there would have been repercussions.
I found a number of things disturbing about the way the article was spun.....Using numbers from Larry Sabato to present an image of Helms facing tight elections without telling us the numbers for the person or persons running against him.....Oh and by the way Margasak, a 56% winning vote still translates into a 12 point margin of victory no matter how you try to spin it.
A polarizer not a compromiser.....the GOP is too far to the right.....Sheesh.....What about all your left wing buddies who have no intention of compromising on ANYTHING.....Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Boxer and the rest of their ilk are just a bunch of goose stepping morons who would gladly walk our nation right into third world status just to prove a point about political power!
......but that's another story unto itself.....
Let's look at a few of Helms positions.....
"No" to Civil Rights......Hmmm......How soon we forget the realities of THAT era.....The Democrat's own George Wallace stood on the steps of a school and gave a speech about keeping segregation. Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" was probably the single most important causitive factor in the destruction of minority families, particularly in the African American community.....Oh, and in case you've forgotten.....LBJ was a Democrat.
"No" to the National Endowment for the Arts over nudity.....I would think that even you could admit that he was at least partially right on this one......Last time I thought about it there was no artistic merit to a crucifix in a bucket of piss.
"No" to abortion.....I guess I don't understand how staying true to your faith is a bad thing. I personally know a woman who is an unashamed athiest, and proud supporter of abortion rights, and who had absolutely NO interest in having children.....yet when she became pregnant out-of-wedlock.....she chose to keep the child.....Ironic don't you think? We just never know how we are going to react until we are in a situation ourselves, and if a person believes that every child should have a chance at life I can't find fault with that.
"No" to Communism......uh......this is a bad thing?
"No" to Medicinal Marijuana.....You can't convince me that there aren't legal medicines that reduce pain as well as rolling up a big ol' Bob Marley and smoking yourself stupid.
Blocking Renewal of a health care for AIDS victims here at home.....Okay he missed on this one, because they are American citizens, but you can't fault the logic even if you disagree with the position.....We know that the two most widely recognized methods of transmission are illegal IV drug users sharing needles, and homosexual anal sex.....which even in freewheeling Rome was considered decadent and odd.
"No" to the U.N.....The U.N. is a joke, plain and simple......unless of course you were getting kick-backs from the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
"No" to giving up the Panama Canal.....uh......The Chinese control that now.....somehow that's a good thing?
"No" school bussing.....pretty much everyone has admitted that bussing for the most part has been a dismal failure.....Get on THAT bus.
and SaltII was flawed.....which is why START came shortly there after.....
Buy a map Mr. Margasak......it might help you find the middle of the road.....or at least help you to present the WHOLE picture.....
Except.....you work for AP, they NEVER WANT the whole picture. Just what will suit the puppetmasters.....
This was a hack job pure and simple, and one that he dared not write while Helms was alive because there would have been repercussions.
I found a number of things disturbing about the way the article was spun.....Using numbers from Larry Sabato to present an image of Helms facing tight elections without telling us the numbers for the person or persons running against him.....Oh and by the way Margasak, a 56% winning vote still translates into a 12 point margin of victory no matter how you try to spin it.
A polarizer not a compromiser.....the GOP is too far to the right.....Sheesh.....What about all your left wing buddies who have no intention of compromising on ANYTHING.....Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Boxer and the rest of their ilk are just a bunch of goose stepping morons who would gladly walk our nation right into third world status just to prove a point about political power!
......but that's another story unto itself.....
Let's look at a few of Helms positions.....
"No" to Civil Rights......Hmmm......How soon we forget the realities of THAT era.....The Democrat's own George Wallace stood on the steps of a school and gave a speech about keeping segregation. Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" was probably the single most important causitive factor in the destruction of minority families, particularly in the African American community.....Oh, and in case you've forgotten.....LBJ was a Democrat.
"No" to the National Endowment for the Arts over nudity.....I would think that even you could admit that he was at least partially right on this one......Last time I thought about it there was no artistic merit to a crucifix in a bucket of piss.
"No" to abortion.....I guess I don't understand how staying true to your faith is a bad thing. I personally know a woman who is an unashamed athiest, and proud supporter of abortion rights, and who had absolutely NO interest in having children.....yet when she became pregnant out-of-wedlock.....she chose to keep the child.....Ironic don't you think? We just never know how we are going to react until we are in a situation ourselves, and if a person believes that every child should have a chance at life I can't find fault with that.
"No" to Communism......uh......this is a bad thing?
"No" to Medicinal Marijuana.....You can't convince me that there aren't legal medicines that reduce pain as well as rolling up a big ol' Bob Marley and smoking yourself stupid.
Blocking Renewal of a health care for AIDS victims here at home.....Okay he missed on this one, because they are American citizens, but you can't fault the logic even if you disagree with the position.....We know that the two most widely recognized methods of transmission are illegal IV drug users sharing needles, and homosexual anal sex.....which even in freewheeling Rome was considered decadent and odd.
"No" to the U.N.....The U.N. is a joke, plain and simple......unless of course you were getting kick-backs from the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
"No" to giving up the Panama Canal.....uh......The Chinese control that now.....somehow that's a good thing?
"No" school bussing.....pretty much everyone has admitted that bussing for the most part has been a dismal failure.....Get on THAT bus.
and SaltII was flawed.....which is why START came shortly there after.....
Buy a map Mr. Margasak......it might help you find the middle of the road.....or at least help you to present the WHOLE picture.....
Except.....you work for AP, they NEVER WANT the whole picture. Just what will suit the puppetmasters.....
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Obama the fraud.....
Today I was reading a media story about Obama trying to reach out to the right wing evangelicals.....Now.....isn't this the same group of people (at least from a faith standpoint) that he was calling bitter, clinging to guns and religion when times get tough? Somehow this strikes me as being a little disingenuous.....okay ALOT disingenuous.
The half-hearted dismissal of Wesley Clark's comments about McCain's service in the military not being of the proper "level of experience" to qualify McCain to be commander-in-chief is nothing more than a deflection to try to stop people (who would actually take time to think about it) from remembering that Obama has NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE what-so-ever.....And didn't Clinton FIRE Clark because he was so inept as a commander? Yeah.....that makes him a credible spokesperson.
Campaign finance, income taxes, capital gains taxes, medicare, goverment funded health care, hell, pick an issue that is meaningful to US; the average citizen that is just trying to make a life for ourselves and our families, and you won't be able to pin him down on a position that he won't flip-flop on to suit the desires of the crowd to which he is speaking.....
To me that constitutes the worst kind of fraud. Trying to get elected at any cost, by saying anything, to anybody, when it fits into his goal of achieving the presidency.
It's either this or he HAS no real position on any of the important issues confronting us today.
Either way he's extremely dangerous to our way of life in this country. I find it extremely frightening that we could elect someone without knowing what his real stand is on an issue until after the election......It's equally as frightening that we may elect someone who has no spine to choose a side on an issue and stick to that position whether it's popular or not.
I would find it much easier to respect the man even if I disagreed with his position, but he hasn't given a consistent position to agree or disagree with!
The only thing that I've been able to form an opinion on is that in an Obama presidency we would see higher taxes, a lower standard of living, bigger government and a continued erosion of our personal freedoms.....at an even faster pace.....Because there is no conceivable way to fund even half the things he's talked about without a massive redistribution of money from OUR pockets to the Government's.
Liberalism today is anything but liberal.....It's evolved into the belief that none of us are capable of making decisions without the ever watchful eye of government.....
Even the first amendment is fair game if the speaker has a viewpoint that is in opposition to the current liberal mantra.....ie. Pelosi's attacks on conservative talk radio shows hosted by Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and others.....While I don't agree with some of their positions I certainly believe they have a RIGHT, guaranteed by our Constitution, to present that point of view. They also have the forum because they have an audience large enough for the free market to dictate the sale of advertising that supports their programs.
I firmly believe that if the vast majority of American citizens held a "liberal" point of view then liberal talk radio wouldn't be relegated to NPR. Popularity dictates value in the market place, and the reality is that the constant vitriolic hatred for anyone with an "R" after their name doesn't sell. Oh there is alot of left leaning press, but if one were to study why many newspapers are failing I think they would find that most of those failures have something to do with the political leanings of the editors and publishers.....Look at the Seattle Times.....It leans a little left, but was far more centrist than the Seattle Post Intelligencer.....The P-I was losing money hand over fist, and it's owner (Hearst Publications) had to sue the owners of the Times to try to enforce a patently unfair contract and force the Times to continue to provide Hearst with financial support for the P-I so it didn't collapse under the weight of it's completely unbalanced reporting.....
I left Seattle before this was resolved, but the bottom line is that even in a city like Seattle that leans so far left it should fall over, a "liberal" newspaper like the P-I couldn't survive on it's own because people just get sick of listening to hatred.....
In that regard I don't see much difference between "Liberals" of this day and age and the Muslim whack-jobs that would kill us all if they had the chance.....They both believe that their way is the only way, and if you aren't in lock step agreement with everything they say then you are somehow less than human, or stupid.....or.....let's just say it.....an infidel.
Don't ever forget that if a political party controls the media and has the balance of power in the judiciary, then they effectively have control of the nation.....Because any thinking person knows that if you hear the same lie often enough alot of people are going to start to believe it is truth.....It worked for Hitler, It worked for Stalin, Castro, Mussolini, Amin, Chavez etc.....Don't think for a hot minute that Pelosi, Reid, and other far left members of Congress don't have those same dillusions of grandeur.
Modern Liberalism is trying to move us down that lovely road to Communism and/or facism. It could go either way at this point. One thing is certain, if we allow it to continue then the nation that our Founding Fathers envisioned, fought and died to create, and did their best to protect with probably the most perfectly written document ever, will cease to exist.....
How our nation survives is our choice to make.....Choose wisely......
Good day!
The half-hearted dismissal of Wesley Clark's comments about McCain's service in the military not being of the proper "level of experience" to qualify McCain to be commander-in-chief is nothing more than a deflection to try to stop people (who would actually take time to think about it) from remembering that Obama has NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE what-so-ever.....And didn't Clinton FIRE Clark because he was so inept as a commander? Yeah.....that makes him a credible spokesperson.
Campaign finance, income taxes, capital gains taxes, medicare, goverment funded health care, hell, pick an issue that is meaningful to US; the average citizen that is just trying to make a life for ourselves and our families, and you won't be able to pin him down on a position that he won't flip-flop on to suit the desires of the crowd to which he is speaking.....
To me that constitutes the worst kind of fraud. Trying to get elected at any cost, by saying anything, to anybody, when it fits into his goal of achieving the presidency.
It's either this or he HAS no real position on any of the important issues confronting us today.
Either way he's extremely dangerous to our way of life in this country. I find it extremely frightening that we could elect someone without knowing what his real stand is on an issue until after the election......It's equally as frightening that we may elect someone who has no spine to choose a side on an issue and stick to that position whether it's popular or not.
I would find it much easier to respect the man even if I disagreed with his position, but he hasn't given a consistent position to agree or disagree with!
The only thing that I've been able to form an opinion on is that in an Obama presidency we would see higher taxes, a lower standard of living, bigger government and a continued erosion of our personal freedoms.....at an even faster pace.....Because there is no conceivable way to fund even half the things he's talked about without a massive redistribution of money from OUR pockets to the Government's.
Liberalism today is anything but liberal.....It's evolved into the belief that none of us are capable of making decisions without the ever watchful eye of government.....
Even the first amendment is fair game if the speaker has a viewpoint that is in opposition to the current liberal mantra.....ie. Pelosi's attacks on conservative talk radio shows hosted by Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and others.....While I don't agree with some of their positions I certainly believe they have a RIGHT, guaranteed by our Constitution, to present that point of view. They also have the forum because they have an audience large enough for the free market to dictate the sale of advertising that supports their programs.
I firmly believe that if the vast majority of American citizens held a "liberal" point of view then liberal talk radio wouldn't be relegated to NPR. Popularity dictates value in the market place, and the reality is that the constant vitriolic hatred for anyone with an "R" after their name doesn't sell. Oh there is alot of left leaning press, but if one were to study why many newspapers are failing I think they would find that most of those failures have something to do with the political leanings of the editors and publishers.....Look at the Seattle Times.....It leans a little left, but was far more centrist than the Seattle Post Intelligencer.....The P-I was losing money hand over fist, and it's owner (Hearst Publications) had to sue the owners of the Times to try to enforce a patently unfair contract and force the Times to continue to provide Hearst with financial support for the P-I so it didn't collapse under the weight of it's completely unbalanced reporting.....
I left Seattle before this was resolved, but the bottom line is that even in a city like Seattle that leans so far left it should fall over, a "liberal" newspaper like the P-I couldn't survive on it's own because people just get sick of listening to hatred.....
In that regard I don't see much difference between "Liberals" of this day and age and the Muslim whack-jobs that would kill us all if they had the chance.....They both believe that their way is the only way, and if you aren't in lock step agreement with everything they say then you are somehow less than human, or stupid.....or.....let's just say it.....an infidel.
Don't ever forget that if a political party controls the media and has the balance of power in the judiciary, then they effectively have control of the nation.....Because any thinking person knows that if you hear the same lie often enough alot of people are going to start to believe it is truth.....It worked for Hitler, It worked for Stalin, Castro, Mussolini, Amin, Chavez etc.....Don't think for a hot minute that Pelosi, Reid, and other far left members of Congress don't have those same dillusions of grandeur.
Modern Liberalism is trying to move us down that lovely road to Communism and/or facism. It could go either way at this point. One thing is certain, if we allow it to continue then the nation that our Founding Fathers envisioned, fought and died to create, and did their best to protect with probably the most perfectly written document ever, will cease to exist.....
How our nation survives is our choice to make.....Choose wisely......
Good day!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)