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What makes Obama Tick? Now we know.

Today folks, we witnessed an undeniable truth of what makes President Obama tick.  With the "dumpster trip" for long deposed South Dakota Senator Thomas Daschle now in the rear view mirror, we learn that Obama is in fact, a PRAGMATIST.  By this I mean, he operates from a standpoint of doing what makes the most sense at that point in time.  He's a practical thinker, a chameleon much like Bill Clinton was during his time in the Oval Office.  You would think this is a good thing but there is a downside.
 
The downside is that being a pragmatist, Obama is not a principled leader.  The two run contrary to one another, you either operate on principle or you operate on what makes the most sense at the moment.  If Obama had operated on principle, he would have asked the previous tax cheat, Timothy Geithner to turn down his Treasury Secretary nomination, he did not.  So too with Daschle, the same tax issues surfaced and it was only when the "drip, drip, drip" of hypocrisy and corruption reached a crescendo that Obama pulled the plug and told Daschle he had to hit the road. 
 
This is political pragmatism folks and now we have an insight into President Obama's decision making for the next 4 years.  By the way, in case any of you are wondering, former President Bush was not a pragmatist or we would have pulled out of Iraq in early 2006, run with our tails between our legs and allowed untold thousands of Iraqis to be slaughtered for having helped us in the first place!
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Democrat Daschle in the Dumpster

Oh how sweet it is!  To see ole Tom Daschle in the dumpster where he belongs.  This isn't the first time Daschle's been there.  A longtime U.S. Senate villain, he was dispatched by his own constituents in exchange for John Thune back in 2004.  One of the only times in U.S. history that a sitting Senate majority leader has been thrown out, though Harry Reid may achieve that dubious distinction very soon if he isn't given a swift wake-up kick to his thick skull!
 
Oh how we will miss Tom, now he can go back to learning the complex U.S. tax code that trips so many people up nowadays.  Little tip Mr. Daschle, when you get a free car and driver to cart your sorry arse around, you gotta pay the tax on that and if they don't send you a Form 1099, call and request one.
 
A finer example of Democrat hypocrisy you couldn't find if you scoured the earth with a fine tooth comb.  Thanks Mr. Daschle for proving one of my most popular "Funny Democrat Slogans":  "Sure we're cowards, we're also liars and HYPOCRITES, what's your point?"
 
Good riddance to you and may we have more Dems in the dumpster behind you.
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America: the Sinking Ship (or SCHIP)

This past week, YOUR Senators voted to pass the SCHIP program as a "back door" methodology to achieving the "holy grail" for socialists:  government-run healthcare for all.  Under such a system, government (which as we know always makes the best decisions for everyone) will pick your hospital, your doctor, your level of care and best of all, how quickly you'll get it depending on need and availability.  Sound fun?  Oh that isn't even the half of it folks.  You see, the plan is to get the kids on government run care first along with the senior citizens who are already on it (medicare).  Then, we drag the TAXPAYING PARENTS along kicking and screaming into a system that is just waiting to make their lives alot better.  Kind of like that bankrupt "ponzi scheme" in waiting:  social IN-security.
 
Here's what I wrote the last time DemocRATs tried this "back door" healthcare grab, it was on October 16th 2007 and the bill was shut down by a President Bush veto.  This time SCHIP is as good as law with President "Dumbo the Puppet" at the helm.  You folks are starting to miss ole President Bush just a tad now aintcha? :-)  Oh well, he's busy picking out the drapes for the presidential library and sippin' a pina colada right about now.  Well deserved if I might say!
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A Sinking "SCHIP" dooms us all
by Sean Plankey    October 16, 2007
 
Battles being fought across the countryside and in Washington, D.C. have made reality all too clear.  Both culturally and financially, America is indeed a sinking ship.  Right now, we're sinking slowly like the Titanic as her deck chairs were being re-arranged but with time, our stern will come up out of the water and inevitably our keel will snap as we sink out of sight.  Question is:  Will Grassroots Troopers plug the holes and start up the bilge pumps in time?

Democrats have launched an all-out, full, frontal assault on America, the Bush administration and freedom itself in recent weeks.  This assault can only be described as suicidal by anyone possessing a scintilla of sanity.  Not everyone is lucky enough to harbor such sanity and this is the reason why the fight is so intense and why Democrats just might get away with it.

The attempted expansion of the "SCHIP" program by Democrat leadership represents a small battle in a much bigger war for America.  This war on our economic liberty began with the well intentioned passage of the 16th amendment many years ago and has escalated so slowly that many haven't noticed its ominous advance.  We were sold a bill of goods by two big government lovers, namely Roosevelt and Johnson that confiscating our money and investing it in a "Great Society" would pay dividends to last a lifetime.  Well what happened to the dream folks?  We awakened in recent years to confront a nightmare of cataclysmic proportions!  Social security forecasted to implode about the time that people born in the 1960's get ready to retire and a medicare system that will go to hell in a handbasket, long before it! 

But amidst this reality, Democrats have continued their inexorable, almost psychotic drive to place more things under government purview.  As if to say "We've blown it with retirement spending, blown it with health care for the elderly so let's give health care for middle class children from families making $83,000 a year a try!"  Isn't insanity defined as trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result?  I belive this qualifies!

Yesterday, the first "baby boomer" signed up for her social security benefits and I couldn't help but be a little jealous!  As she sat there filling out her form on TV, I thought to myself, "Hope she enjoys the money I'm paying into the system every two weeks, I'll never get my freaken benefit....THIS SUCKS!"  Then, I regained control of my emotions and said out loud, "Who gives a crap, I don't need stinkin' social security anyways".  In fact, I even went so far as to email the social security administration offering to forego my social security benefit if they will stop deducting the taxes from my paycheck.  How's that for having a "pair", the size of grapefruits?
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"Dumbo the Puppet's" report card: an F

Almost 2 weeks into the presidency of "hope and change you can believe in", time for a report card folks.  If the criteria for being graded by the American people rests on respect for the Constitution, keeping this country safe and uniting its citizenry, President Obama gets....an F.  If the criteria is magically switched to ruling like a King on his throne, setting us up for another terrorist attack and crafting policies for the left-wing, anti-Constitutional, non-traditional, kook base, he gets.....an A+.
 
The Obama administration appears to be Clinton-esque, by that I mean a bunch of hypocrites who never grew up.  Just watch a press briefing with Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs.  It reminds me of Mike McCurry being a goofy fool up at the podium in the mid-90's.
 
Let's take a look at the appointments "Dumbo the Puppet" has attempted making to his cabinet:
 
1) Bill Richardson- embattled and scandalous, had to withdraw his name.
2) Eric Holder- as Deputy Attorney General under "Waco" Janet Reno, he approved pardons for Puerto Rican terrorists (FALN).
3) Timothy Geithner- a tax cheat, a liar, should never have been confirmed but our Senators have lost their standards.
4) Thomas Daschle- former Senate majority leader and committed leftist idealogue, a tax cheat and hypocrite like most liberals.
5) Judd Gregg- a GOP Senator from NH, being picked by Obama so that Democrats will have a FILIBUSTER-proof Senate.
6) the appointment of other individuals who are lobbyists after claiming in high and mighty fashion that lobbyists would be kept out.
 
And the Executive Orders he has made, right off the bat, lead us to believe that President Obama thinks he's a King:
 
1) close down Guantonomo Bay's detainee prison in a year with no plan on what do with the unlawful enemy combatants housed there.
2) provide funding for international abortion groups who are out to destroy life in foreign countries.  Should we pay for this???
3) reverse the long-held Bush administration ban on federal money for embryonic stem-cell research.
4) reverse Bush administration interrogation policies for captured terrorists.  Our CIA people could now be prosecuted!
 
The biggest reason for Obama's F grade however, is this stimulus package of "pork gone wild"!  It is becoming clear that Obama is merely a figurehead of this government, or a puppet to be more exact where leftists behind the scenes are dictating his every move.  For Obama to allow such a radical, left-wing monstrosity as this stimulus package to see the light of day, shows us just how powerless he is to stop it!
 
The forces on the left, who want to rewrite the U.S. Constitution and take away liberties overnight are in control of Washington, D.C.  People like George Soros, who bankrolls the socialists at "MoveOn.org" and John Podesta at Center for American Progress (yeahh, rite!) are actually pulling the strings folks.  They are working hand-in-hand with the "Tuna Lover" in the U.S. House and the "Mendacious Pipsqueak" in the U.S. Senate.  Whatever these two very dangerous people can get through their chambers, President "Dumbo the Puppet" will sign into law.
 
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Corker and Alexander have to go....

Tennesseans have to unite from the Tri-Cities to Memphis.  We have a daunting task before us that must be accomplished and that is to get rid of TWO SOCIALISTS WHO SHAME THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF US.  That's right, two Democrats in sheep's clothing who must be sent packing soon. 
 
Our two targets for the future are Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander, both of which voted for expanding socialist medicine via the State Children's Health-care Insurance Program (SCHIP).  This program was originally intended for people below the poverty line but the legislation approved by Corker and Alexander will provide FREE care to families making up to as much as $83,000.  Now you tell me why a family making that much money would need a hand-out from taxpayers?  Folks, we already have the elderly getting socialized medical care with a program called medicare (the program is absolutely bankrupt by the way).  Socialists know that the best way to bring about socialized medicine for everybody is by using "back-door" tactics.  By offering free care to children of MIDDLE CLASS families, they know it will be much easier to seize the medical sector which represents 1/6th of the U.S. economy!
 
By joining socialists on Capitol Hill, Alexander and Corker (already on my S-List for approving a tax cheat as Treasury Secretary) have violated the trust of all Tennesseans.  This violation of the public trust must not be tolerated and punishment must be given to these two individuals promptly.  We Tennesseans (especially Eastern ones) are rugged individuals who want government OUT OF OUR LIVES, not firmly in control of it each and every time we attempt to get medical care for ourselves and our loved ones.  Anyone who attempts to join the assault on our liberty by buddying up with socialists like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and of course, Barack Hussein Obama deserves the strictest condemnation and the Meat and Potatoes Blog is surely here to give it!
 
More developing.........
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The Beginning of the end...

This is perhaps the most stunning entry I've made on this column since its start in April 2006.  Pay attention and let my words sink in.  I've said these words many times but never written them, not anywhere.  This time I have more to add and it is chilling, indeed.
 
The Bill Clinton presidency was THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR AMERICA.  That's right the beginning of a slow, painful, downward slide that was temporarily halted during the Bush years.  Remember that the Bush presidency was an accidental presidency where the candidate won election almost by divine providence.  He lost the popular vote and managed to defeat Al Gore in his homestate of Tennessee.  Both of these events are historic and miraculous when you think about them.  Simply, Gore should have won in 2000.
 
The victory of Barack Obama means a continuation of the Clinton era that would have been continued by Al Gore.  The downward slide of this country to utter doom has resumed with a force and fury that is truly frightening.  This momentum is growing swiftly and will not be stopped unless enough Americans wake-up in time to neutralize it.  In short, the greatest representative republic on the face of the earth, the United States of America is dying a slow, horrifying death.
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A word to you "Re-puss-icans" on Capitol Hill

Someone on Capitol Hill reads this blog from time to time so guess what I'm doing?  I'm laying down the gauntlet for you "Re-puss-icans" on Capitol Hill who think spending a trillion dollars of printed/borrowed money might be a good idea, so that the money can be given to political buddies, pork-barrel projects and just be wasted outright.  Kind of like the "Big Dig" in Bahhh-ston, remember that little gem?
 
A word of warning for you guys up there with the shaky knees:  If you even think of drinking the Obama "Kool-Aid" on this so-called "stimulus package" and end up voting for it in significant numbers, I'm done with you, the RNC, Republican National Trust, the Heritage Foundation, the Michelle Bachmann (MN) campaign, the Bill Russel (PA) campaign and any other cause desiring my hard earned cash!  I will stick with one organization of a political nature and that is the National Rifle Association, where I'm a proud LIFETIME member.  Only God above will end that affiliation someday, who knows when.
 
If the Democrat-Socialists who run our "nation held hostage" want to pass this legislation, let them do it alone.  They've got the votes for crying out loud, certainly in the House of Representatives where there's no supermajority requirement.  In the Senate, make an appeal to moderate Democrats (if they exist) to oppose this disaster in waiting.  Some may even join a "filibuster" but it will ONLY WORK IF ALL REPUBLICANS HOLD THE LINE!!!
 
And if you're wondering what I mean by "significant numbers", I suppose any GOP support of this socialistic monstrosity that exceeds 10 percent of the voting members would qualify as "significant".  That would mean 4 members in the Senate and 20 members in the House of Representatives.  If you "RE-PUSS-ICANS" lose your will to fight and give-in to these socialists, you'll lose one of the biggest mouths in town with energetic fingertips and deep pockets to boot!  I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU GUYS, YOU HEAR ME?  I'VE HAD IT!
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Inflation....can be good, right guys?

We all know what promotes inflation right guys?  Curves in the right places, a nice "waist to hip angle" as I like to call it.  This is the good kind of inflation, though it CAN get a guy into trouble if he's not careful.

Then there's the bad kind of inflation.  This inflation can get a NATION into trouble, so much trouble in fact, that the nation crumbles and disappears from existence!  I'm talking about when a nation like the United States, begins to print money like it's going out of style to pay off crazy spending plans.

Let me keep it simple because you like it that way.  A country can only have as much money in its financial system as dictated by Gross Domestic Product (GDP).  Let's say you go into your basement and begin printing money you never earned.  That would be called what? Counterfeiting.  If you were caught passing such worthless money in exchange for goods, you would be arrested and sent up the river to meet and greet a cell mate named "Bubba". 

What happens to the omnipotent Federal Government when they print up billions of dollars with no increase in our country's net worth?  NOTHING!  Now you tell me that's proper, fair or just?

Everytime government prints up more money, they DILUTE the money supply so that our currency stinks.  Just like when you mix up a big ole batch of kool-aid and someone puts too much water in it.  Tastes like crap right?  Well our money supply isn't going to be worth crap if this Obama stimulus package passes the Congress and the printing presses go into high gear at the Federal Reserve.  Think about it!

All the money you have worked so hard to earn and save (after taxes mind you) will in effect, BE TAXED AGAIN as inflation (the bad kind) kicks in and your money loses value at the rate of 15 to 20 percent per year.  Don't drink the kool-aid folks, look up the Weimar Republic if you don't believe me.  They printed money like crazy and it sent Germany into the crapper until the Nazi party could gain control.  We know what happened after that....yikes!

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Obama killing civilians!

Goodness!  He hasn't been in office a week and Obama is already out killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan.  What in the world is the left-wing going to do with this warmonger?  I'm in shock my fellow Meat and Potatoes Loyalists!  If anyone would be sensitive to the plight of innocent civilians I thought it would be a guy who demagogued the "War on Terror" with that now famous quote: "Our troops are air-raiding villages and targeting civilians...."  Yeah, I guess we are President Obama and this time it's your fault.  We should change your name to "President Obama:  the village air-raider", what do you think of that?  Of course, I'm being facetious folks and giving the left-wing a little bit back in their sorry, cowardly, hypocritcal faces.  Perhaps this event, 5 days into the Obama presidency will teach the boneheads out there just how difficult it is fighting a war against "unlawful enemy combatants" (AKA terrorists) who blend in with civilians, hide weapons in their basements and take shelter in their homes.  (Oh, how I pray for this to occur.....)
 
To quote Bruce Willis in "Diehard":  "Welcome to the party PAL!"  This is the "War on Terror" and President Bush fought it for 7 years dealing with the same kind of mishaps.  First I want to see your buffoon of a Press Secretary actually call this war what it is when he's in a press briefing and then we'll see if you age as gracefully fighting this war over the next 4 years, Mister Obama.
 
One final thought:  If we must be consistent in dealing with the left-wing losers who went after President Bush over similar events, I think John Conyers (Congressman from that shining city on the hill...Detroit) should begin drafting Articles of Impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors immediately!
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Obama's oath gets a do-over

Isn't it nice to see President Obama be the first president in U.S. history to be sworn in twice for the office?  Why was it necessary you may ask?  Well it would be due to an inadvertant slip of the tongue by Chief Justice John Roberts.  Poor guy, I watched Justice Roberts' confirmation hearings on C-SPAN several years ago and I don't recall him making ANY slips of the tongue.  But hey, throw in a few million people watching you during a mucho different event and those butterflies do tend to fly!  I'll cut him some slack on it.
 
But there's an important point to what I'm writing here about the presidential oath "do-over".  Why bother with it, why not just let the original swearing-in suffice?  So what if the world "faithfully" was put in the wrong spot by a nervous Chief Justice?  Because that silly little "living document" called the U.S. CONSTITUTION says every word of the oath must be uttered in a certain order.  Period!
 
Isn't it nice that a document like the Constitution, which gets trashed everytime we turn around by socialists who run our government, is sometimes respected when it comes to things like the presidential oath?  Maybe everyone should consult the Constitution regarding this Obama "stimulus package".  IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL or will we need a "stimulus package do-over" sometime in the future?
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Public Sector vs. Private Sector, who will win?

I know it's the weekend and everyone is busy, busy busy!  Busy doing everything except keeping an eye on liberty, freedom and the growth/size of our federal government.  Keep in mind that government represents 1 out of every 3 to 4 jobs in our economy these days and that will grow if President Obama has his way.  In fact it will grow REGARDLESS of Obama's actions and do you know why?  Well, as this economic malaise deepens who will lose their jobs?  Will it be people in our massive government bureaucracy who are protected from such economic downturns?  OF COURSE NOT!  It will be people in the private sector at places like Wal-Mart, Circuit City, KB Toys, Starbucks, etc.  So as unemployment increases in the private sector, the ratio of government to private sector jobs will change from say 30 percent to perhaps 35 percent but it could get even higher......uh oh!
 
What could make the percentage of jobs in America being government jobs even higher?  Why, it would be the Obama "stimulus package" of course!  This exercise in "socialism gone wild" was tried before in American history.  It was called the "New Deal" and kept America in a depression throughout the 1930's.  In fact, without the benefit of World War II, the country would have been in the misery of FDR's mistakes for many more years.  Will we need a World War III to get us out of this Obama-engineered disaster?  Let's hope not!  I would rather see America just reject "New Deal 2:  The socialistic exercise in destroying American capitalism" and allow our country to come out of this funk on its own.  Will it take time?  Hell yeah, it will take time but not as much time as it will take using government gone wild and there's another thing to consider that I'll bet you never thought of....
 
Have you ever heard the saying "The remedy ended up being worse than the disease"?  If you haven't, the meaning is self-explanatory I would hope. :-)  As I stated earlier, FDR ( AKA the Father of modern day socialism) remedied our sick economy in the 1930's with the same kind of "economic stimulus" that the Obama administration is offering.  He created government agencies like Fannie Mae which grew into MASSIVE GOVERNMENT JUGGERNAUTS and ended up imploding upon themselves to bring down our economy.  As we look back to 1938 when Fannie Mae was created, we think to ourselves, the FDR remedy was surely worse than the disease. (sob sob sob..)
 
Let us be students of history and be wiser than those Americans who have gone before us.  We know that socialism will never solve our country's economic woes because SOCIALISM IS THE CAUSE OF OUR COUNTRY'S WOES!!!  How can the cause of a problem be its cure?  Will someone please expain that to me before I go insane and go running around the Rayburn Office Building wearing no clothes!
 
Please folks, oppose this stimulus package with every fibre of your being.  I was just down at the local barbershop and a fine southern gentleman almost made me jump up out of the barber's chair (at risk of serious injury, mind you) when he stated that the Obama stimulus was a good idea and badly needed to avoid another Great Depression.  Sorry folks, I just couldn't resist turning into THE INFORMER right there as my "mop" was being reduced to something manageable!  I put on my instructor's hat (not literally) and proceeded to embarrass this gentleman by asking him what caused the Great Depression.  He admitted he didn't know the answer so I asked him what got us out of the Great Depression.  He didn't know that either.  I went into a lengthy discourse for about the next 10 minutes that left everyone in the barbershop speechless including the barber!  
 
The cause of the Great Depression was poor monetary policy on the part of the federal government in response to the stock market crash of 1929.  Money supply was kept too tight and the resulting bank failures set off a wave of panic that caused "runs on banks" (where everyone lined up to get their money while fighting each other) and that caused many more failures.  Then, resulting government actions to put people back to work through SOCIALISM only caused a recession to turn into a depression.  In other words, our beloved federal government CAUSED THE CALAMITY and then made it worse than the original situation by using bad policies which prolonged the pain for America.  World War II ended up being the solution America desperately needed and this older gentleman looked at the floor speechless, a tacit admission that HE KNEW I WAS RIGHT!
 
Let us not need another World War to get us out of this crisis if government makes another fine mess of it.  Call your elected leaders in Washington, D.C. and tell all your neighbors, friends, relatives and co-workers.  This Obama stimulus package must be defeated as it takes us in a direction that history teaches us is the wrong one.  God help this country if it passes and we print up a trillion dollars of funny money that will devalue every remaining dollar you have in you bank account.  Gold prices will soar through the stratosphere as you witness inflation that will rival the Weimar Republic!  Get your wheelbarrows ready, you'll need 'em to carry around all that cash.... :-(
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Inaugural Day Meat and Taters

The left-wing put on quite a show today!  Did you miss it?  Awww shucks!  It was complete with all the fanfare of anti-Bush chants by protesters and a bang-up speech by Barack Hussein Obama after his swearing in.  Did you know his middle name was Hussein by the way?  I didn't know that until Chief Justice John Roberts had President Obama repeat the ceremonial oath.  Kudos to the media for keeping that a secret for the past 18 months! :-)~
 
The President's speech was almost like a pre-election campaign speech where he espoused the typical "boilerplate" designed to pander to certain constituency groups.  There was the obligatory "the economic sky is falling chicken little" approach for the left-wing Bush haters, of course there was appreciation to military veterans to make up for classic quotes during the campaign such as: "Our troops are air-raiding villages and targeting civilians....", there was pro-capitalism and entrepeneurial speak for small businessmen and Wall Street execs but that wasn't the best part.  The classic line was given as the cameras panned over thousands of people bundled up like the kid in "A Christmas Story" as they were freezing their keesters off!  President Obama stated:  "We will address the alarming issue of global warming with green energy alternatives....."  Of course, that knee-slapper had to be thrown in for the "Enviro-Socialists" who infest Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.  Nobody was "left out in the cold" folks, except for the doggedly loyal witnesses to the inauguration that is.....
 
Myself, I set aside depression as I watched "Marine One" take President Bush to Andrews AFB and tried to emphasize the positive.  What in the world could I find to assuage my fear and apprehension about the socialistic "wealth spreading" tendencies of my new Commander-In-Chief?  Always the cheerleader for positive thinking I came to this stark conclusion after watching so many black leaders say they thought:  THIS DAY WAS NEVER POSSIBLE.
 
I realized that the black community in this country is not only filled with hate (as I wrote about last summer...look it up in the archives if you'd like to know more) but it is filled with hopelessness as well.  Honestly, I never realized this before.  I have a few black friends in aviation but most of them have been taught to ACCESS OPPORTUNITIES THAT COME WITH FREEDOM.  Thus, they are anything but hopeless and the lion's share of them are aggressive go-getters who are driven by achievement and success for the good of their family.
 
My one hope from this historic election is that President Obama will give hope to the hopeless blacks out there that anything is achievable for them if they live responsibly, set goals and find role models to inspire them.  Obama will no doubt be one of those role models along with Condoleeza Rice (the namesake for my kitty cat), Justice Clarence Thomas, Dr. Thomas Sowell (of the Hoover Institute) and Bill Cosby to name just a few.  The election of President Obama takes away ALL THE EXCUSES FOLKS!  There is no more widespread racism in this country and therefore no more need for affirmative action, which now has the unintended consequence of hurting white men.  It's time to grow up, live up to Martin Luther King Jr's expectations and exercise personal responsibility.  This would include reversing the alarming 72 percent illegitimacy rate in the black family. 
 
I hope and pray that this message will resonate across the nation in the wake of something that has been labeled as "groundbreaking" and the black community can begin to repair itself for the good of the nation. 
 
 
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USAirways crash and Teterboro airport

I've been holding off from saying anything about the USAirways ditching that occurred last week because I wanted to see if anyone in the NTSB or the news media would mention what I found to be obvious.
 
And that is the viability of Teterboro, New Jersey (KTEB) as an emergency landing spot.  I flew that area for many years and know the exact spot where birds were hit and power was lost at 3,200 feet.  It lines the aircraft up on an approximate 11 mile final to runway 24 at Teterboro, an approach I've flown many times in my career as a civilian pilot both in night freight and corporate aviation.
 
Now, I am not trying to take away from this hero captain and say that he did anything wrong.  There are always multiple ways to deal with an emergency condition, some are better than others and you make the instantaneous decision based on what is the safest for the passengers.  In this case, the ditching went smoothly and nobody was killed.  Had it turned out very differently, perhaps more emphasis would have been put on the availability of Teterboro as an emergency landing site.
 
Using google earth, I measured the distance the aircraft covered from the time of power loss versus the distance to the threshold of runway 24 at Teterboro.  Modern jets have amazing glide distances, owing to the fact that their hulls are aerodynamic and sport very little "form drag".  After the loss of power, the aircraft was able to glide approximately 14 miles to its landing spot in the Hudson abeam the USS Intrepid museum.  The distance to the threshold of runway 24 at Teterboro was approximately 11 miles.
 
Another consideration is aircraft specific.  Could the Airbus 320 stop without reversers on a 6,000 foot runway at Teterboro?  I don't know the answer to this but I'm sure the NTSB does.  I also do not know what kind of emergency power  the Airbus was running on and how it would get its flaps and landing gear deployed on short final to landing.  These aircraft limitations may have actually decreased viability of Teterboro as an emergency landing option.
 
Once again, the captain went with the safest option and took the risk of ditching the plane which ended up saving all of his passengers and crew.  Perhaps I would have done the same, I don't know.  One can never know until they are in those same set of circumstances.  But a full analysis of this historic event DESERVES MENTION of alternative landing sites and if they could have been achieved.
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Obama's Treasury Secretary...a few words

Mr. Timothy Geithner, President-Elect Barack Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary.  This man has the intelligence, matury, dedication and personal responsibility to.......

Not pay his taxes for over 4 years (totalling about  40,000) until his nomination as Treasury Secretary necessitated that he pay them.

Talk about "CHUTZPAH" folks!  I think we should tell Obama to put this guy in charge of catching tax cheats for the IRS! (smiles...)
 
Additional Sunday evening thoughts:
What is going on with these Obama cabinet appointments?  We've already seen Bill "The Big Enchilada" Richardson step down from his nomination to Commerce Secretary over a pending corruption indictment.  Eric Holder's Attorney General nomination is in jeopardy over his approving clemency for Puerto Rican FALN terrorists who made bombs and killed people.  Topping it all off, Janet Napolitano was recently revealed to be an open borders type who never met an illegal alien she didn't love!  Do we want her on the cabinet?  Nahhh!
 
We haven't seen this level of incompetence in a presidential transition since guess when?  The CLINTON ADMINISTRATION in 1993 when we had Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood to contend with as Attorney General nominees before getting stuck with Janet "El Reno".  The Obama Administration of "hope and change you can believe in" is turning into Clinton Nightmare II, the sequel!  Ignorant American voters (who don't even know which party controls Congress) have again given power to the counter-culturalist hippie movement that wants so badly to replace Christmas with a national holiday commemorating Woodstock! :-)~ (that's a joke folks...)
 
Thus, the election of Obama and the nomination of all these flawed individuals heralds the resurgence of Executive Branch control by the counter-culturalists.  THESE ARE VERY DANGEROUS TIMES and you need to make sure that all in your orb become informed of what lay ahead in the ensuing months.  This is nothing more than a continuation of the Clinton presidency and you know what we got out of that....... problems as far as the eye could see.  Towers collapsing, terrorists training all over the middle east and mortgages for everyone with a pulse regardless of their ability to pay back the money!
 
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The KING would be proud

The "King" had another birthday last week, celebrated in absentia of course and boy did Memphis go nuts.  But it wasn't long ago that Graceland had an equally big event, do you remember what it was?  A visit by Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi and President Bush in 2006 would be the correct answer.  Guess who wrote about the significance of such an event?  Good ole Mr. Meat and Taters.  As a tribute to our outgoing Commander-in-Chief, I give you one of my favorite literary creations, so good in fact that the White House used some of it in a presidential speech at the Mayflower Hotel in November 2006!  I'm not kidding.
 
The KING Would Be Proud
July 13th 2006 (originally posted on Myspace and then Town Hall)
by Sean Plankey
 
Those who read this blog know that I am no big fan of popular culture.  When it comes to who won the latest episode of "American Idol" or who Jessica is now dating, I feel no shame in admitting my status as an ignoramus!  I prefer to pay attention to things that may kill me or destroy the country I love, but I'm just silly that way.....

However, when popular culture intersects politics I'm all ears (and for those of you who have seen my ears, you know what I'm talking about).  Did you hear about the visit last week by President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi to Graceland?  No doubt you saw the entertaining antics of Koizumi as he donned Elvis sunglasses, strummed his air guitar and even belted out a couple of lyrics.  It was great fun and made for a terrific "photo op" but there was something much more important in play.

Just think about it!  We had the son of a man who had killed the enemy during World War II, hanging out with the son of a man who was the enemy.  Go back 60 years and ask someone if these barbarians from Japan, who commit suicide with their aircraft will ever be our friends.  They'd say that you're crazy right?

Fast forward to present day where our brave men and women battle a fanatical enemy during much different times.  The media stands by to undermine every success and alert the enemy when new tactics are utilized.  The American public is divided bitterly and many are UNinformed about what is at stake!  It would be easy for our troops to become disenchanted and lose hope unless they become students of history and look to the lessons of the past. 

This visit by Koizumi provides just such a lesson.  It reminds the deep thinkers in our society that enemies can become friends but only if they are vanquished by the opponent who holds the moral high ground.  Just as we helped Japan rebuild its burned and smashed cities so they could become a manufacturing TITAN, we will help the middle east rebuild so their oil supplies can bring them untold riches. 

This will require vision and steadfast leadership, which we are thankfully getting from President Bush.  Living by his own words stated the day after 9/11, "We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail", he is remaining committed to spreading freedom so that terrorism cannot survive over the long-term and America will remain FREE!

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