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How to twist Obama's arm....

Everyone knows about the birth certificate issue with possible exception of the 30 percent "drone factor" who support Obama no matter what he does or how miserable me makes our lives in America.  As previously posted on here, WorldNetDaily has a copy of an alleged birth certificate for Obama from Kenya.  Who knows if it's legitimate and hopefully this will be determined very soon.
 
So what's an opaque individual like Obama to do in the meantime?  The only acceptable answer for a Marxist is to deny, obfuscate and if all else fails.....STONEWALL.  His phalanx of lawyers have tied this issue up for months now and will seek to tie it up for all eternity but it could easily be dispensed with, if only Obama had the truth on his side.
 
All Obama's team has to provide is a "long form" of his birth certificate which could be obtained from the state of Hawaii if he was truly born in the United States.  Additionally, Obama could release his college records at Harvard and Occidental College as these have private information about his entire life. There's a reason he's hiding these records and I can assure you, it has nothing to do with his grades.
 
Now there's ONE GROUP OUT THERE which can force Obama to capitulate on this issue.  If they express their will collectively, they can snap Obama's resistance like a twig.  This group is our military.  I know it will sound subversive but I am ENCOURAGING ALL MILITARY MEMBERS TO REFUSE ORDERS TO COMBAT from the alleged President Obama until proof is provided that he's a legitimate Commander-In-Chief.

Please, if you know someone out there who is in the nation's military, discuss this possibility with them and let them know that several US service members have already taken this course of action.  Not because they are cowards looking for a way out of combat but because they are PATRIOTS WHO LOVE THEIR COUNTRY AND ITS CONSTITUTION! 
 
Only our brave men and women in uniform can force Obama's hand on the birth certificate issue, only them.
 
Addendum: I just found out that tomorrow is "Dumbo the Puppet's" birthday.  What an appropriate day for him to prove once and for all, whether or not he was born in the United States as is required under the Constitution!
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Obama Birth Certificate: Is it real?

World Net Daily has a birth certificate from Kenya on its website tonight that allegedly belongs to "Mister Teleprompter" or as I love to call him "Dumbo the Puppet".  Who knows if the document is real but tell you what, let's ask Mary Mapes and Dan Rather of CBS News (emphasis on the BS!) what they think about its authenticity.  If it's good enough for them, then it's good enough for me.  Losers.....
 
You know what's really sad to think about?  How far we are into this guy's presidency and how much damage he's done to our future without even knowing IF HE'S A LEGITIMATE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF!  What if he isn't eligible under the U.S. Constitution? Do we have a magnificent "do-over" of sorts where we say "Ok let's unspend all the money and cancel all the BS pork-barrel projects!"  No, of course not.  What's done is done, whether it's legitimate or not.  Oh well, so sad too bad.
 
The American people may be asleep on this birth certificate flap but at least our military troopers are paying attention.  Several of them have refused orders to Afghanistan and Iraq on the grounds that this guy hasn't PROVEN HIS LEGITIMACY as Commander-In-Chief.  "Hats off" to all of them that have the guts to stand up to a guy who can't even produce the documentation necessary to prove his eligibility for president.  So much for the "most transparent administration we'll ever have in Washington, D.C.".  What a joke folks!
 
Check out the document online at World Net Daily's website right here:
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Tax Day = "Cash for Clunkers"

From now on, April 15th is no longer "Tax Day" as I've seen fit to rename it "Cash 4 Clunkers Day". Why? Well because each year I stroke a nice, big check for a government that is loaded with nothing but clunkers.  All these programs I bally-hoo about on a regular basis are failing and headed for bankruptcy just as we are about to do what?  Look at creating another one.
 
Unlike Fannie, Freddie, Social In-Security and Medicare, NONE OF US can live without healthcare which makes the stakes in this fight over socialized (Canadian-style) healthcare or "Single-Payer" all the more grave. (You like the use of the word grave there? I learned that one in government schools....7th grade I think!)
 
Make no mistake about it my fellow Grassroots Troopers, the democRAT-Socialists who control this government as a "Crazy Train" (theme song provided by Ozzy Osbourne) are out for one thing and one thing only:  FULL GOVERNMENT CONTROL! Oh sure, they say they just want to provide health insurance for the uninsured but that's not what they say when outside the reach of "state-run news media" cameras/microphones.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Barney Frank and President Obama himself are all on tape stating that the ultimate goal is a "single-payer system" with the goverment being the payer using funds confiscated from YOU by force! If you don't believe me, just go to Youtube and do a quick search of their archives.  I would do it for you but I'm too busy burying my gold coins in an underground vault out back!
 
Now, the hardcore statists mentioned above and a whole list of reprobates too lengthy to mention here know dang well that you'll demand their heads if they try what Hillary Clinton tried in 1993.  Remember her closed-door healthcare debacle that she attempted when "the Father of 9/11" (hubby) put her in charge of something she had no authority to attempt?  If you forget those days due to heavy partying or the ignorance due to youthfulness that plagues us all, please do some review.  Advisors to Hillary such as Ira Magaziner told her to not push for "single-payer" all at once but she swung for the fences!  The result?  People said "No way Jose!" and voted in a Republican-led Congress in 1994, it was called the "Republican Revolution" and led to Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America". :-)
 
Obama and his fellow statists are students of history, they know better than to make the mistake Hillary Clinton made in 1993.  They will take a page out of a male teenager's playbook and try to achieve the "objective" in stages.  "What do you say we just sit in the back of my dad's Chevy Impala.  I promise nothing will happen back there except maybe a little bit of kissing."  The ultimate objective remains the same folks, no matter what the rhetoric may sound like from a teenager or a democRAT-Socialist and trust me, there isn't much difference!
 
Let me paint a depressing picture for you:  Once government has the healthcare industry under its thumb with a taxpayer-subsidized insurance program, the private insurance providers will wither on the vine as they lose subscribers.  Employers will terminate their own insurance programs and kick their employees over to the government system to save money.  Eventually, all US citizens and illegal aliens who will flow into the country for the new benefit by the millions, will be on the program.  Doctors and nurses will see the impending government-created disaster on the horizon and either quit training or leave the profession.  Primary care providers, emergency rooms and clinics will become overloaded much like they are in the "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" (my former homestate).  Any attempts to receive medical care in the United States will become similar to a local DMV visit and we all know how fun that can be, right? :-(
 
We must repel this attempt by the statists to create "Fannie Med" as Senator Jim Demint (R-SC) has called it.  Once this "entitlement to end all entitlements" is created, our country will never be the same again.  Time is running out as the vote is scheduled for September, please get out there and start deputizing fellow Grassroots Troopers now!
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Palin: The NEW Frontier

It is indeed a bittersweet day for Alaskans as their finest governor steps down to save America from President Barack Hussein Obama. Remember my thesis of what Sarah Palin is up to?  If not, delve into my voluminous archives and do a little light reading.  Your intellect will be stimulated as you read things not available through more erudite political analysis.  Keep in mind that the allure of the Meat and Potatoes Blog is that I give you the "meat and potatoes" of what the heck is going on in the world of politics, without all the flowery and confusing "inside the beltway" speak.
 
All the media can say about Sarah Palin these days is that her future is uncertain but consider this:  Her future is no more uncertain than that of the United States.  I don't care what the stock market indexes are doing in the short term, the longer term trend is downhill for this country and if you don't get that FACT, just take a look at our currency over 30 years versus other industrialized nations.  The dollar is losing value every year, to wit:  In the 1970's, one US dollar was equal to about 380 Japanese yen.  Today, it's about 95 yen no kidding!
 
Meanwhile, our entitlement system of "handouts you can believe in" is by every measure BANKRUPT.  Social In-Security, Medicare and other programs which people consider a "birthright" are running out of money in your lifetime.  America hasn't the wealth or the industrial dominance to develop the wealth necessary to fuel these programs run amock.  Like sands through an hourglass, time is running out for a country currently on a glidepath to financial implosion.  All we can do is rob funding from some programs (such as the military) and direct it at the gargantuan, growing out of control welfare state.
 
When things are this hopeless and uncertain, where do you turn and what do you do?  The only answer is to try a totally new approach, one that hasn't been tried in a long time.  The answer?  Conservatism.  It hasn't been tried since the 1980's and even so, it wasn't tried to its full extent due to the FACT that the Congress was controlled by leftist democRATs for almost all of the 1980's.  Idiots like Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy were in charge even back then and President Reagan had to contend with them.
 
We need a government that is, for once, conservative in ALL aspects.  As such, this government will respect the limits on governmental power set forth in the U.S. Constitution.  Remember that little concept (insignificant to leftists) called Federalism?  If not, look it up in my archives or through other sources such as The Heritage Foundation.  Today's federal government wouldn't know the concept of federalism if it came up and kicked it in the knockers!  So where in tarnation am I going with all this?
 
I believe with every ounce of my integrity that Sarah Palin can lead this country out of the darkness we find ourselves plunging into with the Obama administration and what I've referred to as the "Democrat Crazy Train" (Whoooo-Whoooo!).  In order for this to happen, a way must be found to wake up a sleeping electorate of ignorant and apathetic souls.  My hope is that the deep economic pain we experience today will facilitate this awakening but one can never be sure.  This is why strong leadership is needed by someone who can teach people about our past mistakes in straying from the Constitution and its founding principles.
 
Please follow this link to read what I wrote about Sarah Palin almost a year ago and learn WHY she is someone to lead the new conservative movement in America:
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Obama's still "puttin' on the hits"!

Our beleaguered "Commander-in-Grief" is still doing the "electric slide" folks. Remember when I said this over a month ago? 
 
"My prediction?  Obama will continue on his hardcore leftist agenda and as a result, he'll keep puttin' on the hits.  Before you know it, he'll be hanging out with Glenn Miller in the 40's! :-)"
 
At that time, Obama was in the high 50's approval rating wise but in very alarming fashion, his "Approval Index" according to Rasmussen Reports was a negative one.  Today, that index is standing at a whopping negative eight!  Gee, I wonder why......
 
If he's not out bashing his country and apologizing for its rank oppression around the globe, he's busy tearing down capitalism to replace it with a mixture of fascism and socialism.  Today, he's doing battle with a small city police department over a local issue?  Whiskey, tango, foxtrot, over??  President Obama:  We don't know exactly what happened between this cop and Professor Gates.  Years ago, we would be inclined to take the officer's claims at face value.  But police in this country have done so many stupid things and we've seen it with our own two eyes thanks to dashboard cameras and videotaping by foreward thinking citizens.  Thus, police have lost their credibility and have nobody to blame but their fellow officers.  Oh well, I cover that problem in my "Cops Gone Wild" series here on the blog.
 
While police investigators comb through recordings of the event and get the testimony of witnesses who detail what went on in Cambridge, Obama should be busy trying to get this lousy economy pointed in the right direction.  Obama is like the kid who has a term paper due in a week and he's busy cleaning his room!  Step up to the plate and put policies in place that will CREATE JOBS President Obama or you'll find your approval rating not at 49 percent (according to Rasmussen today) but down in the 30's.
 
Here's the link to Rasmussen Reports, a very reputable polling outfit which called the 2008 presidential election spot-on:
 
So, if Obama hits the 30's, who will he be "puttin' on the hits" with then?  Benny Goodman?
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Cronkite was indeed a STATIST

I hate to kick a man when he's down folks. Especially in Walter Cronkite's case since "down" for him is 6 feet under.  However, this issue of a corrupt, leftist, "state run" news media is so important and we really need to hammer the point home.  Do you realize what a threat to our freedom and our future, an out of control biased media can present?  I shiver at the thought of what they can still do today!!!
 
The evidence is clear and convincing, Cronkite was indeed a leftist....a statist.  In my previous entry about him, which made the USA Today top blog entry by the way, I only cited his anti-war activism.  The point is incontrovertible that he was absolutely key in turning public opinion against the Vietnam War and bringing about our defeat.  But on a whole host of other issues, Walter leaned left.  Like that's a big surprise to those of us with brains!  But still, the goal of the Meat and Potatoes Blog is to wake-up Double D's, remember?
 
So in that vein, I have come across an article on World Net Daily that makes for excellent reading on the REAL Walter Cronkite.  Enjoy!
 
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Ted Kennedy made a splash

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of Ted Kennedy's famous splash off the bridge at Chappaquiddick.  As Mary Jo Kopechne suffered a slow, agonizing death by asphyxiation in the back of that car, Kennedy walked home with mind racing as to how he would cover his tracks in the ensuing days. A web of lies and pay-offs to the Kopechne family (courtesy of Dad's "rum running") took care of any real punishment in the end, how convenient!
 
Despite what occured that fateful evening, Kennedy became the patriarch of the Democrat party along with another coward of similar stripes, Bill Clinton.  My, my, how much these two men have in common.  The one difference is that Kennedy is in what I suspect are his final days and he has little time left to atone for his sins. 
 
God is waiting Senator and so is Mary Jo Kopechne.
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Cronkite is gone, thank God

"And that's the way it is" tonight folks as the best example of leftist media bias is no longer in our midst, thank God.  Walter Cronkite bid us a fond farewell and now God has to deal with him.  Who knows what will happen to his soul.  For you atheist leftists out there, he's just plain gone and his memory will live on in shame for a few minutes or hours, I guess.
 
Cronkite's claim to shame was helping the Democrat party undermine the sacrifice of 58,000 men in the Vietnam War.  When Walter declared the war lost, it was curtains for sure and the support for the war took a slow, painful nosedive.  Within a few years, Democrats were able to cut-off funding for the war and that led to a slow pull-out of troops.....before South Vietnam was ready to take on the north (and the Soviet Union) by themselves. Eventually in 1975, the communists were able to advance on Saigon and America was handed a stinging defeat.  Millions of people in South Vietnam who helped the Americans were either killed or made to suffer and I'm sure their families are big Democrat supporters to this day.......NOT!  Come to think of it, I'm sure these Vietnamese could trade stories with the Iraq families who also felt the effects of Democrat subversion in a war as they made it MUCH more difficult to win.  But that's another story for another time.  At least the outcome was different this time, thanks to talk radio, Fox News and the internet. :-)
 
I doubt Cronkite died a happy man as he watched his "state run mews media" disintegrate at the hands of a "new media".  Driven by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, this new media has taken over the essential job of disseminating information that is so vital in a democracy like ours.  I know many people who haven't tuned in to CBS News since the early 1980's when Dan Rather took the helm and none of us will ever tune them in again.  The "state run media" have lied to us and lost our trust.  Once trust is lost, it is a very difficult thing to regain no matter how hard an individual or an entity tries.  What do you think Cronkite felt when Mary Mapes was fired and Dan Rather had to resign in shame over the use of FABRICATED MEMOS as they tried to subvert a presidential election in 2004?  I'm sure his heart was heavy with disgust and even a little outrage at what CBS (emphasis on the BS) has become in modern times.
 
So while we contemplate the future role of the "state run news media" in America, Walter's soul is crying up in heaven.  Why? Because he is being hounded by the thousands of souls who died in the Vietnam War.  They've been waiting for Walter all these years and now they see fit to remind him of their sacrifice and how he undermined the cause for which they fought and died.
 
Personally, if I was one of them, I would kick his sorry rear-end to Kingdom Come!
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Sotomayor MUST go down!

Folks, your tired and weary Grassroot Trooper is home for the night and saw nothing of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings in DC today.  I've not tuned into talk radio nor have I searched out opinions on other blogs as I have just now arrived home at the Combat Information Center in East Tennessee.  But I do have some thoughts for you to ponder:
 
We Constitutionalists must advocate a FILIBUSTER of this judge for 2 reasons.  I wrote an entry several  weeks ago about Sotomayor and I stand by what I wrote without any mental reservation whatsoever.  The entry was named "Filibuster we must!", here's a link:
 
 
I know the Republican party is infested with troublesome traitors but we must demand that they stick together when it comes to giving our precious Constitution its much needed protection.  This candidate for the Supreme Court poses a risk to that founding document because of two undeniable truisms that I have witnessed with my own two eyes:
 
1) She is a racist - this woman has made statements time and time again that a latin woman makes better decisions than a white man.  Any time you believe that one race is superior to another race in any capacity, you are demonstrating behavior typical of a racist.  How can we expect impartiality of someone who thinks one race is superior to another?
 
As I wrote on Twitter:  "As a white male, I would not want want to be sued by a "Latina" plaintiff and end up in Sonia Sotomayor's courtroom. I'd get my rear-end kicked!"
 
2) She is an activist judge - She admitted with a wink and a nod (and to much laughter) at a Duke University forum that judges aren't supposed to create law from the bench but.......  Later on she candidly admitted that she sees the role of a judge as one which creates policy.  Can you believe this?  Policy creation is the job of ELECTED officials who are accountable to the electorate.  Supreme Court justices are appointed by the president and serve for life, as such they are absolutely unaccountable to the electorate.  Allowing them to make law by "judicial fiat" is unadulterated INSANITY!
 
So much is changing in this country with an out-of-control Legislative and Executive branch that roll forward like a column of unstoppable panzer tanks in WWII.  How do we stop them?  Sadly, we cannot stop the Congress until 2010 and Obama until 2012.  But we can stop the JUDICIAL branch from crushing our society with the type of lawless judicial activism that makes us give illegal aliens public education!
 
How do we do this?  By informing ourselves, mobilizing, drafting and alerting other Grassroots Troopers.  These confirmation hearings will drag on through the "Dog Days of Summer" and if we apply vise-like pressure to our elected representatives, I suspect the heat will turn up on Sotomayor as well.  Her "achilles heal" is HER OWN STATEMENTS as they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, her character misgivings and her unsuitability as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court!
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Follow Sarah Palin on Twitter

She's a "Verified Account" on Twitter and has almost 100,000 followers after only a few weeks. That's right folks, the gun-totin', lifetime NRA card carrying, U.S. Constitution loving, moose hunting sensation that will become Obama's worst nightmare is on Twitter and she's dying to receive a "tweet" from YOU!
 
So follow the REAL leader of conservatism in America as we attempt to take our country back and save it from utter implosion:
 
"AKGovSarahPalin"
 
And while you're at it, you might want to add this Twitter handle as well:
 
"GrassrootTroopr"
 
Yeah you guessed it my fellow Grassroots Troopers, that's Mister Meat and Taters!
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Levi Johnston: the perfect patsy

You remember the hockey playing lunkhead in Alaska who was so stupid that he didn't know how to put on a condom?  Well now the news media is turning to him in an attempt to solve the riddle:  Why is Sarah Palin doing what she's doing? 
 
Little tip to people who read this story.  When you're dealing with a 19 year old who is THIS STUPID, you really should take what he says with a grain of salt.  In fact, you might even want to use the whole shaker!  Here's what Levi claims to have heard from Sarah Palin:
 
" (She)...had talked about how nice it would be to take some of this money people have been offering us and just run with it, and saying forget everything else."
 
First of all, this kid has no credibility and has all the motive in the world to embellish or lie outright to damage the Palin family.  If Sarah Palin really said this in front of Johnston, my suspicion would be that she used him as a patsy to advance a ruse which would confuse the viscious leftist jackals in the "state-run news media".  I have no doubt that the Palins tolerated Levi as the "idiot who dates our daughter" but knew deep down that he was untrustworthy, unreliable and would eventually run for the exit.  Would they actually say anything of a sensitive nature in front of him unless it was DELIBERATELY PLANTED for future spewing to the news media?  I think not.
 
Good thing for Levi that God blessed him with good looks because he sure got shafted when it came to brains!  I think he's gunning for some money making TV interviews or book deals so he can find a way to pay his child support.  What do you think?
 
Addendum:  Remember my prediction that Sarah Palin would be coming with those "pit-bull canines" to sink them into Obama's butt?  WELL IT IS STARTING ALREADY!!!!  Palin is coming out publicly to call the Obama stimulus "immoral" because it burdens people who haven't even been born yet and will have to pay the tab someday with confiscatory tax rates.
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Palin: A "Bombshell" dropped by a "Bombshell"!

That's our girl Sarah, a "bombshell dropping a bombshell" right before the 4th of July holiday weekend!  How fitting!  I don't care what the media haters say, this is tactical brilliance on the part of her team if what I suspect she's doing is correct.  Some quick thoughts for Meat and Potatoes loyalists who know well the dire circumstances our nation is under at this time in our history.
 
Call me crazy but I think our girl Sarah is starting an early 2012 run.  Hey, if Barack and Hillary can start their 2008 campaigns in 2006 then why can't Sarah start her 2012 campaign in 2009?  Think about it.  The recent events with Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) may have played a part in the timing of this announcement.  In fact, I'd bet a 12 pack of "Icehouse" on it!
 
Now, the jerk-off losers who hate Sarah Palin (such as Juan Williams of NPR/Fox News) already have a slogan about her:
 
"She quit on Alaska, she'll quit on you".

How nice of these folks to show true class as they always do.
 
Allow me to offer up a slogan that makes sense to people who can use their brain:

"She left Alaska to serve America when it needed her most."
 
This country is melting down financially and there is a palpable fear out there.  Sarah Palin is not only gearing up for 2012 but in the process she'll be giving conservatives and the rest of our country, the leadership figure we've been missing since the Bush/Cheney team left office.  Rush Limbaugh simply cannot function as the leader of the conservative movement when he's so busy playing golf in Hawaii, chomping cigars and patting himself on the back all the time.  Plus, there is that other little issue from the past I won't talk about.
 
Folks, we need Ronald Reagan-style leadership out there speaking and debating the forces of darkness. Sarah Palin has proven she can do it with her stump speeches, her RNC speech and the way she clobbered that idiot of a Vice President, Joe Biden in the debate!
 
Oh, and feel free to use my "bombshell dropped by a bombshell" quip but remember to give Mr. Meat and Taters the credit! :-)~
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Something Obama didn't tell you...

When President "Dumbo the Puppet" said he would save or create 2.5 million jobs, he forgot to tell you they would be GOVERNMENT jobs!  You knew that, right?  When he told Joe the plumber he was going to "...spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody" he didn't mention he would spread the wealth to all his union, trial lawyer and "czar" buddies.  But you knew that too, right?

Well here's something you might not know and something to discuss with people over hot dogs, hamburgers, beer and Johnsonville brats!

This economy is in a freefall with unreported unemployment rates of 16% and I have never seen more vacant commercial real estate in the East Tennessee area over the 10 years I've lived here.  Everywhere I travel, there are office buildings and strip malls with two, three or four vacant offices/storefronts.  In some areas, the entire stripmall looks like a "ghostown" with "For Rent" signs in the windows and eerily empty parking lots that have weeds growing up through the pavement.

Look around your neighborhoods and see if you can find an increasing number of empty commercial real estate.  Obama says his policies are meant to restart this economy but as things become obviously worse, he just tightens the screws harder with his carbon "cap and trade" scheme and socialized medicine.  "Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over?"  Raising taxes is freely talked about now by his spokespeople as if it's a foregone conlcusion!  Anyone with a brain would keep this Top Secret in the midst of a deep recession, if not a depression.

Insanity is defined as trying the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result.  Well, I've concluded that Obama and his team are not insane and they don't care if people know the truth about their intentions.  Taking it a step further, I see what they're doing as part of a grand scheme to destroy the U.S. economy so they can rebuild it as a "command economy".  But you knew that too, right?
 
Discuss it over the July 4th holiday while you're having your "Meat and Taters" and come back to tell me I'm absolutely "looney tunes"!
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The REAL unemployment rate

Remember when  I told you Grassroots Troopers about the REAL unemployment rate, known as the "U6 data"?  Here's the quote from a blog gone by for all to re-witness.  From my June 15th entry, "Burn it down....then rebuild it":
 
"You see, the reported unemployment number is ONLY people who collect benefits.  What about those who have stopped collecting benefits and moved into their mother's basement?  What about those working a day or two a week, washing dishes, painting houses or picking up other odd jobs?  The U6 numbers take all unemployed into account and it sits at a whopping 16.4%!"
 
Today on Yahoo news, a reputable source no doubt, they admit openly and honestly what I've been writing about for almost 2 months.  Their are a heck of alot more unemployed people out there than Obama and his defenders want to admit.  These people are going to get more and more desperate with the passage of time and this will result in a whole host of problems, not the least of which is an alarming jump in crime.  I want all my readers out there to be aware of this fact and prepare accordingly.  That means what it means folks and if you don't catch my drift here, email the INFORMER and I'll spell it out for you personally.  Here's the Yahoo story link:
 
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy
 
Specifically from the Yahoo story, it says:  "If laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have settled for part-time work are included, the unemployment rate would have been 16.5 percent in June, the highest on records dating to 1994."  Does that not sound familiar to something written here awhile ago?  The job picture will be worsening significantly over the next year as people hoard cash like squirrels gathering nuts for winter and restrict their spending to bare necessities.  Watch for the stock market to sell off nicely as this places crushing downward pressure on earnings and optimistic bulls on Wall Street finally get the news flash!
 
Setting aside the punishing effects of the great "joke on America" known as "Carbon Cap and Trade", the one big unknown is whether or not "Dumbo the Puppet" will have the "stones" to push for across the board tax increases to pay for this socialized medicine scheme he's been peddling.  If tax increases are unveiled, things could truly take a turn for the nasty as people cut back even further.  Frankly, I don't even want to think about it.
 
The INFORMER has said it before and I'll say it again:  "Grab your guns, grab your gold and hang on for the ride....cuz it's going to get really nasty for quite sometime."
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Cops gone wild....Knoxville, TN

Regular readers will be familiar with my "Cops Gone Wild" series here at the Meat and Potatoes Blog.  In it, I discuss incidents across the country where cops go overboard for whatever reason and make idiots out of themselves while harrassing or even harming law abiding citizens who pay their salaries.  Well tonight I got to play the starring role in just such an incident and boy was it fun!
 
I've lived in Knoxville 6 years and not once have I been pulled over but tonight my streak ended in an unusual way.  I got pulled over all right, while I was on my bicycle and I wasn't even moving!  Boy, tonight was one for the history books.  Here's the story my fellow Grassroots Troopers if you'll indulge me, I think it's a pretty darn good one.
 
Someone jumped off the Gay Street bridge tonight and you should have seen the cop cars downtown, they were thicker than bugs on a bumper.  As the cops stood around working really hard to earn their paychecks, I rode up on my bike and checked out the scene, I even talked to a couple about what was going on.  Then I rode towards the east side of the city and saw another cadre of police cars with lights flashing madly on the James White Parkway.  I thought to myself, "Are they shutting down the highway because of the guy jumping off the bridge?  Maybe there is something much bigger going on down there."  Desiring a better view of the cops, I decided to slowly coast along the side of the parkway about 200 feet down the on-ramp until I saw a cop backing up like a madman towards me.  By the time he got to me, I had come to a complete stop since I now had a clear view of the 4 police cruisers and a fire truck which had just pulled up.  This is where it starts to get interesting and my life took a turn for the complicated.
 
He rolls down his window as I'm standing there and says to me, "You're not supposed to be riding your bike along the side of the highway."  I politely informed the friendly and helpful officer, "I'm not riding my bike, I'm just sitting here."  At that point he jumps out of the cruiser like he's starring in an episode of "Cops" and my odyssey begins.  He directs me to come across the highway on-ramp, place my bike to the side and place my hands on the rear quarterpanel of the police cruiser.  At this point, I was understandably in disbelief as to what his problem was and decided to ask him 2 questions to which he gave somewhat funny answers:
 
1) "Why are you frisking me?" He answered, "To see if you're carrying any weapons".  What a knee slapper!  Thanks "Officer Obvious", I already know that's why cops frisk people.  Duh!  I always carry my 9mm when I ride my bike around town don't you?  And even if I had some weapons, would I be stupid enough to keep them on me as I traveled toward police officers?  Of course not, I would have stashed them in the bushes to be reclaimed later.
 
2) "Why are you harrassing me?"  He answered, "I don't think I'm harrassing you."  Let me fill you in there Officer John Kiely, badge number 1702 on the Knoxville Police Department.  When a law abiding citizen who's out minding his own business is suddenly being forced to place his hands on a police car and spread his legs apart, that's harrassment.  Let me try it on you buddy and see how you like it!
 
After we were done getting better acquainted with one another, he asks me to turn around  and "sit on the car".  I took his lack of communication skills literally and asked him (not to be obtuse mind you) "Do you really want me to sit on the trunk of the cruiser?"  He got a little miffed and told me to just lean up against it, in his view that was the same as sitting.  Actually wrong again sir, sitting would require an individual to put the majority of their weight on their buttocks, I thought this would be obvious. :-)
 
The harrassment continued with the game "20 questions" where my privacy was violated with all this information so he could run me through his handy-dandy laptop computer and see if there was something to "bust" me for or even be able to legitimately arrest me and really top off his night!  After all, it had to be a slow night to begin with.  Let's go for the gusto and see if we can turn it into somthing truly memorable, right officer?  I was directed over to my bike and I sat there on the railing of the on-ramp for what seemed like forever while another officer comes over to join him.  No doubt, he was serving as a witness in the event I said anything of a noteworthy nature as we prepared to bid our fond farewell for the night.
 
At long last, he finished his scribbling and walked over to let me know that he was cutting me a break.  I know, how predictable right?  My experience has been that when a cop is cutting you a break, it's because either he has writer's cramp or the charge would be just too much aggravation to deal with in court for a lack of evidence or some other reason.  Remember the original reason he came up to me and the whole episode started?  He was going to give me a warning for the "riding" on the side of the highway (which I wasn't doing by the way) but he was citing me for a lack of a helmet and no lighting on the bike.  Can you believe this?  Keep in mind that I had just ridden by dozens of cops on the Gay Street bridge and not a single one of them motioned me over to tell me I needed a helmet or a light on the bike.  My suspicion is this was a case of selective enforcement for "Officer Obvious" as he was having a bad night and I tripped his frustration trigger with my snappy retort in the beginning.  Oh well....
 
So I go to court in August, not as a juror mind you (thank God) but as a defendant.  It's been a long time since I've been a defendant in anything folks and I'm sort of looking forward to it.  This will give me something to do with my day!  In the meantime, I'll be busy dealing with a local attorney and I might even contact that organization I love to hate, the ACLU.  You see, nobody harrasses this freedom loving patriotic American and gets away with it.  Officer John Kiely is going to get sued for harrassment.... not for money but for an apology.  An example must be made out of this sorry character so that he may be taught a lesson and other officers behave themselves too.  Lord Acton once said "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and when cops go wild we must hold them more accountable than anyone else.
 
The preservation of our liberty depends on it!
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