Nothing can stop the spending bwaah bwaah ha ha..

We aren’t the brightest generation of voters to give total control of government to this group of idiots.  We are now reaping what we sowed.  And our children will reap it and their children will reap some of it.

Two "trillion" dollars

My daughters buy me the latest collection of Looney Tune cartoons each year for Christmas.  Here is one of the best of this year’s release..   Make sure you watch it to the end……and don’t forget the gravy.

The biggest barrier to conservatism in this country is the Republican party. In regards to conservatism they are the wolf in sheep’s clothing. They have become a party that is no different then the Democrats. Just like blacks who blindly vote democrat, conservatives have wasted years and years supporting the republicans. It’s time for an alternative.

Each party gives lip service to the issues that stimulate its base, gay marriage, gun control, abortion. etc. These issues keep the electorate divided. In the meantime the parties take turns at sharing power. Election cycles come and go and nothing ever changes.

For almost 10 years the republicans had their chance at making real changes in Washington. Instead they chose to behave like stereotypical democrats. I don’t think that they really want change. They, just like the democrats, want status quo. They’ll gladly let the democrats run the show for awhile as long as they maintain the choke hold that they share with the democrats on the American political process.

It’s time to throw the Republocrat Party out. Republicans and Democrats are driving this train of state off of a cliff. Only by removing both parties will change ever happen in the US.

The Palestinian issue might be more rooted in Islam then politics.  I’m puzzled why the world chooses to ignore the inevitable Islamic progression that occurs in every nation that contains a large percentage of muslims in its population.

As the muslim population grows in a nation they start to ask for autonomy.  As they grow stronger in numbers they begin to demand autonomy.  Eventually they grow until they gain control of the government.

At that point other belief systems begin to suffer rapid decline.  Uncovered women are harassed on the street.  Non-muslims are excluded from government and better jobs.  Churches are burned.  Non-muslim religions are banned from openly showing their faith.

All of these things would happen to Israel if they are forced into a binational existance with Islam. The Koran’s message to its followers is clear.  All non-muslims must either submit, convert or be killed by Islam.

It looks as though Islam will overtake most of Asia, Africa and Europe during this century.  Is it asking too much to let the Jews maintain control over the small sliver of land called Israel.  If co-existance was an option I’d have a different opinion.  But when you look at the history of every muslim nation you have to conclude that anything but a Jewish nation would be the doom of Israel.

Here is a link to a great article I came across at BigHollywood…

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ebalogh/2009/02/19/opm-the-socialist-drug-of-choice/

Carl Marx with an Obama pin on his lapel.  Priceless.

by Dan Drewes @ http://dandrewes.com

A Riddle (by joe-bow):

Two heads have I, arrogant and sly.

One says snay, the other says snee.

Their sole purpose is to show what you see.

Power’s my lust, not fame.

And at the proper hour, what’s yours’ is mine to devour.

Here’s a link to the American Recovery and Reinvestment bill…

http://appropriations.house.gov/

The house republicans are putting on a good show complaining about how late the final draft was released… only hours before the vote.  Passing a bill that has such long reaching ramifications without knowing what is in the bill should be reason enough to get them all fired.  In any other job they would be in trouble.  

It’s my guess that if the republican’s were in power the bill would still have passed.  The only difference is that republican friends, cronies and paybacks would be receiving the money.   As I’ve pointed out before, both parties act exactly the same when in power.   They act sooo similar that they are likely two heads of the same beast.  The Republocrat Party.  We need to throw them all out before it is too late.

Here’s a good one from the Washington Post.  Testosterone is now being blamed for the British facet of the world financial crisis.  ”Risk taking” men got us into this mess.  It is time for “the ladies to have a go” at running the show.  After-all, women are not greedy. A woman would never take a risk for profit.  

Women like Maxine Walters, for example, would have known better.  Maxine’s contribution to the crisis (by blocking additional oversight and regulation of Fanny and Freddie Mac) must have been an anomaly.  She probably stood too close to a man on the elevator and got contaminated with testosterone. It affected her judgment.  

A group of risk taking men might be responsible.  But from a feminist perspective it is the entire class of males who are to blame.  The evil testosterone has brought us to the brink.  The possibility that the crisis was created simply because a group of individuals made bad decisions is not considered. 

The financial industry was created primarily by men.  It is not perfect but it has served its participants fairly well over the years. The industry needs an overhaul in regards to the way it does business. Otherwise anyone can fall into the same traps that enticed the execs that drove us to the current crisis.   The mess will not be resolved by an infusion of estrogen.  

Quoted Article:

Men behaving badly: testosterone had its role in the lost billions

   * February 12, 2009

If women had control of the financial reins things might have been different, posit Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan in London.

FRED, Tom, Andy, Dennis, Eric, John, Stephen, Antonio and Paul ran British banks that lost billions of dollars.

So they were called in for a grilling by Nick, Graham, Colin, Jim, Stephen, Michael, Andrew, George, Mark, Peter, three Johns — and a single, solitary Sally.

The interrogation of the lions of British banking, many of whom have lost their jobs, began on television on Tuesday before the financial overseers of the British Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee. And in line with the usual maths of the financial world, 18 of the 19 key people in the room were men.

“Clearly, something needs to change,” said Howard Archer, the managing director of European Forecasting and Analysis at IHS Global Insight in London. “You can argue that the men have made a right mess of it, and now the ladies should have a go.”

As the global financial downturn deepens, the first rumblings of a gender revolution are under way in an industry long controlled by men. Banks, hedge funds and other financial organisations that have led the international economy’s downward spiral are overwhelmingly male-dominated. The regulators and legislators assigned to oversee the financiers are also mostly men.

“There are quite a lot of alpha males with testosterone steaming out their ears,” said Stuart Fraser, one of the top financial sector officials in London.

In Britain, women account for just 12 per cent of corporate directorships of companies on the FTSE 100 stock exchange index. In the US, women hold 17 per cent of the corporate directorships. “Maybe if we had more women in the boardrooms, we might not have seen as much risk-taking behaviour,” said Hazel Blears, one of two female members of the cabinet of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.

Harriet Harman, the minister for women and equality, blasted the banking world for “discrimination and harassment” against women, including using lap-dancing clubs for corporate entertainment.

Amid the debate about whether the financial crisis would have happened, or been as severe, if more women had been in charge, there are signs that more women will be taking part in the global rescue.

Iceland, which suffered a humiliating economic collapse, has turned over key levers of finance to women. It now has a female prime minister, and women lead two of its major banks. The Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, has vowed to exercise “prudence and responsibility” as she cleans up the male-dominated system that sank the national economy.

“Men, especially young men, made a mess of things,” said Kristjan Kristjansson, the Prime Minister’s spokesman. “There is a strong discussion that women would have taken a more cautious approach in the financial sector. You could call the financial sector almost like a men’s club.”

Einar Mar Gudmundsson, an influential Icelandic writer, said: “These financial vikings who made the country bankrupt were in a way like little boys playing with toys.” He said he would like both men and women to be involved in reconstructing the nation’s financial sector.

In France, Michel Ferrary, a professor at the business school Ceram, recently conducted a study that concluded that French companies with the greatest percentage of women in management have performed the best during the crisis.

For example, he said, BNP Paribas bank, whose management team is nearly 39 per cent female, has weathered the crisis far better than Credit Agricole, where women make up just 16 per cent of managers.

John Coates, a researcher at Cambridge University who once ran a trading desk on Wall Street, recently conducted a novel survey that analysed saliva from 17 male traders in London’s financial district. Coates concluded that traders made the highest profits when they had the highest levels of testosterone in their spit. The downside, he said, was that elevated testosterone also led to riskier behaviour, a formula for disaster as well as profit. “If you had more women on the trading floors, you would probably eliminate some of this instability,” Coates said.

For three hours on Tuesday morning, four elite bankers sat before the Treasury Select Committee: Tom McKillop and Fred Goodwin, who ran the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Andy Hornby and Dennis Stevenson of HBOS. One after another, under often hostile questioning from the politicians, they apologised for presiding over bank collapses that have cost billions in taxpayer-funded bail-outs.

The legislators accused the bankers of being “arrogant” and “in denial” about their responsibility for the crisis. “It’s an old boy’s network,” Sally Keeble, the committee’s only female member, said after the hearing. She said she was most disturbed that the top echelons of British banking seemed to rely on a “cozy consensus of like-minded people” unwilling to listen to those who might challenge their views.

John Thurso, also part of the committee, said: “If there were more women, there might have been more of a reality check.”

The Washington Post

http://www.smh.com.au/world/men-behaving-badly-testosterone-had-its-role-in-the-lost-billions-20090211-84p2.html?page=-1

Before drawing conclusions it is best to do a little research.  What better way to learn about Islam then from the Koran?

All quotes were taken from an online version of the Koran found  at the U of Michigan website.

8.12 “When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”

3.151 “We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up against Allah for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.”

59.2 “He it is Who caused those who disbelieved of the followers of the Book to go forth from their homes at the first banishment you did not think that they would go forth, while they were certain that their fortresses would defend them against Allah; but Allah came to them whence they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts; they demolished their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers; therefore take a lesson, O you who have eyes!”

9.29 “Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.”

9.123 “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).”

4.74 “Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world’s life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward.”

9.5 “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful”

5.51 “O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”