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The End Of Progress

Our death as a nation is quickly coming.  The Socialists have just about completed their strangulation of American business and creativity.  They have spent us into oblivion and beyond until there is no money left to do much but tear down the cities and the roads.

In Michigan, they are razing what's left of once great cities.  They were cities that had factories that made cars and parts and now, they make neither.  Unemplyment is 20% or more in places like Flint.  They thrived until the 70s when the first fuel crisis hit.  The cities also saw the factories as some kind of infinite supply of tax revenue.  The factories were old and they just became way too expensive.  With gas prices climbing, no one was buying the big detroit chrome monsters.  GM and the others started closing down those old factoriessometimes they built new somewhere else (usually in a right to work state)  and you know the rest of the story.

Dan Kildee (related, I'm sure, to Dale Kildee, a Democrat Congressman from Flint since 1976) is quoted in the article as saying: 

"The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there's an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they're shrinking, they're failing."

Mr. Kildee, If they are shrinking, they are indeed failing.  The only things that shrink that we call successes are are usually hemorrhoids and tumors.

In other Michigan news, they are tearing up the paved roads.

More than 20 of the state's 83 counties have reverted deteriorating paved roads to gravel in the last few years, according to the County Road Association of Michigan. The counties are struggling with their budgets because tax revenues have declined in the lingering recession.

In a state where the automobile was once the king and the roads were its vassels, the king is dead and the roads are left to decay and when they get to a certain point, they just tear out the pavement and return it to gravel. 

Montcalm County converted nearly 10 miles of primary road to gravel this spring. 

The county estimates it takes about $10,000 to grind up a mile of pavement and put down gravel. It takes more than $100,000 to repave a mile of road.

The Democrats have run the state literally into the ground.  While city population has declined, they tried to keep the same level of revenue flowing.  The more they raised the taxes the harder it became to keep jobs.

With the Obama administration spending like no tomorrow.  I-5 may become a gravel road sooner than later.

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Letterman Is The Real Slut

I used to think David letterman was funnyHe had the right combination of searing wit, deadpan and timing that allowed him to say and do things most comics only wish they could pull. 

I don't know if he is just getting old or he fears he has to up the "edgy" a notch to compete with the younger Conan O'Brien, but his anti-Palin schtick was disgusting.  Others have been fired for less.

If you think it's funny then let me joke about your 14 year old sister/daughter/niece being raped and let me tell you that your mother/wife/ sister/ looks like a slut.  That's hilarious, isn't it?  Your mother looks like a slut and your 14 year old daughter was raped by a baseball player.  Are you laughing yet?

Then he give some half-assed non-apology:

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, the 18-year-old girl, who is — her name is Bristol, that’s right, and so, then, now they’re upset with me," Letterman said on his Wednesday telecast.

“These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn’t put it in a joke.”

Oh, so it was meant to be the 18 year old that got knocked up by a baseball player!  Silly me, that's even more hillarious! The problem is that it was Willow, the 14-year-old, that attended the game with her. 

Now Letterman wants the Palins to come on to his show?  Why, so he can be even more crass? (If that's possible)

The Palins already told this sleazemeister "No!"  They are not going to come one and increase his ratings.

Can you imagine if letterman said similar about Michell Obama, infering that she looked like some kind of slut?  Me neither.

The only slut here is Letterman. 

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The Real Victims?

According to KOMO-TV in Seattle, the real victims of the Chrysler bankruptcy are not the bond holders or the share holders or the dealers or the banks. None of those are the real victims.  The real victims, dear reader, are the trial lawyers victims of Chrysler negligence!

Yes friends, the real victims are those who are in the process of suing the old Chrysler,  That company no longer exists.

Now that Fiat owns Chrysler, the new company is no longer responsible for any dangerous defects with the old Chrysler products.

This is going to affect people injured in Chrysler products and those who might get hurt in the future because of a design defect.

Consumer advocates say the bankruptcy court wiped out more than a billion dollars in pending class action and product liability lawsuits, and put the brakes on any future product liability claims.

Oh the humanity!!!!!  No damned wonder the cost of a car is in the tens of thousands of dollars.  

Seattle attorney Sim Osborne handles product liability cases. He says anyone with a vehicle made by the old Chrysler - the company that existed before bankruptcy - just lost some of their legal rights.

"If you buy a used Chrysler made before today and something goes wrong that causes an injury or causes a family member injury or death, (you have) no right, no product liability claims," Osborne said.

In short, you have no right to sue Chrysler. 

In short, trial lawyers are gonna lose some business!

Life for Jeanne and Joseph Polio of East Haven, Conn., changed forever on July 1, 2005. They were driving their 2000 Jeep Cherokee when it was T-boned by another vehicle. The Jeep rolled over and its roof collapsed, leaving Jeanne a quadriplegic with medical bills that have already exceeded a million dollars.

The Polios sued Chrysler, claiming the Jeep's roof was defective. Chrysler says it's vehicle was not defective and met all government safety standards at the time.
"All they are looking for is their day in court," says the couple's attorney, Timothy Pothin. "Chrysler's action and the outcome of the bankruptcy proceeding may deprive them of that."

"It's not honorable for Chrysler to be able to just walk away from this responsibility," said Jeanne Polio.

I'm really sorry for the Polios.  It was a tragic accident and I'm sure it's made their life Hell, but was it really a faulty product?  I'm no structural engineer, but I can think of a lot of things that get crushed and bent in an accident.  I've been T-boned before by a drunk driver running a red light.  I was lucky it didn't kill me.  I can think of a lot of scenarios where the roof will collapse.  If the windshield breaks and the side frame pieces get mangled, the structure holding the roof isn't there!  It also depends on how fast the car that hit them was going, what type of vehicle it was and where it actually impacted the Jeep.  This one might be valid, but we don't know any of the facts.  I suspect it probably is not.

The other scenario is even worse:

In September of 2003, Nicholas Pullano was leaving for work when his Jeep wouldn't start. He was run over by the vehicle while he was under it, trying to jump-start it.

The 54 year old will spend the rest of his life in bed or a wheel chair.

"He cries a lot," his wife said. She blames stress for her heart attack. "It turned from a very loving, happy home to a very loving sad home."

The Pullanos sued Chrysler, claiming the vehicle's design and a lack of safety devices allowed the Jeep to roll over onto Nicholas Pullano. But Chrysler says it is not to blame for this accident. Because of the bankruptcy filing, the lawsuit is on hold and a jury may never get to decide.

I'm pretty sure that Pullano is an idiot.  I've never heard of going under a vehicle to jump start it.  If I was going to go under a vehicle that might possibly start or was running, I would make sure the parking brakes was firmly engaged and the wheels were blocked. 

They could build crash proof cars.  In fact, they do, except that they are not really cars, they are tanks.  You couldn't afford them and most people wouldn't want to have one as a family car.  That means there are trade-offs.  They make them lighter to save on weight which helps save fuel.  They put lots of windows in them so you can see around you.  They make them so they go faster than ten miles per hour so you can get where you are going in a reasonable amount of time.  All of these things can detract from how safe a vehicle is.  I mentioned that I got T-boned once.  I was driving a 1972 Ford LTD much like the one pictured here.  I was lucky to get 10 mpg in that tank!  And that is why I survived, it was like a tank.  The policeman at my accident told me a woman in a Toyota was killed in a similar accident a few days earlier.  My accident happened in Ogden Utah in 1987.  I was hit by a drunk driver that ran a red light.  As an aside, I see that the pic I swiped has a Colorado plate on it.  They drunk that hit me was from Colorado.

My point is that many of these lawsuits are an attempt to win the lawsuit lottery.  Only a trial attorney could make the case that these people are the real victims.

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Christian Attitude

John Brown Jr. from Encinitas, California left a comment to a post I wrote the other day concerning the Myers spy case .  He probably won't be back, but I'll answer him via this post.

Mr. Brown asked this question:

Wow, I thought that you said that you are a christian? Is that a very christian attitude?

Mr. Brown, How should a Christian react to this story?  I might be able to forgive them, but that does not mean they should be let go with no punishment.  Voicing an opinion that they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent allowed by law is not a sin.  Jesus said to render unto Caesar what is his and breaking the law falls under that counsel.  They knowingly broke the law and they need to pay the price for that decision.

I don't think you comprehend the seriousness of what they are being accused of doing over the last 30 years.  They quite possibly put many lives at risk and they certainly did much harm to our own (and your) security.  They sold out the United States.

I don't feel sorry for them.  They were not coerced or forced.  They made the decision on their own.  One hopes they come to terms with their maker before they die and God will forgive them if they do, but that does not relieve them of their debt to society.

I'm willing to bet that Mr. Brown is not a Christian and if he is, what kind of Christian goes around asking questions like that?

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I Was In Error About Sotomayor

It has been pointed out that the reasons I gave that Sotomayor was unqualified were wrong and that she is supposedly to be well qualified for the court.  True enough for the reasons I gave.  I sometimes get it wrong.  The statistic I used was technically correct mathematically, but was not an indicator of qualification.  I did  not check the source.  My bad and sloppy on my part. 

That said, I still believe she should not be confirmed because of here numerous racist statements stating her genitalia and DNA makes her wiser than a white male.  Judicial temperament should mean something

Can you imagine what the liberals would say if Alito or Roberts had said similar?

So there is(as promised) my mea culpa.  I will try to endeavor to double check things before I hurry and post things before i shove off for bed.

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Breathes There The Man With Soul So Dead

In reading about Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers and their secret life as Communist spies, the words to the most famous verse to Sir Walter Scott's poem, Lay of the Minstrel,came to my mind:

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land!"
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.

I don't know what they were paid to sell out their homeland or if they just did it out of shear hatred for the country that gave them free birth and the freedom to choose their path.  I don't know what kind of guilt filled their minds and destroyed their souls.  He was a blueblood, born into money. It's all part of the idiotic, rich-white-guilt syndrome that affects so many liberals.  You can just feel it oozing out of this passage in his diary:

"I have become so bitter these past few months. Watching the evening news is a radicalizing experience," he wrote in his diary in 1978, referring to what he described as greedy U.S. oil companies, inadequate health care and "the utter complacency of the oppressed" in America. On a trip to Cuba, federal law enforcement officials said in legal filings, Myers found a new inspiration: the communist revolution.

And as with most wealthy liberal people, they feel guilty because they have so much, but are not willing to give up their life of money and privilege.  Rather than slough off their wealth and help people using their own money, they assuage their guilt by demanding that the government do the job.  They were good little liberals who felt that the mean old US Government should be taught a lesson.

Their plan was to eventually sail to Cuba where they would presumably  be given some kind of hero's welcome. 

The couple told the agent they eventually wanted to sail to Cuba, according to the court documents.

"Our idea," said Kendall Myers, "is to sail home."

The fact never probably occurred to them that that no one, not even their new country (had they made it), would ever really trust them.   If they'd sell out their country once, they might do it again.

Now, home will be a federal prison somewhere.  They will most likely die there.  It's unfortunate that it probably will not be at the hand of the executioner, because at 72 and 71, they don't have that much longer on this earth.  Whatever time is allotted them, they will face it alone, each in their individual cell.  Their boat, their nice home, their cars and their life together will be memories. Their graves should be in a prison cemetery.

The last six lines of the verse should be on their tombstones if they have one:

HERE LIES #202 and 123

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The [wretches], concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence [they] sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.

No names and no dates.  They deserve no more; they probably deserve much less.  Such should be the fate of the traitor.

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