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Up Next: Hyperinflation

For awhile now, I've been writing about our impending financial melt down.  There are now more and more people starting to sound the alarm, but I fear it may be too little too late.  Granted, it's not a sure thing, but if I was a betting man, I'd bet a couple hundred trillion Zimbabwe bucks on it.  There is time to reverse policy, tighten the money supply and live within our means, but the Democrats are in charge and they are dead set on spending as much as they want with no thought to the harm it will cause.

This from an Op-Ed in the San Fransisco Examiner:

Santayana’s maxim — those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it — has grown threadbare from heavy use. But it unavoidably comes to mind this week, as President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill blithely put the final touches on the chief executive’s proposed 2010 federal budget.

With an unprecedented deficit that’s approaching $2 trillion, this budget proposal is a surefire prescription for hyperinflation. So every senator and representative who votes for this monster $3.6 trillion budget will be endorsing a spending spree that could very well turn America into the next Weimar Republic. For those too young to remember, that was the period in Germany in the years between the two world wars when people needed wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread.

That's if you can find a loaf of bread on the shelves. 

The presses at the mint are working overtime.  The money supply is at it's largest ever and expanding.  Unless the fed pulls the brake and stops printing, the only result will be hyperinflation. 

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but this just has to make you wonder what is going on.  Are the Democrats really that stupid?  Maybe they just don't care.  Maybe they want a collapse and the resultant chaos.  After all, that's right out of the Socialist's playbook.

Bailing out the bankers maybe just a ploy.  It looks like they are feigning to save something they intend to actually destroy when all is said and done.

I wish I could be more upbeat, but I do not see this economic train wreck ending well.

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What's Left For The Left?

I'm sure you've read about Governor Palin's email account being hacked by some komputer kiddies who might just have hacked one too many accounts. Our poor hacker was disappointed that he found nothing to derail her.  Not only is the FBI on the case, but the U.S. Secret Service joined in the hunt.  It sucks to be him or them.  However, this isn't specifically about that, per se.  It's about the liberals and what they will stoop to in order to discredit her.

Hacking her Yahoo account is just the latest in the "Get Palin" saga.  It's not all kiddies in their parent's basement with too much time on their hands like the mail hack seems to be.  Some of this stuff is coming from adults.  From sick rumors to disgusting photoshops to hacking an email account, their seems to be no limit.  Just as you think these people hit bottom, they find a new way to dig to another level.

These are the kinds of people supporting Barack Obama.  They have no morals.  To them, there is nothing off limits.  Not all of his supporters, mind you, but it seems to be more than a few out there willing to completely debase themselves for their candidate.  If you read the comments of some of the more despicable liberal mainstream blog postings (The Daily Kos for example) on the left, you will note the army of commenters who are cheering on the writer, or adding even more excrement to the pile.

I'm sure there are some folks on the right who've done similar, but none in the mainstream.  You won't find such trash on the big Conservative blogs and frankly, I'd be one of a whole hoard that would be denouncing such behavior.  If we can't win on ideas, then we don't deserve to win.  Humor and satire are one thing, but there are limits.  For one, you do not attack the family, especially the children.

Politics is a blood sport.  Those of us who enter the fray understand that concept.  Debates can get spirited.  I'm not above using the term Moonbat and similarly, I'm not particularly offended if someone on the left uses a similar pejorative.  I usually don't use profanity on my blog, but there are some mild exceptions.  I will never use the "F" bomb EVER!  Nothing goes in here that I wouldn't want my granddaughters to see.  That's my default rule.  I will edit comments and usually give you one warning.

Things do make me angry and I did use SOB, writing it out instead of the initials in one post.  It was directed at the good little commies in Berkeley.  It's my one lapse, but I'm not going to change it or edit it.  It is what it is.  When people or events anger me, such as the Palin attacks, I usually end up writing one of my longer essays to calm me down - such as this one.

Fear is a great motivator and the left fears Governor Palin.  They've tried their dead level best to denigrate her experience and tear her down with false accusations, slander and out and out lies.  I'm quite sure our f(r)iends on the left are not through digging.  Nothing will surprise me in their quest to see how low they can dig.  The good part is that it mostly helps the McCain/Palin ticket much to the chagrin of the perpetrators.

I predicted violence this summer, especially at the conventions and I'm happy to admit I was wrong.  There was some relatively mild stuff, but nothing like what the anarchists and commies were hoping for.  I've also predicted that the left will turn increasingly violent , especially if the polls are favoring McCain a few weeks before the election.  Last election, union thugs attacked several Republican campaign offices.  I hope I'm wrong on this one as well.

We need to stay on point and not get rattled.  Counter their lies with truth and expose the immaturity of their base.

Keep Focused!

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Denver Protests Starting- Live blogging

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Folks, the Moonbat convergence has started.  Fox has a live feed.  You'll have to click the link on the page. One of the MC's just said he supported the troops that turned their guns on their superiors. 

Here is a screen shot of a speaker and it looks like the two people in front are some kind of "security".  They look a bit menacing. The speaker is calling the cops Pigs.  Yep - smells like 68.

Now they are trotting wheeling out Ron Kovic - he of "Born on the Fourth of July" infamy fame.  While I respect him for his service and sacrifice, he is patently un-American.  OMG!  The Whole World's Watching chant!  1968!  Deja moo!  Looks like the same bull!

(All Times PDT)

9:17 AM The whitest Black Panther you ever saw is railing against the war - Yawn

9:24 AM  Someone named Larry Holmes is now referring to Katrina as the Katrina Genocide. 

9:40 AM  Cynthia (Cop Slapper) McKinney is now addressing the crowd. Who'da thunk she would be there?

9:44 AM  Cynthia is demanding we be like Venezuela.

9:47 AM  It's Chuch!  The disgraced professor Ward Churchill!

He's about as Indian as my dog.

9:50 AM  There is a war against everyone by the US!  The Indians, the Middle East, South America.  My we are busy!

9:56 AM Rosa Clemente, McKinny's Veep is now up.  She's a lunatic lefty and the voice of the so-called Hip-Hop Generation.

10:04 AM  Nothing new with this Commie broad.  Same Crap, different mouth it's spewing from.

10:05 AM  Clemente states that if everyone in Puerto Rico  could vote, she and McKinney would be in the White House.  Yeah, right.  The idiot doesn't understand Presidential elections at all.

10:14 AM  The Dead Presidents are ranting rapping.

10:15 AM  The Fox feed seems to have been cut

10:20 AM  If the feed comes back, I'll continue.

10:30 AM  Fox appears to have ended the show.  Too bad.  They removed the lingk from the home page.

11:00 AM  Fox Channel 31 has live video from their news chopper going on.  They are filming the protesters as they march.

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War Crimes

Remember when we decided to eliminate the regime of Saddam Hussein?  Do you remember the so-called "peace rallies" all over the world?  And even today, the shrill cries of "War Criminal" dominate the left's anti-war crusade.  Part of the argument is that Saddam Hussein posed no threat to us.

I'm no foreign affairs expert by any stretch.  I probably know a little more than most Americans about this mess in South Ossetia.  The Caucasus region is oil-rich and Russia covets it.  It's a region fraught with nationalistic rivalries that go back for a few eons.  In other words, diversity isn't exactly celebrated there.  South Ossetia is one of those little ethnic areas that borders Russia and Georgia and wants autonomy from Georgia.  Georgia attacked the Ossetians and Russia counter attacked the Georgians attacking South Ossetia.

It's a mess and not likely to end well for Georgia.  Although Georgia is now asking begging for a cease fire, Russia will probably keep going until either the Georgians are completely run out of South Ossetia, or until they march into Tbilisi and control both Georgia and South Ossetia. 

Where are the cries of War Crimes or the protests for peace.  Admittedly, this current escaltion is fairly recent, but let me ask you, if this was the US attacking a Mexico though a breakaway Mexican state on our border, what do you think the reaction from the leftists would be? What would be the reaction if we just demolished everything in our path?

Our military does its best to limit collateral damage.  We attack with almost surgical skill, targeting the bad guys while trying not to destroy infrastructure or innocents.  Russia charged into South Ossetia with blitzkrieg brutality, destroying whatever and whoever was in its path.  I might add that Russia was not attacked directly, although they had some "peacekeepers" that got caught in the initial Georgian attack.

The bottom line is this.  In this world today, only Americans commit war crimes.  Almost everyone else gets a pass.

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Different Priorities

Back last August, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin handed the Parish Coroner, Frank Minyard, a million dollars of your money to build a monument to the 1600 or so people who died from hurricane Katrina related causes.  The goal was to have it built by this coming August 29th, the third anniversary.  As you might expect, nothing was done.  Hopefully, given the city's reputation for corruption, that money is still sitting in a bank account somewhere drawing interest.

From the Dallas News:

During a second-anniversary ceremony, Mayor Ray Nagin shed a tear, gave $1 million in taxpayer money to the project, and delegated management to the city coroner.

"This is an example of the dead helping the living," said New Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard. "The underprivileged African-American community suffered worst in this storm, and we have to make sure for the next storm that it doesn't happen again. Hopefully, this memorial will be a reminder of that."

But 10 months later, what could have been an inspiring focal point for New Orleans has dissolved into a project that is forgotten, frustrated and delayed.

Where is the project at today?

Two days after The Associated Press asked about its status, LSU signed off on a city permit to allow topsoil clearing, but no date was given. Workers later drove a pattern of stakes into the ground and drew an outline with fluorescent paint.

It's a start, but that is all.  It isn't even a good start really. 

I think it would be really interesting to see where the money has been spent so far and how much private money (allegedly this is supposed to be funded primarily by donations) is in the bank.  I'm not saying that anything illegal is going on, but this is New Orleans and I'm just sayin...

Seriously, regardless if the money is being used well or disappearing into black holes somewhere, it's a colossal waste of taxpayer money.  It's not that I am against some kind of memorial for the victims.  It's an age old tradition.  We seek closure and that is one of the ways we find it.  Usually that's the last act, the finale after we've cleaned up the mess and rebuilt.  To allocate a million dollars of tax money to this project before even half of this mess is cleaned up is an insult and a travesty to those still trying to recover.

I'm not even sure why we are wasting money even trying to rebuild parts of the city when in all likelihood, we will be doing it again before too many years have passed.  Even still, to divert money to a this project instead of using it to strengthen the levees or help rebuild housing, or even hire more police is ludicrous! 

I think if I were the mayor, my priorities would be a little different.

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Is Anyone Surprised?

So the Breck Girl just endorsed Obama.  Really, is anyone surprised?  There is no love lost between Edwards and Hillary.  I never expected any other result.

The fact is that both Silky and Obama are both cut from the same extremist liberal cloth.

And no, I don't think Edwards is on the Veep short list for a number of reasons.  None the least of which is that Edwards already lost at that gig.

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Voting And Photo ID

Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court OK'd an Indiana law that required photo ID in order to register to vote.  Good.  It's driven the liberal establishment up the crazy wall because until they can repack the court with liberal judges, there isn't one damn thing they can do about it except whine.

It would seem to me that something like this should be common sense and only citizens should be able to vote. If you want to vote and you are a citizen (if not, become one),  then go down, get yourself a photo ID and register to vote.

There are some who think that requiring a photo ID is tantamount to disenfranchising the poor.  That is crap.  I've been poor.  I know what it is like to have nothing or next to it.  On the other hand, I also made sure that I had a valid driver's license.  It isn't that expensive. If the cost of a state ID is indeed too high, there are ways to fix that.

The only people who think that ID isn't necessary are those who are interested in one thing and that is to permit vote fraud.  ACORN, an organization steeped in voter registration fraud is obviously outraged:

ACORN is deeply disturbed by the chipping away of voting rights in this nation. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Indiana’s voter ID law today is one more strike against the basic right to vote. This ID law is a tool that further disenfranchises people of color and low-income Americans, citizens some partisan politicians believe will vote against them and their party.

And of course by partisan politicians, they mean Republicans because we all know that Democrats are not partisan.  (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

However, Acorn has been involved in committing vote fraud:

...if photo I.D. requirements had been the law in Washington state, the voter fraud scandal involving ACORN in 2006 would never have happened. According to Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, the incident “was the worst case of election fraud in our state’s history. It was an outrage.”

Two years ago ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes.  Reed said he was appalled.

If you think 1800 isn't significant, understand that Christine Gregoire won by only 129 votes.  Of course she had a lot of help from the heavily Democratic non-partisan controlled King County Elections Office.  They learned Zimbabwean art of counting ballots long ago.

This isn't an isolated incident then read this from the November3, 2006 edition of the WSJ:

So, less than a week before the midterm elections, four workers from Acorn, the liberal activist group that has registered millions of voters, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board. But hey, who needs voter ID laws?

We wish this were an aberration, but allegations of fraud have tainted Acorn voter drives across the country. Acorn workers have been convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado, and investigations are still under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

I know that not everyone who is against the idea of using photo ID to register voters is a crook or supports vote fraud.  The problem is that there are enough groups (especially on the left) out there that have no such scruples.  That's why we need to know who is voting.

Yes, let every eligible voter vote and count every legal vote, but make sure we are doing it as cleanly and as open and fair as possible.  Requiring photo ID goes along way toward that end.

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But Bush Isn't Running!

A liberal group wants to raise over 8 million dollars to defeat Bush in the next election.  The problem is, Bush isn't running.

WASHINGTON —  A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.

Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign, spending the bulk of the money on advertising, to keep public attention on what the group says are the failures of the Bush administration, including the war in Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and the current mortgage crisis.

This borders on the psychotic!!!!   This is Bush Derangement Syndrome at its lowest and most vile form.

OK, they don't like Bush.  Old news.  What it is is a waste of money and time, but that matters not a whit to the moonbats.  All they have is hatred. 

They want to hammer on what they perceive as failures. But why don't they raise 8 million to actually help people.   Maybe they could do Katrina relief.  They could repair a bunch of homes or help rebuild one of the 22 fire houses in New Orleans.  They could use it to help some wounded vets.  They could use it to help buy some healthcare for some sick kids.

But liberals don't do that.  They raise money for politcial causes so that the Democrats can spend YOUR tax money on those things.

Liberals don't really give a damn about Katrina victims.  They just hate Bush and they are willing to waste 8.5 million bucks to prove it.

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Democrat Identity Politics

Listen to this "question" put to the Breck Girl in tonight's Democrat Debate:

This would be the most hilarious moment in Presidential debate history if it wasn't for the fact that these people are deadly serious. Ya know, I almost feel sorry for Edwards. 

Granted, Edwards would make the worst President since Jimmy Carter, but I almost feel sorry for him. I don't know what his answer except that it was most likely couched in his typical smarmy style.  The point is simply that there is no good answer to that kind of question for a Democrat.  He's damned no matter what comes out of his mouth.

May the best man woman African-American victim win!

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Hat Tip:  Hot Air

Monsters Are Real

Monsters exist and they live among us.  They are usually hard to identify and sometimes they even masquerade as the very people who are supposed to protect us from them.

This particular monster is Lee William Giles Jr..  Giles is the worst kind for he was the kind of monster posing as someone tasked with guarding us against such beasts.  Lee Giles was a 30 year veteran of the Tacoma Police Department.  He wasn't just a cop. For many years he was called "the face of the Tacoma Police Department."  To a lot of kids, he was the TPD.

Why is Lee Giles a monster?  Him and his girlfriend systematically molested her son and two female relatives over a period of years. 

From the Tacoma News Tribune.

Originally, he was charged with 26 crimes. By the time he pleaded guilty last November, the charges had been reduced to single counts: first-degree child rape, second-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation and third-degree assault.

Unlike the storybook monsters that bite or cut, the wounds this monster created may never heal.

The boy gave a handwritten statement to the court. He stood silently while his attorney read it aloud. Giles and Wear stood a few feet away.

The teen talked about his own life sentence. He said he often asks himself questions.

“What would I be like if I was normal?” he wrote.

Giles and Wear showed no visible reaction to the boy’s statement. They were equally stoic when the boy’s father gave a letter to the court.

He explained how he first learned of the years of sexual abuse his son endured. The father was driving. The boy blurted out the secret. The father plowed into a parked car.

In the days that followed, the father realized the scale of trauma. Molested since the age of 7, the boy had never been taught to brush his teeth or take showers. He thought sex with family members was normal. He’d been drugged for years, on the pretext of calming his hyperactivity. The real reason was to keep him docile.

“How do you undo that?” the father asked Friday.

The problem is that you can't undo it and this boy will probably need to be watched the rest of his life.

The boy has an alarm on his bedroom door so his father knows when he goes in and out. He can’t be left alone with younger siblings. His therapy is ongoing.

“How long will the sentence be for us?” the father asked.

We all know the answer to that question. For that boy, it's more than a life sentence.  The wounds that were left behind will haunt his family long after the victim and his attackers are gone.

Giles is 63 and he got 19+ years with no possibility of parole.  His is presumably a life sentence.  His girlfriend will be sentenced on the 25th of this month.  Death by torture wouldn't be good enough for either of them, but unfortunately we can't administer the justice they really deserve.  So be it.  Let them rot in jail.

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