Nobody’s Perfect: AMC Theaters VS Olympic Torch Bearers
Nobody’s Perfect
m Some stout British men would say, selling the Olympic torch on E-Bay before the 2012 summer games in London, is almost sacrilegious. Some Americans would say, selling the very American Iconic AMC Theater Chain is short of selling the country. But, welcome to the new world of globalization. You make your money now, and damn the sophomoric memories of history and nation.
It’s a new world baby, and the world needa more trillionaires!
But AMC is no longer America. China now owns our Theaters. They own our debt, our biggest beer company—What’s next? Mt. Vernon?
China’s Dalian Wanda Group and AMC Entertainment announced Monday a $2.6 billion deal to take over the U.S. theater group, forming the world’s largest cinema chain, according to a new release on the deal. “This acquisition will help make Wanda a truly global cinema owner, with theatres and technology that enhance the movie-going experience for audiences in the world’s two largest movie markets,” said Wang Jianlin, chairman and president of Wanda. AMC owns 86 theaters with 730 screens in China. The $2.6 billion deal also now owns AMC’s 5,048 screens in 347 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
” As the film and exhibition business continues its global expansion, the time has never been more opportune to welcome the enthusiastic support of our new owners,” said Gerry Lopez, chief executive officer and president of AMC.
Glad you’re happy Gerry. I’m going to Regal Theaters from now on.
Second: In England, 8,000 Olympic Torch bearers were chosen by many different people, to have the HONOR of carrying the Olympic Torch throughout England this summer. Each Olympic Torch costs around $782 dollars, and what are these proud torch bearers who were chosen to be honored doing?
They are selling their torches on E-Bay.
Some runners put their torch up for sale even before they had carried the flame! Believe it or not, most of the runners asked for a minimum of £100,000 ($158,120) while some even offered the white-and-gold torchbearer uniforms along with the torches.
Well, Nobody Thinks picking 8,000 torch bearers and giving them each a different torch in the first place was really a big waste of money. One torch should have sufficed.
Nobody Wonders what loonie elite on what elite loonie Olympic committee thought that stunt up?
As for AMC, I still haven’t gotten over Anheuser Busch being sold to Belgium.
Last week the big talk was about the great success of the new blockbuster Marvel comic movie “The Avengers.” It’s a great movie made in the way only America can do… but I did noticed something rather strange. 
In one scene Captain America said something that sort of shocked me: When asked to put his uniform on which had the American Flag on the front…he said, “That’s a bit old fashioned, don’t you think?”Yes, Captain America actually said he thought America was a bit old-fashioned.
The rebuttal remark came back quickly:”I think maybe we could USE some good old fashioned right now.” (Not exactly right, but you get the gist.)
Nobody can’t help but wonder: How much do you wanna bet that the line:”We could use some old fashion right now.” was NOT seen in China. They just let Captain America say, “That’s a bit old fashioned, don’t you think?” You know it.
America is being sold as “old fashioned.” all over the world, and it’s old fashion to want your biggest American CEO’s to not go for the big buck, and your British Olympic runners not to sell out for money.
But money is the game now. So—– I’m all ready to move forward!
Let’s sell Obama and all the evil ones in Congress to the highest bidder on E-Bay!
As far as I can tell, America is up for sale—let’s get rid of them, I’m ready to start over.
Think we could get a few bucks?
Nobody’s Fool: Senator James Inhofe
Nobody’s Fool
He’s not flashy. He’s not “cool.” What he is –is one hell of a Senator, and it’s about time he get more attention. And here’s some good news—there are a handful of good men (and women) in Washington, watching out for the American people, and Jim Inhofe is one of them.
He was this week’s hero.
Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has launched an investigation into the Obama-EPA’s apparent “crucify them” and “incite fear” strategies targeted at American energy producers. This investigation will look into EPA’s actions towards domestic energy production specifically in light of the agency’s recent efforts relating to hydraulic fracturing.
In his letter to Lisa Jackson, Sen. Inhofe asks the EPA chief:“Do you believe it is appropriate for the Regional Administrator to make statements in which the Agency has ‘determined’ that due to a company’s actions, “houses could explode’ despite evidence known to Agency staff which would reasonably preclude such an outcome?”
Of course, like the weasels they are, the White House backed off, why Obama doesn’t do that…that guy was saying it all wrong…
Senator James Inhole used to work in the field of aviation, and had been a pilot in the Navy. He was a real estate developer, and was the President of the Quaker Life Insurance Company. He was the mayor of Tulsa at one time. He has support from the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association, United Parcel Service, National Association of Realtors, NRA, and the American Medical Association. He gets money from oil, and electric companies, and from that hated nemesis of every liberal that breathes: the Koch brothers.
He serves as a watchdog on the EPA…and as you will see in this video below, he’s not holding back what he thinks. He makes videos to keep us all updated on YouTube.
Among some of my favorite Jim Inhofe quotes are:
“I have offered compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax. That conclusion is supported by the painstaking work of the nation’s top climate scientists.” (July, 2003)
“It kind of reminds…I could use the Third Reich, the Big Lie…You say something over and over and over again and people will believe it, and that’s their (the environmentalists’) strategy. (2006)
“I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel; that it has a right to the land. This is the most important reason: Because God said so. As I said a minute ago, look it up in the Book of Genesis. It is right up there on the desk.”
Like I said: he’s not flashy. He’s not well known. And one thing for sure: He’s Nobody’s Fool. Listen….
Do American Women REALLY Suffer? Try Asking the American Man
Nobody Wins—
When the Republicans are always on defense. (I had a busy day…sorry I’m late.)
Ahhh…here we go again: Remember when Obama threatened that if we didn’t pass his stimulus plans or raise the debt limits, or pass his health care plans, then: (1) No one would get any of their social security checks,(2) veterans would not get paid (3) women would die in the streets without birth control (4) Republicans would poison our water and air, and (6) American Idol would be canceled.
Okay, so he didn’t threaten to cancel American Idol. After all, they put pictures of him up there all the time….but he might have to shut down the internet if we keep complaining. The point is every time this man wants something, he threatens doomsday scenarios. The “war on women” that the Democrats launched, is a joke. Women aren’t dying, and they have it better now than they have ever had it. More women are graduating college, more women have more rights. Where in the world is Obama coming from?
He just makes this stuff up.
Today it was the single women he was trying to scare by sending out his attack dog Hilary. (Oh no, not another one.) He needs the black’s vote and the single women votes, and anyone else who is getting food stamps. The rest of us are already sick of him.
He’s continuing his rich VS poor communist strategy hoping to point out that Mitt Romney’s wife is a rich woman, who unlike all the rest of you poor single women who HAVE to work, is married to a rich man, and even though she has five sons (and had breast cancer and MS) somehow her life is really easy, unlike his wife Michelle who is having such a tough time taking vacations all over the world. 
Obama wants you to be angry about her life being so easy. Presidents never say these things themselves, (Republican Presidents do the same thing.) so Obama brought out his advisor…Hilary Rosen…to inform everyone that Mitt’s wife is spoiled.
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They want you to think Obama was not involved in this. (Giveaway…It was the first thing Jay Carney said today: “I don’t know what he thinks about this.” at the morning press conference.
While the more important news of North Korea launching missiles at us!! Was…uh…not so important.
This was just another creative democratic well-planned attack war to get us all talking about what Obama wants us to be talking about–women. And to a Democrat, all women should work and give their kids totally over to the government to raise. God forbid they stay at home and make cookies.
Michelle came out right away and tweeted an all women deserve respect,” and then we saw clips of Obama saying, “We didn’t have the luxury for Michelle to not work.” –showing you the well-coordinated machine in work. They make their point: hit hard below the belt than come out and say “Oh..that’s not what we meant…oh no.” And to prove it they send in the “good” cop.
Today it was Axelrod.
“I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly, her comments were wrong and family should be off-limits. She should apologize.” Jim Messina, Obama Campaign Manager “Also disappointed in Hilary Rosen’s comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive.” David Axelrod, Obama campaign advisor “families must be off-limits on campaigns.”
Obama repeated that message: “Family should be off limits” after he makes the attack on Mitt’s wife.
Brilliant, you must admit.
Following the interview, Rosen herself tweeted, “I’ve nothing against @AnnRomney. I just don’t want Mitt using her as an expert on women struggling $ to support their family. She isn’t.”
Nasty. And tell me, what makes her such an expert? She’s rich and not struggling either, how does she know?
Now…while the conservatives think they won this argument today, they should think again. The Obama’s personally came out ”sympathetic” and then, like the idiots we have witnessed for too many years, FOX news put on Barbara Bush to defend her. 
BIG Mistake. Anyone would have been better than Barbara Bush.
Once again…Barbara came off as the “rich” person who instead of making sound remarks about the issue, was defending the “rich” habit of giving money away…and how much money she has given away, and how her husband always made a good living…and also Mitt’s wife has given away..yada yada, yada..playing right into Obama’s hand the main points that, they ARE very rich snotty Republicans. We’re very glad you’re nice, and sweet, and give to charities even though you’re rich Barbara, but that’s not the issue.
What she should have said was that since Obama has wreaked the economy so badly, teachers are being laid off. (A point Jay Carney kept bringing up). Teachers are being laid off because of the democratic unions. Mothers are suffering because they can’t pay the high inflationary cost of food and gas because of Obama tripling our deficits, and not producing a budget, and handing out money like a criminal who just stole an American Express card with no limit.
Is what he is doing criminal? You bet.
Now, I know that it’s only human nature to want your children’s children to continue in the “public service” occupation of ruling the nation…but it’s NOT American. And like the Russian people, we are tired of dynasties. Even the nicer ones. Go home you guys. Let him win his own race.
In the meantime, the Democrats ran a black President (that you can’t criticize because of the color of his skin, and who just sent out a “gay” Democratic attack dog, who you can’t criticize because Hilary has a lover named Elizabeth, and two twins.
The democratic party is the party of threats…and if that doesn’t work, they use the children card, the race card, the gay card…the “pity the black, women, gay, underdog” ….whatever it takes to keep their power. They are now a Marxist/Socialist party trying to run as Jesus’s Christ’s party.
So, you want to know if the women really have it that bad in America like Obama is saying?
Just ask the American man…he’ll tell you the real truth.
Monopoly or Mobopoly?
Nobody’s Opinion
“It has been demonstrated again and again, from Imperial Rome to Weimar Germany, that epidemic greed is a symptom not of reveling in present triumphs but of a fear that the game is winding down.”–Laurence Shames(1951) “Wall Street Greed is Fueled by Fear” 15 June 1989
Monopoly. Remember that game? I do. I hated it when I was a kid. It was long, it was boring, and my brother always won…every single time. And here I was too many years later…losing again. 
Last Friday night it was a night of, “Let’s get away from the Television shall we?” for the family. We have been playing Monopoly on the Holidays gatherings and I always lose. I was becoming the laughing stock of the family. So…Friday night, I was determined to win. To war. To kill. I was going to be ruthless, something that is completely against my character as a human being. I watched the other player’s strategies, took the best from each player, and went for the throat.
And I was..ruthless. Not only was I the only player who had any buildings on their properties, I had all the money. ALL the $500 dollars were stacked high in my slots, after I had emptied out the bank with all my winnings. I had all the railroads, all the utilities, just the right properties, and every time any player landed on my property, it cost them over $1,000. I had hotels on every piece I owned.
As I watched the faces of my family, members that I have watched time and again…winning, I could see the surprise, the depression, the hopelessness drain from their faces. It wasn’t just a game anymore. I was winning. I was ecstatic, I wanted it all. I wanted to “do it again.”
Now, I’m no psychologist, but there is a theory that to “win” at anything, you must plan, strategize, and show no mercy. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Rockefeller…politicians… they all play that game. 
And winning is the best feeling in the world. Why had I always never tried to win? Was it because I didn’t want to hurt others feelings? That was part of it. Somehow the Christian upbringing came into it. I didn’t like to make people feel bad. I wanted them to like me.
But, I did notice, that unlike when I was a kid, now, I really didn’t care that the other players felt bad … After all…it’s a game. I told myself.
Exactly. It’s the game. And I thought…is this how it feels to grab the millions on Wall Street?
Whoa.
So, where did this game that everyone has played all over the world come from?
History reports that Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed the game to the executives of Parker Brothers, during the depression of 1934. It was very similar to one patented in 1904 by Lizzie J. Maggie, a Quaker woman from Virginia. The game was called, The Landlord’s Game, and was based on the philosophy that the renting of land and real estate produced an unearned increase in land values that profited a few individuals (landlords) rather than the majority of the people (tenants). It was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies.
Former Wall Streeter Derk Solko explains, “Monopoly has you grinding your opponents into dust. It’s a very negative experience. It’s all about cackling when your opponent lands on your space and you get to take all their money.” 
And isn’t that what the world has witness these last few years? The bankers (with the help of our politicians) went wild, lost trillions, and the whole world collapsed. They did not go to jail, and they passed GO so many times they had to close hundreds of banks just to keep up.
Or was this a planned collapsed?
The problem is, the rich will never give it back. He’s sitting on Boardwalk with three hotels. It will be the other players on the board that will be placing the money in the pot.
Because of this tremendous greed that we have witnessed…there is a big push to get rid of capitalism, but it’s not capitalism that is bad, it’s the monopolies formed by governments with their hands in the pockets of multinational companies, some of whom have more money than most countries, that kicks us all off the board. 
Nobody Thinks that there is definelty a well planned global monopoly strategy.
The rest of us want the monopolies of global multinational companies to be broken up and allow more competition, and have us all get a piece of the pie that way. But that’s not part of the plan. Like in Monopoly, once you hold the most property, you almost always win.
Nobody Thinks that the sheer joy of winning and smashing your competition must be addicting. Heck, if I can get so ‘high’ off a simple game of Monoploy, what kind of “high” do people like George Soros get? Like synapses in your brain being formed to desire cocaine, the same desire to devour your competition to a pulp without caring a hoot about how many lives it destroys, might have started with that feeling that you got as a child winning Monopoly.
I’m not so sure it was a good thing that I never took the game seriously. If Monopoly was invented to teach children about the horrible effects of what can happen when one person has all the control to take all your money, it didn’t really do a very good job. Instead we got a lot of people addicted to winning at all costs, and then smashing everything else around them.
In the United States, men running monopolies have broken the bank of America….just like I did, and I can bet you, every man guilty of that, Corzine, Bernanke, the Goldman Sacks, Barney Franks…—they all feel like they just won a game of Monopoly. Hoo-rah. It’s not about caring about the world, it’s about winning the game.
And the game is still on: Mobopoly. Pick your pieces, hold onto your money… and roll.
The NEW Liberal Scientific Testing Subject: Drunks.
Nobody Wonders
Liberals are having a hard time lately. Here they elected a President who they were SURE was going to be the greatest living human savior next to Jesus: one that would finally deliver them from the evil, moronic, and stupid narrow-minded conservative people that they are finding out dominate much of the United States— and what happened? Every day, Obama screws up: Unconstitutional Health Care, long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, high gas price, and a wife who can’t stop taking vacations and ordering caviar and lobster for lunch, and he even started going to church!
This can’t be happening.
Obama and Michelle are acting like the very rich people the democrats complain about, and all the people who voted for him to “fundamentally change” the country, are finding out he wants to make their life miserable too. Many Obama lovers are also losing their homes and jobs. They are figuring out that the free lunch is not going to last forever. If only they could change those millions of conservatives out there, everything would be great.
So–somewhere in the la-la land of the University of Arkansas, a psychologist named Scott Eidelman, decided to prove once and for all that being a conservative means you’re stupid. He decided to ‘prove’ it with his liberal scientific method: Called–
The Liberal Scientific Method: Test the drunks at the bar.
” Researchers stood outside the exit of a busy New England tavern and offered to measure patrons’ blood alcohol level if they would fill out a short survey. Eighty-five drinkers agreed, expressing their opinions of 10 statements such as “production and trade should be free of government interference.”
And their conclusion from this very scientific method?
“Bar patrons reported more conservative attitudes as their level of alcohol intoxication increased,” the researchers report.
So they proves— what? That all drunks are conservatives? What if an inebriated Ted Kennedy had been asked those questions? This is the liberal scientific method of testing?
No conservative on the planet would suggest that you test drunks coming out of a bar and call it scientifically sound information, but that’s what makes liberals and conservatives so different from each other. Liberals aren’t afraid to experiment with anything: drugs, sex, gay marriage, gay military, and trillion-dollar stimulus packages given to companies making products that nobody wants. To them, it makes sense just to do it, no matter what the results..it’s the ‘experiment’ that deserves the award , not the results.
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Conservatives stick with the tried and true method of doing what has worked before. To a liberal, this is sheer madness…go figure. A conservative would build a skyscraper relying on what works: Steel, concrete, calculus, and planning. A liberal would say, “Hey, let’s just pile the stuff up and see what happens!” What building would YOU feel safer in?
So, what did Scott find out?
“Conservatism, which the researchers identify as “an emphasis on personal responsibility, acceptance of hierarchy, and a preference for the status quo” — may be our default ideology. If we don’t have the time or energy to give a matter sufficient thought, we tend to accept the conservative argument.”
By default, people are conservative? Oh no!
Think about this again: Conservatives will pick the common sense attitude, from information passed down to be true, (Even when he’s DRUNK!) rather than have enough “energy” to give the liberal’s idea much thought, because a conservative can tell you right off the bat that you can’t sell electic cars to a nation which runs on gas, (Even when he’s DRUNK!) and he didn’t waste any energy to even have to think about that no-brainer.
Obama, the liberal thinker, had to spent untold billions and god know how much brain energy to figure that out. And it still hasn’t dawned on him….that duh…it’s not going to work.
We have seen the results of liberal thought “energy” in our screwed up school system. Instead of using tried and true methods of building strong minds in grades 1-5, by grading everyone on mastering the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic–liberals decided to use their energy making sure all our kids all know how to recycled, believe in global warming, and understand the ‘diversity’ of their various sexual choices. Only half of our kids can now read, but that’s okay. At least they won’t come out of bars drunk and conservative.
Scott Eidelman decided that he only needed one bar to do this survey.
“Ideology is multiply determined, coming from many sources, including values, experience, history and culture,” the researchers note. (How diverse is one bar?) It’s unclear whether this rightward drift would occur in a population of strongly committed but cognitively overloaded liberals.”
Oh…so he just admitted it was a bar full of conservatives to begin with. Nothing like stacking the deck in your favor.
To be fair and scientific, he should have conducted another survey of Eight-five drunks coming out of the White House Press Dinner. But..then again, that would take common sense, something a liberal professor thinks is outdated.
“Research provides evidence that, when under time pressure or otherwise cognitively impaired, people are more likely to express conservative views”
So, Scott’s evidence of 85 drunks in a bar prove that only idiots are conservative. They’d never think of something so smart as wearing ‘hoodies’ on the floor of Congress.
The liberals are so freighted that the dumb conservative people of the drunken state of America, will never take the time and energy to become enlighten to the future of the liberal mind of the New World Global Taxing Order—What ARE they going to do?
They have just found out, that people are conservative when they get drunk or upset. So, if I were a liberal, I’d try to make sure I did not get a conservative drunk or upset.
In other words: Don’t piss off a conservative—especially when he’s drunk… he won’t change.
And if change is what you want…move to Kenya….all the drunks there are waiting for you to command.
Two American Ladies: Fought the Unions
Nobody’s Opinion
Sometimes we don’t appreciate our parents when they’re alive as much as we should. Ten years after my mother had passed away, I remember reading Katherine Graham’s autobiography. Katherine was just like my mother, although on a National scale. My mother was a Republican and Katherine was a Democrat, but the one thing they had in common was they both inherited companies from their fathers. Katherine inherited The Washington Post from her father, Eugene Meyers (who was a Federal Reserve Governor) and my mother inherited her father’s printing company, Hart Printing, which was certainly no Washington Post, but it did do major advertizing for big companies like Anheuser Busch, and Brown Shoe.
I won’t go into the details of how remarkably alike they were but to say that, in one chapter in her book, Katherine talked about the most difficult time she ever had: How proud she was that she managed to keep the Post in business when the printers went on strike, in 1975. Katherine explained in great detail how the few people left in the building, herself included, and various managers and secretaries, had to try to get out the Post paper all by themselves: run the pressed, manage the paper’s delivery, etc…and how they work like dogs until the strike was over. There was a happy ending in this, because The Washington Post, is still in business, due no doubt in part, because of its political connections.
The 1975 strike did not break The Post.
My mother’s company did not fare so well when her printer union workers went on strike around the same time. My mother and father both had to work 18 hour days to keep the place running and open. The worry and heartache took a toll on her as I remember, and it was hard for a daughter to watch. The only thing my mother couldn’t do was lift the paper and feed the presses…but she did everything else. She did the estimating, accounting, receptionists, ink, layouts, all the photo department, and bindery. Like Katherine, she did it with her intellingence and will power. My father ran the presses with some help from some friends.
The whole city of St. Louis was never the same after that printer’s strike of 1975. Most of the printing business left St. Louis because of the strike, and went overseas and to other cities. The one sole Republican newspaper here in town, The Globe, folded, eventually leaving The Post Dispatch the only press standing. The Post Dispatch is very liberal and now begs for customers in grocery aisles.
My mom kept the jobs for her union employees for as long as she could, but not one of those men realized how lucky they were to even have a job to come back to. They had no idea how much money she sacrifice in her own salary…to keep the plant going. They should have thanked her…but not one of them did.
They all retired and lived great lives…and all traveled the world.
While they all had guaranteed early pensions and healthcare, my mother lived off of her SS checks and Medicare for the rest of her life. She couldn’t afford to give herself a pension because all her money went back into the company…to keep it going. After the strike getting work was a daily struggle.
I was thinking about Katherine and my mother the other day when I read these two passages in Mark’s Steyn’s new book After America:
“Obama, faced with a US automobile industry that so overcompensates it workers it can’t make a car for a price anybody’s willing to pay for it, the president handed over control to the very unions whose demands are principally responsible for that irreconcilable arithmetic. Mrs. Thatcher took on the unions and destroyed their power. In Detroit entire blocks are deserted, and the city is proposing to turn commercial land back into pasture. This is America and no bombs fell. And the physical decay is a nothing to the deterioration of human capital.. 44 percent of adults in the city have a reading comprehension below grade six level. Nearly half could not graduate from elementary school.”
“At number 27 is a lady who retired from teaching in the local school at the age of 59 and lives on an annual pension of $78,255 exempt from state and local tax with gold plated health benefits and everything inflation proofed. At number 29 is a guy exactly the same age who owns a hardware store, can’t afford to retire, has health issues and crummy provision of amelioration thereof, yet will be working till he dies, while his neighbor enjoys a lavish two decade retirement that he paid for in his taxes. This is a recipe of civil war and no gay hedonist or fire breathing mullahs need be involved.”
Unions have ruin this country….and most of Europe. All unions. Look what the teachers unions have done to our educational system. And ironically, all the major American companies because of the unions and their outlandish benefits, have taken their manufacturing to China, where there are no unions, and people work with hardly any protections. Add to that, the state pensions which are breaking the state budgets and it’s a no brainer…something has to give.
People that have never had their own business give no thought to the work and money that is involved in keeping a business going. We have become a spoiled and ingorant nation in so many ways.
Back when Henry Ford decided to pay his men a nice salary so they could afford to buy his cars…it was a great idea, and money was plenty. But then the union bosses got greedy. The hourly wage of a union man went way over market value price…and the price of everything else went up.
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If the dollar collapses (as many predict) or if Mitt Romney is elected and he somehow manages to do what he says he want to do: cut all federal pensions and pay scales down to the private sector level, there will a lot of mad people.
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If Obama gets reelected and the pay for government workers keeps going up, there will also be a breaking point among the people who just can’t afford to pay for someone’s else’s wonderful retirement anymore–and those people will start getting pretty angry. So, what side do you think will win?
Nobody Knows…but I’m sure Mark will not reprimand my saying: it’s really FUBAR. Unions: if you belong to one, you love them. If you don’t…you hate them.
Nobody Thinks they should all be busted…starting at the top. What have we got to lose?
And on another note: Both these women ran those companeis for years…they were…the top bosses, and this was way before Gloria Steinem put on her little bunny tail.
Obama FEELS Your Gas Pain:…. NOT
Nobody Remembers
Here’s a guy who made a pretty good video about the almost criminal hypocrisy of Obama when it comes to gas prices. There are clips from the Democrats when they were running for office, claiming that the whole world was falling apart due to Bush and his high gas prices…but now that they are in office…OH…how they have changed their tune.
High gas prices are good, because…fewer people drive and fewer people will die due to car accidents. They are SO optimistic. (Rreally, they used that word.)
Fewer people will fly too…so who’s life is that going to save? Fewer people will be able to afford food. Whose life is that going to save?
I think they are hoping gas is so high by-election day, fewer people will drive to the polls. That’s part of their plan.
I usually don’t post email during the week, but this one is too good to pass up.
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
Nobody’s Email: The $50 Dollar Light Bulb
Nobody Gets Email
A few day ago, I got this from amfortas in Australia, who sends me the news sometimes before I wake up. I left in his comments, because amfortas, in case you haven’t noticed, has a wonderful sense of humor. (Thanks to amfortas) 
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The U.S. government last year announced a $10 million award, dubbed the “L Prize,” for any manufacturer that could create a “green” but affordable light bulb.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the prize would spur industry to offer the costly bulbs, known as LEDs, at prices “affordable for American families.” There was also a “Buy America” component. Portions of the bulb would have to be made in the United States. 
Now the winning bulb is on the market.
The price is $50.
Amfortas said: Wait, what? The $50 bulb was the winner? What lost? A bulb powered by the hoofbeats of unicorns?
From the Conservative Daily News:
Dear Energy Chief Chu: You know where you can shove your $50 lightbulb? 
By DJ Redman
All of this idiocy and blatant government stupidity, (not to mention the theft of taxpayer dollars under the guise of a “prize”) is brought to you by Barack Obama’s Liberal-lunatic appointee, Steven Chu. Does America really want four more years of this Liberal-lunacy? Note. Should Energy Chief Chu not understand the title of this opinion piece, here is a clue. It involves a place where the sun doesn’t shine.
Nobody’s Email: Democracy
Nobody Gets Email
This was another one that took my eye. After you read these gems, you realize that the closest a liberal gets to history is remembering who they were sleeping with the night before.
Enjoy! (Thanks to Pattie)
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“A democracy is always temporary in nature: it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up unitl the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: 
From Bondage to Spiritual faith:
From spiritual faith to great courage:
The Obituary follows: Born 1776, Died 2012.
It doesn’t hurt to read this several times.
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Number of States won by Obama: 19: McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by Obama: 580,000: McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by Obama: 127 million: McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by :Obama: 13.2: McCain: 2.1
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Professor Olson adds:
“In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”
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Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reach the “governmental dependency” phase.
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If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
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If you in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, than pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom. This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Someone should point this out to Obama. Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution. There couldn’t be more at stake in 2012.
It’s 2012…Do You Know Where YOUR Bunkerfunk Is?
Nobody Wins
Okay…can we get over this already? Can we see some future where Mad Max isn’t taking over the Golden Gate Bridge? Too many people are obsessed with the end of the earth. Really. Half of the programs on TV are about the end of all time. Want to find out how to survive after the Holocaust? We’ll show you! There’s “The Walking Dead” and “Terra Nova” and “Falling Skies” all filled with grand lessons in how to live with simple things like huts, no plumbing, smelly sweaty people, and social utopia. And then there’s my personal favorite “Supernatural.”
At least in Supernatural you can still get a hamburger while you’re fighting off Armageddon.
And all the Discovery programs…Life After Humans will be grand! How many of those did they make? Forty? And if you get tired of watching buildings grow vines, turn the channel and some scientist is filling you with doomsday horror: Any minute we could be hit by a: comet, sunburst, asteroid, falling space junk, magnetic pole shift, weather changes, Yellowstone exploding…or all of the above at once. But don’t worry…plantlife will flourish! And Michael Moore will repopulate the earth.
If the scientists don’t get you, the politicians will.
Our leaders are always coming out and putting the fear of god into all of us with “A nuclear bomb could go off at any time in any city.” Shut up already. What? Are they worried they won’t make it to their very expensive bunker where they will have to play simulated golf? What the heck are all of us out in powerless land suppose to do about it? Stock up on water and Nikes?
When did this stuff start? It’s 2012, and this is our last year on planet earth according to too many people, and if you go by the video, I should be really excited. Finally, some decent weather for my gardenia plants! Maybe if the Muslims got out of the desert they might evolved into some kind of better understanding of life. (Fat chance. Okay.)
We have been told that the Mayans started this doomsday scenario: but, the Bible didn’t help much–at least the Bible was a lot more specific. Somewhere in a field in the middle East…Russia, and the United States, are going to kill each other off, and then Jesus will come down, and save all the “believers.” and then Muhammad will appear out of some well on a flying horse, and say “Thank you Jesus for giving me the infidel” And Jesus who is really working for Muhammad (according to the Muslims) will give all the good souls to Allah. They both agree that the people they don’t like are going to Satan.
Rick Santorum is going to be overwhelmed.
Then came the nuclear arms race. Everybody got the big bombs. Russia or Castro was going to detonate and we were all going to die. Now, we have Iran, and dirty bombs, and bird flu, and weapons of mass destruction, and too many young Chinese boys without something to do, and EMP’s, and Al Gore…and horrible schools that damn you to flipping hamburgers the rest of you life.
Al Gore– got so mad upon losing the election, he had to take it out on us. He claims that we all need to be punished with carbon taxes before it’s too late. Prince Charles already thinks it too late.
This will of course be as the Bible predicted: earthquakes, disease, tornadoes, tsunami, and more wars. And it’s not bad enough that we have to hear about it constantly, we have to now watch our destruction daily on 52-inch HD screen TV’s. I don’t know about you, but by the time I got to the end of the movie 2012, I wanted to sink all the rich snobs that made it to the boats. If the peons didn’t get to live, then why should they?
Spielberg had to make War of the World, and hit us forever more with his sitcom…”Falling Skies” in which it’s aliens that will suck out our brains. I’m beginning to think he has one in his basement.
And frankly, nobody notices that most of the brains have been sucked dry already, and instead of planning a decent, and sensible future for the planet, promoting movies that have great and optimistic endings, they’d much rather make a lot of money scaring us to death.–which is really is just some very clever minds sucking up what’s left of everyone’s money.
Maybe I should blame Rod Sterling. Or JFK. Or Nostradamus. Or Billy Graham. Or the people who have donated $75 millions dollars to reelect Obama. I mean really? Where did all THAT money come from? To me that says that some big money guy somewhere is buying our destruction.
Okay…so they’ve talked about it for so long, it’s now coming true. In Mark Steyn’s new book “After America” he says this:
“For American, the best-case scenario is that Washington’s ruling kleptocracy sleepwalks its subjects into smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller lives, and soft despotism so beguiling they don’t notice it’s over until late in the day. A more likely prospect is a catastrophically convulsed America that descends into Balkanized ruin and social collapse on a planet with no global order in which the formerly hyperpower still makes the most inviting target. “
You can thank Mark for not sugar-coating it. I sure he found the riots in Orlando today over Nikes will more than help his book sales.
You know, in the last depression at least THEY had Disney and Shirley Temple to escape all the gloom. What have we got? Brittany Spears? Whitney Houston? Dead drug addicts and American Idol Contests?
Today, a friend was dining in a popular chain Mexican restaurant here in St. Louis, called Casa Gallardo. Some men came in, and told everyone to get out. All the stores in St. Louis had closed. I watched all the major businesses close here: Ford, Busch, Pontiac, Chrysler, McDonald Douglass..then many of the big malls. Now..major restaruants chain. Who are we kidding? This summer. The post office. Obama is gutting the military. The economy is not going to come back.
Nobody Thinks this is a planned destruction. Too many people made too much money. Too many leaders were in bed with too many bankers. Too much was said about “globalization” being the wonder of the world. I don’t know…nobody is just tired of being bombarded daily with the end of the world.
I’m ready for the “Good Ship Lollipop.” That next Star Trek movie is going to make billions. I don’t know about you…but I’m Bunkerfunked.
Obama’s Real Mantra Should Be: “Change, and Control.”
Nobody’s Opinion
How many times have you heard someone say, “They don’t make things like they used to.” ? Well they don’t. And there’s a good reason for that. 
Once America was famous for the quality of its products. Once upon a time, there was pride in craftsmanship, in even such little things as toasters. We are living in the ‘post-industrial’ future where the pace is hard to keep up with…and how can we? Now, it’s almost cheaper to buy…say a new vacuum cleaner, than to get it fixed. And there’s a reason for that too: profit. The less life years a product has, the quicker you have to replace it. The more the company makes. How do you think Bill Gates got to be so rich? Do all the updates on Windows really have vast improvements over the last? Was Windows 7 that much of an improvement over Windows XP? Or are these yearly updates carefully planned in order to make the most profits?
I was once very naive to the business world, and I learned this lesson the hard way: I remember talking to the President of a company that manufactured souvenir baseballs in China with team players pictures on it. I was looking for a company to “license” my patented ideas, and I had wanted to make a product that lasted….like a baseball. I wanted my product to be a sports collectable much like his.
He told me I was wrong. He wouldn’t make my product unless it was made cheaply, and as a throwaway. We argued that point for an hour. His reasoning was profits would triple if the product was cheap and had to be bought over and over, but it bothered me. Since I wanted to sell the product in the many sports arenas, the last thing I wanted to see was thousands of these things being discarded on parking lots after the games. 
To make it not a “throw away” item, would have cost only a few cents more. (In China of course.) I found out, that I didn’t really belong in the world of business, because my main motive was not profit. I wanted to make something of quality, something to treasure, and use for as long as possible. But in this world of buy, use, replace, buy it again..use it again…replace–we throw away everything now. Including our Constitution…but I’ll address that later.
In the book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler explains that billions of people on the planet are going to go into shock with the upcoming changes and transience of the future world.
“In this difference lies the contrast between past and future, between societies based on permanence, and the new fast forming society based on transience. Instead of being linked with a single object over a relatively long period of time, (Nobody says, like our first husband and first wives) we our linked for brief periods with the succession of objects that supplant it.”And Alvin is not just talking about the next IPAD. He is talking about political systems too.
There are “rulers’ in the world who want to change the Constitution, and representative governments with unelected elites chosen by a handful of the very rich and powerful. Right now, that’s the fight in the EU.
“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. “I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done.”
Nobody Wonders what she was doing advising revolutionaries in Cairo in the first place. Obvious to this Nobody— she was sent by ‘President Obama” who gave her a big hug at his State of the Union speech. Something that our founders would have never dreamed of happening. And speaking of our founders…
Our founders made a product of the greatest invention: The Constitution was of the finest quality ever produced by mankind. It was built to last forever. And Obama is out to destroy it, because he believes in “change.”
He wants to replace a Lamborghini with a Volkswagen Beetle. A Rolex with a plastic dime store watch. Beethoven with Yoko Ono. He wants to replace freedom and creativity, with fascism.
And he’s doing it. The powerful in Washington do not want to be limited anymore to the rules of the Constitution. They are all rich. They are all powerful, and none of them have to live by the same rules as the people. They are no longer afraid.
And they are not going to stop talking about “change”—change our constitution, which Obama has said is old, change our customs, our culture, our way of life, and our children’s future in the name of “progress.”
Yes, they are the proud progressives. And they have brainwashed whole generation of our kids to think of constant “change” as a good thing. But as any Tibetan can tell you..not all change is good.
And all these advances were done, by the United States because of the quality of our institutions. And these great American institutions are being demolished as we speak. Green energy is being sold as the future…but whose future is it going to benefit? There is absolutely no advantage to using “food ” as fuel, or mandating light bulbs with mercury inside. Or making electric cars that can only travel fifty miles, Or printing money out of thin air in order to save dividends for the rich. These are not quality products. These are not products of progress. These are simply products that will make a certain few elites like Al Gore get incredibly richer.
And who is going to benefit when they replace “capitalism” with fascism?
One thing is sure: If Obama is elected again, the progressives will change so many things in our country, that in the future, the ONLY thing that won’t change…will be the same old boring and dictatorial political faces on our TV’s forever.
Nobody’s Notices
Nobody’s Notes
Lots of notes this week: While Greece’s revolution is going on before our eyes, Obama is setting up his strategy for re-election. When asked on 60 Minutes if he should be elected to a second term he said.”I deserve another term.” Hmmmm. Deserves? How so? Nevertheless he is not reelected
than all the white people in America did not reelect him simply because he is black. Because he is black…every single democrat will be crying out about how raciest the country is: and if he is defeated, the blacks will be encouraged to riot in the streets.
I don’t want him reelected because he a white Marxist dictator.
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Okay…NOW it all becomes clear. When Chelsea Clinton went to Stanford to study international finance, we all thought…’HUH?” And when the great Hillary Clinton and the Clinton machine lost to Barack Obama, we all thought “HUH?” And now we know Hillary’s goal is to hold the purse strings of the world. Whoever gives out the money, rules. Hillary and Bill somehow will manage to put themselves as leaders of the world who control the global purse strings..and it will be Hillary (and her daughter) who decides who gets what. The Presdency, in comparison in the New World Government Bank President, will have less power, Barney Frank has held purse strings to Congress and look how well that turned out. Think of what Hillary would do.
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Here’s what no one has asked about the pipeline to Texas. The left think the pipeline is a danger…taking all that oil thousands of miles to the refinery’s in Texas. So, why don’t we just build a refinery in say..Montana? Everyone could get jobs, and it would save the Eco- nuts from having a heart attack. WHY does it have through pipes all the way to Texas? Why? 
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Al Gore would like to have you believe that it’s your greedy lifestyle that is destroying the earth, but in the middle of Africa, the volcano Nyiragongo, has a lava lake that emits around 7,000 tons of sulfur dioxide a day… the chief element in acid rain. This is more than the total from every car and factory in the United States. Nobody should pay a carbon tax for a volcano.
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We don’t need to be paying for every Jane, Jan, and Susi’s birth control pills. We need to be cutting the budget not adding more into it.
“To me the mainstream Islamist parties in Egypt and Tunisia don’t appear much more fanatically religious than say, Pat Robertson esque Evangelicals in the U.S., and unlike the Republican hardliners they sound committed to a national consensus that includes secular liberals.”
Oh joy! The Muslims who believe that atheists are okay, but all gays, women, Jews, Christians, and pigs should be put in their proper places —welcome the liberals with open arms! 
So, Kurt is really happy that religious groups of men like to only party with other males, where women can be stoned, or raped if they are Christian (yes this happened at the protests) and hands can be cut off, and gays are not allowed, but stoned to death–he wants to be a part of that goup.
You’re kidding me..the most harm an evangelical can do to you is tell you that Jesus loves you.
I think Kurt should hurry over there.
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Nobody was listening to Chris Matthews the other day, andafter some kind of liberal powwow about what to do about our problems, one of the liberal pundits said the solution was, ” We need to reduce the population.” 
You should have seen all those liberals look at the guy like, “You not suppose to admit that on the air.” Good thing nobody watches Chris Matthews….
Since the Liberals believe that it’s too many people on the planet–I suggest all liberal men get vasectomies and then all the people with brains will keep reproducing thereby putting some good DNA back into the gene pool. We need to get on with some Obama flyers…
SAVE THE WORLD! CHANGE THE WORLD! IF You Love Obama… GET A VASECTOMY, and you can have HAVE SEX FOREVER with anyone!
Nobody thinks the liberals would buy it.
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You know, they made a big deal about the vendor in Tunisia being shut down when he was trying to sell fruit, but they say nothing here when young kids get shut down in America for selling lemonade. 
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A sitting President has an unfair advantage over his opponents. Obama is using the taxpayers money like never before to campaign. He has such an unfair advantage..he can put his face on TV any time, at all. The conservatives have to wait till the debase. Even the most insidious leader would prosper from this. And yet..(in the words of Dave Barry) the United Nations does nothing.
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Ending on a high note: I’m glad Sir Paul McCartney has finally settled down, and decided to give up “cannabis” If one thing good came out his second marriage and divorce, was a child that she insisted not be around a stoned father.
Law Student Suggest American Divorce
Nobody Gets Email
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Divorce Agreement written by young college student.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don’t like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them. 
You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
We’ll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.—You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.
We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We’ll keep our SUV’s, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find. 
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
We’ll keep “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “The National Anthem.” I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute “Imagine” , “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”, or “Kum Ba Ya” or “We Are The World.”
We’ll practice trickle down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot. –Since it so often offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Liberal Flag
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberals and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I bet you answer which one of us will need help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American.
P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin and Charlie Sheen, Barbara Streisand, and (Hanoi Jane) Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S. And you won’t have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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