I don’t believe it is. And in a free country, free men must be able to discuss potential unbridled abuse of power without fear of government reprisals.

The Internet is a large-scale version of the “Committees of Correspondence” that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington’s failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

People are asking, “Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?”

Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.

I think Christian and Robbins make a good case.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a bunch of self-serving, self-absorbed assholes the Dems are. And yes, I used my real name.

Dear Mr. Obama:

I wrote this early this year. I hope you enjoy it on your birthday as you, and your cohorts, like Chelsea Clinton, bask in your disgusting displays of over-the-top conspicuous consumption. You people make me sick.

Raise your hand if you have done any or all of the following since the obamanation was ushered in last January:

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Gone from a six-figure income to less than $30,000 per year.

Criss-crossed the country looking for better paying work only to find none.

Watched helplessly as your credit score, formerly sterling, plummets.

Tried to renegotiate your bills to avoid the former only to be told “No” by bank representatives and had your credit ruined.

Contemplated bankruptcy.

Decided bankruptcy is your only option and will do so when the time is right.

Decided you really didn’t give a shit if the IRS liens your house, or if the bank forecloses on it (and I am not one of those who bought too much house for a rate I could not afford).

Taken work at the same rate of pay as you were making almost thirty years ago as an unskilled laborer in California just to bring some income home.

Realized the irony inherent in the fact that, in your current crapass economic situation, you don’t even qualify for a government subsidy in the form of food stamps or other welfare because you “make too much” and have assets like the house the bank will possibly foreclose on.

Sold jewelry so you could eat for a few days.

Pawned your guns so you could pay the rent.

Ate food you would normally have thrown out so that you could stretch a buck.

Cut juice with water so there would be more for the kids to drink.

Gone to bed hungry and been grateful that you had SOMETHING to eat, and not NOTHING.

Held a garage sale several weeks in a row in freezing temperatures so you would have food money.

Borrowed as much as you can from family and friends, knowing full well you might not be able to pay them back.

Worried about having enough gas just to get to work.

Foregone any and all dental and medical treatment you know is necessary in the long run to prolong your health just because THE MONEY ISN’T THERE. (And no, we don’t need ObamaKennedyPelosicare, or whatever the fuck they’re calling it this week, we need the economy fixed first).

Applied to jobs you were overqualified for in the hopes they would give you a chance.

Applied to jobs you were underqualified for in hopes they would give you a chance.

Applied to any job you thought you might have a chance at, period.

I never thought I’d find myself in this position and now that I am, I have contemplated at great length how it is that in the richest country in the world, someone who has spent the last twenty-five years cultivating my skills has no chance even of getting work at a decent wage. And it’s quite simple really. I am in a business that relies on the wealthy and upper middle class to spend money. All of Obama’s free spending combined with an already suffering economy have caused those with money to hold on to it tighter. Until the health care nonsense is defeated, there will be no economic recovery. The country is effectively financially hobbled until then. And recovery will be slow as people sort out the effects on their finances. Without money changing hands, we will slide deeper into this economic depression. All people like me can do is keep moving forward hoping that I will be lucky enough to be able to parlay my skills into something better again. Because the alternative is unthinkable.

Am I complaining? You’re goddamned right I am. Because I get up every morning in pain and look for a job before going out in freezing weather to work at my $15.00-an-hour job where I am squandering my skills, and I am finding no work doing what I do best. It’s frustrating and demoralizing but at day’s end I am grateful for another day of employment and another day during which I have maintained my twenty-one plus years of sobriety and I can hold my head up knowing I have contributed to this economy as a wage-earner and not sucked off the tit of the government like so many of Obama’s supporters. I have the RIGHT to bitch. I’ve earned it. Recently, Obama had this to say in Ohio:

“Let me tell you, so long as I have the privilege of serving as your president, I’ll never stop fighting for you,” Obama said at the beginning of a town hall meeting with voters Friday. “I’ll take my lumps, too. I’ll never stop fighting to bring jobs back to Elyria. I’ll never stop fighting for an economy where hard work is rewarded, where responsibility is honored, where accountability is upheld, where we’re creating the jobs of tomorrow.”

All I know is, I don’t need the “job of tomorrow”. I need the job I had last year. And the year before, and the year before that…under the Bush administration. Fuck you, Obama. You have no idea what “taking lumps” is. And you don’t fight for me. I don’t need your help in this fight. You’ve done quite enough already. This government can kiss my ass.

Unfortunately, I forgot to add are now selling off everything you can so you can move halfway across the country AGAIN in a month so that you can camp out with relatives and friends until you can get yourselves on your feet. And are actually GRATEFUL for that opportunity.

Big ass spider

Doncha just love Florida?? Went out to check the gate after the yard guys left and met this charming native on the path. Oh, it must die.

Skilled Healthcare, a 22 location nursing home, could not prove they had 3.2 staff member hours per day per patient over a 6 year period, so a group of lawyers in California managed to find 6 blood suckers to sign on for a class action lawsuit.

Skilled did not have one complaint during the six years, but a California jury still found it reasonable to award the Lawyers and the 6 clients $671 MILLION DOLLARS over this violation.

The company, employees, and patients will be in the street if the appeal does not correct it.

This will also signal most other scumbag Lawyers how to get another free million or more so this is just the beginning. Healthcare has another enemy and possibly no chance at surviving.

With this and ObamaCare there will be more people in the streets with no jobs and no healthcare.

Just had a thought, time to invest heavy in funeral homes, they are about to have more growth than anything else.

A class action lawsuit brought by trial lawyers was filed late last year against Skilled Healthcare of California claiming that the company had violated state regulations that stipulates that nursing homes must maintain 3.2 nursing hours per patient, per day (ppd). The lawsuit claimed that the nursing homes operated by Skilled Healthcare often did not meet the requirement.

Interestingly, there was never any claim from any patient that they’d been harmed or put in danger. Not a single patient claimed personal injury before these lawyers began to file their class action lawsuit.

After a six-month trial the jury decided that the company did violate the rules and awarded the plaintiffs $613 million in statutory damages and $58 million in restitutionary damages.

There is a problem with this award, however. The company only has borrowing credit of $94 million. If the company were to be held to this outrageously high award it would go bankrupt and would be forced to close its doors.

Not only that but some 32,000 people — patients/residents and healthcare workers alike — would lose their heatlhcare facilities and jobs if this award were enforced.

Big Government

92,000 classified documents pertaining to Afghanistan War were leaked by Wikileaks this weekend. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the classified documents already.

Gateway Pundit

Researchers have suddenly discovered that dogs have reasoning abilities. I don’t know how much money was wasted on the study, but if they wanted to know about dogs… all they had to do was ask us!

Sneaky dogs take food quietly to avoid getting caught

LIKE children with their hands in the cookie jar, dogs steal food quietly to make sure they don’t get caught. The finding adds to evidence that dogs can work out what others are thinking.

Shannon Kundey of Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, and colleagues, gave 40 dogs, which had previously been trained not to eat food left on a plate, a chance to take food from inside two containers. Both containers were fitted with bells, but on one container the bells were muted.

When someone was watching, the dogs took food from both containers equally. But if the watcher looked away, for instance by putting their head between their legs, the dogs went for the silent container. This suggests they knew they could get a meal without the watcher hearing them (Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol 126, p 45).

Kundey says her results back up other evidence that dogs can represent for themselves how others perceive their actions. For example, previous studies had found that dogs are more likely to take food when people are not watching them.

Tell us something we don’t know.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.

A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.

“Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving,” said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. “We have no alternative. They have us cornered.”

I’m sorry, I have little sympathy since we are offering up all of OUR crap in garage sales in anticipation of moving to the Keys to live with a relative until we can hopefully peddle our LEGAL asses around and find jobs, something that is not forthcoming here (or California, for that matter) in spite of my considerable talents as a construction worker.

It sounds to me as if the law, not even in effect, is working splendidly.