Constitutional Amendment

Constitutional Amendment

Atlas is shrugging

From the WSJ It is funny how the O-administration is shrugging toward absolute economic collapse. With the Dems in charge of all levers of power they are sure to quickly destroy the free market economy. I have always been a fan of GW Bush but as a Republican he has open the flood gates with the bailout package he put in place. The quesion I have is will Americans wake up in 2010 and throw as many Dems out of office as possible or will they Shrug their way to socialism. Of course they will have answers to fix the problems they are creating today. Is this the begining of the decline in the Amercian Empire or just a bump in the road, or should we say a crater.
h/t Hotair

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

IF the Republican party adopts this resolution I just might officially register as a Republican again. I was starting to wonder if this was the beginning of the end when there was no opposition to this government intervention left in DC. This is the beginning to sweeping power change in 2010. But lets not celebrate till we see if they put their money where there mouth is...... But there is HOPE once again for small government.

Ron Paul coming in out of the Cold

Funny but it seems to me that Ron Paul is less and less of cook everyday that this economy slides toward depression.

Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov't Is Not Stimulus

Heart warming story

This story has touched my heart. True American hero's for sure.

The truth of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Neat map

Airport photo

Airport photo, originally uploaded by Uncle Dako.

Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Quote of the Day

Cleaning the pig

Cleaning the pig, originally uploaded by Uncle Dako.

This makes me hungry just looking at the pic

Is this economic slow down bank driven or gas driven

I was just thinking about how the economy has slowed. Retail sales were down for the last few months. Meaning the everyday person was feeling the effects. But did the retail slow down come from the economic mess that everyone is afraid of or was it from high gas prices? I could care less if Lehman brothers went out of business. I did not buy less groceries last week because of that. I bought less groceries because I spent more on gas and the groceries cost more because of the cost to transport them. Now that gas prices have returned to normal the normal everyday person will have more spending money and thus retail sales will go back up. Which will make it look like the bank bailout was the reason for the rebound.

In my mind I think it is the price of oil not the credit crunch that has created the current problem being felt in every household. I don't know anyone who has lost their home this year but I do know a lot of people who sold their trucks at a huge loss this year.

They Skipped the "L" word and went straight to the "S" word

I was just thinking about how the last few elections they R's have framed the D's as Liberal. This stuck to Gore and Kerry and before that Mondale and Carter. Well this time with Obama they have skipped the whole liberal thing and went straight to calling him a socialist which in my mind is further to the left than a liberal. From right to left is moderate, liberal, socialist, communist. I am not sure if there is any more left than commie. I guess that is what is scary about Obama to me is that he is the most leftist candidate in my adult life and I think possibly the history of the USA.

I keep feeling in my heart that there will be alot of hard thinking in the voting booth this November but I have been wrong in the past....

Dako and the mountain early in the Morning

Dako and the mountain early in the Morning, originally uploaded by Uncle Dako.

Baskeball in the village

DSCF2905, originally uploaded by Uncle Dako.

Not sure why but I like this pic of the village basketball court.

i_am_joe

i_am_joe, originally uploaded by Iowahawk Blog.

I took a very long break and I know all my fans (my wife) wondered what happen...... but I feel back in the mood to blog. Just have to see how long it last....

I am joe from Iowahawk

Now the US is getting serious

This is my first post in along time. I have been pretty bummed about the US response to Russia in Georgia. With Army and Marines pretty tied up I figured the Navy would be the easiest to get on station and the Air Force is not persistent so they have a tough time with a show of force. I kept wondering why we did not send any Naval forces to the black sea. But now I see why. They were sailing the MOUNT WHITNEY to the scene. I wonder were she was? Probably started near North Africa but might have come from Norfolk. So what is the big deal with the this ship? It is a command and control ship. When she sails into town you have an entire command and control structure set up to run the battlespace. I could be wrong but this may be the prelude to bigger things... Only time will tell.

Wow, love this guy

Black & White on the Grey Matters (Bible Thumpin')

I can not understand the Hype

Reading this, I just do not understand they hype around this man. He is leftist politics at its worst and yet so many Americans are fainting and agaga over him. I am sure that when the republicans begin to highlight his record on so many issues they will start to have buyers remorse. Of course compared to Hillary his policy are not bad. Hillary is so far left she would be considered left even in France. So by comparison Obama is not so bad. There is always the possibility that America has gone to crap and the majority of Americans want a Nanny state to kill what makes the country great. If Obama is elected it will be the start of a the end for the United States of America. We will go from the democratic stage to the next despot. Just as Rome went from Republic to Empire.....

Is oil headed for a bubble?

While crude oil prices have shot past $129 a barrel, the president's visit last week to the middle east obviously had no effect on the price of oil. What struck me was the announcement by the Saudis:

Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that current oil production was enough to meet market requirements and that producing countries could increase capacity if there were “actual additional” energy needs.

I can only think of two possible reasons for saying this. One they know their reserves are running low. They can see the end of their oil fields being the predominate source of the worlds oil. Which would knock them very quickly from the world stage as they have nothing without their oil. They are trying to build infrastructure but bad habits of Arabs and the attitudes that often goes with Muslims will never allow them to truely get ahead outside of oil.

The other possibility is the statement is accurate on its face and under the mask. They are selling all that is desired. What does that mean? That means that the price of oil is being run up by speculators. Just like a land boom there is an oil speculation boom. The oil companies benefit from this because they can afford to find oil in harder to find places. This opens up more reserves and in the long run would be a good thing. However, just as all the other bubbles from the Florida Land bubble of the 20's, the Asian bubble of the 90's, and the recent dotcom bubble it will eventually burst. When you start to see your neighbor try and buy into oil futures you will know the bubble is bursting.

In the mean time I hope some good will come from this, like rolling back EPA fuel regulations, drilling in ANWAR and in the gulf coast, and building Nuclear Plants again. The US economy is the greatest on the planet it will bounce back the question is just how soon.

Gay Marriage in California will it knife the Dems in the back.

Last week the California Supreme Court created a new right in California. So for the next few months Gays and Lesbians from all over the world will flock to California to get married. While every state has its own policy, it leave the rest of country to wonder if "what starts in California eventually head east." I think this judicial activism will in the long run undercut what the Homosexual have been seeking and I believe even the democratic party.

In California they have already collected enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November. It is already on the ballot for Florida and possibly in Arizona. If those three states are voting in November on basically banning Gay Marriage there is a huge voting issue. Traditionally these types of issues galvanize the Conservative base to get out and vote. I wonder if the vote in Florida and California could bring out the Republican vote in Florida in droves. This could deliver those two states to McCain and would certainly be a win for the Republican party. I don't know how many Congressional seats are up in those area's either. But this battle could blunt the tidal wave that the Democrats have been building.

California has opened the Gay closet door with some judicial activism. But it may be slammed shut just as fast and pushing the left coast right ward in what might be a surprising jolt in an election that was supposed to be the year for the left.

Pretending to be conservatives

I like this quote from Peggy Noonan:

"This was a real wakeup call for us," someone named Robert M. Duncan,
who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York
Times. This was after Mississippi. "We can't let the Democrats take our
issues." And those issues would be? "We can't let them pretend to be
conservatives," he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be
conservative every day.

odds and ends

GI film festival

From M/M a true hero Leigh Wolf

I heard about this mutual fund on Mancow this morning.

Republican Party needs to get back to Small Governement Roots

The size of Government has reached epic proportions, the worst of the expansion occurring when Republicans had control of the executive branch and legislative branch. The Republican Leadership has rolled out a new theme "Change You Deserve."(ht MM) How apropos that it is the theme for an antidepressent. What non-sense! The party is on a swift down hill run that is gathering momentum.

I saw this quote from John Boehner:

The results in MS-01 should serve as a wake-up call to Republican candidates nationwide. As I’ve said before, this is a change election, and if we want Americans to vote for us we have to convince them that we can fix Washington. Our presidential nominee, Senator McCain, is an agent of change; candidates who hope to succeed must show that they’re willing and able to join McCain in a leading movement for reform. We need to stop wasteful Washington spending, fight and win the war on terror, and stop the largest tax increase in history. That is truly the change the American people deserve -- and that is a message on which we can succeed.

The problem with all the rhetoric is the connotation that change involves a government program to fix something. What the Party needs to portray is that the solution is not the government but removing government from the Party as much as possible. The party is going down in flames instead of pandering to the middle of the road they need to stand up and take a new stance. Small government, less regulation is the road map for future success. Not "No Government", "No Regulation" that is anarchy and too extreme. The sales point concerns how easy it is to grow government and add regulation but takes a fight to shrink both of them. We want to shrink them not eliminate them. That is a big point of distinction as many would shy away from government elimination but would get on board for more freedom and less overhead.

I have seen on the net a slogan I think that Red blooded true hard working American's can get behind.





Want to "fix" government? Suck. IT. UP. Do you want to see change in Government? Then Suck it up. The Republican party needs to grow a pair of Cohones. Make a statement that American's can identify with. We are not wimps! Fix your own mess not the government! Find your own solution!

How long can China stay a power house?

I was reading RedState and came across this article about China. Right now it would appear that China is economically in the driver seat. They have huge reserves of cash from exporting so much to the rest of the world. They have a rapidly expanding middle class as a result of the inflow of wealth created by those manufacturing jobs. As the manufacturing base develops wealth is created and so you can more production can be performed with less man power. This carries over into agricultural areas around the manufacturing. Those who have created wealth now can afford the overhead to purchase better, more efficient farming equipment. The raising tide lifts all boats. This raising tide in China is the result of the United States exporting so much manufacturing to China. We bankrolled this growth.

Now that China is maturing though the question is what is the next step. They did not develop from a democracy as we did in the United States. The have emerged from a strange relaxation of Communism. There shackles have not been fully removed. In the United States it was manifest destiny, the individual pioneer was the driving philosophy that we emerged from. It is that total lack of Government intervention is what allowed this country to quickly become the world economic powerhouse. With limited government choices and systems are set up by the collective will of the people. Often bad ideas are tried and discarded and many are allowed to fail to find out which is the best method of over coming some problem. After almost 200 years sadly we have grown our government to the point that it has started to make those choices instead of allowing the free market to shape the market.

China on the other hand is still controlled by a central committee of a few people. They have loosened the rules but still have control over great portions of how business is conducted in the Chinese economy. That makes their system more rigid, less flexible to sudden changes. The US economy has taken a huge hit in the last year. From the war to the housing credit crunch and yet is has bounced back. It even expanded ever so much. If the same types of jarring factors hit the Chinese economy their system would collapse.

They only way the can avoid a fate of complete collapse is to finish the journey to a free and open society. I feel that they are on the cusp. I am hoping that maybe this Olympics may create the crack that opens up to full and open elections in China. With the economic boom comes a bubble burst and depression. The United States learned the hard way and over the years has built a system that is flexible and has reserves at various levels. China is still held with power at the top and this economic miracle that is growing so fast. It will as likely topple those at the top as to continue on for much longer. When the collapse happens the only thing that will remain to be seen is what form of government will emerge from the rubble, a democracy or totalitarian.