Some companies that Obama has given tax dollars to that still failed
Solyndra (green energy/solar)
Amonex (Green energy/ Solar)
Chevy sold just 603 Volts in January 2012. (It sold almost five times as many gas-guzzling, 12 mpg Suburbans that same month.) Nissan moved just 676 Leafs, and the company hasn't sold more than 1,000 in five months.
Consumers' lack of interest in electric cars helped push another Obama-backed company — Ener1 — into bankruptcy protection late last week, despite the $118 million grant its battery-making subsidiary got from the Energy Dept. As the CEO put it, the company suffered a lack of demand, thanks to lower-than-hoped-for electric car sales.
Ener1 joins two other failed green companies — Solyndra and Beacon Power — that took $571 million in taxpayer subsidies down with them.
Unfortunately, like a bad investor, Obama wants to double down on his failure.
"The payoffs on these public investments don't always come right away," he said in his January State of the Union speech. "Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy."
That may be so, but solar, wind and electric cars are hardly new technologies — electric cars were being sold back in the late 1800s.
Indeed, the only thing new here is
from a piece of the $800 billion economic stimulus package passed in 2009.
At least four other companies have received stimulus funding only to later file for bankruptcy, and two of those were working on alternative energy.
Evergreen Solar Inc., reportedly received $5.3 million of stimulus cash through a state grant to install 11,000 photovoltaic panels installed at 11 colleges and universities, a recycling facility and an education center in Massachusetts.
The company, once a rock star in the solar industry, filed for bankruptcy protection last month, saying it couldn't compete with Chinese rivals without reorganizing. The company intends to focus on building up its manufacturing facility in China.
SpectraWatt, based in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., is also a solar cell company that was spun out of Intel in 2008. In June 2009, SpectraWatt received a $500,000 grant from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of the stimulus package. SpectraWatt was one of 13 companies to receive the money to help develop ways to improve solar cells without changing current manufacturing processes.
The company filed for bankruptcy last month, saying it could not compete with its Chinese competitors, which receive "considerable government and financial support."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/15/despite-stimulus-funding-solyndra-and-4-other-companies-have-hit-rock-bottom/#ixzz217xQ6UhG
Another winner of stimulus who ultimately lost is Mountain Plaza Inc. Despite declaring bankruptcy in 2003, the company received $424,000 from the Tennessee Department of Transportation as part of a grant aimed at installing "truck stop electrification" systems that allow idling truckers to plug-in during extended stops and turn off their exhaust-belching, environment polluting diesel engines.
Mountain Plaza had filed for bankruptcy protection again in June 2010. TDOT, which received a $2 million stimulus grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for the project, said it didn't learn about the bankruptcy until October, but it is closely monitoring the project.
Elsewhere, Olsen's Crop Service and Olsen's Mills Acquisition Co. also failed despite Olsen's Mills receiving $10 million to increase employment, add equipment and machinery, refinance existing debts and work capital for operations and acquire land. The payout -- part of a $64 million package to nine rural businesses in Wisconsin for economic development loan assistance -- was delivered in January 2010, after Olsen's Mills filed for bankruptcy protection for defaulting on a $60 million bank loan.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/15/despite-stimulus-funding-solyndra-and-4-other-companies-have-hit-rock-bottom/#ixzz217xr82C3
Three hundred million dollars went to Johnson Controls to make electric batteries. According to the White House, which errs on the side of optimism if not delusion, that led to the creation of ...drum roll please...150 jobs. That comes out to a cost of $2 million per job. Investor's Business Daily has listed more examples of the "Wasted Stimulus" but the examples abound are far too numerous to list in a single column. Green jobs are a myth-like unicorns, writes Walter Russell Mead.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/obama_green_jobs_con_job_and_the_ill_wind_that_blows_from_spain.html#ixzz217ylykOD
It is a useful exercise to compare and contrast the job growth in the oil and gas industry versus that of the green economy. In other words, compare reality versus fantasy. Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal:
President Obama is expected to seek another $250 billion or so in new stimulus funds next week, with plenty of money for clean energy and the creation of so-called green jobs.
Never mind that no one can seem to find many Americans who got green jobs as a result of the original stimulus spending.
Moore does note that energy jobs are being created at a rapid clip, but in the one sector that Obama considers a mortal political enemy and villain; the oil and gas industry.
According to data from the Federal Reserve Board's Industrial Production Indexes, the oil and gas industry, which the Obama Energy Department loathes, has had more growth in output than any other manufacturing industry in the U.S. from 2005 through 2011. As a reward, the administration is proposing $35 billion in new taxes on the industry to slow it down. Even if we accept the dubious White House claim that all the oil and gas tax write-offs are unwarranted loopholes, a 2011 Congressional Research Service study finds that per unit of electricity produced, for every two cents of tax subsidy to Big Oil, Big Green (wind and solar) get closer to $1 in handouts.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/obama_green_jobs_con_job_and_the_ill_wind_that_blows_from_spain.html#ixzz217zKTB6l
Update: 7/19/12: The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, subsidized by more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants given by Obama Administration, has closed its 214,000 square foot facility a year after it opened.
Solar Trust of America: FAIL - Filed Bankruptcy in Oakland, CA, April 3, 2012 – On April 2, 2012
Bright Source: FAIL - Bright Source warned Obama’s Energy Department officials in March 2011 that delays in approving a $1.6 billion U.S. loan guarantee would embarrass the White House and force the solar-energy company to close. Lost Billions of dollars but Getting More Money To Keep Trying. Canyou say, “This isnt working?”
Solyndra: FAIL - Obama gave Solyndra $500,000,000 in taxpayer money and Solyndra shut its doors and laid off 1100 workers in August 2011 After Billions in Losses due to failure to make a solar product that works!
LSP Energy: FAIL - LSPEnergy LP filed bankruptcy protection and a sale of its assets in Feb 2012
Energy Conversion Devices: FAIL – On February 14, 2012 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. and its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy
Abound Solar: FAIL - Abound Solar received a $400 million loan guarantee from Barack Obama announced in June, 2012 that it would file for bankruptcy
SunPower: FAIL – SunPower stopped producing solar cells last year at near bankruptcy restructured only with help of, get this, oil giant TOTAL who owns 60% stake. Irony! Still struggling…
Beacon Power: FAIL – Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy Oct 2011 just a year after Obama approved $43 million loan Government loan guarantee
Ecotality: FAIL - ECOtality, a San Francisco green-tech company that never earned any money on the verge of bankruptcy after receiving roughly $115 million in two loan guarantees from Obama
A123 Solar: FAIL-A123 received $279 million from taxpayers thanks to President Obama’s Department of Energy loan guarantees and after the Solyndra bankruptcy is getting another $500M from Obama and it has lost $400M
UniSolar: FAIL - Uni-Solar filed for Ch 11 bankruptcy in June 20 this year laid off hundreds got more Obama money still failing but still in business
Azure Dynamics: FAIL - Azure Dynamics files for bankruptcy in June ter millions in Obama “Stimulus”
Evergreen Solar: FAIL - Evergreen Solar received $527 Million in Taxpayer money from Obama filed bankruptcy
Ener1: FAIL received more than $100 million in government funding from the Obama administration filed for bankruptcy January 2012
And many many more on the horizon…
September 26, 2012
September 19, 2012
Is this election a Hobson's choice?
Recently I heard a radio talk show host declare that the only way that Mitt Romney can win this election is by being like Barack Obama.
Instantly my first thought was “why should I bother voting then?” I do not believe that Barack Obama has done a very good job. In fact I find his capabilities to be far less than I was afraid they might be when he first ran for election. But if the only way to beat him is to become him then it does not matter who you vote for. There is no ne to vote for, there is no choice. It becomes either put Obama back in office, or the next best thing to it or don’t vote at all. How is that a choice?
And if there is no choice, then the country is ultimately lost. The “grand experiment” has failed. That’s it wave the white flag, it’s time to just lay down and give up.
I hope that there is a choice this election. But maybe it is time to start encouraging all of you to accept the Lord Jesus Christ. Because at this point, if there really is no hope left for the country, we need to get ready to meet our maker.
So… as a flashback to other times and such here is a phrase that will come in handy for you to paint on those “sandwich” boards you will be wearing.
REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH
Hmm maybe that ought to have been the title for this post…
Instantly my first thought was “why should I bother voting then?” I do not believe that Barack Obama has done a very good job. In fact I find his capabilities to be far less than I was afraid they might be when he first ran for election. But if the only way to beat him is to become him then it does not matter who you vote for. There is no ne to vote for, there is no choice. It becomes either put Obama back in office, or the next best thing to it or don’t vote at all. How is that a choice?
And if there is no choice, then the country is ultimately lost. The “grand experiment” has failed. That’s it wave the white flag, it’s time to just lay down and give up.
I hope that there is a choice this election. But maybe it is time to start encouraging all of you to accept the Lord Jesus Christ. Because at this point, if there really is no hope left for the country, we need to get ready to meet our maker.
So… as a flashback to other times and such here is a phrase that will come in handy for you to paint on those “sandwich” boards you will be wearing.
REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH
Hmm maybe that ought to have been the title for this post…
September 10, 2012
The wonder of it all.
I had a dream last night. I dreamed that the government said only one person per household would be allowed to vote.
I kind of passed it off for a while but then while I was at work I started thinking about it and I realized something.
IF someone like a democrat/liberal thought of doing that they would be doing two different things.
One, they would be decreasing the number of votes made against them.
Two, they would be encouraging people to allow gay marriage
You see such a move could be useful to certain parties.
If only one person in a household can vote than wouldn’t that mean that married families only get one vote? Of course it does so they are marginalized. But Gays aren’t allowed to marry like that so they are not one household even if they live together. They tend to vote liberal so it is a boost for the liberals.
OR
It is a boost for the gays to get married. Because if I want them to be as hamstrung as I am then I will vote to let them marry so that they also are on e household and they get to have only one vote. Just like me.
How clever would that be huh? Still maybe that would cause the conservative side a little relief too because then the gays would say, wait if I get married I lose my right to vote??? Screw that! I don’t want to get married.
Then again, the married couples are already taxed more and treated worse than everyone else and they still want it so who knows?
September 07, 2012
Chick-Fil-A
About a month ago, there was a call for a boycott against Chick-Fil-A, then there was a backlash against the boycott. Let me tell you, I think that “boycott” has been better advertising for Chick-Fil-A than anything else! And for that I am truly thankful.
I have really been enjoying some of the reports of the issues going on in this case. I have heard people of all stripes coming out in support of the right of Chick-Fil-A’s president to have an opinion and to voice it.
I have seen news reports from all over the country on this subject. From the store in Atlanta that had to close several hours early because they ran out of food to the one in Philadelphia where they had to call the police to provide crowd control because the crowds were so large.
I liked the account I heard where a customer of one store heard the employee at the register apologizing because they had to stop taking orders for half an hour so the kitchen could catch up. I liked hearing about the customers in a store telling the employees “look it’s ok, if you have a towel we can use WE will bus the tables for you guys so you can keep serving people.
I have heard and seen reports from all OVER the country! From Florida to California! Even Yahoo news reported on stores in Colorado, Georgia, Indiana and other places.
I have heard that even the ACLU is supporting Chick-Fil-A! And the point is simple.
People have the right to say whatever they want. It is called the first amendment.
I have always supported free speech. As long as it is clean speech. That is to say that you can say whatever you like. You can say things that I would disagree with, the only requirement I have is that the language you use is socially acceptable. (no swearing or lewd/rudeness)
In that way I think in that way the current events are a fine example of freedom of speech.
There is also the point that this blowback is coming from the fact that certain people (mostly Liberals) are saying that people cannot say what they want.
In fact I heard one guy call in to a radio talk show last night and declare that he thinks it is a great idea, even necessary, for the government to prohibit business from having any opinion that disagrees with his viewpoint. But he could not get it through his head that if the government can stop one person from their free speech then they can stop ANY speech.
There are people IN OUR GOVERNMENT who have tried to hold Chick-Fil-A back, to deny them their rights, over this issue. (the Mayors of Boston, Washington and Chicago)
Most Notable among the offenders is Rahm Emmanuel. A former member of Obama’s cabinet, now the mayor of Chicago, who said that HE “[would] not let Chick-Fil-A open any more stores in Chicago.”
Personally, I think that Obama’s administration is soon going to have to cut ties with Rahm over this thing that is if they want to have ANY chance at looking like the kind of people we want to have leading the nation.
Some politicians are jumping in on the side of the first amendment, like the 17 Republican congressmen who signed papers supporting Chick-Fil-A.
All in all though I have to say to all those who keep screaming about how they want the government to control all these businesses, You keep it up!
If you keep doing this people will see your idiocy and they will soon move to the area of sanity and away from your stupidity.
That means better government and better food at stores like Chick-Fil-A.
That is all good.
I have really been enjoying some of the reports of the issues going on in this case. I have heard people of all stripes coming out in support of the right of Chick-Fil-A’s president to have an opinion and to voice it.
I have seen news reports from all over the country on this subject. From the store in Atlanta that had to close several hours early because they ran out of food to the one in Philadelphia where they had to call the police to provide crowd control because the crowds were so large.
I liked the account I heard where a customer of one store heard the employee at the register apologizing because they had to stop taking orders for half an hour so the kitchen could catch up. I liked hearing about the customers in a store telling the employees “look it’s ok, if you have a towel we can use WE will bus the tables for you guys so you can keep serving people.
I have heard and seen reports from all OVER the country! From Florida to California! Even Yahoo news reported on stores in Colorado, Georgia, Indiana and other places.
I have heard that even the ACLU is supporting Chick-Fil-A! And the point is simple.
People have the right to say whatever they want. It is called the first amendment.
I have always supported free speech. As long as it is clean speech. That is to say that you can say whatever you like. You can say things that I would disagree with, the only requirement I have is that the language you use is socially acceptable. (no swearing or lewd/rudeness)
In that way I think in that way the current events are a fine example of freedom of speech.
There is also the point that this blowback is coming from the fact that certain people (mostly Liberals) are saying that people cannot say what they want.
In fact I heard one guy call in to a radio talk show last night and declare that he thinks it is a great idea, even necessary, for the government to prohibit business from having any opinion that disagrees with his viewpoint. But he could not get it through his head that if the government can stop one person from their free speech then they can stop ANY speech.
There are people IN OUR GOVERNMENT who have tried to hold Chick-Fil-A back, to deny them their rights, over this issue. (the Mayors of Boston, Washington and Chicago)
Most Notable among the offenders is Rahm Emmanuel. A former member of Obama’s cabinet, now the mayor of Chicago, who said that HE “[would] not let Chick-Fil-A open any more stores in Chicago.”
Personally, I think that Obama’s administration is soon going to have to cut ties with Rahm over this thing that is if they want to have ANY chance at looking like the kind of people we want to have leading the nation.
Some politicians are jumping in on the side of the first amendment, like the 17 Republican congressmen who signed papers supporting Chick-Fil-A.
All in all though I have to say to all those who keep screaming about how they want the government to control all these businesses, You keep it up!
If you keep doing this people will see your idiocy and they will soon move to the area of sanity and away from your stupidity.
That means better government and better food at stores like Chick-Fil-A.
That is all good.
September 06, 2012
Racist? I think not!
No sir! I am sick of this and I will not let this one go any further.
You claim racism where there is none. You think that because someone disagrees with you or your president that they have to be racist and you automatically paint them with that brush.
Here is the thing.
When you do that you pay a disservice to them and to yourself. It is, in fact, YOUR words and actions that are the racist ones.
If you want to have a discussion, you have to be willing to accept that the other people in the discussion may have opposing views for any number of reasons.
In order to have racism, the racist HAS to see the color of the skin or the difference in race AND they have to think that somehow that confers upon them superiority over the other. In order to have racism you have to prejudge someone by assuming that the person whom you have never met fits into a preconceived mold that you have created.
This is not what [we] are doing here. The only way for racism to really exist is for people to see the difference and think that means something.
Now I don’t know about anyone else, but you aimed this response at me so I am going to speak for me.
You have NO idea who I am.
You do not know what I look like or what I have, or have not done.
You do not know my friends or what service I may have given in life.
For you to label me the way you have is to prejudge me without meeting me. You assume facts not in evidence which makes you as bad as those who ARE racist.
In fact you, by your attack and words, show yourself to be opinionated and arrogant making your decisions and opinions AND judgments based on bigotry, hatred and a preconceived notion of what is or isn’t going on.
All of that is the very definition of racism. Then on top of that you have the gall to claim that it is others who are being racist.
For the record, you, and others like you, who are so quick to claim racism, come across as narcissistic, prideful idiots.
And I have an issue with that.
It is exactly attitudes like yours that led to some of the worst crimes and wars in history.
How do you think the British Civil war got started? Arrogance and self serving leaders. How about , the Salem witch trials? Or McCarthyism? All came from fear of those who disagreed as well as pride and a refusal to accept others, and their ideas, as different.
What about the French Revolution? Pride, Arrogance and a refusal to allow a voice to the disenchanted while putting them down. (sound familiar? “you’re only against Obama because of his race.” Marginalizes and refuses to accept that people are unhappy, WITH THE ISSUES, while putting those people down! )
What about the Revolutionary war? Or The American Civil war, The Inquisition, Tienanmen square, Watergate, Vietnam, World war 1, World war 2, Korea, Operation Desert storm/ Desert shield?… the list is much longer, and all comes from a failure to talk, a failure to accept difference, or a failure to face reality!
But I guess that does not matter to you since it is easier to just glibly assume things about people with no real evidence just because YOU “HAVE to be right” no matter what.
You claim racism where there is none. You think that because someone disagrees with you or your president that they have to be racist and you automatically paint them with that brush.
Here is the thing.
When you do that you pay a disservice to them and to yourself. It is, in fact, YOUR words and actions that are the racist ones.
If you want to have a discussion, you have to be willing to accept that the other people in the discussion may have opposing views for any number of reasons.
In order to have racism, the racist HAS to see the color of the skin or the difference in race AND they have to think that somehow that confers upon them superiority over the other. In order to have racism you have to prejudge someone by assuming that the person whom you have never met fits into a preconceived mold that you have created.
This is not what [we] are doing here. The only way for racism to really exist is for people to see the difference and think that means something.
Now I don’t know about anyone else, but you aimed this response at me so I am going to speak for me.
You have NO idea who I am.
You do not know what I look like or what I have, or have not done.
You do not know my friends or what service I may have given in life.
For you to label me the way you have is to prejudge me without meeting me. You assume facts not in evidence which makes you as bad as those who ARE racist.
In fact you, by your attack and words, show yourself to be opinionated and arrogant making your decisions and opinions AND judgments based on bigotry, hatred and a preconceived notion of what is or isn’t going on.
All of that is the very definition of racism. Then on top of that you have the gall to claim that it is others who are being racist.
For the record, you, and others like you, who are so quick to claim racism, come across as narcissistic, prideful idiots.
And I have an issue with that.
It is exactly attitudes like yours that led to some of the worst crimes and wars in history.
How do you think the British Civil war got started? Arrogance and self serving leaders. How about , the Salem witch trials? Or McCarthyism? All came from fear of those who disagreed as well as pride and a refusal to accept others, and their ideas, as different.
What about the French Revolution? Pride, Arrogance and a refusal to allow a voice to the disenchanted while putting them down. (sound familiar? “you’re only against Obama because of his race.” Marginalizes and refuses to accept that people are unhappy, WITH THE ISSUES, while putting those people down! )
What about the Revolutionary war? Or The American Civil war, The Inquisition, Tienanmen square, Watergate, Vietnam, World war 1, World war 2, Korea, Operation Desert storm/ Desert shield?… the list is much longer, and all comes from a failure to talk, a failure to accept difference, or a failure to face reality!
But I guess that does not matter to you since it is easier to just glibly assume things about people with no real evidence just because YOU “HAVE to be right” no matter what.
September 04, 2012
Here it is again
A while ago, a woman who was fired by the Houston Chronicle for being a stripper or “exotic dancer” sued the Chronicle because it was sexist in firing her. Because she was a woman who was fired so it MUST be because of her gender not because of her actions.
She admitted that she did NOT tell them about her side job, as an “exotic dancer”.
She said the way they found out was because a reporter from another newspaper “outed her”.
So she hired Gloria Allred to defend her and she said “They fired me because I am a woman.” As my dad would say, “B-U-L-L-P-U-C-K-Y”!!!!!!!
I will have to yell the next part because clearly it is not getting through to her…
MA’AM IT WOULD NOT HAVE MATTERED IF YOU WERE A CHIPPENDALE DANCER!
You did something that the newspaper was NOT made aware of because apparently YOU were so embarrassed that you did this, that you did not want to tell the employer about it.
Since YOU found it to be embarrassing don’t you think your EMPLOYER could have found it embarrassing? You must have or else you would not have hidden it.
And even if there was no embarrassment in this don’t you think it would have been prudent to let your own bosses in on the deal so that they were not blindsided by the event?
In short my contention is that what you did was ultimately wrong! And you were called on it! Now you are going to use the laws that are supposed to protect people in order to force others to do what you want them to do, even though YOU are the one who is in the wrong.
This is an abuse of the system. In fact I would have NO issues with the idea that what you are doing is worse than any manipulation of the law that others do about, which, you would be the first to complain.
Think about it..
But this does bring me to a point that I want to make here…
Liberals love to lie. Yes I know that sounds like such a hateful statement but it has been MY experience that they do.
In fact it seems to me that they feel the ends always justify the means, no matter what. Sadly the worst of it is not even the lies though.
Let’s look at some recent events to prove my point. Obama has “declared executive privilege.” Why? Because Eric Holder is being held in contempt by congress for withholding information that they have requested, a criminal offense! But Obama has spoken so all us little peons better shape up and do as our great and grand lord and master has demanded.
BUT WAIT has Obama really invoked executive privilege? Some of his toadies have basically said so, but there is one little problem. In order for him to invoke executive privilege he would have to
a. do so in writing,
b. detail WHAT is under the privilege
c. put that out into a PUBLIC venue.
He has not done any of these things so technically he still has not gone that route, and even if he had, executive privilege CAN NOT be used to protect himself or others from repercussions from criminal acts.
Apparently the administration is in a position they do not like! And now they want to cover it up.
But trying to cover it up this way is the BEST way in the world to have to let everyone know what is going on which makes this counterproductive and injurious to their case.
Curiously the issue that the liberals in the media have latched onto is not the fact that Obama has not actually claimed executive privilege, or that he is covering something up, or that there was lying, or that such action is not allowed by law in cases of criminal activity.
No what they had to talk about on the subject right away was that, “Obama is hardly the FIRST president to have claimed Executive privilege.” Like that was really the issue in the first place.
But there you go, another example of how the ends justify the means.
How about the fact that they will resort to physical violence at meetings and events to try to shut up any one who speaks out against them?
Or the way that they will spread misinformation trying to make things seem to be other than they really are. As an example I would like to point out the “creative editing” of MSNBC regarding ANYTHING they are against. (the 911 call by George Zimmerman, What Mitt Romney said in Pennsylvania about Wawa’s)
Or when a blogger speaks out conservatively they make false allegations and even make false 911 phone calls to the police to report the blogger/s of crimes that were not committed.
Still clearly the ends must justify whatever means they employ.
Even if those means are illegal! They lie, but that is ok, they cheat, but that is ok, they steal, but that is ok, they cover up but that is ok, they practice hypocrisy even as they blame others of hypocrisy and they contradict themselves, but that is all ok…
As long as THEY get what they want. And it does not matter who gets hurt or trampled in the process.
Here is one last example, We all agree that bullying and intimidation are bad things right? In fact the media was all abuzz over reports that when he was in high school Mitt Romney MAY HAVE bullied someone.
But it is apparently O.K. that, not only has there been evidence of Obama doing the same thing as a child, but he told the Supreme Court that they had “better be very careful” about how they chose to go about looking at the issue of his health care initiative. Implying it was HIS idea and so they BETTER vote HIS way.
He did this last one just before they looked at his health care initiative to determine it’s constitutionality.
So the ends justify the means even if they are illegal, or morally wrong , or just plain evil.
So there you go, today we get to think about the future, and in those thoughts as we begin to look to the upcoming vote, please look at the person who you want to vote for.
Let us put people in control of the government who will be honest and truthful at least as much as possible. And let us pick those who will be held accountable.
She admitted that she did NOT tell them about her side job, as an “exotic dancer”.
She said the way they found out was because a reporter from another newspaper “outed her”.
So she hired Gloria Allred to defend her and she said “They fired me because I am a woman.” As my dad would say, “B-U-L-L-P-U-C-K-Y”!!!!!!!
I will have to yell the next part because clearly it is not getting through to her…
MA’AM IT WOULD NOT HAVE MATTERED IF YOU WERE A CHIPPENDALE DANCER!
You did something that the newspaper was NOT made aware of because apparently YOU were so embarrassed that you did this, that you did not want to tell the employer about it.
Since YOU found it to be embarrassing don’t you think your EMPLOYER could have found it embarrassing? You must have or else you would not have hidden it.
And even if there was no embarrassment in this don’t you think it would have been prudent to let your own bosses in on the deal so that they were not blindsided by the event?
In short my contention is that what you did was ultimately wrong! And you were called on it! Now you are going to use the laws that are supposed to protect people in order to force others to do what you want them to do, even though YOU are the one who is in the wrong.
This is an abuse of the system. In fact I would have NO issues with the idea that what you are doing is worse than any manipulation of the law that others do about, which, you would be the first to complain.
Think about it..
But this does bring me to a point that I want to make here…
Liberals love to lie. Yes I know that sounds like such a hateful statement but it has been MY experience that they do.
In fact it seems to me that they feel the ends always justify the means, no matter what. Sadly the worst of it is not even the lies though.
Let’s look at some recent events to prove my point. Obama has “declared executive privilege.” Why? Because Eric Holder is being held in contempt by congress for withholding information that they have requested, a criminal offense! But Obama has spoken so all us little peons better shape up and do as our great and grand lord and master has demanded.
BUT WAIT has Obama really invoked executive privilege? Some of his toadies have basically said so, but there is one little problem. In order for him to invoke executive privilege he would have to
a. do so in writing,
b. detail WHAT is under the privilege
c. put that out into a PUBLIC venue.
He has not done any of these things so technically he still has not gone that route, and even if he had, executive privilege CAN NOT be used to protect himself or others from repercussions from criminal acts.
Apparently the administration is in a position they do not like! And now they want to cover it up.
But trying to cover it up this way is the BEST way in the world to have to let everyone know what is going on which makes this counterproductive and injurious to their case.
Curiously the issue that the liberals in the media have latched onto is not the fact that Obama has not actually claimed executive privilege, or that he is covering something up, or that there was lying, or that such action is not allowed by law in cases of criminal activity.
No what they had to talk about on the subject right away was that, “Obama is hardly the FIRST president to have claimed Executive privilege.” Like that was really the issue in the first place.
But there you go, another example of how the ends justify the means.
How about the fact that they will resort to physical violence at meetings and events to try to shut up any one who speaks out against them?
Or the way that they will spread misinformation trying to make things seem to be other than they really are. As an example I would like to point out the “creative editing” of MSNBC regarding ANYTHING they are against. (the 911 call by George Zimmerman, What Mitt Romney said in Pennsylvania about Wawa’s)
Or when a blogger speaks out conservatively they make false allegations and even make false 911 phone calls to the police to report the blogger/s of crimes that were not committed.
Still clearly the ends must justify whatever means they employ.
Even if those means are illegal! They lie, but that is ok, they cheat, but that is ok, they steal, but that is ok, they cover up but that is ok, they practice hypocrisy even as they blame others of hypocrisy and they contradict themselves, but that is all ok…
As long as THEY get what they want. And it does not matter who gets hurt or trampled in the process.
Here is one last example, We all agree that bullying and intimidation are bad things right? In fact the media was all abuzz over reports that when he was in high school Mitt Romney MAY HAVE bullied someone.
But it is apparently O.K. that, not only has there been evidence of Obama doing the same thing as a child, but he told the Supreme Court that they had “better be very careful” about how they chose to go about looking at the issue of his health care initiative. Implying it was HIS idea and so they BETTER vote HIS way.
He did this last one just before they looked at his health care initiative to determine it’s constitutionality.
So the ends justify the means even if they are illegal, or morally wrong , or just plain evil.
So there you go, today we get to think about the future, and in those thoughts as we begin to look to the upcoming vote, please look at the person who you want to vote for.
Let us put people in control of the government who will be honest and truthful at least as much as possible. And let us pick those who will be held accountable.
September 03, 2012
Financial Straits?
Recently I saw an ad from the white house stating that all those who are getting married, about to have a birthday, An Anniversary or other special gift giving occasion, can ask people to donate to Obama’s reelection campaign in lieu of receiving a gift.
I immediately wondered if there wasn’t an ulterior motive to that ad.
Other events that have occurred since then have reinforced that thought. The thought I had was this was an attempt to try to deceive people. This, to me, looked like a way that they could point at the money spent and the democrats could say the only reason Mitt Romney won (idf he did win) was because he outspent Obama. That he Bought the election.
This is exactly the thing they said about Scott Walker. Then a few weeks after that ad appeared what did I see come up in the news? Obama said that Romney raised more money than the Obama campaign… (“hey look they are outspending us.”) I thought AH HAH! I was right.
Other people tried to push that idea but the truth is that when compared side by side Obama has raised more money for his campaign over all. Romney only raised more than Obama in the past couple of months.
But to me the fact that Romney raised more than Obama shows me something. That is the people (who are donating to his campaign) would rather see Romney in office than Obama.
The fact that Romney is getting more means, to me, thst hew is the guy that more people want in office. That Obama has screwed up badly enough that they want him gone.
Still let’s be honest. Even though Romney did raise more lately than Obama has OVERALL Obama is still ahead of Romney. They will make it SOUND like it is the other way around but the fact of the matter is that it is all deceit and lies.
So this November please do not listen to the BS and find the truth consider all angles and vote for the BETTER choice.
I immediately wondered if there wasn’t an ulterior motive to that ad.
Other events that have occurred since then have reinforced that thought. The thought I had was this was an attempt to try to deceive people. This, to me, looked like a way that they could point at the money spent and the democrats could say the only reason Mitt Romney won (idf he did win) was because he outspent Obama. That he Bought the election.
This is exactly the thing they said about Scott Walker. Then a few weeks after that ad appeared what did I see come up in the news? Obama said that Romney raised more money than the Obama campaign… (“hey look they are outspending us.”) I thought AH HAH! I was right.
Other people tried to push that idea but the truth is that when compared side by side Obama has raised more money for his campaign over all. Romney only raised more than Obama in the past couple of months.
But to me the fact that Romney raised more than Obama shows me something. That is the people (who are donating to his campaign) would rather see Romney in office than Obama.
The fact that Romney is getting more means, to me, thst hew is the guy that more people want in office. That Obama has screwed up badly enough that they want him gone.
Still let’s be honest. Even though Romney did raise more lately than Obama has OVERALL Obama is still ahead of Romney. They will make it SOUND like it is the other way around but the fact of the matter is that it is all deceit and lies.
So this November please do not listen to the BS and find the truth consider all angles and vote for the BETTER choice.
September 01, 2012
America the Majestic
Recently God gave me a new one. A quote that I had forgotten.
It comes from the movie “The Majestic” starring Jim Carrey.
In it Carrey plays a character Named Peter Appleton, in the 50’s, who is accused of being a communist sympathizer. This was set in the High point of the McCarthy era where to be affiliated with communism was, well, taboo. And the McCarthy senate hearings were aimed at rooting out this insidious menace ala witchhunt.
Well Mr. Appleton loses everything in one fell swoop, Girlfriend, Job, money, life, All gone. So he goes out, gets drunk and then is in an accident where he loses his memory.
He is found by some good people in a small town who think he is actually a long lost hero of WW2 one of their own sons who he looks like, he doesn’t know any better so he accepts what he is told.
The town takes him in and cares for him and soon he is part of their community. Then tragedy strikes right as he starts getting his memory back, and before he can set things right the government comes to get him.
Very soon the government agents realize that the guy is falsely accused and they really have nothing on him. But they also have all the power, they can make him disappear as it were or shout loud enough that it doesn’t matter how innocent he is they can make him out to be the scapegoat.
Not wanting to look bad though (gotta cover your butt) they offer him a deal. If he confesses and reads a prepared statement renouncing his communist leanings and implicating other people they will let him off the hook.
When he points out that he was innocent to begin with, Stating that he has rights after all this is a democracy, he is told,
“The declaration of independence, the constitution, they’re all just pieces of paper with signatures on them, you know what a piece of paper with a signature on it is, it is a contract, something that can be renegotiated at any time. It just so happens that the house un-American activities committee is renegotiating the contract this time, next time it will be somebody else. There will always be somebody.”
Instantly I thought of what we are going through today. We have people in Washington trying their hardest to “renegotiate the contract” and they are doing so without OUR consent. In order for the renegotiations to be valid all parties have to sign or the contract is non-binding. That is IF I do not sign that new copy, I am not to be held to that new contract.
We need to go out and vote this year, we need to let the people who are trying to change our lives that we will NOT agree to this new contract and we need to stand up for the contract that exists now. And when they try to change it without our consent we need to fire them for breach of contract.
We need to do like Peter does in the movie, we need to look at the constitution and stand up and say NO. NO I will not let you do these crimes to the people that are supposed to be protected by this document.
It took a lot to get him to that point. I pray that we do not have to wait so long or be pushed so hard before we reach the point where we will stand up for what is right.
In fact, if you would like to realize something today let it be this. When our military swears to uphold what this nation holds dear, they do not swear to protect the president, or the congress, or the people even. They swear to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
We all, every one of us ought to do the same.
How many of us would say as he did at the end, “I have never been a man of great conviction, I never saw the percentage in it, Quite frankly I suppose I lack the courage, see I’m not like Luke Trimbul he had the market cornered on those things… I can’t help but wonder what he’d say if he were standing here, the America represented in this room is not the America he died defending. I think he’d tell you your America is bitter and cruel and small I know for a fact that his America is big… where every American has a voice…”
Then he goes on to read the first amendment and follows up with, “this is the first amendment mister chairman it’s everything we are about if only we would live up to it. It’s the most important part of the contract every citizen has with his country. Even though these contracts the constitution and the bill of rights even though they are just pieces of paper with signatures on them they are the only contracts we have that are most definitely not subject to renegotiation… not by anyone ever!”
He made the point that, Men and women have died to keep that contract and every time we try to change it we dishonor them and the sacrifices they have made.
Please and this does come from the heart PLEASE this year remember the sacrifice that all the soldiers have made and keep that contract stand up and tell your congressman or even the president that this stops NOW. That we will all abide by the contract that has served us so well for a couple of centuries. And that NO one has the right to take it away from us now.
It comes from the movie “The Majestic” starring Jim Carrey.
In it Carrey plays a character Named Peter Appleton, in the 50’s, who is accused of being a communist sympathizer. This was set in the High point of the McCarthy era where to be affiliated with communism was, well, taboo. And the McCarthy senate hearings were aimed at rooting out this insidious menace ala witchhunt.
Well Mr. Appleton loses everything in one fell swoop, Girlfriend, Job, money, life, All gone. So he goes out, gets drunk and then is in an accident where he loses his memory.
He is found by some good people in a small town who think he is actually a long lost hero of WW2 one of their own sons who he looks like, he doesn’t know any better so he accepts what he is told.
The town takes him in and cares for him and soon he is part of their community. Then tragedy strikes right as he starts getting his memory back, and before he can set things right the government comes to get him.
Very soon the government agents realize that the guy is falsely accused and they really have nothing on him. But they also have all the power, they can make him disappear as it were or shout loud enough that it doesn’t matter how innocent he is they can make him out to be the scapegoat.
Not wanting to look bad though (gotta cover your butt) they offer him a deal. If he confesses and reads a prepared statement renouncing his communist leanings and implicating other people they will let him off the hook.
When he points out that he was innocent to begin with, Stating that he has rights after all this is a democracy, he is told,
“The declaration of independence, the constitution, they’re all just pieces of paper with signatures on them, you know what a piece of paper with a signature on it is, it is a contract, something that can be renegotiated at any time. It just so happens that the house un-American activities committee is renegotiating the contract this time, next time it will be somebody else. There will always be somebody.”
Instantly I thought of what we are going through today. We have people in Washington trying their hardest to “renegotiate the contract” and they are doing so without OUR consent. In order for the renegotiations to be valid all parties have to sign or the contract is non-binding. That is IF I do not sign that new copy, I am not to be held to that new contract.
We need to go out and vote this year, we need to let the people who are trying to change our lives that we will NOT agree to this new contract and we need to stand up for the contract that exists now. And when they try to change it without our consent we need to fire them for breach of contract.
We need to do like Peter does in the movie, we need to look at the constitution and stand up and say NO. NO I will not let you do these crimes to the people that are supposed to be protected by this document.
It took a lot to get him to that point. I pray that we do not have to wait so long or be pushed so hard before we reach the point where we will stand up for what is right.
In fact, if you would like to realize something today let it be this. When our military swears to uphold what this nation holds dear, they do not swear to protect the president, or the congress, or the people even. They swear to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
We all, every one of us ought to do the same.
How many of us would say as he did at the end, “I have never been a man of great conviction, I never saw the percentage in it, Quite frankly I suppose I lack the courage, see I’m not like Luke Trimbul he had the market cornered on those things… I can’t help but wonder what he’d say if he were standing here, the America represented in this room is not the America he died defending. I think he’d tell you your America is bitter and cruel and small I know for a fact that his America is big… where every American has a voice…”
Then he goes on to read the first amendment and follows up with, “this is the first amendment mister chairman it’s everything we are about if only we would live up to it. It’s the most important part of the contract every citizen has with his country. Even though these contracts the constitution and the bill of rights even though they are just pieces of paper with signatures on them they are the only contracts we have that are most definitely not subject to renegotiation… not by anyone ever!”
He made the point that, Men and women have died to keep that contract and every time we try to change it we dishonor them and the sacrifices they have made.
Please and this does come from the heart PLEASE this year remember the sacrifice that all the soldiers have made and keep that contract stand up and tell your congressman or even the president that this stops NOW. That we will all abide by the contract that has served us so well for a couple of centuries. And that NO one has the right to take it away from us now.
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