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CEO of AT&T Harold Gineen once said, “The number one cost of business is ego.” Ego stops you from admitting mistakes. Ego prevents you from spreading the credit for successes or accepting responsibility for failures.

And ego prevents you from hiring people more talented than you are. That is what we have with our two major political parties - and it will surely hurt this nation.

Barack ‘KKK Not Proud of and God Damn America - Disown Church, Grandma, half brothers, Crook Resko, fundraiser and Terrorist Ayres, Flip-flop on every issue, fill tires for energy independence, Hussein Obama’ picks a man for vice-president who has more experience in the Senate than Obama. But Joe Biden has never held a real job or ran anything in his life either.

Barack had the perfect pick to solidify his party and his candidacy by picking Hillary Clinton as vice-president. One thing and one thing alone kept him from making the obvious choice. Ego. Barack did not want the Clintons hogging any of the spotlight - which you know they BOTH would have.

So despite what would be best for the Democrats and probably the country (as the Democrats see it), we have two men who are the most inexperienced clowns ever to be on a ticket for the highest office in the world.

Enter John McCain, who has some experience running things in the military at least. By his own admission, he needs help managing the economy.

He won the nomination over Governor Mitt Romney - a highly successful governor and in the most liberal state in the nation - Taxachussetts.

But instead of going with this obvious choice, McCain’s ego makes him pick an unknown, less experienced governor, who is still breastfeeding her infant son!

Romney is much taller and would dwarf McCain on any stage. Romney is younger and much better looking than McCain - even in McCain’s prime. Romney is the better speaker. And Romney has more real world experience than McCain.

Ego makes McCain pick a woman, Sarah Palin, who will tower over him, but she is in heels. And of course she is better looking than he is - but she is supposed to be. She has some experience running things, but now enough to completely overshadow McCain.

You see, with both Obama and McCain, ego prevents them from doing what is best for the country. It has always been - all about them.

The enemies of the United States through out the world are now salivating over either pick we select as president. We will either have an administration with two inexperienced and admitted wimps, cowards and appeasers - or an old man as commander and chief, with and inexperienced political wife still nursing a baby, one heartbeat from the top spot.

A sports better would not like the starting pitchers or the relievers of either team. Nice job my fellow citizens. Nice job. Be sure to pat yourselves on the back when the country goes under, you morons. - Hank Dagny

I see the sicophant main stream press and media (MSPAM) are covering up the chaos caused by liberal protestors outside the convention hall. It figures and is par for the course.

And so the Love-in begins for the people who would destroy the Constitution, and then the United States. After all, rules and laws mean nothing to liberals. Want proof? The Florida and Michigan delegates were granted full voting rights after breaking every rule and regulation the DNC put in place.

So what? Laws, rules, principles, values are so…like yesterday, to Democrats. Just like our Constitution.

I have to get the quotes from the USA Al-Jazeera Today (USAAJT), as I would bust too many televisions if I had to watch “Commies on Display”.

I will comment as what is being shoveled by the Democrats and force-fed to the American public by the propaganda arm of the Democrats – known as the main stream press and media (MSPAM).

William Welch – USAAJT: “Michelle Obama depicted her husband as a hardworking, devoted father who holds fundamental American values.”

Oh really? The stick man never held a real job. He has been a communist organizer his entire life. After all, his next door neighbor, William Ayres is a domestic terrorist – that in a sane world – would be taking a dirt nap with Timothy McVeigh.

Father? As Chris Rock would say, “Want a cookie? You are supposed to take care of your children, you low expectation (expletive).”

Holds traditional American values? First of all, if you have to make that statement means you already have a problem. Second; what those values are – no one has a clue – except that when life begins is above his “pay grade” and he likes Buffet’s idea of “taxing the heck out of people.”

The oldest living socialist the Democrats have the woman killing and ex-rapist Ted Kennedy. This scumbag from Taxachussetts shows up to tell more DNC lies: “Barack Obama will close the book on old politics of race and gender and group against group.”

Are you kidding me? The Democrat Party is designed to pit group against group. How is a male candidate – who skipped over the woman that almost beat him for the candidacy for VP – going to close the liberal ‘gender gap’? Democrat lies are so blatant.

Kennedy closed with, “The hope rises again, and the dream lives on.” That dream for the left is a socialist – communist United States. Pure and simple.

Then there was the dumbest woman in politics – Nancy Pelosi. She said, “The Democrat-controlled Congress has set the county on a better path.” Her Congress has a record low approval rating (single digit). She closed down the Senate with the childish prank of turning off the lights and power, rather than have a vote on an Energy policy. What planet is she on? And why is a low life idiot like her anywhere near a microphone?

And finally, there was Michelle Obama – the woman wanting to be the next co-president. What is it with Democrat men, who need their wives to help them govern? Think about it for just one second. Please!

How would you feel as a soldier under George S. Patton? He is all set to lead you into battle and he stops and says, “Wait, let’s call my wife and see what she thinks.” Yeah, that is a real confidence builder there. Democrat men are not men - or they would not be Democrats. Pure and simple.

Anyway, I scanned the USAAJT section A from stem to stern and there just was not much in the way of quotes from Michelle wanna-be Hillary Obama. If she would have said something worth repeating, I am sure it would have been re-stated by the MSPAM. She was on stage for quite a while - talked almost the entire time - and said nothing. A tribute to the speech writers on the left, I must say.

The woman had to proclaim that she is proud of her country. Same issue as her husband; if you have to say it, there is something wrong in the first place.

From here, it only gets worse - the Clintons for two straight nights. Have a barf bag handy – and hide your women - from both Clintons. – Hank Dagny

The final installment of a great article by Rocco DiPipo:

“Now the 2008 election is upon us. Whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan, the economy or the overblown dangers of anthropogenic global warming, the Democratic Party and its media shills continue crafting and pounding home messages telling us that our national problems, real and imagined, are caused by Bush and the Republicans, They tell us that due to Bush and his policies, our nation is an evil one, our nation is hated by the world, our nation is fractured into pieces, our nation is murdering innocents, our nation is the world’s biggest polluter, our nation is a den of racism, our nation is stingy, our citizens are impoverished, our economy has been destroyed. Collectively, this endless stream of buckshot propaganda adds up to a single, powerful and demoralizing statement: America has come apart at the seams - and George W. Bush and the Republicans are to blame for it.

Though the Democrats and their media shills are responsible for creating that illusion, Bush and the Republicans are to blame for generally ignoring or responding weakly to the Left’s relentless assault on America’s war-time morale. Instead of using the power of the White House pulpit to broadcast a steady, convincing message on the importance of presenting a unified national front in the face of totalitarian Islam, America is instead often treated to incongruous platitudes like, “Islam is a religion of peace.” Instead of a forceful, direct calling-out of the Democratic Party, the State Department and CIA on their numerous subversions of Bush policies, those subversions are usually referred to by the White House as “disagreements.”

Because of the Administration’s seeming refusal to conduct investigations leading to the indictment of those leaking classified security information to the press, and thereby to the enemy, the Democrat-leftwing press consortium has been given implied consent to inundate America with torrents of articles and highly publicized tell-all books from former government officials, some revealing sensitive war-time information, most of them highly critical of America’s Commander-in-Chief — all published while American soldiers and civilians were, (and are), on the ground in combat areas, directly in harm’s way.

With the exception of the Vietnam War, never before in America’s history have such things happened while hostilities were ongoing. And what happened during Vietnam was tame in comparison. Worst of all, due to the subversive Democrat-media barrage, and crippled by its public relations ineptness, Bush and the Republicans could never quite convince the American people of a simple reality: that they are all in the fight of their lives against an implacable, dedicated, totalitarian death cult, one seeking nothing less than America’s utter destruction, and that the fight demands focus and sacrifice from all Americans. Instead of rousing, convincing, patriotic speeches, the public was usually treated to lame utterances from Bush like, “Its hard work . . . we’re working hard . . . we’re making progress.”

The end result of the inability of Bush and his PR team to own and promote the Big Ideas necessary to have focused America on the prize of victory in Iraq and on a greater victory over the worldwide forces of totalitarian Islam, is best summed up by three, short sentences written on a whiteboard in a US Marines barracks:

America is not at war. The Marine Corp is at war. America is at the mall.

It is no wonder the American electorate has slipped into a foul mood — little wonder why it seems that its heart is not in the fight against the totalitarian theocrats who threaten it. For seven years Americans have been pounded with messages that their country and its leaders are unjust, warmongering, and evil and hated by all — it deserves whatever evil it gets.

America now has serious doubts about itself. Its citizens have been pummeled with those terrible messages for so long now, that many of them believe them to be true. They are vulnerable to the Democratic Party’s sudden mantra of Hope and Change and Progress. In a nutshell, here are the mechanics of the crude, hate-based initiative the Democratic Party and its media wing have forced on America since 2001:

1) Invent, inflate, and over-report bad war news. Tie all bad news to Bush and/or Republicans. At the same time, ignore or downplay good news as it relates to Bush, the Republicans or the war(s).

2) Create the illusion of widespread, honest dissent to Bush policies by giving plenty of airtime to leftwing groups and individuals historically antagonistic toward the projection of US, and only US, power. Fail to report the true agendas of those groups — when covering antiwar, anti-Bush protests and events, make sure to meticulously portray antiwar marches as spontaneous gatherings of mainstream, mom and pop Americans.

3) Downplay, ignore and disparage American success wherever you find it.

4) Exalt in, sympathize with and mythologize America’s enemies, vilify and deconstruct its protectors.

5) Downplay America’s generosity and righteousness. Recast a mission that includes saving a nation from a murdering brute and his rapist, sociopath sons as a brutal occupation in the pursuit of American Empire.

6) Fill the Nation’s airwaves, from sea to shining sea, with questionable and sometimes outright false tales of Bush-related misery, butchery, fraud and waste.

7) Foment as much national anxiety and hatred of the Republican leader as money and can buy. George Soros and other moneyed leftists will fund you. Give airtime and print coverage to leftist radicals and Democrats who call Bush a war criminal. Present those radicals and their crazy plans to try President Bush and Vice President Cheney for “war crimes” as worthy of consideration.

Provide coverage to leftwing intellectuals and scientists making anti-Bush statements. Present them as legitimate, non-partisan experts in their fields. Publicize their specious, politicized findings, present those findings as non-partisan, accurate and objective.

9) Present major news coverage of every antiwar protest you can find, whether it draws 100 people or 10,000 people, ignore all pro-US, pro-Iraq War, pro-troop rallies completely or portray their attendees as violence-prone, fringe-lunatic jingoists.

10) Blame a hurricane’s aftermath on Bush. Give news coverage to racists and Democrat crackpots who say Bush and Cheney actually caused the hurricane and blew up levees to kill African Americans. Keep that Bush-hate buzz alive at all costs.

11) Give airtime and print coverage to groups and individuals accusing George W. Bush of having engineered and directed the 911 attacks. Remember, it is not the credibility of accusations that count in shaping public opinion now, but the seriousness and sheer volume of accusations that do.

12) To sow further strife, anxiety and confusion, continue stoking the fires of racial tension and class warfare.

13) Once the onslaught of lies, moral relativisms and crazy notions have created a self-sustaining, luciferous, widespread unhappiness and confusion, dangle a fat bait of silence and tranquility — of Hope, Change and Progress — crowning your deceptive achievement by hooking the same fish you made hungry.

That is the immoral, destructive strategy used by the Democratic Party, even as our soldier sons and daughters have been fighting and sometimes dying to protect us, in the years since 911 to recapture power it unjustly covets as its Divine right.

Now, a master psychological fisherman, Barack Obama, dangles a bait of salvation. As a highly experienced practitioner of Saul Alinsky’s radical arts, he is perfect for the job. Those who know Obama well, like Mike Kruglik, who helped train him in Alinsky’s methods would agree:

“He [Obama] was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation. . . As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.”

It is truly audacious of the Democrats to entice us with their slick-tongued messiah, one who appears out of nowhere and graciously offers to scrape clean and sanitize the same plate of defeat he, his party and their assistants in the media served to America for nearly eight years in the middle of a war. Soon we will see if a majority of the American electorate accepts that offer, or if it rejects it, sending the Democratic Party back to confront the same irrelevance it risked the safety and security of our nation to avoid.”

Thanks Rocco. Well done and well written. – HD

The continued outstanding article by Rocco DiPippo:

A Strategy Emboldened

“Buoyed by the 2006 election success of their Vietnam-era strategy, Democrat leaders and other leftists began openly calling Iraq an ‘unjust’ war, an “unwinnable” war and relying on the short memories of most Americans to hide the fact that many prominent Democrats had actually voted to authorize it.

Jesse Macbeth, Jimmy Massey, Scott Beauchamp and other antiwar frauds who admitted faking tales of atrocities committed by US soldiers were praised by the press and the Democrats as heroic dissenters against the evil Bush war machine, their false tales of butchery and bloodlust spread far and wide.

Widespread, positive coverage was given to antiwar, anti-American, pro-terrorist activists like Cindy Sheehan, who was sanctimoniously christened America’s “Peace Mom” by leading Democrats and the leftwing media, while true American heroes, patriots like Paul R. Smith and Jason L. Dunham, both Medal of Honor winners, both killed in the act of protecting America from her enemies, received virtual media silence for their heroism and sacrifice and little public acknowledgment from Democrat politicians.

The press and the Democrats did however publicly acknowledge American soldiers when they were killed, when they spun tales of atrocities, when they groused or when they returned home and fell through the cracks. They wanted Americans to be ashamed of their soldiers, to be ashamed of the Commander-in-Chief, to be ashamed of America itself. They needed America on its knees — disillusioned, angry at its leaders and their policies — hopeless, sick of hearing about the war and demoralized because then, out of desperation, they would naturally look to Democratic politicians for relief.

The technique of creating discontent and “talking all things Bush down” paid big dividends for the Democrats in 2006. Devoid of credible ideas and solutions, they had nevertheless worked a strategy leading to the re-acquisition of at least some of the political power they had lost during their wilderness years after the Reagan Revolution. The 2006 election confirmed the effectiveness of their “destroy Bush” election strategy. And so the Democratic Party’s attacks on Bush and the Republicans increased to a ferocious level, even as Iraq turned a corner towards security and political stability.

When to the Party’s dismay the Bush troop surge took hold and the situation in Iraq began improving, the Democrats’ defeatist rhetoric reached a desperate, farcical crescendo: “The war is lost,” (even though objective measurements indicated that it was being won) crowed many Democrats, including prominent ones like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry and Barack Obama. Prominent Democrat John Murtha publicly tried and convicted US Marines involved in the Haditha incident before those Marines even went to trial. “Bush lied us into war” became the catch-phrase of almost the entire Democratic Party leadership, even though before the war had commenced many of those same Democrats had access to the same information that the Bush Administration used to justify it.

Power at any cost indeed, even at the defeat and humiliation of one’s own country.”

The last line defines the current Democrat Party. Pure and simple. - Hank Dagny

Continuing with a great article by Rocco DiPippo with [Ed. Notes] included:

Shortly after the US invaded Iraq, Party leaders and their friends in the media started kidney-punching America, pounding away at the wartime president, deriding his administrators and his policies, harping on and grossly magnifying each setback in Iraq.

On the home front, every Bush policy designed to protect America from further attacks was framed and presented by Democratic Party leaders and leftwing 527 groups as direct assaults on the US Constitution and as being destructive to the Bill of Rights. The press followed the Party’s antagonistic lead, flooding the news with disproportionate coverage of subjects like Abu Ghraib, Haditha, US so-called torture and rendition; so-called domestic spying; the so-called rights of terrorists in Guantanamo; the so-called evils of the Patriot Act; the so-called lies of George W. Bush; the so-called warmongering of Dick Cheney and the so-called greed and evil of defense-related corporations like Halliburton.

The effect was to frame isolated incidents of US atrocities and other malfeasances that occur in any war as emblematic of the entire Iraq enterprise. A narrative of an administration hell-bent on imperialistic conquest, spying on Americans and shredding the Constitution concretized within most American and international newsrooms. And who can forget the endemic, Left-generated conflation of the Bush Administration with the Nazis and the invention and promotion of theories that Bush and Cheney planned and directed the attacks of 911 to advance a secret desire of turning America into a fascist state. Those theories were boosted by prominent leftists, including respected author Gore Vidal, who wrote a book promoting such a theory. The collective message of the anti-Bush noise machine was clear and diabolical: The President of the United States was a bigger threat to world peace than men like Osama Bin Laden were. Bush was more evil than Adolf Hitler.

Throughout every phase of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts nearly every negative event, every disaster or perceived disaster, exploded across the front pages of the major US papers and was broadcast by Democrats from the halls of Congress as evidence of Bush’s malevolence, stupidity or incompetence and as evidence of impending American defeat Michael Yon best sums up the result of that grinding media assault on the Iraq War and its American leaders:

“Enemy dominance of the media battle space translated quite directly into military setbacks. Terrorists from many countries swarmed into Iraq to be part of the victory they saw happening on the TV screens.”

Deliberately or not, the Democratic Party and the leftwing media, with their endless criticisms of the Iraq conflict, and their endless public comparisons of that war to Vietnam, sent a direct message to the rag-tag army of ultra-violent terrorists in Iraq who were detonating car bombs in crowded marketplaces, beheading and mutilating civilians and killing American and Coalition soldiers: “Keep the violence up just a bit longer. We’ll take care of wearing down America’s will to win from within, just like during Vietnam.”

[Ed. Note: In other words, liberals were killing American soldiers with their words and deeds just the same as if they became suicide bombers themselves. That is fact! The Audacity of Democrats is really the treason of Democrats.]

Even violent, under-equipped sociopaths facing the most powerful military on earth know a gift horse when they see one, and react accordingly.

On the other hand, nearly every bit of positive war news was whispered in quiet sentences or totally ignored. Today, with the Iraq venture steadily closing in on success, the amount of news about Iraq has slowed to barely a drip. That is quite telling.

Under the deliberate, massive media barrage of negative news about the war and hampered by a lack of coherent strategy with which to counter it, Republican prospects for the retention of Congressional majorities in 2006 looked shaky at best. Then the Congressman Mark Foley sex scandal broke and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate were lost.

[Ed. Note: When Republicans get caught doing anything wrong, they resign and the media still pounds on the story for weeks. When it is Democrats, the crook or degenerate stays in office and the media drops the story after one evening of excuses for why it may have happened and how did the Republicans set the guy up. Liberals get away with it because they admit upfront they are immoral.]

In less than five years, the Democratic Party had gone from being an increasingly irrelevant political minority to controlling both houses of Congress.

[Bush at his lowest had an approval rating of 30%. This Democrat led Congress had an approval rating fall to the historic low of 7%. I can’t believe seven percent of our population is completely clueless. – Hank Dagny]

The Audacity of Democrats – Part II

I continue with the great article by Rocco DiPippo, and continue to be amazed that the Democrat Party still exists in the United States. Obviously almost half of the citizenry of this country has gone mad…or are so ignorant they truly don’t know any better.

With the performance of our school systems, it’s probably the latter.

“Since the American electorate historically views Republicans as being more competent and trustworthy than Democrats in matters of war and security, whatever patriotism was stoked within the hearts of Democratic Party leaders by that September Day of Infamy was likely tempered by an unsettling reality: If America stayed united behind George W. Bush and the Republicans during the coming military response to 911, the Democratic Party would be out of power for a long time.

As the wreckage of the Towers was being scoured for the remains of the murdered, the Democratic Party faced an extended stay in the political wilderness. It must have been an extraordinarily bitter pill to swallow, especially on the heels of its having lost the presidency by a tattered handful of contested votes. Americans did not switch horses in the middle of a war — unless they perceived a war to be headed towards defeat. This was especially true after the 911 attacks. The Democratic Party, with its conflict-averse, Vietnam-era mentality would be naturally unattractive to a war-time electorate seeking vengeance for the mass murder of its brothers and sisters.

A Vietnam strategy develops

Soon after 911, as America shifted into a wartime footing, leftists in academia and in the Legal Left began testing the waters of dissent by deconstructing Bush and the Republicans and blaming American foreign policy for the 911 attacks.

Several professors at major Universities openly proclaimed their wishes to see America defeated and disgraced. One of them, Professor Nicholas DeGenova of Columbia University, announced to those attending a ‘peace’ conference at the school shortly after the 911 attacks that he “wished for a million Mogadishus,” a reference to the loss of 18 US serviceman during a mission to capture a warlord in Somalia in 1993.

DeGenova also said, “the only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military,” and referred to patriotism as a form of white supremacism adding that “My rejection of U.S. nationalism is an appeal to liberate our own political imaginations such that we might usher in a radically different world in which we will not remain the prisoners of U.S. global domination.” Since DeGenova is an American collecting an excellent salary at a prestigious American university, it is puzzling who he meant by “we.”

Within months of 911 the Party and its media assistants began manufacturing anti-Bush, antiwar propaganda with impunity.

Prominent leftwing intellectuals spoke openly of America’s culpability in the 911 disaster even as the Towers still smoldered and the Nation wept, sowing seeds of doubt and divisiveness amongst a population that had been traumatized and then unified by the terrorist attacks.

The press began chipping, then hammering away at the Administration’s war policies and its domestic policies regarding security. When the debate on whether or not to invade Iraq came, there was no doubt which side of the discussion the press — and most of the Democrats — would be on.

Predictably, the historically anti-US, European socialist Left closed ranks with the Democrats and the academic Left. It also fell in line with the neo-communist organized antiwar movement in America that was taking shape. With the first wave of antiwar street protests, the Democratic Party’s mission to reacquire power lurched into high gear. That mission would be accomplished at the risk of weakening America’s security and at the expense of her standing in the world.”

Call it what it is Rocco - treason! A Democrats first love is power – not family, and certainly not country. A liberal is a liberal before they are anything else. – Hank Dagny

Quick hit blurbs of truth from an outstanding article by Rocco DiPippo – called “The Audacity of Democrats.”

“There was a pre-Lewinsky time, before moral relativism blurred America’s vision, when associating with people like Jeremiah Wright (bigot) and William Ayers (domestic terrorist) would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the highest office in the land.”
The Democratic Party is now leftist – not liberal. They are openly socialists and communists.

“Ideological descendants of Marx and Rousseau now lead the Democratic Party and they have turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingly accommodating GOP. They have molded the Party into a force working stridently and unashamedly against a Commander in Chief during wartime. Think MoveOn, International ANSWER, think hordes of young neo-communists and their indoctrinating, puppet-master Marx-spouting professors. Think Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill and his acolytes. Think NYU, Columbia, The New School and Harvard. Most importantly, ponder the makeup and direction of the Democratic Party leadership. Like Barack Obama and his radical friends, it is appallingly far Left.”

The Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support. It is now the political province of the intellectually deceased, where frightened, lock-step ideologues and other small men and women concoct and promote divisive, destructive, weird and cowardly policies developed within a not-so-quaint, quasi-Marxist stricture of gender, class and race.

At a glance, Obama’s quick rise in the world of presidential politics is puzzling. Obama is young and he has less than one Senate term under his belt. Many of the people who tutored and supported him through his personal and political journeys from the backwaters of Indonesia to the main stage of US presidential politics are contemptuous of the US. Some of them publicly express outright hatred of the country Obama now seeks to lead.

So why is so controversial a candidate even in the running to be president?

Because he reflects his Party’s leftist agenda, has unique, prodigious manipulative talents and equally impressive Hollywood attributes. These are indispensable in closing out the dangerous, deliberate game the Democrats have been playing with America’s security and its perceived stature in the world. It is a game that has been going on beneath our noses since the election of 2000.

Its object is simple: the acquisition of power regardless of cost to the Nation. It is something the American people must be reminded of, made aware of, before they enter the voting booth in November.”
IF you vote Democrat, you are a traitor to the United States of America. Pure and simple. – Hank Dagny

Starting with what restaurants you can have if you are on the public dole. Basically, it is communism 101 – government supports you, so you will live as they tell you.

The Los Angeles City Council banned new fast food restaurants from opening in ‘poor’ neighborhoods. The goal of this ban is to combat obesity by drawing a healthier style of restaurants to the area.

The all-knowing liberals on the LA City Council have the audacity to think they know:

what designates a ‘poor’ neighborhood,
what is obese,
which are the ‘healthy’ foods,
what poor eating habits are,
that different restaurants will fill the void they created,
and people will flock to those ‘correct choice’ restaurants,
and the people will eat the food only mandated by the City Council.

Will the City Council then set the prices the restaurants can charge?
Will the City Council then mandate the menu choices and the amounts served?
Will the City Council then mandate the quantity a customer can order – based on the fear they may eat a ‘double’ order?

Before you think I am being ridiculous in my concerns of where and how far the City Council may go, I am already appalled at how far these liberals have gone already.

The San Francisco City Council has now banned pharmacies from selling cigarettes – cutting much needed revenue from the drug stores and hampering the many governments ability to collect much needed tax dollars.

With every city, county and even the state of California in financial hardship, liberals blindly go on their own crusades on how we all should live.

Meanwhile, the job these City Councils are suppose to do; manage a city within budget while providing great services and crime free neighborhoods – they can’t do. But they are on the top of their game when deciding what options we serfs can have for lunch and dinner.

At some point I would think liberals would eventually tell these elite would be rulers – to get their nose out of their business.

But liberals like to be like to be led. That is what makes them liberals. Tyrants prey on these useful idiots in order to get into power.

Communism 101 on display in California. Any Californians notice? I just enlightened the rest of the country. – Hank Dagny

School officials are bracing for funding cuts and shortfalls.

“Every school in the state is on line to go to the slaughterhouse,” a superintendent for a public school system lamented. “The next thing that will have to be cut is people. We’re going to have people who retire and aren’t replaced. We’re going to have layoffs. Staff will begin to lose their jobs. Half the districts in the state are losing kids.”

My answer to that is, so what? You are a government agency whose job it was to educate the children that are present. If there are less ‘customers’, then you need to make cuts in your spending.

The dirty little secret, thanks to fat educational boards and fatter teacher contracts, the budgets and spending have always been based on a growth of the children population and exponential growth of annual school millages. The pension and healthcare expenses for past teachers eats up more and more of the budget for the current crop of teachers …oh, and students.

Now that the citizens have started to recognize what they are getting for their tax dollar from the state education systems, they can no longer automatically be expected to vote to fleece themselves – ‘for the kids.’

This does not bode well for the liberal institution known as Education – a favorite safe haven for liberals avoiding hard work, competition and the demands of actual performance.

Liberalism is on display at literally every school district in the nation. Cost over-runs, debt, run down buildings, outdated tools and a continually degrading performance.

You vote for Democrats, this is what you get. – Hank Dagny

Still on the road and still getting the USA Al-Jazeera Today delivered to my hotel room.

1. Page 1 has the headline “Oversight of airport screening ‘a waste’. Report: Gaps found but follow-up lacking”.

I guess we run tests to see how well the TSA does their jobs at airport security – and when they fail – the follow up of finding the root cause and corrective action is just not happening.

Well, what do you expect? The Democrats insisted the TSA agents be government workers. Have you ever seen an efficient government agency? But let’s give the government our healthcare system.

I can’t make up this lack of common sense that is liberal thinking. No one would believe it, if I just wrote it as a story.

2. Page 3A: “Drivers still leaving cars in park.” Driving is down 5% across the nation.

Well isn’t that what Al Gore and the Democrat environmental communists wanted to have happen? Less driving means less business, less tax revenue and eventually, less jobs. But, this is what you get with liberal Democrat approaches to solutions. Get used to it as the chains of communism get heavier.

3. Page 4A: “36 states offer release to ill or dying inmates – Programs help cut costs of health care, officials say”.

Are you kidding me? How does releasing a sick criminal into society save money? The ‘parolee’ can’t work, has no money and sometimes no place to live. He will simply leave the prison infirmary and show up at a regular hospital – paid for by the government – at a higher cost! That is if he decides not to have one final crime spree, since he is dying soon anyway.

Folks, get your guns. You are on your own if you have not figured this out yet. Our government has one job – and that is to protect it’s citizens. They are doing everything but that.

4. Also 4A: “Head of Ark. Democrats dies in shooting; suspect killed”

That’s a shame.

5. Page 11A: “Ravaging fire season torches Calif. Budget – Wild costs spark plan for residential fees.”
Liberalism at it’s nutty best. Instead of the State of California collecting money from logging companies to clear brush and manage forests for them – the State decides it is better to let the fires happen, kill firefighters, destroy homes, destroy acres of forest and pollute the air with smoke – and let the citizens pay extra for it.

Pure insanity – but that is liberalism.

Does everyone see the possible motive behind #4? People will have had enough of liberals, and sooner than people realize. The trouble is – people instead of standing up for their neighbor when liberals take away your neighbor’s rights, people don’t fight until their rights are under assault.

It is too late then, because there are less free people to stand with you. Liberals count on good people doing nothing. – Hank Dagny