So much for killing them with kindness, eh Mr. President…

Obama vowed when he took office to extend a hand to troublesome countries “willing to unclench your fist” but so far he has had little success with North Korea or Iran, which have continued to advance their nuclear programs and showed little interest in renewed dialogue.

I guess he thought that talking with them, from one now socialist nation (ours) to another, they might listen.  I guess he was wrong (again).

Even the Russians see what Americans won’t.  If this doesn’t wake you up, nothing will and from the l0oks of it.  Nothing will.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

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Hmm, Woody Allen is in on this.  He’s sure credible.

Read this:

“It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him,” said the petition,

How can these jackasses sign their name to a petition that is trying to free a convicted child rapist?!?!  They are horrified that they are subject to the same laws as everyone else!  In their self-indulgence, they believe that their cultural events are more important than justice for a child who will forever be haunted by what this monster did to her.  Yet they are only concerned about what a great filmmaker he is???

Friends, eh?

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.

Oh, but there’s no such thing as too much spending.  What could possibly happen? It’s not like some foreign power could have any influence over us just because we owe them billions of dollars!

An alleged terrorist accused in the grisly murders of four Americans appeared in court Wednesday in Iraq. But Ahmed Hashim Abed isn’t the one on trial. Instead, he was testifying against one of the Navy Seals who arrested him last September.

Petty Officer First Class Julio Huertas of Blue Island, Illinois, is being tried at a military base on the western outskirts of Baghdad. Huertas and two other Navy Seals face charges in connection with Abed’s arrest, during which the prisoner claims he was punched and kicked by at least one of his captors.

The president should step up and put an end to this.  Of course, he won’t because that’s not what liberal politicians do.  You have to treat terrorists with kid gloves while you’re kissing their ass and “reaching out” to them to try to make them like you.

President Obama has been privately reaching out as he calls it to muslims and muslim organizations.  This trial is nothing more than more ass kissing.  He bows to a Saudi prince, he even bows to the Chinese president, but he won’t lift a finger to stop this travesty of justice.  Some leader he is.

So just how is that hope and change working out for you?  I certainly have hope that we can change the mess Obama has made in the short time he’s been president.  It’s kinda like when you get a bad rash.  It appears out of nowhere, but once the damage is done it can take a very long time, comparatively, to get rid of it again.  That’s the conundrum we find ourselves in now.

He’s been captured, but it looks like our “friends” in Pakistan and Afghanistan may end up releasing him to cut a deal with the Taliban. Apparently, that’s why they’ve kept this a secret and it seems like the Obamanation may be playing along as well.

The president’s top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a “legitimate tenet of Islam,” arguing that the term “jihadists” should not be used to describe America’s enemies.

During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,” but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in “religious terms.”

via FOXNews.com – Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as ‘Legitimate Tenet of Islam’.

I guess they are just friends of the president, much like so many other terrorists who are in charge of our country right now.

On a whirlwind visit for talks in Germany and the UK on the global economy and the eurozone crisis, Mr Geithner stopped short of public criticism of European governments for excessive spending cuts. But he warned of the need for a balance between financial austerity, tougher regulation and continuing growth incentives.

via FT.com / Europe – Geithner talks up stability deal.

These people just don’t get it.  You cannot create an environment for prosperity by taxing and spending.  Restraint is the key, not spending money that you’re going to have to take from the earners.  The short sightedness of these people is amazing.  They don’t think past their own next move.  Blame someone else and expect the next guy to bail me out.

When Atlas finally does shrug, it’s going to be a disaster all around.  The problem is that the looters are always looking for the next person to blame it on or to bail them out.  When you run out of options, the only way up is after you hit the bottom.  Don’t look for a bounce from the bottom either because it’s going to be an ugly flat line before it starts creeping back up and only then if the powers that be get out of the way.