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Dec
4
Iran and their NUKES – NIE Report
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Everybody is harping on the fact that they supposedly ceased their development in 2003, but they still are seeking uranium. They still have all the centrifuges — and, you know, that’s not to produce gasoline or electric power for the people of Iran. It would be silly to take this report and say, “Oh, sweetness and light! They’re not a threat anymore,” just as it’s silly for Mrs. Clinton to say, her diplomacy — which there hasn’t been any diplomacy she was involved in, her idea of diplomacy — is what’s brought about the success here?

We’re foolish to accept that.

This whole thing is being looked at in the wrong way. It’s being looked at through the prism of Democrat Party politics, which is exactly how the media wants these things looked at, and the prism of Democrat Party politics is about the presidential election in ’08 and how we can destroy Bush.

Pure and simple. That’s all this report’s worth to them. That’s all that matters to them about it, and they cannot be trusted with the defense of this country at their feet.

They cannot be trusted. It’s not just a lack of maturity on this.

These people are just dangerously wrong in their entire worldview — and I would suggest also their view of this country is offensive to me.

The NIE Report: It’s a snapshot of a battlefield shrouded in fog.

Just because the snapshot doesn’t show the enemy down there, doesn’t mean they’re not hiding in the fog, and that is why intent must be considered. Virtually every nuclear power developed their weapons program in secrecy right under the noses of the Internet community, just as Iran is doing, or has been doing, now. Now you have to look at the intent of the Iranians, not our hopes and dreams for the Iranians.

When I read this business that the NIE report suggests we must “find alternative ways for establishing and maintaining the Iranians’ prestige,” i.e., their self-esteem in that part of the world and so forth, screw that! What about our prestige? What about our national security? We can’t ignore what this nut job is saying. He’s clearly articulating his intentions and his desires regarding the United States, Israel, and the rest of the world.

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Dec
4
Economic Growth and the Democrats
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Democrats… play the class-envy card

We have great economic news out here today, this is tremendous.

“Employers added about twice as many new employees last month than expected.”

It’s always a surprise when the economy does well. This is Reuters that happens to be reporting this.

“Factory orders edged up. The government reports on Friday implied the economy was strong enough to avoid a recession.”

Who’s talking about a recession? The Media is talking, the Democrats are talking, what recession?

Larry Kudlow is on with Robert B. Reich. They’re discussing the economic growth numbers that came out earlier this week, 3.9%, and the jobs numbers. Robert B. Reich said, “At least we can say that with these job numbers the recession is not starting now.” What is all this talk about a recession?

USA Today, by Susan Page:

A year before voting, a nation of discontent, divided by the war, anxious about the future, Americans want some fixes. “Call us the Unhappy States of America. One year before Election Day 2008, most Americans are dismayed by the country’s direction, pessimistic about the Iraq war and anxious about the economy. Two of three disapprove of the job President Bush is doing. Nearly a year after Democrats took control of Congress, three of four Americans say it isn’t achieving much, either. In all, 72% of those surveyed in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Oct. 12-14 say they are dissatisfied with how things are going in the USA while just 26% are satisfied. Not since April have even one-third of Americans been happy with the country’s course, the longest national funk in 15 years.”

Fifteen years, 1992. Why, that just happens to coincide with the Clinton campaign, the worst economy in the last 15 years, isn’t this a coincidence?

“‘Don’t get me wrong, America’s a great country,’ says Lori Jones, 46, a medical assistant in Phoenix. But she worries about her family’s finances and prospects for the next generation. ‘I think we’ve somehow lost our way.’” They plucked her out of nowhere, she’s an American. “There’s plenty of time for attitudes to change before the election, of course, but the current landscape is the sort that in the past has prompted political upheaval and third-party candidacies. The last time the national mood was so gloomy was in 1992, when the first President Bush was ousted from the White House and H. Ross Perot received the highest percentage of the vote of any third-party candidate in 80 years. Bill Clinton was elected amid economic angst.“ This is a four-page story. I’ve only gotten through half of the first page.

Now, this is classic. This story and others like it for the past four years is exactly why some people have a pessimistic attitude about the economy, when the facts are the economy is roiling; it’s doing fabulous.

Forty-two percent of California’s voters say that the state is headed downward. “California voters are becoming increasingly pessimistic, with immigration issues topping their worries. … But now, burdened by a sputtering economy and doubts about the ability of elected officials to deal with mounting problems, voters’ outlook is split — 42 percent of them said the state is headed in the right direction, while 42 percent gave a negative view.”

Most of it is due to immigration, and whose issue is that? It’s a bunch of Democrats. Democrats have got the state of California in trouble. If only the Republicans had somebody who could connect the dots for voters in California.

But amidst all of this, all of this doom and gloom, Larry Kudlow had a great piece that ran in NRO:

“If things are so bad, why are they so good? With all the gloom coming out of Wall Street, the Democrats on the campaign trail, and the mainstream media, a remarkable thing just happened: Real gross domestic product, the best summary report of the American economy, came in at a breathtaking 3.9 percent annual rate for the third quarter. In fact, following the 3.8 percent growth rate for the second quarter, the U.S. economy has posted its strongest quarterly growth in four years. The economy actually appears to be speeding up, following the relatively sluggish performance of the prior 18 months. On top of this, the inflation rate is actually slowing down. The consumer spending deflator is reading 2.1 percent for the past year, compared to over 3 percent six quarters ago. The core inflation rate is down to 1.9 percent, below the Fed

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Dec
3
Conservatives 101: Doers, Not Whiners
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We conservatives are not whiners.

We’re doers!

Life is hard. It’s got roadblocks. It’s got obstacles. It’s got challenges to it. It’s got liberals in it, and it’s got government, whoever is running it. The difference between liberals and conservatives is: We don’t sit around and whine about things. We do whatever is necessary to get past these obstacles, because whining doesn’t accomplish anything, and complaining.

I realize we all have to vent, but it’s sort of like saying you feel sorry for somebody.

Good. What’s that going to do for ’em? A little show of affection, “I feel so sorry,” good. That’s great, but now what are you going to do?

Life is action!

It’s not a spectator sport, and we conservatives do not go around feeling sorry. We lament the fact that government’s in our way and we try to do everything we can to elect people that will get government out of our way, but sometimes they don’t.

We don’t give up and start whining about it.

We kick ’em out, and we replace ’em with new people, or else they quit on their own, so they can become lobbyists a year before the rules change. (No names mentioned here.)

If the Democrats get in. You think you’ve got obstacles to running your business now — that’s the nature of government. It grows and it intercedes and it wants to take more and more control via regulation and a number of other things, as we all know.

We do have a great war that we’re fighting here, but I may have a different definition of the war we’re fighting.

I think the war we’re fighting in this war in this country is against liberals. The war that we’re fighting here is against the media, who are trying to secure America’s defeat, who are trying to promote in the minds of as many Americans as possible that there is no such thing anymore as American exceptionalism. They’re trying to pollute and poison the minds of the American people into believing their country’s better days are behind them, and we have no future, and it’s bleak and it’s miserable.

I have no patience for that because it,

A. isn’t true — and I get very frustrated, when people fall prey to the old conventional wisdom about that. Because we’re a bunch of doers. Anybody can sit around and complain about what is and then blame the president for it. But I want you to ask yourselves, Just how much impact on a daily basis in your business or your life does any elected official have, as opposed to the impact on it you can have?

Now, I’m not being Pollyannaish here, because there are differences.

A liberal politician in charge is going to be a much greater obstacle than, say, a conservative or somebody else. We’ve had liberals in power, in my lifetime; we’ve had Republicans in power, and throughout my lifetime, people have prospered, and they have done what’s necessary to do so. We’re involved in politics, and we’re interested in politics primarily because we each, as individuals, have a vision for the future of the country, and we realize that there is a government, and we realize it has to be led.

We also realize that a lot of people in the country have to be led, that they’re not self-starters and so we want leaders that reflect our world view and our core beliefs and principles. When we don’t get them, we think, “Oh, my gosh, we’re in trouble. Ah, everything is going to hell in a handbasket,” but it never really does.

However, we’re at a point now where I think a lot of people are really, truly worried about what the future of the country will be, given the election of the Clintons. You have more control over your life and your future and how to deal with these obstacles than you realize, and if you just learn to get hold of and grasp that concept, just the idea of being able to take action to deal with it, and sometimes it’s not going to work, nothing works all the time, there are going to be ups and downs — and that’s the point.

But for every down there is a corresponding up that’s going to happen down the road, and when the up happens, we’re generally better off than we were when the previous down occurred.

Miserable all the time, that’s liberals. They’re incapable of being happy, and look at ’em! They’re literally miserable.

We all only get one life — — and there’s enough suffering in life without making your own, which is what way too many of us do.

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Dec
3
Socialism and inevitability — Chavez/Clinton saga…
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If there was somebody in the world that had more inevitability about his election future than Mrs. Clinton, it was Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez was even more inevitable than Hillary Clinton. He had even more control of the media in Venezuela than she does here. He has even more power to kneecap opponents than she does.

And yet he lost! Venezuela won!

He had a reform package, quote, unquote, reform package that would have made him dictator for life. It would have eliminated term limits on him, and now he can’t serve beyond 2012, theoretically. I mean, this isn’t over. But, nevertheless, it seems that there could be a message here for the Media and their template that Mrs. Clinton is inevitable. Hugo Chavez wasn’t.

And she isn’t.

They’re crying in San Francisco over this, by the way. So what we have here in Venezuela, one small setback for socialism and a giant setback yet to happen here in the United States in a setback for socialism.

Remember, now, Hugo Chavez had all the things going for him. He hated George Bush. He came to the UN and he called him the devil. He’s cozied up to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

We’re the most hated country on Earth, right?

And Hugo Chavez was going to reap the benefits here. By the way, his oil price is falling today as well, but it’s a little too soon to get excited about Hugo Chavez and I’ll tell you why.

Robert Mugabe is the dictator in Zimbabwe, and he had a package of reforms in 2000 or 2001 that was identical, I mean very close, very similar to what Chavez proposed in Venezuela, and yet he’s still in power and it was two or three months after that vote when he was defeated that he decided to start seizing all of the farmland owned by white farmers in Zimbabwe and nationalize it.

So, to expect Chavez to just take this and go down to defeat and not try to revitalize his, quote, unquote, reforms, is a little crazy.

But there’s a silver lining here, because the conventional wisdom is, I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but so much in the Media was very effusive in its praise for Hugo Chavez, primarily because of his hatred for George W. Bush and his mocking him, and having a renegade like Chavez out there served the purpose and the narrative of a biased Media who said the world hates Bush, and even if Chavez is a nut, look who made him a nut? Bush made him the nut, because Bush is threatening him and so forth. Venezuela shouldn’t be threatened by us, blah, blah, blah.

Now in Chavez’s case, the place that he actually lost the debate, lost the vote was in the poor areas of town and the poor populations, primarily of Caracas but throughout the country, and they were going to supposedly be the prime beneficiaries of all this socialism, but it’s like the Soviet Union is or was now. There are shortages of food… I mean basic staples of life.

Socialism just doesn’t work, and it’s not inevitable, despite leftists in this country and around the world trying to make everybody think that it is. Hugo Chavez down to defeat in terms of his reforms. He’s still the president ’til 2010, and I’m sure he’s conniving to find ways to make it even longer than that.

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Dec
2
Oil prices fell Friday… PANIC TIME.
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How can this be?

“Oil prices fell Friday on expectations that OPEC will decide to increase output at its meeting next week and as concerns of a supply disruption from a US pipeline fire abated.”

Well, this is good news. This is not supposed to happen. Oil is supposed to keep going up, people were talking about a hundred bucks a barrel, 200 bucks a barrel.

But crude prices are coming down.

I fully expect, folks, that by the time you leave work this afternoon, a full 25 cents will be off the pump price than when you left home this morning.

Ha! Just kidding.

But remember, when the oil price was shooting up, the gasoline price held steady for a while, and that was because of market forces as well.

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