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		<title>Sarah Palin Is So Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Sarah Palin" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sarah-palin2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="160" />If you tune into the news, whether it be mainstream ("Lamestream" and Liberal / Socialist) or alternative, you've been inundated by the puling, anti-American Liberals deriding Mrs. Sarah Palin. Most often their greatest insult is that she's "so stupid."

I'll leave aside for the moment that this hatred and fear started with the wastes-of-vaginas that make up the modern iterations of the Feminists.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Sarah Palin" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sarah-palin2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="160" />If you tune into the news, whether it be mainstream (&#8220;Lamestream&#8221; and Liberal / Socialist) or alternative, you&#8217;ve been inundated by the puling, anti-American Liberals deriding Mrs. Sarah Palin. Most often their greatest insult is that she&#8217;s &#8220;so stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll leave aside for the moment that this hatred and fear started with the wastes-of-vaginas that make up the modern iterations of the Feminists.</p>
<p>So, concentrating in this post instead upon the more generalized Leftist hatred and derision of Sarah Palin, we are left with with factual and logical failing that they, the puling anti-American Liberals and Progressives, cannot even bear to admit to.</p>
<p>Sarah Palin is so stupid that she backed Sarah endorsed 94 candidates in the 2010 local, state, and national elections, of 60 won, 33 lost, and 1 race still being undecided. That&#8217;s a 64% success rate and better than all of the power brokers who feed off of D.C!</p>
<p>Tell me, you  filthy little Liberal vermin, how many of the few Democrat candidates who <em>were willing </em>to let your Messiah, Obama stump for them won? Harry Reid and who?</p>
<p>Yeah, Sarah Palin is so stupid. With stupid like that you&#8217;ll be calling her Madame President or un-assing the country. For the record, I strongly suggest the latter; it&#8217;ll save Americans the cost of ammo.</p>

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		<title>It Wasn&#8217;t Futile!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how, back in 2008, the domestic enemies of America declaimed that our nation had lurched to the Left like some sort of shambling, drug addicted, derelict? Remember how they crowed that the installation of Barack Obama as POTUS proved that resistance to the Leftists' agenda was futile?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember how, back in 2008, the domestic enemies of America declaimed that our nation had lurched to the Left like some sort of shambling, drug addicted, derelict? Remember how they crowed that the installation of Barack Obama as POTUS proved that resistance to the Leftists&#8217; agenda was futile?</p>
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<a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/gallery/miscellaneous/obamaborg.jpg" title="Barackus of Borg declaimed, &quot;Resistance Is Futile, You  Will Be Socialists.&quot; It was very, very wrong. America proved that!" class="thickbox" rel="singlepic512" >
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<p>They and their Messiah, President Obama, were very, very wrong. Resistance was not futile; America has not lurched to the Left and remains a proud and sovereign nation. The results of the 2010 Elections, which turned the nations electoral map red at local, state and federal levels, proved that to any and rational minds without a shadow of doubt.</p>
<p>To <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/the-false-prophet/">quote Obama</a>, himself:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth, it’s a matter of faith.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>To the followers of Obama and his anti-American agenda I say, amend your faith and assimilate, as all foreigners within <em>our</em> borders must, into the Body of America or be treated as any other cancer or foreign infection must always always be treated.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Olbermann&#8217;s Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Keith Olbermann - Liberal Pundit, Media Personality, and Anti-American Traitor " src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/keith-olbermann.jpg" alt="Keith Olbermann - Liberal Pundit, Media Personality, and Anti-American Traitor worthy of a slow death, preferably by being gut-shot" width="150" height="160" />As most Americans know and Liberals bemoan, Keith Olbermann was <a title="CBS News - Keith Olbermann Suspended by MSNBC - Olbermann Acknowledges He Made $7,200 in Political Donations, Is Suspended Indefinitely without Pay" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/05/politics/main7027892.shtml" target="_blank">suspended without pay indefinitely</a> by NBC on November 5, 2010 for violating NBC News ethics policies. Specifically, he was removed for contributing to the election campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season.

Silencing Olbermann is a great thing for America but I'm not sure this was the way to do it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Keith Olbermann - Liberal Pundit, Media Personality, and Anti-American Traitor " src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/keith-olbermann.jpg" alt="Keith Olbermann - Liberal Pundit, Media Personality, and Anti-American Traitor worthy of a slow death, preferably by being gut-shot" width="150" height="160" />As most Americans know and Liberals bemoan, Keith Olbermann was <a title="CBS News - Keith Olbermann Suspended by MSNBC - Olbermann Acknowledges He Made $7,200 in Political Donations, Is Suspended Indefinitely without Pay" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/05/politics/main7027892.shtml" target="_blank">suspended without pay indefinitely</a> by NBC on November 5, 2010 for violating NBC News ethics policies. Specifically, he was removed for contributing to the election campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season.</p>
<p>Silencing Olbermann is a great thing for America but I&#8217;m not sure this was the way to do it.</p>
<p>The stated reason for NBC&#8217;s suspension of the hyper-Liberal Olbermann was that he directly and willfully violated NBC&#8217;s Newsroom Policy when he made those donations with the one to Raul Grijalva being made immediately on the same day that Olbermann hosted Grijalva on his show:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other outside activities may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist because they may create the appearance of a conflict of interest.  Such activities may include participation in or contributions to political campaigns or groups that espouse controversial positions.  You should report any such potential conflicts in advance to, and obtain prior approval of, the President of NBC News or his designee.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>There is no doubt that Keith Olbermann violated NBC&#8217;s policy which is based upon the journalistic ethics code called &#8211; ironically given the foul and perfidious degeneration of the NY Times &#8211; <a title="NY Times - The New York Times Company Policy on Ethics in Journalism" href="http://www.nytco.com/press/ethics.html" target="_blank">the code of the Grey Lady</a>.</p>
<p>Where doubt, both ethical and logical, arises is in whether or not such standards and policies should be applied to Olbermann.</p>
<p>The ethical question arises from NBC&#8217;s policies themselves. Legal or not, is it right to require as terms of continued employment that employees refrain from full participation in the civic process? These employees are private citizens, and there&#8217;s an ethical  issue with any employment requirement that impinges upon their freedoms of speech and association.</p>
<p>The logical problem is nothing more than a result of a logical fallacy based upon an utterly false and well-disproven postulate, that Keith Olbermann is a journalist or even an employee of a news agency. MSNBC is not a news agency by a creditable definition of the term and Keith Olbermann doesn&#8217;t even <em>attempt</em> to bear any resemblance to journalist.  Applying the code of the Grey Lady to him is patently ridiculous.</p>
<p>So, for what little it&#8217;s worth in the grand scheme of things, I&#8217;m ambivalent about Olbermann suspension. I&#8217;m ecstatic that he&#8217;s been, at least temporarily, stopped from further polluting the airwaves with his filth, but I&#8217;m not fond of why he was removed.</p>

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		<title>On Nov 2 Money Talked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="right-image" title="The Gadsen Flag - Don't Tread On Me" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gadsen-flag-150x150.jpg" alt="The Gadsen Flag - Don't Tread On Me" width="150" height="150" />In the recent 2010 Congressional Mid-term Elections, as in almost all elections in America, money talked. This time, however, Americans weren't listening or, if they were, they certainly repudiated what they heard.

Despite the majority of Dems outspending their GOP rivals they still lost because, contrary to the Liberals' incessant whining, America is not for sale.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="right-image" title="The Gadsen Flag - Don't Tread On Me" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gadsen-flag-150x150.jpg" alt="The Gadsen Flag - Don't Tread On Me" width="150" height="150" />In the recent 2010 Congressional Mid-term Elections, as in almost all elections in America, money talked. This time, however, Americans weren&#8217;t listening or, if they were, they certainly repudiated what they heard.</p>
<p>Despite the majority of Dems outspending their GOP rivals they still lost because, contrary to the Liberals&#8217; incessant whining, America is not for sale.</p>
<p>From the <a title="Washington Post - Defeated Democrats outspent GOP in many campaigns" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/03/AR2010110308244.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>In two-thirds of the House seats that Republicans picked up Tuesday, Democratic candidates had more money behind them, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the Federal Election Commission. Overall, Democratic candidates in the 63 races that flipped to the GOP had $206.4 million behind them, a tally that includes candidate fundraising and spending by parties and interests. That compares with only $171.7 million for their GOP rivals.</em></p>
<p><em> The pattern appears to contradict widespread complaints from Democrats that they were being unfairly overrun by wealthy Republicans, many of whom donated money to conservative groups to spend on political races — unencumbered by the limits and public-disclosure requirements that constrain most political fundraising. The data show that even in many races in which Republicans had more outside help, they still had fewer resources than their Democratic opponents.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>So much for President Obama&#8217;s baseless accusations and mendacious, jabbering attacks against the US Chambers of Commerce and any corporations that his handlers could think of for him to assault and slander.</p>
<p class="highlight" style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been grumblings from within the Beltway for some time but the last couple of weeks leading up to the 2010 Congressional Mid-term Elections saw a sharp increase in behind the scenes rancor between Congressional Democrats and President Obama's White House, and some dissension within the Congressional Democrats themselves.

Is the the Blues' House Divided in the wake of their trouncing by the GOP on November 2, 2010? There are some indication that this so and some hints that the surviving Dems are separating into two camps - the Clinton Democrats and the Obama Democrats.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26793" title="Obama And Clinton Both Angry" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/obama-clinton-angry.jpg" alt="A War in the Brewing? Two Dem Parties? Obama Democrats vs. Clinton Democrats" width="450" height="338" />
<strong class="highlight">Internecine War Afoot Soon? Clinton Dems v. Obama Dems?</strong></p>
Word on the street (K Street) and scuttlebutt at the Capital Grille is that there might be a Primary Challenge against Obama. Some of those rumors point to a sudden increase in communications between Secretary of State Clinton and outgoing House Speaker Pelosi as the basis for substantiating this idea.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There has been grumblings from within the Beltway for some time but the last couple of weeks leading up to the 2010 Congressional Mid-term Elections saw a sharp increase in behind the scenes rancor between Congressional Democrats and President Obama&#8217;s White House, and some dissension within the Congressional Democrats themselves.</p>
<p>Is the the Blues&#8217; house divided in the wake of their trouncing by the GOP on November 2, 2010? There are some indication that this so and some hints that the surviving Dems are separating into two camps &#8211; the Clinton Democrats and the Obama Democrats.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26793" title="Obama And Clinton Both Angry" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/obama-clinton-angry.jpg" alt="A War in the Brewing? Two Dem Parties? Obama Democrats vs. Clinton Democrats" width="450" height="338" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Internecine War Afoot Soon? Clinton Dems v. Obama Dems?</strong></p>
<p>Word on the street (K Street) and scuttlebutt at the Capital Grille is that there might be a Primary Challenge against Obama. Some of those rumors point to a sudden increase in communications between Secretary of State Clinton and outgoing House Speaker Pelosi as the basis for substantiating this idea.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em>No, none of this has any online sources. It is a mixture of rumor, hearsay, extrapolation upon past and present behaviors by the principals involved, and some basic sociodynamics.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 71px;"><em>Take it for what it&#8217;s worth and no more, but also no less. I did break / predict <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/2008-election/mccains-vp-pick/">Sen. McCain&#8217;s &#8220;choosing&#8221; Governor Sara Palin</a> as his VP candidate and running mate a full week before the official announcement after all. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
<p>It might get even worse for President Obama than being challenged in the Democratic Primary.  Obama is wounded and weak, politically speaking, and there are always scandals and such that could be used to bring him down. If the Dems are split as rumor claims, the Clinton Dems &#8211; possibly including Pelosi &#8211; might aid the GOP&#8217;s expected attacks against Obama and not even block Impeachment proceedings.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em>Think about it for a moment. Pelosi weakens Obama enough so that Clinton can beat him in a Primary Challenge, then Clinton nominates Pelosi as her VP candidate.</em></p>
<p>One thing to watch for is whether or not Pelosi resigns from the House entirely and, if so, how she goes about it. Another is what Hillary Clinton is doing and how she presents herself to foreign governments, as principal actor or as Obama&#8217;s puppet. </p>
<p>Is the the Blues’ house divided? I think we&#8217;ll pretty much know the answer to that by Christmas.</p>

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		<title>It&#8217;s Not About Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gadsen-flag-150x150.jpg" alt="The Gadsen Flag - Don&#039;t Tread On Me" title="The Gadsen Flag - Don&#039;t Tread On Me" width="150" height="150" class="left-image" />The 2010 Mid-Term Elections are over and the results were loud and clear with the Republican party gained 60 seats in the US House of Representatives, 6 seats in the US Senate, 8 Governorships, and somewhere around 500 seats at the State level across America.

But these election results are not about victory; they're about defeat and who was defeated.

This was a defeat and repudiation of the agenda set forth by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid; it was not necessarily an endorsement, ringing or otherwise, of the GOP.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gadsen-flag-150x150.jpg" alt="The Gadsen Flag - Don&#039;t Tread On Me" title="The Gadsen Flag - Don&#039;t Tread On Me" width="150" height="150" class="left-image" />The 2010 Mid-Term Elections are over and the results were loud and clear with the Republican party gained 60 seats in the US House of Representatives, 6 seats in the US Senate, 8 Governorships, and somewhere around 500 seats at the State level across America.</p>
<p>But these election results are not about victory; they&#8217;re about defeat and who was defeated.</p>
<p>This was a defeat and repudiation of the agenda set forth by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid; it was not necessarily an endorsement, ringing or otherwise, of the GOP and it would be best for these new Representative and Senators, and the Republican party leadership to never forget that simple but profound fact.</p>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="obamicon-resist" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obamicon-resist.gif" alt="" width="150" height="228" />A word of warning to good people of America. In just two days time on November 2, 2010 the Liberals trying to rule over rather than govern we, the People are likely going to suffer heavy losses in the Congressional Mid-Term Election - and that is a good and righteous thing, both as a punishment for their moral and cultural failings and as a referendum against their messiah, Obama's ongoing pogrom against America.

But this same turn of the tides away from anti-Americanism, back closer to the path our country was envisioned to travel is fraught with the direst of peril for America.

America is in all likelihood about to be faced with a Lame Duck Congress filled with Leftist enemies of everything that America has ever stood for and led by the Triumvirate of Evil, Obama, Pelosi, And Reid.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="obamicon-resist" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obamicon-resist.gif" alt="" width="150" height="228" />A word of warning to good people of America. In just two days time on November 2, 2010 the Liberals trying to rule over rather than govern we, the People are likely going to suffer heavy losses in the Congressional Mid-Term Election &#8211; and that is a good and righteous thing, both as a punishment for their moral and cultural failings and as a referendum against their messiah, Obama&#8217;s ongoing pogrom against America.</p>
<p>But this same turn of the tides away from anti-Americanism, back closer to the path our country was envisioned to travel is fraught with the direst of peril for America.</p>
<p>America is in all likelihood about to be faced with a <a title="About.com - US Government Info - Lame Duck Sessions of the U.S. Congress" href="http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/lameduck.htm" target="_blank">Lame Duck Congress</a> filled with Leftist enemies of everything that America has ever stood for and led by the Triumvirate of Evil, Obama, Pelosi, And Reid.</p>
<p>With so many in the House and Senate returning from electoral defeat and Obama staring into the face of being confronted by an angry, American Congress, it is likely that they&#8217;ll try to ram home as many of their attacks against America as they can before January 3, 2011 when the current session of Congress ends.</p>
<p>The danger facing Americans is  both clear and present; the solution is, however, much less so. Likely it will devolve to each good and true American deciding what actions are feasible and necessary to mitigate the threat, and which of those actions their respective consciences will bear.</p>
<p class="highlight" style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Decision 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/10/26/political-pictures-my-choices/"><img title="Those Are My Choices?" src="http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/271b4e53-d018-41ec-adaf-24930b6db12f.jpg" alt="Those Are My Choices?" width="450" /></a>
<strong class="highlight">Decision 2010 - Tea or Hoping To Rub One Out?</strong></p>

Of course the biggest issue is that "letting the genie out of the bottle" has already proven to be similar to Pandora's horrid mistake. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/10/26/political-pictures-my-choices/"><img title="Those Are My Choices?" src="http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/271b4e53-d018-41ec-adaf-24930b6db12f.jpg" title="Decision 2010" class="alignnone" width="450" /></a><br />
<strong class="highlight">Decision 2010 &#8211; Tea or Hoping To Rub One Out?</strong></p>
<p>Of course the biggest issue is that &#8220;letting the genie out of the bottle&#8221; has already proven to be similar to Pandora&#8217;s horrid mistake. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>If The Axioms Are True</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="The flag flies at half staff over land in mourning for the passing of America" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/flag-at-half-staff1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Let us for a moment consider what must be also be true if the tired and overly simplistic axioms about the Republican and Democratic parties' affiliations and loyalties are actually fundamentally true. Let us, as a mental exercise in preparation for the upcoming 2010 Congressional Mid-Term Elections, take at face value the axioms that the Republicans are the "Party of Business" and the Democrats are the "Party of Labor."

A quick look at America's current situation and how Business and Labor, in the forms of corporations and unions, respectively impact it is needful in order to show the basic truths that must be accepted if those axioms are true.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="The flag flies at half staff over land in mourning for the passing of America" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/flag-at-half-staff1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Let us for a moment consider what must be also be true if the tired and overly simplistic axioms about the Republican and Democratic parties&#8217; affiliations and loyalties are actually fundamentally true. Let us, as a mental exercise in preparation for the upcoming 2010 Congressional Mid-Term Elections, take at face value the axioms that the Republicans are the &#8220;Party of Business&#8221; and the Democrats are the &#8220;Party of Labor.&#8221;</p>
<p>A quick look at America&#8217;s current situation and how Business and Labor, in the forms of corporations and unions, respectively impact it is needful in order to show the basic truths that must be accepted if those axioms are true.</p>
<p>America is a Recession, one that I believe will &#8220;double-dip&#8221; or even  &#8220;triple-dip,&#8221; and grow worse in the upcoming quarters. Worse, while our  GDP has made very modest gains and is showing some growth, albeit  anemically, this &#8220;recovery&#8221; has been an essentially jobless one, with <a title="Trading Economics - United States Unemployment Rate" href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/Unemployment-Rate.aspx?Symbol=USD" target="_blank">unemployment averaging 9.2%</a> since Nov, 2008.</p>
<h3>Employment &amp; Wealth</h3>
<p>Corporations (Business) create wealth and provide for employment as well as goods and services. Unions (Labor) create nothing, simply redistributing the wealth created by the corporations to their membership and their own coffers.</p>
<p><em>Which of these stands the best chance of helping America&#8217;s economy? Creation of wealth and employment or redistributing wealth and controlling jobs?</em></p>
<h3>Representative Of America</h3>
<p>Every member of America&#8217;s labor force either owns a business or is employed by one or more of them. Of that approximately 154 million Americans just 12.3% of them are members of unions.</p>
<p><em>Which represents America more? The businesses that are owned by and/or employ the sum of the American workforce or the labor unions which represent the goals of a mere 12.3% of our labor force?</em></p>
<p class="highlight" style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>So, as we consider who to elect to political office this November, we must consider these axioms about the Republicans and Democrats because, if they&#8217;re even close to true, these elections are going to be critically important for our near-term survival.</p>

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		<title>Obama Can Shove It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Obama looking deservedly tired and dejected" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/obama-dejected.jpg" alt="failure should be painful and it seemingly is for Obama." width="150" height="118" />Remember when Rep. <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/reprimanding-wilson/">Joe Wilson (R-SC) called out President Obama</a> during the POTUS’ speech on ObamaCare before a joint session of Congress? Wilson's cry of, "You Lie!" had the Obama cultists, Congressional Black Caucus, and Liberals in general in an uproar filled with wild, jabbering cries of racism for weeks.

Even many Americans sadly shook our heads and wondered what had become of dignity and decorum in the political sphere.

One now has to wonder if there will be any similar outrage when indecorous and undignified commentary to or about President Obama is coming from a fellow Democrat. In this case the Democrats' candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, Frank Caprio who <a title="ABC News - Rhode Island Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate: President Obama 'Can Take His Endorsement and Shove It'" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/rhode-island-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-president-obama-can-take-his-endorsement-and-shove-i.html" target="_blank">publicly declared</a> that Obama could take his endorsement and shove it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Obama looking deservedly tired and dejected" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/obama-dejected.jpg" alt="failure should be painful and it seemingly is for Obama." width="150" height="118" />Remember when Rep. <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/reprimanding-wilson/">Joe Wilson (R-SC) called out President Obama</a> during the POTUS’ speech on ObamaCare before a joint session of Congress? Wilson&#8217;s cry of, &#8220;You Lie!&#8221; had the Obama cultists, Congressional Black Caucus, and Liberals in general in an uproar filled with wild, jabbering cries of racism for weeks.</p>
<p>Even many Americans sadly shook our heads and wondered what had become of dignity and decorum in the political sphere.</p>
<p>One now has to wonder if there will be any similar outrage when indecorous and undignified commentary to or about President Obama is coming from a fellow Democrat &#8211; in this case the Democrats&#8217; candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, Frank Caprio who <a title="ABC News - Rhode Island Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate: President Obama 'Can Take His Endorsement and Shove It'" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/rhode-island-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-president-obama-can-take-his-endorsement-and-shove-i.html" target="_blank">publicly declared</a> that Obama could take his endorsement and shove it.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>This morning on WPRO Radio Providence, Democratic Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, whom President Obama has not endorsed, lashed out.</em></p>
<p><em>“I never asked President Obama for his endorsement and what’s going on here is really Washington insider politics at its worst,” Caprio said. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I am concerned.”</em></p>
<p><em>Deferring to his friendship with former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator currently an independent gubernatorial candidate who endorsed the president in 2008, the president has not endorsed Caprio.</em></p>
<p><em>Recent polls indicate that Caprio and Chafee are in a tight race. According to the Providence Journal, Caprio was unaware that the president would not be endorsing him until a reporter told his campaign the news over the weekend.</em></p>
<p><em>President Obama will visit Rhode Island this afternoon, touring the facilities of American Cord &amp; Webbing in Woonsocket and delivering remarks at two receptions in Providence, R.I., raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.</em></p>
<p><em>Caprio today charged that the president is “coming into Rhode Island treating us like an ATM machine. I will wear it as a badge of honor and a badge of courage that he doesn’t want to endorse me as a Democrat.“ </em></p></blockquote>
<p>Two salient facts lead me to believe that there won&#8217;t be a similar outcry against Caprio:</p>
<p>Firstly, much of the outrage against Rep. Wilson was fabricated by the Liberals to further the ObamaCare agenda and the rest was just the normal handout-seeking race-baiting Americans have come to expect from the Congressional Black Caucus. What little real outrage was leveled against Rep. Wilson was from the Obama cultists.</p>
<p>Secondly, Obama is an utter and abject failure. Even his one-time supporters have wandered away from him in disillusionment and disgust. He has gone from <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/2010-election/the-party-of-nobama/">Messiah to Pariah</a> with a record breaking rapidity. Liberals aren&#8217;t going to feel or manufacture any outrage over insults to Obama by their own Party members or supporters &#8211; not this close to the elections.</p>
<p>Who knows? Caprio&#8217;s outburst might even <em>win</em> him his very closely contested election.</p>

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