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I Can't Vote Against Nutzi Nancy Pelosi. But Here's What I Can And Will Do.

Dear Pals,

I can and will vote against my current U.S. Congressman and my U.S. Senators if they vote with Nutzi Nancy on the unread, unposted and undebated Trillion-dollar HealthScare Bill/Scam/Power Grab.

I hope that enough people will feel that way too, so that we toss the current crop of DeeCee PECers out and STOP THE INSANITY!

The narrow 5-vote "victory" in the House of Representitutes is hardly a mandate. Get the names of those who voted for this $1.2 Trillion Turkey and let's start the un-election of them today!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, A Mob Of One.

And, we need to send a message to the AARP and the AMA as well.

Kaboooooobama! That's The Sound Of Debt-onation:The Next Big Bang!!! Who SaysThe Recession Is Over? What If Ying and Yang Pull Our Wang!

Dear Pals,

 

Before you get all giddy and pop the champagne corks and start singing, "Happy Days Are Here Again" - look behind the rosy headlines about Ford's $1 Billion "surprise" profit and recent gains in housing and manufacturing.

 

Get the real story.

 

When the Fed closes 9 banks in one day ( 115 so far in 2009) and the biggest factoring company, that was recently bailed out to the tune of $2.3 Bilion files for Chapter 11...things are not "as advertised" in the happy talk sound-bite headlines.

 

 

FROM MSN article The Ying and Yang Economy: This week we had a ying yang market but unfortunately there was more yang than ying so we are down for the second straight week. As measured by the Value Line Index of 1700 stocks we were down 6.26% this week and 1.74% last week with an October loss of 5.31%.

Let's see how the market did using my standard market momentum criteria as found on BarChart:

Value Line Index - an index of 1700 stocks - trending downward but not to panic yet.

• The Index was down 6.26% this week, down 1.74% last week and down 5.31% for the month.
• The Index is tracking below its 20 & 50 day moving average but above its 100 day moving average.
• The Index is off its market high on 10/19 by 9.13%

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Is it Ying and Yang? Or, Yin and Yang?

Either way, the Chinese have the USA by the Wang!**

So "plunk your magic twanger Froggy" and "Buckle up...it might be a bumpy ride."

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One

PS: Do you think that President Obama, Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke could win the Nobel Prize for Economics...or, is Bernie Madoff a shoe in?

**Wang is a Chinese word for wang!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One

PS2: Look Mommy! There's a new President in Afghanistan! And, he's gonna form a new corruption-free, all inclusive government. Hosanna!

Pass the hash-hish hookah, please.

Keep your eyes on New York, Virginia and New Jersey today. Maybe we can get a new President and new House and Senate soon too!

Here Is A Box Of DOTS That Will Blow Obama's Recession Recovery Sky High. Here Comes Dow 5000! Put On Your Depends And Read On, If You Dare.

Dear Pals,

I really do hope I'm wrong about all that I've written here.

Here are the DOTs in the sugar-coated box from The Candyman.

DOT ONE: The US Dollar is falling in value...wheeee!

DOT TWO: The 3.5% Q3 GDP growth is a highly manipulated number - it's totally bogus, because of Cash For Clunkers, cash for first time home buyers and a rise in exports due to the devalued dollar.

DOT THREE: The Fed closed 9 more banks on Friday - despite the influx of TARP funds, banks all across the USA are in disarray financially. There are more to come.

DOT FOUR: TARP funds will not be used by banks to lend to small businesses - instead these TARP funds are being used as "loan loss" reserves on bank balance sheets to cover the risky loans they made in the past, for which they did not reserve enough capital to cover, if the loan went bad. Bank stock values have dropped faster than a hooker's undies and are likely to stay down. ( There is some irony in that analogy! )

DOT FIVE: States are cutting back on staff - 700 state workers lost their jobs in Missouri just this Friday. Why? Declining tax revenues.

DOT SIX: States are slashing budgets, Missouri has to cut another $100 million - some of it out of heretofore sacred Medicare. What's next? The Governor's jet?

DOT SEVEN: Unemployment is currently stated at 10% - right...do you believe that?

DOT EIGHT: Underemployment is an uncountable number...are you fully-employed and getting paid what you're worth? I'm currently getting paid zero. Am I underemployed? Or, am I getting paid what I'm worth?

DOT NINE: Tax revenue is falling like a rock in state after state after state after state...

DOT TEN: State reserves and "rainy day" funds across the USA are gone or evaporating fast

DOT ELEVEN: Commercial real estate loans on bank books are extremely troubled as occupancy and rent revenues plummet. REITs ain't what they used to be. Just count the FOR LEASE signs as you drive around. Or ask my pal "Tom The Torch."

DOT TWELVE: Banks can't find capital to cover deposit liabilties and the FDIC had to do a capital call to have member banks send cash to replenish the FDIC funds used to cover consumer accounts in failing banks.

And when the FDIC says, "Send the dough." The banks bloody-well send it mucho pronto!

DOT THIRTEEN: Consumer confidence is plummeting - no sane person believes anything the politicians are peddling...the smoke and mirrors in the Congressional budgeting process ain't cutting it anymore.

DOT FOURTEEN: Consumer spending has slowed...Q4 "The Golden Quarter" of retailing is likely to be "The Bronze Quarter."

DOT FIFTEEN: Our USA debt is at an all-time high and heading higher...Zillions, Trillions, Billions, Millions...what's a few zeroes among friends. (Hmmmm...that sounds familiar.)

DOT SIXTEEN: Massive new "stimulus" and bailout spending has produced very little real and sustainable job growth outside the government sector.

DOT SEVENTEEN: The Healthcare debacle will add over a Trillion dollars in new "deficit neutral" spending - Look Mommy, there's a pony in the yard and it's free!

DOT EIGHTEEN: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to roll on as Generals in the field are second-guessed by Generals John Heinz Kerry and General Joltin' Joe Biden.

DOT NINETEEN: Q3 Auto sales robbed from Q4 will force further job reductions ala the just-announced Chrysler-FIAT cutback of 23,000 jobs through buyouts, retirement and attrition

DOT TWENTY: There is NO real economic growth in the USA - profit numbers are the result of severe cutbacks in employees, inventory, marketing spending and production and the implimentation of super-tight fiscal management...it's like wearing a XXXXX-Spandex jock strap...I'm talking super tight here!

DOT TWENTY-ONE: If President Obama signs the Copenhagen agreement, the USA will be subject to new taxes on international banking transactions, on energy use here and variety of other crazy levies so that we can pay our "Carbon Debt" to 3rd world countries.

Wait a minute, hasn't the good old USA already sent Trillions in Foreign Aid to these countries since 1945? I think they owe us a Humanitarian Debt!

DOT TWENTY-TWO: China is watching and wondering why they should continue to finance USA debt by buying our Treasury Bonds?  They don't have to call in the debt they already hold...all they have to do is stop buying new debt.

DOT TWENTY-THREE: Who else wants to buy new USA Debt? The Saudis? The Brits? The Canadians, The Aussies, The Sons of Nippon? Banzai! The OPEC-rich countries? Look around pals...I don't see any cavalry riding to the rescue...but there may be 4-Horsemen headed our way.

DOT TWENTY-FOUR: April 15, 2010 - Apocalypse Now!

Due to unemployment, under-employment, business losses, stock market portfolio losses, reduced capital gains and continued economic malaise or decline, and NEW SPENDING, the Federal Government will find its income revenue stream has turned into a puny trickle.

How many taxpayers are: A) off the tax rolls, B) owe less taxes or C) owe no taxes???

Now, connect all those DOTS and what do you get?  Dots on Dominos all lined up to fall one after the other and then go...

KABOOOOOOOOBAMA!

That's DOTS - or Debt-o-nation On Terrible Scale! 

It's the sound of the USA economy imploding from the weight of the debt. It's that lucky old Sun collapsing inwardly to become a dwarf star eclipsed by the Red Giant.

Guess what President Obama's solution will be?

First he'll tax the remaining working people, he'll tax air and your hair and your underwear and then he'll send Tim Geithner back to China to kow-tow to the Chinese economic ministers to get them to buy more debt to fund the US income tax-revenue shortfall.

What will the Chinese do?

Will they:

1) Buy more US debt backed by the "full faith and credit" of the USA? I think the USA's Chinese creditcard might be very close to being max-ed out.

2) Take a really close look at the profligate spending policies of the Spendocrat Congress and the financial manipulations of Obama-Geithner-Bernanke and say, "No thanks, we've had quite enough USA-debt, thank you."

3) Ask, "How much gold is in Ft. Knox? Please put it all on a fast boat to China. You have plenty of empty intermodal containers all over America. Just load 'em up with your strategic gold reserves and ship them to Long Beach, and we'll take it from there."

Remember the Chinese invented the abacus.

They know when things add up and when they don't. They can also look at the USA and see that our manufacturing base isn't there anymore. Actually, they can look out their windows and see it because in the relentless pursuit of next quarter's EPS, we shipped our manufacturing to China and "Indo" to lower the COGS.

Thank God we have an ace-in-the-hole!

We are in the Information Age!!

We don't make a lot of real products anymore, but boy are we connected and man do we know how to use information!! Ask Bernie Madoff or George Soros how fast you can shoot assets around the world.

So here's the plan...we all Tweet the Chinese on our really cool iPhones, and show them 456 pictures of our really cute kids and share our precious FaceBook life moments with them -- and then we can beg them not to make the US dollar worth doo-doo minus two.

The big question is, will we advance to the next level in the worldwide video game, Fiscal Insanity II or will the Chinese simply say, "Game Over."

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, A Mob of One

PS: I'll bet you a 6" Subway Sandwich that you'll never look at another box of DOTS brand candy the same way again.

Well, dots all the ideas I have for today.

See you in the Gulag!

I can't leave you on a gloomy note...

CHEER UP!!

We're all going to eat healthier, lose lots and lots of weight and go green, because we'll all be eating pickled grass, pond algae and stewed leaves!

The heavy rains in the Midwest and South have drastically affected the harvest of corn, soybeans and cotton.

The corn and bean crop is only 23% harvested. It should be 75% to 80% harvested by now, And the corn that is harvested is too wet to store for use in foodstuffs or for use to make ethonal - unless farmers pay 40-cents a bushel to dry it from 28% moisture down to 17%.

Look on the bright side, we'll all be eating a lot less evil chicken that's deep-fried in cotton seed or soybean oil, because chicken wings will be $123.00 a dozen and nuggets will be $13.45 each...unless the dollar drops more in value...in which case there will be a price adjustment passed on to consumers.

Oh oh...if the record corn, soybean and cotton crops don't come in as we had hoped...then we won't have grain to feed to our cattle, hogs and chickens and we won't have hundreds of millions of bushels of grain and soybeans to ship to places like China, India and Saudi Arabia.

Would that effect our balance of trade?

It looks like a Perfect Storm where will NOT reap the grain we have sowed on borrowed money. Sorry, your friendly community banker will have to take the farm, unless of course, you have lots of assets to collateralize.

GREAT FLYING ZORT!!

At least we won't have to worry about outliving our 410(k)s or being too fat!

Dow 5000!! Dow 3500? Dow 2000?

Ready or not, here we come!

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Pelosi Announces Milestone In Healthcare. Ooops, Make That Millstone In Healthcare.

Dear Pals,

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN!! SOMETHING REALLY SCARY!!

The House Ushered In HealthScare Bill is ready...and soon it will be Reidy!

It's just under $900 Billion. (Give or take a $100 billion)

Whew! It might have been a Trillion.

The Good News Is...

It won't add to the deficit.

It won't eliminate or emperil private sector insurance.

It will make small business owners dance with joy.

It is a wonderful miracle of visionary Democrat healthcare for all.

It is a milestone...something future generations will look back on and say, "WTFWTT!"

-------------------- Doth spake Pelosi.

Obama likes it.

------------------- Okay, that settles the question.

It's 2000 pages long and we'll debate it and vote on it by a week from Saturday.

Then, once it's passed the outHOUSE like the giant stinky stool that it is, the WWOW (Wicked Witch Of The West) can remount her taxpayer-funded jet broom and fly back to Califorinia, kick off her high heels, light up a legalized medical joint and enjoy a botox enriched Jack-O-Latern grin from ear to ear.

Nutzi Nancy has done her job...she has delivered ScaryCare.

Now all Senator Harry Reid has to do is deliver Harrycare and they can then get to the task of melding the House and Senate bills to have a bill on President Obama's desk by Christmas.

We could call the merged bill Harry-Scary Healthcare!

Or, if Senator John Heinz Kerry could help...we could call the Senate Bill Harry-Kerry care instead of the Baucus Bill, which makes me want to commit hari-kari.

Too bad they can't fast track this 2000-page turkey - that's stuffed wih new Federal entitlements, mandates, rules and regs in time for President Obama to sign by Thanksgiving.

Bless us and save us Mrs. O'Davis.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One

PS: We can all be sure this is a really good deal because Charlie Rangle, Bwarney Fwank, Mark Murtha and Chris Dodd are checking the math.

Joe Biden already has said it makes perfect sense to him...but so did, telling a guy in a wheelchair to stand up for a round of applause when Joe was out here in Missouri. Maybe the Vice Preisdent thought he was at Lourdes, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.

BUT!

I think there is a TYPO in Speaker Pelosi's speech, it's not a MILEstone in legislation...it's a MILLstone that will drown the finest healthcare system on the planet in a Sea Of Red Ink and a tsunami wave of Helpful Federal Government Legislation.

Hey, that's LIFE...and Mikey, Ooops, I mean Barack likes it. And that means you will like it too.

Just think of it as another lovin' spoonful of sugar-coated politically-correct socialist largesse...but, don't worry, only the wealthy will pay.

You won't see a tax increase...trust the Democrats, they're a whole lot smartet than you and me. (And boy, they know how to hide tax increases!!)

Oh say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave? O'er the land of the Free?

See you in the Gulag!

Robbin' Hood Obama And The Tale Of "Unintended" Consequences. Or Is It As I Predicted In 2008, Tinker To Evers To Buffett??

Dear Pals,

Robin Hood of yore used to take from the rich and give to the poor.

The Robbin' Hood Obama, Tim "The Weasel" Geithner and Ben "Banker's Privilege" Bernanke take from the taxpayers and give to their cronies.

Please read this NYT story. It looks like the TARP program is really working well. (If you don't have the time to read the whole story - an excerpt is at the blog end.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33354321/ns/business-the_new_york_times

Especially for (guess who?) GOLDMAN SACHS.

(FOR BACKGROUND PREDICTIONS: Please read the blogs of 09.25.08 Tinker to Evers to Buffett and of 08.10.09 If it smells like a dirty rotten dead skunk, it might be Goldman Sachs.)

Now, if only that beloved Robbin' Hood Obama can do the same thing for healthcare and Government Motors.

Please pass me the industrial strength barf bag.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

NYT EXTRACT: (bolds are mine)

Titans like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are making fortunes in hot areas like trading stocks and bonds, rather than in the ho-hum business of lending people money. They also are profiting by taking risks that weaker rivals are unable or unwilling to shoulder — a benefit of less competition after the failure of some investment firms last year.

So even as big banks fight efforts in Congress to subject their industry to greater regulation — and to impose some restrictions on executive pay — Wall Street has Washington to thank in part for its latest bonanza.

“All of this is facilitated by the Federal Reserve and the government, who really want financial institutions to get back to lending,” said Gary Richardson, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. “But we have just shown them that they can have the most frightening things happen to them, and we will throw trillions of dollars to protect them. I have big concerns about that.”

Not all banks are doing so well. Giants like Citigroup and Bank of America, whose fortunes are tied to the ups-and-downs of ordinary consumers, are struggling to turn themselves around, as are many regional banks.

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Lending? Lending? Where's the lending????

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PS: Don'tcha love a recovery and stimulus that creates so many high paying jobs for the struggling middle class? Now I know why Warren Buffett bought so much Goldman Sachs stock...as Obama's "financial advisor" and supporter good ole' Warren was in on the fix from the git go.

Instead of lending to stimulate the economy and helping small businesses survive, expand and create jobs, Robbin' Hood Obama's pals are speculating with the TARP cash and/or using it for "loan loss" reserves.

The one thing they ain't doing is lending!

Try to get a bank loan with less than 120% collateral.

It's the Goldman-sacking of America and Robbin' Hood Obama, Tim Geithner and Ben Bernake are responsible for it.

But what do I know? I'm just a schmoo in the Midwest.

Representative Charles Rangle and Rod Blagojevich Announce Plans To Found New Consumer Tax Advisory Firm.

Dear Pals,

The following dream might have been the result of a speecy-spicy Volpi Pepperoni pizza!

Here's the dream:

Fresh on the heels of the news about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize comes another exciting development from Washington, DC. Representative Charles Rangle has announced that he plans to found a new consumer tax advisory firm.

"Based on my extensive experience in tax legislation, I am uniquely qualified to lead a consumer tax firm. We will be able to help consumers navigate the bewildering sea of Federal Tax Codes and enable people to save BIG money on their taxes. Trust me, I know how to do this!" stated the ever fiesty Rangle.

The name of the new firm is H R Blockhead.

Unconfirmed rumor has it that the firm has narrowed its headquarter location search to Marion, Illinois and Leavenworth, Kansas. H R Blockhead, Senior Partner Rod Blagojevich is actively lobbying for Marion, Illinois so he can be closer to his former colleagues, family and that famous deep dish Chigago-style pizza popularized by Uno.

The Washington Post also reported that Represenative Rangle was being considered for the Nobel Prize in Economics based on his work with Generally Unacceptable Accounting Principles. However, the newspaper report added that Rangle was not a shoe-in since Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Bernie Madoff and the late Harry Houdini are also being considered due to their uncanny ability to make money disappear and escape from the confining and unduly restrictive rules of rational monetary policy.

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For additional clarity and illumination Google: Zillions, Trillions, Billions, Millions...what's a few zeros among friends.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One

PS: It wasn't a dream it was really a nightmare!

End Of Life Counselling: President Obama Won't Pull Granny's Plug Or Even Your Leg. There Is No Government "Death Panel." There Is No Reason To Be Concerned. Don't Worry Be Happy...Have Another Big Swig Of Cool Inspiring O.J. (Obama Juice) Fool-Aid!

Dear Pals,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/32365793#32365793

Before I say, "Touche" to the Keith Olbermann Opinion Piece above that was kindly sent to me, let me ask this question.

What did President Obama mean by his comment about just giving people near the end of life a "pill?"

Was he talking about a "pill" in addition to or in lieu of other medical treatment?

And, what kind of "pill" was he talking about? 

Bayer Aspirin? Tylenol PM? A placebo? Tums? Haldon? Willie Wonka Sour? Altoid? Viagra? Tic Tac? Nexium? Sexium? Hexium? Vexium? A Carter's Little Liver Pill? Cyanide? What??

I'm a little fuzzy on this whole Presidential have a "pill" thing.

Would somebody please explain it to me like I'm either 2 years or 87-years old.

What am I missing here?

And why do we need government-paid "end of life counseling services" at all?

Here's a NEWS FLASH! People have been dying for years.

Arguably, government(s) have actually killed some of these people - and many without even so much as a "by your leave."

I'd prefer to leave end of life counseling to a personally-selected spiritual ministry instead of a Government Ministry.

In ancient times, long before The Age Of Obama Enlightenment, like way back in the late 1960's, I remember our family doctor (Gustave P. Dahms, M.D,) and our parish priest (Fr. Schierhoff) coming to the house on several occasions to visit my dying Dad.

I'm sure that Dr. Dahms charged for a medical "house call," but I don't recall the priest ever leaving a bill for his end of life counselling. It was one of The Corporal Works Of Mercy...visit the sick, bury the dead, feed the hungry, clothe the naked et cetera.

Medicare was not around way back when, yet people somehow managed to get high-quality end of life counseling without a Medicare-paid death counselling reimbursement.

NEWS FLASH TWO: I'm even in favor of letting atheists croak without having God forced upon them. If their worldview is right, there is absolutely nothing to worry about.

In my book, it all comes under the heading of FREE will and personal liberty.

Some say that the use of inflammatory language like Sara Palin's: "Death Panels" - and the attendant implication that there might be a Denial of Medical Care and/or an end of life Pharmaceutical Service Directive coming from a government agency is either outright lying, unfounded scare tactics or the moral equivalent of yelling FIRE!! in a crowded theater.

As President Obama and his news-proxy Mr. Olbermann assured us all that can't EVER, EVER, EVER happen here?

At least not yet.

Not as long as there are so-called: "Uncaring and unAmerican mobs of angry white-racist, swastika sign carrying, right-wingnuts organized by the Republican-party willing to take a beating by SEIU ACORN-related thugs for opposing the Healthcare and Insurance Reform plans carefully-crafted in a big hurry in the dead of night behind closed doors for us by a Dumbocrat Congress and being "publicly-peddled" by our inspiring new President."

The Inspirational Obama says it's a GREAT Healthcare plan for all of us schmoos...but NOT for the Members of Congress and other elite members of the DEE CEE PECers. (Political Elite Class)

Huh?

Why so? El Presidente??

Why can't we have their healthcare plan?

OR, why don't they want the one being "crafted" for us by them?  

I'll wait for a rational, coherent and BELIEVEABLE answer/lie/promise/whatever.

Strategy Thought: Do you think that a few cagey politicians might put a few blatantly insane and easy to understand provisions in a proposed Healthcare bill as "lambs for the slaughter," in order to make all the other equally insane, but much harder to understand provisions and consequences thereof - seem more reasonable???

I do.

Please READ THE BILL! Or, at least an independent analysis and synopsis of it.

It's a Fannnie Mae and Freddie Mac-boondoggle on steroids!

________________________ Meanwhile Back in "The Lou"  _____________________

Oooops...it seems the SEIU ACORN-related union goon thugs slipped up when three (3) of these "punch-to-persuade" morons let their fists do the talking and beat up one (1) black man at a town hall meeting in St. Louis County.

It's been mighty quiet...eeriely quite on this story...could the fix be in?

What's more offensive to you?

PICK ONE:

A) Citizens yelling at an elected Congessional representative or

B) Having union goons beat up a black man selling "Don't Tread On Me Flags."

C) Having Nancy Peolosi and Steny Hoyer call Americans who disagree with them unAmerican?

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Oh never mind, I forgot, it's okay for the liberal Democrats and their proxy goons to "hit back harder" (verbally, physically and emotionally) and intimidate and abuse conservatives of any age, race or color.

Citizen beatings.

Blue-shirt union thugs.

Federally-funded ACORN community organizers.

Uniformed Obama Youths chanting: YES WE CAN! 

End Of Life Counseling?

Nancy Pelosi, Streny Hoyer, Dick Durbin and other "leading" Democrats characterizing town hall meeting attendees as swastika sign-carriers and unrepresentative, unAmerican mobs.

Hey Olbermann!!! 

This can't ever happen here in the good old USA...right???

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Excuse me, but are Olbermann and me on the same planet???

Or am I in a parallel universe where up is down?

Where wrong is right?

Bad is good and good is bad?

Where spontaneous citizen outrage is unrepresentative and organized Presidential Town Halls are okey-dokey.

I gotta say, President Obama on the stump makes Slick Willie and Tricky Dick look like Daffy Duck. The guy is good, a really smooth cool and articulate speaker...what he says sounds good, even realistic and desireable.

THERE IS ONLY ONE PROBLEM - IT IS A DISCONNECT: what he says has no connection to the reality that is being prepared for us schmoos.

THINK ABOUT IT...

If the Healthcare bill had passed on Obama's Original Hurry Hurry Hurry Hurry "We Must Do Something Now To Fix This Unsustainable, Unfair and Broken Healthcare System" Timeline before the August Congressional Recess and the subsequent Town Halls, this would have been an  UNMITIGATED BOONDOGGLE of Epic Proportions.

As it looks now it may be "just be another" in a string of "well-intentioned" Trillion dollar Obama-deficit disasters, if Bwarney Fwank and Nutzi Nancy and Waxman The Taxman have their way.

As I said many months ago in my much-reviled Birk Plan: "Zillions, Trillions, Billions, Millions, what's a few zeros among friends?"

I salute the Town Hall Yellers!! 

Turn it up!

Keep it up!!

Don't let the thugs knock you down!

I'll now await any instructive thought-correction missives from my Liberal Pals with breathless anticipation (I'm actulally a little breathless after blogging on The Breath Tax).

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob Of One and "unAmerican" S.O.B. (Someone Opposing Barack)

PS: Will you pay your fair-share in the VOLUNTARY OPT-IN FEDERAL BREATH TAX?

It's ENTIRELY optional, just like the public-option Healthcare plan will be.

Check it out if you missed it...August 11, 2009...it's a great green idea that's time as come!

At Last!!! Something Positive To Look Forward To: The Oxygen Preservation, Environmental Enrichment And Carbon Dioxide Emissions Abatement Act. Is This A Great "Green" Idea That's Time Has Come? Or What?

"We gotta go green...or, else we will all stop breathing." - Al Snore,

Hey, Al my Pal, that gives me an nifty new idea...

Dear Pals,

Let's create: The Oxygen Preservation, Environmental Enrichment And Carbon Dioxide Emissions Abatement Act.

Wow! That sure sounds great!

Doesn't it?

Kinda sounds really really good just like: Really Great and Really Cheap Healthcare For Everybody!!

Whoopee!

Yahoo!

Hosanna and Amen! Brother Barack!

As my good Pal the G-Man often says, "Sign me up Coach!"

But, wait a minute what does all that fancy legislative lingo really mean???

It's what I call: Operation: "Tax A Deep Breath!"

You've heard of the "Death Tax" - well, this the "Breath Tax" - I think this just might be an idea the Obamacare Liberals can really get behind?

We talk a lot about our carbon footprint...but what about our carbon mouthprint??

Think about this:

The average respiratory rate reported in a healthy adult at rest is usually given as 12 breaths per minute (12⁄60 Hz). That's 720 breaths per hour, 17,280 breaths per day, 6,307,200 breaths per year.

Think of the TAX revenue opportunity!!! 

The government could have a minimum annual breath tax for every Citizen breather and then surtaxes for really wealthy people, fat people, high-oxygen using athletes, runners, people who need oxygen tanks and respirators and even those heavy breathers, who always seem to sit behind me in the East St. Louis gentlemen's clubs. (Ooops!)

Wowie Zowie!! Uncle Howie!

Here is the proposed Breath Tax Schedule based on 6,307,200 breaths per year.

TIER ONE Breathers: The uberwealthy such as John Kerry's wife, Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Boone Pickens, Rush Limbaugh, Kobe Bryant, Barbara Streisand, Brad Pitt, David Letterman, Bill O'Reilly, Larry King, Payton Manning, Madonna, Sean Hannity, Michael Jordan, Chris Matthews, Oprah Winfrey, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Martha Stewart, Stephen Speilberg, Tom Hanks, Glenn Beck, All the Talking Heads at NBC/CBS/ABC/PBS/CNN Networks, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, Keith Olbermann, Jimmy Kimmel, Barney Madoff, Bob Beckle, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson et cetera: $1.00 per breath or $6.307 million per year each. $17,279.00 per day.

They'll pay it because they have a lot of good reasons to want to keep breathing.

TIER TWO Breathers: CEOs and senior level executives of the Big Bailed Out Banks, AIG and Wall Street investment firms that received billion dollar bailouts, TARP funds and BIG FAT BONUSES: $0.50 per breath or $3.150 million per year each. $8630.10 per day.

TIER THREE Breathers: Other Bankers and Lawyers (except trial attorneys who will be exempted, naturally) mid and low level Hollywood movie actors and Hollywood producers: $ 0.10 per breath or $63,072.00 per year each. That' $172.80 per day.

TIER FOUR Breathers: Working stiffs, doctors and nurses, policemen, firemen, small business owners, Mom & Pop shops and the ordinary employed citizens: $0.001 per breath or $630.12 per year. That's just $1.73 per day...a bargain!

ACTIVE military pays 25% or 43 cents/day.

TIER FIVE Breathers: The infirm, chronically ill, elderly, mentally-handicapped, town nuisances and generally "non-productive" or high maintenance people. If you have someone like this in your family, then the family would pay an additional $630.12 compassion Breath Tax to cover that person.

Or, your family could opt for the Obamacare Plan PDO** for these folks.

TIER SIX Breathers: Illegal immigrants, incarcerated criminals and Michael Moore. These folks will be subsidized by the TIER FOUR Breathers for 34,560 breaths or two sundowns - whichever comes first. Hahahaha...just kidding.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a totally optional and voluntary participation government-sponsored contributive tax program. If you do not wish to pay the Breath Tax, you may get a permanent exemption by simply going to the Federal Breath Control Center nearest you, where you will be placed in the ODC*** for 5-minutes. This service is provided FREE under Obamacare.

But what about all the hot air and CO2 put out by the DEE CEE PECers??? (Political Elite Class)

That's a very good question. Here's the answer - heed it and then sit down and shut up, if you know what's good for you...you uncaring, unAmerican S.O.B. (Someone Opposing Barack)

The DEE CEE PECers will exempt themselves from having to pay the Breath Tax (Congressmen/Senators/Judges and senior level Federal Employees and their union thug mouth breathers at SEIU and ACORN) just like they will exempt themselves from the Healthcare Plan they are "currently crafting" for schmoos like you and me.

But, don't worry, that still leaves about 199 million breathing citizen schmoos from age zero to dead to pay the Breath Tax.

NOTE: Pregnant women would be taxed twice since they are actually "breathing for two"...or maybe even more, if it's the Octomom. This "double taxation" could be avoided if the pregnant woman opted for the Pro-Choice Early Out Option provided FREE at the nearest Federally-funded family carbon footprint control center.

And, since all of these dirty rotton carbon-dioxide emmitting citizen breathers are using up our earth's precious oxygen at an alarming rate, I'm suggesting that this act be retroactive to their BORN ON DATE...up to a maximum of their total financial net worth and last pair of underwear.

This is a great way to raise tons of money fast and forever!!

It's a new and as yet untapped source of money the Feds really need and can readily use to 1) pay for more fiscal foolishness, 2) get old people to choose Obamacare "Plan PDO**" 3) and keep our planet green by not using up the earth's limited-supply of precious Oxygen or 4) fund ACORN to "community organize" and register more Democrat voters as people stop breathing. 

Wait a minute...doesn't the process of photosynthesis have CO2 or carbon dioxide absorbed by plants and then returned to the atmosphere as O or oxygen which is what we breathe?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32344842/ns/technology_and_science-the_new_york_times

Am I right or wrong? Help me out...you scientists out there.

As Kermit The Frog (not, Kermit The Roosevelt) once said, "It's not easy being green."

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of what's left of The Republic and a very vocal albeit unorganized Mob Of ONE and "unAmerican S.O.B" - Someone Opposing Barack

PS: **Obama Plan PDO is the Planet Departure Option.

Under the terms of PDO Section: 231, Article: 345-B, Subsection: 372E, Paragraph 4567, you can choose to stop breathing at any time that you or your family members, or the person with Power Of Attorney or the GAYWKOOB (aka: the Government Are You Worth Keeping On Oxygen Board) decides, except during Federal holidays and other blackout dates.

***ODC is the Oxygen Deprivation Chamber.

If you are in one of the the Top Tier Breather groups you will get a raspberry-flavored chocolate-covered cyanide pill and a Bud Light to assist you in the PDO.

If you aren't a Tier One, Two or Three Breather, then a Federally-subsidized SEIU/ACORN Transition To Eternal Serenity Counsellor will come to your home and, at your or your family's direction: 

1) Shoot you in the brain with a .22 ( you will be charged 79-cents for the bullet) 

My Pal Jack said, "It's just another kinda of Cap and Trade...they "cap" you and then you trade in being vertically active to being permanently horizontal in a box?"

2) or, Smother you with a pillow (no charge if you provide the pillow),

3) or, Beat your brains out with an aluminum baseball bat...or, for baseball purists like George Will and Bob Costas, an all wood Louisville Slugger may be used.

Sorry, no golf clubs, hockey sticks, tire irons, cricket bats, Jack Daniels' whiskey barrel staves, rolling pins, bowling pins, concrete blocks, bricks, stones or other types of masonry may be used.

THE VERY SPECIAL "TOO GOOD FOR US" POLITICAL ELITE CLASS (PECer) BREATHER TEIR: Naturally, all U.S. Congressmen and Senators and senior-level Federal Government Officials would be kept on oxygen endlessly, so that they can continue to "serve the taxpayers" and "do the people's business."

Special breathing and oxygen arrangements can also be made for leading Democrat Party Political contributors and party-hack windbags like Paul Bagalia and James Carville. 

In the future, if even more revenue will be needed to feed "The Beast," the Breath Tax can always be expanded to include pet breaths, livestock breaths and or course, human and animal anal aperture gas emissions. This would be under the new FART program ( Federal Air Refreshment Tax).

Welcome to the Brave New World of Omama, Obama!

Do I exaggerate and make sport of Obamacare? Of course!!! But we'll see...Take a big deep breath of free American air...while you still can.

In the meantime, c'mon and sing along with The Chicago Band, featuring Rahm Emmanuel and the Obama Rhythm Czars:

"Every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you...I'll be watching you...I'll be taxing you..."

See you in the Gulag!

Question: Are you offended at being characterized as UNAMERICAN for very vocally disagreeing with the government on Healthcare?

Democrat leaders Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi have called ordinary citizens like you and me, who are loudly protesting at town hall meetings - UNAMERICAN.

UnAmerican...let's all remember that in 2010 and 2012. If you can't vote against Nancy and Steny...you can vote against the local folks who think like them and vote with them.

If It Smells Like A Dirty Rotten Dead Skunk...It Might Just Be Goldman Sachs? Which Is Not To Be Confused With Saks 5th Avenue, But Maybe Akin To The Sacking Of Rome And The U.S. Treasury. Look What Its CEO Lloyd Blankfein Told His Bailout Bonus Boys!

Dear Pals,

On Sunday August 9, 2009, The New York Times had a Front Page story with a jump to Page 4, on the highly-questionable (to say the very least) contacts between then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the House of Goldman Sachs, which he had formerly headed up.

Obviously, the FRONT PAGE position and inside Section One expansive reportage is indicitive of the HIGH NEWS VALUE of this story in the judgment of the New York Times editors, about former Bush Adminstration's Treasury Secretary Paulson and his behind the scenes dealings and contacts with his old cronies at Goldman Sachs.

Get out your BARF BAG before you read what Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told his Bailout Bonus Boys in these related New York Post and New York Times stories.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08042009/news/regionalnews/goldman_princes_told__spend_like_paupers_182904.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32355776/ns/business-the_new_york_times

Below is the blog I wrote on September 25, 2008 - nearly 11 months ago.

It's worth a reading or re-reading because it now appears that the venerable Gray Lady,The New York Times is finally catching up with the old Birkster...hahahaha!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Pay special attention to my Question No. 5 in the blog of 09.25.08 - it is very relevant to the New York Times story of 08.09.09.

This Inconvenient Fact also flies in the face of the unfounded accusations by my Liberal Pals that I am an ardent fan of and unabashed apologist for the Bush Administration.

FROM SEPTEMBER 25, 2008: Remember this is BEFORE the Presidential Election - look it up in the Archives.

Tinker to Evers to Buffett?

Dear Pals,

How closely are you watching the developments on the outer perimeter of the financial "rescue/bailout/legislative bloodsausage-making festival?"

I was wondering if I was seeing a pattern emerging there or if I was just connecting some totally unrelated dots.

Dot One: Warren Buffett just invested nearly $5 Billion in Goldman Sachs warrants. I love the Sage of Omaha. And, when he invests big time in anything it isn't because he has a tingly intuitive feeling or because his horoscope told him that Mercury was in conjuction with Venus.

He is one shrewd dude. He can read a balance sheet upside down in coal mine at midnight.

Dot Two: Warren Buffett is a Barack Obama supporter and one of his key financial advisors.

Dot Three: Check the other background players in Obama's inner circle of financial advisors and I think you'll find more than a few alums of guess who? Goldman-Sachs. Some of them have been re-cycled from the Clinton administration.

Now connecting these dots caused me to have a few questions.

1. Is this serendippity?

2. Or coincidence?

3. Or sychronicity?

4. What does Warren Buffett know about Goldman-Sachs that made him invest nearly $5 Billion in warrants?

5. Do you think Warren Buffett and Obama's other Goldman-Sachs alums and the current executives at Goldman-Sachs are talking to each other?

6. If they are talking, were you left out of that conversation too?

7. Is that "Man behind the curtain" The Wizard of Oz?

8. Or is it The Sage of Omaha?

Remember the old saying, "Fortunes are made when blood is flowing in the streets."

Keep your eye on the financial fast ball...it's going from Tinker to Evers to Buffett!

Then again, it might be just one big, huge, gigantic coincidence.

What's your take on this?? Gimme some feedback.

Birk

Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

PS: Guess what Wall Street firm the current Secretary of the Treasury was President of?

Here's a clue: Goldman Sachs

Dear Pals,

How closely are you watching the developments on the outer perimeter of the financial "rescue/bailout/legislative bloodsausage-making festival?"

I was wondering if I was seeing a pattern emerging there or if I was just connecting some totally unrelated dots.

Dot One: Warren Buffett just invested nearly $5 Billion in Goldman Sachs warrants. I love the Sage of Omaha. And, when he invests big time in anything it isn't because he has a tingly intuitive feeling or because his horoscope told him that Mercury was in conjuction with Venus.

He is one shrewd dude. He can read a balance sheet upside down in coal mine at midnight.

Dot Two: Warren Buffett is a Barack Obama supporter and one of his key financial advisors.

Dot Three: Check the other background players in Obama's inner circle of financial advisors and I think you'll find more than a few alums of guess who? Goldman-Sachs. Some of them have been re-cycled from the Clinton administration.

Now connecting these dots caused me to have a few questions.

1. Is this serendippity?

2. Or coincidence?

3. Or sychronicity?

4. What does Warren Buffett know about Goldman-Sachs that made him invest nearly $5 Billion in warrants?

5. Do you think Warren Buffett and Obama's other Goldman-Sachs alums and the current executives at Goldman-Sachs are talking to each other?

6. If they are talking, were you left out of that conversation too?

7. Is that "Man behind the curtain" The Wizard of Oz?

8. Or is it The Sage of Omaha?

Remember the old saying, "Fortunes are made when blood is flowing in the streets."

Keep your eye on the financial fast ball...it's going from Tinker to Evers to Buffett!

Then again, it might be just one big, huge, gigantic coincidence.

What's your take on this?? Gimme some feedback.

Birk

Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

PS: Guess what Wall Street firm the current Secretary of the Treasury was President of?

Here's a clue: Goldman Sachs

Beware Of Barney Frank And His A.C.O.R.N. Connections, Concoctions, Contortions And Congressional Cover Up. He Is Possibly The Most Dangerous Individual In Congress.

This is a repeat blog from May 17, 2009. I'm repeating it because Barney Frank rides again with more liberal lunacy in store for all of us with the new legislation this "luminary" is drafting.

Keep an eye on the news this week to see what Old Barn' is up to.

I can't vote Barney out...but I can vote against the rascals in my neck of the woods who vote with him...and so can you!

No more Spend-O-Crats or Wastepublicans!

Will members of Congress side with A.C.O.R.N or with taxpayers:

LISTEN TO THIS PLEASE!!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/05/13/rep_bachmann_barney_frank_gutted_acorn_amendment.html

THE BLOG HEADLINE OF MAY 17th WAS:

"Let There Be Dark!" Is Bwarney Fwank The Head Of The Illuminawti**? Or Just Another ACORN Nut? You Don't Have To Be A Mensa Member To Know Crazy When You See It. Because It Looks Just Like Bwarney Fwank!

Dear Pals,

That's not Illuminati...it's Illuminawti?** Or, Illuminaughty...the creatures of the night, their motto is "Let there be dark!" They are a bunch of dark-deed-doing-dimwits that perpetrate all kinds of dastardly deeds and downright stupid stuff.

They never "let a crisis go to waste." Carpe noctis!

And what about ACORN and Bwarney Fwank and Jerry Nadler and John Conyers et al.?  (Has anybody see Chuck Schumer lately...he's been as scarce as "Nancy Pelosi's Truth.")

What's the connection?

Hmmm...therein lies a very interesting question. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, keep your eyes on The Bwarney Fwank Sponsored State of California Bailout Plan.

Bwarney will swtutter and swtammer like Elmer Fwudd  and he'll impwassionately tell us we'll have to act in another BIG FWAT hwurry because "we must do swomething" and evewyone knows Califwornia is "too bwig to fwail."

Everyone laughed at me and ridiculed "my little experiment" when I wrote: The Birk Plan - Zillions, Trillions Billions, Millions...what's a few zeros among friends. (SEE MY BLOG of 09-18-08)

Well, as I warned, once you start down the slippery slope by bailing out AIG, and Fwannie Mae and Fweddie Mac, and subprime mortgage holders...where does it end?

Oh yeah, Financial Hell!

Now it looks like the next bailout of the irresponsible will be in The Bwear Fwlag Repuwblic. And, good old Bwarney Fwank, that Mwaster of Econowmics and Fwiscal Owersight is weading the cwharge.

He's pwrobably doing this becwause Nutzi Nancy Pwelosi is too busy impunging the weputation of the CIA and everyone in the Bwush Adminiswation. And Waxman the taxman, doesn't want to pwush the bwailout bewause it'll look too self-serving.

So the left coast loons have gone downeast to find a wiberal champion...Bwarney Fwank. (Chuck Schumer must have been too busy or the Cal-bailout may have looked a lot like a "political third rail" to him.)

Wait until this new Bwarney doo-doo hits the fan. Congwessman Fwank is planning on having you and me and the rest of America pay for the mistakes, stupid social policies, financial excesses and liberal largess and downwight lunacy of Califwornia.

I have a question. Can we vote on Bwarney's INSWANE idea? 

Or do we just have to have sit passively by as this newest piece of liberal legislative nonsense is shoved down our throat (or up our youknowwhat) by Blithering Blathering Bwarney, Nutzi Namcy and the rest of the Spend-O-Crats and Wastipublicans?

What's the next bailout State?

Maybe it'll be The Commonwealth of Matthachweswetts, Bwarney Fwank's hwome swtate, where the unemplowyed are actually gwiven fwree cars at twaxpaer expense to dwrive while wlooking for jwobs? 

And, if they can't find a jwob...they get to keep the cwar.

I don't make this stuff up.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: See you in the Gulag! Or on the Concord Bridge.