See the difference?  Because I don’t.

The guy who spends his whole life thinking about how to screw people in the ass has a plan to stop the ebbs and flows of the global market with some prescription-strength Astroglide applied liberally.  Yea, yea, yea.  A hammer sees every problem as a nail.

QOTD from the prolapsed Prole himself:

Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.) said that a bank tax and other tough new measures would be introduced by the individual countries, but in a coordinated way to prevent bankers from moving from one place to another to escape regulation.

“Lenin might have been able to put socialism in one country, but tough bank regulation in one country ain’t going to happen because we will lose people,” said Frank, who heads the House Financial Services Committee, a key spot for any American decisions.

But don’t call them Bolsheviks.  It’s like poison complaining about a skull and crossbones on it’s warning label.

Shorter Frank:  Wenin put sociawism in one country but what we need is a Gwobal Weninist so that the sands of other people’s money won’t swip through our fingers.

You have the head of the House Financial Services Committee arguing in favor of Global Leninism.

You can go ahead and pull your money out of the stock market now.

Here is a great grilling of Ben Bernanke, who should NOT be allowed to continue destroying our economy. But the bought-and-paid-for Senate will gently cup his buttocks and carry him through as this is how their pockets stay lined.

Tom Donohue, head of the US Chamber of Commerce, has some strong words for the leftards trying to ramrod envirowhacko legislation up our already unemployed asses:

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue says a campaign by the White House and its allies to undermine his $200-million-a-year association has largely failed — and actually has helped raise even more money for its pro-business efforts.

In a 75-minute interview with POLITICO, Donohue dismissed recent defections by Apple and at least four other companies, which quit over the Chamber’s opposition to Democratic climate change legislation — as essentially meaningless. “Members come and go all the damn time,” he said.

That’s true. But rarely — if ever — have companies jumped ship in such a public way.

Donohue made plain he believes the White House, or at least its closest allies operating on the outside, are behind a very orchestrated campaign to embarrass and undermine the Chamber.

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Under pressure from MoveOn.org and other groups, Apple, PG&E and Exelon have left the Chamber over the issue — and Nike resigned from its spot on the board. And pressure on others to follow suit is often intense.

Donohue refused to say if he believes the science behind global warming. “Is the science right? Is science not right? I don’t know,” he said.

What he does know, though, is that he’ll fight anything that the Chamber believes would unfairly harm business, especially if the Environmental Protection Agency moves forward, while Congress haggles, with its authority to regulate the release of greenhouse gases.

“If we got the EPA one, then we are in deep sh– as a country,” he said. “You want to see unemployment? You will see some.”

This, of course, is working under the assumption that the current administration does not want high unemployment so that the government can simply buy all of tomorrow’s unemployed votes with a handout and using the EPA to create just the kind of crisis they have the solution for.

Let the boycotts begin.  No Apple (no problem).  No Nike.  Correction here: PG & E not Proctor & Gamble as previously noted.

Heyyy, wait a second.  A lot of those products already  hurt the environment, use slave labor or directly benefit from climate hysteria legislation.   It’s almost like there’s a racket going on here.

Excuses Wearing Thin for Obama, Media Pals

The White House trying to dictate who’s a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?

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I don’t know what Day By Day’s copyright standards are or I would have reposted it here but this pretty well sums it up.

Too bad it doesn’t really get you to the doctor you need or the hospital you want, or the drugstore….

Sorry to overburden you with Milton Friedman, but I think you might like this one. Some examples of how with the help of the Federal Government, Americans have more choices, lower costs, and a better and safer standard of living.

Just take a moment and watch from about 18:00 to 27:00.

It’s not only about what kind of social- meddling I would have to endure personally, but I think I would end up looking at my fellow human beings in a different light.

Would I want to pay for the health care of a chain smoker? Or someone who sky-dives? Would I want to pay for the health care of someone who eats Twinkies all day? When I go to Wal-Mart, am I going to think about how much money I am spending on all of the George Romero movie extras I see walking around, as opposed to saving a buck on my box of  lemon cream Luna bars?

Are we all going to be required to eat Lemon Cream Luna bars?

Now that’s a frightening thought.

Yes, for the few of you who have been asking, I’m still alive and kicking. Real life has just been busier than usual so bloggery falls down to about 9th or 10th on the priority list from its usual 5th or 6th slot. Luckily you have the lovely Michele, the brilliant BMac, the hard-to-find Cranky, the occasional Nigel, the once-a-year Tiny, and the quarterly Yiddish to get you through.

I have not, however, been out of touch with what’s going on with the demise of our once-great nation. Just to prove that I’m keeping up, I’ll be throwing out the occasional link-dump so that you read what I’m reading.

Here’s a look at what my RSS feeds have fed me while I’ve been away.

On Obamacare, anyone with a lick of sense knows that the idiotic rambling coming from the Obamabots and HHS Head Kathy “Late-Term-Abortion” Sebelius was a crock of shit. They threw out their new Axelrod-Focus-Group terminology of “co-ops” instead of “single-payer option” which was already code for “government controlled socialized medicine”. It’s all the same crap – they’re just trying to change the language so that you might be bamboozled into getting on board. Don’t buy it.

The Obamessiah is the same Marxist that he was in 2003 when he pushed “single-payer” back then. We’re supposed to believe now that he’s changed his mind on that. Again, bullshit.

Make no mistake, they are unabashedly for the elimination of private insurance (and ultimately the elimination of capitalism altogether…). Screw what you and your family have, need or want, it’s all about the government elites controlling every step you take.

The media continues to try and vilify Sarah Palin for using the term “death panels” and she continues to kick their asses.

How did she manage to best him in the debate? Because he’s an intellectual lightweight who can’t string two sentences together without his teleprompter and she’s chock-full of common sense. It’s pretty simple.

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, has pissed off his liberal/hippie customer base with his common sense position on healthcare reform. Maybe he’ll wake some of them up.

It is good to see people getting pissed off and showing up at town halls to question their congressional overlords. Are they getting the message? Doubtful, but it certainly can’t hurt.

The left is up to their usual Alinsky-inspired tricks. All the while, Axelrod and his bitches are getting richer.

They’re showing up at rallies posing as racists to incite trouble and make the crowd look stupid.

They’re posing as right-wing nutjobs online to make threats and discredit actual conservatives.

They’re following the Obamessiah’s urgings and “getting in the faces” of those who dare disagree with the chosen one’s socialist agenda.

They’re pretending to be medical doctors in support of Obamacare, when they’re actually Obama organizers.

Dan’s got all the astro-turfers here.

Conservatives need to understand that these people are liars, theives and socialists. They’ll fight as dirty as they need to to acheive their goals. It’s time we quit acting like a bunch of pussies and get in the game.

Speaking of liars and theives, the crooks on Wall Street and in DC are still stealing from the taxpayers and our banking system is growing more insolvent by the quarter.

Are you sick of getting financially raped yet?

You need to read every bit of that one.

If you believe the hucksters who are telling you we’re on the front end of the next bull market, then you probably believed all of the Obamessiah’s false promises and fraudulent “bipartisanship”.

This economic crisis is going to get worse before it gets better, and we’re not talking months.

There is a bright side to all this doom and gloom. Americans are waking up to the fact that Obama is an empty suit and a socialist puppet, whose strings are being pulled by Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, David Axelrod and our First Lady, Thunderthighs. His approval ratings are going through the floor.

Also, more and more Americans are realizing that they believe in things like the Constitution, Capitalism and Conservatism.

So things ain’t all bad.

Should we Audit the Fed yet or just burn it down?

In the shadows of his Healthscare disaster, Dear Leader and his henchmen are trying to hide their budget numbers so that you will have no clue as to what’s really going on – not that you’re paying attention anyway, are you?

They would like to keep the truth of their catastrophic spending under wraps so that you won’t object too much when they throw a few trillion at Obamacare. These are the same crooks who are throwing $16 million at canned ham projects, $5 million at processed cheese, and $2.5 million for watered-down ham, among other shovel-ready crap.

Speaking of throwing your money down a rathole, head TARP watchdog Neil Barofsky says that the Fed is trying to cover up how TARP funds are being used and decried the Fed’s (predictable) lack of transparency.

Here, CNBC attacks Barofsky for daring to question the all-powerful wisdom of the Fed and its White House Crime Family overlords.

As Karl aptly notes…

If you have a few hours, you can read the Tarp Report yourself.

We are being raped, folks, pure and simple. The elitists at the Fed, in the White House, in Congress and on Wall Street are watching their empire go up in flames, and they’re giving it to the middle class one last time. Long and hard.

Like a polar bear floating around on its last little ice cube (awwww.. ain’t that cuuuuute), Tennessee Senator Bob Corker just can’t commit to a vote on cap-and-trade, the scam that the greenies are using to destroy the capitalist system once and for all.

Now that Nasty Pelosi and her minions have cobbled together a cohesive energy-based attack on our economy, it’s time to get serious about encouraging our Senators to grow some balls.

A job creator? How is all that other job creation going?

Green jobs? This is the biggest scam to come down the pike in a generation. If you want to know just how much of a scam, pick up Milloy’s book, Green Hell.

When I called Corker’s office earlier, I got the usual non-committal double-speak, which is not surprising given his history with the McShame gang-of-ten and their eco-nitwittery. At least Alexander and Representative Duncan would give me a firm “no” vote against any cap-and-trade bills. Oh well, that won’t stop me from calling.

Let your Senators know that they need to grow a pair and preserve what’s left of our economy.

Or you can not spend money and lose money. Just ask Chrysler:

DETROIT (AdAge.com) — Chrysler wanted to spend $134 million in advertising over the nine weeks it’s expected to be in bankruptcy — the U.S. Treasury’s auto-industry task force gave it half that.

When Obama starts believing that he is Auto Exec of the Year as he joked at the Limbaugh Lynching then their failure is completely on him. When you start telling car companies what kind of cars they can make, how much they’re allowed to advertise and how much they can charge for them then you should get fired when they collapse. Carry the same risk any other Exec does.

Any Lender knows that you’re going to shoulder the blame if you start telling your customer how to run their business. In a courtroom, you do not even want the appearance of having a hand in their business making decisions.

For a point of reference, Obama is telling Chrysler that they are only allowed to spend $67 million dollars in advertising while what was left of their image is being dragged through bankruptcy proceedings. $67 million is roughly 22% of what one Barack Obama spent advertising to become President when they’re trying to save their multi-billion dollar company, employees, shareholders, subsidiaries, etc. That 22% is quite generous too. $67 million is a much smaller percent of what Obama spent though it would be great to compare how much he spent in the last nine weeks of the campaign.

If I’m their competitor, my ad campaign starts today and ends with “Buy Your Car From A Company That’s Going To Be Around In 6 Months”. Otherwise, if you buy a car from the rats that took government money all you are doing is propping up the Union that overthrew the Board in a bloodless coup so the average dues paying member could make $75k a year and have three months of vacation to manufacture a car no one was buying in the first place.

Breitbart’s got the low down on a new “movement”. I’ll let you decide what kind of movement it is exactly:

Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that for one year, they would try to patronize only black-owned businesses. The “Empowerment Experiment” is the reason John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile odyssey.

“We kind of enjoy the sacrifice because we get to make the point … but I am going without stuff and I am frustrated on a daily basis,” Maggie Anderson said. “It’s like, my people have been here 400 years and we don’t even have a Walgreens to show for it.”

But you do have a car to drive around in producing all those greenhouses gases to support a racist agenda.

Perhaps manufacturers can just start putting labels on all of their products, not unlike nutritional value, stating whether or not the product is offered by a “white company” or a “black company”. And what is a white company or a black company, anyway?

A white CEO? A black Chairman of the Board of Directors?

A 75% ratio? Only allow certain races to do certain jobs like working in the kitchen? Like the construction contractors who only hire illegal aliens for the grunt work yet never let them get that promotion that has them in a tie, in the air-conditioning and playing on the internet all day like they do?

Should all officers of the company only be one race and you should be disqualified for the position for fear of potential customers boycotting your product if they knew the awful, diverse truth?

I know there’s a name or a court case saying something about those types of practices somewhere but I can’t put my finger on it. But I attended a college with a black president so, of course, I never learned it anyway.

“We have the real power to do something, to use the money we spend every day to solve our problems,” Maggie Anderson said recently at a meet-and-greet in Atlanta. “We have to believe that black businesses are just as good as everybody else’s.”

That is exactly right except opposite. This entire experiment is an exercise in believing that black businesses are better than everyone else’s and that’s why you only want to support them.

Dallas Smith, who owns a commercial real estate firm in Atlanta, said mainstream retailers have undervalued black consumers. He lives in a black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, where he tries to dine at black restaurants. He lamented the lack of quality businesses catering to black customers and said blacks should appreciate such businesses more.

“We’ve still got that ‘the white man’s water is colder’ mentality,” he said.

How refreshing. The water’s colder when you make the decision to segregate by choice apparently.

I do have a question though. If I find out that a business that I like is black-owned should I immediately stop frequenting it or should I take the hint when they install separate bathrooms and water fountains?

Ron Hart provides the best definition I’ve seen yet of Credit Default Swaps.

…Not to mention the most accurate description I’ve yet heard for our blessed elected officials.

RTWT.

Karl D. says call the Waaaaahmbulance for Jake.

Something rubbed me the wrong way about the editorial and Karl has helped me pinpoint it.

Desantis’ resignation op-ed is a good example of how producers are shrugging and will continue to shrug under this anti-Capitalist administration, but AIG as an organization deserves all the scorn that it gets.

The problem I see with this whole economic collapse is that you have corrupt financial institutions mixed with corrupt companies like AIG engaged in questionable practices directly under the nose of so-called regulators like Timmuh! In fact, Timmuh! was quite content to let it go on as head of the NY Treasury Dept. When everyone is getting rich, nobody complains! Just ask Rahm, who made $320K for a 14-month sleepover at Freddie Mac.

The left wants to blame the evil Capitalists, the right wants to blame the Federal Government. They’re both guilty and, pardon my Fronch, but they’re working in concert to fuck us in the nose. People need to understand that the corruption is systemic and realize that as long as the current laws are not enforced (and they show no signs of being enforced), the market is going to continue to tank and the Feds are going to continue to use this as an excuse to confiscate even more of our money and pass it on to corrupt entities that should be going out of business yesterday.

If there was still a regulatory entity out there that wasn’t on the take, then some of the corruption, naked shorting, CDS junk and pyramid scheme fraud might be getting rooted out and prosecuted. Do you see it happening? Yeah? Me, neither. People no longer trust the market, and with good reason.

Furthermore, that mistrust is not because socialism is the answer – FAR FROM IT – it’s because the Free Market has been poisoned by corruption on Wall Street and in Washington DC. Wall Street doesn’t care because they get their cash and Washington doesn’t care because they get their power, perks, payouts and pensions.

Capitalism is still the greatest economic engine ever known to man, when that engine is fueled by honest brokers.

On the flip side, you have some extremely dishonest brokers, such as George Soros, who is having a delightful crisis. Soros is greed personified and is one of the primary players behind President Hussein’s gaggle of confiscators.

I suppose intentionally bringing down the Dollar is now considered patriotic. Can’t wait to see that on a bumper sticker next to “Co-exist” on the back of a Yugo.

All these con-artists are doing is delaying the reality of us having to take our economic medicine. The more it’s delayed the more bitter it’s going to taste. Nothing is “too big to fail” – even our precious, benevolent Federal Government. In fact, they fail every day they convene for business. Who knew that when they said they were “doing the people’s business” that this would devolve into just “doing the people.”

This is an excellent video that explains how the Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers attacks (via an illegal practice called naked short selling) led to the collapse of the global economic house of cards. It’s long (23 mins) but it’s so worth it. I remember having this discussion with my dad last fall, who speculated that naked short selling would be an excellent vehicle for economic terrorism – we just had the wrong country.

This is all part of what Karl D refers to as The Bezzle. If you don’t prosecute the Wall Street criminals and force the market to play by the rules, there will be no confidence in the free market. There is already no confidence in the Federal Government. And for the love of all that is holy, we have an absolute rube playing Monopoly in the Treasury Dept.

The SEC has apparently come up empty handed in trying to find out who blew up Bear and Lehman – either that or they know and they’re scared shitless to do anything about it. Either way, they suck.

Also check out the Deep Capture blog for even more dirty details. Yes, I know they mentioned Michael Moore, but try to look past that.

Thanks to Terry for posting the video.

Anyone who has paid attention to the AIG circus for the past few days and has believed the faux outrage from the lying bastards in congress must have been Obamessiah voters. It takes a certain level of frothing class-envy and naiveté to believe that any of what has gone on is (1) authentic or (2) useful.

This afternoon the U.S. House decided (once again) to throw out the U.S. Constitution and tax executive bonuses at a 90% rate for companies who receive government bailout blood money. Government money? Government control.

The class warriors won this vote 328-93. Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn was not among the Yes votes, fortunately.

President Hussein knew about these contractually-mandated bonuses way before he started to pretend to be outraged by them. Christopher Dodd ok’d the AIG bonuses weeks ago. They knew about this and have had this bullshit stunt planned ever since.

It’s always the same game with these assholes. Work in conjunction with the leftist media to create an enemy that the idiotic, half-awake American public can hate and blame for their economic circumstance – rooted heavily in class-envy and hate-the-rich rhetoric. The over-the-top news coverage will feature stories of the anger on the street about those greedy white collar criminals so that you will know it’s okay to be angry too. Then you can watch sanctimonious congressbastards grandstand and beat up a CEO while you cheer them on in an envy-fueled and moronic rage.

Continuing with the professional wrestling angle, how can you not be amused when Congress puts Edward Liddy in charge of AIG, then brings him back to Congress so they can yell at him. The whole thing is a joke and the joke is on us.

Then, on top of everything, this circus is being run by Barney Frank (who is one of the primary reasons we’re moving towards a full-on economic depression), who self-righteously demands to know the names of the individuals receiving bonuses so America’s Dim-O-Crack-voting mental patients will know where to focus their homicidal anger and death threats.

I demand the names of all the boy toys who came by the Frank estate to have their rumps pumped while his “roommate” was running the male prostitution ring out of his basement. Tit for tat? Poor choice of words.

The hypocrisy of Congress attacking any private industry executives for their “Arrogance, Incompetence and Greed” is so enormously high that it cannot even be measured by the best scientists Nasa has to offer. There is no group more Arrogant, Incompetent or Greedy than the Federal Government – from the Communists in the White House to the boob at the Treasury Department to the Cowards in the Senate to the Crooks in the House.

Yes, there are a handful of quality Constitutionalists in Washington, but they are VASTLY outnumbered.

The whole bullshit act is meant to distract you while they continue pushing the rest of their Marxist agenda in the background. Don’t buy it. Stay focused on the stammering, conniving Alinskyite behind the curtain.

MORE: AIG Kabuki Theater.

EVEN MORE: With the notable exception of Blackburn (who, mysteriously, being female, has more balls than the rest of the TN House Delegation combined), the Tennessee House delegation failed miserably today.

Jimmy Duncan is usually a solid vote – I guess he wanted to get in on the tax money confiscation while he had a big group to hide behind.

And Zach Wamp, who was kind enough to meet with some of us bloggers this past Monday night, demonstrated that his testes may have not yet descended. This is a disappointment.

This is why so many of us are ready to get out of the GOP. We have a one party system, like it or not.

MORE YET AGAIN: Krumm reminds us why we had a Constitution to begin with. I emphasize the “had” since our “leaders” have apparently never read it, opting instead for Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

Who knew that when the Obamessiah and his zombie followers chanted CHAAAAAANGE… CHAAAAAAAANGE that he meant that he’d take us back to DOW 3000?

Yeah, it’s not there yet, but this column at Investors Business Daily outlines exactly why we’re headed in a downward spiral that isn’t about to stop. President Hussein’s “stimulus” package has only made it worse – much worse.

As always read the whole thing. The chart speaks for itself. Granted, it all started with President Junior’s Stimulus I and Stimulus II bills, but having the most anti-free-market President in the history of the country has cemented the deal.