RANDOM SHOTS - Layoffs Result Of Obama Re-Election, Sandy Victims Get No Help & Obama Goes On Vacation, and more!

President Obama Wins - Then Goes On Vacation?

He's going on vacation? What's with that? I don't get it.

The reports all say the same thing, that after spending several months crisscrossing the United States, Barack Obama will travel to Asia later this month visiting Thailand, Burma and Cambodia on vacation.

A statement from the White House Press Secretary said Obama will travel to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia on a three-day trip from November 17th through 20th.

Apparently Obama's priorities do not include what's happening at home. After all, the president is leaving on vacation while the nation suffers.

Forget what the biased liberal mainstream media would have done if this were George W. Bush, forget that Obama hasn't spent very much time doing his job over the last year because he's been too busy campaigning. Is this what 58 Million fools voted for?

America has victims of Hurricane Sandy who are in much worse shape than those who experienced Hurricane Katrina. And no, victims of Hurricane Sandy have not gotten the help that Obama promised them.

America has increasing energy and fuel prices, which Obama said he would address after the election. Yet no word on anything being done raising prices.

America has an immigration problem. Although Obama might not consider it a problem any more since his party found enough illegals to vote for him. Maybe he is just going to give blanket amnesty - as a pay back before he hits the golf course.

Americans are going hungry like never before. Programs can't keep up with the homeless and the hungry as the economy is getting worse not better. If you don't think so, find out how many more people will lose their jobs between now and the first of the year.

And ask yourself what Obama is doing about it - right at this very moment? You will find out that he is more worried about his vacation plans than he is about putting Americans to work.

Americans are losing their homes like never before. That is a fact that the Obama campaign was saying wasn't taking place but knows is in effect the truth of what is happening across the nation.

Sure mortgage companies and low interest rates have helped save some homes from foreclosure, but what about those folks who are without a job and are having to make the choice between paying their mortgage and feeding their family?

And how about those who are losing their jobs? They can't pay their bills including mortgage or rent, simply because they are out of work?

America needs help in so many areas including bringing down food and gas prices. And yes, America is headed for fiscal cliff in just a few months. And where is that champion of the left, the re-elected idol of the liberal mindset, well how about making vacation plans.

Just imagine this for a moment, Obama and others in his administration feel they have "earned" a vacation. Why? Well, supposedly because they've just got finished working so hard.

But working on what? And for who? The whole time Obama and his gang were running around the country raising money from donors, they were not doing their job of running the administration. They were not working for the American people at all.

They were AWOL from doing their job that they were hired to do. They dismissed all concerns regarding the economy and the security of Americans here and abroad - and instead tended to their own needs to raise money for themselves.

And now, they have the nerve to say they need a vacation! So instead of using his political capital after winning re-election, and maybe getting something done in Washington DC, he just wants to get out of town and go on vacation.

I don't give a damn how much hate mail I get, I think he is a loser and is doing nothing to help Americans.
but honestly, I really don't think he cares.

It is apparent by his wanting to go to Burma for a vacation that the next four year are going to be just more of the same that we've had for the last 4 years.

Obama's attitude stinks! And yes, what his attitude tells me is that we can't depend on finding any healthy leadership from the government to help Americans in trouble.

It's up to us to do without the Federal government. We will have to tend to the real work on real issues like helping friends and neighbors in need.

New York, New Jersey Victims Of Sandy Suffer As New Storm Hits Northeast Coast

President Obama doesn't seem to care if tens of thousands of residents in New York and New Jersey are again plunged in darkness, and public transport in those regions is disrupted as a second storm battered the U.S. Northeast coast after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc last week.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was not recommending a mass evacuation following the latest bad weather, several people were again forced to leave their homes within a week of returning after Sandy subsided.

Heavy snow and strong winds that gusted at up to 60 mph have hit parts of the two adjoining states. The rough weather brought down trees and power lines, causing traffic delays and blackouts, reports say.

More than 80,000 homes are reportedly without electricity one week after Sandy claimed 120 lives. New York City authorities closed all parks, playgrounds and beaches and ordered temporary halt to all outdoor constructions today.

Major airlines have suspended flight arrivals and departures in New York and New Jersey airports ahead of the storm. This is in addition to the cancellation of more than 20,000 flights that Sandy forced last week.

National Weather Service (NWS) said that a storm system moving northward off the East Coast will bring a wintry mix of precipitation to areas across the northern Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, as well as wind gusts as high as 60 mph along the coast.

Snowfall across interior sections of New England could approach 6-10 inches. Minor to moderate coastal flooding is almost a certainty in New Jersey and New York.

But hey, New Jersey governor Chris Christie said that President Obama did a great job. So I guess with that Obama figures that he doesn't have to worry about the victims of Hurricane Sandy anymore and just go on vacation.

Other then maybe getting a hug from Chris Christie before leaving Obama probably feels fairly certain that no one will miss him if he goes on vacaction.

And no, I don't think anyone will miss him. In fact, after the election the other day, I can think of a few people that would like him to stay gone.

Persistent Gas Shortage After Sandy Prompts Rationing In New York City

With long gas lines persisting more than a week after Superstorm Sandy, New York imposed a gasoline rationing plan Thursday that lets motorists fill up every other day.

Police will now be stationed at gas stations starting Friday morning to enforce the new system in New York City and on Long Island.

Gas will be available to drivers with license-plate numbers ending in an odd number or a letter on Friday. On Saturday, drivers with license plates that end in even numbers of zero can fuel up.

Officials said something had to be done to ease the long waits for fuel, which they say has caused panic-buying and hoarding.

Bloomberg said the system worked well in New Jersey, where lines went from a two-hour wait to 45 minutes after Gov. Chris Christie announced a similar rationing plan.

Bloomberg said only a quarter of the city's gas stations were open. Some were closed because they were out of power, others because they can't get fuel from terminals and storage tanks that can't unload their cargoes. One station owner in Queens' Bayside section said the last time he had gas was three days ago.

The rationing plan takes effect at 5 a.m. Friday on Long Island, where hundreds of thousands of customers remain without power; and at 6 a.m. in New York City.

Buses, taxes and limousines, commercial vehicles and emergency vehicles are exempt from the plan, as are people carrying portable gas cans. Vanity plates that don't have numbers are considered odd-numbered plates. Out-of-state drivers are also subject to the system.

The mayor said the shortages could last another couple of weeks.
Officials said the rationing would be across the region, including Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, to avoid a rush across municipal lines for gas.

New power outages on Long Island caused by this week's nor'easter again left stations with gasoline in their tanks unable to activate pumps. Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone said the rationing "will ease the challenges residents of the bi-county region are experiencing" after the storm.

But the people are irate for good reason!

Ten days after Hurricane Sandy struck, thousands of people are still without heat, water, electricity or food. A situation that is totally unsatisfactory!

Layoffs started as result of Obama re-election.

It was projected that companies would have to layoff workers if President Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected.

There are only a few reasons for this taking place, but mostly it's just a matter of companies coming to grips with reality that nothing has changed and we will all have more of the same from the Obama White House for the next 4 years.

Private companies are under attack in America, and the Obama administration is the attacker.

Example, because of Obama's war on coal, at least Coal company executive has announced the layoff of more than 160 workers after Obama re-election

A major coal company announced more than 160 layoffs across three subsidiaries this week, becoming perhaps the first company to follow through on cutbacks in the event of a second President Obama term.

Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, began to inform workers of the layoffs the day after Obama won re-election.

He announced 102 layoffs at UtahAmerican Energy Inc. and another 54 layoffs at The American Coal Company in Illinois.

The official statement put out by Murray's company cited Obama's "War On Coal," where the Obama administration has forced unreal regulations on the industry.

Regulations which have "already (led) to the closure by 2014 of 204 American coal-fired power plants."

The company announced another seven layoffs Thursday at the Kanawha Transportation Center in Wheeling, W.Va.

Another energy company, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down “204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014″ and for drastically reducing the market for coal.

It is expected that other CEOs - many of whom voice their concerns before Election Day about the burden on business from the federal health care overhaul, EPA regulations and other policies - will follow suit.

Large corporations join small businesses in announcing huge layoffs as a result of Obama re-election

  There is no telling how many Obama voters will lose their jobs - because of their vote!

Karma is nothing to mess with, and in the case of those fools who voted for Obama - karma may be coming around sooner then expected as layoff start as a result of Obama's re-election.

So do elections have consequences? You bet they do!

Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term, but stock prices are not the only thing taking a hit. The job market is taking a big hit.

More than 45 Companies have announced layoffs 48 hours after Obama's re-election.


Yes, in the first 48 hours following Obama's re-election - major corporations announced layoffs in throughout America. Here are some of them:   Pepsi is said to layoff 4,000 workers
Energizer, the St. Louis-based company said Thursday that it expects to shed about 1,500 employees. When finished, the restructuring should lead to $200 million in pre-tax yearly savings, Energizer said. It aims to have most of its restructuring steps finished by the end of September 2014.

Exide Technologies announced Thursday that it will be idling its lead-recycling operations in Laureldale and laying off 150 workers, effective no later than March 31.

Westinghouse Anniston, the contractor responsible for shutting down Anniston’s chemical weapons incinerator, has reduced its workforce by another 50 employees.

Research in Motion Limited, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, laid off about 200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday.

Lightyear Network Solutions has had to layoff more than a dozen employees at a Pikeville company this week. In preparation for what's coming , Lightyear Network Solutions is consolidating offices in Louisville and Pikeville.

The Providence Journal Co. laid off 23 full-time workers Wednesday as part of a cost-cutting effort, including 16 union members of the Providence Newspaper Guild and 7 non-union employees.

Hawker Beechcraft says 240 employees will lose their jobs with the closing of Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark.; Mesa, Ariz.; and San Antonio, Texas.

Boeing said Wednesday it plans to layoff 30% of their management at its Boeing Defense, Space & Security unit by the end of this year.

CVPH Medical Center has handed pink slips to 17 employees. The layoffs - nine in management and eight hourly staffers.

US Cellular will cut 980 jobs with 640 in the Chicago area alone.

Momentive Performance Materials has announced that it will cut about 150 workers at Sistersville’s Momentive Performance Materials plant later this month.

Rocketdyne cut 100 employees at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, most of whom work in the San Fernando Valley, on Wednesday.

Brake Parts, a leader of an automotive parts plant in Lincoln County has told state officials that there are plans to lay off 75 workers starting in late December.
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) is cutting as much as 20 percent and said it’s reducing its workforce by 3,000 to raise the staff cuts by the biggest wind turbine maker to almost a third over two years.

Husqvarna AB (HUSQB), the world’s biggest maker of powered garden tools, plans to cut about 600 jobs.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is following up its lackluster third-quarter results with almost 480 layoffs.
OCE North America Inc, provider of Trumbull printer- and scanning-equipment, will lay off 135 workers in three Connecticut communities, including East Hartford.

Darden Restaurants, which was among those who had received an ObamaCare waiver in the past, is looking to limit workers to 28 hours per week. A full time employee that is required to have health insurance (lest the employer pay a fine) works 30 hours per week, as defined by the ObamaCare law.

United Blood Services Gulf South region, the non-profit blood service provider for much of south Louisiana and Mississippi, will lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce.

A layoff is tough enough for employees to deal with, imagine hearing the crushing news that your office is shutting down just before Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Here are some of the business closings that were announced in just the past two days:

•Caterpillar Inc. will close its plant in Owatonna Minn.
•Mount Pleasant’s Albrecht Sentry Foods
•The Target store at Manassas Mall Va.
•Millennium Academy in Wake Forest NC
•Target Closing Kissimmee FL Location
•The Andover Gift Shop in Andover MA
•Grand Union Family Markets Closing Storrs Location CT
•Movie Scene Milford Location NH
•Update: TE Connectivity Closing Greensboro Plant – 620 Layoffs Expected
•Gomer’s Fried Chicken in South Kansas City
•Kmart in Homer Glen
•Fresh Market on Pine Street in Burlington
•AGC Glass North America to permanently close its Blue Ridge Plant in Kingsport Tenn.
•The Target store at Platte and Academy in Colorado Springs
•The Roses store on Reynold Road in Winston-Salem NC
•Meanders Kitchen losing its West Seattle location at 6032 California Ave
•Bost Harley-Davidson at 46th Avenue North and Delaware Ave. in West Nashville TN
•Townsend Booksellers in Oakland
•The Kmart store in Parkway Plaza off University Drive in Durham NC – 79 Jobs Lost
As I stated before, more than 45 Companies have announced layoffs 48 hours after Obama's re-election. If that isn't a signal of things to come as a result of those fools voting for Obama, I don't know what is.

Of course, President Barack Hussein Obama doesn't care - he's going on vacation.

MSNBC's Bashir apologizes to young viewers 'frightened' by Krauthammer’s face

By Noel Sheppard

The childish unprofessionalism on display at MSNBC is becoming breathtaking.

Anchor Martin Bashir on Wednesday jokingly apologized to young viewers who might have been “frightened by” Charles Krauthammer's face in a video clip that was aired on his show.

While speaking about the election with GQ’s Ana Marie Cox and the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart, Bashir asked, “Do Republicans understand what has happened? Let’s listen to the great Charles Krauthammer.”

This evoked laughter from Cox and Capehart.

After playing a Fox News video clip of Krauthammer commenting about Tuesday’s election results, Bashir said, “Now I need to apologize to any young viewers who may have been frightened by that face.”

This again evoked laughter from Cox.

Honestly, is this what MSNBC considers journalism today?

Krauthammer is a Pulitzer Prize-winner whose columns are syndicated to more than 275 newspapers and media outlets.

He received a medical degree from Harvard in 1975 completing his residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1984 he was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

While at Harvard, he was involved in a diving accident that left him paralyzed but didn’t prevent him from finishing his studies and completing his degree.

He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and is considered one of the nation’s leading conservative voices.

Yet Bashir, who commands virtually no respect from his peers given his consistent unprofessionalism and sophomoric behavior, has the nerve to ridicule Krauthammer for his appearance.

And the folks at MSNBC wonder why nobody takes this so-called “news network” seriously.

Editor's Note:

This article was reprinted here in its original form. Noel Sheppard is associate editor of the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org. He welcomes feedback at NewsBustersNoel@gmail.com.

For me, I don't know how low those folks at MSNBC will stoop in their attacks on FOX News.

I don't know if it's a case of jealousy because their ratings are in the basement while FOX News rating are through the roof. I don't know if it's just a matter of just more liberal hate mongering.

I do believe, like many others who are writing me to tell me about the really shabby behavior at MSNBC, that they are about a classless crew as a group goes.

I do believe that networks lie MSNBC encourage liberals to want to threaten to kill Mitt Romney - as what has taken place over the last few months on Twitter and other forms of social media. MSNBC incites hate.

Comcast now owns 51% of NBC Universal while GE owns 49% of the corporation.

I can't help but wonder if Comcast and GE are OK with the way their network operates? If so, I'd think twice about doing business with Comcast or GE.

As a consumer, because of the way their network encourages hate and division in America, I won't purchase any GE product and advise people to discontinue their Comcast.

Rasmussen: Republicans Stand Firm on Values

As Washington returns to work after an election that ratified the status quo of divided government, polling shows that voters feel it’s important for the Republicans to work with President Barack Obama.

However, those who are members of the Republican Party disagree.

Some 55 percent of likely voters say it is important for the Republican to work with the president, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey. Some 86 percent of Democrats and 56 percent of independents agree.

However, 79 percent of Republicans think their party should put what it stands for first, a higher number than four years ago.

And yes, 56 Million people voted to stop the Obama agenda. So I'd say that that shows that Conservatives want the Republican controlled House of Representative not to cave to Obama and Harry Reid and the Democrat controlled Senate.

The next election is only two years away, 2014 should be the sequel of what took place in 2010 - except this time we need to take the Senate!



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Story by Tom Correa

We Are Not A United States!

Half of us are in mourning, while the other half gloats! 

Yes, that's right, I said we are nothing near being a united country. In fact, I really believe that we are more divided today than ever before.

Yes, I believe that Obama and those in the liberal mainstream media have succeeded in alienating Republicans and Conservatives to a point where cooperation in the future may be non-existent.

Friends, they can't insult degrade and slander Conservatives - and then expect us to celebrate their victory and help them in the future. It's not going to happen!

Sure Mitt Romney was demonized? You bet he was slandered?

Between the liberal media outlets like that of MSNBC and the networks, along with what was coming out of the Obama Campaign, they made Romney look like a killer, a murderer, a crook, a tax cheat, a slum lord, and worse - a man who would bring back Slavery and take always the rights of citizens.

And though he wasn't the only target as they routinely attacked all Conservatives, poor Romney did get piled on mercilessly.

One person wrote me asking how bad do I think it is? How bad is the divide between us and them on the left?

My opinion is that the liberals have shown their hate, their open disdain, their loathing of Conservatives to such a degree that I don't see any chance of reconciliation anywhere in the near future. Not for years!

If I were to compare how divided we are to some point in history, I would have to say that this our worse point as a nation since probably 1860 when the Democrats tore the nation apart and split away from the rest of the country because they wanted to keep their beloved Slavery in tack.

And yes, just like the old Democrat Party Slave Owners of years ago, Democrats today don't have to work for the black vote - they simply assume they own it because blacks "know better" than to vote for those evil Republicans their vote.

Of course the only things the Democrats don't call Republicans today is the term "carpetbaggers," but then again they call them just about everything else that they can get away with.

Sure the joke is always on Republicans. Just watch David Letterman and Jay Leno and the rest of the late night crowd. They take pleasure in making Republicans look like fools.

And please don't think the late night jerkweeds are the only ones on television, the scripts of some of the most popular television shows have been filled with subtle and not so subtle jabs at Republicans and Romney.

Take for example Tim Allen's new television show just the other night. The episode was supposedly about the election and his character's daughter attacked Romney over things that are blatantly false - but are part of the Obama campaign talking points.

And no, no one should be surprised that liberal television writers don't know how to defend Republicans in scripts. They always make Republicans look stupid and out of touch.

The liberal women in scripts are always enlightened and tolerant to the plight of others, unless of course they happen to be Republicans - then the bastards get what they deserve! Or at least that's how liberal script writers see it.

Their depictions of liberal women as always being smart and independent and strong is usually flawed because they never show liberal women as they really are. Mostly they are filled with an angst against men, and usually dumb as a box of rocks. Not very smart or independent really.

If I'm wrong, then someone can write me to explain why the Obama campaign consistently portrayed his women supports as being insecure, stupid, uneducated, dependant on entitlements, and more worried about free condoms and getting abortions - than they are about getting good jobs, having great futures, and maybe starting their own small businesses?

That's what I saw, when they ever they tramped out Sandra Fluke (pronounced "Fluck" at Georgetown Law), they always focused on her need for government condoms.

Not once did any one focus on Sandra Fluke's concerns about anything other than government sponsored birth control. Is she stupid? Can she think? Does she have a brain?

Did anyone in the Obama campaign bother asking Fluke if she was concerned that more women have lost jobs under Obama's economic policies than men have?

Did that jerkweed conservative hater Chris Matthews, or anyone else, ask Fluke if she even cared that we were have put our children's children in unimaginable debt?

Where was Brian Williams, or Maddow, or Sharpton? Why didn't any one of those people who took so much delight at crucifying Mitt Romney every chance they had - just once asked an Obama supporter like Fluke why aren't they concerned about 23 Million people on unemployment, 17 Million more people on food stamps, or if they really think we as a nation can afford to pay for every one's health care needs?

Instead those same people that I mentioned would ask, "So what do you think of Romney wanting to bring back Slavery and taking away a women's right to vote" or some other asinine irrelevant question.

Now the Democrats can gloat. And yes, they truly are. Right now gloating is the name of the game for the Democrats today! Yup, absolutely!

As for arrogance? It's alive and well on the left

One Obama supporter said that the Republicans should get out of the way and let Obama make the changes that he wants. It seems that the Obama victory has cause some sort of mental illness.

Here's an example, in Springfield, Ohio, a news article reported tha an "elated" Frank Hocker, 67, thinks Republicans would get the message to get out of Obama's way. Imagine that!

"There was a backlash," he said. "For this obstructionist House and those tea party people, I hope they learned their lesson. I hope they learned their lesson: Don't stop the progress of this country."

In Chicago, Obama supporter Scherita Parrish, 56, predicted the president will reach out to Republicans but may not get much back. "But the people have spoken," she said. "They need to lick their wounds, get on with it and start working with the president."

Imagine the way thes people think! I guess they've already forgotten that 56 Million Americans voted to stop Obama's agenda!

And thought that's true, I've read all sorts of messages from celebrities and Obama supporters telling Republicans to eat shit and die because they won and we lost!

And no, I wasn't trying to be profane. That's just the truth of what they are saying in tweets and in interviews and such.

But that's OK, because if they are dumb enough to ignore the things that need addressing over bullshit non-existent issues such as abortion and birth control - then it's no wonder that they are so dumb that they can't recognize that the government is in big trouble financially.

They can gloat all they want. But honestly, I don't think they will be gloating when they find out how much they have screwed themselves by reelecting a man who has no idea how to create jobs.

I think their gloating will seem a little stupid when they find out that there is nothing free! Free has a cost!

Entitlements like "free" health care have a cost that will be passed down to all of us. Republicans and Conservatives understand that, Democrats and those who voted for Obama are just too freaking stupid to understand that someone has to pay for the services that are "free".

Obama will raise their taxes and they will take home far less money than they are today. And yes, they will find this out. The liberal media which hid this from them during the election campaign won't be able to weasel their way out of it and blame it on Republicans or Bush or Romney or the Man In The Moon - Obama will have to finally take ownership of the hole he's put us in.

Supposedly, people in the Obama campaign was talking about compromise in the hours after Obama's victory. Gven the reality of divided government, you would think Obama would finally want to meet with Republican in the House -  something that he has not done in months.

Obama's regualr partisan way of acting is one reason nothing has gotten done in Washington. Obama believes that compromise means you do things my way. And yes, someone should tell Obama that that's not how it works.

But don't look to Democratic Rep. Steve Israel of New York for help. He said, "If you refuse to compromise, we are going to beat you." Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the election showed "if you are an extremist tea party Republican, you are going to lose."

Now there, that's what I'm talking about when saying that that's not how you get help from Republicans. You don't talk down to them and dictate your terms.

We didn't lose it all. In fact we only lost the race for the White House, we Republicans actually picked up more seats in Congress in the House. We don't have to be dictated to by anyone in the Obama campaign or White House.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said pointedly that Republicans will meet Obama halfway "to the extent he wants to move to the political center" and propose solutions "that actually have a chance of passing."

As for Conservatives like me, well a lot of us are in a state of mourning.

Mourning is described as having "grief over the death of someone."  Those in mourning are those most affected by the loss of a loved one. They often observe a period of grieving, and mark it with withdrawal from social events and quiet respectful behavior.

Mourning may also apply to the death of, or anniversary of the death of, an important individual like a local leader, monarch, religious figure etc. State mourning may occur on such an occasion."

I have to say that I was very surprised today over just how many people said they were in "mourning" today when describing how they are feeling after Mitt Romney's loss last night.

I woke up this morning depressed. I went to be not believing it, and I woke up in total disbelief.

And yes, I'm still having a hard time with the fact that over 58 Million Americans voted for Obama after he has gotten us into a worse mess than we were when he took office for years ago. I simply have a hard time accepting that so many people can all have their head up their ass at the same time.

It purely amazes me to think that so many people voted because of non-issues, and not with the real problems in mind.

This morning when I noticed that my wife hadn't gone to a regular class this morning, I asked why she hadn't left. She said she was in mourning and didn't feel like it.

And honestly, I didn't blame her. I wasn't feeling up to doing anything today - everything felt as though it has been lost to some group bent on turning our nation upside down and into something that it wasn't meant to be.

I had to go to the American Legion to meet a beer delivery for the bar there. The driver's name is Brian and he is a nice guy. Usually he's a little more talkative than he was today.

When I asked him how he's doing, he said was feeling down this morning because of the election. At 23 years of age, Brian is pretty concerned about the "more of the same" that we've gotten for the last 4 years from Obama. And no, I don't blame him for being concerned.

A state of mourning seemed to be everywhere today. The clerk at the hardware store, the checker at the supermarket, the guys at the gun store when I when in to look at another rifle.

Every one of those people agreed that we "needed" a business expert like Romney in office to fix the mess we're in. And since last night's results, they all feel a sense of loss today.

That's not all they feel, what's worse is that most who I spoke with today see very little hope for the future.
But we shouldn't lose hope, in fact we should see our situation for what it is - we're in a position of strength.

By the liberals reelecting Obama, Obama is forced to get his ass of the golf course and to work. Part of that means he has to compromise with Republicans.

Sure he's going to try to come off as if he has a mandate from the public, since the vote was split almost down the middle he absolutely does not, and he has to be told that he does not.

Our position is one where we have 56 Million of us American who voted for Romney who are going to make sure that the Republicans in the House don't lose their nerve and become cowards and surrender to Obama's agenda.

Obama and the left may gloat right now, but they will have to come to the Republicans to get anything done.

If the Republicans do what is against our best interest like approving a National Sales Tax, or a Value Added Tax, then let's just that they will feel the wrath of a lot of very pissed off Conservatives in two years.

They must be strong and do what they are elected to do - act as a balance of power and not allow the Obama agenda to go forward.

In the meanwhile, we can try to put aside all of the rhetoric from jerkweeds like Chris Matthews who actually had the nerve to say, "I'm so glad we had that storm last week" - trying to illustrate how presidential Obama appeared in the first few days of the storm.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews saying he was "glad" Hurricane Sandy hit because it helped President Obama shows just how totally insensitive the left is to the problems of Americans in trouble.

They don't see their situation as hurting and in trouble, they see it as a political opportunity!
And yes, I agree that Matthews again only proves himself extremely pathetic for saying such a horrible thing. It's actually pretty sad to know that that's how his deranged mind works.

We already know why that whole mouthy gang at MSNBC who did not once ask a hardball question about Obama's performance for the last 4 years. And yes, all they did was make excuses for him!

So sure, we Conservatives may be in mourning for an America that we tried our best to fight for. And sure those on the left can gloat all they want for now. But friends, though we are tired, the fact is that this battle for the soul of America is not over yet.

One solace for us right now, at this very moment, is knowing that all those jerkweeds on the left who vehemently supported Obama will have a rude awakening soon enough.

You see, they are about to find out all of the real issues of the campaign. They are about to learn about the stuff that was hidden from them during the election. Then we'll see who has the last laugh!

They will find it out and realize that have been screwed over by one of the greatest con men in politics. A man who ran for reelection after failing to do anything for his first four years.

They will find out that there is a bill that needs to be paid for that free lunch they think they're getting. And when it comes due, they will be like that guy who sits at a table thinking that someone else should pick up his tab -  but instead doesn't and now someone makes him pay.

That's what I see happening to those laughing it up and celebrating right now. That's what I see happening when the music stops and they see that the guy they voted for is as worthless a leader as we have ever had the misfortune of having. They will find out that Obama is as useless as skates on a pig!

And don't be surprised when you hear a lot of whining when that check comes due, liberals sound like that a lot - especially when they see that someone else is not picking up the check!




Story by Tom Correa

RANDOM SHOTS - Obama Wins & America Loses - Election Day 2012

Obama Wins & America Loses!

I have had to re-write this post. Something that I really did not want to do.

Before leaving to take my Mom to dinner for her birthday tonight, I hurriedly posted what I thought would take place. I stated:

"Election Day 2012 will go down as a day of redemption. In short, it is our chance to get back what is being squandered. It is our chance to redeem what is good and great about our nation.

It is our opportunity to renew our word, and uphold an obligation, to those who came before us.  We gave our word to fight all enemies foreign and domestic. And now, we must uphold our obligation to fight for freedom and liberty where and when it is being threatened.

Foreign money being given to the Obama administration for his campaign has had a huge influence on decisions from the Obama White House.

Their lobbyist have succeeded in getting oil permits cut in half, the Keystone XL pipeline halted, and increased regulations on American energy producers, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Domestic changes brought on by Obama have been horrible. Obama has tried to "change" America by initiating a socialist medical program, radical environmental proposals like Cap & Trade, and anti-Christian mandates such as forcing Catholics to support abortion.

Obama has proven himself power hungry while increasing the power of the state over the lives of we the people of the United States. He has done this by using departments and agencies of government to intimidate, threaten, and attack Americans throughout our nation. 

Obama had become a threat to America and needed to be defeated at the ballot box! Today he was!

Against the odds. Against the mainstream liberal media, against Conservative voter suppression, and against threats and intimidation by Obama surrogates, Barack Hussein Obama was defeated at the ballot box today.

And with his loss, with the discontinuation of his policies, we the people have won.

We beat him by fulfilling our obligation to our founders. It is the obligation that we all have to change our government whenever it becomes oppressive. And yes, that took place today at the ballot box." 

Now I have to admit that I was wrong about Obama losing, but I am correct about everything else I said.

He is in charge of an oppressive government. Foreign money given to the Obama administration for his campaign has had a huge influence on decisions from the Obama White House.

Their lobbyist have succeeded in getting oil permits cut in half, the Keystone XL pipeline halted, and increased regulations on American energy producers, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Domestic changes brought on by Obama have been horrible. Obama has tried to "change" America by initiating a socialist medical program, radical environmental proposals like Cap & Trade, and anti-Christian mandates such as forcing Catholics to support abortion.

Obama has proven himself power hungry while increasing the power of the state over the lives of we the people of the United States. He has done this by using departments and agencies of government to intimidate, threaten, and attack Americans throughout our nation.

Obama had become a threat to America and needed to be defeated at the ballot box!

That's my opinion of what kind of president Obama has been. Yes, I believe all of that and more.

Did I want Mitt Romney to win? Sure I did! I expected Mitt Romney to win the Electoral Vote where it mattered most. Sure, I expected him to become our next president because of many factors.

Among those factors are that we need a man like Romney who understands business and would not try to impose a leftist ideology on the American people. I believe that Barack Obama is a Leftist, and that Mitt Romney is not a Leftist.

For you who have heard me use the term Leftist to describe Barack Hussein Obama, and wonder how I can say such a thing? Please understand that I'm simply going by what I've been taught.
Leftist refers to someone on the far left side of the political spectrum.  A leftist supports collectivism, more government control of the economy, direct government control over social policy -  including Federal control over education and personal liberties at all levels - lower military spending, censorship of religion, a so-called living constitution, same sex marriages, a more unisex society, globalism, trans-nationalism, taxpayer-funded abortion, censorship of Christianity in public places, the authority of the United Nations over United States sovereignty.

I expected Mitt Romney to take the place of what I see we're in store of - more leftist policies.

I wanted him to win because he is in favor of independent freedoms, liberties, and wouldn't surrender America's sovereignty to the United Nations like Obama would.

As a Moderate/Conservative, I expected Romney to be someone who rises above his personal self-interest and promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all.

He'd want an oil independent America. He'd have built on our coal and oil and natural gas reserves to create more jobs and free us from the bondage of Foreign Oil rich nations that support folks like Obama and radical environmentalist.

I expected the EPA to be brought into line and the costliest social program in human history ObamaCare to be repealed.

I was right about who he was, but I was wrong about him being elected. And no, I'm not trilled at all with the aspects of what's coming for us now from a president that believes in revenge and enemies lists and leftist ideals.

Have you bought a gun lately? You should before you won't be able to. Obama wants to bring back the Gun Ban that ran out years ago. And no, it doesn't matter if homicides are at their lowest in 40 years - after this election, Obama will declare a mandate to make changes that we don't want.

Have you bought a car lately? You should before you won't be able to, because he wants a National Sales Tax, or VAT tax, to fund his famed ObamaCare.

Schools reform, manufacturing slow downs, social policy that take away our liberties, restrictions on Christians practicing their religion, standby for the mandates that he thinks he now has.

And what else was I right about? Well, if there is any solace to the crap that coming at us for the next four years, I was right about the many of us who met our obligation to fight him and the liberal left in our country.

More than 53 Million of us enabled Mitt Romney to come extremely close to winning the popular vote. And yes, though that may not be a whole lot of solace right now - please know that your vote counted. And that, that is something to be proud of.

It is something to say later when people will ask why didn't we stop Obama when we had the chance.

Yes, if you voted for Mitt Romney, you can feel good knowing that you tried to stop what's coming in our near future.

Poll Worker Tells People to Vote Democrat

Democrats will stoop to anything to get Obama re-elected. Intimidation, threats, and even last minute campaigning inside a poll!

A poll worker in North Carolina has been accused of telling people to vote Democrat.

Ken Sharpe, of High Point, NC, told Fox News that he was waiting in line to vote when he noticed a poll worker approach a woman who needed help. The incident occurred at the Springfield Friends Church polling station in the city’s third ward.

Sharpe said he watched as the worker showed the woman where the Obama button was – along with all the other Democrats on the ticket.

“She was pushing the buttons he told her to push,” Sharpe said. “This is pretty shady.”

When it was his turn to vote, the poll worker did the same thing, he said.

“I went up there to vote and he came over and set up the machine for me,” Sharpe said. “He said, ‘If you want to vote straight Democratic ticket mash this button.’”

“I said, well, what if I want to vote a straight republican ticket? He said ‘Oh, you can do that, too.’”

Sharpe said the poll worker’s attitude and demeanor changed once he said he wanted to vote for a Republican ticket.

“This doesn’t set right,” he said. “I think they were trying to shift people’s minds and try to sway any undecided voters at the last minute (to vote Democrat.”

As soon as Sharpe returned home, he called the FBI’s voter fraud switchboard and filed a complaint.

“Voters beware of who you are voting for and don’t be swayed by anyone trying to make decisions for you,” he said.

Mr. Sharpe is a great American for standing up to jerkweeds like that person at the poll - and for calling the FBI! Good job, Mr Sharpe!

Obama mural greets voters at Philadelphia polling site

Mural of President Obama overlooks voting at a school in Philadelphia -- a violation of the state's voting law prohibiting campaign materials inside polling sites.

Poll worker papers over Obama mural at school in Philadelphia used for voting after judge ordered the image covered while polling station was open.

While judge ordered the image covered, it's still pretty clear whose image is behind the paper, along with a visible campaign logo. A quote from one of President Obama's speeches also remained visible to voters.

Workers at a Philadelphia polling place, after being ordered by a judge to cover up a mural of President Obama "in its entirety," slapped up a few pieces of paper that only partially covered his image - while leaving the Obama campaign logo and a quote from the current president in full view for voters.

It is obvious that those there do not understand English or at the least the phrase "in its entirety!"

A Fox News viewer, who asked not to be identified, said it appeared to be a case of political shenanigans and noted there was not a similar portrait of Gov. Mitt Romney.

"I had been under the impression that things like that should be cleared from polling centers — to not influence any voting," the viewer said.

"Shenanigans" must be another word for more Obama campaign "Bullshit!"

Republicans keep House, Democrats the Senate

After months of furious campaigning by hundreds of candidates, the balance of power in Congress remains the same.

Republicans fell short Tuesday in their effort to win the Senate and take full control of Congress, losing practically every key race in a grand plan that started in a wave of optimism and ended in a series of frustrating losses.

Democrats also fell short of their goal -- picking up 25 House seats to give them control of the 435-member chamber.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor defeated Democratic challenger Wayne Powell to serve a seventh term in Virginia's 7th District. And Rep. Paul Ryan, House budget chairman and 2012 vice presidential nominee, retained his seat in Wisconsin.

"I'm humbled to be trusted by Americans," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We will never let you down."

The makeup of the Senate early Wednesday morning was 52-44 for Democrats, and 211-155 for Republicans in the House, according to the website RealClearPolitics.

Republicans needed to win only a handful of Senate seats to take control of the upper chamber, a task they considered well within reach considering how just two years early they overwhelming won the House with the help of the fledgling but forceful Tea Party movement.

Yet two candidates with some of the strong Tea Party ties unraveled and eventually lost close races after comments they made about rape and pregnancy.

In Missouri, Republicans made incumbent Claire McCaskill a primary target, trying to portray her as a rubberstamp for President Obama’s spending.

However, challenger Rep. Todd Akin’s controversial remark about rape and pregnancy this summer took away his support from National Republicans and more middle-of-the-road Missouri voters.

In Indiana, Democrat Joe Donnelly defeat Republican and Tea Party-backed candidate Richard Mourdock in the race for the seat of long-time Republican Sen. Richard Lugar.

Mourdock upset Lugar in the primary but has struggled in the general election after making the comments that Democrats used against him.

Thirty three Senate seats were up for grabs - 23 for Democrats and 10 for Republicans.

One of the lone highlight Senate Republican highlights was in Arizona where Rep. Jeff Flake defeated Democrat Richard Carmona for the open seat of Republican Sen. Jon Kyl.

Harvard law professor and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren defeat first-term Republican Scott Brown in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, ending a race that was too close to call through much of the election cycle.

In Connecticut, Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy defeated Republican and former pro wrestling executive Linda McMahon for the open seat of retiring independent Sen. Joe Lieberman.

This marks the second Senate loss in two years for McMahon who spent million to the races. Despite being a much-improved candidate since 2010, McMahon faced tough odds in the Democrat-leaning state and struggled in the debates, according to political analysts.

In Florida, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson won a third term, defeating Republican Rep. Connie Mack.

Democratic incumbent Bob Casey held on to his Senate seat in Pennsylvania. The first-term senator defeated Republican challenger Tom Smith.

The open Senate seat in Maine will be filled by independent candidate Angus King, who beats out Democrat Cynthia Dill and Republican Charlie Summers to take over the seat being vacated by retiring Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican.

So-called Independent King is expected to join the Democrats but hasn't officially announced that yet.

In Virginia, Democrat Tim Kaine defeated Republican George Allen. The former governors were running for the open seat of outgoing Democratic Sen. Jim Webb.

Liberal Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, turned back a challenge by Republican John MacGovern.

In West Virginia, Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who has distanced himself from Obama’s restrictive coal regulations, defeated Republican challenger John Raese.

Anyone out there think Democrat Joe Manchin is going to distance himself from Obama now that the president has won re-election? I doubt it!

My Marine Training Is Proven Right!

Early this evening it was reported that a Poll Watcher was threatened with a gun and another voter was punched.

With help from the mainstream liberal media, with the use of Conservative voter suppression, and threats and intimidation by Obama surrogates, Mitt Romney was defeated at the ballot box today.

It was a battle between the crooked and the right. By the end of the day, we on the right did not prevail.

And yes, it goes along with any sort of fight really. The lesson learned is that the crook and the cheat wins, and those playing fair are dumb to do so.

In Detroit, a legally credentialed poll watcher was threatened with a gun at a polling precinct — an incident that state Republican leaders are calling an act of “outlandish” intimidation.

The poll watcher, a lawyer, was confronted by a voter who demanded that he show his credentials. The poll watcher complied with the request –but the voter objected and allegedly brandished a gun and badge and ordered him to leave the precinct.

The GOP observer was reportedly chased away by the unidentified gun-wielding individual.

The Detroit Police Dept. confirmed they are aware of the alleged incident and are currently investigating.

“Poll watchers, precinct workers and voters should not be put in danger when performing their duties,” said Bobby Schostak, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party. “Our Republic requires free and fair elections.”

Schostak called the incident “outlandish, reckless and dangerous.”

There are also reports of an incident at another Detroit polling place where a woman was punched in the face by an Obama supporter.

Detroit Police tell Fox News they are not aware of that particular incident.

Now really, that's no surprise!

My training as a Marine tells me that you should understand your opponent, your enemy. It taught me years ago that you go into a fight wanting to win at all cost.

So why was a man with a gun and badge not "outed" right there on the spot, and called on it then and there in front of witnesses?

And yes, there is the other question, why weren't we armed knowing that threats had been made? Why is there this attitude among some Republicans that playing fair is what matters when confronted by an enemy that wants to win at all cost?

Why haven't some Republicans out there learned that elections are war and not for the weak at heart? If we Republicans expect to win. We may have to adapt to the techniques of the Democrats.

Remember, Democrats are fierce when assaulting other Americans. It's going to war over America against enemy nations that they have problems with.

They are devious cowards who can't seem to win a fair election. It appears they know they have to cheat to win, and they will without hesitation.

While no one is advocating lying, cheating, stealing, or threatening others like the Democrats do so well. I do believe that some Republicans out there can learn something from the way Democrats fight. If anything, we can remember exactly what kind of opponent they are - and what they are capable of doing.

Motto Of Obama 2012 Exposed!

In 2008, it was "Yes We Can!"

In 2012, it's been "Lie, Cheat & Steal"

Someone sent me an email saying that apparently "Lie, Cheat & Steal" has been the Obama 2012 unofficial motto. It was supposedly taken from a political simulation game in which the players are trying to be elected to public office - but do so by any means.

Unlike most political simulations which are based on how elections are supposed to be run, "Lie, Cheat & Steal" uses liberal political methods of vote buying, money from unknown foreign sources, and under the table deals to gain at an election and then re-election.

West Point's Cadet Honor Code simply reads, "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do."

Supposedly, the Cadet Honor Code was turned upside down by the Democrats working for Obama and used as an unofficial ethics code.

Supposedly, where the Honor Code expresses four succinct prohibitions on a behavioral level, the Obama 2012 saw The Honor Code as a hindrance to those working for the Obama campaign.

The Code represents a simple standard, and expects all  to strive to live far above the minimum standard of behavior and develop a commitment to ethical principles guiding moral actions.

It sounds as though Obama 2012 needed more than that to win.

Here is some of the merchandise associated with the twisted sense of right and wrong.  

I don't know if what the email stated is true. It only goes along with what was seen on the campaign when the president appeared too eager to alter the truth to fit his needs. And yes, it worked!

Story by Tom Correa

RANDOM SHOT - Obama urges voters to take "Revenge," Jeeps In China, Voting Machines Fixed For Obama, and More!

Obama urges voters to take "Revenge" on Election Day

When I was in High School, I had a teacher who hated President Richard Nixon. That teacher would call Nixon a crook every chance he had, and one day he explained to us why he absolutely loathed the president.

He told us that Nixon had an "Enemies List" and was extremely vindictive. He said that a man in a position of power as high as the president should not be vindictive.

He said Nixon was out to get those who did not support him. I remember thinking that he was exaggerating how the president does things.

I reasoned that a man so weak and shallow, so ill tempered and disillusioned, so power hungry, could never be President of the United States of America.

Could we ever have a President of the United States who would be so vindictive as to seek, or support, revenge against those who don't support him or his policies?

Napoleon sure, Stalin sure, Mussolini sure, Hitler absolutely, but these were not American presidents. These were tyrants filled with sick ambitions to rule and enslave their people.

Sure they would have a strong, almost sick, desire for revenge one way or another. Heck, that's how they held power. But an American president? An American president wanting or supporting "revenge"?

It couldn't happen here. Or could it?

And revenge over what? Over not supporting a candidate because we don't like his policies? It would be sort of nuts to think it possible!

Granted over the last few weeks, there has been a lot of chatter from Obama's supporters wanting to kill Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. And yes, they have used the word "assassinate" when describing what they want to do to Romney and Ryan.

Well, believe it or not, President Obama suggested on Friday that his supporters take "revenge" by voting against the Republican nominee. He actually used the word "revenge".

During a speech in Springfield, Ohio, Obama worked up his crowd of supporters with his normal let's beat up on the rich stump speech. Then he mentioned Mitt Romney's name, and of course that drew boos from the crowd.

The president's reaction is one that had to surprise everyone there if they realize what they heard, but maybe not. Because when his audience started booing, the president said, "No, no, no -- don't boo, vote! Vote. Voting is the best revenge!"

Days ago when I first read about the death threats against Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, I remember thinking how President Obama could sound so non-partisan - so Presidential - if he would address those who have threaten to kill Romney and Ryan.

I thought, here is his chance to right America and tell those who he has filled with hate to stand down and get a hold of themselves.

Today, the Romney camp claimed Obama's remarks draw a clear distinction between the two men, just four days before Election Day.

"I think it's a terrible message to be sending," Romney senior adviser Kevin Madden said. "The contrast could not be more stark. Governor Romney is out campaigning on a positive message of change while the president is talking about revenge."

The Obama campaign lashed back. No apology, just more attacks.

President Obama is supposedly so intelligent yet he doesn't understand that words have power. And yes, a word like "revenge" coming from his mouth to his supporters should alarm many out there.

I believe the Mitt Romney will be elected President this coming Tuesday. I'm ashamed to say that I think there will be racial riots in the streets of the inner-cities. I'm also ashamed to say that I really believe that Barack Obama has fueled the fire of hatred that some use as an excuse to riot, loot and destroy.

And please, please don't say that what is said in a campaign does not translate into violence.

I was only a kid, a teenager if I remember right, when Robert Kennedy was shot dead during his campaign. I remember it on television as if it were yesterday.

Robert Kennedy's campaign for the presidency was in full gear, and he was the front-running candidate of the Democratic Party.

In the California presidential primary on June 4, Kennedy defeated Eugene McCarthy. And there at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, following a brief victory speech delivered just past midnight on June 5th, Kennedy was shot by an Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan, who hated Kennedy because he in a campaign speech he had promised jet fighters to Israel. 

Hate motivated the man to kill Robert F. Kennedy. It is the same sort of hate that the Obama campaign has been fueling. Hate based on the lies that the Obama campaign has been pushing for months now.

I know someone out there will write me to say that the hate that Sirhan Sirhan had for Robert Kennedy is much different than the hate that's being drummed up by the Obama campaign. But are you sure?

During this election, both Obama's campaign and his surrogates have fueled the flames of hatred by promoting the ideas of class warfare, a return to racial segregation, a repeal of women's rights, the destruction of Social Security and Medicare, ending programs that feed the poor and keep our air clean, all if Mitt Romney is elected.

All while knowing full well that Mitt Romney has no such plans.

It is supposed to gin up votes, but it also feeds the hatred and incites violence. Words like "revenge" incite those who want an excuse to commit violence.

As I stated in my October 20th, Random Shots article, Obama Supporters Threaten To Kill Romney If He Wins Election:

Threats to assassinate President Obama would be dealt with immediately, with Mitt Romney proving just as threatened on the social network - I'm hoping someone takes this serious and doesn't treat it as they did the threats against George W. Bush.

Twitchy first reported on the death threats last Sunday but a deluge of new ones have flooded in since, including the following;

“I swear if Mitt Romney becomes president, I’m gonna be the one to assassinate his ass!!!”

“im telling you if romney gets elected somebody gon have to take a L and A. assassinate romney and ryan or B. obliterate the WH w/ them in it.”

“If Romney becomes president , hella people gonna try to assassinate him.”

“Soo Romney said black folks are free loaders n basically tryna get us back to slavery…..I will personally Assassinate dat mf.”

“If Romney Get Elected Somebody Gotta Assassinate Him” Me Duh Nigha ??”

“If Romney Get Elected Somebody Gotta Assassinate Him.”

“F*ck Romney ima assassinate.”

It is important again to stress that these are not newly created fake accounts, they are owned by people who have made thousands of previous tweets.

While some Twitter users later backed away from their threats, others seemed genuinely serious.
President Obama, his administration, and the liberal media, have needlessly fanned the flames of racial division in American. When it became apparent that economics would not work, the Obama administration has tried to break America along racial, gender and class lines.

Now is the time for the ominous to be addressed. Obama and other Democrat leaders, and yes the culpable mainstream liberal press, should step forward and denounce these threats of violence right now.

If they have any decency at all, they would do so immediately.

So yesterday, when the Romney campaign addressed President Obama's use of the word "revenge" and claimed that Obama's remarks draw a clear distinction between the two men.

President Obama's campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said, "We'll take a lecture from the Romney campaign on positive campaigning when they stop scaring auto workers, pull their cynical Jeep ad off the air and apologize for falsely claiming that Chrysler is moving Jeep production to China. That's their closing argument and there's nothing positive about scare tactics and dishonesty."

Scare tactics and dishonesty? Really! Not hardly!

Please, read on to find out why I say that.

So let's talk about Jeep production to China, was Mitt Romney wrong?

On October 25th, 2012, the Washington Examiner ran the story: 

Jeep, an Obama favorite, looks to shift production to China

In another potential blow for the president's Ohio reelection campaign, Jeep, the rugged brand President Obama once said symbolized American freedom, is considering giving up on the United States and shifting production to China.

Such a move would crash the economy in towns like Toledo, Ohio, where Jeeps are made and supplied, and rob the community of the economic security they thought Obama's auto bailout assured them.

Obama is such a fan of Jeep that he included a picture of himself speaking at the Toledo plant in his newly released second term agenda binder.

In his address to the plant in 2011, Obama said, "I just took a short tour of the plant and watched some of you putting the finishing touches on the Wrangler. Now, as somebody reminded, I need to call it the 'iconic' Wrangler. And that's appropriate because when you think about what Wrangler has always symbolized. It symbolized freedom, adventure, hitting the open road, never looking back."

Well it appears that the taxpayer bailed-out Chrysler is looking back and now considering cutting costs by shifting production of all Jeeps to China, which has a strong desire for Jeeps.

In a Bloomberg interview, Jeep's president said the automaker plans to restore Jeep production in China, suspended in 2009, and is considering making all Jeeps in China. "Fiat SpA, majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers' operations in the region," reported the business wire service.

Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia and president of the Jeep brand, told Bloomberg, "We're reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity" as well as "should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio" to China.

Chrysler builds Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley said the firm is in talks with China's Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.

--- end article of October 25th.

Then on October 30th, Chrysler Group LLC Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne came out to say that Jeep sport-utility vehicle production will stay in the U.S. after presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested output may move to China.

"Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China," Marchionne wrote in a letter to Auburn Hills, Michigan-based Chrysler’s employees. "Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. It is inaccurate to suggest anything different."

It wasn't Romney who got it wrong, talk to Bloomberg News!

Bloomberg News reported on Oct. 22 that Chrysler’s majority owner Fiat SpA (F) planned to resume Jeep output in China and may eventually make all of the brand’s models there. The report stated that potential production in China would be in addition to output at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio.

Chrysler hasn’t built Jeeps in China, the world’s largest auto market, since before Turin, Italy-based Fiat took control of the U.S. automaker in 2009 after a U.S.-backed bankruptcy.

Production in China would allow Fiat and Chrysler to sell Jeeps that avoid Chinese government tariffs on imported vehicles.

When Mitt Romney told a crowd in Ohio last week that he had read a report saying Jeep was "thinking of moving all production to China," there is a defensible explanation for what he said.

A Bloomberg story published the previous Monday had stated that Fiat, which owns Chrysler, "plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country."

A line was added to the Bloomberg story after it was published stating that Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia, was referring to "adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."

After finding out the correction, the Romney campaign made a good  point when they said, "if Chrysler adds jobs in China, that amounts to jobs the automaker is not creating here at home in the United States.

Now as for why this story struck home with me?

Well, just as a matter of full disclosure, I bought brand new CJ-5 Jeep back in 1979 during the "Other Great Depression" when Jimmy Carter was president.  
Ah, the days the Democrats want to forget! The days of the Carter Administration and the last time the economy was really in the toilet.

Think I'm kidding? How about double-digit unemployment as in 16% nationally, double-digit inflation rate as in 14%, and yes let's not forget the double-digit Interest Rates.

Yup, I remember going into the American Motors Corporation (AMC) Jeep lot and finding one that I wanted.  I then sat down with the Dealer and got a great Interest Rate for those days, I got 17%!

Yes, even though my credit rating was excellent, that's what I got - and that was great.

You see, Democrats bet on you and I not having a very good memories. They don't want you to remember that Interest Rates under that last President to use the same economic policies as Obama - was actually Jimmy Carter. And yes, that was truly America's last Depression!

Under Carter, the Interest Rate was 21%!

My CJ-5 Jeep was made before AMC partnered with France's Renault to help finance their manufacturing operations - all to obtain much-needed capital and a source for sub-compact vehicles.

Just a few years later in 1983, Renault had a controlling interest in AMC. Production was discontinued for all AMC cars except the all-wheel-drive Eagles.

In 1987, Renault sold AMC to Chrysler. The AMC and Renault brands were then discontinued in America. The Jeep/Eagle division of Chrysler Corporation was formed from the remains of AMC after Chrysler's 1987 buyout. The Jeep was marketed primarily by former AMC dealers for a long time.

Of course, that was around the time that those yo-yos at 60Minutes nearly killed Jeep because of a fictional story they ran about the odds of Jeeps rolling over. Fact is that 60 Minutes put a lot of people out of work because their story - a story where they fudged the figures - almost halted production of Jeep altogether.

And of course, that's when Chrysler bought out AMC in 1987, shortly after the Jeep CJ-7 was replaced with the AMC-designed Jeep Wrangler (or the YJ) - a wider wheelbase Jeep. 

Then Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler. DaimlerChrysler eventually sold most of their interest in Chrysler to a private equity company in 2007. Chrysler and the Jeep division now operate under the name Chrysler Group LLC.

Jeeps have been built under licence by various manufacturers around the world including Mahindra in India, EBRO in Spain, and several in South America. Mitsubishi built more than 30 different Jeep models in Japan between 1953 and 1998. Most of them were based on the CJ-3B model of the original Willys-Kaiser design.

Toledo, Ohio has been the headquarters of the Jeep marque since its inception, and the city has always been proud of this heritage. Although no longer produced in the same Toledo Complex as the World War II originals, two streets in the vicinity of the old plant are named Willys Parkway and Jeep Parkway.

So are Jeeps being produced in China? Well, yes they are!

American Motors Corporation set up the first automobile-manufacturing joint venture in the People's Republic of China back in January  of 1984.

The result was Beijing Jeep Corporation, Ltd., in partnership with Beijing Automobile Industry Corporation, to produce the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) in Beijing.

And yes, manufacturing of Jeeps in China has continued after Chrysler's buyout of AMC back in 1987.

This joint venture is now part of Daimler-Chrysler and Daimler-Chrysler China Invest Corporation. The original 1984 XJ model was updated and called the "Jeep 2500" toward the end of its production that ended after 2005.

As for my 1979 CJ-5 Jeep? Well, it was my primary vehicle for 30 years. Then about 4 years ago, I gave it to my nephew with the stipulation that he cannot sell it.

He agreed. And yes, today he climbs rocks and crosses rivers with her just as I did back when!

Lies and Half-Truths from the Obama Campaign

On Fox News website, writer Liz Peek who is a Fox News.com contributor and a a financial columnist who also writes for The Fiscal Times, wrote a really good article about the myths of the Obama campaign.

She asks if we "remember when the Supreme Court decision allowing corporate political spending was going to undermine Democrats, uh, that is, democracy? Or how Republican super PACs would give Governor Romney an insurmountable spending advantage?"

She refreshes our memory that as it turns out, the "Obama campaign has raised more money than the GOP candidate – a staggering amount of almost $1 billion dollars – even while as recently as August Obama was e-mailing supporters warning them that Romney was outspending Democrats."

The Obama campaign doesn't want to mention how Obama has run 20,000 more campaign ads than Romney. And friends, 20,000 campaign ads just to attack your opponent and never say what you really going to do in the next four years if your re-elected takes a lot of money.

But wait, that's not the only myth that Liz Peek wants to remind us of. She states that another myth key to Barack Obama’s campaign is that Mitt Romney wants to go back to the “policies that got us into trouble in the first place.”

And since Liz Peek is a financial columnist, it is important for folks to listen when she asks "what are those injurious Republican policies?"

Her answer, "Presumably the president refers to the deregulation of financial institutions that liberals blame for the recession. But, it was Bill Clinton who repealed Glass-Steagall. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, which undid that long-standing law, passed the Senate 90-8, with Vice President Biden among the many Democrats supporting the measure. By contrast, George Bush was a regulation nut. It was during his administration that the country adopted the oppressive Sarbanes-Oxley legislation."

And thought those are facts, she knows that some will still believe the Obama lie and not the truth of what took place.

The truth, as Liz Peek puts it, is that "the financial crisis did not stem from deregulation. Instead, it was caused by the government encouraging too much money to slosh into real estate and into subprime mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie, on the misguided notion that home ownership created upward mobility."

The excess investment into property blew prices sky-high and encouraged speculation. The ensuing bubble was fed by the emergence of securitization, which made available unprecedented amounts of money. Many rungs led up this rickety ladder – poor credit analysis, incompetent ratings agencies, undisciplined mortgage brokers – but allowing banks and securities firms to invade each others’ turf was not among them."

Of course the Democrats, especially the Obama campaign, doesn't want you to remember that even the ultra-liberal New York Times had to admit that George W. Bush went to the Democrats who controlled Congress on 17 different occasions to address the impending crisis.

In her article, I give Liz Peek a great big thank you for telling folks that "another Obama myth is that the president 'saved' GM while Romney wanted to let the auto companies go bankrupt."

She points out the fact that, "People forget that GM did go bankrupt, and that taxpayers are still on the hook for $42 billion in monies funneled to GM and its financial arm Ally Capital – more than half the TARP funds that are still outstanding.

Obama upended traditional (and legal) bankruptcy proceedings in order to rig the outcome heavily in favor of the UAW – payback for the $400 million in contributions from organized labor that fueled his 2008 campaign.

For the UAW, each one percent ownership interest in GM cost $629 million; taxpayers paid $834 million and secured bondholders, the top of the credit chain, paid $2.7 billion for one percent of the company."

She also asks a great question, "Romney’s push was for a legal and legitimate sorting out of the company’s debts, a restructuring that would ensure the company’s competitiveness going forward, more harmonious labor relations and investment in energy-saving and innovative technology. Does that sound like a prescription for killing the autos?"

Liz Peek states the Obama campaign's latest bit is to spread more of the same, just more bullshit. And yes, save your letters to her, she calls it myths - "bullshit" is my opinion of what the Obama campaign has been trying to pass for the truth.

She writes about Obama campaign's myths, which I call his campaign lies because that's what they are, saying, "President Obama’s newest campaign ad is stuffed with myths, including how he fostered 'American-made energy'.

Even fourth-graders know that Obama’s every impulse has been to squash the use of fossil fuels. He stifled investment in oil and gas by slowing lease sales on federal lands, proposed cap and trade regulations (which thankfully went nowhere) that would crimp hydrocarbon development, pushed to eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas producers that are meant to stimulate drilling, and adopted regulations that virtually prohibit construction of new coal-fired power plants.

He is convinced that high-cost green energy is the future and that fossil fuels are relics of an unhealthy and permissive past. For a campaign supposedly looking Forward!, energy policy has been remarkably embedded in past (and discredited notions) of how we are running out of oil."

And though she didn't say it, I will, what about his trying to kill the Keystone XL oil pipeline to suck up to his Environmentalist big money donors. It killed the prospect of 500,000 jobs, oil Independence, and lower prices at the pumps - all which Foreign Oil rich Islamic countries don't want us to have!

My respect for Liz Peek goes far because she is reminding Americans of the truth while others in the media aren't.

Here's what she had to say about trade, "Mr. Obama also touts his success in promoting exports. Sales of goods and services overseas have indeed increased, as reliably as the temperature climbs on a sunny day. Global growth is being driven by rising consumption in emerging economies like China and Brazil; we, as the world’s second largest exporter, have benefited."

It is interesting to note, however, that while exports increased 72% during George W. Bush’s eight years in office, despite a recession early in his term that drove exports slightly lower, the amount of goods and services we ship outside our boundaries has advanced only 20% in the four years Mr. Obama has been president.

We assume that export growth in the final months of this year will hum along at 5%, as it did earlier in 2012; they most recently turned down. Mr. Obama’s tenure began with a slump, to be sure. But he has not moved the needle here.

The Obama campaign teeters on many myths and distractions. Unhappily, there is no excuse for Mr. Obama’s failure to lead this country, his inability to work across the aisle, his refusal to tackle our fiscal challenges or his disdain for private enterprise. There are no heroes here."

Reading what Liz Peek has to say is wonderful because we need to know that there are financial experts out there who validate what we all see happening around us.

And no, I'm not saying that we need this validation - but instead that it is just good to have. It sort of like having a friend near by when you know damn well that some con man is trying to shaft you but he's making the deal sound so good. Even though you know he's a con man, there is that thought in your head that says, "You think I could be wrong about him?"

Here our friend, like Liz Peek, saying, "Nope, it's all a myth. He really is a con man. And yes, he's trying his best to make you believe lies and half-truths to buy what he's selling."

What Obama is selling is the very same thing that he got away with selling in 2008, just bullshit all to just get elected!

We don't need Masters, nor Slaves!

Abraham Lincoln said, "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Too bad Obama does not believe the same.

Our government should work for us eye to eye as a service to we the people. Not as our slave, but more as our hired hand. It should not even attempt to think itself our master.

Claims increase of machines switching votes from Romney to Obama!

Imagine going to vote for your presidential candidate and pushing the button on a touch-screen voting machine -- but the "X" marks his opponent instead.

That is what some voters in Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio have reported.

Fox News received several complaints from voters who say they voted on touch-screen voting machines -- only when they tried to select Mitt Romney, the machine indicated they had chosen President Obama.

The voters in question realized the error and were able to cast ballots for their actual choice.

"I don't know if it happened to anybody else or not, but this is the first time in all the years that we voted that this has ever happened to me," said Marion, Ohio, voter Joan Stevens.

Stevens said that when she voted, it took her three tries before the machine accepted her choice to vote for Romney.

"I went to vote and I got right in the middle of Romney's name," Stevens told Fox News, saying that she was certain to put her finger directly on her choice for the White House.

She said that the first time she pushed "Romney," the machine marked "Obama."

So she pushed Romney again. Obama came up again. Then it happened a third time.

"Maybe you make a mistake once, but not three times," she told Fox News.

Marion County Board of Elections Director Sophie Rogers, though, said: "My personal opinion is that she hit it too hard."

"We've noticed people just punch on them. She might not have hit the square that she wanted," Rogers said.

Rogers insists there are no problems with the touch-screen machines in Marion County and that after learning of Stevens' complaint she took the machine out of circulation and had it reexamined and recalibrated. She says there was nothing wrong with the machine to begin with.

But in response to the growing number of complaints, the Republican National Committee has sent a letter to election officials in six states -- Ohio, Nevada, Kansas, North Carolina, Missouri and Colorado -- demanding tighter controls on touch-screen machines.

The RNC wants the machines to be re-tested, more technicians added to fix any problems, and verbal reminders given by election workers telling voters to double check their ballots.

Multiple voters from several states wrote Fox News to report problems similar to what Stevens reported.

One voter asked: "I wonder how many voters just hit the 'Cast Ballot' without reading the machine?"

"How can we be sure our votes are not being stolen electronically?" asked another.

One expert warns it can happen.

"Vote jumping complaints have arisen in every election that uses touch-screen voting machines, with the complaints going both ways," said Barbara Simons, author of the new book "Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?"

Simons, an expert on electronic voting who is on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Commission, said there is good reason for people not to trust the older touch-screen machines.

She said, "This phenomenon can occur when a machine goes out of calibration. The need to re-calibrate frequently is an important reason for discarding these aging, unreliable, and inaccurate machines and replacing them with paper ballots."

Frequently recalibrating the machines is one of the RNC demands.

But election officials insist that the machines are practically foolproof. They say any problems are due to human error, and that tinkering with machines is almost impossible.

"It is nearly technically impossible to pre-program the voting machines in Nevada to vote for a specified candidate," said Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, in a statement to Fox News.

He said machines are tested by each of the state's 17 counties individually.

"While it is possible for a voter to inadvertently select a candidate, it is not possible for the machine to automatically select a candidate."

Miller notes that similar allegations were investigated in his state during the 2010 election, with the assistance of the FBI. Authorities found that claims that machines "were pre-programmed, malfunctioning or in any way preventing any voter from casting a ballot for the candidate of their choice were without merit."

Miller, a Democrat, brands the Republican demand to election officials as "based upon rumor, hearsay, or unconfirmed media reports," as well as "irresponsible" and "unfortunate."

He said his office has "not received any direct, first-hand complaints from voters."

In Ohio, touch-screen machines, for example, are being used in Lorain County with no reported "switched votes" or operational issues.

"We haven't had any problems with the touch screens this year and everything is going well," Lorain County Board of Elections Director Paul Adams told Fox News.

His county has used touch-screen machines since 2005.

Adams, a veteran election official, said that in his county, machines are not electronically designed to be able to change choices, and there is no way for anybody to rig a machine or pre-program its choices for one candidate or a slate.

"We have heard of these issues in some of the other counties. We had sporadic issues a few years ago, and since then we have upgraded our software and our board has replaced most of our touch-screen unit screens if there were any problems with them. And since we've done that about a year and a half ago, we haven't had any major issues."

Lorain County did replace 400 of its 1,200 touch screen machines last year.

Adams also notes that there is what is called "a paper trial," like a receipt, where voters can see their choices printed out. He also says that anybody who has a problem voting should immediately tell elections officials.

While Fox News spent the day at the County Board of Elections, where early voting was taking place, election workers were doing just that.

One woman's long fingernails blocked her selection, until she moved the angle of her fingers to get it right.

An elderly man did not realize that he did not cast a vote for president, so a worker did exactly what Adam advises. She walked the voter through the process.

"I pushed the button!" the man declared.

"You might have accidentally hit it twice. Just lightly tap it, real light," advised the worker.

She also showed the voter the paper evidence of his votes to confirm them.

"Are you satisfied?"

"Yes, thank you very much," the voter replied.

Nevertheless, Joan, who said she finally was able to cast a correct vote after three attempts, advises fellow voters to confirm their choices.

"Be very careful when you vote. I don't care who you vote for, just double-check."

Bloomberg blasted for going forward with NYC Marathon plans as city reels from Sandy

Mayor Michael Bloomberg came under fire Friday for pressing ahead with this weekend's New York Marathon in a city still reeling from Superstorm Sandy, with some New Yorkers saying that holding the race would be insensitive and divert police, generators and other resources when many are still suffering.

Joan Wacks, whose Staten Island waterfront condo was swamped with 4 feet of water, predicted authorities will still be recovering bodies when the estimated 40,000 runners from around the world hit the streets for the 26.2-mile race Sunday, and she called the mayor "tone deaf."

"He is clueless without a paddle to the reality of what everyone else is dealing with," she said. "If there are any resources being put toward the marathon, that's wrong. I'm sorry, that's wrong."

At a news conference, Bloomberg defended his decision as a way to raise money for the stricken city and boost morale less than a week after Sandy flooded neighborhoods, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands homes and businesses and killed at least 39 people.

Bloomberg said New York "has to show that we are here and we are going to recover" and "give people something to cheer about in what has been a very dismal week for a lot of people."

"You have to keep going and doing things," he said. "You can grieve and you can cry and you can laugh, and that's what human beings are good at."

He noted that his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, went ahead with the New York Marathon two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"If you go back to 9/11, Rudy made the right decision in those days to run the marathon and pull people together," Bloomberg said.

One of the world's pre-eminent road races, the New York Marathon generates an estimated $340 million into the city. This time, the marathon's sponsors and organizers have dubbed it the "Race to Recover" and intend to use the event to raise money for the city to deal with the crisis. New York Road Runners, the race organizer, will donate $1 million and said sponsors have pledged more than $1.5 million.

"It's hard in these moments to know what's best to do," NYRR president Mary Wittenberg said. "The city believes this is best to do right now."

The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route.

Earlier this week, the mayor gave assurances the race wouldn't siphon off resources from the storm recovery, noting electricity is expected to be restored to all of Manhattan by race day, freeing up "an enormous number of police."

New Yorker Michael Sofronas used to run the marathon and has been a race volunteer for four years, serving as an interpreter for foreign runners. But he said he won't volunteer this year.

"I'm also really very aghast at the fact that we've just gone through the Sandy hurricane and I believe that the people should not be diverted to the marathon. They should focus on the people in need," he said. "It's all about money, money from everybody. The sponsors, the runners."

A Swede who arrived in New York this week to run in the marathon sided with the mayor.

"It doesn't feel good, coming to New York," said Maria Eriksson, 27. "But the marathon has been planned for such a long time. And besides, it brings so much money to the city. That should help. What help would it be to cancel?"

But John Esposito, a Staten Islander helping his elderly parents clean out their flooded home, said: "They brought giant generators to power the marathon tents while we've got thousands of people without power. ... How about putting one of these generators here? Have some compassion."

But wait, the story doesn't end quite yet!

Angry New Yorkers Win And The Marathon Is Canceled

In wake of Anger over Mayor's initial decision to hold it

The New York City Marathon was canceled on Friday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg after mounting criticism that this was not the time for a race while the region is still recovering from Superstorm Sandy.

With people in storm-ravaged areas still shivering without electricity and the death toll in New York City at more than 40, many residents recoiled at the prospect of police officers being assigned to protect Sunday's race.

An estimated 40,000 runners from around the world had been expected to take part in the 26.2-mile event. The race had been scheduled to start in Staten Island, one of the hardest-hit areas by this week's storm.

A few hours after Bloomberg insisted the race would be held, he reversed his decision when top city officials lined up against him.

"We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it," the mayor said in a statement. "We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event -- even one as meaningful as this -- to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track."

The nationally televised race that winds through the city's five boroughs and ends in Central Park has been held annually since 1970 -- it was held in 2001, about two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The cancellation means there won't be another NYC Marathon until next year.

Bloomberg called the marathon an "integral part of New York City's life for 40 years" and "an event tens of thousands of New Yorkers participate in and millions more watch."

He still insisted that holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, but understood the level of friction.

"It is clear it that it has become the source of controversy and division," Bloomberg said. "The marathon has always brought our city together and inspired us with stories of courage and determination."

Mary Wittenberg, president of the organizing New York Road Runners, said it was the right move.

"It's clear today the best thing for New York and the best thing for the marathon for the future is unfortunately to move on, and this isn't the year or the time to run it," she said in a statement.

"It's crushing and it's really difficult. It's one of the toughest decisions we ever made, but we really believe it's the right thing for New York," she said.

For her to say that "It's one of the toughest decisions we ever made," shows how truly out of touch the big wheels at the Mayor's office are with what's going on in his own city.

Canceling the New York City Marathon that would have diverted needed resources from victims and those in crisis is a no brainer.

How could any of those Bozos in the Mayor's office sleep at night knowing that they have needed equipment and manpower being used in crowd control when your city is still digging out of the biggest disaster to hit New York since 9/11/2001?

Ignorant, apathetic, out of touch, or maybe just dumb as a box of rocks? Any way you look at it, new management is needed at City Hall!

And yes, in the meanwhile, my heart goes out to those poor folks effected by Hurricane Sandy and the foolishness that they have for leadership.


Story by Tom Correa