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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

I had no idea!

His messiahness BHO is truly amazing.
Here is what he's accomplished in just the first half of his first hundred days:



Truly, truly stunning!!
What more can this guy possibly in the next half?
Well, we'll certainly know soon enough.

posted by Amendment X at 11:49 PM permalink 0 comments

I love the old ads....

From Hot Air:

The original:


The recently updated:



We so often hear (ad magna nauseum) the left's concern about"the children".
Well, what say you now MoveOn.org? What say you now?

posted by Amendment X at 11:30 PM permalink 0 comments

Monday, March 30, 2009

Salient quote

From the Patriot Post:

"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." --author Dresden James

I reflected on how the Founding Fathers would be received today.
Poorly I imagine.
Quite poorly.

Also, go subscribe, get the recent Patriot Post (3-30-09) and read how Mark Levin describes the descent from a "soft tyranny" to a "hard tyranny".





posted by Amendment X at 11:32 AM permalink 0 comments

Sunday, March 29, 2009

If you don't hear the canary hit the bottom of the cage, how about an eagle?

I've written many times about the looming financial disaster called Social Security and Medicare. The head of the Dallas Federal Reserve has calculated the amount of money we need to put aside today is $99,000,000,000,000 to meet future outlays.(BTW, that $99,000,000,000,000 figure increases $4,650,000,000,000 each year according to Dr. Walter E. Williams). I've written that Bernie Ebbers went to prison for running MCI/Worldcom the same way Congress and the Treasury have run Social Security/Medicare. I've also written that when the "surplus" goes away, that will become the opening shot in an inter-generational civil war.
How does Social Security/Medicare work?
Poorly. Here is a simple explanation. One note: the money the SS Admin lends to the treasury is spent. It also goes on the books as an "asset" or "revenue" which it is not, rather than a "liability" which it is. In other words, the SS Trust Fund has nothing but IOU's in it, the Treasury is cooking the books and the annual deficit has been made to look a lot lower than it is.
Most analysts predicted that we had 6-8 years before the surplus went away. It appears that that date has already arrived (for a real scary laugh, go down in the article and read how the now Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, predicted in 2002 that the chances of failure for Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac were less than 1 in 3,000,000. Oh, and Mr. Orszag is now the man in charge of the federal budget!) The most optimistic forecast is that the surplus will be gone in 2 years.

I can not begin to tell you how incredibly concerning this development is.

Excuse me...did I just hear squeaking gun carriage wheels across Charleton Harbor?

posted by Amendment X at 11:26 AM permalink 0 comments