Because Americans love infomercials!

Did anyone catch Barry's primetime paid advertisement last night?

One thing I know is that it must be pretty bad when even Yahoo! News can smell the BS.

I may have discussed this issue before, but I believe that it cannot be stressed enough. You always hear Obama and other leftists, or even moderates, talk about the need to "eliminate tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." On the surface, it sounds good, right? Damn them for their lack of patriotism! Punish them!

But trust me on this: anyone who advocates this has no idea what they are talking about, or they think that the public will buy into it. Do you know why so many companies send jobs overseas? Do you? It's pretty simple, really. They do it because the taxes for operating in America are too high. The US has the second largest coporate tax rate in the world. So, doing business in other countries with much lower tax rates saves them a lot of money.

So, what is these people's plan for stopping something that is being done because of high taxes? Why, they raise their taxes!

[smacks self in forehead]

So go ahead and raise their taxes. They'll just continue to outsource even more. Congratulations, dumbass.

It's like saying, "The construction workers aren't building our house as quickly as we want. Let's take away their tools!"

I don't think that a lot of people understand how money works in our economy. I have already talked about how we are all connected to the much maligned "wealthiest 1%" and how our success depends on theirs, and how they give us jobs. It seems like Obama and his constituants wish to use money as simply a system of rewards and punishments. It doesn't work that way.

But speaking of punishments, does anyone see something else here that is potentially even more disturbing and dangerous? Some in the government wish to use these tax hikes as a form of punishment for companies who outsource more than they like. And they are convincing a lot of Americans to agree, creating class warfare. That's a whole other topic - but what else do you call "You in the middle class are struggling, and we're going to stick it to those Wall Street fat cats," or the constant juxtaposing of Wall Street and Main Street? Obama claims to be for Americans, but does he realize that people making over $200,000 (or whatever that number is now - he keeps changing the level at which his tax cuts would apply) are Americans, too? And Wall Street is still a street in America.

Anyway, back to punishments. They have convinced some of us that it's a good idea to punish these people, regardless of the fact that the problem would only get worse. But here's the thing: sending jobs overseas is not illegal.

Do you see what's happening? OUR GOVERNMENT WANTS TO PUNISH PRIVATE CITIZENS FOR DOING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT ILLEGAL.

Anyone else even a little frightened?

Obama may be more unqualified than we thought.

As in Constitutionally unqualified.

You should all remember from your civics and government classes that in order to be President of the United States of America, you must be a natural born citizen. Well, it turns out that Barack Obama, or Barry Soetoro, may not be.

I know, I'm not much for conspiracy theories either. But this is very interesting and deserves a look. And you probably will not be seeing this on the news very much. It also makes our beloved FactCheck.org look not so clean.



And here's the guy's website for more info: obamacrimes.com

Wasting away

It is an absolutely perfect fall Saturday. I should be out in someone's back yard tossing around a football before watching the OSU vs. Michigan State game at 3:30, with some hot cider thrown in for good measure.

Instead, I'm at work, and will be until about 10pm. And I'm realizing something in a very real way: being an adult can really suck sometimes.

An election? Again?!?

Alright, finally got a new poll up. I know, the question is a shocker.

For those who may not have known that VFD was even running, you may want to see this.

And for those of you who may not know what the "F" in VFD is for, just think about it. The answer will come to you.

Oh, and if you're thinking about voting for Obama, you may want to hear what this guy has to say.

He's a pastor. He clearly knows what he is talking about.

Yes, he's totally serious.

Spin it like a pundit

I've discovered that being married for over a year gives one special abilities, such as the ability to explain how the fact that I forgot to water the lawn proves that I will be a good parent.

Yeah. I'm that good.

I didn't know that houses were risk-free.

Interesting video from 2004 about the whole Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac catastrophe...



Personally, I don't want the people responsible for causing this mess to be responsible for fixing it. Cos they won't.

So very glad that the bailout was voted down. I like it when our representatives actually listen to us.

Diagon Ally...

...diagonally! Ha! I just got that!

This aggression will not stand!

Unfortunately, I totally called it.

USC only drops to #9?!? Are you kidding?

In other news...

So how's that foot there, Beanie? Good? Good.

"We've achieved mediocrity, gentlemen."

This is an impulse entry. I just read about USC's loss to unranked Oregon State and had to write this.

Anyone who keeps up with college football at all knows that Ohio State has been everyone's favourite punching bag. And why? Because they keep having embarassing losses in big games over the pat few years. Personally, I do not consider last January's loss to LSU in the title game to be an embarrasment. Even though LSU won handily in what was technically an upset, OSU never should have been there in the first place. The fact that they scored over 20 was quite a feat. And Beanie was just stellar against that "speedy" LSU defense.

Anyway, this loss by USC revives a question I have long been pondering: why do people hate OSU for losing to good teams, but they still love USC, who keeps losing to crappy teams?

Seriously. Just after the one loss to Florida, people were already questioning OSU, which continues to this day. But now, after several losses by USC to unranked opponents, I have only begun to see anything resembling questioning. It's like they've become the new Notre Dame. After last season, even Lou Holtz was having trouble defending the inexplicable love affair with the Irish. So I guess everyone needed someone else to dote on just because of who they were. It seems to be USC now. "Oh, I know they lost to freaking Stanford, but they still deserve a shot in the title game." All Ohio State did to be declared undeserving was lose to the best team in the nation. Sure, it was an embarrasing loss, but can you tell me that ANY loss to Stanford isn't?

When people talk about Ohio State's recent performance in big games, why do they leave out their last two meetings against Texas and the phenomenal '06 Michigan game? In '05, the lost by only 3 to the Texas team that would go on to be National Champs (by defeating favoured USC, btw), then blew them out in '06 when they were ranked #2. Then they beat #2 Michigan in a game that was an instant classic. Then there was also one of my favourite games: the demolishing of Notre Dame in the 2006 Fiesta Bowl. Anyone remember any of that?

So now OSU loses to the then #1 USC (without their star player) and they plummet in the rankings. Then USC loses to an unranked opponent. You watch. Their fall will not be nearly as bad. Or maybe the voters will surprise me, which would be fantastic. But that's my prediction.

Seriously. Obama would be a disaster.

Hello, everyone. I have returned, smellier and slightly more sunburnt than when I left. I had a great time and I got some great pics and video which I will share later. Did some hiking, saw some cool stuff, like more deer than squirrels, and drove a lot.

When on the road today and Tuesday, I tried to keep up a little with the Republican Convention. Haven't heard all of Palin's speech, but what I did hear, and the reactions, sounded great. I managed to catch McCain's speech tonight live. Decent, which is about all we expected anyway. The only really exciting parts were the interruptions by protesters.

I saw Obama's speech. There were no interruptions by protesters. And here I though we conservatives were the rude, mean ones. But anyway, it reminded me of something Rush Limbaugh said. Basically, he said conservatives don't protest. Why? We have jobs.

Now, I did manage to think of some examples of conservatives protesting. About all we protest is abortion. But think about it: who do you see out protesting? It's the women, children, and elderly. The men are at work. That's the way conservatives are supposed to be.

But back to tonight's protesters. The first guy had a sign that read, "YOU CAN'T WIN AN OCCUPATION." It got me thinking. In a way, it's correct, but not in the way he probably intended it. You can't win an occupation because the fact that you have an occupation in another country usually means that you already won. That's why you're occupying. It's like saying, "YOU CAN'T WIN A VICTORY LAP."

Just some thoughts.