I like Newt! SamKat editorial

I like Newt Gingrich!  So, he now has  his third wife.  Is that such a criminal act?  Perhaps to some it is.  I am so lucky that Jeanie (Jeanette to some of her closest friends and family) and I have lasted 60 years together next month.  However, even that beauty can put me down and everybody knows of my innocence ... ?

I have read only two of Mr. Gingrich's books and two of obama's books.  The stark difference is striking to the American heart.  One is for the country's greatness and ways to preserve and enhance it and the other is doing everything to change it but not for the better.  It should be an easy choice next November for the American voters.

And, yes, I am a Tea Party person without a lot of financial  reources in my retirement to fully support their money needs.  If you can, I urge you to do so.

Columbus Dispatch 12-4-2011 Thanks Doug Brooke!!

READ AND PASS ON...

Empty words

After plunging nation far deeper in debt, president has no fiscal credibility

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Each year he has been in office, President Barack Obama has presided over another $1 trillion addition to the U.S. national debt, which now exceeds $15 trillion.
For fiscal 2009, the deficit was $1.41 trillion. For 2010 it was $1.29 trillion and for 2011, it was another $1.29 trillion. That’s about $4 trillion added on his watch.
This is the president who appointed and then ignored his own debt panel, which sought to trim $4 trillion from the nation’s debt over a decade. Then he offered no help to a congressional panel that tried to cut $1.2 trillion in debt over a decade.
So, having dramatically deepened the fiscal mire of the nation, and conspicuously declined to support bipartisan efforts to address the problem, the president now campaigns across the nation, blaming it on Republicans.
He throws in a heaping helping of class warfare by claiming that the wealthy are not shouldering their “fair share” of the fiscal burden, despite the fact that the top
1 percent of income earners pay almost 40 percent of all the income-tax revenue collected by the Internal Revenue Service, while the top 5 percent pay almost 60 percent. Meanwhile, about 46 percent of income earners pay no federal income tax.
Reasonable people may disagree about how much the affluent should pay, and a progressive tax system naturally will excuse many low-income earners from paying any income tax. But to claim that currently the affluent are shirking is nonsense. Especially when the person pointing the finger of blame has pushed the nation further into debt faster than any other president, including the profligate George W. Bush. The nation’s revenue problem wouldn’t be so large if it weren’t for the current spender in chief.
On Thursday, after Senate Republicans declined to renew the payroll-tax cut, he said, “Now is the time to put country before party and work together on behalf of the American people. And I will continue to urge Congress to stop playing politics with the security of millions of American families and small business owners to get this done.”
But whatever the merits of easing the burden on taxpayers, it is equally valid to argue that reducing the payroll tax that supports Social Security also undermines the security of millions of Americans who rely on this entitlement, which already is headed for insolvency. And what exactly does the president think that $4 trillion in additional national debt does to the security of millions of American families, including the children who will be saddled with this debt for decades to come?
His words would carry more weight if the president led by example. But the president who adds another $1 trillion to the nation’s indebtedness each time he produces another federal budget is no position to lecture others about fiscal responsibility.
And as for playing politics, nobody is doing this more devotedly than the president. These days he is not working with others on behalf of the American people, he is deflecting blame and sowing division in the hopes of benefiting just one American — the one who is seeking re-election to the White House.

Thomas Sowell - Occupy wall Street ... thanks Sarah Rapp!

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of high school, and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He had received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959. In 1968, he earned his doctorate degree in economics from the University of Chicago. Dr. Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for "think tanks" such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.

By Dr. Sowell

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.

It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals: defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been shredded and, with them, every person'sguaranteed liberties.

It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.

It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created with the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood, unions, universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and numerous anti-American foreign entities.

Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four years than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the annihilation of America.

"Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

Thomas Sowell

New Gateway computer for SamKat

I have spent a lot of time over the last few years with a lady my wife, Jeanie, calls Hilda.  I try to visit her early mornings after reading emails from my valued friends.  I often post the most interesting of those emails on this SamKat blog.

Sadly Hilda III is breing euthanized, but happily I am now using Hilda IV.  I have some files to be added yet to this new computer, such as my email addresses.  Fortunately, I had back-up files in my one terrabyte Western Digital "My Book Essentials" external back-up unit.  My guru, Shawn Baird, has the hard drieves from Hilda III which he will soon be giving me.

I have missed posting and I hope most of you who read this have missed the posts.  I hardly know my blog readers as I have been lax in reading comments regularly and nobody comments directly to the blog, although I welcome your comments.

Please accept my sincerest apologies for my absenteeism over the past week.  It hasn't been easy for me and Jeanie has been tremendously worried that I could not survive without Hilda. 

I hope I have made it through this swamp of nothingness- internet wise- for me.

Luv to all!  And especially I present my love to Jeanie for the umpteenth time.  She will be my wife of 60 years next month if Hilda IV insures our survival..

Sammie K. aka SamKat

o and affirmative action from the Washington Post

I'm a little surprised that the Washington Post allowed this article in print since it has been quiet for so long about this president and how bad the country is today. Kind of hard to ignore now. Pushing the Jobs Bill down the road I think is making everyone nervous.

Obama: The Affirmative Action President

by Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard -- because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon -- affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people -- conservatives included -- ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of cliche's, and that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth -- it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

 

I have a new Gateway computer- Back Sunday

Hilda III, my computer of the last seven years, is being euthanized.  I will be back with my new Gateway, Hilda IV this Sunday, hopefully.

SamKat

Senior moment in church ... Thanks Luis Flores!

Senior Moment in Church


A Preacher was explaining that he must move on to a larger congregationthat will pay him more.



There is a hush within the congregation.



No one wanted him to leave.



Joe Smith, who owns several car dealerships in the City stands up and

Proclaims, 'If the Preacher stays, I will provide him with a new Cadillac every year, and his wife with a Honda mini-van to transport their children!'



The congregation sighs in relief, and applauds.



Sam Brown, a successful entrepreneur and investor, stands and says, 'If

the Preacher will stay on here, I'll personally double his salary, and

also establish a foundation to guarantee the college education of all his

children!'



More sighs and loud applause.



Sadie Jones, age 88, stands and announces with a smile, 'If the Preacher

stays, .... I will give him sex!'



There is total silence.



The Preacher, blushing, asks her, 'Mrs. Jones, whatever possessed you to

say that?'



Sadie's 90 year old husband Jake is now trying to hide, holding his

forehead with the palm of his hand, and shaking his head from side to side,

while his wife replies, 'Well , I just asked my husband how we could help,

and he said,......'Screw him!'



Isn't senility wonderful?



Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.