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Unaware?

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Mr Obama states:

– He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor who hates America.
– He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in the living room of, a domestic terrorist.
– He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some of his top donors right after taking office in 2005.
– He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.
– He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya.
– He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signed into a bill.
– He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was under investigation in a bribery scandal.
– He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services was a tax cheat.
– He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury was a tax cheat.
– He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative was a tax cheat.
– He was unaware that the woman he nominated to be his Chief Performance Officer was a tax cheat.
– He was unaware that the man he nominated to be #2 at the Environmental Protection Agency was under investigation for mismanaging $25 million in EPA grants.

And he is apparently unable to verify the location of his birth and permanently place that query to rest.

This past Saturday night Mr Obama took his wife to New York and a Broadway play — at the cost of $24,000:

Taxpayers footed the bill for the big night on the town, which included a total of at least $24,000 for the three aircraft used to ferry the Obamas, aides and reporters to New York and back.

Dinner costs and orchestra seat tickets — at $96.50 apiece — were paid by the Obamas.

Obama’s jet, a Gulfstream 500, served as a more modest Air Force One for the day in place of the customary presidential Boeing 747.

The White House declined to say how much the trip was costing taxpayers.

Ah yes, Mr Obama, a Man of the People. And clueless. And societally Tone Deaf.

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One Final Reflection:

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It was great to have a bicycle on the trip! The room overlooking the entrance to Noyo Harbor.

My wife hand stitched a Teddy Bear for me during the trip.

Noyo Harbor, looking west.

BZ and his brother.
 Look. It’s a dog.
We came back with an additional passenger, a black wirehaired terrier mix. I liberated her from the Mendocino Animal Shelter. She’s four years old.

I sense there are many adventures in our future.

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Very sad.  We’re packing up the room and leaving the Fornicalia coast, Ft. Bragg and Mendocino, to go back home.  While it’s been in the high 90s there, it’s been in the 60s, cool, foggy, with blue sky and huge waves.  Today is a driving day.  Take care; see you tomorrow with, hopefully, more photos from the trip.

Back to reality.  A reality I was trying to escape.
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Politicians and Judges Have GOT To Be Hurt!

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The more that any state’s politicians or judges remain unhurt and unscathed in budgetarily tough times, the more they remain Imperial and Imperious.  And the more the average citizen suffers because those two groups don’t suffer the same consequences for their negligent actions.

For example, in Fornicalia, the state where I live, from the CapitolBasement.com:

The governor continues to dribble out new rounds of cuts. The Chron’s Matthew Yi reports, “California state employees would lose 5 percent of their pay under the latest proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help close a widening budget deficit, his spokesman said Thursday.

 

“The plan is expected to be unveiled today as part of $3 billion in new cuts that come on the heels of $5.5 billion in proposed cuts that were announced Tuesday.

Yes, there are cuts in the offing — to possibly include essentially shutting down the entire State Parks system.  But just who gets cut and why?  Read on:
“The only state workers who would not face a pay cut are legislators and court workers, who have their own budgets.”

“The pay cuts would affect 235,000 workers under the Republican governor’s control. The state’s judicial and legislative branches would be exempt because they are autonomous, but McLear said employees who work for constitutional officers would receive a pay cut.”
And therein lies the massive problem and the disconnect.
Judges and state politicians are purposely exempt from these cuts “as they have a different budget unit.”  Or some such rationalized and — oddly enough — convenient thing.
Two very important things need to occur:
1. Budget cuts needs to affect all State of Fornicalia workers, to include those elected and appointed.  If their check reads STATE OF CALIFORNIA at the top, those officers and their staffs need to feel the pain felt by each and every citizen during difficult budgetary times.

2. All politicians need to be fiscally penalized when a yearly budget isn’t brought in on time.  This would occur on a state level on down to a county and city level as well.  For each day past the due date, politicians would be penalized that day’s pay.  And the pay, once a budget was met, would not be due retroactively.  For each day past the budget due date, that pay is lost.  Period.
Only when and if there are actual consequences to poor or late decisions — as in the real world — will these persons begin to understand that logic and common sense must rule each and every day.
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Obama Administration: Dissension Will NOT Be Tolerated

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It is a truism that Sonia Sotomayor, Mr Obama’s 54-year-old nomination for SCOTUS to replace retiring Justice Souter, said in a 2001 lecture in re her Hispanic (read: Puerto Rican) background:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
It is also true that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs warned those persons with questions or curiosities about Mr Obama’s nomination that they’d be labeled racists and sexists if they did or said anything that could remotely be interpreted as being less than fully and completely supportive of Sotomayor:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a pointed warning to opponents of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination Wednesday, urging critics to measure their words carefully during a politically charged confirmation debate.

“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said.

This was in response to the comment of Newt Gingrich where he reacted to Sotomayor’s 2001 statement above.
In her Wall Street Journal column on Friday, conservative commentator Peggy Noonan panned Gingrich for Twittering that Sotomayor should withdraw because a white judicial nominee would have to if he made a similar statement on race.
Is this a wrong statement by Gingrich, or a correct statement?  I personally believe it to be true.  So, what’s the fuss?
The fuss is: dissension will not be tolerated by the Left and, apparently, not much on the Conservative side as well, considering the reactions by various so-called Conservatives.
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