I said it from the very beginning: once the trough was opened, the pigs would never stop coming and, further, they would bring their friends:

DETROIT (AP) – Billions of dollars in government loans to prop up General Motors and Chrysler won’t be enough. The companies, which have received $17.4 billion so far, filed plans with the government more than doubling that request to a staggering total of $39 billion.

LET. THEM. GO. BANKRUPT. Force them into restructuring.

Former FedRes Chair Alan Greenspan thinks it’s a good idea to nationalize our banks:

The US government may have to nationalise some banks on a temporary basis to fix the financial system and restore the flow of credit, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has told the Financial Times.

Further, now some on the GOP side had bought into this:

Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator for South Carolina, says that many of his colleagues, including John McCain, the defeated presidential candidate, agree with his view that nationalisation of some banks should be “on the table”.

A good idea, says Mr Obama:

Barack Obama, the president, who has tried to avoid panicking lawmakers and markets by entertaining the idea, has moved more towards what he calls the “Swedish model” – an approach backed strongly by Mr Graham. In the early 1990s Sweden nationalised its banking sector then auctioned banks having cleaned up balance sheets. “In limited circumstances the Swedish model makes sense for the US,” says Mr Graham.

Germany has now gone this route:

The German cabinet approved a law on Wednesday letting it nationalise banks, setting aside a reluctance to seize private property in the latest government intervention worldwide to tackle the financial crisis. Germany said it was not planning to extend the role of the state through the bill, which it described as a last resort and could lead to the forced nationalisation of struggling German lender Hypo Real Estate (Xetra: 802770 – news).

But it nonetheless set aside a postwar commitment to respect private property, becoming the latest government to edge away from free market policies, instead using state support to prop up flagging banks and industries.

Read this: German private property can now be seized.

“We are all Socialists now,” says Newsweek magazine.

At this rate, you think your property can’t be seized in the future?

The One + The Porkulus = a Triple Digit Stock Nosedive on Tuesday, February 17th.

You do the math.

The average Fornicalia family faces a $1,500 yearly tax hit if the new Fornicalia budget passes — which IN A RECESSION contains TAX INCREASES. The proposed budget spells out $15 billion dollars in tax increases. Some say the budget is alleged to have “cuts” — but, in the real world, these “cuts” are nothing more than NO INCREASES. In PoliSpeak, these are “cuts.” Once again, purposely duplicitous behavior by politicians.

I can hear you thinking right now: “Good. To hell with Fornicalia. I live in _____, not Fornicalia, so I couldn’t care less.” Really? You forget the axiom that “what happens in Fornicalia comes soon to your state.” If the proposed State of Fornicalia abortion-of-a-budget passes it will drag down the rest of the nation.

Fornicalia is on the verge of a tax revolt. This nation is on the cusp of a general revolt.

What possible portion of “tax increases during a recession” makes sense?

Yes, you can count me as one of the self-evident “mindless drones” the Left so hate, who happens to listen to Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and, mostly, Hugh Hewitt (if I’m near a radio after 6 PM, I try to listen to Dennis Miller). I occasionally listen to Rush Limbaugh but not frequently.

As I am a Hewitt daily listener, I am familiar with Blogworld Expo, a yearly convention held in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is billed as the “world’s largest blogging and new media conference.” Go here to see the site.

Blogworld Expo is:

Blogging, Podcasting, Social Media, Oline Video, Music, TV, Radio, Gaming, Entertainment and Communities. In addition to the only industry-wide new media industry exhibition, BlogWorld & New Media Expo features the largest new media conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. If you are currently blogging, podcasting, vlogging, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or researching ways to leverage new media for your large or small company, then you need to be at the only comprehensive new media convention–BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at: 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109

As many of my dear readers already know, I am an admitted HTML idiot and, if it were not for the talents of Bushwack, my blog would still be back in the Stone Age.

However, I have future visions for Bloviating Zeppelin. I would like to enter different realms and begin to focus more on:

All pretty much predicated upon, of course, my divestiture of dial-up and investment in satellite. Which means I also need to come into some money.

Las Vegas in October sounds like good, clean entertainment. If I can pull it off, what fun to blog daily about blogging.

I think I’m going.

Obama:

Loves the Muslims.

Hates the British.