No, freedom of movement is slowly being taken from us. So slowly that we don’t even know it is currently happening or how it is being done.

We are constantly reminded by the liberal media that we have hit peak oil and are going to run out by the mid 2020s. Refinery construction has basically ceased to exist in the USA. Even one refinery going offline for a short time results in disruption of oil markets and an immediate spike in the price of gasoline at the pump because demand exceeds current production capacity. Yet since 1967, only 16 refineries have been built with a total capacity of 1,341,980 barrels per day. The USA uses 19.15 million barrels per day, yet new capacity of less than 10% of consumption has been built in this country in the last 45 years (note: there has been capacity added to infrastructure built prior to 1967, but we must remember that these are 50+ year old facilities).

A gas station fuel pump provides gasoline at a rate of less that 10 gallons per minute. The average fuel tank of a car is generally sized to hold enough gasoline for 300 miles of combined city and highway driving. If fuel flows at 9 gallons per minute and our example station sells gas to only mid-size cars with 17 gallon gas tanks and we allow 2 minutes for payment, we see that this gas station with 8 pumps can fill 120 cars per hour.

Electric cars ranges of 100 to 300 miles on a nice average day, on cold days batteries can lose up to 50% of their ability to provide power. Fast Charger recharge times range from 15 to 45 minutes to return to 80% state. Let’s make some assumptions for our test cars. Our test cars have a 200 mile range and can recharge in 15 minutes and our electric car charging station has 8 spots and uses a subclass of the Level 3 charger known as the Fast Charger. These 8 spots will be able to recharge 32 cars per hour. The Fast Charger is an intelligent 5 pin plug that is able to transmit data. To re-power as many vehicles as a gasoline station our charging station would need roughly four times as many spaces and 32 lines each capable of providing 440 volt 400 amp power (note: continual use of Fast Charger has been said to lower the range of the batteries in the case of the Nissan Leaf, the preferred Level 2 chargers of the Leaf require a 7 hour over night charge).

Now imagine another Hurricane Katrina hits a city in which Electric Vehicles are the norm. Or that urban vandalism destroys a significant portion of the power grid. The government is going to be in a situation where it is going to have to recommend staying put, i.e. declare martial law. Travel will be unlawful and violators will be able to be tracked via the “intelligent 5 pin plug” used for charging at Level 3 stations. Cash or credit is not going to be an option for Level 3 charging stations which will bill directly to your electricity provider. Unless someone has the ability or lack of urgency to stop for 7 hours while a full charge takes place with a slower Level 2 charger after traveling the range of the vehicle, travel will be not be possible. And do it again once the vehicle’s range has been traveled. And again. A five hundred mile trip in an Electric Vehicle could easily take days if one was to intentionally avoid using Level 3 charging stations. The very issues associated by travel with Electric Vehicles will be the reason that during emergencies that martial law will become the norm.

Thus we will be restricted to our villages, to either act as the residents of Fukushima in the aftermath of the tsunami or, or as those of New Orleans did in the after math of Katrina. In other words, in most metro areas in this country, it means the shit hits the fan.

Our movement is currently free from restriction in this country, except in the case of air travel. Without an identifying tracking device, be it either user implemented (iPhone) or government installed, a person with a pocket full of cash can go pretty much anywhere he or she wants in this country without leaving a trail. That will end with the Electric Vehicle.

Now I made be a little ahead of the game in making the above statement and declaring that the government is taking away the “freedom of movement” by promoting Electric Vehicles, but very few can wait 7 to 24 hours for a car to recharge just so they can go another two to three hundred miles, so expedited charging stations will become the new gas stations and use will require consent that information identifying who and where will be transmitted for this “privilege”.

Sources:

http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0423

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=29&t=6

http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/oil_consumption.html

http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2012-05/obama-usa-and-oil-prices.aspx?storyid=141052

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_refineries

http://evsroll.com/Electric_Car_Charging.html

The last piece of a puzzle just fell into place. For a decade, I’ve been trying to make sense of the kinship between Islam and political Left here and in Europe. The kinship is about breaking every taboo that was ever established by Western (that’s Judeo-Christian) civilization.

The sticking point had been the Left’s professed support of women’s rights, women’s autonomy. How, I wondered, could the pro-woman (and very permissive) Left feel sympathetic towards a primitive people whose “justice” permits a woman who commits (or is merely suspected of) adultery to be murdered by her husband? And how about the “honor killing” of a woman who is raped or a girl who seems to be drifting towards Western values?

The Left favors the adultery AND the killing. It’s a two-fer; in both cases a taboo was broken because someone “felt strongly” about something. Let it all hang out, baby! If you feel it, it’s real. We’re keepin’ it REAL. And the necrophilia fits right in. No restraints. No rules. No taboos. All emotion. All animal spirits. All sin, all the time.

On the Left, the only sin is to judge. Oh, no, we mustn’t judge. This is why leftists don’t have the stomach to execute a convicted mass-murderer…If we judge the murderer, then somebody can judge me–my libertine life–and we can’t have THAT. Let murderers continue to live–hey, they were just lettin’ it all hang out when they did those killings–but it is okay to kill a full-grown unborn human being in the third trimester. The Left favors the abortion AND the sex that produced the pregnancy (another two-fer against traditional taboos).

Islam and the political Left: perfect together. It’s one big happy death-cult.

This was written in response to Ann Barnhardt’s Necrophilia is Not a Joke post at American Thinker:

Last September I began delivering an hour-long presentation titled “Islamic Sexuality: A Survey of Evil” to local Tea Party, 9/12 and other patriot groups in Colorado. The good folks at FreedomTalkNetcast.com, after seeing this presentation in Pueblo, CO sprang into action and professionally videotaped and edited my next delivery of this lecture in Colorado Springs. It was promptly uploaded to my YouTube channel, “AnnBarnhardt”, in four parts and those four parts can be viewed at the following links:

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Within Part 4 I discuss the specific ratification and encouragement within Islamic culture of necrophilia, which is sexual intercourse with a dead body. I cite a fatwa issued in May of 2011 by a famous and respected Imam in Morocco which states the following:

“Since a good Muslim couple will meet again in Heaven, and since death does not alter the marital contract, it is not a hindrance to the husband’s desire to have sexual intercourse with the corpse of his (freshly) deceased wife.” -Imam Abdelbari Zemzami

I noticed right away that during this part of my presentation, those present would react to this with laughter. This is a common psychological defense mechanism. When sane human beings are confronted with something as horrific and evil as necrophilia, the mind attempts to dilute the horror of such evil by painting it as comedic — a joke, something to be ridiculed and laughed at, because facing the thing itself is simply too painful. This is what was happening at my presentations. And so, I decided to correct this.

At my next delivery of this presentation, the audience again laughed at the reality of necrophilia in Islam. I asked if there was a widower in the room. There was. A man, who looked to be around seventy, had lost his wife to cancer a few years earlier. I stepped over to him. At this point, another man in attendance, seeing what I was about to do, very quietly groaned, “Oh, God no. Don’t.”

Yes. We HAVE to face this. I asked the man what his wife’s name was, and how long they had been married, and how many children they had. I then asked the man to think back on his wife’s final days, her struggle with cancer, and the time he spent at her bedside. This man was blessed to be with his wife at the moment of her death, and I asked him to think back to that moment, as he held the hand of his “best girl”, his wife, flesh of his flesh, the mother of their children, and his best friend and partner in life’s journey as she strained to take her final breaths and then slipped into the peaceful repose of death. Bravely, this man relived that moment for us. The room was respectfully silent as he did so.

I then asked him if, as he was sitting with the body of his wife, now separated from her spirit, but still “hers”, and promised to be reunited with her spirit someday through the Resurrection, if he at any point thought to himself, “You know, I’m a little horny. I’d like to climb up on her right here and have one more good hump for the road. She’s still warm. Why not?”

I can assure you that no one in that room laughed. In fact, some were weeping, and most were teary-eyed. And that’s as it should be. I had done my job. I had forced that roomful of people to stare into the face of evil itself and acknowledge it for what it was. Necrophilia is not a joke. It is real, and it is being openly ratified and encouraged by the satanic political cult of Islam. A culture of people who are so far gone that they literally see nothing wrong with copulating with dead bodies is a culture that is capable of any evil imaginable, and cannot be stopped with any appeal to decency, morality, or shame. What we are seeing in the Muslim world is the final descent of a human society into hell itself, and they will attempt to take as many others with them as they possibly can.

If these people are capable of “sexual pleasure” with not just corpses, but the corpse of the one person in the world who they should have loved and respected above all others, do you honestly believe that they would hesitate for a moment in merely pushing a button that launched nuclear warheads at Tel Aviv, or London, or New York?

Now, behold the fruits of the “Arab Spring”, engineered and fertilized by the Obama regime. In Egypt today, a bill has been introduced by the new Islamist parliament legalizing “farewell intercourse”, affording a man a six hour window after his wife’s death for necrophilic sex. The Moroccan fatwa was not merely a “one-off.” Necrophilia is culturally intrinsic to those societies poisoned by the satanic political cult of Islam.

A clash between civilization and anti-civilization is coming, and coming fast. The enemy is not laughing. I would strongly recommend that we stop laughing at the enemy, and make ready for battle.

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On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. The list was derived from researcher Cleon Skousen’s book “The Naked Communist.”

1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of “moral strength.”

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

On April 18, 1956, in Shawnee, Kansas, the first government issued marriage license was issued to John D. Skidmore and Arabella Z. Rice for their marriage which was established on February 24, 1856.

And thus marriage, one of the Seven Sacraments of The Church, was expropriated from The Church to the state, by the state itself.

The end resolve being this:

So to say what was said in the above post on Facebook is to reveal of one’s self a consummate lack of knowledge of the concept of marriage, as well as religion in general. Which I guess should be expected of someone who condones intercourse in a fecal trough.

The current marriage license fee is $60 in Cook County, Illinois, and is available to valid couples, and probably some invalid couples very soon, 18 and older.

Being a tobacco user means health insurers are allowed to charge me higher rates than no tobacco users. Okay, but why only tobacco users. Why not others who have higher risk behaviors?

Here are some figures I put together:

Let’s say there are 50,000,000 insured males in the USA at $350.00 per month. There are 1,000,000 in the USA infected with HIV. Let’s assume 500,000 are in the 50,000,000 insured. HIV medications cost approximately $12,500 per year, multiply that by 500,000 to come up with a total cost of $6,250,000,000. Now, 50,000,000 insured males times $350 per month is $210,000,000,000. Now we see that 2.97% of all insurance premiums based on the values I have used are being spent on HIV medication for degenerates, and this does not include the associated costs such as physicians visits and administrative fees. If we factored in those costs I think we would see that, based on my rough analysis, that HIV consumes over 5% of all health insurance dollars per year (based on the figures I have used for this simulation of cost).

Everybody wants to bitch about rising insurance cost, but no one is willing to dare touch what the root causes are, just raise it some more on the smokers. Everybody wants to talk about getting equality, until it is money, then it is all the straight white males’ burden.

Homosexuality (and needle drug use) is as huge of a monetary burden on insured people as the welfare class is on the backs of tax payers. Sexual degenerates need to pay their fair share.

Anyways, I stopped as usual in to get coffee last night. The barista (her) said not a single word to me. I tipped as always. On my way out, I was stopped by a manager to be told that I had conversations that made an employee uncomfortable and that I should refrain from making conversation with employees (employees I see three or four times a week at minimum). I told management that “I guarantee that will never happen again, as I will never come enter this establishment again. Thank you.”

Problem solved! I make my morning Americano at home and put it in the refrigerator, the same thing I did with the B&N Americano for which I paid four dollars (actually it cost $2.74 + $1.00 tip).

Destroying American business one location at a time. Where are they going to work when no one patronizes their over-taken businesses?

Their loss: $1200-1500 per year in sales.
Baristas lost tips: $300 per year.

Who’s the winner?

This is a “Flagship” store. I have spent enough time over the years to know there is no way this location is profitable based on size and location. I wish an old friend of mine still worked for CoStar and could slip me the details on their lease, then I could guess when it gets closed, but alas no friends at CoStar anymore.

Fr. John,

I have been looking for a conservative church in Chicago for some time, but any searches I do only result in revealing bastions of liberalism ….. I am a confirmed Catholic who attended Holy Name Cathedral for a while shortly after moving to Chicago, but found the (for lack of a better word) fagginess of some of the officials quite offensive (a person might be homosexual, but they don’t just get faggy).

Do you have any advice on looking for a church that hasn’t been destroyed by liberalism?

rjp

And his repsonse:

My dear poor suffering brother:

The Roman communion is dead. I can say it no simpler, I can cry no deeper. Everything that the Reformers noted of it, is true. It took me until late middle age to realize that fact, and even then, I was loathe to take it to heart. If there is an Orthodox Church in Chicago (and there are many), I would say, go there. All of the Orthodox churches in the SCOBA fraternity are infected with liberalism, but at least they allow/encourage married priests. Only our Bishops are to be celibate…. and even that is a question that needs addressing, imho- not because monastics should not be celibate, but because it is still a place for sodomites to hide.

Of the Orthodox jurisdictions, the OCA is the most liberal- but there are parishes that are alive. The GOA is full of… well, Greeks. And if you are Celtic, Anglo, etc. unless the parish uses English in its liturgy, it will ‘all seem like Greek to you!”

The Antiochians have the best liturgical forms, for they have not (as of my recollection) gotten rid of the ‘Thee/Thou’ language bequeathed to them by Patriarch St. Tikhon. But some parishes are all ‘converts (read, Anglos) and some are still all Ay-rabs. Shun the latter, and join the former. They even allow for some Western Rite parishes- those could be even a better fit.

Failing that, the myriad ‘Continuing Anglican’ jurisdictions are your best bet.

Please let me know what you discover. It will take you months to find a home, but, if you pray seriously firt, God may direct you ‘home’ quicker than our journey.
You are in my prayers.

An email to Ann Barnhardt on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 A.D.:

Ann,

In my opinion, this is just a dirty stab by Obama to get his way with Obamacare.

Catholic hospitals, universities, and other institutions will have no choice but to stop providing health insurance if they are to act within the teachings of the church. So, now you have potentially hundreds of thousands of individuals pushed out into the open market for healthcare with only the amount of cash that the employer used previously to purchase healthcare for them. That is not nearly enough they are going to find out and they are going freak when they see what they will have to pay for a similar plan, or freak at the size of the deductible they will have to accept to have a plan for that same price. What are they going to do? ….. Obamacare. Thank you Chairman Obama of the People’s Republic of America.

I plan to write on this later.

rjp

From Ann Barnhardt: Ab homine iniquo, et doloso erue me. Part 1

Posted by Ann Barnhardt – February 1, AD 2012 9:43 PM MST

“Deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.”
It’s time to make the BIG post about the Marxist infiltration of the Catholic bishopric and how this all relates to the Obama regime’s full-on declaration of war against the Catholic Church. Most people out there simply do not understand what is going on, but it is time to shine as much light as possible on the whole, sickening mess, because you can not navigate what you do not see and understand.

As I have stated many times before, the Catholic clergy has been massively infiltrated by Marxists over the last century. A specific tactical corollary to this fact was the recruitment of homosexuals into the clergy. We will leave the homosexualist dynamic there, but I just want to reiterate the point that the homosexual infection was a specific calculation of the Marxist cabal – not the other way around. The political system is the head and homosexual-ephebophilic-pedophilic culture is merely a tentacle emanating from that head designed to feed the beaked maw of the Marxist head.

Some of the bishops in the U.S. are today issuing mostly impotent, flaccid statements regarding the Obama regime’s declaration of war against the Catholic Church. The bishops are “boldly” calling for Catholics to “call, fax or email your congressional representatives” so that we may “lobby for change” and thus not be “forced to violate our consciences”.

Wow. I stand in awestruck wonder at the strong, masculine leadership on display. It’s like watching a battle scene in “300” . . . except in this version the Spartans are all 98 pound weaklings who are all crying like little girls and can’t even pick up their own swords without spraining their wrists. “But, but, but, if those meanies don’t stop, we, we, we’re gonna WRITE A LETTER!” Oh, and in this version, the Spartans have been in an alliance with the Persians for the last 50 years and JUST CAN’T UNDERSTAND why the Persians are now attacking them. Yeah, it’s like THAT VERSION of “300”.

As with most things, this all revolves around the love of money. The Catholic bishops have been de facto Marxist agitators for the last half-century. Why? Because the idea was planted in the hierarchy decades ago by the first Marxist infiltrators that if the Church embraced Marxist Socialism, the Church could then lay off upon the STATE all of the costs associated with caring for the poor and the sick. Since the faith of the bishops, priests and nuns has been massively eroded over the last fifty years via recruitment of the faithless into the seminaries, heretical Marxist education and formation in seminaries and Catholic universities, and most especially by the gutting, flaying and profaning of the Mass itself, it doesn’t even register with most of these people that the Church NOT caring for the poor and the sick is a problem. In fact, they celebrate the fact that the Church now no longer spends significant amounts of money on these things, but instead sit upon massive “endowments” that read like the prospectus for a mutual fund rather than the charitable activity summary of the Bride of Christ.

What the bishops, priests and nuns in the United States have done over the past fifty years is to specifically and consciously ally themselves with Marxist statists in the government. They formed this alliance in order to bring about a system whereby the government could take over all of the charitable services that the Church should be providing, and which Christ specifically commanded the Church – not the state – to undertake, most notably caring for the elderly, the poor and the sick. The care of the poor was laid off on the government under the guise of “Welfare”. The care of the elderly was laid off on the government under the guise of “Social Security”. The care of the sick was laid off on the government under the guise of “Medicare”, “Medicaid” and finally, the coup de grace, “ObamaCare”. The Church would continue to provide healthcare, but instead of tapping the Church’s own coffers when an indigent patient needed care, the Church would simply bill the Federal Government.

Once the welfare-medicare state was established, the Church would then have all of the money collected from voluntary tithing freed up to spend on other things – like bond portfolios and getting rid of all of the beautiful, liturgically excellent churches and replacing them with horrifically ugly new church buildings that concealed and denied the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, and that had resale value to Protestants and musloids by being easy to convert into super-fun rockband church meeting spaces or mosques. Look at the architecture of new-construction Catholic churches and you will be looking upon the physical manifestation of the conscious expectation of failure. You think I’m kidding? I’m as serious as pancreatic cancer. While many of you out there do not understand this, and may never understand this, the primary goal of the Enemy is NOT the economic collapse of the United States. That is just a bonus side-effect. The ultimate goal is the suppression of the Mass and the concealment of the Eucharist.

What the creation of these government programs accomplished, in essence, was to shift the dynamic of tithing from the proper VOLUNTARY system, with the Church’s potential tithing pool limited to Roman Catholics, to a government-coerced back-door tithe with the Internal Revenue Service as the enforcer, with the “tithe pool” comprised of every earner in the country. This is why the Church has, over the last century, heavily aligned itself with the democrat party – because until a couple of decades ago, the majority of the Marxist-statist programs were coming straight out of the democrat party with trifling resistance being put up by the republican party. Think FDR with the New Deal and Social Security, LBJ with the Great Society, and now Obama and ObamaCare. This is also why the Church has happily gone along with the 501(c)(3) exemption, which has put a silent gun to the head of ANY orthodox Catholic priest with a brain, spine and set of testicles and kept them from speaking out against the satanic agenda of the Marxist-statist elements in the government. Meanwhile, any and all pro-Marxist political speech from not just Catholic pulpits but ANY pulpit across America has been cheerfully supported. See Fr. Michael Fleger in Chicago, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and all of the other Marxist hustlers who dare wear the collar.

Ann, I want to thank you many times over for confirming that my mind and eyes do not deceive me as some would like for me to believe.

Fr. John, thank you for providing counsel to this disoriented traveler.

Readers, if you have made it this far, please continue to Ann’s site to continue reading her treatise, Ab homine iniquo, et doloso erue me. Parts 2 and 3.

I also recommend reading her posts titled “The Entire Sad Contraception Issue Explained”.

Meanwhile, America is more productive. A few weeks ago, the CEO of Master Lock told me that it now makes business sense for him to bring jobs back home. Today, for the first time in 15 years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.

So we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. But we have to seize it. Tonight, my message to business leaders is simple: Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed.

We should start with our tax code. Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Meanwhile, companies that choose to stay in America get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. It makes no sense, and everyone knows it. So let’s change it.

First, if you’re a business that wants to outsource jobs, you shouldn’t get a tax deduction for doing it. That money should be used to cover moving expenses for companies like Master Lock that decide to bring jobs home.

For President Obama, success against unemployment must involve unions, a demographic that was highly supportive of his campaign in 2008, and it must involve manufacturing, an employment opportunity, that when unionized, he always deems as “good jobs”.

However in this case, it involves a unionized manufacturer of products intended to prevent intrusion. This is the first and only example of a privately owned / public American company experiencing success during his Presidency that he cites in this address. General Motors and Chrysler were government owned or directed during his Presidency, Siemens AG is a German company, Ford is a company for which he has no right to claim credit.

This is failure on an unprecedented scale. President Obama’s primary example of success, from his own teleprompter’s words, is the success of a Presidency based on people’s purchasing security products out of fear for their own safety and the security of premises in which they work or reside from a company that has recently returned to success in America.

This is the legacy of his Presidency, and of Eric “My People” Holder’s term as Attorney General, the need for the law abiding citizens of the country over which they rule to purchase security products at a rate that “for the first time in 15 years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.”

The people of Master Lock say well done Mr. Obama. Everyone else goes to Home Depot or Lowe’s and says “Can you direct me to security products?”.

– On a side note, President Obama also said:

What’s happening in Detroit can happen in other industries. It can happen in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Raleigh.

Is the President so clueless regarding the country that he doesn’t know Pittsburgh re-invented itself and is doing quite nicely now, or is he “prejudiced” against all former union towns and assume they must be feeling the same pain? Or does he just want all cities to turn into the crime ridden ghetto Detroit is?

This address was epic representation of failure. Examine it.

Since day one I have never believed she would return to the House of Representatives after being assaulted even though she continually stated she would. I have stated all along that the lack of statements from her and the lack of three or more syllable words in any statement she made lead me to believe that she had suffered more serious ballistic retardation than was being revealed.

So, why did she decide to resign now?

January 3, 2007, Gabrielle Giffords was sworn in for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.

Retirement Benefits for Members of Congress

Members become vested in (legally entitled to) a pension benefit under CSRS or FERS after five years of service. ……..

The smallest unreduced FERS pension is 8.5% of high-3 salary with five years of service (.017 × 5 years), which is payable no earlier than the age of 62. A Member with 10 years of service who takes a FERS pension at the earliest allowable age of 55 would receive a reduced pension equal to 11% of high-3 salary (.017 × 10 years, reduced by .05 times the seven-year difference between the individual’s age at retirement and the age of 62).

January 3, 2012, was her 5th year of service. Now I don’t blame her for wanting the $14,790, I just question her actual intent to return — meanwhile the incestuous Democrat loving media lauded praise on her for “existing”, and pretended like she wasn’t seriously disabled and actually could return to Congress.

So this leads to the question: Do you think someone such as Charles “Corky” Thacher on the television series Life Goes On could be a more responsible decision maker in Congress, in matters that he could fully comprehend, than some of our current members of Congress?

Update:

I thought about this on the way home. Here is what I arrived at:

She should have forewarned Arizona that her resignation was forthcoming so that Arizona could have prepared for a primary as soon as possible following her resignation date. I do not feel she is of full mental faculties, but she had a duty to represent Arizona, something she could not do, and she let her (or her guardian’s) desire for her pension supersede Arizona’s right to proper representation.