Blogs For Victory

Example:

…Sotomayor is poised to be the first Hispanic, and the third woman, to serve on the Supreme Court She appears headed for confirmation, needing a majority vote in a Senate, where Democrats have 59 votes. But White House officials also want a smooth confirmation, not one that bogs down them or their nominee.

As a senator, Obama supported a failed attempt by Democrats to stall President George W. Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to the high court. (emphasis added)

So, you see, the whole “better not fight against Sotomayor” may be translated as “we know we have a kook leftist, racist nominee, and we want to scare you away from doing even half what we did to your highly qualified nominees”. Helping the Democrats in this effort are week kneed Senate GOPers who figure that we rank and file GOPers should trust them on this and not go all out…of course, given that these Senate GOPers have presided over a net 16 seat loss over the past two cycles, I don’t know if we rank and file types are exactly in awe over their political acumen…

A timely reminder of what he rescued us from:

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan

Like night following day – this stuff is not hard to figure out:

Crude oil rose, capping its biggest monthly gain in a decade, as the dollar weakened against the euro, bolstering the appeal of commodities.

Oil climbed above $66 a barrel to a six-month high as the dollar declined beyond $1.41 against the euro for the first time this year, making raw materials such as oil and gold an attractive alternative investment. Prices also gained as U.S., and Asian indicators pointed to a global economic recovery.

“The devaluation of the dollar is leading to the revaluation of energy and commodities in general,” said John Kilduff, senior vice president of energy at MF Global in New York. “This is a monetary-based rally. The market is focused on the future and ignoring the fundamentals of the present day crude-oil supply and demand picture.”

The wife asked me last week why gas prices were rising when there was no shortage – I opined that it was probably being run up by people dropping dollars and dollar-denominated securities because Obama is leading us right into high inflation, and maybe hyperinflation. No one with any sense wants to hold on to dollars right now – buy land, buy commodities, stock up on canned food: buy anything you can which has intrinsic value and you’ll come out ahead under Obamunism.

Now, there could be a silver lining in this – the collapse of the dollar’s value means things we grow, mine and make will become cheaper on the global market. Given this, if we enter into a crash program of increasing the amount of stuff we make, mine and grow, we can start to work our way out of this. The problem is that Obama and his Democrats don’t even suspect this – its outside of their worldview, and thus they will be impervious to any attempt to explain to them that even their boneheadedness can now be worked to our advantage if we stop being boneheaded.

We’re about to enter into the very worst economic times we’ve ever experienced. A bit of poverty will, I think, be salubrious for us in the long run. We elected the stupidest man we could have carrying on the stupidest possible policies over the past 75 years. Hopefully what we’re about to go through will teach us our lesson.

According to Conservative Home, the Tories are polling at 41% against Labour’s 21%. We’ll have to see if this holds through the upcoming British elections, but I like to remind myself that Thatcher won before Reagan…

The poor, Latina woman who rose up out of abject poverty? Well, not quite:

…Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale.

And Sotomayor’s life and lifestyle after law school largely resemble the background of many lawyers who rise to powerful positions in Washington.

She climbed her way up through New York’s Democratic power structure boosted by its ultimate brokers over those years — Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. That’s the access of a partner in a corporate law firm, not a kid from the South Bronx.

She now earns more than $200,000 a year and owns a condominium in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of million-dollar-plus homes. Her brother, Dr. Juan Sotomayor, is a physician in North Syracuse, N.Y., whose practice doesn’t accept Medicaid or Medicare — programs for the poor and elderly — according to its Web site.

In other words – he family was a bit down on its luck early on, but swiftly moved out of that and Sotomayor lived a life indistinguishable from any other middle class American…and now lives the life of a rich liberal…this is someone who is supposed to have some sort of keen insight into the problems of, say, poor immigrants in south central Los Angeles? I’d put my experience of that area as much better than hers – I know that area and have immense respect for those immigrants and their children…not all of whom, by a long shot, Mexican…who are working so hard to climb out of genuinely desperate poverty. Given Sotomayer’s racist views on who would be a better judge of a case coming out of that area, I’m out of the mix…just too white and too male, I guess. The only thing I have going for me is truth and facts and other such trivial nonsense…

As long as you are criminally supporting Obama, its all good:

Career lawyers overruled on voting case

Black Panthers had wielded weapons, blocked polls

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

The incident – which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube – had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.

Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

The lawyers also had ascertained that one of the three men had gained access to the polling place by securing a credential as a Democratic poll watcher, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Washington Times.

The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.

One thing to keep in mind, as things go where they’ll go, is that the left does tend towards a criminal conspiracy against the United States of America. This is what Obama wants out of that fascist militia he has planned – people who can go around intimidating people, keeping them quiet and making sure that only the “right” votes get cast. Be wary, and be ready to defend your liberty.

If you’re an idiot, anyway:

The U.S. economy sank at a 5.7 percent pace in the first quarter as the brute force of the recession carried over into this year. However, many analysts believe activity isn’t shrinking nearly as much now as the downturn flashes signs of letting up.

The Commerce Department’s updated reading on gross domestic product, released Friday, showed the economy’s contraction from January to March was slightly less deep than the 6.1 percent annualized decline first estimated last month. But the new reading was a tad worse than the 5.5 percent annualized drop economists were forecasting.

The second sentence in the first paragraph is the “we can’t give bad news without a qualifier as long as Obama is President” bit of MSM cheer leading. The reality, of course, is that we’re collapsing…and those alleged signs of rebound? Not really happening – though the MSM will try to keep people misinformed on just how bad it is because the truth hurts…Democrats, that is.

Which is a strange trick, and best not tried at home:

What comes after the United States ceases to be the central point of free-market economic power? We may shortly get the answer to that question. As the United States increases its borrowing for greater government spending, willing buyers of American bonds increasingly grow more scarce, and the “full faith and credit” of the United States will soon lose its cachet as the rock-solid foundation of the international market.

Warning signs abound. Earlier this month, the Treasury discovered that demand had significantly decreased for its long-term bonds. In order to get buyers at its regular auction – the device by which the United States runs on deficit spending – it had to hike the interest rates it pays the bondholders. It signaled a lack of confidence in America’s ability to sustain its debt expansion, which has the effect of worsening it through heavier debt service payments on the bonds they managed to sell…

…Right now, the United States has responded to a lack of demand for its Treasuries through a questionable and disturbing method: we’re buying our own debt. That allows the yields to remain low, but buying our own debt is somewhat akin to creating your own credit card. Eventually, you have to acknowledge that the money you create on the books never really existed, unless the United States plans to simply print money to pay off all the bonds. That would create a level of inflation not seen in the West since the Weimar Republic, and will effectively force the rest of the world to avoid U.S. currency and investments as unsound. It would, for the first time in decades, put the United States on the financial sideline.

Will we have hyperinflation? I’m not ready to make such a prediction, but something eventually has to give – either we have to have a sudden and massive reduction in government spending in the next couple years, or we’re going to have to print money until we’re able to depreciate our currency to the point where hyperinflation results. This is bad news – and the worst part about it is that we’re doing this sort of nonsense just so President Obama and his Democrats don’t have to face up to the fact that the tax-and-spend, New Deal party is at long last, over. We spent and spent and spent, and now its time to reap what we’ve sown – a generation of stringency, if not abject poverty, while we build our self out of the hole we’ve dug. The sooner we face up to our bankruptcy the better – and the less painful it will be.

We have to stop being afraid of big banks and other big corporations failing; we have to draw together and dedicate ourselves to hard work and frugal living while we right the wrong we’ve done. We have to genuinely make the hard choices and go for the real change which Obama and Co talk about, but have not the slightest inclination to do. We can do this – we can retrench and still ensure national defense, law enforcement, basic health care, education and infrastructure…but it means that millions of government employees will have to be let go, thousands of do-nothing groups will have to be cut off from the government teat, millions of people who currently slide by on the government dole of one type or another will have to start doing productive work. It will be hard, but it will be salubrious – and it will fix the problem.

The explanation for why our society is so sick:

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. – St. Thomas Aquinas

On stark display:

A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold Bible studies in their home, 10News reported.

Attorney Dean Broyles of The Western Center For Law & Policy was shocked with what happened to the pastor and his wife.

Broyles said, “The county asked, ‘Do you have a regular meeting in your home?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you say amen?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you pray?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you say praise the Lord?’ ‘Yes.'”

The county employee notified the couple that the small Bible study, with an average of 15 people attending, was in violation of County regulations, according to Broyles.

Broyles said a few days later the couple received a written warning that listed “unlawful use of land” and told them to “stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit” — a process that could cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Aside from the prospect that the group was targeted because they are Christian – something we can’t discount – the fact that anyone would even care that a dozen people or so gather to do whatever the heck legal activity is proof that government has gotten way out of control. And government is what our liberal friends want running or health care – they can’t even be reasonable about a Bible study class!

Its time to return government to its proper – and small – numbers and functions; time for adults to just run their own lives.