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The New Motto for GM (Government Motors)

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:18:06 PM
We screw cars, and people, together.

Even liberal The Nation magazine is unhappy that the plan to make Government Motors competitive and profitable is to produce more of their cars for sale in the U.S. off shore. The Nation thinks that the UAW members who won't be building those cars are getting the short end of the stick, but what about the taxpayers/consumers? Previous government attempts to make GM competitive created rules that forced foreign car companies to build cars in the U.S. Somehow those companies can build cars profitable in the U.S. The difference? The workers at the captive plants don't belong to the UAW.
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A pattern of political prosecution?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:47:39 PM
NPR reports that Ag Eric Holder is dropping the prosecution of former Senator Ted Stevens after the corruption conviction that was handed down days before the election and undoubtedly cost him his Senate seat was overturned for gross prosecutorial misconduct. I guess there is no point in pursuing the original charge since that seat is now held by a Democrat.

One thing it does prove is that Ted Stevens was harder to knock out of office than Kurt Weldon. There wasn't even so much as an indictment and Weldon was a former Congressman. For that matter there have been five times as many raids on offices related to John Murtha than it took to unseat Weldon.
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How to use the Internet to tell if President Obama is talking.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:08:55 AM
Look at any stock index. If it is headed down, the President is talking.
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My new name for President Obama - Bad Moon

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:06:06 AM
Just listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" and you will understand.
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Those who don't know history are doomed to ...

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:56:11 AM
... believe President Obama. His overblown comparisons of the current economy to the Great Depression have become so egregious that even his home town paper is crying foul. Perhaps the Guiness records people would be interested in a new record category: most expensive pack of lies. The "stimulus" bill would be a hands down winner.
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Something the EPA should be in charge of.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:27:45 PM
Forget all the "stop smoking" campaigns. Just put the ecozealots at the EPA in charge of what comes out of people's mouths and let them apply the same standards applied to industrial smokestacks. No smoker could light up with less than $10,000 in fines and the ecozealots would get a little something to help them get over not being allowed to regulate the tailpipe emissions of livestock.
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What John Murtha and Kurt Weldon have in common

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:45:51 AM
Both have had the FBI search offices of people associated with them and remove records. What is different is the timing and how it was covered.

The Weldon-related searches happened shortly before the election with reporters there to take pictures of the FBI taking things from the offices. Weldon lost reelection.

The Murtha-related searches happened after the election and one in November just now made it into the deep recesses of ABC News. Murtha won his reelection bid.

I suspect there will be another difference. The Weldon investigation seemed to dry up and blow away immediately after the election. It seems unlikely that it will ever be found that Weldon did anything wrong. I suspect that will not be the case with Murtha.
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What About a Compensation Cap on Book Deals

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:33:14 PM
Just as President Obama is outlining his proposal for curbing executive salaries, Drudge is running a link to an article on the "seven-figure" book deal that PO's campaign manager just got for a book on the campaign. The book will, of course, have the word "audacity" in the title. What I find audacious is that the hack thinks he can get away with accepting this much money for a book about how to get people who will limit the earning potential of people who run businesses that actually create wealth and jobs.

Perhaps there should be limits on book deals for political hacks. While we are at it, I would certainly be in favor of requiring that book money for books by criminals be given to a fund that benefits the victims of crime or their families. Yes, let Mamia Abu Jamal write a book about his life, but give the money to scholarships for policemen who die in the line of duty!
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Why Obama should not be a professional football player or President

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:33:41 PM
Professional football players are not selected primarily for their verbal abilities, but even they are expected to know when something they are thinking of saying will go on their opponents locker room bulletin board and serve as motivation. Understanding how your words will be taken, in or out of context, is much more important for the job of President of the United States. It is also much harder to do when you are dealing with people of different cultures as Presidents must do.

Obama's "lipstick" comment is strong evidence that he is not qualified to be President. There are two possible explanations for it. One is to take him at his word that he really didn't mean it as a slap at Sarah Palin, in which case his inability to anticipate the effects his words will have completely disqualifies him from such Presidential duties as negotiating with nuclear armed rogue regimes. The other possible understanding is that he did mean it that way and is now lying about it. This is also a Presidential knockout for most Americans.
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Community Organizer = Lobbyist

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, September 06, 2008 6:57:34 AM
Just keep repeating it.
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
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What's really scary is that this isn't Obama's scariest "friend".

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, September 06, 2008 6:51:33 AM
I suspect that Obama's big hug and proclamation of friendship with Kwame Kilpatrick was more political expedience than truth, but it makes for some great attack ads as noted here. While Kilpatrick is definitely an unsavory character and putting a big hug on him strong evidence of poor judgment, Bill Ayers is ten times worse and a much closer friend of Obama.
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Gee, I wonder why she changed her attitude towards a bi-partisan investigation?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:41:57 PM
One of the emerging slaps at Sarah Palin showed up on Politico. The current accus-question is why she has retained a lawyer and is seeking a change in who will investigate whether she overstepped her bounds in the firing of her former brother-in-law. Gee, what may have changed that would have her no longer be content with a bi-partisan committee of Alaska state legislators looking into it? Maybe it was that she knew she would get fair treatment from the Democrats on the committee when it was something nobody outside of Alaska, and few people within it, cared about. Now that every part of the national Democratic machine and every MSM “investigative” reporter in the country will be pushing the Alaskan Democrats whose phone calls they would not have even returned prior to this to find and leak some dirt on Palin, it needs to be handled differently. Understanding how things like this need to be dealt with differently when the situation changes is, of course, above the pay grade of Democrats and the MSM. That Sarah Barracuda understands is one more bit of evidence that leading is not above her pay grade.
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How can you tell that a Democrat was telling the truth?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:25:27 AM
The old saw that you can tell a Democrat is lying because his lips are moving isn't entirely true. While I haven't found a way to tell when a Dem is telling the truth on the fly, sometimes you can after the fact. A clear case is illustrated in a Washington Post story detailing how the McCain campaign is using a rare truth telling incident by Joe "The Plagiarizer" Biden when he was talking trash about Obama when he was running against his now running mate during the primaries. I wouldn't be surprised if it is later found that he was only repeating something Hillary said first!

The mystery to me is how Obama, running as a Washington outsider and reformer, could pick a running mate who hasn't had a job other than U.S. Senator since the early seventies. Coincidentally, the Seventies is also the decade in which Biden had his most recent original thought. That isn't a problem, though, as so many other people have ideas that can be "borrowed".

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Global Warming: The Cause and Cure

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:02:31 PM
It has become clear that areas like the Northwest that have a high percentage of people who believe in global warming are experiencing record high temperatures while areas with fewer global warming believers are experiencing record low temperatures. This proves that the cause of global warming is man made. Global warming is caused by belief in global warming.
Fortunately, the global warming believers have the cure entirely within their power. All they need to do to stop the impending catastrophe and prevent certain doom is kidnap their fellow global warming cultists and deprogram them so that they no longer believe in global warming. When the last global warming believer disappears, so does global warming.

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Obama isn't lying! He is speaking hopefully.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:59:57 PM
Those mean people at National Review are accusing Barak Obama of lying. They should realize that he is speaking hopefully - saying different things about the same topic to different people and hoping they don't compare notes!
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