State of the Republican Presidential Candidate Race

The 2012 presidential election isn’t until November 6, but the race to become the Republican Party’s presidential candidate has been in full swing for some time. It’s been an interesting race to say the least. Potential candidates, such as Texas Governor Rick Perry, U.S. Representative Michelle Bachman, Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr., and businessman Herman Cain, have dropped out of the running. There hasn’t been anyone who has emerged as the clear-cut winner, although most people are pointing to Mitt Romney as the most likely person to win the nomination. Some people would argue that the reason why the race has been so interesting is because it’s also been a bit of a train wreck. It seems like nearly every one of the Republican candidates has said or done something that has hurt his chances in the race, causing some pundits to declare that all they have done is ensure that President Barack Obama will keep the office for another four years. Others have pointed to the increasingly large divide between Democrats and Republicans as well as the one between liberals and the far-right conservatives in the Tea Party. No matter the reason, this election has given political science majors much to talk about.
As the Republican primaries wind down and the national convention approaches, here is a look at the Republican presidential candidates who are still in the running. We’ll take a brief look at where they are in the polls and if they have a good chance of earning the Republican nomination and running against President Obama.

• Mitt Romney – Mitt Romney is currently the front-runner in the race and the one most experts believe will win the Republican nomination. Recent polls even show that he can beat Obama in the presidential election if he wins the nomination. His position in the race isn’t a lock, however; Rick Santorum has been making waves as a more conservative candidate after wins in Southern states such as Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Still, Romney seems to be the one most likely to win the candidacy and even the one most likely to win the election in November as long as he sticks to his guns on the economy and unemployment, areas in which he seems the most knowledgeable.
• Rick Santorum – At first glance, Santorum seems to be in a distant second place to Romney, but he has been closing that gap thanks to caucus victories in the South. The former Pennsylvania senator has never been shy about expressing his opinions on healthcare; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights; abortion; and his own religious beliefs, something that has arguably hurt his chances in this race. His popularity has grown quite a bit since he declared that he is running, but it may not be enough to win the nomination from Romney and he seems too divisive to win the presidency from Obama.
• Newt Gingrich – After a 13-year absence from mainstream politics, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich managed to raise $32 million in 2009 and 2010 for his campaign. This is more than all of the other Republican candidates currently in the race. He is known for thinking outside of the box and has a good grasp on most of the issues, but controversy surrounding his personal life hasn’t exactly endeared him to the general public. He is currently in third place behind Santorum and, while his chances of winning the nomination seem slim, he hasn’t given up yet.
• Ron Paul – Ron Paul may be a long shot in this campaign, but he is clearly not without his supporters. These supporters have been spreading his Tea Party-influenced views on liberty, financial market reform and human rights with the hopes of presenting him as the candidate who shuns regular politics as usual and is more in touch with the American people.

These are the remaining presidential candidates in the race to secure the Republican nomination. Romney looks like the probably nominee at this point, but there is still some time for that to change.
If you would like to learn more about the election process or even pursue a career in politics or as a political analyst, consider enrolling in a political science degree program from an online college. It has always been an interesting field of study and, with today’s political landscape, it’s become especially fascinating.

Sources

republican-candidates.org (2012)

PresidentialElection.com (2012)

by guest: Leslie Branch

Would YOU River Dance to the Caucuses?

Nobody’s Happy St. Patty’s Day Message.

After you have read Angela’s Ashes, and wondered why when the Irish ran out of potatoes, they didn’t just go catch some fish— when you see this dance you know why they starved. Obviously, the Irish don’t like to move very far when they walk. In fact, they prefer to take steps in one spot, so as to be near the closest keg of beer.

How did the Irish come up with this dance? Where the bars so small that no one dared to dance out of their little space, least they find themselves outside in the mud?

Whatever the reason, it’s fun to watch…and it also gave me a good idea. If we demanded that every welfare recipient under the age of 45 had to perform a RIVER DANCE every time they applied for their check, we’d have a lot of very slim welfare recipients in Mississippi, the fattest state in the union. Michelle is going about this weight loss thing the wrong way. Make all the kids in grade school learn to River Dance.

An hour of this, and we’d have a bunch of skinny kids. They could then go home and eat whatever they wanted–whole bags of potato chips.

Look. There is not one fat person in that line.

Having said that…St. Patty’s Day in St. Louis IS the biggest celebration here in town. No one here can afford to get drunk on New Year’s Eve anymore. The expensive hotel packages cost too much. But on St. Patty’s day, everyone goes downtown, watches the parade, and gets as drunk on less than thirty dollars.

AND SO…I ask you–Was this a good day for the Republicans to have their caucuses in Missouri? The parade starts at 10am. So do the caususes. So when the working man gets up in the morning does he go..”Hey…I’ve worked all week…let’s to sit in to the caucuses for 3 hours and get our country back!” (Somebody in the Romney camp thought of this one, since Santorum won the vote.)

OR…does he get up and say, “It’s St. Patty’s DAY…ALL my friends are going downtown! Green BEER! Let’s go! “

No, republicans are not as smart as democrats…because the democrats are staging Wall Street Protests all over the US today, the one day everyone goes downtown to drink. It’s the only day they feel SAFE going downtown. The protesters will have a big audience, and most of those people will be…stumbling. There will be many fist fights not reported, because it’s our right to fight on St. Patty’s day! Right?

The Irish people came to America in droves…and they got on the police forces, and built New York, and gave us the Kennedy’s…..and,  I’m not so sure what to say about that, but–it’s a day to be happy. I’m happy. People need to drink green beer if it makes them happy I say.

Personally, I like this videos because of the drumming in the beginning. You might like the redhead…which may I add, is an endangered spices. So, have a Happy St. Patty’s day! And go ahead…try to River Dance.

Nobody is going to laugh if you do

It’s 2012…Do You Know Where YOUR Bunkerfunk Is?

Nobody Wins

Okay…can we get over this already? Can we see some future where Mad Max isn’t taking over the Golden Gate Bridge? Too many people are obsessed with the end of the earth. Really. Half of the programs on TV are about the end of all time. Want to find out how to survive after the Holocaust? We’ll show you! There’s “The Walking Dead” and “Terra Nova” and “Falling Skies” all filled with grand lessons in how to live with simple things like huts, no plumbing, smelly sweaty people, and social utopia. And then there’s my personal favorite “Supernatural.”

At least in Supernatural you can still get a hamburger while you’re fighting off Armageddon.

And all the Discovery programs…Life After Humans will be grand! How many of those did they make? Forty? And if you get tired of watching buildings grow vines, turn the channel and some scientist is filling you with doomsday horror: Any minute we could be hit by a: comet, sunburst, asteroid, falling space junk, magnetic pole shift, weather changes, Yellowstone exploding…or all of the above at once. But don’t worry…plantlife will flourish! And Michael Moore will repopulate the earth.

If the scientists don’t get you, the politicians will.

Our leaders are always coming out and putting the fear of god into all of us with “A nuclear bomb could go off at any time in any city.” Shut up already. What? Are they worried they won’t make it to their very expensive bunker where they will have to play simulated golf? What the heck are all of us out in powerless land suppose to do about it? Stock up on water and Nikes?

When did this stuff start? It’s 2012, and this is our last year on planet earth according to too many people, and if you go by the video, I should be really excited. Finally, some decent weather for my gardenia plants! Maybe if the Muslims got out of the desert they might evolved into some kind of  better understanding of life. (Fat chance. Okay.)

We have been told that the Mayans started this doomsday scenario: but, the Bible didn’t help much–at least the Bible was a lot more specific. Somewhere in a field in the middle East…Russia, and the United States, are going to kill each other off, and then Jesus will come down, and save all the “believers.” and then  Muhammad will appear out of some well on a flying horse, and say “Thank you Jesus for giving me the infidel” And Jesus who is really working for Muhammad (according to the Muslims) will give all the good souls to Allah.  They both agree that the people they don’t like are going to Satan.

Rick Santorum is going to be overwhelmed.

Then came the nuclear arms race. Everybody got the big bombs. Russia or Castro was going to detonate and we were all going to die.  Now, we have Iran, and dirty bombs, and bird flu, and weapons of mass destruction, and too many young Chinese boys without something to do, and EMP’s, and Al Gore…and horrible schools that damn you to flipping hamburgers the rest of you life.

Al Gore– got so mad upon losing the election, he had to take it out on us. He claims that we all need to be punished with carbon taxes before it’s too late. Prince Charles already thinks it too late.

This will of course be  as the Bible predicted: earthquakes, disease, tornadoes, tsunami, and more wars. And it’s not bad enough that we have to hear about it constantly, we have to now watch our destruction daily on 52-inch HD screen TV’s. I don’t know about you, but by the time I got to the end of the movie 2012, I wanted to sink all the rich snobs that made it to the boats.  If the peons didn’t get to live, then why should they?

Spielberg had to make War of the World, and hit us forever more with his sitcom…”Falling Skies” in which it’s aliens that will suck out our brains. I’m beginning to think he has one in his basement.

And frankly, nobody notices that most of the brains have been sucked dry already, and instead of planning a decent, and sensible future for the planet,  promoting movies that have great and optimistic endings, they’d much rather make a lot of money scaring us to death.–which is really is just some very clever minds sucking up what’s left of everyone’s money.

Maybe I should blame Rod Sterling. Or JFK. Or Nostradamus. Or Billy Graham. Or the people who have donated $75 millions dollars to reelect Obama. I mean really? Where did all THAT money come from? To me that says that some big money guy somewhere is buying our destruction.

Okay…so they’ve talked about it for so long, it’s now coming true. In Mark Steyn’s new book “After America” he says this:

“For American, the best-case scenario is that Washington’s ruling kleptocracy sleepwalks its subjects into smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller lives, and soft despotism so beguiling they don’t notice it’s over until late in the day. A more likely prospect is a catastrophically convulsed America that descends into Balkanized ruin and social collapse on a planet with no global order in which the formerly hyperpower still makes the most inviting target. “

You can thank Mark for not sugar-coating it. I sure he found the riots in Orlando today over Nikes will more than help his book sales.

You know, in the last depression at least THEY had Disney and Shirley Temple to escape all the gloom. What have we got? Brittany Spears? Whitney Houston? Dead drug addicts and American Idol Contests?

Today, a friend was dining in a popular chain Mexican restaurant here in St. Louis, called Casa Gallardo. Some men came in, and told everyone to get out. All the stores in St. Louis had closed. I watched all the major businesses close here: Ford, Busch, Pontiac, Chrysler, McDonald Douglass..then many of the big malls. Now..major restaruants chain. Who are we kidding? This summer. The post office. Obama is gutting the military. The economy is not going to come back.

Nobody Thinks this is a planned destruction. Too many people made too much money. Too many leaders were in bed with too many bankers. Too much was said about “globalization” being the wonder of the world. I don’t know…nobody is just tired of being bombarded daily with the end of the world.

I’m ready for the “Good Ship Lollipop.”  That next Star Trek movie is going to make billions. I don’t know about you…but I’m Bunkerfunked.

Nobody Notes–Last Debate and Ann Coulter

Nobody’s Notes–

On the final Republican Debate in Arizona.

It wasn’t the debate tonight that surprised me..nothing new was exposed under the sun. Ron Paul was as he said he is: consistently constitutional. Rick Santorum fell from grace by trying to act like all the previous bad votes he did in Congress were not his fault—and he has a point…It’s just the way Washington forces you to work. He really got some big boos when he said he was a team player.

Most people know the “system” is corrupt.  

Newt Gingrich had no great moments, but if he ran on getting our own energy here at home and telling the rest of the world to go fly a kite like he said—He’d probably win.

Mitt Romney did well, said all the right things—no doubt it will be announced that he won. But, at the very end of the debate we saw his dark side.  John King asked him a question, and Mitt was pontificating his usual politician BS style, and King called him to answer the question, and Mitt snapped back  with that “How dare you question me.” attitude. Newt can pull it off. Mitt looked arrogant.

We have the supreme arrogant in the White House now, we don’t want another.

At the end of the debate there really was no clear winner..everyone had a few good points, but it was after the debate that I was surprised at Ann Coulter’s piece on why all us ‘morons” don’t get it. Mitt Romney is the best candidate according to her. She really has no clue.

I’d like to help her out to WHY Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, and many others are scared of Mitt.

Here’s a few of her comments, and my…”help.”  

Ann Says: Romney became deeply pro -life as governor of the aforementioned liberal state and vetoed an embryonic stem cell bill. (Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich lobbied President George W. Bush to allow embryonic  stem cell research)

Nobody Says: We have all seen the video Ann, of Mitt being FOR pro-choice…he was a pretty big boy when he took that stance, and now he has changed. (flip-flop) Also– So what if he was elected in a liberal state? That means that  a lot of liberals thought he was pretty moderate. And George Bush’s embryonic stem cell research was on only the embryo’s that had already been frozen. Bush was adamant that no more be harvested.  At the time, Nancy Reagan was pushing really hard for it. Remember Ann?

Ann Says:  The chestnut about Mitt Romney being pushed on unsuspecting conservatives by “the Establishment” is the exact opposite of the truth. The Establishment, by any sensible definition, is virulently opposed to Romney.

Nobody Says: Ann Coulter thinks the “establishment” is Rush Limbaugh and FOX news. To the American people “the establishment” is the old Rockefeller Republican big government part of the party that we are tired of. That big Rockefeller government was endorsed and lead by the Bush family, who endorses Mitt. It’s as simple as that., Ann. George W. Bush turned into a big government Rockefeller Republican and his family support Mitt Romney. THEY are the establishment, not the conservative TV and Radio hosts.

Ann  Says: But instead of popping Champagne corks over our final triumph over Rockefeller Republicanism, some conservatives are still fighting old wars, rather like an old cold warrior prattling about the Soviet Union after the rest of us have moved onto the war on terrorism.

Nobody Says:  When was the final triumph over Ann? Was it over when Daddy Bush said, “There WILL be a New World Order? Was it over when his son signed the North American Treaty? Or when he expanded government spending? When he came out and said, “Well the bankers got a little too greedy” and started the bailouts of the bank, with just a “Okay, no big deal here.” and changed the whole world?

Tell me Ann, when did that big government Rockefeller part of the party stop?  Hasn’t the whole Bush family been trying to get Jeb as President?

Ann Says: The obsession with sticking it to the Establishment (which includes Christine O’Donnell, but excludes Bill Kristol) by voting for a loose cannon demagogue or a crusading Catholic who can’t seem to move the conversation past contraception is as pie-in-the-sky delusional as anything dished by Democrats carrying on about “green jobs.”

Nobody Says: Ron Paul is not a loose cannon. If he is a loose cannon then so is our Constitution. You are a Constitutional lawyer, are you not?  And whether you liked his answer tonight on attacking Iran, (Ron is against it)he is right on one thing. Another war would sink us economically like Russia. We have 45 bases around the area..war should be avoided at all cost.

Still, most conservatives think Iran is another Hitler waiting to happen.

And Ann…Rick Santorum did not start all the contraception talk, it was Obama who set that whole thing up. That conversation is being fueled by liberals, not Santorum. (Wow…Ann Coulter, the women who wrote the bible on liberal dirty tactics ignores her own books. Amazing.)

Ann  Says: Meanwhile, Romney cheerfully campaigns on, the biggest outsider and most conservative candidate we’ve run for president since Reagan, while being denounced by the Establishment as “too Establishment.”

Nobody Says: He may not be from Washington, but he is the son of a Senator. Many believe that the big corporations and money have taken over most of our politicians. (Wow, that’s pretty much a fact.) Obama will paint Mitt as the big rich Wall Street guy and he will lose. Mitt will get mad in a debate, like he did tonight. It would be a VERY close race….and they would give it to Obama to prevent race riots.

I can’t say tonight as I walked around the block and looked at the stars that I felt inspired at all by any of it. In a debate, Newt would be the best debater against Obama. That’s just my Nobody’s Opinion. I think Sarah Palin and Thomas Sowell agree.

The main trouble is: Americans are really tired of their politicians…It’s about time they start attacking Obama with every breathe they take, at this point..that’s all we want to hear.  

Now, Watch the Destruction of Rick Santorum

Nobody Knows

First it was Sarah Palin…she was the rising star that the people were hoping would run…not even George W. Bush, or Richard Nixon was vilified as much as Sarah in the press. They attacked her children, her family, even her baby. It was too much for her..she got out. Then we had Newt. Newt was destroyed by the media, and his own past. Mitt Romney ran nasty ads while claiming that he had nothing to do with those ads. The media again…attacking viciously. Yes, candidate after candidate has rose up, and then gotten knocked down.

The people know that it’s Romney who bears the Bush mantle…which hold the powerful in Washington D.C.. What they don’t tell you is that the powerful from both parties..would prefer Mitt to run.Running out of choices, the people are now going with Rick Santorum. And already, he is the next man to fall.

On the left, he is being attacked as some kind of scary religious right-winger who is out to put women back into the 18th century.
From the right..we are seeing his past. Here’s a few things we should all know about Rick, put up by Chuck Norris, (who supports Newt) on WND last Sunday.

Rick said, “I’m not saying necessarily earmarks are bad. I have had a lot of earmarks. In fact, I’m very proud of all the earmarks I’ve put in bills. I’ll defend earmarks.”
• Santorum voted to raise the national debt ceiling five times
• Santorum voted for taxes in the Internet Access Tax Bill
• Santorum had the audacity to vote to continue funding the Bridge to Nowhere rather than send the money to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.”
• Santorum voted for CAFTA, which removes duties on textile and apparel goods traded among participating nations, resulting in nearly ALL textile companies leaving the South.
• Santorum voted for HR 3448 – Minimum Wage Increase bill
• Santorum voted for HR 796 – the protection of abortion clinics
• Santorum actively supports the Global Fund, which was created by the United Nations to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, but also “channels a large portion of its funds through Planned Parenthood’s affiliates around the world and through a British group Marie Stopes International (the largest chain of abortion mills in the UK, with 66,000 abortions a year.)… to operate in Cambodia, Fiji, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Burma, Kenya, Tanzania, and other countries,” according to the pro-life Gerard Health Foundation that provides millions of dollars to pro-life groups
• Santorum opposed the tea party and its reforms in the Republican Party and conservative movement just a couple of years ago saying, “I have some real concerns about this movement within the Republican party … to sort of refashion conservatism. And I will vocally and publicly oppose it.”

So, he’s going to get attacked from the left AND the right. After Rick, the only one close to the people will be Ron Paul.

Out of the clear blue sky, Rick is the poster boy for the ‘right’ taking away woman’s right to contraception. They are using Rick to SCARE the women into thinking they won’t be able to get contraceptives, AND in Rick they found a perfect opportunity to expose the “everyone has a right to free birth control” in the Obamacare. Since there are more single women than married, they are counting on them wanting that big free handout.

FREE PILLS GIRLS! FREE ABORTIONS! Obama is your sugar Daddy!

They use to just hand out beer for votes. Baby, you’ve come a long way.

If the feminists were smart, they would have insisted on vasectomy to control the population, but instead they make the women take those pills, which many believe to be the cause of so many future cancers. If I were a man, I’d sue for my  free vasectomy. Especially if I were a Liberal man. How dare they forget you.

Rick is being made to be some kind of religious zealot who will put all woman back in the home having babies, and would outlaw contraceptives. That’s absurd, but it’s their talking point. It’s the old bogey man, works every time.

His record on voting to fund abortions throughout the world, proving that he supports contraceptives, will never be mentioned. Norris likes the tea party, and Rick..well…he’s a party man. And if you had listened to Obama’s big speech today, he sounds just like a party man too…republican. So, why does Obama have to sound all patriotic? Because he needs some conservative votes.

Would Rick be better than Mitt?

Nobody Knows…but if history go on as usually…he will rise and fall with the rest. All Mitt has to do is get out-of-the-way, and both party leaders will do the work for him. It’s all about protecting the rich of Washington.

Nobody Unloads…Information Overload

Nobody Unloads

OMG…I’m on information overload. Hopefully you won’t care if I dump this stuff right here, in no particular order:

1. Obama just made a speech and blamed the bankers for loaning money to people who couldn’t possibly find the money to pay for a house. All those poor Mexicans who couldn’t speak English, and those poor black people who can’t read…were ROBBED! He wants to help them.

What he didn’t say was that it was Janet Reno who threatened jail time and fines if the banks didn’t go out and do this. Obama is really good at lying. And making more promises for free stuff.

2. Michelle Obama is on the campaign trail. She was on Leno, and Rachel Ray, sounding so sweet about how much she loves “serving” the people and helping them get healthy.

Pass the salt, I’m throwing it over my shoulder.

3. McCain’s daughter “Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm” NBC pundit, CANDY McCAIN (I call her Candy because she has a head of cotton)  called Newt “selfish.” I can’t wait to hear what she says about Rick Santorum. He will be, “religious.” Candy needs to work on her vocabulary.

4. Carl Rove was so ecstatic that Mitt’s great piggy bank of wealth is going to beat everyone out of the elections, he practically dropped his little chalk board: an idea he stole from Glenn Beck, but when Karl writes on his little chalkboard, he looks like a father trying to tell his 2-year old he really knows what he is talking about: one plus one is five.

5. Muhammad, was really just another big thug in history. In the raid at Khaybar, (an oasis in the desert inhabited by Jews) he went in and slaughtered the Jewish warriors (took the women and children) and took the gold and silver. He always looted everything he attacked. He was big on torture, like lighting fires on chests. (I’m trying to vision this one, but what…did they use wood? Chest hair? ) The more I read about the guy, the more of just another evil ruler thug he becomes. He made up his own importance by saying “Oh..Allah talks to me! I am your chosen one…so says Gabriel!”

The difference between Muhammad and Jesus is like the difference between a Sequoia and a roach. (no offense to the roach.)

6. Politicians all break promises, but they say them to get elected. Daddy Bush’s famous “read my lips, no new taxes” (okay, that was after he was President) was followed up by what his son, George W. said while he was running for President

“I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation building. I mean, we’re going to have a kind of nation building crops from America? Absolutely not.” Remember that while listening to Mitt.

7. Beethoven music teacher called him hopeless as a composer. Thomas Edison’s teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything. Henry Ford went broke five times before he succeeded. If you go by this record, there IS still hope for many of us.

8. The President can now execute without a trial anyone he considers a terrorist. Uh…so what is Obama’s definition of a “terrorist”? He won’t even release his college records, how are we going to find this out?

9. Some people TRAIN their dogs, other, like me, like to have them be their own natural selves, and yet, I’m not sure what this means. Does this mean that the people who train their dogs are actually smarter? Do the people who don’t teach tricks to their dogs have a harder time? (yes, yes) And is it because they are lazy because it takes a LOT of time to train a dog? What is the purpose of tricks? Does the dog really like to do the trick, as well as getting the treat? And if your too lazy to train your dogs to do tricks does that mean you just like the entertainment of the simple enjoyment of letting them be dogs? Isn’t that the same as teaching a dog to “sit up” just simple entertainment? I’m working on this one. The psychological meaning of why some people work hours to train their dog….to obey…or not.

10. All day long I’m taking in political information: I listen to the radios, watch the channels, read the latest books, think, rethink, debate myself on all the different views, and years ago I came to the conclusions that Mitt Romney was going to be the next pick by the Republicans for Presidents on the most absurd and unscientific reasoning of all. Body language.

(Although some, like Bill O’Reilly swear that it’s a science, and true.)

I remember the exact moment in time and the a look on his face. He was standing in the background waiting for the announcement of the nomination for President, in 2008, and McCain won. I will NEVER forget his look. It was “But they promised me! What?”

Now, I’m only human. I was as surprised about his look because it seemed obvious to everyone (but Mitt) that McCain was going to be the pick. And yet…he was shocked.

Many times I have suspected, after reading, and listening, and thinking, and reading more, that there really is a power class that can decide on who THEY want to be president, and make it happen. Many of these “candidates” go to China, secret meetings,(Bilderberg) as if they are being vetted, not by the American people, but by some secret global oligarchy. The secret oligarchy in the EU is now, not so secret, they are grabbing whole countries to take over. Obama just gave another trillion to help the EU.

The system is rigged. But, they must keep up the illusions: so we have the American “YOU pick the candidate..YOU!YOU! YOU!” contests and …surprise! The people always lose.

11. Having said that, I’m waiting for the robot to be invented that can go grocery shopping for me. I refuse to pay $40 dollars for a turkey, but I keep hoping…by the time they go on sale, the turkey I get will give me food poisoning.

I’ve had it before…and survived. I’m ready. Are you?

Thanks…I needed to unload.

Margaret Thatcher and the Fog of Davos

Nobody’s Opinion:

There was a terrible car accident on Florida’s highway 95 this weekend. Nine people were killed because of fog. In fact, there was so much fog that the ambulance and police had trouble finding the wounded once they got to the scene. That’s pretty much sums up the state of the world right now. If you watch the news, it looks like most of the people in the world are in a fog: mentally, spiritually, and economically.

Riots, riots, riots, and more riots.  

Everyone is realizing what exactly has happened, and is going to happen, and the masses are enraged. The wonderful globalization plans put in place by the top leaders of the world has lead to a plutocratic elite whose secret and not-so-secret meetings have been used to steal untold trillions from the citizens below and they have used that money to further engineer the designing of the planet for mostly their benefit.

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This isn’t a wacko conspiracy..it’s right there in front of us—but keeping us all in the fog about it has been one of reasons why we all feel so lost. We THINK we see an evil shape in the road ahead, but it’s too foggy to figure it out.

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As you can see from the words of Margaret Thatcher, this consolidation of a few unelected elite at the top controlling the money and therefore the lives of the global populations has been gaining momentum for quite some time now. Today, England is trying to keep it’s sovereignty, from the unelected elite in the EU, and it’s a hard fight.

Last week in Davos, Switzerland (What a better place for the rich to feel safe…hidden high in the mountains.) where the elite meet openly each year… Klaus Schwab said he remained a deep believer in free markets but that capitalism is out of whack and needs to be fixed “to serve society.”

It’s the “needs to be fixed” that bothers me. There was nothing wrong with capitalism in the first place. Transferring trillions of dollars from the taxpayers of the United States to bail out banks all over the world is hardly what anyone would call “capitalism.” But that’s not the point is it? From 2002 to 2007, 65 percent of all income growth in the United States went to the top 1 percent of the population. No matter how you want to slice that…the rich are doing fine after the great “recession” the rest of us, are not.

I know. I know…you might say..Joyanna, Obama is using class warfare to justify his socialistic ways. And that’s certainly true. But Obama lies. If he really believed what he was saying, that we should take more from the rich…he would have NEVER bailed them out in the first place, making the poor people of the Unites States pay for all those big ‘evil’ companies and banks. He believes in redistribution alright..he redistributed all our money to the rich. And so did George W. Bush.

What if Obama is not different than a Romney, or a Newt, or even a Rick Santorin? What if, the network of the rich elites are all tied together? According Chrystia Freeland, in her article in the Atlantic, (Jan. 20111) “The New Ruling Class, How the Global Elite is Leaving You Behind”..that’s exactly the case.

According to her, (And she should know, she hangs out with them.)  they go to the same hotels, fly private jets, and they all have many homes in many countries. And they stick together. They do not have, nor do they care to have, any affiliation with any one nation. It’s a borderless world, but to the few hundred elite, it’s a small one.

As we watch Romney battle Newt in Florida, we take note: Now that corporations can run attacks ads on Presidential candidates and whoever has the most companies with the most money in their pockets, gets the permission to pass GO. Their payback is big. GE—who gave millions to Obama’s election, paid no taxes last year on their $14 billion dollar profit. Jeffery has hotels on Boardwalk. GE will try hard to get Obama elected again. It’s the least they can do for their shareholders, right? It’s the same with all the green energy plants that Obama gave billions to. They gave to him first.

So, do we still have a government that represents us? Here’s why you can be sure, whoever gets elected will always put the elites who gave them money, before YOU.

The proof is right before our eyes: When a man like John Corzine misplaces $60 billion dollars of other people’s money, and no one even arrests him, what does that tell you?

A. They are all stupid B. They just like the guy. C. He personally handles their stock portfolios. D. The corruption in Washington is all pervasive. E. He’s one of them. F. All of the above.

Not one person in Congress was even outraged. They gave him a “mock” scolding and he was let go.

Here’s more proof of this elite plutocracy, composed of our top politicians and multinational CEO’s:

Obama puts a woman on the Supreme Court who will be the deciding vote in keeping the unconstitutional Obama health care law of the land. The law says, since Sonia Sotomayor helped get the law  passed, she should excuse herself from the process, because she shouldn’t be allowed to judge that which she help create: But Justic Roberts, the head of the Supreme Court, a George W. Bush appointee says: No. She’s okay.

NO? The Supreme Court does not even obey its own laws?

And how about that big difference between the parties? They are blending together like sugar in molasses.

We see Chris Christie, the ‘conservative’ New Jersey Governor who was Ann Coulter’s vision of a political Elvis; joining the Wall Street guy Mitt, and wanting to pass the tax and trade bills. More jobs will be killed. More money will go to the top. More small businesses will fold. And that’s the point. It’s the plan. All new patents must be owned by the multinationals. Entrepreneurship by the individual will be destroyed. That’s not capitalism, that’s fascism…our government is helping them.

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Now as we find out that our Congress has been getting rich off of insider trading, oops, do they get punished for that crime? Nope. (I don’t care if they ‘let’ themselves get by with it, it’s still a crime.)   

Obama wants to pass a law. Not that it will matter. Our elite politicians can break any law, and go unpunished. They don’t even have to pay taxes…or go by Obamacare.

They are a rich elite class. They fly on our dime, wine on our dime, and don’t care.

Three analysts at Citigroup said that “The World is divided into two blocs, the Plutonomy and the rest.” Alan Greespan said that the growth in economic inequality is a national crisis. Occupy Wall Street is in every city now, and the elites at Davos are worried. This was their conclusion:

They have no answers to the widening inequality gap, but a mounting realization that economic growth must include the poor, that job creation is critical, and that affordable food, housing, health care and education need to be part of any solution. –AP

Nobody Says: Nice press release.

Frankly, I don’t think they are worried at all. One of the CEO of the world’s largest hedge funds said that his investment committee often discusses the question of who wins and who loses and his senior colleagues had said that the hollowing out of the middle class didn’t really matter.

“His opinion was that if the transformation of the world economy lifts four people in China and India out of poverty and into the middle class, and meanwhile means one America drops out of the middle class, that’s not such a bad trade.”

Here in the U.S., we have lived so very long in the richest and freest nation on the planet, that we can’t imagine our country not recovering from the spiral we see ahead of us. The rich are getting scared, and to hide their riches from the “people” and governments that wish to tax their riches, they now put all their wealth in philanthrocapitalistic foundations, where no one can touch it. They live in guarded communities, on yachts, and planes.

It’s not that the rich are getting rich that bothers most people: it’s that they are taking over our lives, and affecting the future of the planet. It doesn’t matter how many Global initiatives or Linda and Bill Gates foundations are formed. They can’t feed us all. And that’s why many of them just want us all to die off. Obamacare will help that along. 

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But here’s the good news: The slave trade didn’t last forever….and neither will the global plutocrats. After the fog lifts, and the damage is seen, good people, like Margaret Thatcher will come about.

You can’t keep the whole world in a fog forever. There are many lights ahead. We just have to find them.

Go GET em’ Rush!

Nobody Flashes

Yes, I participated with the “black-out” yesterday, and so it seems did many others.  And this morning I was thinking that IF it was passed, I wouldn’t be able to post this wonderful rant by Rush Limbaugh, so that everyone could hear it.

That would be considered copyright infringement. I can’t imagine losing freedom on the internet. Something is very fishy about the whole thing…but what else is new?

Rush, is at his very best here. When it comes to rallying the troops, NOBODY does it better than Rush.  It’s the reason that Republican Presidents invite him to the White House, and bake him cakes for his birthday.

So Enjoy!…while we still can.

Live Free and Master the Art of BS

Nobody’s Notes

—That I missed the first part of the last Republican Presidential debate, but what I did see of it, gave me the impression that at this point, it really doesn’t matter much who is winning. (That’s me watching the debate. I put my best hat on.)

Rick Santorum won in Iowa, after the fact, even though it was reported that Mitt Romney won..but by that time, nobody even cared. All they cared about was that Rick got a $2 million dollar boost.Rick Santorum was right in the last debate about the family being decimated, and therefore effecting our whole country. Absolutely right, which was pointed out to be a ‘scary’ thing to say. Go figure. He also stated that Iran was a Theocracy that wants to destroy the West. As a naked fact: that’s true. How he deals with that fact is another matter.

Mitt Romney did not make any sense when he was answering the attack by Newt Gingrich that his barrage of negative ads against Newt were filled with lies. Mitt said, “I didn’t see them.” then went on to address all the issues in the ads. So, if he didn’t see them, how did he know what they said? Then he blamed the people that MADE the ads. Not many people believe that Mitt Romney did not see those ads first, and if you do, then it’s not going to matter…unless you vote. You might want to do something else that day…I suggest, you go fishing.  

Newt’s problem is his little cherub face. It’s a hard face to trust. Thomas Sowell has come out with his support, and that’s saying something. Also, Michael Reagan likes him the best— two people Nobody admires.

Quick thinking is Newt’s strong point, and he is the best reason to watch the debates. That, and Ron Paul’s funny faces. I watched Newt at a town hall meeting where he actually answered or (NOT) the questions from the people. He is much better at ad-libbing and LOOKING like he is answering the question, even when he is not.

I don’t know what politicians call this little stunt, but they all do it: Let’s see how nebulous we can answer that without seeming snobby. They usually start off at the point, and lead it to another subject that they want to talk about and the question doesn’t get answered. It’s the old two-step, side-slip,then smile really big that every politican must master in order to succeed.

Mitt is not good at this, so like Obama, he is already not even allowing question and answer periods.

Obama handpicks his questions now. He looks down at his little piece of paper and says..”Uh…so and so.” And that reporter stands up and asks his question.

Very controlled. I simply don’t know why any of them show up. He could read their questions off a laptop. Mitt as President will do exactly the same.

Jon Huntsman’s strategy is to just say, “The American  people want: Fill in the blank…HIM. Short. Sweet. Look in the camera. The audience loved it, which frankly, was pretty scary in itself.

What exactly is in their drinking water? And speaking of drinking…how about those NBC commentators? A bit too..passionate there, don’t cha think?

Ron Paul should have been the winner, because he said the word ‘liberty’ about 2,000 times, and if you are in the state whose motto is “Live free or die.” which by the way, Jon Huntsman obviously did not know, you are bound to get some brownie points.

And I wrote this whole blog before I realized I left out Rick Perry. I had to come back and fill this in. Rick is the invisible candidate that Steve Forbes is betting all his money on. Hopefully, his money holds out.

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Nobody Thinks New Hampshire is Stephen King’s country. It is filled with scary liberals who know how to change a tire, and yet are highly educated at all the right schools—schools who have forgotten to teach them that in order to live free, you must pick the right leaders, who are NOT liberals. If you don’t, you are very likely to die sooner.

The “live free or die” motto would be better changed to: “Live well, or blame God, or George Bush.”  

And on that note: How about a word from our sponcer: THE ONION. Here’s a great summary from the elections of 2008, that fits into 2012.

It’s timeless.  Enjoy!

McCain and Romney? Double Facepalm.

Nobody Wins

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was right. As you see by this video, the bloodline of McCain is already cursed. I’m convinced, the McCain’s come from a long line of some kind of very dimwitted vampires, hatched in Ireland under a full moon, by a banshee from dribble land.  John McCain, Meghan’s most famous father, as a politician, is an embarrassment to every conservative who has ever admired Ronald Reagan.  This McCain habit of being the not- so- pretty dull penny in the pot, seems to run in the family. John is more than a Rhino…he’s a elephant on roller skates.

Wait, I would NOT insult am elephant like that. I take that back.

If not for Sarah Palin, McCain wouldn’t have even come in second in the last election: More like..fifty third. In fact, Sarah Palin SAVED the Republican party. They used her. We all knew it.

And today, there they were: Mr. Mt. Olympus and Crimpy.

John McCain was giving a big stump speech for Mitt Romney and I couldn’t even watch it. What in the world were they thinking? Get the loser of the last election to endorse you?

Rule No. One: Never, ever, under any circumstances get the last loser of the race to endorse you, because everyone will think that you have the same  ideas as THAT loser and YOU will lose.

Duh. (But not as “duh” as letting the daughter of that loser appear on your enemies networks)

Obama is out playing football in the sand, posing his body, teasing the liberal media pundits into going, “Oh..he is just in such good condition!” while we are watching old guys with bad hair lines trying to get us excited.

BUT, as out-of-style these two old coots seem at the moment, Mitt and John would never say they would slit their wrists to make a point.

Meghan McCain did. Just listen to her talk—She talks like she is…10. Okay, 11. Wait…five. Brain cells were falling out all over the floor in this video. The liberals are looking at this girl, and going, “I like her!”

Yes, she said she would just slit her wrists if her father had endorsed Rick Santorum. She also called him a moron.

Mmmmmm…I LOVE to go there, but I will not lower myself, out of respect for all the depressed people out there who actually are watching this all go down and really might be smart enough to accomplish that feat.

I was double facepalming it all day watching TV.

While Fox had Mitt and John hanging out like lost sweethearts, Sheppard Smith was ranting about the fact that Rick Santorin said the word, “black” in a sentence. He implied with the shocked look on his fact that saying the word ‘black’ was a horrible mistake. Later Rick denied it, so as not to appear racist. 

It was such a blatent and ridiculous attack on nothing that I turned to my husband and said, “So, what do we call them now?”

Affirmative Action Animals? American Harvard Recruits? Welfare Welts? AfroAmerio’s? Bereaved Bestials? Obama’s Osmosis?

FOX took sides today. It was tear down Rick Santorum and full steam ahead for Mitt. Mitt is the favorite of the Feds, and the elite’s that run the Republican party. He’s their guy. Always has been. He will keep the global train on track.

And YOU thought you picked the President? Have another cookie!

I’m starting to think legalizing drugs might be a good idea after all…

Double Facepalm.