Thoughts of Obama from Bama

2012-01-26T09:53:00.000-08:00

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 157: The Four Pillars of Obama's Socialist Agenda - American Manufacturing, American Energy, Skills for American Workers, and a Renewal of American Values

Last night I said goodbye to a dear old friend of mine
Just a throw back shell beach party, nothin' really asinine
Rum and cooked animals and bullshit by the ton
That party lasted way too long and I had too much fun

Bank of bad habits
The price of vice foretold
One by one they'll do you in
They're bound to take their toll

The wrong thing is the right thing until you lose control
I've got this bank of bad habits in a corner of my soul
That bank of bad habits is worth its weight in gold
Bank of Bad Habits, Jimmy Buffett

If there truly is a merciful God the world endured Barack Husein Obama's last State of the Union speech Monday evening of Week 157 of the seemingly never ending nightmare at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Another command performance chock full of lies, socialist propaganda, blatant hypocrisy, and tons of sanctimonious empty rhetoric.

Another ultra partisan campaign speech advocating class warfare and Marxist/Socialist doctrine that would makes the likes of Comrades Castro, Stalin, and Chavez proud. Standing right up behind that podium just as if he had good sense Comrade Obama laid out the four pillars of his socialist agenda.

Following is a brief description of our Bolshevik-in-Chief's socialists dreams of grander:

American Manufacturing- enormous redistribution of wealth to favored Obama supporters the labor unions

American Energy- massive redistribution of wealth to Obama's green energy compadres

American Skills Development- outrageous redistribution of wealth to major Obama contributors the teacher's unions

American Values- humongous redistribution of wealth to every left wing, radical, secular progressive, head case gang in the country

Just like his first three years the president plans to rob our most productive citizens blind and give all our money to his supporters and the victim class. One of his few and far between redeeming virtues at least the man is consistent.

He spent the rest of his address wearing himself plum out patting himself on the back for phantom achievements and his favorite tactic blaming others for his failures. Our political watch dog group, Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire (LLPOF), conducted their usual truth rating and on a scale of 1-right as rain to 10- lying like a low down dirty rotten dog, the president scored a chart shattering 147.

Following are several of his most audacious comments and departures from the truth:

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans. LLPOF Rating - 7, he actually despises at least half of his fellow Americans and every Republican in Congress

We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al Qaeda's top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban's momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home. LLPOF Rating - 22, we left Iraq in a world of hurt, al Qaeda remains a significant threat

No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important. We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What's at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them. LLPOF Rating - 42, classic class warfare tactics, the only values he's worried about are his Marxist/Socialist delusions

The state of our Union is getting stronger. And we've come too far to turn back now. As long as I'm President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. LLPOF Rating - 400, Stronger my happy skinny white ass, criminal levels of debt, spending, and our diminished standing in the world

No, we will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing, bad debt, and phony financial profits. Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last - an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. LLPOF Rating - 306, a government blueprint for the private sector economy is crazier than a runt over dog

On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure. Today, General Motors is back on top as the world's number one automaker. Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company. Ford is investing billions in U.S. plants and factories. And together, the entire industry added nearly 160,000 jobs. LLPOF Rating - 274, his political cash cow, the labor unions, got bailed out with our hard earned money and there were net job losses with dealer and supply chain closings

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. LLPOF Rating- 222, help you succeed by taxing cradle to grave and smothering you in oppressive regulation

Tonight, I'm announcing the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trade practices in countries like China. There will be more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders. We're on the verge of economic calamity and Money Bags Obama wants more wasteful government

I also hear from many business leaders who want to hire in the United States but can't find workers with the right skills. Growing industries in science and technology have twice as many openings as we have workers who can do the job. Think about that - openings at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work. LLPOF Rating- 378, for every job opening there are 5 qualified applicants

Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn. LLPOF Rating- 100, Obama actually supporting replacing teachers, no sir, no way, no how

I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. That's why my Administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. That's why there are fewer illegal crossings than when I took office. LLPOF Rating - 525, possibly more boots on the border void of any feet attached to actual border patrol agents

Nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I'm directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. Right now, American oil production is the highest that it's been in eight years. That's right - eight years. Not only that - last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years. LLPOF Rating-500, we won't even dignify these lies with any commentary

That's why I'm sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won't add to the deficit, and will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust. LLPOF RATING-74, ever hear of Dodd/Framk

A return to the American values of fair play and shared responsibility will help us protect our people and our economy. But it should also guide us as we look to pay down our debt and invest in our future. LLPOF Rating-283, this malarkey from a man who's added 6 trillion to the national debt in 3 short years

The executive branch also needs to change. Too often, it's inefficient, outdated and remote. That's why I've asked this Congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our Government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people. LLPOF Rating- 225, the blind leading the blind

I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more. That's why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and States. That's why we're getting rid of regulations that don't work. That's why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a Government program. LLPOF Rating-475, the man actually said this with a straight face, truly remarkable

And we will safeguard America's own security against those who threaten our citizens, our friends, and our interests. Look at Iran. Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran's nuclear program now stands as one. LLPOF Rating-392, last time we checked Russia and China ain't exactly on our fighting side

Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about. LLPOF Rating- 975, the bend over, grab our ankles, thank you sir may i have another diplomacy ain't exactly striking fear in the hearts of our enemies

Thank you, Allah the Great Allah the Benevolent, i mean God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America

Reckon Mr. Obama's infamous teleprompter would malfunction under the weight of so much BS. As for his 4 pillars of Socialism we best all hope they all fail as badly as the rest of his train wreck of a presidency.

I am, American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

2012-01-17T21:22:00.000-08:00

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 156: "MLK Legacy Destroyed by Obama's Racist; Class/Generational Warfare; Hate Speech; Divide, deceive, and Antagonistic Political Strategy"

I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you, in worn out shoes.
With silver hair a ragged shirt and baggy pants,
He did the old soft shoe.
He jumped so high, jumped so high,
Then he lightly touched down.
Mister Bojangles, Mister Bojangles,
Mister Bojangles, dance.

He danced for those at minstrel shows and county fairs throughout the south.
He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and he traveled about.
His dog up and died, up and died,
After twenty years he still grieved

He said, "I dance now at every chance in honky tonks for drinks and tips.
But most of the time I spend behind these county bars, and I drinks a bit."
He shook his head and as he shook his head,
I heard someone ask him please,

Mister Bojangles, Mister Bojangles,
oh Mister Bojangles, oh dance.
"Mister Bojangles", Jerry Jeff Walker

On Monday of week 156 of the Obama socialist regime we celebrated and paid tribute to one of our country's greatest leaders and patriots, Dr. Martin Luther King. Sure enough a man of true vision, courage, conviction, and an agent of change that led us all to the mountain top to view a future of equality for all of God's children.

A man of peace who advocated nonviolent civil disobedience to unite and lift up all Americans to realize the promise that all men truly are created equal. His legacy as a consensus builder, peaceful revolution, and inspired leadership setting the standard for future generations advocating fundamental social change.

In comparison Barack Husein Obama is nothing more than a corrupt, race baiting, political hack hell bent on dividing our country along racial, economic and generational lines to divert attention from his train wreck of presidency. A man with the same agenda as infamous racist and creators of the victim class the good reverends Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.

A review of Dr. King's inspirational words of wisdom and Mr Obama and friends racist hate speech follows:

MLK

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.” “There is no gain without struggle.”
“A right delayed is a right denied.”
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.”
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ”
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”
“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
“There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.”

Mr Obama and friends had this to say.

"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites

"I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

"There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

"It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

"I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela."

Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota peddled a book entitled Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat, Stupid Idiot, viciously ridiculing a person struggling with obesity and deafness.
• In 2007, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. Commentators on the left-wing Daily Kos website remarked, "the world would be better off without him".
• Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said America would vote for Barack Obama because he was a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been the relentless target of the most vile liberal hatred since his appointment, being viewed as a "race traitor" on account of his conservative views. In 2011, a group of white liberal protesters said on camera that they wanted to "hang him" and "send him back to the fields".
• Colin Powell is a respected and popular statesman. In an interview, liberal activist Harry Belafonte, who is also African-American, stated, "There are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates."
• Condoleezza Rice was the first African-American woman to be Secretary of State. Liberal columnist Ted Rall made a racist cartoon stating her "punishment" was to be sent to a racial re-education camp, and in the process calls her Bush's "house n****".
• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton referred to a subordinate as a Jew bastard

Ward Churchill was referring to the victims of the 9/11 attacks as "little Eichmann’s", comparing them to the infamous Nazi leader.
• Barack Obama's pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright, being asked a question about Obama, said, "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me."

President Obama and company have made a mockery of Dr. King's inspirational legacy. These racist, hate speech spewing, arrogant liberal boneheads need to climb to that mountain top, join hands, raise their voice proclaiming "keep hope alive", and do us all a favor by taking one final giant step for mankind.

I am American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

2012-01-12T14:17:00.000-08:00

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 155: "Mystery Man"

Stashed his trash in ecuador Bought a good suit of clothes
Flew on up to mexico Standin' by the shore
Waitin' for some mystery man To pay him for his time
But thinkin' about all the money he'd made Couldn't help to ease his mind
Havana daydreamin' Boy he's just dreamin' His life away
JIMMY BUFFETT - HAVANA DAYDREAMIN'

Technical difficulty and an on going celebratory binge for Alabama's thumping of LSU in the BCS has forced us to deviate from our typical thought provoking, inspired, astute, satirical weekly political commentary. Instead we offer a recent article from the Washington Post about our Mystery Man-in-Chief.

Obama: The Affirmative Action President
by Matt Patterson
(columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as
an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria
akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder,
did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into
thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's
most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered
into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores
along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career
as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly
devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an
unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of
which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy
in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the
white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's
"spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's
colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian
looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected
president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken
hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like
Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was
black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out
with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a
bit extreme, he was given a pass.

Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard --
because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so
articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all
of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and
thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama
phenomenon -- affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But
certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws
and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and
especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on
the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are
not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor
performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if
these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the
emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist
policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his
skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism,
then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why
would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for
Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was
good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was
told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the
Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good
enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What
could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time
Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications
nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool
character. Those people -- conservatives included -- ought now to be deeply
embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichÃ©s, and
that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is
absent he can barely think or speak at all.***Not one original idea has
ever issued from his mouth -- it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that
has failed over and over again for 100 years.*

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited
this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise
his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But
really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for
anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the
temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. *When you understand that,
and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and
prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in
the Oval Office.*

ROLL TIDE ROLL

2012-01-07T16:40:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 154: “Chrystal Balling 2012”

From all I've seen of politics,
It's just a greasy big money stick
That's geared to run on tongues
So slick to make you think this is all there is
Boy you're lucky (You're stuck with Humphrey)

How they con the little middle man
Into thinkin' he has got a hand
To play in the future of the Promised Land,
he owes himself to the destiny of man
Gets ridiculous

A cheap gangster hires someone
To do his dirty work with a tommy gun
While the President just points at anyone
And says "I, your country needs some killing done
Go do it now boy, Ballad of the Hulk, Jerry Jeff Walker

There is sure enough about as much of a future predicting the future as a smart ass Yankee will experience making insulting remarks about a good ole boy’s pickup truck, brand of beer, and/or hunting dog’s tracking ability in the local watering hole. Their short and long term prospects ain’t exactly looking too promising.

That being said we’re gonna throw caution to the wind and do some serious 2012 Chrystal Balling. And by that we mean predictions and prognostication about our political fortunes for the next 52 weeks and not a visit to Belle’s brothel down on the corner of Elm.

Starting with several partners in crime from congress and the private sector we’ll work our way down to the Socialist-in-Chief:

• Barney Freddy in the Fannie Mac Frank – becomes famous gay porn star. Movie debut, “Leading From Behind”, costarring CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper
• Harry Reid – retires from Senate and becomes motivational speaker. Bankrupt, homeless and destitute 6 months later
• Nancy Pelosi – convicted on Insider Trading charges. Takes to prison like a fish to water becoming leader of notorious Air Heads prison gang
• Robert Gibbs, former Obama Propaganda Czar – beat senseless by fellow employees at Google who quickly tired of his endless lying and blaming of others for his screw ups
• Warren Buffett – billionaire Obama advisor and higher taxes advocate convicted on Tax Evasion charges. The president appoints him as new Commerce Secretary
• David Axelrod – goes crazier than a runt over dog after defeat in presidential election lands job as new Editor in Chief of New York Times
• GOP keeps control of House and wins Senate
• Timmy Turbo Tax Guitner – impeached from Treasury Secretary post for gross incompetence. Named CFO of the Teamster Union
• AG Eric Holder – caught on hidden camera making an unconditional deal to release Islamic Jihadist terrorist. Keeps job with full support of president
• Hillary of the Butt Ugly Pants Suit Clan – stepped down as Sec. State to start her 2016 presidential run
• VP Biden – gets knee walking crying about your daddy drunk election night. Where abouts unknown ever since
• Surprise late entrant Jeb Bush with VP running mate Chris Christie win historical record breaking presidential election
• Barack Obama leaves country immediately following election defeat to take position of El Presedente of Communist Cuba. Truly a match made in Heaven

Here’s to a happy by damn 2012.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

ROLL TIDE

2011-12-30T12:11:00.001-08:00

Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 153: “2011 Highs, Lows and a Few Tweeners”

I took off for a weekend last month
Just to try and recall the whole year
All of the faces and all of the places
Wonderin' where they all disappeared
I didn't ponder the question too long
I was hungry and went out for a bite
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
And we wound up drinkin all night

It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

Reading departure signs in some big airport
Reminds me of the places I've been
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
Makes me want to go back again
If it suddenly ended tomorrow
I could somehow adjust to the fall
Good times and riches and son of a bitches
I've seen more than I can recall
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, Jimmy Buffett

2011 was another record breaking, world shaking, and historical train wreck of a year for the corrupt and incompetent Socialist Obama Regime. The last 52 weeks have been chock full of enough racial, class and generational warfare; wealth redistribution; irresponsible spending of other people’s money; unsustainable debt; big ass government; Socialist initiatives; lying; corruption; golf; hip hop rap thugs in the Eastroom; and sure enough abject incompetence to choke a full grown mule.

Following is a summary of the mostly lows, the few and far between highs, and a couple of tweeners representing the events that shaped the last 52 of 153 weeks to date of what is most likely the worst Presidency in our nation’s history. Considering that list includes the likes of Jimmy ”Peanut” Carter is sure as hell cause for great consternation and heart ache:

• UNEMPLOYMENT – December 2008, 7.8%. December 2011, 8.6%, Averaged over 9% for his first 3 years in office
• NATIONAL DEBT
• 1950 - $257.3 Billion
• 1980 - $907.7 Billion
• 2000 - $5.8 Trillion
• 2008 - $10.07 Trillion
• Current - $16 Trillion plus
• NATIONAL DEBT BY PRESIDENT STARTING WITH REAGAN
• Reagan – $1.7 Trillion increase
• George H.W. Bush’s One Term – $1.6 trillion increase
• Clinton – $1.5 Trillion increase
• W – $4 Trillion increase
• Obama’s first three years – $6 Trillion increase
• Obama’s remaining year - $2 Trillion additional for the truly criminal grand total $8 Trillion increase
• FEDERAL REVENUES
• 1950 - $39.4 Billion
• 1980 - $517.1 Billion
• 2000 - $2 Trillion
• 2008 - $2.5 Trillion
• Current - $2.2 Trillion
• FEDERAL SPENDING
• 1950 - $42.6 Billion
• 1980 - $591 Billion
• 2000 - $1.8 Trillion
• 2008 - $2.9 Trillion
• Current - $3.8 Trillion
• LARGEST ANNUAL FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICITS
• 2011, Obama - $1.65 Trillion, EST.
• 2009, Obama - $1.4 Trillion
• 2010, Obama - $1.3 Trillion
• 2012, Obama - $1.25 Trillion, EST.
• IDENTITY CRISIS - Their latest absurd propaganda initiative is an attempt to position our 44th President, Barack Husain Obama, as our 40th President, Ronald Reagan, incarnate. They have unsuccessfully tried for months to portray President Obama as Abe Lincoln’s second coming which never caught on because the American people would never confuse a truly great man of substance, vision, courage, and integrity with a Bolshevik, light weight, empty suit full of empty rhetoric of questionable character. In a recent interview our Egomaniac-in-Chief ranked himself as our country’s 4th most successful president. The man truly is crazier than a runt over dog
• THE GIBBS RESIGNATION - Departure of one Robert Lane Gibbs. Obama Propaganda Czar, White House Press Secretary, long time senior Presidential suck buddy and ultra liberal arrogant elitist political hack.
• AN ALL OUT ASSAULT ON US ENERGY INDEPENDENCE - TAPS - the largest pipeline in America— is currently not using two-third of its capacity. Alaska could send 1.4 million barrels more per day to the lower forty-eight but Obama won’t permit development of new resources.
• The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska has millions of barrels that the Obama administration is prohibiting drilling. No coherent explanation for this decision has been forthcoming
• ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, has at least 10.4 billion barrels of oil but domestic exploration is currently considered a crime against nature by the eco head cases. It just don’t make no never mind what so ever to these boneheads that 95% of ANWR is a frozen tundra and the only life that can be found in this frozen wasteland is half frozen bark eating tree humping eco extremist and Sarah Palin filming an episode of her realty TV show
• After the BP disaster in the Gulf the Obamanites didn’t waste any time exploiting the crisis to further advance their extreme green agenda by imposing an illegal moratorium on drilling that for all practical purposes is still in effect today in defiance of a Federal Judge’s orders costing literally tens of thousands of jobs.
• The economic and energy wizards in the Obama Administration have blocked the exploration for and production of shale oil in the Rockies and all over the Western US even as we sit atop enough shale oil reserves to meet all of our domestic oil needs for the next 100 years. Anyone opposed to pursuing this opportunity should be tried for treason.
• THE OBAMA DOCTRINE - So far based on word and deed blame America first; apology; appeasement; indecisiveness; passivism; incompetent; confused; and boneheaded all accurately describe the Obama Doctrine. “Bend over, grab our ankles, thank you sir may I have another, pucker up buttercup” also sure enough truly captures the spirit of our National Security challenged so called Commander-in-Chief’s limp wristed Foreign Policy.
• AN IRONY OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS- The most bleeding heart, pacifist, terrorist appeasing, jihadist sympathizer Commander-in-Chief ever to lead US forces after 8 months of indecision finally gave the order to take out Bin Laden. Thank the good Lord our military leaders and SEAL Team 6 prevailed in spite of a typical absence of leadership from the Obama Administration
• THE GOLF SUMMIT,OBAMA & BOEHNER LIGHT UP THE COURSE- No partisan breakthroughs but the President chain smokes 3packs of Camel no filters and VP Biden gets his typical Saturday drunk on
• LEAD FROM BEHIND- A Barackasswards strategy exemplified by the abdication of the fiasco in Libya to NATO which greatly extended the time frame of this conflict resulting in thousands more killed and wounded, billions of additional expense, and further erosion of our standing in the world
• TUCKING TAIL AND GETTING THE HELL OUT OF DODGE - Deferring to political expediency instead of military requirements in Afghanistan compromising the mission, endangering our troops and providing aid and comfort to the enemy publically announcing a date certain when our forces will be withdrawn including winning the war but losing the peace in Iraq
• ARAB SPRING - Refusing to publically support Democracy movements in Syria, Jordan and Iran and leaving the barn door wide open for Islamist extremities in these pro US interest revolutions
• MARXIST/SOCIALIST TACTICS - Totally AWOL on any serious efforts to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid choosing instead to conduct class and generational warfare leaving it to the GOP to lead and provide solutions to assure the viability of these massive entitlement programs
• LEADING FROM BEHIND PART II, (This has nothing at all to do with Barnie Freddie in the Fanny Mac Frank’s perv love life) Avoiding direct involvement in Congressional negotiations on the Federal debt ceiling and balancing the budget deferring leadership on this pending financial catastrophe to the House and Senate resulting in the first downgrade of our sterling credit rating in US history
• CORRUPTION AND SCANDLE-Instead of Fast Furious, the scandalous and sure enough most likely criminal gun running fiasco conducted by the boneheads at the Obama Department of Justice, “Slow & Silent” is without any doubt a more accurate description of the Administration’s response to this most unfortunate incident. And just like most of the crimes and/or unethical acts of gross incompetence or political corruption committed by our noble public servants, including the Solindra catastrophe, the obligatory cover up is what ultimately lands their happy asses in the jailhouse.
• BLESS THEIR HEARTS THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOB IS TRULY “A REVOLUTION IN DIRE NEED OF A CAUSE”. Truth be told this totally misguided and unorganized gang of boneheaded liberal head cases couldn’t find their ass with two hands and a flashlight in a locked closet let alone a legitimate grievance worth all the ruckus and media attention they have generated to date.
• WE CAN’T WAIT- is in reality the same Chicken Little the sky is falling or face dire consequences of Koranic, and um Biblically, proportions strategy the Obama fear mongers used to pass the trillion dollar stimulus package, Obamacare, Dodd/Freddy In the Fanny Mac Frank, bank bailouts and the government confiscation of the US auto industry. All of which turning out to be unmitigated disasters resulting in 9 plus percent unemployment, the doubling of gas prices, more new debt than white on rice and frozen credit that is killing economic growth.
• LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS-Our most recent sneak preview of Mr. Obama’s true and unfiltered views was an incident that occurred at the G20 summit in France, where President Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy made derogatory remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they thought were private but were actually over heard by a live mike.

52 more weeks of pure D, unadulterated, unprecedented chaos, ineptitude, malfeasance, anti-American, blame America first, and blatant efforts to fundamentally transform our great nation into a Socialist nanny state have come to a merciful conclusion and it’s high time we the people put a permanent end to all this foolishness. A resolution to achieve this objective in the new year should be endorsed by all patriots by standing with glass in hand, facing south, and toasting our hard fought victory in 2012 at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Cheers!

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

HAPPY NEW YEAR

ROLL TIDE

2011-12-22T12:09:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 152: “Merry, Merry Christmas”

It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Snowbirds fill the air
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Lots of presents everywhere
We don’t live in a hurry
Send away for mistletoe
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow

Lights are blowing in the palm trees
Stockings hanging from the mast
Santa riding on a dolphin
Don’t you want to make it
Don’t you want to make it last

It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Snowbirds fill the air
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Lots of presents everywhere
We don’t live in a hurry
Send away for mistletoe
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow
Snow?

Suntanned children sleeping
Hoping Santa will come true
Christmas morning marlin leaping
Oh it’s papa’s birthday
Mister buffet’s birthday too!

It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Snowbirds fill the air
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Good feelings everywhere
We don’t live in a hurry
Send away for mistletoe
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow

Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow
Christmas in the Caribbean, Jimmy Buffett

Instead of addressing one of the many calamities brought on our great nation by the Socialist Obama Regime including this seemingly never ending financial disaster; class warfare tactics out the yazoo; wiping out the Social Security trust fund with this irresponsible so called payroll tax holiday; winning the war but losing the peace in Iraq; claims by the anointed one that he is one of our top 5 presidents of all time; a declaration that the Taliban ain’t our enemy; and giving Iran a highly intelligence intensive drone (a sure enough banner week) in the spirit of the holiday season we’re just tickled pink to offer our rendition of “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”.

It may be moronic, sophomoric, and idiotic but so is the Obama Administration:

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

He'd been drinkin' too much eggnog,
And we'd begged him not to go.
But he'd left his Communist Manifesto,
So he stumbled out the door into the snow.

When they found him Christmas mornin',
At the scene of the attack,
There were hoof prints on his forehead,
And incriminatin' Claus marks on his back.

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

Now we're all so proud of Michelle,
She's been takin' this so well.
See her in there with her sleeveless dress,
Blaming W, House Republicans and giving the Secret Service hell.

It's not Christmas without Barack.
Holidaying in Hawaii all dressed in black.
And we just can't help but wonder:
Should we keep his new set of golf clubs or send them back?

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

Now the goose is on the table
And the pudding made of fig.
We’ll sure enough miss his daily speeches
All of his futile attempts to put lipstick on a pig.

I've warned all my friends and neighbors.
"Better watch out for your own happy asses and yourself.
They should never give a license,
To a man named Newt who drives a sleigh and resembles an evil elf."

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON

ROLL TIDE

2011-12-15T14:24:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 151: “Captain Barack, Edward Smith, Obama”

Now away in the near future
Southeast of disorder
You can shake the hand of the mango man
As he greats you at the border

Haul the sheet in as we ride on the wind
That our forefathers harnessed before us
Hear the bells ring as the tight rigging sings
It's a son of a gun of a chorus

Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends
If I knew I might toss out my anchor
So I cruise along always searchin' for songs
Not a lawyer a thief or a banker

But a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
Son of a gun, load the last ton
One step ahead of the jailer

I'm just a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains
I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer Son of a Son of a Sailor, Jimmy Buffett

During our Campaigner-in-Chief’s most recent media propaganda fest on CBS’s 60 Minutes with left wing extremist head case Steve Croft, who really should make a little effort to hide his man crush on the President, Mr. Obama used a nautical analogy to describe his ship wreck of a presidency. Captain Obama said the following:

• You know, sometimes when I'm talkin' to my team, I describe us as, you know, I'm the captain and they're the crew on a ship, goin' through really bad storms. And no matter how well we're steerin' the ship, if the boat's rockin' back and forth and people are gettin' sick and, you know, they're bein' buffeted by the winds and the rain and you know, at a certain point if you're askin', 'Are you enjoying the ride right now?' Folks are gonna say, 'No.' And are they gonna say, 'Do you think the captain's doing a good job?' People are gonna say, 'You know what? A good captain would have had us in some smooth waters and sunny skies, at this point.' And I don't control the weather. What I can control are the policies we're putting in place to make a difference in people's lives.

We agree with the nautical analogy but would suggest a comparison with the Titanic and its arrogant and reckless Captain, Edward Smith, by far more accurately describes this Administration’s failed first and hopefully only term of office. Truth be told the Titanic is the perfect metaphor to describe the entire Obama presidency.

All of the following are sure enough applicable:

• Arrogant disregard of reality
• Gross/criminal negligence
• Unbelievable incompetence
• Blame others (the iceberg)
• Sunk and still sinking – the economy
• Lost at sea – VP Biden
• Man the life boats – Obama’s foreign policy
• SOS – our country’s desperate call for help
• Full speed ahead – the President’s Marxist/Socialist agenda

True to form Croft didn’t challenge the President’s ridiculous analogy including his blaming the weather for the turbulent voyage. Consistent with previous interviews Croft just let our Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric–in-Chief dribble on with his lies, race baiting, class warfare, and wealth redistribution diatribes.

In our relentless pursuit to educate and inform our fellow citizens we retained the public watchdog group Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire (LLPF) to rank the truthfulness and veracity of the President’s remarks. On a scale of 1- the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth to 10 – lying like a cheap rug, the president scored a 52.

Following are a few examples of his most outrageous comments and the LLPF rating:

• Kroft: But they're not happy with the way you're doing your job. You've got 75 percent of the people in the country think it's headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-five percent. And 54 percent don't think that you deserve to be re-elected. I mean, those are not good numbers with 11 months to go before the election.
• Obama: Well, look. We've gone through an incredibly difficult time in this country. And I would be surprised if the American people felt satisfied right now. They shouldn't feel satisfied. We've got a lot more work to do in order to get this country and the economy moving in a way that benefits everybody, as opposed to just a few. LLPF-5. FIRST CLASS WARFARE SALVO
• Obama - This is a make or break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because what's at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement Their philosophy is simple: we are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. I am here to say they are wrong. LLPF- 43.
• Kroft: I mean, you were really talking about income inequality, which suggests redistribution of wealth. There are gonna be people who say, 'This is the socialist Obama and he's come out of the closet.'
• Obama: Look, the-- everybody's at-- concerned about inequality. LLPF-57. Those folks in there, who were listenin' to the speech, those are teachers and small business people, and probably some small town bankers, who are in there thinking to themselves, 'How is it that I, we're workin' so hard,' and meanwhile, they know that corporate profits are at a record level, that a lot of folks are doin' very well. What's happened to the bargain? What's happened to the American deal that says, you know, we are focused on building a strong middle class? PURE D SOCIALIST DOCTRINE
• Kroft: Look, we're getting close to the start of the presidential campaign. Does this mean no more governing for the next year until next November? I don't mean just for you, I mean, for Congress. Do you have any hope that anything is gonna get accomplished between now and the next election?
• Obama: If I have anything to do about it, absolutely. LLPF-73. We're gonna keep on pushing to get things done. I want to work with Congress. LLPF-95. I want to work with both parties in Congress. LLPF- 107. I think that we can still make progress on a balanced approach to deficit reduction. LLPF- 78
• Kroft: Since the midterm elections, you made an effort at bipartisanship. LLPF- 54. It hasn't worked out that way. And it seems to me, it appears, watching you the last month or so, that you're-- stopped reaching out to Republicans. That you're being-- that you're going on the offensive.
• Obama: I think that when I came into office in 2008, it was my firm belief that at such an important moment in our history, there was no reason why Democrats and Republicans couldn't put some of the old ideological baggage aside and focus on common sense, what works, practical solutions to the tough problems we were facing. And I think the Republicans made a different calculation, which was, 'You know what? We really screwed up the economy. Obama seems popular. Our best bet is to stand on the sidelines, 'cause we think the economy's gonna get worse, and at some point, just blame him.' And so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that I would have liked. LLPF-32
• Kroft: They don't like you much better. It's only seven percent approval rating.
• Obama: Yeah, no, I understand. But I think that they like the ideas that we put forward. I mean, the interesting thing is the majority of Republicans actually think we should have a balanced approach to deficit reduction, including tax increases for the wealthy. The majority of Republicans do think that we should make investments in roads and bridges and improving our airports and investing in basic research and medical research. LLPF-79
• Kroft: There's a general perception that the stimulus was not enough. That it really didn't work
• Obama: Let me stop you there, Steve. First of all, there's not a general perception that the stimulus didn't work. You've got John McCain's former economist and a whole series of prominent economists, who say that it created or saved three million jobs and prevented us from goin' into a Great Depression. That works. So that's not true. LLPF- OFF THE CHARTS
• Kroft: Why do you think you deserve to be re-elected? What have you accomplished?
• Obama: Not only saving this country from a Great Depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we're gonna start lowering health care costs and you're never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Makin' sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded bailouts and the system is more stable and secure. LLPF-48. PRESIDENT SMITH IS CRAZIER THAN A RUNT OVER DOG
• Kroft: You're being judged now on your performance.
• Obama: No, no, no. I'm being judged against the ideal. And, you know, Joe Biden has a good expression. He says-- "Don't judge me against the Almighty, judge me against the alternative." THE ANOINTED ONE SURE ENOUGH HAS A BONA FIDE GOD COMPLEX

Sticking with the nautical theme Captain Obama has been busier than a one legged man at an ass kicking contest bailing water trying to keep his presidency afloat. Hopefully like Captain Smith before him President Obama’s Administration is sailing into an electoral shipwreck of Titanic proportions.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

ROLL TIDE

2011-12-09T12:21:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 150: “Desperately In Search of a Kindred Spirit”

Then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
Grubbin' on the livin' room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score

Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be

That's why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The "Boston Blackie" kind
A two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine

Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
Maybe suave Errol Flynn or the Sheik of Araby
If I only had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could do some cruisin' too

Yeah, Bryl-cream, a little dab'll do yah
Oh, I could do some cruisin' too I Wish I Had a Pencil Thin Mustache, Jimmy Buffett

Reckon when one realize he sure enough just might be the worst president in the history of the Union it’s only natural to attempt to conjure up positive comparisons with successful predecessors. Lord knows the current occupant of the Oval Office has made a desperate attempt and miserably failed to establish a kindred spirit with several truly great former presidents.

Bless his deceitful little bleeding liberal heart Mr. Obama’s propaganda machine is making an all out effort advancing the absolutely absurd notion he is the collective reincarnation of Washington, Jefferson, Honest Abe, TR, FDR, Give um Hell Harry, We Like Ike, Kennedy, Reagan, and Saturday Night Bill Clinton. Truth be told any similarities with these men of courage, leadership, vision, patriotism, and real substance, with the exception of Saturday Night Bill, are few and far between.

A one on one comparison of our young, inept, incompetent, corrupt, dishonest, unethical, hyper partisan and criminally negligent Identity Crisis-in-Chief is illuminating to say the least. Consider the following:

• Washington – A man of great physical courage; moral courage; conviction; integrity; a true leader; an ardent patriot.
• Similarities with Obama – None; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Jefferson – A true patriot; advocate of American exceptionalism; champion of limited government; and leader of men
• Similarities with Obama – Both are hyper partisan even devious politicians. Otherwise none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Honest Abe – Truly a visionary leader. A patriot, inspirational, decisive Commander-in-Chief
• Similarities with Obama – Both from Illinois and long, lanky builds and humongous floppy ears. Other than that none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; and a person with class and no count white trash
• TR, Teddy Roosevelt – A real force of nature, war hero, and a man of true convictions
• Similarities with Obama – some populist and socialist leanings but when it comes to substance none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• FDR – A brilliant and effective war time president who provided inspired leadership during the most challenging of times
• Similarities with Obama – Some agreement on socialist entitlement initiatives but as for real leadership none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Give um Hell Harry – Hardnosed, direct, honest, responsible leader
• Similarities with Obama – Absolutely nothing; none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• We Like Ike – Led most important military operation of WWII, D Day. One of history’s greatest military figures compared to Mr Obama who views our armed forces as nothing more than a photo opp
• Similarities with Obama – Not even a frog’s hair worth, none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Kennedy – Genuine war hero, inspired millions, a man of vision
• Similarities with Obama – hankering to associate with a certain criminal element but for issues of any real consequence none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Reagan – Conservative thought leader, passionate advocate of liberty, freedom, and democratic agenda, victorious cold warrior
• Similarities with Obama – None; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash. As different as lightening and a lightening bug

Mr. Obama’s actual presidential kindred spirits consist of a bunch of incompetent and/or corrupt Chief Executives that most historians consider the bottom of the barrel. Folks on this dubious list typically include the likes of Warren G. Harding, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Millard Fillmore, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and probably Mr Obama’s closest kindred spirit and we’re powerfully hesitant to admit fellow Southerner, Jimmy “Peanut“ Carter.

We don’t expect the Obama propaganda team will be advancing the similarities with the list of malcontents above anytime soon but hopefully the ludicrous comparisons to our greatest Commander-in-Chiefs will come to an abrupt halt. It’s embarrassing, just downright absurd, and the thought of including the name Obama in the same sentence with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln is as crazy as an outhouse rat.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

ROLL TIDE

2011-12-03T14:13:00.000-08:00

Week 149: “Abandon Ship”

Boys in the band ordered boat drinks
Visitors scored on the home rink
Everything seems to be wrong

Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap air fare
I gotta to fly to saint somewhere
I’m close to bodily harm

Twenty degrees and the hockey games on
Nobody cares they are way too far gone
Screamin boat drinks, something to keep em all warm

This mornin, I shot six holes in my freezer
I think I got cabin fever
Somebody sound the alarm
Boat Drinks, Jimmy Buffett

Sound the alarm, Katie bar the door, somebody alert the media, friends and allies of our Pariah-in-Chief are abandoning ship faster than a scalded dog running home to Momma. Folks that less than three short years ago worshiped the ground the great anointed one walked on our running for cover and avoiding Mr Obama as if he was inflicted with the mad cow, leprosy or a raging case of the clap.

A long list of disenchanted former friends and supporters is spreading faster than a patch of kudzu. Most are giving the Chief Executive the cold shoulder for reasons of political expediency, a few because incarceration and several have been actually thrown under the bus by the President after their unethical, perverted and/or unscrupulous conduct went public.

His radical leftwing circle of friends is shrinking faster than George’s manhood of Seinfeld fame after a frigid late night swim. Notable recent examples include:

• Prominent Democratic Senators McCaskill, Casey, Manchin, Nelson, Pryor and, Webb who were all where abouts unknown during recent taxpayer funded Obama campaign trips to their respective states
• Saturday Night Bill Clinton who ain’t really ever particularly cared for the junior Senator from Illinois anyhow
• Ole fellow corrupt Chicago political hacks and convicted felons the one and only Governor Blogo and bagman Tony Resko who arranged the Obama’s illegal sweetheart mortgage for their North shore mansion both of which are currently guest of the Illinois Department of Prisons and Corrections
• Congressmen’s Anthony Weiner’s resignation after his perv sex texting was publically exposed
• Prominent business folks including liberal New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman who have grown weary of his incompetence and class warfare rhetoric

A devastating blow to the American Liberal movement was Representative Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s announcement this week he will be retiring at the end of his current term. Truly a wild eyed, left wing, radical extremist he will be greatly missed by his political soul mate and BFF in the White House.

Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s liberal legacy rivals the likes of his Massachusetts comrades Tip O’Neil and Teddy “the Lady Killer, literally“Kennedy. His thirty plus year controversial and at times just downright strange political career is definitely worth a quick review:

• Born March 31, 1940 and raised in New Jersey. As a teenager said to spent summers touring Moscow, Beijing, Havana, San Francisco and Key West
• Graduated from Harvard College and just like his good bud Barack Harvard Law School
• U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district (1981–present). Former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee 2007–2011
• Officially came out of the closet in 1987 becoming the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily
• In 1985 Frank hired Steve Gobie for sex, a male prostitute. Gobie moved in and ran a male escort service out of Barn’s DC home. The House voted 408–18 to reprimand Frank for his criminal and despicable conduct
• Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s current life companion was recently busted for growing his own private stash of weed in Barn’s backyard. Of course ole Barn is pleading ignorance and claimed he wouldn’t recognize a marijuana plant if it snuck up and bit him on his cute little tushy

Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s most grievous public policy debacle was his fervent advocacy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In 2003, while the ranking minority member on the Financial Services Committee Frank opposed the Bush administration in response to transferring oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Congress to the Treasury Department..

Frank stated, "These two entities ...are not facing any kind of financial crisis ... The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." In 2003, Frank also stated "I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness [in the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] that we have in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.”

At Barn’s insistence Fannie and Freddie made trillions in bad loans leading to the housing bubble and the financial crash in 2008. Along with Senator Chris “Sweetheart Deal Countrywide Boy” Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank is one of two individuals most responsible for our current fiscal calamity.

In light of these revelations retirement is far too generous for this arrogant; belligerent; criminal; deviant; nasty; ultra liberal; Marxist/Socialist; elitist; bonehead. Ole Barn deserves to be run out of town on a rail and hung up by his lavender color painted toe nails.

For good measure he should also be banned from ever attending another Broadway Musical or visiting Key West and San Francisco again. This may seem like cruel and unusual punishment but little Barney is most deserving of this and actually much worse.

Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac “Frank is abandoning ship and his departure can’t come soon enough. Let’s hope Mr Obama walks hand in hand with the boy into an early retirement.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama –42/ Auburn–14

ROLL TIDE

2011-11-25T16:29:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 148: “Veto This Mr. President”

I'm a piece of work, I'm iron and lace I'm shy, I'm right up in your face
I'm all dumbfounded, stubborn as an ass
Sharp as an arrow in a pile of glass.

I'm a sweetheart, genius, reckless jerk.
Lord, have mercy, I'm a piece of work
I'm a piece of work, Jimmy Buffett

With the abject failure of the so called Congressional “Super Committee”, the twelve poor dumb pilgrims charged with finding a paltry $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years as part of the debt ceiling deal, our Record Breaking Spender of Other People’s Money-In-Chief wasted no time at all firing up the ole tele-prompter, hitting the airwaves blaming the GOP and advancing his racist, generational and class warfare campaign agenda. His only chance at reelection as running on his dismal economic and bend over, grab his ankles, thank you sir may I have another citizen of the world failed foreign policy record will surely lead to untold heart-ache and calamity for the Obama faithful.

In a particularly mean spirited and belligerent address Mr. Obama really took Congressional Republicans to the proverbial political woodshed repeatedly accusing them of putting party ahead of Country in their deliberations. Of course he conveniently forgot to mention there were also 6 Democrats on the set up for failure “Super Committee“ and last time we checked former boxer and currently punch drunk Harry Reid still heads up the Democrat Majority in the US Senate.

From a series of typical ludicrous remarks following are a few examples of his most ridiculous and misleading comments:

• Good afternoon. As you all know, last summer I signed a law that will cut nearly $1 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. Part of that law also required Congress to reduce the deficit by an additional $1.2 trillion by the end of this year. (to cut spending $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years represents a 2% reduction or there abouts. Anybody who thinks tax increases are necessary to achieve this objective is crazier than an outhouse rat)
• In September, I sent them a detailed plan that would have gone above and beyond that goal. It’s a plan that would reduce the deficit by an additional $3 trillion, by cutting spending, slowing the growth of Medicare and Medicaid, and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. (fair share-code phrase for tax high wage earners and massive wealth redistribution)
• In addition to my plan, there were a number of other bipartisan plans for them to consider from both Democrats and Republicans, all of which promoted a balanced approach. This kind of balanced approach to reducing our deficit — an approach where everybody gives a little bit, and everyone does their fair share — is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans — Democrats, independents, and Republicans. It’s supported by experts and economists from all across the political spectrum. And to their credit, many Democrats in Congress were willing to put politics aside and commit to reasonable adjustments that would have reduced the cost of Medicare, as long as they were part of a balanced approach. (he used the words fair share 4,545 times in a 4 minute speech-code phrase for tax high wage earners and massive wealth redistribution)
• So when everybody gets back from Thanksgiving and I complete another tax payer funded cross country campaign swing and a few dozen rounds of golf it ‘will be time to appear to get some work done for the American people. All around the country, Americans are working hard to live within their means and meet their responsibilities. And I know they expect Washington to do the same.

In addition to this same ole, chock full of lies, boring, boring, boring rhetoric the President did make one new just downright troubling remark about the automatic triggers that will kick in with the Committee’s failure to reach an agreement. $1.2 trillion of mandatory spending cuts, half from across the boards domestic programs and half from an already decimated defense budget.

This is what our reluctant Commander-in-Chief had to say about these reckless, irresponsible, unprecedented and dangerous spending cuts to the defense budget:

• Now, the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, and if not, whether Congress is willing to stick to the painful deal that we made in August for the automatic cuts. Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts.
• My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

Barack Husain Obama has already committed several boneheaded and most likely impeachable acts since taking the Oath of Office including:

1. Taking justified what for from a French President about his negligent and Socialist fiscal policies
2. Running up just south of $5 trillion in additional debt in just 148 weeks
3. Giving our enemy a date certain troop withdrawal schedule
4. Passing state secrets to his comrades in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (if he actually hasn’t done this he sure as hell been thinking about it)

Now he’s threatening to veto any bill that would maintain our national defense and security because he doesn’t want to give Republicans any political advantage. Ain’t no never mind about it Mr. Obama’s most impeachable infraction to date.

President Obama’s veto threat is the epitome of irresponsible, reckless, blatant political expediency. The only veto we should be thinking about is vetoing his happy ass out of office.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama –45/ Georgia Southern–21

ROLL TIDE

2011-11-18T08:54:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 147: “Barack Douglas C. Neidermeyer Obama”

I've been lazy most all of my life
Writing songs and sleeping late
Any manual labor I've done purely by mistake
If street sweepers can smile then
I've got no right to feel upset
But sometimes I still forget
Till the lights go on and the stage is set
And the song hits home and you feel that sweat

It's my job to be different than the rest
and that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the best
and that's a tough break for me
It's my job to be cleaning up this mess
and that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the best
and that makes the day for me “It’s My Job”, Jimmy Buffett

“You’re all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty” Douglas C. Neidermeyer, Animal House

Our CEO/Advocate-in-Chief seems too done lost his mind and is totally ignoring one of the primary responsibilities of the President of these here United States of America. Instead of aggressively and enthusiastically promoting the virtues of our great nation for some strange reason Mr. Obama is hell bent on accusing the very same country he swore on a Koran, um Bible, to lead and protect of all manner of bad behavior resulting in our current dismal financial condition.

It sure enough is damn sure difficult to determine if our Critic of Mom, Baseball and Apple Pie-in-Chief is truly on our fightin side. Based on recent comments it sure doesn’t seem so.

• “Dress that line. Dress that line, mister! Dress that line, soldier. Mister, hold my mount. [to Kent] You fat, disgusting slob! You're a damned disgrace! … Redo those buttons! Dress that belt buckle! Straighten that cap! And damn it, tuck up those pajamas! Attention! Eyes front! What's that on your chest, mister? Kent: It's a pledge pin, sir. A pledge pin! On your uniform? Just tell me, mister, what fraternity would pledge a man like you? Kent: It's a Delta pin, sir”

Following are a few disturbing examples of our President’s low opinion of the country he leads:

• "We've been a bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We've kind of taken for granted-well, people would want to come here - and we aren't that hungry, selling America and attracting new business,"
• “America has grown “a little soft”
• “We have lost our ambition, our imagination and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge,”
• “We suck, we are bunch of greedy imperialist capitalist that should follow the lead of our French and Cuban comrades” (Even if he didn’t exactly say it he damn sure is thinking it)

American Exceptionalism, the Shining City on a Hill, promoting worldwide democracy and using American influence to advance our strategic interest just ain’t included in this President’s DNA. He truly is a secular progressive, ultra left wing, hopeless liberal, citizen of the world who views America as an oppressive tyrannical super power instead of the world’s beacon of hope and freedom.

During this seemingly endless economic tsunami and dangerous international challenges the kind of inspired leadership we need like Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell need another double chocolate cream filled doughnut. If only our young and so misguided President would follow the lead of a few of his predecessors and several other political and business thought leaders:

• "America is too great for small dreams."
-Ronald Reagan
• "Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction."
-George H.W. Bush
• Ronald Reagan- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
• Theodore Roosevelt- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
• Harry S. Truman- America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
• "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." –Abraham Lincoln
• “The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.” –George Washington
• “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein
• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill

Ain’t no never mind about it that’s some serious, uplifting, motivational, truly inspirational words of hope, promise and opportunity. Sure enough beats hell out of being called worthless and weak; fat; slobs; disgraces; lazy; soft; unimaginitive; uninventive; poor dumb pilgrims by the current occupant of the Oval Office.

• Otter: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Hoover: Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter: Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What's the difference
Otter: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.
Otter: But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

We're not going to sit here niether and listen to Barack Husain Obama badmouth the United States of America. Ladies and Gentlemen!

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 24/ Miss State–7

ROLL TIDE

2011-11-11T08:37:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 146: “Truth Be Told”

I'm just an old truth teller
I'm your candid friend
I'm not some daydream seller
I do not pretend
I've a sense of survival
And screwing my rivals
That's labeled me crossed and uncouth
But I can't help it I just tell the truth
He can't help it, he just tells the truth Just an Old Truth Teller, Jimmy Buffett

Not often, but on sure enough truly rare occasions, we get a glance at the real nature and character of our 44th President. Truth Be Told the unvarnished, no tele-prompter, unscripted reality about Barack Husain Obama’s genuine view of the grand scheme of things is so ugly it would scare a dog off a meat wagon.

Our most recent sneak preview of Mr. Obama’s true and unfiltered views was an incident that occurred this week at the G20 summit in France. President Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy made derogatory remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they thought were private but were actually over heard by a live mike.

According to extremely reluctant left wing media elite reporters who stalled the story for several days not wanting to embarrass either one of their favorite so called enlightened presidents Sarkozy declared:

• "I cannot stand him. He is a liar."

To which our BFF of Israel-in-Chief Mr. Obama replied:

• "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"

Not that these remarks come as any breaking news flash as the President has treated Netanyahu like a red headed stepchild since day one. Truly a travesty when you compare the backgrounds of these two world leaders and their contrasting rise to power. Consider the following:

• Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel.
• Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces in 1967 where he served as a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit, taking part in many missions including Operation Gift and the hostage rescue mission from the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in 1972, where he was seriously wounded.
• He fought on the front lines in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and achieved the rank of captain.
• Netanyahu served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988
• Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999.

During the same time period the future leader of the free world, young Barack Husain Obama, was in hot pursuit of far less noble endeavors:

• Attending Islamic school in Indonesia
• Snorting coke and fully participating in Hawaii’s underground drug culture
• Snorting coke and fully participating in Columbia University’s underground drug culture
• Snorting coke and fully participating in Harvard’s underground drug culture
• Working as a community/labor agitator for the criminal socialist front group ACORN
• Voting present on every important issue while amassing the most extremist left wing record in the history of first the Illinois state house and later the US Senate

Don’t know about y’all but it seems clear to us we got the wrong person leading the free world. The arrogance demonstrated by a man of such dubious achievements and absence of moral fortitude the likes of President Obama criticizing a person of substance, courage and wisdom and the stature of Mr Netanyahu is unforgivable.

President Obama’s advocacy and support of Palestine and by fiat the international Islamic terrorist group Hamas has never been more obvious. A most disturbing and dangerous Obama foreign policy initiative.

Of course this sure as hell ain’t the first “hot mike” incident Mr. Obama has experienced as his political career is chock full of similar revealing moments when his genuine real feelings have been exposed. A few of the most notable include:

• Confirmation of his Socialist core values when he was overheard telling Joe the Plumber the need to redistribute wealth in this country
• A blatant act of his racist viewpoint based on the false accusations he made about the Cambridge Police Department in the Gates affair
• His elitist attitude and disdain for We the People when he remarked about the need for all of us ignorant yahoos to cling to our guns and Bibles during these trying times

Truth be told President Obama owes Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli and American people a sincere apology for his cowardly remarks and lack of support for one of our most critical and strongest allies. Truth also sadly be told the man doesn’t have the class, character, or courage to ever express any regret for his arrogant and despicable conduct.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

ROLL TIDE ROLL

2011-11-03T21:36:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 145: “We Can’t Wait”

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Just like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train “Like Desperados Waitin' For a Train,” Jerry Jeff Walker

For the last several months our “Political Hack-in-Chief” has completely abandoned even any pretense of actually governing and has been traveling around the country in full campaign mode on our dime. All things considered not a bad return on investment if it keeps this incompetent, Socialist, left wing, egomaniac too preoccupied with his reelection instead of forcing his Marxist dreams of grandeur down our collective throats.

Demonstrating the traits of a corrupt Chicago political district ward chief as opposed to the leader of the free world whom we’d hope would occasionally show a little class and decorum Mr. Obama transforms into a hyper-partisan; race baiting; class warfare advocate; elitist false populist that would sure enough make the likes of George C. Wallace, Bull Conner and Uncle Joe Stalin his self proud. Bless his tiny bleeding liberal heart reckon you can take the Communist community organizer out of Chicago but you’ll never take the tyrannical Bolshevik ways out of Barack Husain Obama.

Out on the stump promoting his sham of a jobs bill our “Blamer of Everyone but Himself-in-Chief “ has pointed his boney little finger from everybody from W to ATM’S to cover for his massive failures resulting from their attempts to convert the world’s most productive and largest free market economy into a cradle to grave Socialist Nanny State. Most lately the evil GOP Congress has been his political whipping boy guilty of all manner of nefarious deeds including higher murder and rape rates, starving the old and poor folks, and unexplainable massive new incidents of Restless Leg Syndrome.

His newest political tactic, “We Can’t Wait”, is in reality the same Chicken Little the sky is falling or face dire consequences of Koranic, and um Biblically, proportions strategy the Obama fear mongers used to pass the trillion dollar stimulus package, Obamacare, Dodd/Freddy In the Fanny Mac Frank, bank bailouts and the government confiscation of the US auto industry. All of which turning out to be unmitigated disasters resulting in 9 plus percent unemployment, the doubling of gas prices, more new debt than white on rice and frozen credit that is killing economic growth.

During his Saturday web/radio address our hurried CEO used a derivative of his new “We Can’t Wait “call to arms 948 times. Rumor has it the infamous Presidential teleprompter done blowed up due to the truly mind numbing repetition.

According to our signer of unconstitutional and illegal Executive Orders the following world shaking policy initiatives just can’t wait for Congressional approval:

• Complete takeover of the student loan program by Uncle Sammy resulting in no consequences defaults and free money compliments of the American tax payer
• Home financing mortgage relief loan program by Uncle Sammy resulting in no consequences defaults and free money compliments of the American tax payer
• To fix No Child Left Behind, the President directed his administration to move forward with a plan to give states the flexibility they need to help students meet higher standards.
• The Administration acted to cut dramatically the time it takes for small businesses that contract with the federal government to get paid.
• Eliminated outdated regulations that will save hospitals and patients billions of dollars in the years ahead. Specifics on how this would be accomplished as usual are few and far between

Independently and collectively these measures won’t amount to a bucket of warm spit. Nothing more than additional examples of wealth redistribution to the President’s victim class constituencies.

In the spirit of “We Can’t Wait” Thoughts of Obama From Bama would like to add a few items to the list:

1. “We Can’t Wait” to see the door knob hit Mr. Obama in the arse on his way out the door of the White House after losing the election next fall
2. “We Can’t Wait “till VP Biden permanently retires to the nearest Irish pub and stops embarrassing the Country every time he opens that cavernous mouth
3. “We Can’t Wait” for She of the Shaved Butt Ugly Pants Suit Klan, Madame Secretary of State Hillary Rohdam-Clinton, to slip off into political has been status with faithful husband Saturday Night Bill never to duck enemy sniper fire again
4. “We Can’t Wait” to watch senior political hack, terrorist sympathizer, liar, and racist bonehead, AG Eric Holder hauled off to jail with all the other criminals

We also can’t wait to watch college football’s National Championship Saturday night at Bryant/Denny in Tuscaloosa when the Alabama Crimson Tide knock off the number one ranked LSU Tigers.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-10-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 144: “Reports Confirm 40%-50% of American People Are Missing Half Their Brain”

When the telephone woke me this morning, I'm
sorry was the first thing I said
From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head
Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past
'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you showed off your ass “I Was So Bad Last Night “ Jerry Jeff Walker

Best take care out there children. There sure enough seems to be an insidious and nefarious plot a foot in the home of the brave and none of us are immune.

Considering the Country’s absolutely dismal financial status and diminished standing in the world President Obama’s current poll numbers are truly remarkable. So remarkable something truly sinister must be spreading across this great nation faster than kudzu.

After exhausting all the other options it’s obvious to us 40% to 50% of our fellow citizens are the victims of an unspeakable heinous act. Somebody slowly and stealthily has done snuck up on each and every one of these individuals, stuck a straw in their ear, and sucked out half their brain.

In our way of reckoning that’s the only credible explanation for these radical left wing head cases that continue to support not only the worst but also the most dangerous President in the history of the Union. It’s almost like watching an episode of AMC’s “Walking Dead“ just on a much grander scale.

Following is a summary of the current polling according to Real Clear Politics.com averages that should have all of us as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs:

• Obama Approval 44 – Disapproval 51
• Obama 46 – Romney 45
• Obama 48 – Cain 40
• Obama 50 – Perry 39
• Obama 49 – Gingrich 36
• Obama 41 – Generic Republican 43
• Direction of Country, Right 19 – Wrong 75

It ain’t like he’s exactly walking in high cotton but almost unbelievably President “All Manner of Disaster “ Obama is polling between 41 and 50 in every match up. Considering the complete and abject failure of the Obama Socialist regime these numbers are more frightening than being stranded on a disserted island with Nancy Pelosi.

The world’s greatest nation ever is rapidly approaching a tipping point and Barack Obama and his half brained faithful are about to spill us over into the mediocrity of a Marxist/Socialist abyss. Dr. Adrian Rogers astutely described our pending downfall when he wrote the following almost 30 years ago:

• “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

With Halloween rapidly approaching best take care not to become the next victim of Obama’s army of straw carrying, half brained, wild eyed, left wing, radical extremist, liberal boneheads. Observing VP Biden, Representative Pelosi and Senator Reid surely provides inspiration for us all too diligently stand watch for Obamaites lurking in the shadows armed with brain sucking straws.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 37/ Tenn Vols– 6

ROLL TIDE

2011-10-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 143: “A Revolution in Dire Need of a Cause”

Down to the Banana Republics
Down to the tropical sun
Go the expatriated American
Hopin' to find some fun

Some of them go for the sailing
Brought by the lure of the sea
Tryin' to find what is ailing
Living in the land of the free
Some of them are running to lovers
Leaving no forward address
Some of them are running tons of ganja
Some are running from the IRS

Late at night you will find them
In the cheap hotels and bars
Hustling the senioritas
While they dance beneath the stars
Spending those renegade pesos
on a bottle of rum and a lime
Singin' give me some words I can dance to
Or a melody that rhymes Banana Republic, Jimmy Buffett

Bless their hearts the Occupy Wall Street mob is truly “A Revolution in Dire Need of a Cause”. Truth be told this totally misguided and unorganized gang of boneheaded liberal head cases couldn’t find their ass with two hands and a flashlight in a locked closet let alone a legitimate grievance worth all the ruckus and media attention they have generated to date.

Responses to press inquires about what’s got um so riled up in the first place seem to vary as much as the excuses and other folks to blame President Obama proclaims when defending his untold and self inflicted failures as our first Socialist-in-Chief. Following is representative list of these yahoo’s stated mission and objectives:

• Anger about greed on Wall Street
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Abolish capitalism
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Redistribute the wealth
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Create a Socialist Nanny state
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Free healthcare
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Free education
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Bring home the troops
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Stick it to the man
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Shorter work week, higher wages, more benefits
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Government paid retirement
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Tax the rich out the yazoo
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Elimination of all fossil fuels
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Free lunch, prophylactics and Wi-Fi all paid for with other people’s money.
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• America sucks
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Why can’t we be more like the Marxist Utopian Banana Republics Castro’s Cuba and Chavez’s Venezuela?
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible

Now that we’ve established this mindless mob doesn’t have anything that even remotely resembles a logical or rational reason to assemble and raise their collective voices in protest naturally almost every liberal nut job celebrity has unabashedly stood right on up just like they had good sense in support of these nimrods. All the usual suspects including the likes of the following radical leftwing elitist have enthusiastically proclaimed their support:

• Some millionaire hip hop thug Shane West
• Alec Baldwin, who’s just tickled pink to take millions from Capital One for his goofy commercials
• Tim Robbins and his his ex-life partner Susan the Pope’s a Nazi Sarandon
• Michael chocolate double cream filled Moore
• Roseanne scratch her crotch Barr
• Rosie dumber than a bag of hammers O’Donnell

In addition to this liberal brain trust some of the country’s leading progressive organizations have announced their solidarity with this “Revolution in Dire Need of a Cause”. Labor Unions, the ACLU, NOW, NAG, Code Pink, the American Communist and Socialist parties, for good measure the US Nazis and of course the radical left wing media elite have all committed vast resources in support of the “cause“.

Not one to miss out on any Marxist/Socialist/Commie revolution our Protestor-in-Chief has also thrown in with this directionless, confused, inept, and irrelevant mob. The perfect match with the Obama Administration, sure enough an ideal example of the blind leading the blind.

At least this mob does have one worthy objective - Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible. Not exactly comparable to the American Revolution but considering the alternatives a most worthwhile endeavor.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 52/ Ole Miss– 7

ROLL TIDE

2011-10-13T15:55:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 142: “Slow & Silent”

I'd love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All to myself alone

Get you and keep you
In my arms ever more
Leave all your lovers
Weepin' on a far away shore

Out on the briny
With the moon big and shiny
Melting your heart of stone

Honey I'd love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All by myself alone Slow Boat to China, Jimmy Buffett

Instead of Fast and Furious, the scandalous and sure enough most likely criminal gun running fiasco conducted by the boneheads at the Obama Department of Justice, “Slow & Silent” is without any doubt a more accurate description of the Administration’s response to this most unfortunate incident. And just like most of the crimes and/or unethical acts of gross incompetence or political corruption committed by our noble public servants the obligatory cover up is what ultimately lands their happy asses in the jailhouse.

From the reaction so far from the Obama Regime Fast and Furious/ “Slow & Silent” ain’t gonna be the exception to this far too frequent political reality. To make matters worse senior political hack, appeaser of Islamic Jihadist terrorist, incompetent, racist, President Obama’s political soul mate, the Attorney General of these here United States, Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., is up to his eyeballs in this controversy and the entire sordid affair is fixen to cover him up like white on rice.

Before we explore racist, lying like a cheap rug, political hack AG Holder’s central role in this extraordinarily boneheaded gun walking catastrophe a review of the facts surrounding this unlawful federal sting operation might help shed some light on this travesty of justice perpetrated by the “Hope, Change, Believe” gang:

• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), who report directly to the DOJ and senior political hack, racist, AG Holder, operated Fast and Furious in 2009 as an attempt to track the sale of thousands of guns on the U.S. side of the border to Mexican drug rings. It wasn’t exposed until some of the same weapons turned up at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona
• President Barack Obama says he has “complete confidence” in his AG, and that neither of them was aware of the “Fast and Furious” operation that allowed the flow of firearms in the U.S. across the border to Mexican drug cartels.

“I have been very clear that I have complete confidence in Attorney General Holder and how he handles his office,” Obama said during a Thursday press conference. “He has been very aggressive in going after gun running and cash transactions that are going to these transnational drug cartels in Mexico. He’s indicated that he was not aware what was happening in Fast and Furious.”

“Certainly I was not, and I think both he and I would have been very unhappy if somebody had suggested that guns were allowed to pass through, that could have been prevented by the United States of America,” Obama said. The President also said he has “complete confidence” that Holder will “figure out who in fact was responsible for that decision and how it got made.”
• Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Darrell Issa of California, who are leading the congressional investigation, released five memos that were addressed to racist political hack Holder as far back as July 2010 describing the boneheaded gun walking scheme. Holder told Congress during a May hearing this year he had just learned of the operation weeks before. The memos written by Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, said the bogus gun buyers were “responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels.”
• The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed racist political hack AG Holder to answer the simple questions he claims to have found so confusing during his previous appearances
"When did they know it wasn't the right way to do it and why (did) they keep doing it?" asked committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
• Issa also told "Fox News Sunday" this week that "people in the top" of the Justice Department knew about the operation, were "well-briefed about it, and seemed to be the command and control and funding for this program."

Senior political hack, racist, AG Holder got caught with his britches down lying to a Congressional Oversight Committee. Not that any of this should by any means surprise any of us when you consider his unethical, dishonest, most likely criminal and unequivocally ungentlemanly conduct displayed during his disgraceful career as a political hack willing to expedite almost any despicable act on behalf of his unscrupulous bosses Saturday Night Bill Clinton and Barack Husain Obama.

A brief review of senior political hack, racist, AG Holder’s notorious career is a sad commentary on the Marxist scoundrels, liars and low lifes currently running things in DC. Following is a most disconcerting profile of our nation’s morally bankrupt Chief Legal Officer:

• In his final days with the Clinton administration, Holder was involved with Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive and a FBI Top Ten Most Wanted tax cheat and Democratic contributor Marc Rich. According to Rich's attorney, Holder advised to circumvent standard procedures and to submit the pardon petition directly to the White House. Saturday Night Bill was also having relations with Rich’s Mrs’s which provided additional incentive to do the deal
• Holder was also involved in Clinton's decision to reduce the criminal sentences of 16 members of the Boricua Popular Army, an organization that has been categorized by the FBI as a terrorist organization. We don’t exactly know who Saturday Night Bill was receiving sexual favors from that secured theses wild eyed terrorist release
• Holder gave a speech on race relations on February 18, 2008 in which he called the United States "a nation of cowards" on racial issues. "Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we average Americans simply do not talk enough with each other about race," he said.
• In May 2010 racist political hack Holder expressed "concerns" about "Arizona’s tough new immigration law", saying that it might "lead to racial profiling". Holder was criticized for his testimony during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, when he said that he had "not even read" the Arizona law
• In May 2009, racist political hack Holder's DOJ ended a civil suit originally brought by the Bush administration against the New Black Panther Party, its chairman, and two of its members for voter intimidation due to their conduct during the 2008 election. Two members of the party had stood outside a polling station during the election in paramilitary uniforms, one of them carrying a billy club, and both shouted racial insults at white voters. Although none of the defendants appeared in court to contest the charges, the department of justice voluntarily dismissed the case contending that the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence even though their blatant acts of intimidation were filmed by a local news station.

During a meeting with a House subcommittee discussing this and other issues, Holder has argued that the behavior from the New Black Panther Party was not comparable to historical voter intimidation against minorities, stating "When you compare what people endured in the South in the ’60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia… I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people.” My people? As AG of the entire United States and not just our fellow black Americans aren’t we all suppose to be his people?

Our Nation’s Attorney General has repeatedly demonstrated his hyper-partisan, corrupt, unethical, criminal, racist, incompetent, dishonest character flaws in the execution of his duties as the Country’s chief legal officer. His conduct in the Fast and Furious/ “Slow & Silent” debacle is just the latest example of this man’s arrogant disregard for the rule law and the Constitution.

His claim of ignorance about Fast Furious/ “Slow & Silent” is sure enough gonna backfire to his boss’s chagrin and the Country’s great benefit. He's either a no count lying dog or an incompetent hack.

In the case of our racist political hack AG, Eric Holder, both are more than likely applicable.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 34/ Vandy– 0

ROLL TIDE

2011-10-06T20:45:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 141: “Lets Move ”

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well, good god Almighty which way do I steer

For my cheeseburger in paradise
Makin' the best of every virtue and vice.
Worth every damn bit of sacrifice
To get a cheeseburger in paradise;
To be a cheeseburger in paradise.
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise. Cheeseburger In Paradise, Jimmy Buffett

Week 141 of the Obama regime was chock full of political, military, and economic news and events some good, mostly bad and a few too early to tell. Some of the more notable events included:

• The American-born radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki who was the operational leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was killed by a US predator drone in Yemen. Another major victory for our reluctant Commander-in-Chief in his Overseas Contingency Operations or what most of us would refer to as the War on Islamic Jihadist Terrorist
• Chris Christi said no sir, no way, no how once again
• 700 radical left wing throw back to the 60’s protester wannabes were hauled off to jail in New York chanting “What do want-we don’t know. When do we want it-right now.” This bunch of yahoos are sure enough gonna achieve some serious world shaken with that clarity of focus
• Email and other written evidence emerged confirming the White House’s new clean energy poster child Solyndra was a financial disaster in waiting but gave them a half billion dollars anyway so the President’s photo opp at their shop wouldn’t have to be cancelled
• Evidence emerged senior political hack, terrorist sympathizer and US Attorney General, Eric Holder, lied like a cheap rug to a Congressional Committee about his knowledge about a US led gun running fiasco known as “Fast and Furious”.
• Amanda Knox won her appeal
• After 23 years ESPN fired Bosephus, Hank Jr, for using a Hitler/Obama analogy on FOX News. Considering the literally thousands of acts of public excess and debauchery committed by old Hank over the last 2 decades seems a might silly and PC to send the voice of “Are you ready for some football” packing for such a minor infraction
• President Obama admitted openly and without shame on ABC the Country is worse off than we were when his change gang infested the White House. A shockingly candid admission although the Tea Party, W, or maybe Hank Jr. will surely get the blame during his next speech.
• The Alabama Crimson Tide put a major hurting on the Florida Gators under the lights in the Swamp, RTR

Mean while as all of this craziness along with the economy’s continued piss poor performance the Obama Administration remains hell bent on implementing their real/hidden agenda as proudly proclaimed back during the anointed one’s historic campaign. Fundamentally transforming our great nation from the leader of the free world to just one more half ass secular progressive European style Socialist republic.

In other words a Marxist/Socialist utopia that would make the likes of Mau, Stalin, Castro and even Karl Marx his self proud. The success of the “two, four, six, eight, we want a Socialist Nanny State” crowd can’t be denied or ignored.

Following is a list of their many achievements:

• Obamacare/Socialized medicine
• Nationalization of the US Auto Industry
• The appointment of a National Salary Czar
• Hostile government takeover of the Financial Industry
• Federal seizure of US Energy Industry
• Most massive redistribution of wealth in the history of the civilized world
• The addition to the First Family of Bolshevik the Portuguese Water Dog

One of the most annoying, oppressive, and insidious Socialist Nanny State initiatives is the First Lady’s pet project the innocuous sounding Let’s Move campaign. A seemingly noble endeavor targeting childhood obesity.

Promoted with brain numbing Brady Bunch style Public Service Announcements depicting mostly thin, smiling, running, jumping, jump roping, happy, happy, happy cute little Latino and black kids (fat little white kids must not be their target audience) extolling the virtues of exercise and a healthy diet. They also have an add out with the first lady shooting hoops with some Disney kid show cast members.
Don’t know about y’all but seeing the First lady of the most powerful country on earth dunkin on some mickey mouse commercial ain’t exactly dignified in our way of reckoning. Can’t rightly imagine Jackie, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary (she got plenty of exercise ducking enemy sniper fire), or Laura Bush hitting the court and rattling the net on national TV.

Bless her heart she is a tacky Yankee lawyer and just can’t help herself. Regardless, it ain’t fitten it just ain’t fitten.

Then there’s the stealth, nefarious, hardcore oppressive Socialist aspect of this initiative that’s nowhere to be found on their pastel colored website or moronic commercials. Consider the following:

• Billions of our hard earned tax dollars have been committed to this effort from several different federal agencies with no public accounting for the money
• McDonalds and other fast food chains were only granted waivers to Obamacare after they agreed to offer nutritional alternatives the likes of apple slices for French fries. No self respecting Southerner would ever opt for such a bland low fat alternative but they might get a few econut Yankee soccer moms to give it a whirl
• State and local school districts were threatened with severe funding cuts for noncompliance to federally mandated menus
• The ultimate goal is to control and dictate children’s diets in the public sector and the kitchen table initially by public advocacy and eventually by oppressive legislation. Classic strong arm tactics right out this regimes political bible the Communist Manifesto

The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

If Billy Bob and Betty Lou Thelma Liz’s idea of true happiness is stuffing Bubba Jr. and Sister with fried chicken, sweet tea, pecan pie, and moonpies it just ain’t any of Michelle Obama’s damn business. With freedom and liberty comes personal responsibility and the right to raise our youngins as we see fit.

In the words of the great Texan humorist and philosopher Ron “Tater Salad” White sometimes “you just can’t fix stupid”. So…

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well, good god Almighty which way do I steer

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 38/ Florida– 10

ROLL TIDE!

2011-09-30T08:43:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 140: “Mano-a-Mano Obama Takes a Cainin ”

This song was first by Ray Wylie Hubbard

He was born in Oklahoma,
His wife's name is Betty Lou Thelma Liz
He's not responsible for what he's doing
Cause his mother made him what he is.

And it's up against the wall Redneck Mother,
Mother, who has raised her son so well.
He's thirty-four and drinking in a honky tonk.
Just kicking hippies asses and raising hell. Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother, Jerry Jeff Walker

To the amazement of the GOP establishment, radical leftwing liberal media elite, and in particular Governors Rick Perry and Mitt Romney Herman Cain was the big winner in the Florida Republican’s Presidential straw poll last Saturday. Self described as the only nonpolitician/businessman in the overcrowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls the charismatic former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza scored a major victory accumulating a higher percentage of the overall vote count than the two media anointed front runners, Perry and Romney, combined.

Too early to tell if this unexpected “Cainin” of his fellow Republican rivals will raise him from the obscurity of a second tier unknown candidate to a legitimate bona fide contender for the nomination of the Grand Old Party. Considering the man’s truly remarkable personal life story and professional accomplishments Thoughts of Obama From Bama certainly wouldn’t be surprised at all if this world shaker private sector over achiever not only wins his own Party’s nomination but also gives the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Barack Huisan Obama, the political “Cainin” of his short, undistinguished, corrupt, inept, criminally incompetent, and disastrous career as an elected public official.

A Mano-a-Mano comparison of these two polar opposite individuals both seeking our Nation’s highest office is a study of human dynamics worthy of a PhD in Sociology, Advanced Political Theory, the Economics of Dependence and Poverty, Class Warfare, and President Obama’ favorite subjects Establishing Marxist/Socialist Utopian Communes and Effective Propaganda Strategies and Tactics.

Following is a detailed comparison of the diverse and almost diametrically opposite upbringings and socialization of two black Americans. Herman Cain’s inspirational and motivational American success story and Barack Obama’s secretive, strong armed, and nefarious rise to power:

• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, born December 13, 1945 in Memphis,TN. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Father an alcoholic, Muslim, academic. Mother a free spirited child of the 60’s. Both abandoned young Barack at an early age. Children sure enough don’t pick their parents but it does explain the basis of his many character flaws including his lying, unethical, pathological narcissism, unmoral, aversion to responsibility, pathetic golf swing and blaming others for his failures ways. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, mother was a cleaning woman and his father was a chauffeur. He grew up in Georgia where his parents lived the American dream saving and sacrificing to buy their own home and send their boys to college. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, raised by white grandparents in Hawaii after spending 4 years in Indonesia where he attended Islamic schools. Dove into low life Hawaiian criminal drug culture. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, which he joined at the age of 10. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, attended Columbia and Harvard Law where according to his own book sought out the company of fellow Socialist and radical feminist. Student Obama’s transcripts or method of financing his education have never been disclosed. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, graduated from Morehouse College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and received a Master of Science degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Community Organizer, criminal Socialist group, ACORN. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, worked in ballistics for the U.S. Department of the Navy. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst. In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of Vice President. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Illinois Senate. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, President and CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, 2004 U.S. Senate. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather's. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• HERMAN CAIN, member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• HERMAN CAIN, board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest and AGCO, Inc. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot

Ain’t no never mind about it Herman Cain has forgot more about leadership, management, problem solving, and providing genuine inspiration to folks in need than Barack Obama ever learned in his woefully short, shallow and undistinguished career before his accent to Commander-in-Chief on totally false pretenses . A Mano-a-Mano comparison of their personal and professional accomplishments leaves no room for doubt.

Mr. Obama will experience a political “Cainin” of historic proportions in November, 2012 if Herman Cain can defy conventional wisdom by winning the GOP nomination. In our humble opinion anyone who thinks otherwise is crazier than an outhouse rat.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 38/ Arkansas– 14

ROLL TIDE!

2011-09-22T21:55:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 139: “The Obama Regime Attacks an American Icon”

Traveled with me always
through the alleys and bars
songs I sang and friends I knew
were part of that guitar
some nights it was my pillow
resting underneath the stars
day and night I stayed alive
with that old beat up guitar.

Didn't look like too much
just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe
but a lady she never faired as well
who'd traveled through so much That Old Beat Up Guitar, Jerry Jeff Walker

• 9% plus unemployment for as far as the eye can see
• Energy cost higher than VP Uncle Joe Biden after polishing off a bottle of Irish whiskey on a typical Saturday night
• Continued criminal deficit spending of other people’s money faster than a one eyed scalded dog running home to momma
• Economic growth slower than malasis and seemingly getting downgraded weekly
• Debt piling up faster than the BS at an Obama campaign rally
• More new government regulations than white on rice literally snuffing out job creation and investment in business ventures
• The influence, intrusion, oppression and power of the Federal Government spreading faster than kudzu
• Amount of folks receiving food stamps at record levels
• Number of our fellow citizens living in poverty at Great Depression levels
• Housing market rode hard and put up wet
• A 3 front war suffering from indecisive leadership, waffling and strategies and tactics based on political expediency instead of military necessity
• Iran hell bent and well on their way to getting their grubby little jihadist hands on a nuclear bomb
• This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

With all of this, the Country and most of the civilized world facing financial Armageddon, and all manner of other catastrophe what’s taking priority at the train wreck known as the Obama Administration? Even though the entire notion of it is crazier than a runt over dog the most powerful country ever known to man has set its sights on taking out the Gibson Guitar Company of Nashville, Tennessee.

That’s right, the 130 year old iconic American corporation has been declared public enemy number one by our terrorist sympathizer Attorney General Eric Holder and his boss Barack “Barney Fife“Obama. Reckon the master craftsman that have provided many of the legends of modern day music with what many consider the most righteous guitars of the rock and roll era including the ground breaking and gifted artist -

• Slash of Guns N’ Roses’ fame; Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page; Randy Rhoads, guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne; KISS’s Ace Frehley; Reggae legend Bob Marley mon; Areosmith’s Joe Perry; Mr. Eric “She’s alright, She’s alright, She’s alright, She’s alright, Cocaine” Clapton; and Duane Allman’s Southern-fueled brand of rock which was partially due to the Gibson Les Paul’s unique tone and his most famous solos, such as “Whipping Post”

have done breached some mighty high national security top secret programs or some other major infraction cause there sure enough got the full and undivided attention of Uncle Sammy.

At least one would think so. Turns out Gibson committed the most heinous and nefarious of crimes of not complying with the restrictions and regulations of the Lacey Act. A violation that sure enough calls for every available resource of the Federal Government to ensure the safety of the public from the mad dog lunatic low life scoundrels at the Gibson Guitar Company of Nashville, Tennessee.

According to public records following is a summary of events surrounding this truly extraordinary miscarriage of justice:

• Gibson offices in Nashville and Memphis were raided by federal agents, for the second time within two years.
• The Custom and Border Protection agency, and the Fish and Wildlife Service raided the buildings, and declined to comment about the ongoing investigation.
• The raids were conducted by over 24 armed Federal Marshalls
• Facilities were shut down, employees sent home, millions worth of product confiscated, and visiting tourist were escorted from the premises
• Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, blasted the authorities for the effect it was taking on the company and potentially its reputation: “We believe the arrogance of federal power is impacting me personally, our company personally and the employees here in Tennessee, and it’s just plain wrong.”
• The Lacey Act makes it a crime to import plants or wildlife into the U.S. if those goods were obtained in a way that violated the laws of another country.
• According to Indian officials, the country of origin where the rosewood in question was purchased, no laws were violated
• A number of other US manufactures including several other guitar companies have confirmed purchases of the exact same wood from Indian sources

This entire affair stinks to high heaven. Ain’t no never mind about it a blatant criminal abuse of Government power.

There’s only three reasons the Obama Administration went after Gibson and it ain’t got nothing to do with some obscure trade law called the Lacey Act.

1. Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, is a generous supporter of the GOP and an outspoken critic of President Stalin, um, Obama
2. Gibson is a nonunion open shop
3. The Obama Administration is confident his adoring followers in the media elite press won’t hold him accountable

Armed paramilitary soldiers raiding a legitimate US company citing bogus trumped up charges is classic Marxist/Socialist tactics right out of the Communist Manifesto. Considering the total disregard for the law and arrogance of this bunch we all best protect our own happy asses and keep a close watch for Ivan coming to knock down our own doors.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 41/ North Texas – 0

ROLL TIDE!

2011-09-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 138: “Candidate Obama’s Joint Session of Congress 2012 Campaign Kick Off Speech By the Numbers”

Geometry and trigonometry and if they don't tax your brain there are numbers to big to be named
Numerical precision is a science with a mission
and I think its' gonna drive me insane

Parents fighting with their children
and the congress can't agree
teachers and their students are all jousting constantly
management and labor keep rattling old sabres
quacking like those Peabody ducks

Math suks (quack quack), Math suks (quack quack)
You don't even have to spell it
All you have to do is yell it
Math suks, that's right, Math suks, you got it
Sometime times I think that I don't know that much
but Math suks Math Suks, Jimmy Buffett

Candidate Obama’s joint session of Congress 2012 campaign kickoff speech last Thursday evening was a shameless abuse of Presidential privilege and decorum. Touted as a speech addressing the Country’s ongoing fiscal calamity in actuality it was nothing more than the President’s Socialist campaign platform for the 2012 election.

Labeled the American Jobs Bill the President proposed yet another massive wealth redistribution scheme to kick start the economy. Stimulus and shovel ready weren’t specifically mentioned but his remarks sure enough sounded awfully similar to the Administration’s 2009 trillion dollar Recovery Act that has left the Country teetering on the brink of economic catastrophe.

Following is a brief summary of the President’s remarks by the numbers:

1. 1st President in the history of the Union to blatantly abuse the time honored tradition of only addressing a joint session of Congress for State of the Union or other speeches of a truly momentous nature. FDR’s Pearl Harbor, McArthur’s farewell, W’s 9/11 speeches and now Barack Husain Obama’s 2012 campaign kickoff address. A historical travesty of Obamic proportions.
2. 4,156 words
3. 47 pauses for applause
4. 32 and ½ minutes in duration
5. 303 lines
6. 147 paragraphs
7. Chock full of 151 lies. (According to bipartisan watch dog group Liar, Liar Pants on Fire)
8. 27.5 lies per word
9. 8.2 lies per minute
10. 2 lies per line
11. 1 lie per paragraph
12. $500 billion in proposed new criminal deficit spending of other people’s money
13. $120.3 million per word
14. $15.4 billion per minute
15. $1.65 billion per line
16. $3.4 billion per paragraph
17. $3.5 billion per lie
18. 92 class warfare remarks
19. 38 race warfare remarks
20. 142 on the 1-100 hypocrisy scale
21. 28 demands for Congress to pass this mockery of a so called jobs bill immediately
22. 1outburst of loud and raucous laughter when the President made the following outlandish statement – “This isn't political grandstanding. This isn't class warfare.”
23. 1 particularly shameless lie claiming this half trillion dollar fiscal fiasco is already paid for
24. 0 offers to resign from office for gross/criminal negligence and incompetence; advocating Marxist/Socialist policies that further empower the central Government and erode our freedom and liberties; consistently lying, telling tall tales, and intentionally misleading all us poor dumb pilgrims who’s taxes are paying for the all this corrupt and boneheaded behavior Mr Obama and his liberal comrades in DC seem to take to as naturally as a duck to water, VP Biden to a bottle of scotch, Democrats expenditure of other people’s money, and Nancy Pelosi’s propensity to make the most dumb ass of remarks

Four days later Mr Obama followed up on his claim his new jobs bill was all paid for by informing us during another made for TV propaganda session of his plans to raise the revenue by taxing the rich and closing so called corporate loop holes on corporate jet owners and all those evil oil companies. In other words our”Financial Wizard-in-Chief“again wants to raise taxes on the very same folk that create most of the jobs in this country.

In the words of Mr. Buffett just like math the President’s proposed American Jobs Bill suks. By the numbers, content and/or merit the President’s “Son of Stimulus 1“Bill ain’t gonna create private sector job 1. No sir, no way, no how.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 27/ Penn State – 11

ROLL TIDE!

2011-09-08T13:56:00.001-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 137: “I’m Sorry”

When the telephone woke me this morning, I'm sorry was the first thing I said
From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head
Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past
'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you showed off your ass

I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I have finally seen the light
From now on I'm going to act right, I was so bad last night "I Was So Bad Last Night", Jerry Jeff Walker

Hot damn, Lord have mercy, bless his little Marxist/Socialist heart our “Great Orator of Soaring Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief “is gonna make another major economics/jobs speech. Sure enough don’t rightly know if this is his 20th or 30th address on the subject but we are sure one more lecture from the “Anointed One” ain’t likely to improve the dire fiscal crisis we’re currently experiencing thanks to Mr. Obama.

Making what’s usually a relatively infrequent appearance before a joint session of Congress expectations are running high the President will propose and advocate several bold and bipartisan solutions to our Country’s Obama induced financial train wreck. Wishful thinking as this die hard, hard core, left wing extremist, ultra liberal, Socialist revolutionary ain’t about to change his radical dreams of fundamentally transforming our great nation into an European style Communist State. No sir, no way, no how.

So instead of the same ole class, generational, and racial warfare; blame the weather, natural disasters and W whining; demonizing the GOP, the Tea Party, and corporate jet owners all we want to hear from you at this time Mr. President are two simple words. I’m sorry.

Probably wouldn’t change our current predicament, enhance job growth and/or an economic recovery but it sure as hell would be music to our ears and a sight to behold to hear an apology roll off those arrogant lips and see even a frog hair’s worth of humility on that belligerent, egotistical and rapidly aging Presidential face. We fully realize there ain’t a snowball’s chance in hell the President would actually take any responsibility for his poor judgment and misguided ambitions but hope springs eternal.

We have no expectation what so ever the President will man up and beg for our forgiveness for the thousands of boneheaded decisions and policy initiatives put out by this White House. However, in the highly unlikely event Mr. Obama reconsiders following is a partial list abundantly deserving of Presidential consideration for rendering an apology at his joint session of Congress address instead of just one more disingenuous, sanctimonious, riddled with lies, boring, teleprompter initiated, hyper partisan, political diatribe:

• I’m sorry for my nefarious and clandestine intentions to transform this country from within into the world’s greatest Marxist/Socialist Super Power
• I’m sorry for my almost criminal lack of leadership, management, and administrative experience
• I’m sorry for putting and keeping millions of you poor dumb pilgrims out of work
• I’m sorry for my blame America first attitude
• I’m sorry for my obsession with redistributing the wealth
• I’m sorry I selected a VP who’s dumber than a bag full of hammers
• I’m sorry for my addiction to spending other people’s money
• I’m sorry for my inability to be truthful and honest
• I’m sorry for blaming others, especially W, for my incompetence and failures
• I’m sorry for shoving a government takeover of our healthcare system down the Country’s throat
• I’m sorry I named the First Pooch Bolshevik
• I’m sorry for my corrupt, heavy handed, Chicago style politics
• I’m sorry for piling up more debt in only 2.5 years than all of my predecessors combined
• I’m sorry for allowing my wife to become the Country’s Food Police
• I’m sorry for my corrupt relationship and shameless favoritism with the labor unions
• I’m sorry for being considered a joke by the rest of the world
• I’m sorry for illegally skirting Congress and allowing amnesty for criminal illegal immigrants
• I’m sorry for appointing a terrorist sympathizer as Attorney General
• I’m sorry for my anti-business/private sector views
• I’m sorry for intestinally raising energy prices to promote my green agenda
• I’m sorry for unfairly accusing my political opponents of being unpatriotic
• I’m sorry for making a tax cheat the Treasury Secretary
• I’m sorry for justifiably catching what for from the French for my irresponsible fiscal policies
• I’m sorry for providing aid and comfort to the enemy publically announcing a date certain for withdrawing troops
• I’m sorry for losing our AAA credit rating
• I’m sorry for appointing two ultra liberal judicial activist to the Supreme Court
• I’m sorry for bad mouthing my own Country when traveling abroad
• I’m sorry for advocating boneheaded Socialist policies
• I’m sorry for my rude and hostile comments and actions towards old and trusted friends Great Britain and Israel
• I’m sorry for appointing a sniper ducking pathological liar as Secretary of State
• I’m sorry for promoting the absurd notion of leading from behind as an effective foreign policy strategy
• I’m sorry for wasting the Country’s and Congress’ time making another jobs speech chock full of more lies and Marxist/Socialist propaganda than white on rice

Even though the President won’t say it ain’t no never mind about it the man truly is sorry. Sorry to say it but Barack Husain Obama is a sorry leader; sorry manager; sorry diplomat; sorry Commander-in-Chief; sorry judge of character; sorry golfer; sorry no class tacky Yankee; and well on his way to becoming the sorriest President this great Country has ever entrusted with the highest office in the land.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 48/ Kent State – 7

ROLL TIDE!

2011-09-03T21:20:00.001-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 136: “Metaphorically Speaking”

Then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
Grubbin' on the livin' room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score

Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be

That's why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The boston blackie kind
A two-toned ricky ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine “A Pencil Thin Mustache”, Jimmy Buffett

President Obama’s selection this week of Professor Alan Krueger to take over as Chair of his Board of Economic Advisors is a metaphor for the train wreck known as the Obama Administration. Placing pointy headed academics or boneheaded career bureaucrats in high level government positions that don’t have any idea what so ever how capitalism or the private sector works.

These so called brilliant public servants who for the most part never made a dime in the private sector not only have oversight and/or regulatory authority over our free enterprise capitalist based economy they also bring a hidden agenda to the job. Just like their boss man Comrade Obama most of these folks are card carrying members of the ACLU; Code Pink; Greenpeace; Big Union Labor; NAG; Marxist; Communist; Socialist; Blame America First extremist hell bent on fundamentally transforming our great nation into an oppressive nanny state.

Professor Krueger is no exception. After exhaustive research we can’t find a shred of evidence the man has ever really put in an honest day’s work in his pampered, prep schooled, Ivy covered life of internships, fellowships and tenured faculty positions.

Not even a lemonade stand, paper route or summer job flipping burgers. Actually meeting a payroll, growing a business and investing his own money on a long shot but calculated risk in a private sector enterprise is as foreign a concept to Professor Krueger as honesty, integrity and class are to President Obama.

Following is a brief bio of Professor Krueger’s many academic and government accomplishments:

• Professor of Economics, Princeton
• Known as a labor economist, is likely to provide a voice inside the administration for more aggressive government action to bring down unemployment
• Professor Krueger already did a stint at the Treasury Department working with Timmy Geithner. He worked on analyses of a variety of programs, including tax incentives to encourage employers to hire the employed, the "cash for clunkers" initiative to jump-start auto purchases and Build America taxable municipal bonds. All misguided initiatives that failed miserably
• Extensively published including Redistributing Wealth – The key to Financial Nirvana; Spending Other People’s Money; Capitalism Sucks
• Economist Fellowships – Paris Institute of Socialism; Mao College of Advanced Communist Economic Theory; Castro Scholar, University of Cuba

Professor Krueger will be joining two fellow Marxist Comrades at the President’s Board of Economic Advisors, Katharine G. Abraham and Carl Shapiro. Both are hardcore liberal elitist hopelessly addicted to spending other people’s money. Following is a listing of their Socialist credentials:

• Abraham is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a faculty associate in the Maryland Population Research.
• Abraham’s research has included work on employment and unemployment, labor market policy and the measurement of economic activity.
• She has held appointments in the Department of Economics, University of Maryland; the Brookings Institution; and the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and of the American Statistical Association
• Dr. Abraham earned her B.S. in Economics from Iowa State University in 1976 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1982.
• Carl Shapiro is on leave from the University of California at Berkeley, a fantasy land chock full of pin headed liberals where he is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics
• Shapiro has published extensively in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy, the economics of innovation, and competitive strategy. He is co-author of the 1999 book, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy.
• Shapiro served from 2009-2011 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice

Only a genuine bonehead would have a Board of Economic Advisors without a lick of private sector economic experience. All things considered it would seem fair to say our current severely fiscally challenged Commander-in-Chief is a genuine bonehead.

At least they are consistent:

• A bunch of Socialist with no experience in healthcare restructured our entire healthcare system
• Political Science majors and lawyers were given control of the US auto industry
• Egg headed ultra liberal econazie professors are running our energy industry
• Corrupt, incompetent, tax cheats are regulating the financial industry

“Metaphorically Speaking” we’re screwed.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-08-27T22:34:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 135: “Summer Rental”

Well this lunch break is gonna take all afternoon
And half the night
Tomorrow morning I know there'll be hell to pay
Hey! But, that's all right
Ain't had a day off now in over a year
My Jamaican vacation's gonna start right here
If the phone's for me you can tell 'em I just sailed away and..

I could pay off my tab
Pour myself in a cab
And be back to work before two:
At a moment like this
I can't help but wonder,
what would Jimmy Buffett do?

I'd say..
Pour me something tall and strong
Make it a hurricane
Before I go insane
It's only half past 12
But, I don't care
its five O'clock somewhere.
“It's five O'clock somewhere”, Jimmy Buffett and Allen Jackson

For three years running the First Family has chosen to spend their summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. An exclusive island get away only accessible by boat or private jet (thought the President didn’t particularly care for all those evil private jet owners) that serves as the summer home to several hundred of the world’s wealthiest liberal elite.

While we certainly don’t begrudge our Chief Executive a little R&R with the kinfolk we do question why he’s so hell bent about going to one of the most high brow, expensive, Yankee rich vacation destinations on the planet. Especially when you consider the millions of his fellow Americans, all the poor dumb pilgrims he's always so passionately talking about helping during one of his seemingly endless class warfare propaganda addresses, that are literally struggling to keep food on the table.

To add insult to injury according to published reports the Obama’s “Summer Rental“ leases out for a cool fifty grand per week. With 9.1% unemployment, millions of the President’s beloved working class dealing with underwater mortgages, and 401K values sinking faster than Nancy Pelosi’s most recent face lift forking out fifty grand for a week long “Summer Rental “is nothing less than extreme arrogance, a disdain not often seen from a American President towards all of the folks paying the bills around here and the epitome of left wing secular progressive elitism.

Any man who spends 12.5% of his $400,000 annual salary on a one week “Summer Rental“ while so many are experiencing moderate to severe economic hardship needs to seriously reevaluate his priorities. Spending thousands on golf, ice-cream, yacht rentals, expensive dinners, a “Come as Your Favorite Nekkid Marxist/Socialist Pre-Labor Day” party, and a wheel barrel full of books for him and the youngins so to catch up on their summer reading is just downright tacky.

Reckon we shouldn’t expect anything less from the corrupt Chicago politician egg head Yankee lawyer who’s quickly wearing out his welcome at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Bless his little Socialist heart the man has no conscience about spending our money in a criminally negligent fashion so their ain’t no reason at all why we should expect he has the good sense to spend his own any differently.

Speaking of books a highly placed source with the Obama bunch shared the President’s vacation reading list with your humble columnist. We are told he owns first edition autographed manuscripts of all of these political classics:

1. Utopian And Scientific - Frederick Engels, March 1880
2. 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx, March 1852
3. Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, February 21, 1848.
4. The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin, 1918
5. Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV by Ben Shapiro (May 31, 2011
6. Techniques of Propaganda and Persuasion by Magedah Shabo (Nov 1, 2010)
7. Propaganda and the Public Mind by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky (May 2001)

In addition to nightly public readings from the President’ s favorite piece of literature of all time, the Communist Manifesto, the First Family is said to be attending daily seminars on a wide range of topics including:

• Advanced Propaganda Strategies
• Bold and Audacious Assignment of Blame
• Never Tell the Truth When a Lie Makes Us Sound More Accountable and Sincere
• Socialism is the New Realty

In an effort to exploit the President’s elitist arrogance vacationing on Martha Vineyard while the country’s economy sinks down to the 8th level of hell the RNC is sending out 18 mock post cards from the President for fund raising purposes. Ain’t hard to figure why the Dems are waxing the GOP so far in the fund raising after seeing these boring, boring, boring attempts at humor.

None of the following got me all hot and bothered feeling so compelled to pull out the check book running out of the house like my hair was on fire in search of a Democrat to tell what for:

• "Finding a wave in Martha's Vineyard is almost as hard as finding a job."
• "I'd say after 40 fund raisers, I've earned a vacation."
• "Wishing you happy job hunting from sunny Martha's Vineyard."
• "Gotta sharpen my game for the next ESPN special."
• "I hope I bowl higher than my approval rating."
• "Why did that lifeguard call me Jimmy Carter?"
• "I shot a 39 on the front nine--matches my approval rating."
• "It's hot outside, heading to take a double dip."
• "This $50,000 per week estate is wicked awesome."
• "One local called me the Bill Buckner of the economy. That's good, right?"
• "No Joe, don't touch anything while I'm gone."
• "Low polls, high unemployment...life's a beach."
• "On second thought, maybe I was wrong about Slurpees."
• "Great thing about vacations...don't need a plan."
• "Wow, I'm eligible for an upgrade. Boy, I needed that."
• "I'll pivot to that whole jobs thing...next week."
• "Raining in Martha's Vineyard. Must be Bush's fault."
• "Divots: They're shovel ready

In our humble opinion something along the lines of the following would be setting fund raising records at levels the RNC would have never dreamed possible:

• Obama’s face grinning from humongous ear to ear with the caption – “Socialism, the New Normal”
• “Just Can’t Wait To Get Back to the Oval Office and Back to Work Spending, taxing, regulating, apologizing and appeasing on behalf of all the dumb pilgrims who actually think I’m on their fighting side”
• “Never met a tax I didn’t openly greet with a big ole sloppy wet kiss”
• “I’ll be back to work on Monday” If this one doesn’t compel us to write a 6 figure check we deserve what we get

Mr. President, next time take the fifty plus grand you spent on your “Summer Rental” and give it to a worthy charity and spend your vacation at Camp David, or your Chicago home. Our even better yet save it. We have a strong hankering you just might need it after the 2012 election.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-08-17T23:09:00.001-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 134: “Trains, Planes & Million Dollar Presidential Campaign Busses ”

Took the bus out of Austin, band was all on board
Everyone's so excited, who knows what lays in store
Hey look out the window, there goes Baton Rouge
Nobody there knows us, band's still paying its dues
Yeah we're paying dues

First show in New Orleans, saw the lights of Bourbon Street
On the road in the morning, Little Rock's where we'll be
And the bus keeps on rolling, down that old highway
And every night we play music, that's what gets you through the day
Yeah, cause that's why we play “Down the Road”, Jerry Jeff Walker

Our “Campaigner-in-Chief” has struck out on what’s been labeled as a three day “Listening Tour” by the White House propagandist and political hacks. With those humongous ears you’d think the President would take to a “Listening Tour” like a duck to water, white on rice, and/or Yankees displaying tacky behavior.

Unfortunately this President loves the sound of his own voice far too much to ever really hear what someone else has to say. Especially anyone with the audacity to actually disagree or speak out aginst his Marxist/Socialist dreams of grandeur.

Claiming this campaign trip as official Presidential business Mr. Obama is conducting a three day bus trip to Midwestern swing states making hyper-partisan stump speeches whining like a spoiled child about all the misfortune heaped on his narrow shoulders that is putting a damper on his brilliant economic recovery plans. Not a peep about his incompetence and criminally negligent spending of other people’s money contributing to this fiscal catastrophe.

To add insult to injury we the people are paying for this farce and thinly veiled campaign swing through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. A total waste and misuse of tax payer’s money that includes a shiny new fortress on wheels, a multi-million dollar “unofficial” campaign bus, paid for by all of us poor dumb taxpaying pilgrims.

Why in the world a man who has unlimited access to the most advanced private jet known to mankind, a flock of helicopters and a fleet of missal proof limos needs a huge black touring bus that can probably withstand all manner of natural and manmade forms of destruction is sure enough a real head scratcher. Especially when this fiasco on wheels is paid for with our hard earned tax dollars.

Highly placed sources in the Obama regime have confirmed that this ultra high tech multi-million dollar mobile campaign headquarters not only could survive a nuclear bomb attack but also is chock full of the latest creature comforts no President should ever leave home without. This bad boy comes fully equipped with a practice putting green; hoops goal; teleprompter; smoking area; accommodations for the first pooch Bolshevik; fully stocked bar; home theatre; left wing media elite press room; a Mosque; and a Communist Manifesto Display Room.

Our gift to the Obama campaign ain’t exactly eco friendly neither. How our clean, green, tree hugging, bark eating, alternative energy mandating Chief Executive justifies joy riding around the County in a bus that gets 2 miles to the gallon with a carbon footprint bigger than Al Gore’s monthly massage bill is truly a mystery to behold.

President Obama’s message to the folks at his noncampaign campaign rallies that he drives to in his noncampaign campaign bus doesn’t seem anywhere near worth all the heart ache and commotion this little Midwestern excursion is stirrin up. Just more of the same class and generational warfare, pointing fingers, doubling down on failed policy initiatives and making lame excuses for his dismal economic performance.

His town hall and backyard gatherings are just more empty rhetoric including the following over used and boring talking points:

• “There’s nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics.”
• Citing “brinkmanship” as an obstacle to growing the economy and creating jobs, the president criticized “the idea that making it through the next election is more important than making things right.”
• “Some in Congress would rather see their opponents lose than see America win.”
• The president proposed extending the payroll tax cut, cutting “red tape” in the patent process so that entrepreneurs can get ideas to the market more quickly, and finishing trade deals to boost the sale of American-made goods around the globe.
• “Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America,” pitting “children with autism or Down’s syndrome” against “every millionaire and billionaire in our society.”

Boring, boring, boring. The same counterproductive don’t have a clue remarks and proposals we’ve been hearing for the last six months.

We have been informed our”Economist-in-Chief” will be making a major fiscal policy announcement in September outlining his latest plan for economic growth, job creation and debt reduction. By our count this is the 12th time this bunch has announced they will be making a major fiscal policy announcement so we ain’t exactly expecting any world changing breakthroughs at just one more Obama economic propaganda fest.

Reckon this noncampaign campaign bus is the President’s idea of shared sacrifice. We sacrifice while he shares the wealth by redistributing trillions to his political constituencies and buying himself a shiny new campaign bus.

Bless his heart the President is spending the next ten days vacationing in the liberal bastion Martha’s Vineyard after three grueling days on the road on his Midwest campaign noncampaign “Listening Tour”. VP “Uncle” Joe Biden is reportedly taking the noncampaign campaign bus on a ten day binge to Vegas, South Beach and other where abouts unknown.

Cheers!

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-08-10T23:52:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 133: “A Presidency of First”

Six days later, I was
feeling like a missing link
When my friends told me, hey Jimmy
It must have been the
hoodlum drink (hoodlum drink)

Now it's time for siestas
And a belly full of rice and beans
And figure if I'm brave enough
To repeat the whole crazy scene

On my first look
That's when I swallowed the hook
On my first look, around “My First Look”, Jimmy Buffett

Bless their little hearts one aspect of the train wreck known as the Obama Presidency is the truly remarkable number of first achieved by this corrupt gang of ultra left wing liberal zealots. The speed and frequency this bunch has established historic precedent on such a wide array of topics and issues demonstrates an almost total disregard for decades of solid policy initiatives, decorum, and conducting one’s affairs with honor, dignity and in an intellectually honest fashion.

Of course some of Obama’s first are sure enough historic in consequence. The first individual of color to be elected to the highest Office in the land is a testament to our great nation’s real progress towards a color blind society.

Turns out Mr. Obama is the wrong person of color and by just about any other criteria for the job. This sad but true reality doesn’t minimize or negate the significance of this historic first.

President Obama’s Socialist Regime has compiled an impressively dubious list of historically unprecedented first that would have been the political ruin of any Republican Administration and even a few moderate Democrats. Without protection and the blind support from the hyper partisan main stream media elite boneheads candidate Obama would have never beat Hillary “Sarge” Clinton for the nomination and once elected would have been run out of town on a rail for his criminally negligent lack of leadership.

Following is a list of Obama First which in many instances are the last things we’d expect from the person residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:

• The First President that attended Islamic grade school as a youngster
• The First President that according to his book “Dreams of My Father” thought the Islamic Call to Prayer was the sweetest sound he ever heard
• The First President that according to his own book was conceived out of wedlock to a black Kenyan Muslim father and a white free spirited mother who pursued a nomadic hippie life style most of her adult life
• The First President that according to his own book was a booze guzzling crack head during his formative high school and college days
• The First President that according to his own book actively sought out the company of left wing extremist, radical feminist, and Communist professors while attending college
• The First President that worked for a Community Action Organization, ACORN, that publicly confirmed their Socialist agenda
• The First President that was an active member of a Black Liberation Church that openly advocates anti-American; racist; the entitlements of the “Victim Class”; and Marxist/Socialist policies
• The First President who’s political running buddies in Chicago included a self described domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, one of the leaders of the criminal thug Underground Weatherman
• The First President who joined the country of Mexico and sued a State in the United States to force that State to continue to allow Illegal Immigration
• The First President who put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident in the Gulf of Mexico
• The First President who hired open hardcore Marxist/Socialist for leadership positions in his Administration
• The first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference
• The first President to hang autographed pictures of all his political heroes in the Oval Office including the likes of Karl Marx, Mao Zedong , Lenin, Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Joe Stalin
• The first President to increase annual Federal Spending to almost $4 Trillion dollars
• The first President to set the White House Rose Garden a blaze after chain smoking a pack of KOOLS leaving lit butts behind in-between Debt reduction meetings with Congressional leaders
• The first President to accumulate over a Trillion Dollar Annual deficits three years running
• The first President to have a Portuguese Water Dog First Pooch named Bolshevik. Reckon a domestic breed or all American mutt named Rufus, Butkis or Snot is just a tad beneath these Ivy League Liberal elitist
• The first President to amass a criminally negligent national debt just south of $15 Trillion equaling 100% of GDP. The first time the debt/GDP ratio has been this high since WWII
• The first President to successfully implement a hostile and unconstitutional Government takeover of the US Healthcare Industry. More than likely resulting in the largest redistribution of wealth in the history of the civilized world.
• The first President to advocate changing the national pastime from Baseball to the Communist sport of Soccer
• The first President to have the Country’s Credit Rating, which up till now has been the world’s gold standard and most trusted safe haven for global investments, downgraded from Triple A to Double A + status under his watch. To throw salt in the wound we are also catching valid and justifiable grief from the likes of the Communist Chinese and Socialist French about our fiscal mismanagement which by any reasonable measure should be considered an impeachable offense if it ain’t already.

Guilty of gross incompetence and criminally negligent fiscal malfeasance this absolutely unqualified and dangerously inexperienced “In Way Above His Humongous Ears-in-Chief “is most deserving of one more unprecedented historical first. Impeachment by the House of Representatives followed by a guilty Conviction by the US Senate.

Doubtful, but considering the deserving what for from our far too often arrogant French allies certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-08-03T15:12:00.001-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 132: “A Good Start”

Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren

About the time I called this Guy it was four in the morning
Teach me the words to the song I was humming
He just laughed and he said that the ole grey cat is sneakin' down the hall
But all he wants to know is who in the hell is paying for the call

That the answer my friend is just pissin' in the wind
The answer is pissin' in the wind “Pissin' In the Wind”, Jerry Jeff Walker

What do you call 5000 dead lawyers all piled up at the bottom of the sea? A good start.

After months of hyper partisan feuding in our nation’s capital over extending Uncle Sammy’s debt ceiling, line of credit, the President and his Democrat comrades in Congress finally agreed to some restraints on future spending for a couple more trillion in borrowing authority. “A Good Start” or just more “Pissin' In the Wind”? Reckon only time will tell.

In an unprecedented move Congressional Republicans refused to approve the President’s request to increase the Government’s credit line. Up till now a fairly routine procedural maneuver that typically slid through Congress much akin to a hot knife cutting through butter.

Led by theTea Party Caucus and other fiscal conservatives House GOPR’s told the out of control spending Obama Administration what for insisting on some reasonable restraints on future expenditures and structural changes required to balance the budget. Liberal boneheads addicted to the reckless spending of other people’s money blew a gasket and all hell done broke loose in the hallowed halls of Congress and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Starting with the President his self left wing head cases the likes of Uncle Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barney “Freddie In the Fannie Mac“ Frank accused House Republicans of holding the Country hostage with a gun to the head of We the People and behaving like Jihadist Hezbula terrorist. Interesting rhetoric to say the least from a bunch of pasavist that normally won’t even call real genuine terrorist, a terrorist.

Finally after Speaker Boehner realized the President couldn’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith he walked and focused his efforts on cutting a deal with Senate Democrats. Knowing Boehner was sure enough more than happy to risk the potential, but far from certain, adverse financial implications of missing the Admnistration’s self imposed deadline of August 2cd Senate Majority Reid folded like a cheap lawn chair and gave away the proverbial farm.

A large bipartisan vote passed in the House on August 1st followed by an even larger bipartisan majorty vote in the Senate at the 11th hour and 59th minute on Treasury Secretary Geithner’s bogus day of all manner of financial disaster, default and the catastrophic demise of the good faith and credit of the world’s most stable and trusted economy. The Pesident finally got his greedy little bony Socialist fingers on 2.4 Trillion dollars of other people’s money to redistribute to his political supporters the unions, victim class, and bleeding heart secular progressive liberal pinheads.

Following is a summary of the primary components of the “Great Increase in the Debt Ceiling, Spending Caps and Balanced Budget Bill of 2011”:

• Immediate increase the debt limit by $400 billion,
• Obama permitted to order another $500 billion increase this fall unless both House and Senate override him by veto-proof margins
• A third installment of between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion would be made available after enactment of matching levels of additional spending cuts recommended by a special joint committee of lawmakers.
• $1.5 trillion could also be available if Congress adopts and sends to the states for ratification a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
• $900 billion in spending cuts over 10 years from Cabinet agencies whose budgets are passed each year by Congress. Caps such "discretionary" spending at $1.043 trillion in 2012, $7 billion below 2011 levels and $44 billion below an inflation-adjusted "baseline”.
• A near-freeze in 2013, discretionary spending would increase by about 2 percent a year
• Both security and nonsecurity programs would absorb outright cuts in 2012. The Pentagon is among a group of programs that together would absorb a $4 billion cut from current levels next year. Other programs in the security category include foreign aid, intelligence, homeland security and veterans' programs.
• The creation of a 12-person House/Senate committee evenly divided between the political parties, and charged with producing up to $1.5 trillion more in deficit cuts over 10 years including Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies and federal retirement programs.
• If a majority of the committee agrees on a plan, it would receive a vote in both the House and the Senate. If the panel deadlocks or fails to produce at least $1.2 trillion in additional cuts, or if Congress fails to enact its recommendations, the White House budget office would impose spending cuts across much of the federal budget, including the Pentagon, domestic agency budgets and farm subsidies
• The plan also requires both the House and Senate to vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution; establish "program integrity" initiatives aimed at stemming abuses in Social Security and federal health care programs; and preserve recent funding increases for Pell Grants for low-income college students by $17 billion over 2012-13, financed by curbs in student loan subsidies.

When all is said and done will these measures resolve our Country’s debt crisis? No sir, no way, no how. Truth be told even if all these steps are implemented and achieve their desired results our accumulated National Debt will still increase by $6 – 8 Trillon dollars over the next ten years leaving us with a whoping $22 – 24 Trillion of borrowed money accruing interest faster than a scaulded dog running home to Moma.

This humongous, unsustsainable, and criminally negligent amount of outstanding debt will surely suck all of the economic oxygen out of the room and lead to the collapse and failure of the US economy. When confronted with this economic reality the President and his Socialist compadre’s in Congress continued efforts to expand the size, influence and cost of the Federal government is truly a call to arms to send these folk’s happy asses packing in the 2012 elections.

“A Good Start” – only if Conservatives sieze control of the White House and Senate, make real cuts to spending, balance the budget, get the hell out of the private sector’s way, and actually pay down the debt over the next ten years.

“Pissin' In the Wind” – Exactly what will happen if we leave the incompitent, corrupt, Socialist Obama Regime in charge of this fiasco.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-07-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 131: “Natural Born Liar”

Well, we split the road at Norwood, and he just shook my hand.
He said, "I'll see you some place, friend," but you know he never has.
But we were that free then, just walking down the road,
Never really caring where that highway goes.

Yeah, Stoney was a liar (a bullshitter!) ain't no doubt about it.
It was just the way he told things, and you never want to doubt him.
'Cause he kept you going when the road got rough,
And brought you through the lean times by making it up
“Stoney”, Jerry Jeff Walker

Ain’t no never mind about it as sad as it is to say the President of the United States of America continues to make comments that strongly suggest the man is a bona fide “Natural Born Liar”. The words truthful, honesty, integrity and trustworthy sure enough just don’t often collide in the same sentence with the name Barack Husain Obama.

Standing right on up there behind the Presidential Podium just as if he has good sense at another White House made for TV address Monday night Mr. Obama whined, threw a hissy fit, and lied like a cheap rug to “We the People” about the Country’s current debt/financial crisis. True to form our inept, incompetent and devious “He That Hasn’t Got a Clue-in-Chief” played the race, class, generational warfare and victim card early and often during his brief fear mongering diatribe Monday evening.

Employing another tried and true diversion tactic the President blamed everyone from W, the Tea Party, corporate jet owners, Fox News and global climate change for our pending fiscal train wreck. To hear the man talk he’s just an innocent bystander victimized by W’s big oil and war mongering policies.

Our left wing extremist main stream press along with the President and his Democrat comrades seem to be inflicted with a bad case of selective memory and the lock jaw when it comes to this gang’s Trillion dollar plus deficits and 4 trillion added to the debt in only 2 and half years in office. Monday night’s BS session sure as hell weren’t no exception.

Independent political watchdog group, “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire”, rated the President’s Monday evening Debt speech on a scale of 1 – “typical misleading but open to debate statement” to 5- “unabashed, shameless, deceitful, nefarious, insidious lies”. As usual Mr. Obama scored 5’s across the boards.

Following are some of his most egregious lies:

• For the last decade, we have spent more money than we take in. In the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus. But instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts, while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our nation’s credit card.
• Only in DC are tax cuts, the folks keeping more of their money, considered as expenditures. It is also curious that every time liberals whine about the expense of two wars they fail to mention a small detail that called us to arms in the first place – 9/11
• As a result, the deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office. To make matters worse, the recession meant that there was less money coming in, and it required us to spend even more – on tax cuts for middle-class families; on unemployment insurance; on aid to states so we could prevent more teachers and firefighters and police officers from being laid off. These emergency steps also added to the deficit.
• To make matters worse, the recession meant that there was less money coming in, and it required us to spend even more. That’s worth repeating- To make matters worse, the recession meant that there was less money coming in, and it required us to spend even more. Only a boneheaded Community Organizing Marxist/Socialist would advocate such an absolutely asinine fiscal policy
• The only reason this balanced approach isn’t on its way to becoming law right now is because a significant number of Republicans in Congress are insisting on a cuts-only approach – an approach that doesn’t ask the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations to contribute anything at all. And because nothing is asked of those at the top of the income scales, such an approach would close the deficit only with more severe cuts to programs we all care about – cuts that place a greater burden on working families.
• The President’s idea of a balanced approach is to soak the rich and appease the victim class. He says they don’t contribute anything at all and truth be told the top 2% of wage earners already pay 75% of the tab.
• Understand – raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up. In the past, raising the debt ceiling was routine. Since the 1950s, Congress has always passed it, and every President has signed it. President Reagan did it 18 times. George W. Bush did it 7 times. And we have to do it by next Tuesday, August 2nd, or else we won’t be able to pay all of our bills.
• Bills Congress has already racked up our over taxed ass. Does the Stimulus, Auto bail out or Obamacare ring a bell Clyde?
• The American people may have voted for divided government, but they didn’t vote for a dysfunctional government. So I’m asking you all to make your voice heard. If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know. If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message.
• The American people voted for divided government for one indisputable reason – to put an end to the Obama Administration’s insane, irresponsible, criminal, Socialist spending spree.
• Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America
• Allah the great, Allah the benevolent, unite the collective masses as one Citizen of the World

President Obama’s address to the nation Monday night was chock full of enough lies to choke two mules and a full grown bull elephant. Another masterful performance worthy of any “Natural Born Liar“.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-07-21T15:08:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 130: “Living On Borrowed Time”

Lookin' back at my hard luck days
I really do have to laugh
Workin' in a dive for twenty-six dollars
Spendin' it all on draft
We were hungry hard luck heroes
Tryin' just to stay alive
So we'd go down to the corner grocery
This is how we'd survive.

Who's gonna steal the peanut butter
I'll get a can of sardines
Runnin' up and down the aisles of the Mini-Mart
Stickin' food in our jeans
We never took more than we could eat
There was plenty left on the racks
We all swore if we ever got rich
We would pay the Mini-Mart back
Yes Sir, yes Sir
We would pay the Mini-Mart back.
“Peanut Butter Conspiracy”, Jimmy Buffett

Uncle Sammy is leveraged out the proverbial ying yang. Our Federal Government is literally in debt up to its irresponsible criminal eyeballs.

Deficit spending, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul; generational theft; living far beyond our means; biting off far more than we can chew has sure enough been SOP for our great nation almost since day one. Truth be told with the exception of our first two Chief Executives, Washington and Adams, who also had the benefit of fiscally responsible Congressional Delegations, most every other Administration and Congress has had no problem at all with conducting the Country’s business with borrowed or newly printed greenbacks.

President Andrew Jackson and the GOP majority Congress back in the 1990’s after decades of excessive Democrat spenders of other people’s money being two additional notable exceptions. The latter famously known for dragging “Saturday Night Bill” Clinton kicking and screaming to end Welfare as we knew it and to budget surpluses not seen in these parts for decades.

Our current Administration, the Socialist Obama regime, has borrowed, printed and spent more money than any government in the history of the civilized world. This gang of financial wizards have increased spending by almost 30%, achieved never seen before trillion dollar plus annual deficits, and added over four trillion dollars to our accumulated national debt in a record shattering two and half years.

To give this fiscal catastrophe some historical perspective federal spending has averaged about 20 percent of gross domestic product since WWII. Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrat Comrades have raised that to 24 or 25 percent.

Our national debt as a percentage of gross domestic product has increased from a manageable 40 percent in 2008 to 62 percent this year and an estimated 72 percent in 2012. It's headed to 90 percent a point when governments face fiscal collapse.

Many of our greatest statesmen, thinkers, political philosophers and thought leaders have eloquently remarked about the evils of big government, irresponsible spending, and the unsustainable accumulation of debt. The prophetic accuracy and relevance to current challenges of many of their observations is truly remarkable.

Consider the following:

Thomas Jefferson
• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
• The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Bob Hope
• A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Ben Franklin
• Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Mark Twain
• People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Will Rogers
• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
• You can't break a man that don't borrow; he may not have anything, but Boy! he can look the World in the face and say, "I don't owe you Birds a nickel." You will say, (if everyone stops borrowing) what will all the Bankers do? I don't care what they do. Let 'em go to work, if there is any job any of them could earn a living at. Banking and After-Dinner Speaking are two of the most Non-essential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform if they are.
• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.
• Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit -- everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not -- and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
• This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler
• Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.
• If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
• There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is war and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve
Winston Churchill
• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle

We don’t know if Mr. Buffett actually ever paid the Minnie Mart back or not. We do know Uncle Sammy won’t even put a dent in our massive national debt with Comrade Obama in the White House.

November 2012 can’t get here soon enough.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-07-13T20:05:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 129: “President Obama Turns White Over Debt Ceiling”

He's older now, he's got grey hair and all
He's got two teenage kids, John and Paul
One of them is having the same problems he did too
He just says son hold on here's what you've got to do

Got to hold your head up high if you're gonna see at all
Got to put your foot above the rest if you're gonna rise at all
Got to spread your wings and fly if you don't want to fall
'Cause it's the road that you choose that'll take you through it all “The Road You Choose”, Jerry Jeff Walker

Before any of y’all pitch a conniption fit be assured we aren’t playing the race card, there is absolutely no reason at all to contact the PC storm troopers, and we are sure enough not suggesting Mr. Obama has by any means pulled a Michael Jackson and dyed his skin white. All we are talking bout here is the truly astonishing speed in which our rapidly aging“ARRPMember-in-Chief’s” short cropped pitch black hair has turned a powdery white.

All Presidents seem to show signs of accelerated aging. Reckon when you consider the high stress level that comes with the demanding challenges and daunting responsibilities confronting the leader of the free world it’s not surprising how much these folks physically age during their terms in office.

A comparison of the before and after photos of several recent occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. sure enough substantiates our observation. The physical breakdown of several of our former Commander-in-Chiefs is truly a sight to behold.

W actually held up fairly well considering the unrellenting unfounded attacks from the hyper-partisan left wing press; 9/11; The War on Terrorism; Katrina; two years of a Democrat controlled Congress including having to deal with the likes of Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid. The latter which would surly drive most folks to strong spirits, narcotics and not only white hair but massive and premature balding.

The rigors of office had a seriously adverse impact on former President Clinton. Hard living, skirt chasing and playing loose with the truth also had a profound influence on Saturday Night Bill’s post Presidency appearance.

Papa Bush just like his boy W weathered his one term in office without a lot of outward signs of stress. A genuine, bona fide WWll fighter pilot and war hero this patriot was well prepared to deal with stress and strain of the Presidency.

President Reagan on the right doesn’t look a day older than a much younger version of himself serving as Governor of California. In fact, the old Cold War Warrior’s youthful exuberance spread confidence and pride faster than kudzu throughout a previously shell shocked and downright seriously wayward nation.

Jimmy “Peanut” returned to his no count white trash ways after a truly disastrous 4 years in office. The worst President in US history right up to the inauguration of one Barack Husain Obama. His mental, intellectual, and physical decline during what can only be described as a train wreck of a Presidency was a national disgrace and an international disaster of unprecedented proportions.

President Obama’s truly alarming rapidly declining physical well being including his premature graying/ white hair has obviously been greatly impacted by the extremely stressful environment inherent to the highest office in the land. That being said most of the stress and strain thrust upon Mr. Obama’s narrow shoulders has been self inflicted.

Examples of this self inflicted stress abound. Following are a few of the most egregious examples:

• He selected a VP who is truly dumber than a bag of hammers that can be counted on for at least one major daily gaffe
• He turned his political agenda over to two individuals who are both dumber than a bag of rocks, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid. Surely two of the most corrupt and incompetent political hacks to ever serve in Congress
• His undeterred insistence to shove hated Socialist policy initiatives down our collective throats including Obamacare and the Nationalization of the auto, energy, and financial industries.
• Conducting the largest redistribution of wealth in the history of the civilized world benefiting unions and his many other Marxist/Socialist constituents
• Providing aid and comfort to the enemy by announcing the exact time and number of troops we’ll be sending home from Afghanistan. The worry and stress brought on by this boneheaded action is certainly well deserved
• Even though he plays twice a week the President’s inability to break 90 is infuriating. Would seem he sucks at golf as well as leadership and governing

With stress levels this high the President has a lot more to worry about than just his hair turning white. As we can see in the before and after shots below things could get real ugly before all is said and done.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God"

Ron W. Garikes

2011-07-06T22:06:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 128: “Happy 235th Birthday Uncle Sammy”

Hear 'em singing Happy Birthday
Better think about the wish I made
This year gone by ain't been a piece of cake
Every day's a revolution
Pull it together and it comes undone Just one more candle and a trip around the sun “Trip Around the Sun”, Jimmy Buffett

On Monday of Week 128 of the Barack “I have no idea how old my children are” Obama Administration our great nation celebrated it’s 235th Birthday. Our Birthday challenged Chief Executive had absolutely no idea how old Uncle Sammy turned on Monday but reckon we shouldn’t expect much more from a man who can’t seem to even remember the ages of his own youngins.

July 4th, 1776 was a milestone day in our County’s formation as The Declaration of Independence was officially signed and ratified by the Continental Congress. A brilliant proclamation telling King George and the Britts in no uncertain terms what for; no more stifling taxes; the hell with oppressive tyrannical big Government rule and regulations; time to pack up your red coated happy asses and set sail back across the pond.

Turns out the current occupant of the White House, Barack “Mr. Constitutional Scholar” Obama is a big fan of the Declaration of Independence, at least a modified version as revised by the President his self and his Socialist comrades. We have it on good authority he thinks so highly of his version of the Declaration that he carries a copy of the document with him at all times along with his two other most favorite political manuscripts the Communist Manifesto and the Five Pillars of Islam.

“Thoughts of Obama From Bama” has obtained copies of the President’s abbreviated versions of these documents and we are just tickled pink to include all three manuscripts in this week’s Column. The first document is a four point summary of the President’s political bible, The Communist Manifesto, written by one of our Chief Executive’s most admired historical figures, Karl Marx:

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

• Bourgeois and Proletarians – Advocacy of Class Warfare. A favored and frequently used Obama political tactic
• Proletarians and Communists – Elimination of private property, consolidation of power with a Central Government, communal equality. Three core tenants of the Obama agenda
• Socialist and Communist Literature – Propaganda. A key and vital Obama political weapon.
• Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Opposition Parties - The quest for world dominance.

THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM

• Shahada, the Creed - There is no god except God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God (Highly placed sources confirm the President often mumbles this phrase under his breath right before, and most often missing, any putt longer than 3 feet)
• Salat, Daily prayers (Sure enough might xplain the Secret Service Agent on the President’s detail lugging around the prayer rug and foot bath)
• Sawm, Fasting during Ramadan (Would certainly confirm how a man who travels with no less than 6 private chefs maintains his girlish figure)
• Zakat, Almsgiving (Justifies all the charitable donations to ACORN and other criminal Socialist organizations)
• Hajj, Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime (Finally some illumination on the many mysterious extended disappearances young Barack was known for during his drug hazed and delinquent college days)

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (REVISED OBAMA VERSION WITH REVISIONS DENOTED RED)

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's Allah entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by Allah with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government, --The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

(All the specific Facts included in the original document have been omitted for space saving purposes)

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge, Allah the Great, Allah the Benevolent, of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

In solidarity with our comrades in the labor class we ask for Allah’s guidance and blessings as we endeavor to create the United Socialist States of America.

It is certainly more than fitten for all Americans to read the unedited original version of the Declaration of Independence at least annually especially on Uncle Sammy’s Birthday. The parallels as so eloquently described in Jefferson’s brilliant political proclamation between King George’s tyrannical, big oppressive government, and excessive taxation with the Obama Administration are truly disturbing.

High time We the People tell our modern day King George, Barack Husain Obama, what for and send his happy ass packing back to Chicago, Hawaii, Jakarta, Moscow, Beijing, Mecca, Tehran or wherever he can openly and without shame pursue his own personal version of the Declaration of Independence.

Happy 235th birthday Uncle Sammy and happy trails Mr. President. May you and your Marxist/Socialist comrades go in peace with the blessings of the all powerful and benevolent Allah.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-06-30T16:49:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 127: “If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”

As the son of a son of a sailor
I went out on the sea for adventure
Expanding the view of the captain and crew
Like a man just released from indenture

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man
I have chalked up many a mile
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
And I learned much from both of their styles

Son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
Son of a gun, load the last ton
One step ahead of the jailer “Son of the Son of a Sailor”, Jimmy Buffett

“If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”, a quote attributable to the late Southern Humorist and author Lewis Grizzard, defines Barack Husain Obama’s approach and philosophy for governance much more accurately than all of his empty campaign slogans including the likes of “Yes We Can”, “Change We Can Believe In” and all manner of other lies he heaped upon us. The late Mr. Grizzard’s now famous quote truly captures and expresses the President’s boneheaded “Lead From Behind” philosophy to almost every issue confronting this Administration.

Examples of this absolutely absurd approach to management and governance abound including:

• Abdication of the fiasco in Libya to NATO which has greatly extended the time frame of this conflict resulting in thousands more killed and wounded, billions of additional expense, and further erosion of our standing in the world
• Deferring to political expediency instead of military requirements in Afghanistan compromising the mission, endangering our troops and providing aid and comfort to the enemy publically announcing a date certain when our forces will be withdrawn
• Refusing to publically support Democracy movements in Syria, Jordan and Iran
• Totally AWOL on any serious efforts to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid choosing instead to conduct class and generational warfare leaving it to the GOP to lead and provide solutions to assure the viability of these massive entitlement programs
• Avoiding direct involvement in Congressional negotiations on the Federal debt ceiling and balancing the budget deferring leadership on this pending financial catastrophe to the House and Senate
• The execution of a stealth, undercover, secret assault, “Leading From Behind”, on our capitalist, free market, open society with the ultimate objective of establishing a Marxist/Socialist nanny state.

Our “Leader From Behind-in-Chief” held court at a Press Conference this week further advancing his “Barackasswards” Governance philosophy. Following are several excerpts from this most recent Obama propaganda fest:

THE PRESIDENT: Opening Remarks – …Today, our administration is trying to take those steps, so we’re reviewing government regulations so that we can fix any rules in place that are an unnecessary burden on businesses

(Repealing Obamacare and calling off the EPA would be a great start Mr. President so anytime the spirit moves please proceed by all means)

Right now, Congress could send me a bill that puts construction workers back on the job rebuilding roads and such…

(All those shovel ready projects the President his self recently confessed didn’t work with the first stimulus and he proposing the same failed policies again)

There’s been a lot of discussion about revenues and raising taxes in recent weeks, so I want to be clear about what we’re proposing here. I spent the last two years cutting taxes for ordinary Americans, and I want to extend those middle-class tax cuts. The tax cuts I’m proposing we get rid of are tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires; tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners.

(Classic class warfare tactics as described in this gang’s “Owner’s Manual” the Communist Manifesto)

Q They don’t want any tax increases, as they put it. And the House Speaker says not only that he doesn’t support that, but that plan won’t — will not pass the House. So my question is will you insist, ultimately, that a deal has to include those tax increases that you just laid out? Is that an absolute red line for you? And if it is, can you explain to us how that can possibly get through the Congress?

THE PRESIDENT: Look, I think that what we’ve seen in negotiations here in Washington is a lot of people say a lot of things to satisfy their base or to get on cable news, but that hopefully, leaders at a certain point rise to the occasion and they do the right thing for the American people. And that’s what I expect to happen this time. Call me naïve, but my expectation is that leaders are going to lead.

(The President and his Congressional comrades haven’t submitted a budget for the last two years. “Leading From Behind” in all its incompetent glory)

Now, I just want to be clear about what’s at stake here. The Republicans say they want to reduce the deficit. Every single observer who’s not an elected official, who’s not a politician, says we can’t reduce our deficit in the scale and scope that we need to without having a balanced approach that looks at everything.

(Every single observer? Reckon that just might be a little bit of a stretch. Actually it’s an absolutely ludicrous statement that cries out for condemnation and ridicule)

Q Thank you. Your administration has laid out four different dates by which you’ve said that the debt ceiling must be raised or the U.S. would face potential dire consequences. Three of those dates have come and gone and we haven’t faced financial calamity. Some of your critics have argued that these are then scare tactics to force a deal. So why should the American people believe that the August 2nd deadline is the final deadline by which a deal must be raised? And would you also spell out for us what you believe will happen if the debt ceiling is not raised by that date?

THE PRESIDENT: And last point I want to make about this. These are bills that Congress ran up. The money has been spent. The obligations have been made. So this isn’t a situation — I think the American people have to understand this — this is not a situation where Congress is going to say, okay, we won’t — we won’t buy this car or we won’t take this vacation. They took the vacation. They bought the car. And now they’re saying maybe we don’t have to pay, or we don’t have to pay as fast as we said we were going to, or — that’s not how responsible families act. And we’re the greatest nation on Earth, and we can’t act that way.

(Professor Obama’s lack of knowledge about Economics and Finance is truly appalling. So is his total disrespect for the truth. His analogy about Congress and spending, cars, vacations and such demonstrates a degree of ignorance on the subject never before seen in a US President)

THE PRESIDENT: talking about his daughters meeting deadlines - It is impressive. They don’t wait until the night before. They’re not pulling all-nighters. (Laughter.) They’re 13 and 10. Congress can do the same thing. If you know you’ve got to do something, just do it.

(Not only an extremely condescending remark but also chock full of mistakes. For the record the President’s oldest youngin is 12, not 13 years old. We can only imagine the left wing media elite’s response if a Republican misstated one of their yougin’s ages. If Sarah Palen, Newt, W, Michele Buchmann, Boehner, Cheney, and/or Mitt Romney similarly misspoke liberal anchors the likes of Chris Mathews, Anderson Cooper, Matt Lauer, Ba Ba Walters and Katie Couric would wet themselves on live TV in their enthusiasm to get the story out)

“If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”. Mr. Obama’s “Lead From Behind” strategy assures his Socialist views ain’t gonna change any time soon.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-06-24T17:02:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 126: “Obama & Boehner Light Up the Course”

Bet a five dollar nasaw
And all you got's two
Well a five foot gimme
Make a man out of you

Well I got my dreams
And they just don't stop
Well a big man, big shot
Make her on top

Well, there's a place for you if you're just like me
Armchair greens chillin' at the TV
Have another cool one
But it won't hurt
Got myself a big stick
Swingin in the dirt “Big Stick”, Bruce Hornsby

Last Saturday while most of the golfing world was glued to their flat screens watching a 22 year old youngin from Northern Ireland blow away the field at the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in our nation’s capital the real action was going down across town on the links at Andrews Air Force Base. Turns out the three highest ranking officials in the Federal government, the President; Vice President; and Speaker of the House along with the Republican Governor from Ohio were playing their own match for much higher stakes than the U.S. Open Championship.

In the balance the future working relationship between the President and Speaker, White House and Congress, and our Country’s financial security. Possibly of even more importance the bragging rights and ego boost afforded to the victors.

Instead of the expected Dems vs. Repub; conservative vs. liberals; capitalist vs. socialist; free enterprise vs. humongous government ; good vs. evil match up in a surprise move the President insisted he and Speaker Boehner would team up against VP “Uncle Joe“ Biden and Governor Kasich. The decisive factor having nothing at all to do with politics or even golf but solely on the basis of smokers vs. nonsmokers.

President Obama also wanted some one on one face time with Speaker Boehner. Reckon he figured some serious male bonding over smokes and a few libations just might win the Speaker’s favor that could be exploited in future political confrontations.

With everybody in agreement with the teaming arrangements the President packed up a carton of KOOL Menthols, the Speaker stacked up several packs of Camel no filters and with the leader of the free world squealing “smoke um if you got um” the two pillars of American politics were off to the first tee in a cloud of smoke and burning rubber from the golf cart tires. The VP and Governor were close behind with a cooler filled with a case of beer, wine spritzers for the “First Golfer-in-Chief” and a bottle of Irish whiskey for Uncle Joe.

For purposes of full disclosure “Thoughts of Obama From Bama” is tickled pink to inform our faithful and most sophisticated readership of our unbelievable good fortune to have obtained an audiotape recording of last weekend’s Presidential golf outing. Following are some extremely illuminating, informative and entertaining excerpts from this power foursome’s historic round of golf.

As most every golfer knows the wager is more often than not won on the first tee during preround practice swings and trash talk which is precisely where we will begin our coverage of this high level high stakes match:

• THE SPEAKER: “All right ladies, what’s the game? Skins, an automatic 2 down Nasaw with trash including greenies, birdies, sandies, and Obamies – hitting your ball OB left, Wolf or straight up Match Play?”
• UNCLE JOE: Right after his first shot of Irish whiskey of the day, “Don’t f…ing matter to me. Whatever strikes the boss’s fancy count us in.”
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “Match Play sounds good to me boys, as long as I get my fair share of strokes.” The anointed one replied between lighting up another KOOL
• GOVERNOR K:”With all due respect Mr. President, stroke this. With Boehner on your team y’all should be giving us a few strokes.”
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “No strokes, $2 dollars per hole”
• UNCLE JOE: “Sure you can afford that boss. Michelle hold back on your f…ing allowance this week?”
• THE SPEAKER: “So that settles it ladies. $2 dollar a hole match play, $2 dollar trash, two man best ball, no strokes. We’ll take the honors, let’s tee it up.””

With the game and amount agreed to the four gentlemen took full advantage of the customary first tee mulligan and then proceeded in a cloud of tobacco smoke, a pile of crushed beer cans, a fast growing collection of empty wine spritzer bottles, and a soon to be empty bottle of Irish whiskey to navigate the 18 championship holes of golf at Andrews Air Force Base. To avoid boring y’all to tears with the full transcript of their 4 hour conversation we are delighted to provide examples of some of their more colorful remarks below:

• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: After hitting another weak, short, pop up 130 yard drive in the left trees the President asked the Speaker for some help, “John, any advice how to fix that would be most appreciated”
• THE SPEAKER: “Happy to Mr. President. You might try standing farther away from the ball, especially after you hit it.
• UNCLE JOE: Merrily doing a shot per hole, “Nice f…ing shot Gov”
• GOVERNOR K: “I wouldn’t hit Nancy Pelosi that hard.” Addressing the Speaker after he hit a 300 plus yard drive on the fourth hole.
• THE SPEAKER: “I sure as hell would”
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot Mr. Speaker”
• THE SPEAKER: “Nice putt Alice. Did a gust of wind blow your skirt up over your eyes?” directed to the President after leaving a 10 foot put 3 feet short.
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “Thanks pard. Thought we were on the same team.
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot Mr. President”
• GOVERNOR K: “Run like a scalded dog.” Encouraging his low hooking tee shot on the 15th.
• THE SPEAKER: “Enjoyed it ladies. Always a pleasure taking your money.” Right after sinking a ten footer for par on 18 to win the hole and the match.
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot…” slurred the VP as he downed his last shot of whiskey and proceeded to pass out on the 18th green.

When all was said and done the President and Speaker clipped Uncle Joe and Governor Kasich for the staggering grand total of $2 dollars. Other notable accomplishments resulting from the day’s outing included 3 packs of Kools and 2 packs of Camels smoked; 24 beers consumed; 6 wine spritzers inhaled; and 1 bottle of Irish whiskey polished off by our VP flying solo.

To our knowledge the President and Speaker still don’t particularly care for each other, Governor Kasich has no idea why he was invited in the first place, and Uncle Joe has absolutely no recollection at all of the entire day. All things considered a relatively successful day for this Administration.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-06-15T23:44:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 125: “A Fox in the Hen House”

A little spending money
Money to burn
Money that you did not necessarily earn
Rainy days seem to wind up sunny
Long as you got a little spending money

I got no financial conscience
Can't worry where it went
A lasting treasure a moment of pleasure
Worth in every cent

Coin or paper, silver or gold
All Denominations nouveaux or old
Can't have a turkey without oyster dressing
It's the root of all evil the sum of your blessings “Spending Money”, Jimmy Buffett

President Obama issued an executive order this week creating an oversight board to eliminate wasteful government spending. Talk about the proverbial “Fox in the Hen House”; “blind leading the blind”; Arnold “I’ll be back” serving as a spokesman for population control; and Congressman Anthony “Little” Weiner teaching online ethics classes to teenage girls.

Keep in mind this is the first Administration to pile up Trillon dollar plus annual deficits. Mr. Obama and company have never met a dollar of other people’s money they didn’t greet with a warm embrace and a big sloppy wet kiss.

They also have the most dubious honor of accumulating more debt in one term, over 4 Trillion dollars, than each and every one of his predecessors combined. A truly astonishing fiscal catastrophe that only a bunch of pointy headed, acamaditions, community organizing, Marxist/Socialist would orchestrate and consider a great accomplishment.

To add insult to injury our “Fiscally Challenged Criminal Spender of Other People’s Money-in-Chief” has appointed his second in command, “nobody messes with Uncle Joe”, Vice President Biden to head up this farce. A man that, bless his heart, makes Sarah Palin look like a certified genius and really is dumber than a bag of hammers.

Over the course of his corruption riddled 40 plus year political career Uncle Joe has shown his lily white, arrogant, elitist, plagiarizing, tacky Yankee ass early, often and with total disregard for the Constitution he has sworn to uphold. Following is a representative list of Uncle Joe’s most outrageous, downright stupid, possibly illegal breaches in decorum and conduct that strongly suggest the man is crazier than an outhouse rat and/or duller than a knife that can’t even cut through hot butter:

• "People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
• In an interview with ABC's "This Week," Biden conceded that the White House team "misread how bad the economy was." His confession came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration's insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
• On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that seemed to contradict President Obama's warning not to panic. Speaking on NBC's "Today," Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn't advise family necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he wouldn't tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile, classroom or airplane.
• Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone. As we all will be subjected too later this is obviously one of his favorite words
• During a 2009 interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's number.
• At a swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day. "Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge and a toothy grin from President Obama.
• When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
• "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed”. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," Herbert Hoover, not Roosevelt was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented.
• During a speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up." “Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"
• Vice President Joe Biden dropped an F-bomb on live television when he turned to Obama and said, "This is a big f…ng deal." Referring to the passage of Obamacare
• Biden called a Wisconsin custard shop manager a "smartass" after the man refused to take payment and said he'd prefer a tax cut instead.
• VEEP Biden while attending a recent event held at George Washington appears to be racked out like a fat baby while the president is speaking on financial issues.
• Biden lifted Neil Kinnock's, a British labor leader’s, precise turns of phrase and his sequences of ideas for use in his stump speeches during the 1988 Democrat Presidential primary. A degree of plagiarism that would qualify any student for failure, if not expulsion from school. But the even greater sin was to borrow biographical facts from Kinnock that, although true about Kinnock, didn't apply to Biden. This blatant act of plagiarism forced Biden to withdraw in shame from the Presidential primary race.

During the last 125 weeks President Obama has handed Uncle Joe several high-profile assignments. “Stupid is as stupid does” has brought his bull in a china shop and strong hankering for bending the truth approach to each and every special Presidential request.

VP Biden demonstrated a level of incompetence, indifference, and ineptitude in the execution of each assignment that is only tolerated within the confines of a humongous government bureaucracy. So typical for a 40 plus year so called public servant that would have been sent packing so fast in the real world private sector as he’s ushered out with a warning of not letting the door knob hitting him in the arse on his way out.

A summary of Uncle Joe’s record of historic failures follows:

• Point man on the President’s signature legislation the 1Trillion dollar Stimulus Package – A classic example of over selling and underperforming under the VEEP’s criminally negligent direction unemployment soars to a sustained 9% plus level for months with prospects for improvement any time soon few and far between. The only beneficiaries Obama political constituents including the likes of corrupt labor unions, public sector employees, and other Socialist activist.
• Iraq War – Biden attempts to steal credit for success from W claiming our victory one of their Administration’s greatest accomplishments. Even their adoring dominions in the main stream media elite passed on this pathetic attempt at revisionist history
• New START Treaty with the Ruskies – Uncle Joe blackmailed and extorted just enough members of Congress to get this totally lopsided give away of our nuke advantages over the Ruskies as directed by Comrade Obama
• 2010 Budget Deal – VP Biden napped through negotiation sessions leading to extension of W tax rates and substantial spending cuts
• Debt Ceiling Increase Discussions - VP Biden is currently napping through negotiation sessions with Congressional GOPR’s that will hopefully lead to several Trillion in spending cuts and a first right of refusal on several future draft picks.

Uncle Joe’s most recent assignment is sure enough the easiest to accomplish to date as opportunities to eliminate wasteful government spending are both close at hand and more abundant than white on rice. Starting with the resignation of the man sneaking a smoke in the Rose Garden and working his way down from there to every Marxist, Socialist, Communist, radical left wing extremist Presidential appointment made by the Obama Administration, including his own immediate departure, would cut untold Billions if not Trillions of wasteful government spending faster than a scalded dog running home to Momma.

Knowing the chances of the metaphorical Obama foxes making an early departure from the hen house are at best slim to none maybe the best we can hope for is the discovery of a secret texting relationship between the President and Representative “Little” Weiner from New York City. Doubtful but with this bunch of social, political and ethical degenerates such acts of moral depravity can never be 100% ruled out of consideration.

Obama: “Weiner my boy, how you holding up tonight son?....”

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-06-08T22:02:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 124: “Obama’s Weiner Exposed Stepping Out On Twitter”

When the telephone woke me this morning,
I'm sorry was the first thing I said
From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head
Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past
'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you showed off your ass
I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I have finally seen the light
From now on I'm going to act right, I was so bad last night

The harder I try to remember, the quicker my brain starts to hurt
It really is funny, unwadding the money, that's been stuffed in my pants and shirt
But tryin' to make sense of phone numbers, scribbled on the backs of old cards
I guess we ought to be thankful, nobody knows who we are

I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I tore up the bar, lost a pretty nice car
It's a good bet I ticked off my wife

I never intended to do it, I dropped in for a drink or two
But all of the chicks were so foxy, I wanted to marry a few
The place was more crowded than usual, and everyone there was my friend
Franny and Snake and Bunky and Jake, and somehow the night never ends
I Was So Bad Last Night, Jerry Jeff Walker

Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from the 9th District of New York, has been one of the most visible; outspoken; in our face Obama advocates in the US House of Representatives since the first day this corrupt regime infested the White House. As President Obama’s lead Congressional attack dog Representative Weiner done raised the roof in support of Obamacare, Cap and Tax, financial stimulus (massive wealth redistribution), eliminating the use of fossil fuels, and the creation of a Socialist Nanny State.

Little Weiner, as he is affectionately referred to by close friends and associates, sure enough is one of the most arrogant, belligerent, obnoxious, elitist, sanctimonious, dishonest, disingenuous, just downright rude tacky Yankees currently serving in the US Congress. A man being groomed and promoted as an up and comer destined for senior leadership and some serious progressive/liberal/Socialist world shaking in the Democrat Party.

Finally having achieved Rock Star status in the Democrat Party and with his comrades in the mainstream media elite press young Little Weiner literally got caught with his britches down in another sex scandal involving a prominent politician. Following in the footsteps of his hero and mentor “Saturday Night” Bill Clinton Little Weiner has done “screwed the pooch” when it comes to his most promising career as a rising star of the left wing Marxist/Socialist political class.

Turns out the recently married Little Weiner is a full fledged cyber sex perv who gives an entirely new meaning to the terms “backdoor firewall”, “hand held device” and “joy stick”. He’s also proved to be a gifted and creative liar at a level that rivals his before mentioned mentor and his pathological tall telling little woman, “She of the Butt Ugly Traveling Pants Suit Klan”, Hillary (who just so happens to be an old friend and current employer of Little Weiner’s new bride).

Following is a brief chronology of the public, self inflicted, self destruction of Representative Anthony “Little” Weiner:

• May 27 – An image of a man’s crotch in his under drawers is uploaded too little Weiner’s Twitter account and sent to 21-year-old Gennette Cordova. Little Weiner realizes his mistake and takes the photo down and claims he was hacked.
• May, 29 -- Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart exposes little Weiner on his website biggovernment.com. Weiner blames Breitbart and insist he was the victim of a hacker.
• May 30 – The college student tagged in the photo says she never met Little Weiner. Weiner’s office said they were “seeking legal action” to investigate who hacked the account.
• May 31 – When reporters in Washington, D.C. questioned Little Weiner about the tweet he belligerently responds he will not answer any questions saying he had already put out a statement. “I’m not going to allow this to be what I talk about all week”.
• June 1 – Little Weiner spends all day in media interviews. His repeated ludicrous reply, "You know, I can't say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted".
• June 2 to June 5 – Little Weiner lays low and avoids public appearances.
• June 6 – After Andrew Breitbart announces he is in possession of more incriminating photos of Little Weiner, including a full Monty, he does a press conference at 4 p.m. where he admits the originally tweeted photo was not in fact the work of a hacker but his own. He apologizes to his family and his constituents, and admits to 6 inappropriate cyber relationships.

President Obama’s Little Weiner, his point man, go to guy, political pit-bull in the Congress seems to be just another low life degenerate scoundrel like so many of Mr. Obama’s other past and current associations. The President’s attraction to these deviant, often criminal, and always radical left wing extremist is certainly cause for great concern and consternation.

Reckon we can just add Little Weiner’s name to the President’s long list of Marxist/Socialist, racist, and elitist circle of friends that includes the likes of Reverend Jeremiah GD America Wright; domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the always understated and reserved former Illinois Governor Elvis the Blago; political mentor Fidel Castro; golfing and clubbing compadre Tiger Woods; and political soul mate current Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez.

As for President Obama’s Little Weiner’s ultimate fate so far no word from the White House and other Democrat leaders, with a few notable exceptions, calling for the perv Congressman’s resignation. Considering the Democrat’s idolization of the consummate horn dog former President Bill Clinton and lionization of Ted Kennedy, who literally got away with the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, uploading an image of your full Monty on Twitter seems almost trivial in comparison.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-06-01T23:38:00.001-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 123: “Mediscare Tactics ”

Had a dream last night took a time travellin' ride
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside
They snack on innocence and dine on self-esteem
But I like to be in touch with what makes me scream

Vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No aliens, psychopaths or MTV host
Scares me like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost, Jimmy Buffett

Democrats are employing their tried and true tactics that have worked for years scaring hell out of the old folks about the demonic Republicans who want to kill Medicare and Social Security so they can give more tax breaks to their greedy wealthy friends, criminal oil companies and immoral Insurance provider cheats and scoundrels. The warm hearted, compassionate, socially conscience liberals would have us believe if the GOPR’s had their druthers every elderly individual would be called home to Glory way before reaching the age of eligibility for these social welfare programs.

To advance and promote this absolutely dishonest, misleading, and just downright Marxist/Socialist leftist propaganda President Obama and his Democrat comrades will say and do most anything, the truth be damned, to advocate their disingenuous position on the subject. No lie is to audacious, scare tactic too unscrupulous, exploitation of our senior citizens too demeaning for our pointy-headed liberal brethren when it comes to advocating these massive entitlement programs.

A current Democrat National Committee political advertisement goes as far to depict a Paul Ryan, the GOP Budget Chair who is proposing significant changes to Medicare in his 2012 Budget to reverse the course of this soon to be insolvent social welfare give away the farm Federal subsidy, look alike literally rolling Granny off the cliff in her Medicare issued wheel chair. Can’t be certain but Granny sure enough has a strong resemblance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dressed in drag.

Sadly far too many seniors succumb to the President and Democrat’s scare tactics and buy into the great lie that they can save the program, keep current benefits, and control cost by maintaining the status quo. No way, no how, no sir.

If you consider two simple facts about significant changes to the program since its implementation over 50 years ago it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know Medicare as we know it just ain’t sustainable:

(1) When first started there were over 10 workers paying into the program for each beneficiary. The current ratio is less than 1 – 1.
(2) The life expectancy of Americans has increased by more than 10 years.

These two variances alone dictate major revisions to keep both Medicare and Social Security viable. White House scare tactics for political expediency are just another example of this gang’s class, economic, and race warfare strategy for the 2012 elections.

A few historical points about the two social welfare programs that are literary sucking this country dry with the enthusiastic support of the Obama regime and their Congressional Comrades follows:

• The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation
• Medicare is financed by payroll taxes. The tax is equal to 2.9 of compensation in connection with employment
• The costs of Medicare doubled every four years between 1966 and 1980. Medicare cost were $256.8 billion in fiscal year 2002
• Total Medicare spending reached $440 billion for fiscal year 2007 or 16% of all federal spending and grew to $599 billion in 2008 which was 20% of federal spending.
• According to the 2008 report by the board of trustees for Medicare and Social Security, Medicare spent more than it brought in from taxes for the first time in 2008
• The Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed legislation converting Medicare to a voucher based payment system that also subsidies lower income participants
• President Obama and his humongous government cohorts have offered no viable alternatives and true to form have also made claims scaring seniors senseless including the GOP changes will result in untold disasters and catastrophes of Biblical proportions. The standard Granny relegated to surviving on dog food; Grandpa being denied of medicine, food, and shelter; and tales of roving bands of Republicans roughing up old folks have been told early and often.
• FDR, America’s first Socialist in the White House, started Social Security back in 1930’s. Initially participation in the Program was completely voluntary. That changed quickly once Uncle Sammy realized the untold potential trillions of other people’s money to be confiscated
• For starters participants only had to pay 1% of their first $1,400 of annual Income. That amount has increased to 7.65% on the first $90,000
• Income subverted into the Program was deductible for
income tax purposes, That ain’t the case no more
• Money put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund was only to be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other Government program. Under LBJ the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent
• The annuity payments to the retirees weren’t supposed to ever be taxed
as income. This changed under Clinton & Gore with up to 85% of Social Security income now being taxable
• Led by Jimmy “the Peanut” Carter the Congressional Socialist/Democrats started providing SS benefits to criminal illegal immigrants. A truly unconstitutional and immoral act carried out by our Government

We might need to seriously consider adding the Obama regime to the list of things that scare us the most - mummies, vampires and the Holy Ghost. As for their dishonesty in spooking all the seniors it’s high time to bring an immediate halt to this despicable behavior.

As for all us rapidly approaching old geezer status and for those already there no one, including those wild eyed demonic Congressional Republicans as they are so lovingly referred to by their Democrat counterparts, is gonna touch even a frog hair’s worth of our Medicare or our precious Social Security neither. Why any of us even support these Socialist initiatives is sure enough great fodder for future columns.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-05-27T19:54:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 122: “President Barack Gaffe Obama Does Buckingham Palace ”

Reading departure signs in some big airport
Reminds me of the places I've been
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
Makes me want to go back again
If it suddenly ended tomorrow
I could somehow adjust to the fall
Good times and riches and son of a bitches
I've seen more than I can recall

These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
Through all of the islands and all of the highlands
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Jimmy Buffett

Dan Quayle misspelled potato once and was labeled by the left wing media elite an ignorant yahoo for life. W certainly mangled his share public remarks and was portrayed by the same crowd of liberal media so called journalist as a boneheaded cowboy with the mental capacity of a bag full of hammers.

Even the Great Communicator his self was considered as nothing more than a former B Movie actor dunce with an agreeable demeanor but an intellectual light weight. According to the pointy-headed, bleeding heart, Socialist, mainstream press corps Ronald Wilson Reagan’s low IQ would greatly impede his effectiveness as the Commander-in-Chief.

Turns out former VP Quayle was not only one of the brightest young politicians of his generation, the youngest person ever elected to the US Senate from Indiana, he has also made millions in the private sector since leaving office. Not too bad for an ignorant yahoo.

W, the only President to earn a MBA, from the liberal bastion of Harvard of all places, has demonstrated more class, dignity, integrity and restraint than any former President in recent memory. Conduct of a sage, wise, elder statesman and nothing even close to resembling a dimwitted cowboy.

Reagan brought down the Communist Soviet evil empire and reestablished our great nation as that shining city on a hill. For a bumbling empty suit former B rated actor he certainly achieved some serious world shaking accomplishments of unprecedented historical consequence.

Now let’s take a look at the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who has been anointed by the extreme left wing press machine as a certified genius and the greatest public orator since Abe Lincoln when in reality the man is a walking, talking gaffe machine unprecedented in the annals of US political history. His current European vacation has been no exception.

Actually our fearless leader’s gaffes, misstatements, missteps, and boneheaded initiatives were in high gear this week long before he boarded Air Force One for the short flight across the pond. Following is a brief recap of Mr. Obama’s gaffe filled Week 122:

• Insulted our long standing Israeli allies, again, in favor of the terrorist backed Palestinians, once again

• Repeated Israeli insults over the weekend

• Visits Ireland and village of alleged kinfolk, drinks at local pub hours after 100’s killed back home by another major twister breakout. Same pinheads in the press that would have skinned W alive don’t say a word about the President’s obvious lack of concern for the storm victims

• Funny, he doesn’t look Irish

• Continues UBL victory lap spiking the ball and doing splits in the end zone during address to Parliament

• Signs Buckingham Palace guestbook- Michelle and Barack Obama, May 24, 2008. We can appreciate a lost weekend or two but three years is a might extreme. Then again, reckon with his record since taking office who wouldn’t want to pretend it never happened

• Without the aid of his precious teleprompter our”Silver Tongued Devil-in-Chief” just flat out butchers his formal toast to the Queen at State Dinner. Further compounding this major breach in etiquette continues talking during playing of “God Save the Queen”, an insult comparable to scratching one’s privates during a rendition of the”Star Spangled Banner”.

If these were isolated incidents and not a consistent pattern of behavior it wouldn’t be worth raising a ruckus about these Presidential screw ups. Unfortunately, we can add these to the long list of previous gaffes committed by this major mishap prone Chief Executive.

As a reminder, following is a list of some of our favorites:

• "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." –in remarks after a health care roundtable, July 20, 2009

• "What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." –in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," Sept. 7, 2008

• "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." –making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009

• "I've now been in 57 states — I think one left to go." —at a campaign event, May 9, 2008

• "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." -after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents, Nov. 7, 2008

• "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, Aug. 11, 2009

• "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." —commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass, July 22, 2009

President Obama’s list of gaffes and mishaps is growing faster than a patch of kudzu. If former VP Quayle is ignorant yahoo, W a boneheaded cowboy, and Reagan an intellectual light weight President Obama must be a complete moron considering the number and idiocy of his missteps.

Maybe his adoring fans in the media will finally practice some real journalism after the Obama’s European vacation fiasco but we don’t really expect to see the story on the front page of the New York Times any time soon.

Note: Thanks to all the old friends for the Obama Chia. We have a healthy crop of new growth and just might be able to cover up the tips of those humongous ears.

Will keep y’all posted.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-05-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 121: “Criminal Thug Rap Poetry Night at the Obama White House”

I once knew a poet
Who lived before his time
He and his dog spooner
Would listen while he'd rhyme
Words to make ya happy
Words to make you cry “The Poet”, Jimmy Buffett

In a relatively short period of time our diverse and multi-cultural nation has produced some of the most gifted and influential poets of all time. Troubled souls and patriots an eclectic group sure enough that could only exist in a country that puts such a high premium on the freedom of speech.

Poetic literary giants of the past include Louisa May Alcot; William Cullen Bryant; E. E. Cummings; Emily Dickinson; T. S. Eliot; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Robert Frost; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Joyce Kilmer; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Edgar Allan Poe; Carl Sandburg; Mark Twain; Henry David Thoreau; and Walt Whitman. Present day poets of note include Maya Angelou, Denise Duhamel, and Judith Skillman.

A list of folks that certainly consist of some serious head cases, tortured souls and troubled individuals chock full of inner demons. However, no one who supports and advocates convicted cop killers and therein lays the rub.

Turns out the First Couple invited the likes of some foul mouthed, criminal, thug, Hip Hop, low life rapper named Common to headline Children’s Poetry Day at the White House last week. With such a rich heritage of American Poets to choose from to inspire and motivate the youngins extending the invitation to a racist, misogynous, common criminal seems extreme even for this bunch.

That is right on up to the time we find out Common, just like his good friends the Obamas, is a disciple of the GD America racist leader of the radically extreme Black Liberation Theology Church, the always effervescing Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obviously another blatant attempt by the Socialist Obama Regime to win the hearts and minds of America’s youth over to their left of left Marxist agenda.

According to the left wing media elite press boneheads when compared to most gangster rappers Common is nothing but a harmless boy scout. His abusive language, racist remarks, and advocacy of violence pale in comparison to the hardcore criminal rappers leading this no talent and totally lacking of any socially redemptive qualities fringe element of our seriously misguided youth that need to pull up their drawers, turn around the baseball caps and learn to speak English.

His glorification of convicted cop killers is nothing more than an overly enthusiastic youthful indiscretion. The liberal’s defense of this bottom feeding accomplice to murder is truly a sad commentary on the state of the free press and so called progressive thought leaders in this country.

Following is a representative list of Common “The Choir Boy’s” alleged harmless Titles and Lyrics:

• A Song for Assata (convicted of killing State Trooper) - In the Spirit of God.
In the Spirit of the Ancestors.
In the Spirit of the Black Panthers.
In the Spirit of Assata Shakur.
We make this movement towards freedom
for all those who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, Mofo

• "Letter to the Law," "Burn a Bush 'cause for peace he no push no button" (A call for killing W) and also ,” talks of Uzi submachine guns, “the black strap to make the cops run,”

• Communism - Like an entrepreneur, that stepped in manure
man I'm newer than a Jack I went up the hill with Jill
And jack Jill's big bootay
But did the booty up, I told the bitch she better have my money
Or step to the AMG
You know Com Sense, oh yeah him be
That nigga that be making all the by-by-by-bye sounds
But since then, Common calm down!
I'm on some calm shit watch Com get complicated
Simple MF say the way that Com communicated

• “When I go/ I want to be known like El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,” or Malcolm-X, a black-supremacist.

• Another rap includes a passage criticizing white women who date black men: “I don’t know what it is/ but white girls gettin’ ass/ I know what it is/ It’s cash.”

Please tell us our First Couple can do better by our youngins than this unadulterated sleaze. A White House endorsement of this “Common Criminal” demeans the office and the stature of the Presidency to a level not seen around these parts since the abject incompetence of the Peanut Administration and criminality of the Nixon White House.

If W or any other Republican knowingly not only associated with but also endorsed a racist, criminal scumbag the likes of Common by giving him a platform at the White House the main stream media elite would have run them out of town on a rail, justifiably so. Their silence about the no talent thug rapper Common is deafening.

Next time the Obamas get a hankering to invite a poet/song writer to the White House we’d highly recommend Buffett, Jerry Jeff, Hank Jr. or Toby Keith. In our way of reckoning “A Country Boy Can Survive” beats the hell out of “Pimp Diddy Ho Down” when celebrating great American poetry hands down, no contest, each and every time, ain’t no never mind about it.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-05-13T09:36:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 120: “Mr. Obama Takes a Victory Lap”

So he bought a town, but he sold the sea
Claimed a shallow victory
On an iron ship, with a wooden crew
They hit the reef when the moon was new
Now he cries himself to sleep
On a beach made of promises he meant to keep
Long ago

Nobody speaks to the captain no more
Nobody talks about the war
Hey what the hell were we fighting for
Such a long, long time ago “Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More”, Jimmy Buffett

For a man who claimed he didn’t want to be perceived as “spiking the football” in celebration of our successful assassination of the terrorist coward Usama Bin Laden last week our Dirty Harry-in-Chief, “That’s my chopper Charlie. This is my gun, Clyde“, sure enough seems to be milking it for all it’s worth. In addition to spiking the football he’s also break dancing in the end zone; jumping jubilantly into the front row seats; pulling out the cell phone; and capping it all off with a double pump reverse dunk over the goal post.

Truth be told our Nobel Peace Prize Winner-in-Chief is taking a victory lap of Obamic proportions. Over blown, over stated, undeserved and over rated.

Since announcing to the world his self proclaimed brilliant, courage’s, wise, sage, momentous, monumental, and historic decision to send in SEAL team 6 to kill UBL Mr. Obama has plum wore himself out patting his own back. Following is a brief recap of the President’s week of not spiking the football following UBL’s death:

• Monday during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House honoring two Korean War soldiers Mr. Obama says it's "a better world" with UBL in Davy Jones' locker.
• Thursday President Obama lays a wreath at Ground Zero and meets with 9/11 families
• Friday he visits Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and meets with members of Navy SEAL Team 6.
• Sunday a propaganda fest with 60 Minute’s Steve Croft

Not that we blame the President for the excessive celebration. Especially when you consider the fact that this Administration’s successes have been so few and far between.

Reckon we just can’t expect much more from a tacky Yankee lawyer. Although a little humility, decorum, dignity and class would be a welcome change of pace.

In fact, a lot more humility may be in order as the more we learn about what really led the President to make what initially appeared to be such a gutsy decisive move the more it seems that something just ain’t right. Consider the following questions, inconsistencies, misleading and just downright bizarre remarks and responses, especially during his propaganda session with 60 Minute’s Mr. Pucker Up Buttercup Croft.

• “Loose Lips Sink Ships”. Why does the Obama White House release every minuet detail about this and every counter terror mission they conduct. The public and especially the Jihadist just don’t need to know the specifics about every mission.
For 7 years during W’s watch we heard rumors and rumblings but when it came to any mission specifics their lips were shut tighter than a tick.
The current bunch is so insecure about their anti-terror cred, with good reason we might add, they irresponsibly spill the beans in a pathetic effort to secure affirmation.
• According to the President the CIA informed him about this opportunity last August and advised him there was a 55 percent chance UBL was actually holed up there. Again, according to the President, the exact same odds when he gave the order to proceed last week.
So what in tarnashin took the great decisive one 9 months to finally pull the trigger? Considering the SEALS are good to go on a moment’s notice, who knows how many terrorist plots were hatched and executed, and how many causalities we endured while the President vacillated on another major military decision?

Viewed from this perspective this was anything but a gutsy, decisive and courage’s move by our fearless leader and in reality just more of the same governance by committee and limp wristed foreign policy.
• In response to one of Steve Crofts many ridiculous and almost in the realm of hero worship questions Mr. Obama remarked his biggest concern was getting the SEAL team out if confronted with some unforeseen calamity. On the surface certainly sounds like a legitimate concern and by no means to diminish the mortal danger inherent with any mission of this nature but when really scrutinized as usual the President is taking liberties with the truth.

Consider the following: 1. The element of surprise is always an advantage 2. We knew exactly how many bad guys were in the compound and where they are typically located. 3. Downtown Abbotabad ain’t exactly a hostile environment for US troops. A busload traveling down the road is a fairly common occurrence. 4. In the highly unlikely event all 4 black hawks were unflyable the SEALS could depart by bus, truck, cab, or even by foot and arrive safely at the U.S. Embassy in time for the breakfast buffet. 5. Ain’t no never mind about it if it came down to it 40 Navy SEALS would sure enough kick the entire Pakistani Army’s ass.
• President Obama seemed fixated on the fact the raid had taken place in pitch black darkness, stressed how this increased the danger and made repeated references to this part of the mission during his love fest with Croft. The only problem with this point of view is our Special Opps folks strongly prefer night missions as our night vision technology is unparallel and provides the good guys with an overwhelming military advantage.
• A major White House talking point has been the “treasure trove” of information confiscated from UBL’s house. We have been subjected to this phrase ad naseum by the President and his Democrat comrades. Again, why are we going public with this intelligence? Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep Omar in the dark, not knowing what if anything was found instead of describing in detail the contents of every item for no other reason but to give the President a political talking point?

President Obama concluded his propaganda session with Croft by making the following macho statement which was so obviously out of character for our anti-military, pacifist, Islamic Jihadist sympathizer Chief Executive Officer: “As nervous as I was about this whole process, the one thing I didn't lose sleep over was the possibility of taking bin Laden out. Justice was done. And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn't deserve what he got needs to have their head examined”.

Instead of making an extended victory lap and doing his best Dirty Harry impressions, “I know what you’re thinking: 'Did he fire six shots, or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk?”, the country would be much better served if the President would shut up for a change, keep Omar guessing, and conduct his affairs with a little discretion and real decisive leadership for a change.

If his record to date is any indication of future events we all best just get ready to wave back as he passes by on his seemingly endless Barack Husain Obama victory lap.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-05-05T12:07:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 119: “An Irony of Historic Proportions”

“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch”, Jack Nicholson

After almost ten years of some serious chopping with painfully few chips flying an U.S. Navy Seal put a bullet through the head of the symbolic face of worldwide Islamic Jihadist terrorism and evil personified, Osama Bin Laden. To our and many other like minded folk’s amazement the order to take out this cowardly bastard actually originated from the most pacifist, anti-military, American apologist, Islamic terrorist sympathizer, global citizen to ever occupy the Oval Office, Barack Husain Obama.

Ironic? Is the Pope Catholic; are Yankees tacky, does Obama have humongous gargantuan size ears? The air around the White House is so thick with irony you could cut it with a knife.

Who would have ever thunk it? Our most undeserving or more accurately notorious Nobel Peace Prize recipient won’t be remembered as the President that brought us Socialized Medicine, fiscal calamity or new bonds of friendship with his beloved Nation of Islam. Mr. Obama for ever more will be recognized as the American Commander-in-Chief that killed Osama Bin Laden.

From President Obama’s way of reckoning a most dubious honor. W and probably everyone of his predecessors, with the probable exception of Jimmy “The Peanut” Carter, would consider it as a great honor to be remembered for an achievement of such historical significance.

Certainly not the first President to fall victim to political and military irony that has helped formulate the historical standing and legacies of so many US Chief Executives. Starting with a few of our most revered founding fathers right up to the current Obama Regime examples abound:

1. Thomas Jefferson – Author of the Declaration of Independence proclaiming every man’s divine right to liberty with no distinctions based on race; known as a champion of limited Government; believed in low taxes and balanced budgets
• Irony – owned hundreds of slaves, never freed them, even conducted a long term relationship with one that had several of his children
• Made the largest US Government expenditures to date without Congressional approval or Constitutional authority, the Louisiana Purchase
• Accumulated huge amounts of personal debt leaving his estate essentially bankrupt and insolvent

2. Abraham Lincoln – Assassinated after leading Union to a hard fought and costly victory in the War for Southern Independence
• Irony – Had comprehensive plans to repatriate the South without the harsh, destructive, and oppressive measures that were implemented during reconstruction that set reconciliation back for decades

3. Harry Truman – Kept in the dark by Roosevelt and his Ivey League pinheads about the A bomb who all considered Harry a no count white trash yahoo.
• Irony – After FDR’S death the so thought yahoo Truman made a decisive and courage’s decision to drop the bomb on Japan saving millions of Allied lives and bringing a rapid conclusion to the war by securing an unconditional surrender from the Japanese

4. Ike – A five star General and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during WWII who was overwhelmingly elected to the US Presidency after defeating Hitler with the largest and most technologically advanced army the world had ever seen
• Irony – The same man who coined the phrase and warned us of the dangers of creating a “Vast Industrial Military Complex“

5. George H W Bush – A genuine, bona fide, decorated war hero who was an Ace fighter pilot in WWII battling the Japanese in the Pacific
• Irony - Tagged by the left wing media elite press and political opponents as a wimp

6. Bill “Are you my new Intern darlin” Clinton - second US President to ever be impeached
• Irony – now considered one of the best Presidents of all time according to public opinion polls and certainly one of the most financially prosperous post Presidency

7. Barack Husain Obama – The most anti-war; anti-military; American apologist; Blame America first; Marxist; Socialist; Communist; Bolshevik; Racist; Class warfare advocating; weak kneed; limp wristed; Islamic Jihadist sympathizer; potential closet Muslim; Overseas contingency planner; manmade disaster; down grader of the War on Terrorism; Nobel Peace Prize winning; Government take overers of healthcare, energy, auto, financial, housing, agriculture, school lunches and pee wee football industries; criminally out of control spender of other people’s money; President to ever take the Oath of Office
• Irony – Ain’t no never mind about it no matter how much BS the Obama propaganda machine spews out about the mostly insane Socialist ideals and initiatives listed above the President would be plum tickled pink to be remembered for to his great chagrin from this point in time forward he’ll be known as the man that killed Usama Bin Laden

President Obama, his National Security team, the CIA, W and his Administration for their diligence for almost eight years and especially the Navy Seals Team 60 assault group all deserve credit for their bold decision to use a ground force intervention and their success in killing UBL while suffering zero US causalities. Thank the lord W had the foresight to use enhanced interrogation that paid off in spades with the acquisition of intelligence that started the chain evidence ultimately leading to President Obama’s order to take UBL out.

Sure is ironic how so many plans don’t turn out as initially intended. W fails to get UBL during his tenure but receives widespread praise, much deserving we might add. When Obama and his staff of seriously reluctant anti-terrorist warriors have the boy systematically executed.

The ironic icing on the cake W’s policies of using enhanced interrogation techniques, water boarding, serves as the catalyst of securing Mr. Obama’s place in history as the American President who killed UBL. Poetic justice at its damn sure ironic best.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-04-28T13:56:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 118: “Liars, Cheats & Hypocrites”

Bottom of the bottle sure makes you feel good
I'd like you better that way
So clap your hands and make up a song
I hear every word that you say

Cause the pot can't call the kettle black
Cause the train's all runnin' on the same ole track
Can't feel nothing but your life flyin' by
You got trouble on your hands, trouble on your mind Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black, Jerry Jeff Walker

Most if not all politicians are natural born liars, cheats and hypocrites. The current occupant of the White House is just et up with all three with a particular shine for hypocrisy at a level seldom if ever displayed by an American President.

Don’t seem to matter at all on each and every issue, policy and initiative advocated by this Administration there’s a strong prevailing attitude of “Do as we say not as we do”. The arrogance, disdain and contempt this crowd has for We the People is truly alarming.

Examples of Mr. Obama’s unabashed hypocrisy are more abundant than white on rice. Following is a representative list of his extreme hypocritical behavior:

• THE WAR IN IRAQ. Obama – “When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances, for waiting and patience is over. Too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent for us to trust the President on another tried-and-failed policy, opposed by generals and experts, opposed by Democrats and Republicans, opposed by Americans and even the Iraqis themselves. It is time to change our policy. It is time to give Iraqis their country back, and it is time to refocus America's effort on the wider struggle against terror yet to be won”.
After taking office the Administration claimed our victory in Iraq was one of their greatest successes to date. Even the Obama adoring left wing media elite press corps refused to support this Fairy Tale

• OBAMACARE. Over one thousand exceptions have been granted for the most part to Obama supporters and constituents including unions and other major donors. For a program proclaimed by supporters to be the greatest piece of legislation in the history of the Union does seem a tad peculiar so many Obamaites got a pass

• TAXES. In 2010 President Obama earned just north of $1,700,000. This wasn't gross earnings, this was adjusted earnings, the amount the president is responsible to pay taxes on. The actual amount of taxes he forked over was $450 thousand, 26% or there abouts. Almost every day for weeks now the President has enthusiastically claimed that millionaires like him should pay their fair share which in his way of reckoning is closer to 39%.

The IRS is tickled pink to receive donations so anytime you and your under taxed comrades are feeling cheated feel free to cut a check to make up the difference. Chances this would actually happen – When pigs fly; Hell freezes over; and the Obama gang doesn’t blame W for their criminally negligent fiscal policies

• GETTING A HANDLE ON THE SKYROCKETING COST OF GASOLINE. Senator Obama and his Socialist Secretary of Energy both advocated the need to increase the cost of a gallon of gas to $6-$7 bucks to force the end of our dependence on foreign oil and push us into a green energy economy come hell or high water prior to taking office.

Their moratorium on any domestic drilling, suppression of clean coal and shale exploration, and demonization of big oil and evil speculators has prices heading north while the empty rhetoric about punishing those responsible will have absolutely no effect on controlling cost. So far their devious plan to force feed us on their radical green agenda is working as well as a well oiled machine.

• LIBYA. Obama’s criticism of W’s Iraq policy - In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

• BIPARTISANSHIP. Attending a National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Obama said his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House and he urged members of Congress to rely on their own faith to build a spirit of civility in Washington. He said that at a time of bitter partisanship, lawmakers must find a way to be open to the ideas of others, while staying true to their core principles.

"I pray that God will show me and all of us the limits of our understanding and open our ears and our hearts to our brothers and sisters with different points of view, that such reminders of our shared hopes and our shared dreams and our shared limitations as children of God will reveal a way forward that we can travel together," the president said.

This is the same man who recently made these remarks about political opponents – “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”

• CIVILITY IN OUR POLITICAL DISCOURSE. Obama –“Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.”
And then had the following to say several days later - "So if you can't find a job or you can't afford college or don't have health insurance, tough luck -- you are on your own," Obama continued. "Now, if you're a Wall Street bank or an insurance company or an oil company like BP, come on in, help us write the regulations”

• SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. After a relatively short 118 weeks in office the Obama regime has increased spending by a big ass 86%. Their proposal to freeze spending at current levels claiming it was a major sacrifice on their part and a serious dent in the deficit is the ultimate hypocritical gesture. Recent comments about the GOP’S honest effort to advance real spending controls and deficit reduction have been greeted by a level of unprecedented hypocrisy extreme even for the Obama propaganda machine.

Obama - “Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America,” He added: “There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And I don’t think there’s anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill.”

• The President also personally invited several of his political opponents, including the author of the GOP Budget Proposal Congressman Ryan, to sit in the front row while he gave his 2012 campaign kickoff speech by making partisan attacks at Ryan's recently unveiled deficit-cutting proposals and Republicans in general during a 43 minute class warfare and race baiting diatribe

This most recent action is not only hypocritical but also just downright tacky. Business as usual for a Chicago political thug Yankee lawyer.

After 118 weeks, millions in legal fees to keep it secret, and no apparent good reason the President finally made his Birth Certificate public primarily in response to pressure from “The Donald” who’s made Mr. Obama’s citizenship a major campaign issue of late. God bless him he’s not only a natural born liar, cheat and hypocrite he’s also a natural born American citizen sure enough.

Good to know. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s a Marxist/Socialist, Islamic Jihadist sympathizer, and the worst President in US history but good to know just the same.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

A special message: Our thoughts and prayers go out to all our fellow Alabamians and Americans whose lives were adversely impacted by yesterday’s catastrophic storms.

2011-04-21T21:20:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 117: “There is no such thing as a good tax” Winston Churchill

Income tax is overdue, I think she is too
Been busted and I'll probably get busted some more
But I'll catch it all later, can't let em stop me now
I've been down this road once or twice before

Just gettin' by on gettin' bys my stock in trade
Living it day to day
Pickin' up the pieces wherever they fall
Just letting it roll, letting the high times carry the low
I'm just living my life easy come, easy go
Just Getting By, Jerry Jeff Walker

Monday of Week 117 of the “Ain’t never met a new tax we didn’t welcome with open arms and a big ole sloppy wet kiss” Obama Administration marked the most holy, sacred, and celebrated day on the Democrat’s political calendar, National Tax Day. The annual ritual in this great but sometime so willingly misguided country that serves as the catalyst for the most massive redistribution of wealth in the history of the wealth redistributing world.

Why all of us poor dumb pilgrims not only tolerate but actually participate in this insane legalized extortion year after year is sure enough a real head scratcher. Ain’t no never mind about it our dutiful willingness to continue to throw good money after bad is a strong indication how successful the left wing propaganda machine, spearheaded by the main stream media elite, have been in setting the terms of the debate when it comes to taxes.

FDR, a Socialist with a strong Capitalist streak, started all this insanity with his New Deal back in 1930’s establishing a tax payer funded safety net for old folks that has absolutely no Constitutional legitimacy. The next big surge to the extreme left fringes was LBJ’s, a rare breed indeed being the only devout Marxist/Socialist from the great state of Texas to ever get himself elected to high office, Great Society that was the start of Uncle Sammy’s hostile takeover of the US Healthcare industry

Now we have our first bona fide Marxist/Socialist/Communist holding court at the White House, Barack Hussein Obama, who along with his merry band of tax cheats; illegal Presidential Czars; Green energy radicals; unabashed, open, out of the closet Bolsheviks; Union bosses; Criminal Community Action Organizations; and Chicago political thugs who have in the relative short period of time of only 117 weeks increased annual deficits by $1 Trillion every year since taking office with future deficit spending projected for as far as the eye can see at these same immoral levels.

So far the results achieved from this criminally negligent deficit spending is record high and prolonged unemployment; an at best extremely precarious recovery with economic growth as slow as molasses; skyrocketing oil/gas and food prices; and a $14 Trillion national debt that’s projected to double or even triple over the next ten years. The President’s response to this fiscal disaster – class warfare. Increase taxes on million and billionaires, actually every hard working individual or married couple making over $250 thousand a year.

In full campaign mode since delivering his so called Economic/Budget priorities address last Wednesday when he remarked all of us need to pay our fair share especially those wealthiest amongst us who have benefitted the most and in his opinion are chomping at the bit to cut Uncle Sammy a big fat check beyond and above their legal tax liability. We have it on good authority from highly placed sources at the IRS that to date the only check received of this nature was from Willie Nelson with a note attached requesting the proceeds from said check be credited to any future delinquent payments.

After reviewing the actual financial status of US tax payers the so called wealthy not only already pay a fair share they fork out an an extraordinary disproportionate amount of greenbacks to keep this country open for business. Consider the following:

• THE TOP 1% OF WAGE EARNERS PAY 38% OF THE TAXES
• THE TOP 5% PAY 59%
• THE TOP 10% PAY 70%
• THE TOP 25% PAY 86%

According to a recent Wall Street Journal Study if Uncle Sammy confiscated all the taxable income of all the millionaires and billionaires Mr. Obama claims are so eager to pay their fair share the revenue generated would only amount to $938 billion or there abouts. With a proposed $4 trillion White House budget, including a $1.65 trillion deficit, an additional $938 billion doesn’t even come into shouting distance of breaking even with no chance In hell of putting even a frog’s hair worth of a dent in our accumulated national debt.

Truth be told anyone who advocates that taxing the rich is the path to fiscal Nirvana is either lying like a cheap rug or crazier than an outhouse rat. It would seem the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue resides in both camps.

In our way of reckoning every fellow citizen who currently pays income tax is getten gigged by Uncle Sammy. If the Lord only wants 10% what in the name of Moody’s Goose gives the Feds the right to seize 15%-38% of our annual earnings.

We do agree with our “Tax Collector-in-Chief” that everyone should pay their fair share. That being said it’s high time for the 47% of wage earners at the lower income levels that don’t pay a thin dime of income taxes to belly up to the bar and join the party.

It’s seems only fair to us if you live here, work here and generate income an annual contribution along with all your fellow tax payers is more than appropriate. We all have a stake in this grand political experiment and no wage earners should be excluded from participating.

Besides, including the victim class along with a low flat rate for everybody would not only interject some much needed equity in the system it would also generate more than enough revenue to allow the Fed to meet its Constitutional obligations. A similar revision to corporate and business income taxes would eliminate the need for growth and job killing measures the likes of the capital gains tax while adding trillions to the Federal treasury.

We certainly agree with Sir Winston Churchill’s viewpoint that “There is no such thing as a good tax” but reluctantly acknowledge the necessity of some form of taxation so we can keep the lights on and fund other Constitutional imperatives up in DC. Sharing the pain equally with the mostly Obama constituents in the victim class and simplifying the tax code sure enough doesn’t create a good tax but it would possibly make um a tad bit more tolerable to live with.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-04-14T00:37:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 116: "A Spending Binge of Obamic Proportions"

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder I'm an over-forty victim of fate Arriving too late, arriving too late I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast Never meant to last, never meant to last A Pirate Looks at Forty, Jimmy Buffett

Our record breaking “Spender of Other People’s Money-in-Chief“ has sure enough taken the wealthiest country in the history of the civilized world on a 116 week spending binge of historic and unprecedented proportions. With more than enough revenue coming in to the Federal treasury to meet all of our Constitutional obligations plus some the Hope, Change, and Believe gang have brought us to within a frog’s hair of financial ruin since infesting the White House a tad north of two years ago.

Having failed to pass a budget for fiscal year 2011 last fall the previously Democrat controlled House, Senate, and Presidency left it up to the new GOP controlled House to clean up their mess and avoid a government shutdown. After some serious political theatre and grandstanding primarily by the likes of ultra left wing head cases including Senate Majority Leader Harry “the Mormon Enforcer” Reid; Senator Chucky “No Shame Whiner Boy” Schumer from New York; VP Uncle Joe “Dumber Than a Bag of Hammers” Biden; and the lead big spender hiself Barack “Money Bags” Obama our Liberal brethren “caved” and agreed to $40 Billion or so in budget cuts for 2011.

Akin to a thousand lawyers found dead and buried at the bottom of the sea, it’s a good start; cutting $40 Billion from a projected $1.6 Trillion shortfall (Loss/deficit) for FY 2011 is a move in the right direction but a moral victory at best. The reality is we need to slash the FY 2011 budget by $1.6 Trillion, from a total budget of $3.6 Trillion or there abouts, break even this year and commit to not only balancing but creating a surplus allowing us to pay off our $14 Trillion dollar accumulated national debt in the next five years or less.

We fully appreciate the political establishment from both ends of the spectrum consider our balanced budget initiatives as an extreme, radical, wild eyed, economic and political impossibility. Reckon they just might be right but when compared to the abundantly more and more likely possibility of Mr. Obama and his fellow Socialist comrades doubling or even tripling of our accumulated debt to $28 - $42 Trillion over the next 10 years our so called extremist and/or Draconian cuts (trimming the fat, eliminating waste, letting go of all the dead weight) appear to be the epitome of fiscal responsibility and sound financial planning.

To put our current economic train wreck and looming fiscal catastrophe in perspective all courtesy of the Obama Administration’s criminally negligent spending binge a brief review of the Country’s recent financial performance in several key areas might just provide some valuable insight on our pending bankruptcy.

Consider the following:

NATIONAL DEBT

• 1950 - $257.3 Billion • 1980 - $907.7 Billion • 2000 - $5.8 Trillion • 2008 - $10.07 Trillion • Current - $14.5 Trillion

NATIONAL DEBT BY PRESIDENT STARTING WITH REAGAN

• Reagan – $1.7 Trillion increase • George H.W. Bush’s One Term – $1.6 trillion increase • Clinton – $1.5 Trillion increase • W – $4 Trillion increase • Obama’s first two years – $4 Trillion increase • Obama’s remaining two years - $4 Trillion additional for the truly criminal grand total $8 Trillion increase

FEDERAL REVENUES

• 1950 - $39.4 Billion • 1980 - $517.1 Billion • 2000 - $2 Trillion • 2008 - $2.5 Trillion • Current - $2.2 Trillion

FEDERAL SPENDING • 1950 - $42.6 Billion • 1980 - $591 Billion • 2000 - $1.8 Trillion • 2008 - $2.9 Trillion • Current - $3.8 Trillion

LARGEST ANNUAL FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICITS

• 2011, Obama - $1.65 Trillion, EST. • 2009, Obama - $1.4 Trillion • 2010, Obama - $1.3 Trillion • 2012, Obama - $1.25 Trillion, EST.

Ain’t no never mind about it Barack Husain Obama is one world shaking spending fool. Under his stewardship Government spending has exploded to the record level of $3.8 Trillion and all we got to show for it is anemic growth, historically high rates of private sector unemployment, a housing market that can’t seem to dig itself out of the 7th level of hell, and the transformation of our country into the world’s largest Socialist Nanny state.

Mr. Obama has also generated the four highest annual budget deficits in our nation’s history, is in the process of doubling our accumulated National Debt and has seen Federal revenues nose dive to Fiscal Year 2000 levels. This is a record of dubious achievement unparalleled in our Nation’s history.

If W or any other Republican turned in such a dismal performance the left wing media elite along with a healthy number of conservatives would justifiably run their happy asses out of town on a rail. President Obama gets a pass instead of the public ridicule and condemnation his dangerous and failed fiscal policies so richly deserve.

On Wednesday our “Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief“ made his second address to the nation outlining his proposed FY 2012 Budget priorities and alleged plans to get our arms around his unsustainable spending and deficits. A fiercely partisan speech that offered absolutely nothing new or productive to the national debate.

Classic Marxist tactics right out of the Communist Manifesto the President accused the GOP of evil intentions and stressed the following points:

• Class warfare- tax the rich even more and protect the victim class

• Generational warfare – starve Granny, cutoff Pop’s meds and take back his walker

• Blame others, W, for his failures and take credit for others achievements, some positive movement in job market after W era tax rates were extended

• Falsely describing GOP budget proposals as extreme, radical, mean spirited and deeply pessimistic

President Obama’s criminal, record shattering, downright irresponsible and just plum insane spending binge will hopefully be brought to an abrupt halt by the Republican controlled House. Bless his heart, let’s hope going cold turkey on spending other people’s money without restraint doesn’t push him over the edge from Progressive Socialist too hardcore Communist.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-04-07T00:04:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 115: "Words Have Meaning and Names Have Power.

" Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.

And I wnt to pick her up in the rain.

But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck

She got runned over by a damned old train.

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me

And I never minded standin' in the rain.

No, You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'

You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me

Why don't you ever call me by my name

Perfect Country Western Song, David Allen Coe.

“Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too” David McKay

“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fuller,

I regret to inform you that your next generational relations (son), Major T.S. “Cobra” Fuller, was relieved of his secular eternal life force (killed) during a Kinetic Military Action (bombing raid) in our ongoing Overseas Contingency Operation (War) in our UN (International Corruption Club) mandated humanitarian intervention (Act of War) Odyssey Dawn (editorial remarks to follow ). Major Fuller served with distinction under a NATO, French, German, and Canadian Command and Control structure (Obama’s MIA US strategy resulting in a genuine Mongolian C.F.) costing the U.N. Coalition (A Group Mongolian C.F.) precious time, resources, and lives.

Please be comforted in the knowledge that your son’s U.N. sanctioned demise (blowed up or burnt alive doing MACH 2 at 10,000 feet above the Libyan desert) did nothing to enhance our National Security interest (Apology, Appeasement, Bend over grab our ankles, Thank you sir may I have another Muslim foreign policy) or eliminate any “Clear and Present Danger” to our Nation. Cobra’s ultimate sacrifice did reinforce our commitment to stand in unison with our fellow Global Citizens (Marxist/Communist/ Socialist brethren) as just another country amongst equals (American exceptionalism, leadership, values and interest be damned)…..

…. In closing, I’d be just plumb tickled pink if you would provide us with your email address, the same from ten friends, and a minimum of a $100 contribution for my reelection campaign. I’m sure Cobra would enthusiastically appreciate your support.

Respectfully yours,

Barack H Obama

Commander-in-Chief

What a sure enough pathetic state of affairs. Placing US Armed Services in harm’s way in an overseas conflict that our Secretary of Defense publically declared is no threat to our National interest or security while testifying to Congress.

To add insult to injury the Administration refuses to acknowledge this is an Act of War, refer to it as a Kinetic Military Action, and named the mission Odyssey Dawn. A truly sad and misguided attempt to trick us all into thinking this commitment of US troops is actually anything but a combat mission.

Amazingly, President Obama and his gang of Socialist propagandist at the White House, seemingly have bought into the philosophy so eloquently stated by Mr. McKay, “Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too”, hook, line and sinker and have employed this strategy to promote their radical left wing agenda. From their government takeover of healthcare to the most recent absolutely absurd mission name for the Libyan conflict the Presidential wordsmiths arrogantly believe a simple name change will effectively hide their true intent from all of us poor dumb pilgrims.

Starting with Odyssey Dawn following is a list of the Obama Administration’s attempts to fool We the People with misleading and distorted names/titles to advance their Marxist policy initiatives:

1. Odyssey Dawn – Now there’s a name that’s sure to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy. What the hell does it even mean?

An odyssey is defined as “a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune or an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest”. “Dawn is to begin to grow light as the sun rises, begin to appear or develop and to begin to be perceived or understood”.

So is this the beginning of a long wandering or quest in Libya? Not according to the President who declared the exact opposite.

A sure enough pitiful attempt to disguise an Act of War by the US with a farce of a name that makes the President of the United States look like a big ole fool and further diminishes our standing in the world. Besides, it just ain’t fitten to name a combat mission after a Vegas stripper, New York hooker and/or a recreational cruise ship.

Compared to previous mission names Odyssey Dawn certainly draws a stark comparison. When stacked up against Desert Shield; Desert Storm; Desert Saber; Desert Strike; Desert Fox; and Enduring Freedom it just don’t even come close to getting the bulldog fed.

This may also be a direct result of the appeal of DADT. Only an openly gay Army PR Officer would ever name a major combat mission Odyssey Dawn.”

2. Overseas Contingency Plan – War on Terrorism

3. Man Made Disaster – Domestic Terrorist Attack

4. Obamacare – Socialized Medicine

5. Economic Stimulus Package – Massive, Unprecedented, Redistribution of Wealth

6. Financial Regulation Act – Unconstitutional seizure of US Banking and Financial Services industry

7. Undocumented Immigrants or Displaced Foreign Travelers - Criminal Illegal Immigrants

8. Pollution Reduction and Investment - Cap & Trade Bill

9. Global Climate Disruption - Global Warming

10. Obama Tax Cuts – Extension of Bush Era Tax Rates

President Obama hasn’t even a fog hair’s worth of respect for the American people. His continued attempts to hoodwink the public with this name change insanity is a strong indication of his conviction that we are all nothing but a bunch of ignorant yahoos.

One name change we do enthusiastically endorse is the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. President Obama to “One Term Loser” sure as hell would be the finest kind of change anyone with a lick of sense could hope for and strongly believe in.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-03-31T08:53:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 114: "The Obama Doctrine"

“Take for example when you go to the movies these days, you know.
They try to sell you this jumbo drink, 8 extra ounces of watered
down cherry coke for an extra 25 cents. I don't want it.
I don't want that much organization in my life.
I don't want other people thinking for me.
I want my junior mints. Where did the junior mints go in the
movies? I don't want a 12 lb. nestles crunch for 25 dollars. I
want junior mints.

We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers!

Fruitcakes in the kitchen
Fruitcakes on the bus
Struttin naked through the crosswalk
In the middle of the week
Half-baked cookies in the oven
Half-baked people on the bus
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us”
Fruitcakes, Jimmy Buffett

Everybody needs a Doctrine to live by. An expression of one’s core values, philosophy, priorities that shape our decisions, actions and conduct.

Mr. Buffett’s doctrine of it’s always 5:00 somewhere; getting wasted away in Margarittaville again; that one particular harbor; a white sports coat and a pink oyster crustacean; and celebrating that little piece of fruitcake securely tucked away in each and every one of us has secured his position as the ultimate thought leader in modern day musical, poetic and philosophical escapism. We also seem to expect our Presidents to formulate and articulate their own personal doctrine with military strategy and foreign policy being of particular interest.

Following are a few examples:
• THE MONROE DOCTRINE proclaimed the United States' opinion that European powers should no longer colonize the Americas or interfere with the affairs of sovereign nations located in the Americas
• TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S DOCTRINE "speaking softly but carrying a big stick”
• TRUMAN DOCTRINE, containment of the Soviet Union at all cost
• EISENHOWER DOCTRINE, "to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism."
• THE KENNEDY DOCTRINE voiced support for the containment of Communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere.
• THE JOHNSON DOCTRINE declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when "the object is the establishment of a Communist dictatorship”
• THE NIXON DOCTRINE stated that the United States henceforth expected its allies to assume primary responsibility for their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War
• THE CARTER DOCTRINE stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf. The doctrine was a response to the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union
• REAGAN DOCTRINE "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives...on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua ... to defy Soviet aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self-defense."
• CLINTON DOCTRINE, “It's easy ... to say that we really have no interests in who lives in this or that valley in Bosnia, or who owns a strip of brushland in the Horn of Africa, or some piece of parched earth by the Jordan River. But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names. The question we must ask is what are the consequences to our security of letting conflicts fester and spread. We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything or be everywhere. But where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must be prepared to do so.”
• THE BUSH DOCTRINE declared that the U.S. would "make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them," the Bush Doctrine has come to be identified with a policy that permits preventive war against potential aggressors before they are capable of mounting attacks against the United States.

So far based on word and deed blame America first; apology; appeasement; indecisiveness; passivism; incompetent; confused; and boneheaded all accurately describe the Obama Doctrine. “Bend over, grab our ankles, thank you sir may I have another, pucker up buttercup” also sure enough truly captures the spirit of our National Security challenged so called Commander-in-Chief’s limp wristed Foreign Policy.

Monday night’s pre-prime time Presidential address (a first) from some new location called the Defense College (not the Oval Office, another first) xplainin our military intervention in Libya certainly advanced the weak kneed Obama Doctrine further. Instead of assurances of victory, Khadafy’s demise and US exceptionalism Mr. Obama was just tickled pink to inform us of his success in obtaining UN and Arab League support, our abdication of leadership and intent to tuck tail and run at the first opportune moment.

Following are some highlights/lowlights from the President’s address:

• Tonight, I’d like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya –- what we’ve done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us. We have led, don’t you really mean the French, Germans and Italians. Sad but so unfortunately true
• At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. Qaddafi declared he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we wanted — if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.
• It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen. And so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress, I authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution. Probably the right thing to do but a matter of our National interest, doubtful at best.
• Moreover, we’ve accomplished these objectives consistent with the pledge that I made to the American people at the outset of our military operations. I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners. Tonight, we are fulfilling that pledge. Tuck tail and running home like a scalded dog.
• To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya. Despite our ultimate success of establishing a Democracy smack dab in the middle of the Middle East wouldn’t be an Obama speech without an unfounded jab at W.
• Hot damn, I got permission from the UN, Arab League, Muslim Brotherhood, Ted Turner and Jimmy “the Peanut” Carter and there ain’t no never mind about it it just don’t get any better than that

“Bend over, grab our ankles, thank you sir may I have another, pucker up buttercup”, the Obama Doctrine, diminishes our standing in the world, encourages our enemies, and compromises old alliances and relationships with traditional allies. Reckon we’d most likely all be better off adopting the Buffett Doctrine and remain wasted in Margarettaville till the insanity of the Obama Administration comes to an abrupt and most deserving demise in November 2012.

Cheers!

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-03-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 113: "Missing In Action"

I must look a mess I must admit
But I have been travelling quite a bit
South of the border
Where the law and order
Is kept by federales who just grin
And tell you they just want to be your friend
“Tampico Trauma”, Jimmy Buffett

“Turn off the lights, the party’s over”; AWOL; “good night Irene”; later dude; headed for the border; out of here; where abouts unknown; fare the well; adios boys; Elvis has definitely, beyond the shadow of any doubt, sure enough done left the building; our fearless leader is officially “Missing in Action”. Barack Husain Obama has literally abdicated our great Nation’s position as the leader of the free world and left the country with the kinfolk for a South/Central American Spring Break vacation.

For reasons only a Bolshevik could truly appreciate our MIA Pacifist-in-Chief seems to be taking a pass on every major issue currently confronting the Nation. Starting with this year’s budget that should have been completed this time last year, unsustainable and national security compromising levels of annual deficits and accumulated debt; record high unemployment; startling new rates of inflation; unrest throughout the Middle East; the catastrophe in Japan; and our most recent potential unmitigated disaster, the commitment of US Armed forces in Libya, the absence of US Presidential leadership is cause for great consternation, anger and despair.

Not that Libya’s Dictator of forty-two years isn’t deserving of an up close and personal rondavue with a US Tomahawk Cruise Missile or a public hanging. After untold acts of international terrorism and crimes against humanity it’s high time, Moamar Khaddafi, a bombastic seemingly genetic cross between Michael Jackson and a cave troll was brought to justice.

Designated as the “Mad Dog of the Middle East” by Ronald Reagan Khaddafi’s terrorist rap sheet justifies international condemnation as well as the scorn of his oppressed countrymen. Following is a brief summary of his terrorist credentials:

• Sponsorship of rebel movements in West Africa, notably Sierra Leone and Liberia, through the support of terrorist activities

• Supported Islamic revolution in Iran.

• Major financier of the Black September Movement. The Jihadist behind the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics

• Responsible for the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 200, including a substantial number of US servicemen.

• 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am 103 which resulted in hundreds of casualties including dozens of US citizens

• Chemical weapons development. and proliferation

In addition to his impressive terrorist portfolio the man is also a certifiable head case. Truth be told he’s crazier than a runt over dog and an outhouse rat.

He dresses like a mixture of an Arab clown and New Orleans drag queen, conducts regular 4-5 hours rants on Libyan TV on urgent topics ranging from the proper care and well being of the family camel to sharing recipes for a Libyan favorite goat eye surprise. He also frequently claims to be President Obama’s real father which when all is said and done really ain’t that far of a stretch.

So, three weeks ago when Libyan Rebels instigated an insurrection to over throw ole Mad Dog and immediately seemingly won The President of the United State’s full support based on his declaration it was time for the illegitimate dictator to step down and let freedom ring most of us folks around here said what the hell. Even though he’s not an imminent threat or clear and present danger to Uncle Sammy in consideration of past transgressions and his absolutely butt ugly wardrobe fine by us if we help take the boy out.

US and International support was obviously music to the ears to Libyan Rebels and with the promise of military assistance on the way the insurgency stepped up efforts to over throw the Khaddafi regime. Unfortunately, after substantial initial gains with expectations of US support the President went MIA for almost three weeks resulting in thousands of rebel casualties and a brutal and effective response from Khaddafi forces.

Finally after day after endless day of leaving the Rebels out to dry while also selling out the US oil industry and millions of American jobs during a visit to Brazil our “Can’t Even Go to the Bathroom Without Somebody’s Permission Wimp-in-Chief” announced he’d smooched enough butt and obtained authorization to proceed with a military intervention in Libya. Not from Congress, no sir, no way, but from the likes of his fellow Global Citizens at the UN; NATO; the Arab league; the AFL-CIO; ACORN; the NCAA; and probably even the Muslim Brotherhood for good measure.

To make matters worse he then informed us all, openly and without shame, standing right on up there like he had good sense that our leadership of this fiasco would be strictly limited to a week or so and that command and control would be turned over to an international committee chaired by our good friends and allies France. Our so called Commander-in-Chief is sure enough authorizing the subordination of the US Military to French control.

A policy if actually implemented that just has to be an impeachable offense. According to the United States Constitution, Article II, Section 4 Impeachment should be considered when:

• "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

• Constitutional Scholars generally agree "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" are (1) real criminality -- breaking a law; (2) abuses of power; (3) "violation of public trust" as defined by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers

• In 1970, then Representative Gerald R. Ford defined impeachable offenses as "whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”

• In the past Congress has issued Articles of Impeachment for acts in three general categories -1. Exceeding the constitutional bounds of the powers of the office. 2. Behavior grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the office. 3. Employing the power of the office for an improper purpose or for personal gain

• Any President who justifiably receives a verbal what for from a French government official for acting in a fiscally irresponsible and Socialist manner

• Authorizing the subordination of any US military troops to foreign control with even swifter and more severe punishment rendered when France is the foreign power granted such authority

In our way of reckoning the President is very likely guilty of committing at least 113 impeachable offenses. This is a “WAG” predicated on one infraction a week since taking the Oath of Office that in all likely hood would prove to be an extremely conservative estimate if subjected to more rigorous scrutiny.

Barack Obama’s MIA, AWOL, voting present, Community Organizer, and inability to act in an assertive and decisive manner approach to governance has set the removal of Khaddafi back by weeks if not months and even worse caused the addition of thousands of rebel insurgents and noncombatants killed and wounded. A bewildering strategy indeed for an Administration hell bent on winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world no never mind how much the standing and prestige of the Red, White and Blue is diminished in the process.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-03-09T21:15:00.001-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 111: “Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea”

I pulled into the regular pump
I was feelin quite at ease
I rolled down my window and told the man, fifty cents worth please
Then out jumped my partner with his trusty pellet gun
He said, boy this is a holdup, keep a pumpin and don't run

And now I wish I was somewhere other than here
Down in some honky tonk, sippin on a beer
Yes I wish I was somewhere other than here
Because that great fillin station holdup
Cost me two good years
“The Great Filling Station Hold Up”, Jimmy Buffett

Sure enough about the only subject most frequently discussed in this country besides the weather is the price of a gallon of gasoline. Comparisons to their last fill up; the stations with the best deals; the dirty rotten SOB’s that are steeling us blind; folks proudly bragging about driving an extra twenty miles to save 3 cents a gallon; and of course assigning blame for those responsible for unjustifiably jackn up prices.

Targets of our pump priming rage include Middle Eastern oil producing countries; OPEC; commodities speculators; and as the Obama Administration describes them as evil, corrupt, earth hating, anti-green, murderous, thieving, self serving, greedy Oil Companies that actually have the audacity to attempt making a profit on their goods and services. All the typical suspects that certainly do have a major influence on the cost of crude but not the price manipulating scoundrels currently driving gas and oil prices to possibly unprecedented and record breaking levels.

That most dubious honor seems to be reserved for none other than our “Global Price Manipulator Just Can’t Wait for $7 Dollars a Gallon – in – Chief” the President of these here United States hiself, Barack Husain Obama. The man advocating an anti-oil/gas energy policy that if successfully implemented will surely bring this country to its knees with the speed, clarity of intent, and enthusiasm so publically demonstrated by our old friend White House Intern Monica Lewinski.

Perhaps a brief review of the current status of this most volatile of global commodity markets will serve as a logical starting point for our little expose on Obama’s hostile takeover of the worldwide energy industry:

• Gas prices have done exploded by over 21% since the protests in Libya began with the national average for a gallon of gas at $3.43
• Since the initiation of political protest in Egypt, the subsequent domino effect and even plans for marches in Saudi Arabia the cost of a barrel of oil has increased from the high $70’s to north of $100 per barrel this week
• Many industry experts including T Boone Pickens and Eric Bolling predict $140-$150 a barrel by the end of summer if increases in demand are realized as currently projected
• Prices this high for a barrel of crude will equate to $5 - $7 a gallon at the pump and millions of really agitated pilgrims who aren’t gonna take to kindly to shelling out more than $200 every time they top off a tank.

President Obama is hell bent on creating an environment that supports high gas prices convinced this is the only path to big oil’s ultimate demise and the public’s acceptance of his bark eating tree humping eco extremist compadres wild eyed dreams of a totally green, recyclable, UN governed global village. In his own words during a 2008 interview Candidate Obama stated he didn’t mind high gas prices, but would prefer a “gradual adjustment”.

Current events in the Middle East sure enough have accelerated his fanatical eco green dreams of an oil and carbon free energy infrastructure replaced by US Government subsidized clean energy technology that is ten times less efficient and 50% more expensive than existing sources. Good news for Al “Midnight Massage Boy” Gore and all his insider carbon trading comrades but nothing but more heart ache and financial calamity for all of us poor dumb pilgrims paying the tab for this insanity.

We openly and without shame acknowledge the conspiracy theory overtones of our accusations about the Obama Administration’s Socialist conversion and illegal price fixing of the global oil and gas markets. However, truth be told, evidence supporting our claim is more abundant than white on rice.

Consider the following:

1. TAPS - the largest pipeline in America— is currently not using two-third of its capacity. Alaska could send 1.4 million barrels more per day to the lower forty-eight. Unfortunately, Uncle Sammy owns most of the land and all of the offshore waters, and it won’t permit development of new resources.
2. For example, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska has millions of barrels that the Obama administration is prohibiting drilling. No coherent explanation for this decision has been forthcoming
3. ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, has at least 10.4 billion barrels of oil but domestic exploration is currently considered a crime against nature by the eco head cases. It just don’t make no never mind what so ever to these boneheads that 95% of ANWR is a frozen tundra and the only life that can be found in this frozen wasteland is half frozen bark eating tree humping eco extremist and Sarah Palin filming an episode of her realty TV show
4. After the BP disaster in the Gulf the Obamanites didn’t waste anytime exploiting the crisis to further advance their extreme green agenda by imposing an illegal moratorium on drilling that for all practical purposes is still in effect today in defiance of a Federal Judge’s orders costing literally tens of thousands of jobs.
5. The economic and energy wizards in the Obama Administration have blocked the exploration for and production of shale oil in the Rockies and all over the Western US even as we sit atop enough shale oil reserves to meet all of our domestic oil needs for the next 100 years. Anyone opposed to pursuing this opportunity should be tried for treason.

Sure enough don’t know if President Obama’s failure to put us on the road to energy independence and obvious aggressive opposition to achieving this objective raises to level of a treasonous offense or not. Considering the National Security implications it damn sure ought too.

If not treason definitely impeachable. With already having committed one such offense, taking a justifiable what for tongue lashing from the President of France for his grand Socialist transformation plans and record breaking expenditures of others people’s money, a genuine, bonified, impeachable offense, it may just be high time for the GOP controlled House to be assembling a Prosecution team to put our “Marxist-in-Chief” on trial for high crimes and misdemeanors in conflict with the Constitution of the United States of America.

Impeachment of our 44th President. The one topic that might just surpass the weather, the price of a gallon of gas, and Charlie Sheen’s crazy ass behavior as the most frequently discussed topic in corporate break rooms, social network sites and the bars/pubs so generously sprinkled all across this great nation.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-03-02T21:48:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 110: TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

“Louie, Louie, Oh no
I said we gotta go
Louie, Louie, Oh baby
I said we gotta go” The Kingsman, Performed by The Late, Great, John Belushi

Bluto, Otter, Boone, D Day and the rest of the Gentleman of the Delta House from the sure enough best college feel good movie of all time don’t have nothing on the Obama White House when it comes to throwing a classic band party. Otis Day and the Knights, especially their Toga Party rendition of “Shout” – “Gator! Gator! Gator”!, really raised the roof In the Delta Party Room but it doesn’t even hold a “Bic lighter Free Bird” candle to the Obama’s Band Party line up of musical legends and luminaries.

Our “Front Row Chief Executive Party Hound-In-Chief” keeps blathering about shared sacrifice during these dire economic times while putting on a star studded shindig seemingly every week at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The First Family is giving Charlie Sheen and Lindsey Lohan a run for their money for our Nation’s most notorious “party time central”.

But don’t just take our word for it according to the White House’s official website and Propaganda Misinformation Center the following entertainers have already played for the Obamas and their mostly high society celebrity guest since they infested the Executive Mansion 110 short weeks ago:

• Rodrigo & Gabriela – Favorites of our millions of criminal illegal immigrants and their rich patrons like the Obamas
• Beyoncé – Bless her heart, rumor has it both VP Biden and AG Holder required emergency medical services following her sexually charged performance
• "A Broadway Celebration”: Emceed by Nathan Lane and included Idina Menzel, Brian d'Arcy James, Audra McDonald, Chad Kimball, Elaine Stritch, Marvin Hamlisch, Karen Olivo, Tonya Pinkins, Assata Alston and a youth ensemble from the Joy of Motion Dance Center and Duke Ellington School of the Arts, with Danielle Arci and Constantine Rousouli. Doubt any of these folks have recently sung the National Anthem at a NASCAR event or Monster Truck Rally.
• Paul McCartney. The evening included performances by McCartney himself and Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Jonas Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae, Dave Grohl, Faith Hill, Emmylou Harris, Lang Lang and Jack White, with remarks by Jerry Seinfeld. Sir Paul publically insulted W and true to his tacky Yankee no class self Mr. Obama failed to defend the dignity or honor of the Presidency
• "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" in honor of Black History Month. The evening featured songs from the Civil Rights Movement performed by top entertainers, as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings. Artists included Yolanda Adams, Joan Baez, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Howard University Choir and The Freedom Singers, featuring Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett and Toshi Reagon. Morgan Freeman was a guest speaker. As a grand finale Obama political mentor and domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, blew up a couple of Government buildings.
• "In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina" a concert hosted by the President and Mrs. Obama on the South Lawn of the White House. The program celebrates Hispanic musical heritage and includes performances by Marc Anthony, Jimmy Smits, Eva Longoria Parker, Pete Escovedo, Gloria Estefan, José Feliciano, George Lopez, Thalía, Tito "El Bambino", the Bachata music group Aventura, and the Chicano rock band Los Lobos. Another pucker up buttercup tribute to all of our “Illegal criminal immigrants.
• An evening of celebration with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House in honor of musician Stevie Wonder. The concert included performances by Wonder with popular musicians including India Arie; Tony Bennett; Wayne Brady; Anita Johnson; Diana Krall; Mary Mary; Martina McBride; Rickey Minor; Paul Simon; Esperanza Spalding; and Will.i.am. performing a selection of Wonder's hit songs. Mr. Wonder formally greeted the First Couple by remarking, “Long time no see”
• Black History Month was highlighted at the White House with a celebration of Motown music. Performers included Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow and John Legend. To our knowledge Otis Day or none of the Knights were attendance.

Concerts and band parties scheduled for the future honor various members of the Administration and feature more iconic figures from the entertainment industry. A few of the more high profile events on Barack and the First Lady’s social calendar include:

• A tribute to VP “Mr. Gaffe Dumber than a Bag of Hammers” Biden featuring Irish drinking band Sean O’Neal singing many of Uncle Joe’s all time favorites – “Little Brown Jug”; “Jug of Punch”; and “Mr. O‘Gaffe O’Dumber than a O’Bag of O’Hammers”
• A night celebrating Hillary “Sarge Keeper of the Traveling Butt Ugly Pants Suit Clan” with guest artist’s Tammy Wynette singing “Stand By Your Man” in honor of hubby Bill and “Lyin Eyes” by the Eagles, one of her more endearing characteristics
• An evening honoring Gay, Lesbian, and Deviant Sexual Behavior Month. Entertainers include Sir Elton John, Lady Ga Ga and Al “Climate Change and Late Night Perv” Gore
• Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security Night in recognition of her open borders welcome every criminal illegal immigrant with open arms and a sloppy wet kiss policies. Entertainment provided by Mexican singer Luis Miguel who is currently living in this country illegally and is a house guest of the Obama’s
• A salute to the White House Czars. Appearances by the Russian Ballet; a Presidential reading of the Communist Manifesto; and America’s number one Marxist herself Babs Streisand

Got to give the man credit he ain’t gonna let a couple of shooting wars; Middle East insanity; a lunatic Despot in Lybia; record high unemployment at home; a war on our southern border; a major housing crisis; exploding deficits and national debt; massive wealth distribution; and the reckless and unprecedented expenditure of other people’s money interfere with his busy social calendar.

“Grab a brew. Don't cost nothin'”. Bluto, “Animal House”

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-02-25T16:03:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 109: Cheese Heads & Boneheads

Now the man with the big hat is buying
Drink up while the drinking is free
Drink up to the cowboys a dead or a dying
Drink to my compadres and me
Drink to my compadres and me “The Man With the Big Hat” Jerry Jeff Walker

Wisconsin Public Service Employee Union members, teachers, have adorned their tacky but tolerably cute Cheese Heads made famous by the Super Bowl Champion Packer Nation and in the best of the 60’s style stick it to the man protest mode descended on the State Capital in Madison to whine like a wounded hound dog about how unfairly the new GOP Administration is treating the under paid unappreciated state public servants.

It would seem the new Republican Governor and GOP State Senate’s proposed legislation terminating the insane practice of conducting non salary collective bargaining with the Public Sector Education Union ain’t exactly setten to well with the good teachers of Wisconsin.
Back in our nation’s capital, bless his Bolshevik Labor Union lovin heart he just can’t seem to help it, our “Bonehead-in-Chief” has interjected the power and prestige of the Office of the President in what should be limited to a Statewide reaction at the most.

Mr. Obama has publicly denounced the Governor’s intiative as nothing more than a blatant abuse of power and heavy handed union busting policy.Even more disturbing the President’s personal political machine, Organizing for America, thrusted the long, intrusive, oppressive arm of the Obama Regime into this local shindig providing buses to transport striking government workers to the protests, mobilizing phone banks, rallying protesters from nearby states, and initiating a propaganda campaign promoting class warfare and demonizing Wisconsin GOP Governor Scott Walker and Republican State legislatures.

With the Arab dominos starting to fall one by one in the Middle East and our Administration’s pathetic lack of support for genuine Democratic reforms while concurrently welcoming international terrorist front group, the Muslim Brotherhood, to the negotiations table with open arms and a big sloppy wet kiss; inflation and especially the price of oil rising faster than a scalded dog running home to Momma; a nasty showdown looming with House GOP budget hawks over his record shattering Federal budget deficits and an almost $15 Trillion dollar accumulated national debt what’s so doggone important about an illegal Teacher’s Union walkout in Madison, Wisconsin that it warrants the personal involvement of the most powerful man in the world?

As hard to believe as it might be how does Money, Politics and the 2012 elections strike your fancy? Consider the following:

• Public Sector Unions are our “Bonehead-in-Chief’s” campaign contributions Sugar Daddy
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 36.2% of public- sector workers (7.6 million) are Union members and the number of public-sector union members is rising.
• The BLS reports the average annual wage for a state-government employee is now $48,742 compared to $45,155 for a worker in the private sector. The Bureau also found the cost of benefits for state and local government workers has risen 50% more than those for private-sector employees since 2001.
• The President can’t win in 2012 without heavy Public Sector Union support and will say or do anything or destroy anyone to maintain their favor.
• His involvement in this domestic insanity diverts attention from his lack of leadership and a coherent plan for dealing with the chaos in the Middle East
• At heart the President will always be a community/labor organizer and will align himself on the Marxist/Socialist Union’s fighten side at the drop of a hat.

Truth be told public sector unions should probably be outlawed as their credibility, necessity and legality are in serious question. Ronald Reagan recognized this reality when he shut down the air traffic controllers attempted revolution back in the 1980’s and even the Father of American Socialism hiself, FDR, disagreed with their formation.

Public employee unions also have an unfair advantage as they operate outside of the control of the free market as they really don’t have any competition. Public employees aren’t subjected to the consequences of poor performance like the rest of us poor dumb pilgrims in the private sector.

An overwhelming majority of Americans don’t have any heart burn at all over public sector employees kicking in 10 to 20% of the cost of their healthcare and retirement benefits. Considering the fact most in the private sector pay far more and aren’t protected by antiquated tenure systems neither we seriously doubt they should expect a whole lot of sympathy from the rest of us who actually foot the bill for all this extravagance.

High time for the Cheese Heads to get back to work. As for the Boneheads at the White House y’all might consider a little leadership in the Middle East before gas hits $5 bucks a gallon and the entire region sinks to the seventh level of hell.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-02-16T22:05:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 108: Obama’s Propaganda Czar Hits the Road

Pack up all your dishes
Make note of all good wishes Say goodbye to the landlord for me
Sons of bitches always bore me

Throw out those L A papers
Moldy box of vanilla wafers
Adios to all this concrete
Gonna get me some dirt road back street

If I can just get off of that L.A. freeway
Without getting killed or caught
Down that road in a cloud of smoke
For some land that I ain't bought bought bought
If I can just get off of that L.A. freeway “L.A. Freeway” Jerry Jeff Walker

Week 108 finds the “Yes We Can Triple the National Debt In Three Short Years Redistributors of Wealth Financial Wizards” currently infesting the White House busier than the proverbial one legged man at an ass kicking contest. Completely mishandling the regime change in Egypt and the issuance of their literally record shattering deficit and debt 2012 Budget pretty much sucked most of the oxygen out of the room during the course of week.

Flying under the radar in comparison was the resignation and departure of one Robert Lane Gibbs. Obama Propaganda Czar, White House Press Secretary, long time senior Presidential suck buddy and ultra liberal arrogant elitist political hack.

A man who truly mastered the art of diversion; misrepresentation; the non denial denial; plausible deniability; no comment; blame W; demonized opponents; absolutely a total absence of ethics, integrity and/or shred of class influencing his words or deeds; a say anything political shock jock the truth, facts, and morality of a situation be damned; and a revolutionary true believer like his close friend and Comrade Barack Husain Obama working towards and advocating a Marxist/Socialist transformational change in our structure of Governance and private sector capitalist economy and open society.

Another radical left wing hyper partisan Obama faithful who was so disagreeable, devious and just downright obnoxious his departure has been enthusiasticaly welcomed by the equally hyper partisan radical left wing Obama adoring White House Press Corps.

For one so highly placed liberal with the ear of the President and 24/7 access to their exalted progressive champion of the victim class the media elite’s disdain for Obama’s propaganda boy is really quite remarkable. A strong indication of the low esteem, lack of trust, dislike and disrespect the media, fellow White House political hacks and public developed for the young Mr. Gibbs.

A genuine bonafide ultra liberal political protégée Gibbs experienced a meteoric rise in the Democrat party at a young and tender age. A review of his upbringing, formative adolescent years in the rural south, and early career certainly provides some insight into how this wayward son of the South ended up taking such an extreme and radical turn to the political left.

Consider the following milestones in Comrade Gibbs Marxist/Socialist indoctrination:

• Born and bred in Auburn, Alabama
• Parents, Nancy and Robert Coleman Gibbs. Liberal political activist, rumor has it they were actually KGB operatives
• Parents introduced young Bobby to left wing groups including ACORN and the ACLU
• Gibbs attended Auburn City Schools and graduated from Auburn High School where he played saxophone in the band and goalie on the soccer team which was thought of as a communist sport back in the late 1980’s in the small college town home to the SEC Auburn Tigers where football is considered a religion.
• After graduating Bobby spent the summer visiting Moscow, Beijing and Havana allegedly to attend soccer camps
• Gibbs went on to graduate from a superb southern institute of higher education, North Carolina State University, with a B.A. in political science and Russian Studies and a Masters in Obnoxious, Elitist, Boneheaded Behavior
• Gibbs started his radical left wing political career working for Alabama Congressman Glen Browder. He later joined the staffs of several other liberal Senate Democrats, did a stint with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee before taking the position of press secretary with ultra liberal head case John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign
• Gibbs joined Barack Obama's 2004 U.S. Senate campaign as communications guru and the rest is U.S. Socialist Party history

With his bleeding heart liberal extreme left wing credentials and pedigree firmly established Mr. Gibbs quickly became a member of the President’s exclusive inner circle, was appointed White House Propaganda Czar, and assumed the role of the public face of the Administration conducting daily press briefings at the White House. Reckon he was a communications wizard behind the scenes because his public persona revealed a shallow, vindictive, ultra partisan, dishonest, evasive, thin skinned gaffe machine.

Bobby boy sure enough could be counted on for a few daily whoppers and misstatements only Veep Uncle Joe Biden could rival. As a tribute to his public service following are several of Mr. Gibb’s most memorable remarks:

• In response to Sarah Palin’s Facebook note about “death panels “you reporters cover a lot of process and you cover a lot of — you cover noise and heat and light” – Condescending to say the least
• “The stimulus saved or created three million jobs“– Classic propaganda tactic. Say it loud and often and hope the masses start to believe it. The truth is irrelevant
• “President Obama is not a Socialist.” See above
• A reporter asked if Ahmadinejad was “the legitimate president of Iran” and Gibbs responded that he was “the elected leader” – Damn straight Bobby, the epitome of a free democracy
• “President Obama is not a Muslim” See above
• Gibbs responded to Dick Cheney’s remarks that the U.S. was less safe under Obama than it had been under Bush by quipping, “I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy … so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal.” - When you’re the White House Press Secretary remember your southern upbringing and respond with class and show a little respect for the former Vice President. There is no excuse for behaving like your tacky Yankee pals
• “President Obama does not advocate the redistribution of wealth” – See above
• Mr. Gibbs attempted to spin VP Biden’s infamous “closed container” remarks on swine flu into a handy health advisory. Jake Tapper called him out for not saying anything “remotely close to what Biden said.” Gibbs’s response? “I understand what he said, and I’m telling you what he meant to say.”
• “The President hasn’t had a smoke now for over six months” – Yea right, Hillary looks good in a mini skirt too
• To summarize, in only 108 weeks the caustic Gibbs declared war on Fox News; insulted our strongest and most important allies the Limeys and Israel; accused fellow democrats who remarked about Obama having similarities with W should be drug tested; less than 10% of the time provided direct and honest answers to reporters’ questions; had no comment, lied, refused to answer, deflected a question to other officials, unjustly blamed W for their screw ups on over 5,400 occasions and just like their annual deficits and national debt have shattered all previous records by a country mile

It’s high time for Mr. Gibbs to catch the L.A. Freeway, take a right on some dirt road back street, head down that road in a cloud of smoke and pull a D Day – “Where abouts unknown“ for the rest of his natural born days. Trust us, he can sleep like a well fed recently changed fat baby at night comforted by the knowledge his propaganda machine misinformed, led a stray, brainwashed, deceived, hoodwinked, falsely accused, and secretly exploited hundreds of millions poor dumb pilgrims from the tip of Maine to our southern most California border with Mexico.

Not a bad record of achievement for a no count white trash tragically misguided cracker we are sad to say is a fellow southerner from Auburn, Alabama who for damn sure should have known better.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

2011-02-09T13:54:00.000-08:00

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 107: Obama’s New Covenant With US Business – Real Collaboration or the Continuation of His Socialist Revolution?

It ain't nobody 's business kid
Who in the world I do business with
Ain't nobody's business but mine
Ain't nobody's business sonny
Where in the world I spend my money
Ain't nobody's business but mine

Champagne don't drive me crazy
Cocaine don't make me lazy
Ain't nobody's business but mine
Said, way down in Costa Rica
Smoke my hash and drink my liquor
Ain't nobody's business but mine “Champagne Don’t Drive Me Crazy” Jerry Jeff Walker

Barack “Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, T Boone Pickens, the Donald, Jack Welch, Steve Forbes” Obama is standing tall and speaking up just like he had good sense bout his great support, respect, admiration and gratitude towards the U.S. private sector business community. He sure enough sounds like an open market loving; free trader; deregulator; small government advocating capitalist.

To hear his supporters, White House political hacks, left wing media elite types and even some severely confused moderate/conservative commentators and journalist President Obama is the best friend business has had in the Oval Office in years. They point to his new business oriented Chief of Staff, senior political hack Bill Daley, the compromise with the GOP on extending W’s tax rates and his new Jobs Creation Committee that’s chock full of corporate big wigs as examples of Mr. Obama’s pragmatic move towards the political center.

We certainly don’t wish to be the fly in the ointment; bearer of bad news; water on the fire; messenger of ill tidings; hitch in the ole get along; the proverbial terd in the punch bowl but all this noise about moderation, pragmatism and moving to the center ain’t nothing but a bunch of malarkey. In our humble opinion anyone buying this load of manure is not only one can short of a six pack they are also crazier than a run over dog and an entire family of outhouse rats.

Examples of our MBA-in-Chief’s continued Socialist Revolution are more abundant than white on rice. A few examples include the following:

• Obamacare – the ultimate objective being a total government takeover of the healthcare industry and a massive redistribution of wealth
• His plans to bail out States buried in debt with another massive redistribution of wealth greatly favoring labor and public sector unions
• Literally thousands of new regulations currently being written designed to take control of the financial industry. So intrusive and oppressive they could easily be mistaken for Soviet, Cuban and/or Chinese policies.
• Doing an end around the legislature and directing the EPA to establish intrusive emissions regulations dramatically increasing current energy cost in an effort to advance his green agenda
• Restricting domestic oil exploration and drilling putting hundreds of thousands out of work to advance his radical green agenda
• Friday night public readings of the Communist Manifesto in the East Room at the White House
• Come as Your Favorite Nekkid Marxist/Socialist Dictator Parties at the VP’s place once a quarter following Friday night’s public reading.

Despite his radical left wing agenda the President and his dominions point to the State of the Union speech and his address to the US Chamber of Commerce this week as indicators of his newly found appreciation for private sector commerce. His proposals to freeze spending at current levels, targeted tax credits and offer to tweak Obamacare are all being cited as examples of the Administration’s pro business agenda.

True to form these and other alleged Obama pro business initiatives are nothing more than empty rhetoric, smoke and mirrors and political diversions. Considering government spending has increased by over 80% since Mr. Obama slithered into office a freeze at current levels is just another arrogant and elitist scheme inflicted on all of us poor dumb pilgrims by the Yes We Can Steal You Blind With Impunity Gang.

A review of the President’s Chamber of Commerce speech reveals more big intrusive government, irresponsible spending of other people’s money, and another step or two towards Comrade Obama’s vision of a shinning Utopian Commune on a emerald green hillside in the land of the free and home of the brave. Following are a few thinly veiled examples of ideas and initiatives advocating his Bolshevik agenda from his Chamber address:

• OBAMA: Thank you, Tom, for your introduction. It's good to be here today at the Chamber of Commerce. I'm here in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had brought over a fruitcake when we first moved in.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: We seriously doubt sending VP Biden and/or AG Holder over would have improved relations.
• OBAMA: These forces are as unstoppable as they are powerful. But combined with a brutal and devastating recession, they have also shaken the faith of the American people - in the institutions of business and government. They see a widening chasm of wealth and opportunity in this country, and they wonder if the American Dream is slipping away.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: A frequent Obama tactic the advancement of unjustified class warfare claims
• OBAMA: But I want to be clear: even as we make America the best place on earth to do business, businesses also have a responsibility to America. Now, I understand the challenges you face. I understand that you're under incredible pressure to cut costs and keep your margins up. I understand the significance of your obligations to your shareholders. I get it. But as we work with you to make America a better place to do business, ask yourselves what you can do for America. Ask yourselves what you can do to hire American workers, to support the American economy, and to invest in this nation. That's what I want to talk about today - the responsibilities we all have to secure the future we all share.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: How does a man who has never held a leadership position in the private sector “get it”? Simple answer – he’s absolutely clueless
• OBAMA: And that's why we're making investments today in the next generation of big ideas - in biotechnology, information technology, and clean energy technology….. We also have a responsibility as a nation to provide our people and our businesses with the fastest, most reliable way to move goods and information. The costs to business from the outdated and inadequate infrastructure we currently have are enormous. That's why I want to put more people to work rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges. And that's why I've proposed connecting 80 percent of the country to high-speed rail, and making it possible for companies to put high-speed internet coverage in reach of virtually all Americans.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: The government selecting winners and losers in the private sector through a process of intrusive social engineering is a sure fire recipe for disaster
• OBAMA: To make room for these investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure, government also has a responsibility to cut the spending that we just can't afford. That's why I've promised to veto any bill larded up with earmarks. And that's why I've proposed that we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years, which would reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, and bring this spending down to the lowest share of our economy since Eisenhower was president. And I am eager to work with both parties to take additional steps across the budget to put our nation on sounder fiscal footing.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: Investment is Obama’s latest euphuism for reckless deficit busting spending of other people’s money. As previously discussed the proposed spending freeze is an intentialy misleading shell game. $400 billion in bogus savings that if actually ever realized wouldn’t even put a dent in Obama’s trillion dollar annual deficits projected for as far out as the eye can see
• OBAMA: The last barriers we're trying to remove are outdated and unnecessary regulations. I've ordered a government-wide review, and if there are rules on the books that are needlessly stifling job creation and economic growth, we will fix them.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The Obama Administration taking credit for pro business regulatory reform is akin to the President’s good friends the racist Rev. Wright claiming he just loves and adores white folk and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers denouncing violence as a legitimate form of political activism
• OBAMA: But ultimately, winning the future is not just about what the government can do to help you succeed. It's about what you can do to help America succeed…. Of course, your responsibility goes beyond recognizing the need for certain standards and safeguards. If we're fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports to help you compete, the benefits can't just translate into greater profits and bonuses for those at the top. They should be shared by American workers, who need to know that expanding trade and opening markets will lift their standard of living as well as your bottom line. We cannot go back to the kind of economy - and culture - we saw in the years leading up to the recession, where growth and gains in productivity just didn't translate into rising incomes and opportunity for the middle class.
THOUGHTS OF OBAMA FROM BAMA: Has this bonehead ever had an original thought. Obviously a blatant case of plagiarism stealing JFK’s famous quote without giving credit or being called on it by the main stream media elite. And by the way the government exists to serve the citizens including the private sector business community. Emphasizing worker/labor rights and unfairly blaming predecessors (W) for imaginary transgressions are tactics right out of the Karl Marx playbook.

After all the acrimony; accusations; name calling; insults; mistrust; and venomous rhetoric our “Chairman of the Board-in-Chief“ has heaped upon U.S. private sector businesses do recent White House claims of a mutually beneficial newly forged collaboration hold water? No sir, no way, no how.

Just wait for the next “crisis” that needs exploitation and the President will be blaming those greedy SOB’s on Wall Street in a New York minute.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes