It goes to eleven

This is a good time to start getting in line with your fellow comrades and studying up on some basic concepts of Communism so that you can fall in line with the changing of the guard. Here are a few links to get you going. First, start with the basics:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communism

How Communism Works

When you're ready to test your newfound knowledge, here's a good practice guide:

Study Guide for the Communist Manifesto

If you're still young here's a great group to get involved with to show your support for the common good:

The Young Communist League

Finally, it's always a good idea to advertise to your fellow comrades that you're on board with the program and not a trouble maker:

Communist t-shirts from Cafe Press

(Unfortually Cafe Press is not yet state-owned, but that may be changing soon.)

You may also want to partake in some continuing education by exposing yourself to artwork that celebrates the fantastic benefits of the Communist state. Here's a great example showing the power of the Communist warrior and how he supports the common good:

A popular talk radio host summed up the 2008 presidential race in a very witty way:

(Paraphrased) If Obama is elected, Obama voters are expecting to get something from the government and McCain voters are expecting the government to take something from them. The reality would be that everyone would have something taken from them, whether it be money, liberty, or rights.

If this man is elected, get ready for every hard-working person to get reamed to the tune of $1,200,000,000,000 dollars total. Take a look at the Obama Spend-o-Meter.

The government has been limp in its battle to stop illegal immigration, but now the environmentalists are getting involved:

 National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

Weed and bug sprays, some long banned in the U.S., have been smuggled to the marijuana farms. Plant growth hormones have been dumped into streams, and the water has then been diverted for miles in PVC pipes.

Maybe now there will be more movication to keep this scum out our country. These drug cartels are heavily armed. I wonder if the gun-control people people can get them to drop their weapons?

Here's a review of history:

1. Democrats push for banks to grant subprime home loans to people who have little means to pay them back.
2. Democrats resist all attempts by Republicans to investigate these practices.
3. The credit crisis hits and the stock market craters
4. The Democrats are now thought to be seen as the saviors for the whole situation.

Bend over everyone, get ready for mroe socialism. Anh oh, don't forget about the 5 million loans to illegals.

Even when you learn that it's not only the Dems that are involved in all of this, one still has to ask: Why is yet again more government the solution to this mess? And if you believe that only the republicians are to blame, why would you ask the Democrats to fix things? All they want to do is pass more regulations and rules and generally have the government control more things.

Windows Vista still seems new, right?  Well, it's been 18 months since the launch and Vista has been poorly received. Microsoft has been hard at work on the Vista replacement, named Windows 7. Gates has claimed Windows will use less memory and be more efficient:

We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient...

ha! We'll see. I'm not holding my breath. What would I like to see in a Microsoft desktop OS? Here's my list:

1. Efficient use of hardware resources
2. Stability
3. Simplicity

Windows XP gives me these features now for the most part, that's why I have been using it for 7 years. However there is always room for improvement. Vista did not improve on much, that's for sure, and the improvements it did have were outweighed by the problems with it. It still amazes me that a company like MS produces such flops like Windows ME and Vista. It demonstrates that a huge company doesn't always do things right, even in regard to its core business.

This site, windows7news.com, has a lot of good information.

This article provides some evidence that's really no surprise to a conservative. It doesn't get any more simple than this:

The U.S. tax system is highly progressive. The top 1 percent of income earners, by household, paid 39 percent of all federal income taxes in 2005, whereas the bottom 50 percent paid a little over 3 percent. Further, 32 percent of all tax returns filed in 2005 were from people who paid no federal income tax at all.

Take a look at the graph provided with the story.

Liberals often whine about how some people aren't paying their fair share. NO SHIT! The POOR aren't paying their fair share!

I    am   tired    of    pulling    the    cart    for    the    slackers.

This article, entitled, "Flat-Screen TV Gas 'a Climate Time Bomb'" attempts to paint a bad picture but lacks any scientific data. No surprise here.

A greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride, used to make the TVs, is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, said Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine.

Okay, sounds bad, right? But wait...

But no one yet knows how much of it is being released into the atmosphere by industry, a report in Britain's The Guardian said.

Ah, so there is no data to scientifically prove any kind of threat!

Prather's research shows production of the gas, which remains in the atmosphere for 550 years, is "exploding".

It is expected to double by next year, from the current 4,000 tons produced annually.

But unlike other key greenhouse gases — such as carbon dioxide, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs) — emissions of the gas are not restricted under the Kyoto protocol or similar agreements, The Guardian report said.

Prather and his colleague Juno Hsu — writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters — said this year's production of nitrogen trifluoride is equivalent to 67 million tons of carbon dioxide

Here's my take (not that anyone asked for it): Companies who make televisions attempt to do so for a profit. If they waste the materials used to make the televisions, then that cuts into their profits. Therefore it would be expected they would not waste nitrogen trifluoride. Can it escape into the atmosphere? Sure, but as the article states there is no data about this. Should toxic substances be controlled and kept out of the environment? Sure, but let us see some real, factual, scientific data about this substance before the enviro wackos push in to promote their socialist, anti-free market, anti-business alarmist agenda.

Carbon dioxide, which occurs naturally and is exhausted when we breathe, has been tagged as some global threat, but it remains to be scientifically proven if humans can really change the climate. Therefore comparing nitrogen trifluoride to carbon dioxide here is half-baked at best.

So again we have an article designed to mislead people and promote an agenda rather than provide useful information based on facts. Thanks MSM! I'm glad your numbers are down. That make's Rush Limbaugh's $400 million look even better.

This article bemoans the poor condition of the poor areas of New Orleans, three years after the flooding. Based on how free markets work this makes perfect sense. First, the homes and businesses were destroyed by flooding. Second, the people were either evecuated, left, or died. Third, very few people came back to the poor areas. So what the world do you expect to happen?  People are just going to show up, build homes and businesses, and wait?

The truth is, the Lower Ninth Ward is an unmitigated disaster area, a wasteland, a battle zone, an abandoned community, and a national shame, all rolled into one.

I had to read this twice to see if it was referring to the area before the floods.  Because after decades of local democrat control, that really describes the areas before the water hit.

It was worse than I even imagined. This is a huge area that was once jammed with housing, and people. To be sure, the housing was poorly constructed and living conditions no better. Today, the dominant feature is weeds taller than most people. Buildings are few and far between.

Reconstruction and recovery? Not so much.

You can debate the reasons behind this all you want. But whatever is responsible for this, one thing is clear: This is a significant area of a major U.S. city that will likely never come back.

Oh gee, you think?  At the end of the story, we get this:

This is profound, depressing, and stunning stuff. It's amazing to think that nearly three years after the disaster, a prominent U.S. city still has massive areas that are nowhere near recovered.

The writer of the story must be living in some storybook fairlytale land where a sparkling magic pixie crayon can re-draw all of the demolished developement and destruction.  Sheesh. I agree it's depressing that an area where thousands of people lived is now largely empty, but get over it. The one thing that the writer seems to have totally missed is any knowledge that the Lower Ninth Ward was a dark haven for crime, poor educastion, physical separation, and neglect, and one positive truth is that this has been brought to an end.

Yes it is tragic that people died and so much chaos ensued, but it's no mystery that the area remians so uninhabited today. Once again the MSM shows their stupidity.

Rush Limbaugh signs new contract. While financial terms were not officially disclosed, one source is claiming it's a mega-deal:

...a key industry source confirms speculation that Limbaugh has signed a stunning mega contract renewal deal with Premiere Radio Networks and parent company Clear Channel Communications.

Said to be Limbaugh's most lucrative deal ever by far, the new agreement runs through 2016 and includes a previously unheard-of nine figure signing bonus. For those of you in Rio Linda, that means more than $100 million, upfront.

Drudge is reporting $400M for the whole contract:

Wed Jul 02 2008 09:02:18 ET
**Exclusive**

The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract, Limbaugh will keep his syndicated show on-the-air and e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e through 2016 with CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO.

Already host of the most lucrative hours since radio's inception, Limbaugh's total package is valued north of $400 million, according to media insiders.

His previous contract wasn't bad either:

Instead he issued a statement on his Web site and through Premiere Radio Networks, the syndicator that gave him the richest deal in radio history, an eight-year, $285 million contract through 2009.

Go Rush, Go!  I love this country!