Obama and NASCAR

Well Obama "honored" NASCAR drivers and the sport the other day at the White House. No, there was no burn out on the White House lawn or anything like that. He did say that the "Big 3" auto makers belonged in "Nazz-car" (as the Big Guy likes to say it).

Did the teleprompter explain to him who the big three are? or does he think it is GM, Ford and Toyota? Or does he still consider Chrysler one of the big 3? (None of the honorees that were present were Dodge drivers - look at the end) So what is the message? Then again since the government owns most of GM maybe it should be re-named American Motors - after the old defunct car company. :)

I guess the White House staff realizes that in the crashed and still crashing economy ( jobless rate is even higher than projected) that NASCAR is the sport hardest hit. Since it is the number one spectator sport in America - it is significant.

What is really ridiculous is several of the stories written about the event do not even name all of the drivers invited... I guess the reporters forgot that who is one of the w's you are supposed to have in a story. Just the AP news stories and Sports Illustrated have left out such "details." I mean how many stories do I have to pull up to find this information anyways? Some articles say 9 of the top 12 - of last year's drivers... duh - how hard would it have been to actually report on the story?

After digging around I found that the nine are: Dale Earhhardt Jr.(Chevrolet), Denny Hamlin (Toyota), Jeff Burton (Chevrolet), Greg Biffle (Ford), Carl Edwards (Ford), Clint Bowyer (Chevrolet), Jeff Gordon (Chevrolet), and Tony Stewart (Chevrolet), and Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet).

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Timothy Geithner Cannot Sell His House!

OK, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is supposed to be the "man with the plan" to get us out of the economic mess. Which, despite all the positive talk, is declining rather than getting better. So the guy that is trying to fix our economic mess cannot even sell his own house.

So now he is renting it out for less than the mortgage payments. This sounds like a typical government plan to me.

"Geithner put his five-bedroom Tudor near leafy Larchmont on the market for $1.635 million in February, after heading to Washington for his job as the nation's top economic official.

A few weeks after the asking price was dropped to $1.575 million, the home was rented for $7,500 a month on May 21, said the agents, Scott Stiefvater of Stiefvater Real Estate and Debbie Meiliken of Keller Williams Realty New York.

Neither was directly involved in the rental; the name of the broker and agency that arranged it were not immediately available.

Although $7,500 might seem like a lot of rent, it probably falls a bit short of the monthly mortgage payments on the Geithners' two loans totaling $1.25 million, plus $27,000 a year in property taxes.

Treasury Department representatives didn't immediately return calls about Geithner's home Monday and Tuesday. He was in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders."

The story can be found here.

Maybe he should think about lowering the price a bit more.

What do you think Tim?

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US Plans on Increasing UN Peacekeepers

The U.S. plans to increase peacekeepers to the UN.  The U.S. currently does not provide troops for peacekeeping forces.

According to U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice:

But Rice said the United States "is willing to consider directly contributing more military observers, military staff officers, civilian police, and other civilian personnel — including more women — to U.N. peacekeeping operations."


The U.S. has already increased its military observers in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Liberia and is providing two additional military staff officers to the mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, U.S. officials said.

The complete article can be read here.

David Berkowitz in Liberia?

I really do not think that David Berkowitz is in Liberia.  However, this truck and its license plate sure reminded me of "the Son of Sam."

Interestingly enough, the owner of the truck is the son of Sam.  His name is also Sam, maybe it is Liberian humor, I do not know.

But where else you gonna find this (besides California and Boulder)  :)

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Michelle Obama Photographed By Homeless Man With His $500 Blackberry

Wow! Nothing like seeing the first lady serving food at a homeless shelter. Isn't it typical that the guy getting served - who is supposedly homeless, taking her photo with a $500 Blackberry cell phone?

He probably has the net service and everything :)

This photo is awesome... :)

Thanks to Randy for sending it to me.

International Peacekeepers Day and UN Idol - all in One Day!

May 29th is UN Peacekeeper's Day.  Kind of a big deal for the UN.  I find it really interesting that this year's UN Idol in Liberia is being held on that day , yet it is not listed as an official event for the day - go figure. Find more about Peacekeepers day here.  Last year it was the 60th anniversary of peacekeeping for the UN.

On a side note - in a few days there is likely to be a storm in the Gulf of Mexico :)  Liberia has started squeeze them out again .

Obama Doesn't Want to Run the Car Companies?

Hmmmm....

The first line of the news storey...


May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC, under orders by President Barack Obama to conduct a quick bankruptcy, may ask court approval to auction most of its assets in three weeks, a person familiar with the matter said. 

So tell me how this is not running the company?  For an empty suit that cannot speak on his own he sure wants a lot of control.

He reminds me of another leader that was just as famous, popular with the press and hollow inside.  Hail hitl...er um  Obama!!!


Seriously Facsism is alive and well in America... I hope you already bought your weapons and ammo.  Oh yeah, on the economy update - nothing has improved and he is still campaining.  I wish he would get down to business instead.

Barak Obama Solved the Economic Crisis

Sure he did!




April Fools!

We Now Have Change - All We Have is Change,

I saw this "teaser" in the news list today - unbelievable.

"WASHINGTON – Knocked off balance by the bonuses brouhaha, President Barack Obama is relying on direct appeals to the public to refocus attention on his ambitious agenda and drive the debate."

OK, Maybe he did not personally know about the bonuses - but he should have.  His administration definitely knew about them before the money was dolled out.  So did Congress.  It is public record - the Treasury Secretary before the house Finance Committee talked about these bonuses.

Maybe the guys getting the bonuses do not deserve it.  However, contracts are contracts.  But to put on a show like that of Obama and Barney Frank have, and they pretend to now be "outraged" or "angry" - That is just pathetic.  Yes, we got change - just a change in administration, but Obama's and the Democrats version of deirty politics.  Yes we have change - that is all we have left is change, as Uncle Sam with the help of "daddy" Obama has sold us all down the river.

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Who Needs Gun Control? - Just Take all the Ammo

It appears that the current administration is more clever than expected on gun control.  They already figured out how to control the ammunition distribution for civilians.

How did they do that?  They made new rules concerning spent ammunition casings - basically requiring all of it be destroyed instead of being bought by ammunition companies that reloaded the casings.  Why is this a big deal?  The ammunition manufacturers cannot hardly keep up with the military's demand for new ammo, so that left reloaded stuff for civilians.  Now that the reloadable supply of casings is cut off - all ammo prices will go through the roof for civilians in the near future.

For more info - see the site the Shootist's article of March 15th.

Try to Stay Safe - since it is getting harder and harder to do so.