I am moving to Mexico

[wayne1218]

Bout time you got your ASS back here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bout time you got your ASS back here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Dude

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Pick Your Reason

When your friends can't explain why they
voted for Democrats, give them this list.  They can then pick a reason
.

 10.  I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of
4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon
of gas at 15% isn't.

9.  I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a
better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

8.  I voted Democrat because Freedom of speech is
fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

7.  I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a
gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from
murderers and thieves.

6.  I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell
us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt
away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

5. I voted
Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of
babies through abortion so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

4.  I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens
have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits.

3.  I voted Democrat because I believe that business
should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break
even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the
democrats see fit.

2.  I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges
need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some liberal fringe
kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

1.  I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly
planted up my ass that it is unlikely that I'll ever have another point of
view.

 

I'll keep my Freedom,
my God and my Guns... You keep the Change...

Get out and vote
November 2nd, 2010!

Your Freedom Wasn't & Still
Isn't Free!

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GM's US sales plunge nearly 25 percent

Wed Sep 1, 12:36 pm ET


NEW YORK (AFP) – General Motors reported Wednesday a nearly 25 percent slump in US sales in August compared to the same month a year earlier.


GM said sales plummeted to 185,176 vehicles from 246,479 last August, when US authorities launched a "cash-for-clunkers" incentive program to boost sales as the country struggled to emerge from a brutal recession.


"Last year's cash-for-clunkers program spiked industry sales in 2009, so results this August were not surprisingly a bit mixed," Don Johnson, GM's vice-president for US sales operations, said in a statement.


The decline was also attributed to GM's shutdown of its Saturn, Pontiac and Hummer brands and the sale of Saab last year as part of the automaker's drastic restructuring following a massive government bailout.


Sales for GM's remaining four brands -- Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac -- were down seven percent from July and 11 percent from a year ago.


Chevrolet's sales dropped 22 percent compared to August 2009.


Buick nevertheless reported a 66 percent increase in sales while those of Cadillac were up 83 percent and GMC up 12 percent in August.



Most other US automakers are also set to report decreases in sales on Wednesday, marking the worst August in years. August is traditionally considered one of the strongest months for car sales.

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New GM CEO's pay package worth $9 million

AP – FILE - This undated file photo provided by The Carlyle Group on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, shows Daniel …



By TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher, Ap Auto Writer Fri Sep 10, 3:45 pm ET


DETROIT – New General Motors Co. CEO Daniel Akerson will get the same $9 million pay package as the man he replaced, Ed Whitacre.


Akerson, a former telecommunications industry and private equity executive, will receive $1.7 million in annual salary, $5.3 million in short-term stock payable over the next three years, and another $2 million in stock that's part of the company's long-term executive compensation plan.


The automaker, which is 60.8 percent owned by the U.S. government, disclosed the pay package in a filing on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is identical to what the company disclosed for Whitacre in February.


Akerson also is on GM's board of directors, but will receive no compensation for his duties there, the filing said.


Akerson, GM's fourth CEO in less than two years, took over leadership of the company on Sept. 1.



Whitacre, CEO since December, said he stepped down because the company needed a chief executive who would be in charge long after it sells stock to the public. The sale, called an initial public offering, is expected in mid-November.


Whitacre, 68, a retired CEO of telecommunications giant AT&T Inc., said he didn't want to stay too long after the stock sale.


It was unclear how much of the $9 million pay package that Whitacre will receive for his roughly eight months as CEO. GM also disclosed that he will get $300,000 to remain on as chairman until the end of the year when Akerson takes over that role as well.


Like Whitacre, Akerson has worked as a top executive at major telecommunications companies, holding leadership posts at both MCI and Nextel. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Akerson was appointed to GM's board by the government in July of last year after GM emerged from bankruptcy protection. He also led global buyouts for The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.

GM's SEC filing said that Akerson agreed to the pay package after the government's pay czar approved it Wednesday. Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg stepped down on Friday and was replaced by Treasury Department lawyer Patricia Geoghegan. The pay czar is responsible for setting pay guidelines for top executives at the four companies still getting exceptional assistance from the government's $700 billion bailout fund.



In addition to GM, those companies are American International Group, Chrysler Group LLC and Ally Financial Inc., the financing arm for GM and Chrysler.


The U.S. government got its stake in GM after giving the Detroit auto giant a $50 billion bailout to live through bankruptcy protection last year. GM has repaid $6.7 billion, and the government hopes to get the rest of its money back through the common-stock sale.


GM itself also plans to sell preferred shares to raise capital and pay off debt.

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KUHNER: President's socialist takeover must be stopped


By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

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The Washington Times

President Barack Obama arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 9, 2010, to speak about the retirement of Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens and the West Virginia mine tragedy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.



He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path.


He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are Balkanizing the country. It's time for him to go.


He has abused his office and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution.


His health care overhaul was rammed through Congress. It was - and remains - opposed by a majority of the people. It could only be passed through bribery and political intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson - taxpayer money was used as a virtual slush fund to buy swing votes. Moreover, the law is blatantly unconstitutional: The federal government does not have the right to coerce every citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it represents an unprecedented expansion of power.


Yet Obamacare's most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion.


Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience rights of religious citizens. Traditionalists - evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, Orthodox Jews - have been made complicit in an abomination that goes against their deepest religious values. As the law is implemented (as in Pennsylvania) the consequences of the abortion provisions will become increasingly apparent. The result will be a cultural civil war. Pro-lifers will become deeply alienated from society; among many, a secession of the heart is taking place.



Mr. Obama is waging a frontal assault on property rights. The BP oil spill is a case in point. BP clearly is responsible for the spill and its massive economic and environmental damage to the Gulf. There is a legal process for claims to be adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more like Mr. Chavez or Russia's Vladimir Putin: He has bullied BP into setting up a $20 billion compensation fund administered by an Obama appointee. In other words, the assets of a private company are to be raided to serve a political agenda. Billions will be dispensed arbitrarily in compensation to oil-spill victims - much of it to Democratic constituents. This is cronyism and creeping authoritarianism.


Mr. Obama's multicultural socialism seeks to eradicate traditional America.


He has created a command-and-control health care system. He has essentially nationalized the big banks, the financial sector, the automakers and the student loan industry. He next wants to pass "cap-and-trade," which would bring industry and manufacturing under the heel of big government. The state is intervening in every aspect of American life - beyond its constitutionally delegated bounds. Under Mr. Obama, the Constitution has become a meaningless scrap of paper.


To provide the shock troops for his socialist takeover, Mr. Obama calls for "comprehensive immigration reform" - granting amnesty to 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. This would forge a permanent Democratic electoral majority. It would sound the death knell for our national sovereignty.


Amnesty rewards lawlessness and criminal behavior; it signifies the surrender of our porous southern border to a massive illegal invasion. It means the death of American nationhood. We will no longer be a country, but the colony of a global socialist empire.


Rather than defending our homeland, Mr. Obama's Justice Department has sued Arizona for its immigration law. He is siding with criminals against his fellow Americans. His actions desecrate his constitutional oath to protect U.S. citizens from enemies foreign and domestic. He is thus encouraging more illegal immigration as Washington refuses to protect our borders. Mr. Obama's decision on this case is treasonous.



As president, he is supposed to respect the rule of law. Instead, his administration has dropped charges of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther Party. This was done even though their menacing behavior was caught on tape: men in military garb brandishing clubs and threatening whites at a polling site. A Justice Department lawyer intimately involved in the case, J. Christian Adams, resigned in protest. Mr. Adams says that under Mr. Obama, there is a new policy: Cases involving black defendants and white victims - no matter how much they cry for justice - are not to be prosecuted. This is more than institutionalized racism. It is an abrogation of civil rights laws.


The Justice Department's behavior is illegal. It poses a direct threat to the integrity of our democracy and the sanctity of our electoral process.


Corruption in the administration is rampant. Washington no longer has a government; rather, it has a gangster regime. The Chicago way has become the Washington way. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is a political hit man. He is an amoral, ruthless operator. It was Mr. Emanuel who reached out to Rep. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania Democrat, offering a high-ranking job in the hopes of persuading Mr. Sestak to pull out of the primary against Sen. Arlen Specter. It was Mr. Emanuel who offered another government position to Andrew Romanoff to do the same in the Colorado Democratic Senate primary. And it was Mr. Emanuel - as the trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has revealed - who acted as the go-between to try to have Valerie Jarrett parachuted into Mr. Obama's former Senate seat. The only question was: What did Mr. Blagojevich want in exchange?


This is not simply sleazy Chicago machine politics. It is the systematic breaking of the law - bribery, attempt to interfere (and manipulate) elections using taxpayer-funded jobs, influence peddling and abuse of power.


The common misperception on the right is that Mr. Obama is another Jimmy Carter: an incompetent liberal whose presidency is being reduced to rubble under the onslaught of repeated failures. The very opposite, however, is true. He is the most consequential president in our lifetime, transforming America into something our Founding Fathers would find not only unrecognizable, but repugnant. Like all radical revolutionaries, he is consumed by the pursuit of power - attaining it, wielding it and maximizing it. Mr. Obama's fledgling thug state must be stopped.


If Republicans win back Congress in November, they should - and likely will - launch formal investigations into this criminal, scandal-ridden administration. Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has promised as much. Mr. Obama has betrayed the American people. Impeachment is the only answer. This usurper must fall.

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Obama is a Disaster Says Marc Faber

JOBLESS RATE TOPS 9.5% FOR 14 STRAIGHT MONTHS




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