Pause for a Second and Breathe Deeply

Finally, after about 2 months of work, our old house is on the market.

I went against one of my rules of finance: Don't buy a house until the one you're in sells. Don't end up with two mortgage payments.

There was just one problem with this advice: We have 6 pets. There's no frakking way we could have put those pets into a kennel for the period of time we would need to sell the house. And, all the updates we did were much easier without trying to still live in the house.

New paint everywhere. New carpet and vinyl. New sink in the bathroom.

These were pretty major updates, and moving furniture from room to room as the carpet installers laid down their product wasn't the way I wanted to spend my month.

But now, we're done. The house is up, pictures are on the web, and it's time to take a deep breath.

Okay, now that that's done, it's time to finally put the new house together. Get the garage organized. Make sure all our mail is forwarding correctly. Mail in those Menards rebates I have sitting around. Put my paint station back together. Get the fishing stuff ready for the summer. Take care of those pesky ants that keep finding their way inside our house. Make sure my lawnmower is tuned up. . . .

Soon, I'll post pictures of my new and old paint stations. And maybe I'll even start painting once again!

Obama's Recovery Plan is Still A Failure.

I wrote a bit about this earlier (here).

Well, the numbers for May are out . . . .


Notice anything . . . anything at all? Like, May's data point. For those of you with willful blinders, that data point provides even more proof that we flushed a few trillion dollars down the toilet.

Don't bother trying to get this information from the Main-Stream Media though. They're too busy saying "Things got worse less than we expected, so we're going to be happy! All praise Obama!" Don't believe me? Here ya go . . . .

Very bad things are on the horizon. The higher gas prices we've seen recently are an indication. Supplies are high, demand is low . . . so that should mean decreasing prices. The very fact that we're pushing $3/gallon means the market knows something we don't. Like the knowledge that all that stimulus money we're printing and spending has no value behind it, so inflation is going to hammer us like a Mack Truck. And government's attempt to control the economy (banks, car manufacturers, and health care are all poised to be nationalized).

But I'm sure the Great Obamaman can save us! Thanks for that, btw, Fred.

h/t Innocent Bystanders

The Human Spirit Strives for Freedom

Tiananmen Square, 1989.

Where unarmed civilians were gunned down by their oppressive government.

And yet people still risk their lives for liberty.

Well, that didn't take long at all

I predicted, back at the "100 Day Extravaganza" mark, that dissent would soon be crushed. Here's the original post.

It turns out I was right. From the White House Blog (here) . . . .

"First, we will expand the restriction on oral communications to cover all persons, not just federally registered lobbyists. For the first time, we will reach contacts not only by registered lobbyists but also by unregistered ones, as well as anyone else exerting influence on the process. We concluded this was necessary under the unique circumstances of the stimulus program."

Never mind that pesky First Amendment. No, those who criticize the Recovery Act must be silenced. Can't have people sowing seeds of dissent.

Unfortunately, the prize for getting this right will likely be a visit from the Obama Administration with a pair of handcuffs.

What does the official Air Force One photo tell you about our President?

"Look at me, I'm more important that that pesky Lady Liberty!"
"All those people scurrying around down there . . . It's like they're afraid or something."
"How dare you criticize me! I'm the President!"

Obama's Recovery Plan is a Failure

Here's the proof:
You see, when this great plan to "save the economy" got started, the Obama Administration dutifully provided facts and figures to prove that we needed to spend trillions of dollars that we don't have in order to forestall certain economic doom. Well, as the graph shows, we are following the "without recovery plan" path very nicely. In fact, it's worse than if the recovery plan was never implemented.

Why is that? Well, those people who create jobs tend to not like higher taxes, more government control, and debt being passed on that cannot possibly be paid back. So, unemployment gets worse as those productive citizens read the writing on the wall and stop producing.

Great job, P-BO. Way to run this country into the ground.

h/t to Innocent Bystanders

The joys of the Second Amendment

Good.

Don't expect the story to get much attention from the national media, though. Remember the mantra: "Banning guns from college campuses will mean everyone is safe. Guns don't kill people, evil gun companies kill people."

h/t MM