How you gonna pay for that?

For months now I have been asking (rhetorically) Mr. 0bama “How you gonna pay for that?”  every time he goes on TV and announces more federal spending.
Well now we know.

Moron of the week

“If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally(sic), that would be the equivalent [...]

“We’re out of money”

Somehow lack of a national health care plan caused 0bama’s 3 trillion dollar deficit:
OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we’ve made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we’ve seen and in fact our failure to [...]

The Capital of Eurabia

Rotterdam.
A chilling article about what happens when people give up their right to free speech.

Video of the Week

Emmylou Harris is joined by The Whites for a live version of the Louvin Brothers song “Satan’s Jewel Crown”from a show about 1978.

Some new items

I’ve been playing around with some ideas about bowls.  These are all freeform with a heat/oil finish.  They’re food safe, but I wouldn’t eat my Cheerios out of one every day.

They’re about 6″ across, that’s as big a piece of steel I can fit in my forge.  $25.00 retail sound about right?

About Those ‘Speculators’ . . .

Remember how President Obama blamed Chrysler’s bankruptcy filing last month on “a small group of speculators” who turned down Treasury’s $2 billion final offer for their $6.9 billion in debt? Well, it turns out that hedge funds and other short sellers weren’t the only secured creditors who got a raw deal from Uncle Sam.
Indiana Treasurer [...]

The Obamacare to Come

The American people are right to demand health-care reform. The current system is broken. But taken individually, most of the ideas currently being considered by Congress would make the problems we face even worse. Taken together, they amount to a complete government takeover of the American health-care system. That is not the type of reform [...]

Obama Gives UAW 55% Control Over Chrysler; UAW Negotiations With Itself Go Smoothly

The arrangement puts the future success of Chrysler in the hands of UAW leaders, who have proven themselves to be skilled negotiators and prime contributors to the Democratic Party. Having won for its members pay schedules and work rules that are much more generous than what workers for their foreign competitors enjoy, Chrysler was brought [...]

A Letter From a Dodge Dealer

My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business.
We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown [...]