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Don’t Fire David Letterman! There is the First Amendment and there is freedom of speech.

If Governor Sarah Palin decides to accept David Letterman’s “sorry” apology that is her privilege. But Sarah Palin has no authority to accept David Letterman’s “sorry” apology on behalf of all girls and women. Most American women are sick and tired of the misogynists amongst us and we should begin to illuminate exactly who they are, such as David Letterman, and include the names of women who support their pitiful sexist antics, such as Margaret Carlson, Joy Behar and Arianna Huffington.

“As consumers, as citizens, we don’t have to buy this stuff; we don’t have to watch their shows, we don’t have to watch the Miss USA Pageant; we don’t have to buy Playboy; we don’t have to support their shows or like “The View,” or any of them if we don’t want to.”

The Video

UPDATE: Add Bill Maher to the anti-women list of hateful misogynists amongst us: Bill Maher Makes Letterman’s Child Rape Jokes Look Like Nursery Rhymes. Yes, on the very day that David Letterman offered his “Sorry Apology,” Bill Maher ridiculed all the Palin daughters with sex jokes 1000% worse than anything that Letterman said. According to Bill Maher, these jokes are “harmless.” Do I add him to the “List of Male Misogynists” or to the “List of Female Self-Loathers?”

Don’t Fire David Letterman! David Letterman is “smarmy, smug, and seriously un-funny.” Although he is a tasteless and crass comic, he is only one tenth as disgusting as Bill Maher. No one should demand they be fired. Neither should Don Imus have been fired, but he was done in by the very reverend shake-down artists, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Stack up briefcases filled with $100 bills to equal Obama’s assorted bank bailouts, stimulus packages and proposed $3.6 trillion budget, and the briefcases would reach so high into the atmosphere that they would constitute a hazard to satellites.

Less than three years ago American Liberals were in high dungeon because President George Bush had spent “BILLIONS” with a “B” dollars fighting a war against terror. One website even went so far as to graphically illustrate just how many miles high President Bush’s $315 Billion dollars stacked up. A billion here, a billion there… Pretty soon it starts to add up to some real money. Those billions of dollars went to pay soldiers’ salaries, to pay American workers for building war munitions, airplanes and tanks, to pay American farmers for food, etcetera.

Fast forward less than three years and we are into the TRILLIONS of Dollars stratosphere as our government is throwing money anywhere it can in the name of Financial Bailout and Stimulus. Our brand new President, Obama has proposed budget deficits of $1.75 trillion for 2009, and an additional $1.17 trillion for 2010. All the government has to do is collect a cool $3 trillion from American taxpayers to clear that off the books. So what’s a few Billion here and a few Billion there in the whole scheme of things? After all, American taxpayers always come through.

Today, no one seems concerned about how much a Trillion Dollars really is. Routinely, our government leaders mistakenly interchange the words million, billion and trillion when referring to taxpayer money that they plan to spend or have spent. That is because no one can really understand how much money is a $Billion, much less a $Trillion! As an example, just last week the U. S. Congress went totally bananas over AIG executives getting a mere $165 MILLION in bonuses. How much out of $3 Trillion is $165 Million? It’s really a pittance comparatively, but apparently that math is too much for the average American.

Last week, amid the AIG bonus distraction so that no one would notice, the Federal government announced that it is printing $1 Trillion in new money to flood our troubled economy. $1 Trillion! And barely a wimper from “We the People.” Clifford Barney of Red Door Software wrote the following entitled “Money in the Sky - the Story of Jack and the Greenstalk.”

Inspired by the visuals of enormous amounts of money at $87 Billion, I calculated the following: A 1-inch thick stack of 100 dollar bills (the highest denomination in circulation) is worth about $25,000. To mentally grasp the staggering value of the $1 trillion that the Fed recently announced plans to inject into the economy, the stack of 100 dollar bills would need to be - get this - 40 million inches high. Let’s see, divide by 12, divide again by 5280 and um…that’s a stack of 100 dollar bills more than 630 miles high. Yes, SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILES HIGH. Hundred dollar bills.

If you stacked them up like bricks, the mound of money would be a giant cube 70 feet long on each side. To transport it, you would need a fleet of semi-trucks more than a mile long. And these are HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS!

This picture ($87 Billion) represents the sheer scale of $1 trillion in 100 dollar bills. Note the little speck in the bottom right corner - that’s a man and his car.

I reckon I could grab a six-inch stack of bills with each hand, if it was in front of me. That’s $300,000 - enough to buy a nice house in most of America.

Now imagine if we used the Fed’s $1 trillion printing press injection to build $300,000 houses on modest half-acre parcels. It would take up a swath of land the size of Delaware. Or you could choose to build nearly 1200 brand-spanking new Trump Towers like the one recently completed in Chicago - each 92 stories tall (quarter mile high), accommodating 10,000 people each.

Bottom line - dat’s a lotta money. You think your $5,000 visa bill is scary? How about our kids’ and grandkids’ multi-trillion dollar credit card bill?

Just a thought - do members of Congress have to show any aptitude for math at all? Or do they pretty much think that million, billion and trillion are just different flavors of money?

How Much Is a Trillion Dollars? Clifford Barney explains:

Remember those old Miami Vice episodes from the 80’s when drug dealers would open up their briefcases, and it would be stuffed with hundred dollar bills? I always used to imagine what I could do with a whole briefcase full of money. The average worker’s lifelong earnings would not fill up one of those briefcases.

Out of curiosity, I whipped out my calculator to see how much an entire briefcase full of 100 dollar bills would be worth. Turns out it’s $840,000. See my math. Imagine what you could do with a single briefcase full of 100 dollar bills. You could buy yourself a really nice house. Travel the world first class for a couple of years. Properly managed, you could probably retire for life and live modestly.

Now imagine a stack of briefcases 56 miles high, all filled with 100 dollar bills. That’s the size of the $1 trillion that the Federal Reserve just authorized to be ‘released into the economy,’ e.g. printed/created/contrived. I’m not even going to touch on the assorted bank bailouts, stimulus packages and Obama’s obscene $3.6 trillion proposed FY2010 budget, because that would push the stack of money-filled briefcases so high into the atmosphere, they’d be a hazard to satellites.

The government is spending money it doesn’t have, and at this point, will NEVER have. It’s easy to imagine that this very year future historians are being born who, in 50 years or so, will be writing scathing historical criticisms of our generation’s government, attitudes, wastefulness and neglect. Yes, neglect. We are neglecting the future, as if it might not ever happen.

The Math, for those who care…
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Our present currency measures 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches long, and the thickness is 0.0043 inches. An ordinary briefcase is about 12.5 inches wide, 16.5 inches long and 3 inches thick. A 3-inch high stack of 100 dollar bills would consist of 700 bills worth $70,000. The briefcase could hold 12 such stacks, or $840,000. Dat’s a lotta money.

That is why Democrats love raising taxes! Only chumps pay taxes, and Democrats are NOT chumps. Only Republicans are.

If ALL of us decide to follow the lead of President Obama’s cabinet secretaries and not bother paying our taxes this year, who will the IRS go after first? Will IRS go after those of us “little people” who owe $5000 or less, or will tax collectors set their sights on the $35,000 to $100,000 plus guys - like Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury? Mr. Secretary Timothy Geithner not only did not pay federal self-employment tax for which he was reimbursed in advance, but he took a “child care” deduction for an exclusive summer camp for his children. Why cannot you do that too, even if you are not the Secretary of Treasury in charge of the IRS?

If, following the lead of our government’s leaders, we peons all decide not to pay our taxes this year, will the IRS go after all of us? Is there a jail or prison large enough in the United States to contain all of us? It is up to you to find what is your Representatives’ stance on taxes. The media will never investigate to tell you as they are not interested in asking probing questions of Democrats. Ask your own United States Representatives if they pay all of their taxes or do they pay only what they want, like former Democrat Senate Leader Tom Daschle. Ask your Representatives in Congress why you should pay taxes when a Senator and the Secretary of the Treasury are not required to do so. Ask your own Representatives if they, themselves, pay their taxes, or do they leave that up to some low level employee who may or may not be on maternity leave.

Looking for a “legal” tax haven? - No need to go off-shore anymore. Just join the Obama administration.

On 5 August 2006, I uploaded a photograph of my pet, Katy Blue and my stuffed Stieff cat to the Flickr site. The photo was always prominently labeled as “copyright,” although I added a written notice on the actual photograph today, after realizing my copyright had been infringed, by icanhascheezburger.com.

That copyright notice did not stop the ICanHasCheezburger.com site from infringing my photograph and posting it at their site for their own commercial purposes. On 21 December, when another Flickr user reported to me that my photograph was posted at their site, ICanHasCheezburger.com added my Flickr name as credit to the picture. Then they wrote to tell me how proud I should be that my photograph is on the front of their site.

When I told them, as the owner, to remove my photograph, because I had never given them license to use it, they blatently refused until I provide written legal proof that I am the owner of the photograph. This they demanded, even though they had already admitted in writing that the photograph belonged to me.

So, beware, if you upload your photographs to Flickr and allow said photographs to be publicly viewed. ICanHasCheezburger.com is a Flickr member, with Flickr groups, and seemingly has little regard that you label you images as copyrighted. Yahoo.com owns Flickr, and I have written Yahoo about this matter. If I hear from them, I will report here their actions on this matter. It is already the case, that Flickr members like ICanHasCheezburger.com are allowed to operate on Flickr even though they are commercial sites, which Flickr Terms of Service forbid.

Here is a screen shot I have taken tonight of their website, with a code for others to post my photo at their own websites, without my permission. It is outrageous! Cheezburger has a Flickr Group at Flickr where they claim they have a right to override Flickr’s privacy and copyrights for Flickr photographs. I have NEVER been a member of that group, so how did my photograph make it to the Cheezburger site? Here is my original at Flickr: Good Cat - Bad Cat.

UPDATE: Cheezburger Cats

I believe that if John McCain had won the election, it would NOT have been a good thing. Why do I think that it was a blessing in disguise that the Republicans lost at the polls on November 4th, 2008? This video demostrates why:

The above video is just one example of what is happening in California and other Western States to people who went to the polls, voting their consciences, expecting to participate in American democracy. These American terrorists in the video demonstrating their insane rage are Democrats who lost at the ballot box. If you found it troubling to have the term “RACIST” hurled at you for voting Republican during the 2008 election, think of what would be happening now, if Republicans had won. You would need police protection, if you could find it, to walk on city streets. You would be closing down your businesses. You would be in a heap of hurt if John McCain had won. Democrats, as proved by this video and many other videos, would NEVER, ever have accepted that your vote was valid. You would have been a Messiah-killer forever, instead of just a poor pitiful and misguided Republican, as you are now.

As it is, Barack Obama is your President and 52% of America is jubilant. Those who believe in His message of Socialism and His Redistribution of wealth believe in Him, even though you do not nor do you accept Him as your Messiah. You and your side have lost, and Conservatives and Republicans have NO chance to ever regain the Presidency nor the Congress in your lifetime. After-all, Obama will be selecting future Supreme Court justices and the Congress will vote themselves two more Democrat Senators when Washington DC becomes a state.

Learn to be thankful for small favors. At least for the next four years you can probably walk the streets unmolested, unlike Californians. You can probably enjoy your family, and still go to church, unlike Mormons, Catholics and Evangelicals in the West. All of those things that you can still do, even with Barack Obama as your president, you must appreciate and be thankful for. You are now “the minority” of this country and that is the way it will be in America of 2009 and forward. We do not know what the future holds; we know only that it does not hold the America of the past that we have known and loved.

Conservatives, traditional Christians, capitalists, libertarians, classical liberals, federalists, republicans and big “R” Republicans are now all part of a minority. If you, as a minority of this new regime, refuse to go along, if you rebell, you will bleed.

Virginian Veterans of Yesteryear:

“I saw the swastika come down and the Stars and Stripes go up” ~~A World War Two POW from Virginia, from “Virginians at War.”

On The Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, there are 11,600 names of Virginians who have lost their lives fighting for their nation, the United States of America.

Virginian Veterans of Today:

Today, almost one million (800,000) veterans live in Virginia. In November of 2008, almost 54% of Virginia’s voters rejected a veteran and former POW for President of the United States, and elected a man with little experience and absolutely no military experience, a man who described the flag pin that his fellow countrymen were wearing as “a substitute for … true patriotism,” and added “I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.” He is a man who does not salute the flag in public, who never supported the War in Iraq and wants to end it before victory, and who believes in “spreading the wealth around.” It makes one wonder about those Virginia soldiers of yesteryear who bled and died for America, as they now watch from their Heavenly Homes as their descendants turn radically left to embrace the old political ideologies that they had fought against. According to Virginia’s U.S. Congressional Representative, James Moran, Virginia Has Gone Communist.

The image, The Boarding Party, is subject to copyright by barneykin. It is posted here with permission via the Flickr API by barneykin.

Restore your stock portfolio in 21 days! I have a plan to make your investment portfolio what it was before this horrendous stock market slide of the past few weeks.

I have had a few quid invested in the stock market for many years and I, like all of you, have been devastated by the sudden financial meltdown. I even invested thousands of dollars in “safe and secure” Fannie Mae stock for my eldest granddaughter’s college fund. Thanks to the Congressional Democrats like Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd and Chuck Schumer, my granddaughter has $50.00 left in her account, while the CEO of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines (now Obama’s economic advisor), was sent off by our glorious Congress with a multi-million dollar parachute strapped to his back. Fannie Mae stock is probably destroyed forever, thank you Barney, Maxine and Franklin, however, there is hope for our many other Wall Street investments. (Congressional Investigation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae)

I have been watching Wall Street and this political race over these past few weeks, and one thing is perfectly clear by now. The stock market has been going up and down with the political polls. These last few days it has been dropping like a rock and so have John McCain’s poll numbers. The stock market forecasts the future, and it is now seeing a future that includes President Barack Obama and his socialist agenda. So … down, down, down it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows.

We taxpayers have already been charged $700 billion by our government to try and bail out the banking, insurance and mortgage industries that our Congress looted and mismanaged. What we have left in the stock market we should try and recoup.

My name is T. Boone Kerfuffles. I’ve been a blogger all my life, but this is one emergency we can’t blog our way out of. I have a plan that uses American innovation and all the energy we can muster to restore ALL of our stock portfolios to their valuations of three weeks ago-–and it can be done in 21 days.

It will take more than just a plan to make it happen. It will take real leadership. And it will take ALL of us working together to undo some of the damage that has been done to our financial well-being by the Congressional Democrats and their socialistic vote-buying with our money.

This is our crisis, and we can solve it. I have a plan. This is it:

When the pollsters call upon you, regardless for whom you really plan to vote, tell them you are voting for John McCain and the Republicans. Then sit back and watch the stock market reverse itself. Up, up, up it will go! With all of us doing our part we can have our portfolios restored at least by November 3rd. Sometime between Halloween and November 4th, Election Day, CASH OUT. Sell everything. Take your money and run to your mattress. Do not spend a dime.

Come Election Day, go to the polls and vote for Obama and Biden. Go home, sit back with a smug look upon your face and feel justified as you watch the stock market dive into the abyss. We will have outwitted the pollsters, given those greedy Wall Street manipulators their just desserts, given the Republicans the comeuppance they so richly deserve, and given ourselves a “Brave New World.”

Pay your increased Obama and Biden taxes out of the money in the mattress. When it runs out, have no fear, as we will ALL be sharing and kind socialists with the world as our oyster. And if anyone is so “lucky” to find the pearl in that oyster, just remember it will belong to our socialist state; it will belong to all the people.

Obama - The Triple “A” Candidate
Go Triple “A” - All the Way. Vote OBAMA and BIDEN and forget OSAMA BIN LADEN.

Forget free market capitalism as it has been destroyed by the U.S. Congress and A.C.O.R.N. Socialize the banks and stock markets. Forget constitutional government. Forget winning the War on Terror. Forget military service - who needs it when we have the CHANGE candidate to change America into a far left land you will never recognize? In fact, OBAMA’s long time pastor, JEREMIAH WRIGHT, described the nation that OBAMA is seeking to lead as “The U. S. of KKK.” That is at the same time Pastor WRIGHT called upon God to Damn America. Forget your stock investments for they are bound under Democrat Party management to go the way of Fannie Mae stock. Vote for the “AAA” candidate - BARACK “AAA” OBAMA.

“A” - is for AYERS - WILLIAM AYERS the unrepentant terrorist, bomber of the Pentagon, and close friend of the OBAMAS. BILL AYERS was the hero of Hyde Park, the neighborhood of the OBAMAS, yet BARACK OBAMA Obama now claims he knew nothing of AYERS’ history of trying to destroy America and American values.

“A” - is for ALINSKY - SAUL ALINSKY was the author of “Rules for Radicals”, the Bible of community organizers. BARACK OBAMA believes in the socialist teachings of SAUL ALINSKY. Early on ALINSKY radicalized Barack OBAMA in his career as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago, as OBAMA learned and taught ALINSKY’s methods to others. ALINSKY was a hero to BARACK OBAMA. Who was SAUL ALINSKY’s main hero? Think SATAN - as ALINSKY reveals in the epigraph of his famous book: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.”

“A” - is for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). ACORN is at the heart of the current financial meltdown. SENATOR OBAMA has close alliances to ACORN, and helped to finance the activities of this “community-organizing” group. ACORN has a history of leaning on banks and governments to extend credit to house buyers who are bad risks for mortgages, i.e. subprime borrowers, and to browbeat government officials to allow loose lending. ACORN is notorious for voter fraud.

“Welcome to a NEW America” as President Barack “AAA” Obama and his close cronnies bring their OBAMA CHANGE:

• -Socialist “Saul Alinsky”
• -Muslim separatist “Malcolm X”
• - Muslim leader and antisemite “Louis Farrakhan” says Barack Obama is ‘The Messiah’
• -Black liberation teacher “Jeremiah Wright”
• -Farrakhan worshipper “Father Pfleger”
• -Domestic terrorists “Bill Ayers” and his wife “Bernardine Dohrn”
• -Slum felon “Tony Rezko”
• -Violent black militant “Black Panthers”
• -Race Card Shakedown Artists “Jesse Jackson” and “Al Sharpton”

Did You Get This Message, American Taxpayer?

I do not know who originally wrote this. It is claimed by someone named Spencer, and also by American terrorist Bill Ayers of Weatherman fame.

Here is the Face of Sexism. Matt Damon wants you to know that mothers cannot be Vice President of the United States because they may have attended too many hockey games. Somehow, that makes sense to him. He also connects dinosaurs to the nuclear codes, which although not sexist, is certainly inexplicable, except to him.

Take an actor away from his script and “it’s like, you know, it’s like bizarre, it’s like, I don’t know, you know, it’s like, like, crazy, you know, it’s like, … I don’t know, it’s … it’s … it’s like dinosaurs and Disney World, you know.”

Matt Damon - just another pea-brained Obama supporter, just another sexist.

The Video of Matt Damon - The Face of Sexism