On the brink of his winning election, the Dow Jones takes off -- going down, down, down, BassAckwards. 

Barack O'Button enters office, the market continues it's reverse progress down and further down, with no end in sight.  

Does this movie have a good ending?

Can I get my money back at the ticket booth?

    Forget the "October Surprise", it's been replaced by the October Handout (starting late September with the Bank Bailout).  Pretty soon there was a constant parade -- Bail me out for this, bail me out for that to the tune of almost 1 TRILLION dollars.  In the future, look for requests for October Handouts to get more and more outlandish.

    There are a couple obvious solutions to this 

• Require the legislature to finish it's business for the year before they can start campaigning.  The problem here is one is just likely to move the October Handout to earlier in the year when legislature is in session.
  
• "You can't run for office while you hold office". 
  
• This would include setting up any sort of funding or organization for such a run while in office.  
  
• Force legislators and executives to do their job -- run the country, not run for re-election. 
• Unlike term limits, this would allow multiple terms -- they just couldn't be consecutive. 
  

   Is such a reform likely to happen?  Probably not.  However, the cost of continuing to the October Handouts the way they were done this year is going to be in the trillions over the next couple election cycles.  Ideally, someday the taxpayers will wake up and figure this isn't the proper way to run a fiscally responsible country.   It likely to end up costing every single taxpayer thousands and thousands of dollars for every election cycle with the only visible result being a lot of the same old same old face in office. 

Today's date : January, 2012.

Well, it's been quite a ride. 

• Unemployment is hovering around twice as high as when Barry took office.  Good news, there's plenty of benefits to not working.  See Bill of Lefts article 1.
  
• Tax revenues are down, deficits are up -- This is because the rich have been using loopholes to avoid paying taxes.  But deficits are only a problem for those with money.  See Bill of Lefts article 3.
• Health care is finally 'free' so long as you don't count the inflation and taxes that are mixed into everything you buy and do.  See Bill of Lefts article 2. 
  
• Energy -- Gas is only $8 per gallon!  Home heating -- buy a sweater or two. 
  
• Military -- still short on bullets.  Star Wars gone.  Meals on wheels up...  
  
• Protection Racket Agreements.   The US was attacked early on -- details don't matter -- predictable.   Result -- Draft.  Kids either have a choice to go into the military or an assortment of feel good programs...  Sent a pile of money somewhere to buy a couple more years of 'peace' until the next attack.  
  
• Medicare & Social Security -- Going down faster than predicted, problem for next President.  
• Environment -- Global Warming -- gone.  It's now Global Cooling.  No big -- the Cap and Tax system is being used to help pay energy bills for the poor.  
  
• Stock Market -- up.  Companies that donate to Dems get preferential treatment in all sorts of fashions and do well.  Small businesses, suffering...  
  
• Unions -- Can't seem to keep track of who is on strike right now...   Get back to you tomorrow...
  
• Minimum wage -- $10 and climbing.   
• In God We Trust -- collector's item.  Replaced by "Working For All" 
  

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1. Thou shall be secure in the faith that government will take care of you. Everything is free as long as you don't work for it. So you are best off not working at all or as little as possible.

2. Government shall never take away anything it gives you. However, it may take away anything you earn on your own.

3. There shall be plenty of mandates on the other guy. You are safe as long as you choose do as little as possible -- then government will not ask you to do anything in return. Whatever you do, don't ever think about employing someone.

4. Bubbas who hang out together can get most anything they want as long as they promise to vote for left wing Democrats.

5. Government can always raise taxes on the rich because success is just not fair no matter what the tax rate.

6. Deficits are a part of life, but that is only a problem for those with money.  If the government gives you a credit card for health care or anything, use it as much as you want.  The more you use it, the more free things you can expect to get with it in the future.

7. The PRESSident is protected by the freedom of the press.  It reinterprets and ignores the Constitution to meet any desired PRESSidential goal or specification. The PRESSident is defined as the collective will of the liberal PRESSSSSS.

8. The PRESSident only report the views that the PRESSident feels are useful propaganda for their intended audience.  Conflicting reports are fine as long as the conclusion by promises new programs.

9. Most laws are best written by judges and regulatory agencies, so it is best to make any legislation as vague and contradictory as possible.

10. All rights reserved to the States and individuals are subject to the previous rule.

11. When your position can't be substantiated by logic or facts, divert the issue to another topic that defames or attacks your opposition's credibility.  It is good if there is little justification to do so, and even better if your spin is full of falsehoods and logical gaps.  If you are guilty of something, defend yourself by saying your opponent is guilty of the same crime, even if it there is no truth in the accusation.

12. Unquestioning faith in Big Government shall be a promoted and protected right.  The goal is for non-secular faith, its welfare programs and worship of liberal politicians to eventually replace religion.  Conservatives who have little faith in big government secularism shall be persecuted and scorned as radical right wing extremist unbelievers of the worse kind.

13. The goal of feel good government programs isn't to fix problems.  The primary intention of government programs is to create more opportunites for new feel good programs to fix the problems other feel good programs create.

14. Political Bigotry is promoted so long as it expresses all sorts of ridiculous bias against Conservatives. The more ridiculous the political bigotry, the better.

Stealth Reparations -- that's what the 2008 TARP/Bailout Bill is all about.  It's time to start calling a spade a spade, pig a pig, a TARP a TARP and free houses for minorities as reparations.   

Fact : There is specific wording in the Crapola Bailout bill that states one focus of the bill will be for taxpayers to buy up failing "minority" mortgages -- reparations by reasonable label... 

  How did it happen -- Congress passed regulations that forced banks to hand out mortgages to minorities who can't pay for their mortgages.  Presumably, the original hope was the mortgage industry and general marketplace would be able to absorb these mandated stealth reparation houses without it coming to the surface and attention of the taxpayer.  It worked for a while.  But if a little is good, more is better -- Democrat Congress Critters and regulators got impatient with the slow pace and expanded the percent of reparation house mortgages that must be included in bundled mortgage resales until it brought down the mortgage industry.

Fine print -- anyone who publicly labels the crapola bailout bill as reparations will be vehemently called racist by the Obamist's and far left.  The force of their anger about this racist accusation will be validation that reparations is really what this is all about.  

ref:  http://www.webloggin.com/carp-congressional-asset-ripoff-program/

Let's not waste over 400,000 lifetimes per year by federaling mandating 55 MPH. It was stupid last time it was done.  It will be just as stupid now.  

300,000,000	People	300,000,000	People
55	MPH	70	MPH
10,000	Miles/year	10,000	Miles/year
54,545,454,545	Hours	42,857,142,857	Hours
149,439,601	Hours/year	117,416,830	Hours/year
1,992,528	Lifetimes on the road	1,565,557	Lifetimes on the road
		426,970	Wasted lifetimes per year

Congress and the President could easily solve the problem of judicial activism by passing a law that any rule of law decided upon by the Supreme Court sunsets in 5 years times the number of justices in the majority and 5 years for any lower court as a maximum. One might also consider a retroactive provision where previous judicial decisions would sunset in a similarly organized fashion related to # of judges in majority and age of ruling. 

After a ruling sunsets, the Legislative branch could take up these issues legislatively, or it could be reviewed again by the Courts. 

Eventually, the piles of steaming judicial compose that have warped the nature of our Constitution would be replaced by properly executed legislative process. Jefferson talked about each generation have the right to revolution. This would provide each generation a tool to reconsider important and unsettled issues in an organized predictable fashion.

The Judicial Branch could complain all it wants, but there isn't any clearly defined right in the Constitution for them to have the right to declare laws for all time that they have declared for themselves.  With two branches of government passing a law to Sunset Judicial Activism, it seems one has two branches defining law within the reasonable exercise of the powers clearly delineated in the Constitution. 

Personally, passing something along the same lines for sunsetting all laws Congress passes by the size of the majority the law was passed might be worth considering to keep Congressional Compost from getting too deep.  However, such a law may need to be a Constitutional Amendment since messing with the rules for passing laws is clearly defined in the Constitution.  However, the fine print here would be Congress would soon come to rely upon 'bureaucratic regulations' to be the new source of compost to perpetually cover the Constitution, denying the people's right for each generation to define the important issues from their own perspectives.  

Minimally, it's all something that may be worth occasional comtemplation.  Replace the notion of "Living Constitution" with "Living Body of Law". 

  The Democrat Congress wants to showboat their solution to high gas prices by demonizing the Oil Industry thru a Windfall Profits Tax.  The likely solution to this is oil and gas would get more, not less expensive as the taxes would be passed along to consumers in higher prices.  Plus, some oil companies may just decide to refocus their sales elsewhere where they aren't taxed so much.  This again would lower supply and increase taxes.  

   My solution is simple -- Windfall Stupidity Tax.   Congress should pass a law that collects extra gas tax revenue from the districts and states whose Congresscritters continue to stifle reasonable and progressive development of known oil resources on federal lands.  The stupid people that support these politicians should face the consequences of their stupid support for pols in the econut's pockets. 

Districts and States with Congressmen and Senators who don't support active drilling and development of oil resources on federal lands pay 10 cents extra gas tax for each Senator and Congressmen who votes against development of homeland oil resources.  This shall be known as the Windfall Stupidity Tax.

Residents of Districts and States get a 10 cents reduction in gas tax for each Senator and Congressmen that supports developing fully developing homeland oil resources.

   Stupid people who support less energy and higher gas prices should pay for their positions.  The Windfall Stupid tax revenue would be redirected to the poor intelligent residents of other areas who have to suffer thru the stupid energy policies of politicians who don't fully understand the need to develop homeland oil resources.

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Uh, hello GOP.   This is something you ought to use to at least entertain folks with while you also make a point about what the Drill Nothing Democrats are doing to average working families.  

If I were the Good God of implementing all good common sense ideas : here's one I work on:

• The UN would be evolved to a non-profit institution who primary job is to bring prosperity to the world thru becoming the (3rd) world's nuclear energy provider/supplier.
  
• UN power stations would be built with reasonable safeguards that allow it to safely and quickly shut down plants such an attempt be made to over take it's facilities.
  
• As a non-profit, it would direct it's revenue to building more energy and paying for any necessary security. 
  
• For example, the UN would take over Iran's nuclear project and make sure the folks of Iran get the power they desire. 
  
• For this service, the UN would get paid a reasonable amount, which they would then use to build their next nuclear plant, perhaps somewhere in Africa... Etc, etc. 
  
• With cheap plentiful energy, many of the struggles of the developing world would quickly go away.  Security issues would resolve. The UN could leverage it's energy to get uncooperative folks to cooperate.  
  
• The UN wouldn't need any sort of taxation of the developed world to move the rest of the world forward.  Rather, they'd just do what they would quickly find easy to do -- provide power and let the revenues of that effort promote it's own tasks. 
  
• Etc, etc.  
  

Or something like that...

OK, let us suppose that the earth is getting warmer and CO2 is increasing.  Does this necessarily mean a warmer planet require politicians to run around like Chicken Little that it's going to be a disaster? Consider several other equally possible scenarios :

• More mild temperate regions -- As the earth warms, it's likely that most of the warming will be towards the poles.  As this happens, the force of weather driven by high and low pressure interactions will lessen as the difference between the highs and lows will be less, not more.  It seems milder winds and weather is NOT something that should not be fought, but something that should be promoted.  
• Warmer oceans means more humidity (water vapor) -- This may mean deserts that have not seen rain for eons may see the return of rains.  Lakes and rivers long dried up could reform and new more dynamic ecosystems could evolve from rather static desert wastelands -- Anyone recall the  Hanging Gardens of Baylon?  
• Melting Ice caps -- The water to fill desert lakes and rivers has to come from somewhere.  The question may not be will the ocean levels rise if the ice caps melt -- rather the question should be will any melting at the ice caps be sufficient to fill these desert lakes, or will instead we see ocean sea levels drop?  
• The reality is as there is more water vapor in the air, more, not less, artic ice may form.  Currently, much of the artic is too cold for much snow to fall.  As the temperature warms, air absorbs more water vapor, which may be transported over the poles and deposited as more, not less, snow.  The artic ice pack may get deeper.  It's possible that the same will happen in the high mountain ranges around the globe.
• One can't just create CO2 out of nothing so it can't increase forever.   There is a limited amount of free carbon that one might add to the environment thru burning of fossil fuels.  One also can't create a world wide renewable energy system without a lot more CO2 to feed and grow the plants necessary to make the renewable energy.  So more, not less, CO2 seems what is needed. 

Bottomline, before everyone runs around to prevent global warming and reduce CO2, perhaps it would be a good idea to determine if more global warming and more CO2 isn't really what is needed for the world to prosper, not less.  It's not like the globe at one time didn't have more CO2 in it and was also warmer.