Imbecilious and Delirious

Imagine ancient Rome and these two as our political leaders. Fast forward to 2010. They are the political leaders! Maybe I'm just another "Conservative bomb thrower". I'll let you decide. Let me address a cataclysmic problem. Not only are Imbecilious and his top lieutenant Delirious going to try Gitmo POW's in a civilian court which is a mind-blowing mistake in itself; they want to shut down Gitmo and send the POW's to Yemen. The same Yemen that some of the USS Cole prisoners "escaped" from. Caving in to pressure from the far left, including the media, the Bush administration released POW's that they shouldn't have. So lets not repeat a failed policy! First and foremost the President's responsibility is: to serve and protect the people of the United States. I think we can all agree on that. After reading the article below how could anybody in their right mind consider closing down Gitmo. The President has made decisions without merit that make absolutely no sense.

Christmas day, a Yemeni, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried unsuccessfully to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane over Detroit. What if he succeeded? Does that.. have.. to happen? Or maybe, and I hate to say it, needs to happen. We need to wake up! 911 to most Americans and politicians alike has become distant as the memory of Pearl Harbor. Another place. Another time.

Mr. President. Al Qaeda is a snake. A snake has no friends. You can be nice to it all you want and pet it if you wish but in the end you're going to get bit.

So where is the rationale in all this? This is so"out there" it's hard to put your finger on it. Why would you release terrorists and send them to Yemen a breeding ground of terrorism?

Here's how I see it.

He is either:

1. Incredibly naive. Seeing the world as he wants it to be. Not like it is. Instead of turning Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab over to the military as (in POW) he probably took Delirious's advice to try him in a civilian court right after the guy who robbed the liquor store.

2. Stupid. When you drop the phrase War on Terror from your administration's vocabulary that doesn't mean the enemy suddenly likes you.

3. Puts world opinion above safety of Americans.

or

If this were a movie Imbecilious and Delirious early on in the plot would be identified as the villains. So I was going to put down number 4. Working for Al Qaeda. Even I don't believe that. But it does make you wonder.

Think about it. If I said lets release Charles Manson people would say I was crazy. How is this any different? I can't see how America can possibly benefit from releasing these prisoners? What is the upside?

By the way, this is coming from an administration who can't control who shows up at a White House dinner party, and we are supposed to trust them with Homeland Security!

Report: Freed Guantanamo Detainees Head to Yemen to Rejoin Al Qaeda

Video released Jan. 23, 2009 shows Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, a senior Al Qaeda leader released from Guantanamo Bay in Nov. 2007.

At least a dozen former Guantanamo Bay inmates have rejoined Al Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times of London reported Tuesday, amid growing concern over the ability of the country's government to accept almost 100 more former inmates from the detention center.

The Obama Administration promised to close the Guantanamo facility by January 22, a deadline that it will be unable to meet. The 91 Yemeni prisoners in Guantanamo make up the largest national contingent among the 198 being held.

Six prisoners were returned to Yemen last month. After the Christmas Day bomb plot in Detroit, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned that the country is becoming a hot-bed of terrorism. Eleven of the former inmates known to have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen were born in Saudi Arabia. The organization merged its Saudi and Yemeni offshoots last year.

The country's mountainous terrain, poverty and lawless tribal society make it, in the opinion of many analysts, a close match for Afghanistan as a new terrorist haven.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced concern about the growing strength of Al Qaeda in Yemen.

"Obviously, we see global implications from the war in Yemen and the ongoing efforts by Al Qaeda in Yemen to use it as a base for terrorist attacks far beyond the region," she said.

A Yemeni, Hani Abdo Shaalan, who was released from Guantanamo in 2007, was killed in an airstrike on December 17, the Yemeni Government reported last week. The deputy head of Al Qaeda in the country is Said Ali al-Shihri, 36, who was released from the prison in 2007. Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaish, who was released in 2006, is a prominent ideologue featured on Yemeni Al Qaeda Web sites.

Imbecilious and Delirious

Jeff Foxworthy in Kabul

"YOU MAY BE IN THE TALIBAN IF..."


1. You refine and sell heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon "unclean."

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.

7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four.

10. You've always had a crush on your neighbor's goat.

11. Your cousin is president of the United States

Jeff Foxworthy in Kabul

Forget the polls

The Rasmussen Poll, the Gallop Poll, just like the others are all over the map. With its finger on the pulse of America; the real barometer is book sales.

Pelosi's book sold a whopping 2,737 copies in its first week.

(The make-up artist should be given an Oscar)

Gore's new book sold 40,000 copies

By contrast Palin's book was No.1 on the NYT's best seller list before it even came out. Over 700,000 copies sold in the first week alone. Harper Collins ordered a second printing bringing the grand total so far to 1,600,000 copies. In fact if you punch in Goi in the Google search box the first thing that comes up is Going Rogue.

Forget the polls

They should be taken out and hung

When will we as a nation wise up?

A startling fact:

The public national debt–$5.8 trillion as of 2008–is projected to double by 2012 and nearly triple by 2019. Thus, America would accumulate more government debt under President Obama than under every President in American history from George Washington to George W. Bush combined.

(Democrats performing the Heimlich Maneuver on the National Debt.)




When your credit cards are maxed out what should you do? Why of course. Call MasterCard and Visa and have your credit limit increased.




With Eye to 2010 Election, Dems Prepare to Raise U.S. Borrowing Limit by Nearly $2T

Congress is poised to lift the federal borrowing limit by as much as $1.8 trillion before the end of this year, a number large enough to avoid revisiting the matter next year when Democrats will have to defend their majority in midterm elections. The Treasury is nearing the current debt ceiling of $12.1 trillion, and Congress must authorize raising the amount the United States can borrow to avoid the country going into default to its creditors.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that the House would combine legislation raising the debt limit with a bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, greatly increasing the chances that the bill will clear Congress before the government can max out its credit card. "We have already raised it in the House but we need to have a vehicle so that the Senate can vote on it, and it is our intention to have something on the Department of Defense bill next week," she said at a news conference.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans will vote against increasing the debt limit. "And we'll vote against it because of their trillion-dollar stimulus plan that hasn't worked. We'll vote against it because of all of this excessive spending that's in this bill right here, a 12 percent increase with 5,000 earmarks -- all of it pushing the debt to record heights," he said at a news conference. "Listen, they have made a habit of taking defense appropriation bills, bills that fund the support of our troops, and adding on there the most distasteful things they can think of, trying to make sure they get it passed on the backs of our soldiers," he added. "It's a bad way of doing business." But Democrats face a difficult task of folding the measure into the Defense spending bill, because House rules prevent additions of "air-dropped" items to legislation that has passed through both chambers.

Democrats will need a two-thirds vote to overcome a likely Republican bid to strip the measure out of the spending bill. Pelosi could convert the spending bill into a "message" to avoid the "air-dropped" problem but the bill would then be sent to the Senate where it would be open to a filibuster. Republican Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Kevin Brady of Texas plan to introduce a bill by Friday that would make it harder for Congress to raise the debt limit by requiring a two-thirds vote instead of the current simple majority needed for passage. With government spending brushing up against the debt limit right now, Democrats have decided they would rather face the music now for hiking the ceiling to accommodate a massive annual deficit than deal with it next year when Republicans could seize on the matter for political gain in the 2010 congressional election. "We've incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told Politico newspaper on Wednesday, confirming the $1.8 trillion figure. A senior administration official did not endorse a specific increase in the debt ceiling but said Democratic leaders need to hit "a number that will get them through the election year. …

This will definitely get them through." "We just want to get it done," the official added. A Treasury official added that the best estimate now is that the United States will hit the debt ceiling in mid-to-late December. "However, the government's cash flows are volatile, and forecasting the precise date remains a difficult exercise. We expect Congress to raise the debt ceiling in a timely manner," the Treasury official said.

The move comes as fiscally-conscious lawmakers push for a special task force that could force speedy votes on deficit reduction in the next Congress. Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., now have 31 co-sponsors for their legislation. "This is a defining moment for this chamber, this Congress and this administration," Conrad said Thursday on the Senate floor. "This is one of the most dramatic challenges to America's economic strength in this century." Gregg said this "is not a theoretical problem -- it is directly in front of us." And he warned that "the nation will go bankrupt" if spending is not reined in.

They should be taken out and hung

What $100 million a day in interest buys

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The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster.

We as a nation are paying $100 million per day in interest!!! ......On a $12,000,000,000,000.00 dept!!!

According to Moodys we are in danger of losing are Triple AAA credit rating. If that happens...Look out Loretta!

All this money spent. Do you see any improvement in your day to day life?

Here is where some of the money went:

- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.

- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.

- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.

- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.

- $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.

- $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.

- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.

- $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.

- $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.

- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri

- $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.

- $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.

- $71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle's energy efficiency.

- $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.

Sources: News reports, Office of the Senate Minority Leader, Office of Sen. Tom Coburn

What $100 million a day in interest buys