So while Rome appears to still be burning, we find the Obamas living the good life in Martha’s Vineyard on a $20 million dollar estate they rented.  Not bad for the former junior state senator from Illinois.  This year so far they have vacationed in Hawaii, Bar Harbor, Chicago, Panama City, Spain and back to the favorite haunt of the liberal left, Martha’s Vineyard.  I guess since President Obama didn’t go to Spain, we can’t count that as a family vacation.

The trip to Spain was because Michelle promised a longtime Chicago friend who just lost her father that she would spend some time with her.  I guess they must have had no vacancy in Deadwood or Disneyland so she just had to go to Spain.

Still, as most Americans are pinching pennies and staying home for vacation it’s nice to see that the President and family get to share some quiet time together in some of the most expensive places in the country.  Good Job.

Here’s a sumary of news clips froom the morning are nation was changed (thanks to Archive.org for putting this together)

China has overtaken Japan as the #2 economy in the world.  Not bad, like to see country’s succeed but did you know that China favors the Euro over the U.S Dollar.

NEW JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE TO 500,000…Highest level in 9 months

Obama now blames poor job numbers on Congress…wait don’t the democrats control congress

This is not good news for our economy .. U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005.

Banks to benefit most from White House effort to fight foreclosures…

Obama supports the right for a mosque at ground zero….

Nancy Pelosi has called for an investigation of anyone protesting the building of the mosque at Ground Zero.

The conflict between Obamas America and Arizona is escalating.  The US Attorney General (Eric Holder) may sue Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Last US combat troops leave Iraq…Obama plans to double the number of private security guards

Youth unemployment reaches record high

Jobless claims jump to highest levels since Feb

Deficit adds $165,040,000,000.00 – IN ONE MONTH

Homes lost to foreclosure up 6% from last year

Students Silenced for Singing Anthem at Lincoln Memorial

Federal workers earning double their private counterparts

Teacher used as Obama prop was let go because of decreased enrollment not lack of money.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor.

Before she says a word, Bob says, ‘I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.’

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, ‘Who was that?’

‘It was Bob the next door neighbor,’ she replies.

‘Great,’ the husband says, ‘did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?’

Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Lesson 2:
A priest offered a Nun a lift..

She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg.

The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.
The nun said, ‘Father, remember Psalm 129?’

The priest removed his hand But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.

The nun once again said, ‘Father, remember Psalm 129?’

The priest apologized ‘Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.’

Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129.

It said, ‘Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.’

Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Lesson 3:
A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, ‘I’ll give each of you just one wish.’

‘Me first! Me first!’ says the admin clerk. ‘I want to be in the Bahamas , driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.’

Puff! She’s gone.

‘Me next! Me next!’ says the sales rep. ‘I want to be in Hawaii , relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.’

Puff! He’s gone.

‘OK, you’re up,’ the Genie says to the manager.. The manager says, ‘I want those two back in the office after lunch.’

Moral of the story:

Always let your boss have the first say.

Lesson 4
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.

A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, ‘Can I also sit like you and do nothing?’

The eagle answered: ‘Sure, why not.’

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story:

To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

Lesson 5
A turkey was chatting with a bull.

‘I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree’ sighed the turkey, ‘but I haven’t got the energy.’

‘Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?’ replied the bull. They’re packed with nutrients.’

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull S__t might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there..

Lesson 6
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.

While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.

As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out!

He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.
Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:

(1) Not everyone who dumps on you is your enemy.

(2) Not everyone who gets you out of doo doo is your friend.

(3) And when you’re in deep doo doo, it’s best to keep your mouth shut!

JULY UNEMPLOYMENT -131,000 JOBS… Gov’t revised payrolls for May and June show 97,000 fewer jobs than previously reported…

Social Security in red for first time

Postal Service loses $3.5 Billion…concerned with future liquidity

Camden NJ closing library system because of budget cuts

Fannie Mae seeks $1.5 billion more from U.S. Treasury

Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette…her daughter and 40 of her closest friends on vacation in Spain on taxpayer money.

Health inspectors shut down 7-year-old’s lemonade stand; Demand $120 for license…

Barack Obama Has Awakened a Sleeping Nation

GARY HUBBELL
ASPEN  TIMES WEEKLY

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America ‘s future.  He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America ‘s resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That’s why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America .

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips – they’ve gotten off the fence. They’ve woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven’t seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we’ve slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and “disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN – a taxpayer-supported organization – is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers’ union – whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense – is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

I don’t know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk’s office and changed my voter affiliation from “Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they’re starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world’s policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They’re organizing, they’re studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they’re reading history and case law, they’re showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years – the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

You cannnot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

— Rev. William John Henry Boetcker

Obama administration moved to dismiss voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party after getting one of the  members to agree to not carry a “deadly weapon” near a polling place until 2012.  Convenient since our next major election isn’t until 2012.

The Attorney General of the US just dismissed a cse of voter intimidation against the Black Panthers in Philadelphia.  Here’s a link to the video for you to watch yourself and make up your own mind.  Here’s another where a white poll officer wasn’t allowed into a polling facility.  Here’s another of the fine upstanding Philadelphia citizen that was not prosecuted.

NASA’s number 1 mission?  Return to the moon, land a man on Mars….nope, tell Muslims how good they are at math and science.

Jimmy Buffet blames Bush for the Gulf oil spill althouhg it was the Obama administration that apporved the lease.

Where Obama learned economics.  Illinois has 4.7 billion in unpaid bills and the state is 11 billion in debt.  The comptrollers office expects the situation to get worse in 2011. So whats a Democratic governor running for reelection to do…you can’t pay the bills, the state is in debt…give your staff a pay raise.