Puteri’s Musings 2

How about a video of kids singing about their Dear Leader, Obama?

Does that remind you of kids singing their praises of their Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il?

Nancy Pelosi is a dunder head.  I don’t know what it is about Californians who keep re-electing the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Maxine Waters back to office each time they come up for re-election!  For the pork they bring back to their district, perhaps?  Barbara Boxer has gone to be THE dumbest senator on Capitol Hill.  Diane Fienstein is very liberal too but she is not as dumb as those three.

Besides being a dunder head, Ms Pelosi is a partisan hack who takes every opportunity to bash Bush.   So the financial crisis is the result of Bush’s failed economic policy, eh?   And the financial crisis is a result of there being no regulation, no supervision on the markets, eh? (Watch Pelosi’s speech here)

How about this video to remind Ms Pelosi about the culpability of her fellow Democrats with regards to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?  Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick should be jailed for fraud.

Did you watch the Saddleback Church Civil Forum of the two presumptive presidential nominees? I watched some of it and saw a replay of some of the highlights of Obama’s and McCain’s interview.

What is clear to me is that Obama is indeed and empty suit with a very thin resume. The office of President is not an entry level position but Obama whose ego is apparent in most of his speeches has been caught lying about his position on abortion and his so called reaching across the aisle and working with John McCain on ethics and campaign finance reform.

His comments today asking John McCain not to question his patriotism sounds juvenile and shows someone with a very thin skin, desperate to show the world that he has what it takes to become president. John McCain is right when he said, he has never questioned Obama’s patriotism but has indeed questioned his judgment.

People are learning more and more about Obama and the glow surrounding him seems to be dimming if the latest polls are anything to go by.

McCain would be wise to choose a running mate that has a proven conservative track record if he wants to keep the gains he made at the Saddleback forum.

Berkeley, California is a another city run by left wing kooks. Berkeley makes Boulder City look normal in comparison.

The Berkeley City Council has given Code Pink, an anti-war group, a parking space in front of the Marine Corp Recruiting office. They have also given Code Pink a letter that they are to deliver to the Marines to let them know they are “uninvited and unwelcome intruders” in Berkeley.

Image Source: ZombieTime.com

Who else in Berkeley would get the same kind of right to a dedicated parking space besides Code Pink? No other group, I am sure. That parking space is being used by Code Pink protesters to show their displeasure at the presence of the Marines in Berkeley, in hopes of getting them to close down.

It seems that the Berkeley City Council’s treatment of the Marines is going to backfire on them.

The proposal to strip $2.1 millions in earmarks to the city by South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, has changed the minds of some of the City Council members. The council voted 7-2 Wednesday not to send the letter (telling the Marines they were uninvited and unwelcome intruders), while restating its opposition to the war and refusing to apologize.

These same hypocritical left wing kooks in the City Council and Code Pink would like to send a peace keeping force to Dafur, Sudan. Where do they think these peace keeping force would come from? The City Council Members? Code Pink Members?

The military that they hate so much, of course!

A move to draft a Boulder City Council resolution supporting the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney likely won’t get enough support to get off the ground Tuesday.A canvass of the City Council shows there aren’t likely to be the five votes required to draft, debate and eventually hold a vote on the measure as activists have requested.

City Councilman Macon Cowles last week told his colleagues that he plans to ask for a vote Tuesday on whether to move forward with an impeachment resolution. For the past several weeks, supporters of such a move have been speaking at City Council meetings and handing out “Impeach” pins.

Cowles said the activists deserve to know whether the council will act on their resolution. But Cowles said he won’t support it, although he agrees with the sentiments it expresses.

Full story here.

Forbes may have named Boulder the “smartest city” in the US, but it sure doesn’t have some very smart members in the City Council!

Why is it the City’s business to have the President and the Vice President impeached? Why didn’t the City Council ask their elected senators and congress persons to propose articles of impeachment on the President and Vice President? That would at least have got somewhere if they were that determined to impeach the President and Vice President.

Whatever the City Council members are doing may make them feel good, but in fact an actual waste of time.

If there were grounds for impeaching the President and Vice President Congress would have done it a long time ago. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are leading the Senate and House of Representatives. They are not exactly Bush’s and Cheney’s supporters!

Why haven’t they done it?

Because they know there is no basis for the impeachment! They may not like what is going on with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan but they know politically, it would be suicide for them to go through with impeachment of the President and Vice President!

Let the kooks like Rep Henry Waxman of California do all the toothless attempts at impeaching the President!

Dr Chua Soi Lek is only the latest in the list of Malaysian politicians who got themselves involved in some sex scandal or other. He was stupid enough to get himself caught, and who knows the number of politicians who go about their sexual dalliances without the knowledge of their family and the public?

So what else is new? Men in powerful positions are attractive to young women especially young women who are willing to do anything to get ahead or bathe in the reflected glory of their sex partners.

D.P. VIJANDRAN

IN late 1989, the former Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker was forced to resign following a sex videotape controversy. In 1994, Vijandran, the former MIC secretary-general, was convicted by a Sessions Court on a perjury charge where his involvement in a pornographic tape was revealed in court. The lawyer was sentenced to one month’s jail and fined RM2,000, in default two weeks’ jail. He lost his appeal in the High Court in 1996 but the Court of Appeal ruled in his favour in August 1998 saying he should not have been called to enter his defence as the prosecution had failed to prove the charges.

DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

IN September 1998, former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was expelled from Umno. He was accused of sexual misconduct including sodomy, illicit sex and seducing a businessman’s wife. On Sept 2, 2004, he was acquited by the Federal Court of the sodomy charge. Anwar had earlier served a six-year sentence for corruption.

TAN SRI RAHIM THAMBY CHIK

IN November 1994, then attorney-general Datuk Mohtar Abdullah cleared the former Malacca chief minister of the allegation that he had sex with an underage girl. The allegation, which attracted wide attention, led to Rahim’s resignation from all political and government posts. The girl had lodged reports against 25 men and 11 were charged.

S ASSAMALEY

THE DAP assemblyman’s wife committed suicide by drowning herself in May 1991. Party leaders subsequently blamed a local daily for front-paging an article suggesting that Assamaley had an extra-marital affair.

He announced his resignation a day after her body was found floating in the sea south of Penang Bridge. He died in May 2000 at the age of 50 after a stroke.

TAN SRI ABU HASSAN OMAR

RUMOURS that he fathered a child out of wedlock with his sister-in-law surfaced after an article headlined “Selangor Menteri Besar denies sex scandal” was printed in an Indonesian tabloid in July 2000.

Then 60 years old, he subsequently resigned as the shortest-serving MB in the state’s history after serving slightly more than three years and three months.

He cited health reasons.

Source: AsiaOne News

Isn’t it typical of politicians to promise you the moon in order to get elected?  Vote for me, and I’ll promise you you’ll get free health care, free prescription drugs and free education.  Not enough?  How about $5000 for your baby to help him buy a house or pay for his college education in the future?  Sounds good?

I am sure there are many out there who think these are good ideas and that they deserve these free assistance from the government.  But there are just as many of us who are incredulous that politicians can promise these “free” benefits and believe that it won’t cost us, the individual taxpayer, a dime in the long run.

The government cannot even promise that there’ll be money to make social security payments when my kids retire, and politicians dare to promise more handouts?

Why are there not more politicians encouraging people to get themselves educated, encouraging people to save and invest whatever money they can, offering ways to lessen bureaucracy in health care management so there will be more choices and health care become more affordable, championing lower taxes, and providing incentives for small businesses who are the biggest employers in the country instead of penalizing them by taxing them out of business or forcing them to provide health care they can barely afford?

I am not against giving assistance to those who are truly needy, but the government should be doing things that allow people and families to be more independent and make it affordable and possible for them to provide some basic needs like health care for their family or for families to own a home.

Bureaucracy and waste are rampant where the government is in charge of things like education.  Unnecessary and rigid regulations in home constructions have artificially increased home prices and made buying and owning homes out of reach for many.

Instead of promising free benefits for all kinds of things, politicians should promise to fix whatever in broken, and improve whatever is not efficient.  Put political calculations aside and do what is right for the future of the country and the hardworking people who want to get ahead with as little assistance as possible from the government.