Obama’s 5 day pledge will not be used on this legislation because it is deemed ‘emergency legislation’, not that that seems to be stopping him from upholding that pledge anyway.  The corrected, consolidated and merged House and Senate bills were online the evening of Friday the 13th, Obama will sign it Monday morning.  The documents are HUGE, Section A is 496 pages – 5Mb and Section B is 575 - 2Mb.  Going through it to find all the hidden earmarks, pork, and wasteful spending would take a week or longer!  You can’t trust the summaries or press as they are so slanted it is unbelievable.  The point is this, this bill is shaping up a clear cut class war.  The payouts and provisions are all aimed at aiding those dependant on government aid, buying more of their loyalty, forcing the middle class into dependency on the government for sustainability, and undermining the upper class in an attempt to redistribute their wealth completely (much the same way as happens in all revolutions where rich people’s properties are taken and given to the poor).  This is becoming more and more clear as I analyze the flapping head talk show hosts, blogs, and what the media is leaving out of the discussions on what is going on in this country now.  As I stated earlier, good thing I am in China, now I can apply the living in an authoritarian communist society to my home country.

Just breezing through the first 20 pages I came across a $400 million provision for WIC, the women, infant, and children for providing nutriesous and free foods necessary for development (milk, orange juice, cheese, cereal, etc.).  Working for a grocery store in rural Alabama for 6 years and I know about it all too well.  The provision states clearly that $100 million is only to be used for funding the program, the remainder is to be used when it is expanded to enroll more people.  This expansion is used to hook people on dependency on government aid, little by little.  One of my favorite talk show hosts said it best, its like what a drug dealer does to get new clients, he gives away free drugs to get you hooked and then he starts charging when you need it.  This package, while some is necessary and needed, is government crack handed out to hook us all.  $100 million to expand free lunch programs, provided the schools only use it for new equipment and have a population of students eligible for the program at 50% or higher.  Seeing public school enrollment is declining, as our population is, and school districts are having to close down schools would it not be a better use of funds to use it to; hire staff, buy better quality food, or expand the program to charter schools and alternative schools?

Increasing social services does not stimulate the immediate needs of our economy!  Increasing social programs does nothing to fix the problems of job loss, frozen credit, home value increases, or spur domestic spending which all the Democrats have acknowledged is what the real problem is!  All these programs are long term spending programs.  They all require local taxes to fund.  Where do you suppose this funding will come from in October, when this budget plan expires?  Oh, you did not know this bill is just for this fiscal budget year?  Surprise, we will get a peek at Obama’s wish list for the next fiscal year at the end of the month.  Back to the point, the funding for all this expansion of WIC, school lunch, Medicare/Medicaid, unemployment benefits, etc, will be coming out of local tax bases.  Yep, local communities will have to hike up property, sales, and income taxes to pay for the new expanded services.  This will bog down local economic growth and make the case for federal funding grants to the local communities cementing their dependency on and influence by federal government into local communities across the nation.  California and Wisconsin are already using their portion of the bill to supplement their deficit spending (remember all states are required by law to have balanced budgets).  This financial crack being handed out will make communities and people dependant on the government.  Once you do that the government will tell you how to spend that money.

What was Bill Clinton’s crowning achievement as president?  Come on, you know you can name it.  Letting Bin Laden go, Kosovo, White Water, the tech bubble, Monica Gate, Socialized Medicine, NAFTA, getting impeached?  Nope, it was workfare, the reform of welfare to make people who could work work to receive assistance.  Well that was just erased.  This bill, soon to be law, now allows tens of millions sit at home and collect a check with no job searching provisions or minimum hours of work at a job to receive.  Welfare is there as a supplement to allow you time to get another job.  If you don’t have to get another job and they expand it from 6 months to 10~12 months then what incentive do you have to look for work?  It is encouraging laziness and dependency on government aid.  What was lauded as a success under Clinton’s 8 years of hell was now killed by the very party that created it.  Making the middleclass slaves and then slowly turning them into lower class will help swell the ranks of those for an impending class warfare.

Remember the good old days of president Bush when the Democrats were screaming about raising the deficit spending from 3% to 4% of our GDP to fund the war?  Remember when Regan created a recession and deficit spending of 3% of our GDP to fix Carter’s catastrophe?  You will now because this bill puts our deficit spending at 13~14% of GDP based off of pre-recession GDP figures!  That is like having a sub-prime mortgage loan with a teaser rate of $900 a month and after 4 years jumps to $3,600 a month… oh wait many can relate to that because that is what cause the housing melt down that tripped off this whole mess in the first place!  We have increased our deficit spending 3 to 4 times!  Why were the Democrats screaming at Bush for increasing it a measly 0.5% 4 years ago and happily going with these gross increases now?  We are putting ourselves on a collision course and the reasons are eerily pointing toward a new class war in the country.

How can all this spending be paid for.  If you take all the war spending since it began 6 years ago, throw in the homeland security spending for good measure, you still don’t match the spending in this bill!  The Democrats seem to hate spending money on war, but spending it on re-analyzing the results of the 2010 census findings and other things that don’t fix our economic problems outlined above is totally fine.  Just as SCHIP was lauded by Pelosi and she defended its birth control measure by saying it was a stimulus provision, no cost saving provision, no, well she blew it off anyway.  The Democrats love to spend money and could care less about oversight.  Case in point.  Obama’s ridicule of a bank’s planned annual event to Las Vegas, for an employee recognition and senior executive meeting to review and plan the next year’s strategies, and his fervor against another bank’s marketing budget at the Superbowl, to gain more clients, deposits, and loan candidates.  Because these banks took TARP funds he want to tell them what they can’t spend money on.  Its their fault for taking the funds, but if they take federal funds does the government have the right to tell them how to spend their money?  Really?  If so I want to tell all the unionized school teachers in America where, when, and how to spend their paychecks, vacations, and personal expenses.  They receive tax dollars.  How about the Post Office.  With this new 2 cent increase I don’t want to see them spend anymore on advertising, overtime, use 30% less fuel, and get rid of all unhealthy foods on government property because I fund their healthcare too!  See, when the shoe is on the other foot it feels different.

Our deficit spending is funded by; taxes received over the next fiscal year, treasury bonds sold to private, public, and sovereign wealth funds (countries), and deals involving trade and currency exchanges.  This tripling of deficit spending pushes the bonds down to historic lows eroding the confidence they can even be repaid!  Private investors are not going to buy them, they just lost 50% of their wealth when the markets collapsed (if they were lucky) and the bond rates now are less then 0.6% return on 10 years!  Businesses won’t be getting any bonds for the same reasons.  Japan and China (#2 and #3 economies respectfully) are hurting and can only buy a small fraction of bonds as they are in recessions and problems of their own.  Global markets are all down and digging in by spending less as investments.  Some want to see the dollar fall as it will increase their currency or GDP rates.  So the only other option is to just print money.  Without a value based on it the value of the currency will fall, simple supply vs demand.  As demand for US dollars falls supply will skyrocket, making inflation and possible devaluation a stark reality.  The US dollar may become just like the Mexican peso, worth less 24 hours after it was printed.  All that money will mean little if prices go up to match the realistic value of the currency.  Remember the good old days of Carter and his triple doubles, double digit inflation, unemployment, and national debt increases?  Well, get used to it because here we go again.  Funny thing here.  This bill is trying an old formula that has failed in every communists and socialists country over the past 60 years yet we feel we can make it work this time around.  China abandoned government run businesses 30 years ago and adopted a more capitalistic approach, the results… from 3rd world to 3rd largest economy and still growing in a global recession all in 30 years, it has never happened before.  It seems China and American are two passing ships in the night, each going to where the other has just came from.

All this circles back to the positioning of class warfare in the country.  The Democrats, drunk off of their huge wins this past fall, have placed a 40 year in the making wish list up before a president who is going to sign it into law after the public, who will be paying for it, gets less then a weekend to review and inform their Congress members how to vote on it.  40 years of far left wing ideas, philosophies, and scams will become a reality, all with smiles and pats on the backs while the president told the nation, with a straight face, that this was necessary and had to be done now, because waiting another week or two would doom us all to, well whatever the Democrats version of a non-religious Hell would be.  These measures will place the yoke of dependency on the middleclass.  These measures are aimed at going after the rich.  While not rich, a fan of the rich, nor a believer that rich people are anything besides scum, I feel in out country that if you work hard and are persistent you should get rewarded accordingly.  What about Paris Hilton?  I would love to see her on WIC and food stamps, but only as a result of her family disowning her or cutting her off permanently.  There is a gambler’s saying that applies here, scared money don’t make no money.  The reward of a high payout is worth the risk, this is what created the rich people in the first place, they were willing to go it alone when it looked worst.  Are we saying now that they are bad for being successful?  Are we no longer rewarding success?  Are we now going to say that those with money have to support a system that has declared war on it for no other reason then what they make in a year?  Sounds pretty un-American to me.

The investments of this package do 3 things.  It boosts popularity by those stead fast loyalist who already receive entitlement and feel their plight is the fault of others.  It purchases the loyalty of the middleclass under the guise of short term assistance until things improve.  It sets up a system so bloated and large the amount of resources required to maintain it exceed what we can afford and this will push the middleclass into the rank of the entitlement receivers.  That will leave just the large companies and the rich to fund the rest.  Of course the government counts on them staying where they are out of some sense that America at that time is still better then Dubai, China, Vietnam, Brazil, India, hell even Canada, Australia, and others.  Not only will pay caps on top executives create brain drain in those companies, the top tier talent going where the pay and benefits match the work, class warfare and assaults on our elites will create wealth drain faster then the government can take it.  Rich people are smart in one area and one area alone, retaining wealth.  If they can’t do that here there is nothing preventing them from jumping ship.  They employ the smartest people to manage their money, loyalty and nationalism only goes so far.  Unlike France during their revolution, the world is smaller and easier to navigate in today.  This year celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.  Other countries have blood soaked shifts of power or wealth throughout their recent histories too.  The US, and to some extent Russia, do not operate this way.  This war will not include poor peasants running into mansions and looting them, no that will be left up to the government.  Tax increases, road blocks for investments and business operations, death taxes, luxury taxes, and the like.  This war will backfire on the Democrats and cause a mass exodus where other countries will get the tax dollars we will miss.  Then we all are left holding a very big and heavy bag.  Remember that little war at the turn of the last century?  They passed and implemented a ‘rich’ person tax to pay for that war, on telephones that at the time only rich people had, well, we still pay that tax today each month. 

As I have stated earlier.  Liberals tend to be very short sighted with their ideals.  All this stuff looks like it was cooked up in the 1960’s and now has the chance to see the light of day, however over that time they never got past the ‘would it be radical and cool if we did “x” – never thinking through what would happen next or because of it.  Those of us who are left will look around and wonder how it all happened, well this is it.  Remember Mr. ‘it’s patriotic to pay taxes’ Bidden kept lowering his definition of rich from $250,000 household income to $200,000 and then to $150,000, well you should because it may have to go lower, meaning all those nice taxes above could be coming your way.  That is how class warfare is conduced, full frontal assaults on the supply lines and resources used.  It may be bloodless but the effects are just as devastating.  Pelosi and Reid have rammed 40 years if unfilled X-mas wish lists into the first real legislation Obama will sign and doing so as to ‘not let a good crisis go to waste’, yep that sounds like this is on the up and up and we have all that hope of change and transparency happening here.  Just as Wisconsin found out when their ‘tax Hell’ drove thousands of tax payers to Florida and Arizona (who were grateful in receiving new tax bases) and are now left with a $3 billion deficit, you can only tax so much before those getting taxed will leave.  A strategy to take down ‘the man’ and stick it to ‘the rich’ is getting underway, power to the people and those ‘the man’ has held down for too long, we are with you brothers and sisters, our time has come, we will get all we deserve now, follow us to the promised land of equality, harmony, lollipops, unicorns, and chocolate rivers.

Again, I am not joking.  This is gravely serious.  Add this to the now $3 trillion total cost of the next wave of TARP, Stimulus bill, and new spending initiatives and how is this going to be paid for?  Do you think taxes can cover this?  We are all getting a tax cut according to the NICP, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.  So what is left, corporate taxes, windfall taxes, well in this economy you can count that out with double digit decline.  The $3 trillion total spending will have to come from somewhere, $325 billion is paid for already, $850+ via taxes (stimulus bill), $1 trillion for freeing up credit markets by buying toxic paper that will have to be raised by selling American bonds to other countries, sovereign wealth funds, and private investors.  Well, American investors have lost 50~70% of their worth in the current market downturn, and will be taxed more for it.  China, Japan, Germany (number 2, 3, 4 economies in the world) and the EU have stated they can only purchase a few bonds and only of the stimulus legislation has NO protection measures in it, which in its current form it does not.  So if only we can get them to buy this, which they don't want to, that still leaves $1 trillion for the spending our tax evading Treasury Secretary just outlined and caused the markets to sink 381 points in an hour!  We will print it.  Welcome to double digit inflation, meaning your $1 today will have about 0.90 or less depending on the inflation rate next year.  Look at Mexico and Zimbabwe for insight on inflation.  Just printing money to flood the market will overheat the economy to the point of creating inflation so bad it will make Japan's lost decade look like road bump compared to the Grand Canyon. 

Last May I wrote about my daughter refusing to eat.  Over the past 14 months the progress has been slow but steady.  As our daughter was not living with us until just before Christmas it was a mystery we only viewed when we would go to visit her on holidays or time off.  Her grandparents used a lot of resources to feed her, effort and time.  To feed her a single meal would take 1 to 2 hours and leave quite a mess all over the place.  So what has happened since December in this area?

Our daughter recently turned 2.  She is now only drinking milk/formula mix 3 times a day, once for afternoon nap and twice at night, bedtime and early morning.  We have started to wean the formula back by replacing 30~50 percent with whole milk, this process is still in its experiment phases.  Her interest in food is growing and growing well, sort of.  She is more interested in what others are eating then what you try to feed her, even if it is the same thing.  Her favorites all include easy to chew and digest items; bread, crackers, noodles, rice, corn, bean sprouts, spinach, asparagus tips, nuts, raisins, and soups.  The hates meats and only like egg yokes, not the whites (unusual from my experience).  She is curious about foods, just not enough to really try to eat them. 

Her eating habits, that of trying to feed her, has only marginally improved.  She still refuses to sit still to eat, is easily distracted and easily bored with eating, and is easily frustrated and upset while eating.  Try to feed her to fast and she will spit food out on the floor or gag herself to the point of actually throwing up.  Try to feed her something she does not want and she will run away or throw a huge fit.  She seems to like it best when strangers feed her instead of family.  If other kids are around and eatting then she will eat better.  The only thing that will make it easier to feed her is the TV, something I loathe but have to put up with.  Getting her to eat a full meal is still quite a chore and can take up to an hour or longer depending on her mood, and yes food still ends up all over the place (she refuses to sit to eat, only eats standing up and frequently runs away).  Being 2 it is really hard to discipline her but her eating habits are only marginally getting better.

My wife's parents stated she acted the same way to eat, and it took hours to feed her with 2 to 3 people chasing her to feed her constantly.  Chinese children are considered healthy only by how fat they are, as Sophia is only half Chinese her body does not hold fat the same way and her metabolism is sky high, like mine, and her weight is below her age group, but she is taller then kids 6 months older then her still.  My mother states that at 2 she is beginning to exert her independence and feel out the boundaries we will set for her, she is also getting to the point of seeking out the world and being curious and easily bored with everything (except TV of course).  She is eating now, but not enough to keep up with the weight guidelines and expectations of her Chinese grandparents.

I am happy to see her use a fork and spoon to eat, she tries to use chopsticks but only with very limited success and she always uses them backwards.  She has started to roll play feeding her dolls and stuffed animals, I encourage this as it shows she understands the concept and to see how she deals with them.  She is listed in her progress book as eating well in school, her grandmother insists she eat a double lunch to gain weight, but she has come home from school in the afternoon and acted starving so it is hard to tell from that.  She is full of energy, never tires, but never seems interested in food.  Not sure if this is a stage or if she has the odd ability I do of ignoring what the body is telling you, I can forget to eat for days on end if pre-occupied or too lazy to clean up the mess from cooking.  What ever the case, she will eat now, does not refuse to eat like she did 9 months ago, so for those parents looking for something other then advice (I get 10 to 20 search hits a week on this very topic) then it is something they begin to grow out of after some time. 

It is distressing to see a kid not eat.  It is hard to remember they have much smaller stomachs and higher metabolisms so their eating requirements are totally different.  I have been there and can say from observation, it will pass slowly.  Encourage their curiosity but be prepared when the attention shifts, it is just their nature.  They have odd likes and dislikes and will change in an instant sometimes demanding something different halfway through a meal, its part of the phase.  Keep an eye on the weight, thin out the formula and give more water during the day.  Cut their foods into smaller easy to chew portions, if they can't chew it quickly they will refuse to eat it again.  Encourage roll play so they can get a sense of how they should eat.  I let my daughter feed me a little at home, hoping it imprints her with the sense of accepting the food when it is offered to you to her.  And the largest word of advice, Patience!  It is frustrating but all a part of growing up, at 2 she is exploring and experiencing many things for the first time so I have to keep remembering this.  I hope over the next 9 months it will mostly pass and then it will be just the matter of getting her to eat all her dinner, and not chasing her around the house to feed her.  Time will tell.

What other excuse can he, or his administration give for the first Major breakage of a campaign promise?  Politicians sure do have an issue with the truth, promises, and doing what they pledge.  Case in point; candidate Barack Obama’s pledge to have a five day public review of all non-vital legislation passed by Congress before he would sign it.  President Barack Obama’s reality is completely the opposite in passing all legislation as soon as it passes Congress until the mid-term elections.  The Democrats are scared that will be their reckoning day, and by the looks of it, it can’t come fast enough.

The below 3 images are screen captures that will illustrate the real issue for the liberals who will say I am making this issue up or that I am full of you know what, well here are the actual screen captures showing the reality and truth of our good President’s ability to keep his word and follow through on his campaign promises.  You can do the same searches and find the same info, no doctored pictures here.

 
Five day review exists, Google found it and shows the results

 
Follow the link and Oops, WhiteHouse.Gov states that page does not exist…

Follow the cashed link page and viola, the page DID exist and it WAS really there outlining the real pledge

Why, well if you listen to his Chief of Staff on the ‘not letting a good crisis go to waste’ mantra jumped on by Congress and used more then a turnstile at the NYC subway system during rush hour.  Next look at the tone of the government from ‘hope and change’ to preaching ‘fear and blame’ the Democrats blamed the GOP of using on the campaign trail, though it is good enough to use to get all their special pet projects and special interest paybacks that fear is the only way to get the American people behind this ever ballooning stimulus package that is now over $910 billion.

The first 3 bills Obama signed and did not post for HIS own 5-day pledge; #1 Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (NEVER posted, signed in 2 days… 2 days!) signed 1/29/09, #2 State Children’s Health Insurance Program SCHIP (posted on the site for only 3.5 days posted Super Bowl Sunday afternoon, signed Wednesday morning) signed 2/4/09.  The response by the White House…

White House spokesman Reid Cherlin: “During the campaign, the President committed to introducing more sunlight into the lawmaking process by posting non-emergency legislation online for five days before signing it. The President remains committed to bringing more transparency to government, and in this spirit the White House has posted legislation expected to come to the President’s desk online for comment.”

“We will be implementing this policy in full soon; currently we are working through implementation procedures and some initial issues with the congressional calendar. In the meantime, we will continue to post legislation on our website for comment as it moves through Congress over the next few weeks.”

So much for change we can believe in, I believe in what I see, results and actions, I leave faith to religion and spirituality only and not the realm of politics.  Thus far Obama and Congress which from this point forward I will refer to the NICP or national insane clown posse, no office to the rap group to whom I do appreciate some of their works.  Seeing the insanity that is going on over there in DC it is unbelievable they are going to get this pork laden, earmarked from hell, lobbyist and political payback bill pushed through straddling America with massive national debt and increasing our deficit to two or three times that of the last 8 years.  Oh, and I can’t accept Barack’s EXCUSE of it was handed to him neatly packed and in a bow on day one, how pathetic is that?  Leaders lead, not lie, cheat, talk out of both sides of their mouths and they sure as hell don’t go around laying blame and making excuses for it when the situation starts to turn on them.  Every day this package is not passes is more time we get to peak inside and see how much more pork we can find, and thus far there has been enough to last our national food assistance program for years to come.

Joe Biden, on the campaign trail in September 2008, stated and lauded it is “patriotic to pay taxes” yet the administration he is a leading member of has had 4 people, nominated either withdraw or thoroughly embarrass the President for their failures to pay taxes to the tune of forcing the President to make a public apology for his “failures” and promise “to not screw up again”.  So far we have:

• Tom Daschle -`HHS Secretary – withdraw for not paying $146,000 in back taxes
• Nancy Killefer -`Chief Government Performance Officer – withdraw for not paying federal employee taxes of $900 for her nanny
• Timothy Geithner -`Treasury Secretary – confirmed despite not paying $34,000 in back taxes for work at the International Monetary Fund
• Hilda Solis -`Labor Secretary – confirmation stalled due to husband’s failure to pay taxes and a lean taken on their home, and all this is just the taxes part

According to Biden the president is appointing some very unpatriotic people to key positions in the government.  The math adds up to $180,900 of tax revenue not recovered for years, good thing Geithner is head of the IRS now, he can sweep it all under the carpet (yes I know all the taxes have been paid in full by now).  Add this to the President’s “new era of responsibility” pledge and the collapse of:

• Bill Richardson Commerce Secretary – withdraw over pay-for-play investigation
• William Lynn Deputy Defense Secretary – confirmed despite failing Obama’s own anti-lobbyist policy against former Pentagon workers who become lobbyists from working for him in 2 years time (Obama granted him a special waiver so its all good now)

It seems that shutting the "...revolving door that lets lobbyists come into the government freely" thing was just another campaign trail promise the leader of 'hope and change' will not be delivering on.  And all this is just with the Executive branch!

• Global warming is only warming the poles.  Kentucky is frozen, Wisconsin has gotten record braking snow, ice, and cold for the past 3 to 4 years, and my 4th Chinese New Year here in China was spent freezing around a space heater in Guangzhou where outside temperatures were below the average 15 to 20 degrees Celcius (40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit) for this time of the year, the highs were barely hitting the 14 degree mark.  The first two years it was beautiful there with temps in the low 20's C (60's F) as the lattitude is close to that of southern California.  Last year there was almost snow, there was snow in Shanghai, and this year it was cold and down there they don't have heaters in the rooms as it has always been so hot.  Now we have the worst snow in England in 6 years, record breaking winter storms and conditions across much of the globe yet we are seeing the poles melt.  Global warming is getting really funny as before long all us humans will have to move to the poles to live and work and let the rest of the planet freeze in a block of ice for half the year.
• China is a powder keg and Obama better realize it NOW.  The Chiense government this week demanded the military pedge and maintain its loyality to the Communist government in power here.  Why would they NEED to do this you may ask?  Last years snow and transportation meltdown stranding tens of million migrant workers for the annual holiday season, last year's violent and nearly covered up Tibetan riots with this year marking the 50th anniversary of the original uprising that was crushed and reports of people already being detained to prevent a repeat, 20 million factory jobs alone lost in the last 6 months, 300,000 infants poisoned and 6 dead from a failed cover-up involving a disoraganized and ill equiped food product safety administration, the continuing distrust over the Sichuan Earthquake response and reasons that resulted in the deaths of over 80,000 and leaving tens of millions homeless and with broken families (activists are jailed for speaking out about poor construction and compensation for shattered families in a country with a 1 child policy and now scientists have published reports in scientific journals claiming research points to the cause being all the damming and obstructing of waters in the region), continued food inflation in a region that saw rice shortages the last 2 years and with less employed this year looks to be even worse!  You see China is unique because of the numbers here.  More people smoke in China then live in the USA, more people in China are on the internet then in the USA, if just a small fraction of people in China get upset it is a HUGE deal.  With well over 1 BILLION people you can see why the government is always cautious and paranoid, if unrest ever broke out in just 0.5% of the population, it would outnumber the Chinese PLA nearly 10 fold! 
• Obama is getting mixed reviews and it ain't just in the US of A.  Obama shooting off his mouth and claiming China is to blame for the American financial crisis and our sick factory sector is not sitting well here as you could imagine.  China is wanting to know how free market capitalism and trade is to blame and they in paticular are to blame just because they have cheaper labor.  I have to agree, the fault is with the American consumer who told the world who they favored when the stopped buying American made goods in the 1990's and the flood gates for cheaper produced goods followed.  Obama better get out that silver tounge, because he has dug himself a hole with his campaign speeches and rhetoric preaching protectionism and isolationalism and his cabinet taking pop-shots at China for the past month.
• Speaking of American politics...  The honeymoon is over.  I have kept my yapper shut, for the most part, to give the big O a chance.  Thus far he is screwing the media, pulling the wool over the eyes of the people who voted for him, and is plunging the country into a failed social vision that will most likely lead to a huge Cuba like situation and NO I am NOT exaggerating.  The Treasuary Secretary Tim Geithner evaded taxes for years, so has the former Democratic Majority Leader and Health and Human Services pick Tom Daschle, along with numerous other political missteps have shown even the blind Obama is not running a NEW, CLEAN, and TRANSPARENT government.  We are on the way to government take over health care, thanks to the new child insurance law just passed AND the removal of morality clauses on steam cell research, to be followed up with government take over of our banking system and private enterprise free markets (Obama already made a decree that private businesses have to enforce pay limits for CEO's and top executives, forcing more American companies overseas to keep top talent with them and not their competitors in Europe and Asia.  Gitmo is closed, sort of in like a year or something.  The war is Iraq is over, sort of in like a year but with the troops going to Afghanistan instead of coming home.  There will be NO PORK in the stimulus bill, sort of as $825 billion is slated for things like ATV trail improvments - $25 million, Washington DC Federal building renovations - $34 million, Government car fleet refreshing $600 million, adding more funds to Head Start school breakfast programs, climat change studies already funded with 5$~6 billion, STD training to jr high students, and that is not even scratching the surface.  Add this to his now infamous pictures in the Oval office with shirt sleeves rolled up and finding out it is because he likes to turn up the heat and work in a "warm office", there goes fiscal and environmental responsibility.  Lead by example is working out great.
• Kids grow REALLY fast.  My daughter will be 2 very soon and in the past year she has skyrocketed to 1/2 my height and despite not liking meat or eatting as much as other kids her age she is full of energy and fun.  That is all I have time for today, but I will get more out soon, once I can get a real routine set up.