The grease fire in the kitchen, otherwise known as the Obama administration, continues to burn, and while the blaze now climbs the walls around the deep fryer it is obvious we’re watching something akin to amateur night at the local chuckle hut, a sophomoric floundering with desperate stabs at righting Space Ship Utopia in hope of joining the rest of the planets in a heliocentric orbit. Good luck with all that.
The lack of respect and contempt toward the use of public funds and the public trust is rampant at the top and we now see the manifestation of that ugliness on a daily basis, whether it’s the GSA’s Excellent Adventures; a new cable reality show, The Secret Service: Code Word Hooker; pictures of Hillary Gone Wild swilling beer like a drunken prom date; Leon Panetta jetting around like a rock star at $26 Grand a pop; or yet another White House sanctioned photo showing this president with his feet on the furniture as if he was living in a dorm room. The sequel to Fast and Furious is Demonize and Deflect thanks to talking-point-yammering that states oil futures trading is the cause of higher gas prices, which in addition to being false is making the incredible shrinking man seem even smaller when he reads the gibberish aides paint on his teleprompter. Higher gas prices and market speculation have less of a relationship than could be developed in a one night stand in a Cartagena brothel, but you wouldn’t know it by his bombast.
Is there not one advisor willing to put down their coloring book long enough to explain commodity activity, that Trading Places was only a movie, and that Randolph and Mortimer Duke were fictional characters played by actors? If speculation is the answer to gas price woes then I must not have understood the question. If it is the answer, why don’t we just “speculate” our way out of the housing slump? Hell’s bells, let’s all quit our day jobs and start speculating, for apparently it’s a can’t-miss proposition. Even better, let’s speculate green energy into commercial viability.
Oh, that’s right. That’s already been tried…………………..
Economics are not as difficult to understand as the Prevaricator in Chief would like you to believe, so when he relies upon lies and grand distortions to misrepresent very simple and basic concepts one can only conclude that he is a dunce, or believes that manufacturing canards to scare the bejesus out of everyone is some type of effective leadership ploy that will make people grasp at the cuffs on his pants the way frightened children reach for their mother’s apron strings…………….. provided, of course, the mother stayed at home “to only raise her children” and by liberal social engineering department definition does not know what it’s like to put in a day’s work.
(Maybe THEIR mothers should have stayed home)
The clichéd lemonade stand is a rug that has been placed over the line and beaten one too many times. Besides, we’re going to have to sink lower to reach this infantile level of comprehension and wavelength and start talking about hot dog vendors so as to fathom how grossly the intent of this administration is skewed toward selling lies that abut the border of insanity. I won’t type fast because apparently nobody on the Left reads very quickly. Here goes:
If one owned and operated the only hot dog stand at the local high school stadium, that individual could be assured of selling his or her wares at a handsome profit. If, however, it was agreed that there could now be a different hot dog vendor at every entrance to the park the competition would assuredly make the price of a frankfurter and mustard fall to a more reasonable price and along the way the competition might very well improve service. Ah, the great bête noire of the Left: competition.
For reasons upon which all might speculate but never know for certain, Mr. Obama appears convinced that drilling for more of our own oil and thus increasing world supply while simultaneously lessening dependence on Arab racketeers, the inbred criminals of Mexico, and the bulbous wood tick from Venezuela will not lower the price, notwithstanding the fact that commodity trading is often emotionally driven and demonstrating a resolve to drill might deflate speculative delirium. He also believed adding $5 Trillion in national debt would somehow help the economy. We know he has no background in traditional business, and now it has been ascertained with utter certainty that he and like-minded advisors do not even understand the basic economics of a hot dog operation much less the structure of capitalism, the foundation of which made the United States the world’s greatest country.
His indoctrinated and instinctive solution to curb the perfectly legal practice of buying and selling oil commodity futures is to expand the iron hand of regulation, a parochial suggestion based once again on an ideology that blinds its followers to practical solutions and precludes even the loosest grip on reality, as if all market trading in oil on a worldwide basis will somehow be contained by expanding government in the United States. This not opinion, it is fact, though opinions are a dicey item with the current regime.
Just ask Ted Nugent.
It could be said that Nugent is under the gun, so to speak, for using colorful metaphors that struck a discordant note with a heretofore unknown subsidiary of the Secret Service known euphemistically as the Speech Gestapo. Apparently, if of the “correct” political persuasion it is acceptable to joke about Vice President Cheney’s heart, refer to Laura Ingraham as a “right wing slut”, spout locker room garbage about Michelle Bachman, or spew endless invectives about Governor Palin, Senator Santorum, and their children. If the administration somehow manages to steal the upcoming election you will fear a whisper of dissent to a neighbor in your own back yard by the time we reach 2016.
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Dan Bubalo: when obama gets reelected it won’t be because he stole it…it will be because karl rove et al pushed another loser as a candidate…and because people were blind enough to vote for him…
wow this rant put everything in a big nut shell and certainly a clear perspective. and if it was Bush or any other GOP in the same scenario the media would be all over it,
Hey Dan- Re: those speculators & Lemonade, I think it’s a wage&price control! Some of us are old enough to remember the gas rationing in the 70′s.Dad filled up on even&odd days as his plates worked out that way! Always said Medicare was a wage & price control- the free market would weed out the bad doctors & lower costs so they truly compete!
Dan, great article. Thanks. I have a couple remarks to make: Somewhere along the way from Kenya – Hawaii – Jakarta – Harvard College – Russia – Chicago this little boy grew into a young man who had his head filled with hatred for the United States and Christianity. His communist mother and muslim step-father saw to it that little children were brainwashed as such. So, had mama stayed home with her little BO, she wouldn’t have taught him anything but communistic doctrine. Also, I believe that all of his parents, grandparents, instructors along the way also praised BO for “nothing.” He lived on that praise and became the narcisstic bully we see today. Instead of fisty cuffs, ACORN members were taught by BO how to intimidate and demoralize the public. That’s how Communists bring people into the fold without them realizing what is happening. We have a president who has commie and muslim relations, a man who proclaims he is a minister but teaches hate for the white man and the United States, an illegal birth certificate, a fake selective service card and a social security number that belongs to a dead person. I have a good idea why there isn’t a selective service card…commie relations prevented BO from ever getting a card. If he had one, it was marked “Denied.” Just saying.
In the words of Ted Nugent- “Bullseye!”. Fantastic article, Dan! If only his mother has stayed @ home & raised him instead of carting him around to third world countries, he might be a better balanced boy. Apparently, BHO wants to see the rest of us live in those grass shacks in family in Kenya call home. He really should talk to Hillary Clinton about those cattle futures- speculating really can pay off!!
My mother was a stay at home mom until all three of us were firmly in school, then she went and got her diploma, followed by her master’s in Library science, coincidentally her major, which she used to educate us before it was complete.
I have an education equal to almost any, precisely because of my “stay at home mom”, and its a “liberal education”, because I not only read about Athens, Greece, Rome, but walked those stones, each and every one of them, as a boy, having lived two years in Spain, and two in Italy, and I stood up in grade school, after our return to the states, and was constantly disciplined for standing up in class and stating, “that’s not true, I was there and I saw it”. I knew the lies in the text books of second grade, because I had stay at home mom. I entered kindergarten reading at fifth grade level because of her. She spent thirty years teaching adults how to read, and mostly minorities, needing to read to meet government paperwork demands, while illiterate “citizens” wouldn’t bother because there was no demand on them.
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC
When talking about Ted Nugent, lets not forget the bishop from Illinois who was talking regarding the parallels between Obama and such greats as Hitler and Stalin, when it comes to their attitude about religion. I believe this was meant by the bishop to be an admonishment and a warning, not “electioneering”. However, the IRS is going to look at the tax exempt status of the Catholic Church (Chicago Tribune, 04/20/12)because of the bishop’s “electioneering”. You are correct – we will be afraid of what we may say if the current regime is retained – kinda like Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Mussolini’s Italy, and then of course all the “third world” countries that we must pour US dollars into……..VOTE PEOPLE!!!!
Please keep up the vetting of this monster and those with blinders will begin to see again. His spiked tail and horns are really showing now. Great article Mr. Massie.
Hey, more and more our country is sounding like say, Norway?
Norwegian socialist government and there the butter is $32.00 a pound. Many of Norways companies bailed or closed due to the heavy government taxes. “Fundamentally change America?” No thank you.
Great example, Wendy. That’s the direction socialism takes a country, so, why, then does he insist on repeating the mistake?
Big Jim says: I’m getting tired of the $20 buck hot dog too. Everything has went way up.This regime don’t count food and fuel though in their chicago style reporting of the economy.If the reporting was somewhat-a little bit accurate—THEY WOULD REALLY BE IN THE GREASE FIRE !!! You are 100% correct on barry having having no experience,and when he leaves this coming Jan.—-he’ll still have no business experience.
Was barry’s birth mother from Cartegena? Just asking……
thanks for great article….
Thank you, Big Jim.
They’re always one audit away from being caught with using fuzzy math.
Hee hee hee!! Loved it. Dead on.
Thanks, Chrystina. Glad you were “picking up what I was throwing down.”
another great article Dan! little sally and her friend running a lemonade stand knows more about business then mr. o. raw cost of goods overhead and profit to fund a water feature she and her friend were going to go to. not only does she know more than mr.o. she knows more than most liberals. fees and fines levied by local government to cover costs of vehicles and salaries for illegal stand. let’s see cost of lemonade was .50 to $1 now is $20.00. what a system! these officials have a place to go- north korea. i’ll help pay their way to go- oneway of course.
Sounds like the speculators are driving up the price of lemonade, too……It couldn’t possibly be because of anything the government ever does.
We have a group of 35 or so residents in our senior community who gather once a week to pray for our country including a Patriotic Rosary. After we finished this week one of the members remarked that he could not have ever imagined that in his lifetime his government could possibly make it unlawful for us to raise our voices in pray like this but with the current administration he now believes it will come to pass.
Seems to me that if you want to bow toward Mecca it’s OK—-just don’t get caught in a group of people holding Bibles !
(very chilling)