What's wrong with these pictures?

Let's play a version of "Where's Waldo." What's wrong with the following two pictures?

Can't figure it out? This was at the protest of the "Right To Work" legislation that was just passed by the Michigan Legislature and is about to be signed by Gov. Snyder. Look at the upper left hand corner. Somebody's holding a sign that reads "I support Planned Parenthood. Keep abortion legal." I think somebody was at the wrong protest. Either that, or the protesters hired some uneducated sap to carry a protest sign and they handed out the wrong one, which has happened before at some of these "Labor" movement protests. These Union Bosses REALLY need to get higher standards for the day laborers who they hire to work these protests.

What's wrong with this picture, you might ask? Look VERY carefully at the top sticker in the center on this guy's helmet. He's protesting IN THE WRONG STATE. He belongs to Iron Workers Local 147 from FORT WAYNE INDIANA. Now it's one thing if the Union Thugs decide to bus in Union Thug members from around Michigan. But it REALLY says something when you're in a state where 17.5% of the population is unionized that you have to swell your ranks by busing in Union Thugs from OTHER states just to make your protest look bigger.

Don't Say We Didn't Warn You

Here come those layoffs that the Liberals voted for Tuesday night by re-electing Obama.

Don't EVER say that it was unexpected or that you didn't know. We Conservatives have been telling anyone who would listen, and often nearly empty rooms if few people showed up that these employment losses were coming due to Obama Policies. So if you're an employee of one of the companies listed below and you're laid off, thank a Liberal, because they're the ones who cost you your job.

• UBS Bank announces it will lay off 10,000 employees.


• Hawker Beechcraft Inc. will close it's private jet plant and lay off 280 employees in Arkansas and close facilities in Mesa, AZ., and San Antonio.


• Boeing is laying off 30% of its management, closing facilities in California and consolidating other facilities in order to "cut costs."


• Westinghouse announces massive layoffs.


• Research In Motion announces US layoffs and moves operations to Canada.


• US Cellular announces urgent reduction in employee ahead of end of quarter close.


• Commerzbank lays off employees and closes operations.


• Iberia Co announces layoffs.


• ING Co. files public notification of layoffs.


• Ericsson announces reductions to labor force in advance of Obamacare implementation.


• Kroger Supermarket chain eliminates Full Time jobs and reduces hours for all employees.


• Bristol-Myers sends lay-off notices to employees.


• Corning Co. presents reduction in labor force plan.


• Boston Scientific Corp announces layoffs by end of year (1200 to 1400 Employees)


• Abbots Labs reveals plans to reduce labor operations ahead of Obamacare implementation.


• St. Jude Hospital Corp sends announcements of labor reductions to employees ahead of holiday season. 300 layoffs


• Caterpillar announces plant closures and permanent layoff plans.


• Welch Allyn will lay off 275 employees over the next 3 years due to the Medical Device Tax included in Obamacare.


• DANA Holding has announced layoffs (but not yet detailed their extent).


• Stryker (medical device maker) has already laid off 96 employees and plans to cut their global workforce by another 5% (almost 1200 employees).


• Medtronic already has cut 500, and plans to cut another 500 by end of 2013.


• Smith & Nephew - 770 layoffs


• Abbott Labs - 700 layoffs


• Covidien - 595 layoffs


• Kinetic Concepts - 427 layoffs



These are just the announcements that have been made in the 48 or so HOURS since Obama was declared the winner. Imagine what is going to happen over the next THREE MONTHS as businesses finally wake up to the actual costs about to be imposed upon them.


Beyond the complete elimination of a significant number of American jobs is another looming problem created by the health care law - a shift from full-time to part-time workers.


The future big hitter: Darden Restaurants (owners of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse and more) will be limiting the hours of its employees to 28 to limit the number of "full time" staff. Darden currently offers a "limited" health care plan to its employees which will be eliminated by Obamacare. Darden employs 185,000 employees. 1/4 of them are currently full time and will have their hours slashed (that's 46,250 people folks).


So when the Obama folks trot themselves out and say "well, NOBODY could have known it was this bad, and we're still recovering, just remember, we warned you. We begged and pleaded with you to open your eyes and see the economic damage being wrought by the Marxist and Redistributionist policies of President Obama and his Administration.

But don't ever, EVER claim that we didn't warn you.

We're About to Get the Government the People of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio Deserve

"Every country has the government it deserves (Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite") - Joseph de Maistre

Well, Ohio, you're about to get the government you deserve. Don't come crying to the Federal Government when you're facing 20% unemployment because Obama closed all your coal mines and won't let you exploit your Natural Gas resource that you're sitting on top of. Cuyahoga and Franklin Counties, when the next set of riots comes because your African American population can't find jobs and are starving due to a 30+% unemployment rate (because it IS coming), you're on your own.

Pennsylvania, you're in the same boat. Montgomery, Delaware, Allegheny and Philadelphia counties, you had the opportunity to defeat a president which is costing your state TENS of THOUSANDS of jobs due to the energy resources that you are literally standing upon. President "I'm going to bankrupt coal" has destroyed your economy. When rioting comes to Philadelphia, don't look to us to save you. We're going to let the "City of Brotherly Love" burn to the ground so that you understand exactly the cost of what you voted for. Additionally, the fraud in the Philadelphia area and the uncontested voter suppression by Leftist, Marxist, and Black Power groups such as the Black Panthers show that Philadelphia deserves to become the war zone it will become when the Federal Government can no longer provide the steady drug of "safety net" payments and your people start to starve because they have no skills other than to suckle upon the government teat.

Florida, I honestly thought better of you. You would think that your Jewish population ALONE would have been sufficient to carry the state against someone who is proposing policies to make Israel so indefensible that, if implemented, it would be destroyed by the forces of darkness at its door. Fortunately currently Israel has a government sufficiently strong as to withstand those "suggestions" by the Obama Administration. You people of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, when the next hurricane comes, and there is looting and death and destruction on the streets, do not cry out to the National Guard and Federal Government to save you. Nay, since Obama has spent us into oblivion on foolish adventures in economic tinkering both large and small, we have no funds to help you. You're on your own. Similarly you Social Security retirees, when that day comes when Obama holds out his pockets and says "we have no more money to pay you for living," do not cry out for the people to support you in your infirmity, for we shall say "you had the opportunity to elect someone who would have fixed the problem, you voted against your interest and now you have to suffer the consequences."

Finally, to all you members of the 47% who voted to continue your free ride upon the few individuals of the United States who are doing the hard work to pay for the nation, know that your time is almost up. You can only take and take and take from those who are actually producing wealth for so long before they say "I'm not going to produce any more." Greece is what our future looks like, complete with riots in the streets and promises broken. You had this ONE chance, this ONE opportunity to forestall and divert us from that path. You chose to continue to eat like pigs at the trough of government largess. Those you call "the rich" will not much longer tolerate your free-ridership. They will take their wealth and instead of investing it into the creation of wealth and a better life for themselves and their children, will merely consume it themselves and say "to hell with everything, rather than have my hard work and personal property confiscated, I'm going to enjoy it myself."

So, people of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (and Virginia too), we as a nation are all about to suffer under the government you deserve. Perhaps the pain of the next four years to come will teach you the object lesson that you so richly deserve.

CNN abandons all pretense of objectivity, blatantly campaigns for Obama

We all know that MSLSD (MSNBC) has been in the tank for Obama for over a year. Anyone who thinks MSLSD's change of slogan to "Lean Forward" was a mere coincidence with Obama's "Forward" slogan needs to have their head examined.

CNN though has been at least nominally pretending to be objective. If you know how to read between the lines, up to this point you could see an Obama tilt to their coverage; a thumb on the scale, as it were.

Apparently not anymore. CNN has abandoned all pretense of objectivity and has decided to go for broke in campaigning and fear-mongering for Obama.

Today's stories include such titles as:

• Second Obama term would confront fiscal crisis before inauguration. This story runs with a nice looking picture of the Obama Family walking to Church smiling and happy, dressed nicely in fashionable good church clothes, and goes on to give a glowing description of Obama's plans to cover immigration reform and that Obama will take a "stand his ground" approach to negotiations with Congressional Republicans.


• A Romney presidency: 'Bringing people together' faces reality check. This story runs with an undated photo which must easily be from the 1970s, with Romney in jean pants and a polo shirt sitting on a couch with his family and in which all the sons look to be between 10 and infant in age. The story itself goes on to discuss Romney's problems in Massachusetts coming from a business background into government, the fact that the TEA Party objects to "revenue enhancers" (aka tax increases) and makes reference to Romney's comments on the "47%" and contains a link to CNN's story "What a Mormon White House would look like."


• If it's close, watch out This story, by the liberal Julian Zelizer from Princeton, tries to set the stage for the Democrat Party to call a Romney win illegitimate should it even be close and to give the Democrat Senate cover to try to block a Romney-Ryan agenda, He says "In today's political era, every president -- even those who enjoy landslide victories -- faces immense challenges working in the current congressional environment. Partisan polarization, interest-group politics and the 24-hour media make legislating difficult." Shortly later, saying he could be wrong and, however unlikely, we could be heading into a Dewey-Truman moment, he continues "we'll be heading toward some rough times on Capitol Hill in the years ahead."


• Romney and America's biggest tax break CNN uses this hit piece to bring up something that they've been completely silent about in regard to the Affordable Care Act, that Romney might change the tax code to treat the self-employed the same as those employed by others: that health insurance premiums might either be taxed as income or treated as a tax credit. I have not ONCE heard CNN do a reporting piece on the fact that Obamacare taxes "premium healthcare plans" as income. And yet, they pull out this 'hit-piece' the day before the election on ROMNEY.


• Election 2012: What about the poor? Ahh, the ever-popular poor. This 'hit-piece' starts with this wonderful gem: "One wants to strengthen the nation's existing safety net. The other wants to overhaul it." We all know which way this one is going to go. At least the author does manage to list the Obama Administration's many, many failures in regard to there being many more poor, but it hints that it is not Obama's fault, but the fault of the "Great Recession" he inherited. Again, CNN brings up Romney's recorded comment about the 47% (although nowhere does it mention that the recording was DOCTORED by the recorder, losing at least 2 minutes of IMPORTANT CONTEXT to the comment. CNN also makes the "Block Grant" fear mongering argument on behalf of the Liberals.

But here's the final nail in CNN's coffin. They ran their most recent poll of how they think people are going to vote, and found that the race was tied at 49%, conducted Nov. 2 through Nov. 4. It's a small poll, and it's margin of error is +/-3.5% That seems reasonable, if a slightly large error rate, until you look at the fundamentals of that poll. Among those 693 likely voters 41% describe themselves as Democrats, 29% describe themselves as Independent and 30% describe themselves as Republican. In short, this means that CNN/ORC OVERSAMPLED Democrats by 11% just to get to a TIE. In the 2008 election, which was considered "historic" because of Democrat turnout, the differential was only D+7%.

CNN does get one story right though. Still 'paranoid' after all these years. That story starts off with this paragraph: "Ever have the feeling you're being lied to by the news media, the authorities, the corporate world?"

Well CNN, we might not have that feeling quite so much if you and your cronies in the Main Stream Moron Press actually went back to the providing of the news in the noble tradition of journalist newsmen where they reported the facts in an unbiased manner. It's too bad the Liberal ideology of the owners and 'newsmen' and 'newswomen' of today won't let them do that, because it has been the death of the once proud profession of journalism.

Specialized Training and Certificates

I've been absent from my own blog these past several months. Largely that's been due to having a lot of little things going on. What I have been doing though has given me a whole bunch of skills and certificates which will be very valuable to me in the future.

The most recent new skill that I have picked up was the Texas 40 hour Basic Mediation Course. With that now in my portfolio, I figured it was time that I post some of my recently acquired certificates and talk a bit about what each of them means and is used for.

Basic Mediation

Better Business Bureau Arbitration

Texas has been a leader in the Alternative Dispute Resolution movement. In 1987, the Texas Legislature passed the Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Act, which prescribes the minimum requirements for persons qualifying for appointments as impartial third parties under the act. The forty hour mediator training requirement of the Texas Mediation Centers was adopted by the legislature as the standard training qualification. It allows for a person to be appointed by a court as a neutral if the court bases its appointment on legal or other professional training or experience in particular dispute resolution processes, which is what I have been using to perform Arbitrations up to this point through the Better Business Bureau for the El Paso County Attorney.

Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Children

CASA volunteers are individuals that are assigned to advocate for abused and neglected children. There are several parties to a child abuse/neglect case: the parent(s), the County Attorney (or his designated staff lawyer), Child Protective Services a.k.a CPS (Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services), the child's attorney (the child is the victim), and whenever possible a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).

I often get asked "What's the difference between the child's attorney and the CASA. The short answer is that the child's attorney is a lawyer with the child as his client, and as such the lawyer has a duty to advocate for the outcome that the child wants. The CASA, on the other hand, does not have to be a lawyer, and is appointed as a Guardian ad Litem to advocate for what is in the child's best interest regardless of what the child wants.

The CASA training is also a 40 hour training course (35 hours of classroom training and 5 hours of courtroom observation). Once that is completed, the CASA is sworn in, and is available to be assigned to a CPS case. There is a permanent CASA staff which manages the overall system, but largely the CASA is allowed to manage their own case, visit with the child, follow up with medical professionals, teachers, the CPS worker and other individuals involved with the case.

Some of the cases are tough and not all of them have a happy ending. However if you're mentally and emotionally strong enough this is one of the ways where people without a legal or therapy background can make some of the biggest differences in a abused or neglected child's life.

Crime Victims Compensation Fund Presumptive Eligibility Forms

The Office of the Attorney General of Texas says "Crime doesn't pay, but in Texas, criminals do." In Texas, if you are a victim of violent crime, you may be eligible for benefits. The primary purpose of the Crime Victim's Compensation Fund is encouraging greater victim participation in the apprehension and prosecution of criminals and reimbursing innocent victims for certain out-of-pocket expenses incurred as a result of violent crime.

Claims may be approved for benefits up to a total of $50,000. Individuals who suffer total and permanent disability as a result of the crime may qualify for an additional $75,000, which may be used for specific and limited expenses, such as lost wages, prosthetics, rehabilitation or making a home accessible, depending upon the law in effect on the crime date. Interestingly, you don't have to be a citizen of the United States in order to qualify, you only need to be a resident of the State of Texas, which requires that you have made Texas your home for more than 30 days.

The program is a "payer of last resort," meaning that you have to exhaust all other potential payers first (insurance, workers comp, Medicaid, auto insurance, etc...). CVC program staff assists applicants in coordinating the use of all available resources.

For some reason, few people know about or take advantage of the compensation fund. Once you have been trained in the process, you have the ability to interface with the Attorney General's system in order to follow up on the eligibility forms, and to know if they have already been completed so that victims don't "double apply" by accident because they can't remember what forms they've completed after a violent crime.

So it's been a productive couple of months. I'm hoping that the next couple of months allow me to continue to work on expanding my business with some of these new skills, and hopefully get back to writing more often.