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Weekend Warrior

Greetings faithful readers. Kind of had a low key weekend. My wife and the fruit of my loins journeyed to the Tri-Cities to spend time with the in-laws and I stayed put behind in Yakima. So I basically had a weekend of peace and quiet.

Friday night I went out with some work buddies and got home at the late hour of 10:30. Sat I went to a BBQ for a retiring supervisor. I did nothing today (Sunday) except go grocery shopping.

I watched part of the debate on Fri and though the Obamination was horrible. "Look at me...look at me...I have a bracelet too...and his name is...ugh...uh...uh...hold on now people...testify...tell it on a mountain..." Putin and Amanijinididjamama will wipe the floor with this Leftist idiot. God help us if he gets elected.

Peace

El Feaze Shabazz

Bail Out

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlXgzzdJQA

This is Thaddeus McCotter, my former Congressman when I lived in Livonia. This less than glamorous looking gentleman got up today in the House and gave one rousing speech that belies what true conservatives think of the socialistic bailout being proposed by the Bush Administration and the Pelosi/Reid Politburo. Here is the text:

Before I was elected to Congress we used to hear that when faced with a crisis, members of Congress would invariably soil themselves, throw money at the problem and hope that it went away.

Unfortunately, in these dysfunctional economic times, we find that this process has continued.

As Americans face a potential meltdown of the financial sector, we have seen what I believe to be an inappropriate response starting with this Administration.

From the time we were informed that a potential financial meltdown was going to occur, this separate equal branch of government which is the U.S. Congress was told that we had but one alternative and that if we did not pass it quickly — in the time specified *by* the executive branch — that our economy would be severely damaged.

It has been my opinion that we were elected, by the sovereign people of the United States, to make important decisions on their behalf, to do it with the due diligence and devotion that is due and to come up with a positive solution to their situation.

Last night, I was struck by the fact that again we were told [by the President] that again if we did not give unlimited amounts of money and unlimited powers to the Executive Branch that *we* were failing in our due diligence and responsibilities to the American people.

I heard the President of the United States say that we do not understand the need to act.

That statement is false. We understand the need to act.

We heard from the President of the United States that we did not care about American families.

That statement is false. We care very much about American families.

What we did not hear was a recognition that a three-page document that gives to the Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve powers — the likes of which Stalin and Mao killed people for — was not an acceptable response to give to this separate, equal branch of government.

Today, we are told that House Republicans are standing in the way of a $700 billion use of your tax dollars to bail out the very people who caused this problem!

Guilty as charged!

House Republicans believe there is an alternative.

The Administration tells us that their first, last, only resort is to go to the taxpayers and bail out Wall Street. We fundamentally disagree with this!

Wall Street should bail out Wall Street.

House Republicans believe that the toxic assets clogging up our economy should first attempt to be recapitalized by the very people sitting on the sidelines with their money waiting for you the taxpayer to be fleeced and put it in so they are “confident that the market will work”.

We can not re-inflate the bubble.

The people who on Main Street invested and saved and had good credit their entire lives should not be asked to go back in to help cowboy capitalists who shot themselves in the foot.

I have supported the President when he has been correct.

But he is in err now.

House Republicans stood and supported the Patreus surge.

Today House Republicans oppose the Paulson splurge so we can have prosperity in America in the long run.

We will not engage in a rush to judgment that destroys the possibility of the free market and prosperity for decades to come.

We will not walk out of this room after a forced vote waving a piece of paper in our hands claiming “fleeced in our time.”

We will the job we were entrusted with.

Low Key

Really did not do much this weekend. Friday night I went out for a little bit with my buddy George and a defense attorney named "the Adolpho". I enjoyed a few friendly libations and pretty much did nothing the rest of the weekend. Kind of nice actually. I shall be back with a much wordier blog in a day or two. Until then be cool my faithful readers.

El Feaze Shabazz

Shotgun Wedding

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Snoqualmie Falls

Snoqualmie Falls in North Bend, WA

Mt Hood

Mt Hood as seen from my favorite city-Portland, OR

Mt Rainier looming over Tacoma, WA

Pretty damn awe inspiring if you ask me.

Mt. Si

Here's a pic of Mt. Si in North Bend, WA. It's a lot smaller than Mt. Rainier or Mt. Adams but still pretty cool.

cool pic

Mt. Rainier from Gig Harbor, WA

Seattle

Friday night my mother-in-law decided to take the fruit of my loins off of my hands for the weekend and the wife I decided to go to Seattle on Sat.

But first on Fri night Melanie and I went out to a couple of bars with one of my work buddies. I drank many a friendly libation and we had fun. Manny's Pale Ale made by a friendly brewing company based out of Seattle that provided my alcoholic delight for the evening. It was g-g-g-ooood! Of course I was ill prepared for the 2 hour drive to the Emerald City the next day and the early hour my wife tried to get me up at, especially nursing the effects of one too many libations the night before. But nonetheless we got on the road at a decent hour.

It is kind of surreal taking i-82 north into Ellensburg. You crest a hill and you can look down upon this green and fertile valley with a jagged ridge of mountains to the north and the Cascades looming ominously to the West. You're barely in Ellensburg before you drive into the Cascades on I-90. All around you are high mountains with stone faces looming threateningly close to the freeway and the remains of fallen rocks lying on the shoulder. It seems like it goes on forever before you hit the edge of the Seattle metro area at Issaquah. Then it's into Bellevue and over the Floating Bridge on Lake Washington and then into Seattle with all its abundant glory.

Downtown is nice but very, very hilly. I read somewhere that Seattle is built on 7 hills like Rome and I think I drove down every single one of the mofos going down to the waterfront. We found some parking for the day that cost me $20 and began to walk along the waterfront with all of its tourist traps and unique individuals walking around.

We saw a cruise ship docked at the terminal and walked over to Pike's Market, which was filled with people. We saw vendors throwing seafood around and I discovered a comic book store in the basement where I obtained the collected "Watchmen" for $20. We kept on walking and discovered the downtown mall then we walked back down into Pikes Market and then back down to the waterfront where we went to the aquarium. The aquarium is alright, actually the one in Newport, Oregon is better but this one featured a real life octopus doing its thing which kicked butt. And the otters and sea lions were active. My wife's ankle began to aggravate her so we left and stopped at the outlets in North Bend and ate dinner there with Mt. Si as a backdrop. Pretty flippin' cool.

I was stuck in court all day today doing Status Conferences. I plead one guy out where he cussed out the cop and I had to read what he said into the record verbatim. The in-custody defendants were all laughing their butts off as I dropped "f" bomb after "f" bomb. Even I chuckled a little under my breath. Not much else otherwise. I may be getting bumped up to Juvie soon or made District Court supervisor-I do not know which at the moment. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

I guess there is a lot of turmoil on Wall Street today and I place the blame squarely on the Democrats for their attempts to eliminate redlining. There is a reason why it was so hard to get a mortgage in the past and their crying, whining and nefarious efforts led to a free for all when it came to folks getting mortgages and now comes the fall out. Obama bin Biden can eat a big one if they try to tie McCain to this.

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Strength and Sacrifice

Never Forget...

Never forget.

Socialism and the Auto Industry

Those that know me know that I refuse to drive anything but American made cars. I also have stated to a lot of people that the government is crippling the domestic auto industry. The UAW has done a pretty fair job as well. I really think that the union will the companies like Eastern Airlines before giving up an inch of what they attained. I can understand working in a safer environment for a better wage

I saw this from Rush Limbaugh today and figured I would share. Yeah, yeah, yeah...it's Limbaugh. I agree with some of his stuff and disagree with other parts so deal with it.

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, off subject but still very important here, Nancy Pelosi says that she is going to urge and support a $50 billion bailout or loan program, quote, unquote, to the big three automakers, enabling them to be able to compete. This comes on the heels of the very people who destroyed the US mortgage industry being placed in total charge of it. By the way, the two most recent head honchos at Fannie Mae, one of them is Franklin Raines, the other one is Jim Johnson, Raines had to leave the place amidst charges of corruption and so forth. He was in Clinton's administration. Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, they are both economic advisors on the Obama campaign. Both these guys who have ties to Fannie Mae, which botched the mortgage industry in this country, are economic advisors to Barack Obama. By the way, the automakers were all over both conventions.

They're out there trying to get the money, but there's a great column about this in the Wall Street Journal by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., and it's entitled: "'How to Save Detroit and $50 Billion.' -- For a sum small compared to their revenues but large in relation to their market caps, the Detroit auto makers were all over the two conventions. Their lobbyists had something to sell -- a plea for $50 billion in federal loans. Congress practically owes us this money, Ford, GM and Chrysler argue -- because Congress slammed us with new fuel mileage mandates that will cost us $100 billion to meet. John McCain caved. The White House is in the process of caving. Barack Obama didn't need to cave. But before rushing to pass the legislation, there's an easy way to save $50 billion or whatever part of these loans wouldn't be paid back: Just repeal the fuel economy rules. It must infuriate the auto makers how readily their critics attribute their problems to their own incompetence. Then how to explain that GM is thriving in Europe, selling small cars that get lots of miles per gallon?"

There was a story the other day that Ford has a car that gets 65 miles to the gallon but they can't sell it in North America, they're not allowed, can't sell it in North America because it runs on diesel. It seats five, it gets 65 mile per gallon. "Buick is among the biggest selling brands in China. GM is running away with Latin America. The Big Three's problem, to be blunt, is North America. They should have pulled out long ago." And his idea is rather than give them $50 billion, just get rid of these stupid CAFE standards, get rid of the government running the auto business. Get the environmentalist wackos out of the auto business and let them make the cars that they know the customer wants. These silly restrictions are causing all kinds of retooling, all kinds of investment. They don't face these restrictions in different parts of the world, and they're doing well. The only reason GM and Ford is thinking about going bankrupt is because they're all kicking butt around the world. They're just not kicking but here. Now, why is that? They also got saddled with a monopolistic union, UAW and big, huge contracts and paying people who are no longer working for them. Toyota doesn't have that. Other foreign makers that make their cars here do not have the same restrictions that the big three do, so it's real simple.

You know, you get the government out of the mortgage industry it's going to be fine but no, we're going to put 'em in charge of it. They destroyed it. Get the government out of the car business. Algore and his ilk have been trying to get us to buy electric cars and all these little things that nobody wants and forcing the automakers to make these things, the automakers said, "All right, if you're going to force us to lose a hundred billion dollars making stuff, you better help us pay for it." In a way they've got a point. Just get out of this. Here's Pelosi proposing today she's going to support this $50 billion loan program. Of course she will. Every liberal Democrat down the pike wants this to happen. They want the federal government to have their hands in the auto industry so that they can have even more control over it. But these CAFE standards are not part of something that the automakers would have done unilaterally on themselves, it would have happened anyway, according to market forces, but they're unrealistic. The government doesn't know how to run the car business; they don't know how to build cars; they don't know how to design them and instead what we have are environmental wacko lobbyists who have a lot of pull in Washington, forcing all kinds of regulations. It's classic.

The auto business is overregulated and it's costing a lot of people a lot of money per car. The union contracts are costing I don't know how much per car. The health insurance for the union employees, I don't know how much per car, costs that Toyota doesn't face, for example. So it's real simple. Mr. Jenkins here is exactly right. If you get the government out of these businesses, they'll be fine, because the government cannot tell 'em what CAFE standards to build in Latin America, in China, in Europe, and American cars are kicking butt over there. As to General Motors, folks, as you know, they are an official sponsor here, and we are honored to have them as official sponsors. They are working hard to try to provide cars that people demand and people want. Everybody is talking about the cost of a gallon of gasoline and General Motors are designing terrific cars. We get to drive the new ones periodically here. They've got great crossovers and trucks, SUVs that use alternative fuels, they just came out, the Escalade hybrid now. They're working on all kinds of new technologies that will help use less gasoline, and they're doing this independent of these government regulations.

One of the alternatives to gas is driving flex fuel cars that use biofuels, like ethanol. If you want that, if you want to buy a car that uses ethanol, General Motors has them. They have four million flex fuel vehicles on the road, across globe, and they've committed to build even more. They've got a lot of models that run on E85, the 2009 Buick Lucerne runs on it. What, Dawn? Really, your dad just bought a Malibu after you were test-driving it? Dawn's dad just went out and bought a Malibu. When are we going to get the Lucerne? I thought the Lucerne was supposed to already be here. I think they're waiting for the hurricane to pass. You never know. Yeah, we're going to get the Buick Lucerne, we'll be reporting on it as we drive it around. But I've met with these GM people, folks, and they're working hard. They got a lot of people in their way, they got a lot of obstacles in their way, global warming crowd and all that, but they are trying to provide vehicles that people actually want,

Ouch! That'll Hurt

I wake up this morning to the sounds of my wife limping around complaining that she hurt her ankle. I guess she had a charlie horse or something and rolled her ankle trying to get her foot on the floor. She said she heard a loud crack and felt nauseous. Not good. So she goes to urgent care and lo and behold she did break her tibia at the ankle joint. So now she's hopping around in a fine boot like a hobbled horse for 3 weeks. Gotta love it.

The football season has started but yet I have not been able to watch any games. Screw it-tomorrow I watch the pros and my daughter can play in her room. We only have one TV right now because my $700 plasma screen broke in the move. So right now we enjoy watching the kid shows on my 27 inch RCA that I bought Xmas of 99 when I was still married to Bitch Fu and pray that does not break. Good news though-both U of M and MSU won and both WA Div-1 teams lost. Wazzu got their asses handed to them by Cal. Just royally trounced and U-Dub lost to the battlin' Mormons of BYU on a block extra point. I hope the Lions pound on Atlanta tomorrow.


Stay happy

El Feaze Shabazz

Labor Day

Well this weekend I drank a little too much...okay way too much. Sat night I drank good beer at my wife's uncle's crib and then proceeded to fart the night away while I was trying to sleep. Nothing like shaking the room with supersonic flatulence and your wife committing minor acts of domestic violence in return.

Sun night it was even worse. We went to a BBQ at some old friend of Mel's house and I proceeded to get imbibe one too many with her husband. And Mon I paid for it by barely being able to move. I still feel the lingering effects today. Even worse is that my lovely daughter decided she would not sleep last night so neither my wife and I got any sleep. It was a fun weekend but damn I am paying for it. Work was hell today. Luckily it's my office day. Tomorrow is the trial day. Even more fun.





El Feaze Shabazz