ran 4.2 milesNo politics today. Thanks for following this blog and I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
716.1 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day87.
Day452 Thursday 11/24/11
ran 4.2 milesNo politics today. Thanks for following this blog and I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
716.1 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day87.
Day451 Wednesday 11/23/11
ran 3.6 miles
Ron Paul has been surging in the polls and I have not posted much about him. The reason being he strikes me as agreeable in some ways, such as civil liberties and strictly adhering to the Constitution, but in other ways he is more than controversial. Legalizing marijuana, pulling troops on a massive scale, abandoning Israel, ending the Fed---these ideas may seem attractive or appalling on the surface, but either way, many of the changes Ron Paul wants to implement are definitively radical and, therefore, difficult. Just look at how hard of a time our current radically liberal president is having deconstructing America and reconstructing it on a socialistic model.
Here are some quotes from Ron Paul:
“Lobbyists get paid more than Congressmen because they write more laws than we do.”
“The federal war on drugs is a total failure, at least let sick people have marijuana.”
“1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.”
“As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.”
“I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.”
“Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.”
“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.”
“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”
“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.”
“You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.”
720.3 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day86.
Ron Paul has been surging in the polls and I have not posted much about him. The reason being he strikes me as agreeable in some ways, such as civil liberties and strictly adhering to the Constitution, but in other ways he is more than controversial. Legalizing marijuana, pulling troops on a massive scale, abandoning Israel, ending the Fed---these ideas may seem attractive or appalling on the surface, but either way, many of the changes Ron Paul wants to implement are definitively radical and, therefore, difficult. Just look at how hard of a time our current radically liberal president is having deconstructing America and reconstructing it on a socialistic model.
Here are some quotes from Ron Paul:
“Lobbyists get paid more than Congressmen because they write more laws than we do.”
“The federal war on drugs is a total failure, at least let sick people have marijuana.”
“1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.”
“As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.”
“I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.”
“Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.”
“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.”
“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”
“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.”
“You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.”
720.3 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day86.
Day450 Tuesday 11/22/11
ran 4.3 miles
In case you were wondering what all the Occupy protestors have been demonstrating in the streets, in a concentrated form, here you go. Straight out of www.occupywallst.com here are “The Top 10 Things OWS Should Be Doing”.
1. Put pressure on the justice department to actually have an investigation into the fraud that caused the financial crisis and required us to bailout the banks and financial institutions. Then, make sure they know it will never happen again.
2. Find every individual in every bank who gamed the system and made 'liar loans' for people who had no business buying a home, and if the evidence is sufficient, file charges against them for fraud. Anyone who would think about doing that again would think twice. If there is no punishment no one will have the incentive to stop doing it.
3. Make an amendment to Dodd-Frank that says no bonuses will be allowed to the executive officers of any corporation within 7 years of filing for government bankruptcy protection.
4. Freeze all student loans until unemployment is less than 6% for at least 3 quarters in a row. If it goes above 7%, freeze it again. (All student loan debt could have been paid off if we had gotten out of Iraq just 5 months sooner.
5. Put the tax rates back to the way it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It seems like conservatives would get behind that. It would make the top rate 70% of everything over (about) $370,000 a year.
6. Make banks and financial institutions show a completely transparent and real-time minute by minute spread sheet, accessible by anyone, that shows the institution's balance sheets, cash on hand, debt they are carrying, how many loans they are holding and have sold and the value of all that debt. (Analysts would easily be able to tell if an institution was going down a path that would show the possibility of failure and fraud.)
7. Get all the money out of politics. I mean, ALL the money. All campaigns would be financed 100% by the American people. No one would be allowed to accept any donations from anyone, or even use their own money. In this way the people would own the politicians instead of whatever corporation or special interest group can shovel into their coffers.
8. When you work for the people you will accept no money or favors from any lobbyist or special interest, or anyone, for that matter. If we pay you $170,000 a year that better be the only number on your IRS tax form. You are there to SERVE the people, not line your pockets with dirty cash.
9. Raise the minimum wage. Any American who is willing to work 40 hours a week should be able to put a roof over his head, pay some basic utilities, and buy some health groceries. It should be enough that we will eliminate the 'working poor'. If you have a full-time job you will be ok.
10. Let's solve at least one problem, homelessness. I propose we start a national lottery program where ALL of the profits go to getting all homeless people off the streets and help them get the treatment and housing they need.
They make some valid points but they also grasp at nonsense. I favor numbers three, seven, and ten.
(3) The bonuses these executives are given (tax dollars from the bailout) for doing nothing more than creating a mess by taking advantage of others and then being saved by federal tax dollars are inexcusable. Seven years without a bonus is a modest punishment for sabotaging and manipulating an entire nation for one’s own gain.
(7) This one sounds perfectly logical, which is usually a reliable sign that it would never work in Washington. Way too much common sense here. Politicians elected by the people and not by corporations and special interests?
(10) I like this one. But I fear it would be way too much money going through way too many hands before a mere fraction of what was intended for the homeless ever even reached them.
Today in New Hampshire Obama, after being heckled by OWS protestors, calmed them down and finally acknowledged the Occupy protest movement by saying “You are the reason I ran for office.” That’s sort of a definitive statement. Not “one of the” reasons but “the” reason. Thanks a lot, Mr. President. I am quite a few hundred thousand dollars short of being a millionaire yet I have an even greater distance and disagreement with the Occupy Wall Street movement. And I am far from alone. This B.O. quote is just one more of many reasons that I did not vote for him in 2008 and I will not be voting for him in 2012.
723.9 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day85.
In case you were wondering what all the Occupy protestors have been demonstrating in the streets, in a concentrated form, here you go. Straight out of www.occupywallst.com here are “The Top 10 Things OWS Should Be Doing”.
1. Put pressure on the justice department to actually have an investigation into the fraud that caused the financial crisis and required us to bailout the banks and financial institutions. Then, make sure they know it will never happen again.
2. Find every individual in every bank who gamed the system and made 'liar loans' for people who had no business buying a home, and if the evidence is sufficient, file charges against them for fraud. Anyone who would think about doing that again would think twice. If there is no punishment no one will have the incentive to stop doing it.
3. Make an amendment to Dodd-Frank that says no bonuses will be allowed to the executive officers of any corporation within 7 years of filing for government bankruptcy protection.
4. Freeze all student loans until unemployment is less than 6% for at least 3 quarters in a row. If it goes above 7%, freeze it again. (All student loan debt could have been paid off if we had gotten out of Iraq just 5 months sooner.
5. Put the tax rates back to the way it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It seems like conservatives would get behind that. It would make the top rate 70% of everything over (about) $370,000 a year.
6. Make banks and financial institutions show a completely transparent and real-time minute by minute spread sheet, accessible by anyone, that shows the institution's balance sheets, cash on hand, debt they are carrying, how many loans they are holding and have sold and the value of all that debt. (Analysts would easily be able to tell if an institution was going down a path that would show the possibility of failure and fraud.)
7. Get all the money out of politics. I mean, ALL the money. All campaigns would be financed 100% by the American people. No one would be allowed to accept any donations from anyone, or even use their own money. In this way the people would own the politicians instead of whatever corporation or special interest group can shovel into their coffers.
8. When you work for the people you will accept no money or favors from any lobbyist or special interest, or anyone, for that matter. If we pay you $170,000 a year that better be the only number on your IRS tax form. You are there to SERVE the people, not line your pockets with dirty cash.
9. Raise the minimum wage. Any American who is willing to work 40 hours a week should be able to put a roof over his head, pay some basic utilities, and buy some health groceries. It should be enough that we will eliminate the 'working poor'. If you have a full-time job you will be ok.
10. Let's solve at least one problem, homelessness. I propose we start a national lottery program where ALL of the profits go to getting all homeless people off the streets and help them get the treatment and housing they need.
They make some valid points but they also grasp at nonsense. I favor numbers three, seven, and ten.
(3) The bonuses these executives are given (tax dollars from the bailout) for doing nothing more than creating a mess by taking advantage of others and then being saved by federal tax dollars are inexcusable. Seven years without a bonus is a modest punishment for sabotaging and manipulating an entire nation for one’s own gain.
(7) This one sounds perfectly logical, which is usually a reliable sign that it would never work in Washington. Way too much common sense here. Politicians elected by the people and not by corporations and special interests?
(10) I like this one. But I fear it would be way too much money going through way too many hands before a mere fraction of what was intended for the homeless ever even reached them.
Today in New Hampshire Obama, after being heckled by OWS protestors, calmed them down and finally acknowledged the Occupy protest movement by saying “You are the reason I ran for office.” That’s sort of a definitive statement. Not “one of the” reasons but “the” reason. Thanks a lot, Mr. President. I am quite a few hundred thousand dollars short of being a millionaire yet I have an even greater distance and disagreement with the Occupy Wall Street movement. And I am far from alone. This B.O. quote is just one more of many reasons that I did not vote for him in 2008 and I will not be voting for him in 2012.
723.9 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day85.
Day449 Monday 11/21/11
ran 5.2 miles
"After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline."
---Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) of the debt Super Committee appointed to find $1.5 trillion in debt savings over a ten-year period.
There’s tax dollars hard at work. I’m not sure how much money the members of the Superbly Challenged Committee earned while sitting in boardrooms staring at one another achieving nothing, but I’m sure it was a lot. And after all was said and done the profound quote stated above was the final collective summation of these undeserving members of Congress’ misspent toils.
That quote above is possibly the dumbest and most insulting message they could have contrived. Maybe that has been what they’ve been up to all this time…coming up with the most ridiculous thing they could think of to say to the Americans they represent. It’s like saying, “After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it is not possible to stick a square peg with one-inch sides into a circular hole with a one-inch diameter before the committee’s deadline. But thanks for the million dollars you paid us to reach this determination.”
Huffington Post published a poll today that found Congress currently has a 9% approval rating. Concluding that these were unacceptably low numbers, HuffPo took the liberty of comparing the 9% to other low approval ratings. For example, 11% of Americans approve of polygamy, 30% of Americans approve of pornography, the idea of America becoming a communist nation received 11%, banks earned 23% approval, and the BP oil spill got a 16% approval rating. The IRS had 40% approval in 2009. The Airline Industry and Lawyers have 29% in 2011. Nixon during Watergate had 23% approval. Paris Hilton has 15% approval. And finally, Hugo Chavez in 2007 matches Congress at 9% in 2011.
728.2 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day84.
"After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline."
---Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) of the debt Super Committee appointed to find $1.5 trillion in debt savings over a ten-year period.
There’s tax dollars hard at work. I’m not sure how much money the members of the Superbly Challenged Committee earned while sitting in boardrooms staring at one another achieving nothing, but I’m sure it was a lot. And after all was said and done the profound quote stated above was the final collective summation of these undeserving members of Congress’ misspent toils.
That quote above is possibly the dumbest and most insulting message they could have contrived. Maybe that has been what they’ve been up to all this time…coming up with the most ridiculous thing they could think of to say to the Americans they represent. It’s like saying, “After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it is not possible to stick a square peg with one-inch sides into a circular hole with a one-inch diameter before the committee’s deadline. But thanks for the million dollars you paid us to reach this determination.”
Huffington Post published a poll today that found Congress currently has a 9% approval rating. Concluding that these were unacceptably low numbers, HuffPo took the liberty of comparing the 9% to other low approval ratings. For example, 11% of Americans approve of polygamy, 30% of Americans approve of pornography, the idea of America becoming a communist nation received 11%, banks earned 23% approval, and the BP oil spill got a 16% approval rating. The IRS had 40% approval in 2009. The Airline Industry and Lawyers have 29% in 2011. Nixon during Watergate had 23% approval. Paris Hilton has 15% approval. And finally, Hugo Chavez in 2007 matches Congress at 9% in 2011.
728.2 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day84.
Day448 Sunday 11/20/11
ran 1.7 miles
Now that is refreshing. Even Chris Matthews is pointing out how flawed, disingenuous and unmotivated our president is. This man could be a pioneer in a possible mass-movement liberal media renaissance of enlightenment. Probably not, but I certainly enjoyed watching that video. There has been a lot of buzz for a long time about Obama being encouraged to step down for the sake of the Democratic Party, to be replaced by none other than Hillary Clinton. The gears may be grinding on a new Democratic machine.
Today ends week sixty-four of running against Obama. I ran 17.2 miles this week, averaging 2.46 miles per day.
In a story from the National Journal, written by Michael Catalini, he courts Hillary into the bigger picture and the title speaks for itself: “Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Run for Second Term”. Two one-time Democratic pollsters, Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen, suggest Barack Obama should not run for a second term, as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson had decided not to, even though they could have.
Caddell was a pollster for Jimmy Carter and Schoen was a pollster for Bill Clinton. They both agree that “He (Obama) should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that preserves the most important of the president's accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
The two pollsters argued one year ago that if Barack Obama pursued his excessively partisan path, the nation would be further divided and Congress would be gridlocked at the worst possible time.
“The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline,” Caddell and Schoen wrote.
733.4 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day83.
Now that is refreshing. Even Chris Matthews is pointing out how flawed, disingenuous and unmotivated our president is. This man could be a pioneer in a possible mass-movement liberal media renaissance of enlightenment. Probably not, but I certainly enjoyed watching that video. There has been a lot of buzz for a long time about Obama being encouraged to step down for the sake of the Democratic Party, to be replaced by none other than Hillary Clinton. The gears may be grinding on a new Democratic machine.
Today ends week sixty-four of running against Obama. I ran 17.2 miles this week, averaging 2.46 miles per day.
In a story from the National Journal, written by Michael Catalini, he courts Hillary into the bigger picture and the title speaks for itself: “Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Run for Second Term”. Two one-time Democratic pollsters, Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen, suggest Barack Obama should not run for a second term, as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson had decided not to, even though they could have.
Caddell was a pollster for Jimmy Carter and Schoen was a pollster for Bill Clinton. They both agree that “He (Obama) should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that preserves the most important of the president's accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
The two pollsters argued one year ago that if Barack Obama pursued his excessively partisan path, the nation would be further divided and Congress would be gridlocked at the worst possible time.
“The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline,” Caddell and Schoen wrote.
733.4 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day83.
Day447 Saturday 11/19/11
Politicoran 0.1 miles
Rocky Twyman, self-proclaimed “prayer warrior”, suggests Barack Obama should drop a knee like Tim Tebow and break into prayer as he travels from state to state and speaks. Twyman, of Baltimore’s Rising Sun Baptist Church, led a “Pray at the Pump” movement to seek God’s intervention to lower gas prices.
“We have never heard him PUBLICLY thank God for allowing him to become the first black United States president or for awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize after being in office for only 10 days. I dare President Obama to start publicly praising God at his upcoming campaign stops and State of the Union speech. Such acts will result in prosperity for a nation that is on the verge of a financial and spiritual collapse.”
Rocky Twyman
This country, our America, is fading away, pulled apart and divided, and I also, in a less boisterous manner than Twyman, firmly believe it would be a uniting gesture to bring this country back together on a spiritual level. In fact, I think his numbers would soar if he would make a humble act of this nature. Bend a knee, thank God for your blessings, and pray for your nation’s future.
“I and many of my prayer warriors firmly believe that the Obama administration would be able to solve the serious unemployment and economic problems facing this nation if he gave praise and glory to God publicly for the blessings that he has received as president.”
Rocky Twyman
735.1 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day82.
Rocky Twyman, self-proclaimed “prayer warrior”, suggests Barack Obama should drop a knee like Tim Tebow and break into prayer as he travels from state to state and speaks. Twyman, of Baltimore’s Rising Sun Baptist Church, led a “Pray at the Pump” movement to seek God’s intervention to lower gas prices.
“We have never heard him PUBLICLY thank God for allowing him to become the first black United States president or for awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize after being in office for only 10 days. I dare President Obama to start publicly praising God at his upcoming campaign stops and State of the Union speech. Such acts will result in prosperity for a nation that is on the verge of a financial and spiritual collapse.”
Rocky Twyman
This country, our America, is fading away, pulled apart and divided, and I also, in a less boisterous manner than Twyman, firmly believe it would be a uniting gesture to bring this country back together on a spiritual level. In fact, I think his numbers would soar if he would make a humble act of this nature. Bend a knee, thank God for your blessings, and pray for your nation’s future.
“I and many of my prayer warriors firmly believe that the Obama administration would be able to solve the serious unemployment and economic problems facing this nation if he gave praise and glory to God publicly for the blessings that he has received as president.”
Rocky Twyman
735.1 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day82.
Day446 Friday 11/18/11
ran 2.0 miles
Here are some stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:
Here is what happened one year ago on Day81.
Here are some stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:
- Barack Obama’s presidential index rating shows that 20% of American voters strongly approve of his performance while 40% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential index rating of –20.
- Overall, 44% of voters at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance while 54% at least somewhat disapprove.
- Among American voters, 69% say the federal government does not have the right to require the purchase of health insurance.
- Only 25% of Americans believe government bailouts were good for America.
- Reaching a new high, 65% oppose automatic citizenship for babies born in America to illegal immigrants.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day81.
Day445 Thursday 11/17/11
Iowa Republican Caucus poll from Rasmussen Reports:
Gingrich 32%
Romney 19%
Cain 13%
ran 1.7 miles
Here are some stats and facts about the state of Virginia (to check out stats and facts about more states click on “states of the union” on the right):
Here is what happened one year ago on Day80.
Gingrich 32%
Romney 19%
Cain 13%
ran 1.7 miles
Here are some stats and facts about the state of Virginia (to check out stats and facts about more states click on “states of the union” on the right):
- Virginia was the tenth state to join the union on June 25, 1788, one month before New York and four days after New Hampshire.
- Population, as of 2010, is 8,001,024.
- Senators are Mark Warner (D) and Jim Webb (D).
- Representatives are Rob Wittman (R), Scott Rigell (R), Robert Scott (D), Randy Forbes (R), Robert Hurt (R), Robert Goodlatte (R), Eric Cantor (R), James Moran (D), Morgan Griffith (R), Frank Wolf (R), and Gerald Connolly (D).
- Virginia has thirteen electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted almost exclusively blue from Reconstruction through 1948. From 1952 through 2004, Virginia had voted exclusively red except for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Barack Obama defeated John McCain 53% to 46% in 2008.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day80.
Day444 Wednesday 11/16/11
$15 TRILLION!!!
ran 1.4 miles
Now that’s a mile marker worth mentioning. Today our national debt raised the bar on disappointment. If that’s not enough to cast a black cloud over our collective American future, here is something else---the Fed was recently audited for the first time in its nearly one hundred year history. Turns out that between December of 2007 and June of 2010, $16 trillion (yes, $16,000,000,000,000.00) was spent bailing out world banks, corporations, and governments. The deeper this rabbit hole goes the more daunting the task becomes of making sense of anything. $16 trillion is $1 trillion more than our national debt! And this money was spent all over the world while America has plenty of its own problems. Check out this article. There are tables of where this money in the hundreds of billions by hundreds of billions went. This audit was led by Ron Paul, Alan Grayson, Jim DeMint, and Bernie Sanders. This is Bernie Sanders’ Senate webpage and it has more information on this abuse of common sense.
738.9 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day79.
ran 1.4 miles
Now that’s a mile marker worth mentioning. Today our national debt raised the bar on disappointment. If that’s not enough to cast a black cloud over our collective American future, here is something else---the Fed was recently audited for the first time in its nearly one hundred year history. Turns out that between December of 2007 and June of 2010, $16 trillion (yes, $16,000,000,000,000.00) was spent bailing out world banks, corporations, and governments. The deeper this rabbit hole goes the more daunting the task becomes of making sense of anything. $16 trillion is $1 trillion more than our national debt! And this money was spent all over the world while America has plenty of its own problems. Check out this article. There are tables of where this money in the hundreds of billions by hundreds of billions went. This audit was led by Ron Paul, Alan Grayson, Jim DeMint, and Bernie Sanders. This is Bernie Sanders’ Senate webpage and it has more information on this abuse of common sense.
738.9 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day79.
Day443 Tuesday 11/15/11
ran 4.0 miles
Here is an astonishingly disappointing portion of the American electorate. I think we might be in...month three now, maybe, with OWS and these people have obviously got nothing better to do. I'd like to stand on a soap box for a couple of months and scream my grievances but I am more interested in maintaining what I work so hard for presently and setting goals for my future. And, after all this time, Barack Obama has done nothing to calm down this motley crew. His silence enables them.
On a lighter note, here are some stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:
Here is what happened one year ago on Day78.
Here is an astonishingly disappointing portion of the American electorate. I think we might be in...month three now, maybe, with OWS and these people have obviously got nothing better to do. I'd like to stand on a soap box for a couple of months and scream my grievances but I am more interested in maintaining what I work so hard for presently and setting goals for my future. And, after all this time, Barack Obama has done nothing to calm down this motley crew. His silence enables them.
On a lighter note, here are some stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:
- Barack Obama’s presidential index rating shows that 25% of American voters strongly approve of his performance while 40% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential index rating of –15.
- Overall, 49% of voters at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance while 51% at least somewhat disapprove.
- The Generic Congressional Ballot shows that Republicans and Democrats are tied at 41%. For the two entire previous years Republicans have led every single week until now.
- A generic Republican candidate holds a slight lead in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida over Barack Obama.
- Leading up to the Supreme Court reviewing the constitutionality of Obama’s health care plan, a majority of voters favor its repeal.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day78.
Day442 Monday 11/14/11
ran 6.3 miles
Legendary game-show host Chuck Woolery has been busy “solving America’s problems one trillion dollars at a time”. He has released a series of videos taking on issue after issue with both seriousness and farce. The particular video above actually makes a great point. If people like Warren Buffet and Matt Damon would like to raise taxes on themselves and others who earn absurdly large sums of money, why wait for a stalemated congress or an executive order from a president. They can give as much money as they would like as many times as they would like by simply logging onto www.treasurydirect.gov and giving whatever amount of money they feel is efficient. Lead by example.
If you can believe it, people actually do donate money to the cause of our national debt. After already being taxed, certain individuals give even more. Last year alone $3,277,369.23 was donated. The six years before that received at least over one million dollars per year.
Lead us Buffet. Lead us Damon. If you want to pay more taxes here is your opportunity to be pioneers in this movement. You can trust the government. They will put that money to good use.
Keep up the good work, Chuck!
744.3 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day77.
Legendary game-show host Chuck Woolery has been busy “solving America’s problems one trillion dollars at a time”. He has released a series of videos taking on issue after issue with both seriousness and farce. The particular video above actually makes a great point. If people like Warren Buffet and Matt Damon would like to raise taxes on themselves and others who earn absurdly large sums of money, why wait for a stalemated congress or an executive order from a president. They can give as much money as they would like as many times as they would like by simply logging onto www.treasurydirect.gov and giving whatever amount of money they feel is efficient. Lead by example.
If you can believe it, people actually do donate money to the cause of our national debt. After already being taxed, certain individuals give even more. Last year alone $3,277,369.23 was donated. The six years before that received at least over one million dollars per year.
Lead us Buffet. Lead us Damon. If you want to pay more taxes here is your opportunity to be pioneers in this movement. You can trust the government. They will put that money to good use.
Keep up the good work, Chuck!
744.3 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day77.
Day441 Sunday 11/13/11
ran 3.2 milesToday ends week sixty-three of running against Obama. I ran 26.0 miles this week, averaging 3.71 miles per day.
I’ve been endorsing Herman Cain for a long time now. What attracts me to Mr. Cain’s ideas are his business experience, his direct approach to fixing the economy, the fact that he has never been an elected official, and I have one last selfish desire. Of all the candidates before us, Herman Cain is the man I want to see debate Barack Obama when that time comes. I believe Cain to be the most competent and able, passionate and driven, effective and direct means to exploit through debate to America exactly how unacceptable so many of Barack Obama’s decisions and actions have been during his presidency.
This is the way I see it. This is what I think is crippling America and this is what I think needs to happen. Our economy is the spine of our nation. As with a human body, if the spine becomes too injured or crippled to allow the rest of the body to work, paralysis occurs. America’s proverbial spine is degenerating and has been for a long time. Herman Cain has taken nearly bankrupted companies and flipped them right side up into a position of profitability. Our current president is spending us into oblivion. There is no other word to describe the amount of money this man is spending than to use an incomprehensible word like oblivion. But, all the while, we continue to give money to so many other countries that despise us while we have plenty of troubles of our own here on our own soil. America is the most taxed nation on Earth for conducting business and an excess of rules and regulations make it that much harder for existing businesses to thrive and for new businesses to begin.
There are a lot of issues out there that are up for debate but the point I am trying to make is that if we do not revitalize the ability of our spine, or our economy, to once again twist and turn and spark with life, to work the way it is intended to work, what else matters without that one, most important foundation?
Everyone gets health care now? Cool. Good luck with that in a crumbling economy. Gays can openly join the military. Awesome. I’m sure their families and partners would be a lot happier for them back home if more jobs were available and there were brighter plans for their financial futures. Abortion? Yeah, that’s a pretty important one. The economy is just going to have to wait until we can settle Roe vs. Wade. Stimulus packages? Obama is on his way to outspending every single president in American history combined…in the middle of an economy like this. Our president is pretty good at killing terrorists. I’ll give him that. But why don’t we quit giving the countries that harbor them hundreds of millions of dollars each year?
I like Herman Cain for President in 2012 because I believe he will cure our economy, which is the most important factor in our complicated American equation of issues. Worried about foreign affairs? Cain lacks experience here, but Barack Obama did, too. That is what Cabinet members, Ambassadors, and Generals are for, as Cain mentioned. As does every other president who has served, he will surround himself with worthy and capable individuals who are able to assist him with whatever issues need to be dealt with.
Again, the one most important issue in the 2012 election is whether to keep our economy bedridden with injury or too heal it and get it back on its feet. Every other issue will follow.
"It's the economy, stupid."
750.6 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day76.
I’ve been endorsing Herman Cain for a long time now. What attracts me to Mr. Cain’s ideas are his business experience, his direct approach to fixing the economy, the fact that he has never been an elected official, and I have one last selfish desire. Of all the candidates before us, Herman Cain is the man I want to see debate Barack Obama when that time comes. I believe Cain to be the most competent and able, passionate and driven, effective and direct means to exploit through debate to America exactly how unacceptable so many of Barack Obama’s decisions and actions have been during his presidency.
This is the way I see it. This is what I think is crippling America and this is what I think needs to happen. Our economy is the spine of our nation. As with a human body, if the spine becomes too injured or crippled to allow the rest of the body to work, paralysis occurs. America’s proverbial spine is degenerating and has been for a long time. Herman Cain has taken nearly bankrupted companies and flipped them right side up into a position of profitability. Our current president is spending us into oblivion. There is no other word to describe the amount of money this man is spending than to use an incomprehensible word like oblivion. But, all the while, we continue to give money to so many other countries that despise us while we have plenty of troubles of our own here on our own soil. America is the most taxed nation on Earth for conducting business and an excess of rules and regulations make it that much harder for existing businesses to thrive and for new businesses to begin.
There are a lot of issues out there that are up for debate but the point I am trying to make is that if we do not revitalize the ability of our spine, or our economy, to once again twist and turn and spark with life, to work the way it is intended to work, what else matters without that one, most important foundation?
Everyone gets health care now? Cool. Good luck with that in a crumbling economy. Gays can openly join the military. Awesome. I’m sure their families and partners would be a lot happier for them back home if more jobs were available and there were brighter plans for their financial futures. Abortion? Yeah, that’s a pretty important one. The economy is just going to have to wait until we can settle Roe vs. Wade. Stimulus packages? Obama is on his way to outspending every single president in American history combined…in the middle of an economy like this. Our president is pretty good at killing terrorists. I’ll give him that. But why don’t we quit giving the countries that harbor them hundreds of millions of dollars each year?
I like Herman Cain for President in 2012 because I believe he will cure our economy, which is the most important factor in our complicated American equation of issues. Worried about foreign affairs? Cain lacks experience here, but Barack Obama did, too. That is what Cabinet members, Ambassadors, and Generals are for, as Cain mentioned. As does every other president who has served, he will surround himself with worthy and capable individuals who are able to assist him with whatever issues need to be dealt with.
Again, the one most important issue in the 2012 election is whether to keep our economy bedridden with injury or too heal it and get it back on its feet. Every other issue will follow.
"It's the economy, stupid."
750.6 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day76.
Day440 Saturday 11/12/11
ran 4.6 miles
As listed on the Drudge Report regarding Occupy Wall Street:
"I believe that Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement. It would not have happened, it would not have happened but for his class warfare. And remember, as it gets worse and worse because it's going to get worse and worse, where it came from. Barack Obama. He praised it. He supported it. He agrees with it. He sympathizes with it. And as it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down."
To compare OWS to the Tea Party is absurd. The Tea Party has a commonsense agenda and a clear path to acquire their goals, which was defined and heeded to during the midterm elections last year. While OWS is a swelling Petri dish of rioting, vandalism and utter chaos, coughing and hacking their way to nowhere, impeding their own long-term futures by behaving like debauched satyrs in a Dionysian forest of concrete and commerce, the Tea Party peacefully and calmly, with distinguished organization, made their point and achieved the results they desired.
What will OWS achieve? I think many of those who sacrificed time away from whatever it was they were doing before, which could not have been too important because they are now living in tents, enduring filth and the elements, will be filled with a huge sense of disappointment and disdain very soon. And this disappointment and disdain will be for Barack Obama, the superficial celebrities who made disingenuous appearances, Mayors and other political figures who allowed this farce to rage forward, and the media that daily bolstered their cause, just to name a few. There will be regret and it will arrive in the form of eventually rejoining American society and looking for a job. If they never find the happiness, contentment, and pride that comes with earning and providing for themselves, the liberation from a federal government who wants to convince them that they can achieve nothing by themselves, and if they never discover how to shake the shackles of socialistic ideas off their wrists, it will be a shame. They would be victims of what happens when a radical, leftist president implements the ideas that are currently failing so miserably all around us in other countries.
753.8 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day75.
As listed on the Drudge Report regarding Occupy Wall Street:
- Dead man in Salt Lake City…
- Tuberculosis in Atlanta…
- “Zuccotti Lung” on Wall Street…
- Suicide in Vermont…
- Murder in Oakland…
"I believe that Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement. It would not have happened, it would not have happened but for his class warfare. And remember, as it gets worse and worse because it's going to get worse and worse, where it came from. Barack Obama. He praised it. He supported it. He agrees with it. He sympathizes with it. And as it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down."
To compare OWS to the Tea Party is absurd. The Tea Party has a commonsense agenda and a clear path to acquire their goals, which was defined and heeded to during the midterm elections last year. While OWS is a swelling Petri dish of rioting, vandalism and utter chaos, coughing and hacking their way to nowhere, impeding their own long-term futures by behaving like debauched satyrs in a Dionysian forest of concrete and commerce, the Tea Party peacefully and calmly, with distinguished organization, made their point and achieved the results they desired.
What will OWS achieve? I think many of those who sacrificed time away from whatever it was they were doing before, which could not have been too important because they are now living in tents, enduring filth and the elements, will be filled with a huge sense of disappointment and disdain very soon. And this disappointment and disdain will be for Barack Obama, the superficial celebrities who made disingenuous appearances, Mayors and other political figures who allowed this farce to rage forward, and the media that daily bolstered their cause, just to name a few. There will be regret and it will arrive in the form of eventually rejoining American society and looking for a job. If they never find the happiness, contentment, and pride that comes with earning and providing for themselves, the liberation from a federal government who wants to convince them that they can achieve nothing by themselves, and if they never discover how to shake the shackles of socialistic ideas off their wrists, it will be a shame. They would be victims of what happens when a radical, leftist president implements the ideas that are currently failing so miserably all around us in other countries.
753.8 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day75.
Day439 Friday 11/11/11
ran 3.4 milesThis past week held numerous elections across the American landscape and some of these elections proved to be resourceful in getting a feel for how America as a whole feels about America as a whole. Ohio was a pivotal state as unions fought for collective bargaining rights and the state also voted on whether Ohioans should have the freedom to choose their own health care providers and plans. Despite the bad math and deficits, Ohio chose to repeal the state government’s plan to reduce spending by tightening the screws on collective bargaining rights, however, they did send a slap to the face of Barack Obama, loudly making him aware that they do not agree with his health care legislation.
But, even louder was the message Virginia sent to Barack Obama’s 2012 hopes of being a two-term president. In an article from the Wall Street Journal, by Kimberley A. Strassel, she commented, “Mr. Obama was the first Democrat to win Virginia since 1964; he beat John McCain by seven percentage points; and he did so on the strength of his appeal to Northern Virginia's many white-collar independents. Along with victories in North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada, the Obama Old Dominion win in 2008 inspired a flurry of stories about how Democrats had forever altered the political map.”
In the last six months, the Obama campaign has hosted approximately 1,600 events in Virginia in an effort to win its people over on both the state and federal level. Virginia was part of Obama’s bus tour (the Death Star) in October. Now that the votes in Virginia have been counted, Democrats have officially failed monumentally, wasting much of their time and money that could have been spent deceiving others elsewhere.
“Virginia Republicans added seven new seats to their majority in the House of Delegates, giving them two-thirds of that chamber's votes—the party's largest margin in history. The GOP also took over the Virginia Senate in results that were especially notable, given that Virginia Democrats this spring crafted an aggressive redistricting plan that had only one aim: providing a firewall against a Republican takeover of that chamber. Even that extreme gerrymander didn't work.”
Every single Republican incumbent won. There were fifty-two in the House and fifteen in the Senate. This will be only the second time in Virginian history that Republicans claim control of state government since the Civil War. And this on the heels of Republican Governor Bob McDonnell being elected in 2009 and three U.S. House Democrats being ousted in the 2010 midterm elections.
“Elected state Democrats—who form the backbone of grass-roots movements—couldn't distance themselves far enough from Mr. Obama in this race. Most refused to mention the president, to defend his policies, or to appear with him. The more Republicans sought to nationalize the Virginia campaign, the more Democrats stressed local issues.”
This is a loud message Virginia has sent to Barack Obama and liberals in D.C. If Virginia is any barometer of how the rest of the country feels then Barack Obama has a lot more work to do. And considering everything he and the Democratic Party exhausted in Virginia, to no avail, good luck, Mr. Obama. Fool us once, shame on us; fool us twice, shame on you.
758.4 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day74.
But, even louder was the message Virginia sent to Barack Obama’s 2012 hopes of being a two-term president. In an article from the Wall Street Journal, by Kimberley A. Strassel, she commented, “Mr. Obama was the first Democrat to win Virginia since 1964; he beat John McCain by seven percentage points; and he did so on the strength of his appeal to Northern Virginia's many white-collar independents. Along with victories in North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada, the Obama Old Dominion win in 2008 inspired a flurry of stories about how Democrats had forever altered the political map.”
In the last six months, the Obama campaign has hosted approximately 1,600 events in Virginia in an effort to win its people over on both the state and federal level. Virginia was part of Obama’s bus tour (the Death Star) in October. Now that the votes in Virginia have been counted, Democrats have officially failed monumentally, wasting much of their time and money that could have been spent deceiving others elsewhere.
“Virginia Republicans added seven new seats to their majority in the House of Delegates, giving them two-thirds of that chamber's votes—the party's largest margin in history. The GOP also took over the Virginia Senate in results that were especially notable, given that Virginia Democrats this spring crafted an aggressive redistricting plan that had only one aim: providing a firewall against a Republican takeover of that chamber. Even that extreme gerrymander didn't work.”
Kimberley A. Strassel
Every single Republican incumbent won. There were fifty-two in the House and fifteen in the Senate. This will be only the second time in Virginian history that Republicans claim control of state government since the Civil War. And this on the heels of Republican Governor Bob McDonnell being elected in 2009 and three U.S. House Democrats being ousted in the 2010 midterm elections.
“Elected state Democrats—who form the backbone of grass-roots movements—couldn't distance themselves far enough from Mr. Obama in this race. Most refused to mention the president, to defend his policies, or to appear with him. The more Republicans sought to nationalize the Virginia campaign, the more Democrats stressed local issues.”
Kimberley A. Strassel
This is a loud message Virginia has sent to Barack Obama and liberals in D.C. If Virginia is any barometer of how the rest of the country feels then Barack Obama has a lot more work to do. And considering everything he and the Democratic Party exhausted in Virginia, to no avail, good luck, Mr. Obama. Fool us once, shame on us; fool us twice, shame on you.
758.4 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day74.
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