As of November 5, 2008, when President Obama is officially elected into office, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:
1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales and bonuses into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a “fair shake.”
2. All low level workers will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are “too busy for overtime” to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.
3. All top management will now be referred to as “the government.” We will not participate in this “pooling” experience because the law doesn't apply to us.
4. The “government” will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging it's workers to continue to work hard “for the good of all.”
5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it's “good to spread the wealth.” Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more “patriotic.”
6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don't feel bad, though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free foodstamps, and he'll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flatscreen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn't all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?) !!!
If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you may want to rethink your vote on November 4th.
"... any nation whose focus is world approval or intellectuals' acclaim is defeated already.
Liberals who scour politically correct history books looking for original American sins to repent of are entirely ignorant of the glories of American exceptionalism. They somehow believe that the rest of the world - so mired in war, strife, grinding poverty, and socialism - is far superior... all the while they reap the rewards of American prosperity and liberty. Despite what the anti-U.S. left sneers, American has not raped and conquered the world; we liberate it.
Contrast the self-centered rhetoric of America's preeminent liberals with the words of Georgia's beleaguered president Mikheil Saakashvili, on August 13:
'What Americans should do now, first of all, clearly make known their intentions... Who else can stand up for liberty in the world? You know, when America isolated itself from Europe, Europe always fell. Europe is at the edge now.... I know America is overstretched. I know there are many other things. But realize where we are and what we are heading towards now.'
Notice that nowhere does Saakashvili ask us to apologize for slavery, George Bush, or Club Gitmo. He looks to the U.S. to stand for what we always have stood for - liberty - and that which is uniquely American: the vigorous defense of freedom. When it comes to confronting tyranny, feeding the world, propelling forward the engine of democracy and prosperity, it's America - and not her small-minded critics - who holds aloft the fire of liberty."
The United Nations General Assembly and the U.N. Secretariat took last Tuesday off to honor a religious holiday.
However, it wasn’t for the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashana, which began Monday evening and is observed by some public and private entities. Rather, it was for Eid al-Fitr, the conclusion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Judaism is the only major religion that that U.N. fails to recognize in any way. The world body has never closed its doors or delayed any of its activities for any Jewish holiday, reports Newsmax United Nations correspondent Stewart Stogel.
The General Assembly is also the home of the controversial "Zionism is Racism” resolution, which the U.N. has never officially rescinded.
The U.N. habit of ignoring Jewish sentiments came to a highly publicized flashpoint in 1999, when then-President Bill Clinton was scheduled to address the assembly on the first day of its two-week meeting.
That day, Sept. 20, also happened to be Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays.
Clinton, sensing a possible political problem for his wife Hillary, who then was contemplating a run for the New York Senate seat she later won, asked then U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and General Assembly President Theo-Ben Gurirab of Namibia to delay the opening session for one day out of respect for the Jewish holiday.
The answer was no.
Clinton reacted with the unusual response of canceling his U.N. appearance. The world body, stunned at the snub, scrambled to reschedule Clinton for the next day.
The White House accepted, and Clinton delivered a speech insisting that the U.N. take a large role in stopping mass slaughter around the world.
At the time, the U.N. was reeling for allowing the disintegration and subsequent ethnic cleansing of the former Yugoslavia to go essentially unchallenged. Although no accurate records exist, the U.N. estimates that more than 500,000 people may have been killed in the former Yugoslavia.
"But we must look to the root cause. It is not the loosening of regulations from the Clinton years, or the push for home ownership by the administration and certain congressional leaders, or the corrupt practices at Fannie and Freddie, or the greed of financiers. All of those played a role. But those factors could not cause a collapse by themselves.
We have become a culture addicted to instant gratification and a fixation on the material. Increasingly, concepts such as duty, self-denial, hard work, delayed gratification, and patience have been swept away."
Trailing six points in Rasmussen's poll, having fallen four points since he suspended his campaign last week, the question for John McCain is, Haven't you learned anything?
His failure to do much of anything in Washington, after teasing the whole country and riveting its attention on him by suspending his campaign, has let the voters down — and they are turning away from McCain.
But there is still time for him to make his move. The House Republicans bought McCain another shot by turning down the $700 billion bailout package on Monday. With no House vote scheduled until Thursday, McCain still has time to do the right thing.
He should publicly announce his support for the House Republican alternative package of insurance, loans and tax changes to deal with the financial crisis. He should attack Barack Obama and the Democrats for supporting the use of tax money for a massive bailout when the same purpose can be accomplished by other, cheaper means.
McCain should draw a line in the sand and take a firm position.
The Democrats are not prepared to pass their bailout proposal by themselves. If they were, they would have done so on Monday.
Instead, they withheld the votes of their most vulnerable congressmen and let the package fail. If the Republican Party poses a united front in the House, with McCain's leadership, the Democrats will have to fall in line. They cannot not do anything. By taking a firm line, McCain can turn the whole process around to his, and his country's, advantage.
Who would have imagined that John McCain would lose the election because he had a failure of courage at the last minute? Who would have guessed that he would fail to stand on principle for fear of being criticized and would fail as a result? If John McCain is to lose this election, let it at least be fighting for principle, as he has done throughout his storied career.
By backing an alternative, McCain forces Obama to defend the Democratic/Bush package. He can tie Obama to Bush and to the Washington insider/Wall Street crowd. He can give his populism a programmatic reality and a topical relevance. Obama would have to spend the rest of the election defending the $700 billion turkey the length and breadth of the country.
America detests the bailout package. Polls show better than 2-to-1 opposition. Were McCain and the Republicans able to project that there is another alternative that works, the opposition would swell to even greater proportions.
Obama and the Democrats could cite the views of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and Wall Street executives that the Republican relief package would be too little, too late. But voters can be pardoned for skepticism. Paulson, a few years removed from Wall Street, and Democrats, in hock to the street for campaign contributions, are naturally eager to get their hands on $700 billion. If Obama lends himself to that cause, it could cost him the election.
McCain needs to have the courage to free himself from the web of Washington deals and take a principled stand for the right side and stay there. Then the inevitable dynamics of the process will bring the country around to him.
Otherwise, his campaign will have missed the opportunity to draw the kind of clear issue that would have gotten him elected president.
It is admirable to see a candidate of principle and conviction lose an election by standing on his beliefs. It is sickening to see one lose by abandoning them.
SAGINAW, Michigan — With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw, Michigan.
Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported. Her bid was one of eight for the home.
"I am going to try and sell it," she told the newspaper. "I don't have any plans to move to Saginaw."
Smith said she hasn't seen the property or visited Saginaw, which has been hard-hit by economic troubles in recent years.
There's a notice on the door of the home saying a foreclosure hearing is pending, the newspaper said. She must pay about $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.
The Saginaw News said it could not reach the seller, Southern Investments LLC, for comment.
