Thursday morning started with the death of every 17-24 year old from the 70’s Farrah Fawcett. A beautiful sexy woman who captivated the desires of boy’s everywhere (me included). A wonderful tribute to her, but the real news dominated the day. Fast forward 6 hours when we first heard that Michael Jackson had collapsed. What followed after Glenn Beck will have repercussions for a long time (that will be 5 days). Why so short? Two words Keith Oberman. He has as many followers on MSNBC as I do on Twitter or this blog (lol). CNN won’t last long because all they have is Lou Dobbs. ABC, CBS, and NBC well need I say more. What will hurt Fox News is in viewership to National Geographic Channel (NatGeo) or maybe the Animal Planet when it covers wild animals the world over.

Seriously though, they must pay some sort of penalty for pushing serious news off the channel not shortened or blocked for an hour, but off for eight hours. I received an email from the website “Move America Forward” who tracks the lives of soldiers who are fighting for Sheppard Smith’s right to be stupid for a day. In the fifth paragraph of the article noticed the coverage and made a simple request to honor our troops as much as we did Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Those men and women should be the ones we set aside a huge block of time to honor. When was the last time we put them in every hour block of news? A long, long time.

The huge majority of us have earned the right to be treated with respect, and when you email the show to give your opinion about a subject Sheppard Smith should not tell you to “Shut up” as he did a few months ago to an emailer, or Bill O’Reilly telling emailers to “wise up” when you write in as he asks you to. We put up with it because they overall give us the news we need to make decisions about who represents us in Washington D.C. I think that deference might be over. If that is the case what will become of the only channel that “reported and let us decide.” We cannot stop supporting FNC, but some sort of penalty needs to be imposed to remind them that we are the ones to whom they report. Like politicians who forget to whom they report so to is it with the media in general and FNC in particular.  

I want to use this time on this blog to congratulate Michael Steele on his election to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee. I was an early supporter of his for a lot of reasons mainly because the Republican Party was asleep at the switch. I watch a lot of news (Fox News mostly) and I never saw Mr. Duncan (I only recently found out who was Chairman of the RNC) on any news program not even Meet the Press. Michael Steele was always on news programs putting forth the republican message.

The Chairman has a few real issues he needs to stick to repeatedly for the next two years. Ronald Reagan, the father of the conservative movement, ran on and governed on small but important principles. Newt Gingrich stuck to a few principles, the contract with America notwithstanding, had in it a limited number of policies. The Contract may have had a lot of numbers, but the principles were small; limit the size of government (Ronald Reagan), make the government work better, and make the Congress live under the same rules and laws that they impose on to us. Ronald Reagan governed on the reduction of taxes for people and business (increased revenue to the government), rebuild the military to a size big enough to defeat the Soviet Union (Berlin Wall fell in 1989), and reinvigorate the American experience. Former President Reagan loved this country and knew the spirit of America was alive in all of us. He believed that the ROLE of Government was to get roadblocks out of our way so the entrepreneurial spirit can work. These are the topics I believe Mr. Steele needs to stick to.

I am here to do my part in my small neck of the woods. In my community we have lost all sense of what is right and proper. I will be more active in pushing the things that I believe is at the heart of our party and what makes a civilized society. I will try to take Mike Huckabee started with the topic of life. The institution of abortion and euthanasia must stop (more on that later). The way to start is to insinuate myself into local republican party politics, support candidates for school boards, and end the stranglehold that the democrats have on the office of  mayor. Start a tv station that will rival RNN.

As I stated in the beginning, I am here for Chairman Steele. I can’t wait for the liberals to call the election of Mr. Steele as a cynical attempt to attract the African-Americans away from the Democratic Party. The same way they tried to derail Sarah Palin’s nomination as Vice-Presidential candidate. I will be waiting with bated breath.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GO MICHAEL STEELE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   

I have been away for a while, partly because of the holidays and partly because I didn’t want to come across as whining or infantile. I did not vote for Mr. Obama. My candidate was Mike Huckabee or Fred Thompson. I think Mayor Giuliani would have made a great Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security (If we have to have the stupid agency). John McCain came out the winner of our primary (some day I will go into that process), because the conservative movement fractured into 10 different factions. People in our caucus found fault with all of the nominees. John McCain has an impressive background and could have made a great Secretary of State or Defense. He is a war hero a true conservative on some very key issues like abortion, the war, and traditional marriage. He lost because he did three things wrong and only one thing right. He didn’t come up with a clear conservative message to the economic crisis, he touted “working across the isle (First Amendment, federal judges to the Appeals Bench), and didn’t bring up Wright, Ayres, and Rezko. The one thing he did right was pick Sarah Palin as his Vice-President nominee.

The issues of Wright and Ayres, while important, were secondary to the issues this country was facing. The economy and two wars and the looming issue of Vladimir Putin invading the independent Georgian state. If you understand the economy more than just what you are told on the Fox Business Channel the problem of banks and financial companies like Merrill Lynch, Bear Sterns, or even AIG could have been meliorated with just a few accounting rules and loan guarantees to back stop the difference would have stabilized the credit markets. The looming recession is a different mess altogether. The current President will take this country in a totally different direction and blame the former President. He will say “you can’t blame me” “I am doing what President Bush did.” The argument is both specious and incorrect. President Bush did the right thing the wrong way. The proverbial right church wrong pew aspect of the problem will be misinterpreted for a long time. Sean Hannity, in interviewing Rush Limbaugh, put a handle on this issue when talking about FDR and his legacy. It is my contention that FDR was one of the worst Presidents of the 20^th century.

I, as a banker, can tell you that while it is true that ACORN and other surrogates intimidated some banks to make these criminal loans. Loans, that financially devastated the poor for 10 years and maybe longer. The other banks didn’t care one way or the other. The American Bankers Association lobbied congress (Republican congress) to repeal Glass/Steagal. Glass/Steagal came out of the depression. Congress with the help of President Clinton reassured in the old way of banking (supposedly under the guise of competing with Europe) gave bankers the go-ahead to turn the banking system into a used car lot type of business. From that date if you wanted to work in an bank all you needed was proof that you can sell something. If you can convince the HR person you could make good money in commissions for selling loans or savings accounts. A bank isn’t in business to provide commissions to its employees like Raymond James or First Investors Company. A bank is in business to promote commerce in their communities. A Commercial Banks prime mission is to help companies carry on trade and commerce. If the employees want a checking account at the same bank then “all the better”, but the bank caters to the business. How do I know I am right? Look at the mess we are in today with the repeal of Glass/Steagal.

In the next 1,458 days Mr. Obama will be the President. It should be very easy to predict how he will govern. In the first 3 days the President has reversed everything that kept America safe for 2,688 days (from September 11, 2001 to January 20, 2009). It is irrelevant weather he will do it in 1 year or 4 years. The point is that he did it publicly. President Bush on many occasions said he wish he could close Gitmo. The difference was that Bush did it quietly so our enemy was kept guessing. As of this writing, the President will overturn Reagan’s, Bush 41, and Bush 43, ban on NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) from giving advice about abortion in foreign countries. Governing from the middle? I don’t think so. It is unclear at this early date, but the whole Gays in the military will come up again. The worst of all, in my humble opinion, is the issue of gay marriage. California may set the stage for Obama to put this issue forward claiming that California did it and every marriage didn’t collapse. I think it was Bill O’Reilly or Dick Morris on The O’Reilly Factor that argued that if Prop 8 is overturned again by the Court could make most religious services or openly praising God in public could cause criminal prosecution for hate speech. It is a idea that I didn’t think of. Court hearings on the bible and the Oath swearing to God be taken out of the Presidential Oath of Office.

What did Betty Davis say in “All About Eve”; “Fasten your seatbelt it is going to be a bumpy night.” In the coming weeks and months I will pick a topic on the economy, banking, pop culture (music, movies) the state of our youth (utes to Vinnie La Guardia Gambini), and finally I will comment on the Culture Warriors segments on O’Reilly’s show.

2) The other argument they use is children. One argument, that is really offensive, is that some women in their marriage cannot conceive children so they go to a fertility clinic. The idea that because of a sickness that causes women to become infertile or a biological anomaly they are born with masks a number of responses. A) the fact that 1 in maybe a million women become infertile and need intervention through science is that an anomaly. Two men or two women (100%) can not under any circumstance conceive a child together. B) Since the state issues certificates of marriage and it is not expressly worded in the Constitution it is a privilege not a right. When the state can bare certain people from getting a marriage license then it is not a violation of the Constitution’s equal protection clause. If it were true then multiple marriages (usually more than one woman), brother and sister, adult and child (+18 to -16) could argue the same equal protection since the violation of more than one wife is a violation of the first amendment on religious grounds.

A behavior that is aberrant (out of the norm) on its face is one reason why most people of color (more religious then whites) are opposed to gay marriage. The gay lobby’s argument about our marriages ending in divorce over 50% is a good argument, but the easy answer is that A) two wrongs do not make a right, and B) The fact that we as a society have gotten away from things like honor, faith, respect, and into instant gratification has combined with secular marriage counselors (that fail 90% of the time) instead of going to a priest, rabbi, imam, or pastor to help the two remember why they got married in the first place and to listen and not yell. We can fix our marriage issues with a little more listening to people like Pastor Rick Warren, or Joel Osteen. These two men are the real thing. I do not go to church, unfortunately, mostly because I do not feel my Methodist church does not preach what I believe is important, and I am not a catholic mostly because I do not like kneeling and standing every five minutes.

The most fascinating thing about this argument is when we lost in the court system allowing judges to decide what the majority wants did not cause us to protest in the streets, attack old ladies in the street and cause riots. When Christians loose an argument we go back and try to make our argument stronger like civilized people are supposed to do. When the gay lobby looses an argument they riot in the streets attack old ladies carrying a cross and call people vicious names. My mother use to tell me just because you are louder or stronger does not make you right. We are in the right biblically and biologically so we go about the business of changing or making logical argument that a majority agrees with hence the passage of Prop 8. When immoral or ignorant people loose an argument they become violent because they no they are wrong and have no way of expressing themselves logically, cogently, and peacefully.

I think that the situation in Washington State and California (ironically) will be the seat of power for the Christian community rising up and start defending Jesus Christ and the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths will join together to stop the secularist and bring back the ideals that made us a great country. In a civilized society certain acts are wrong and you are asked not told to stop that behavior. In a secular world you are told what to do in the eyes of the anarchist view. In a secular world you are told what you can and can not say. In a secular world you are told who you can talk about (smokers mostly). Everyone else is a protected class (black, homosexual, obese, and drug addicted) and they get preferential treatment and if you are male, white, and rich you get to be mocked, ridiculed, and made to be the bad person. If you are competitive in sports or the business community you are looked down upon as well.

All of these issues are coming to a head. The election of Barack Obama might wind up being a blessing for the Christian or Religious community. The fight for our souls and for a civilized way of life could start as soon as Jan. 21^st 2009. Bring your shield of righteousness and spear of goodness to battle the army of anarchy and barbarity. We may just save ourselves from the fate of Rome and of Sodom and Gomorrah. Israelites were kicked out of Jerusalem twice; once be the Assyrians, and once by the Babylonians. Charles Manson claimed he had Sharon Tate and the LaBianca’s murdered to start a race war, but he failed. I wonder if one of Osama Bin Laden’s aim was to start a religious war between Christians and the Secularist as a secondary front so we would take our eye off of him and into ourselves. Just thinking out loud; no need to read anything into my rant.

A) if you equate what a man and a woman do as two men doing only that then you are an idiot. If a couple engages in oral sex nobody cares, unfortunately that is not where it ends (no pun intended). If nothing else homosexuality is an aberrant lifestyle. It is both biblically and biologically aberrant. When two men or two women get together nothing can come of it. That is why men have sperm and women have ovaries. They are meant to procreate; that is the meaning of sex. I wouldn’t expect you to understand that. The fact that you are vulgar is just something I would expect from a liberal with no facts or intelligence.

B)  Remember Bosnia? Serbia did not attack us. Serbia was a sovereign nation with a civil war (sound familiar?). I think the civilians in Sarajevo would consider themselves innocent too. I hate to have to repeat what everybody knows except a liberal is: WMD’s ( I know not found yet but could rebuild later), mass graves by Saddam Hussein, firing on planes in the no-fly zone, and last but not least paying Palestinian families for the martyrdom of their children in Israel. For the last time HE WAS A THREAT TO EVERYONE.

C) The idea that anyone deserves a home is stupid. Extending credit to people who can afford them was a good idea regardless of color, however extending credit to people you know can’t afford them is criminal on your part. These people you profess to help are now financially devastated. They will not get credit for a car, school, or even get a better job. I think you should pat yourself on the back for that abundance of caring for the poor you have.  Low interest rates and unregulated industries are no excuse for this sub-prime NINJA lending (No income No job or assets). The only racists are people like you. You constantly hurt the same people you profess to care about, but never do the real work of getting them educated, employed, or financially stable to afford things and get real credit.

D) no mortgage company or private lender is immune from the CRA. It is a federal act not a state and local act. Again stupid, ignorant, or just not concerned about facts.

E) No one is blaming the poor. We are blaming scumbags like you who couldn’t care less about the poor and their long-term needs. You scream about education, but you never hold the teachers accountable for results just give money. One study about 15 years ago stated that schools in Washington, D.C. (that’s the nations capital) spent $10,000/student and still had a 70% dropout rate good going Mayor Berry (He was African-American). Without a real education system employment is hard to come by so that answers the question about income or the lack thereof. I think I answered the question of finances. Congratulations on a job well done. I think you should continue to hurt these people and when they get angry you can just blame us so you stay in power (a lot like Hitler did in the 30’s).