President Obama's Pathetic Report Card

OBAMA'S PATHETIC REPORT CARD	January 2009	TODAY	% chg	Source
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.	$1.83	$3.704	79.6%	1
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)	$43.48	$105.02	147.7%	2
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)	$38.74	$104.78	155.9%	2
Gold: London (per troy oz.)5	$853.25	$1,469.50	70.5%	2
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL	$3.56	$7.33	88.1%	2
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL	$9.66	$13.75	42.3%	2
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob	$13.37	$41.39	184.7%	2
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall	7.6%	9.4%	23.7%	3
Unemployment rate, blacks	12.6%	15.8%	25.4%	3
Number of unemployed	11,616,000	14,485,000	24.7%	3
Number of fed. Employees, ex. Military (curr = 12/10 prelim)	2,779,000	2,940,000	2.9%	3
Real median household income (2008 v 2009)	$50,112	$49,777	-0.7%	4
Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10)	31,983,716	43,200,878	35.1%	5
Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10)	7,526,598	9,193,838	22.2%	6
Number of long-term unemployed	2,600,000	6,400,000	146.2%	3
Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009)	13.2%	14.3%	8.3%	4
People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009)	39,800,000	43,600,000	9.5%	4
U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings	5	9	n/a	10
Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10)	29.9	23.5	-21.4%	11
Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date)	140	164	17.1%	12
U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate	89.76	82.03	-8.6%	2
U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)	1,575.1	1,865.7	18.4%	13
U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)	8,310.9	8,852.3	6.5%	13
National debt, in Trillions	$10.627	$14.052	32.2%	14

Approaching two and a half years of this President being in office, his time is about up. I see little indication this statistics will look much cheerier a year from now. But if you're into either precious metals or in oil futures now I'd advise you to sell, because prices will drop in the next year. I said it a month ago and I'm repeating it again. Despite the hype of the media, this is still a very sick and perhaps terminal economy.

You know one "Monument" I'd like to see done away with in Washington is the one dedicated to Christopher Columbus, otherwise known as the Rapist in Chief. It should make any true Christian ill to have this man's name associated with Christianity as some of these "Heritage" web sites insist it is. America has always been a genocidal people as per witness of how they treat the American Indians. But this President and all those who agree with Roe verses Wade are guilty of a Holocaust that far surpasses the one in Germany during W W II. The Eagle is known for killing off its siblings in the nest. So it seems our President is vicariously guilty of the same thing. The following three paragraphs are excerpted from a longer Mailing I received.

Let me pause to acknowledge that I don't typically like using these kinds of tactics when discussing the issue of abortion. The truth is it doesn't matter whether the child being killed is the next Beethoven, Bach, Edison or Einstein. What makes human life valuable and worthy of protection is that it is human life, bearing the inviolable image of the Creator. Life is valuable because of what it is, not what it does -- whether that's making beautiful music or being tone deaf, inventing a light bulb and unlocking spectacular scientific mysteries or needing help tying shoe laces...or yes, leading the most powerful nation in world history.

But this unfolding bombshell regarding Barack Obama's family is highly instructive given our president's life-long commitment to defending abortion. The simplest scenario arising from the story is this: President Obama had a half-brother or half-sister who, rather than having the chance to thrive and succeed as he has, ended up in a dumpster in London. The more complex reality for the president to grapple with is that it is not that far of a stretch to assume, given the complexities of his relationship with mother Ann Dunham, that Barack Obama, Sr. might have preferred the same end for our current president.

Such a scenario, beyond offering a brand new perspective on Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father, would provide the most pro-abortion president our country has ever known with the same chilling realization that so many of us born after the disastrous Roe decision encounter: had it not been for the strength and resolve of loving, pro-life mothers, we could have been legally slaughtered.

AS LONG SUSPECTED - SEVEN TIME TOUR DE FRANCE VICTOR LANCE ARMSTRONG IS A CHEAT
Sixty Minutes featured a lot of documented evidence that Lance Armstrong cheated on his 1999, 2000, and 2001 Tour de France bike races. The main guy seemed a little on the frozen expression side and looked scared of something, possibly having his own lies found out. I don’t know. The charges include blood doping, or taking ESO or some initial drug to boost red blood cell production. He also took testosterone, and also cortisone. Besides this he got transfusions of his own blood two weeks into the bike race to replace his “tired blood cells”. Now the government is saying he bribed officials, and at least one urine test result was suppressed. The main guy said “Nobody could win nowadays without taking something the way they go zooming over those mountains”.

The Bush Administration is at it seemingly from beyond the grave. We know of the numerous 9 - 11 memos they received warning of the danger and disregarding. Here's more fuel to add to that fire. But also last night there were ethical questions involving "how far you will go" to make the Mafia make you think you are one of them. It was an government agent accused of feeding law enforcement data to the Mafia to thwart key arrests. Then it was another guy accused of espianoge because he was a whistle blower. The government before 9 – 11 was ready to implement “Thin Thread” a sophisticated computer telephone data gathering and sorting system. Clearly a lot of problems would have been prevent had we adopted this program as 2001 dawned. But the Bush administrated wanted a private corporate opporation, that ended up spending 1.2 Billion and still accomplished nothing. Sixty Minutes went on a second hour. On the Simpson’s it seems Ned is dating Mrs. Krabopple. I watched two different segments of this show and apparently it’s the season cliffhanger. They are taking a viewer poll.

Now the Supreme Court with Justice Kennedy in the lead of a 5 to 4 decision, says that 40,000 hardened criminals must be released from California prisons due to over-crowded conditions. I don’t understand that one. How many are sex offenders? I thought we had built new prisons out the wazoo and had solved that problem. I fail to see how a matter such as prisoner overcrowding is in the jouristiction of a Federal Court. I'm sure other states throughout history must have had worse problems than ours over the year. Since when are common prisoners entitled to Five Star accommodations anyhow? Ronald Reagan flung open the doors of mental institutions in the 'eighties largely creating the heralded "Homeless people crisis". In no way am I saying people shouldn't have their chance, but to do it in mass all at once caused a national chaos. I thought the idea was to get criminals OFF the streets and not put them ON the street.

I guess the town of Joplin, in SW Missouri was wiped out by the latest tornado and 390 people were killed. Now they say maybe a quarter of the town of the town was wiped out. It's a sad fact that in the nation's heartland, "If spring has come, you know the weather is going to get a lot worse." So much for the red, red robin bopping along. Perhaps in the Star Trek era c ouple of centuries from now we will have devised a way to prevent these kind of killer tornadoes. But today is not that day. In Minneapolis they also had a tornado. The Mississippi is a declining danger.

Tim Pollente threw his had in the ring for President today, as anticipated. Now they say Governor Perry of Texas will reconsider entering the race, and some hope that Chris Christie of New Jersey will reconsider and ditto for Jeb Bush. As it stands now the field for a lot of plum voters is wide open to Polente. Of course most all of them think they all have to pass the Paul Ryan litmus test. We don't know but what such drastic measures may become a necessity. At least with Ryan's plan we can strike a "deal with the devil" to preserve some Medi Care coverage untouched.