We The People Stimulus Package

Bravo!

Obama's Swedish American Model

This is what this whole "economic crisis" is really about which is why Obama has been crying wolf for so long. There really isn't a wolf and people are seeing it for what it is.

Liberal Fascism: AIG Issue Is Simply a Stepping Stone Toward More Government Control

Library of Congress Construction

Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894.

The Library of Congress was established on April 24, 1800, when President John Adams signed an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington.

The legislation appropriated $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ..., and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them...." The original library was housed in the new Capitol until August 1814, when invading British troops set fire to the Capitol building, destroying the contents of the small library (3,000 volumes).

Within a month, former President Thomas Jefferson offered his personal library as a replacement. Jefferson had spent 50 years accumulating books, "putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable in every science"; his library was considered to be one of the finest in the United States. Jefferson, who was heavily indebted, sought to use the proceeds of the sale of his books to satisfy his creditors. He anticipated controversy over the nature of his collection, which included books in foreign languages and volumes of philosophy, science, literature, and other topics not normally viewed as part of a legislative library, such as cookbooks. To satisfy any objections as to the suitability of his collection for Congress' use, he wrote, "I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection; there is, in fact, no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer."

In January 1815, Congress accepted Jefferson's offer, appropriating $23,950 for his 6,487 books, and the foundation was laid for a great national library. The Jeffersonian concept of universality, the belief that all subjects are important to the library of the American legislature, is the philosophy and rationale behind the comprehensive collecting policies of today's Library of Congress.

On December 24, 1851, a fire destroyed 35,000 books, an original portrait of Christopher Columbus, portraits of the first five US Presidents by Gilbert Stuart, and statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette.

AIG Attainder Bill 90% Tax Unconstitutional

Bill of Attainder. The bill, while not mentioning AIG by name, is clearly meant to punish AIG executives who received large bonuses—a specific group of individuals in response to public outrage over the bonuses. Given this motivation, many believe that the legislation is a bill of attainder, and thus prohibited by Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution.

The really sad thing about this continuing serial thriller of clowns on crack is that Congress successfully made contractual bonuses the main focus instead of their role in this planned economic train wreck. A train wreck that Democrats in Congress engineered. The train wreck cover-up by Frank, Dodd, et al is a Democratic Congressional production that is pure CYA by the Democratic leadership and those Democrats, er-cough-cough-Frank-Dodd-cough-cough that used our money to wreck the train.

Bitching about the bonuses is like bitching about incorrect change, say 12 cents instead of 13 cents, back on a $100.00 bill. But distraction is the action on Capitol Hill, especially when one doesn't want the media to be able to explain the roots of the mess and one doesn't want their name prominently headlined as a culprit in crime. The "one" here would have a D after their name when sponsoring, cosponsoring and voting on legislation.

Remember, this all started with "something for nothing", otherwise known as mortgages to people that could not afford one and could actually not pay on one. To show their racial sensitivity, Congress ordered banks to give mortgages to those that couldn't possibly afford them and now blame the banks.

Hello Fannie. Hello Freddie.

Hello Barney. Hello Maxine.

Where's our damned money you pandering political losers?

Carter Obama; How incredibly appropriate

CARTER VISITS WHITE HOUSE...

One economic trainwreck learning (teaching?) from another.

Where are the fiscally responsible, ie. conservative, in Washington, DC?

Do they no longer exist or have they just lost their voice?

William Thornton's Capitol 1793

The site for the United States Capitol chosen by Pierre Charles L'Enfant was Jenkins Hill, which rose 88 feet (27 m) above the Potomac River.[3] The site is one mile (1.6 km) from the White House. Pierre-Charles L'Enfant secured the lease of quarries at Wigginton Island and along Aquia Creek in Virginia for use in the foundations and outer walls of the Capitol in November 1791.[4]

In 1792, a contest was announced by Commissioners of the Federal City seeking designs for both the Congress House and the President's House.[3] The contest deadline was July 15, 1792, with rewards including $500 and a lot in the city.[5] All the drawings submitted were considered inadequate and rejected.[6] The most promising of the submissions was by Stephen Hallet.[7] However, a late entry by amateur architect William Thornton was submitted on January 31, 1793 to much praise by President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Thornton was inspired by east front of the Louvre, as well as the Pantheon for the center portion of the design.[8] Thornton's design was officially approved in a letter, dated April 5, 1793, from George Washington.[9] In effort to console Hallet, the commissioners appointed him to review Thornton's plans, develop cost estimates, and serve as superintendent of construction. Hallet proceeded to pick apart and make drastic changes to Thornton's design, which he saw as amateur with numerous problems and high costs to build.[10] Jefferson appointed a five-member commission, including Hallet and James Hoban, to address problems with and revise Thornton's plan. Except for some details in Thornton's plan that specified an open recess in the center of the East front, the revised plan was accepted.

FDR Didn't Have BO

"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." FDR Inaugural Speech - Inauguration Day January 20, 1933

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was many things, he shared a purposeful opaqueness with Barack Obama that allowed for soaring oratory that held very little true meaning, but FDR didn't scare the hell out of the country every time he spoke.

This administration talks of fiscal irresponsibility as they drive us deeper in debt faster than ever before and making everything worse every time they talk.

"I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression." Barack Obama Inaugural Speech - Inauguration Day January 20, 2009

Now, after Obama has now said that, oops, guess things are getting better after all, Larry Summers, Obama's top economic advisor, blurts out that we have an excess of fear:

Summers: 'Excess of fear' must be broken
President Barack Obama's top economic adviser said Friday the nation's economic crisis has led to an "excess of fear" among Americans that must be broken to reverse the downturn.

"Fear begets fear," Lawrence Summers, the president's director of the National Economic Council, told a forum.

"It is this transition from an excess of greed to an excess of fear that President Roosevelt had in mind when he famously observed that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself," Summers said. "It is this transition that has happened in the United States today."

Excess greed to excess fear. Is this another Jimmy Carter idea that it's our fault that we believed Obama and minions and are feeling a malaise?

This is a rocky road we find ourselves on and it is going to get rockier.

March 11th In DC History

11th March, 1977 : 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are freed.



The time was the best of times and the worst of times. Marion Barry may have actually been drug free, but James Earl Carter was president.

"Two Wings With No Body"

U.S. Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue before 1814. Ink, wash, and gouache drawing. Unattributed (formerly attributed to Benjamin Henry Latrobe; "B.H.L." appears on drawing), ca. 1819.

Two Months Too Much

Two months of "change has brought us a world of change that most voters haven't even noticed, because they are not paying attention or, worse yet, they are believing the bankrupt news media.

In 2006 the Democrats took charge of Congress and began portraying Republicans as heartless hoping the charge would pile on top of their baseless and jaded charges that the Bush Administration was guilty of "crimes." The media jumped on this pile head first laughing all the way to the bank, they thought.

Republicans did little to counter these charges and offered up a "maverick" for the presidency while Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd and their financial backers at Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac continued to force lenders to give mortgages to people who could not afford them. When President Bush and some Republicans questioned this practice, Democrats were quick to divert attention away from the facts by crying "racist." Most Republicans sat on their hands, too cowardly or worse yet, they agreed with liberals, to do anything.

Their moment of triumph came with the election of Obama.

Obama's 4 million jobs? Who is going to hire? In the midst of this manufactured financial crisis Obama comes up with a tax plan that raises taxes on the very people that hire people. To add insult to injury, Obama trod his own path, saying what he thought worked well on the campaign trail and sent the stock market to the tank. Some change.

Health care will be a joke unless you're someone who wishes abortion on demand or want to see embryos used in stem cell research.

Obama is now addressing the real crisis, which is education in this country and, as usual, he wants more spending and more government control. This is the very policy that has driven our education system downward which has made the system totally incapable of producing the leaders we need in industry, research and development and sensible policy.

This administration has a plan for the Middle East. Just ask them. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is confused and scared about what this policy may or may not be. The terrorists operating in Iraq and Afghanistan have been given hope because they believe in Obama's "change" and in thanks to Obama have set off fire works killing dozens, sending shock waves of fear through those countries.

This is not change unless you like the dumber twin of Clinton policy or the oafish stupidity of a Carter. It is a naive and dangerous attempt to be all things to all people. The only thing we have to show for all this work is a president said to be "tired", in fact too tired, to act presidential to the leader of one of our most important allies, Gordon Brown.

Stalin once said "A Capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with." I am beginning to doubt that can happen know. Obama will make sure that we are too poor, too stupid, too sick and too scared to make, sell or receive the rope.

Republicans need to once again to act Republican and stop this ridiculous drama of hoping and caring. It is neither.

March 10th in DC History

In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington D.C. of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)

DC Before DC Was DC

This is a very cool site that shows what early Washington, DC looked like before and after the Capitol was built.

Visualizing Early Washington

Jenkins Hill 1846-1855

Library of Congress

This un-attributed painting is one of many depicting early Washington DC. Looking from the southeast, you can see the United States Capitol on the right and the White House in the background. The Capitol design, first photographed in 1846, would change several more times before reaching what we see today. At the far left, on what would become the Smithsonian Mall, you can see the Smithsonian Castle, built between 1846-1855. The painting is thought to have been created or published between 1846 and 1855.

Taxation As Repression Against Those With Whom You Disagree

Against all logic and common sense it appears that we are in for more taxes, hidden taxes and fees and other costs just to save us and the US from us.

Hoist the Green flag and the green flag of Democrats over the Capitol and the White House because they are there, they are for us and they're going to tax us to death just to cure us.

Oh, hoist those flags over every government building throughout the land because they are all on the same page whether it is a cabal to destroy conservative talk, starting with Limbaugh, to destroy conservative thought or to just tax us back to the stone age. That way we can be just like the third world countries they so envy.

More price hikes due for cigarettes
The average price for cigarettes will soon be above $5 a pack, according to Credit Suisse. That probably won't have much of an impact on smokers, the analysts said, since sales volume didn't really change in states where prices have already surpassed that mark.

New York has fat taxes, people taxes, cab taxes, water taxes, etc., etc., and now a pack of cigarettes will be around $9 per pack. What a healthy city. Yeah.

The federal government isn't the only one taxing the hell out of people.

Invincible Armor has more on this and how government fattens their pockets by dividing and conquering us, one group at a time.

The Economic Lies Of Sin Taxes

Taxes. I once learned about a shining new country, The United States of America, that was formed with freedom for all and it was formed in reaction to taxes and other onerous government repressions. Now, as their elected officials sit by and argue about the correct degrees of how much lost economic and individual freedoms will be lost, the government is unable to hear the people.

It seems the people don't matter anymore.

Territory of Columbia

In 1793 Andrew Ellicott produced this topographic map entitled "Territory of Columbia". City boundary labelled: Out lines of the city of Washington with the grand avenues and principal streets leading through the public appropriations.

1922 in Washington DC

This is what they were drinking in DC in 1922 before the G-men appeared.

Not really sure what they are drinking now.