THR 2.0 Offers OWS Marketing Assistance

I thought I would help the OWS protesters some free marketing assistance.  Here is my first proposal.

What do you think?

Liberal Icon's Memorial Statue Made in Communist China?

I have to say I was a bit surprised when I heard that MLK's memorial statue was made in China just to save a few bucks.

How ironic.  I thought Liberals didn't care about money when American jobs are concerned.  The statue should have been made by African American artists and craftsmen being paid union wages.

That would have been appropriate and much more meaningful to my way of thinking.

I also find the type of stone used for the sculpture as odd.

Another Failed Solar Company

Another "green energy" company has failed.  Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy eve after heavy government subsidies and load guarantees.  It was only 15 days ago when I posted about another heavily subsidized solar company, Evergreen Solar, declaring bankruptcy.  

I've said it  hundreds of times.  There is no scientific or economical way that solar and wind will ever replace fossil fuel for electricity generation.  It is impossible no matter how much money the government throws at it - as evidenced by these two recent failures.  The free market is the best way to determine.

As the WSJ Review and Outlook section stated:

Solyndra's story is more evidence that trendy, politically directed investments don't make for efficient allocation of capital.  Beyond the immediate losses, they mean the money wasn't available for market-directed investment with a better chande to succeed.  This is how you get a 1% recovery.  

Why Isn't the Economy Growing?

Gee I wonder why.  Funny thing is that Liberals will not understand and think this is a wonderful thing.

Missoula Reinforces Its Anti-Business Reputation

In a strong statement reinforcing Missoula's anti-business reputation, the Missoula City Council overwhelmingly voted 9-1 to urge federal and state lawmakers to amend the U.S. Constitution to state that corporations are not human beings and don't have the same rights as citizens.  Only Dick Haines had some sense and voted no.

Before members of the public spoke, Councilman Haines voiced his strong opposition and had a spat with Mayor John Engen. 

"This has got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen us do in a long time," said Haines, who noted most media outlets are corporately owned. 

Mayor Engen disagreed: "I'll suggest this is probably one of the smartest things you all have done in a long time."

Citizen John Tesdal was also against the measure:

John Tesdal, though, said the "feel-good activism" has no place in Missoula. He feared it would hurt local business that are corporations, such as the Good Food Store, Portico Real Estate and the Kettlehouse Brewing Co., one of his favorites. 

"The proposed referendum in my opinion is really anti-business," Tesdal said

I have always known Missoula is governed by ignorant Liberals but this takes the cake.  What business would ever want to start up or relocate to Missoula knowing how anti-corporate and anti-business the leaders of the community are?  Do these people have any idea at all what message they are sending?

Of course, the people quoted in support of the measure are all kooky far left wing activists - Environmental Studies UM Professor Vicki Watson, famous local self promoter Rep. Ellie Hill , and retired alternative medicine doctor Mary Stranahan.   .

Here is a quote from each:

"Corporations do not bleed or feel pain. They can't die in an unsafe workplace," Watson said. 

"This is a question of whether American democracy itself can beat back a corporate takeover," Hill said. 

"I think this is one of the most important issues we as a country face in trying to preserve what democracy we have," Stranahan said.

These three Liberal activist women along with there supporters are against corporations and businesses having the right to pay for political ads based on the first amendment.   However, they fully support the right of unions and their political and non-profit organizations the right to pay for political ads.  

How can they, if they were being honest, say it should be illegal for one type of organization to buy political ads but legal for another type of organization?  Seriously.  

It is totally political.  The goal is to muzzle organizations that lean to the right and give organizations that lean to the left a distinct advantage.    They know the Liberal message is not supported by the majority of American citizens and must do what they can to manipulate who can and cannot get their message to the public and let the public decide.

But I digress.  Bottom line, Missoula continues to reinforce their anti-business message leaving its population un and underemployed while whining and complaining there are not "living wage" jobs or good opportunities.

It makes me wonder if the Missoula Liberals really want economic prosperity.  They seem to do everything they can to drive it away.  Or they are just too dumb by thinking it comes delivered in pixie dust on unicorns.    

It breaks my heart for Missoula and its citizens when I see ignorance and stupidity like this.  Business (and corporations) give us the prosperity and lifestyle we all enjoy today.  Even the kooky Liberals who oppose them.  But the citizens of Missoula continue to vote these people into office so I guess they get what they deserve.  Sad.  

College Students Should Redistribute Their GPAs to Students Less Fortunate

It's interesting that students who support the redistribution of wealth through increasing the taxes of people who "can afford to do so" are opposed to redistribution of their GPA even though they "can afford to do so".



Thank you to the College Republicans at the University of California-Merced for exposing the hypocracy of the Left and how easy it is to redistribute another person's assets and rationalize that you are doing good and how that attitude changes when your assets are in jeopardy of being redistributed.     

Climate Change and Liberal Logic

The Earth's climate changes.

Humans live on the Earth.

Therefore, humans cause the climate to change on Earth.

Voter Fraud Alleged in MIssoula

I was surprised when the school levies passed back in May.  Now I know my surprise may have been justified.  The Missoula County Sheriff Department is investigating voter fraud after Missoula tax accountant Patty Lovaas discovered some strange discrepancies while investigating another matter in the election.

 It appears somebody got into the computer and manipulated the vote to provide a victory for the school levies.

In short, the vote on the Missoula high school general fund levy had been close in two reports on the evening of May 3, Lovaas said. Then, in a May 4 report at 1:34 a.m., the vote took a big upswing in favor of the levy.

She looked at some computer reports of the election tallies and discovered what appears votes being tallies three different times in three preceints that don't exist.  

A spreadsheet appears to show single ballots being processed three different times - and in three "wild card" precincts that she said don't exist. 

"This is high-tech computer manipulation," Lovaas said. 

She counted more than 3,600 such "erroneously listed voters" whose votes were counted three times in three make-believe precincts. She believes someone used ballots from valid voters to orchestrate some elections outcomes: The culprit or culprits used real ballots, overrode the legitimate votes cast, plugged in the desired outcome, and linked those votes to three fake precincts.

I've said it before, Liberals need to cheat to win.  The Sheriff might want to look into voter fraud from the Tester/Burns race.  Gov Schweitzer did encourage the people in Missoula to "vote early and vote often" in that race.  Seems like it shouldn't have been taken lightly back then.

If this turns out to be true, we all know it wasn't the first time they committed fraud. 

Obama's Bus Tour Pushing American Jobs (US Taxpayer Paid Bus Built in Canada)

I just read that the bus in which Obama is campaigning on the taxpayers touring the heartland of America stressing job growth was built in Canada.  

The contract lists the country of origin as Canada and place of manufacture as "outside U.S. - Trade Agreements," a possible reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

I'm sure the Canadians appreciated the work.  They, by the way, have recently implemented Conservative policies and are doing quite well these days despite all the economic problems happening in Europe and the US because of Liberal policies.  

The Hammond Report's Five Year Anniversary

The Hammond Report went dark a few months after Obama became president back in the dark days of 2008-2009 and I let the URL expire and lost all my posts from October 2007 on.  I was so disgusted and dispirited along with changing careers that I simply did not have the motivation or time to keep the blog going and active.

I've made a few posts in June and July of 2010, December 2010, June 2011 and finally seem to have the motivation and time to be more active in posting.  I redesigned the site and plan on just maintaining my blogger site and not worry about having my own URL, especially since some Realtor now owns it and hasn't posted since May 2010.  

I was playing around reformatting my site and adding some new widgets and took a look at my archive and realized that I started it in July of 2006.  So I've been at it now for five years - plus a month.

At this time, I feel like I got a rhythm going and am enjoying putting up posts.  It is enjoyable seeing what an enormous failure Obama has become and how completely incompetent he and his administration is.  I am sad for the country but happy that through it all the Tea Party was born and the 2010 election started righting the ship.  I am excited about the GOP candidates running for President or who might be running.  I am also excited to see GOP run states like Wisconsin,Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, and Florida prove that Conservative policies do, in fact, work.  I'm excited to see Denny Rehberg run for senate and look forward to voting for him as he defeats Tester.

Things are looking so much better.  It will be a fun year and a half.

Liberalism is the Cause of the London Riots

I always look forward to reading Peggy Noonan's "Declarations" column in the Saturday WSJ.  This morning's was one of the most interesting because her analysis of the cause of the London riots got to the root of everything that is wrong and destructive about Liberal ideology.  She quoted  Theodore Dalrymple of the City Journal  who described the problem perfectly.

A population thinks (because it has often been told so by intellectuals and the political class) that it is entitled to a high standard of consumption, irrespective of its personal efforts; and therefore it regards the fact that it does not receive that high standard, by comparison with the rest of society, as a sign of injustice.

And Ms. Noonan closes the comment with this perfect summation. 

Much of what they have is provided by others, but they are not grateful: dependency doesn't encourage gratitude but resentment.

If we don't get things straightened out soon and Liberalism relegated to the scrapheap of failures, we have our population of entitled dependents trashing our cities and randomly attacking people.  

Conservative Journalist Kicked out of Dick Durbin's Press Conference for Asking Tough Questions

Consumer Confidence Crashes to Lowest Level Since 1980 - Obamanomics

Consumer confidence has dropped to the lowest level since 1980 - the last full year of Carter's term.  As I have said before, Obama is going to be Carter's second term.  Jimmy Carter is was the worst President in history, and now it looks like Obama is working hard to take over that distinction.  While the MSM and "scholars" will never acknowledge Carter and Obama as being complete failures, the evidence in how they run the country and their ability to convince the voters to elect them again, are what really matter.

Today's report is further evidence that Liberal ideology is a complete failure.  2012 cannot get here soon enough.

Way to go, Rick!

Meredith Whitney shows her complete ignorance by stating "call the Tea Party whatever you will, the fringe element is, you know, I characterize freaked out white men who are unemployed and have been unemployed for three years and they're scared to death."

Fact is, the Tea Party are the ones who actually work and are tired of paying the ever increasing taxes to those who don't or won't.

Delusional, Dishonest, or Dumb

de·lu·sion  (d-lzhn)

n.

2. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.

3. Psychiatry A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.

dis·hon·est  (ds-nst)

adj.

1. Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or deceive.

2. Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.

dumb  (dm)

adj. dumb·er, dumb·est

6. Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid: dumb officials; a dumb decision.

There is no other way to describe those who still believe Obama and Liberal ideology are effective except to say they are either delusional, dishonest or dumb.  The evidence that it is dangerous and destructive is overwhelming.

GOP Survives Wisconsin Recall Races - The Left is Shocked!

Despite Gov. Scott Walker saving teacher's jobs by weakening the Union, the crazy Left tried unsuccessfully to take over the Wisconsin Senate by staging six recall elections on GOP State Senators.  They needed to win three of the recall elections but, thankfully, only won two.  There are two recall elections next week against Democrats who hid, like cowards, in another state while Walker and the GOP Senators were trying to save the budget of the state.  Hopefully, the GOP can win those elections and even things out.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths Liberals go to advance their agenda.  The voters elected the Wisconsin Senate with a 19-14 GOP majority in November and when that legally elected majority passed laws that the Liberals don't like, they stage recall elections.  The voters of Wisconsin should be incensed by the Liberal's actions and dismissal of who they voted into power in November.  I can only hope they will vote in a stronger GOP majority in 2012.

I commend Scott Walker and the GOP Senators for being strong against the hysterical attacks from the Left and their accomplice MSM. These are the kind of leaders we need more of at the Federal level.  

Global Unrest as Liberalism Crumbles

I asked in the previous post - what ideology do the British rioters follow?  From this article it is clear the rioters are rioting because they see their "free lunch" starting to disappear.  Liberal policies and ideology is finally crumbling and those parasites that depend on it are mad as hell and are going to rape, pillage and burn the communities they live in.

That will show us who pay their way, won't it?

I Wonder What Ideology the British Rioters Follow

The riots in England have been going on the past several days.  I just have to wonder what ideology those rioters follow - Liberal or Conservative?  


Just asking...

Liberal Intolerance in The Missoulian LTE

In today's Missoulian LTE section, is a letter from a woman attacking intolerance.  Her screed is against Conservatives.  A weak and ignorant mind can see the fault in others but can't see any in themselves.

And let's not neglect to mention you tea party characters who, along with the former president's regime, are ruining or have ruined this country. Or have the nerve to blame President Barack Obama, like he somehow magically reached back into the past and pulled all the strings to create the depression we now, er, enjoy.

You embarrass yourselves, all of you. Let me remind you of Cathy Kulonis' quote in Monday's (August 8) letters: "If my people turn from their wicked ways, then I will heal their land." Did it ever occur to you self-righteous right-wingers that you are the wicked ones? Or are you too busy nosing around in your neighbor's life.  

She is clearly mad and upset but through her fog of anger, she fails to see her own intolerance.  I find it funny that she even continues to blame President Bush for all the problems we are experiencing today despite the clear evidence that it is Obama and his fellow Liberals running Congress that have caused our severe problems today.

These people are dangerous and irrational.  Anybody who can, with a straight face, claim that Obama is doing a good job and the continued destruction of the economy is Bush's fault, is being dishonest or is plain stupid.  

I am pleased to see several commenters agree with me in calling the LTE writer out on her own intolerance   

Obama's Third "Summer of Recovery"

With today's horrible economic report, even the staunchest Liberals have got to start admitting Obama's and his policies are a complete failure.  I know they won't because they are completely blind to their ideology but it is as clear as day in front of us every day.  Even the MSM is starting to crack a bit as they see they can no longer hold up the lies of the promised recovery.

The frightening thing is Obama seems completely unphased about what is happening and is doubling down on his proven failed policies.  This can lead to only one conclusion - he is destroying this country's economy on purpose.  Government stimulus does not nor has it ever worked.  It is akin to taking water from the deep end of a swimming pool and pouring it into the shallow end.  The water does not rise.

2012 cannot get here soon enough.  I pray the GOP nominates a candidate with some guts who will say what needs to be said and is strong enough with withstand the attacks from the Left and their MSM partners.