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Fox, I think I can speak for several of us bloggers when I ask that you please delete the delete button. When we post something that is against the grain of the person posting a blog, they simply delete it without sharing the view of others. Most all bloggers use common sense in their reply, but there are some that refuse to hear what others have to say if it is not along their lines of thought.       Thank you for your assistance......

Fox, I think I can speak for several of us bloggers when I ask that you please delete the delete button. When we post something that is against the grain of the person posting a blog, they simply delete it without sharing the view of others. Most all bloggers use common sense in their reply, but there are some that refuse to hear what others have to say if it is not along their lines of thought.       Thank you for your assistance......

I just had a thought that sounds like a great idea. If all the UAW members and auto manufacterers managment were to take a manditory 25% cut in salaries, that would bail out the entire industry in a heartbeat. Everybody knows they earn far too much for what little work they do, so why not help themselves keep their jobs instead of having the rest of the country kick in to help them. I'm sure many factory worker in a Michigan auto plant is earning well over $100,000 per year for a job that should pay far less. This would help the country and the auto industry by lowering the prices of new vehicles and keep the factories open and functioning. The pension plans also are out of control because of the lobbying from the UAW. There is not much that can be done now about those who have already retired, but effective say 5 years down the road, those retirement plans need to be changed to a more realistic level. (I worked long hard years as a firefighter with an excellent retirement plan but it is not even close to what those UAW retirees recieve) I am not at all jealous, I just feel it is way way to high and that is also contributing to their downfall.                     Just my thoughts, any ideas??

This article is accurate.  Dr. Sam Vaknin is one of the foremost authorities in the world on the subject of narcissism.  Even after all the research, I am stunned.  Perhaps it is because it is more clinical than political…

Please read and pass this along...  After you read this, please know how important it is for YOU to vote. 

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer

 By Ali Sina

 I must confess, I was not impressed by Senator Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident, a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such a quasi “religious” impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact, he is quite ignorant on most important subjects. Barack Obama is a narcissist. Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of “Malignant Self Love,” also believes, “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.”

 Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands it and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama’s language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, nearest and dearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).

 Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People’s Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Joseph Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong IL, and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers and followers. They created a personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirer’s souls, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. Those men gave their followers hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, they invariably brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don’t know it until it is too late.

 One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse. “Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations,” says Vaknin. “Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. His mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a stepfather. He was raised as an only child, full of himself and no others. He never had to share the spotlight with any siblings. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995.”

 One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists.  They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around him and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality; his admirers become his co-dependents.

 Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objectives. They are focused on one thing alone, and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and does not deserve their attention. If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The  “Present” vote is a safe vote; he used the “Present” all the time as a member of the Illinois legislature. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he implicate himself in issues that may become controversial when they don’t help him personally? Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him.

 Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and an advance to write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School provided him with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. The book took him a lot longer than expected and at the end it devolved into…, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book “Dreams from My Father.”

 Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama’s lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly a half billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? His brother cannot be used for his ascent to power. Just recently an elderly aunt has been found living in poverty in the slums of Boston. A narcissist cares for no one but himself.

 This election is like no other election in the history of America. The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of a conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world?

 I hate to sound alarmist, but one must be a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others. They are simply self-serving and selfish. [Witness Al Gore’s Income Tax; it reveals that he gave away NO MONEY to charities, not even to a church!] Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous. [Look up the word ‘treachery.’]

 Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party [and to this great nation]. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven.

 Let us call a spade a spade [No pun intended]. This is racism, pure and simple. The truth is that, while everyone carries a misconceived collective guilt towards blacks for wrongs done centuries ago by a bygone people to a bygone people, the blacks carry a collective rancor, enmity or vendetta towards non-blacks, and to this day want to “stand up” to the white man. They seem to be stuck in 19th century [encouraged by race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others].

 The downside of this is, that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels not seen since the turbulent 1960s. Obama will set the clock back decades. America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America, and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Maoist Castroists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of “their man” in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

I just recieved this in an e-mail and thought I should pass it on. It is a long read, but well worth it. I do not know the actual source or author. Enjoy!!!

Here is an essay I wrote - under a pseudonym - on a conservative website: feel free to pass it on.  It may seem depressing at first, but there is some hope at the end!
"The Age of Ausonius Beckons America
"Like many, I hoped McCain would win, but intellectually knew he would lose. We were asking America to do one recently uncharacteristic thing in this election: choose age, experience, self-sacrifice, and competence over perpetual adolescence, indulgence, inexperience, and the appearance of energy.
We were asking Baby Boomers - let me emphasize BABY here - and their younger minions to hand power backward to an older generation, and specifically to a member of that generation who represented individualism and self-sacrifice, two things not found - as a general statement - among those under 60.
And so America has chosen to become France West: choosing spoon-feeding and the envy of the nursery school over feeding yourself and being satisfied with what you earn on your own, rather than worrying about what somebody else happens to have.
No doubt you are wondering about the title here: The Age Of Ausonius.
Ausonius lived throughout most of the 300's A.D. and can be considered a kind of Renaissance man 1200 years before the Renaissance: he founded schools, was a renowned intellectual, wrote some famous poetry, was a general and succesfully defeated a Germanic invasion, became involved in Imperial politics, and was also the private tutor for the heir to the Roman Empire, Gratian.
The Age of Ausonius was an age of decay, when the Roman Empire failed to find solutions to its problems outside of the purest expediency (bribery of enemies, raising taxes to confiscatory levels, allowing Germanic tribes into the empire as "immigrants" when they were actually invaders).
Ausonius lived to see his student Gratian assassinated, and lived to see the empire eat itself, with the eastern co-emperor willing to bribe Germanic barbarians and treat them as erstwhile "allies" to stop hassling the east and attack the west.
Ausonius died in 395A.D., and did not live to see the Romans negotiate with and bribe Alaric and the Goths several times to avoid a sack of the city: eventually the bribery simply encouraged the Goths to return again, and in 410 A.D. Alaric and the Goths entered Rome and sacked it.
Does any of this sound familiar? Ironic "immigration," bribing enemies with "foreign aid," pretending that your enemies are "allies" and hoping that they will just go away if you negotiate and bribe them enough?
After Gratian died, Ausonius left Rome and stayed on his estates in France, writing nature poetry. Nothing in his poems betrays the chaos and decay around him! Was his poetry an escape? Or did he simply not see, or not want to admit, what was happening around him?

We do not know.
William F. Buckley about 40 years ago asked in an essay: if you lived in a declining age, would you be able to know it? Or would you - perhaps - accept everything around you as normal, and not see it as part of a long-term trend downward?
Future historians might trace the decline of America to the rise of the self-indulgent "bread and circuses" generations born after World War II, the generations who refused to sacrifice for a decisive win in Vietnam, who demanded ever more "freedom" from morals while shackling themselves to drugs and immorality, the generations who refused to continue the epic of space exploration (the first astronauts were part of the WW II generation) in favor of an easier, cozy "save the planet" and "help the poor" mentality.
The Reagan/Bush I years - the last gasp of the WWII generation - could not stop the coming wave.
Semiotics is a branch of social studies which looks at the "signals" a society sends out and then tries to determine what these signals might mean.
I look at the failure of our society to stand united behind the effort in Iraq for even 18 months!
I look at Ground Zero in NYC - still empty after 7 years!!! - and contrast that with the construction of the Empire State Building in that same city - done in 13 months - DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION!!!
I look at our failure to build a space station on our own, to have a moon base, to have a manned Mars expedition, nearly 40 years after the WWII generation took us to the moon.
And now I look at the monstrosity of a President Obama, a modern day cultural Alaric, a barbarian who wants to control our modern Rome in order to sack it, elected by a self-centered society of perpetual teenagers, and I remember William F. Buckley's rhetorical question:
"If you lived in a declining age, would you be able to know it?"
That Obama was even nominated and taken seriously - despite his many defects and latent hatred of the country he wants to lead - puts him at the gates of Rome, so to speak, like Alaric around 408 A.D.  Two years later Alaric and his Germanic tribe basically walked into Rome unopposed to loot and pillage for 3 days.
The unlikely election of McCain would not have stopped the coming wave: the solipsistic nature of too many Americans, and their ignorance, meant that an Alaric of some sort would break through the gates.
We have a choice: do we retire to our estates and try to escape the nonsense around us, like Ausonius?
Or do we live as well as possible, as morally as possible, as creatively as possible, opposing - with all our hearts, all our minds, and all our souls - every speck of Leftist nonsense assaulting us, even though we know that such a war can be wearing and depressing?
I think the answer is obvious! Because only by doing so can our lives become the basis for the next rise of our society, even though it might take over 1000 years, as was the case with the few good Romans of The Age of Ausonius!"
 

'Twas the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions up and down!

I, in my bathrobe
With a dog in my lap
Had cut off the TV
Tired of political crap.

When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out of my window
And saw Obama and his boys

They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give it to the others
Who had not worked a day!

He snatched up my money
And quick as a flash
Jumped back on his bandwagon
With all of my stash

He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!

'On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi'
He screamed at the pairs!

They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
That wouldn't stand up and fight!

So I leave you to think
On this one final note-
IF YOU DON'T WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE!

I have already painted up a sign which I will be promantly placing in my front yard. Just in case B. Hussein Obama should happen to buy this election and with all the dead voters and ficticious charictures, I want the world to know that I voted for McCain. The sign reads

"Don't blame me, I didn't vote him in"

I think that will get the message across. BTW one of my neighbors now has a large sign in his yard that states   "My pastor says God Bless America".

p.s. I will be attending the Sarah Palin appearance in Ocala Saturday. I will be attending as Jerry the retiree!!!

This just in......... It was reported by the New York Times and CNN, NBC, CBS and many other sources that back around 70 years ago, John McCain used to poop in his pants.

Now, there's a story for you libs to jump on, it's just your speed.

ARE WE STUPID OR WHAT?


It makes you wonder....... 


This email comes in three parts....Make sure you read all three parts!

Part 1 
Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following: 

A little over one year ago: 
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%. 
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen: 
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.10 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure. 
7) Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! 

Remember, it is Congress that makes the laws and spends our money -not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him. 


Part 2: 
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. 
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.HTML
 

Taxes under CLINTON-1999                     Taxes under BUSH-2008 
Single  earning:                                           Single earning:
30K - taxed- $   8,400                                  30K - taxed $   4,500
50K - taxed  $ 14,000                                  50K - taxed $ 12,500
75K - taxed  $ 23,250                                  75K - taxed $ 18,750 
Married earning:                                         Married earning:
60K -   taxed  $ 16,800                               60K - taxed $   9,000
75K -   taxed $ 21,000                                75K - taxed $ 18,750
125K - taxed $ 38,750                                125K - taxed $ 31,250 

Barack Obama promises to return to the higher tax rates if elected. It is amazing how many people whofall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. 
 
If elected, Barack Obama has already promised that he will repeal the Bush tax cuts, and amazingly, a good portion of the people who fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen.

PART 3: 
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?   Read this: Boy, am I confused.  I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.  Read on... 
 
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1.      $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
        Verify at: http://tinyurl..com/zob77 >

2.      $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
        Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscale
xec.html

        
3.      $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
        Verify at: http://wwwcis..org/articles/2004/fiscalex
ec.html 

4.     $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
       Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/06
04/01/ldt.0.HTML 

5.      $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
       Verify at: http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0
604/01/ldt.01.html 

6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
       Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/06
04/01/ldt.01.html 

7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
       Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0
604/01/ldt.01.html 

8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
       Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/2
9/ldt.01.html 

9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
      Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0
604/01/ldt.01.html 

10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
       Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0
606/12/ldt.01.html 

11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and
marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
        Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl...com/t9sht
 

12.  The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
        Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/p
df/deportation.pdf 

13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
        Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
 

14.The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'
         Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
 

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. 

Are we THAT stupid? 

If this doesn't bother you, then just delete the message.  If, on the other hand, it  raises the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you continue to forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C