Our Garage has been in a messy phase for a few years.

This week I decided to work on one quarter of the garage (the floor is 4 concrete slabs, so cleaning this way is easy. I've thrown out so much trash, organized a lot, and am getting ready to tear out some old poorly build shelves so I can insulate and drywall the back wall of the garage and reclaim lots of square footage.

It's amazing what can be done in small steps. Whether it's fixing-up my garage or socializing the nation.

1. Choose an industry you want the government to control. Let's start with banking:
   
2. Make people afraid.
3. Convince people to live in terror.
   

   "Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse." - Obama, as he wrote in an editorial 2/5/09.
   

4. Force a private company to look like a villain for following the law. In this case, give taxpayer money to a company that is required by legal contracts to use it for bonuses.
   

   Yes, when you sign a contract, you are breaking the law if you don't follow it's terms. AIG had a contract with the employees that they get bonuses.
   

5. Turn that fear into anger - at this company, even though you gave them the money to do what they did, with no restrictions.
   

   "I don't want to quell anger. People are right to be angry. I'm angry. What I want us to do is channel our anger in a constructive way." - Obama at the White House.

6. Leverage that anger to insult, attack, and take control of those companies who haven't even broken a single law.
   

   The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.
   

7. Pick another industry, say, healthcare, and repeat.

Definitions of the day from dictionary.com:

ter⋅ror⋅ist –noun

1.	a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.

2.	a person who terrorizes or frightens others.

ter⋅ror⋅ism–noun
the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.


ter⋅ror⋅ize–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing.

1.	to fill or overcome with terror.

2.	to dominate or coerce by intimidation.

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In the news this week:

• Medvedev announces plan to rearm Russia
• Obama prepares to cut weapons and defense spending
  

Respect should be a two-way street. That's just a sign of being a grown-up. When respect is a one-way street, it's easy to see which person is the grown-up.

Bush explained his silence about Obama - he will not criticize him.

Or, there's Obama:

Obama	Two-face

The point of the different styles and racial overtones in the Obama poster, of course, was the same as the point of Obama's speaking style. Everyone who walks away is supposed to think Obama identifies with them.

The federal government gave billions upon billions of dollars in bail-out money to the bank AIG. The bank subsequently gave millions of dollars in bonuses to executives. The latest suspicion is that 73 AIG execs got over $1 million after the bail out.

Now Obama and the leaders of the Congress (democrats) are trying to figure out how to take the money back. The proposal is to create a new 60% federal tax on any bonus over $10,000. On top of the 35% federal income tax and state taxes, that will equal 100% of any bonus over $10,000, if the government has a stake in the company.

1. Obviously these companies did nothing illegal, or they'd be required by law to give the money back. This means it's the authors of the bailout's fault for just handing over money with no restrictions on it's use. These same democrats who fought Bush's push for regulation, but now say they want regulation, just gave away BILLIONS of our dollars in tax money with no restrictions at all.
   
2. They are using THEIR OWN ERROR as an excuse for higher taxes. They aren't just looking to tax at 100% (ie, take all of) million dollar bonuses, but any bonus over $10,000.00. Lots of employees of different companies rely on their bonus to get them through financially.
   

In summary, if the Obama government doesn't like what you do, when you're not even breaking the law, they will take away 100% of your money.

Thank you, Obama for this change. A 100% tax rate for people who broke zero laws to get their money.

P.S. The poster pictured here is from the Obama campaign. It certainly reminds me of 2-face from the Batman stories.

Nancy Pelosi wants to bail out the newspapers. It's no secret that the newspapers she is on a mission to save are not media that work to help conservatism, they work to help liberalism.

She writes "We must ensure that our policies enable our news organizations to survive and to engage in the news gathering and analysis that the American people expect." [source]

But of course, that doesn't apply to news gathering and analysis that more American people tune in for and expect on talk radio - she wants them out of business.

It is not the job of the federal government to bail out the media outlets that fail and attack the media outless that overwhelmingly succeed. It's their job to ensure freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.