DarkStar Spouts Off

Turncoat Specter

Sen. Specter switched from Republican to Democrat because the PA. Republican party was backing people to challenge him and chances are he would have lost the GOP primary. That was a bold move to retain the power that he currently has as a U.S. senator. He probably has a better chance of surviving the Democratic primary than the Republican primary.

While conservatives and non-RINO Republicans seemed to really despise the man, I always wondered how they can criticize him for his voting habits when the people of PA, in state-wide votes, have returned him to office. If anyone is going to be criticized, it should be "the voter" not Sen. Specter.

100 Day Nonsense

Suppose the Obama administration makes all the right moves during the first 100 days in office. What would people think if for the next 4 years - 100 days, his administration makes one blunder after another after another? Would the first 100 days make a difference?

Give the man's administration the full term or terms before rating it. This 100 day mark is complete nonsense.

Pictures: Think About This

I'm real busy getting "the new home" in order while getting the old house in better shape for putting on the housing market.

But I want you to really think about this: If the Obama administration is busy changing Bush policies and announcing to the world that the U.S. has not lived up to it's ideals in the hopes that the world, especially potential terrorists, will see us in a better light, what good does releasing photos of "enhanced interrogation" do?

Doesn't it become a tool to be used by al Qeada for recruiting?

Hatin' On Obama Policies

I think it was extremely naive for the Obama administration to release the information concerning torture. The critics who say the administration's actions may have put lives in danger, I think is accurate.

I think Obama saying those who did the extreme interrogation techniques that some label torture, would not be prosecuted, but now saying the upper level people who authorized it may be prosecuted, not only is a mistake but I think it's damned stupid. Actually, I think he's pandering to the extreme elements in the Democratic party who want charges filed. If he is pandering, then again, he shows he has no gonads in standing up to them OR it's what he really wants anyway.

I'm just not feeling this at all.

Really Busy

Putting a house on the market for selling means packing, putting stuff in storage, managing "contractors" to paint, put in new carpet and flooring, cleaning...

Meanwhile, doing the massive amount of documentation and repeat documentation for the loan and setting things up to fix up the new to us home. We are buying a foreclosure so we have to get that straight as well.

Left Wing Extremists

Left Wing Extremists Report

(U//FOUO) This product is one of a series of intelligence assessments published by the DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Strategic Analysis Group to facilitate a greater understanding of the emerging threats to the United States. The information is provided to federal, state, and local counterterrorism and law enforcement officials so they may effectively deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks against the United States.

(U//FOUO) This assessment examines the potential threat to homeland security from cyber attacks conducted by leftwing extremists, a threat that DHS/I&A believes likely will grow over the next decade. It focuses on the more prominent leftwing groups within the animal rights, environmental, and anarchist extremist movements that promote or have conducted criminal or terrorist activities (see Appendix). This assessment is intended to alert DHS policymakers, state and local officials, and intelligence analysts monitoring the subject so they can better focus their collection requirements and analysis.

More at the link.

Email Comments Are Me

Some recent comments I've made in email. It's related to the Tea Parties that happened today:

The "rich" will pay to shield their resources. Meanwhile, level that  determines "the rich" will be  lowered and lowered and lowered until you get hit. The AMT is hitting people it was, it was said, never intending to hit.

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The president can't get the economy going. People, who will get this economy going, are doing the things needed to make sure their balance books are sound. They are reigning in spending and cutting debt.

Two people who I know who invest in real estate, hunkered down about 3 years ago and are now just focusing on property management vs. buy, fix, and flip. Others are trying to get other streams of income, not for spending, but to spend down debt and/or build up savings.

[ I'm buying a foreclosed home to live in. A cousin brought a home at auction to fix up and rent. So, I guess we are going against the grain ]

There is SO much waste that I see ... that I *KNOW* that having the government confiscate more money from me to "help the economy" is not going to help me, or the economy. It will help the politician who says he's responsible for the pork and it will help the people it goes to.

This is the 2nd round of tea parties. The first time happened after TARP 1. And, yes, some of it is driven by Obama hatred. But, damn it, the spending going on now, and started by Bush, is obscene.

In another:

Cut spending. I don't mean cut the growth of spending, I mean. Cut. Spending. Ax wasteful programs.
Veto every damn thing with earmarks/pork/sweeteners/graft/bribes...

And yet another:

Government "funds" some program for the states. But they only "fund" it X years. After that, the funding from the federal government ceases. Does the state end it then, or continue to "fund' it, and if
it is the latter, which it always seems to be, how does the state "fund" it?

Tax increases.

Who pays the taxes?

The government funding is making it WORSE in the long run.

Think about it this way. You owe money on a credit card. Instead of paying it off, you keep transferring the balance to another credit card, meanwhile you are charging the new credit card. At SOME point, the debt [ has to get ] paid.

I had tea with my lunch.

This Is Random Stuff

On N. Korea do a missile test and people saying the U.S. should have not allowed it: You mean like they stopped China or Russia?

On the Obama administration's foreign policy: Umm... It seems to me that The President is getting pimp smacked all over the world.

On the CBC going to Cuba and giving praise: The CBC, collectively, are idiots and don't know how to use the political power for the gain of the people they are elected to represent. But on the other hand, only fools support the current Cuba policy while supporting engagement with China.

On the Obama administration so far: D.S. ain't feelin' it. Not, most of it. Nope. Nope. Nope.

On pirates: The U.S. population seemed to ignore most of what these people were doing until they got a U.S. flagged ship. Me? I think then, and I think know, that if the companies won't defend their vessels, then if countries get involved, even if it means the loss of life of the crew members, they need to blasts the pirates to let them know what will not be accepted.

Then again, why aren't the companies hiring mercenaries?

[ UPDATE ] The Navy Seals kick butt, kill 2, and get the hostage back!!!

On buying  a foreclosed home: I accounted for costs getting out of the current home but not fully the costs associated with fixing up the new home to move in. But we got a GREAT deal.

On foreclosures: I'll say this again, look out for the Alt-A loan foreclosures, happening to areas near you real soon.

On The Preakness: This will be a subject of a longer post, but Gov. O'Malley wants to use imminent domain to "protect" The Preakness from the fallout of Magna Entertainment's bankruptcy filing.

The state can't run it's own affairs. The state has damaged Magna Entertainment's ability to get money for the rights to The Preakness and the horse tracks in Maryland because land-grab-O'Malley has just made Pimlico and the Preakness worthless. Who is going to purchase something the government just proclaimed rights to by imminent domain? And since the ONE DAY EVENT of The Preakness actually makes horse racing in Maryland a positive cash flow venture, O'Malley just killed horse racing in Maryland.

Why? Why are there no public Black conservatives speaking up and out on recent police misconduct? (That's a rhetorical quesiton)

Risk vs Reward

There is a person, sitting in front of a computer, who has done the calculations that shows it is more cost effective for a shipping company to use the Somali shipping route WITHOUT ARMED PROTECTION, than it is to use the shipping route with armed protection. Because even if the ship gets pirated, it is still more cost effective in the long run to use the shipping lane without protection.

That HAS to be the reason why ships still use that route without having armed escorts available.

National OK Program

National O.K. Program

The O.K. Program is a mentor program, which fosters partnerships between police agencies, schools, students, community members, and the business and faith community to provide positive guidance and support to African American males 12-18 years old.

The primary goal of the program is to reduce the high rates of incarceration and homicide of young African American males by guiding them away from prison and towards college, military service, vocational training, and a life of responsible citizenship.

Under the guidance of an African American police officer, the program organizes responsible African American adult males to serve as positive role models and mentors for their younger counterparts. The adults in the program are called TEAMMATES, because the O.K. Program is based on a team-mentoring concept. Each teammate is importance to the team’s success. This concept provides the organizational structure necessary to allow teammates an opportunity to address specific issues, as identified in the program goals, which contribute to the high rates of incarceration and homicide of African American males.

School administrators and teachers play a critical role in the O.K. Program. Together, administrators and teachers provide a level of support to O.K. Program coordinators and students that are necessary for the program to be successful. This support encourages O.K. Students to excel and achieve a high level of academic excellence. Students in the program receive awards for their efforts, achievements and successes. Also, an incremental reward system is an important component for the O.K. Program.

Every Saturday, KIC’IT (Kids Interacting Communicating Immix Teammates) Sessions brings together O.K. Program coordinators and teammates to tutor and share life experiences with young African American males. During KIC’IT Session, students learn that they are responsible for their future. They also learn that they must always strive for excellence, compete for the best grades, be respectful, seek to make positive contributions to their families and communities, and are taught how to interact with police when contacted by an officer.

National O.K. Program

The O.K. Program is a mentor program, which fosters partnerships between police agencies, schools, students, community members, and the business and faith community to provide positive guidance and support to African American males 12-18 years old.

The primary goal of the program is to reduce the high rates of incarceration and homicide of young African American males by guiding them away from prison and towards college, military service, vocational training, and a life of responsible citizenship.

Under the guidance of an African American police officer, the program organizes responsible African American adult males to serve as positive role models and mentors for their younger counterparts. The adults in the program are called TEAMMATES, because the O.K. Program is based on a team-mentoring concept. Each teammate is importance to the team’s success. This concept provides the organizational structure necessary to allow teammates an opportunity to address specific issues, as identified in the program goals, which contribute to the high rates of incarceration and homicide of African American males.

School administrators and teachers play a critical role in the O.K. Program. Together, administrators and teachers provide a level of support to O.K. Program coordinators and students that are necessary for the program to be successful. This support encourages O.K. Students to excel and achieve a high level of academic excellence. Students in the program receive awards for their efforts, achievements and successes. Also, an incremental reward system is an important component for the O.K. Program.

Every Saturday, KIC’IT (Kids Interacting Communicating Immix Teammates) Sessions brings together O.K. Program coordinators and teammates to tutor and share life experiences with young African American males. During KIC’IT Session, students learn that they are responsible for their future. They also learn that they must always strive for excellence, compete for the best grades, be respectful, seek to make positive contributions to their families and communities, and are taught how to interact with police when contacted by an officer.

Stop The "Socialist!" Whining

If you haven't been complaining about socialist policies of the following, stop the socialist whining.

• Subsidies to farmers to grow crops.
• Subsidies to farmers to NOT grow crops.
• Subsidies to farmers to cull diary herds to keep diary product prices "reasonable."
• Subsidies to sugar cane growers and processors to keep sugar prices "reasonable."
• Subsidies to corn growers for corn suitable for ethanol production.
• Subsidies to businesses to expand overseas markets.
• Government requirements on public and private schools which receive government money.
• Car companies being required to:
• • Produce cars with seat belts
  • Produce cars that can't use leaded gasoline
  • Produce cars that face an additional tax if they don't meet arbitrary mileage "standards"
  • Produce cars that meet emissions standards
•  Government subsidies to developers to develop land for whatever use.

Former Sen. Stevens

On the evening news, it was stated the government prosecutors and F.B.I. withheld evidence and committed serious enough misconduct that Eric Holder told them to drop the case against Senator Stevens.

Think about this: A Democrat just let a Republican off the hook for a case where a Republican administration went after a Republican senator.

The Urban League, Project 21, and Rush Limbaugh

The Urban League came out with this year's State of Black America Report, and as usually, they presented the negative information, at least that's what I get out of the executive summary. Excuse me, but I ain't a fraction, 71.1%, of any person. And in the areas of solutions, the executive summary points to other people instead of Blacks. I have a real problem with that aspect.

Along these lines, Project 21 comes out with press release blasting the report.

Overall, Project 21's Martin noted: "The black community does not need to be protected from capitalism, as the National Urban League's report seems to imply.  The black community needs to embrace capitalism.  The free market is where true opportunity lies."

I find it interesting, for example, the executive summary of the NUL report and Project 21 neglects to mention the growth in Black owned businesses. I find it interesting, that as I have pointed out before, both Black conservatives and Black liberals are overall negative about the Black community.

But it's interesting that Project 21 would criticize the NUL report as "unnecessarily dreary" but not say a word when Rush Limbaugh said the Black community hasn't advanced in 40 years.