Home On The Range

I thought Obama's message was 'change'? So far it has been a back to the past movement. With most of the staff from the Clinton cabinet, where is the change? It's more of the same. More of the corrupt government officials running the show. Obama's team is vetting Hillary Clinton, by going through the finances and funding of Bill Clinton's foundation and library. If the funding sources are relevant, then why arent the Obama campaign finances being reviewed? Another case of inconsistency from the Obama camp.

There may or may not be much to worry about with Obama. His change is that he is going to the same things that are already being done, but since he's Obama/Democrat, it's ok. Guantanamo was going to be 'absolutely' closed before the election. Now, they are looking at keeping it to be open. Before the election, warrentless wiretaps were going to be stopped, even though he voted for them. Now, they will be a important tool for the Obama administration.

It wont matter to the people that voted him into office. They wont question, and he will tell them what they want to hear at the time, and explain it away later. What happened to 95% of americans getting tax cuts? Now they are saying that most americans are willing to wait for them. They didnt ask me, or anyone of the 100 other people I've talked to about tax cuts. It's like the media makes up whatever poll numbers that make Obama look better under the spotlight.

Sooner or later it's got to wear through, or the Despair.com poster is true. None of us is as dumb as all of us.

Barrack Obama has explained away all of his associations with less than desirable people. The hate-america crowd. His associations do not matter, he is not judged by the company he keeps. He will however judge others by the company they keep. Hillary Clinton is up for the office of Secretary of State, and now questions into the funding of Bill Clinton's library have been blasted across the news.

I hope that he is not who he appears to be, someone with a questionable background, and a questionable record in the senate. His comments are starting to go back towards his records, and maybe motives that are counter productive to america and the world.

Obama wants Israel to move back to 1967 borders. and says that they'd be 'crazy' not to take that deal. It looks more like they would be crazy to take the deal. To move their borders back to indefensible positions. The democrat team thinks that the Arab world will be happy with the deal, and peace will prevail. The Arab world will never be happy with the existence of Israel, they want it's destruction. Who in there right mind thinks that giving in to unstable people will bring a welcome outcome?

It has started, the withdraw of meaningful support for allies, in the name of peace with more-than-questionable countries. The more you pull back, the more they want.

So with the posturing of Russia, the 'tiny' country of Iran, China's prescence in Panama. , and the appeasment of Arab countries, it may be a tense four years.

Hopefully we will learn from the coming years, instead of just suffering through them.

I've said before that the movie 'Idiocracy' was a true documentary, and lasts night's election proves that it is one. People have voted for someone that says what they want to hear at the time, and not for what his record has shown. We will find out if he has the convictions of his voting record, and what he has shown himself to be over the course of his life, or we will find that he is just a politician, with no real convictions, just enjoying himself speak.

Someone that uses the term 'Trickle-Up-Economics' is not someone that thinks in a logical fashion. We will see if he actually does anything, he may just coast through, but they will have no-one to blame. They've blamed bush for the economic crisis, when the policy's pushed through by the democrat controller governemnt are the cause. Only a democrat can be the cause and solution, and then blame a republican.

Maybe the american people will learn, maybe not.

You cannot vote 'present' when you are president. You have to make a decision.

You should vote today. We'll have four years to discuss the outcome.

On Election eve, I stopped into CarMax in Omaha, to look at a 2006 GTO. At $24k, they are around $2k over the blue-book on the car, but it is a four-seat car with a modern-muscle build. Since I have read lots of stories about CarMax giving more for trade-ins than other dealers, I would be OK with paying a little bit more for the GTO.

The Blue-Book trade-in on my Mini, with the options on the car is around $23-$24k. I would have been OK with that amount, even though I owe a little bit more. I was un-prepared for the offer of $19k on the Mini S, and the explanation that CarMax had one on their lot for a long time. It was probably because their Mini was an 04 base, without options, priced at $18k.

The breakdown is that the Trade-in on the GTO is $18k, and if they low-balled the trade like they tried to do on the Mini S, then they have somewhere around $15k into the car. They list similar cars as my Mini S in the $25k-$27k range, that are the supercharged model, not the 07 turbo car. So basically, they are not selling very many cars, so they are trying to pack each one with a huge profit, which in turns makes it so they are not selling many cars.

Does anyone ever agree with their deals on trade-ins? They are in busines to make a profit, but not all on one deal. $9k on the GTO and $6k on the mini, $15k profit selling a $22k car? A bit of a stretch.

Obama's aunt is living in the US illegally, it supposedly was brought to his attention only recently. She's been living here for the last four years, after her citizenship was denied. Obama's campaign has said that 'he believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.'

So in the case of his aunt, he thinks that she should leave the country, but in the case of the millions of Illegal immigrants from Mexico, they should get drivers licenses, and citizenship?