So...a guy walks into China and says "Give me a loan."...

Absurd: adj

1) at various with reason; manifestly false

2) ludicrous; ridiculous.

According to an article in January, from the New York Times, China has bought up more than 1 trillion dollars of America's debt. In fact, they've bought up so much of our debt, that they are starting to sour on the possibility of buying any more. Mostly because it's bad paper. It has no real value. Regardless, that's a lot of money that we're borrowing from China. Money we're borrowing and paying back with interest.

So, can someone explain this article to me?

Let's forget for a second that man-made global warming is a hoax. Let's forget that China is not our biggest fan. Let's ignore their record on human rights for the moment. Let's suspend all disbelief about all things Chinese and just look at the simplistic stupidity of the premise of this article.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said that there was “no question” that China would receive both financial and technological assistance from the United States as part of upcoming climate change talks to be conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Are you kidding me? Financial and technological assistance? (Say it with me now) What... the... hell? Is this not one of the stupidest things you've ever heard of? Think about this for a minute; what does that phone call sound like?...

America: "Yeah, hey China? I'm kind of in a bind, can I borrow a trill or two. I'll pay you back."

China: "...with interest?"

America: "Of course, I'm good for it."

China: "Ok, sounds good."

America: "Awesome. Hey, by the by, nice work on that whole Olympic Games thing. Real high-powered stuff."

China: "Hey, thanks. To tell the truth, most of it was green-screened, but whatev's. Oh, hey look, while I have you on the phone can we get some cash and technology to reduce our carbon-emissions?"

America: "Wait, you want us to borrow money from you, pay interest on it, and then give you the cash we just borrowed?"

China: "Yeah."

America: "Well, I'm not real good at math...but that seems like a good deal. Ok."

China: ...just laughs as it hangs up the phone.

Are we just the biggest chumps in the world these days or what? When do we wake up?

This would be the funniest damn joke in the world...if the punch-line wasn't coming out of my pocket.

More reasons why I was right about the bailout...

I was reading some interesting commentary on Obama's speech to the Muslim world by an Arab woman here. After I was done with the article, I fished around israpundit.com a little and came upon this video. This was filmed back in early May and is a fascinating look into your government in action. The video mostly speaks for itself, but this wouldn't be much of a blog if I didn't comment, so I will.

This is not about Bush. This is not about Obama. It's not about Left or Right. This is about the inherent dangers of a governing body moving too quickly. 

Thomas Paine said,  "Government, even in it's best state, is but a necessary evil; in it's worst state, an intolerable one." Man has always had a ruled/ruling mentality. It's is part of our dichotomous nature to want power and to want to let others take that power. This video shows us a small part of the large cost that that nature exacts on us.

 An unfettered government will always move toward the enslavement of it's people. Whether it's through might and arms or (as in this case) through economic misdeed or mishandling. Both Bush and Obama, the Right and the Left, have severely unfettered a government and we move ever closer to enslavement as a result.

The numbers in this video are staggering. Trillions of dollars ($30,000 for every man, woman, and child in America?) have been printed and spent and this General Inspector could not even give the barest of details as to where it is. Our economy has been devalued by a trillion dollars, and we don't know where it went?!?!? 

Further, I watch this exchange and I am struck at how terribly common and low these people seem to me. Inspector Coleman is on the hot-seat and is doing her level best to evade the questions posed to her by Representative Grayson. These people control tons of our money and run large chunks of our infrastructure and they can't even have the decency to just talk straight. The whole 5 minutes and 42 seconds should have been handled like this...

Grayson: "You know all that cash we had printed last year. Um...where is it?"

Coleman: "I don't know."

Grayson: "It's kind of your job to know, right?"

Coleman: "Yes."

Grayson: "Then, what's say you run on out and find out for America, where it's money is, eh?"

Coleman: "Ok"

Grayson: "Cool. And if you could do it kind of quickly, because we're in this recession and all, that would be great!"

Coleman: "Ok, I'll try and have that on your desk by Monday morning."

Grayson: "Super-great. I'm done."

Instead, these people have to dance around each other coming no closer to the truth then when they started, on our dime. People wonder why I am so mistrustful of government...

...it's because government is run by those that I wouldn't trust my cats with. And I don't really like cats. 

Grumpy (and Dirty) Old Men.

I was going to just send this out in an email. But I had more and more to say, so I thought I'd just turn it into a post. Lucky you...

David Letterman has been old news to me for almost a decade. Never really found him and his writers to be all that funny. His "Top Ten's" were pretty good, but I always felt that #2 was consistently funnier than #1 and I could never figure out why his writers didn't see it. Sorry, I digress.

So Letterman opens his yap, and this weird and creepy crap starts falling out of it. I couldn't find the actual video, but here's a link to the audio. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuy4RV2S4-o

At first, these might sound like they're slams on Elliot Spitzer and Alex Rodriguez, but if you think about it, he'd never say these things about Obama's kids. He's talking about a 14 year old girl. Willow Palin was the only Palin child to attend the Yankee's game. This dirty old man is just pissed off and angry and disgusting. 

It kind of makes you wonder why he would even pick out (and pick on) a former candidate for VP that lost. She was in N.Y. for some "kids with special needs" function. So, why the "slutty flight attendant" comment? And why go after Palin's kids? Why mention her at all? Dave and his group won, right? She should be old news. Unless there was something more to her candidacy (past and future) that the rest of us don't know about. Are David and the Dems really that afraid of one woman, from Alaska, that they have to keep firing on her, almost a year after she's stopped campaigning against them? Kind of pathetic really.

And for all those that would defend Letterman under the guise of "it's just a joke, it's his job, it's what he does", imagine it was your 14 year old daughter. Imagine I had just typed a sentence that conjured up the image of your 14 year old daughter and Alex Rodriguez having sex in Yankee stadium. Now, imagine that I had about 10 million readers (oh, to dream). Ten MILLION people are thinking about YOUR underage daughter having sex, in a public place, with a skeezy baseball player. That's not funny. That's not a joke. That's not a job. 

Unfortunately, it seems, it IS what David Letterman does.