It Might Get Loud...

What happens when you put three guitar icons in a film? You get one of the most interesting documentaries ever produced. Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), Edge (U2) and Jack White (the White Stripes) get together to share ideas and play some great music in this (Rock)umentary. Here is the trailer for "It Might Get Loud" in theaters August 14th in LA and New York, soon after everywhere else!

Dave Matthews with BMG

Every once in a while, a piece of music comes along that I just connect with. This is one of them. Dave Matthews and the Blue Man Group got together and recorded this song "Sing Along" and the result is fantastic. Give it a look and listen!

Borrowing one ... Just Because!!!

I am borrowing this story, one that has been told many times before, to demonstrate that ANYONE can become conservative if common sense is used...

How to explain “fairness” to a liberal…

By NavyWings

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.

Her father responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, ‘How is your friend Audrey doing?’

She replied, ‘Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.’

Her wise father asked his daughter, ‘Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.’

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, ‘That’s a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I’ve worked really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!’

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, ‘Welcome to the Republican party.’

Thanks "Navy Wings" for your great story... It's one that needs to be told again and again...

Tea Party in Sacramento...

Like minded conservatives are meeting at the capitol steps in Sacramento Friday, February 27th as part of a national Tea Party, inspired by Rick Santelli and his call-out of the Obama administration and the details of the so-called "bailout" plans. The new pork(stim)ulous package has a new name, courtesy of Mike Huckabee - we now call the package C.R.A.P. or the "Congressional Relief Action Program". That's right, Mike calls it what it really is, a program to help congressional Democrats get votes in the next election. It does NOT help Americans (except for that wonderful $13.00 a week tax break, if you want to call it that). It does NOT help small business, instead O's new plan calls for new taxes on small business, disguised as a tax increase on the rich (those making $250,000.00 or more a year). I know many small business owners and you'd be hard pressed to find a successful small business owner who makes less than 250k. So what does this mean? These small businesses will have to fire people to make up for the losses. While they have businesses that make over 250k, these same folks have families to support, and that's another knock from the left, the marriage penalty will most assuredly return! But hey, Obama's special and smart and a superstar, so I had better quit questioning his motives.... they know where I live!

Here's the sign I'll be taking with me to Sacramento tomorrow. If you are in Northern California and you are more than a little upset with all the C.R.A.P. being force fed to us by congress, join us at noon on Friday!

Citi joins the Nuts from Chicago!

CitiCorp has signed what it calls a "Groundbreaking" agreement with none other than that wonderful community organizing group, ACORN! Yup, that's right, now that the "One" is getting ready to set up shop in the White House, is cronies are again putting pressure on banks to offer BAD LOANS to low to moderate income families so that they can realize "The American Dream" of home ownership. So here we go again. As interest rates drop, so does the desire to loan more money to folks who can ill afford to buy a home in this country. Maybe Citi and ACORN will focus on buying up forclosed properties. You know, from the last crop of low to moderate income families that they "helped". This is sickening. If you have a Citi card, cancel it and write them a letter telling them why you cancelled. Tell them that you wont abide by socialist programs like this. This does nothing to help the ailing American economy, worse it puts the housing market in even deeper jeopardy. Obama needs to come out and publicly tell ACORN that this is WRONG and needs to be stopped NOW! This is a veiled attempt to guarantee bailout money for Citi, so in the end WE pay for all these people to be "helped" into homes that they can't afford and will ultimately end up on the forclosure roles. DAMN THEM!

Source: FreeRepublic.com

Liar Lair, Pants on Fire!

So, prince of peace and all things great, Barack Obama has done it again. We all remember that in the campaign, his messiahness promised that there would be a major change in the way Washington does business, that lobbyists would no longer be allowed to shape government policy. So why is it that his transition team is loaded with lobbyists. From interior department issues to product safety to civil rights in the justice department. The last one is VERY insteresing. The person tabbed to head up this area is a recent lobbyist for te N.A.A.C.P. I guess if you lobbied for what the democats believe then it's OK to be on Obama's team. By the way, the story was printed in "The One's" favorite newpaper, the New York Times! Link to it here and tell everyone you know about the lies already being brought to the surface! Obama Lobbyist Ties

Another Corrupt Obama Staffer (Top of the Food(stamp) Chain)

I'm re-posting this story from Judicial Review because it needs to be told. This new administration is going to get off to a great start with these transition leaders at the helm!

Jarrett Managed Housing Project Deemed "Uninhabitable"

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect's transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama's former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.

(According to press reports, housing projects operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing project was "riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions...lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.")