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Once again, The Crawfish has ventured forth into the wild and wooly internet to bring out the interesting, the weird, and the things that should simply hack you off.  I do this stuff so y’all don’t have to.  Believe me, it is a jungle out there.

“My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change,” sayeth Dear Leader. How in the world is America going to show leadership in controlling THE SUN? Since it has been proven time and again by actual scientists, climatologists, and meteorologists that climate change is natural, cyclical, and not man-made or controllable by man, The Chosen One’s proposals are nothing more than attempts to destroy American companies and the American economy. His proposals include Cap and Trade allotments that all companies have to buy from the gummint. Why doesn’t he just come out and say he wants to nationalize all industry in the US?

California. Sheesh. Only in the land of fruits, nuts, and flakes could this be happening. An amendment to the state constitution was legally passed, so according to that constitution the amendment is legal, binding, and officially part of the constitution. The state supreme court, however, has now agreed to hear challenges through lawsuits that say the state constitution is violating the state constitution. In other words, the law violates itself, and all that really matters is the will of the minority of people in the state and 7 people in black robes. Will the last conservative in California please lock the gate in the wall as you leave.

The Senate is, at least temporarily, rejecting the bailout of the Big 3 automakers. Seems some of the Senators have noticed that Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, KIA, Volvo, BMW, Mercedes, Saab, Toyota, Mazda…..okay, almost all of the other automakers in the US and the world are not having the problems that the Big 3 are. The difference? The Big 3 have incompetent management and are being strangled by the unions.

All of us vets know that no weapon system works with 100% accuracy 100% of the time. This past week, the Japanese maritime Defense Force cruiser CHOKAI attempted to intercept a dummy ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii, using the same interceptor missiles and AEGIS radar systems that the USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN used last year to shoot down the inoperative satellite. Unfortunately, the $55 million test was unsuccessful. At least the folks involved in the program still have faith in the system overall.

Of course, us history buffs might blame the failure on the names that the Japanese gave to that four-ship class. The ships are the KONGO, KIRISHIMA, CHOKAI, and MYOKO. The last ships with those names were 2 battlecruisers and 2 heavy cruisers…and they were all destroyed by the US Navy.

Another blogging friend of The Crawfish is SGT Relic, and he has a really good column about one of the leading “scientists” and proponents of Glo-Bull Warming. It seems that Dr. Hansen has a history of being flat-out WRONG more than he is correct. But he still has credibility for the Greenie crowd.

GunnyG also has a post up about the myth of Glo-Bull warming, and provides us with an Old Farmers Almanac reference.

Most of us called this one a long time ago, and it didn’t matter which candidate won. The next Secretary of Homeland Security will be an amnesty supporter. In this case, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. This in spite of stories like this from the El Lay Times about the drug wars in Mexico now spilling over into the US, this video from Breitbart about Mexican drug cartels being involved in home invasions, murders, and kidnappings in the US, and this story from Arizona about another drunk illegal killing American teenagers. STOP THE INSANITY!

Here’s a GREAT STORY about heroism coming in a small package. She definitely gets The Crawfish’s salute!

Just because someone shoves enough food down their throat to become so obese that they can’t fit in a single airline seat doesn’t mean that they should be able to take up two seats for the price of one. Well, unless you are in The Peoples Republic of Canada, where the government and the courts sided with those who have VOLUNTARILY become friggin’ huuuge.

Once again, The Crawfish loves his home state of TEXAS! JUSTICE is served, even if it should have happened a few years earlier.

If the Big 3 auto companies bailout eventually does happen, a couple of my blogging friends have already figgered out how to have a little fun with the situation. Leave it to a doc in Colorado and one of my fellow Ft Worth residents to come up with a plan like that and a blog named Peanuts and Jellybeans.

Y’all really ain’t gonna believe this story. In Noo Yawk City, the liberal attack campaign against religion now involves the homeless. The City is telling churches that they cannot shelter homeless people unless they are open as shelters at least 5 days per week. Yep, a church can’t open its doors to people in need on a bitterly cold winter night unless it plays by the rules of the game set by the city. Silly Crawfish thought liberals were advocates of HELPING those in need! I guess help is offered only if it fits their agenda, and religion is NOT part of it.

Citigroup is another big banking company that’s now looking (UPDATE: GETTING!) for a bailout from the taxpayers. One of their top people who led them down the road to disaster is none other than Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin. He is now part of the economic transition team of Barack Obama. It really is amazing how every single part of the financial crisis has been caused by liberal Democrats, and how each and every one of the perpetrators has found his/her power increasing this fall. Are the American people suicidal or just THAT stupid?

Citigroup also just announced something that will make your head spin. They are going ahead with their deal to name the new NY Mets stadium “Citi Stadium.” This will cost them $400 MILLION dollars over the course of the contract. AND THEY WANT OUR TAXPAYER MONEY TO BAIL THEM OUT AND PAY FOR THIS??? What part of “Kiss my crustacean butt!” don’t they understand?

HA HA HA! The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) held their annual banquet in Noo Yawk, but there were some party crashers (The Crawfish had better be careful.  The last time he posted about CAIR, he got put on their watch list.  Ooooooo, I’m STILL SCARED!  Ha ha ha!). Folks showed up to serve them subpoenas! Their Director was served his as NORTH CAROLINA STATE SENATOR LARRY SHAW, a member of CAIR’s National Board, was addressing the banquet (I’ll leave it to my readers to guess what party he belongs to. Here’s a hint, the party wants to surrender to Islam throughout the world, including here in the USA.). Now with The Chosen One ascending to his throne in DC come January, these court cases will probably be quashed on his orders. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Our current national debt is estimated at approximately $10.4 Trillion. The Democrats have been absolutely screaming about that debt and its growth over the past 8 years, but now, as they control Congress and are assuming control of the White House, our Congress is pledging over $7.75 TRILLION in bailouts. Yes, dear friends, the debt owed by the US taxpayers has almost DOUBLED in the past few months. Thank you Red Nanny P-Lousy, Land Deal Reid, Upchuck Schumer, Bawney Fwank, Countrywide Dodd, The Chosen One, and W. Y’all have officially made me want to puke.

If there were any doubts that the Democrats were trying to steal the Minnesota election for Al “I took money stolen from the Boys & Girls Clubs” Franken, they are erased by this story detailing how Franken campaign workers are being used as “non-partisan” vote counters in the recount.

Ya gotta love the reporting that Neal Boortz does on occasion. For months, he has been on the case of a letter that Congressional Democrats wrote back in 2001 to the Mexican Government, urging them to use SECRET BALLOTS for union organization. Those same Democrats now want the secret ballot method of worker voting thrown out in the USA, in order to increase the union membership here via intimidation. Well, the Wall Street Journal has caught on to the story, and here is what they have to say on the matter.

And the Messiah Worship across America continues. You’ve seen it on TV, with Obama coins and other merchandise on sale. Heck, I saw a guest at a Navy retirement ceremony this past week with an Obama watch on, and that sucker was probably 2 inches in diameter! Now, an elementary school in Long Island is being renamed to honor The Chosen One. Can anybody explain how someone who’s record is that thin and whose main accomplishment to date has been to hypnotize the nation with his mantra of “hope and change, hope and change, hope and change” can get this kind of cult following?

The fight between political correctness and the real people of America continues, and the latest battlefield was also on Long Island. An annual boat parade and fireworks display had lower attendance than usual, and was missing the fireworks. Why? The local government officials changed the name and removed the word “Christmas” from it. The fireworks company that usually sponsors the event told them to pack sand and pulled their support. If I ever get the chance to hire Fireworks by Grucci, you can bet that I will!

And finally, The Chosen One has rolled out his initial economic team. Christina Romer will be chairwoman of his Council of Economic Advisers, and that choice has The Crawfish scratching his head. Romer is a big shot in the econ department at University of Californication-Berkeley. I’m guessing that’s as far into her resume that Obama got, because she is actually a SUPPLY-SIDE economist, who has written numerous times that raising taxes is bad for the economy, especially in hard times!
a) How did that get by his staff?
b) How in the world is a Reaganesque supply-sider found at Berkeley????????

That’s all for this week.  Y’all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, while remembering that the reason for the holiday is to give thanks to Our Lord for the nation in which we live.

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Follow the link below to watch a very beautifully done Thanksgiving tribute to our men and women overseas.

Thanksgiving

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Here we are at another intersection of life. I can’t complain because at the last major intersection we came across we at least were afforded a stop sign in order to decide which way to go next. Don’t you just love major life decisions when you actually have time to contemplate the possible outcomes and plan a little?

This weekend I started unpacking the final boxes. When I moved in here in July of last year I was set up and ready for a PCS. I unpacked the day we moved in, but only unpacked the essentials. I put out enough things so that the house felt homey enough for the kids and they could at least feel settled. Prior to that we had literally lived out of boxes and suitcases for 6-weeks.

Now we are on the other side of things and as I type this the paperwork is in motion. We will not have a final answer for probably a month or better, but it looks good for him. He has put in for a direct commission with a semi-local Reserve unit. They are in dire need for Officers (so far there is ONE officer for the entire unit!), and since Mr. Hooah! is not totally green and had really finished all but his book work in OCS he is very appealing to them. His degree and experience makes him eligible for the DC, and now it’s just a matter of dancing the Army Ho-Down of interviews, paper work and trying to figure out what a “form xyz-123″ is.

Slamming on the brakes and throwing her into reverse has been much harder than I had anticipated. It is his career, but we all know that the entire family is on board. I waited before I let myself get settled again. I waited to be sure that he would be content serving in the Reserves because I knew that if the kids and I settled in too comfortably it would greatly impact his choice — and I wanted him to feel all of his options were open and fine with me. I also remember how much mental energy it took for me to get geared up and ready to live out of boxes and to contemplate moving as much as we were slated for it in the first few years. I wasn’t sure if I could regain that much momentum in a short amount of time if need be.

To date this has been the most complex part of military life for me. I know that my attiude and ability to adjust has an impact on the decisions my husband will make. I have learned a lot over the past year and half on how to negoiate matters of the heart, and how to do that fairly. You especially have to be careful in a marriage when desires may not cohese very well. It’s easier to take your spouse as an emotional hostage and hold him for ransom than it is to navigate the matters and reach a compromise. It’s a lot like walking a tightrope after drinking a pot of coffee, only it’s harder and more dangerous.

However, this weekend when I had Mr. H! bring the last couple of boxes of my less essential kitchen equipment up it really dawned on me… I’m home. I have a back yard, a front yard, a mail box and neighbors, and as far as I can see these things won’t change much for us over the next while (as always, God willing).  Mr. H! will get to face the challenge of working in a unit that has great potential and will give him an opportunity to use his skills.

Yep, I’m home.

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This is no Y2K.
People better get their heads out of their rear. We have been following this thing since 1993.

This is what we do!!

This is already the worst international financial crisis in history.

Why does everyone want to put their heads in the sand and pretend this isn’t happening.

As a Christian Financial Ministry we serve as “Watchmen on the Wall”. All that you and I have been given stewardship over is OUR responsibility. We must seek God and his wisdom instead of these godless idiots on Wall street and in the Government.

There are things for us to do and things we can do to protect what we are given authority over.

401k’s, savings, investments, debt, homes. We not only can but we must seek the council of those who have Godly wisdom for these days.

God has given Faith-Full Family Life Ministries and it’s sister Forward Financial Group, Biblical wisdom in how to not only preserve but prosper in these dismal days. You don’t need to only pray; you need to put feet to your faith and take action.

Thousands of our people have been able to not only avoid loss but actually make money in all of the last 6 or 7 years by using the wisdom we have gained. 3 trillion dollars of mutual funds, 401k’s 403b’s IRA’s Roth IRA’s SEP’s Deferred Compensation plans, Thrift savings plans,have been rescued from loss. Don’t sit there waiting for God to rain Mana on your head.

DO SOMETHING!

We stand ready to help those who will be helped to take Godly authority over what you have been given stewardship over.

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This is my friend, Knottie, and a group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne. Over Veteran’s Day, they returned home after a long deployment in Iraq.

One soldier did not return with his unit - SPC Micheal “Pokey” Phillips was killed in action on 24 February 2008. But, his mother never stopped supporting and loving her guys, and she was there when they got home. And, she shares her story…

On Nov. 11th, Veteran’s Day, we packed our car and loaded up the family to head to Ft. Campbell. The men my son served with were on their way home from Iraq, two months early, and I was finally going to get to meet and hug these men who have become so important in my life.

To read the rest, go here - http://knottiesniche.blogspot.com/2008/11/theyre-home.html
And, please, leave a message for Knottie…..

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I’m back with another week’s worth of my take on the stories that have caught my eye. Prepare for full broadsides followed by my boarding parties! Well, there’s some funny stuff in there, too.

The Obama for Dear Leader campaign raised ungawdly amounts of money over the past 2 years, and people on both sides of the aisle have noted that all of the controls to prevent illegal donations were conveniently turned off for most of that time. Money poured in from overseas, and the citizenship of the donors was never questioned. Now the Federal Election Commission has stated that Dear leader’s campaign will NOT BE AUDITED, while the McCain campaign, which took in less than 1/5 of the $$ that Obama did, will be strictly audited over the next couple of years, with each and every outlay and bit of income scrutinized. Playing by the rules is mandatory, but only if you’re a Republican.

As a former high school sports referee in football, soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, and fast pitch softball, The Crawfish knows that the thickest and hardest to understand rulebooks in sports are those of football. That being said, there are some rules that all players know, especially once the player makes it to the professional level. Well…….not all players. This weekend, the Filthadelphia Illegals and Cincinnati Bungles played to a tie. Philly’s quarterback, 10 year veteran Donovan McNabb, didn’t know until just before the last play of overtime that an NFL regular season game can end in a tie! He’s paid millions of $$ per year and knows less about the rules than the average beer swilling, cheesesteak munching, high school educated, obese, obnoxious Eagles fan.

What would be the best way for President-elect Obama to get all of the world’s diplomats to start laughing at the USA? Making The Prophet Algoracle Secretary of State would be a good starting point….

Word is that the Obama Administration will have a new position, CLIMATE CZAR! The Prophet Algoracle says he is not interested, presumably because it would involve a massive paycut and would cause his lucrative carbon credits scam to come under scrutiny. Is that position going to have control of THE SUN or is it just going to be for socialist propaganda and the ruin of our economy?

An filmmaking couple in Ireland has made a film that they claim will do to Algoracle and his Glo-Bull Warming ilk what “Fahrenheit 9/11” did to W. I’m looking forward to this film!

Disrespecting religion and religious services with protests is something conservatives would NEVER do, but it is perfectly acceptable for liberals and homosexuals to do, as evidenced by THIS STORY out of Michigan. What in the world does a church in Michigan have to do with the will of the voters in California? I think this should be prosecuted as a hate crime!

The liberals support of childishness, thugocracy, and terrorism continues. Now there are reports of Mormon temples receiving letters with white powder resembling anthrax inside. The supporters of homomarriage also attacked an elderly woman because she is Christian and dares to support the Word of God. The homosupporters are throwing a temper tantrum worthy of a bunch of third graders. Are these the future members of Obama’s Civilian National Security Force or union card-check goons? They are even going after the businesses of those who had the audacity to donate money to the Prop 8 campaign. When is Krystalnacht going to be scheduled?

If you’re in need of a good laugh, The Crawfish is willing to supply one with this story. In an op-ed piece in USAToday, two members of the DC Board of Education are calling for Dear leader to send his kids to DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Don’t they know that rich liberals support public schools and teachers unions, but only for other people’s kids? Do they really think the Obama girls are going to be allowed to associate with the riff-raff at the local public schools? Just think of how many background checks the Secret Service would have to do, and how many kids would therefore be forced to go to a different school than the little Obamas.

Now here’s some good news. Some pirates off the coast of Africa were confronted by small boat parties from the cruiser HMS CUMBERLAND. The pirates opened fire and three of them were promptly sent to find their 72 virgin camels! The rest of ‘em quickly got brown and yellow pants and surrendered.

We’ve got another plentiful energy source in Alaska! One of my fellow bloggers, an electrical engineer called Gray Ghost, brought forth a story about frozen methane crystals called hydrates, and there’s a large deposit under Alaska. There is even an actual newspaper report from the Miami Herald on it! Of course, the no-drill, no-way crowd that is about to take over all of DC will forever prevent us from doing anything about this source, while bleating that we need to end our dependence on arab oil. For access to the whole report, click HERE!

The Crawfish isn’t one to believe in coincidences. When my family transferred away from Florida, three of the Starbucks locations along my wife’s path to work ended up on the closures list. Now she doesn’t go to Starbucks for about a month and Starbucks reports profits down 97%.

Earlier this year, when the Soviet Union invaded Georgia, Barack Obama urged Georgia to show restraint and blamed them for the invasion. Now reports are surfacing that Vlad “The Invader” Putin was threatening to depose and kill Georgia’s President (actually an obscene threat), but was talked out of it by France’s President Sarkozy. Of course, Putin is the guy that W looked into the eyes of and saw a respectable leader. Sarkozy also managed to insult Bush and use that as part of the reasoning why Vlad should back off. It was an interesting conversation.

Hat tip to Michelle (**sigh**) Malkin for this story about a brave high school girl in Chicage and her very telling experiment in inclusiveness and tolerance.

If you ever had any doubts about the sanity of unions, this story (hat tip to Neal Boortz) will quell those doubts. A union bus driver has hit 3 people over the past 8 years, killing one, and the union is fighting his termination as unjust. So, you are so incompetent at your job that you kill one person and send two others to the hospital, but your job should be safe.

Still on the union battle, the UAW now says that the union will NOT make any concessions to the Big 3 automakers, in spite of the fact that they are about to go under. The union thugs claim it is all because the rest of the economy is teetering, conveniently ignoring the fact that the Big 3 have been losing huge sums of money for years because of their bloated labor costs. Here is the story with the union’s viewpoints. Blogger davecatbone (aka Dave in Cincinnati) shows us how the unions are lying (imagine that) and that labor costs are the reason for the disparity between the health of the Big 3 and their foreign-owned counterparts.

How in the world can I get a gig like this? The top 7 execs at Goldman Sachs are going to forego their bonus checks this year because of the current economic situation. They will live on a measly $600,000 annual salary. Of those 7 top execs, the top 4 last year all got bonuses of $65-68.5 MILLION. The other 3 got over $57.5 MILLION. That’s a YEARLY BONUS??!! Goldman Sachs’ stock is down 69% this year, and they are laying people off, so why did the company think it was right to give the execs any kind of bonus in the first place, much less that kind of extravagant one?

The Crawfish’s home state done screwed up this time. Harris County is the home of Houston. The Harris County jail seems to have a large number of criminals who are admittedly illegal aliens, but they go right back to the streets (and back to jail many times) when released. The Houston Chronicle did a study on the situation, and the results are appalling. Why is it so hard to deport illegals in this country? It gets even worse if you go to The Crawfish’s birthplace. In Dallas, the gummint schools are GIVING FAKE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS to illegals in order to hire them AS TEACHERS!! And to think that I wondered why my parents would spend that much money to send me to a private school.

Now why doesn’t THIS STORY surprise me at all? Porn and Las Vegas. Seems to me that they go together like liberals and Hollyweird.

Three hundred and eighteen thousand tons of Saudi-owned supertanker has been seized by the Somali pirates. This is the biggest ship seized to date, and the sucker is fully loaded and now in the harbor that the pirates use as their base. Why that harbor isn’t one big smoking hole or now property of the 1st Marine Division is beyond me.

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I shared this on Knee Deep last week, and wanted to cross post it here. It seemed to hit a chord with some folks, so maybe it will be an encouragement to readers here as well.
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I am not being an ostrich, but some may accuse me of being one. I am having a hard time digging my bomb shelter, buying my 5000 pounds of oats, and shelter water this time. I know we are in a crisis, but is overreaction a necessary evil? I think I am tired.

I will never forget Y2K and all of the hullabaloo around that. I have friends who are still in debt over the stock pile they bought and the shelter they built. It was all for what? Nothing. I will never forget attending a town meeting where people were literally in tears and biting their nails over what would happen on January 1, 2000. You know what I did that day? I got up, checked my email, pumped gas in my car, and stopped by an ATM to get cash out. It all worked and everything was fine.

Still, other than planning and being as careful and wise as you can be, would a huge panic stock of oats, canned goods and other stuff be a good thing? I couldn’t believe the panic and insanity that was around me then. I am starting to see it again to a degree.

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Good morning! The news is as good as ever. Again, the articles are full of stories of success, life improving in Iraq and the Iraqi Government’s work toward gaining its autonomy. I know that the MSM can only report when a bomb goes off — that’s the only time you hear any news coming out of Iraq. They pass up the daily and vital news for the sensational. What’s new? Enjoy your read!

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