"you can only learn something if your ears are open and your mouth stays closed."

if patience is a virtue, we're going to have a really hard time getting our country back. if time is of the essence how does it jive with the other phrase mentioned? how can we have patience to be more virtuous when we've got to get things done and get them done quickly? 

why do we need to spend time listening when we already know what they're going to say? besides...they're probably just stu

pid, so who are they to tell me anything. how would they know?

all i can say to this is that i feel for teachers who have to teach today and deal with this kind of attitude from their students. students who won't take the time to learn what's being taught because they're too busy to learn anything that they feel either is not worth learning or won't ever apply to them.

my grandmother used to tell me when i was a child, "you can only learn something if your ears are open and your mouth stays closed." learning anything takes patience. don't commit to it if you don't have time to do it right.

if you have to be in school...get the most out of it by shutting your mouth and by keeping your ears open. your eyes and ears are the doors to your mind...not your mouth. your mouth is for teaching and sharing information others when and if you ever know enough about something that you were supposed to learn.

Mitt Romney, Barrack Obama 3D Smack-Down. Hilarious...

you may never see this in real life, but you can see it here.  10 minute video of the mitt romney, barrack obama smack-down.  mitt romney does it with his fist instead of his smarts and wits in this classic rumble. :)

why obamacare is hazardous to our health

obamacare is a 2,700 page law that was passed without democrats even reading it.  since republicans didn't have enough votes to block it in either the house or senate...it sailed through despite republican's objections.  romney was correct, obama did spend his first two years working on and passing obamacare while ignoring small businesses going under, and millions of people losing their jobs.  as they lost jobs...they lost houses, cars and self-respect.  all of this, just to pass a bill that democrats have salivated to get for 50+ years...government controlled healthcare.

it starts with obamacare and ends with a single-payer system which is a nice sounding way of saying only the government will be paying doctors and hospitals...not insurance companies.  the government will squeeze insurance companies until they go out of business.  it's already started.  the way insurance companies worked before is that they made a profit or they lost money based on good or bad decisions.  they made money on monthly premiums that people paid in.  if a person didn't get sick they collected the money as a hedge against those who did.  they employ actuary's who do statistics on the odds of a person getting sick or not.  then if they got it right, they made money.  if they got it wrong they lost money.

what do they do with profits.  well, some of that money goes to share holders.  a lot of shareholders are average folks who have a retirement fund at work...like a 401k.  other shareholders are private investors.  if the insurance company makes money...the folks make money.  the folks lose money if the insurance company makes the wrong decisions, but usually they get it right.  under pres. obama, insurance companies have to give their customer's a refund if they don't go to the doctor.  under obama, the insurance can pay its' bills and make a profit determined by the government.

any money left after that has to go back to people that have paid premiums but didn't go to the doctor.  with only making what the government says it can make in profits, the shareholders get hurt.  those people with 401k's make only as much as the government imposed limits on the insurance company's profit allows.  if there is no profit incentive in owning or investing in an insurance company...retirement fund manager's and private investors will get out of insurance and move into something more profitable...maybe not even in this country.

insurance companies aren't the only companies that will be getting squeezed by obamacare.  your employer will be another.  the extra cost incurred by insurance companies of having to cover children until they're 25 or pre-existing conditions will make it tougher for your company to help you pay a portion or all of your insurance as they do now.  there is a good chance they'll drop you and let you go into obamacare.  obamacare will have a panel of 15 appointed members who will decide how much the government is willing to spend on the millions of different medical problems that millions of people may have.

that means they may say...okay, there is 80% chance of occurrence within the population who may get breast cancer, but only a 5% chance for kidney failure.  then they may decide to not put as much or none at all on that kidney problemst.  if you're unlucky enough to have one of those ailments then you'll have to find a way to pay for it yourself, live with the ailment or die if that comes along.  obamacare won't cover it.  doctors won't have to take the fees offered by obamacare.  they may just take patients who can afford to pay for their services.

doctors may not want to take the fee that the government says it will pay for this or that and they won't.  therefore, there will be fewer doctors and if you need to see one under obamacare, you'll have to wait until you can get an appointment because of the doctor shortage. let me briefly explain how medicare 1 and 2 works and then medicaid because it all ties in together.  medicare provides healthcare to seniors for major medical.  things like nursing home care, surgeries etc.  part 2 covers 80% of doctors visits for seniors.  a senior can buy supplement insurance to cover the deductible.

it's often cheaper to not pay a monthly fee for the supplemental unless you go to the doctor often. seniors have had medicare taken out of their checks during their lifetime and it goes into a government pool to help take care of them when they're older.  president obama says he is going to save medicare $716 billion dollars by reducing doctor's fees and fraud...my guess most of it will come from reducing doctor's fees.  again, the doctors don't have to then accept medicare patients and many of them are now choosing not to.  this means fewer doctors are going to be there when you need one who accepts medicare.

the $716 billion dollar savings won't go back to seniors in the form of getting a rebate or discount.  it will go to obamacare to give free services to those who don't have it.  they too will be faced with fewer doctors and a panel of 15 who determines their fate. medicaid is a program that provides care not based on age but on ability to pay.  if you're low income the state pays for it.  under obamacare, the states were offered in increase in federal funding to those states for two years.  most states are deciding to opt out of the extra federal money for two years because it will cost more to cover the extra people after the second year and this would kill state budgets as they already struggle to balance their budgets, which they must do by law.

also with medicaid, if you have medicare, it will cover whatever medicare does not cover.  to sum it up, the democrats are trying to through obamacare, bankrupt the "evil profit centers" of insurance companies and take over the healthcare industry.  you will have no insurance companies competing for your business if they are successful...you will have the same government handling your healthcare that loses your mail, ignores your complaints and has rude and uncaring government employees.  why would you want that when we now have the best healthcare in the world that just needs to be tweaked...not taken over completely by the government.

democrat's "big tent" is really just a circus freak show.

democrat's claim to be "the big tent party".  okay, let's see who's in their big tent.

muslim's
they booed when democrat leader's under pressure, put god back in the democratic party platform. meanwhile, obama let's the radical muslim's kill our ambassador's and burn down our embassies as they shout, "death to america."

labor unions.
remember jimy hoffa?) mobsters that pretend to look out for workers but really just collect fee's from members to give to the democratic party even if the member is a republican or libertarian.  the claim to fight for worker's right's.  an example of this is chicago where in a four year recession teacher's got a 16% raise and still went on strike because they didn't want job evaluations.  so poor performing teacher's just get shuffled around.  they still get to screw up someone's kid though.  what about the time they were striking and parents had to take off or get someone to watch their kids?

blacks/mexican's and other minorities.
democrat leader's lie to them and don't do anything for them because they know blacks and other minorities will vote for them anyway.  they can do anything to blacks and other minorities because they know blacks and other minorities aren't paying attention, won't research their background or learn who they are or what they stand for and will vote for them anyway...sad.

green party/code pink/communist party.
the green party loves the earth and hates people (except themselves because they don't count because they're the ones trying to help.  they want us back in caves or dead and not using up the earth's resources.  code pink..i don't know what they stand for but i do know that any woman that dresses up like a pink vagina and protests on the street in front of the democratic national convention while bill clinton is in town has some screws loose.  the communist party has been around forever...destroying nations and starving or shooting their citizen's in places like russia and china.  they have a branch here with hundreds of thousands of members and nuts, but are welcome in the democratic "big tent".

gays/atheist
i'm going to lump them together to.  we all know what gays are and don't care.  just keep it to yourselves, don't ask christians to accept gay marriage, you have civil unions and stop comparing gayness to the struggle black people had.  when you start getting lynched, killed and have your skin made into belts, lamp shades and other souvenirs, they we'll consider it.  atheist, you're just so smart.  you claim there is no proof of jesus.  where's the proof that your relatives who walked the earth when christ did?  at least we have artifacts of jesus life and written testimony of his miracles...you're the one that has no proof of your existence.

liberal progressives.
ivy league educated or ivy league wannabe's.  good jobs.  damn good jobs...you just want to take over the world that's all.  new world order, agenda 21, trying to take away our constitutional rights like the right to own guns, free speech and evenutally the right to vote.  you want everything controlled by the united nations and then when someone calls you on it...you laugh it off and say they're conspiracy theorist.  no they're not.  you just lie about it.  you are and there are youtube video's of your meetings where someone recorded you giving a speech at some university and those speeches are plastered all over the internet.  there are articles that you write to each other online because you think we're too stupid to find and read them...we're not.

that's the democrat's "big tent".  they want to make it sound warm and open to all.  it is...just not to normal people.  they've learned that normal people hang out at the republican's camp.  even though democrat's will lie and play on your weaknesses by saying republican's are racist, homophobic, islamophobic, sexist and don't care about the working class because they're all rich old white men, stupid and hateful republican women and uncle tom blacks.  what else can they say?  they want your votes and your money so they have to try to come up with stuff to scare you.

the reasons behind the obama administration's rush to regulate and expand government.

perception drives the stock market. perception drives the economy. perception drives real estate, interest rates, the price of food and gas. perception drives capitalism. perception drives our country because our country is based on capitalism and free market. there are free markets or there is a controlled market where there is "excessive" government control and regulations. 

let me give you several examples of what i mean by perception. let's start with a basic one that everyone uses...food and gas. if people think the price of food and gas will go up, they go buy more now while the price is cheap. that extra demand coming from others who think the same thing about food and gas prices going up and then purchasing...makes the prices go up.

this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. the same thing applies in the stock market. if people think a lot of variables are favorable for business growth and thus many company's shares will increase..people who buy those shares will jump into the market to make money. as more people think the market is going to go up and they buy more...as as they buy, those who sell will charge more for them. thus, the prices go up and people make more when it's their turn to sell.

that is self-fulling prophecy, perspective and free market capitalism at work. when the government steps in to regulate this (usually, they want to get their hands on some of the money, but end up mucking things up in the process) it slows down growth. that perception of growth turns to fear of the government stepping in and interfering with the buying and selling that's going on...and this is why obama has extended our recession.

he has put into place a very costly healthcare system that will cost businesses a lot extra in taxes. how much? no one is sure and that is another thing that stops businesses from growing...uncertainty. they don't want to spend a certain amount on growing and then be hit with taxes that makes them go negative. an individual may go negative from time to time, but if a company does...people get fired.

besides obamacare, businesses face the recession itself. although interest rates are at historic lows, they're thinking why should we borrow money if no customers are walking through the doors. no customers, no profit and no way to pay the loan back regardless of how low the interest rate is. that is the stupidity of obama and government regulators on display.

they are thinking that if they keep interest rates low, it will spur growth...wrong. they think that if they throw money at the problem it will spur growth...wrong. throwing money at it does not increase the confidence of businesses and consumers if they think the government is going to continue to make the wrong decisions.

finally, the perception of the country is down because the obama administration is making decisions to "excessively" regulate energy, banking, credit, real estate, the auto industry, travel and others. by implementing a major overhaul of our entire free market system businesses and consumers who know anything at all about business know that this is not normal.

this would not be normal for a small state to try to accomplish in four years. the obama administration has attempted to do it in four years in a nation the size and complexity of ours...without studying how by changing this, it affect growth and other factors. they didn't consider unintended consequences. businesses and consumers see the amateurishness of this administration and for those who know anything about business it scares them to death and they're perception right now is at an all time low.

businesses and consumers will continue to sit on their money because with this administration...who knows what tomorrow may bring and people are just not going to take any chances in losing even more money with them. as long as business' and consumer's perception is low...we will have a recession and president obama doesn't seem to get that because nowhere in any of his speeches is he saying, "i went too far, let me pull back". no, he's saying, "i didn't do enough...give me four more years, i need to do to do more." is that really what you want... four more years of nothing or even worse?

the type of government that president obama is creating is one that works best with a system of socialism or communism. it destroys the free market through excessive governmental regulations that cripple and eventually halt growth altogether as perceptions continue to plummet and fear of government intervention grows. this is why people who understand anything at all about business see the changes with great clarity that liberals in power are making and is the reason why they are calling this rush to regulate, an intentional move towards extreme socialism or full communism...it has nothing to do with his race.

it has to do with his upbringing and very close ties to communist who are close friends or mentors as he said in his autobiography. if it was his intention to move us away from capitalism and into communism, he should have been honest about this before his election and not lied about it, not win the election and then just do it. if voters then with the full understanding of what he planned on doing, wanted communism then communism it is, but he didn't do that. he won and then without telling us...did it without the consent of u.s citizens. if president obama wins, don't expect a brighter future coming from this administration...expect more of the same or worse.

darryl b. petitt has a degree in finance/economics and has owned a professional consulting company for 22 years, that specializes in commercial real estate consulting and valuation.

Demoralized as Hell: “I’ve been to the federal penitentiary, and I’m not going back for you” edition

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What’s behind Obama’s curious timing of Gitmo jihadist Omar Khadr’s release

What’s behind Obama’s curious timing of Gitmo jihadist Omar Khadr’s release:


This is a murderous Islamic soldier, not a “child”
If I read one more description of Gitmo jihadist Omar Khadr as a former “child soldier,” I will throw up. As some of you may have read over the weekend, the 26-year-old Muslim killer who pleaded guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty to five charges related to the battlefield killing of U.S. soldier Christopher Speer was released from Gitmo by the White House on Saturday and sent back to Canada.
Khadr was captured during a 2002 bloody firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound near Khost, Afghanistan.
Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald/McClatchy broke the story this weekend of his repatriation:

Khadr departed the base in Cuba before dawn Saturday, a secret transfer 10 days after a Canadian diplomat paid Khadr a visit on his 26th birthday. He landed at a Royal Canadian airbase in Ontario and was transferred to the Millhaven maximum security prison for what his lawyer described as an assessment of the most suitable place to serve out his sentence.
The case of Khadr — Guantánamo’s last Western captive — stirred debate in international law and human rights circles.
Because he was captured at such a young age, some called him a child soldier who was dropped off in the war zone by his father and deserving of rehabilitation not interrogation. Others called him the respected scion of an al Qaida family, nicknamed Canada’s First Family of Terror in news reports, and opposed his repatriation.
Psychiatrist Michael Welner, testifying at the Guantánamo war court for the prosecution and paid by the Pentagon, called Khadr a continuing danger who spent his time at the U.S. prison camps in Cuba “marinating in a community of hardened and belligerent radical Islamists.”

I have followed Khadr’s case and his sob-story lawyers since 2003 (archive of Khadr posts here and columns here and here.)
Background I reported in 2003 about the Khadr family, led by a senior al Qaeda member who was killed in 2003 in a battle with Pakistani forces:

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is vacationing in the Dominican Republic this weekend, where he will tee off with former U.S. President Bill Clinton for the newly inaugurated Soft-on-Terror Masters Tournament.
While Chretien golfs, his fellow countryman and favorite accused terrorist Ahmad Said Khadr is still on the loose.
Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian citizen, is considered by intelligence officials to be the highest-ranking Canadian within Osama bin Laden’s inner circle. He studied computer science at the University of Ottawa and worked for an Ottawa-based Islamic charity, Human Concern International, which was generously subsidized by Chretien’s government.
Khadr is suspected of siphoning charity funds to bin Laden and other jihadists, and of serving as a chief terrorist recruiter. Known as “al-Kanadi” (Arabic for “The Canadian”), Khadr had previously been in custody in Pakistan for the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad that killed 17 people.
As I’ve noted before (and it is especially worth repeating in light of attempts by some high-ranking American diplomats to make amends with Canada), our so-called friend and supposed War on Terror partner Chretien was instrumental in securing Khadr’s freedom.
Chretien personally intervened on behalf of Khadr during a 1996 state visit to Pakistan. He aggressively sought guarantees from Benazir Bhutto, then the country’s prime minister, that Khadr would receive due process and fair treatment. The suspected Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist was released shortly after Chretien’s diplomatic lobbying campaign.
The United Nations, U.S. and Canada (last, of course) have since frozen the fugitive Khadr’s assets due to his suspected ties to bin Laden. One of his sons, an al-Qaida operative and former terror training camp commander, is on the run with Khadr.
Another of Khadr’s sons, 16-year-old Omar, is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay for his alleged role in an ambush of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan last summer. Omar is accused of lobbing the hand grenade that killed Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, a 28-year-old medic with the U.S. Special Forces.
“That wasn’t a panicky teen-ager we encountered that day,” Sergeant First Class Layne Morris of South Jordan, Utah, who lost his right eye in the ambush, told the Boston Globe last month. “That was a trained al-Qaida who wanted to make his last act on earth the killing of an American.”
Speer left behind a wife and two children, ages 3 and 11 months. Just days before his murder, Speer had selflessly walked into a minefield to rescue two wounded Afghan children.

Two words: WHY NOW? And what’s really behind Khadr’s release? Will the dhimmi lapdog media dare to ask?
Reuters suggests that the repatriation was promoted by “U.S. anger” over leaked video of Khadr’s interrogation. The Obama administration is accusing the conservative Canadian government of the breach. But the Toronto Star has reported just the opposite:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office denied any knowledge of the source of the leak.
“We have no comment on the accuracy or inaccuracy of the Maclean’s article and do not know what sources the magazine relied on,” said Harper spokesman Andrew MacDougall.
“Access to the interview video is strictly controlled within the government of Canada,” he added.
The PMO would not say whether the government would undertake an investigation into the leak. The office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews did not respond to the Star’s queries.
But Welner, the psychiatrist who conducted the interview, suggested the fault lies with Khadr’s legal defence team, if not with the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.
In an emailed statement to the Star, Welner said he has not disclosed the transcript.
He claims the Maclean’s story is a “distortion” of the transcript.
“I am sure that were anyone interested in an accurate understanding of the interview, the interview itself would be released to the public to form its own impression,” he wrote.
Khadr’s Pentagon-appointed lawyer Army Lt.-Col. Jon Jackson said “No member of the defence team released the tape or transcript.”
“None of us have or ever would release classified information.”
According to Maclean’s, and the excerpts it published, Khadr may be a victim of torture as he has sworn to, but also appears as the “unrepentant and unconvincing” man that Welner characterized at trial.

Please note, dear readers, that the Center for Constitutional Rights (to which White House visitor and Muslim Brotherhood community organizer Hisham Altalib donated a huge chunk of change) has been at the forefront of pressing for Khadr’s release.
I also remind you, dear readers, that CCR also crusaded for the release of Gitmo jihadist Abu Sufian bin Qumu — now the lead suspect in the bloody attack on our consulate in Benghazi.
And I remind you that this appeasement-addicted administration is reportedly weighing the release of the Blind Sheik, while clinging to the blame-the-video shield against accountability for the mess in Libya.
So: Why now?