What happened to the Social Security trust fund? A Limerick.

“I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News.

Mr. President!

Will seniors get paid? Your excuse never ends.

You squandered the trust fund to pay off your friends.

 “George Bush is to blame!”

 Your mantra the same.

You own the economy now. Make amends!

A Limerick about terrorist Hobbits from flyover states.

The logic coming from the left never ceases to amaze me. How did they equate Republicans with terrorists?

The only way I can come up with for now goes like this: A few months ago, a Norwegian, Anders Behring Brevik bombed a Norwegian government building in Oslo, much like the Oklahoma City bomber, but unlike Timothy McVeigh he did not flee, but killed a large number of youth in a social democratic political indoctrination camp, wanting to be captured alive so he could forward his political ideology, documented in a 1500+ page manifesto.

NY Times immediately declared he was a “radical right wing fundamentalist Christian”.  In his manifesto he stated he was a culturally conservative agnostic, advocating respect for Norway’s Viking and Christian heritage .

When that didn’t work the Daily Mail (U.K.) noted that he advocated a European version of the Tea Party, which is supported by Sarah Palin.

Here is the logical chain: Anders Brevik is a terrorist. He advocates a Tea Party. Ergo: All tea party supporters are terrorists.

John McCain quoted the Wall street Journal on the Senate floor and called the tea party supporters Hobbits. The thoughts led to the following Limerick:

Terrorist Hobbits from flyover states!

Palin supporters, the left us berates.

Let us pick up the fight.

And so do what is right.

Love one another! The left only hates.

Evergreen Solar is bankrupt, assets sold to China. A Limerick.

One of President Obama’s pet green companies has filed for bankruptcy.
After millions in subsidies the 135 remaining  people were laid off. Watching a bankruptcy process unfold is like watching the slow death of a company. Evergreen Solar, which announced the bankruptcy filing back in August, has sold is core assets for $6 million and some shares of the buyer, China Private Equity Investment Holdings.
Evergreen Solar is really bankrupt
Got millions in subsidies – all is corrupt.
Many green jobs were lost –
went to China – at cost.
Get rid of Obama! The ante is upped.

The department of Jobs. Really? A Limerick.

The Obama administration may merge the Department of Commerce, the Office of the United States Trade Representative and some economic divisions at the State Department into a new agency, administration officials said. Possible names include the Department of Jobs or the Department of Competitiveness.

Bureaucracy cannot create any jobs –

Except its own, it is growing like blobs.

All initiative lost

As it increases cost.

We are watching the money the lobby lobs.

Obama the Post Turtle, a Limerick.

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year-old rancher, who’s hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our president. The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Obama is a “Post Turtle”. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a “Post Turtle” was. The old rancher said, “when you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a “post turtle”.

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “you know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, he’s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb @$$ put him up there to begin with.”

Post turtle, post turtle, why are you there?
Soros is evil and he put me here.
I have to come down’
I am but a clown,
for I don’t belong in the stratosphere.

Martha’s Vineyard and Corporate Jets. A Limerick.

The chief economic culprit of President Obama’s   press conference Jun 292011  was undoubtedly “corporate jets.” He mentioned them on at least six occasions, each time offering their owners as an example of a group that should be paying more in taxes. “I think it’s only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner that has done so well,” the president stated at one point, “to give up that tax break that no other business enjoys.” But the corporate jet tax break to which Obama was referring – called “accelerated depreciation,” and a popular Democratic foil of late – was reauthorized by his own stimulus package.

Liberal Moguls and Corporate Jets

Marta’s Vineyard, as good as it gets.

They mingle with Barack

And plan their next attack.

The Stimulus paid for their corporate jets.

Michelle Obama and President Obama traveled to Martha’s Vineyard just hours apart, costing taxpayers thousands in additional expenses so she could have just a bit of extra vacation time.

Michelle Obama and her daughters arrived just before 2 pm Aug 19, 2011 on a U.S. government jet, according to the Martha’s Vineyard Times, which got its information from the local airport. The first lady’s office has been silent on her travel. President Obama arrived in the evening along with the family dog Bo.

The extra costs related to Mrs. Obama’s solo trip mainly include the flight on a specially designed military aircraft she took instead of Air Force One, as well as any extra staff and Secret Service that had to be enlisted to go with her. She would also have had her own motorcade from the airport to her vacation residence.

Mrs. Obama’s separate jet travel sends the wrong message on a host of issues, from global warming to the budget deficit to the economy – in which currently so many people can’t afford to take a vacation at all.

This is not the first time Michelle has gone on vacation ahead of the president on the taxpayers’ tab. Last December, she racked up what was likely more than $100,000 in expenses leaving early for their Hawaii vacation.

The truth about rats and lemmings.

The truth about rats and lemmings.

Everybody have heard about lemming years, when a large number of lemmings follow each other over a cliff, falls down into the sea below and drown. Political analogies abound, and so this has become common knowledge: That’s what lemmings do. But why? By the way, 2011 was a lemming year in Northern Sweden, it repeats itself every 20 years or so. To explain why, there is an even better example with rats.  When food is plentiful they multiply fast and after about 4 years there are far too many rats for the food supply. No, they do not die of starvation, virtually all the rats get stressed out and die, all in short order, and the cycle starts anew. It used to be a fairly limited supply of food for the rats, people ate what the land produced, and the number of rats were kept below the stress level.  Enter modern day landfills. There is an overabundance of food in a very limited area, so rats congregate there and multiply. Eventually they will hit the stress level die out and the cycle is renewed. Enter the division of rodent control. In their wisdom they put out rat poison to keep the population down. In so doing they manage to keep the rat population just below the stress level, thereby ensuring that every year is a year of plenty of rats rather than every fourth year.

I refrain from tempting political analogies.

Here is a video of lemmings from BBC Nature

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM