The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978…

…was further defined by Executive Order 12667, by Ronald Reagan, on January 18, 1989.

…which was revoked and replaced by Executive Order 13233, by President George Walker Bush, on November 1, 2001.

…which was revoked and replaced by Executive Order 13489, by President Barack Hussein Obama, on January 21, 2009. (He was inaugurated the day before, on January 20, 2009).

Never mind all the campaign speeches in which he told throngs of Believers that on his first day in office, he would do their bidding before anything else. Instead, the Icon of Change first did what every politician since the beginning of time has done — he covered his own ass.

From WashingtonPost.com:

“Projected Deficit
In the first independent analysis, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that President Obama’s budget would rack up massive deficits even after the economy recovers, forcing the nation to borrow nearly $9.3 trillion over the next decade.”

“WELL, AT LEAST WE AREN’T GIVING THE SAME TAX BREAKS TO THE RICH THAT BUSH WAS, RIGHT?”

That’s correct, we won’t be — nor will YOU be getting the same tax breaks. Oh, you didn’t know that YOU benefited as much as ‘those evil rich folks’ from Bush’s growth-incentive tax plan? Here’s what you gleefully gave up when you elected The One as your ‘Tax Savior’ (we’ll post another chart with a third column after Obama’s fourth year):

Think I’m making this up? Here’s just the beginning: “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” (news.yahoo.com) [PDF archive]

For a clearer picture of why the Progressives hope American voters are too stupid, ignorant, and uninformed to do the math, take a moment to read the illuminating post from last year: How Taxes Work — or, ‘How to Pay for Beer’.

There are ‘media professionals’ who we used to rely on to be objective, that now are firmly in the camp of more government, less individual freedoms — purely on the basis of their own philosophical wants (and completely aside from any evidence that such a utopia can be engineered despite the thousands of years of human history that says otherwise). Those media people, like Chris Matthews, who act as the mouthpiece of some imagined Moral Majority use tactics like ridicule, defamation, and sheer volume to shout down anyone who dares ask the right questions.

Think the government is taking too much and representing you too little? You’re a TeaBagger (some may consider this link NSFW).

Wonder out loud if the government has a right to change the rules or business and finance ‘just to even out the playing field’? Your professionalism, work ethic, and personal life are now targets for the Leftist media to drag through the streets like the entrails of a half-dead dog.

Find it odd that our President has no paper trail, no historical archive of college term papers, no certifiable birth certificate? You’re a kook, and as crazy as the ‘Moon Truthers’.

Want Congressional ‘transparency’ to stop being an ongoing campaign slogan, and to actually occur while it might still do some good? Your elected representatives are just acting in an obstructionist fashion by demanding to sit at the table, and asking C-SPAN to be let into the room.

Do you find it easier to find Socialist similarities between what is happening now under Obama’s watch, with the Left-heavy Congress patting each other on the back behind closed doors — and Hitler’s rise to power — despite all the ‘BusHitler’ name-calling of the last 8 years? You’re a Racist.

So the real question here is, “Are the Progressives/Liberals who run our three branches of government CORRECT — Are You Stupid?“

I’d spent a few days hunting around the ‘net, looking for the backtrack recording. Failed.

I’m a keyboardist myself — but I’ve tried to pluck it out on a little guitar we have laying around. It’s a beautiful, but simple song… so if there was any chance in (hot place) for me to pick it up in time for her audition on Monday, I’d handle it. But the woman who promised to love, honor, and not hold back the positive criticism has not (yet) been impressed — so she’s trying to track down a friend of the family who might have a couple of hours to spare.

Now, after a week of struggling (my fingers just don’t bend around a fretboard yet), I just found (and bought) the backtrack and legit chord sheet from JJ Heller’s site — unfortunately it looks like they ship a CD, rather than sending it electronically: http://www.jjheller.com/store.asp …so it likely won’t be here by Monday.

I’m hoping Miss Twinkle Toes can audition with JJ’s original recording in a couple of days, if her school is understanding enough (I doubt it). But just in case, I’ll keep trying to get more comfortable with those cord changes on my own…

Below is my favorite version of it — with JJ playing the harmonica. The Wife likes the studio recording with occasional smatterings of piano (no harmonica); but she’s not always right, you see.

“This isn’t the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock — I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.”

- John Ratzenberger at a rally for Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown

Voter fraud watch:
Phony Calls Tell Massachusetts Residents Pro-Life Group Opposes Scott Brown (LifeNews.com)
Massachusetts Senate Race Voter Fraud Watch (MichelleMalkin.com)
Scott Brown’s abortion problem (ThePhoenix.com)
RCP.Com: All Polls (But Kos) Now Favor Scott Brown (ConstitutionClub.org)
Scott Brown’s Misguided Response to Mike Capuano’s MTA Endorsement (BlueMassGroup.com)

So I took a couple of minutes to locate some of our favorite contestants on the web:

The SoCals
Nota
Beelzebubs
Voices of Lee

The Canadian Centre for Home Education (CCHE) has released the results of a research project titled: Fifteen Years Later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults (pdf).

Studies suggest that homeschoolers succeed academically as compared to schooled peers, but do they grow into socially well-adjusted adults? This new study suggest that they do.

Findings

When measured against average Canadians ages 15 to 34 years old, home-educated Canadian adults ages 15 to 34 were more:

• Socially engaged. 69 percent participated in organized activities at least once per week, compared with 48 percent of the comparable population.

• Highly paid. Average income for homeschoolers also was higher, but perhaps more significantly, while 11 percent of Canadians ages 15 to 34 rely on welfare, there were no cases of government support as the primary source of income for homeschoolers.
• Happier. 67.3 percent described themselves as very happy, compared with 43.8 percent of the comparable population. Almost all of the homeschoolers (96 percent) thought homeschooling had prepared them well for life.

Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica – where do they go?

Wonder no more ! ! !

It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an extremely ordered and complex life.

The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.

If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried.

The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:

“Freeze a jolly good fellow”

“Freeze a jolly good fellow.”

Then they kick him in the ice hole.

You really didn’t believe that I know anything about penguins, did you!?!?

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