Obama Announces Refinancing Plan

President Barack Obama announced a fresh bid Wednesday to revive the housing market by letting millions of homeowners refinance their mortgages, presenting a plan that is likely to encounter congressional opposition.

Obama Exploits the Navy SEALs

There may be political value in detailing how our special forces hunted bin Laden, but doing so threatens troop safety and future missions.

Our special operators do not welcome this publicity. In fact, from conversations I’ve had in recent days, it’s clear they are dismayed by it.

Adm. William H. McRaven, America’s top special-operations commander, wrote in his 1996 book “Spec Ops” that there are six key principles of success in special operations. Of paramount importance—especially given the risk and sensitivity of the missions and the small units involved—is what the military calls “operational security,” or maintaining secrecy. If the enemy learns details and can anticipate the manner and timing of an attack, the likelihood of success is significantly reduced and the risk to our forces is significantly increased.

Class Warfare

Repealing an entitlement…

Known by the acronym Class, the long-term care insurance program for nursing homes and the like was grafted onto the health-care bill mostly to hide that bill’s true costs. Class came with a five-year waiting period before it started to pay out benefits, but it started collecting revenues immediately. The front-loading helped ObamaCare appear to reduce the deficit in the short run—even though the Class Act was designed to go broke after a decade, which is outside the Congressional Budget Office’s 10-year budget window…

The Administration hasn’t issued a formal statement on repeal, but it is informally opposing it—perhaps because the Democratic left wants to keep Class frozen in a cryogenic state to be revived when Democrats again control Congress. The Administration is thus opposing repeal of a program its own bureaucracy says can’t work. Could there be a clearer illustration of Washington’s refusal to face fiscal reality?

Three years ago, even I would not have seriously believed that one man could do so much damage to the country. Now, I honestly think that if this man is re-elected, he is capable of breaking the back of the USA. Doing more damage to society, wasting more and spending more money than we can ever repay or rebuild.

I can feel my blood pressure going up, I should go outside and take some pictures of trees, water or fuzzy bunnies.

OK, that’s better. Nantasket Beach in Hull on a early February morning. Water Temp 40 degrees, Air Temp 55 degrees. Not a cold winter fog, not a warm summer fog, but a light & cool spring fog.

The sea birds were quiet, not a good time for fishing. Probably something to do with the tide which was one hour from dead low.

Does that look like a deflated ball to you?  It looked like a deflated ball to me. How does a stone, and granite by its color, get to look like that?

I feel better, I’d feel even better if I inflated that ball and threw it through a White House window. Now, Now… I think I ‘ll lie down. Later.