Archive for December, 2007

Made in China: Cheap and Deadly

Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2007 by edge3306

                    If it wasn’t for the paper place-mat at my favorite Chinese Restaurant and the recall of almost 20 million items made in China I would never have known that 2007 was the year of the pig. The American middle class is more dependant on cheap Chinese made products than we are on Saudi oil. During this holiday season Americans will help fatten the wallets of companies like Mattel who was forced to recall almost 20 million items made in China in 2007 because of lead paint on toy cars and tiny magnets that could be deadly if swallowed. Lead paint was also found in 844,000 Barbie accessories and toys with the Sesame Street brand. Barbie? Sesame Street? Is anything sacred? These toys are American institutions. Watching your 2 year old suck on the neck of a decapitated Barbie is every Americans right. You think Oscar is grouchy now?

As if poisoning our kids wasn’t enough China also went after our pets. Pet food makers recalled more than 60 million cans of dog food made in China laced with tainted melamine in wheat gluten.  Now I know that in China dogs are a mans best food but people in the humane world cherish their dogs and cats. The pet food scandal has prompted many Americans to actually read the labels of what they are feeding their pets. Organic pet food made in America has experienced a huge growth in sales. Hopefully some day packs of wild dogs will roam the empty streets of Beijing.

Besides killing our pets and young children China also wants to help our teenagers to look better and feel better by supplying them with steroids, human growth hormones, and other bodybuilding drugs. A huge underground distribution network was traced to 37 companies in China and Marion Jones’s basement.

Nike recalled 235,000 football helmets because the chin cup has a defective strap and caused at least two concussions and a broken nose. Okay, now they’ve gone too far! Messing with football is almost like messing with baseball. Sure supplying baseball and football players with steroids is bad but sabotaging the equipment that protects the drug-addicted overpaid prima-donna professional athletes we idolize is stepping over the goal line. Who is going to endorse toothpaste made in China laced with ethylene glycol which is widely use as auto antifreeze? Who will be on Chinese-made lunch boxes containing lead that were given away by the California Department of Public Health to promote healthy eating habits among American children?

With pressure from the American government the Chinese government finally responded. On July 10, 2007  Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China’s State Food And Drug Administration was executed by shooting. Obviously something must have been lost in translation when President Bush told the Chinese premier that, “Something must be done” which was mistaken for “shoot him with a gun”.  After his execution he was charged with taking bribes from various firms in exchange for state licenses related to product safety. He was found guilty and re-executed.

The trade agreement with China is grossly one sided. The United Staes is not producing  goods outside of very few high tech areas and Americans continue to spend on cheaply made Chinese products.

Every time I look at the label of something that I have bought it always seems to be made in China. “Made in America” has almost become extinct. I recently called my congressman to complain but the call was outsourced to India. I got a nice guy named Davesh who was very sympathetic and referred to me as “Buddy”. Only in America. The phrase “Only in America” was made in China.

If Hillary Wins

Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2007 by edge3306

It is almost a lock for Hillary Clinton to win the democratic nomination for President. I’m not sure how Hillary Clinton duped the people of New York State into electing her to the senate but she somehow did it. Even though it was widely publicised that this was just a stepping stone back to the White House for her and Bubba she still won.

After ransacking and then leaving the White House after Bill’s term ended they felt that they were now too cosmopolitan for Arkansas so they loaded up the pick-up truck, Bill packed up his Girls Gone Wild CD collection and they moved to the beautiful suburbs north of New York City where Hillary immediately began talking about running for the Senate.  

Hillary Clinton is only good at two things; lying and campaigning. Okay that’s really one thing considering that campaigning is mostly about lying.  Many people on the left side will tell you that Hillary is the most qualified candidate and that it is time for a woman president. I agree that it’s time for a woman president…just not that woman.  When discussing Hillary’s potential with people I’m always taken back when thay drop names like Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, and Indira Gandhi as examples of prominent female world leaders of the past. I must put on a sour face like someone who has just smelled dog poop not realizing that it is on my own shoe. Hillary Clinton isn’t qualified to even have her name spoken in the same breath with those women. They were real leaders that had true vision and deeply cared about their countries. Hillary has no vision whatsoever and only cares about herself. Here are just a few of the changes that we can all look forward to if Hillary is elected President.

  • Absolutely no hot chicks working in the White House. This can prove to be a tough one since Bill’s choices in extramarital affairs has run the line from thin and demure to chubby with a Betty Rubble hairdo.
  • Since Hillary has stated in the past that the carpet in the Oval Office has had a lot  of dirt swept under it she will replace it with a new carpet resistant to stains and Bill’s DNA.
  • Spending for the military will be cut in half and all weapons will be purchased from China because if we order in bulk we can get a good deal.
  • Condoleeza Rice will have to go. Nobody wants to see a cat fight during a cabinet meeting…except me…and probably Bill.
  • Of course we can all expect the decor of the White House to go from Washington chic with a touch of Texas warmth back to Arkansas trailer park with a touch of IKEA dorm room furniture and a velvet painting of Elvis.
  • No smoking cigars…or doing anything else with them in the White House.
  • Barack Obama will be picked up by the FBI and sent to Guantanamo for years of questioning and waterboarding.
  • Bill will be given a cabinet post just so Hillary can keep an eye on him. It was either that or an after-school program.

The major changes that Hillary will bring to the rest of the country will include disease, famine, and political unrest ultimeatley resulting in anarchy and civil war. The civil war will also be closed to hot chicks.

Bill and Hillary: The Shame of it All

Posted in Politics on December 13, 2007 by edge3306

Bill and Hillary Clinton are often referred to as the “Clinton Machine” because of the  guerrilla tactics they supposedly use on their enemies. Many in Washington suffer from the Clinton fear factor due to this political urban legend. The unwritten rule is that nobody messes with the Clintons. That is unless you want to have your badly beaten body discovered on the shores of the political cesspool that Washington becomes when a Clinton is in office. Bill Clinton is the only U.S. President in history that brought down the property value of the White House during his presidency. The neighbors couldn’t wait for the Clintons to move out. Why anyone would want the Bonnie and Clyde of politics back in the White House is beyond my comprehension. Here are just some of the many scandals associated with the Clintons. After reading the following list anyone with the common sense of an ashtray could tell that they are not to be trusted and they should never be allowed to hold any political office on the United States. I would also like to further recommend that they be deported to China immediately and the Clinton Memorial Library in Arkansas be closed down and reopened as a Hooters.

Whitewater:
Most of Clinton’s involvement in the Whitewater scandal took place while Clinton was governor of Arkansas.  Whitewater is the name given to the alleged banking and real estate scandals of Clinton and his friends.  After money loss and a failed real estate venture, an illegal method to recover the losses was conceived.  The scandal involves Clinton allegedly pressuring Arkansas Small Business Administration (SBA) worker David Hale into making an SBA loan to Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.  The money from the loan was then funneled out with cashier checks and personal accounts (many under false names) to pay for Clinton’s debts from the failed Whitewater land project. In other words, tax dollars bailed Bill and Hillary out of a financial crisis after illegal means were used to acquire them.

The President’s friends and land deal associates, Fmr. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Jim and Susan McDougal, who were involved in  Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan and the Whitewater land deal, were recently convicted for their involvement in the scandal.  Subpoenaed billing records of the Rose Law Firm, which Hillary Clinton worked for and which is involved in Whitewater,  mysteriously showed up in the White House in January 1996.  Among the finger prints on these records were those of Hillary Clinton.  While this case has been open for several years, facts are still being revealed.  President Clinton testified on behalf of his convicted friends during their trial.  After countless trials and hearings, Susan McDougal refuses to speak on the issue, though a bailout check signed by her, and with Clinton mentioned on it, has been displayed as evidence  Mysteriously, few reasons exist for her to remain silent except what many allege to be pressure and/or threats from Bill Clinton.   This scandal is still under investigation.  Over a dozen convictions have come from it thus far.

Cattlegate:
    This scandal involves Hillary’s investment of approximately $1,000 in cattle futures.  Not much later $100,000 had been “earned.”  In other words, Hillary invested a small amount of money and made a several thousand percent profit from it under very questionable circumstances.

Travelgate 

The Clintons fired seven white house travel office employees in favor of hire cousins and friends.  The employees were lifelong employees in good standing.  After stating no other reason for the firings than the employees were viewed as disloyal to the administration, officials began to question the White House.  Soon after the firings were questioned, the White House allegedly used the FBI to investigate the employees then attempted to ruin the worker’s reputation by making the fact of an FBI investigation public.  Travel employees ended up spending their life savings defending themselves in court against the false charges.  Further investigation revealed that former travel office chief Billy Dale’s FBI file was among the nine hundred plus requested files of Filegate.

Gennifer Flowers:
    In  1992 Clinton denied a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers. She taped phone calls with him but he claimed they were false.  After appearing on television branding Flowers a liar and strongly denying the relation, Clinton has again changed his story.  Now he has admitted to at least some of the affair.  It ironically turns out Clinton is the liar.

Vince Foster

Soon after Clinton lawyer Vince Foster committed suicide in a Washington park under mysterious circumstances, his office was cleared out.  Along with his office went the Whitewater billing records and several key pieces of evidence.  Evidence suggests that Clinton associate Bernard Nussbaum purposely delayed access to the office to investigators.  Not to mention the mysterious suicide in which there is some hint that evidence was tampered with.  Witnesses have testified they saw Clinton aides clearing the supposedly sealed office. 
Years after they had disappeared from Vince fosters office, subpoenaed Whitewater billing records appeared in the White House.  In January of 1996 an aide stumbled across them sitting on a table in the White House.  They couldn’t have been sitting their all these years unnoticed.  Hillary’s finger prints were on them. 

Paula Jones

Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton after alleging he exposed himself to her in an Arkansas hotel room.  After inviting her to what was supposed to be a promotion.  Jones claims she was pressured by Clinton as he made advances on her.  Though the administration has fought the entire way, refusing to cooperate with investigation while constantly attacking Jones’s credibility, the case has been successful in revealing many more scandals of the Clinton presidency. Although the case was thrown out, it was successful in uncovering several other of Clinton’s affairs as well as declaring that the president is not above the law  (supreme court).  More may come of this one with an appeal.  Now that the Supreme Court has specifically defined sexual harassment, the Jones case has a good chance of coming back!  Clinton has also become the first US president cited for contempt of court. His testimony under oath was ruled as both false and designed to be evasive and obstruct the course of the Paula Jones case. Clinton faces being disbarred and a potential of over a million dollars in fines due to this contempt charge. 

Lincoln Bedroom: 
DNC donors were allowed to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom for a contribution of $150,000.  Make your reservations now by contacting the Gore 2000 campaign.  I’m sure Bill will help out his friend on the campaign.  This just proves that the Clinton White House is for sale…or at least for rent by the hour. 

Chinagate: 
Attempts were made by Communist China to funnel money to the Clinton campaign and influence elections in 1996.  Charlie Trie, one of Bills trusted DNC fundraisers, attempted to funnel this money. When faced with indictment he fled to China for refuge.  Another money funneler for the communists and Clinton campaign, Johnny Chung, is now in jail.  The funds came from divisions of the Chinese army, one of which had been caught only months earlier while attempting to smuggle AK-47’s to LA street gangs.  This is the government of CHINA!  Amidst the sex scandals another DNC fundraiser scandal, Johnny Chung, openly admitted to knowingly taking funds from the Chinese government.  Chung also testified that the DNC knew the source of this money was communist China.  They accepted it anyway.  The money is said to have been funneled through Chinese government official  Liu Chao-ying then Chung and then to the DNC.  Even more revealing was that Liu Chao-ying, daughter of Liu Hauqing (recent head of the Chinese military and top official of the Chinese communist party) and a Peoples Liberation Army and Chinese space agency official, attended a DNC fundraiser.  Here she was photographed with Clinton.   Chung also visited the White House over 45 times.  Chung took several thousand dollars from China and contributed them to a partisan candidate for President of the United States and leader of the free world.  Johnny Chung testified under oath to Congress on his admitted relations with the Chinese government and the ties to the President.  Ironically Chung is one of a very small number of people who had greater White House access than Monica Lewinsky! Chung is said to have made over 50 visits compared to Monica’s 39! Even better, only a week later Charlie Trie entered a guilty plea for his fundraising crimes and agreed to talk with investigators! Who next? Well it happened to be John Huang! Huang, another Clinton cronie, pled guilty to funneling Chinese funds less than a week after Trie! 

The Lewinsky affair: 
Monica Lewinsky made 37 visits to the White House AFTER she left to another job.  She admitted in taped phone calls to a long affair with Bill Clinton in the oval office.  Her account has only been reinforced by an immunity agreement in which she gave testimony of the affair.  Also suggested was that Bill Clinton gave her instructions to hide the matter.  A Secret service agent testified of escorting her to Clinton.  Lewinsky turned over a stained dress from which DNA has positively traced the stain to Bill Clinton.  Also turned over were answering machine tapes and a photograph.  Bill Clinton admitted to a relationship, one he long denied, on August 17, 1998.  In doing so he destroyed his credibility and let down all who had spent the previous seven months defending him.  It takes a great arrogance to think of oneself as above the law.  Bill Clinton was impeached for lying in grand jury deposition and for obstruction of justice in attempt to cover-up as a direct result of this scandal. 

 Along with the Lewinsky scandal comes evidence that she was instructed how to hide the affair by Clinton and offered a job by Vernon Jordan -  as an “incentive” to remain quiet.  It’s kind of stretching it to think of this as all a mere coincidence. Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice surrounding the job offering. 

Bill’s Plan to Distract the American People: Bomb Somebody
Although the following military actions may have been justified their timing has been staged as a shameful political diversion from Clinton’s headline making scandals.  

  • Three days following a disastrous attempt at apology on August 17, 1998 Bill Clinton launched a missile attack on several facilities in an attempt to halt terrorist Osama Bin Laden.  Though this attack was necessary, Clinton seems to have purposely delayed it for political reasons.  The attack on Bin Laden had in fact been proposed over a week in advance but was delayed by Clinton. Clinton then acted when he felt it was politically appropriate.

  • The day following a settlement with Paula Jones, Clinton made an aborted strike on Iraq.  Clinton acted at an excellent time for press coverage. He successfully kept the Jones settlement off the news for an entire weekend.

  • One day before he was to be impeached, Clinton called an uncharacteristic suprise air attack on Iraq.  Though the stated reason was refusal to allow UN weapons inspections, one must note that Saddam Hussein acted no differently than he had in the preceding six months.  Though Hussein’s actions have long warranted a military strike, Clinton prevented any action until the time suited him.  To delay his inevitable impeachment, Clinton put American lives in the line of fire by striking Iraq. This action alone constitutes one of the lowest forms of political manipulation and abuse of power that America has ever seen.

Looting the White House: 
Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House with their pockets full of silverware, furniture, and pretty much everything else they could grab that wasn’t theirs. Included was a multi thousand dollar furniture set belonging to the interior department, which the Clintons had tried to claim as a gift before being forced to return it under pressure and outrage. I’m surprised they didn’t rip the copper piping out of the walls.
 

Pardon Me: 
On the night before and morning of his departure from office, Bill Clinton made several controversial “midnight” pardons. Aside from pardoning political allies and scandal co-conspirators such as Susan McDougal, Henry Cisneros, and his brother Roger, Bill pardoned fugitive criminal millionaire Marc Rich. Rich was charged in the early eighties with several felony offenses but fled to Switzerland to avoid facing trial. Among Rich’s crimes were oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis and ties to arms smuggling. Amazingly, Clinton completely disregarded pardon protocol in the Rich case and failed to properly inform many authorities in the justice department of Rich’s fugitive status. The story becomes more interesting considering that Marc Rich’s ex wife Denise, who fought for his pardon, is a close Clinton friend and DNC donor. Denise Rich gave $1 million in contributions to the DNC, $450,000 to Bill Clinton’s library fund, and $70,000 to Hillary Clinton’s senate campaign according to the Washington Times (2/22/00). The Rich pardon appears to be a political pay off and, though the president may constitutionally pardon anyone, it appears he abused his authority in exchange for political donations. Clinton’s pardon of Rich has prompted criticism from even the most liberal Clinton defenders and several prominent Democrats. Former President Carter called the pardon “disgraceful” while Senator Tom Harkin and even Rep. Barney Frank criticized it! 
But that is by no means all. Hillary Clinton’s brother Hugh Rodham was paid over $400,000 dollars for successfully fighting for pardons and commutations for criminals Carlos Vignali and Almon Glenn Braswell, two included in Clinton’s last minute pardons and commutations list. Upon the eve of this story breaking, Hillary and Bill denied any knowledge of Hugh’s involvement and, under pressure, called on him to return the money. Translation: they got caught. Again.