Reporters Convicted in North Korea

Wow! A country that enforces it border security laws. What a concept.

North Korea verdict (CNN)

What’d they expect when they went over there? They knew this was possible. Reporters knowingly take chances and they are rewarded and glorified when they get away with it but when they get caught we want them released on “humanitarian grounds”. But, had they gotten away with it they’d come home, hit the talk show circuit, write a book and be hailed as brave reporters trying to uncover injustice in the world. Sorry, this time the reporters got caught and have to pay the price. Next time think about it before violating somebody else’s laws whether you agree with them or not.

If they were men (especially white men) we’d never hear about them. Remember the white male reporters who were shot and killed in South America a few years ago? No?

The two reporters in North Korea essentially amount to a hostage situation and hostage situations can get tricky. Obama needs to play this one correctly. But, even the Obama friendly Huffington Post is blasting him for being friendly to Iran and the Muslim nations while not saying a word about the one lady that was convicted in Iran nor the two in North Korea. It’s even mentioning him wanting to set Gitmo prisoners free but not getting our prisoners home from foreign countries. This can bite him later.

Carter messed up the Iran hostage situation. Reagan took advantage of that. Iran didn’t fear Carter but they were afraid Reagan would retailiate in some way. Reagan had Bush and Cheney is his cabinet. After the crises was over there were lots of mysterious bombings and “accidents” that occurred to Iranian officials. That’s back when we let the CIA do its job and didn’t occupy countries. Ah, the good ole’ days.

Like Carter, these countries don’t fear Obama. He’s a “kindler gentler” President. He’ll need to change that image if he doesn’t want more things like this to eat away at his chances of re-election.

Expect the reporters to be home shortly. North Korea is using them as bargaining chips. They want something and they’ll probably get it. They wanted this to get out publicly making it a bigger deal. The more it’s in our news the more the politicians will think they have to seem “humanitarian” and help the girls out. Don't be surprised if they’re home by the 4th of July so the politicians can reference “freedom and independence” in their public speeches while they secretly give away the farm for their photo op.

Joe Biden’s Patriotic Taxes

Joe Biden says it’s patriotic to pay higher taxes. On ABC’s Good Morning America when asked about Obama’s plan to tax the wealthy he said "It's time (for the well-off) to be patriotic." Thus, if citizens don’t pay MORE taxes they’re not patriotic. I’m willing to be less Patriotic if he’d like to be more Patriotic and pay my taxes for me. Wouldn't it be MORE Patriotic for the Congress and Senate to reduce wasteful spending so us Patriots don't HAVE to pay more taxes?

The idea of taxing the wealthy sounds great. It’s the whole Robin Hood (or Obama Hood in this case) idea of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. The Robin Hood story is a good one but it’s just that…a story. We happen to live in the REAL world. In the REAL world the wealthy don’t really pay taxes.

In our REAL world we have Trickle Down economics. Ronald Reagan was right. Everything trickles down from the wealthy to the middle class and on down to the poor. Like it or not, agree with it or not the fact is that the good trickles down and the bad trickles down as well.

If taxes are raised on the wealthy they’ll raise the prices of goods and services the rest of us use. They’ll wrap the new taxes into the cost of doing business and pass that cost on to the rest of us (a.k.a. trickle down). The wealthy own businesses and hire employees. They’ll raise prices and/or reduce staff. While it’s true we non-wealthy citizens will pay fewer taxes we’ll pay more for goods and services. The end result is the non-wealthy will foot the bill and have less money to take care of their family’s while Joe Biden credits the wealthy for being MORE Patriotic than the rest of us.

Link to story at kcstar.com

Palin Power

Wow, a lot is being made of a speech writer helping write Sarah Palin’s speech last night. Is it because she’s a woman that they’re picking on her? The men don’t write 100% of their own speeches either. Could ANY speech writer do all the research necessary to include all her personal items and accomplishments WITHOUT her being involved? No way.

Does anybody think that any of these politicians write their own speeches? It’s extremely rare. I think it was Chris Mathews (the news guy) who was a speech writer for both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Even Jerry Lewis helped JFK with his speeches during JFK’s presidential run. JFK would send him speeches and ask Jerry Lewis to make them more entertaining.

Sarah Palin's speech was obviously exceptionally written, genuinely honest and superbly delivered or they’d have more to pick on than just WHO wrote it.