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when the going gets tough, the tough get going!

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Where is the trust what happened to it Where is the common sense in folks today

Surprised maybe not be a strong enough word to describe my feelings about this topic. But for the sense of being polite and constructive, lets leave it be for now.

Some very intelligent people seem to believe that Mr. Obama in his approximately 50 days of office has created the disastrous financial situation that exists not only in the USA but in the world. Go figure that!

Living here in Northern Europe some 30% around the world from the USA, we are devastated by the current economics and that happened late last year. Now how could the new US President had such an effect on our economy even before he became President?

Where is the common sense and the ability to apply logic in these folks thinking?

Quoting from an email from one of these folks "I don't know how much attention you pay to the U.S. stock market and conditions in general here but the "change" you and many others wanted is here and it's rapidly driving our country right into the ground."

Now lets attempt to apply some logic. The current economic collapse has roots some where in the policies from several past presidents. Maybe in the first Bush Whitehouse and perhaps fueled by President Clinton's policies as well.

Not being smart enough and schooled in all this high finance; I can't be sure exactly where it started but common sense tells us that this level of problem didn't happen overnight.

Secondly, if the previous power base led by George W. Bush was so clever, how come they didn't ride their white horse into the scene last October and announce THE PLAN, win the elections and be the heroes today.

Perhaps the common sense answer is that they didn't know what to do either!

So again I ask my question???

Why do some people today blame now President Obama for this mess?

Perhpas this current mess was another result of GREED?  The type of Greed which brought down the Soviet Union and other powerful governments before. 

Just look at Mr. Madoff, what else can you call his behaviour?  It must have been GREED!

So what is the better plan?

President Obama and his team have proposed a long list of things to do.  Is it all the right stuff? I certainly don't have the ability to know and I am sure they don't know it all either.

But I quote again form this email recently received "All we hear is doom and gloom.  The annointed Messiah speaks on TV daily telling us how bad it is and insisting his democrat congress quickly pass legislation spending billions of dollars.  The banks are on their way to being nationalized and the government owns a substantial stake in the auto industry's big three among other businesses. "

It is BAD ! common sense tell us its bad.

So what to say, its all OK folks, take two Aspirin and go to be and you will feel better tomorrow?

Where is the trust, what happened to it? Where is the common sense in folks today?

This is the time to find common ground, time to band together with a team spririt of "Yes We Can" and find a way to dig ourselves out of this mess. All this negative thinking will do nothing more than dig a deeper hole as our economic grave.

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Lipstick Politics

There is even a book written on the use of the phrase.

Available on Amazon Com

But now "out of stock"

Perhaps Ms. Torie Clarke, John Mc Cain's Press Secretary is behind this "flap" as it will sell books?

Whimmmmm something smells to me and its not the pig...

watch this video...



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Origins of a silly phrase

Who First Put "Lipstick on a Pig" ?


The origins of the porcine proverb. By Ben Zimmer - Slate Magazine

Posted Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, at 5:37 PM ET


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The concept is an old one, but the phrasing used by Obama is rather new. Many porcine proverbs describe vain attempts at converting something from ugly to pretty, or from useless to useful. The famous maxim that "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear" dates back at least to the mid-16th century. Other old sayings play on the ludicrousness of a pig getting dressed up. "A hog in armour is still but a hog" was recorded in 1732 by British physician Thomas Fuller. As Francis Grose later explained in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796), a "hog in armour" alludes to "an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed." Charles H. Spurgeon noted another variation in his 1887 compendium of proverbs, The Salt-Cellars: "A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog," meaning, "Circumstances do not alter a man's nature, nor even his manners."

The "lipstick" variation is relatively novel—not surprising, since the word lipstick itself dates only to 1880. The incongruity of pigs and cosmetics was expressed as early as 1926 by the colorful editor Charles F. Lummis, writing in the Los Angeles Times: "Most of us know as much of history as a pig does of lipsticks." But the exact wording of "putting lipstick on a pig (or hog)" doesn't show up until much later. In 1985, the Washington Post quoted a San Francisco radio host on plans for renovating Candlestick Park (instead of building a new downtown stadium for the Giants): "That would be like putting lipstick on a pig."

Ann Richards did much to boost the saying's political popularity when she used a number of variations while governor of Texas in the early '90s. In 1991, in her first budget-writing session, she said, "This is not another one of those deals where you put lipstick on a hog and call it a princess." The next year, at a Democratic barbecue in South Dakota, she criticized the George H.W. Bush administration for using warships to protect oil tankers in the Middle East, which she considered a hidden subsidy for foreign oil. "You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it is still a pig," she said. Richards returned to the theme in her failed 1994 gubernatorial race against the younger Bush, using the "call it Monique" line to disparage her opponent's negative ads.

Since then, "lipstick on a pig" has spiced up the political verbiage of everyone from Charlie Rangel to Dick Cheney. John McCain himself used it last year to describe Hillary Clinton's health care proposal.

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