First Place Winner in Michigan Parade

First Place Winner in Bessemer Michigan's 4th of July Parade Float.

Bessemer, Michigan is a small community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Located near Ironwood and Wakefield, Michigan and Hurley, Wisconsin. For those who don't recognize it, the trailer behind the tractor is a manure spreader.....

Those people in the manure spreader represent the President and First Lady. The Tractor is being by a Donkey, presenting, of course, the Democrat Party.

Obama Loves George Soros

An article on Townhall by Michelle Malkin, entitled "Obama's Exclusive George Soros Waivers". Read the entire article here: Townhall/MMalkin/Soros-Obama

"Millionaires and billionaires," President Obama says derisively, must make more "sacrifices" and live by the same rules the rest of America lives by. But there are seven little words that will never appear on the White House teleprompter: "And that means you, too, George Soros."

For all his (and his wife's) bashing of greedy Wall Street hedge-fund managers, Obama has shown nothing but love to the world's most famous hedge-fund mogul. The feeling is mutual and deep(as in deep-pocketed).

Soros and his family shelled out $250,000 for Obama's inauguration, $60,000 in direct campaign contributions and untold millions more to liberal activist groups pushing the White House agenda. While the class warrior-in-chief assails conniving financiers who exploit loopholes and corporate titans who imperil the planet, he lets the Soros exemptions to his attack-the-rich rules slide like butter on a hot plate.

This week, for example, Soros announced he was "quitting" the hedge-fund industry. The headlines emphasized his decision to return about $750 million to outside investors (a drop in his $30 billion bucket of personal wealth). He's reconstituting the business that landed him on Forbes magazine's "wealthiest people" list as a "family" interest. But the move has "self-serving politics" written all over it.

Over the past year, Soros provided coveted support for Obama and the Democrats' Byzantine financial "reforms" under the sweeping Dodd-Frank law. He preached to financial publications around the world about the need for increased regulatory controls over his industry. And in November 2008, while paying obligatory lip service to concerns about going too far, he submitted a statement to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that recommended: "The entire regulatory framework needs to be reconsidered, and hedge funds need to be regulated within that framework."

Frameworks for thee, but not for he, however.

Somehow, in touting its one-year anniversary last week, there was nary a peep about the myriad loopholes and defacto waivers being granted to Obama's powerful benefactors whose names start with "S" and end in "-oros."

US Credit Rating Downgraded

Yeah, you can call it another Black Friday as the U.S. credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA Plus. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in history, saying debt package falls short.

S&P said that it is cutting the country's top AAA rating by one notch to AA-plus. The credit agency said that it is making the move because the deficit reduction plan passed by Congress on Tuesday did not go far enough to stabilize the country's debt situation.

A source familiar with the discussions said that the Obama administration feels the S&P's analysis contained "deep and fundamental flaws." Well Mr President, the depths of your complete ignorance on economic issues is deep and your decision making is totally flawed. You should fire Turbo Tim Geithner as he recently said there was no chance the U.S. credit rating would be downgraded. Speaking of firings,....the American people will give you your pink slip in November 2012.

Not only is S&P downgrading this Country's Credit Rating but they are also issuing a negative outlook, meaning that there was a chance it will lower the rating further within the next two years. My God, we have got to get the Socialists and Communists out of office!

S&P will downgrade the U.S. credit rating to AA if they see less reductions in spending than Congress and the administration have agreed to make, higher interest rates or new fiscal pressures during this period. And you can bet that we'll see higher interest rates, so I guess an even lower credit rating is certainly to come.

This down grade comes after S&P warned the government in April that a downgrade was probably unless the Government developed a long-term deficit reduction plan and avoided a default on the country's massive debt, over $4 Trillion, which is unprecedented in history.

S&P even stated that it was "pessimistic about the capability of Congress and the Obama Administration to bring a fiscal solution that would stabilize the government's debt anytime soon."