Published by Jack Everest on 09 May 2011
I grew up watching and reading Milton Friedman…he was one of my childhood heroes. Trump may be singing a popular protectionist tune, but here is the true song regarding trade. By the way, I don’t think Trump is a protectionist, but his calls for “fair” trade sometimes can be misinterpreted as such. That said, I think he is correct to demand that China stop manipulating its currency.
Published by Jack Everest on 08 May 2011
“I thought some of what the president did was pretty good,” Trump said in an interview on CNN on Sunday.
“I understand it. It was a lion’s pit. I was walking into it. I’ve been there before and I thought it was an entertaining evening,” Trump said.
One of Obama’s gags that most amused Trump, he said, were the images flashed on big ballroom screens of what was labeled “Trump, The White House,” spoofing the businessman’s practice of naming buildings after himself.
Note to Obama: In his book, Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and in Life, Trump says this, “Always get even. Go after people that go after you. Don’t let people push you around. Always fight back and always get even.”
He may have no hard feelings, but he will get even. Bet on it!
Published by Jack Everest on 04 May 2011
I have listened to Dr. Manning for 3 or 4 years. He’s always iconoclastic…a real paradigm buster. But there is always that nagging doubt. I don’t doubt his sincerity…a man cannot speak off the cuff with such force and lie. As a Christian, I don’t doubt the principles on which he speaks…and I usually don’t doubt his conclusions. But he is so outrageous that he gives me pause.
See what you think. Listen to him…digest what he is saying.
If you believe he is wrong…we welcome your comments here. Same is true if you find him right! Hope to hear from you!
Published by Jack Everest on 01 May 2011
This is a short, to the point video that focuses on one single feature that would be impossible were it not for tampering. Is this the smoking gun? You decide.
Here is the essence of the video…and it is amazing.
If the Obama birth certificate is, as purported, a scan of a 1961 typewritten document (typed using a 1961 or earlier typewriter), each and every letter typed on that document should be unique…no two typewritten letters are ever identical. This is because each time a letter is typed, a key is struck with a different amount of force and the typebar attached to that key strikes a different point on the typewriter ribbon for each letter typed (since a typewriter ribbon is cloth infused with ink, no two places would be identical or contain an identical amount of ink). Ergo, the chances that two separate “B’s” on a typewritten document would be the same would be extraordinarily remote if not downright impossible.
Test it for yourself by examining other letters on the birth certificate pdf. What I have done below, anyone can do. I simply enlarged the pdf document to a point at which any differences would be visible and then cut and pasted the subject letters side by side into MS Paint.
In other words, two identical “B’s” like the ones below would require a computer-driven word processor.
This means that the birth certificate provided by Obama wasn’t a scanned image of a 1961 pre-computer typewritten document but a computer created and manipulated one.
See for yourself. Can you find any differences?
Figure 1 is the letter “B” from the word Obama (Child’s Last Name) in box 1c and Figure 2 is the letter “B” from the word Obama in the “Full Name of Father” section in box 8.
If interested, click the image to read reviews…
Published by Jack Everest on 29 Apr 2011
This is pretty good actually (the good stuff starts at 4:00 minutes into the video, so jump ahead)…
Published by Jack Everest on 27 Apr 2011
According to CNN (report at 8:56 AM), Obama has today released his long form birth certificate.
We will update as this story develops.
Update at 9:11 AM: Link to pdf of certificate…WhiteHouse.gov.
Update at 9:57 AM: President held presser re: this matter and Trump spoke in NH saying he hopes the BC is the real thing. Very exciting story…we’ll stay tuned.
Update at 4:09 PM: According to Fox News…
More than a month before Donald Trump began his media blitzkrieg over the issue of President Obama’s birth certificate, the document was quietly moved to a more secure location within a dual combination-key lock safe inside the state’s health department vault.
The certificate was moved there by Alvin Onaka, Hawaii’s State Registrar, in response to what had already become an increasing number of media requests by FoxNews.com and others, according to sources.
This is odd. Why move the certificate to a secure location (thereby hiding it) if it contains only the information released today. There is absolutely nothing divulged today that would fan the fires of curiosity.
Update at 6:43 AM Thursday morning: A scan of the net provides one with a host of articles claiming the document released by the White House is a forgery and then there are a few debunking rather nicely each forgery claim made. Bottom line, we’ll have to wait for the experts to weigh in before drawing any conclusions. In the meantime, here’s a LINK to a video at YouTube that covers most of the forgery claims. The rebuttal to the main point of the video (that the pdf consists of multiple ‘layers’ that leave an impression of document construction or tampering) is that Adobe (which was used to create the pdf released by the White House) has an Optical Character Recognition feature that, if not disabled or turned off, separates a scanned image into multiple layers in an effort to mechanically improve the clarity of a document.
Published by Jack Everest on 25 Apr 2011
[Note: When reading the following, keep in mind that it has not yet been confirmed by any other source and, particularly considering that it seems odd that Fabrizio would decline by email instead of a phone call, it would be wise to withhold judgment until confirmation is in hand.]
Though we have no knowledge that Trump actually made an offer to Tony Fabrizio to serve as his campaign manage should he run, Fabrizio has taken preemptive action and has declined and asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration. This detail was reported by The Daily Caller upon their obtaining an email from Fabrizio to Trump.
By the way, it has been rumored that Trump and Fabrizio have been chatting about this matter for some time now.
In case you aren’t familiar with Frabrizio, here what his firm provides as a partial bio…
Tony Fabrizio’s client base is global in scope, serving internationally prominent clients on three continents. He has earned a reputation among the leading survey researchers and campaign strategists in the nation. His knowledge of and experience with opinion research (quantitative and qualitative), media advertising and crisis management enable him to excel as a political and corporate strategist.
In 1996, Fabrizio served as chief pollster and strategist to Bob Dole’s Presidential campaign. He also has served over the years as a key advisor to more than a dozen U.S. Senators, scores of U.S. Congressmen and numerous Governors and other statewide elected officials, as well as the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Furthermore, Fabrizio has served numerous Fortune 500 corporations including Visa, Hewlett-Packard, AOL/Time-Warner, FedEx, Pfizer, American Home Products, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, AT&T, Harrah’s, Phillip Morris, Cendant and G-Tech, among others. Corporations consult Fabrizio for his expertise in consumer research, marketing, crisis management, image management, market positioning and public affairs.
Source: Fabrizio McLaughlin
Published by Jack Everest on 22 Apr 2011
After referring to Trump as “the Al Sharpton of the Republican Party,” Krauthammer tells Fox that he was shocked to receive a phone call from The Donald…
It was a surprise, and when my secretary told me, I put on a helmet and a flak jacket as I answered the phone. I expected a tirade, which he had every right to do given what I have been saying about him. In fact, he was courteous–very calm–and he made his case, rather than sort of attacking everything I said about him…
Here’s the video, see for yourself (by the way, Charles adds that Trump’s ‘absolutely’ running)…
Published by Jack Everest on 25 Jan 2011
Obama, by his very nature, is a destructive force when it comes to the free market.
Obama loves large corporations because they are easy to unionize…and they are easily enticed by his offers of crony capitalism.
But he hates small businesses and they are on the cutting edge of job creation and new business innovation. He hates small businesses because they exist in a world in which excellence is the final judge (and, as a socialist, he believes that excellence discriminates against slackers like himself).
No matter how much he may speak of jobs, he is destroying the foundation on which jobs must be built. When Obama says jobs, he means government jobs, green jobs, union jobs. He doesn’t mean jobs which are the result of a vibrant and growing free market.
In Obama’s mind, free market jobs are controlled by rich, greedy people who fight to achieve excellence in products and services and fight for high productivity in manufacturing. Excellence is diametrically opposed to socialism and vice versa. Excellence is all about individual performance and that is the enemy of the collective, the group, and the state.
Published by Jack Everest on 21 Jan 2011
Barack “Take a Gun to a Knife Fight” Obama has no intention of encouraging the Left to tone down its violent and emotional rhetoric. His call for civility was nothing more than a backhanded regurgitation of accusations already made against Sarah and Conservatives.
“Keep it civil” translates as “you conservatives are responsible for this violence…as a tacit confession of your guilt, you should STFU.”