State of DIS Union 2013 continued. Part 3.

Onward Ho! This is the way I slog through this marsh of fecal perpetudenous, of such massive dimensions that even God[or whatever deity you happen to believe in] cannot believe the scope of it.  Oy! Vay!  Anyway...NEXT!


Part of our rebuilding effort must also involve our housing sector. Today, our housing market is finally healing from the collapse of 2007. Home prices are rising at the fastest pace in six years, home purchases are up nearly 50 percent, and construction is expanding again.
But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected. Too many families who have never missed a payment and want to refinance are being told no. That’s holding our entire economy back, and we need to fix it. Right now, there’s a bill in this Congress that would give every responsible homeowner in America the chance to save $3,000 a year by refinancing at today’s rates. Democrats and Republicans have supported it before. What are we waiting for? Take a vote, and send me that bill. Right now, overlapping regulations keep responsible young families from buying their first home. What’s holding us back? Let’s streamline the process, and help our economy grow.
These initiatives in manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and housing will help entrepreneurs and small business owners expand and create new jobs. But none of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that has to start at the earliest possible age.

 Housing?  Uhmmm No? Stay out of  housing Junior Space Cadet. The government has fucked that sector to a fare thee well by loaning money through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and forcing banks to lend money, to people who couldn't buy the ash from a cigarette! And you mental midgets want to continue the cycle?  No and HELL No!


Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program. Most middle-class parents can’t afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives.
Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than seven dollars later on – by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime. In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own. So let’s do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind. Let’s give our kids that chance.

You know...if I had the patience right now I could quite probably come up with studies that refute yours and even if I can't...the government doesn't belong in the education game.


Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they’re ready for a job. At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
We need to give every American student opportunities like this. Four years ago, we started Race to the Top – a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, for about 1 percent of what we spend on education each year. Tonight, I’m announcing a new challenge to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. We’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math – the skills today’s employers are looking for to fill jobs right now and in the future.
Now, even with better high schools, most young people will need some higher education. It’s a simple fact: the more education you have, the more likely you are to have a job and work your way into the middle class. But today, skyrocketing costs price way too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt.
Through tax credits, grants, and better loans, we have made college more affordable for millions of students and families over the last few years. But taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring cost of higher education. Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and it’s our job to make sure they do. Tonight, I ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act, so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid. And tomorrow, my Administration will release a new “College Scorecard” that parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.
To grow our middle class, our citizens must have access to the education and training that today’s jobs require. But we also have to make sure that America remains a place where everyone who’s willing to work hard has the chance to get ahead.


Sigh...no. No more free rides.  No more telling kids they HAVE to go to college. That thinking has got us where we are today.  Nope...let us encourage our children to learn a trade. Or two trades.  Hell! As many trades as they want!  Encourage them to go to trade school  not college. College for most, ends up being a waste of money for  a degree they can wipe their ass with but not much else. That and a buck fifty will get you a bottle of water.


Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants. And right now, leaders from the business, labor, law enforcement, and faith communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my Administration has already made – putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history, and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship – a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.

Yeah yeah..Same shit, same bullshit actually we've been hearing for years. DO, don't talk.  On second thought every time you do something it turns into an unmitigated disaster. I've changed my mind. Go sit in the corner Odumbo. Sit down, shut your piehole and don't do a blessed thing.

And real reform means fixing the legal immigration system to cut waiting periods, reduce bureaucracy, and attract the highly-skilled entrepreneurs and engineers that will help create jobs and grow our economy.
In other words, we know what needs to be done. As we speak, bipartisan groups in both chambers are working diligently to draft a bill, and I applaud their efforts. Now let’s get this done. Send me a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the next few months, and I will sign it right away.
But we can’t stop there. We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence. Today, the Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago. I urge the House to do the same. And I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts, and finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this year.
We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. That’s why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, nineteen states have chosen to bump theirs even higher.
Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families. It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. In fact, working folks shouldn’t have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher. So here’s an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year: let’s tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on.

Sigh....all raising minimum wage does is create yet MORE inflation.  "Wait, what do you mean raising the minimum wage and forcing people to pay people more money than a job is either worth or more than that employer can afford, causes inflation"  headdesk, headdesk, headdesk.  Focus!  What happens when you FORCE companies to pay more to their people, force higher costs of doing business on them?  What do they do?  They raise the cost of the product or service and pass their cost of doing business,  on to the customer!  Jeebus I know 10year olds with more mental capacity than you!  Raise the minimum wage and make no mistake;  you're going to force small businesses already walking the razors edge to stay open in this shitty economy, to close their doors;  because then they'll no longer be able to afford to pay their employees.  Let alone the rest of their over head.   Simple fucks fail to understand basic mathematics. Sheesh!


Tonight, let’s also recognize that there are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it’s virtually impossible to get ahead. Factory towns decimated from years of plants packing up. Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job. America is not a place where chance of birth or circumstance should decide our destiny. And that is why we need to build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for all who are willing to climb them.

 Focus!  WHY did those plants close? Was it really that demand was down for the products or that it was cheaper to close the plants and re open somewhere else that was cheaper to operate with less taxes and wages that weren't union extortion?   Use your heads for something besides hat racks.


Let’s offer incentives to companies that hire Americans who’ve got what it takes to fill that job opening, but have been out of work so long that no one will give them a chance. Let’s put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods. And this year, my Administration will begin to partner with 20 of the hardest-hit towns in America to get these communities back on their feet. We’ll work with local leaders to target resources at public safety, education, and housing. We’ll give new tax credits to businesses that hire and invest. And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood – because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.

Rebuild vacant homes in run down neighborhoods where gunshots are the timekeepers that people set their watches by? In communities where the crime rate would make your head explode from the sheer scope of the numbers?  Where there are no jobs to be had because well;  no one wants to live,  open a business or there? Why?  Because getting mugged/robbed/raped/murdered/carjacked etc,  isn't a slight possibility but an almost guaranteed certainty? No thanks, pass.   Yet another money wasting proposal where Obummer hasn't specified where the money is going to come from. So I can only assume the Unicorn again.


Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity – broad, shared, and built on a thriving middle class – that has always been the source of our progress at home. It is also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
Tonight, we stand united in saluting the troops and civilians who sacrifice every day to protect us. Because of them, we can say with confidence that America will complete its mission in Afghanistan, and achieve our objective of defeating the core of al Qaeda. Already, we have brought home 33,000 of our brave servicemen and women. This spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead. Tonight, I can announce that over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan. This drawdown will continue. And by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.

Yep tell the enemies of freedom exactly when they can come out from under the rocks into the open and destroy all the work we just put in.  Brilliant.  *breaks into the serenity prayer...
Lord give me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I've had to kill because they pissed me off. Amen*   I feel better...okay not really but I am calmer.


Beyond 2014, America’s commitment to a unified and sovereign Afghanistan will endure, but the nature of our commitment will change. We are negotiating an agreement with the Afghan government that focuses on two missions: training and equipping Afghan forces so that the country does not again slip into chaos, and counter-terrorism efforts that allow us to pursue the remnants of al Qaeda and their affiliates.
Today, the organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self. Different al Qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged – from the Arabian Peninsula to Africa. The threat these groups pose is evolving. But to meet this threat, we don’t need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad, or occupy other nations. Instead, we will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya, and Somalia provide for their own security, and help allies who take the fight to terrorists, as we have in Mali. And, where necessary, through a range of capabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat to Americans.

 Alqueda is no longer a threat? *falls out of chair laughing again.*  Would you stop?! Falling like that hurts, you inconsiderate ass!

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9868595/Analysis-al-Qaeda-goes-full-circle-with-attempt-at-political-hijack-of-the-Sahara.html

Africa is a ripe garden for Al Queda to plant and bear the fruits of its efforts. The numbers of people they could recruit are damn near endless on the african continent. A continent in which it's tribal sub elements have been slaughtering each other in wholesale job lots for more than 2000 years. For money, for food, for power...hell for FUN!

http://dawn.com/2013/02/12/thailand-says-al-qaeda-eyes-attack-on-us-consulate/

http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=11&aid=1004&dir=2013/February/Wednesday13

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9860822/Timbuktu-al-Qaedas-terrorist-training-academy-in-the-Mali-desert.html

and being that it's an African nation with tons of hungry, angry, desperate people...that call will as previously mentioned...likely bear fruit.

Even islamics can play the hearts and minds game

As we do, we must enlist our values in the fight. That is why my Administration has worked tirelessly to forge a durable legal and policy framework to guide our counterterrorism operations. Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts. I recognize that in our democracy, no one should just take my word that we’re doing things the right way. So, in the months ahead, I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world.
Of course, our challenges don’t end with al Qaeda. America will continue to lead the effort to prevent the spread of the world’s most dangerous weapons. The regime in North Korea must know that they will only achieve security and prosperity by meeting their international obligations. Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defense, and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats.
Likewise, the leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution, because a coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and we will do what is necessary to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. At the same time, we will engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals, and continue leading the global effort to secure nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands – because our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead.



Blah, blah blah blah. Same shit...different day. Booorrrrrrrrrring!  *looks at clock* Oy! 2.5hrs of my life bled away while I reply to this elphantine river of shit?!  Okay, I give up. I'm tired. I'll try to write and post part 4 of 4 tomorrow. Why tomorrow instead of tonight?  Because I'm afraid my brain might retaliate by shutting down, if I wade through the last of this massive pile of manure!

Remember TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.