Hitler discovers AttackWatch is a Joke!

This particular parody keeps giving and giving and giving!



Hat tip: The Other McCain

Update: The Gibson Guitar Raid

You've undoubtedly heard about the federal raid on Gibson Guitars. Here is an update from Human Events:

Rep. Masha W. Blackburn (R-TN) met with her constituent Gibson Guitar CEO Henry E. Juszkiewicz in her Capitol Hill office Sept. 9, shortly before the two attended the president’s address to Congress on jobs and the economy. Juszkiewicz’s company was the subject of a Aug. 24 by federal agents that Blackburn said raises many unanswered questions.

The Tennessee congresswoman, in whose district many Gibson Guitar workers live, co-signed a Sept. 8 letter to three federal agencies that raided Gibson Aug. 24 demanding status on the government’s investigation.

“Having armed federal agents raid an iconic American company is no way to inspire economic certainty and spur job creation,” said Blackburn, the vice-chairman of the Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade sub-committee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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An affidavit filed with the search warrant request, referred to the illegal importation of wood from India, which the letter also addresses: “The source country at issue, however, has no problem with Gibson’s actions. The deputy director general of foreign trade for India has stated that India would allow the export.”

The letter also raises the idea that Gibson, which has added 600 new jobs during the current recession, is the victim the government selective enforcement, in effect picking winners and losers, based on the fact that Gibson has imported the same wood without incident for the last 17 years, as have several of its competitors, who have not been raided by federal agents.

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Juszkiewicz said if he ran into the president in the hall, he would try to reason with him. “We need to be sane about this particular issue and get it resolved.”

The CEO said beyond the legal issues, the raid has threatened his company’s very survival.

“No charges are filed and they grabbed a tremendous amount of inventory,” he said.

“Every guitar has a finger board. They took just about all our finger boards. Without finger boards we can’t build guitars,” he said. The federal agents from the Fish and Wildlife Service seized roughly $500,000 worth of critical wood. “The impact has been severe.”

While the guitar executive said he is scrambling to find replacement wood, he expects he will have to shut down operations in the next few weeks.

You can read the rest here.

Bill Clinton address to the Flight 93 Memorial

Will all due respect owed to former President Bill Clinton, his address in Shanksville, PA, at the site of Flight 93's crash, is quite moving and well done.



Hat tip: Hot Air

Condensed version of Obama's jobs speech

Hat tip: National Journal

Obama delivers a campaign speech to a joint session of Congress

In a stunning display of "chutzpah", Barack Obama just subjected a joint session of Congress to a campaign speech. I have never, in my entire life, seen such a venue misused for a useless photo-op touting a litany of proposals that "must be passed immediately!"

Instead of offering up proposals for a proper deliberation in Congress, Obama demanded immediate action on his proposals. In a few words, AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!

When a bull enters a china shop

I've always had a tendency to forge ahead with my convictions, no matter the consequence. Sometimes, that tendency has served me well, especially in business. Other times, not so much.

I always think that others will see the righteousness of my ideas, even when I force them to. Human nature does not take kindly to being "told" what to do. I know I don't like it, but yet I do it to others. I've learned lessons from step-daughters, wives, colleagues and siblings that suggest that such an approach is wrong.

It is a tendency that we all have to guard against. It is no different than the government suggesting that they too can make better decisions for us. It's an arrogant assumption and it betrays a lack of belief and trust in another one's opinion and beliefs.

I've been fortunate to recognize when I've stepped on toes. Sometimes it's immediate and other times it's taken a while.

Tonight, I must fall on my sword once again and hope that those I've offended will accept my sincere apology. Damn, it's really hard to keep learning the same lesson over and over again, but learn I must.

Video of Sarah Palin's Tea Party speech in Manchester, NH

Hat tip: Texas for Sarah Palin