Nick over at RightMichigan.com recently posted the following news item:
Unemployment rate hits 9.3% (!!!) while 74,000 Michiganders lose their jobs
Remember back during the 2006 campaign when Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry traveled the state telling folks they had a plan and they were “working that plan and we’re working it and we’re working it and we’re working it?”
Whatever that meant.
It is getting scary for those of us living in the United States of Animal Farm who have overcome our public school education to actually still remember how things actually were in the 1970s (under Carter) vs. the 1980s (under Reagan).
This You Tube video link came across the Designated Conservative’s desktop this morning. All things old are truly new again:
Barack Obamaism - from the larepublican’s channel:
Remember kids, the New York Times assures us that President Obama is no socialist, but apparently he believes that George W. Bush deserves the label.
Surely he’s too tired from playing President to be able to run our lives too! – really….
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch…
The following are excerpts from an excellent analysis of the 2010 election cycle by Steve McCann in the American Thinker entitled:
The unexpected election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, driven equally by opposition to the Obama agenda and an inept Democratic candidate, will fuel optimism that Republicans and conservatives will recapture the Congress. However, with ten months to go before the midterm election, this confidence is misplaced and misguided, and it will play into the hands of the Democrat strategists.
The Democratic machine will pull out all the stops to maintain control of Congress, particularly in light of the Brown victory.
The current Democratic leaders will rely on two assumptions:
For more news about the Nanny State Running Amok in Michigan, click here.
The following is reprinted with permission from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy:
The forced unionization of home-based day care providers is finally drawing the attention of state legislators.
The writing is on the wall for retirement assets held in conventional ways. A report last week in Business Week shows that the U.S. Feds have 401(k) assets in their sights.
UPDATE:
Scott Brown (R) 52%
Martha Coakley (D) 47%
The Tea Party patriots and designated conservatives of Massachusetts have spoken!
If a republican can win by one million votes in the (former) People’s Republic of Massachusetts, how much more can we do here in Michigan in 2010?
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This Designated Conservative received word last week from a legislative staffer in Lansing that the recently fast-tracked public school reform legislation will very likely be followed up in 2010 with bills aimed at significantly tightening homeschooling regulations in Michigan. No details are available, but…
UPDATE:
This Designated Conservative has been assured by those who should know that there are no plans to resurrect the WISD millage for another vote. File this rumor in the circular file! 
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Rumor has it that some powers-that-be in our ten local school districts here in the Ann Arbor area are considering taking a second bite out of a rotten apple!
The rumor is that there will be an effort made to bring the overwhelmingly defeated WISD “enhancement” millage back for another vote…
This item about President and Mrs. Bush’s secret visit with the families and the wounded at Fort Hood just came across my desk. A great picture, and one more bit of evidence of the Bush family’s true legacy: When the elder President Bush once said that he was seeking a “kindler, gentler America” he really meant it with all of his heart – and he taught his children the same sort of quiet compassion.
We designated conservatives must be a light in the darkness, wherever we may be.
I live in a one-party neighborhood in a one-party community. All local elections are settled in the Democratic Party primary, not in the general election. The last Republican to hold local elective office here was booted out more than 20 years ago.
Am I discouraged?
Public schools today are not the same places American children attended in the 1940s or 50s. They are alien environments to those that went through school in the 1960s and 70s. While vaguely familiar, they are still quite mutated from the educational environment of even the 1980s. …And not for the better!
A Conservative Teacher offers an insider’s view of public education with a pair of excellent, in-depth articles on how public schools work today, and how public education policy is created in Michigan. With our recent election battle over school funding in Washtenaw County, this Designated Conservative thought that A Conservative Teacher’s comments were right on point. Here are some excerpts (click here or on the headlines to read the entire articles):
24,114 residents of Washtenaw County voted for the WISD millage for public schools yesterday. Now, this designated conservative suspects that they were voting for a tax hike on the assumption that other “rich people” would pay the bill, but in the hope that they were willing to put up their share I offer the following suggestion:
If all 24,114 “yes” voters each donated just the $200 per year that they said the tax would cost the average county homeowner, they alone would provide over 80% of the $30,000,000 that this new tax was projected to provide to the schools. Considering that this voluntary method would minimize collection/administration costs associated with the tax process, I suspect that their voluntary contributions would actually provide MORE funds to the schools than any tax. Come on “yes” voters – it’s time to get your checkbooks out and support the schools!
To all our designated conservative friends in Washtenaw County, thank you for coming out yesterday in overwhelming numbers to say “NO!” to the flawed WISD “enhancement millage! Thank you to all those that spearheaded the “Vote No” campaign! Great job.
Now comes the hard part: It’s time for designated conservatives to step in and lead our local public schools away out of the slow-death spiral the Michigan Education Association (MEA)-sponsored “leaders” have created for our children and grandchildren.
This Designated Conservative encourages like-minded folks to write to your school board members, district superintendents, and elected state representatives and tell them the unaccountable tax-and-spend, “this is the way we’ve always done things” mentality is no longer acceptable if we are to have a strong and vibrant public school system in Michigan:
The Designated Conservative would like to thank our loyal readers for carrying this blog up and over a significant threshold: 10,000 pageviews.
For a young blog born less than a year ago in the disheartening aftermath of a disastrous Presidential campaign, it’s great to have garnered so much interest.
I would also like to thank President Obama for helping to keep our material fresh and interesting.
Some of the best Obamanation posts can be found…
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — In a decision as shocking as Friday’s surprise peace prize win, President Obama failed to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday.
While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he’s been in office, the same clearly can’t be said for economics.
The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats.
From his $787 billion stimulus package, to the cap-and-trade bill, to the seizures of General Motors and Chrysler, to the undead health-care “reform” act, Obama has dominated the U.S., and therefore the global, economy as few figures have in recent years.
From Reuters:
Obama is surprise winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:45am EDT
By Matt Spetalnick and Wojciech Moskwa
WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) – Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.
The bestowal of one of the world’s top accolades on a president less than nine months in office, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps of astonishment from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.
Obama said he felt humbled and unworthy of being counted in the company of the “transformative figures” of history who had won the prize.
“I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership,” he said, speaking in the White House Rose Garden. “I will accept this award as a call to action.”
This is yet another embarrassment for Governor Granholm’s “nanny state” nannies at the Michigan Department of Human Services:
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MidlandRepublican has posted video evidence on RightMichigan.com of candidate Rick Snyder’s blatant move to buy votes and manipulate the results of the straw poll at the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island (click here to view the video).
It appears that Mr. Snyder’s own handlers are acting like he is a bit too (R)-lite of a candidate right now. Why bother going to the Republican Leadership Conference if you need to hire a bunch of college kids, pay for them to attend the conference, AND hold their room keys hostage to get their votes in the straw poll for MI Governor?
The Detroit News has weighed in on this topic with an article entitled, “Students’ Behavior at GOP Event Questioned.” Here’s an excerpt:
Questions continue to be raised about the behavior of college students at the state Republicans’ leadership conference on Mackinac Island with some asked to vow to vote for their candidates or risk losing their rooms and others charging that underage drinking was rampant.
Gubernatorial hopeful Rick Snyder has been accused of capturing the top spot in an exclusive Detroit News/WJR NewsTalk 760 AM straw poll during the Sept. 25-27 gathering by having students sign a letter vowing to vote for the Ann Arbor businessman in the poll or risk losing the free hotel rooms and island ferry rides.
Some of the hundreds of bright-green clad students who Snyder brought to the island were asked to sign a “contract” which reads, in part: “I have read the above and understand that my staying in a Rick for Michigan sponsored hotel room and traveling on a Rick for Michigan ferry is contingent upon voting for Rick Snyder in the straw poll.”
Snyder campaign spokesman Jake Suski said the form was created to help ferret out “infiltrators” from other campaigns who were trying to get a free trip and didn’t support Snyder. He also noted the island was swarming with volunteers sent by other candidates, lobbying firms and the Republican Party.
“To come up with our group and not to support Rick or to support other candidates would have been…
The Old Jarhead has posted an essay describing a hypothetical next attack by Al Qaeda on America. I encourage every American to read this post. Here is an excerpt:
Essay: The Next Terrorist Attack on America
