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Very interesting article. It seems everyone from Joe Biden to Nicolas Sarkozy agrees that Obama is an empty suit.

I find it both amusing and hypocritical how these bleeding heart liberals always ready to help the poor with other people's money but never seem to be able to spare some of their own. Obama couldn't help out his beloved aunt and uncle who live in a rundown public housing estate in south Boston according to this article.

Joe Biden is on the record of having a total income of $2,450,042 from 1998 to 2007 who gave a total of $3,690 in the entire ten years. To put things in perspective, his charitable contributions for the entire 10 years is less than one third of mine in one year.

If you are a black guy, a Columbia and Harvard law school graduate, running with the novelty of being the first black president, against an opposition party candidate who is stuck with a very unpopular termed out lame duck incumbent, whose political brand is very much damaged, spending upward of $650 millions compare to $84 millions by your opponent, and only leading by 4 points in the poll, it's not so impressive, is it?

Check out this yard sign in east Texas:

Quoting secretary Williams, for the Democrats to say that domestic drilling won't make a difference for at least 10 years so we shouldn't do it is like for John F. Kennedy to say that space exploration won't help us putting a man on the moon until the end of the decade so we shouldn't be doing it. See how absurd that is? Take the time to think through every policy that these Dumbocrats are telling you.

Thanks to my buddy Jeff Turner, here is a great story:

"Once upon a time in a place overrun with monkeys, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the villagers stopped their effort. The man then announced that he would now pay $20 for each one. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. But soon the supply diminished even further and they were ever harder to catch, so people started going back to their farms and forgot about monkey catching. The man increased his price to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so sparse that it was an effort to even see a monkey, much less catch one. The man now announced that he would buy monkeys for $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf. While the man was away the assistant told the villagers, "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has bought. I will sell them to you at $35 each and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each." The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys. They never saw the man nor his assistant again and once again there were monkeys everywhere. Now you have a better understanding of how Wall Street works."

Regardless of what is being said about Collin Powell's endorsement of Obama, I believe it's as simple as a black man endorsing a first black candidate running for the highest elected office in the land. I am not defending general Powell by any means but I can imagine the kind of pressure he's under from all the leaders in the black community. My friends are calling him closet Democrat, traitor, deserter, ... but I took the time to remind my friends that until you are in his shoes, you shouldn't judge him too harshly, quoting Dale Carnegie, the author of the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People. Abraham Lincoln during the war between the states told people not to judge southerners too harshly because northerners put into southern's circumstance could very well behave exactly the same way.

With all the phone calls, emails and whatever other means employed to put pressure on him, maybe even pillow talks, he caved in. Yeah, maybe he's not that strong of a Christian to stand up for his pro life conviction and refuse to endorse a candidate who favors killing 1.2 million babies each year. It may be that he's not that committed a Republican. But he's only human. Until I stand in his shoes, I wouldn't want to be like Peter, telling Jesus: " ... even if everyone denies you, I go with you even to death ... " and then denied Jesus three times before the rooster crowed.

Black folks are only hurting themselves if they continue to listen to all the lies Democrats are telling them. They should instead listen to folks like Bill Cosby and Wayne Perryman. Black families before 1968, before Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty used to have the rate of children born out of wedlock at parity with white folks. Black children used to grow up in loving two parents home. Black males did not comprise 40% of the incarcerated population. Black children used to fear God and poor folks depended on God's faithfulness and provision through His churches. Everything turned upside down when government took the place of God.

I've said it and will say it again. I feel really really sad but if Democrats want to continue to kill little unborn Democrats, it's their choice. All those babies will be in heaven with God. They just won't have the opportunity to be born, to grow up and become voting Democrats.

I keep hearing most small businesses do not make more than $250,000. I don't care. Fiscal conservative folks like me oppose Obama on a policy level. We just don't believe in robbing Paul and giving it to Peter is the right policy. Heck, I didn't escape communist Vietnam to come here to vote for a guy who wants to implement exactly the policy which I ran away from. When Arnold Schwarzenegger first came to the US in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson was on TV. He didn't understand much English so his friend translated what LBJ said. After hearing it all, Arnold asked which political party LBJ represented. His friend told him Democrat. He's been voting for the other party ever since because all of the things LBJ wanted to do were the things he ran away from in Austria. There's nothing wrong with helping the poor but after the Social Security program, which is run by the government and realistically I will have no chance whatsoever to see that 12.4% of my income again, I am not inclined to have the government run any program whatsoever. I am all for private non profit charity organizations, especially faith based, helping the poor, the addicts, .... I am more than willing to give to private charity. I am however strongly oppose to the IRS taking money away from me by force. Additionally, rich Democrats like Joe Biden, Al Gore, ... have become famous for giving almost nothing to charity from their own pockets. They only like to take other people's money to help the poor. LBJ declared war on poverty in the 60s. If they had succeeded, we should have no more poor people with us. If they had not succeeded, why the hell do we continue. We should scrap the program altogether.

With all the color 4D sonogram devices, we can pretty much figure out if a baby is boy or girl sometimes after week 16 of pregnancy. But senator Obama refuses to protect a full term baby from being partial born, then the skull punctured, and brain sucked out, and finally killed. To realize how ridiculous it is, let's replace the word abortion with slavery in senator Obama's answer to the question at the last presidential debate: "I think that [slavery] is a very difficult issue and it is a moral issue and one that I think good people on both sides can disagree on." Can you agree with that statement?

I thought senator McCain did pretty well last night in the debate. He hit Obama again and again and you could see that Obama spent half the time defending his record, especially on the pro-life "woman's health" issue, on the Joe the plumber tax and health care, on the ACORN, .... It's spectacular when senator McCain again and again praised Obama for his eloquence because it's obvious to everyone watching that Obama pretty much got nothing more than his eloquence.

I particularly, fundamentally and strongly disagree with senator Obama on the court standing up for fairness and justice when no one else does. That's not the job of unelected and therefore unaccountable judges. That should only be the job of the legislature, where legislators will have to face the electorate and answer for what they do each time they want to be elected. Not only that, judicial systems are not designed to address public policy issues because they cannot address all the different fact patterns but rather limited to the particular fact pattern of the particular case that has come before the court. Only the legislature can make policies that are broadly applicable to all fact patterns. Dicta are not precedence and stare decisis will do no good. Also, appellate court's decisions are effective retrospectively back to the original date of the events that took place that initiated the law suit. Law should not take effect retrospectively. Most legislation when passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor does not take effect until 90 days after the legislative session have adjourned. This is to allow the time for the public to become aware of the new law before charging folks with obeying them.

We turned in our first legal memo yesterday on a case of a child being injured when he trespassed on land and whether he has a valid cause of action, a viable law suit, against the land owner to recover damages, in the state of Minnesota. So that was common law torts, as governed by section 339 of Restatement Second of Torts.

Now we are moving on to the subject of our second memo, statutory issues. To start off, we have a little exercise on state statutes. I have two issues, mainly dealing with marriage license issuance in the state of Nevada and nepotism in the state of Wyoming. The professor didn't want us to get into the habit of using Westlaw or Lexis all the time. He specifically wanted us to use the actual code books in the library, or he will make us do it all over again. So I spent 10 minutes yesterday looking for relevant part of the Nevada code but couldn't find it. The Wyoming statute, the book contain the title I was looking for was missing from the shelf. Frustrating.

So I went online searching with Google and found the relevant statutes in a couple of minutes. Pulled up title 9 of the Wyoming statutes and title 11 of the Nevada statutes, search for nepotism and marriage respectively, and I got it. Now just go to the library, double check the books there to make sure I indeed look it up in the books because the professor said he can tell the difference between someone doing it online and using the books.

Reading all these tort cases in the area of comparative negligence, I can't help but get a sense that we want to allow people’s families to get some compensation even when folks did something negligence to contribute to their own death because of lack of knowledge. So, are we moving away from Darwinism, survival of the fittest then, and want to do as much as we can to protect every life because there is intrinsic value in every life, from conception to death?

So tomorrow and Tuesday are Teddy Bear Immunity days. If you buy a teddy bear, and put it on your desk, you are immune from being called upon by the professors. The money goes toward the summer internship fund which provides stipends for students who work as interns at non profit public policy institutes where they do not get paid $3K a week like law firms do. All the professors conspire together to make it maximum pressure this weekend. Our legal memo is due on Tuesday, Torts reading is 61 pages, Contracts is twenty-some pages, and on top of that you have to memorize as much of your outline as possible to prepare for Torts practice exam this coming Thursday, or Saturday morning if you so choose.

I am sitting here and thinking: people who make $250,000 or more a year aren't people without means and certainly weren't stupid or they wouldn't be there. Why do we think these people won't be able to find a way not to let Obama tax them to death?

A lot of change has happened since I last posted. Alaska governor Sarah Palin has energized the Republican base like no one else can. I am excited going into the voting booth and vote for a straight Republican ticket on October 20th, that's when early voting begins in Texas.

I wish the bailout legislation had not gone through. I understand the president and every Republican leader want to do something to calm the public's irrational fear and allow the McCain campaign to get back to talking about national security, an issue we Republican will always win on. The fear is irrational because there is not one thing that you can do today that you cannot do tomorrow. The loss of employment is always there, that does not make it a national crisis, though it definitely would be a personal one for those who are affected. My take is that you should always keep up your skills, always taking proactive steps to make sure you remain marketable. Making sure you distinguish yourself, put yourself half or one step ahead of the crowd is something you do constantly and never allow your worst enemy, complacency to have the better of you.

But indeed the rescue financial package had gone through. The market has gone down three consecutive days now since the rescue legislation passed both houses of Congress and signed into law by president Bush. I want my refund. The government has never been the answer. It’s so true that there’s no new news, only old news happen to new people. That’s what happened here. People bought into the old saying we all laugh at: “ I am from the government and I am here to help.” Because people do not learn, history repeats itself.

There is still three weeks left. I hope the correction in the market will be done and people will be rational again and take a serious look at Obama, see for themselves the huge discrepancy between his rhetoric and his record, and make an informed decision when they go into the voting booth on Tuesday, November 4th.