That's $1,300,000,000,000. 

Outlays rose by almost 530 billion dollars, or 21 percent, and revenues fell by more than 350 billion dollars, or 17 percent, compared with the amounts recorded during the same period last year, the non-partisan CBO said.

So, what's the natural response when your spending goes up, and your income goes down?  If you're the Democrats, the answer is obvious: spend even more money, of course!  And send the thugs around to intimdate anyone who might stand up and wonder if this is really a good idea.

Meanwhile, the national debt works out to be about $4,275 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. today.

It's you were born today, welcome to the world, little one!   Here's your bill!

He blogs at the Belmont Club, and lived (and fought) in the Philippines during the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship, has words of counsel and wisdom as we enter what I'm very afraid will be dark days for this Republic:

They are calculating past Obama to what happens when the bloom is off the rose; they don’t love him. They are using him. It’s a mistake to believe that the only opportunities which existed occurred around November 2008. No. That was the smaller opportunity. There’s another round of opportunity that may take place around 2010.

This is at the root of my unease about an uncritical “bring it on” mentality. The Constitution is there, the frameworks are there to keep the really nasty opportunists at bay. In the heat of argument it’s tempting to forget that. In the days ahead strengthening the foundations will play as much a role as shaking them. The really dangerous guys know that a crisis will also sweep away restraint. That must always be borne in mind or they will make an appearance. Keeping things together and successfully navigating a crisis means knowing which restraints must never be allowed to weaken as much as knowing which must be challenged. “Revolution” is a game that opportunists play; it can mean simply smashing things. “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” Any parasite can do that. But restoring democracy, or getting it to function is much harder task. It’s like surgery. You want the patient to live, because you are the patient, whether you realize it or not.

The violence against citizens who presume to insist on their First Amendment rights, that is.  From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with "Don't tread on me" printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack.

"It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked," he said.

To provide balance in the story, they also interviewed a Democrat activist who was viciously assaulted . . . well, no, he was photographed by a someone allegedly from the "GOP," got in the way of the police, and got himself arrested.

Balanced reporting, you see.

What causes ice ages? 

"Slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis."

In a publication to be released Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Oregon State University and other institutions conclude that the known wobbles in Earth's rotation caused global ice levels to reach their peak about 26,000 years ago, stabilize for 7,000 years and then begin melting 19,000 years ago, eventually bringing to an end the last ice age.

The melting was first caused by more solar radiation, not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as some scientists have suggested in recent years.

What? Something other than CO2 can be responsible for "climate change?" The hell you say!

Just heard on KCMO Talk Radio in Kansas City:  A caller to the morning show suggests a work stoppage to thwack the donkeys right between the ears to get their attention.

I think that's a capital idea, no pun intended.

I propose the week after Labor Day.  If you can afford it, close your business for the week, or even for a day or two, the week of September 8-11.  Call in sick.  Take the week off.

Head to Washington, D.C. for the September 12th rally.

Tell the politicians that your life, liberty, and property belong to you, not to them, and they need to BACK THE HELL OFF.

Don't tread on me.

 Linda Douglass, Minister of Truth for His Highness the One Barack Obama, has a message for you, the subjects:

"we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House," health reform Communications Director Linda Douglass says, "we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

For the Good of the People's Republic, report to the Government all instances of "fishy behavior".

We're talking to you, Sarah Palin.

Update:  Yes, Iowahawk does it better.

Update II:  This was the 2,000th post on this particular incarnation of Medary.com.

Update III:  Dang, comments look kinda ugly with this theme.  Oh, well, I don't get that many comments, anyway.

 From the (Democrat-written) Hillbuzz (the "Hill" in the blog's title is Hillary, in fact):

Why are you forcing this healthcare bill through in 3-4 weeks when the current President took SIX MONTHS TO PICK A DOG?

Heh.

 

I underestimated the arrogance of Democrats  They don't just want to demonize insurance companies.

They want to demonize EVERYBODY who doesn't absolutely agree with them.  The President wants you to inform on anyone who disagrees with his government takeover of health care.

Obama, as the leader of the Democratic Party, is now completely revealed as a totalitarian, a socialist, and a fascist.  He is intolerant of dissent and debate--a totalitarian.  He believes the government can spend your money better than you can--a socialist.  He believes that govenrment should operate banks, automobile companies, insurance companies, hospitals, and doctor's offices--a fascist.

He will get away with everything that good people will let him have.  The fate of the Republic truly hangs in the balance this August.

The strategy for the Democrats this August is to demonize the health insurance companies in order to provide an Enemy which will be defeated by the Good Guys via socialized medicine.

There's a fairly obvious problem with this strategy, of course. While I take second place to no one in my disdain for health insurance companies generally, there is a fundamental difference between an insurance company and the government. I can fire the insurance company any time I want and, if I so choose, do without health insurance at all. Well, at least I can until Obamacare is passed.

On the other hand, not only can't I fire the government whenever I want, if I should try to do so, they will come after me with guns. And they have far more guns than I do. This health care "crisis" is not about health care at all. It is about power--the power that some people want to seize and hold over other people. It's a story as old as humanity itself.

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

. . . is sauce for the gander.

The (in)famous Obama-Joker poster

Bush as the Joker in Vanity Fair

Several comments come to mind, other than "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."

"You can dish it out but you can't take it."

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

"The truth hurts, doesn't it?"

And, of course, from the movie The Dark Knight from which the Joker makeup comes: "Why so serious?"

Update: Here's the deal--if you find one of these images upsetting but not the other, you are a rabid partisan at best, or a rank hypocrite at worst. If you're offended by both of them, then you have a well-developed sense of fairness (and you're also a bit naive about politics in general). If you're able to at least find a chuckle in both of them, then you're a fairly emotionally balanced, stable person.