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Obama: Stimulus Stopped Possibility of Second Depression

Before President Barack Obama began touting the political bonafides of Michael Bennet – at a fundraiser for Bennet – he made sure to mention that his year old stimulus stopped a second depression.

“One year later, thanks largely to the Recovery Act, we can stand here again and say that a second depression is no longer a possibility,” Obama said, adding all the statistics about job growth (“about 2 million”) and economic growth (“nearly 6%”).
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The disingenuous nature of the statement is so blatant that it is hard to describe the amazement I feel when I read it.  This joker (Obama) threw an enormous omnibus pork barrel bill at the problem.  I think this way.  When you shoot close range with a shotgun, something is bound to hit the target.  What the thinking man (or woman) realizes it that if you take an inefficient solution and concentrate it enough it will do something.  The real trick is to know what you are doing and take the sniper shot.

To say this indicates that Mr. Obama is very out of touch, has a lot of intelligence, but a small skill set.

More jokey jokey from the White House.

Here is a shot that I believe I took with a polaroid in 1969.  The water is up.  I don't know if there was flooding at the time of the picture, but there is plenty of flow over the dam.

The older house in the background is very old, it shows up often in old pictures of the dam.  The ranch house to the right (it's difficult to see) was built in the fifties or sixties.  One of my junior high teachers lived there, Mrs. Gottschall.  She taught me seventh grade science.

Here everyone in my family is involved with getting their picture taken.  Behind the camera is my mother.  In the picture from the left is my Grandmother, Ella Armstrong and my Grandfather, Lincoln Armtrong.  Following on are myself, Wendell Armstrong, my Dad, Dick Armstrong, and Charles Armstrong.

Wendell and Charles are my brothers.  From the looks of things we are all dressed up and coming or going to or from something.  There is bright light outside the window, so I figure photos developed in May with dressed up family probably means Easter.

This was a big year for Armstrongs.  1969 was my last year of high school.  In just a few weeks after this picture was taken I will have graduated and another Armstrong man of no known relation will walk on the moon for the first time.

For now, it is just nice to see a family picture.

For three years I had the honor of being the Principal in Neche, ND.  Don't know what kind of a guide I was for them. but they meant a lot to me.

Here is the class picture that I presume still hangs on the school wall somewhere. This was their first graduation as a high school senior and mine as a principal. 

"... Mr. President of the School board, Superintendent Wadoups, proud parents, relatives, and honored guests; these members of the Neche High School class of 1981 have met the requirements of the District Board of Education and the State of North Dakota for graduation from high school.  I am proud to present to you the Neche High School graduating class of 1981."

Here (on the left) is another detail picture from the 1906 photo I featured in the previous blog.  This is just a bit further south than the previous detail from yesterday and I have marked three items of interest that are obvious on both pictures.

Item 1 is the brick building on the corner. It is visible in both pictures.  This building contained at one time a bank, a drugstore, an insurance agency, and I even took dancing lessons upstairs in this building in the sixties.  A red brick building, still standing today.

Item 2 is a sign that reads "Hardware" and there is still a hardware store in roughly this location today.  I have no idea if it is the same building.

Item 3 is something I would not have noticed in either picture, it actually looked like a blemish.  It is in both pictures and appears, possibly, to be a clock.

Those wires all over the place didn't last long.  As lighting entered the picture a few years later, I don't see any sign of them.  I assume the wires moved to the alleys.

Also, see those other two guys on the roof a little left of center?

Maybe I will dig up another picture or two another day, but that's it for the Lisbon Way Back Machine today.

Here we are looking generally south on main street from 3rd Avenue to a point just north of the 4th Avenue intersection/  We are looking at the west side of the street.  Look at the water pump, two barber shops, building with a lunch counter, hotel, wagon, shoe shop, and the dirt main street.  As far as I can tell, none of these buildings are in existance today.

Rooms were $1.00 and $1.25 and there were more hotels on the south end of town.

There are playbills on the buildings in two places.

There are people sitting and walking on the street.  There is a fire hydrant and a water pump, with a basin under it, possibly to water horses.

That is it for Lisbon, ND time travel today.  More later from this amazing picture postcard.  Other scenes are coming up.

I have been pondering this for the last couple of days.  I was a Democrat because I believed in education to better the common man so he could get ahead.  Now there is no clear path for an educcated person to go.  Why?  Liberals (Pronouced "Democrats") are so anti business that they can't figure out how to simply end this recession.

It could be simple, but not when you are a liberal.  If you clearly understand how to get us out of this recession and don't believe the BS that the Stimulus Package is doing its job, you are a conservative.

Later.

I was really excited for a minute, I thought, wow, maybe someone has some insight here.  I thought maybe he would address how the EPA and other government regulatory policies have not only discouraged businesses that manufacture and produce, but how they literally kill them before they start.  He didn't.  It was the same old bullshit about how the bankers and what-not are robber barons.

I'll tell you something, the bad science of global warming is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the destructive beliefs and activities of the liberals.  Liberals lack balance.  They did not used to when I was growing up.  I was a Democrat once.  They are very out of touch now.

Does anyone know how weigh facts and factors and come up with a balanced decision any more?