Chow Time with Let's Go Eat

Chow Time with Let’s Go Eat.

Today’s Review is about Polanco Mexican Restaurant and Cantina. This Restaurant is located in Slinger Wi. at 1058 E. Commerce St. (WI  State Hwy 60) between Wi. Hwy 164 and  

Wi. Hwy 175 on the north side of the street.

My wife Karen and I were there on a Sunday Afternoon.

The owner and host greeted and sat us promptly when we walked in. The wait staff was very knowledgeable and prompt. No reservations are needed but Friday nights may be quite busy with wait time up to 1 hour. In my opinion it is well worth the wait. The décor is bright and colorful.

We had the Nachos Fiesta as an appetizer although it is enough to have as a meal by itself. You can get it plain, with shredded chicken, seasoned ground beef or steak. We had it with the seasoned ground beef. 

For our entrées Karen had the Burrito Bueno, which is the vegetarian burrito. I had the Burrito Burracho which you can have your choice of shredded beef or chicken or seasoned ground beef. I chose the seasoned ground beef.  Portion sizes are enough that you wont leave hungry or over stuffed. We both had diet cokes to drink but they do serve Margaritas, Mojitos and Mexican beers. Prices are moderately priced, as the most expensive thing I found on the menu is $14.99.

In keeping with a radio theme ratings range from S-1 (Awful) to S-9 (Excellent) I give this wonderful restaurant an S-9. Karen and I will definitely be going back. This restaurant is definitely “Let’s Go Eat “ approved.

Just In case....

Hello Everyone ,

I know I haven't written much to anything in the last couple of years. I have been real busy with the expansion at work, the death of both my Mom and 3 months later my younger brother. After Mom died there was much to do with her final arrangements, disposition of her house, and other things. My Brother on the other hand I didn't have to make arraignments for as he had two daughters, both whom stood up and took charge of his arraignments, Mom is buried at the family plot on Milwaukee's NW side, and my brother is at the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove,  WI.
 I  also have been helping a couple of friends get through their problems by being the best friend that I can.I help by letting them Vent their problems, some times they just need a friend to listen to their rants. I wish there was more that I could do....so I'm trying to muddle through, buck up and suck it up.....type  at you all later......until then stay sane and Hey, Hey Let's be Careful out there "K".....

Random Thoughts.....

Hello everyone, thanks for reading this...just a few thoughts
it looks like Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will have a serious challenge to his reign as Milwaukee's Mayor...he has a serious challenge from Alderman Bob Donavan...who I hope wins.....

My teams in football season are now all out so I have no interest in the rest of the games. I for one wont be watching....

I have been busy in my workshop, building more models...

and last but not least I hope to post here a little more often...in the coming year....

type at you all later...Gary 

Chow Time with Let's Go Eat

Hi all, here is another installment of Chow Time with Let’s Go Eat.

Tonight we review Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant. It is located at 15 S. Moorland Rd. Brookfield , Wi.

The Cooper’s Hawk concept includes four distinct components: an upscale casual dining restaurant, full-service bar, private barrel-aging room, and Napa-style tasting room and retail gift store…all under one roof. Each Cooper’s Hawk location is distinctive in layout and décor, but carries the same warmth and elegance that guests have come to expect. Prices are medium to low-pricey. What I mean by that is between $10 and $35. Drink prices are dependant on what you order. Wine starts at about $6 a glass, Wine can be gotten by the bottle too.  Beer is $5 to $6.50 depending on what you order. Cocktails start at $9.25, but they aren’t your typical short cocktail glasses, these are tall water glass type glasses. Reservations aren’t required but recommended. The staff are courteous, attentive and friendly.

We started with an appetizer called “Over the Border Egg Rolls”

Which  consisted of  Southwest Chicken, Corn and Black Bean Relish, Cilantro, Cheese, wrapped in a tortilla. It was served with Tomatillo Salsa, Cilantro Ranch Dressing, Cashew Dipping Sauce, Asian Slaw. There are six of them on a platter great for sharing.

I had the Crabcakes (there are Four good sized cakes) which were served with Betty’s Potatoes, Garlic Green Beans in a mustard sauce. I also had two cocktails called  the “ Southern Hooch”  if your driving I wouldn’t have more than one….

Karen had the BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad, which looks like it could feed two. She also had a glass of Blueberry wine.

Karen’s Mom had the Gnocchi with Braised Fennel and Herb Ricotta Dolce. She also Had a Cooper’s Hawk Bloody Mary..

Desserts are available but we chose not to get any as we were elegantly sufficed.

If you wish to check out their website it is www.chwinery.com

In keeping with a radio theme ratings are as follows S-1 very poor to S-9 Excellent….I give Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant an S-9.   I would also say that they are a place worthy of a “Let’s Go Eat” approved. Until Next time Don’t eat to live ..Live to Eat…73 Gary N9LGE

ChowTime With "Let's Go Eat"

HELLO EVERYONE, IT’S TIME AGAIN FOR ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF CHOWTIME WITH “LET’S GO EAT”.

TODAY’S REVIEW IS A BIT OF A TRIP, BUT IN MY OPINION, WELL WORTH IT.  WE WENT TO THE PINE TREE GRILL, WHICH IS INSIDE THE RADISSON HOTEL AT THE ONIEDA CASINO IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN.

KAREN HAD ONE OF THE COMBO PLATTERS, HAVING A SIRLOIN STEAK (MEDIUM) AND BBQ CHICKEN, YUKON GOLD MASHED POTATOES, AND GRILLED ASPARAGUS.THE STEAK AND CHICKEN WERE BOTH TENDER AND FLAVORFUL. KAREN ALSO HAD A GLASS OF WHITE ZINFANDEL WITH HER DINNER.

I HAD THE JUMPING WALLEYE COOKED IN GARLIC BUTTER WITH A PRETZEL CRUST, YUKON GOLD MASHED POTATOES, AND GRILLED ASPARAGUS. VERY GOOD! (KAREN HATES FISH, AND SHE TRIED A TASTE OF MINE AND SAID IT WAS SO GOOD THAT SHE WOULD ORDER IT FOR HERSELF NEXT TIME – NOT BAD PRAISE FROM SOMEONE WHO HATES FISH!) I HAD A SEVEN & SEVEN WITH MY DINNER.

ALL DINNERS COME WITH A CHOICE OF 2 SIDES, WITH MANY TO CHOOSE FROM.  THE GRILLED ASPARAGUS IS $1.50 EXTRA, BUT WELL WORTH IT.  YOU ALSO GET DINNER ROLLS WITH GARLIC BUTTER.  DESSERTS WERE AWESOME. KAREN HAD TIRAMISU AND I HAD THE TOWERING CARROT CAKE, WHICH WAS HUGE ENOUGH FOR 3 PEOPLE TO SHARE.  WE ALSO HAD COFFEE WITH THE DESSERT.

THE PINE TREE GRILL ALSO HAS AN AWESOME BREAKFAST BRUNCH. RESERVATIONS ARE NOT NEEDED. PRICES ARE MODERATE. COZY ATMOSPHERE, AND THE STAFF IS FRIENDLY, COURTEOUS AND HONEST (KAREN HAD MADE A MISTAKE IN ADDING IN THE TIP, IN THE WAITER’S FAVOR, AND HE CORRECTED HER.)

IF YOU ARE STAYING AT THE RADISSON OR VISITING THE CASINO, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND STOPPING HERE TO EAT.

IN KEEPING WITH THE RADIO THEME, I USE A RATING SCALE OF S-1 (VERY POOR) TO S-9 (EXCELLENT). I GIVE THE PINE TREE GRILL A RATING OF S-9.  WELL WORTH THE DESIGNATION OF “LET’S GO EAT” APPROVED.

73  Gary N9LGE 

Latest project

Hi everyone, as some of you know I do Build Models so here is a photo of one of the latest  ones I hope you enjoy it.....Gary

Thanksgiving Day 2022

Hello everyone, Today Saturday November 17th 2012, I lost a  friend who evidently took offense at the following email I sent out to everyone in my joke list...... I sent this out in the humor in which it was written by somebody other than me as NONE of these events as happened yet...although I added my editorial comment to it (maybe that was what triggered the response I got from her.....she told me "Enough is Enough please remove me from your mailing list).....read it and see what you think.....type at you all later...Gary

Subject: Thanksgiving Day, 2022

"Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband.

"In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered.

Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington . Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it sets for the rest of the world", Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting.

Yet it wasn't the game that Winston was uninterested in. It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey . Even though it was the best type of Veggie Meat available after the government revised the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce, and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey.

Even more, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster since the government officially changed the name of "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020, to officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment of Native Americans.

Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold. Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats - which were monitored and controlled by the electric company - be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.

Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the family.

Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment. He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program.

And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort. "The RHC's resources are limited," explained the government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I'm sorry for your loss."

Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines - for everyone but government officials that is. The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn't want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there.

Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in.

Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion. No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids. Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience" was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the terrorists."

Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for "unequal scrutiny," even when probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine. Almost.

The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the law intact. "A living Constitution is extremely flexible", said the Court's eldest member, Elena Kagan. " Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example," she added.

Winston's thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner. Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a week, but got over it.

His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility. It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet of another human being. Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13.

The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated was, once again, to "spur economic growth."
This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.

Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement.

At least, he had his memories. He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life "fair for everyone" realized their full potential. Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them. He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2012, when all the real nonsense began with Obama’s second election. "Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is enough' when we had the chance," he thought.

Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.

~~~~~~~~~~~

One Pissed off Woman....

Written by a housewife from New Jersey and sounds like it! This is one ticked off lady.

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we?

Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?

Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia . I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat. I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" anywhere come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques. I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs. I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up a terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care. When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured: I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank: I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed "special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and-you guessed it-I don't care !!

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!

If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button.

Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country!

And may I add: "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan

I have another quote that I would like to add AND.......I hope you forward all this. "If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Also by.. Ronald Reagan

One last thought for the day: In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the Anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's words during a recent interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America ,

he said: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ

2. The American G. I.

One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM. AMEN!

The Jihad Candidate

The Jihad Candidate

by Rich Carroll

Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Seven Days in May' are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader's imagination at best-seller level. 'What if' has always been the solid grist of fiction.Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lowerManhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota? The same amount of time to c reate a large Muslim enclave in Detroit? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'?Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa, a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile. Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of 'racism' Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers. Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies. Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion American taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nations for use in Africa.Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as 'bigoted racism'; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts. Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.Where is the bloodhound American 'free press' who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation's reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush's 'Skull and Bones' club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work? Why haven't 'newsmen' pursued the 65 blatant lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries? Where are the stories about this candidate's cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa? Since when did our national press corps become weak, timid, and silent?
Why haven't they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who have surrounded this 'out of nowhere' Democrat candidate or that his church re-printed the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his 'close pastor friend and mentor' met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)? Why isn't the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barack Hussein Obama? Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton's name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name?Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn't our media connecting the dots with Islam? Why do they focus on 'those bad American soldiers' while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as 'ethnic cleansing' instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims! There is enough strange, anti-American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter.

WHERE IS OUR INVESTIGATIVE MEDIA!?A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. 'The process of settlement' of Muslims in America, Akram explained, 'is a civilization jihad process.' This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in 'America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record number s and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving uninformed Americans about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press?Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their intentions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of 'racist' from the left-wing Democrat crowd. Lies and deception behind a master plan - the ingredients for 'The Manchurian Candidate' or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation's White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability?Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations?

Change for America? What change? To become another 'nation of Islam'? Is mainstream America now so liberal that we can't think?

We, as a country, must wake up!'

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God or the Bible'. George Washington

I Believe

Hi everyone and thanks for reading this

I Believe....That we(the US) should become energy independent by drilling in Anwar,off the coast of California, off the Gulf Coast, in the Dakotas, Texas,and Pennsylvania. Using our own resources instead of importing them.

I Believe...We don't have a Oil supply problem...What we have is a Production Problem...we have enough oil we just cant refine it fast enough because we haven't built a NEW refinery in over 30 years.

I Believe... That we(the US) have enough coal to last 10 centuries and that we have the technology to burn it cleaner so that we have enough electricity for all Americans....If we can put a man on the moon we surely can figure out a way to burn coal cleanly...

I Believe...that we can Increase the use of Nuclear power for Electricity production ..most of the other countries that use nuclear energy for the production of electricity do so at a greater percentage then we do.

I Believe...That we should pull our Military forces out of Europe ...It's their continent let them garrison it....we have better places to put them like securing our own borders.....Not to keep us in but to keep Illegals out.....

I Believe...WE should cut off the Aid we give to foreign countries which hate or strongly dislike us. The money saved would be better put to use taking care of our own citizens....

I Believe ... That there is a very Vocal minority who seem to think they can tell the majority what to do ....WE NEED TO TELL THAT MINORITY TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!...

I Believe...That the Government should not spend more then they take in revenue...they also should not increase taxes just because they can.....they should run the government like a business or a family household when times are tough cutbacks have to be made......

I Believe....That Government isn't the solution it's part of the problem.

I Believe...that if I work smarter not just harder the fruits of that labor should be mine and no none else's....

I Believe ...That if you want something in life you have to work for it...Not steal it

I Believe.... That if you want to be safe at home you have to take the fight to "Them" whoever Them is....that way we don't have to fight them here...

I Believe....That War is a bad thing , but sometimes Bad things Happen.

I Believe... That no soldier wants war , but if it comes do what it takes to win and then go home...

I Believe...That there is no last word in diplomacy....

I Believe...That you don't win wars by dying for your country , but by making the other poor bastard die for his country....

I Believe.....That if you speak softly and carry a BIG stick most people and countries wont mess with you....

I Believe...That I don't eat to live , I live to eat...

I Believe...That it is pointless to worry about things you cant control....and there is so much I cant control....

I Believe...That if we(the US) can put a man on the moon..we can come up with the technology to run cars on something other then fossil fuels...until that time comes why not use what we have...

I Believe...that the US is the greatest country on this earth and by the GRACE of GOD we will continue to be ...

I Believe....that we need to put our trust in GOD that he will do what he thinks is right

I Believe...That GOD put each of us here in this place and at this time for a reason...I don't know what that reason is yet ... maybe It isn't for me to know now ...I just put my trust in GOD as he knows what he is doing

I Believe ....That there is NO Substitute for Victory.....

Best Explanation I've heard Yet......Vote Accordingly

Some people have short memories…..DO YOU REMEMBER JANUARY 3, 2007? I’ve been saying this for years, but this email probably explains it better and more clearly. This is NOT a political message, but rather a clarification to remind us all of the correct facts. Remember that on October 9, 2007, 11 months before our “economic crisis” occurred (that was actually created), the Dow hit its highest point ever, closing at 14,164.53 and reaching 14,198.10 intra-day level 2 days later. Unemployment was steady at 4.7%. But things were already being put in place to create the havoc we’ve all been experiencing since then. And it all started, as this email explains, on January 3, 2007. I'm sending this to each of you regardless of your party preferences because I believe it is something you may not have considered. This tells the story, why Bush was so “bad” at the end of his term. Don't just skim over this, it's not very long, read it slowly and let it sink in.  If in doubt, check it out!!! The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007, which was the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH Remember the day... January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! Unemployment... added to this CRISIS because of the dumping of 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from “YOUR” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES! Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy, but nothing was done. And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA administration.   And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress. So when someone tries to blame Bush. REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!" Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party. Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases. For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th. There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on! PLEASE DO YOUR PART !!! Type at you later Gary