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News Items 2009
In a free society, government exists, at most, to protect people's rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else. George Dorunda
The Perfect New Year's Resolution Think positively, recognize that you are a rare and unique human being, go the extra mile, and stay away from negative people. Happy New Year!
No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. The CO2/Global Warming political scam continues.
Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank In the financial reform bill H.R. 4173, there are huge giveaways insuring the government will again rescue banks and Wall Street if the need arises. It supports the biggest banks. It authorizes Federal Reserve banks to provide as much as $4 trillion in emergency funding the next time Wall Street crashes. So much for "no-more-bailouts" talk. That is more than twice what the Fed pumped into markets this time around. The size of the fund makes the bribes in the Senate's health-care bill look minuscule. Barney Frank, once again, stinks of hoax and change.
Obama prepares to legalize illegal aliens With the healthcare battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive.
Guess Who Showed Up At the White House? The White House has posted 25,000 additional records of those visiting the White House. It's all about investment bankers, union leaders and climatologists, judging by the visitors of President Obama and the President's chief economic advisor Larry Summers.
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." - Patrick Henry
"There ought to be one day --just one-- when there is open season on senators." - Will Rogers
Obama's Aunt's Immigration Case Set for 2010 President Barack Obama's aunt will remain in this country until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in her bid for asylum from her native Kenya. Obama's aunt, 56, first applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004. She did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. This woman is a freeloader and invader who has been here illegally for many years, living in free government housing that we the people pay for. Illegal, deplorable and unethical behavior runs in the family.
GPS units don't always pick the safest route A Nevada couple was stranded for three days after following their car's GPS. Remember, GPS units are only tools. Always verify your information before heading out into the unknown.
An al Qaeda bomber stashing explosives in his underwear cakewalked onto a US-bound airliner after averting scans on two continents -- but the federal Homeland Security chief incredibly claimed yesterday that "everything happened that should have."
Crotch-bomber allowed on plane without passport! A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.
Obama places US under international police-state In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States. This international law enforcement body now operates - now operates - on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Translation: A global law enforcement entity now has full law-enforcement authority in the U.S. without any check on its power afforded by U.S. law and U.S. law enforcement agencies. A coup is underway in the United States of America, the goal of which is to establish complete, unquestioned authority over the citizens--a 'fundamental change' to the United States where citizens have no legal recourse against an authoritarian central government.
Woman calls 911 when husband refuses to eat dinner Prosecutors will review the case of a woman authorities claim has called 911 30 times over six months for non-emergency reasons, including a call to complain that her husband refused to eat his dinner. Not eating dinner is certainly a red light emergency. Maybe he just didn't like her cooking.
Christian teacher lost her job after being told praying for sick girl was 'bullying' A Christian teacher fears she may never work again after she was sacked for offering to pray for a sick pupil. The idiocy continues.
Dallas experiences first White Christmas in more than 80 years Not since Dec. 25, 1926 - when 6 inches fell on Dallas and Collin counties - had the area had a true postcard-looking Christmas. Global warming strikes again.
Record Setting Snowfall Across Oklahoma Thousands of Oklahomans remain without power as a massive winter storm blew through the state bringing record setting snowfall to a large part of central Oklahoma. Will Rogers World Airport reported receiving about 14 inches of snow. The global warming fraud continues.
Wheelchair gunman surrenders after 9-hour post office siege In a bizarre twist, police said the Virginia man's only demand during the siege was for a pizza, which was duly delivered. Next week he will be going to a pizza restaurant in an attempt to acquire postage stamps.
Woman knocks down Pope Benedict at Christmas Mass A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass.
Obama's Christmas tree features mass-murderer Mao! Mao Zedong is in the White House, hanging out with a drag queen. Not far away, Barack Obama is making a play to have his head etched in stone. The official White House Christmas tree features controversial ornaments including an orb depicting the late Chinese dictator, another that shows drag queen Hedda Lettuce, and yet another that shows a picture of Mount Rushmore -- with Obama's head pasted to the side of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt's.
Reid, Pelosi to craft final bill through closed-door meetings? They would love to come up with a way to bash heads in private and skip any public discussion that further reveals just how incoherent and unworkable both the bills are. The latest example of violating principles of transparency and accountability in the single-minded pursuit of legislative victory.
A photo of the couple that sneaked into the White House without any credentials
Angels banned from government Christmas trees There's no place for angels atop Christmas trees, according to one California man who successfully lobbied for their removal. Irv Sutley, a disabled 65-year-old Marine veteran said the symbols were "extremely offensive." Nowhere in the Constitution is there a "right" not to be offended. I am offended by idiots who are constantly offended.
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." - Samuel Adams in 1776
Illegal aliens steal Billions via tax IDs Thousands of American taxpayers incorrectly claimed more than $500 million in tax benefits under the Obama administration's tax break for first-time home buyers. An I.R.S. program that has issued more than 14 million taxpayer identification numbers to immigrants is plagued with fraud that costs the government billions of dollars in improper tax refunds. The report found that nearly 70 percent of such numbers should not have been issued because their applicants provided murky documentation. The numbers, called individual taxpayer identification numbers, are typically used by immigrants who are not American citizens or by permanent residents who have entered the United States legally.
Illegal alien plans protest walk from Florida to D.C. "The purpose of all this is to let the American people, Congress and the president know that we are no longer afraid of being undocumented." Manuel Guerra Casas may soon be deported. The 26-year-old from Indiantown has been forced to withdraw from Kaplan University and was denied scholarships at a seminary. And if pending court proceedings don't go his way - he'll also be heading back to Mexico. Is that a promise?
Congressional Welfare Queen Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann Michele Bachmann's Farm Received Over $250,000 in Federal Subsidies. Bachmann is not the only Republican to decry government benefits as socialism, but still accept federal subsidies for themselves. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley's family has collected nearly $1 million in federal handouts over an 11-year period, including $699,248 for his son and $238,974 for himself.
University of Michigan Study Confirms Link between Financial Bailout and Corruption Since Senators engaged in open extortion and bribery to enact Reid's government-run health care plan, it is hardly newsworthy that Washington is riddled with corruption. But the magnitude of sleaze is probably far greater than most people realize.
Prosecutors in 7 states probe 'Nebraska compromise' The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska to pass federal health care reform.
Health Bill Faces Constitutional Challenge Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican has raised a constitutional point of order, arguing that the founding document does not give Congress the right to insist that Americans buy health insurance, nor to punish them with a tax if they don't.
"I simply don't try to communicate with people who have IQs below their life expectancy." - Mike Adams
Mother Calls 911 Over Son's Video Game Habit Police say a frustrated Boston woman called 911 to say she couldn't get her 14-year-old son to stop playing video games and go to sleep. What happened to responsible parenting? Unfortunately, weak minded people look to the government to provide for their every need. I maintain my belief that stupid people shouldn't breed.
Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid's amendment requires that "it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection." The good news is that this only applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medicare Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.
"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln
The carbon footprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a SUV Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle. But the best way of compensating for that paw or clawprint is to make sure your animal is dual purpose, the Vales urge. Get a hen, which offsets its impact by laying edible eggs, or a rabbit, prepared to make the ultimate environmental sacrifice by ending up on the dinner table. "Rabbits are good, provided you eat them."
ACORN qualifies for funding in Senate health care bill Senator Roland Burris is claiming credit for a provision in Harry Reid's "manager's amendment" that could funnel money to ACORN through the health care bill.
Who Wins, Who Loses in Senate Health Care Bill WINNERS --Cosmetic surgeons, who fended off a 5 percent tax on their procedures. --Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont and Massachusetts. These states are getting more federal help with Medicaid than other states. In the case of Nebraska -- represented by Sen. Ben Nelson, who's providing the critical 60th vote for the legislation to pass -- the federal government is picking up 100 percent of the tab of a planned expansion of the program, in perpetuity. Vermont and Massachusetts get temporary increases in the federal share of their Medicaid tabs. In Louisiana, moderate Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu negotiated $100 million for 2011 before announcing her support for the legislation. --A handful of physician-owned hospitals being built around the country -- including one in Bellevue, Neb. -- which would be permitted to get referrals from the doctors who own them, avoiding a new ban in the Senate bill that will apply to hospitals built in the future. Without mentioning Nebraska or other states by name, the Senate bill pushes back some legal deadlines by several months, in effect making a few hospitals that are near completion eligible to continue receiving referrals from the doctors who own them. The provision was described by a pair of health industry lobbyists who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak freely. Chalk up another win for Nelson. --Doctors and hospitals in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, who will get paid more than providers elsewhere under formulas in the bill. --The University of Connecticut, which could be the beneficiary of $100 million for construction of a hospital inserted at the behest of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election next year. LOSERS --Tanning salons, which are getting hit with a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning services, replacing the cosmetic surgery tax. --People making over $200,000 a year. A proposed 0.5 percent increase in the Medicare payroll tax was bumped up to 0.9 percent in the latest version, putting the tax at 2.35 percent on income over $200,000 a year for individuals, $250,000 for couples.
Obama's Deficit Vs. Bush Deficit With the Obama Stimulus plan passed by the House last week, and the bank bailout, 2009 will be the largest deficit ever.
Maine to consider cancer warnings on phones A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do. How about a government idiocy warning label? This legislator could be the first to be required to have one implanted on his forehead.
Priest advises poor to shoplift The priest insisted his unusual advice did not break the Bible commandment 'Thou shalt not steal' - because God's love for the poor outweighs his love for the rich.
Climate science skeptic beaten by Danish police The gloves came off and the true purpose of the "global warming" scare became nakedly visible. Ugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed "global warming" on capitalism - and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations of the West that are on the far Left. It is now, and always has been, about extortion, not about climate change or global warming.
Obamacare just the beginning for Democrats If this health care legislation becomes law, Democrats will attempt to use the new infrastructure they built to add stricter regulations, more subsidies, and additional mandates. It will create a new government-run long-term care insurance entitlement, called the Class Act, that even Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad called "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of." "This is not the end of health care reform," Sen. Tom Harkin declared on the Senate floor after midnight this morning. "This is the beginning of health care reform."
Who's responsible for middle-of-night vote? Mitch McConnell: "If the people who wrote this bill were proud of it, they wouldn't be forcing this vote in the dead of night." Referring to the Nelson buy-off and other special arrangements in the bill, McConnell said few people would have imagined that the health care debate would have ended "with a couple of cheap deals and a rushed vote at one o'clock in the morning."
Man naked in his own home convicted of indecent exposure Eric Williamson was naked in his own home. All witnesses testified that Williamson never stepped outside his home and made no gestures. However, a judge said since Williamson was seen by more than one person over the course of several hours, the judge considered the behavior "indecent". "Most people have done it or do it on a daily basis. I think it's a common thing to be naked in your home," said Williamson. Young acknowledged it may have been foolish not to close the curtains. The judge responded: "I don't fine people for being stupid. We'd all be in jail." If being stupid were a crime, we could clean out congress.
Grayson wants to send critic to jail for five years Rep. Alan Grayson took offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him. The freshman Democrat has asked that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate the Lake County activist who started the anti-Grayson website "mycongressmanisnuts.com." How dare anyone criticize a member of congress.
TSA Clears Illegal Immigrants To Work At NY Airport In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation's transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport. What part of the word "illegal" do these idiots not understand?
Clinton-appointed judge faces impeachment It's not the lifestyle of a typical federal judge: Five or six vodka cocktails during lunch; gambling with borrowed money; bankruptcy under a phony name; cash, trips or home repairs from lawyers; and a bail bondsman with business before his court. This sounds more like the activities you would see in congress.
Climategate: This time Al Gore lied Al Gore's claim last week that the Climategate emails were insignificant relied on two main defenses. Both are so flagrantly wrong that it's not enough to say Gore is simply mistaken. No, Al Gore is a liar.
Obama's $2,000,000,000,000.00 Mistake The White House released their Mid-Session Review admitting they made a $2 trillion miscalculation in the size of the federal deficit that President Barack Obama's borrow and spend policies would inflict on our nation.
Obama grovels before climate change goons After a day spent frantically darting around Copenhagen trying to locate world leaders, getting snubbed by China's premier and crashing a meeting where he had initially been kept out, President Obama heralded a last-minute, largely toothless UN global-warming summit deal that drew fast fire from all sides as a sham. Obama the fraud involved in a "sham." What else is new?
The global warming fraud continues.
Record Snow Socks Eastern States, Halts Travel Five deaths appeared to be linked to the weather system, which stretched from the Carolinas to New England and into several Midwestern states. The 16 inches of snow that fell at Reagan National Airport outside Washington was the most ever recorded for a December day. Global warming strikes again.
South Florida's record highs crushed by cold weather Check out those high temperatures! Only a high near 60 degrees for Tampa, just 46 degrees in Montgomery and just near 70 degrees for what has been a very hot Miami. Global warming strikes again.
Biggest Philadelphia Snowstorm in Five Decades Chances are this will end up as the region's biggest December snow since John F. Kennedy was president-elect. Global warming strikes again.
Residents were baffled by the amount of snow. Global warming strikes again.
Long Island hammered with snow, wind Highways and local roads are barely passable even in 4 wheel drive vehicles. Global warming strikes again.
A foot of snow blanketed much of Cape Cod, transforming beach towns into winter wonderlands and keeping many residents nestled snug inside. Global warming strikes again.
Recalling another snowy December in Baltimore The most recent snowy December in Baltimore was in 1966, when four storms combined to dump 20.4 inches on the area.
Snow forces several games to change start time Global warming strikes again.
WNC digs out of massive snowstorm A winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of Asheville and Western North Carolina on Friday and Saturday, the most snow the city has seen since 1996. Accumulations were substantial enough to rank it in the top 15 biggest snowfalls in the city's history. Global warming strikes again.
Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign stolen The theft of the sign bearing the German words for "Work Sets You Free" brought immediate condemnation from Jewish leaders in Poland and internationally.
Another fake Republican (trial liar) - Graham pushes global warming con The South Carolina Republican has joined forces with Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to drum up support for a bill that would put a price on heat-trapping pollution. This alleged "heat-trapping" pollutant is a substance essential to human life that occurs naturally in our atmosphere. The hoax continues.
Senator Nelson caves on health care, but for how much? Another political hack has his price met, bought and paid for with your money.
"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." - President John F. Kennedy, 7 days before he was assassinated
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said that Congress has the authority to force individual Americans to buy health insurance because the U.S. Constitution "charges Congress with the health and well-being of the people." The words "health" and "well-being" do not appear anywhere in the Constitution. People actually voted for this idiot. Elections have consequences.
The 15 Worst States In America For Starting A Business South Dakota, Nevada and Texas, Wyoming and Washington top the ranking for most entrepreneur-friendly. But be sure to avoid the worst -- we round up the 15 states small businesses should avoid. #15 West Virginia #14 Maryland #13 Oregon #12 North Carolina #11 Connecticut #10 Iowa #9 Hawaii #8 Minnesota #7 Massachusetts #6 Rhode Island #5 Maine #4 Vermont #3 New York #2 California #1 New Jersey
The 25 Laziest Cities In America Even when times are tough, not everyone is exactly living up to the vigorous, enterprising stereotype of rugged American individualism.
Neal Boortz: How about truth we can believe in?
This president has set an ALL NEW PRECIDENT in what it takes to be a "FRAUD" What happened to transparency? What happened to ending "politics as usual in Washington DC"? What happened to "No tax increases for those making less than $250K a year? What happened to posting ALL BILLS online for 5 days PRIOR to signing them? What happened to "Unemployment will not go above 8% if you pass my Stimulus Bill"? What happened to "we need to look forward; no interrogation techniques of the past will be prosecuted"? BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: n a person NOT of his word. (see also: fraud)
George has snow in South Carolina. Global Warming strikes again!
US Counting on Cows to Help Save Planet The United States is counting on cows to help reduce its carbon footprint. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the dairy industry 25 percent by 2020, mostly by convincing farmers to capture the methane from cow manure that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere. Government idiocy is increasing exponentially.
Inconvenient Question to Al Goreleone - UN Goons On Hand To Protect The Lying Fraudster Gore refused to answer and a UN security guard grabbed the reporter's mic and yanked out the cord.
U.S. Muslims training in camps to slit throats? Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound. A new video shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.
Pittsburgh may become the first city to tax student tuition The mayor of Pittsburgh will push for a first-of-its-kind tax on student tuition. What will politicians think to tax next?
Young Pittsfield Township man struggles with sex offender label A 17-year-old high school kid has sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. Now he is a sex offender. Years later he is seen playing basketball in his driveway and may go to jail because he is too close to a school.
Unwitting Tourists Have Breakfast With Obama The White House is once again explaining how uninvited guests wound up shaking hands with the president. A couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. White House security is a government operation.
"Regardless of place of birth of Mr. Obama, since birth and until now Mr. Obama had a split allegiance. He had British citizenship at birth, Kenyan since age 2 and Indonesian since age 5. Allegiance to other Nations goes as a clear violation of the Natural citizenship clause of the article 2 section 1 of the Constitution." - ORLY TAITZ
100 reasons why climate change is natural Here are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made.
Massachusetts 2nd-grader sent home for drawing cross An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and sketched what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross.
Obama brings world's worst terrorists to U.S. for the jobs! President Obama has directed the federal government to buy a nearly empty state prison in rural Illinois to house up to 100 detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. How is it that imprisoning terrorists in the United States is good for the economy, but imprisoning regular run-of-the-mill criminals is a drain on our economy and should be curtailed? Terrorists in jail are great for the economy? According to Obama, the way to create jobs is to put people in US jails. How many more jobs would be saved and created if we started locking up illegal aliens? If locking people up is the way we're going to revive the job market, why stop at terrorists?
Swine Flu Vaccines Recalled, Most Already Used Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength. How do you recall an "already used" vaccine? Government health care in action.
Just When You Thought This Administration Could Not Sink Any Lower Barack Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel have sunk so low that they are now trying to extort a vote from Nebraska's Ben Nelson for health care. Nelson's demand that taxpayer money not be used to fund abortion has still not been met. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn't fall into line. Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As a source put it, this is a "naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson's vote." Offutt is the headquarters for US Strategic Command, the successor to Strategic Air Command, and not by accident. STRATCOM was located in the middle of the country for strategic reasons. Its closure would be a massive blow to the economy of the state of Nebraska, but it would also be another example of this administration playing politics with our national security.
Asking For Orange Juice On American Airlines May Violate Federal Law Something went very wrong on American Airlines flight 614 from Sacramento to Dallas this Sunday, December 6th. An American Airlines stewardess having an extremely bad day flipped the frak out on a first class passenger for asking for a glass of OJ and gave him a written warning from the captain for, "threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a crewmember." This stewardess, Helen, needs to change her career path, and her annoyed customers need to change their business paths to other airlines.
The Sun Melted Glaciers Faster In 1940s A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today. The researchers found from historic data on three Swiss glaciers, as well as radiation recordings from the eastern Alpine town of Davos, that the level of sunshine in the 1940s was eight percent higher than average and significantly higher than now. As a result, snow and ice melted by about four percent. A phase of less sunshine - global dimming - from the 1950s to 1980s also corresponded with the advance in the snout of glaciers. Weren't we just told that sunspots have nothing to do with global warming?
Figures Lie and Liars Figure Washington Post: Joe Lieberman is willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people to settle an old political score. Joe Lieberman is a killer? How did the statists come up with that "hundreds of thousands of people" number? Let's summarize: 1. A health survey is conducted between 1988 and 1994. A questionnaire is given to 9000 people. They are asked if they were insured and then asked to rate the state of their own health. 2. The Centers for Disease Control tracks the deaths of any of these 9000 people through the year 2000. 3. Along come two Doctors names Himmelstein and Woolhandler. These two are strong proponents of a single-payer government health insurance program. Himmelstein is the co-founder of a group called "Physicians for a National Health Program." Woolhandler is also a co-founder. The group is dedicated to "implementing a single-payer national health program. 4. Himmelstein and Woolhandler decide to take the data from the CDC study and use it to write a study for the American Journal of Public Health. That study was published last December. 5. When writing their article for the AJPH Himmelstein and Woolhandler decide that every single person in the study group that initially reported that they did not have health insurance did, in fact, die because they weren't insured. 6. No verification was ever made in the study of those people who said they weren't insured were not, in fact, insured. 7. No attempt was made to discover whether or not these people actually got health insurance before they died. 8. No attempt was made to determine whether or not the deaths of these people could be attributed to a lack of treatment due to their alleged uninsured status. 9. Himmelstein and Woolhandler assumed that if one of these people reported between 1988 and 1994 that they were uninsured, and if they then died by the end of 2000, the only reason they could have died was because they were uninsured. This is the "science" that these power-mad political hacks use to justify their desperate attempts to take over our health care system. Poverty Statistics Did you know that you can have millions of dollars in a checking account, own a multi-million dollar home with a five-car garage full of expensive cars; have a yacht docked in West Palm; and a $42 million private jet to fly you back and forth, and still be defined by the federal government as "living in poverty?" True. There is only one measure the feds use to measure poverty. How much wealth you actually have doesn't matter. How much income you have does. In fact, income is the only item that counts. If you have those millions of dollars worth of homes and toys, and you're living off your savings and those millions in your checking account, according to the government, you are statistically poor. The government adopted this scoring system for measuring poverty in order to get those poverty numbers as high as possible. The more poverty there is, the more we need government. Hungry Children You've heard the whining political hacks tell you that "every night in America 25% of our children go to bed hungry." How did they arrive at that statistic? Through another questionnaire. A large group of parents were asked several questions relating to their family. One question was "during the past year did you ever hear your child complain about bring hungry?" What parent hasn't heard their child scream "Mommy! I'm hungry!" during the past year? If you answered this question in the affirmative, the political hacks felt free to say that your child was going to bed hungry at night because you simply could not feed him. A fabricated maligned statistic that speaks for bigger government welfare programs to feed all of the "hungry children." The big government fraud continues.
Top Food & Other Expenditures by Members of U.S. House in 2009 Guam Delegate Madeleine Z Bordallo spent $6,090 on food and beverages on Aug 11 while visiting her home district with the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. It's just one facet of $145 million spent by House of Representative members revealed in the Statement of Disbursements. One small charge to taxpayers was $8.80 for laundry, and the largest single recipient was the U.S. Postal Service at almost $6 million.
You've Got Mail, But the Mailman Hid It If your mother-in-law's mail goes through the Waterbury or Wallingford post offices, she might not have received the birthday card you sent in time. Apparently managers at the post office have been hiding mail. Workers have been stuffing mail into closets and unused rooms at mail facilities in Waterbury and Wallingford because they don't know how to keep up with such a high volume of mail. What do you expect from government employees?
Things Kahlid Sheik Muhammed and Barack Hussein Obama have in common Desire to destroy American business. Desire to destroy American capitalism. Desire to take away as much liberty and freedom from Americans as possible. Hatred for "evil white infidels". A belief that America owes the world an apology. Shared views on using thugs to promote their agenda. A belief that Muslims should be exalted and Christians persecuted. Shared view on treating war criminals like common domestic criminals. Shared views on using senseless bullshit rhetoric to promote their agenda.
Photographer arrested for taking pictures of kids and Santa at the mall Scott Rensberger says when he took some photos of a child on Santa's lap, a man asked him if he could delete the photos. He says he complied, but then moments later, Rensberger says police officers approached asking why he was taking photos of kids. The argument got heated when police say Rensberger started taking photos of the officers, who then arrested him. Rensberger is now facing battery, resisting arrest and obstructing justice. Taking pictures is now a crime?
Gun Laws are Getting Looser across Much of US It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars. Over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions. Just don't take any pictures with a camera.
Haywood woman sent to prison for boiling her son A Haywood County woman who put her toddler in a pan of boiling water and burned his foot with a cigarette will spend at least 3 and a one-half years in prison.
Why are they all wearing heavy coats, hats and scarves if the planet is warming? Police in Copenhagen in Denmark say nearly 1,000 protesters were detained after a huge climate change rally.
Delegates freeze as snow falls on global warming debates COPENHAGEN: World leaders will meet to tackle global warming - in the snow. The temperature in Copenhagen, where a landmark UN summit on climate change is taking place, is tipped to hit minus ten degrees Celsius this week. The pains of global warming strike again.
Global Warming? Snow Falls Down Under During Australian Summer The global warming alarmists are claiming that 2010 could be the warmest year on record. Perhaps they better inform Mother Nature about this since she seems to be having other plans leading into the new year. Not only is the U.S.A. experiencing unusually cold weather but, almost unbelievably, Australia has just had some snowfall two weeks into their summer which officially began on December 1.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege. It doesn't need to be." - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Fact: Global Warming, and now as they call it Climate Change, has never been about science as Tony Blair admits. It has always been about political power and control.
More than $100M committed to defunct presidential helicopter House and Senate defense negotiators on Friday agreed to include more than $100 million to continue work on the now defunct VH-71 presidential helicopter. Why is this money being spent? Votes. Hometown votes are being bought and paid for with spending on cancelled Pentagon projects.
Global Warming, The End Is Near!
The Grinch Who Changed Christmas
Arguing With "Global Warming" Idiots Question: "Global warming" is a real phenomenon: Earth's temperature is increasing. Answer: True. "Global warming" is a real phenomenon: Earth's temperature is increasing. From a geological perspective, global warming is the normal state of our accustomed natural world. Technically, we are in an "interglacial phase," or between ice ages. The question is not really if an ice age will return, but when. If Global Warming stops, then you can start worrying! It means our warm interglacial phase is over and we may be heading into another Ice Age. Question: The "Greenhouse Effect" is real and contributes to global warming. Answer: True. The "Greenhouse Effect" is real. The "greenhouse effect" helps to moderate temperatures-especially nighttime temperatures. Without the greenhouse effect, the average temperature of the Earth would be -18 degrees C (around zero degrees Fahrenheit). Question: The main cause of Global Warming is: Answer: Orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the Sun's output. Global Warming occurs in cycles caused mainly by changes in the sun's energy output, and the sun's relative position to the earth. [NOT industrial pollution, automobiles, airplanes, and CO2]. Question: The Greenhouse Effect is caused primarily by: Answer: Water vapor. The world's natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined. Question: Which most accurately describes the effects of Global Warming in the United States over the last 100 years? Answer: Temperatures have risen less than 1° C during the past 100 years. During the period 1900 to 1940 temperatures were increasing. Then from 1940 to 1980 temperatures were decreasing. Currently, temperatures are increasing back to about where they were in the 1930's. Overall, the total average annual temperature increase in the U.S. in the last century is so slight the actual amount is uncertain-maybe 1/3° C. Question: How much carbon dioxide (CO2) is in Earth's atmosphere today? Answer: Less than 1/10th of 1%. Most CO2 comes from natural terrestrial and ocean biologic activity, and compared to former geologic times, Earth's atmosphere today is arguably "CO2 impoverished." There has historically been much more CO2 in our atmosphere than exists today. Question: Carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants damages forests. Answer: False. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the principal gas that trees and other plants need to survive, just like oxygen (O2) is the principal gas that humans and other animals require. Carbon dioxide is invisible. The fat, curvy towers that look like they are belching white smoke are really only emitting pure water vapor. They are in effect making clouds. Question: Which answer below provides the best explanation for the temperature record [over the past 1,000 years]? Answer: Natural variations in global temperatures may occur in roughly 500-year cycles. The primary cause of variations in global temperature is due to the cycles of the sun and Earth's orbit about the sun. In addition to 40-year cycles and 500-year cycles, other temperature cycles include: * 21,000 year cycle: Elliptical orbit of the Earth around the Sun * 41,000 year cycle: Cycle of the +/- 1.5 degree wobble in Earth's orbit * 100,000 year cycle: Variations in the shape of Earth's elliptical orbit Question: Which of the following is not true about an increasing greenhouse effect? Answer: The idea that most scientists think that "global warming" warrants drastic action-is false. President Clinton and others [e.g. Al Gore-see above] cite a letter signed by 2600 scientists that global warming will have catastrophic effects on humanity. Thanks to Citizens for a Sound Economy, we know now that fewer than 10% of these "scientists" know anything about climate. Among the signers are: a plastic surgeon, two landscape architects, a hotel administrator, a gynecologist, seven sociologists, a linguist, and a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. Over 17,000 [real] scientists have signed the Global Warming Petition to express their view that "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." Question: Which temperature measuring method most accurately measures global warming? Answer: Orbiting weather satellites provide the most accurate temperature measurements. The real signature of greenhouse warming is not surface temperature but temperatures in the middle of the troposphere, about 5 kilometers up. Interestingly, in the 5 years leading up to 2007, the temperature of the mid troposphere actually decreased slightly and surface temperatures ceased warming-even as CO2 concentrations continued to increase. This should not have happened if CO2 increases to the atmosphere are the primary driver of global warming. So there you have it. You are now armed with sufficient knowledge to insulate yourself from The Big Lie, and defend yourself against its vociferous, duplicitous proponents.
Report: Dem health care bill would kill hospitals, raise rates, hurt seniors A report by analysts at the Health and Human Services Department said the bill would increase the nation's annual spending on health care beyond the current $2.5 trillion at a slightly faster rate than if Congress did nothing. It concluded that new taxes on drugs, medical devices and health insurance plans would trigger higher insurance premiums for consumers.
U.S. Set to Meet Kyoto Emissions Goal Without Laws or Taxes The worst nightmare of the left is about to come true: The United States is about to achieve the carbon emissions goals set under the 1997 Kyoto Accords. The United States is halfway toward meeting the stringent Kyoto goals - once seemingly beyond reach - to reduce carbon emissions without a cap-and-trade law or a carbon tax or declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant. The goals of the climate-change crowd are not reduction in global warming but the enactment of a worldwide system of regulation that puts business under government control and transfers wealth from rich nations to poor ones under the guise of fighting climate change.
Once we had Bush, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now we have Obama, no Cash and no Hope. - Dave Medders
How many police does it take to change a lightbulb? None, but there IS a 5-step guide Government bureaucracy at its best.
'Oops! Employee flips, damages borrowed Ferrari' A 23-year-old woman driving her boss's borrowed Ferrari in California lost control of the car and flipped it, causing an estimated $125,000 in damage. The woman was unharmed, but her boss was said to be "irate." '34 hospitalized after co-worker sprays perfume' When almost 150 people at a Texas bank call center became ill, reporting dizziness and shortness of breath, officials suspected carbon monoxide or some other toxic fume was the culprit. But when two people complained about dizziness after a co-worker sprayed perfume and then others began to feel sick, it was discovered that the perfume was to blame. Thirty-four people were taken to hospitals, 12 by ambulance, and 110 people were treated on the scene. No one knows what type of perfume was sprayed. 'Man hurt himself to "avoid work" ' Steven Reid, a 23-year-old hotel cleaner in Scotland, just wanted a day off of work. Rather than asking for one, Reid claimed he had been assaulted. To convince his boss, he took a razor from his pocket and repeatedly dragged it down his face. He also picked up a boulder and repeatedly hit himself on the head and body. He went to the police station to report "the assault." When asked about the incident, Reid said, "Looking back, I should have just phoned work and asked them for the day off." 'Worker fired for all-caps e-mails' Vicki Walker, of Auckland, New Zealand, was fired for sending e-mail messages in all-capital letters. The employer said that Walker's co-workers complained about her "shouty" and confrontational e-mails. Walker was awarded $11,500 on the premise that the company had no official e-mail style guide; therefore, her messages did not amount to grounds for dismissal.
Journalist questions about ClimateGate silenced by armed U.N. security guards A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him "inconvenient questions" during a press briefing.
Spend Our Way Out Of Debt - The Hoax Continues Highlights of the $1.1 trillion spending bill that passed the House: $3.9 billion for more than 5,000 "earmarks" - or homestate projects sought by lawmakers. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa appears to have secured lots of pork for the Hawkeye state. The largest earmark is $7.3 million for the "Harkin Grant" program which subsidizes school construction and modernization. The Lincoln Center in New York City receives $800,000 for a jazz program. South Salt Lake City, Utah receives $100,000 to expand ESL classes at the Villa Franche apartment complex. A pay raise for federal employees averaging 2 percent. $68.2 billion for the Education Department. (The more they spend, the worse government education becomes.) $7.3 billion for the 2010 Census. (Gotta payoff those ACORN scammers.) $5.1 billion for heating subsidies for the poor, almost 40 percent more than requested. A 38 percent increase for International Food Aid. "Every discouragement should be thrown in the way of men who undertake to trade without capital." -Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Tracy, 1785. Papers 8:399
Reid Asks Republicans for Weekend Off, Has Big Easy Fundraiser to Get To Request denied! Campaigning for reelection is, all of a sudden, more important than this healthcare "crisis?" It has always been about political power and not healthcare.
Loophole would allow health-coverage limits A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurance companies place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer.
New York City is going to increase penalties for selling a toy gun by 500% City Also Launches Public Awareness Campaign About the Dangers of Toy Guns That Look Real and Real Guns That Look Like Toys.
A politician in North Carolina has been barred from holding office because he is an atheist North Carolina's constitution is clear: politicians who deny the existence of God are barred from holding office.
No "Merry Christmas" on the Obama Christmas Card President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have chosen an elegant greeting card that announces to recipients: "Season's Greetings." But he did manage to work in the word "hope." "May your family have a joyous holiday season and a new year blessed with hope and happiness," the card reads.
MUSLIM WORLD: Barbie's 50th anniversary Islamic makeover
Senator Jim DeMint: "I Need Some New Republicans" "I need some new Republicans, people who believe in constitutional government, a balanced budget and liberty and so I'm out across the country recruiting new republicans who I think if they get here will not only challenge the institutions of government but be willing to even challenge the Republican Party and our leadership if they feel like we're going in the wrong direction."
Neal Boortz: The truth about property taxes The bottom line here? You are supposed to pay property taxes based on the value of your home. In case you haven't checked lately, the value of your home has probably gone down. Now, check your property tax bill. Has it gone down? Well, it should have. Trouble is you most likely live in a tax jurisdiction where the political class is so addicted to your money they will go through any contrivance necessary to make sure your tax bill stays right where it is - or goes up. Politicians love power, and you gain power by spreading money around. Lower taxes ... less money to spread around ... diminished power. I think I saw Einstein draw that equation on a blackboard once.
Greenville Police Say Man Posed as Cross-Dressing Undercover Cop Greenville Police say a man, dressed as a woman was posing as an undercover cop and trying to arrest people at Haywood Mall. He told officers that he comes to the mall on Wednesdays and Fridays dressed in women's clothing.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "The earth's temperature is several million degrees only a couple of kilometers down below our surface." - Al Gore, November 12, 2009 Fact: The surface of the sun is only 11,000 degrees. Why would anyone believe anything this scientifically illiterate dolt says? The Global Warming hoax and change continues.
Chuck Norris: Chestnuts Roasting on a Copenhagen Fire
Alternative summit: Warming 'caused by sun's radiation' Global warming is caused by radiation from the sun, according to a leading scientist speaking out at an alternative "sceptics' conference" in Copenhagen.
141 scientists write to U.N. chief challenging 'warming consensus' "There is no sound reason to impose expensive and restrictive public policy decisions on the peoples of the Earth without first providing convincing evidence."
TSA Posts How To Guide for Terrorists on Internet The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation. The 93-page TSA operating manual details procedures for screening passengers and checked baggage, such as technical settings used by X-ray machines and explosives detectors. It also includes pictures of credentials used by members of Congress, CIA employees and federal air marshals, and it identifies 12 countries whose passport holders are automatically subjected to added scrutiny. Terrorists now know what they can and can't do to bypass security. Government idiocy!
What really happened on AirTrans Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston on November 17, 2009? Someone who claims to have been a passenger said there was not just one person on a cell phone but ELEVEN Arabs he thinks were testing the waters to see what would happen if they created a disturbance.
Swine Flu Pandemic Might Be Mildest in History! A new study suggests the worst case scenario for H1N1 may be only slightly more deadly than a typical outbreak of seasonal flu -- and, in a best case scenario, much less. The whole Pig Flu scandal is a politically manufactured, phony crisis.
Obama, the empty-suit Nobel laureate This president has accomplished nothing on the world stage. In Oslo today, President Obama will accept the least-merited Nobel Peace Prize since former Vice President Al Gore picked up the award in 2007 for spreading alarmist propaganda about climate change. The decision to award Mr. Obama the peace prize was made during the period of irrational exuberance - the Obamamania - that attended his ascent to power. Nominations closed Feb. 1, when he had been in office less than two weeks. Unless you are Barack Hussein Obama, you generally don't get awards in life for just showing up.
CBO: U.S. already $292 Billion in the red this year In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in. That was even worse than the same period last year, when the government was on its way to posting a record $1.4 trillion deficit for the fiscal year that ended September 30.
Obama's jobs plan is to boost investment in our nation's infrastructure Here is a sampling of government spending that qualified as economic stimulus under Obama's Recovery Act: Researchers at Penn State University received $1.57 million to search for fossils in Argentina. A liberal-leaning theater in Minnesota, In the Heart of the Beast, named after a famous quote by leftist leader Che Guevara, received $100,000 for socially conscious puppet shows. The administration allocated $133 million to renovate the Edith Green/Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Ore., by installing a vegetative facade of plantings to improve the building's insulation. $6 million went to the New York advertising firm Young & Rubicam to advertise the transition from analog to digital television, which created three jobs. More than $2 million in stimulus funds that went to pay for new pipes to pump recycled water to the Sharp Park Golf Course, which the San Francisco City Council considered closing because of the threat it posed to the California red-legged frog. Two million dollars in stimulus money went to build a replica railroad as a tourist attraction in Carson City, NV. A dinner cruise company based in Chicago received nearly $1 million in funds to combat terrorism. Half a million dollars went to Arizona State University to study the genetic makeup of ants to determine distinctive roles in ant colonies. $450,000 went to the University of Arizona to study the division of labor in ant colonies. The State University of New York at Buffalo won $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana. The National Institutes of Health got $219,000 in funds to study whether female college students are more likely to "hook up" after drinking alcohol. (I think they could find plenty of college students who would be willing to conduct this study for FREE.) The University of Hawaii collected $210,000 to study the learning patterns of honeybees. 700,000 went to help crab fishermen in Oregon recover lost crab pots. Do you still believe that these people can passably "spend our way" out of this recession? This is all about buying votes and making local constituencies happy with their congressmen or senators. How is all of this hoax and change working out for you?
$6 Million Of Your Tax Dollars Paid For Hillary Clinton's Campaign Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster. Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn. Stimulus money was allegedly designed to create jobs in the private sector. Burson-Marsteller is a giant worldwide PR firm. They don't need a bailout and they don't need stimulus money. Yet they received nearly $6 Million to "preserve three jobs." Your tax dollars at work.
The Marxist Who Stole Christmas
EPA's Greenhouse Gases Declaration -- Putting America On the Road to Ruin The EPA declared greenhouse gases a danger to public health. And here's the bottom line: The biggest threat to Americans, when it comes to huge new energy taxes and government controls, is not from legislation, it's from regulation. The EPA has declared a substance essential to human life that occurs naturally in our atmosphere a pollutant. Government in action.
A Victim's Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court Ms. Smith's mother was killed last year when her car was hit by a driver talking on his cellphone. Ms. Smith, 35, has sued the companies that provided the driver's phone and wireless service. She hopes to prove that the companies should have foreseen the dangers and that they failed to provide adequate warnings. This is like suing a donut shop because a customer ate too many donuts and later, through their own negligence and no fault of the donut shop, caused harm to someone else. Idiocy! This is why we need a loser pays court system.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "Bush/Cheney took our tax dollars and gave it to the wealthy who don't need it. Why do you people keep your heads under rocks?" Fact: Maybe it's better to keep your head under rocks than to have a head full of rocks. I just love it when idiots categorize a tax cut as "giving" money to the evil rich. What's more, it's really special when these people parrot Marxist dogma when doing so. Now I know that this is tough for many of our government educated citizens to understand, but when you cut someone's taxes you are not "giving" them money. You are simply allowing them to keep more of the money they worked for and earned. I can't understand why this is such a difficult concept for some people to master. Furthermore, it does not matter whether or not these people "need" the money. What matters is that the money is theirs. These people expended a portion of their life earning that money. It wasn't given them. Quote: "So an attorney wants to sue for discrimination because people don't want a mosque in their neighborhood. Whatever happened to majority rules? He must be a Democrat." Fact: Majority rules? What if the majority of the people in this person's neighborhood decide that he shouldn't be allowed to live there anymore? What if the majority of the people in his neighborhood decide that he shouldn't be allowed to own a car? What if the majority of the people in his neighborhood decide that he is a fool? Wait, they probably already have. People who believe in "majority rule" are particularly vexing. Majority rule is three wolves and one sheep deciding on dinner. We need intelligent, informed people to counter the forces that have mustered to destroy the American way of life. These idiots, who probably vote, aren't helping. That is why this country is not, and was never intended to be, a democracy.
Christmas trees banned for climate summit Participants in the COP15 climate summit should not be subject to Christmas symbols such as fir trees, says the foreign ministry Although the COP15 climate conference is set to take place during the Christmas season, the Foreign Ministry believes the holiday and all its symbols should be kept well clear of the summit.
Denmark's warm and 'fuzzy facts' Some 40,000 tons of carbon will be spewed getting this crowd together and keeping them in comfort. That is the amount of carbon dioxide produced by more than 60 of the world's smaller countries in an entire year. The hypocritical scam continues.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "That's what I will do in bringing all parties together and not negotiating behind closed doors but bringing all parties together and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are, 'cause part of what we have to do is enlist the American people in this process." - Barack Obama, January 31st, 2008, in Los Angeles during a Democrat debate Fact: Sunday, December 6, 2009 President Obama met with Democrats only in a private, closed door meeting. It was not on C-SPAN. There is no transparency in this administration. Hope and change? The lies and deceit continue.
Aviation Execs Forced to Make Case For Private Jets Executives involved in general aviation are begging, making their case to Capitol Hill in what is supposedly a free society, to fly around on their own airplanes.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the idea of a "global" tax on stock trades and other financial transactions. Another day, another tax.
Notebooks with Obama logo irk parents Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign ads have been sold in public schools.
Rush Limbaugh Chats With William Shatner
The Global Warming Scam Continues Houston gets earliest snowfall on record Houston had its earliest snowfall on record Friday, with several inches accumulating in counties southwest of the city. The previous record for early snow in Houston was December 10 in 1944 and again last year. Baton Rouge receives earliest snow on record The 0.30 inches of snow that accumulated in parts of Baton Rouge on Friday night qualified as the earliest recorded snowfall in the city's history. Temperatures dip into the 30s in Las Vegas An overnight chill brought temperatures that dropped into the mid 30s again this morning to the Las Vegas Valley.
Democrat Senator warns Obama on climate treaty: Don't you dare Climate-change skeptics, fired up by the controversy over British scientists' e-mails, are putting President Obama on notice: Don't commit the United States to any long-term goals at next week's climate summit in Copenhagen.
Obama's social secretary admits regularly allowing party crashers President Obama's social secretary quipped that she regularly let event crashers into White House gatherings - months before two reality-TV wannabes waltzed into last week's state dinner.
Baucus nominated mistress to U.S. attorney post Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was romantically involved with a former staffer when he recommended her earlier this year to become the U.S. attorney for Montana. Change?
Current Death Tax Rate Permanent This is disgusting. You work all your life. You pay taxes to the federal government on everything you earn. Then when you die the government steps in for more.
Diane West: What if we Fought the Nazis Like we Fight the Taliban?
The Tiger Woods Crash: Why People Even Care Most fender-benders, even those involving celebrities, don't attract the attention surrounding Tiger Woods's little mishap Friday. Tiger Wood stated: "This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me. I'm human and I'm not perfect. I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again. This is a private matter and I want to keep it that way." Facts: Tiger Woods had a minor car accident and assumes full responsibility for any and all damages caused by this fender-bender. That should be sufficient. It is nobody's business where he was going or why. Case closed. People need to release their American Idol attitudes and mind their own business.
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. This is the equivalent of throwing away pictures of your kids when they were young because you don't have room for them anymore. The politically motivated fraud continues.
The Scientists Involved in Deliberately Deceiving the World on Climate Tentacles of Climategate will reach far as information is divulged. People will rush to get on or off the bandwagon depending on their involvement.
Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required Barack Obama himself lacks any real private sector experience. We already knew that one. In fact, if you read Obama's books you will find that he referred to his brief stint working in the private sector as "working behind enemy lines." Isn't that special? The sector of our country where people work together in voluntary collusion Obama calls "the enemy." Obama much prefers the sector that works through force and coercion.
The future of healthcare in America.
7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told A year into his presidency, however, Obama's gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering.
Travel costs jump on Kerry's panel Democrats and their staff members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have spent more on international travel in 2009 than they have in any other year, reflecting a greater focus on up-close tours and investigations in foreign countries by its new chairman, John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. This comes at a time when our country is running record deficits and while Obama is calling for a spending freeze. This is also happening when you, the taxpayers, are already on the hooks for billions of dollars in bailouts and takeovers. But in 2009, John Kerry's committee spent more on international travel than any other year in history. There are no rules for these people. Rulers don't have rules. Leaders do. These people aren't leaders.
The Obama Administration Can Lawfully Pay ACORN The Holder Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. Of course they're going to fund ACORN! It's the only way these political hacks can get reelected is with vote fraud, which is what ACORN does.
One in eight Americans and one in four children are now on food stamps It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. The stigma of government dependence is gone. Poverty is wonderful, unemployment and recession is wonderful, because food stamp use is up and there's no stigma to it. It all just comes from Obama's "stash." Long live the culture of political plunder.
Huckabee's 'Willie Horton moment' Mike Huckabee's chance to be president of the United States could be going up in smoke this week. The former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential wannabe is at the center of a story involving a "person of interest" in the shooting deaths Sunday of four police officers in the state of Washington. Huckabee as governor pardoned the man -- Maurice Clemmons -- in 2000. Since then, Clemmons has been involved in a number of legal problems. In fact, Clemmons is out on bail and faces pending charges of second-degree child rape and third-degree assault for an attack on a police officer.
Budget Improvements FREE government healthcare - $1.6 Trillion TARP bailout - $500 Billion Stimulus bailout - $787 Billion Throwing the bums out in 2010 - PRICELESS!!!
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions Most prophets of doom come from a religious perspective, though the secular crowd has caused its share of scares as well. One thing the doomsday scenarios tend to share in common: They don't come to pass.
Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole' University of Minnesota outlines 're-education' for those who hold 'wrong' views. The university "intends to redesign its admissions process so that it screens out people with the 'wrong' beliefs and values - those who either do not have sufficient 'cultural competence' or those who the college judges will not be able to be converted to the 'correct' beliefs and values even after remedial re-education."
White House 'gatecrashers' knew Obama; 'Palestine' their cause? While hand-wringing continues in the White House and among Secret Service officials over an alleged gate-crashing of a state dinner, it appears Michaele and Tareq Salahi had met with Barack Obama previously when he served as a U.S. senator.
The charge of "Treason" filed against President Obama in NC court Lt. Commander Walter Fitzpatrick III levels charge in an effort to avert what he described as a pending civil war. The charge of "Treason" against Obama is before the people of the United States of America. That such complaint is CRIMINAL, of high crimes, and extremely damaging against the people. Said complaint was formally brought by a Military Officer (retired) of the United States of America. All United States Military Officers are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and such complaint is valid, explicit and proper; when an Officer is aware of such malfeasance of Treason by an offender it is that Officer's SWORN duty to come forward and present such accusation and complaint.
Jesse Ventura Talks About His New Show on Trutv
How private property saved the Pilgrims The Pilgrims nearly starved to death because of collectivism and eventually saved themselves by adopting a system of private property.
Climate-change envoy wants to bully top nations into deal The leaders of the U.S., China and India should be "shoved" into a room at next month's global warming summit - and not allowed out until they reach an agreement. The Global Warming Extortion Scam continues.
Obama's Grandmother in Mecca for the Hajj Sarah Obama, one of her grandchildren and 10 people from her village in Kenya made the pilgrimage at the invitation of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the newspaper reported. The Saudi monarch invites Muslims from around the world to make the pilgrimage at his expense each year. Obama's bow to the Saudi king has apparently paid off.
10-Year Cost of Reid Healthcare Bill is $2.5 Trillion The bill's true costs in its first 10 years would be about three times what President Obama, Senator Reid, and their allies are disingenuously claiming.
Obama shatters spending record for first-year presidents Obama has spent nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and has far exceeded the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.
Obama's unprecedented use of word 'unprecedented' The Obama White House has made declaration after declaration of "unprecedented" milestones.
That "hope and change" appears to be really working.
Hollywood star thinks Obama a socialist Angelina Jolie "thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise." Welcome to the club.
Marietta, GA Lawmakers to Review 'So Help Me God' Police Oath City council members in Marietta, Ga., will consider changing the oath of office that the city's police officers take so that recruits can swear to uphold the law without saying the phrase "so help me God." Det. Gwen Lewis, a police spokeswoman, said no complaints have been received recently regarding the five-sentence oath the Marietta Police Department last adopted in August 2001. To her knowledge, she said, no would-be officer has ever objected to saying "so help me God" as part of the oath. Councilman Van Pearlberg floated changing the oath last week during a Public Safety Committee meeting as the lawmakers reviewed the police department's operating procedures. Would someone please find this guy something constructive to do?
Ed Begley Jr. loses it on Fox News Enviro-wacko actor gets into finger-pointing shoutfest with Stuart Varney: "You're spewing your nonsense again." Begley said, ""Don't listen to me… listen to the scientists." On his own website he said, "Don't ask a geologist about acting and don't ask him about science." Yet he has a website page called "Ask Ed." Click on the topic you want to talk to Ed about: Food, energy, clothing, transportation, recycling, house. Nothing about acting. He says, "Don't ask me," yet his own website wants you to ask him about something that is foreign to his area of expertise! Ed Begley is a fool attempting to continue to perpetrate the global warming hoax.
Hollywood Stimulus Funds Yield 1 Job Per $1.13 Million Spent Hollywood received $23,338,327 in grants, loans and contracting. This money has created just 20.57 jobs. That's $1,134,580.80 per job. Stimulus I can live without.
Stimulus money saves jobs in western MA Governor Patrick announced the release of nearly $18 million state-wide to hire, rehire or retain 83 police officers in 35 departments and 105 firefighters in 85 departments. That works out to $95,745.68 per government job.
Mum of 13: I won't stop until I've had twins A MUM-OF-13 who costs taxpayers Ł50,000 a YEAR has said she won't stop having kids until she gives birth to twins. Baby machine Sara Foss, 39, is due to give birth to her 14TH child in April but will try to get pregnant again as soon as possible to realize her dream. The brazen mum said today: "All I've ever wanted is twins or triplets. It's my biggest wish, and I'm going to keep trying until I do it. "It would be fantastic. In fact, I won't stop trying until I've done it. I love having babies - it's the most wonderful thing in the world." Her mammoth brood now comprises Patrick, 23, Stephen, 13, Malachai, 12, Peppermint, 11, Echo, 10, Eli, nine, Rogue, eight, Frodo, seven, Morpheus, five, Artemis, four, Blackbird, three, Baudelaire, two, and nine-month-old Voorhees. This is the definition of a moocher.
A woman in Canada loses her health insurance because of a picture on Facebook Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: "from bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." - Alexander Frazier Tytler, published in 1776
Climategate: Hoax of all time a global Ponzi scheme
Dr. Mercola: Ill-Fated Health Care Reform is One Step Closer to Becoming Reality ObamaCare would force every American to make a purchase that many freely choose not to make for a variety of reasons.
The devastating book which debunks climate change Just imagine if we learned we were about to be landed with the biggest bill in the history of the world - simply on the say-so of a group of scientists. Hundreds of emails leaked from the internal computer system of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia show how a small group of highly influential senior British and U.S. scientists have for years been secretly discussing ways in which their evidence could be manipulated to make the threat posed by global warming sound much worse than it is. The hard evidence tells us that there have actually been fewer major droughts, hurricanes and heat waves in recent years than there were in earlier decades. There is no less ice at the Earth's poles today than there was 30 years ago. Sea levels may have been rising very slowly, but no faster than they have been for 200 years. In other words, as a growing army of genuine experts across the world has been trying to tell us, there is not a single item on the list of apocalyptic predictions we have been fed for so long by the IPCC and the likes of Al Gore which is not being called into question by what is actually happening to the world's climate. The most notorious example of this was the so-called 'hockey stick' graph, which for years was brandished to show that, after flat-lining for 1,000 years, global temperatures had suddenly soared upwards in the late 20th century to levels never known before in recorded history. The hockey stick was used by the IPCC and Gore as the supreme icon of their cause. Then, two statisticians revealed that the graph had been created by a computer model programmed to produce hockey stick shapes whatever data were fed into it. And now come these leaked emails showing that the very scientists who were responsible for championing the hockey stick - all at the heart of the IPCC establishment - have been regularly discussing how the evidence could be manipulated to promote their cause. The fraud continues.
Finally: A holiday Best Buy can endorse - "Happy Eid al-Adha" - an important Muslim holiday A company spokeswoman - Dawn Bryant - announced they would not use the word "Christmas" in their advertising: "We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them." Best Buy - the company that will not allow the words "Merry Christmas" in its advertising - has no problem wishing people a "Happy Eid al-Adha" - an important Muslim holiday. No "Happy Thanksgiving" - although there is a directive to shop online on Thanksgiving Day. Merry Christmas is not allowed in their ads. Only Eid al-Adha.
Just in time for Eid al-Adha.
Obama buys last vote for $300 million! We are now a banana republic Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase. On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democrat leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state. And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor mid-afternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for Louisiana. "I am not going to be defensive," she declared. "And it's not a $100 million fix. It's a $300 million fix."
U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales. The proposed legally binding treaty would tighten regulation of, and set international standards for, the transfer of conventional weapons. Translation: Set international standards for gun control. Note: This would not restrict the access of "dictators and terrorists" to arms.
An assault on a 12-year-old Calabasas, CA, boy who was allegedly targeted by his fellow middle school students because of his red hair is not being investigated as a hate crime.
Hacked e-mails appear to uncover massive global warming fraud The 1,079 emails and 72 documents seem to be evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory.
Neal Boortz: Government idiocy in action at schools
Student expelled over unloaded shotguns in truck Willows High Principal Mort Geivett and other district officials did not appear to dispute that the parking space was off school property.
Florida Police Shot Suspected Cop Killer 68 Times Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy, killing the suspect. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he was not concerned by the number of shots fired. "You have to understand, he had already shot and killed a deputy, he had already shot and killed a K-9 and he shot and injured another deputy." "I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that's all the ammunition they had," Judd said. "We were not going to take any chance of him shooting back."
Biden Bullies Way onto Vegas Golf Course Sometimes you make exceptions at a members-only golf club. Especially if someone from the office of Vice President Joe Biden is on the telephone, calling back a second time with a more pointed request. It happened Sunday morning at The Golf Club at South Shore, at Lake Las Vegas. When the first call came in at 7 a.m., asking whether Biden could play the course, the PGA professional running the pro shop declined, citing the club's members-only policy. A few minutes later, another call: a Biden staffer telling the club pro "you know the vice president would really like to play" and asked whether he could talk to a manager. The club reversed its stand, and Biden arrived about 11 a.m. with a half-dozen Secret Service personnel. "We came to our senses, out of courtesy of the position," said Mark Barrett, with a chuckle. He's the club's membership sales director.
Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union. Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park. "We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council. Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path. Is there a merit badge for repairing broken knee caps?
Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. In Oklahoma, recovery.gov lists more than $19 million in spending -- and 15 jobs created -- in yet more congressional districts that don't exist. In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent - and 39 jobs created -- in nonexistent districts. In Connecticut's 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars. The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well. $8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands. $1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands. $47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico's 99th congressional district. The fraud continues.
Neal Boortz: Moochers need free-market dose To dispel you of this absurd notion that you have a "right" to health care. How do you receive health care? Compare health care to your right to free speech. All that is necessary for you to exercise your right to blab away on almost anything is for other people to refrain from stuffing a sock in your mouth. Not so with health care. Health care is a service. Free speech isn't, nor are the other rights enumerated in our Constitution. Someone has to provide you with health care. They either have to administer to you personally, or they have to provide you with drugs or medical implements. To claim a right to health care, then, is to claim a right to either the time or the property of the people with the skills, the drugs or the equipment you may need. Get the point? You have NO right to a portion of another person's life, or to their property. None. Therefore, you cannot have a right to health care.
'Soldier of Allah' on Maj. Hasan's business cards - missed by FBI, Army U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan proclaimed himself a "soldier of Allah" on private business cards he obtained over the Internet and kept in a box at his apartment near Fort Hood, Texas.
Principal defends cash-for-grades swap Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro, NC middle school tried selling grades. Government school idiocy strikes again.
Milwaukee muggers see Army ID, return wallet Four muggers attacked a man in an alley in Milwaukee. They took his wallet and everything else he had in his possession. The leader of the gang opened the victim's wallet and saw a military ID card. He then ordered his thug buds to put everything back. The victim's wallet and other belongings were laid on the ground next to him. The leader then apologized for the robbery and thanked the man for his service. He even came back for a fist bump after the robbers were walking away. Do we give our men and women in uniform and our veterans the respect these criminals did?
Chicago Mayor Daley blames massacre on love of guns! "Unfortunately, America loves guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don't blame a group." Mayor Daley, and other politicians, like to blame gun violence on the guns themselves because that is so much easier than admitting any inconvenient (politically incorrect) truths which might be revealed if they were to place blame where it belongs. Americans don't love guns, you idiot. Americans love freedom; and American's cherish their right to own and to use firearms, if necessary, to defend those freedoms. This fact is so basic that even Daley should understand it: Guns don't kill people, people kill people. There's another little saying that I like more. "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws (and the government) will have guns." Mayor Daley, and other politicians, like to blame gun violence on the guns themselves because that is so much easier than admitting any inconvenient (politically incorrect) truths which might be revealed if they were to place blame where it belongs. Unfortunately, in political hack Daley's mind, it is easier to blame guns and focus on objects, not people. You see, objects don't vote.
George Washington, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, John J. Pershing, George S. Patton and even Dwight D. Eisenhower never acted as if diversity is more important than the ability to kill bad guys.
$64.3 Million Las Vegas Housing Program Hasn't Led To Purchases The city of Las Vegas got a $64.3 million grant to buy houses for low-income families. Eight months later, not a single person is in a house. Your tax dollars at work.
Orly Taitz and Pastor Manning protest against Bill O' Reilly This protest was in response to Bill O' Reilly smearing the Obama Eligibility lawsuit lawyer, Orly Taitz without giving her a chance to respond or comment. The issue is still not going away. Obama would rather spend $2 million than show his birth certificate and school records. Obama cannot explain away 39 different Social Security numbers. Obama cannot explain away who Barry Soetoro is and if he collected financial aid from college under a false name. Obama cannot explain any of this, so he is hiding behind money, George Soros and the obedient socialists in the media. The media, Fox included, is protecting a man that is violating the constitution, a man who has betrayed the very people that voted for him and this nation.
Viruses could put child porn on your PC Computer viruses can put child porn on your computer. A pedophile may use your computer for storage to avoid arrest. Or a prankster could try to frame you.
Judge rules illegal aliens can vote in N.Y. district! A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics. The village, Port Chester, is run by a mayor and six trustees. Under the new system, called cumulative voting, residents will be allowed to cast as many as six votes for one trustee candidate.
Home intruder shot, killed in Detroit A 67-year-old Detroit man said two robbers may have been after his gambling proceeds before one of them was shot dead on the city's west side. Another crime ends right.
When government slippery slope goes vertical Libertarians often warn about the slippery slope of government intervention: Let the government run the schools, and it may end up teaching your children values that offend you. Let the government have new powers to fight terrorism, and it may use those extraordinary powers in the pursuit of ordinary crimes. Let the federal government give the states money for highways, and it may eventually use its money to impose its own rules on the states.
Tax cuts keep industry here and humming Higher income taxes do not translate into smaller budget deficits.
PelosiCare Facts There is a 5.4% surtax in the bill on all family incomes of $1,000,000 or more. If you're single the threshold is $500,000. Democrats know you don't understand this; but these taxes will hit the very small businesses that we depend on for new jobs. Pelosi's bill contains $250 billion dollars in deficit spending. However, they are voting on that separately so that you can't say the deficit spending is part of Pelosi's bill. Are you following this political deception? Thus far, nobody has explained where in our Constitution it gives the Imperial Federal Government the power to jail someone for a period of five years for failing to purchase a health insurance policy. But what does Nancy Pelosi care about our Constitution? California Congresswoman and general dingbat Maxine Waters says that PelosiCare will be as strong as Social Security and Medicare. Both of those programs are nearly bankrupt. She also says that she can "assure you" that your children will not have to pay for the cost of PelosiCare in the future. She might be correct. Your grand children and great-grand children will be paying for it, as well as their kids. In 230 years the federal government of this country has NEVER required the American people to purchase any consumer item or service. If PelosiCare passes, you can be jailed for five years for refusing to buy health insurance.
Lieberman: Pelosi's health scam 'will break America' Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said that "if the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe the debt can break America and send us into a recession that's worse than the one we're fighting our way out of today."
White House Spent 'Weeks' Courting Lone GOP Vote on Health Care Bill Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, the only Republican to back the health care bill in the House Saturday night, says he had several meetings with President Obama and White House staff in the weeks leading up to the vote. There is your political "hope and change."
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
FBI refused to probe Ft. Hood jihadi despite contact with al-Qaida Maj. Nidal M. Hasan corresponded by e-mail late last year and this year with a radical cleric in Yemen who has criticized the United States for waging war against Muslims, but the contact did not lead to an investigation.
LETHAL INJECTION? WHY NOT A SNIPER SHOT? The Beltway sniper, John Allen Muhammad - a Muslim - will be executed. This Islamic goon killed 10 people - shot them all with a sniper rifle. These were completely innocent people. One was simply filling up her car at a gas station. Another was mowing his lawn. Hopefully he won't be saved at the last minute by some appeals court. He's earned his execution. However, why lethal injection? This guy drilled a hole in the trunk of his car so that he could stick the barrel of a rifle through and killed people in cold blood. And now we are going to lay him down on a gurney and put him to sleep? If we are going to have a death penalty, the vicious criminal should die in the same manner as his innocent victims. I have a better idea. Tie him to a post in the middle of a field. Tell him that he is going to be shot through the heart, but don't tell him when. Let the agony build. Let him stand there for hours, even days. Every once in a while someone can fire a shot from a hidden location into the dirt at his feet. Then a voice can come out of the woods: "Oops! Missed! Hold on, John, while I go get another bullet. Be right back." Finally someone can fire a shot that shatters his knee. "Damn, John! I forgot to allow for windage! Hang in there pal, I need another bullet. We'll be right back to finish you off." Then, about an hour later, finish the job. All of this could be on pay-per-view with the proceeds going to the victims' families.
The Ant & the Grasshopper - Modern Version OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself! MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations videotape the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
What do you get when you turn the Dodge Viper logo upside down? - Daffy Duck
Quotes and Facts Quote: "Well, that's under certainly the laws of the--protect the health, welfare of the country ... That's under the Constitution. We're not even dealing with any constitutionality here. Should we move in that direction? What does the Constitution say? To provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country." - Illinois Senator Roland Burris Fact: The word "health" does not appear in the Constitution. The guy is wrong. Rather than worrying about reading 2,000 page healthcare bills, Roland Burris and his cohorts should refresh themselves on our Constitution, the foundations of this country and what make this country great.
The Obama administration takes aim at climate scientists As for scientists who do not buy into this global warming scam, Barack Obama says, "We'll just have to deal with those people," language familiar to anyone who knows the vagaries of Chicago politics. Thuggery in the White House.
Quotes "Government controlled health care, government controlled education, government controlled paper monetary system, government owned banking system, government owned insurance (AIG), government owned mortgage industry (Fannie and Freddie), government owned automakers... It is no longer possible to pretend that America practices capitalism." - Steve Cooper "When will you people realize that you are not living in a free country any longer? You have no voice. The people overwhelmingly spoke out against this bill, but you were drowned out by the communist stooges in the media. You were called Nazi's by the Speaker of the House and you were called tea baggers and terrorists." - Steve Cooper
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) are the only two Republicans on the "earmark reform" committee who haven't asked for earmarks this year. The rest of the bunch are hypocrites.
N.Y. 23 congressman-elect breaks 4 promises in 1st hour Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon. Owens indicated shortly afterwards that he was now in favor of the "Affordable Healthcare for America Act" bill. This could be a record.
Archives 2004: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations. This was reported by the AP in 2004. Can it be anymore clear?
Yankee fans chuck confidential records out parade-route window Confetti-crazed Yankee fans in buildings along the parade route decided to use confidential financial documents in place of ticker tape - literally tossing common sense out the window. Idiocy!
Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That's 44 percent of the body - compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall.
Embedded Income Tax Costs Eliminated with FairTax The income tax iceberg lives dangerously hidden beneath the surface of our economy and our tax structure. Every consumer pays them hidden inside retail prices, wages and benefits are often depressed because of them and American companies are at a severe price disadvantage with foreign competitors because of them. The FairTax eliminates these hidden tax costs and - among other advantages - allows retail prices to drop in their absence.
Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist): "Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon"
Climate-change belief given same legal status as religion The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel. I have been saying for years that the global warming fraud was like a religion to these believers.
Illinois data on stimulus-related jobs saved, created don't add up More than $4.7 million in federal stimulus aid so far has been funneled to schools in North Chicago, and state and federal officials say that money has saved the jobs of 473 teachers. Problem is, the district employs only 290 teachers.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL DECIDE WHEN YOU ARE 'TOO BIG TO FAIL' This would expand the powers of our Imperial Federal Government beyond anything we have seen thus far. The federal government will have the power to decide when a company is too big, and use force to dismantle that private company. One year ago you woke up to the reality of a president and a congress intent on relegating our Constitution to the "casual reading" section of your local Barnes and Noble.
'Health-care deform' to move ahead, the sheeple be damned says Madame Pelosi Pelosi will ask her troops to cast potentially career-ending votes for health-care changes, Medicare cuts, higher taxes, and fines on the uninsured.
Famously smart, Obama was stupid about economy This is not a time to be selling plans that idealistic Americans support despite a belief that they damage the economy.
ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama "We believe in Barack Obama "Barack Obama there is none higher
The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about it because of our government.
Al Gore: World's First Carbon Billionaire? Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in. You'll love Albert's justifications in this article. They're the same justifications demonized by the left anytime someone other than a fellow lib, turns a profit or lobbies congress to help them do so. Man-made global warming or climate change, as they now conveniently call it as we are no longer in a warming cycle, continues to be a politically motivated fraud. And Al Gore has a huge financial stake in promoting this fraud.
Campaign contributors hold critical posts in the administration, while those who didn't donate a single cent are barred from service. Hope and change: It's all about money flowing Obama's way.
Stimulus Saved 16,000 Government School Jobs In Georgia Georgia has received $1.8 billion in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That money has gone to programs for low-income students, to beef up technology in the classroom and to help homeless students, among others. That averages out to $112K per job. Don't you just love the efficiency of government?
Analysis: More than 3 Million Registered Voters are Dead, 12 Million More Ineligible That's OK. They will probably vote anyway.
Eye-gouging attempt lands Florida Gator's Spikes half-game suspension Half game? This thug should be out for the season.
Congress is going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, but exempts themselves from it, signed by a President that also hasn't read it, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
The following is a list of some of the very nasty side effects that the vaccine package insert admits to..... *Local injection site reactions (including pain, pain limiting limb movement, redness, swelling, warmth, ecchymosis, induration) *Hot flashes/flushes *Chills *Fever *Malaise *Shivering *Fatigue *Asthenia *Facial edema. *Immune system disorders *Hypersensitivity reactions (including throat and/or mouth edema) *In rare cases, hypersensitivity reactions have lead to anaphylactic shock and death *Cardiovascular disorders *Vasculitis (in rare cases with transient renal involvement) *Syncope shortly after vaccination *Digestive disorders *Diarrhea *Nausea *Vomiting *Abdominal pain. *Blood and lymphatic disorders *Local lymphadenopathy *Transient thrombocytopenia. *Metabolic and nutritional disorders *Loss of appetite. *Arthralgia *Myalgia *Myasthenia *Nervous system disorders *Headache *Dizziness *Neuralgia *Paraesthesia *Febrile convulsions *Guillain-Barré Syndrome *Myelitis (including encephalomyelitis and transverse myelitis) *Neuropathy (including neuritis) *Paralysis (including Bell's Palsy) *Respiratory disorders *Dyspnea *Chest pain *Cough *Pharyngitis *Rhinitis *Stevens-Johnson syndrome *Pruritus *Urticaria *Rash (including non-specific, maculopapular, and vesiculobulbous). Doesn't all that sound wonderful? Doesn't that make you want to run out and sign up to get vaccinated?
Ford reports $1 Billion 3rd quarter profit Ford, the only U.S. automaker to dodge direct government aid and bankruptcy court, surprised investors with net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter. People apparently wanted to buy something other than cars made by Obama's Government Motors.
Police say guilt was written all over their faces Police received a call that two men with hooded sweatshirts and painted faces had tried to break into a man's home in Carroll, Iowa. Do ski masks really cost that much more than Sharpies?
Planning your future? Stay clear of these: Social worker Special events coordinator Probation/parole officer News reporter Music ministry director Membership manager Fundraiser Commercial photographer Assisted living director Minister Marriage/family therapist Curator Substance abuse counselor Film/TV producer High school teacher
Timeline: The secret history of swine flu Hint: This is nothing new. The origins of the H1N1 pandemic go back more than a century.
Limbaugh: Obama Is A "Threat To Liberty" Rush Limbaugh discusses Barack Obama, the economy, health care, the GOP and other topics in a wide-ranging interview on "FOX News Sunday." That's why he is the Godfather of talk radio.
Obama's White House now an outhouse! Obama names 110 White House visitors: Includes Ayers, Soros, Wright, Gingrich, Sharpton, Malik Shabazz of the Black Panther Party, et al. - All the president's men? From the people's house to outhouse in one election. That's what you get when you elect a former community organizer.
Al Sharpton's ex-wife and daughter busted for raging at cops The Rev. Al Sharpton's ex-wife and daughter were arrested after berating two cops who had pulled them over for running a red light to get around their slow-moving, unmarked cruiser.
Time To Fight Against ObamaCare The government now controls 30% of the private wealth of the country. With the passage of health care, this rises to 48%. The dollar has lost 16% of its value since the Obama administration took office. Have you had enough yet? Take a sick day to fight against Obamacare! Here are some items of interest for this new legislation: H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" has been introduced--all 1990 pages of it. This gargantuan beast contains thirteen new tax hikes. Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee's health premium (65 percent of a family employee), the employer must pay an excise tax equal to 8 percent of average wages. Small employers (measured by payroll size) have smaller payroll tax rates of 0 percent (<$500,000), 2 percent ($500,000-$585,000), 4 percent ($585,000-$670,000), and 6 percent ($670,000-$750,000). Individual Mandate Surtax (Page 296): If an individual fails to obtain qualifying coverage, he must pay an income surtax equal to the lesser of 2.5 percent of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) or the average premium. MAGI adds back in the foreign earned income exclusion and municipal bond interest. Medicine Cabinet Tax (Page 324): Non-prescription medications would no longer be able to be purchased from health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Insulin excepted. Cap on FSAs (Page 325): FSAs would face an annual cap of $2500 (currently uncapped). Increased Additional Tax on Non-Qualified HSA Distributions (Page 326): Non-qualified distributions from HSAs would face an additional tax of 20 percent (current law is 10 percent). This disadvantages HSAs relative to other tax-free accounts (e.g. IRAs, 401(k)s, 529 plans, etc.) Denial of Tax Deduction for Employer Health Plans Coordinating with Medicare Part D (Page 327): This would further erode private sector participation in delivery of Medicare services. Surtax on Individuals and Small Businesses (Page 336): Imposes an income surtax of 5.4 percent on MAGI over $500,000 ($1 million married filing jointly). MAGI adds back in the itemized deduction for margin loan interest. This would raise the top marginal tax rate in 2011 from 39.6 percent under current law to 45 percent-a new effective top rate. Excise Tax on Medical Devices (Page 339): Imposes a new excise tax on medical device manufacturers equal to 2.5 percent of the wholesale price. It excludes retail sales and unspecified medical devices sold to the general public. Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting (Page 344): Requires that 1099-MISC forms be issued to corporations as well as persons for trade or business payments. Current law limits to just persons for small business compliance complexity reasons. Also expands reporting to exchanges of property. Delay in Worldwide Allocation of Interest (Page 345): Delays for nine years the worldwide allocation of interest, a corporate tax relief provision from the American Jobs Creation Act Limitation on Tax Treaty Benefits for Certain Payments (Page 346): Increases taxes on U.S. employers with overseas operations looking to avoid double taxation of earnings. Codification of the "Economic Substance Doctrine" (Page 349): Empowers the IRS to disallow a perfectly legal tax deduction or other tax relief merely because the IRS deems that the motive of the taxpayer was not primarily business-related. Application of "More Likely Than Not" Rule (Page 357): Publicly-traded partnerships and corporations with annual gross receipts in excess of $100 million have raised standards on penalties. If there is a tax underpayment by these taxpayers, they must be able to prove that the estimated tax paid would have more likely than not been sufficient to cover final tax liability.
The Goal of Every H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine: Immunotoxicity, Neurotoxicity and Sterility Science dictates that only a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study can generate unbiased results in any clinical trial. In the history of vaccine development, no such study has ever been performed. It is only unscientific opinions and pharmaceutical propaganda which have propelled the mythological validity, safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Dozens of controlled studies have scientifically verified the immunotoxicty, neurotoxicity and sterility of common vaccine ingredients which destroy human health, yet they are all ignored by conventional medicine.
Obama has 39 different Social Security Numbers Obama has 39 different SS#'s and 149 different addresses. What a disgrace that this is allowed to happen and the evidence is being suppressed; which is even worse.
COMMON-SENSE HEALTH CARE REFORMS OUR NATION CAN AFFORD What Americans want are common-sense, responsible solutions that address the rising cost of health care and other major problems. In the national Republican address on Saturday, October 31, 2009, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed Republicans' plan for common-sense health care reform our nation can afford. Boehner's address emphasized four common-sense reforms that will lower health care costs and expand access to quality care without a government takeover of our nation's health care system that kills jobs, raises taxes on small businesses, or cuts Medicare for seniors: Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines. Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do. Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs. Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
Health bill '1,990 pages of bureaucracy' Tell me how we're going to fix our healthcare system with 1,190 pages of bureaucracy?
Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per sale American taxpayers paid a lot of cash for those clunkers: $24,000 for each new car sold. The government could have done almost as well by just giving away cars for free, instead of creating an elaborate incentive program.
Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides.
Neal Boortz: Kinda wish cameras could shoot bullets
Orly Taitz - Response to Bill O' Reilly's smears "It is time to protest FOX NEWS" She said that "O 'Reilly is not a legitimate journalist" because he did not contact Orly for a comment about the piece he did on FOX news. Orly stated that if FOX gave her a 30 minute show for her to display her evidence, Obama would have to resign from office within 48 hours.
Private insurance premiums could triple under ObamaCare How will ObamaCare affect insurance premiums in the private health-care markets? Despite indignant Democratic denials, the near-certainty is that their plan will cause costs to rise across the board. Everything government "regulates" becomes more expensive.
Pravda: America Moving from Kingdom of Cash to Socialism Slowly but Surely
A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama. Freezing out a TV network. Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.
San Francisco bridge closed - outsourced repair at fault - China! Outsourcing, free trade and globalization are the hallmarks of the Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and the Clinton administrations.
HOW DOGS DAMAGE THE PLANET LIKE A 4X4 A MEDIUM-sized dog has the same carbon impact as a Toyota Land Cruiser driven 6,000 miles a year. How can any reasonably sane person expound this drivel?
Vegetarians: Stop Eating Meat to Control the Climate People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change. Lord Stern of Brentford said: Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Manmade climate change is a political farce and these radicals are complete fools. And if they are worried about gas, keep in mind that the primary source of protein for vegetarians are beans. Now, you know what will happen if everybody is forced to eat beans for protein. Talk about powerful gas.
Tax refugees staging escape from New York More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the country.
Illegals given pass on lack of driver's license San Francisco is about to give a big break to people, many of them illegal immigrants, who are caught driving without a license. The reason: Many such drivers are in the United States illegally - and thus unable to get a license - and the officials pushing the change think that impounding their cars is an unfair hardship. Idiocy continues in San Francisco.
Economics and Government 101 - Steve Wynn "Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history." - Steve Wynn "The government's ability to fund anything is based on its collection of revenue from citizens who earn an income. The only way government got a dime - and there are constructive and appropriate activities of government - is from the productive activities of people and business." - Steve Wynn "My point is that in the larger economic sense, government produces nothing. It gets revenue from citizens and companies ... The wealth of the nation comes from the citizens and the productivity of citizens and business. That is the engine of the standard of living." - Steve Wynn "I'm seeing things I've never seen before in my life. It's a punitive, secretive and misinformed government." - Steve Wynn "They are trying to change the basic fabric of American life without preparation, homework or experience. And they're trying to intimidate everybody." - Steve Wynn "To take up health care, behind closed doors, it's the low point in government responsibility." - Steve Wynn
He followed an unpopular president. He received a strong election mandate. He changed the tone in Washington. He said that Human Rights mattered. That America's image in the world had to be remade. He would receive a Nobel Peace Prize. As the end of his presidency's first year drew near, the future looked bright. He had brought change -- change that mattered. It was 1977. The next year was very bad.
What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry.
Obama golfs while U.S. melts President Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. Does this guy ever work?
Robbery suspect who was fatally shot by a 70-year-old grandmother A would-be robbery suspect picked the wrong motel room, and a 70-year-old woman fatally shot the man. The suspect attempted to rob a group of people in a motel room and was fatally shot. Another crime ends right. Go granny!
Obama Declares H1N1 Flu 'National Emergency' Borderline personality disorder: Create the crisis.
Things to watch for during a "Declared National Emergency" As I predicted-though I was unsure whether it would be the H1N1 virus or the collapse of the dollar-the Communist Puppet would use something to cement his total control over every aspect of our lives. From the day he took office, Obama and his puppet masters have been building a shadow Government with all power vested in them. The Czars he has appointed, who were not vetted and approved by Congress nor elected, now have the authority to control every aspect of American commerce. I challenge you to look at the Executive Orders that have been signed over the last 30 years and are still in place. Here are just a few Executive Orders that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen: EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. Elections have consequences.
Health Care Bill Is About Control, Not Health Care I have been saying this for months.
Where does the Constitution authorize Congress to require all Americans to carry health insurance? Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) would not say what part of the Constitution grants Congress the power to force every American to buy health insurance--as all of the health care overhaul bills currently do.
Obama: Policy 'czars' won't testify before Congress Senators said it goes against the president's promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress' constitutional mandate to investigate the administration's actions.
Dems seek cover to boost debt limit The Senate must soon increase the national debt limit to above $13 trillion - and Democrats are looking for political cover. Knowing they will face unyielding GOP attacks for voting to increase the eye-popping debt, Democrats are considering attaching a debt increase provision to a must-pass bill, possibly the Defense Department spending bill. For the last ten years, our government spending has skyrocketed thanks to George Bush. Congress votes to increase the debt ceiling. Barack Obama gets into office and spends more in his first few months than all other presidents combined. Congress needs to increase the debt ceiling, but Democrats don't want to get blamed. Democrats attach the vote on the increase to a Defense spending bill to fund the troops in Afghanistan (a hot issue at the moment). The Democrats try to downplay the issue of increase so as to not spark public outrage. The Republicans say they don't want to vote for the bill because of the increase. The Democrats say that the Republicans don't want to support the troops. The Republicans end up voting for the bill anyway. Election time rolls around, and Democrats use the vote against Republicans saying that they voted to increase the debt limit to a whopping $13 trillion (neglecting to mention the fact that the increase was attached to a bill to fund the troops because the Democrats manipulated it that way). Isn't politics fun? How is that hope and change working out?
The Sovereign Nation of Texas says "Howdy" to America In case things get a little tough during the next few months we Texans have a plan. Maybe you don't know it, but Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union.
What is wrong with America? Representatives don't listen to the people who vote. Representatives say one thing and then do another (Lie). We, as a nation, have drifted from our founding US Constitution. The Constitution was set up to limit the power of the federal government and give the power to the PEOPLE.
Libertarian Party Founder David Nolan Calls Sarah Palin A Shill, Glenn Beck A Wanna-Be Libertarian
Devastating drop in job approval numbers for Obama President Obama's push for health care reform during the third quarter of 2009 has seriously damaged his public standing, according to new data from the Gallup Daily tracking poll. His job approval rating dropped nine points from the second to the third quarter, from 62 percent to 53 percent. The nine-point second-to-third quarter drop is the highest Gallup has ever measured for an incumbent president during his first year in office, and among the highest quarter-to-quarter drops measured for any president at any point.
Barack Hussein Obama Mm,Mm,Mm Quote Hit List I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. - Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. - Barack Obama It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. - Barack Obama Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. - Barack Obama We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. - Barack Obama We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. - Barack Obama We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. - Barack Obama You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime. - Barack Obama
New Board Game by Obama - Modern Day Monopoly - BAMOPOLY The object of the game is to destroy American capitalism by having the government take over everything. Wanna play? No? Too bad, you're already playing.
CIA To Monitor Internet Chatter For Anti-Government Sentiment America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates - even check out your book reviews on Amazon. This is like a scene out of the movie V for Vendetta. U.S. spy agencies have bought stakes in companies that are known for keeping data on social media.
Neal Boortz having some fun with the numbers Knowing that the nation's schools are doing so poorly teaching basic math skills to our children; and assuming that parents, being the ultra-responsible lot that you are, will try to fill in the gaps with some home schooling - I thought it might be useful to present you with some numbers you might want to use in your remedial education efforts. The added bonus here is that you can also use these numbers to reinforce in your children that President Barack Obama really is, as has been written, "sort of" a God and is clearly succeeding in his quest to lead America to a golden new economic age. 30,383 That's the number of jobs the Obama Administration claimed to have "saved or created" in a statement last Thursday. The trouble is, there is no clearly defined way to determine jobs "saved or created." You can pretty much choose any number and run with it. 48,000,000 Since we're speaking of jobs, that's the approximate number of people employed by America's small businesses - specifically the ones that employ between 1 and 49 people. Medium-sized businesses employing 50 to 499 workers count for another 42,000,000 jobs. What about large businesses that employ over 500 people? Try 17,000,000. $2,300,000 That's the amount of borrowed stimulus money that was sent to beauty schools in the Tampa, Florida area to train hairdressers, masseuses and nail technicians. People who are already licensed to do hair, nails and give massages in the Tampa area are looking for work. 61.4% Percentages are fun! It's bonus time when you can use percentages to teach your children about the perils of debt. At the end of 1999, as we were moving into the last year of the Clinton Administration, the amount of money our government owed was 61.4% of our GDP; the total value of all goods and services produced in this country during that year. By the time George Bush was through that figure had gone up by 8.8 percentage points to 70.2%. Not good. But … by the time Barack Obama gets his first year all wrapped up that figure will have risen another 20.2 percentage points to 90.4%! We're on a roll! And here's your final fun percentage figure: In 2011 that figure will reach the magic 100%. At that point we owe more than the total value of our economy. 9% That's an unemployment figure. That's how high Barack Obama said our unemployment figure would go if we did not quickly pass his super-effective stimulus plan earlier this year. 7.9% That's how high Obama said unemployment would rise if we would just give him over $750 billion dollars to stimulate our economy. We did. 9.8% That's our latest unemployment figure. Looks like the stimulus worked! The figure includes hairdressers, nail techs and massage therapists - in case you're wondering. #1 As in Rule No. 1. Elections have consequences.
Congress's fabulous golf cart stimulus. We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart. The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Your tax dollars at work.
Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty? It looks that way. The New World Order is emerging, and it seems that Barack Obama is going along with their agenda. He is on the verge of cedeing U.S. sovereignty to the global elite.
U.S. sponsors plan to restrict free speech A proposal sponsored by the Obama administration at the United Nations that purports to seek protection for "freedom of opinion and expression" actually is a call for a worldwide crackdown on freedom of speech.
H1N1 explained by an influenza research insider If you want someone to sort out all the nonsense about H1N1, someone who's well-informed, has no professional agenda, and nothing to gain financially, then Tom Jefferson, M.D., is your guy. For 15 years, Dr. Jefferson has been studying the nature of influenza and vaccines with the Cochrane Collaboration - a non-profit, independent organization that reviews a wide variety of health care research. And now Dr. Jefferson and his colleagues have some good news: You can stop worrying about H1N1, and you can even stop worrying about the H1N1 vaccine, if you will only do one thing… Dr. Jefferson wants you to wash your hands.
College grads move back home, thought degrees in Maoism would land them top jobs
Justice concludes black voters need Democrat Party Voters in Kinston, N.C., decided to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate. Comrade Obama will decide what you need in your best interest.
Sotomayor Says White House Even Picked Out Her Clothes Claims officials took over her fashion decisions. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's nomination process was so controlled that the White House even approved her clothes. Will the White House need to approve her official legal decisions? This "wise Latina" wasn't even wise enough to make her own "fashion decisions."
$2.3 million in federal stimulus money is going to pay for Tampa Bay area beauty school tuition More than $2.3 million in federal economic stimulus grants for hairdressers, masseuses and nail technicians. Your tax dollars at work.
White House Science Czar Advocated FCC Forcing Broadcasters to Air Enviro-Population Control Ads Time to force the spread of Comrade Obama's propaganda.
Florida plan advises hospitals to bar some patients in event of severe flu pandemic. Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals. You will be told to go home and die. A preview of government healthcare.
Firefighter suspended for American flag on his locker A firefighter is taking heat after he refused to take the American flag off of his locker. The firefighter is trying to go back to work after being suspended without pay.
Obama's deficit triples record, on path to $9 trillion What is $1.42 trillion? More than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the economy of India, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the U.S.
Central Europe hit by heavy snow Austria's Alps recorded the biggest October snowfalls in 25 years. Early snow sets record for Ithaca area Snow comes to RI early in October Global Warming Strikes Again. They need to get Al Gore and Michael Moore to help shovel all of that global warming.
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California Banning Flat Panel TVs The CEC's regulation would effectively ban the sale of 25 percent of current big screen TV models and 100 percent of plasma TVs larger than 60 inches in California. Even with the recent report that a group of scientists are now saying that climate change is caused more by nature than by carbon dioxide. What we have here is a group of climate-change alarmists perpetrating the global warming fraud.
Ted Nugent Calls Obama A Piece of Blank
Our Constitution is on Life Support "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." --Benjamin Franklin The wealth and wisdom of generations of Americans have been progressively supplanted by our central government's exercise of unconstitutional authority. In regard to wealth, I refer most directly to our government's colossal spending and debt accumulation, and unlawful taxation. As to wisdom, well, there's not much of that emerging from government-run school systems. Having already depleted the wealth and wisdom of our great nation, the Obama juggernaut is determined to do likewise to health, that third prong of Franklin's trident. If successful, then we may rightly fear it as a deathblow to the greatest experiment in human history.
Congress steals $ from troop funds for ammo for Kennedy library! Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops.
FCC Commissioner Says Diversity Chief's Ideas for Regulating Free Speech Are 'Troubling' Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech.
Massachusetts unemployment hits highest rate since 1976 The Massachusetts unemployment rate last month rose to its highest level since the 1970s as employers cut more than 9,000 jobs and work remains scarce. And let's not forget that the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts has mandated government health insurance, which has nothing to do with the actual quality of healthcare.
Majority of Nobel jury 'objected to Obama prize' Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama.
How to Win the Nobel Peace Prize In 12 Days President Obama has broken new ground here. Nominations for potential winners of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ended on February 1. The president took office only 12 days earlier on January 20. Let's take a look at the president's first 12 days in the White House according to his public schedule to see what he did to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize: January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to a parade. Partied. January 21: Asked bureaucrats to re-write guidelines for information requests. Held an "open house" party at the White House. January 22: Signed Executive Orders: Executive Branch workers to take ethics pledge; re-affirmed Army Field Manual techniques for interrogations; expressed desire to close Gitmo (how's that working out?) January 23: Ordered the release of federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries. Lunch with Joe Biden; met with Tim Geithner. January 24: Budget meeting with economic team. January 25: Skipped church. January 26: Gave speech about jobs and energy. Met with Hillary Clinton. Attended Geithner's swearing in ceremony. January 27: Met with Republicans. Spoke at a clock tower in Ohio. January 28: Economic meetings in the morning, met with Defense secretary in the afternoon. January 29: Signed Ledbetter Bill overturning Supreme Court decision on lawsuits over wages. Party in the State Room. Met with Biden. January 30: Met economic advisers. Gave speech on Middle Class Working Families Task Force. Met with senior enlisted military officials. January 31: Took the day off. February 1: Skipped church. Threw a Super Bowl party. So there you have it. The short path to the Nobel Peace Prize: Party, go to meetings, skip church, release federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries, party some more.
Criminals For Gun Control - "Saving criminals by disarming citizens."
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Heavy Snow Expected in Pennsylvania Chicago: Record Breaking Cold Continues October Cold Snap Sets 82-Year Record. Montana: Cold Weather Records Fall Is that global warming and climate change working for you as well as that hope and change?
Baltimore Schools Embrace Anti-Meat Movement with 'Meatless Mondays' Meatless Monday is a national and international movement with ties to extreme animal rights activists. "We know now what they do, and we have collaborated with them," said Mellissa Mahoney, a chef and dietitian with the school district. The brainwashing of our youth by extremists continues.
Worker told stop singing in her store - or pay for performing license Music police have told a grandmother to stop singing behind the counter of the corner shop where she works - or pay for a license. The British government agency that collects music royalties has told her that her "spontaneous outbursts of joy" constitute live public performance.
Woman Disabled by Flu Shot Reaction An Ashburn, Virginia woman is in the fight of her life after suffering a very side effect to the seasonal flu shot. A few weeks ago, Desiree Jennings was training for a half marathon. Now, she's struggling to walk, talk and even eat. The vast majority of doctors say flu shots are safe. In this case, the FDA says they found nothing wrong with this particular batch, but sometimes there are complications. Go ahead; keep trusting government political hacks with your health.
Mom Arrested for Washing Kid's Mouth With Soap A Florida couple is behind bars for some old school discipline. A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing. They washed her mouth out with soap. Apparently, forced vaccinations against your will containing known toxic chemicals that can cause neurologic disorders, paralysis, sickness, and death are okay, but soap is bad.
Health Bill Includes $507 Billion in New Taxes and Fees The health-care bill that the Senate Finance Committee will vote on today will cost a total of $829 billion over 10 years, with $507 billion of that cost being covered by new federal taxes and fees. These new taxes and fees include: -- $201 billion in new taxes on high-premium health care plans. -- $83 billion in new taxes paid by workers who will receive less employer-sponsored coverage or lose that coverage altogether but will be compensated with higher wages or monetary benefits, which are taxable. -- $23 billion in penalty fees paid by employers who do not comply with the federal insurance mandate. -- $4 billion in penalty fees paid by individuals who don't have health insurance. -- $16 billion in new income and Medicare payroll tax revenue due to changes in Medicare. -- $180 billion in other tax revenues items calculated by the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). Wait, Lord Obama promised that there would be no increase in taxes. And what do we get? More taxes. More government. More bureaucrats. The Democrats are creating bigger government with more strings attached to the purse. There is your "hope and change."
Inspection program would allow Russia to visit U.S. nuke sites Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads. The plan was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever accepted. All this courtesy of Hitlary Clinton.
Federal judge in Ga. sanctions 'birther' attorney A federal judge in Georgia fined a leader of the movement challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship and warned her against using the legal system to pursue "political rhetoric and insults." How dare anyone question the exalted Lord Comrade Obama.
Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005 SEC. 3. RIGHT TO DISPLAY THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. A condominium association, cooperative association, or residential real estate management association may not adopt or enforce any policy, or enter into any agreement, that would restrict or prevent a member of the association from displaying the flag of the United States on residential property within the association with respect to which such member has a separate ownership interest or a right to exclusive possession or use.
American flags banned from vehicles at Albany apartment Jim Clausen was "shocked" when the manager of the Oaks Apartments in Albany told him he could face eviction if he did not remove the American flags that fly from his Jeep and motorcycle when they are parked at the complex. Barb Holcomb, who manages the Oaks Apartments at 1440 Geary Circle S.E. for owner Stan Keller, said Clausen is correct. She is requiring that tenants take off any flag that flies from their vehicles, and that includes the Mexican flag and college team flags. Political and religious [sic] signs at a tenant's unit also are not permitted. "I'm trying to avoid any conflict," Holcomb said. "I have a problem when tenants' rights to free speech come into contact with other tenants' rights of peaceful enjoyment. This policy is not a violation of anyone's civil rights. This is absurd! Flags are now offensive? Offended? Leave!
It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon? Zachary's offense? Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to use it at lunch. School officials (government employees) concluded that he had violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and Zachary was suspended and now faces 45 days in the district's reform school. Zero tolerance policies. He was accused of bringing a weapon to school and knives are strictly banned, "regardless of possessor's intent." Zero tolerance equals zero thought! Government school idiocy strikes again!
What Canadians Want You To Know About Their Health Care System "If the U.S. changes their medical system, where are Canadians like us going to go for surgery?" Join the Mackinac Center as it journeys across Canada, documenting harrowing stories from real Canadians of long waits, physician shortages, doctor lotteries, special treatment for insiders and being forced to travel abroad for basic medical care.
Hillary Clinton vows to never run for president again Until next time.
Activist gets 6 months in jail for hurting Judges ego attacked by police behind closed doors! Activist Kurt Hoffman was sentenced to 6 months in jail for hurting a Judges ego. He was then attack behind closed doors and taken to the hospital. Demonstrators have candle light vigil in front of attacking cops house angering him.
2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on December 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. While long discredited, Brasseur de Bourbourg proves one thing: Westerners have been trying for more than a century to pin doomsday scenarios on the Maya. "No one who's writing in now seems to remember that the last time we thought the world was going to end, it didn't."
It was snowing and 18 degrees, not very conducive for baseball. Global warming strikes again!
What happened to global warming? This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone. If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. If a liberal sees a foreign threat, he wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good. If a person of color is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection. If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him. If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down. If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!) If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his. If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed. If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues. If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh. A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".
US Political Belief vs. Media Attention Given
Viagra, Porno, Booze Bought with Government Food Stamps Viagra and pornography are not staples on the government's food stamp list. But authorities said a Detroit store supplied them during a series of illegal deals. All this is before they got an application for money from Obama.
Obama Wins Every Award on the Planet
Michael Savage: 'No Comment' on Obama's Prize-Just Kidding The "no comment"-which he really did say-lasted exactly one second. Then Savage shared some of the disbelief his listeners can expect to hear soon on his show. "This is unbelievable; no one can believe this. What has he done? Has he discovered a cure for brain cancer I don't know about?" Well, no. "Is he moving us towards world peace?" he wonders. "Last I checked Ahmadinejad is speeding along with his bomb. If Obama is an antiwar president, why hasn't he pulled us out of Afghanistan?" Savage's real ire isn't directed at Obama, but at the Nobel committee. "We all know what the Nobel Prize committee is ever since Yasir Arafat won. It's a radical leftist front group that hijacked Alfred Nobel's prize." "This whole thing smacks of comic absurdity."
School Children Banned From Public Parks Government school parents get upset that private school children are using a public park during the day so they have the local government ban all young children from the park. Government idiocy!
Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming A noted geologist who coauthored a New York Times bestseller has turned his attention to convincing Congress carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.
Absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize The award of this year's Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself. Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. What has he actually accomplished? This is idiocy!
District requiring principals to ensure students eat breakfast A new policy means principals will be evaluated on the number of students eating breakfast at their schools. What happened to parents being responsible for feeding their kids? Why is this government's responsibility? Principals will be evaluated more on how kids eat than how they learn. Government school idiocy!
We're going to bomb the moon, no preconditions, no negotiations! What did the moon do to us? Is somebody up there on the moon doing things that only Obama knows about? The stated reason for bombing the moon near the South Pole of the moon is they want to find out if there's water in the plume of the explosion. You would think that Obama would try sanctions first to see if the moon would admit to having the water and give it to us. This could set up a retaliatory attack! Wait until the meteorites organize when they hear about this.
A tax cheat writing our tax laws Charlie Rangel is the chairman of the committee in charge of drafting tax legislation. While writing tax laws that govern you this political hack has done a good job of avoiding the law for his personal finances. Failure to report over $1 million in outside income and $3 million in business transactions as required by the House. Failure to disclose at least $650,000 in assets he had previously failed to list on his House financial disclosure forms. Failure to disclose to the IRS or on his financial disclosure forms $75,000 in rental income for a beach villa in the Dominican Republic. Violation of state laws by claiming three primary residences and breaking New York City regulations by maintaining four rent-controlled apartments. Violation of House rules by using congressional letterhead to solicit donations for an education center bearing his name at City College of New York. Delinquency in paying his property taxes on two New Jersey parcels and failure to report the sale of a $1.3 million brownstone. We the people would get punished for this, why not Rangel?
Rush Limbaugh: In Line For 'Obama Money' In Detroit
Remember When Nancy Pelosi Asked "Where are the jobs, Mr. President?" In August 2003, reacting to a July unemployment rate of 6.2 percent, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi asked "Where are the jobs, Mr. President." With the current unemployment rate at 9.8 percent and many predicting it will go higher over the coming months, House Speaker Pelosi should be asking that question even more emphatically than she did six years ago.
Napolitano May Move Captured Illegal Aliens from Jail to 'Converted Hotels, Nursing Homes' Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she is pursuing plans to remove some captured illegal aliens from "prison-like or jail-like circumstances" and put them in converted hotels and nursing homes. Next illegals will be getting complimentary weekends at Las Vegas resorts.
It's okay to admit it: you thought you were voting for a more benevolent and wiser version of Tiger Woods when all you got was a smoother version of Chicago-style, brass knuckle politics. It isn't so much that you voted for the wrong guy; you were lied to by the media. But you should have known better. Chicago has a long and storied run of thoroughly corrupt political bosses giving envy to any third-world dictator.
White House Denies A Number Two on Air Force One Rumor has it that a certain Portuguese water dog made a stealthy deposit on Air Force One, and a flight attendant nearly stepped in it. Obama doesn't even care about being environmentally conscious with his dog. He should have let the dog poop before it got on the airplane to reduce the carbon footprint of the plane with reduced the weight. Obama just puts a dog on the plane without letting the dog eliminate the added weight thus creating a greater carbon footprint with more fuel wasted. Obama never does what he says everyone else should do.
School Kids Singing For Obamacare On CNN Actually, these kids look healthy with the current healthcare system.
50 Examples of Government Waste Here are a few of my favorites: Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties. Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them--costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually--fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve. Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, including "over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold." The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece. Federal agencies are delinquent on nearly 20 percent of employee travel charge cards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida. The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades. Washington will spend $126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute. (Will they be training the Chinese prostitutes?) The federal government owns more than 50,000 vacant homes. The Federal Communications Commission spent $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland. Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines--plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, "Girls Gone Wild" videos, and at least one sex change operation. Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications. Congress recently gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737. The Transportation Department will subsidize up to $2,000 per flight for direct flights between Washington, D.C., and the small hometown of Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY)--but only on Monday mornings and Friday evenings, when lawmakers, staff, and lobbyists usually fly. Rogers is a member of the Appropriations Committee, which writes the Transportation Department's budget. (How convenient?) A Department of Agriculture report concedes that much of the $2.5 billion in "stimulus" funding for broadband Internet will be wasted. The Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets and never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable. Washington spends $60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks. The state of Washington sent $1 food stamp checks to 250,000 households in order to raise state caseload figures and trigger $43 million in additional federal funds. Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit. The National Institutes of Health spends $1.3 million per month to rent a lab that it cannot use. (And you still want government to control healthcare?) Medicare officials recently mailed $50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients. Washington recently spent $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia. The Advanced Technology Program spends $150 million annually subsidizing private businesses; 40 percent of this funding goes to Fortune 500 companies. Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education. The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 computers since 2001, many containing Americans' personal data. Your tax dollars not at work.
Ted Kennedy Claimed He Slept With Over 1,000 Women In a chapter of his autobiography, the late Senator Ted Kennedy confessed to having slept with over 1,000 women and spending more than $10 million in hush money to keep his womanizing ways a secret. If you crack open the book, however, you won't find a mention of this in there anywhere. That is because horrified family members and advisers cut it out before the book was published. Does that beat Wilt Chamberlain? Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20,000 women. Ted Kennedy is minor league by comparison so Wilt Chamberlin's record is still intact.
Does Disney have a problem with Fox News? Walt Disney World is responding to reports that Fox News Channel is not offered at its hotels and resorts. Neal Boortz raised the question during his show after a recent stay at a Disney resort. "Go figure that out now why you cannot find the Fox News Channel on any Disney-controlled TV anywhere," said Boortz.
Thugs got their asses kicked by a dude in a skirt They picked the wrong victims on this occasion after being floored by two cross-dressers who are believed to have been cage fighters on a night out.
As the single largest buyer of medical products, you'd think Medicare would at least get a volume discount. According to their own auditors, Medicare knowingly overpays for almost everything it buys. Examples include: -- $7,215 to rent an oxygen concentrator, when the purchase price is $600. -- $4,018 for a standard wheelchair, while the private sector pays $1,048. -- $1,825 for a hospital bed, compared to an Internet price of $1,071. -- $3,335 for a respiratory pump, versus an advertised price of $1,987. -- $82 for a diabetic supply kit, instead of a $47 price on the Web. Last year, the Health and Human Services Department tried to replace its archaic fixed-price fee schedule for 10 commonly purchased products with a competitive bidding program in 10 cities. The department said the program could save Medicare $125 million in a single year, or $1 billion if adopted nationwide. But Congress stepped in to stop it. And you don't think these types of shenanigans and politics won't occur every day when the government controls your healthcare?
Medicare denial rate is roughly 1.7 times that of all of the private carriers combined So who's the most "heartless" now? Yet Americans accept the idea of gradually being forced into a government-run system when, based on documented government experience, they will be more likely to see their claims denied. Just wait until government controls your entire healthcare.
3 of 4 doctors flanking Obama at event donated to his campaign Not only did the four doctors who flanked President Obama at his White House press event on Monday recommend his plan; three out of four of them donated to his presidential campaign. The four doctors who stood and clapped along with Mr. Obama's plans were Dr. Mona Mangat of St. Petersburg, Florida, Dr. Hershey Garner of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Dr. Richard A. Evans of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, and Dr. Amanda McKinney of Beatrice, Nebraska. Campaign finance records made available by the Center for Responsive Politics show three of them gave thousands to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign. Dr. Manget gave $500, Dr. Garner gave $4,415 and Dr. McKinney gave $1750. They donated to Obama and all they got were those taxpayer funded Obama white medical lab coats. Shameless politics as usual. I'm still waiting for that "change" part to kick in.
Special Needs Student Beaten by Illinois police over dress code Dolton Illinois -- 15-year-old Marshawn Pitts was brutally beaten by a Dolton police officer, because his shirt wasn't tucked in. Pitts was a student at the Academy for Learning High School in Dolton, which claims to be a school for children with learning disabilities. In this video, the officer, whose name has not been released, is seen slamming Pitts into lockers, and then slamming him face down on the floor. The officer then puts the 15-year-old boy into a dangerous chokehold. When all was said and done, Pitts had a busted lip and a broken nose.
Dangerous foods list includes leafy greens, eggs, tuna Leafy greens -- including lettuce and spinach -- top the list of the 10 riskiest foods, according to a study from a nutrition advocacy group. The Center for Science in the Public Interest listed the following foods, in descending order, as the most risky in terms of outbreaks: leafy greens, eggs, tuna, oysters, potatoes, cheese, ice cream, tomatoes, sprouts and berries. Now we have food Nazis telling us that everything we eat is "dangerous." Screw these people! They are lunatics! The bottom line: If you see a government funded study, don't even read it. You will probably be healthier.
Loveland ski area opens boasting its earliest opening day in 40 years.
Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort Now Open Resort Opening Earlier Than Ever Before. Unseasonably cold nighttime temperatures and aggressive snowmaking efforts have produced snow. Global warming?
Some Idaho school kids enjoy an early snow day This may be one for the record books, not only how early this heavy fall snowstorm is, but the fact that it appears to have created the earliest snow day in the history of the Blaine County School District. Don't you just hate all of this global warming?
Obama puts union strings on federal jobs Delivering on President Obama's promise to boost the labor movement, the administration has announced a $35 million federal construction project in New Hampshire that requires union representation for the workers and forces nonunion employees to pay dues and contribute to a union pension fund. Time to pay for more votes.
This is what happens if you act out in school in some countries
Obama administration backs U.N. limits on free speech Islamic states quickly interpreted the president's penchant for "engagement" as meaning fundamental rights were now up for grabs. You Can't Say That!
If you thought Washington-which already took over banking and autos, and is fast-tracking attempts to take over health care and energy-would leave the Internet alone, you were dead wrong. The Internet (perhaps our greatest free market success story in recent years) is squarely in the cross-hairs of the administration and it's not waiting for Congress to act. Guess who's leading the charge to turn the Internet into one big, government utility?
In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama. A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president and representing all 50 states, looked as if they were at a costume party as they posed in the Rose Garden before hearing Obama's pitch for the Democratic overhaul bills moving through Congress. The physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image. But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses. So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians. Obama's phony dog and pony show continues.
Toys"R"Us Spokeswoman Defends Child Rape Toys"R"Us spokesperson Whoopi Goldberg on Roman Polanski forcibly raping a 13 year-old girl, "I don't think it was rape-rape."
DAVID LETTERMAN PLOT REVEALED: All part of strategy to get elected to Congress and then the Presidency
OUTRAGE! Obama stops Sheriff Joe Arpaio from arresting illegal aliens! Immigration and Customs Enforcement chose not to renew its federal immigration arrest authority agreement with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Friday. "This just includes the jail, and deep down, I feel that I ought to take it and rip it all up," Arpaio said. Federal officials also refused to comment further. Under the new agreement deputies and detention officers could continue screening individuals once they are booked into the Maricopa County jail, but federal authorities had not offered to allow Arpaio's street-level immigration enforcement to continue. Under the new agreement it looks like Arpaio no longer has authority to make arrests of illegal aliens accused of committing serious crimes.
How did media cover Reagan compared to Obama during a similar economic climate?
Complaint filed seeking affirmation of Montana Firearms Freedom Act The law provides guns and ammo made, sold and used in Montana would not require any federal forms; silencers made and sold in Montana would be fully legal and not registered; and there would be no firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal records check, waiting periods or paperwork required. The idea is spreading quickly. Tennessee already has a similar law, and similar plans have been introduced in many other states. The move comes at a time the nation has a president who has placed anti-gun activists in several influential positions, including an attorney general who supported a complete handgun ban in the District of Columbia before the U.S. Supreme Court threw it out.
School bans mom from biking with son A New York mother is fighting back against her school district after administrators and officials told her she and her son didn't have the right to bike to school together - and that his safety, even beyond school walls, was out of her hands. "This just doesn't seem right to me that the school district would have that kind of authority over a parent," she said - noting that students have been asked not to walk to school. "We're not hurting anyone - we're just riding our bikes." It's all about government power and control.
Military Industrial Complex Prepares Mass Graves for U.S. Citizens For the past 30-45 days in the early hours of the morning until sunset, a massive construction operation has been underway. Major amounts of earth have been excavated out about 9-10 feet deep and 600-1000 feet wide. There are multiple locations on the property like this. From the satellite view there appears to be more sections that have been covered with the concrete lids and backfilled to look as if nothing is there. ABC rock is put in place under the burial vaults for good drainage and solid bedding. This will help not contaminate ground water sources from decomposition of human bodies.
"Banking Queen" - a Live Performance by Barney Frank
Despite four years, millions of dollars in planning and a last-ditch pitch from President Obama, Chicago receives a first punch knockout. Obama + Michelle x Oprah = Zero
Half of babies born in rich world will live to 100 More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue. Expect some political hack in Washington to propose legislation to redistribute life.
Farmer's daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47 An Indian farmer's daughter disarmed a terrorist leader who broke into her home, attacked him with an axe and shot him dead with his own gun. Ted Nugent would be proud.
Record Low Cold in Daytona Beach, Florida Daytona Beach International Airport reported a record-tying low of 58 degrees at 3:33 a.m. That tied the previous record set back in 2001, when we had another cool start to October. Global Warming strikes again!
Michigan, record low temperatures breaks 1935 cold The Port Huron waste water treatment plant recorded a temperature of 32 degrees at 8 a.m., one degree colder than the record low set Oct. 1, 1935. Global Warming strikes again!
Cold snap fills up homeless shelters in Idaho With a quick flip from summer-like weather to freezing cold temperatures, homeless shelters we talked to have never been busier. Global Warming strikes again!
Congress is on the verge of giving itself a bump in its annual budget - even as local governments, families and businesses across the country are tightening their belts in the worst recession in decades. Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year, boosting Capitol Hill's annual budget to $4.7 billion.
Health care in Massachusetts: A warning for America The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care.
Myth: People can't afford healthcare The following items were commonly seen on patients or carried by their dependent children, who were also covered by subsidized programs: Cell phones and "BlackBerry" PDAs, including just-released models with a price tag of $400, plus an ongoing monthly service fee of $65-$150. iPods and portable DVD players. GameBoys and handheld electronic games. Artificial fingernails requiring maintenance every two weeks at a cost of $40-$60 per salon visit. Elaborate braided hair weaves, $300 per session plus frequent maintenance. Custom-designed body art, including tattoos covering the entire torso, neck and arms, as well as body jewelry piercing every skin surface imaginable-and a few unimaginable ones. Custom tattoo work, particularly the "portrait-type" and "half sleeve" art popular in this area, runs from $100-$300 per hour and can require up to 20 hours of work, depending on the complexity of the design. These moochers have all of this money to spend on non-essentials, but not enough money to provide for their own basic healthcare, or their children's?
World Health Organization: No Deadly Mutation of H1N1 Swine Flu The World Health Organization, the UN agency (ir-) responsible for declaring a Phase 6 "PANDEMIC" global alert over what it calls H1N1 Influenza A or Swine Flu, whose chief Dr. Margaret Chan has repeatedly warned that while Swine Flu to date had been rather mild, that the emergency declaration was necessary because it "could mutate" aggressively into a deadly pandemic killing millions, now admits well into the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere that H1N1 has apparently not mutated.
Democrat Senator Will Not Read Health Care Bill Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not "expect" to read the actual legislative language of the committee's health care bill because it is "confusing" and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people.
Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own - when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents.
The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty rooms and do nothing. It's a practice called "standby time," and it has existed for years - but postal employees say it was rarely used until this year. Now, postal officials say, the agency is averaging about 45,000 hours of standby time every week - the equivalent of having 1,125 full-time employees sitting idle, at a cost of more than $50 million per year.
BIG BIRD Calls Out Michelle Obama On Barack's BIRTH CERTIFICATE & PLACE OF BIRTH!
Prix - Artificial Liberally Sugar-Coated Bullshit Puffs
Mom ordered to stop watching friends' children waiting for bus She was charged with operating an illegal day care out of her home. Welcome to the Nanny State.
Woman didn't realize second cold medicine purchase violated drug laws When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs. Now, Harpold is trying to clear her name of criminal charges. Our government and its idiotic war on drugs is a complete waste of taxpayer money.
Obama Czar Cass Sunstein: Obama, not courts, should interpret law The interpretation of federal law should be made not by judges but by the beliefs and commitments of the U.S. president and those around him, according to President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. "There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him," argued Sunstein. All hail Comrade Obama.
You can go to jail for not paying something that Obama swears isn't a tax The IRS says it will fine or jail you for not paying Obama's mandate levy. President Obama's effort to deny that his mandate to buy insurance is a tax has taken another thumping, this time from fellow Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee. Chairman Max Baucus's bill includes the so-called individual mandate, along with what he calls a $1,900 "excise tax" if you don't buy health insurance. (It had been as much as $3,800 but Democrats reduced the amount last week to minimize the political sticker shock.) And, lo, it turns out that if you don't pay that tax, the IRS could punish you with a $25,000 fine or up to a year in jail, or both. Don't you love what our government has become?
You Mislead! - Barack Obama and many of his false claims about health insurance reform The president made more than 20 inaccurate claims in his speech to Congress.
Upcoming census to be distributed in two languages For the first time, the decennial census will be distributed in the two languages to 13.5 million households in predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhoods.
Veterans saw someone trying to burn their American flag The young man was given three choices: get turned over to the police, go one-on-one in a fight with a seasoned war veteran, or be duct-taped to a flagpole for six hours with a sign around his neck identifying his alleged crime: flag burning. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1938 were incensed enough to tie up the man last Sunday after they accused him of setting the flag in front of their building on fire. The young man cut the rope of the American flag flying overhead and used a cigarette lighter to set it on fire. Post Commander Nick Normile said the flag had at one point flown over U.S. troops in Iraq had special significance. "He'll never disrespect the flag again, I can tell you that," Normile said.
State television said the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's missile program, successfully tested upgraded versions of the medium-range Shahab-3 and Sajjil missiles with can fly up to 1,200 miles.
Kerry Slips Tribute to Ted Kennedy into Defense Bill A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an educational institute honoring late Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The Kennedys may be a billionaire family, but they have about 1,500 kids consuming it who still haven't figured out how to get a real job.
Tracking Your Taxes: NIH Spends Millions on Wasteful Research Studies Some members of Congress are asking the National Institutes of Health to explain millions of dollars in grants that go to dubious projects overseas. Projects include: How dragon boating can help cancer survivors. How canoes can help cultural identity. How snorting cocaine creates anxiety. Your tax dollars at work.
Obama Safe Schools Czar Facilitated Statutory Rape A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar." In this one case in which Mr. Jennings had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only failed to do what the law required but actually encouraged the relationship. This story came out last year when he was appointed czar, but got very little attention. It's getting hard to keep track of all of this president's problematic appointments.
FOX-TV CHICAGO ORDERED NOT TO RUN ANTI-OLYMPICS STORY A local TV station that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again. The Chicago Olympic Committee told FOX Chicago that its broadcast "would harm Chicago's chances" to be awarded the games. The station's news director ordered staff to hold fire after the report aired once.
Canada Moves Toward Private Health Care Option In British Columbia, private clinics and surgical centers are capitalizing on patients who might otherwise pay for faster treatment in the U.S. When the pain in Christina Woodkey's legs became so severe that she could no long hike or cross-country ski, she went to her local health clinic. The Calgary, Canada, resident was told she'd need to see a hip specialist. Because the problem was not life-threatening, however, she'd have to wait about a year. There is back-alley medical treatment in Canada on sale to people who want to pay for it themselves who don't want to wait to be treated by the national health care service in Canada. Coming soon to the United States.
ObamaCare's "You Can Keep Your Doctor" Promise
Newsweek getting tired of Obama's act The president's problem isn't that he is too visible; it's the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube.
Americas Freedom - Tea Party Speech Eleven-year-old gives her "America's Freedom" Speech to crowd of over 2,000 at Tea Party fireworks rally in Tallahassee, FL. July 4th, 2009.
Government Schools: Brainwashing of the American Youth Sand Hill Elementary School in Asheville, NC
Kanye West Interrupts Obama's Speech
Standards? This is permitted now that government is in control of network broadcasting. Let's move on to more important issues. The kids were in bed and they hear this word every F***ing day at school anyway.
Environmentalists seek to wipe out plush toilet paper The battle for America's behinds.
A secret White House power grab in full swing Left unchecked, climate czar Carol Browner will move beyond automobiles to EPA's entire staggering 18,000-page blueprint for regulating the U.S. economy.
What do you do when you want something that is not yours? Just take it! Frances Louis last week lugged her belongings into an empty and unlocked three-story townhouse in Roxbury that she does not own nor rent, intent on taking over the bank-owned property and making a statement. She claims to have a "moral'' right to live in the newly renovated building, a four-bedroom unit seized in June by a Wisconsin bank because the owner failed to make mortgage payments. This criminal believes she has a "moral" right to commit a crime.
Hysteria: Planet Will Warm 6.3 Degrees This Century Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago. Fact: In the last 12 years temperatures have plummeted, they're not rising. Fact: These "researchers" admit that even if we implement every carbon emission program designed to stop it, it won't matter. Of course it won't matter. We cannot change the natural cycle of global warming and cooling. The sun does that as it always has. So, why do anything at all if it isn't going to matter? There are more dollars to scam from taxpayers in the name of saving the planet even if, through their own admission, it won't matter. The political fraud continues.
Health Care Bill: Buy Insurance or Go to Jail Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold." If you don't conform under government healthcare, you will be a criminal. There is your hope and change.
California Admits Regulations Have Hurt the Economy Regulations on small businesses in California have cost the state's economy $492 billion and 3.8 million jobs, according to a report quietly released by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office. Government regulations have hurt California's economy and government regulations will continue to hurt the US economy.
A $4 billion bailout for the Postal Service? Another failed government operation.
Listen to the sound of government lined up against protestors. Does this make you uncomfortable?
US Textbooks: Muslims Discovered America Saudi-funded textbooks being used in America's K-12 classrooms. Teaching, among other things, that Jesus was a "Palestinian," the state of Israel never existed, and that the Muslims discovered America before Columbus.
No, you can't read the legislation Democrats don't want lawmakers to know what's in health care legislation before Congress votes on it. President Obama and Democratic leaders apparently recognize their chances of ramming through a vote are hurt if members of Congress actually have a chance to read the bills that could nationalize as much as 10 percent of the U.S. economy. Reading and understanding legislation before voting on it. What a concept?
The Senate votes against transparency as the administration silences a private insurer for exposing the president's health care proposal. Meanwhile, AARP is allowed to tout reform as it awaits payday.
Obama's Policies Would Redistribute Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth Every Year By 2012, nearly $1 trillion from the top 30 percent of American families will be redistributed among the bottom 70 percent if Obama's proposals on taxes, health care, and climate change become law. How does this redistribution occur? By the point of a gun, with Imperial Federal Government holding the trigger, the income redistribution in this country will be unprecedented.
Michael Moore's Tense Interview With CNN's Wolf Blitzer About His New Movie Capitalism: A Love Story CNN and Wolf Blitzer have time to devote to fat slob Michael Moore so he can explain his anti-capitalist views. But, has CNN ever had the time to devote to a spokesman from Americans for Fair Taxation?
Al Gore Praises Bloomberg From the Rooftops "White is the new green," said Bloomberg, as he gathered with blue-state-loving former VP Al Gore and volunteers to paint Queens rooftops white. All in the name of the global warming scam. When did these political hacks get out of the mental institution?
"Trying to fix problems caused by excess consumption with more spending is like telling a fat guy that the way to lose weight is to eat more donuts." - Fred Thompson
PLANS TO TAKE CHILDREN FROM SCHOOLS FOR MASS VACCINATIONS AND QUARANTINES
Pig Flu Vaccine insert demonstrates toxicity of the eugenics soft kill weapon
School kids taught to praise and worship Obama A teacher is practicing a song with kids in the school and it's all about singing praise to Obama complete with the line "all are equal in his sight."
Quotes and Facts Quote: "My critics say that I'm taking over every sector of the economy," - President Obama sighed to George Stephanopoulos during his Sunday media blitz
American Martial Law Preparations
Our Country's Future: Arrest at G20 Demonstrations, September 24, 2009 Our future in America?
Where is all the screaming about this racist statement?
An American president in office less than nine months delivered the United States of America over to control of the United Nations today. In his brutal betrayal, there were no shots fired, insults to his own country from the silver tongue of Barack Obama. Correction, radio giant Rush Limbaugh, Obama is not President of the World but self-crowned King of the World. America's enemies worldwide will be shooting off their guns in celebration today. Nine months into his presidency George W. Bush faced the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Nine months into his presidency Obama has thrown the country that provided him, his wife Michelle and inner circle of friends a charmed life, to the ravening wolves. For those still dreaming the big dream in technicolor, Obama is the shepherd of global One World Government.
The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Barack Obama's Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people. The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey of international confidence in Obama's leadership on foreign affairs shows strikingly high approval levels for the president in many parts of the world - 94 percent in Kenya, 93 percent in Germany, 88 percent in Canada and Nigeria, 77 percent in India, 76 percent in Brazil, 71 percent in Indonesia, and 62 percent in China for example. The Pew survey of 21 countries reveals an average level of 71 percent support for President Obama, compared to just 17 percent for George W. Bush in 2008. It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits the president at Turtle Bay. Obama's popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power. He is the first American president who has made an art form out of apologizing for the United States, which he has done on numerous occasions on foreign soil, from Strasbourg to Cairo. The Obama mantra appears to be - ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country. This is a message that goes down very well in a world that is still seething with anti-Americanism.
UK Socialized Health Care Kills Curable Patients - Slavery Is Not Compassionate! When the government controls health care and they say no to your treatment, you die.
The Failed Obama Experiment Here is the list of atrocities brought against our country by this disaster in the White House and his anti-capitalist myrmidons in the congress: 1. Forced Unionization 2. Pork spending disguised as a stimulus plan 3. Nationalizing health care 4. Limiting pay and benefits in the private sector 5. Government ownership of General Motors 6. Cap-and-tax 7. International wealth redistribution through cap-and-trade 8. Massive tax increases on job providers and producers 9. Backing off on defense promises to Europe 10. Placating the mad men of Iran 11. Constitutional rights for terrorist suspects in Afghanistan 12. Dishonesty 13. Single-party talks with the leader in North Korea 14. Weakening the American military 15. Continuing class warfare demagoguery 16. A general anti-free market mentality in the White House 17. More control over the media 18. Schmoozing Hugo Chavez 19. Czars 20. Rooting for a dictatorship in Honduras 21. Expanding welfare as never before 22. Record deficits. Money spent to buy votes. 23. Record debt for your grandchildren to repay if they can. 24. Trade wars with China 25. Cutting Medicare benefits for senior citizens 26. Pandering to the America-hating United Nations 27. Gathering information in the White House on Obama detractors 28. Setting up for a fraudulent Census in 2010 29. Ignoring ACORN abuses 30. FCC Diversity Czar who praises Hugo Chavez's censorship practices. 31. Massive government growth at expense of the private sector 32. Tax cheat as Treasury Secretary 33. Move Muslim terrorists from Gitmo to American communities 34. Moving to legalize and legitimize illegal aliens This is a list that can be easily expanded.
Obama's Birth Certificate Finally Found!
Tony Danza Pre-Interview Goes Wrong
What is a Libertarian? And Why It is the Only True Philosophy A Libertarian is, in broad terms, is an individual that advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the states. Libertarians are neither right, nor left but believe that you have the right to decide for yourself what's best for you and to act on that belief so long as you respect the right of other people to do the same and deal with them peacefully and honestly. Conservatives in general tend to be libertarian on economic issues, whereas Liberals tend to be libertarian on social issues. Libertarians believe in minimal government involvement in individual's lives. The only exceptions would be when a person's rights are being violated. For example if someone committing murder, rape, robbery, theft, fraud, embezzlement, arson, trespass, etc., then it's correct to call on government to help the victim against the wrongdoer. If this is not the case, the government should not get involved. Libertarianism is not anarchy, but very limited government.
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
John Bolton: Obama the "Post-American President Who's Above All That Patriotism Stuff"
Here's your 'demonstration project,' Mr. President -- it's called Mississippi Since passing tort reform in 2004, Mississippi has seen the number of medical malpractice claims plummet by 91 percent from its peak. The state's largest medical liability insurer dropped its premiums by 42 percent, and has offered an additional 20 percent rebate each year since tort reform went into effect. The only "crisis" in healthcare is caused by government. Healthcare solution: Tort reform.
Cash-for-clunkers for air conditioners: Government offers $1,500 tax rebate to replace old AC units From one failed government program to another.
Audit Finds Waste in 'Green' Projects These are government projects. There is probably a mandate for waste.
U.S. charges Obama fund-raiser in $290 million fraud Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds. The office of the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan and the FBI said he used the proceeds of his scheme to make donations to election campaigns of federal, state and local candidates, donations to political action committees and charities.
Bureaucrat gets busted parking illegally by blogger and calls a cop for help! An angry city bureaucrat (political hack) uses her parking exemption to park where ever she wants. She gets busted by a video blogger and freaks out. She calls a cop who arrives and also parks illegally and behaves like a complete jerk.
Wellford, SC Mayor Sallie Peake bans police officers from chasing suspects Sallie Peake says the policy also includes vehicle chases along with pursuits on foot. "As of this date, there are to be no more foot chases when a suspect runs. I do not want anyone chasing after any suspects whatsoever." Criminals that "work" in Wellford, SC can feel safer now. More evidence that stupid people shouldn't vote.
Economic Growth Yet to Hit Job Market The number of private-sector jobs is now slightly below the level of August 1999 -- meaning that a decade has passed without any net creation of non-government jobs, even in a span during which the population grew substantially. Government continues to absorb our economic power.
Barack Obama's television marathon On ABC Obama insisted that requiring everyone to have health insurance, or face a fine of up to $3,800 per family, is "absolutely not a tax increase." Host George Stephanopoulos pressed Obama so much on the issue that, after Obama accused him of making things up, Stephanopoulos read the definition of "tax" from Merriam-Webster's dictionary. "George, the fact that you looked up [in] Merriam's dictionary the definition of 'tax increase' indicates to me that you're stretching a little bit right now," Obama replied. With Obama's plan, the very fact that you're drawing breath is all that is needed for the Imperial Federal Government to step forward, put that omnipresent gun to your head, and say "Buy health insurance, or else pay the $3,800 fine." And what if you don't pay the fine? One thing is certain: The punishment the government creates for you miscreants who don't obey the government's mandate to purchase health insurance will certainly be more serious than the punishment that has been dealt to Charlie Rangel for his tax evasion and avoidance frivolities. On CBS Obama denied that his health care reform plan will add a financial burden to the middle class from insurance companies passing down new fees to consumers. Who does the anointed one think will pay these "new fees?" "They're passing on those costs to the consumer anyway," Obama said. That clarifies it. You will be paying more.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "We need to balance our freedom with our need to look after one another." - Barack Obama Fact: Private charity has always been more effective at taking care of those truly in need than government. And private charity doesn't take your money at gunpoint. Here is a scenario: You're walking down the street with your friend. We'll call him Barack. As you're walking and chatting you notice a pathetic-looking man sitting on the sidewalk and begging for money. Barack pulls out a twenty and gives it to the man. Good for Barack. Barack then looks at you and says "Well?" "Well what?" "Aren't you going to give this man some money?" "No, I'm not. I don't have any to spare right now. I have my own family to look after." "So, you don't care about the less-fortunate?" "Don't give me that less-fortunate nonsense. This guy is here because he's a drunk. That wasn't a matter of luck. He is where he is through the inevitable result of his own life's choices." "Well, I think you should give him some money." "Sorry, it's a free country. I worked hard for this money and I'm free to make the decisions on how I will spend it." "Not anymore," responds Barack, pulling out a gun. Barack then points that gun at your head and tells you that, whether you want to or not, you are going to hand over some of your property to this man. Barack has the gun, he has the legal right to use it. To Barack, your freedom be doesn't matter anymore. Your freedom and property rights stop where the government decides someone needs to be "looked after."
Government Healthcare Protest Van
Obama open to newspaper bailout bill The president said he is "happy to look at" bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses. What better way to insure return favors from the media when needed down the road.
Top 10 'Fishy' Things Obama Could Say about Health Care on Letterman 10. "If after my 30-something speeches about health care, there is still anyone out there who disagrees with me, I'm going to have one-on-one beer summits at the White House until we get this thing passed." 9. "If you're uncomfortable with the sound of 'government-run health plan,' we'll just call it something different. How about 'exchange' or 'co-op'?" 8. "If you'll just let me, we'll act immediately!" 7. "Don't worry, health reform isn't going to add one dime to the deficit." 6. "I'm confident that former trial lawyer lobbyist Kathleen Sebelius will take care of our tort reform problem." 5. "Just look at Massachusetts! Things are working great there!" 4. "If you like the insurance and doctor you have, you'll be able to keep them under my plan." 3. "When people have to pay money to the IRS, that's not a 'tax.' It's a 'penalty.' It's just like when your mom tells you to do something and you don't, and then you go sit in the corner. We're just kind of sending people to the corner if they don't buy health insurance." 2. "This new health reform is going to cover everyone, keep all the benefits everyone currently has, yet change the entire system for the better - and cost us nothing!" 1. "It depends on what the definition of 'tax' is."
Jack Webb Schools Obama on Respect for Police
Which Is Safer From Home Invasion?
Are bath-time photos child pornography? Last fall A.J. and Lisa Demaree took a memory stick with family photos to the printing center at the Wal-Mart store in Peoria, Ariz. Some of the photos showed their three young girls, all under 5 years old, partially nude in the bathtub. The Demarees say these were innocent pictures that all families take. But a Wal-Mart employee felt otherwise and contacted the police who agreed that this was a child pornography situation. Child Protective Services searched the Demaree home and took custody of the children for a month while the state investigated. The watched family videotapes and found a few in which the children were playing unclothed. Lisa was suspended from her school job for a year, and both of their names were placed on the sex offender registry. The couple spent $75,000 on legal bills. The Demarees were eventually cleared of any charges and their daughters returned, but they are now suing the state and Wal-Mart for what they call unfair accusations.
State Republicans are howling mad over yet another tax hike being slipped through the Legislature that would slap an annual $3 state surcharge on municipal licensing fees canine owners pay for their pet pooches. Tax everything in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts.
St. Louis Turns Off Arch Lights for Migrating Birds Migrating birds passing through downtown St. Louis won't be distracted by the Gateway Arch floodlights for a couple of weeks. The National Park Service has worked out a schedule with the Audubon Society to turn off the monument's floodlights at night to make it easier on migrating birds. Can somebody show me the statistics of birds running into the arch at night in previous years to warrant this? And if it is dark, won't the run into it even more without seeing it? If the lights are on the arch, they can see the arch and avoid it. Government idiocy continues.
Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do? Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon: The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens. Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. "Now it's time to buy some food," she told several hundred people who came to watch. "Let's shop!" And she spoke of her own culinary efforts: "There are times when putting together a healthy meal is harder than you might imagine." Particularly when it involves a soundstage, an interpreter for the deaf, three TV satellite trucks and the closing of part of downtown Washington. It took three dozen vehicles, an armored limousine and shutting down three streets for her to go one block. The carbon footprint of this, to go "buy organic" because organic is better for the environment was just canceled out. Everything she had done for the environment, which is nothing, was all a hoax.
U.S. climate bill could cut GDP 3.5% by 2050 The Democratic-controlled House passed landmark legislation in June aimed at slashing industrial pollution that is blamed for global warming, which is the ultimate political scam.
Barack Obama vs. Barack Obama, in his own words
Barack Obama: In over his head? It's lovely to be in other people's dreams. The problem comes when they wake up. Barack Obama is eloquent, brainy and likeable. Those are great qualities. But they are not enough to lead America, let alone the world.
Congressman Joe Wilson's Comment To The President Representative Joe Wilson (R- SC) yelled out "you lie" when the president DID lie during his healthcare speech. If I were the congressman, I would not have apologized. I would have stated, "Whereas, the President wishes to bring Canada's government healthcare system to the United States, I merely behaved in a manner that is totally acceptable in the Canadian Parliament. While some may disagree with my methodology, I stand firm on the content and accuracy of my statement."
Democrats Charge One Dollar To Participate In Biased Healthcare Poll These party representatives were charging willing participants One Dollar to participate in their "Healthcare Poll." Proceeds of course go to the Democrat Party. Now who do you think would be participating in this poll with the knowledge that they are contributing to the Democrat Party? I am confident that no educated individual opposed to government healthcare would be contributing to these political hacks. That would explain zero votes for the "No Reform" selection in this blatantly biased poll, the results of which will most likely be published as a part of an official report down the road. Who are these people trying to kid with this baseless poll. Another logical question would be, "Can someone buy a number of votes in this poll by as the sign says '$1 Per Vote?'" After all, buying votes has unfortunately become the American way. The Democrat big government scams continue.
Fire chief shot over speeding ticket It was too much, returning to court twice in one day to contest a traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police speed traps. The cops' response? They shot him. Right there in court. Payne ended up in the hospital, but his shooting last week brought to a boil simmering tensions between residents of this tiny former cotton city and their police force. "You can't even get them to answer a call because normally they're writing tickets," said Thomas Martin, of the Crittenden County Sheriff's Department.
There has been a successful cross between a dog and a turtle
John Stossel: The Million-Dollar Outhouse Heading to a national park this holiday weekend? If you go to the right one, you may have the privilege of using a million-dollar outhouse. In Pennsylvania, the National Park Service built a one-seater outhouse that looks more like a chalet than a toilet. When the government spends your money, they decide local slate isn't good enough. The slate must be imported from Vermont. They must use flower seed that costs $700 a pound. The outhouse must have windows and a porch. Why does an outhouse need a porch? And of course, the paint must be epoxy that costs $78 a gallon. When the smoke cleared, more than $780,000 had been spent to build the outhouse. How did they spend that much? Well, bureaucracy costs money. People complain about the cost of healthcare now. Wait until it is run by the government. Be prepared to pay substantially more. Do you still want the government to control your healthcare?
Health Bill Will Hike Medicare Drug Coverage Premiums 20 Percent If the health-care reform bill under consideration in the House of Representatives becomes law, seniors will pay Medicare prescription drug program premiums that are 20-percent higher than they would be under current law, says the Congressional Budget Office. That's how the government lowers costs.
Health care reform means more power for the IRS There's been a lot of discussion about the new and powerful federal agencies that would be created by the passage of a national health care bill. The Health Choices Administration, the Health Benefits Advisory Committee, the Health Insurance Exchange - there are dozens in all. But if the plan envisioned by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats is enacted, the primary federal bureaucracy responsible for implementing and enforcing national health care will be an old and familiar one: the Internal Revenue Service.
Rep. Pete Stark tells interviewer, "Get the f**k out of here or I'll throw you out the window" Independent TV documentarian Jan Helfeld asks California Democrat Rep. Pete Stark about the national debt and the economy. Stark tells him repeatedly to "shut up," sneers at Helfeld's lack of an advanced economic degree, and ends the interview by bolting from his chair and telling Helfeld to "Get the f**k out of here or I'll throw you out the window." Sounds like felony assault charges are in order.
Why Schoolchildren 'Are So Dumb Today' Quote: "That's why our kids are so dumb today, because they don't want to have basic common sense in the classroom." - Daily Voice editor and CNBC contributor Keith Boykin Fact: Our children are "so dumb today" because we send them to the government to be educated.
Congresswoman: If you disagree, you do not have a right to a "forum" Rep. Louise Slaughter: "I'm not doing town meetings; I'm not going to give those people a forum." "Those people" are you or anyone who disagrees with this career political hack. Time to remove these closed minded political hacks from office.
Flashback 1991: Gephardt Called Bush's Speech to Students 'Paid Political Advertising' As Barack Obama prepares a nationwide broadcast to America's students next Tuesday, it has been revealed that Democrats complained in 1991 when then President George H. W. Bush broadcast a speech from a Northwest Washington junior high school. In fact, the House Majority leader at the time, Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), said "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students." Will these same political hacks question Obama's message?
Things that you can't say to Barack Obama while he is on vacation Two weeks' paid vacation after only seven months on the job? Sweet! Biden says he's willing to caddy if you let him play golf with you. Officer Crowley and Professor Gates are still in the garden. Should somebody tell them it's OK to go home? President Clinton called and says he is willing to fly to Afghanistan to investigate allegations of wild parties in Kabul. He's called four times, in fact. Mitt Romney says don't put Bo on top of the car. The National Park Service says it will cost only $1.37 million to put up a badminton net on the South Lawn. Hillary wants to know if while you're at Camp David, she can come into the Oval Office and measure for new drapes. Biden says he knows we're not near the clubhouse, but he's all wee-weed up. New poll numbers? We haven't heard anything about new poll numbers. We checked, sir, and those people wandering around Martha's Vineyard were "birders," not "birthers." But your medical plan doesn't cover poison ivy! Blockbuster says it's out of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather: Part II" but wonders if "Part III" will be OK. Technically you are in charge of the National Weather Service, but that doesn't mean you can make sure it doesn't rain until you are back at work. McDonald's says if it extends the $1.19 Egg McMuffin offer for you, it will have to extend the offer for everybody. "Bo ate a cricket." You really want us to Tweet that? If we let you have a news conference, it wouldn't be a vacation. Do you need a birth certificate to get onto Martha's Vineyard? A majority of the country want to know why you hate free markets. What's up with that? You can't vote "present" for the debates coming up for the 2012 election. What kind of appearance do you give playing golf when our troops are dying overseas? Have you heard any good Chappaquiddick jokes, lately?
Government idiocy: Dog given parking ticket A DOG has been booked for illegal parking. The blue heeler was tied to a fence outside Rapid Creek market when it was approached by two Darwin City Council traffic wardens. One of the inspectors wrote out a ticket - and taped it to the dog's lead.
The 11 wackiest college courses of fall 2009 Included are: Philosophy of Star Trek At Georgetown University, you can learn philosophy through the lens of Star Trek for $4,827. Radical Thought from Karl Marx to George Bush For $40,000 a year, you can go to Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York and take a class on radicals ranging from Karl Marx to George Bush. Harry Potter Lit Can't get enough of the popular series? In this $814 class at Ohio State University you'll "examine the literary techniques and cultural roots of the novels, exploring such themes as the quest, coming of age, and the nature of heroism." Tree Climbing At Cornell University, you can fulfill your physical education requirement by taking tree climbing for $700. Stupidity You might be stupid yourself to dish out nearly $5,000 for this oldie but goodie that has been taught a Los Angeles' Occidental College for years. Note: If you are willing to pay $5,000 to take this course, you probably are stupid. Save your money.
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." - Ayn Rand
Handicapped Man's Wheelchair Seized Over Medical Marijuana A Canadian care home resident with full body paralysis was confined to his bed against his will after his wheelchair was seized by caregivers - all because he smokes medical marijuana to relieve his Multiple Sclerosis. Government health care strikes again.
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives. A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death. Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away. Do you still want the government controlling your healthcare?
Economic Illiterates in Washington Leave it to politicians to think we can prosper by obliterating wealth.
Rising taxes drive out Florida residents The Sunshine State is experiencing its first net emigration of people since World War II. There are many things public officials probably shouldn't do during a severe recession, but no one seems to have told the leaders in Florida about them. One thing, for instance, would be giving a dozen top aides hefty raises while urging a rise in property taxes, as the mayor of Miami-Dade County recently did. Or jacking up already exorbitant hurricane-insurance premiums, as Florida's government-run property insurer just did.
Political kickbacks? Where is the hope and change?
Congressman warns of dictatorship - freedom at risk Rep. Paul Broun says Obama already has or will have the three things he needs to make himself a dictator: a national police force, gun control and control over the press.
Why the Obama Administration Will Implode In Weeks Never has an administration had more political firepower at their disposal yet been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. 1. Health Care's Long and Painful Death 2. Cap-and-Trade Will Be the Largest Tax Increase in American History 3. Unemployment Will Remain 4. Obama's Integrity Has Been Tarnished in August 5. A $3 Trillion Dollar Budget 6. A Coming Middle Class Tax Hike They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter. All three of which are now wondering aloud, "What on earth have we done?"
Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard 'round the world Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant. Obama's borderline personality disorder traits continue: Create the crisis.
Massachusetts bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone "suspected" of being infected to submit to interrogations, "decontaminations" and vaccines. It's also sets fines up to $1,000 per day for anyone who refuses to submit to quarantines, vaccinations, decontamination efforts or to follow any other verbal order by virtually any state-licensed law enforcement or medical personnel. Violation of 4th Amendment: Illegal search and seizure During either type of declared emergency, a local public health authority... may exercise authority... to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises; to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility; to destroy any material; to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons; (At gunpoint) Violation of 14th Amendment; illegal arrest without a warrant ...an officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order. (At gunpoint) Government price controls The attorney general, in consultation with the office of consumer affairs and business regulation, and upon the declaration by the governor that a supply emergency exists, shall take appropriate action to ensure that no person shall sell a product or service that is at a price that unreasonably exceeds the price charged before the emergency. "Involuntary Transportation" (also known as kidnapping) Law enforcement authorities, upon order of the commissioner or his agent or at the request of a local public health authority pursuant to such order, shall assist emergency medical technicians or other appropriate medical personnel in the involuntary transportation of such person to the tuberculosis treatment center. (At gunpoint) $1,000 / day in fines Any person who knowingly violates an order, as to which noncompliance poses a serious danger to public health as determined by the commissioner or the local public health authority, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 30 days or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars per day that the violation continues, or both. Forced vaccinations Furthermore, when the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction determines that either or both of the following measures are necessary to prevent a serious danger to the public health the commissioner or local public health authority may exercise the following authority: (1) to vaccinate or provide precautionary prophylaxis to individuals as protection against communicable disease... (At gunpoint) Forced quarantine for those who refuse (illegal imprisonment without charge) An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction. (At gunpoint) Arrest for refusal to be "decontaminated" If an individual is unable or unwilling to submit to decontamination or procedures necessary for diagnosis, the decontamination or diagnosis procedures may proceed only pursuant to an order of the superior court... During the time necessary to obtain such court order, such individual may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal to submit to decontamination or diagnosis procedures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health. Interrogation When the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction reasonably believes that a person may have been exposed to a disease or condition that poses a threat to the public health, in addition to their authority under section 96 of chapter 111, the commissioner or the local public health authority may detain the person for as long as may be reasonably necessary for the commissioner or the local public health authority, to convey information to the person regarding the disease or condition and to obtain contact information... If a person detained under subsection (1) refuses to provide the information requested, the person may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health... (Will there be waterboarding?) Forced isolation and quarantine There's a lot more in this bill, including language that allows Massachusetts police to enter any home or building without a search warrant, to destroy any object or building they suspect may pose a threat to public safety, to order the closing and / or decontamination of any facility using highly toxic chemical decontamination agents, and to arrest, detain and interrogate anyone who gets in their way. (At gunpoint) Meanwhile, all state law enforcement and medical personnel are granted complete immunity from prosecution for their part in violating your Constitutional rights. So if they violate your right to due process, or they accidentally destroy your home, or they kill your family dog because they suspect it might be infected, you have absolutely zero recourse. Under this bill, Massachusetts becomes a medical police state. There is no debating it. It's all written, clear as day, in this law: The citizens of Massachusetts will have no rights, period. The Constitution is ancient history. You are now the property of the State. Kiss your freedoms goodbye Massachusetts, it seems, has never met a vaccine it didn't like. This is the same state that rounded up the parents of schoolchildren who hadn't been vaccinated, then corralled them into a courtroom (with attack dogs standing guard outside) and forced vaccine injections onto all the schoolchildren under the threat of jail time for parents who resisted. This is all taking place in the "land of the free," a nation that former President George Bush claimed was so envied around the world that terrorists attacked America because they "hate freedom" and wanted to destroy our way of life. But terrorists need no help attacking freedom as long as Massachusetts is in the vaccine game, because this latest form of "gunpoint medicine" destroys freedom for everyday Americans in a way that terrorists could have never hoped to accomplish with all the bombs in the world. Massachusetts, it seems, has done what terrorists could not: It has turned "free" Americans into medical slave subjects who no longer have any freedom to decide the details of their own medical care. All options have been stripped from them but one: The Big Pharma option. That's the one that involves using untested, unproven and potentially dangerous vaccines that could paralyze you or even kill you. All to defend you against a virus that's so weak, almost anyone with decent levels of vitamin D and basic nutrition can resist the virus without incident. But Massachusetts, as you'll see below, is just the beginning. It turns out that the whole nation could soon find itself under a similar forced vaccination policy. Isolation camps, forced vaccinations and more In 2006, former President George Bush signed into law the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP). It gives power to the Secretary of the U.S. government's Health and Human Services department (HHS) to declare any infectious disease a "national emergency" and therefore require mandatory vaccination of the entire population. Because of the existence of this PREP Act, the entire population of the USA is now but one pen stroke away from being subjected to mandatory swine flu vaccinations at gunpoint. Those who resist such vaccines will be arrested and taken away for "isolation" in domestic prison camps. They can't just leave vaccine refusers free to live among the population, of course, because that would send the message that anyone can refuse the vaccines without consequence. So they'll arrest those who refuse the vaccine, labeling them "a threat to national security" (enemies of the state) and imprison them without trial, without charges and without any legal representation whatsoever. Meanwhile, all those who take part in enforcing these crimes against the American people will be granted complete immunity. From the HHS website: "[the Secretary may] issue a declaration... that provides immunity from tort liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of (vaccine or other pharmaceutical) countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency..." There are other laws already on the books that strip Americans of virtually all Constitutional rights in a "pandemic emergency" scenario. One such act is The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678). Have no illusions: At the stroke of a pen, the Constitutional rights of all Americans will be immediately suspended. Mandatory vaccinations and "decontaminations" will kick in and the mass arrest of resisters will begin. There will be no court, no trial, no jury and no due process. Your actions will be dictated to you by a law enforcement officer or a health care worker who has been granted complete immunity, so if you just happen to get kicked around a bit (or shot), there's really nothing you can do about it. Some might argue these are necessary actions to save a nation from a deadly pandemic. And yet they forget that the pandemic has been intentionally allowed to worsen by censoring information about vitamin D and natural remedies that could stop it. Somebody at the top, in other words, wants this pandemic to get really bad, perhaps because it allows them to invoke precisely the draconian response outlined in this article. Seizing power in a Democracy cannot be accomplished by simply declaring war on the rights of the People. Rather, a situation must be engineered where the People are so desperate that they beg to be controlled. Releasing a pandemic into the wild is the perfect way to accomplish precisely that. Timing None of these laws will be invoked before the vaccines are ready in large numbers, of course. Part of the purpose in all this is to prop up Big Pharma profits with massive vaccination efforts, so until the vaccines are actually available; don't expect to see any declarations of a public emergency. It might take until October or November before the vaccines are readily available in sufficient quantity to inject just half the U.S. population. But once that milestone is reached, a declaration of a pandemic emergency is imminent. They won't let all those hundreds of millions of vaccines sit around unused; they'll make sure they get injected into the People as soon as possible, because that's the only way to justify making more. The sequence of events we're likely to see here are: #1) Waiting on vaccine manufacturing to procure at least 150 million doses in the U.S. Probable timeframe = October. #2) Hyping up a few local swine flu breakouts in schools in order to justify step #3. Probable timeframe = November / December. #3) Declaring a full-blown national emergency and announcing mandatory vaccinations for everyone (to use up the vaccines that are now available). Probable timeframe = January / February / March. #4) If the disease continues to spread, this is when you'll see forced entry into homes and buildings, forced "decontamination" sprayings, widespread arrests and forced quarantine of resisters, Martial Law and a complete crackdown on freedoms (especially in the inner cities). This will likely continue through the winter until Spring arrives, bringing the sunshine that will suppress the virus around the May 2010 timeframe. All this is written in black ink. It's already part of the pandemic response plan. Body bags, FEMA camps and much more. Two years ago, this was all the domain of conspiracy theory "wingnuts." Now it's State law. Now it's being openly discussed in security conferences and health care meetings. What will we do when the hospital beds are full? How will we accomplish the "involuntary transportation" of those who are infected? Are there enough zip-tie handcuffs to go around? How do we disarm and arrest citizens who refuse to be vaccinated? How do we prevent National Guard troops from becoming infected themselves? These are the questions circulating now at high levels, all around the world. And the answers are always the same: Abandon freedoms. Strip the People of any rights. Dictate from the top down and arrest anyone who gets in your way. Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care interrogations and mandatory "decontaminations" coming soon to your neighborhood. It's not about healthcare or health and safety, it's about government control. Welcome to the Land of the Free. I hope you are prepared for what looks to be coming, because this isn't America anymore. This is Amerika, and the Constitutional rights you thought you had are about to be written right off the books. What are you prepared to do about it?
Tactics of Soviet Psychological Warfare The four steps in the process are: 1. Demoralization. 2. Destabilization. 3. Crisis. 4. Normalization. Demoralization as a 10 to 30 year process: To educate a generation to expose them to the ideology of the enemy: Marxism, Leninism...without being challenged by American values. The goal is six-fold: 1) Destroy the religion of the enemy; mock and discredit it. Promote corrupt alternatives and cults. 2) Insure the disruption of education. Distract from learning constructive and pragmatic subjects and replace them with studies on frivolous topics. 3) Destroy social ties and impede bargaining and conflict resolution. Bring in bureaucracy and dependence on authority. 4) Institute power structuring around unelected bureaucrats and the media. 5) Destroy labor relations by mediating employee/employer interaction. Create friction and oppositional relationships. 6) Warp law, order and morality. Demonize the police and those upholding the law. Make the bad guy look like a victim of society; justify his actions. Does any of this sound familiar?
HCAN organizer explains how to block opposing views Someone with a camera managed to videotape an organizer from a group called Health Care for America Now briefing the people waiting in line as to how to handle those in the audience who aren't in favor of nationalized health care.
Harry Reid threatens Vegas paper We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling. The first hospital. The first school. The first church. We survived the mob, Howard Hughes, the Great Depression, several recessions, two world wars, dozens of news competitors and any number of two-bit politicians who couldn't stand scrutiny, much less criticism. Bob Brown is a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal. Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business." "Compassion" and "caring" only exist if you agree with leftists.
Britain facing blackouts for first time since 1970s The looming problem in Britain is caused by the scheduled closure by 2015 of nine oil and coal-fired power plants -- the victim of an EU directive designed to cut pollution. The Energy and Climate Change Secretary outlined the plan amid much fanfare. Save the planet, sit in the dark. The climate change scam continues.
UK: Prisoners have a better diet than Health Service hospital patients Despite years of Government promises to tackle poor hospital nutrition, food still arrives cold, and patients often miss out because meal times clash with tests and operations. Do you still want to turn your healthcare over to the government?
Poorest US Cities Are Democrat Controlled An interesting correlation between America's poorest cities and their overwhelming control by the Democrat Party can be seen, with some cities never having elected a Republican mayor.
Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. He is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
Rangel Hypocrisy: Punish tax slip-ups Even as he fends off accusations about his own failure to pay taxes and fully disclose his financial dealings, Rep. Charles Rangel had quietly slipped into the health-care bill broad new provisions cracking down on taxpayers.
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas Gandhi
What's the difference between the Houston Zoo and the White House? The Zoo has an African Lion. The White House has a Lyin' African.
Officer Does Not Like anti-Obama Poster: "It ain't [America] no more, OK?" This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on ObamaCare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA. Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like an anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral "Joker" graphics. The citizen was told to put the sign down. When the citizen said to Officer Cheeks, "This used to be America!" his response was: "It ain't no more, OK?"
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. The presidents of Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela already have the exact same powers. It's all about power and control. The Constitution is in danger with this administration. Do you trust your government?
Minnesota mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset is in a jam with the law. She hasn't abused her kids or knocked over a liquor store. What's her crime? She illegally downloaded 24 songs off the Internet. When the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) found out, they went after her in court. The result? After two trials, Thomas-Rasset has been hit with a $1.9 million fine - that's $80,000 per song. Here are a few crimes where the law is a lot more lenient: Stealing the actual CD: the fine is $2,500 Child abduction: the fine is only $25,000. Start a dogfighting ring: the fine is $50,000
Fighting ObamaCare in the Spirit of Ted Kennedy Here is a Kennedy-esque speech against the passage of HR 3200, using most of the exact words Senator Kennedy used in the famous "Robert Bork's America" speech. KENNEDY: America is a better and freer nation than Robert Bork thinks. Yet in the current delicate balance of the Supreme Court, his rigid ideology will tip the scales of justice against the kind of country America is and ought to be. WRIGHT: America is a better and freer nation that Barack Obama thinks. Yet in the current imbalance in government, his rigid ideology will tip the scales of justice and government against the kind of country America is and ought to be -- and was founded to be. KENNEDY: The damage that President Reagan will do through this nomination, if it is not rejected by the Senate, could live on far beyond the end of his presidential term. President Reagan is still our President. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate, and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and on the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice. WRIGHT: The damage that President Obama will do through Obama Care, if it is not rejected by the Senate, will live on far beyond the end of his presidential term. President Obama is still our President. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Chicago pay to play power, reach into the muck of American hating black separatistism, and impose his reactionary view of the Constitution this and the next generation of Americans. No care would be better than Obama Care.
Barney Frank: JFK, RFK Assassins Were "Political Opponents" of Kennedys Barney Frank: "I think he would, ehhh, ehh, have allowed them to voice their feelings, but not be intimidated by them -- and I think in those kind of situations, uh, he would have been very calm. Now, they were problems early in his life. Let's be, you know, explicit. This is a man, ehh, two of whose brothers were murdered by political opponents. Uh, extreme and crazy political opponents." Fact: Obama's buddy Bill Ayers dedicated one of his books to Sirhan Sirhan.
Swine flu sends more blacks, Hispanics to hospital Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups. The swine flu must be a racist virus.
Driver, 83, Chases DWI Suspect Through NY, CT The 83-year-old Scarsdale, N.Y., resident was driving to a friend's wedding in Newburgh. He was on Interstate 684 in Southeast, N.Y., when another motorist smashed into his car from behind. As his daughter called police, Frank Canale stepped on the gas. He chased the pickup truck for 15 miles across state lines, weaving through traffic onto side streets, even running a red light as he pursued the truck all the way to Matailo's home in Danbury, Conn., staying there until police arrived. Thinking back to Saturday's wild ride, Frank Canale said he regrets nothing because it led to the arrest of a driver who is alleged to have had no license and a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit. "I missed the wedding, but it was worth it to me," said Frank Canale a retired builder. "I wasn't going to let that guy get away. He could have killed someone." Eighty-three years old and he still has spirit. I love stories like this.
Michael Savage: "Obama Administration is the Chicago Nazi Socialist war machine" "Obama is not a liberal by definition."
Some people, including Medicare recipients, will have to give up some current benefits to truly reform the nation's health-care system, Rep. Betsy Markey told a gathering of constituents. Medicare doesn't have any money; Social Security doesn't have any money; everything the morbidly obese government has attempted to run is bankrupt, including the country.
Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and "other information as is prescribed by" regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for "affordability credits." Section 245(b)(2)(A) says the IRS must divulge tax return details -- there's no specified limit on what's available or unavailable -- to the Health Choices Commissioner. The purpose, again, is to verify "affordability credits." Section 1801(a) says that the Social Security Administration can obtain tax return data on anyone who may be eligible for a "low-income prescription drug subsidy" but has not applied for it. Your tax return "must" be made public! Every aspect of your financial life "must" be made public. Say goodbye to your privacy.
Cruel and neglectful' care of one million NHS patients exposed In the last six years, the Patients Association claims hundreds of thousands have suffered from poor standards of nursing, often with 'neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel' treatment. How many people want to live in this kind of a country and how many don't?
Secret process benefits pet project A sleepy Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that sees about three travelers a day will get $15 million under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. A government priority list ranked the project as marginal, but two powerful Democratic senators persuaded the administration to make it happen. Despite Obama's promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This is how the government operates, and it will be the same with your healthcare.
Ted Kennedy's Legacy Ted Kennedy used the police power of government to take money from people that work and gave it to people that don't work. Kennedy, like most leftists, used your money to buy his great reputation of compassion, virtue, and caring. This is the typical phoniness of a political hack.
Letter Details Kennedy Offer To USSR This letter which details Senator Edward Kennedy's offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan's efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe was unearthed by a Times of London reporter in the 1990s after the KGB files were opened.
TED KENNEDY ON THE ROCKS - A SOBER LOOK AT TED KENNEDY
This "waitress sandwich" is a mild excerpt from a lengthy piece.
Government Derangement Syndrome Government Derangement Syndrome (GDS) - citizens of the U.S. who believe the government will solve all of their problems including, but not limited to, retirement benefits and health care.
'Education' misspelled on CMS teacher coaster You would think the word "education" is pretty easy to spell. Well, think again. It was a costly and embarrassing mistake made by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' Career and Technical Education Department when they decided to hand out some freebies to teachers. "That's pretty bad if they approved that and it's not even spelled correctly," said Louise Wood, a parent. This is what you can expect when government runs "education."
Organizations in Europe are banning common words and phrases that could be considered "racist" Among the everyday sayings that have been quietly dropped in a bid to stamp out racism and sexism are: Whiter than white. Gentleman's agreement. Black mark. Right-hand man. Master bedroom. Black sheep of the family. If you use any of these, you are obviously a racist. This is political correctness gone mad and coming soon to this country.
Latest in Stimulus: 'Cash for Refrigerators' A $300 million cash-for-clunkers-type federal program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances. This on the coattails of the poorly managed government program "Cash For Clunkers." For those of you who, due to some cranial parasite or similar medical or emotional tragedy, still believe that government can do a good job of handling our health care, here are a few reminders of how the government handled Cash For Clunkers. Cash For Clunkers was a simple automobile trade-in deal. This is something that car salesmen with nothing more than a high school education have been doing with absolute ease for decades. However, in the world of government programs, to handle one Cash For Clunkers deal the dealer had to generate 69 pages of paperwork. A medical textbook can tell you how to do heart bypass surgery in fewer pages. But wait until the surgery becomes a government program. After seeing the disaster that was Cash For Clunkers, one can only imagine why industries or consumers would continue to trust the government to do anything efficiently.
Cap And Trade Is a Massive Tax Raising Scam Even the political hacks openly admit this. Maryland Democrat Senator Benjamin L. Cardin called cap and trade: "The most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time." Congressman John Dingell: "Nobody, nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax and it's a great big one." Then Senator and now President Obama explains the impact of "Cap and Trade" to the San Francisco Chronicle in January of 2008: "When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers." Comrade Obama has spoken but no one was listening. All they heard was "hope and change."
Greed is good.
Man collapses with ruptured appendix three weeks after NHS doctors 'took it out' After weeks of excruciating pain, Mark Wattson was understandably relieved to have his appendix taken out. Doctors told him the operation was a success and he was sent home. But only a month later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be taken back to Great Western Hospital in Swindon by ambulance. To his shock, surgeons from the same team told him that not only was his appendix still inside him, but it had ruptured - a potentially fatal complication. In a second operation it was finally removed, leaving Mr. Wattson fearing another organ might have been taken out during the first procedure. The blunder has left Mr. Wattson jobless, as bosses at the shop where he worked did not believe his story and sacked him. Coming soon courtesy of ObamaCare.
Coming soon courtesy of ObamaCare.
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates - and now red-faced feds want it back. Do you still want the government to control your healthcare?
Chris Matthews: Barack is the Last Kennedy Brother Matthews: "He wanted to be his brother's brother, and then he turned that torch over last year to Barack Obama. And the great thing about the Kennedy's is they always grew as a family. They tended to get better as they got older. This family got better. The Kennedy commitment to civil rights was almost accidental. It began because of history, '63 and Martin Luther King's march. By Bobby it became passion, by Teddy it became real, and then Teddy turns it over to the first African American and says, "You got the ball." Amazing history, Barack is now the last brother." Fact: The Kennedy's, including Ted, were loyal and supported their brothers and family members. By contrast, Obama is not loyal to his brother. His brother is still living in squalor in a hut. No comparison.
ObamaCare Alaskan Cruise For Seniors
Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird. Marine Vet David Hedrick: "Stay away from my kids. I also heard you say that you're going to "let us" keep our health insurance. Oh, thank you. It's not your right to decide whether or not I keep my current plan or not. That's my decision." Marine Vet David Hedrick: "But I'll remind you, a little history lesson, the Nazis were the National SOCIALIST Party. They were leftists. They were. They took over the finance. They took over the car industry. They took over health care in that country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm. Now, what I want to know is, you've done a lot of things that violate your constitutional oath, as you know. What I want to know is, as a Marine, as a disabled veteran that served this country, I've kept my oath. Do you ever intend to keep yours?" This is exemplary. American citizens are standing up to these political hacks.
Obama to Cut Social Security for 2 Years Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year. Where is the outrage in the media?
1,200 VA Patients Wrongly Told They Have ALS At least 1,200 Gulf War veterans across the country have been mistakenly notified by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease. Have 1,200 patients ever been told by one private sector doctor "mistakenly" that they had a fatal disease of any kind? Who cares how it happened? The fact is it happened. Wait until the government controls your healthcare and "mistakenly" decides that you have a fatal disease.
Obama Increases 2010 Deficit Forecast 19% to $1.50 Trillion U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will widen to $1.5 trillion next year, reflecting a "deeper recession" than previously expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said. Over the next decade, the budget picture is darker, with the 10-year deficit reaching $9.05 trillion, up from $7.1 trillion forecast in May.
Does this sound like a logical and reasonable business plan? We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. Only in the fantasyland know as Washington.
Leave Our Penises Alone, Mr. President! In an effort to reduce the spread of HIV, public health officials are considering the promotion of "universal circumcision" for all baby boys born in the United States. This is getting out of control. It is a family's decision, not the government's business, what to do with baby boys. And, I do not want to see the perverted political hacks in Washington anywhere near baby boys' penises. That's just wrong!
Every Critic a Racist - John Stossel's Take
Cash for Clunkers - The Hangover The federal government's "free money" party is over for used cars. Stimulus is like trying to raise the level of water in a pool by taking water from the deep end and pouring it into the shallow end.
Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Irrelevant in Climate Debate In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance of CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere. Dr. Lindzen has found that heat is radiated out in to space at a far higher rate than any modeling system to date can account for. The scam springs another leak.
During the last 30 years we Americans have been so politically divided that some of us have called this left-right, liberal-conservative split a "culture war" or even a "second Civil War." These descriptions are no longer accurate. The precise, technical word for what is happening in the United States today is revolution. What defines a revolution -- and this is the crucial point to grasp -- is that when it's over a country has changed not merely its leaders and its laws, but its operating system.
ObamaCare will end your financial privacy Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats' health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the checking or credit-card information of every American. Under section 163, which is entitled "Administrative Simplification," the bill sets new "standards" for electronic transactions between individuals and their health-care providers. According to section 163, the standards will "enable the real-time (or near real-time) determination of an individual's financial responsibility at the point of service . . . " In addition, they will "enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with related health care payment and remittance advice."
Obama leaves Washington for 10-day vacation President Barack Obama left the White House on Friday for a 10-day vacation, taking with him the beloved family dog and leaving behind an acrimonious debate about a proposed overhaul of the nation's health care system. All Obama does is golf and take vacations. He was at the Grand Canyon and toured out west, and now he "needs" another vacation. So much for the work ethic of the Looter In Chief.
It's pretty bad when you have *Air America* calling you a liar, Mr. President You really have to give the Air America hostess credit for the phrase "charming liar."
As vets await checks, VA workers get $24M bonuses Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the form of $24 million in bonuses. Veterans are going through the hell getting medical treatment while the government rewards incompetent government executives.
Under the Obama administration, the VA has started issuing end of life planning documents This hurry-up-and-die message is clear and unconscionable. Worse, a July 2009 VA directive instructs its primary care physicians to raise advance care planning with all VA patients and to refer them to "Your Life, Your Choices." Not just those of advanced age and debilitated condition-all patients. America's 24 million veterans deserve better.
Health 'co-ops' are government care Responding to a building wave of opposition to the "public option," the Obama administration is now signaling that it may dress up government health care in yet another set of clothes. Mr. Schumer's conditions are a national structure, federal financing, and a ban on federal appointees who have ties to the insurance industry. This "co-op" would be federally controlled, federally funded, and federally staffed. Expressing his opposition to smaller organizations and his demand for a national "co-op," Mr. Schumer says, "It has to have clout; it has to be large." He adds, "There would at least be one national model that could go all over the country," which would require "a large infusion of federal dollars." The Democrats are getting worried that the Trojan Horse they have offered in the form of a "public option" has been spotted for what it is. So now they are looking for a new way to get government-run health care through the gates.
New Mexico Car Dealers Stiffed Dealers across the state are owed more than $3.6 million, according to a dealers' group which says that so far Uncle Sam has only written three checks totaling about $14,000. And you expect these political hacks to manage your healthcare?
'No colors allowed' sign causes controversy The bar owner says "colors" has to do with gangs, specifically motorcycle gangs. Each gang has a color or a patch, and most gangs would be willing to fight to the death to defend it. "I hope everybody is here to get along. If you're not here to get along and have a good time, I don't want you here." Go figure. When are we going to end this hyper-offended nonsense?
Top Ten Reasons Liberals Are Friggin Idiots
Jesse Ventura: Sarah Palin Is A "Quitter"
Don't Start the Revolution Without Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura: You Give Me a Water Board, Dick Cheney and One Hour
Jesse Ventura: 911, BIN LADEN DEAD!!!!
Jesse Ventura Slams reporters and asks the questions they should be asking
Original Air Date: October 1st, 2008 - In this show, Alex welcomes back former Minnesota governor, retired professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host Jesse Ventura.
OBAMANOMICS EXPLAINED: Spreading the Wealth Penn and Teller explain this eloquently.
Candle-lit dinners add to pollution Candle-lit dinners -- with the flickering flames, those delicate glows -- are an unrecognized source of indoor air pollution. Really. The American Chemical Society announced Wednesday that "emission products of petroleum-based candles in nonventilated enclosed areas" are potential health hazards. Paraffin wax candles produce evocative ambience -- and known human carcinogens, too. Nothing is safe anymore. Candles are cancer causing? Candles are killers? Alert the candle police.
Penn and Teller - The FCC and Government Censorship Penn brings up the Thomas Jefferson quote that "A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have...The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
Carbon Traders Busted For Tax Fraud British customs officials arrested seven people near London who are suspected of dodging taxes that should have been paid for selling large amounts of carbon dioxide permits. Tax Fraud? That qualifies them for an Obama czar appointment.
Obama says illegals should be given free health care President Barack Obama said he would be okay with illegal immigrants being treated in emergency rooms in some situations under his health care plan.
Canadians visit U.S. to get health care Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.
Socialized health care means losing your teeth NHS dentists are more likely than private ones to just pull teeth out, rather than bother to fix them.
Obama's Car Company Drops Lifetime Warranty Chrysler Group LLC said that it is dropping its lifetime powertrain warranty in favor of a 5-year, 100,000-mile guarantee. The decision was driven by market research that showed consumers prefer warranties with a fixed time period. Customers don't want to be bothered with those pesky lifetime warranties. They would rather have shorter warranties with a "fixed time period." What a hoax!
Obama Makes Off-Shore Drilling Deal with Brazil The Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. We can't drill here in our country and Lord Obama is giving the Brazilians $2 billion to drill for oil.
Utah Governor Stops Rail Station for Indian Tribes Utah Governor Gary Herbert has signed a conservation easement that will prevent a commuter rail stop from being built on what was once an American Indian village. Using that logic the government could stop building anything in this country because the whole country used to be an Indian village. At one time, this was all Indian land.
Katrina victims in Oprah homes indicted They are accused of taking FEMA money after moving. Darlene Poole, 30, and her sister Lashona Victor, 37, who lives in Louisiana, are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for allegedly filing for rental assistance from FEMA after Poole bought a Habitat for Humanity home on Angel Lane three years ago. According to the federal indictment, Victor registered with FEMA as Poole's landlord and the two submitted false lease agreements and rent receipts that prompted FEMA to pay them more than $14,000. Poole also told FEMA she was unemployed, although she was actually working for Harris County's Community Supervision and Corrections Department, the indictment alleges. If convicted, each sister could face up to 20 years in prison. The looting continues.
Penn and Teller - 1st Amendment
Black man with "machine gun" protests Obama They can't say it's racism. He is a proud American citizen demonstrating and exercising his rights.
Penn and Teller - The 2nd Amendment
Penn and Teller - Gun Control and Columbine Would gun control laws have changed Columbine?
Specter Opposed Government Health Care In 1994 Arlen Specter criticized and bashed then-President Bill Clinton's government-run health care plan in 1994.
Mandating pro bono work could help fix healthcare system Why not make a week or two of community service a condition of medical licensing? If you want to practice medicine in California, let's say, you would need to volunteer every year. I thought that forcing someone to work without compensation was in violation of labor laws.
Penn and Teller Defend Ron Paul vs. Luntz and Fox News Frank tells how he can manipulate what people think by simply asking the right question the right way.
Barney Frank Infers That His Constituent Has The Brain Of A Dining Room Table "Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?" asked Rachel Brown, 28, of Boston, referring to end-of-life counseling sessions, dubbed "death panels," mentioned in a provision of the House's health care reform legislation. "Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," Frank lashed back at Brown as she held a picture of Obama defaced with a Hitler moustache. Frank also asked of the woman, "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank is asking about planets? It has already been established that Barney Frank patrols Uranus. And this political hack continues to get reelected?
Judge Napolitano: Everything the Government Runs is Bankrupt! The best 90 second explanation of the differences between government and private enterprise that you will ever hear!
ObamaCare Is All About Rationing Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama's health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive.
CASH FOR CODGERS Couples wishing to access health care funds in order to pay for the delivery of a child will be required to turn in one old person. The amount the government grants them will be fixed according to a sliding scale. Older and more prescription dependent 'codgers' will garner the highest amounts. Special "Bonuses" will be paid for those submitting codgers in targeted groups, such as smokers, alcohol drinkers, persons 10 pounds over their government prescribed weight, and any member of the Republican Party. Smaller bonuses will be given for 'codgers' who consume beef, soda, fried foods, potato chips, lattes, whole milk, dairy products, bacon, Brussels sprouts, or Girl Scout Cookies. All 'codgers' will be rendered totally useless via toxic injection. This will insure that they are not secretly resold or their body parts harvested to keep other 'codgers' in repair.
U.S. pay czar says he can "claw back" exec compensation Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and "binding" authority over executive compensation, including the ability to "claw back" money already paid, and he is weighing how and whether to use that power. Where in the Constitution does it say that Congress can create laws that would allow a government bureaucrat to retroactively seize money from private businesses?
Obama Closes Doors on Openness Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies."
What death by bureaucratic fiat might look like.
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Alan Grayson Town Hall Meeting - Orlando, FL This is video I shot at Congressman Alan Grayson's Town Hall Meeting in Orlando, FL on 8/17/09. Mustering every bit of cowardice that he could, the Congressman announced the meeting just 24 hours before it was to take place. It was held at a Union Hall. The hall seats about 125 people. Just prior to the Town Hall meeting there was a Democrat meeting of some kind. Those in attendance remained for the Town Hall, thereby leaving room for only 30 or so other people who had come to attend. So, the room was stacked heavily. Listen to a Vietnam Vet (one of those who got in) describe it. The mainstream media is reporting that Grayson's supporters outnumbered protesters, however this is simply not true. My estimate is that about 20% of the people there were in support, the rest were in protest. Of course, inside the building things weighed in his favor, due to the aforementioned pre-loaded room. Stacking the deck works every time for political hacks.
Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday-the latest incidents in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president. Gun-rights advocates say they're exercising their constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen. Phoenix police said the gun-toters at Monday's event, including the man carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, didn't need permits. No crimes were committed, and no one was arrested. The man with the rifle declined to be identified but told The Arizona Republic that he was carrying the assault weapon because he could. "In Arizona, I still have some freedoms," he said. A weapon doesn't become an assault weapon until the crime of assault is committed. For that matter, any item, a screw driver, a knife or even a chicken finger, (yes, all of these particular items have been cited as assault weapons in police reports) could be an "assault weapon" if it is used to commit an assault. But, nothing is an "assault weapon" unless or until it is used to commit an assault. How about a ban on those dangerous chicken fingers.
WJW Fox 8 Cleveland does a ridiculous story on a bear in a lady's backyard This idiot reporter makes a cardboard cutout and says "this might have been what it looked like, if it wasn't a cutout..." Next spring, he will be doing a story in a bunny costume to demonstrate what the real bunny might have looked like.
Another story of a lemonade stand that was shut down by the government because the little girl didn't have a permit. Government idiocy!
Will Electric Cars Wreck the Grid? Plug-in electric cars could destabilize the distribution of power. Electric companies use oil and coal to generate electricity. Therefore, when you get an electric car and plug it in to charge it up, carbon emissions are not going to change at all. They will just be redirected. All of this global warming nonsense is a scam anyway.
Big Government hijacks message of '60s It is ironic that many of the idealistic youth of the '60s who complained, "The Man is keeping me down," now are "The Man," and attempting to grow the power of the federal government to Orwellian proportions. The same people who led us in a round of John Lennon's "Power to the People" are now attempting to take power from the people, relinquishing it to the hands of Big Brother Government. The same people who led us in a round of John Lennon's "Power to the People" are now attempting to take power from the people, relinquishing it to the hands of Big Brother Government. Today, there is little difference between your garden-style Republican and your run-of-the mill Democratic politician. People are waking up to the fact that both parties are predominantly interested in expanding their power while they keep us arguing over Ds and Rs. They are both modern-day "progressives," an Orwellian term that sounds good. Who wouldn't want to be "progressive?" But the progressive's main focus is to move us incrementally away from the unique brilliance of our country's founding and toward a cradle-to-grave "nanny state" in which we depend upon (and relinquish our freedom to) Mother Government.
Obama's auto program the real clunker The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the claims they've submitted through the popular "cash for clunkers" program. More evidence of the inability of the government to run anything efficiently.
The difference between "medically necessary" and "medically appropriate" If a patient walks in a hospital saying he has a headache or does not feel well, a doctor may order dozens of blood tests and X-rays. This does not meet the medically necessary standard, but could easily fit the definition of medically appropriate. We already know that 10 percent of health care bills are fraudulent. Wait until you remove the requirement that all services must be medically necessary. Then the charges we once called fraud would now be allowed. In fact, it would be hard to ever prove another health care fraud case because a provider will clam he thought the costs were "appropriate."
British health care: Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance' A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.
Swine flu vaccine linked to killer nerve disease The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.
Contemporary liberals, having abandoned the belief in God-given inalienable rights, masochistically crave a worldly master. This master is a sadistic god-substitute who will provide the stern discipline needed to force economic equality and "fairness" by requiring painful sacrifices and bestowing government-created rights onto obedient and acquiescent groups of left-leaning masochists.
IRS staffer axed for e-mail calling Obama a Muslim A 30-year veteran of the IRS who had no clue her work e-mail was being audited got canned for sending out an anti-Obama message to six people.
Kristina Ribali describes how she was prevented from attending the Wu town hall She says she was 72nd in line for a room that seats 125, and was not allowed in.
Representative Wu's Town Hall Meeting in McMinnville, Oregon Watch the whole video, you'll hear a 16 year old ask David Wu a yes or no question on if he read the stimulus bill. He refused to answer for... the 2nd time and took another question to boos.
No town halls: Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand nix health care talks in state Itching to unload on Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand at a town hall meeting on health care reform? You're out of luck.
Ayers and Obama have worked together on books for at least 21 years, and have cooperated in funneling tens of millions of dollars to leftist indoctrination progammes for youth. All this you may have already known. What is even more chilling is this expose' on how William Ayers is planning to implement their mutual Marxist ideology, should Ayers attain influence on Obama through their long standing relationship. Larry Grathwohl penetrated the Weather Underground to bring this fist hand account of Ayers' (and the Weather Underground's) plans. As you may know, Ayers remains unrepentant to this day, and lives just a few houses away from Barack Hussein Obama. Obama's flimsy and ever-shifting denials of his relationship with Ayers have all but completely disintegrated.
Bear splashes around in Southern California swimming pool.
You're Bob Dylan? NJ police want to see some ID
For Bob Dylan or anyone else, I didn't think it was a crime to go for a walk around a neighborhood on public streets.
A Historic Look at the World Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow You must understand the past before you will understand the present. The Truth will set you Free!
Mike Huckabee: Healthcare Reform Questions - Number of Uninsured An eloquent analysis of the details.
Crazy Obama Supporter Spazzes Out On The Michael Savage Show
Democrat Congressman Gene Green from Houston, Texas is requiring photo IDs from everybody entering his town hall meetings. However, Representative Gene Green has voted against bills that require people to present a photo ID before they vote. You can vote without proof of ID, but don't show up at one of his town meetings without a driver's license. You won't get in.
Nancy Pelosi: "I'm a Fan of Disruptors" Unless you are a senior citizen who opposes her healthcare scheme. The hypocritical double standard continues.
Nazis for Me, but Not for Thee Why shouldn't socialized medicine prompt comparisons to National Socialism? If Pelosi wanted to engage in Nazi comparisons, the health-care policies of Nazi Germany had far more in common with the health-care policies of the Democrats than with those of the conservative opposition, which wants health care kept private and reforms to be market-based.
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961) From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine.
Obama's illegal alien aunt meets the press Aunt Zeituni says Barack Obama was born in Hawaii; it's a matter of arithmetic. That settles it; we should just take the word of someone who is breaking the law, a criminal.
Rasmussen: More People trust GOP than Dems on Health Care Republicans lead Democrats in terms of voter trust on 8 out of 10 key issues for the second consecutive month, and the two are tied on one issue. Why trust any of them?
Obama, Democrats Now Planting FAKE Doctors at Town Halls - Where's the Media?
Concerned Father Confronts John Dingle (D) Over Health Care for Son with Cerebral Palsy
"No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is ...your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government every time an appropriation bill is passed." - Calvin Coolidge
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Most Americans Want Unused Stimulus Money Returned to Taxpayers Most Americans -- 72 percent -- say returning the unused portion of the $787 billion dollar stimulus to taxpayers would do more to boost the economy than having the government spend it. Majorities of Democrats (59 percent), Republicans (87 percent) and independents (70 percent) think the money should be returned to taxpayers. What a concept: Return the money to its rightful owners, back to the people who actually earned it and paid taxes in the first place.
U.N. Warning of 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' Began in 1989 "A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of 'eco-refugees,' threatening political chaos." This particular doomsday was nine years ago. The hoax continues.
Wanted: Obama healthcare reform volunteers willing to be paid $15 an hour Rent-a mob ads on Craigslist. The website's large-type headline announces: "Work to Pass Obama's Healthcare Plan and Get Paid to Do it! $10-15 hr!" It's a web ad on Craigslist: "You can work for change. Join motivated staff around the country working to make change happen. You can make great friends and money along the way. Earn $400-$600 a week." When you can't get actual, legitimate support for your cause, obtain it the old fashioned political hack way: Buy it.
Wolf Blitzer Doesn't Realize It's A Free Country Blitzer asked: "What can the country do to force people to just straighten out their lives because billions and billions of dollars would be saved?" Force People? Well, if we are going to force people to do something, the same question could be asked of another group. How about people in poverty: What can we do to get them to take responsibility for themselves and "force" these "people to straighten out their lives"? Do these people really need the cell phones and big screen TVs more than taking care of their necessities of life? Why do we have all the coddling for one group while we have disdain for and desire to control another group? The bottom line is it is not the job of government to force any law abiding citizen to do anything.
Little Girl Who Saw 'Mean Signs' at Obama Town Hall Planted - Mother is an Obama Donor/Campaigner Do you remember the cute little girl who asked Obama how do kids know what is true and why do people want a new health care system? Her name is Julia Hall and she's 11 years old. Her mother is an attorney, Kathleen Manning Hall. On Kathleen Hall's Facebook page is a picture of her with Barack Obama. She has contributed thousands of dollars to Obama, and her law firm has contributed thousands more. What the chances are that she was randomly called on at the ObamaEvent?
Michael Savage: Democrats Capable of Anything to keep Power "We could see a wholesale meltdown of the two party racket in the next election, that's if we're still here." "When you corner a rat, the rat gets viscous."
Duke Professor Explains What the Health Care Bill Actually Says He read the bill while most political hacks in Washington, including President Obama, have not. WILL THE PLAN RATION MEDICAL CARE? This is what the bill says, pages 284-288, SEC. 1151. 1. This section amends the Social Security Act 2. The government has the power to determine what constitutes an "applicable [medical] condition." 3. The government has the power to determine who is allowed readmission into a hospital. 4. This determination will be made by statistics: when enough people have been discharged for the same condition, an individual may be readmitted. 5. This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up. 6. There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts. 7. The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page 317-318. Will the plan punish Americans who try to opt out? What the bill says, pages 167-168, section 401, TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. 1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code. 2. Anyone caught without acceptable coverage and not in the government plan will pay a special tax. 3. The IRS will be a major enforcement mechanism for the plan. What constitutes "acceptable" coverage? Here is what the bill says, pages 26-30, SEC. 122. 1. The bill defines "acceptable coverage" and leaves no room for choice in this regard. 2. By setting a minimum 70% actuarial value of benefits, the bill makes health plans in which individuals pay for routine services, but carry insurance only for catastrophic events, (such as Health Savings Accounts) illegal. Will the PLAN destroy private health insurance? Here is what it requires, for businesses with payrolls greater than $400,000 per year. (The bill uses "contribution" to refer to mandatory payments to the government plan.) Pages 149-150, SEC. 313, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS IN LIEU OF COVERAGE. 1. The bill does not prohibit a person from buying private insurance. 2. Small businesses-with say 8-10 employees-will either have to provide insurance to federal standards, or pay an 8% payroll tax. Business costs for health care are higher than this, especially considering administrative costs. Any competitive business that tries to stay with a private plan will face a payroll disadvantage against competitors who go with the government "option." 3. The pressure for business owners to terminate the private plans will be enormous. 4. With employers ending plans, millions of Americans will lose their private coverage, and fewer companies will offer it. 5. The Commissioner (meaning, always, the bureaucrats) will determine whether a particular network of physicians, hospitals and insurance is acceptable. 6. With private insurance starved, many people enrolled in the government "option" will have no place else to go. Does the plan TAX successful Americans more THAN OTHERS? Here is what the bill says, pages 197-198, SEC. 441. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS. 1. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code. 2. Tax surcharges are levied on those with the highest incomes. 3. The plan manipulates the tax code to redistribute their wealth. 4. Successful business owners will bear the highest cost of this plan. Does THE PLAN ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO set FEES FOR SERVICES? What it says, page 124, Sec. 223, PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES. 1. The government's authority to set payments is basically unlimited. 2. The official will decide what constitutes "excessive," "deficient," and "efficient" payments and services. Will THE PLAN increase the power of government officials to SCRUTINIZE our private affairs? What it says, pages 195-196, SEC. 431. DISCLOSURES TO CARRY OUT HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE SUBSIDIES. 1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code. 2. The bill opens up income tax return information to federal officials. 3. Any stated "limits" to such information are circumvented by item (v), which allows federal officials to decide what information is needed. 4. Employers are required to report whatever information the government says it needs to enforce the plan. Does the plan automatically enroll Americans in the GOVERNMENT plan? What it says, page 102, Section 205, Outreach and enrollment of Exchange-eligible individuals and employers in Exchange-participating health benefits plan. 1. Do nothing and you are in. 2. Employers are responsible for automatically enrolling people who still work. Does THE PLAN exempt federal OFFICIALS from COURT REVIEW? What it says, page 124, Section 223, PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES. 1. Sec. 1123 amends the Social Security Act, to allow the Secretary to identify areas of the country that underutilize the government's plan "based on per capita spending." 2. Parts of the plan are set above the review of the courts.
Viagra ice cream to go on sale at Selfridges Entitled The Sex Pistol, this bespoke creation is served as an ice cream cocktail and is packed with libido-boosting ingredients such as ginkgo, biloba, arginine and guarana. It's served with a shot of the highly intoxicating La Fee Absinthe and is guaranteed to get your blood pumping. Customers are limited to one serving per person. Time to write your own jokes.
The Optimum Size of Government A new study by the Institute for Market Economics (IME) in Sofia, Bulgaria, using the latest OECD data, finds that the government sectors in developed countries are too large relative to their private sectors to maximize economic growth. The IME study finds the government sector should be no larger than 25% (and perhaps considerably smaller) to maximize GDP growth. The average government sector for the OECD countries now exceeds 41% of GDP. The results indicate that policy makers who are enlarging their government sectors in the name of economic stimulus are likely to be retarding the renewal of economic growth and job creation rather than enhancing it. The study was sponsored by the non-partisan Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation in the United States and the European Coalition for Economic Growth based in Vienna, Austria.
Refusing vaccination labels you a "criminal" The World Health Organization determined in 2005 it has the authority to dissolve sovereign governments and take control should there be a "pandemic". This applies to any country signed onto WHO….which of course we are. The WHO just raised this non-existent pandemic to level 4. From the WHO 2005 declaration: (excerpted) " Under special pandemic plans enacted around the world including the USA, in 2005, national governments are to be dissolved in the event of a pandemic emergency and replaced by special crisis committees, which take charge of the health and security infrastructure of a country, and which are answerable to the WHO and EU in Europe and to the WHO and UN in North America. If the Model Emergency Health Powers Act is implemented on the instructions of WHI, it will be a criminal offence for Americans to refuse the vaccine. Police are allowed to use deadly force against "criminal" suspects. Under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, upon the declaration of a "public health emergency," governors and public health officials would be empowered to: Preempt existing state laws, rules and regulations, including those relating to privacy, medical licensure, and-this is key-property rights. Ration firearms, explosives, food, fuel and alcoholic beverages, among other commodities. So there you have it. You are now officially to be declared a criminal if you refuse the vaccine and deadly force can be used against you if you resist. And to think, not only did our federal government agree to this abomination, it was also successful in getting the same laws passed in most states.
Acorn spokesperson defends breaking into Foreclosed homes ACORN is unlawfully occupying private property and calling it "a right."
Ten reasons why America's health care system is in better condition than you might suppose 1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher. 2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher. 3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them. 4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer: Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent). Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians. More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent). Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent). 5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report "excellent" health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as "fair or poor." 6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long-sometimes more than a year-to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment. 7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding." 8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the "health care system," more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). 9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade-even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain. 10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States. Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.
Obama: "In the last few months, the economy has done measurably better than expected." Well, that depends on your expectations, doesn't it? It is irrefutable. But the press is glad to be the echo chamber. "Figures released last week showed that the economy contracted more slowly in the second quarter than many economists had expected." The Obama administration is convinced that we can have no real and lasting recovery until homes go up in price. A top adviser said: "until we see a robust recovery in housing markets, housing prices, in jobs and family income, we're not anywhere near out of the woods." This is precisely the same inanity that afflicted the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. They saw falling prices as the problem to be remedied rather than the saving grace of an otherwise abysmal economic environment. So they kept trying to stamp out good things thinking that they were bad things.
Obama: Caught Lying Again - Making Back Room Deals with Pharmaceutical Lobbyist Once again change we can believe in is more of the same.
Pathetic Obama Lies at New Hampshire Health Care Town Hall OBAMA IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 2009: I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter because frankly we historically have had a employer-based system in this country, that private insurers. OBAMA 2003: I happen to be a proponent of single-payer, universal health care plan. How pathetic? Obama lies so such an extent that he can't remember what he said and to whom he said it. Hope and change?
Mike Pence Talks About The Protesters Being Very Informed
You Have Awakened A Sleeping Giant A young woman tells Senator Arlen Specter that "You have awakened a Sleeping Giant..." to the thunderous roar of applause and a standing ovation at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, PA.
Claire McCaskill: Town Hall Anger "Not Manufactured" Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) says at a town hall that it is "a huge mistake" to assume strong opinions from anyone opposed to President Obama's health care reform plan are "manufactured". She said that they might be "organized" but they are "not manufactured."
Dirty Secret No. 1 in Obamacare Health care reforms are turning into health care revolts. Americans are turning up the heat on congressmen in town hall meetings across the U.S. Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children."
Deadly docs: Obama advisers want to ration health care The health bills coming out of Congress would put the decisions about your care in the hands of presidential appointees. They'd decide what plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have and what seniors get under Medicare.
Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations The Obama administration is quietly dusting off an effort to impose new federal quarantine regulations, which were vigorously resisted by civil liberties organizations and the airline industry when the rules were first proposed by the Bush administration nearly four years ago.
Trinkets that stick it to Obama start to sell In the political paraphernalia department, "Yes, we can" is becoming "No, he can't." While "Mama for Obama" was a popular slogan during the 2008 election cycle, that design has been retooled with angry and fickle disenchantment: "To the Mama for Obama -- thanks for the tax hike." The "Audacity of Hope," the title of Mr. Obama's popular book, has been replaced by the "Audacity of Hype."
Media actually probed other candidates In the last 18 years, highly personal information has been published about presidential candidates, including divorce and alimony details, drunk driving arrest records, college grades, urinalysis results, prostate cancer surgery - even details about George W. Bush's hemorrhoid troubles. However, while such private information about other candidates was divulged, more than 440,000 concerned citizens still have yet to see President Obama present his elusive "long-form" birth certificate and several other documents that remain unreleased or otherwise blocked from the public eye. As WND has reported, Obama has not released his long-form birth certificate, college transcripts, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records or his adoption records. Don't you love this new and improved "transparency?"
An interview with Mr. Sea regarding New World Order plans for the U.S. and its citizens. With a seven-inch thick portfolio filled with photographs, news articles, correspondence, etc., Mr. Sea revealed disturbing information about New World Order efforts to destroy and enslave America. "The infrastructure is set up. There are at least 130 concentration camps - quietly modified facilities which have sprung up and continue to spring up across the country, seemingly devoid of activity, yet requiring strange accoutrements such as barbed wire-topped fencing (with the tops turned inward) and helicopter wind socks. Most have good logistical supportability, with major highways and railroad transport facilities adjacent to the sites." "These facilities, many in remote areas across our country, are set up to become concentration/detention camps, complete with gas chambers, for resisters and dissidents. Generally speaking, they're set up for dissenters who will not go along with the New World Order. The 'resisters' are gun owners who refuse to give up their weapons; the 'dissidents' are Christians, Patriots and Constitutionalists. These camps are set up. I've seen many of them." "The infrastructure is set up. There are at least 130 concentration camps - quietly modified facilities which have sprung up and continue to spring up across the country, seemingly devoid of activity, yet requiring strange accoutrements such as barbed wire-topped fencing (with the tops turned inward) and helicopter wind socks. Most have good logistical supportability, with major highways and railroad transport facilities adjacent to the sites. "These facilities, many in remote areas across our country, are set up to become concentration/detention camps, complete with gas chambers, for resisters and dissidents. Generally speaking, they're set up for dissenters who will not go along with the New World Order. The 'resisters' are gun owners who refuse to give up their weapons; the 'dissidents' are Christians, Patriots and Constitutionalists. These camps are set up. I've seen many of them. There's not going to be some future event when the invading troops are going to show up. They're already here! When martial law is implemented, these foreign U.N. troops will be policing our country, carrying out the plans of the New World Order."
In 1930's Germany, the new socialist government of Adolf Hitler (NAZI National Socialist Workers' Party) began indoctrinating children in the quasi-military organization, the Hitler Youth, to inform on their parents should they overhear discussions subversive to the policies of the Leader. As the noose was tightened, local community organizers were appointed to watch their neighbors and were told to report subversive comments to the bureaucrats above them. Neighbors informed on neighbors, some for reasons of patriotism or loyalty, some from fear. A modern inquisition ensued; a terror to free thought and expression. Increasingly harsh penalties were meted out to those who dared to dissent. Now on the White House website posted by Macon Phillips comes an eerily similar request for citizens to inform on their neighbors. It states: "There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to the end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, 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." Does this sound like the country you know (knew)? Does a constitutional government tasked with protecting the rights of its citizens ask them to inform on each other to the White House?
Obama Connected Group Calls for Brownshirt Tactics Against Healthcare Opponents An organization supported by Obama, Biden and 190 members of Congress, Health Care for America Now, instructs Democrats to confiscate signs and leaflets brought to Obamacare events by "rightwing extremists," that is to say Americans opposed to totalitarian health care. "The best way to do this is to make a blanket rule that no one can bring signs or leaflets and to advertise this fact as you do turn out in the weeks preceding the event. You can distribute your own signs in the event and offer them one as they enter if you choose to allow them to enter," the HCAN website instructs. HCAN will organize brownshirt thugs - called "marshals" - to patrol crowds with local police assistance to make sure no opposition can be voiced. "Make sure that you assign marshals to take care of moving the crowd, keeping people organized and orderly, and acting as security should any need arise to ask noisy or disruptive protesters to leave. If you have cause to think that you will need more back-up, notify the police ahead of time." HCAN also suggests Democrats get with members of Congress to shut down free speech and control the opposition. Obviously, the Obamanoids are desperate to control the debate and shut down the massive opposition consisting largely of normal middle class Americans who are outraged by Obama's rationed totalitarian health care plan. In order to control the issue and ram it through Congress, Obama's operatives are certainly not beyond employing brownshirt tactics used by the Nazis in Germany and Stalin in the Soviet Union.
The worst evil in mankind's history is not behind us, it is before us and coming from the most unimaginable of places.
Five steps to totalitarian rule. As Hitler and Mussolini prepared to storm Europe, fascism began to generate interest in the United States. In Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel, It Can't Happen Here, an American president uses an economic crisis as a pretense to take over the media, imprison dissenters, and build his own private army (the Minute Men) into an indomitable force.
Chris Matthews Unloads On Protester Who Carried Gun To Obama Event "You're carrying a god damned gun at a Presidential event," Matthews says to protester William Kostric, appearing on "Hardball" to explain why he carried a gun to a health care town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire hosted by President Obama. He said he wanted "to be heard" and wanted everyone to be aware of the rights we are losing. Matthews chides Kostric for bringing a loaded gun to an event where the President would be. "A firearm is a defensive tool," Kostric says. "Who would be silly enough to carry an unarmed firearm?" It is legal to carry guns in New Hampshire. He concludes that it would have been a safer crowd if everyone at the town hall carried guns.
Top 10 signs you need to go on a diet Warning: Not safe for eyes.
Conclusions that are Obvious after Watching A Few Episodes of Cops The term "trailer trash" didn't appear out of thin air. Perpetrator's pants never fit. Bad teeth apparently cause criminal behavior. Also, apparently, do neck tattoos. A cop in full uniform with street shoes, a Kevlar vest and 20 pounds of equipment on his belt will always outrun a shirtless perpetrator in running shoes. Nobody ever has a clue as to how those drugs got into their pocket. If you see a man driving with no shirt on, pull him over. He's a perpetrator. That goes double for shirtless with a mullet. Perpetrators never clean their homes or wash dishes. Street hookers are flat-out ugly.
How are your lawmakers spending your tax dollars? Lawmakers' Global-Warming Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots. They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole. Luxurious vacations paid for by you, the taxpayer.
Obama says his health care plan will cut costs and increase patient choice. John Stossel says it won't.
Congress Registers Lowest Rating Since February Just 14% of likely voters give Congress good or excellent ratings this month. Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters say Congress is doing a poor job, up nine points since June and the highest level found since October 7, 2008. Congress is not even half as popular as George W. Bush was at his low point. And somehow, these political hacks keep getting reelected.
Deficit Grew by $181 Billion in July Alone! The independent budget scorekeeper has projected the deficit to reach $1.8 trillion by the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30. The deficit in 2008 reached $455 billion, which was a record at the time. There is change for you, and we are setting records. The deficit, under our brilliant president's recovery plan, grew by $181 billion in July!
California could get nine House seats it doesn't deserve because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010. Next year's census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won't. Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country-including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of "loser" states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what's going on. In 1790, the first Census Act provided that the enumeration of that year would count "inhabitants" and "distinguish" various subgroups by age, sex, status as free persons, etc. Inhabitant was a term with a well-defined meaning that encompassed, as the Oxford English Dictionary expressed it, one who "is a bona fide member of a State, subject to all the requisitions of its laws, and entitled to all the privileges which they confer." Thus early census questionnaires generally asked a question that got at the issue of citizenship or permanent resident status, e.g., "what state or foreign country were you born in?" or whether an individual who said he was foreign-born was naturalized. Over the years, however, Congress and the Census Bureau have added inquiries that have little or nothing to do with census's constitutional purpose. Obama has seized control over our 2010 Census and Chicago thug Rahm Emanuel will be running the show.
Something entertaining actually happened on CSPAN. a woman by the name of Leah called in to a show called "Washington's Journal." Leah wanted to comment on the media's coverage of these healthcare townhalls.
NH Senator Refuses to Meet with Constituents See what happened when OTN went to ask a few tough questions to US Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
Pelosi: Protests are "Un-American" We'll be a much healthier country if all patients can receive regular checkups and tests, such as mammograms and diabetes exams, without paying a dime out-of-pocket. Then who pays? Somebody has to pay for this debacle. By the way, Hillary Clinton insists that we have a right to protest and disagree with any administration.
Rude MSNBC Host Attacks Peter Schiff Lawrence O'Donnell interviewing potential Senatorial candidate Peter Schiff, who is going to oppose Chris Dodd in the 2010 election. The fact that he could hardly get a word in edgewise is pathetic. But from what little Peter Schiff could get out of his mouth, you can gather that he is not a big fan of government. My kind of guy!
Rhode Island Pet Store Shut Over Sales-Tax Nonpayment At the entrance to Dr. Doolittle's Pets & More, near the advertisements for "Baby parakeets. All colors. Lowest prices." and "Free hamster with any cage over $30.00," owner Don Russell has put up a new sign. It is written by hand in black marker on a poster-size sheet of yellow paper taped to the front window. "At this time we have no money and we are not allowed to open to raise the money. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID." Dr. Doolittle's is one of the 1,092 businesses the state recently ordered to close on the spot for falling behind in their sales-tax payments.
US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time Hope and change.
Cash for Clunkers Leads to More SUV Purchases Ford's Escape cross-over SUV, not the Focus small car, tops the list for most popular 'clunker' buy. An independent analysis by Edmunds.com disputed those results, and showed that two full-size trucks and a small crossover SUV were actually among the top-ten buys. People want SUVs. Take that, Mr. President!
What happened to the promise that we will "once again be respected around the world?"
Obama's Deformed HealthCare Plan Dr. Manning is righteous, sincere, humble, straight-talking and full of common sense! "MAKE SURE YOU DON'T LET THIS CONGRESS PASS THIS GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE"!!
Meltdown: Democrat Congressman David Scott of Georgia Goes Berserk at Town Hall He loses it when one of his constituents asks him a question about ObamaCare.
David Scott's Town Hall - No videotaping allowed! U.S. Rep. Scott (13th District Of Georgia) would not allow any videotaping of his town hall on Aug. 1 2009. The video shows the police chief confronting a constituent after he complained about not being able to bring in his own video camera. David Scott wanted to control all video regarding the event to keep any embarrassing moments from getting on the internet. He has been named Tuesday as one of the 25 most "corrupt members of Congress" by an ethics watchdog group! So much for an "open" and "transparent" government.
The AARP representatives actually thought they were going to going to walk into a room full of people who wanted nothing more than for the government to take complete charge of their healthcare. That's not the way it turned out. As soon as the AARP woman hears the first dissenting word she starts to lose it. She actually walks out and cancels her own meeting because the audience, with an average age of at least 65, insists on asking questions and voicing their opposing opinions to the Democrat healthcare plan. Watch this snotty woman unplugging the microphone and taking it with her as she leaves. What you're seeing here are Americans who are genuinely concerned about the future of their country and their healthcare.
Tampa Couple Roughed Up by Thugs at Kathy Castor Town Hall, Tampa, Florida Kathy Castor's union thugs beat up a guy and shut the doors to prevent the opposing opinions from being heard. She wasn't entertaining any questions and people were standing up and disagreeing. White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina said, "We will punch back twice as hard." He wasn't kidding. If you dare to oppose the position of Lord Obama, you will get punched "twice as hard."
President Obama has been in office now for 200 days, and the second hundred days of his administration have been worse than the first. The $787 billion stimulus experiment he rushed through Congress still isn't creating jobs. The job-killing national energy tax he rushed through the House is threatening families and small businesses with higher energy bills. And now he wants to rush through Congress a $1.6 trillion government-run health care experiment that will make health care more expensive, add to the deficit and cause tens of millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance and doctors. President Obama has done all of this in just 200 days - and there are still 1,260 days left in his term. America can't take any more of President Obama's experiments.
Obama learns the ways of the Jedi.
Threats, media manipulation on Obama eligibility We are in possession of a written account by a well known national talk show host who details how he was prohibited to discuss the controversy of Barack Hussein Obama's eligibility as president of the United States. This signed document cites exact dates and times when he was forbidden to discuss any aspect of the birth certificate controversy, and includes direct references to the individuals responsible for such prohibitions. Further, his statement identifies the individuals who originated the orders and their positions, and confirms that failure to adhere to the order would likely end his career in that industry.
HITLER RANTS ABOUT OBAMA HEALTHCARE AND RIGHT WINGERS Make sure you aren't being watched and then click play.
If You Dare To Criticize Obama's Reforms, You Will Be Flagged
Father Refuses to Take Down Tattered U.S. Flag A California dad is refusing to take down the tattered and torn American flag that's been flying on his lawn in Fresno for almost a year, despite complaints from neighbors on his military-heavy block and from a national veterans group that says he's mistreating the Stars and Stripes. Even passersby have phoned Louis Haros, demanding that he take down his weather-beaten flag immediately. But Haros, a Vietnam veteran, told his son last September that he'd wave that flag until he comes home from Iraq. And a promise is a promise. Why are his nosy neighbors having a problem with this? It is his flag and his property.
Obama: A modern day Roman plebeian tyrant Barack Obama: Plebeian politician to senator to dictator wannabe. The USA - republic, to democratic dictatorship, then despotism. It not only can happen, but will, unless we learn from history and prevent its repetition.
Nancy Pelosi Asks for Three G550 Private Jets Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies. But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress. Nancy Pelosi and her husband have the money to buy a corporate jet, but she wants to use your money to fly around! All this talk about "carbon footprints," and they think they are like the Roman Senate! We have 10% unemployment and members of congress want three more jets to fly around in. This is as far away from the concepts of the founding of this country as any party leadership in this country has ever been.
Spending a trillion dollars is hard work Not for Barack Obama.
If you oppose Barack Obama's healthcare plan, you can consider yourself the following: A right-right extremist. An unruly member of a mob. A person who is not expected to dress respectably. Desperate to destroy Barack Obama. Unwilling to change.
Bank Teller Fired for Capturing Robber It's getting to the point where being a Good Samaritan can be an occupational hazard. Jim Nicholson of Seattle, Washington, has lost his job for foiling a bank robbery. It figures. Banks are now being run by government. Government logic: Fire anyone who does what he believes to be right. Jim Nicholson can work for me anytime.
A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead got his penis glued to his stomach. Four women, including his wife, showed up to bind and blindfold the man, plus place the adhesive on his package, all in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover's quadrangle gone bad.
Obama administration withholds data on clunkers The Obama administration is refusing to quickly release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate - or undercut - White House claims of the program's success. The "transparency" of the Obama administration is just blinding.
Obama Administration's Health Care Plan - The Details Your Obamacare future eloquently analyzed line by line. Sec. 203, Pg. 84 - Government mandates ALL benefit packages for private Health Care plans in the exchange. Sec. 203, Pg. 85, Line 7 - Specifications of benefit levels for plans means that the government will define your HC plan and has the ability to ration your health care! Sec. 205, Pg. 95, Lines 8-18 - The government will use groups (i.e., ACORN & AmeriCorps) to "inform and educate" (sign up) individuals for government plan. Sec. 205, Pg. 102, Lines 12-18 - Medicaid-eligible individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No freedom to choose. Sec. 223, Pg. 124, Lines 24-25 - No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "administrative of judicial review" against a government monopoly. Sec. 225, Pg. 127, Lines 1-16 - Doctors - the government will tell YOU what you can make. "The Secretary shall provide for the annual participation of physicians under the public health insurance option, for which payment may be made for services furnished during the year." Sec. 312, Pg. 145, Lines 15-17 - Employers MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. Sec. 313, Pg. 149, Lines 16-23 - ANY employer with payroll $400,000 and above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll. Sec. 313, Pg. 150, Lines 9-13 - Businesses with payroll between $251,000 and $400,000 who do not provide public option pay 2-6% tax on all payroll. Sec. 401.59B, Pg. 167, Lines 18-23 - ANY individual who does not have acceptable care, according to government, will be taxed 2.5% of income. Sec. 59B, Pg. 170, Line 1 - Any NONRESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay for their health care.) Sec. 431, Pg. 195, Lines 1-3 - Officers and employees of HC Administration (government) will have access to ALL Americans' financial and personal records. Sec. 441, Pg. 203, Lines 14-15 - "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it says that. Sec. 1121, Pg. 239, Lines 14-24 - The government will limit and reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income and poor are the ones affected. Sec. 1121, Pg. 241, Lines 6-8 - Doctors, it does not matter what specialty you have; you'll all be paid the same. "Service categories established under this paragraph shall apply without regard to the specialty of the physician furnishing the service." Sec. 1122, Pg. 253, Lines 10-23 - The government "validates work relative value units" (sets value of doctor's time), professional judgment, methods etc. (defining the value of humans). Sec. 1131, Pg. 265 - Government mandates and controls productivity for private HC industries. "Incorporating Productivity Improvements into Market Basket Updates that Do Not Already Incorporate Such Improvements." Sec. 1141, Pg. 268 - The government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs. Sec. 1145, Pg. 272 - Treatment of certain cancer hospitals: Cancer patients and their treatment are open to rationing! Sec. 1151, Pg. 280 - The government will penalize hospitals for what government deems preventable readmissions (incentives for hospital to not treat and release). Sec. 1151, Pg. 298, Lines 9-11 - Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a readmission and the government will penalize you for that action. Sec. 1156, Pg. 317, Lines 13-20 - "PROHIBITION on physician ownership or Investment." Government tells doctors what/how much they can own. Sec. 1156, Pg. 317-318, Lines 21-25, 1-3 - "PROHIBITION on Expansion of Facility Capacity." The government will mandate that hospitals cannot expand ("number of operating rooms or beds"). Sec. 1156, Pg. 321, Lines 2-13 - Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input required. Sec. 1162, Pg. 335-339, Lines 16-25 - The government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures. Rationing. Sec. 1162, Pg. 341, Lines 3-9 - The government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans (Part B), HMOs, etc. This will force people into a government plan. "The Secretary may determine not to identify a Medicare Advantage plan if the Secretary has identified deficiencies in the plan's compliance with rules for such plans under this part." Sec. 1177, Pg. 354 - Government will RESTRICT enrollment of special needs people! "Extension of Authority of Special Needs Plans to Restrict Enrollment." Sec. 1191, Pg. 379 - Government creates more bureaucracy - "Telehealth Advisory Committee." HC by phone or the Internet - dial 1 for your health care advice? Sec. 1233, Pg. 425, Lines 4-12 - Government mandates Advance (Death) Care Planning consultation. Think Senior Citizens and end of life. END-OF-LIFE COUNSELING. SOME IN THE ADMINISTRATION HAVE ALREADY DISCUSSED RATIONING HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY. Sec. 1233, Pg. 425, Lines 17-19 - Government WILL instruct and consult regarding living wills and durable powers of attorney. Mandatory end-of-life planning! Sec. 1233, Pg. 425-426, Lines 22-25, 1-3 - Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death. Sec. 1233, Pg. 427, Lines 15-24 - Government mandates program for orders for life-sustaining treatment (i.e. end of life). The government has a say in how your life ends. Sec. 1233, Pg. 429, Lines 1-9 - An "advanced care planning consult" will be used as patient's health deteriorates. Sec. 1233, Pg. 429, Lines 10-12 - "Advanced Care Consultation" may include an ORDER for end-of-life plans - from the government. Sec. 1233, Pg. 429, Lines 13-25 - The government will specify which Doctors (professional authority under state law includes Nurse Practitioners or Physician's Assistants) can write an end-of-life order. Sec. 1233, Pg. 430, Lines 11-15 - The government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life, according to preset methods (not individually decided). Sec. 1302, Pg. 468, Lines 16-21 - "Community-Based Home Medical Services means a nonprofit community-based or state-based organization." Sec. 1302, Pg. 472, Lines 14-17 - PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION: One monthly payment to a community-based organization. Like ACORN? Sec. 1308, Pg. 489 - The government will cover Marriage and Family therapy. This will involve government control of your marriage. Sec. 1308, Pg. 494-498 - The government will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating and rationing those services. Sec. 1401, Pg. 502 - Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research Established. Big Brother is watching how your treatment works. Sec. 1401, Pg. 503, Lines 13-19 - The government will build registries and data networks from YOUR electronic medical records. "The Center may secure directly from any department or agency of the United States information necessary to enable it to carry out this section." Sec. 1401, Pg. 503, Lines 21-25 - The government may secure data directly from any department or agency of the US, including your data. Sec. 1401, Pg. 503, Lines 21-25 - The "Center" will collect data both "published and unpublished" (that means public & your private information). Sec. 1401, Pg. 506, Lines 19-21 - An "Appointed Clinical Perspective Advisory Panel" will advise The Center and recommend policies that would allow for public access of data. Sec. 1401, Pg. 518, Lines 21-25 - The Commission will have input from HC consumer representatives. Sec. 1411, Pg. 524, Lines 18-22 - Establishes the "Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund." More taxes for ALL. Sec. 1441, Pg. 621, Lines 20-25 - The government will define "NEW Quality" measures in HC. Since when does government know about quality? Sec. 1442, Pg. 622, Lines 2-9 - To pay for the Quality Standards, government will transfer money from "qualified entities" (government Trust Funds) to other government Trust Funds. More Taxes. Sec. 1442, Pg. 624, Lines 19-23 - Qualified Entities: "The Secretary shall ensure that the entity is a public, nonprofit or academic institution with technical expertise in the area of health quality measurement." Sec. 1442, Pg. 623, Lines 5-10 - "Quality" measures shall be designed to assess outcomes and functional status of patients. Sec. 1442, Pg. 623, Lines 15-17 - "Quality" measures shall be designed to profile you, including race, age, gender, place of residence, etc. Sec. 1443, Pg. 628 - The government will give "Multi-Stake Holders" pre-rulemaking input into selection of "quality" measures. Sec. 1443, Pg. 630-31, Lines 9-24, 1-9 - Those Multi-Stake Holder groups include unions and groups like ACORN deciding what constitutes quality. Sec. 1444, Pg. 632, Lines 14-25 - The government may implement any "Quality measure" of HC services that bureaucrats see fit. Sec. 1444, Pg. 632-333, Lines 14-25, 1-9 - The Secretary may issue nonendorsed "Quality Measures" for physician and dialysis services. Sec. 1251 (beginning), Pg. 634 to 652 - "Physician Payments Sunshine Provision" - government wants to shine sunlight on Doctors but not government. "Reports on financial relationships between manufacturers and distributors . . . and between physicians and other health care entities." Sec. 1501 (beginning), Pg. 659-670 - Doctors in Residency - government will tell you where your residency will be, thus where you'll live. Sec. 1503 (beginning), Pg. 675-685 - Government will regulate hospitals in EVERY aspect of residency programs, including teaching hospitals. Sec. 1601 (beginning), Pg. 685-699 - Increased funding to fight waste, fraud, and abuse. (Like the government with an $18 million website?) Sec. 1619, Pg. 700-703 - If your part of HC plan isn't in the government's HC Exchange but you qualify for federal aid, you don't have to pay. Sec. 1128G, Pg. 704-708 - If the Secretary determines there is a "significant risk of fraudulent activity," on HC provider or supplier, the government can do a background check. Sec. 1632, Pg. 710, Lines 8-14 - The Secretary has broad powers to deny HC providers and suppliers admittance into HC Exchange. Your doctor could be thrown out of business. Sec. 1637, Pg. 718-719 - ANY Doctor who orders durable medical equipment or home medical services is REQUIRED to be enrolled in, or eligible for, Medicare. Sec. 1639, Pg. 721 - Government MANDATES that Doctors must have face-to-face with patient to certify patient for home health services. Sec. 1639, Pg. 723-24, Lines 23-25, 1-5 - The same government certifications will apply to Medicaid and CHIP (Children's health plan: Your kids). Sec. 1640, Pg. 723, Lines 16-22 - The government reserves right to apply face-to-face certification for patient to ANY other HC service. Sec. 1651, Pg. 734, Lines 16-25 - Proposes, for law enforcement sake, that the Secretary of HHS will give Attorney General access to ALL medical data. Sec. 1701 (beginning), Pg. 739-756 - The government sets guidelines for subsidizing the uninsured (and you have to pay for them). Sec. 1704, Pg. 756-761 - The government will shift burden of payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) to states (your taxes). Sec. 1711, Pg. 764 - The government will require preventative services - including vaccinations (no choice). Sec. 1713, Pg. 768 - Government-determined Nurse Home Visitation Services (Hello union paybacks). Sec. 1713, Pg. 768, Lines 3-5 - Nurse Home Visit Services - Service #1: "Improving maternal or child health and pregnancy outcomes or increasing birth intervals between pregnancies." Compulsory ABORTIONS? Sec. 1713, Pg. 768, Lines 11-14 - Nurse Home Visit Services include determinations of economic self-sufficiency, employment advancement and school-readiness. Sec. 1714, Pg. 769 - Federal government mandates eligibility for State Family Planning Services. Abortion and government control intertwined. Sec. 1733, Pg. 788-798 - Government will set and mandate drug prices, therefore controlling which drugs are brought to market. (Goodbye innovation and private research.) Sec. 1744, Pg. 796-799 - Establishes PAYMENTS for graduate medical education. The government will now control your doctor's education. Sec.1751, Pg. 800 - The government will decide which Health Care conditions will be paid. Say "RATION!" Sec. 1759, Pg. 809 - Billing Agents, clearinghouses, or other alternate payees are required to register. The government takes over private payment systems too. Sec. 1801, Pg. 819-823 - The Government will identify individuals "likely to be ineligible" for subsidies. Will access all personal financial information. Sec. 1802, Pg. 823-828 - Government sets up Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund. Another bottomless tax pit. Sec. 4375, Pg. 828-832, Lines 12-16 - Government will impose a fee on ALL private health insurance plans, including self-insured, to pay for Trust Fund! Sec. 4377, Pg. 835, Lines 11-13 - Fees imposed by government for Trust Fund shall be treated as if they were taxes. Sec. 440, Pg. 837-839 - The government will design and implement Home Visitation Program for families with young kids and families that are expecting children. Sec. 1904, Pg. 843-844 - This Home Visitation Program includes the government coming into your house and teaching/telling you how to parent! Sec. 2002, Pg. 858 - The government will establish a Public Health Fund at a cost of $88,800,000,000 (That's Billions). Sec. 2201, Pg. 864 - The government will MANDATE the establishment of a National Health Service Corps. o Sec. 2201 - "Fulfillment of Obligated Service Requirement" Sec. 2201, Pg. 864-875 - The NHS Corps is a program where Doctors perform mandatory HC for 2 years for partial loan repayment. Sec. 2212, Pg. 875-891 - The government takes over the education of Medical students and Doctors through education and loans. Sec. 340L, Pg. 897 - The government will establish a Public Health Workforce Corps to ensure an adequate supply of public health professionals. Sec. 340L, Pg. 897 - The Public Health Workforce Corps shall consist of civilian employees of the United States as Secretary deems necessary. Sec. 340L, Pg. 897 - The Public Health Workforce Corps shall consist of officers of Regular and Reserve Corps of Service. Sec. 340M, Pg. 899 - The Public Health Workforce Corps includes veterinarians. Will animals have heath care too? Sec. 2233, Pg. 909 - The government will develop, build and run Public Health Training Centers. Sec. 2241, Pg. 912-913 - Government starts a HC affirmative action program under the guise of diversity scholarships. Sec. 2251, Pg. 915 - Government MANDATES cultural and linguistic competency training for HC professionals. Sec. 3111, Pg. 931 - The government will establish a Preventative and Wellness Trust fund, with initial cost of $30,800,000,000 (Billions more). Sec. 3121, Pg. 934, Lines 21-22 - Government will identify specific goals and objectives for prevention and wellness activities. More control of your life. Sec. 3121, Pg. 935, Lines 1-2 - The government will develop "Healthy People & National Public Health Performance Standards." They will tell us what to eat? Sec. 3131, Pg. 942, Lines 22-25 - "Task Force on Community Preventive Services." More government? Under the Offices of Surgeon General, Public Health Services, Minority Health and Women's Health. Sec. 3141, Pg. 949-979 - BIG GOVERNMENT core public health infrastructure includes workforce capacity, lab systems, health information systems, etc. Sec. 2511, Pg. 992 - Government will establish school-based "health" clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted! Sec. 399Z-1, Pg. 993 - School-Based Health Clinics will be integrated into the school environment. Sec. 2521, Pg. 1000 - The government will establish a National Medical Device Registry. Will you be tracked?
U.S. Government Intrusion Into Computers? The government has not refuted it. Here is the statement: "This application provides access to the DOT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a federal computer system and is the property of the United States Government. "Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign." It says that the government can maneuver around your computer and authorizes other agencies to do so as well. There is a catch to every government program. Hope and change strikes again.
The 2009 Index of Economic Freedom There are five countries that have a higher index of economic freedom than the United States. Here, in the order of their rating for economic liberty, are the Top Five: Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. When Lord Obama is finished with all of his scams, the US will be bumped farther down the list. Delta is ready when you are, but you may get bumped there as well.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "The glory days are coming to an end for the health insurance industry in our country. We all want bipartisanship...but you're either with the insurance companies or you're for something new." - Nancy Pelosi Fact: This is similar phraseology as "either you are with us, or against us" comments that the Democrats used to complain about with George W. Bush. However, when a looter uses that it to demonize a private industry, it's OK. What's next? Concentration camps for insurance executives?
Obama officials: Taxes may rise to pay health care Two of Obama's economic heavyweights said middle-class taxes might have to go up to pare budget deficits or to pay for the proposed overhaul of health care. What's one more broken campaign promise when you are Lord Obama.
San Francisco Team Wins Homeless Soccer Cup Homeless people from across the country competed this weekend in the Street Soccer USA Cup with a team from San Francisco taking the title. The top eight players in the tournament will represent the U.S. in the 48-nation Homeless World Cup, scheduled for September in Milan. Are we spending money on this? Is this "helping" the homeless? How does a "homeless" team from San Francisco get to Washington to compete against a "homeless" team from Minneapolis? We're in a recession, we're losing six hundred thousand jobs a month, and we are flying "homeless people" around the world to play Homeless Soccer? Are we putting "homeless" in hotels with meals? After the tournament in Milan, do they go back to being "homeless" in their gutter? Who would come up with this idea and for what purpose? This idiocy must be a government program.
Obama Joker poster popping up in Los Angeles It's open season on President Barack Obama. Posters of the commander-in-chief, made to look like Heath Ledger's version of the Joker in "The Dark Knight," have started spreading throughout Los Angeles. Under the portrait of the president is the word "socialism."
College Grad Can't Find Job, Wants $$$ Back She went to college to boost her chances of finding a great job once she got out of school, but now that that hasn't happened, Trina Thompson wants her money back. Thompson, a graduate of Monroe College, is suing her school for the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she hasn't found solid employment since receiving her bachelor's degree in April. The business-oriented school in the Bronx didn't do enough to help her find a job, Thompson alleges, so she wants a refund. Fact: It is the job of a college to provide education. What you do with that education is up to you. There are no guarantees in life.
Einstein is deployed at the DHS and is being rolled out to other U.S. agencies. Einstein 3 will also be able to read e-mail and other Internet traffic.
Obama Pledges To Eliminate Private Health Insurance
Senior Citizens Left Off Government's Swine-Flu Vaccination Priority List Do you still want government to control your healthcare?
Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known. Coming soon to you. Be prepared to live in pain when the Imperial Federal Government decides to cut your care.
Crowd Explodes When Arlen Specter Urges That We "Do This Fast"
TIM BISHOP PROTEST, SETAUKET, NY
Quote "The federal government went bankrupt in one week in the used car business and now they want to run our health care system. I just think this is a great example of the stupidity that's coming out of Washington right now." - Senator Jim DeMint
Tax Revenues Post Biggest Drop Since Depression Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion. We have gone beyond the malaise of Jimmy Carter.
Gates Jokes About Arrest At His Home; White House Visit Harvard professor jokes about getting into college the kids of the police sergeant who arrested him if he doesn't arrest him again. "I offered to get his kids into Harvard if he doesn't arrest me again," he said.
Obama's Kenyan Birth Certificate California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication. The document lists Obama's parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.
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Airport Confiscates Boy's Disney Toys The boy bought toys while at Disney including a Pirates of the Caribbean sword, a light saber and a wooden gun. Transportation Safety Administration agents confiscated his toys because replica weapons are against the rules. Safety or control? It is a government operation.
Sick of Obama, Iowa Senior Citizen Sells TV Sets A 78-year-old Iowa woman is so tired of seeing President Obama on TV that she is selling her TV sets. Deloris Nissen of Carroll claims in a $5.50 classified ad she placed in the paper that she is selling two TVs because she is tired of seeing "Obama on every channel and station." The retired nurses' aide told the newspaper she could accept seeing Obama on TV from time to time, but that she believes he is overexposed.
Government Disasters: Cash for Clunkers, Obamacare for Suckers The only reason this is working this well is it's essentially a tax cut. They're giving people their money back. What a concept. Now this is only a $1 Billion program. Of course, the political hacks, as they usually do, underestimated the cost of the program (wait until you see the actual cost of government healthcare). To put this into perspective: A $1 billion government program is the equivalent of you trying to manage 50 cents in your pocket. And these political hacks can't handle it. Now, you have to wonder how these same people plan to control your health insurance and health care. Good Morning America, consumer correspondent Elisabeth Leamy: "Some dealers are actually now making people sign something saying they will return their shiny new car if the government reneges on the deal." Wait until this hits your healthcare. I can picture a requirement to sign a document before your government doctor performs any operation, like installing a pacemaker. You will have to sign and agree to return your pacemaker if the government later refuses to cover it. How comforting. The bottom line is, our cars aren't clunkers; government programs are. The solution: a tax cut for everyone. Give the people who actually earned the money their money back and let them spend it as they choose. That will stimulate the economy, far better than any government program. Cash for Clunkers is proof of that.
Senator Dodd Diagnosed With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during the Senate's August recess and said he expects to be back at work after a "brief recuperation" at home. Will Senator Dodd Go to UK or Canada for Surgery? Since he can't trust his insurance "villains" and doctors in this country to do it right, where will he go for, in his opinion, better care. Will he set the example and head to Canada? Why get healthcare in the US if it is so horrible?
Senator Dianne Feinstein Calls the Cops on Senior Citizen Constituents Police were called on a group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform. A spokeswoman for the 55- to 87-year-old activists said they arrived at Feinstein's office around noon and remained in her conference room more than six hours. Feinstein spokesman Gil Duran says staff offered the retirees an in-person meeting with the senator during a Los Angeles visit next week but that they demanded to speak with her immediately. "Open" and "transparent" government continues. Aren't you glad you voted for "change?"
Catching up with Obama's illegal alien auntie You'll be happy to know she's back in taxpayer-subsidized public housing. See her kicking back in pearls. "Boston is my second home," she said. "(South Boston) is one of the most beautiful places I've ever lived in. People are very kind, and I'm enjoying the beaches." Illegally enjoying the beaches I might add.
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Stimulus Money Went to Fund NEA Porno Films The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco. The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide. Some of the NEA's grants are spicing up more than the economy, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
Fun New Sport: Flipping Smart Cars Dutch pranksters in Amsterdam have dumped dozens of the tiny two-seater cars into the city's waterways.
US border station scraps sign that says "United States" because terrorists might attack it A handsome, welcoming new border crossing has had its 21-foot-high yellow "United States" letters scrapped because crazy border people are afraid that the words "United States" will serve as an irresistible temptation for terrorists. There you have it, we've just solved the terrorist threat. Who would have thought it was all about those offensive yellow signs. The terrorists are out there looking and thinking, "Oooh, here's a United States sign! Let's launch an attack!"
Brilliant Woman Solves All of California's Problems Is this woman gainfully employed? Notice that she said food is free. That would explain her appearance. DANGER! Your IQ will drop 40 points just watching this idiot.
Russians to Drill for Oil Off Cuba Havana says there may be some 20bn barrels of oil of its coast but the US puts that estimate at five billion. Everybody in the world can drill for oil but us. Meanwhile, you're waiting for all those green jobs to magically pop up as Lord Obama waves his hand.
One less Michael Jackson in the world - No, not THAT one Tax agency rejects Swedes' Michael Jackson naming tribute.
Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare According to a report, for "sinful-food" taxes to change the way people eat, they may need to equal at least 10% to 30% of the cost of the food. Are you going to have to get on a scale before you order your food at a restaurant? Or, are you going to have to go to an official government weigh in station and get your meal ticket that will determine how much in extra meal taxes you will pay? If this passes, you are going to have a lot of fat guys sending skinny kids into fast food restaurants to buy food for them so they won't have to pay the extra fat tax. Then, to reciprocate, they can buy the kids a case of beer. I can see this happening. People tend to come up with clever ways to avoid paying excessive taxes. This is going to create a whole black market for food. You are getting the "change" you voted for. It is all about control and the government will control what you eat.
How The Government Counts Stimulus Success By the state's accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime. Hire a kid to mow your lawn for a few hours. You just created a new job according to the government. And you did that without government stimulus money.
CNN: The Recession Is Over - Detroit-Area Unemployment Tops 17% The jobless rate in the Detroit metropolitan area rose to 17.1% last month. Yet Obama claims the recession is over.
Democracy Going Dark: The Electronic Police State The FBI's Multi-Billion "High-Tech Surveillance" Program.
72% Don't Want Government to Change Light Bulbs Just 18% of adults think it's the government's job to tell Americans what kind of light bulb they use. Seventy-two percent (72%) say it's none of the government's business. Where does it state in the constitution that the Imperial Federal Government has the authority to tell you how to illuminate your house?
Cambridge Cop Says She Won't Vote for Obama Again After Gatesgate Cambridge police officer Kelly King: "I was appalled. I know Jimmy. I have known him for more than 11 years with the Cambridge police. I knew him when he worked for Harvard. I know him to be a good police officer, a good man with character, and I knew these charges were bogus. There has been a tremendous rush to judgment. And I think the thing to be learned first and foremost from this is to look at all of the evidence, to consider all, to weigh all. I think Professor Gates has done a very good job of filling up a very effective smoke screen calling race into this. It had nothing to do with it." When asked "Well, what about the president?" she replied: It's unfortunate. I supported him; I voted for him; I will not again.
Biden Announces Grant to Fraternal Order of Police The federal government will give $1 billion in grants to law enforcement agencies in every state to pay for the hiring and rehiring of law enforcement officers, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder announced. What a coincidence. This happening just two days before Obama is going to have a beer with the snob professor and the police officer. This is change? It sounds like old fashioned politics. Make a mistake; throw out a billion in cash to attempt to smooth the problem over.
NYC sending homeless to Georgia, South Carolina New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city, and dozens of the families have landed in Georgia and South Carolina.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies by Michelle Malkin
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After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we trusted did not deserve our trust. When that person is the President of the United States, the potential for disaster is virtually unlimited. Many people are rightly worried about what this administration's reckless spending will do to the economy in our time and to our children and grandchildren, to whom a staggering national debt will be passed on. But if the worst that Barack Obama does is ruin the economy, I will breathe a sigh of relief.
Arrogant Michelle Obama Bashes America at USC
Weight Watcher Shoplifts Cupcakes A woman involved in a Weight Watchers demo at a Publix was arrested after shoplifting cupcakes and other items. So much for Weight Watchers.
Global Cooling: 3,000 Record Lows So Far in July As I have said right along, Global Warming is a fraudulent scam.
Conyers: No Need to Read Bills House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.): "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?" Sometimes it's just best to get out of their way and just let them go ahead and make fools of themselves. And these people in Washington are the Kings of All Fools. What happened to "people have a right to know?" Apparently not this.
CNN: 5 freedoms you'd lose in Obama's health care reform
There's no reason to do any of this, ever, not in two weeks, not in two months, not in two years. There is no reason to ever enact a health care reform bill like this into law. Why does nobody ever leave this country for healthcare and people from all over the world flock here for better healthcare?
July has been disaster for Obama The Obama administration, which was flying high a month ago after pushing through a climate change bill in the House, has since been dealt a series of setbacks and is struggling to regain its footing. After the climate bill passed 219-212 on the afternoon of June 26, there was a feeling that the White House could get much of its agenda through Congress in 2009. A month later, there are doubts that President Obama will even achieve his No. 1 priority of healthcare reform, much less cap-and-trade, immigration reform and a regulatory revamp of the financial sector. Let's hope that August will be a more terrifying disaster for Obama. Freedom could survive yet.
Mike Huckabee: I Want Doctors To Make Money I want doctors to make money. Frankly, I want them to make a lot of money. They don't have to make as much as Oprah, who made $275 million last year; or George Lucas, who made $170 million; or Stephen Spielberg, who made $150 million. Heck, both Tiger Woods and Madonna made $110 million last year…. The average doctor pay is less than what members of Congress make, and specialists make less an average that is not too much better, and that's before you factor in all the free food, travel, and outright graft that some members of Congress will be able to add. If we keep talking about limiting doctor salaries, we might get people who really aren't that good, but they were willing to do the job at a discount. I don't care if Oprah made $275 million last year or if Kobe Bryant brought down $45 million. But if a member of my family has a brain tumor, I don't want Oprah or Kobe doing the operation. I want the best neurosurgeon I can find, and I won't be looking for the low bidder or seeing if there is a coupon in the paper for 10% off the cost-I want someone who has worked real hard to know what he's doing and does it well. And if he's really, really good at it, he'll still only make about a penny for each dollar that Oprah makes. I need a good doctor a lot more than I need Oprah. And I want my doctor to make a lot of money.
Another study challenges climate change 'orthodoxy' Virtually all changes in global atmospheric temperatures in the late 20th century were the result of nature rather than human activity, according to a new peer-reviewed study. More proof that manmade global warming is a political fraud.
Chemtrails and Weather Warfare Validated by History Channel
Michael Savage Michael Savage - Henry Louis Gates Arrest, Obama, and Race Michael Savage - Swine Flu Update and Vaccinations Michael Savage Compares Obama's Speech to Bowel Movement and Bullfighting Picadors Michael Savage - Obama says Top Income Earners are Just Lucky Michael Savage America It's Over
Michael Jackson's Prosthetic Nose Goes Missing Michael Jackson wore a prosthetic nose, according to a report -- and it was missing from his surgically mangled face as he lay in an LA morgue. Left behind was a small, dark hole surrounded by bits of cartilage, Rolling Stone magazine said, citing witnesses who saw the King of Pop's body on the autopsy table. Jackson, who was notoriously shy about his appearance, wore the prosthetic to mask the effects of decades of plastic surgery. Imagine, Michael Jackson's nose could be on eBay someday.
Governor Perry raises possibility of states' rights showdown with White House over healthcare Governor Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states' rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president's healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas. Should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a "number" of states might resist the federal health mandate. Perry sad, "I'm certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats."
Millions Wait Months for Delayed Jobless Checks Years of state and federal neglect have hobbled the nation's unemployment system just as a brutal recession has doubled the number of jobless Americans seeking aid. In a program that values timeliness above all else, decisions involving more than a million applicants have been slowed, and hundreds of thousands of needy people have waited months for checks. Unemployment is at nine-and-a-half percent and the government can't cut checks in a timely manner. And the political hacks want us to believe they can handle over 40 million people dumped into a health care insurance program.
Government Censorship: GOP Not Allowed to Say 'Government-Run Healthcare' Republicans are no longer allowed to use the words "government run health care" in the communications to their constituents. This is a perfect illustration of the authoritarian or the statist.
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Bill Cosby 'shocked' by Obama's statement "If I'm the president of the United States, I don't care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I'm keeping my mouth shut." "I was shocked to hear the president making this kind of statement," Cosby said referring to the president's remarks.
Obama Approval Rating Sinks to 49% This marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide. The Rasmussen poll was the most accurate in predicting the final outcome of the 2008 presidential race.
"Why won't Barack Obama release publicly the long-form birth certificate he claims to have from the state of Hawaii?"
ATTENTION ALL BURGLARS Especially those who live in Cambridge, Mass., the home of Harvard University and, not coincidentally, Professor Henry Louis Gates. Now, I don't endorse and don't think that it's cool to make your living breaking into peoples' houses and stealing their stuff. But, if that is the career path you have chosen, you might as well choose your targets wisely. And do I have the house for you. The house is on Ware Street in Cambridge, MA. The owner and presumably sole occupant of the house is none other than esteemed Harvard Professor Henry Gates. I can almost promise you that if you decide to burglarize Mr. Gates' home, there isn't a Cambridge police officer who would respond to the call. You'll have virtually a free shot at all of the professor's stuff until he gets home. At that time you'll have to endure a screaming tirade that you are a "racist burglar." Although, you'll probably be able to get away because you'll hear Professor Gates coming a mile away. They say he's rather loud.
Why Should This Photo Be Illegal? Imagine getting a great photograph of your hunting partner shooting at a pheasant, then finding out it's illegal to possess that photo. Imagine going to the video store to rent a copy of your favorite hunting show, only to find the shelves bare. When you ask the clerk where they are, he tells you that the films are now illegal and that you can't buy or rent them anymore. This may sound like something out of 1984, but in United States v. Robert J. Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide this fall if photos like this one, or video that shows hunters shooting at game, violate a 1999 federal law (18 USC § 48) that bans depictions of animal cruelty. If the law is upheld, it could mean unprecedented problems for the entire hunting, fishing and outdoor media industry.
Gun Control: Some People Have It, Some People Don't
Hot dogs should carry a warning label The suit, by a group that promotes a meat-free diet, seeks to require cancer-risk labels on processed meats. Nutrition experts say foods that go along with the hot dog may be more dangerous. We need to require a warning label on carrots as well. Everyone I know who died of cancer has eaten carrots. Carrots are dangerous!
Most Americans Don't Know What "Rights" Really Are A right is not a guarantee that the government (i.e., other people) will provide you something for free. We have the right to engage in religious expression, but that doesn't mean that the government pays for the construction of the church. We have the right to peacefully assemble, but the government doesn't promise to supply your transportation. You have the right to keep and bear arms, but don't expect the government to provide you with a free firearm and bullets. You have the right to free speech, but the government won't grant you free radio or TV air time. How can you possibly be said to have a right to health care if the government can deny it? OBAMA: "I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good, quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller." Obama said they're going to be denying people all kinds of health care. It cannot be a right if they can take it from you. And the government will be taking it from you and they decide what is best for you.
Coolest July 21 recorded in Nashville as cool wave continues in TN Cool weather has broken a previous low temperature for July 21 in Nashville that was set when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. When the temperature at the National Weather Service station dipped to 58 degrees at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it wiped out the previous record low for the date of 60 degrees, which was set in 1877. Nashville, Tennessee, is where Al Gore lives. Fact: There isn't any global warming and there isn't a health care crisis, but Obama says he still has to raise taxes and take over the private sector to fix both of these evils, which are nonexistent problems.
Barney Frank Says Obama Cannot Be Reelected OBAMA: "We have prevented, uh, thousands of layoffs in states all across the country. Are we where we need to be? Absolutely not. Would things be much worse if we had not put the recovery package in place? Absolutely." FRANK : "No one has ever gotten reelected where the bumper sticker said, 'It Would Have Been Worse Without Me.' You can probably get tenure with that, but you can't win office."
Like Car Insurance, Health Coverage May Be Mandated Health care insurance, formerly called "medical insurance," is merely an instrument of neutralizing risk. Financial risk, not health risks. It was brought about by a need to insure a family's assets against a dreaded disease requiring care so expensive it would wipe that family out financially. As a strictly financial planning endeavor, the issue never seemed to be discussed in terms of being "a right." But "medical insurance" as a component of financial planning has morphed into "health care" as a right for everyone in the new political parlance. And not only is the insurance a right, but the insurance should be "free" and it should cover everything from routine care visits to erectile dysfunction to ADHD to addadictomies. (Addadictomies are covered in San Francisco.) It is no more practical to have "health insurance" to pay for prescription drugs and routine doctor visits than it is to expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil changes and tire rotations.
A must-read from John Stossel. It's crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It's even crazier to do it by August. Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system. Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgments and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.
Government Healthcare Under Fire At Town Hall Meetings American Citizen 1: "Senator Cardin, I want to know, are you going to tell me, an individual, that I have to buy health care or else you're going to fine me $2,500 every year that I don't pay it?" American Citizen 2: "It would be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country." American Citizen 3: "If it's so good, why doesn't the Congress have to be on it?" American Citizen 4: "Yeah, right!" It is clear that voters know much more than government officials do about what's in the plan. And they don't like it.
Would Obama Tell Ted Kennedy to Forego Surgery for a Painkiller? OBAMA: "I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good, quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller." Would we have said that to Senator Kennedy under the Obama health care plan? No. Senator Kennedy is exempt from Obamacare, as are all members of Congress. The health care plan congressmen and senators have is a smorgasbord of choices. And, do you know the government does not run those plans? Those are private plans. The government doesn't run the health care of elected officials in Washington. They're won't opt in to a government-run program. I wonder why. Ted Kennedy is now 76. Average life expectancy in the United States is 78.06. For a man who has already reached 76, life expectancy is somewhat longer than average (since people who die younger lower the national average); for a wealthy white man it may be somewhat longer statistically; but for a man with diagnosed brain cancer it is correspondingly less. As far as the actuarial tables of the Nanny State are concerned, Kennedy is due to leave this life some time soon. The socialist State is not sentimental, at least when it comes to the lives of ordinary people like you and me.
Regulation, not size, is health care's biggest problem Take two very different states: Wisconsin and New York. In Wisconsin, a family can buy a health-insurance plan for as little as $3,000 a year. The price for a basic family plan in the Empire State: $12,000. The difference has to do with how each state's insurance pools are regulated. In New York State, political hacks have tried to run the health-insurance system from Albany, forcing insurers to deliver complex Cadillac plans to every subscriber for political reasons, thus driving up costs. Wisconsin's insurers are far freer to sell plans at prices consumers want. What if the people who live in New York were allowed to buy their health insurance from a company in Wisconsin? Do you think the competitive pressures from the Wisconsin insurers just might drive the cost of insurance in New York down? Unfortunately, the New York political hacks will never let that happen. It's all about control and power.
Obama: Economy 'Pulled From the Brink' Obama knows that the word "security" is much more important to the majority of Americans than the word "freedom." Get the right trigger word; like "change" for instance, and you can sell crap in a bag to most people. What Barack Obama wants to do is promise people "security" so that they will buy his takeover of almost 20% of our economy and, thereby, become even more dependent on government. It has never been about healthcare, it has always been about control and power. BARACK OBAMA! PUTTING THE Rx IN MARXISM!
House passes bill aimed at reducing deficit House Democratic leaders and President Barack Obama say the "pay as you go" legislation could help impose fiscal discipline by instituting across-the-board spending cuts if the cost of new laws is not matched by increased revenues or cuts elsewhere in the budget. They will find a way to confiscate more money. Here is the equation: Looters take from producers for the benefit of the moochers who vote for the looters.
Doctors Wage War Against Obama's Health Care Overhaul As President Obama pushes for passage of his first major domestic policy change, some physicians are waging an all-out war against a health care reform bill they say amounts to nothing more than socialized medicine. "There's no need to rush a bill through Congress," said Dr. Donald J. Palmisano, a leading surgeon and former president of the AMA who heads the physicians group Coalition to Protect Patients' Rights. "We don't get praise for getting out of the operation room quickly. We get praise for doing the right thing for the patients," he said.
Sputtering General Motors Co., just out of a quick drive through bankruptcy court, will soon be using its iconic Cadillac brand to sell a line of fragrance for men. General Motors getting in the cologne business, rather than develop a better, super Cadillac. This is what happens when Government runs business.
Michigan Democrats may seek $10 minimum wage in 2010 The minimum wage currently is $7.40 an hour. In this economy? Are these people really that stupid?
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Subject: Who am I? I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women. I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name. My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate. I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny. I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them. That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career. I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child. I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. That reinforced my conceit. I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks. I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego. At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy...... I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country. But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free. I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight. I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all people. I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support. I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope' , together we could change our country and the world. So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted minorities" like the Jews. My true views were not widely known & I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation's leader. I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with. I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth. Who am I? ADOLF HITLER WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF?
Obama Approval Tracking Lower Than Jimmy Carter He is tracking lower than Jimmy Carter. Obama is the tenth most popular president since polls were taken at this stage in his administration. He is tracking even lower than Jimmy Carter.
Mayo Clinic: Obama plan bad medicine A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said the American people would be "losers" under the House's health care plan. Minnesota's not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care at affordable costs, blasted the House Democrats' version of the health care plan.
Obama admits he's 'not familiar' with House bill Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. When asked, "Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?" President Obama replied: "You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about." This is a truly disturbing admission by the President, especially considering that later in the call, Obama promises yet again: "If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it. Period." How can Obama keep making this promise if he is not familiar with the health legislation that is being written in Congress? Details matter. Facts under the House health plan: Approximately 103 million people would be covered under the new public plan and, as a consequence, about 83.4 million people would lose their private insurance. This would represent a 48.4 percent reduction in the number of people with private coverage. About 88.1 million workers would see their current private, employer-sponsored health plan go away and would be shifted to the public plan. Yearly premiums for the typical American with private coverage could go up by as much as $460 per privately-insured person, as a result of increased cost-shifting stemming from a public plan modeled on Medicare. It is truly frightening that the President of the United States is pressuring Congress in an all-out media blitz to pass legislation that he flatly admits he has not read and is not familiar with. President Obama owes it to the American people to stop making promises about what his health plan will or will not do until he has read it.
Obama Can't Figure Out How to Close Gitmo President Obama on Monday extended by six months a task force charged with determining how terrorism suspects should be interrogated, held in custody or handed over to other countries, putting in jeopardy his promise to close the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January. If Obama isn't smart enough to figure out what to do with 300 people in Guantanamo Bay, how can he figure out what the best health care plan is for every American? When cancer patients need treatment, will their care be delayed six months while Obama figures out what to do? Obama can't figure out what to do with the detention facility that is working fine. Guantanamo is working exactly as planned, prisoners are secured there as prisoners. He said he would remake Gitmo in one year and it would be perfect. Yea, just like he's remaking America, remaking the economy and wants us to turn health care over to him so he can mismanage our medical treatment the way he mismanaged Gitmo and the budget. This guy has a real leadership plan. Delay, no transparency, setbacks, wasted money, more delay, more wasted money, more setbacks, more wasted money and more delay. Think about that when you are waiting for days to see a doctor. I am beginning to think that this guy isn't smart enough to figure out how to close an umbrella.
This timeline presents the important aspects of Barack Obama's life, from birth to the present.
Congressman Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., held a small health care forum where he sang the praises of Obama-care and the savings the new health care legislation would create from the "efficiencies" of government. Isn't that an oxymoron? Carnahan got so carried away he even said the new health plan would "create a $6 billion surplus." This prediction was greeted with raucous laughter that lasted several minutes.
GOVERNMENT SPENDING SHATTERS POSTWAR RECORDS Congress is burning through the nation's community chest, spending trillions in tax dollars as if it were Monopoly money. Statistic: The $4 trillion that Congress may spend by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, breaks down to a daily outlay of $11 billion every 24 hours. Everybody claims to be entitled to their share of the political plunder while they make their way to the government trough.
Obama Delays Release of Deplorable Economic Report To Push Healthcare Monstrosity, and Cap and Tax The Obama administration is delaying release of a congressionally mandated report on the nation's economic conditions, spawning speculation that it is trying to tamp down bad economic news to avoid further complicating the already fraught legislative debate over health care reform. "The last time the president made grand promises and demanded passage of a bill before it could be reviewed, we ended up with the colossal stimulus failure and unemployment near 10 percent," said Sen. Jim DeMint. "Now the president wants Americans to trust him again, but he can't back up the utopian promises he's making about a government takeover of health care. He insists his health care plan won't add to our nation's deficit despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office saying exactly the opposite. And today we learn that the president is refusing to release a critical report on the state of our economy, which contains facts essential to this debate. What is he hiding?" There are at least three inevitable results of this political grab for power: Higher taxes and costs for everyone. Rationing of health care. A decrease in the quality of our health care.
Government Healthcare Facts Hope and change? Watch the carnage.
Steele Calls Obama Health Plan "Socialism" The chairman of the Republican Party called President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care "socialism," accusing the president of conducting a risky experiment that will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage. Mr. Steele is wrong. Under a socialist economic system, the government both owns and controls industry, financial institutions and business. General Motors is now a socialist enterprise, as is Citibank. But when the government merely controls private businesses without actually taking ownership the proper definition is "fascist." Obama, is comfortable with fascism, until he can turn it into socialism.
Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation's estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama. Illegal no longer means illegal in the minds of the political elite.
WHY OBAMA WON THE ELECTION: ICE CREAM "We are worried about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream" From a grade school teacher: The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make campaign speeches and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he received parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother. The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat down. Now it was Olivia's turn to speak. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it. She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream. Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide. Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he promised ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They wanted ice cream. The other 48 percent know they're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the crap." Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone that they have not first taken away from someone else.
Obama: Top income earners are just lucky "I think the best way to fund it is for people like myself, who have been very lucky and are in the top -- not just 1 percent, but top half percent -- of the income ladder to pay a little bit more." Lucky? Do you think that hard work has anything to do with becoming successful? Hey, somebody has to pay for Obama's ice cream.
Quote: "We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt" - Joe Biden Fact: Never in the history of humanity has anyone ever spent their way out of debt. Biden is truly clueless and economically ignorant.
Bankrupt Federal Government Looking To Hire Cartoonists For "Humor In The Workplace" Program The Contractor shall conduct two, 3-hour, Humor in the Workplace programs that will discuss the power of humor in the workplace. Will this lead to a Humor Czar? First in line for that position would be Al Franken. Joe Biden, the gaffe master, is highly qualified as well. Your tax dollars at work.
Social Security Bureaucrats Party at Posh Resort 700 executives from the Social Security Administration went on a party junket to Phoenix. While Obama is telling everybody else in the world don't travel, you can't fly your plane to Vegas, those days are over, federal bureaucrats are filling the vacuum. Social Security Administration Regional Commissioner for San Francisco, Peter Spencer said, "There is a tremendous amount of stress involved in the job that we do." What stress? They don't have any competition from anybody. They run a monopoly. We have people in Washington who are treating the US Treasury as a personal piggy bank to go party. Your tax dollars at work.
Joe Biden Does It Again: Take a Look Around! Biden: "To those who say that our economic decisions 'have not produced jobs, have not produced prosperity, and simply have not worked' I say, take a look around." This idiot is actually inviting people to look at the devastation that has been wrought by his administration. Cisco Systems has reduced its head count, which means its fired people at its Silicon Valley headquarters. Also, Harley-Davidson is cutting 1,000 more jobs as profits plummet. Yes, take a look around.
Automobile Manufacturers Now Hiring In Poland You will have to go to Poland to find an auto plant that is hiring workers and earning a profit.
Obama science czar Holdren called for forced abortions He doesn't think it's a bad idea to entertain adding a sterilant to drinking water, or implanting contraception capsules in all women, or making pregnant single women get married or have forced abortions. The czars are free to do whatever they want to do. They work solely for Obama. He decides everything.
House Democrat Plan Outlaws Individual Private Health Insurance On Page 16 there is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of 'Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,' the 'Limitation On New Enrollment' section of the bill clearly states: 'Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day' of the year the legislation becomes law. After this bill becomes law, nobody in the insurance business can offer anybody and you can't buy private medical insurance. So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised -- with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers. You will have to go to the public option.
We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." You can't take these away. Rights can't be taken away. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Where in our Constitution it is written that you have a right to a portion on someone else's life, in this case, it would be the service of providing medical care at the point of a gun. The government will force or mandate you to take part in its plan, whether you want to or not. If you as an individual choose not to obtain health insurance, the federal government will seize 2.5% of your income. At the point of a gun, the federal government will seize your income. Americans claim they want freedom. What a load of crap. Americans whine about their freedom to choose which sports team to root for or which Hollywood gossip magazine to purchase. But when freedom requires an ounce of personal responsibility, people immediately wipe their hands clean and want someone else to do it for them. The government is there to do things the people of this country no longer feel is their personal responsibility. Who is going to pay for this? The achievers. The small business owners. If you are an individual earning income, you will be shouldering even more of the tax burden in order to pay for this government healthcare/redistribution scheme. Political hacks want to ram this thing through the Congress as fast as possible. You see, the longer Americans have to really look into the details of this bill and begin to understand the consequences of this bill; the harder it will be to support it. Then again, most Americans are sadly more obsessed with the next season of American Idol and the hoopla surrounding Michael Jackson, who by the way is still dead.
"I had to get my gun" said Mableton man, 83, in shoot-out with home invader A quick-thinking 83-year-old Mableton man foiled a home invader's plans when he escaped bondage and shot the bandit. "My wife never did want me to keep my gun loaded," he said. "But now she said she does."
Poor in Colorado may get free phones The money - more than $800 million in subsidies were paid last year for low-income phone service across the country - comes from the Universal Service Fund, a tax on all telephone lines. You have been forced to pay for this.
US Constitution Banned From 4th of July Parade A local group was banned for handing out the U.S. Constitution from their float. The parade organizing committee said, "We should have never let you people in the parade in the first place. You people are horrible." Parade officials in Bristol have now banned the group from participating ever again.
President Barack Obama had just started a spirited defense of his economic stimulus plan when one of his teleprompter screens came loose, crashed to the floor and shattered into pieces. The teleprompter couldn't take it anymore and ended its own life in a dramatic suicide. Obama's teleprompter is now broken and completely useless, just like his economic plan.
Quote "For the Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve utopia if individuals are free to go their own way. The individual must be dehumanized and his nature delegitimized. Through persuasion, deception, and coercion, the individual must be subordinated to the state. He must abandon his own ambitions for the ambitions of the state. He must become reliant on and fearful of the state. His first duty must be to the state - not family, community and faith, all of which have the potential of threatening the state. Once dispirited, the individual can be molded by the state." - Mark Levin
South Korea: Cyber attacks could hit PCs North Korea's military is behind a series of cyber attacks against South Korean and U.S. websites that slowed or disabled access by saturating them with traffic. The attacks on dozens of U.S. and South Korean government and business sites appeared to have all but ceased but have crippled hundreds of personal computers that had been turned into "zombies" when they were enlisted for the attacks.
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American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple. We are being scolded by Russia.
Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance' Gore's call for "global governance" echoes former French President Jacques Chirac's call in 2000. The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference. "A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources," said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth. This is a government wealth confiscation scam.
Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in '08 Are you surprised? Time to pay back. This is "change"? Political kickbacks have always been considered business as usual.
Congress Must Consider What to Do with the Extra Bank Bailout Money The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall. Tax cheat Tim Geithner wants to keep your money in the program to provide "headroom" for "additional flexibility to Treasury in its efforts to stabilize the economy and build the foundation for long-term economic growth." Barney Frank wants to use the dividends earned through interest owed by banks to go toward affordable housing programs. Translation: welfare. This is not the government's money. This is money has been seized by the government from you, the taxpayers. Give the money back to the taxpayers, the people who actually earned the money.
Obama makes George W. Bush look like a genius. If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had given Tony Blair a set of inexpensive and useless (to Tony Blair's UK video formatting) DVDs, when Tony Blair had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved? If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?
Obama White House climate czar Carol Browner: 'Put nothing in writing, ever' Carol Browner, former Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed auto industry execs "to put nothing in writing, ever" regarding secret negotiations she orchestrated regarding a deal to increase federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Obama's top-secret open government initiative at work. "Change you can believe in."
She is the official Obama-appointed environmental boss of us. Cap And Tax, the largest tax increase on the American people in the history of this Republic, is a political, money grabbing scam.
Health Care Bill: Billions for parks, paths, streetlights, jungle gyms Sweeping healthcare legislation working its way through Congress is more than an effort to provide insurance to millions of Americans without coverage. Tucked within is a provision that could provide billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms, and even farmers' markets. How does spending taxpayer funds on a jungle gym constitute health care spending? Only when government is in charge and political hacks have pork ridden votes to buy.
Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders Advocating Sex Ed for Kindergarteners "We ought to have comprehensive sex education in our schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade," said Elders.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8. Blame this honeymoon on the American Idol generation of voters who like this guy because he has a great bod and promised to raise taxes on the evil rich.
G-8 agrees to cap on global temperatures The Group of Eight industrialized nations joined with developing countries in agreeing Wednesday that average global temperatures shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius in a significant new acknowledgement in the fight against global warming. REALITY ALERT: There is nothing any politician on earth can do to set a limit on the increase or decrease in global temperatures. The forces of nature are going to have their way, and there's not much we're going to be able to do about it. This is like your local weatherman declaring that he is going to stop the rain tomorrow. The Global Warming Scam continues!
Second stimulus with focus on jobs I thought that was supposed to be the focus of the first stimulus package.
Stimulus? How Is This Going To Create Jobs? Fresno, California will be given $1 million to dismantle tent cities and move residents into privately owned apartments. A nonprofit in eastern Idaho hopes to apply its stimulus funds toward one-time payments for rent or mortgages to those on the verge of losing their homes. Stockton, California plans to buy foreclosed houses and renovate them as affordable housing. Franklin County, Pa., will use stimulus money to help families with back rent and utilities, moving costs, short-term storage and credit repair. In Reading, Pa., a coalition for the homeless plans to provide short-term rent aid and landlord-tenant mediation to prevent evictions. This is why they need another stimulus?
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge unrealistic President Barack Obama promised to fix health care and trim the federal budget deficit, all without raising taxes on anyone but the wealthiest Americans. It's a promise he's already broken and will likely have to break again. Unrealistic campaign promises were touted all last year and this is their first clue?
Happy 4th of July: Akron police investigate teen mob attack on family Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world." Akron police are investigating. Right now, the case is not being classified as a racial hate crime. There is absolutely no evidence of that, is there?
Ron Paul: The Fed Must Be Stopped
How's That Change Working Out For You?
Penn Jillette: Why I'm a Libertarian Nut Instead of Just a Nut
Here are answers to some key questions about the bill. Would this bill stop climate change? No. Even if it works exactly as planned -- delivering a 17 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 2005 levels -- it might not slow down the rate of climate change by very much. That is because emissions are a global problem: Greenhouse gases contribute to the Earth's warming whether they are emitted in China or in Chevy Chase. Even if the United States meets the legislation's goals for 2020, the world's total emissions would be reduced by about 3 percent, according to Energy Department projections. What will all this change cost, and who will pay? According to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, the cost would be much steeper: $11.78 per day in the coming decades. According to House Republicans, the costs would cripple the U.S. economy and drive American jobs to countries that do not have climate regulations. The global warming - now climate change - scam continues.
New climate strategy: Track the world's wealthiest Politicians around the world are looking for ways to get their hands on two things - power and money - all in the name of global warming. It happens that a new study has been released by the National Academy of Sciences which suggests that emissions targets should not be set for countries. They should be set for people! They are using the same worthless phony computer models the hack scientists have been using for years to develop their fraudulent global warming narrative. Don't laugh this off. Would you have thought one year ago that our government would now own General Motors and Citigroup, and that nationalization of our banks was imminent? We are now a country of government-educated idiots that can't see the dangers facing us.
U.S. House May Include Surtax on Wealthy in Health-Care Package House Ways and Means Committee members are likely to propose a surtax on high-income Americans to help pay for an overhaul of the health-care system, according to people familiar with the plan. Are you beginning to get the picture here? Tax those who work hard and earn income to pay for those who don't.
Unemployment Worse with Stimulus than Without Unemployment hit 9.5 percent in June, according to the Department of Labor, putting the figure 2.5 percent higher than the White House had predicted it would be if a government stimulus spending program went into place. Moreover, the new figure is nearly one percent higher than where the White House said it would be without any stimulus spending at all. I have been telling you this for months. That's change you can believe in?
Higher minimum wage coming soon Federal wage floor will rise to $7.25 an hour on July 24. Hike will be felt in 29 states. Can the job market handle it? This is a definite way to lose more jobs in this country.
Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much. "I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN's John King. It took him this long to realize this?
White House Won't Reveal How Much Michelle Obama's European Vacation Cost Taxpayers America may be in the midst of a deep recession, and the nation may be facing unprecedented deficit spending and debt, but the White House will not reveal the cost to taxpayers of the European vacation that first lady Michelle Obama and the president's two daughters, Malia and Sasha, took last month. Openness and transparency turns to cover-up and deceit.
This person has no idea what they are voting for.
How's the stimulus working for you so far? Well now. Our economy is really lunging forward, isn't it? What a ride! Are you holding on? We're billions of dollars further in debt (trillions?) and the economy is still stagnant. TARP, the stimulus bill, massive debts our children and grandchildren will have to pay .. and what has this all brought us? Banks aren't lending, businesses aren't hiring - let along expanding - and consumers aren't buying. Oh, to be sure, the malls are crowded. Turn up the thermostats and see how long that lasts. Those aren't shoppers, they're just your neighbors trying to stay cool while watching the latest absurd teen fashion and freak shows. In the meantime … step outside and smell the stimulus. It's really doing the job, isn't it? Yup. Government always knows best … especially when it comes to spending our money. The people who made this decision will stand for reelection next year. You will look at the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and tell yourself that 434 of those rascals just have to go. Every one except yours. The rascals know this. They're not worried.
Another stimulus will have same result as first Barack Obama on May 23, 2009: "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN: "You know, the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?" The first stimulus failed and he wants to pour more of our money into another folly. "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was right.
Missing Text In The Cap And Tax Bill Rep. Joe Barton mentioned it was unprecedented to have such a mechanism (allowing bill-writers to insert language to be determined after the law was approved) in a bill up for final passage. Barney Frank explained that the placeholder in the cap and trade bill apparently will deal with regulations of financial derivatives market associated with reducing carbon emissions. Let's vote now and make up the details later. That seems to be the philosophy of the political hacks in Washington.
Ants and Jellyfish Take Over the World A single mega-colony of ants has colonized much of the world. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. Japan fears massive jellyfish invasion this year Japanese researchers monitoring the activity of giant jellyfish in Chinese waters are warning of a potentially historic and catastrophic invasion this year. The ants are going to rule on land, the jellyfish are going to rule in the water. We are surrounded.
"…most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help thinking that I was watching a form of treason -- treason against the planet. To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial, you need to know about the grim turn taken by the latest climate research." Is he referring to the latest climate research that Comrade Obama silenced? There you have it, if you are against the climate change, cap-and-trade legislation, you are immoral. These political hacks certainly have a high opinion of their fraudulent cause.
Gambia President Cures Aids On Thursdays Welcome to Gambia. Land of sun, sea, sand and a president who cures Aids. But only on Thursdays. Asthma sufferers can also be cured, but only on a Saturday.
John Stossel: ABC DON'T KNOW JACKO John Stossel is telling his own network "Give me a break!" after it pulled his health-case insurance segment off the air to give more time to the death of Michael Jackson.
Chickens could power hydrogen cars A team of university scientists have claimed that the future of automotive hydrogen storage lies in birds, or, to be precise - chickens. It has been estimated that it would currently take a 75-gallon capacity chicken feather tank to power a car for around 300 miles. This means that more food will be taken away from the food supply. Where is PETA on this one?
Polar bear expert barred by global warmists Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views "are extremely unhelpful." He is barred from participating in the global warming conference. Al Gore, to promote his global warming scam, claims that the polar bears are dying off. The polar bear population has actually doubled in the last 50 years. So, the polar bear expert has been forced to shut up and go away, leaving Al Gore as the official global warming polar bear expert.
Feds Go Door-to-Door Seizing Guns A woman bought four brand-new weapons; they found out about it and went to take them away. Soon they will find a way to dispose of the Second Amendment, and then they can confiscate guns like FDR confiscated gold in 1933.
Michael Jackson's Individuality Michael Jackson was as weird as he could be but he was profoundly, because of his weirdness, an individual. He wasn't a group member; he defined individuality. Whether you like his style or not, you have to admit that he was not afraid to be an individual, which more closely aligns him with the individualistic thinking of our founding fathers than the anti-individual group mentality attitude associated with Barack Obama.
New-vehicle sales in June fell 28% from a year earlier. The automobile companies are being run by the government. What do you expect?
Cap & Tax Bill: Follow the Money and Pork They secured the vote of one Ohioan, veteran Democratic Representative Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, the old-fashioned way. They gave her what she wanted; $3.5 billion in taxpayer money. If they paid $3.5 billion for one vote from Marcy Kaptur, how much did it cost to get other recalcitrant members of Congress to go along with this farce?
Cap and Tax Bill Details Every new home will have to meet California's building codes. Upon enactment, this bill will demand a 30% increase in energy efficiency for new construction. Two years after the bill is enacted, it will require an additional 50% improvement in energy efficiency. The bill imposes new mandatory regulations and civil penalties for homebuilders. If your state refuses to accept the stringent and costly California building codes, the federal government may assess penalties. The bill allows for "consensus-based" codes to supplant those outlined in the bill. Translation: As soon as you've invested your hard-earned money to comply with the bill's mandates, the rug could get pulled from underneath you on a political whim. All home sales are conditioned upon an energy audit and a new energy rating assessment and energy labeling program for your home that's outlined in the bill. Your home will be subjected to a new energy rating assessment and energy labeling program that will penalize you for older windows, original fixtures, and dated appliances. Before you can sell the property you will have to modernize it, according to Comrade Obama's standards, with the proper kind of windows and drains, even update that old microwave oven that's not energy efficient, or you may not be able to sell the house until you make these improvements. As a result, the value of your home will plummet. It's all about power. These are people who seek power for reasons other than to serve. They seek to rule.
Court rules for Franken in Senate fight The Minnesota Supreme Court ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race. This is just like Iran where Ahmadinejad got more votes after the recount.
Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill? The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message to a staff researcher on March 17: "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision." This guy was told don't talk about it and they threatened his job. Thuganomics strikes again. This was supposed to be the most transparent administration ever. Yet as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the Waxman-Markey bill, the largest tax increase in U.S. history on 100% of Americans, an attempt was made to suppress a study shredding supporters' arguments.
Pelosi Will Not Allow Five-Day Review for Health Care House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) will not give the public a week to review the final text of a health-care reform bill before it is voted on later this year. This despite the fact that Lord Obama promised that all legislation will be up for five days on one of his websites where everybody could read it. We are dealing with extreme statist autocrats and they don't care what Obama promised.
CanadaCare sends baby to US for treatment Canada does not have the capacity to deal with the demand for neo-natal intensive care for premature births, the single-payer system sent the critically ill child to the United States for treatment. ObamaCare: Coming soon to a healthcare facility near you.
Obesity Magazine: Men Make Their Women Fat Obesity Magazine, who would subscribe to this? This is one magazine that, if you read it, it would be for the articles as you would probably not want to look at the pictures. Can you imagine the centerfold? That's too scary for me.
Senate Democrats Sit Through Pledge of Allegiance Not a single Democrat lawmaker stood during the Pledge.
Michael Jackson's Father, Joe Jackson, Plugs His Own Record Company He didn't waste any time making a commercial plug at his first appearance, only three days after his son's death. This guy is loaded with class, all of it low.
"We felt it was nice to recognize a valedictorian, but those other kids were so close," said James Spanbauer, head of Niagara Falls High School. And we wonder why kids graduating from government schools are not prepared for the real world. In the real world, close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. Government school idiocy strikes again!
California lawmaker: Conservatives on talk radio are 'terrorists' So said the Speaker of California's Assembly in an interview published at the Los Angeles Times. If you dare to speak out against the state, you are now a terrorist. The thought police will be at your door soon to escort you to the reeducation camp.
Obama Misery Index Eclipses That Of W. Bush Lord Obama continues to set new records. Is that "hope and change" kicking in yet?
Sounds like Carter all over again: Iran holds British Embassy workers Eight British embassy employees in Tehran have been arrested in a sharp escalation of the diplomatic row between Iran and the UK. Obama is Carter II.
Representative Bachmann Refuses To Fill Out 2010 Census Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times that she and her family will not be fully filling out the 2010 census forms. Bachmann, a Republican, said her family will only be indicating the number of people in the household, because "the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that." She is correct!
House has moment of silence for Jackson The House of Representatives paused during debate on a climate change bill today to rise for a moment of silence in tribute to singer Michael Jackson. Did they do the same thing for Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson, or any number of other notable celebrities?
Couple accused of assault using Cheetos A couple arrested on domestic assault charges Sunday had an unusual choice of alleged weaponry -- Cheetos. We might need to look into legislation to control the possession of Cheetos.
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket Supporting this is somehow doing the "right thing?"
Cap-and-trade scam will spend billions of dollars not to cut down trees in other countries If a tree falls in Brazil, it will, in fact, be heard in the U.S. - at least if a little-noticed provision in the pending climate-change bill in Congress becomes law. The law will pay companies billions of dollars not to chop down trees around the world, as a way to reduce global warming.
If We Were Serious About Global Warming If we were serious about global warming, we would find a way to accurately measure the temperature in the earth's troposphere, which is supposed to be warming at a rate greater than that of the earth's surface. If we were serious about global warming, we would care that of the 1,221 temperature measuring stations in the United States, only 11% meet ideal specifications, and are free from factors that interfere with taking accurate temperature readings. If we were serious about global warming, our legislators would pass a climate bill that actually did something about the climate. If we were serious about global warming, the years of overwhelming propaganda from politicians and the media alike would have resulted in a society that cares more about the health of the environment than they do about their portable music devices. It hasn't. Survey Says: Americans Would Choose iPod Over Planet If we were serious about global warming, our eco-friendly cars would actually be...you know...eco-friendly. They aren't. The Not-Quite-Green Toyota Prius If we were serious about global warming, we'd have a series of televised debates on the issue, outlining the facts and the science, then leave it to the American people to decide if it really is an issue, and what to do about it. Al Gore Refuses To Dignify Debate: "It's Not A Matter Of Theory" We don't care about accurately measuring the temperature. We don't care that our "solutions" do nothing to combat the problem. We don't care enough to sacrifice even our most inessential modern comforts. And no one is really willing to convince us that we should. Global Warming continues to be a politically motivated scam.
Change In Ice Ages Not Caused By CO2 Around 1.2 million years ago, a shift in global climate began that caused a change in the timing of the alternating warm and cold periods-called interglacials and glacials-that have persisted during the Pleistocene Ice Age. Prior to that time, ice age glacial periods lasted about 40,000 years but since ~700,000 years ago ice-age cycles have lasted for around 100,000 years.
CO2 is not a pollutant. On the contrary, carbon dioxide makes crops and forests grow faster. CO2 is merely a trace atmospheric gas. Added CO2 increments have less effect. The effect of additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is limited because CO2 absorbs only certain wavelengths of radiant energy. As the radiation in that particular wavelength band is used up, the amount left for absorption by more of the gas is reduced. Anthropogenic warming hasn't happened. If greenhouse gases were responsible for global temperature increases in recent decades, atmospheric physics require that higher levels of our atmosphere would show greater warming than lower levels. This did not happen during the 1978-1998 period of 0.3 degrees Celsius warming. Warming precedes CO2 increases. A full 900,000 years of ice core temperature records and carbon dioxide content records show CO2 increases follow increases in Earth's temperature instead of leading them.
The FED has made credit guarantees equal to $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the USA Gross Negligence at the Federal Reserve. First-term (anti-bailout candidate) Democrat Alan Grayson questions Elizabeth Coleman, Inspector General of the Federal Reserve. The issue is oversight of the Fed's ever-expanding balance sheet.
New Hampshire woman, RIAA settle lawsuit A New Hampshire woman has settled with the RIAA. Mavis Roy was accused of downloading. She said she didn't own a computer. She won't pay anything.
South Carolina governor's e-mail The lovesick governor has his e-mails published.
A Romanian teen died while using Twitter. She was using her laptop in the bathtub. She was electrocuted when she accidentally dropped the laptop into the water.
Obama and all members of congress to be exempt from the wonderful Obamacare plan As the U.S. Office of Personnel Management notes, Members of Congress "enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country." According to page 114 of the Kennedy bill, a similar array of choices would not be available to other Americans in the future. Instead, they would be shunted into health insurance plans under the straightjacket of whatever the government decides is a "basic" plan. Why would they want to be exempt from such a wonderful plan?
Obama's Health Care Infomercial Obama talked around the issue. He said that when it comes to his family, he "always wants them to get the very best of care." Translation: What's good enough for you is not good enough for Obama. The Imperial Federal Government Will Decide If You Deserve Medical Treatment. Audience member Jane Sturm: "My mother is now over 105. But at 100, the doctors said to her, 'I can't do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.' I said, 'Go for it.' She said, 'Go for it.' But the specialist said, 'No, she's too old.' But when the other specialist saw her and saw her joy of life, he said, 'I'm going for it.' That was over five years ago. My question to you is: Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who is elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?" Obama: "I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's 'spirit.' Uh, that would be, uh, a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that, uh, say that, uh, we are going to provide good quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know -- and your mom know -- that you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off, uhh, not having the surgery, but, uhh, taking the painkiller." Translation: "Your mother should have died five years ago, lady. She would have been better off taking that painkiller." Obama says we "have to have rules." Obama is the President, not a king or a ruler. He and his rules should not be deciding whether you get necessary surgery or just a painkiller because you are too old and need to just go home and die. This is your healthcare future with Obamacare. If you are old, take your painkillers and go home to die.
Massachusetts taxpayers are paying $2 million a month to house homeless people in motels The plunder continues.
With summer upon us, how many green vacationers' fancies will turn to thoughts of nudism? Going without clothes on beaches and other vacation spots is commonly called naturism - a description that implies helping the planet, as some practitioners claim to be doing. I don't care how these nut jobs claim this will help the planet, I don't want to see Nancy Pelosi naked.
Quality of Medical Care to Decline Under Obama Plan OBAMA: "What I've suggested is is that we have a -- a commission that helps -- made up of doctors, made up of experts, that helps set best practices." The doctors and experts will be paid for by Obama. The doctors and experts are going to be dependent on Obama for their income. So of course they're going to have to follow the orders of the all powerful Lord Comrade Obama. You're going to get a board full of bureaucrats deciding what medical care that you get. And it's not going to be based on the quality of care. It's going to be based on what they think it is worth spending on you. If they think you're not worth spending enough government money on to find out what's wrong with you, they won't. If they don't think you're worth spending enough money on to cure, then they're not going to give you the treatment that you need. The Imperial Federal Government will be playing doctor. OBAMA: "I have to tell you that this is an area where people have made some pretty compelling arguments to me, that if we want to have a system that drives down costs for everybody, then we've gotta have healthier people not opt out of the system. I think my thinking on the issue of mandates has evolved." Comrade Obama has "evolved" on mandates. There will be fines for individuals who choose not to sign up for mandated government health care. Here is a logical question: Will Obama's health care plan work as well as his stimulus plan? The "hope and change" doesn't seem to be working with the economy.
Barney Frank and New York Representative Anthony Weiner have sent a letter to the heads of Fannie and Freddie exhorting them to lower lending standards for condo buyers. For the second time he wants the banks to relax condo loan rules while more and more foreclosures are taking place, and all the while Barney Frank and Chris Dodd deny that they had anything to do with the existing problem! They must think the voters are idiots. Well, perhaps they are as they did vote for these political hacks who now want to offer more of what got us in trouble in the first place.
Obama Is Running A "Gangster" Government Marxist agents in the media are always attacking Congresswoman Bachmann's patriotism. They have called her "dangerous and crazy"; this is a tactic that was used to silence anyone that dissented communism in the Soviet Union. They were eventually arrested, exiled to Siberia, imprisoned, re-educated and drugged. This is the "change" that is coming.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admits affair He has resigned his position as chair of the Republican Governor's Association. "I've let down a lot of people, and that's the bottom line," he said. At the end of his political career, will there be a Mark Sanford Library and Massage Parlor? I believe Clinton has one.
A mother is out of jail after being charged with leaving her 4-month-old twins locked in a hot car in 90 degree weather while she shopped at a Wal-Mart.
Arizona Cooling: Longest stretch of days below 100 degrees since 1913 Global Warming strikes again!
US Naval Academy Grads Disarmed To Protect Obama Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis are being told in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all "ceremonial swords" and anything else "that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screeners" for Friday's outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by President Barack Obama. Is Comrade Obama paranoid?
Government at work: $7.4 million of taxpayer money spent on a Chinese Golden Monkey exhibit Newsflash: The monkeys aren't coming. Chinese decided they don't want to send the monkeys. This is California. They claim to be broke but spent $7.4 million on monkeys that are not showing up. What happened to the firefighters and the teachers? In the minds of government hacks, the monkeys were apparently more important.
President Obama tried to rekindle some of campaign enthusiasm that swept him into office last November. Obama said those "here in Washington who've grown accustomed to sky-is-falling prognoses and the certainties that we cannot get this done, I have to repeat and revive an old saying we had from the campaign: 'Yes, we can.'" I have a few more that you probably won't hear: "Yes we can" make the dumb masses react positively to another focus-group based sloganeering campaign. "Yes we can" take control of another 20% of the American economy. "Yes we can" gain even more control over you by controlling your access to health care. "Yes we can" ration health care. "Yes we can" stifle innovation in health care for the rest of time. "Yes we can" create long waiting lines for seeing a specialist. "Yes we can" make it seem as if there are only two MRI units in the entire nation. "Yes we can" successfully ignore the private sector's role in health care. "Yes we can" help to bury the people who die because their access to health care was limited due to their age. "Yes we can" run your health care like we've run Social Security and Medicaid. "Yes we can" fool most of the people in this country most of the time. Up next: The slogan "Change we can believe in."
Public Option To Cut Health Costs? Medicare's Record Says Dream On Here are the details: The results are clear: Since 1970 - even without the prescription drug benefit - Medicare's costs have risen 34% more, per patient, than the combined costs of all health care in America apart from Medicare and Medicaid, the vast majority of which is purchased through the private sector. Since 1970, the per-patient costs of all health care apart from Medicare and Medicaid have risen from $364 to $7,119, while Medicare's per-patient costs have risen from $368 to $9,634. Medicare's costs have risen $2,511 more per patient. This healthcare issue isn't about your health or making it more affordable, it is all about increasing the power of political hacks.
Mike Huckabee on the Iran elections
CBS 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW - WAS OBAMA HIGH?
Street View catches mugging on camera Two Dutch brothers were caught on Google Street View mugging a 14-year-old. The victim alerted police to the photo. One brother confessed.
$1.92 million verdict in piracy case She's been ordered to pay $1.92 million or $80,000 each for 24 songs.
Yes We Can! Get arrested wearing Obama shirts
Gay penguin dads in German zoo hatch their first chick Z and Vielpunkt, two male Humboldt penguins at Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo, are the proud new parents of a healthy penguin chick.
We take you to the town of Amherst in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts. They have a July 4th parade. The parade is privately run so by law, the group can limit who participates. If someone wants to carry a political sign they need to meet with parade committee officials to ensure that it keeps within the spirit of the parade. "There's no question they didn't want political signs." But Select Board chairwoman Stephanie J. O'Keeffe said "they are willing to work with people." Translation: If you have a political sign that projects a political position that the committee agrees with, you can march in the parade. This certainly isn't the spirit of the 4th of July and the principles on which our country was founded.
45 Million Americans Lack Health Insurance? We have 300 million Americans. Subtract the 45 million - 15 percent of us - with no health insurance. That leaves 255 million Americans, or 85 percent, with it. Larry Elder cites his 26-year-old nephew who buys all the latest gadgets but doesn't want to spend $100 a month on insurance. Many people simply view health insurance as "a low priority." Nearly half of the 45 million fall in the category of his 26-year-old nephew. He smokes cigarettes, dates, eats out, goes to movies and, like all young people, lives through his cell phone. With a slight change in priorities, he could afford health insurance, the cost of which at his age and health starts at about $100 a month. Where is the crisis? There is no crisis.
City: Workers Must Wear Underwear A Florida city has written common sense into its employee dress code: Wear underwear to work. How are they going to check on underwear? It would seem that to prove you're wearing underwear you would have to wear it outside your normal attire which is also against the regulations. So, how are they going to police this? Idiocy in Florida government strikes again.
Nude neighbor leads to lewd arrest A Brooksville, FL woman showed her displeasure with neighbors by walking around her yard with no clothes on, showing everything until she was finally arrested. I guess she doesn't work for the city.
Did you know? The FCC can search your Wi-Fi gear We're surrounded by wireless gizmos -- cell phones, cordless phones, Wi-Fi networks -- day and night and at home and at work. But did you know the FCC can enter your home whenever it would care to in order to inspect all that gear? And they don't need a search warrant to do so. The original act that allowed the searches dates back to 1934 and its constitutionality has never been seriously tested in courts -- and the world of wireless is a far different beast than it was when only the occasional citizen owned a CB or a ham radio and wanted to broadcast from his car or apartment. Now, just about everything we use on a daily basis is seemingly subject to regulation by the FCC.
Obamanomics We cleared a $1 trillion deficit in 2007, a $5 TRILLION deficit in 2008 and are on course to clear a $9 TRILLION deficit this year. The US has a MAJOR debt problem. Including future social security and Medicare expenses we owe $65 TRILLION. Because we live in a world in which the words, "billion" get thrown around with too much ease, I'd like to put that number into perspective. Let's say you have a stack of $1,000 bills. $1 million would be a stack eight inches high. $1 billion would be a stack 800 feet high (think the Washington Monument). And $1 trillion would be a stack 142 miles high. Total US debt, if laid on its side, would be a stack of $1,000 stretching more than 1/3 of the way around the earth. The US monetary base has doubled in the last year. We owe $65 trillion in liabilities. The US government could tax every company and every American 100% of their annual incomes AND NOT PAY THIS OFF. The Feds will have to inflate this mess away. And they've got a master money printer Ben Bernanke overseeing this situation. This accurately depicts your "hope and change."
Senators Want To Grill Wireless Carriers, Manufacturers Lawmakers say they want to determine whether "exclusivity agreements" between mobile handset makers and wireless carriers "are restricting consumer choice." Why is this a concern of the government? There are many cell phone carriers thus presenting an abundance of consumer choices. One thing is certain: If government gets involved, look for your costs to increase and quality of service to decline.
Judge: Reasonable Consumer Would Know "Crunchberries" Are Not Real On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased "Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries" because she believed it contained real fruit. The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said "berries" were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls, and that although the product did contain some strawberry fruit concentrate, it was not otherwise redeemed by fruit. She sued, on behalf of herself and all similarly situated consumers, some of whom may believe that there are fields somewhere in our land thronged by crunchberry bushes. This woman probably believes in the Crunchberry Beast as well. Remember, these idiots vote. Here is the solution to these types of frivolous lawsuits: A loser pays system.
Hope and Change: Industrial activity dips more than expected in May Industrial production tumbled a larger-than-expected 1.1 percent in May as the recession crimped demand for a wide range of manufactured goods including cars, machinery and household appliances. How is that Obama hope and change working for you?
Back from Brink? Credit Card Defaults Soar to Record U.S. credit card defaults rose to record highs in May, with a steep deterioration of Bank of America Corp's lending portfolio, in another sign that consumers remain under severe stress. And we have Biden running around saying, "Well, we all guessed wrong on the stimulus." Guessed wrong? The Messiah and his Vice-President are guessing? Obama told us he had all the answers. He promised the country! He didn't tell us he was guessing. Are they guessing wrong with socialized medicine? Are they guessing wrong on cap and trade? How is that Obama stimulus working for you? Hope and change?
Stimulus program fraught with waste The Obama administration's stimulus program is fraught with waste and incompetence -- evidenced by a turtle crossing in northern Florida that will cost more than $3 million and a snafu in which thousands of Social Security checks went out to people who had died.
Obama plan would give government new powers to seize key companies The Obama administration will propose the most significant new regulation of the financial industry since the Great Depression.
Obama blocks list of visitors to White House Despite President Obama's pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public.
Obama pitched his healthcare reform scam to the AMA He got booed. Kennedy's health-care bill would cost $1 trillion over a decade. Obama outlined a series of steps to lower current costs and raise taxes to pay for an overhaul of the health care system. His actions would realize almost $1 billion over the next 10 years in cost reductions. More proof that Obama is economically ignorant.
700,000 people call digital TV hot line Nearly 700,000 people called a federal hot line this week, confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday. Remember, these idiots vote.
Biden says 'everyone guessed wrong' on jobs number "Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made..." No, not everyone, Joe; just the people whom you relied upon to give you estimates that you wanted to hear, rather than those based on reality. Look for this to happen with their healthcare estimates as well. In Washington, they don't care about the costs, either human or monetary. They care about the power, nothing more. Power is the motivating factor behind government health care. These politicians know that when they control your healthcare they control you. All too many Americans are eager to give themselves to the government in return for healthcare. How sad.
The tax would be automatic, regardless of whether there was personal use. The IRS is weighing a proposal to deem one-quarter of employees' use of work cell phones as personal use and therefore subject to tax as a fringe benefit. The Looter-In-Chief strikes again.
Panic Alert: We're All Going To Die in Next "Few Billion" Years Our solar system has a potentially violent future. New computer simulations reveal a slight chance that a disruption of planetary orbits could lead to a collision of Earth with Mercury, Mars or Venus in the next few billion years.
San Francisco: $100 Fines for Throwing Out Food Scraps Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine. The legislation calls for every residence and business in the city to have three separate color-coded bins for waste: blue for recycling, green for compost and black for trash. Failing to properly sort your refuse could result in a fine. "Grease-stained pizza boxes?" What if your pizza box is not-grease stained?
Obama Ousts AmeriCorps' IG Who Investigated Friend He was axed following a probe into misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group headed by an Obama supporter. It looks like the letter and spirit of the law Congress passed last year to try to safeguard the independence of Inspectors General from the heavy hand of the executive branch that it's supposed to oversee might have been circumvented. The Obama administration fired the inspector general of AmeriCorps overnight, and in the process, broke the law.
Obama Administration Says Some Detainees Overseas Are Being Mirandized -- and Bush Did It, Too Miranda rights come from the 1966 Supreme Court ruling Miranda v. Arizona. They are a way to protect a suspect's Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. These Miranda right do not apply to combatants. However, if the world is certain that Islamic terrorist goons have Geneva rights, let's provide them with those rights. Under the Geneva Convention, enemy combatants dressed in civilian clothes can be summarily executed. No Miranda rights are necessary. "You have the right to stand up against this wall. We have the right to put a slug in you. Stand by for your rights." Problem solved.
Barack Obama - Our Historically Challenged President In his speech last week in Cairo, President Obama proclaimed he was a "student of history." But despite Barack Obama's image as an Ivy League-educated intellectual, he lacks historical competency, in areas of both facts and interpretation. This first became apparent during the presidential campaign. Candidate Obama proclaimed then that during World War II his great-uncle had helped liberate Auschwitz, and that his grandfather knew fellow American troops that had entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. Both are impossible. The Americans didn't free either Nazi death camp.
With over 1,300 companies selling health insurance plans, it's hard to make the argument that more competition is needed? Government-run health insurance would simply kill the private insurance market and force the majority of Americans onto the government plan. Obama is not trying to ruin our economy. He is trying to change it to a government based economy because he believes that government is great and the solution for everything. This doesn't make him bad, it just makes him wrong.
Household Wealth in U.S. Decreased by $1.3 Trillion U.S. household wealth fell in the first quarter by $1.3 trillion, extending the biggest slump on record, as home and stock prices dropped. Net worth for households and non-profit groups decreased to $50.4 trillion, the lowest level since 2004.
Smoker-in-chief hails tobacco regulation No more "light" cigarettes or candy-flavored smokes. Bigger, scarier warning labels. Fewer ads featuring sexy young smokers. The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would bring down the full force of the government's regulatory hammer on the tobacco industry.
Lawmaker calls on CBS to fire Letterman New York legislator joins NOW, Palin in condemning comic's vile joke about governor's young daughter. They fired Don Imus and his joke wasn't prewritten on cue cards.
What's the Difference Between God and Obama? They actually have something in common. What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama. God gives you freedom to live your life as you choose. God's plan to save us is actually written down for people to read.
Obama: Where have all his records gone? Footprints of president's own history either vanish or remain covered up. While nearly 400,000 concerned citizens demand President Obama present his elusive "long-form" birth certificate, more than a dozen other documents remain unreleased or otherwise blocked from the public eye. Numerous documents which have yet to be surrendered include the following. Obama kindergarten records. Punahou School records. Occidental College records. Columbia University records. Harvard Law School records. University of Chicago scholarly articles. Passport. Birth certificate. So much for "transparency."
Obama's New CEO of GM: "I Know Nothing About Cars" Edward E. Whitacre Jr. built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career. By his own admission, he becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. knowing nothing about the auto industry. WHITACRE: "I don't know anything about cars. I do know about business and I know about big business. And, you know, employees and all that sort of thing." This sounds like the solid business philosophy of government.
100% Increase In The Price Of Oil Under Obama's Leadership They voted for this guy and it's not going to be long before the full impact on the US economy will be understood. By the way, where is all of the screaming similar to what was going on in the media when the "evil" George Bush was in the White House and prices went through the roof?
Penn Jillette: Live Free or Die - the Free State Project
Rock musician Ted Nugent discusses his views on the Second Amendment
China Requires Censorship Software on New PCs China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out what the government deems to be "unhealthy information" from the Internet. Coming soon to the United States of America.
Stroke patient dies after ambulance driver clocks off A stroke patient has died after an ambulance driver allegedly refused to work beyond his shift and clocked off part-way through a 999 journey. The driver was 15 minutes over time when he diverted to his depot instead of carrying on direct to the hospital. This is what happens when you deal with government workers. It's only a matter of time before this "quality" of healthcare comes to your town.
Read what a Canadian doctor has to say about the Canadian healthcare system. Governments always ration care by making you wait. That can be deadly. Everyone in Canada is covered by a "single payer" -- the government. But Canadians wait for practically any procedure or diagnostic test or specialist consultation in the public system.
Democrats Considering "Lifestyle Taxes" To Pay For Nationalized Health Care It's not news that the Democrats want to tax things like soda and beer to help pay for the massive national health care entitlements they're proposing. And critics of those taxes have routinely pointed out how these taxes are little more than an attempt to control how we live our lives. Now the Democrats are actually referring to the taxes as "lifestyle taxes." Which is a blatant admission of what the real intent here. Government control. I told you this was coming. Where does "lifestyle" stop and necessity begin?
Scientists: Think Twice About "Green" Transport You worry a lot about the environment and do everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint -- the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive dangerous climate change. So you always prefer to take the train or the bus rather than a plane, and avoid using a car whenever you can, faithful to the belief that this inflicts less harm to the planet. Well, there could be a nasty surprise in store for you, for taking public transport may not be as green as you automatically think, says a new US study. Its authors point out an array of factors that are often unknown to the public. These are hidden or displaced emissions that ramp up the simple "tailpipe" tally, which is based on how much carbon is spewed out by the fossil fuels used to make a trip. Rather than take light rail, it is probably less carbon damaging to drive your SUV into town. The emissions of greenhouse gas that drives dangerous climate change is a hoax. It's factually incorrect. There are so many hoaxes out there. These green jobs Obama talks about and green technology. Your SUV is probably less damaging than public transportation.
New Welfare Program: Climate bill to pay hundreds of dollars in rebates A new analysis predicts that low-income families will receive hundreds of dollars a year to help pay higher energy bills if Congress enacts the first-ever limits on the gases blamed for global warming.
Energy Department Fails its Own Energy Audit The department's inspector general recently released the results of an audit showing that the DOE has failed to run its own computer systems in an environmentally responsible manner. Incompetence of government strikes again!
Judge Rules Raids Violated Illegal Immigrants' Rights In New Haven, CT government officials thought it would be a good idea to issue ID cards to everyone, including illegal immigrants. Two days after the law goes into effect, federal agents conduct a raid and catch four illegal immigrants. The court says that the constitutional rights of these illegal immigrants have been violated. What rights? They are illegal.
With all the chaos going on in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling on more radical proposals to come out to help fix the tax system. Reports indicate that he would like to propose a 15 percent straight tax. He said straight tax, so maybe homosexuals don't have to pay any taxes. You never know. It's California and he is the Governator. There is a solution that would eliminate ALL income taxes. It's called the Fair Tax.
Rush Limbaugh Receives "Freedom of Speech Award" From Talkers Magazine
Celebuslut Britney Spears is at it again This should keep the American Idol mentality crowd excited for a while.
The government is continuing to encroach on freedoms more and more in the name of climate change. Case in point: An ordinance that went into effect June 1 stating if you sell your home in Austin, Texas and you fail to get a clean energy "green" audit, you will likely face criminal charges. Coming soon to your home and city.
White House Set to Appoint a Pay Czar The Obama administration plans to appoint a "Special Master for Compensation" (Pay Czar) to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines. How long will it be before the government needs to appoint a Czar Czar to monitor all of the czars? More government is never the solution.
Tax Would Move Microsoft Offshore Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world's largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama's plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies' foreign profits. "It makes U.S. jobs more expensive," Ballmer said in an interview. "We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S." Obama is causing us to lose US jobs, and Microsoft is saying so. Be aware that Comrade Obama has plans for an economic Berlin Wall. Any jobs caught trying to climb over the wall will be shot.
Private Corporation, and not government, to create 22,000 new jobs in 2009 As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opens about 150 new or expanded stores in the U.S. in 2009, the company expects to hire about 22,000 people for new positions. Those positions include plenty of cashiers and stock clerks, but the world's largest retailer will also be adding store managers, pharmacists and personnel workers.
A GOVERNMENT LICENSE TO DO TAXES? The IRS is working on new rules that could require paid tax preparers to be licensed in hopes of reducing mistakes and combating fraud. As if preparing your taxes every year isn't arduous enough as it is, the government now wants to become even more involved in the process. Here is another complication to the processes of the looting by our Imperial Federal Government. Keep in mind that IRS employees can't even do tax returns right, so who are they going to unearth to figure out whether private sector preparers can do it right or not? This means added costs to you the taxpayers. Tax preparers are going to have to spend money to meet the government requirements, and that money will be passed down to you, the taxpayers.
Government Education: $112,500 a year for a "chief inspiration officer" Public records show the University of Idaho is paying a Minnesota consultant who spends less than two weeks a month on the Moscow campus $112,500 to serve as its "chief inspiration officer."
Sonia Sotomayor's Official Questionnaire For any of you who are interested in reading it. Or, you can continue watching your American Idol reruns.
Gay Men's Brains Resemble Those of Straight Women The brains of gay men resemble those of straight women, according to research being published Tuesday that provides more evidence of the role of biology in sexual orientation. Can you believe people actually study this stuff?
GM to sell Hummer to Chinese company General Motors Corp. took a key step toward its downsizing, striking a tentative deal to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer. China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. said that it reached an agreement to acquire the brand from GM for an undisclosed amount. Will it make any difference to 'global warming' if Hummers are polluting in China as opposed to here in the U.S.? Don't answer that; just drink more green Kool-aid.
Michael Moore: GM's Bankruptcy Fills Me With Joy Moore blames GM for homelessness, alcohol abuse and divorce in his hometown in Michigan. Sloth Moore also suggested the Obama administration launch into a massive socialization of U.S. industry to build 'green' autos and bullet trains. To pay for it all, he suggests a $2 per gallon federal tax. So, when the price of gas increases due to taxes, blame Michael Moore and Comrade Obama, and their ilk. Remember, you will end up paying for their schemes one way or the other.
'Karl Marx must be smiling today' The Obama administration's bankruptcy bailout of General Motors Corp. Monday is the latest in a series of unprecedented government takeovers of private companies that some critics fear could lead to the Europeanization of the U.S. economy. "You've got government bureaucrats who are making decisions about what kind of car models are going to be produced, which plants are to be closed and how many dealerships to eliminate. You have in effect central planning of this industry. Karl Marx must be smiling today," said Phil Kerpen, policy director of Americans for Prosperity, a free-market think tank. "We've never seen this level of government control of the economy in peace time history."
Bloomberg: President Obama Lives 'On Budget, Too' No he doesn't! If he lived on a budget, he would stay home just like he is telling everyone else to do. "We must all sacrifice." Let's see Obama sacrifice and not take these personal junkets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks President Barack Obama's date night in New York last weekend was just peachy. Would a reasonable person, in a time of recession, spend almost one fourth of their annual income on a date night for dinner and a show? Why are "we the people" paying for Comrade Obama to gallivant around on non-government business?
Lawmakers Bill Taxpayers For TVs, Cameras, Lexus Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings spent $24,730 in taxpayer money last year to lease a 2008 luxury Lexus hybrid sedan. Ohio Rep. Michael Turner expensed a $1,435 digital camera. Eni Faleomavaega, the House delegate from American Samoa, bought two 46-inch Sony TVs. Rep. Howard Berman expensed $84,000 worth of personalized calendars for his constituents. Rep. William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, spent $2,793 on a Panasonic Toughbook laptop, which is marketed to the military, in September, about three months before he lost his re-election bid in a December runoff. A lawyer for Mr. Jefferson, who is facing an unrelated federal bribery trial, declined to comment. House members get a government expense allowance of $1.3 million to $1.9 million a year. Senators get $2.9 million to $4.5 million. When do these political hacks start to "sacrifice?"
Experts say cybersecurity plan lacks depth Obama's cybersecurity plans are under fire. Some say the reporting isn't detailed enough. Others claim the coordinator will have too little power, and too many supervisors. The saying "all chiefs and no Indians" comes to mind. Everybody wants to be a "supervisor." That's government's playbook, especially when there are political favors to return and more votes to purchase in upcoming elections.
The Commencement Speech - Neal Boortz
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Military turns to Twitter, Facebook The U.S. military is using Twitter and Facebook to roll out news. It's targeting those who look outside mainstream media for news.
A freeze warning for New York in June Temperatures are expected to fall into the mid-to-low 30s overnight, and a hard frost is likely as temperatures in colder areas approach freezing. It must be all that global warming.
Improving Education In The Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts? The Massachusetts Teachers Association offers professional development like "Lessons through Balloon Twisting" where each participant can learn to make at least two different balloon animals. Another like "Easy Tie-Dye" will "awe your friends and family" by creating a "groovy tie-dyed T-shirt." These are the people you put in charge of educating your children.
American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper "It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people." Rodina, the author, says that the American population was "dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture." This from the Russian Newspaper Pravda. Elections have consequences.
An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. The earth has been cooling for the past eight years. Yet, somehow the anti-capitalist environmentalist political hacks don't seem to believe that decreasing or increasing solar activity can have anything to do with the temperatures of the earth. That's OK; teachers can now make balloon animals in Massachusetts.
Obama Puts 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling GM It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism. But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry. Obama has appointed a 31-year-old young man who has never been in the automobile business to be responsible for dismantling the company and putting it back together as a functioning enterprise under the Looter-In-Chief Obama's tutelage. All the while Obama says he's not running the company. How is this guy qualified to dismantle and put back together General Motors? Nationalizing companies, raising taxes on hard working Americans and regulating banks is not the answer. By the way, I wonder if he ever learned to make balloon animals at Yale Law School.
Obamas Jet to New York and Taxpayers Pick Up Tab It supposedly cost 24 grand. "We all have to sacrifice." Obama and Michelle don't, but he is the Messiah. Whereas, Comrade Obama bashes CEO's for flying privately, shouldn't he be spending a little less of our money on a date night?
Obama Lifts Ban on Lobbyists! Back to Business as Usual Obama just threw away his ban on lobbyists in his administration. You can now bring lobbyists back to the Obama administration. Yet another campaign promise in the dumpster. Where's the "change?"
U.S. Justice Department rejects Georgia voter screening Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel presented her proposal to comb through state databases to detect ineligible voters who may not be U.S. citizens. The US Justice Department has rejected that program. The US Justice Department said you can't discriminate against illegals and you can't discriminate against the dead. The State of Georgia has been told by the US justice department that it cannot purge its voting rolls of illegals and people who are dead. You can't let all those illegal votes go to waste.
Quote "I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton
Quote The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. - President John F. Kennedy, April 27, 1961
Some people in our own country believe the American flag to be offensive Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors. When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.
Tenth Amendment Movement Aims to Give Power Back to the States Fed up with Washington's involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government's growing intrusion on their rights. At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look With budget deficits soaring and the economically ignorant President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax. Political hacks in Washington are considering the idea of a national sales tax. Not the FairTax. This is an additional tax on top of what you already pay. So much for another broken Obama promise of not raising taxes on 95% of US citizens.
Income tax revenue has dropped 44% since last year Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago - the biggest April drop since 1981. Income tax revenue dropped 44% from a year ago. Not to worry, the Imperial Federal Government will establish other methods to get more money out of you.
Biden Jokes About Breaking Obama's Teleprompter After the wind blows down the teleprompter of Vice President Biden at the Air Force Academy graduation he joked "what am I going to tell the President when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?" You know it's bad when your own Vice President makes fun of your dependency on teleprompters.
North Korea threatens to attack US, South Korean warships North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas' disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime's underground nuclear test. How will Obama handle this? He can ask the UN to write another stern letter.
Britain's CCTV Network to Track, Log All Car Journeys UK police are on the verge of a huge surveillance coup which will make 1984's telescreens look as dumb and benevolent as a corner-store CCTV rig. Britain's network of spy-cameras includes a fleet of Automatic Number Plate Recognition cams which read around 10 million license plates a day. Innocent people such as John Catt, for example. An anti-war demonstrator who has never been convicted of any crime, Catt was pulled by cops and "threatened under the Terrorist Act" after his car was marked for surveillance by the system. Catt is over 65 years old. "Show me your papers!"
Boy Scouts being trained to disarm and kill American citizens stokes fears of Hitler Youth Homeland Security and the FBI are behind the effort to indoctrinate and train the Boy Scouts to become tomorrow's Gestapo. "Our end goal is to create more agents," said April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent. Is this the literal creation of Hitler-Jugend style youth brigades designed to act as the front line for eventual programs of mass internment and gun confiscation in the advent of a national emergency? In Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth succeeded the Boy Scout movement. Hitler Youth training was militarized in comparison to the Boy Scout network, which was largely based around education. Boys aged fourteen and upwards, as well as a separate branch aged 10-14, were trained at preparatory schools to become future Nazi leaders. At its height in 1940, and after it had become mandatory to join, the Hitler Youth boasted no less than 8 million members.
Feds offer help with DTV transition Many are unready for the upcoming digital television transition. So, the government is subsidizing services to help owners set up their equipment. Where is it in the Constitution that the government is responsible for paying for upgrades in technology? I don't remember anyone getting free CDs when cassettes were overtaken by digital media.
Obama Set to Create A Cyber Czar to have Broad Powers President Obama is expected to announce that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks.
Californians revolt, slash governor's pay Schwarzenegger to cut 5,000 state jobs, deport illegals from prisons. The California Citizens Compensation Commission voted to slash pay for the governor, legislators and statewide officeholders by 18 percent. Thomas Jefferson said that we need a revolution every 20 years or so. We are long overdue.
Digital Billboards Erect Across America Demanding Obama To Show Birth Certificate!
Scientists have developed a battery that keeps its charge with air. The batteries are smaller and lighter than traditional ones. They also last 10 times longer. The cells are charged in a traditional way but as power is used or 'discharged' an open mesh section of battery draws in oxygen from the surrounding air. This oxygen reacts with a porous carbon component inside the battery, which creates more energy and helps to continually 'charge' the cell as it is being discharged. By replacing the traditional chemical constituent, lithium cobalt oxide, with porous carbon and oxygen drawn from the air, the cell is much lighter than current batteries.
Hard drive with Clinton-era data missing from National Archives Drive holds Social Security numbers, addresses of White House employees. An external hard drive that's believed to contain nearly 1TB of data -- some of it sensitive information -- from the Clinton Administration is missing from the U.S. National Archives and Recording Administration (NARA). And some people still want the Imperial Federal Government to control their healthcare and other aspects of their lives. How unsecure is that?
Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody's movements without obtaining search warrants. The court said police can mount GPS on cars to track people without violating their constitutional rights -- even if the drivers aren't suspects.
Teacher Tells Students to Plan Terror Attacks as a Project A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents. Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism. District 70 Superintendent Dr. Dan Lere said if a student, "actually did illustrate an act of terrorism that they might commit, let's say against the school, we've expelled students for that." How about firing an obviously incompetent teacher?
Instead on having an auto industry that is owned by the unions or the government or a combination of the two, with the government telling the auto companies what kind of cars to build, let's implement a sure fire business, non-government plan. First: Cancel the contract with UAW. Second: Let Chrysler build whatever it wants to meet customer demand. Translation: no café standards. Build jeeps, Dodge Ram pickup trucks and Dodge Charger automobiles. Build them and sell them. The café standards do not apply. If Americans want to buy jeeps and muscle cars and pickups, then make jeeps and muscle cars and pickups. You will sell them all without government. Chrysler would become one of the world's leading auto makers and leave the other car manufacturers in the dust. Alternatively, there is absolutely no hope for GM or Chrysler as long as the unions and the government have a powerful voice in these organizations. Despotic politicians depend on the ignorance of the American people to work their schemes and protect their positions of privilege and power. This hasn't "changed."
The aunt of the perpetrator is speaking out. She said, "He was a soft-spoken, gentle person who would do anything for anyone. Dave was super-smart, athletic, and a devoted friend." It's always the same old story. Someone attempts to commit a crime. The potential victim has a gun and the criminal gets dispatched to his eternal celestial dirt nap. Next, the criminal's relative steps forward to tell us that "he was a soft-spoken, gentle person." Go figure.
Montana Governor Signs New Gun Law The USA state of Montana has signed into power a revolutionary gun law. I mean REVOLUTIONARY. The State of Montana has defied the federal government and their gun laws. The fed now either takes them on and risks them saying the federal agents have no right to violate their state gun laws and arrest the federal agents that try to enforce the federal firearms acts. Montana could go to voting for secession from the union.
Massachusetts Rewarding Welfare Cases With Free Cars Governor Deval Patrick's free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out. Your tax dollars at work, or not really at work. Welfare is the antithesis of work.
Computer hard drive sold on eBay 'had details of top secret U.S. missile defense system' British researchers, studying discarded hard drives, found it. Up next: Your government controlled healthcare records to be auctioned on EBay.
Governor Files Anti-Gun Bill in the Bay State Governor Deval Patrick (D) filed legislation that would severely curtail the rights of gun owners in the Commonwealth. Among other things, this bill would: Limit firearm purchases to one per 30-day period; Require the private transfer of all firearms to be conducted through a federally licensed firearms dealer, and; Allow the Colonel of the Department of State Police to destroy surrendered firearms instead of auctioning them for sale. The bill entitled, "An Act to Reduce Firearm Violence," is in essence a repeat performance of Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1998. If you don't remember, Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1998 created some of the most confusing and ill-advised set of gun laws in the country. The vast majority of those new laws attacked lawful gun owners and did little, if anything, to address violent crime. Since enactment, the only result has been an 85% decrease in the number of lawfully licensed gun owners in Massachusetts and a dramatic increase in crime.
A Texas man lost $2,000 in a Nigerian Internet scam. However, the crime did not occur over the Internet. The man was approached by the scammer at a grocery store. Unadulterated stupidity.
Government and Taxes By Chet Motyka Chet writes his legislators with a brilliant analysis to remind them about the principles of fiscal responsibility.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan
How would Lieutenant Columbo handle this? Ah . . Sorry to bother you Mr. Obama, Sir. Excuse me Mr. Obama, I mean President Obama, Sir. Um . . I know you're busy, and important and stuff. I mean running the county is very important and -- ah -- I hate to bother you Sir. I will only take a minute. Ok Sir? See, I have these missing pieces that are holding me up, and I was wondering Sir, if you could take time out of your busy schedule and help me out. You know, no big deal, just some loose ends and things. Hey, you have a nice place here! The wife sees houses like this on TV all the time and says boy she wishes she had digs like this you know? Is that painting real? Really? Wow. I saw something like that in a museum once! Oh, sorry Sir. I didn't mean to get off the track. So if you could just help me out a minute and give me some details, I will get right out of your way. I want to close this case and maybe take the wife to Coney Island or something. Ever been to Coney Island Sir? No? I didn't think so... Well, listen, anyway, I can't seem to get some information I need to wrap this up. These things seem to either be "Not released" or "Not available." I'm sure it's just an oversight or glitch or something, so if you could you tell me where these things are -- I -- I have them written down here somewhere -- oh wait. Sorry about the smears. It was raining out. I'll just read it to you. Could you please help me find these things Sir? 1. Occidental College records -- Not released 2. Columbia College records -- Not released 3. Columbia Thesis paper -- "Not available" 4. Harvard College records -- Not released 5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released 6. Medical records -- Not released 7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- Not available 8. Your Illinois State Senate records -- Not available 9. Law practice client list -- Not released 10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released 11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released 12. Record of your baptism -- Not available Oh and one more thing Senator, I can't seem to find any articles you published as editor of the Harvard Law Review, or as a Professor at the University of Chicago. Can you explain that to me Sir? Oh but, hey -- listen! I know you're busy! If this is too much for you right now -- I mean -- tell you what. I'll come back tomorrow. Give you some time to get these things together, You know? I mean, I know you're busy. I'll just let myself out. I'll be back tomorrow. And the day after. . What's that Mr. President? Who wants to know these things? We the People of the United States of America ! You know, the ones who vote.
Man sues for $1 over right to wear skirt in public A man sued the New Orleans Police Department, claiming he was harassed by an officer who threatened to arrest him for wearing a black pinstriped skirt to municipal court.
More Americans oppose gun control than ever Amid a wave of publicity about school shootings and drug-related gun violence along the Mexican border, more Americans than ever oppose government efforts to regulate guns. A CNN poll conducted in April found that 39 percent of Americans wanted stricter gun control laws, down from 50 percent in 2000. Another 46 percent said the gun laws should stay as they are, while 15 percent said they should be loosened--up from 9 percent in 2000. When asked to identify the best way to reduce gun violence, 61 percent of Americans said stronger enforcement of existing laws, while 27 percent opted for stronger laws.
US-led strikes, clashes kill 100, mostly civilians Police in Afghanistan said that clashes and US-led air strikes against insurgents had killed 100 people, most of them civilians, in one of the deadliest battles in nearly eight years. Based on past practice in the media and holding Obama to the same standards as other presidents, this would make Obama a war criminal. Isn't it all supposed to be about fairness?
Messiah Cancels National Day of Prayer President Obama is distancing himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic prayer breakfast the next morning. Why would he go out of his way to do this? He's doing it on purpose. He's trying to irritate some people. He's asserting his authoritarian control. They say he prays privately. I have no doubt about it. The question is, who does he pray to? Does he pray to himself? He does, after all, have a messianic complex. A public prayer day event doesn't play a role in getting Comrade Obama what he wants. Obama will only spend time on events that will get him what he wants. In his mind, it's all about Obama The Messiah.
We Need a National Sports Czar? A group that studies sports in society is urging the Obama administration to step up the federal government's role in athletics, possibly with a Cabinet-level post. This group is called Sport in Society. They're based at Northeastern University in Boston. We know that Obama is pushing for a different system in the college football playoffs. We know he runs around doing his own brackets in the NCAA basketball tournament. And now, a sports cabinet post has been proposed by university people. We shouldn't be surprised, because once government starts taking things over, people who want that to happen are excited about it.
WHY WON'T OBAMA RELEASE THE PHOTOS? After the taxpayers spent $328,000 on pictures of Air Force One over Manhattan, and after hundreds of New Yorkers marked their shorts, Obama has decided that the photos will not be released to the public. This White House has been eager to release other photos, but why not these particular pictures? Here are two reasons: First: The Obama White House knows that those photos will be a constant reminder to the people of his free spending policies. Second: If the pictures are released someone will immediately duplicate them using Photoshop and dare you to tell the difference. This could prove to be even more embarrassing than the stunt itself.
Criminal Charges Against ACORN Raise Concerns About Its Partnership With Census Bureau Criminal charges filed in Nevada against ACORN, a liberal activist group that is under investigation in several other states for alleged voter registration fraud in 2008, have sparked increased concerns about the organization's partnership agreement with the U.S. Census Bureau to help recruit workers for the 2010 Census. ACORN has been charged with counterfeiting voter registrations. What percentage of voter registrations is unclear, but it's a tremendous number. And now they are going to be in charge of the US census.
Homeland Security Department Extremism Dictionary I don't like confiscatory taxation. That makes me an extremist.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "Americans do want to pay taxes for services. Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less." - Former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell Fact: According to the latest Gallup poll, 55% of Americans feel that big government is the biggest threat to the country. What are they putting in the water in Washington DC? Quote: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretext of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson Fact: Can you say "Economic Stimulus Plan"?
America 's 'November Revolution'
In the matter of swine flu -- and the single dumbest response to it yet -- first prize was about to go to the government of Egypt, which last week ordered a cull of the country's estimated 400,000 pigs, never mind that the disease, name notwithstanding, is mainly transmitted human-to-human. And then we have panicky Joe Biden, who unwittingly made the case against Amtrak ("I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now") until his handlers interceded. Who knew Mr. Biden was talking about himself when he warned last year that Barack Obama would be tested by crisis early in his presidency? In the world of government, this passes for reasonable thinking. Remember their motto: Never let a really good crisis go to waste.
More Than 40 Percent of the Human Race Does Not Have Freedom of the Press Coming soon to your neighborhood all in the name of "fairness."
What does a criminal illegal alien have to do to get deported in this country? Should we even have to ask this question? Illegal is illegal.
The U.S. tax code has made it "all too easy for a...small number of individuals and companies to abuse overseas tax havens, to avoid paying any taxes at all," the president said. "And it's a tax code that says you should pay lower taxes if you create a job in Bangalore, India, than if you create one in Buffalo, New York." Keep I mind that when a politician mentions "loophole," he is referring to an actual law that has been legally inserted into the tax code by politicians. There is between $10 and $13 trillion dollars of American wealth that have been sent overseas where those dollars can be free to work and produce wealth in places where tax treatment is more favorable. These dollars are fleeing tax tyranny and looking for freedom, much like people in East Berlin tried to get over that wall to find freedom in the west. The East German communists shot those people down in cold blood. Obama wants to do the same to your money. He's and his pals are erecting an economic Berlin Wall to keep your money from escaping their tyranny.
An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets: Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans). Word gets around about Heidi's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Detroit. By providing her customers' freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral. At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses. One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar. He so informs Heidi. Heidi then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since, Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs. Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community. The suppliers of Heidi's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers. Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the Government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers. Now, do you understand?
Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus Instead of grim warnings about global warming, EcoAmerica advises, talk about "our deteriorating atmosphere." Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up "moving away from the dirty fuels of the past." Don't confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like "cap and cash back" or "pollution reduction refund." Global warming, by any other name, is still a fraud.
Did Pentagon lose billions, pennies at a time? 40 years later, whistle-blower still unable to force accounting change. In 1969, Walter Davey found an error in the way defense contractors are paid. For 40 years, he's sought to have the problem fixed, to no avail. The error has cost taxpayers an estimated $10.8 billion. And some people want this same inept government to control your healthcare system.
How DHS defines who is a terrorist The U.S. Department of Homeland Security generated a memo defining dozens of additional groups - animal rights activists, black separatists, tax protesters, alternative media, even worshippers of the Norse god Odin - as potential "threats." The lexicon further points to those who oppose driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. "Anti-immigration extremism," the lexicon defines as "a movement of groups or individuals who are vehemently opposed to illegal immigration." If you oppose illegal activity, you are a terrorist.
Barbershop Bylaw Proposed - Government's Solution Is Always More Government The city would regulate barbershops and hair salons under a proposed ordinance. The plan comes after two high-profile crimes at barberships [SIC] (Reporter Mike Plaisance needs to learn to use spell check, or stay in school until he learns to spell) since February that included a shootout on Boston Road which killed a man. Councilor Bud L. Williams is proposing that all barbershops and hair salons apply for a city license within 90 days of the ordinance becoming effective. Apparently, a wild shootout occurred fueled by a drug debt at the All Stars Barbershop. How is a government license at a barbershop going to stop a drug related crime? Government's solution to everything: More pointless government regulation.
No more blaming Bush; It's all on Obama now In the span of a single week -- from the day Arlen Specter turned Democratic to the moment Congress passed the White House's budget blueprint and on through the opening of a spot on the Supreme Court -- President Obama crossed a fateful line: From now on, it's his country. Every president inherits a tangle of problems from his predecessor. War and recession, natural disaster and foreign crises. And for some undefined interval, new presidents argue that they should not be accountable for the troubles that arose on another's watch. But inevitably, responsibility shifts. And for Obama, that time has come.
8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000.
Obama's Supreme Court Criteria: Law and Justice Don't Matter Obama said this about the Supreme Court: "We need somebody who's got the empathy to recognize what it's like to be uh, a -- a -- a young teenaged mom. Uh, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled." We have now established the criteria for Obama's Supreme Court appointment: We need a teenaged single mother who is gay, who's a lesbian; who's poor; African-American; and disabled. Legal qualifications don't matter. Barack Obama in November 2008: "Sometimes we're only looking at academics or people who have been in the courts. If we can find people who have life experience and they understand what it means to be on the outside, what it means to have the system not work for them, that's the kind of person I want on the Supreme Court." This has nothing to do with justice, legal justice, or the law. But to Comrade Obama, those minor details don't matter.
Obama's ratings slide: press conference down 29% The telecast to mark Obama's 100th day in office was viewed by 28.8 million people, according to Nielsen. That's a 29% drop from the president's last press conference, on March 24, and a 42% fall since his first, on Feb. 9. Here's the president's last three primetime news events: Feb: 9: 49.5 million March 24: 40.4 million April 29: 28.8 million If this was a reality show, it would be cancelled.
100 Days, 100 Screw-ups for Obama "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them. This year's budget deficit: $1.5 trillion. (1500 Billion.) Asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million -- a whopping .0027%! "The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties." -- ABC News, 4/15 (Obama must be asleep in a cave somewhere. And they criticized other presidents for being "out of touch.") Obama bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London. "We are providing grants to states to help weatherize hundreds of thousands of homes, which will save the families that benefit about $350 each year. That's like a $350 tax cut." -- Obama, describing something that doesn't cut taxes. "The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government." -- Defense News, 2/19 (So much for the promised government transparency.) After saying he wouldn't have lobbyists in his administration, Obama made 17 exceptions in the first two weeks in office. Threatening to fire anyone the administration doesn't like from any company. On Earth Day, Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One to get to Iowa, burning more than 9,000 gallons of fuel. In the third sentence of his first speech as president, Obama said, "44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath." The correct number is 43, as Grover Cleveland served twice. The $49 million inauguration -- triple what taxpayers spent at Bush's first inauguration. Giving the Queen of England an iPod full of his own speeches. "The United States government has no interest in running GM. Your [GM] warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been, because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty." -- Obama
Michelle Obama Wears $540 Tennis Shoes to Event Feeding the Poor When you are the Chosen One's wife, you can't be seen feeding the poor in anything less.
Obama Wants To "Have A Serious Conversation" With Me "Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around ... let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation." - Barack Obama I'll contact the White House to see when the president would like to meet with me. The only problem is that I NEVER use a prompter.
New Wrinkle On Avoiding Jury Duty There are probably better ways to avoid jury duty than the approach recently taken by a Montana man. After Erik Slye, 36, received a jury notice earlier this year, he filed a notarized affidavit seeking to be excused from serving on a District Court panel in Gallatin County. The document, of course, did not sit well with court officials and led a judge to threaten to jail Slye. But after being summoned to court, Slye apologized for the affidavit and avoided being cited on a criminal failure to appear rap. And he also was excused from serving on a jury.
North Pole Sea Ice twice as thick as expected The research aircraft "Polar 5" today concluded its Arctic expedition in Canada. During the flight, researchers measured the current ice thickness at the North Pole and in areas that have never before been surveyed. The result: The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than scientists had suspected. Normally, newly formed ice measures some two meters in thickness after two years. "Here, we measured ice thickness up to four meters," said a spokesperson for Bremerhaven's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. At present, this result contradicts the warming of the sea water, according to the scientists. Global Warming strikes again. The political scam continues.
Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body Healthcare rationing coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Labor Secretary Ensures Illegal Aliens Get Paid Ensuring undocumented workers get paid and improving worker safety are two priorities for the Department of Labor. It's nice to see that one of the priorities of the Department of Labor is to support illegal activity.
House Adopts the Looter in Chief's Budget The only thought process that went into this record setting budget is "what can we spend and who gets to spend it." Deficits under Barack Obama, thanks to budgets like this, will rise to as much as $17 Trillion by the end of 2014. That's $17,000 Billion. Just last year, these same Democrats were whining about a $455 billion deficit.
Minnesota seeks ISP gambling block Minnesota asks ISPs to cut access to gambling sites, treading new legal ground. Look for even more government control of your communications.
Obama Outsources His Presidency He may come to regret letting Congress write his major legislation. What happens in a president's first 100 days rarely characterizes the arc of the 1,361 that follow. Jimmy Carter had a very good first 100 days. Bill Clinton did not. Still, a president would rather start well than poorly -- and Mr. Obama has a job approval of 63%. That leaves him tied with Mr. Carter, one point ahead of George W. Bush, and behind only Ronald Reagan's 67%. Four of the past six presidents had approval ratings that ranged between 62% and 67%, a statistically insignificant spread.
Bank Nixes Use of Social Networking Sites in Hiring Process Many employers check potential hires on networking sites. But Amegy Bank in Texas has banned the practice. Why? It's worried about employment discrimination suits. Great! Let's not do background checks. Maybe you will see this guy handling your finances.
US cyber-security 'embarrassing' America's cyber-security has been described as "broken" by one industry expert and as "childlike" by another. President Obama will soon release a cybersecurity review. But reviews are already in from experts. One calls US defenses "embarrassing." Alan Paller from security research firm SANS Institute said the government's cyber defenses were "embarrassing". This sounds par for the course with government: "Broken, childlike" and "embarrassing." Have you seen the nitwits we've elected in Washington lately?
Government data comes to Google Google is making it easier to find government information. Google Public Data lets users search for specific data. But some warn that the information could contain typos and other errors. Now why would you expect government to be accurate? Why "change" now?
Winner: Worst Tattoo Ever Award
Tickets For Parking In Your Own Driveway The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways. "Any area between the property line and the building restriction line shall be considered as private property set aside and treated as public space under the care and maintenance of the property owner." Basically what that means is most property owners in the District don't own the land between their front door and the sidewalk, but they are responsible for taking care of it. It's why you can get a ticket for drinking beer on your front porch in the Nation's Capital. You're technically on public space. It's also why the city can ticket you for parking in your own driveway if you don't pull your car deep enough into the driveway beyond the façade of your house or building. To be clear, we're not talking about people who park in shallow driveways and let the rear of their cars block the sidewalk. The cars are off the road, off the sidewalk and in the driveway - just not far enough back for the city. The government solution? You can go to the government and lease your property back from the city government.
How many people does it take to change every light bulb in Grand Central Terminal? Six, it turns out. And it's a full-time job.
Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles A House committee chairman said that he wants Congress to enact a mileage-based tax on cars and trucks to pay for highway programs now rather than wait years to test the idea. Now, not later. After all, why wait to rape the taxpayers even more. These political hacks would love to have both the mileage tax and the present federal taxes on gasoline. They're proposing tax increases here, not just a different way of raising the same revenue. You wanted change.
Obama's First 100 Days Analysis You believe in socialism? A great first 100 days. You believe in capitalism? A horrible first 100 days. You believe in collectivism? A grand first 100 days. You believe in individualism? A horrific first 100 days. You think your country is the focus of evil? A wonderful first 100 days. You're proud of your country? A depressing first 100 days. You believe in an omnipotent federal government? The first 100 days were magnificent. You believe in federalism? The first 100 days were a disaster. You think a president should be elected on style? Great first 100 days. You think a president should be elected on substance? Bad first 100 days. That just about sums it up.
"Can A Brotha Get A Break" Florida license plate? "The plate must prominently display an image of state Senator Alfred 'Al' Lawson, Jr. The phrase 'Can a Brotha Get a Break?' shall appear in bold letters on the bottom of the plate."
First ever 'Google alphabet' formed using satellite images An Australian graphic designer has created the alphabet from Google's satellite images.
The Great Imperial Leader Obama Didn't Know About the Air Force One Photo-Op? Obama: "It was a mistake, as was -- as was stated. It was something, uh, we found out about, uh, along with all of you, and, uh, it will not happen again." The all knowing Messiah President Barack Obama didn't know where his own plane was? Obama is the only one who can fly on this airplane. Nobody can put the wheels in motion to get Air Force One off the ground, other than the president. If they're going to do a flight like this, he has to be told because he has to also know he can't travel that day on that airplane. They were probably collecting B-roll footage for the next Obama for President Campaign. They can do this legally as long as it is paid for with campaign funds. One thing is certain, we will never see that PR footage. More proof that Obama is an inept leader.
Pandemic Nonsense: Flying Pig Flu Are you anxious about the swine flu "pandemic" that is supposedly sweeping the world? Well, it's not what you think it is! We should all know by now that wherever there is much hype surrounding an issue, there is very little substance. For this reason, and because the flu supposedly has gene blocks from the avian flu virus as well, it has been appropriately renamed: "Flying pig flu." Are globalist fear-mongers driving the media to panic the public into universal healthcare solutions? Or federally-mandated vaccinations? By definition, a "pandemic" is an epidemic that is geographically widespread. Fear-mongers are always careful to add the innuendo that millions of people could and probably will die, as in the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 that killed between 20 and 100 million people worldwide. Excuse me, but how does the death of even a few hundred equate to 20 million? Mexico, not the usual Southeast Asia, is the origin of the latest flu outbreak. It has spread in limited numbers to several continents. Almost all of the deaths, limited as they are, are in Mexico. The ratio of deaths to infections is very small. Again, how does this outbreak even remotely qualify as a pandemic? Answer: It does not! Watch the stock prices of major pharma companies skyrocket as they gear up to sell billions in vaccines. Watch governments as they declare mandatory vaccination programs. Watch the Obama administration as it railroads universal healthcare through Congress. "Follow the money, follow the power."
Barack Obama already less popular than Nixon or Carter It's official: Barack Obama is the second most reviled newbie president of the last forty years. A gallup survey today published in the Washington Times shows Obama to have an approval rating of just 56 per cent. The only president to have performed worse than that at the end of his first 100 days in office was Bill Clinton. Obama's low approval ratings, however, are all of his own making. He campaigned as a healing moderate who would take the US beyond partisan politics and restore the economy; instead he has terrified all those Americans who rightly abhor the idea of adopting European socialist, with the most sweeping advance of the progressive agenda and growth in the power of the state since the days of FDR's New Deal. Obama's "spending package" will only push the economy backwards and will increase unemployment. Several years ago, Japan tried to spend their way out of economic turmoil which ended up burying them in mountains of debt and increased unemployment.
Limbaugh to Specter: Please take McCain with you Limbaugh: "Take McCain and his daughter with you."
Noisy sex lands UK woman in prison A WOMAN has been jailed for shouting and screaming during sex with her husband. One neighbor said: "I heard sounds of a sexual nature, they were really loud, and there was a lot of moaning and groaning and screaming as if in pain. It wasn't just the woman, it came from both parties." Is the problem noisy neighbors or nosy neighbors?
U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine' Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail. Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period. Your message will be monitored and censored by the Imperial Federal Government.
White House Official Apologizes for Air Force One Photo Op Publicity Stunt in New York City Numerous buildings in lower Manhattan evacuated in a panic during the false alarm. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted the photo opportunity for being insensitive and showing "poor judgment." Poor judgment? This is nothing new from the attention seeking Lord Obama. All of this for a Photo Op Publicity Stunt.
The Surge to Impose Online Sales Taxes A New York State law took effect that imposes sales taxes on products promoted through Web sites based in the state; other governments have moved to get in on the action. Government will pursue any option necessary to separate you from your money.
Food stamp fraud may steal $400M from stimulus funds We have a brand-new food stamp program. Of $20 billion in federal stimulus money, the food stamp program, and Obama administration says $400 million will be lost to fraud. They just announce it and budget for it! Obama said he was going to go through the budget line by line and stop all of this fraud. What's one more broken campaign promise between the imperial leader and his messianic followers?
Swine Flu Outbreak? No Problem! Obama Handles from Golf Course Obama has been getting regular updates on the swine flu crisis. Of course, on Sunday, he had to handle the crisis from the golf course. Never let a good crisis go to waste, or waste a round of golf. Obama has priorities.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its analysis of the Obama Administration's ten-year budget proposal. The projected deficit for (fiscal year) 2009 is a whopping $1.8 trillion. Now the president has said, in effect, that you need to spend money to save money, but the CBO projects deficits once again exceeding $1 trillion by 2018. In fact, over the whole CBO forecast from 2009-2019, the lowest the deficit ever goes is $658 billion. This should be rather surprising to anyone who actually took Obama at his word when he promised to restore fiscal discipline to Washington. In fact, the CBO projects that the outstanding federal debt held by the public will increase from 40.8% of GDP in 2008 to 82.4% in 2019. In other words, the CBO predicts a doubling of the national debt in a mere decade. Thank you Comrade Obama.
On his 100th day in office, President Obama will be "crowned" in messianic imagery at New York City's Union Square. Messiah worship continues.
Here They Come To Save The Day With much fanfare this week, Congress and the Administration began a series of actions designed to protect over-leveraged consumers from the high fees imposed by credit card lenders. As with most other initiatives devised by government, this policy will create a host of unintended consequences that will undermine the benefit the program hopes to create. There is also a good chance that this silver lining will prove a mirage. When the banks attempt to restrict credit as a result of their business concerns, the government will most likely funnel more taxpayer "bailout" money to banks to entice them to keep lending. In typical government fashion, rather than letting market forces work, our government will force bad decisions on companies and then subsidize resulting losses. Isn't this starting to sound familiar?
Larry Slumbers - Obama advisor sleeps through meeting We know economic discussions can be a little dull, but we're not sure that justifies falling asleep while your boss - the President - is speaking. Nevertheless, Larry Summers, the head of President Obama's National Economic Council, drifted off this afternoon while the boss was declaiming on the credit card industry. Summary from the pool report: "One thing to note is that Summers appeared to be nodding off near the beginning of Obama's remarks. And then he DID nod off, doing the head on the hand and then head falling off the hand thing. Photogs seemed to be having a field day. All other officials in the room appeared fully awake." It must be difficult to stay awake when all the meetings are the same; new day, new industry to socialize. Typical Obama finance strategy meeting content: "How much does that cost? Ok sure, spend it. Don't have it? Ok sure, print it then spend it."
Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing. Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing. He was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England. "The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face," Monckton said. "They are cowards." Global Warming is like a religion. Non-believers are not permitted.
CBS: Obama Burned 9,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel for One Earth Day Speech President Barack Obama burned roughly 9,000 of jet fuel on Earth Day, and that only to deliver one speech in Iowa. In flying to and from Iowa today, President Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One. Boeing says the Air Force One 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile. It's 895 miles from Washington to Des Moines, so a round trip brings the fuel consumption for the fixed-wing portion of the President's trip to 8,950 gallons. The trip also put President Obama on Marine One for round-trip flights between the White House and Andrews AFB and between Des Moines International Airport and Newton, Iowa, site of his Earth Day speech. It totaled about an hour of flight time. The VH-3D that serves as Marine One consumes about 1200 pounds of fuel per hour which comes out to about 166 gallons consumed flying the President. All this to celebrate the phony Earth Day Global Warming "crisis." Comrade's orders for you non-politician commoners: Check your tires and turn out all of your lights. Stay home and save energy. Hypocrisy reigns! All hail Comrade Obama!
Obama to soon get secure BlackBerry President Obama will soon get his souped-up, high-security BlackBerry for use in and around the White House and during presidential travel. The top-secret BlackBerry 8830 is in the final stages of development by the National Security Agency, which will soon begin checking to make sure its encryption software meets federal standards. Translation: "Meets federal standards" indicates that this presidential device is probably less secure than a box of Twinkies.
Apple has removed "Baby Shaker," a controversial software game, from the marketplace. The premise of the game is simple: Shake your phone to quiet a crying baby. Many were outraged by the program. Outraged? Now you can't shake your electronic device without upsetting someone. Up next: Congress is working on special legislation to charge your kids with a misdemeanor for shaking a stuffed animal. Think for a minute. How crazy is it that our political hacks passing such legislation sounds believable. I might have to record a crying baby sound on my MP3 player just so I can walk around shaking it. I can't wait to see all of the outrage.
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Charlton Heston's Salute To Earth Day And The Global Warming Hysteria "You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us." - Charlton Heston Nor would the earth miss any of the political hacks in Washington.
Janet Napolitano: Illegal Invaders Are Not Committing Crimes "Crossing the border is not a crime per se." - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano This is from the person in charge of protecting our borders and our country. Visas and checkpoints; we don't need visas and checkpoints. Just walk over the border. It's not illegal. Viva Napolitano!
Wells Fargo Confirms Robust Earnings Wells Fargo (my bank, by the way), said today that it earned a record profit of $3.05 billion dollars in the first quarter following its acquisition of Wachovia. "The best way to generate capital is to earn it." - Wells Fargo president and chief executive John Stumpf This could be a "hate crime" in Washington because the political hacks feel the best way to generate capital is to print it and to borrow it and then to give it away or tax it.
Hugo Chavez Says Venezuelan Socialism Has Begun to Reach U.S. under Obama I am sure that you are happy to know that Comrade Obama is successful in winning over the approval of fellow dictators around the world.
Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases The special inspector general says TARP is 'inherently vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse.' Are you really surprised?
Top bailed-out firms continue lobbying The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year. The biggest spender was bailed-out automaker General Motors Corp., which devoted $2.8 million to lobbying in the first quarter of 2009. It has received $13.4 billion in government loans and could get $5 billion more. They invested in government and received their payoff.
Separate but Unequal Protection Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) have quietly re-introduced the federal thought crimes bill, H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. As has proved to be true in both Europe and Canada, this Orwellian piece of legislation is the direct precursor to freedom killing and speech chilling "hate speech" laws. Thought crimes or hate crimes; call it whatever you want, but what these laws do is punish thought, not criminal activity. Still to come: Another thought crimes bill is swimming in the cesspools of congress that would make homeless people a protected species. Government shall control you thought. You shall not think any thought that government deems inappropriate.
Obama signs service bill, says volunteers needed Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "We need your service, right now, in this moment in history. ... I'm asking you to stand up and play your part," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago. "I'm asking you to help change history's course." I think we have all seen this movie before and we all know how it ends.
Labor Department seeks to cancel rule on unions The regulation would have increased scrutiny of union finances to help root out financial corruption. What's a little corruption between union thugs?
Poor New Yorkers Getting Paid for Good Behavior The city's experimental anti-poverty program that pays poor New Yorkers for good behavior like seeing the doctor and attending parent-teacher conferences handed out an average of $3,000 per family in its first year. This in true government fashion.
New Hampshire Democratic Party Head: Tax Protesters an 'Unhinged Mob' "They looked like they lost their minds," said Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party of the protesters. How dare anyone protest the government and taxes.
Celebrate Earth Day Have a party. Burn some energy. Turn on every device you own and celebrate.
Barney Frank's Rental Reversal Frank: "One of the causes of the terrible crisis we had over the last few years, which has given us today's problem, it came from people being pushed into buying houses - taking homes that they couldn't afford. People were pushing home ownership who shouldn't have been there. We have now, in Barack Obama, a president who understands this. But if you are low income in America, if you're poor, you probably are not going to be able to afford a home." It was Barney Frank and Bill Clinton who did the pushing. And Obama understands? Obama's ACORN forced them to be homeowners. And, Obama is keeping these people in the houses they can't afford while we are paying the mortgages. Frank: "I'd like to bring down the cost of housing." The cost of housing has come down! The housing market has collapsed. And Barney Frank is one of the key people who made it happen. Sadly, Barney Frank will continue to be reelected by his blind followers in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts. Unbelievable.
Obama Will Spend Almost $4,000 Billion and Cut $100 Million "To put those numbers in perspective, imagine that the head of a household with annual spending of $100,000 called everyone in the family together to deal with a $34,000 budget shortfall. How much would he or she announce that spending had to be cut? By $3 over the course of the year-approximately the cost of one latte at Starbucks. The other $33,997? We can put that on the family credit card and worry about it next year." Obama is an economic fool.
Media Calls Obama A "Rock Star" CHIP REID: "He was received like a rock star there. It was like a campaign event, complete with screaming fans." ED HENRY: "It was a rock star reception." NORAH O'DONNELL: "...greeted like a rock star." TAMRON HALL: "...treating him like a rock star." DAVID SHUSTER: "The president was greeted like a rock star." It was a staged pep rally show. Do you realize that at any given time, at the CIA headquarters, there are less than a couple of hundred counterterrorism operatives? They're in the field working. They're in caves and other places most Americans wouldn't go, along with the Special Ops and the SEALs. These people weren't there because they don't have time to hang around and give the president of the United States rock star treatment. Who was available for the staged rally? Mostly secretaries and paper pushers who probably have lower security clearances than the janitorial staff. These are the people who have plenty of spare time on their hands. Obama told these staged followers, "I have put an end to the interrogation techniques described in those OLC memos, and I want -- I want to be very clear and very blunt. I've done so for a simple reason: because I believe that our nation is stronger and more secure when we deploy the full measure of both our power and the power of our values, including the rule of law. I know I can count on you to do exactly that." This is a former community organizer with no experience in executive management or intelligence experience. Our American "values?" The values the CIA is concerned about are defending and protecting the country.
Janet Napolitano: Illegal Immigration Not a Crime This from the director of the Department of Homeland Security. Does the word "Illegal" mean anything anymore? Didn't Obama just say, "Our nation is stronger and more secure when we deploy the full measure of both our power and the power of our values, including the rule of law?" Illegal is not a crime? What Values? What rule of law?
Dianne Feinstein Funneled Money to Husband's Firm Senator's husband's firm cashes in on crisis. Feinstein sought $25 billion for agency that awarded contract to spouse. "Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the lifetime day because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government." - Barack Obama January 20, 2009 Is Dianne Feinstein acting in President Obama's era of restoring "the vital trust between a people and their government?" If she is to be true to Obama's hopes for his new and improved America, she needs to think about resigning.
17-Year-Old Behind Recent Twitter Worm Offered Job After Claiming Responsibility For the social networking darling Twitter, it was a headache and potential threat. But for the young man behind the computer worm that attacked the micro-blogging site this week, it was a fast track to a job.
Obama aide calls anti-tax tea parties "Unhealthy" David Axelrod: "This president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere." Are you buying this? David Axelrod: "I think any time that you have severe economic conditions, there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that's unhealthy." How dare anyone protest Comrade Obama.
FBI spied on TEA Party Americans Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them.
Obama Administration Moves to Nationalize US Banks The United States government is going to take stock, common stock, in the 19 biggest banks of the country. Hugo Chavez was laughing and smiling all weekend because this is what he did to the oil industry down in his own Venezuela. He nationalized it. Obama is on his way to becoming a good little dictator.
Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform." - Norman Mattoon Thomas 1944
Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects The C.I.A. used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 183 times, six times a day, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded. If somebody can go through waterboarding 183 times, six times a day, it obviously isn't very severe and certainly isn't torture.
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No shirt, no shoes, no English The state Senate acted to prohibit businesses in California from discriminating against customers, including refusing them service, based on the language they use. "Where we have concern is putting language on par with unchangeable characteristics," Rob Toonkel said. "You can't change your gender. You can't change your disability. You can change the language you speak. You can learn to say, 'I'd like a hamburger.' "
Obama laments not being able to ban assault weapons "I continue to believe that we can respect and honor the Second Amendment right in our Constitution - the rights of sportsmen and hunters and homeowners that want to keep their families safe - to lawfully bear arms, while dealing with assault weapons that, as we know here in Mexico, are used to fuel violence," - Barack Obama We've all seen the news stories about how retail sales of firearms have been at record levels ever since Barack Obama won the election. Two primary reasons have been cited for this spike in ownership, uncertainty about the economy leading to fears of increased crime and the concern that the Obama administration will move to reinstate the "Assault Weapons Ban" which expired in 2004. Many of those stories have quoted anti-gun pundits as saying gun owners are being paranoid and that the new government isn't out to ban guns. This claim was repeated when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said, "as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstate the ban on the sale of assault weapons." About a month later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed that claim when she opined, "I think these assault weapons, these military style weapons, don't belong on anyone's street." She also noted, "We're going to talk to the Congress, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It's a very heavy lift." It's a heavy lift because the People don't want more of their rights taken away.
Economy in Jeopardy. Barack Obama: "Financial Crime Boss" Since taking office, Obama, wittingly or otherwise, has headed the largest criminal enterprise in history - the mass looting of national wealth to enrich his Wall Street benefactors. He assembled a rogue economic team of Clinton/Robert Rubin retreads - to fix the current crisis they engineered.
Homeland issued 'extremism' report despite objections Homeland Security Department officials disregarded warnings from their internal civil liberties watchdogs before releasing a security assessment of "right-wing extremism" that had Secretary Janet Napolitano apologizing to veterans.
Pelosi calls for panel to probe Wall Street Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying that the American people are demanding "discipline and accountability" after the multibillion-dollar federal bailouts, promised Wednesday to create a legislative commission with broad oversight to investigate the causes of Wall Street irregularities and their full costs to taxpayers. How about a commission to investigate congressional failures and their full costs to taxpayers?
The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession. The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality of interrogation techniques authorized for use by the CIA. Those techniques were applied only when expressly permitted by the director, and are described in these opinions in detail, along with their limits and the safeguards applied to them. According to Comrade Obama, the four worst forms of "torture" are: Waterboarding (which worked on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) Sleep deprivation Facial slaps Does Obama realize that we are dealing with people who cut people's heads off?
Obama pledges in Mexico to slow US arms flow President Barack Obama pledged in Mexico to help a deeply troubled neighbor in its battle against drugs and violence, including action to slow the dangerous flow of weapons from the United States. Obama said: the U.S. must join "in dealing with the flow of guns and cash south." How is Comrade Obama planning to do that? By the way, let's look at the statistics for crime brought to us by the Mexican invasion of illegals in the US. More specifically, look at assaults and deaths from drunk driving. Where is the higher death toll: Deaths from drunk illegal drivers in the U.S.; or deaths from assault weapons in Mexico?
11% of all born in Mexico live in U.S. One out of 10 people born there live in America.
When it comes to the $787 billion in federal stimulus money flowing from Washington to the states, it will cost money to spend money. Nebraska's governor's office told lawmakers it expects to spend more than $1.2 million over two years to oversee disbursement of about $1.5 billion Nebraska stands to receive in federal stimulus funds. Other states are in similar straits. What do you expect when you are dealing with government?
Iranian scientists claim they have cloned a goat Insert your own joke here.
Obama Seeks to Rebuild America on a "Rock" of Generational Debt Obama talks about economic growth, something he apparently knows little about. "It is that house upon the rock. Proud, sturdy, and unwavering in the face of the greatest storm. We will not finish it in one year or even many, but if we use this moment to lay that new foundation; if we come together and begin the hard work of rebuilding; if we persist and persevere against the disappointments and setbacks that will surely lie ahead, then I have no doubt that this house will stand and the dream of our founders will live on in our time. Thank you, God bless, and may God bless the United States of America." - Barack Obama Obama proposed building a new foundation for our economy, one built on a rock. What rock? Marxism? Socialism? It is, at this point, difficult to determine. One thing is certain, economic growth does not arise from an economy built on debt, or a devalued currency. Economic growth does not arise from a rapidly expanding government and bureaucracy after bureaucracy after bureaucracy. Ask our bankers, the Chinese. They are currently backing away from buying our debt. They look at our economy as a bad investment. Obama's "rock" is built on money we don't have; on money created out of thin air and debt.
Matt Lauer Worries that Business Will Escape Government Control Matt Lauer: "Are they doing this because of financial stability, or might they be talking about that simply to get out from under the thumb of the federal government and be allowed to go back to running the business the way they want to run it as opposed to the way the government wants them to run it?" I'm not going to say that the banks or any of these other companies that participated in bailout money were running aboveboard businesses at every stretch, but most of them were. Most private sector businesses are up and up. Now I can't say the same about government and politicians. In fact, it's the exact opposite. However, I don't want the government running anything because they can't. Government political hacks are incompetent. Government needs to stay out of business. Government interference is what got us in this mess to begin with.
Quote "Obama and his cronies are trying to buy a legacy! They are trying to buy respect. They are trying to buy reelection. They are trying to buy everything, with everybody else's money. And that would be your money." - George Dorunda
Ukraine Arrests Three in Radioactive Material Sale Ukrainian security agents have arrested a regional lawmaker and two companions for trying to sell a radioactive substance that could be used in making a dirty bomb. Homeland Security needs to reorder its priorities. But instead, they are practicing politics with: "Homeland Security Warns of Right-Wing Radicals in the United States."
Federal agency warns of radicals on right The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity." Do you meet these criteria? The black helicopters should be flying overhead very soon! Mainly antigovernment? Reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority? An individual dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to illegal immigration? Frustrated over a perceived lack of government action on illegal immigration? Perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to your right to bear arms? The high volume of purchases and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition in anticipation of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary concern to law enforcement? Theories involving declarations of martial law? Believe that a "New World Order" would bring about a world government that would usurp the sovereignty of the United States and its Constitution, thus infringing upon their liberty? Click Here to download and read the official report.
US Income Tax Analysis - Ten Men Go Out To Dinner Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner and the bill for all comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing like they do now with the present income tax structure. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59 of the bill. So that is what the ten men decide to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you all are such good customers I am going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20". Dinner for the 10 men now costs just $80. The group still wanted to pay the bill the same way that they paid their taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six men -- the Paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everybody would get his "Fair Share"? They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth and sixth man would each end up being paid to eat their meal…So, the restaurant owner suggested it would be fair to reduce each mans bill roughly the same amount; and proceeded to work out the amounts each man would pay. The fifth, like the first four now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth man now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings) The seventh man now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% savings) The eight man now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings) The ninth man now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings) The tenth man now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings) Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings… "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man "but he got $10" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than me!?" "That's true", shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploit's the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up. The next night the Tenth man did not show up for dinner, so the Nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half the bill! And that is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just might not show up anymore.
A woman was mauled by a polar bear after she jumped into its enclosure at Berlin Zoo. Apparently, she wanted to pet the polar bear. She has likely either seen Al Gore's movie of stranded polar bears on fake fading glaciers, or she has just become overwhelmed with all the stories about polar bears. This will probably result in a lawsuit, and she should sue. Al Gore is to blame and should be held accountable for his fraudulent actions.
Quotes "Smith & Wesson, the original point-and-click interface. - George Dorunda "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag." - Huey Long
Fascism's principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm.
Senator Chuck Schumer: The Era Of "Traditional Values" And "Strong Foreign Policy" Are Over
Meet Jasmine, the rescue dog who has become a surrogate mother for the 50th time Seven-year-old Jasmine is currently caring for tiny Bramble, an 11-week-old roe deer fawn found semi-conscious in a nearby field. She cuddles up to her to keep her warm, showers her with affection and makes sure nothing is matted in her fur. In short, the perfect foster mum. But then again, she has had plenty of practice, having cared for five fox cubs, four badger cubs, 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and even 15 rabbits.
Kauai Residents Don't Wait for State to Repair Road Their livelihood was being threatened, and they were tired of waiting for government help, so business owners and residents on Hawaii's Kauai Island pulled together and completed a $4 million repair job to a state park -- for free. "It would not have been open this summer, and it probably wouldn't be open next summer," said Bruce Pleas, a local surfer who helped organize the volunteers. "They said it would probably take two years. Typical government. However, business owners and residents made the decision not to sit on their hands and wait for state money that many expected would never come. Instead, they pulled together and did the job themselves. And after only eight days, all of the repairs were done. It was a shockingly quick fix to a problem that may have taken much longer if they waited for state to handle it. Government solution: Two years. Private enterprise solution: Eight days. The community came together without a government community organizer. Warning: Be prepared for the fact that some government agency is going to come out and inspect this and find that it doesn't meet their government standards. After all, private citizens can't embarrass the incompetence and gross mismanagement of government like this. The bottom line: This is the kind of spirit that built the country, and in this case people got tired with waiting for the government bureaucracy solution. This is an outstanding illustration of how bloated and unproductive government has become at all levels. "Yes, we can" succeed without government.
Climate bill could trigger lawsuit landslide Self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who "expect to suffer" from it - from beachfront property owners to asthmatics - for the first time would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions under a little-noticed provision slipped into the House climate bill. Does this set a precedent? "I haven't been damaged yet but I expect to be damaged at some time in the future and your company might be responsible for my expected damages."
Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went On February 14, with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress shoveled $787 billion of stimulus money out the door. Now they're using Google to find out where it went. During the stimulus debate, the bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards. But audits and reports are months, if not years, away. Oversight will be after the fact; right now, with the money actually beginning to flow, members of Congress have little or no idea where it is going. What, for example, is the Department of Housing and Urban Development doing with the $1.5 billion Congress approved for a new program called the Homeless Prevention Fund? Lawmakers don't know. This sounds like Congress: I have no idea what I did with that $787 billion.
A Medical Version of the Patriot Act? The computerization of personal health care records is one of the showcases of the stimulus. President Obama promised: "We will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years all of America's medical records are computerized." But having a massive electronic database will make it far easier for the government to coerce both doctors and patients. This is a peril as bad as or worse than the Patriot Act. Congress ponied up $19 billion to subsidize doctors and hospitals computerizing patient record and creating electronic health care tracking systems. But if health records are digitized on the federal dime, it will be far easier for politicians to claim the resulting information. The Obama plan calls for federal penalties for doctors who have not computerized their records by the year 2014. Team Obama and their congressional supporters promise that the government will scrupulously respect the privacy of the newly-computerized private medical data. This is reminiscent of President George Bush's 2004 false promise that no American was being wiretapped without a warrant.
Obama speeds government purchase of US cars In a bid to help battered US automakers, President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was accelerating the government's purchase of 17,600 new US-made, fuel-efficient vehicles. "This move will help stimulate the economy, support the auto industry, and achieve energy-efficiency goals," according to the White House. In all likelihood, does the government need these cars? Or, is this another dog and pony show? Is this a long term boost to the auto industry? Is this a true economic stimulus? Absolutely not. This is another political government gimmick. The government is not actually buying these cars. The government doesn't have the money. The government is borrowing the money and sticking you, the taxpayers, with the payments. You just bought these cars for the government. This stunt just cost you 285 million dollars. Imagine what the American taxpayers could do with $285 million. You could spend your money on cars that you actually! Today unfortunately, the government decides what you want. More change you can believe in.
Two flushes, free gun at Vegas casino A Las Vegas video poker bar is trying to entice a new caliber of customer. The O'Aces bar is offering a 9mm Smith and Wesson handgun to any customer that hits more than one royal flush within a month. The offer is stirring up controversy around the city, with some residents saying it's just dangerous. To some people, the mere mention of the word "gun" exudes a level of danger. The owner of the bar says he's just trying anything he can think of to bring in new business. And that anyone who wins will have to go through the normal background and licensing process to receive the handgun. Based on the odds, you'd be better off buying the gun.
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Lightning Strike: This Would Get Anyone's Attention
NASA: Clean-air regs, not CO2, are melting the ice cap New research from NASA suggests that the Arctic warming trend seen in recent decades has indeed resulted from human activities: but not, as is widely assumed at present, those leading to carbon dioxide emissions. Rather, Arctic warming has been caused in large part by laws introduced to improve air quality and fight acid rain. Research indicates that, ironically, much of the rise in polar temperature seen over the last few decades may have resulted from US and European restrictions on sulphur emissions. According to NASA: Sulfates, which come primarily from the burning of coal and oil, scatter incoming solar radiation and have a net cooling effect on climate. Over the past three decades, the United States and European countries have passed a series of laws that have reduced sulfate emissions by 50 percent. While improving air quality and aiding public health, the result has been less atmospheric cooling from sulfates. Can we stop the Global Warming nonsense? Time to burn more coal and oil to save the polar bears.
California Considers Big Screen TV Ban The ban could take 25-percent of televisions off the market. It would affect most TVs 40-inches and larger. Coming soon to California: Black Market Big Screen TVs.
Planned Economy or Planned Destruction? This 1934 Chicago Tribune cartoon on FDR's America looks familiar.
Massachusetts Public Schools to Issue 'Fat' Report Cards on Students Massachusetts health officials have approved regulations that would require sending children's Body Mass Index measurements home to parents. The results will be sent home to parents for students in first, fourth, seventh and 10th grades in a package explaining what they mean and how parents can best combat obesity. If parents haven't noticed that their seventh grader is 100 pounds overweight from eating sugar and watching TV all day, a formal government report is unlikely to have any impact. Why is this a government responsibility? Remember, when you hear the phrase "it's for the children" from government, hold onto your wallets.
Obama declines comment on US hostage crisis off Somalia U.S. President Barack Obama declined to answer reporters' questions on a hostage crisis off the coast of Somalia, where a U.S. ship captain is being held captive by pirates. The exchange went like this: REPORTER: Can we get a quick reaction to the pirates, the Somali pirates? OBAMA: Guys, we're talking about housing right now. President Obama just voted present, again. Obama cannot address anything that is difficult without consulting with his teleprompter. Housing is easier to address than a hostage crisis. Obama Presidential solution: Just vote "present."
Brown University Kills Columbus Day "Fall Weekend" will be taking the place of the holiday formerly known as "Columbus Day" at Brown University this fall. Hundreds of Brown students had asked the Providence, R.I. school to stop observing Columbus Day, saying Christopher Columbus's violent treatment of Native Americans he encountered was inconsistent with Brown's values. Brown has values? It's sad that this level of idiocy exists at a college level institution.
Rove Calls Biden 'Liar' as Bush Aides Challenge VP's Boasts Biden made two controversial assertions during an interview on CNN. "I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office," Biden began, "'Well, Joe,' he said, 'I'm a leader.' And I said: 'Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.'" The exchange is purely "fictional," said Rove, who was Bush's top political adviser in the White House. Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a "liar" dramatically escalating a feud between Biden and aides to former President George W. Bush over Biden's claims to have rebuked Bush in private meetings. "I hate to say this, but he's a serial exaggerator," Rove told FOX News. "If I was being unkind I would say liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop." Rove added: "You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States." In September, Biden again raised eyebrows with another story about his exploits in war zones -- this time on "the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where my helicopter was forced down." "If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me," Biden bragged to the National Guard Association. "Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are." But it turns out that inclement weather, not terrorists, prompted the chopper to land in an open field during Biden's visit to Afghanistan in February 2008. Fighter jets kept watch overhead while a convoy of security vehicles was dispatched to retrieve Biden and fellow Sens. Chuck Hagel and John Kerry. "We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn't have to," joked Kerry, a Democrat, to the AP. "Other than getting a little cold, it was fine." Delusional propensities continue for Obama and Biden.
Drug use by minors in Portugal plunges after decriminalization Portugal decriminalized drugs in mid-2001. The effect on drug use has been a notable decrease in drug usage by minors at the same time when drug usage rates in the rest of Europe have been increasing. Drugs should be legal because you own your body, and the idea of a consensual crime where you are both victim and perpetrator, is anti-freedom and irrational. But for pragmatists out there who can't get on board because they think that legalizing drugs will result in more drug usage by minors (the "for the children" argument), here is the evidence that it will not.
OBAMA TELLS AMERICA: "Serve Satan!"
Montel Williams: Make Mexico the 51st State!
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials. Department of Homeland Security official said, "There are intrusions, and they are growing." I am convinced that the Department of Homeland Security and our Imperial Federal Government couldn't secure and close an umbrella. And some people think it's a good idea to turn over our entire healthcare industry to these incompetent political hacks.
Obama Administration Considers Climate Engineering The president's new science adviser said that global warming is so dire the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air. John Holdren said that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. This begs the question: How long has John Holdren been out of the mental institution? Global warming is a hoax designed to get you to feel guilty that your lifestyle is responsible for the destruction of the planet, and out of your guilt you will agree to pay more taxes and give up more of your freedom to let central planners and authoritarians tell you how to live. Why would anybody listen to a group of political hacks who have failed to fix anything they have heretofore touched?
Our National Debt Is Higher Than The Entire World's GDP! On top the national debt that is talked about, we actually have several other national debts. These debts include future Social Security and Medicare obligations that are above what expected contributions will be, as well as insurance guarantees made by our government. This does not include most of the $12.8 Trillion that has been spent and/or promised for bailouts and "stimulus." The total listed is $78.8 Trillion. This is higher than the GDP for the entire world was in 2008.
The government may spend more than $4 trillion on the financial system, above and beyond what has been spent. They're just going to keep spending our money.
$11 million from the federal stimulus package are being used for building a bridge that will join two Microsoft buildings that have a highway separating them. Bill Gates really needs stimulus cash. Apparently Apple is winning the 'Mac vs. PC' ad campaign.
The Financial New World Order: Towards a Global Currency and World Government Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar's role as the world reserve currency. The Phoenix In 1988, The Economist ran an article titled, Get Ready for the Phoenix, in which they wrote, "THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, yen or D-marks but in, let's say, the phoenix." Further, the article stated that, "The phoenix zone would impose tight constraints on national governments. There would be no such thing, for instance, as a national monetary policy." Ultimately, what this implies is that the future of the global political economy is one of increasing moves toward a global system of governance, or a world government, with a world central bank and global currency; and that, concurrently, these developments are likely to materialize in the face of and as a result of a decline in democracy around the world, and thus, a rise in authoritarianism. What we are witnessing is the creation of a New World Order, composed of a totalitarian global government structure.
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses. The systems generally work like this: Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. Shoppers buy it at a discount - say, 95 cents for $1 value - and spend the full value at stores that accept the currency.
More US Consumers Falling Behind on Mortgages More U.S. consumers are falling behind on their mortgages, an indication that the housing market has yet to hit bottom. It's not just the sub-prime mortgages that are delinquent; it is standard mortgages that are delinquent. That's OK. Obama said the government is going to take care of this. The Messiah has a magical solution.
Proof: Seatbelt Laws, Like Most Traffic Laws, are About Revenue Raising, Not Safety It is a matter of protecting a personal choice rather than their personal safety. Massachusetts had the lowest rate of seat belt usage in the nation in 2008, just 66.8 percent, according to new data from for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (New Hampshire, which has no seatbelt law, ranked third lowest, at 69.2 percent.) More proof that government regulation never works better than the freedom of choice.
Massive Checkpoint Operation in Tennessee Violated Posse Comitatus, Fourth Amendment The DHS and military planned to collaborate with local police in Shaw's district in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Tennessee Representative Johnny Shaw admitted state government was unaware of the scheduled checkpoint, which is more evidence the feds are contacting local police agencies directly without going through the state or informing them of operations that are in violation of the law. Show us your papers!
The Food Fascism Act, like our lives depended on it (because they do) One of the most potentially dangerous bills we've ever heard of is trying to sneak its way through Congress right now, in the sheep's clothing of so-called "modernization" of food safety. HR 875 (CLICK HERE for the Full Text of the Bill) is a bill put up by Monsanto and other monolithic corporations trying to seize totalitarian control over all agriculture. It was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, whose husband WORKS for Monsanto, and is ultimately about one thing, defining ONLY their own GMO products as "safe". What makes the bill so dangerous is that it is heavy on penalties including prison time, while at the same time being incredibly vague about what would actually trigger those sanctions. HR 875 is nothing but a Trojan horse, with an invading army to be designated later, in the form of an bureaucratic administrator (most likely a corporate lobbyist shill) with draconian LAW MAKING POWER to make up their own definitions so that all competitors are either driven into bankruptcy or locked up. In the midst of this attempted Panzer action by Monsanto, are we hearing about any of this in our propaganda based mainstream media? No, they distract our attention talking about Michelle Obama's adorable organic garden at the White House, as if she is making agricultural policy.
Obama Calls for Limits on Tourism to Antarctica The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore. Do we own Antarctica? When did that become a US State or territory?
Will bill give Obama control of Internet? Proposed new powers called "drastic federal intervention." A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared "cyber emergency." Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president. We shall control your information. The thought police strike again.
Obama Economic Advisors Linked to Bankers Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, pulled in more than $2.7 million in speaking fees paid by firms at the heart of the financial crisis, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America Corp. and the now-defunct Lehman Brothers. Thomas E. Donilon, Obama's deputy national security adviser, was paid $3.9 million last year by the power law firm O'Melveny & Myers to represent clients, including two firms that received federal bailout funds: Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He also disclosed that he's a member of the Trilateral Commission and sits on the steering committee of the supersecret Bilderberg group. White House Counsel Greg Craig last year earned $1.7 million in private practice representing an exiled Bolivian president, a Panamanian lawmaker wanted by the U.S. government for allegedly murdering a U.S. soldier and a tech billionaire accused of securities fraud and various sensational drug and sex crimes. Change?
Rocket gives North Korea new bargaining chip North Korea's new rocket launch gives the communist country another bargaining chip in negotiations over dismantling its nuclear weapons program even if the flight wasn't completely successful. North Korea has been warning of these intentions for weeks and kept its promise. No one in the international community, most assuredly not Barack Obama, did anything to stop this. This makes the world a more dangerous place for America. Obama was tested, and Obama didn't meet the challenge. A poll taken in Europe during the election last year revealed that 58% of Europeans would like to see a weaker United States. Europe wants America weakened. Europe loves Obama. Obama responds weakly to North Korean missile launch. Connect the dots. Obama talked about Bush outsourcing jobs. Obama is now outsourcing our national security.
NYC fried chicken joints under fire for Obama name Two New York City fried chicken restaurants in predominantly black neighborhoods are under fire for putting President Barack Obama's name on their signs. "People from the community were calling me and saying they were outraged by this racist connection to Barack Obama and fried chicken," City Councilman Charles Barron said. "If you think that free speech gives you the right to insult and degrade us and stereotype us, then you've got a battle on your hands." Naming your chicken restaurant "Obama Fried Chicken" means that you believe in the inherent genetic inferiority of the black race. And this passes as logical thinking in New York. I believe Charles Barron is a far greater insult to the black race than a fried chicken restaurant.
Census to 'count all illegal aliens in 2010' The Census is used to apportion the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Illegals count. And I thought it was illegal to be illegal.
You thought AIG bonuses were bad? Fannie, Freddie dish out $210 Million Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to pay more than $210 million in bonuses through next year to give workers the incentive to stay in their jobs.
Obama foreign relations gaffe: President bows to Saudi king President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds. "I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States," writes Clarice Feldman.
First lady's fashion fails her in London The occasion was momentous and fashion hopes were high, but when Michelle Obama met the queen, she wore her office sweater.
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." - Ayn Rand
Quotes and Facts Quote: (In response to the question: "Penn, do you want Obama to succeed?") "Well, the nice thing about hoping is that doesn't work, so that you don't have to worry very much about what you're hoping. If what succeeding means is taking away -- giving too much of a safety net so that we can't live like Vegas, there's no reason to gamble if you can't lose, and I think it's really important that people have a chance to win and to fail, and I think too much of a safety net, it's just less fun to live." - Penn Jillette Fact: Libertarian Penn Jillette is exactly right. Obama is trying to tell people he's going to have a warranty for them, a lifetime warranty against failure. It's like promising you're going to go to Vegas and you won't lose. Nobody else is going to win, either. Quote: "If you please everybody on anything you're do something wrong. But luckily there's no chance of that. I just think that individuals are more important than a whole kind of groupthink and that individuals can do more than a top down kind of thinking. I don't think the government can solve all our problems or should try." - Penn Jillette Fact: Penn is absolutely correct. Hats off to Penn Jillette, a voice of reason. We're individuals! We live in a society governed under a Constitution that protects the individual from the government. Quote: "Tax cuts are fine, but what we know about tax cuts is that they don't always stimulate growth nearly to the extent that direct government spending does for two very obvious reasons. One is that a lot of people, if they get a tax cut, they are going to save it or they're going to pay down their own debt. That may be good for the individual, even if they do spend they are often going to go to the mall and buy something from another country." - Robert B. Reich Fact: We've had trillions of dollars in stimulus since last year, and we're losing jobs. You are the individual, and it's nobody's damn business what you do with your money, as long as we're living in a moral society and you're not breaking the law with it, it's nobody's business. It's all about the individual. It's your money.
Dow sets best 4-week run since 1933 OK. We just went through the best four weeks for the Dow since 1933. Can we now call off all of these massively obese government spending plans?
Home Loan Modifications Not Lowering Payments U.S. lenders are boosting their attempts to avoid home foreclosures, but fewer than half of loan modifications made at the end of last year actually reduced borrowers' payments more than 10%. These are the beneficiaries of Barney Frank's definition of "affordable housing." Give you a house! These are people who couldn't qualify for the loan in the first place and weren't asked to. These are the people who had to show no history whatsoever in order to get a loan. Clinton, ACORN, Community Redevelopment Act. Obama forced the banks to make these loans. These people can't pay. They are deadbeats in the first place, and even after the Imperial Federal Government steps in to help them out, they are still deadbeats. Government is not helping, it never has.
Crisis: Too Many Cars and They're Not on the Road The sea of new cars, 57,000 of them, stretches for acres along the Port of Baltimore. They are imports just in from foreign shores and exports waiting to ship out -- Chryslers and Subarus, Fords and Hyundais, Mercedeses and Kias. But the customers who once bought them by the millions have largely vanished, and so the cars continue to pile up. Correction: The customers haven't vanished. The money that people used to have to buy them that has vanished. At the same time the US government is deciding to take over the automobile business. All the while, the same government's doing all it can to figure out how to tax people out of their cars and produce cars that they don't want, with the ultimate goal of forcing us into government-controlled transportation.
Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama's budget deficits in context of President Bush's. Spending facts: President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion. President Bush began a string of expensive financial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course. President Bush created a Medicare drug entitlement that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new government health care fund. President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. President Obama would double it. President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already increased this spending by 20 percent. President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama's budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016. Overall, President Obama's budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.
Afghanistan has legalized rape A new Afghan law makes it legal for men to rape their wives. The legislation undermines hard-won rights for women enacted after the fall of the Taliban's strict Islamist regime.
Study: Tattoos are Sign of Low Self-Esteem The study found that people who had three or more tattoos were likely to have low self esteem. Researchers found that there were four main reasons why people got tattoos - to be rebellious, to belong to a group, for aesthetic reasons and because of a strong emotional attachment.
HOW NOT TO TEST A BULLET PROOF VEST Courtesy: Redneck Quality Assurance Team. Warning: There are bad words in this video. You have been warned.
Veggienazis Fight Minor League Ballpark Burger The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league baseball team, will be offering up major league cholesterol, carbohydrates and calories in an enormous hamburger being added to the menu this year at the Fifth Third Ballpark. The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa and corn chips, all on an 8-inch sesame-seed bun. Sound good to me. Nevertheless, here come the Veggienazis. Susan Levin, a staff dietitian for the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, sent a letter to the Grand Rapids minor-league team on Tuesday. She's asking that the 4,800-calorie burger be labeled a "dietary disaster" that increases the risk of cancer and heart disease. It's nobody's business if you want to buy it and try to eat it. The conformists are the people that have been roped into the trend that what you're doing is bad for you and it's their business to control your actions. It's not their business. It's your personal business. By the way, it's a promotional item. It probably would be fun to watch some person buy it and try to eat it. Half of it's going to end up in his lap anyway. Unfortunately, the loss of individual freedom and liberty in this country continues.
'Controlled bankruptcy' mulled for GM The US government is considering a "controlled" bankruptcy for General Motors that would require approval by some creditors of a plan to break up the troubled automaker. We have just thrown $25 Billion down the toilet in bailouts for General Motors, and now we're going to have a bankruptcy anyway, albeit a "controlled" bankruptcy. We should have saved the $25 Billion and let them go bankrupt in the first place. Look for more bankruptcies that we have squandered bailout money on. We The People get screwed by government and Comrade Obama once again.
Chicago politics has moved into the White House President Obama: "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." Team Obama wants to remind its adversaries it has plenty of power, and it does. The question is whether the White House will wield it responsibly. The jury is still out, but certain clues are beginning to emerge. "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." We have "change."
Hoyer: 'I Don't Know' Where Obama Got Legal Authority for Auto Plan House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that he does not know where President Barack Obama gained legal authority to oversee a restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler. Apparently Comrade Obama doesn't need legal authority.
Why millions want Obama to prove he's constitutionally qualified to be president. With Barack Obama in the White House, millions of Americans are watching the news night after night in sheer shock, wondering out loud what the next unprecedented expansion of government power will be. Nationalizing entire industries with gigantic taxpayer bailouts; forcing taxpayers to fund abortion; releasing Gitmo prisoners onto U.S. streets; rapidly converting free-market, capitalist America into a government-run socialist state - every day seems to bring a new unconstitutional power-grab.
Kissimmee Woman to 911: I'm Locked Inside My Car! Have you tried the door handle? A woman called Kissimmee police to say she was locked inside her car at the Walgreen's on John Young Parkway near Poinciana. "My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car," the unidentified woman said. "Nothing electrical works. And it's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well." The dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door. The woman said she would try, and then, she said, "Yes, I got the door open. Stupidity in Florida!
Red Meat Eaters More Prone to Die from Everything "Red meat raises risk of all kinds of death." All kinds of death? If you eat red meat, are you more prone to auto accidents, plane crashes, drowning, or homicide? Why does life expectancy keep going up in this country if everything out there is going to kill you?
Scientists: Drinking Hot Tea Can Give You Cancer Researchers found drinking tea with a temperature above 70C increased the risk of oesophageal cancer eight-fold. In today's litigation driven society, how long is it going to be before somebody goes into a tea shop with a thermometer and sues whoever made it and sold it to them because it could have killed them?
Dishwasher Detergent Ban Leads to Smuggling The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers. They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don't work as well. Spokane County became the launch pad last July for the nation's strictest ban on dishwasher detergent made with phosphates. As a result, in the state of Washington, there are now phosphate smugglers. They banned the sale, but they didn't ban the use or possession of these products. So the smuggling would actually be legal. At what point are people, either in Spokane, the state of Washington, or anywhere in this great country going to finally stand up and say to these legislative bodies, "Enough. Stop. This is ludicrous."
One ER: 2,678 Visits from Nine People in Six Years In the past six years, eight people from Austin and one from Luling racked up 2,678 emergency room visits in Central Texas, costing hospitals, taxpayers and others $3 million. One of the nine spent more than a third of last year in the ER: 145 days. That same patient totaled 554 ER visits from 2003 through 2008. And you wonder why healthcare costs are so exorbitant? Somebody has to pay for this waste.
Mrs. Clinton Offers Olive Branch to Taliban U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Taliban members in Afghanistan who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honorable form of reconciliation."
Taliban Vows to Attack Washington, DC Soon So much for the olive branch.
Taliban Calls Hillary's Olive Branch a "Lunatic Idea" A lunatic idea from a lunatic, Hitlary Clinton. She offers an olive branch to the Taliban, and the Taliban calls her a lunatic.
This article should be required reading by all taxpayers and taught to High School students, to be re-read and explained until comprehended by all.
Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. This is a woman in her seventies, and he gave her an iPod that has a video screen of two and a half inches. By the way, she already has an iPod.
Sea Turtle Guitar Picks Lead to Indictment A northern California woman has been indicted on federal charges accusing her of illegally importing guitar picks made from endangered turtle shells. An indictment unsealed Friday says 54-year-old Qing Song of Santa Rosa imported picks or raw shells of the Hawksbill sea turtle from China and sold them in California. Apparently, musicians prefer shell picks over plastic because they believe the shells produce a superior tone and they last a little bit longer. We are rapidly experiencing the loss of freedom and individual liberty in the United States.
Bill O´Reilly On Letterman - March 31, 2009 Bill O'Reilly, at times, left Letterman speechless.
Woman Still Breast Feeding Her 6 Year Old Son
Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors"-the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. Another day, another Obama nominee who didn't pay her taxes. No wonder they don't care about raising taxes, they don't pay them anyway.
Citizen grand jury indicts Obama - Groups in 20 more states reviewing eligibility claims President Obama has been named in dozens of civil lawsuits alleging he is not eligible to be president, with one man even filing a criminal complaint alleging the commander-in-chief is a fraud, and now a citizen grand jury in Georgia has indicted the sitting president.
Government Doesn't Have A Clue How To Run A Car Business General Motors makes 20 cars that show a profit. Eleven of them are trucks and SUVs, and they're going to be canceled in this deal. Is this good business sense? It is if the Imperial Federal Government is in charge. On a related note: Iraqis Love Hummers In Iraq, which is emerging from the clenches of a dictatorship, the citizens are able to buy Hummers. Hummer H3s are rolling off the lot fully loaded. No one wants them any other way. Iraqis want them fully loaded. By contrast, we the people, in the greatest nation in the history of the earth, the richest, the most prosperous, are going to be told by our government, "You can't have a Hummer; you can't have a Suburban; you can't have an SUV." Which country sounds more like a dictatorship?
Barney Frank's Bill to Control Your Salary The bill would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies, not just top executives. Where does this government control stop?
Rise in Seal Levels "Greatest Lie Ever Told" If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe. But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story. Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.
Hypocritical Animal Rights Group PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008 The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.
Obama Takes Over GM - Government Motors "GM has made a good-faith effort to restructure over the past several months, but the plan that they've put forward is, in its current form, not strong enough." - Barack Obama This statement is based on what? What does Obama know about the automobile industry? Better yet, does he know anything about cars at all? He might be able to drive and pump gas, but I'll bet he has never changed a tire. "However, after broad consultation with a range of industry experts and financial advisors, I'm absolutely confident that GM can rise again, providing that it undergoes a fundamental restructuring. As an initial step, GM is announcing today that Rick Wagoner is stepping aside as chairman and CEO. This is not meant as a condemnation of Mr. Wagoner, who devoted his life to this company. Rather, it's a recognition that it will take new vision and new direction to create the GM of the future. Let me be clear. The United States government has no interest in running GM. We have no intention of running GM. What we are interested in is giving GM an opportunity to finally make those much needed changes that will let them emerge from this crisis a stronger and more competitive company." - Barack Obama And Barack Obama's administration is going to messianically "Create the GM of the future." GM is not going to be working with the government. They're going to be taking orders from the government. It's what happens when you run around out there with your hand out and take government money. It's now payback time. Obama has no business experience whatsoever, and he is going to make decisions on how to best run GM. GM - Government Motors. "If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been because starting today the United States government will stand behind your warranty." And you think it is difficult getting things done at the dealership now under warranty? Wait until you have to fill out government forms to procure an oil change. You will have to go to the post office first, if they are open, and fill out the correct forms, send them in for processing, and maybe in a month or so, your car will be towed in for service. Obama is not solving anything. He is compounding problems and making things worse. You just got the change you were waiting for.
Obama seeks Muslims for White House posts Barack Obama is conducting his own affirmative action program to get more Muslims in the White House. The move began with Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn, who took his oath of office with a hand on the Quran, to solicit the resume of what he considered to be the nation's most qualified adherents of Islam. Ellison is serious about his faith. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca with the sponsorship of the Muslim American Society, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 1991, Mohamed Akram wrote a memo for the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood that explained its work in America as "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." The enemy within.
Ground Zero tower loses 'Freedom' Once hailed as a beacon of rebirth in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the Freedom Tower has been stripped of its patriotic name. Freedom is out of fashion at Ground Zero.
'Goth-style clothing' sparks vampire rumors Boston Latin School headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta issued a notice to parents and students yesterday quashing rumors of vampires at the school. Why was it even necessary to issue this "notice?"
Today's lesson: Pull up your pants Folklore has it that this style is borrowed from prison where inmates are not allowed a belt. True or not it's a fad teens don't seem to want let go. So schools are taking action.
Schwarzeneggar Democrat appointee busted by audit of the books The director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs resigned Friday in the wake of disclosures about expenses she charged to taxpayers, including for transportation to attend a Justin Timberlake concert with her daughter.
NY Governor to tax success; raises rates 30% (Karl Marx or Groucho?) Personal income taxes for the upper middle class and the rich are about to skyrocket under a secret, soak-the-wealthy tax deal.
HIGH SCHOOL - 1957 vs. 2007 How stupid have we become in only 50 years? Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack. 1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Scenario 2: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school. 1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies. 2007 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it. Scenario 3: Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students. 1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. 2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the government because Jeffrey has a disability. Scenario 4: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a spanking. 1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman. 2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist. Scenario 5: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school. 1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock. 2007 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons. Scenario 6: Pedro fails high school English. 1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college. 2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English. Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed. 1957 - Ants die. 2007 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. Scenario 8: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him. 1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing. 2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army" - Gen. George Washington, to his troops before the battle of Long Island Such a time is near at hand again. Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey Recognizing that we each swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and affirming that we are guardians of the Republic, of the principles in our Declaration of Independence, and of the rights of our people, we affirm and declare the following: 1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people. 2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects - such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons. 3. We will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" or to subject them to trial by military tribunal. 4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a "state of emergency" on a state, or to enter with force into a state, without the express consent and invitation of that state's legislature and governor. 5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union. 6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps. 7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext. 8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to "keep the peace" or to "maintain control" during any emergency, or under any other pretext. We will consider such use of foreign troops against our people to be an invasion and an act of war. 9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies, under any emergency pretext whatsoever. 10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
Quotes and Facts - Socialized Government Healthcare Quote: "This is not only about the health of individuals in our country, which will be justification enough ... It's about the competitiveness of our businesses to make them globally competitive because they are competing with companies and countries where the federal government -- their governments -- pay for health care. They don't have to bear those health care costs." - Nancy Pelosi Fact: It is not the government that will be paying for this healthcare. The government does not generate an income to pay for healthcare. It seizes money from its taxpayers. If the taxpayers earned the money, and the government seizes it to pay for political dreams and schemes like socialized healthcare, then the taxpayers are "bearing those healthcare costs." Pelosi wants you to pay for healthcare. Fact: Nancy Pelosi is brain-dead. The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% since 2006. Coming soon to your healthcare plan.
Tire inflation: From campaign joke to California rule An issue that briefly brought President Barack Obama ridicule on the campaign trail last year is gaining traction in California, where air regulators are seeking to mandate proper tire inflation as a way to reduce fuel consumption. The state Air Resources Board today adopted a resolution requiring auto repair shops to check tire pressure every time drivers bring in their vehicle for maintenance, oil changes and smog tests. Remember, if we save millions of gallons of gasoline in California, it just means your gas taxes are going to go up to compensate for the government revenue. It's all about the money.
The IRS has decided that it wants offshore money to come back to the United States. The plan being drafted would significantly lower penalties for Americans that keep their money overseas. Read the details closely: The IRS would lower the PENALTIES! Not the tax rates. Presently the IRS hits you with a 50% penalty on the average balance you had in an overseas account for the past three years. That's just the penalty. When you bring the money back to work on our economy you also get assaulted with the regular income taxes. And then, of course, there's the interest. After the penalty, the taxes and the interest, you have virtually nothing left. Now that is government incentive to keep your money out of our system. The FairTax would solve this and most of our economic woes completely.
Porkulus to Pay for Anti-Suicide Fence on Bridge One man jumped to his death off the All-America Bridge this year. Two more used the Akron bridge - more commonly known as the Y-Bridge - to commit suicide in 2008. Akron hopes to curtail future deaths on what has been dubbed ''Suicide Bridge'' by installing a fence. This is part of the pork laden stimulus plan. That's rebuilding America. Did they ever stop and think that if someone was serious about suicide, they would just go to another bridge? Idiots in government.
More Cities Target Teens With Daytime Curfews Dallas is considering joining a rising number of others across the country that are imposing criminal penalties on kids who skip school to hang out at the mall or on local street corners. Daytime-curfew laws have long been popular in a handful of states, including California and Ohio. How is this Constitutional?
If you voted for a man with absolutely no experience and a cute slogan about "change" to be the president, you'll send your gold off to someone you don't know and "hope" you get a check in return.
Brazil's Lulu Calls White People Nazis Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blamed the global economic crisis on "white people with blue eyes." This lets me off the hook, my eyes are brown. Have you noticed? There is so much rage and anger out there. The blame game continues.
NEW YORK STATE PAID FOR DENTAL CLEANINGS FOR TOOTHLESS PEOPLE Auditors say the state Medicaid program may have overpaid $2.9 million for services like teeth cleaning for toothless patients. Your tax dollars at work.
If California regulators get their way, auto makers may soon be forced to rewrite a cliché from the Ford Model T era and start telling customers they can have any color they want as long as it isn't black. The measure is aimed at reducing carbon-dioxide emissions and improving fuel economy by keeping vehicles cooler on sunny days and decreasing the amount of time drivers use their air conditioners. Now the government is going to control what color your car can be. Will you be able to get a waiver if you promise to only drive your black car at night? And will you pay a fine if you are caught driving your black car in the daytime? This is what passes for serious thinking in California.
Google Taking Step Into Power Metering Google will announce its entry Tuesday into the small but growing business of "smart grid," digital technologies that seek to both keep the electrical system on an even keel and reduce electrical energy consumption. Google is one of a number of companies devising ways to control the demand for electric power as an alternative to building more power plants. This is like this asinine Worldwide Earth Hour on Saturday night. Saturday night local time, whatever time zone you were in, everybody supposed to turn off their lights for an hour in a symbolic demonstration of saving electricity and saving the planet via reducing global warming. I going to turn on every light I own to try and compensate for this Global Warming nonsense. After all, in case you haven't noticed, the earth has been cooling for over a decade and we just had a record cold winter. We need more Global Warming. Yes, my house will be lit up like a Christmas tree. I might even put a Christmas tree up and light it as well. I am going to do the opposite because I resist the tug of popular sentiment and trends. I hate people acting as sheep, engaging in worthless, meaningless things that will end up resulting in the loss of freedom. If you are willing to turn off your lights for an hour, then how willing will you ultimately be for them to come along and order you to do it. Yes, if the political hacks have their way, they will tell you where to set your thermostat, when you can use heat and air conditioning, and when you have to turn off your lights and sit in the dark. This is not America.
Post office running out of money The post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help. "We can no longer afford business as usual." One word: Government. And some people still think it's a good idea for the government to control the healthcare industry.
Barack Obama wants new forms of energy to become dominant in this country But you had better rule out solar and wind projects. An effort is underway to close off a large swath of the Southern California desert to solar and wind energy projects. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would permanently put hundreds of thousands of acres of desert land off limits to energy projects.
How Smart is Barack Obama? Obama is so smart that he can increase the national debt by $9 trillion and brag that he's cutting spending by $4 trillion! Obama is so smart, he can say he wants us out of Iraq in 16 months and he can say that for the next 27 months. Obama is so smart that he can say that he'll get the world to love us again, while Poland. England, France and Germany, and the European Union are furious with us, not to mention the Chinese. I wonder how Obama would do on the TV show "Are You Smarter than A 5th Grader?"
FBI: Stimulus, Bailout Will Lead to More Fraud The FBI is bracing for a wave of fraud and corruption cases stemming from the government's multitrillion-dollar effort to get the economy moving again, the agency's chief told Congress on Wednesday. The expected surge in economic crimes will place further strain on an agency already stretched thin as it investigates mortgage fraud, terrorism and corrupt politicians, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. Obama and his stimulus are causing massive fraud.
Poll: Obama Will Hike Taxes on Under 250K Earners Two-thirds of U.S. voters (66%) think President Obama is likely to raise taxes on people who less than $250,000 per year. That figure includes 47% who say he is Very Likely to do so. People know Obama is lying through his teeth, and yet they still support him.
Barack Obama is assembling a panel to review the tax code Solution: The FairTax. The work has already been done for this Obama panel with over $20 million in research behind it. If the Obama administration is truly determined to simplify our tax code and bring money back into the system, the FairTax can't be ignored.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "The answer to the question is, not all of these jobs are gonna to come back, and it probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, frankly, uh, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs." - Barack Obama Fact: Obama just explained why the jobs left in the first place. It's cheaper overseas.
Global warming endangering public health Bill Kovacs, of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, explains, "By moving forward with the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, EPA is putting in motion a set of decisions that may have far-reaching unintended consequences … Specifically, once the finding is made, no matter how limited, some environmental groups will sue to make sure it is applied to all aspects of the Clean Air Act … This will mean that all infrastructure projects, including those under the president's stimulus initiative, will be subject to environmental review for greenhouse gases. Since not one of the projects has been subjected to that review, it is possible that the projects under the stimulus initiative will cease. This will be devastating to the economy."
Enviro Wacko: Reduce UK Population to 30 Million JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown's leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. This is part of the thinking behind the call for Britain to cut population to 30m - roughly what it was in late Victorian times. How are you going to reduce the British population to 30 million? Abortion is one way, but that may not cover it because right now abortion is still elective. So, you have to kill people. And look at the basis: we're killing people to save trees and vegetables and earth and air, and this is considered responsible! And they think this is somehow the advancement of "a sustainable society." Ignorance is the most expensive commodity that we have in this country.
U.S. move to cheaper Chinese condoms threatens American jobs At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products? In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China. There are other more important questions that need to be asked: Will these Chinese condoms have lead in them? Are we going to trust birth control and AIDS to the Chinese? They can't even make pet food or kids' toys.
USAF Security - This is my kind of Gal A story with a happy ending! This nineteen-year-old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him). Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers. The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards (That's a shot 25 yards longer than seven football fields!). She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. And the last thing that came out of his mouth was his ass! The Air Force made a motivational poster of her.
You and I Can't Buy the Guns Mexican Cartels Own The Administration is Not Dealing Straight With Us on Mexico's Gun Problem Yes, some guns are being smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. Most are handguns. But, handguns are being illegally trafficked from state to state and from the U.S. to Canada. It should come as no surprise that guns are smuggled into Mexico. But, the problem being portrayed by the U.S. media and our government is not as it seems. You see, Mexico doesn't allow ownership of most firearms, so ordinary Mexican people seeking self-protection will find a way to get them into Mexico. As for the drug cartels operating in the border towns along the U.S., they have other sources for their weapons and have become the prime supplier within Mexico.
Brazilian The Dept Of Defense briefed the president this morning, they told OBAMA that 2 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. To everyone's surprise, all the color drained from Obama's face. Then he collapsed onto his desk, head in his hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears. Finally, he composed himself and asked, 'Just how many is a brazilian?' This is especially funny since he obviously has no understanding of billion or trillion either.
Rockefeller: Internet is "Number One National Hazard" He claims that the internet never should have existed. The moves to censor, regulate and control information on the internet continue.
Army Dispatched in Response to End the Fed Protests The Liberty Restoration Project blog has posted an advisory released last November by the United States Army Reserve. "The United States Army Reserve Command is publishing this Force Protection Advisory to advise all Army Reserve personnel of the planned protests at all Federal Reserve Banks and office locations within the United States on 22 November 2008," the document reads. "This message provides situational awareness and recommended mitigation measures." According to the Army Reserve, the folks gathered and exercising the First Amendment in response to the Federal Reserve's loan sharking operation are essentially terrorists.
Helicopter Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late-night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U. S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers. As an aghast world -- from China to Chicago and Chihuahua -- watches, the circus-like U. S. political system seems to be declining into near chaos.
THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA'S BUDGET It includes more government! Obama proposed spending $3.6 trillion, which is more than 25% of our GDP. His budget would commit Washington to unsustainable deficits and increase borrowing by over $9 trillion over the next decade. That is more than four times the deficits of George Bush. And I used to say that Bush spent money like a drunken sailor. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that "Obama's policies would cause government spending to swell above historic levels even after the costly programs to alleviate the recession and shore up the financial system have ended. The result, the CBO said, was that by 2019 the US national debt would be about 82 per cent of GDP - about double where it is today." People voted for this guy because he looked cool and enjoys basketball. They voted for him because he appeared on all of the leading magazine covers and was praised by popular TV and movie stars. And, most importantly, they voted for him because of the magical word "change!" We now have change.
This is thine president, thine one true president. Hark and behold my words, for let it be said that I am very good at this job.
H.R.1207 - The Federal Reserve Transparency Act!
Key Differences Between The Great Depression And Today's Financial Crisis
Stimulus: Walmart Awards $2B to Hourly Employees Wal-Mart Stores Inc is awarding approximately $2 billion to its U.S. hourly employees through financial incentives, including handing out $933.6 million in bonuses after the world's largest retailer gained market share amid a recession. A year ago, Walmart said it awarded almost $1.2 billion in financial incentives to its U.S. hourly employees, including more than $636.4 million in bonuses." So, if you add that up, you have $3.2 billion in bonuses in the last two years from Walmart. Now this is what you call genuine stimulus.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "We need young people instead of the, you know, a smart kid coming out of school, instead of wanting to be an investment banker, we need them to decide they want to be an engineer, want to be a scientist, they want to be a doctor or a teacher, and if we're rewarding those kinds of things that actually contribute to making things and -- and making people's lives better, that's going to put our economy on solid footing, we won't have this bubble and bust economy that we've gotten so caught up in for the last several years." - Barack Obama Fact: It's none of his business what you want to do with your life! It's none of his business and it's none of the government's business! In the mind of Obama, we need to fund things that matter, people who make things, like ACORN. What does ACORN make? Nothing but corruption and trouble. This is an attack on liberty and individualism directly from the Oval Office courtesy of the Tonight Show.
Nancy Pelosi Says Illegal Aliens Are American Patriots
NJ considers ban on bare-it-all 'Brazilian' wax New Jersey is drawing the line when it comes to bikini waxing. The state Cosmetology and Hairstyling Board is moving toward a ban on genital waxing altogether after two women reported being injured. Salons which continue to perform the "Brazilian" could face fines. I wish the government would simply stay out of women's crotches. The government has no business in women's crotches. I don't care if it's the New Jersey government or the Imperial Federal Government; they have no business in women's crotches. If a woman wants to get a Brazilian bikini wax and there's a company out there willing to do it, it's none of New Jersey's business what goes on in her crotch behind the closed doors of a firm that does bikini waxes. Women's crotches are not the state's business.
Some of the criteria will shock you. While some of it is valid, it can easily be abused by authorities. Things like promoting anti-government sentiment, such as being against the IRS.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "For decades we've avoided doing what we must do as a nation to turn -- turn challenge and opportunity. As a consequence we import more oil than we did on 9/11. The... The 1908 Model T -- think about this! The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than the typical SUV in 2008. Think about that, a hundred years later and we're getting worse gas mileage, not better." - Barack Obama Fact: The Model T was a four-cylinder, 177 cubic-inch, 2.9 liter engine, 20 horsepower, with a top speed of 45 miles per hour. How many people drove it at 45 miles per hour? The model T took regular gas with lead. It had no catalytic converter. Half of them didn't have roofs, half of them didn't have windows, and half of them didn't have trunks. All the weight that has been added to the cars today was not there.
Obama Gets $500,000 Bonus for Children's Book Obama did this five days before he was immaculately inaugurated. He received two-and-a-half million in book royalties last year for his other two books. Obama is grabbing every dollar he can, taking $500,000 on just this one deal, while chastising people who, in reality, work much harder than he is for it; people who actually create jobs and run businesses while earning half that much. He is conveniently getting as much income as he can pushed forward before his own tax increases hit the books. Obama and his myrmidons are hypocrites.
Barack Obama's Teleprompter's Blog Reflections from the hard drive of the machine that enables the voice of the Leader of the Free World.
Idiot North Pole Sea Ice Explorers in Trouble Three British explorers trying to ski to the North Pole to measure the thickness of sea ice only have one day's food left as bad weather hampers supply flights. "We're hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice and, because we're not moving, the colder we get." Here we have three idiots skiing to the North Pole to try to prove that sea ice is melting, and they're about to die because of frostbite. It's too cold. They're down to one day's food. They've got icicles in their sleeping bags, and the flights to resupply them can't get in there because the winter weather's too bad. Global warming, of course, is the culprit for sea ice melting in the Arctic Circle, and here are three dingbats trying to prove it who are about to die by freezing in the process. If any of these people freeze to death, can the remaining family members sue Al Gore?
Obama Climate Plan Could Cost $2 Trillion President Obama's climate plan could cost industry close to $2 trillion, nearly three times the White House's initial estimate of the so-called "cap-and-trade" legislation.
The Constitution Doesn't Matter Anymore The Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford said, "I'm not taking bailout money. I'm not taking it." Good for him. However, what most people don't know, and the media isn't reporting, is that there is an unconstitutional provision in the Porkulus bill. If a governor refuses the money, Congress can authorize or order a state legislature to override the governor's decision. That violates the Constitution and is thus unconstitutional. It violates the checks and balances and separation of powers. So Sanford said later, "Okay, I'm going to take some of the money to retire my state's debt." Peter Orszag, OMB, Obama administration, said no, you can't retire debt with what we're giving you. You have to spend it the way we say. You have to spend it on new welfare cases. You have to spend it on whatever else that the Obama administration determines is in their best interest. This scam is not about creating jobs, it's not about stimulus. It's about the expansion of federal power. Change?
Solution To The Healthcare "Crisis" I have been saying this for years. The solution is simple. A loser pays system. Tort reform. Initiate a loser pays system and you will eliminate a lot of these frivolous lawsuits. Malpractice insurance would plummet and prices would come down. Problem solved without government.
Americans See 18% of Wealth Vanish The wealth of American families plunged nearly 18% in 2008, erasing years of sharp gains on housing and stocks and marking the biggest loss since the Federal Reserve began keeping track after World War II. In 1981, the combined net worth of all American households was$10 trillion. By 2001, it had increased to over $60 trillion household net worth. The household net worth had gone (from 1981 to 2001) from ten trillion to $60 trillion. In the last quarter of 2008, household net worth has gone from $60 trillion to $49 trillion, with $11 trillion lost. We had twenty-eight boom years. We got richer. American households got wealthier. Their net worth expanded and increased. It started in the 1980s. Now President Obama's teleprompter tells him to say that the "tired ways of the past didn't work," that we need "a new way." We have the new way, the change if you will. We have peasants with their pitchforks phoning in death threats at AIG. We have members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives sounding like communist dictators. We have phony scandals being purported by Obama's teleprompter, promoted by White House media, designed to distract you from the destruction that is happening to the United States economy and thus our country. So while you're all exorcised and bent out of shape about $165 million in bonuses, your household net worth and your prospects for a job, are plummeting through the floor and headed to the sewer. But they care about you in Washington. Obama's teleprompter cares a great deal about you as well. Lord Obama, the first Messiah to require a teleprompter to speak to the masses, has brought you "change."
Obama Approval Rating Drops in Three Separate Polls President Barack Obama's approval rating has slipped, as a growing number of Americans see him listening more to his party's liberals than to its moderates and many voice opposition to some of his key economic proposals. Obama's job approval rating has slipped from 64% in February to 59% currently, while disapproval has jumped from 17% to 26% over this period. The Pew poll says that one of the reasons people are finding more problems with Obama is they see that he's listening more to liberals than moderates. Well, duh! Obama is a liberal. There's nothing moderate about him. Only his teleprompter is moderate. If it weren't for his teleprompter we'd see who the really Obama is. But it's finally dawning on people anyway that this Obama gang can't shoot straight. They know what they're doing, and they're trying to get it done, but they look incompetent in the process.
Escape Plan Destination: New Zealand You Can't Spend Your Way Out of the Crisis New Zealand's prime minister wants to give his country a competitive advantage instead. Watch New Zealand. They're going to show us how it's done. They may have an advantage though. The majority of people in New Zealand may actually have a sense of self-worth and independence. That's helps.
Good Kid? It's always the same old story. A teenager gets a gun and tries to hold someone up. The potential victim has a gun of his own and the teenager gets dispatched to his eternal celestial dirt nap. Next, the teenager's mother steps forward to tell us that "he is a good kid." Go figure.
Inconvenient Debt - Glenn Beck
Why The Founding Fathers Would Want Obama's Plans to Fail James Madison was not specifically contemplating Barack Obama, or Nancy Pelosi, when he wrote Federalist No. 63. But reading the document - one of the seminal arguments in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution - it's clear Madison knew their type. And he knew they would come along again and again in American history, if Americans were lucky enough to have a long history. Obama and Pelosi, along with their most ardent supporters, are the types to see a crisis, like our current economic mess, as a "great opportunity," as the president put it last Saturday. They are the types, after a long period out of power, to attempt to use that "great opportunity" to push through far-reaching changes in national policy that had only a tangential connection, if at all, to the crisis at hand. And they are the types the Founding Fathers wanted to stop. In the Federalist Papers, written 221 years ago, Madison addressed the need for a Senate to accompany the more populist House of Representatives. An upper body, he wrote, "may be sometimes necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions." For the times when a political leader would attempt to capitalize on those errors and delusions, the Founders prescribed the Senate, with its members elected to terms three times the length of those in the House, originally chosen not by the people but by the state legislatures. From Federalist 63: "There are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" Of course the economy is in crisis. But if Obama had his way, everything would be treated as if it were a crisis. Health care is a crisis. The environment is a crisis. Education is a crisis. We don't have a king. We have separation of powers. We have a system designed to ensure that the president fail when he should.
Different Presidents, A Different Corps
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
Michelle Obama serves food to poor and homeless If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone? And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills? The PR sham continues!
Twitter CEO Advises the President on Economy The White House has invited the cofounder and the CEO of Twitter, E.V. Williams, to join in a discussion with young business leaders on the economic crises. Twitter, has six million members, and a 700% plus growth rate. However, they make no money in the in the United States. Williams said, "They must be really out of ideas if they're having me up here."
Thanks to Comrade Obama, your great-grandkids will be in debt as soon as they are born.
Obama hails 25 new jobs amid huge losses President Obama hailed the swearing-in of 25 new police officers as the day brought word that another 651,000 jobs were lost last month and the unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 percent. Obama stated, "For those who still doubt the wisdom of our recovery plan… I ask them to come to Ohio and meet the 25 men and women who will s-s-soon be protecting the streets of Columbus because we passed this plan." Twenty-five jobs were "saved" in Columbus, Ohio because of the stimulus bill. One caveat however, the police jobs are not funded past one year, under the Obama plan. So next year those 25 jobs will be gone if the city doesn't have the money to continue with their employment, and when there's no PR value in these 25 jobs being saved, the funding is just for one year. But for this year, we have 25 jobs saved by the stimulus plan. Hallelujah! We are out of trouble. By the way, 25 jobs divided into a trillion dollars, means we spent $40 billion per job. Those people will eat for a year, they will work for a year, and when there's no longer any PR value left at the end of the year, those 25 police officers are going to be sent to the Russian front. The Obama dog and pony show continues.
'Obama bear market' punishes investors as Dow slumps The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 20 percent since Inauguration Day, the fastest drop under a newly elected president in at least 90 years. Change you can believe in?
President Barack Obama doesn't go anywhere without his TelePrompter Obama's reliance on the teleprompter is unusual - not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small. After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches. Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he's been saying for months - whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the Union. The perceived great orator, Lord Obama, apparently can't think on his feet.
Google pays seven-figure bonuses to 4 top execs Google's top executives are eligible for annual bonuses of up to $6 million apiece. Why is this news such a big deal? It is a private company that managed to turn in a profit, even in this economy. They should be giving bonuses.
Tax Cheat Timothy Geithner He's a tax cheat, plain and simple. He plotted to cheat on his taxes, and then carried that plot through; and he was caught. Now he's our Treasury Secretary. Change you can believe in.
Rush Limbaugh said: "If Barack Obama's goal is to transform our economy into a socialist economy, I want him to fail." Now what is wrong with that statement? I'm with Limbaugh on that one. I want Obama to fail as well. Furthermore, if Obama's goal is to create an egalitarian society where everybody has an equal amount of stuff, I want him to fail. If his goal is to create a nationalized health care system under which health care will have to be rationed, I want him to fail. Let the hate mail begin.
Dare to criticize Al Gore - the moral equivalent to killing 1,000 people Who would think a climate scientist could get so angry about people criticizing a politician? Well, probably makes sense if you are dependent on government grants for your livelihood.
The Obama administration announced the appointment to be commissioner of the FCC yesterday, Julius Genachowski. This man is highly touted as a brilliant master at designing and managing all the New Media taking place. He's very devoted to the concept of minority ownership, diversifying in ownership. Julius Genachowski, this man's resume sounds like he would fit perfectly with Hugo Chavez in identifying some of this media critical of the government and devising strategies of what to do about it. Now, there will not be a Fairness Doctrine. They're not going to be that obvious about it. They'll go with localism, local content rules, or they will go with diversity in ownership. Let's say you've have a large owner of radio stations, a company like Clear Channel. Obama and his new FCC chairman might look at that and say, "There's not enough diversity, one big company, this is forbidden, we need to break some of that up. We need minorities owning some of those radio stations." These minorities won't care about showing a profit because they will be subsidized by the government as minority owners. They won't have to worry about removing profitable programming. Now, Hugo Chavez ordered his minions to identify media owned by oligarchs, and get rid of them so his approval rating could get up to 80%. Who is emulating is Hugo Chavez here in the United States?
China Can Take Your Home and Land! Hitlary Clinton has given our property rights away. Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA. The written agreement was brought to Beijing by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was formalized and agreed-to during her recent trip to China. This means that in the event the US Government defaults on its financial obligations to China, the Communist Government of China would be permitted to physically take -- inside the USA -- land, buildings, factories, perhaps even entire cities - to satisfy the financial obligations of the US government. Change you can believe in?
Motorist receives counseling for speed camera phobia Another phobia for the books. How much taxpayer money is being spent to cure this guy? Coming soon to a government healthcare plan near you. Government is not about improving your health. This is all about controlling your life. Whoever controls your health care controls you.
Quotes and Facts Quote: What I'm looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market but the long-term, uh, ability for the United States and the entire world economy, uh, to regain its footing. Uh, and, y-y-you know, the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics. It bobs up and down day to day, uh, and if you spend all your time worrying about that, you're probably going to get long-term strategy wrong. - Barack Obama Fact: Day to day gyrations? How about month-to-month declines. There are no day-to-day gyrations here. There is just a steady decline.
That's change you can believe in!
"Transparent" Obama Sends Secret Letter to Putin Barack Obama, a man who promised the most transparent government transition administration in history, sent a secret letter to the Russians. It went out weeks ago.
Another Obama pick owes taxes, but it's OK because, now caught, he'll pay up Obama has created the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States. He has tried to nominate a total of five tax cheats to date. The most recent, Ron Kirk, Obama's trade representative, owes $10,000 in back taxes. But being as articulate as he is and so well-versed in handling other people's money, he was deemed essential.
'Bridge to nowhere' OK'd for Everglades A provision buried inside Congress' giant spending bill would overturn a federal court order, discard part of environmental law and reject an Indian tribe's plea, forcing the government to build a bridge in Everglades National Park that a federal judge has declared "a complete waste of taxpayer dollars."
Big Brother's New Target: Tracking Firearms The measure calls for all handgun owners to submit to the federal government an application that shall include, among many other things: a photo; an address; a thumbprint; a completed, written firearm safety test; private mental health records; and a fee. The bill would further require the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer, and owner's address in America. Moreover, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" -- defined as "any handgun; or any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device…" [emphasis added] without one of the proposed licenses. Gun Registration: On Nov. 8, 1938 the New York Times reported from Berlin, "Berlin Police Head Announces 'Disarming' of Jews," explaining: The Berlin Police President, Count Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf, announced that as a result of a police activity in the last few weeks the entire Jewish population of Berlin had been "disarmed" with the confiscation of 2,569 hand weapons, 1,702 firearms and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Any Jews still found in possession of weapons without valid licenses are threatened with the severest punishment. On the evening of Nov. 9, Adolf Hitler, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and other Nazi chiefs planned the attack. Orders went out to Nazi security forces: "All Jewish stores are to be destroyed immediately . . . . Jewish synagogues are to be set on fire . . . . The Führer wishes that the police does not intervene. . . . All Jews are to be disarmed. In the event of resistance they are to be shot immediately." All hell broke loose on Nov. 10: "Nazis Smash, Loot and Burn Jewish Shops and Temples." "One of the first legal measures issued was an order by Heinrich Himmler, commander of all German police, forbidding Jews to possess any weapons whatever and imposing a penalty of twenty years confinement in a concentration camp upon every Jew found in possession of a weapon hereafter."3 Thousands of Jews were taken away. Himmler, head of the Nazi terror police, would become an architect of the Holocaust, which consumed six million Jews. It was self evident that the Jews must be disarmed before the extermination could begin. Finding out which Jews had firearms was not too difficult. The liberal Weimar Republic passed a Firearm Law in 1928 requiring extensive police records on gun owners. Hitler signed a further gun control law in early 1938. Other European countries also had laws requiring police records to be kept on persons who possessed firearms. When the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1939, it was a simple matter to identify gun owners. Is history repeating itself?
Massive Budget Marks Largest Ideological Swing Since the Reagan Era Republicans and Democrats alike say the budget request, which seeks $3.6 trillion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, marks the biggest ideological shift in Washington since the dawn of the Reagan administration. Fierce clashes are likely on an array of fronts, from Obama's plan to spend at least $634 billion to expand health care for the uninsured to his proposal to raise a similar sum by taxing industries that generate greenhouse gases. Obama's plan would produce annual deficits far larger in dollar terms than any recorded before the recession. As a percentage of the overall economy, the budget gap is projected to settle down to a more manageable 3 percent by the end of Obama's term. But Washington would continue to borrow heavily, and the national debt would double over the next five years. Comrade Obama is growing government faster than Comrade Bush who holds the present record. Change?
Rush Limbaugh Addresses CPAC 2009
Libertarianism a Sign of Mental Illness? The Harvard Law School is having a conference to analyze the "free market mindset." The basic premise of the conference seems to be that people who believe in limited government are psychologically troubled. The conference schedule features presentations such as "How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community" and "Addicted to Incentives: How the Ideology of Self Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling." The most absurd presentation, though, may be the one entitled, "Colossal Failure: The Output Bias of Market Economies." According to the description, the author argues that the market "delivers excessive levels of consumption." Damn those entrepreneurs for creating so much wealth! In the name of fairness, we are all supposed to equally miserable. In the good old days of Soviet dictatorship, the regime classified dissidents as being mentally ill (after all, only a nutcase would fail to see the glories of communism).
MSNBC's Chris Matthews 'Oh God' remark MSNBC's Chris Matthews quietly said "Oh God" as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal approached a microphone to respond to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress. Matthews' barely audible "Oh God" appeared to be a classic case of someone talking on TV without realizing their microphone was on, and potentially embarrassing to a network many. Media bias? Watch the video and judge for yourself. You hear the "Oh God" followed by laughter.
One in five U.S. workers say they are late to work at least once a week One in 10 workers said they are late to their jobs at least twice a week. The most common excuse is traffic, followed by a lack of sleep and getting children ready for school or day care. How pathetic. I understand that things happen. But a person who is not willing to show up on time with a reasonable amount of consistency is not the kind of employee you need to keep around. Especially in times like these.
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. Mexican government officials have complained that the availability of sophisticated guns from the United States. "I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Eric Holder said. Translation: We relinquish our rights as American citizens to pacify Mexican government officials. Why doesn't Mexico control its own borders?
Alison Haislip goes to Oklahoma and discharges the heavy artillery Looks like fun to me.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "We don't want to go after guns right now." - Nancy Pelosi Fact: Not right now, but they do want to go after our guns eventually. Quote: "But what I don't understand from Governor Jindal is what would he do? In Louisiana, there's 400 people a day losing their jobs. What's he doing?" - Joe Biden Fact: Wrong! Remember, nobody messes with Joe. But Joe just can't get any numbers straight. According to the Louisiana Workforce Commission, in December 2008, Louisiana was the only state in the nation besides the District of Columbia that added employment over the month. In fact, the state gained 3,700 jobs for the seasonally adjusted employment.
Taliban Beheads Man as "Gift" to President Obama A note found on the body of the man, identified as Shafiq Gul, said he was "spying for the US". "Whoever spies for the US will face the same fate. This is a gift to (US President Barack) Obama," the note said. And Obama probably still believes he can solve everything by sitting down and talking to these thugs. Our new president is a naive dolt.
Poll: Obama popularity lags Bush after first month The media may be smitten with President Obama, but recent Gallup poll results show Americans giving the new president lower marks after one month in the White House. Wait a minute, I thought the evil Bush was horrible and the Messiah Obama was the lord of "change."
Biden Asks for Web Site's 'Number' Vice President Joe Biden, tasked with overseeing the $787 billion stimulus package, has been having a little trouble with his "numbers." The guy Obama put in charge of making sure that our stimulus dollars are spent wisely, couldn't remember the "number" for the government-run website set up to track how stimulus money is spent. A dolt as president and a computer illiterate idiot and Vice President. Living proof that the Three Stooges had kids.
And now on to the important issues: The Obama First Dog going to be a Portuguese Water Dog Did he make the right choice? Hey, the dog has an afro! Senator Ted Kennedy should be pleased with the selection. He owns two Portuguese water dogs, and lobbied hard for the breed. Did Obama make the right choice? Hey, the dog has an afro!
MORE MONEY FOR SOCIALISM Barack Obama just shoved a 787 billion dollar stimulus package down the throats of the American people. Apparently it wasn't enough for him. Now the democrats want an additional 410 billion dollars of taxpayer money to spend. And this is a spending bill which contains 9000 earmarks. Earmarks which Obama promised we wouldn't have. Among the highlights are: $2.2 million for the center for grape genetics in upstate New York. $143,000 for Manhattan's American ballet theatre. $500,000 for a senate program to defray the cost of mass-mailing postcards to constituents. $200,000 for a "tattoo removal violence prevention outreach program." $5.8 million for the "Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate." (All senators need to learn the Kennedy ways.) $473,000 for National Council of La Raza. (La Raza means "the race" in Spanish, and is clearly a racist organization.) No one has ever said no to Comrade Obama. From his childhood, through his early career, until now, no authority figure has said, "Stop, you can't do that." So he has developed a sense of self-righteousness and political invincibility. He will continue to steamroll our freedoms.
Charity shall become mandatory and will only be handled through the Imperial Federal Government.
Almost $1 trillion in new taxes over 10 years in Obama budget President Obama's budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals. I thought the Messiah told us that our taxes wouldn't go up? What is one more broken campaign promise?
Obama's Cap on Carbon Pollution Is A Huge Tax Increase In his speech to Congress Tuesday night, President Barack Obama "committed himself to the largest annual tax increase in the history of America," Senator Jim Inhofe said. What happened to the promised tax cuts? Lord Obama giveth and taketh away.
School Prayer: Muslim prayers approved for classroom Four students knelt on a classroom floor during lunch at the Albert Payson Terhune Elementary School today and performed the afternoon Muslim prayer ritual. I thought some people had a major issue pertaining to prayers in school. Where is the outrage now?
House Approves $410 Billion Spending Bill, Eliminates D.C. School Choice Vouchers The problem is school choice works. It puts education in the hands of the parents and not the government. This isn't good for those who want to continue to grow government. Democrats need to make sure that our pathetic government system of education continues to fail our children. If education works where in the hell do they find future Democrat voters? Democrats want to be seen as the heroes of education, but this will be done by throwing more money at the problem and making people more dependent on government. Education reform political hack style. That's "change."
Likely intel pick: Muslims were here first The Obama administration's reported pick for a top intel post once peddled a book to U.S. schools that falsely claims Muslims inhabited North America far before European explorers. Charles "Chas" Freeman, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, is slated to head the National Intelligence Council, according to multiple reports. It came to light Freeman has financial ties to the infamous bin Laden family - including dealings he defended after Sept. 11, 2001. The enemy within.
Freedom Under Fire: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution The United Nations Anti-Blasphemy Resolution aims to curtail speech that offends religion, specifically Islam. Critics, religious groups and free speech advocates say the resolution is spreading Sharia law to the Western world. How dare you say something that might offend someone? You have no rights. Well, it may be coming to that.
Democrat argues for president's deportation A Democrat who has filed lawsuits questioning Obama's eligibility said that not only is Obama not eligible, he's probably an illegal alien and should be deported.
Kerry asks for $5 billion to bail out Pakistan The United States is lining up billions of dollars in new economic and military aid to Pakistan despite reports that Islamabad is using American taxpayer money for deals with the Taliban.
ChiComs Flying in to Buy Foreclosed US Properties They probably figured their T-bills are worthless for a while, so why not get into American real estate? The Chinese are snapping up foreclosed homes. They can see a deal when it stares them in the face.
Fairness Doctrine win a ploy, Obamamaniacs to try new tactic Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois won approval for an alternate amendment ordering the Federal Communications Commission to encourage radio ownership "diversity." It passed by a vote of 57 to 41. A Jim DeMint aide said Durbin's measure will "impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership."
Car Repo Violence Erupts Across Country Violence is erupting all over the country when repossession agents attempt to go out and repossess cars that people have failed to make payments on. This begs the question: If we are allowing people to stay in their homes when they can't pay, when they were never intended to pay, when everybody knew they never had a prayer of paying, why in the world are we taking their cars away from them? Lord Obama has magically absolved all debt. It's just cruel in this worst economy in a thousand years to repo somebody's car. Besides, we're going to need them driving that car and buying gasoline at the new 50% increase in the gasoline tax.
The First Automobile The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single day by a single inventor. The history of the automobile reflects an evolution that took place worldwide. It is estimated that over 100,000 patents created the modern automobile. However, we can point to the many firsts that occurred along the way. Starting with the first theoretical plans for a motor vehicle that had been drawn up by both Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton. In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot (1725 - 1804). Cugnot used a steam engine to power his vehicle, built under his instructions at the Paris Arsenal by mechanic Brezin. It was used by the French Army to haul artillery at a whopping speed of 2 1/2 mph on only three wheels. The vehicle had to stop every ten to fifteen minutes to build up steam power. The steam engine and boiler were separate from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the front (see engraving above). The following year (1770), Cugnot built a steam-powered tricycle that carried four passengers. In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone wall, making Cugnot the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident. This was the beginning of bad luck for the inventor. After one of Cugnot's patrons died and the other was exiled, the money for Cugnot's road vehicle experiments ended. Steam engines powered cars by burning fuel that heated water in a boiler, creating steam that expanded and pushed pistons that turned the crankshaft, which then turned the wheels. During the early history of self-propelled vehicles - both road and railroad vehicles were being developed with steam engines. (Cugnot also designed two steam locomotives with engines that never worked well.) Steam engines added so much weight to a vehicle that they proved a poor design for road vehicles; however, steam engines were very successfully used in locomotives. Historians, who accept that early steam-powered road vehicles were automobiles, feel that Nicolas Cugnot was the inventor of the first automobile. After Cugnot Several Other Inventors Designed Steam-Powered Road Vehicles * Cugnot's vehicle was improved by Frenchman, Onesiphore Pecqueur, who also invented the first differential gear. * In 1789, the first U.S. Patent for a steam-powered land vehicle was granted to Oliver Evans. * In 1801, Richard Trevithick built a road carriage powered by steam - the first in Great Britain. * In Britain, from 1820 to 1840, steam-powered stagecoaches were in regular service. These were later banned from public roads and Britain's railroad system developed as a result. * Steam-driven road tractors (built by Charles Deitz) pulled passenger carriages around Paris and Bordeaux up to 1850. * In the United States, numerous steam coaches were built from 1860 to 1880. Inventors included: Harrison Dyer, Joseph Dixon, Rufus Porter, and William T. James. * Amedee Bollee Sr. Built advanced steam cars from 1873 to 1883. The "La Mancelle" built in 1878, had a front-mounted engine, shaft drive to the differential, chain drive to the rear wheels, steering wheel on a vertical shaft and driver's seat behind the engine. The boiler was carried behind the passenger compartment. * In 1871, Dr. J. W. Carhart, professor of physics at Wisconsin State University, and the J. I. Case Company built a working steam car that won a 200-mile race. Early Electric Cars Steam engines were not the only engines used in early automobiles. Vehicles with electrical engines were also invented. Between 1832 and 1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented the first electric carriage. Electric cars used rechargeable batteries that powered a small electric motor. The vehicles were heavy, slow, expensive, and needed to stop for recharging frequently. Both steam and electric road vehicles were abandoned in favor of gas-powered vehicles. Electricity found greater success in tramways and streetcars, where a constant supply of electricity was possible. The History of Electric Vehicles Learn more about the history of electrical vehicles from 1890 to the present. However, around 1900, electric land vehicles in America outsold all other types of cars. Then in the several years following 1900, sales of electric vehicles took a nosedive as a new type of vehicle came to dominate the consumer market. The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines and by that definition Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769 - recognized by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France as being the first. So why do so many history books say that the automobile was invented by either Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz? It is because both Daimler and Benz invented highly successful and practical gasoline-powered vehicles that ushered in the age of modern automobiles. Daimler and Benz invented cars that looked and worked like the cars we use today. However, it is unfair to say that either man invented "the" automobile.
The First Production Automobile in America - Made In Chicopee/Springfield, Massachusetts
Soldier questions eligibility, doubts president's authority Officer Scott Easterling: "As an active-duty officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of president of the United States." "Until Mr. Obama releases a 'vault copy' of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office - an impostor," his statement said.
Talk about being teed off. The economy is croaking and bankers are still partying at a golf tournament here on our dime. Northern Trust of Chicago, which got $1.5 billion in bailout money and then laid off 450 workers, flew hundreds of clients and employees to Los Angeles last week and treated them to four days of posh hotel rooms, salmon and filet mignon dinners, music concerts, a PGA golf tournament at the Riviera Country Club with Mercedes shuttle rides and Tiffany swag bags.
Obama was Wrong on Invention of Automobile Obama: "And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it." Wrong again Comrade Obama. Americans didn't invent the automobile. The internal combustion engine in the first automobile was invented by a German by the name of Karl Benz, which led to Mercedes Benz, which then begot Wilhelm Maybach, which has led to the revival of the Maybach automobile. Henry Ford invented the assembly line for manufacturing automobiles, and he did invent the Model T, but the automobile was invented by Karl Benz. No wonder they sealed Obama's college records. This guy is a dolt. Obama didn't know this. And, he didn't get much else right, either.
BO BS's U.S.; spend to save? (What's with Pelosi sucking candy?) The economy will recover and the nation will rebuild, President Obama declared in his first address to Congress. Obama's budget is going to be a "vision for America." How pleasant. I always thought the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were visions for America. Now they'll be replaced by Obama's budget.
Michael Savage - "CNN Trying to Cover Up Obama Birth Certificate Controversy" CNN's reporting is right out of the Soviet Union. Here they are trying to cover up a legitimate concern for many millions of people that want to know the truth about Obama and WHY he is avoiding this issue totally. The entire world knows that Obama was born in Kenya and they are laughing at us. The brainwashed fools that voted for this guy have no clue about this story and the numerous lawsuits filed.
Joe Biden's Stanford Hedge Fund Connection A fund of hedge funds run by two members of Vice President Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud. The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund. This is apparently a solid link to this financier who is accused of defrauding people to the tune of $8 billion and a fund of funds run by Joe Biden's family. But this doesn't matter. You can't tarnish the Messiah's second in command.
Next decade 'may see no warming' The Earth's temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted. The cause of the oscillation is not well understood, but the cycle appears to come round about every 60 to 70 years.
Sean Hannity talks to Martin Mawyer, producer of the new documentary film, Homegrown Jihad, about the 35 Islamic terrorist training compounds that exist right here in America.
Quote "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the U.S. and 4th U.S. President, 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist French refugees
The Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts wants to charge more for registration on large SUV's and give discounts on registration for hybrids and fuel efficient cars. It would be the first such fee in the nation on the state level.
Obama's homeless woman is actually real estate investor It appears that the desperate homeless woman owns real estate she shifted into the name of her son to avoid taxes and acquire government aid. Deceit and fraud, that's "change you can believe in."
Bail Out the Weight-Loss Industry or Obesity Will Rise Jenny Craig is down big time. NutriSystem is down big time. Both companies are talking about the need to lay people off. The solution is simple: If companies produced a weight loss product that actually worked, they wouldn't need bailouts. TAIslim works.
Barney Frank: Cut Defense Spending 25 Percent Frank says you can't find any evidence defense spending is economic stimulus. Has this political hack ever heard of World War II?
Sharpton calls on FCC to investigate News Corp Outrage and protests continue to mount over the New York Post's controversial cartoon interpreted by many as comparing Obama to a chimpanzee that was shot by police. Translation: If you dare to say anything that someone interprets to be offensive, you shall be silenced by the Imperial Federal Government.
New law in Pennsylvania: Farms must control odor The state of Pennsylvania wants new or expanding farms to get state approval for an odor-management plan, to prevent their neighbors from smelling the farm. NEW REGULATIONS INCLUDE: Farmer must submit a plan to the state from a certified odor-management specialist. (More government employees.) Projects likely to affect farm's neighbors must include strategies for managing odor, such as cleaning regimen or ventilation system. (Can you install giant fans?)
NY State Considers $10 Fee to File Taxes on Paper Yes, pay a fee to file your taxes.
Transportation secretary wants to tax drivers per mile A plan to use GPS chips in vehicles to charge motorists by the mile has drawn complaints from drivers who say it's an Orwellian intrusion by government. The Imperial Federal Government will track your every move.
Inmate sues: 'NASCAR made me do it!' An inmate in federal prison has filed a $23 million lawsuit claiming NASCAR is responsible for his laundry list of criminal activity, from speeding to credit card fraud.
Holdup victim grabs knife, kills robber A man being robbed by two Oakland men in the parking lot of a BART station managed to grab a knife from one of the assailants and stabbed the other one to death, authorities said. Another crime ends right.
'Porkulus' bill has $1.6 billion for homeless, nonworking bums! How much stimulus for future economic growth and new-job creation will be generated by spending $1.6 billion on homeless services? Sounds like an incentive not to work.
'Overzealous' cops seize man's 'Abort Obama' sign Police officers seized a sign saying "Abort Obama not the unborn" from a driver's pickup truck, but later returned it after supervisors decided the officers had been "overzealous." Don't you dare utter a disparaging word about Comrade Obama.
Mr. President, Keep the Airwaves Free As a former law professor, surely you understand the Bill of Rights. An open letter from Rush Limbaugh to President Obama.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "In some ways, Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office, I mean from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he's got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way, and I think the coverage reflects that." - Terry Moran of ABC's Nightline Fact: In the views of the biased media, it is degrading for Obama the Messiah to have to lower himself to be President of the United States. This is somehow a step down for Lord Barack Obama. The press coverage of Obama certainly reflects this step down to go to the Oval Office. We can assume from this that Obama's supporters feel that he made a mistake by becoming President. Quote: "The new administration is big on computers and technology - how about this, President and new administration? Why don't you put up a Web site to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages, or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and give them to people that might have a change to actually prosper down the road and reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water." - CNBC's Rick Santelli Fact: Clearly the market agreed with those sentiments. The Dow Jones tumbled to a six-year low.
Obama appointee in classified info scandal The appointment of John Deutch to an advisory panel on spy satellites violates Obama's pledge to hold his administration to the highest ethical standards. Deutch, who headed the CIA from May 1995 to December 1996, agreed in writing in January 2001 to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. What's a few more broken campaign promises when you are the Messiah?
Whiny, elite NYU students stage cafeteria protest "It's pathetic," a policeman said. "These are privileged kids. These kids have silver spoons in their mouths, and their parents send them here - so they can sit in the cafeteria." What was the No. 1 priority for this band of complainers? World peace? Free tuition? No. They demanded the right to use the bathroom. I'm glad to see college students setting high goals.
Michael Savage Compares Obama and The History of Fascism
Quote "Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." - Ayn Rand
AFTER THE GATHERING OF "THE FAITHFUL" TO LISTEN TO "THE MESSIAH" Does this surprise you?
Michael Savage - Why We Need To Get Armed! "I'm telling you as an American 'it's time to get armed' I don't really care what your background is, I don't care if you're right or left, black or white... only an armed nation will survive what's coming in this country."
Drunk gets $2.3 million for losing leg in subway He got so drunk that he fell into the path of a subway train - costing him his right leg - but a Manhattan jury still awarded him $2.3 million.
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival in Phoenix They held their signs up high: "Don't tread on me," "Spend all you want, I'll pick up the tab," "I'll keep my freedom! You keep the change!" And "B.O. smells and so does Socialism."
Quotes and Facts Quote: "Government has to take responsibility for setting rules of the road that are fair and fairly enforced." Barack Obama Fact: Government's responsibility? The government already set and enforced the rules. Government caused the subprime mortgage problem. Government forced lenders to give loans to people that couldn't pay them back. Quote: "Banks and lenders must be held accountable for ending the practices that got us into this crisis in the first place." - Barack Obama Fact: The government forced the banks to make these loans. Government needs to be held accountable. Quote: "And each of us as individuals have to take responsibility for their own actions. It means all of us have to learn to live within our means again." - Barack Obama Fact: Government needs to live within its means. When will Comrade Obama and his big government cronies learn to live within their means?
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN The Dow at a 10-year low. A tax cheat running the IRS. Another tax cheat as the Chief of Staff. A trillion-dollar plus federal deficit. Over one-half of voters relieved of any federal tax liability. Government mandated limits on executive compensation. Three failed attempts and still no Commerce Secretary. Tom Daschle rides his free limo into the sunset after paying taxes he evaded. The White House performance czar turns out to be a tax cheat as well. Lobbyists hired to work for the Obama Administration. The census gets politicized. Double government spending in one year. The word "freedom" fades into obscurity. Millions of Americans made dependent on government. Welfare checks become "tax cuts." Illegal aliens free to work on taxpayer-funded "stimulus" projects. Welfare reform reversed, states ordered to increase welfare rolls. Move to silence/censor critical talk radio shows. Selling Senate seats. Obama books in religious sections of book stores. More government workers, not private sector jobs. A government bureaucracy to intrude on doctor/patient relationships. Stage set for medical services rationing. Annual welfare checks for middle income families.
ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN THAT WOULD WORK Call for immediate passage of the FairTax. Lower the top tax rate to 20% while waiting for the FairTax to pass. Immediately eliminate capital gains taxes. Declare a tax amnesty to allow all American funds invested abroad to come to work in our economy with no tax consequences. Cut the corporate tax rate significantly. Having the world's second-highest corporate tax rate doesn't make us a magnet for new businesses and jobs. Declare a tax holiday of from four to six months where the federal government forgives all individual income and payroll taxes. Empower the private sector and individuals, not government and politicians. Grow our economy, not our government.
Freedom of Speech: The First Amendment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Obama Discount Wall Art - Perfect For Every Home To Worship The Obamessiah Has he walked on water yet?
A series of books about Barack and Michelle Obama featured under a "Religion" sign in the store's children's section. Has he walked on water yet?
Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week. We've had the coldest winter in years. Time to buy more steaks and burgers to see if we can get the Global Warming engaged again.
Representative Waxman Wants to Apply Censorship Doctrine to Internet FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell spoke about the internet and the Fairness Doctrine last year. He talked about a real possibility of internet content being regulated in the near future. Waxman and his staff are already looking at ways to police content on the web. "It's all about diversity in media," says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. "Does one radio station or one station group control four of the five most powerful outlets in one community? Do four stations in one region carry Rush Limbaugh, and nothing else during the same time slot? Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views?" "Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we're seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information," says on committee staffer. "We're at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities." Hitlary Clinton: I don't have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I'm a big pro-balance person. That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological --out of balance, you've got a problem. What about checks and balances, and accountable power of government?
Jury orders rancher to pay $77,804 to illegal aliens who were on his property The jury found the Arizona rancher liable on four claims of assault and four claims of infliction of emotional distress. This sends a message: Invade our country and break the law, then collect your reward.
Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts to Charge Drivers by the Mile A tentative plan to overhaul Massachusetts' transportation system by using GPS chips to charge motorists a quarter-cent for every mile behind the wheel has angered some drivers. "It's outrageous, it's kind of Orwellian, Big Brotherish," said Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, who drafted legislation last week to prohibit the practice. "You'd need a whole new department of cronies just to keep track of it." Governors in Idaho and Rhode Island, as well as the federal government, also are talking about such programs. And in North Carolina, a panel suggested in December the state start charging motorists a quarter-cent for every mile as a substitute for the gas tax. We will track your every move. Show us your papers!
Kid Writes to Obama: Please Make It Rain Candy "Mr. Obama," the seven-year-old Pasadena first-grader Aaron Van Blerkom wrote, "Please Make it rain candy!" This is actually no different than the adults that show up at the Messiah's rallies asking him for new sinks, new rugs, tanks full of gas, and other assorted handouts.
'Sanctions' sought in eligibility case President's attorneys file motion demanding birth, college records be withheld from public. A high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing President Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be "monetary sanctions" against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn't qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution's demand for a "natural born" citizen in that post. "If OBAMA is not a 'natural born' citizen and not eligible for presidency, OBAMA will be subject to the criminal provisions of the California Elections Code, stating, 'Any person who files or submits for filing a nomination paper or declaration of candidacy knowing that it, or any part of it, has been made falsely, is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or two or three years or by both the fine and imprisonment,'" the complaint states. How dare anyone question the Messiah.
Obama Breaks 7 Promises With Stimulus Bill Not one of Obama's promises were met in the entire process. 1. Make government open and transparent. 2. Make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects. 3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.) 4. No more secrecy. 5. Public will have 5 days to look at a bill. 6. You'll know what's in it. (Nobody knows what's in it! Nobody knew what's in it when they voted for it.) 7. We will put every pork barrel project online. Change?
Democrat confesses support for state-controlled media "A little state control wouldn't hurt anybody," declared Jerry Brown, California's attorney general. Government shall control what you hear, see, read and think.
Republican says U.S. may have to nationalize banks Rep. Sen. Lindsey Graham said the nation's banks are in so much trouble, "We're going to have to do something that no one ever envisioned a year ago, no one likes."
They Think You're Stupid - Herman Cain
Understanding Obama: The Making of A Fuehrer Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.
Superhacker says foreign powers can breach Obama's BlackBerry There's a new "holy grail" for hackers - President Obama's super-secure BlackBerry. "There's no such thing as 100 percent security, and anyone who tells you otherwise isn't being honest," Bill Brenner, senior editor at CSO Magazine, a publication for security professionals said. "And when you're the president, there's always the danger of someone trying to get to you."
13-year-old father 'was allowed to share bed with girlfriend, 14' Asked how he would cope financially, Alfie, the 13-year-old father, replied: "What's financially?"
California Has Hit Tough Financial Times But apparently not tough enough to prevent them from wasting $196,000 to create dog statues.
Democrats delay bill release to conceal details Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. last night after delaying the release for hours to put it in a format citizens cannot search on their computers. So much for the promised "transparency" in government.
True Cost of Stimulus: $3.27 Trillion This is a bill your children and their children are going to have to pay back, all to insure continued Democrat power in congress.
Boehner: Not one member has read this bill "What happened to the promise we were going to let the American people see what's in this bill for 48 hours? But no, we don't have time to do that."
Caterpillar CEO contradicts Obama on impact of stimulus President Obama today repeated the claim Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens said his company would rehire if the stimulus passes. But after the president left the event, Owens said the exact opposite.
Where's the pork, Mr. Obama? Here! Wasteful, non-stimulative spending in the new stimulus. Too many votes to buy.
Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin The Vatican says Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that man descended from apes.
16 illegals sue rancher whose land they crossed An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegals from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexicans who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights. They destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home. The federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. So now it is a "civil right" to trespass and break the law. "This is my land. I´m the victim here," Mr. Barnett said. "When someone´s home and loved ones are in jeopardy and the government seemingly can´t do anything about it, I feel justified in taking matters into my own hands. And I always watch my back."
Ruin your health with Obama plan Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion that reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and "guide" your doctor's decisions. According to Tom Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and "learn to operate less like solo practitioners."
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Stimulus Bill: Old people who are sick need to go away and die "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt." - Tom Daschle "Old people have a duty to die." - Colorado Governor Robert Lamm Translation: You are a senior citizen. You come down with a disease that is not immediately life-threatening. You go into your doctor. The doctor consults the federal database to get your health care records. He then has to consult this new health council board. They then figure the cost of treating whatever's wrong with you, based on the statistics that tell them how long you're going to live, and if the cost vastly outweighs the number of years you're going to live, they will deny you treatment. Basically, under federal socialized medicine, you need to just go away and die. And National Healthcare is in the "stimulus bill" on pages 445, 454, and 479. Additionally, "Hospitals and doctors that are not 'meaningful users' of the new system will face penalties." Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost-effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council as described on page 464. Cost effectiveness means if the procedure would cost more than they, the government, deem the value of your expected lifespan, you will be denied treatment and sent away to die so you won't tax the system. And, if your doctor treats you without government permission he "will face penalties."
Quotes and Facts Quote: "If we do everything right, we do it with absolute certainty, we stand up there and we make really tough decisions, there's still a 30% we're going to get it wrong." - Joe Biden Fact: What a great way to inspire everybody. When was the last time you heard a Vice-President say that he is wrong 30% of the time. And, keeping in mind the government gold standard of overestimating, he is probably wrong far more than his predicted 30%.
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Show Me Your Microwave Papers! The Energy Department to set rules for home appliances by August. The standards could lead to more expensive appliances. Up next: Mandatory home inspections.
CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul Congressional Budget Office: President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing. But the immediate satisfaction of building butterfly gardens, frisbee golf courses and eco-friendly dog parks is mostly what the Democrats are concerned about. This bill is not about bringing our economy back, it is about growing government. Here is another painful fact for the Obamamaniacs on Obamanomics: Economy that Reagan inherited (1980 figures): 7.5% unemployment 12.6% inflation rate 12% ave.mortgage rate Economy that Obama inherited (2008 figures): 6.1% unemployment 4.94% inflation rate 6.46% ave.mortgage rate Reagan inherited a MUCH worse economy. When he was elected, the stock market increased. When Obama was elected, the stock market took a dive. The magic Messiah is proving to be an inept leader.
State employee: I get $93,803 for no work Randall Hinton is paid $93,803 a year to do nothing. He spends much of his workday at the State Insurance Fund donning headphones, listening to rock 'n' roll, blues or classical tunes and his superiors are cool with that. His work agenda involves placing his feet up on his desk, staring out his office window and counting cars on the New York State Thruway. He arrives at 7:30 a.m., leaves at 3:30 p.m., sees no one and talks to no one. He never does any work. It's been this way for Hinton for most of this decade. Incompetence and gross mismanagement, the government gold standard.
Government Study: New York City Smells Like Maple Syrup We need to spend government money to get to the bottom of this crisis. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that a team of odor investigators "put our noses to the ground'' to identify the culprit.
Socialist-Democrats win, pack debt on debt for patronage With three Republicans joining in, the Democrat Senate agreed on an $827 billion spending bill after some minor cuts were made. Senators hope to restore the cuts next week in negotiations. Officials put the cost of the bill at $827 billion, including Obama's signature tax cut of up to $1,000 for working couples, even if they earn too little to pay income taxes. Translation: If you don't pay taxes it can't possibly be a tax cut. It is a welfare handout.
Obama outed as porker in chief That's not a stimulus bill for the American people - that's a stimulus bill for the American government. Tens of billions of dollars in new spending for federal government buildings. More than $300 billion in new spending for already-bloated government entitlement behemoths like Medicaid. Also included: $4 billion on stop-smoking programs and anti-obesity campaigns. That will surely help the economy.
Haitian dictator wants bailout by U.S. Haitian President René Préval is seeking between $75 million and $100 million in economic assistance and said the money would be used to create jobs.
U.S. bailout recipients spent $114 million on politics Banks, automakers and other companies that have received U.S. bailout money spent $114 million on lobbying and campaign contributions last year.
Obama's tardiness sets him apart from Bush There's a new time zone in the nation's capital: Obama Time. He's reversed an unwritten but much-noticed Bush policy: Be on time, all the time. "To me, being tardy, it's got to be one of two things," said presidential historian Doug Wead, who advised both Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush. "Bad organization that can be corrected, or it's arrogance. It sounds to me like this is arrogance."
Missiles found on Iranian ship The Iranian ship was seized by President Bush and let go by President Obama. The Obamanation of foreign policy is just beginning.
National teach-in on 'warming' held in -6 degree Buffalo Buffalo State College hosts the national teach-in on Global Warming Situations today - a day the local temperature bottomed out at minus 6 degrees. Idiocy reigns!
Principles for Global Warming Legislation 1. Reduce emissions to levels guided by science to avoid dangerous global warming. (The science will come from government-paid scientists who know that their funding depends on continued global warming alarmism.) 2. Set short and long term emissions targets that are certain and enforceable, with periodic review of the climate science and adjustments to targets and policies as necessary to meet emissions reduction targets. 3. Ensure that state and local entities continue pioneering efforts to address global warming. 4. Establish a transparent and accountable market-based system that efficiently reduces carbon emissions. (Translation: establish a system that efficiently redistributes wealth and weakens capitalism.)
FOR the last two years, Rachel Muston, a 32-year-old information-technology worker for the Canadian government in Ottawa, has been taking steps to reduce her carbon footprint. Government employee, it figures. Note: If you are trashing refrigerator for the planet, you are as dumb as a box of rocks.
Censorship Doctrine: Democrat senator wants hearings on radio 'accountability' "Whether it's called the Fairness Standard, whether it's called something else - I absolutely think it's time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Let's bring accountability to the Senate and Congress first. When someone says something on the radio, you are not affected (other than perhaps being offended because you are hypersensitive). When Congress and the Senate act, you are.
Cuba Plans New Offshore Drilling in Search for Big Oil Finds in the Gulf of Mexico Foreign oil firms could be drilling as close as about 50 miles from parts of Florida. They can but because of our political hacks in Washington we can't.
Daschle gave speech on tax cheats If Tom Daschle had his way, Tom Daschle would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for failing to pay his taxes. "Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter." - Tom Daschle 1998
Pelosi's 500-million-person slip Looks like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will say anything to get support for President Obama's $900 billion plus stimulus package. The United States has a population of 303 million.
Stimulus bill may include benefits for Filipino veterans How is giving money to Filipino veterans who aren't even US citizens going to stimulate the US economy?
Chicago politics: Mayor Daley won't disclose stimulus project list "We did not put that out publicly because once you start putting it out publicly, you know, the newspapers, the media is going to be ripping it apart," Daley said. You don't need to know how the government squanders you money.
Seattle to spend $400,000 of taxpayer money on a graffiti artist project Eligibility: Professional artists living in the United States. Budget: The budget for design (including travel costs) is $60,000. It is anticipated that $340,000 will be available for fabrication and installation, for a total project budget of $400,000. Your tax dollars at work.
Two car companies actually saw their sales increase in January Subaru bucked the trend of declines for a second month in a row, posting an 8 percent sales increase, and Hyundai said its sales jumped 14 percent. All without government bailouts. Amazing.
Mario Mendez just wants to pick up some litter himself. He lives along state Route 54 in Bonita, CA an area that could use a good sweep. He started seeking the required approvals two months ago and is still waiting. He called the California Highway Patrol and was told he could be cited if he tries working without permission. He has called or e-mailed elected officials at every level, to no avail.
Hiding the truth about the pay gap between men and women Women are more likely to make to choose flexibility, a friendly workplace environment, and other nonmonetary factors as compared to men.
Charges dropped against USS Cole bombing suspect The senior military judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay has dropped charges against a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Obama's order to halt court proceedings at the Navy detention center in Cuba.
Welcome to the major leagues, President Obama What usually works in Chicago to quell ethics controversies doesn't wash in the nation's capital. Having made strong public defenses of two of his three major nominees with tax problems, he has become a defender of Washington's business-as-usual culture and given up the opportunity to portray himself as the man who was going to bring "change" to Washington.
House passes kids' health bill - step toward universal coverage The House gave President Obama a win on health care, taking a first step toward his promise of universal coverage.
Socialist health care: Man pulls13 of his own teeth with pliers because he couldn't find dentist A former soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not find a dentist to take on NHS patients. Iraq War veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain. Mr. Boynton now only has two teeth left in the roof of his mouth.
Baby born alive at abortion clinic then killed A clinic's owner who has no medical license cut the infant's umbilical cord then placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.
Traitor McCain introduces amendment to kill 'Buy American' clause Republican Sen. John McCain introduced legislation to strip the "Buy American" provision from the huge U.S. stimulus bill. McCain's amendment had stated that the "utilization of funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this act shall not be subject to any 'Buy American' requirement." It was voted down 65 to 31 on Wednesday night. The Senate, however, agreed to water down the language to include a requirement that indicates international trade agreements cannot be violated as a result of the "Buy American" provision.
Madman Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on guests "There is no reason only poor people should be infected," Gates said after releasing a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference. Liberalism is a mental disorder!
"FEMA RED-BLUE LIST" Marked For TERMINATION FEMA DEATHCAMPS AND THE RED AND BLUE LIST UNDER MARTIAL LAW FEMA is NOT here to primarily HELP YOU. Under a full state of MARTIAL LAW, FEMA is here to send you to their DETENTION CAMPS to sort out WHO SHALL LIVE AND WHO SHALL DIE. Those unfortunates whose names are found among the MILLIONS OF FELLOW AMERICANS on FEMA RED/BLUE LISTS will never come out of the FEMA CAMPS alive, although they may have to go through hell before they are finally terminated. Think TWICE before going meekly to such camps under a STATE OF MARTIAL LAW in YOUR region.
Does anyone in Washington actually pay taxes? We have Charlie Rangel, Timothy Geithner, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and most recently Tom Daschle who are just a few in a long line of politicians who can't seem to figure out how to pay taxes. This is especially treasonous for Democrats, who feel it's our "patriotic duty" to pay taxes. Everyone needs to play by the same rules, but that's just not happening with these disgusting political hacks.
Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies' A Democrat congressman introduced a bill calling for the homeland security secretary to establish six emergency centers for corralling civilians on military installations. Show me your papers!
Bailed out Bank of America sponsors Super Bowl fun fest Despite a near collapse that required $45 billion in federal taxpayer bailout funds, Bank of America sponsored a five day carnival-like affair just outside the Super Bowl stadium. You tax dollars at work.
Your Tax Dollars To Support Jobs In Brazil GM is going to invest $1 billion in Brazil "to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market." And according to the president of GM in Brazil, this funding will be coming from the bailout money from the US taxpayers.
Next Bailout: Rental car companies This has already been cleared by the House of Representatives. They included a clause in a recent bill that would allow the government to back loans to rental car companies. Everybody gets their "fair share" of taxpayer money except the taxpayers.
Czech president attacks Al Gore's climate campaign "I'm very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them." "I don't think that there is any global warming," said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. "I don't see the statistical data for that." "Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement." "I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world," he said. "I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself."
BHO AND FDR Barack Obama is continuously being compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who was president during the great depression in the 1930s. The liberal media is always saying that we need another New Deal. What no one cares to remember about FDR and the new deal is that it was a socialist, and yes, even communist set of policies. The national recovery agency was fundamentally responsible for trying to implement a communist style command economy in the US. It micro managed prices of goods, and went so far as to tell chicken farmers how much they could sell their chickens for. Within a few years of it being enacted, it was struck down by the Supreme Court. Roosevelt further tried to aggrandize power by expanding the number of Supreme Court justices when they struck down his New Deal legislation. This was defeated by the congress. However, if Roosevelt had not been stopped, there would have been an unfettered communist dictatorship in the United States of America. And today, this is the man they are comparing Barack Hussein Obama to. Get the picture? Nevertheless, this time around a things are different. The liberal media is more powerful today than it was in the 1930s, having at its disposal the far left 24 hour cable news channels and the internet. In FDR's age there were actually some conservative newspaper barons such as William Randolph Hurst, who opposed FDR. No such conservative media moguls exist in this day and age who are willing to stand up against Barack Hussein Obama. In fact, it is actually worse now than it was then. We are closer than we ever have been to a communist dictatorship in this country. So remember, when you hear the liberal media praising FDR, understand that we are walking down the same Marxist path that we did in the 1930s.
Obama has appointed more than 17 lobbyists Obama has appointed more than 17 lobbyists after talking big on anti-lobbyist governance and rooting corruption out of the American government. Dreams are dreams. Facts are facts.
'Green' wants one-child China policy in Western nations! Couples who have more than two children are being "irresponsible" by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government's green adviser has warned. Has anyone seen the welfare brood mares downloading kids by the dozens?
Obama says he's against torture, but leaves renditions intact Under executive orders issued by Obama, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that torture.
The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is a long way from over. The last two bitter winters have led to a rise in public awareness that there is no runaway global warming. The public is now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints from the use of fossil fuels is going to lead to climatic calamities. How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government to punish the citizens for living the good life that fossil fuels provide for us? Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a highjacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.
Bailed out business exec 'escapes' on $45 million company jet Just weeks after Citigroup averted collapse with $45 billion of taxpayer cash, the bank jetted its former CEO and his family on a corporate jet to a posh Mexican resort. Don't you just love to see your tax dollars well spent?
School Children Complain Of "Obama Worship" During Lessons Giant images of president projected onto classroom walls disturb kids, parents. Beginnings of Youth Movement Propaganda. Several disturbing stories have surfaced over the past weeks that further highlight how sections of the American population have elevated Barack Obama to a dangerously inflated "messianic" status normally only associated with Royalty or totalitarian leaders. Anyone in their right mind will realize that Americans are not supposed to "pledge allegiance" or "service" to a president. The U.S. Constitution, that piece of paper that Obama clumsily swore to defend and protect, states quite clearly that elected representatives are supposed to act in "service" of the people's best interests, not the other way around.
Obama's Katrina - Where's FEMA? Nearly 60 hours after a brutal winter storm began dumping ice and snow on Central Kentucky, about 30,027 homes and businesses in Fayette County remained without power.
Buried deep inside the massive spending orgy that Democrats jammed through the House this week lie five words that could drastically undo two decades of welfare reforms. Obama's "stimulus" bill is not change we can believe in. It's a return to big-government welfare that we will choke on.
Obama' female staffers made 78% of males' pay President Barack Obama, keeping a campaign pledge, signed a law to make it easier to sue employers for pay discrimination. Obama's hypocrisy continues.
Another tax dodger for Obama's cabinet-change Tom Daschle, picked by Obama to reside over the nation's healthcare system, received $220,000 in speaking fees from healthcare groups with an interest in the work he would do. Daschle has also come under fire for his failure to pay taxes.
Iran: Obama's 'negotiations' are sign that America is now 'passive,' weak US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said.
BARACK OBAMA TARNISHES OUR NATIONAL REPUTATION He's tarnished it by hiring tax cheats such as Geithner. He's tarnished it by appointing lobbyists at the pentagon. He's tarnished it by hiring a pardoner as attorney general. And he's tarnished it by scheming to give away billions of dollars to his political supporters through a so called stimulus bill. And he hasn't been in office two weeks yet. We're screwed.
Weather Channel founder: Get ready for cooling The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.
Obama cranks up thermostat in White House "He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there." Obama during the campaign: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say, 'Okay.' That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." And it was just yesterday that he made a comment about how Washington is so out of whack when it snows. "I'm from Chicago! This is nothing. They think this is hardship?" What a hypocrite! That's OK. He will just buy a few extra carbon credits that Al Gore is peddling around. In the meantime, everyone needs to turn their thermostats down to save energy and prevent Global Warming. Wait a minute, if we had a little more Global Warming, Washington wouldn't be so cold.
Obama couldn't find the door to the Oval Office Obama hasn't gotten acquainted to his White House surroundings. On the way back to the Oval Office, the President approached a paned window, instead of the actual door located a few feet to his right.
New bank bailout could cost $2 trillion Government officials seeking to revamp the U.S. financial bailout have discussed spending another $1 trillion to $2 trillion to help restore banks to health.
The legislation, which would send tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple, would allow people who do not have Social Security numbers to be eligible for the checks.
Obama letter to Iran assures U.S. won't topple Islamic regime Officials of Barack Obama's administration have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing U.S.-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks. The United States now negotiates with terrorists.
FCC commissioner warns against "Fairness (Censorship) Doctrine" FCC commissioner Robert McDowell had a message for Democrats, or anyone else contemplating trying to reimpose the fairness doctrine.
Gore says on snowy Capitol Hill Earth in "grave danger" As he has often done, Gore turned to a slideshow to make his point that global warming is increasingly damaging the earth. Al is delusional.
Obama Worries Debt Will Shape Legacy Obama: "I will be judged by the legacy I have left behind. I don't want to leave our children with a legacy of debt." Solution: Stop spending our money on these big government pork programs and adding to the debt. Most government spending has historically reduced productivity and long-term economic growth due to: Taxes. Most government spending is financed by taxes, and high tax rates reduce incentives to work, save, and invest--resulting in a less motivated workforce as well as less business investment in new capital and technology. Few government expenditures raise productivity enough to offset the productivity lost due to taxes. Incentives. Social spending often reduces incentives for productivity by subsidizing leisure and unemployment. Combined with taxes, it is clear that taxing Peter to subsidize Paul reduces both of their incentives to be productive, since productivity no longer determines one's income. Displacement. Every dollar spent by politicians means one dollar less to be allocated based on market forces within the more productive private sector. For example, rather than allowing the market to allocate investments, politicians seize that money and earmark it for favored organizations with little regard for improvements to economic efficiency. Inefficiencies. Government provision of housing, education, and postal operations are often much less efficient than the private sector. Government also distorts existing health care and education markets by promoting third-party payers, resulting in over-consumption and insensitivity to prices and outcomes. Another example of inefficiency is when politicians earmark highway money for wasteful pork projects rather than expanding highway capacity where it is most needed. He's The Messiah. He's too big to fail! And, he's begging for a bailout to save his legacy. Everything is about him. We have to do everything for him. The Messiah is worried about a legacy.
Barack Obama may have stumbled over his words briefly during his inauguration, but he made an even bigger blunder later Tuesday evening. The newly sworn-in President opted not to appear at what should have been one of the most important Balls on his agenda that evening - The Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball. The Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball was begun in 1953 for President Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration. The event recognized recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. There were 48 Medal of Honor recipients in attendance, who were undoubtedly disappointed by the Commander-in-Chief's failure to show. Over the past 56 years and 14 inaugurations, no President has skipped this event - until now.
Suddenly Obama has Muslim roots During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama's handlers vigorously pointed out his Christian faith whenever the misconception arose he may be Muslim. And now - in a gesture to the Muslim world - he has not only granted the first sit-down interview of his presidency to a pan-Arab television network, but uses the occasion to gush about his Muslim ties.
"Jihadi Rehab" for detainees after Gitmo closes? U.S. lawmakers considering the closure of Guantanamo will probably be looking at a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia that focuses on religious re-education for captured jihadists.
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NSF - National Sex Foundation wants another $3 billion from taxpayers to play with porn Government employees were watching, downloading and e-mailing porn, sometimes for significant portions of their workdays.
Man attacks his lawyer in court with feces A mistrial was declared when a home-invasion robbery suspect smeared human feces on his attorney's face then threw more at the jury.
Schwarzenegger Wants to Tax Rounds of Golf Golf course owners and some of their customers are teed off at Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. So are veterinarians, auto mechanics and amusement park operators.
More Bailout Pork - Where Have The Stimulus Dollars Gone To buy more votes, where else? North Miami mayor says it would cost $2 million to switch households to energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs. $886,000 to build a 36-hole "disk-golf" course (think Frisbee throwing meets golf) in Austin, Texas. (Will this be taxed like golf in California?) $33,725 for automatically flushing toilets in Sumter, S.C. $1.4 million for a children's water park requested by Pine Bluff, AR $500,000 for a dog park in Chula Vista, CA First it was earmarks, then pork, then Congressional directed spending, then stimulus, now they are "ready to go" projects.
Lawmaker asked Gore about "warming" on 19-degree Inauguration Day It's a question the press didn't dare ask, but a second-term Minnesota Republican congresswoman wasn't afraid. Representative Michele Bachmann asked, "Hey Al, is it cold enough for you down there? This isn't exactly a global warming day."
"Climate change" scientists say any changes would take 1,000 years Researchers say that even if nations can get carbon dioxide levels under control, it would take 1,000 years or longer for the climate changes already triggered to be reversed.
Obama sends shivers through U.S., grovels before Arab street Obama gave his first formal TV interview as president to an Arabic network, saying that when it comes to Middle East matters "all too often the United States starts by dictating." The hope and changer in chief thinks that the power of his personality and the flash of his pearly whites are going to convince the Iranians to give up their nukes. This is really sad. It shows his lack of foreign policy experience. He will be a back room joke for other countries. We will pay for his lack of foreign policy experience. The road to hell is being paved by Obama's good intentions. Obama has made a serious error in judgment. It is clear that he values the opinion of the world over the opinion of voters in the United States who actually elected him. It is clear the Arab street counts more to him than does Main Street. It's clear he cares more about the Mideast than the Midwest. The US is so sad today, but don't you feel diverse?
Obama wants Billions for ACORN & other street groups ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid. Time to kickback for all of that voter fraud support and plan for the next election.
Fannie, Freddie may tap Treasury for $51 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could tap the government for up to $51 billion in coming weeks, exceeding some Wall Street estimates. It's government. Everything the government does comes in over budget.
2012: The end is nigh! Says Mayans, Romans, Hollywood The end of the world is nearly upon us, but there's a silver lining: At least you know when your 401(k) will finally hit bottom. If you're looking for someone to blame (and rightfully so), search no further than the Mayans. Examination of their calendar is responsible for much of the apocalyptic hand-wringing. The doom and gloom is so mainstream, there's even "The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012."
Basketball Coach Fired After Winning Game 100-0 The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity." Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful." It is just unfair to humiliate a team that played so poorly. So, these corrupt administrators would have preferred that the coach throw the game?
British Scientist: Obesity Can Be Contagious Obesity can be 'caught' as easily as a common cold from other people's coughs, sneezes and dirty hands. The fat plague is blighting Britain and other countries. Up next: Mandatory quarantine for fat people.
Airplane Tickets for Homeless Stuck in Hawaii? Homeless service providers are supporting a proposed state-funded program that would provide airplane tickets for people who have come to Hawai'i from the Mainland and then find themselves homeless -- and stuck. How do you get off a plane (you had to pay for the flight) and suddenly "find" yourself homeless?
Obama to Focus on Executive Compensation The Obama Agenda: The nationalization of as much of the private sector as possible. Today: The government determines what some executives can make. Tomorrow: The government determines what everybody can make. Get the picture?
Karzai Says Obama Military Attack Killed Civilians President Hamid Karzai condemned a US operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday. Karzai said the killing of innocent Afghans during US military operations "is strengthening the terrorists." Obama was always accusing the US military of killing innocent civilians, along with John Kerry, during the debates on the Iraq war. Now the Obama military has been accused of the same thing he once denounced. Hypocrisy of the Messiah.
ObamaHood - "Spread The Wealth Around"
A Look At Obama: Week One Obama throws his support behind a tax cheat slated to be the HMWIC at the Treasury Department and ultimately in charge of the IRS. This man intentionally evaded taxes, and got caught. Furthermore, when he got caught for two years of his tax evasion he wiped his brow and said, "Whew, at least they didn't nail me for those other two years." Finally, the day before his nomination, he suddenly realized his "mistake" and paid. Try that the next time you are audited by the IRS. Obama signaled support for the nearly one trillion dollar spending boondoggle being promoted by his party on Capitol Hill. This is a complete fraud. This will NOT stimulate our economy. It will add to the deficit and pave the way for enormous tax increases on the actual achievers in this country for years to come. How will funding the arts stimulate our economy?
It isn't going to stimulate the economy. Keep in mind that only $26 billion will actually reach the economy this year and $136 billion by 2010. "That's not change, that's more of the same."
OBAMA AND THE MEDIA President Obama is starting to get a little snappy. He got angry at the press corps when he paid them a little visit. You see, they started asking questions, real questions. Clearly this is something he is not used to. He's used to getting total carte blanche from the liberal media. But, when there is the slightest that a reporter is doing their job comes up, he attacks the reporter. This is not the first time that this has happened. When he was making an announcement about his transition to the presidency, one reporter tried to ask a follow up question. Comrade Obama immediately shut him down, chastising him for trying to get to the truth. Clearly Barack Obama is not interested in a free press. He is interested in a lackey press. He's interested in a fawning media that refuses to do its job. He wants them to continue to portray him as the new Messiah. However, he's going to find out that even in the most fawning liberal media state, reporters will eventually ask serious questions. And when that happens he will not react well. It appears that he would prefer a Soviet style lock step media in the same way he would like a Soviet style lock step socialist state. The media is the message. His relationship with the press reveals his vision for the country. When asked about his pentagon nominee, William J Lynn, a hack lobbyist, Obama put his hands on the reporter's shoulder, stared him in the eye, and responded with obvious irritation in his voice. And, it appears as if Comrade Obama is putting his hands on our shoulder and staring us in the eye, and saying you are no longer living in a free society. The state will control the information you receive and the state will control your life.
Poll: "Global warming" dead last on list of policy priorities As Barack Obama takes office, the public's focus is overwhelmingly on domestic policy concerns - particularly the economy. One scam down, many to go.
This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness; it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming.
Obama quartet admits faking performance at inauguration It's not exactly Watergate, but Obama's inauguration was back in the dock today after it emerged that the classical musicians who ushered him on to the steps of the Capitol were faking it. There will be a lot of faking in the next four years.
Remember the ranting over Bush's 'pricey' inauguration? A comparison of Obama's celebration to Bush's in 2005 is a reminder that the media must guard against the bad habit of not asking questions. An online search for the words "Bush, inauguration, extravagant" for the three months around the 2005 inaugural turned up 140 news stories, compared with 99 for a similar search on Obama. What else could we have gotten with that $150 million? (That's not counting the well over $100 million that taxpayers had to shell out this year for a phalanx of local, state and federal police and security agencies.) America's still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and now faces a painful recession. Let's party.
Obama reverses foreign abortion federal funds rule President Obama signed an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions. The United States will now pay aid money for abortions around the world during the Obama era of responsibility. Why are we paying to fund any international groups?
Austrian lawmaker convicted of anti-Muslim incitement Austrian parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted of incitement because of anti-Muslim statements, including the claim Islam's prophet Muhammad was a pedophile.
George has snow in South Carolina. Global Warming strikes again!
This is a good indication that the people know more than political hacks like Al Gore.
Scientist: Paint cities white to tackle global warming Hashem Akbari believes that whitening 100 of the world's largest cities could wipe out the effect of the expected increase in emissions over the next decade. This guy must own stock in a major paint company.
Computer built to calculate climate change has huge carbon footprint The forecast is considerable embarrassment. Great Britain spent millions of dollars on a new supercomputer to calculate how climate change will affect Britain only to find the new machine has a giant carbon footprint of its own. What if they paint the supercomputer computer white?
Clarification: Separation of church and state A pastor is delivering the invocation at the inauguration. Be prepared for the idiots to begin screaming about the separation of church and state. Fact: The phrase "separation of church and state" does not appear in our Constitution or in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution does say that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Therefore a pastor saying a prayer during a presidential inauguration does not constitute "(making) a law respecting an establishment of religion." Get over it.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "Government can only do so much ... And if we're just waiting around for somebody else to do it for us, if we're waiting around for somebody else to clean up the vacant lot or waiting for somebody else to get involved in tutoring a child, if we're waiting for somebody else to do something, it never gets done." - Barack Obama, January 19, 2009 Fact: That's a good start. Why can't he take this approach with our economy? If you recall, Obama said just last week that "only government" can get us out of this economic crisis.
Depression Economic Facts For more than a year after the great stock market crash of 1929, the unemployment rate never reached 10%. Once the politicians got into it starting with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, the country went through nearly three consecutive years in which unemployment never fell below 20% for any month. Obama is taking us back to Hoover and FDR, both of whom thought that the government should intervene. "That's not change, that's more of the same." Prior to the Great Depression of the 1930s, nobody thought it was the federal government's business to try to get us out of our depression and no other depression was ever as deep or as long-lasting as this Depression where government intervened. FDR came to the rescue and saved us when it was, at the time, presumed that the marketplace failed. In actuality, it was the opposite. Looking at it historically, when the government has done nothing, the results have usually been far better than when they've done something. The government can only make things worse and I don't think we can stand a 10-year depression. "Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it." - Philosopher and Poet, Georges Santayana Obama and the Democrats have seized on our economic "crisis" to make good on virtually all of their campaign spending promises. Whatever Obama promised has become spending that is "crucial" if we are to recover from this "crisis." The economy has given Obama a blank check. We now have a president and politicians in charge that believe they can do a better job of spending the money that you earn than you can. How will that work out for us?
Government School Censorship: Superintendent warns against "inappropriate comments" In advance of Inauguration Day activities, a school superintendent said, "Inappropriate comments that may make other students, staff or families feel unwelcome will not be tolerated." Warren County Commissioner Dave Young, who has three children in the school district, said he questions an "inappropriate comments" policy based on what makes someone feel "unwelcome or uncomfortable." "It's not 'We're discouraging you from saying those (comments)' it's 'It won't be tolerated,' " Young said. "That's a very dangerous precedent." Free speech is alive and well in America.
Ethnic gang nearly beats boy to death After being beaten nearly to death in a video-recorded incident at his high school, a 17-year-old student was recovering slowly from serious head injuries. Bryant Lee was assaulted while standing with other varsity basketball players at Jesse Bethel High. The players were waiting for practice to begin. The suspects arrived in two vans, and one punched a 16-year-old girl, prompting Lee and his teammates to intervene.
Bush cuts sentences of border agents! On his last full day in office, President Bush finally commuted the sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner. These two Border Patrol agents, who were doing their jobs protecting the borders of this nation, will become productive members of society a little sooner. However, keep in mind that Bush didn't pardon these men for their supposed crimes; he merely commuted their sentences because he believed they were excessive.
Teacher wants to expel Huck Finn John Foley wonders whether students should still read books that depict black men as ignorant and inarticulate.
Quote "WE'VE GONE FROM BEETHOVEN AS THE CULTURAL ZENITH TO GUTTER RAPSTERS IN ONE SINGLE DEGENERATION. YOUNG MUSICAL TYPES USED TO TRY TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS BY ASPIRING TO PLAYING BEETHOVEN'S 9TH; TODAY THEY MIGHT ASPIRE TO SING LIKE A DRUG-DEALING PIMP." - Michael Savage
The carbon footprint of Barack Obama's inauguration could exceed 575million pounds of CO2. It would take the average U.S. household nearly 60,000 years of naughty ecological behavior to produce a carbon footprint equal to the largest self-congratulatory event in the history of humankind. The same congressfolk who are now handing out thousands of tickets to this ecological disaster only last year mandated the phased elimination of the incandescent light bulb - a mere carbon tiptoe, if you will. The whole thing seems a bit unfair. Is 0.74 degrees Celsius warming over the past 100 years really enough to make us panic? I mean, we could probably make that up canceling the inauguration. Nothing is too good for the coronation of the Messiah.
Barack Obama: We no longer need to kill Bin Laden In an unprecedented departure from the current wanted 'dead or alive policy,' the U.S. President-Elect said that simply keeping bin Laden holed up in a cave was enough to keep America safe.
Valet service for bicycles at Obama's coronation With the blessing and support of Washington's Transportation Department, W.A.B.A. will be operating two valet stations near the National Mall - one to the south (at the Jefferson Memorial) and one to the north (just north of the White House on 16th Street). "We're trying to provide as many options as possible," said Jim Sebastian, who manages bicycle programs for the Transportation Department. "If you live three, four, five miles away, that's a long way to walk. But - weather permitting - it's not far for a bike ride." Your tax dollars.
Beware of the big-government tipping point Socialized health care fundamentally changes the relationship between citizens and state. In addition, confidence in government -- from Congress to those responsible for oversight of the financial system -- is quite low. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher for our way of life.
Florida settles suit: $1 to each driver, $2.85 million to lawyers "No one's hurt, no one's injured, and we're paying $10 million?" asked Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami. The Legislature will spend $10.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit over allegations that the state illegally sold drivers' personal information to marketing firms over a four-year period in violation of a federal law barring the practice. The state made $27 million each year on the deal, according to the lawsuit. The personal information that was sold includes a driver's photo, Social Security number, driver ID number, name, address, phone number and medical condition. Incompetence and gross mismanagement exists at multiple levels of government in Florida.
Cancel that D.C. trip, mayor; the girl you seduced was a cop! Racine, Wis., Mayor Gary Becker's plans to attend Tuesday's inauguration have been canceled after he was charged in an Internet sex sting.
Biofuel Clog Shuts Down School Bus Fleet All schools in the Bloomington, MN School District were closed after state-required biodiesel fuel clogged in school buses, which left dozens of students stranded in frigid weather. All of that corn should have been kept for eating.
Gypsies set up camp next to a highway and demand that the government build a wall to shield them from the noise of the traffic. The government complies.
Chinese mom strangled son because of population law A court in China sentenced a woman to death for hiring someone to strangle her 9-year-old son so she could have another child with her new husband without violating population laws.
Planes designed to survive water landings Planes are designed to survive water landings, and a skilled crew can use those design elements to keep a ditched aircraft afloat and the passengers safe.
Chicopee, MA: Pointless Pork Spending On 1000 Foot Bike Path Chicopee, MA to waste $800,000 on a massive 1000 foot Chicopee River Bike-Canal Path. The multi-use path for walkers and bicyclists will be completed in one season. Only one season to complete this colossal 1000 foot project that will probably take the average bicyclist less than a minute to ride. That makes sense when you consider this is government spending in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts. It will probably attract more weeds and mosquitoes than riders, but they can say they built a bike path (with your tax dollars). But with only 1000 feet, if they build it, riders are not likely to come. Also, there will be ramps built to accommodate elevation changes. Elevation changes in a 1000 foot stretch? This isn't exactly mountainous territory. These political hacks couldn't come up with a better use for this $800,000? Hey, why bother. It's only your money, and politicians love to spend your money.
Father of the Year: Man sells 14-year-old daughter into marriage for beer A California man is under arrest for allegedly trying to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage for 100 cases of beer and other items. Police say 36-year-old Marcelino De Jesus Martinez arranged for his daughter to marry an 18-year-old man for several cases of Corona beer, 50 cases of Negra Modelo, six bottles of wine, fifty cases of soft drinks and 50 cases of Gatorade. Several cases of meat were also promised.
Good News: Criminal Carjacks Last Car A suspected carjacker was shot and killed as he attempted to steal a car from outside the Graveyard Tavern on Glenwood Avenue in southeast Atlanta. When confronted by the suspect, the car owner "pulled his own weapon and shot the suspect five to six times." I heard his grouping was close. More proof that target practice pays off.
Small Business Owner In Florida Didn't Have Proper Permit For Mural Herb Quintero, who has long thought the fish mural painted on the side of his tackle shop was a work of art, had to cover it up. And he did - with a copy of the First Amendment. Do graffiti "artists" get permits?
$650 million more sought for digital TV transition Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed $650 million to continue the coupon program for the transition to digital television, this according to a summary of the economic stimulus legislation released by Democrats in the House Appropriations Committee. This whole bailout system is designed to reward failures, slackers, and losers. TV now is a right. A television set is a right, and the slackers in this country don't have $40, so you and I have to pay so they can watch American Idol.
Obama's inauguration most expensive in history The $150 million cost of the celebration will dwarf the $42.3 million spent on George Bush's inauguration in 2005 and the $33 million spent on Bill Clinton's in 1993. I thought I heard the Messiah say that we were in the midst of a financial "crisis." President Bush has declared Washington DC in a state of emergency. Bush did this so that unlimited funding could be released to help local authorities pay for the event. Mostly security costs.
Citibank top donor to Obama inauguration Employees of Citibank, which received $45 billion in rescue funds in the federal bailout, have contributed the most to Barack Obama's inauguration fund - at least $113,000. What's a little political kickback between friends?
Barack Obama's inauguration is going to be a "green event" However, Dan Beard of the Chief Administration Office says, "This is something that's going to consume massive amounts of energy. If you believe that global warming is man-made, then the Obama Inaugural ceremony will do more to add to man-made global warming than any other political event in Washington, D.C. this year." Here are some of the lengths the Obama camp is going through to make this event "green": Manure from horses in the parade will be scooped up and sold to a nearby farm. Volunteers will pick up recycling along the parade route. And Obama will take the oath of office on a recycled, solid-blue carpet. Am I supposed to me impressed?
Madison, Wisconsin: Climate change rezoning Draconian regulations would: Limit waterfront development in the name of water sustainability. Require two trees to be planted if one is removed from your property. Limit the "number/density of fast food outlets and drive-through windows" in the name of public health. Discourage individual parking options to promote public transportation usage. You will conform!
Democrats unveil $825 billion stimulus measure House Democrats are circulating an $825 billion economic stimulus measure that emphasizes health care, education and highway construction. Barack Obama has chosen former Republican congressman from Illinois Ray LaHood to be in charge of directing billions in federal highway spending through the stimulus package. LaHood is known for his love of earmarks and has notoriously used his influence to get funding for projects that would benefit his campaign contributors. Last year alone, LaHood sponsored $60 million in federal earmarks. $9 million of which was directed to his campaign donors. He ranked in the top 10% of earmark sponsors in the House last year. Can you smell the pork cooking?
Michelle Obama's job eliminated How important was Michelle Obama's $300,000-a-year job if it was so easily eliminated?
Waxman promises quick action on climate California Rep. Henry Waxman said the environment and U.S. economy depend on congressional action to confront the threat of climate change. Translation: Congress to continue to purport the Global Warming Scam.
Clinton Vows to Use Cabinet Position to Push for Climate Treaty Hillary Clinton vows to use her position as Secretary of State to fight climate change because "it could well incite new wars of an old kind over basic resources." Translation: Hitlary will use the global warming scam to promote her socialist political agenda. So what else is new?
Why are oligarchs, royal families, special-interests giving to Clinton? Picture, if you will, Hillary Clinton facing a foreign-policy conundrum. With whom will she discuss it first and most intently: with her president or her husband?
Firefighters charged with using arson to get work Four firefighters have been arrested on suspicion of igniting between 15 and 20 fires in western Arizona so they could get paid for fighting them. Government style job security.
Bank of America to get billions in U.S. aid The U.S. government is close to finalizing a deal that would give billions in additional aid to Bank of America Corp. to help it close its acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.
The Minnesota recount was unconstitutional You would think people would learn. The recount in the contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for a seat in the U.S. Senate isn't just embarrassing. It is unconstitutional.
Judge rules Madoff can remain free on bail Disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff has won the latest round in his battle with prosecutors over his bail package. Shoplift a $50 item at Walmart and go to jail. Steal $50 Billion and you get to stay in your $17 Million apartment.
Frightened Bernie now bulletproof Financial scammer Bernard Madoff went to court yesterday dressed in a Kevlar vest, fearing the rising tide of ill-will generated by his $50 billion Ponzi scheme. He could agree to stay in his nice safe jail cell that is available for him.
Chicago Police Department mug shots of a group of suspects busted in the act of advocating "change" Notice the coincidence? "Yes we can."
Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight The number of American adults who are obese has surpassed the number of adults who are merely overweight. More than 34% of adults are considered obese. That works out to be more than 72 million Americans. This is compared to 32.7% of adults who are just overweight. If you do the math that means that almost 70% of our population is made up of behemoths. This shouldn't surprise you. Just go to Disney World and watch the "pretend to be handicapped" people riding around on their little scooters exhibiting the same behavior that got them in that situation in the first place. How about a carbon tax on scooters for people who aren't actually handicapped? They obviously consume more energy than someone doing a couple of Google searches. We do offer a solution for those who desire to lose weight.
Government To Regulate Google Searches You are increasing your carbon footprint by doing searches on Google? This is one more thing for the government to regulate. Apparently, two Google searches is the equivalent of boiling a kettle for a cup of tea in terms of the amount of CO2 generated. This is because Google data centers consume a lot of power. Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist, says that there is no doubt that a Google search has an environmental impact. How asinine can this get? Better start clicking your mouse on Google so we can try to hold off the next ice age.
Government To Regulate Your Appropriate TV Screen Size The government will be deciding how large of a plasma TV you should be permitted to buy. The government will be picking the winner and the losers in this industry. "The worst performers will be phased out"
Chicken farmers and chicken processors are scrambling to get out of California. Animal rights activists managed to generate a petition that put a chicken's rights initiative on the California ballot. It is now illegal to transport any bird in a cage that will not allow the bird to spread its wings. This means two chickens to a crate rather than 20 on the way to the chicken processing plant. That is not economically feasible. The solution: Move the chicken farms and processing plants out of California into neighboring states. More jobs lost in California. Hey, the Messiah will wave his magic hand and presto, more bailout money will solve the problem.
'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years We are living the real-life version of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
Pravda: Earth on brink of ice age The earth is now on the brink of entering another ice age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Somebody had better warm Al Gore and his Global Warming Army. But wait, facts don't matter. We must continue to use government to curb manmade global warming.
Below average temperatures predicted for inauguration The high temperature for the day is expected to be 38°F, according to The Weather Channel. The average high temperature for January 20 is 42°F. It must be all of that Global Warming.
Can Obama Make The Difficult Decisions Necessary To Solve These Important Issues? The Obamas are nearing a decision on one of the most closely watched appointments of the new administration: the breed of the First Dog. I'm sure the first mother-in-law can resolve the dispute.
Don't Count On Obama's Promises, He Can't Be Trusted Obama said that because of the recession he is going to have to take a great deal of his campaign agenda (campaign promises) and set those promises aside. This is the man who promised what he needed to promise to be elected, and then sets those promises "aside." Where is the promised "change." This is politics as usual.
Obama shutting out journalists Journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked the ones he will allow to ask him questions. So much for transparency.
Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than $3.7 million Natalie Dylan claims her offer has persuaded 10,000 men to bid for sex with her. The student who has a degree in Women's Studies insisted she was not demeaning herself.
Nut allergies: Massive outbreak or yuppie parents overreacting? Some kids really do have food allergies. But most just have bad reactions to their parents' mass hysteria.
Barack Obama's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, 71, will be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to help "acclimate" the Obama daughters to their new home.
Obama climate czar has socialist ties Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as a leader of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance". Do you trust the new global climate czar of the Barack Obama administration, somebody who's a member of the socialist party and somebody who likes global governance? Carol Browner's name and bio was featured on the web page for Socialist International. It mysteriously disappeared last week. They did, however, forget to remove a picture of her making a speech to the Socialist International World Congress last June. Browner's confirmation does not need to be approved by the Senate. Environmentalism is a method to attack capitalism rather than a plan to act responsibly for cleaner air and water and reasonable environmental regulations.
Obama's Treasury pick a tax dodger! Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004. Obama is setting new standards.
Far-left lunatic agenda for Obama Passing an economic stimulus package is the top priority for the incoming Obama administration. Then what? Universal health care?
4 million jobs - Obama ups the ante Look for more of your tax dollars to support this plunder.
GM exec says automaker may need more taxpayer money This proves the bailout is really working.
No lessons learned from Frank, Dodd lending debacle Lesson learned? Don't be silly. In December, GMAC got $5 billion from the $17.9 billion bailout of the domestic auto industry and immediately lowered its lending standards. Thanks to Sen. Christopher Dodd, Rep. Barney Frank and others, the lending industry spent years issuing mortgages to millions of Americans who had no hope of repaying. Sen. Dodd and Rep. Frank believe homeownership is a right unfettered by income or credit history, and over time, they were instrumental in forcing the industry to lend to some of the least creditworthy Americans.
Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism The Pentagon said 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release.
The U.S. votes "present" at the U.N. Last week, the U.N. Security Council adopted a British resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Resolution 1860 was a slap at Israel's self-defense, but, unusually, the U.S. abstained. Get ready for more of this in the coming years as Comrade Obama is king of the "present" votes.
Madoff's scam snookers own sister out of $3 million Bernard Madoff didn't even spare his own family. The Ponzi schemer scammed millions from his sister.
Bernard Madoff will continue to await trial from his $7 million Manhattan penthouse after a judge rejected a bid by prosecutors to have his bail revoked on charges he violated its terms. U.S. prosecutors will try again to end Bernard Madoff's "penthouse arrest" and send the accused swindler to jail.
Economists say Bush "chucked" free market principles long ago A majority of free-market economists and advocates surveyed says President Bush's defection came about much, much earlier than the bailout.
NOAA: 2008 Temperature for U.S. Near Average, was Coldest Since 1997; Below Average for December The temperature for December was below the long-term average, based on records dating back to 1895. A series of intense snow storms moved across the western, central, and northern states during December, breaking more than 2,000 daily snowfall records. NOAA satellite observations showed 6.8 million square miles of North America were covered by snow in December 2008, which is 0.4 million square miles above the 1966-2008 average. Don't tell this to the Global Warming Scamsters.
Translation: Government bailing out government with pork. Patrick also talked about plans for a $76 million state data center in Springfield. Patrick couldn't estimate the state's share of the federal aid package, but he talked in terms of billions. "This is a use it or lose it program," the governor said. Translation: Government uses it and you lose it (Your tax dollars). About 70 full-time workers will be based at the data center. Just what we need in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts, more incompetent government employees otherwise known as "employment for the marginally employable." Just look at this headline: State workers' education program runs out of money A state program that has provided more than $1.5 million in education for Western Massachusetts workers is now out of money. I was right. Incompetent government employees otherwise known as "employment for the marginally employable." I rest my case. These political hacks couldn't figure out how to correctly close an umbrella.
Real Homes of Genius: Santa Monica, meet Housing Crash. Prime Real Estate Isn't so Prime Anymore Trying to follow the economic, housing, and financial news these last few months is like trying to drink water from a broken fire hydrant. Where to begin?
A man who donated his kidney to his dying wife is now suing to get it back. The doctor is demanding his pound of flesh from his soon-to-be-former wife as part of their divorce. Richard Batista, a surgeon who split from his wife claiming that she had an affair, is asking that she now return the kidney that he gave her. "I saved her life and then, to be betrayed like this, is unfathomable. It's incomprehensible," Mr Batista said.
U.S. scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics. That's nothing. Politicians learned how to levitate money from your wallets many years ago.
France: Expired Parking Meters Send Cops Text Messages About 60 French councils have installed a system developed by Technolia, an engineering company that detects the presence of vehicles and alerts police if drivers stay over their allotted time. You are shopping when you receive a text message on your mobile phone. It is from the parking meter to tell you that you have been given a fine.
Minnesota sled dog race canceled because of too much snow Global Warming strikes again.
Singer-actor Tony Martin, 96, at the Rrazz Room Aware of the need for a change, he phoned his agent, Scott Stander, and said he wanted to work. That made sense except for a few details: Martin was 95. Tony Martin Performs at Age 94 in 2007
Chicago Public Schools' espresso bill: $67,000 Bureaucrats skirted competitive bidding rules to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for $67,000, with most of the machines going unused because the schools they were ordered for had not asked for them. That was just one example of questionable CPS actions detailed in the inspector general's 2008 annual report. Others included high school staffers changing grades to pump up transcripts of student athletes and workers at a restricted-enrollment grade school falsifying addresses to get relatives admitted. Your tax dollars for government education at work.
Radical international animal rights group PETA has launched its most bizarre campaign yet, demanding fish be renamed "sea kittens". PETA - People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals - believes calling fish sea kittens will make sea food less appealing. Time to go out and get some fresh seafood.
Alabama OKs utility option to cut air conditioner Alabama is going to allow the power company to cut off home air conditioners on the hottest weekdays of summer. One step closer to Big Brother. I say let the power company keep the $20. Customers who participate will get a $20 credit each November on their power bill. On a personal note: In one of my homes in Florida, this type of device was installed on the air/heating system before I purchased the house. The power company used to shut off the heat on the coldest nights of the year. On one particularly cold night, when the system was blowing more cold air into the house, I called the local company to service my system as I thought there was a problem with the equipment (This cost me an addition amount of cash for the service call). They said that the system was working fine but the problem was caused by the power company's control box. I called the power company immediately to have this monitoring/controlling device removed. Of course, the power company denied shutting down my heating system. Coincidentally, I never had another problem with my heating system after the device was removed. I'll gladly pay the additional $20 a year to have control over my home.
Obama's $1.2 trillion 'plan' Obama said that he is going to "spend us out of this" crisis. What idiot would try to spend their way out of debt by spending even more money foolishly and unnecessarily? Here are some of the "necessary" items Obama wants to squander you money on: Topping the idiocy list is Edwardsville, Alabama, which wants $375 Million. Edwardsville has a population of 194 people. That works out to be $2 million per resident in Edwardsville. Now, for that kind of money, they could give each resident $2 Million and they would all be millionaires. But, we are talking about government incompetency here and votes to buy, which is far more important. So, what will Edwrdsville do with $375 Million? They want to replace the street lights with solar powered lights. They also want to install solar panels on the town hall at $77,000 and build solar power recharging stations. And, Edwardsville's biggest proposed expenditure is for a renewable energy museum and information dissemination center. More idiocy includes: A water slide in Miami. A Miami Rowing Club building. A BMX and dirt bike trail at Virginia Key Park. The Virginia Key Beach museum. 34 vital projects in Trenton, New Jersey including: The Trenton Club renovation project. The Port of Trenton museum. (I'm sure this will become a major tourist destination for visitors worldwide.) The Eagle Tavern development. (You have to drink somewhere.) Providence, Rhode Island has it's foot in the trough with imperative projects like: The Roger Williams Park Zoo's new Polar Bear Exhibit. (I'm not sure but I think Roger Williams was the one who sold more albums than Elvis and Boxcar Willie combined.) And, soccer field improvements. (I don't know how we could do without those.) The Philadelphia Zoo wants its share to build Big Cat Falls. Necessary? I call it rotten pork, and it's beginning to reek. And some people said that Obama was a "smart cookie."
Obama: Pass stimulus or recession lasts "years" Dorunda: Pass stimulus and recession will last for decades. Obama warned this morning that the nation's recession could "linger for years" unless Congress acts to pump unprecedented sums from Washington into the U.S. economy. He is calling it the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. Let me translate his political speak: "Reinvestment" means "spending." The "American Government Growth and Spending Plan" would be more appropriate. This economic "recovery" plan is nothing more than a camouflaged method of enacting the promised spending programs of Obama's candidacy. How is investment in education supposed to stimulate the economy? Even if you wait a generation for that education "spending" to pay off, these people will have been educated in government schools. There are too many espresso machines to buy (see below). Comrade Obama said, "At this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe." In Socialist Obama's mind, only government can solve major problems. Not your personal self reliance or perseverance, your employer's paycheck or benefits, more money in your pocket, or economic activity from the private sector. Only government shall be our savior. Obama's stimulus plan is basically a plan to enhance and solidify the power of the Imperial Federal Government over our economy at the expense of the private sector and free markets. Of course, there is a better solution. Texas Congressmen Louie Gohmert observes that the federal government collects about $100 billion in income taxes every month, plus another $60 billion in Social Security and Medicare taxes. This adds up to approximately $160 billion a month. If you divide Obama's proposed $800 billion stimulus plan by $160 billion, you end up with five. Our government will collect $800 billion in income and payroll taxes from February through June of 2009. Gohmert suggests that instead of bureaucrats and politicians deciding how this money is going to be spent, let the people who actually worked for this cash make their own independent spending decisions for the money. The solution is simple: Declare a five-month tax holiday. From February through June everybody keeps their paycheck with no income tax withholding or payroll taxes. People get to spend the money on the stuff that they want! Not the stuff Obama promised and bought votes with during his campaign. Here is a chart for your convenience:
Unfortunately, I am convinced that these political hacks couldn't correctly process a takeout order from a drive-up. And, the American People are too busy with American Idol to care about it.
Health care overhaul needn't break bank Let me get this straight. Something that we're going to spend money on (money that we don't have) will not break the bank. News flash: The bank is already broken. We broke the bank last fall. The bank is still broken, and every new dime we spend breaks the bank even more.
Border chief wins $61K bonus despite criticism The Bush administration has awarded a $61,200 bonus to Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, whose agency has been criticized by Congress for delays in a $20 million fence project. The chief also has been criticized by his own rank and file for not supporting two agents sent to prison for shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks as he fled back to Mexico. The mantra of government appears to be reward failure and punish success.
Members of the Wyandotte Marching Chiefs high school band plan to perform in the inaugural parade in Washington, but they won't be known by the name they've had since the 1950s. The band from Roosevelt High School will perform as the Roosevelt High School Marching Band. Patches will be sewn over logos on band uniform sleeves and the band's Marching Chiefs banner won't be carried. The decision was in response to a letter from a group that opposes the use of American Indian nicknames and logos. The band's director says that he didn't want to bring any negative publicity to the school. I'm offended by all of this idiocy and the hyper-offended.
U.S. debt losing its appeal in China China has bought more than $1 trillion in American debt, but as the global downturn intensifies, Beijing is starting to keep more of its money at home.
Unemployment surges to 7.2 percent That's OK. Once the Messiah is inaugurated, the headline will read: "Obama Saves 93% of Jobs" There was job growth in certain sectors of the economy. In the areas of education, that means government. In the area of health care, that means government. And in the area of government, which also means government. Government grows even in a bad economy thanks to your tax dollars.
Carbon market worth up to $118 Billion in 2008 The market's value should swell to $150 billion in 2009, in spite of the gloomy backdrop of a global recession. Somebody's making money on the Global Warming scam. Buy those phony carbon offset credits and put more money in the pockets of Al Gore and his cronies.
Powerful solar storm could shut down U.S. for months A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. And the Al Gore myrmidons are worried about Manmade Global Warming.
Kissinger: Barack Obama Primed To Create 'New World Order' Henry Kissinger says: "The president-elect is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously… … "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis." Kissinger is also part of the Bilderberg Group which allegedly emphasizes a globalist agenda and promotes the idea that the notion of national sovereignty is antiquated and regressive.
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism - talk of New World Order The head of Europe's biggest economy said today world leaders should be looking at the massive U.S. deficit and other economic imbalances, not just problems caused by financial markets, as they debate a new global order.
Chorus call for New World Order The Trilateral Commission's original plan for a New World Order is rapidly coming to fruit. Many of the original cast of TC members are deceased, but a few remain: Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Paul Volker, for instance. Now well into their 80's, these original planners of the New World Order have returned to the public eye to witness and oversee the birth of their proud creation. Obama picked Trilateral Commission wonder boy Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury. The rest of the team are protégés of Robert Rubin, also a Trilateral and former Treasury Secretary under Clinton. The media hailed Obama for his vision of America and the New World Order. And socialistic solutions are being railroaded through on a daily basis.
College tries to slide terrorist speaker under the radar Despite an influx of e-mails, calls and concern, the College of DuPage seems curiously oblivious to the controversy about William "Weather Underground" Ayers.
Somali pirates released an oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom.
Obama camp "prepared to talk to Hamas" - negotiate with terrorists The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon President Bush's doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organization.
Marc Faber on the Economy, Gold, WWIII
The man who accidentally ran over John Gotti's young son was allegedly dumped in a vat of acid by a twisted Gambino hit man. "Acid was the best method to use to avoid detection."
Madoff "victims" do math, realize they profited The many Madoff investors who withdrew money over the years are now wrestling with an ethical and legal quandary. What they thought were profits was likely money stolen. They are confronting the possibility they may have to pay some of it back.
Macy's to close 11 stores, others report dismal figures Was this holiday season really as bad as economists expected? It's beginning to look that way.
Pelosi turns back clock on House reform The changes pushed through by Democrats will have real-world consequences for fiscal conservatives of both parties. Gone are term limits for committee chairmen, a big comeback for seniority over merit. Cost containment measures on Medicare, one of the fastest growing programs, are simply suspended for this Congress. Tax increases now will be easier to pass, because opponents will not be allowed to offer a simple motion to strike any increase without making up for the "lost revenue." In addition, tax cuts are made more difficult, because they cannot be offset with spending cuts. The new rules will mean that the only way to push for a tax cut will be to propose a tax increase elsewhere.
Driver warned of jail's sexual gorillas
The big lie at the center of big spending stimulus
CNN's Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General
John Stossel: Madoff Is a Piker
So, when are we going to see some political hacks arrested and prosecuted for perpetrating the king of all Ponzi schemes?
Larry Flynt Wants $5 Billion Porn Bailout
Gas Is Cheaper Now Than When Bush Took Office
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural
Top American Islamic cleric threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
Being President 101
Budget
deficit to hit $1.2 trillion
A&E reality show has cops chasing ghosts
Smoking
Rooms Eliminated Following Erection
New Jersey Barbed Wire Ban
No Room At The Theater For The Messiah's Second In Command
Socialized medicine: Deaths by hospital mistakes up 60%
Send
In The Clowns
Obama touts 'Neighborhood Inaugural Ball'
Hospital staffers blew lid off medi "fraud"
Obama
Redefining Tax Cut
Quotes and Facts
Terrorists could use 'insect-based' biological weapon
Too
Many Americans Are Overweight: Army Eases Weight Rules For Recruits
Poll: Caroline (Kennedy) Schlossberg losing favor with voters
Burris
turned away from Senate
Panetta Has Much More Experience Than Obama
Hamas
has advanced U.S. weapons; Thanks to U. S. State Dept.!
Inside the Presidency - No Free Ride
Marxist
'mentor' sold drugs with Obama
Ace Hardware: Double End Male Adapters Declared
"Immoral"
"What
are you doing here?" man asks wife at brothel
Today's Issues
Sea
ice ends year at same level as 1979
EPA considers "cow tax"
Global Warming Fraud - "Spread The Wealth Around"
No School Choice For You
Obama's "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan"
The Bailout Needs a Bailout
Detroit lawyer gets 5-cent IRS bill, 4-cent refund
Commission Urges 50 Percent Hike in Federal Gas Tax
Funny
Business in Minnesota - Franken certified as Senate victor
Court to hear case challenging tuition break to illegal
aliens
Prosecutor
wants Madoff jailed immediately
Mainstream Media Not Reporting Israel Follows International
Law; Hamas Does Not
Study: Milky Way 50% more massive than thought
The Enemy Within - Florida pro-HAMAS supporters to Jews:
"Go back to the ovens"
Automakers
rake in government bailouts
McDonald's recipe for success? Salt and fat, admits chief The chief marketing officer for McDonald's UK, admitted that if the firm removed unhealthy ingredients, consumers would vote with their feet and eat elsewhere. The core market remains burgers because that is what the public wants.
3,400 visas issued to immigrants from "state sponsors of terror" A little-known State Department program called the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program has allowed about 3,400 immigrants to come to the U.S. in 2008 from Iran, Cuba, Syria and Sudan. The program, mandated by Congress and administered by the State Department, consists of a lottery for applicants from countries with "low rates of immigration" to the U.S. Out of 6.4 million applicants, approximately 96,000 were chosen at random. Nearly 9,800 aliens from state sponsors of terrorism have received diversity visas since 2000. A report indicated that the diversity visa lottery program was "susceptible to fraud" and was a way for terrorists to enter the country.
Governors push $1 trillion stimulus package for states A group of influential Democratic governors that includes Deval Patrick from the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts is pressing the federal government for a $1 trillion stimulus package for the states over the next two years. Everybody wants their share of your tax dollars. "It would be a terrible disaster for this country to see our education system move backward," said Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin. Governor Doyle needs to pay attention. Out government educations system has been moving backwards for 40 years.
Poll shows troops wary about Obama When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic. Respondents expressed concerns about Obama's lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform. What else would you expect from our frontline troops when the Obama team campaigned on statements like: "We're gonna face a major international challenge… You're not going to like what we do."
Kathy Griffin: Happy #*%! New Year to you, too! Comedienne Kathy Griffin may be doomed to life on CNN's S-list after answering a heckler with a shrieking, vulgar tirade during the network's live New Year's Eve broadcast. "Screw you," she told the heckler. "Why don't you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don't go to your job and knock the d- - - out of your mouth." Class act! All of it low!
Wall Street's final '08 toll: $6.9 trillion wiped out After months of tortuous trading, Wall Street rang out its worst year since the Great Depression yesterday, leaving shareholders $6.9 trillion the poorer.
Sen. Cornyn promises filibuster on Franken Republican Sen. John Cornyn threatened Friday to filibuster any attempt to seat Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken.
A year of mis-reporting by the Los Angeles Times There's something appalling and eye-opening about seeing an entire year's worth of the Los Angeles Times' bias, omissions, and distortions. Last year, L.A. Times editors slammed Sarah Palin, John McCain, and McCain's ally Joe the Plumber - while they protected Barack Obama and his allies, including unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and radical Palestinian Rashid Khalidi. The newspaper completely ignored some stunningly ignorant comments that Hillary Clinton had made about Pakistan and its elections. Editors continued to ignore these statements even after Hillary was nominated to be Obama's Secretary of State - on the strength of her alleged expertise in foreign policy. After the Heller gun rights decision was announced, legal affairs reporter David Savage allowed Obama to pretend he had always supported the principles enunciated by the decision, when in fact, Obama's campaign had supported the D.C. law struck down in that case.
France: More than a thousand cars torched on New Year's Eve The French press reported that the Interior Ministry released a final "verified" count of 1,147 vehicles burned in France over New Year's Eve. The number is up 30.64% from last year's total, 878. The French really know how to have fun and celebrate the New Year. Will they be buying carbon credits from Al Gore to offset the burning cars?
UK: Prisoners should not be called "inmates" Prison officers have been told not to refer to their charges as "inmates" because it might offend them. One prison officer leader attacked the move and warned jails have already become too soft as he called for a return to tough prisons in 2009. Brian Caton, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association said, "As far as I am concerned they are convicts, they are prisoners, they are inmates." Convict, criminal, jailbird or prisoner works fine for me.
9 Muslim passengers removed from flight Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Washington after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark.
Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press. The mainstream press will become even more beholden to the political hacks. Expect bias to increase. After all, there will be favors to repay.
Environment minister Sammy Wilson: Man-made climate change is a con Spending billions on trying to reduce carbon emissions is one giant con that is depriving third world countries of vital funds to tackle famine, HIV and other diseases. "Most of the people who shout about climate change have not read one article about it." "I think in 20 years' time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all. Because there is now a degree of hysteria about it, fairly unformed hysteria I've got to say as well." "Most of the people who shout about climate change have not read one article about climate change, not read one book about climate change, if you asked them to explain how they believe there's a connection between CO2 emission and the effects which they claim there's going to be, if you ask them to explain the thought process or the modeling that is required and the assumptions behind that and how tenuous all the connections are, they wouldn't have a clue." "It's popular and therefore they go along with the flow."
8th graders overseen by Obama education chief flunk reading In 2007, only 17 percent of eighth graders tested at or above grade level in reading in Chicago Public Schools - the school system administered by Arne Duncan since 2001. President-elect Barack Obama tapped Duncan to become secretary of education in the upcoming administration. After Obama formally named him, Duncan said, "I'm also eager to apply some of the lessons we have learned here in Chicago to help school districts all across our country." "Yes we can" make our Government schools "all across our country" even more pathetic.
Mexican deported 10 times arrested for sexual assault A Mexican national with a history of immigration violations and arrests has been taken into custody as a suspect in a series of sexual assaults.
Traveling salesman pleads guilty to rape-murder of 90-year-old A traveling magazine salesman pleaded guilty to charges that he raped and killed a 90-year-old woman in her home.
Fidel Castro's Cuba: celebrating 50 years of progress, equality, poverty and murder
Bumbler of the Year: Hillary Clinton In this period of "Obamamania," it is easy to forget that a year ago, the president-elect was a long shot for the Democrat presidential nomination.
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