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News Items 2008
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
An Historical Perspective We the people went to war, with what was at the time the most powerful country on the planet, because we did not want to work from January 1st through January 15th to pay taxes to King George. By contrast today, the average American works from January 1st through May 15th to pay taxes to our morbidly obese government. Solution: It is time for us, we the people, to take our country back.
So what have we learned in 2 millennia? "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero - 55 B.C.
Marketing Bambi in 2008: Oh yes, there will be blood!
Is this a joke? Don't stare at the graphics too long as you are certain to get a headache.
No, not really. In fact, study shows teens that take abstinence pledges are just as likely to be sexually active as those that don't and they are less likely to use birth control. Bristol Palin is unavailable for comment.
Here are some of the worst predictions that were made about 2008. Savor them -- a crop like this doesn't come along every year.
Peter Kraus - a former top executive at Merrill Lynch who received a $25 million golden parachute after only three months' work - has landed himself a $37 million Park Avenue pad. The palatial pad - featuring 11-foot-high ceilings, three fireplaces, three maid's rooms, a library, a gallery and a family room/gym - sold for twice what the previous owners, Democratic fund-raisers Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, paid for it nearly two years ago. Although he did not officially start work until September, Kraus hit the jackpot after just a couple of days, when Merrill CEO John Thain sold the company to Bank of America for $50 billion amid the stock-market meltdown. The sale automatically triggered the $25 million payout under Kraus' contract. He left Merrill this month. The amount represents about 0.1 percent of Bank of America's $25 billion capital injection from the government as part of Congress' rescue package. Your tax dollars at work.
Yellowstone was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger. This must all be caused by Manmade Global Warming.
Big deal! I have been ripping his "socialist" tactics for years. Comrade Bush has increased spending more than any other president in history. In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party's Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials are sponsoring a resolution opposing the resort to "socialist" means to save capitalism.
Barack Obama remained silent over the violence in Gaza as Israel today threatened to continue its attacks for weeks. This is not "change." Obama is contemplating about voting "present."
No, I am not making this up.
Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects. I sure hope so! First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favor of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world's most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that "consensus" which was only a politically engineered artifact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions. Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. Manmade Global Warming is dead! Politicians can now move into the next scam.
It was reported that Ms. Schlossberg uttered no less than 196 "you knows" in a 35 minute interview. Now this inarticulate woman feels entitled to be a U.S. Senator from New York. Actually, she will fit right in with .
After being criticized for not taking questions from the press recently now she's under scrutiny for the answers that she's given in a flurry of interviews in recent days. There is a saying in New York politics that it's all about the three I's, Italy Ireland and Israel.
A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads - via a mileage tax and satellite technology - could work. Governor's website: "As Oregonians drive less and demand more fuel-efficient vehicles, it is increasingly important that the state find a new way, other than the gas tax, to finance our transportation system." Critics worried that the technology could be used to track where vehicles go, not just how far they travel, and that this information would somehow be stored by the government. Big Brother will track your every move. The gas tax would stay in force - Kulongoski has proposed that it be raised 2 cents - for vehicles not equipped to pay the mileage tax. Governor to tax citizens both ways.
The Obama team, pledging the ''most open and transparent transition in history,'' gets an ''A'' for disclosing donors to the Jan. 20 inauguration and a ''F'' when it comes to revealing transition meetings with groups. Contrary to its own ''seat at the table transparency policy,'' meetings are not posted on a Web site. During the presidential primary campaign, then candidate Obama made a pledge: Obama said if president, he would post his meetings on the Internet. The fraud continues!
A lot of fairly well-known public companies either disappeared or went bankrupt this year.
A man is under arrest on suspicion of murder after police say he pushed a panhandler who insisted on washing his windows, resulting in a fatal head injury. You are driving around Northern California. Someone assaults your vehicle. You tell the perpetrator not to touch your car. You try to protect your property and push the assailant away. The reporter alleges that the push caused the perpetrator "to fall and hit his head on the pavement." This is not true as it was the perpetrator's insistence to continue the assault of the vehicle that caused his demise. Is this where we are heading in our society? We are rapidly losing our right to protect ourselves and our property from unwanted assault.
Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. Few took his argument - that economic and moral collapse will trigger civil war and the breakup of the U.S. - very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience. "There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he says. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia." Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S. Americans hope President-elect Barack Obama "can work miracles," he wrote. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles." People like him have forecast similar cataclysms before, he says, and been right. He cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd. Mr. Todd is famous for having rightly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union -- 15 years beforehand. "When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him," says Prof. Panarin.
It was a burglary investigation right out of a horror movie. A man is accused of stealing from a woman's home and police believe he had been living in the attic for days. The homeowners had no idea he was there stealing food, household items and even their kids' Christmas presents.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A PLAYSTATION 3? From and actual Craigslist posting:
Would you take him up on this? By the way, I doubt this guy is an actual NAVY SEAL.
Swindler extraordinaire Bernard Madoff got a taste of his own medicine last weekend when a burglar stole a $10,000 statue from his posh, $9.4 million Palm Beach estate. How does it feel, Bernie?
"She doesn't know yet that she has been married," the lawyer said then of the girl who was about to begin her fourth year at primary school. The father had agreed to marry off his daughter for an advance dowry of 30,000 riyals ($8,000), as he was apparently facing financial problems.
Phonies like Obama only "spread the wealth around" when it is with other peoples' money. "…I am my brother's keeper…" - Barack Obama August 29, 2008
Get lost in the wilderness? Play your favorite Polka music and get rescued. Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.
The case brought by authorities against a food co-op in Ohio came to a head when police officers used SWAT-style tactics to burst into the home, hold family members including children at gunpoint and confiscate the family's personal food supply.
A former Assemblyman and Parole Board member who pleaded guilty to using the Internet to entice minors for sex will collect a $53,000-a-year pension for the rest of his life. He admitted to having repeatedly e-mailed and called what he thought was a woman pimping out her 11- and 12- year-old daughters. Cops found video equipment and "sex paraphernalia" in his hotel room.
In the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts, political hacks believe it is better for government to squander money than to let the people who actually earned the money keep it and spend it as they choose.
Her name isn't Kennedy, it's Schlossberg. Caroline (Kennedy) Schlossberg responded to the suggestion she's only in the race because of her last name and praised Hillary Clinton and J.Lo alike. Poor Caroline must be suffering from dementia. If appointed, she won't be the only Senator with mental disorders.
As Caroline (Kennedy) Schlossberg pursues her bright-lights, big-city bid for the U.S. Senate, another child of dynasty is quietly testing the waters for his own Senate run. We have achieved a tri-monarchy: Kennedy, Clinton, Bush
It seems that Illinois' legally challenged Gov. Rod Blagojevich is not the only close Barack Obama associate and Democratic governor being investigated by the feds.
A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a movie took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father.
Global warming was blamed for everything from beasts gone wild to anorexic whales to the complete breakdown of human society this year -- showing that no matter what it is and where it happens, scientists, explorers, politicians and those who track the Loch Ness Monster are comfortable scapegoating the weather. 10 things that global warming allegedly caused - or will no doubt soon be responsible for - as reported in the news around the world in 2008. 1. Cannibalism 2. The Death of the Loch Ness Monster (Also, the death of every mythical creature shall be attributed to Global Warming.) 3. Beer Gets More Expensive (You would think the alcohol Nazis would be happy.) 4. Pythons Take Over America (Giant Burmese pythons - big enough to eat alligators and deer in a single mouthful - will be capable of living in one-third of continental U.S. as global warming makes more of the country hospitable to the cold-blooded predators. I hear that they are quite tasty if roasted slowly.) 5. Kidney Stones 6. Skinny Whales 7. Shark Attacks (A surge in fatal shark attacks was the handiwork of global warming.) 8. Black Hawk Down (Although it happened in 1993, the crash of a U.S. military helicopter in Mogadishu that became the film "Black Hawk Down" was blamed on global warming by a Massachusetts congressman in 2008.) 9. Frozen Penguin Babies (Frozen equals warming? Go figure.) 10. Killer Stingray Invasion And, as a bonus: The temperatures on Mars rose this year. Global Warming strikes again. The ultimate fraud continues.
Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator. Somehow, this must be caused by Global Warming as well. Actually, with Rosie O'Donnell, we can cut oil imports by 20%.
Dr Platt added: "For a zero-emission Christmas light show, you may consider using solar powered lights. This guy is a genius! Use solar powered Christmas lights and only use them during the day.
More than 600 passengers trying to get to the Pacific Northwest were stuck on the train and in cold waiting rooms for nearly a day. The toilets were frozen, the switching lines were frozen. Amtrak blamed weather - snow and bitter cold across the country - that froze equipment and created rail problems. Global Warming strikes again!
Environmentally conscious travelers flying out of San Francisco will soon be able to assuage their guilt by buying certified carbon offsets at airport kiosks. The manmade Global Warming scam continues.
The weather at the time was miserable, with the temperature close to freezing and a mix of driving rain and snow. This must also be caused by Global Warming.
Caroline (Kennedy) Schlossberg will feel right at home in the Millionaires' Club known as the U.S. Senate.
The depressing reality of the trillion-dollar Obama economic stimulus plan is slowly emerging. It seems more about liberal politics and liberal economic agendas. Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." Let the pork fly.
A former state senator in Massachusetts who resigned after he was charged with harassing women is trying to double his pension. James Marzilli Jr. cites a law that allows elected officials under age 55 with more than 20 years of service to boost their pensions if they fail to win re-election. This buffoon didn't "fail to win re-election," he resigned.
Barack Obama has chosen a poet who will read at his oath of office. And you may not want your children near the TV. Do the following lines represent the best that modern American literature offers? "Her genitalia will float inside a labeled pickling jar . . . " "Monsieur Cuvier investigates between my legs, poking, prodding . . . " "Since my own genitals are public I have made other parts private." They come from "The Venus Hottentot," the most celebrated poem of Elizabeth Alexander, chosen by the Obama to compose an original work to read at his inauguration. Rather than subject Americans to musings about private parts, poetry at the 2009 inaugural would better be, as Frost would say, a "road not taken."
The report shows a level of interest and involvement in his Senate seat that Obama has not admitted to publicly. "The President-Elect understood that Rahm Emanuel would relay these names to the Governor's office as additions to the pool of qualified candidates who might already be under consideration. Mr. Emanuel subsequently confirmed to the President that he had in fact relayed these names." This discussion of specific candidates was taking place with the expectation that the governor would be told about Obama's preferences. And Rahm Emanuel did as he was told, in conversations with Blagojevich's then chief of staff. Obama's deceit continues and he hasn't even assumed office yet. Change?
Robin was victim of police brutality at Phoenix airport. She mistakenly went through security with bottle of contact solution. When asked about the bottle at the X-Ray station she said, "Oh, that's just my contact lens solution. Feel free to throw it out." She was immediately escorted to the secondary screening area. Unprovoked, a police officer came from behind, picked her up and threw her across the room into another passenger and into a metal chair. He then took Robin's arm and twisted it around until she claims she felt it breaking. He then slammed her head into a table. Robin claims, "Going to the airport now, I'm afraid of being beat up by security again. It scares me to death." Incompetent government employees strike again. Is beating up a woman, who posed no physical threat, over a bottle of contact lens solution making our airports and country safer? Be sure to view the video.
In 1993, he testified before Congress that scientific data didn't support fears about the ozone hole and global warming, remarks that caused then-Vice President Al Gore to fire him. Al Gore said, "Science will not intrude on public policy".
Kennedy, who has asked Governor David Paterson to appoint her to succeed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton - is declining to provide a variety of basic data. If she were running for election to the Senate, Kennedy would have to file a 10-part, publicly available report disclosing her financial assets, credit card debts, mortgages, book deals and the sources of any payments greater than $5,000 in the last three years. Are you surprised? By the way, the media needs to get this right. Her name isn't Kennedy anymore. Her name is Mrs. Schlossberg. And enough with her lack of political experience. If it's good enough for a president, then Caroline Schlossberg certainly has the right lack-of-stuff to be a US Senator.
To hear the city's spin, road crews are making "great progress" in clearing the ice-caked streets. But it turns out "plowed streets" are "snow-packed" by design. The city's approach means crews clear the roads enough for all-wheel and four-wheel-drive vehicles. Go figure. The people who run the streets in Seattle in snowstorms want them icy; and the only cars that can pass the roads after Seattle has "cleared" them are the cars the leftist government is trying to ban: SUVs, and four-wheel drives.
1. Understand the difference between needs and wants. Many kids may consider movies and designer jeans needs, but they need to understand that needs are the true essentials - such as food, clothing and shelter. Wants can make life easier, but kids need to learn that they must address and pay for their needs before they can spend money on their wants. 2. Set financial goals and budget accordingly. One of the best ways for young people to learn about managing money is for them to set and achieve a simple financial goal. Younger teens can benefit from opening a savings account and choosing something to save for. Like owning their first house of 5,000 square feet at age 21, with zero financing, brought to you by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Freddie Mae, Fannie Mac. Kids see their mindless parents doing this so why shouldn't kids expect the same? Can you imagine being such a low-life human being that you need the media to tell you how to be a parent and the basics of budgeting? Most parents these days are obviously incompetent and unqualified, and they certainly shouldn't be breeding.
President Bush today commuted one prison sentence and granted 19 pardons, including forgiveness for convictions ranging from gun and drug violations to bank and mail fraud.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "I think we are. And, you know, you -- you asked me earlier, uh, if I'm worried about the exceedingly high expectations that people have for President Barack Obama, and I said domestically I wasn't so worried about that, but internationally I am. I've been contacted by so many world leaders. Their expectation for Barack's, ehhh, presidency is overwhelming." - Joe Biden Fact: Yes we can has become uh, no, uh, I don't, uh, think, uh, we can.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has extensive ties to both the ACORN organization now under federal investigation for vote fraud, and to MoveOn.org ultra-liberal kingmaker George Soros.
Even before taking office, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to build a more powerful State Department, with a bigger budget, high-profile special envoys.
A founder of a hedge fund that lost as much as $1.4 billion in the alleged Bernard Madoff scheme committed suicide in his New York City office.
"We live in a time when great efforts have been made, and continue to be made, to falsify the record of the past and to make history a tool of propaganda; when governments, religious movements, political parties, and sectional groups of every kind are busy rewriting history as they wish it to have been, as they would like their followers to believe that it was."
The freezing cold left residents all over the Bay State with chapped hands and rosy cheeks. This wasn't part of the mythical Global Warming computer model.
Crashing auto demand, especially in its key U.S. market, and the profit erosion from a surging yen proved too much for Japan's top automaker.
Obama tapped four blacks for Cabinet posts, but some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are unhappy. Representative Danny Davis D-IL: "Some people, sure, thought there should be a bit more color in it." I though this wasn't supposed to be about race.
China's Communist Party leadership has been accumulating weapons at a startling rate - one far exceeding what American intelligence analysts deem necessary for China's security.
Sheriff's offices, farmers, and a U.S. Congressman have all made their opinion about the patrol's increased presence known, and not all of it has been friendly. "Checkpoints" and "roadblocks;" show me your papers.
The only commonality in Canvassing Board decisions was that the outcome benefited Franken. When the recount is in Franken's favor that is used. When the original machine tally works best that is used. Franken wants it both ways. What methodology do we use? Whatever gets more votes for Franken. Fair and balanced?
Cons con.
The northern hemisphere is losing two minutes of sunlight every day, and if this crisis continues, we will be in total darkness by June. The data indicates drastic changes to the environment that have already started: Many species of birds, millions of individual birds have left the northern hemisphere. The impact of the loss of these birds is unimaginable. Insect life has been severely affected. Most can no longer be observed. Large mammals have been observed lying in a state of near death torpor in their dens. Crop production has fallen to dangerously low levels, and the models and the research predict famine in the very near future. Additionally, while not indicated by the computer models, actual eyewitness observations have discovered that most, if not all, leaves have fallen off trees in the researcher's area. These and other effects of the loss of daylight demand our immediate attention if we are to prevent a genuine climate catastrophe. There are those who disagree with the scientific computer models saying that this is cyclical and that the daylight is going to come back. Those people are clearly deniers of this disaster. Legions of scientists have run this on their models, and there is no question that we are losing daylight. Consensuses of scientists are extremely alarmed and concerned about this crisis that we are losing daylight in the entire northern hemisphere, not just in the United States. Note: This has not been linked to climate change. Something other than climate change is causing this leakage of sunlight. This is a genuine emergency! The Supreme Court must force the government to begin releasing some of the daylight they have been saving and storing under the mandated "Daylight Savings Plan." Total darkness and everything that would result from it will occur by June if we do not enact policies now that change this leakage. Contact your Senators and Congressmen and tell them that we need tax increases and stimulus package spending, in order to help people get through the impending darkness.
Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management. The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines.
Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates. Average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals. Democrats, who speak passionately about the hungry and homeless, personally fork over less money to charity than Republicans. European countries seem to show more compassion than America in providing safety nets for the poor, and they give far more humanitarian foreign aid per capita than the United States does. But as individuals, Europeans are far less charitable than Americans. Americans give sums to charity equivalent to 1.67 percent of G.N.P. The British are second, with 0.73 percent, while the stingiest people on the list are the French, at 0.14 percent. Liberals have figured out that it is easier to be generous with other people's money.
It was a year when one word filled the air - change. It was a year Democrats came to believe in the audacity of hope. Or maybe just plain audacity.
Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads - how can there be global warming with this unusual cold and snowy weather? CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers said, "Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big - I think we're going to die from a lack of fresh water or we're going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure." He also said trying to determine patterns occurring in the climate would be difficult based on such a short span. "But this is like, you know you said - in your career - my career has been 22 years long," Myers said. "That's a good career in TV, but talking about climate - it's like having a car for three days and saying, 'This is a great car.' Well, yeah - it was for three days, but maybe in days five, six and seven it won't be so good. And that's what we're doing here." "If we go back really, in recorded human history, in the 13th Century, we were probably 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now and it was a very prosperous time for mankind," Dr. Jay Lehr said. "If go back to the Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We've been warming out of that cold spell from the Revolutionary War period and now we're back into a cooling cycle." "The last 10 years have been quite cool," Lehr continued. "And right now, I think we're going into cooling rather than warming and that should be a much greater concern for humankind. But, all we can do is adapt. It is the sun that does it, not man."
Bush cronies tied to auto bailout The Cerberus Bailout Connection: Connect the dots. Bush gave General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC up to $17.4 billion. Cerberus bought 80.1 percent of Chrysler from Daimler AG for $7.4 billion in 2007. Cerberus said it doesn't have the funds necessary to bail out Chrysler. General Motors sold a 51% stake in its GMAC finance unit to an investor group led by Cerberus Capital Management in November 2006. On Oct. 19, 2006, John W. Snow - President Bush's second Secretary of the Treasury - was named chairman of Cerberus. Dan Quayle is chairman of global investments for Cerberus Capital Management. Why would George W. Bush choose to bail out two companies controlled by Cerberus Capital Management, which is controlled by Bush cronies?
"See the USA in your Chevrolet!" trilled Dinah Shore week after week on TV. Can you still see the USA in your Chevrolet? Through a windscreen darkly. General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed, Bath & Beyond, and no one says your Swash 700 Elongated Biscuit Toilet Seat Bidet is too big to fail. GM has a market capitalization of about $2.4 billion. For purposes of comparison, Toyota's market cap is $100 billion and change (the change being bigger than the whole of GM). General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. The UAW is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as "workers" (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people. Honda and Nissan make a pretax operating profit per vehicle of around $1,600; Ford, Chrysler and GM make a loss of $500 to $1,500. That's to say, they lose money on every vehicle they sell. Like Henry Ford said, you can get it in any color as long as it's red.
During the Cold War democratic capitalism had competitors breathing down its neck in the form of socialism and communism, which kept it on the straight and narrow. But no sooner was the Cold War over than all restraints were abandoned. In the 1990s Russia's new capitalist system quickly morphed into Russian organized crime, which went global. In the United States, democratic capitalism gradually morphed into casino capitalism and, more recently, bandit capitalism, which scored some spectacular successes. Fortune magazine named Enron "America's most innovative company" for six consecutive years. But Enron's success was an elaborate scam that drove it into the biggest bankruptcy case in U.S. history.
A Good Samaritan whose well-meaning but careless rescue effort injures an accident victim can be sued for damages, the state Supreme Court ruled. The 4-3 ruling allows a 27-year-old Los Angeles woman to go to trial in her suit against a friend who pulled her out of a wrecked car and, in the process, allegedly caused injuries that left her permanently paralyzed. The friend, Lisa Torti, said she had seen smoke and thought the car was about to explode, but other witnesses said they had seen no signs of danger. This only further discourages people from trying to save lives.
Pentagon resources and U.S. troops may be used if needed to quell protests and bank runs during an economic crisis, the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Institute reported.
The defense contractor is offering cash and free dinner inducements to job applicants. There's a catch: Many jobs require highly specialized skills and a security clearance. Consider the latest opening at Northrop for a "cryogenic propellant management engineer."
According to surveys, people like the way the inside of Burger King Restaurants smell. The alluring aroma of French fries and burgers. Up next, recycled French fry oil hair gel. More proof that there is a market for anything. Actually, when you think about it, this will be an improvement for most patrons.
Al Gore to begin selling "light credits."
The idea that the American people are "symbolically the children of the future president" would have not only appalled the Founding Fathers, it would have insulted them. It should insult us, too. We now live in a country where the government educates us, gives us food stamps and school lunch programs when we're hungry, gives us money when we lose our jobs, frets constantly about differences in free market salaries, orders home loans to be given to people who can't afford them, bails out failing companies, and provides for our retirement.
The Bush administration came to the rescue of the troubled U.S. auto industry today, offering $17.4 billion in loans in exchange for concessions from carmakers and their workers.
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code - socialist code. "Economic justice" simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It's a euphemism for socialism. Among his proposed "investments": Universal," "guaranteed" health care. "Free" college tuition. "Universal national service" (a la Havana). "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families"). "Free" job training (even for criminals). "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels). "Free" child care and "universal" preschool. More subsidized public housing. A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor." (People who don't pay taxes.) And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa. A "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation. Open your wallet my fellow taxpayer.
"The Obama family asked for an early check-in at Blair House, the presidential guest quarters across the street from the White House, but the Bush administration said no. Apparently Blair House is booked. The White House kindly offered up temporary accommodations on a nearby military base. The Obamas politely declined. They've also apparently ruled out his Senate apartment. The couple told 60 Minutes Michelle Obama has never slept there. The future first lady recently stayed at the Mayflower, a hotel that's probably eager to have famous guests other than Eliot Spitzer. But hotel rooms in this city are now in short supply," reported David Wright.
It's time to get Bubba fitted for a burnoose. Arkansas good ol' boy Bill Clinton turned the ancient lands of Arabia into his personal ATM.
Bill Clinton has raised millions of dollars from governments and politicians in the Middle East and Asia, raising fresh concerns about the impartiality of his wife's role as secretary of state.
A top priority of the incoming Democratic Congress and Obama administration is the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act. The EFCA, as is well known, introduces a card-check procedure that allows a union to gain recognition without an election by secret ballot.
The parents of American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh pleaded with President Bush to set their son free before he leaves office next month.
The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a winter storm warning for heavy snow for the valleys and deserts of Clark, southern Nye and Lincoln counties Nevada. No planes are departing for Las Vegas from anywhere in the U.S. right now. The airport doesn't have snow removal or deicing equipment, which means there's no way for snow-covered planes to leave safely. This storm is expected to bring 3 to 6 inches of snow to the valley floors and up to 10 inches to the foothills above 2500 feet. Will somebody turn up the Global Warming?
Bernard Madoff, accused of the largest fraud in U.S. history (aside from the political Social Security Scam), will be allowed to remain in his $7 million Park Avenue apartment instead of being sent to jail.
Police arrested Joan Tuckruskye after allegedly finding her in the backseat of a parked car on school grounds with a 13-year-old boy. Police "observed a woman in her 40s and a boy who appeared to be a teenager. They were not clothed from the waist down." The boy claimed he and the PTA mom were only kissing. Not clothed from the waist down and only kissing?
Islamic proposals to ban criticism of religion, which have gathered strength since the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad two years ago, threaten to derail an already troubled U.N. anti-racism conference planned for next year. Limits on free speech are needed to stop the publication of offensive articles and images. Here we go with more censorship to protect the hyper-offended.
A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said she felt her human and civil rights were violated.
Caroline Kennedy And The Senate Caroline Kennedy has avoided politics most of her life. She has yet to utter a word publicly about her interest in running for Hillary's seat. She's not going to have to run for it. All you have to do these days is buy these seats with a blank check. What are her qualifications? She's a dilettante. She's JFK's daughter. She is an Obama team leader and was involved in selecting his vice president. She is a woman. She is rich. She is thin. The bottom line is her name is Kennedy and the Senate is not the Senate without a Kennedy. But keep in mind that there are other people in the Senate just as unqualified as she is. The difference is they had to go out, campaign and get elected. Gary Ackerman said, "I don't know what Caroline Kennedy's qualifications are except that she has name recognition, but, you know, so does J. Lo." That says it all. Here we go with the American Idol name recognition politics again.
The Global Warming Gospel according to Al Gore
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The father testified that his son came up behind him as he sat on the couch and said, "Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you." Daniel Petric shot his parents -- killing his mother -- because they wouldn't allow him to play the violent video game Halo 3.
Why do you need a big screen TV to survive? In the coming months, mental health experts expect a rise in theft, depression, drug use, anxiety and even violence as consumers confront a harsh new reality and must live within diminished means. Some people know how to live within your means and aren't playing this game of wealth envy. Unfortunately, the majority of people in this country are more concerned about the size of their TV screen than their child's education. A rise in violence? This sounds like a good time for you to buy a gun and learn to use it. Learn to protect yourself from predators who break into homes and threaten innocent law-abiding citizens.
An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker when he broke into her home to rape her a second time. The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door. The victim was awake watching television, when Preyer switched off the electricity to her house. She tried to call 911, but couldn't because the power was off. She got a shotgun and waited as the man began banging on the basement door. She fired when Preyer came crashing through the door. When Preyer collapsed, the woman escaped and went to a neighbor's home, where she called police. Officers, who arrived within a minute, found a bleeding Preyer stumbling away from the house. He was taken to St. Francis Medical Center, where he died several hours later. This woman had a gun and knew how to use it. This perpetrator won't be raping anyone anymore. Success!
An employee of a Forest Park cell phone store fatally shot a man trying to rob the store. Tyrie Rolland, 18, of Decatur and another man entered the Metro PCS cell phone store and tried to rob two workers closing up the shop. Gunfire was exchanged between the suspects and one of the workers, and Rolland was hit in the head and later died. The shooting by the worker appears to be self-defense and no charges have been filed. This law-abiding citizen had a gun and knew how to use it as well. The perpetrator won't be causing harm to anyone anymore. Success!
Secret Service officials faced questions about how an Iraqi television reporter was able to hurl not one but two shoes at the president without the agents responsible for protecting him being able to move into the line of fire.
When Rahm Emanuel was a Clinton aide he relaxed rules to naturalize even criminal immigrants and secure their votes, charges a former INS official who attended meetings.
If you live or work in New York City you pay federal income tax, state income tax and city income tax. The Governor of New York will be adding 88 new taxes just for you. There is even going to be an iPod tax. Movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages will be taxed. Also extended are sales taxes to cable and satellite TV services and removal of the tax exemption for clothes costing less than $110. Why should government live within its budget when there are so many additional ways to tax you.
William Felkner says the college wouldn't approve his final project on welfarereform because he was on the "wrong" side of issues and countered the school's "progressive" agenda. "You can say what you want about the war on poverty and how it's going, but I think that it hasn't gone well and I think there are better alternatives, and I think it was a shame I wasn't even allowed to research and pursue those interests," Felkner said. "It's indoctrination."
The August 2007 raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery was postponed 48 hours to accommodate the vacation schedules of two SWAT commanders, which likely cost journalist Chauncey Bailey his life. Two senior SWAT commanders, Deputy Chief David Kozicki and Capt. Ed Tracey, were on a backpacking trip, and they wanted to be present.
We need to use OUR tax dollars to keep Canadians employed.
Bush's comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market, as his administration has orchestrated unprecedented intervention. "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse." This is the understatement of the year! The free-market system would save itself if it wasn't for the government.
Then why play with this bailout nonsense? Only in government will you bailout a company only to force them into bankruptcy later. Your tax dollars at work. Let them go bankrupt without the bailouts like I have been saying right along.
Most Americans continue to oppose a government-backed rescue plan for Detroit's Big Three automakers as majorities blame the industry for its own problems. Yet out political hacks in Washington continue to penalize winners to reward the losers. With our money!
Barack Obama has been toying with the idea of dialogue with the Islamic world for two years now - but he has yet to approach the idea of actually saying anything meaningful. "The message I want to send is that we will be unyielding in stamping out the terrorist extremism we saw in Mumbai," Obama told The Chicago Tribune last Tuesday. Note that the American president-elect mentions Mumbai - and not the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington or scores of others carried out by Islamic terrorists against Western targets. Note also that he talks of "terrorist extremism," not "Islamic" or even "Islamist" terrorism.
Americans on Nov. 4 turned over control of the United States of America to a management team possessing no executive experience, having never run, as I liked to put it, nothing. Americans usually get the government they deserve, and I urge you all to get ready for this 21st century version of amateur hour. It's going to be an embarrassing and dangerous time for America and American ideals. There won't be much, I'm afraid, to be thankful for.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "The politics of 2009 will be dominated by a continuation and deepening of the global Depression. Under the guise of stimulating the economy, look for Obama to pursue a radical, socialist agenda that will bring America into conformity with the government domination of health care and the economy that prevails in the European Union. When the dust clears, the economy will still be in the tank. The new president's stimulation packages will do little or nothing to abate the depression, but they will transform American life and politics. For his part, Obama will take advantage of his built-in majorities in Congress to pass his agenda, but will suffer rapidly dropping ratings. By the end of the year, he will be as radioactive as Bush is today. Obama, bless his heart, is a man who only sees a government solution to almost any problem. He is not programmed to look to the private sector for solutions to any problem past labeling a can of beans. As such, Obama is the ideal president for our times. Generations of our children have been educated (by the government) to also believe that the government is the solution to all significant problems. Now think about it: If you went to a Catholic school you were surely taught that Catholicism was the way to go. A Jewish school? Judaism is the proper path. Government school? Connect the dots. It will take at least a generation - a generation without government schools - to once again bring about an appreciation for freedom and free markets." - Dick Morris Fact: I have been saying this for years.
Mexican gunmen have kidnapped a U.S. security consultant who negotiated the release of dozens of kidnap victims in Latin America.
The report by the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Institute said a defense community paralyzed by conventional thinking could be unprepared to help the U.S. cope with a series of unexpected crises.
Lexus liberals with Volkswagens on their brains; Condo commies; lunch room Lenins.
Remember the days when Sen. John McCain was the Democratic Party's best friend? Well, they're ba-a-a-ck! John McCain, resuming his place as a favorite Sunday morning talking head, gave Democrats and liberal media types exactly what they wanted this weekend: He attacked the Republican National Committee for highlighting Barack Obama's connections to Illinois' scandal-ridden soon-to-be ex-governor, Rod Blagojevich. No wonder McCain lost, even in once-safe Republican states.
Social Security: The World's Largest Ponzi Scheme The Madoff $50 billion is small potatoes compared to the Social Security Ponzi scheme. Every Ponzi scheme eventually collapses because at some point everybody in it wants their money, and there isn't any money. Does this sound familiar? Washingtonians cannot give up the power that running this Ponzi scheme gives them. So, when will the political hacks who continue to perpetrate this fraud be going to jail?
Italy's most shoplifted product is rescued by a government bail-out. Parmesan cheese is in trouble so the Italian Government is bailing it out to the tune of $45 million. However, producers of Italy's other celebrated cheese - buffalo mozzarella - are looking on enviously after suffering an 18 per cent drop in sales in the last year. So, whether it's cars, banks, homes or cheese, it's not fair no matter who you're bailing out. Bailouts don't work.
A can of Coke could soon cost New Yorkers more than just calories. I predicted this long ago: It starts with tobacco and alcohol but beware the encroaching "fat tax." Next we will be hearing about the dangers of secondhand fat.
Guilty and stressed, layoff survivors suffer, too. Employees who remain face extra work, uncertainty - and no sympathy. This is absurd. The survivors are also victims! Everybody wants their "syndrome." We are inventing our traumas. And, you can expect someone will demand that health insurance pay for treatment of these manufactured disorders.
Despite the nation's tenth straight year of temperatures cooler than 1998's peak, and New England's worst ice storm in decades, the AP published one of the most hysterical articles. This despite: Fact: The mean global temperature (as measured by satellite) is the same as it was in 1980. The Global Warming Scam continues no matter how cold the planet becomes. Facts are immaterial when there are votes to buy so unusual cooling now illustrates how fast the world is warming.
First there was the dotcom bust of the late 1990s, then came the real-estate bubble that's deflating before our eyes. Next up: the green bubble. Alternative energy ventures have received a lot of great press, heavy investment and lip service from politicians in the last couple of years, but many of the nascent green industry's balance sheets are beginning to bleed red. Nancy Pelosi and her husband invested a hundred grand with T. Boone's green company. Isn't this a conflict? Gasoline and oil prices have to remain high for any alternative energy program to work, unless, of course, somebody from the government is trying to "help us" and forces it on us.
President-elect Barack Obama, relatively young and inexperienced, is facing a rapidly growing list of monumental challenges as he prepares to take the reins of a nation in turmoil. We're not in the Great Depression. We don't have 25% unemployment. We don't have people jumping out windows, yet. Our country has seen greater challenges. Obama: The most inexperienced, most clueless, but with the wave of his angelic, messianic hand, it will all get magically repaired.
Sonia Ringoir, a restaurant worker from the Belgian tourist haven of Ghent, was arrested and charged after the allegations were made by her estranged husband. Ringoir also has five other children aged between three and 13 by two different fathers Does this surprise you with welfare brood mares who continually download kids they can't afford to raise?
Alun Elder-Brown was left feeling "like a piece of dirt" after being barred from bringing the animal into a restaurant in England on religious grounds.
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of an American political dynasty, has decided she will pursue the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton. Will she be elected because of qualifications or American Idol style name recognition? At least she has a better driving record than her uncle Ted. The Kennedy, Clinton and Bush dynasties continue. We are no longer a republic but a tri-monarchy.
Dorothy Glenn of South Tyneside, England, was stunned when a housing association worker came to her house to inform her the decorations she was displaying might offend her neighbors. I'm offended by idiots. Where do I file my complaint?
The traditional Christian crucifix was erased from the chapel's blueprints after discussion with a Muslim imam. The room has been split in two, with one half featuring heated foot baths so Muslim worshippers can wash their feet before prayer. But the other side, dedicated to Christian prayer, contains just a simple wooden cross and portable alter - both of which can be removed if necessary. Can the heated footbaths "be removed if necessary?" Someone might be offended.
Iraq faces mounting calls to release the journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush, an action branded shameful by the government but hailed by many in the Arab world. The question is where was the Secret Service and why were they unable to stop a shoe thrower? If they can't accomplish this menial task, they appear to be incompetent to protect the president from a severe threat. Government incompetence. By the way, what would happen if someone threw a show at Obama?
When it comes to bailouts, Barney Frank and the Congress may be just getting started. Nearly 2 trillion tax dollars have been shoveled into the hole that Wall Street dug and people wonder where the bottom is. There is no bottom as the political hacks think the taxpayers have bottomless pockets.
A federal judge on Monday threw a lifesaver to investors who may have been duped in one of Wall Street's biggest alleged frauds, saying they need the protection of a special government reserve fund set up to help investors at failed brokerage firms. I always thought that with investments and business comes risk. Typically, the larger the risk, the greater the potential gain. Today, everybody gets a bailout. The next thing you know we will be bailing out everyone in Las Vegas who made bad decisions and lost money gambling. Madoff cheated his investors and now the investors are cheating us. The taxpayers get stuck with the bill for everyone's bad decisions. This is pathetic.
According to Federal Election Commission records, Bernard Madoff was a generous donor to Democrat politicians. Was the hedge fund manager just hedging his bets?
Daily News owner and real-estate mogul Mort Zuckerman is one of the investors ripped off by swindler Bernard Madoff, it was reported today. It was also reported that powerhouse movie director Steven Spielberg's charity, Wunderkinder Foundation, also got burned, investing roughly 70 percent of its money with Madoff. A spokesman said he couldn't comment on whether Spielberg had any of his own money invested. That's OK, we the taxpayers will bailout everyone for making stupid decisions.
Top world financial groups today revealed massive potential losses from an alleged scam run by Wall Street trader Bernard Madoff, admitting they were fooled by a classic pyramid fraud. Therefore, these bank executives need to be fired and not bailed out.
Only about half of the claimed $50 billion figure has been accounted for. Where is the other half and who is going to jail?
Sen. Frank Lautneberg - undisclosed amount; Avram and Carold Goldberg - portion of their $29 million charitable trust; Lawrence Velvel, dean of Massachusetts School of Law - millions. Velvel is apparently too stupid to be teaching at any level, let alone having the position of dean of a law school. Well, it is the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts. He probably got his position the old fashioned way: Political enticement.
CNN proposes that because Michelle Obama was making a lot of money before the election, and now she has to give it up. She has to give up the paycheck. "Why should Michelle Obama have to work for free?" is what CNN asked. This has nothing to do with her giving up her job.
The Nobel Prize Committee is facing criminal investigation of bribery and corruption after allegedly taking huge payments from a pharmaceutical company that directly benefits from the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "We are not going to rest until we change the rules, change the laws and make sure New York remains No. 1 for decades on into the future." - Senator Charles E. Schumer, referring to financial regulations, Jan. 22, 2007 Fact: New York senator reaps fruit of federal bailout measures. Political plunder continues.
Republicans are criticizing Obama's silence over contacts his aides may have had with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, saying he is breaking promises to bring openness to government. The Obama transition team's refusal to talk has contributed to a maelstrom around Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago congressman likely to have been in contact with the governor. Blagojevich was arrested this week in a corruption scandal.
When they light the town Christmas tree in Armonk, N.Y., there will be a Jewish menorah alongside, as usual. There will also be something new - an Islamic crescent and star.
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials may change a policy that makes 50% the lowest grade students can receive -- even if they do zero work. More dumbing down of our government schools. This sounds like our congressional political hacks. Many of these people who are supposed to be representing we the people do zero work. School officials say that the policy is meant to help students recover from a bad grade or the odd missed assignment. But the district's teachers complain that some students refuse to hand in assignments because they're content to get the "50 percent" grade for doing nothing. There's a simple way to recover from low grades. Work harder and get better ones.
The Fed refused a request to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "GM is in a better financial situation than the government that wants to bail it out. The only difference between these two failing entities (GM and the government) is that the government can print the money. GM can't." - South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint Fact: He's absolutely correct. We don't have the money. Government politicians who are drunk with power think they will be able to bailout the people that support their power. Quote: "The primary driver behind this is the unions, because bankruptcy allows the auto companies to basically restructure all their contracts in a way that a bankruptcy judge says will make them sustainable ... And if they do that, then essentially the unions lose all their leverage. It's the unions that have brought them to the brink. So definitely, I think the reason they want a political solution and a car czar is because a car czar can protect the unions through this whole process at the expense of the taxpayer." - South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint Fact: All the unions had to do in order to get the Senators to approve this $15 billion bailout was to promise to reduce union wages to the level paid to automakers in the Toyota and Nissan plants by the end of 2009. The unions said no way. GM has hired bankruptcy council. Who can possibly live on $48 an hour?
There's a lot of pork in the auto bailout bill. If the $14 billion bailout plan for U.S. automakers passes, it will help more than just Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. Federal judges would get a pay raise, as well. Your Senators and your Congressmen are getting a $5,000 raise on January 1st. That must be for all of the great work that they have done spending your tax dollars and putting your grandchildren on the hook for trillions and trillions of dollars. This is on top of the 2.8% raise that the judges are "expected" to be awarded next year. How many of you are getting a $5000 cost of living increase in your salary? Only in government. Do you really want to help Detroit? Get government out of it. There are people who earn a lot less than members of United Auto Workers who do not want to subsidize them.
The EFCA, or "card-check" bill, would enable unions to organize a workplace by obtaining the signatures of a majority of workers on authorization cards. Under current law, employers may require secret ballots. The Service Employee Union told its members that "McDonald's isn't lovin' free choice for its employees." The unions are calling the end of your right to a secret ballot "free choice." Look for all of our fast food jobs to be sent off shore (to Bangladesh). Also, a $2.00 Big Mac will cost $35.00 and can be ordered from McDonalds.com, hopefully the shipping will be free (unless you want it overnight) then it could become costly. Five years from now it will be Burger King, Mac Donalds and Jack in the Box seated before Congress begging for a bail out!
Comrade Bush to ignore the Constitution. The Bush administration said today it was ready to step in and prevent the U.S. auto industry from collapsing after the Senate refused to pass a rescue bill.
The production of handmade figurines for nativity scenes is big business in this southern Italian city and has been for centuries. But beyond the thousands of angel, sheep, Mary and Joseph figures filling market stalls before Christmas, craftsmen say Obama has become a top seller. Obama is the Messiah. Who plays Joseph?
Less than 15% of U.S. voters support, and 53% oppose, a proposal pushed by health insurers requiring every American to provide proof of private health insurance or face tax penalties or other fines. Less than 15% say they would support it. Another 31% are undecided. Opposition is also strongest in the West (61% oppose; 16% favor), North Central states (54% oppose; 16% favor), the South (51% oppose; 13% favor) and in the Northeast (45% oppose; 18% favor). Where in our Constitution does the Imperial Federal Government of the United States derive the power to force one single American citizen to BUY ANYTHING? That's right; the Constitution doesn't count any more. After you win the election, polls don't matter.
All Americans are likely to have health insurance. The bad news is that the ranks of the uninsured, previously about 46 million, probably will swell by another 5 million to 6 million because of the recession, and a similar number will be added to strained public programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP. That means the cost of covering everyone will surge far above previous estimates -- which were probably low to begin with -- of $150 billion a year. The 10-year cost of providing insurance to all who need it could be far more than $3 trillion. Hey, there are votes to buy with your tax dollars.
"Did you communicate directly or indirectly with Blagojevich about picking your replacement in the U.S. Senate?" "Why didn't you or someone on your team correct your close adviser David Axelrod when he said you had spoken to Blagojevich about picking your replacement?" "When did you learn the investigation involved Blagojevich's alleged efforts to 'sell' your Senate seat, or of the governor's impending arrest?" "Did you or anyone close to you contact the FBI or U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald about Blagojevich's alleged efforts to sell your Senate seat to the highest bidder?" "Did federal investigators interview you or anyone close to you in the investigation?" "When did you and Blagojevich last speak and about what?" "Do you regret supporting Blagojevich?"
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has not even been confirmed as the new secretary of state. But Congress has already decided that she should get less than the person currently holding the job, Condoleezza Rice. The move actually removes doubts about Mrs. Clinton's ability to take the post. According to an obscure clause in the Constitution, known as the Emoluments clause, a member of Congress may not be appointed to a government position if the compensation rate for that position was increased during his or her term. In 2006, the salary for cabinet posts was increased to $191,300 from $186,600. So late on Wednesday, Congress cut the pay for the secretary of state by about $4,700.
The warning comes at a time when Barack Obama, who is to be voted the next president by the Electoral College Monday, has expressed his belief the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted through the lens of current events. Obama said in a 2001 radio interview the Constitution is flawed in that it does not mandate or allow for redistribution of wealth. And this is a bad thing? Oh, that's right. Obama is the "spread the wealth around" guy.
Technically, he hasn't accomplished anything yet. Go ahead; tell me he was elected based on issues. He merely won an American Idol Beauty Pageant style election.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has a long history of being tough on crime, but critics say his overzealous pursuits sometimes cross the line. He now has Rod Blagojevich in his sights, having capped a three-year investigation with the arrest Tuesday morning of the Illinois governor and his chief of staff. It brought to light what Fitzgerald called "a political corruption crime spree" that brought Illinois politics "to a truly new low."
An environmental activist who conspired to destroy a Northern California dam and a genetics lab has been sentenced to five months' home confinement. Are you sure that isn't too severe?
As Blagojevich was trying to pick Illinois' next senator, businessmen with ties to both the governor and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. discussed raising at least $1 million for Blagojevich's campaign.
The Illinois attorney general filed a motion with the state's highest court today asking justices to strip scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his powers.
"I'm getting regular death threats. You've put my home address on national television. I'm pissed at the networks. You've intruded too much, " Emanuel said.
The Pentagon warned that piracy rampant in the Horn of Africa cannot be solved by force alone.
American International Group Inc. is cutting prices to win new business and boost market share, competitors and others in the industry say, but taxpayers could again be stuck with the tab. Since a U.S. government bailout, which last month swelled to more than $150 billion, industry executives say AIG has been lowering prices -- even as market fundamentals indicated insurance rates need to rise. Your tax dollars at work!
Ametek Rotron Inc. has a manufacturing operation on Hasbrouck Lane in Woodstock. The company makes parts for helicopters, rocket launchers, tanks and armored personnel carriers. Studies conducted by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts show "conversion from military to peaceful production can be done without jeopardizing jobs." That is why manufacturing jobs are fleeing the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts. What a way to drive business out of your area.
A Wall Street legend was busted yesterday on charges of running a scam investment business for the super rich after telling his sons it was just "a big lie" - losing a whopping $50 billion. Bernard L. Madoff, 70, a former Nasdaq chairman, was arrested a day after his sons Andrew and Mark, both senior employees, turned him in for running a business that had been insolvent for years.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the browser they use but by the search engine they use.
The Obama Birth Certificate Battle Presents Some Interesting Questions What would happen if you woke up one morning and found out that the President of the United States was a USURPER, a FRAUD, a PHONY? What would happen if the leader of the free world was constitutionally ineligible to be President of the United States but - in direct and undisputable violation of the letter of the Constitution - decided to take and hold office anyway? Would any bill this Usurper signed into law be valid? Would this Usurper's Supreme Court appointments be valid? Would the military recognize this Usurper as Commander-in-Chief and what actions would those within our military take? What would our enemies around the world do? What would happen to the economy, your job, your home, your assets or what you've put away for retirement? Would our society destabilize uncontrollably and would we actually start down the road to anarchy? Would a flagrant, callous and outright disregard of the Constitution send a clear message to judges and legislators that a nuanced approach was no longer necessary, that they could literally strip our rights, liberties and freedoms with tyrannical impunity, that the Constitution of the United States is effectively a WORTHLESS PIECE OF PAPER? Could the will of the people become merely something that could be ignored by those who tyrannically hold the reins of political power at the moment? If JUST ONE SECTION of our Constitution can be flagrantly and callously ignored, IS ANY PART OF THE CONSTITUTION VALID ANYMORE? If President-elect Obama is NOT compelled to verify that he is Constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States, the consequences could be dire for you, for your children, for your grandchildren, and for our nation! President-elect Obama's maternal grandmother was claiming that she was present at Obama's birth in Mombasa in what is now Kenya. A birth certificate that turned out to be a forgery made its way onto Obama's website. Why did he produce a forged birth certificate? There were the ambiguous statements from officials in Hawaii who claimed that a "Certificate of Live Birth" exists for President-elect Obama in Hawaii. However the laws of Hawaii allow for a child to be furnished a "Certificate of Live Birth" even if the child was NOT born in Hawaii. Officials in Hawaii became mysteriously silent when asked if the "Birth Certificate" listed Obama's actual place of birth. There was the issue of college records that Obama refuses to release. Could those records indicate that he received financial aid as a foreign student? Dr. Jerome Corsi traveled to Kenya to see if he could find a birth certificate for President-elect Obama but was detained by Kenyan officials. We cannot ignore President-elect Obama's unwillingness to release an authentic copy of his birth certificate, nor can it be ignored that President-elect Obama has hired teams of attorneys (not individual attorneys but teams of attorneys) to thwart attempts by third parties to compel him to produce a birth certificate. What is Lord Obama hiding? If the Electoral College actually allowed an unqualified person to be elected President of the United States, or allowed a person to be elected without verifying that that he or she is qualified, our entire form of government could be compromised!
Commonsense isn't welcome in government schools in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts. A school resource officer named of Derek Jones proposed government school children need to be trained to defend themselves if they are ever being held by a gunman. He said, "Do we want the kids to sit there and literally have the gunman be able to shoot them one at a time? Or do we want to allow instincts to kick in and basically allow them to protect themselves against the threat?" Makes sense to me. Unfortunately, most parents and school officials are worried about how the children would handle the training emotionally. It may frighten them! What is more frightening, children learning techniques on how to use their backpacks or textbooks to fight or defend themselves, or sit and wait for their turn to be attacked?
The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km. Manmade Global Warming is about control and power; it is not about saving the Earth. That is the reason Kyoto Treaty omitted nations like China while punishing the economies of the United States. Manmade Global Warming is a scam!
Yesterday we had snow in Houston, in the middle of global warming. Today it is snowing in New Orleans. Meanwhile, President-select Obama endorsed his whole plan to deal with global warming. The scam continues!
Watch out, Americans - a generation from now, your kid is going to fetch coffee for a Chinese boss. China is cutting business taxes to stimulate growth. While China improves its business climate by lowering the burden of state confiscation, the US plans to increase it, and in some cases by a significant amount. When one looks to Beijing for rational tax policies, it's a sad day for Americans.
The parent was upset her child was told to sing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" in the school's holiday concert. She was concerned the words "Christmas" and "Santa" hold religious meaning. School administration and lawyers determined the song was secular - Santa and his reindeer are non-religious figures. Her daughter will not participate in the concert, and school officials say that's okay since the performance is not mandatory. This hysterical fool in obviously incapable of rational thought and properly raising a child. How will she ever deal with seriously difficult situations?
Blago's wife, after he was elected governor, was in charge of condom flavor and style. Under the program, health workers distributed hundreds of thousands of colored, flavored condoms in an effort to combat sexually transmitted diseases. Health officials had defended the plan, saying condoms with cherry, grape, lemon and orange flavoring encourage safe sexual practices among youths. Some health workers said they were disappointed that Blago had ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health not to buy any more condoms in bright colors or flavors for distribution at clinics and local health agencies. Is Blagojevich related to the hysterical mother that hates Rudolph?
A Tennessee woman chose not to follow the old saying "Finders keepers, losers weepers" when she discovered nearly $100,000 in a bag at the Cracker Barrel.
When GM, Ford and Chrysler pleaded their case for a multibillion-dollar bailout, the automakers' CEOs told Congress that letting their companies fail would diminish the choices of patriotic Americans who want to buy American cars. But buying a Honda or a Toyota or any one of several other "imports" can be buying American, too. Many "foreign" cars built by the Big Three's competitors are made in the U.S.A. - coming off assembly lines from South Carolina to California and providing jobs for tens of thousands of Americans.
A politically connected private equity firm could reap double benefits from the $15 billion auto industry rescue. New York-based Cerberus Capital Management owns a majority stake in Chrysler and GMAC, the lending arm of General Motors Corp. The political plunder continues!
From pricey luxury sedans to popular hybrid cars, automobiles made overseas are stacking up at ports and parking lots around the United States as supplies far outstrip demand. At the Long Beach port near Los Angeles, Toyota Motor Corp vehicles including Prius hybrids, FJ Cruiser sport utility vehicles and Lexus IS 250 luxury sedans are being stored on a vast construction site that will one day be a new container terminal.
Unlike conventional police cruisers, which are retrofitted consumer vehicles such as the Ford Crown Victoria, the E7 is the first car designed and built specifically for law enforcement.
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition website launched "Open for Questions." Feel free to ask anything. However, all Blagojevich questions will be censored by the Comrade Obama team.
Obama is of course a product of that corrupt system and played by Chicago Machine rules ... and this is the kind of operator the smugly-moralizing Democrats have put in the White House.
What remains to be seen is whether this episode will put an end to the national media's "almost willful" fantasy that Mr. Obama and Chicago's political culture have little to do with each other.
Obama wanted to the move his family and his transition team to Blair House two weeks before the president-select historically moves in there on January 15th, five days before the inauguration. Obama is more interested in just being president than doing anything. In asking to go to Blair House he's caught up in the notion he thinks he's royalty.
Rev. Jesse Jackson said it's "common in politics for people to try to leverage relationships," but his son didn't do such a thing.
Now we have evidence that Jesse Jackson, Jr. "misspoke" when he claimed yesterday the meeting he had Monday with Blagojevich was the first time the two had met in four years.
In his life and career in Illinois, President-elect Barack Obama has crossed paths with some notable figures who have drawn scorn and scrutiny. Among them:
She developed "a fear of working out." She apparently hasn't developed a fear of the mega-buffet. Why is this considered news?
Australians were urged to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos. Officials may soon be marketing slogans like: "Eat a camel a day to keep global warming away."
Manmade Global Warming is a fraud!
20 year record snowfall in Dolomites enough to last all season. Some Swiss train services cancelled due to excess snow. Still more heavy snow in the Pyrenees. More snow for Scotland. The record snowfall has been so great that it has closed roads, brought down power lines and even led to the cancellation of some Swiss rail services. Alessandro Fregni of Skiinfo.com's Italian office commented, "In three days ski areas have seen almost as much snowfall as for the whole winter last year." The snow has arrived with perfect timing for the ski resorts who are seeing a boom in ticket sales at a time of economic uncertainty. Alessandro believes the snow is enough to last all season and will also mean resorts can save money by not needing to use snow making equipment. The Global Warming scam continues.
Many scientists are skeptical of the notion that human activity has a significant effect on the planet's climate, or that such an effect can be reliably measured or predicted. Some point out that global temperatures peaked in 1998 and have been falling since then. Several argue that a period of global cooling is on the way. Nearly all would argue that climate is always changing, and that no one really knows whether current computer models can reliably account for the myriad of factors that cause that natural variability. Studies include: "Strengths and Weaknesses of Climate Models" "Ecological and Demographic Perspectives on the Status of Polar Bears" "The Overstated Role of Carbon Dioxide on Climate Change" Science is not settled by majority vote, especially in a field as young as climate science. The debate goes on, as it should.
A solar-powered toilet: Your tax dollars at work.
Temperatures in Siberia will be 81 degrees this week. BELOW ZERO! Will somebody turn up the global warming?
The U.N. global warming conference under way in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists who criticize the claims of the U.N. IPCC and Al Gore. Study: Half of warming due to Sun!
Manmade Global Warming is a politically driven fraud!
One of its staff members was verifying CDM projects without proper qualifications; operating without a license. Don't you just hate it when government bureaucracy interferes with government scams?
When have you ever heard about small businesses that screw up and go out of business getting "a second chance?"
President-elect Barack Obama is being urged to strengthen enforcement of fair housing laws to ensure that the mortgage foreclosure crisis doesn't disproportionately hit minorities and the poor. Foreclosures should hit people who don't pay their mortgages. It's that simple.
Obama is an expert at blowing your money.
The federal government ran a record budget deficit in November, putting Uncle Sam on track to post an all-time high annual shortfall of $1 trillion or more.
There was no glimpse of anger at the governor, no sense of betrayal in the tone of his words. He spoke as if Blagojevich had been in a car accident. Even if Obama and Blago weren't close, shouldn't this say SOMETHING about the political culture that produced Barack Obama? Obama endorsed Blagojevich for governor in 2002 and 2006. He also served as a top advisor to him during his 2002 run. By the way, Rahm Emanuel was also in the picture. In fact, Obama and Emanuel were among Blagojevich's top strategists when he won in 2002. In 2002, on a Chicago TV show, Obama had the following exchange: Obama: "Right now, my main focus is to make sure that we elect Rod Blagojevich as Governor, we..." Host: "You working hard for Rod?" Obama: "You betcha" Host: "Hot Rod?" Obama: "That's exactly right" The bottom line: Our next president came from the same political culture as did this corrupt governor, Chicago-style politics.
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is the anonymous "Senate Candidate #5" whose emissaries Gov. Rod Blagojevich reportedly claimed offered up to a million dollars to name him to the U.S. Senate.
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary claimed the festival was the 'pathway to hell" and urged his followers to boycott it.
Obama promised during his campaign that one of his priorities would be a speech delivered in a Muslim capital.
It is going to take a considerable amount of additional time in the workforce for older employees to recoup losses collectively totaling $2 trillion in 401(k)s and IRAs.
A presidentially appointed "car czar" to oversee the restructuring of struggling U.S. automakers could be named as soon as this week if Congress approves an industry bailout. "I would want the czar to be appointed before one dollar was spent ... so theoretically this week," she said.
Barney Frank: "We don't think the $15 billion is enough to get them into March, but given the administration's insistence ... that's where we are now." "Once we get a new administration we will replenish that money," he said. You taxpayers have deep pockets.
The foundation has an astounding $13 billion in assets.
Socialism: When government not only controls but OWNS the means of production The Imperial Federal Government is thinking about taking part ownership in the Big Three automakers in return for bailout cash.
Look for more bailout's on the horizon.
I'm a writer but I won't be holding my breath waiting for my bailout check.
Ocean Temperatures off The Coast of California Are at a 20 Year Low Man-made Global Warming is a scam. According to the political hacks, when the oceans warm or cool it is part of a cycle. When the earth warms or cools man did it with his SUVs and coal-fired power plants. How politically convenient.
Recent data suggests that many of the borrowers who have received help refinancing their mortgages earlier this year are re-defaulting on their payments. The data found that after three months, 36% of borrowers who restructured their mortgages re-defaulted. After six months, the rate of people re-defaulting jumped to 53%. And after eight months, almost 60% of restructured mortgages had re-defaulted. Their priorities are new flat-screen TVs so they can watch the new American Idol series in style. Political hacks are screaming for more assistance. The real solution would be to foreclose on these deadbeats once and for all.
Treasuries rose, pushing rates on the three-month bill negative for the first time, as investors gravitate toward the safety of U.S. government debt amid the worst financial crisis.
Unemployment hit 6.7 percent. That's the highest for the Bush presidency. At this rate, it will soon get as bad as it was in 1993 - when Bill Clinton was president. Unemployment peaked at 7.1 percent during the Clinton's term.
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.
In the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has come out with a plan to get all 1,000 rookie cops ready to use heavy artillery in time for New Year's Eve.
Blagojevich was taped saying unless he received "something real good" for the appointment of a top adviser to Barack Obama to fill the president-elect's Senate seat he would appoint himself. "I've got this thing and it's f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there," Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on Nov. 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit. "It is conduct that would make Lincoln roll over in his grave," said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
The series of allegations say Blagojevich tried to sell Obama's vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.
President-elect Obama today said "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."
Convicted Obama fund-raiser Tony Rezko is closely tied to Blogojevich.
The ethics panel voted to expand an already far-ranging probe into the New York Democrat to examine whether he protected an oil drilling company from a big tax bill.
Viewership for President-elect Barack Obama's weekly YouTube "fireside chats" has tanked, dropping more than 50 percent since his initial video three weeks ago. Could the Chosen One's followers be having buyer's remorse?
Congressman Gohmert plans to introduce bill to stop income tax for two months. The Congress has already passed a $700 billion stimulus bill, and about a half of that is gone (magically disappeared, politicians in Washington must be brilliant magicians to have the ability to make vast amounts of revenue vanish so quickly), leaving $350 billion of your money left to be spent. Congressman Gohmert doesn't want the political hacks to spend the money on wasteful corporate kickbacks. He thinks it might be a better idea to allow the people who actually earned this $350 billion to spend it. The plan (Note: Political hacks in Washington might have a problem comprehending a commonsense plan): Our government collects approximately $167 billion per month in income and payroll taxes. The $350 billion is slightly over two times the amount of income and payroll taxes our government seizes in one month. The solution: The government absorbs the remaining $350 billion from the stimulus bill and suspends the collection of all income and payroll taxes for two months. For two months you get your entire paycheck, less any state withholding. The government ends up with the same amount of money, and the income earners in this country have some extra money to spend, an average about $2,000 per taxpayer, over a two month period. How simple and effective is that? Allow the people who actually earned this $350 billion to spend it as they see fit. The politicians won't get to choose who will have stimulus money to spend, and they won't get to decide how that money will be spent (probably wasted on more wasteful government giveaway programs). You, the taxpayers who are driving our economy by working hard and earning enough money to pay income taxes, get to choose how you can spend the money you earned. Give the power back to the taxpayers. We the people! Now, take action to make this happen. Contact your Congressman and Senators immediately!
Imperial Federal Government to charge fees for air-polluting animals. Specialized gas meters to be attached to guilty animals. Why does this sound stupid, even for a Saturday Night Live skit? That's right, it's a Government plan.
Biden is going to have a busy schedule making a daily inquiry as to the health of the president and attending funerals. Hey, it's a government gig.
Man-made Global Warming is a hoax!
This is not the first time, of course, that Mrs. Clinton has saved a man from exceedingly bad behavior with women. In fact, it's her signature skill.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "I think the important principle, because sometimes when we start talking about taxes, and I say I want a more balanced tax code, people think, well, that's class warfare. No. It turns out that our economy grows best when the benefits of the economy are most widely spread. And that has been true historically." - Barack Obama December 7, 2008 Fact: The "spread the wealth" mentality continues. "That's not change, that's more of the same." I would like a more balanced tax code. I would like for more people to actually pay income taxes. 43% of income earners pay no income taxes at all. In the meantime the top one percent pays about 39% of all income taxes while earning about 19% of all income. That's not balanced, so more balance is okay with me. Quote: " ...part of what I'm hoping to introduce as the next president is a new ethic of responsibility where we say that if you're laying off workers, the least you can do when you're making $25 million a year is give up some of your compensation and some of your bonuses ... That kind of notion of shared benefits and burdens is something that I think has been lost for too long, and it's something that I'd like to see restored." - Barack Obama December 7, 2008 Fact: In the mind of Comrade Obama, this means "restored" by government edict. First, government control over executive compensation; next, government control over ALL compensation. Government will control prices and salaries just to be fair. When businesses are privately owned but are controlled by the government, it is called Fascism. That would make Comrade Obama a Fascist. Another "See I told you so."
And here is the Government solution: Automakers in Argentina have been mandated to sell basic models of their cars AT COST through state-subsidized loans in a plan to protect jobs. Does this sound familiar? Each automaker will be required to offer two of its most economic models for the plan, while the government will provide three different financing packages with interest rates much lower than market rates, to be funded by the SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM. First Argentina moved to seize private pension plans and blend them into their social security system. Sound familiar? Now they will be using their social security system to finance the automakers. Coming soon to the Peoples' Republic of the United States!
Jonathan Cutler, an associate professor of sociology at Wesleyan University, calls for unionizing the foreign automakers' U.S. plants. More proof that education is not a substitute for intelligence and common sense. Expect this to be another edict from Comrade Obama.
This sounds like a rerun of the failed "New Deal" of the 1930s. Maybe I'll get a job sleeping…I mean, raking leaves in a National Forest.
How are we expected to trust this guy on important issues.
It's a simple question: "Have you stopped smoking?" A yes or no answer will suffice. I would have asked the follow-up question: "How does continuing to smoke make you "much healthier?" Hey, this political hack will probably rape the tobacco companies to fund a special White House anti-smoking program.
As gun sales shoot up around the country, President-elect Barack Obama said gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and stock up before he is sworn in next month. "I believe in common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the second amendment," Obama said at a news conference. "Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that throughout the campaign. I haven't indicated anything different during the transition. I think people can take me at my word." Yea, right! Prior to his campaign for president, his record as a state legislator and as a U.S. Senator shows he voted for the most stringent forms of gun control, the most Draconian legislation, gun bans, ammunition bans and even an increase in federal excise taxes up to 500 percent for every gun and firearm sold.
Obama warned "things are going to get worse before they get better" as he outlined details of an economic stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion. Currently, Comrade Bush holds the spending record of any president. Comrade Obama will break that record right out of the gate. Government grows exponentially and you, the taxpayers, will be footing the bill.
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous - and some just flat-out angry - that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. I have been saying right along that Comrade Obama can't be trusted. I am still waiting for him to give straight answers to straight questions. His mindless myrmidons will be learning an important lesson.
The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
There have been more than a dozen financial crises since the end of World War II. The aftermath of each was transitory, and markets rebounded rather quickly. The current crisis will be different; it will usher in profound and lasting structural, behavioral and regulatory changes. Here are some of the more important: Risk modeling will lose popularity. Financial concentration will gain even greater momentum and influence. The end of an era of ballooning nonfinancial debt. U.S. government borrowing will continue to swell, at least for a few years. There is a silver lining: Americans will begin to save again. Regulatory reform of financial markets will carry high stakes.
A Dutch gay group said it has planned a "Pink Christmas" festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys.
Five people accused of plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have asked a judge at Guantanamo Bay to allow them to "confess" their guilt.
According to the study, Americans read an average of 11 books a year, with the average Briton reading eight books. The U.N. survey reported that every year, one new book title is published per 12,000 people in the Arab world, as compared with one per 500 people in Britain. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) says Israel publishes more than 4,000 books a year, making Israel the second highest per-capita publisher in the world, after the People's Republic of China. The United Nations Development Program Literacy Report for 2007-2008 listed Israel in 56th place for world literacy, with the Palestinian Authority coming in 80th, Jordan 84th, Lebanon 97th, Iran 114th, Syria 120th, and Egypt in 132nd place.
People will soon be able to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges. The Bush administration said Friday it is overturning a 25-year-old federal rule that severely restricts loaded guns in national parks. Under a rule to take effect in January, visitors will be able to carry a loaded gun into a park or wildlife refuge - but only if the person has a permit for a concealed weapon and if the state where the park or refuge is located also allows concealed firearms. "If you can carry (a gun) on Main Street, you are allowed to carry in a national park," said Chris Paolino. a spokesman for the Interior Department. Finally, national parks will be safer for law abiding citizens. A group representing park rangers, retirees and conservation organizations said the rule change will lead to confusion for visitors, rangers and other law enforcement agencies. I can see where marginally employable government employees would be confused. Bill Wade, president of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees said, "This regulation will put visitors, employees and precious resources of the National Park System at risk. We will do everything possible to overturn it and return to a commonsense approach to guns in national parks that has been working for decades." What is "commonsense" about not permitting law abiding citizens to protect themselves? Keep in mind that criminals don't obey gun bans, which puts everyone at risk. And, apparently, the present gun ban hasn't been working anyway. That fact was underscored by the July 11 slayings of a Seattle mother and daughter on a trail in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, killings that remain unsolved. The shootings of Mary Cooper, 56, and Susanna Stodden, 27, prompted hikers and campers to briefly stay away from the popular recreation areas near Mount Pilchuck at the height of camping season. Park officers regularly encounter fugitives living deep in the backcountry who survive by stealing from campers. Guns are an insurance policy. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
School districts eliminate policies that allow children to be given failing marks. At public schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., high school students will no longer receive "F"s but instead will earn the letter "H" when their work falls woefully short.
A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls. Superintendent Brian Monahan said, "We encourage our teachers to deliver the curriculum in a variety of ways, to go beyond just reading the textbook. We don't want to discourage creativity. But this obviously went wrong because the student was upset." So, in the mind of this obviously incompetent government school administrator, if the student wasn't upset, this activity would be OK. More proof that if you, as a parent, turn your kids over to a pathetic government school, you should be charged with child abuse.
A man in Massachusetts is appealing a $100 ticket he got for driving to a hospital in the breakdown lane of a gridlocked Boston highway while his wife was in labor. The trooper made them wait five to 10 minutes while he wrote a ticket for another car on Route 2 and asked to see Jennifer's belly to prove her pregnancy, then issued them a ticket.
Defense Secretary Gates has authorized the military services to recruit foreigners who have lived in the U.S. legally for at least two years to provide language skills "vital to the national interest."
A husband and wife are accused of smoking marijuana and watching pornography with their teenage son. The prosecuting attorney found out about the parents' actions while detectives were investigating allegations the teenage son molested at least three young children.
Asked about the photos, Favreau declined comment. A transition official said he had "reached out to Senator Clinton to offer an apology." Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines cast the photos as evidence of increased bonhomie between the formerly rival camps. "Senator Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon's obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application," he said in an e-mail. Obama White House asks applicants for positions: "please provide any other information ... that could ... be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect." I guess 27-year-old speechwriter, Jon Favreau, wasn't asked that question. He can probably be placed in the Intern Department with Bill Clinton and John Edwards.
Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son - paying lavishly for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create.
President-elect Barack Obama, returning to his home state of Hawaii for the holidays, plans a beachside vacation at one of Oahu's most exclusive properties.
A rapid-fire dose of cold fronts that have been pushing deep into Florida sent average morning low temperatures down nearly six degrees below normal for November. The morning low temperatures for November actually were on average with a typical December. Gainesville's average low last month was 44.4 degrees, while Ocala's was 47.7 degrees. Both were about six degrees below normal. Wednesday morning's low temperature dipped to 28 degrees in both Ocala and Gainesville thanks to another cold front that slipped through the area early this week. There were six days in November in Gainesville where the temperature was at or below 32 degrees. No other time in recorded weather records has that happened. Manmade Global Warming is clearly a fraudulent scam.
His unhealthy Western influence is not welcome in Russia. Speaker of the Russian Parliament Boris Gryzlov insisted Santa "get out of the profession, at least in Russia."
A dog weighing more than 120 pounds survived being frozen to a sidewalk overnight, probably because he was insulated by layers of fat.
Yet the Global Warming scam continues.
"Cap-and-Trade" Equals "FRAUD" If the Imperial Federal Government accuses your company of "over-polluting," the Government will tell you to buy credits from a company the Government decides is "under-polluting." Or, you will have the option to plant a few hundred trees somewhere. This fraudulent scam will continue to fester.
Our idiotic Political Hacks in Washington are taking over the auto industry and are conditioning the bailout based on how many electric cars these companies are going to build while we're looking at one-dollar-a-gallon gasoline.
GM CEO Drives a Chevy Volt to Washington. Well…Sort Of. This was nothing more than a huge PR stunt. They drove around the corner for the cameras with two old buffoons (a congressman and a senator) in the back seat. They were smiling like little kids in the toy cars at Disney World. What a farce! They didn't need to ship a car to Washington to impress Nancy Pelosi, she's already on their bandwagon.
Only 156 electric cars were sold in Great Britain so far this year. Meanwhile, back at the trough, California Senator Diane Feinstein sent a little letter to some of her colleagues on Capitol Hill demanding that a share of any bailout money be spent on an upstart manufacturer of electric cars in San Jose. Do you really want to trust government with your money? Consumers should pick the winners and losers in the marketplace, not the politicians.
Minutes before his sentence, Simpson apologized to the judge and said he didn't mean to steal from anybody when he tried to retrieve memorabilia.
The lighting of Boston's official non-denominational holiday shrub.
California, the world's eighth largest economy, may pay vendors with IOUs for only the second time since the Great Depression.
Not if you are marginally employable (most government employees) Al Franken. After the recount, he still comes up short. Now this madman wants a "systematic forensic search" for ballots that probably don't even exist! Franken is proving himself to be a pathetic waste of oxygen. How about a "systematic forensic search" for Al Franken's brain?
A range of Lego-style fighting figurines - including an Islamic terrorist militant - has sparked outrage among Muslims.
Who Is Outraged On Google The winner: peace loving Muslims. "Muslims Outraged" 12,200 hits. "Christians Outraged" 1,270 hits "Jews Outraged" 7,490 hits "Buddhists Outraged" 292 hits. "Hindus Outraged" 291 hits. "Atheists Outraged" 866 hits "Wiccans Outraged" 8 hits "Democrats Outraged" 2,950 hits "Republicans Outraged" 2,010 hits "Libertarians Outraged" 302 hits "Postal Workers Outraged" 3 hits "Yoga Instructors Outraged" 0 hits
Most Americans agreed that alcohol suppression was worse than alcohol consumption. Absolutely correct!
Put him in charge of the interns. Wait, Bill Clinton wanted that job.
Creator, Jean-Jacques Attisso has made 100 cans simply by sticking his labels on cans of energy drink. Why does the word "fraud" keep following Obama?
Do you wonder why?
New York City's gun law is unconstitutional. New York Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress is facing a mandatory 3½ years in prison and the end of his football career. His crime? Not having a license, which New York City never would have issued him, for the exercise of his constitutional right to bear arms.
This November, in fact, was the fifth-coldest since records started being kept in Charlotte, in October 1878. The low on Nov. 22 at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 13 degrees, the earliest it ever has been that cold in Charlotte. The Global Warming Scam continues!
Nowhere is it mentioned that these "green-collar jobs" would be terribly costly, and that the planned "investments" are really just subsidies. Things that require subsidies aren't competitive in the market, and thus aren't profitable.
In last six months, 65 percent of days when Fed chairman speaks show market declines, including three of worst drops in history.
The mother of a Wisconsin teenager was stunned when her high school senior brought home a questionnaire assigned by his English teacher that asked, among several provocative questions, "Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?" The student was struggling to answer the following questions:
What does this questionnaire have to do with English class? Keep sending your kids to government schools.
Some troubled teens are embedding nails, paper clips, bits of rock, glass and even crayons in their bodies as a way to cope with disturbing thoughts and feelings. Some studies suggest that 13 to 24 percent of high school students in the U.S. and Canada have practiced deliberate self-injury at least once. "Patients will usually have reported behavior that includes cutting and even ingesting things like battery acid and Drano (drain cleaner) before they engage in self-embedding."
The Senate's senior member and staunchest constitutional advocate on the Democratic side of the aisle, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is exploring whether Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is eligible to become secretary of state in the Obama administration. Hasn't Byrd figured out yet that the Constitution doesn't matter to Obama and his power grabbing cronies?
How Large Is A Trillion If you were counting right now, one, two, three, four, five, six, it would take you 32 days to get to a million. It would take you 32 years to count to a billion. It would take you 32,000 years to count to a trillion. The Government tosses trillions of dollars around like Monopoly money. Start counting, it's your money.
The proposal basically sets standards for upkeep and appearance and gives town officials the right to enter homes. If the owner refuses to allow the official to enter, the town can go to a judge for an "administrative search warrant" to allow access to the interior of buildings. Angry residents likened the proposal to rules created by Communist or Nazi dictatorships. One person said the result would be to create a network of spies to snitch on neighbors to council members and other town officials. Remember, to political hacks, your Constitutional rights don't matter anymore. That's "change."
Why was India -- a nation that has suffered enormously from terrorism in the past seven years -- unprepared for the Mumbai attacks? And why are America, Britain and most of the rest of the civilized world equally unprepared? At the UN, Islamic states have successfully pushed through a resolution criminalizing "blasphemy," i.e., criticism of Islam, while ignoring one that was introduced denouncing violence committed in the name of religion. That in itself is telling.
Talk about fear mongering. Officials from General Motors, Chrysler and Ford are using words like "catastrophic" and "depression" to describe the nation's economic future if lawmakers refuse to give their companies a taxpayer funded bailout. But that doesn't matter to political hacks like Nancy Pelosi who is still preaching that bankruptcy is "not an option." Translation: Bankruptcy isn't a political option. Bailout is. After all, you can buy more votes with a bailout. One logical question: If bankruptcy isn't an option, why are there bankruptcy courts? Thousands of laid-off union member auto workers are paid $31 an hour to do nothing all day. If Congress goes ahead with an auto industry bailout, American taxpayers may have to pay for thousands of laid off auto workers to literally do nothing all year. This program is likely to continue if Congress approves a $25 billion bailout of the industry. There is one solution. Bankruptcy.
The restructuring plan comes up short on the most fundamental question. Will this company actually make money? Just look at the details - or what details are lacking. Nowhere in the document does GM lay out, year by year, its own projected market share. This is perhaps the most critical part of any business plan. The kind of thing you learn in the first day of business school. No wonder those executives are willing to work for a dollar a year. They aren't even worth that.
All because the price of oil has dropped below $80 a barrel. But the profit margins are still the same. It was politically convenient and all about wealth envy and blaming the evil rich oil companies when prices were high.
Russia pushing ahead with a symbolic projection of Moscow's power in a traditional U.S. zone of influence.
Government loves to "regulate."
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Ambassador! Clinton could be named as a sort of super-ambassador on a specific issue like India, or on a broad topic like restoring goodwill for the United States abroad. The extortion and corruption continues in Washington as now Obama has to pay back the Clintons. "That's not change, that's more of the same."
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. said it would be a "national disgrace" if Obama's seat were not filled by an African American. What about actual qualifications? None of this could possibly be about race.
You get arrested and your drugs are taken away from you. Did you know that this is a breach of your human rights?
The massive rip-off illustrates a gaping loophole in the city's system for recording deeds, mortgages and other transactions.
The family of a worker trampled to death in a crush of bargain hunters filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, claiming store ads "created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety." So now it is the fault of the ads. Just like some people think McDonald's ads are responsible for overweight people. Why sue Walmart and not the actual people who did the trampling? Allegedly, there is video of the incident. The difference is Walmart has the deep pockets.
At least these guys know how to get the job done.
A Rastafarian man who refused to shave off his beard or cut his hair to comply with a Jiffy Lube employee grooming policy can take his religious discrimination case to trial. The Rastafarian "faith" urges followers to let their hair grow unbridled. Many grow their hair into long, matted strands called dreadlocks to express a oneness with nature.
Banks torpedoed rules that could have saved them. The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown.
Hand over taxpayer funds or we're going to bail. Auto executives offered a series of mostly symbolic moves. No plan. No changes to their failing business models. Just give us your money or else. Sounds like extortion to me. With arrogance like this, I say let them fail. Or even better, the magic word is bankruptcy. Under Chapter 11, all outstanding contracts that are making it difficult for these automakers to compete and survive would or could be cancelled, and that includes the contracts with the United Auto Workers. Nancy Pelosi doesn't like that. She said, "I think it's pretty clear that bankruptcy is not an option." Why you may ask? There are too many union votes to buy. The capitalist system, free enterprise, has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system ever devised by man. Freedom works and that means the freedom to fail if you don't live up to consumer expectations or if you permitted yourself to enter into unprofitability by idiotic union agreements and products that consumers don't want.
Elections officials magically found nearly 200 ballots they claim were not counted. He claims that he is now behind by only 50 votes. Al The Magnificent will snap his fingers and "find" a few more ballots. Isn't it wonderful how political hacks can make ballots magically appear?
Latrica Ryan is a 29-year-old single stay-at-home mother of 10 children ranging from 2 months to 13 years old. Even without a car, Ryan manages to stay involved in her children's school life, volunteering and meeting with teachers to check on their progress. Don't you think she should have looked for "help" before she downloaded 10 kids she obviously couldn't afford to raise? "With 10 kids and no vehicle, Latrica Ryan is used to juggling." Do you think she could find a way to juggle a job into her life?
"Max Rameau delivers his sales pitch like a pro." "He also breaks into the homes he shows. And his clients don't have a dime for a down payment." Isn't that what got us into this "crisis" in the first place? "He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes." There is an upstanding citizen for you. He breaks the law and the media acknowledges him like he is some sort of hero.
India's strict gun control laws were quite effective in killing more than a hundred innocent citizens and police officers. Lesson #1: Don't bring a bamboo stick to a gunfight. Lesson #2: Terrorists and criminals don't obey gun control laws. We have seen just how well gun control laws worked out for the innocent people of Mumbai, and perhaps it is time for the citizens of New York City, Washington DC, and Chicago to learn from the example and demand the repeal of their cities' gun laws.
The heavily built men, who had undergone training at a special marine camp established by the Lashkar-e-Taibat terrorist group in Pakistan, also used steroids to build a tougher physique.
It was a bizarre and abrupt way to die for a man who, by all accounts, went at life full-bore and was fit and agile from riding his bicycle everywhere he went.
Every generation convinces itself that it's living in a "new era," where "all the rules have changed," and consequently stumbles into the same potholes which swallowed countless ancestors.
Those New York residents who are considering decorating a Christmas tree in front of their homes in the city limits should think twice. Holiday trees become illegal once the traditional ornaments and Christmas lights are added.
At the University of Illinois, being an athlete gets you access to a $6 million facility with oversized leather chairs and Oriental rugs. You education tax dollars at work.
Let's look at the studies. "Activists" head out there with their pollsters and start asking questions. The questions are cleverly worded like: "Have any of your children complained about being hungry during the last year?" It doesn't matter how much money you make, if you have a child, chances are that you child is going to say "I'm hungry" at least once a week. Presto! You have your statistic. Another child was hungry. The Department of Agriculture reported, that 691,000 children went hungry in America in 2007. But now that you know the rest of the story about how they actually conduct these studies, that doesn't sound so bad. By the way, look at all of the overweight kids who are going hungry.
The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures - combined: Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion TOTAL: $3.92 trillion That is $686 billion less than the cost of the credit crisis thus far. The only single American event in history that even comes close to matching the cost of the credit crisis is World War II: Original Cost: $288 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $3.6 trillion. It's only our money.
Just what we need, more government control of the press/media.
During the home invasion, he shot them both.
Armed with a tractor or a backhoe, Alvin Peterson moves dirt to drain prairie potholes on his land, saying he's putting the land back to the way God intended. "They've done this in a sneaky way-you'd think you were living in Russia," Alvin Peterson said. "I've had trouble with them ever since they stole this land from my father." Can you say private property rights?
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. Our founding fathers said there would be no standing army is because the federal government has no place in your town. The power to order troops with weapons in your neighborhood must not ever be in the hands of the President or the congress. It must be in the hand of the individual governors. Our founders knew this could happen. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
The knocks on his door came at 6:40 a.m., Vittorio de Filippis recalled, when Paris was still dark and he was fast asleep. Three police officers -- a pair of men and a woman, all wearing armbands -- had come to take him in. By the time his ordeal ended five hours later, about 11:30 a.m. Friday, the journalist wrote, he had been manhandled, handcuffed, humiliated in front of his sons, twice forced to strip and submit to body cavity searches and interrogated without lawyers by an investigating magistrate. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
A luxury cruise ship carrying dozens of British passengers has been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia, en route to Oman. From oil tankers to cruise ships. What's next?
Staging a global forum on climate change is a dilemma, as it adds to the very problem it is trying to solve. Around 13,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) will be added to the Earth's greenhouse effect from the December 1-12 meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Global Warming scam continues.
High-ranking members of Congress were flown to a lush Caribbean resort for a three-day conference planned and paid for by several of the country's most powerful corporations. Remember, It's our money.
"At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back." "What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera."
Is there such a thing as having too much self-esteem? Data collected over the past three decades shows today's high school seniors. A new analysis of data collected over the past three decades shows that today's high school seniors are more likely than ever to think that they'll be terrific mates, parents and employees. Like the housing bubble, we're on the verge of a self-esteem bubble that could burst.
His name is Azam Amir Kasav, he is 21 years old, speaks fluent English, hails from Pakistan, and is the only terrorist to have been captured alive. "I do not want to die," he reportedly said. But it seems the police grilling was so intense that before he left the hospital for an undisclosed location, he pleaded with the police and the medical staff to kill him. "Now, I don't want to live," he said.
Salvation Army bell ringers were silenced this season inside a Maryland mall after complaints from neighboring merchants. Valley Mall in Hagerstown told the charity to replace the clappers inside their bells with paper clips for a quieter ring.
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart this morning. Tis the season of joy and friendship? That's why I choose to avoid shopping as much as possible during the Christmas season. I don't want to get mauled at the malls.
Since the Supreme Court upheld the individual right to own guns, one municipality with handgun bans after another has faced reality. Then there is Chicago, which is being sued for violating the 2nd Amendment but refuses to confront the possibility that what the Supreme Court said may apply to this side of the Appalachians.
In addition to the storied Pontiac brand, Hummer and Saab, the review reportedly included the Saturn brand.
After killing two security personnel in the terrace of the Cama Hospital in Mumbai, terrorists escaped to the housing quarters where they killed two, even their benefactor who had served them water when asked for.
This is a devastating assault on India, its democracy, its way of life and its brilliant economy, all of which excite envy and hatred from Islamic extremists. But it is also a message from Terror Central to Barack Obama.
Rule number one of burglary is 'don't get yourself photographed'. Probably coming in somewhere around rule number 437, meanwhile, is 'don't make an enemy of someone who owns billboards all around your city'. The thief was caught on camera stealing expensive equipment, but he'd picked the wrong target - because now the billboard company he was stealing from has plastered his image around Aukland, New Zealand's largest city, seeking his capture. The thief had had one piece of good luck: If he had tried stealing the transformers at night 'when they have 50,000 volts going through them - he'd be dead.'
David Bellamy is a botanist, author of 35 books, and has presented 400 television programs.
Man-made global warming is a hoax.
Climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill are quietly watching a growing accumulation of global cooling science and other findings that could signal that the science behind global warming may still be too shaky to warrant cap-and-trade legislation. The U.S. annual mean temperature has fluctuated for decades and has only risen 0.21 degrees since 1930, which is caused by fluctuating solar activity levels and ocean temperatures, not carbon emissions.
His other pardons include people who were: Convicted of aiding and abetting the theft of government property. (Multiple) Sentenced for misapplication of bank funds. Sentenced for making false entries, books, reports or statements to a bank. Convicted of bank embezzlement. (Multiple) Receiving kickbacks in defense procurement contracts. (Multiple) Possessing stolen mail. Making a false statement to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a mortgage. Conspiracy to make false statements on a loan application. (Multiple) Yet Comrade Bush can't find the time to pardon border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean who are serving prison sentences for doing their jobs. So much for supporting the people who are protecting and defending our borders.
While subprime lender New Century was failing, key executives continually changed their stock trading plans and often sold within days of colleagues' trades.
White House Hanukkah card has Christmas tree on front. A picture of a Christmas tree is not the first thing you would expect to see on an invitation to an event celebrating Hanukkah, but that is exactly what American Jewish leaders got in the mail.
"But understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost. It comes from me. That's my job - is to provide a vision in terms of where we are going"
If Congress moves forward with an auto industry bailout, American taxpayers may have to pay for thousands of laid off auto workers to literally do nothing all year. Thousands of laid-off auto workers get paid $31 an hour to sit around and do nothing all year under a controversial program that could continue even if American taxpayers bail out the American auto industry. You tax dollars at work or not at work as the case may be.
Vaclav Klaus says the global warming fight has contributed to the financial crisis, branded Al Gore an "apostle of arrogance," and accused the EU of acting like a communist state.
A professor at the diplomatic academy of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the U.S. will break into six parts because of the nation's financial crisis. "Dissatisfaction is growing, and it is only being held back at the moment by the elections, and the hope" that President- elect Barack Obama "can work miracles," he said. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles."
Contrary to popular wisdom, the New Deal never came close to ending the great slump of the 1930s. And many experts believe its creator, FDR, actually made it much, much worse.
A society that erases the memory of how it overcame barbarism in the past inevitably loses sight of the meaning of civilization, and the means of sustaining it.
The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year.
Americans slouch into the 21st Century -- a free and confident people blissfully unaware of how we got here or how we shall continue our 232-year-old tradition of limited self-government.
And you wonder why I describe our recent elections as "American Idol Beauty Pageants."
So much for those pledges of "open government." So much for those promises of "change." So much for his upcoming oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. Barack Hussein Obama is still refusing to disclose to the American public something as innocent and as basic as his full, undoctored birth certificate to establish beyond any shadow of a doubt - and that doubt is growing daily - that he is a natural-born American citizen. Do you believe the American people have a right to know for certain their next president is constitutionally eligible for the job? If the Constitution is not taken seriously as concerns the eligibility of the president, is it likely to be taken seriously in other matters?
Quotes and Facts Quote: "We are inheriting a, um, array of problems unlike any that any president has faced, maybe since Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. It's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be quick." - David Axelrod, the campaign director for Barack Obama Quote: "This may be a long haul. 2009 is going to be a very, very hard year. Some economists are saying we're not going to get out of this for two years. Others are saying it's going to be three or four, maybe five years. We all have to be very careful about the expectations that we are putting on this man, our president-elect. If we all assume that it's going to be the first hundred days, we're going to be disappointed." - Former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich Quote: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel Fact: "Yes we can" is rapidly becoming "No we can't." All we hear from The Chosen One and his cohorts are excuses.
Executive Management Qualifications Would you hire the best auto executive in the world if he could repair the problem with the American auto industry but demands $100 million dollars a year in income? Or, would you rather hire somebody who doesn't have a clue as to what they're doing but is willing to earn less than $400,000? Political hacks using wealth envy will kill the American auto industry.
How could that happen? Could Al Gore and The Chosen One, Comrade Obama be wrong?
As a result of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder suggested more speech restrictions on the Web. Government censorship coming soon to your computer all in the name of "safety."
A little less "I'm Lovin' It" could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure the effect of TV fast-food ads. It is not the TV commercials, it is what parents feed their kids. It all comes down to bad parenting.
U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy agencies project.
What has Obama accomplished other than get himself elected? Warning: This is Obama's mantra, take from those who have achieved and give to those who haven't. Soon nothing will remain named Martin Luther King. Boulevards and schools will soon change to Barack Obama Boulevards and schools.
I suppose that would depend on who is singing the Carols. "Noise pollution?" How about annoying people on cell phones?
Dow drops 445 points, 10% loss in 2 days Stocks again plunged in the final hour of trading today, after flirting with gains following news a bailout deal for automakers might have been reached. In eight weeks we will be viewing the coronation of a new president that is clearly not fond of capitalism. Barack Obama wrote of his flirtations with Marxism during his college years. His campaign rhetoric parroted many Marxist maxims. In fact, Comrade Obama has never praised the role of business and entrepreneurs in the American economy or made any pro-capitalism statements.
Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China's 21st Century Business Herald reports.
The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a government decision that people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare Do people with multiple personalities "have a right" to multiple separate seats? Airlines should charge passengers in the same manner of other shipping and transportation businesses, by the pound. That's "fair."
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.
Italy and Germany agree that measures to cut greenhouse gases shouldn't weigh on the economy. At least Italy and Germany recognize the Global Warming scam.
You will get exactly what you voted for. Obama will "mandate" that you purchase health insurance. Next he will solve the automobile "crisis" and "mandate" that every citizen purchase a new Ford, Chevy or Chrysler.
The total outstanding balance for all US mortgages that have been incorporated into mortgage-backed securities is $6.6 trillion. The outstanding balances on these securitized mortgages accounts for 59 percent of all money now owed by Americans on home mortgages, which is $11.2 trillion. Who are these political hacks trying to kid with these bailout scams? Hold onto your wallets!
$4.28 trillion to be exact. To put this into perspective: That's $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a variety of estimates and sources.
They should be utilizing their time and money bailing themselves out.
Our founding fathers were indeed wise people: There is no constitutional right to vote in a presidential election.
In his first speech on global warming since winning the election, Obama promised to set stringent limits on greenhouse gases, saying the need is too urgent for delay. The Global Warming Fraud Will Continue and Escalate. Obama also made a point of backing technologies that many environmentalists despise - nuclear power and "clean coal," which involves trapping and storing underground the emissions from coal-burning power plants. Is this before or after he bankrupts the coal industry?
Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a "house negro" who does the bidding of whites. Obama will setup an unconditional meeting and talk to these "leaders." That will solve everything.
Daschle will be responsible for helping set health care policy. He supports a government-funded insurance program for the nation's uninsured.
Most Americans have had little or no teaching about totalitarianism, or about its conjoined twins, Communism and Nazism. Our schools do not teach about it, and our media, by and large, ignore it. When they do address it, it is to tell us that it does not exist. Now, some of its victims and witnesses are speaking out. They are trying to warn the American people that what has happened in their former countries is rapidly approaching us, also.
Thomas Jefferson Knew Better Than Our Contemporary Political Hacks "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
The problem with gun violence isn't that law abiding citizens have access to assault weapons (whatever that means.) It's that criminals use them to commit crimes. Read that last sentence. Commit crimes is the key part of that sentence. Having these guns be illegal will not limit the criminal's access to them. It will only make them better armed than their victims.
First order of business: Mandate that every American has health insurance. Next on the agenda: Mandatory coverage for elective surgeries such as weight loss and plastic surgery. Then watch your insurance rates skyrocket. Where in our Constitution does the Imperial Federal Government obtain the "right" to "mandate" that any American purchase anything?
The UK is now considering making a permanent ruling that certain medications that are "too expensive" should be excluded from government-funded treatment. Coming soon to your mandated "right" to government healthcare.
"The media coverage of this campaign was so scandalous, so beyond bias into the realm of media malpractice."
Obama Should Think Twice About This Clinton Retread "That's not change, that's more of the same."
Wilson Watson taught college students for 35 years and has now retired. But his students' sentences trail behind him like ship's anchors, evidence of the sinking of American writing skills.
College students? Remember these people vote.
Obama vowed today he would "engage vigorously" in global climate change talks and said denial was no longer an acceptable response to global warming. The Global Warming fraud continues.
Judges who use foreign laws to interpret the U.S. Constitution are rewriting it rather than respecting its founders, Justice Antonin Scalia told a roomful of judges and top lawyers.
Even as the price of gold itself comes under pressure, people around the world are demanding so many of the valuable coins that government mints are having difficulty filling orders.
What will they be working together on? That is the question.
They are whining for FDR style programs. Government whining for help from government. Look for all government programs to grow at our expense. Hold onto your wallets.
Since 2000, government spending has increased by more than 55 percent. Are you surprised?
Government plunder encouraged by San Francisco Chronicle Hey, it's only the government's money. Wait, that's out money.
Let's all do the politically correct thing and save energy. It is now time to turn off the TV "Today".
An extensive new research study has found that unhappy people watch more TV while those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing. "TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it." Unhappily married couples also watch more TV: "(Happily married couples) engage in 30% more sex, and they attend religious services more and read newspapers on more days… Those not happy with their marriages watch more TV." This is not difficult to believe. Just look at today's TV programming.
Apparently, his past steroid use is starting to affect his brain.
The world has never seen such freezing heat. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". The US registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years. The greatest harm to humanity will be governments' wasteful re-direction of limited resources and creating laws to solve a non-existent problem. Climate change has been around for millions of years. It is called weather, the natural phenomenon that these "experts" can't accurately predict more than a day or two out. Yet they fantasize about changes decades away and call it "science."
Kyle Smith: Bush was the worst president (except for all the others)
Forbes magazine estimates that the full impact of the financial crisis is going to cost the taxpayers upwards of $5 trillion. In order to pay for these government entitlement programs, the Heritage Foundation estimates that it will require three things: Doubling all tax rates. Eliminating all other federal programs, including defense and education. Running massive budget deficits that eventually would capsize the economy.
It is not the government's job to restructure the auto industry. The only guarantee you have from government is mediocrity. Look for government to grow; I can see it now. First we need a Federal Department of Automobiles. Then a Secretary of Cars and Undersecretary of Trucks. In the words of one of Obama's transition czars: Obama will be ready to "take power and rule from day one." Every industry will have a czar in Washington to oversee operations!
Barack Obama's transition team is showing its hostility toward lawful firearm owners by "weeding out" job applicants who own firearms themselves. "Question 59 provides clear insight into how Obama and his people perceive firearm owners," said ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson. "The questionnaire poses a number of questions asking the applicant to reveal any unethical activities, or embarrassing Internet chats, then wraps up by asking if anyone in the applicant's family owns a firearm. Obviously, Obama feels that owning a firearm is akin to talking dirty in Internet chat rooms." "Once again, we have to ask ourselves just what candidate Obama was talking about when he said he has 'respect' for the 2nd Amendment," said Pearson.
Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide foreign citizens with fake Social Security numbers to get them on the payroll quickly. Some of the numbers were real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere. And in some cases, the state's educator certification office unknowingly used the bogus numbers to run criminal background checks on the new hires. Unlawfully using "real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere." Why aren't the people involved being charged and prosecuted for identity theft?
There is a solidly mediocre work ethic for you to admire.
Now that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has essentially admitted that his Wall Street bailout plan isn't working, it's worthwhile to examine the fawning media coverage he received when he pressured President Bush and Congress into approving it. First it was "Big Government to the Rescue." But since that didn't work, we now need "Global Government to the Rescue." We will not only lose our money but the sovereignty of our nation. Our media have been active accomplices in this unfolding catastrophe.
Scientists now say global warming is not the problem. They claim we are actually heading for the next Ice Age. And what's more, the experts blame the global change on falling - rather than climbing - levels of greenhouse gases.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." This sound pretty comprehensible and clear-cut to me.
Somehow, I can't find that "right" listed anywhere in the constitution. That would mean that some people think they have a "right" to the goods and services of other people. I thought we abolished that over 100 years ago.
And that is just for the first year. By 2018, the plan will increase to over $1 trillion to fund this government insurance scam. And we know how accurate the government is in estimating actual costs of its programs. Expect this number to at least triple. The report acknowledged, "Unless costs are cut, growing health care costs will increase the costs of Obama's plan dramatically over time and reduce the effectiveness of mandates. This could make the federal costs unsustainably high." Additionally, the analysis exposed that Obama's plan may worsen problems like shortages of primary care doctors.
Employers will be required to provide health insurance to employees. Translation: Healthcare will cease to be a benefit. It will be a government mandate. If the company does not provide health insurance, it will be forced to pay into a fund to cover the uninsured. Show me your papers and your health insurance card.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." - Teddy Roosevelt Fact: With all due respect, Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. He is an AMERICAN president, not an AFRICAN-AMERICAN president.
Hamas spokesman Ahmed Yusuf said the relations were maintained after Obama's electoral victory, and the president-elect's advisers requested it be kept secret so as not to aid his political rival.
Admissions officers might be more selective. Do you think we should set the bar this high and make the entrance requirements to college so complicated?
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley says Barack Obama could permanently block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by turning it into a national monument. Quote: "I'm not opposed to drilling." - Joe Biden September 1, 2008 Quote: "Let's say it makes sense to drill. It doesn't, I'm against it." - Joe Biden September 3, 2008 (Three Days Later)
Paulson changes his mind on buying troubled assets. This is what happens when you bestow ultimate power to one person, in this case the Treasury Secretary, to do whatever he wants to do to "ensure economic well-being." Of course, using our money in the process. If you were operating your private business in this same manner, you would be arrested and charged with fraud. Will Paulson be going to jail?
Care to apply for some Troubled Asset Recovery Program money? Isn't it great to see the Imperial Federal Government making it so easy to give away our money?
The U.S. is moving closer to a Nazi-style totalitarianism, warns a former German member of the Hitler Youth.
Fairness (Censorship) Doctrine Those who want to reinstate the Fairness (Censorship) Doctrine insist that broadcasters use the "public airwaves" to deliver their messages. If they could have foreseen broadcasting, the framers of our Constitution would have undoubtedly incorporated broadcasting in the protections offered by the First Amendment. Another point: What about newspapers? Newspapers do not magically appear on your doorsteps. They are delivered using publicly owned highways and roads. Therefore, using the same leftist logic, we need to impose the same Fairness (Censorship) Doctrine for newspaper editorial pages. I know we have the Constitution, but to the political hacks, that doesn't seem to matter anymore. It's all about "fairness" you know.
A Gun History Lesson In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million 'educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Total number of defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million. With Guns: We Are "Citizens." Without Guns: We Are "Subjects." It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent. Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent. Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent! Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property. Gun-control laws adversely affect only law-abiding citizens. During W.W.II the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED. Note: Admiral Yamamoto who crafted the attack on Pearl Harbor had attended Harvard U 1919-1921 & was Naval Attache to the U. S. 1925-28. Most of our Navy was destroyed at Pearl Harbor & our Army had been deprived of funding & was ill prepared to defend the country. It was reported that when asked why Japan did not follow up the Pearl Harbor attack with an invasion of the U. S. Mainland, his reply was that he had lived in the U. S. & knew that almost all households had guns. Motto: NEVER SURRENDER YOUR GUNS!
Automaker Puts Texas Plant On Overtime Without government interference, the free market works every time.
"Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope."
The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign's record-shattering windfall. The Messiah is off limits and above the law for some reason. However, the FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain's campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.
3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana's Bakken Formation-25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate Now to keep the Imperial Federal Government from interfering with our independence.
In Oregon, Jackson County's Circuit Court ruled that each individual must specify that he or she doesn't want any personal information released. If not, their names are public record. What purpose would this serve other than harassment of gun owners.
Fact: The average hourly compensation for Management and Professional Workers is $47.57, Manufacturing/Goods Producing employees $31.59 and all workers $28.48. Remember when the phrase was, "As goes GM, so goes the country"? Now it's, "As goes the US government, so goes GM," and Ford, Chrysler. Reid and Pelosi said they want "equity stakes for the government so taxpayers could profit if the companies recover." The government doesn't know how to earn a profit. Government only knows how to punish and tax profit. The government only knows how to create debt. I guarantee your paycheck isn't going to get any larger. We're going to be so far in debt, it's just going to be debt service. The focus in this country used to be on the private sector. In the good old days, what was good for GM was good for America. That was then; this is now, the era of morbidly obese government. And Obama The Hut is growing it exponentially. Government is the problem, not the solution.
The blue areas experienced below-normal temperatures for 2008.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "There is one president at a time. President Bush is still the president. He's graciously invited President-elect Obama to the White House tomorrow to begin their conversations of the transition. So we respect that. He will be the president until January 20th. However, giving--given, really, the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that President-elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. So we will be working closely with his administration. We're reviewing the agencies now. He will be making key personnel decisions. He gets national security briefings every day now as well, but he will not be the president until January 20th." - Valerie Jarrett, the co-chair of Barack Obama's Transition Team Fact: Presidents govern, manage and lead. They don't RULE. China, North Korea, Venezuela, and most countries in Africa have "rulers." We don't, yet. Apparently, in the view of the Obama Transition Team, the citizens of the United States have elected a "ruler," not a leader.
Remember when Bill Clinton used bake sales to help balance the federal budget?
"Nutritional disobedience." This could open up a black market for chocolate chip cookies. Or, perhaps The Piedmont High water polo team could qualify for an Obama bailout. There are smart, healthy alternatives. We have a sports/energy drink that is not loaded with sugar called Chi3 Energy. What we don't need are government prohibitions.
Obama and his cronies just gave AIG another $25 or $50 billion. Why won't they bail out Circuit City? Obama is going to need people to have televisions to be able to watch him. In the meantime McDonald's and Walmart are earning huge profits, 8.1% for McDonald's. That's higher than the 7% earned by the "evil" oil companies. The bottom line is we should be applauding the businesses that are succeeding and not bailing out the businesses that have failed.
Mucked Up By Chet Motyka
Quotes And Facts Quote: "Barack Obama will establish a $2 billion global education fund to work to eliminate the global education deficit and offer an alternative to extremist schools." - Change.gov: Office of the President-Elect Fact: We are going to be paying for schools that attempt to convert terrorists. Quote: "Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year." - Change.gov: Office of the President-Elect Fact: To "require" people to provide "service" to others. I thought we abolished that over 100 years ago. Quote: "Section 2, Purposes. Provides authority to the Treasury secretary to restore liquidity and stability to the US financial system and to ensure the economic well-being of Americans." - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Fact: The Treasury secretary was given $700 billion to work with. The well-being of Americans has NOT been ensured. The liquidity and stability to the US financial system has NOT been restored. The Treasury secretary has failed to meet his objectives. We need some accountability. The Treasury secretary needs to be terminated.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel held paid position on troubled GSE's board from 2000-2002, when Freddie Mac was accused of accounting and campaign finance irregularities. "That's not change, that's more of the same."
I thought The Chosen One was going to solve everything.
Michael Alix was head of risk management for Bear Stearns for two years until the institution imploded. He has been promoted to a position in the Federal Reserve Bank supervising the health of other banks. "You're kidding me," said economic policy expert Dean Baker, of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Economic Policy and Research. "[Alix] was the guy on the mast charged with yelling 'iceberg' just before the Titanic introducted its bow to a floating chunk of ice," wrote financial expert John Carney. This sounds like a government operation, promote the incompetent.
Will this hold true for Obama?
Guess who pays for the bailout.
Obama The Orator Rhetorical ability is imperative in politics. Obama has it. Here is one thing to consider: Smooth talkers win at single's bars and in politics; often with similar outcomes for the listener.
Democrat Back at the time of the founding of our Republic the word "Democrat" was an epithet. Back then, if you called someone a Democrat you might be challenged to a duel. In the late 1700s a Democrat was "someone who panders to the whims of the masses." Not much has changed, only nowadays we elect them.
Read the whole article By Ali Sina if you dare.
Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning thanked God for having "given us a Moses." All hail The Chosen One, Comrade Lord Obama.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "The only thing that bothers me is how quickly we got it up there." - Barack Obama on skyrocketing gas prices Fact: Obama didn't care that gas prices were high and didn't do one thing to lower them. Obama, through his own admission said that he would destroy elements of the US economy and bankrupt the coal industry. And now, through his own admission, Obama wasn't concerned about skyrocketing gas prices but was fascinated with "how quickly we got it up there." Here is the Obama timeline: January: I want to bankrupt the coal industry; I love skyrocketing electricity prices. He later runs an ad: I'm going to save the coal industry. Too many jobs will be lost. I'm here for the little guy. Biden on September 17th: "No coal plants here in America…" Will the real Obama please stand up? I think Comrade Obama is standing up, but no one is paying attention to where he actually stands; against our country and our economy. Throughout his campaign, Obama has been telling you but you haven't been paying attention: We've have to punish Big Drug. We have to punish Big Oil. We have to punish Big Energy. We have to punish Wal-Mart! In the long run, he is going to punish you, the sheeple who are mesmerized by him and robotically support him. Under Obama, energy prices will skyrocket. That's his intent! And he is spellbound with how effortlessly it will be to accomplish this. Obama has as his number one desire, to tear down the greatness of this country so that we are not better than any other nation. And he is excited about it. Quote: "We're going to fundamentally change this country." - Barack Obama Fact: Obama means "fundamentally change" as in the way we define the United States of America. He's going to allocate free health care. He's going to allocate free college tuition. He's going to allocate free loans. He will take the money from other people and spread it around. This all sound wonderful on the surface, but nothing is FREE. This is what is practiced in Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Mugabe and Argentina. Obama brings a Third World mentality of socialism, spreading the wealth around, to this country; and that's why he's popular in Europe and in the Third World. And this "change" is coming to you. Quote: "At the end of this race, I want to congratulate John McCain on the tough race that he fought." - Barack Obama Fact: Obama is classless. He complimented McCain on the race that he ran and flipped McCain the bird. Obama is a classy guy. Sadly, all of it is low.
Jordan was assigned to draw a scary Halloween mask in art class. Being a diligent student, Jordan drew a scarred vampire with bloodshot eyes and with blood dripping from its nose, mouth and down its cheeks. The art teacher even helped the boy shade the sketched eyes to give the drawing a creepier look. Apparently, his homeroom teacher thought the mask was too scary and called campus police. As a reward for completing his assignment, Jordan was told that he could not return to school until he passed a psychological evaluation.
Quotes and Facts Quote: - Barack Obama Fact: In this faltering economy Obama wants electricity to "skyrocket." Obama is going to cost you and your household more money. Quote: - Barack Obama Fact: Obama wants his own SS: "Civilian security force"! Is this like the Soviet Union under Communism where neighbors ratted on neighbors for anti-government statements? Show us your papers! Quote: "John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic ... You know I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness." - Barack Obama Fact: Obama deems you to be a selfish person if you do not want the government to seize your wealth and redistribute it to people who don't pay taxes.
President Obama? Never in the previous 100 years has someone so utterly inexperienced and whose position is so extreme to the left been so close to becoming our president. It is beyond imagination that we as a country have come to this. Here are a few points to consider before you vote for The Chosen One: "What has Obama ever accomplished?" The best his supporters can come up with is "He was elected to the U.S. Senate." Study his Senate election. He had two opponents self-destruct with scandal. His win was no sterling achievement. There is NO constitutional right to vote in a presidential election. We're about to discover a few days from now how smart our founding fathers were in this regard. Obama is a creation of the Chicago political machine. Numerous times during his political career Obama had the opportunity to either vote or make statements against the corruption that permeates Chicago's political machine. Not once did he choose to do so. How did Obama prevail in his first election in Illinois? He ordered his campaign operatives to go to the voting office and labor hundreds of hours combing over petitions to have his opponents disqualified from the ballot. This would indicate that this Presidential competition is Obama's first actual election encounter. We've learned that, under Obama, one of the appropriate functions of government is to confiscate from those who have and give to those who have not. A different phraseology: Take from those who achieve, and give to those who achieve not. Karl Marx was of a like mind to Comrade Obama. Obama's "spread the wealth around" mantra means that he believes that we do not depart our homes each morning to work for ourselves and our families. Under the belief of Comrade Obama, we work for the government. We belong to government, not to ourselves. The government shall determine how much of the money we earn we deserve to keep; the remainder goes to people the government decides to be more deserving of the fruits of our labors. Obama's candidacy would have faltered before an educated electorate. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Our pathetic government school systems no longer teach American History to any practical degree. Obama also tells us that 95% of small businesses will not have their taxes increased. This line works because our government educated electorate cannot comprehend the idea that it doesn't matter what percentage of small businesses are hit with tax increases; it's the percentage of small business employees employed by the crucial 5% that matters. Thousands of employees working for "small businesses" will cast a vote that, a year or so down the road, will cost them their jobs. Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry if they tried to build any more coal-fired power plants. When was the last time any president or presidential candidate made an overt threat to bankrupt a huge American industry? Obama said that his "cap and trade" policy for controlling greenhouse gas emissions will cause electricity prices to "skyrocket." There goes your Obama middle class "tax cut." Comrade Obama will have to spread more wealth around. A foreigner with no knowledge of our country or our people were to see the Obama infomercial, they would consider America to be a country mired in abject misery and depravation. The top 10% of income earners in this country pay over 70% of all income taxes. The top 1% of income earners earn approximately 19% of all income, but pay almost 39% of all income taxes. Obama calls these productive American citizens "selfish." However, people who wait for Obama to transfer or "spread" some wealth from someone else to their pockets are not "selfish." Based on his record, Obama will destroy your right to be armed outside of your own home for your own protection. Surveys in Israel show that 76% of Israeli citizens do not want Obama to win. American Jews will vote for Obama by virtually the same margin. What do Jews in Israel know that Jews in America do not? Peter Nicholas is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times who has been traveling with Obama for nearly the entire campaign. Nicholas writes "After all this time with him, I still can't say with certainty who he is." Obama has called home schooling a fraud. Once in office and everyone who chooses to home school will be forced to send your kids back to government schools for their indoctrination. Higher prices coming to a Walmart near you. Obama's instant unionization bill will definitely result in the unionization of Wal-Mart's workforce and higher prices for you. There goes the rest of your middle class "tax cut."
Quotes and Facts Quote: - Barack Obama January 17, 2008 Fact: Through his own admission, Comrade Obama intends to bankrupt the coal industry.
So, when you hear someone say, "The rich don't pay their 'fair share' in taxes," you are listening to an economically ignorant fool.
News crews shot footage of Obama and his family having a little "Halloween fun" around his neighborhood. Obama told reporters, "That's enough. You've got a shot. Leave us alone." Obama "did not disguise his irritation." You would think that an astute political hack would welcome this additional publicity only days before the big election.
Comrade Obama ordered the Polish cameraman to "get back on the bus." Das Ist Verboten! But it's OK for his stooges in the media to harass an average American citizen like Joe the Plumber just because he dared to question Comrade Obama. Obama should know; that's the price of fame when you desire to be a public figure. Apparently, The Chosen One has a nasty side. Could the real Obama personality disorder be surfacing?
Obama Clause and his wise old Biden Wizard of Oz will promise you the yellow brick road to paradise if you click your heals three times (and vote a few times while you're at it) and dream "There's no place like Obamaland."
Let's analyze this. Obama's brother live in a shack on $10 a year. Obama's aunt lives in a slum. Just who is being selfish?
Time for a reality check! He doesn't have to pay; Comrade Obama will order you to pay for all of his pipedreams.
Hey, it's only your money.
You better watch out.
The magic list grows. In Sarasota, Florida, Obama promised he would:
Yes, Virginia, there really is an Obama Claus. You can hear him shouting, "On Pelosi, on Reid, on Kennedy, on Biden. Cash away, cash away, cash away all!"
An Obama aide said that Mr. Obama himself was the first to realize that expectations risked being inflated.
Australia becomes a police state.
They claim this is to "protect the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users". In their view, this can only be accomplished through mandatory government censorship of communication. If you recall, this was tried in early 20th Century Germany.
Note: The reporter needs to employ spell check to correctly spell "consfiscated."
An iron pipe or an anchor can be formidable weapons in the hands of a criminal. Melt criminals, not guns.
I'm still waiting for Alec Baldwin to follow through with his promise four years ago. Perhaps he can get a group rate and join his brother Stephen.
It is nice to see that Democrat political hacks know how to control spending and focus on important issues a time of "financial crisis."
Your Federal tax dollars at work!
Poor Jane Fonda "cries all night" and her poor back is hurting. She is now "a bundle of nerves." She believes that the Chosen One, Comrade Obama, is the only one who can save her. This is the mindless hysteria that will be selecting your next president. Erica Jong stated, "Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters." Correction, it was Biden and Obama who chastise and refuse to speak any further to reporters who dare to ask "difficult questions." Get ready for the Obama police state.
A McCain supporter put up his campaign signs. His signs kept getting stolen. Having a background in electrical engineering, he decided to electrify his third sign and install a surveillance camera. A 9-year-old boy with an Obama-Biden sign grabbed the McCain-Palin sign and got a jolt. The kid's father was upset that his kid, who apparently is in training to be a career criminal someday, was shocked. His excuse was that his kid just wanted to see how the sign was put together. Right.
Quotes and Facts Quote: Fact: Proof that Obama is a typical, untrustworthy political hack. "That's not change, that's more of the same."
This is the mental capacity of the typical Obama supporter.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler 1787 Fact: Think about this. Isn't this exactly what we're seeing now? In reality, hasn't this been the theme of Democrat Party election politics for almost as long as you can remember? Here we have Barack Obama promising that he's only going to raise taxes on the evil rich who make over $250,000 a year while 95% of Americans will get tax cuts. Think of this in terms of votes; higher taxes for 5% of the voters, lower taxes for the other 95%. It really doesn't take all that much mental power to decipher how this is going to work in an election. You seize money from the people whose votes you don't need, and give it to the people whose votes you do need. Simple! The result is that people have discovered that they are able to vote themselves liberal gifts from the public treasury. Who is promising those magnificent gifts of entitlement? That would be Barack Obama. What percentage of voters do you imagine are going to vote for Obama purely because he is promising them someone else's money? My speculation is that the number would be high enough to constitute the margin of victory for The Great Redistributionist, Comrade Obama. Once upon a time, I had this wild idea that if you wanted something, you worked hard until you got it. That was then. This is now. Nowadays you vote for it. That's "change you can believe in." Quote: "No, I don't think change is possible in any political system unless there is a dictator running the country and not a representative government." - Dr. Jay Gross Fact: Dr. Jay is a strong supporter of Comrade Obama. This explains his adoration for Obama and big government. Through his own admission, he is fond of the idea of a "dictator [like Obama] running the country and not a representative government." Dr. Jay has proven his disdain for freedom and all that made our country great.
If you do something that embarrasses Obama or Biden, they are going to go after you, embarrass you, intimidate you, and attempt to silence you.
Biden and Obama are disastrous without the prompter.
An Obama campaign spokeswoman last week had said the campaign has "no ties" to ACORN. Comrade Obama is far too busy to be bothered with details.
Global Warming strikes again.
The bottom line: Comrade Obama's socialist plans will cost jobs and increase prices on goods.
Vote once but vote often.
Welcome to the ObamaNation.
Biden Can't Handle The Tough Questions This time in Philadelphia with Anchors Angela Russell and Chris May Russell: Well, I just note that according to the Small Business Administration, numerous small businesses are classified making under four million. No I think a lot of small businesses would be affected. BIDEN: No. No. Y-y-you're -- you're getting this mixed up, with all due respect. RUSSELL: Mmm-hmm. BIDEN: Their sales are over four million. We say if you make under a hundred million, you're a small business, but the actual profit -- what you pay taxes on, 98% of what the small businesses make, what they pay taxes on -- are less than $250,000 a year. They're apple and oranges. May: The Washington Times are reporting you paid more than $2 million in campaign cash over the years to family members for campaign services that they provided for you. There's nothing illegal about it, Senator, but some people think it doesn't exactly pass the smell test. Your response to the criticism of this practice of yours? BIDEN: Well, first of all, $2 million they say I paid family members? MAY: Uh, in excess of $2 million in fact. BIDEN: No. Well, that's not true! That's not true! MAY: $1.8 million for media consulting to Joe Slade White & Company - BIDEN: Yeah! But that's not -- that's not my family. MAY: -- $50,000 in payments to your sister - BIDEN: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Slow up here, old buddy. Joe Slade White is one of the leading Democratic consultants. For the last eight years, my sister works for that company and pays a salary. She is not a partner in that firm. She doesn't own that firm. That money is not going to her. That money is going to a major, major Democratic consulting firm. It's a ridiculous assertion coming from the right-wing Washington Times! MAY: Another one hundred - BIDEN: That is simply not true. This whole interview only aired one time before the Obama campaign got it removed from the KYW Eyeball News at 4 website. How dare this TV station approach the vice president of The Messiah this way? This is the "fairness" of the Obama campaign. If you do something that embarrasses Obama or Biden, they are going to go after you, embarrass you, intimidate you, and attempt to silence you. If Biden can't handle a couple of local TV anchors' questions, how can he expect to have the fortitude to execute the office of President, if necessary?
Campaign Slogans Tell Us A Lot "A chicken in every pot. A car in every garage." - Herbert Hoover 1928 (Brought us the Great Depression with these promises.) "Spread the wealth around" - Barack Obama 2008 Obama says 95% of Americans are going to get a tax cut. The Bush tax cuts are going to expire in 2010. Obama is going to increase taxes as he allows them to expire. Your taxes are going to go up automatically. Obama said, "This is not a tax increase, it's not a tax increase. It's just a tax cut expiring." If you do the math, the practical effect of letting a cut expire is that you will be paying more in taxes and have less disposable income. Obama preaches socialism, envy and racism. He tears down America, our society and the American people. He then claims to represent the middle class when the middle class is his target. Jack Kennedy stated in his inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Obama's campaign rings with, "Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it; mandate it!" Obama's supporters and worshippers are going to vote because they believe that because they are Americans they are entitled to the federal government solving all of their problems, providing their income and their economic security. This means enormous trouble if you believe in freedom and self-reliance. The Obama Campaign is saying that this whole notion that redistributing wealth (Obama's statement to Joe the Plumber) is a distraction. This is not a distraction; it's the core of who Obama really is. Obama is trying to ensure that everybody understands he's not who he is. When a candidate proposes to use the power of government to steal money from tens of millions of citizens to give to other citizens who have not earned it, it is socialism. Obama is the candidate who proposes this with his "spread the wealth around" plan, and that would make him a Socialist. Oops. We're not supposed to mention that. Socialism is a "distraction." We're not supposed to utter the word Marxist either. It's not productive. So we're being told that we can't be truthful. Being truthful could hurt The Chosen One. We don't have to say it. Obama said it and believes it. He smiles and speaks with platitudes with reference to fairness and screwing the rich and all of the standard socialist rhetoric. And, as we have already seen (Obama's campaign has tried to unleash federal prosecutors against a private group that opposes him.), he will attempt to shut down those to dare to object to his policies. Obama is a charismatic demagogue. Nothing more.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "And to the extent as radical I think as people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted. The Warren Court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you. It says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf." - Barack Obama 2001 Fact: Barack Obama calls himself a "constitutional professor" or a "constitutional scholar." The fact of the matter is Barack Obama was an anti-constitutionalist professor. He studied the Constitution and he flatly rejected it. Through his own admission, he despises the Constitution because it "is a charter of negative liberties." He thinks it is flawed. Obama looks at the government as something that can do something to people, and he is angry that the Constitution limits the role of government in people's liberty. He doesn't like the idea of liberty, and he needs to "change" it! How can Obama sincerely, with any integrity at all, take the oath of office as President? "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Quote: "But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society." Barack Obama 2001 Fact: Here we go again with Obama's "spread the wealth around" mantra. This is nothing new. Redistribution of wealth is not a "distraction." It is the core of Obama and his ideals.
Michael Savage predicts the future under Comrade Obama.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "I'm going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans." - Barack Obama Fact: Nearly one-half of working Americans eligible to vote don't pay federal income taxes. Obama has changed the definition of "tax cut." When government withholds money from your paycheck and gives that money to someone else who has not earned it; it's called welfare. Under Obama's plan, a couple earning, for example, $30,000 and owing no federal income taxes at all will get several checks from Obama's federal taxpayer-funded treasury. These welfare "tax credits" will be labeled "tax cuts." In the ObamaNation, "tax credit" and "tax cut" translates into "payment." See how simple this is to follow? Here are some examples of Comrade Obama's "spread the wealth around" payment plan: A $500 "make work pay" payment. The harder you work and the more you succeed the lower these payments become. Comrade Obama's tax plans are about punishing success and rewarding failure. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" Karl Marx Quote: "John McCain wants to tax your health insurance benefits." - Barack Obama Fact: He is correct. But, as Paul Harvey says, "And now, the rest of the story." Here is the story of two friends. Jim and Phil work for two different companies. Jim's company provides health insurance. Phil has to buy his own. Jim's boss gets a tax deduction for the cost of his health insurance. Phil does not get a tax deduction for the cost of his health insurance. Phil is paying a great deal more than Jim for the same policy. Comrade Obama should be able to recognize that this is not fair. Here is the reason for this unfairness. For decades the government has attempted to coerce people into receiving insurance through their employers. You become acclimated to the idea that someone else is responsible for your health care. Effectively, government subsidizes the cost of Jim's health insurance, but not Phil's. McCain has an idea of a $5,000 tax credit for every family to pay for their own health insurance policy. Here is how this has to work: Everyone has to start from the same starting line. (No cheating. Remember "fairness.) If you recall, Jim is subsidized, Phil is not. To accomplish "fairness," McCain eliminates the tax deduction your employer gets for your health insurance. Now we are fair and balanced. Everyone receives the $5000 tax credit. Note: With the Fair Tax, none of this would be necessary. Problem solved.
The welcome was for SPC Lauren Boitet, a resident returning from serving in the military in Iraq. "I'm just glad to be home," said SPC Lauren Boitet. "They removed the welcome home signs and balloons and flags," said Natalie Boitet. Boitet claims when they tried to recover the signs it turned into a confrontation with the association manager. The Boitet family said that in the past the association had ignored other signs. "There have been signs for birthdays and parties and they've never taken them down," said Dyan Boitet. Alan Williams is President of the Pace Island Homeowners Association. He said that "they could be viewed as political and supporting the war." Williams claims any resident can pick up the phone and call any board member for prior approval. He said that did not happen. You need approval from the Comrades before you dare to welcome someone home who is serving in the military.
Judge rules that voters don't have standing to "police" constitutional requirements for president. Translation: This judge has determined that citizens do not have the right to question whether a presidential candidate meets constitutional requirements. Judge R. Barclay Surrick stated, "Plaintiff would have us derail the democratic process by invalidating a candidate for whom millions of people voted." Translation: You no longer have a right as a citizen to question your political leaders. It doesn't matter if the candidate's requirements as set forth under the Constitution are invalid. "We The People" have just lost our rights to the socialist police power of government.
CBS News cameraman Jim Quodomine was arrested, handcuffed and put in a squad car for an hour after recording a peaceful protest outside a local church. When CBS 2 HD's reporter on the scene, Christine Sloan, protested and said he couldn't arrest the cameraman, the officer said, "I can do whatever I want." The officer even threatened to arrest the reporter and stated, "[This is] none of your business. Stay away or you'll be sitting in the car." The reporter and photographer were not trespassing, as they were shooting the story on public property.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "I've been working hard to bring the bacon home." - Senator John Kerry Fact: Kerry is a champion of pandering pork projects. Kerry buys as many votes as he can with your money. Additionally, Kerry voted for the $700 Billion bailout bill saying it was "flawed but necessary." Through his own admission, this flawed political hack knowingly supports flawed legislation.
This is your future. If you dare to express your disapproval for Comrade Obama and his policies, you will be sought after by the Secret Police. Roger Hedgecock details:
Joe the Plumber didn't threaten anyone or commit any crimes. Yet government officials are scrutinizing a private citizen who dared to question Comrade Obama.
Obama Campaign Cuts Off TV Station After Reporter Asks Biden Tough Questions Barbara West of WFTV Orlando, FL conducted a satellite interview with Senator Joe Biden. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment. Biden asked, "Are you joking?" West replied, "No." West also asked Biden about his comments pertaining to Obama being tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over. Biden replied, "I don't know who's writing your questions." Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife. Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign wrote, "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election." McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West." WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, "When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes." He added that political campaigns generally pick and choose the stations they like and stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews. "Mr. Biden didn't like the questions," Jordan said. "We choose not to ask softball questions." Biden can't handle tough questions and the Obama campaign doesn't want to play anymore. There should be no "tough questions" for someone running on a presidential ticket.
Andrew T. Durham attempts to wake up the sheeple.
"That's not change, that's more of the same."
Time For Some ObamaNation Fun When you visit your next restaurant, engage your server in a conversation about the upcoming election. If your server indicates that he or she is supporting the Chosen One for "change," use this (print a few, they better get used to spreading the wealth around):
Who Is Overtaxed? In 1980 the highest tax rate was 70%, but the top 5% of income earners were only paying 37% of all income taxes. At present the highest rate is 35%, and the top 5% are paying 60% of all income taxes. Presently, the bottom 50% of income earners are only paying 3% of all income taxes. In the Comrade Obama world, that isn't "fair." Obama wants to "spread the wealth around" until the bottom 50% pay less. Is that fair? Facts are facts, here is your chart:
Quotes and Facts Quote: "I think most people understand, uh, that if you're not, um, caring for your family, uh, then you're probably not, uh, the kind of person who's going to be caring for other people." - Barack Obama Fact: Obama doesn't care "for other people." Not even his own family. His half-brother, George Onyango Bodongo Hussein Obama, lives in squalor on a dollar a month in a hut outside of Nairobi. If the "caring" Obama sent him 20 dollars, it would double his brother's annual income. Quote: "Radio and media generally should have a higher calling than just reflecting a particular point of view. They should use their authority, their broadcast power, to present an informed discussion of public issues ... The country was well served [by the Fairness Doctrine]. Public discussion was at a higher lever and more intelligent in those days than it has become since." - New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman Fact: The Fairness Doctrine is not about intelligent, informed discussion. It is about government power to control communication and shut down resistance. Quote: "I think Joe [Biden], sometimes, engages in rhetorical flourishes." - Barack Obama Fact: This is how Obama explains Biden's mindless gaffes. Remember, when you say something stupid, simply respond, "I was engaging in rhetorical flourishes." How presidential.
An artist in New York has set up an exhibit that features cardboard cutouts of Sarah Palin and her youngest daughter. People can join the "photo-op" by donning a vest and gun, and a lot of people are shooting Sarah Palin. What do you think the media and public reaction would be if this same exhibit were about Barack Obama?
The Clinton administration considered a plan to levy a one-time tax on the value of all privately owned pension and 401K plans in this country. They were stopped by congress in 1994. Joe Biden told a cheering crowd, "Their pensions go first." He was referring to "big company executives." The question remains, what are you going to gain if they rape executives? You will never see any money seized by the government. Additionally, how long until they rape and pillage your pension? Keep dreaming: That could never happen here under Comrade Obama and our Imperial Federal Government. Just keep drinking the big government potion and the Comrades will teach you to think that everything is OK.
According to Burleigh County North Dakota Commission Chairman Jerry Woodcox, "Any kind of a plan, if it's a good plan and a progressive plan is going to take some property rights, but that's part of our job - to channel evolvement, to get a good development, to have it proper and do it right." Woodcox does not own any property that would be affected and has claimed that he does not see how the Burleigh County Comprehensive Plan infringes on individual property rights. Interestingly enough, he then claimed that it will take property rights away. Comrade Woodcox will decide what is best for you.
Shyan Din owns a gas station. Din decided to charge $2.99 for regular gasoline at his station, which is about 30 cents cheaper than the average price for gasoline in the area. People line up to fill up their tanks. The local county code enforcement officer to told Din that he is causing a hazard and his business license may not get renewed. The government is punishing him for offering lower gas prices. Din said, "I think it's my right. This is a free market, a free country." Government control, coming soon to a business near you.
Can you spell "Illegal?"
Ann Coulter fluently explains the connection between Ayers and Obama as this topic is apparently verboten from publication by the mainstream media.
The cover-up continues. If Obama has nothing to hide, why doesn't he simply produce his original birth certificate to the courts?
The Army Times recently polled all military branches. Except where noted, data include responses from active-duty, National Guard and reserve members who described themselves as registered and likely to vote. : The military OVERALL - McCain 68%, Obama 23% The Army - McCain 68%, Obama 23% The Navy - McCain 69%, Obama 24% The Air Force - McCain 67%, Obama 24% The Marines - McCain 75%, Obama 18% Hispanics or Latinos in the military - McCain 63%, Obama 27% Blacks in the military - Obama 79%, McCain 12% White/Non-Hispanic in the military - McCain 76%, Obama 18% Other Race Specified - McCain 58%, Obama 30% Men in the military - McCain 70%, Obama 22% Women in the military - McCain 53%, Obama 36% 18-34 year-olds in the military - McCain 65%, Obama 27% Age 35 and older in the military - McCain 70%, Obama 21% Active Duty Military - McCain 67%, Obama 24% Guard and Reserve - McCain 71%, Obama 21% Military Retirees - McCain 72%, Obama 20% Military Officers - McCain 70%, Obama 22% Enlisted Troops - McCain 67%, Obama 24% Additional poll questions: Which of the candidates would do a better job as president handling domestic issues,
such as education and the economy? Which of the candidates would do a better job as president handling the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan? Which of the candidates would do a better job as president handling military personnel
issues, such as pay and benefits? Which of the candidates would do a better job as president handling Defense Department
issues, such as weapons purchases, the size of the armed forces and national security
strategy? You are not likely to find this information presented by the mainstream media.
Quotes and Facts Quote: "The whole world is waiting, folks. The whole world is waiting. I know almost every one of these major leaders in the world by their first name -- not because I'm important, because they were young parliamentarians when I was coming up and we've been hanging around a long time. Tell you what, and mark my words. Within the next -- first six months of this administration, if we win, we're gonna -- we're gonna face a major international challenge, because they're going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They're going to want to test him, and they're going to find out this guy's got steel in his spine. You're not going to like what we do; you're not going to appreciate our response. Please hang with us. Our poll numbers are probably going to be low after this happens, so please hang in there with us, 'cause it's going to be bad. It may not look like we're doing the right thing. We're going to need your support. We're going to need you to hang in and support us. You're going to need to remember the love you had for us right now when this attack happens." - Joe Biden October 19, 2008 Fact: Biden is predicting that we will be attacked within six months after Obama is elected. We haven't been attacked since 9/11, and Biden is worried. Biden is telling us that Obama is going to take the kinder, gentler approach with these international thugs and is not going to do anything, except unconditionally talk with them. People aren't going to like it at first, but they'll get used to being submissive after awhile. Biden thinks international issues are some sort of game, some sort of "test" to win approval, and predicts disaster if Obama is elected. Through Biden's own admission, "You're not going to like what we do," is predicting the American people, including the Chosen One's followers, will not be pleased with Obama's direction. That's not a spine of steel, that's spineless. Why would anyone continue to support these political hacks? Weren't they saying just a couple of weeks ago that once The Messiah was elected, the world would love us again? Biden knows that Obama isn't ready to deal with issues of foreign policy and is preparing his followers for disappointment. During the Democrat primaries Biden specifically said that Obama wasn't ready, that the presidency was not a place for on-the-job training. But again, why is this going to happen in the first place? They have been hyping that once Obama is elected the world is going to love us. We were going to discard all of this distrust and dislike for the United States. They s |
