- bitch &moan -- RAM, 11/18/09 12:44pm
I miss the days when this site was just about us and not all this political bitching and moaning.
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- Asking Republicans for a favor -- No name, 11/16/09 2:49pm
My dear Republicans friends, it's probably not my place to ask. I'm not one of you, but I'm not your enemy either. I'm not an apologist for the other party or a third party. I'm an advocate for replacing the two parties with three branches. We still teach our children about the three branches of our government, but I'm afraid most adults have forgotten what that was supposed to mean.
Like you, I'd like us to be able to unelect people as well as elect them in fair and verifiable elections. Like many of you, I oppose massive bailouts for Wall Street, bipartisan gerrymandering, corporate control of government, warrantless spying, ballot access restrictions, budget deficits, lying politicians, and the so-called mainstream media.
And, like you, I think President Barack Obama has way, way, way too much power. But, unlike you, I'm not principally to blame for that. Obama was handed his power by Bush, and Bush seized his power with hardly a peep of protest from most Republicans. In fact, I was often called "unpatriotic" by Republicans when I protested. Of course, the Democrats in Congress didn't resist Bush's power grab, but they're Democrats. They're wimps. They never resist anything.
Republicans know how to play offense and fight for their goals. The trouble is that stripping the presidency of unconstitutional, illegal, and dangerous powers is not a Republican goal any more than it is a Democratic one. Both parties are delighted to have nearly all governmental power in the hands of one person, they just want the next such person to be a member of their team. Republicans grouse about czars and department heads, but there is no organized Republican effort to roll back the imperial presidency's central power gains.
When Bush altered laws with signing statements, you guys didn't say a word, because Bush was a Republican. When Obama, after having condemned the practice as a candidate, began engaging in it himself, as well as maintaining Bush's signing statements, most Democrats didn't object for a minute. Some Democrats now even advocate a greater use of signing statements. We can't expect Democrats who wouldn't fight this abuse when it was new and Bush's to fight it now. But it seems to me that you Republicans might have the nerve (as well as the short-term partisan interest) to fight it now. After all, it was your guys who invented this abuse and handed it to Obama.
The same goes for making laws with executive orders, making laws with secret memos legalizing blatant crimes, launching and escalating wars without Congress (including strikes into Pakistan and other such actions that nobody calls wars), operating in secret, spending money in secret without Congress, making treaties and appointments without Congress, running the nation through czars not overseen by Congress, granting immunity to unnamed criminals, imprisoning people without charge or trial, spying without warrant, engaging in rendition and torture, obstructing justice, and claiming immunity for crimes. All of these abusive, unconstitutional powers were dramatically expanded by Bush and Cheney, and you guys didn't protest. Now Obama is further expanding on the same abusive powers, and your objection seems to be that he's a socialist or a liberal or a Democrat or was born in Africa.
Forgive my directness, but what the hell difference does it make to future generations what you call him? The actions he is taking that will have by far the greatest impact on the world are those he is taking to increase and solidify imperial presidential powers. Do you imagine that Democrats who would not fight this trend when Bush was president will fight it now? They're afraid of their own shadows. They've left the fate of our system of government in your hands. But your hands seem to be too full of posters and guns and teabags. You've stuck the Constitution in your pocket or dropped it in the gutter.
Whatever your political persuasion, you are not going to love every future president. But the way you're allowing presidential power to accumulate suggests that you plan to worship every future president, even if none of them are Republicans. The Democrats and Independents are doing the same thing, but that's mostly because they're cowards. You guys have, time and again, proven your willingness to fight aggressively, even for the most ludicrous fantasies. I'm asking you to fight for a representative republic before it becomes a monarchy.
How do you do that? First you insist that Congress reclaim its place of power and use it to represent US, not money, not media, and not parties. This means that congressional committees must subpoena members and former members of the executive branch and enforce those subpoenas with the Capitol Police rather than begging the Justice Department to enforce them. Congress has to conduct oversight of the executive branch regardless of whether the executive belongs to the same party as the committee chairs. The bill in the House that would allow Congress to see what the Federal Reserve does with our money has a majority of cosponsors already, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to allow a vote. The warrantless spying programs are continuing, and Congress still doesn't know what they involve. Jay Bybee, who signed memos purporting to legalize aggressive war and torture, is now an appeals court judge. Congress must be willing to hold impeachment hearings on someone like Bybee regardless of what party he belongs to or whether he worked for the Justice Department.
Obama's Justice Department is fighting tooth and nail to cover up any wrong doing by Bush and Cheney. In the process, Obama is claiming the power to shut down whole categories of law suits just by saying the words "state secrets." Democrats can't see the danger in this because they imagine Obama is their friend. You think he's a socialistic grandmother killer, and yet I don't hear any complaints out of you about the incredible powers he's seizing. A full and open review by a select committee of Congress into presidential power abuses would not have to become a partisan lynching in one direction or the other. The presidents who've claimed the power to "render" kidnapping victims to nations that torture are named Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
But such a review would require a shift in attitude toward "the war on terror" as a catch-all excuse for stripping away any of our rights and imposing any new power desired by a president. The founders of this country knew that if presidents were going to evolve into royalty they would do it through wars. That's why the founders gave Congress the exclusive power to determine whether to engage in wars. The question is not whether or not you think it is wise to be blowing our grandchildren's unearned pay on illegal and counterproductive killing sprees in the Middle East. The question is whether you think a vague announcement of eternal war against an emotion or a tactic should excuse the aggrandizement of the presidential office that James Madison warned us to avoid.
If you will not push back against this trend because presidents are sometimes Republicans and you like supporting wars, and if Democrats will not push back because presidents are sometimes Democrats and pushing back is scary, then who exactly is going to prevent the gradual loss of our republic? The peace movement won't even ask Congress to oppose wars any more. Now it asks the president, because he's a Democrat. We're lost without you. Please think about it. Don't do it for me. Do it for your children.
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- maps -- No name, 03/25/09 10:12pm
To whom it may concern:
As a part-time employee in the Union and working for several different companies here in Southern California I personally and many other part-time co-workers have been the product of Discrimination by the Teamster Local 986 and the Tradeshow Companies as well. Part-Time employee's forced associaton in Union dues payments does not guarantee any Labor rights or privileges,ie.. medical, grievences, etc.. etc.. but instead only grants the Part-Time employee the right to work in that division. So in essence I have to pay to go to work.
Pay To Work
I cannot think of another work industry in the United States of America that does. I would hope our American goverment would not allow a( Company, Union) to hold for ransom a American citizen who is only trying to earn a proper living without being Discriminated, Exploited and have wages garnished and ransom payment made to a union that exploits its Part-Time workers with no services rendered. This scheme (Union Dues, Taxation without Representation) closely resembles The Head Tax of the Chinese Immigrants who had to endure this type of Discrimination if they wanted to work (1885-1902) This Head tax if you will started the day I first started working. You notice I did not say when I joined the Union The Union has a very special clause that stipulates you can work if you let them take Garnish your check For $6.00 a day The con being they will put that money towards your membership fee. When that figure is met and you become a bonafide member you will then be allowed to make a monthly payment of $50.00 that starts out being Garnished from your payroll check. Now then in my case I finally realized that figure was met when I recieved a Sea World discount pass in the mail from the Union and a fellow slave, (excuse me i met fellow Teamster) told me I must be in the Union becuse only members could get that card............ That following week I went to a Union meeting and told the Fat man with a cigar sitting at the podium what had happened he declared that impossible until fellow members spoke up and and said essentially the same thing. He said he would look into that. (And did). As it turned out I was about 6 or 7 hundred dollars ahead as was many other guys in the Industry.... So rather then give the money back they credited us with future dues in my case about a year and a half........
Freedom Of Association
I know our Bill of Rights states that every American has the right to Freedom of Association so would you also assume you also have the right to Dissociate yourself as well. I would say that I was Dicriminated against due to the fact that at the time employment was offered to me I was not given that choice. It was either join up and pay to work or not work be unemployed, sleep on the street, and be hungry....Tell me what would you choose?
Union Dues
You would think a Part-Time company employee and Local 986 member who pays dues would have the right to Union representation by means of a Union Shop Stewart in concern to disciplinary or other? I know by means of the contract that this is not the case. Though they say they represent me they only care about the full time company employee.The treatment that Part-time Union employees receive is unfair compared to our Full time company employee Union members. Neglected and used, lied to, extorted for work hours and work hours not equally divided, Part-Time have little or no advancement no health benefits are never told of thier rights we pay to much in Union dues for no results or representation and more often then nought are never told anything.
Request of Union Information Rights
As Part-Time dues paying member does a Union member have the right to request Union information and or financial statements? Should I have the right to know where my Union dues go? How much money is invested, Bank Account, interest accumulated, stocks and bonds or other investments do i have the right through interest or capital gains or through investment , entitlement to these gains. They take my dues hold me for ransom taxation without representation and will not even allow me a little piece of the pie. Try to get a answer to these questions by phone, e-mail or regular mail and they will not respond or skirt the issue. Why would they choose not to respond?
Collective Bargaining Agreement
A company who signs in to a collective bargaining agreement with a Union association where as the rights of a Part-Time worker and Union member are being violated by the Union should also be
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- CRAPPYFORNIA ANCHOR BABIES -- WOLF, 11/ 8/09 6:13pm
By Frosty Wooldridge and RN Stephany Gabbard
If you don’t think our Congress is taking Americans for a ride, think again. According to the late Dr. Madeleine Cosman, “At least 300,000 anchor babies annually become citizens in California.”
In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in maternity units cost taxpayers $215 million in Stockton, California. In 2003, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General maternity ward were from illegal aliens. That number has exploded today with over three million illegal aliens residing in California.
The French economist Frederic Bastiat said, “The unseen is more expensive than the seen.” In Stockton, California, the Silverio Family was featured in the Wall Street Journal in 2003. They were fruit pickers who arrived illegally from Oxtotilan, Mexico in 1997. The wife, Felipa had three kids, but popped an anchor baby named Flor. The child was premature and spent three months in a neonatal incubator at a cost to the San Joaquin Hospital of over $300,000.00. They conceived another, Christian. The second baby made them eligible for $1,000 per month welfare. Because Flor is disabled, she receives $600.00 monthly for asthma. Although the illegal aliens made $18,000.00 annually picking fruit, they collected $12,000.00 of your tax dollars for their anchor babies. One night the father, Cristobal crashed his van. He had no license or insurance. Taxpayers paid for all hospital bills. That’s why 77 hospitals in Border States were going bankrupt in 2003, but Senator John McCain wrote a rider into the Medicaid Bill for $1.4 billion of your tax dollars. It passed.
Not to finish the spending spree on these anchor babies, the children attend California schools at a cost of $7,000.00 per year over and above what their parents pay in taxes. The cost for all five of their children for one school year exceeds $35,000.00 times 18 years for a grand taxpayer total of $630,000.00. This is only one family. No wonder California is $24 billion in debt. Last week, Governor Schwarzenneger handed out IOUs to vendors to the tune of $54 million.
Additional costs for illegal alien children stem from translators, advocates and middlemen. MediCal in 2003 sponsored 760,000 illegal aliens. Supplemental Security Income is a non-means-treated federal grant of money and food stamps. Be assured that scams and fraud run rampant. Over 500,000 ‘mentally disabled kids’ are on drugs for ADHD and ODD. One lady, Linda Torres was arrested in Bakersfield with $8,500.00 in small bills in her pocket. It was her SSI lump award for her disability, which was heroin addiction.
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- Oakland Raiders -- No name, 11/10/09 12:01pm
The coach had put together the perfect team for the Oakland Raiders.
The only thing that was missing was a good quarterback.
He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues,
but he couldn't find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl win.
Then one night while watching CNN he saw a war-zone scene in Afghanistan .
In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim soldier
with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade straight into a 15th story
window 100 yards away.
KABOOM!
He threw another hand-grenade 75 yards away, right into a chimney.
KA-BLOOEY!
Then he threw another at a passing car going 90 mph.
BULLS-EYE!
"I've got to get this guy!" Coach said to himself. "He has the perfect arm!"
So, he brings him to the States and teaches him the great game of football.
And the Raiders go on to win the Super Bowl. The young Afghan is hailed
as the great hero of football, and when the coach asks him what he wants,
all the young man wants is to call his mother.
"Mom," he says into the phone, "I just won the Super Bowl!"
"I don't want to talk to you, the old Muslim woman says.
"You deserted us. You are not my son!"
"I don't think you understand, mother," the young man pleads "I've won the greatest
sporting event in the world. I'm here among thousands of my adoring fans."
"No! Let me tell you!" his mother retorts. "At this very moment, there are gunshots all
around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten
within an inch of their lives last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house
so she doesn't get raped!"
The old lady pauses, and then tearfully says, "I will never forgive you for making us
move to Oakland !"
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- ON YOUR HANDS -- NOT THE UX REG, 11/ 9/09 2:53pm
This retired USMC Sgt. Major has his S--t together.
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, and the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You're a fake! You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America’s 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
Semper Fi,
J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired
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- WHO REMEMBERS -- UX Reg, 10/20/09 12:37pm
Who remembers the show every year where the beer flowed freely through out set & tear-down?If you ran empty you could refresh rite out of show managements office.
HINT; This was threw the 80"s and one year a tornado ran threw the show-site during tear down....
Lot of great stories came out of that show...Thows were the friggin days!!!!!!!
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- Nightly Sex Sessions were making their neighbors' lives' hell, -- No name, 11/ 9/09 9:22pm
A couple's nightly sex sessions were making their neighbors' lives' hell, a court heard today.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" and drowned out their neighbours' televisions.
But it was not just the neighbours who were up in arms about the noise coming from their terraced house in Hall Road, Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear - even the local postman and a woman, who walked past the house taking her child to school, complained.
A judge and two magistrates at Newcastle Crown Court even listened to a 10-minute recording of the Cartwrights romps, which were recorded over a five day period last August.
Neighbors said the Cartwrights sex sessions would usually start around midnight and last for two or three hours, every night of the week....
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- DEMONCATS LIE!!!!!!!!! -- WOLF, 11/ 8/09 6:22pm
Obamacare or Himmler Care?
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the 10 year (2010-2019) cost of the House Democrats' bill at $1.055 trillion. As usual, there is so much budget gimmicry in these estimates as to make them virtually meaningless.
The Democrats are dishonest on so many levels about this healthcare "reform" it is almost impossible to untangle all their lies. Let's start by clarifying some basic truths.
First, who pays for healthcare right now? That's right, the taxpayers who foot the bill not only for their own healthcare, but for illegal immigrants, the poor and seniors as well. (Some seniors continue to pay a premium for Medicare but it still doesn't cover all the costs).
Who is feeling the pain of the rapid annual growth in healthcare costs that the Democrats claim so desperately to want to fix? Right, these same taxpayers.
Some will argue that employers pick up most of the tab. That is true when employers offer healthcare policies to their employees, but it is an illusion. Businesses must make a profit to remain alive, so every cost they pick up is passed on to the consumer in higher prices. So, in reality, we pay.
Others will remind us that actually, employers don't pay the entire tab -- that offering healthcare benefits is a big plus for employers because they get subsidized from the government. Since healthcare benefits become part of a "compensation package," employers actually pay less, by the amount of the government subsidy, than they would have to pay the employee otherwise.
True again. Employers don't pay the full cost of healthcare benefits, the government subsidizes them. But where does the government get the funds to subsidize employer-provided healthcare? From taxes or borrowing (which will require more taxes in the future to retire the debt). So who pays? Again, we pay - now or in the future.
One of the primary causes of skyrocketing costs in healthcare is the low cost or no cost healthcare available to low income groups, including illegal immigrants. This creates an explosion in demand, and as we have seen all over the world, immigration, both legal and illegal, to take advantage of our low cost, high quality services. Government sometimes reimburses doctors and hospitals for the service they provide, but not always. Even when they do, the reimbursement is often below cost, sometimes significantly below cost.
Who pays for all this? We pay! Twice!
We pay the taxes to cover the government reimbursements, and we pay in higher insurance premiums that result from doctors and hospitals trying to recoup their losses by passing them on in higher fees to private insurers. If this is not an option, they go out of business, reducing the availability of healthcare for everyone.
Who pays for that? We all do!
Now Reid, Pelosi, Baucus, et al proclaim "We're from the government, and we're here to help!"
We have to ask:
"Haven't you done enough already?"
...
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- HOW QUICKLY THEY FORGET -- WOLF, 09/25/09 10:59pm
At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country`s prior actions, here`s a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.
These are good
JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaule decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaule said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded "does that include those who are buried here?
DeGuale did not respond.
You could have heard a pin drop
When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?'
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?'
Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, 'Maybe it's because the Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
"You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."
The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !"
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."
You could have heard a pin drop.
I am proud to be of this land, AMERICA
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- Gubmint -- NOT THE UX REG, 11/ 4/09 3:08pm
Gubmint and How Gubmint Works
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of
a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So
they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without
instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two
people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do
time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the
tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and
hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So They
created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer,
Then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"
So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an
Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal
Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one
Year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost."
So they laid off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of
the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line. We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of
an agency...the reason for which not one person who reads this can
remember!
Ready??
It was very simple...and at the time, everybody thought it very
appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8-04-1977.
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT'S 2009 -- 32 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS
"NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. THEY HAVE 16,000
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND
LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD
AND SAY, "WHAT WAS I THINKING?"
Ah, yes -- good ole bureaucracy.
AND, NOW, WE ARE GOING TO TURN THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND
THE AUTO INDUSTRY OVER TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
HELLOOO! Anybody Home?
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- truck driving -- RAM, 11/ 2/09 1:03pm
can someone help a brother out with some time behind the wheel?
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- White House: 650,000 jobs saved, created by stimulus -- No name, 10/30/09 9:52am
Source: Washington Post
Reports to be released Friday on the government Web site Recovery.gov are expected to show that the $150 billion in grants and loans made so far under the economic stimulus package have created or saved about 650,000 jobs, White House officials said Friday morning.
White House officials said the reports -- which were filed by state and city governments and other recipients of stimulus grants and loans -- will confirm their recent estimates that the $787 billion package passed in February has so far saved or created about a million jobs, putting it on track to match their estimates of 3.5 million jobs created or saved over the three-year span of the stimulus. That calculation is based on the fact that today's reports do not include much of the package's spending -- tax cuts, safety net spending and fiscal aid to strapped states, which injected tens of billions more into the economy and, in the case of the state aid, forestalled layoffs of state workers.
And because the reports were required only of the direct recipients of stimulus funding and any secondary level of recipient, the reports also do not take into account the jobs that might have been created by subcontractors or suppliers further down the chain. For instance, if a state received a grant and passed it on to a city, and the city then passed the money to a contractor or nonprofit group, any jobs created by the contractor or nonprofit would not necessarily be reported back.
More generally, watchdog groups caution that the reports ought to be taken with a strong grain of salt given the difficulty of actually tallying the effect of government spending. The reports include claims of tens of thousands of teaching and other public-sector jobs saved by the spending, but it is hard to know for sure how many jobs actually would have been lost in the absence of the stimulus. And it is hard to know how to count the job creation in, say, a road repaving project that employs a given crew for a month or two. The reports' bigger value probably will lie in the potential they offer the public for tracking specific projects.
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- anyone else bored with healcare? -- No name, 10/29/09 7:17pm
Damn short attention span.
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- Healthcare Reform nears with Democrat bill -- No name, 10/29/09 2:32pm
WASHINGTON – Their work swiftly heralded by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on private insurers and create a government-run insurance option for cost-conscious consumers.
The measure "covers 96 percent of all Americans, and it puts affordable coverage in reach for millions of uninsured and underinsured families, lowering health care costs for all of us," boasted Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., at a ceremony attended by dozens of Democratic lawmakers. She spoke on the steps of the Capitol, not far from where Obama issued his inaugural summons for Congress to act more than nine months ago.
Despite the fanfare, Democrats did not immediately release a detailed estimate of the legislation's cost. Instead, they said the Congressional Budget Office had put the cost related to coverage at $894 billion over a decade, and they made no mention of other items in the measure.
The full House is expected to vote on the bill late next week, and Democratic leaders were careful not to claim they had yet rounded up enough votes to pass it. Still, the day's events capped months of struggle and marked a major advance in their drive — and Obama's — to accomplish an overhaul of the health care system that has eluded presidents for a half-century.
Across the Capitol, the Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to begin debate within two weeks on a bill crafted by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. It, too, envisions a government-run insurance option, although states could opt out, unlike in the bill the House will vote on. That portion of the Senate version appears likely to be weakened even further, as moderates press for a standby system that would not go into effect until it was clear individual states were experiencing a lack of competition among private companies.
Obama called the House legislation "another critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system." The president added he was pleased with the decision to allow the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry, and said the measure meets his goals for deficit neutrality.
Republican reaction was as swift as it was negative. "It will raise the cost of Americans' health insurance premiums; it will kill jobs with tax hikes and new mandates, and it will cut seniors' Medicare benefits," said the party's leader in the House, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio. He carried a copy of the 1,990-page measure into a news conference to underscore his claim it represented a government takeover of the health care system.
Republicans have already signaled their determination to make the health care debate a key issue in next year's congressional elections, when all 435 House seats will be on the ballot.
But their ability to block passage in the current House is nonexistent as long as Pelosi and her leadership can forge a consensus among the Democratic rank and file. The party holds 256 seats in the House, where 218 makes a majority.
Broad in scope, the House Democrats' bill attempts to build on the current system of employer-provided health care. It would require big companies to cover their employees and would provide federal subsidies to help small companies provide insurance for theirs, as well. Most individuals would be required to carry insurance, and much of the money in the legislation is dedicated to subsidies for those at lower incomes to help them afford coverage.
For those at even lower incomes, the bill provides for an expansion of Medicaid, the state-federal health program for the poor. Adults up to 150 percent of poverty — individuals making up to $16,245 and a family of four up to $33,075 — would be covered, a provision estimated to add 15 million to Medicaid.
One of the bill's major features is a new national insurance market, in which private companies could sell policies that meet federally mandated benefit levels, the government would offer competing coverage and consumers could shop for the policy that best met their needs.
In a bow to moderates, Democrats decided doctors, hospitals and other providers would be allowed to negotiate rates with the Department of Health and Human Services for services provided in the government insurance option.
Liberals had favored a system in which fees would be dictated by the government, an approach that would have been less costly than what was settled on, and also would have moved closer to a purely government-run health care system than some Democrats favor.
Thursday's bill includes an array of new restrictions on the private insurance industry, in addition to forcing insurers to compete with the federal government for business.
Firms would be banned from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions and limited in their ability to charge higher premiums on the basis of age.
They would be required to spend 85 percent of their income from premiums on coverage, effectively limiting their ability to advertise or pay bonuses. Additionally, the industry would be stripped of immunity from antitrust regulations covering price fixing, bid rigging and market allocation. And in a late addition to the bill, 30-year-old restrictions on the Federal Trade Commission's ability to look into the insurance industry would be erased.
In response, the industry's top lobbyist, Karen Ignagni, issued a statement containing a somewhat milder version of criticism than recently unleashed against the Senate's version of the legislation. "We are concerned" the House bill will violate assurances that individuals would be able to keep their insurance if they like it, she said. She said it would be responsible for "increasing health care costs for families and employers across the country and significantly disrupting the quality coverage on which millions of Americans rely today."
Ignagni added that the presence of a government-run insurance plan "would bankrupt hospitals, dismantle employer coverage, exacerbate cost-shifting from Medicare and Medicaid and ultimately increase the federal deficit."
While Democrats touted new benefits for seniors, the bill relies on hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts from projected Medicare spending over the next decade. Much of the money would come from the part of the program in which private companies offer coverage to seniors.
Supporters argue the private plans are an improvement over traditional Medicare, because they provide extra benefits such as eyeglass coverage or gym memberships. Critics argue the plans receive an average of 14 percent higher subsidies per beneficiary that the government pays under the original Medicare program.
The bill's other major new source of revenue is from a proposed income tax surcharge of 5.4 percent on wealthy earners, individuals making at least $500,000 a year and couples $1 million or more.
The legislation includes other taxes, such as a 2.5 percent excise tax on the makers of medical devices, expected to raise $20 billion over a decade.
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- Democrats produce Healthcare Bill for America -- No name, 10/29/09 9:39am
As announced yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats will unveil the health care bill they plan to bring to the floor this morning. The long awaited legislation will come in at under $900 billion. Like the Senate bill, its public option will reimburse providers at negotiated rates--though unlike in the Senate bill, states will not be allowed to opt out.
Pelosi had pushed in recent days for a more robust public option, which would have saved more money. To make up for those lost savings, the House bill will lower the Medicaid threshold to 150 percent of the poverty line (it was originally expected to cover everybody below 133 percent of poverty).
The employer and individual mandates will be more robust than in the Senate bill, and, as a result, the bill is expected to cover millions more Americans. The $900 billion will be covered by a mix of taxes on high-income earners, industry contributions and savings wrung from existing government health care programs. That means it will not expand the deficit for at least the first 10 years.
One key question we'll be looking at is whether that means it's projected to increase the deficit after a decade. An earlier version of Senate legislation was projected to reduce the deficit in the long term by including an excise tax on high-end health care plans. The House bill's financing scheme, however, is significantly different.
Oh. And did I mention there'll be tea baggers? Yup. Good fun all around. We'll be reporting back throughout the morning.
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- Talking -- No name, 10/28/09 12:11pm
Sometimes it sounds like Jay Ward is just talking and talking and talking.
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- Rants -- No name, 10/27/09 8:14pm
Sometimes the rant sounds like Nancy Pelosi is lying to Harry Reid, you, me and Grant Mitchell!
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- what happened ? -- RAM, 10/26/09 5:16pm
Jim, what the hell happened to your page. it sounds like Rush Limbaugh is talking to Bill O'riley.tell these schumcks to go to a political site and leave us poor TEAMSTERS alone!!!!!!!
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- Health care and pensions -- No name, 10/26/09 4:56pm
So IF, we can all get cheaper health care then we should be able to improve the retirees deal so that they can retire and get coverage without paying 165.00 a month per body.
Then maybe us younger guys can get more work.
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- BIG UNIONS OPPOSE HEALTH CARE BILL -- WOLF, 10/15/09 3:20pm
Democrats will screw us and exempt union members from paying the huge costs of this bill. If you think democrats are not going to bow to union pressure to throw them some gravy then you have not paid attention to how congress works. I expect something like this - employer paid health care will get taxed heavily unless you belong to a union.
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Unions will oppose Baucus bill unless it's changed
Oct 13, 3:35 PM (ET)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's health overhaul bill, a top labor lobbyist said.
The ad will state that unions will oppose the measure on the Senate floor unless improvements are made, according to Chuck Loveless, legislative director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
The ad will state, "Real health care reform and nothing less," Loveless said.
Labor has been a major Democratic ally in the health care debate but is unhappy the legislation lacks a publicly run insurance plan and would tax expensive policies in an effort to drive down costs. Officials also want it to prevent insurance companies from refusing to cover some people and to force employers to cover their workers.
The Finance Committee voted Tuesday to approve the bill, the most conservative of five health overhaul bills congressional panels have written this year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to combine it with the Senate health committee's more liberal version and bring it to the full Senate in perhaps two weeks.
Besides AFSCME, sponsors included the AFL-CIO and the Communications Workers of America. The ad will run in The Washington Post, USA Today and Capitol Hill newspapers.
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- Obama administration sets new policy for medical marijuana users -- No name, 10/19/09 3:24pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.
Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws.
The new policy is a significant departure from the Bush administration, which insisted it would continue to enforce federal anti-pot laws regardless of state codes.
Attorney General Eric Holder said in March that he wanted federal law enforcement officials to pursue those who violate both federal and state law, but it has not been clear how that goal would be put into practice.
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- BACK-OFF AND SAY THANK YOU -- WOLF, 10/15/09 1:57pm
This is an interesting take on race relations. One thing always bothers me is if I do not like any one white it is ok but if I dislike a black person I am a bigot. I thought good and bad people were found in each race
WOLF
Watch who you vote for in 2010
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. -Thomas Jefferson
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America . Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard.
And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude???
Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids.? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
We are a Christian Nation even if Mr. Obama says we are not.
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- 69 REASONS TO DISLIKE OBAMA -- WOLF, 10/15/09 10:09pm
1) An empty suit.
2) A man with no birth certificate.
3) A man who was deserted in childhood by his biological father.
4) A man whose birth records, both in the United States and Kenya, are sealed by government order.
5) A man whose childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, spied on U.S. military installations in Hawaii for the Soviet Union, edited a communist newspaper, authored pornographic novels, and wrote poetry in praise of Joseph Stalin.
6) A man mentored by and still supported by radical Muslims.
7) A man who promised transparency in government, but has spent over a million dollars in legal fees hiding information that would determine his eligibility to be President.
8) A former drug user.
9) A man whose academic records are sealed from kindergarten through law school.
10) A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 without enough money to get a hotel room, but one month later flew to Indonesia and Pakistan.
11) Why did he go?
12) Who paid his expenses?
13) A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to do so. So what country's passport did he use?
14) A man whose Law School Admission Test scores and grades at Columbia University are known to have been mediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law School through the intervention of a Saudi named Khalid al – Mansour.
15) A law review editor who never published an article in any law review.
16) A lawyer with no significant accomplishments… in the law and no reputation in the legal community.
17) A former State and U.S. Senator, who never authored a piece of legislation.
18) A disciple of the Marxist, Saul Alinsky.
19) A product of the Chicago political machine, the most corrupt political organization in America .
20) A man who selects Marxists, corrupt politicians, and criminals as his close political associates and personal friends.
21) A man whose presidential candidacy was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the Socialist International, and the Workers International League.
22) A man lauded for the literary brilliance of two memoirs, both of which were ghostwritten by others.
23) A so – called Christian who says that knowing when human life begins is above his pay – grade, but somehow knows that abortion is permissible at any stage.
24) A man who thinks water boarding is immoral, but that partial – birth abortion is moral.
25) A man who publicly laments slavery in America, which was abolished 150 years ago but praises Islam, which still practices both slavery and the sexual mutilation of young girls.
26) A man who speaks endlessly about helping the less fortunate, but gives almost none of his sizable income to charity not even to his half – brother, who is living in a hut in squalor in Kenya.
27) A man who had the most left – wing voting record in the United State Senate, but was predicted by the press to govern from the middle.
28) A Commander – in – Chief who has publicly divulged some of our nations most important intelligence secrets.
29) A man who has been put in charge of the largest economic engine that ever existed, but has never invested in the stock market and admits total ignorance of it.
30) A President who says that science will guide his administration, but has no education in the sciences.
31) A man who is proficient in reading what is written for him on a teleprompter, but jerks and stammers his way through any off – the – cuff speaking.
32) A man whose health records are sealed from childhood to the present day.
33) A man whose educational records are sealed from childhood through law school.
34) A man who spent 20 years in a church whose pastor espouses Marxist Liberation Theology, anti – Americanism, anti – capitalism, and anti – Semitism, but claims he never heard his pastor utter anti – American, and anti – Semitic statements.
35) A man, who added more to the National Debt in 100 days, than all other Presidents did in the past 220 years, yet feels qualified to lecture Americans about fiscal responsibility.
36) A man who publicly expressed disdain for the U.S
Constitution on a Chicago radio station because it limited the governments ability to redistribute wealth.
37) The first American President to bow before a foreign head of state, actually a Muslim dictator.
38) A man who sits and listens submissively while Daniel Ortega a Communist thug whose own daughter accused him of raping her castigates his country.
39) A narcissist who gave the Queen of England a present from the United States —an iPod containing recordings of his own speeches.
40) A so – called Christian who officially declared Pride Month for a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.
41) A man, who wanted Americans to ignore his Muslim name during his election campaign, yet boasts of his Muslim name when he travels to Muslim countries.
42) A man who can name hundreds of Americas shortcomings, yet none of its great accomplishments.
43) A President who claims the moral high ground by closing Gitmo yet supports the transfer of terror suspects to countries where horrific torture is certain.
44) A President who scoffed at being called a socialist yet acted to nationalize the auto industry, the banking industry, and the insurance industry and now seeks to nationalize the health care industry.
45) A President who violates private property rights, the sanctity of contracts, and the rule of law. These three essential principles go back over a thousand years in the Common Law tradition.
46) A man who promised 95% of all Americans a tax cut, but is increasing taxes on 100% of the population through inflation, the cruelest tax of all.
47) A lawyer who represented ACORN an organization now indicted in several states for voter fraud whose stated goal is to get as many people on welfare as possible in order to destroy our financial system.
48) A President who cheated GMs bondholders by giving their property to the UAW in a political payoff.
49) An American President who frequently criticizes his own country when speaking in foreign countries, but never praises America s generosity, goodness, or greatness.
50) A President whose Secretary of the Treasury cheated on his taxes as did several other appointees and advisers.
51) A President who, despite the current federal debt of 100 trillion dollars, wants to add the greatest debt ever by nationalizing health care.
52) A President who scoffs at being called a socialist, yet has appointed 28 Czars to circumvent constitutional government, including:
a) A Science Czar who has advocated compulsory abortions for American women. B) The surrender of sovereignty to a comprehensive Planetary Regime.
53) A self – professed communist as his Green Jobs Czar.
54) A Pay Czar to regulate the pay of corporate executives.
55) A President who swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the United States Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, yet has nominated a domestic enemy of the Constitution to the Supreme Court.
56) A President whose Homeland Security Chief classified pro – lifers, veterans, right – to – bear – arms supporters and supporters of traditional marriage as terrorists.
57) A President who stood silent while the Iranian government hacked unarmed protesters to death with axes, because it was an internal matter, but freely offers his opinions about the internal affairs of Israel and Honduras .
58) A President who decreed that true acts of terrorism must now be described as man – made disasters.
59) A President who cracks hurtful jokes about Special Olympians.
60) A President who refused to intercept or inspect a North Korean ship virtually certain to be carrying Weapons of Mass Destruction to Burma.
61) A President who wants to cancel all missile defenses while rogue nations are developing long – range ballistic missiles.
62) An American President who blames the violence in Mexico on America .
63) A Commander – in – Chief who claims to have been unaware that Air Force One was taken on a terrifying, low – level photo – op over Manhattan .
64) A President who berates American CEOs for flying in private planes at private expense on company business, but whose wife spends hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars flying to Paris for a shopping spree.
65) A President who promised a transparent administration, but requires all questions to be screened before impromptu appearances.
66) A man who freely admitted that his energy policies are designed to bankrupt the American coal industry.
67) A President who has presided over the loss of 14.7 million jobs and whose energy policy will cause the loss of another 1 million jobs.
68) A President whose energy policy will increase the average Americans utility bills by over $2,000 a year in the middle of the Great Recession.
69) A man about whom liberal journalist Tom Brokaw said, There's a lot about him we don't know. . . . Just one week before the election.
The vast majority of Americans do not know who he is, but someone surely does. Someone paid for his travel expenses to Pakistan and Indonesia. Someone engineered legal challenges to all of his election opponents for the State Senate and had them disqualified.
Someone straightened and leveled his path to the U.S. Senate when a Democrat Judge made public the child custody records of his Republican opponent. When he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, someone arranged for him to speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Someone saw to it that all of his records were sealed, both at home and abroad. Someone assembled the massive organization for his run for the Presidency… Someone knows all about him.
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- Imposing your political views -- RR, 10/16/09 7:06am
Have you guyz tried impressing your views on one of the political BLOGS that are out there?Your views,which i might add are not written by you,simply copied from someone else,are not going over very well on this site,seems you 2 butt buddies are the only ones answering each other.......Just a thought....freedom of speech an all.
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- New Shepherd Labor Line -- JB, 10/19/09 8:48am
The new Sheperd Labor Line is 714-277-4323. Call Jose for work.
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- :-) Great President! -- No name, 10/21/09 8:37am
HAHAHAHA!!!
The Dems. are taking your freedoms away faster than you can drape a table... and you love it.
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- Common sense radio... -- No name, 10/21/09 9:30am
Wise up!
Learn something constructive!
Listen to the Prager show...each day...870 AM radio...Monday thru Friday 9 - 12 noon.
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- Welcome Back, Wolf -- Calvin, 10/16/09 6:48am
Missed ya. Where you been? Not another KKK rally with FUX REG?
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- OBAMA A FRIGHTENED MAN -- WOLF, 10/15/09 3:15pm
His early months in office have been "very disappointing."
* Obama is "a frightened man," who won't take on corporate power.
* Obama is "conflict averse" - and a "harmony ideology type," who's being taken advantage of by the sharks in Congress, of both parties.
* He's "Bush-Cheney redux" when it comes to military and foreign policy, "albeit with better speeches" to the Muslim world. Given Obama's handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Nader wonders in amazement: "And they gave him the [Nobel] Peace Prize?"
Nader's main gripe is that Obama has "turned his back on the very people" who voted him into office, imploring the President to invite representatives of consumer, environmental and worker groups to the White House -- "as they elbow their way between the hordes of corporate execs, speculators and criminals that have received invitations there."
Notably, the accompanying interview was conducted prior to reports that Obama has backed away from a campaign promise (threat?) to raise taxes on corporations overseas profits.
Gee, I wonder what Nader would have to say about that...
In all seriousness, if Nader's views of Obama are shared by other progressives and "lefties," his warnings about the Democrats being the minority after the 2010 mid-term elections may very well come to fruition.
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- HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW -- WOLF, 10/15/09 1:52pm
When we get piled
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe ,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas
Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas
Jefferson
It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save
one - half the wars of the world.
Thomas
Jefferson
I predict future happiness for
Americans if they can prevent the
government
from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas
Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much
government.
Thomas
Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred
the use of arms.
Thomas
Jefferson
The strongest reason for the
people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
Thomas
Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
Thomas
Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with
his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'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.'
GOD BLESS AMERICA & GOD BLESS YOU!!!!
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- CONSERVATIVE V.S. LIBERAL -- WOLF, 10/15/09 1:48pm
f a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a person of color is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.
If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended"..
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- President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize -- No name, 10/ 9/09 7:01am
OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama woke up to the news a little before 6 a.m. EDT. The White House had no immediate comment on the announcement, which took the administration by surprise.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided not to inform Obama before the announcement because it didn't want to wake him up, committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said.
"Waking up a president in the middle of the night, this isn't really something you do," Jagland said.
The Nobel Committee lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation but recognized initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," Jagland said.
Obama's election and foreign policy moves caused a dramatic improvement in the image of the U.S. around the world. A 25-nation poll of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found double-digit boosts to the percentage of people viewing the U.S. favorably in countries around the world. That indicator had plunged across the world under President George W. Bush.
Still, the U.S. remains at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress has yet to pass a law reducing carbon emissions and there has been little significant reduction in global nuclear stockpiles since Obama took office.
"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.
"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.
The award appeared to be a slap at Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage.
"You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase," Jagland said. "And anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize."
Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Like the Parliament, the committee has a leftist slant, with three members elected by left-of-center parties. Jagland said the decision to honor Obama was unanimous.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who won the prize in 1984, said Obama's award shows great things are expected from him in coming years.
"It's an award coming near the beginning of the first term of office of a relatively young president that anticipates an even greater contribution towards making our world a safer place for all," Tutu said. "It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama's message of hope."
Until seconds before the award, speculation had focused on a wide variety of candidates besides Obama: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a Colombian senator, a Chinese dissident and an Afghan woman's rights activist, among others. The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize, though it was not immediately apparent who nominated Obama.
"The exciting and important thing about this prize is that it's given to someone ... who has the power to contribute to peace," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.
Obama is the third sitting U.S. president to win the award: President Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 and President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919.
Wilson received the prize for his role in founding the League of Nations, the hopeful but ultimately failed precursor to the contemporary United Nations.
The Nobel committee chairman said after awarding the 2002 prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, for his mediation in international conflicts, that it should be seen as a "kick in the leg" to the Bush administration's hard line in the buildup to the Iraq war.
Five years later, the committee honored Bush's adversary in the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, for his campaign to raise awareness about global warming.
Obama was to meet with his top advisers on the Afghan war on Friday to consider a request by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan as the U.S war there enters its ninth year.
Obama ordered 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan earlier this year and has continued the use of unmanned drones for attacks on militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a strategy devised by the Bush administration. The attacks often kill or injure civilians living in the area.
In July talks in Moscow, Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed that their negotiators would work out a new limit on delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads of between 500 and 1,100. They also agreed that warhead limits would be reduced from the current range of 1,700-2,200 to as low as 1,500. The United States now as about 2,200 such warheads, compared to about 2,800 for the Russians.
But there has been no word on whether either side has started to act on the reductions.
Former Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, said Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.
"In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself," ElBaradei said. "He has shown an unshakeable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts."
Obama also has attempted to restart stalled talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, but just a day after Obama hosted the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, Israeli officials boasted that they had fended off U.S. pressure to halt settlement construction. Moderate Palestinians said they felt undermined by Obama's failure to back up his demand for a freeze.
Nominators for the prize include former laureates; current and former members of the committee and their staff; members of national governments and legislatures; university professors of law, theology, social sciences, history and philosophy; leaders of peace research and foreign affairs institutes; and members of international courts of law.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomed the award on behalf of its founder Nelson Mandela, who shared the 1993 Peace Prize with then-South African President F.W. DeKlerk for their efforts at ending years of apartheid and laying the groundwork for a democratic country.
"We trust that this award will strengthen his commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty," the foundation said.
In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.
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- Obama Wins! -- No name, 10/13/09 2:03pm
BREAKING NEWS: This just in....!!! Obama wins the Heisman Trophy after watching a college football game....!!!
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- The GOP is a "lie factory" -- No name, 10/ 2/09 3:10pm
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) unleashed another verbal tirade against Republicans on Thursday, calling the party a "lie factory" that hoped only to stall the healthcare debate.
Grayson also dismissed calls that he apologize for his remark earlier this week that Republicans' healthcare plan was to "die quickly" -- an allegation that has since invoked the ire of the entire GOP.
"America is sick of you, Republican Party; you're a lie factory, that's all you do," he told MSNBC on Thursday. "Why don't you work together with the Democrats to solve America's problems instead of making stuff up?"
Grayson then called the party a bunch of "no-mongers," and he chided GOP lawmakers for failing to come up with their own healthcare plan in the 48 hours since he first attacked their strategy.
"The people who should be apologizing are the Republicans, they're the ones who should apologize for dragging us all through the mud here while we're just trying to improve healthcare in America," he said. "That's all we're trying to do."
The GOP has since dismissed Grayson's remarks as partisan hackery, and some party members are now calling for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to sanction the congressman for his comments -- much as Democrats rebuked Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for interrupting the president during his address to Congress. But Democrats have grumbled at that suggestion, claiming it is little more than a distraction from the more important debates confronting Congress.
Grayson said Thursday he agreed with that perspective, but he also offered some tough words for his own party, which he said needed to work together to overcome Republicans' stall tactics.
"We've got to get past this point where everything is stalled; where the Republicans are winning just through inertia," he said. "We have a majority, we have to use it."
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- Millions spent by lobby firms fighting Obama health reforms -- No name, 10/ 2/09 4:13am
Six lobbyists for every member of Congress as healthcare industry heaps cash on politicians to water down legislation
America's healthcare industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to block the introduction of public medical insurance and stall other reforms promised by Barack Obama. The campaign against the president has been waged in part through substantial donations to key politicians.
Supporters of radical reform of healthcare say legislation emerging from the US Senate reflects the financial power of vested interests ‑ principally insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms and hospitals ‑ that have worked to stop far-reaching changes threatening their profits.
The industry and interest groups have spent $380 million in recent months influencing healthcare legislation through lobbying, advertising and in direct political contributions to members of Congress. The largest contribution, totalling close to $1.5m, has gone to the chairman of the senate committee drafting the new law.
A former member of Bill Clinton's cabinet says fears that the industry could throw its money behind the populist rightwing backlash against public insurance have scared the Obama White House into pulling back from the most significant reforms in return for healthcare companies not trying to scupper the entire legislation.
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- Republicans want Americans to "die quickly" -- No name, 09/30/09 1:35pm
(AP) — WASHINGTON - Republicans want a Democratic lawmaker to apologize or face a reprimand for saying the GOP wants Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick. They note Democrats' insistence on a similar scolding of a Republican who shouted "You lie!" at President Barack Obama.
Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida has refused to apologize for his remarks on the House floor Tuesday night in which he criticized Republican health care proposals as a "blank piece of paper."
"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: die quickly," he said. "That's right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."
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His remarks weren't spontaneous: He reinforced his point with signs saying the same thing.
Republicans are likening the remarks to Rep. Joe Wilson's widely criticized shout of "You lie!" during Obama's address to Congress earlier this month.
They say Democrats should insist that Grayson apologize just as they insisted Wilson, R-S.C., should.
Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee, drafted a "resolution of disapproval" that mirrors the one Democrats approved against Wilson, saying Grayson's conduct was "a breach of decorum and degraded the integrity and proceedings of the House."
Price said Wednesday afternoon that Republicans would withhold introducing it to give Grayson more time to apologize.
"The American people want open and honest discussion," Price said. "They want respectful discussion."
House Republican leader John Boehner supports Price's efforts, said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner.
Grayson's spokesman has not responded to a request for comment, and Democratic leaders so far have been silent. But behind the scenes, Democratic aides point to comments that Republicans have made in recent weeks alleging that Democratic health care legislation would kill people.
Grayson, a first-term Democrat known for being provocative, represents a Republican-leaning district around Orlando and was already among the GOP's top targets for the 2010 elections.
Ken Spain, spokesman for the House Republican campaign arm, said Democrats should be "lining up to call on him to apologize."
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now has an opportunity to condemn the very behavior and tone of this health care debate that she claims will 'incite violence,'" he said, referring to Democratic concerns that the bitter tone of the health care debate could lead to attacks.
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- U.S. healthcare is the worst -- No name, 09/29/09 6:31am
Canada outshines the United States in health outcomes but is well behind global leaders like Japan in the overall health of its population, a report from the Conference Board of Canada contends.
The annual report card ranks Canada 10th out of 16 developed countries, with a "B" grade.
The United States was the worst performer, placing 16th and earning a "D" grade. Japan was once again the top-ranking country. Switzerland, Italy, and Norway also earned "A" grades.
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- OUTSIDE LOOKIN IN -- WOLF, 09/27/09 2:57pm
Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'.
~ An Ode to America ~
Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
On 9/11, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about.
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic , they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing: 'God Bless America !'
I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.
How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth can unites the Americans in such way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.
Cornel Nistorescu
It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we take for granted!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
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- Obama has brilliant policy on Iran -- No name, 09/27/09 9:23pm
The good news is that President Obama has a brilliant strategy for dealing with Iran. The bad news is that brilliance may not be enough. In a few months he could face the most severe foreign policy crisis a young president has faced since John F. Kennedy stumbled into the Bay of Pigs.
Obama has taken several steps in the past few weeks that show he is thinking strategically about how to defang Iran's nuclear threat. For one thing, Obama is trying to bring Russia on board. By announcing that he has no intention of stationing a nuclear defense system in Eastern Europe, Obama removed a significant impediment to smoother relations with Moscow. In return, he needs Moscow's cooperation in confronting Iran. He already has the support of Britain and Germany. Constructing an alliance capable of implementing tough sanctions against Tehran is the kind of multilateral diplomacy that the Bush administration scorned. Obama doesn't.
Obama's call for a nuclear-free world is also a big plus, one that, among other things, further helps refurbish America's battered image in Europe. At an election rally in Germany, the head of the liberal party, Guido Westerwelle, announced Obama's call for a nuclear-free world almost as soon as he had made it. Obama's focus on the dangers posed by nuclear weapons further exposes Tehran as an anomalous, retrograde power. The regime is on the wrong side of history. It isn't a progressive power, but a backward one that is pursuing a dangerous course that will further isolate it. Obama, after all, wants to strip the mullahs of their moolah by pushing for punitive sanctions.
But if the hardline clerics are intent on obtaining the bomb -- as opposed to the knowledge of how to construct one -- then sanctions won't be enough. Then Obama will be confronted with an Israeli government determined to attack Iranian nuclear sites. And he'll be urged to do it himself by both liberal hawks and neocons back home.
Will Obama be able to carve out some face-saving deal with Iran? Or is he heading into a major crisis? Iraq and Afghanistan may turn out to be sideshows as Obama focuses on the threat from Tehran. But so far, Obama has handled Iran perfectly with a mixture of threats and promises of cooperation.
Barack Obama
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/obamas-shrewd-iran-policy_b_300978.html
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- Bill Clinton Says Right-Wing Conspiracy Now After President Obama -- No name, 09/27/09 7:19pm
Clinton Says Attacks From Right Are Back, But Not as Strong as Before
By KRISTINA WONG
Sept. 27, 2009
Former President Bill Clinton says the right-wing conspiracy that attacked him during his presidency now is after President Obama.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is shown on September 23, 2009.
When asked whether the "vast right-wing conspiracy" is still present today, the former president answered without hesitation, "Oh you bet."
"It's not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically, but it's as virulent as it was," Clinton said today on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Right-wing conspiracy" was the term used by former first lady Hillary Clinton to describe the tactics her husband's political enemies used to attack his presidency after revelations of his affair with Monica Lewinski.
"I mean they may be hurting President Obama," Bill Clinton said of the current attacks. "They can take his numbers down, they can run his opposition up, but fundamentally he and his team have a positive agenda for America. Their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail, and that's not a good prescription for a good America.
Repeat of 1994?
When asked to compare his administration's unsuccessful attempt at health care reform to President Obama's current push, Clinton said the president has been at a "terrible disadvantage in the law-making phase."
"He has a better Congress than I did. And he doesn't have a committee chairman that I had demanding that he present a bill," Clinton said. "So [Obama] said, 'OK, I'll let you develop the bill.' Well, while they're developing the bill, he's set out certain principles and he is vulnerable to whatever anybody wants to say about any of the bills moving through Congress -- whether that's his position or not."
But, Clinton said, the current situation will not lead to a "repeat of 1994", when Democrats lost 15 seats in the House for the first time in 40 years, crippling progress on his administration's agenda. "There's no way they can make it that bad, for several reasons," Clinton said.
For one, he said, "The country is more diverse and interested in positive action.
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- BOOT THE BEANS -- WOLF, 09/26/09 7:41pm
Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Illegals Have Jobs? Immigration Moratorium Now!
One of the President's campaign promises, made often in the Midwestern Rustbelt, was to renegotiate NAFTA. It was a popular policy among hard-hit workers who understand how globalized trade has directly harmed them, since NAFTA sent thousands of jobs to Mexico and turned a moderate trade surplus into a loss. Senator Sherrod Brown estimated that NAFTA caused the loss of 200,000 manufacturing jobs in Ohio alone.
President Obama still plans an amnesty in the near, though unspecific, future, according to threats continuing to burble out of the White House.
That’s despite record unemployment and widespread misery throughout the land.
Obama’s Treason Lobby supporters nag him constantly that he promised to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. So there’s no danger he will be allowed to forget.
We have become so desensitized to Washington’s daily cruelty to average Americans that the systematic displacement of citizens in the workplace is accepted as the norm. Plus, not only is the White House guaranteeing to reward millions of aliens for violating U.S. sovereignty, but legal immigration on auto-pilot continues to dump 125,000 new workers per month into America’s already flooded labor market.
In boom times, captains of industry demanded additional foreign workers and got them. But now, when 15 million Americans are jobless, there is no corresponding reduction.
Why is that? Is there no OFF switch anywhere in Washington? An immigration moratorium, a time-out , would be sensible public policy and would relieve a lot of pain among citizens.
But there is no such legislation in Congress.
Has America drifted into an alternative universe where evil rules? Perhaps traditional citizens have been a little late in finding their voice in townhalls and tea parties.
Interestingly, President Obama understands something of the principle of supply and demand regarding employment—as he demonstrated in his CNN interview broadcast September 20:
“I think we’ll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep pace with a growing population,” the president said. “So if we’re only adding 50,000 jobs, that’s a great reversal from losing 700,000 jobs [a month] early this year—but, you know, it means that we’ve still got a ways to go.” [Obama: Economy probably won't produce enough jobs until 2010]
Among Americans, the economy is the top concern. An August Gallup poll found that 31 percent of workers personally feared losing their job, a new high and double the rate of a year ago. A Harris Poll taken in early September noted that 60 percent of Americans polled gave the President a negative rating on handling the economy.
Yet Washington and the elite media are stuck on healthcare. It’s certainly important and needs fixing. But unemployment is worsening (now at 9.7 percent nationally), and badly so in many regions and job sectors.
In August, 42 states lost jobs (an increase of 29 states from July) with a nationwide total of 216,000 persons laid off.
WE ARE HEADED FOR BARACK-BOTTOM!!!!!!
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- OBAMA LIE....... -- WOLF, 09/26/09 1:16pm
Obama Lie: Stimulus is Pork Free! 7/29/9 The RNC: “And less than one month after taking office, we enacted the most sweeping recovery package in history, and we did so without any of the earmarks, pork-barrel projects that are usually accompanying these big — these big bills.” (Transcript: President Obama Delivers Remarks On Economic Recovery At Town Hall Meeting,? The Washington Post, 7/29/09) REALITY: Pelosi’s Mouse Receives Stimulus Funds. “The tiny mouse that became a hotly disputed symbol of wasteful spending in the congressional debate over the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has returned to pester House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Obama administration quietly announced last week that as much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse.” (S.A. Miller, GOP Slams Stimulus Mouse Money, The Washington Times, 7/9/09)
WE ARE HEADED FOR BARACK-BOTTOM!!!!!!!!
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- DEM"S and YOUR MONEY!! -- WOLF, 09/26/09 1:25pm
ObamaCare Nightmare is a “Dream” for Illegal Aliens! 7/21/9 Obama will be providing free health care to illegal aliens and YOU will be paying for it! From The Obama File and Newsmax: “Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama. The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines.”
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- OBAMA LIE....... -- WOLF, 09/26/09 1:29pm
ObamaCare Press Conference Lie # 1 7/22/9 - Twice during his press conference, Obama lied saying he inherited from President Bush a $1.3-trillion federal budget deficit. Not true. On July 13th, we reported the deficit had just topped $1-trillion for the first time ever. That is Obama’s deficit. Bush never had a deficit anywhere near $1.3-trillion. For Obama to say so is an outright lie. Even the Associated Press noted: “Obama is…proposing a budget that assumes a jaw-dropping deficit of $1.75 trillion this year, a quadruple increase from the year before.” - More fuzzy math from this socialist administration.
WE ARE HEADED FOR BARACK-BOTTOM!!!!!!!
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- OBAMA LIE....... -- WOLF, 09/26/09 1:20pm
Obama to break promise not to raise taxes on the middle class!! 8/2/9 - Fox News: “President Obama may have to break his campaign pledge and raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for public health care and the growing deficit, an eventuality that administration officials touched lightly on Sunday as they promoted an economy emerging from recession…Asked point blank whether it was right to suggest it is a matter of when, not if, taxes will be raised, (Tim the Tax Cheat) Geithner responded, “It is absolutely right.” - - This could be Obama’s Biggest Lie Yet!
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- SAHARH PALIN -- WOLF, 09/26/09 12:49pm
What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin
by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman
As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin
by Dewey Whetsell
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in
Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics
well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the
Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect
the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new
system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES". Exxon (the biggest
corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she
got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as
"pork". She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need
something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use
the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was
extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the
governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning-I imagine-that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed
while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies
with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place
called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No
governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told
them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona.
Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, and look cool. But that's just a
cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other
governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election
and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent
screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what
happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin
by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman
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- Democrats target Overdraft Fees at Banks -- No name, 09/21/09 5:15am
A backlash is brewing on Capitol Hill against banks that charge large fees for overdrafts without asking or telling customers, the latest sign that the financial crisis is shifting the balance of power from banks toward borrowers.
Banks struggling to survive have become increasingly reliant on the fees, which could total $38.5 billion this year.
But congressional Democrats, who pushed through new restrictions on credit cards this spring, now are promising a crackdown on overdraft fees, using words like "criminal" and "rip-off" to describe the practice of letting people overspend and then charging them fees without warning. Most overdrafts are now incurred on debit card transactions.
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) plans to introduce legislation requiring banks to get permission from customers, rather than allowing overdrafts automatically. If customers decline and then try to overspend, the transaction would be rejected. A similar bill is pending in the House.
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- Obama refuses to stop torture investigations -- No name, 09/20/09 9:02pm
Washington - US President Barack Obama rejected on Sunday a request by several former heads of the country's intelligence community to end investigations into the alleged torture of terrorist suspects. Speaking to US broadcaster CNN, Obama said in rejecting the request that no one was above the law.
In addition the US president said that he was not entitled to interfere in an active investigation by justice officials.
The statement came in reference to a letter by seven former heads of the US Central Intelligence Agency to end inquiries into alleged abuse of terrorist suspects allowed under the administration of Obama predecessor George W Bush.
According to the CIA former chiefs, the investigation threatened to interfere with the effective anti-terrorism efforts by the agency and damage the security of the country.
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- Delegates walk out ‘in disgust’ at Palin speech -- No name, 09/23/09 11:22am
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 -- 7:51 am
Questions are prearranged; ‘It was awful,’ one US delegate says
HONG KONG — Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said the US government was wasting taxpayers’ money and could aggravate poverty, said delegates at her first speech outside North America on Wednesday.
Palin, the former governor of Alaska, gave hundreds of financial big-hitters at the CLSA Investors’ Forum in Hong Kong a wide-ranging speech that covered Alaska, international terrorism, US economic policy and trade with China.
Her performance, which was closed to the media, divided opinion.
Some of those who attended praised her forthright views on government social and economic intervention and others walked out early in disgust.
“She was brilliant,” said a European delegate, on condition of anonymity.
“She said America was spending a lot of money and it was a temporary solution. Normal people are having to pay more and more but things don’t get better. The rich will leave the country and the poor will get poorer.”
Two US delegates left early, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer”. He declined to be identified.
Palin, who shot to national and international prominence after Senator John McCain picked her as his running mate last year, stepped down as Alaska governor in July but has provided little insight into her future plans.
She is expected to write a book and has said she will travel the country campaigning for candidates who share her political ideology.
In the CLSA speech, which lasted about 75 minutes, Palin also tackled the recent US trade spat with China, a country she said the United States should have the best possible relationship with.
According to delegates, she said US President Barack Obama’s administration worsened an already difficult situation when earlier this month he slapped duties on Chinese tire imports blamed for costing American jobs.
They said she praised the economic policies of former US President Ronald Reagan and criticised the current administration for intervening too much during the recent financial crisis.
Although she touched on the threat posed to the United States by terrorism and talked about links with traditional US allies in Asia such as Japan, Australia and South Korea, one Asian delegate complained she devoted too much time to her home state of Alaska.
“It was almost more of a speech promoting investment in Alaska,” he said, declining to be named.
“As fund managers we want to hear about the United States as a whole, not just about Alaska. And she criticised Obama a lot but offered no solutions.”
Another said he was disappointed that she took only pre-arranged questions.
There were no apparent gaffes though from Palin, who was mocked during last year’s presidential campaign for her lack of experience in foreign affairs and for her verbal blunders.
Several delegates saw the speech as a sign of her ambitions to run as a presidential candidate in 2012 and a useful indication of the potential direction of US politics in the future.
“It was fairly right-wing populist stuff,’ one US delegate said.
Palin blasted Obama’s proposals on healthcare, reiterating a previous statement made to the press that the plan would include a bureaucratic “death panel” that would decide who gets assistance, he said.
Another from the United States said: “She frightens me because she strikes a chord with a certain segment of the population and I don’t like it.”
CLSA, an arm of French bank Credit Agricole, said it closed Palin’s session to the media after she indicated that she would have to adjust her speech if reporters were present.
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- Ku Klux Klowns -- No name, 09/16/09 6:10am
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Wednesday 15 September 2009
How many white, middle-aged, overweight, pissed-off right-wingers does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
Depends on who you ask.
Organizers for this past weekend's anti-Obama protest in Washington, DC, were slinging around crowd-size estimates of two million people before the curtain was thankfully drawn on the thing, despite the fact that the number was actually in the vicinity of 50,000-70,000. They were in the nation's capitol, so they said, to protest against too much governmental control over the lives of Americans, to protest taxation in general, to screech about birth certificates, to denounce President Obama and to see and be seen amid a throng of fat, white people who look just like them.
Call it a group hug for the demonstrably deranged. But there was more to it than just standard-issue anti-Obama sentiments being aired in the streets. Layered beneath the whole scene was a hard vein of bitter racism the participants didn't even try to hide.
"Packs of taxpayer marchers shuffled down Pennsylvania Avenue proudly waving signs," wrote author and political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson. "'The Long Legged Mack Daddy,' 'Where's the Birth Certificate,' 'Mississippi Freedom Riders,' 'Whoa Boys Take it from Here' (Obama waving to black and Islamic militants). Many defiantly waved Confederate flags and the Texas state flag (separatist movement emblem). Meanwhile, South Carolina senator Jim DeMint, Congresspersons Mike Pence, Phil Gingrey and Marsha Blackburn, and organizer mouthpiece scandal-plagued former House majority leader Dick Armey profusely swore that the march had nothing to do with race, politics, or even President Obama. The racist flags, symbols and signs, though, gave big lie to their profuse denials. Racism was on full and ugly display on the Capitol Mall. No attempt was made to mask it. Some protesters seemed quite proud to openly send a message about race and Obama."
The Agonist blog provided the following sharp analysis of the overall meaning behind the DC protest this weekend: "These teabag parties represent the newly disenfranchised white, rural voter - the backbone of the Republican Party and its southern strategy. The outburst this week by Rep. Joe Wilson, the obscure South Carolina Congressman who called President Obama a liar during his speech to a joint session of Congress, was prompted by Obama's statement that nothing in the healthcare reform package he is proposing would provide care for illegal immigrants. The fear of immigrants is a primal constant in American politics, but since the adoption of the southern strategy, this fear is at its core a racial concern. Immigration in the past 30 years is no longer about poor white people coming from Europe, it's about brown people coming from Mexico. Now that an African-American is president, protests against illegal immigrants can be a respectable way for people to say what is really on their mind - they cannot accept a black person as president."
Amusing aside regarding Representative Wilson and his rude outburst: "In 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants' health care. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants. The program has been extended through 2009 and there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to make it permanent."
Well, nobody said you have to be smart in order to become a hero to the far right. In fact, it helps to be dumber than a sack of hair, if only to match wits with the kind of people who were marching this weekend holding signs that read "Bury Obamacare With Kennedy." Stay classy, GOP.
To be fair, not everyone in the Republican Party was thrilled with the nauseating display of hatred and unabashed racism in DC this weekend. Several of the GOP's leading lights have raised deep concerns about the party being overtaken by these insane idiots. "Such insiders point to theories running rampant on the Internet," reported The Los Angeles Times on Monday, "such as the idea that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus ineligible to be president, or that he is a communist, or that his allies want to set up Nazi-like detention camps for political opponents. Those theories, the insiders say, have stoked the GOP base and have created a "purist" climate in which a figure such as Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) is lionized for his 'You lie!' outburst last week when Obama addressed Congress. They are 'wild accusations and the paranoid delusions coming from the fever swamps,' said David Frum, a conservative author and speechwriter for President George W. Bush who is among the more vocal critics of the party base and of the conservative talk show hosts helping to fan the unrest. 'Like all conservatives, I am concerned about this administration's accumulation of economic power,' Frum said. 'Still, you have to be aware that there's a line where legitimate concerns begin to collapse into paranoid fantasy.'"
Frum was being nice, actually, because he knows better than anyone what took place in Washington this weekend. It was a Klan rally minus the bedsheets and torches. These people don't even have enough shame to hide their faces anymore. If more Republicans like Frum don't come forward to denounce such activities from their right flank, that right flank is going to finish the job of taking over the GOP, and hard as it is to believe, this kind of obnoxious craziness is going to seem quaint by comparison to what will be coming next.
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- Wilson to Obama "YOU LIE" -- WOLF, 09/13/09 9:28am
Rep. Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, figured out a way to get the proper light shown on Obama's big lie about the back-door scheme to get 6-12 million illegal aliens covered by the extremely risky Obamacare boondoggle...
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Wilson shouted “you lie” at a point in the speech when Obama said his plan to extend insurance coverage “would not apply to those who are here illegally.”
It's wonderful that 1 person in Congress has the cajones to call it the way it is and focus the spotlight on this extremely detrimental proposal that will saddle the legal American tax payers with a $30-$60 billion dollar bill to pay for services for the foreign invaders in our country, when they should just be shipped back to wherever they came from after illegaly crossing our borders.
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- Many Employers to Raise Cost of Health Benefits, Survey Finds -- No name, 09/15/09 11:31pm
By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Though Americans who already have medical coverage may be wary of change, a new survey indicates that they may be hard-pressed to escape it -- even in the absence of health-care reform. As businesses contend with rising costs, many workers face an erosion of health benefits next year, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust.
Forty percent of employers surveyed said they are likely to increase the amount their workers pay out of pocket for doctor visits. Almost as many said they are likely to raise annual deductibles and the amount workers pay for prescription drugs.
Nine percent said they plan to tighten eligibility for health benefits; 8 percent said they plan to drop coverage entirely. Forty-one percent of employers said they are "somewhat" or "very" likely to increase the amount employees pay in premiums -- though that would not necessarily mean employees would pay a higher percentage of the premiums. Employers could simply be passing along the same share of the overall increase that they are doing this year.
The authors of the study said the findings underscore the need for federal action to rein in costs.
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- THE TRUTH HURTS -- WOLF, 09/13/09 12:23pm
by Fred Reed
Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers.
Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the things his
editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His stuff is
iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended everyone,
regardless of political orientation.
On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American
Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks.
It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of
other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill, huh?
I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be patient.
You want free money because of slavery, right? I don't blame you. I'd like
free money too. Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a
million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every year
you were a slave. Fair enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose
I have? In round numbers, I mean...say to the nearest dozen. And how long
were you a slave?
Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do
and didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday
cake. Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do
and never happened to me. I've never been coated in Dutch Chocolate and
thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet you've never done it to anyone. I
want reparations. Kind of silly, isn't it?
But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that runs in
two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites did to
some other blacks in another century?
How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by
blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in my
country. Cities are expensive, Hank. Build one sometime and you'll see
what I mean. Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You
can send me a check. Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like
the verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't like the
verdict in the O. J. Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my house and loot
Korean grocers, or burn down a city.
Over the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark, Detroit
, Watts, on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare
in all its forms, the cost of all of those police calls people had to make,
cells and jails and security systems in department stores. I can't live in
the capital city of my own country because of crime committed by blacks.
Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in everything for the
benefit of blacks. See what I mean?
Now, I'd view things differently if you said to me, "Fred, blacks can't get
anywhere in a modern country without education. We know that. We need
better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller
pictures and bigger words. Can you help us?"
I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's sell an
aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the
economic main-stream.' I'd say it's partly because it would be the right
thing to do, and partly because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.
The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for blacks to study
and learn to compete and stop burning places. But is it going to happen?
You may not believe it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing blacks as
miserable and screwed up as they are.
I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those places are ugly. It's
no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers who
barely speak English. It just plain ain't right. But, Hank, what am I
supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At some
point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get done.
Maybe it's time.
I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank. I think Blacks are too
accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it. True, it has
worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in the street,
implicitly threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and sadly the
'Great White Cash Spigot' turns on.
Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that what
once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game. Few people
still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks.
Political correctness keeps the lid on, but everyone knows the score, which
scares me, Hank.
On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and burning.
(The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement.
Ever think about that?) On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and
wearier of it. Not good, Hank.
On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), blacks
keep demanding things. As I write, you demand reparation for slavery.
Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money for some ancient race riot.
Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence. Blacks in New York
hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand the
elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity
apparatus, which means blacks want to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring
non-existent black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month,
Hank.
What happens if whites ever say, "No"?
Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you can
hoot and holler about what swine and bandits whites are. I guess it's lots
of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot. But don't you think you might
do blacks more good if you told them to complain less and study more?
For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach
might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital
design, not Black Studies (as you teach). That's how everybody else does
it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions
would decline. Sound like a plan?
Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of Afro-American
Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor black kids to study
real-life sho-nuf subjects?
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- Obama speaks with union members -- No name, 09/15/09 6:49am
WASHINGTON (AP) - Going before groups of autoworkers and union members, President Barack Obama is trying Tuesday to assure blue-collar audiences that the economy is coming back - and that his administration deserves credit for saving some of their jobs.
Obama is scheduled to meet with workers at the General Motors Lordstown assembly plant near Youngstown, Ohio, where GM recently was able to start a second production line because of demand prompted by the federal Cash for Clunkers program.
Later, the president addresses the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, where he will urge the nation's largest labor union to support his health care overhaul.
"We didn't come here (to Washington) just to respond to crises; we came here to address America's prosperity in the future, and I think that's what he'll outline," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday, previewing the president's message.
Obama planned to leave Washington early Tuesday morning for a quick trip to the Lordstown plant, in the economically depressed Mahoning Valley in northeastern Ohio. He is expected to tell a crowd of GM workers that Washington programs are putting workers back on the job.
Demand from the temporary Cash for Clunkers program - which offered up to $4,500 for drivers to trade in gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient models - allowed GM to restart a second shift at the Lordstown plant, bringing about 1,000 people back to work making the compact Chevrolet Cobalt.
Next year, the Lordstown plant will start building the Chevrolet Cruze, another compact vehicle.
In Pittsburgh, Gibbs said, Obama planned to tell AFL-CIO members how his health care proposals would help repair an economy that is inching toward double-digit unemployment.
The events are designed to be heavy on working-class appeal in hopes of boosting the White House's credentials with the middle-class voters so crucial to the president's economic agenda.
Obama wraps up his daylong trip at a fundraiser for Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter in Philadelphia. He is expected to tell donors that Specter, who earlier this year switched from the GOP to the Democratic party, is crucial for pushing through a White House agenda that seems to have lost steam in recent weeks.
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- GEORGE BUSH BAD ???? -- WOLF, 09/12/09 1:45pm
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush said he visited all 57 States would you have slammed him for being stupid?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as "proof" of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on "Earth Day", would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually "get" what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.
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- OBAMA IGNORING WILL OF PEOPLE -- WOLF, 09/13/09 9:23am
President Barack Obama’s “horrible overreach” and his “enormous expansion of government, government control, government cost” are the major motives for Saturday’s taxpayer march on Washington, says former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.
“So what we’re saying today is, 'We’re back again.' We will be on the streets of Washington, D.C.,” Armey tells Newsmax.TV. His non-profit organization, FreedomWorks, is the national sponsor of the event.
“This is a day of unity for people who love freedom. People understand that the government is best if the government will restrict itself to its essential activities and do these things well and stay out of other people’s business and control its growth,” Armey says.
PLEASE PUT THE KOOL-AID DOWN!!!!!!!!!!
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- Obama to have 'real hard time' with liberals if he drops public option -- No name, 09/ 7/09 9:46am
President Obama will encounter difficulties wrangling together liberal members of his own party on issues if he abandons the public option, one Democratic congresswoman warned Sunday.
"He's going to have a real hard time with us," Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said during an interview on MSNBC when asked if Democrats would "abandon" him.
Clarke said she expects the president to flex some political muscle Wednesday night during a speech to a joint session of Congress, where he's expected to detail his priorities for healthcare reform.
There have been varying signs about where, if at all, Obama will come down on the public (or "government-run") option, as liberal Democrats have expressed growing dissatisfaction about the president's handling of healthcare.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), for instance, has continued to warn against dropping the public option, accusing Obama of not having led members of his own party in support of the controversial provision.
Clarke said the public option is the only plan that would genuinely affect costs.
"The only thing that drives that down is a public option," she explained. "In my constituency, they understand what that means, they understand that's not a government takeover...it is the one thing we can actually do to bring reform to healthcare."
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- Heavy? -- No name, 09/10/09 8:43pm
Can't we all just Lighten up.
I need to either slash my wrists or wear my rainbow tutu!!
Iwasn't at that Longg Beach March
That was a secret.
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- Labor Day March -- Calvin (Excited), 09/ 5/09 9:43am
Anyone going to meet me for the Labor Day March in Wilmington on Monday at 11:00 A.M.? I will be waving to the crowds in support of our GREAT Teamsters Local 986! We all need to show our pride in being a UNION worker! Look for me, UXReg and No Name. Hope I see you both. We can eat a hot dog together. I won't be hard to find.
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