Obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded)) American Thinker
That's the evil cop that's actually HELPING Obama's handicapped friend.... Pretty telling isn't it.
Friday, July 31
The picture you don't see
Obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded)) American Thinker
That's the evil cop that's actually HELPING Obama's handicapped friend.... Pretty telling isn't it.
Happy Birthday
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Chris Dodd has a chance to show he is behind Obama's theory
According to news reports, he has just been diagnosed with cancer, but he is so old, you know, there is no reason to take any extraordinary measures to save his life. It would be a waste. Step up to the plate, Chris. Start the ball rolling. Get Hospice counseling. Lead by example.
Challenge your fellow law-makers to do the same.
Challenge your fellow law-makers to do the same.
They're killing us out here
◼ Town halls gone wild
Legislators can ignore and denigrate the Tea Parties, but they cannot do the same with people who come to confront them in Town Hall meetings. Obama's carefully crafted talking points, soundbites and platitudes don't hold up well in the light of day. Reality is biting the "Representatives" in the ass.
Why can't you read the bill before you sign it? Do you even know what you voted for? That's just the beginning of the questions designed to get them to understand how their reckless actions affect the people on the ground, the people they are supposed to be looking out for and protecting.
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.
On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control....
These aren't the leftist-friendly enviro groups - these are real people. And the ground is shifting. Our legislators, our "representatives' have alot to answer for.
Looks like, reading the article, you can expect Town Hall Meetings to disappear from the landscape.
Legislators can ignore and denigrate the Tea Parties, but they cannot do the same with people who come to confront them in Town Hall meetings. Obama's carefully crafted talking points, soundbites and platitudes don't hold up well in the light of day. Reality is biting the "Representatives" in the ass.
Why can't you read the bill before you sign it? Do you even know what you voted for? That's just the beginning of the questions designed to get them to understand how their reckless actions affect the people on the ground, the people they are supposed to be looking out for and protecting.
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.
On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control....
These aren't the leftist-friendly enviro groups - these are real people. And the ground is shifting. Our legislators, our "representatives' have alot to answer for.
Looks like, reading the article, you can expect Town Hall Meetings to disappear from the landscape.
Pepper Spray it wasn't, but it might as well have been
◼ Police called on retirees at senator's LA office
Look Diane, it's the same deal as with the pepper-sprayed protestors all those years ago - IT IS NOT YOUR OFFICE. IT IS THE PEOPLE'S OFFICE. If they come and say they will sit there until you see them, offer them cookies. Don't call the cops.
To quote Diane, "unfortunate, unnecessary and unhelpful."
Police were called on a group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform. sfgate
Look Diane, it's the same deal as with the pepper-sprayed protestors all those years ago - IT IS NOT YOUR OFFICE. IT IS THE PEOPLE'S OFFICE. If they come and say they will sit there until you see them, offer them cookies. Don't call the cops.
To quote Diane, "unfortunate, unnecessary and unhelpful."
Thursday, July 30
CLUNK
AP sources: Govt to suspend 'cash for clunkers' ◼ The one program that really COULD stimulate the economy...
"This is simply the most stimulative $1 billion the federal government has spent during the entire economic downturn," Miller said Thursday. "The federal government must come up with more money, immediately, to keep this program going."
◼ Government Suspends 'Clunkers' Program
At Current Rate, Giving Out $3,500 Or $4,500 Per Vehicle Would Burn Through $1 Billion Allocated In No Time
NYC Car Dealers: How Could Obama Administration Mess This Up?
It may have been the best $1 billion the government has spent so far this year.
"People are loving it. It's wonderful. It's a great stimulus package," salesman Andy Beloff said.
"If they can't administer a program like this, I'd be a little concerned about my health insurance," car salesman Rob Bojaryn said.
◼ The Clunker Clunker. Althouse
"This is simply the most stimulative $1 billion the federal government has spent during the entire economic downturn," Miller said Thursday. "The federal government must come up with more money, immediately, to keep this program going."
◼ Government Suspends 'Clunkers' Program
At Current Rate, Giving Out $3,500 Or $4,500 Per Vehicle Would Burn Through $1 Billion Allocated In No Time
NYC Car Dealers: How Could Obama Administration Mess This Up?
It may have been the best $1 billion the government has spent so far this year.
"People are loving it. It's wonderful. It's a great stimulus package," salesman Andy Beloff said.
"If they can't administer a program like this, I'd be a little concerned about my health insurance," car salesman Rob Bojaryn said.
◼ The Clunker Clunker. Althouse
"our best-trained journalists will lose their jobs.”
C'mon, Dan - you of all people should know why. Honest to God.
◼ Dan Rather wants Obama to help save the news aspendailynews
You mean ◼ 600 covers of Obama on TIME Magazine can't save journalism? Hint: UR doin ir rong.
Today's links
◼ The One Trillion Dollar Question Ed Driscoll
◼ Finally The Nation Is Having A Serious Debate On Health Care Costs Strata-sphere
◼ Healthcare, not race, needs the “teaching moment” Roger L. Simon
◼ Far Left Dem on Obamacare Quagmire: "The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost"
◼ Fatal Conceit - Why support for Obamacare is dropping.
◼ Finally The Nation Is Having A Serious Debate On Health Care Costs Strata-sphere
◼ Healthcare, not race, needs the “teaching moment” Roger L. Simon
While Iranians battle for democracy in the streets and Hondurans try to hold back a wannabe Chavez, here in the US of A we’re going to have a “teaching moment” on race that I can’t believe anybody wants other than, perhaps, Barack Obama, Henry Lewis Gates and some pathetic nostalgics in the media who still think it’s 1972....
◼ Far Left Dem on Obamacare Quagmire: "The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost"
◼ Fatal Conceit - Why support for Obamacare is dropping.
...His constant drumbeat that failure to act now will produce catastrophic results is more indicative of presidential hubris than sound legislative strategy....
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◼ Rasmussen
◼ New poll is bad, bad news for Obama, Democrats Washington Examiner ◼ via Lucianne
◼ O-Bomba Poll Crash! Strata-sphere
◼ WEIGH IN! YOU RATE OBAMA
Wednesday, July 29
Rep. Cooper has taught health care policy at Vanderbilt University for 12 years.
And he is one of the Blue Dog Democrats who is calling BS on Obamacare.
◼ Health Care, A 'Blue Dog Democrat's' View
◼ LISTEN
◼ Update: Blue Dogs Lose Their Bite...Who Can Stop ObamaCare? Pajamas TV
Well what's this then?
Obama's made alot of hay claiming that Bush lowered respect for the US around the world.
Facing the first real rough patch of his presidency, President Obama and his supporters are once again resorting to a tried-and-true tactic: attacking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.... Although Mr. Obama's effort is subtle, his rhetoric is clear. On his first trip overseas, Mr. Obama referred to Mr. Bush's foreign policy and said the United States has "shown arrogance" and been "dismissive, even derisive." He said decisions of the past had "lowered our standing in the world." ◼ Washington Times
Well - OK then - Funny, it seems the opposite is true, and story after story shows the rest of the world actively SHOWING their DISRESPECT for Obama.
h/t: ◼ LGF2
◼ Obama shouldn’t bash Bush; he should fire Rahm Emanuel Roger L Simon
Tuesday, July 28
Two questions:
1. If Obama is serious about the idea that old people should just lay down and die, and no "extraordinary" measures should be taken to save their lives - then - why doesn't he - and the other Dems who support him, ask Ted Kennedy to forego all the "extraordinary" measures being taken to save and prolong his life? In fact, as a gesture of good faith, why doesn't Kennedy voluntarily refuse all treatment from here on out?
2. If the "Community Organizer" party is so hell-bent on telling people what to eat, why don't they write it into the Food Stamp program that Food Stamps can only be used to buy 'healthy' food - vegies, no red meat, no trans fats, no chips, no crackers, no sodas, no salt...? It's be a good test, to see how it would fly.
2. If the "Community Organizer" party is so hell-bent on telling people what to eat, why don't they write it into the Food Stamp program that Food Stamps can only be used to buy 'healthy' food - vegies, no red meat, no trans fats, no chips, no crackers, no sodas, no salt...? It's be a good test, to see how it would fly.
Monday, July 27
"When you rush these things that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in 'em..."
...RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen....
◼ A heretofore "unknown" 2004 interview with Barack Obama by leftwing radio host Randi Rhodes... Newsbusters
"...it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation..."
◼ Another “that was then, this is now” moment – with Barack Obama SisterToldjah
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen....
◼ A heretofore "unknown" 2004 interview with Barack Obama by leftwing radio host Randi Rhodes... Newsbusters
"...it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation..."
◼ Another “that was then, this is now” moment – with Barack Obama SisterToldjah
Moving?
H/t: HotAir via Iam ◼ Must see: Cambridge cop says she won’t vote for Obama again after Gatesgate
And man, this is CNN. h/t: iam
AND - Gates is amending his taxes now that he has been caught. Once again, Obama is building the treasury.
Sunday, July 26
Reporters didn't raise their hands
Obama took questions from seven reporters during the conference. A video of the media event clearly shows a well-orchestrated conference, with all seven reporters first being pre-selected by the White House to ask questions, although the reporters may not have known they were chosen.
Obama is seen calling each reporter by name from a piece of paper, prompting the journalists to ask his or her one question. Reporters not first called upon do not attempt to ask Obama any questions. Sweet is the last reporter called on by Obama.
In the video, Sweet actually is filmed standing up with a microphone in her hand, preparing to ask Obama a question before she is even called upon and while Obama is still answering the previous question. Clearly, Sweet was handed the microphone by someone in the room.
This was the first time Sweet was granted a question from Obama at any of his presidential press conferences. Asking a question about Gates at an event focused on health care seems remote to some. Although Sweet may have known Obama had a relationship with Gates, the question remains how she would have known Obama was updated on the particulars of the Gates case and why she asked such a tangential question.
◼ Did White House plant Gates affair? Questions abound on genesis of national race controversy RBO
image swiped from RAPH
Only two possible scenarios - it was deliberate on Obama's part - and orchestrated - or, she actually threw him a curve ball by accident and he went off script, acted like he was having a beer with his buds and revealed his true self.
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 29% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. That’s the first time his ratings have reached double digits in negative territory
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Saturday, July 25
Althouse notes "The Gates story may enlarge..." w/update
◼ ... in a direction other than the one Gates favors.
and links to this story:
◼ A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' "Bogus" Charity?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates' employees and Harvard colleagues. Also, as recently as September 2008, the Boston Globe reported that Gates' charity was not in compliance with the law for failing to register the proper paperwork, despite the charity existing since 2005. The charge at the time was that it was "bogus," as you'll see below. In fact, the state Attorney General's office told the Globe the charity was likely either inactive, or dissolved. Yet, documents below show the charity is healthy, wealthy and active....
...Harvard does own the home in which Gates lives. But it's also the address for his charity...
...Gates uses Harvard (12 Quincy St.) as his home address on the charity paperwork, as opposed to the same one as his charity, which is where he actually lives and was at when the recent police incident took place.... ...lots more there.
Does Obama have any friends who AREN'T shady?
Update: Obama thinks this s a "teacable moment" and now ◼ Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest
In an e-mail to the Boston Globe late Friday, he said: "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience."
and links to this story:
◼ A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' "Bogus" Charity?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates' employees and Harvard colleagues. Also, as recently as September 2008, the Boston Globe reported that Gates' charity was not in compliance with the law for failing to register the proper paperwork, despite the charity existing since 2005. The charge at the time was that it was "bogus," as you'll see below. In fact, the state Attorney General's office told the Globe the charity was likely either inactive, or dissolved. Yet, documents below show the charity is healthy, wealthy and active....
...Harvard does own the home in which Gates lives. But it's also the address for his charity...
...Gates uses Harvard (12 Quincy St.) as his home address on the charity paperwork, as opposed to the same one as his charity, which is where he actually lives and was at when the recent police incident took place.... ...lots more there.
Does Obama have any friends who AREN'T shady?
Update: Obama thinks this s a "teacable moment" and now ◼ Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest
In an e-mail to the Boston Globe late Friday, he said: "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this experience."
Obama "could" have taken lessons from this guy
◼ Amazon CEO apologizes for deleting Orwell books Breitbart
Now THAT is an apology. No parsing. No "depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
◼ Fisking the Obama “apology” neoneocon
and on Althouse:
◼ The Gates story may enlarge...
links to this story:
◼ A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' "Bogus" Charity?
"Our 'solution' to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles," Bezos wrote.
"It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we've received," he said. "We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission."
Now THAT is an apology. No parsing. No "depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
◼ Fisking the Obama “apology” neoneocon
and on Althouse:
◼ The Gates story may enlarge...
links to this story:
◼ A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' "Bogus" Charity?
Friday, July 24
Stupidly digging the hole deeper
Says he wants to "share a beer with Crowley and Gates at the White House."
◼ Obama Seeks to Clarify 'Stupidly' Comment, Praises White Policeman FOX
◼ Black officer at Gates home during arrest said scholar acted strange, supports arrest Chicago Tribune
◼ 911, police tapes key in Gates case Boston herald
◼ "I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back at reporters, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken." Politico
◼ Obama talks to us about talking to Sgt. Crowley. Althouse
◼ Breaking: Cambridge Police Unit Demands Apology From Obama (Video)...Update: Doctors Want An Apology Too! Gateway Pundit
◼ Pulling a Gates Baracksteleprompter
◼ Obama and those stupid Cambridge police neoneocon
◼ “Look! A puppy!” – Stupid police provide convenient distraction from Obama’s horrible health care “reform” theblackcommenter
◼ Cute puppy turns into angry Dog and nips at president’s heels theblackcommenter
And so, it's all about him. Pressure is off the health care debate.
Mystery solved?
◼ Drifter linked to unsolved beach slayings
SAN FRANCISCO (Two couples fatally shot more than 30 years apart while camping in different countries may have been victims of the same man: a drifter who authorities say was a religious zealot and disapproved of relationships between unmarried couples.
Joseph Henry Burgess, 62, who died in a July 16 shootout with New Mexico sheriff's deputies, had been wanted in Canada as a suspect in the 1972 murders of two university students on a Vancouver Island beach, and may be linked to more killings.
Investigators in Sonoma County, Calif., wanted to talk to him. The fatal shootings of two camp counselors whose bodies were found on a Jenner beach in 2004 bore a striking resemblance to the crime up north.
But Burgess' nomadic lifestyle had kept his whereabouts a mystery.
"Entitlements are well over 50 percent of every dollar the federal government spends this year and are going straight up."
◼ Feinstein deals Obama's health care reform a death blow Examiner
◼ Despite Obama's health pitch Miami Herald
Finally! Acting like a Statesmanwoman! And for that, she gets targeted by Obama's bogus groups... creations of Fenton Communications, no doubt:
◼ Obama allies target Feinstein, Conrad
◼ Why is Dianne Feinstein Really Poo-Pooing Obama's Public Option? alternet (the spin begins... discredit Feinstein, suddenly they care that she has money, never mattered about John Kerry's money or Edward's money or Soros' money...)
◼ New Regular Feature: Who is Obama Bullying Today ? Yid With Lid
Good for you, Diane Feinstein.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been the canary in the mineshaft for major Democrat policy issues. Her recent comments insure that health care reform -- as envisioned by the President -- is essentially dead on arrival.
"I'm concerned that there not be another entitlement," Feinstein said. "Entitlements are well over 50 percent of every dollar the federal government spends this year and are going straight up. If you add more entitlements, it's a problem." (SF Chronicle)
With a $1.8 trillion Federal deficit likely this fiscal year, the senator from San Francisco is voicing the concerns of the blue dog democrats who have warned all along that you can 't have reform it stresses further a budget dangerously out of control.
◼ Despite Obama's health pitch Miami Herald
"All the talk is how much we need health care reform. We all agree on that. The problem is how to do it and how to pay for it," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. "That needs to be laid out in crystal clear language."
Asked if Obama did that Wednesday night, Feinstein emphatically said, "No."
Finally! Acting like a States
◼ Obama allies target Feinstein, Conrad
Health Care for America Now and AFSCME are back up with this ad, in an $800,000 buy in 9 states.
Most of the targets are Blue Dogs in the House -- but it's also targeting Dianne Feinstein.
◼ Why is Dianne Feinstein Really Poo-Pooing Obama's Public Option? alternet (the spin begins... discredit Feinstein, suddenly they care that she has money, never mattered about John Kerry's money or Edward's money or Soros' money...)
◼ New Regular Feature: Who is Obama Bullying Today ? Yid With Lid
Good for you, Diane Feinstein.
Interesting reads
◼ How It Was Created - What It Has Become The Minority Report
◼ Health Care: Health Insurance vs. Socialized Health Care ZinOwl
◼ Subprime Mortgage Myths The Confluence
◼ RHETORIC V. REALITY: HEALTH CARE BY ORWELL Dick Morris
◼ "Obama's Fate Depends on Perot's Voters National Journal
◼ Health Care: Health Insurance vs. Socialized Health Care ZinOwl
◼ Subprime Mortgage Myths The Confluence
◼ RHETORIC V. REALITY: HEALTH CARE BY ORWELL Dick Morris
◼ "Obama's Fate Depends on Perot's Voters National Journal
To the Democratic Party's progressive base, he looked like the Ted Kennedy of 1980: a liberal lion who could lead progressives out of the wilderness and banish conservatism to outer darkness. "Change," to the base, meant replacing right-wing ideology with left-wing ideology. Independents, by contrast, thought "change" meant transcending ideology. They saw in Obama something like the Ross Perot of 1992: an unconventional reformer who would put partisanship aside, fix broken politics, replace stale old ideas with fresh new ones, cure the common cold, and so on.
Thursday, July 23
Take the blue pill
"If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?" -- President Obama
In last night's press conference, President Obama seemed to be reliving that famous scene from The Matrix. The main character is offered a choice between a red pill that makes him see reality for what it is, and a blue pill that allows him to continue living in a pleasant world of illusions.
Last night, President Obama appeared to have taken the blue pill before his press conference.
◼ Take the red pill, Mr. President Washington Examiner
Wednesday, July 22
"we rescued the economy"
Yep, it's all fixed now.
◼ White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The New York Times
◼ Boehner to the White House: I Don't Believe the Economy Has Been Rescued Not so fast.
Where Global Warming comes from....
◼ Government monopsony distorts climate science, says SPPI
The Science and Public Policy Institute announces the publication of Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing that the federal Government has a near-monopsony on climate science funding. This distorts the science towards self-serving alarmism. Key findings:
► The US Government has spent more than $79 billion of taxpayers’ money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, propaganda campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Most of this spending was unnecessary.
► Despite the billions wasted, audits of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of “global warming” theory and to compete with a lavishly-funded, highly-organized climate monopsony. Major errors have been exposed again and again.
► Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks, which profit most, are calling for more. Experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion in the near future. Hot air will soon be the largest single commodity traded on global exchanges.
There's more...
The Science and Public Policy Institute announces the publication of Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing that the federal Government has a near-monopsony on climate science funding. This distorts the science towards self-serving alarmism. Key findings:
► The US Government has spent more than $79 billion of taxpayers’ money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, propaganda campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Most of this spending was unnecessary.
► Despite the billions wasted, audits of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of “global warming” theory and to compete with a lavishly-funded, highly-organized climate monopsony. Major errors have been exposed again and again.
► Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks, which profit most, are calling for more. Experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion in the near future. Hot air will soon be the largest single commodity traded on global exchanges.
There's more...
The great obstacle to Middle East peace
is not that Jews insist on living among Arabs. It is that Arabs insist that Jews not live among them. If Obama doesn't yet grasp that, he has a lot to learn. ◼ Barack Obama-> Jim Crow Segregationist
Yid With Lid
Yid With Lid
Strawman Bingo for TOTUS's Speech Tonight
◼ National Review h/t: skep
◼ Exposed: A trial lawyers’ pay-off in Obamacare
…The language slipped into the health bill would greatly expand the scope of these suits against third parties, while doing something entirely new, namely allow freelance lawyers to file them on behalf of the government–without asking permission–and collect rich bounties if they manage thereby to extract money from the defendants. Lawyers will recognize this as a “qui tam” procedure, of the sort that has led to a growing body of litigation filed by freelance bounty hunters - squashed by the Republicans, the only defenders of the people at this point. h/t: R2
'You're going to destroy my presidency.'
◼ Dems Start To Push Back Hard To Prevent A 'Waterloo' National Journal
◼ Senator: Democrats 'baffled' by president's health care stance Political Ticker
◼ Romney on Obama's Push for Health-Care Reform: Slow Down Newsweek
◼ Obama hits at healthcare ‘scare’ tactics Financial Times
◼ The fear-mongerer-in-chief Michelle Malkin
...the fear-mongerer-in-chief can’t seem to help himself....
That's a bit ironic, him accusing others of scare tactics. He is the one who has said the entire economy will fail if they don't pas his bill RIGHT NOW - without reading it or considering it or debating it.
He is the one who has activated his stormtroopers to crush any dissenting thought. He is the one using scare tactics.
Your issues are your own.
A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator's comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth.
◼ Senator: Democrats 'baffled' by president's health care stance Political Ticker
As the prospects for passing health reform by the time Congress leaves for its August recess look bleaker, Democratic grumbling about President Obama is growing louder. One Democratic senator tells CNN congressional Democrats are “baffled,” and another senior Democratic source tells CNN members of the president’s own party are still “frustrated
◼ Romney on Obama's Push for Health-Care Reform: Slow Down Newsweek
◼ Obama hits at healthcare ‘scare’ tactics Financial Times
◼ The fear-mongerer-in-chief Michelle Malkin
...the fear-mongerer-in-chief can’t seem to help himself....
That's a bit ironic, him accusing others of scare tactics. He is the one who has said the entire economy will fail if they don't pas his bill RIGHT NOW - without reading it or considering it or debating it.
He is the one who has activated his stormtroopers to crush any dissenting thought. He is the one using scare tactics.
Your issues are your own.
Tuesday, July 21
"No one wants to tell the speaker that she's moving too fast and they damn sure don't want to tell the president,"
so says Rep. CharlesRangel, D-N.Y., a key committee chairman, told a fellow lawmaker as the two walked into a closed-door meeting. The remark was overheard by reporters. Democrats divided on health care overhaul
Rangel said Obama had called the chairman’s meeting “to show that he’s in charge.” House and Senate Democratic leaders and relevant committee heads met with the president last week as well.
link
Rangel said Obama had called the chairman’s meeting “to show that he’s in charge.” House and Senate Democratic leaders and relevant committee heads met with the president last week as well.
link
Zero sum game
◼ ...his efforts to twist arms have hit the panic level and still are not working, Strata-sphere
◼ The president told five governors last month to avoid the term “rationing,” since it might give away the game.
...The death of a teenager is a greater tragedy than the death of an 85-year-old, and this should be reflected in our priorities. We can accommodate that difference by calculating the number of life-years saved, rather than simply the number of lives saved. If a teenager can be expected to live another 70 years, saving her life counts as a gain of 70 life-years, whereas if a person of 85 can be expected to live another 5 years, then saving the 85-year-old will count as a gain of only 5 life-years.”... HumanEvents
◼ Governors Balk at Obama Health Plan - “the mother of all unfunded mandates.” (Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee) Heritage
◼ Jindal says "plan is likely to drive up unemployment and federal debt and will force most Americans into a government-run health program." FOX
◼ Obama Ally Throws Cold Water On Health Care Huffington Post
◼ In a meeting last week with five governors — including Republicans who may be more sympathetic to health legislation than those on Capitol Hill — Mr. Obama privately urged them to serve as his emissaries to Congress. He even coached them on the language they should use with lawmakers, two of the governors said, advising them to avoid terms like “rationing” and “managed care,” which evoke bitter memories of the Clintons’ ill-fated health initiative.
...With members of Congress back in their districts for the Fourth of July recess, Mr. Obama’s political group, Organizing for America, has recruited thousands of supporters...
◼ The president told five governors last month to avoid the term “rationing,” since it might give away the game.
...The death of a teenager is a greater tragedy than the death of an 85-year-old, and this should be reflected in our priorities. We can accommodate that difference by calculating the number of life-years saved, rather than simply the number of lives saved. If a teenager can be expected to live another 70 years, saving her life counts as a gain of 70 life-years, whereas if a person of 85 can be expected to live another 5 years, then saving the 85-year-old will count as a gain of only 5 life-years.”... HumanEvents
◼ Governors Balk at Obama Health Plan - “the mother of all unfunded mandates.” (Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee) Heritage
◼ Jindal says "plan is likely to drive up unemployment and federal debt and will force most Americans into a government-run health program." FOX
◼ Obama Ally Throws Cold Water On Health Care Huffington Post
◼ In a meeting last week with five governors — including Republicans who may be more sympathetic to health legislation than those on Capitol Hill — Mr. Obama privately urged them to serve as his emissaries to Congress. He even coached them on the language they should use with lawmakers, two of the governors said, advising them to avoid terms like “rationing” and “managed care,” which evoke bitter memories of the Clintons’ ill-fated health initiative.
...With members of Congress back in their districts for the Fourth of July recess, Mr. Obama’s political group, Organizing for America, has recruited thousands of supporters...
Clueless in the White House
◼ Obama says talking time over, but has no clue what’s in ObamaCare HotAir.com
“The time for talking is through,” sayeth the man who apparently doesn’t realize that Congress exists to debate legislation and not to muzzle itself and rubber-stamp executive initiatives.
◼ Obama "Not Familiar" With Key Provision In Health Care Bill RealClearPolitics.com
“The time for talking is through,” sayeth the man who apparently doesn’t realize that Congress exists to debate legislation and not to muzzle itself and rubber-stamp executive initiatives.
◼ Obama "Not Familiar" With Key Provision In Health Care Bill RealClearPolitics.com
Monday, July 20
New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter
This image shows a large impact on Jupiter's south polar region captured on July 20, 2009, by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Infrared Telescope Facility
◼ "We were extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," said Glenn Orton, a scientist at JPL
Animals think!
And, California pet owners can breathe a collective sigh of relief about SB 250, the mandatory spay/neuter legislation being ushered through the legislature by Judie Mancuso and other animal rights activists this year. Last week SB 250 was placed on the suspense file. ◼ SB 250 could not have been derailed without the work of many diverse groups in California all fighting independently, but united in a common goal, including the AKC, CALFED, CARPOC, CDOC, CFA, PetPac and Save Our Dogs. - and NAIA
Play money? Do you care?
◼ Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion
A series of bailouts, bank rescues and other economic lifelines could end up costing the federal government as much as $23 trillion, the U.S. government’s watchdog over the effort says – a staggering amount that is nearly double the nation’s entire economic output for a year....
Why aren't people reacting? Are they drugged? or do they just not believe this is real? Do you think this is all a made-up crisis? That there really is no problem? That money will just be printed to fill the gaps and everything will be fine?
the eye-popping price tag provoked an immediate reaction on Capitol Hill. “The potential financial commitment the American taxpayers could be responsible for is of a size and scope that isn’t even imaginable,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. “If you spent a million dollars a day going back to the birth of Christ, that wouldn’t even come close to just one trillion dollars – $23.7 trillion is a staggering figure.”
Congressional Democrats say they will call for Treasury to meet transparency requirements suggested by the inspector general, said a spokeswoman for the Oversight committee. “The American people need to know what’s going on with their money,” said committee spokeswoman Jenny Rosenberg.
TWENTY THREE TRILLION -
T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N!
A series of bailouts, bank rescues and other economic lifelines could end up costing the federal government as much as $23 trillion, the U.S. government’s watchdog over the effort says – a staggering amount that is nearly double the nation’s entire economic output for a year....
Why aren't people reacting? Are they drugged? or do they just not believe this is real? Do you think this is all a made-up crisis? That there really is no problem? That money will just be printed to fill the gaps and everything will be fine?
the eye-popping price tag provoked an immediate reaction on Capitol Hill. “The potential financial commitment the American taxpayers could be responsible for is of a size and scope that isn’t even imaginable,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. “If you spent a million dollars a day going back to the birth of Christ, that wouldn’t even come close to just one trillion dollars – $23.7 trillion is a staggering figure.”
Congressional Democrats say they will call for Treasury to meet transparency requirements suggested by the inspector general, said a spokeswoman for the Oversight committee. “The American people need to know what’s going on with their money,” said committee spokeswoman Jenny Rosenberg.
TWENTY THREE TRILLION -
T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N!
Our Ignorance Is His Strength
◼ President Barack Obama refuses to release mid year budget numbers on the traditional reporting date. He has put this off until Congress goes into recess for the summer. He does so because he wants both houses of Congress to pass expensive legislation and then adjourn for their August break without the public knowing how poorly Presbud2009 is currently performing. theminorityreport
◼ Obama’s “Rush and Spend Strategy” RBO
Remember - For all the rush, all the hurry, all the "we have to do this NOW! ◼ only a little over 2% of the stimulus money has actually been obligated for projects to be done.
When will the Legislators, who know that they are more experienced and more informed than their former Jr. Senator colleague turned ruler of the free-world, begin to stand up for a sane, measured look at the bills he is trying to ramrod through? When will they say "No." Say "We are going to act responsibly, we are going to READ this bill, and discuss it, and investigate it and consider the permutations and make decisions based on reality and not this pretender's desperation."
◼ Obama’s “Rush and Spend Strategy” RBO
Remember - For all the rush, all the hurry, all the "we have to do this NOW! ◼ only a little over 2% of the stimulus money has actually been obligated for projects to be done.
When will the Legislators, who know that they are more experienced and more informed than their former Jr. Senator colleague turned ruler of the free-world, begin to stand up for a sane, measured look at the bills he is trying to ramrod through? When will they say "No." Say "We are going to act responsibly, we are going to READ this bill, and discuss it, and investigate it and consider the permutations and make decisions based on reality and not this pretender's desperation."
Whaddya know? Democrats reverse Obama on auto dealerships
The system may begin to work after all.
◼ The House passed a Treasury appropriations bill last week that includes an amendment reversing President Obama on the closure of nearly 800 Chrysler car dealerships and more than 2,000 GM dealerships.
...dealer favoritism by the White House, not Congress, is precisely what a majority of Democrats apparently think is the problem that needs fixing. Michelle Malkin
Bookmark these guys
◼ ACORNcracked.com
‘ACORN’ is actually over 200 affiliated groups. The vast majority have the registered address a former funeral parlor (at right) and share it with SEIU Local 100. The web presence of all their organizations are controlled by two IP addresses....
In the words of two former ACORN employees, “It is due time that tax payers get a full accounting of how their money is being spent and that organizations such as these are held accountable for their actions.”
Even the New York Times has given due scrutiny to ACORN and its activities. But the U.S. Congress is looking the other way....
Good - finally - a dedicated watchdog site for the hideously corrupt octopus, ACORN.
‘ACORN’ is actually over 200 affiliated groups. The vast majority have the registered address a former funeral parlor (at right) and share it with SEIU Local 100. The web presence of all their organizations are controlled by two IP addresses....
In the words of two former ACORN employees, “It is due time that tax payers get a full accounting of how their money is being spent and that organizations such as these are held accountable for their actions.”
Even the New York Times has given due scrutiny to ACORN and its activities. But the U.S. Congress is looking the other way....
Good - finally - a dedicated watchdog site for the hideously corrupt octopus, ACORN.
Sunday, July 19
2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED - $1,191,200
◼ Stimulus - recovery.gov
Recipient Name CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC
Extent Competed FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION
Statistics:
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp.
Incorporated: 1945 as Clougherty Packing Company h/t:skep
That's some pork.
THERE'S MORE ON DRUDGE TODAY...
all on "recovery.gov" another lovely Orwellian title from the Obamaites
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $16,784,272 FOR 'CANNED PORK'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,444,100 FOR 'REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $541,119 FOR 'INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNAL'...
◼ USDA Response to Drudge Item on Recovery Act Funding - Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack... 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'... FOOD LION: $.79 Lb... Hey, relax, it is Obamanomics. Take from the wage-earners and give it to the ass-sitters.
COVER STORY: It's for the Food Banks, dontcha know? So it is really more welfare spending, just not under that name. NOTHING in this shows any effort to make the people who lost their retirements and life-savings whole. No, that is not zero's game. His game is spitting on those productive responsible citizens, and giving their hard-earned blood sweat and tears to the "needy."
◼ Obama Lied About Who Gets Stimulus Handouts ZinOwl
Recipient Name CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC
Extent Competed FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION
Statistics:
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp.
Incorporated: 1945 as Clougherty Packing Company h/t:skep
That's some pork.
THERE'S MORE ON DRUDGE TODAY...
all on "recovery.gov" another lovely Orwellian title from the Obamaites
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $16,784,272 FOR 'CANNED PORK'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,444,100 FOR 'REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112'...
◼ RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $541,119 FOR 'INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNAL'...
◼ USDA Response to Drudge Item on Recovery Act Funding - Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack... 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'... FOOD LION: $.79 Lb... Hey, relax, it is Obamanomics. Take from the wage-earners and give it to the ass-sitters.
COVER STORY: It's for the Food Banks, dontcha know? So it is really more welfare spending, just not under that name. NOTHING in this shows any effort to make the people who lost their retirements and life-savings whole. No, that is not zero's game. His game is spitting on those productive responsible citizens, and giving their hard-earned blood sweat and tears to the "needy."
◼ Obama Lied About Who Gets Stimulus Handouts ZinOwl
“while I am impressed with your Renaissance Man-level of knowledge in a plethora of subjects, may I humbly say: That’s great. Just fix the economy!”
◼ The cool president has turned hot on the stump, stripping to shirtsleeves to lambaste doubters in New Jersey Thursday. He departed from his prepared remarks last week to accept a Republican challenge to take personal ownership of the economy: “That’s fine. Give it to me,” he said.
The pretense is over.
The tightly programmed White House also is champing at the bit, kicking off what officials say will be a relentless three-week push on health care, starting with the hastily scheduled Friday address. But its first event might have backfired a bit. Its main consequence was proving that the magnetism of Obama’s personal appearances has worn off, as it drew little media attention and a dismissive tweet from the key Senate Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa: “Waste of time.”
The easy rhetoric is wearing thin. No substance behind the campaign subterfuge.
The pretense is over.
The tightly programmed White House also is champing at the bit, kicking off what officials say will be a relentless three-week push on health care, starting with the hastily scheduled Friday address. But its first event might have backfired a bit. Its main consequence was proving that the magnetism of Obama’s personal appearances has worn off, as it drew little media attention and a dismissive tweet from the key Senate Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa: “Waste of time.”
The easy rhetoric is wearing thin. No substance behind the campaign subterfuge.
Friday, July 17
Some Questions For Obama Supporters....
◼ If George W. Bush had... YidWithLid
# 18) ...had an administration filled with more "czars" than Russia, who are held to no level of accountability and may actually be unconstitutional, would you have approved?
# 18) ...had an administration filled with more "czars" than Russia, who are held to no level of accountability and may actually be unconstitutional, would you have approved?
"wasn't up to being Home Secretary"
◼ "When I became Home Secretary I'd never run a major organisation. I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills.
"I think we should have been better trained.
"I think there should have been more induction."
When asked by Total Politics magazine if she had worried she was not up to the job, she replied: "Every single time I was appointed to a ministerial job I thought that. I didn't sleep for a week in 1999 when I got my ministerial job." Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith
But she felt perfectly confident in banning Michael Savage from ever thinking about visiting Britain.
"I think we should have been better trained.
"I think there should have been more induction."
When asked by Total Politics magazine if she had worried she was not up to the job, she replied: "Every single time I was appointed to a ministerial job I thought that. I didn't sleep for a week in 1999 when I got my ministerial job." Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith
But she felt perfectly confident in banning Michael Savage from ever thinking about visiting Britain.
"The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event,"
◼ ...While the hardest-working and most productive are bled, a third of all wage-earners pay no U.S. income tax, and Obama plans to free almost half of all wage-earners of all income taxes. Yet, tens of millions get Medicaid, rent supplements, free education, food stamps, welfare and an annual check from Uncle Sam called an Earned Income Tax Credit, though they never paid a nickel in income taxes....
Obama plans to repeal the Bush tax cuts and take the income tax rate to near 40 percent. Combined state and local income tax rates can run to 10 percent. For the self-employed, payroll taxes add up to 15.2 percent on the first $106,800 for all wages of all workers. Medicare takes 2.9 percent of all wages above that. Then there are the state sales taxes that can run to 8 percent, property taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes and "sin taxes" on booze, cigarettes and, soon, hot dogs and soft drinks. Buchanan, WND
Obama plans to repeal the Bush tax cuts and take the income tax rate to near 40 percent. Combined state and local income tax rates can run to 10 percent. For the self-employed, payroll taxes add up to 15.2 percent on the first $106,800 for all wages of all workers. Medicare takes 2.9 percent of all wages above that. Then there are the state sales taxes that can run to 8 percent, property taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes and "sin taxes" on booze, cigarettes and, soon, hot dogs and soft drinks. Buchanan, WND
Some sanity!
◼ Freshman Dems oppose Pelosi’s tax increase
Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members have signed a letter opposing their leadership's plan to raise taxes to finance a healthcare overhaul.
Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members have signed a letter opposing their leadership's plan to raise taxes to finance a healthcare overhaul.
Thursday, July 16
Now hiring clowns? W/UPDATE - squashed
◼ NAICS Code: 611 -- Educational Services/611430 -- Professional and Management Development Training
Humor In The Workplace
Solicitation Number: RFI-BPD-09-0028
Agency: Department of the Treasury
Office: Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD)
Location: Division of Procurement h/t: drudge
This is a sources sought notice and not a request for quotations. The purpose of this announcement is to seek qualified contractors with the capability to provide presentations for The Department of Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Management Meeting with experience in meeting the objectives as described herein.
The Contractor shall conduct two, 3-hour, Humor in the Workplace programs that will discuss the power of humor in the workplace, the close relationship between humor and stress, and why humor is one of the most important ways that we communicate in business and office life. Participants shall experience demonstrations of cartoons being created on the spot. The contractor shall have the ability to create cartoons on the spot about BPD jobs. The presenter shall refrain from using any foul language during the presentation. This is a business environment and we need the presenter to address a business audience.... We want you to laugh while we run your nation into the ground, take over and bankrupt all your businesses, hand all the money over to our operatives...
Orwell would be so proud.
Is this a joke?
No. It wasn't - and it has now been pulled -
◼ Senator quashes Treasury’s bid for humoristthehill.com
The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report.
...“It’s ridiculous and shows how out of touch they are with regular Americans,” he said. “Other Americans are worried about putting food on the table and don’t have time to goof around.”... No kidding.
Humor In The Workplace
Solicitation Number: RFI-BPD-09-0028
Agency: Department of the Treasury
Office: Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD)
Location: Division of Procurement h/t: drudge
This is a sources sought notice and not a request for quotations. The purpose of this announcement is to seek qualified contractors with the capability to provide presentations for The Department of Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Management Meeting with experience in meeting the objectives as described herein.
The Contractor shall conduct two, 3-hour, Humor in the Workplace programs that will discuss the power of humor in the workplace, the close relationship between humor and stress, and why humor is one of the most important ways that we communicate in business and office life. Participants shall experience demonstrations of cartoons being created on the spot. The contractor shall have the ability to create cartoons on the spot about BPD jobs. The presenter shall refrain from using any foul language during the presentation. This is a business environment and we need the presenter to address a business audience.... We want you to laugh while we run your nation into the ground, take over and bankrupt all your businesses, hand all the money over to our operatives...
Orwell would be so proud.
Is this a joke?
No. It wasn't - and it has now been pulled -
◼ Senator quashes Treasury’s bid for humoristthehill.com
The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report.
...“It’s ridiculous and shows how out of touch they are with regular Americans,” he said. “Other Americans are worried about putting food on the table and don’t have time to goof around.”... No kidding.
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Wednesday, July 15
MoveOn.org began e-mailing members Tuesday, asking them to fund a rapid response ad blasting Palin's op-ed.
◼ Palin Vs. Kerry (And MoveOn.org)
Yeah, MoveOn got John Kerry to sign the latest hit piece - like we are supposed to give a shit what he thinks - this is John Kerry, whose running mate later got caught in one of the most disgusting infidelities in political history, cheating on his wife who was dying of cancer, and lying to the American people - you'd think Kerry's opinion piece ought to address THAT! Then they ask for drones to follow up. The machine at work. And Hillary Clinton, who was once so knowledgeable about political attack machines, lays silent. Hypocrisy abounds.
Yeah, MoveOn got John Kerry to sign the latest hit piece - like we are supposed to give a shit what he thinks - this is John Kerry, whose running mate later got caught in one of the most disgusting infidelities in political history, cheating on his wife who was dying of cancer, and lying to the American people - you'd think Kerry's opinion piece ought to address THAT! Then they ask for drones to follow up. The machine at work. And Hillary Clinton, who was once so knowledgeable about political attack machines, lays silent. Hypocrisy abounds.
How much will John Kerry pay?
How about John Edwards?
How much will Nancy Pelosi pay?
How about George Soros?
How about Bill and Hillary Clinton? Warren Buffet? T. Boone Pickens?
◼ House Democrats plan to fund the broadest U.S. health-care expansion in four decades by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, imposing a surtax of 5.4 percent on couples with more than $1 million in income....
The surtax on wealthier Americans would be imposed based on adjusted gross income, meaning it would also apply to capital gains and dividends, which are currently taxed at a 15 percent rate. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said lawmakers targeted high earners because it “causes the least amount of pain on the least amount of people.”...
◼ Saying it was "time to get this done," President Barack Obama pressed on Wednesday for swift congressional action on healthcare after a Senate panel approved a bill to overhaul the $2.5 trillion industry.
It's also taxing the people who are already paying the most, the biggest percentage of the taxes - and the ones who create your jobs that pay for all the services you desire.
Barack Obama - Punish the successful. Give free houses, phones and cars to the culls. Whaddya wanna bet lawmakers are exempted.
◼ Freshman Dems oppose Pelosi’s tax increase
Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members have signed a letter opposing their leadership's plan to raise taxes to finance a healthcare overhaul.
How much will Nancy Pelosi pay?
How about George Soros?
How about Bill and Hillary Clinton? Warren Buffet? T. Boone Pickens?
◼ House Democrats plan to fund the broadest U.S. health-care expansion in four decades by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, imposing a surtax of 5.4 percent on couples with more than $1 million in income....
The surtax on wealthier Americans would be imposed based on adjusted gross income, meaning it would also apply to capital gains and dividends, which are currently taxed at a 15 percent rate. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said lawmakers targeted high earners because it “causes the least amount of pain on the least amount of people.”...
◼ Saying it was "time to get this done," President Barack Obama pressed on Wednesday for swift congressional action on healthcare after a Senate panel approved a bill to overhaul the $2.5 trillion industry.
It's also taxing the people who are already paying the most, the biggest percentage of the taxes - and the ones who create your jobs that pay for all the services you desire.
Barack Obama - Punish the successful. Give free houses, phones and cars to the culls. Whaddya wanna bet lawmakers are exempted.
◼ Freshman Dems oppose Pelosi’s tax increase
Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members have signed a letter opposing their leadership's plan to raise taxes to finance a healthcare overhaul.
Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold which began in March.
◼ Children die in harsh Peru winter BBC
...Winter in the region does not usually begin until June.
The extreme cold, which has brought snow, hail, freezing temperatures and strong winds, has killed more children than recorded annually for the past four years.
A total of 246 under the age of five have died so far, only half way through the winter months. h/t: keefe
The flip side of Global Warming (ooops, I mean, errr, "Climate Change.")
...Winter in the region does not usually begin until June.
The extreme cold, which has brought snow, hail, freezing temperatures and strong winds, has killed more children than recorded annually for the past four years.
A total of 246 under the age of five have died so far, only half way through the winter months. h/t: keefe
The flip side of Global Warming (ooops, I mean, errr, "Climate Change.")
Tuesday, July 14
Willie Brown, on Palin
◼ Sarah Palin, political genius
◼ Willie Brown: Palin’s move was brilliant
The smartest man in California praised Republican Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska as a brilliant move.
I am not so sure Willie Brown is an obot. Saw him on Hannity a week or so ago, and he had a pretty clear view of what is going wrong - despite his still leaning into the Dem line. What's going on must offend his sensibilities.
This is very interesting. Too sensible. Too much experience to play the fool. Interesting man.
◼ Willie Brown: Palin’s move was brilliant
The smartest man in California praised Republican Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska as a brilliant move.
I am not so sure Willie Brown is an obot. Saw him on Hannity a week or so ago, and he had a pretty clear view of what is going wrong - despite his still leaning into the Dem line. What's going on must offend his sensibilities.
This is very interesting. Too sensible. Too much experience to play the fool. Interesting man.
Monday, July 13
Colder, and bluer
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Some of the icebergs were a cobalt blue. We got lucky with the weather, very warm. This is a stock photo from the ship, will post mine later. Good to be back.
Why We'll Leave L.A.
◼ ...The business climate is worse than the air quality.
...This city is fast becoming a job-killing machine. It's no accident the unemployment rate is a frightening 11.4% and climbing.... h/t: kirlz
...This city is fast becoming a job-killing machine. It's no accident the unemployment rate is a frightening 11.4% and climbing.... h/t: kirlz
Wednesday, July 8
Sunday, July 5
The Ten Cannots
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Rev. William John Henry Boetcker, 1873 h/t: ◼ directorblue
Or, as Lonnie Anderson used to say in WKRP in Cincinnati "I never lend money to men - it makes them weak."
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Rev. William John Henry Boetcker, 1873 h/t: ◼ directorblue
Or, as Lonnie Anderson used to say in WKRP in Cincinnati "I never lend money to men - it makes them weak."
Saturday, July 4
Friday, July 3
More on the muzzling of EPA report
◼ Where are all the "green" media pundits who used to scream bloody murder about the George W. Bush administration censoring expert opinion on climate change, now that the Barack Obama administration has been accused of doing it? Toeing Obama line - EPA experts who deviate on climate change get muzzled - Toronto Sun
Wanna talk Cap andTrade Tax?
The big doozy: Eighty-five percent of the carbon permits will not be sold at auction — they will be given away to utility companies, petroleum interests, refineries, and a coterie of politically connected businesses. If you’re wondering why Big Business supports cap-and-trade, that’s why. Free money for business, but higher energy prices for you....
...42. Another Obama constituency, the community-organizing gang — i.e., ACORN — will be eligible to receive billions in funding as the bill “authorizes the Secretary [of Energy] to make grants to community development organizations to provide financing to businesses and projects that improve energy efficiency.” Think federally subsidized consultants paid $55 an hour to tell businesses to turn down their AC in the summer....
Learn more.... ◼ 50 ways to leave us in the cold … [Darleen Click] Protein Wisdom
Yep, wouldn't want anyone shooting down the Global Warming Boondoggle. How INCONVENIENT that would be, For ACORN. And all the other big Obama backers who are expecting their big investment to pay off.
And how much coverage has this received? Who is lamenting the effect this is going to have on people's lives and pocketbooks?
I'm saying it again, when people are dying this winter because they can't afford to heat their homes, their deaths will be on the hands of Obama and the craven and irresponsible Congressional politicians.
Wanna talk Cap and
The big doozy: Eighty-five percent of the carbon permits will not be sold at auction — they will be given away to utility companies, petroleum interests, refineries, and a coterie of politically connected businesses. If you’re wondering why Big Business supports cap-and-trade, that’s why. Free money for business, but higher energy prices for you....
...42. Another Obama constituency, the community-organizing gang — i.e., ACORN — will be eligible to receive billions in funding as the bill “authorizes the Secretary [of Energy] to make grants to community development organizations to provide financing to businesses and projects that improve energy efficiency.” Think federally subsidized consultants paid $55 an hour to tell businesses to turn down their AC in the summer....
Learn more.... ◼ 50 ways to leave us in the cold … [Darleen Click] Protein Wisdom
Yep, wouldn't want anyone shooting down the Global Warming Boondoggle. How INCONVENIENT that would be, For ACORN. And all the other big Obama backers who are expecting their big investment to pay off.
And how much coverage has this received? Who is lamenting the effect this is going to have on people's lives and pocketbooks?
I'm saying it again, when people are dying this winter because they can't afford to heat their homes, their deaths will be on the hands of Obama and the craven and irresponsible Congressional politicians.
Thursday, July 2
Stagecraft and Journalistic Integrity
◼ The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.
All his groups, all pretending to be real people.
This is what Helen Thomas was talking about - and the Press is not going to continue to be used as propaganda tools - they have more pride than that, believe it or not.
Said Thomas: "What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.... When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you. I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well — for the town halls, for the press conferences. It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame."
Now we know it, she knows it. And if you watch YouTube or are into political blogs, YOU know it, but if the MAINSTREAM MEDIA, of which Thomas is a part, does not expose this sham with at least a small measure of hte zeal with which they went after Palin, the AVERAGE PERSON will never know about it.
For God's sake, do your jobs.
Congress is out of control
◼ Congress's Travel Tab Swells... WSJ
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos
They have the majority and nothing else matters. They can spend as much as they like, divvy out political favors as much as they like, pass bills they haven't bothered to read, the drunken orgy is in full swing - there's feces ground into the carpet, the drapes are askew, there's pizza on the ceiling, and precious heirlooms lie broken on the floor.
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos
They have the majority and nothing else matters. They can spend as much as they like, divvy out political favors as much as they like, pass bills they haven't bothered to read, the drunken orgy is in full swing - there's feces ground into the carpet, the drapes are askew, there's pizza on the ceiling, and precious heirlooms lie broken on the floor.
While California goes down in flames
California legislators piddle away their time with SB250, a bill that will make you a criminal if you let your dog or cat have a litter of puppies or kittens.
Don't they have something better to do? Shouldn't EVERY SINGLE WAKING MINUTE OF THIER DAY BE SPENT ON SOLVING THE STATE'S BUDGET CRISIS?
Or is this an indicator of how they plan to do that?
The proponents of this legislation will insist that SB 250 is not mandatory spay/neuter, but we are going to set the record straight every time and call a spade a spade. SB 250 requires pet owners to spay/neuter their dogs/cats at 6 months of age or obtain an unaltered license. Under the bill as currently written, if their pet accidentally gets loose and is impounded even once -- regardless of the circumstances -- that pet must be sterilized. No other option is made available in SB 250, which is essentially a one-strike-and-you’re-out policy.
Owners of intact dogs and cats in California will soon be singled out as criminals if we don’t speak out now. SB 250, mandating spay/neuter for dogs and cats of owners who don't possess an unaltered license, was heard in the Assembly Committee on Business and Professions yesterday and narrowly passed out of that committee.
The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where it is likely to receive greater scrutiny because of its anticipated fiscal costs to state and local governments. We have been informed by the committee that the bill will be heard on Wednesday, July 15th.
If you have a minute - call these representatives: Tell them to quit playing Nanny and get to work on the budget crisis FOR REAL, without raising stupid taxes or setting up hidden fees and fines.
Kevin de Leon, Chair (D-45)
Jim Nielsen, Vice Chair (R-2)
Tom Ammiano (D-13)
Charles M. Calderon (D-58)
Joe Coto (D-23)
Mike Davis (D-48)
Michael D. Duvall (R-72)
Felipe Fuentes (D-39)
Isadore Hall III (D-52)
Diane L. Harkey (R-73)
Jeff Miller (R-71)
John A. Pérez (D-46)
Nancy Skinner (D-14)
Jose Solorio (D-69)
Audra Strickland (R-37)
Tom Torlakson (D-11)
Related:
◼ NAIA's letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee OPPOSING this madness
◼ letter from the California Department of Finance opposing SB 250
◼ Take Action!
◼ States without budgets as key deadline passes
The Democrats and Progressive have failed you. Betrayed you, Bankrupted you. And now they want more power and control.
Say NO.
Don't they have something better to do? Shouldn't EVERY SINGLE WAKING MINUTE OF THIER DAY BE SPENT ON SOLVING THE STATE'S BUDGET CRISIS?
Or is this an indicator of how they plan to do that?
The proponents of this legislation will insist that SB 250 is not mandatory spay/neuter, but we are going to set the record straight every time and call a spade a spade. SB 250 requires pet owners to spay/neuter their dogs/cats at 6 months of age or obtain an unaltered license. Under the bill as currently written, if their pet accidentally gets loose and is impounded even once -- regardless of the circumstances -- that pet must be sterilized. No other option is made available in SB 250, which is essentially a one-strike-and-you’re-out policy.
Owners of intact dogs and cats in California will soon be singled out as criminals if we don’t speak out now. SB 250, mandating spay/neuter for dogs and cats of owners who don't possess an unaltered license, was heard in the Assembly Committee on Business and Professions yesterday and narrowly passed out of that committee.
The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where it is likely to receive greater scrutiny because of its anticipated fiscal costs to state and local governments. We have been informed by the committee that the bill will be heard on Wednesday, July 15th.
If you have a minute - call these representatives: Tell them to quit playing Nanny and get to work on the budget crisis FOR REAL, without raising stupid taxes or setting up hidden fees and fines.
Jim Nielsen, Vice Chair (R-2)
Tom Ammiano (D-13)
Charles M. Calderon (D-58)
Joe Coto (D-23)
Mike Davis (D-48)
Michael D. Duvall (R-72)
Felipe Fuentes (D-39)
Isadore Hall III (D-52)
Diane L. Harkey (R-73)
Jeff Miller (R-71)
John A. Pérez (D-46)
Nancy Skinner (D-14)
Jose Solorio (D-69)
Audra Strickland (R-37)
Tom Torlakson (D-11)
Related:
◼ NAIA's letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee OPPOSING this madness
◼ letter from the California Department of Finance opposing SB 250
◼ Take Action!
◼ States without budgets as key deadline passes
The Democrats and Progressive have failed you. Betrayed you, Bankrupted you. And now they want more power and control.
Say NO.
ZIEGLER INTERVIEWS MIKE ALLEN OF POLITICO RE: PALIN
Ziegler Interviews Mike Allen of Politico Re: Palin
Uploaded by krs601. - Up-to-the minute news videos.
h/t: Politco’s Mike Allen - PWNED [Darleen Click] proteinwisdom
After listening to Mike Allen - I wonder how he would define Bill Clinton after the circus act that defined his Presidency - is there anyone alive who doesn't make snark jokes about Clinton 'getting a Lewinsky' about cigars, and under the desk blowjobs.
Oh, well, Clinton was PRESIDENT after all and Sarah Palin is JUST a Governor of a State and Vice-Presidential running mate (never mind that Clinton was once Governor of a state who started out his political campaign with a circus act called "jennifer Flowers"
Palin had one crappy interview with uber-meanbitch Katie Couric, - let's find out what Mike Allen and Joe Scarborough would say about the OTHER former Vice-Presidential running mate, now OfficeoftheVicePresident.gov - a TRUE gaffetastic circus act in his own right....
Allen can't answer a direct question - this is a long clip, and he NEVER manages to do it, but it is worth listening to him squirm. Talking points, even repetitive talking points, can't hold up to scrutiny.
Good for Ziegler for calling him on this character assassination.
Wednesday, July 1
"Have you emailed your question today?" snark
You know things are bad when Helen Thomas says the White House is so far from open and transparent that it is shocking - that it is the PATTERN of staging the events with preselected people and questions that is the problem. Maybe Journalism is not dead after all - questions are starting to be asked, and truths are starting to be told.
The koolaid is wearing off - look at the faces of the OTHER reporters in that room, no one there is happy with what is going on.
Gibbs tries to wiggle out of it - saying how would we do that? and Thomas lays it out there for the world to see "By calling reporters the night before" like you do essentially.
Busted, baby.
h/t: ◼ WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS GRILL GIBBS OVER ‘PREPACKAGED’ QUESTIONS FOR OBAMA Breitbart bwo Drudge
◼ Video: Obama Team Smacked Down For Controlling the Press StopTheACLU
◼ Thomas, Gibbs and Lack of Transparency No Quarter
The koolaid is wearing off - look at the faces of the OTHER reporters in that room, no one there is happy with what is going on.
Gibbs tries to wiggle out of it - saying how would we do that? and Thomas lays it out there for the world to see "By calling reporters the night before" like you do essentially.
Busted, baby.
h/t: ◼ WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS GRILL GIBBS OVER ‘PREPACKAGED’ QUESTIONS FOR OBAMA Breitbart bwo Drudge
◼ Video: Obama Team Smacked Down For Controlling the Press StopTheACLU
◼ Thomas, Gibbs and Lack of Transparency No Quarter
No Gitmo for you
◼ DAY 19 IRAN REVOLUTION: SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION HANGED
America was the shining light of freedom in the world. Yet now, when people are asking for freedom, we are nowhere to be found. Our heads have turned away. And the people of Iran are paying the price for their AUDACITY OF HOPE.
Our OfficeOfTheCommunityOrganizerInChief.gov doesn't know what do with REAL people protesting REAL life and death issues - things that didn't come out of some Democratic Think Tank somewhere....
◼ But is it torture?
◼ Arrested, beaten and raped: an Iran protester's tale
◼ "Nokia: Jailing People"- 5,000 Join Boycott
◼ WANTED: Moments of Silence for Iranian Students
“the nastiest election conference I’ve ever attended.”
◼ After a Coup d’Etat at NOW, the Future of “Feminism” No Quarter
Does NOW have ANY credibility left after what it allowed to happen to Sarah Palin? Without a peep. Any number of attacks on women, crickets from NOW if they are conservative.
Should NOW simply be disbanded?
What went down in Indy? Ahead of the election conference itself, a group of long-time feminists who were upset with the direction that NOW had taken decided to organize a resistance...
...Sure, we can look down our noses at the PTA moms and the softball dads who left along the way and insist that we don’t need them — but we do. We need unity. We need messages that will bring back the masses as the Next Wave begins. We need to focus on the issues that unite us, not divide us. We need national organizations that can excite and inspire. We need these national organizations to form alliances and fight for all of us....
Does NOW have ANY credibility left after what it allowed to happen to Sarah Palin? Without a peep. Any number of attacks on women, crickets from NOW if they are conservative.
Should NOW simply be disbanded?
“We've tried three different approaches in the past week to solve this budget crisis"
”Overheated rhetoric and finger pointing will not resolve this crisis,” Chesbro said. “We've tried three different approaches in the past week to solve this budget crisis and avoid IOUs. So far none of those approaches have succeeded. We need bipartisan solutions to this problem.”
◼ As budget deadline looms, Legislature standstill
With the deadline less than eight hours away, things in the Capitol were largely at a standstill, with a Senate floor session suspended as the Big Five -- a group comprising the governor and Senate and Assembly leaders -- met behind closed doors in an attempt to craft some kind of compromise budget plan that would be palatable for Democrats and Republicans alike....
...The Legislature's latest proposal is no different than what Sacramento has been doing for the past two decades -- kicking the can down the alley,” Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, said in a statement late Tuesday. “If the Legislature doesn't want to make the deep cuts necessary to balance the budget, the governor has proposed reforms that eliminate waste and still solve the entire deficit. The problem is the Legislature has refused the cuts, refused the reforms, and in doing so have made absolutely clear that they refuse to have state government live within its means.”
While pleading for unity and constructive solutions in one breath Tuesday, Chesbro couldn't contain his frustration with the governor in the next.
”He's not acting as though we are in a crisis, and that's very disturbing,” he said of Schwarzenegger. “The state controller, John Chiang, and the treasurer, Bill Lockyer, have both made it abundantly clear that we are in grave danger, not just of issuing IOUs but of gravely damaging the state's credit rating. And, the governor is acting like it's just another negotiation.”
...
Hysterical. Three WHOLE TIMES. Wow. And in the last week. So impressive.
The partisan hacks calling for unity. Code word for 'keep spending.'
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