◼ An ocean exploration team led by Swedish researcher Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is a crashed flying saucer. - msnbc
Sunday, July 31
Anonymous's question
This really does say it all: Quote from Anonymous on ◼ THIS thread.
"Raising the debt ceiling, which is what we are talking about, is about paying for what was already approved by Congress in prior budgets. The Tea Party nuts' attempts to deny an increase in the debt ceiling to pay bills approved in prior budgets is attempted fraud. Since you right wing extremists can't see the big picture, think of a husband who tells his wife to buy a car, which she does, and then when the payments are due refuses to give her the money to make the payments and tells her she has to pay the payments with the mortgage or food money. Who is at fault when the bank doesn't get their money? "
"Raising the debt ceiling, which is what we are talking about, is about paying for what was already approved by Congress in prior budgets. The Tea Party nuts' attempts to deny an increase in the debt ceiling to pay bills approved in prior budgets is attempted fraud. Since you right wing extremists can't see the big picture, think of a husband who tells his wife to buy a car, which she does, and then when the payments are due refuses to give her the money to make the payments and tells her she has to pay the payments with the mortgage or food money. Who is at fault when the bank doesn't get their money? "
Saturday, July 30
To every lurking Tea Bagger, Freeper and Cave Dweller...YOU ARE STUPID
◼ BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That is my MAX CADY LAUGH at the anger the DUmmies are feeling over how the deficit debates are going. Poor widdle DUmmies! How angry they are that revenues (tax increases are OFF the table) - DUmmie Funnies breaks it down.
“When he said ‘Yes, we can,’ it was politically clever, but he never defined what it is we can do. So we filled in those spaces — what we thought he meant — only to find we were disappointed, because none of those points was satisfied.”
◼ “Barack Obama and his mission has failed because it lacked a certain kind of moral courage, a kind of moral vision . . . a kind of courage we are in need of,” said the King of Calypso. Washington Post
Harry Belafonte has finally seen the light. Obama was a mirrored empty vessel. Those who looked into the shining surface saw themselves, and their own high ideals and aspirations. They BELIEVED, intensely, that he shared their dreams and HOPES and aspirations, their values and high ideals.
He doesn't. He never did. If they had really looked at his record, they would have been repulsed. What a tragedy it is. All the way around.
Harry Belafonte has finally seen the light. Obama was a mirrored empty vessel. Those who looked into the shining surface saw themselves, and their own high ideals and aspirations. They BELIEVED, intensely, that he shared their dreams and HOPES and aspirations, their values and high ideals.
He doesn't. He never did. If they had really looked at his record, they would have been repulsed. What a tragedy it is. All the way around.
Friday, July 29
Peggy Noonan's column has MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski all UPSET! How can you say that about Obama?
◼ They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - Obama still has supporters, but theirs is a grim support. - Peggy Noonan/Wall St. Journal (A must read, really, and Joe Scarborough's comments in the vid are pretty interesting as well)
It's really comical. Even better than Campbell Brown.
◼ Ulsterman - Insider backs it all up, too
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Welcome to Miller’s Crossing. Up is down, black is white . . .
◼ The Permanent Insurgency - Michael Walsh at National Review
By now, the Obama “leadership” style should be blindingly apparent: Do nothing, lie in wait, and then counter-attack. Never present a plan if you can possibly help it, but deal exclusively in bromides and platitudes as you stake out the moral “high ground” and get ready to ambush the other guy. Think of it as the Permanent Insurgency campaign.
Meanwhile, have your media allies, talking parrots, and court lickspittles prepare the ground with standard-issue talking points — “The Tea Party Republicans are terrorists,” for example....
Use the bully pulpit as a bludgeon against your political enemies. Make cheap, demagogic appeals to your dwindling base of supporters to do your lobbying work for you. Say the same thing over and over, no matter how much TV time you need to pre-empt.
Adamantly refuse to be pinned down about the specifics of anything, and have your platoon of Baghdad Bobs continue to insist (as good liberals always do) that up is down, black is white, and wishes are really horses, if not actual unicorns. read the whole thing
By now, the Obama “leadership” style should be blindingly apparent: Do nothing, lie in wait, and then counter-attack. Never present a plan if you can possibly help it, but deal exclusively in bromides and platitudes as you stake out the moral “high ground” and get ready to ambush the other guy. Think of it as the Permanent Insurgency campaign.
Meanwhile, have your media allies, talking parrots, and court lickspittles prepare the ground with standard-issue talking points — “The Tea Party Republicans are terrorists,” for example....
Use the bully pulpit as a bludgeon against your political enemies. Make cheap, demagogic appeals to your dwindling base of supporters to do your lobbying work for you. Say the same thing over and over, no matter how much TV time you need to pre-empt.
Adamantly refuse to be pinned down about the specifics of anything, and have your platoon of Baghdad Bobs continue to insist (as good liberals always do) that up is down, black is white, and wishes are really horses, if not actual unicorns. read the whole thing
Boehner's bill passes the House and now they're back to voting on which Post Offices to close
the downward spiral continues....
Thursday, July 28
Al Gore had EIGHT YEARS as arguably the second most powerful man in the world
What did he do THEN to save the planet? Combat the scourge of gorebull warming? Anyone remember? Could it be zip zero nada?
Likewise - what did the venerable Nancy Pelosi do about the budget while she was in a position of true power?
Why no budget, Nancy? Why no balanced budget?
But NOW - Oh my, she is "trying to save life on this planet as we know it today."
Likewise - what did the venerable Nancy Pelosi do about the budget while she was in a position of true power?
Why no budget, Nancy? Why no balanced budget?
But NOW - Oh my, she is "trying to save life on this planet as we know it today."
DUH! New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hold In Global Warming Alarmism
◼ Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models....
When objective NASA satellite data, reported in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, show a "huge discrepancy" between alarmist climate models and real-world facts, climate scientists, the media and our elected officials would be wise to take notice. Whether or not they do so will tell us a great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are. - Forbes
◼ APNewsBreak: Arctic scientist under investigation - AP
A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.
When objective NASA satellite data, reported in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, show a "huge discrepancy" between alarmist climate models and real-world facts, climate scientists, the media and our elected officials would be wise to take notice. Whether or not they do so will tell us a great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are. - Forbes
◼ APNewsBreak: Arctic scientist under investigation - AP
A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.
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Wednesday, July 27
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There is a certain brutal honesty about this debt crisis. It is slowly beginning to force us to see the world in the tragic way it is, rather than in the therapeutic way we dream it must be.
◼ The Tragic View Returns - The therapeutic society’s world view has become unsustainable. - Victor Davis Hanson
Tuesday, July 26
The President’s Job Killers
◼ (W)hy use such an inflammatory term, ”The President’s job Killers,” if these are the problems in the jobs market? Because there is an “elephant in the room” which is a far greater, and longer lasting factor than any one of the others: a huge and growing government bureaucracy, which has become more and more oppressive. - John Mariotti/Forbes
Many critics... have called Barack Obama the most anti-business president in modern history, but he doesn’t do all the anti-business things himself. He has “minions” called czars, cabinet secretaries and commissioners to do his dirty work. Obama’s philosophy is that he, and the government. knows what’s best for Americans, so he will build a “Big Brother” society in which more and more of Americans’ lives are run by, controlled by and funded by the government.
There is a problem with that—in fact there are several. First, Obama and the government don’t always know what’s best. Case in point is the “Stimulus Package” that didn’t work. Second, Americans are accustomed to being free to do many things the way they want, and that doesn’t fit with the way the government might want. Third, big government means lots of government employees, most of them in public unions earning pay and benefits 1-1/2 times their (tax-paying) private sector counterparts and with much greater job security.
The very job-security-enhancing efforts of all these bureaucrats, who work for the president and the government is what is killing jobs....
Many critics... have called Barack Obama the most anti-business president in modern history, but he doesn’t do all the anti-business things himself. He has “minions” called czars, cabinet secretaries and commissioners to do his dirty work. Obama’s philosophy is that he, and the government. knows what’s best for Americans, so he will build a “Big Brother” society in which more and more of Americans’ lives are run by, controlled by and funded by the government.
There is a problem with that—in fact there are several. First, Obama and the government don’t always know what’s best. Case in point is the “Stimulus Package” that didn’t work. Second, Americans are accustomed to being free to do many things the way they want, and that doesn’t fit with the way the government might want. Third, big government means lots of government employees, most of them in public unions earning pay and benefits 1-1/2 times their (tax-paying) private sector counterparts and with much greater job security.
The very job-security-enhancing efforts of all these bureaucrats, who work for the president and the government is what is killing jobs....
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Monday, July 25
Sunday, July 24
“Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that — and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the United States without an approved new drug application.”
◼ Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
The company claimed, in its marketing materials, that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by scientific research: “Life Extension has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts”; and “The US National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35 peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack risk.”
This evidence was apparently not good enough for the FDA, which told Diamond that its walnuts were “misbranded” because the “product bears health claims that are not authorized by the FDA.” h/t: cb
The company claimed, in its marketing materials, that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by scientific research: “Life Extension has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts”; and “The US National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35 peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack risk.”
This evidence was apparently not good enough for the FDA, which told Diamond that its walnuts were “misbranded” because the “product bears health claims that are not authorized by the FDA.” h/t: cb
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Saturday, July 23
Watching this unfold, watching the news vultures, wondering what causes a man to become a monster...
Our friends in Norway, our hearts go out to you, and we pray for you and yours.
◼ Mass killing man copied the "Unabomber" word for word - nrk
◼ Anders Behring Breivik commits profound evil in Norway; Muslims true victims = Protein Wisdom
… It appears that large sections of the 1500 page “manifesto” Breivik posted were lifted, word for word, from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynsk’s tome.◼ Norway suspect wanted European anti-Muslim crusade - AP
Just like the weird Facebook page Breivik had in English – with no friends, no groups and all interests in movies, tv and games 100% American – and the Twitter account made only a couple of days before the terrorism with but one “tweet” — it all looks planned for discovery to frame a narrative.
Police and his lawyer have said that Breivik confessed to the twin attacks, but denied criminal responsibility for a day that shook peaceful Norway to its core and was the deadliest ever in peacetime. Breivik has been charged with terrorism and will be arraigned on Monday.
Geir Lippestad, Breivik's lawyer, said his client has asked for an open court hearing "because he wants to explain himself."
◼ Anders Behring Breivik Facebook Profile A Fake? (UPDATE) - Solid principles
Friday, July 22
More Things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio...
◼ Galactic sized bathtub of water found in space - wattsupwiththat
◼ Giant Undersea Volcanoes Found Off Antarctica - National Geographic
Monday, July 18
Electric Car Maker Crashed and Burned: Salinas Loses $500,000
◼ Electric Car Maker Folds, Salinas Loses $500,000 - ksbw.com
A Salinas car manufacturing company that was expected to build environmentally friendly electric cars and create new jobs folded before almost any vehicles could run off the assembly line.
The city of Salinas had invested more than half a million dollars in Green Vehicles, an electric car start-up company.
All of that money is now gone, according to Green Vehicles President and Co-Founder Mike Ryan.
The start-up company set up shop in Salinas in the summer of 2009, after the city gave Ryan a $300,000 community development grant.
When the company still ran into financial trouble last year, the city of Salinas handed Ryan an additional $240,000. Green Vehicles also received $187,000 from the California Energy Commission.
Read more: http://www.ksbw.com/money/28586219/detail.html#ixzz1SVWeclyg
Why did it fail?
A Salinas car manufacturing company that was expected to build environmentally friendly electric cars and create new jobs folded before almost any vehicles could run off the assembly line.
The city of Salinas had invested more than half a million dollars in Green Vehicles, an electric car start-up company.
All of that money is now gone, according to Green Vehicles President and Co-Founder Mike Ryan.
The start-up company set up shop in Salinas in the summer of 2009, after the city gave Ryan a $300,000 community development grant.
When the company still ran into financial trouble last year, the city of Salinas handed Ryan an additional $240,000. Green Vehicles also received $187,000 from the California Energy Commission.
Read more: http://www.ksbw.com/money/28586219/detail.html#ixzz1SVWeclyg
Why did it fail?
The Global Fairness Madness: The more we have, the more we begrudge others who have more.
◼ VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
"...we are living in a paradox. Never has the Western public been so rich, lived so long, and been given so much government support — through unemployment insurance, food stamps, generous pensions, and medical care. Never has Western technology extended so many conveniences to so many millions, whether new medical technology, iPhones, GPS systems, or personal computers. Never has free-market capitalism created such wealth to fund redistributive government.
Yet the new good life is seen more as a birthright than as a miraculous extension of the extravagances of the very rich to the common man. Never in the history of civilization have two billion workers, in China and India, produced so many goods that have made everything from tennis shoes to plastic chairs so cheap and available — and never has such newfound largess been so underappreciated.
So in the midst of this surfeit of technology and entitlements, Westerners are furious that they cannot have even more — usually as defined by what a few others who are even better off have."
"...we are living in a paradox. Never has the Western public been so rich, lived so long, and been given so much government support — through unemployment insurance, food stamps, generous pensions, and medical care. Never has Western technology extended so many conveniences to so many millions, whether new medical technology, iPhones, GPS systems, or personal computers. Never has free-market capitalism created such wealth to fund redistributive government.
Yet the new good life is seen more as a birthright than as a miraculous extension of the extravagances of the very rich to the common man. Never in the history of civilization have two billion workers, in China and India, produced so many goods that have made everything from tennis shoes to plastic chairs so cheap and available — and never has such newfound largess been so underappreciated.
So in the midst of this surfeit of technology and entitlements, Westerners are furious that they cannot have even more — usually as defined by what a few others who are even better off have."
Sunday, July 17
Return of Ulsterman
◼ Gunwalker and the budget: Crises in the integrity of government - HotAir
If you follow the White House Insider, there’s this from Ulsterman’s FB page yesterday:
WH actively preparing for possible EH resignation. Tied in w/GG. JC set up to keep firewall in place. SIGNIFICANT details to break soon. Obama openly accuses senior cabinet official of acting against him on this. Another outburst. “Screaming at adviser” Critical help from media paying dividends. This WH in very serious trouble. More to come next week. You can share this if you like – want some to know. -INSIDER
http://www.facebook.com/Ulsterman1#!/Ulsterman1/posts/2258109255889
(I don’t know if the guy’s for real, but he’s like catnip to me…..)
TeresainFortWorth
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Gunwalker/Fast & Furious is achieving critical mass, the journOlists aren't going to be able to ignore it anymore.
If you follow the White House Insider, there’s this from Ulsterman’s FB page yesterday:
WH actively preparing for possible EH resignation. Tied in w/GG. JC set up to keep firewall in place. SIGNIFICANT details to break soon. Obama openly accuses senior cabinet official of acting against him on this. Another outburst. “Screaming at adviser” Critical help from media paying dividends. This WH in very serious trouble. More to come next week. You can share this if you like – want some to know. -INSIDER
http://www.facebook.com/Ulsterman1#!/Ulsterman1/posts/2258109255889
(I don’t know if the guy’s for real, but he’s like catnip to me…..)
TeresainFortWorth
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Gunwalker/Fast & Furious is achieving critical mass, the journOlists aren't going to be able to ignore it anymore.
Dan Savage on HBO's 'Real Time': 'I Wish [Republicans] Were All F--king Dead!' Wants To Have Violent Hate Sex With Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. WARNING: terms you've never heard before, EXPLICIT and DESPICABLE
◼ Dan Savage on HBO's 'Real Time': 'I Wish [Republicans] Were All F--king Dead!' - Newsbusters
And more: ◼ HBO 'Real Time' Guests Discuss Having Violent Hate Sex With Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum - Newsbusters
After former Air America comedian Marc Maron said he wanted to have violent hate sex with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), sex advice columnist Dan Savage said he'd like to do the same to Rick Santorum
◼ Krauthammer: 2012 Will Be "The Dirtiest Campaign You Have Ever Seen" - Real Clear Politics
◼ http://www.hbo.com/#/about/contact-us.html
It is time for this to end. CONTACT HBO.
◼ HBO's Real Time (Bill Maher) panel jokes about "angrily" lynching Barack Obama - Femisexhttp://www.femisex.com/content/hbos-real-time-bill-maher-panel-jokes-about-angrily-lynching-barack-obama
Friday, July 15
Earthquake Causes River to Disappear in Costa Rica
◼ Following a series of moderate earthquakes that struck the country Tuesday, residents around the Guacalito River in Costa Rica discovered that the river had disappeared. - yahoo
An entire body of water disappears? Strange but true, and this isn't the first time this odd event has happened.
In 2010, the Iska River in Slovenia disappeared after local residents heard loud crashing and banging overnight. The next morning, the river was dry and the riverbed was full of fish and other creatures. It was believed that the waters of the river had drained through a large crack into an underground riverbed. This disappearance was not believed to have been related to an earthquake.
Most recently -- aside from the disappearing river in Costa Rica -- an entire reservoir in Huntsbury, New Zealand, that was filled with 36 million liters of water disappeared following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The reservoir water disappeared after the earthquake struck Christchurch Feb. 22.
An entire body of water disappears? Strange but true, and this isn't the first time this odd event has happened.
In 2010, the Iska River in Slovenia disappeared after local residents heard loud crashing and banging overnight. The next morning, the river was dry and the riverbed was full of fish and other creatures. It was believed that the waters of the river had drained through a large crack into an underground riverbed. This disappearance was not believed to have been related to an earthquake.
Most recently -- aside from the disappearing river in Costa Rica -- an entire reservoir in Huntsbury, New Zealand, that was filled with 36 million liters of water disappeared following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The reservoir water disappeared after the earthquake struck Christchurch Feb. 22.
"Driving down the street for these meetings is one thing..."
She's unusually giggly....
What can you say? She would have 'deemed' it passed? She'd rather be flown in her former liquor-stocked taxpayer funded jet? Why bother having meetings where you have to listen to people discuss things? What a freak.
Meanwhile, the President, after throwing a tantrum because he can't keep spending like there's no tomorrow, directed the "two camps" to go meet with "their people" - and therein lies the problem. One camp, one job, one purpose - represent ALL the people, not the goddam party. the fundamental thing he cannot see, or do, his posing as a "centrist" is nauseating, right up there with her giggling.
Thursday, July 14
OBAMA WALKS OUT OF DEBT TALKS - Demands His Tax Hikes
He tried the "pass it in a few days or we're all gonna die," he tried threatening to push Granny off the cliff, and finally he pulled the classic Democrat move, the fleebagger, and left the room. He's trapped by his partisan bullying - despite recent attempts to spin him as a "centrist" who has "bent over backwards" to work with Republicans.
He's had years now to have dealt with this, so the hurry up or we're all gonna die thing is ludicrous. He had full control of both houses plus the White House, and he did nothing, and they did nothing.
So, now - the world waits. And we sink deeper into the morass.
Tuesday, July 12
Ex-Congresswoman and Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney- “The ultimate insult to my integrity is we have a black man bombing Africa!”
Chairman of the New Black Panthers Malik Zulu Shabazz - “I don’t want Obama to be successful in bombing Africa and bombing and killing darker people. He hasn’t fired one shot at a white person. Everyone he shoots is black or brown.”
I kid you not. ◼ Militant Blacks: Mr Bigshot, who do you think you are? - therolladailynews.com
I kid you not. ◼ Militant Blacks: Mr Bigshot, who do you think you are? - therolladailynews.com
Monday, July 11
I thought that was Michelle's line... is he confused?
◼ TIME TO 'EAT OUR PEAS'
Never mind that:
◼ (AP) Obama's trillion-dollar tax hike would hit low- and middle-income families - Erica Werner/AP Boston.com via Drudge
◼ Wall St. Journal: Let’s not forget Obama’s already-imposed new taxes - WSJ
◼ Barack Obama: “The LAST THING We Want to Do Is Raise Taxes During a Recession” (2009 Video) - Gateway Pundit
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Sunday, July 10
Saturday, July 9
7.0 quake off Honshu, Japan – no Tsunami Warning
◼ 7.0 quake off Honshu, Japan – no Tsunami Warning - Watts Up With That
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Friday, July 8
Wicked. Stupid. And Mercenary.
◼ DSCC chair hits Koch brothers up for donation - HotAir
now that Democrats need some cash. As chair of the DSCC, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) gave the Kochs a call inviting them to their soiree this summer. If it’s hard to imagine a less enticing invitation than a chance to spend hot, sweltering days with people who routinely paint you as the devil...
For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparagements and ad hominem attacks about us, apparently as part of a concerted political and fundraising strategy. Just recently, Senator Reid wrote in a DSCC fundraising letter that Republicans are trying to “force through their extreme agenda faster than you can say ‘Koch Brothers.’”
So you can imagine my chagrin when I got a letter from you on June 17 asking us to make five-figure contributions to the DSCC. You followed that up with a voicemail* indicating that, if we contributed heavily enough, we would garner an invitation to join you and other Democratic leaders at a retreat in Kiawah Island this September.
I’m hoping you can help me understand the intent of your request because it’s hard not to conclude that DSCC politics have become so cynical that you actually expect people whom you routinely denounce to give DSCC money.
It is troubling that private citizens taking part in the discourse have become the targets of White House and DSCC fundraising missives, and we would certainly encourage you to rethink that approach. Ultimately, I expect voters will see through that and will weigh the issues on the merits alone. But in the meantime, if you could provide me some insight on what exactly you are asking of us and why, I would be most grateful.
Someone in the executive branch must have requested the funding for Gunrunner
◼ Project Gunrunner Got Stimulus Money - John Hayward
◼ Too bad to check: Project Gunrunner was funded by … the stimulus - HotAir
◼ earmark for funding of gunrunner in the stimulus?
So the big question is - WHO put it in there? And then, of course, WHY?
Poster “Domandred” at Free Republic dug through the text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the “Obama stimulus,” and discovered that an earmark of ten million dollars for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives was rolled into the bill.
Part of that earmark came from House Resolution 495, the Southwest Border Violence Reduction Act of 2009. This bill explicitly included $15,000 in funding for Project Gunrunner.
That funding did indeed make it into the Obama stimulus act:
For an additional amount for ‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.We need to know who pushed this Gunrunner funding into the Obama stimulus, and then the President must be made to formally admit – under oath if necessary – either he knew about Project Gunrunner all along… or he had absolutely no idea what was contained in the trillion-dollar stimulus package he boasted of passing without a single Republican vote.
◼ Too bad to check: Project Gunrunner was funded by … the stimulus - HotAir
I really did think it was too bad to check, despite posts about it at PJM, Weasel Zippers, and Free Republic. But I checked. You’ll find complete PDF and text versions of the final stimulus bill right here. Scroll down to page 16 (of 407!) in the PDF version and behold:
For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.And to think, you guys say the stimulus didn’t produce anything. It produced guns for Mexican drug cartels, didn’t it? Says Ben Domenech, in a stroke of perfect black humor: “Shovel ready.”
See what happens when Congress doesn’t read the bills?
◼ earmark for funding of gunrunner in the stimulus?
So the big question is - WHO put it in there? And then, of course, WHY?
Does Michelle Obama Know About This? UPDATED
◼ 93 days in jail for planting a garden in your front yard? - The Agitator
◼ oakparkhatesveggies the victim's blog about the ordeal
this is what we are learning, day by day, about oak park’s positions. they clearly have an agenda, and we think we’ve figured it out. we’ve distilled it down to the basics, in case anyone from the city government needs to understand it:Seems to sum it up. Remember, we are living in Bizarro World.
1. criminals -good. innocent people -bad.
2. ugly flowers and overgrown weeds- good. vegetable plants -bad.
3. pit bulls guarding drug houses -good. tame, friendly, vaccinated dogs- bad.
4. tacky lawn plant arrays -good. neat, tidy, food-producing plants- very bad.
5. city officials being hard to get in touch with, and often hard to track down-good. citizens at home minding their own business- bad.
6. projects that divide people and waste tax dollars-good. projects that bring people together and make citizens happy- bad.
7. people hiding behind locked doors-good. people joining their neighbors and having healthy reasons to be outside- bad.
8. giving a pass to people committing violent crimes-good. giving a pass to people working hard to be in compliance with all the laws- bad.
9. lying when interviewed by news organizations- good. telling the truth and asserting your rights- bad.
10. having vague and ambiguous rules that are selectively enforced- good. being transparent and just- bad.
any questions?
◼ Woman Faces Jail Time For Growing Vegetable Garden in Her Own Front Lawn 0 CBS
Bass has insisted on a jury trial and a pre-trial hearing is set for July 26. If the case goes to court Bass' attorney Solomon Radner does not believe that a jury will convict his client of a crime.
"Michelle Obama plants vegetables on White House front lawn. I don't think the jury is going to think that it's suitable for the White House, but it's not suitable for Oak Park," said Radner.
The first lady's office, which is encouraging growing fresh vegetables to help fight childhood obesity, declined to comment on the Oak Park vegetable case.
Wednesday, July 6
Soundbites are bad enough
@askobama TWITTERING the economy is pathetic, and somewhat sickening. The modern day equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns.
Obama is a joke. But I doubt you will see the comedians do this one justice.
Obama is a joke. But I doubt you will see the comedians do this one justice.
Tuesday, July 5
Do you think Gerald Laughner's gun could have anything to do with Gunwalker?
It's an intriguing question. h/t: gf
Monday, July 4
New breed of ‘super PACs,’ other independent groups could define 2012 campaign
◼ New breed of ‘super PACs,’ other independent groups could define 2012 campaign - Washington Post
Watch for massive Soros ties, ACORN under another name and Union monies being boosted well in advance of any and all campaigning.
One commercial accuses the president of worsening the deficit and says, “It’s time to take away Obama’s blank check.” Another attacks Republican tax and Medicare policies, saying, “We can’t rebuild America if they tear down the middle class.” So begins the shadow campaign of 2012, in which a new breed of “super PACs” and other independent groups are poised to spend more money than ever to sway federal elections. The first major ads look as if they came from a regular campaign. But they were produced and aired by groups independent of Obama and his GOP rivals.
Watch for massive Soros ties, ACORN under another name and Union monies being boosted well in advance of any and all campaigning.
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The state's budget is balanced, housing prices are rising and the labor market is tight. A virtuous circle is in play. More economic activity leads to more investment, which leads to more employment, which in turn creates more demand for all sorts of goods and services. The state has natural resources in abundance, and is prospering by exporting them.
◼ North Dakota, Spurred by Energy and Ag Boom, Has 3.2 Percent Unemployment - Daniel Gross, Yahoo Finance
In May nonfarm payroll employment was up 4.3 percent from the year before, and the unassuming state sported a gaudy 3.2 percent unemployment rate. In several counties, the rate is below one percent. The state jobs office has 15,205 listings, up 64 percent from May 2010. North Dakota, which is one of the smallest states by population (about 670,000) and one of the largest geographically, has .7 unemployed persons for every job opening. In the U.S., the labor force participation rate is an anemic 64.2 percent. In North Dakota, it stands at 74 percent...Lessons?
it's not just about oil. North Dakota's prolific agricultural economy that is benefiting from global boom in commodities. Without bragging, state officials will let you know that the state is the largest single producer in the U.S. of fourteen crops, including barley, canola, durum wheat and navy beans.
Friday, July 1
It's an interesting way to look at it
As with all things blame-Republicans and avoid-Obama-taking-responsibility-for-his-own-actions and failings, this time, rather than admit that the reason wealthy Jewish donors are bailing on Obama is because of HIS horrible treatment of Israel and his apparent support of their relentless attackers, and his disgraceful treatment of Benjamin Netanyahu, the game is to blame "conservative attacks on Obama’s Israel stance" for "defections among Jewish voters and donors."
So now there's a full court press to convince said donors that the Emperor does indeed have robes of glittering, bejewelled gossamer.
◼ Obama to shore up Jewish support
In the same vein as "Love Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry" - he shouldn't HAVE to go ◼ "preparing a big offensive," but his actions, instead, have told the story.
And, they've been warned, if they believe the "say anything' that is about to be unleashed, they will find themselves even more severely betrayed once he has nothing to lose, as a lame-duck.
This time, the fate of Israel, and the world, may depend on it.
So now there's a full court press to convince said donors that the Emperor does indeed have robes of glittering, bejewelled gossamer.
◼ Obama to shore up Jewish support
In the same vein as "Love Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry" - he shouldn't HAVE to go ◼ "preparing a big offensive," but his actions, instead, have told the story.
And, they've been warned, if they believe the "say anything' that is about to be unleashed, they will find themselves even more severely betrayed once he has nothing to lose, as a lame-duck.
This time, the fate of Israel, and the world, may depend on it.
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