Handy Dandy Stimulus Flow Chart

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT: 1,200 LIMOS, 140 PRIVATE PLANES...

VIDEO: Climate Change Delegates Begin Arriving...

Black unemployment reaches Great Depression levels

I would say that a certain voting block (a block that voted 90% for a single candidate) should realize that votes matter.
Our lack of Job creation is due entirely to a false stimulus, rather than business tax cuts.

Black unemployment reaches Great Depression levels: BVN

A Gullible Tool

While Obama spoke

While Obama spoke before the cadets, some slept, others read...

party crasher

Reality: CO2 only 4% of Greenhouse Gases

Dr. Tim Ball, a for-real climatologist and AGW skeptic, makes an important point that is being missed as the whole ClimateGate story unfolds: It's NOT the CO₂, Stupid!

Several scientists have known for years the science was wrong and the CRU with a few others were doing things beyond normal scientific techniques to mislead the public. We couldn't compete with the deliberate media misinformation, personal attacks and frightening orchestration disclosed in the hacked emails. Now we have the weapon but it is an atomic bomb ignored by the mainstream media and the politicians.

The key was CO2 and why it received so much attention? It's less than 4 percent of the greenhouse gases and a minuscule part of the total complexity that creates weather. Yet it's the sole focus of all climate and energy policy when it doesn't cause global warming or climate change. In fact, in every record of any duration for any period in the earth's history temperature increase precedes CO2 increase.

Recall Al Gore's oft-shown CO2 and temperature graph? It's been known for years that this cause-and-effect relationship between planet temperature and atmospheric CO2 was not nearly as simple as that. In fact, it's the opposite of what Gore contends:

For those not aware of the issue, ice core data, like that shown by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth, initially showed a very strong and compelling correlation between CO2 and temperature. Not only did CO2 look like a driver of climate, it looked like the driver. But Gore is very careful how he presents this chart in his movie (one of his Really Big Charts). The reason is that by the time of the movie, better instrumentation and lab procedure had shown that temperature increases in the ice core data actually preceded CO2 increases by 800 or more years. CO2 was being increased by heating of the oceans and outgassing of CO2 from them, not the other way around.

Analysis of ice core data from Antarctica by Indermühle et al. (GRL, vol. 27, p. 735, 2000), who find that CO₂ lags behind the temperature by 1200±700 years. Source

Dr. Ball continues:

The only place where CO2 causes temperature increase is in the doctored computer models of the CRU and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). People involved in climategate also controlled key chapters of the IPCC Reports including those on atmospheric composition; paleoclimates (reconstruction of past climate); computer models and the Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM). Manipulation of data, falsification of temperature graphs, control of publishing and peer review, selective inclusion of variables and mechanisms in computer models were all designed to make it appear CO2 was the sole driving mechanism of temperature.

They've moved the goalposts again as they did when global warming became climate change and carbon credits became cap and trade. The focus is Climategate when it should be how even excluding rigged data the science is wrong. Scientists involved in the 'climategate' scandal have successfully diverted attention from the real issue with their denials. The mainstream media whose silence is either deafening or defensive have enabled them.

Disclosure of the extent and degree of the scandal leads to the obvious question. "What's the motive?" There are two streams, the political and the scientific, which appear separate but are closely conjoined. [...] The 1974 report of the Club of Rome titled, Mankind at the Turning Point says, "It would seem that humans need a common motivation…either a real one or else one invented for the purpose...In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself." (my emphasis).

H. L. Mencken's comment that, "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule" is validated.

Predictions of disaster are in the Report of Working Group II of the IPCC are based solely on the false science prepared by Working Group I controlled by the CRU gang. This provides the emotional leverage to support Strong's objective of shutting down industry, establishing equalization of wealth and one world government.

It's all about control. By the elite Euro-Liberal-Socialist Ruling Class over You and Me, the Stupid Folk.

what to believe, if anything, from Obama

Trying to please everyone while having it both ways...

Did Obama Lie To McCain, Or CBS?

From a new item up at CBS:

After the briefing, Gibbs went to the president for clarification. Gibbs then called me to his office to relate what the president said. The president told him it IS locked in – there is no flexibility. Troops WILL start coming home in July 2011. Period. It's etched in stone. Gibbs said he even had the chisel.

Back to an item I posted earlier via CongressDaily. McCain was challenging Obama on the very same point.

These sources said the president responded to McCain by promising that the withdrawal would be based on conditions on the ground.

Talk about trying to please everyone while having it both ways.

Global Warming is a LIE!

Via Stand Up for America.

brain washed sheeple

Compliments of Diversity Lane.

ha ha ha

Dem's budget deficit just for the month of October, at $127 billion, was larger than the deficit for the entire 2007 Fiscal Year (the last budget authored by a Republican president and Congress.)

It was also revealed that $6.4 Billion in Stimulus money was sent to congressional districts that don't exist.

Smart Car

Entertaining story of bias at MSNBC

This is bizarre how this obviously biased MSNBC reporter tries to talk a 17 year old out of her opinion and her position...

The reporter tries to push some made up story of how Palin was for the Bailout.

The most that could be true about that was that McCain was for the Bailout, and McCain forced Palin into a dubious short term position. Palin was and is a better candidate for president than McCain, Obama and Biden combined, by far.

What is really refreshing is the 17 year old, who holds firm in her principles and stands by her own convictions! I'm glad she will be voting for Palin in 2012, so will I. I'll vote early and I'll vote often!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUgfizk4BHI

Norah O'Donnell Grills A Young Girl For Her Support Of Sarah Palin

Source: www.youtube.com

Can't the young girl just get her book signed without being interrogated by MSNBC? Is she supposed to know about the bailout? Good Grief....

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MSNBC Correspondent verbally accosts 17-year old girl at Grand Rapids Book Signing

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/11/msnbc-correspondent-accosts-17-year-old.html

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Ram it down our throat in 09 - we'll shove it up your ass in 10

Very funny!

and true

Get the Lawyers out of the Doctor's Office

found

Dems: Breast Cancer, no problem, don't get a test, just die

Hey Dude,
What does your wife think about the latest snake-oil gimmick of the Demonrats?

They are saying that people under 50 shouldn't get breast cancer tests every year, and that's their way of rationing. Now it is a recommendation, but if Obamacare goes into effect, it will become a mandate. I heard that 9000 women a year in PA are diagnosed with breast cancer, and many of them are under 50. I know someone who is 45, was found to have early cancer, and was successfully treated. She used to complain about having to pay for health insurance. Not any more. Many others opt to buy big screen TVs instead of health care. What a stupid choice. I suspect that quite a few of the so-called have-nots, who don't have insurance, DO have big screen TVs.

That's your lovely government for you. Hope and Change, and Death Panels. But to be sure, government doesn't care about your health, they only want to control your lives.

"There's no political agenda with regard to these recommendations."

Yea, right!

SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE: ALL OF A SUDDEN HEALTH OFFICIALS WANT WOMEN TO GET FEWER CERVICAL CANCER TESTS TOO!

HMMMMMMMMMM... JUST LIKE THE BREAST TESTS:

New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.

The advice, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is meant to decrease unnecessary testing and potentially harmful treatment, particularly in teenagers and young women. The group's previous guidelines had recommended yearly testing for young women, starting within three years of their first sexual intercourse, but no later than age 21.

Arriving on the heels of hotly disputed guidelines calling for less use of mammography, the new recommendations might seem like part of a larger plan to slash cancer screening for women. But the timing was coincidental, said Dr. Cheryl B. Iglesia, the chairwoman of a panel in the obstetricians' group that developed the Pap smear guidelines. The group updates its advice regularly based on new medical information, and Dr. Iglesia said the latest recommendations had been in the works for several years, "long before the Obama health plan came into existence."

She called the timing crazy, uncanny and "an unfortunate perfect storm," adding, "There's no political agenda with regard to these recommendations."

Palin photographer breached contract with sale to Newsweek

Sarah is not the problem, as Newsweek claims.

Government is the problem!!

Sarah is the solution!!!

Gov. Palin's daughter arrested in LA on DUI

(AP) – 20 hours ago

LOS ANGELES — The daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin has been arrested in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk.

Los Angeles police say 36-year-old Alexandra Palin was stopped by officers on a Hollywood street at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday and failed a sobriety test.

Officer Bruce Borihanh says she was booked at the Hollywood police station and was held for about five hours. She was released at about 5:30 a.m. after posting $5,000 bail.

Borihanh didn't immediately have other details.

Alexandra Palin is the eldest daughter of the former governor of Alaska, the Republican's 2008 vice-presidential nominee.

She has produced documentaries and has had several small acting roles.

Requests for comment from Alexandra Palin's agent and Sarah Palin's office were not immediately returned.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Can you imagine the media reaction...?

Sarah Palin Gives Oprah Her Highest Ratings In Two Years

THR.com reports:

Oprah Winfrey's interview with former vp candidate Sarah Palin scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years. Monday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" drew a 8.7 household rating and 13 share -- the best since Oprah had the entire Osmond family on the show in 2007. That means Palin also topped Oprah's heavily viewed interviews with Whitney Houston at the start of the season.
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Confirmed: Newsweek Cover of Palin Is Sexist, So Says -- Media Matters???

I kid you not! Media Matters for America, the left-wing organization that is Soros-funded and Clinton backed, has called out Newsweek on its blatant sexism in putting a cheesecake Palin photo on its front cover:

Sexism and media bias all rolled into one one big stinky ball journalistic liberal activism. The Media Matters story is headlining the links over at memeorandum:

From Media Matters:

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin, her new book, and her policies, but you don't have to stoop to sexism to do it. Newsweek's November 23 issue, however, does just that by publishing on its cover a photo of Palin in short running shorts and a fitted top, leaning against the American flag. Making matters worse is the equally offensive headline Newsweek editors chose to run alongside the photo -- "How Do You Solve a Problem like Sarah?" -- presumably a reference to the Sound of Music song, "Maria," in which nuns fret about "how" to "solve a problem like Maria," a "girl" who "climbs trees" and whose "dress has a tear."

Like her or not, Palin is a former governor and vice presidential candidate. She deserves the same respect every single one of her male counterparts receives when they are featured on the cover of the magazine. I must have missed the cover of Vice President Joe Biden in short shorts or of Mitt Romney in a bathing suit.

Newsweek's sexist treatment of Palin doesn't get any better inside its pages. The mag ran this photo to lead off its "Features" section, which focused on Palin:

Then, for no apparent reason, illustrating Christopher Hitchens' piece on "Palin's base appeal," Newsweek ran a picture of this disgusting Sarah Palin-as-a-slutty-schoolgirl doll:

What kind of message is the magazine trying to send here?

There's more, but wow. Never thought I would agree, and link, to anything MM has to say, especially in regards to Palin. It is true that even a broken clock is correct twice a day. More commentary from Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Outside The Beltway, Hot Air, Don Surber, Villainous Company, Another Black Conservative, Gateway Pundit, NewsBusters.org, Dr. Melissa Clouthier and The Other McCain

Obama Debt, up to 81.7 % GDP

IRS: Americans were never taxed for receiving tax credits, Amount Due April 15

Hey Dude! Get ready to OWE the IRS big time next April.
It turns out Obama and the Dems gave you all that money, but didn't tax you, so guess what: you are in for it!

Barack Obama Called. He Wants Your Tax Credit Back.

Remember those $400.00 and $800.00 tax credits Barack Obama gave you in his stimulus plan? And remember that $250.00 gift he gave social security recipients?

Well, Obama decided he wants them back. Yep. According to the IRS, Obama has never asked for an adjustment of the tax tables, so millions of Americans are going to get taxed for having received the tax credits back in February — typically through adjustments the federal government demanded businesses make in employees' withholdings.

Exclusive Sneak Peak: CNN Poll Results on Palin's Presidential Chances

Breaking news on a surprising CNN poll

Apparently, CNN's poll of almost all Democrats believe Governor Sarah Palin is not qualified to save or create non-existent jobs; fail to make important military decisions; destroy the value of the dollar; spike unemployment; create massive new entitlement programs and enact oppressive new taxes on Americans.

Go figure.

Obama's America

Obama's America: More Go Hungry (But It's Okay Because He's Trying Really Super Hard)

WSJ: Gore admits CO2 not main cause of global warming

For what it's worth, Gore has admitted that CO2 is not the main cause of global warming.

Terrorist trail in N.Y. and discovery

Smooth move,. Mr. Obama...
Bringing the terrorist mastermind to U.S. soil, (N.Y.) where terror attacks might happen, and letting him have a trail by jury, where anything can happen, and through the 'discovery' process, letting him have access to U.S. secrets, and effectively putting our own CIA on trial. Very smart...

He already pleaded guilty, why not try him in a military tribunal, then shoot him?

KSM trial in New York: An intelligence bonanza for Al Qaeda.

BrokeBank Mountain

With Bo and Joe, America is in for one helluva ride!

linx

Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan...

Obama should get us out of there!

Castro's obsession with Obama; He thinks he's doing great...

Birds of a feather flock together..

Treasury Confident Congress Will Increase $12.1 Trillion Debt Ceiling...

Obama and the Dems burden us with so much debt, it may be our downfall!

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Go Palin!

Going Rogue: An American Life
by Sarah Palin
Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257
By the third week in September, a "Free Sarah" campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp's decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor's staff all bottled up. Meanwhile, the question of which news outlet would land the first interview was a big deal, as it always is with a major party candidate.

From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News. The campaign's general strategy involved coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall Street Journal. I really didn't have a say in which press I was going to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on the Katie bandwagon.

"Katie really likes you," she said to me one day. "she's a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you," Nicolle said. "believe me, I know her very well. I've worked with her." Nicolle had left her gig at CBS just a few months earlier to hook up with the McCain campaign. I had to trust her experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had. But something always struck me as peculiar about the way she recalled her days in the White House, when she was speaking on behalf of President George W. Bush. She didn't have much to say that was positive about her former boss or the job in general. Whenever I wanted to give a shout-out to the White House's homeland security efforts after 9/11, we were told we couldn't do it. I didn't know if that was Nicolle's call.

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. "She just has such low self-esteem," Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. "She just feels she can't trust anybody."

I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain's campaign how?

Nicolle said. "She wants you to like her."

Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn't going very well.

"You know what? We'll schedule a segment with her," Nicolle said. "If it doesn't go well, if there's no chemistry, we won't do any others."

Meanwhile, the media blackout continued. It got so bad that a couple of times I had a friend in Anchorage track down phone numbers for me, and then I snuck in calls to folks like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and someone I thought was Larry Kudlow but turned out to be Neil Cavuto's producer. I had a friend call Bill O'Reilly after I was inundated with supporters in Alaska asking why the campaign was "ignoring" his on-air requests for a McCain campaign interview. I had another friend scrambling to find Mark Levin's number. Aboard the campaign plane I was within twenty-five feet of reporters for hours on end. Headquarters' strategy was that I should not go to the back of the aircraft and talk to the press. At first this was subtle, but as the campaign wore on, Tracey or Tucker would call headquarters to request permission, and someone in DC would respond, "No! Absolutely not- block her if she tries to go back."

What Government Health Insurance reform amounts to

John Cassidy, New Yorker --

"it's important to be clear about what the reform amounts to."

"The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment"

"Let's not pretend that it isn't a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It won't. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind."

ObamaCare serves the twin goals of "making the United States a more equitable country and furthering the Democrats' political calculus." The purpose is to further "redistribute income" by putting "health care further under government control", and in the process making the "middle class more dependent on government". As the party of government, "Democrats will benefit over the long run".

"Putting on my amateur historian's cap, I might even claim that some subterfuge is historically necessary to get great reforms enacted."

Obama won't deny Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance, compares to auto insurance

From ABC...
Obama doesn't deny it's in the house bill: Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance

link

Obama and the Democrats continue to compare government health insurance to auto insurance. The comparison doesn't hold up. Auto insurance is only for those who 'choose' to drive. You can choose NOT to drive, many many people do not drive. Additionally auto insurance is to protect the other guy, not necessarily you. The 'mandate' for auto insurance is only for drivers so that the other guy is protected, you are NOT mandated to have insurance for your own vehicle. If government ultimately wants to mandate 'CATASTROPHIC' health insurance for individuals, at a much LOWER price than the price they have in mind, then fine, but that's not what's in the house bill. What's written into the house bill passed at midnight last Saturday night is that everyone is mandated to have an all encompassing health care plan, one that covers everything, including routine visits to the doctor, mental health, and many other kinds of insurance for things that people may not need or want. That's tyranny, that's not constitutional, to force people to do more than the catastrophic kind of insurance which covers only the very expensive unforeseen procedures like auto accidents and bypass surgery, for instance.

Hell NO I don't trust government

Bay Bridge holds a lesson for health care reform

By: Mary L.G. Theroux
November 9, 2009

Trust no one: As Bay Area residents continue to use a Bay Bridge with a Band-Aid fix, we should be asking ourselves if government has our best interests in mind. (Examiner file photo)

Whether or not you like it, Congress' health care bill ultimately comes down to one question: How much faith do you have that a politically appointed committee in Washington, D.C., can determine what's best? After last week's Bay Bridge failure, Bay Area residents would do well to consider the obvious parallel. If the government can't build a bridge that keeps us safe, can it really be trusted with the future of American health care?

...link...

Can you hear me now?

Via Quacking Alone

Unemployment skyrockets under Obama, now 10.2

I guess Hope is not a strategy, and Change is for the worse...

Ft. Hood terrorist had close ties to Obama

If this had been Bush, you would have heard all about the ties in the MSM !

Former president George W. Bush wasted no time getting to Fort Hood to comfort survivors of the latest devastating Islamic terror attack on our soil. Yet the Marxist community activist we're asked to regard as the current president couldn't be bothered; he was too busy loafing at Camp David.

Maybe he just didn't want to draw attention to Nidal Malik Hasan's loose ties to the Obama Administration:

In 2008 The George Washington University Homeland Security Institute (HSPI) initiated a transition task force to help craft homeland security policies during Obama's transition period. In May of 2009 HSPI finished its report titled, "Thinking Anew-Security Priorities for the Next Administration." One of the members of this Obama transition project was none other than the Muslim murderer Nidal Hassan.

Hasan has also been loosely linked to Al Qaeda:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.

As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset, his attendance at the mosque could be an important piece of the jigsaw. Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January, 2001, from the west coast, and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker attended his services in California.

Granted these links are much looser than Obama's close ties to Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, but they do give us only two degrees of separation between Al Qaeda and the Obamination Administration, through Hasan. Maybe that also explains why the liberal establishment is trying desperately to spin off the terror attack as a case of "compassion fatigue," ignoring the killer's screams of "Allahu Akhbar" before opening fire.

On tips from Wiggins, V the K,

5 years in jail for failing to purchase Pelosi care... It's in there read it.

Thus far nobody has explained where in our Constitution it gives the Imperial Federal Government the power to jail someone for a period of five years for failing to purchase a health insurance policy. But what the hell does Nancy Pelosi care about our Constitution, anyway?

Tyranny to the Nth degree, far worse than Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany or Maoist China!!
Heil Pelosi!!

PelosiCare vote, final margin of three to pass.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml

Altmire voted No, but don't be fooled... If Pelosi would have needed more votes, he would have caved.

The Dems who voted Nay did so with Pelosi permission once the votes were secured - to try to save their seats. Clever Dems. The bill contains payoffs, exemptions, and hand-outs to every Dem interest group that can be imagined, the least of which is that Federal employees including the politicians are exempt from the plan. Plus, of course, no malpractice reform.

http://media3.vindy.com/img/photos/2008/10/13/10142008-b3-altmire_t180.jpg

Dummies elect Jackass - who breaks campaign promises and votes for PelosiCare

Democrats are all Jackasses!
And what a bunch of dummies in NY23 to elect a Jackass!!

Can't wait for 2010 elections!!!

Dem Bill Owens Takes 1 Hour to Break 4 Campaign Promises

Saturday, November 7, 2009, 8:50 AM

Jim Hoft

NY-23 Congressman Bill Owens took one hour to break four campaign promises.
owens
After being sworn into the US House the New York democrat announced that he had changed his mind and would endorse Pelosi's nationalized health care plan after all.
The Gouverneur reported, via RedState:

Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today.

Owens indicated in a press release that he was now in favor of the bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during his campaign.

According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill. Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.

Of course, this surprises no one.

Huge Hidden Tax in Government health insurance.

There is a huge 'Hidden Tax' built into The House bill that was just passed by the Pelosi congress by the slimest of margins.

It's this: If you actually work for a living, and your employer drops coverage (likely for 100+ million U.S. workers, by most estimates), guess what: that coverage was not taxable to you.

How much more pre-tax money do you have to earn to make up for that loss of coverage with after tax dollars?

Will that cover your new government health insurance plan?

Not very likely. In fact, it's not even close.

It's an insidious hidden tax. Why do they want to ram their socialist government control down all our collective throats?

The Republic plan would have fixed what is broke, not take over the whole system.

Here's an article that discusses other hidden taxes in this plan:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_46/b4155030836539.htm

NBC: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

NBC: "But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That's the least that should occur. "

Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

Source: www.nbcchicago.com

A wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president.

Tyranny of the first degree

Sounds a bit like tyranny to me...

For any of the scientists who do not buy into this global warming scam, Barack Obama says "We'll just have to deal with those people."

How Beautiful We Were

Until progressive liberals came along to make huge inroads into destroying it.
How beautiful we were, and will never be again, until we eschew liberalism and socialism!

American Digest:

We had car shows, boat shows, beauty shows and dog shows.

We ran robots on the surface of Mars by remote control.

Our women came from all over the world in all shapes and sizes hues and scents.

We actually believed that all men are created equal and tried to make it come true.

Everybody liked our movies and loved our television shows.

We tried to educate everybody, whether they wanted it or not. Sometimes we succeeded.

We did Levis.

We held the torch high and hundreds of millions came. No matter what the cost.

We saved Europe twice and liberated it once.

We believed so deeply and so abidingly in free speech that we protected and even honored and in some cases even elected traitors.

We let you be as freaky as you wanted to be.

We paid you not to plant crops and not to work.

We died in the hundreds of thousands to end slavery here and around the world.

We invented Jazz.

We wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysberg address.

We went to the moon to see how far we could hit a golf ball...

Read the rest at American Digest.

Save us from socialism...

Can the 10th Amendment save us?

It's time to restore Framers' vision of limited government

By Cal Thomas

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

The Framers created a limited government, thus ensuring that individuals would have the opportunity to become all that their talents and persistence would allow. The left has put aside the original Constitution in favor of a "living document" that they believe allows them to do whatever they want and demand more tax dollars with which to do it.

Can they be stopped? Some constitutional scholars think the 10th Amendment offers the best opportunity. The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

In 1939, the Supreme Court began to dilute constitutional language so that it became open to broader interpretation. Robert G. Natelson, professor of constitutional law and legal history at the University of Montana, has written that even before Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing scheme, it was changing the way the Constitution was interpreted, especially "how the commerce and taxing powers were turned upside-down, the necessary and proper clauses and incidental powers, the false claim that the Supreme Court is conservative, how bad precedent leads to more bad court rulings, state elections as critical for constitutional activists, and more."

While during the last seven decades the court has tolerated the federal welfare state, Mr. Natelson says it has never, except in wartime, "authorized an expansion of the federal scope quite as large as what is being proposed now. And in recent years, both the Court and individual justices - even 'liberal' justices - have said repeatedly that there are boundaries beyond which Congress may not go. ... Chief Justice John Marshall once wrote that if Congress were to use its legitimate powers as a 'pretext' for assuming an unauthorized power, 'it would become the painful duty' of the Court 'to say that such an act was not the law of the land.' "

It would be nice to know now what those boundaries are and whether Congress is exceeding its powers as it prepares to alter one-sixth of our economy and change how we access health insurance and health care.

Mr. Natelson makes a fascinating argument in his essay "Is ObamaCare Constitutional?" using the court's Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973. In Roe, he writes, the court struck down state abortion laws that "intruded into the doctor-patient relationship. But the intrusion invalidated in Roe was insignificant compared to the massive intervention contemplated by schemes such as HB3200. 'Global budgeting' and 'single-payer' plans go even further and seem clearly to violate the Supreme Court's Substantive Due Process rules."

Constitutional attorney John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, tells me, "Although the states surrendered many of their powers to the new federal government, they retained a residuary and inviolable sovereignty that is reflected throughout the Constitution's text. The Framers rejected the concept of a central government that would act upon and through the states, and instead designed a system in which the state and federal governments would exercise concurrent authority over the people. The Court's jurisprudence makes clear that the federal government may not compel the states to enact or administer a federal regulatory program."

Lawyers are busy writing language only they can understand, which seeks to circumvent the intentions of the Founders. But it will be difficult to circumvent the last four words of the 10th Amendment, which state unambiguously where ultimate power lies: "or to the people."

Americans who believe their government should not be a giant ATM, dispensing money and benefits to people who have not earned them, and who want their country returned to its founding principles, must exercise that power before it is taken from them. The 10th Amendment is one place to begin. The streets are another. It worked for the left.

Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist.

What turned the tide....

Update (10:30 PM): Or actually, a flashback to last week, when Neil Cavuto said, "If, and it is certainly a big if, Republican challenger Chris Christie goes on to win the New Jersey gubernatorial election next week, I think I will know what turned the tide…":

YouTube Link

A Dream Come True For Al Gore

posted at 1:26 pm on November 3, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat
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And a nightmare for those of us still resisting the junk science of global cooling global warming climate change imminent anthropogenic (but particularly American and conservative led) global meltdown chaos theory.

Fresh out of the United Kingdom today comes news that,

Judge rules that green views are the "same as religious beliefs" as sacked environmentalist wins legal battle.

Yeah, you read that right. Though we've long known it, the faith dimension of the environmentalists has been fully recognized by the UK judiciary. Does this mean that Al Gore can now officially be equated with the Son of God?

Cue the opening of the floodgates for a veritable sh*tstorm of entirely frivolous and wholly unnecessary lawsuits in the UK, not to mention reams of new legislation covering enviro-worship and affording these persecuted modern day prophets/martyrs with the protection of the State.

Once again, the UK is the trailblazer in setting moronic, not to mention insanely self-destructive, trends.

So how long will it be before this judicial masterpiece makes its way across the pond?

Debt: Dems are 'BAD' ON STEROIDS

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag warned Tuesday that large federal deficits will eventually imperil the U.S. economy. Gee, ya think?

Eventually? These people are a bunch of dummies! We're already in the midst of PERIL! The deficit under Obama and the Democrats is quadruple the average from Bush. If Bush was bad for debt, Obama and the Democrats are 'BAD' ON STEROIDS!

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Get rid of Sarbanes-Oxley

Yes! The first good thing that the Obama administration has done! Let's hope they follow this through to the end.

We need to punt this horrid legislation!!!

The Obama administration is apparently pushing Democrats in the House to reform the hideous act of 2002 known as Sarbanes-Oxley. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is spearheading the campaign to spare small public companies from complying with the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. Rep. Carolyn Maloney is set to add the exemption to the House financial reform bill for firms with market values of less than $75 million. One Representative, John Adler, wants to increase that figure to firms with a market value below $700 million, until the SEC can figure out how to reduce compliance costs.

How much are we talking about in compliance costs? From Bloomberg: Small companies voluntarily adhering to the audit requirements said they spent $690,219 on average in their most recent fiscal year, according to an SEC survey in October. Businesses with market capitalizations from $75 million to $700 million spent $1 million and the largest U.S. corporations spent $3.99 million, the SEC said.

Dear Obamacare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZraskhJVKeA
A tax (fine) of $1000 for not enrolling in Obamacare + Cutting Medicare $400 Billion, no problem, it's worth it!

Government Health Care Spot 2

Source: www.youtube.com

Claim of consensus is fake

Scientists' Open Letter to Senate: 'Claim of consensus is fake'

The following letter signed by five physicists was sent to all 100 U.S. Senator's on October 29, 2009. The letter is reproduced in full below:

A GAGGLE IS NOT A CONSENSUS

You have recently received a letter from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), purporting to convey a "consensus" of the scientific community that immediate and drastic action is needed to avert a climatic catastrophe.

We do not seek to make the scientific arguments here (we did that in an earlier letter, sent a couple of months ago), but simply to note that the claim of consensus is fake, designed to stampede you into actions that will cripple our economy, and which you will regret for many years. There is no consensus, and even if there were, consensus is not the test of scientific validity. Theories that disagree with the facts are wrong, consensus or no.

We know of no evidence that any of the "leaders" of the scientific community who signed the letter to you ever asked their memberships for their opinions, before claiming to represent them on this important matter.

We also note that the American Physical Society (APS, and we are physicists) did not sign the letter, though the scientific issues at stake are fundamentally matters of applied physics. You can do physics without climatology, but you can't do climatology without physics.

The APS is at this moment reviewing its stance on so-called global warming, having received a petition from its membership to do so. That petition was signed by 160 distinguished members and fellows of the Society, including one Nobelist and 12 members of the National Academies. Indeed a score of the signers are Members and Fellows of the AAAS, none of whom were consulted before the AAAS letter to you.

Professor Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor Fred Singer, University of Virginia

Professor Will Happer, Princeton University

Professor Larry Gould, University of Hartford

Dr. Roger Cohen, retired Manager, Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil

List of 160 signers of the APS petition available at http://tinyurl.com/lg266u

Socialist medicine

NYT: GORE'S BIG PROFITS FROM 'GLOBAL WARMING'...

NYT: GORE'S BIG PROFITS FROM 'GLOBAL WARMING'...

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What a hypocrite!

How dare we calculate the real cost of the stimulus...

ABC: $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse'

Of the 640,329 jobs cited today, White House officials said 80,000 were in the construction sector and more than half -- 325,000 -- were education jobs, despite President Obama's claim in January that 90 percent of the stimulus jobs would be in the private sector.

Prandtl-Glauert singularity

Prandtl-Glauert singularity, the rare scientific phenomenon that looks as cool as its name.

NASA's Ares rocket was launched earlier this week

iWe need to ihear from you

Now they are tracking people....

- iSent from an iPhone

iBegin forwarded iMessage:

iFrom: "iMitch iStewart, iBarackObama.com" <spammy@ibarackobama.com>
iDate: iOctober 30, 2009 10:25:13 iAM iEDT
iTo: <dude@iphoneapp.net>
iSubject: iWe need to hear from you
iReply-To: spammy@ibarackobama.com

iFriend --

I noticed that you haven't yet voted in our iHealth iReform iVideo iChallenge. Votes are pouring in, but we need to hear from everyone about which ad we should run on television nationally.

iCan you rate the videos now?

http://spammy.ibarackobama.com/VideoChallenge

iThanks,

iMitch

i.P.S. -- iHere's iNatalie's email from earlier this week, further explaining the challenge:

--------iOriginal Message--------
iFrom: iNatalie iFoster, iBarackObama.com
iSubject: Top 20 videos: Watch and vote

iFriend--

We just finished going through the submissions to iOFA's iHealth iReform iVideo iChallenge, and they're great. iThere are personal stories that grab your heart, brilliant summaries of what reform would really mean, and plenty of biting satire that calls out the insurance lobbyists.

iOut of nearly a thousand excellent videos submitted, we're down to the top 20. iNow it's your turn to watch the finalists and vote for your favorites -- and then we'll air the winner on national television.

iWatch and vote on the finalists now.

iThe top 20 ads will also be voted on by our panel of experts and artists, including iBlack iiEyed iPeas frontman iwill.i.am, animator and director iSeth iMacFarlane, actress iKate iWalsh, iObama for iAmerica campaign manager iDavid iPlouffe, and iDemocratic iNational iCommittee iChairman iTim iKaine.

iIt couldn't be more urgent for us to get these ifunny, ipowerful, and iieye-opening messages out to the public. As the full iCongress begins its final debate on reform, airing the winning video as an ad on national television could help itip the balance toward enacting the changes they've been talking about for years in Washington.

iPolls close at midnight on iFriday, iNovember 6th, so don't waste a minute: iWatch the ifinalists and vote for your ifavorites right away:

http://spammy.ibarackobama.com/iVideoChallenge

iThanks, and go get started,

iNatalie

iNatalie iFoster
iNew iMedia iDirector

P.S. -- Help spread the word: After you vote, make sure you send this on to friends and family so they can check out the finalists.

http://spammy.ibarackobama.com/VideoChallenge

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A CONTRIBUTION WILL NOT INCREASE ODDS OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Contest open only to U.S. citizens who are legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia and 18 or older (or of majority in entrant's state). Contest starts 12:01 AM ET on 9/26/09 and ends 11:59 PM ET on 10/18/09. Winners will be selected by 11/7/09 and notified by phone and/or e-mail by 11/9/09. One winner will receive the following prize: all or part of the winner's video may be used in a TV ad associated with DNC's health reform campaign (approximate retail value: $0). Twenty finalists will be selected by a panel of judges comprised of DNC employees; the winner will be selected by public voters and a panel of experts. Entries will be judged on the following criteria: the most apt, creative, original and interesting video; demonstrated impact concerning supporting health insurance reform; and clarity of message concerning supporting health insurance reform. Odds of winning depend on the number and quality of eligible entries received. Contest subject to Official Rules. To enter, create an original 30-second video supporting health insurance reform, upload the video to http://www.iyoutube.com, and complete the entry form at http://spammy.ibarackobama.com/videochallenge. For full details, restrictions and Official Rules, visit http://spammy.ibarackobama.com/videochallenge. Sponsor: Democratic National Committee, Inc., 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.

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Is CO2 the culprit

Is there any evidence that CO2 causes measurable warming?

Don't erode what works to fix what's broken

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite promises by President Barack Obama, more than 70 million Americans who have health insurance through their jobs could be open to higher costs or denials of some coverage under a leading overhaul plan making its way through Congress.

That's because large employers that directly assume the cost and risk of health coverage for their workers - including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Xerox - wouldn't be subject to the same rules and restrictions that would be imposed on health insurers in the measure approved this month by the Senate Finance Committee.

Large companies that offer their workers such coverage are lobbying hard to keep the status quo and be shielded from costly new regulations and requirements in the final health measure currently being negotiated behind closed doors by Obama's top aides and leading Democrats.

Not all Democrats want to go along.

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"I want to make very clear that we cannot promise the American people that the insurance reforms they have been hearing so much about will benefit everyone, when the reality is that this bill leaves out" up to 55 percent, or 73 million people covered by such arrangements, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., when the Finance panel met recently to debate the measure. He tried unsuccessfully to change the legislation to require those plans to obey all rules applying to insurers.

What the firms want is to be able to keep extending health insurance to their workers free of many insurance regulations, such as those governing what services must be covered by a policy and when a person can be denied coverage.

That means that despite Obama's pledges that people will no longer be subject to the most egregious aspects of today's health care system - being denied insurance because of a health condition, shouldering crippling out-of-pocket costs, or facing limits or high costs for basic services and treatments - a wide swath of workers wouldn't enjoy the same guarantees.

Several big business groups have banded together as the National Coalition on Benefits to preserve their special status, originally granted in the early 1970s for employers that take on the risks and costs associated with insuring their own workers. They've been bringing executives from companies large and small to Capitol Hill for meetings with lawmakers to drive home their slogan: "Don't erode what works to fix what's broken."

The companies say they need flexibility to continue covering workers, and provisions included in other drafts of the health overhaul that would eventually subject them to some of the same rules as insurance companies - like requiring them to offer specific benefits - would crush their ability to do so.

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"The more the administrative burdens are, the more costly it becomes. These things tend to snowball and grow with time," said Martin Reiser, a lobbyist with Xerox who heads the coalition. "Our message is that the employment-based system is working, so don't try and fix us."

Video: The Truth About The Public Option

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E

The Public Plan Deception - It's Not About Choice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E

Follow us at: twitter.com/verumserum. The Democrats have been promoting a public healthcare plan "option" as being all about consumer "choice" and market "competition". But is this really the case?

Video: The Truth About The Public Option

via The Foundry by Conn Carroll on 10/28/09

Over the course of the health care debate, the bloggers at Verum Serum have done a true service to the cause of honesty in public discourse by posting video after video of liberal politicians and intellectuals all admitting that, despite his claims otherwise, President Barack Obama's public option is designed to be a Trojan Horse for government-run single payer health care. You can watch VS's most popular video here. The leftist publication American Prospect corroborated the story here. Now that the public option is enjoying an apparent comeback, Verum Serum has posted a new video highlighting the public option double-speak on the part of the White House and other ObamaCare proponents. Watch:

Click here to view the embedded video.

NO health insurance does not mean NO healthcare.

Perhaps Obama and the Democrats should concentrate on unemployment.
At 10%, that's a lot of people without insurance.

I think he has destroyed the economy on purpose, so that he can get more people to push for a government take over of health care.

The more unemployed there are, the more that will want free government healthcare.

I, on the other hand, believe that everyone should provide for themselves.

BTW, NO health insurance does not mean NO healthcare.

If you were without insurance, then why are you still living?

I too went for a period of time without insurance, I'm still here.

The point is, FIND A JOB!

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM, <DUDE> wrote:

&&comments within…

I don't accept that explanation.

&&To except alternate explanation of those derived from your skewed and narrow perspective, you would have to accept that many if not most people not born in the US have a wider and more realistic understanding of …well…everything. You can't reject my explanation without real cause; there is no logic in that.

If Hungary is such a socialist utopia, then why aren't you and your dad there today?

&&You are mixing up at least two different arguments here. Whether or not Hungary is such a socialist utopia was not in question. You 'offered' this Cuban testimonial as 'proof' why socialism is a bad thing for my father to read, as though the viewpoint of one seriously oppressed Cuban who fled from a repressive dictator state has ANYTHING whatsoever to do with how my father who grew up, survived and was educated in a functioning socialist state. To answer your unrelated questions, I am not 'there' because I was born in England, my father is not there because while the Russians were invading Budapest during the war was NOT a good time to hang around. Prior to that, my family in Hungary did not have an issue with the government certainly not any more than the typical US citizen does with the US. We are here because of a set of circumstances which brought us here; we could easily be anywhere. Your re-warmed nationalistic cry of 'if you like it so much why don't you leave', I should not respond to….but your education level does not support that comment.

Secondly, I thought you already have health insurance?

&&Yes, I do have health insurance, but for a long time period that I would like to forget, I was NOT employed, and my family was not covered by health insurance. Because your worldly view does not include this situation, you again cannot really understand what that means to be without coverage for any real length of time and in fear that at any moment, any family member could have a situation which jeopardizes life.

For those that don't we have free Health Care at hospitals in this country.

&&You would probably be surprised at the 'coverage' that the uncovered don't really have …covered at the hospitals.
Finally, USA has the best medical research in the world. That will sputter under Obamacare.

&&Your comment is making another illogical relationship, the one between the perception of having the best medical research in the world and the unrealized and impossible to project affect of Obamacare on the research….there is no relationship there. The question is not who has the best medical research in the world…the question was about healthcare…got it or not. Also if you look, there are interesting points made about coverage. Note carefully that if you are making megabucs, you like the system…because you can get coverage…if you are poor and broke…you tend to not like the system because it requires the ability to pay the premiums…

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My friend, from Wien, Osterreich, just today asked why I am making fun of Obamacare.
I'll send you the exchange...

Mr. Punky

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM, <DUDE> wrote:

There is a vast difference between the absolute monarchy/cruel self-serving repressive dictatorship (as in Cuba) and socialism as implemented in Hungary. Let the Cuban instead 'escape' instead to Hungary and enjoy rich culture, warm and highly-educated people, historic architecture, the arts, music, higher education (for free or nearly free) and the beauty of living without the ongoing worry and concern that they have exceeded their health coverage…or can't afford to treat life-threatening conditions.

Dude, ask your dad to read this Cuban immigrant's story, then tell me again about socialism.

Mr. Punky

"If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."

Morning Briefing for October 28, 2009

via RedState by Erick Erickson (Profile) on 10/28/09

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1. 45 Years Ago Today: We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny

We forget this anniversary at our peril.

As conservatives face off against their own natural party, the GOP, in NY-23, Florida, and elsewhere, we should remember Ronald Reagan's famous speech, "A Time To Choose."

"Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down—[up] man's old—old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism…

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments' programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth…

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

We have the whole speech and audio at RedState.

Please click here for the rest of the post.

Nineteen States Move to Defend Individual Health Care Choice

Good for these states!

Nineteen States Move to Defend Individual Health Care Choice
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com)– Regardless of what the U.S. Congress decides about health care reform, a growing number of states are standing up for individuals' freedom of choice when it comes to purchasing – or not purchasing – health insurance.

Several Kansas Republicans have introduced a state constitutional amendment that would protect the right of Kansas residents to make their own health care choices. That makes Kansas the 19th state where legislators have introduced, or will introduce, such legislation.

The proposed Kansas amendment preserves the right of individuals to pay directly for medical care -- something that is not allowed in single-payer countries such as Canada. It also prohibits any individual from being penalized for not purchasing government-defined insurance.

Under the amendment, any state attempt to require an individual to purchase health insurance--or forbid an individual from purchasing services outside of the government-established health care system--would be rendered unconstitutional.

The legislation is modeled after a bill written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a membership association of state lawmakers.

"Federal health care reform efforts may include a requirement that individuals purchase health insurance, and a so-called 'public option' which will result in less choices for consumers and new government mandates," said Iowa State Rep. Linda Upmeyer, who chairs ALEC's Health and Human Services Task Force.

"Americans don't need more government mandates, we need real consumer choice. ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act is designed to protect individual rights and our freedom to purchase health insurance of our choice, or not," she added.

Kansas now joins legislators in seven states (Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Utah) that have publicly announced their intention to file legislation to protect their citizens from any government health-care mandates.

Another 11 states have already filed or pre-filed similar legislation (Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Arizona's measure, which passed the legislature in June, will be put before voters on the 2010 ballot.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress are now finalizing legislation that will make major changes to the nation's health care system, and they are doing so without Republican input.

Republicans say they're all for health-care reform, as long as it's the result of true bipartisanship. Republicans say their ideas – including medical liability reform, tax credits to help individuals buy private insurance, and allowing families and businesses buy insurance across state lines – are a better approach than adding a huge new government-sponsored insurance plan into the mix.

Where's Hillary?

Whatever happened to Hillary Clinton?
She's the Secretary of State. She should be doing this, not a pompous senator from the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

I think John Kerry is sexist to purportedly take on a more important role with our relations with the war in Afghanistan than our Secretary of State.

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John Kerry says that Gen. McChrystal's request for more troops is too ambitious. Since when are we letting John Kerry dictate our foreign policy?

"Where's the Outrage?"

"Where's the Outrage?" Republicans want to know why The Community Organizer gets a pass on some of the very actions that would have brought the media down on Bush like a hammer. Duhhhhhh. The media?

A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.

Snubbing the Dalai Lama.

Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.

Freezing out a TV network.

Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.

President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.

What's remarkable is what hasn't happened. These episodes haven't become metaphors for Obama's personal and political character — or consuming controversies that sidetracked the rest of his agenda.

It's a sign that the media's echo chamber can be a funny thing, prone to the vagaries of news judgment, and an illustration that, in politics, context is everything.

Conservatives look on with a mix of indignation and amazement and ask: Imagine the fuss if George W. Bush had done these things?

And quickly add, with a hint of jealousy: How does Obama get away with it?

"We have a joke about it. We're going to start a website: IfBushHadDoneThat.com," former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie said. "The watchdogs are curled up around his feet, sleeping soundly. ... There are countless examples: some silly, some serious."

Indeed, Bush got grief for secret meetings with the oil industry, politicizing the White House and spending too much time on his beloved bike. But it's not just Republicans who notice. Media observers note that the president often gets kid-glove treatment from the press, fellow Democrats and, particularly, interest groups on the left — Bush's loudest critics, Obama's biggest backers.

Dems playing politics again

Figures...

For the last ten years, our government spending has skyrocketed thanks to George Bush.
Congress votes to increase the debt ceiling.
Barack Obama gets into office and spends more in his first few months than all other presidents combined, even more than Bush
Congress needs to increase the debt ceiling, but Democrats don't want to get blamed.
Democrats attach the vote on the increase to a Defense spending bill to fund the troops in Afghanistan (a hot issue at the moment).
The Democrats try to downplay the issue of increase so as to not spark public outrage.
The Republicans say they don't want to vote for the bill because of the increase.
The Democrats say that the Republicans don't want to support the troops.
The Republicans end up voting for the bill anyway.
Election time rolls around, and Democrats use the vote against Republicans saying that they voted to increase the debt limit to a whopping $13 trillion (neglecting to mention the fact that the increase was attached to a bill to fund the troops because the Democrats manipulated it that way).

They can run, but they can't hide

Jobless claims rise 'more than expected'...

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gallop drop in approval

The latest Gallup polls show an alarming drop in President Obama's approval ratings ... the worst drop for any president in his first year in office.

Gov ad investigated for scaring little girls

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/21/climate-change-advertising-standards

Ha, it's all about Global Warming!

Evil universe... Somehow we've warped there.

We're currently living in the evil universe...

Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes

from Popular Science by Stuart Fox

There are 10^10^16 of them (but #1,000,443,163,313,125,343,132 is the evil one)

For some time, physicists have theorized about the existence of alternate universes. In fact, some models of physics require multiple universes, to explain some rarely observed phenomena. But, other than obvious ones like The Man In The High Castle Universe where the Nazis won WWII, the Earth-295 Age of Apocalypse Universe, and the Terran Empire "Mirror Mirror" Universe, just how many alternate universes are there? Well, some Stanford University physicists have answered that question, and the magic number is: 10^10^16 other realities.

The physicists, Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin, calculated the number by first going all the way back to the Big Bang. Linde and Vanchurin posit that the stellar organization and physics of our universe resulted from small perturbations in the otherwise uniform mass of matter and energy that existed milliseconds after the Big Bang. So, the number of possible variations of those perturbations represents the upper limit of possible alternate universes, or about 10^10^10^7 possible alternate universes.

However, because of the physical limits of the human brain, no individual could perceive more than 10^10^16 realities different from our own. And since the perspective of the viewer factors into the calculations (like time dilation in relativity), that's the number of possible alternate universes.

Of course, that's the total number of POSSIBLE alternate universes. The number of ACTUAL alternative universes actually depends on depends on how many boxes the Professor made.

[via Technology Review]

Mixed protest in Moonbat San Fran

I'm sure he'll find out soon.

Obama commits more troops to war on FOX News

Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Wizard: YouTube

Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009: Vimeo
Fortune Favors the Bold: YouTube
Obama's War on Fox News Becomes a Quagmire: Cube

ACORN Watch: Fight the Thugs: Malkin

Obama's like a shiny puffed-up ballon, when it deflates, there's nothing inside

Diversity Lane.

Operation Can You Hear Us Now

Operation Can You Hear Us Now: Phoenix

by Van Helsing

Despite heavy competition from the Take America Back Freedom Forum at the Phoenix Convention Center, which had air conditioning to offer, patriots still braved 100° heat to protest Obamunist bias at the Arizona Republic and the local NBC affiliate KPNX Channel 12 as part of Operation Can You Hear Us Now in the Valley of the Sun today.

At the Repugnant:

At NBC's KPNX:

Photos compliments of Varla.

President Axelrod?

from American Thinker Blog

Isn't it now becoming more obvious by the day that David Axelrod is running the White House?

Obama is poised to cede us sovereignty

http://patdollard.com/2009/10/moncktonobama-is-poised-to-cede-us-sovereignty/

Lord Monckton, policy advisor for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having read the treaty to be signed by Obama, is reporting that this treaty effectively cedes U.S. sovereignty to the U.N and other world governments with respect to Global Warming.

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Reich predicts, basically: Death Panels

Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary, admits:

"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."

He also admits -- that state-controlled health care will mean the end to life-extending medical innovations, and that you will not likely live any longer than your parents.

Sarah Palin was right again.

Palin: Good Intentions Aren't Enough with Health Care Reform

Sarah Palin's Notes

Good Intentions Aren't Enough with Health Care Reform

Now that the Senate Finance Committee has approved its health care bill, it's a good time to step back and take a look at the long term consequences should its provisions be enacted into law.

...Those driving this plan no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren't enough. There were good intentions behind the drive to increase home ownership for lower-income Americans, but forcing financial institutions to give loans to people who couldn't afford them had terrible unintended consequences. We all felt those consequences during the financial collapse last year. Unintended consequences always result from top-down big government plans like the current health care proposals, and we can't afford to ignore that fact again.

...The plan will also impose heavy taxes on insurers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, and clinical labs. [3] The result of all of these taxes is clear. As Douglas Holtz-Eakin noted in the Wall Street Journal, these new taxes "will be passed on to consumers by either directly raising insurance premiums, or by fueling higher health-care costs that inevitably lead to higher premiums." [4] Unfortunately, it will lead to lower wages too, as employees will have to sacrifice a greater percentage of their paychecks to cover these higher premiums. [5] In other words, if the Democrats succeed in overhauling health care, we'll all bear the costs. The Senate Finance bill is effectively a middle class tax increase, and as Holtz-Eakin points out, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation those making less than $200,000 will be hit hardest. [6]

...All of this certainly gives the appearance of politics-as-usual in Washington with no change in sight.
Americans want health care reform because we want affordable health care. We don't need subsidies or a public option. We don't need a nationalized health care industry. We need to reduce health care costs. But the Senate Finance plan will dramatically increase those costs, all the while ignoring common sense cost-saving measures like tort reform. Though a Congressional Budget Office report confirmed that reforming medical malpractice and liability laws could save as much as $54 billion over the next ten years, tort reform is nowhere to be found in the Senate Finance bill. [17]

Here's a novel idea. Instead of working contrary to the free market, let's embrace the free market. Instead of going to war with certain private sector companies, let's embrace real private-sector competition and allow consumers to purchase plans across state lines. Instead of taxing the so-called "Cadillac" plans that people get through their employers, let's give individuals who purchase their own health care the same tax benefits we currently give employer-provided health care recipients. Instead of crippling Medicare, let's reform it by providing recipients with vouchers so that they can purchase their own coverage.

Now is the time to make your voices heard before it's too late. If we don't fight for the market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven reform plan that we deserve, we'll be left with the disastrous unintended consequences of the plans currently being cooked up in Washington.

- Sarah Palin

Recovery: Digging America into a Hole

By some estimates, the trillion dollar Stimulus has spent ~$530,000 for each job "created or saved."

Students at Texas A&M University also turned out to protest Obama

At this rate, the Obamacrats need only spend another 9,599,400,000,000 to replace all the jobs they've destroyed.

March on Washington 9-12-2009 : keep it going!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZcM49iAxyU

Not Evil Just Wrong

Who Else Will Challenge Gore's 'Truth'?

By PHELIM MCALEERPosted 10/14/2009 06:15 PM ET

Last week at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Wisconsin, former Vice President Al Gore took questions from journalists about global warming for the first time in years. I attended to ask him about factual errors in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

You wouldn't know it from the sparse media coverage, but the British High Court found so many errors in Gore's movie in 2007 that British schools no longer can show the film without the equivalent of a health warning.

I asked Gore if he intends to correct the record. He dodged the question, and the so-called reporters defended his right to be evasive by shutting off my mic.

The encounter was disappointing but not surprising. I served years of hard time as a liberal journalist in Europe and learned that covering the environmental beat meant toeing the line of extremism — no inconvenient questions allowed.

But it is now time for journalists, and the consumers and businesses that will pay the ultimate price, to start questioning the conventional wisdom about global warming and exposing its true cost. If alarmists like Al Gore get their way, millions of American families will watch as their dreams of a prosperous and pleasant future disappear.

The evidence of environmentalism run amok abounds in Europe. Spain believed the spin that environmental regulation can create "green jobs" and boost the economy. Now the country has 18% unemployment. Britain could suffer blackouts because of policies that require the country to replace coal with fuels like solar and wind power that aren't readily available or reliable.

Unfortunately for Americans, many of the lawmakers who represent them in Congress seem unwilling to learn from Europe's mistakes.

The Senate is now considering a bill that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., co-authored to create a European-style "cap and trade" system for carbon dioxide emissions, and he just won theendorsement of a key swing senator. International pressure on the United States to adopt such legislation also will increase in December at climate talks in Copenhagen.

That's bad news for taxpayers. The Obama administration reluctantly admitted last month that cap-and-trade would cost the average American family $1,761 a year.

That is a rosy prediction. A Heritage Foundation analysis pegs the cost at an average of $2,979 a year and as much as $4,600 a year by 2035. Jobs will disappear, energy prices will skyrocket, and the American Dream will become an unattainable fantasy for many.

Wealthy environmental elites like Ed Begley Jr., who is featured in our documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong," think that is just fine. They love to tell everyone how "happy" people are in the Third World, where poverty, disease and premature deaths are common. But if they really loved it, they would move themselves and their families to Fiji and burn all of their passports.

Instead, environmentalists live comfortably, flying around the world telling other people they should forsake air travel and drive cars that cost as much as many people pay for a place to live. All the while, the environmentalists try to scare people with stories about dying polar bears and lemurs.

Their hysteria knows no bounds. The British government is now spending nearly $10 million to air ads that feature an animated puppy drowning, a rabbit crying and a carbon monster spewing soot from the sky.

The ad is so laughable that even the journal Nature mocked it. But Britain wouldn't be spending that kind of money unless it expected a return on the investment in the form of new converts to the false doctrine of global warming.

That's why it's so important for journalists who inform the public to ask tough questions, both about the science behind global warming and the financial impact on consumers and businesses.

Americans had better hope their country's journalists start grilling Gore and his colleagues. Otherwise, more people will be misled, and the country will be feeling Europe's green-induced economic pains for years.

• McAleer co-produced "Not Evil Just Wrong," a documentary film that premieres Sunday.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=509026

Obama Money

Why are you here?
To git some money

What kind of Money?
Obama Money!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kkgQ23e0M

And for that we will have a future of debt for all.

Liberty and justice has been replaced by ignorance and debt.

The Obama Zone

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.

A dimension where up is down, right is wrong, and what's yours is theirs…

The Obama Zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIG5...

We've all entered a fifth dimension.

Via The Nose on Your Face.

Nobel Peace Prize winner irks Russians

The Nobel Peace Prize winner's cave on missile defense made us look weak so he announced that the scrapped missile defense didn't matter because we would go with a mobile missile defense system; which was a better solution anyway.

But whoops! The Russians heard that, they watch cable too:

MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday.

A Perfect Tsunami

This is from a Doctor, not a lawyer or a politician:

A Perfect Tsunami: U.S. Health care reform and a conservative doc in American Samoa

By Linda Halderman, MD

On 9/29/09, an 8.3 earthquake and massive tsunami devastated much of the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Its fragile health care infrastructure crumbled in the wake of the natural disasters, leaving the 77-square-mile island's residents and visitors with skeleton services.

The only hospital in the region, the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, was overwhelmed with injured patients who had to be evacuated twice in the ensuing days.

I came to American Samoa last week in response to FEMA's call and the LBJ hospital CEO's request. As a general and trauma surgeon, I believed I could serve the population during a difficult time.

I owe American Samoa.

This tiny U.S. territory's residents enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces at a per capita rate higher than any state in the union. Their patriotism and commitment to defending our country is widely known in the U.S. military but largely unheard of elsewhere.

And so I came to pay a debt of gratitude in the aftermath of a disaster that leveled villages and filled the only morgue on the island far beyond its capacity. One of FEMA's first shipments was a set of temporary cold storage units for "overflow" bodies.

Between handling emergency cases (Dengue Fever!), seeing patients in the Intensive Care Unit and helping the reopened surgical clinic catch up, I have followed the progress of Congress as it prepares to debate the most radical remaking of the U.S. health care system since its inception.

On partisan lines with the addition of Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), the Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Max Baucus passed its version of the bill. It is headed now to the Senate floor for debate, probably during the week of October 26th.

I do not quarrel with those who suggest that our system of funding and delivering care could be better. Improving affordability and access while preserving patient choice and increasing safety are terrific goals that merit serious consideration and good policymaking.

The Baucus health care bill meets none of these goals.

Instead, it drives up the cost of coverage for average families and small business owners.

Not a single doctor or nurse is added to address the shortage experienced in underserved communities across the country.

Patient autonomy is threatened, with the bill's creation of a brand new bureaucracy to limit treatment options -- headed by a political appointee/Czar ironically named "The Commissioner on Healthcare Choices."

Patient safety is entirely ignored in the Senate bill, without a single sentence to reform a medical malpractice system that rewards excessive and unnecessary testing without benefitting those truly injured.

It is a painful disappointment to me to realize that an opportunity to serve American patients has been discarded by those elected to serve. Instead, we are presented with over 1,000 pages of a reward for political cronies and those who believe that problems in the U.S. health care system stem from a lack of government intrusion into private medical decisions.

$10 billion for labor union bailouts? It's in there. New taxes for middle class families the President had promised to spare? It's in there. Financially crushing new obligations for small business owners already struggling in a weak economy? That's also in Senator Baucus's new health care tonic.

So, considering what's being debated on the mainland, I feel lucky and blessed to be serving on this American outpost.

American Samoa has been hit -- and hit hard -- by a series of disasters that challenge the resilience of the Americans who reside on this beautiful but vulnerable island.

But American Samoa's tsunami was not of its own making. I cannot say the same of the health care reform bill generated by the United States Senate.

Dr. Linda Halderman was a Breast Cancer Surgeon in rural central California until unsustainable Medicaid payment practices contributed to her practice's closure. She now serves as the healthcare policy advisor for California's Senator Sam Aanestad while continuing to provide trauma and emergency services in rural communities.

Obama is a socialist

Has Obama advanced even one policy that's pro-free enterprise and limited government? Here is a list of Administration policies that are anti-free enterprise and/or pro-Marxist/pro-socialism.

Signed a massive "stimulus" package that primarily benefited government workers.
Government takeover of General Motors
Supports individual mandates as part of ObamaCare
Supports regulation of salaries within the financial industry
Supports giving community organizers (Think ACORN) oversight over the mortgage industry
Supports 60% increase in Capital Gains Tax
Supports Cap and Trade (i.e. Massive energy sector regulation and taxation of energy use)
Shut down domestic offshore oil exploration
Supports massive insurance industry regulation as part of ObamaCare
Sided with Marxist dictators Castro and Chavez to try and install another Marxist dictator in Honduras
Supports federal regulation of radio station ownership/ diversity requirements.
A vast expansion of the regulatory bureaucracy

Challenge: Can anyone name even one policy proposed, advanced, or enacted by the Obama regime that favors free enterprise and/or limited government? Name just one. Anybody. Anyone? Beuller?

Democrats accelerating our economy toward the edge of a cliff

Democrats in Congress, in the majority from 2007, have damaged our economy

Deficit tripled in only 9 months

Democrats do have a Death Panel -- for the economy...

Even this, as tenuous as it it, is not a recovery...

Heaping more misery on top of the debt and joblessness...

The Democrats have done exactly the wrong thing to correct the problem with our economy.

If your driving at full speed toward the edge of a cliff, do you accelerate?

No, you put on the brakes and stop speeding / spending.

By definition, jobs in the free market is what is needed. And those long term jobs will only be created if business (especiall small business) sees their tax rates lowered. Come on Dems, put on the breaks, stop spending money we don't have, and simply lower the tax rate.

Going Galt!

Here's a must-read: Atlas Shrugs: Doctors 'Going Galt.'

In Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand, the most productive and creative citizens in the United States -- the innovators, risk-takers, artists, entrepreneurs, capitalists, intellectuals, industrialists -- overturn the conventional concept of victimhood and go on strike, refusing any longer to be exploited by society, refusing to be demonized as too successful, too rich, too individualistic, too free.

Led by John Galt, the novel’s hero, the industrious organize a strike against the ever-expanding yoke of government coercion. They strike to halt the murder of man’s spirit, to halt the confiscation of man’s work, to defend individualism, reason, liberty, human achievement and the market economy.

A Tax That Would Finance the Road to Serfdom

via Cato @ Liberty by Daniel J. Mitchell on 10/14/09

Michael Tanner and Michael Cannon are working nonstop to derail government-run health care, but they better figure out how to work more than 24 hours per day, because if they fail, it is very likely that politicians will then look for a new revenue source to finance all the new spending that inevitably will follow. Unfortunately, that means a value-added tax (VAT) will be high on the list. Indeed, the VAT recently has been discussed by powerful political figures and key Obama allies such as the Co-Chairman of his transition team and the Speaker of the House.

The VAT would be great news for the political insiders and beltway elite. A brand new source of revenue would mean more money for them to spend and a new set of loopholes to swap for campaign cash and lobbying fees. But as I explain in this new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, the evidence from Europe unambiguously suggests that a VAT will dramatically increase the burden of government. That's good for Washington, but bad for America.

Even if the politicians are unsuccessful in their campaign to take over the health care system, there will be a VAT fight at some point in the next few years. This will be a Armageddon moment for proponents of limited government. Defeating a VAT is not a sufficient condition for controlling the size of government, but it surely is a necessary condition.

The Value Added Tax: A Hidden New Tax to Finance Much Bigger Government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6JD...

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why a value-added tax would be a dangerous money machine for big government. The evidence from Europe also shows that VATs actually lead to higher income taxes. www.freedomandprosperity.org

30 seconds of hillarity!

Big Bird calls on Michelle Obama and her husband the president!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=druQ...

Here we have Big Bird on Sesame Street questioning Michelle Obama about the presidents social health care agenda and doubting that he was even born in the United States! Where IS the birth certificate? ...

Top 20 things Obama never says

I sure wish he would adopt some of these ideas. If so, he'd sway a lot more people into his camp.

Despite countless speeches and news conferences, did you ever hear President Obama express the following ideas?

1. Not everything is a federal issue; some things are for the states to decide.

2. I hear what you're saying and you have a good point.

3. One of the beautiful things about our constitution is the liberty given to individuals to pursue their dreams. There is great opportunity in our country to succeed.

4. In an effort to stimulate job growth and despite the objections from my party, I am working with Congress to reduce taxes for small businesses.

5. I am saddened by the cycle of poverty that exists in our major cities, and here is a way we can empower the next generation to break the cycle and fulfill their God-given potential....

6. The folks at the town hall meetings and those who came to Washington on 9/12 were exercising one of the greatest rights we have as Americans, freedom of speech.

7. Stop already with all forms of 'cult of personality' behavior. I am a public servant, just like all those who have served before and all who will come after my term is complete. It's not about me, it's about the country.

8. I heard a great message Sunday morning at church.

9. History teaches us that evil exists in the world; for this reason the United States must remain strong, ready to defend itself and its allies.

10. I didn't realize a communist was part of my administration. It won't happen again.

11. The billions siphoned out of health care into lawyers' pockets never healed a single person.

12. No other country on earth offers its citizens the opportunity to pursue life, liberty, and happiness as does the United States of America.

13. The experts have looked at the proposed (fill-in-the-blank) program, and when it is extrapolated out beyond just the initial offering there is clear evidence it will cost too much money and will eventually fail.

14. I disagree 100% with the Cloward-Piven strategy of increasing the welfare rolls and overwhelming the financial system, and I am not affiliated in any way with the implementation of such an idea.

15. I don't know the answer to your question but I will give it some thought.

16. The goal of my presidency is not to implement a political ideology, but to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

17. Every person has value regardless of age, gender, color, physical characteristics, or any other factor.

18. Any healthcare bill I sign must include a provision to exclude the rationing of care, keep the door open for competition among insurers, and promote the opportunity for our young people to pursue an education in the medical fields to ensure future supply meets future demand.

19. It is important for legislators to remember that what helps someone in the short-term may actually hurt them in the long-term, and we must avoid this kind of scenario.

20. It has become clear to me after meeting with military experts that their recommendations should be implemented in our current situation; this is not an area in which politics can be allowed to interfere.

Stimulate Small Business

I'm glad Don and Judy are finally beginning to see the light. Regardless of our disagreements over who is to 'blame' for the recession we are in, what we really need to concentrate on is how to fix the problem.

I believe the Democrats have applied the wrong fix (stimulus), thus making the problem worse; and even this simple email you have forwarded seems to agree with my premise.

Most economists believe that a better solution is to try to create more domestic jobs by stimulating small business, who employ mostly domestic individuals, not with money from the government, but to allow them to keep more of their own money: Tax breaks for small business.

Obama and congress could fix our economy very soon if they simply came out and said that they are going to freeze capital gains taxes at 15% (instead of letting them expire at the end of next year), gave small business a 20% cut in taxes, and one final thing:

Drill, baby Drill. That will preclude sending more our money to the Arabs and will create lots of new jobs.

If these simple but effective measures don't happen now, under Obama, they will in 2013 under president Palin, so Obama might as well jump the gun, because that will save his presidency.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, you wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: Don and Judy

To: undisclosed recipients:

Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:59 AM

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus payment.   This is a very exciting new program. I will explain it using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:

?      If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China ..
?      If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
?      If you purchase a computer, it will go to India .
?      If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala .
?      If you buy a car, it will go to Japan .
?      If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
?      If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:

1      spending it at yard sales, or
2      going to ball games, or
3      spending it on prostitutes, or
4      beer or
5      tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)

I'm going to go to a ball game and have a beer with a tattooed prostitute that I met at a yard sale! Yay!

Now that indeed sounds like the genesis of a truly stimulating afternoon!

Prediction for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize: Ahmadinejad

What do the following Nobel Peace Prize winners all have in common?

Jimmy Carter, 2002 Laureate
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, 1988 Winners
Kofi Annan, 2001 Laureate
Mohamed ElBaradei 2005 Laureate
Yasser Arafat 1994 Laureate
Barack Obama 2009

They are all ready to throw Israel under the bus, in one way or another. This makes my prediction for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize a piece of cake: with a nuke, they should really be able to throw Israel under the bus:

October 26, 2005 - Ahmadinejad gave a speech at a conference in Tehran entitled "World Without Zionism". According to widely published translations, he agreed with a statement he attributed to Ayatollah Khomeini that the "occupying regime" had to be removed, and referred to it as a "disgraceful stain [on] the Islamic world", that needed to be "wiped from the pages of history."^[166]
February 25, 2007 - President Ahmadinejad says that Iran's nuclear program is unstoppable and, in a show of its growing technical prowess Iran reportedly fires a rocket into space for the first time.
May 25, 2009 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects a Western proposal for Iran to freeze its nuclear work in return for a freeze on further U.N. sanctions and rules out further talks on the issue.

We hope that this (Nobel Prize) gives (Obama) the incentive to walk in the path of bringing justice to the world order.

– Mahmoud AhmadinejadSOURCE: KHALEEJ TIMES7 HOURS AGO

Breaking News....

I knew about the rest, but I didn't know about the Tony Award, that's great!

Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and...

Source: www.youtube.com

If the world was stunned to learn that President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, it will be even more amazed by all the awards that are still coming his way. A Reason.tv Rapid Response video. ...

Coincidence?

How fitting, it's on TCM now...

The Manchurian Candidate Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for The Manchurian Candidate

Source: movies.tvguide.com

The Manchurian Candidate Trailer, Reviews, Schedule, Photos and The Manchurian Candidate Cast on TVGuide.com

Living in an alternate universe

I feel like I've been living in an alternate universe for almost a year...

"Kirk tells Spock that their empire is illogical because it cannot endure, and, therefore, that Spock is illogical to willingly be a part of it. Kirk then asks if change is inevitable, and for the good, wouldn't logic insist that he be part of it? Spock tells Kirk one man cannot summon the future, but Kirk tells him one man can summon the present.

"Be the captain of this Enterprise, Mr. Spock! Find a logical reason for sparing the Halkans and make it stick, push till it gives! You can defend yourself better than any man in the fleet.""

Mirror, Mirror (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki

Source: memory-alpha.org

A transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe where the Federation is replaced by an evil Empire, Kirk is a despot, and Spock is a cunning pirate.

Jobs? Let them Eat Cake

JOBS? Let them EAT CAKE !

(Nobel Piece Prize, it's a piece of cake :)

I've heard this 'Obama promotes hope' thing before. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. We need jobs. We need actual results and achieving good economic progress.

WWII was a direct out-shoot of the world depression of the 1930s.

Depressions only cause more war, not peace.

Only prosperity promotes peace. This is one prize that was not deserved.

> Peace prize partly because he promotes from his platform the hope for peace and has put that as a real achievable goal for us all. He is the opposite of Bush with his war-mongering, gun-slinging self-serving bravado. BTW, your logic is steeped in fallacious nonsense….you actually attack the deciding body to undermine their action.

Peace prize for accomplishing exactly: NOTHING

What was the Nobel's rationale for giving Obambi the peace prize? There's no more peace now. Perhaps they were using subjective emotions instead of objective substance for their reasoning.

As Saturday Night Live over the weekend so aptly pointed out, he's accomplished exactly: NOTHING !

Well, I guess it takes a real talent to spend a trillion dollars, and see the unemployment go from 6% when you enter office to 9.8% today, all while accomplishing exactly: NOTHING.

But at least he dresses well, and speaks well when reading from a teleprompter.

Baucus health insurance cost $165,800 per uninsured person: you do the math

In September, President Obama claimed that 30 million Americans "cannot" get health insurance.

Yesterday's CBO analysis of the $829 billion Baucus Plan revealed that it will still leave 25 million Americans without health insurance.

So for $829 billion, we can insure five million more people.

That comes to $165,800 per uninsured person.

Brilliant.

Baucus plan clears CBO by raising taxes by at least $380 Billion

Don't take my word for it. The Congressional Budget Office spells it out [PDF].

40 percent excise tax means perhaps 120% increase in employee costs with Baucus plan

If this Baucus government health care insurance bill goes through, look for way more than the stated 40% increase in your health insurance costs.

Why more, you ask?

As an example, let's say your employer covers 2/3 of the true cost of the health insurance they provide for you and your family. You pay $7,000, and the employer pays $14,000 of a $21,000 true cost (that's about what I'm paying for my family at my workplace, and that's the 'less' expensive plan).

The Baucus bill will tax that plan at 40%, thus adding $8,400 to the total real cost. Now the plan costs $29,400 for a family.

The employer will pass that increase on to you (simple economics).

So now you pay $8,400 + $7,000 or $15,400.

That's about a 120% increase in your out of pocket expenses.

Each company will have different plans, so the number 120% may vary, but a realistic range would span anywhere from 70% to 150% increase simply because of this new 40% excise tax. Money doesn't grow on trees, somebody's got to pay the taxes so that government, and their newly concocted inefficient health rationing bureaucracies, can control, regulate and divvy up health care; they're really good at 'spreading the wealth around'

The CBO report that said the health care bill won't raise deficits makes it clear that the Baucus bill's reduction in future budget deficits comes not from controlling government spending or reducing health care costs, but because of a rapid escalation in tax revenues.

The bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on health-insurance plans that offer benefits in excess of $8,000 for an individual plan and $21,000 for a family plan. Insurers would almost certainly pass this tax on to consumers via higher premiums. As inflation pushes insurance premiums higher in coming years, more and more middle-class families would find themselves caught up in the tax.

In fact, overall, the tax increases in the bill are more than double the amount of deficit reduction. This isn't a health care efficiency bill or a cost containment bill. It is a tax and spend bill, pure and simple.

Letter from Bishops to congress on abortion coverage and the government health insurance bills

As reported by ABC:

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

3211 FOURTH STREET NE • WASHINGTON DC 20017-1194 • 202-541-3160

WEBSITE: WWW.USCCB.ORG/healthcare • FAX 202-541-3339

October 8, 2009

United States Senate United States House of Representatives

Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515

Dear Member of Congress:

On behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), we are writing to express our

disappointment that progress has not been made on the three priority criteria for health care reform that we have

conveyed previously to Congress. In fact, the Senate Finance Committee rejected a conscience rights amendment

accepted earlier by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. If final legislation does not meet our principles,

we will have no choice but to oppose the bill. We remain committed to working with the Administration,

Congressional leadership, and our allies to produce final health reform legislation that will reflect our principles.

We continue to urge you to

1. Exclude mandated coverage for abortion, and incorporate longstanding policies against abortion funding

and in favor of conscience rights. No one should be required to pay for or participate in abortion. It is

essential that the legislation clearly apply to this new program longstanding and widely supported federal

restrictions on abortion funding and mandates, and protections for rights of conscience. No current bill

meets this test.

2. Adopt measures that protect and improve people's health care. Reform should make quality health care

affordable and accessible to everyone, particularly those who are vulnerable and those who live at or near

the poverty level.

3. Include effective measures to safeguard the health of immigrants, their children and all of society. Ensure

that legal immigrants and their family members have comprehensive, affordable, and timely access to

health care coverage. Maintain an adequate safety net for those who remain uncovered.

We sincerely hope that the legislation will not fall short of our criteria. However, we remain apprehensive when

amendments protecting freedom of conscience and ensuring no taxpayer money for abortion are defeated in

committee votes. If acceptable language in these areas cannot be found, we will have to oppose the health care bill

vigorously. Catholic moral tradition teaches that health care is a basic human right, essential to protecting human

life and dignity. Much-needed reform of our health care system must be pursued in ways that serve the life and

dignity of all, never in ways that undermine or violate these fundamental values. We will work tirelessly to

remedy these central problems and help pass real reform that clearly protects the life, dignity and health of all.

Sincerely,

Bishop William F. Murphy

Diocese of Rockville Centre

Chairman

Committee on Domestic Justice

& Human Development

Cardinal Justin Rigali

Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Chairman

Committee on Pro-Life

Activities

Bishop John Wester

Diocese of Salt Lake City

Chairman

Committee on Migration

Going to the doctor, DMV style - Count me in!

Something terrible is happening.
Where would our country be without big government?
Big government is smarter than me.
like - Voice mail for the homeless.
Going to the doctor, DMV style - Count me in!

Porsche's Stimulus: Budget Boxster

4 Wheel News reports that Porsche may introduce a "budget" vehicle to compete in the new economy.

...the German manufacturer is now a step closer in producing its own version of the Volkswagen Bluesport Concept unveiled in January at the Detroit Auto Show.

For those who don't know, the Bluesport is a two-seater, mid-engined roadster, powered by a 2.0-litre diesel engine which promises to make quite a buzz if will be produced. The new model developed by Porsche will be cheaper that the Boxster and according to our sources it represents a top priority for the firm...

Obama and Dems deficit tripples, according to CBO

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), part of congress, has shown that the deficit has more than tripled under Obama. Now remember that it's been the Democrats in office since early 2007.

I'm sure you can do the math, 400 Billion deficit last year under Bush/Dem congress. 1.4 Trillion deficit (at least) under Obama/Dem congress. That's a factor of 3.5.

And, as Saturday Night Live over the weekend so aptly pointed out, he's accomplished exactly: NOTHING !

Well, except to add 1.4 Trillion dollars to the deficit in ONE YEAR, thus guaranteeing that our children and grandchildren will be screwed, with no easy way to pay it back. McCain called this: Generational Theft, all because of the Democrats and their inability to understand economics.

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A direct result of Barack Obama being elected President in 2008 and the Democrats take over of Congress in 2007 is that the U.S. the deficit has grown to a record $1.4 Trillion. From AP:

The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday.

The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White House and its allies in Congress as they press ahead with health care overhaul legislation that could cost $900 billion over the next decade.

The unprecedented flood of red ink flows from several factors, including a big drop in tax revenues due to the recession, $245 billion in emergency spending on the Wall Street bailout and the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then there is almost $200 billion in costs from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill, as well as increases in programs such as unemployment benefits and food stamps.

How 'social justice' leads to mass murder

The distinguished professor Walter Williams is one of my favorite authors!

How 'social justice' leads to mass murder
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Posted: October 07, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009

Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health-care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953), said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. ... But also – and this was the highest proof of his greatness – he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate." Walter Duranty called Stalin "the greatest living statesman ... a quiet, unobtrusive man." George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin.

John Kenneth Galbraith visited Mao's China and praised Mao and the Chinese economic system. Gunther Stein of the Christian Science Monitor admired Mao Zedong and declared ecstatically that "the men and women pioneers of Yenan are truly new humans in spirit, thought and action," and that Yenan itself constituted "a brand new well integrated society, that has never been seen before anywhere." Michel Oksenberg, President Carter's China expert, complained that "America (is) doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values," and urged us to "borrow ideas and solutions" from China.

Even Harvard's late professor John K. Fairbank, by no means the worst tyrant worshipper, believed that America could learn much from the Cultural Revolution, saying, "Americans may find in China's collective life today an ingredient of personal moral concern for one's neighbor that has a lesson for us all." Keep in mind that estimates of the number of Chinese deaths during China's Cultural Revolution range from 2 to 7 million people. Mao Zedong was admired by many academics and leftists across our country. Just think back to the campus demonstrations of the '60s and '70s when campus radicals, often accompanied by their professors, marched around singing the praises of Mao and waving Mao's little red book, "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong." Forty years later some of these campus radicals are tenured professors and administrators at today's universities and colleges, as well as schoolteachers and principals indoctrinating our youth.

The most authoritative tally of history's most murderous regimes is in a book by University of Hawaii's professor Rudolph J. Rummel, "Death by Government." Statistics are provided at his website. The Nazis murdered 20 million of their own people and those in nations they captured. Between 1917 and 1987, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of, 62 million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, Mao and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese.

Today's leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from Nazism. However, there's little or no distinction between Nazism and socialism. Even the word Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party. The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the '20s, '30s and '40s. Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for "social justice." It was decent but misguided earlier generations of Germans, like many of today's Americans, who would have cringed at the thought of genocide, who built the Trojan horse for Hitler to take over.

Few Americans have the stomach or ruthlessness to do what is necessary to make their governmental wishes come true. They are willing to abandon constitutional principles and rule of law so that the nation's elite, who believe they are morally and intellectually superior to the rest of us, can have the tools to implement "social justice." Those tools are massive centralized government power. It just turns out last century's notables in acquiring powerful central government, in the name of social justice, were Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but the struggle for social justice isn't over yet, and other suitors of this dubious distinction are waiting in the wings.

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Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

Is Coal bad because of real pollution or because of CO2...?

More people have been killed (or had their life shortened because of lung disease) by coal than by nuclear. It's not even a contest, even if you include Chernobyl. Nuclear has a negative image, but coal is even worse. Even with the scrubbers, the mercury is still released. Don't forget to take into account mining and mining deaths as well.

People complain about the war in Iraq, but more people are killed by automobile accidents than the war. Why isn't the media demonizing cars and highways the way they do the war?

Well coal falls into this category as well. Somehow it escapes critical scrutiny, at least, as compared to nuclear. The pellets they use for nuclear are clean, and in fact, can be held in your had before they are used. It's only after they are used that they are dangerous.

We need to do something, just not sure what. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe cap and trade is the right solution, unless they give nuclear power plants the right to trade (credits). It's only fair because there is no CO2 emitted by an operating nuclear power plant. But I'm still against cap and trade because it infringes on freedom for the wrong reasons.

It's funny, because even thought I believe global warming to be a big time hoax concocted simply so that the political class can tax us all (regressive tax because energy prices will be much higher), it will turn out that cap and trade will indeed reduce coal use, but not by much.

I don't believe the means to an end is justified. It is not justified placing a regressive tax on us all, simply to achieve my goal of less coal, even if it reduces mercury and SO2. If the politicians were to admit that it is REAL pollution that will be reduced by cap and trade, then I'd back the plan. But they don't admit that. This is a big lie from the politicians. They really are looking for a new revenue stream. They say it is to reduce CO2, which is not in any way a pollutant. And in fact global temperatures have been falling in the last decade, after the raised for the decade of the 90's. The scientists simply have not proven a link from man's emissions of CO2 to global temperatures. Period.

The Out House

How many times do I have to tell you

-TobyToons

Obama: We are not going to shove healthcare down your throat?

(Donkey doctor stretches glove over hand)

ObamaCare’s ‘Individual Mandate’

Frankenstein's Monster: ObamaCare's 'Individual Mandate'

Whatever happened to freedom in America? This will be the first instance of forcing Americans to buy what they necessarily may not want. Even Auto insurance is not mandatory, if you don't drive. Why must insurance be mandatory. What's wrong with pay as you go?

Dreams of my terrorist ghost writer

Bill Ayers admits writing 'Dreams' for Obama: Examiner

Your dreams of an 'intelligent' Obama should be fading...

Let’s Get Together And Do Health Reform Right

Governor Jindal's Challenge To Washington: Let's Get Together And Do Health Reform Right

Here are a few of Jindal's ideas that hold great promise and would lay the foundation for a better way forward on health care reform.

Voluntary purchasing pools, where individuals can have a wide choice of coverage options and where insurers compete for consumers based on value rather than a federal one-size-fits-all solution;
Portability, where consumer would own their health care coverage and keep it from job to job;
Refundable tax credits, for those who need help and by offsetting these costs by redirecting existing spending, not new spending.

Well, not all trust

Which are you?

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a black man or Hispanic are conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.

If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".

Cato: Federal Spending 2009

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/

Notice the last year that Republicans had control of congress was 2006. It's been all the Democrats doing the spending for the last 3 years.

CO2: US Down, China and India up

The wacko environmentalists need to learn to speak Chinese.

Democrats plan expansion of Community Reinvestment Act

Definition of insanity: repeating a past mistake in hopes that the outcome might be different.

Democrats plan expansion of Community Reinvestment Act: Fausta

The CRA is at the roots of the financial meltdown that put us into this deep recession, so of course the Democrats want to do it again. Brainstorm: Let's give 'no-money-down' loans to people that don't even have a job.

Gas mask bra traps Ig Nobel prize

The bra converts into a mask for the wearer and one for a needy bystander

Zimbabwean notes (Annals of Improbable Research)

The prize for mathematics went to the governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank

Government care - balance due — $7,110

Feel the love, the government compassion... And if you don't pay, go directly to jail.

Baucus-care will hit middle-class families quite hard. From the AP via Don Surber:

Ricardo Alonso Zaldivar of the Associated Press is not rolling over and playing brain-dead on the health insurance reform issue, reporting today: "A family of four headed by a 45-year-old making $63,000 a year is in the middle of the middle class. But that family would pay $7,110 to buy its own health insurance under the plan from the committee chairman, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont."

Bu-bu-but I thought they said Obamacare would get a big subsidy.
Zaldivar: "The family would get a tax credit of $3,970 to help pay for a policy worth $11,080. But the balance due — $7,110 — is real money. Maybe it's less than the rent, but it's probably more than a car loan payment."

Birds of a Feather

These are the people B. Hussein Obama has decided to put the full weight of American diplomacy behind

Live Free Or Die

Billboard - How do you like your Change now?

Celebrites: They may not be real doctors, but they play one one TV

What's so un-American about paying higher taxes?
Believe me, money grows on trees...
Join overpaid celeberities in fighting for legislation ..
They may not be real doctors, but they play one one TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ9Te1XP8RM
They can force to you buy their pre-approved plans, or pay thousands of dollars in fines.

PSA - Listen to Overpaid Celebrities

Source: www.youtube.com

Something terrible is happening... Overpaid celebrities don't have a big enough voice when it comes to Healthcare Reform.

Idiot's guide to Global Warming

I particularly like the 'Down-to-earth advice' on suppressing dissent by pulling "scientific facts" out of your ass

Broken Hockey Stick: Man Made Global Warming is a scam

It's a scam.

For the growing band of AGW "Sceptics" the following story is dynamite.

Now read on.

Related articles
Update: A zoomed look at the broken hockey stick

A look at treemometers and tree ring growth

Viva la difference!
Still broken.

The everyday American

Listen to what this caller has to say. This is what the everyday American is really like: (audio)

RUSH: All right, Susan in Glendale, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Rush, it's a huge honor for me to speak to you, and I hope I can keep my -- my voice level, because I am so passionate. I am as passionate as you are about this country. I'm a conservative. I've listened to you for 25 years. I'm married. I have seven kids. And when you were telling me about how all of the shenanigans that they're going to do in the Senate to pass two different Senate bills then slam 'em together, attach them to some House bill about TARP, and then jam it through and jam it down our throats, I got furious. And then I listened to what you said about the Michigan mom who was watching some kids before they went to school and how the Michigan state came down on her accusing her of running an illegal day care, and you're right: What they're going to do is they're going to threaten our health and they're going to threaten the health of our children. If I don't comply with their health care, I'm not going to be able to get my children the medicine they need.

RUSH: No, it's not -- whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not if you don't comply with their health care. It's if you're a good citizen in support of the liberals running the country.

CALLER: Yes, sir. And I'm not. I'm a conservative. You know what? I'm 45. I might fall and break my hip in the next ten years. They're going to have to give me a shot because they're not going to want me to be healed and they're going to do this to my children. It's like you said. They are the party of abortion. They are the party of euthanasia. They are trying to wipe out senior citizens who are maybe not as useful to the Democrat National Committee as they should be, we're not contributing enough to them. And I am outraged and furious. And my question to you -- because I'm a political nobody; I'm just out here on the Left Coast in la-la land watching all the liberals run our California state bankrupt -- is: "What can we do, legally, morally, to take this country back?" I want people to stand up, and I want them to vote these criminals, these pedophiles out of office.

I want them to take back the state of California and make it a Golden State, and I want them to take back Washington. But we're little people, and we marched two million of us down to Washington and the press -- ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC -- not one of them shows pictures on the news, not one of them will report anything. In fact, they cover it up! I've talked to so many people on the phone, just neighbors who are liberal and some of them are conservative, both sides, and I tell them these things. "Go to Fox News. Look at this." No one sees the truth. But the travesty of all of this -- part of this is politics as normal, independent, it's two party. We're going to fight and tussle over what's right and wrong and, you know, we're going to win some, lose some. But the damning thing today is that the press, the press is betraying us and we have no way -- us, we be the little political moms, nobodies. I'm a mother, and I have no one to listen to, to go to on the news, except for you and Fox.

Tell us what we can do in 2010, other than voting for Sarah Palin. Which I will do. But I need to know because I don't have much hope. I sure don't have hope from Obama. I need hope from Rush and I want you to please tell us what we can do, because this is the life of my children. They're on the line. They can put me out to pasture, but, yes, they've got me over a barrel. Because I will do anything to save the lives of my children, even if it means I've gotta kiss some big Democrat's rear end to get the health care for my baby, I'll have to do it, and that sickens me because they're my employees. I'm paying their salaries. I'm paying for their fancy office of doctors down where you were talking about at the House of Representatives and the Senate. They just get to walk in and pay $503 and they get all the health care that they need for $503, specialists flown in.

The pharmacy right there on their hour! Probably open 24 hours a day. Nobody has to wait. They get that because I'm paying for it. I'm paying for it! It's coming out of my children's allowances, my grocery money. They are getting it, and they're taking it without listening, without representing us -- like you said, the small R. I'm not being represented. I've called Boxer's office. I've called Adam Schiff who is my so-called representative. They are very polite to little people on the phone but the people who are running this country don't listen to us. There are millions of us and we are all furious. And no one, no one is even reporting what is being said! And I'm watching my country that I love, that my father fought for in World War II, that my father-in-law was wounded and got the Purple Heart for -- and I'm watching it just being taken, just like candy from a baby.

"Oh, we'll help you. We'll give you health care. Here's a lollipop. Go away," and nobody's doing anything. I'm sorry to be so angry, but I need hope, and I need to know how to counteract these's shenanigans. This is not what we put people in government for is to run little-bitty side bills, smash 'em together, and then vote 'em under the carpet into a different health care bill that is languishing in some committee that they haven't voted on. That's dirty politics and it shouldn't be happening. It should up-and-down votes. And you're right. The 63 new judges coming on, that's going to cement -- that's going to absolutely cement -- their ability to write law instead of legislate. They can just send it to the judges. The judges will rubber stamp it. We'll have liberal judges, we'll just write the law. Never mind conservatism. Never mind reading what the law actually says. I look at this, and I see this happening every day.

I'm listening to you, and I'm to the point where I don't even know if I should listen anymore because I'm so passionate and I'm so furious to watch all this and to hear it all happening, and I feel so powerless for the first time in my life. I'm glad Mrs. Obama is proud of her country for the first time in her life. I, as a mother, as a nobody I am ashamed of my government for the first time in my life -- and I need to know how to combat this, especially in 2010. What can I do today, now, to help, to revitalize these namby-pamby liberal Republican RINOs in our Senate and in our government who are just voting to get along and "I want to get reelected." That's nonsense. They're not standing up for what is good and clean and right. They're not standing up for our Constitution. They should be all thrown out, every last one of them -- and I don't know how to mobilize people, but you do, Rush. You do! You have the power. And with great gifts, God gives great responsibility. And I beg you please, please give us hope and lead us. Because this cannot stand. They cannot keep doing this. This is wrong.

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RUSH: We still have Susan on the line from Glendale, California, and Susan, I was under no inclination to interrupt you or stop you, even when we got to the segment end.

CALLER: I apologize.

RUSH: No, don't apologize, just the exact opposite. You summarized my first hour in ten minutes.

CALLER: Well, I like to listen to you, you're great, and you always give us the facts.

RUSH: But you asked me what you could do.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: One thing you have to realize, you just did it. The passion and the emotion that you brought without one stutter --

CALLER: Well --

RUSH: You didn't lose your train of thought. There was not one stutter. And I guarantee you the people in this, the largest radio audience in the country, are all out there standing up and cheering on their feet.

CALLER: You know what, Rush? I did it without a teleprompter! Or notes! So there.

RUSH: Or a writer. You didn't have a ghostwriter.

CALLER: No, I didn't. I have a three-year-old son, but he can't do this. But I didn't use a teleprompter, and I know what I'm saying, which is, I'm sorry, perhaps more than I can say for some of the people who are running our country. And it insults my intelligence. I walked away from a very good job at a law firm, I'm educated, I have a law degree, and I did it because I was promoted by God to be a mother of seven. I'm giving everything I've got to them. And the one thing I cannot give them, absent help from good people all over this country, I can't give them the American way of life. I can't give them freedom. I can't give them that. I can teach them and that's all I can do. But everybody's got to stand up, and, you know what? Why don't you make 2010 the worst nightmare ever for the Democrats. Pick up the phone, call Sarah Palin, and you two run, run in 2010. Rush and Sarah. Do it. They would go nuts. I know you couldn't do your show every day. And I know there are not enough Democrat women like Pelosi in the Senate to give you your 30 minutes of aerobic activity because there's no boobs to ogle like you were telling about that German study finding that 10 minutes of breast ogling helps men, but we'll get you a treadmill in there, I'm sure the White House will have a treadmill, it's got a basketball court now and other things and an organic garden. We'll get you set up, we'll keep you healthy, maybe once you judge the Miss America contest, maybe you could do that every year, and that would give you a good cardiovascular burst. And you could go ahead and run the country for four years. But we gotta do something.

RUSH: Well, one thing I want to tell you here is, you are not alone. I know you feel it, you said it --

CALLER: I do.

RUSH: -- you feel you're just a little person out there on the left coast and you're overwhelmed by all this, but I think you should try to understand that the majority of people who pay attention to stuff in this country are with you on this. Their frustration is identical to yours.

CALLER: Yes, but they don't know how to mobilize to do it, to stop it. We're going to have this health care bill rammed down our throats before the election.

RUSH: Wait a second, now. I think they do. People have been mobilizing on their own. That's one of the great things about all the tea parties and the other things going on, is there's not an identifiable leader saying, "Go here, do that, I want you to show up."

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: People are doing it on their own, of their own volition, their own emotion, because they're just like you --

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: -- they don't want to lose the country, they don't want to see it taken over, they don't want to see it destroyed this way, especially for their children and grandchildren, and there are more of you than you know. Now, this health care thing, you talk about 2010. If they're able to ram this through in the next couple of weeks or the next couple of months --

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: -- 2010 is going to be nothing but punishment.

CALLER: I hope so.

RUSH: Now, the one thing to keep in mind here, the one thing to keep in mind is -- I'm actually wrong. I need to take that back. This bill is not going to be implemented until 2013.

CALLER: Right. Right.

RUSH: So 2010 is crucial. That's where the real change is going to come, and that's throwing these Democrats out, as many as possible.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Now, there are two things that I want to say to you here. The reason that 2013 is the year is because everybody in charge of this plan, from Obama to Reid and Pelosi, all the Democrats know full well there's going to be a revolt.

CALLER: Yes. I know they know this. They're just trying to lock it in anyway.

RUSH: Well, no --

CALLER: -- because they want to secure their power.

RUSH: But 2012 is Obama's reelection year, 2013 it gets implemented. If it got implemented before 2012 Obama would be beaten in a landslide --

CALLER: That's right.

RUSH: -- and he still may be, ACORN notwithstanding.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: The second thing here about all of these things that are happening, and you feel powerless to do anything about it, I think what's happening throughout the country is an illustration that people are not powerless. This passion, this emotion that you represent here today that is felt by millions will have and is going to have an outlet. These techniques, the things that are being tried by the Democrats here are so against the decency and grain of the vast majority of the people in this country --

CALLER: That's what's offensive.

RUSH: -- they're not going to put up with it.

CALLER: I know. That's what's offensive --

RUSH: They aren't going to put up with it.

CALLER: It's not just politics as usual. It's not, "Okay, we win some and we lose some." This is underhanded, dirty dealing, "Okay, we're going to vote for one bill, but we're going to switch it, we're going to edit it out." It's like a computer, you just zap it out and stick something in, but the vote doesn't get edited. It's virtual bills. We just get to change it. It's outrageous. If I did this in a job, I would be fired. And yet they keep doing it and we've got to hold them accountable.

RUSH: And trust me, believe me, they will be.

CALLER: I know you're right. That's why I listen to you every day I can.

RUSH: I will tell you when it's time to panic. And it isn't time to panic. Panic doesn't lead to productive action.

CALLER: True.

RUSH: I'll tell you when it's time. What you're feeling right now is not even panic.

CALLER: No, it's rage. It's outrage.

RUSH: You are outraged and you want a positive channel for it.

CALLER: Yes, I do. I want a positive way to effect and reclaim this country and to protect my children and to give them a good life.

RUSH: Here's the second thing that I want to warn everybody against with all this passion. Because in this mix you and I haven't discussed the Republican Party, have we?

CALLER: No, we haven't.

RUSH: Well, let's do that for just a second, because it's crucial. While your rage, your outrage is properly directed at the architects of this disaster, the Democrat Party, at the same time, we don't really see a lot of rage from our own elected representatives, do we? This is one of the reasons why --

CALLER: This is why we're mad, 'cause they're not outraged.

RUSH: That's right.

CALLER: They don't say anything, they don't do anything.

RUSH: If you can call this radio show and in ten minutes, without one stutter, lay out the very dire threats that face this country, why in the hell can't professional politicians stand up and say the same thing and take action to stop it?

CALLER: Amen.

RUSH: And that's really the level of your frustration.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Now, here's where this is going to lead. If we're not careful, this is going to lead people to start saying, "We need a third party."

CALLER: No. No, no, no, no.

RUSH: Wait, hear me out. It's going to lead to people say, "Both parties are the same, there's no difference, Republicans and Democrats." What we have to focus on here is taking back the Republican Party. I think there is enough rage right now, and if it sustains itself, and it will, Obama's not going to stop any of this garbage, and the Democrats are not going to stop, so it will sustain itself.

CALLER: And we have to take back the party and revitalize it --

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: -- with true conservatives.

RUSH: Exactly. That's what has to happen. But at some point just voting against people is not enough.

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: It will be enough in 2010. But who we gonna elect in place of them? Where are the candidates going to come from?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: I'm talking particularly now the House and the Senate. I mean you talked about the RINOs in the Senate, and there are a lot of them, and they're scared to death of the media in Washington, they're scared to death of being called racists, they're scared to death of having happen to them what happens to Sarah Palin. They're scared to death of having happen to them what happened to Joe Wilson. So they've got their own fear they have to overcome. They don't understand that they've got an army of people. Even after all the campaign contributions Joe Wilson got, they still don't see there's an army of people willing to back 'em up if they would just lead. There's an army of people ready to follow 'em.

CALLER: I gave Joe Wilson money. The minute he said it, the very night that he said "you lie," I sent that guy money. And when he refused to apologize for a second time, when he'd already apologized personally to President Obama, and when he refused to do it again for the House and Senate, I sent him more money.

RUSH: 'Kin' A!

CALLER: And that's what we gotta do. We gotta back the people who are being leaders, and then we gotta kick out the ones who aren't. But we can't do a third party, we can't do a tea party because we'll be locked in with the Democrats, they'll run the show because we'll keep splitting the vote for 30 years.

RUSH: 'Kin' A! Exactly right. That's going to lead to permanent victory for Democrats.

CALLER: I know! How do you tell people this? How do you say, "Whatever you do, vote conservative and get the Republican Party back."

RUSH: Okay, we're always going to have Perotistas.

CALLER: Yes, I remember him.

RUSH: All you gotta say to them, "Have you ever heard of Bill Clinton?"

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: You ever heard of Bill Clinton?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: That's something coming in the future, but this notion that both parties are the same and we gotta throw 'em all out, unrealistic, they're not the same, there's no way that any Republican would be offering any of the things the Democrats are offering right now.

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: There is simply no way.

CALLER: But there is no room for cowards in government.

RUSH: Not right now. The country's at stake.

CALLER: If you're going to be in government you gotta play --

RUSH: The country is at stake. You're right, this is not about the traditional back-and-forth, the policy arguments, and we come to an agreement at the end of the day, we compromise and so forth. This is about the future of the country. So I understand your frustration. Believe me, I feel it, too. You're asking me what you can do. We're all asking ourselves that. You know, what can we do? People are marching; people are showing up in public; calling all these people's offices. I think it's a waste of your time, by the way, to call Boxer. I think right now if you're going to call anybody, call Harry Reid's office. I don't care whether they talk to you or not, flood 'em, shut 'em down, e-mail, faxes, just shut 'em down, call Harry Reid's Nevada's office, he's worried about 2010 reelection. Harry Reid is about to have happen to him what happened to Tom Daschle. You call Harry Reid, don't waste your time on Pelosi. Call Steny Hoyer. Call some of the Blue Dogs and moderates and so forth, because, I'll tell you, these people, their political futures are up for grabs as well, the Blue Dog Democrats in the House.

But Harry Reid, you know, he's the guy that's the architect, along with Obama, of the shenanigans going on in the Senate right now. And, by the way, she spelled it out perfectly. If you didn't hear the first hour, she gave you the summary of it pretty well, how they're planning to attach two Senate health care bills to a House bill that the Senate has not yet acted on, on taxing bonuses. They're basically going to attach a hybrid health care bill to the Senate version of the tax on bonuses bill and send that back to the House and have them vote on that with health care, single payer, public option health care being an amendment to a bill on taxing bonuses. And then they send that right up to Obama. Now, Susan, that's not guaranteed. For this to happen, Pelosi and the House have to go along with whatever Harry Reid sends 'em and not amend it and not add to it or take away from it, and you know, by the time the Congressional Black Caucus and some of the wacko leftists in the House get a look at the Senate bill, if it doesn't have all the giveaways in it that they want, it could get screwed up. But this is the attempt going on, and this is how it would be done with 51 votes instead of 60, which is required in the Senate.

All of this is a tantamount admission that the American people don't want it; it's a tantamount admission they can't pass it with public support and what that means is that they are scheming against the American people. The enemy of this government is not Moammar Khadafy; the enemy of this government is not Ahmadinejad; the enemy of this country is not Osama Bin Laden; the enemy of this country is the American people. The enemy of the Democrat Party right now in getting what they want is the American people, and that's who they're scheming against. And you know that, too, and that's why you're outraged. This is not supposed to be a banana republic. This is supposed to be a representative republic with a small R, and they're obliterating it. They've been working at this for 50 years or more. Their dreams have come true. But they are overreaching and they're getting so much public opposition now that they're trying to figure out how to get past

Mr. Punky Kitten

Monday, December 07, 2009

Handy Dandy Stimulus Flow Chart

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT: 1,200 LIMOS, 140 PRIVATE PLANES...

Friday, December 04, 2009

Black unemployment reaches Great Depression levels

A Gullible Tool

Thursday, December 03, 2009

While Obama spoke

party crasher

Reality: CO2 only 4% of Greenhouse Gases

what to believe, if anything, from Obama

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Global Warming is a LIE!

brain washed sheeple

ha ha ha

Smart Car

Friday, November 20, 2009

Entertaining story of bias at MSNBC

Ram it down our throat in 09 - we'll shove it up your ass in 10

Get the Lawyers out of the Doctor's Office

Dems: Breast Cancer, no problem, don't get a test, just die

SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE: ALL OF A SUDDEN HEALTH OFFICIALS WANT WOMEN TO GET FEWER CERVICAL CANCER TESTS TOO!

Palin photographer breached contract with sale to Newsweek

Gov. Palin's daughter arrested in LA on DUI

Sarah Palin Gives Oprah Her Highest Ratings In Two Years

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Obama Debt, up to 81.7 % GDP

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

IRS: Americans were never taxed for receiving tax credits, Amount Due April 15

Exclusive Sneak Peak: CNN Poll Results on Palin's Presidential Chances

Breaking news on a surprising CNN poll

Obama's America

Monday, November 16, 2009

WSJ: Gore admits CO2 not main cause of global warming

Terrorist trail in N.Y. and discovery

BrokeBank Mountain

Friday, November 13, 2009

linx

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

What Government Health Insurance reform amounts to

Obama won't deny Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance, compares to auto insurance

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Hell NO I don't trust government

Bay Bridge holds a lesson for health care reform

By: Mary L.G. Theroux November 9, 2009

Can you hear me now?

Monday, November 09, 2009

Unemployment skyrockets under Obama, now 10.2

Ft. Hood terrorist had close ties to Obama

5 years in jail for failing to purchase Pelosi care... It's in there read it.

PelosiCare vote, final margin of three to pass.

Dummies elect Jackass - who breaks campaign promises and votes for PelosiCare

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Huge Hidden Tax in Government health insurance.

Saturday, November 07, 2009

NBC: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

Friday, November 06, 2009

Tyranny of the first degree

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

How Beautiful We Were

Save us from socialism...

Can the 10th Amendment save us?

It's time to restore Framers' vision of limited government

What turned the tide....

A Dream Come True For Al Gore

A Dream Come True For Al Gore

Debt: Dems are 'BAD' ON STEROIDS

Get rid of Sarbanes-Oxley

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Dear Obamacare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZraskhJVKeA A tax (fine) of $1000 for not enrolling in Obamacare + Cutting Medicare $400 Billion, no problem, it's worth it!

Claim of consensus is fake

Socialist medicine

NYT: GORE'S BIG PROFITS FROM 'GLOBAL WARMING'...

Saturday, October 31, 2009

How dare we calculate the real cost of the stimulus...

ABC: $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse'

Friday, October 30, 2009

Prandtl-Glauert singularity

By: Mary L.G. Theroux
November 9, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZraskhJVKeA
A tax (fine) of $1000 for not enrolling in Obamacare + Cutting Medicare $400 Billion, no problem, it's worth it!