September 15, 2009 Breaking News

15. September 2009 by Glenn.

 

Observation(s) of the Day: 1. Al Capone would have been so envious of Obama and these ACORN guys!

2. Bill Maher has referred to us (conservatives) as “Cracker Nation”.

3. David Axelrod called the tea party of no consequence. Some press outlets called it an “Angry Mob”! Guess what. Not one arrest according to the DC police! Not bad for a 100,000+ angry mob.

4. As the heat gets turned up on Obama, expect that the administration gunsels are going to start calling opponents “Racist” more and more frequently. Using that term seems to be their final fallback position.

5. There is a 99.5% chance that if Obama gets his way, you will literally not recognize this country in 15 to 20 years, if not sooner.

Could there be a depression in our future? See below.

6. There appears to be a connection between the SEIU (service workers union) and ACORN. Could it be that brothers run them? By the way, Obama worked as an attorney for ACORN in his early years.

7. What was the DC tea party all about? Well, some are now realizing that it was about more than health care. It was about the out of control spending that the administration has embarked on.

Economists that recently participated in the Wall Street Journal’s annual economic forecast survey concluded, overwhelmingly, that the most pressing issue facing the nation is the urgent need to restrain deficit spending! I have been screaming that for nearly a year!

David Walker, former head of the government accountability office calculates the nation’s current unfunded federal obligations at $483,000.00 PER HOUSEHOLD! Now granted, I believe that this includes obligations such as future commitments for Social Security, Medicare, etc. But it is coming!

When it comes due, and assuming there is no new debt (yeah, right), your children will be facing a debt where the annual interest payments alone, at 2% per annum, will equal nearly $10,000.00 per household, PER YEAR! That is without principal pay down! Wouldn’t one think that if one were facing that kind of debt that one would be trying to cut deficits rather than increase them?

Quote of the Day:

“If we don’t get our fiscal house in order, but create new obligations, we’ll have a Thelma and Louise moment where we go over the cliff.”

David Walker, former head of the Government Accountability Office.

This could really get ugly; gov’s claim of recovery full of holes:

FINANCIAL TIMES: Hong Kong; The world has not tackled the problems at the heart of the economic downturn and is likely to slip back into recession, according to one of the few mainstream economists who predicted the financial crisis.

Speaking at the Sibos conference in Hong Kong on Monday, William White, the highly respected former chief economist at the Bank for International Settlements, also warned that government actions to help the economy in the short run may be sowing the seeds for future crises.

“Are we going into a W-shaped recession]? Almost certainly. Are we going into an L? I would not be in the slightest bit surprised,” he said, referring to the risks of a so-called double-dip recession or a protracted stagnation like Japan suffered in the 1990s.

“The only thing that would really surprise me is a rapid and sustainable recovery from the position we’re in.”

I have said for some time that if Obama doesn’t change his policies that we would slip into a double dip recession. And I doubt that he will, because I am getting the terrible feeling that he is not concerned for one minute about the havoc that his economic policies will create for the average citizen of this country!

I hate to say this but it appears to me that he is on a Saul Alinsky fueled crusade to radically change this country to Marxism and no pain is too great for us to suffer for him to be successful.

More Bad News:

TELEGRAPH, U.K. : Both bank credit and the M3 money supply in the United States have been contracting at rates comparable to the onset of the Great Depression since early summer, raising fears of a double-dip recession in 2010 and a slide into debt-deflation.

Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said US bank loans have fallen at an annual pace of almost 14% in the three months to August (from $7,147bn to $6,886bn).

“There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s,” he said. “The rapid destruction of money balances is madness.”…

Mr. Congdon said a key reason for credit contraction is pressure on banks to raise their capital ratios. While this is well advised in boom times, it makes matters worse in a downturn. And that is exactly what Obama is doing. The TARP money

went to capitalization rather than loans because of Obama’s push for banks to raise their capitalization!

“The current drive to make banks less leveraged and safer is having the perverse consequence of destroying money balances,” he said. “It strengthens the deflationary forces in the world economy. That increases the risks of a double-dip recession in 2010.”

Referring to the debt-purge policy of US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in the early 1930s, he added: “The pressure on banks to de-risk and to de-leverage is the modern version of liquidationism: it is potentially just as dangerous.” …

Mr. Congdon said IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is wrong to argue that the history of financial crises shows that “speedy recovery” depends on “cleansing banks’ balance sheets of toxic assets”. “The message of all financial crises is that policy-makers’ priority must be to stop the quantity of money falling and, ideally, to get it rising again,” he said. (Which comes first, the cleansing or the quantity of money? Long time readers will remember my suggestion at the beginning of this year that the gov service the debt on the toxic assets rather than buy them outright. Much cheaper for us in the end, I believe. Then the bank’s capitalization ratios would not be impacted by the bad assets, which would free them up to make new loans, thereby increasing the quantity of money. )

He predicted that the Federal Reserve and other central banks will be forced to engage in outright monetisation of government debt by next year, whatever they say now.

That means rapidly rising inflation, folks.

Folks, I think there may be a slight chance of a depression in our not so distant future if the administration doesn’t change its monetary policies. And once things start seriously going down hill, it is like trying to stop an avalanche half way down the mountain. It ain’t gonna happen. You have to stop it before it gets started.

Now before we get all hysterical about this you need to understand that just maybe, congress will wake up in time to put a stop to his travesty. The issues raised in these two articles have to play out without being corrected, for one thing, and I have faith that congress, both democrat and republican, will intervene to put a stop to this (hopefully in time).

However, and just in case, I suggest that you send this paragraph and the one above to your local representative, as I am. Just to give them a heads up. Ask them what their thoughts are on the two articles. At least they won’t be able to say that they never saw it coming.

Headline of the Day:

No we can’t? UK think tank says US power is fading

It doesn’t take a think tank to figure that out! Welcome to becoming a 2nd world country.

WHITE STUDENT BEATEN ON SCHOOL BUS; CROWD CHEERS:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: BELLEVILLE — A Belleville West High School student was beaten aboard a bus on the way to school Monday, and a police spokesman said the beating could be racially motivated…

The 17-year-old victim was white and the teen assailants were black…

“In my estimation, it’s racially motivated,” said Capt. Don Sax of the Belleville Police Department. He said one reason he had formed this opinion was that many of the students, most of whom were black, yelled their support for the beating.

“There was absolutely no justification for the beating either time,” Sax said.

Is this a new twist on Affirmative Action?

Do you mean to tell me that racism is not exclusively a white trait? That’s not what I have been told!

Turning up the heat on ACORN:

FOX NEWS: A growing number of Republican lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings and IRS audits of ACORN following the release of three videotapes that show the group’s employees offering advice to a “pimp” and a “prostitute” on how to skirt the law.

Rep. Steve King, R-IA, said a video released Monday that shows filmmaker James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, getting advice from ACORN employees in Brooklyn, N.Y., on how to launder their earnings and avoid detection while running a prostitution business is “another reason to turn it up” on ACORN.

Four ACORN employees — two in Baltimore and two in Washington — were fired late last week after videos showed the “pimp” and “prostitute” getting similar advice in those cities. In those videos, O’Keefe and Giles told the ACORN workers that they intended to bring underage girls into the country to work as prostitutes.

“If you see that it’s endemic, that it’s at least three cities will help support and organize and provide for lending to homes of prostitution for underage girls that come from foreign countries that are likely illegal, how many drugs are being dealt out of houses facilitated by ACORN?” King told FOX News on Monday.

Now a New York office has been caught in the same chicanery.

Sounds pretty endemic to me.

Update:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A poverty-rights group that has drawn the ire of conservatives suffered another setback in Washington on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to deny it access to federal housing funds.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which helps poor people fight foreclosures and fix tax problems, has received more than $53 million in U.S. funds since 1994, but conservatives’ charges of widespread fraud have begun to impact its reputation in the capital.

Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau told the group it did not want its help boosting participation in next year’s census.

The Senate measure, which passed 83 to 7 in the Democratic-led chamber, was included in a must-pass spending bill that funds housing and transportation programs for the fiscal year that starts October 1.

That won’t stop them. Pelosi will kill that bill as she has done, I am told, 6 times before. Amid all of this, ACORN just applied last week for a $6,000,000.00 federal grant to “help the poor get on the internet”. Also, keep in mind that ACORN has something like 253 corporations that they operate under.

ACORN says it all is a hit piece; doctored tapes. What else are they going to say?

Hang in There,

GLENN

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September 14, 2009 Breaking News

14. September 2009 by Glenn.

 

OBAMA SETS PLAN TO JAM HEALTH CARE DOWN OUR THROATS:

THE HILL: President Barack Obama this week has been laying the foundation for Senate Democrats to use a controversial budget maneuver to pass healthcare reform.

By offering Republicans olive branches during his address to Congress on Wednesday, Obama has set up a win-win situation. If GOP lawmakers embrace compromise, a healthcare bill would pass Congress easily. But the more likely scenario is that Republicans will continue to oppose Obama’s plan, and the president later this fall will be able to note he tried to strike a deal with the GOP but could not.

That will set up a Democratic argument that Senate leaders have been forced to use a partisan budget tool known as reconciliation to pass a health bill through the Senate by a simple majority, instead of 60 votes. Under the budget plan they passed earlier this year, Democrats could invoke the reconciliation process on Oct. 15.

WHAT IS THE HURRY, MR. PRESIDENT? WHY DOES THIS MASSIVE HEALTH BILL HAVE TO BE PASSED THIS YEAR? IT WON’T TAKE EFFECT UNTIL 2012!

Of course, the taxes will start immediately and won’t be applied towards the health plan. Could it be Mr. President, that this isn’t about health care at all?

Keep in mind, folks, that we are changing our entire system and bankrupting our country to benefit 6%-8% of the population. That’s what makes me think that this is not about health care at all. I think that there is a less intrusive way to accomplish this, don’t you?

Well Obama isn’t going to give you the chance. You damn well better start burying your democratic representatives with an avalanche of protest notes and a promise to work to move them out of office when their term is up if he votes for this travesty.

Actually, write to your republican representatives also. There are quite a few up there that can’t be trusted.

9-14-09 Update:

WASHINGTON POST: President Obama continues to face significant public resistance to his drive to initiate far-reaching changes to the country’s health-care system, with widespread skepticism about central tenets of his plan, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

But after a summer of angry debate and protests, opposition to the effort has eased somewhat, and there appears to be potential for further softening among critics if Congress abandons the idea of a government-sponsored health insurance option, a proposal that has become a flash point in the debate.

Today’s left wing Washington Post just published this. They are mimicking the administration, which is designed to make us think that we won the battle and

relax our defenses, at which time they will hit us with the public option and push it through. You can never drop your guard around this group.

Make no mistake. There is a 99.5% chance that if the government passes a health care bill that is not vetoed by the president, it has a public option trigger in there somewhere. Harry Reid has already said that the C.O.O.P.’s will work just as well as the public option (because the government will run the C.O.O.P.s).

You Heard it here First; Maybe:

Remember several weeks ago I said that I thought that Hillary Clinton was getting fed up with Obama and I felt she might look at walking? Well, I heard a rumor over the weekend that she may quit soon to run for the governor of New York.

Still speculation; No confirmation here yet, but keep your ears open.

We may have celebrated a little early when Van Jones got canned. It occurs to me that he may be more dangerous now than he ever was in the administration. As enamored with him as Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s right hand woman, is, I think that he will be working for the administration and we won’t have any oversight at all.

It will be interesting to see if Obama appoints a new “Green” Czar. Whatever the case, Jones is working behind the scenes now with no oversight at all.

Trouble in Socialist Paradise?:

Oslo, Norway: Polls leading up to today’s national election indicate Siv Jensen may have a shot at pursuing her dream of applying a free-market overhaul to a society often called a socialists paradise. She and her progressive party are locked in a tight duel with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s left-leaning Labor Party.

If there is one constant in my life, it is my liberal friends throwing Norway in my face as an example of how good socialism can be. They used to use Canada, England and France as examples, but with all of their health care systems in crisis right now, Norway was it. It appears the “Vikes” are getting fed up.

Equal Time:

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Americans on Saturday not to be tricked by “scare tactics” he accused his opponents of using as he went on the road to rally support for his drive to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

Taking his healthcare pitch to a campaign-style rally in Minnesota three days after addressing a joint session of Congress, Obama hoped to keep up the pressure on wary fellow Democrats as well as Republicans to move forward on his top domestic priority.

While Obama pressed his case on friendly political turf, tens of thousands of conservative opponents marched in the U.S. capital against his healthcare initiative and spending plans, arguing they amounted to a government takeover which would drive the country toward socialism. (They’re catching on)

I gotta tell you; I am having a much harder time following this guy. Every time he speaks, my eyes start glazing over. Every time I read what he has said, I know that his gunsels back in Washington will do just the opposite. This is how he keeps his skirts clean.

Quote of the Day:

“E pluribus unum” – out of many, one - was the national motto the men of ‘76 settled upon. One sees the pluribus. But where is the unum? One sees the diversity. But where is the unity?

Is America, too, breaking up?

Patrick J. Buchanan, Founder and editor of The American Conservative and now a political analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated columnist. Thanx, Dick

I have long (15 years, at least) said that the “multiculturalism” that has been promoted by the “progressives” has been tearing the very core of this country apart. It is part of the old “Divide and Conquer” scheme. They have certainly succeeded.

Quote of the Day II:

“There is increasing pressure when you are in those national positions to align to policy positions with the increasingly extreme ideology of the Republican Party.”

Don Bivens, Arizona Democratic Party chairman on supposed problems facing John McCain and John Kyl of AZ.

Can this guy be serious? “Increasingly extreme ideology of the Republican Party”? Umhh, Don, can you get more extreme than communism?

Obama pushes for world wide Banking Regulation:

TELEGRAPH, U.K. :President Barack Obama is to call for a series of sweeping regulatory changes to the framework governing the world’s largest banks in a bid to prevent a collapse like that of Lehman Brothers.

Tough to tell yet whether the regs will make sense or not. I think that the system could use some more regulation, given what we have gone through recently, but I have yet to see anything from Obama that wasn’t right out of “1984″.

Obama starts a Trade war:

FINANCIAL TIMES: A full-blown trade row erupted on Sunday night between the US and China after Beijing accused Washington of “rampant protectionism” for imposing

heavy duties on imported Chinese tyres and threatened action against imports of US poultry and vehicles.

Trade relations between two of the world’s biggest economies deteriorated after Barack Obama, US president, signed an order late on Friday to impose a new duty of 35 per cent on Chinese tyre imports on top of an existing 4 per cent tariff.

“This is a grave act of trade protectionism,” Mr Chen said in a statement. “Not only does it violate WTO rules, it contravenes commitments the United States government made at the [April] G20 financial summit.”

China said it would now investigate imports of US poultry and vehicles, responding to complaints from domestic companies.

The US warned Beijing against taking retaliatory action. “Retaliation would be inappropriate, as the United States acted entirely within the bounds of trade laws and within the safeguard provision that China itself agreed to upon accession to the World Trade Organisation,” said an official from the Office of the United States Trade Representative

I mentioned the possibility of this in the past week or so. Hard to say which one is right in this as none of us have seen the trade agreement.

You gotta give Obama credit for one thing; he dances with the one he brung! The unions have to be feeling good about the $100 million, or however much it was, that they spent to get Obama elected. A pretty good investment, all in all. Of course, with China is getting a little cranky with us already, it could come back to bite the unions, as well as all of us, if they tariff our exports to them.

Olympia does an about face:

Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine said there is “no way” a health-care overhaul that includes a public option can pass the Senate.

Snowe, one of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee, said that to gain more Republican support, President Barack Obama should explicitly drop the idea of a federally backed insurance.

Remember last week when I suggested that someone take her aside and explain the situation to her? Well, apparently someone did as she has done an about face on the public option.

Headline of the Day:

Venice film festival snubs Michael Moore and Oliver Stone movies

AMEN

Size of DC demonstration surprises officials:

NEW YORK TIMES: …The demonstrators numbered well into the tens of thousands, though the police declined to provide an estimate of the size of the crowd. Many of the participants came on their own and weren’t part of an organization or group. The magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours.

Connie Castleton, 52, of Irving said she drove 20 hours from her North Texas home to attend the rally. The nurse said she’s motivated to try and get others involved in opposing Obama’s health care plan. “There’s a lot more people mad about what’s going on than I thought,” she said….

I think people are getting damn tired of being called Astro turf and being mocked by the administration. Even my attorney went. He said that given what has happened to this country, he couldn’t not go and support them. What a guy!

Obama is no dummy. He knows when to get the hell out of Dodge. He went to Minnesota to give a speech in front of 10,000 (recently raised to 15,000) union members. What’s not to like?

Remember, folks, just two pieces of sugarless candy or gum containing xylotol can kill you dog.

REGARDS,

GLENN

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September 10, 2009 Breaking News

10. September 2009 by Glenn.

 

The Speech:

I have just heard the most disingenuous speech by an American president in my entire life. A huge helping of more of the same.

The pres. is talking about the fact that the healthy young people are paying a thousand dollars a year to protect those with illness. That is the reason for insurance!!! You spread the cost over a huge base so that it protects those that need help at a reasonable rate. This man has serious credibility problems, as far as I am concerned. Also, is he saying that his national health care will be different? Nope.

He said and repeated “that nothing in this plan will make you lose your current coverage.” That is true, except if your current plan starts getting greedy, or makes unwarranted changes to your coverage that don’t work for you, and you decide to change plans, guess what; the only plan now is the government option. This has been part of the house bill from the beginning!

Nothing has changed folks. So far, it is still nothing but smoke and mirrors.

He mentioned the fact that individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance, because if they don’t, their unwarranted use of emergency rooms for their health care costs us all extra money. He also says that the reforms would not be available to the illegal immigrants!

As I have said before, I think it is unconstitutional for the government to force the people to buy anything, including health insurance.

What about those illegal aliens that the “progressives” are so fond of protecting? Homeland security has gutted the immigration program to keep our law enforcement from arresting illegals unless they are previously convicted criminals. These are valuable voters for the welfare state. They are still one of the largest users of emergency room services. And they will continue to be one of the largest users of emergency room services and you will continue to pay for them plus paying for the “free” health care!

The Progressives do not give a rat’s fanny about these people except that their votes will keep them in power. All the progressives have to do is keep giving our money to these people.

In most cases, these are wonderful people that just happen to think that they died and went to heaven when they run into the progressive buy off. I think, given the choices that most of them face, many of us would do the same thing.

This is not an illegal alien problem as much as it is a systemic breakdown due to politicians selectively enforcing, or not enforcing, laws for political gain.

Obama says that he has no interest in putting insurance companies out of business, he just wants to make them accountable. Then why not regulate them, as I noted before. Make them accountable.

He says that we need a public insurance option to keep them in line. He also says that the great majority of people favor the public insurance option. If that were the case, he would have never needed to make this speech.

He says that the republicans and him should work together to get the deal done. However, the deal will only be done on his terms.

“The heath care program will not add one dime to our deficits, now or in the future. If not we will come forward with more spending cuts to fund the program” (Medicare?). We can fund this plan by finding savings within the current health care program. (Medicare?)

But yet Medicare is a sacred trust. Not a dollar will come from existing Medicare.”

GIVE ME A BREAK!!! The dollars will come from the Medicare budget but, when pressed, libs say that it is just the projected increases in Medicare health care costs over the next ten plus years and beyond. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, that will, within a year, lead to rationing of health care to seniors; severe rationing in later years! The money will also come from increased taxes. Down the road, you won’t know where the money is coming from, except out of your pockets. Either you stop it here and now or you don’t stop it at all, period!!!!

“We focus on putting patient safety first and let doctors concentrate on practicing medicine.” This was in response to tort reform. What does that mean? Is he telling us that he is ready to take on the American Trial Lawyers Assn., one of the Democratic Party’s largest contributors? I think not. Howard Dean already admitted that the dems don’t want to take on the trial lawyers, and that is why we won’t see tort reform.

Anybody hear about the ACORN office that was caught trying to arrange a federal loan to set up a brothel in Maryland. They were told that the “pimp”, actually the filmmaker, was going to import a dozen teenage girls from El Salvador for the purposes of prostitution. His girlfriend, who was posing as a prostitute, was advised not to call herself a prostitute, but on her tax return, list herself as a “performance artist”. The ACORN people also advised them to list the girls as dependents.

You hear about all of the problems that Russia is having with crime, now that they have thrown off the mantle of communism. The reason that it is so rampant is that in a communistic system, crime is institutionalized as part of the system. I think that ACORN just happens to be Obama’s contribution to a parasitic system. And with his blessing, it appears to be institutionalizing.

One other thing. I understand that 11 Acorn members have just been indicted in another case. I do not know what the issues are in this case.

Now some news.

Read the Union Health-Care Label

Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals.

By MARK MIX

WALL STREET JOURNAL: In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry.

Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large.

The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005 and Gray Davis of California in 1999. Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.

Following this playbook, the Senate bill creates a “personal care attendants workforce advisory panel” that will likely impose union affiliation to qualify for a newly created “community living assistance services and support (class)” reimbursement plan.

The current House version of ObamaCare (H.R. 3200) goes much further. Section 225(A) grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius tremendous discretionary authority to regulate health-care workers “under the public health insurance option.” Monopoly bargaining and compulsory union dues may quickly become a required standard resulting in potentially hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses across the country being forced into unions.

Ms. Sebelius will be taking her marching orders from the numerous union officials who are guaranteed seats on the various federal panels (such as the personal care panel mentioned above) charged with recommending health-care policies. Big Labor will play a central role in directing federal health-care policy affecting hundreds of thousands of doctors, surgeons and nurses.

Consider Kaiser Permanente, the giant, managed-care organization that has since 1997 proudly touted its labor-management “partnership” in scores of workplaces.

Union officials play an essentially co-equal role in running many Kaiser facilities. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called the Kaiser plan “a framework for what every health care delivery system should do” at a July 24 health-care forum outside of Washington, D.C.

The House bill has a $10 billion provision to bail out insolvent union health-care plans. It also creates a lucrative professional-development grant program for health-care workers which effectively blackballs nonunion medical facilities from participation. The training funds in this program must be administered jointly with a labor organization—a scenario not unlike the U.S. Department of Labor’s grants for construction apprenticeship programs, which have turned into a cash cow for construction industry union officials on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

There’s more. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has suggested that the federal government could pay for health-care reform by taxing American workers’ existing health-care benefits—but he would exempt union-negotiated health-care plans. Under Mr. Baucus’s scheme, the government could impose costs of up to $20,000 per employee on nonunion businesses already struggling to afford health care plans. And you wonder what the job market will be in a few years? There isn’t one.

Mr. Baucus’s proposal would give union officials another tool to pressure employers into turning over their employees to Big Labor. Rather than provide the lavish benefits required by Obamacare, employers could allow a union to come in and negotiate less costly benefits than would otherwise be required. Such plans could be continuously exempted.

Americans are unlikely to support granting unions more power than they already have in the health-care field. History shows union bosses could abuse their power to shut down medical facilities with sick-outs and strikes; force doctors, nurses and in-home care providers to abandon their patients; dictate terms and conditions of employment; and impose a failed, Detroit-style management model on the entire health-care field.

ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for more forced unionization.

There was so much information in this article that I thought you should know, that it is presented in its entirety.

The Czars:

THE HILL: Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) on Wednesday called for President Obama’s “czars,” or appointed high-level advisers, to testify before Congress about their “authority and responsibilities” in the executive branch.

The president’s “czars” have become a point of controversy among his opponents because they do not have to be confirmed by the Senate as cabinet-level officials do.

McHenry wrote to committee chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) and ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) asking the appointed officials to testify. “If the czars have high-level, decision-making authority as their titles would indicate, then it is my concern that their appointment without Senate approval represents a circumvention of our Constitutionally-mandated confirmation process,” McHenry, who is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in his letter.

It’s about time!!!

U.S. foreclosures continue, unabated:

Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) — Foreclosure filings in the U.S. exceeded 300,000 for the sixth straight month as job losses that boosted the unemployment rate to a 26-year high left many homeowners unable to keep up with their mortgage payments.

A total of 358,471 properties received a default or auction notice or were seized last month, according to data provider RealtyTrac Inc. That’s up 18 percent from a year earlier, and down 0.5 percent from July, the Irvine, California-based company said in a statement. One in 357 households received a filing.

I told you several weeks ago that we were going to see another round of residential foreclosures, coupled with an upsurge in commercial foreclosures.

As long as Obama is still talking about his massive spending bills, unemployment is going to continue to rise and things are going to get worse.

What a Concept:

TELEGRAPH, U.K.: Every £4 spent on family planning over the next four decades would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than a ton, whereas a minimum of £19 would have to be spent on low-carbon technologies to achieve the same result, the research says.

The report, Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, concludes that family planning should be seen as one of the primary methods of emissions reduction. The UN estimates that 40 per cent of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended.

If these basic family planning needs were met, 34 gigatons (billion tonnes) of CO2 would be saved – equivalent to nearly 6 times the annual emissions of the US and almost 60 times the UK’s annual total.

So much for Cap and Tax! Send this to your congressperson!

When policy and stupidity meet:

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Four years after Abercrombie & Fitch refused to let a teenager help her autistic sister try on clothes at its Mall of America store, state officials have fined the company $115,264 for discriminating against a disabled person.

It is nice to know that there is still a little justice out there.

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September 9, 2009 Breaking News

9. September 2009 by Glenn.

 

Observation(s) of the Day:

1. Well, Obama gave his speech yesterday and it was pretty harmless. I think that the late objections by people to the speech were related to the fact that they hadn’t seen the speech or misunderstood the issue in the first place.

It was the lesson plan that was a problem and the administration changed that as soon as the uproar hit.

(CNSNews.com) – Prior to his nationally broadcast speech to students on Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a pitch for health care reform in a discussion with 40 freshmen at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. Thot you would like to know.

Obama will hold another pep rally this evening for the health care bill. This will be the third consecutive year this guy has been campaigning. Will he ever stop? Not as long as he keeps trying to shove his Marxist ideas down our throats.

2. There have been many dems saying that the public health option is out. Don’t you believe it. Obama will beat you up on the public option tonight in his pep rally. He will outline what he wants to see in the bill, mostly in vague terms, with some details, and emphasize the urgency of getting this new comprehensive health care bill done and passed by tomorrow. What’s the rush? I can tell you one thing, the rush is not about the government helping us! Hell, we still don’t know if Obama is his real name. He has never been big on specifics to which we could hold him.

Gibbs, Obama’s mouthpiece has stated that “the president will give us ‘concrete’ assurances that people with private insurance through their jobs won’t suddenly be dumped into a public option and those on Medicare won’t be hurt by any overhaul. The operative word here is “suddenly”!! They will never give up until they get what they want.

Please keep in mind that Obama and company has insisted that these assaults on the welfare of the public didn’t exist before and then we found them buried in their 1300 page bill, that they were lying all along. So we know that lying to the public is part of their repertoire. Is it any wonder that I trust nothing that the man says?

I heard Max Baucus, lead senate gunsel, saying that he is going to get tough on the gang of six. ( because Obama wants results now). I also heard the term “coop” raise its ugly head as well as “non-profit” insurance organizations to compete with for- profit insurance companies. This is called an incremental approach to a public option.

I just heard this morning that Baucus has now proudly stated that the deficit for his new senate health care bill will only be $900 Billion over the next 10

years. Isn’t that awful close the Trillion + dollar plan that the house has? I mean, what is a few hundred billion? Anyone know where we are going to get the money to pay for that? We will print it, of course.

As far as the “Trigger” goes, and as I reminded you a month or so ago, the most dangerous clauses in any contract are those that aren’t included in the document. The “Trigger” that Pelosi and Reid are talking about would be a vague reference that could be interpreted as anything down the line and we would get our public health insurance and there would be nothing we could do about it.

I also understand that another “trigger” being kicked around is if a region does not have enough diversity in health care options from the private sector, such as Alabama, which they tell us is covered, for the most part, by one insurer, then the government can come in and set up a public option to compete in that region. Sounds reasonable enough. Think about it.

My question is, if the Obama administration would allow insurers to sell health insurance nationally, instead of state by state, wouldn’t that help insure diversity of options In all regions?

3. Readers who have been with me for a time know that I think that the health insurers are bad guys and they need some regulation. They are so big that the general public is completely at their mercy. However, the government isn’t any nicer and they don’t have to answer to market forces as the insurance companies might have to do. Think about the guy in your local motor vehicle department making decisions about your health care.

By the way, whom do you suppose would run the coops or own the non-profit insurance companies?

When it is all said and done, I believe that Obama will get his health care in some form. How bad it will be for you and this country will depend on what you see in his speech and in any subsequent bill, and most of all, what you tell your congressional representatives that you want, under penalty of having you work against their re-election when it comes up, if they cross you. Keep in mind that Obama is on record stating that he is in favor of single payer insurance and also, that he plans to gut Medicare and Medicaid to pay for it. Seniors are now second, or maybe third class citizens in Obamanation.

I am deadly serious here. If you don’t get in your representative’s face (politely) and tell them that they may have to get a real job if they screw this up, all hope is lost. I can tell you that this will be the first step for life, as you know it in this country, to come to an end.

For future reference, I believe this is the phone number of the White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414. I haven’t called it yet to check it out, but I believe that it is the real deal. But don’t worry, your president won’t talk to you.

4. Long time readers remember several months ago that I said that I thought that Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, and Obama made a devils bargain. I also said that I thought that GE, mostly through its subsidiary, NBC, would come out strongly for Obama. It appears now that that is starting. It is my understanding that NBC, CNBC, and other NBC affiliates are coordinating their Obama coverage and are supporting the ‘Green’ initiative (AKA Cap and Trade). I believe that General Electric stands to make Billions from this deal.

I do not know the extent of this deal between them, nor the details, other than what I heard. Keep your ears open on this one. Check the various NBC affiliates to see if they are really working in lockstep.

5. The dems are also proposing severe fines for anyone not buying health insurance. First of all, I believe that it is blatantly unconstitutional for the government to force anyone to buy anything.

And what if you aren’t working? What then? What if you can’t afford the premium? Remember, the IRS is the enforcer here. The IRS should just about double its size with this enforcement task added to its usual duties. Oh, and all of your personal tax information will be filtered through thousands and thousands of federal workers outside of the IRS.

6. Also, the dems are proposing to tax insurers, hospitals, caregivers and those getting insurance through their employer to help pay for this. My question is, given that with the passage of this coupled with the cap and trade bill, will probably push us into a double dip recession, or even a depression, and the fact that we are approaching winter with nearly a 10% unemployment rate, which continues to increase, are tax increases really the best thing for the economy? Even Keynes would say no, given these circumstances.

What is this deal about taxing the providers? Won’t they just have to charge more to cover the extra taxes?

7. I happened to catch Bill Moyers on PBS the other night. I was stunned at the attack that he made on folks that oppose Obama’s Marxist plans. It was downright offensive to me. I am thinking that I probably won’t support PBS in the future (more than my taxes already do).

How about a little news:

A little preview of cap and trade:

LONDON TIMES: Tens of billions of pounds will have to be raised through flight taxes to compensate developing countries for the damage air travel does to the environment, according to the Government’s advisory body on climate change.

Ticket prices should rise steadily over time to deter air travel and ensure that carbon dioxide emissions from aviation fall back to 2005 levels, the Committee on

Climate Change says. It believes that airlines should be forced to share the burden of meeting Britain’s commitment to an 80 per cent cut in emissions by 2050.

The Times has learnt that it may challenge the Government’s decision to approve a third runway at Heathrow, suggesting that this would be inconsistent with that commitment.

As long as China and India don’t participate, this is all B.S. as far as any effect it will have on the climate. And China and India, along with a sizeable contingent of third world countries, have told all of us to go pound sand.

UN giving the dollar last Rites:

THE TELEGRAPH, U.K.: The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world’s monetary system since the Second World War.

By the way, did you know that our beloved president is now the president of the U.N. Security Council? Do you think there might be a connection there?

The “Death Panel” rears its ugly head in the U.K., again:

The daughter of a stroke victim claims that her father is to be wrongly placed on an NHS scheme for the terminally ill which experts say is causing some patients to die too soon.

Rosemary Munkenbeck says her father Eric Troake, who entered hospital after suffering a stroke, had fluid and drugs withdrawn and she claims doctors wanted to put him on morphine until he passed away under a scheme for dying patients called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).

The government doesn’t even try to hide what they are doing any more.

Obama hits congress to raise the Debt Ceiling:

THE HILL: The Senate must move legislation to raise the federal debt limit beyond $12.1 trillion by mid-October, a move viewed as necessary despite protests about the record levels of red ink. The move will highlight the nation’s record debt, which has been central to Republican attacks against Democratic congressional leaders and President Barack Obama. The year’s deficit is expected to hit a record $1.6 trillion.

Democrats in control of Congress, including then-Sen. Obama (Ill.), blasted President George W. Bush for failing to contain spending when he oversaw increased deficits and raised the debt ceiling. “Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren,” Obama said in a 2006 floor speech that preceded a Senate vote to extend the debt limit. “America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”

Who knew that Obama was such a great prophet?

Sweden has their sickos too:

THE LOCAL (Sweden’s news in English) The idea of feminist porn may be attractive to some but there is no reason for the state to cough up half a million kronor to fund its production, argues Beatrice Fredriksson, a member of the Moderate Party’s youth organisation and author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog.

Thursday September 3rd sees the premiere of Mia Engberg’s ‘Dirty diaries’, a feminist porn movie funded by the Swedish Film Institute. Engberg received 500,000 kronor ($69,000) from the Institute to make the movie. Engberg has also tried to make feminist porn before, which has resulted in a lesbian porn film and a film of women’s’ facial expressions at the point of orgasm. Her vision is to get make the porn industry more appealing to women, all in the name of feminism. She also claims that women’s sexuality is more multi-faceted than men’s.

Maybe things may not be working as well in Sweden as some would have us believe. Actually, this sounds just like the deals being cut by our administration. I really don’t think the current administration represents middle America. It does appear to represent the radical fringe.

Regards,

Glenn

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September 8, 2009 Breaking News

8. September 2009 by Glenn.

 

 

You heard it here, first (maybe):

VENICE (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy who once called George W. Bush “the devil,” said on Monday he hoped to be able to work more closely with President Barack Obama.

The leftist 55-year-old leader added in an interview in Italy that despite the global economic crisis and signs of a slowdown in growth in Venezuela, he did not expect his country to fall into recession.

Chavez, who landed in Venice for the film’s premiere, has earned a reputation for his outspoken criticism of U.S. policy, and in Stone’s “South of the Border”, he is sympathetically portrayed as a hero of the people who refuses to be bullied.

“I have no reason to call him (Obama) the devil, and I hope that I am right,” Chavez told reporters in Venice.

“With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can’t deny that Obama is different (from Bush). He’s intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him.”

Just as one commie would do for another. Sorry folks, this whole Obama thing is turning into an obamanation, as far as I am concerned.

Venezuela and free market media:

CARACAS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Venezuela will pull the plug on 29 more radio stations, a top official in President Hugo Chavez’s government said on Saturday, just weeks after dozens of other outlets were closed in a media clampdown.

Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello closed 34 radio stations in July, saying the government was “democratizing” media ownership. (Is this not Orwellian “Doublespeak” if you ever heard it?) Critics say the move limits freedom of expression and has taken critical voices off the airwaves.

The powerful Chavez ally has threatened to close over 100 stations in total, part of a long-term campaign against private media that the government says are biased against Chavez’s government.

“Another 29 will be gone before long,” he told thousands of Chavez supporters at a political rally, without giving details which stations would be closed or when.

Cabello also said he was launching a new legal case against Globovision, the country’s most prominent anti-government television network, accusing it of inciting a coup against Chavez…

“They (Globovision) aired a tape supposedly with telephone messages calling for a coup d’etat,” said Cabello, a member of Chavez’s inner circle who took part in the president’s first bid for office — a violent and abortive coup in 1992.

Chavez was himself ousted for 48 hours 10 years later in a short-lived army rebellion after he won office democratically. That putsch had the support of some of the country’s television companies.

Watch for this to happen in this country. That is the job of the new FCC czar that Obama just hired.

Politicians beginning to get a little concerned with upcoming elections:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Political survival will be high on lawmakers’ minds when the Democratic-led U.S. Congress returns to work on Tuesday amid widespread voter dissatisfaction with its performance.

While the debates over healthcare reform, global warming and banking legislation and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will dominate the airwaves, many incumbents, both Democrats and Republicans, are beginning to worry about holding on to their seats in November 2010 elections.

As damn well they should. I am looking for new replacements.

The administration is turning things way down:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration’s bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped short of calling it a must-have part of an overhaul.

As President Barack Obama prepares for a Wednesday night speech to Congress in a risky bid to salvage his top domestic priority, no other issue is so highly charged. Obama’s liberal supporters consider the proposal for a public plan to compete with private insurers do-or-die. Republicans say it’s unacceptable. It’s doubtful the public plan can pass the Senate.

Expect the administration to hit us with both barrels on this deal. However, they are now aware that they may not get all that they want and if pressed, they will settle for insurance reform with a trigger to bring in a public option down the line, and we won’t be able to do a damn thing about it then.

This is really a tough deal. Medicare, Medicaid and VA currently provide healthcare run by the government; so there is a precedent in this country, already, for this type of government run healthcare. However, no one is saying that the government is the most efficient way to deliver the services.

On the other hand, the insurance companies are monuments to out of control greed. There is no question that they need to be reigned in and put under some regulatory control.

I think that I would like to see the insurance companies regulated and some of their blatant abuses made illegal. Now, the conservatives say that we can’t eliminate medical underwriting. Otherwise, the healthy would pay more to help support the ill. Now that I think about it, wasn’t the original concept of insurance

a way to spread the uneven health care costs over a large base and average the total costs over all policyholders, thereby making it affordable to everyone?

Obama accused of making ‘Depression’ mistakes

TELEGRAPH: U.K. His policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina, which suffered a painful and humiliating slide from first to Third World status last century, the paper says.

There are “troubling similarities” between the US President’s actions since taking office and those which in the 1930s sent the US and much of the world spiraling into the worst economic collapse in recorded history, says the new pamphlet, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs.

In particular, the authors, economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute, claim that the White House’s plans to pour hundreds of billions of dollars of cash into the economy will undermine it in the long run. They say that by employing deficit spending and increased state intervention President Obama will ultimately hamper the long-term growth potential of the US economy and may risk delaying full economic recovery by several years.

In particular, the authors, economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute, claim that the White House’s plans to pour hundreds of billions of dollars of cash into the economy will undermine it in the long run. They say that by employing deficit spending and increased state intervention President Obama will ultimately hamper the long-term growth potential of the US economy and may risk delaying full economic recovery by several years.

The study represents a challenge to the widely held view that Keynesian fiscal policies helped the US recover from the Depression which started in the early 1930s. The authors say: “[Franklin D Roosevelt’s] interventionist policies and draconian tax increases delayed full economic recovery by several years by exacerbating a climate of pessimistic expectations that drove down private capital formation and household consumption to unprecedented lows.”

Although the authors support the Federal Reserve’s moves to slash interest rates to just above zero and embark on quantitative easing, pumping cash directly into the system, they warn that greater intervention could set the US back further. Rowley says: “It is also not impossible that the US will experience the kind of economic collapse from first to Third World status experienced by Argentina under the national-socialist governance of Juan Peron.”

I don’t really know what to say. I find myself “suffering an embarrassment of riches” regarding all of these people finally coming out of the woodwork and supporting the things I have been saying for a year now.

China alarmed by U.S. money printing:

TELEGRAPH, U.K.: Cheng Siwei, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee and now head of China’s green energy drive, said Beijing was dismayed by the Fed’s recourse to “credit easing”.

“We hope there will be a change in monetary policy as soon as they have positive growth again,” he said at the Ambrosetti Workshop, a policy gathering on Lake Como.

“If they keep printing money to buy bonds it will lead to inflation, and after a year or two the dollar will fall hard. Most of our foreign reserves are in US bonds and this is very difficult to change, so we will diversify incremental reserves into euros, yen, and other currencies,” he said.

I told you months ago that they were going to bail on us if we didn’t get our financial house in order.

Capitalism is evil:

VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.

Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil,” the two-hour movie concludes.

What I can’t believe is that people are stupid enough to continue to spend their hard-earned money to go watch this drivel.

Michael, If you really believe what you are saying, turn in all of your ill-gotten capitalistic gains to the government and we will give you an allowance of $2000 per month to live on. Otherwise, you are just another hack liberal hypocrite.

You’re an evil man, Michael, by your own definition!

French Healthcare is “Badly” Run:

BBC NEWS, EUROPE: France must make big changes to its health system in order to cut waste and increase efficiency, a government-commissioned report is warning.

The report says citizens must pay more and doctors must alter their behavior.

Failure to do so could add 66 billion euros a year to France’s public budget deficit by 2020, it adds.

Obama seems to be suffering an “embarrassment of riches” of evidence that refutes all of his grand ideas.

Iran rules out nuclear concessions:

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out negotiations on his country’s nuclear program while saying he is willing to discuss other international issues in public with President Barack Obama.

At his first formal press conference since his June 12 re- election, Ahmadinejad said yesterday he didn’t recognize deadlines for talks on Iran’s nuclear plans. “Iran’s nuclear issue is over,” he said. “We will never negotiate Iran’s undeniable rights.”

What now, Mr. President? They have just told you to stuff it. Will you still meet with them on other subjects?

Israel Approves Construction of 455 West Bank Homes

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the building of 455 housing units in the West Bank, defying U.S. demands for a freeze on settlement construction.

The Palestinian Authority immediately condemned the move, saying it “undermines the belief that Israel is a credible partner for peace.” A settler leader pledged to fight any move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt further building.

Uh oh. This does not bode well for Israel.

One commie out of the Administration:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The resignation of Obama administration figure Van Jones, following controversies over a petition he had signed and his comments about Republicans, did not come at the request of the president, the White House senior adviser said Sunday.

“Absolutely not — this was Van Jones’ own decision,” David Axelrod told NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked if the president had ordered the resignation.

Yeah, right, David! The president will not allow anyone to dirty his skirt. That is why it has been 9 month and we still haven’t heard what he wants in a health bill. He let the gunsels in congers take the heat for him. Now that he knows which way the wind blows, he will come in and tell most what they want to hear and become the messiah again.

Actually, I am kind of sorry Jones was sacked. He would continually serve as a reminder to the public of who really made up this administration.

Also, as I noted the other day, if you watched CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN, you would never have heard about Van Jones in the first place.

Regards,

Glenn

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September 6, 2009 Breaking News

6. September 2009 by Glenn.

Single Article Breaking News

I don’t usually send a newsletter out on Sunday, but I received this from a reader and thought you would be interested.  Thanx Dick

            When I read this article by David Kaiser, a wave of surrealism washed over me.  It was like I was reading exerpts of my newsletters from the past year.  It is always nice to know, when you go out on a limb, as I have over the past year, that someone in the “know”  agrees with you.  (My liberal friends would say that there may be 3 of us, now)

                As I mentioned being a student of history last week, I had no idea.  This guy is the real deal.  

P.S.  I did check him out and he is who they say he is.  
                

David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C, Albany, New York, and Dakar, Senegal.  He attended Harvard University, graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976.  He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College. He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University. Kaiser’s latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press. Dr. David Kaiser History UnfoldingI am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why?We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x  ten…And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.And that is only the beginning..As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the “savior” was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative “losers” read it right now.And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,  How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ……. change. And the people surely got what they voted for.If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It’s all there in the history books.So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to. Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.David Kaiser     Jamestown , Rhode Island United States    Regards,Glenn The purpose of this newsletter is to give information to the general public regarding the political climate in America, as well as to urge them to become politically active.  While the writer tries to use only news sources that are deemed reliable, no guarantees can be made.  The script in bold red italics are the opinion of the author. The author reserves the right to publish reader feedback, edit it for brevity or content and if used the reader comments will become the property of the author.

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September 5, 2009 Breaking News

5. September 2009 by Glenn.

Observation of the Day:

In thinking about this country, it occurred to me that we do have a three party system in effect.  I don’t count the Libertarian party or other fringe parties because they don’t seem to be able to attract enough support to be effective.

            No; I was thinking that we have the Republicans, the Democrats and the Liberals.  While the republicans have their share of far right-wingers, they do not hold a candle to the liberal portion of the Democratic Party. 

            The democrats that more closely represent the Democratic Party that I remember are now known as the “Blue Dog” Democrats.  They seem to have a stronger moral code than the liberals who follow Saul Alinsky’s dictum of “Nothing is immoral if it furthers the cause.”  The Blue Dogs also seem to have the country’s welfare in mind wherein, it appears to me, the liberals only have one agenda and that is to turn this country into a Marxist nation, even if they have to break the economic back of this country to do it.

            Thus, we have the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the communist party, currently masquerading as liberal democrats.

           

Reader Feedback:

Glenn’s comment on the high school coach being charged in the death of a student who died during practice is a fine example of abuse of power at more than the

Federal level.

            Athletes have died during games also and this same logic would mean charging those coaches for those deaths. Most people know that there is no one that likes putting people in jail more than I do but they have to be guilty of a crime first.

            Our very own Andrew Thomas here in Maricopa County is a stellar example of abusive power. When I worked the one year for the Public Defender’s Office I saw cases that should have never been charged and if you can’t convince a thirty plus year cop that someone should not be charged, it’s a pathetic case.

The scary thing is that he could come for you or me tomorrow.   Thanx Dale

Again, I don’t have all of the facts in this case so we will have to wait for the trial to progress to see what is really here.  Still, it sounds fishy.

 

Obama’s civilian army already exists and they are among us. His army is composed of:

ACORN
Apollo Alliance
Black Panthers
Copwatch
Green jos for all
moveon.org
NAACP
NEA
Organizing for America
SEIU
Storm Tides Foundation
Teamsters
UFCW
9/11 truthers

They all have offices and they have members. Check them out and be aware.  Thanx, David

My understanding of the civilian army was the Americorps group; youths that receive military training and armaments and can go head to head with our military, if need be.  The police, under this scenario, won’t stand a chance.  

However, David does make a good point, here.  He can do plenty with these people.

It also answers the question of why the justice department was ordered to drop charges against Black Panthers who intimidated people at the polls during the election, even though the justice prosecutors said they had the panthers “dead to rights”.

 

Obama’s wings melt–Understanding what happened to Obama:

Dr. Charles Krauthammer’s column of the same title, yesterday, was quite interesting, comparing Obama’s rise and fall with Greek mythology’s Icarus, who flew too close to the sun.  He asks the question of what happened to bring Obama’s popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post Nixon pardon).

            He goes on to say that the conventional wisdom attributes his fall to a tactical error of farming out his agenda to the likes of Pelosi and Reid. 

            “But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama to the left is quite ridiculous.  Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chavista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?”

            “But forget the Character witnesses.”

            He goes on to say that Obama’s first address and delivered the boldest social manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president.  “In U.S. politics, you can’t get more left than that speech and still be on the field.”

            He then goes on to say that Obama compounded his problem by misreading his mandate. 

            “He assumed that his mandate was personal.  This after winning by a mere 7 points in a year of true economic catastrophe, of an unpopular GOP incumbent, and of a politically weak and unsteady opponent.  Nonetheless, Obama imagined that he had won the kind of banana republic plebiscite that grants caudillolike authority to remake everything in one’s own image.”

            Obama then enacted measure after measure that greatly enlarged state power, government spending and national debt. These measures engendered a powerful skepticism that manifested itself into tea-party town hall resistance.

             “Obama’s reaction to that resistance made things worse.  Obama fancies  himself tribune of the people, harbinger of a new kind of politics from below that would upset the established lobbyist special-interest order of Washington.  Yet faced with protests from a real grass roots movement, his party and his supporters called it a mob—irrational, angry, unhinged, and bordering on racist.  All this while the administration was cutting back room deals  with every manner of special interests in which favors worth Billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.”

            Obama then scolded  opponents, whom he blamed for the “mess” from which he was merely trying to save us.  “So with boundless confidence in his own persuasiveness, Obama undertook a campaign to enlighten the masses.”

            “Things got worse still.  With answers so slippery and implausible and, well, fishy, he began jeopardizing the most fundamental asset of any new president—Trust.  You can’t say that the system is totally broken but nothing will change for you;  that Medicare is bankrupting the country but $500 Billion in cuts will have no effect on care; that you will expand coverage while reducing deficits – and not inspire incredulity and mistrust.”

            “Let’s be clear, this is a fall, not a collapse.  He’s not been defeated.  He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform (Note-not health care-health insurance) that will restore some of his clout.”

            “But what has occurred –irreversibly—is this:  He’s become ordinary.  The spell is broken.  The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic.  He’s regressed to the tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50% .  For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for his acolytes, a crushing disappointment.”

I love this guy.  One of the better minds among us.

By the way, watch for a new “crisis” to occur; a classic way for the president to regain some of his mojo.

 

News you should know:

CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Nouriel Roubini, a leading economist who predicted the scale of global financial troubles, said a U-shaped recovery is possible, with leading economies underperforming perhaps for 3 years.

            He said there is also an increasing risk of a “double-dip” scenario, however.

“I believe that the basic scenario is going to be one of a U-shaped economic recovery where growth is going to remain below trend … especially for the advanced economies, for at least 2 or 3 years,” he said at a news conference here.

      “Within that U scenario I also see a small probability, but a rising probability, that if we don’t get the exit strategy right we could end up with a relapse in growth … a double-dip recession,” he added.

            Roubini, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said he was concerned economies which save a lot, such as China, Japan and Germany, might not boost consumption enough to compensate for any fall in demand from “over-spenders” such as the United States and Britain.

I suspect that getting the “exit strategy” right does not include creating Trillions of Dollars in deficits.

 

The green commie comes under fire—or not:

THE HILL:  The White House would not say whether the White House’s green-jobs czar, who has been linked to Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists, continues to enjoy the confidence of the president, but an official said he is still a part of the administration.
            Van Jones, the president’s special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), has come under fire this week for using an obscenity to describe Republicans and for signing a petition to get Congress to investigate whether the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were an inside government job.   That’s damning with faint praise, if I ever heard it. 

I just happened to think.  You know that about 4,000 individuals in prison as well as about 10,000 dead people got stimulus money.  I wonder if the prison inmates were 4,000 of Obama’s closest friends?

            And Obama thought he had a problem with Biden!  Jones adds a completely new meaning to the term “Loose cannon”.  I love it.

 

Government run News Organizations:

WASHINGTON EXAMINER:

            Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
            Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
            Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
            Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
            Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.

             If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama’s Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, “Huh?” If you heard that that adviser, Van Jones, had apologized for a number of remarks and positions in the recent past, your response would be, “What?”   And if you were in the Obama White House monitoring the Jones situation, you would be hoping that the news organizations listed above continue to hold the line — otherwise, Jones, who is quite well thought of in Obama circles, would be history.

That is why this newsletter exists in the first place.

 

Reaction to the push back on the school speech:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama’s plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation’s students.

“I think we’ve reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can’t tell kid s in school to study hard and stay in school,” presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. “I think both political parties agree that the dropout rate is something that threatens our long-term economic success.”

I understand that the speech was ostensibly about dropouts but the classroom instructions were very much directed at politicizing the children.  

 

 Read This Because the Dollar Is Doomed:

By Tim Hanson
August 28, 2009 | Comments (42)

I wrote back in March that we thought the dollar might be doomed. That was because:
            1. The United States has a massive and growing deficit.
            2. The United States continues to generate significant trade deficits.
            3. The United States has become oh-so-willing to print money out of thin air to meet its increasing obligations, and to prop up the likes of AIG (NYSE: AIG) and     Bank of America (NYSE: BAC).
The more things change …
            Fast forward five months, and that willingness to print and spend has only increased. None other than Warren Buffett of the famously successful Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) put the nail in the dollar’s coffin in a New York Times editorial last week.

            He wrote, “Fiscally, we are in uncharted territory” and concluded that “Unchecked greenback emissions will certainly cause the purchasing power of currency to melt. The dollar’s destiny lies with Congress.”
            Lies with Congress? If you know anything about Congress — I used to work in the political game — then you know for sure now that the dollar is doomed.
            This should be worrisome news if you earn a dollar-based salary, keep a dollar-based bank account, or invest in dollar-denominated U.S. stocks and bonds. Why? Because as the dollar declines in value, so too will all of your earnings, savings, and investments. And that’s scary stuff…

I received the above article from the Motley Fool Stock people yesterday.  One should understand that these people have something to sell to quell the anxiety, so this should be taken with a grain of salt.

             However, longtime readers know that for nearly a year, I have been warning about what the spending plans of the administration would do to the dollar. 

            It appears that Warren Buffet, who earlier supported Obama’s plan, is finally coming around to my way of thinking. (I really hate being at odds with Warren Buffet) 

Just thought that you should know.

 

Book two to Bogota:

BOGOTA – Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling.

            The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin American capitals, as well as New York and Madrid.

            The Honduras march wa s led by Roberto Micheletti, who became president when Chavez ally Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a June coup.

            “Any politician who tries to stay in power by hitching up with a dictator like Hugo Chavez, he won’t achieve it,” Micheletti said. “We’ll stop him.”

            That may be easier said than done with Obama backing the communist dictator, Zelaya, who was deposed in Honduras for breaking the constitution while trying to set himself up as President for life.  You probably ought to write your congress folk about our support of a communist dictator.  We could have one in this country in the future.

 

 

They Never give up-See Observation of the Day, above:

WASHINGTON (AP) - House liberals pleaded with President Barack Obama on Friday to push for creation of a government-run health care program as the Senate’s chief negotiator said he won’t wait much longer for Republicans to compromise amid dwindling chances for a bipartisan bill.

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., held a nearly two-hour teleconference with his small group of negotiators, who call themselves the “Bipartisan Six.” Afterward, Baucus was careful to leave the door open to a long-sought deal, but he clearly signaled the time has come for him to move ahead.

When you cling to terms with which the other side absolutely cannot abide, how is that bi-partisan? 

 

Gold:

FINANCIAL TIMES: Gold prices hit a six-month high on Thursday, approaching the $1,000 a troy ounce mark for the fifth time in two years, as wary investors pulled back from equities.

            Traders said that the bulk of the buying came after a confluence of bullish chart signals triggered speculative flows into the precious metal. Spot bullion in London hit an intraday high of $992.55 a troy ounce, the highest since late February.

            Not being a financial planner, my financial observations are worth about what you pay for them.  I don’t even understand that crap in the second paragraph regarding the confluence of something or other. 

            That said, I have never been a fan of commodity speculation in general and gold speculation in particular.  At least, not since I lost a bunch of money in gold about 30 years ago. 

            In fact, the only person that I have heard of, who wasn’t a professional trader, that made money in the commodities market was Hillary Clinton, when she made a $100,000 profit in a nearly overnight speculation.   I’m just not that smart!

            It appears to me that the primary profit in gold speculation goes to the people that sell it to you. 

 

 Regards,

Glenn

 

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September 2, 2009 Breaking News

2. September 2009 by Glenn.

Reader Feedback :

“NEVER, NEVER SEND ME THIS STUPID KIND OF STUFF AGAIN.”

Thanx, RC. I guess we’re doing something right.   Interestingly enough, some liberal readers have told me the same thing but when questioned about it, it turns out that they are objecting more to the hard news articles, than they are my comments. It appears that some liberals don’t want to read news that conflicts with what they have been told.

By the way, R.C., you don’t appear on our mailing list so you should contact whoever is forwarding this letter to you.  

 

It’s Official-No public option:

            Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specif ying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO.

            Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself, the officials said.

“We’re entering a new season, ”

Well, we will see.  As long as he doesn’t regulate insurance companies into becoming quasi-public divisions of the government, which would just be another public option.

I think that this is just another dodge to take our eye off the ball.

 

Observation of the Day:

Ford and several foreign manufacturers benefitted from the cash for clunkers.  Not Chrysler.  Their sales were down 15% due to a lack of fuel-efficient cars. 

Only the government would take ownership in a large manufacturer and then put into effect an incentive plan that not only wouldn’t benefit their company, but also would penalize it in the process.  Mr. Obama, I will accept your personal note for the portion of my money that you wasted in this mess, providing you secure it with property equal in value to the note.

            Speaking of Chrysler, AutoWeek just turned their Chrysler Mini-van, affectionately known as the “Norge”, in after a year long test drive.  Long time readers will remember me mentioning it from time to time.

            They put just under 33,000 miles on it during the year and averaged just a touch under 20 mpg for the entire year.  It was used by the staff for hauling, going on Colorado ski trips and taking family wherever they needed to go. 

            The amazing thing to me is that it did not miss one day of service due to mechanical difficulties, outside of scheduled maintenance.  My Acura has fewer miles and has been in the dealership a half dozen times. 

            Quotes from staff in the cars log included “Every single bit of this van still works like new, from the power doors and lift gates to the electronics systems, and from the triple zone air conditioning to the swivel and go seats.”

            Also; “This van is nothing short of miraculous in its ability to smoothly absorb miles and miles of highway without complaint.”  “As for the Norge, it made us believers in Chrysler quality and technology.”  Another staffer noted; “For a while, I might have recommended the Honda or Toyota over the Chrysler, but not now.”

            That is no small praise from an organization that routinely has Mercedes, BMWs, Audis and Porsches in their test fleet. Now I, while still not a mini-van guy, am impressed too. 

 

Quote of the Day:

Q: “How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?”

A: “I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time.”

        Sen. Harry Reid,( D-Nev) to the Reno Gazette-Journal’s inquiry

What a compassionate guy.  Kennedy has just finished cooling.

 

Headline of the Day:

Obama to make unprecedented address to all public school students September 8..

He’s coming after your kids; lock them up!

 

Police State, U.S.A.; This is sooo scary:

            A “pandemic response bill” currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.

            If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.

Massachusetts’ pandemic response bill

“Pandemic Response Bill” 2028 was passed by the Massachusetts state Senate on April 28 and is now awaiting approval in the House.

            As stated in the bill, upon declaration by the governor that an emergency exists that is considered detrimental to public health or upon declaration of a state of emergency, a local public health authority, with approval of the commissioner, may exercise the following authorities (emphasis added):

to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;

            to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility, and to allow the reopening of the building or facility when the danger has ended;

            to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated, or to destroy any material;

            to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons;

            to require a health care facility to provide services or the use of its facility, or to transfer the management and supervision of the health care facility to the department or to a local public health authority;

            to control ingress to and egress from any stricken or threatened public area, and the movement of persons and materials within the area;

            to adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of infectious waste and human remains, provided that religious, cultural, family, and individual beliefs of the deceased person shall be followed to the extent possible when disposing of human remains, whenever that may be done without endangering the public health;

to procure, take immediate possession from any source, store, or distribute any anti-toxins, serums, vaccines, immunizing agents, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical agents or medical supplies located within the commonwealth as may be necessary to respond to the emergency;

            to require in-state health care providers to assist in the performance of vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of any individual as a condition of licensure, authorization, or the ability to continue to function as a health care provider in the commonwealth;

            to waive the commonwealth’s licensing requirements for health care professionals with a valid license from another state in the United States or whose professional training would otherwise qualify them for an appropriate professional license in the commonwealth;

            to allow for the dispensing of controlled substance by appropriate personnel consistent with federal statutes as necessary for the prevention or treatment of illness;

to authorize the chief medical examiner to appoint and prescribe the duties of such emergency assistant medical examiners as may be required for the proper performance of the duties of office;

            to collect specimens and perform tests on any animal, living or deceased;

            to exercise authority under sections 95 and 96 of chapter 111;

            to care for any emerging mental health or crisis counseling needs that individuals may exhibit, with the consent of the individuals

  ;           State and local agencies responding to the public health emergency would be required to exercise their powers over transportation routes, communication devices, carriers, public utilities, fuels, food, clothing and shelter, according to the legislation.

            Count the ways that this bill can be misused!  Come on! Anyone?   While most of the writers of this bill were probably thinking about the public health, I suspect that all of them were not, or maybe none of them.  When there is danger afoot, of the type that we currently face, it is misinterpretation of these kinds of bills that give those in the government the power forcefully make their move while everyone else is standing around wondering what happened.

 

Party On:

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Clinton ordered an investigation on Tuesday into the Animal House revels of private guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan - including booze, hookers and other “deviant behavior.”

Finally, Hillary is hitting her stride.  I mean, who else has more experience dealing with deviant behavior than Hillary Clinton?

 

Another huge oil field Discovery:

LONDON (AP) — BP PLC said Wednesday that it had made a “giant” oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico but had not yet determined the size and commercial potential of the find.

            The well, in Keathley Canyon block 102 about 250 miles (400 kms) southeast of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 meters) of water, the company said.

            The Tiber well was drilled to a total depth of 35,055 feet (10,685 meters), making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled by the oil and gas industry, BP said.

            BP has a 62 percent interest in Tiber, while Petrobras holds 20 percent and ConocoPhillips has 18 percent.

            BP shares were up 1.9 percent at 529.5 pence on the London Stock Exchange.

            Combined with the gigantic discovery of oil in Montana and the Dakotas and limited drilling in the Arctic, plus some off shore oil (Right now, China and Cuba are drilling about 60 miles off the coast of Florida, I believe) the American public could have a soft letdown and give science the opportunity (and time) to develop renewable energy sources that won’t bankrupt the average guy. 

            You don’t suppose that there is another reason that the administration has shown such an affinity for “wind” power?

 

Second Amendment Bird:

WASHINGTON POST: A bird struck a jet carrying New York mayor Bloomberg and about a half-dozen others from the Hamptons to Boston for Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral Saturday, The Post has learned.

Aww geeez.  I wonder how Bloomberg will blame this on the NRA.

 

Headline of the Day:

NYC Man Survives After Heart Stops For 45 Minutes: No Brain Damage

Well, that begs the obvious question.

 

 

 

More Bad News:    

            China will unveil a range of previously unknown missiles during its October 1 National Day parade, including intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles, state media said Wednesday.

            The new hardware on display also will include conventional cruise missiles and both short- and medium-range missiles, the Global Times newspaper reported, citing an unnamed People’s Liberation Army source.

            “These missiles are domestically designed and manufactured and have never been officially reported before,” the source, who is with the PLA’s strategic missile defence unit, was quoted as saying.

            The weapons have already been distributed to the military and are ready for operation, the source said.

Let’s hope that Obama makes our interest payments on time.  Oh, and stay out of Taiwan!

Glenn

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September 1, 2009 Breaking News

1. September 2009 by Glenn.

KANSAS CITY STAR:         If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you’d best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.

            The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that’s been recalled by its manufacturer.

            “Those who resell recalled children’s products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children’s lives at risk,” said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about.

New Tax Proposed:

THE HILL:  The nation’s largest labor union and some allied Democrats are pushing a new tax that would hit big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs reaping billions of dollars in profits while the rest of the economy sputters.
            The AFL-CIO, one of the Democratic Party’s most powerful allies, would like to assess a small tax — about a tenth of a percent — on every stock transaction.
            Small and medium-sized investors would hardly notice such a tax, but major trading firms, such as Goldman, which reported $3.44 billion in profits during the second quarter of 2009, may see this as a significant threat to their profits.

I guess it is easy to say that since that doesn’t affect me, what do I care; and Wall Street certainly hasn’t earned a lot of fealty from me.  I guess the problem is that these taxes never stay little.  Once a tax is in, it is certainly easy to raise it without letting the people know.

Swine Flu Vaccine:

Here is an interview regarding the new swine flu vaccine.  I reported a week ago regarding the side effects which were potentially lethal. 

Not being a Doctor, I cannot make a judgment as to the safety of this but I offer this interview so that you can make up your own mind.  Thanx David

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4SmFxyust0  (copy and paste)

Quote of the Day:

“People have been nay-saying all year long,”. But, “We got a bill through the House, and you know . . . all signs point to yes” in the Senate.

     Josh Dorner of the Sierra Club regarding the continued prospects of the cap and trade bill.

If you think these people are going to give up on the health care and cap and trade bill, you are sadly mistaken.  Either they are unaware that the cost of these programs, when the U.S. is already staggering, will bring this country to its knees or they don’t care. 

Quote II of the Day:

“Cass Sunstien (Czar) is so far out there that I know people in Hollywood that are afraid of him.”

            Donald  (last name escapes me)  Democratic pollster

Obama is making this nation safer from terrorists:

ABC NEWS:  Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission.

            “This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,” Jones said. “The world is coming together on this matter now that President Obama has taken the leadership on it and is approaching it in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way – to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies – both national and international.”

I guess we will see.

Obama’s cost estimates run into moreTrouble:

WASHINGTON POST:  Preventive services for the chronically ill may reduce health-care costs, but they are unlikely to generate the kind of fantastic savings that President Obama and other Democrats have said could help pay for an overhaul of the nation’s health system, according to a study being published Tuesday.

            Using data from long-standing clinical trials, researchers projected the cost of caring for people with Type 2 diabetes as they progress from diagnosis to various complications and death. Enrolling federally insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost the government $1,024 per person per year — money that largely would be recovered after 25 years through lower spending on dialysis, kidney transplants, amputations and other forms of treatment, the study found.

            However, except for the youngest diabetics, the additional services would add to overall health spending, not decrease it, the study shows.

After watching pretty much everything that Obama told me being refuted by facts, I can only believe that he is either a charlatan or ignorant.

Glenn

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