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Breaking News July 2, 2010

7. July 2010 by Glenn.

 

MR. PRESIDENT: PUT THE STARS BACK IN OUR FLAG © 2009-2010

7-02-10–Breaking News©

Really Breaking News:

Watch and hear Obama admit that he was not born in Hawaii.

I am sending this to you with some trepidation. I have a little concern with the cutoff of Obama’s admission. However, he appears to clearly state that he was not born in the U.S. but in Kenya.

Given the huge effort and expense that Obama has gone through to hide every aspect of his past, I have to give this some credibility. Normal people don’t do that. I think you will find this very interesting and a major reason that Obama is trying to get control of the internet. (Copy and paste to your browser to watch). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded

Thanx Bill

Today’s attachment is a little article on Friedrich von Hayek, the world’s most unpopular economist.

I noted in a recent newsletter about my lack of “larnin’ when it came to economics and having to rely on common sense. Well, a reader sent me this yesterday and I finally have an economist that agrees with me. So we are probably equally unpopular. I think you will find it both entertaining and informative. Thanx Bruce

I sent out that video yesterday of that snotty performance by Pete Stark regarding securing the border. Well, apparently, Atlanta, GA is getting concerned because terrorists coming over the Arizona border are showing up in Atlanta. They sent a news team to AZ to investigate. Here is one

of the Videos… http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html (Copy and paste to your browser. It pretty much bears out what I have been saying for the past two years…

Thanx Rob

Quote(s) of the Day:

“Surely, if we have learned anything from 9/11, it is that borders are important.”

J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Candidate for Senate

Pete Stark, (D-CA) doesn’t think so!

“Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.” –James Monroe (1758-1831) American president

Well, we sure managed to screw that up…

Observation of the Day:

What is so great about socialism? Ever wonder about that? Why do these people keep trying to take care of us with socialism? Are they really that nice?

Socialism is a populist program for taking over countries. The one thing that Socialists need is a dumbed down, uneducated population to get it done. They also need unions, which usually enjoy a golden existence with the people in power, in return for financial support as well as physical support if needed.

No socialist country has been successful to date. The U.S.S.R.? That country imploded after keeping their people in abject misery for 70 years.

East Germany? They had to build a wall and keep it covered with machine guns to keep their people from escaping to West Germany or other countries. Many people were so desperate to get out that they risked being shot and in fact were killed trying to get out of the country.

Ancient history? Nope. The wall didn’t come down until 1989.

Venezuela? Hugo Chavez has turned into a bad cartoon character in the process of ruining Venezuela. He has taken over or jailed executives of all media outlets that were critical of him; he has nationalized the oil business, their biggest industry; he has nationalized the power companies, leading to massive blackout over the past 6 months; he has taken over the food industry and prices are skyrocketing and 80,000 tons of rotting food were recently found in a government warehouse, while food shortages abound. This travesty is happening now.

China? Now there is the great example. Thirty or forty years ago, China was so far behind and becoming so stagnant that in desperation, the Party brought in instructors to teach company owners capitalism so that they could compete on the world stage. The Chinese did not call it capitalism but that is in fact what one instructor recently reported.

However, while China didn’t medal with their industry as much as Obama and his Democratic Socialists want to, they did control who became a success. Today, of the 300 Chinese that have a net worth of $20 Million +, all but a handful are upper echelon party members.

How about the European socialism that the liberals are so fond of holding up to us as a great example. Britain? Between their health care program which is turning into an unmitigated disaster, and their other socialist policies, they are on the edge of bankruptcy, just as we are.

Sweden? I don’t know if the socialist held onto power in their recent election or not. People were so fed up with socialism that the socialists didn’t think that they would be able to hang on to power.

France? Their health care is in bankruptcy and the country is tanking. Sarkozy is trying to save things but public unions are striking against raising the retirement age from 60 to 62.

Greece? Greece went European socialist about 15 years ago and are now literally bankrupt. Again, the public unions are blocking reforms.

California? The most socialistic state this side of Massachusetts is in deep doo doo, financially with a budget short fall this year of something like $21 Billion. One town has fired all of their employees and are outsourcing all of their police, fire and other activities to surrounding towns. Of course, the problem with that is that local citizens no longer have a say in the quality of their police protection, fire response and other services that the city delivers.

Other towns are considering bankruptcy. The City of San Jose just laid off 70 janitors who were making $41 per hour. Not bad for pushing a vacuum or mopping a floor or dumping a wastebasket. They were replaced by a janitorial contract with a private company at $19 per hour.

No one has been able to demonstrate one socialist country that was even a fair success; and certainly nothing even approaching the greatness that the United States once achieved!

So tell me again, what is so great about socialism?

Observation of the Day II:

Having watched the video clip of Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) that was included in the last newsletter, it sheds light on the nasty, vacuous mental state of the elected politicians from California and I now understand why those politicians are boycotting Arizona. Knowing who they really are gives me comfort. If they had any mental credentials, I would be a lot more upset with their boycott.

Observation of the Day III:

I watched the president’s speech on immigration reform on Thursday. Never have I seen a better speech designed to mislead through half truths and bogus information so masterfully delivered. He makes B.S. sound so good that he probably should be granted an Oscar for Best B.S.

He will not be denied his permanent sub-culture which will insure a permanent democrat majority that will respond to government handouts and vote to keep them coming.

A couple of things to keep in mind here. First, he said that there are 11,000,000 illegals in the country now. If memory serves me, three or four years ago, the number being bandied about was 20,000,000. If that is correct, the administration is participating in a fraud again.

Secondly, the illegals are, for the most part, uneducated; the exact formula for the dems to maintain their majority. Being undereducated, whether they are legal or illegal, families will still use about 4 times the government services that they pay for through taxes.

This is exactly why every first world and most second world countries won’t let you in unless you have money or a needed skill; especially if they have extensive social programs, such as we do.

Check it out folks. Try countries that you would like to live in and see what their requirements are. Canada and Russia probably don’t count because the weather up there is so miserable most of the year and in most areas that given a choice, no right thinking person would move there. ( With all due apologies to my Canadian friends…note that I said “most” of the time and “most” areas)

So if the illegals are made legal, count on huge taxes to support them.

Also, I believe that Latinos have an average of 4 children each in a traditional family. Assuming that 40% of the 11,000,000 illegals (Obama’s figures) are husband and wife, which would give us 2,200,000 nuclear families. Now if we invoke the law of progression… Those nuclear families would produce and average of 8,800,000 children. If 50% of them were of each sex, then on the second round they would

produce 17,600,000 kids. Using the same ratios, the third round would produce 140,800,000 offspring. The fourth round would produce 281,600,000 kids. That is real close to the current population of this country.

Do you now see why the Latino agitators are telling us that they will take over this country?

And this does not take into consideration legal Latinos, the other 7,000,000 illegals that we arbitrarily said were single males and the offspring that they may produce among legal Latinos.

Of course, the only way that undereducated Latinos will be able to afford 4 kids will be through healthy subsidies from tax payer funded government programs.

Folks; Because I have so many Latino friends, I have been luke warm on amnesty until just now when I took the time to run these numbers and the results scared the hell out of me.

However, in light of my figures, this is not a race program, it is one of principal (nation of laws) and one of the survival of this country as we know it.

And if you don’t think that all the brou-ha-ha over Arizona’s immigration bill is politically motivated, think about this: The law hasn’t even gone into effect yet and won’t until the end of July. The bill prohibits racial profiling so we won’t know for some time whether there is a problem or not!

OBSERVATIONS:

The Supreme Court has scored one for the Constitution and all Americans…well, at least 88% of the people in America who are non-leftists by upholding the second amendment about striking down anti-gun laws in all states.

You can bet your sweet Bippy that the leftists are already formulating ways to disregard that decision by putting very high financial requirements on owning a gun, requiring a lot of education and other things that would put the ownership of guns out of the realm of possibility for everyday Americans.

In the “Fix is in Department”, Chase Bank has just hired 1200 mortgage brokers, nationwide, to handle their loan programs. It is likely that other big banks will follow their lead…

It is interesting to note that the big banks, in light of Obama’s financial regulation’s restriction on income to mortgage broker based on the yield split premium, are now moving in this direction. Why? Because the big banks are in a better position to hide broker compensation through paying on the SRP (Service Release Premium) which is not now, nor will be regulated and since it is not a point of sale item, it will not appear on the buyer’s HUD 1 settlement statement.

The banks are gearing up to take advantage of the new Obama bill’s provisions. In case you didn’t realize this, socialist governments prefer regulating a few large companies over many small companies. It allows more time on the golf course for the regulators.

So the buyer will still be bagged; he just won’t know about it…

In another related, but unrelated development, Freddie Mac just revealed that they have contracted with a single home warranty company to provide a 2 year home warranty for up to 2 million of their foreclosed homes. Why should you care?

How about the fact that Freddie Mac has contracted to pay $1,100.00 for each home warranty, a nearly 40% premium over what the industry normally charges for

a similar home warranty. That would mean that Freddie Mac (and taxpayers indirectly) would pay about $800,000,000.00 over the prevailing rate for a similar home warranty.

It is also reported that the warranty does not cover septic tanks and water wells which would require an extra premium to be covered.

They sure play fast a loose with your money, don’t they.

And in the “Fix may not be in, after all Department”, a D.O.J. attorney has blown the whistle on the decision of the D.O.J. not to prosecute Black Panthers for voter intimidation in the 2008 election.

I reported on this early last year and observed that the “fix was in” when it was decided that the D.O.J. wouldn’t pursue this case because of a “lack of evidence”.

The D.O.J. attorney that was handling the case said the decision not to pursue the case was based on politics and race. He said that as far as not having the evidence, he said that he had video and eye witnesses to the incident. It doesn’t get any easier to make a case then that, he observed.

Yep. Good ol’ Crime Incorporated is already demonizing the attorney. By the way, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is opening an investigation into the D.O.J.’s dropping of this case. I wonder how far that will get?

And in another “The Fix is In” development, George Soros, the ultra left wing multi-billionaire currency trader and staunch Obama supporter, has lectured Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Germany, that Germany needs to spend more, rather than tighten its belt, to come out of the recession.

This, from the guy that single handedly brought down the British Pound in a currency manipulation deal a number of years ago. He is chiding Germany that they need to follow Obama’s lead in runaway spending. Merkel ain’t buying it.

Most experts say his advice will lead to a financial meltdown…

Do you suppose he is feeling the need to get even again after losing $2 Billion in a Russian currency deal that went awry in 1998?

I speculated a year and a half ago about a connection between Soros and Obama. Do you suppose that Obama is getting a commission from Soros for leading this country into a financial meltdown in which Soros will make billions in currency speculation?

The open border advocates from the border states are meeting in San Diego, ostensibly to re-examine their options because, as they put it, Obama is tougher on border security than “W” was.

That is total Horse Hockey!!! They are providing cover for Obama as he gives lip service to border security while doing nothing! These guys are just plain slimy! It should be noted that this piece of crap was obediently printed in the government controlled Washington Post, who are aiding and abetting this travesty.

The congressional budget office has just announced that the public debt will be 62% of the GDP by the end of the fiscal year. It will be 100% within the next few years.

What does this mean? It means that in order to pay just the interest on the national debt, we will have to cut defense spending and all other social programs. That means cuts to social security, Medicare, Medicaid (to which we are adding 15,000,000 new users, courtesy of Obama) national defense, welfare, highway maintenance, the staffs of the FDA, FBI, and other government entities and these cuts will be echoed at the state and local levels.

It is now estimated that the problem will be so serious that we won’t be able to tax ourselves out of this mess. That means total default. Simply put, we could have anarchy.

This will be a disaster, the magnitude of which the people of this country have never dreamed of, let alone experienced.

Did you know that about 30,000,000 gallons of oil products wash into the ocean from this country every year. Worldwide, the estimate is about 4 Billion gallons per decade.

What is even more interesting is natural seepage of oil from under the ocean floor. The best current estimate is that about 50,000,000 gallons of oil annually seeps out naturally from the oceans floor around North America, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of California.

My question is; ‘Shouldn’t we be drilling more in these areas to cut down on the natural pollution?’

Speaking of oil, I received a report the other day from what I consider a credible source stating that when the BP oil spill happened, Denmark, which has state of the art oil skimming equipment, of which, some were in the area, offered Obama the immediate use of that equipment and Obama turned them down.

Why did he turn them down? To allow the spill to get bad enough that he could put a ban on off-shore drilling. In other words, Obama is sacrificing the environment and about 40,000 jobs for political expediency. If you remember, his environmental gunsel fraudulently altered a report from experts to justify the shut- down of off shore drilling!

You do understand the Obama is killing jobs on purpose, don’t you? The off-shore drilling ban, which has been struck down twice by federal courts is still in place and no one is drilling. When those rigs move out of the gulf, they will be gone for at least 6 years. So Obama is purposefully killing 20,000 direct jobs and an additional at least 20,000 indirect jobs (although I heard Governor Jindal of Louisiana say that it would affect 80,000 jobs). For all of the people concerned, 6 years is tantamount to a permanent job loss.

Folks, these people are criminals. He is routinely sacrificing the well being of Americans to bring this country down. By the time he is finished, the Constitution will have been burned and we will be operating under Sharia law!

We will be broke, hungry and homeless! Good luck with sitting on your fanny, then!

And something else that is in store for you. If you are an atheist, you won’t care so you can skip this paragraph.

A European Court of Human Rights in Brussels, 8 months ago, banned crucifixes in Italian Schools because they said the crucifixes violate religious and education freedom. Now, nine European countries have appealed that finding in an effort to overturn it.

Sound familiar?

And the ACLU has issued a travel warning for Arizona for the 4th of July weekend.

I guess it is better that Obama stay out of Arizona, lest he have to show citizenship documents.

You know why all of these people, including the yellow rat dems and Obama are so upset with the immigration bill, don’t you?

The sad fact is that they all consider the illegals so dumb that they will be easy to manipulate. While they may be uneducated, I think better of them. However, they will be no match for the politicians here.

In Latin America, when someone doesn’t wish you well, they tell you to your face and may even try to kill you. In America, the politicians put their arm around you, tell you how much they like you and then slowly poison you.

A huge tent city has sprung up in Hawaii to house the homeless and a town in New Jersey is suing homeless squatters that are camping in a near-by woods.

And you don’t think this country is in trouble?

Surprise! Jobless claims are continuing to rise in this “summer of recovery”.

Can you say “double dip” recession? I tell you, this guy is killing us!

NEWS:

Headline(s) of the Day:

PELOSI: UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS FASTEST WAY TO CREATE JOBS

Breitbart

She really doesn’t understand any of this, does she?

And by the way, she dissed the republicans for stopping unemployment checks.

What the republicans really did is tell the dems that they will be happy to vote for the checks providing they cut spending from a couple of sources to make it revenue neutral. The dems are not interested in cutting spending.

Gunfire hitting City Hall prompts Texas AG to ask for more troops on border

El Paso Times

Tell me again how safe the border is, please.

Update: 21 people were gunned down 12 miles from Nogales, yesterday.

Dollar Plunges After UN Call To Ditch Greenback:

Prison Planet.com: The dollar plunged today following a United Nations report which called for the greenback to be replaced as the global reserve currency by the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs).

The dollar’s trend of moving inversely to the stock market has seemingly been snapped, with the Dow Jones falling over 100 points at one stage today. However, as soon as markets began to claw back losses, the greenback failed to follow suit, indicating that whichever way markets move, the dollar is in big trouble.

The UN report called for “abandoning the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency, saying it has been unable to safeguard value,” according to Reuters.

“A new global reserve system could be created, one that no longer relies on the United States dollar as the single major reserve currency,” stated the report, adding that this new system should not be based on a basket of currencies, but on IMF-controlled SDR’s.

WE are sitting on our couch watching our country be dismantled piece by piece.

What the hell can be the matter with us that we just sit here?

PROOF! Private insurance targeted for annihilation

Socialist group tied to president’s plans to use Obamacare to create state system

WORLD NET DAILY: A socialist organization with close ties to Barack Obama has outlined a plan to turn the president’s health-care legislation into a government-run system that will ultimately eliminate private insurance companies.

Obama’s health-care bill “should create millions of new stakeholders in a health-care system governed by democratically established rules rather than by the fiats of private insurers,” wrote Frank Llewellyn, national director of Democratic Socialists of America.

Writing in the latest issue of the socialist Democratic Left magazine, Llewellyn said “progressives” must use Obama’s health-care legislation “to build support for the elimination of private insurers.”

Llewellyn called for a public information campaign regarding “Obamacare” and socialized medicine.

“DSAers (Democratic Socialists of America members) in every state and city,” he said, “should be prepared to rebut distortions with letters to the editor and op-eds that talk about what socialism really is – and what true social democratic public provision would look like, particularly when health care is the paradigmatic public good that markets, let alone for profit oligopolies, simply cannot justly and affordably supply.”

He recommended removing Democratic lawmakers who oppose single-payer and socialized health care.

“Progressives must now work to ensure that some conservative Democrats who did not support the final bill will be punished with primaries or even third-party challenges,” he wrote.

Llewellyn argued the passage of Obama’s health-care bill opens the door for other progressive policies, such as immigration reform, anti-corporate measures and an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He wrote: “Passage of the bill does keep the door open for popular movements to demand strict financial regulatory reform, immigration reform, massive aid to states and localities, and a much-needed public jobs program.

“DSA and the larger progressive movement must create street heat in favor of these anti-corporate measures, as well as for a just resolution to the foreclosure crisis, and an end to United States involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Communism researcher Trevor Loudon, writing at his KeyWiki website, notes the DSA previously outlined its goal as destroying private ownership in the U.S.

“Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production,” wrote DSA National Political Committee member David Green in a 2007 Democratic Left article.

Obama connected to socialist group

Top DSA members have been closely linked for years to Obama.

Obama himself spoke at a DSA-organized forum at the University of Chicago in early 1996 called “Employment and Survival in Urban America.”

Quentin Young, considered the father of the U.S. single-payer movement, is a longtime DSA activist. He has had a relationship with Obama, particularly in the 1990s, when he reportedly advised Obama on health care.

Young was reportedly present at a 1995 meeting at the home of former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers who was said to have launched Obama’s political career.

Young has been active in Chicago socialist circles and was previously accused of membership in a communist group. In 1992, Chicago’s branch of the DSA awarded Young, a member, with their highest honor – the Debs Award.

In a 2008 article in the official Communist Party USA magazine, Young noted Obama previously expressed support of a single-payer universal health-care program, although he later waffled when asked about his position.

As an Illinois state senator representing a mostly black district on the South Side of Chicago, Obama publicly supported universal health care. He also co-sponsored the Bernardin Amendment, which did not pass but would have amended the Illinois State Constitution to add health care to the list of basic rights for residents.

Meanwhile, Obama spoke at the March 29, 1998, memorial service for Chicago DSA member Saul Mendelson.

Timuel Black, a DSA activist, mediated political disputes on behalf of Obama in the 1990s and was reportedly involved in Obama’s campaign committee during his successful 2004 Senate race.

Longtime DSA activist Arnold Wolf was a member of “Rabbis for Obama” and has held fundraisers in his home for Obama, including a function in 1995 that was aimed at introducing Obama to the Hyde Park activist community.

Eliseo Medina, international executive vice-president of Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, has been honored by the DSA. During the most recent presidential campaign, Medina served on Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council.

WND reported Medina, speaking at a 2009 Washington, D.C., conference, declared granting citizenship to millions of illegal aliens would expand the progressive electorate and help ensure a progressive governing coalition for the long term.

I warned you that the health care bill would lead to single payer insurance by the government.

I have been saying that they are leaving the borders open to bring in a permanent subclass of voters to keep them in power for over a year now! Finally, we have it out in the open!!!

And remember, the former president of the SEIU is now a cabinet member for Obama. How close a tie is that?

Venezuela seizes oil rigs owned by US company:

(AP) CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne, which shut them down because the state oil company was behind on payments.

Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez announced that Venezuela would nationalize the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company’s rigs. He said in a statement Wednesday that Helmerich & Payne had rejected government demands to resume drilling operations for more than a year.

Helmerich & Payne announced in January 2009 that it was stopping operations on two of its drilling rigs, because Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, owed the company close to $100 million. It said it would shut down the rest of its rigs by the end of July as contracts expired unless PDVSA began to make good on its debts.

I suspect that if we had anyone else but Obama as president, we would have an aircraft carrier parked near those rigs by now.

That is what Thomas Jefferson did when the muslims were raiding our shipping. (well, he didn’t send an aircraft carrier; just 6 Men O’ War.) Porker of the Month: Sen. Richard Shelby

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) Porker of the Month for blocking the Obama administration’s attempts to eliminate funding for Constellation, a NASA program that is chronically behind schedule and over budget. Initiated under former President George W. Bush, Constellation aims to put man back on the moon by 2020. However, the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Review of Human Spaceflight Plans Committee led by former aerospace executive Norm Augustine have criticized NASA’s management of the program. Sen. Shelby, whose state is home to Radiance Technologies, a NASA contractor and major Shelby campaign contributor, co-sponsored an amendment to the fiscal year 2010 emergency war supplemental bill that would shield Constellation from proposed budget cuts. “Americans are being forced to tighten their belts and the economy is limping along, but that doesn’t deter the porkers in Congress, like Sen. Shelby, who are still spending and rewarding government contractors orbiting the program. Sen. Shelby’s actions just perpetuate the notion that politicians in Washington are living on a completely different planet,” asserted CAGW President Tom Schatz. For launching pigs into space and contributing to the black hole of deficit spending, CAGW names Sen. Shelby June Porker of the Month.

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Breaking News June 29, 2010

29. June 2010 by Glenn.

 

MR. PRESIDENT: PUT THE STARS BACK IN OUR FLAG © 2009-2010

6-29-10–Breaking News©

A little audio to hear Elena Kagan: http://www.breitbart.tv/kagans-own-words-its-fine-if-the-law-bans-books-because-government-wont-really-enforce-it/ (copy and paste to your browser)

Quote(s) of the Day:

“…but it gives police far reaching power to harass unlawful immigrants with the goal of driving them out of the U.S. –a strategy the law’s framers call ‘attrition through enforcement’.”

Tamar Jacoby, President of Immigration Works U.S.A. in a column regarding Arizona’s SB 1070 for the Los Angeles Times.

Well, yeah. That is why we wrote the bill; you twit!

Someone needs to write a new national anthem for this country called “Where has all the logic gone.”

“We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.”

- Will Rogers, (1879-1935) World record holding roper, Author, Star of Stage and Screen and American Humorist

Observation of the Day:

I watched a John Ford documentary on Korea the other night. Towards the end of the film, they showed the acres and acres of graves of our fallen soldiers.

It struck me that all of those boys and the ones in Viet Nam threw their lives away fighting communism for absolutely nothing. The commies have taken over Washington D.C. through our educational system.

And they have been aided and abetted by nearly every damn one of us, and I include myself, through our apathy and inattention and self-absorption. There is no doubt that the mental midgets of

this country helped them achieve their nefarious goal, but the rest of us were right in there ignoring them, or worse yet, too damn timid or self involved to take them on when they could have been stopped.

Even if we are able to throw the leftists out of congress this fall and the leftists out of the White House in 2012, the fight won’t be over until we take our education system back. As Winston Churchill observed as Britain quashed the Germans in the Battle of Britain: “This is not the beginning of the end; it is the end of the beginning”.

No folks, I am afraid unless we move out of our comfortable little world, at least for the foreseeable future, we are going to get what we deserve for our laziness and our self centeredness; a country that will have to build a wall to keep us from fleeing to Canada.

OBSERVATIONS:

Obama is continuing to beat the drum of spending our way out of financial trouble at the G-8 conference in Canada. Most of the other countries are following the opposite strategy of belt tightening and deficit reduction and are stiffing Obama in his effort to sell these countries his flawed strategies.

Do you suppose they have read a few pages further in Keynesian theory than Obama has?

He may have laid the book down too soon, or perhaps he is pursuing the Cloward-Piven strategy for bringing the U.S. down.

And it looks like Obama will get his Financial Regulation Bill through congress. Interestingly, I agree with many of the provisions in the bill; especially those that regulate the mortgage industry and prohibiting lenders from paying mortgage brokers based on the ‘yield spread premium’ which incentivized mortgage brokers to push borrowers into riskier and more expensive loans.

As I predicted a few weeks ago, democrat negotiators, with republican help, partially gutted Blanche Lincoln’s prohibition for banks to speculate in derivatives.

However, as with all things, Obama, the devil is in the details. The bill will give Obama control of a huge portion of the economy as he can put lenders in a ‘death grip’ to control them and make them do what he wants.

Some experts are now saying that between health care and the financial regulation bill, Obama will have control of up to 70% of the entire economy. He is moving faster than Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is, as far as taking over the country is concerned.

UPDATE: See below.

Senator Robert Byrd, (D-WV) and former KKK member, is dead at 92 years of age. The good senator was responsible for paving over all but about 3 square miles of West Virginia with roads to nowhere, as long time chairman of the Highway Appropriations committee.

His death now puts the passing of Obama’s financial regulation bill a little more questionable because the vote is scheduled this week and it is doubtful that they can appoint a replacement in time.

I have faith in the radicals, though. They never let laws stand in their way.

As noted above, my concern has always been in the details of the bill that never come to light until it is too late. It gives bureaucrats the ability to make up rules as they go.

As Ayn Rand said in one of her books, the progressives regulate an industry to the point that it gets into trouble and then, because of the tight regulation, can’t get itself out of trouble. The government then can step in and take it over as the last resort.

Police in Amsterdam, the Netherlands are having to resort to new methods to try to contain a spreading harassment of Jews by muslims. Police are dressing as Jews, wearing a yarmulke as a decoy to catch people who have committed a wide variety of crimes and intimidation against Jews.

I am coming to the conclusion that muslims are not the nice people that Obama says they are.

Budget deficits are creating more of a need to conserve and cut spending in Arizona as well as other states. The prospect of cutting programs is beginning to raise its ugly head as the easy spending cuts have been made. I would hope that government uses some discretion and human compassion when cutting these programs.

It may not be that easy. Combined state deficits are projected to hit $112 Billion by next June.

We are now going to pay the price for gross fiscal irresponsibility at all levels of government.

That said, I have observed over the years, as I am sure many of you have, the ongoing disintegration of the family in this country. The close- knit families of the Latinos is one of the things that I admire about their culture.

It occurs to me that as the government programs have expanded to meet more and more human needs, many caused by the irresponsibility of those in need, and the government handouts replaced the families in taking care of these people.

The family, which might have had a mitigating influence on the irresponsible behavior of those family members, has been taken out of the equation by the government programs. It was always in the family’s best interests to get that member to become a self- supporting and responsible citizen as soon as possible to lighten the burden on the family. No more. People could now afford to move away from their families so they ‘didn’t have to hear it’ and could continue their irresponsible life styles at the expense of the public. Family ties have continued to fray and weaken.

If there is a silver lining in any of this, it may be that families will have to start supporting each other again and the family unit may come back somewhat.

Of course, there will be much gnashing of teeth and howling as these people lose their government support. However, I have observed that many of these people have other options. In fact, when doing charity work years ago, I was stunned that so many of the people on welfare would tell me that they could work if they wanted to; they just preferred not to.

Of greater concern to me is that many out there do not have alternatives, especially the aged and infirm and I would hope that some accommodation could be made for those without options.

Actually, the family is about to get another boost as, according to the current regime, it will take a lot more people to keep one household going. They are telling us that the jobs that have been lost will not come back (at least under their regime).

And SB 1070 is already starting to have an effect in Arizona, even though it doesn’t take effect until the end of July. The left wing rag they call a newspaper here is beginning to run front-page tear jerking stories of illegals leaving the state for other states, many on the east coast.

Their resident open borders columnist is firing up the rhetoric again and quoting a much criticized and partially discredited study done by a University of Arizona professor in 2003.

To you out of state readers, you have my apologies. However, you can do the same thing that Arizona has done, if you can stand the heat from the leftists and the politicians pushing for a permanent subgroup majority.

If I were governor of Arizona, I would load all of the illegals on buses and drop them off in front of the welfare offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Another reason political parties won’t have anything to do with me.

And if things weren’t bad enough in paradise, the massage therapist reported that she called Al Gore a ‘crazed sex poodle’ when he assaulted her. As one wag noted, “it turns out that it wasn’t the climate that Gore was feeling warming, but his own pants”.

And if things still weren’t bad enough, Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet on a whim for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.

Fears that the legislation is aimed at bringing the Internet under the regulatory power of the U.S. government in an offensive against free speech were heightened on Sunday, when Lieberman revealed that the plan was to mimic China’s policies of policing the web with censorship and coercion.

Some are saying that fears surrounding cybersecurity have been hyped to mask the real agenda behind the bill, which is to strangle the runaway growth of alternative and independent media outlets which are exposing government atrocities, cover-ups and cronyism like never before.

Indeed, China uses similar rhetoric about the need to maintain “security” and combating cyber warfare by regulating the web, when in reality their entire program is focused around silencing anyone who criticizes the state.

What? Is Lieberman the new Manchurian Candidate?

This is scary on a lot of levels. Remember, a mere 25 years ago, it was illegal to own a mimeograph or any kind of duplicating machine in East Germany. The government had a complete monopoly on the distribution of all information. That is what we are talking about giving Obama.

Well, at least you won’t have this rag cluttering up your email box.

Obama is making scary predictions about the belt tightening that will be necessary to curb the deficits.

I find that interesting considering he hit the G-8 banging the drum for countries to follow us in the effort to deficit spend our way out of the recession. Most of the other countries, including Germany, one of the few financially strong countries, stiffed him on that item.

I find this speech of his quite perplexing since about $3,000,000,000,000.00 of the debt is, or will be, of his making in the next few years.

As I have noted before, Obama is pursuing the Cloward/Piven strategy to bankrupt this country, so I suspect that any talk of deficit reduction will be primarily lip service on the issue. I can’t imagine why he would continue to push such an obviously flawed strategy, against all advice, unless that was his goal.

He is correct in one aspect, though; he didn’t do this all by himself– he had plenty of help from the republicans the past few years.

As we continue to tip toe through Obama’s ‘summer of recovery’, consumer confidence plunged in June and stocks hit their lowest levels this year; underlined by a 17% plunge in Citigroup’s stock which caused a 5-minute shutdown in trading.

And this just in: Only 13,000 new jobs were added in this country in June!

NEWS:

Krugman Sees U.S. in ‘Third Great Depression’:

MONEY NEWS: The U.S. economy is in the “early stages” of a depression, one which will be much more severe than the Great Depression, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman warns (in the New York Times.

“Around the world … governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending,” writes Krugman. “Unlike governments of the past, which tried to balance budgets in the face of a plunging economy, today’s governments allowed deficits to rise. And better policies helped the world avoid complete collapse: the recession brought on by the financial crisis arguably ended last summer.” But, Krugman notes, future historians will say that this wasn’t the end of the third depression. “After all, unemployment — especially long-term unemployment — remains at levels that would have been considered catastrophic not long ago, and shows no sign of coming down,” writes Krugman. (Anyone know what he is talking about in the first two paragraphs in italics? He is apparently supporting Obama’s position that we need to spend our way out of this recession while seeming to blame that strategy in the second paragraph.) Other elite opinion-makers seem to concur with this tragic hypothesis. The Washington Post is reporting that this past weekend’s G-20 Summit was a “prelude to a depression.”

Ever since Obama got the Nobel prize, it has ceased to mean much to me…

I am not an economist and have to fall back on common sense to compensate for a ‘lack of larnin’ in this field. Sometimes, the critical facts are hidden and other times the problem is so complicated that common sense doesn’t help. THERE; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Note that both the papers wailing about this are left wing rags and part of the government-controlled media. I don’t have a lot of faith in these papers.

That is because I think that there is a real possibility that this group of miscreants are providing cover for Obama’s continued actions to bankrupt this country by making it appear that the depression is result of the world problem. There is no question that the world’s financial problems are aggravating our situation, but they all seem to be taking the opposite financial tact to correct their situation.

Obama continues to pursue the Keynesian philosophy here to correct the recession, but if memory serves me, John Maynard Keynes, when writing this philosophy, also added the caveat that spending your way out of a recession should be pursued if your debt is under 12% of GDP! Our debt will hit 100% of GDP within the next few years under Obama’s spending plans.

I THINK THAT IT IS TIME TO START HAVING HEART TO HEARTS WITH ALL OF YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICANS, IN REGARD TO THIS SUBJECT.

IGNORE THIS WARNING AT YOUR OWN VERY GREAT PERIL! There will be a lot more people, including possibly you, that will lose jobs and everything else that they own if my suspicions are correct. My predictions regarding the effects of Obama’s burgeoning dictatorship have been pretty much spot-on for the past couple of years. I predicted a double dip recession a year and a half ago.

Get serious, folks. Many of you could be handing over your guns, along with the rest of your freedoms, and kissing Obama’s ring for a food handout and a place to sleep very soon.

Obama promised a fundamental change in this country and he is on track. He said, “Yes We Can” and you aren’t going to like what he can.

Biden tells audience not to expect the lost jobs back under them:

CBS NEWS: Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy today, telling an audience of supporters, “there’s no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession.”

I have been saying for some time that the 4th grade class has been preparing us for high unemployment because they know that with the economy under their control, the jobs won’t come back.

Kagan is scarier than I thought:

WORLD NET DAILY: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s press for considering international law as “the context” for interpreting U.S. law has incited worries her appointment could pave the way for world treaties that threaten both parental rights and homeschooling in the United States.

A statement from the Homeschooling Legal Defense Association points to Kagan’s decision as dean of Harvard Law School to require first-year students to study international law:

“From the start, students should learn to locate what they are learning about public and private law in the United States within the context of a larger universe,” reads a letter from Kagan and Harvard’s Curricular Innovations Committee advocating the requirement. “Specifically, we recommend the development of three foundation courses … each of which represents a door into the global sphere that students will use as context for U.S. law.”

The HSLDA argues Kagan’s actions and words demonstrate a belief that the U.S. Constitution needs to be examined through a “lens” of international opinion.

“HSLDA believes that this philosophy will come in direct conflict with a Supreme Court justice’s role,” the statement reads. “Judges should not look to international law and the decisions of foreign nations in order to interpret the U.S. Constitution and apply it to disputes today.”

Specifically, the HSLDA is concerned Kagan may push the Supreme Court to consider a pair of United Nations treaties – the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women – as relevant to cases in the U.S.

“These are dangerous treaties because they would severely restrict parental rights and homeschooling,” the HSLDA contends. “If the CRC were to be ratified by the Senate, the government would have the ability to override every decision made by parents by asserting the parents were not acting in the best interest of the child. The United States is one of the few countries in the world that have not ratified these treaties.”

This is really scary… This is a move to cement their control of the kids of this country. As I mentioned in Friday’s newsletter, the far left already has the education system and unless we can bring it back from teaching far leftist policies, pretty much anything we do is futile in the long run.

The threat to home schooling is very real. The government cannot have kids being pulled out of school and being taught conservative principals. That wouldn’t be—well…leftist, would it?

Kagan, having been a former dean of the Harvard Law School brings great leftist ideological credentials to the job as Supreme Court Justice and can be relied on to hand down opinions based on ideology rather than law.

After all, the mess that this country’s legal system is in can be traced back to a socialist in the 20’s who was a dean of the Harvard Law School.

That was when they started teaching law students to rely on case law rather than interpreting the law and constitution every time.

The major flaw in this is that every time a case is adjudicated using case law, there is an excellent opportunity to bend case law towards a particular agenda. With enough case law

decisions, one can see how easily the case law can be corrupted and will no longer reflect the law or the constitution.

Disgraced Fannie Mae deep in carbon scheme:

With the Obama administration pushing for cap-and-trade legislation, former Clinton and Obama adviser Franklin Raines has positioned the government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae to make millions by selling carbon credits from American homes.

Two patents applied for by Raines as one of several “co-inventors” – Nos. 6904336 and 7133750 – create a “method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity.” The patents are identically titled “System and Method for Residential Emissions Trading.”

The idea appears to be for Fannie Mae to create “Collateralized Carbon Obligations,” or CCOs, by utilizing a methodology similar to its system for combining individual home loans into Collateralized Loan Obligations, or CLOs.

The patents give Fannie Mae the methods for identifying and measuring energy savings in homes that can be packaged and sold to carbon polluters as credits on a carbon exchange.

Instead of selling the Collateralized Loan Obligations to institutional investors, including financial institutions and banks, the energy savings in thousands of U.S. homes would be packaged by Fannie Mae and sold as Collateralized Carbon Obligations on a carbon exchange, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange. The buyers would be carbon emitters who emit so much carbon dioxide they are required to buy carbon-offset credits.

WND reported Raines and Fannie Mae have both stated in e-mails that Raines has no ownership of the two carbon emission patents he filed as “inventor” while he was CEO of the government-sponsored mortgage giant. (I have read conflicting reports on this. One report said that Fannie Mae wasn’t mentioned on the second patent.)

The patents authorize Fannie Mae to create either “a system” or “a computer-implemented method” for converting household energy savings into tradable credits.

The patents discuss “replacing older appliances with more energy efficient appliances; upgrading hot water heating systems; upgrading heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems; modifying lightening; fuel switching and renovating the entire home.”

The patents also recommend that homeowners participating in the program should consider “installing insulating insulation in attics and exterior walls; installing more efficient windows; and reducing infiltration.”

Once Fannie Mae establishes an energy baseline on a home, the patents describe a methodology in which regulators can measure on-going energy use through the installation of new meters and by regulators visiting homes as part of Fannie Mae-specified field monitoring.

Nowhere in the patents is there any discussion of compensating homeowners for making the energy improvements or for sharing with homeowners any of the revenue Fannie Mae might derive from packaging their energy savings as carbon credits to be sold on a carbon exchange to carbon polluters.

Folks, this is one of the biggest government run scams in the history of the world. Think about it. The government gets us all to save energy by spending money to increase efficiency in our homes and then sells the carbon credits to big companies so they can keep polluting just as they have been all along. The only difference between now and then is that huge sums of money fall into the carbon traders hands.

Here is a business enterprise that makes no product, has no staff with the exception of the traders and assistants, and sells absolutely nothing for huge money!

And of course, the homeowner is left out of this equation. Interestingly enough, the homeowner not only have to pay for the improvements to their homes but will also have to pay for the money paid to the carbon traders by industry, through higher product prices.

It is also my understanding that Obama and his chief advisor, Valerie Jarrett (who Obama first tried to get Blagojevich to appoint to his vacated senate seat) put up seed money for the Chicago Carbon Exchange.

Just as Al Gore has made over a hundred million dollars on the Henny Penny climate gaff, these people stand to become wealthy beyond reason…

And one more thing…Word has it that the cap and trade bill that Obama is pushing has a provision in it that when you try sell your home and it doesn’t meet some government mandated standard of energy efficiency, you will be required to bring it up to that standard before you sell it; at your expense, of course. See how that would increase the carbon credits that they could sell? And what happens if you can’t afford to bring it up to their standard? I guess you can’t sell your house.

I would expect that lenders would be shy about lending on homes that didn’t meet that standard.

AS OUR MUCH BELOVED VICE PRESIDENT RECENTLY UTTERED; “This is a big ******* deal”!

Hamas says asked by US to keep silent on secret talks:

Y-NET NEWS: A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administration.

The Hamas figure told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the Americans fear discussing the talks publicly would “rouse the Jewish lobby and other pressure groups in the US and cause them to pressure the administration to suspend all talks with Hamas.”

The Hamas figure, who is close to Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the government in Gaza, added, “This is a sensitive subject. The Americans don’t want anyone to comment on it because this would catch the attention of pressure groups (in the US) and cause problems.”

He said Hamas’ exiled leadership in Damascus is overseeing the contacts behind closed doors.

I guess Obama has never met a terrorist he didn’t like. Take Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground, for instance…

Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs:

WASHINGTON (AP) – CIA Director Leon Panetta says Iran probably has enough low-enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons, but that it likely would take two years to build the bombs.

Panetta also says he is doubtful that recent U.N. penalties will put an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

He says the penalties could help to weaken Tehran’s government by creating serious economic problems. But he adds, “Will it deter them from their ambitions with regards to nuclear capability? Probably not.”

Panetta tells ABC’s “This Week” that there is “some debate” as to whether Iran will proceed with the bomb.

Asked about a potential Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Panetta said he thinks Israel is giving the U.S. room on the diplomatic and political fronts.

Israel can wait only so long…

Kagan Shifts on Disclosure of Legal Views at Hearings:

NEW YORK TIMES: WASHINGTON — At the opening of questioning in her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Solicitor General Elena Kagan quickly backpedaled from her past call for nominees to speak more openly and in specific terms about their constitutional views.

Under questioning by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, Ms. Kagan said she thought it would be inappropriate for her to talk about how she might rule on pending cases or cases “that might come before the court in the future” — or to answer questions that were “veiled” efforts to get at such issues.

Moreover, she said, she also now believed that “it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to talk about past cases” by essentially grading Supreme Court precedents, because those issues, too, might someday come again before the court.

In a 1995 book review, Ms. Kagan wrote that recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings had taken on “an air of vacuity and farce” because nominees would not engage in a meaningful discussion of legal issues, declining to answer any question that might “have some bearing on a case that might someday come before the Court.” She called on senators and future nominees to engage in a much more open and detailed discussion of legal issues.

See how the progressives reverse themselves on everything when if serves their purposes?

This is why they can’t be trusted!

Glenn

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Definition for new readers:

Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats and marxists.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic senate and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

4th grade class:. A reference to the Obama administration and their nearly total lack of experience in running anything

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January 21, 2010 Breaking News

21. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

If democrats can lose in Massachusetts, they can lose anywhere! Well, except maybe in Minnesota.

Now Chlidren, our lesson for today is…

That those with the private 737’s make the rules?

Quote(s) of the Day:

“Our leadership is “whistling past the graveyard” if they think Brown’s win won’t force a rethinking of the health care plan.” Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)

“… the party needs to rethink its entire approach to governing.” Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.)

The party may start thinking about a new approach to governing but Obama won’t.

“The results prove that unhappiness with political leaders has “gone mainstream” and could hit anyone.” Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.)

What I find so amazing is that so many democrats are finally speaking out for the first time in the Obama era. I think Obama really had a lot of them intimidated…or, they are just rats leaving a listing ship.

“We’re not in a big rush” on health care, “Pause, reflect.”

Nancy Pelosi, January 20, 2010

Huh?

Observations:

Wow! Within 2 ½ hours of learning about Scott Brown’s victory, my fever broke. Judging from the severity of my affliction, I did suspect that I had contracted L1D1 (Liberal Democrat flu that acts on conservatives as anti-matter does on matter)

As heartening as Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts is, it will be pretty much be business as usual with some exceptions. First, we aren’t going to get rid of Pelosi without a Republican landslide in the house with 40 dems losing their seat, which is unlikely. She has also said that regardless of what happened in Massachusetts, she plans to jam the healthcare monstrosity down our throats.

The good news is, lost though it may be on Pelosi, that the Massachusetts vote apparently gave Obama a little religion. He has apparently been disabused of rushing a vote on the health care bill through before Scott Brown is seated.

However, with a guy like Obama, a set- back makes him more dangerous than ever. I somehow get the feeling that he is very angry with the American public because he takes this repudiation personally; And you thought his administration lacked transparency before.

Somehow, we have lost our representative government. These people seem to think that because they were elected to office, we have given them carte blanche to do what they want.

What is more important about all of this is that it is not just about the health care bill. The polls consistently report that the independents are not happy with anything that Washington is doing.

Put me in that category! It appears that this nation wasn’t as ready for Marxism as the 4th grade class thought.

All this good news notwithstanding, the sad fact still remains that the alternative ain’t all that great either. I still hold the Republicans responsible for paving the way for a guy to get elected that wants to turn this great nation into a banana republic.

The Republicans in congress during the past decade were a disgrace to the office they held. It is of great concern to me that if the republicans should gain control in 2012 that they will return to their irresponsible ways in congress. Maybe we ought to throw a bunch of them out for good measure.

And if things weren’t bad enough, Russia’s central bank announced that they have began buying Canadian dollars in a move to diversify their foreign exchange reserves and move away from the U.S. dollar and into commodity linked currencies like the Canadian and Australian dollar. The dollar has dropped 12% on a trade-weighted basis since March.

Oh, and did I mention, the dems are after an increase of $1.9 Trillion to the debt limit? The dems still have big plans for what little money you have left.

And if things weren’t bad enough, President Barack Obama will appear with politically embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in Las Vegas next month, according to a White House official.

I think that this could be a dangerous move for Obama. If Reid tanks, it will drive another nail into Obama’s coffin of ineffectiveness. I suspect he is following Bill Clinton’s advice, who recently told him that the worst thing that he could do is do nothing. Depending on Clinton’s motives, this could be deliciously subtle.

And if this isn’t enough, Hugo Chavez has now accused the U.S. of detonating a weapon near Haiti that caused the earthquakes…

This should be in the history books by next week. I know. Last week, I chatted with a high school history teacher and he said that Haiti was the U.S’s fault.

I am not liking this one bit. The supreme court has struck down significant portions of the McCain Feingold bill that has to do with outlawing corporate contributions. While I am a great 1st amendment supporter, I do not consider corporations natural citizens.

Obama questions our intelligence-Twice Thrice Four Times: ABC NEWS: President Obama said today that he believes he lost a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too heavily on policymaking.

“If there’s one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values,”

Obama told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview at the White House.

The president said he made a mistake in assuming that if he focused on policy decisions, the American people would understand the reasoning behind them. Folks, the mistake he made is assuming we wouldn’t understand the reasoning behind his policy decisions. This is so arrogant.

“That I do think is a mistake of mine,” Obama said. “I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.”

Instead, the president said the American people ended up with a “feeling of remoteness and detachment” from the policymakers in Washington who are making big decisions. How many ways can one man say that we are too stupid to understand what he is doing? That horse’s ass is putting the blame for Massachusetts on us!

“I think, you know, what they ended up seeing is this feeling of remoteness and detachment where there’s these technocrats up here making decisions. Maybe some of them are good, maybe some of them aren’t, but do they really get us and what we’re going through?” he said.

Lost touch, my fanny. This guy is no fan of representative government and he could care less what we think unless it gets in the way of his agenda.

OK, here is where this guy really gets dangerous. He tried to jam his agenda down our throats and that is not working. Look for a whole new strategy. He will now attempt to ingratiate himself to the public before sticking the knife into the ribs on the other side.

“We’ll have to think through this next year from the standpoint of tactics but in substance the mission can’t change,”

President Obama to David Axelrod, Senior Advisor

New Job Claims jump “unexpectedly” in January:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A surprising jump in first-time claims for unemployment aid sent a painful reminder Thursday that jobs remain scarce six months into the economic recovery.

The surge in last week’s claims deflated hopes among some analysts that the economy would produce a net gain in jobs in January and help fuel the recovery.

Unexpected by who? I warned in November when the 4th grade class was all-atwitter with recovery rumors, that we would see a jump again in January.

It appears that Obama’s plan, either by design or accident is working just fine.

Feds to offer Temp legal status to 200,000 Haitians:

MIAMI HERALD: The Obama administration is preparing to handle applications from as many as 200,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants who want to live and work

legally in the United States under a new immigration program unveiled last week in the aftermath of Haiti’s destructive earthquake.

The federal government will begin accepting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications on Thursday, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas, whose agency will process the paperwork.

I’m taking bets on the prospect that they will never leave this country.

Wait until you read this:

LONDON TIMES: The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” the panel said. “The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance.”

The stunning admission is certain to embolden critics of the panel, already under fire over a separate scandal involving hacked e-mails last year.

The 2007 report, which won the panel the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”. It caused shock in Asia, where about two billion people depend on meltwater from Himalayan glaciers for their fresh water supplies during the dry seasons.

It emerged last week that the prediction was based not on a consensus among climate change experts but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999. That scientist, Syed Hasnain, has now told The Times that he never made such a specific forecast in his interview with the New Scientist magazine.

This is all such a bad joke!

Watch out, Folks

He gets more dangerous from here on in…

Glenn

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Definition for new readers: Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

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January 18, 2010 Breaking News

18. January 2010 by Glenn.

Quote of the Day:“When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”            Danny Glover, Hollywood actor and climate twit referring to Haiti’s earthquake           

You may hear about Pat Robertson’s comment but I bet you won’t hear this bandied about in the media.  They protect their own idiots.  Observations:Today is Blue Monday; officially the most miserable day of the year.  Everyday since last January 20th has been “Blue Monday”.             

Have you noticed that Obama hasn’t held a press conference since July?He has given dozens of speeches and answered a few questions when with foreign leaders, but overall, the press has been cut out of directly questioning the president for the past 6 months.  This is all about controlling the press and using other channels to get information out without putting the president into a position where he might be asked embarrassing questions.           

Take my word for it folks.  The new strategy is to follow the successful one that got him elected.  Control all information and how it is disseminated;   And he has done a very good job of letting out only the information that he wants us to have and none of it he doesn’t want us to have. 

More trouble in Wonderland.  Nineteen states have now notified the 4th grade class that they want the same deal on Medicaid as the “Mad Hatter” of the senate cut with Nebraska; and if they don’t get it, they will sue.

Sometime ago I did a little math that indicated that in order to keep the health care bill within rational bounds, the 4th grade class planned to push an estimated $1.7 TRILLION in additional Medicaid costs onto the states.  As I pointed out, that would mean that the cost to taxpayers would be about $3.4 TRILLION over a 10-year period (without inflation).

Haiti is on everyone’s mind as the 4th grade class works into the wee hours to perfect their witch’s brew of economic poisoning for America.   

I did note on a film clip that big guys were beating hell out of little guys and taking their survivor supplies.  I think the dems call that “Liberal Natural Selection”.            The U.N. also ordered out a 65 member Belgian Medical team from a hospital because of serious security concerns, leaving the seriously injured patients to fend for themselves overnight. 

And if things weren’t bad enough already, the leading House Democrat on military policy, Rep. Ike Skelton, said Friday that he opposes repealing the law that bans openly gay people from serving in the military.  A leader in crafting the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy 17 years ago, under Bill Clinton, he says he is not personally for changing the bill.  Changing the bill in the middle of two wars could cause some serious problems, he believes.  Word has it that Obama is now eying D.C. for the Gitmo trials rather than New York City. 

Not sure why the change except New Yorkers might have taken it as a personal slap in the face; or maybe he just wants it close so he can protect and manage the fellow muslims.  I wouldn’t worry too much about this happening.  As soon as someone in the 4th grade class realizes that the trial may draw the terrorists to D.C., it’s a good bet that they will change the venue again. 

European governments reacted coolly on Friday to Washington’s call for others to follow its example and impose a levy on banks. 

Apparently, Europe doesn’t much care for Obama’s brand of Marxism.  Especially when it will be counter-productive in the economy and hit the citizens even harder, as the banks will just pass on the higher cost to us through increased fees.           

 And if things weren’t bad enough already, now the global warming freeze may have damaged up to 30% of Florida’s Crops! Strawberry growers reportedly pumped so much water over their plants to encase them in ice to protect them from freezing that sink holes have been appearing.           

And if things weren’t bad enough in Venezuela already,  Chavez has fired the head of his energy department, who,  in a desperate effort to keep a complete crash of the power grid from being  the only monument to Chavez’s political and managerial skills, had instituted four hour rolling blackouts across the country. And if things weren’t bad enough in China already, A rising number of Chinese provinces are preparing to introduce power rationing as electricity supplies lag behind demand amid harsh winter weather.  The government is urging coal and gas suppliers to increase shipments.  Reportedly, coal stocks at power plants that produce 80% of China’s power are at a seventeen month low.           

Let’s see.  Freeze to death-Burn coal.  What a conundrum!            GLOBAL WARMING, INDEED           

And if that isn’t enough to convince you that we are experiencing global warming, late last week, 26 patients in a psychiatric hospital in Havana froze to death overnight in Cuba where low temps hit 38 degrees.           

The stock market took its largest drop so far this year, Friday.  J.P. Morgan–Chase’s stock dropped, even with the announcement that they has recorded a 4 – fold increase in earnings for the fourth quarter last year of $300 + billion.  The dampening effect apparently came from Chase’s announcement that they may not see a break in increasing loan losses due to continuing foreclosures this year.  Wall Street’s top lobbying group has now hired a top supreme court litigator to study the possibility of mounting a constitutional challenge to Obama’s new bank tax.           

So, it’s not bad enough that they are wasting literally generations worth of tax dollars, but now they are going to end up wasting more defending constitutional challenges.  Folks.  If we don’t stop these guys now, it could very well be your kids that pick you up and dump you off at my Soylent Green factory for your inaction on these issues!           

Today is the 20th anniversary of the arrest of the former mayor of the Peoples Republic of D.C., Marion Berry for possession of nose candy.  He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.             

However, the poor guy that went through the wrong security door by mistake at JFK, leading to an evacuation of one terminal, is now facing several felony charges that could give him up to 7 years in prison. 

And if things weren’t bad enough in America, already:Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Even if Democrats lose the special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.  That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities. That supermajority is at risk as the Massachusetts race has tightened.   

These dipsticks are really spooked about the Massachusetts’s race.  If the dems lose in Massachusetts now, it will be like discovering that your mother only gave you conditional love all of these years.   Using the so-called “nuclear option” in an improper setting could really backfire on the dems.  Keep this in mind when you write your congersfolk.  Make using the nuclear option a really ugly and dangerous thing for the dems.    

Headline of the Day:Eye test that spots Alzheimer’s 20 years before symptoms:  Middle aged could be screened at routine opticians visit            London Mail  

I’m not sure I want to know.  Aww Geez article of the Day: 

TELEGRAPH U.K. :  The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Sweden collapsed beneath a group of 20 members of the weight loss programme who were gathered for a meeting…  Luckily, all of the dieters escaped uninjured and managed to move the scales to the corridor, which was not damaged in the accident, and were able to complete their weekly weigh in.  The cause of the floor’s collapse remains under investigation. 

Well, duuuhh!

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song:

BOSTON (AP) - His health care bill at stake, President Barack Obama plans a trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate Democratic candidate Martha Coakley amid release of a poll showing an edge for the Republican Party in the race to fill a Senate seat Democrats have held for over a half-century. 

The dems are also staging a Hurricane Katrina style political aid program to rush assets into the state to bolster Coakley.
 

Dems look at bypassing Senate health care vote:
BOSTON (AP) - A panicky White House and Democratic allies scrambled Sunday for a plan to salvage their hard-fought health care package in case a Republican wins Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts, which would enable the GOP to block further Senate action.   The likeliest scenario would require persuading House Democrats to accept a bill the Senate passed last month, despite their objections to several parts.  
 

They are so desperate for anything that might be a facsimile of a victory, regardless how bad it is or how useless, is just stunning.  Their disregard for the welfare of the American people is truly breathtaking. 

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January 15, 2010 Breaking News

15. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

Quote of the Day:

“It is amazing how this scaremongering from climate change lobbyists keeps arising even though they are constantly being proved wrong.”

“Last year there was snow in Saudi Arabia and still they persist in saying the temperature is going up.”

Christopher Booker, author of “The Real Global Warming Disaster

Quote of the Day, Part II:

“In addition to the global warming challenges, we need to address ‘global cooling’ effects and to do so promptly,” he said.

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia as reported by Itar Tass News agency

Is he cracking a joke here?

Observations:

I can hardly believe the disingenuousness of the Wall Street bankers during their congressional hearings. “It seemed like the appropriate thing to do at the time.” Of course it did if you are a criminal!

Of particular loathsomeness is Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs (favorite mentor of the Tinkerbelle of the Treasury) who made $50 Million the previous year and was selling mortgaged securities to investors out the front door and betting they would go bad with credit default swaps through the back door.

I have long considered Wall Street an extremely well run criminal enterprise, but it now appears that it isn’t that well run. The bankers had little to say during the hearing except to admit their actions were criminal (my word-their word was improper).

These guys are smart guys. Any executive worth his salt saw the coming devastation and those that didn’t should be fired and banned from the industry. Those that did and continued because of personal avarice should be jailed.

And if things weren’t bad enough, President Obama proposed a sharp increase in the taxes paid by the nation’s largest financial institutions designed to raise $90 billion over the next decade while constraining the industry’s ability to take large risks and reap outsize rewards.

The problem with that, as I see it is that the banks are being pushed by the administration to increase their capitalization (which is why the banks kept the TARP money and didn’t lend it out) and to be more risk averse in their lending practices, while at the same time, they are being taken to task for not lending enough. For some reason the administration does not recognize the “catch 22″ in this.

And now, Obama has reached agreement with the unions to exempt them from the surtax on Cadillac health plans until 2018, thereby creating a privileged class of workers. Doesn’t the government have a responsibility to treat all classes fairly?

Even some democrats are beginning to doubt whether this health care bill will be constitutional. However, while it is in the courts, it is a good bet that the taxation provisions will go into effect, separating us all from money for health care that we will never see because the bill provides that the extra premiums that we pay for the first four years don’t go towards the health care bill; it is a giant slush fund for the administration.

A new Gallup poll has Obama dropping drastically among the independents that helped put him in office. He is down around 36% in his handling of the economy and the health care bill. Is this a good news issue, or what?

Now serial tax cheat, Charlie Rangel, is wading into the bad news pronouncements regarding the health care bill. This reinforces my belief that the dems are trying to lull us into a false sense of security.

And by the way, He has been caught twice over the past two years on cheating on up to a million dollars of his income. What happened to the ethics inquiry? I reported about 6 months ago that he made several large cash donations to several democratic house members which, ironically, included democratic members of the ethics committee that was investigating him. Only one of the committee members

returned the contribution and the others said they saw nothing wrong in accepting cash from the guy they were investigating.

While we are distracted by the devastation in Haiti, Obama and company are working hard behind closed doors to get an agreement on the health care bill. They do their best work when no one is looking.

Pelosi announces that they have dropped the millionaire’s surtax from their health care bill.

George Soros must have complained.

Speaking of that, Obama met two days ago with unions on the tax on Cadillac health plans which the unions vehemently oppose. Have you heard a word on what has come out of those talks? It’s been two days now.

Maybe it’s none of our business.

After being told to “stuff it” by the U.S. State Dept. responding to North Korea’s suggestion that the U.S. and North Korea sign a peace treaty officially ending the Korean war (Only an armistice was signed in 1953), North Korea has now announced that they will allow more American Tourists into the country this year.

Yeah, right. That’s where I want to spend my vacation. I think I will stick with Baghdad. Word has it that all of the Mobil ratings of hotels over there have a minus sign in front of the stars.

And if things weren’t bad enough, a New Jersey mother is arrested for cursing at a middle school principal.

Hey, the ACLU should be all over this one. I mean, we’re talking freedom of speech here!

And if things weren’t bad enough, now we find that IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman does not file his own taxes, in part because he believes the tax code is complex.

During an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program that aired on Sunday, Shulman said he uses a tax preparer for his own returns.

That’s probably why Charlie Rangel doesn’t pay a significant share of his taxes every year, it’s too complicated. Never mind that he chairs the committee that writes the tax code.

And Vice President Joe (Doofus) Biden, always the good ol’ boy, has apparently become alarmed with the lack of transparency in the Administration and is meeting today with several administration officials including some transparency czar. The meeting is off limits to the press! What can you add to that?

BREAKING HEALTH NEWS:

ABC NEWS: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration slammed Tylenol manufacturer McNeil Healthcare LLC during a media briefing this morning for what it called a slow response to problems at a facility in Puerto Rico that led to consumers becoming sickened by tainted pills.

“McNeil should have acted faster,” said Deborah Autor, director of the FDA’s Office of Compliance, of the arm of Johnson & Johnson that manufactures Tylenol products…

A recall of Tylenol products that began last month with the popular Tylenol arthritis caplet expanded this morning to include more than two dozen other over-the-counter products manufactured by McNeil.

McNeill initiated a voluntary recall of Tylenol Arthritis Relief Caplets at the end of December after consumer complaints of stomach problems. The problems were linked to the presence of a chemical called 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA)…

Now it appears that the problem extended into other Tylenol products as well, according to the FDA.

Tylenol Extra Strength, Rolaids and a number of children’s medicines are now included in the recall, which affects 27 products in various packaging quantities.

Thought you should know about this. I just heard about it this morning so apparently the recall hasn’t been widely advertised. I am not a Tylenol user because it is so hard on the liver but many of you may be.

4th Grade class comes up with a creative new excuse:

THE HILL: A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.

This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for President Barack Obama.

The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs.

“Twenty years ago, people who came to work in the federal government had better technology at work than at home,” said Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget. “Now that’s no longer the case.

“The American people deserve better service from their government, and better return for their tax dollars.”

In my opinion, the American people are getting serviced way to well by the federal government. You gotta give ‘em credit, tho. Now that they can’t blame Bush anymore, who would have thought that the 4th grade class would blame computers for their ineptness.?

Libs rough up reporter at fundraiser for asking hard questions:

BOSTON HERALD: Weekly Standard reporter says he was roughed up last night outside a Washington, D.C. fund-raiser for Attorney General Martha Coakley by someone he believes is associated with her U.S. Senate campaign.

According to McCormack’s account, Coakley took two questions from reporters after the event, but declined to respond to his question.

“TWS: Attorney General Coakley, you said last night that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan–that they’re all in Yemen and Pakistan. Do you stand by that remark?

COAKLEY: I’m sorry, did someone else have a question? Then answered another reporter’s question.

McCormack wrote after Coakley finished her answer he followed her and asked her why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. He said she did not reply.

As he continued to walk down the street, he said a man who appeared to be associated with Coakley’s campaign pushed him into a freestanding metal rail.

“I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street,” he wrote.

McCormack wrote he eventually caught up to Coakley, who declined to answer his question.

Peace and love, my fanny!

Coakley said that she was not privy to the details of the dustup because she didn’t see what happened. If there is one thing you can count on in this world, it is that libs will lie. Here is a picture of her that shows her standing over the downed reporter looking at him.

Coakley is now blaming GOP “stalkers” for the problem. Funny. I never considered members of the legitimate press as stalkers.

Study: Cellphone use fights Alzheimer’s:

TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they’re surprised to discover radiation from cell phones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers at the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, led by University of South Florida neuroscientist Gary Arendash, said exposing old Alzheimer’s mice to electromagnetic waves from cell phones erased brain buildups of a harmful

protein known as beta amyloid and eliminated memory problems typical of Alzheimer’s. The radiation also prevented beta amyloid buildup in younger Alzheimer’s mice, the researchers said in a study funded in part by the National Institute on Aging and published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. In fact, exposing normal mice to cell phone radiation for two hours a day over seven to nine months actually improved their cognitive abilities compared with so-called control mice tested in a parallel experiment for comparison, Arendash and colleagues said. The highly controlled study let researchers isolate the effects of cell phone exposure on memory from other lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise, the researchers said. It involved 96 mice, most of which were genetically altered to develop beta amyloid plaques and memory problems mimicking Alzheimer’s disease as they aged. “It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood, protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer’s symptoms,” Arendash said. “It was even more astonishing that the electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones actually reversed memory impairment in old Alzheimer’s mice.”

Of course, the bad news is that the radiation might give you brain cancer.

The whole scoop on what is happening in Massachusetts:

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts’s top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul even if the Republican who has vowed to kill it wins Democrat Edward M. Kennedy’s former seat.

Secretary of State William F. Galvin, citing state law, says city and town clerks must wait at least 10 days for absentee ballots to arrive before they certify the results of the Jan. 19 election. They then have five more days to file the returns with his office.

Galvin bypassed the provision in 2007 so his fellow Democrats could gain a House vote they needed to override a veto of then-Republican President George W. Bush, but the secretary says U.S. Senate rules would preclude a similar rush today.

The potential delay has become a rallying point for the GOP, which argues Democrats have been twisting the rules to pass the health care bill despite public opposition. It’s also prompted criticism from government watchdogs…

Massachusetts Democrats already changed state law last fall so the governor could appoint a fellow Democrat to fill the seat after Kennedy died in August.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, the 4th grade class is in a throttle to the firewall lather to get the health care done before the Massachusetts vote can be certified because they are terrified that they can’t hold the state. That is like Putin not being able to hold Russia!

Update:

“That is the stupidest thing I’ve been asked in a long time. That is insane, the suggestion could only come from a demented right wing source,” erupted Representative Barney Frank (D - MA), when asked by The Washington Times about what he thought of assertions that Massachusetts Democrats would stall the certification process should Mr. Brown win. “There isn’t the slightest possibility of it happening—a way of doing it. That is conspiracy theory at its most contemptible.”

The Boston Herald reported that, according to a source, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin’s office wants to certify the race on Feb. 20.

Well, Elmer Fudge’s protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, as the Secretary of State had already preemptively refuted his argument by giving a certification date that is twice the maximum time limit required by law. Then, of course, the dems may arrange for the swearing in to be delayed, also.

I can’t believe that there is a republican running a too close to call race in Massachusetts, in the first place. Maybe the libs are beginning to wake up too. Nah.

Trouble in paradise:

NEW YORK DAILY POST: Conan O’Brien broke down in tears yesterday while reading to his writing staff his 553-word statement that he no longer wants to host the “The Tonight Show” if it’s moved to midnight, an insider said.

With Conan out of the picture, Jay Leno will take back “The Tonight Show” by March 1, if not sooner, sources said.

But he was his sardonic self at the show’s LA taping last night, introducing himself as “soon to be available for children’s birthday parties,” and saying how it was “always my dream to host ‘The Tonight Show’ for seven months.”

Well, how would you feel if you hosted a show called “Tonight” that wasn’t broadcast until ” Tomorrow”?

Many people appear to be angry with Leno, but frankly, he didn’t have a thing to do with this. In fact, the head of NBC forced Leno to agree to leave the Tonight show in 5 years in order for NBC to save Conan O’Brien from going to Fox.

Interestingly enough, the local Fox affiliate ran a poll the other morning, asking how many viewers would like to see O’Brien show up late night on its station. 65% said no, 35% said yes, which may say more about Fox’s current demographic than it does about O’Brien and may be why Fox wants him.

Now NBC has given O’Brien an ultimatum telling him that they could keep him off the air for 3 more years. O’Brien quipped that being on NBC was the same thing.

Obama requests a record $708 Billion for war for next year:

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record $708 billion

for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned - a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration’s Democratic allies.

The extra $33 billion in 2010 would mostly go toward the expansion of the war in Afghanistan. Obama ordered an extra 30,000 troops for that war as part of an overhaul of the war strategy late last year.

Military officials have suggested that the 2011 request would top $700 billion for the first time, but the precise figure has not been made public.

I’m thinking the guy has tasted blood and is liking it. Of course, a portion of that money could also be diverted for the start up of his national police force, something near and dear to his heart.

Sheep has human faced lamb in Turkey:

PRAVDA: A sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face. The calf was born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey.

Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed Cesarean section on the animal to take the calf out, but was horrified to see that the features of the calf’s snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face.

“I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes. His mother could not deliver him so I had to help the animal,” the 29-year-old veterina

The lamb’s head had human features on – the eyes, the nose and the mouth – only the ears were those of a sheep.

Veterinaries said that the rare mutation most likely occurred as a result of improper mutation since the fodder for the lamb’s mother was abundant with vitamin A.

Apparently, the muslims covering up their women isn’t solving their problem.

Stay alert folks,

These government guys aren’t done with us

Glenn

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If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

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January 13, 2010 Breaking News

13. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

Quote of the Day:

“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”

Bill Clinton, referring to Obama, to Teddy Kennedy when he was trying to secure Teddy’s endorsement for Hillary during the campaign (as quoted from the book “Game Change”.

I have been saying the dems are racial hypocrites for years. The sad thing about this is that there are millions of misguided democrats out there that took them at their word.

Quote of the Day; Part II:

“Iran will have the technology to build a nuclear weapon by early next year.”

–Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Dec. 28.

And still, the free world’s first line of defense remains Obama’s jawbone.

Observation of the Day:

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.

My greatest fear…Thanx Rob

Reader Feedback:

Sara Palin on Fox News? Another reason I have to never watch Fox News. They must really be getting hard up. Don’t they have enough other screwballs already? Thanx, Rob

As I have said before, the jury is still out on Palin as far as I am concerned. While she was being savaged by the lame stream media, they did not take into consideration the huge amount she had to learn in such a short time to fend off the media sharks. I am just watching and waiting to see how she does later on with some preparation. She sure sounds like she comes from Minnesota, tho.

In regard to my comment in a recent newsletter regarding the fact that law enforcement had been lax for not jailing the administration.

Let me remind you that Obozo heads the “Executive” branch of the government

which is the “enforcement” arm of government. Of course law enforcement is not

going to take any action when the chief enforcement figure of the government is

one of the dirtiest crooks and isn’t about to let law enforcement loose to do

anything. He runs the Justice Department the same as he is the Commander in

Chief. Nothing happens without his approval. The local yokels have no

jurisdiction to investigate this stuff. If Sheriff Joe were able, rest assured

he would turn the tables, investigate them all and have them all on his chain

gangs. Thanx Dale

Observations:

The Medicare trustee just announced that with either health care bill, the cost of health care would rise and would cost taxpayers an additional $222 Billion by 2019, no small amount. That is about twice what California’s annual budget is.

Word has it that $20,000 has found its way from the coffers of the Republican National Committee to the Northern Mariana Islands. It could be in support of local candidates but more likely, a political payback from RNC Chairman Michael for their support in elevating him to his current position. While the five island constituencies have no electoral votes, they have as many members on the R.N. committee as any state, according to RNC rules.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, liberal radio man, Ed Schulz says that he has been contacted by a top North Dakota dem to run for office in place of retiring N.D. Dem, Byron Dorgan. Ed also hosts the Ed Show on MSNBC.

Never heard of Ed Schulz. I hope he isn’t as sleazy as Franken. Actually, as Democrats go, Dorgan wasn’t too bad.

And if things weren’t really bad enough, 19 year old Bristol Palin has launched her own P.R. firm in Anchorage, AK. It is called BSMP LLC.

Well, she’s a pro, you know…I mean, didn’t she give her mom a ton of publicity when her mom was running for VP? Maybe the Republicans can hire her to do P.R. work for Obama.

And if things weren’t bad enough, this just in from the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA. “The average temperature in December 2009 was 30.2 F. This was -3.2 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average”…

Is this global warming you can believe in? Oh, and it was 36 degrees at the Miami, Florida airport Monday morning.

And if things aren’t bad enough, a guy in Miami, Florida was found yesterday in his living room, frozen to death. His roommate was found there also nearly dead from hypothermia.

What can I say?

And now we hear that a former FEMA worker Lashonda Booker and her cousin, Peggy Hilton, have been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud in Mississippi. Apparently they mined the FEMA database for people applying for funds and then submitted requests that funds be sent to a bank account…to the tune of $721,000.00!

I am really starting to become distraught over the continuing malaise in the economy. In Maricopa County alone, I am told “unofficially” by several large residential brokers that there are 75,000 vacant homes, many which have not even been foreclosed on yet and some just in the process. (If you ever thought about moving to Phoenix, and you can afford it, now is the time to steal a house). Couple that with 20,000,000 sq. ft. of vacant office, 17,000,000 sq. ft. of vacant retail and 43,000,000 sq. ft. of vacant industrial space and I am failing to see the recovery in the economy about which the Obama administration is crowing.

There are only two places in the economy that I see doing well in the U.S., the investment banks on Wall Street (Thank you Timothy Geithner) and the job market in Washington D.C.

I can’t help but wonder if the administration will be forced to place another moratorium on residential foreclosures soon. They have been running at over 300,000 a month for the past year. This is just a major bloodletting.

As the TELEGRAPH U.K. recently put it: “The labour force contracted by 661,000. This did not show up in the headline jobless rate because so many Americans dropped out of the system. The broad U6 category of unemployment rose to 17.3pc. That is the one that matters.

I warned you about 8 months ago that, given the administration’s inaction on the job front, we were facing real unemployment in the 17-20% area. Well, it’s happening. So far, Obama’s efforts, or lack thereof, have really done nothing for job creation.

What really bothers me is that we have learned tons about managing the economy since the depression of the 30’s and yet Obama keeps going back to those depression era methods, even though many have been previously proven to be counter-productive.

And now, China has replaced the U.S. as the world’s largest automobile market. It has also passed Germany in automobile exports.

Any of you see the little old lady in Wisconsin yesterday taking on Wisconsin’s senator in the town hall? At least the congersperson has the guts to have a town hall. Most of the elected democrats in Arizona don’t have the guts to do that.

And if things weren’t bad enough, have you heard the latest from America’s token communist nation, Massachusetts? You remember when they had an interim senator to replace Kennedy and they rushed them to congress before they were certified and swore them in so they could vote on the health care bill? Well, now the libs have awakened to the fact that a Republican could very well win the election so the libs are trying to change the law again to delay certification until after the health care vote. These people are pure slime!

Republicans are now calling for Harry Reid’s resignation for the racially insensitive comments that I reported a couple of days ago. The dems are saying that it isn’t that bad and Reid did apologize to Obama. Under normal circumstances, I would probably go along with that, but one must remember that it was Harry Reid that forced Trent Lott to resign over some comments he made. Turnabout is fair play, folks.

In the latest CBS poll (Liberal spoken here) Obama’s approval rating on his handling of the health care reform has plummeted to 36% and yet the dems continue to try to ram it down our throat!

And a little note to Big Sis, still an open borders fan. Drug violence in Mexico has escalated exponentially in the past couple of years and it is spilling over into the U.S. Since 2001 there have been 20,000 drug related murders in Mexico, over 10,000 of them in the past two years alone. And they are getting more grotesque. Last week, a victim’s face was peeled off his skull and sewn to a soccer ball.

I am really getting concerned that if we don’t take some definitive action soon, one of these battles are going to spill over the border (actually, they already have) and leave a bunch of U.S. citizens dead in the aftermath.

And if things weren’t bad enough, now they are setting up the Doomsday clock at 3 PM today. Influences include nuclear proliferation (N. Korea, Iran etc) Increased use of nuclear power as a clean source of energy. (My how things change. The libs are singing the praises of nuclear power now. It wasn’t’ too long ago that they literally stopped the nuclear industry dead in its tracks.)

President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce reading my Newsletter: (apparently)

THE HILL: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue warned the U.S. faces a double-dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama. “Congress, the administration and states must recognize that our weak economy

simply could not sustain all the new taxes, regulations and mandates now under consideration. It’s a sure-fire recipe for a double-dip recession, or worse,” Donohue said in a speech providing the Chamber’s outlook for 2010.

Donohue said the lawmakers should not let former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts expire at the end of year and lambasted Democratic efforts on healthcare and financial regulatory reform as well as climate change.

He also faulted Obama and Democratic lawmakers for not doing more to create jobs.

There it is folks. What have I been yelling about for the past 6 or 8 months? About the Obama policies pushing us into a double dip recession! And have I not been raving about the lack of action on job creation on the administrations part? You betcha!

My question is, why has it taken so long for all these so-called experts to catch on to all the problems that have been happening for a year? From this guy on the economy to John McCain just catching on that Obama is not just business as usual and that he actually poses a significant threat to the welfare of this country.

Something you should know about:

THE GUARDIAN-UK–Stone announced yesterday that a 10-hour crash course in the history of the 20th century he is putting together for American TV is designed as an antidote to the inaccuracies and biases he believes exist in the conventional historical narrative dished out in American schools and mainstream media. The title alone gives an inkling of what lies ahead: Oliver Stone’s Secret History of America.

The thrice-Oscar winning director gave a further glimpse into his thinking at a gathering of TV critics in Pasadena on Saturday, when he didn’t so much open up a can of worms as unleash an entire supermarket shelf-load. He began by startling the panel by bringing up the H word.

“Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it’s been used cheaply,” he said. Then he mentioned the S word. “Stalin has a complete other story. Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any person.”

Then he went on to mention two M words – Chairman Mao and Joseph McCarthy, architect of the 1950s anti-communist purges in Washington, and the T word – Harry Truman’s dropping of the atom bomb in 1945.

Of the many potential storms that could be brewing over his Secret History, which will be broadcast by the cable channel Showtime later this year, Hitler promises to be the most incendiary. Stone told the Television Critics Association that “we can’t judge people as only ‘bad’ or ‘good’. [Hitler] is the product of a series of actions. It’s cause and effect. People in America don’t know the connection between WWI and WWII.”

The implication that Stone is seeking to put forward a good side of the German dictator hitherto not seen by Americans is, even by Stone’s own accomplished record of stirring up stinks, pretty radical.

This guy really needs to stifle himself. It appears that I won’t be re-subscribing to Showtime any time soon. This guy has inundated America with false drivel for years under the guise of history. Kind of like Al Gore, now that I think about it.

Healthcare hanging by a thread:

CNBC: Health care reform is “hanging on by a thread,” and one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily-debated bill, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd told CNBC Monday.

“Everyone feels, I guess, to some degree who has been for this, that they would have liked something different…” Dodd said.

President Obama’s administration has come under fire lately for putting too much emphasis on health care reform, causing many to question whether Democrats will retain their majority control come November. But Dodd, who is retiring this year, said it’s an issue that needed to be dealt with — otherwise it would “strangle our economy,” he said.

This from the “Sleaze of the Senate”, Christopher Dodd. Even though he has gotten so bad that his constituency is planning to throw him out of office and he has decided to save himself the embarrassment by retiring, he continues to tell the progressive lies. As noted in previous issues of the newsletter, it will be the health care bill that will strangle the economy.

I don’t think it is in as big trouble as he makes it out to be. This could be to lull us into complacency so they can blind side us. However, I do think the bill is currently vulnerable.

I urge you to contact your democratic representatives and threaten them with a pink slip and a vow to become politically active for the first time in your life and work to unseat them in the upcoming election(s) if they vote for this abomination.

In trade, too often, the victim is blamed:

By Leo W. Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers

THE HILL: A screwy thing happened after the United Steelworkers and eight domestic steel producers won their trade case late in December against Chinese manufacturers of the steel pipe used for oil and gas drilling. Instead of describing it as an important victory for U.S. industry and workers, one in which they proved to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that China violated international trade rules, the media characterized it as Americans unnecessarily picking a fight with the Chinese. What’s particularly disturbing about this stance from the media is that it occurs

only when a trade case involves manufactured goods. The media strongly supports protections for copyrighted material – movies, music etc. The media have made clear they oppose Chinese piracy of intellectual property – you know, like the written and filmed products that media members produce. But their reaction is completely different when the Chinese violate international rules regarding manufactured goods. Then, the media blame the victims — the U.S. industries and workers – the same way defense attorneys accuse rape victims. Here, for example, is the Washington Post contending that the ITC decision to impose duties of between 10.4 and 15.8 percent on Chinese pipe heightened trade hostilities between the U.S. and China: “The current tensions began in September, when the United States imposed a staggering 35 percent import fee on tires from China.” The Dow Jones Newswire in a story by Henry J. Pulizzi also blamed the U.S. with provoking a fight with the Chinese by imposing duties, beginning with a reference to the steel pipe decision:…

Still think the lame stream media is without an agenda?

The Frozen Crabs and the Blonde Flight Attendant:

A lawyer boarded an airplane in New Orleans with a box of frozen crabs and asked a blonde flight attendant to take care of them for him. She took the box and promised to put it in the crew’s refrigerator. He advised her that he was holding her personally responsible for them staying frozen, mentioning (in a very haughty manner) that he was a lawyer, and proceeded to rant at her about what would happen if she let them thaw out.

Needless to say, she was annoyed by his behavior. Shortly before landing in New York , she used the intercom to announce to the entire cabin, “Would the gentleman who gave me the crabs in New Orleans , please raise your hand?” Not one hand went up … so she took them home and ate them. Two lessons here: 1. Lawyers aren’t as smart as they think they are. 2. Blondes aren’t as dumb as most folks think Thanx Dick

Long time readers know that Blondes are one of my favorite ethnic groups.

Keep after ‘em,

It appears that they may be close to breaking ranks

Glenn

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Definition for new readers: Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by

any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

Find your congress person: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Senate phone Numbers: 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121

Obama (White House) 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information to the public regarding the political climate in America, which may not be available from the regular media, 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 normal font indicates hard news articles. The Font in black italics indicates my paraphrasing hard news articles or my general writing, such as in the observations. The font in red italics is the (sometimes snarky) opinion of the author. The font in red bold italics is mad or making a point!

The author reserves the right to publish reader feedback, edit it for brevity or content and all reader comments will become the property of the author.

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January 11, 2010 Breaking News Update

11. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

We don’t normally do this but I think you will want to watch this tonight on CBS.. These guys really party hardy, and its all on your dime!

An exclusive report that will air tonight on CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC reveals the alarmingly high number of members of Congress who got an all-expense paid trip to Denmark — on your dime!

Nancy Pelosi was at the summit. She called the shots on who got to go. Among them, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and embattled Chairman of the Tax Committee Charles Rangel They were joined by 17 colleagues from both parties: Democrats: Waxman, Miller, Markey, Gordon, Levin, Blumenauer, DeGette, Inslee, Ryan, Butterfield, Cleaver, Giffords, and Republicans: Barton, Upton, Moore Capito, Sullivan, Blackburn.

The House delegation was so large, it needed three military jets: two 737’s and a Gulfstream Five. Up to 64 passengers

Add Senators and staff, most of whom flew commercial, and there were at least 101 Congress-related attendees. All for a summit that failed to deliver a global climate deal. As a perk, some took spouses, since they could snag an open seat on a military jet or share a room at no extra cost to taxpayers.

Congresswoman Giffords and her husband,Moore Capito and her husband, Markey took his wife as did Sensenbrenner. Congressman Barton– a climate change skeptic– even brought along his daughter.

Three military jets at $57-hundred dollars an hour. ($5,740) Dozens flew commercial at up to two thousand dollars each. More than 300 (321) hotel nights booked - the bulk at Copenhagen’s five-star Marriott. Meals add tens of thousands more.

Nobody would defend the super-sized Congressional presence on camera. One Democrat said it showed the world the US is serious about climate change. And all those attendees who went to the summit rather than hooking up by teleconference? They produced enough climate-stunting carbon dioxide to fill 10,000 Olympic swimming pools. (40,500 tonnes/source: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)

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Definition for new readers: Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

Find your congress person: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Senate phone Numbers: 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121

Obama (White House) 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information to the public regarding the political climate in America, which may not be available from the regular media, 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 normal font indicates hard news articles. The Font in black italics indicates my paraphrasing hard news articles or my general writing, such as in the observations. The font in red italics is the (sometimes snarky) opinion of the author. The font in red bold italics is mad or making a point!

The author reserves the right to publish reader feedback, edit it for brevity or content and all reader comments will become the property of the author.

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January 11, 2010 Breaking News

11. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

Quote of the Day;

“[A] rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.”

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 1823 Thanx Dave

Quote of the Day; Part II:

“There’s one last thing that’s a problem, which is my husband. You’ve seen what this is like; it will be a circus if I take this job,”

Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama when asked for the second time to become Secretary of State.

How’s that for frankness?

Reader Feedback:

Dear Glenn … big business is not complaining because they are now secretly closeted off shore. They have many footprints overseas where taxes and labor allow them to compete and where they can quietly squirrel their books and thereby lower their corporate taxes. They are not stupid and this is why they can quietly play the game here. However, things are getting so rotten I have no doubt that they are refining their plans in their boardrooms … The domestic business they do here is well, just for the nation. Nothing much is exported any more. You saw the ocean

liner bigger than the Reagan aircraft carrier that leaves Long Beach after delivering a huge load of imports and goes back with empty containers to China. I think we are done … Thanx Blondie

Good point.

Observation of the Day:

Experience is that which allows us to be stupid in totally original ways.

Observations:

Of course, you know that we will have public health care regardless of what happens in congress if the basic structure of the Senate bill becomes law. The reason is that setting up the insurance companies as heavily regulated quasi public utilities will eventually kill the insurance companies. Medical underwriting will not be allowed and the government will control what is covered, how much the insurance companies can be charged and of course, the insurance companies won’t be able to turn anyone down.

Given the fact that the penalties for not having insurance are much lower than the cost of insurance, people won’t have it until they need it and will pay the cheaper penalties in the mean time. This will be exacerbated by the number of people that will voluntarily convert from employer sponsored insurance to personal insurance because they don’t have to pay for it until they need it and also for the government subsidies on premiums. Also, employers, now given the choice to unload another expense, or unable to continue due to the loss of so many members of their group, may do away with their employer sponsored insurance.

The yellow rats have decided that they don’t need the public option because they can regulate the insurance companies out of business and then step in as the only option.

And it now appears that once the health care bill is in full operation, it will add about $100 Billion a year to the deficit. The democrats are lying through their teeth to you.

And this doesn’t take into consideration the huge increase in state taxes to cover the increased cost of Medicaid that the government plans to push onto the states.

OK, everyone is now worried about terrorism and looking outside the country when, I suspect, they should be looking inside the country.

C.A.R.E., the largest muslim organization in the U.S. may be recruiting young radicals. I have been over this ground several months ago, but it bears repeating.

Also, everyone is worried about flying again and airport security is currently in the forefront again. Many are concerned that we might start profiling passengers. That would be a logical piece of the puzzle but there are better ways. We need to look no further than Israel. They have been under siege since the formation of the country and have pioneered aviation security. Here’s how it works.

From the moment you drive into the parking lot of the airport from one of two entrances, armed guards are there to monitor your car and ask you two questions: How are you and why are you here? Once inside, more questions follow as you wait in line to check in, accompanied by hand inspections of your bags when security personnel deem that wise. Finally, there’s a layer of scanners and metal detectors. At all stages of the process, the Israelis employ profiling, but it’s not profiling based on race, but on behavior. They are looking for things like body language and profuse sweating and other signs of unease. Crucially — and in contrast to the United States — your bag remains with you until your security check is

complete, and you do the security check before you obtain your ticket, not after. What really distinguishes the Israeli security measures, however, is the extensive use of questioning. It’s not just the casual “Have your bags been with you since you packed them?” sort of thing. It is, instead, detailed and probing and — significantly — once the security official starts asking you questions, s/he will never once take his eyes off of yours. This can be disconcerting, which is the point.

What they don’t do is profile people by country ; not a sure-fire way to screen all would-be terrorists to begin with. Also, by enflaming the embers of anti-Islamic sentiment, this tactic could actually incite more people to commit acts of terror out of sheer resentment, rather than contain such acts.

It’s also not clear that the best measure of the effectiveness of our airport security apparatus is the number of thwarted attacks, as is often thought to be the case. The best measure of our security is actually the number of attacks that aren’t even attempted because would-be perpetrators fear being caught. That’s counter-factual, and so it’s impossible to know for sure.

The question of it being counterfactual may not be politically desirable in this country, no matter how well it works. Kind of eliminates the bragging rights for those in power. The signs of success are the total lack of attacks that occur.

The two other issues with this is the sheer size of the U.S. and the number of intelligent people needed to pose all of those questions in all of those airports and secondly, it might require us to set up our own security within airports in other countries that originate flights into the U.S.

Did you hear that Chavez in Venezuela has devalued the Bolivar in a two-step deal, by up to 50%. Apparently he plans to drop it 17% when dealing with international trading partners, mainly to protect the price of his oil, but for in country use, it will be worth half what it was last year.

This is currently happening in this country, but in a much sneakier manner. The dollar has dropped about 25% in the past couple of years.

And it appears that good ol’ John McCain has awoken from his post presidential campaign slumber and has finally begun to realize that Obama does not represent business as usual! He is quoted as saying “President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America,” He also is calling himself “Arizona’s last line of defense”.

I guess I have to agree with him given that he may be the last person in the state to wake up to the danger Obama poses. And if he is the last line of defense, who the hell was our first line of defense? Not Big Sis, for sure.

Reid apologizes for racist remarks:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Obama is the nation’s first African-American president.

“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments,” Reid said in a statement released after the excerpts were first reported on the Web site of The Atlantic.

This just cracks me up. “With no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”? No wonder the dems are always talking about racism. They are a bunch of closet racists and tend to judge everyone else by their own racist attitudes.

Here’s a picture for the Ages:

This pretty much puts the final nail in the coffin of the old adage that seeing is believing.

Dems are equal opportunity when it comes to throwing people under the bus:

FOX NEWS: MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats’ health proposals the media.

Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under a $297,600 contract until next month to provide “technical assistance” in evaluating health care reform proposals. He was under a $95,000 HHS contract before that.

But while he was being paid to provide his services to HHS, he was also fending off health care reform critics in the media. Gruber was one of the prominent analysts to rebut an insurance industry report from PricewaterhouseCoopers in October saying premiums would shoot up if a health care bill passes. And he has recently written columns defending specific provisions in the House and Senate bills, particularly the “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans.

The liberal base of the Democratic Party is widely opposed to that tax, out of fear that it will cut into union benefits – which may explain why the first criticism of Gruber came out of liberal blogs.

“I have never seen it disclosed that he was a paid consultant to the Obama administration,” a blogger for Firedoglake wrote Friday morning. “For months I have been angry with Gruber because I thought he was simply an exaggerator whose dangerous love of the spotlight was hurting the efforts of progressives to make sure the Senate bill adopted more progressive cost control solutions. … Now it is clear something much more sinister was at play.”

The Daily Kos declared that, given Gruber’s contract, the “fix was in” for the Cadillac plan.

Gruber, when contacted by Fox News, acknowledged that he has a contract with HHS, but he said it has nothing to do with his public advocacy.

Yeah, right. I am continually amazed at how corrupt the democrats are. They don’t even hesitate to throw their own under the bus.

More Corruption:

WASHINGTON (AP) - A House committee is planning to grill Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about his role in the massive bailout of failed insurer American International Group Inc.

The House Oversight Committee is responding to news that key details about AIG’s bailout were suppressed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York while Geithner was its president.

A growing chorus of lawmakers says Geithner must explain his involvement in deals that diverted billions from AIG’s bailout to Goldman Sachs and other big banks.

New York Democrat and committee Chairman Edolphus Towns says the hearing will examine the rise and fall of AIG and its business partners.

Apparently, law enforcement isn’t doing their job as well as they should. Otherwise, the entire administration from the top down would be in jail.

The other interesting thing that just occurred to me. Remember, right at the beginning when Warren Buffet, the “Oracle of Omaha”, signed on to the Obama bandwagon? That just puzzled the hell out of me at the time.

However, at the time, I had no idea of the proclivity for back door deals that the administration secretly harbored. If memory serves me, Buffet’s firm, Berkshire Hathaway, was a controlling shareholder in AIG at the time. It took at least two separate bailouts I think, to save AIG.

As that fades into the past, I have noticed that Buffets criticism of Obama’s policies has grown a little harsher. However, Buffet is not an ungrateful man and will continue to temper his comments.

74-year-old Legislator shoots intruder:

TABOR CITY, N.C. — A sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition.

Multiple media outlets reported that Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said that 74-year-old Sen. R.C. Soles of Tabor City shot Kyle Blackburn late Sunday afternoon.

A spokeswoman at Loris Community Hospital in South Carolina said Monday that Blackburn was in fair condition.

Batten says the shooting occurred when two men went to the senator’s house and tried to kick in his front door. No charges have been filed.

The sheriff’s office said the State Bureau of Investigation was handling the case. A call to an agency spokeswoman was not immediately returned. There was no answer at a number listed for Soles’ home.

The Democrat has been in the Senate 32 years.

So what, you say? Senator Soles has been one of the most rabid anti-gun activists in the North Carolina Legislature for over a quarter of a century. The fact that he had no qualms about using a gun to protect himself has led some to question whether he considers his life more important than the lives of his constituents whom he has tried to disarm for over a quarter century.

Cocaine Causes Permanent Gene Changes:

Prolonged exposure to cocaine can cause permanent changes in the way genes are switched on and off in the brain, a finding that may lead to more effective treatments for many kinds of addiction, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

A study in mice by Ian Maze of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and colleagues found that chronic cocaine addiction kept a specific enzyme from doing its job of shutting off other genes in the pleasure circuits of the brain, making the mice crave the drug even more.

The study helps explain how cocaine use changes the brain, said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study published in the journal Science.

Another nail in the coffin of the “drugs are harmless” theory.

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Definition for new readers: Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

Find your congressperson: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Senate phone Numbers: 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121

Obama (White House) 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information to the public regarding the political climate in America, which may not be available from the regular media, 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 normal font indicates hard news articles. The Font in black italics indicates my paraphrasing hard news articles or my general writing, such as in the observations. The font in red italics is the (sometimes snarky) opinion of the author. The font in red bold italics is mad or making a point!

The author reserves the right to publish reader feedback, edit it for brevity or content and all reader comments will become the property of the author.

To subscribe, comment or to stop receiving this newsletter, contact phxdad300@aol.com and insert “Newsletter” in the subject line.

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January 8, 2010 Breaking News

8. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

Quote of the Day:

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816 Thanx, David

Too Late!

Observation of the Day:

After watching the likes of Pelosi and Reid shame congress with their sleazy behavior, the oath to swear in a member of congress shall, from this time forward, be known as the “Hypocritic Oath”.

Observations:

Folks, I know that you are as weary of reading this newsletter as I am writing it. Unfortunately, now is not the time to give up. The yellow rats are going for the throat this month—for the jugular. It will be done in secret, as is their way, and then they will spring it on congress and try to force a vote on a bill that nobody has read.

And if things weren’t bad enough, while the president has taken our eyes off the economic ball with the terrorism issues, the U.S. keeps swirling towards the drain.

Folks, I went through this a number of months ago in this newsletter and nothing is different today, except we are closer to the disaster.

It appears that the administration has been secretly buying its debt back from investors within about 10 days after each treasury sale. In other words, the investors are buying the debt to make it look like our debt is being bought by third parties. However, we have tripled the deficit in Obama’s first year and there are not enough buyers to buy all the debt we are issuing.

Therefore, it appears that in another back door deal, the administration has made a deal with certain investors for them to purchase debt and then secretly sell it back to the government within about 10 days of the sale.

Do you know what that means? It means that the government has started to secretly monetize the debt. Folks, that is the first step to Hyperinflation!

The debt load, due to the condition of the economy, has grown unmanageable for the government! They no longer can sell as much as they are creating!

Here is what you are facing, folks, and I know that you think it can’t happen to you or this country. WRONG!

The way I see it, the government has a couple of alternatives at this point in time. The first and most practical is to shut down all unnecessary spending. This might have to be paired with modest tax increases, at least temporarily. This would be accompanied with an all out effort to create jobs and get the economy going again, and I don’t mean by ‘shovel ready’ methods.

The second alternative, as I see it is to continue to fund these huge programs to promote the ideological change in America, which includes the health care bill and the cap and trade among others. This would necessarily include colossal tax increases across the demographic spectrum if the country were not to go broke under the heavy deficit spending.

Thirdly, continue the deficit spending and not raise taxes significantly. That means the government goes broke. Your social security checks quit going out, your Medicare quits working, your government sponsored health care is useless, your military’s paychecks bounce. In short, government programs and the government stop and the country goes bankrupt; a process which will leave few people without the severe scars of such a catastrophic collapse.

The only other alternative is to monetize the debt, but that is a swift self-destructing Ponzi scheme. As the government buys more of its debt by printing currency with no backing, the value of the currency plummets. No other country wants it.

In a breathtaking short amount of time, our dollar becomes absolutely worthless. I have told you about the Weimar Republic that crashed with hyperinflation, thereby setting up the perfect storm for Hitler to take over Germany. Also, Zimbabwe just went through hyperinflation. They have 3 Trillion Zimbabwe dollar notes to buy a few groceries.

All in all, a bleak picture, especially if congress chooses the wrong road. IT IS A GOOD BET THAT WHAT WE DO THIS YEAR IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE LIFE AS WE KNOW IT IN THIS NATION!

Think I am an alarmist? You are right. I am! Someone needs to sound the alarm in this country.

But what if I am right?

We have strong historical evidence in several societies in which some of these courses of action led to ruin.

If I am right, by the time it becomes apparent to most people what the government is doing, it will be too late to do anything about it. This stuff isn’t reversible in a month or even a year. In fact, past a certain point, the chances are that it is not reversible at all!

And the government could very well have you just where they want you. Being totally dependent on government handouts for survival tends to make one more willing to give up one’s rights.

And if I am wrong and you all go out and raise hell with congress and stop this senseless spending. Well, it appears that you will stay even or gain and probably keep a little more of your take home pay in the process. Not a bad trade-off as I see it.

Read the following Quote.

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of

relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” “1984″, by George Orwell

I think that a number of members of the current administration, if not all of them, reflect this attitude. When the white house communications director says that one of her all time favorite philosophers is Mao tse Tung, is she forgetting that this guy killed 70 million people to convert China to communism? I believe that he is on record saying that he was prepared to kill 300 million people to achieve his political goals.

A little good news for a change. My sister just informed me that she has a new puppy. Apparently, someone threw this little female Labrador puppy out into 20 below zero weather. She ended up in my sister’s yard, damn near frozen to death. Kudos to my sister.

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who provided the 60th vote for the senate health care bill and is being soundly thrashed for his effort by the state he represents, now says that Obama should have backed off pushing health care in favor of concentrating on the economy. Well duuuuhhh!

What have I been raising hell about for 8 months? The President is putting his political ideology ahead of the welfare of this nation. Period.

As things heat up and the wheels keep coming off of the 4th grade class’s wagon this year, you will hear the terms “democratic”, “racist” and “big business is bad” more and more.

The funny thing is that big business isn’t complaining. They have already been bought off by the administration. You see, contrary to what the liberals say, they like big business just fine, providing they can control them through back door deals.

Big business is the only real threat the radicals face because business has the capital to expose the government on a national basis if they become angry. You and I can’t muster that kind of capital.

And frankly, certain members of big business have earned my undying enmity for knuckling under to these clowns. If Obama perfects this overhaul of the country that he has in mind, business will find that Obama’s word isn’t worth the powder to blow it to hell once he doesn’t need them anymore. They will be unceremoniously thrown under the bus with the rest of us.

Troubled comic and Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange attempted suicide on Wednesday, according to reports. He allegedly stabbed himself 9 times. Doctors were able to save him.

It is a tragedy when anyone feels so locked into his or her unhappiness that suicide becomes an attractive alternative. I suppose if I was Howard Stern’s “sidekick”, I might look at suicide too.

Our favorite mayor, “Urban Phil” Gordon, serial sanctuary provider for illegal aliens, has now reported a surprise increase in the deficit faced by the City of Phoenix, of around $245 Million. He is now proposing a tax on food to help deal with that.

There is something about politicians taxing the basic necessities of life that just rub me the wrong way and this guy is beginning to give me a rash.

A few weeks ago, I reported that the deal to sell Saab was dead and General Motors was going to proceed with shutting down Saab and liquidating it.

It now appears that Spyker Automotive is back in the picture again and a modified deal is in the works.

All of the retirees that had stock in GM as part of their retirement need no longer be concerned because Obama liquidated their position, along with that of secured bondholders, and gave it to the union.

The evidence that Marxism is all about favors to one group at the expense of another group just keeps piling up!

Things are looking up, though. It looks like Obama is cancelling plans to deport Gitmo detainees to Yemen and instead will deport them to Illinois.

Apparently, he feels that, once properly trained, they would make great community organizers for ACORN.

By the way, did you hear what I heard in Tuesdays press conference on terrorism man caused disasters? Obama said that the existence of Gitmo was a primary recruiting tool for al Qaeda! That is perhaps the stupidest thing I have heard since Bill Clinton uttered those famous words, “I did not have sex with that woman”. (That little fabrication under oath was a main reason he was disbarred.)

These people are religious fanatics and I can tell you, without fear of contradiction from any rational human being, that they don’t give a rat’s fanny about perceived social injustice or human rights.

And if things weren’t bad enough, now we are finding out that under the Senate’s health care bill, as many as 23 million people would remain uninsured.

Why aren’t I surprised?

The New York Daily News reported that Michael Leiter, the top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day.

A lot of people are making a big deal out of this, but my question is what he would do if he did cut his vacation short. Order his agency to investigate what happened? I suspect he did that by phone. The horse was already out of the barn.

Still, it is a public relations nightmare and for that reason alone, he probably should have cut it short.

Headline of the Day:

Midwest bracing for heavy snow, wind chills of -50

The Administration caught in another bald face lie:

NEWSMAX: The Obama administration official who declared there was “no smoking gun” that could have alerted authorities about an al-Qaida plot to bring down a U.S. airliner over Detroit had received a personal, high-level briefing in October warning of a new al-Qaida tactic of hiding a bomb in an attacker’s underwear. On Fox News Sunday, John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security, told host Chris Wallace, “There was no smoking gun. There was no piece of intelligence that said, ‘This guy’s a terrorist. He’s going to get on a plane.’ No, not whatsoever.” Brennan’s comment evoked derision from international expert Arnaud de Borchgrave Monday during an exclusive interview with Newsmax. TV’s Kathleen Walter. “I would call that twaddle in all its unrational splendor,” said de Borchgrave, author, syndicated columnist, and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Despite Brennan’s contention that no smoking gun preceded the attack, Newsweek reported that Brennan received a personal briefing in October from Muhammad bin Nayef, the Saudi Prince who narrowly survived an al-Qaida assassination attempt in August. Nayef was wounded in the explosion, which used the same technique, and the same PETN explosive material, that authorities say Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab employed to try to bring down a Northwest airliner on Christmas Day.

Actually, I understand that John Brennan is a pretty competent guy. However, when you have an administration like this, it corrupts everything and everybody it touches.

Chicago slowly sinking into its own sewer:

NBC NEWS: The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam, sources tell Fran Spielman.

Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.

However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.

That is just plain wrong. Can you imagine calling 911 because someone is breaking into your house and these goofballs decide to finish the doughnuts and coffee before responding? This is just plain stupid. There is no reason to hire substandard officers, period!

Obama Reneges on Health Care Transparency:

(CBS) President Obama wants the final negotiations on health care reform - a reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill - put on a fast track, even if that means breaking an explicit campaign promise. “The House and Senate plan to put together the final health care reform bill behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats,” House Speaker Nanci Pelosi said today at the White House. The White House is on board with that, too, reports CBS News political correspondent Chip Reid. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed today that “the president wants to get a bill to his desk as quickly as possible.”

It appears that even the Lap dog media is becoming concerned with the stunning dishonesty of this administration.

Jack Cafferty Rips Obama on Failed Openness Pledge:

‘Just Another Lie Told for Political Expediency’

Even CNN is savaging the white house and congressional leaders for this secrecy.

Copy and paste this URL to your browser to watch this short clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pO1oJPps1I

He pretty much calls a spade a spade.

Serial Intern Abuser has largest gay rights group after him now:

ABC NEWS: The country’s largest gay-rights group today demanded an apology from David Letterman, for making what it called “inappropriate and incendiary remarks” regarding President Obama’s appointment of a transgender woman to the Commerce Department.

In his monologue Tuesday, Letterman remarked that Amanda Simpson, a transgender woman, had been appointed to work in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, where she will monitor the export of military technology.

As a photograph of Simpson was shown, announcer Alan Kalter shouted, “What? Amanda? Amanda used to be a dude?”

“Oh my God!” he shouted, before running off stage, with audience laughing.

It was actually a little funny for a change. Just call me Mr. Insensitive.

What does Yahoo stand for?

The name of the Internet’s most popular directory, is an acronym. According to the company, the name “Yahoo” stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.” Do you Yahoo?

Medical Update:

BALTIMORE (UPI) — Injecting a corticosteroid directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, researchers in Maryland said. In experiments, the corticosteroid triamcinolone slowed progression of the disease, which is a complication of diabetes that frequently leads to blindness, researchers at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore said in a release Monday. The treatment is not yet ready for general use because of side effects, such as an increased risk for cataracts and glaucoma, said Neil Bressler, a chief ophthalmologist at the institute. “Steroid treatment worked, but because of safety issues, cannot be recommended routinely at this time,” Bressler said, noting the condition can be treated safely and effectively with lasers. Future research will explore further development of corticosteroids without the risk of severe side effects, he said in the December issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.

Keep those letters and emails going to congress,

Glenn

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Definition for new readers: Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

Find your congress person: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Senate phone Numbers: 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121

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January 4, 2010 Breaking News

4. January 2010 by Glenn.

 

Quote of the Day:

“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.” –Will Rogers (1879-1935) US actor, humorist

That is especially true today…

Observations: (The alarm bells-they are a ringing!)

More good news…yeah, right. As the states are now having the chance to wade through the 4000 + pages of the two health bills, the alarm bells are beginning to go off.

The state of Arizona now calculates that the health care bill(s) in their current form will cost the state an additional $4 Billion over the next decade. This is in a state that has yet to solve its $2 Billion a year deficit.

We only have 6 or 7 million people in the state. Figure what the additional cost will be to states with larger populations…All except Nebraska, which Harry Reid now has decreed that the rest of the states will be picking up their increase in Medicaid costs, forever!

So we have a health care bill that will cost us a Trillion dollars over a 6-year period—they admit that (well at least the $1 Trillion). For an actual 10-year period, it is more like $1.7 Trillion.

But here is the killer. By simple extrapolation, an admittedly imprecise method, and if Arizona’s figures are correct, it would appear that the health care bill will cost taxpayers of America (except those of Nebraska) an additional $1.7 Trillion during that same 10 year period, through additional state taxes to support their expanded Medicaid bills that the Feds are transferring to them. So it would appear that the health care bill could cost taxpayers a whopping $3.4 Trillion over 10 years, not the advertised $1 Trillion!

Now we are having a big argument on Capitol Hill about the lack of leadership of the TSA, which Obama’s candidate is still waiting for confirmation.

The republicans have been holding up his nomination now for nearly a year because he reportedly lied to congress.

This guy, a former FBI agent, apparently accessed confidential personal records on his ex-wife’s boyfriend, abrogating the FBI’s rules in regard to this. He neglected to mention this and when caught, said it happened 20 years ago and he forgot.

Folks, this guy was an FBI agent; he broke the law and was censured, in writing, by the FBI for that misdeed. One does not forget that severe of a reprimand, I don’t care how many years ago that it happened.

I am beginning to wonder if the White House even knows anyone that isn’t a lawbreaker of some sort!

Global Warming Update:

Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. East Coast faces the coldest night of the season as frigid air spills south and threatens agriculture in Georgia, Alabama and the orange crop in Florida.

Freeze warnings were posted by the National Weather Service as far south as the Orlando area, which may be as many as 20 degrees below normal tonight, the National Weather Service said. The advisory alerts growers that subfreezing temperatures are imminent and may kill crops or other sensitive vegetation.

Tampa and others cities in the central part of the state are under a freeze warning from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. local time tomorrow. Temperatures may fall below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (zero Celsius) for more than three consecutive hours, the National Weather Service in Tampa said on its Web site.

“This is a pretty significant cold snap,” Matt Keefe, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania, said in a telephone interview. “This could really put a hurting on the citrus crop.” The cold temperatures could last for a good part of the week,” he said.

Jacksonville, Florida, may see a record low tonight, Keefe said. The Miami area will see temperatures 12 degrees to 13 degrees below normal for this time of year, Keefe said.

Tonight will be the coldest and offer the greatest danger of crop damage, Keefe said. The next chance for freezing will come next week.

OK all you farmers and orange grove owners; let’s have one rendition of that old favorite, “Give me that old time Global Warming”.

More:

BEIJING (Reuters) - Heavy snow hit Beijing on Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers at the main airport and casting an unusual quiet over normally busy streets as people stayed out of the freezing weather.

More than 90 percent of flights at Beijing’s Capital International Airport, the country’s busiest, were canceled or delayed, state television said, with only one of its three runways open.

Still More:

Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict

TELEGRAPH U.K.–Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.

They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating.

And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder.

Let’s see now. If it walks like a duck…and it talks like a duck…

And still more:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Forecasters say the coldest stretch of weather in years if not decades could be heading for North Carolina. While temperatures won’t be falling to record lows, the National Weather Service says the duration of the cold weather is unusual. Highs could struggle to get above freezing for the next week in areas from Raleigh west.

It must be cold there. The Appalachian American apparently couldn’t stand it anymore and as of yesterday, left his North Carolina digs and flew back to Phoenix. You know its cold when a short legger leaves the hills in favor of the warmth of the Phoenix flat lands.

And I won’t even discuss what is going on in Chicago. Ever since their favorite son became president, the city has pretty much lost its luster for me.

Headline of the Day:

Spy Chiefs turn on President Obama after 7 CIA agents are slaughtered in Afghanistan

-London Mail

Venezuela begins 2010 with electricity rationing

BREITBART: Oil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with new measures rationing electricity use in malls, businesses and billboards, as Hugo Chavez’s government aimed to save power amid a crippling drought.

The new regulations came into effect January 1, with businesses required to comply with reduced consumption limits and authorities warning of forced power cuts and rate hikes if the measures are not followed.

A decree published on Christmas Eve states that commercial centers may operate from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm on the electricity grid, but beyond that, establishments would have to operate off-grid, using their own generators.

Venezuela is flush with oil — the country’s primary export — and natural gas, but relies mainly on hydroelectric generation to meet domestic energy demand.

With the country in a widespread drought, late last year Chavez announced a sweeping campaign to reduce widespread energy “waste,” stressing that rationing was necessary to avoid a systemic “collapse.”

Tariff surcharges of up to 20 percent could be imposed on violators.

The state-controlled aluminum and steel industries halted some of their production lines in order to reduce energy consumption by some 560 megawatts (MW).

Electricity demand in Venezuela is more than 16,500 MW, far higher than what is currently generated. Experts say the power sector requires 18 billion dollars in investment through 2014.

In 2009 there were four nationwide blackouts, with daily failures common in several cities.

Are you paying attention? Isn’t central planning great? You will get a lot of that once Obama consolidates his power.

A subject near and dear to my heart:

PHOENIX (AP) — More than a year after Arizona became the first state in the country to deploy dozens of speed cameras on highways statewide, threats to the groundbreaking program abound.

A photo enforcement van in Arizona lights up a speeding car while recording its license plate.

Profits are far below expectations, a citizen effort to ban the cameras is gaining steam, the governor has said she does not like the program, and more and more drivers are ignoring the tickets they get in the mail after hearing from fellow speeders that there are often no consequences to doing so.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety introduced the cameras in September 2008 and slowly added more until all 76 were up and running by January.

Supporters say the cameras slow down drivers and reduce accidents, but opponents argue that they are intrusive and are more about making money than safety.

More than 300 communities in 25 states use cameras similar to Arizona’s, including New York, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. But the backlash seems to be particularly intense in Arizona. (I should clarify for out of state and out of country readers that the reason that the backlash is so strong in Arizona is that is just the way we are. Napolitano was a carpet-bagger that brought her big government, tax and spend ways out here.) Some people have shown their distaste with the cameras by covering them with boxes, sticky notes and Silly String. In locally infamous cases, one man took a pickax to a camera and another purposefully set off the cameras dozens of times while wearing a monkey mask. (I saw one in the village of Paradise Valley, the town who started this whole thing, about two or three years ago, that was riddled with about 6 bullet holes)

Lt. Jeff King, photo enforcement district commander for the Department of Public Safety, said his agency just wanted drivers to go the speed limit and did not understand all the backlash.

“Instead of spending so much time focusing on getting rid of cameras, why don’t they focus on the real problem, the root problem, which is getting people to drive the speed limit?” Lieutenant King said. “If everyone was to drive the speed limit, the cameras would never flash.”

The cameras led to more than 700,000 tickets to drivers going 11 miles per hour or more over the speed limit from September 2008 to September 2009, the most recent data available, according to the Department of Public Safety. The mandated fines and surcharges on all those tickets would total more than $127 million, but they had generated just $36.8 million through September, Lieutenant King said.

Some of the people who got those tickets are contesting them in court and could end up having to pay the fine, but many of them have gone unpaid because drivers know they have a good shot at getting away with ignoring them…The ticket becomes invalid if a violator who ignores it is not served in person within three months. It is nearly impossible to say how many people have ignored their tickets because courts do not track the figure.

Whatever the figure, overtaxed process servers cannot get to most of those people, and many of the citations go unpaid. That is part of the reason the speed cameras have not made as much money as expected. While certain to increase, that $36.8 million in revenue through September will still fall far below the $120 million a year that former Gov. Janet Napolitano (That name sound familiar?) hoped to put in the state’s coffers when she ordered up the program in early 2007. (Let’s see now. If it walks like a duck…and it talks like a duck…)

The camera operator, Redflex, may not even be breaking even. It cost the company $16 million to install the cameras, and it got back $4.6 million from September 2008 to June, Lieutenant King said.

I could write about 10 pages on this subject since I used to spend so much time on the road, when I was working. However, suffice to say that even if the state’s cameras go away, the cities in Maricopa County won’t let theirs go. They do make too much money from them.

Just for the record, a couple of my objections with the program is that I believe that the speed limits are posted at least 10 mph below the 85 percentile level that they should be, given the freeways that they are set up on. Also, I am told that the Department of Public Safety can ticket you for 1 mph over if they catch you in a manned radar car. So you think you got 11 mph and it turns out you don’t.

Secondly, you have to be on your toes and look for massive and unexpected braking due to these cameras. Typically, in a freeway setting, there is a telegraphing of accidents back as far as ¼ to ½ mile before the cameras, depending on how heavy traffic is. Since the accidents are telegraphed back, no one has figured out that the cameras actually cause a lot of these accidents.

And even if there are no accidents, the cameras will slow traffic suddenly, from 65 mph to 45 mph.

This is no time to give up,

Glenn

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Definition for new readers: Yellow rat democrats, as opposed to Blue Dog Democrats, or just Democrats, are so named because they behave like yellow rats; they are sneaky, they have no rules that they live by except to get what they want by any means necessary and they run for cover when someone shines a light on them. Yellow Rat Democrats draw primarily from the so-called “progressive” democrats.

If you have watched the secrecy, lies and bribes that the democratic and house leaders have used to push the health care bill through, you understand what a yellow rat is.

Find your congressperson: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Senate phone Numbers: 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121

Obama (White House) 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information to the public regarding the political climate in America, which may not be available from the regular media, 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 normal font indicates hard news articles. The Font in black italics indicates my paraphrasing hard news articles or my general writing, such as in the observations. The font in red italics is the (sometimes snarky) opinion of the author. The font in red bold italics is mad or making a point!

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