What do Cap & Trade, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs & Fannie Mae Have in Common?

How could all those different things be pulled together into some type of relationship?

Oh, your local paper or TV station won't tell you.

Get a cup of coffee and a comfortable chair and watch Glen Beck tell you here.

Will the Gulf Oil Slick be Obama's Katrina?

As the oil in the Gulf travels closer to our beloved offshore islands more than a week after a rig suffered a catastrophic explosion, one wonders if this will become an albatross for the Obama administration like democrats managed to make Katrina look like for George Bush? Read more here.

Actually it could and should be much worse. FEMA did respond after Katrina but devestated infrastructure and unexpected levee breaks in New Orleans blunted the effectiveness of the respons.

In this case, the Feds have basically sat on their hands when they could have easily been pouring people and supplies into the area. The response so far? Send in swat teams and Big Sis from Homeland.

Pretty feeble. But consistent: they don't protect our borders and they don't do anything about our shoreline either.

The Facts on Illegal Immigration

The illiegal immigration debate is heating up and will continue to heat up. If you want the basic statistics on illegal immigration as gathered by our government, here they are.

You can read it all right here.

Another name for Tea Party is weary middle class

So who is, or, what are the Tea Parties? Dial into Washington and you hear words like racists, Nazis, "astro turf", right wing radicals, and on and on and on. Bill Clinton warns or violent "code words", and the leaders of Congress talk about "dialing down the rhetoric".

So, has some new para-military movenment sprung up in America? Just what are the Tea Parties? No one seems to know!!!

Wrong!!

Of all places, an obscure column written in the even more obscure Vicksburg Post by its executive editor Charlie Mitchell nails this to the wall! Read it all here very carefully.

The Washington crowd of politicians and media folk pretends not to understand who the Tea Party folks are, where they come from and what makes them tick.

One-size-fits-all descriptions are incomplete, but here’s the gist. Tea Partiers are people who know that:

• Once President Barack Obama finishes forcing “the rich” to pay their “fair share” of taxes, the truly rich will still have all their toys — big houses, vacation homes, boats and such;

The poor aren’t going anywhere. Tea Partiers know this is a group that has become larger, not smaller, since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, and;

• Once again it will be the middle class that gets sacked.

It’s as wrong to write off this group as a bunch of ignorant, greedy, gunslinging, right-wingers as it would be to characterize all those who believe governments have a duty to act broadly and aggressively as eggheads, communists and socialists. It’s also wrong to make them a suspect class because most are white, given that the U.S. House is 91 percent white and the Senate is 99 percent white.

The Tea Partiers recognize that America is teetering on the edge of an economic collapse. Most of them have balanced checkbooks all their lives. Having been let down by the fantasy math that infects Washington, they’ve got nowhere to turn. There’s anger and disappointment, but the overriding emotion is frustration that common sense, always rare in government circles, has, like Elvis, left the building.

Democrat Hallucinations

Why is he laughing? Must have read this piece by Steny Hoyer in the Wall Street Journal.

Some choice parts:

Americans are rightly outraged over our nation's fiscal situation. The course we're on will lead to public debt that will exceed the size of our entire economy, and a government that will eventually exist to do only two things: fund entitlement programs and make interest payments. Americans may be wondering whether the Greek financial crisis could happen here. Duh, yes!

And here is the punch line:

Health-care costs, as I noted, are one of our main challenges. According to the Congressional Budget Office the health-care bill will put us on a path to bring down those costs,

Oh really? Well Steny, what about this little piece from the other day?

From your own Medicare Services Agency?, and I quote, after a report from its own Medicare services agency showed the provisions will increase the nation's health care tab over the next 10 years instead of bringing costs down.

Any person with half a brain knows the only way to reign in the deficit is to cut spending: and to cut spending we first need to cut Democrats!

Play Obama Bingo

Rules for Obama Bingo:
1. Before Barrack Obama's next televised speech, print your "Bullshit Bingo Card"
2. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.
3. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout "Obama!" [or Shout out “PELOSI” (means the same thing)]

Testimonials from past satisfied "Obama Bingo" players:

"I had been listening to the speech for only five minutes when I won." - Jack W., Boston

"My attention span during speeches has improved dramatically." - David D., Florida

"What a gas! Speeches will never be the same for me after my first win." - Bill R., New York City

“The atmosphere was tense in the last speech as 14 of us waited for the fifth box." - Ben G., Denver

"The speaker was stunned as eight of us screamed "Obama!" for the third time in two hours."

Hat Tip: Susan R

The Ulitmate, and I mean ultimate, in Cronyism

Here is the headline from The Hill:Blankfein supports financial reform legislation

Blankfein is the chief investment advisor at Goldman Sachs, which is being "grilled" in front of Congress this week for its "sins". It's nothing more than high drama to let all the politicans act like innocent bystanders at the economic debacle that has happened to this country.

This tells you just about everything you need to know about the layers of corruption in Washington these days: Goldman Sachs received huge largesse from the Feds for bailouts. Goldman Sachs contributed about ~$1million to Obama's election in 2008. The "Financial Reform" bill contains special set asides for Warren Buffet and his derivatives business. And it will not do a single thing to rein in the social engineering of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, ACORN, Chris Dod, Barney Frank, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac that led to the housing sub-prime bubble and the mess that followed.

Remember the three words of redemption: November, November, November!

Another Shocker: Stimulus Didn't Work!

We reported earlier that shocking fact that Health and Human Services has decided that ObamaCare WILL NOT lower healthcare costs.

Now we learn that the Stimulus didn't work either!

The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government's stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.

Further, In latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, the index that measures employment showed job growth for the first time in two years -- but a majority of respondents felt the fiscal stimulus had no impact.

And then this, NABE conducted the study by polling 68 of its members who work in economic roles at private-sector firms. About 73% of those surveyed said employment at their company is neither higher nor lower as a result of the $787 billion Recovery Act, which the White House's Council of Economic Advisers says is on track to create or save 3.5 million jobs by the end of the year.

Golly, imagine that?

Pat Buchanan: Whose Country is it?

With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.

Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.

"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."

We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.

What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?

He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.

He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.

Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?

The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.

Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.

If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California. Read it all
here.

Mr. Prez, you forget who elected you.......

The DNC has released a video, as reported here, to appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.

Mr. Prez, no doubt all those voters and their energy were important to you in 2008, but they did not elect you. White people elected you. They provided the power of numbers to barely put you over the top.

But a lot of these white people have awakened Mr. Prez. They are not part of your "base" now. So, your video is targeted in the right place. But you don't have the power of numbers now.

New Twist in Airport Security!

Here is a possible solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports.

1. Have a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you .


2. It would be a win-win for everyone, and there would be none of this crap about racial profiling and this method would eliminate a long and expensive trial. Justice would be quick and swift. Case Closed!


3. This is so simple that it is brilliant.


4. I can see it now: you are in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion.

5. Shortly thereafter, an announcement comes over the PA system, "Attention standby passengers we now have a seat available on flight number..."


How Cool is that????? Hat Tip: Susan R

Financial Reform Hoax: "Stop the Cycles"

Financial Reform legislation in Congress follows the Obama Script: lofty promises (remove risks, stop economic cycles), this is a crisis, we have to act now!, and we need to pass this quick before anyone can study it.

From the Heritage Foundation here is the analysis of the Obama-Dodd plan:

Fourteen Flaws

Among other things, the bill:

1. Creates a protected class of “too big to fail” firms. Section 113 of the bill establishes a “Financial Stability Oversight Council,” charged with identifying firms that would “pose a threat to the financial security of the United States if they encounter “material financial distress.” These firms would be subject to enhanced regulation. However, such a designation would also signal to the marketplace that these firms are too important to be allowed to fail and, perversely, allow them to take on undue risk. As American Enterprise Institute scholar Peter Wallison wrote, “Designating large non-bank financial companies as too big to fail will be like creating Fannies and Freddies in every area of the economy.”[1]

2. Provides for seizure of private property without meaningful judicial review. The bill, in Section 203(b), authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to order the seizure of any financial firm that he finds is “in danger of default” and whose failure would have “serious adverse effects on financial stability.” This determination is subject to review in the courts only on a “substantial evidence” standard of review, meaning that the seizure must be upheld if the government produces any evidence in favor of its action. This makes reversal extremely difficult.

3. Creates permanent bailout authority. Section 204 of the bill authorizes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to “make available … funds for the orderly liquidation of [a] covered financial institution.” Although no funds could be provided to compensate a firm’s shareholders, the firm’s other creditors would be eligible for a cash bailout. The situation is much like the scheme implemented for AIG in 2008, in which the largest beneficiaries were not stockholders but rather other creditors, such as Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs[2]—hardly a model to be emulated.

4. Establishes a $50 billion fund to pay for bailouts. Funding for bailouts is to come from a $50 billion “Orderly Resolution Fund” created within the U.S. Treasury in Section 210(n)(1), funded by taxes on financial firms. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the ultimate cost of bank taxes will fall on the customers, employees, and investors of each firm.[3]

5. Opens a “line of credit” to the Treasury for additional government funding. Under Section 210(n)(9), the FDIC is effectively granted a line of credit to the Treasury Department that is secured by the value of failing firms in its control, providing another taxpayer financial support.

6. Authorizes regulators to guarantee the debt of solvent banks. Bailout authority is not limited to debt of failing institutions. Under Section 1155, the FDIC is authorized to guarantee the debt of “solvent depository institutions” if regulators declare that a liquidity crisis (“event”) exists.

7. Limits financial choices of American consumers. The bill contains a new “Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection” with broad powers to limit what financial products and services can be offered to consumers. The intended purpose is to protect consumers from unfair practices. But the effect would be to reduce available choices, even in cases where a consumer fully understands and accepts the costs and risks. For many consumers, this will make credit more expensive and harder to get.[4]

8. Undermines safety and soundness regulation. The proposed Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection would nominally be part of the Federal Reserve System, but it would have substantial autonomy. Decisions of the new bureau would not be subject to approval by the Fed. New rules could be stopped only through a cumbersome, after-the-fact review process involving a council of all the major regulatory agencies. This could impede efforts of economic (or “safety and soundness”) regulators to ensure the financial stability of regulated firms, as the new, independent “consumer” regulator would establish rules that conflict with that goal.

9. Enriches trial lawyers by authorizing consumer regulators to ban arbitration agreements. Section 1028 specifically authorizes the new consumer regulatory agency to ban arbitration agreements between consumers and financial firms. By reducing the use of streamlined dispute resolution procedures, more consumers and businesses would be forced to pay the costs of litigation—to the benefit of trial lawyers.
10. Subjects firms to hundreds of varying state and local rules. Section 1044 limits pre-emption of state and local rules, subjecting banks and their customers to confusing, costly, and inconsistent red tape imposed by regulators in jurisdictions across the country.

11. Subjects non-financial firms to financial regulation. Regulation under this legislation would extend far beyond banks. Many firms largely outside the financial industry would find themselves caught in the regulatory net. Section 102(B)(ii) of the bill defines a “nonbank financial company”” as a company “substantially engaged in activities … that are financial in nature.” The phrase “financial in nature” is defined in existing law quite broadly. According to former Treasury official Gregory Zerzan, it includes things such as “holding assets of others in trust, investing in securities … or even leasing real estate and offering certain consulting services.”[5] As a result, a broad swath of private industry may find itself ensnared in the financial regulatory net. As Zerzan explains: “An airplane manufacturer that holds customer down payments for future delivery, a large home improvement chain that invests its profits as part of a plan to increase revenues, and an energy firm that makes markets in derivatives are all engaged in ‘financial activities’ and potentially subject to systemic risk regulation.”

12. Imposes one-size-fits-all reform in derivative markets. The bill would subject derivatives now traded over-the-counter by banks and other financial institutions to regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It would require most derivative contracts to be settled through a clearinghouse rather than directly between the parties. Yet derivatives are already increasingly being traded on clearinghouses thanks to private efforts coordinated by the New York Fed.[6] The Senate’s bill, however, would require virtually all derivatives to be so traded. Applying such ill-designed blanket regulation would make financial derivatives more costly, more difficult to customize, and, consequently, less widely used—which would increase overall risk in the economy.[7]

13. Allows activist groups to use the corporate governance process for issues unrelated to the corporation or its shareholders. Section 972 of the bill authorizes the SEC to require firms to allow shareholders to nominate directors in proxy statement. Such proxy access turns corporate board elections from a process designed to ensure that each board has a good mix of skills and experience into a popularity contest where the long-term interests of the stockholders become secondary to political agendas or corporate raiders. The process can also be used by labor unions, politicians who manage public pension funds, and others to force corporations to respond to pet social or political causes.

14. Does nothing to address problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two government-sponsored housing giants helped fuel the housing bubble. When it popped, taxpayers—because of an implicit guarantee by the U.S. Treasury—found themselves on the hook for some $125 billion in bailout money. Not only has little of this amount been paid back, but the Treasury Department recently eliminated the cap on how much more Fannie and Freddie can receive. Yet the bill does nothing to resolve the problem or reform these government-run enterprises.

And my own 15th reason against this: grows the size of the Federal Government and moves its tenacles further into our everyday life!

Where is the outrage from the Left?

It's not a huge story and the White Supremacist Richard Barret is not a person whose views many embraced. But as reported here, he was killed by his 22 year old black neighbor.

Barrett traveled the country to promote anti-black and anti-immigrant views and founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement. He had a knack for publicity but little real influence, one expert said.

McGee [the murder suspect] was released from state prison in February after serving five years of a six-year sentence for simple assault on a police officer and grand larceny.

So where is the outrage from the left? Prez Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton?

We know the answer to that one........

Arizona, Illegal Immigrants, Racial Profiling

Arizona has passed tough new legislation to grapple with the flood of illegals in that state as reported here. Immediately, from the President on down, come the cries of Racial Profiling. The Prez says this may make Americans afraid in their communities, that American's believe in fairness. No, the only people that need be afraid are the illegals, and we don't believe in fairness we believe in the law and the unalienable rights granted unto us by God (the real GOD, not Obama).

More to the point, Walter Williams wrotet a great piece in August of 2009 on the topic of Racial Profiling and is it Racist? Read it all here.

He says in part, People differ by race and sex. Let's look at a few profiling examples to see which ones you'd like outlawed. According to the American Cancer Society, the lifetime risk of men getting breast cancer is about 1/10th of 1 percent, or 1 in 1,000; and 440 men will die of breast cancer this year. For women, the risk of developing breast cancer is about 12 percent, or 1 in 8, and 40,610 will die from it this year. Should doctors and medical insurance companies be prosecuted for the discriminatory practice of routine breast cancer screening for women but not for men?

Or this, Some racial and ethnic groups have higher incidence and mortality from various diseases than the national average. The rates of death from cardiovascular diseases are about 30 percent higher among black adults than among white adults. Cervical cancer rates are five times higher among Vietnamese women in the U.S. than among white women. Pima Indians of Arizona have the highest known diabetes rates in the world. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as white men.
Knowing patient race or ethnicity, what might be considered as racial profiling, can assist medical providers in the delivery of more effective medical services.

And then this, One might take the position that while it is acceptable for doctors to use race, ethnicity and sex as indicators of the higher probability of certain diseases, it is not acceptable to use race or ethnicity as indicators for other attributes such as criminal behavior. Other than simply stating that it is acceptable to use race or ethnicity as information acquisition technique in the case of medicine but not in other areas of life, is there really a difference? Surely, race and ethnicity are not perfect indicators of the risk of prostate cancer or hypertension; neither are they perfect indicators of criminal behavior; however, there are concrete factual data that surely indicate associations. Criminologist Marvin Wolfgang says, "For four violent offenses -- homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault -- the crime rates for blacks are at least 10 times as high as they are for whites."

And finally this, The Pizza Marketing Quarterly carried a story of charges of racial discrimination filed in St. Louis against Papa John’s pizza delivery services. Papa John's district manager said she could not and would not ask her drivers to put their lives on the line. She added that the racial discrimination accusation is false because 75 to 85 percent of the drivers in the complaining neighborhood are black and, moreover, most of those drivers lived in the very neighborhood being denied delivery service.

Which leads to this famous line, Some years ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson complained, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."

Walter Williams concludes by asking this: Here's my question: Is the racial profiling done by,,,,,[medical doctors] pizza deliverers or Jesse Jackson a sign of racism or economizing on information costs?

Are you undecided? Are you Conservative or Liberal: take this test

If you do not really know if you are a conservative or a liberal, take this test. Then you should be able to self-identify with the group that you are really part of.

Here you go!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, how did you score? If you get a perfect conservative score, you need to listen to Rush Limbaugh. If you got a perfect liberal score, well, you must be a pretty unhappy person........

Hat Tip: Susan R

Watch NJ: a future look at America?

New Jersey residents pay among the highest taxes in the Nation. School union salaries and benefits have grown way beyond the rate of economic growth in NJ for years. Teachers pay little to nothing for their very sweet benefit packages.

Decades of this union driven largess has left NJ on the brink of Bankruptcy. In 2009, NJ voters kicked a democrat out of the governor's office and put in a fiscally responsible Republican, Chris Christie.

As reported here, Christie has taken a scalpal the size of an axe to the State budget and the unions are screaming bloody murder and the old phrase "but think of the children". One union head even emailed thousands of members to pray for Christie's death.

Watch NJ. If Christie gets it's fiscal house in order, he could become a strong contender for the top job in America to fix the mess the Obama Administration is making of things.

Oh Gasp! You Won't Believe this! Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation's Tab

Oh my gosh! Look what the Feds just discovered!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the new health care law will expand insurance but won't reduce runaway costs

Holy Crap!! Someone better tell Prez Obama because he promised our rates would go down and free healthcare would solve everyones problems and the world would be a new place, etc, etc, etc.......

Get all the (truth)here.

Rush Limbaugh: Liberals and the Violence Card

From the Wall Street Journal:

By RUSH LIMBAUGH
The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused "loud and angry voices" on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me) of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. What self-serving nonsense. Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.

From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anticapitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets. Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police. Sometimes there are arrests. Not all leftists are violent, of course. But most are angry. It's in their DNA. They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.

Former President Bill Clinton smiles as he receives a medallion from Cathy Keating, wife of former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, as a part of the Reflections of Hope Award ceremony in Oklahoma City.

Now the liberals run the government and they're using their power to implement their radical agenda. Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.

Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote.

Like the millions of citizens who've peacefully risen up and attended thousands of rallies in protest, I seek nothing more than the preservation of the social contract that undergirds our society. I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it. I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. I reject a foreign policy that treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies. I condemn the president traveling the world apologizing for America's great contributions to mankind. And I condemn his soft-peddling the dangers we face from terrorism. For this I am inciting violence?

Few presidents have sunk so low as Mr. Clinton did with his accusations about Oklahoma City. Last week—on the very day I was contributing to and raising more than $3 million to fight leukemia and lymphoma on my radio program—Mr. Clinton used the 15th anniversary of that horrific day to regurgitate his claims about talk radio.

At a speech delivered last Friday at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., the former president said: [T]here were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our domestic economic problem was the federal government itself. And we have to realize that there were others who fueled this both because they agreed with it and because it was in their advantage to do so. . . . We didn't have blog sites back then so the instrument of carrying this forward was basically the right-wing radio talk show hosts and they understand clearly that emotion was more powerful than reason most of the time."

Timothy McVeigh was incensed by the Clinton administration's 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It's no coincidence that the bombing took place two years to the day of the Waco siege. McVeigh was not inspired by anything I said or believe and to say otherwise is outright slander. In the aftermath of the bombing, I raised millions of dollars for the children of federal employees killed in that cowardly attack through my association with the Marine Corp Law Enforcement Foundation.

Let me just say it. The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.

A clear majority of the American people want no part of this. They instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country. They are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition. They love their country and want to save it from those who do not.

Mr. Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.

Off Topic: Tea Party Barbie!!!

Hat Tip: Belinda J

EPA’s New CO2 Rules: Bad News for Racial Minorities

As the Obama Administration's radical job-killing Cap & Trade legislation languishes in Congress, the EPA is moving full speed ahead to achieve the same looney man-made global climate change Objectives by executive fiat via CO2 regulations.

As reported at NRO these regulations will have a disproportionate effect on minorities, the typical targets of Democrate "compassion".

“President Obama wants to price us out of energy,” Harry Alford of the National Black Chamber of Commerce told Public Radio International. “This is a war on how we live in America, and don’t regard it lightly. We need to fight them, we need to fight them hard, fight them fierce.” Alford represents some 100,000 black-owned companies.

The story continues.....A recent Affordable Power Alliance study foresees dire consequences from EPA restrictions on traditional energy production as it chases the chimera of global warming.

“We estimated that implementation of the EPA Finding would . . . significantly reduce U.S. GDP every year over the next two decades, and by 2030 GDP would be about $500 billion less” than otherwise. The report also predicts the EPA’s destruction of 2.5 million jobs by 2030.

APA projects that “EPA carbon restrictions would greatly increase U.S. energy costs,” specifically by 50 percent for gasoline, 75 percent for residential natural gas, and 100 percent for industrial natural gas by 2030.

APA expects the black poverty rate to grow from 24 percent to 30 percent, and Hispanic poverty from 23 percent to 28 percent.

Again, how is the Hopey Changey thang working for you?

GM Payback Hoax

Did you see the big big headlines today? GM pays back government loans from US, Canada!!!

Well, like everything else in Washington today, the story they let you read is not the full story. As reported here for example, General Motors Co. has repaid the $8.1 billion in loans it got from the U.S. and Canadian governments, a move its CEO says is a sign automaker is on the road to recovery.

Oh, but not so fast! Don't forget that GM still owes $45.3 billion to the U.S. and $8.1 billion to Canada, in exchange for which they received large stakes in the company. The U.S. government now owns 61 percent of the company and Canada owns roughly 12 percent.

Why did we buy GM? Was it to save jobs? Was it to keep the company running? Oh of course not. In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company would have reorganized and continued to run while it got its books and operations back into order. So what would have changed?

Thank you for asking! What would have changed would have been the union contracts! And the unions poured a lot of money into Obama's election and wanted to be paid back. And so they were: we paid them back by buying the company to preserve their anti-competitive contracts.

Love that Hopey Changey thang!

Constitution and Fundamental Rights

One of the Fundamental rights that Americans consider unalienable is the right to own property. Over the years, we have come to accept that in special cases, the State has the right to take property for worthy public causes (build roads, bridges, etc). This is called the process of Eminent Domain.

More recently we have seen many cases where the State takes property from private citizens and gives it to another citizen for their use. The famous New London, CT cases several years ago ignited this issue. Now we see in New York the same taking of private property for private use.

In Auburn, New York, the city is threatening to invoke eminent domain to seize private property for a private hotel conference center, saying the public good outweighs the private property rights of some citizens.

"This is abuse, it's one case of eminent domain abuse," says Renee Smith-Ward, owner of a dog grooming salon, Wag'In Tail, that could be plowed down for the hotel's parking lot. "I don't believe it's right to take someone's property away from them for a hotel, for a private developer."

"These people just want to come in and steal it from you," says property owner Michael Kazanivsky, who says he has dreams to build a family amusement center on what is now a grass and rubble filled lot. "They're trying to take if from me," he says bitterly, "it's not right."

He told Fox News that he put his "heart and soul into it," and now "someone just comes and says 'I want that, give it to me or that's it!.. it's hell." The plan would put an $11 million, 88 room hotel on what is now a mixture of an abandoned building, and two businesses. The city says the center would anchor an annual music festival planned for that eminent domain would be used only if the developer and property owners cannot agree on a deal.

What do the politicians say?

"Eminent domain, no one likes it," concedes Auburn Mayor Michael Quill, a no-nonsense former Marine and long time former Fire Chief of the city, who has a photograph on this desk with former Governor Sarah Palin and Todd Palin. The Palins visited Auburn last summer, in commemoration of the 1867 purchase of the Alaska territory by U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, whose house is across the street from City Hall.

But it is Auburn's current land dispute that has caused so much controversy here, as Mayor Quill and other officials contend the benefits of the hotel project simply outweigh the concerns of the property owners.

Reread that again: "Mayor Quill and other officials contend the benefits of the hotel project simply outweigh the concerns of the property owners"

What gives elected officials the right to shred the Constitution and determine that a private citizens' property better benefits another private citizen.

What if they decide your car will benefit another person more? Will you let them take your car?

The Obama Indoctrination: Boys & Girls Clubs

Boys & Girls clubs have been in existance for over 150 years to help children grow up into productive adults. In recent years, membership has been comprised of about 65% minorities (see here.)

Now, in another effort at indoctrination of our children, Lisa Jackson of the EPA has targeted the Boys & Girls clubs for "Environmental Justice" awareness training.

See it all here in the video.

Remember, what you see here are the Obama Administration's OWN words. This is not any reporting bias or fabrication. These are their OWN words!

Move Over Healthcare: New Human Right Discovered!

If you lived in Belgium and your passion has always been to visit the Leaning Tower in Italy but you didn't quite have the funds to make it happen, then this is your lucky day! Read it all here.

An overseas holiday used to be thought of as a reward for a year's hard work. Now Brussels has declared that tourism is a human right and pensioners, youths and those too poor to afford it should have their travel subsidized by the taxpayer.

Under the scheme, British pensioners could be given cut-price trips to Spain, while Greek teenagers could be taken around disused mills in Manchester to experience the cultural diversity of Europe.

There you go: always wanted to take the kids to Disney World but cringed at the cost? No problem, Barack, Nancy, and Harry are probably cooking up legislation as we speak! So pack those bags, next stop is the Magic Kingdom.....FREEEEEEEEE!!!!

Where did all the Obama Campaign Money come from?

With Goldman-Sachs in the limelight and financial "reform" a big topic these days, one wonders whether Pres Obama will return the money evil Goldman-Sachs sent him. How much you ask? See below are reported here:

Here are his top contributors, see any names that look familiar?

University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835

Administration to Tea Parties: We're on Your Side

Yeah, no wonder he is laughing......what a crock! As reported here, no less than Tax-Cheat Tim Geithner said in an interview Sunday, when asked about the Tea Party protests, that the Obama administration is paying more attention to the deficit than the Bush administration did.

Well hell, quit paying attention to it then! Because the more attention you pay to it, the larger it gets!!!

NASA: Not your father's space agency

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Some 50 years after the creation of NASA, with a long list of accomplishments, President Obama has decided to dial it back. In this National Review Online article, What he didn’t talk about is the moon, at least in any seriousness. “I just have to say, pretty bluntly here, that we’ve been there before,” Obama declared in front of an eerily quiet NASA audience. “There is a lot more of space to explore.”


Obama looks at the Constellation program, introduced by Pres. George W. Bush in 2004 with the goal of rocketing Americans back to the moon by 2020, and sees a problem he inherited, not a challenge to be met. Obama is axing the project a decade before the deadline, after $10 billion has been spent. “No one is more committed to manned spaceflight, to the human exploration of space, than I am,” Obama said. “But we’ve got to do it in a smart way. We can’t keep doing the same, old things.”

What about the thousands of NASA employees who will lose their jobs when the program goes under? The administration plans to channel $6 billion to commercial-spacecraft developers and cross its fingers that they hire the newly unemployed space workers. These firms launch rich folks into the clouds for weekend zooms around the Earth. Surely those posts are the aspiration of every first-class mathematician and aerospace engineer who grew up with eyes toward the sky.

In addition to freedom and liberty, the other things that stirs the human soul is the thought of adventure. The opportunity to stare into the unknown and then use our God-given ingenuity to figure out how to peel back the layers of the unkown, like on onion. The spin-offs of such adventures always lead to new innovation to improve human existence.

But there is the rub: freedom, liberty, adventure, innovation.....those are individual accomplishments, and in Obama's world-view there is no room for that. In Obama's world, Government provides, Government grants, and more and more, Government dictates.

Third Sunday of Easter

Readings from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, Lectionary year C,

Acts 9:1-19A

Ps 33

Revelation 5:6-14

John 21: 1-14

Collect: O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his
disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith,
that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives
and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and for ever. Amen.

The new Regime Narrative: Home-Grown Extremists as Threatening as Al Qaeda

Go back and read history about how The Third Reich came to power in pre-WWII Germany. And then review the comments of Big Sis in Homeland Security, Obama, Bill Clinton, and now the coup-de-gras, Mueller of the FBI..

The message of the narrative is this: if you disagree with your Government you are a problem, you are a terrorist, you need to be controlled. The next step would be "you need to be eliminated."

Funny how eight years of threats to kill Bush, violent protests over Bush, movies about the need to kill Bush, how these were never a concern of the left. But now that their leftist, radical, and socialistic agenda has angered everyday, working, productive Americans who see their country, never mind their money, being stolen daily, whoa now!.....this has to stop, it's divisive, people need to get under control.

Vote every one of the bastards out in November! That is (still) the ultimate weapon. Use it while you can!

Homosexual Hospital Visits: A Teachable Moment

As reported here, President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients' choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.

The president directed the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation in a memo that was e-mailed to reporters Thursday night while he was at a fundraiser in Miami.

Now much analysis of the moral issue here will take place, but there is another, more immediate teachable moment that has to do with process, rather than morals.

And here is where that teachable moment comes in; Administration officials and gay activists, who have been quietly working together on the issue, said the new rule will affect any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding, a move that covers the vast majority of the nation's health-care institutions.

See how that works? By virture of the fact that any hospital or other institution takes Medicare or Medicaid dollars, that institution is subject to the Law that Obama just uttered!

If you grasp the nugget here, then you begin to understand the power of ObamaCare. When nearly all the people of this country are swept into a Government singl-payer plan, the President, at his whim, can create a new law that magically and instantly affects your life.

How's that Hope and Changey thing working for you?

National Day of Prayer: Unconstitutional!

As reported here, The National Day of Prayer, honored in the United States for more than a half-century, is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled.

In a 66-page opinion issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the holiday violates the "establishment clause" of the First Amendment, which creates a separation of church and state.

NO IT DOES NOT! This is one of the most blatant lies of the Progressive Left and it is a shame that every Constitution-supporting American does not shout them down for trying to thrust this upon us.

Here is what the First Amendment says about religion: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free expression thereof.....

The phrase "separation of church and state" does not appear in the Constitution...nowhere! The phrase comes from much later private communication between Thomas Jefferson and a baptist pastor who sought clarification of what the Constitution meant on the subject. In 1947, the Supreme Court institutionalized the phrase in a horrible opinion rendered in the Everson case.

The judge is wrong, the Constitution does not say what she says it says. Someone please send her a copy of the Constitution so she can look it up!

Don't Like Our America? Let us help you pack!!!!!

Turn up 'dem speakers and listen to this video........and sing along!!!

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Hat Tip: Bill R

WaPo: Hating Government goes Mainstream

First it was tax protests, Ron Paul campaigns, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin. Then it seemed to explode. Read it all here.

[Ron] Paul will not likely be the next president. And his son still faces the most arduous part of his journey as Democrats spend millions to paint him as soft on defense, lax on drug enforcement and too radical on welfare programs.

But there's no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington's strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream.

It turns out that watching Goldman Sachs, the United Auto Workers, public employee unions and a raft of other vampires drain the treasury at America's weakest moment in a generation will make a person pretty hacked off.

After Barack Obama's election, Democrats assumed that the American people were battered, bruised and ready for a morphine drip of European-style socialism. Republicans, shocked by their stunning reversals, figured the Democrats were right and started looking for technocrats of their own.

And in a political system fueled by special-interest money, it was hard for the leaders of major parties to imagine anything other than an activist government. After all, if you pay for someone to get elected, you don't expect him to just sit there.

Just 18 months ago the leaders of both parties were quite sure that Obama would be the popular, transformative president he aspires to be. The Republicans who emerged from the wreckage of November were certain to look a lot more like Charlie Crist and Mitt Romney than Marco Rubio and Ron Paul.

But Crist's embrace of Obamanomics seems to have utterly destroyed his chances at a Senate seat that was once his for the taking. Romney, considered a near lock for the 2012 Republican nomination, has seen his candidacy badly damaged by a populist revolt against the passage of a national health care plan that looks like the one he designed for Massachusetts.

So, the stars are aligned, we are now mainstream. Can we consolidate our power and take our country back? November will tell.

Tax Day: We Need to Say "Hell NO!"

From National Review Online, a story about taxation and middle America:

Somewhere in America there is a frustrated small-business owner. Demand for products is down, employees have had to be let go, costs are up, and there is little hope in sight. To make things worse, the tax man is knocking at the door.

Today is April 15, the day for over 50 years Americans have had to fork over a hefty portion of their success to Uncle Sam. In the past year, nearly a trillion dollars in taxpayers’ money has been spent by President Obama and the Congress to fund a failed economic stimulus.

In a survey just released by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the small-business-optimism index fell 1.2 points last month to its lowest point since July 2009. In a powerful understatement, NFIB chief economist William Dunkelberg said optimism was “headed in the wrong direction.”

Traveling throughout the country with American Solutions, we have met hundreds of small-business owners. Each one of them has the same complaint: They want government to “get out of our way.” Last week in New Orleans we heard from a boat manufacturer who is worried about the impact of cap-and-trade legislation. In St. Petersburg, Fla., there was motorbike dealer concerned about the higher taxes. As the NFIB found, America’s small-business owners are filled with concerns and have little hope.

Even worse, the NFIB survey found that small-business owners are more likely to cut workers than add jobs over the next three months, fueling speculation that any pending “recovery” may be a jobless one.

In the Reagan Revolution of the 1980's, supply side economics created 21 million new jobs. We don't have to have a stupid "jobless recovery" if we don't want one. But you got to go out and work and vote for what you want!!!

ObamaCare: Where is the love?

The liberal cant before passage of ObamaCare was that once passed, the masses would flock to its existentialist goodness (is that illiteration?).

Demosocialists are finding the opposite to be true.

Members of Congress are returning to Washington wondering what happened to President Obama’s promise that he could convince a very skeptical public that his health-overhaul plan is a good thing after all.

Many members who voted for the legislation had to hide out from their constituents over the Easter recess to avoid scathing criticism. Public animosity toward Obamacare is getting worse, not better, with Rasmussen showing that 58 percent now want it repealed. Fox reported last week that only 12 percent want the legislation to be implemented as is.

People are not buying into the president’s sugarcoating because they can see for themselves the destructive path ahead. Every day more facts emerge about the legislation Congress slammed through on a hyper-partisan vote:

1. Doctor shortages loom: Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the U.S. faces a shortage of up to 150,000 physicians in the next 15 years, according to a report by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

2. Costs continue to soar: Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is in a knock-down, drag-out battle with health insurers. He is refusing to allow them to raise their rates to cover the added costs they are incurring as a result of the state’s three-year-old universal coverage law. The companies lost a first-round court battle yesterday. They say they will lose hundreds of millions of dollars and could go out of business if they can’t raise their rates to at least cover their costs.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) is reportedly shocked that the new law does not give federal regulators the power to block double-digit health-insurance-premium increases. In a preview of battles to come, Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) are pushing legislation to expand federal and state authority to prevent insurance companies from boosting rates excessively. This is a direct path to a single-payer, government-run health system.

3. Where’s my free health care? eHealthInsurance, the online broker for health insurance, says it has been flooded with calls from people asking, “Where do we get the free Obamacare, and how do I sign up for that?” Would-be customers had expected the overhaul law to translate into instant, affordable coverage.

Are people happy when they find out that the subsidized coverage doesn’t begin for four years and that even then, only a fraction of people will qualify? What about when they learn that most Americans will be required to buy expensive, government-mandated policies? Or that new taxes start right away but still won’t make a dent in the tsunami of red ink the law creates?

4. Five little words: States and physicians have a new concern: Tucked away in the 2,700-page health overhaul law are five words that states fear will open the floodgates for lawsuits.

Until now, states participating in Medicaid have been required to provide payments to physicians. But on page 466 of the new law, states now will be liable for ensuring provision of “the care and services themselves.”

That means states are legally required not only to ensure that services are paid for, but that Medicaid recipients are seen by a doctor. Alan Levine, Louisiana’s health secretary, says this “leaves every state vulnerable to a new wave of lawsuits any time someone cannot access a service.” He says the added cost would be incalculable.

5. Ninety days to get going: The clock is ticking on the 90 days that HHS Secretary Sebelius has to get programs established in the states to provide coverage for uninsured people with high health risks. It is the tip of the iceberg in a mountain of regulations that must be written to get Obamacare up and running.

Demonstrating growing state rebellion against Obamacare, Georgia announced yesterday it isn’t going to participate in the new high-risk pools.

6. Constitutional challenges continue: Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli argues that there is no constitutional authority for Congress to regulate commerce when citizens just want to do nothing — for instance, not buy insurance. He also argues that Medicare and Social Security are based upon constitutional taxing authority. But he says that a mandate to buy private insurance is not a tax; the tax is a penalty for not buying a product from a private company — an unprecedented demand from the federal government.

And how is that Hopey Changey thing working for you?

Conservative Muscle shows up for November!

I knew it had to happen eventually but I was getting nervous that they weren't going to make it.....but the Cavalry is here!

As reported here, [a] group of prominent Republican strategists have combined to form American Crossroads, a 527 committee that is aiming to spend upwards of $50 million on House and Senate races this fall.

"We intend to paint a very vivid picture of the fork in the road that this country faces -- not merely a choice between two candidates, but a serious philosophical decision about the future of this country," said Jim Dyke, a former Republican National Committee communications director and now a member of American Crossroads' board of directors.

The major challenge in that is akin to shooting fish in a barrel, how to pick the best specimens.

Thank God, some real muscle is showing up for the battle......

No Explanation Needed............

Hat Tip: Rick Lobs

The Liberal distaste for solving Poverty

We recently did a 4 part series on Poverty in America, last part was here.

Here is a report from National Review Online with 2008 CDC Data.

The press has rushed to report a minuscule drop in “teen births” based on data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). As usual, the mainstream media are focusing on a trivial, politically correct story while ignoring the real story buried in the data.

Here’s the real story: According to CDC, a record 40.6 percent of children born in 2008 were born outside marriage — a total of 1.72 million children. The overwhelming majority of the unwed mothers were young adults with low education levels, precisely the kind of individuals who have the greatest difficulty going it alone in our society.

Only about 7.5 percent of these out-of-wedlock births, 130,000, were to girls under 18. Of course, these births can be disastrous for the girls involved. But as a social problem, teen pregnancies and births are of quite limited importance. By contrast, 1.72 million out-of-wedlock births amount to an overwhelming catastrophe for taxpayers and society.

The steady growth of childbearing by single women and the general collapse of marriage, especially among the poor, lie at the heart of the mushrooming welfare state. This year, taxpayers will spend over $300 billion providing means-tested welfare aid to single parents. The average single mother receives nearly three dollars in government benefits for each dollar she pays in taxes. These subsidies are funded largely by the heavy taxes paid by higher-income married couples.

BUT HERE IS THE KILLER CONCLUSION: The disappearance of marriage in low-income communities is the predominant cause of child poverty in the U.S. today. If poor single mothers were married to the fathers of their children, two-thirds of them would not be poor. The absence of a husband and father from the home also is a strong contributing factor to failure in school, crime, drug abuse, emotional disturbance, and a host of other social problems.

So, why don't we have the Government focused on the things that will solve these problems rather than perpetuating them with Welfare? Stupid question with an easy answer: perpetual power to those who "shepherd" these unfortunates and perpetual votes from the underclass for those who "sustain" them.

How self-centered and evil!

It's our History so we think about it......

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Sunday defended fellow Gov. Bob McDonnell for his decision to declare April "Confederate History Month" in Virginia without initially acknowledging the legacy of slavery, saying the controversy "doesn't amount to diddly" , as reported here.

"I don't know what you would say about slavery, but anybody that thinks that you have to explain to people that slavery is a bad thing, I think that goes without saying," he told CNN's "State of the Union."

"To me, it's a sort of feeling that it's a nit, that it is not significant, that it's ... trying to make a big deal out of something doesn't amount to diddly," he said.

Many complex issues were involved in the war between the states (also known as the war of Northern Agression in these parts). Slavery was a big part but not all of it. We cannot pretend it did not happen and much blood was shed to in-fact help solve the slavery issue once and for all.

Run Sarah Run!!.......for RNC?

No one on the conservative side of the fence can discount the excitment that Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, has brought to the Republican Party, Tea Parties, and other conservative movements.

While all this is true, many have expressed doubts whether she should run for Presidnet in 2012. There are a whole litany of reasons often going in contradictory directions. So if Sarah did not run for President, how could she best contribute to the conservative causes in 2010 and 2012?

How about as Chairman of the Republican National Committee? Why not? Here's why;

1. Michael Steele is a nice guy but not conservative unless pushed into that corner.

2. Michael Steele is a nice guy but is not exciting the party

3. Sarah has instant star power and could energize the party the way she did the flagging McCain ticket in 2008

4. Sarah is conservative and would inspire conservative candidates all over the nation to run

5. Sarah would raise funds like Michael Steele can only dream of

6. Sarah has a backbone of steel and would discourage a third party effort, which has to be discouraged because Obama has to be defeated in 2012.

Think about it? What do you think?

Second Sunday of Easter

Readings from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, Lectionary C,

Acts 5:12a, 17-22, 25-29

Ps 111

Rev. 1-19

John 20: 19-31

Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery
established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all
who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body
may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Supreme Court Battle

While Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' decision to retire this summer will give President Obama a second chance in as many years to shape the high court, the upcoming confirmation battle during an election year all but guarantees that his ambitious legislative agenda will grind to a halt, reports Fox.

You Bet!! Bring it on Mr. President! I hope you nominate the wackiest leftist loon in the whole stable! First that will really clog things up, it will really fire up the Conservative cause, and it will further point out what a leftist, socialist, radical you are! Wow, that's a trifecta! Don't get no better!

Come on Obama, bring it on!!!!!!

Peace and Love from the Left.......Not!

Remember Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Matthews and a whole lot more liberals crying and screaming about mean Tea Party people, death threats, insults, spitting, etc. Notice how no proof every comes out of this. The only violence at a Tea Party event occurred when SEIU union thugs beat a black man at a Tea Party Rally.

Well now the proof has surfaced........but from the other direction. As reported here, a teacher's union memo hints clearly at the desire of the union for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's death...........New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's take-no-prisoners demand for education cuts got him a whole lot more than he bargained for -- a death wish.

It was in a controversial e-mail sent by the Bergen County Teachers Union to its members asking that Christie be "taken" by the Lord.

In seven years as the Garden State's pugnacious U.S. Attorney, Christie got only two death threats -- from the bloods and the crips.

It took only three months as governor for an adversary to wish him six feet under.

"To have the leader of the Bergen County Teachers Union send out an e-mail to their 17,000 members asking them to pray for my death I think just goes beyond the pale," Christie said.

The e-mail in question was sent by Bergen County Education Association president Joseph Coppola in the form of a prayer, which said:

"Dear lord,' this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays. I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor."

Of course the union claimed it was all a joke and that the email memo sent to 17,000 members was never meant to go public. Oh really?

Unions and Politics have always been a toxic brew......as government unions become more pervasive and more intense on preserving their taxpayer supplied benefits, unions and taxpayers and their elected representatives are more likely to clash.

It's the Economy Stupid!!

As we continue to gag on ObamaCare being jammed down our throats, and we wait for the Anointed One to resume his "laser-like" focus on jobs, don't forget the little view of our future taking place over in Greece.

Remember Greece? Land of huge deficits, land of entitlement programs and bloated government salaries, benefits, and bureaucrats?

Well now, the harsh reality of rising bond rates is applying the stranglehold to the Greco economy. All that debt service is getting more expensive daily as purchasers of Greek debt demand higher interest rates.

And Greece can't pay the price. So where do they go after this? We should watch this closely.

Oops, just a mistake......so sorry.......

A Qatari diplomat went to grab a smoke in an airplane Lavatory and then joked about trying to light his shoes.....then all hell broke lose. Including air fighter escorts for the airplane.

Ah but, Qatar's U.S. ambassador, Ali Bin Fahad Al-Hajri, cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"This diplomat was traveling to Denver on official embassy business on my instructions, and he was certainly not engaged in any threatening activity," he said in a statement on his Washington embassy's Web site. "The facts will reveal that this was a mistake."

Brown Lloyd James, a law firm representing the Qatar embassy, said Thursday morning that the diplomat, Mohammed Al-Madadi, had been released by authorities after questioning and was on his way back to Washington. The firm said Al-Madadi is the embassy's third secretary. Read it all
here.

The story continues............No explosives were found on the Washington-to-Denver flight. Authorities speaking on condition of anonymity said they don't think the envoy was trying to hurt anyone during Wednesday's scare and he will not be criminally charged.

And what do you think would happen if you or I had done that????????