The taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien help line

The taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien help line

"Faculty at University of California, San Diego, are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated migrants where to find water — and also broadcasts poetry"

Phone points illegal border crossers to water

"The designers, who have raised $15,000 from a UCSD grant and an art festival award, hope to hand out phones for free in Mexico. "

""There are many, many areas in which every American would say I don't like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?" says UCSD lecturer Brett Stalbaum, 33, a self-described news junkie who likens his role to chief technology officer."

Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years

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This may or may not be true, but my question is what does the computer models say if you change the amount of C02 released into the atmosphere. Does cutting off all man-made emissions change anything or does the ice melt anyway? If the ice melting can be stop at well level to we need to reduce emissions to?

The problem with these models is that they don't reflect reality. Just like a mutual fund manager that got lucky one year, doesn't mean he will be accurate the next. What we need is predictions that can be tested for accuracy. After Katrina, they were all predicting more and bigger hurricanes, guess what, that didn't happen.

If Gore, G.E., Goldman Sachs, et al. are all trying to make money off of trading carbon emissions, does that reduce emissions or just make in more expensive for the consumer?

Obama Defends War

I wonder how many liberals are regretting their vote now. Probably none, but it must be driving a few crazy.

Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace

"I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people," Obama told his audience in Oslo's soaring City Hall. "For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world."

"A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's leaders to lay down their arms."

"To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism, it is a recognition of history."

Groupthink and the global warming industry

A good read.

Groupthink and the global warming industry

"... The New York Times' leading climate reporter, Andrew Revkin (whose name appears in some of the e-mails), won't publish the contents of the e-mail on the grounds it would violate the scientists' privacy. Can anyone imagine the Times being so prissy if such damning e-mails were from ExxonMobil, never mind Dick Cheney?"

"For instance, it was pretty impossible for reporters to independently investigate whether Saddam Hussein had WMDs, and since the most established authorities agreed he had to have them, the news media reported the consensus, which turned out to be wrong."

The left views the military as the "Enemy Camp"

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Refers To West Point As The 'Enemy Camp' For Obama

"The president of the United States -- also known as the commander in chief -- goes to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to deliver an address to the nation and MSNBC's Chris Matthews refers to it as visting the "enemy camp."

The Story of Stuff: Update

Huckabee's Presidential Chances Diminish

Does this move Palin to the top of the list?


Wash. shooting re-opens Huckabee's clemency record

Obama and Lobbyists

Was it just me, or was Obama supposed to limit access of lobbyists?

Health Care Industry Officials, Lobbyists Met With Obama During Debate On Reform

"Top health care officials met with Barack Obama and other administration officials just as the president pushed Congress to pass legislation to overhaul the health insurance industry, newly released White House visitor logs show."

Palin 2012 SNL

Update: NBC pulled this clip, not even on Hulu. Why? Maybe because someone figured it out that the world ended under Obama's watch. Seems NBC is wholly owned by the Democratic party now.

SNL RIPS ON OBAMA

Global Warming Liars?

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute

"...they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change."

"In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical “trick” in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend."

"Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents."


"Through the last century, tree rings and thermometers show a consistent rise in temperature until 1960, when some tree rings, for unknown reasons, no longer show that rise, while the thermometers continue to do so until the present."

-Why is this important? Because if use tree rings for data when thermometers readings weren't taken then your distorting the data. You would need to throw out all use of tree rings, then you limited to just a few years since data from thermometers is limited. And thus you can't make any valid conclusions about global warming.

Stopping global warming with a very long garden hose.

ABC 20/20 10/23/09
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8904740

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Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
Global warming might be solved with a helium balloon and a few miles
of garden hose.
By BRET STEPHENS

Suppose for a minute—which is about 59 seconds too long, but that's for another column—that global warming poses an imminent threat to the survival of our species. Suppose, too, that the best solution involves a helium balloon, several miles of garden hose and a harmless stream of sulfur dioxide being pumped into the upper atmosphere, all at a cost of a single F-22 fighter jet.

Good news, right? Maybe, but not if you're Al Gore or one of his little helpers.

The hose-in-the-sky approach to global warming is the brainchild of Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Wash.-based firm founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold. The basic idea is to engineer effects similar to those of the 1991 mega-eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines, which spewed so much sulfuric ash into the stratosphere that it cooled the earth by about one degree Fahrenheit for a couple of years.

Could it work? Mr. Myhrvold and his associates think it might, and they're a smart bunch. Also smart are University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner, whose delightful "SuperFreakonomics"—the sequel to their runaway 2005 bestseller "Freakonomics"—gives Myhrvold and Co. pride of place in their lengthy chapter on global warming. Not surprisingly, global warming fanatics are experiencing a Pinatubo-like eruption of their own.

Mr. Gore, for instance, tells Messrs. Levitt and Dubner that the stratospheric sulfur solution is "nuts." Former Clinton administration official Joe Romm, who edits the Climate Progress blog, accuses the authors of "[pushing] global cooling myths" and "sheer illogic." The Union of Concerned Scientists faults the book for its "faulty statistics." Never to be outdone, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman scores "SuperFreakonomics" for "grossly [misrepresenting] other peoples' research, in both climate science and economics."

In fact, Messrs. Levitt and Dubner show every sign of being careful researchers, going so far as to send chapter drafts to their interviewees for comment prior to publication. Nor are they global warming "deniers," insofar as they acknowledge that temperatures have risen by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century.
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An Interesting Article on "V" and conservatism in Hollywood.

The Hidden Truth Behind ‘V’

"Like many conservatives, I was intrigued and excited by the promos for ABC’s reboot of one of my favorite mini-series, “V.” Finally, we thought, one of us had infiltrated the system and slipped one by the hippies who run Hollywood. Even better, we hoped that ABC, in a brash display of “corporate greed” had decided to green-light a series that appeals to the many of us (the majority of the country actually) who are less than enthralled by the hopey changeiness of the current administration.


But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. As my colleague Jeffrey Jena pointed out, the show’s writer is a devout leftist and Obama supporter. " ....

Obama Care Preview: H1N1

If you want to get a preview of what it would be like under Obama/Pelosi health care, take a look at the swine flu vaccine. They told us there would plenty of vaccines, but people are still waiting hours in line just to be told the vaccines are gone. Now we find out major wall street firms have received vaccines before hospitals and those highly at risk.


"Recent news reports indicate 13 companies, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Time Warner, have been cleared to receive the vaccine. "

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Proposal on Health Care Fraud

Watching a 60 Minutes program, billions of dollars have been wasted on fly-by-night organizations. Because Medicare is required to pay a bill submitted in 45-60 days, fraud is rampant.

My proposal: Every organization that requests medicare fund must have it's officers and owners submit photo ID, fingerprints and DNA before any payments can be made. This will prevent repeated abuse and allow the criminals to be tracked down.

Robert Reich: What An Honest President Would Say About Health Reform

Recommendation: The Big Bang Theory

http://www.tv.com/the-big-bang-theory/show/58056/summary.html?tag=page_nav;main

I just finished watching the second season on DVD. For those who like an intelligent comedy, I think you will enjoy this show.

Stimulus Jobs Overstated on Government Website

Stimulus Jobs Overstated on Government Website

"A Brevard County child care center claims it used stimulus dollars to save 129 jobs when in fact the money was simply used to give raises."

STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report

"The AP reviewed a sample of federal contracts, not all 9,000 reported to date, and discovered errors in one in six jobs credited to the $787 billion stimulus program — or 5,000 of the 30,000 jobs claimed so far"

"Even in its limited review, the AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions; jobs credited to the stimulus program that were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs that were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced."

Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold.

Cash for Clunkers Results Finally In: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 per Vehicle Sold, Reports Edmunds.com

"Once the numbers were determined, Edmunds.com's analysts divided three billion dollars by 125,000 vehicles to arrive at the average $24,000 per vehicle."

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white house response

Gore Vidal: Obama 'Dreadful' as President

Gore Vidal: Obama 'Dreadful' as President

"Gore Vidal ... is publicly declaring he made a mistake in switching his support during the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama."

"We'll have a military dictatorship fairly soon"

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Obama can not even satisfy the left-wing nuts.

Another Example of U.N. Stupidity.

UN investigator warns US on use of drones

"A U.N. human rights investigator is warning the United States that its use of unmanned warplanes to carry out targeted executions may violate international law.

Philip Alston says the U.S. will increasingly be perceived as carrying out indiscriminate killings in violation of international law unless the government explains the legal basis for targeting particular individuals and the measures it is taking to comply with international humanitarian law which prohibits arbitrary executions.

His comments Tuesday came as the U.S. has increased the use of Predator drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan and is considering stepping up their use even further against al-Qaida and Taliban targets.

Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council's investigator on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, told a news conference the U.S. response — that the Geneva-based council and the U.N. General Assembly have no role in relation to killings during an armed conflict — is untenable."

Socialism at Work: 3 Minute Showers.

Chavez urges 3-minute showers to conserve water

"Leftist President Hugo Chavez called on Venezuelans on Wednesday to stop singing in the shower and to wash in three minutes because the oil-exporting nation is having problems supplying water and electricity. "

"He called on ministries and state-run companies to cut energy consumption by 20 percent immediately. "

Frontline: "The Warning"

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Could the financial crisis been avoided by taking action during the Clinton administration?

Taking Lessons from Hugo Chavez

It appears the Obama administration has taken a page out of Chavez's playbook by demonizing Fox News and Chamber of Commerce.

Windmills

I like windmills, but there are many problems with them. They kill birds. The most efficient production area are far from consumption areas. Alternative energy plants (nuclear, coal or gas) have to be built to supply the equivalent energy when the wind isn't blowing, etc.

But I wonder what would be the impact of large scale farms. I haven't been able to find out any research so this is just speculation.

The windmill converts the energy in the wind into electricity. But doing this reduces the amount of energy is the remaining wind. How many windmills can be built before it impacts the environment? Will it effect where the rain falls? Can it turn a area to a dessert or cause droughts? Or cause floods as rain falls in more concentrated area? Will it effect the migration of birds?

A TRUE IRISH GHOST STORY

This happened a while ago in Dublin . And even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock story, it's true.

John Bradford, a Dublin University student, was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a storm. No cars were traveling that night.

The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stop. John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and closed the door.... only to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on!!

The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road ahead and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life.

Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the wheel. John, paralyzed with terror, watched as the hand repeatedly came through the window, but never touched or harmed him.

Shortly thereafter John saw the lights of a pub appear down the road. So, gathering strength, he jumped out of the car and ran to the pub. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and started telling everybody about the frightening experience he had just had.

A silence enveloped the pub when everybody realized he was crying and.... wasn't drunk.

Suddenly the door opened and two other people walked in from the stormy night. They, like John, were also soaked and out of breath. Looking around, and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one of the fellows said to the other,
'Look Paddy...There's that freakin' idiot that got in the car while we were pushin' it!'

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SNL Obama Do Nothing Skit 10 3 09

The Joke on the Nobel Peace Prize

Nominated with just 2 weeks of his Presidency, the Nobel Peace Prize confirmed the Joke it is with the Selection of Obama. He joins others that show just the aspiration of the committee, like Al Gore, International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, and Yassar Arafat. What was one considered a meaningful prize is now just a farce.

Did Code Pink show it true partisan colors?

Code Pink Supports Afghanistan War?

"The staunch women's anti-war group Code Pink has advocated complete withdrawal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan. The group has organized countless protests and even one Code Pinker with blood-colored hands called then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice a war criminal during a congressional hearing in 2007.

But one report says the group is now rethinking its position on the Afghanistan war. The Christian Science Monitor reports that during a recent trip to Kabul, local Afghan women told Code Pinkers the situation is a lot more complicated than they think. Afghan member of Parliament and women’s activist Shinkai Karokhail told the group's founders: "In the current situation of terrorism, we cannot say troops should be withdrawn."

Those concerns convinced the founders that setting a deadline is not in Afghanistan's best interest. Medea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder, said: "We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline... So many people are saying that, 'If the U.S. troops left — the country would collapse. We'd go into a civil war.' A palpable sense of fear, that is making us start to reconsider that.""

Self-ownership

"Self-ownership (or sovereignty of the individual, individual sovereignty or individual autonomy) is the concept of property in one's own person, expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to be the exclusive controller of his or her own body and life. According to G. Cohen, the concept of self-ownership "says that each person enjoys, over himself and his powers, full and exclusive rights of control and use, and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else that he has not contracted to supply"

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Some have traced the concept of self-ownership to certain individuals such as John Locke, who said, the individual "has a right to decide what would become of himself and what he would do, and as having a right to reap the benefits of what he did."[2] Or, as stated more succinctly by Locke, "every man has a Property in his own Person."[3]

Sovereign-minded individuals usually assert a right of private property external to the body with the reasoning that if a man owns himself then he owns his actions, including those which create or improve resources; he therefore owns both his own labor and the fruits thereof.[4]

Inflation Ahead?

There are rumors that the world will drop the dollar as the global currency. What does that mean to you? Instead of using dollars to buy oil, the U.S. will have to exchange the dollar for other currencies. With China owning $2 trillion dollars, and the oil exporting holding another $2 trillion, don't expect a quick move (some say the switch will occur in nine years). But what are they going to do with the dollars? If they dump them, the value of the dollar decrease and all imports (like oil) will increase. This will result in inflation in the U.S.

Why would they do this? Because they a see a country going deeper to debt and spending beyond in means. The porkulus bill, health-care, cap-and-trade are all hurting the U.S. The question is whether the U.S. can increase non-agricultural exports significantly given a cheaper dollar.

Of course the enemies of the U.S. favor this. As the U.S. goes deeper into debt it will have to stop defending the world, giving them greater opportunities to cause mischief / expand influence. The extreme-right and extreme-left will demand the retreat of the military all around the world. Of course this will be followed by reducing aid to countries, and eventually possibly retreating to an isolationist policy.

Obama's School Safety Czar

"“Jennings wrote that in 1988, when he was a high school teacher, he was approached by a 15-year-old boy who said he had become involved with an older man. Instead of notifying the boy’s parents or any authorities, Jennings instead offered the boy advice: ‘I hope you used a condom.’”


King: Czar pushing 'homosexuality'

"King’s claim: Jennings promoted “homosexuality” in elementary schools by penning a foreword for a book titled — I kid you not — “The Queering of Elementary Education.”"

The Truth About Acorn

Center Right Wins in Germany

Merkel signals cautious reforms in new coalition

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled on Monday she would resist pressure for radical reforms from her likely new coalition partners, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), and stick to a path of gradual change."

"Economists welcomed the result, saying it would herald pro-market policies, and Germany's blue chip DAX stock market index rose 2.78 percent."

"The SPD was the biggest loser and will join the Greens and Left party in opposition after plummeting more than 11 points to 23.0 percent, its worst result since World War Two. "

Is this a harbinger of elections in 2010 for the U.S.?

How much profit should a health insurance company make?

Who Is Making the Biggest Profits From Health Care?

"Over the past year, “the profit margin for health insurance companies was a modest 3.4 percent,” Newman points out, quoting data provided by Morningstar, a company that rates mutual funds. Morningstar would have no reason to low-ball the insurance industry’s profits; its readers are looking for highly profitable sectors of the economy where they can invest. But the health plan industry is not one of those sectors: insurers ranks 87th out of 215 industries."

"“Among the large, for-profit health insurers” Newman adds, “profit margins line up with the industry as a whole. UnitedHealthGroup, the biggest health insurer, had a 4.1 percent profit margin over the past 12 months. WellPoint, the next biggest, had a 4 percent profit margin. Aetna, Cigna, and Humana came in below that.”

"But this isn’t to suggest that no one in our for-profit health care industry is making money. “Pharmaceutical companies have a profit margin of 16.4 percent,” Newman reports, “seventh highest of the 215 industries that Morningstar tracks.” "

Health Care: Simple Rules to Solve a Problem

(1) If Insured, a company cannot drop you if you have an illness.
(2) If Insured, a company cannot raise your rate more the average of the raise of all it's other policies.
(3) If Insured, if a company finds a mistake or false-hood a company cannot avoid paying for illness not related to mistake or falsehood. If the illness is related, then the company can refuse to pay for illness. (e.g. if you find out you have cancer, lie about it, get a policy then the company can refuse to pay for all related issues, but if you cut your finger off with a handsaw, they would have to pay for it (if it was originally covered)).

Indoctrination: New Jersey School Kids Instructed to Sing Praises to Barack Obama

If this happen under Bush, all the wackos would say Bush was trying to start a fascist nation.

Another fine example of brainwashing by the left.



if you cant make it out - here is a version with subtitles



and just for fun an example of the Hitler youth

Is Amtrak at risk?

Still Handling Homeland Security With a 9/10 Attitude

"Amtrak confirmed to me last week that the elite members of the specialized OSSSO no longer carry long-arm weapons, which played a vital role in the unit's show-of-force patrols. Government sources blame anti-gun hostility inside Amtrak for the move. Amtrak also confirmed to me that West Coast members of the rail security unit — most of whom come from Special Forces, counterterrorism and other military service — have been denied police credentials. According to OSSSO sources on both coasts, the rival Amtrak Police Department, in conjunction with the local police union in California, have stymied the process over labor issues (OSSSO members are non-union)."

"Says my rail security source: "The deciding factor is overtime, not security.""

Is this why AARP support the health care plan?

GOP Report Charges AARP Getting "Kickbacks" In Dem Health Care Bills

"Today, House Republicans have issued a report providing evidence that AARP is in a position to recieve tens of millions of dollars in "kickbacks" if Democratic health care legislation becomes law. "


"If the House Democrats health care bill becomes law, the report argues, it would be a boon to AARP, because while Medicare Advantage plans will be required to pay out 85 percent of the money collected in premiums to claims made by policy holders, the requirement would only be 65 percent for the kind of Medigap policies sold by AARP. "

Obama Admin Suppresses Free Speech

Insurers Criticize Administration 'Gag Order'

"The federal government has ordered health insurers to stop telling Medicare beneficiaries that proposed health reform legislation could hurt seniors and jeopardize their benefits."

This is contrary to the First Amendment.

"Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate's Republican leader, denounced the HHS order as an attempt to squelch free speech."

Indoctrination of Children: Story of Stuff

Tides, one of Obama's associated groups, produced this to show to school children.
This is how the extreme-left is "brain-washing" children.

She states children are targeted with 3000 per day. 3000*30 seconds per ad /60 sec per min / 60 min per hour = 25 hours per day. Umm.. This is liberal logic.



Tides

Beck on Tides

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Insurance: The problem with the health care debate.

Insurance is meant to cover the unusual.

Your term life insurance, the insurance company takes some basic facts, your age and general health, figures the amount of people who will die in your category with the year and makes your premium accordingly. For example on a $100K policy if one out of 100,000 thousand die at age 35, they could charge you a dollar (plus cost, profits, etc.) If at age 55 one out of hundred die, they would need to charge $1000 (plus...). If at 99, where 99,999 out of a hundred thousand die, they would charge over $100,000 (because of costs, etc.)

When you buy car insurance, you pay an amount that takes in account accident potential (age, driving experience, where you live), theft and storm damage potential, and damage to others (medical bills, property damage). But your car insurance doesn't cover things oil changes, the gas you but in your car, washing and waxing your car, maintenance, new tires, etc.

Medical Insurance should be the same way, it should pay for the unusual, not the ordinary. Today most people don't pay for anything or pay a small co-pay or 20% of the bill. If you go to the doctor most of the cost is covered by the insurance company, so people have no incentive to do price shopping, even if they could.

What they need to do is have a doctors/hospitals have a standard price list that can be compared.

Some people think that the medical system can not be abused, who would go to hospital for cancer treatment if they didn't have cancer. see http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/01/0401er.html

Some would abuse the system to get attention, maybe a bed for the night or some food and drugs. If you know you can get an operation for free maybe you don't make life-style changes: drink less alcohol, quit smoking, exercise, etc. Maybe you get viagra for recreation use. Maybe when you get a headache, instead of taking two aspirins and go to bed, you go to emergency room for a CAT scan. Instead of buying a walker, you get the motorized scooter. Instead of taking the recondition pace-maker you demand only the latest and greatest.

Don't Believe the Dictionary: Obama on Taxes

Obama Goes Toe-To-Toe With Stephanopoulos On "Tax Increases"

John Stossel: Insurance Makes Healthcare Far More Expensive

Hannity: The President's People

Tree of Revolution

Beck connects some of the dots:







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Glenn Beck: "What is Nancy Pelosi afraid of?" - 9/18/2009

World Shortest Fairy Tales

Saw on the internet

THE WORLD'S SHORTEST FAIRY TALE
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!" And the guy lived happily ever after and went fishing, hunting and played golf a lot and drank beer and farted whenever he wanted.
THE END

Ginger wrote her own:

Th World's Shortest Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl, "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!" And the girl lived happily ever after and had intelligent conversations with her friends instead of having to feign interest in ice fishing and car engines, spent money on lavish, spectacular vacations and none on shotgun shells or fishing bait, got to go home and read after a movie date instead of having to listen to some half-educated ape give his malformed opinion on the plot, had nights of dancing and cocktail parties with nobody to apologize to because there was only cheese and crackers for supper.
The End

The John Adams Project:: Putting CIA Agents in Danger

More on ACORN

House Prohibits Federal Money to Acorn

"The House voted Thursday to deny any federal money to the nationwide community organizing group Acorn, and the Senate reaffirmed its opposition as well after embarrassing videos of a few of the group’s workers became public."

for more info and tapes see http://biggovernment.com/

Part II: Regulatory Czar

Here he goes into the meat of the argument.

More on Cass Sunstein - The Regulator Czar

Embattled ACORN orders independent investigation

Embattled ACORN orders independent investigation

"An advocacy group under fire after employees were caught on camera appearing to advise a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the woman's profession to get housing help said Wednesday it is ordering an independent investigation.
The group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, said it is refusing new admissions into its service programs."

Obama and Acorn

Obama and Acorn

I suggest you read the whole article.

"Good Help Is Hard to Find
Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck also aired the San Bernardino Acorn tapes last night, and in introducing them, he made an excellent point:

[America, ask yourself this question. Either ACORN has the most corrupt hiring practices, lowest standards or you just can't find anyone in the inner city that's a decent human being.
Now, I don't believe that one. I don't think ACORN wants to make that case. Really? Well, that's the case you'd better make, ACORN.]

But the previous day, National Public Radio's Frank James had offered precisely that excuse:

[It's also important to keep in mind that ACORN's workers are coming from the same low-income neighborhoods the organization serves, with all that entails--poor schools, high crime and the sorts of social problems that have been documented for decades.
So the flaws conservatives are pointing out about ACORN are not so much problems associated with that organization per se but more about the problems of being poor and minority in urban America.]
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Glenn Beck on Mark Lloyd & Cass Sunstein

Regulation Czar Cass Sunstein

Cuban Health Care: A different View

Yosi Sergant and NEA

Glenn Beck on the war path gets NEA's Yosi Sergant reassigned





Has a Figure From the National Endowment for the Arts Been Asked to Resign?

More Acorn Offices Caught

ACORN scandal growing, third video made public

"The hits just keep coming for ACORN. Last week two undercover videos surfaced showing ACORN employees giving advice on how to avoid paying taxes and start up a prostitution ring with underage girls illegally smuggled into the U.S. This morning a third video was made public."

"In the video the pair specifically say they wish to open a brothel. They also say in no uncertain terms that Giles began "working" as a prostitute at age 13, and that they will be importing 13 underage girls from El Salvador. They say the girls are under 16 years old. The ACORN employess in the video freely offer advice on how to skirt the law, and don't even blink when the undercover duo mention the ages of the girls they will be employing."

"This morning the third video was made public showing ACORN giving the same advice in their New York City office."

"This scandal comes on the heels of the arrest of 11 ACORN employees on voter registration charges. The group is also under investigation in more than a dozen states."


"ACORN is slated to receive $8.5 billion in stimulus money and was one of the organizations chosen to gather information for the 2010 census. The U.S. Census Bureau broke ties with the activist group last week when the first videos surfaced."

Who's Health Care Ranking

WHO's Fooling Who?

Why the U.S. is not worse than Costa Rica.

For example, say someone is shot in stomach. If, for example, in Country A, he waits for 12 hours to see a doctor, they look at the person, say he is going to die, give him some pain killers and let him die. But in country B, they see him right away, they give him pain killers, blood transfusions, x-rays, have a team operate on him for 5 hours, spends 5 days in post-op, given antibiotics, etc. but the guy dies anyway. Which Country has the better medical system?

According to the WHO study, Country A, because they spend less with the same result. Who do you think is has the better medical system?

ACORN at Work.

ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS

"The "pimp" later says that he and "Kenya" plan to bring up to 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador to work as prostitutes. Although an ACORN staffer points out their plans are illegal, she also suggests that the girls can be claimed as dependents."

Palin on Health Care

You can follow Palin on Facebook.
I thought it was interesting.

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Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care by Sarah Palin

Yesterday at 7:34pm
The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.

By SARAH PALIN

Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans "talk with one another, and not over one another" as our health-care debate moves forward.

I couldn't agree more. Let's engage the other side's arguments, and let's allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats' health-care proposals should become governing law.

Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that "no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds." Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

We also know that our current health-care system too often burdens individuals and businesses—particularly small businesses—with crippling expenses. And we know that allowing government health-care spending to continue at current rates will only add to our ever-expanding deficit.

How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. And common sense tells us to be skeptical when President Obama promises that the Democrats' proposals "will provide more stability and security to every American."

With all due respect, Americans are used to this kind of sweeping promise from Washington. And we know from long experience that it's a promise Washington can't keep.

Let's talk about specifics. In his Times op-ed, the president argues that the Democrats' proposals "will finally bring skyrocketing health-care costs under control" by "cutting . . . waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies . . . ."

First, ask yourself whether the government that brought us such "waste and inefficiency" and "unwarranted subsidies" in the first place can be believed when it says that this time it will get things right. The nonpartistan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't think so: Its director, Douglas Elmendorf, told the Senate Budget Committee in July that "in the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount."

Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He's asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ."

Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans. Working through "normal political channels," they made themselves heard, and as a result Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context. But the fact remains that the Democrats' proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters. Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration.

Speaking of government overreaching, how will the Democrats' proposals affect the deficit? The CBO estimates that the current House proposal not only won't reduce the deficit but will actually increase it by $239 billion over 10 years. Only in Washington could a plan that adds hundreds of billions to the deficit be hailed as a cost-cutting measure.

The economic effects won't be limited to abstract deficit numbers; they'll reach the wallets of everyday Americans. Should the Democrats' proposals expand health-care coverage while failing to curb health-care inflation rates, smaller paychecks will result. A new study for Watson Wyatt Worldwide by Steven Nyce and Syl Schieber concludes that if the government expands health-care coverage while health-care inflation continues to rise "the higher costs would drive disposable wages downward across most of the earnings spectrum, although the declines would be steepest for lower-earning workers." Lower wages are the last thing Americans need in these difficult economic times.

Finally, President Obama argues in his op-ed that Democrats' proposals "will provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable." Of course consumer protection sounds like a good idea. And it's true that insurance companies can be unaccountable and unresponsive institutions—much like the federal government. That similarity makes this shift in focus seem like nothing more than an attempt to deflect attention away from the details of the Democrats' proposals—proposals that will increase our deficit, decrease our paychecks, and increase the power of unaccountable government technocrats.

Instead of poll-driven "solutions," let's talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include giving all individuals the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage; reforming tort laws to potentially save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.

Democrats have never seriously considered such ideas, instead rushing through their own controversial proposals. After all, they don't need Republicans to sign on: Democrats control the House, the Senate and the presidency. But if passed, the Democrats' proposals will significantly alter a large sector of our economy. They will not improve our health care. They will not save us money. And, despite what the president says, they will not "provide more stability and security to every American."

We often hear such overblown promises from Washington. With first principles in mind and with the facts in hand, tell them that this time we're not buying it.

The People Speak: Van Jones Resigns

Van Jones, who called Republicans a**-holes and signed a petition that said the government let 9/11 happen, was forced out by the protests from the people. Maybe Congress will be brave and do their duty and investigate all the Czars.

We The People Stimulus Package

from a friend:

Meet Your Czar: Green Czar Van Jones

Still believe in this Congress?

Stimulus Checks Mistakenly Sent to 1,700 Inmates, Federal Agency Says

"The federal government mistakenly sent out stimulus checks to 1,700 inmates, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday -- a $425,000 error. "


Dead People Being Sent Stimulus Checks

"Thousands of Americans are receiving federal stimulus checks in the mail, this week. Only problem: many of them are deceased."

"That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars."

I Can't Believe He Did That

Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling

So why are we borrowing money from China to give to Brazil so they can drill oil for China?

"The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan."


Guess who owns a big portion of Petrobras: George Soros.

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"Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding. "

Looks like Soros's investment in Obama has paid off.

Proposal on Health Care.

We know that a lot of stuff is added or change when a bill is reconciled between the House and the Senate. My proposal is that before the final bill is voted on the public is given 30 days to read the bill.

That a document would be prepare to explain the bill in terms we can understand. If the bill says, "change line 21 in Law X from 500,000 to 2 million", that the document would say, it means giving Corporation Z a tax right-off of 2 million versus 500,000 for doing Y.

And that when any further changes are made, and additional 14 days are given for public comment.

What Would Jesus Do? and Lilly Ledbetter

Many liberals and socialist proclaim they are followers of Jesus yet ignore his teachings. Below is passage on which someone had a different interpretation than I.

Take the Lilly Ledbetter law which is to resolve unequal pay. Lilly agreed to certain wage, and after learning others were paid more, wanted more. This is in contradiction of this parable. The socialist or liberal would require equal wages, forcing the owner to either pay more than he could afford to the first worker or being less generous to the last.

Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16

1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place; 4 and to them he said, `You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. 5 Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, `Why do you stand here idle all day?' 7 They said to him, `Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, `You go into the vineyard too.' 8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, `Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.' 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder, 12 saying, `These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' 13 But he replied to one of them, `Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' 16 So the last will be first, and the first last."

Does he even know what he is saying?

Obama: "Every time was are in sight of health insurance reform, the special interest fight back with everything they got. They use their influence, they run their ads. And their political allies try to scare the heck out of everybody. We can't let them do that again."

The special interest, the drug companies, are running ads on TV (Harry and Louise) supporting reform. While most people with insurance are happy with their insurance plan, they are trying to scare people in a radical reform.

They say can "save" 60% of the increase expected cost by eliminating fraud and waste. If it was so easy, why hasn't it been before now?

They say 45.7 million (2007) do not have insurance. 9.7 million were not citizens.

An "estimated that about 14 million of the uninsured were eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP" link

"In addition, some of the 46 million could theoretically afford health coverage, but chose not to purchase any. In 2007, 17.6 million of the uninsured had annual incomes of more than $50,000 and 9.1 million earned more than $75,000. "

"The Census figures also show that 18.3 million of the uninsured were under 34. Some in this age group may have simply determined that they are young and healthy and thus can do without coverage. "

Will this be the future of government care?

Death Drugs Cause Uproar in Oregon

"The 64-year-old Oregon woman, whose lung cancer had been in remission, learned the disease had returned and would likely kill her. Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.

What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50. "

Are We Moving towards Communism?

The White House now wants people to inform them of people's casual conversations. Shades of Soviet Communism and the Nazis.

"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."


one link of many

The government is using the taxpayers money to buy the votes of the lower classes. Now it is starting "snitching" efforts. They pass bills they don't read and too fast so the people cant complain/inform their representatives in time. Are we quickly being transformed into a Communist nation?

A Dictator in Action: Chavez closes 34 Radio Stations

Chavez Closes 34 Radio Stations

Venezuelan TV station is stormed by supporters of Hugo Chavez

"The raid came amid a government crackdown on critics of Chavez's socialist revolution, a campaign which human rights groups have condemned as an attack on free speech. In recent days the government has revoked the licences of dozens of radio stations and proposed a law which would jail people deemed guilty of "media crimes" for up to four years."

Watch: Pete Sessions

Pete Sessions's blimp flies into storm

"Rep. Pete Sessions — the chief of the Republicans’ campaign arm in the House — says on his website that earmarks have become “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.”

"Yet in 2008, Sessions himself steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research to an Illinois company whose president acknowledges having no experience in government contracting, let alone in building blimps."

"What the company did have: the help of Adrian Plesha, a former Sessions aide with a criminal record who has made more than $446,000 lobbying on its behalf."

Former Global Warmist Changes Mind

http://talkingabouttheweather.com/

Organic food is no healthier, study finds

Organic food is no healthier, study finds

"Analysis of 162 papers finds no nutritional benefits"

"A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance," said Alan Dangour, one of the report's authors."

Check your lawyer's degree.

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said , 'Where am I , Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No , I just lie there.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis , does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget..
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
____________ _________ _________ _________ ____

ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do..
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes , voodoo.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: Now doctor , isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep , he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________ _________ _________ ______

ATTORNEY: The youngest son , the 20-year-old , how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20 , much like your IQ.
____________ _________ _________ _________ ____

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
____________ _________ _________ _________ __

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: She had three children , right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor , I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death..
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
____________ _________ _________ _______

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No , this is how I dress when I go to work.
____________ _________ _________ ________

ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them.. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
____________ _________ _________ _________ __

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral , OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral..
____________ _________ _________ _________ __

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not , he was by the time I finished.
____________ _________ _________ _________ _____

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?
____________ _________ _________ ________

And last:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No..
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

Thomas Schelling on Global Warming

An Interview With Thomas Schelling, Part Two

"It's a tough sell. And probably you have to find ways to exaggerate the threat. "

"I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening -- you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth -- that would get people very concerned about climate change. But I don't think that's going to happen."


"Schelling has been involved in the global warming debate since chairing a commission for President Carter in 1980." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling

Why is this guy the "Science Czar"?

Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions

The three authors summarize their guiding principle in a single sentence: "To provide a high quality of life for all, there must be fewer people."

"The 1,000-page course book, which was co-written with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discusses and in one passage seems to advocate totalitarian measures to curb population growth, which it says could cause an environmental catastrophe."

"To help achieve those goals, they formulate a "world government scheme" they call the Planetary Regime, which would administer the world's resources and human growth, and they discuss the development of an "armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force" to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty."
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"Vitter grilled Holdren during the hearing, asking him to clear up his 1986 prediction that global warming was going to kill about 1 billion people by 2020.

"You would still say," Vitter asked, "that 1 billion people lost by 2020 is still a possibility?"

"It is a possibility, and one we should work energetically to avoid," Holdren replied."

Palin on Cap and Trade

Washington Post

Quote of the day:

"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.

So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit."

I Can't Believe He Said That

Vice President Joe Biden: "Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?' The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you."

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Why is the little girl crying?

Is it because she is the only one that can see the little boy?

Enlarge photo and look between knees of girls 2 and 3 from the left (below purse). A ghostly face.

Think Canadian Medical Coverage is Good?

Watch this: link

Undercover vid.

It can take 3 years to get a family doctor.

Watch Out For This Scam!

Police say that the gang usually is comprised of four members, one adult and three younger ones. While the three younger ones, all appearing sweet and innocent, divert their "mark" (or intended target) with a show of friendliness, the fourth - the eldest - sneaks in from behind the person's back to expertly rifle through his or her pocket or purse for any valuables.

Be on the alert!





This is being called the "AFLAC Scam."
(I thought you could use a smile.)

Media Bias Mea Culpa

Reporter admits media bias against Palin.

Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press

A good article with many examples from other journalists.

Some quotes:

"But the true villains in this political morality play may have been the press."
"Our journalism model is busted, too."
"In the 2008 election, we took sides, straight and simple, particularly with regard to the vice presidential race."
"What I am saying is that we simply didn't hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession."
"From the beginning, and for the ensuing 10 months, the coverage of this governor consisted of a steamy stew of cultural elitism and partisanship."
"Women columnists turned on Sarah Palin rather quickly. A plain-speaking, moose-hunting, Bible-thumping, pro-life, self-described "hockey mom" with five children and movie star looks with only a passing interest in foreign policy -- that wasn't the woman journalism's reigning feminists had envisioned for the glass ceiling-breaking role of First Female President (or Vice President). Hillary Rodham Clinton was more like what they had in mind – and Sarah, well, she was the un-Hillary."

"The first thing reporters and commentators seemed to have noticed about Gov. Palin was her physical beauty. The second was that she had a bunch of kids, the last one born with Down's syndrome in spring 2008. For some reason, these two facts infuriated many Democratic activists and bloggers – and some liberal journalists."

"This proved a harbinger, too, as misinformation slipped easily from the left blogosphere into mainstream coverage."

"The Times, for example, which found the alleged transgressions of an actual presidential candidate (John Edwards) unworthy of investigation, managed to find room for three Page One stories touching on the sex life of a vice presidential candidate's daughter."

Cash for Clunkers ???

Ok, the government wants you to get rid your old car and wants you to get a new more fuel efficient new car. Ok, skipping the fuel costs in building and transporting a new car, how much is saved.

Say you have two cars, one getting 18 mpg and the other 12 mpg. And you buy a new car with 22 mpg.

At 4 mpg savings, the new car will use 101.01 gallons less per 10,000 miles. At 10 mpg savings, the new car will use 379.78 gallons less per 10,000 miles. If the old car would have lasted 10K miles, it would have cost the taxpayers, $34.65 per gallon saved at 4 mpg, or $11.88 at 10 mpg more efficient. If the old car had stay on the road for 100K miles, at 4 mpg less efficient it would have used 1010 more gallons of gas or $3.465 cost per gallon for the taxpayers, or 3787 gallons saved at a cost of $1.188 per gallon saved at 10 mpg efficiency.

Best case: Currently getting 10 mpg, buy a car with 45 mpg. That would by save 777.77 gallons by 10K miles. Or costing the taxpayer $5.78 per gallon at 10K, or $0.58 per gallon for 100K miles.

If it is a clunker, how many more miles would you get? How much is this worth?

A discouraging word?

It may be my imagination, but I think I am beginning to hear a discouraging word from the three major networks (ABC,CBS and NBC) nightly news. The question is, is because Obama has gone to far left or not enough?

Earth Cooling .74F

Earth's 'Fever' Breaks! Global temperatures 'have plunged .74°F since Gore released An Inconvenient Truth'

"the Earth has cooled .74°F since former Vice President Al Gore released "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006."

Global Temperatures drop .39 C since Gore.

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Did Palin resignation doom further political office?

I question those who believed she doomed a further run for the Presidency. Yes, she may be viewed as a quitter. But if McCain had won in November she would of quit then. Secondly, did not Obama and Biden "quit" their jobs as Senators?

Would a year and half more in the Governor do her more good? Those who dismissed Alaska as a small state before would not have been impressed if she had 2 full terms. Already she has done more than Obama had done when he ran for the Presidency.

Of course, she may just want to play with a role like Newt Gingrich, providing support other candidates in their campaigns.

The biggest clue to her future is the need of her opponents to still try knock her down. If she wasn't a further threat, they would just leave her alone. No, they are afraid of combining her popularity with the growing TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement. A populist charismatic conservative female frightens the liberal "Women's Movement".

My prediction, should Cap and Trade pass this year, the effects on job losses and higher bills will be noticeable by 2011. If global temperature continue to decline despite China building a new coal plant a week and India's increasing C02 output, Palin will be good position for a run.

Why Palin's Resignation Make Sense.

As I started to write this, I have decided that Palin has made an excellent decision.

If she is being blocked in Alaska government with spurious ethics charges (15-0) and her opponents will prevent her agenda from succeeding, then staying on an additional year and a half would do her no good nor the state any good. If she did not plan to run for another term leaving now gives her successor (which I assume she believes will follow the same agenda as hers) will give him a better chance in winning the next election.

If she is spending 80% her time fighting ethics charges, and it is costing the State millions to investigate and her family $500K to fight, then it makes little sense to continue on. Her opponents will say she quit because of this and of course it will make a great 30 second ad. Had she wished just to remain the governor for another term, it would have shown politically weakness. But if she already decided not to seek another term, then it makes sense to leave now.

If pundits are right, she can make $50K to $100K a speech. These could help pay-off her legal defense bills. Leaving also limits the amount of new spurious ethics charges. If she plans to run for President, then she can build the funds necessary for a run. Giving the current situation, remaining as Governor just hamstrings her. She will now be able to freely leave the state and campaign for others.

It also allows her to spend more time with her family. Something that must be appreciated if she does run for President (2 years running, 8 years governing).

I suspect that the building of the Alaskan gas pipeline through Canada will have started by 2014. This will give her a big boost for a 2016 election bid. Six years of campaigning on a national level could give her a strong base.

It is also possible that the Democrats will mess things up so bad that Obama will be seen as defeat-able in 2012. If she campaigns for congressional candidates in 2010 and has an impact on the races, she could be in great position for 2012.

On the health care bill.

The Democrats are saying 46 million Americans are uninsured. This implies they are not getting health care now. So if they become insured, but there are no additional doctors, nurses, etc., does that not imply that there will be longer waiting times?

If the government offers a plan that pays doctors, nurses, hospitals less will there be more people becoming doctors and nurses or building hospitals?

Kennedy, Dodd unveil trimmer Senate healthcare bill

"Americans who refuse to buy medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a healthcare overhaul bill unveiled yesterday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Obama’s top domestic priority."

Is it fair to charge a healthy adult who doesn't feel he needs insurance, maybe making minimum wage, a fine so others (maybe an illegal alien) can get insurance?

Helen Thomas Lays Into Gibbs

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"CBS News White House Correspondent Chip Reid – along with columnist Helen Thomas – got into a contentious back-and-forth with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at Gibbs' daily briefing yesterday.

The topic? The questions being asked at yesterday's health care "online town hall," which were submitted by the public but selected by the White House. Reid also brought up the fact that the audience was selected by the White House and the college where the event was held. "

Why the economy will continue to stall.

Looking for a recovering economy in the next few months? Don't bet on it.

First, there are the bond investors, with the takeover of the banks, Chrysler and General Motors by the government, do not expect many to buy bonds from any company that may become a target of the government.

Second, government debt. With the increase of government debt, do not expect any company to borrowing money with short term debt. If the economy recovers, most experts believe interest rates will skyrocket. Therefore, any company borrowing money for expansion would be wise to borrow in such a manner as to not expose them to borrowing money at a cost they couldn't repay. Therefore, companies will be shy to expand on borrowed funds.

Third, cap-and-trade. Cap and trade, if passed, will increase electricity costs. India has already said it will not impose C02 restrictions. China is also not likely too. So if a company is going to expand, if it can, it will expand to those countries. Thus reducing jobs in the U.S. and delaying or reducing any recovery.

Science losing to politics.

The black-listing has already begun. We are entering a dark period for the truth.

Warmists deny Copenhagen access to polar bear scientist

"But one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week’s meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with the views of the rest of the group."

"Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching into the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined."

Suppressed EPA document on global warming

CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

actual document


EPA plays hide and seek; suppressed report revealed

EPA Suppresses Dissent on Global Warming

EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming

Where is the outrage that was present when the mirror-opposite happened in the Bush administration?

"Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."

"The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message to a staff researcher on March 17: "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."

"Alan Carlin, the primary author of the 98-page EPA report, told CBSNews.com in a telephone interview on Friday that his boss, McGartland, was being pressured himself. "It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on something else," Carlin said. "That was obviously coming from higher levels." "


"Carlin's report listed a number of recent developments he said the EPA did not consider, including that global temperatures have declined for 11 years; that new research predicts Atlantic hurricanes will be unaffected; that there's "little evidence" that Greenland is shedding ice at expected levels; and that solar radiation has the largest single effect on the earth's temperature. "


"The revelations could prove embarrassing to Jackson, the EPA administrator, who said in January: "I will ensure EPA’s efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and programs, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency." Similarly, Mr. Obama claimed that "the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over... To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. It is contrary to our way of life."

"All this talk from the president and (EPA administrator) Lisa Jackson about integrity, transparency, and increased EPA protection for whistleblowers -- you've got a bouquet of ironies here," said Kazman, the CEI attorney. "

Global Warming Update: Weather Forecasting

He is a guy who claims to make accurate forecast up to 12 months ahead of time.

He believes we are in a cooling session until 2013.

" If I'm to believe Corbyn, his scrawls represent something conventional science says cannot exist: a detailed weather forecast that reaches nearly a year into the future. "

"the 11 months' worth of scribbled forecasts he shows me were made using a proprietary method he says correlates solar activity with weather on Earth. But to forecast that far ahead would mean foretelling the movement of inherently chaotic weather systems, and that, contend his detractors, defies the laws of physics. "

"Corbyn bets on his forecasts. Unusual among bettors of any stripe, he wins regularly. The check on the wall is a payout from London bookmaker William Hill on one of their monthly bets. "

"Corbyn's conviction that the sun's behavior is the driving force behind earthly weather patterns is linked to another deeply held belief: The sun and radiation from outer space play a far more important role than the burning of fossil fuels in any global warming that might be taking place. The purveyors of the principal theory of global warming, he says, have sold the world a bill of goods. "If you piss in a lake, the level will go up," says Corbyn. "But it wouldn't be an important factor. [Human contribution to carbon dioxide levels] is not as minuscule as that, but it's not important."



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Proposal for Medical Insurance.

Each person would be given up to $5000 tax credit. Thus a family of four would be given up to a $20,0000 tax credit.

To pay for deductibles, medicine, eye care, dentistry, etc, a separate health care account can be established. This account would carry over from year to year. Funds can be transferred to other health accounts. Any money left over after death would go to a government health care account.

So if a married couple with two children buys insurance for $11,000 a year, they would be able to tax $11,000 off their taxes. They could then add an additional $9,000 to their health care accounts.

This would provide an incentive to shop around for insurance so that savings can be added to the health care account.


Any company supplied insurance would count as ordinary income.

If the tax credit exceeds the amount of taxes paid, the additional amount would go the the health care account.

Example. John Doe pay no federal income taxes. He pays $300 a month to Blue Cross, for $3600 a year. He would get back from the federal government $3600, plus $1400 would be added to his health care account.

Example: Jane Smith has a husband and two kids. Her company pays $22,000 a year for her insurance. Jane's income would go up $2000, ($22,000 - 4*$5000). At a 30% tax rate, Jane would pay $600 more in taxes.


Population of United States is under 310 Million. So that would be $1.550 trillion per year max cost.