Saturday, September 03, 2011

Unexpected Detour: Marine One Forced to Land

In a highly unusual maneuver, President Obama’s 30 minute flight to the Presidential mountain retreat at Camp David this afternoon was diverted to an undisclosed landing near Frederick, Maryland and a motorcade assembled to drive him to the nearby site. White House press secretary Jay Carney tells ABC News a “bad weather call” was made before the President and his younger daughter Sasha even boarded the aircraft.

Carney says they have now arrived safely at Camp David. It remains unexplained why the President would be allowed to board Marine One knowing that the landing site on the mountain was experiencing weather making a landing difficult.

Friday, September 02, 2011

Obama admits his regulatory agenda is killing jobs | Campaign 2012

Why would he recommend them? Because he hasn't got a CLUE what it means to run a business....JEEZ....

C. Boyden Gray, White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush, was not surprised by Obama's retreat. "I don't know why they proposed them in the first place. The normal five year review does not come up for another year and a half. The standards they were proposing would have operated as a quasi-construction ban in most urban areas. It just didn't make any sense." The Bush EPA last finalized the current ozone standards in 2008. The EPA is not required to review them until 2013.

Cheney: 'Honored to be compared to Darth Vader'

Talk show radio host Laura Ingraham opened her show this morning with the Darth Vader theme song to introduce former Vice-President Dick Cheney recalling the nickname given to Cheney by the left.

"I always had a soft spot for Darth Vader," said Ingraham as she began her interview, "He was the most interesting person, other than Chewbacca in the Star Wars series. . . c'mon."

"I love the music and Star Wars reference," Cheney responded, "I was honored to be compared to Darth Vader."

They're All in This Together...

Asked during the 2008 presidential campaign about his relationship with the left-wing radical Bill Ayers, Barack Obama replied that Ayers was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood." He implied that to even bring that questionable relationship out of the shadows was a mean-spirited, guilt-by-association political tactic. Ayers, Obama went on, had done something deplorable "forty years ago when I was six or seven years old."

If We Let the Government Take Our Guns, We’ll Have to Run and Hide Like Londoners

When England banned the private ownership of handguns within its borders, I remember the National Rifle Association (NRA) airing videos of steamrollers rolling over mounds of confiscated weapons and crushing them to bits. I remember seeing videos of containers full of guns – handguns and long guns – being placed in large compactors where they too were crushed beyond recognition.

The NRA’s message was simple: Elect people to Congress and the Senate who are anti-gun and it won’t be long till they’re steamrolling your father’s shotgun or your .38 revolver or your buddy’s Colt .45.

And the NRA warned that once that happened, emboldened criminals would come into our homes and businesses without hesitation: for they’d know that we, as a disarmed citizenry, have no way to turn them back.

Maxine Waters Calls Banks ‘Gangsters’ and Says Government Will Tax Them Out of Existence

So nice to know our elected officials aren't in anyway abusing their PEOPLE GRANTED powers and/or not adhering to the letter of the law...

While speaking at a Los Angeles Town Hall event recently, Rep. Maxine Waters introduced an interesting idea when it comes to banks and loan modification. According to her, it’s up to the federal government to make sure people can afford their mortgages. So much so that it’s time the president “bring the gangsters in, put them around the table, and let them know that if they don’t come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes, that they’ve worked so hard for, we’re gonna tax them out of business.”

Poland: Vandals Desecrate Holocaust Memorial at Jedwabne — Site Where Hundreds of Jews Burned Alive

"They were flammable"....what kind of mind can even think that for a second...?

Vandals desecrated a monument marking the spot in Poland where hundreds of Jews were burned alive during World War II, scrawling “they were flammable” and a swastika on the memorial.

The government, Poland’s Jewish community and Holocaust survivors on Thursday all strongly condemned the attack on the site, one of the most notorious cases in which local people collaborated with the Nazis in killing Jews during the German wartime occupation of much of Eastern Europe.

Obama halts controversial EPA regulation

Maybe he is FINALLY seeing everything he does is a JOB KILLER! However....for every Regulation he stops...they sneak a boatload through the back door....

President Barack Obama is directing his administration to withdraw a controversial proposed regulation updating government smog standards.

The withdrawal comes two days after the White House identified seven proposed regulations that would cost the economy at least $1 billion each. The proposed updated smog standard was estimated to cost anywhere between $19 billion and $90 billion, depending on how strict the standard would be.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

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Carney Explains Obama Job Speech

I DO wonder how much he is paid to lie to the American People...I hope it's alot, cause he's given up his soul for these guys......

This morning on MSNBC, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gave an after-action report on the White House’s side of the story and brushed off any notion that the speech scheduling decision was a petty partisan stunt. Carney said of the White House’s decision:

Gibson CEO Says Feds Told Him Problems Could be Avoided with Madagascar Outsourcing - Oh Hell, why not?

The tale of the Gibson guitar raid — the one focused on the legendary guitar maker’s alleged importation and use of illegal wood — has taken an odd turn. Now CEO Henry Juszkiewicz is claiming the Feds told him that some of his problems “would go away” if the company used Madagascar labor.

In an interview with Beck radio affiliate KMJ 105.9 in Fresno, California, Juszkiewicz told host Chris Daniel that the government made the point “explicitly:”

The Essential Question in Any Political Debate - Alexander's Essays

The most vital debate of the 2012 political cycle, indeed the essential question in any political debate, is one that you will not hear much about unless you are represented by one of the authentic conservatives who have carried the banner of the Reagan Revolution into the 21st century, or you are represented by one of those much-maligned Tea Party "radicals."

Screw Up, Move Up, Cover Up: The Fast and Furious Edition

There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a "rubber room."

That's the nickname for taxpayer-subsidized holding pens, such as the ones in the New York City public schools, where crooked employees are separated from the system and paid to do nothing. Perhaps the White House can stimulate a few construction jobs by adding an entire rubber room annex for "reassigned" scandal bureaucrats at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's getting mighty crowded.

ObamaCare and the Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

In the glossy pages of The New Yorker, in graceful prose and with good reporting, the dreams and nightmares of the admirers of Barack Obama and his policies lie exposed.

The dreams include Ryan Lizza​'s report last April in which he quoted an Obama adviser as saying the president's policy on Libya was "leading from behind." This week, as Tripoli seemed about to fall, the magazine's editor, David Remnick​, hailed Obama's "calculated modesty."

The nightmare appears in last week's issue, in Jeffrey Toobin's lengthy article on Supreme Court jurisprudence, titled "Partners" and subtitled "Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obama's health-care plan?"

From Battlefront to Boardroom - Karl Rove

Leaders in commerce and warfare share a common vocabulary—words like strategy, tactics, dominance, conflict and victory. Success in the military provides young people with leadership and management experience that can contribute to success in business. But the transition from waging war to conducting commerce is not always easy.

Fortunately for over 1,500 veterans of America's recent conflicts, banker Sid Goodfriend felt after the attacks of 9/11 an ever-increasing debt to the young men and women he saw protecting our country in time of peril. So after a quarter-century on Wall Street, Mr. Goodfriend retired and in 2007 started repaying that debt.

Terrorist credits Hollywood for his recruitment

A Balkan Muslim who killed two U.S. Air Force servicemen in March has told a German judge Wednesday that he was motivated after seeing the movie “Redacted,” which was made as a political statement in 2007 by Hollywood director Brian De Palma, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and several high-profile movie industry producers.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis - Protect All Worders ....especially "Illegal"...

Can you spell "AMNESTY"...???!!!

At a Wednesday breakfast event, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis defended her agreements with Mexico and other countries to apply U.S. labor protections to illegal immigrants.

“I protect all workers here in this country,” she told The Daily Caller at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor. “I have a vested interest in protecting all workers that work here in the U.S. Period.”

Oversight Committee - US Postal Service ...tick...tick...tick....Default Countdown ...another Too Big To Fail...?!?

U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has said that the United States Postal Service will default on its obligations to the federal government on September 30, at the end of the current fiscal year.

Now the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has launched SavingThePostalService.com to educate the public about the Postal Service’s financial troubles and some possible solutions. The Postal Service lost $8.5 billion in the last fiscal year. (RELATED: Issa spokesman: NYT burying Fast and Furious story shows bias)

'God told us to come' - Glenn Beck's show in Jerusalem

Beck cries out "Lo Ira" (Hebrew for "I shall not fear"). He explains that these words were spoken by every Jew as he endured hardships throughout history – from the bible, through the Holocaust to the present day. He asks his followers to join an international movement he is about to establish and speaks of the obstacles ahead. "The last threat on my life took place about five minutes ago," he proclaims.



I doubt it as I look around and notice the heavy security presence. But his thundering voice takes over my cynical thoughts. "Lo Ira!"

A disaster called Obama ... Ya think?!

Barack Obama is solidifying his status as the worst president in American history. The leader who promised us a bright future of peace and fraternity is leading the American empire – and the rest of the world with it – into a dark abyss. Ever since he settled into the Oval Office, Obama has been hopping from one disaster to the next, making every possible mistake, boosting enemies and disregarding allies while ruining everything he touches in the process. To our regret, the heaviest price – for the time being at least – is being paid by residents of the Middle East.

Big Labor vs. Taxpayers ...who wins?

Betting if I hit the button here - Massachusetts is going to curry Number 1 favor with Big Union.....

Until recently, union bosses—not elected representatives—have been in control of the government employee compensation process. Using taxpayer dollars they obtain through mandatory dues, they elect the management they later negotiate with. However, across the country in states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan, taxpayers are fighting back and the tide of Big Labor control is starting to change.

Now there is a new online tool to give taxpayers and policy makers critical information on which states favor Big Labor. The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Crossroads GPS recently launched a “Big Labor versus Taxpayer Index” that analyzes 1,150 labor laws and regulations throughout the country and exposes states that make coddling Big Labor a top priority.

California bill to fund college for illegal immigrants advances

This from a State about to drown in a sea of debt....will probably have to be bailed out by US because ...ya know...it's too big to fail....yet, they continue to fiddle while Rome burns....

The legislation would still need to pass the Assembly and be signed by Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, to become law.

Proponents acknowledge that illegal immigrants who attend college are still not able to find legal employment after graduation, but they say the bill could eventually help spur the federal government to grant those students citizenship.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Obama's solar stimulus snafu x 3!!!

I believe this is Solar Plant #3 to fail...at least two got Government funding....

President Obama made a high-profile visit in May 2010 to Solyndra Inc., a solar-panel manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif. The company received $535 million in loans from the Energy Department and was a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus effort. “Companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future,” Mr. Obama chirped. On Wednesday, Solyndra closed its corporate headquarters, announced that it’s filing for bankruptcy and laying off 1,100 workers.

Alaska's regulatory stranglehold

The oil-rich state has abundant resources waiting to be tapped. “We want to explore more. We have a lot more oil to find,” Mr. Parnell said. “But we have been stymied by the federal government.” In particular, the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are tying his hands. He pointed to the EPA dragging its feet for five years to grant permits for Arctic offshore drilling, while the same permits are routinely granted in a matter of months for the Gulf of Mexico.

'Too big to fail' is alive and well - Washington Times

Mr. Buffett's 50,000 preferred shares in the country’s largest bank will pay an amazing 6 percent annual dividend. It’s a great deal for the billionaire investor, but not for everyone else. Mr. Buffett will receive his money before any common stockholders get paid. With the rest of the market seeing interest rates that are effectively at zero percent, it’s worth asking why Bank of America was willing to pay Mr. Buffet such a handsome premium. If it’s because no one else was willing to provide funds, that’s a sign the bank is in serous trouble, not that it’s turning the corner.

Boehner to Obama on joint session date: No

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Finally! A decision with some stones!!!!!!

Speaker of the House John Boehner sent a letter back to President Obama regarding the president's request for a joint session of Congress on September 7. However, Mr. Boehner told the president that the date of September 7 would not be available and proposed September 8 instead. Below is an excerpt of the letter:

Study: Stimulus Funds Primarily Used to Poach Workers, Not Hire Unemployed

Hiring isn’t the same as net job creation. In our survey, just 42.1 percent of the workers hired at ARRA-receiving organizations after January 31, 2009, were unemployed at the time they were hired (Appendix C). More were hired directly from other organizations (47.3 percent of post-ARRA workers), while a handful came from school (6.5%) or from outside the labor force (4.1%)(Figure 2). Thus, there was an almost even split between “job creating” and “job switching.” This suggests just how hard it is for Keynesian job creation to work in a modern, expertise-based economy: even in a weak economy, organizations hired the employed about as often as the unemployed.

EEOC out of control....AGAIN....

And soon...it'll be the "Ugly".....

So let me break it down for you: while most folks think of the disabled as someone like a war veteran who is confined to a wheelchair because they sacrificed one or more limbs for their country, it also includes drunken yahoos careening down the interstate in an 18-wheeler.

Obama Calls For Extension Of Gas Tax To Fund Highway Construction, Repair

Ya wouldn't mind if any of this "tax" ever got spent on a road. Driving these days is close to a Survivor episode....and notice now it's always "we'll lose a million jobs"....always a million......

Though the president describes the proposal as a transportation bill, its key component is the federal gas tax, which has been 18.4 cents per gallon for nearly two decades. The money is used to fund road construction and repair, as well as other projects -- the tax costs Americans an average of $100 a year.

Obama schedules jobs speech on the same night as GOP debate

Classless amateur cheap shot.....bet ya NO national station reports it this way. ABC only said Boehner "Hadn't responded yet"....wouldn't it be nice if Boehner had the "you know what's" to say NO.....all this is is a "Gotcha"....not a jobs speech.

President Barack Obama will make his long-awaited speech about jobs Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress at the same time that the Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California.

Feds aim to block AT&T's T-Mobile purchase: The fallout

There go more "jobs"........

The Justice Department filed to block AT&T’s planned acquisition of T-Mobile and the news is going to shake up the wireless industry.

AT&T portrayed its acquisition of T-Mobile as a way to boost 4G services, build out its network, alleviate a wireless spectrum crunch and boost jobs. AT&T just Tuesday said it would repatriate 5,000 call center jobs to the U.S.

Father Slits Daughters Throats in Honor Killing After Raped by Ghaddafi Forces

What more can one say?

This “honor killing” is documented in a report by a Boston-based group called Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Sadly, this is just one of the horrific stories to emerge after PHR sent team members to Misrata back in June. Researchers interviewed 54 residents, then followed the discussions up with the report. Through its text, readers are exposed to stories about Libyan war crimes and violence. According to Bloomberg, the report reads:

Joe Scarborough doesn't like Rick Perry....makes me like him more!

The fact Joe Scarborough doesn't like Perry makes me just like Rick that much more!
Remember - we're from Massachusetts...there is no "Romney Miracle" here...there's just a disaster called "Romney-care"....
Come live under it and THEN tell me you are voting for Mitt......

Yesterday, after a 1993 letter from then-Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry commending then first lady Hillary Clinton and her efforts to reform health care surfaced, some Republicans are questioning 2012 presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s conservative credentials.

The letter and his support for Al Gore in 1988 have fueled Perry’s detractors who suggest the Texan is all style and less substance when it comes to principles. And MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is one of those detractors.

Congressional Black Caucus Declares ‘War’ on Tea Party

More on the Left who missed that pesky civil discourse memo...

This Is WAR’ — Congressional Black Caucus Travels US Cities Using Violent Rhetoric

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

White House Issues Guides on Sept. 11 Observances

"Not just about us".....hummmmmmmmmmmmm....I think those Twin Towers were OURS....with OUR people in them. Yes there were foreign nationals killed that day....however I'm betting most of them were "US".....so no, you are wrong.....it IS ABOUT US!

Copies of the internal documents were provided to The New York Times by officials in several agencies involved in planning the anniversary commemorations. “The important theme is to show the world how much we realize that 9/11 — the attacks themselves and violent extremism writ large — is not ‘just about us,’ ” said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal White House planning.

Obama's proposed regs would cost billions annually - It's official.....Obama is clueless..........

President Obama told Speaker John A. Boehner in a letter Tuesday that his administration is considering seven regulations that would cost the U.S. economy more than $1 billion per year, although he added that these rules are “merely proposed.”

All told, the seven proposed rules cited by Mr. Obama would cost companies at least $38 billion per year and could cost as much as $100 billion annually.

Dick Cheney: 'I Didn't Change. The World Changed'

No one should have expected that Dick Cheney's memoir would be anything but frank. Make that brutally frank. Such as this characterization of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's description to President George W. Bush of her proposed nuclear-weapons agreement with North Korea. It's on page 487:

"Looking for a way to explain this situation, Rice said, 'Mr. President, this is just the way diplomacy works sometimes. You don't always get a written agreement.' The statement was utterly misleading, totally divorced from what the secretary was doing, which was urging the president, in the absence of an agreement, to pretend to have one. . . . "

Politico Asks: 'Is Rick Perry Dumb', Goes On to Answer, Basically, No

You have to hand it to Politico, they know how to gin up publicity.

"Is Rick Perry dumb?" asks the top headline on the website today. Yet on balance, the corresponding article by Jonathan Martin isn't all that bad, noting that Perry has often been underestimated politically, much to the peril of numerous Republican and Democratic opponents who are now footnotes at best in Texas political history.

NBC's Lauer to Cheney: You're the 'Most Divisive Political Figure in This Country in a Century'

Why I don't watch Matt any longer.....his agenda is worn on his sleeve these days...

On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer began a hostile interview with Dick Cheney by running through various derisive labels for the former Vice President: "You've been called 'controversial' and 'divisive.' Some people have called you the most divisive political figure in this country in a century." Cheney simply quipped: "You left out Darth Vader."

How Many More Obamas are Commonwealth taxpayers supporting?

It was bad enough when President Obama put the responsibility of taking care of his entitled Auntie Zeituni on the tax payers of the Commonwealth... but now our roads and public safety officials have to be threatened from the scourge that is this guy's drunken uncle?

Was it The Boston Globe or The Boston Herald who ran this story? No, it was The Australian and The Washington Times.

Living American dream illegally

It almost sounds like the American Dream. A 2011 version of it, maybe. Because the 67-year-old Kenyan who happens to be President Obama’s uncle wasn’t supposed to be living here, let alone driving drunk here. He’s what some people call undocumented. What others call illegal.

Immigration authorities had been on the lookout for Onyango and found him last week after Framingham cops busted him on an operating under the influence charge. He’s currently locked up in Plymouth County Jail on an immigration warrant.

Radicals Plan Egypt-Style Occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC

Swanson is working with a coalition of groups to launch a protest with a goal of shutting down the U.S. government.

These tactics will be familiar to those who remember The Blaze exclusive report on the protest plans of SEIU’s Stephen Lerner and his plans to “swarm” Wall Street to the point of bringing down the stock market.

U.S. State Department Warns U.S. Citizens in Jerusalem to Avoid Beck Event

The timing and specifics of the event warning have led some to claim that ideological opposition to the Beck event– not just concerns for American safety– could have influenced the decision.

The “Emergency Message” addressed to U.S. Government Employees and visiting citizens in Jerusalem is available on the Consulate’s website. The message posted to the site on August 24th stated the following:

Rick Perry and the Soc Sec Ponzi Scheme - he's RIGHT!

There goes Rick Perry again, saying things that make liberals’ heads explode.

Speaking to a crowd in Iowa this weekend, the Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful doubled down on statements he made in his book, Fed Up!, that Social Security is essentially a pyramid scheme.

“It is a Ponzi scheme for these young people,” Perry said. “The idea that they’re working and paying into Social Security today, that the current program is going to be there for them, is a lie. It is a monstrous lie on this generation, and we can’t do that to them.”

The Hunger Games - Blue State Despair & Harry Potter - Red State Values!

Amen! Obliviate this book....talk about a disappointment. The promising series just spiraled down into total despair....no hope or honor.....

The new trilogy answers Pottermania in more than just popularity — it represents a radically different point of view. Master Potter and his friends, for all their British accents, turn out to be very red-state while Collins’s Katniss Everdeen could not be more blue-state.

Let me explain.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Barack Obama's uncle has been arrested and held as illegal immigrant

Official records say Onyango Obama, 67, was picked up outside the Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Massachusetts, at 7.10pm on August 24. Police say he nearly crashed his Mitsubishi 4x4 into a patrol car, and then insisted that the officer should have given way to him. A report filed with the Framingham District Court said that a breathalyser at the police station registered his blood alcohol at 0.14mg/100ml of blood, above the state limit of 0.08mg.

The proposed PROTECT IP law won't protect anything and, duh, will hurt Internet security, too

You may think I pick on Republican congress-o-critter Darrell Issa a lot, and you may be right. He’s often doing or saying something kinda dumb. But, although it’s been a while, I also pick on Democratic Sleestak Senator Patrick Leahy, also often for doing something I consider particularly ill-advised.

See? I’m an equal opportunity party-knocker.

Beckaphobia

Israeli radical leftists have long had an intense hatred toward American conservatives. This is in spite of the fact that American conservatives are almost all pro-Israel. In actuality, the hatred of Israeli leftists toward conservatives is precisely because conservatives are pro-Israel. Like in most other countries, the radical leftists in the Jewish State are anti-Israel in addition to being anti-American.