Saturday, October 15, 2011

Obamacare starts to unravel.....YIPPEE!!!!!

The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president's signature health overhaul law - a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial solvency.

Targeted by congressional Republicans for repeal, the program became the first casualty in the political and policy wars over the health care law. It had been expected to launch in

CLASS Dismissed: Obama Administration Pulls Plug On Long-Term Care Program...

Federal officials on Friday effectively shut down part of the health care law that would have helped consumers cover some long-term-care costs, saying they could not find a way to make it work financially.

After looking at a variety of options, the Obama administration determined the CLASS Act program could not simultaneously meet three important criteria: be self-sustaining, financially sound for 75 years and affordable to consumers.

Charlie Baker comments on Obamacare...

When Obamacare was being debated, I said the bill's financials were a sham & that the CLASS Program was added to create fake revenue to justify the "budget neutrality" fallacy that the Administration was promoting at the time. Eventually, the truth comes out. This whole thing remains the biggest blown opportunity of my lifetime to do something "good" about all the stuff that's wrong with the US health care system.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Obama Talked About "Fast & Furious" Months Before Holder Claimed He Knew...

CNN's John King plays Holder's testimony to Congress on MAY 3, 2011, where he said he had only just recently heard about the Fast & Furious gunrunning program. "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks," Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Then CNN compares Holder's testimony to what President Obama said in MARCH to CNN Espanol about the operation. "I heard on the news about this story that -- Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico, and ATF knew about it, but didn't apprehend those who had sent it." Transcript of the segment that aired on "John King USA" below:

Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents

Once again Massachusetts....you make me proud..... You DISGUST me....
The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters.

The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her.

Now, the Coast Guard is warning all staff working on Atlantic Avenue to avoid those protesters while in uniform.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Warren Buffett made $62,855,038 last year...

And still is fighting over billions in taxes owed...why's he fighting them if he wants everyone to pay MORE.....

He said in an interview that the roughly $23 million difference between his AGI and taxable income was due largely to deductions he took for charitable giving and local taxes.

Two key reasons he only paid 17.4%, however, is because a lot of his income came from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate than wages, and because payroll taxes are assessed only on wage income.

Who's behind the Wall St. protests?...Spooky Dude...?!

There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has spread to cities across America and lasted nearly four weeks. One name that keeps coming up is investor George Soros, who in September debuted in the top 10 list of wealthiest Americans. Conservative critics contend the movement is a Trojan horse for a secret Soros agenda.

Unemployed numbers don't change....

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week, a sign the job market isn't getting much better.

Applications ticked down by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 404,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The four-week average declined for the third straight week to 408,000. That's the lowest average in eight weeks.

Wingless, Bloodsucking and Parasitic: Meet the Flea Party!

So far, the only major accomplishment of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters is that it has finally put an end to their previous initiative, "Occupy Our Mothers' Basements."

Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group -- a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who have been at every protest since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, people 95 percent of whose hair is concentrated in their ponytails, Andrea Dworkin​ look-alikes and other average Democrats -- they can't even explain what they're protesting.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Glenn Beck Interviews Hank Williams Jr.....

“Oh,” Williams responded in his slow southern drawl, “don’t tread on me or the freedom of speech.”

And apparently country radio hasn’t. According to Williams, his new song “Keep the Change” about the controversy has skyrocketed to number one. “The number one song in this country downloaded and streamed in country radio is ‑‑ is yours truly, and I‘m going to call it the people’s song,” he said.

It's Hard To Be a Racist...

Years ago it was easy to be a racist. All you had to be was a white person using some of the racial epithets that are routinely used in song and everyday speech by many of today's blacks. Or you had to chant "two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate" when a black student showed up for admission to your high school or college. Of course, there was that dressing up in a hooded white gown. In any case, you didn't have to be sophisticated to be a racist.

Executive Dictatorship: Obama Instructs Advisers to Push Through Stimulus Projects Without Pesky ‘Congressional Authorization’ ...and again, we're sur

Executive Dictatorship: Obama Instructs Advisers to Push Through Stimulus Projects Without Pesky ‘Congressional Authorization’

George H.W. Bush embodies what Washington is missing...AMEN!

I have been lucky enough to meet this man...he is all that the writer says....and McGrory nailed it about what we had and what we've given up as a nation....

Patten’s Berry Farm is the kind of place a Hollywood producer would want to invent if it didn’t already exist, with Mrs. Patten selling corn, apples, and pumpkins on the side of a country road in this impossibly pretty town.

Newspaper sues government to reveal 'secret' Patriot Act interpretation...

After a series of Freedom of Information requests were declined to reveal the classified interpretation of the Patriot Act — a description that Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Mark Udall (D-Colorado) described as “deeply disturbing” — the newspaper sought to battle it out in the courts.

Is U.S. ready for second black leader? Yes...key word here - LEADER!

Liberals tolerate blacks and they endure conservatives. But they cannot abide a successful, independent-minded black who dares to step out of line and reject the enslavement of the Plantation Party.

State Dept Considering 5,662 'Diversity Visa' Applicants from Terror States....

Swell....................

The annual program randomly awards 50,000 permanent resident visas to people from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States, which include the State Sponsors of Terrorism. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) congressionally mandates the Diversity Visa program, which began in 1994.

Issa Issues Subpoena To Holder In Fast And Furious Investigation...

Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a subpoena Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder as part of his investigation into the gun trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious."

Green Job Cost Nightmare.....

The green jobs subsidy story gets more embarrassing by the day. Three years ago President Obama promised that by the end of the decade America would have five million green jobs, but so far some $90 billion in government spending has delivered very few. A new report by the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General examined a $500 million grant under the stimulus program to the Employment and Training Administration to 'train and prepare individuals for careers in "green jobs."

Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals

And they laughed at Glenn beck when he predicted this....

Citizen journalist Ringo captured this speaker at the Occupy Los Angeles camp a few days ago letting the cat out of the bag: After dismissing nonviolence as a dead end, he admits that for the Occupiers to achieve their goals, violence and bloodshed will be necessary:

Arrogant White Liberal Tells Herman Cain How to Be Black

This article is for my black brother, a community leader and little-league football coach who gets his news solely from the liberal mainstream media. Hopefully it will help him to understand why I, his big brother, am working with those white Tea Party people against his beloved black president.

This article is also for my black relatives who gave me a chilly reception at my grandmother's 100th birthday party. I learned through the family grapevine they resent my involvement in the Tea Party and consider me an embarrassment to the family.

Corruption in Maricopa County

When we think of political persecution, places such as Tiananmen Square may come to mind. Increasingly, however, this tool of tyranny is coming to our shores -- and it is not made in China. It is, in the case I'll discuss today, made in Maricopa County.

Why Did the Obama Administration Break News of the Iran Plot Today?

"Interesting Timing"....not to diminish the threat...just "Interesting Timing"....

First, I find the timing of the release interesting, to say the least, as Eric Holder is on the hot seat for his alleged role in the ATF’s “Fast and Furious” operation to supply arms to Mexican drug cartels.

Next, the administration has known about this Iranian plot for some time. Why would they come forward with these details of the Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador on our soil without first preparing an announcement of the U.S.’s response to Iran?

Feds Claimed SunPower’s $1.2 Billion Federal Loan Would Create ‘10-15′ Permanent Jobs...

Unlike Solyndra, which went bankrupt after receiving the loan from the government leaving taxpayer on the hook, SunPower’s deal is more complicated. Many questions are being raised about how the company was able to obtain the loan and what they did after they got the money. Questions include:

White House lawyers who drafted secret Awlaki kill memo were critics of Bush’s war powers...funny, ey?

Not the first time that the left’s anti-war legal heroes have morphed from civil libertarians when Bush was in office to war-power expansionists once they went to work for The One. Remember when Harold Koh convinced Obama that he didn’t need to bother with congressional authorization after all if he wanted to wage war in Libya? Good times.

Sawyer's Flub: Claims Wall Street Protests Have ‘Spread to More Than a Thousand Countries’ ....

Kinda like Obama's 57 States.....

So enthused about promoting the far-left protests, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Monday night's World News championed “the Occupy Wall Street movement” by ludicrously claiming that “as of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries -- every continent but Antarctica.”

Protests against the wealthy in “thousands of countries,” including Cuba, China and every country in Africa? Per the U.S. State Department, however, there are only 195 nation states in the world, so Sawyer imagined five times as many protests as could possibly have occurred. (Video below)

Millionaire Tax: Yet Another Job Killing Tax Increase

Like the villain in a horror movie, the many-lived millionaire tax is once again back from the dead. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) dusted off this economically frightening tax hike that has repeatedly failed to pass Congress to pay for President Obama’s jobs plan (American Jobs Act of 2011, S. 1660) after Senate Democrats rejected the tax hikes the President proposed to pay for his bill.

Obama Jobs Council Stacked With Democratic Donors...and we're surprised???....NOT!

The group of private-sector business leaders advising President Obama on how to create jobs and grow the economy is full of deep-pocket Democratic donors and high-profile financiers of Obama’s re-election campaign, a review of Federal Election Commission data shows.

Obama to push Congress on parts of jobs plan:after Dems Kill it...

Obama had barnstormed around the country to pressure his Republican opponents to back his top legislative priority, but he did not pick up a single Republican vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Two Democrats, facing re-election in conservative states, also voted against the measure.

Obama said earlier on Tuesday he would try to pass components of the bill individually.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Michelle Obama 's warning to gun owners....

Important read for gun owners.....

This was music to the ears of the small, affluent crowd of admirers who cheered and applauded. But to gun owners, Michelle Obama’s remarks should sound like a warning bell, alerting us to the danger ahead should Barack Obama win re-election and get the opportunity to alter the current make-up of the Supreme Court.

When Americans flock to the polls in 13 months, we will not simply decide which direction our country should take over the next four years. Rather, we will decide whether or not our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms will survive over the next several decades.

‘Keep the Change’: Hank Williams Jr. Unleashes Fiery New Anthem...GOOD ONE!!!!

Days after being dropped from ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” Hank Williams Jr. fired back at that network, “Fox and Friends” and what he called the “United Socialist States of America” in his signature style — a song bellowing biting lyrics in between guitar licks.

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky Marching With Occupy Chicago Protesters....

We don't deserve to keep all our OWN money....

Dem. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Illinois) recently said you don’t deserve to keep all your money, and now she’s joining the protests against people who have a lot of it.

Blogger Rebel Pundit caught the congresswoman marching with the protesters on Monday after she delivered a speech to protesters outside a local Hyatt Regency (more on that later). Below is video of her marching as well as Rebel Pundit asking a few questions about the American flag:

Romney for panderer-in-chief? ....

Memo to the Rick Perry campaign: If your guy can't win an exchange with Mitt Flippin' Romney over who's stuck to principle more consistently, his debating skills need serious work.

That's what happened at Sept. 22's Republican debate in Orlando. After deflating Perry with a "nice try," Romney brazenly proclaimed, "One reason to elect me is that I know what I stand for, I've written it down. Words have meaning."

Paula Deen: Michelle Obama likes fried food too...

"Let them eat cake" Michele Obama......Literally!

"Well, I did a show with Michelle and I just loved being with her," Deen told Yeas & Nays. "She probably ate more than any other guest I've ever had on the show —she kept eating even during commercials." Deen taught Obama how to fry shrimp during a TV segment in September before the 2008 presidential election. "You know what their favorite foods are — it's hot wings, you know, those kinds of foods that are not necessarily top-of-the-list healthy foods, so she's no different than the rest of us," Deen said. "We love those kinds of foods, we just know that we can't eat them everyday."

Orlando Unveils Barack Obama Parkway...

Mile and one half costs $10.5 Million dollars..............

On the same day President Barack Obama will visit Orlando, the city unveiled the first part of a roadway project named after him.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony that showcased President Barack Obama Parkway, near the Mall at Millenia.

Wall Street to Shed 10,000 Jobs...

So...."Occupy Wall Street" happy now....?

New York City’s securities industry could lose nearly 10,000 jobs by the end of 2012, according to a report by New York state’s comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the Wall Street Journal said.

In a report due for release on Tuesday DiNapoli also said bonuses were likely to shrink this year, reflecting lower profits on Wall Street, the WSJ reported.

D.C. Protesters: 'Freedom Plaza Is Now Ours, And We're Never Giving It Back' ....

Now...imagine this was a Tea Party demonstration....

When protesters refused to leave Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington on Monday after their permit expired, the U.S. Park Police extended that permit for another four months.

"Freedom Plaza is now ours, and we're never giving it back," said a protest organizer at the October2011 website: "We have not said that when the four months are over and the American Spring is here we will leave."

SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama ...Surprised?! NOT!

The company, SunPower (SPWR-NASDAQ), now carries $820 million in debt, an amount $20 million greater than its market capitalization. If SunPower was a bank, the feds would shut it down. Instead, it received a lifeline twice the size of the money sent down the Solyndra drain.

Two men with insight into the process are SunPower rooter Rep. George R. Miller III, (D.-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee and the co-chairman of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and his SunPower lobbyist son, George Miller IV.

Police arrest 100 in Occupy Boston sweep...

Rules followed? These folks have NO RULES! I've been part of Tea Party Rallies and the City of Boston has been INSANE to work with over permits etc! These guys.....I hear crickets chirping....

Defiant Occupy Boston protesters were arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and being in a public park after hours in a massive, early morning crackdown at the protest group’s second tent city on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

“It’s important that we gain control and make sure the rules are followed, “ said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, who was on site during the police action.

Wall Street Protesters Plan 'Millionaires March' To Tycoons' New York City Homes...

THIS is when playing Class Politics gets dangerous....

Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement plan to leave their downtown Manhattan headquarters Tuesday and head uptown as part of a "Millionaires March" visiting the homes of some of New York City's wealthiest residents.

Obama health-care law modeled on Romney plan ....

We've been trying to WARN YOU ALL for months about Romney. Romneycare is a NIGHTMARE! I know...I live it both as a Massachusetts citizen and small business owner!

Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”

The Gallery of 'Bush = Hitler' Allusions

Nice way to put Hank Williams Jr. in context...by the by. Madonna is singing at the Superbowl...she likens GWB to Hitler on stage....how's THAT not in the same catagory as Hank? Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???

A quick note, first, about what counts as a "Bush = Hitler" allusion for these purposes. Obviously, someone saying "that George Bush guy is just like Hitler" counts.

ESPN Panel With Zirin and Finebaum Gets in Heated Debate Over Hank Williams...

This is actually pretty damn funny!

A heated debate erupted on ESPN’s show “Outside the Lines” on Thursday during a long segment devoted to whether or not ESPN should have parted ways with Hank Williams Jr. after he made a Hitler analogy earlier in the week.

Things started off fairly benign, but by the end voices were being raised and guests were arguing about the, well, Civil War. This might take some explaining. Hang with me.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Why Can't Obama Be Like Tito?

Tito Francona was always class....he is rare in this world.

In a remarkable interview on sports talk radio in Boston this week, Terry Francona (Tito), the departing manager of the Boston Red Sox major league baseball team, admitted that he failed and discussed why he walked away. President Obama could learn a moral lesson or two from a man who took responsibility for a horrible situation not entirely of his own making. Francona refused to blame anyone else, even when the blame could have been shifted or at least shared.

Obama's job creation panel features job cutting execs...and we're surprised...why?

I'm sure there's a solid reason why a biologist should be on a jobs panel, but it's not coming to me at the moment.

It doesn't matter. The business execs are pretty clueless about creating jobs, otherwise they would have done so. Instead, a lot of them cut their workforces in response to the horrible Obama economy.

A History Lesson for Lawrence O'Donnell

On Thursday night, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell accused Herman Cain of "sitting on the sidelines" during the civil rights movement. The accusation has rightly been condemned as contemptible. Politics is one sphere of human achievement, but there are many others. Do we fault Albert Einstein for not going back to Germany in 1933 to march in anti-Hitler demonstrations?

Why America Needs Herman Cain

Niccol�Machiavelli once said that "the man who adapts his course of action to the nature of the times will succeed, and likewise, the man who sets his course of action out of tune with the times will come to grief."

What I'd like to argue in this essay is that based on the current "nature of the times" in America, Herman Cain must be the GOP nominee for president.

Herman Cain steps up attacks on Occupy Wall Street protests...

Amen...............

Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who "play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Fast and Furious weapons found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home ...

Reporting from Washington—
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.