Thursday, August 09, 2012

Energy Dept. e-mails on Solyndra provide new details on White House involvement .....

President Obama’s staff arranged for him to be personally briefed last summer on a loan program to help clean-energy companies, two months before the program was thrust into headlines by the collapse of its flagship, the solar company Solyndra, records show.

New Allen West Attack Ad Features Him Beating Old and Young Women And Stealing Form Families ....

It is hard to think of an attack ad lower than the one essentially blaming Mitt Romney for a woman’s death, but we may have just found one.

It’s from Florida, and it depicts Allen West (R-FL) in a boxing ring with red gloves on. The cartoon-like video then shows West punching an old woman, a young lady and seemingly a family with children. He also steals cash from the hands of the family and pockets it, all while laughing like a gremlin.

There is no honest case against Voter ID ....

The defenders of vote fraud are growing desperate, as common-sense voter ID requirements appear in state after state, surviving legal challenges that took Indiana’s law all the way to the Supreme Court, where it was upheld 6-3. There is no honest case against voter ID laws. Every argument deployed by opponents is as fraudulent as the votes that put Al Franken in the Senate.

Should The First Lady Be Paid For Her Work? ....

I wish I could go UN-compensated like this!
Instead, because I own my own business ( ya know...the one we didn't build ) I just get to go without altogether and hide from bill collectors after an average 60-80 hour week......yeah...that's the ticket!

Some might argue that the First Lady does get compensated — not with a salary, but with considerable perks that come with her husband’s job.

She virtually lives without cost (and in a pretty fancy place that she was allowed to redecorate without the budget constraints faced by most Americans).
Her “weekend home” — Camp David — is certainly one that most of us would consider to be worth visiting almost every month.
Michelle Obama has a liberal vacation allowance, with a private jet that she can and does use day and night.
Her private security (Secret Service) keeps the First Lady safe at all times.
The First Lady also has a personal staff numbering 24. (Hillary Clinton had 19, Laura Bush 18)

This Chart Showing Welfare Dependency Will Ruin Your Day ....

Are you serious? Over 110,000,000* in the U.S. are currently receiving some form of government welfare?

“The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs. Social Security and Medicare are not part of this category and not included in the figures in this chart,” a statement released on Wednesday by Sen. Sessions’ office reads.

Sinaloa Cartel Operative Jesus Vincente Zambada Niebla Makes Explosive Allegation About Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ .....

This pending court case against Zambada-Niebla is being closely monitored by some members of Congress, who expect potential legal ramifications if any of his claims are substantiated. The trial was delayed but is now scheduled to begin on Oct. 9.

Gazillions -- that's the number of times our government has spied on Americans since 9/11.....

Gazillions. That’s the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was doing to violate our privacy, was given a classified briefing. The senator -- one of just a few in the U.S. Senate who believes that the Constitution means what it says -- was required by federal law to agree not to reveal what spies and bureaucrats told him during the briefing.

Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May......

This mornings Hypocrisy Howler.......there are just SO MANY to choose from....

Oops? President Barack Obama's re-election campaign washed its hands Wednesday of an independent group's vicious (and misleading) ad effectively blaming Mitt Romney for the death of a laid-off steelworker's wife from cancer. Campaign officials flatly denied any knowledge of the facts in the case—but it turns out the widower told the same story on an Obama campaign conference call in mid-May. (The Obama campaign responded late in the day: See update below).

Obama Considering Executive-Branch Action on Cybersecurity....

Remember, if we allow Obama to get re-elected....the word "Constitution" will fade into history and "Executive - Branch Action" will be the new normal.

Senate Republicans last week blocked a bill backed by Obama that would have set up voluntary cybersecurity standards for operators of infrastructure such as power grids and water- treatment plants that are considered essential to national security.

Republicans, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups said the voluntary standards would be a back door to government regulation of companies. The bill was sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and Susan Collins, a Maine Republican.

Occupy Unmasked .....

Occupy Unmasked uncovers the answers through exclusive footage of the Occupy movement – footage that will leave your skin crawling and your stomach writhing. This was not a peaceful, hippie movement of the 1960s, with thousands of grassroots turning out for drug-induced love-ins. This was a top-down, insidiously planned movement with a set of very real goals: chaos, political pressure, undermining the existing constitutional order. Occupy was dangerous, and it was purposefully designed to be dangerous.

Elizabeth Warren needs to sever her ties to convicted inside traders....

Yesterday we learned, that Elizabeth Warren's daughter is leading a, George Soros funded, organization that successfully sued to force the state to mail voter registration forms to welfare recipients. It is just one of the pieces of help that Elizabeth Warren has received from the convicted inside trader and leading financier.

IRS turned blind eye to fraud ....

The IRS showed more interest in processing applications for a taxpayer identification number than in vetting those requests for fraud, according to a federal audit publicly released Wednesday.

The revenue service's review of applications for Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) was lacking and there was no reason to believe the IRS uncovered as much fraud as it could, the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration found.

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

No, Romney Won't Raise Your Taxes $2,000....

But here is the actual truth: Mitt Romney is not asking the middle class or anyone else to pay more taxes. Mitt Romney is proposing to cut tax rates for everyone, across the board. That would finally liberate the economy for a long overdue recovery. Increased revenues from that booming economic growth, combined with savings from cutting Obama's runaway spending and closing loopholes that mostly benefit the highest income taxpayers, would enable a U-turn, from the four straight highest deficits in world history to a balanced budget in 5 years.

A Gut Check on What Obama Means by 'Fairness'...

Last month, the President told a crowd of supporters in Texas that he was glad his unpopular health care law is known as "Obamacare" to its opponents: "You know what, they're right, I do care. I care about folks who get sick …" This claim would have been more truthful had he told them he cares about some folks who become ill. Indeed, it would have been more consistent with his actual behavior had he said, "I care about myself when I get sick." President Obama, you see, has been availing himself of medical tests his HHS apparatchiks won't approve for payment if Medicare patients receive them.

CNN Primetime Ratings Sink To 20-Year Weekly Low

Primetime is not good news for CNN lately. Amidst having its least watched month in primetime in two decades in May and the lowest rated month in total viewers in 10-years in April, CNN has now hit a 20-year all time primetime weekly low. The latest fall came during the week of July 30 to August 5, 2012

Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants .....

And we're welcoming them with no strings attached....

Immigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which argues that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural differences.

From ‘Hope & Change‘ to ’Divide & Conquer’: Marco Rubio’s Sharp Criticism of Team Obama.......

Americans must decide this November whether they want a president who understands business and job growth or one who is “divisive” and economically unsuccessful, or so says Republican Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

“He has divided us against each other deliberately,” said Sen. Rubio during a stump speech for Romney. “It’s the only way he thinks he can win. It has gone from ‘hope’ and ‘change’ to ‘divide and conquer.’”

Group fueling registration doesn’t fall far from ACORN ....

What a surprise....No?

The activist political group behind the state’s push to drive welfare recipients to the polls this November has heavy ties to the disgraced community outreach organization ACORN — including a Dorchester woman who served as its national president for 20 years.

Elizabeth Warren calls on Scott Brown to release more tax returns than she has .....

Hypocrite. Do as I say...not as I do...TYPICAL.

Elizabeth Warren demanded Monday that Senator Scott Brown release more of his tax returns. The only problem was that Brown, her Republican rival, had already allowed reporters to inspect six years of tax returns while Warren has refused to reveal more than four years of her filings.

Asked to reconcile that apparent conflict, Warren abruptly backed off her demand, sayingTuesday morning that six years of Brown’s filings was enough. She did not, however, offer to release any more of her IRS filings.

Gotye Parody Mocks ‘Obama That I Used to Know’ ....

Pretty damn funny....

If you listen to pop radio at all — or even if you pay attention to the music that plays in the grocery store — you know that the group Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” is one of the hottest songs in the country right now. The catchy tune and eccentric music video are burning up the airwaves and the Internet. And now some 2008 Obama supporters have capitalized off of it with a scathing, yet hilarious, parody of the song that blasts the president.

‘Les Riches’ in France Vow to Leave if 75% Tax Rate Is Passed.....

“We’re getting a lot of calls from high earners who are asking whether they should get out of France,” said Mr. Grandil, a partner at Altexis, which specializes in tax matters for corporations and the wealthy. “Even young, dynamic people pulling in 200,000 euros are wondering whether to remain in a country where making money is not considered a good thing.”

Warren's daughter funds plan to force state to mail welfare recipients voter registration forms

Why am I surprised....NOTHING surprises me anymore with this bunch. Free booze, tattoos, cruises and votes.....

Elizabeth Warren's daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi is leaving nothing to chance in the 2012 election for her mother. Warren Tyagi, the chair of the George Soros funded Demos Foundation, has bankrolled, through Demos, former members of ACORN in their pursuit to have the Commonwealth's welfare agency perform a voter registration drive. The Boston Herald has the story, although they missed the Warren familial connection.

Barack Obama is a Murderer.....

Mitt Romney and Bain Capital bought GST Steel at some point. Romney left day to day operations of Bain in 1999. Thereafter, Bain offered Joe Soptic a buy out and he refused. Eventually the steel plant went out of business and Joe went on the unemployment line. That happened in 2001.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Pillow Tag Requirment Stifles Kerri Smith, Inventor of The BellyRest....

“The annual average for law tag registration fees is 183.33 for the existing 15 states that require law tags. If 35 more states required manufacturers to pay an average amount for a registration fee, it would be $6416.35, annually. Add that to the current fees and a manufacturer would be required to pay $9166.55 annually to be allowed to sell a pillow in the US,” Kerri said.

“That’s insane. That would absolutely put small manufactures right out of business. And imagine what will happen to the price of the pillow you sleep on at night. No more $5 pillows at Target,” she adds.

Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’ ....

I am President Obama’s classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. It’s his college records. Call it “gut instinct” but my gut is almost always right. Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia- and it’s a bad one that threatens to bring down his presidency. Gut instinct is how I’ve made my living for 29 years since graduating Columbia.

James Holmes' Psychiatrist Contacted University Police Weeks Before Movie-Theater Shooting......

The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes made contact with a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about her patient's behavior several weeks before Holmes' alleged rampage, sources told ABC News.

The new normal ....

On Wednesday, August 1, CNN carried a breathless report sourced to “U.S. officials” that our beloved Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the Oval Office “has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad.” According to the story, which was picked up by dozens of other outlets within hours, “The secret order, referred to as an intelligence ‘finding,’ allows for clandestine support by the CIA and other agencies.”

She calls herself “Top Gun Tori” .....

Sharp shooter Tori Nonaka already spent fourteen years on the range—and she is only seventeen. As a toddler crawling up on a bucket at the range, Tori’s father, a gulf war vet, would hold the gun while she shot. Since 2011 Tori has competed on the international level and has become a representative for team GLOCK, the famous Austrian hand gun manufacturer.

Israel and Iran, the Middle Eastern Time Bomb....

Four years of President Obama’s foreign policy are having their full effect. After squandering time in sham “negotiations” with Iran and Palestine and abandoning Iraq to al-Qaeda, the President has made many situations more difficult—and urgent.

Emails: Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi pensions....

But remember - THEY are for the "working Class"...unless they aren't in a Union.......

The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.

Green Profiteers .......

And they wonder WHY there is a Tea Party and WHY we laugh at Global Warming. Global Warming is nothing but a cover for profit and power.....

While the economy limps along, one industry is thriving: Environmental lawsuits against the federal government are moving ahead at a steady pace — and taxpayers are picking up the tab for the expensive litigation.

Cheney explains his Palin VP 'mistake' remark......

In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, former Vice President Dick Cheney revisited his comment that former Gov. Sarah Palin’s nomination to the 2008 Republican presidential ticket was a “mistake,” saying that it wasn’t his intention to disparage Palin — but rather the process then-Republican nominee Sen. John McCain had put in place to select her.

Cheney took some heat from some on the right for his July 29 remarks.

Monday, August 06, 2012

Voter ID laws could sway US elections ....

I just find this almost impossible to believe. You can't function on a daily basis without some form of ID.....and getting one does not cost a fortune! If you can get to the Voting Booth - you can get somewhere to secure identification. I know the Parties themselves would help with this!

Millions of US voters could be turned away at the ballot box in this November’s presidential election as new rules impose tough requirements for identification that observers say could lead to minorities and young people – traditionally more likely to vote Democrat – being excluded.

Company That Dumped Limbaugh Over ‘Flukegate’ Admits: Yeah, That Hurt us More Than we Expected it Would.....

Well, despite losing a few sponsors and having Media Matters lead a campaign to have him removed from the airwaves, Limbaugh is still here and he’s still annoying the left.

Oh, yeah, and it appears Carbonite’s decision to drop the EIB Network hasn’t worked out so well for them.

“On August 1 Carbonite released its 2d Quarter 2012 results, the first full quarter after dropping Limbaugh in March. The results shocked Wall Street, as Carbonite did not meet its growth targets, causing multiple analysts to drop the target price,” William A. Jacobson writes for Legal Insurrection.

“The stock dropped 15 [percent] in a day,” he adds.

Gun Walked in ‘Fast and Furious’ Involved in Plot to Kill Mexican Police Chief Julian Leyzaola.....

One of the guns that was allowed to walk across the Mexico border in “Operation Fast and Furious” was recovered in Tijuana and found to be connected to a drug cartel’s conspiracy to kill the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California, who later became the Juarez police chief, according to a report released by the U.S. government.

Obama’s Drive to Disenfranchise Soldiers.....

There is only one word for this action...Heinous! To try and screw around with the vote of ANY military person is disgusting. We can't stand by silently on this! Please pass this forward!

This nickel-and-dime approach to disenfranchisement was used by then-presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000. The unsuccessful Democrat turned global warming hoaxer had his lawyers disqualify ballots from military personnel overseas. The new lawsuit is also an apparent acknowledgement that Obama is writing off the military vote this year.

ICE Agent Faces Suspension For Arresting Illegal Alien and Disobeying Orders to Let Him Walk....

The world is upside down...is this what you want? Where those obeying our laws are penalized and those breaking them are rewarded?!

“They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying to uphold U.S. law,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council. Crane is a union representative speaking on behalf of the unidentified officer, an 18-year law enforcement and military veteran.

Costs, conflicts arise in Reid push for green power....

This mornings Hypocrisy Howler....well...the first of many...it's so target rich out there....

Now Reid is pushing for a Chinese company he played a key role in recruiting to Nevada, ENN Mojave Energy LLC. The company plans a billion-dollar solar energy manufacturing and generating plant near Laughlin, but an ambitious development schedule is being threatened by a lack of green power customers.