Friday, February 5, 2010
Back to Tea Party at Perrysburg
He does it again!!!
"You can question my policies without questioning my faith. Or, for that matter, my citizenship," Obama said, referring to critics who have questioned whether he was born in the United States.President Obama also said his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships had "turned the faith-based initiative around" from its previous incarnation under the Bush administration to "find common ground among people of all beliefs."
Thursday, February 4, 2010
New Hampshire says buh bye to The One
The crucial independent voters of notoriously independent New Hampshire, the ones who were so vital to Barack Obama's 2008 victory there and nationally, are fast falling out of love with the Democrat.A new WMUR Granite State Poll of 500 voters by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center finds the president's support has slipped below 50% now. In the early 2008 Democratic primary there, voters preferred Hillary Clinton to Obama, 39 to 36. But come November they gave the Illinoisan 54% to John McCain's 45%.
AGW exposed!
I can't recall the wheels coming off the bus of any expert-driven hysteria as fast or as completely as they are now coming off the global-warming scare.
Lawyers with mental retardation sought
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with disabilities, including individuals with targeted disabilities, to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine. Applicants who meet the qualification requirements and are able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation are encouraged to identify disabilities, including targeted disabilities, in response to the questions in the Avue application system seeking that information.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Brown to be sworn in tomorrow
Budget blunders
There is another aspect which makes the raw numbers even more pernicious. Many of the new tax increases are a function of the taxpayer's overall income, such as caps on deductions for mortgage payments, state and local taxes, and charitable deductions, and the new 20-percent capitals gains tax bracket.
Tying these items to overall income creates uncertainty, since the value of the deductions and the cost of the capital gains will not be know until after the fact, when the taxpayer's total annual income is calculated.
Health care bill to be downsized
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also voiced optimism about the approach in a conference call Tuesday with bloggers, while cautioning that final decisions to move forward remained to be made.Pelosi also said the House plans to vote next week on a small element of the massive health bill it approved in November stripping insurance companies of their decades-old exemption from certain federal antitrust laws. Pelosi's office provided audio of the conference call.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Wine train
Because an investigation just published by California Watch and reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle shows that the Wine Train scam was far worse than you imagined. The $54 million wasn’t just spent on an overpriced not-a-thrill ride for tipsy tourists: it was thrown down the toilet on a no-bid contract handed to a shady Alaskan front corporation which deviously abused race-based “set-aside” laws to land a vastly overpriced deal — which they then proceeded to subcontract at a much lower rate to a different company, while pocketing a cool $20 million for doing no work whatsoever.
Murtha in intensive care
Rep. John Murtha is now in a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit after unexpected complications from gallbladder surgery last week, his spokesman confirmed this morning.Murtha, 77, had been suffering from gallbladder pain and problems in December and arranged to have the organ removed last week at Bethesda Naval Hospital. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Democrat declined to discuss the seriousness of the situation that sent Murtha back to another hospital's intensive care unit.
Absolutely stunning
President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escalating criticism of the very lawmakers he's urging to work with him.The newly combative approach is a double-edged sword for Obama.
Fearful of losses in the November congressional and gubernatorial elections, Democrats have been urging Obama to throw tougher punches at Republicans. Those calls grew louder after the Democrats' stunning loss two weeks ago of a Senate seat in Massachusetts, seen as an indictment of Democratic control over Congress and the White House.
Is Abdulmutallab talking?
The ridiculous budget
According to our quick analysis of his budget, the president’s budget also would:* Permanently expand the federal government by nearly 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) over 2007 pre-recession levels;
* Raise taxes on all Americans by more than $2 trillion over the next decade (counting health-care reform and cap-and-trade);
* Raise taxes for 3.2 million small businesses and upper-income taxpayers by an average of $300,000 over the next decade;
* Borrow 42 cents for each dollar spent in 2010;
Global warming scandal
But in competitive newspaper markets they still know a story when they see one. Surely the most worrying sign for the thuggish enforcers of "settled science" is that even the eco-lefties at The Guardian and The Independent, two of the most gung-ho warm-mongers on the planet, are beginning to entertain doubts.
Why did he bow to Tampa mayor?
Well it didn’t take long to peg this one. In 2008 Mayor Iorio gave CAIR a day named in their honor.Zimbio reported:
“By virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Tampa, I do hereby proclaim November 15, 2008, as ‘Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Day’ in the city of Tampa, Florida.”
Hat Tip Brian B.
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is a civil rights group partially funded by the Saudi Wahhabi establishment and has numerous ties to extremist Islamic organizations.
Monday, February 1, 2010
James O'Keefe update
Steward was peddling lies. The Black Panthers were spreading fear. James O’Keefe was searching for the truth.
Only one of these cases is being prosecuted.
Maybe James O’Keefe did enter a federal building under false pretenses. Maybe.
But doesn’t every Congressperson do that every day?
Proof Obama is not interested in intelligence or national security
The picture that emerged from the hearing was of a president uninterested in national security, more concerned about health scare and cap-and-tax than in preventing what his Homeland Security chief infamously called "man-caused disasters"; of an administration more busy fighting turf wars than waging the real war against Islamic terrorists -- whom Obama refuses to even call by that name; of a Commander-in-Chief who doesn't take seriously his most essential job of protecting this country's citizens, more focused on extending terrorists these citizens' rights than he is on gathering the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe.The Obamedia all but ignored the hearing, of course. It was more important for them to protect their anointed One...even if folks' lives are at stake.
Whom are we trying to impress?
So whom are we trying to impress? The answer seems to be left-wing intellectuals, academics, voters -- "the educated class," in David Brooks's term -- who decried George W. Bush's policies as reeking of fascism and dictatorship. We are making policies to please those who hang out in law school faculty lounges.
The food police are coming
No freedom or liberty is safe from liberal fascism, right down to to what is on your dinner plate. Soda taxes, taxes on bottled water, fast food, bans on certain types of fats, etc. are in vogue throughout liberal land. Because we - individual people - are too stupid to make our own nutritional choices. John Stossel, a libertarian, talks with Nick Gillespie, a libertarian. In the other corner is Meme Roth, a bona fide food Nazi. You can guess who gets the upper hand in knowledge and reason:
Dems accuse Alito of inappropriate behavior
Senate Democrats, taking a cue from President Obama, are ripping into Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for his understandable (and understated) display of disagreement with the president's misrepresentation of a recent court decision.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Happening all across the USA
Now, though, the speech-making over loudspeakers to angry throngs seems to have given way to a much quieter form of protest - one in which Tea Party activists, here and across the country, are trying to either take over or gain a foothold in the political parties from the ground up.
Openly astro-turfing
Thousands of OFA supporters calling talk radio shows with a pro-health reform message could have a big impact on the debate. But to make it happen, we need active volunteers to help identify which radio shows talk about politics and accept calls.
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Propaganda passed out in Massilon High School
Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Better yet, home school.Check out the recommended reading list page 4:
- Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
- The New Organizers, Zack Exley
- Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen
- Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post
- Dreams of My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Hussein Obama
Wonder what Obama does with his time?
Queen Pelosi snatches your dollars for her grandkids
Looks like my Pelosi post from yesterday has an epilogue, and it's a doozy. In my prior post (You're drink's on us! Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'), I pointed out Pelosi's obscene price tag - all at taxpayer expense - for lavish food and booze: more than $100,000 worth. Last week, information surfaced on these Congress-critters bilking us out of more than $1.1 million for a junket to Copenhagen (The tab for Congress' Junket to Copenhagen? $1.1+ million). It turns out Queen Pelosi's corrupt ways go even further than that. Not only has she used the air force as her personal taxi service, she's been doing so for her family as well, all on our dime. From Doug Ross viamemeorandum: Un-frickin-believable: U.S. Military Serving as Chauffeurs, Babysitters for the Pelosi Kids: Receipts That Will Blow Your Mind
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tea party meeting today in Sandusky!
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CITIZENS' TOWN HALL MEETING
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Purpose: to mobilize voters for the 2010 elections in local, state and national races
Saturday January 30, 2010
2:00 PM
Lyman Harbor Waterfront Banquet Hall/Restaurant
1615 First Street
Sandusky, OH 44870
SPONSORS:
Perrysburg Patriots
We-by-For
The Children of Liberty
Back to Basics
Tea Partiers Move Forward!
The Tea Party movement, identified by some commentators as the first right-wing street-protest movement of our time, may be a reflection of how far populist sentiment has drifted away from the political left in the decades since the New Deal. “The original Populists were the ones who came up with the income tax,” Charles Postel, the author of “The Populist Vision,” said recently. “They were for the nationalization of everything. Their idea of a model institution was the Post Office.” Bryan believed that the “right to coin money and issue money is a function of the government,” and railed, most memorably, against the “cross of gold.” Yet few ideas stir the Tea Party faithful more than a fear of creeping nationalization and the dangers—both moral and practical—associated with printing money to suit momentary needs. The sponsors of Glenn Beck’s nightly history lessons on the depredations of American progressivism frequently include purveyors of gold.