Disrespectful?
As a vet, I just shake my head at the attitude that permits it.
We have boys and girls at risk in the field. We can’t even treat the symbol that they are dying for with some modest amount of respect.
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RANT: Why should anyone care what someone else puts in their body?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009http://deadspin.com/5155368/the-real-frauds-why-did-a+rods-teammates-even-bother-to-show-up
The Real Frauds: Why Did A-Rod’s Teammates Even Bother To Show Up?
By DAULERIO, 5:15 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
SI writer Jeff Pearlman offers his thoughts about the A-Rod press conference. Specifically, why are his teammates still supporting him?
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They sat like lemmings, one alongside the other alongside the other, nodding with Alex Rodriguez’s words, showing that-good or bad-he is one of them. That he is a New York Yankee.
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You’re Derek Jeter. You’ve presumably played the game cleanly since making your debut 14 years ago. You’re known as a stand-up guy and a hard-nosed shortstop who believes in the pure goodness of baseball. Why would you support ARod?
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Interesting question?
More importantly: Why should anyone care what someone else puts in their body?
Just don’t expect me to pick up the tab for your choices.
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RANT: Media bias in the “witch hunt”
Saturday, February 14, 2009http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1878509_1878508,00.html
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
TIME’s picks for the top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis includes everyone from former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and former President George W. Bush to the former CEO of Merrill Lynch and you — the American consumer. As you read our choices, we’d like to know who you think deserves the most blame, and the least. After voting on the relative guilt (or innocence) of each person, view the full results here.
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Typical media bias. Missing from the choices: Congress, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, or any big Democrat!
Argh!
Probably imho this mess gets laid at the feet of the Fed: Greenspan and “Helicopter” Ben.
Next biggest tranche of blame: Frank and Dodd.
Then the “regulators” FED (again), SEC, FTC, FDIC, and so forth and so on.
Finally, Bush and Clinton
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RANT: No one knows what is in the “stimulus bill”!
Friday, February 13, 2009DRUDGE: Dems Break Promise To Post Stimulus Bill Online For 48-Hour Public Airing…
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30697
SURPRISE! Dems Break Promise: Stimulus Bill to Floor Friday
by Connie Hair
02/12/2009
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In a press conference Thursday, the House Republican leadership spoke candidly about being kept out of the House-Senate conference on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid so-called “economic stimulus” bill. They confirmed they had not yet seen the text of the bill as of 4 p.m.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he was unsure how many Democrats would vote with Republicans again on this bill but that he thought Republicans “may get a few” Democrats to side with them. The fact that the Demos have now broken their promise to have the public able to see the bill for 48 hours may drive more Dems into the Republican camp.
“[I] don’t know, ‘cause they haven’t seen the bill either,” Boehner said.
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They don’t need to READ THE BILL they are voting on. Do they?
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RANT: Medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system {Breaking News}
Tuesday, February 10, 2009http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan
Commentary by Betsy McCaughey
reported on Bloomberg
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Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.
Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
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Surprise, surprise, surprise.
We’re like the Jim Neighbor’s character, the village idiot, and we’ll be “suprised” that this “stimulus bill” has a lot of “interesting ideas” in it.
DownSizeDC is right: Read The Bills (make the congresscritters read what they are voting on), One Subject At A Time (No mash ups), and all their other suggestions. (www.downsizedc.org)
This is a disaster. It has NO —- none, zero, nada —- redeeming value.
It’s going to send us down the road to debt and a ultimately societal collapse. Not in the next thirty minutes. Thankfully, I won’t have to pick up the pieces, but a terrible legacy to leave behind.
I wonder if the citizens of the Roman Empire saw it coming as well? Debt, Inflation, Circuses, collapse.
Privacy and security down the tubes. There are no computer break ins or leaks. The gooferment can’t secure its prisons, but your medical records will be just fine. Ask ARod how it feels to have private medical records discussed by the President on National TV!
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RANT: Was O’s “press conference” really a dog ‘n’ pony show?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009As I was forced to watch this “political theater” by Frau, I tried to do something useful — beat my best Sudoku time. No sense wasting time.
I was taken by a picture on Drudge of O and the teleprompter.
Then, watching the live event, (after messing up a puzzle and before starting a new one), i was SHOCKED!
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
Shocked with the realization that he was READING his “answers” to the questions!
Were the questions submitted in advance?
Were the “impromptu” answers pre-written for them?
Was this all a GIANT fraud? A dog ‘n’ pony show that was NOT what it was supposed to be. Reporters asking a President with controversial problem tough question?
Say it ain’t so, Joe. (Biden might actual blurt out the truth!)
Was this a big fraud? Was the media complicit in this “theater”?
Well!? I’d like some answers.
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RANT: Eliminate the SEC
Monday, February 9, 2009Since the SEC failed to catch Madoff, despite nine years of warnings, I think its $950 million annual budget is obviously a waste of money.
And, what genius eliminated the “Uptick Rule”? And, “mark to market” for illiquid securities; that value is obviously zero. And, on and on.
What’s Chapter 11 for a failed gooferment agency?
Right, give it a budget increase!
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RANT: About the pork fest “stimulus” bill
Sunday, February 8, 2009reinkefj has left a new comment on the post “Not as stimulating as we’d hopede“:
No? Tax cuts, when accompanied by spending cuts, don’t accomplish anything? Please explain how Kennedy’s “rising tide raises all boats” tax cut and Regan’s “government is the problem” tax cut ignited decades of prosperity. Guess it was just luck.
Personally, I’d like to see the congress critters ELIMINATE the corporate tax (corps don’t pay taxes they just pass them along to real people hidden in the prices), the death tax (grave robbers! destroy a person’s life’s work like the real family farm), and the regressive payroll tax (humorously referred to as the employee’s and employer’s share; like it all doesn’t come out of the employee’s pocket).
Of course, to pay for it, I’d close the Department of Agriculture (for rich psuedo farms), Commerce (for big business), HHS (meddling the State’s business and spend lots of money), … … did I pay for it yet? … … I’d end the psuedo-Drug War, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, shut down Selective Service, close Job Corps, Head Start, … … did I pay for it yet? … AMTRACK, Post Office, … … I must be close … … Repeal legal tender laws.
If we did that I’m SURE that there would be an economic boom that would rival any previous one.
I’d shut down the TSA, shut down welfare, and take the plastic bag off the Statue of Liberty. No illegal immigration problem if there are ZERO freebies. Everyone has to work. No free loaders in the life boat.
I’d task the FBI to review every fraudulent loan document and prosecute the fraudsters.
I think that would be a good first step! It’s easy once you get the country moving back towards Liberty!
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RANT: THE 1T$ poop
Saturday, February 7, 2009The so called stimulus bill is a national disgrace. We may, in fact, need a stimulus for the economy. But, that issue, imho, is very much in doubt. If so, the way to do that is to ELIMINATE the corporate income tax. Corporations don’t pay taxes; people do. Corporations just pass taxes along and hide them in the price of goods sold. TO everyone; even poor people. (Eliminate the corporate tax and watch the foreign government REALLY complain about unfair competition.) That will jump start the economy! DOn’t come back to New Jersey and try to “sell” this stimulus as a good thing. If you want me to EVER vote for a D agin. THe D’s ‘own” this mess.
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RANT: Tax revolt?
Friday, February 6, 2009FROM FACEBOOK:
Bill Buran’s Notes
Complete hypocrisy by the Democrates on Taxes
Yesterday at 8:03pm
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Now I am against all form of income taxes and certainly try to limit my exposure, but I still unwillingly pay…more and more each year.
Yet…when a Democrat going for higher office knowingly does not pay taxes while insisting we all need to pay more to “spread the wealth”…I guess just not his wealth.
This angers me more each day and gives more reason to vote them all out…to be fair this goes for all in Congress and the Senate.
If a Democrat evades paying taxes that must paint a bigger picture of this insane overburden tax system.
So when do we all just say NO and stop giving our fruits of labor (private property) to a dysfunctional government.
Tax Revolt anyone????…..seriously!
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MY RESPONSE:
It’s actually worse than anyone thinks. Inflation is the hidden tax on all of us. Taxes, via corporations, are hidden in all we buy. Some taxes, like gas, and “fees”, like real estate closing taxes or car excise taxes, are added onto the purchase prices and become invisible to the buyer. And, the only indicator of the total tax load is the total gooferment spend. See tax reduction without spending reduction is an illusion. Inflation, debt, regulation, and “fees” are the “evil stepsisters” of the taxes we pay. We can’t even fathom how much we pay in taxes. It’s theft by deception!
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RANT: A good five minute rant about socialism
Thursday, February 5, 2009
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RANT: Who’s the “worst” President?
Sunday, February 1, 2009Well, imho, we need a few decades to properly evaluate the “worst” label.
There were the fellows who tried — Eisenhower (Identified the Military Industrial complex) and Regan (Couldn’t control the Congressional spending).
There was Carter whos was merely incompetent; not evil.
Bush41 reneged on “read my lips, no new taxes”.
Clinton was too busy with intens to kill or capture Bin Laden; that might have prevented 9/11. Clinton (“I did not have sex with that woman” and parsing the word ‘is’) set a new low for personal conduct. And, was a negative moral influence on a generation.
Bush43 was another incompetent big G socialist.
Now we can get into the competition for the “worst”! Runners up:
Wilson, who campaigned on peace, instituted the draft, signed the Federal Reserve act, and immediately led us into WW1 which set the table for WW2.
FDR, who maneuvered us into WW2 via Pearl Harbor and entrenched Socialistic Big Government.
Truman who dropped the A-bomb on civilians.
BUT, the “worst” has to be Lincoln.
(1) The War of Northern Aggression. What you call the Civil War. What some call the Second American Revolution. There is no Constitutional, legal, or moral justification for this war on “his” own citizens. That alone would rocket him too the top of the list.
(2) Income tax to pay for that war. Government debt too. And, a draft for poor folks to fight the war; rich people could buy their way out.
(3) Freedom of Press savaged when editors dared to criticism him.
(4) Atrocities against civilian populations like Sherman’s “March to the Sea”.
(5) Single handedly destroying the concept of a Union of Equals amd morphing into the USA as the tyrant state.
And, don’t forget, he want to send all the “Negros” back to Africa. A racist among his other “endearing” qualities.
Slavery was a smokescreen! It wasn’t about slavery. The rest of the world, for the most part, eliminated slavery peacefully. At the time of the war, there had been plans to buy all the slaves and free them. It was a labor model that was unsustainable.
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RANT: Anti-abortion ad reject for the Superbowl
Sunday, February 1, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87440
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c
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“NBC claims it doesn’t allow advocacy ads, but that’s not true,” Burch said. “They were willing to air an ad by PETA if they would simply tone down the sexual suggestiveness. Our ad is far less provocative, and hardly controversial by comparison.”
He said, unlike the salacious PETA commercial, the pro-life ad is clean and has a positive message.
“There is nothing objectionable in this positive, life-affirming advertisement,” Burch said. “We show a beautiful ultrasound, something NBC’s parent company GE has done for years. We congratulate Barack Obama on becoming the first African-American President. And we simply ask people to imagine the potential of every human life.”
Concerned individuals may send comments about NBC’s decision to Victoria Morgan, vice president of advertising standards at NBC Universal, or call (212) 664-4267.
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“Mainstream Media” doesn’t let anyone speak that doesn’t conform to their agenda.
Lucky we have the inet to bypass them!
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RANT: Yet another mistake in the “justice system”
Sunday, February 1, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090131/D961PS281.html
Wis. man freed 23 years after wrongful conviction
Jan 30, 7:36 PM (ET)
By DINESH RAMDE and TODD RICHMOND
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – A man sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman in 1984 had his conviction overturned and was released Friday on a personal recognizance bond after spending 23 years behind bars.
Robert Lee Stinson, 44, of Milwaukee, walked out of the New Lisbon Correctional Institution in street clothes and hugged his sister and members of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. A judge vacated the sentence after the Project argued that bite-mark analysis and DNA evidence that didn’t match evidence from the crime scene, defense attorney Byron Lichstein said.
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Now, would anyone like to talk about the “death penalty”?
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RANT: Smoot Hawley — the 2009 version?
Saturday, January 31, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090131/D9624PL00.html
Obama facing dilemma over protectionism in bill
Jan 31, 8:01 AM (ET)
By DESMOND BUTLER
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Less than two weeks into office, President Barack Obama faces a dilemma over protectionist provisions in a massive economic stimulus bill: Backing the measures could set off a trade war, while opposing them could trigger a backlash from his supporters.
The choice involves “buy American” provisions attached to White House-backed stimulus legislation moving through Congress. They would require major public works projects to favor U.S. steel, iron and manufacturing over imports.
Some Democratic lawmakers and interest groups allied to the president support the measures, but international allies and trading partners are warning that favoring U.S. companies would breach U.S. trade commitments and could set off tit-for-tat countermeasures around the world.
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What bunch of idiots we have in Congress.
Did anyone read about the Great Depression and Smoot Hawley?
The mere passage of that was the trigger that set off the Great Depression. That didn’t end until WW2.
How stupid are they?
Warm up the lines to the congress critters!
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RANT: Media Bias? What Media bias?
Saturday, January 31, 2009http://www.mrc.org/press/2009/press20090129.asp
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 26, 2009 CONTACT: COLLEEN O’BOYLE or TIM SCHEIDERER AT 703.683.5004
Bozell: ABC’s Stephanopoulos Must Recuse Himself From Any Reporting Involving The Obama Administration
This Week host owes an explanation for his daily strategy phone calls with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Tuesday’s Politico broke the news that ABC News’s Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC’s Sunday morning news show This Week George Stephanopoulos has daily phone discussions with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during which he helps formulate and shape the thoughts of and messaging for Emmanuel and the Barack Obama Administration. And that he has had these conversations with Emanuel throughout his tenure at ABC.
CNN liberal pundits Paul Begala and James Carville also participate in the daily round robin telephonic strategy sessions. In the article, Begala said he often can’t remember the originator of any particular insight, and is quoted as saying “We talk so much — was this my idea that James changed, or was this George’s observation that Rahm tweaked?”
Stephanopoulos first joined ABC News as an analyst in 1997. He was serving as a fill-in anchor by 2001 and became host of This Week in September of 2002. When named to what would seem to be an unrealistic post for him in June of that year, Stephanopoulos asserted “If I were biased, I don’t believe I would have gotten the job.”
Emanuel was elected a Democratic Congressman from Illinois in November 2002. As head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee he helped the Party retake control of the House in 2006.
And Emanuel accomplished all of it with the daily assistance of ABC News’s Stephanopoulos. And he continues to receive Stephanopoulos’ help in his new role as President Obama’s Chief of Staff.
Brent Bozell:
“What’s worse than the liberal media’s sycophantic coverage of President Barack Obama? ABC’s George Stephanopoulos actively helping design and deliver the Administration’s strategy and message – which he is then charged with reporting.
“Will Stephanopoulos be critical of the White House’s plans when he spends every morning helping to craft them? Not likely. He must from this point forward recuse himself from any reporting involving the Obama Administration.
“For Stephanopoulos, the line between journalist and liberal strategist would be completely obliterated were it not for the fact that it apparently never existed at all. He didn’t fail in his attempt at transformation from liberal operative to journalist – he never made the effort.”
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RANT: O versus L? The typical false choice.
Friday, January 30, 2009http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18194_Page2.html
Are you with Obama or Rush?
By JONATHAN MARTIN
1/29/09 8:00 PM EST
Updated: 1/30/09 4:37 AM EST
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Politico has learned that tomorrow Americans United for Change, a liberal group, will begin airing radio ads in three states Obama won — Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada — with a tough question aimed at the GOP senators there: Will you side with Obama or Rush Limbaugh?
“Every Republican member of the House chose to take Rush Limbaugh’s advice,” says the narrator after playing the conservative talk radio giant’s declaration that he hopes Obama “fails.”
“Every Republican voted with Limbaugh — and against creating 4 million new American jobs. We can understand why a extreme partisan like Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama’s Jobs program to fail — but the members of Congress elected to represent the citizens in their districts? That’s another matter. Now the Obama plan goes to the Senate, and the question is: Will our Senator”—here the ad is tailored by state to name George Voinovich in Ohio, Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, and John Ensign in Nevada—”side with Rush Limbaugh too?”
Asked to respond, Limbaugh had a message for his party.
“Senate Republicans need to understand this is not about me,” he wrote in an email. “It is about them, about intimidating them, especially after the show of unity in House. It is about the 2010 and 2012 elections. This is an opportunity for Republicans to redefine themselves after a few years of wandering aimlessly looking for a ‘brand’ and identity.”
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Senate Republicans acknowledge that they’ll lose some of their members on the first vote.
“We’re in a little different spot than the House in that we have a handful of Republicans who have all but committed to supporting the package,” said a Senate GOP aide.
The aide declined to say who, but speculation on both sides of the aisle is centered on a group of northeasterners — Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Sen. Judd Gregg (NH) and Specter.
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Everyone should be real clear. The “stimulus” bill is not about stimulus, jobs, or benefits for the “folks”.
It’s about socialism, pork spending, and making future voters for the democratic party.
Rahm told you that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
We’ve been hustled before — the Bush pre-rebate, the TARP, and now this!
And, the ad offers a false choice — O versus L?
I’m with neither.
The Republican Party NOW, when it’s out of power wants to “brand” itself as the party of smaller gooferment again. Where were they for eight years? We have the TSA, deficits, and out of control spending. All caused by a President who wouldn’t veto anything.
And, O wants to remake America on the basis of he “won” an election. Hey, guess what, more folks didn’t vote than voted. So you were elected by 28% to 24%. That should tell you that your plurality is very small.
More than half the Americans know they are getting screwed no matter which “side” won.
Not that there is much difference between EITHER “side”!
In this case, I am against the “gooferment enlargement” package.
You want to restart the economy. Shrink gooferment — Nuke the TSA, Kill whole gooferment department and agencies, stop the psuedo drug war, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, and return to normal. Cut the corporate tax to ZERO forever. It’s a sham; only real people pay taxes. Corporate taxes hide how much the gooferment is stealing from us.
Argh!
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RANT: Fixing a broken leg? Corporations receiving bailouts look overseas
Wednesday, January 28, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090116/D95OHIB80.html
Report: Over 8 in 10 corporations have tax havens
Jan 16, 6:28 PM (ET)
By KEN THOMAS
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Eighty-three of the nation’s 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp. (NWSA), had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2007, and some of the companies received federal bailout funding, a government watchdog said Friday.
The Government Accountability Office released a report that said Bank of America Inc., Citigroup Inc. (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) all had more than 100 units in countries that maintain low or no taxes. The three financial institutions were included in the $700 billion financial bailout approved by Congress.
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Corporations are a product of the gooferment. Why are we surprised when they take bailout money and setup tax shelters? I’m sure the congresscritters will “fix” this! (Fix in the sense of amputating the broken leg!)
Argh!
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RANT: Tax dodger as Treasury secretary
Tuesday, January 27, 2009NEWS ALERT
from The Wall Street Journal
Jan. 26, 2009
The Senate has confirmed Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. The 60-34 vote puts Geithner at the helm of President Barack Obama’s plan to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis in three generations. It also dislodges one of Obama’s most troubled nominations.
Some senators were concerned that Geithner, who would oversee the Internal Revenue Service, did not pay some taxes until he had been tapped to the president’s Cabinet. Geithner called it an unintentional oversight and settled his $34,000 overdue tax bill. Obama and others supporting Geithner’s nomination said the nation couldn’t afford to wait for Obama to search for another nominee to run the Treasury Department.
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The Senate is criminally neglecting its responsibility imho. Not that it matters to the Washington DC gang. At least, the Mafia followed its own rules.
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RANT: “Birth Control” is stimulus.
Monday, January 26, 2009FROM THE DRUDGE REPORT
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm
PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
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PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
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SOOOOOooooooo….
The “stimulus package” covers any social engineering that they want to do!
Get ready for more nonsense under that “cover”.
Here’s an insight into their “liberal” philosophy: “Humans are an expense”. Wonder when abortion, eugenics, and killing off the elderly come in? After all one way to control Medicare “costs” is to get rid of those expensive old “senior citizens”. But, oh year, they can vote. We need to pick on those that can’t!
Argh!
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RANT: FEDEX users USPS?
Friday, January 23, 2009From the FedEx website tracking my VistaPrint cards
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All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location
To display the shipment travel activity in local time of the scan, please select “Local Scan Time” time zone option.
Date/Time Activity Location Details
Jan 22, 2009 3:17 AM Departed FedEx location EDISON, NJ
Jan 22, 2009 12:00 AM Package data transmitted to USPS KENDALL PARK, NJ
Jan 21, 2009 11:59 AM Arrived at FedEx location EDISON, NJ
Jan 21, 2009 2:11 AM Departed FedEx location MARTINSBURG, WV
Jan 21, 2009 2:42 AM Arrived at FedEx location MARTINSBURG, WV
Jan 16, 2009 11:07 PM Departed FedEx location BELLEVILLE, MI
Jan 16, 2009 9:04 PM Arrived at FedEx location BELLEVILLE, MI
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Why not just mail it from MI?
Gooferment and FedEx.
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RANT: possibility some GITMO prisoners might be set free in America
Friday, January 23, 2009http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17841_Page2.html
Why the Gitmo policies may not change
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 1/23/09 4:28 AM EST
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5. The orders downplay the possibility that some prisoners might be set free in America.
Obama ordered that when Guantanamo closes, any remaining inmates “be returned to their home country, released, transferred to a third country, or transferred to another United States detention facility in a manner consistent with law and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.” But Obama’s wordsmiths seem to have deliberately trimmed out any explicit mention of the explosive possibility of freeing prisoners on American soil.
While Obama’s aides seem to prefer trying prisoners in civil courts or freeing them abroad, there are no obvious charges to be filed against some of the detainees. Once Guantanamo closes, letting them loose in the U.S. may be the only option if other countries won’t take them.
Craig said he was “hopeful” that other governments will take many of the detainees, but some nations may not step up until the U.S. does. “One question a lot of countries keep asking is, ‘How many are you going to take?” Waxman said. “There may be some countries that want to earn some credit [with the] new administration…but I don’t expect this problem to go away.”
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I’m speechless!
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RANT: O’s inauguration and private jets
Friday, January 23, 2009http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012009/content/01125104.guest.html
Story #8: Six Hundred Private Jets Land in DC for Inaugural
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RUSH: Now, while this is happening, while the balls for the average guy are being cancelled, from the Wall Street Journal: A record number of private jets landed in the Washington area for the inaugural. “At a time of financial crisis and Green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet. According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in D.C. for the inauguration. The runway at Washington Dulles was closed Saturday to allow as many as 100 small planes to park. And the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said it expected a total of 500 small jets to land from Jan. 16 through Jan 21. ‘That would set a record, topping the 300 the airport accommodated for President George W. Bush’s 2004 inaugural,’ an Airports Authority says in the article.
Of course, flying private to a celebration of a populist, pro-environment President is a bit like the Detroit execs jetting to Washington for bailout money,” is it not?
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I like that last line.
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RANT: Officials at Occidental College challenged on Obama
Sunday, January 18, 2009http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86325
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
Eligibility battle rages on 3 fronts
Court, Congress and college challenged on constitutionality
Posted: January 18, 2009
12:05 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
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Officials at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., have been served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama’s attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national – in one of three fronts now established by those contesting the president-elect’s constitutional eligibility for the Oval Office.
The Supreme Court and Congress also both are being challenged to address the worries that Obama doesn’t meet the requirements of the U.S. Constitution that the president be a “natural born” citizen.
WND has reported on a long list of legal cases raising questions over the issue, and several of those have reached the U.S. Supreme Court already. Justices have so far declined to give any of the cases full hearings on their merits, but another conference remains on the Supreme Court docket for Jan. 23 on the issue.
“If Obama is sworn in as president, we will file a Petition for Writ of ‘Quo Warranto,’ a case that will challenge Obama as being ineligible to serve as president because he is ‘not qualified,'” said Philip J. Berg, a lawyer who has brought several cases to court. Berg, whose information is on his ObamaCrimes.com website, indicated the issue isn’t going away.
Orly Taitz, a California lawyer whose dispute remains pending before the high court, agreed, noting that one of the hearings already is scheduled for the days following Obama’s inaugural on Tuesday.
Taitz said her arguments rest on precedents from both the California Supreme Court, which years ago removed a candidate for president from the ballot because he was only 34, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmation of that ruling. The Constitution requires a president to be 35.
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The biggest question was why, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as his campaign has stated, Obama hasn’t simply ordered it made available to settle the rumors.
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Why indeed? What’s to hide? Why not?
On Tuesday, do we have the final nail in the Constitution?
If at some point down the road, like all the other Presidential “dirty linen” it comes out that he was not a US citizen, it will proove Spponer correct about the Constitution.
Fascinating stuff!
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RANT: My comment on the Hudson River landing (UPdated: 20090117)
Friday, January 16, 2009May I point out that perhaps there was some luck involved, when the pilot “placed” the plane down on the Hudson River. (I don’t think it qualifies as “ditching”, “splashing”, or “crash landing”; too neatly done.) I watched with horror as the politicians arrived to tells us how “heroic” the police, fire, and other government responders were. Having watching the early coverage, the Ferry Captains were there “long” before any of the government troops were on site. The ferry passengers pitched right in. Business suits and all. I think those folks deserve the lion’s share of the credit for saving those passengers. All the media reports these people were way down the list for credit. That annoys me. And, I think it hides the true American spirit.
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UPDATE: 20090117 @ 9AM
Someone else noticed!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong10.html
The Takeover of New York Harbor
by A.D Lelong
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I looked at all the photographs of the scene. While the plane was still relatively afloat, the only responders I saw were the NY WATER WAYS vessels. The photos that showed governmental vessels were taken after the plane had sunk considerably, and most of the passengers had been put on the ferries.
On Friday morning at 11:40 AM Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference to honor the “first responders.” Behind him were cops, coast guard, fire officials – a whole platoon of uniformed men. Lost in the crowd were two skippers of the two ferries which responded first.
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Wake up, people! It’s the gooferment. They’ll certainly claim MORE than their share of the credit to justify financially raping the taxpayer.
And, did anyone notice the mayor’s press conference was partially in Spanish? Thus pandering to another voting block!!
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RANT: Feel sorry when anyone gets “screwed”
Monday, January 12, 2009Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:47 pm EST
Play clock was at zero for crucial Ravens first down
By Chris Chase
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Another game, another officiating error in the NFL.
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Guess we need an automated “goal light” that “prevents” the game from proceeding.
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