http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aC7VY11v6aMw
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Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, acting on a pledge to support nuclear power, will propose tripling loan guarantees for new reactors to more than $54 billion, two people familiar with the plan said.
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As much as I like nukes, we can’t afford it. And, it’s more socialism!
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Posted by reinkefj
White House asks Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial
BY Kenneth R. Bazinet, Adam Lisberg and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally Published:Thursday, January 28th 2010, 8:04 PM
Updated: Thursday, January 28th 2010, 9:14 PM
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The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.
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Argh!
Last I checked the Justice Department WORKED FOR the White House?
I think I’d have different conversation than “asking”. A long the lines of “Bring me the head of the idiot who decide this!”
Does Holder have pictures of OBH44 with the proverbial goat?
How is he keeping his job?
Argh!
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reinkefj has left a new comment on the post “A spending freeze? Is he kidding me?”:
Amazing when the wacko left and the wacko right agree, a spending freeze is just dumb. What he needs to do is what he promised in the campaign. Sit down with the Federal budget and a red pen.
Freezing spending at current levels is just enshrining the past mistakes.
imho, for example, milk and sugar price supports. We pay money so that people have to pay higher prices?
imho, minimum wage, that puts minority youths out of work. If there is a marginal worker, he’s out as opposed to making a few bucks. And, it cost the taxpayers in all sorts of ways.
imho, military bases in 170 countries. Let have some base closings in strange places.
That’s the way to “freeze” spending.
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It merely “freezes” the increased spending of the past decade. Argh!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/graph_of_the_day_for_january_2_8.html
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President Obama’s FY 2010 budget request (including stimulus) as percentage increases over FY 2009, by discretionary category (i.e., not including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or TARP):
Education: +209%
Commerce: +131%
Energy: +92.6%
Transportation: +70.8%
HUD: +40.8%
Labor: +39.5%
Interior: +32.7%
Agriculture: +30.4%
HHS: +28.0%
Veterans: +13.8%
International: +11.9%
Justice: +8.9%
Treasury: +8.7%
Defense: +2.5%
Source: The White House (Table S-12)
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Something to remember every time some one talks about “BHO44’s Freeze”.
“After the horse is gone” comes to mind!
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http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100119/480/9131bc77c7534185bdbf267bb4ab8497/
Tue Jan 19, 10:54 AM ET
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks to the media after a discussion with 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.
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What was the derisive term TELEPROMPTER instead of PRESIDENT. TOTUS?
Can he ever be unscripted?
If the media had shown this before the election, maybe we’d be screaming about McCain and stuff?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100122/D9DCJHOG1.html
About 600 car dealers try to get businesses back
Jan 22, 12:34 AM (ET)
By TOM KRISHER
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India Johnson, an arbitration association senior vice president who is in charge of the hearings, said she expects 700 to 800 dealers to seek binding arbitration before the deadline. Not all will get hearings, she said. Some filed paperwork to preserve their appeal but may not proceed, while others may settle with the automakers before hearings, she said. The hearings, which must be held in the dealership’s home state, are likely to cost both sides a lot of money. Some dealers may lack cash to pursue them because they’ve closed their businesses or aren’t making as much as they once did. Wolf said dealers who appeal are gambling the legal fees in an effort to keep franchise agreements that alone are worth $500,000 to more than $2 million. The nonprofit arbitration association will do all it can to keep costs down, Johnson said. In some cases, dealers may represent themselves without an attorney, and arbitrators in some cases may cut their hourly rates, she said.
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has said the automaker may challenge the constitutionality of the arbitration law in federal court, but spokeswoman Kathy Graham said Thursday that no decision has been made.
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Disclaimer: Frau lost 5k in GM bonds while America lost its liberty!
Clearly, the “auto company bailout” was:
Obama, in the style of FDR, seized the economy. And, like fascists and socialists have always found out, it doesn’t work. The economy is in the toilet. In a large part, due to the uncertainty that the Obama administration has introduced. Tax your bonus, windfall profits tax, taxes upon taxes, cap ‘n’ tax, healthcare taxes — all scare private investment to the side lines.
Argh!
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WITH APOLOGIES TO ONE OF MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS:
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Coakley took the hit, but Obama can’t let one vote derail his agenda and his Presidency. Seat Brown, then have the House pass the Senate bill as is and sign it before the State of the Union address.
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It’s NOT just one vote.
This bill is a DISASTER. Both personally and for the country. It’s not about “heath”, “health care”, or even “health care insurance”. It’s about putting the gooferment in charge of people’s decisions about their lives.
Personally, my wife needs her doctors to work hard on her case; not playing games to satisfy some gooferment bureaucrat deciding what care she will get.
Nationally, we can’t afford this monstrosity. The gooferment already “runs” Medicare (broke!), Medicaid (breaking Fed and States), the VA (hated by most vets and underfunded), and Indian Health System (hated and goes broke every June). Let them “fix” one of those and then revisit the issue.
As a little L libertarian, I’d prefer that they just leaves us alone. If they can’t do that, how about some things that EVERYONE can agree on: (1) interstate competition; (2) eliminate the unfavorable tax treatment on self-purchased health care insurance; and (3) some limits on malpractice awards?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,673192,00.html
01/21/2010
The World from Berlin
The World Bids Farewell to Obama
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Center-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung writes on Thursday:
“Obama made a serious misjudgement. Right at the beginning of his first year in office, he saved the banks, rescued the automobile industry from collapse and passed a huge economic stimulus package. He had hoped that these enormous deeds would give him the space to address those issues which are dearest to him: health care reform, climate change and investment in education.”
“Those issues, however, are clearly not priorities for people in the US at the moment. Scott Brown campaigned on two promises, both of which apparently struck a nerve with the electorate. He wants to block health care reform and he wants to find ways to reduce the enormous budget deficit. It is here where the roots of dissatisfaction with Obama are to be found. His reform agenda, in its current form, is highly suspect to Americans. And they have the impression that, if he continues piling up debt, he will be gambling away the country’s future.”
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He’s misjudged the meaning of his election. And, for all the talk of tough Chicago style politics, he wasn’t so tough. He caved to Wall Street. He should have said to little Timmy, Helicopter Ben, the Labor Unions, the Trial lawyers, Nancy, and Harry: “Howdy, now get lost!”. They sunk him. Along with Big Sis, and all the hangers on weighing him down. I believe he missed one key factor. Wall Street has a unique survival mechanism. Self-preservation. If he had zipped the public purse form the bail outs — all of them — magic would have happened. All these folks with “no way to survive” would have figured it out WITHOUT a bail out. And, after the first one was rejected, there would have been NO QUEUE for more “worthy contenders”.
He should have focused on the message of Bill Clinton. Like Kennedy, he could have had the Obama tax cut to small business. Figure out a complicated formula to ensure it went only to the little guys. They make the jobs any way. Then go after the sugar and milk price supports to bring down prices to the people. Then, repeal the minimum wage and put youngsters back to work. Minorities would have been helped. He could have gone after the absurd “war on some drugs” and emptied the prisons of non-violent drug offenders.
Then, maybe he could have done all sorts of good things. He went for the big brass ring and fell off the ride. He should have, in consultant speak, gone after the low hanging fruit. Quick easy wins that score big points.
Sad.
All glory fades.
Seeking to be a JFK, he winds up a Carter. At least, he not a joke like Clinton. “Democratic” President don’t seem to work out too well.
(It is interesting how the UK, German, and International press is so much better than the US counterparts.)
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http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/01/haiti-has-brought-earthquakes-to-mind.html
My Life in Key West
Monday, January 18, 2010
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This Massachusetts election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat is both interesting and troublesome. The political pundits this morning are predicting the Republican will win. If so, the Democratic majority of 60 will be gone. And probably also the new healthcare bill.
What does this all reflect?
There is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in this country. Properly so. The economy is down. Unemployment is rampant. Foreclosures continue. The banks and insurance companies say screw you to the government and people.
The situation is much like that which causes earthquakes. Things have to move and move properly. If not, there is a glitch big time. An earthquake in one instance. A political upheaval in the other.
Something has to be done. And soon. We cannot much longer tolerate the abuse which is being heaped upon us as a people.
Obama, wake up! You can do it!
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BHO43 has forgotten the (Bill) Clinton doctrine. “It’s the economy stupid!” His “heath care” fiasco — which is not about health, health care, or health care insurance — it IS about putting the gooferment in control of people’s lives. To make a permanent dependence upon politicians for “medical care”. Along the way, in the tradition of good old Chicago politics, BHO43 and his co-conspirators can reward their firends, punish their enemies, and feather their own nests. Argh!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47719.html
January 17, 2010
Obama Promises $100 Million in Aid for Haiti
Posted by Laurence Vance on January 17, 2010 05:12 PM
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It sure is easy to spend money when it is not your own. How charitable of Obama to donate $100 million of other people’s money. But shouldn’t America do something to help Haiti? No, America shouldn’t do anything. This $100 million comes out of the pockets of American taxpayers. In a free society, no one should be forced to fund foreign aid to any country for any reason. But what about individual Americans, shouldn’t they do something? Individual Americans may do something and can do something, but it would be wrong to say that they should do something. Who is to say whether John Doe on Main Street in Topeka, Kansas, should donate to the Haiti relief effort? It would be nice if he did, but only God alone can say that he should.
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This is how I felt when I first heard it — robbed!
There are a lot charities that deserve our support. Voluntarily! SUre, President Obama can pledge 100 million. It’s not “HIS” 100 Million. It was ours.
I have less problem sending some of the military to help out. Like a hospital ship. Like “spare” troops sitting idle, “guarding” Arlington. But we have several wars going on.
I have no problem with VOLUNTARY charities. I do have a problem with “charities” that have no connection to Haiti that are soliciting. And, those with HIGH administrative rake-off. And, those like UNICEF that have an agenda.
I pray for the poor people of Haiti. But, you have to admit that the political corruption down there has made it a worse disaster.
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