Big Government's first post about the San Diego Document Dump showed a bank authorization to automatically pay monthly membership dues. That particular individual committed to paying ACORN $10 a month. Thousands of California residents have made similar commitments, adding up to substantial monthly revenue for ACORN. How an organization chooses to spend its members money says alot about that organization.
We're not entirely certain what the "Fertility Specialist Medical Group" or the "San Diego Reproductive Surgery Center" does, but we know that, in June, ACORN paid them more than $9,000. We also know that ACORN dumped the credit card statement detailing the charge into a public dumpster just days before the Attorney's General office was scheduled to visit.
No doubt, Mr. Lagstein has a good reason for this purchase. Or, at least, an explanation for how payments to a fertility clinic further the hopes and dreams of the poor and low-income families who have turned to ACORN for help. We'll be waiting along with the rest of you for the answer.
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Sexual abuse accusations by St. HOPE Academy students against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson were apparently covered up, possibly with "hush money," according to a 61-page report issued by congressional investigators.
Failure of school officials to report sexual abuse of minors violates California state law, investigative staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) noted in their report on the June firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin.
The allegations investigated by Walpin's office were "very serious," Grassley said in a statement, saying that evidence indicates a political motive for the IG's firing. "It seems a lot of people might have been interested in protecting the AmeriCorps program and the Mayor of Sacramento from an IG who was discovering some unpleasant facts."
Byron York of the Washington Examiner reported today that Obama administration officials tried to mislead the public about the reasons for the firing of Walpin. The Grassley-Issa report details how Walpin's IG staffers investigated charges that Johnson's lawyer and officials of the federally-funded St. HOPE program suppressed sexual-misconduct charges against the former NBA star who was elected mayor of California's capital city last year.
Walpin pressed for criminal prosecution of Johnson, an Obama supporter. Instead, a deal that allowed the mayor to avoid prosecution and repay federal grant money was approved by Alan Solomont, a major Democratic fundraiser who is chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that oversees the AmeriCorps volunteer program.
The Grassley-Issa report says that agents of the inspector's general office who investigated the St. HOPE sex-abuse charges "immediately recognized what appeared to be improper handling of this allegation . . . and unethical conduct by Mr. Johnson's attorney," Kevin Hiestand, who was also the mayor's business partner. The report also implicates D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee who one witness said acted as "fixer" for the St. HOPE program.
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The word HOPE is used a lot with the Obama-lites. But Chuck Knox had the last word: "Those who live in Hope, die in shit".
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"Hope is not a Method."
Author: General USA(Ret) DONN A. STARRY
The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the 'Hajj' or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama's cousin, Omran.
On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.
Obama, the mother of the American president's father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.
About two million Muslims converge on Mecca each year for the Hajj pilgrimage but Saudi officials were expecting fewer pilgrims this year due to the threat of the H1N1 virus known as swine flu.
Crowds of pilgrims have been converging on the holy city of Mecca in recent days, and started the Hajj rites on Wednesday.
At the weekend, Saudi health authorities said that four people attending the Hajj had died from the H1N1 virus but sought to play down the risk.
The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is an obligation for all able-bodied Muslims to attend at least once during their lives, provided they can afford it.
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I recall reports that she's not Muslim and is white, this is a BAD idea.
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It's his paternal grandmother. The maternal grandmother, the white one, the typical white racist, who raised him, died the week before the election. Barry was to busy to visit her death bed. She knew something.
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hmmm - it appears we may have been misled
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If she is a muslim then she is good to go here and any compalints are just sour grapes. We, the United Stated, elected a racist Muslim bigot. His grandmother, no matter the slime he is, is off limits. I firmly believe we need to be better than the left and not defile the extended family, this is what makes us better than the bitter left.
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spot on 49pan.
plenty of stink in the man himself. no need to stray afield.
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The latest initiative by our "Children's Secretary", Ed Balls, is to abolish what remains of fact-based teaching of history and geography in our schools. He plans to "roll them together into themed lessons on social issues such as global warming" (funny how that seems to seep into everything nowadays).
The ruthless drive of educational progressives to eliminate history-teaching from schools has been under way since the 1960s. The aim is to ensure that children know nothing about their country's past or how the world came to be as it is, leaving their minds blankly open to whatever vacuous progressive claptrap is fed to them.
In his desire to chuck history onto what Lenin called "the scrapheap of history", Mr Balls may have to make an exception, however. A campaign is now being mounted in the European Parliament to make it compulsory for children to be taught the history of the EU. According to Mario David, the Portuguese MEP leading the campaign and a former chief of staff to the Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso, it Is vital to counter all the "lying, cheating and mistrust" that surrounds the EU in the minds of the peoples of Europe. Our children must therefore be indoctrinated accordingly.
A year or two back, when Richard North and I were writing a comprehensive history of "the European project", The Great Deception, we were astonished to find just how horrendously misleading is the account of that history peddled by the EU itself on its Europa website. From laying claim to Churchill as father of the EU to consistently obscuring the nature of the key role played by Jean Monnet, they have come up with an official version of the origins of their "project" which bears virtually no relation to the facts. Doubtless this is just the sort of history which Mr Balls will be happy to allow in our schools -- because "fact-based" it isn't.
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Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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You have to hand it to them KGB ideological subversion planners. They were successful beyond their wildest dreams, though post mortem. The West seems to be poised on a suicide.
Hat tip, instapundit
...the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security--432 cabinet members in all.
The Obama administration claims that its $787 billion economic stimulus program has "created or saved" 640,329 jobs across the country, with more to come. That breathtaking figure includes 24,448 jobs in Illinois.
Really? Those employment claims are looking like a snow job.
As the Tribune's Bob Secter and Erika Slife recently reported, the figures for Illinois don't come close to adding up.
State and federal officials claimed that the stimulus money had saved 473 education jobs in North Chicago. But the school district there employs only 290 people. Officials claimed 166 jobs were saved in Wilmette schools. The real number: 0. The 382 jobs supposedly saved in Dolton-Riverdale? That's 142 more people than the school district employs. And on and on. The Chicago Way - they counted the dead people that work in these schools.
Across the country, journalists and government watchdogs are finding the same yawning gap between stimulus claim and stimulus reality.
Alabama housing authority officials said that a $540,071 grant would create 7,280 jobs. They were off by only 7,266 jobs, the Birmingham News reported.
ABC News reported that Moore's Shoes & Services in Campbellsville, Ky., claimed nine jobs were created from an $890 grant for nine pairs of work boots for the Army Corps of Engineers. Yes, $890. No zeros are missing.
The California State University system supposedly saved 26,156 jobs -- but that's more than half the university's statewide work force.
The Wall Street Journal found hundreds of reports that, taken together, artificially inflated the stimulus claims by at least 20,000 jobs. College work-study money? Jobs saved! Money spent to give some folks modest raises? Jobs saved!
The government's Web site, Recovery.gov, reported that 30 jobs were saved or created in Arizona's 15th Congressional District. Except Arizona has only eight congressional districts. Memo to Washington: There is no 99th Congressional District in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In all, officials claimed jobs were created in more than 400 phantom congressional districts, according to ABC News.
So is this fraud or wishful thinking or rampant sloppiness?
Here's the most benign explanation: Tens of thousands of public and private entities have received money. There is a long, tedious and apparently confusing government form to fill out. Obama folks have been keen on showing that the billions they've shoveled out have gone to good purpose.
Result: Grateful locals happily reported magnificent results and a grateful administration didn't ask any questions. Probably because hard questions -- the kind being asked by reporters -- show that a lot of stimulus money has not been targeted at economic stimulation. It has been old-fashioned government largesse.
Trying to measure if a job has been "saved" by a federal windfall is like trying to find the pea in a shell game. Chances are you're going to be fooled. If the money covered a worker's paycheck for a few weeks, is that a job saved? No. But let's count it anyway!
Administration officials say they're scrambling to fix the problems. But their credibility on the impact of stimulus spending at this point has been badly wounded.
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I read the first few lines yestereday and just had to stop. This is what passes for un-biased news.
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And the left wonders why conservatives are fed up with the MSM. I don't care what she believes..just don't confuse news reporting with news contorting.
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The problem with Oklahoma is..its full of Okies. If we cannot breed them out, we will buy them out. We will institute...Prima Knocker...first knocker - its an old tradition of going door to door to subtly shape opinions before election season.
Comes the news that Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore of the 3rd district of Kansas is not running for reelection. Interesting. Congressman Moore was reelected by a 56%-40% margin in 2008, and Barack Obama carried his district 51%-48%, while losing the other three congressional districts in Kansas.
There could be many plausible reasons for Moore to retire from Congress. He turns 65 in 2010 and at the end of his term will have served 12 years in Congress. He served 12 years as Johnson County District Attorney in 1976-88, and so he's devoted more than half his working lifetime to public service. Serving in Congress means having to go back and forth between your district and Washington all the time (and a quick look at a travel website shows only two flights per day between Reagan National and Kansas City International), constantly being reachable by your constituents, etc., etc.
All that said, this still seems an ominous sign for congressional Democrats. Moore was first elected in 1998 when he beat one-term incumbent Vince Snowbarger. Moore profited from a bitter split in the Republican party between hard-line opponents of abortion (including Snowbarger) and moderates based in Johnson County. That split persisted for a decade; the current governor of Kansas, Mark Parkinson, is a longtime moderate Republican and sometime state legislator who was chosen as a ticket-mate by Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius and who succeeded her when she resigned to become Health and Human Services Secretary; Parkinson has said he will not run for a full term in 2010.
Moore's moderate mien and voting record, his history of winning votes in Johnson County and internecine Republican fighting enabled him to win reelection five times. He won 65%-34% in 2006, his best showing, and against challenger Nick Jordan, a moderate touted by national Republicans, he won by the very solid margin of 56%-40%. Moore was undoubtedly helped by the Obama candidacy in 2008 in the three distinct parts of the district.
●In Wyandotte County, which includes Kansas City, Kansas, with its black community; turnout was up 7% (despite zero population growth) between 2004 and 2008 and Obama carried the county 70%-29%, with a 23,000-vote margin.
●Historically Republican Johnson County, containing many of the affluent suburbs of metro Kansas City, is now the largest and highest-voting county in Kansas. Turnout in 2008 was up 10% from 2004. In that year Johnson County voted 61%-38% for George W. Bush; in 2008 it voted only 54%-45% for John McCain. The Republican margin was cut from 60,000 to 25,000--barely enough to offset the Obama margin in much smaller Wyandotte County. Johnson County has had robust population growth (8% in 2004-08) and turnout seems likely to be robust in this affluent area in 2010.
●The 3rd district also includes part of Douglas County, including most of the old New England Yankee-established town of Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas. Historically Douglas County was Republican and in presidential elections from 1920 to 1988 voted Democratic only once, in 1964. But starting in 1992 it has voted Democratic in every presidential election. Kansas was not a target state, so we can assume that the Obama campaign did not spend lavishly on organization here; even so, turnout was up 7% countywide in 2008 over 2004, and the Democratic margin increased from 57%-41% to 64%-34%. In popular votes the margin doubled from 8,000 votes to 16,000 votes.
That's how the three parts of the district voted in 2008. Now look at the prospects for each of them in 2010 from Dennis Moore's point of view, keeping in mind current public opinion polling and the results in the actual elections held in 2009. In Wyandotte County, black turnout is likely to be sharply down from 2008, when Americans elected our first African-American president. Moore's vote for House Democrats' cap-and-trade bill could be a liability if Republicans can convince lower-income voters that it means higher utility rates for them. In Johnson County, opposition to the big government programs of the Obama administration and congressional Democratic leaders is likely to produce sharply increased Republican percentages and could produce robust offyear turnout. Moore's vote for the House Democrats' health care bill is likely to be a political liability here. In Douglas County, turnout among students and college town denizens is likely to be off, particularly among those voters who hoped that Obama's installation would produce a speedy end to American involvement in Iraq. Meanwhile, it seems unlikely that Kansas Republicans will be riven by the abortion war that raged between 1998 and 2006, as economic issues have overwhelmed cultural issues in voters' minds.
In other words, 2010 undoubtedly looks like an uphill race for Dennis Moore. By announcing his retirement, he is free to vote for House Democratic leaders' unpopular legislation without political repercussion and is spared the trouble of extensive campaigning. That's fine for him. But if other Democratic incumbents in marginal districts--and, remember, the 3rd district voted for Obama--choose to follow Moore's course, that could make it much harder to Democrats to maintain a big majority in the House and could make it easier for Republicans to gain most or all of the 41 seats they need to win a majority there.
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Carter redux. By 1979, all but one of the key elements of his 1976 coalition had deserted the Wimp:
--labor and lefties dumped him for Teddy Kennedy
--jews abandoned him over Camp David
--urban ethnics and white southerners were ready to leave the Democratic Party altogether or were up for grabs
Only afr-amers stuck by Carter. Same is happening for Obambi, with one huge exception: he and Rahm & Co. have been determined to show they're the best friend that organized labor has had in this country in the last half century.
You can bet that the next stimulus (and many other initiatives) from Obambi, Rahm & Co. will shower the SEIU with money and favors.
SEIU, NEA, UAW et al are the constituency that matters for Obambi-- for campaign cash, for mobilizing turnout on election day, for crushing any Kennedy-esque rivals to Obambi in 2012.
The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat.
A strong, self-sufficient woman, Palin eschews liberal protection. Drop her off in the Alaskan bush and she'll survive just fine, thank you very much. Palin doesn't need or want anything from liberals -- not hate crimes legislation that coddles her, and not abortion, which she abhors.
Palin is a woman of deep and abiding faith. She takes no marching orders from messiah-like wannabes like Obama.
And so the Left must try to destroy her. And they are doing this in the most malicious of ways: by symbolically raping her.
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Wow. this is good and shines a bright light on the practices of the left.
Read it - read it all.
Just like a perpetuator, they dehumanize her by objectifying her body. They undress her with their eyes.
They turn her into a piece of ass.
Liberals do this by calling her a c__t, ogling her legs, demeaning her with names like "slutty flight attendant" and "Trailer Park Barbie," and exposing her flesh on the cover of Newsweek.
The closer the Democratic Congress' radical health package gets to enactment, the less popular it becomes. The American people smell a rat.
'It's not going to be a perfect bill, but it's going to be a very important starting point," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said on CNN over the weekend after 60 senators voted to open debate on radically transforming the U.S. health care system. That fact is what is increasingly spooking the American people, as well it should, is: Where will this massively expensive "starting point" lead us?
The Democrats' health care revolution, which right now looks like it will include a government-run option that could cripple the health insurance industry, is sinking in approval. The newest Rasmussen poll finds public support down to 38% -- falling for the first time below 41%. Of the 56% who now oppose the plan, 43% are "strongly opposed." Among senior citizens, 60% are against it.
People clearly don't believe the hype about this plan. Only 16% say they think it will lower health care costs -- one of its well-advertised purposes -- with 60% saying it will increase costs. And 54% think quality of care will decline. Rasmussen also found that 63% want a guarantee that no one be forced to change his or her coverage. That's the wrong question; the onerous new regulations will change the world of health insurance even without a public option.
The president said it countless times: "If you like the health coverage you have, you can keep it." But in this new world your current premiums will skyrocket; the new regs make that unavoidable. Moreover, your employer may change your plan, or find a way to drop coverage.
In that new world, you may well stop liking the health coverage you have -- and not like the alternatives much either.
This same poll suggests that the people understand this: 66% say more free-market competition will lower health costs more effectively than government.
The voters also know -- as does the Congressional Budget Office -- that the less-than-a-trillion-dollars assurances being bandied about by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are right out of Alice in Wonderland. Republicans say $2.5 trillion is a more realistic price tag.
The people also know that the charges from Sen. Chuck Schumer and his colleagues of GOP status-quoism, that Republicans "haven't put any alternative on the floor," are bunk.
Since, as Rasmussen found, two-thirds of voters think market solutions will lower costs, the party running Congress has no interest in letting the GOP float money-saving ideas such as tort reform to rein in all those trial-lawyer Democratic Party contributors. Or like opening the doors to interstate health insurance competition.
Here's the proof: The process has degenerated into taxpayer-financed payoffs for moderate Democrats who don't want to be held accountable for wrecking the private insurance that 200 million Americans are happy to have. Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's wad of cash, for instance, has been fattened to $300 million.
What a sorry spectacle it will be if Americans allow their elected representatives to be bribed into buying the country a one-way ticket toward socialized medicine.
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The one thing that puzzles me (not really) is that in all this talk about "fixing" health insurance, a major insurance component of health care costs is never mentioned.
Where is the government run MALPRACTICE insurance program that will provide MDs with much cheaper insurance so that they can pass along savings? Why is this beast not attacked in the same way that the drug companies are about THEIR high costs?
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There is no talk of tort reform, which in turn will lower malpractice insurance (a major cost) and defensive diagnostic tests.
You would not expect congress to do this because they are a bunch of lawyers that have done very well leaching off the public.
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Follow the money, dudes. The trial lawyers are the biggest $$$ donors to the Dems.
As to Obambi, the way things are going for him it will soon be the case that his most loyal-- perhaps only loyal-- constituency (outside of afr-amers and academics) is public employee labor unions.
You can expect the next stim to be little more than a slush fund to Obambi's shock troops at the SEIU and the NEA. Don't forget California's prison guards, either: note that Arnold diverted $1.9B of the $6.7B in stim funds dedicated to CA education to CA prisons.
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You are, of course, assuming that the Healthcare bills are about reforming healthcare.
Its not - its about literally assuming power over people's lives.
Anyone remember when the Dems (and their MSM lackeys) terrorized seniors saying that the Repub's plan would slash Social Security and force Seniors to eat catfood - even when the plan called for a 7% Cost of Living increase?
Just wait until they can literally make the same threat against peoples lives via Healthcare.
A South Carolina senator has introduced a constitutional amendment that would set congressional term limits. It should carry the image of a certain West Virginia senator who's been in Washington far too long.
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, the amendment's sponsor, is correct when he says "real change in Washington will never happen until we end the era of permanent politicians."
Perpetual re-election, based far more on seeding home districts and states with taxpayers' money than promoting and protecting the Constitution and the liberties it guarantees, becomes the life's work of many lawmakers. This sordid convention has no place in a nation established as a haven from heavy-handed government.
But rather than make the argument that the founders intended for the legislative branch to be run by citizen lawmakers and not professional officeholders, we offer Sen. Robert Byrd as a prime example of why term limits should be considered.
Byrd has been around for a while. The Democrat has been in the Senate since 1959, making him the longest-serving senator and congressman in history. He was a U.S. senator before Barack Obama was born, taking office two days after Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban government. Prior to being a senator, he served six years in the U.S. House and six years in the West Virginia legislature.
Byrd has been on the Senate Appropriations Committee for a half century and is considered the King of Pork. He was the first in Congress to bring home more than $1 billion in pork barrel spending for his state. Citizens Against Government Waste reports that from 1991 to 2008 -- spanning only about one-third of his Senate career -- Byrd secured $3.3 billion in taxpayers' money for West Virginia.
To see Byrd in action is to witness the most contemptible behavior one can imagine from a person who's been entrusted to make federal policy. For those who have never had the pleasure, a video is easily found on YouTube.com. Type "Big Daddy" and "Robert Byrd" into the search window and brace yourself.
In this 2006 performance at a Marshall University building dedication, Byrd bragged that "our efforts to construct this facility and create a stronger foundation for a biotech industry here in West Virginia began -- where? -- with a visit to my office ... by former Marshall University president Wade Gilley."
"Man, you're looking at Big Daddy!" he crowed. "Big Daddy!"
As the audience rollicked to his pandering, Byrd shamelessly boasted that he had added $35.6 million in federal funds for the -- you guessed it -- Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center.
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The quality of the rest of the Senate has increased Byrd's standing in my eyes. Oddly, he seems to be one of the few with at least some scruples, some degree of a moral compass. This sounds like damning with faint praise, and it is in a way. When everyone around you is an obvious felon and you are just a scoundrel, you win by default.
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Mentioned Video:
Don't forget Robert Byrd was the old Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan. Is there anything in W. Viginia which hasn't been named after this turd?
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Don't forget Robert Byrd was the old Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan.
:)
Not that there's anything wrong with that of course.
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I'm torn on this. It's not clear that the ignorant people of West Virginia would send us a better senator if we made them pick a new one every two terms. But the people with the seniority in Washington would become the staffers and lobbyists. Term limits has not worked well in Caliphornia.
Vigilant control of elected officials by the electorate is what is needed. Term limits won't provide it. Perhaps Tea Parties will.
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But the people with the seniority in Washington would become the staffers and lobbyists.
Note that your uniform services usually 'rotate' people in and out of assignments every 2 to 4 years and senior civilian people rotate with each change of administration. While the services do suffer a mark degree of institutional entropy, it also has shown a remarkable degree of adaptability to change that other Beltway bureaucracies have not.
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Nimble Spimble is right. Term limits have not worked in Kaliphornia. All it means is that politicians are inexperienced and incompetent on top of being crooked and irresponsible. We can turn these people out whenever there is an election but the problem is that we don't. Part of the problem is the special interests who find candidates who will do their bidding and then finance their campaigns. When a politician gets termed out the special interests will find some new fool. But in the end, somebody has to vote for these clowns and so the root of the problem is the voters. We get the government we deserve.
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Just look at WV's other senator; he makes Byrd look like a tower of intelligence and integrity. And just in case anyone thinks I like Byrd, I do not.
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Yeah but at least the shitbags will have to get real jobs eventually.
Fort Worth Democrat Tom Schieffer announced today he is quitting his bid for governor, clearing the way for Houston Mayor Bill White to enter the race.
Schieffer touted White as a Democrat who could appeal to "a broad spectrum of Texas voters" tired of "the pettiness and partisanship we've had over the last nine years" under Republican Rick Perry.
"We have to get behind one candidate who can unite the Democratic Party and offer a credible candidate to voters next fall," Schieffer told a Capitol news conference.
White is expected to abandon his campaign for U.S. Senate and jump into the gubernatorial contest by next week.
Texas Democrats never warmed to Schieffer because of his longtime ties to George W. Bush. Schieffer was a partner with Bush in running the Texas Rangers baseball team and after Bush was elected president, Scheiffer was appointed ambassador to Australia and Japan. Further, Schieffer struggled to raise the money for a successful statewide campaign.
His departure would leave humorist Kinky Friedman, hair-care magnate Farouk Shami, schoolteacher Felix Alvarado and rancher Hank Gilbert as announced gubernatorial candidates on the Democratic side.
Democrats have not elected a statewide candidate in Texas since 1994. But as mayor of Houston, White has high name-identification in that metropolitan area, which constitutes a quarter of the electorate. Further, White's month's-long bid to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Senate once she resigns has allowed him to cultivate Democratic voters.
"I will tell you, there is an opportunity for a Democrat to be elected this time," said Schieffer. "And I hope the demo party will rally to the notion they can win.
"They have too long accepted the thought that it's a lost cause. But I absolutely believe that someone of Mayor White's caliber can win. I also believe that if they do not offer someone of Mayor Whitee's caliber, they will lose and lose badly," he said.
Hutchison has said she will remain in the Senate through the March GOP primary while running for governor against Perry.
Family, friends and campaign workers gathered at the Capitol for Schieffer's announcement that he's qutting the race, eight months after he announced his bid. A lawyer and former state legislator from Fort Worth, he had strong credentials in private business and public life, but he had trouble in some Democratic circles shaking his association with Bush.
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While I don't think very highly of Perry, White is a whole lot worse (he has name recognition for a reason - and it is not all good. But at least he sent our Katrina scum home to us.) Offspring voted Friedman last time.
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I expect the democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yet again; presented with an opponent as poor as Perry, they're going to fail to nominate Kinky yet again.
Oh for pete's sake - is this what the Office of the President of the United States have sunk to?
Doesn't the first lady traditionally do the Christmas Whilte house special?
The queen of daytime will interview the president of the country during an ABC holiday special that brings together Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama.
The network has announced "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special," which includes an interview with the president, a conversation with the First Couple and tour of the White House. The special will also go behind-the-scenes as staffers prepare the White House for the holiday season.
The special marks the first time Winfrey has interviewed Obama since he took office. "Christmas at the White House" will air Sunday, Dec. 13, at 10 p.m. Translation: Christmas is (and always has been) all about OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
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so will this feature Bambi bowing to her Highness? why not he bows to every other friggin thing; maybe even Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. what a POS. (not the tree.)
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I called in my daughter to see this - and she coughed and exclaimed "oh - &$3t! I thought Oprah was a more astute business-person!"
Oh, this is going to be so fun, on so many levels. At the rate the One's approval levels are dropping, by the time this puppy airs, I'll bet there will be people setting up TV-watching parties - to watch anything else!
Barbara, you got enough popcorn, for those of us who will be watching anything else!!! If you have to draft the guys in the O'club to lay track to bring in the box-car loads - this is imperative!
Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands jeopardizes the survival of our species, says Al Gore.
"Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer," the former U.S. vice-president told the Star in an interview prior to a Toronto speaking engagement scheduled for Tuesday evening.
"I know that doesn't make me popular in Alberta," said the jet-hopping environmental activist, best known for the movie and book An Inconvenient Truth. "But it's simply a fact. A lot of money is at stake, but a lot of lives and the future of human civilization are also at stake."
He's trying to close down each and every energy source, isn't he ...
If Gore's warnings are heeded, expect housing prices to fall fast and far in Fort McMurray, the northern Alberta boomtown where single-family dwellings sold for a reported average of $629,582 in October thanks to the Athabasca tar sands megaproject.
If not, then you might as well pack your bags for Armageddon, because that is where Gore believes the planet is headed unless humankind radically shifts from carbon-based fuels. Time is short, he warns, and political will in the United States and elsewhere is lagging far behind what's needed.
The U.S. Senate has yet to pass a bill setting tough limits on carbon emissions, for example, something that should have been done by now, according to a prediction Gore makes in his newly released book, a blueprint for planetary salvation titled Our Choice.
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It definitely threatens the billions that he's planning to make of "green tech". (not to mention all the bribes grants, consultation fees, lobbyist salaries, etc... that US elites receiving from Soodies.)
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This from a man who couldn't even be bothered to turn off his outdoor flood lights during Earth Hour. The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gores mansion.
It's not like coal is used to generate 60% of Tennessee's electricity or that his mansion uses 20X the electricity of the average Tennessee family. Oops, it is and he does.
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Free translation service
"Our Survival" means "my rent-seeking investments".
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"Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer"
Actually the Prius' polluting nature is more attributable to the manufacture and 'recycling' of the car's batteries than whatever petrofuel it uses from whatever source. In short, the Hummer is healthier for the environment overall (plus you can carry more 'stuff' in one trip - again saving fuel).
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Anthropogenic Global Warming exists. What is unknown is how significant it is: could be tiny, could be huge, but we're not allowed to look. What is known is that none of the proposals will have any effect on it except to transfer money from one set of pockets to another.
#10
Antpogenic Global Warming ought to exist too. Ants eat stuff and exhale CO2, and bacteria eat the ant pooh and give off methane. And there are a LOT of ants! We need to act now! (Get your Orthene here, 20% off, if you call by midnight. Death Panels for ants - hmmmm.)
#11
That's not very earth friendly Glenmore. It's got chemicals you can't even pronounce. So, Ima thinkin of opening a giant magnifying glass company to eradicate this latest threat to Mother Earth.
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ZOMG! The Riddle of the Oil Sands is sure to be a best seller.
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11/25/2009 10:17 Comments ||
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Further to comment #8, I seem to recall a study that claimed that when one takes the 'envoronmental' cost from dust back to dust for a Prius and a Hummer, and keeping in mind that Hummers last longer, a Prius has ~3X the environmental impact per kilometer driven of that of the evil Hummer.
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Mankind will never be safe until we eliminate that deadly poison, CO2, from our atmosphere. Of course, green plants will be unhappy with this, but what have they ever done for us?
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The problem with the Prius is the batteries. The nickel ore is mined in Sudbury, oh, about 200 miles north of where Gore was speaking. The ore gets shipped to Europe, where it is refined into nickel hydrate. The hydrate is shipped to China, where it is fabricated into batteries. (Ya thinks anyone else would deal with the heavy metal pollution? Me neither.) The batteries are sent to Japan, where the car is assembled. It is then shipped back to North America.
Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as "Climategate".
Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU's unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms "a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people".
Of course. To President Obama and his circle, that is what cutting edge science looks like.
"The files contain so much material that it is going to take some time t o put it all in context," says Ball. "However, enough is already known to underscore their explosive nature. It is already clear the entire claims and positions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are based on falsified manipulated material and is therefore completely compromised.
"The fallout will be extensive as material continues to emerge. Reputations of the scientists involved are already destroyed, however fringe players will continue to be identified and their reputations destroyed or sullied."
While the mainstream media is bending into pretzels to keep the scandal under the rug, Climategate is already the biggest scientific scandal in history because of the global policy implications.
A throwback to the intro of the television series Dragnet, "Ladies and Gentlemen: "The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent", the innocent in Climategate have already been thrown to the ravening wolves.
"There is a multitude of small but frightening stories in the massive files," Ball writes. "For example I've known solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon for a long time. I've published articles with Willie and enjoyed extensive communication. I was on advisory committees with them when Sallie suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray. I don't know if the following events were contributing factors but it is likely.
"Baliunas and Soon were authors of excellent work confirming the existence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) from a multitude of sources. Their work challenged attempts to get rid of the MWP because it contradicted the claim by the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Several scientists challenged the claim that the latter part of the 20th century was the warmest ever. They knew the claim was false, many warmer periods occurred in the past. Michael Mann 'got rid' of the MWP with his production of the hockey stick, but Soon and Baliunas were problematic. What better than have a powerful academic destroy their credibility for you? Sadly, there are always people who will do the dirty work."
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Global warming gets hot, and the climate worshipers are approaching climaxes of their own.
The warm up to the Global Warming gan, "redacted by poster"
sorry summit this week in Bella Centret, Copenhagen, before the summit to take place later this year has relieved some of pressure, at least some are welcoming them with open arms in Copenhagen and with no qualms bending over for Al Gore and Co. Indeed, the Global Warming has reached a Climax.
Translated from Jyllands Posten
The whole day the faces are laid with serious frowns, when business men, politicians and bureaucrats are gathered in Bella Centret in Copenhagen and discusses the Global Climate. But during the night they got laid on the sheets, which has got their full focus, when the conference attendees from the whole world enjoy themselves with Danish and foreign prostitutes.
- We have been busy like mad. The politicians do also need to relax after a long day, is the verdict from 'Miss Dina', who works as a prostitute.
It is the News bulletin 3F, which has made phone calls to various escort agencies and prostitutes, to know, if they have been extra busy during the Global warming conference. And they all agree: Top summits in Copenhagen is good for the economy.
The chairwoman of Reden [The nest] International [The prostitutes association] Doris Otzen acknowledge, that big events in Copenhagen attracts more sex-workers.
- Lots of men gathered at one place means more work for the prostitutes. Then we have got a government which do not want to forbid prostitution, so we actually invites the visitors to go to prostitutes, says Dorit Otzen to the News bulletin 3F
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I told you the main reason they have these conferences is for the hookers. In the tradeoff of CO2 emissions vs. seminal emissions, guess which wins?
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Yes, it's from the unpublished Dickens Novel, Little Dorit the Mermaid from Loon Lake.
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I think thee is a correlation between the exotic (perhaps we should say 'erotic') locations of these conferences and the availability of sex-industry workers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Sexual abuse accusations by St. HOPE Academy students against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson were apparently covered up, possibly with "hush money," according to a 61-page report issued by congressional investigators.
The latest initiative by our "Children's Secretary", Ed Balls, is to abolish what remains of fact-based teaching of history and geography in our schools. He plans to "roll them together into themed lessons on social issues such as global warming" (funny how that seems to seep into everything nowadays).
The Obama administration claims that its $787 billion economic stimulus program has "created or saved" 640,329 jobs across the country, with more to come. That breathtaking figure includes 24,448 jobs in Illinois. 
Comes the news that Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore of the 3rd district of Kansas is not running for reelection. Interesting. Congressman Moore was reelected by a 56%-40% margin in 2008, and Barack Obama carried his district 51%-48%, while losing the other three congressional districts in Kansas.
The closer the Democratic Congress' radical health package gets to enactment, the less popular it becomes. The American people smell a rat.
A South Carolina senator has introduced a constitutional amendment that would set congressional term limits. It should carry the image of a certain West Virginia senator who's been in Washington far too long.
Fort Worth Democrat Tom Schieffer announced today he is quitting his bid for governor, clearing the way for Houston Mayor Bill White to enter the race.
Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands jeopardizes the survival of our species, says Al Gore.
Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as "Climategate".
