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Home Front: Politix
Pravda Endorses Obama
Electing Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten teacher, a rapist as a janitor at a girls' dormitory or a psychopath with a fixation on knives as a kitchen hand.
I like him better already...
Unfortunately, this applies to Obama as well, but between the two Pravda likes the anti-colonialist Kenyan.
No doubt we will all take this into account as we approach the voting booth n November, if only for the pungency of the images
Posted by: Iblis || 03/31/2012 14:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spelling in title corrected.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/31/2012 15:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ahh the open mike moment
Posted by: Jan || 03/31/2012 16:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Electing Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten teacher, a rapist as a janitor at a girls' dormitory or a psychopath with a fixation on knives as a kitchen hand.

Paedophile, rapist, psychopath.... through our legal system, we could do something about. Comrade Obama may be an entirely different story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2012 16:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Putin is adopting 12 small Kenyan children this year!
Posted by: Crert Unock2983 || 03/31/2012 17:38 Comments || Top||

#5  I smell a quid quo pro. :)
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/31/2012 18:19 Comments || Top||


Another $17 trillion surprise found in Obamacare
Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 Obamacare law to see what's in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap.

The $17 trillion in extra promises was revealed by an analysis of the law's long-term requirements. The additional obligations, when combined with existing Medicare and Medicaid funding shortfalls, leaves taxpayers on the hook for an extra $82 trillion over the next 75 years.

Currently, the Social Security system is $7 trillion in debt over the next 65 years. Medicare will eat up $38 trillion in future taxes, and Medicaid will consume another $2o trillion of the taxpayer's wealth, according to estimates prepared by the actuarial office at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The short-term cost of the Obamacare law is $2.6 trillion, almost triple the $900 billion cost promised by Obama and his Democratic allies, said Sessions.

The extra $17 billion gap was discovered by applying standard CMMS estimates and models to the law's spending obligations, Sessions said.
They'll come out of this experience with their analytical muscles pumped, buff, and oiled, ready to take on anything private industry might throw at them
Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793 || 03/31/2012 08:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder what the numbers will look like if the individual mandate somehow gets excised?
Posted by: Pappy || 03/31/2012 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  They were discussing that at AoSHQ yesterday or the day before.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/31/2012 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Individual mandate for payment gets excised, but mandate for services, especially 'pre-existing condition coverage' to be provided does not. Insurance companies cannot survive financially in that market, so get out. Government becomes the sole option for health insurance. National Health Care. Mission Accomplished.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/31/2012 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Deep six the entire ObamaCare turkey. I sure hope SCOTUS sees these figures. It was never about healthcare anyway. It was a "Cloward and Piven's" strategy to bankrupt the system. However, I think we already passed the bankruptcy point with the free houses for everyone concept hatched by Fannie Mae, Washington politicians and Wall Street.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/31/2012 13:49 Comments || Top||

#5  There's also a section in there to establish a domestic army.

The whole thing needs to go.
Posted by: gorb || 03/31/2012 23:52 Comments || Top||


Another Green Graft Fail
A Waltham-based electric car battery supplier -- now facing financial implosion despite receiving $249 million in federal stimulus cash -- was a heavy donor to congressional Democrats before scoring the hefty taxpayer handout, the Herald has learned.

A123 Systems CEO David Vieau has donated $16,900 to Washington, D.C., power brokers and Democratic committees since 2008, including $2,400 to Bay State Rep. Edward J. Markey, the chairman of the climate and energy committees, in 2009 -- just three months before A123 received $249 million in federal stimulus funds. Vieau donated another $1,500 to Markey last year as the company pushed for even more federal dollars through government loans.
Posted by: Beavis || 03/31/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The best thing about Mass? You can buy our pols really cheap. 3900 for 249 million? Grandstand Eddie's one cheap whore...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/31/2012 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  We missed the "D **** OUR ALLIES, THE US MUST RETURN TO THE MOON ASAP" Conference again, didn't we???

Before our future OWG UNO or successor decides to ban fracking as a post-Peak Oil/Fossil Fuels "Crime agz the Planet".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/31/2012 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Mission Accomplished.
Posted by: gorb || 03/31/2012 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  The "green" part failed, the "graft" part was successful.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/31/2012 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 The "green" part failed, the "graft" part was successful.
Posted by JohnQC


'Spot on' JohnQC!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2012 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Thats a lot of green (Money) down the tubes.

SOLYNDRA, LIGHTSQUARED, Evergreen, SpectraWatt, BrightSource, Tonopah Solar, Abound Solar, Nevada Geothermal Power, sun power, Granite Reliable, ProLogis, Monroe Regional Airport, Beacon power, Siga Technologies Inc, Fisker,Willard & Kelsey, Ener1, Amonix, Tesla Motors and A123
Posted by: newc || 03/31/2012 18:23 Comments || Top||

#7  It would be interesting to see who donated to Obrother's 2012 campaign. And maybe the last one, too.
Posted by: gorb || 03/31/2012 23:53 Comments || Top||



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