Saturday, July 3, 2010

Getting to Know Obama and Gore

[Explaining, perhaps, the return to Britain by Barack Obama of the bust of Churchill, and the statement by this Administration the "There is nothing special about Britain", comes the following news (hidden from us by our media) from the UK]:  "Mr Obama’s paternal grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama was part of the Kenyan independence movement when he was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years.
His family allege he was tortured by his British guards to extract information about the insurgency.
“The African warders were instructed by the white soldiers to whip him every morning and evening till he confessed,” said Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango’s third wife, told the Times.
Mrs Onyango, who Mr Obama calls Granny Sarah, described how “white soldiers” carried out “disciplinary action”.
“He said they would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down,” she told the paper.
The alleged violence was said to have left Mr Onyango permanently scarred, and deeply anti-British.
“That was the time we realised that the British were actually not friends but, instead, enemies,” Mrs Onyango, 87, said. “My husband had worked so diligently for them, only to be arrested and detained.”
Mr Obama refers briefly to his grandfather’s imprisonment in his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father, but states that his grandfather was “found innocent”.
 [Don't you think we voters had a right to know this about Obama's history?]
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3543882/Barack-Obamas-grandfather-tortured-by-British.html
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From American Thinker: Weeks after the accusation that Al Gore allegedly forced himself upon an innocent service provider in a Portland, Oregon hotel room there is yet to be an outcry from feminist groups in support of defenseless women forced to physically fight off influential male aggressors.Massage therapist Molly Hagerty has emerged from the shadows and "bravely gone public" with her story of being terrorized by a powerful politician in search of someone to "release his second Chakra." Molly claims the ex-Vice President is, "a pervert and a sexual predator...He's not what people think he is - he's a sick man!"  When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment I was working in academia.  It didn't take long to realize educated feminists view women without advanced degrees as undeserving of being included in the infringed-rights group.  However, back at the hotel, amorous "Call me Al" allegedly felt comfortable enough to be predatory toward a helpless woman whom the left could readily relegate to the disposable "trailer park trash" pile along with Paula Jones and Juanita Broderick.[Where is Gloria Alred now that it is a powerful Democrat caught in the trap?  This masseuse was fearful of losing her job, and her liberal friends advised her to keep quiet for the good of the global warming agenda....  Perhaps she waited til now so as to avoid breaking up a marriage.]  http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/als_masseuse_and_the_feminists.html

Friday, July 2, 2010

Another Pelosi-ism; Oil Spill Clean-up Assets; Census Bureau Fraud; Black Panthers; Gun Owner Lists; Serial Doublecrosser Obama; and more

[I'm willing to stick my neck out here to say that it would appear that Nancy Pelosi has never actually studied economics, after hearing this pronouncement from her:]Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs:  [This from the woman who said we needed to pass the health care bill in order to find out what's in it.....]

Fox News Reports:  Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. 
Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job. 
"It injects demand into the economy," Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. "It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name." 
Pelosi said the aid has the "double benefit" of helping those who lost their jobs and acting as a "job creator" on the side. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/01/pelosi-unemployment-checks-best-way-create-jobs/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Washington Examiner:  “The number of [oil clean up] assets claimed [by the White House], however, does not appear to match what is actually in the field. This is corroborated by Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, who shared a similar story with investigators. BP and Coast Guard provided Mr. Nungesser with a map of the Gulf allegedly pinpointing the exact locations of 140 skimmers cleaning up oil. Sensing that the chart may have been somewhat inaccurate, Mr. Nungesser requested a flyover of the assets for verification. After three cancelled trips, officials admitted to Mr. Nungesser that only 31 of the 140 skimmers were ever deployed. The rest were sitting at the docks. According to Mr. Nungesser, the chart appeared to have been fabricated.”
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From Yahoo News comes this:  The Coast Guard said there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted, with the vast majority still under review,

And in recent days and weeks, for reasons BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup have done a lot of waiting around.
A report prepared by investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., detailed one case in which the Dutch government offered April 30 to provide four oil skimmers that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a day. It took seven weeks for the U.S. to approve the offer. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AkaV7Y9GtAmJoECFRlesB02s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoZmFlN2czBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzAyL3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2
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The New York Daily News reports:  Two Census Bureau managers from a Brooklyn field office were fired after their bosses found they faked household surveys to meet deadlines, the Daily News learned.
Instead of pounding the pavement and knocking on doors, the corner-cutting people-counters mined the phone book and Internet to make up answers to questionnaires, regional director Tony Farthing said.
The managers - turned in by whistleblower employees - were caught last week. Now, at least 10,000 surveys need to be done or redone, officials said.
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From the Washington Times:  On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers. After the election, the Justice Department brought a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and those armed thugs. I and other Justice attorneys diligently pursued the case and obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the charges. Before a final judgment could be entered in May 2009, our superiors ordered us to dismiss the case.
The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the dismissal and the DOJ's skewed enforcement priorities. Attorneys who brought the case are under subpoena to testify, but the department ordered us to ignore the subpoena, lawlessly placing us in an unacceptable legal limbo.  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/25/inside-the-black-panther-case-anger-ignorance-and-/
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On the same subject, David Limbaugh writes: The Obama administration grows more arrogant, cavalier and fundamentally dishonest every day. Just in the past few days, we've seen a number of troubling examples. Frankly, sometimes it's hard to keep up. We've also heard from former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams, who has confirmed — from the belly of the beast — our worst suspicions about Obama and Eric Holder's Justice Department's dismissing a slam-dunk case for voter intimidation against New Black Panther Party members for racial reasons. This is an egregious trampling on the rule of law, an outrage that would subject any Republican president to charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, a scandal of the first order for which this administration isn't even bothering to develop "plausible deniability."
Next, we read about Obama's reaction to Sen. Lamar Alexander's reasonable suggestion that any energy discussion between the president and a "bipartisan" group of senators should include a focus on the oil spill and BP. Obama said, "That's just your talking point," and flat-out refused to discuss the subject. Is he king or what?  http://www.creators.com/conservative/david-limbaugh/unprecedented-arrogance.html
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 [Gun owners, listen up!]
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Ohio Democratic Party tried unsuccessfully this week to get information on all people licensed to carry concealed weapons in the Buckeye State.

The records are exempt from the public record laws. The only public access was given to journalists when then-Gov. Bob Taft signed the law in 2004. 
The Democrats intended to target people who support the Second Amendment -- the constitutional right to bear arms -- with campaign information, said party spokesman, Seth Bringman.
The party learned the information was not public and then sent a second letter apologizing to the 88 sheriffs.
"We asked them to rescind our request," Bringman said. 
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/ohio_democratic_party_unsucces.html
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"Tears streamed down the face of Patti Blagojevich as the recorded voice of her husband, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, echoed in the courtroom of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. "It's very important for me to make a lot of money," Blagojevich said to his chief of staff John Harris on an FBI tape. "I need independence. I need freedom."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1999907,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo#ixzz0s3lPrzpj
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From the NY Post: The cap-and-trade bill that the House passed last summer aims to force Americans to reduce those dreaded carbon emissions by 83 percent in less than four decades -- to the same per-capita level as 1867. Yet, even under the Al Gore-approved climate-science models, the bill would do nothing to stop global warming. The bill is 1,000-plus pages of rules, regulations, handouts, subsidies and whatever else House leaders deemed necessary. Not one of the 435 members read the whole monstrosity -- because the leadership dropped 300 new pages on their desks the night before they voted.  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bam_climate_rx_all_pain_no_gain_rrEOObpwCeZkI43QmmKH4O
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"A strong and durable [economic] recovery also requires countries not having an undue advantage," Obama told journalists at the end of G20 talks in Canada. 
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[According to Wayne Allen Root, a college classmate of Barack Obama]: "He is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within."  http://www.examiner.com/x-17078-Lafayette-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m6d23-Guest-writer-Wayne-Allen-Root-Overwhelm-the-system 

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American Thinker opines: Mr. Seidenberg, chairman of the influential Business Roundtable, was shocked that even though he and his fellow CEOs had worked closely with the Obama administration to push Obamacare, the reward for their capitulation was more regulations and policies that have now created a "hostile environment" for job creation.

They held up their part of the deal but the government punished them with anti-business regulations designed to damage the economy.  Now the Roundtable finds itself in the same quagmire as other groups who thought that if they just went along with Obama, they would be spared his scimitar.

Thus, another Faustian deal has been made.  This evil regime arrogantly promises various groups that they will benefit as long as they toe the Obama line.  Perhaps the American public should reread the legend about Faust ~ how many more groups will Obama trick as they sign a pact with the devil? http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/the_serial_doublecrosser.html
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From Yahoo News comes this:  The Coast Guard said there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted, with the vast majority still under review,

And in recent days and weeks, for reasons BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup have done a lot of waiting around.
A report prepared by investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., detailed one case in which the Dutch government offered April 30 to provide four oil skimmers that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a day. It took seven weeks for the U.S. to approve the offer. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AkaV7Y9GtAmJoECFRlesB02s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoZmFlN2czBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzAyL3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Arms Control Secrecy; Internet Shut Down; DHS Exploring Legal Status for All Illegals; How Asians View Obama

The New York Post reveals: The Obama administration is urging the Senate to ratify the US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- but it won't release the negotiating record for "New START" to senators who've asked for it. Denying the Senate's requests raises all sorts of suspicions about the treaty, which would reduce the US strategic nuclear arsenal by about 30 percent and cut our missile silos, bombers and submarines by nearly 20 percent. Is there is something in the blow-by-blow transcript of the talks with the Russians that the White House doesn't want senators to see?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_odd_arms_control_secrecy_z8Paz6UzRnveK2f2ltDUfL
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   From Prison Planet:  President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.
    The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.
    Despite the Center for Democracy and Technology and 23 other privacy and technology organizations sending letters to Lieberman and other backers of the bill expressing concerns that the legislation could be used to stifle free speech, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed in the bill in advance of a vote on the Senate floor.
The Senators pushing the bill rejected the claim that the bill was a ‘kill switch’ for the Internet, not by denying that Obama would be given the authority to shut down the Internet as part of this legislation, but by arguing that he already had the power to do so. http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-can-shut-down-internet-for-4-months-under-new-emergency-powers.html
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Fox News reported this week: “The Obama administration has been holding behind-the-scenes talks to determine whether the Department of Homeland Security can unilaterally grant legal status on a mass basis to illegal immigrants, a former Bush administration official who spoke with at least three people involved in those talks told FoxNews.com.”  [If that does happen, can calls for Impeachment be far behind?]
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"America right now appears to be unreliable to traditional friends, compliant to rivals" according to USNews.com: "and weak to enemies. One renowned Asian leader stated recently at a private dinner in the United States, "We in Asia are convinced that Obama is not strong enough to confront his opponents, but we fear that he is not strong enough to support his friends." http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/06/18/mort-zuckerman-world-sees-obama-as-incompetent-and-amateur.html?PageNr=3
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YNetNews writes:  A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administration.

The Hamas figure told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the Americans fear discussing the talks publicly would "rouse the Jewish lobby and other pressure groups in the US and cause them to pressure the administration to suspend all talks with Hamas."  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3910714,00.html

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Newsflash For Michigan on Asian Carp

[This beautiful spring salmon is one of the fish we are trying to preserve in the Great Lakes.]
News from Chicago:  "As concerns mount about the presence of Asian carp near Lake Michigan, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin today urged President Obama to appoint a carp czar to oversee efforts to keep the invasive species out of the Great Lakes.
"We need to have one person who coordinates the efforts of the federal, state and local agencies that are doing everything they can to keep the Asian carp out of Lake Michigan," Durbin said during a news conference at the Shedd Aquarium. "We believe it's absolutely essential."  http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/06/durbin-asks-obama-to-appoint-carp-czar.html
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Health Insurance Costs; Mortgages; VAT Tax; Overrugulation; The Communist Party and More

People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10971283
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce new health insurance benefits for consumers, marking the first 90 days since he signed landmark legislation to expand coverage.The consumer safeguards are limited steps that take effect this year. The main provisions of the legislation, including federal funding to help 32 million now uninsured get coverage, won't come until 2014. The administration worries that escalating premiums will force more people drop their policies before the law is fully implemented. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100621/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_health_overhaul
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The AP: The Obama administration's flagship effort to help people in danger of losing their homes is falling flat. More than a third of the 1.24 million borrowers who have enrolled in the $75 billion mortgage modification program have dropped out. That exceeds the number of people who have managed to have their loan payments reduced to help them keep their homes.
Last month alone,155,000 borrowers left the program -- bringing the total to 436,000 who have dropped out since it began in March 2009.
A major reason so many have fallen out of the program is the Obama administration initially pressured banks to sign up borrowers without insisting first on proof of their income. When banks later moved to collect the information, many troubled homeowners were disqualified or dropped out.  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Borrowers-exit-troubled-Obama-apf-887634101.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=
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American Thinker opines:  According to Fred Barnes at The Weekly Standard, the Obamis are planning a lame-duck session of Congress, "filled with defeated and retired senators and House members," to pass a VAT (value-added tax). Liberals know that they get a chance to enact progressive legislation only once in a generation. That's when the cycle of politics throws up a liberal majority in Congress, and liberals have the votes to cram down their agenda.  http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/a_bridge_too_far.html
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Democrats are looking at the possibility of raising taxes on families below the $250,000-a-year threshold promised by President Barack Obama during the election. The majority party on Capitol Hill does not feel bound by that pledge, saying the threshold for tax hikes will depend on several factors, such as the revenue differences between setting the threshold at $200,000 and setting it at $250,000. “You could go lower, too — why not $200,000?” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). “With the debt and deficit we have, you can’t make promises to people. This is a very serious situation.”  http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/104919-dems-were-not-bound-by-presidents-tax-vow 
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The Heritage Foundation, quoting Congressman King, points out the simplicity of the process [of repealing the healthcare act]: "Republicans just need to sign a repeal bill, bring forth a discharge petition, use the discharge petition as a litmus test against Blue Dog Democrats in the November elections, win back a majority, pass a repeal bill in the new Congress, endure Obama’s inevitable veto of it, shut off the funding for the 2011 and 2012 enactment of Obamacare, and, finally, elect a new president in 2012."

     And Bachmann has already given us that bill (H.R. 4903).  Former-president Ronald Reagan once spoke of "raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors." 

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BARNEY FRANK: "I think that the general fear that the ranking member and others think that we're going to over regulate on behalf of consumers is a fantasy unrelated to any experience. The Federal Government has never done that."  [Well there is a first time for everything, and we believe that the current Administration is doing everything in its power to make it so.  If he is talking about "a" federal government, and not "our" federal government, perhaps he should study the history of Germany, China, Africa, Venezuela, etc.  Is he familiar with Hitler, Mao, and Stalin, among others?  On that subject, Chavez has just "nationalized" an American company's 11 oil rigs off "his" coast, for the good of the people, of course.]  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100624/ts_nm/us_venezuela_nationalizations
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From New Zealand comes this:  Excerpts from a special report to the recent 29th National Convention of the Communist Party USA, by Joelle Fishman. Joelle Fishman role in the Communist Party's Political Action Commission, which gives her responsibility for organizing Party support for "progressive" Democratic Party candidates at the state, congressional, senate and presidential level. She is also, incidentally, the daughter - in - law of late Soviet spy, Victor Perlo 
Fishman acknowledges that the Communist Party supported Barack Obama in 2008 - though certainly not for the first time.
The 2010 elections are at the center of the struggle for working class relief from economic crisis, poverty, inequality and environmental devastation. Why? Because this election will either solidify the progressive breakthrough of 2008, or send the country reeling backward. Barack Obama's election as president was a victory won by an amazing broad alliance of which we were a part. Our contribution focused on building unity, challenging racism and expanding voter participation.
She then quotes party chairman Sam Webb and goes on to stress the pivotal nature of the 2010 mid - term elections.
This was an extraordinary expression of political independence from the extreme right wing. As Sam's report reminds us, five years ago our major battle was entirely on the defensive under George W. Bush. http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/06/communists-plan-obamademocrat-comeback.html
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UTube and CSpan have covered: Congressman Steve King (R-IA) couldn’t help but mention the lack of a most famous birth certificate during debate on the House Floor. Listen carefully so you don’t miss it during this video.
In extended remarks about how every American baby is born owing US Government Debt, he let this slip: "Little baby with ink on their foot, stamped right there on the birth certificate – there’s one in this country we haven’t seen,’" he said. "But the footprints on those we have seen. Those little babies owe Uncle Sam $44,000."
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[Displaying once again the lack of intelligence of some elected officials:] MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee County Board spent part of the day debating a measure that would call for the county to boycott doing business with companies in Arizona.
Communities around the nation have passed similar measures in response to a law in Arizona that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.
There was an odd moment during the debate when Supervisor Peggy West stood up and seemed to be confused about her geography.  "If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this.  But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border," West said during debate.  [Say what?!!]
Her colleague, Joe Rice, quickly corrected her, "I just want to assure my colleague that Arizona does in fact share a border with the country of Mexico.  http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/97093164.html
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It's a great moment. I'm proud to have been here," said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we've done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done." As Rahm Emanuel stated:  "Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."  Saul Alinsky taught this Administration well - the Rules for Radicals] ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062500675_pf.html
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Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the alliance, told CNSNews.com on Thursday that "a great deal has been made about the fact that she would be the second Jewish woman on the court, and we want to signal to people across the country that we take no pride in this.”

Levin said most people are happy when "one of their own" is nominated to such a high position. But, he added, "We feel that Elena Kagan turns traditional Judaism on its head--from a concept of a nation of priests and holy people, she is turning it into, ‘Let’s homosexualize every segment of society. And by the way, partial-birth babies have no right to be delivered.’" http://cnsnews.com/news/article/68444
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Powerline writes: Joe Biden was in Wisconsin, trying to help Russ Feingold salvage his Senate run, and he stopped at a frozen custard stand. When he asked the proprietor how much the custard cost, the proprietor answered, "Nothing, just lower our taxes. Biden, of course, had no response. [Demonstrating once again what classy folks are running America comes this from Real Clear Politics, along with a video]: Joe Biden calls a custard store manager a "smartass" after he asks the Vice President to lower taxes. [You can't make this stuff up!]   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/26/biden_calls_manager_who_told_him_to_lower_taxes_a_smartass.html
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GULFPORT, Miss. — A morning flight over the Mississippi Sound showed long, wide ribbons of orange-colored oil for as far as the eye could see and acres of both heavy and light sheen moving into the Sound between the barrier islands. What was missing was any sign of skimming operations from Horn Island to Pass Christian.
U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor got off the flight angry.
"It’s criminal what’s going on out there," Taylor said minutes later. "This doesn’t have to happen.”
A scientist onboard, Mike Carron with the Northern Gulf Institute, said with this scenario, there will be oil on the beaches of the mainland.
“There’s oil in the Sound and there was no skimming,” Carron said. “No coordinated effort.”
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Reporting from Washington — With the gulf oil spill creating political opportunity, Senate Democrats will begin crafting a sweeping energy bill this week that could include a first-ever, though more modest, cap on global-warming pollution, believing they must act now despite differences within their ranks and political jitters in an election year. Instead of regulating all sources of greenhouse gas emissions as originally proposed, lawmakers are considering placing a carbon cap initially only on utility companies. That idea was once dismissed by environmentalists as too incremental, but now is seen by some as better than no cap at all. 


 

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Financial Regulations Bill; Communist Party USA; and Job "Creation" Particulars

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's efforts to win final approval of a historic financial regulatory reform bill looked more complicated on Saturday after a Republican senator threatened to oppose it. "I was surprised and extremely disappointed to hear that $18 billion in new assessments and fees were added in the wee hours of the morning by the conference committee," Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown said. He issued the statement after negotiators from the Senate and House of Representatives emerged from a marathon session early Friday morning with a final compromise on a bill. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100626/bs_nm/us_financial_regulation;_ylt=Amf06ASnS24EoLDQ1NE_HThZ.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1cms3NzEyBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAwNjI2L3VzX2ZpbmFuY2lhbF9yZWd1bGF0aW9uBHBvcwMyNQRzZWMDeW5fcGFnaW5hdGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNzZW5hdG9yMzlzY28-
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Excerpts from a special report to the recent 29th National Convention of the Communist Party USA, by Joelle Fishman. Joelle Fishman role in the Communist Party's Political Action Commission, which gives her responsibility for organizing Party support for "progressive" Democratic Party candidates at the state, congressional, senate and presidential level. She is also, incidentally, the daughter - in - law of late Soviet spy, Victor Perlo 
Fishman acknowledges that the Communist Party supported Barack Obama in 2008 - though certainly not for the first time.
The 2010 elections are at the center of the struggle for working class relief from economic crisis, poverty, inequality and environmental devastation. Why? Because this election will either solidify the progressive breakthrough of 2008, or send the country reeling backward. Barack Obama's election as president was a victory won by an amazing broad alliance of which we were a part. Our contribution focused on building unity, challenging racism and expanding voter participation.
She then quotes party chairman Sam Webb and goes on to stress the pivotal nature of the 2010 mid - term elections.
This was an extraordinary expression of political independence from the extreme right wing. As Sam's report reminds us, five years ago our major battle was entirely on the defensive under George W. Bush. http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/06/communists-plan-obamademocrat-comeback.html
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-[Below is a demonstration of just what the Progressive/Communist agenda creates:]

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