Whitehouse email for Obama's informants to turn us in.....

Perhaps you, like I, wondered why Vice President Biden joined President Obama's "Beer Diplomacy" with Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates. Here is a possible reason, stated by Dennis Prager: "We were all blindsided by the reason that liberals apparently instinctively understood: to provide racial balance, as it wouldn’t look right if Sgt. Crowley were outnumbered two to one by blacks. In the words of the New York Times coverage of the event: “to add balance to the photo op that the White House presented: two black guys, two white guys, sitting around a table.” How instructive, adds Prager. "The fact that Crowley was outnumbered three to one by liberals meant little or nothing to most Americans on the left, because they deem race far more significant than values. Most conservatives, on the other hand, saw the president, the vice-president, the Harvard professor and the police officer, not two blacks and two whites. Indeed, such a calculation would have struck most conservatives as absurd: Was Sgt. Crowley supposed to think, “Hey, great, another white is at the table; now I feel secure”? "

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In the words of Barack Hussein Obama in Dreams of my Father: My stepfather Lolo said, "Men take advantage of weakness in other men. They're just like countries in that way. The strong man takes the weak man's land. He makes the weak man work in his fields. If the weak man's woman is pretty, the strong man will take her. Which would you rather be? Better to be strong. If you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself. Always."

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Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress has recently attempted to explain the Obama health care stand on old folks and their health care, saying that Obama, with his mantra for old people to just take a pill and deal with infirmities, will help us younger folks get over our "guilt trap", whereby we do more than we probably should to keep our parents alive, thereby spending way too much money on them. Now - don't we seniors feel so much better?

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Here are some excerpts from a letter from Representative Darrell Issa to Rahm Emanuel:

The Honorable Rahm Emanuel
White House Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. Emanuel:
As you know, Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) recently raised questions about the failure
of the stimulus and suggested on a national television show that stimulus money
scheduled to be spent in future years ought to be returned to the American taxpayers.
Following Senator Kyl's remarks, according to Politico, you coordinated an "assault" on
Senator Kyl and other critics of your policies by directing four cabinet secretaries to write
to Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, asking pointedly if, in light of Senator Kyl's
remarks, Governor Brewer wished to forfeit taxpayer money directed to Arizona by the
stimulus. These tactics have been characterized as "a fist to the nose" and a message to
"Back off."While this type of scare tactic may work in Chicago, it will not work to
intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress. At the risk of adding to the "weeks of frustration" you've reportedly felt in response to criticism of the Administration's ineffective and wasteful policies, please allow me to bring the facts about the stimulus to your attention. In selling the stimulus package, the Administration promised the Congress and the American people that the legislation would create or save 3.5 million jobs and prevent the U.S. unemployment rate from rising above 8%.

I and others have dared to bring these facts to the attention of President Obama,
the Congress and the American people. You've unfortunately reacted by once again
resorting to the playbook of the Chicago political machine. As Politico reports, you
"launched a coordinated effort to jam" Senator Kyl and other Administration critics:

At what point do you believe your practice of Chicago-style politics violates a public official's right to speak out in favor of alternative policies? The American people have a right to know what role you played in developing the threatening letters to Governor Brewer and whether you intend to continue to engage in these tactics in the future.
Well done, Representative Issa!
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We The People are finally leaving the comfort of our homes to make our voices heard at town hall meetings and tea parties. The Democrats and President Obama, who just love it when ACORN member get "in the faces" of their opponents, are unhappy with these "mobs", as they call us. They are attempting to make America believe that these are "rented mobs" sent by the "immoral" insurance companies, not wanting to believe that the Silent Majority are finally taking a stand. Let's keep reminding them that we've taken enough and we WON'T let them take from us our free speech! As Hillary Clinton famously screamed: "we have a RIGHT to debate any administration!"
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Flag@whitehouse.gov! This is the email site to which the White House has asked it's minions (informants) to send to them any iffy emails they receive regarding opposition to the health care bill. Gosh, I wonder how many of us will now be in Obama's database...... I think I'll write a letter to this email address to express my outrage!
Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 37 Aug 1, 1996

http://www.breitbart.tv/uncovered-video-obama-explains-how-his-health-care-plan-will-eliminate-private-insurance/ If you can spend a few minutes watching this video, you will hear the following quotes by Barack Obama: "We won't be able to limit employer coverage immediately. There will be some transition process. I can envision this 10-15 years out"; and "I happen to be a proponent of a single payer system". You will hear Barney Frank one week ago saying: "I think if we could get a public option - that could lead to a single-payer system. That's the best way to reach single payer". Our government is lying to us when it says this will not take away from us our choices. In fact, this is their incremental move to get us all covered by a government plan - except of course for THEMSELVES!
We should at least expect them to actually read the bill prior to voting on it.. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) previously laughed at the idea of all members of Congress reading the entire health care bill. “I’m laughing because I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill." Several Congressman have put forth a bill mandating the reading of the bill.

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News is being made about Congressmen having to deal with feisty, take-back-my-country constituents (who are increasingly questioning their Congressmen on the issues with which they disagree), and some of them have decided not to hold town hall meetings because they consider their disagreeing constituents to be dangerous, or at least difficult - and who would want to subject themselves to that? When a group of senior citizens went to Diane Feinstein's office, for instance, to discuss their concerns over the proposed health care bill, she made them wait for 6 hours. At that time, she had police lure them outside, after which she had the doors to the building locked. Lloyd Doggett, D, was in Austin to support the opening of a new Visitor Center, when some people began protesting the health care bill. When Arlen Specter and Kathleen Sebelius held a meeting, they were confronted with folks who questioned their stated need for speed, and their stated no need for reading the bill. So - in my view, news is being made about Americans who have reached the end of their patience with a government takeover of our nation. They are showing up, speaking up, and rebelling! Perhaps these, our representatives, hold dear the proclamation by our Homeland Security Chief that Tea Party protesters are possible terrorists. They are cancelling or failing to schedule meetings while in their home states.....

I have personally learned that more than 5000 citizens joined Judge Napolitano of Fox News for a Tea Party Protest at the Capitol building in downtown Columbus, Ohio. We need more of these great turnouts of citizens demanding that their Congressmen pay attention to those whom they represent! Did any of you see this covered in the news? Probably not.

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News is breaking about what happens when a person wants to turn in his "clunker" car, which is to be destroyed within two days, in order to get $4500 from the federal government when he buys a government-approved car. The dealer logs onto Cars.gov. and "submits" his transaction. Here is where it says, ‘Privacy Act & Security Statement'. Most people will agree without actually reading to what they are agreeing. A warning box comes up, and it says, ‘This application provides to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a federal computer system and it is property of the United States government. Any and all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign." [ We can thank Glenn Beck for exposing this problem. Can anyone begin to feel an invasion of privacy here?]
Atty. Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News Network said that the government can legally use Web software to track your computer any time they want once you've logged into the site. The government, according to her, has malware systems and tracking cookies to tap in any time they want......[ And in the last administration the Democrats thought that tracking the phone calls of suspected terrorists was a bad thing.... Well, this certainly trumps that as an invasion of privacy, doesn't it? We'll keep on this to see if this could possibly be true, but it has been reported by a valid news source. An unintended consequence of this cash for clunkers program is that because the clunkers are all to be destroyed, fewer old and used cars and their parts will be available to those among us who can only afford to buy and drive an old used car. Those people's costs will be going up due to the decreasing number of used cars and parts available.....]

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And in this week's I Kid You Not story, for they actually seem to be facing some detractors:

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today with Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009.

“This legislation works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life,” said Brownback. “Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to be human and is a violation of human dignity and a grave injustice.”

In a move sure to upset all insurance companies and their employees, Nancy Pelosi has stated: "It's almost immoral what they are doing," referring to insurance companies. "Of course they've been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure," she said, adding, "They are the villains. They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening.
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The CBO put in writing the obvious: In its second decade, Obamacare significantly bends the curve [of expenses] upward -- increasing deficits even more than in the first decade.
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Obama recently entertained 4 large company CEOs for lunch in the White House. Unbelievable but true: White House staffers actually took the credit card numbers from those CEOs so they could charge them for their meals! Well, at least Obama has finally found a way to save some money instead of spending money. Oh - of course, he spends our money on HIMSELF - he charges for OTHER people's meals.....
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Oh My Gosh!!!!! With lightening speed, our House of Representatives has decided that the only sector of our economy which merits MORE bailout money is THEIR (OK - our) automobile industry. SO - several hours after learning that their first one billion dollars are gone, they have already approved $2BILLION dollars more for the "Cash for Clunkers" program. Are they afraid that this is the only way they can get us to buy those small cars we really don't want? I want a new computer to replace my 7 year old one, and I'm OLD, so aren't I deserving? OOPS! I almost forgot! If I'm OLD I probably don't need a new computer, cause I may not be here in another 7 years.... Or how about spending $3B to reduce everyone's mortgage loan balances - or maybe cutting $3B from our tax withholding - or allowing homes to be sold without having to pay capital gains taxes? Say! Wouldn't it be fun to be able to get some new clothes, so that retailers can make some money? Or how about a cash for workout facility dues, for that would make us all more healthy. Wouldn't that be more "fair", redistributing our taxpayer money to all of us who actually pay taxes, instead of only to those who want a new car, whether they need one or not? The Senate is still considering......

Ashley Herzog suggests that you need to read an article in the latest issue of Time magazine, titled “Summer School: What? No More Vacations?” If Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan has his way, your kids will be in government schools eight hours a day, twelve months a year.

She writes: Liberals will no doubt portray this as another altruistic “Save the Children” plan, as well as a taxpayer-funded babysitting service for low-income women and moms who have better things to do than raise their own kids. (“Mom isn't waiting at home at 2:30 with a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. That just doesn't happen in many American families anymore,” Duncan says in the article.) They’ll recite the pointless factoid that summer vacations are an outdated product of America’s farming culture. Its proponents were also clear about their larger goal. “Day care is a powerful institution,” Democrats Walter Mondale and John Brademas wrote to constituents in 1970. “A day care program that ministers to a child from six months to six years of age has over 8,000 hours to teach him values, fears, beliefs, and behaviors.” [Is it any wonder that in California, making home schooling illegal was attempted? In public school is where the indoctrination of our children begins: indoctrination into alternative life styles, wealth redistribution, anti-America sentiment, idolization of socialism, rewriting of our country's history, man-made global warming and others.]

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More on the Healthcare bill:

"The most ominous of all are pages 424- 430 entitled "Advance Care Planning Consultations", which mandate periodic meetings for seniors with a government bureaucrat to determine how best to prepare for death. Page 429 allows the patient to list their preferences, but page 430 permits the state to "limit some or all" of the patient's requests. And it's all so cleverly packaged and sold by our charismatic president as a "caring, compassionate" approach to our health care problems.

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Our government's Cash For Clunkers program seems not to have been well thought out. Imagine that! After just one week, the one billion dollars set aside for the program has been used up & the program will probably be cancelled.... Am I the only one who recognizes this program as a second bailout of the auto companies, for it inspires people to buy the cars with the further aid of the government? Thus we have yet another example of unintended consequences".

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I write today to encourage you to join hundreds of Townhall participants across the country who are attending Townhall meetings to express their disagreement with the [mostly] Democrat Congressmen who are attempting to take our excellent health care insurance away from us! Yes WE can! Call and write and make your voices heard.

Family Security Matters has put together a list of frightening provisions in the Obama health care plan, including but not limited to : HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise, Government will have real-time access to individual's finances and a National ID Healthcard will be issued!

Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Government will have direct access to your bank accts for election funds transfer.

PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations (read: ACORN).

Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Government will use groups, i.e. ACORN & Americorps, to sign up individuals for Government HC plan.

pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue Government on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Government Monopoly.

pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill — Doctors/ AMA — The Government will tell YOU what you can earn.

Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of HC Admin (the GOVERNMENT) will have access to ALL Americans' finances and personal records.

I have found no reason to believe these items are not true. I DID wade through the bill enough to pick up the following:

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Straight from the pages of the healthcare bill, regarding our ability to keep our current healthcare insurance. , it is clear that if our circumstances change in any way, such as in getting a new job, the following will apply: DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of
this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term
‘‘grandfathered health insurance coverage’’ means individual health insurance
coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of the beginning of this bill.

Those who have had to have a CHANGE in their insurance plan will then be FORCED into a government plan, thus slowly but surely taking people AWAY from the private plans, which will force them to eventually go under.... Now - how does this make you feel about how easy it is to keep our current insurance or to keep using private insurance? And does it help you to understand that in over 1000 pages, there ARE other provisions which are totally unacceptable? CaLL YOUR CONGRESSMEN! STOP THIS BILL!

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Need another example of what is in this bill? OK---- Here we have government telling doctors which specialties they may pursue or retain, and where in this country they will be working (in order to attain the government-required diversity and numbers of specialists in each area). Do you just think that this might affect which people may choose to go into medicine (or not)? Do you think this just might affect the QUALITY of people who must be chosen to fulfill the GOVERNMENT-mandated outcomes?

SEC. 2271. HEALTH WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT.

`(a) In General- The Secretary shall, based upon the classifications and standardized methodologies and procedures developed by the Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment under section 764(b)--

`(1) collect data on the health workforce (as defined in section 764(i)), disaggregated by field, discipline, and specialty, with respect to--

`(A) the supply (including retention) of health professionals relative to the demand for such professionals;

`(B) the diversity of health professionals (including with respect to race, ethnic background, and gender); and

`(C) the geographic distribution of health professionals; and

While taking calls from left wing bloggers, President Obama was asked if it is true that Section 102 of the House HealthCare
Bill would outlaw private insurance. He asked if people will be able to keep their insurance. Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” [But still he asks us to put aside our concerns and just get this bill passed...]

Page 425 is where the Congress would make it mandatory that every five years people in Medicare have a required "counseling session", where they will be able to tell seniors how to end their life sooner." Well, that is, except for the old people in Congress or working for the government, for they get to keep their private insurance.....

The proposal specifically calls for the consultation to recommend "palliative care and hospice" for seniors in their mandatory counseling sessions. Palliative care and hospice generally focus only on pain relief until death.

The measure requires "an explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title." The use of "helpful" documents such as advance directives and a health care proxy would be explained.

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In an article in the Wall Street Journal it is noted that Obama's Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag sent a letter to Capitol Hill which asks for the creation of yet another new agency, this one with the power to cut spending and implement changes in Medicare.

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When House Republicans recently wrote a constituency letter which states that ‘House Democrats unveiled a government-run health care plan,’”, the Franking Commission , which determines which letters can be sent to constituents on the tax payer dime, ordained that ‘You cannot use that language. You must use, ‘The House majority unveiled a public option health care plan,’or ‘just last week the House majority unveiled a health care plan which I believe will cost taxpayers…’” This surely seems to me to be a free speech issue, which used to be guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. It leaves one to wonder what restraints are being put on supposed misstatements by the Democrats in their constituent letters. My guess is -none- as it should be.... Republicans will be forced to use the Democrats’ version of language describing their attempted government takeover of healthcare on their official communications with their constituents or they will have to pay for the postage personally.

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Excerpted from Matt Barber of Townhall: The president has more "czars" running around than Mother Russia. It's mondo bizarro. Kind of fitting, though; must be a communist thing. Obama has chosen Harvard professor John Holdren as "science czar" providing the latest example of just how bad America really muffed it last November. It could give us a sneak-peak into the not-so-distant future should this Obamacare-health-scare become reality.

In the name of population control, Holdren has advocated both forced abortion and compulsory sterilization through government-administered tainting of the water supply. In a book he co-authored, entitled "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," Holdren calls for a "Planetary Regime" to enforce mandatory abortions and limit the use of natural resources.

He writes: "There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated. It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society." [To which I add that this will become one of Obama's "Major Crisis Moments"]

Holdren further suggests that since "[a]dding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control," such an approach would have to "meet some rather stiff requirements; … be uniformly effective; … free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects;" and pass both PETA and AARP muster by having "no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock."

Czar Holdren further postulates that "a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable. The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits."

[I know, I know - some will say that this man wrote this book in the 70's and that just because he was so intent on the ideas that he wrote a book chronicling it does not mean that this is how he will ACT during his Czarship. Right..... of course not. Well, only if he feels he can get away with it! It is yet another example of the sorts of people whom Obama chooses to lead our country, this time via a Czar with no Congressional oversite - RADICAL people with RADICAL, hate-America ideas...] I must read 1984
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As President Barack Obama's health-care push enters a critical phase, senior Democrats in Congress are scrambling to keep their own party members on board. Democrats are considering scaling back proposed taxes on the rich, reconsidering taxing employer health benefits, and possibly trimming the total cost of the package to make subsidies for the uninsured less generous than advocates have sought.
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From Fox News: A key House committee on Tuesday indefinitely postponed voting on health care reform legislation, after Democratic leaders were unable to line up enough votes from moderate members of their own party. The House Energy and Commerce Committee canceled the session as it faced serious concerns about the legislation from fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, who hold a large number of seats on the panel.
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Canada Free Press, by Jerry McConnell Original Article

Why is that man that sits illegally in the Oval Office spending OUR tax dollars to give 12 million (at least) illegal aliens free health insurance? Who does he really think he is; the health fairy? Who told him he could spend all these taxpayers’ dollars on people who broke the law to sneak into this country instead of waiting their turn like the good people of Europe and other countries who wait their turn on our standard immigration lists

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From Joseph Curl of the Washington Times:

President Obama on Monday extended by six months a task force charged with determining how terrorism suspects should be interrogated, held in custody or handed over to other countries, putting in jeopardy his promise to close the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January.

The move came on the same day the president pushed back the release of a congressionally mandated report on the nation's economic conditions, and the White House began to extend a self-imposed deadline for overhauling the nation's health care system.

Pushing back the deadline on how to handle 229 Gitmo detainees, among them five suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, including accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, illustrates just how complicated it is to solve the campaign issue that Mr. Obama this month called "one of the biggest challenges of my administration." [Perhaps our President has once again shown his "empty suit" status as well as his pandering to his left-wing fanatics by suggesting a closing of Gitmo in the first place. It is a good sign that he is capable of learning the hard, cold facts of war.]

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From Reuters: North Korea, bristling at being described by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as behaving like an unruly child, responded in kind Thursday, calling her vulgar and less then clever.

Clinton is in Thailand for a major regional security meeting where she is urging governments to keep pressing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program and enforce sanctions against the reclusive state.

"She has made a spate of vulgar remarks unbecoming for her position everywhere she went since she was sworn in," North Korea's KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.

It said her comments earlier in the week that North Korean behavior such as a recent spate of missile launches was like an unruly child demanding attention "suggests she is by no means intelligent."

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From Congress Daily: Senator Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the [healthcare] overhaul unless leaders made major changes.

"Let's just lay everything on the table," Grassley said. "A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't some changes made ... and the president says, 'You're going to destroy my presidency.' "

The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

In the realm of too outrageous to even believe, except it's true: The Hill reports: The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) contacted the Treasury Department to complain after Matt Drudge’s website linked to a want ad for contractors with the “ability to create cartoons on the spot about [Bureau of the Public Debt] jobs.”
And while we are talking about ourtageous statements, here's another good one!
Vice President Joe Biden (CNSNews.com) – Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

“And folks look, AARP knows and the people with me here today know, the president knows, and I know, that the status quo is simply not acceptable,” Biden said at the event on Thursday in Alexandria, Va. “It’s totally unacceptable. And it’s completely unsustainable. Even if we wanted to keep it the way we have it now. It can’t do it financially.”

“We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden said.

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.” [To which I say that it's almost unbelievable that the same government whose President is suggesting that if one is OLD, one must just deal with it so as not to overburden the system with demands for care can with a straight face promote their elderly-unfriendly agenda to the elderly themselves!]

FRom It Takes Work To Feel This Good Blog:
The {healthcare} bill also provides for the creation of a new federal bureaucracy called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. This agency will monitor your medical treatments to ensure that your physician is only providing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The underlying intent is to cut health care costs by “guiding” your doctor’s decisions around treatment.

According to Tom Daschle, reform of the health care system will “not be pain free”. He alludes to the fact that senior citizens should accept the onset of age related conditions instead of seeking treatment for them. Currently, Medicare pays for treatment deemed effective and safe. The stimulus bill provision will change that and implement a cost-effectiveness factor into the treatment options to be offered. In other words, Medicare will no longer cover many of the treatments currently being prescribed to our parents and grandparents. And who determines these cost-effectiveness standards? Another new federal agency called the Federal Council.

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From Frugal Cafe Blog Zone: The Bureau of Public Debt, part of the US Treasury Department, decided to hire its own CARTOONIST to create amusing cartoons to “lighten up” work place meetings and make Americans forget that they are losing their jobs, losing their homes, facing skyrocketing taxes and rising Federal debt, paying for a non-stimulus package that has been wasted and given to political cronies, and can barely put food on the table. [ This is a perfect illustration of the fact that empty suits fill many jobs in our government!]
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Not in my words, but important to know: Protesters gathered outside a Chicago area hotel Sunday as an Islamic extremist group reportedly linked to Al Qaeda held its first official conference on U.S. soil in an attempt to step up Western recruitment efforts.

Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir — a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — met Sunday inside a Hilton hotel to host a conference, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam."

Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group.

But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list.

"Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com.

Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire — or "khilafah" — that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad. Hizb ut-Tahrir often says that it's indoctrination "prepares the infantry that groups like Al Qaeda take into battle.

Summer storm gathering

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If you cannot read the sign under ST. TERESA HOSPITAL, in Nairobi, Kenya, it says "and Funeral Home". How convenient! Perhaps, if Tom Daschle and Barack Obama have their way in limiting care to "old" people, that will be a convenient arrangement here in the United States.....
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On October 16, 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev spoke before the United Nations, proclaiming, prior to his return to the Soviet Union, that "the US would be defeated without a shot being fired". He stated that we would be taken over from within our own government. The radical left in America HAS infiltrated our schools, from elementary thru college, all the while inculcating our children with their hate America agenda. They have taught our children that Socialism is good, that the rich are demonic people who haven't really worked hard to achieve and must therefore share their wealth with those who won't work hard. Though Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, the number of people in America who think it is a good idea is soon going to be the majority - unless we the people can begin to stand up, shout out, and produce the kind of CHANGE we now need.

Sixty nine million people voted for America to be a communist nation in the 2008 election.

The American people voted for 'Change' and 'Hope' without demanding to have the change described to them. Let us not forget that Obama did not say he would like to continue the greatness of America. Rather, he claimed that he would CHANGE America, and that is just what he meant.
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For those of you who want to know how our President's sweet talk to those nice Russians is going for us all, you need to watch the video below. For those who cannot access it, it shows Obama with his Russian hosts going thru a reception line. Obama five times extends his hand to shake hands. At each effort, the Russian reaches behind Obama to clasp the hand of the Russian man behind him. Isn't it so surprising that our media have failed to show this episode so that we can better understand who the Russians really are? I'm shocked... It was an affront to a President of the United States and her citizens, and it speaks volumns about the amount of cooperation we can expect from them........ Russian friends, indeed.
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In "Global Warming" news: Wisconsin is expecting it's coldest day for this date in July since 1900.....
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BRAVO, PRESIDENT OBAMA!

From Sheryl Gaye Stolberg of the NYT: President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by “putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour,” and telling black children that growing up poor is no reason to get bad grades. “No one has written your destiny for you,” he said, directing his remarks to “all the other Barack Obamas out there” who might one day grow up to be president. “Your destiny is in your hands, and don’t you forget that. That’s what we have to teach all of our children! No excuses! No excuses!”

Mr. Obama spoke for 45 minutes to an audience of several thousand people, most of them black, , clad in tuxedos and ball gowns, who had gathered in a ballroom of the Hilton New York to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

[This is the message many have been longing for, for minority students to apply themselves and to gain the good education which has been available to them, if only achieving a good education were the priority of their parents and themselves. This will prepare them to be successful in life..... Everyone would welcome that!]
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Hot off the Investors' Business Daily editorial:

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

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From John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, July 13, 2009

The infection control partnership between Johns Hopkins University and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association is getting praise from federal officials, who are calling the program a "success story" and a national model for healthcare reform.

The Michigan Keystone ICU Project has reduced healthcare-associated infections in Michigan, saving more than 1,500 lives and $200 million in 18 months. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says Michigan Keystone ICU Project will serve as the first in a series of periodic "success story" reports that federal officials will issue to identify healthcare reform models from across the nation that are worth emulating.

[Now THIS is what our government should be doing about health care in America - highlighting, encouraging and congratulating PRIVATE sector solutions! The less the GOVERNMENT actually DOES, the better! As I touted on my sign for the Tea Party in my area: "Monstrous government takeover is not good for America!"

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Excerpts of article by Philip Klein of the American Spectator:

Even as California struggles with a catastrophic fiscal crisis and other states scramble to avoid the same fate, Democrats in Washington are proposing health care measures that would add hundreds of billions of dollars of spending to state budgets via an expansion of Medicaid. The program, which covers about 40 million people now, would gain 15 million to 20 million new beneficiaries if Democrats get their way.

The Congressional Budget Office pegged the cost of such an expansion at $500 billion over 10 years, but the total cost is likely higher because the estimate only counts the projected burden on the federal government. Under the current arrangement, Washington picks up about 57 percent of the cost of Medicaid and states pay for 43 percent. While the latest draft of the bill by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has the federal government subsidizing the Medicaid expansion for the first five years, after that, the burden will gradually shift back to the states.

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By ABBY GOODNOUGH of the NYT, reporting on the great Democrat hope of a single payer, government health plan:

BOSTON — A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law is forcing the hospital to cover too much of the expense of caring for the poor.

The hospital, Boston Medical Center, faces a $38 million deficit for the fiscal year ending in September, its first loss in five years. The suit says the hospital will lose more than $100 million next year because the state has lowered Medicaid reimbursement rates and stopped paying Boston Medical “reasonable costs” for treating other poor patients. The suit comes as Congress looks to Massachusetts as a potential model for overhauling the nation’s health care system. Even before the suit, the state’s fiscal crisis had cast doubts on the law’s sustainability.

To help close a growing deficit, the Democratic-controlled Legislature eliminated coverage for some 30,000 legal immigrants in the new state budget. Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, is seeking to restore about half of the $130 million cut, but lawmakers have expressed reluctance, saying that doing so would require cuts to other important programs. “The magnitude of the loss here can’t be solved on the program-cutting or expense-cutting side,” Mr. Traylor said. Professor Parmet said the hospital’s dissatisfaction with the new law should be a warning to Congress that “insurance alone doesn’t solve the problems” of the health care system. In fact, she said, it might exacerbate the financial problems of safety-net hospitals in the short term.
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Are you beginning to believe Nancy Pelosi when she condemns the CIA for lying to her about their activities? Guy Bensun's Media Blog of National Review Online points out: 1. Democrats are "furious" that the Bush administration didn't tell them about a never-instituted CIA plan to eliminate top terrorists, and want to use the CIA director's formal cancelation of the program last week as an opportunity to back up the speaker's reckless and slanderous claim that the CIA lies "all the time." 2. But the "secret" program in question was described by The Paper of Record (The New York Times) seven years ago, and contemporary reports on the matter include quotes from intelligence sources who say that Congress had "long been briefed" on the original presidential finding that spurred the abandoned CIA strategy. The full story can be found at http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGY3ZTUzODRiYWIyNDQ2Zjk3NjE2Nzg0NDQ3MTNmOTM=

In addition to that, former CIA director Michael Hayden told AP that he knows congressional leaders were briefed on the top-secret activities because he did the briefings himself, once every three months.

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Just a reminder of one of the provisions in the current Cap and Trade bill: it will mandate new energy efficient windows, appliances and doors prior to selling our homes or borrowing against it's equity. And folks like those who confront and intimidate Americans while working for Acorn (well they HAVE changed their name, all the easier to deceive us) may be the ones who will be entering our homes to evaluate our compliance. That won't cost much, will it? And this wouldn't have anything to do with Obama's promise that his tax increases will only affect the top 5% of Americans, right?

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As we descend deeper into Marxism, I am giving you the link to the article from Prava, the Russian newspaper, which I excerpted several months ago. It is worth reading: http://www.cnsnews.com/PUBLIC/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48929

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Chelsea Schilling and Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.

It is high time, I guess, for Obama to prove that he is an American citizen, a simple enough thing to do. A judge has recently said that he WILL hear the lawsuit to determine if Barack Obama actually IS an American citizen if and when the legal paperwork is rewritten... Obama can do this in various ways: he can provide his college transcripts, which have been reported to prove that his scholarship was based the the fact that he was a foreign student; he can show us his Visa for the times long ago that he traveled the world, so that we can see his country of citizenship; he can refute his aunt and other relatives from Kenya who maintain that he was born there and then flown to Hawaii; he can show us his ORIGINAL birth certificate; or he can explain why he has paid nearly one million dollars to his attorneys to prevent any of this information from being documented. This ruling by the military just might open that door.... I am, however, waiting for the other shoe to drop from Obama's military.

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And ending on a high note:

U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., a leader of fiscally conservative Blue-Dog House Democrats, said Wednesday that the House plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system is losing support and will be stuck in committee without changes.

"Last time I checked, it takes seven Democrats to stop a bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee", one of the three committees considering the bill, Ross said following a House vote. "We had seven against it last Friday; we have 10 today."

WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling. On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci. This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill. [Will this kind of action ever be a thing of the past for Democrats?]

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Jombie, 7/11/2009 4:49:59 AM (No. 5677812) Following the previous posting of information concerning the fire fighter, Jombie rightly posted: The personal history of the plaintiff in this case is absolutely irrelevant to the propriety of Sotomayor's decision. Her backers cannot win on the relevant aspects of her behavior, so now they have to attack the victim. [And he is so right!] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Al Gore has touted the Cap and Trade climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming “But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements!" Meanwhile, his global warming has now become climate change, in order to have power over us no matter what the weather does. And hasn't climate ALWAYS been changing? New Zealand has recorded the coldest May on record, while Massachusetts talks about it's "year without a summer". Global warming, indeed. THIS is why we need global governance on global warming solutions??? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ And HERE is what our liberal brain-washing of school children and adults alike can produce: Prince Charles has declared that "Capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse". He added, in a speech to industrialists and environmentalists at St James's Palace, that he had calculated that we have just 96 months left to save the world. Oh, please, that's been said and tried before, both for warming and cooling of our planet.....as well as for the death of our oceans. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Molly Hooper of The Hill: Eric Holder let stand one of the four original charges [against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation] though. The leader of the black nationalist group’s Philadelphia chapter, Minister King Samir Shabazz, is charged with brandishing a “deadly weapon,” a nightstick, outside of the polls. As a result, he was punished with not being able to brandish a weapon within 100 ft. of a polling station in Philadelphia until after the 2012 elections. [Does this mean that it will be ok for the Black Panthers to intimidate us after that date? Is this a joke?] “The American people need to know that the Justice Department takes seriously cases of voter intimidation, regardless of the political party of the defendants,” Smith said. Shabazz and Jackson were captured on widely circulated video of the incident standing 10-15 feet from the polling station. The two men are seen standing shoulder to shoulder, dressed in black military-style uniforms, black berets and combat boots; Shabazz tapped and pointed the nightstick in his hands at individuals. According to an affidavit filed by veteran voting rights activist Bartle Bull, who monitored elections in Mississippi at the height of the civil rights movement, the New Black Panther¹s directed racist comments towards white poll workers such as “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” [Though this charge has been labeled "bull" by Rep. Brady of PA, it should make us wonder how he could have been at all polling places at all moments to be able to claim it as bull.] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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From the San Francisco Examiner: Muscle for Money includes multiple techniques for creating highly aggressive, organized efforts both to pressure businesses and officials to support the activists’ agenda or to discredit and intimidate opponents of their agenda, according to present and former ACORN members. Service Employees International Union has funded Muscle for Money activities in the past and continues to finance corporate shakedown efforts across the country as part of this program. SEIU locals 100 and 880 have been identified as allied organizations on ACORN’s web site. That information has since been removed from the ACORN web site, but U.S. Department of Labor LM-2 financial disclosure forms show over $600,000 in transactions between these same locals and ACORN operations in recent years.
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"Rarely does the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights vote unanimously on anything", according to a Washington Times Editorial. "A partisan divide has made the commission contentious in recent years. Yet the Department of Justice's decision to forfeit its voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and three individual defendants drew a 6-0 vote with one abstention by the commission. What unified the commission was outrage at the Justice Department for letting the Black Panthers off the hook."

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The bottom line, as our President is pledging to dismantle our good ICBMs while Russia eliminates their rusted and perhaps unusable ones, is that it is Russia which is now in the lead in ICBM development, not America. They continue their development while we close ours down..... I'm not feeling safer - are you?
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From Gerald Warner of the U.K. Telegraph, who is willing to tell it like it is: "For America voluntarily to reduce its nuclear superiority is madness. Bien-pensant talk of a nuclear-free world displays total stupidity in a global situation where nuclear weaponry is proliferating, not receding. There is even a nuclear bomb in Pakistan, which is teetering on the brink of failed statehood at the hands of Islamist insurgents. Is this a time for America to disarm, to “sell the store” as one trenchant right-wing commentator has already described Obama’s posturing in Moscow?

For Obama, success is not the delivery of watertight nuclear security for America; it is a feel-good news conference and photo opportunity that will create huge approval ratings on liberal campuses where the delusions of 1968 and the anti-Vietnam war movement still linger on in these isolated Jurassic Parks.

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While telling us that our country is in a recession, Michelle Obama has a staff that is SO big that it is costing us Americans three times as much as Laura Bush's staff did. And, while in Paris, at taxpayer expense, she and her girls went shopping, with an escort of 20 automobiles.... Shouldn't this be a time in our history when our leaders show the same restraint that we must show?
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From the Los Angeles Times: Leaders of developing nations shun plan to cut greenhouse gases in half. [And it has been proven that without the cooperation of China and India, whatever else the rest of the world spends to lower greenhouse gases will not reduce them enough to lower temperatures by more than .01 degree..]

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An amused Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader, concerning the need to actually READ a bill prior to passing one, said: “If every member pledged to not vote for it ( the cap and trade bill) if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference. Again laughing, he said: “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference. Are YOU laughing yet?
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Billionaire T. Boone Pickens, according to the AP, is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas. The oil tycoon wants to install large wind turbines in parts of four Panhandle counties in a project that would produce up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity.

Oops! That was June of 2007. This month of July 2009, things have changed. Pickens is trying to find buyers for the 687 windmills which he has already purchased for over 2 billion dollars. According to Sabastian Blanco, Pickens' told NPR that people still want renewables and that the wind farm will someday come to fruition. Until then, though, he's still touting natural gas as a replacement for oil and said he would find places to install the 667 wind turbines that he had already ordered for the farm. [He is blaming the inability to get financing as well as the COST of actually getting the energy produced to the people who need it. Now who would have thought THAT would be a problem?]
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By Oleg Shchedrov Oleg Shchedrov – Reuters, Jul 10, 10:32 am ET

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned the United States Friday that if it did not reach agreement with Russia on plans for missile defense systems, Moscow would deploy rockets in an enclave near Poland.

In sharp contrast to his positive words during President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow earlier this week when the two reached broad agreement on nuclear arms cuts, Medvedev used a news conference at the G8 summit to return to Russia's earlier tough rhetoric on arms control. Referring to an order he gave earlier this year to prepare deployment of short-range Russian missiles in the western enclave of Kaliningrad to answer to any U.S. deployment of a missile shield in central Europe, Medvedev said: "If we don't manage to agree on the issues, you know the consequences. What I said during my state of the nation address has not been revoked." Medvedev also appeared to change his tone on the missile defense shield itself. During Obama's visit he told the U.S. leader, using markedly softer language than normal, that "no one is saying that missile defense is harmful in itself or that it poses a threat to someone." But at the Group of Eight rich nations summit in Italy on Friday, Medvedev returned to a traditional posture on the system, describing it as "harmful" and "threatening to Russia."

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