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'Waste 102': The Final List
 The 102 worst ways the government is spending your tax dollars:
102: Protecting a Michigan insect collection from other insects ($187,632)
101: Highway beautified by fish art in Washington ($10,000)
100: University studying hookup behavior of female college coeds in New York ($219,000)
99: Police department getting 92 blackberries for supervisors in Rhode Island ($95,000)
98: Upgrades to seldom-used river cruise boat in Oklahoma ($1.8 million)
97: Precast concrete toilet buildings for Mark Twain National Forest in Montana ($462,000)
96: University studying whether mice become disoriented when they consume alcohol in Florida ($8,408)
95: Foreign bus wheel polishers for California ($259,000)
94: Recovering crab pots lost at sea in Oregon ($700,000)
93: Developing a program to develop "machine-generated humor" in Illinois ($712,883)
92: Colorado museum where stimulus was signed (and already has $90 million in the bank) gets geothermal stimulus grant ($2.6 million)
91: Grant to the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to support the traditional arts apprenticeship program, gathering and festival ($30,000)
90: Studying methamphetamines and the female rat sex drive in Maryland ($30,000)
89: Studying mating decisions of cactus bugs in Florida ($325,394)
88: Studying why deleting a gene can create sex reversal in people, but not in mice in Minnesota ($190,000)
87: College hires director for a project on genetic control of sensory hair cell membrane channels in zebrafish in California ($327,337)
86: New jumbo recycling bins with microchips embedded inside to track participation in Ohio ($500,000)
85: Oregon Federal Building's "green" renovation at nearly the price of a brand new building ($133 million)
84: Massachusetts middle school getting money to build a solar array on its roof ($150,000)
83: Road widening that could have been millions of dollars cheaper if Lousiana hadn't opted to replace a bridge that may not have needed replacing ($60 million)
82: Cleanup effort of a Washington nuclear waste site that already got $12 billion from the DOE ($1.9 billion)
81: Six woodlands water taxis getting a new home in Texas ($750,000)
80: Maryland group gets money to develop "real life" stories that underscore job and infrastructure-related research findings ($363,760)
79: Studying social networks like Facebook in North Carolina ($498,000)
78:18 North Carolina teacher coaches to heighten math and reading performance ($4.4 million)
77: Retrofitting light switches with motion sensors for one company in Arizona ($800,000)
76: Removing graffiti along 100 miles of flood-control ditches in California ($837,000)
75: Bicycle lanes, shared lane signs and bike racks in Pennsylvania ($105,000)
74: Privately-owned steakhouse rehabilitating its restaurant space in Missouri ($75,000)
73: National dinner cruise boat company in Illinois outfitting vessels with surveillance systems to protect against terrorists ($1 million)
72: Producing and transporting peanuts and peanut butter in North Carolina ($900,000)
71: Refurnishing and delivering picnic tables in Iowa ($30,000)
70: Digital television converter box coupon program in D.C. ($650 million)
69: Elevating and relocating 3,000 feet of track for the Napa Valley Wine Train in California ($54 million)
68: Hosting events for Earth Day, the summer solstice etc. in Minnesota ($50,000)
67: Expanding ocean aquaculture in Hawaii ($99,960)
66: Raising railroad tracks 18 inches in Oregon because the residents of one small town were tired of taking a detour around them ($4.2 million)
65: Professors and employees of Iowa state universities voluntarily taking early retirement ($43 million)
64: Minnesota theatre named after Che Guevara putting on "socially conscious" puppet shows ($25,000)
63: Replacing a basketball court lighting system with a more energy efficient one in Arizona ($20,000)
62: Repainting and adding a security camera to one bridge in Oregon ($3.5 million)
61: Missouri bridge project that already was full-funded with state money ($8 million)
60: New hospital parking garage in New York that will employ less people ($19.5 million)
59: University in North Carolina studying why adults with ADHD smoke more ($400,000)
58: Low-income housing residents in one Minnesota city receiving free laptops, WiFi and iPod Touches to "educate" them in technology ($5 million)
57: University in California sending students to Africa to study why Africans vote they the way they do in their elections ($200,000)
56: Researching the impact of air pollution combined with a high-fat diet on obesity development in Ohio ($225,000)
55: Studying how male and female birds care for their offspring and how it compares to how humans care for their children in Oklahoma ($90,000)
54: University in Pennsylvania researching fossils in Argentina (over $1 million)
53: University in Tennessee studying how black holes form (over $1 million)
52: University in Oklahoma sending 3 researchers to Alaska to study grandparents and how they pass on knowledge to younger generations ($1.5 million)
51: Grant application from a Pennsylvania university for a researcher named in the Climate-gate scandal (Rep. Darrell Issa is calling on the president to freeze the grant) ($500,000)
50: Studying the impact of global warming on wildflowers in a Colorado ghost town ($500,000)
49: Bridge built over railroad crossing so 168 Nebraska town residents don't have to wait for the trains to pass ($7 million)
48: Renovating an old hotel into a visitors center in Kentucky ($300,000)
47: Removing overgrown weeds in a Rhode Island park ($250,000)
46: Renovating 5 seldom-used ports of entry on the U.S.-Canada border in Montana ($77 million)
45: Testing how to control private home appliances in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts from an off-site computer ($800,000)
44: Repainting a rarely-used bridge in North Carolina ($3.1 million)
43: Renovating a desolate Wisconsin bridge that averages 10 cars a day ($426,000)
42: 4 new buses for New Hampshire ($2 million)
41: Repaving a 1-mile stretch of Atlanta road that had parts of it already repaved in 2007 ($490,000)
40: Florida beauty school tuition ($2.3 million)
39: Extending a bike path to the Minnesota Twins stadium ($500,000)
38: Beautification of Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard ($1.1 million)
37: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival ($10,000)
36: Developing the next generation of supersonic corporate jets in Maryland that could cost $80 million dollars each ($4.7 million)
35: New spring training facilities for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies ($30 million)
34: Demolishing 35 old laboratories in New Mexico ($212 million)
33: Putting free WiFi, Internet kiosks and interactive history lessons in 2 Texas rest stops ($13.8 million)
32: Replacing a single boat motor on a government boat in D.C. ($10,500)
31: Developing the next generation of football gloves in Pennsylvania ($150,000)
30: Pedestrian bridge to nowhere in West Virginia ($80,000)
29: Replacing all signage on 5 miles of road in Rhode Island ($4,403,205)
28: Installing a geothermal energy system to heat the "incredible shrinking mall" in Tennessee ($5 million)
27: University in Minnesota studying how to get the homeless to stop smoking ($230,000)
26: Large woody habitat rehabilitation project in Wisconsin ($16,800)
25: Replacing escalators in the parking garage of one D.C. metro station ($4.3 million)
24: Building an airstrip in a community most Alaskans have never even heard of ($14,707,949)
23: Bike and pedestrian paths connecting Camden, N.J. to Philadelphia, Penn. when there's already a bridge that connects them ($23 million)
22: Sending 10 university undergrads each year from North Carolina to Costa Rica to study the rainforests ($564,000)
21: Road signs touting stimulus funds at work in Ohio ($1 million)
20: Researching how paying attention improves performance of difficult tasks in Connecticut ($850,000)
19: Kentucky Transportation Department awarding contracts to companies associated with a road contractor accused of bribing the previous state transportation secretary ($24 million)
18: Amtrak losing $32 per passenger nationally but rewarded with windfall ($1.3 billion)
17: Widening an Arizona interstate even though the company that won the contract has a history of tax fraud and pollution ($21.8 million)
16: Replace existing dumbwaiters in New York ($351,807)
15: Deer underpass in Wyoming ($1,239,693)
14: Arizona universities examining the division of labor in ant colonies (combined $950,000)
13: Fire station without firefighters in Nevada ($2 million)
12: "Clown" theatrical production in Pennsylvania ($25,000)
11: Maryland town gets money but doesn't know what to do with it ($25,000)
10: Investing in nation-wide wind power (but majority of money has gone to foreign companies) ($2 billion)
9: Resurfacing a tennis court in Montana ($50,000)
8: University in Indiana studying why young men do not like to wear condoms ($221,355)
7: Funds for Massachusetts roadway construction to companies that have defrauded taxpayers, polluted the environment and have paid tens of thousands of dollars in fines for violating workplace safety laws (millions)
6: Sending 11 students and 4 teachers from an Arkansas university to the U.N. climate change convention in Copenhagen, using almost 54,000 lbs of carbon dioxide from air travel alone ($50,000)
5: Storytelling festival in Utah ($15,000)
4: Door mats to the Department of the Army in Texas ($14,675)
3: University in New York researching young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke pot ($389,357)
2: Solar panels for climbing gym in Colorado ($157,800)
1: Grant for one Massachusetts university for "robobees" (miniature flying robot bees) ($2 million)
GRAND TOTAL: $4,891,645,229
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11th, 2010 01:56 pm |
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Obama's Oscar
by Chuck Norris
03/09/2010
I am no pinnacle of humility, and I've learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I'm not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been schooled with a primer on the perils of pride.
It's one thing (though still distasteful) to be boastful in a sports or fighting ring; it's quite another in the Oval Office. We were promised change, but it seems to me this White House's smug swagger and strut rival the great taunts and bluster of Muhammad Ali in his heyday. In fact, if I were handing out awards, President Barack Obama would win hands down the Oscar for overconfidence and arrogance.
Here are a few examples of his Oscar-worthy political performance.
Who can forget the State of the Union address back in January, when the president utterly disregarded and disrespected our military commanders and the U.S. Supreme Court? President Obama rebutted the entire Supreme Court in the justices' presence and before the whole nation, with a premeditated and prepared accusation (later proved incorrect). "The Supreme Court," he said, "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections."
And what about the looks on the faces of the military commanders during the State of the Union? My view on gays in the military aside, the president's smug demeanor in pushing the issue and the military leaders' stoic response prompted me to ask, "Is the State of the Union really the place for a commander in chief to cast in-your-face politics before his leading military personnel with all of America watching?"
Consider even the recent so-called health care summit. It might sound simple to some, but I believe it is symptomatic when members of Congress address the president as "Mr. President" and he calls on them only by their first names. The president went the entire six hours or so in this room full of Washington politicians and various notables addressing them by their first names rather than by the socially accepted and proper forms of address for senators and representatives. "John," "Paul," "Louise," "Marsha," etc. -- one may argue that these are examples of familiarity, but I believe they are of contempt.
In addition, to Sen. John McCain's genuine concern for ramming a pork-ridden health care bill through Congress by politics as usual, President Obama replied, "We're not campaigning anymore. The election is over."
And to Rep. Eric Cantor's polite opening greeting, President Obama sarcastically commented about the high stack of pages in front of Cantor by saying: "Let me just guess; that's the 2,400-page health care bill. Is that right?"
As for other Americans who oppose his far-left agenda, the president jeered at them before a live audience a few months back, when he condescendingly declared: "Those folks who are trying to stand in the way of progress, let me tell you: I'm just getting started! I don't quit. I'm not tired. ... It is important for those folks to understand I'm just ready to go. We're just going to keep on going."
The president demonizes any opposition and even tried socially to quarantine No. 1 Fox News as an illegitimate news organization because some commentators disagree with him. His actions remind me of these words of Fulton J. Sheen's: "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
Lou Pritchett -- a former vice president of Procter & Gamble -- who retired in 1989 after working at the company for 36 years, hit the nail on the head when he wrote his renowned "open letter to President Obama": "You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. ... You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others."
The president lords himself over not only broadcast agencies, other politicians, his opponents and the American people but also our most precious founding documents. As I noted in last week's column, President Obama described the Constitution as "an imperfect document ... a document that reflects some deep flaws ... (and) an enormous blind spot." He also said, "The Framers had that same blind spot."
In possibly his gravest error, Obama haughtily placed himself above Judeo-Christian Scriptures when speaking at a church in June 2006 as a senator. In that message, he denigrated biblical books, including Leviticus and Deuteronomy, ridiculed the issue of the Bible's inerrancy, called the Sermon on the Mount a radically inapplicable passage of Scripture, and declared that basing public policies upon the Bible "would be a dangerous thing." He arrogantly concluded that "folks haven't been reading their Bible," setting himself above not only most others' understanding of Scripture but also all of us who read it. In olden days, such sacred contempt would have been regarded as an abominable desecration -- a man standing in the house of God claiming to be like a god, above others and even Scripture itself.
President Obama, I don't know whether you've spent a day in a Sunday school class, so here's a verse that might help you. Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."
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CaptainObvious wrote: dover-diva wrote: Good response! CO thinks he knows everything, (NOT) Something else for your perusal.
Adults are trying to have a conversation, go back to the kiddie table.
HAAAAAAAAAAA_HAAAAAAAAAAA LOL geeeeeeze a loser. Well we already knew that "uncle fire". DUDe 
Where is YOUR topic that YOU started???? Can't think of nuttin' anyone would respond to???
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dover-diva wrote: Good response! CO thinks he knows everything, (NOT) Something else for your perusal.
Adults are trying to have a conversation, go back to the kiddie table.
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San Tan Valley Patriot wrote: No, but that is why 1/5 of my salary goes towards a healthcare I choose. I am not compelled to do so. Thank you for responding.
So tell me where where YOUR CHOICE is going to change?
If you already buy insurance, whey do you care about the requirement? You already buy it.
In all the plans, you keep your insurance if you like it.
If your employer provides insurance nothing changes, you keep it.
If you buy it on the open market, then you'll later buy it from the health insurance exchange which is the way to create large pools (and hence group insurance rates) of PRIVATE health insurance plans.
The gov. is not going to tell you which Dr. to go to or not-- that's what the Insurance companies do.
This concept that you get to CHOOSE is not entirely true-- you go to the healthcare provider that's a provider in your insurance plan. You go out of the plan and you pay more-- that's still your choice, but an expensive one.
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San Tan Valley Patriot wrote: No, but that is why 1/5 of my salary goes towards a healthcare I choose. I am not compelled to do so. Thank you for responding.
Good response! CO thinks he knows everything, (NOT) Something else for your perusal.
Mr. Obama is engaged in an abuse of power. He is thwarting the will of the majority of the American people who do not want socialized medicine. They rightly fear that the proposal's massive $1 trillion price tag will add to our skyrocketing national debt, which has brought us to the brink of ruin. They understand it will stifle medical innovation and reduce the quality of care, leading to rationing and longer waiting lines. It represents the greatest expansion of entitlement spending since the 1960s.
Moreover, Mr. Obama's actions are undermining the traditional system of checks and balances established by the Founding Fathers. The institutional role of the Senate is to serve as a bulwark against raw majority rule. By circumventing the filibuster, Mr. Obama is not only thumbing his nose at the voters - including those in Massachusetts who elected Republican Sen. Scott Brown - but the very constitutional safeguards meant to prevent this kind of usurpation of power.
His proposal seeks to create a centrally planned medical economy that will erect a gigantic government bureaucracy based on massive taxes, subsidies and regulations. Mr. Obama is willing to sacrifice his party's political fortunes in November - and even his own re-election in 2012 - because he understands one fundamental fact: Nationalized health care is the heart of cradle-to-grave statism. No country that has ever embraced socialized medicine - Canada, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy - has ever been able to regain economic freedom.
This is not because government-run health care is so effective or beloved; rather, it fosters a debilitating spirit of dependency that is fatal to a self-governing people. In short, it kills the self-reliance and individualism critical to a free-market democracy.
For Mr. Obama, that is precisely the point. Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, laid out the Marxist blueprint that has been followed by the radical left since 1917. Lenin urged that any disaster should be exploited to "hasten the destruction ... of the capitalist class." The 2008 Great Recession brought Mr. Obama to power. He has been seizing this crisis in order to overthrow the old capitalist order.
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No, but that is why 1/5 of my salary goes towards a healthcare I choose. I am not compelled to do so. Thank you for responding.
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San Tan Valley Patriot wrote: Uncle Fire . . . Why is the government even telling us what and why we can and can't do something with our own health care? You can argue the points all you want page by page . . . but where does the governments authority come from to tell me, require me, and penalize me for not wanting health care in my life? Please explain as best you can this flawed and unconstitutional thought process or idea? Where does anyone come off trying to convince people this is a correct and valid point defined by the precepts of our laws?
I don't think I ever said I agreed with everything they're proposing. I have an issue with REQUIRING health insurance.
That said, when you get sick, are you going to have the money to pay for an expensive surgery or ongoing meds for a chronic illness?
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CaptainObvious wrote: dover-diva wrote: Another FACT re: out POTUS
http://www.americanthinker.com/
2010 Will Be Worse
Monty Pelerin
The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression.
He's been in office for almost a year and you're putting the blame for all our liabilities on him?
Friggin' delusional.
No, not all the blame . . . just the 1.6 trillion he spent last year . . . and the 1.9 trillion he is now proposing.
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Uncle Fire . . . Why is the government even telling us what and why we can and can't do something with our own health care? You can argue the points all you want page by page . . . but where does the governments authority come from to tell me, require me, and penalize me for not wanting health care in my life? Please explain as best you can this flawed and unconstitutional thought process or idea? Where does anyone come off trying to convince people this is a correct and valid point defined by the precepts of our laws?
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Think4Yourself wrote: At least Obama is trying to make things better, and he IS succeeding in a lot of areas. The Republican "Party of NO" has offered NOTHING substantial. They cry about being shut out by the Democrats, but they offer nothing but criticism and jokes. Their most visible leader is the Former Governor of Alaska, former Vice President Candidate, and former nobody Sarah Palin. Yes, Sarah Palin, the gift that keeps on giving. Let's see, what do I want to say next, just a minute, I wrote my canned answer( aka smart-ass wise crack) right here in the palm of my hand, Oh ! d**n I just washed it off. I heard her question the audience with "How is that Hope and Change working out for you now ?" and was amazed that She said something original, but was let down when the very next day I noted the same words on a bumper sticker, well, original thinking for Sweet Sarah went down in flames again. Actually I have a question for Sarah and her followers. "How are those Tax Cuts for the wealthy, the Wall Street Investment Banks Bailout, and the sending of your money to European Banks to pay off AIG obligations working out for you now?"
Well another lie from a closed minded person: Fact Check about Republicans not offering anything: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrats-stifle-Republican-health-care-plans-8224780-58644807.html
Love the rant about your hatred for a conservative woman . . .
And how about, "How are those Tax Cuts for the wealthy, the Wall Street Investment Banks Bailout, and the sending of your money to European Banks to pay off AIG obligations working out for you now?"
Amazing . . . the bailouts were shoved down our throat by a democratic controlled congress and a progressive republican president, but dished out by a democratic president . . . to who? . . . of course the same people they claim to hate . . . but by doling out the money they became owners of banks, car companies, insurance companies, oh, as well as the national student loan program owned now by none other Fannie and Freddy . . . government entities.
By the way, who is on President Obama's finance committee? Oh that's right, all nine of them were previously employed by the evil mega capitalist group Goldman Sacs. Those evil capitalists . . . Pardon me, did I call the Obama administration a capitalist . . . should I say Fascist.
Fascism: Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction. (p. 870) occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_F.html
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Hope 'n' Change: That Demo Culture of Corruption
Friday, February 26, 2010
The White House is being accused of offering juicy government jobs to two Democrats in exchange for their withdrawal from potential primary battles in this year's election cycle. The charges, which come from the Democrats themselves, are quite serious and carry punishments including jail time, assuming anyone would prosecute.
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) stated in a televised interview that someone from the Obama administration offered him a high-ranking federal position if he dropped his primary challenge against now-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter. Sestak would not comment on who approached him or the position offered, and, predictably, the White House denied the allegation.
Meanwhile, former Colorado state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff was reportedly offered a position with the U.S. Agency for International Development in exchange for dropping his challenge against Sen. Michael Bennet.
Both Specter and Bennet are considered vulnerable in 2010, and the White House has thrown its full support behind each. Specter switched parties last year to officially become the Democrat he's always been because he believed that as a Republican he couldn't survive another primary challenge from conservative former Representative and president of Club for Growth Pat Toomey. Bennet was appointed to his current seat last year after then Senator Ken Salazar left to become Secretary of the Interior.
Pointed questions are already being asked in Washington. For example, whose idea was it to approach these men with these illegal quid pro quos? Was White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel involved? Did Vice President Joe Biden play a role? After all, he takes credit for getting Specter to cross the aisle. What kind of stonewalling can be expected from the White House when the request is made for documentation of these conversations? All calls are required by law to be logged.
In the end, however, it's likely that nothing will become of these allegations. After all, to paraphrase Al Gore, is there really any controlling legal authority?
In related corruption news, a House ethics panel found that Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) accepted corporate money for Caribbean trips in violation of House rules. According to the ethics panel, Rangel's staff knew the origins of the money, but they could not determine exactly what Rangel himself knew. Rangel is, for now, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, though that could change in light of this finding.
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At least Obama is trying to make things better, and he IS succeeding in a lot of areas. The Republican "Party of NO" has offered NOTHING substantial. They cry about being shut out by the Democrats, but they offer nothing but criticism and jokes. Their most visible leader is the Former Governor of Alaska, former Vice President Candidate, and former nobody Sarah Palin. Yes, Sarah Palin, the gift that keeps on giving. Let's see, what do I want to say next, just a minute, I wrote my canned answer( aka smart-ass wise crack) right here in the palm of my hand, Oh ! d**n I just washed it off. I heard her question the audience with "How is that Hope and Change working out for you now ?" and was amazed that She said something original, but was let down when the very next day I noted the same words on a bumper sticker, well, original thinking for Sweet Sarah went down in flames again. Actually I have a question for Sarah and her followers. "How are those Tax Cuts for the wealthy, the Wall Street Investment Banks Bailout, and the sending of your money to European Banks to pay off AIG obligations working out for you now?"
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Soooooooo True. Bummie doesn't know when to SHUT UP-yet he tells us the same thing every day.
Obama's State of the Union address reminded me of Eddie Murphy's "Saturday Night Live" Gumby skit. The president could have conveyed the entirety of his 70-minute, petulance-on-parade speech in about 70 seconds.
Here is what he might as well have said: "Things were bad when I got here and maybe it's been all downhill since, but that's Bush's fault. I know what is best so you townhallin' teabaggers should shut up and accept it. If you think getting a Republican elected to Ted Kennedy's Senate seat will stop me you've got another thing coming. And you Democrats in Congress should stop whining and be more like Nancy Pelosi, who wouldn't moderate if a house fell on her sister. Swallow the loony, leftist-flavored Kool-Aid and thank me. I'm trying to do my radical hope-and-change thing, which includes giving constitutional rights to terrorists, redistributing other people's money but calling it "reform," and pushing my quasi-socialist economic agenda by growing government while euthanizing private enterprise with new taxes and regulations.
"Not to worry, though; if the greedy Wall Street robber barons and capitalist pigs can't figure out what all of this is going to cost them, we'll just throw some tax credits at them and demand they hire the unemployed or we'll demonize them with glee in the New York Times and on MSNBC. And those trillions we've added to the national debt that I've been dispensing like candy? Don't worry your ignorant, pathetic little selves about it. After all, I'm Barack Obama and I know what I'm doing.
DWAYNE KEITH
Valrico, Fla.
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Whitewashed Jihad
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Political Correctness: The Pentagon's long-awaited review of the Fort Hood terror attack completely ignores the elephant in the barrack — the internal threat from radicalized Muslim soldiers. READ MORE 
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THAT is patently obvious, oblivious. 
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dover-diva wrote: Do any of the people in AZ really care about what is happening in the USA??? This forum is without passion. No wonder "bummie" got the "job". Did you all stay home in Nov.2008??
In case you didn't notice, AZ when for McCain in 08.
Newszap is not the dominant forum in AZ.
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Do any of the people in AZ really care about what is happening in the USA??? This forum is without passion. No wonder "bummie" got the "job". Did you all stay home in Nov.2008?? Last edited on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 12:58 am by dover-diva
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I didn't write the article- but, he's been in office for a year. What outstanding things has obi and his communist admin. done FOR the people of the USA????
I need at least 6 positive things that obi has done that will make these USA come bounding back.
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dover-diva wrote: Another FACT re: out POTUS
http://www.americanthinker.com/
2010 Will Be Worse
Monty Pelerin
The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression.
He's been in office for almost a year and you're putting the blame for all our liabilities on him?
Friggin' delusional.
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My older eyes Thank You --T4Y
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T4Y a favor please. If you would separate your comments into smaller pieces it is much easier to read. Thank you 
Unless my eyes blurred lines together, I agree with what you posted.
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Look, let's call a pile of Sh** a pile of Sh** and quit the tossing around with adjectives such as "conservative", "liberal", "democrat", "republican", "independent", and so forth. What we need is two simple principles recognized. First, we need to understand that the nations economy should not be dependent on the stock market. Second, we need Washington to adopt fiscal responsibility, meaning that if you need something and don't have the money, then you either don't buy it, or you go get the money, un-encumbered by debt, to buy it.
The first is simple, Wall Street got the nations economy into the dependency on Wall Street by getting Banks to give bloated loans on real estate that wasn't worth it and to buyers that couldn't afford it. Then they bought off politicians to not regulate the packaging of these mortgages and selling them as "Bonds". The "packaging" of mortgages as bonds has been going on since the 1980's. Around the early 2000 + time frame when profits on them dropped to where there was only several million dollars of profits in them (down from tens of millions of dollars of profits) they invented the "credit default swap" . Next, Banks, Brokerage Houses, and Insurance Companies bought off politicians to turn the other way while they developed "credit default swaps" into what was simply a Casino style betting on which "bonds" would fail and which would not.
Now comes the year 2008 and what do we have? We have have worthless property securing worthless bonds, being bet on to default with no money backing the bet, and a recession causing layoffs and people defaulting on the mortgages. Now comes Banks wanting their money from borrowers who don't have it, investment hedge funds and Brokerage Houses wanting their money because their "bonds" came due, but the bond holder doesn't have the money, and "credit default swaps" owners wanting their money because they insured the bonds against default and they defaulted, and the insuring company not having the money to pay off the "bet". Thus we have a giant chain of "investors" chasing around looking for their money that wasn't ever there and still isn't; One giant circle of debt looking for payoff money that isn't there. So what happens? Well, we the taxpayer bail them out by our elected politicians covering the bets with our money. The very money that we don't have and never did and won't have because we have been laid off our jobs, or our jobs have been outsourced and never to return and the outsourcing company taking giant tax breaks for doing it.
OK, what should have happened and what do we do from here? What should have happened is that instead of giving money to the gamblers and hedge funds, and the Wall Street Brokerage Houses, we should have bailed out the home owner. It would have cost less money for the Government to just pay off the "toxic mortgages" and handed the homeowner the title to his house. (homeowner, not "investors" who bought houses for pennies on the dollar from struggling home owners, and still are, and as such now re-inflating home sales and making the economy look healthy.)
What we got was a Government that just handed out Billions of dollars to be used to pay off the gambling debts and to "make whole" the "bonds" purchased by the original investors, and the insurance companies who backed the bet. Because of doing that, these "toxic mortgages" which aren't really mortgages in the first place, they are packages of mortgages now called "bonds" are still on the books of banks, and are defaulting daily, and owners are being tossed out on the street.
The country is now in debt up to above our eyeballs because we borrowed the bailout money from the only countries who have money because they are the countries we sent all of our manufacturing and computer science jobs to in our zeal to develop a "globalized economy". So, the fault for the creation of the above problem trail, can be summed up and not use a convenient political affiliation buzz word, adjective, or label but as what Forrest Gumps Momma said, "Stupid is as stupid does". If the previous writer in this thread is as adamant as his referred article is that we are going into a depression, then he needs to recognize that we are stupid twice over because the first great depression was caused by the exact thing we are seeing now, the financial system is using debt to secure debt, and debt to pay off previous debt. It didn't work in the 30's and it isn't going to work now.
Now for the second part; What to do to become fiscally responsible. First start to balance the books by taxation of the "credit default swap" payoffs, let's say a tax of about 75%. Next, we tax executive bonuses and excess salary of the employees of the companies that took bailout money, let's say that tax rate would be about 90%. That tax would be a levy against the person, so if he/she was one of the "talented people" who might leave the company because of no bonus, then the hiring company who now hires that really valuable person who ran his former company in debt will be assessed the responsibility for that levy. Now we take all that money and pay it against the national debt.
As far as Washington problems go, we change to use the "pay as you go" philosophy. If it is necessary to spend money, then first figure out where the money is going to come from. If there is a standing National Debt, then the money can't be borrowed. No money, No purchase, simple as that. No more "bridges to nowhere", no more study of the sex life of a protozoa, no more money to companies "too big to fail" (especially if they just failed). Get Banks back to loaning money, get people back to work, let the stock market be the rich peoples Casino where the filthy rich can screw each other out of their ill-gotten gains with not a penny of tax payers money affected. Bottom line, if We the people want something, then We the people need to tell our Representatives and Senators we will pay for it, and then pony up the money through Taxes. If we say we won't pay for it, then no taxes are necessary, and it doesn't get bought. If the politicians can't operate on that basis, then they get voted out of office.Last edited on Sun Jan 3rd, 2010 03:53 am by Think4Yourself
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Did you even open the article??? Or are you just making ass-umptions???
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So I assume you have the magic crystal ball?
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Obama's Image: What a Difference a Year Makes see http://www.AmericanThinker.com
Truly revealing portrait of obi bamma as a cynic, hypocrit, and a bully. Time to wake up America.
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In other words …
Posted: December 23, 2009
6:18 pm Eastern
© 2009
Irritated at the bumps on the road to the Democrats' Thousand-Year Reich, liberals are now claiming that Republican Sen. Tom Coburn requested a prayer for the death of Sen. Bob Byrd during the health-care debate last Saturday night.
Here is what Coburn actually said: "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That's what they ought to pray."
After reporting Coburn's remark, The Washington Post's Dana Milbank added: "It was difficult to escape the conclusion that Coburn was referring to the 92-year-old, wheelchair-bound Sen. Robert Byrd, (D-W.V.)."
Contrary to Milbank's claim, I find it extremely easy to get away from that conclusion. In fact, I'm a regular Houdini when it comes to that conclusion. That conclusion couldn't hold me for a second.
There are a million ways a senator could miss a vote, other than by dying. Ask Patrick Kennedy. At 1 a.m. on a Sunday night in the middle of a historic blizzard in the nation's capital, I don't think the first thing that came to anyone's mind was death. More likely it was: "Last call."
Milbank was employing the MSNBC motto, "In Other Words," which provides the formula for 90 percent of the political commentary on that network. The MSNBC host quotes a Republican, then says "in other words," translates the statement into something that would be stupid to say, and spends the next 10 minutes ridiculing the translated version. Which no one said. Except the host.
Also, by the way, Sen. Coburn did not "go to the Senate floor to propose a prayer," as Milbank reported. He was giving a floor speech in which he used the turn of phrase, "What the American people ought to pray is ..."
Inasmuch as liberals want to talk about anything but their plan to take over one-sixth of the American economy, let's talk about health care!
Democrats tout Medicare as their model for a government-run health-care system, bragging about what an extremely popular government program it is.
Medicare is tens of trillions of dollars in the red. It is expected to go bankrupt by 2017. In order to pay for Medicare alone, the government will either have to cut every other federal program in existence, or raise federal income taxes to rates as high as 77%.
Medicare is like a $500 hamburger: I assume it's good – it had better be – but no one would say, "That's a fantastic success!"
Until 10 minutes ago, the liberal argument for national health care was that it wasn't fair that some people – "the rich" – have access to better health care than others.
In liberals' ideal world, everyone lives in abject poverty and stands in long lines, but we all live in the same abject poverty and stand in the same long lines – just like in their beloved Soviet Union of recent memory! (Except the commissars, who get excellent health care, food, housing, maid service and no lines.)
Instead of being honest and telling us that their plan is to make health care worse and more expensive – but fairer! – liberals have recently begun claiming that providing universal health care will actually save money
Overnight, they went from wailing about basic human needs being "more important than bombs" to claiming: "Our plan will be cheaper!"
Hmmm, I didn't make any notes to debate the manifestly insane points. But I'm pretty sure that extending full medical benefits to 30 million people who don't currently have them – 47 million once the federal health commission rules that illegal aliens are covered – will not be less expensive than the current system.
You can say – mistakenly – that the liberals' plan is more compassionate. You can say – also incorrectly – that it will be fairer. On no set of facts can you say it will be cheaper.
Democrats keep citing the Congressional Budget Office's "scoring" of their bills as if that means something.
The CBO is required to score a bill based on the assumptions provided by the bill's authors. It's worth about as much as a report card filled out by the student himself.
Democrats could write a bill saying: "Assume we invent a magic pill that will make cars get 1,000 miles per gallon. Now, CBO, would that save money?"
The CBO would have to conclude: Yes, that bill will save money.
Among the tricks the Democrats put into their health care bills for the CBO is that the government will collect taxes for 10 years, but only pay out benefits for the last six years. Will that save money? Yes, the CBO says, this bill is "deficit neutral"!
But what about the next 10 years and the next 10 years and the next 10 years after that? Will the health care plan continually pay benefits only in the last six years of every 10-year period? I think their plan assumes we'll all be dead from global warming in a decade.
Also, I note that the Democrats claim it's urgent that we pass Obamacare by Christmas, but the bill doesn't get around to paying out any benefits until 2014. Poor uninsured chumps.
In other words ... Democrats are praying for the death of Bob Byrd!
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What a crock!
You have not a clue!
Where was the economy 1 year ago?
What state is this state in? Who's to blame?
Who's in control of this state's Legislature? 3 guesses!
It is time to look LOCAL!!!!!
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The Obama Economy is So Bad...
The Obama economy is so bad...that Chris Matthews' leg has quit tingling.
The Obama economy is so bad...that Rush Limbaugh is smoking Swisher Sweets.
The Obama economy is so bad...that the Grey Poupon guy has switched to French's.
The Obama economy is so bad...that the White House china is actually being made in China.
The Obama economy is so bad...that the President is changing his slogan to "Hope and Spare Change!"
The Obama economy is so bad...that Nancy Pelosi is selling earmarks for 1/2 price.
The Obama economy is so bad...that Saturday Night Live is thinking about telling an Obama joke. The Obama economy is so bad...that the President is running a small business on the side. It's called GM. The Obama economy is so bad...that Rosie O'Donnell is losing weight. The Obama economy is so bad...that Kenya now claims he wasn't born there. The Obama economy is so bad...that Al Gore is selling carbon credits on late night television. The Obama economy is so bad...that Bill Ayers has to make do with M-80s.
The Obama economy is so bad...that the White House plans to cut Hillary Clinton's hours. The Obama economy is so bad...that Barack's pyramid is on hold. The Obama economy is so bad...that Michelle fired her nanny and learned her children's names. The Obama economy is so bad...that the airlines are installing pay toilets in coach. The Obama economy is so bad...that you can order checks pre-marked "Insufficient Funds." The Obama economy is so bad...that Congress is planning a spare change for clunkers program. The Obama economy is so bad...that Americans are being caught sneaking into Mexico. The Obama economy is so bad...that the Chicago mob is laying off judges. The Obama economy is so bad...that Jesse Jackson is renting a limo. The Obama economy is so bad...that it only takes one lick to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. The Obama economy is so bad...that Motel Six won't leave the light on for you anymore. The Obama economy is so bad...that they now ask at the burger counter, "Can you afford fries with that?" The Obama economy is so bad...that the federal stimulus checks are bouncing.
Just a bit of fun, I hope nobody takes offense. We need more humor since the Obama economy is so bad....
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Ha! Ha! Ha! Can you imagine the 12 days of McCain/Palin?
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What IS YOUR STATE'S gov't doing to solve the problem???? Prob. NOTHING!!
If the federal gov't is overtaking "your" states" rights than it is Obi Bamma's fault (along with the uber -leftists) and the congress.
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What is this state's government doing to solve the budget deficit?
Blame Obama? I think not!
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PHOTONETDAILY
Sign at homeless camp: 'Welcome to Obamaville'
'I've had 100 calls today and not a single 1 of them was negative'
Posted: December 12, 2009
5:00 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Sign constructed in Colorado Springs homeless camp
Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., have a mystery on their hands: Who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville" on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city?
The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama, for it read in full, "Welcome to Obamaville – Colorado's fastest growing community."
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'Saturday Night Live' scorches
Obama's policies
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" opened its show this weekend with a comedy sketch that scorched President Obama over his economic policies including health care, "Cash for Clunkers" and borrowing billions of dollars from China.
See the video and find out the latest right now at WND.com.
Good for a BIG laugh in case you missed it live. PS sign the petition to impeach him while you're there.
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Around and around the Mulberry bush the bummie chased the weasel- but he couldn't catch himself. Boo-Hoo!!!
All of a sudden oblivious your NOT a lib-retard??? LOL
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Huckabee is a neocon with little regard for the Constitution. If he is the best the GOP will prop up then both parties are screwed.
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From http://www.americanthinker.com
Obamadrama By James Lewis
Don't be deceived by the honeyed baritone voice and big smile. Bluffs, bully plays, and head fakes are the means by which President Obama tries to get his way. He learned the technique from Saul Alinsky.The best answer is to use Alinsky against them. We know their rule book, and we can use their rules just as well as they can. The aggressor sets the rules. Obama constantly uses Alinsky's principle of head-faking: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." For Obama, "the enemy" is us, the American people. We have to understand --... (Read Full Article)
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