Did BP manufacture the part that failed? Why don't we hear more about Transocean & Haliburton paying for loss of employment etc? Obama made the decision to impose a moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf. Now he wants them to pay for those lost jobs? Oh, I forgot when it comes to the rule of Law Obama is above that. Please call your Reps tell them that is going to far. Use your head not your emotions. BP is NOT responsible for Obama's dumbass decisions. The majority of elected officials in the region do NOT want the moratorium & neither should you.
Also, Please do NOT boycott BP gas stations. That would be foolish you would be punishing fellow Americans who had nothing to do with the tragedy. A boycott to punish BP will ultimately punish all taxpayers. If BP goes out of business they won't be paying these costs, WE WILL yet again.
BP responsibility
Can we Clone him and get one for WA state? Please!!
| Christie speaks in Washington DC, calling Newark schools 'absolutely disgraceful' |
CNSNews.com - Pelosi Says She Has a Duty to Pursue Policies in Keeping With The Values of Jesus, 'The Word Made Flesh'
Comparison: Liberal Reaction Vs. Conservative Reaction To The Israel/Flotilla Story - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
This is an opinion must read. Israel had every right to react. As Obama shares BBQ with the Nation Of Islams Farrakhan & disrespects America & our fallen military members. Wake up, Obama wants Israel crushed.
Comparison: Liberal Reaction Vs. Conservative Reaction To The Israel/Flotilla Story - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
Montebello High School in California
Montebello High School in California Early May in response to AZ law
You have to keep engaged to win in Nov
You might want to print this, cut it out and put it on your fridge so you
won't forget! Retribution is less than 1 year away!
Take a look at this and just remember elections in November 2010.
1. U..S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.
2. They voted to NOT give you a S.S. Cost of living raise in 2010 and
2011.
3. Your Medicare premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years
4. You will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr.
5. Your total 2-yr loss and cost is -$1,600 or -$3,200 for husband and
wife.
6. Over these same 2-years each Congress person will get $10,000
7. Do you feel SCREWED?
8. Will they have your cost of drugs - doctor fees - local taxes - food,
etc., decrease?
9. NO WAY .
Congress received a raise and has better health and retirement benefits
than you or I.
* Why should they care about you?
* You never did anything about it in the past.
* You obviously are too stupid or don't care.
* Do you really think that Nancy, Harry, Chris, Charlie, Barnie, et al,
care about you?
Send the message to these individuals --- YOU'RE FIRED!
In 2010 you will have a chance to get rid of the sitting Congress: up to
1/3 of the Senate and 100% of the House!
Make sure you're still mad in November 2010 and remind their replacements
not to screw-up.
It is ok to forward this to your sphere of influence if you are finally
tired of the abuse. Maybe it's time for Amendment 28 to the
Constitution..
28th Amendment will be as follows:
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives,
and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United
States ."
It's time for retribution. Let's take back America ..
ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Babu Suseelan, PRESERVE OUR FREEDOM, PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY; SAY NO TO MOSQUE AT “GROUND ZERO” « From the Right Radio
McCain Lie after Lie to get re-elected. VOTE JD HAYWORTH
More McCain Bullshit Never forget how hard he fought for Amnesty in 2007 right alongside the Murderer Ted Kennedy.
From Rules for Radicals
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.
...The third rule is: Whereever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
...the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
...the fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
...the sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
...the seventh rules is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
...the eighth rule: Keep the pressure on.
...the ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying that the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
...The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
...The twelth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
...The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. -- P.126-129
Here is the link to immigration conceptual proposal
How much do you want to bet final bill would be 1500+ pages instead of these reasonable 26 pages.
Here's the Reid-Schumer-Menendez #Immigration Bill Draft: http://bit.ly/cTbcun
President Obama's strategy gets personal - Jonathan Allen and Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com
President Obama's strategy gets personal - Jonathan Allen and Carol E. Lee - POLITICO.com
Article reflects what I have been saying, BHO acts like the thug he is when he lowers himself to making personal attacks. This is the "first time in my adult life" I have been totally embarrassed & ashamed of the Pres of the U. S. & I must add this disclaimer he is NOT my President. He should resign or be impeached for acts against the Constitution & criminal activity connected to Gold/Sachs & Fannie & Freddie. He is more popular in Europe, THEY CAN HAVE HIS SORRY ASS!
Che Day 5/1/10
Here is the plan being circulated a rallying cry
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement!
Wear White T-Shirt, organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights!
1. No to anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the immigrant communities.
2. No to militarization of the border.
3. No to the immigrant detention and deportation.
4. No to the guest worker program.
5. No to employer sanction and “no match” letters.
6. Yes to a path to legalization without condition for undocumented immigrants NOW.
7. Yes to speedy family reunification.
8. Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law.
9. Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers.
10. Yes to the education and LGBTQ immigrant legislation.
We encourages everyone to actively linking our issues with different struggles: wars in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine & Korea with sweatshops exploitation in Asia as well as in Los Angeles, New York; international arm sales and WTO, FTAA, NAFTA & CAFTA with AIDS, hunger, child labors and child solider; as well as multinational corporations and economic exploitation with racism and poverty at home—in order we can win the struggle together at this May Day 2010!
Time to educate Congress
Join me in supporting the Heritage Tax Day Money Bomb http://tinyurl.com/y3y6hlu #heritage415
OBAMA INSANE? WELL YEAH!!
Do your own research to verify all these allegations & then pass this on. I said in August of 2007 this man was an Evil Narcissist Megalomaniac & unfortunately I was correct. He is destroying America, we know it & our job is to share our knowledge & back it up with facts.
.eutimes.net -
French Leader Sarkozy Slams Obama, Warns He Might Be Insane
Posted By Europe On 09/04/2010 @ 10:04 pm In North America, Politics | 42 Comments
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) and recently “obtained” by the FSB shockingly quotes French President Nicolas Sarkozy [photo top right with Obama] as stating that President Barack Obama is “a dangerous[ly] aliéné”, which translates into his, Obama, being a “mad lunatic”, or in the American vernacular, “insane”.
According to this report, Sarkozy was “appalled” at Obama’s “vision” of what the World should be under his “guidance” and “amazed” at the American Presidents unwillingness to listen to either “reason” or “logic”. Sarkozy’s meeting where these impressions of Obama were formed took place nearly a fortnight ago at the White House in Washington D.C., and upon his leaving he “scolded” Obama and the US for not listening closely enough to what the rest of the World has to say.
Apparently, as this report details, the animosity between Sarkozy and Obama arose out of how best the West can deal with the growing threat posed by rising Islamic fundamentalism. Both Sarkozy and his European neighbors had previously been supported in their efforts by the United States in forming an alliance to strengthen the integration of Muslim peoples into their societies, and has including France and Belgium moving to ban the wearing of burqa’s.
European fears over their growing Muslim populations appear to be valid as the growing immigration and birth rates of these Islamic peoples are warned is causing the “Eurabiazation” of the Continent and within a few generations will see them become the majority of nearly all of the EU Nations.
The greatest threat to these Western Nations posed by the Muslim peoples becoming the majority of their populations lies in their likelihood of destroying the Global Banking System which according to their faith is firmly rooted in “satanic” evil and “must” be replaced by an Islamic one.
[Note: Islamic banking refers to a system of banking or banking activity that is consistent with the principles of Islamic law (Sharia) and its practical application through the development of Islamic economics. Sharia prohibits the payment or acceptance of interest fees for the lending and accepting of money respectively, (Riba, usury) for specific terms, as well as investing in businesses that provide goods or services considered contrary to its principles (Haraam, forbidden).
Obama, on the other hand, doesn’t share the views of his European allies and has, instead, embarked upon a course of embracing the Muslim peoples of the World and to the shock of all has overturned the Bush era ban on the radical Swiss born Muslim Cleric Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States, last year ordered the US government bailed out General Electric Capital Corporation to became the first Western multinational to issue an Islamic bond, and this past week commanded that all of his governments security documents eliminate the words “Islamic extremism” and “jihad”. VERIFIED
Sarkozy in these reports further warns that by Obama’s “unrestrained” and “destabilizing” actions an already tense Global situation is growing ever more catastrophic as America’s once stalwart allies are being cast aside in favor of a New World Order where instead of the United States securing its vital energy future through conquest and war it will now do so by appeasement to some of the most violent and radical regimes on Earth, and as we can see exampled:
In Egypt…where the 30-year reign of the stalwart US ally President Hosni Mubarak is being allowed by Obama to fall so that this most vital of Middle Eastern countries can be ruled by the former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, who allowed through his appeasement the Persian Nation of Iran to gain the knowledge, equipment and expertise needed to build an atomic bomb.
In Turkey…where Obama in failing to stop, like all American Presidents before him, his Congress from passing a law blaming that critical Eurasian Nation for the 1915 Armenian genocide left Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan no choice but to recall his ambassador to the US. VERIFIED
In Kyrgyzstan…where Obama failed to stop a revolution against the American installed President thus allowing Russian Prime Minister Putin to achieve his goal of revolutionary change for that critical Central Asian Nation and putting in jeopardy the United States war in Afghanistan as the new Kyrgyz government prepares to throw the Americans out of their country thus depriving them of their main air supply route to their already undersupplied troops battling the Afghan Taliban.
In India…where by Obama’s failing to support the Indians fight against Pakistani backed Muslim terrorists has caused the second most powerful Asian Nation to turn towards Iran rebuffing all Western attempts to isolate them and instead of their participating in Obama’s Global Nuclear Summit have, instead, agreed to attend the Iranians.
In Pakistan…where just this week Obama gave this vital American ally a “public slap on the wrist” by denying to them the same nuclear deal he had previously given to India thus insuring the Pakistani military will cease their support for American troops in Afghanistan battling the Taliban.
In Afghanistan…where Obama has engaged in a public war with his ally President Karzai who because so enraged he threatened this past week to change his allegiance from the Americans to the Taliban.
In Israel…where Obama has so demoralized and demonized their once most reliable ally that Prime Minister Netanyahu has just announced he will not attend Obama’s Global Nuclear Summit because of his fears that the American President will not keep Egypt and Turkey under control thus threatening the Israelis nuclear supremacy over their Middle Eastern enemies who have sworn to destroy them.
In Brazil…where Obama has ordered his Defense Secretary Robert Gates to sign an historic defense agreement with this South American nuclear power whose President, Lula da Silva, has praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, slammed Israel, and has announced his intentions to visit Iran next month. VERIFIED
To all of these actions (and too many more to mention in this short report) Russian Military Analysts warn that Obama has pushed our world towards total global war more than any single leader since Nazi Germany’s Adolph Hitler, to which Russia and China are, likewise, preparing to confront to stop the Americans.
Most unfortunately for those Americans living under the Obama regime is that their attempts to stop the radical socialism he has pushed upon them from destroying their once great Nation has failed as new reports from the United States are showing that in under two years Obama and his cohorts have succeeded in making nearly 50% of these people support the other 50% who aren’t working. (And which really should surprise none of them as during his campaign for the Presidency he openly vowed to “redistribute the wealth”, but which history has always shown makes everyone a pauper, except for the elites that is.) VERIFIED For any of the few Americans left daring to oppose Obama we had previously warned about the massive death camps he is preparing for them, but which these most strange of peoples continue to deny the existence of in their naïve belief that if they choose not to believe a thing it makes it not true. (If this behavior sounds familiar it is only because Obama and his cohorts have, literally, used the same playbook used by the Nazis against the once free German people.)
And for those even daring to expose the truth of what is being done to the American people Obama took the unprecedented step this week of authorizing for the first time in American history his secret government intelligence services to assassinate one of their own citizens without benefit of trial leaving every human rights organization in the World in shock, including Tina Foster of the US-based International Justice Network who said, “I am in shock that they would do this. It is shocking that our Government would go to these extremes, even depriving someone of their life without a legal process.” VERIFIEDNow to if Sarkozy’s grim and dire assessment of Obama is true or not it is not in our knowing, nor do these reports say. But, it is important to note that nearly all of the longstanding allies of the United States Obama has turned his back on are, admittedly, some really bad (to say the least) leaders who no one in their right mind would want to live under.
And too Obama’s apparent appeasement of Islamic terrorists there is growing evidence of his maybe throwing all his marbles (so to speak) in “one fell swoop”, and as evidenced by the 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192 massive 2000lb Blu-117 bombs he last month authorized Florida based Superior Maritime Services Concord to “immediately” ship from California to the massive US Air Force base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which is in striking distance of Iran and if all of them were dropped on the Iranians would, literally, destroy them. VERIFIED
In finding the deliberately hidden clues as to what will happen as The Great Game nears its inevitable climax all caution must be taken, including to whom you might tell your most secret of thoughts, and as evidenced in the United States this past week should NEVER be voiced to your children, and as we can read as reported by the Info Wars News Service:
“A family in Williamson County, Austin have lost custody of their 7-year-old son as part of a Child Protective Services investigation because the parents taught their children to mistrust the government, an action that deemed them to be “unsuitable parents,” according to charges leveled by police officers in CPS documents.”
And to those still mocking the truths of these times, who continually fail to see what lies before them, we can only say you’re being the good and obedient lemmings you were brought up to be. So go back to sleep and dream the sweetest dreams you can, because before you know it you’ll be awakening in a living nightmare as those as ignorant as you, throughout all of history, have learned to their peril and loss.
To everyone else in America we can only advise you to begin stocking up for the End of the World….you won’t be alone.
ITEMS MARKED AS VERIFIED HAVE BEEN RESEARCHED AND FOUND TO BE TRUE AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE. NO CONCLUSIONS HAVE BEEN DRAWN BY US. **
WE DO BELIEVE IT IS UNDENIABLE THAT BHO IS NOT ONLY TRYING TO DESTROY THE US BUT ISRAEL AS WELL PROVEN BY HIS BEHAVIOR TOWARDS THE PRIME MINISTER AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE BS OVER THE SETTLEMENTS ISRAEL HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BUILD.
MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND & SHARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE.
**WE ARE CHRISTIANS WITH OUR ONLY AGENDA BEING TO SAVE AMERICA & BRING BACK THE COUNTRY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS GAVE TO US.
Freakin Jackass
Says he's a Sox's fan as a "Chicago kid" then can't name a player & says he grew up in Hawaii & liked the A's. Goes out to the mound to pitch @ Nationals game & puts on a ChiSox's hat. Disrespectful to the fans, he thinks they are a bunch of dumb rednecks.
FOXNews.com - Raw Data: Transcript From Obama, Sarkozy Press Conference
really read this & pay attention to the words once Again BO tells us exactly what he plans to do to this country. Notice Sarkozy is "on board with stopping Israel from building settlements. Obama is one scary ass dude. FOXNews.com - Raw Data: Transcript From Obama, Sarkozy Press Conference
DEMAND BORDER ENFORCEMENT
BORDER SECURITY
STATEMENT: “We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. . . . That begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws.” then-candidate Obama, discussing the need for border security, speaking in Miami on May 23, 2008:
EXPIRATION DATE: March 17, 2010: The Obama administration halted new work on a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes.
Immigration reform is one of the next battles we must fight, start writing Congress immediately, bring it up at Town Halls, record responses when they say they are not discussing that because THEY are & will be.
The Fight to Repeal & Replace the Health Care Obamination must continue we must battle on several fronts at the same time.
Remember EVERYTHING this admin does is not about the topic it is all about POWER & CONTROL OF ALL OF OUR LIVES
Health Control
Dems of course blow it, "the children" are not covered for preExisting conditions until 2014. Obama dares GOP to run on repeal & replace platform. Rep. Todd Tiahrt is really trying to point out this reconciliation is trying to reconcile a law not a bill. There is NO underlying bill. So what are they reconciling? This needs to be persued.
Rep Slaughter is like a baby Pelosi. Wahhh waaa whiny whiny whaaaa.
Don't know about you but I don't want to be a freakin MediCAID patient. I'll slit my throat, well no I won't but I won't go to a Doc and my Last Will & Testament will day 'DO NOT AUTOPSY". So will my hubbies. We don't want those fuckers touching us.
Medicare is bad enough have you seen how some Medicare patients are treated? I have & MediCAID is far worse!! They treat you like crap.
I agree whole heartedly with Sarah regroup & reload we are not done with this battle, or the next battle ILLEGALS. We have many battles to go in this war against the Constitution. This war against our FREEDOM. These people in many ways are stupid sheep while at the same time they are EVIL
. GET OUT THERE AND SHOW YOUR SENIOR FRIENDS THE TIMELINE OF HOW THEY ARE GOING TO DESTROY MEDICARE.
2011 Deduction for part D Medicare eliminated
Taxes on all medical devices increasing costs
Restrictions & cuts to Medicare Advantage
2015 Establishment of Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to recommend cuts in Medicare benefits;
these cuts will go into effect automatically unless Congress passes, and the President signs, an override bill.
2017 Itemized deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses is limited to expenses over 10% of AGI for those over age 65.NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT PUNISHES SENIORS TO ME!
The special deals are still in the reconcilliation bill of course THEY LIED
Also now your kids get to pay their student loans to the Federal Govt at a higher price than private loans in order to pay for this Tyrannical NoCare Health Bill
A wonderful REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
Many of you may not have had the time to spend studying these bills as I have, it is a scary bunch of shit let me tell you.
How is your State going to cope with millions more people on State Funded Medicaid? They will Jack your Taxes Brother you will be lucky to be able to feed your family in just 4 short years, take a vacation HAHAHAHAH you won't be able to afford it unless you have a Govt/Federal Job that sucks the life out of the rest of us God Fearing Constitution Loving Americans.
If this shit is so great why are Dem & GOP staffers alike complaining they are going to have to go into the exchange while Exec staffers get to keep what they have?
88 House Republicans Send Letter to Salazar Calling on Administration to End “Obama Moratorium” on Offshore Drilling - House Committee on Natural Resources, Republicans
Think Progress » New Missouri billboard tells Americans to ‘prepare for war’ against the government.
Are You Kidding Me?
If this doesn't tell you what this bill is all about I don't think you will ever get it. CONTROL OVER EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES
Nancy Pelosi on Health Care: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
Peter Suderman | March 9, 2010
Like a Tupperware container full of smelly mystery meat, Nancy Pelosi says that the only way we can find out exactly what's in the health care bill is to try it:
You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. [emphasis added]
The slightly better version of this argument, which is that voters will like ObamaCare better once it's passed and they get used to it, isn't very convincing either.
you had to see it
When Harkin says “Segregation on the basis of health” the first time and the camera switches to the president….the way he slowly closes his eyes in a silent “holy crap, he’s not really saying that. Please, please God make this man go away.” Is just priceless.
29Victor on February 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM
ON Hotair Blog
GOP Healthcare
Follow the link there are some really good ideas here not considered by Pelosi
http://tinyurl.com/yd9n5bn
Glenn Beck Vs. Limbaugh and Bennett On The Republican Party. I’m With Beck On This One. | Right Wing News
Brown better than TK but not great
Told my husband from the start to watch out for Scott Brown, if you LISTENED to the man much like BHO he said what he would do. An obvious clue was his adoration of John McCain! Billie is right on, Brown said he would do what is best for MASS a TOTAL BLUE STATE he is a US Sen now and will often join with the Ms Rhinos of Maine in the future. Look back it was mainly Rhinos & hard liners praising his win. I was nervous and I unfortunetly was right. Research these candidates they affect the life of EVERY US citizen. Sure listen to what they say BUT REALLY listen. Better look at what they have done in all aspects of their lives. Do they have the same values you do?
CPAC comments on Mitt's speech
Mitt Romney is now a comedian says downhill medal stripped from Lindsey because BHO going downhill faster ahahahahahah
CPAC has had some great speakers, will listen to Mitt as he brags about the Conservative comeback. The Repubs better stop being so damn cocky. We are going to vote a bunch of them out too. Mitt talks about Scott Brown stopping Obama care,I've got news for you. Obamacare is being worked on behind closed doors at this very moment to be presented as a fait accompli at the 2/25 so called Bipartisan health care metting. HealthCare destruction aka Obamacare is NOT DEAD.
Do appreciate him slamming BHO for dissing Supremes at State of the Union address.
"WHEN IT COMES TO BLAME PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY" Great line Mitt! Mitt sounding good but I am still not convinced he is right for US. Huckabee certainly is not the one 912ers and Tea Party Patriots should be looking either.
Listen to MItt talk about reining in health care costs Romney care workin out in MA? Think not.
Hate it when they plug their book repeatedly.
America reflects the value of our founders.....well it doesn't right now but it should. He is right about that.
All in all Romeny spoke well, I just don't believe him completely.
They never stop
Whew hoo go ahead plan your wedding now
Removing Lead Paint from a Pedestrian Bridge ($3.5 million)
A historic bridge in Salem, Oregon is about to get a paint job and some security cameras with a $3.5 million stimulus grant from the Department of Transportation.367 Through the years, the bridge has been painted with lead-based materials, which local officials would now like to remove. The Union Street Railroad Bridge, built in the early 20th Century, has been closed to trains for decades and has recently been converted to a pedestrian thoroughfare over the Willamette River. Attempting to underscore the importance of the bridge to local economic growth, Todd Klocke with the City of Salem, told a reporter, ―There have been talks about half marathons or other events using the bridge, we have also heard about a couple that want to get married on the bridge in the spring.‖
OregonE AGAIN!!
Are these people real?
Wastewater Treatment Center with “Talking Water Gardens” ($8 million)
Oregon will use $8 million in stimulus loans for a wastewater treatment project featuring a tourist-friendly ―Talking Water Gardens.‖280 According to news reports, the spectacle would ―funnel effluent from the city‘s wastewater treatment plant into wetlands…where it would be naturally cleansed and cooled down‖ before flowing into the Willamette River.281 In order to spend the money as fast as possible, the city of Albany will issue a non-competitive contract for work on the project.282 According to the city‘s planning document, ―the waterfall component is expected to have an important acoustical impact that is the driver for the name ‗Talking Water Gardens.‘‖283 Local residents will also be facing an increase in sewer rates to pay for the new water treatment system.
Thanks McCain
Arizona Ants Work While Some Arizonans Remain Unemployed ($950,000)
Although the unemployment rate in Arizona is still in the double digits, at least ants in the state have jobs. Two major universities in the state are receiving a combined $950,000 to examine the division of labor in ant colonies. Arizona State University was awarded $500,000 in stimulus funding by the National Science Foundation, while the University of Arizona will receive $450,000.232 Among other things, the universities will examine larval development, ant caste systems, and ―colony fitness.‖233 Arizona State University will focus specifically on the genetic makeup of ants that determine distinctive roles within the ant colony.234 The University of Arizona will utilize the information to develop ―a model [for ants] to determine the optimal strategy for distributing specialists in a variable work environment.‖235 Ultimately, 3.46 jobs will be created from this study—two jobs for Arizona State University and 1.46 jobs for the University of Arizona, according to Recovery.gov
enhance your drive REALLY?
Highway “Beautified” by Fish Art
A fish sculpture in Kennewick, Washington, was funded by the stimulus legislation and designated as a transportation enhancement. The fish art can be seen in the median of a busy intersection and is part of $122,000 allocated for the Columbia Park Overlook Project to improve sidewalks and bike paths
OregonE brilliance strikes again
Recovering Crab Pots Lost At Sea ($700,000)
A $700,000 grant will pay for 48 people to help Oregon crabbers recover crab pots they have lost at sea.178 The two-year project expects to yield 2,000 lost pots a year. Oregon crabbers reportedly lose an estimated 15,000 crab pots a year. The effort will use 10 boats, planes, and a telephone hotline for people to phone in crab pot sightings.179 If all 4,000 pots are recovered as expected, the grantees will spend an average of $175 per crab pot, though John‘s Sporting Goods in nearby Everett, Washington sells new crab pots online for as little as $19.95.180 At that price, crabbers could purchase nearly ten times as many crab pots as this program is expected to reclaim.
Braindead Island elites score again
Police Boat Gets High-Tech Upgrade Even As Force May be Downsized ($190,000)
The tranquil hamlet of Bainbridge Island, Washington, received $190,000 to upgrade a patrol boat for which it has little need—while it considers downsizing its police force.
Several years ago, CNN named Bainbridge Island, outside Seattle, as its number two best place to live in America, noting the island's vacation-like feel, low population (just over 20,000) and low crime rate.43 After years of decreasing crime, the city turned to the police force as a source of budget cuts in 2009, trimming it to a force of 20.44 At the same time it was considering cutting police, the Bainbridge Police Department was awarded a $190,000 stimulus grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to upgrade its boat.45 Funds will be used for technology upgrades advanced enough to allow the boat to ―test vapor or surfaces for microscopic traces of explosive material.‖46
This is not the first time the Bainbridge Island police force has received a federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security for advanced technology. In 2007, a $646,000 grant helped Bainbridge Island purchase a Safe Boat, normally reserved for the Coast Guard, to patrol the island.47 Bainbridge Island officials were at first puzzled, citing little need for such an advanced boat at the small locality, though it ultimately accepted the funds.48 ―There is not another patrol boat like this anywhere in the region,‖ police Chief Mark Duncan said at the time.49 Noting the unusual nature of the situation, former Bainbridge police chief, Matt Haney, whose force was too small to effectively maintain and operate the boat, ―We got a nice boat through a grant. But we don't have the personnel to run it.‖50 A 2005 federal grant also provided Bainbridge Island with $637,000 for video surveillance and fencing.
More Stinkulus
Another great idea....
Research to Develop Supersonic Corporate Jets ($4.7 Million)
Lockheed Martin will receive a total of more than $21 million in federal money—with $4.7 million funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance research for supersonic jet travel.27 High ticket costs, fuel-guzzling and the infamous sonic ―boom‖ helped doom commercial supersonic travel in the past; the last Concorde jet flew in 2003.
The benefits of NASA‘s current research, experts say, will likely go first to business executives, who can afford one of the handful of personal supersonic jets that companies hope to roll out in several years, with a price tags in the tens of millions of dollars.28 Lockheed itself is assisting a private bid to develop a supersonic corporate jet.29 ―Spend a cold morning in Aspen [Colorado]. Make your afternoon meeting in Paris. And be back in Chicago for dinner,‖ says an online ad for the QSST aircraft,30 which is expected to be able to fly at speeds approaching 1,200 miles an hour, presumably carrying whomever has $80 million to buy one.31
The benefit to most Americans of Lockheed‘s research is far off, if it even exists: while an impressive feat, commercial supersonic travel is expected to remain prohibitively expensive for decades. ―The economics of commercial… supersonic jet transport are just cruelly grim,‖ one expert recently told a reporter.32
One of NASA‘s lead scientists on the project rejects that, however. ―We have brilliant people . . . that have come up with solutions that are going to make it economically viable. We're going to fly supersonically over the U.S.,‖ said Louis Povinelli, a senior NASA scientist. ―Eventually.‖33
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Happy Bday Stinkulus
WONDER WHY I DESPISE EVERYTHING ABOUT OREGON?
Renovations for Federal Building as Expensive as New Building ($133 million)
Taxpayers in Oregon may be surprised to learn that the largest stimulus project in their state is not a new road or bridge, but a $133 million makeover for the federal building in downtown Portland.14 The money will go toward ―greening‖ the Edith Green/Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in the hope of making it a model for energy efficient government offices in the Northwest.15 That said, for $133 million some may wonder why they did not simply tear it down and start over.
It is not yet clear how all of the money will be spent—those decisions will largely be made by a contractor to be hired by the General Services Administration.16 For now, agency officials expect to construct a type of vegetative skin—made of plants—on the exterior of the building, to help with heating and cooling costs.17 Vegetative facades on buildings, however, are a little studied field according to some experts.18
In 2007, a new federal building was constructed in downtown San Francisco with similar state-of-the-art energy efficiency features for $144 million—nearly the same cost to merely renovate the Portland Federal Building.19 Both buildings are eighteen stories tall, built with energy efficient technologies, and house federal agency offices. The major difference is that the San Francisco building is much larger, with an additional 100,000 usable square feet in comparison with its counterpart in Portland.20
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Reid puts his bill before bipartisanship
Reid puts his bill before bipartisanship
Another example of the weasel he is
A reminder of BHO
A reminder of the total lack of respect & patriotism this punk feels for our nation and military.
Mystery Billboard Minnesota
Well I really disliked Bush I loath the current cretin. Hey Bush even had enough respect to wear a tie on the billboard.........
BHO"S Best Friend
Let's start calling Dems terrorists & see what happens!
Union Chief: Senators Are ‘Terrorists’ For Not Voting With Big Labor
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Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said that Senators that vote against his ideas are “terrorists.” That’s right, folks, this union chief is saying that any politician that votes against the politically motivated ideas of Big Labor should be branded a “terrorist.” This is the sort of gutter rhetoric that union thugs specialize in but...
Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern said that Senators that vote against his ideas are "terrorists." That's right, folks, this union chief is saying that any politician that votes against the politically motivated ideas of Big Labor should be branded a "terrorist."
This is the sort of gutter rhetoric that union thugs specialize in but regardless Stern should be ashamed of himself for bringing the political debate down into that gutter. Scum. Andy Stern is simply scum for using such idiotic and demagogic rhetoric.
Stern said this line of crap to Bloomberg News (as reported by CNSNews.com)
“There are a lot of terrorists in the Senate who think we are supposed to negotiate with them when they have their particular needs that they want met,” Stern told Bloomberg News. His comments, which appeared in BusinessWeek magazine, apparently were prompted by the senators' reluctance to support the union-sponsored bill.
All this over a bill in Congress? Really?
And let's remind everyone what this bill Stern is griping about does. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or the Card Check bill summarily eliminates the ability of potential union employees to vote their conscience in a secret ballot. That's right Stern wants to take away a centuries old democratic right from his own members. Not only that but the EFCA wants to impose government arbitration on contract talks that go on longer than the government feels they should. After this all too short negotiation period, this bill give the federal government the power to come in and impose its own terms on both the employer and the union. That pretty much takes power from the worker and the employer both!
CNSNews also has an excellent point about this outrageous comment: where's the Media coverage? Imagine if a right leaning politician or activist said that anyone that disagrees with them was a "terrorist." How do you think the news would have treated that one?
(Cross posted at TheUnionLabelBlog.com)
The Corrupt Indict Corruption?
ARMS/BRIBERY (URGENT)
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities accused 22 people, including an executive for Smith & Wesson, with violating federal bribery laws involving the sale of various arms, according to indictments unsealed on Tuesday.
The indictments charged the individuals, including Smith & Wesson vice president for sales Amaro Goncalves, with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering involving the sale of items including guns and body armor, among other things.
The indictments, filed in December, were unsealed by a U.S. judge on Tuesday.
The individuals were arrested on Monday, according to court documents.
(Reporting by Dan Margolies and Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Phil Berlowitz)
