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Thursday, September 30, 2010

New Column: 'Finding $700 Billion Is Not Easy' -- if You're a Socialist

A couple of back-to-back statements by President Obama at a town hall rally in Des Moines, Iowa, tell us all we need to know about his economic philosophy and that we aren't going to climb out of his recession and begin to slow the growth of the national debt as long as he's calling the shots.

Voters, he said, tell him to "cut government spending." But "most spending is for veterans, for education, for defense. ... Finding $700 billion is not easy."

Yet a few minutes earlier, in response to criticism over illegal immigrants getting health care in the United States, he had said, "It is very important that we have compassion as part of our national character." (How about compassion for future generations of Americans?)

Does anyone see the disconnect here? If Obama believes our national character is deficient unless we expand the welfare state to illegal immigrants, then how could he ever preside over a balanced budget?

His wildly inaccurate statement about where the money is spent is equally revealing. For fiscal year 2010, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other sources, benefits for veterans constituted about 3.5 percent of the budget; education expenditures were 3 percent; and defense and security totaled about 20 percent.

Even worse than these errors is his defeatist statement that "finding $700 billion is not easy."

Well, of course it's not easy if you have no desire to trim the size, functions and intrusiveness of government.

Didn't he just say again the other day that he is "committed to fiscal responsibility"? Hasn't he incessantly argued that President George W. Bush is the one who ran up these outlandish deficits?

We all know what a distortion and exercise in scapegoatery that is. President Bush fulfilled his promise to cut the deficit in half by 2006. In fiscal year 2007, the deficit was $161 billion. Hard to believe, isn't it?

That's just three years ago, and Obama says it's nearly impossible to trim much? Even the final Bush year, which Obama continues to blame for all "this mess" and which Obama has used to establish his new deficit base line, was not actually the alleged $1.3 trillion, but closer to $800 billion when TARP repayments are factored in.

Assuming Obama even wants to bring down the deficit, his economic philosophy precludes him from advancing policies likeliest to do it. You cannot make much headway on the deficit in a period of recession, and his policies are leading us toward a double-dip recession.

Indeed, the dirty reality is that Keynesian policy works as a double whammy against fiscal sanity. It involves government's spending money it doesn't have, which, by definition, increases the deficit and debt. And it also increases the deficit by smothering the private sector and deterring real economic growth. There is no appreciable "multiplier effect" from monies that are spent by government fiat, as opposed to those spent in response to true market forces, including real consumer demand -- as opposed to government (SET ITAL) command (END ITAL).

We saw the devastating impact of reckless Keynesian policies during the Great Depression, and we're witnessing them again today. As long as Obama is married to his redistributionist profligacy, we cannot reduce the deficit. And it's even worse when you consider that Obama wants to raise taxes on the primary generators of economic growth, small businesses, during a slow economic period.

With his signature audacity, Obama told town hall attendees their taxes haven't gone up in his administration. Puleeze! Obamacare, anyone -- for starters? He also said Republicans haven't been honest with voters about what needs to be done to revive the economy. "We can't pretend that there are shortcuts," he said.

Sorry, but he's the one being dishonest. The Bush years saw robust economic growth until the last year of Bush's second term. The policies that led to the subprime collapse, the recession and the skyrocketing deficit in his final year were brought upon mostly by liberal Democrats hellbent on demonstrating their "compassion" for people by insisting on loans to people who couldn't repay them and cynically resisting President Bush's efforts to rein in Fannie and Freddie.

President Reagan didn't continue to blame Jimmy Carter for his malaise-ridden economy during his term. He didn't implement policies that didn't work after promising they would and then whine that it would "take 10 years to get out of this mess because it took us 10 years to get into this mess." He passed tax cuts that launched an unprecedented period of peacetime growth -- and not at the expense of federal revenues, as has been falsely alleged.

I don't expect President Obama to come clean with the American people or to ever accept responsibility for his disastrous policies, much less to voluntarily change course, but it's gratifying to see that people, including some of his supporters, are finally onto him.








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From the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, a new Truther movement is born

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Project Gulf Impact.  It's meme: "From the Gulf Stream to the bloodstream and why what you're about to read is the alarm bell of the pending Gulf disaster."

Project Gulf Impact (we'll shorten that to PGI) is the newest, latest and greatest incarnation of the truther movement.  You know.  "Ask questions.  Seek the truth."  Then ignore the truth when given, and ask even more asinine questions.  If it sounds familiar, it should.  If PGI sounds a lot like "Loose Change," it should. 

According to this whois.net report, Project Gulf Impact is a website established by Gavin Garrison, a Santa Barbara, California graduate student at USC.  Hmm.  California graduate students sound like natural experts on oil spill impacts in the Gulf of Mexico, don't they?

If Gavin Garrison sounds a lot like Dylan Avery, he should.  After all, if film school rejects can speak truth to power about collapsing skyscrapers, then film school students in California can speak truth to power about oil spills 1,900 miles away, right?  Right.

Garrison's filmograghy includes the NOAA-sponsored "Proof or Propaganda." Want to guess which side the film falls on?

As is usual with new, exciting and scary conspiracy theories, Garrison, PGI and their mentally challenged ilk have developed a rather devoted following.  It's the usual collection of Black Helicopter watchers, including several Examiner.com nodes and blog websites like Prison Planet and Godlike Productions.  Their latest:  A story alleging that a group of [ahem] California filmmakers were sickened by mysterious poisons while investigating "the truth" about the oil spill in [gag] "Nazi America."  The film crew was allegedly working for…  guess who?  PGI, of course! 

These people take themselves very seriously but apparently don't investigate their allies very closely.  Upon reaching the Pelican State, the allegedly sickened PGI crew hooked up with one of New Orleans biggest moonbats: Casey Nunez. 

Never heard of Casey?  Really?  Maybe you've heard him referred to as Casey Kaine, The Psycho Hurricane.  Or Crackhead Frankenstein.  In his own words:


I'm 6"6 245 latent homosexual and come from New Orleans Louisiana USA. My friends call me "Beefy Tits". My grand father was A pitcher with the N.Y. Yankees that's how I came to have the Name Casey and more than likely where I Got the explosive knock out Bone crushing power of my right punches and kicks. My Power high Kick is 96.6 Inches or 8ft. At Age 16 I ran away with The Royal Hanneford circus and have done dates in every State in America over a 20 year period with my personal favorites being Michigan adventure in Muskegon. The ice palace in Tampa Florida, the mid Hudson civic center in Poughkeepsie New York and also the Yonkers raceway during the New York State Fair. My All time Favorite Date however by far would have to be The Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee Wisconsin since Its held during Summer fest so I always got to get in free to see all of the shows with my circus pass. I was a tour Guide here in new orleans on a mule drawn carriage at Jackson square and I also Worked as bouncer at the Tricou House 711 Bourbon Street where I lived in the Haunted 3rd floor attic suite which over looked bourbon street. In 1984 I became friends with Tommy Lee of the Heavy Metal Band Motley crue and Jake e. Lee Lead Guitarist for Ozzy after coming to their aid during a fight at the Dungeon in new Orleans.


Beefy tits?

I swear on a barrel of Corexit, I'm not making this up. 

Nunez has a long, sordid history as a YouTube troll.   This is apparently what attracted the PGI crew to Nunez.  He's also the guy behind this notorious "raining oil" hoax:

Hey, if a troll like Nunez can make a video that fools The Drudge Report and Russia Today, he's GOT to be the guy PGI hooks up with, right?

What a fine, honest, upstanding bunch of wackos we've got here.  Asking questions.  Seeking truth.

I have an honest question—who is the worse group of idiots:  Gavin, Nunez, Dupre, et al, or the fools who believe their garbage?








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Sick. Obama Compares His Socialist Agenda to Freeing the Slaves …Again (Video)

Sick. Again tonight Barack Obama compared his failed socialist agenda to freeing the slaves in America.

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"People are frustrated, their anxious, they're scared about the future. And they have a right to be impatient about the pace of change. I'm impatient," President Obama said at an event for Gen44. "It took time to free the slaves," he added.

Earlier this week Barack Obama compared his radical agenda to "slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs."
Here's the transcript:

In every instance, progress took time. In every instance, progress took sacrifice. Progress took faith. You know, the slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs, they weren't sure when slavery would end but they understood it was going to end. When women were out there marching for the right to vote, they weren't sure when it was going to happen but they kept on going. (Applause.) When workers were organizing for the right to organize and were being intimidated, they weren't sure when change was going to come but they knew it was going to come. And I am telling you, Wisconsin, we are bringing about change and progress is going to come — but you've got to stick with me. You can't lose heart. (Applause.)

Change is going to come.
(Applause.)

What this guy lacks in leadership and results he makes up for in arrogance.








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UN statement targets Arizona immigration law and sets it up for a review

RWBNews:  Anyone that gives a damn what the UN thinks, raise your hand.  Yes, Hillary and Obama, we already saw yours.  We'll talk to you in November.

By (Reporting by Jonathan Lynn; editing by Ralph Boulton) for Reuters http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100930/pl_nm/us_rights_migrants

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday governments must respect the rights of all migrants, in a statement apparently targeting measures including Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants and French expulsions of Roma.

The statement from the Global Migration Group — combining 12 U.N. agencies, the World Bank and the International Organization forMigration — said it was concerned about the rights of tens of millions of migrants in 'irregular' circumstances around the globe.

Such people can include illegal immigrants or migrants whose asylum requests are not considered legitimate.

"This is our response to the global trend to confine migration policies solely within the narrow context of security and border control," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told reporters.

"This is a reminder that while states are entitled to regulate movement across their borders they must do so in accordance with their obligations under international law including international human rightslaw."

The statement said irregular migrants were particularly vulnerable to abuse. Governments too often treated them purely in terms of national security, often driven by hostile domestic political pressures.

Pillay said Arizona's new immigration law, passed to expel nearly half a million illegal immigrants from the state and stem the flow of human and drug smugglers over the border from Mexico, was certain to be raised at an international conference on migration in Mexico on November 8-11.

The South African jurist said the Global Forum on Migration and Development, an annual U.N. initiative, would discuss the measure, which U.N. officials have already denounced as discriminatory because it allows police to stop and search individuals on the suspicion they are illegal immigrants.

The statement is also directed among others at European governments and the way they treat Roma.

France's expulsion of Roma migrants over the summer sparked a row at an EU summit this month between France and Germany and led one EU official to recall Nazi persecution of the group.

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Another Jewish Historical Reference Found In Stuxnet Code

The New York Times reported on a possible reference to the Book of Esther in the Stuxnet code.  Queen Esther, of course, saved the Jews of Persia from the evil Haman, as celebrated in the Jewish holiday Purim.

Now, a Symantec researcher has found a reference in the code to an obscure date in 1979 which just happens to be the date on which the Iranian revolutionaries executed a prominent Iranian Jew.  As reported at ThreatPost:
A Symantec researcher filled in more critical details about the Stuxnet worm here, demonstrating the worm's ability to take control of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) by Siemens Inc. and disable machinery connected to them.

Liam O'Murchu of Symantec, speaking at the Virus Bulletin Conference here, provided the first detailed public analysis of the worm's inner workings to an audience of some of the world's top computer virus experts. O'Murchu described a sophisticated and highly targeted virus and demonstrated a proof of concept exploit that showed how the virus could cause machines using infected PLCs to run out of control....

As for suggestions that Israeli intelligence may have authored the virus, O'Murchu noted that researchers had uncovered the reference to an obscure date in the worm's code,  May 9, 1979, which, he noted, was the date on which a prominent Iranian Jew, Habib Elghanian, who was executed by the new Islamic government shortly after the revolution.
Here is a portion of the Wikipedia entry on Elghanian:
On May 9, 1979, Elghanian was executed by a firing squad in Tehran sending shock waves through the closely knit Iranian Jewish community. He was the first Jew and one of the first civilians to be executed by the new Islamic government. This prompted the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran which continues to this day.
Was this an Israeli attack with snippets of code manipulated to mock the Iranians, or a false flag operation meant to blame the Israelis?

Somewhere, someplace, someone is laughing.  We just don't know who.

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Video: Spending Just Got Persona

-By Warner Todd Hustonl

This is a pretty inventive way to relate polling figures, I have to say. This one was made by BankruptingAmerica.org.

Seven out of ten voters say government spending is too high and 68 percent say spending is affecting them personally, according to a bipartisan ten-state poll we sponsored. Our fans told us they love the infographics we made to visualize the poll's key findings. So we made a video taking the graphics to the next level.

Hundreds from our online community have taken the poll themselves. See how their views match up with them and the rest of the country. Click here to weigh in now.








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Mexican Mayors Blame U.S. For Increased Border City Violence

Yes, you read that correctly.

The Blaze is reporting that the mayors of four Mexican border cities are blaming the U.S. for the increase of violence in their cities!

A coalition of mayors from four northern Mexican cities are asking U.S. authorities to stem the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes on the American side of the border.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders joined the mayors of Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nogales and Nuevo Laredo last week to discuss cross-border issues.  Among them, the Mexican mayors complained that America's deportation of convicted criminal illegal immigrants back to the Mexican border is contributing to the recent rise in violent crimes, including kidnapping and other crimes related to the drug trade.

According to Jose Reyes Ferriz, mayor of Ciudad Juarez, of the 80,000 people deported to his town over the past three years, 28,000 had U.S. criminal records, including 7,000 who had served prison time for rape and 2,000 convicted of murder.  Reyes claims that the large number of criminal deportees have contributed to the violence in his town — a town that has reported more than 2,200 homicides so far this year.

How dare we demand that Mexico take possession of its own citizens!  Of course, the increase in violence couldn't possibly be attributed to the drug cartels and the inability of the Mexican government to successfully combat it.  Especially since the increase in violence is spreading throughout Mexico.  It's easier to simply blame the U.S.  Perhaps the Mexican mayors are taking their cue from President Obama.  President Obama doesn't seem to be pleased with the U.S. either.  He did invite Mexico's President Calderon to address Congress, where he blasted Arizona's  new immigration law as a "terrible" endorsement of racial profiling.

Mexican governors felt so strongly about Arizona's desire to protect their border and its citizens that they boycotted the annual Border Governors Conference scheduled to be held in Arizona.  Governor Richardson of New Mexico offered to host the conference at his home.

Via The Caucus:

Border Governors Conference Underway, Minus Most Governors

SANTA FE, N.M. — There was plenty of star power present at the kickoff reception for the U.S.-Mexico border governors' conference on Sunday night. Over there, Shirley MacLaine, the actress. And there, Sam Donaldson, the newsman. All around, politicians from Mexico.

But it was those who did not show up to sip margaritas at Gov. Bill Richardson's hilltop home who were the subject of the most attention.

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas stayed away from the session, which Mr. Richardson organized after six Mexican governors, in protest of Arizona's immigration crackdown, refused to attend a summit that Ms. Brewer had been planning in Phoenix.

The Mexican governors refused to step foot in Arizona in protest of SB1070, even though it was Arizona's turn to host the conference.  Many people are unaware that the Mexican governors' hypocritical boycott cost the Arizona taxpayers in excess of $100,000 in cancellation fees.

Back to the racial profiling.  Are you aware that Mexico is erecting a fence on their southern border?

Via Fox Nation -

Reporting from Guatemala City, Danilo Valladares of the Inter-Press Service (IPS) notes that there will be one more barrier for Guatemalan immigrants in their trek to the United States. In addition to dodging dangerous drug traffickers and immigration officials, the latest obstacle is emerging: a wall between Guatemala and Mexico.

According to the head of customs for Mexico's tax administration, Raul Diaz, the Mexican border state of Chiapas is constructing a wall along the country's southern border with Guatemala, along the river Suchiate which divides the countries. Diaz says the purpose of the wall is to prevent the passage of contraband, but admits, "It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants."

According to Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year — the vast majority of them attempting to reach the United States. In addition, smugglers reportedly use the Suchiate River to move goods across the international border without paying duty taxes.

Just as Mexican authorities have opposed more strict border enforcement and the construction of a border fence along the U.S. border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from Guatemalan officials.

You can almost smell the hypocrisy, can't you?

As Russ Vaughn at American Thinker points out so succinctly, "When it comes to shameless hypocrisy, it appears the mendacious Mexicans could teach even the duplicitous Democrats a few things."

Exactly.








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Next ObamaCare Casualty – McDonald’s Employees

Who couldn't see this coming? (h/t Gateway Pundit)

Coverage of 1.2 million people with mini-policies is under threat of health care reform claims Stuart Varney, anchor of "Varney & Co.", as he tries to unweave the contradictions coming from McDonald's and the White House after this morning's Wall Street Journal bombshell revelation that McDonald fast food giant "could cut plans for 30,000 workers."

"Here's the story. The Wall Street Journal has gotten hold of a letter, written by McDonald's to the authorities in Washington about health care. That letter says and I'm quoting,"

It would be economically prohibitive for our carrier to continue offering coverage.

"That's to the 30,000 McDonald employees who get this low-cost low-coverage right now. McDonald's is saying economically – not good – with the health care act in place. McDonalds this morning turns around and says – 'False story! Not true; we're not considering dropping coverage. Health and Human Services turns around this morning and says, 'The story is wrong.'

Those two denials leave out the fact that this letter was written and McDonald's is saying under health care reform, the way it's written, we can't afford to keep on giving this coverage."

Varney noted that McDonald's denies the whole thing but I'm not sure how they will deny the existence of this letter. It's obvious. This is what Obama wanted. He WANTS to make it so that a company is forced to drop their plans then those people will then be forced into the government run plan….and ta-da! Socialized health care.

Trade groups representing restaurants and retailers say low-wage employers might halt their coverage if the government doesn't loosen a requirement for "mini-med" plans, which offer limited benefits to some 1.4 million Americans.

"Mini-med" are plans covering routine checkups and other such low cost issues. Perfect for the young who are typically very healthy. The Wall Street Journal reports a McDonald's employee could pay 14 bucks a week for the 2 grand max payout version or 32 bucks for the 10 grand max payout version. For a kid typically in his first job this is quite a deal. But as we all know, lower paying first jobs have a huge turnover rate. ObamaCare mandates that a company must spend at least 80/85% of its premium revenue on medical care and that is just not economically viable for a company such as McDonalds with its huge turnover rate.

McDonald's and trade groups say the percentage, called a medical loss ratio, is unrealistic for mini-med plans because of high administrative costs owing to frequent worker turnover, combined with relatively low spending on claims.

McDonalds wants a exemption but Obama and pals won't give it since their goal was to get all these young folks into the Government plans to subsidize the costs of all those older folks with pre-existing conditions that will now be covered by the Government.

Yeah…..You like it you can keep it:

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has notified customers that it will drop its Medicare Advantage health insurance program at the end of the year, forcing 22,000 senior citizens in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to seek alternative supplemental coverage.

The decision by Wellesley-based Harvard Pilgrim, the state's second-largest health insurer, was prompted by a freeze in federal reimbursements and a new requirement that insurers offering the kind of product sold by Harvard Pilgrim — a Medicare Advantage private fee for service plan — form a contracted network of doctors who agree to participate for a negotiated amount of money. Under current rules, patients can seek care from any doctor.

"We became concerned by the long-term viability of Medicare Advantage programs in general,'' said Lynn Bowman, vice president of customer service at Harvard Pilgrim's office in Quincy. "We know that cuts in Medicare are being used to fund national health care reform. And we also had concerns about our ability to build a network of health care providers that would meet the needs of our seniors.''

Who knows which big corporation will be the next domino to fall but fall they will. And then we move closer to Obama's main objective from the beginning.

Single-payer.

Socialism.








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GOP Developing Strategy to De-Fund Obamacare

Even if they win majorities in both the house and the senate, the GOP will not be able to have a successful vote to overturn Obamacare as long as Barack Obama wields a veto pen (unless of course they get a veto-proof majority which is not going to happen this election). For the time being, should the Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives the only way they will be able to stop Obamacare is to starve the program by denying it funding
Representative Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, the senior Republican on the House Appropriations subcommittee, said the "defunding" strategy "is a very serious idea" that's gaining support among party members emboldened by the response of constituents in their home areas, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Oct. 4 issue. "There is definitely going to be a run at it," he said in a telephone interview.
And the House, which constitutionally originates all spending bills, is expected to be in Republican hands after the elections.  
In the meantime, the strategy to attack funding for the overhaul promises to produce a year of political skirmishing. The White House says denial of money would block consumer protections and deprive senior citizens of added Medicare benefits. A funding stalemate may spur a government shutdown and produce a backlash against Republicans, said Joseph A. Antos, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and overhaul critic.
Even if everything else goes right it may not be possible to refund the entire bill
John Murray, a spokesman for Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-ranking Republican in the House, said that if control of the House flips, possible targets for defunding may be the insurance exchanges, the new agency set up under the law to compare different drugs' effectiveness and any added staffing that may be sought to manage coverage expansions.
By vetoing spending measures that don't include money for the law, Obama may set up a situation similar to the 1995 government shutdown triggered by a spending dispute between the then Republican-controlled Congress and Democratic President Bill Clinton.

That shutdown hurt the Republicans, who lost congressional seats in 1996. James T. Walsh, a former Republican chairman of Tiahrt's panel, said Republicans could dodge blame this time by portraying Obama as the instigator.

"If the president precipitates that, then the president precipitated it," said Walsh, who is now a lobbyist for the Washington firm K&L Gates. Republicans should just "go about their business," he said.
But this time it is different, the people want Obamacare stopped, this action will be supporting the will of the American Voters.
Tiahrt said a shutdown wouldn't necessarily be bad, considering the enthusiasm among Tea Party and Republican activists for limiting the size of government.

The prospect of Congress changing hands the year after passing a law as complex as the overhaul, then attempting to defund the law's implementation may be unprecedented, said Paul Van de Water, a health-care expert at the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C.

"I can't think of any previous attempt to kill a major presidential initiative by not funding it," he said in an e- mail.
 There is a first time for everything, and based on the anger the American people have for Congress, should the GOP win the house, they better get something done or their rule will be a short one.
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Democrats’ new strategy for midterm success: More Barack Obama on the campaign trail

What could go wrong?


You think I'm kidding. Democratic congressional leaders used a White House strategy session Thursday to push President Barack Obama to be more aggressive in helping them campaign in the final weeks before November's elections, multiple senior Democratic sources familiar with the meeting tell CNN. According to the sources, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the president [...]

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Tea Party Coloring Book Prompts Death Threats

A Missouri man is reportedly receiving threatening messages after his company, Really Big Coloring Books, published "The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids."

Wayne Bell of Clayton, Mo., says he's receiving harsh messages from people apparently angry over his company's latest work, a coloring book which tells the story of today's tea party movement with passages like "When taxes are too high, the high tax takes away jobs and freedom."

"Nobody said 'Wayne Bell, I'm coming for you and I'm going to do this to you'," Bell told local CBS affiliate KMOX. "But when people say to me (online) 'We're going to give you a chloroform headlock', or they say 'Let's try the inner-city ice cream truck method on this guy'…I mean, we're reading this in the blogosphere.

"I don't even know what the 'inner-city ice cream truck' thing means."

"We're not really making a political statement," Bell said, adding that his company also publishes coloring books on the Rockettes, Cirque du Soleil and President Obama.

As a result, Bell has been forced to keep his store's doors locked with a "Please Knock" sign.

"We have talked with our legal department, and they said 'Hey, what can you do? You're in the publishing business, you made a book that's political, get over it!'," Bell said.

On the bright side, Bell says it's quickly become his store's all-time best-seller.








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Video of Judge Napolitano : Who Owns Our Income ? Us Or The Govt ?

I have mentioned many times in this blog the liberal notion that tax cuts "cost" the government. Implicit is that very concept is the idea that all money is the governments, and therefore anything they don't confiscate is somehow a benevolence towards us. It is OUR money - the fruits of OUR labor. That liberal mindset was perhaps best exemplified in August, for which I wrote this: Paul Krugman: All money is government's money
I have said many times in this blog that one of the more insidious mindsets out there right now is the notion that a tax cut is equivalent to giving people money. Except that the government doesn't have any of its own money. It is all taxpayer money. When a tax cut is enacted, the government doesn't give you money, you simply give less of your own to the government. That has not sunk in yet to Paul Krugman and those like him. ...(Krugman) wrote:

But these [Republicans] are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country. … And where would this $680 billion go?  Nearly all of it would go to the richest 1 percent of Americans, people with incomes of more than $500,000 a year. … How can this kind of giveaway be justified …?
Earth to Krugman - it's their earned money, not yours and not the government's. The above is the mindset of the statist believing all wealth to be the government's and anything not confiscated is a giveaway to the earners. So much for the federal government being a limited one, no? Based on the above quote, one last point I'd make is that the 'rich' that keeping more of their own money tend to do something with it. They tend not to just stuff it in the mattress, but rather invest it in stocks, bond, mutual funds, etc. That's a whole lot more value added than what the government ends up doing with it by rewarding non-productivity.
Judge Napolitano hits this mentality straight on in this segment:
As far as tax policy goes, this is quite relevant too: Not only does bottom 47% of taxpayers pay no federal income tax, but the bottom 40% GET MONEY BACK! That goes right along in consistency with a prior post of mine: 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll: 50% of Americans that don't pay taxes thinks "rich" people ought to pay more, even though top 1% pay more than bottom 95%
Note that the bottom 50% pay almost no taxes, while the top 5% pay about 60% of the federal tax bill. I agree with one thing - this isn't fair. But I think it is the rich that are paying too much, only to be sneered at by those that pay nothing at all and get OUR money back from the government. It's now gotten so bad, so unfair, that the top 1% pay more in federal taxes than the bottom 95%: The rich are paying far more than their fair share, and instead of being thanked are demonized by Obama and their ilk.







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Tumbling Star of David announced as Ground Zero Mosque Design

RWBNews:  Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs addresses the newly released tumbling Star of David design and the newest lies details of who the Ground Zero Mosque is for.  Suddenly, it isn't for the Muslims that need it due to lack of space since it was revealed there is already a Mosque for Muslims in lower Manhattan as reported here. http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=5005 I wonder if he's selling some swamp-land, too.

http://blog.park51.org/?page_id=55

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/

The Islamic supremacists get more bold and naked in their motive. They have released the architectural renderings of the tumbling Star of Davids here. But back in May, it was reported that the morphing mosque had a different architectural plan.

The plan calls for a 15-story building, including two levels below ground. There is no architect. Instead, thebuilders plan to hold a "world-class design competition."

What happened to the worldwide competition and how did we get the crashing Stars of David?

The Cordoba Park51 announced a new series of renderings of the Cordoba Park51 Community Center, "as prepared by our Architectural Design consultants SOMA Architects."

Wait, it get s better, I mean worse. Just as it is an Islamic pattern to build triumphal mosques on the cherished sites of conquered lands, it is an Islamic mandate for non-Muslims to pay the jizya, an exorbitant tax on non-Muslims living in Muslim lands. Islam requires people of other faiths to pay money to support the Muslim religion. And here it is no different.

Non-Muslims will pay the exorbitant jizya of $2,700 for the privilege of membership in the Cordoba house, while Muslims will pay the nominal fee of $375 per year.

The NY Times has this:

Mr. Gamal is counting on the center's eventually having about 4,330 paying members, about half of them paying $2,700 a year for the most expensive family plan, which would include use of a planned fitness center and pool.

Most of that core group, Mr. Gamal expects, would be non-Muslim neighborhood residents and commuters.

Muslims from around the region would make up a larger but less frequently visiting group — what he calls the "dinner and a date" crowd — many of them choosing the cheapest $375 family membership for cultural programs.

But that's not all. Financing to build this mega mosque will come from the sharia — Islamic bonds, aka sukuk, and the American taxpayer (more jizya):

Most of the financing, Mr. Gamal said on Wednesday, would come through religiously sanctioned bondlike investments known as sukuk, devised in Muslim nations to allow religious Muslims to take part in the global economy and increasingly explored by American banks. Sukuk and other Islamic banking instruments are tracked on the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index.

In sukuk construction projects, the investors own the real estate asset, and the developers lease it back; the investors' profit on the rent is analogous to the yield on a bond. Some Islamic scholars do not accept the system, but it is widely used in places like Malaysia and Dubai.

Mr. Gamal, a broker and property manager with Soho Properties, uses conventional mortgages on other deals, but said usingsukuk would attract a broader range of Muslim investors.

He expects to fund this triumphal mosque with taxpayer dollars.

He restated his hope of getting the bonds issued tax-free through a public development authority, but said he would do so privately — which would require higher payments to investors — if that was not possible. Besides individualinvestors, Mr. Gamal said he would court corporations interested in tapping Muslim-American markets, foundations that finance international development, and Jewish, Christian and Muslim philanthropists.

Diabolically audacious.

Fight the this monster. Join Robert Spencer and me at Temple University October 7th here and advance the opposition. And don't forget to protest thug developer Sharif El-Gamal's appearance at the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas-linked hatefest on October 9th in Arlington, Virginia.

Doing nothing is not an option.

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The Dems told Obama it wasn't going to happen. They White House chose to think they knew better. I

The Dems told Obama it wasn't going to happen. They White House chose to think they knew better. It appears even the Progressive Dems aren't buying the Obama line anymore. What a pity.


Progressive Dems block the FLOTUS Let's Move school nutrition program
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The White House (read Obama) seems to be ignoring his Progressive Dems even when they tell him there is a problem with a bill. But Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass), who co-wrote a letter to the White House opposing the use of SNAP funds, told POLITICO that he and 106 others who signed it "have been sayin...







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Press Batters Gibbs Over Blaming GOP For No Tax Cuts
Press Batters Gibbs Over Blaming GOP For No Tax Cuts Jake Tapper, Chip Reid, Chuck Todd and Mara Liasson all tackle press secretary Robert Gibbs with questions about the White House's tactic of accusing the GOP of holding "tax relief" for the middle class "hostage." JAKE TAPPER, ABCNEWS: "Isn't the real problem the fact that there are Democrats who agree with Republicans on the issue? There are 47 -- ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE: I think we've could have done middle class [tax cuts], but the Republicans aren't interested. TAPPER: But, you don't need the support of the Republicans in the House to pass anything. September 30, 2010 Sam Samford







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Health Plans Face Scrutiny Amid McDonald's Move

The Obama administration said its top health official will "exercise her discretion" in enforcing a new health-law requirement, a move that could prevent McDonald's and other employers from disrupting their health-care policies for hourly workers.







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Obama’s science czar runs away like a coward when asked about his book(video)

RWB News: More "transparency"? This is another crazy radical Obama Czar he found living next door to him in Chicago I suppose. You have to be a crazy loon for Obama to give you a "czar" title. Remember Van Jones? He was the self proclaimed communist that Glenn Beck busted out. Later that week he left the White House at midnight on a Saturday in the dark of night. Never would I have thought I would see the day a self proclaimed communist would be sneaking out of the White House like burglar in the night……Now this. This Radical Czar said in a book he had written"Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being," and didn't want to talk about it….Imagine that…  Can we call them Socialist yet?   Radicals everywhere.

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Progressive Dems block the FLOTUS Let’s Move school nutrition program

RWBNews:  Is this an election ploy, blocking Mich's nutrition initiative for schools or are the Dems really waking up?  Over 100 Dems let the White House know that with the funding proposed by taking the money from the food stamp budget, it wasn't going to pass.  Is Obama that arrogant that the won't even listen to his own Progressive Dems when they tell him NO? RWBNews wonders if Mich is mumbling about not being PROUD of America…again.

As reported on 9/28/10 http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=5035

Update By Abby Phillip on Politico at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42970.html

A bloc of progressive House Democrats resisted heavy White House lobbying and a 11th-hour push to broker a compromise on a child nutrition bill, ending chances that the legislation – a pet project of first lady Michelle Obama – would pass before the November midterm elections.

At the root of the impasse: a proposed $2.2 billion cut in future funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food stamps for the poor. Despite personal appeals by the first lady, the Democrats balked at what they saw as a plan to pay for the nutrition bill by quietly cutting SNAP – an essential food safety net that lawmakers had already borrowed from to pay for emergency aid to states.

White House spokesman Reid Cherlin said the administration has committed to restoring any proposed cuts to SNAP and will do all it can to move the $8 billion bill forward.

"SNAP is not blocking the bill," he said. "We're working with the House leadership to schedule the bill as soon as it fits in to the House schedule."

But Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass), who co-wrote a letter to the White House opposing the use of SNAP funds, told POLITICO that he and 106 others who signed it "have been saying everything we possibly could to make it clear that this would be a problem."

Still, "there is a pledge [from the White House] to try to help us work this out," he said.

Advocates for the poor and most Capitol Hill Democrats eagerly support the child nutrition bill's provisions, which include broader access to free or reduced-price school meal programs and improved nutritional standards. The bill dovetails with the first lady's high-profile "Let's Move" initiative to reduce childhood obesity, and she was personally involved in moving the bill through the legislative process.

But observers say the White House should have seen trouble coming in August, when the Senate passed a less ambitious version of the bill, and proposed funding it with another cut to the food stamp program. Lobbying House Democrats to support the smaller Senate bill didn't begin until late September – too late to iron out a deal ahead of the midterms, where Republicans are expected to make big gains and perhaps take control of the House.

Advocates also say the House never had the option to pass their larger bill, despite attempts to find ways to pay for it without adding to the deficit that stretched into September, while opponents of the smaller Senate bill say their opposition to SNAP cuts had been well known since August.

"A lot of the progressive Democrats were unrealistic about what could be done," said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "If [the House] wanted their own bill they should have finished it before the August recess."

Unaccustomed to counting congressional votes for nutrition legislation that is reauthorized every six years without much drama, advocates galvanized early this week to push reluctant Democrats. They were stunned by the last-minute House gridlock, compared to the Senate, which passed the bill by unanimous consent in August as part of its usual bipartisan effort to reauthorize federal nutrition programs.

But as the search for alternative funding for the House version stretched into the fall, key anti-hunger organizations like Feeding America and the Food Research Action Center who supported the original bill, bucked the first lady and dug in their heels when the scaled-down Senate version became the standard – and SNAP cuts were part of the bargain.

Wednesday night, Speaker Pelosi's office said she is committed to bringing up the bill when the House reconvenes after the elections, but passing it during a lame-duck session is a gamble at best.

"I would love to be on that phone call where Nancy Pelosi has to tell the First Lady why she wasn't able to pass this," said one nutrition advocate who spoke on the condition of anonymit

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RealClearPolitics - Why Democrats Are Going Down This November

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Pic of the day: The origins of the new Democrat logo

An addendum to a prior post of mine: New Democrat logo looks like a toilet. Here's that new logo again:
The thought was that it was initially inspired by the toilet:
That may, in fact, be wrong. This may be the likely origin of the new Democrat logo that essentially is gold-plating a smelly turd to sell to the public:
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The ACORN doesn't fall far from the tree. Or visa versa as the case may be here. HT: moonbattery







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Barney Frank on mid-term race: Right wing media targeted me - Washington Times

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Geithner: More Stimulus Needed...

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Health reform 'to worsen doctor shortage'...

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US commonwealth government partially shuts down

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — The government of the Northern Mariana Islands has partially shut down because the Legislature of the U.S. commonwealth failed to pass a balanced budget on time. More than 1,400 government employees were out of work Friday until lawmakers approve a budget and Gov. Benigno R. Fitial signs it into law. [...]







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Catching on to Ron Paul’s message of End the Fed (Video)

RWB News: With the devaluation of the dollar, Ron Paul is looking less and less kooky to main street Americans with the idea of ending the Federal Reserve.

Ron Paul on Eliminating the Fed

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Irony: Barbara Boxer hires non-union day laborers to protest opponent Carly Fiorina

The unions are backing Barbara Boxer to be their Senator. Again. Something even the uberliberal San Francisco Chronicle refuses to do, saying that she "has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office," and that "there is no reason to believe that another six-year term would bring anything but more of the same uninspired representation." So the union-backed Boxer is taking to the streets. Well, kind of. She's actually hiring non-union day laborers, and likely illegal immigrants, to take to the streets for her:
CA Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is taking heat for having unknowingly hired an illegal alien as a maid 9 years ago. If these are illegal aliens, where's the outrage towards Boxer from the same people that are smearing Whitman?







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Feds Making NYCity Spend $27M to Change Lettering on Street Signs

-By Warner Todd Huston

So you are a busy federal agency with lots and lots to do. You have roads to build, bridges to reinforce, and infrastructure to shore up, but there is something gnawing at your paper pushing soul. It's those darn street signs in New York City and others. So, like a good, jackbooted government automaton, you storm down to that offending city and demand it spend $27million to change the lettering on those darn signs. I mean it's not like you have anything else to do, right?

Well, it may seem like a joke but this is precisely what has happened. The Federal Highway Administration has demanded that New York City and other cities change street signs from all upper case to upper and lower (i.e. BROADWAY to Broadway) and it is going to cost an estimated $27 million of the taxpayer's money to do it in New York City alone.

The city reports that 11,000 signs will have been changed by the end of this fiscal year and the rest will be done by 2018.

So why is this waste of money being forced on the nation from our masters in Washingon? Because the federal government has changed its street sign regulations. In all its brilliance, this federal agency has determined that all caps signs are harder to read and might cause accidents as drivers take too long to read signs while driving.

See. It's all because the feds are worried about your safety. As your taxes go up every year for regulatory silliness such as this, doesn't it make you all warm inside that the feds care about your safety?

Certainly we all want the safest street signs possible. But these millions wasted all at once by federal fiat is not the right way to go. Replacing the signs when new signs are needed or using the new regulatory scheme on all new signs from this point forward is the proper way to address this situation, especially in this day when we are all taxed to death and have states and cities with budgets so far in the red that bankruptcy is a real possibility.

But what this really shows is the outrageous overstepping of power that the federal government wallows in these days. Regulations such as this passed down from the federal government, violating local control of our lives is the perfect example of how our federal government has gone so far off track.

Yet all is not lost. In its magnanimity the feds have given the little people 15 years to toe the line before that jackboot comes down on their necks. See. They DO care about us!








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Breaking: Election law expert claims Rahm not eligible to run for Mayor

RWBNews:  As if eligibility criteria matters to the likes of this administration.  Laws aren't for them.  Laws are  for the little people.

WLS 890 AM Chicago http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=1969204&spid=

CHICAGO (WLS) – Attorney Burt Odelson, a noted elction-law expert, is predicting Rahm Emanuel will be ineligible for mayor because he is not a legal resident of Chicago.

Odelson told Roe and Roeper on WLS Radio that when Emanuel leased out his Chicago home he could no longer claim he is a resident.

"He rented his house out in Sept 09 and has not been back since and has no residency in Chicago," Odelson said.

Odelson says he has been involved in several residency cases in Illinois that "the law is clear."

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