Thursday, April 30, 2009

Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO


Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO
"A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world.
Vivienne Allan, from WHO's patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths - all in Mexico - and 79 confirmed cases of the disease."
I just heard on TV that 196 people were dead..... never mind.....

Swine flu: 'All of humanity under threat', WHO warns - Telegraph

Swine flu: 'All of humanity under threat', WHO warns - Telegraph: "Swine flu: 'All of humanity under threat', WHO warns
The World Health Organisation has warned that 'all of humanity is under threat' from a potential swine flu pandemic and called for 'global solidarity' to combat the virus."

WHO to stop using 'swine flu' name to avoid confusion over risk from pigs

WHO to stop using 'swine flu' name to avoid confusion over risk from pigs
"WHO also reported the number of confirmed swine flu cases rose to 257 worldwide Thursday, with cases in Mexico rising to 97 from 26, with seven deaths. The WHO confirmed tally from the United States now stands at 109, with one death."

Yikes!
This "pandemic" just (barely!) beat out Ted Kennedy's back seat, Three Mile Island and Club Gitmo for total deaths!

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband - USATODAY.com

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

"An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday."

I can't believe what a bitch she is!

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape
"'That wasn't me,' President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.
It actually was him - and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years - who shaped a budget so out of balance.
And as a presidential candidate and president-elect, he backed the twilight Bush-era stimulus plan that made the deficit deeper, all before he took over and promoted spending plans that have made it much deeper still."

Reduce electricity usage

Reduce electricity usage
"The economy is beginning to show glimmers of recovery. But it will continue to drag for months.
You've probably slashed your budget. Luxuries are in the rearview mirror.
But savings are still possible. For example, look at your electricity bill. Maybe you can cut that.
Many electronics go into standby mode when they're not in use. That means they continue to draw power.

Unplugging them can save you money each month. This may seem like a lot of trouble. But you'll be surprised how much electricity they use.

That's what today's Cool Site shows. It also has tips to help cut standby power. Your wallet will thank you!

standby.lbl.gov
"

I guess Obama knows about the Tea Parties *now*

I guess Obama knows about the Tea Parties *now*.
"Obama targets tea bags at town hall

At his 100th-day town hall meeting in St. Louis Wednesday, President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax “tea party” demonstrations that have cropped up over the last month and took a veiled shot at the Fox News Channel, the cable news network closely associated with the protests.
[snip]
“Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, “let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”"

Yeah right....

Gettelfinger Motors - WSJ.com

Gettelfinger Motors
"The biggest losers here are GM's bondholders. According the Treasury-GM debt-for-equity swap announced Monday, GM has $27.2 billion in unsecured bonds owned by the public.
These are owned by mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds and retail investors who bought them directly through their brokers.
Under Monday's offer, they would exchange their $27.2 billion in bonds for 10% of the stock of the restructured GM. This could amount to less than five cents on the dollar.
The Treasury, which is owed $16.2 billion, would receive 50% of the stock and $8.1 billion in debt -- as much as 87 cents on the dollar
.

The union's retiree health-care benefit trust would receive half of the $20 billion it is owed in stock, giving it 40% ownership of GM, plus another $10 billion in cash over time. That's worth about 76 cents on the dollar, according to some estimates.
In a genuine Chapter 11 bankruptcy, these three groups of creditors would all be similarly situated -- because all three are, for the most part, unsecured creditors of GM. And yet according to the formula presented Monday, those with the largest claim -- the bondholders -- get the smallest piece of the restructured company by a huge margin."

Why would ANYONE invest in an American corporate bond today?

Is capitalism truly dead?

Danger: Narcissistic Political Class

Danger: Narcissistic Political Class

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Talking Michigan Politics Podcast: Huntsman civil union debate, Bouchard rumors in Michigan governor's race, and Hoekstra's air time - Talking Politics

Talking Michigan Politics Podcast: Huntsman civil union debate, Bouchard rumors in Michigan governor's race, and Hoekstra's air time - Talking Politics: "In the 'Guess who's not invited to Kent County edition of the podcast...', Grand Rapids Press Politics Editor Jeff Cranson and Press Editorial Page Editor Ed Golder discuss ...
• The controversy that erupted when Kent County Republican Chairman Joanne Voorhees uninvited Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to town because he came out in favor of civil unions.
Huntsman, a likely"

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE - New York Post

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE - New York Post: "AFTER a mere 100 days, the 'Obama Doctrine' for our foreign and security poli cies has emerged. And it's terrifying.
The combination of dizzying naivete, dislike of our allies, disdain for our military, distrust of our intelligence services and distaste for our own country promises the worst foreign policy of our lifetimes.
That includes President Jimmy Carter's abysmal record of failure."

Jenkins: The Truth About Cars and Trucks - WSJ.com

Jenkins: The Truth About Cars and Trucks - WSJ.com

Phoenix leads nation in home price declines in February - Phoenix Business Journal:

Phoenix leads nation in home price declines in February
"Phoenix home prices fell 35 percent from February 2008 to February 2009, according to the new S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index. That’s the largest decline of any of the 20 largest cities in the U.S. In addition, Phoenix home prices are down 51 percent from their peak."

I guess they didn't check out Muskegon.

Bummer homeowners.

Air France crew refuse to board flight to Mexico


Air France crew refuse to board flight to Mexico
"An entire Air France crew and several individual flight attendants have refused to board flights to Mexico since Saturday because of the outbreak of swine flu, airport sources said Wednesday."

Is it genetic?

Step Away From the Vehicle: The Supreme Court imposes long-overdue limits on car searches.

Step Away From the Vehicle: The Supreme Court imposes long-overdue limits on car searches.
"Last week the U.S. Supreme Court said police may no longer routinely search the vehicles of recently arrested people"

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

100 DAYS, 100 MISTAKES FOR BARACK OBAMA

100 DAYS, 100 MISTAKES FOR BARACK OBAMA

Kent County Republican Party cancels speech by Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman over his support of civil unions

Kent County Republican Party cancels speech by Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman over his support of civil unions
"Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., a rising Republican star and presidential aspirant, will not be speaking to the Kent County party faithful Saturday, after all.
Why? Two words: civil unions.
After reading in Sunday's Press that the Mormon governor of one of the country's reddest states supports civil unions for same-sex couples, Kent County Republican Party Chairman Joanne Voorhees pulled the plug.
In an e-mail sent to party members Monday, Voorhees said she canceled his appearance at a fundraiser Saturday morning after conducting further research on his positions on issues."

Friday, April 24, 2009

Women's ski jumping lawsuit wraps up in Vancouver

Women's ski jumping lawsuit wraps up in Vancouver: "All or nothing
The women are seeking a court declaration that VANOC must either hold women's ski jumping in 2010 or no ski jumping events at all."

Americas-Most-Dangerous-Cities

Americas-Most-Dangerous-Cities
"The news has been bad for decades, but there may yet be hope for Detroit. The city's new mayor, Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., assumed office on Sept. 19, 2009--and hasn't committed a single felony."

any guesses what the top 5 most dangerous cities share?

Dem Congressman: ‘Nobody in This Country Realizes That Cap-and-Trade is a Tax’

Dem Congressman: ‘Nobody in This Country Realizes That Cap-and-Trade is a Tax’

Seriously!
No one has a clue what awaits!

Pontiac brand reportedly will be dropped by GM -

Pontiac brand reportedly will be dropped by GM
"General Motors Corp. is preparing to eliminate its Pontiac brand, according to several industry news sources."

Ba Bye..
Sort of surprising story since it's been reported months ago.

A New Federal Tax You Could Choke On

A New Federal Tax You Could Choke On
"A New Federal Tax You Could Choke On
My congressman, Jim Moran of Virginia, has introduced 'the Plastic Bag Reduction Act of 2009 which would place a 5 cent fee on grocery bags, dry cleaning bags, take-out food bags, retail bags and service station bags, starting January 1. Under the proposal, that fee would escalate to 25 cents starting January 1, 2015.'
No plastic bags for takeout? He deserves to be pelted with last week's Chinese."

West Michigan Strategic Alliance supports new Web site to help students find internships

West Michigan Strategic Alliance supports new Web site to help students find internships
"Announced simultaneously in Grand Rapids and Detroit this morning, www.interninmichigan.com was created using $2.4 million in public and private funds, including grants from the U.S. Labor Department."

Another $2.4 million well spent.... right....

Public Outcry Leads Defense Department to Reverse Spent Ammo Directive

Public Outcry Leads Defense Department to Reverse Spent Ammo Directive
"“The distressing part of it was that the government was going to lose money,” Shipley said. “They were going to lose $2 a pound and accomplish nothing.”

Spent shell casings usually sell for between $2.30 and $2.50 per pound, allowing the government to recoup a good amount of their ammunition expense budget. However, once the brass is mutilated, it has no added value and a product that was worth about $2.50 becomes worth only about 50 cents, Shipley said.

“We felt like it was just an option to bring in ammunition control rather than gun control,”"

Holdouts for Humble Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out

Holdouts for Humble Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out
"In the United States, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. effectively bans the sale of almost all incandescent bulbs by 2014, although last year Representative Michele Bachman, a Minnesota Republican, introduced the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would overturn it."

Waterboarding!

The Corner on National Review Online
"How many times have you read and heard in the mainstream media that terrorists were waterboarded more than 180 times?

It turns out that’s not true.

Muskegon Tea Party website

Muskegon Tea Party website
"Welcome to the new home of the Muskegon Patriots"

Finally!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The ride of a lifetime


The ride of a lifetime
"EAST LANSING - Lorene Shinsky delivered her son, John, to an orphanage when he was 8 years old.

Edmund Shinsky had just died of a heart attack, robbing Lorene of a husband, John of a father and the household of an employed steelworker.

John then started a fire in their small house in a rough neighborhood in Lorain, Ohio. Trouble was already finding him, so off Lorene sent him to Parmadale Orphanage in Parma, with a toothbrush and a bag of clothes."

An incredible story!

READ IT!

and try not to cry....

Obama Slow rolling......

OBAMA'S MESSAGE TO THE CIA
"Keep your head down. Duck assignments that carry political risk. Stay away from counter-terrorism.Devastating read from the WaPo's David Ignatius.

At the Central Intelligence Agency, it's known as 'slow rolling.' That's what agency officers sometimes do on politically sensitive assignments. They go through the motions; they pass cables back and forth; they take other jobs out of the danger zone; they cover their backsides."

The Administration’s Pathetic Piracy Policy


The Administration’s Pathetic Piracy Policy.
“Indeed, as I’ve recounted elsewhere, since the beginning of the piracy epidemic last summer the United Nations has passed five Security Council resolutions on the subject– all under its binding Chapter VII authority. No other issue, not even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (to say nothing of the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka or the ongoing genocide in Darfur) has commanded as much of the Council’s attention. Yet the piracy epidemic has only increased apace.

In the days after Obama announced that the U.S. would be getting tough on pirates, as if to mock his words several more vessels were seized, including another American ship.”"

Video: How to end corruption in federal government

Video: How to end corruption in federal government

"In other words, as long as we keep aggregating so much of our money in one spot, corrupt people will flock there like seagulls on a garbage scow.

What’s more, we’re the ones providing the incentive.

We demand federal action, we elect people for bringing home the bacon, and then we sit in dazed wonder when corruption ensues from having trillions of dollars up in the air in one place for people to grab.

Here are some hard truths to life:

Want to lose weight?
Eat less and exercise more.
Want to have more cash?

Work harder and spend less.
Want to end corruption in Washington DC?

Cut the budget and the size of government.

Few people really want to hear those truths.
They want magic pills for all of their concerns instead of acting out of common sense.

If we send less of our money to DC and move responsibilities back to the states and local communities, we won’t have to worry about whether we get our fair share back from DC.

Instead, we can use our own money to solve our own problems without hiring lobbyists to get it back, and we can address our own issues in the manner we like.

Our founding fathers knew all of this.

We’ve forgotten it in the vain attempt to find magic pills in a swamp"

WATCH THE VIDEO!

AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

The Big Party! Muskegon Summer Celebration, June 25 - July 5, 2009

The Big Party! Muskegon Summer Celebration, June 25 - July 5, 2009

RFK Jr: Obama an ‘indentured servant’ of coal industry


RFK Jr: Obama an ‘indentured servant’ of coal industry
"environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it “indentured servants” of the coal industry."

We'll now that i think about it..... Kennedys can say ANYTHING they want without MSM criticism.

Ain't royalty great?

Muskegon Heights seeks grant to rehire police officers


Muskegon Heights seeks grant to rehire police officers
"Muskegon Heights is in the running for a federal grant that would allow the city to restore all, or at least most, of the 11 police officers laid off Jan. 1.
Police Chief Clifton Johnson said the city has submitted a grant application for the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services hiring recovery program, also known as COPS. Federal officials have indicated that a decision about the Heights application will be made by September.
'We're hopeful,' Johnson said. 'Nothing is in stone, and many other agencies are going through the same thing.'
The city council in December voted to lay off 11 police officers -- nearly half of its force -- in a budget-cutting decision that is saving the city about $400,000 in 2009. Without the layoffs and cuts in other departments, city officials were projecting a budget deficit as high as $600,000.
Six full-time officers and five part-time officers were laid off.
The city has already received word that it will receive a federal grant this year that will allow the police department to buy new weapons for officers, Johnson said. That grant is worth $115,629."

A perfect example of how the "grant" concept has destroyed our country at every level.

There is money for police guns but not for actual police because each grant has a specific goal.

Target spending as our friends in the democrat party so often remind us.

EARTH DAY TRUTHS

EARTH DAY TRUTHS
"My dear children: You have heard that every day, in every way, the world is getting dirtier. This isn't true.
I can see where you'd think the Earth soon will be covered with trash and you'll have to move onto a spaceship and become a fat blob stuck in a floating chair. 'Wall-E' said it would happen. Good movie; bad information. It's no more real than any of those other shows about how air is turning to poison or rivers are becoming sludge or all the animals are about to vanish.
They're stories meant to scare people — like the 'Twilight Zone,' just less honest. The truth is that in most ways that count, the world you live in is much cleaner than when I was a kid...."

An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It

An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It
"The population would be condensed into a few viable areas. So would stores and services. A city built to manufacture cars would be returned in large measure to the forest primeval.
“Decline in Flint is like gravity, a fact of life,” said Dan Kildee, the Genesee County treasurer and chief spokesman for the movement to shrink Flint. “We need to control it instead of letting it control us.”"

Happy Earth Day!
The Green-Dream!
No mention of lower spending, taxes or more efficient government.
No wonder the NYT loves this idea!

National parks to get $750 million today

National parks to get $750 million today
"National parks get $750 million in federal economic stimulus money today to chip into a to-do list that includes repairing historic buildings, constructing trails and increasing renewable energy use from Independence Hall in Philadelphia to Yosemite in California.
'This is probably the most significant investment made in more than a generation,' Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said in an interview before the Earth Day announcement."

These fools think they're Santa Clause.... with my credit card.... and my kid's....and their kid's......

Kill the Vice Presidency




Kill the Vice Presidency
"His main reason: it leaves people who would not normally otherwise be considered fit for the job as president, either as direct slot-fillers or as unfortunate legacies."

This is an idea worth considering... except who do we get if the POTUS dies in office?

Excellent Earth Day posts at Carpe Diem

CARPE DIEM: "What About Capitalism Day?"

Earth Day 2009: Air Quality's Better Than Ever

Earth Day 2009: Air Quality's Better Than Ever
: "MP: Consider that since the first Earth Day in 1970, U.S. population has increased by 50.25%, miles driven has increased by 159% and real GDP has increased 203%; and yet air quality is better than ever."

Granholm helps launch wind generator factory

Granholm helps launch wind generator factory
"Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has helped launch a production line in Manistee for making wind turbines. It's expected to create about 120 jobs.
Granholm announced in October the Michigan Economic Development Corp. was giving $400,000 to a partnership between Mariah Power in Reno, Nev., and Manistee-based MasTech Manufacturing LLC."

My golly!
She is gonna "blow us away"!
Along with our paychecks.

Fond memories of 2006

MuskegonPundit: "If a Muskegon coalition of business, government and institutions is successful, crime will be reduced, employment will be up and natural areas will be protected."

How quickly they forget.

And how quickly we give them more and more power!

Muskegon Chamber pushes government cooperation

Muskegon Chamber pushes government cooperation
"'From ordinances to taxes, it is important to the business community that local governments are working together.'"

What evidence does anyone have to prove that allegation?

It's far better for communities to compete with each other.

Does Norton Shores want to run our city like Muskegon?

NOT!

Competition...get it?

Michigan launches enhanced driver's licenses

Michigan launches enhanced driver's licenses
"Standard driver's licenses along with birth certificates no longer will be accepted to return to the U.S. starting June. 1."

Yo Canada?

Results of the Press' 'How Green Are You?' survey

Results of the Press' 'How Green Are You?' survey
"The Press sent surveys to 22 pastors of different faith traditions. Several declined to participate, while others said they were too busy to complete the short survey during the four weeks leading up to Earth Day.
Here are the results from nine who responded:"

The religious embrace the new age uber-religion.

No surprise.... but truly sad.

Summer Cel pass party set

Summer Cel pass party set
"Festival organizers will roll out 'The Downtown Summer Sampler/Sappi Pass Party,' a new three-day event which will be Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17 at L.C. Walker Arena."

Why can't students say 'guns' in school?

Why can't students say 'guns' in school?
"• Like old Soviet commissars clapping dissidents into psychiatric hospitals, administrators at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., responded to a student's e-mail criticizing school policy on concealed weapons by suspending him and ordering him to undergo a ``mental health examination.''"

High Court Curbs Power of Police to Search Cars

High Court Curbs Power of Police to Search Cars
"The Supreme Court ruled that police couldn't search the car of a person arrested unless the officer's safety was threatened or there was reason to think the car contained evidence of a crime, reviving a constitutional protection against unreasonable searches."

Civility and Tolerance in the Age of Obama

Civility and Tolerance in the Age of Obama
"the Miss USA organizers agree. Instead of apologizing for Hilton's vile behavior, the pageant director of the Miss California contest, Keith Lewis, sent a note to Hilton throwing Prejean under the bus: 'I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss CA USA 2009 believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman. … Religious beliefs have no place in politics in the Miss CA family.'"

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

COMMENT OF THE DAY

COMMENT OF THE DAY
"From the comment section of 'The Obama-Chavez Grip and Grin' by reader Hank:

What a meeting.

One is an America-loathing anti-free market president who got into office riding on his personality and then proceeded to use his failed ideology to increase government control and make a bad situation worse.

And the other is the leader of Venezuela.

Police determine 2004 death at Wayland Hotel Bar and Grill was accidental fall

Police determine 2004 death at Wayland Hotel Bar and Grill was accidental fall
"The 2004 death of Brandon Raterink inside the Wayland Hotel Bar and Grill has been ruled an accident, and his fatal injuries are indicative of a fall that caused massive head trauma, authorities said Tuesday."

This took 5 years?

I sure hope these same folks aren't involved with our Obama-health care.

But I know they will be...... bummer....

Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret.) Alleges US Military and CIA 'Murdered Dozens' of Detainees

Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret.) Alleges US Military and CIA 'Murdered Dozens' of Detainees

This is BIG or ......another lib, Bidenesque fabrication.

I hope we get the truth.

10-story downtown Muskegon waterfront hotel under new owner


10-story downtown Muskegon waterfront hotel under new owner
"The Shoreline Inn & Suites has a new owner, and downtown Muskegon has a major new player."

Great news for Muskegon!
We can only hope for MORE!

City of Muskegon reaches pact with public works union

City of Muskegon reaches pact with public works union
"The public works employees' contract provides a 2.5 percent pay hike for 2009, which is the amount the city's nonunion employees received in the 2009 budget, Mazade said. Pay hikes for 2010 and 2011 will be the same as the nonunion city employees, according to the contract."

Wow!

Great reporting!

Why NO mention of the automatic annual step-up in pay/retirement benefits to every union employee?

Meebee they don't want ya to know?

9th Circuit upholds the Second Amendment TODAY



YES!.....we can!

Michigan Tea Party links


I'll update and repost as new info becomes available.

Here is a link from my blog with the names and info on the real Muskegon heroes.

http://muskegonpundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/we-are-tead-muskegons-tax-day-tea-party.html

"Chris Kaijala and Joyce Horness are the lead coordinators for Muskegon’s Tea Party and Joyce can be reached at (231) 744-3138 while Chris’s number is (231) 343-9432."

There do not seem to any web links yet.

Also, here are links to Bob Carr's excellent Muskegon/Center right blogs which are loaded with TeaParty links:

http://bottomuppolitics.blogspot.com/

http://conservativeinmuskegon.blogspot.com/

http://takemuskegonback.blogspot.com/

and to Rose Lear's great blog that was involved with the GH group. And many other conservative issues.

http://hellomichigan.blogspot.com/

And the best midwest super-blog of them all:

http://www.rightmichigan.com/

And the Super-anti-Spend Blog of Michigan

http://michigantaxes.com/wordpress/

Tom George for Governor

Tom George for Governor: "I recently formed our campaign committee and with your help we will explore running for Governor. We can agree that our state's economy is broken and our campaign's top priority is about fixing Michigan.I recently formed our campaign committee and with your help we will explore running for Governor. We can agree that our state's economy is broken and our campaign's top priority is about fixing Michigan."

Another GOPer "hat in Michigan's ring"?

IS OBAMA LOSING PAUL KRUGMAN? $100 million here, $100 million there “pretty soon, even here in…



finds $100 million in efficiencies
every working day
for the rest of the Obama administration’s first term.
That’s still around $80 billion, or around 2% of one year’s federal spending."

Beware green jobs, the new sub-prime


Beware green jobs, the new sub-prime
"Electoral bribes apart, there is a more serious misconception behind the idea that ploughing subsidies into the “green economy” is a sure-fire way of boosting domestic employment. At best it will move people from one economic activity to another. Labour’s plans would subsidise car production workers to move from making conventional models to electric vehicles, which hardly anyone wants to buy. Osborne’s proposals would subsidise the double-glazing and home insulation industry and suck in many workers gainfully employed (without subsidy) elsewhere.
The key to a successful, wealth-generating economy is productivity. Saving energy is what businesses have done already, because it lowers their production costs. The problem with any form of subsidy is that it makes the consumer (through hidden taxes) pay to keep inherently uneconomic businesses “profitable”. Meanwhile, diversified energy companies such as Shell, with plenty of speculatively acquired wind-farm acreage, are salivating at the plans by Obama to introduce cap-and-trade carbon emissions targets for American industry."

Will public pensions be next bailout?


Will public pensions be next bailout?
"According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, as of Dec. 16, 2008 public pensions in the United States were underfunded by nearly $1 trillion. Worst is Illinois, where the pension system has only 54 percent of the necessary funding and an unfunded liability of $54.4 billion......

....Public pension benefits are also much more lucrative than private-sector pensions and widely prone to "double dipping" abuse...."

These pension defaults will be WAY worse than the bank problems.

And Obama has spend/borrowed already EVERY penny we've got.

Who's gonna pay for those retired teachers, cops, firemen and county, city, state worker's pensions and benefits?

Who do you think?
A financial Hiroshima on the way?

HR20-New Mother's Mandated Mental Health Test-JUST PASSED HOUSE!


HR20-New Mother's Mandated Mental Health Test-JUST PASSED HOUSE!
Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul: "A sweeping government policy for all new births in the United States has just passed the House of Representatives and is now headed to the Senate. The Mother's Act, if passed, will mandate that all new mothers be screened by means of a list of subjective questions that will determine if each mother is mentally fit to take their newborn home from the hospital. Just imagine that after your child is born, you are told that you can't take them home since a multiple choice questionnaire wasn't answered correctly."

Monday, April 20, 2009

Fatties cause global warming


Fatties cause global warming
"THE rising number of fat people was yesterday blamed for global warming.
Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.
Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage."
Will they shut down Ted Kennedy?
The entire Kennedy/Gore compounds?


Will they shut down Muskegon?

Saving federal money the easy way

Saving federal money the easy way
"Cut a latte or two out of your annual budget and you've just done as much belt-tightening as President Barack Obama asked of his Cabinet on Monday.
The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6."

The Harbor Theatre

http://www.theharbortheater.com/

Their choice of films, web site AND (ability to survive!) are fantastic for Muskegon County.

Yes, our entire county.

So click their web-link and take the short visit to easy parking, cheap popcorn and low price tickets.

Oh, and amazing movies .... without loud intrusion from .........

Go there and enjoy!

UPDATED: .003 PERCENT


UPDATED: .003 PERCENT
"Do the math.
The Washington Post reports:

Just to be clear: $100 million represents .003 percent of $3.5 trillion."

Shortages of ammo and gun accessories cropping up nationwide

Shortages of ammo and gun accessories cropping up nationwide
"'People are panicking and buying,' said Furtardo, assistant manager. 'The crime rate is high, and they are flat scared of what is going to happen in the next few years with the economy and the country. Manufacturers weren't prepared for this.'"

A friend from Indiana told me his gun shop has a big sign of Obama behind the counter.

Below Barry's smiling face:

"Salesman of the Year".

I'm buying my 3rd gun this week.

Thanks Barry!


Sunday, April 19, 2009

Surprise Nelson Mandela appearance sends ANC supporters into raptures - Times Online

Surprise Nelson Mandela appearance sends ANC supporters into raptures - Times Online: "Nelson Mandela delighted thousands of African National Congress supporters yesterday with a surprise appearance at the party’s final election rally to endorse Jacob Zuma — a man who could hardly be more different to the anti-apartheid icon"

What recession? Councils offer 'bizarre non-jobs' including roller disco coach and toothbrush adviser for infants

What recession? Councils offer 'bizarre non-jobs' including roller disco coach and toothbrush adviser for infants
"Other 'non-job' positions include a falls prevention fitness adviser to help the elderly of Tewkesbury and a £13,000-a-year 'bouncy castle attendant' in Angus, Scotland.Falkirk's part-time 'toothbrush assistant' earns £3,032 teaching nursery children how to clean their teeth and the council also employs a 'cheerleading development officer'.
Glasgow taxpayers fund a £17,000-a-year 'street mediator' to deal with teens hanging around on street corners and a 'chewing gum removal labourer'. The council also funds a £17,800 florist.Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, employs several part-time pianists for council events and Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire employs a 'roller disco coach' every Saturday night.Moray Council in the Highlands pays £19,887 a year for"

Coming to a county near you..... soon!

The Worrisome Educator

The Worrisome Educator
"In conclusion, was Matthew the war veteran graded down for loving his country? Probably. As reported at American Thinker and elsewhere, a Department of Homeland Security report has targeted 'disgruntled military veterans' as having the potential to 'boost the capabilities of extremists - including lone wolves or small terrorist cells - to carry out violence.' The report says nothing however about extremist professors in the classroom who 'boost the capabilities' of young radicals bent on undermining the pillars of American culture."

HEH: Janeane Garofalo on Dissent

HEH: Janeane Garofalo on Dissent, Then and Now.

"HEH: Janeane Garofalo on Dissent, Then and Now.
Yeah, the contradiction’s obvious.
But mostly, I notice how much better she looked, and sounded, back in 2003. What happened?"

GREAT videos!..... if you're not Janeane......the uglifying power of anger?

THOSE GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS

THOSE GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS
"On the weekend when the EPA announces a massive shift in envionmental policies, comes word that the public isn't necessraily buying what Algore and Company are selling.

Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, while seven percent (7%) blame some other reason. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure.
These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends.

Could it be that the Church of Climate Change is suffering a crisis of faith?"

SOME TEA PARTY PHOTOS from Fresno. “Fresno had over 7.500 attend the most polite protest.....


SOME TEA PARTY PHOTOS from Fresno. “Fresno had over 7.500 attend the most polite protest I have eve…:
"SOME TEA PARTY PHOTOS from Fresno. “Fresno had over 7.500 attend the most polite protest I have ever witnessed.”
Plus, “Black People Against Obama,” and “Mixed People Against Obama.” Hey, that’s not part of the narrative!"

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Gas tax to increase in Michigan soon? (Side title - we're broke despite revenue increases)

Gas tax to increase in Michigan soon? (Side title - we're broke despite revenue increases)
"Now one the more influential columnists in Lansing is trying to stir this up again.
Peter Luke, columnist of Booth Newspapers (Ann Arbor News) is pushing for a gas tax for the roads.
It once again relies on the false assumptions. The assumption among the elite in Lansing is that 'only the gas tax can pay for roads.' That's the number one assumption of ALL these pushes for the gas tax. I don't buy that. Assumption is the mother of all eff ups."

‘We are Tea’d’; Muskegon’s Tax Day Tea Party

‘We are Tea’d’; Muskegon’s Tax Day Tea Party
"At one time in the past, the Muskegon area actually had two Tea Party groups, but they have recently merged to form one local entity. Chris Kaijala and Joyce Horness are the lead coordinators for Muskegon’s Tea Party and Joyce can be reached at (231) 744-3138 while Chris’s number is (231) 343-9432.
You can read the Stimulous Bill that was recently passed that has many protesters angry."

Nice article with contact info for the organizers.

Sandy sidewalks force wheelchair users to use road

Sandy sidewalks force wheelchair users to use road
"It is a priority of theirs to keep the paths clear and the order to clean up the paths for that specific location is already on their list and should be cleaned again by the end of this week."

Hep me here.....
If it is a "priority" why are the paths blocked?
If this were a private business, they'd get sued.
But it's "government" so talk replaces action.
And some fools in our country want "government" to manage health care?

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Susan Boyle-read her backstory, please!

Yes,
this is my third post on this wonderful woman......you gotta problem with that?

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/featuresopinon/display.var.2501746.0.The_beauty_that_matters_is_always_on_the_inside.php


The beauty that matters is always on the inside
COLETTE DOUGLAS HOME
April 14 2009

Susan Boyle's story is a parable of our age.
She is a singer of enormous talent, who cared for her widowed mother until she died two years ago. Susan's is a combination of ability and virtue that deserves congratulation.

So how come she was treated as a laughing stock when she walked on stage for the opening heat of Britain's Got Talent 2009 on Saturday night?

The moment the reality show's audience and judging panel saw the small, shy, middle-aged woman, they started to smirk.
When she said she wanted a professional singing career to equal that of Elaine Paige, the camera showed audience members rolling their eyes in disbelief.
They scoffed when she told Simon Cowell, one of the judges, how she'd reached her forties without managing to develop a singing career because she hadn't had the opportunity.
Another judge, Piers Morgan, later wrote on his blog that, just before she launched into I Dreamed a Dream, the 3000-strong audience in Glasgow was laughing and the three judges were suppressing chuckles.

It was rude and cruel and arrogant.

Susan Boyle from Blackburn, West Lothian, was presumed to be a buffoon.

But why?

Britain's Got Talent isn't a beauty pageant. It isn't a youth opportunity scheme.

It is surely about discovering untapped and unrecognised raw talent from all sections of society.

And Susan Boyle has talent to burn. Such is the beauty of her voice that she had barely sung the opening bars when the applause started. She rounded off to a standing ovation and - in her naivety - began walking off the stage and had to be recalled.

Susan, now a bankable discovery, was then roundly patronised by such mega-talents as Amanda Holden and the aforementioned Morgan, who told her: "Everyone laughed at you but no-one is laughing now. I'm reeling with shock." Holden added: "It's the biggest wake-up call ever."

Again, why?

The answer is that only the pretty are expected to achieve.

Not only do you have to be physically appealing to deserve fame; it seems you now have to be good-looking to merit everyday common respect.

If, like Susan (and like millions more), you are plump, middle-aged and too poor or too unworldly to follow fashion or have a good hairdresser, you are a non-person.

I dread to think of how Susan would have left the stage if her voice had been less than exceptional.

She would have been humiliated in front of 11 million viewers.

It's the equivalent of being put in the stocks in front of the nation instead of the village.

It used to be a punishment handed out to criminals.

Now it is the fate of anyone without obvious sexual allure who dares seek opportunity.

This small, brave soul took her courage in her hands to pitch at her one hope of having her singing talent recognised, and was greeted with a communal sneer. Courage could so easily have failed her.

Yet why shouldn't she sound wonderful?
Not every great singer looks like Katherine Jenkins.
Edith Piaf would never have been chosen to strut a catwalk.
Nor would Nina Simone, nor Ella Fitzgerald.
As for Pavarotti

But then ridicule is nothing new in Susan Boyle's life.

She is a veteran of abuse.

She was starved of oxygen at birth and has learning difficulties as a result.

At school she was slow and had frizzy hair.
She was bullied, mostly verbally.

She told one newspaper that her classmates' jibes left behind the kind of scars that don't heal.

She didn't have boyfriends, is a stranger to romance and has never been kissed.

"Shame," she said.

Singing was her life-raft.

She lived with her parents in a four-bedroom council house and, when her father died a decade ago, she cared for her mother and sang in the church choir.

It was an unglamorous existence.

She wasn't the glamorous type - and being a carer isn't a glamorous life, as the hundreds of thousands who do that most valuable of jobs will testify.

Even those who start out with a beauty routine and an interest in clothes find themselves reverting to the practicality of a tracksuit and trainers.

Fitness plans get interrupted and then abandoned.
Weight creeps on.

Carers don't often get invited to sparkling dinner parties or glitzy receptions, so smart clothes rarely make it off the hanger.

Then, when a special occasion comes along, they might reach, as Susan did, for the frock they bought for a nephew's wedding.
They might, as she did, compound the felony of choosing a colour at odds with her skin tone and an unflattering shape with home-chopped hair, bushy eyebrows and a face without a hint of make-up.

But it is often evidence of a life lived selflessly; of a person so focused on the needs of another that they have lost sight of themselves.

Is that a cause for derision or a reason for congratulation?

Would her time have been better spent slimming and exercising, plucking and waxing, bleaching and botoxing? Would that have made her voice any sweeter?

Susan Boyle's mother encouraged her to sing.

She wanted her to enter Britain's Got Talent.

But the shy Susan hasn't been able to sing at all since her mother's death two years ago. She wasn't sure how her voice would emerge after so long a silence. Happily, it survived its rest.
She is a gift to Simon Cowell and reality television.

Her story is the stuff of Hans Christian Andersen: the woman plucked from obscurity, the buried talent uncovered, the transformation waiting to be wrought.

It is wonderful for her, too, that her stunning voice is now recognised.
A bright future beckons. Her dream is becoming reality.

Susan is a reminder that it's time we all looked a little deeper.
She has lived an obscure but important life.
She has been a companionable and caring daughter.
It's people like her who are the unseen glue in society; the ones who day in and day out put themselves last.
They make this country civilised and they deserve acknowledgement and respect.
Susan has been forgiven her looks and been given respect because of her talent. She should always have received it because of the calibre of her character.

Forums - Michigan Votes Forum

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French director Laurent Cantet takes on the education system in docudrama 'The Class' - Extra Iddings

French director Laurent Cantet takes on the education system in docudrama 'The Class' - Extra Iddings
"The last time we saw Paris — for most of us, that means through someone else's eyes — it looked nothing like 'The Class.'"

Good movie.

Now at The Harbor.

See it!

'Tea party' tax protest

Peter Luke: 'Tea party' tax protest, Republican leadership may block higher taxes to pay for Michigan road repairs
"Lawmakers this week are expected to begin work on a hike in fuel taxes, last raised in 1997, and vehicle registration fees, sending them to Gov. Jennifer Granholm by summer"

Panoramic photo of Grand Rapids tea party makes counting the crowd easy - Talking Politics

Panoramic photo of Grand Rapids tea party makes counting the crowd easy - Talking Politics: "But his count from the photo at least doubles the 1,000 people estimated by reporters from several media outlets at the scene"

Why Your Taxes May Double


Why Your Taxes May Double
"To help put things in perspective, the Peterson Foundation calculated the federal government accumulated $56.4 trillion in total liabilities and unfunded promises for Medicare and Social Security as of September 30, 2008. ... If $56.4 trillion in financial commitments is too big a number to digest, think of it as $483,000 per American household, or $184,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. ...
........
Unless we begin to get our fiscal house in order, there's simply no other way to handle our ever-mounting debt burdens except by doubling taxes over time."

And the liberal media has this same information but has chosen to keep it from us.

Despicable!

new forum!

I see the mass deletions have gutted so many posts and posters on MLive.

There is another forum that doesn't delete like politicians spend.
http://groups.google.com/group/mpolitics

Give it a try!

L.A. TIMES: Barack Obama way wrong on U.S. guns in Mexico: On his recently-concluded first visit…

L.A. TIMES: Barack Obama way wrong on U.S. guns in Mexico: On his recently-concluded first visit…:
"Bogus numbers? And I thought this Administration was going to end the war on science."

Where Next After Tea Parties?

Where Next After Tea Parties?: "But the issue remains, how is yesterday turned into something that can grow and prepare to restore Constitutional government? The answer I believe is to seek out those things that can be done on a local level, to benefit local citizens and begin the hard work of actually doing them."

Muskegon Heights hires engineer for Sherman roadwork

Muskegon Heights hires engineer for Sherman roadwork
"The road work will not begin until next spring because the engineering company needs time to work on the project, said City Manager Natasha Henderson."

The Sherman roadwork won't START until 2010?!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Figures on government spending and debt - Yahoo! Finance

Figures on government spending and debt - Yahoo! Finance

Drug Control Breeds Gun Control

Drug Control Breeds Gun Control
"Two weeks ago (as Radley Balko noted), a Fox News story by William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott debunked the commonly heard factoid that 90 percent of the firearms used by Mexican drug traffickers come from American dealers.
In a front-page story about gun smuggling on Tuesday, The New York Times modified the claim, saying '90 percent of the 12,000 pistols and rifles the Mexican authorities recovered from drug dealers last year and asked to be traced came from [gun] dealers in the United States.'
But according to La Jeunesse and Lott, that's not quite right either:"

Mother who died giving birth in hospital toilet never saw twins

Mother who died giving birth in hospital toilet never saw twins
"A woman died in labour in a hospital lavatory after her induction was delayed because of a lack of specialist staff, an inquest was told yesterday.
Sarah Underhill, a policewoman aged 37, was in her 36th week of pregnancy when she was admitted to hospital suffering from pre-eclampsia."

"Free" national health care we say we want.
We're gonna get it!
In more sad ways than one......

Big Mark-the democrat handbook

Big Mark: "Could this be the mission statement of Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats?
Pick the target,
freeze it,
personalize it,
and polarize it.
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.
Go after people and not institutions;
people hurt faster than institutions.
(This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
From Saul Alinsky’s Rule for Radicals"


This is the handbook of the democrats.
They don't even bother denying it.
Big Mark has it right..... and scary it is!

Tracy Lorenz is BACK!


Muskegon Comical

Uncensored!

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, Tracy is free at last!

Humane Society of the United States Does Little to Help Homeless Dogs and Cats

Humane Society of the United States Does Little to Help Homeless Dogs and Cats: "According to new research from the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) contributed less than four percent of its $91.5 million budget to hands-on dog and cat shelters in 2007."

Judge issues rulings in water system dispute

Judge issues rulings in water system dispute
"A judge has ordered an independent audit but stopped short of appointing a receiver of incoming money for the water supply fund at the center of a dispute involving three local municipalities -- Muskegon Heights vs. Norton Shores and Fruitport Township."

Audit?
Something's going on here!

Heights violated drinking water standards

Heights violated drinking water standards
"Officials at the Muskegon Heights water filtration plant are trying to correct a problem that caused the facility to violate federal drinking water standards during the first three months of this year."

This is same crew that increased water rates by 100% last year!

New Right to Work Video: Real Faces of Card Check Intimidation

New Right to Work Video: Real Faces of Card Check Intimidation
"In this new special National Right to Work Committee video report, Dana Corporation employees in Albion, Indiana, share their stories of harassment and intimidation by UAW union operatives during a militant card check organizing drive. The workers discuss how union organizers specifically targeted and ramped up their coercive tactics against female employees.
As one worker explains in the video, “People in the UAW will call you their sister or their brother. I never treated any of my brothers and sisters that way.”"

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Les Miserables - Do You Hear the People Sing? (TAC)

We the tax paying people sing this song!

Fear and Greed Have Sales of Guns and Ammo Shooting Up


Fear and Greed Have Sales of Guns and Ammo Shooting Up
"The way Jay Chambers sees it, the semiautomatic weapons in his firearm collection might be the most promising investment in his financial portfolio."

I just bought 2 new guns.

Does Barry Hussein have a better investment idea?

FOXNEWS rules dudes!

FOX RATINGS SURGE

11 PM ETFOXNEWS 3,390,000

MSNBC 1,210,000

CNN 1,070,000

CNN HEADLINE 909,000

too freakin' funny!

(thanks Mrs. Schwambo)!

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD.

WELL.... YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE.

MY NAME IS CATHY , AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.

I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA,WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO.

COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?

UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.

THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.

AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL .

'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.

'WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?' I ASKED.

HE ANSWERED , 'IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?'

'YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED..

HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.

THEN, THAT UGLY,

OLD,

BALD,

WRINKLED,

FAT ASS,

GRAY-HAIRED,

DECREPIT

SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED,

'WHAT DID YOU TEACH ???

Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech

Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech
"Amidst all of the American flags and presidential seals, there was something missing when President Barack Obama gave an economic speech at Georgetown University this week -- Jesus.
The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com.
The gold "IHS" monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered over the next day"

And this is a "Catholic" university?

The Beauty That Matters Is Always On The Inside


The Beauty That Matters Is Always On The Inside
"This small, brave soul took her courage in her hands to pitch at her one hope of having her singing talent recognised, and was greeted with a communal sneer. Courage could so easily have failed her."

This real life story is easily as heartwarming as her spectacular performance on TV.

Grab a hankey.

and read the comments from Lucianne.com readers!

We do live in a land of love!
http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=464585

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Muskegon Tea Party turnout

Muskegon Tea Party turnout
"During the event, it was announced that the Muskegon Tea Party has plans for another gathering on May 23 of this year at noon. It is hoped by the organizers of the events, that the turnout will be even greater than today’s crowd."

JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Six Things You Should Know About the Homeland Security Report on ‘Rightwing Extremism’

JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Six Things You Should Know About the Homeland Security Report on ‘Rightwing Extremism’
"My guess is that the sentiments revealed in the report I read are the tip of an iceberg that the DHS would prefer to keep submerged until it needs to reveal it. This iceberg is the heavy-hand of government; a government with large and awful eyes, in whose heart there is no love for freedom, and on whose face there is no smile."

Muskegon Tea Party

Great turnout!
About 300 folks.
Fun, interesting, peaceful, great signs!
The organization is really ramping up to let our political "leaders" know "you have run out of our money"!


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$1.1 million deficit forces city cutbacks

$1.1 million deficit forces city cutbacks
"A $1.1 million budget deficit has grown since September, when the Muskegon City Commission approved the 2009 budget.
Lower income tax collections and reduced state revenue sharing are part of the problem city commissioners have solved with $615,000 worth of budget cuts and a $500,000 raid of the city's budget stabilization fund -- a 'rainy-day account.'
The $615,000 in budget cuts include $144,000 in the elimination of three vacant patrol officer positions and $39,000 in the reclassification of four fire department positions. The reductions and expenditure from the budget stabilization fund were reluctantly but unanimously approved by commissioners Monday."

Classic move to punish "taxpayers", cut fire and police protection first.

"There is simply no other pork in the budget......."

Yeah right....

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Muskegon Tea Party!

GordoM is not an organizer but a friend who hopes our citizens will show support for our outrage at the destructive, suicidal spending that will destroy our cities, counties and our state.

And the politically motivated pork spending that has just stolen trillions from our children.
Tomorrow!


Muskegon Tea Party!

We will meet at Hackley Park at Noon, Wednesday April 15 (TAX DAY).

Plan to arrive a bit early, Muskegon has acres of dead space but little parking.

After we all arrive we will march from Hackley Park to Heritage Landing.

There will be quite a few speakers and it seems well organized.
See you there!


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SO WHY ARE WE SEEING TEA PARTIES NOW, rather than back in the Bush Administration?
It’s important to note that we did see pushback on spending in the Bush years — e.g., the PorkBusters movement that Trent Lott became “damn tired” of — but this graphic may explain why people are more upset now. In terms of both trend and magnitude, things are really different now."

Federal agency warns of radicals on right

Federal agency warns of radicals on right
"the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines 'rightwing extremism in the United States' as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority."

In the first three months of the B Hussein Obama administration, we are close to becoming the police state that the liberals, progressives, socialists promised would happen under President Bush.... and never did.

This is scary!

read their own words:

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/video/extremismreport.pdf

Monday, April 13, 2009

Bye bye Bird

My Way - Sports News: "Mark 'the Bird' Fidrych, the fun-loving pitcher who baffled hitters for one All-Star season and entertained fans with his antics, was found dead Monday in an apparent accident at his farm. He was 54."

SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET?

SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET?
"The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF) gives the president the ability to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any “critical” information network “in the interest of national security.” The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president.
The bill does not only add to the power of the president. It also grants the Secretary of Commerce “access to all relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.” This means he or she can monitor or access any data on private or public networks without regard to privacy laws."