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October 22, 2009
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The $450.00 purse - Your taxpayer 'stimulus' dollars at work.
Laird Jenkins, American Thinker.com
One hundred-and-twenty-five "At Risk" seventeen to twenty-four year old, paid $8.15 an hour to attend high school with money from the Stimulus package. A report from the trenches.
"Four-hundred and fifty dollars!" Shaqueenda purred as she paraded the pretentious brown leather purse past her friends. The summer stimulus students, earning $8.00 an hour to attend school, had gathered in the atrium showing off their purchases.
"My whole wardrobe isn't worth that!" I blurted out. She iced my comment with a bone chilling glare. I backed away and watched as Vonisha and Soltaire matched her gasconade with the hundreds they disbursed on acrylic fingernails, coral reef hair sets, and skin tight ensembles.
Theirs weren't the only spending shocks, when the Obama stimulus checks arrived. Students, who had attended every day of the first two weeks and had filled out their daily timesheets, and placed correct addresses on their W-2 forms, received a check for $640.00. Cash in hand, one-hundred and twenty-five low income, low achieving, adult high school students went on a government furnished spending spree.
Two Polynesian girls rewarded themselves with tribal tattoos. On other anatomies, Obama money was magically transformed into interlocking hearts, mystical unicorns, ferocious tigers, hollow skulls, tongue licking dragons, and momentarily cherished names. Ronisha, a mother of two children, spent her money on a baroque neck tattoo displaying her babies' names. Armando took all of his money and applied it towards his $800.00 speeding ticket, received for meritorious conduct while flying across an overpass at a hundred miles an hour. Jason put a down payment on a car, unperturbed that he had no insurance, no high school diploma, was not in line to receive one, and the car payments extended thirty-four months past his final summer stimulus check. READ IT ALL HERE.
Supermajority fight club - Public disapproval stirs intra-party tug of war
Monica Crowley, Washington Times.com
It wasn't supposed to be this hard for the Democrats. In January, they swept into the White House and took supermajorities in both houses of Congress. Intoxicated by their newfound power and leverage, they believed they had entered liberal nirvana, where their sheer numbers and political momentum would enable them to steamroll the opposition and pass whatever legislation they wanted.
Little did they know that the opposition they had to worry about wouldn't come from Republicans, but from their own ranks. Democrat-on-Democrat mayhem threatens to turn the party into a political fight club.
Democrats also are learning that having a Democratic president doesn't matter much if he doesn't instill party discipline, particularly on issues as important to them as health care, Afghanistan and "cap-and-trade.
On health care reform, more liberal Democratic members of Congress, from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia insist that a government-run public option be included in a final bill. House Blue Dog Democrats, concerned that any reform costs would contribute to an already out-of-control national deficit, are dragging their heels on Obamacare.
Many Democrats have unanswered questions about the bill that was passed by the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday on a 14 to 9 vote: How can you give away a $1 trillion new entitlement and argue with a straight face that it won't involve new costs? Read article.
Today’s Calamity: Understanding Climate Change
Heritage.org
If cap and trade is meant to solve our climate crisis, why does the bill include funding to understand climate change?
A few things are certain. The verdict on climate change is quite uncertain. A recent BBC News article notes that “for the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.” The long-term trend of increasing temperatures is something to study, as is climate change in its entirety. If climate change is going to cause dramatic sea level rises or a new ice age, whether it’s human-induced or not, a changing climate could be a major problem. But it’s not right now and there’s no near-term imminent danger that would justify an expensive response, which most Americans seem to understand according to recent polling.
Indeed, it seems that they are seeing right through the façade of global warming alarmism. The American public requires more than overplayed claims by Vice President Gore that global warming not only caused Hurricane Katrina but that Katrina was itself evidence that we were entering a new era of deadly hurricanes. Despite these assertions, the hurricane seasons in 2006-09 have, by most measures, been quite normal. As Heritage energy and environment expert Ben Lieberman often states, everything that you hear about global warming that sounds terrifying is not true, and what is true is not particularly terrifying. The public gets this, which is why global warming ranks low as a priority of issues for Congress to address. Read article.
Tort Lawyers Want To Increase Medical Costs: Aetna Reveals closed door Meeting
Bruce Kesler, Maggie's Farm.com
All the interest groups are trying to protect their piece of the national health care spending pie in the various legislative proposals. Tort lawyers, the largest contributors to Democrats, have succeeded beyond all others.
Tort reforms that reduce the costs of defensive medicine are off the table in all the legislation. Now, they want to increase their portion of the pie, by eliminating the right of insurers to recover from tort settlements the amount paid in claims. Claimants, thus, have increased motivation to sue, the possibility of suits and the awards increasing defensive medicine costs, and tort lawyers gain increased business.
Aetna is the closest “fellow traveler” among insurers to the advocates of ObamaCare, playing a delicate game of seeking like other insurers to increase premiums flowing to it from a mandate to have insurance while avoiding excess claims impact on increasing premiums, reducing private insurance due to guaranteed coverage without a mandate, while increasing the enrollment in a taxpayer subsidized government-plan. Read article.
Obama’s Fateful Decision
Paul Eidelberg, NWV.com
1979 was the year of the Iranian Revolution, perhaps the most significant revolution in history. It brought the Ayatollah Khomeini and a serious Islamic regime to power. Islam cannot be true to itself without pursuing global supremacy.
Iran is on the threshold of developing nuclear weapons. Iran could then control the Middle East’s enormous oil resources on which America’s and Europe’s economy depend. It is no longer scare-mongering to say the Iranian Revolution is the most serious threat ever faced by Western civilization. This is implied in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s maledictions “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
Obama is a product of the New Left that gained prominence in academia during the 1960s. As I pointed out during presidential primaries, the philosopher of the New Left was Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse propagated an amalgam of ideas drawn from Marx, Sartre, and Freud—who denied timeless and universal moral ideas and saw them as relative to diverse historical epochs, diverse cultures, or diverse individual preferences. To those of us who saw the influence of Marcuse on college students, it was obvious Obama was a relativist—but no one exposed him as such during the presidential campaign.
To those of us who had studied America’s Founding Fathers, it was obvious that Obama rejected the immutable and universal truths or “natural rights” doctrine of the American Declaration of Independence—a document that stands for individual liberty and limited government—but no one exposed him or put him to the test of his loyalty to America.
John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, described Obama as our first post-American president. I would put it more strongly: Obama our first anti-American president! This conforms to the teachings of his guru, the Rev. Jeremiah, Wright, who for many years has been preaching, “Don’t say God bless America; say God damn America.” All this bodes ill not only for America, but for Israel. Read article.
U.S. Troop Morale Down - But Why?
Dr. Richard Swier, Red County.com
Recently there have been a number of stories out of Afghanistan that have troubled me as both an American and retired Army officer. Any one of these stories would be enough to affect my morale and I believe they are doing just that with our troops.
Soldiers have a sixth sense about good leadership. Leadership is key to morale. When I was commanding units in Europe and the United States you made sure your troops and their families were taken care of. You made sure you fed them, equipped them for the mission and got them simple things like their mail. Commanders who failed in any one of these areas would negatively impact morale, especially on the battlefield. Hardships, danger and even death do not impact morale more than poor leadership and a soldier's sense that his chain-of-command is not taking care of him and his family back home. Let me talk about three leadership issues that, I believe, are hurting the morale of our troops.
Let me talk about three leadership issues that, I believe, are hurting the morale of our troops. Read article.
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