National debt soars to highest level since WWII

"The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation's economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office." [USA Today]

U.S. Has Paid $1.44 Million for Project That is Studying the 'Social Milieu' of Male Prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi

This is the kind of CRAP we citizens are so very tired of seeing our tax dollars wasted upon!

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We The People

Why isn’t the A-Whale in the Gulf yet?

A prime example of Government's bureaucratic ineptitude in handling the Gulf oil spill. ...... and people complained about Bush?

It's the Media, Stupid!

"After being interviewed as a guest on two radio programs back-to-back, I was angry and frustrated. I had to endure radio talk show hosts and callers who have never attended a tea party tell me how racist the rallies are. Not only will this false accusation of racism not go away, it appears to be growing stronger." [American Thinker]

Two Census Bureau managers fired for creating at least 10,000 bogus questionnaires to meet deadlines Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2

"Two Census Bureau managers from a Brooklyn field office were fired after their bosses found they faked household surveys to meet deadlines, the Daily News learned." {NY Daily News]

Obama Administration Holding Secret Meetings With Hamas Terror Group

"A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administratio" [Gateway Pundit"]

Why Do We Have Police Forces?

" The question is prompted by the riots going on in Toronto, in connection with the G-20 meeting. The same crowd of knaves and fools that always turns out for such events has descended on Toronto and has run riot through much of the city. The criminals have burned a number of vehicles (maybe some of them are from France), as shown in this photo:" [Power Line]

On Finance Bill, Lobbying Shifts to Regulations

"The bill, completed early Friday and expected to come up for a final vote this week, is basically a 2,000-page missive to federal agencies, instructing regulators to address subjects ranging from derivatives trading to document retention. But it is notably short on specifics, giving regulators significant power to determine its impact — and giving partisans on both sides a second chance to influence the outcome." [NYTimes]

Custard’s First Stand: Shop Manager Tells Biden ‘Lower Our Taxes’

"Let Them Eat Cake" Marie Antoinette, 1770

At a Custard Shop in Milwaukee, "[Biden] was appearing with Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold. The two were eating custard there, and when Biden approached the manager with some money and asked, “What do I owe you,” the manager just responded, “Lower our taxes and we’ll call it even.” Biden later jokingly called the manager a “smart-ass,” telling him, “Why don’t you say something nice?” " [Michelle Malkin]

The “Overton Window” and how to apply it

“The Limits Define the Center”

"The Overton window is a concept in political theory, named after the former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Joe Overton, who developed the model. It describes a “window” in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on an issue.

Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique relies on people promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous “outer fringe” ideas. That makes those old fringe ideas look less extreme, and thereby acceptable." [Chicago Boyz]

Iran Wimps Out

"Iran has cancelled sending an aid ship to the Gaza Strip which had been scheduled to set sail for the Palestinian territory on Sunday, state news agency IRNA reported.

.... the voyage was cancelled as Israel “had sent a letter to the United Nations saying that the presence of Iranian and Lebanese ships in the Gaza area will be considered a declaration of war on that regime and it will confront it,” [Pajama's Media]

Dodd on Financial Takeover: “No One Will Know Until It’s Actually In Place How It Works”

“No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”- Chris Dodd as reported in Gateway Pundit today

Bungling the Gulf Spill Response

"As an emergency services planner and responder during the Mount St. Helens eruption, I find the Federal oil spill response alarming when not amusing. The best assessment I can make is federal resources flailing about randomly with no apparent purpose, expending great amounts of energy to accomplish not very much.

One of the first Gulf oil spill actions was to dispatch several teams of lawyers to the gulf. What these attorneys would do to stop the leak or reduce damage has not been reported in the media. The next step was to dispatch SWAT teams to other platforms. Color me doubtful, I have never seen a disaster plan that expended resources on undamaged facilities or sent in teams of attorneys." [American Thinker]

Obama knew of Blagojevich plot

"A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich's plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate." [Chicago Sun-Times]

"Juden Raus!"

"Arab youths threw stones at a Jewish dance group during a street festival in Hannover, injuring one dancer and forcing the group to cancel its performance, German police and dance officials said Thursday." [Power Line]

Obama's Viet Nam ? ? ?

Here is a thought provoking article describing the in-fighting going on in the BHO administration.

In case you are too young to know, this is all VERY, VERY reminiscent of the issues arising with President Johnson back in the Viet Nam war.

Fla.'s Rick Scott Invested in Firm With Ties to Illegal Aliens

"Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott is invested heavily in a company that helps illegal aliens transfer money out of the country. ..... so says supporters of Bill McCollum, both Republican candidates for Florida's governorship.

Scott's campaign also hit back at McCollum after his Tuesday statement, “dredging up McCollum’s lengthy list of former lobbying clients, which includes the financial firm Citigroup, AmeriDream Charity Inc., and the Mortgage Bankers Association, all of which, the Scott camp alleges, ‘enabled mortgages for illegal immigrants,’”

[Newsmax]

Is OBAMA a Post Turtle ?

An old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Obama is just a Post Turtle."

What's a "Post Turtle?"

The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle. You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he sure as heck ain't goin' anywhere, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there in the first place."

How to Think About Oil Spills

"As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs. It is understandable that the Deep-water spill is generating such intense fury. The 24/7 “spillcam” is giving a whole new meaning to “live-streaming video,” and unlike tanker spills, which are bounded by the contents of the tanker, the open-ended nature of an offshore platform spill generates more dread.

In short, there is considerable risk that overreaction to the BP/Deepwater spill will have second-order environmental impacts that could be cumulatively worse than the spill itself, both for the Gulf and for other environmental arenas. Even if the costs of the spill exceed $15 billion (to be borne by BP) as now seems likely, the benefits of continued offshore oil production still exceed the costs by a wide margin. Economist Peter Passell estimates a net economic benefit of nearly a trillion dollars from continued offshore production. This will not be a popular position to hold so long as live streaming video of the oil spill continues and the media continue to cover the spill in a state of near hysteria. But it is at precisely such times that rational analysis needs to be heard. " [Weekly Standard]

There will be no Congressional Budget this year - Democrats

CANCELLED

WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT

THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

PLANNED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS’ OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING SPREE.

AN APOLOGY FOR THIS BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE FORTHCOMING AT THIS TIME.

Judge Lifts Offshore Moratorium

“A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill." [Paterico]

Feds bash reliability of birth documents

"Birth documents such as the "Certification of Live Birth" President Obama's campaign posted online to rebut questions about his constitutional eligibility prove very little other than that a birth happened, according to a federal report uncovered by WND.

The report predates by several years the controversy over Obama's birth. The document, titled "Birth Certificate Fraud," was done in 2000 by Inspector General June Gibbs Brown for the Department of Health and Human Services in response to questions about the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. " [WND]

Obama's DOL Secretary Hilda L. Solis: You Have the Right to Be Paid Fairly Whether Documented or Not

WHETHER DOCUMENTED OR NOT ? ? ? ? ?

Of course it’s a shakedown

"Joe Barton (R-TX) is right: the $20 billion escrow fund is a shakedown. Not because BP isn’t liable for the oil spill, and not because BP shouldn’t help the people losing their livelihoods on the Gulf Coast. But because Obama extorting the escrow fund from BP is an exercise of executive power outside the rule of law.

Following the rule of law would produce relief for the oil spill’s victims. It just wouldn’t put Obama’s appointee in sole charge of a $20 billion fund. That has a meaning beyond the “Chicago” implication of pure extortion, fund-skimming, and payola. It means Obama couldn’t use the money to cushion the near-term consequences of his own policies. He’d be constrained by that pesky rule of law, if he weren’t holding the discretionary purse strings for the damages payouts." [Hot Air]

Obama Administration Only Accepted Help From 5 Countries Out of 28 That Offered Assistance

"After 60 days the Obama State Department is still “considering” which countries to accept help from." [Gateway Pundit]

Here is a detailed list of offers from 28 countries, most of which are "under consideration"....... WHAT IN HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION WHICH SEEMS UNABLE TO MOVE !!!!

I BELIEVE THIS PREVARICATION IS SOLID EVIDENCE THAT THEY WANT THIS CRISIS TO CONTINUE IN ORDER TO GAIN SUFFICIENT POWER TO JAM ENERGY REGULATIONS DOWN OUR THROATS.

The Bad News About ObamaCare Keeps Piling Up

" [This] brings us to President Obama's many claims about his health-care reform. Take his oft-expressed statement that if you like the coverage you have, you can keep it. That sounds good—but perverse incentives in his new law will cause most Americans to lose their existing insurance." [Karl Rove]

Follows is a description of the many "bad news" items found in Obamacare.

An Oil Spill Is Not a License to Suspend the Rule of Law

"...none of these events or responsibilities gives the president the power to suspend the constitution, revoke the rule of law or demand payments from a company. In fact the $20 billion fund "demanded" of BP by the Obama administration does just that.

If you try to find the power in the constitution that allows Obama to do this, you will be even more disturbed. In this case the government can't even claim the commerce clause of the constitution as legal basis because the commerce clause, even misinterpreted as it is, only applies to the legislature, not the executive branch. Where exactly in the enumerated powers of the constitution does the president have the right to "demand" money from a corporation, deem them guilty of a crime and extract a settlement amount? " [American Thinker]

Gulf Spill Equivalent to Peeing in the Thames ?

Lets see if I've got this correct...........

The Gulf of Mexico holds 6.43 x 10^17 gal of water.

The oil spill is leaking 1.3 x 10^8 gal per day

That is a ratio of about 5 x 10^9 to 1, or 5,000,000,000 to one sea water to oil.

The Thames River at London flows about 1.25 x 10^9 gal per day

If I pee'd in the Thames every day, I would add about 0.5 gal per day

That is a ratio of about 2.5 x 10^9 to 1, or 2,500,000,000 to one river water to pee.

So if two of us pee'd in the Thames, we'd be polluting it the equivalent of the "disastrous" BP oil spill.

Let me know if my calculations are badly off .........

Guess who holds patent for carbon trading plan?

"Former Clinton and Obama budget adviser Franklin Raines owns a key carbon-emissions patent he developed as CEO of the government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae, positioning him and his partners to make millions of dollars if it is used in any carbon-capping scheme implemented by the Obama administration.

Raines and his associates led Fannie Mae and Congress to believe Fannie Mae owned the patent, despite public records to the contrary, a WND investigation has found.

Raines and his partners carried out their plan by quietly filing for and receiving a second nearly identical carbon-emissions patent that superseded the first patent, according to government records. The second patent was never assigned to Fannie Mae or any other party." [WND]

So What's a Patriot to Do? Confront a Liberal Today

"We all know at least one liberal. And we all know, too, that while there are indeed a group of diehard revolutionaries running the show on the left, most -- yes, most -- liberals are minding their own business, going to work, raising kids, helping out at church or synagogue, leading the PTA and the myriad other things that we Americans do. Many liberals may seem brainwashed to us but most have just stopped thinking much beyond the platitudes they heard in school or from the liberal MSM, or vote Democrat because their parents did or haven't yet hit their own heads into the brick wall of tyranny that our federal government has become." [Kyle-Anne Shiver]

OBAMA LIED, BIRDS DIED .. .. .... Part II

"Obama said on TV the other night ..... 'We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves.' ..... 'that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean - because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.' ...... "

Absolutely, UNTRUE or as Winston Churchill famously said of a fellow politician "he suffers from a terminological inexactitude" !

"This howler is a favorite canard of Democratic politicians. As is so often the case, they are relying on the public's ignorance. Most people don't realize that in the U.S., oil isn't counted as part of our "reserves" unless it is legally available for drilling. Thus, ANWR, to take one of many examples, isn't counted toward the total "reserves." The U.S. government could cause our reserves to skyrocket overnight by opening new areas, on land and in shallow water, to drilling. But the U.S. is the only country in the world that has deliberately chosen not to develop its own energy resources. No one else is that dumb." [Power Line]

OBAMA LIED, BIRDS DIED !!!

Obama's blatant lie - that we " have less than 2% of the world's oil reserve" - while pushing his politics rather than solutions to the spill problem, obfuscates the fact that our ecology is being damaged..... BIRDS ARE DYING, Mr. PRESIDENT .... while you push politics!!

"According to a June 2008 article in Kiplinger Magazine, the United States has enough oil reserves to power the nation for upwards of three centuries. That's three-hundred years, Mr. President. We are not running out of oil reserves, it's just that those oil reserves have been declared off limits due to decades of environmental lobbying of our politicians, especially those on the Left. This lobbying has driven the likes of BP and others out deep into the Gulf of Mexico to extract the nation's needed oil." [Chad Stafko]

The net result of which is oil companies are conducting drilling ventures which are riskier to the environment.

A Damning Indictment?

"This incident didn't occur because BP didn't care about the environment or needed a government agency to tell it that an exploding oil rig would be a very bad thing. The individuals who work for MMS [Minerals Management Service ..... the Federal oversight agency], even if their motivations are entirely pure, have zero skin in the game compared to BP. The Gulf oil spill is like the crash of a commercial airliner--the worst possible disaster for the company in question.

So I don't doubt that the Obama administration's juvenile "green energy" fetish diverted the attention of MMS away from offshore oil exploration, but I do doubt whether it makes sense, in the first place, to think that a government agency either knows or care more about preventing spills than BP." [Power Line]

Tea Party Cynics at the Polls

"The left has greatly underestimated the determination of the tea party to reclaim the country. The tea party protests, to quote the president, are "illegitimate" because they stand in the way of necessary change. This great revolution, however, is nothing more than a contemptible program of income confiscation and redistribution, and despite the administration's rhetoric to the contrary, the middle class is the target of this redistribution scheme.

This is especially true of those who are approaching or in retirement. Having accumulated assets from a lifetime of work and savings, seniors are generally better off than the young and the welfare underclass who have never worked. Obama's plan, in a nutshell, is to confiscate wealth from the middle class and from affluent seniors and, in return for votes, to hand it over to those who have never worked. It is called "patronage," and it is the oldest, rawest, and most regressive form of politics ever practiced." [Jeffrey Folks]

DISGUSTING Behavior

"When liberals can’t handle GOP women, they infantilize, sexualize, demonize, and dehumanize them. I diagnosed the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse a few years ago." [Michelle Malkin]

WH Takes Cues from Liberal Think Tank on Spill

"If you want to see where President Barack Obama’s response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heading, try following the urgings of the Center for American Progress.

The liberal think tank with close White House ties appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president’s in-house advisers." [WSJ]

58% Favor Repeal of the Health Care Bill

"For the second week in a row, 58% of Likely U.S. Voters favor repeal of the national health care plan adopted into law by Congress in late March." [Rasmussen]

The left handed pledge !!!!!

Has this photo been doctored? or are they REALLY this screwed up?

Spill reveals Obama's lack of executive experience

In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Croft. "When you sit down and you look at [your] resume," Croft said to Obama, "there's no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I'm wrong, the only thing that you've actually run was the Harvard Law Review." [Washington Examiner]