Further Adventures of Indigo Red

Obama Job Numbers Falsified

2009-10-28T22:01:00.000-07:00

Job stimulus results have been inflated by thousands while some jobs claimed as saved were not in jeopardy and actually received pay increases according to a data review by AP writers Brett J. Blackledge and Matt Apuzzo.

WASHINGTON – A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000.

A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of stimulus money. Instead, it gave pay raises to its existing employees.

Elsewhere in the U.S., some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four or even more times.

The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president's $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program's first progress report.

The discrepancy raises questions about the reliability of a key benchmark the administration uses to gauge the success of the stimulus. The errors could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is released. It is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls.

The White House seized on an initial report from a government oversight board weeks ago that claimed federal contracts awarded to businesses under the recovery plan already had helped pay for more than 30,000 jobs. The administration said the number was evidence that the stimulus program had exceeded early expectations toward reaching the president's promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

But the 30,000 figure is overstated by thousands — at the very least by nearly 5,000, or one in six, based on AP's limited review of some of the contracts — because some federal agencies and recipients of the money provided incorrect job counts. The review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs were credited to stimulus spending when, in fact, none were produced.

The White House says it is aware there are problems. Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program, said agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said.
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There's no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report, but the administration embraced the flawed figures the moment they were released.
Hope and change; corruption and fraud. Doesn't seem to be any difference. Might as well be a vaudeville act - it's the same old song and dance, dog and pony show.

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Health Care Insurance Explained - Short Form

2009-10-28T12:17:00.000-07:00

A cogent explanation of the current health care insurance propositions comes from The Barrister at Maggie's Farm -

...With government medicine, you are a cost unless you are still paying plenty of taxes - which is around only 10% of the population, or less. If you are sick or disabled, you become even more of a burden to "the common good."

With private insurance, they want you alive to pay your premium...
I'm reminded of a long forgotten comedian in the 1970's explaining insurance -

The insurance company says you will not get hurt or sick, you think you will get hurt or sick, and you both hope they are right.

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YAHOO E-mail

2009-10-24T13:21:00.000-07:00

For the most part, I like my YAHOO service. That is to say, I needn't think too much about it. I don't really know how it all works and don't really care; when I turn on the computer, it's just there like my car just starts when I turn the key.

But, somebody always has to tinker with something that is working fine and that throws a cog in the wheel of the total computer web experience. To whit, email worked well and stuff went where I wanted it to go. A month ago, YAHOO did some updating and now mail goes wherever it wants no matter what my instructions. Here is what I wrote to YAHOO service:

Since the E-Mail updates a month ago, items NOT SPAM are labeled as spam and items that ARE SPAM are allowed into the inbox.

Moments ago, I received a 1979 family with my Grandmother and my father, both deceased. The Spam Filter sent it to spam. I must check the spam file before I do anything.

No matter how many times I ID items as spam they still arrive to the inbox. Those I clearly mark SPAM over and over again, still end up in the inbox.

Also, mailings from Conservative or Republican political groups end up in Spam, but Liberal or Democrat crap always goes to inbox. Just a little YAHOO political bias?
I attempted to send the missive, but a notice told me my concern was needing the assistance of a service representative, maybe Dave in New Delhi. It got too involved after that, so I decided to post it here because YAHOO and other companies monitor blogs for reference to their company and often respond quicker than Dave in New Delhi.

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It's Come to This

2009-10-22T19:11:00.000-07:00

Shameful. Just nine months into the Obama regime and it's come to this. An Orange County Register story headline announced today, "Free pet food for jobless and seniors".

Shouldn't we exhaust the supplies of people food for the unemployed and elderly before feeding then pet food? Used to be that pet food was the very last resort of the jobless and elderly. Now we give it away free right at the start.

In a related story at Gateway Pundit, Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale are advising we eat our precious Fido, Fluffy, and other pets to save the planet.

Well, I suppose Obama can't be deprived of his Wagu Beef at $125 a serving.

Anyone remember "A Boy and His Dog" from 1975 starring Don Johnson?

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Obama Camp Spoon Fed MSM

2009-10-18T22:35:00.000-07:00

Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director and admirer of communist murderer Mao Tse-tung admitted the Obama campaign "controlled" the media by "making" the MSM focus on the issues of particular interest to Obama thus steering the press away from covering the deceptive and controlling tactics, as if that were ever a possibility. Dunn spoke on videotape at a Dominican Republic conference January 12, 2009 during which she made these seemingly innocuous statements:

Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control."
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"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe [chief Obama campaign manager] videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters."
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"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it."
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"Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying."

You Tube

All of you who knew it to be true during the campaign that the MSM was suckling at the teat of Obama and his acolytes and were telling your liberal Democrat friends and family who weren't listening to you, raise your hands. Good for you; you're smarter than most voters.

If you're holding a cup of your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, Ovaltine - please put it down so you don't spew it onto the monitor. Good.

THEY'RE STILL DOING IT!! NOTHING'S CHANGED!

I know you aren't surprised, I wasn't. Now, however, we have the White House Communications Director verifying what we already knew but team Obama and the MSM were denying. And it's on videotape.

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Natural Born or C-Section

2009-10-09T19:52:00.000-07:00

A random observation by Thomas Sowell in today's Investor's Business Daily:

Upon learning that the Constitution requires a president to be a natural-born citizen, a college student said: "What makes a natural-born citizen any more qualified than one born by C-section?"

Can't decide if this student is really dumb or really smart as this is a question I have asked.

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3 by Me

2009-10-07T11:49:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time, I was fairly handy with a brush and a little paint.

Jugs on a Wall
Poros, Greece
Watercolor and wax

Old Man and Woman
Budapest, Hungary
Watercolor

A Walk in the Park
Intaglio

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Grayson Channels Saturday Night Live

2009-10-02T23:17:00.001-07:00

Rep. Alan Grayson, idiot Democrat, but I repeat myself, declared on the House floor this past week that the Republican health care plan consisted of (1) don't get sick and (2) if you do get sick, die quickly.

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That sounds so very familiar. It sounds like one of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches from Oct 7, 2000, Season 26, Episode 1, First Presidential Debate, Jim Lehrer: Chris Parnell, Al Gore, Democrat candidate: Darrell Hammond, George W. Bush, Republican candidate: Will Ferrell.

Jim Lehrer: Which beings us to our final question. Governor Bush, both you and the Vice-President have offered plans to provide prescription drugs for the elderly. What makes your plan superior?

Al Gore: Jim, I'd like to interrupt here and answer that question as if it were my turn to speak. Jim, let me tell about a friend of mine. [ holds up a picture of an elderly woman ] Her name is Etta Munsen. She's 94, she's a widow living on Social Security in Sparta, Tennessee. Etta was born with only one kidney. She also suffers from poilo, spinal menengitis, lung, liver, and pancreatic cancer, an enlarged heart, diabetes, and a rare form of styctic acne. Now, several recent strokes, along with an unfortunate shark attack, have left her paralyzed and missing her right leg under the knee. Just last week she woke from a coma to find that, due to a hospital mix-up, her left arm had been amputated, infected with syphillis, and then reattached.

Jim Lehrer: Mr. Vice-President, we are short of time..

Al Gore: As you can imagine, Jim.. Etta's prescription drug bills are staggering. They run to nearly $113 million a day! And she tells me that some weeks she has to choose between eating and treating her Lyme Disease. Now, under my plan, Etta's prescription drugs would be covered. Under my opponent's plan, her house would be burned to the ground. And that is wrong. That is just wrong!

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River of Tears

2009-10-01T18:43:00.000-07:00

Madeleine Peyroux

Bare Bones, 2009

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Buy Health Insurance Or Else

2009-09-25T21:27:00.000-07:00

That's the threat being made by Big Government - buy health insurance, or go to jail, or pay a $25,000 fine.

Senator John Ensign (R-NV) requested clarification from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold concerning penalties for non-purchase of health care at a cost of $1900. The handwritten confirmation from Barthold via Politico and Gateway Pundit:

Dear Senator Ensign,

Sec 7203 of the Code provides that if there is a willful failure to file, pay, maintain appropriate records and the like that the taxpayer may be charged with a misdemeanor with a penalty of up to $25,000 and not more than one year in jail.

Sincerely,
Thomas A. Barthold

I'm sorry, but the government I know cannot compel free citizens to buy cheese let alone health insurance. If the threat of a $25,000 penalty or one year in jail (federal prison) doesn't convince people of the nefarious nature on Lord Obama then just sing sing the praise songs and drink the kool-aid.

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Obama Praise Song Singalong

2009-09-24T15:26:00.000-07:00

During Black History Month (formerly February) 2009, B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ, chose to promote Barack Hussein Obama with not one, but two praise songs. Here is one on video and the lyrics follow.

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Follow the bouncing balls, if you got 'em:

Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama

Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"

Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!

Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country's economy number one again!

Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!

So continue ---- Mr. President we know you'll do the trick
So here's a hearty hip-hooray ----

Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!

The video was made by Charisse Carney-Nunes, The Jamestown Project senior vice president. The Jamestown Project, writes Michelle Malkin, is

“the award-winning author of the children’s books, I Am Barack Obama (2009),” and according to her biography, “a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was a schoolmate of President Obama.”

The Obama school song video that she taped shows her book featured on an easel next to the children hailing Dear Leader. She promotes her book as a tool that “allows children to see themselves through the inspirational story of President Obama growing up as an ordinary child asking, Who will change the world? Ultimately, he realizes that he will.”

Bookworm points out that "seeing a Dear Leader song is deeply, deeply disturbing. Democracies are not supposed to celebrate individuals in that way, since the worship of an individual is one of the first steps in the march to a statist system."

Wizbang's Lorie Byrd is creeped out by all this latest in Obama worship.

Worse than the fact that these kids are being told to praise "Barack Hussein Obama" or that all the time on this could have been spent learning math or science or reading or even a decent song, is this one line:

"He said red, yellow, black or white. All are equal in his sight."

Anyone who says those of us critical of this Obama worship are overreacting, read that one line that was taught to schoolchildren. I learned a remarkably similar song when I was a child, but it was in "Sunday" school in church, not in my elementary school -- "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world." [Link added.]

A response, a non-apology apology really, was released by the New Jersey school district today. Via BigHollywood :

Burlington Township School District
PO Box 428
700 Jacksonville Road
Burlington, NJ 08016
Contact: Liz Scott, Public Relations Coordinator
Day Phone: 609-699-4025
Email: escott@burltwpsch.org

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Response to Unauthorized Video of Class Activity
September 24, 2009
Today we became aware of a video that was placed on the internet which has been reported in the media. The video is of a class of students singing a song about President Obama. The activity took place during Black History Month in 2009, which is recognized each February to honor the contributions of African Americans to our country. Our curriculum studies, honors and recognizes those who serve our country. The recording and distribution of the class activity were unauthorized.

It's a strange, yet familiar, fascist world we are entering folks. As Bette Davis intoned in All About Eve, "Buckle your seatbelts, darlings, it’s going to be a bumpy night."A very long, dark and stormy night, too.

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Wash Hands All Ye Who Enter Here

2009-09-24T14:28:00.000-07:00

The US-Mexico border will have 384 fewer agents come October 1st. With nearly 1,300 miles of southern border still beyond effective control and easily breached, the Obama administration feels it's more important to reinforce the Canadian-American border. Nevermind the DoJ Accountability Office reported three terror linked people and 530 folks from special interest countries were intercepted at the Mexican border by Border Patrol agents.

While the rest of us will be less protected, the White House will gain protection. The White House has stepped up it's germ warfare arsenal with Purell hand sanitizer stations in Dear Leader's Executive Mansion. The most important station is just outside the Oval Office so Dear Leader does not succumb to the dread swine flu.

In place of the displaced Border Patrol agents, Purell sanitizing stations should be set up along the southern border so the illegals can enter with clean hands. But what's it matter when the Immigation Reform Act later this year will make all the illegals legal anyway?

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ACORN Born of Peanuts

2009-09-17T03:12:00.000-07:00

ACORN, the criminal and corrupt community organization to which Lord Obama hitched his rising star, has been intimately involved in the mortgage crisis that led to the Global Financial Meltdown this past year.

In a penetrating article in Real Clear Markets, Steven Malanga exposes the long history of strong arm tactics, threats, and extortion since the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act became law under President Jimmy Carter.

Acorn found its way into the mortgage business through the Community Reinvestment Act, the 1977 legislation that community groups have used as a cudgel to force lenders to lower their mortgage underwriting standards in order to make more loans in low-income communities. Often the groups, after making protests under CRA, were then rewarded by banks with contracts to act as mortgage counselors in low-income areas in return for dropping their protests against the banks. In one particularly lucrative deal, 14 major banks eager to put CRA protests behind them in 1993 signed an agreement to have Acorn administer a $55 million, 11-city lending program. It was precisely such agreements that helped turn Acorn from a network of small local groups into a national player. And Acorn hasn't been alone. A U.S. senate subcommittee once estimated that CRA-related deals between banks and community groups have pumped nearly $10 billion into the nonprofit sector.
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Congress passed CRA in 1977 as legislation designed to prompt banks to lend more in lower income areas which advocates claimed were being ignored. Gradually over time community groups learned they could use the law as leverage to negotiate new inner-city lending programs with banks based on lower underwriting standards, which the groups demanded when banks complained that one reason they weren't doing more lending in some neighborhoods was because few applicants in those areas qualified for loans under traditional criteria.

Acorn led the way in this movement. In 1986, for instance, it protested a potential acquisition by Louisiana Bancshares, a Southern institution, until the bank agreed to new, "flexible credit and underwriting standards" for minority borrowers which included counting public assistance and food stamps as income in mortgage applications.

Acorn also put pressure on the two quasi-government purchasers of mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to lower their standards, complaining that they were "strictly by-the-book interpreters" who stood in the way of new lending programs. Under pressure both organizations committed to backing billions of dollars in affordable housing loans under so-called "alternative qualifying" programs which approved loans to individuals who didn't qualify under traditional standards, including those who agreed to go to mortgage counseling classes run by community groups like Acorn.

The threat of CRA proved an effective tool in gathering non-bank lenders into this affordable lending maelstrom, too. In late 1993 President Clinton's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros, announced a plan to boost homeownership in the U.S. through a series of government initiatives, including having government subsidize mortgages that required no down payments. To produce more of these new, riskier loans Cisneros proposed expanding CRA to cover mortgage lenders and other financial institutions that were not chartered banks. In Congress Rep. Maxine Waters dubbed mortgage companies "egregious redliners" who needed to be corralled by CRA.

Under pressure from these threats, the trade group that represented mortgage bankers announced an agreement with HUD to sharply boost lending in low-income areas. These mortgage bankers, the so-called non-bank lenders, agreed to "voluntarily" help develop new mortgage products with laxer underwriting standards. The first member of the trade group to sign onto the new program was Countrywide Financial, which partnered with Fannie Mae to commit to $2.5 billion in lending in minority communities under new, lower standards.
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Over time, the mortgage industry not only developed new products based on these lower underwriting standards but eventually allowed many borrowers to qualify for such loans under the reasonable assumption that if they were "safe" for low-income borrowers they were certainly safe for middle and upper income borrowers, too.

Read the whole story, Acorn's a Creature of the CRA.

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ACORN Obama Ties Fraying

2009-09-16T19:59:00.000-07:00

ACORN, the community organizing group, suspended operations today in the aftermath of a series of devastating videos. The organization that was instrumental in the election of Barack Obama to the office of Presidency of the United States of America is in major legal trouble after a series of investigative videos by activist filmmaker James O'Keefe.

While acting as a community organizer after law school, Lord Obama did pro-bono legal work for ACORN including teaching ACORN classes. He denied both activities, then minimized his activities to just legal advice until this photo was revealed.

Last Friday, the Census Bureau cut all ties with ACORN because of charges of voter fraud during the campaign, operating in Maryland without a license, and finally the videotapes below.

The Senate voted to withdraw all federal funding to ACORN despite Lord Obama's support for the groups activities. The White House is scrambling like mad to put as much distance between Lord Obama and the criminal organization ACORN that put him in office.

ACORN Washington, D.C. Child Prostitution Investigation, Part 1

Wash, D.C. Part 2

Big Government/You Tube

ACORN New York City Child Prostitution Investigation, Part 1

Big Government/You Tube

NYC, Part 2

Big Government/You Tube

ACORN San Bernardino, California Child Prostitution Investigation, Part 1

ACORN San Bernardino, California Child Prostitution Investigation, Part 2

ACORN San Bernardino, California Child Prostitution Investigation, Part 3

Big Government/You Tube

Franklin Roosevelt had his Brain Trust, John Kennedy his Best and Brightest. Barack Obama sold them as his Bold and Beautiful, we now see them for what they are - Criminal and Corrupt.

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Democrats Ban Free Speech on House Floor

2009-09-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

If that were all one were to read one would be right to be angry with House Democrats. One would also be dead wrong. The Democrats in the House of Representatives did no such thing.

Yesterday, Drudge Report linked to a Glenn Thrush story in Politico called "House guidelines for Presidential put downs" in which Thrush wrote (link on "primer" in original),

"House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) has released a helpful, updated primer for members regarding their conduct on the floor and in committees."

That's almost all true. The problem is "updated." The story provides no reference to any updates or any changes made recently. The timing of the Politico story on the same day Rep. Joe Wilson was rebuked by the House has left many believing House Democrats are on the warpath to stifle the free speech of House Republicans and, by extension, render the 1st Amendment void.

The "primer" link goes to the Slaughter memo. Rep. Louise Slaughter is Chairwoman of the House of Representatives Committee on Rules. The "Decorum in the House and in Committees" is part of her duties including notifying and reminding all members of existing rules.

That's right - EXISTING rules. Quoting from the memo, "As stated in Cannon’s Precedents, on January 27, 1909, the House adopted a report in response to improper references in debate to the President."

1909?! Good lord, that's 100 years ago. And the rules were a response to some debate concerning the President at that time. In January 1909, the president was Theodore Roosevelt, the 60th Congress was in session, and both House and Senate were Republican majorities. It stands to reason then that the rules being horsewhipped today as Democrat conniving are the result of Republican efforts. (Ed. note: the person of Indigo Red is a registered Republican who hates dishonsety from any quarter.)

The Slaughter memo goes on, and this is where the errant public anger has it's genesis as well as the apparent fact, few readers of the Thrush piece actually read the linked memo text which clearly stated,

As stated in Cannon’s Precedents, on January 27, 1909, the House adopted a report in response to improper references in debate to the President. That report read in part as follows:

"It is... the duty of the House to require its Members in speech or debate to preserve that proper restraint which will permit the House to conduct its business in an orderly manner and without unnecessarily and unduly exciting animosity among its Members or antagonism from those other branches of the Government with which the House is correlated.”

As a guide for debate, it is permissible in debate to challenge the President on matters of policy. The difference is one between political criticism and personally offensive criticism. For example, a Member may assert in debate that an incumbent President is not worthy of re-election, but in doing so should not allude to personal misconduct. By extension, a Member may assert in debate that the House should conduct an inquiry, or that a President should not remain in office.

Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:

refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”[a comedy tonight!]
refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”
Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:

call the President a “liar.”
call the President a “hypocrite.”
describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”
This morning I contacted Rep. Slaughter's office to ask what the "updates" were and, indeed, if any changes had been made. I was informed the memo was simply a reiteration of existing 100 year old House Rules and Decorum. From time to time, members must be reminded of the rules.
I also contacted my Republican Congressman's office. Again, I was told the rules have not been updated or changed.

I am sure Glenn Thrush had no intention of leading anyone to believe House Democrats were out to limit free speech or stifle House Republicans. It was a surprise to me to verify the rules in question have stood for one hundred years and nine months nearly unchanged through several majority party changes apparently because of some inherent doctrine of mutually assured vengeance.

There were no rules changes. Both Republicans and Democrats can continue saying whatever they want within the bounds of common decency. This was a tempest in an already tempestuous Tea Party teapot.

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Americans Should Not Be Forced to Choose Between Health Insurance and Really Cool Stuff

2009-09-16T03:47:00.000-07:00

Lord Obama has said there are 47 million uninsured stories in the Naked City. These are some of those stories -

Reason.TV You Tube

Recently the number of uninsured stories in the Naked City has been downgraded to 30 million. Apparently, a bunch of naked folks found some clothes. More probable, they were the 17 million people here illegally, not Americans, therefore should not have been counted as "Americans" without health insurance in the first place and young people who, as we all know, are invincible.

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9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington

2009-09-15T21:50:00.000-07:00

Americans who marched in Washington, D.C. last Saturday have been called everything from teabaggers to Patriots. But, who were they really? Cranks who think Obama is Hitler, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or just honest, hard working, tax paying Americans fed up with political dog and pony shows, Reason.TV went to find out.

Reason.TV

Best sign from 9/12 -

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It Is About Lord Obama's Color

2009-09-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

Not skin color. Don't give a tinker's dam about his skin color. Lord Obama is Socialist red, Communist red, Lenin red, Marx red. Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, ACORN red. Obama is red through and through.

Bookworm writes,

"Things have gotten so bad when it comes to charges of racism concerning our post-racial president that we’re now told that even our lily-white American babies are racists.

Well, I have a confession to make. Here it is. All of the liberal pundits are correct. I do have a big problem, a really big problem, with Obama’s color. But my problem isn’t the color of Obama’s skin, which is completely irrelevant to me. Instead, it’s with the color of his politics. With every passing day, Obama is proving to be an old-fashioned Red – a true, bone-deep socialist.

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What is relevant is the fact that everything I read about what Obama says, what Obama does, and who Obama chooses for his friends shows me that his real color, the color that transcends his skin and defines who he is, is RED, RED, RED.

Since 1775, when Samuel Johnson uttered, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," it was assumed to be true and for 234 years it was. In the post-racial America of Lord Obama, racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. The Lord Obama's acolytes are wearing thing the race card of last resort.

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Obama Moves Into Wall Street, Declares Final Demand

2009-09-14T10:07:00.000-07:00

Obama celebrated the one year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers this morning. He spoke at New York City's Federal Hall on Wall Street concerning banking reform in the United States and enjoined the world banking system to get on board with regulatory reform.

The speech in short:

TODAY, AMERICA! TOMORROW, THE WORLD!

Memorable laugh lines:

I've always been a strong believer in the power of the free market.

I believe that jobs are best created not by government, but by businesses and entrepreneurs willing to take a risk on a good idea.

I believe that the role of government is not to disparage wealth, but to expand its reach...

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Obama vs Bush: Smackdown at the Pentagon

2009-09-12T19:09:00.000-07:00

Obama spoke to the Pentagon yesterday in words so similar to those spoken by Pres. George W. Bush in his farewell address that one might think Obama a plagiarist. One cannot, however, say Obama was being sincere, uplifting, inspiring, or speaking from his heart.

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With similar words and sentiments, can you tell which man is disingenuous and just sleep walking through a disagreeable task because someone handed him a speech to read. And read it he did, as a schoolboy whose been told to eat his carrots - 'Aww, geez! Do I have to?'

Bush, on the other hand, was a poor speaker. He knew, we knew it. And he was always sincere, meant and felt what he said. We knew exactly where Dubya stood on any issue. So did foreign adversaries who didn't waste their time confronting him. They waited for a wuss in the White House and now they've got one.

Now, had this been an apology from Obama for some imagined wrong America had done...

h/t: Greg Engler, Townhall.com, 9/11: Obama "The Brilliant Communicator" vs. Bush "The Idiot"

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Obama's Never Ending Speech

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Another historic Obama speech is scheduled for Monday, Sept 14. Before then, Obama takes snakeoil salesman dog and pony show to CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday night.

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters)- U.S. President Barack Obama will give a speech about the financial crisis on Monday, marking the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the White House said.

"He will discuss the aggressive steps the Administration has taken to bring the economy back from the brink (and) the commitment to winding down thse government's role in the financial sector," the White House said in a statement.

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Most Enduring Memory of 9/11

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... for me is the silence of this night eight years ago. I live beneath the landing pattern for John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. In 2001, all aircraft were grounded, except military. Normally, the last plane lands at around 11PM. Eight years ago, nothing. No planes, no traffic, no sounds, nothing.

Until 2:04 AM.

A small plane was in the air and passed over my home. At 2:06 AM, the sound barrier exploded in the sky moments after two military jets slashed the darkness pursuing the fool in the air. Just as quickly, nothing. No planes, no traffic, no sounds, nothing.

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9/11 Numbers

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9/11 by the Numbers

Death, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and other September 11 statistics.

The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.

•Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02): 2,819

•Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343

•Number of NYPD officers: 23

•Number of Port Authority police officers: 37

•Number of WTC companies that lost people: 60

•Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402

•Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614

•Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658

•Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom: 22

•Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115

•Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1

•Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39

•Bodies found "intact": 289

•Body parts found: 19,858

•Number of families who got no remains: 1,717

•Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center: 36,000

•Total units of donated blood actually used: 258

•Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks: 1,609

•Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051

•Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20

•FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274

•FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661

•Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300

•Number of funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001: 200

•Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98

•Tons of debris removed from site: 1,506,124

•Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99

•Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100

•Days the New York Stock Exchange was closed: 6

•Point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened: 684.81

•Days after 9/11 that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26

•Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714

•Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion

•Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million

•Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million

•Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion

•Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion

•Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion

•Amount of money recently granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion

•Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million

•Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25

•Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million

•Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9

•Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40

•Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50

•Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after 9/11: 150

•Number of mentions of 9/11 at the Oscars: 26

•Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 30,000

•Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,110

•Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million

•Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000

New York Magazine

Sept 11

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Sept 10

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