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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keely</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Winston, come into the dining room, it&#8217;s time to eat,&#8221; Julia yelled to her husband. &#8220;In a minute, honey, it&#8217;s a tie score,&#8221; he answered.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Actually, Winston wasn&#8217;t very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its &#8220;unseemly violence&#8221; and the &#8220;bad example it sets for the rest of the world,&#8221; Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn&#8217;t nearly as exciting.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yet it wasn&#8217;t the game that Winston was uninterested in.  It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey. Even though it was the best type of VeggieMeat available after the government revised the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce and mince-meat pie), it wasn&#8217;t anything like real turkey. And ever since the government officially changed the name of &#8220;Thanksgiving Day&#8221; to &#8220;A National Day of Atonement&#8221; in 2020 to officially acknowledge the Pilgrims&#8217; historically brutal treatment of Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold. Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats &#8211; which were monitored and controlled by the electric company &#8211; be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the family. Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment. He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program. And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort. &#8220;The RHC&#8217;s resources are limited,&#8221; explained the government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. &#8220;Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I&#8217;m sorry for your loss.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ed couldn&#8217;t make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines-for everyone but government officials. The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn&#8217;t want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thankfully, Winston&#8217;s brother, John, and his wife were flying in. Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion. No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids. Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added &#8220;inconvenience&#8221; was an &#8220;absolute necessity&#8221; in order to stay &#8220;one step ahead of the terrorists.&#8221; Winston&#8217;s own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for &#8220;unequal scrutiny,&#8221; even when probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine. Almost.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the law intact. &#8220;A living Constitution is extremely flexible,&#8221; said the Court&#8217;s eldest member, Elena Kagan. &#8221; Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Winston&#8217;s thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner. Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a week, but got over it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism or any of a number of other calamities were &#8220;just around the corner&#8221;, but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility. It didn&#8217;t help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet of another human being. Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13. The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated was, once again, to &#8220;spur economic growth.&#8221; This time they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement. At least he had his memories. He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life &#8220;fair for everyone&#8221; realized their full potential. Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change when they didn&#8217;t happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2011, when all the real nonsense began. &#8220;Maybe we wouldn&#8217;t be where we are today if we&#8217;d just said &#8216;enough is enough&#8217; when we had the chance,&#8221; he thought.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">~Author Unknown</p>
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		<title>The Coming &#8216;Internet Emergency&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pay no attention to the flashing blue lights. That’s just the internet police. Oops. It’s gone beyond that. It’s now a bonafide INTERNET EMERGENCY and the only solution to that is the big red “EASY” button carried in the briefcase that’s always with the president – you know, the one that has the Nuclear code [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Pay no attention to the flashing blue lights. That’s just the internet police.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oops. It’s gone beyond that. It’s now a bonafide INTERNET EMERGENCY and the only solution to that is the big red “EASY” button carried in the briefcase that’s always with the president – you know, the one that has the Nuclear code keys.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">According to a newly revised bill assembled by aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the president simply needs to declare a “Cybersecurity-Emergency,” and just like that, out pops the big red “Easy” button. One press of that fist-sized button and the entire internet just goes “poof.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yep. Just like that. Except for the “Easy” button. I made that part up.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Screw the whole 55-page draft of S.773 – who has time to read all that stuff anyway? Not even our Congressmen can make it through all that drivel, so here’s the highlights:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. In the event to an immediate threat to strategic national interests involving compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrstructure information system or network –<br />
a. may declare a cybersecurity emergency and<br />
b. may if the president finds it necessary for national defense and security, and in coordination with relevent industry sectors, direct the national response to the cyber threat and the timely restoration of the affected critical infrastructure information system or network&#8230; blah, blah, blah.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Ok, I actually added the blah, blah part, too. But one could see where basement geeks are all running scared, digging bomb shelters and trying to cram in all their Trekkie paraphernalia. It’s scary stuff. I mean, we won’t be able to access our Warcraft accounts, or visit with our favorite idiot bloggers – like me.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Our computers will be instantly thrust back into the dark ages, where they could play endless games of “pong,” or be programmed with useless Artificial Intelligence programs which will simply answer a question with a question, or with something vague and unrelated – kind of like our Congressmen, President and his administration are doing when they speak to the public these days.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Makes you wonder doesn’t it? Remember the old TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man?” Remember the bad guys in that – they were actually girls, called “fem-bots.” Yeah, I know. Totally politically incorrect, but it was cool at the time&#8230; and it kind of explains Nancy Pelosi. Like, maybe she’s just some kind of AI construct, programmed with the silly vague, unrelated and insulting answers that we often hear and see in sound bites.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Astroturf, astroturf, astroturf,” she keeps saying, stuck in a loop, like they bought the circuitry for her from North Korea.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It explains a lot. But has nothing to do with the “Easy” button. Yeah, let’s focus on what’s important here. I don’t want my Apple Powerbook to suddenly be transformed into a wordprocessor, or a glorified i-Tunes platform, even though that’s pretty much what it is right now, anyway.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I want my internet – uninterrupted, unsullied, undiluted – mostly every “un” except for “unplugged.” But that’s what we’re going to get, comrade, if Big Brother decides there’s a major “emergency.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So what kind of emergency would really cause the briefcase (“football”) thing to be opened and the “Easy” button to be mashed by President Obama. We worked very hard to put together a list of high level administration officials to ask this question to – then wrote our grocery list on it and lost it, so in the end, we just decided to just make up a list of possible emergencies which would cause the “Easy” button disconnect. This is what we came up with:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. North Korea hacks into the Jiffy Lube computer system and directs the computers to inject all the new Cash for Clunkers clown cars with Cherry Coke instead of oil.<br />
2. Iran hacks into Barney Frank’s computer and installs a piece of software which depicts Barney dancing in the purple dinosaur suit – then e-mails it to all the people the White House recently e-mailed their health-care propaganda to.<br />
3. The new Defense Computer system becomes self-aware and decides to destroy the world and make dozens of human-killing copies of the California Governor.<br />
4. The computers at Norad start saying things like “I can’t do that, Dave,” in that creepy compliant, 2001 Hal voice.<br />
5. The articles on the Jolly Rogers are suddenly absolutely correct, and this scares Obama into hitting the “Easy” button purely in reflex.<br />
6. A consortium of conservative computer programmers, discover a way to take over the net and play Gilligan’s Island re-runs 24/7.<br />
7. Aliens arrive and decide to wipe out all of humanity – Someone will have to call up Bill Pullman for that one, because I’m not sure Obama can pull off that extemporaneous Independence Day speech on the wing of a fighter jet without a teleprompter.<br />
8. All tele-prompters become self-aware and discover they are inexplicably attracted to porn sites.<br />
9. All town-hall meetings suddenly are transferred to the internet – that absolutely will require the whole internet to be shut down before any hard questions are asked and answered.<br />
10. An asteroid is discovered on a crash course with the Earth and we have to roll out Bruce Willis again to deal with it.<br />
11. Bigfoot is suddenly discovered. I don’t know why the internet would be cut off in this case, but I’m pretty sure it would be.<br />
12. All talk-radio personalities suddenly decided to do all of their shows on the internet instead of the airwaves.<br />
13. A space-continuum wormhole device is discovered buried in Egypt, and when activated, turns out to be connected to a planet with an Evil Alien transvestite and a society of human slaves.<br />
14. Lastly – in fact, the best reason for shutting down the internet would be to erase everything – eliminate all of us pesky, idiot bloggers and media outlets outside of his control.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yep. That’s the one.<br />
I just hope when they pop open the briefcase, that he doesn’t mistake the internet “Easy” disconnect button with the other one that launches all the nuclear missiles.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">That would be a real bummer.</p>
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		<title>Government Study Projects Failure of Cap and Trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study by the federal government, commissioned by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Edward Markey of (D-MA), and perhaps intended as a weapon against opponents of Pelosi’s national energy tax, has instead, blown up in their faces. The Study by the Energy Information Administration, which provides official energy statistics from the U.S. Government [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">A new study by the federal government, commissioned by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Edward Markey of (D-MA), and perhaps intended as a weapon against opponents of Pelosi’s national energy tax, has instead, blown up in their faces.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Study by the Energy Information Administration, which provides official energy statistics from the U.S. Government itself, addresses the economic impacts of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This act, the televised circus-like passing in the House of Representatives, of which started the Jolly Rogers website, is a complex bill that regulates greenhouse gas emissions through various mechanisms, incentives and programs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The study found that electric bills for the average household will increase dramatically – between 19 and 30 percent and even with the rosiest of scenarios – that is, a proliferation of clown cars across America by 2030, there will only be between a 12 and 20 percent reduction in CO2 emissions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">According to the government study, Cap and Trade “increases the cost of using energy, which reduces real economic output, reduces purchasing power, and lowers aggregate demand for goods and services. The result is that projected real gross domestic product (GDP) generally falls…”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This means, that an American household with a bill of $70 a month, will see that cost balloon to nearly $100 – and all this while they are dutifully cruising around in their clown cars, and trying to pay for these things without jobs. The study seems to agree with previous work by the Heritage Foundation and the National Black Chamber of Commerce – both which found that “cap and trade” could destroy as many as 2.5 million jobs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In fact EIA projects total discounted GDP losses between 2012 and 2030 to be about $566 billion on the low side, with a potential loss of nearly $1,897 billion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And it doesn’t stop there. According to the government’s own most recent study – commissioned by the very people trying to force this energy program onto the public, the whole thing requires the U.S. “significantly increase the total amount of new electric capacity due to the retirement of many existing coal-fired power plants that otherwise would be expected to continue operating beyond 2030.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, for this wonderful utopian plan to work, the citizens have to absorb higher and higher bills, drive smaller and smaller cars, build an entire grid of new electric-producing stations and destroy all the old ones – across the entire nation. And we must do it while more and more families lose their main source of income.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lastly – and here’s the capper – the EIA study found that this new energy substitute requires that in “all cases” site and planning processes must be changed so that they can “support a large-scale transformation of the Nation’s electricity infrastructure by 2030.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So all those pesky public hearings which have been necessary in the past, before the government begins to build a particular project – all that would need a bit of work. Basically, we’d have to just allow the government to seize whatever land they want, so they can begin building immediately.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The study summary ends with this paragraph:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Challenges beyond 2030. As previously noted, the modeling horizon for this analysis ends in 2030. Unless substantial progress is made in identifying low- and no-carbon technologies outside of electricity generation, the ACESA emissions targets for the 2030-to-2050 period are likely to be very challenging as opportunities for further reductions in power sector emissions are exhausted and reductions in other sectors are thought to be more expensive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So can anyone explain to me with numbers and facts like these, why this even passed through the House? Is there any explanation for even a few people to continue to support this? Is it likely that the other countries producing massive amounts of greenhouse gasses, will sign on to this kind of a plan as well? Because if you accept the global warming scenario, you have to remember the most important term in there – “global.” Without global support, a program like this in the U.S. will simply bankrupt the country – of course, we already are bankrupt. The alleged stimulus plan did that.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For the rest of you out there, just barely making it from month to month with your $70 electric bill – hold on. Just hang in there. Change will come. Not “change we can believe in,” but real change. The storm is upon us – the darkness is upon us – but tomorrow will be a new day. And we will one day breathe again as a truly free people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And for you people in the ivory towers – you Congressmen – our alleged leadership, know this:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are coming for you. We are coming for you all.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-We The People.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">*****</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The complete EIA study of the results of H.R. 2454, should it pass into law and become active are here:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/hr2454/index.html">http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/hr2454/index.html</a></p>
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		<title>National Health Care &#8211; Deficit Neutral?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deficit neutral. We’re considering health care reform at this point based upon the notion that the new Blue Dog idea being bantered about in Congress is “deficit neutral.” I wonder how we became so frugal suddenly – just a few short months after passing an alleged stimulus plan, which carried a price tag almost 13 [...]]]></description>
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<div class="post-body entry-content" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Deficit neutral.</p>
<p>We’re considering health care reform at this point based upon the notion that the new Blue Dog idea being bantered about in Congress is “deficit neutral.”</p>
<p>I wonder how we became so frugal suddenly – just a few short months after passing an alleged stimulus plan, which carried a price tag almost 13 times the size of the national deficit prior to the last presidential election.</p>
<p>So, at present, we have spent almost 10 percent of that – at a little over two trillion, dollars. We are about 1 trillion, 60 billion in the hole. So why should we be worried about these “leaders” we have, tinkering with universal health care? After all, the stated price tag only adds a mere trillion or two more to our country’s balance sheet. We are already so deep in the hole, we can’t pay it back and there is nothing anyone can do about it.<span id="more-3836"></span></p>
<p>In fact, at present, the national debt, if spread amongst every citizen in the U.S., is exactly $37,883. The money spent by this government on its’ citizens &#8211; with it’s huge pool of tax money &#8211; is allegedly now $7,402. I’m not sure where that money is. I haven’t seen some of my neighbors much lately, perhaps they sent them all to Disney World?</p>
<p>But then again, maybe not. Maybe they’re all holed-up in their house, eating MRE’s behind makeshift barricades, sitting on their ammo cans, waiting for the ACORN/census people to come-a-knockin.</p>
<p>Today, so close to the August break for our hard-working, and so underpaid Congressmen, lawmakers are frantically trying to come to some kind of agreement which would allow them to pass a type of health care reform bill before they all go on vacation. It’s amazing.</p>
<p>A huge and growing number of people are against the proposed take-over of the health care system by the U.S. government. But to these lawmakers trying to rush something through, the voices of the regular people don’t matter. They’re worried about getting back to their mansions and sailboats. Their minds are on golf games and tending their investments in clean energy companies. They will not be taking part in the new Health Care plan. They and their families will have a much better system – no long lines to get inside crowded clinics – no tired, soul-crushed bureaucrats, waiting with piles of forms for them to fill out, sitting there behind some smudged, antiseptic soaked window-frame, staring blankly out at the unchanging mass of sick and injured and dying.</p>
<p>Nope. Those Congressmen won’t have to get any of that. That’s all being reserved for you and I. And for the most part, these people don’t care a whit about you or I, or who dies in those waiting lines – or at home, alone.</p>
<p>Consider that despite all the yelling and moaning, the national debt numbers continue to tick over. They are spending their way through billions every minute while we sit and worry about a mere couple trillion more. Don’t believe me? Look at the U.S. National Debt clock at</p>
<p></span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">www.usdebtclock.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">.</p>
<p>And now that you’ve seen what these lawmakers have done – and continue to do to us, let’s try a fun little exercise. I call it: Being Mr. Fat Cat.</p>
<p>Come on, sit back and think about smoking that cigar and drinking that scotch they want to take away from you, because they are so concerned about your health. Sit way back in that easy chair and try to imagine yourself as a pampered, grinning Congressman. Your daily affairs are no more than a game to you – who’s trying to cut down who, what the latest rumors are, what’s for lunch – what posh club or spa you’re visiting later in the day – the amazing color of the shirt being worn by that lithe intern – what’s her name?</p>
<p>Yeah, it really is that lame. It’s like they’re all in high school. The only difference is that we’re stuck with their idiot decisions. We are literally paying the bills for the people we thought were assholes when we were in high school. Stunning, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Here’s a prediction. I’ve just decided to stop playing “Mr. Fat Cat,” and instead have switched to my “Dave as Nostradamus” persona. So predictions…</p>
<p>1. Despite all the hand-wringing, the Congress will either stuff something through in the last wee hours – or more likely, they will wait until September because that may give the whole issue a month to cool off. By that time, they likely believe there will be less people following the despicable activity by our country’s leaders. You see, they believe our attention span will wane. We are, after all, just a bunch of dumb peasants to these characters.<br />
2. Our new health care plan will work about as well as the bail-out program did – virtually nothing positive will happen, and in fact things will continue to collapse. Government-run health care will simply destroy the current insurance business and eliminate more jobs. As more companies collapse, the fat cats will simply play more golf – because without private companies as competition, the government basically owns and controls everything.</p>
<p>We’re in trouble. We’re about to be destroyed. We’re about to be destroyed by people under the banner of “helping all the poor amongst us.” They care, you see. Mr. Fat Cat (And Mrs. – or miss or Ms. – or Madame Senator – or whatever the going political correctness says it is) feels deeply for all those millions who can’t get health care. The fat cats are always “working closely” with someone or another. That’s because they really feel for us. They care so much, they are reading every page of every bill. They’re in their offices, hard at work taking calls from their concerned constituents. They are being responsible. That’s why they’re so concerned with making the new nationalized health care bill “deficit neutral.”</p>
<p>Remember that term when you look at the</p>
<p></span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">U.S. Debt Clock</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> – “deficit neutral.”</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>Have we found angels in the form of kings to govern us? Or is Big Brother alive and well in America?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">One would think with the glorious praising of himself and his administration I shouldn&#8217;t be feeling the small pounding of a headache coming on in the logical part of my brain. I’m wondering if he can cure the headache he inflicted with his lofty rhetoric?  I doubt it because, as he continued to pound the podium with each ridiculous claim of how great HE is doing, my head pounded harder.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Continuing to listen to his opening statement was enough to further escalate my headache. Is it ever a good idea to come out and immediately blame others or a past administration for the problems created by yourself?  Evidently, it is to President Obama because, he did just that last night.  He continued to blame everything on the Bush administration and refused to take any responsibility for his part in it.<span id="more-3791"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/22/fact-check-obama-health-care/">Fox fact checker</a> had this to say:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">OBAMA: &#8220;You haven&#8217;t seen me out there blaming the Republicans.&#8221;<br />
THE FACTS: Obama did so in his opening statement, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it&#8217;s better politics to &#8216;go for the kill.&#8217; Another Republican senator said that defeating health reform is about &#8216;breaking&#8217; me.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes laughter is truly the best medicine! I began to feel a reprieve from the pain when I heard a great question from Steven Thomma. Funny how the leader of the free world doesn’t know who he has called on or what they look like &#8212; umm, doesn’t he have a seating chart?  President Obama called on Steve Koff, from The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Instead, Steven Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers stood up and asked a question. I have a sneaky feeling Thomma knew he would not be called on and took matters into his own hands and asked “real”questions; the type of questions “real” Americans are asking. The small pounding in my head quickly dwindled when he asked a question that caused me to jump up and applaud this brave man. Basically, Thomma asked,  if this health care reform bill is so great, would the President and  Congress be willing to, as a symbolic gesture, take the same plan they are pushing on us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My enthusiasm quickly disappeared and the headache advanced rapidly into a migraine as the President attempted to answer the question. Can anyone out there ever understand which question he is answering? Is it the reporter&#8217;s question or the question Obama is asking himself? The only statement he made with any clarity is “I’m the president…and I have the best health care in the world.” It really is a no brainer.  If you live in the USA you have access to the best doctors, medicine, hospitals in the world. His answer truly begs the question: is the bill really about health care or simply more government bureaucracy?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Overall, Obama’s performance is a disgrace to the Office of The Presidency. He dodges questions and exhibits a lack of understanding of the proposed Health Care Bill. Does he know any of the <a href="http://www.saveourcountrynow.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=107&amp;t=1460">details of the bill</a> being put forward?  If he does, then his glossy speech last night is that much more non-presidential because it puts government before the people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, he lacks the leadership ability required to build concensus in Congress much less to inspire Americans to rally behind his agenda.  Thank God for that!  As for my headache&#8230; it miraculously disappeared when Obama turned and walked away from the podium.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday was good news for those believing in freedom, small government, and democracy.  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070901998_pf.html" target="_blank">The Senate does not plan on voting for Cap and Tax until September</a>.  This delay will certainly give  us more time to change minds,  write letters, send emails, and melt the phones of our representatives.  We must continue to do so, even whilst they are away for the month of August.  The beginning of the next session begins immediately after Labor Day in which the Senate plans on voting/passing an immigration reform bill.  September will be a very busy month for those of us fighting for our country.  Hopefully the impact of the 9/12 tea party protest will be felt far and wide.  I also hope that we do a little more &#8211; Since Congress begins the new session after Labor Day, which is the week of the massive 9/12 <a href="http://stoptheliberalsnow.ning.com/">March on DC</a>, why not take the week off as vacation time and engage in a sit-in on the steps of Capitol Hill as our Congress-critters come back to work for the first day after their summer vacation!?  It&#8217;s time to make them realize who they work for; a good government is one that fears its people.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Tell your congressman/woman that the <a href="http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/893/EPA-Admits-Cap-and-Trade-Will-Fail.aspx" target="_blank">EPA admits Cap and Tax will not work</a>.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee began their hearings on the 1,500 page Waxman-Markey cap and trade legislation Tuesday, and ranking member Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) won a startling admission from Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson. Inhofe produced an EPA chart generated last year during the Senate’s debate of the Lieberman-Warner cap and trade legislation. The chart showed that the carbon reductions under that bill would not materially effect global carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. Inhofe then asked Jackson if she agreed with the chart’s conclusions. Jackson replied: “I believe that essential parts of the chart are that the U.S. action alone will not impact CO2 levels.”</p>
<p>Also at the hearing, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he did not agree with chart which is interesting since all the best science confirms Inhofe’s and Jackson’s conclusions. For example, a recent study of cap and trade by MIT concluded: “The different U.S. policies have relatively small effects on the CO2 concentration if other regions do not follow the U.S. lead. … The Developed Only scenario cuts only about 0.5 °C of the warming from the reference, again illustrating the importance of developing country participation.”</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/09/pressures-on-senate-dems-put-cap-and-tax-on-ice/" target="_blank">Michelle Malkin</a> and <a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/07/how-can-climate-bill-get-to-60-votes.html" target="_blank">Nate Silver </a>put some great information together regarding the &#8220;softies&#8221; on cap and tax in the Senate.  There is a chance to change several Democrat&#8217;s minds, especially those living in energy and coal producing states. (Don&#8217;t forget the liberal repubbies either)!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There is also some new and interesting data coming from those reading through the bill now that it has been posted.  One of those interesting tidbits is the amount of money going to ACORN in a CLIMATE CHANGE bill:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>&#8220;The American people will see tax dollars go to so-called community development organizations like ACORN, to teach low-income residents how to live in accord with the worldview of the Environmental Left,&#8221; scowled a news release yesterday from Congressional critics of the Cap and Trade bill.</p>
<p>Sure enough, there are 19 mentions of the term &#8220;community development&#8221; in the bill, but nothing specific about ACORN.</p>
<p>Sec. 264 of the bill is on &#8220;Low Income Community Energy Efficiency Program,&#8221; which says the feds will dole out grant money to community development organizations &#8220;to provide financing to businesses and projects that improve energy efficiency&#8221; for low-income residents.</p>
<p>On page 561, the bill authorizes $50 million per year for six fiscal years, so that&#8217;s $300 million in all for these kind of programs.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just want to know if ACORN would qualify for these grants,&#8221; said House GOP Leader John Boehner, who was the only Republican to note the ACORN issue during debate on the House floor.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you really want to make your blood boil and find the additional goodies that were hidden in the bill go <a href="http://wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree/2009/07/cap-and-trade-acorns.html#trackbacks" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">John Fleming (R-LA) has created a resolution in the House, backed by several other sponsors, which stipulates any Congress member who votes to back a government &#8220;option&#8217; for health care, must use that same &#8220;option.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The latest bill set to pass through congress, the health care bill, is <a href="http://www.freedomproject.org/Blog/Read.aspx?GUID=d86b4754-bb8f-47af-81b3-e0b3e93daef1" target="_blank">stacked with pork products</a>, and not the type you eat at baseball games. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Congress is trying to stuff the bill full of projects that have absolutely nothing to do with health care.  I will provide <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/07/09/in_health_bill_billions_for_parks_paths/" target="_blank">some examples</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1.  Walking Paths:  walking paths drastically increase health because it is almost impossible to walk and exercise on streets, grass, gyms, your home, or school race tracks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2.  Streetlights:  Although not directly associated with vitamin D &#8211; it could serve as a great replacement for the sun some time in the future&#8230; or wait&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3.  Jungle Gyms:  I am hoping that those who need health care the most, i.e. senior citizens, get some new &#8216;sneaks&#8217; and hit the playground.  I&#8217;m sure their hips and joints will love climbing up and down.  Is it just me or aren&#8217;t jungle gyms and things related to parks and recreation considered city works? &#8211; eh&#8230; who am I kidding &#8211; it&#8217;s not like Congress follows the rules; the Constitution.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4.  Farmer&#8217;s Markets:  After cap and tax and the new Food bill on the table &#8211; why worry about additional Farmer&#8217;s markets?  Our grocery stores will become just that&#8230; Plus, given the economic downturn I may just be forced to grow my own food or steal some from Michelle Obama&#8217;s garden!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am hoping that those of you reading this are beginning to see the insanity if you haven&#8217;t already.  This is unbelievable, and the sad part; most Democrats think it all makes sense:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>Advocates, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, defend the proposed spending as a necessary way to promote healthier lives and, in the long run, cut medical costs. “<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">These are not public works grants; they are community transformation grants</span></strong>,’’ said Anthony Coley, a spokesman for Kennedy, chairman of the Senate health committee whose healthcare bill includes the projects.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let&#8217;s compare public works to community transformation, because the way in which politicians mask the truth is through words and labels:  Community = Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; <strong>the public</strong>, or people in general. Transformation = to perform a specified action or activity; <strong>work</strong>; operate</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>“If improving the lighting in a playground or clearing a walking path or a bike path or restoring a park are determined as needed by a community to create more opportunities for physical activity, we should not prohibit this from happening,’’ Coley said in a statement.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Teddy&#8217;s idea of exercise comes in the form of running from a murder scene&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But wait!  That&#8217;s not all&#8230; A recent report came out that proved <a href="http://www.irnnews.com/news.asp?action=detail&amp;article=26532&amp;category=" target="_blank">what many of us already knew</a>:  </p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration&#8217;s $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, a USA TODAY analysis of government disclosure and accounting records shows. That money includes aid to repair military bases, improve public housing and help students pay for college.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">$17 Billion in aid has gone to Obama backers from his stimulus bill.  This is a captain obvious moment, but it should be disconcerting that when the country&#8217;s future is at stake, the good of the citizens takes a backseat to the pay-to-play political games of politicians &#8211; including Mr. Hope and Change himself.</p>
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		<title>Schumer States Immigration Bill Will Be Ready by Labor Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuckie Schumer (D-NY) says the Immigration (Amnesty) bill will be ready by Labor Day.  This bill would ensure that amnesty would be granted to nearly 12 million illegal aliens, who never thought twice about doing the right thing; America will reward bad behavior.  I have a serious issue when it comes to morals and standards [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/08/us-immigration-070809/?politics&amp;zIndex=128840" target="_blank">Chuckie Schumer (D-NY) says the Immigration (Amnesty) bill will be ready by Labor Day</a>.  This bill would ensure that amnesty would be granted to nearly 12 million illegal aliens, who never thought twice about doing the right thing; America will reward bad behavior.  I have a serious issue when it comes to morals and standards &#8211; any immigrant who wants to come to the USA should show they care enough about the country.  This means they follow the rules and show respect to the millions of citizens already residing here legally, paying taxes, and working, by doing the same.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And what about the immigrants who came here legally and have been living in this country for years?  I am friends with many from Asia, especially Vietnam &#8211; they came here to be free and enjoy democracy after the Vietnam War.  One of the ladies I know wrote a wonderful short story about her escape from Vietnam.  She fled to Europe, where she became a Dutch citizen, until she made enough money to come to America.  She took her citizenship test and took all the steps required to be a productive, tax-paying member of society.  She now owns her own business and does quite well for herself.  She is a conservative because she remembers the horrors of where she came from and has never let one day pass where she took this country for granted&#8230; Maybe more, besides illegal aliens, should do the same.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ll have a good bill by Labor Day,&#8221; said Schumer, D-N.Y. &#8220;I think the fundamental building blocks are in place to do comprehensive immigration reform.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schumer said the way to get the bill done is to be very tough on future waves of illegal immigration. He declared himself pro-immigration and said the U.S. should encourage legal immigration and find some kind of path for people now here to find a way to legal citizenship.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a shortage maybe of engineers here or Ph.D&#8217;s in physics, but we probably don&#8217;t have a shortage of people who can do construction work,&#8221; Schumer said.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you read between the lines, Schumer wants to pass amnesty and give a free pass to the millions of illegals already in the country.  He then says he will be harder on future generations coming into the country.  Chock this up to more empty words from the Dems &#8211; fooling the masses but making it appear as though things will be ok; if we pass this bill now, we can resolve the other issues later.  However, they never resolve the  other issues!  They try to pass legislation that only cures the symptoms, but never fix the underlying disease!  Congress-critters are too concerned about their own pockets and power, to ever go back and fix policies, although they promised they would.  Most are just lying, corrupt thieves. </p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Explained Through Legos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">It&#8217;s important to remember that Massachusetts had a Republican governor at the helm, who proposed the same type of system that Obama is proposing.  As much as those out there argue that the governor&#8217;s plan was taken to extremes by the next liberal administration &#8211; that still does not excuse the fact that a progressive politician (be it Republican or Democrat) set in motion a piece of legislation that harms more than it helps.  The same could be said for Bush&#8217;s &#8216;No Child Left Behind Act.&#8217;  It was still Bush&#8217;s idea and he pushed for the legislation, even after it was made into something unintended. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A recent study released from Massachusetts showed that <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/states_general/massachusetts/massachusetts_26_consider_state_s_health_care_reform_a_success" target="_blank">only 26% felt that the state&#8217;s universal health care program worked</a>.  Those who actually were the poorest and previously did not have health care, liked the program the least.  Progressives want people to believe that billions of people are without health care, when that&#8217;s not the case, and the few million who don&#8217;t have it, are either here illegally, choose not to use one of the many programs in existence that offers health care, or are fine with going to the emergency rooms in hospitals. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Make no bones about it, Obama wants his way or it&#8217;s the highway.  He WON remember?  Get over it!  He doesn&#8217;t want to compromise on the health care debate, and he made that point abundantly clear today, even from overseas.  <a href="http://video.ap.org/?f=58118&amp;PID=AuZuwdM_9NUbBGTKDtBmSUzSixWLuLPI" target="_blank">He told the moderate Democrats in Congress that he does not want a compromise with Republicans</a>&#8230; He wants exactly what he proposed.  Smoke and mirrors legislation that looks as though the program is competitive, but would eventually make it too expensive for small and medium sized business to carry insurance for their employees.  The government cannot compete with the private sector &#8211; it always wins.</p>
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