SOME THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED WHILE WATCHING THE DEAD CELEBRITY PARADE

I realize that there is a lot of "real" news begging to be paid attention to, at the moment--like the death of Michael Jackson (at 50) and the death of Billy Mays (at 50) and the death of Farrah Fawcett (virtually on camera) and the death of Fred Travalena (bet that snuck past you, didn't it? Yep, at 66.)

But there are a few minor matters I'd like to draw your attention to while the popcorn's popping and before the commercial goes away (is that Orange Glo? I can't stand to look.) So, please, indulge me, and if you learn something ask yourself why I had to tell you.

First, you may know that there were people dying in Iran last week (or was that two weeks ago?) Remember how President Obama (Dear Leader Kim Jong O) came out for a press conference, and the guy from the Huffington Post asked the question the President had asked him to ask?

(ADD Moment: since when is a blog an official news outlet, by the way? No offense to...well, me!)

Yeah, you remember that. The question was from actual Iranians dying on the other side of the world behind the Twitter curtain, and it basically asked whether they should consider the President to have betrayed them.

President Cool frowned impressively and said that he and the United States were "bearing witness" to the suffering in Iran. And that, basically, that was all we intended to do. And then he moved on to health care and....I don't know, something else he wanted to talk about.

So, anyway, you remember how all those people were being shot after their election and all, but now it's all gone away?

Well, I just thought I'd let you know that it hasn't gone away. Iranians are still protesting and being persecuted, and the regime is keeping their chosen dictator-dude in power, and the whole world that was watching a week ago is watching to see if Michael Jackson's mother gets custody of (please don't make me say it) Prince Michael, Paris, and Prince Michael the Second (also known as Blanket.)

Just so you know. Find out more on Twitter. I'm not good with Twitter, but if you put in "Iran" and look around for a while something turns up. And some conservative media occasionally talk about it. So keep your ears open. Here is a bit that gives you some small flavor of what's going on. But don't stop there. Track it down yourself.

Here's another thing you should get in the habit of doing. You should start reading the bills that Your Representatives are voting on. Because they aren't doing it.

For example, the day Michael died, something strange happened. Your Congress (the one You voted into office, or failed to dislodge, or stayed home stupidly to spite) voted to essentially federalize the entire energy system of the United States. Although only the people who wrote the bill itself are likely to have read most of it. And it's very unlikely any of them read all of it. You should, before it goes to the Senate. Thanks to John Boehner for trying to derail it by reading parts of it out loud to show the American people what (his words, not mine) "a pile of sh*t" it really was.

Now the Senate gets it, and if we don't stop it, we get to pay huge new utility bills, have the government inspect our houses for energy efficiency before we sell them, and watch Wall Street power brokers and Al Gore get stinking rich. Yippee. Go to govtrack.org and type in 2454. It's HR 2454 at the moment, and soon it will have new numbers and new inserts, before the spineless Senate sends it on to be signed by Barack the Magnificent, flanked no doubt by his Climate Czar and Prince Albert in a Gore, while Wagnerian arias swell in the background. Go look it up and read it. I don't care if they didn't. I don't care how long it is. Tivo Law and Order or American Celebrity Island Slugfest or whatever it is you don't want to miss. Read the freakin' cap and trade bill. And then call your Senator and politely threaten to remove him from office next round if he dares to sign on to this unbelievable federal power grab.

This next one is small, but it's the kind of annoying thing that makes the President the Chicago thug he is.

Go take a look at this.

I know, you're complaining already, aren't you? A list of people who are on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships? How trivial is that?

Well, not all that much if you're someone who really, really wants to be a White House Fellow (a position that has been know to lead to much bigger and higher-paying things.) One might consider it a highly "cloutable" position, were one a Chicago politician, or someone who thinks like one.

Anyway, take a little look at the list. Sure, there's Tom Brokaw, who recently interviewed the President, No surprise there. NBC is so in the tank for the White House, you can hear the gravel scraping the microphones on the Evening News, and you can see the bubbles coming up out of Keith Olbermann's diving helmet over on MSNBC. But look again. There are two very interesting people on this list. Here's a hint: One of them seems barely qualified for any government job.

No, it's not the commie from NPR, and I'm not even trying to draw attention to the fact that most of these people are connected to either Chicago or Harvard or some other place where the Obama has worked his magic.

Okay, I'll tell you. First, take a look at Deborah Harmon.

Since 2002, Ms. Harmon has served on the Board of Trustees for Sidwell Friends School (SFS) in Washington, DC, and is Chairperson of Sidwell’s Investment Committee.

If that sounds familiar, it should. Sidwell is where the Obama children shelter themselves from the awful DC Public school system. Yep, that's right. He's appointed someone from the Board of his children's school to a prestigious government position. Now, some of us might consider that a conflict of interest all around. But I'm sure it's just because he couldn't find anyone appropriate that didn't also coincidentally control his children's academic future.

The second hidden gem here is the woman whose only qualifications are that she's taught school in more than one state, written one book that hasn't been published yet and has another that's still being written. Also, she worked on the President's campaign.

Oh, I almost forgot. And also Maya Soetoro-Ng is the President's SISTER.

But I'm sure there was no one else in America more deserving. And I suppose I should just shut up and be happy there wasn't a spot there for Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn (but the Pastor who took over after Reverend Wright is on his faith advisory committee--another horror show you should look up for yourself.)

Kind of funny, you see, because right now in Chicago there's a big scandal brewing around the University of Illinois because it apparently kept lists of politicians whose children and friends' children were "clouted" to get in, even if they didn't qualify as highly as other, non-connected applicants, or at all. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

And, finally, I want to draw your attention to a little abuse case going on in North Carolina that you aren't likely to hear much about. It seems that a gentleman named Frank Lombard who works at Duke University as Assistant Director of the Center for Health Policy (rather an important dude on campus) has been unfortunately arrested for....well, something a little embarrassing.

It seems that the homosexual white man, Lombard, adopted two African-American children who, he confided in an undercover cop on the Internet (oopsie!) he enjoyed molesting--and, what's more, he issued a friendly invite to his cyber-buddy to drop by and join in the fun! Yes, this slimy scumbag attempted to persuade what he thought was a fellow-traveling pervert to come over and molest his five-year old adopted child.

Nice guy. Generous, you know. Likes to share. Read the arrest warrant affidavit here:

He's on leave now. But where are the blaring headlines? Where are the tabloidal accusations? Where are Nancy Grace and the ladies of The View? Why isn't this case in the common news hopper, like the national attention that descended on North Carolina when the Duke LaCrosse team allegedly raped a stripper (which, of course, they did not.) That involved adults. People who weren't employed by the university. And the victim was at least old enough to be able to defend herself and call the police if she had really been assaulted.

This is child molesting. Of the most disgusting kind. But it's not gong to get any attention, because it doesn't fit the template. It's a gay adoptive father who literally appears to have adopted his children for the purpose of molesting them. That's something the gay rights crowd has spent decades and millions of dollars campaigning to claim would never, ever happen. Gays don't do that. They would never do that.

Guess what. One did. And if his life isn't made as hellish by the community he lives in as the lives of the Duke Lacrosse players were made by the entire US media, there is no justice in this country.

Just a few things you might have missed while watching Larry King watch celebrities weep over the death of their fellow celebrities. A few important things.

Watch the skies, metaphorically speaking. Pay attention. There is mischief afoot all around us--and it's not what you think.
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"Global Climate Change": No Opposing Views Allowed

We've been told over and over again that "global warming" -- whoops, I guess it's "global climate change" now -- is "settled science". Why it's SO settled that esteemed CBS News reporter Scott Pelley likened presenting a balanced piece on "global climate change" that presented the contrarian view to talking to Holocaust deniers when doing a piece on the slaughter of Jews during World War II. "Shut up and take your medicine" is the message to rational thinking people who question the utter madness of the theory from Al Gore who has made literally tens of millions of dollars peddling "global warming" until it became "global climate change". Back in his pot-smoking college days, he probably fretted over "global cooling" when he wasn't too stoned to care.

You'll remember that the "poster child" of Al Gore's "global climate change" scam has been that cute little polar bear on the ice floe, in danger of drowning because the ice was just melting right under his cute little paws -- a scam within a scam that was de-bunked by the photographer.

Enter Mitchell Taylor, a renowned polar bear expert for over 30 years. It seems Mr.Taylor was disinvited to a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group because his views on the polar bear population and "global climate change" in general don't match the pre-ordained purpose of the meeting: to produce a report that says that the polar bear population is threatened and shrinking due to "global climate change". To the contrary, Taylor says that man isn't causing global warming and the polar bear population is larger than it has been in 30 years.

You see "global warming", "global cooling", "global climate change" or whatever they decide to call their scam when the latest fad name wears thin is hardly settled science: Like every plank on the liberal agenda, it has nothing to do with facts and logic and every thing to do with leftist political dogma designed to control our lives in every way shape and form from the cars you drive to the light bulbs you use. People who don't agree -- and there are literally tens of thousands of scientists among them -- simply aren't allowed to participate in the debate.

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Mark Sanford Go Away

Apparently the pathetic fool Mark Sanford hasn't learned the old adage that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. And I'm apparently not the only one that thinks he needs stop telling us what a moron he is and slink off to Argentina or wherever it is pathetic fool politicians who have trouble keeping their zipper zipped go so that we can forget about them. It seems that most of South Carolina just wants to be rid of him as well.

Maybe he went too far with some of these little gems:

"This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story," Sanford said. "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day."

Get over yourself, Mark. Fooling around on your wife is fooling around on your wife and you're just another worthless politician who can't keep it in his pants. Do yourself a favor and do the Republican Party a favor: Shut up and go away as quickly as possible so we can get about the business of forgetting this whole sordid little "affair".

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Siding With the Marxists

Is it any surprise that the Obama Administration is siding with "democratically-elected" thugs like Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro and Daniel Ortega -- thugs The Messiah was yucking it up with on his trip to South America -- in the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya who was thrown out in a military coup for trying to change the Honduran Constitution? It seems Zelaya wanted to give himself at least one more term in office -- eerily similar to what his "democratically-elected" buddy Hugo Chavez did a couple years ago.

There's a good rule of thumb here: If the three despot stooges of South America support the guy AND the United Nations supports the guy AND the Obama Administration supports the guy, the guy is no good and deserved to be thrown out.

Is there anybody out there who would care to take a shot at explaining exactly WHAT the Obama foreign policy doctrine is? I guess if there is one phrase that characterizes it, that phrase would have to be either "we don't want to meddle" or "we'll have to wait and see" or perhaps a combination of both. If only The Messiah showed as much support for Benjamin Netanyahu and the state of Israel as he does for his little despot thug buddies in South America.

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And You Thought Obama Meant "No New Taxes"

We (us rational clear-thinking folks who weren't caught up in the "hope and change" mantra) told you that this was BS way back when it was uttered during the campaign:

I want to provide a tax cut for 95% of Americans. If you make less than a quarter of a million dollars a year, you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up. If you make $200,000 a year or less, your taxes will go down. Now, Sen. McCain talks about small businesses. Only a few percent of small businesses make more than $250,000 a year. The vast majority of small businesses would get a tax cut under my plan. And we provide a 50% tax credit so that they can buy health insurance for their workers, because there are an awful lot of small businesses that want to do right by their workers but they just can’t afford it.

With the new cigarette taxes, carbon taxes, taxes on health insurance premiums and the assertion that "allowing the Bush tax cuts to sunset isn't a tax increase" all of us should be clear that if The Messiah's lips are moving, he's lying when he’s talking about taxes (and everything else for that matter). As if all of these "I want to provide a tax cut" tax increases weren't enough, here comes the Value-Added Tax:

We all know the recent and bitter history of tax struggles in Washington, let alone Mr. Obama's pledge to exempt those earning less than $250,000 from higher income taxes. This suggests that, possibly next year, Congress will seriously consider a value-added tax (VAT). A bipartisan deficit reduction commission, structured like the one on Social Security headed by Alan Greenspan in 1982, may be necessary to create sufficient support for a VAT or other new taxes.

This from former Clinton treasury official Roger Altman at the bottom of a column where he lays out just how bleak the deficit picture really is -- again, something us rational folk were talking about back last fall when GW Bush took leave of his senses and started dumping money we didn't have into banks and insurance companies and auto companies and quasi-governmental home lending agencies and on and on. Which of course set the stage for The Messiah to engage in deficit spending that puts all of the deficit spending of all the other presidents COMBINED to shame. All in the name of "saving" an economy that just keeps spiraling downward despite the Obama Administration and their liberal media sycophant’s attempts to claim that recovery is right around the corner.

Stop and think hard for a minute about all the taxes you pay: Federal, state, FICA, Medicare all come out of your check before you even see it; onerous property taxes that go to fund huge, bloated schools that were supposed to be built with sales tax money - again a tax most of you never see because it's built into your house payment; gas tax, about 15% of the cost of a gallon of gas; sales taxes, anywhere from 5-7 cents to double-digits in some places; local payroll taxes, utility taxes, phone taxes, cable and satellite taxes, cell phone taxes. Now add to this a 15% value-added tax - read sales tax - on everything you buy. Now think about how you are going to make ends meet with what little money you have left over.

Consider this: BEFORE we accumulated this massive debt in the last year or so, it was believed that a flat tax of 18-21% would take care of all of the needs of the federal government with money to spare. Now they are talking about a 15% tax ON TOP of what you already pay. We are rushing quickly down the road to serfdom.

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Meet Senator Stuart Smalley

Minnesota finally has a senator -- a mean-spirited nasty little man; the male equivalent of Janeane Garofalo. Stuart Smalley aka Al Franken is the senator-elect in Minnesota, having defeated Republican Norm Coleman in what can only be described as the most crooked senate contest of the 2008 election season. (Now that the commie libs are absolutely drunk with power, expect many more of these crooked, nasty Senate -- and House -- races in the coming years.)

This guy is a failed liberal talk show host from a failed liberal radio network who raked in huge contract payments even as the network he headlined went broke and his ratings went in the proverbial crapper. He's an extreme lefty political hack -- the 60th vote the Statists need to break any filibuster, including one on the upcoming cap and tax bill and "universal" health care. He's not even a funny comedian, which is apparently why he had to launch ANOTHER failed career as a liberal talk show host. And his idea of rational debate is to call Rush Limbaugh a big fat idiot (kind of hard to justify now that the king of talk radio has lost 90 pounds). In short, there really isn't anything to recommend the junior senator from Minnesota. My condolences to the folks to my north; hence, the newest Iowa/Minnesota joke:

An Iowan and a Minnesotan were standing on a street corner trading political insults. "Oh, yeah, says the Minnesotan, well one of your senators is Tom Harkin." "Yes", says the Iowan, "but one of YOUR senators is Al Franken." Touché.

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The Dirty Eight

It's supposed to be the dirty dozen, but these eight are dirty enough to make a dozen. These are the Republican RINOs that lost the Waxman-Markey cap and tax vote for us:

Bono-Mack(CA) 202-225-5330
Castle (DE) 202-225-4165
Kirk (IL) 202-225-4835
Lance (NJ) 202-225-5361
Lobiondo (NJ) 202-225-6572
McHugh (NY) 202-225-7761
Reichart (WA) 202-225-7761
Chris Smith (NJ) 202-225-3765

Thanks to MarkLevinShow.com for assembling these numbers all in one place. We could have won this were it not for these defectors. Forty-four of the Democrats sided with common sense, eight Republicans sided with the enviro-Nazis. Even if these folks don't represent you, they actually DO "represent" you because, in the final analysis, they may have been responsible for sentencing all of us to a lifetime of higher taxes in the form of increased costs on everything from energy bills to grapefruit all in the name of paying off the "green" lobby. Call them and let them know how mad you are that they care more about the Obama/Pelosi agenda than they do about the 50-1 calls they got from REAL Americans opposing this bill.
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The Tyranny of the Majority

Watch this video of House Minority Leader John Boehner on the floor of the House exposing the folly and the outrageous provisions of the Democrat's Cap and Tax bill and the bill's sponsor Henry Waxman trying to shut him down. Boehner absolutely slays Waxman, but the important question here is why is Waxman trying to shut Boehner up? If Waxman has nothing to hide in the 300-page ammendment to the Waxman-Markey Cap and Tax bill that squeaked by in the House last Friday, why should he object to having Boehner shine the light of day on it by reading some of the provsions all of us will have to live by into the Congressional Record? The fact is, he does have something to hide -- lots of things to hide.

The first of these seems to be that the bill doesn't even exist. Yes, you heard it right. The bill apparently wasn't even completed at the time the commie pinko House leadership was ramrodding it through the House. But what does this matter when it's not actually about addressing "climate change" ? (Didn't this used to be "global warming" just a couple of years ago?) We all know it's about usurping as much power for the government and depriving you and I of as much liberty as possible.

Case in point, some of the provisions of that pesky little 300-page amendment introduced at 3 AM Friday when everyone was sound asleep:

* "Energy loans" for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the two quasi-governmental home fianace organizations that the Democrats raped and pillaged during the 90s under the guise of the notion that everyone has a "right" to a house.

* The creation of "green banking centers". Can anobody tell me just what the hell a "green" banking center is?

* A provision that, among other things, would require that the rest of the 49 states meet California's onerous building codes. In addition to taking the vast unconstitutional step of meddling in a area that is clearly the province of states and localities -- setting local building codes -- this provision would require that a bureaucrat analyze your home for the energy efficiency of it's insulation, roof, appliances etc. and require that you upgrade BEFORE you sell your house. Imagine the burden this places on homeowners at the exact time they DON"T need it -- when they are looking to get out from under a house they can't afford or trying to squeeze whatever extra they can out of their existing house for a downpayment on a new house.

There's plenty more that Waxman et. al. don't want you to know about Cap and Tax, but perhaps the worst of all is the supression at the Obama Environmental Protection Agency of an internal report admiting that global warming is a bunch of crap. Here's a little bit of an email EPA analyst Alan Carlin recieved from his supervisor about the decision to can his report:

The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision," he wrote, according to the e-mails released by CEI. "I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.

In other words the Obama Administration has decided, against all available evidence, that "climate change" is destroying the planet, presumably just like "global warming" was in 2006 and "global cooling" was in 1975, and we're not going to let your fact-based opinion get in the way of their policial agenda. So piss off Alan!

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Waxman-Markey Impact Has Already Started

The Waxman-Markey cap and tax bill has yet to make it to the U.S. Senate. But power companies are already looking at rate increases in anticipation of their increased costs -- particularly in states that rely primarily on coal for power generation:

PROVO — Power consumption in Provo is down as much as 13 percent, but changes in the city's power sources could spell higher user rates in the next few years.

The biggest threat of increasing utility rates is the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade-bill that the U.S. House passed Friday afternoon. It proposes to cap and tax the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere, Mayor Lewis K. Billings said.

About 85 percent of Utah's power comes from coal, Billings said. So for Utahns, the Waxman-Markey bill could boost power rates an estimated 10 percent to 40 percent, he said.

Expect the same thing here in the good ole' Midwest where the majority of our power plants are coal-fired as well.

As you are watching the news -- I guess at this point it will have to be Fox News because that is the only REAL news left -- watch the simpering ninnies who voted for this try to defend it. You hear them stammer about "green jobs" and "alternative energy sources" and finally when their argument completely falls apart they are left muttering "but we have to do something, we have to do something". I saw this exact thing this morning in a debate between a Democrat supporter of cap and tax and a Republican opponent of cap and tax.

Make no mistake, the overwhelming majority of the congressmen who supported this legislation are clueless morons slavishly toeing the party line. I count at least two members of the Iowa delegation in this column. These people are tools of Nancy Pelosi and care nothing for the good of their districts or their constituents. The others KNEW exactly what they were doing and re happy to do it. These are the folks who believe as Maurice Strong, a former advisor to ex-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan:

We may get to the point where the only way to save the world is for the industrialized nations to collapse

This quote, from Mark Levin's book Liberty and Tyranny, pretty much says it all. In wanting to cause the collapse of the industrialized nations,they are starting at the top -- with us. We can't allow this to happen.

If you want the clearest explanation of the agenda of the environmental Marxists, including the liberal's president, who are in charge of the reins of power right now, get Mark Levin's book and read chapter eight.
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Obama Flip Flops On Terrorist Detentions

It seems the liberal's president has finally admitted that George W. Bush was right about keeping terrorists imprisoned but do you think the mainstream media will admit this?

Boy what a shocker!!!! Some of these guys really ARE bad enough to keep indefinitely. And it seems that The Messiah is having more than a little bit of trouble getting persuading other countries that taking a few of the worst of the worst terrorist into their countries. And, what a surprise! Only the nuttiest of the nutty localities in this country want to have terrorists as neighbors. Since The Messiah doesn't want to put them up on the south lawn of the White House and bumblin' Joe Biden doesn't want to move them into One Observatory Circle, The Messiah's Administration has a big problem -- make that 250 of them. The solution? Do exactly what you criticized the previous president for doing. You see campaigning for president and actually BEING president are two different things. The only difference is that Bush received blistering criticism from the "unbiased" media for wanting to keep these guys locked up in the best place to keep them locked up -- Guantanamo Bay. Obama will receive no criticism whatsoever for his decision to keep them locked up by executive order. Have you heard ANYTHING about this it the liberal media? No media bias there!

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Cap and Tax Passes The House

We melted the switchboard at the U.S. House yesterday imploring OUR representatives to stop this huge, job-killing tax on American productivity. In the end, OUR representatives listened to the Speaker from San Francisco -- the most radical leftist Speaker in the history of the House -- and the most anti-capitalist president of the United States in history in voting against our interests for a bill that, that will cause the cost of everything to go sky high. Don't take my word for it; listen to The Messiah himself back in January of 2008 when he was campaigning for president:

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." he said. And he's right.

The Heritage Foundation breaks it down here.

We're not just talking about OUR costs in the here and now. We're talking about costs from 2012 to 2035 -- the exact time most of our kids will be starting their OWN families. These slimebags just saddled our kids with an extra $71,000+ in costs for just about everything. All for a scam trumped up by wacko environmentalists with the goal of destroying our status as the greatest industrialized nation on the face of the earth.

The proponents of this scam will tell you the costs are minimal. But what happens when the power company you get your electricity from gets a $280 million yearly increase in their costs. They pass it on to you of course. Likewise for the retail store that sees their power bill shoot up by 90%. And the manufacturing firm that gets hit by the higher power rates AND the costs of regulating as a poison a gas that is part of their process and, in fact, is a gas that occurs naturally in the atmosphere and is essential to life

The firewall here is the U.S. Senate which will be debating their version of the bill after the Independence Day recess. This madness MUST be stopped here. What can you do? First of all, here is a list of the roll call on Waxman-Markey from the House yesterday. Find your House member on this roster and if they are one of the 219 in the aye column, call them, write them, make sure they know that you will actively campaign against them in 2010. Next contact your senators and keep contacting them. If we melted the House switchboard, we must liquefy the Senate switchboard after the Independence Day recess. THIS CANNOT BECOME LAW. THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND OUR CHILDREN"S CHILDREN IS HANGING IN THE BALANCE!

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Urgent: Help Defeat Waxman-Markey

Maybe you’ve heard about the “historic energy bill” up on Capitol Hill right now. President Obama claims Waxman-Markey (the House version of the bill) will lower costs and result in economic stimulation through “green” jobs (whatever the hell those are). “Make no mistake” The Messiah intones, “This is a jobs bill.” What a load of crap. What it is is an economy-killing boondoggle that will stifle economic activity through a “cap and trade” system where major industries and power companies will be required to buy “carbon credits” to offset their “overproduction” of carbon dioxide. The Messiah has pointed to Spain as the model for the “green jobs” he hopes to create here. The only problem is that Spain’s “green jobs” initiative has been a miserable failure, resulting in 18 percent unemployment and net job losses according to a study by a Spanish economist.

Every junior high science student can tell you that carbon dioxide is a product of our respiration that plants, in turn, use to make oxygen. This kind of makes carbon dioxide an essential atmospheric gas – hardly a pollutant that needs to be regulated and traded as a taxable commodity. Yet this is what they intend to do and they intend to get this done TOMORROW in the U.S. House. After Waxman-Markey passes the House, it’s on to reconciliation with the Senate version then quickly to The Messiah’s desk for a signature. If this happens, we may never again see economic prosperity of the kind we’ve all become accustomed to in the last 20 years or so. And that is the goal. This has nothing to do with global warming. Brian Sussman, a meteorologist by trade, currently a talk show host in San Francisco, probably has one of the best layman’s explanations of the scam that is global warming. There are literally hundreds of explanations about the scam that is global warming all over the Internet and thousands of actual climate scientists (not the phony "every scientist" scientists that the enviro-Nazis claim to have on their side) that believe that global warming is a scam. But you won’t hear this in a Messiah-infatuated liberal media that is hell bent on pushing the global warming as fact. If stopping “global warming” isn’t the goal, what is the goal? The goal is, as one of the top assistants to former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said is to destroy the leading industrial economies. We’ve often heard The Messiah whine about how we in the U.S. are 5% of the world’s population yet we use 25% of the world’s resources – a dubious statistic to be sure – and the “cap and trade” scam in Waxman-Markey is the perfect way to cut us down to size.

What does this mean to all of us? It means a wholesale change in the way we live brought about by massive increases in the cost of everything due to the taxes brought about by the “trade” portion of “cap and trade”. John Fehrman, the president of Mid-American Energy – the primary place many Iowans buy their power from says that their estimates put their increased costs at $280 million a year.

He says they haven’t raised base power rates in nearly 15 years but this bill would force a massive rate increase due to the fact that the majority of their power is coal-generated. Not only will you pay it in your energy bill, you’ll pay it in the cost of everything you buy. The Heritage Foundation has estimated the annual cost for a family of four will be nearly $3,000 a year. How many of you can afford an extra $3,000 a year in taxes passed on to you to cap the emission of a naturally-occurring atmospheric gas that is essential for life. The aggregate cost over 25 years for a family of four will be $71,000. Most of us have kids that will be marrying and beginning families in the next few years and many of us already have kids with young families. Think of that young family starting out and having to absorb an additional $3,000 a year in energy costs EVERY year for the entire generation they are raising their kids.

What can we do about this affront to our liberty? It’s not what we CAN do, it’s what we MUST do. Contact your congressman and tell them you oppose Waxman-Markey or any “carbon tax” or “cap and trade” legislation. For those of you in Central Iowa, yours is Leonard Boswell 202-225-3806 or in Des Moines 515-282-1909. As of 11 PM tonight, both of those mailboxes were full – probably with messages about opposition to Waxman-Markey. You can also fax a note to 202-225-5608 or 515-282-1785. If all else fails, there is the web form. For anyone outside of Iowa or in another district you can find your representative’s contact information at www.house.gov.

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A Call to Action in a Troubled Country

It's been better than five years since I've posted here. I'm back because I'm going to try to do my little part to spread the word about how the very things we all love so much about this country are being stripped away right in front of our eyes. I never thought I'd see the day when we'd literally be fighting tooth and nail every day to preserve our liberties but the day has come. If the election of Barack Obama as president wasn't enough to wake people up, certainly his pursuit of the most radical socialist agenda of any president in history HAS to be. It is long past time for me to step up my activism. It's long past time for YOU to step up your activism as well if you care about your freedom and liberties and want this great country to remain great and if you want your children and grandchildren to be able to access the same benefits of this great country that you and I enjoy today.

The benefits of our free society are slipping away -- disappearing in the quicksand of the liberal's (Democrat's) socialist agenda. We have saddled our kids and their kids with $12 trillion in debt and the president is proposing to add trillions more to it to turn our health care system over to government bureaucrats. While kids are screaming for freedom and dying in the streets of Iran, our president "respects the sovereignty" of the regime that is beating them to death, slitting their throats and shooting them. The president sits and twiddles his thumbs while a pissant third-world dictator continues to improve his missile systems while simultaneously conducting nuclear weapons tests. Now he threatens to shoot a long-range missile in the direction of Hawaii. The president's response? He slashes money for proven missile defense because he claims it doesn't work. At the same time, his lapdog defense secretary moves one of these anti-missile batteries that the president claims doesn't work into place in Hawaii in anticipation of a missile attack by North Korea.

Yes folks, we are living the Chinese proverb. But the "interesting times" we live in threaten our very existence. Our economic security and our national security are in serious trouble. Meanwhile, the modern-day embodiment of Nero flies off on $25,000 dates to New York, holds extravagant parties weekly at the White House. Flies in a chef from Hawaii, a pizza-maker from St. Louis and still has time between the parties and the turmoil for interminable rounds of golf.

It's time for action folks. Won't you join me?

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The United Socialist States of America: Part Two

In part one, I made some pretty harsh claims about Social Security – you know how its name implies a sense of “security” then when you reach your golden years you find out that what it really does is leave you penniless on a subsistence check. Then, if you end up not being able to live on your own, the government takes all your assets and throws you in a “home”. If you’re lucky, your relatives might have enough to bury you but if not, tough luck because the government’s pittance to bury paupers is a measly $250 – not even enough for a pine box. I’ll admit, it does sound harsh. But it happens all the time in the land of the free and the home of the brave. How many of you know a relative of have heard of a friend’s relative who had to sell an elderly relative’s house because they had to move to a nursing home? How many people have heard the advice that smart families transfer the assets out of grandma and grandpa’s names so they don’t get taken away before they die penniless and on Title 19? It’s a hell of a deal isn’t it? Bust your ass your entire life to save what you can for retirement and end up having it taken all way from you before you die broke. That’s been the promise of Social “Security” for many low to middle income people in the past.

Of course we’ve got the leg up on grandma and grandpa because we’ve come to realize that Social Security wasn’t intended to be the be all and end all of our retirement savings. That’s what 401ks and IRA and various other investment accounts are all about. That’s all well and good. But take a look at your Social Security outlay on your next check and realize that the 7.5% your employer pays basically doubles the amount you see on your check. Then think about the fact that all of this could be cash in your check if the government wasn’t taking it out to pay someone else’s benefit. Then think about how much farther along you’d be towards saving for retirement if that money – your money – was actually yours to save and invest. Most of us probably would have been able to survive the last bear market in pretty good shape. While you’re at it, think about the fact that right now you are busting your ass to save for retirement in spite of Social “Security” – Social “Security” that might not even be there when you retire. This, in itself, is an admission that Social “Security” is a failure – it impedes your efforts to save for your retirement by transferring your money to someone else.

The solution to this Social Security boondoggle is simple – personal responsibility (what a novel concept!) Give the money back to the people who earned it and trust them to save for their own retirement – something liberals think we’re all too stupid to do. We can’t be trusted with our own money because we’ll piss it away. There a simple solution to this. Make people prove on their tax return (or by some other means if we wise up and eliminate the income tax in favor of a flat tax – fat chance) that they are saving at least the 15% they would have contributed to Social Security. I’m not one to favor big government, but if a little more big brother will give me my hard-earned money back to invest for myself, I can handle it. If some people just can’t bring themselves to save for retirement, have the government take it out of their check and piss it down a rat hole as they do with all of our money now. At any rate, it’s your choice. And I’ll bet you any amount of money that most of us could do a better job with our money than the government can. While you’re at it, you might have enough to help your folks out in their old age as was the case before everybody got caught up in the notion that grandma and grandpa’s well-being in their golden years was the government’s problem.

This leaves the question of what to do with the old folks we’ve sold up the river with this scam. Have a phase out of the payroll deduct and the benefit so that Social Security in it’s current form goes away as current recipients die off. We don’t need it. It doesn’t work. Phase it out and get rid of it.

When it comes to the creeping rot of Socialism, it’s a viscous cycle. People who don’t have their own money to save and invest for their old age because the government is taking it from them under the guise of helping them probably don’t have the money to save for medical expenses either. That’s okay, we’ve got another big, wasteful nanny-state solution to the problem – Medicare.

Medicare, that second-biggest Socialist boondoggle, now costs the taxpayers $250 billion a year, up from $109 billion a year just 14 years ago which was some $100 billion more than it was actually projected to cost in 1990 when it was conceived in the early 60s. Incidentally, Medicare is now projected to go bankrupt in 2019 if we don’t do something now (read, raise taxes or reduce benefits or both) and to top it all off, we’re about to add another $60 billion or more to it with the recent prescription drug boondoggle. Medicare is just a small part of the overall third-party-payer system of health care we have in this country that’s helped drive health care costs through the roof. In fact, you can trace the beginning of the true explosion in health care costs back to the mid-60’s when the government began paying health care expenses for the elderly and the supposedly indigent through Medicare and Medicaid. Couple that with the widespread belief that it’s up to someone else to provide our health care (typically employer with the help of a health insurance policy – admittedly with some of the premium paid by the employee) and any semblance of a free-market system for health care has flown completely out the window. After all, if you’re not paying for it, what does it matter how much it costs?

This whole deal has come back to bite us in the ass because now we have health insurance companies jacking up insurance rates to us to help them pay for huge increases in medical expenses brought about, in part, by the fact that people don’t care how much the insurance company pays because at lest they’re not paying. (A patently false and shortsighted belief.) In the middle of this whole mess you have Medicare, where retirees still have to pay thousands of dollars a year for insurance to cover what Medicare doesn’t pay AND a premium taken out of their Social “Security” check every month to pay for Medicare. We’ve managed to mess up the entire health care system pretty badly through the notion that that has blossomed since the days of FDR that we shouldn’t have to be responsible for paying our own medical expenses. Because this backwards notion has been allowed to proliferate and because of the outrageous cost of health care, there is no easy solution to this one. Medical savings accounts are a part of the solution, but not all of it by any means. Anyone who has spent any time at all looking at the failure of socialized medicine around the world knows that socialized medicine – the Kerry campaign’s code words for it are “affordable health care for all” – isn’t the answer either. If it was, we wouldn’t have the absolute best and most advanced health care in the world right here, despite the shortcomings in our funding of it. (And you commies out there don’t bother trying to tell me that the best health care in the world exists in Cuba) We also wouldn’t have rich people from foreign countries with socialized medicine flocking here for health care when the private pay health care system in their country isn’t up to the task. Yes, just because places like Great Britain and Canada have socialized medicine doesn’t mean they don’t have private health care. The well-paid doctors treat the rich and the poor doctors work for the inferior public systems the government has so benevolently established for the “peasants”. (Much like “affordable health care for all” would end up being here.)

These, the two biggest social programs are shining examples of the failures of this great country’s experiments with socialism: “From each according to his ability to each according to his need” just doesn’t work. This country didn’t grow into the most successful civilization in the history of the planet in just over 200 years by redistributing wealth, but politicians these days – on the right as well as the left – don’t want to confront the situation and bring about real change. All they want to do is tinker with these two failed experiments in socialism, keeping them on life support for a few more years when what we really need to do is admit that the patients are both brain dead, pull the plug and start over. The left doesn’t want to do this because they are intent on growing and nurturing their classist nanny-state where the government takes care of us peasants who are too stupid to fend for ourselves. The right doesn’t have the guts to confront the issue either. Why? Because at the mere mention of the smallest of changes in Social “Security”, they know the leftists will demagogue them out of office with the notion that Trent Lott, George Bush, John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney will personally be running from house to house and hospital bed to hospital bed throwing old people out into the gutters and torching their homes. Remember in 2000 when the mention of allowing people to invest 2% of their Social ‘Security” money caused Gore, Daschle, Gephardt and the like to just about blow a gasket? I beleive the mantra was “George W. Bush wants to gamble with YOUR Social Security”.Two percent, for God’s sake! The next time the issue of what to do to keep Social Security and Medicare limping along comes up, we all need to make our voices heard. We need to let the politicians know that we need real reform, not just another Band-Aid solution that robs us of our prosperity while promising only that the Social “Security” trust fund might – might – last another 1.49782 years longer.

But all is not lost in the land of the Great Society. We’ve been making slow but steady progress in reducing the dependence of the slothful on that other set of socialist programs – food stamps and housing assistance, commonly known as welfare. Although we’ve seen reductions in the welfare roles over the past eight or nine years, the government still shamelessly pushes these programs worse the a pushy telemarketer. And the maddening part about these programs is that a little personal responsibility would go a long way to virtually eliminating them altogether, leaving what’s left of them to go to the truly needy.

Take the food stamp program. (Oh, I forgot, it’s now officially a nutrition program. Apparently it’s easier to sell the idea that the nanny state is making sure “low income” kids are being well nourished than it is to sell the idea that the nanny-state is feeding them.) What parent of an elementary school kid hasn’t see the shameless way the schools push food stamps and the school lunch program? As a parent I’ve witnessed it myself. And I’m sure it’s a lot worse in cities than it is in flyover country where I live. At school registration a couple weeks before school starts, they pepper you with questionnaires and flyers telling you to think about what your income is and giving you the guidelines at which you would qualify for free or reduced price lunches. These flyers also inform you that, if you already get food stamps, you’re a shoo-in for free lunches for your kids. Of course they also point out the reverse: if you qualify for free lunches and you don’t get food stamps yet, by golly we can hook you up with food stamps quicker than you can say “I’m hungry.” Whatever happened to the good ole’ PB&J in a paper sack? You can bet that peanut butter costs less than giving away free lunches. If I couldn’t afford to buy my kids hot lunch, that’s the route I would take. But there are a lot of welfare pushers out there paid by our tax dollars to sell these programs. Without the programs, they wouldn’t have a job. And their job is to convince “poor” people that filling out an application and getting a free lunch for your kid is a lot easier in the long term than coming up with creative, low-cost cold lunch ideas. And it doesn’t stop at school. One of the first things many immigrants are taught upon arriving in this country – in their language, not the one we speak here – English – is how to access the welfare system. And just in just in case this isn’t enough instruction on how to get the taxpayers to buy your food for you, you can just go surf the web. (Considering that 48% of the households in this country that are classified as below the poverty line own their homes and 96% of all “poverty stricken” households have a color television or two, there’s probably a fairly good number that have computer and Internet access as well.) The first ten or so hits that pop up when you type “food stamps” into Google offer to show you how to access the food stamp program.

And of course, wherever you’ve got a social program, you’ve got the Democrats there to demagogue any opposition to it. Any suggestion that we modify the food stamp or school lunch programs is met with cries that Republicans want to see children starve. We’re an evil bunch, us conservatives; we drag the aged kicking and screaming out of their homes, burn them down, thrown them out of the hospitals, and for an encore, we run around snatching food out of the mouths of starving children.

Despite my rant about food stamps, we’ve made significant progress in reducing welfare dependency in this country over the past eight or nine years. This is due to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. You know that any act containing the words “personal responsibility” in the title couldn’t have anything to do with Democrats and it didn’t. Welfare reform was a part of the Republican Contract with America. Democrats were forced to go along with it because of its overwhelming popularity. Then, William Jefferson “I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton was basically forced to sign it into law. Of course he didn’t believe in it. But he could use it as a campaign issue – he signed it into law less than three months before the 1996 election – and with the public’s strong support of the elements of the Contract With America, he could ill afford to veto it and hope to win reelection.

It worked. In 1995, we spent $22 billion on the food stamp program and by 2001 we’d reduced that to $17 billion. But it had crept back up to $19 billion in 2002. Presumably, in continued back in the wrong direction in 2003. If GW and the congress don’t have the political will to do something more to reduce welfare spending, we’ll be right back where we started – and worse – in no time. Newt Gingrich attacked the problem (and a whole host of others) head on and for it, his ideas were demagogued to death and he was run out of town on a rail.

Admittedly, the food stamp program is peanuts when you compare it to the rampant, out of control, bankrupt socialist system of Social “Security” and Medicare – along with the massive senior citizen drug “giveaway”. But with the same type of political courage and vision of the Contract with America and the right plan, we can come up with a solution to this broken, socialist system. Not only can we, we have to. Because from each according to his ability to each according to his need is becoming too widely accepted in this country. If we don’t’ get away from this notion that it’s somebody else’s responsibility to take care of me – or my relatives – in our old age, or to feed my family if I don’t have the will to do it, this mentality will be so entrenched in our society that one day it will be full-blown Socialism in the USA.

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The United Socialist States of America

Forbes on Fox had an insightful topic on 3/20/04. Socialism is creeping into the U.S government and the economy and could threaten the stock market! BLOW ME DOWN! GET OUTTA HERE! YOU”VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! SAY IT AIN”T SO! In his lead in to the program, David Asman announced that they would be exploring the radical notion that Socialism is perhaps as big a threat to our country as terrorism.

Welcome to the party Fox News and Forbes – better than 70 years too late.

Socialism HAS been a bigger threat to this country than terrorism ever since the Democrats hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced it in the 30’s. It’s more insidious than terrorism because it’s been allowed to creep up on an American public that been asleep at the wheel. They used deception to sell it to us all those many years ago and by now, most ordinary citizens have gotten used to Socialism in our representative republic – it’s become a part of the political landscape. In fact, hardly anyone is alive these days who can remember when there weren’t some vestiges of Socialism in place in this country. It’s been creeping into our society, unnoticed by most, for the last 70 years. What am I talking about? Well, there’s no better example of this creeping Socialism than the granddaddy of all social programs conceived by the administration of the granddaddy of 20th Century liberalism – FDR. Yes, I’m talking about Social Security – the social program that started it all, where the deception begins with the name and gets worse from there. What we have now is a program that robs people of the ability to use their money to provide for themselves and save for retirement, leaving them virtually penniless in their old age and living in abject poverty on a subsistence check provided by the government that has robbed them of their ability to provide for themselves in old age. Social Insecurity is the hardly original but apt moniker for this largest of government Ponzi schemes.

As with all supposedly well intentioned liberal programs, it started with a wild overstating of the problem to get people to buy into the big-government solution for it that will solve everything. Back in 1935, at the height of the dustbowl and the Great Depression, the idea that big government would rush in to save you wasn’t a tough sell. Couple this with a breathtaking underestimation of the actual costs, and you have the boondoggle we’re stuck with today.

I’ve never been very good at math, a fact that figured very heavily into my decision to switch my major from Hotel and Restaurant Management in college, which required math, to journalism, which required something I could actually do – write. But it doesn’t take a trigonometry major to figure out that when Ida May Fuller – the first recipient of monthly Social Security check -- paid pennies per month in for a couple years and ended up taking $22,000 out in benefits, the math just don’t work. This should have raised a red flag, but apparently no one was paying attention.

Now days, what we pay into Social Security is hardly pennies. – Let’s take the case of Joe Worker Bee as an example. Joe pays $137 a paycheck into Social Security. Although Joe would probably love to get a return upon retirement that’s proportional to what ole’ Ida May got, the truth is that Social Security is projected to go bankrupt about the same time Joe is slated to retire – somewhere in the 2027-2030 range. But the Social Security Administration is making absurd claims to Joe about money they aren’t even sure will be there when he retires. He’s paying $137 a paycheck – and don’t forget his employer is getting dinged for another 7.5%, or an equal amount to Joe that could be going into his check were they not forced to pay it to the government in Joe’s name. So this is about $550 a month. It’s not invested – God forbid that we would allow peasants like Joe to invest even 2% of their Social Security fund as President Bush once proposed – it’s just sitting there. Yet on Joe’s last Social Security statement, it said that, at Joe’s normal retirement age (which keeps getting older and, in Joe’s case is now 68. Pity those of you in your 20’s. At this rate your “retirement” age will be in your late eighties) Joe’s benefit will be $1600 a month. Aside from the fact that $1600 a month might buy Joe a nice cardboard box and a prime spot under the local freeway overpass in 2030 if he’s lucky, it’s better than twice as much as he’s paying in. Considering this money is not being invested, how does that work? Short answer: it doesn’t.

Earlier, I said that the money isn’t invested, it just sits there. That’s not even correct. What actually happens is all the Social Security money goes into the general fund and is used for ongoing expenses. What goes in the Social Security Trust Fund you might ask? An IOU. So everyone who is currently paying into the fund, is paying for the benefits of current recipients. So not only isn’t the $550 a month Joe and his employer are paying into Social Security being invested, the principal isn’t even being saved – it’s wealth that’s being transferred to a whole bunch of other Ida Mays out there. What’s left to pay Joe’s benefits in retirement? That’s right: NOTHING, ZERO, ZIP, NADA. The government is relying on a whole bunch of other busy workers bees to work so their wealth can be transferred from them to Joe. (Which brings to mind the famous socialist phrase “from each according to his ability to each according to his need.”) You see how this doesn’t work?

Now consider this. Joe’s a baby boomer – in on the tail end of those born from 1947-1964. The older of these “boomers” are now reaching retirement age. They born in an era where it was not uncommon for people to have 4,6,8, even in some cases 10, kids – a lot of worker bees to pay into the pot for Ida May and her fellow retirees. Back when Ida May retired, there were something like 39-40 workers paying for the benefits of one retiree. Now it’s down to three workers for every one retiree and will soon be less than that. With the all the people born in the most baby-happy period in our history set to retire over the next 20 years, how is this ratio going to work. Answer: it isn’t. The boomers aren’t being replaced by an equal number of happy worker bees to pay their Social “Security” benefits. The tens of thousands of dollars Joe paid into Social “Security” will be gone, gobbled up by that big socialist machine, the Federal government and Joe will be left with nothing. Joe’s just SOL, broke and living on title 19 (another socialist boondoggle) under a bridge somewhere.

This intricate dissection of the Social “Security” system – the largest and most prolific social Ponzi scheme ever invented by government is only the most egregious example of Socialism in our government. It illustrates perfectly why Socialism – in full or part—never works and always collapses under the weight or it’s own bureaucracy. We have met the socialists and they are us. And, as I said, it ain’t just Social Security. The productivity in real dollars of labor and costs of goods and service drained from our economy due to the socialist programs that have been implemented in this country over the past 70 years far exceeds any economic damage wrought by terrorism. In fact having the government pay people not to produce drains precious government resources that could be used to fight the fight for our lives and freedom – the War on Terror. In addition, it drains the precious resources produced by millions of citizens that would be otherwise poured into the economy to make this country a greater economic power than it already is. Is Socialism a worse threat to this country than terrorism? Hell yes it is to answer the question quite bluntly. It’s a vile, creeping rot that’s been terrorizing our economy for decades and it’s about time we woke up and revolted against it.

Say tuned for the next installment of Socialism in the USA where will run down the whole list of social programs and detail exactly how they rob all of us of our security and prosperity.

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Compare and Contrast:

From the video taped purportedly recorded by Al Qaeda;

"We declare our responsibility for what happened in Madrid," according to a government translation of the statement delivered in Arabic. "It is a response to your collaboration with the criminals Bush and his allies."

Posting from MoveOn.org’s Action Forum page:

Title: Liberal Media - try "Killer Bush"!

"So far, America's Andropov - Emperor Bush the 1st, who criminally established this "Mighty Wurlitzer" CIA Mafia media influence and control program, maintains complete iron-fisted military-industrial control over all media in this country. – Written by Phillip Prescott, so-called liberal wiiter from Detroit Michigan."

Phillip, the folks at AlQaeda appreciate your continued support and I’m sure a membership card is on it’s way to you in the mail.

It took me less than ten minutes to come up with this type of scurrilous comment on the web site that wants to get "ordinary people" involved in politics again and there were many more where this came from. I submit to you that with these types of "ordinary people" out there, who needs Al Qaeda? Not only do we have to fight terrorists around the world, we have to fight the liberal dogma of American terrorists from within our own borders.

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The Real Lying Crooks Are at it Again

By now we all know that John F’in Kerry, the "presumptive" Democratic nominee for President has refused to apologize for calling the Bush Administration “the most crooked, lying group I’ve ever seen”. Even his non-apology was a lie:

"I have no intention whatsoever to apologize for my remarks," Kerry said Thursday in front of a group of Democratic senators he just met with. "I think the Republicans need to start talking about the real issues before the country."

This is a quote, but not an exact quote. What he started to say, as all of us who heard it know, is "I think The Ad …" instead of Republicans. A little Freudian slip there that indicates pretty clearly that, despite the denials, Kerry was slinging mud at the Bush Administration. Why? Because the Bush campaign accurately represented Kerry’s record – and his intentions – in a political ad. The ad claimed that John Kerry would raise taxes by nearly a trillion dollars and is based on the premise that $900 billion is what Kerry agreed it would cost for his plan to provide health care to the masses:

Kerry Accepts Thorpe’s $900 Billion Estimate When Asked. SEN. JOHN KERRY: "[I]f you look at $75 billion a year, the president has just passed a tax cut, 54 percent of which went to 1 percent of Americans, which was about $352 billion. … That’s the choice of this race." PBS’ MARGARET WARNER: "But your plan totaled, as scored by an independent authority, $900 billion over ten years." KERRY: "Yes."(PBS’ “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” 7/2/03)

A simple application of logic tells you that, if he refuses to increase the deficit, yet proposes $900 billion in new spending, he'll have to raise taxes. And he says he will -- on people with incomes of over $200,000 a year.

One problem -- the facts are that it can’t be done solely by raising taxes on only people making over $200,000 a year:

Despite His Rhetoric, Kerry Cannot Pay For His Health Care Proposal By Only Raising Taxes On People Making More Than $200,000. If Kerry repealed the Bush tax cuts solely for those making $200,000 or more, it would only result in $250 billion over 10 years. ("Kerry: 'Worst Jobs Record' Since Hoover," The Washington Post, 7/11/03; David Wessel, Op-Ed, "View From The Right: Tax Increases Ahead," The Wall Street Journal, 2/19/04)

So there is a factual basis for the Bush campaign’s claim that Kerry would raise taxes. No lying and no crookedness there.

This is just one of three main FACTS cited in this ad that are researched and backed up on GeorgeWBush.com – no lying, mudslinging or crookedness involved.

Not so for the Kerry campaign and it’s supporters:

You’ll hearing Kerry out there on the stump saying things like this (taken directly from his web site):

George W. Bush has chosen tax cuts for the wealthy and special favors for special interests over our economic future. John Kerry has a plan to rebuild our future, starting with 3 million jobs in his first 500 days – and a plan to ensure that workers can achieve the American Dream in our changing economy.

Anyone one of you middle class folks (myself included) who reaped the benefit of tax bracket changes and received rebate checks for $400 last summer (and smaller ones in previous summers) for each child you have know that the idea that George Bush only cut taxes for the wealthy is a bald-faced lie. Yet you’ll hear this theme throughout the presidential campaign. WHO ARE THE LYING CROOKS???????

Another thing you’ll hear over and over again from the Kerry campaign and the Democrats is that this economic recovery (from the Clinton recession – the fastest growing economy since Reagan was president) is a "jobless recovery" and that George Bush has lost jobs. Aside from the fact that the president is not responsible for creating jobs, but is responsible for setting economic policy that makes job growth possible, this is a lie. The facts, taken from the NewsMax.com web site, are this:

# The 5.6 percent unemployment rate is the lowest in two years and below the average of the 1980s (7.3 percent) and '90s (5.8 percent), and still continues to drop. (A rate, incidentally, that has been considered nearly statistical full employment in some Democratic administrations.)

# The nation's economic output revealed the strongest quarterly growth in 20 years. The data for the fourth quarter of 2003 show that the civilian labor force rose by 333,000, while the number of unemployed in the labor force dropped by 575,000, and the number of so-called discouraged workers is less than .3 percent of the workforce, according to Paul Kersey of the Heritage Foundation.

# Consumer spending grew between 4 percent and 5 percent last year, and real hourly earnings rose 1.5 percent. Real earnings have risen over the last three years.

# Exports doubled to 19 percent in the fourth quarter, compared to less than 9 percent in the third.

# The number of American workers is at an all-time high of 138.5 million, a level never before attained in U.S. history.

# Jobless claims are 10 percent below the average of the last 25 years and still falling.

# Hiring indices are up, even in manufacturing.

# Productivity growth is extremely high.

Obviously, Bush Administration policies are setting up economic conditions that create job growth.

AGAIN, I ASK YOU WHO ARE THE LYING CROOKS???????

And it’s not just the Kerry campaign that is engaging in lying and crookedness. Other Democrats and liberal groups that support Democratic causes engage in worse lying and crookedness than the Kerry campaign. As an example, we’ll use MoveOn.org, a group that is running an ad claiming that George Bush wants to take away overtime pay from people. Problem is it’s a lie.

The new rules would actually raise the salary at which you could consider a lower-paid employee exempt from overtime by $14,000 a year. This means that millions of Americans who now don’t get overtime pay WOULD get overtime pay or a large increase in salary. The rules could result in a reduction of overtime pay for employees in some jobs making more than $65,000 a year, but even this is uncertain and the vast majority of hourly employees make far below $65,000 a year and would therefore be unaffected by any change of this sort. But, if you’ve seen the MoveOn.org ad, it’s clearly designed to scare the crap out of the average worker and lead them to believe that George Bush wants to rob them of their overtime pay. But flat-out bald-faced lies are nothing new to MoveOn.org. The whole premise that their organization is founded on is a lie.

They claim they are just an innocent little organization dedicated to as they say “bring ordinary people back into politics.” They claim that “Because MoveOn.org has only a tiny staff, our basic operating costs are very low.”

MoveOn.org’s operating costs are apparently large enough to fund a nationwide television campaign of lies to smear George W. Bush and a political action committee. And apparently George Soros, a liberal billionaire financier who has stated that he would spend all of his billions to defeat George Bush in the next election, is one of those ordinary people the "tiny staff" at MoveOn.org wants to bring back into politics, according to this, from CNN.com:

In November, billionaire philanthropist George Soros and his business partner, Peter Lewis, pledged a $5 million matching grant -- a dollar for every two raised by MoveOn members -- to create a $15 million advertising campaign to defeat President Bush. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman George Allen responded with an online petition denouncing Soros.

You may recall that MoveOn.org is the group that ran a proposed television ad on their site that compared Bush to Hitler and then denied they sponsored it.

AGAIN I ASK YOU, WHO ARE THE LYING CROOKS?????

If John Kerry wants to talk about lying crooks, he need look no further than himself and his supporters. Democrats lied and engaged in all sorts of crookedness in 2000 in an attempt to get Al Gore elected and they're starting in on it again this campaign season – only far sooner than they did with Gore. That’s why we’ve got to do a better job of getting out there and telling the truth and not letting them get by with their lies. Or this time they may lie themselves right into the White House. But it doesn’t end with the campaign. They’ll be working overtime (something they claim George Bush wants to steal from American workers) to steal the election as they tried and failed to do in 2000. More on that later.

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Stamp Out the Weasels: Vote Bush

The Democrats are on their way to nominating another weaselly loser – John Kerry.

Don’t take my word for it, read the weaselly lies from his own web site:

George W Bush has chosen tax cuts for the wealthy and special favors for the special interests over our economic future. John Kerry’s priority will be middle class families who are working hard to cover the mortgage, pay the high cost of health care, child care and tuition, or just trying to get ahead.

I’m not wealthy, (at least not by my definition) and you’re probably not wealthy either. Apparently, John Forbes Heinz Kerry, who married $500 million, thinks we're wealthy because he thinks only the wealthy got tax cuts.

Also, does Kerry not realize that the reason why all of us middle class (oh, sorry, I forgot -- I'm rich) people he’s supposedly committed to fighting for have to work so hard to get ahead is that our effective tax rate, when every, federal, state and local tax is figured in is better than 40%.

As for the special interests, read this report from Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com which was posted on the Maryland Republican Party website;

As detailed in the AP report, Kerry blocked an effort to rein in the $15 billion Big Dig highway project in Massachusetts and interceded on behalf of insurer American International Group (AIG) so that they could funnel $130 million in excess government payments into private investments. Despite Kerry's claims that special interests haven't influenced him, AIG subsequently paid some of his travel expenses, and AIG executives maxed out donations to his campaign fund. In 2002, AIG gave $30,000 to Kerry's unlimited soft money fund for his presidential run. In addition, other "Big Dig" contractors contributed at least $60,000 in soft money to Kerry's 527 Citizen Soldier PAC.

As Charles Lewis of The Center for Public Integrity said, "The idea that Kerry has not helped or benefited from a specific special interest, which he has said, is utterly absurd." (John Solomon, "Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash," The Associated Press, 2/4/04)

And from an AP story in the Modesto Bee on 2/2/04:

Sen. Kerry, who says he hasn't taken a dime of political action committee money for his presidential campaign, in fact ran a tax-exempt political committee that collected nearly a half million dollars directly from companies and labor unions just before those types of donations were outlawed in late 2002, tax records show.

And in the same story, posted on the Modesto Bee web site, Charles Lewis weighs in again on the issue of Kerry and special interests:

They are both in up to their necks with special interest money," said Charles Lewis, head of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington watchdog group that recently published "The Buying of the President 2004," which tracks the sources of political money for the presidential hopefuls.

"This rhetoric has a rather hollow ring to it. It is hypocritical. They are splitting hairs when they say either, 'I don't take lobbyists' money' or 'I don't take from PACs' when both have received millions from special interests anyway," Lewis said.

The first thing John Kerry will do is fight his heart out to bring back the three million jobs that have been lost under George W. Bush. He will fight to restore the jobs lost under Bush in the first 500 days of his administration. Kerry has proposed creating jobs through a new manufacturing jobs credit, by investing in new energy industries, restoring technology, and stopping layoffs in education.

Kerry’s too busy lying his heart out to fight his heart out. Recent statistics on the economy show that there has been a net gain of jobs under Bush – not a loss – and the economy is roaring back a rate not seen for 20 years.

The Democrats mascot used to be a jackass. It ought to be a weasel. We elected one weasel to two terms in the 1990s. We prevented another one from being elected in 2000. We’re just now beginning to reverse the ill effects of being asleep at the wheel in national affairs, national defense and foreign policy while we were mired in the spectacle of the president of the United States soiling an intern’s blue dress (and apparently, the Oval Office bathroom sink) and musing about what the meaning of the word "is" is. Again, the Democrats will nominate a weasel. But its too dangerous a world out there to install a weasel at the helm of this great nation. Help me bring about the extinction of the weasel. Vote Bush in November 2004.


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This is the Man Democrats Want for President

The following is a Washington Times article on "presumptive" Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry who the libs are touting as their "war hero". You read it and decide; Would you want this man running our country?




By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans who say his association with her 34 years ago is a slap in the faces of Vietnam War veterans.
The photograph, taken at a Labor Day rally at Valley Forge, has been circulating across the Internet, particularly among veterans. It was posted Monday on the NewsMax.com Web site.
Mr. Kerry spoke at the 1970 rally, the culmination of a three-day protest hike from Moorestown, N.J., to Valley Forge, which featured a speech by Miss Fonda and a reading by Hollywood actor Donald Sutherland.
"When he stands up with Jane Fonda, someone that is so notorious and hated by veterans, and Tom Hayden, and a couple of others as well and supports their agenda," Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, California Republican, said yesterday, "it diminishes the service some of us almost gave our lives for, and the over 56,000 people that lost their lives —it slaps their families in the face."
Mr. Cunningham was the first pilot to qualify as an ace in the Vietnam War, by shooting down at least five enemy airplanes.
"I think it's his right, but it kind of upsets you," Mr. Cunningham said. "He had honorable service, but it's a shame someone would let politics rule their life, instead of their principles."
Mr. Kerry, a Navy lieutenant, commanded patrol boats on South Vietnamese rivers and was wounded three times. On his return to the United States, he turned against the war, and at the time of the Valley Forge rally, he was beginning to gain notice as one of the leaders of the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
He went on, in 1984, to become a U.S. senator from Massachusetts and is now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Kerry campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said yesterday Mr. Kerry should not be associated in the public mind with Miss Fonda and her later trip to Hanoi, where she was photographed sitting astride a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun.
"John Kerry and Jane Fonda were just acquaintances," Ms. Cutter said. "What's important to understand here is two things: He met her before she went to Vietnam, and he did not approve of her very controversial trip."
She said Mr. Kerry took part in the antiwar movement in order to bring U.S. troops home quickly.
"John Kerry served his country bravely," she said. "He was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for his service, and he praised the noble service of his fellow servicemen and women. After coming home, John Kerry worked to end the war so his fellow soldiers could come home, too."
Mr. Kerry testified in 1971 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, however, citing accusations that American soldiers in Vietnam routinely committed atrocities such as beheadings, killing children and razing villages. He did not present evidence of these claims.
John Hurley, national director of Veterans for Kerry, said that the antiwar movement included a mix of people and that Mr. Kerry should not be grouped with all of them.
"There were a lot of people protesting that war, some of whom he would agree with and some of whom he would disagree with," said Mr. Hurley, who marched with Mr. Kerry in Washington in 1971. "I don't think he had any control of that. It was the issue that was dominating. Like a lot of other vets coming back, we were angry and frustrated [that] guys were dying in Vietnam for no reason."
Mr. Kerry's protesting "saved more lives than not," he added.
Still, the photograph has spread quickly among Vietnam veterans browsing the Internet.
"If you mention Jane Fonda's name to a Vietnam veteran, it's a lightning-rod reaction," says Ted Sampley, publisher of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch and staunch opponent of Mr. Kerry. "She was supposed to be antiwar, but she clearly sided with one of the belligerents, which precludes her from being antiwar. She was a partisan."
Mr. Sampley first saw the photograph Monday on the Internet and purchased it for his online newsletter. He saw it pop up elsewhere, and he soon began receiving e-mail messages from readers who had seen the photograph.
"This picture exposes just how close John Kerry was to Jane Fonda," he says. However, he says the photograph doesn't reveal anything that many veterans of Vietnam didn't already know.
"Joining the antiwar movement was possibly the worst thing he could have done to the soldiers still in the field," he said. "He basically gave aid and comfort to the enemy."
The Vietnam War, though it ended more than three decades ago, has emerged as a central issue in the presidential campaign, as it did in previous campaigns. In 2000, President Bush faced questions about his service in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war years. Those questions have been raised again this year.
Bill Clinton was criticized in 1992, when it was reported that he used political pressure to avoid the Vietnam-era draft after he ignored a written agreement to accept a slot in the ROTC at the University of Arkansas. He was further cited for his involvement in the antiwar movement as a student at Oxford University in England, including his work in coordinating the largest antiwar, anti-U.S. demonstration on foreign soil.
Mr. Kerry tells Democratic audiences at campaign appearances that he will be able to stand up to Mr. Bush on the issue. He frequently cites Mr. Bush's appearance on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as misleading voters.
"I know something about aircraft carriers for real," he says.
Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, who spent nearly seven years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam, said yesterday the photograph of Mr. Kerry with Miss Fonda will hurt him nevertheless.
"I think it symbolizes how two-faced he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one hand, and then coming out against our veterans who were fighting over there on the other," Mr. Johnson said.
Mr. Johnson recalled that his North Vietnamese captors played recordings of Miss Fonda telling U.S. troops to give up the war. "Seeing this picture of Kerry with her at antiwar demonstrations in the United States just makes me want to throw up."
•Jerry Seper and Charles Hurt contributed to this report.
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Lurch, Opie, Uncle Al, Alfred E. Newman’s Brother and the rest of the Seven Stooges

Now that Howie, has self-destructed, what about rest of this sorry group of stooges. We’ll take Lurch first because he’s the front-runner:

John Heinz Kerry: Looks like Lurch’s younger brother. He appears to be what’s settled out of the lousy Democratic pack. You might call him he highest of the lowest common denominator.

He’s going to fight against tax cuts for the wealthy? Mr. John Heinz $500+ million net worth Kerry is going to fight tax cuts for the wealthy and fight for "working people"? Right!

He supported the war resolution now has twisted his position to say that he doesn’t support the war because it’s the politically correct thing to do in a party whose thinks its main constituencies are aging flower children and young peaceniks led astray by the aging flower children. It’s all about pandering to the wackos.

What the main plank in Lurch’s campaign platform? He wants to throw George Bush out of office. Now there’s some real vision! Nothing says more about the bankruptcy of ideas in the Democratic Party than the fact that their main "big idea" is to defeat President Bush. You want to stump John Kerry (or any other Democrat for that matter) all you have to do is ask two questions: Why defeat President Bush and what if you do? The answers you get back will be a garbled mass of liberal rhetoric that doesn’t add up to a pile of donkey crap. But if you listen carefully, you’ll hear a complete lack of vision for what this country is, what freedom means and the direction Mr. John Heinz “Lurch” Kerry wants to take this country. And you’ll realize that where John Kerry wants to take us is no place we want to go.

John Edwards: With that young-looking Southern Opie and Andy face and that "aw shucks" demeanor, John Edwards could be real trouble. He has a Clintonesque way of cloaking issues in confusing populist rhetoric that almost sounds conservative. In these times, when most people spend more time thinking about who should win American Idol than who should be the leader of the free world, Edwards could pose the same type of trouble for freedom and democracy that Clinton did only worse – he’s Clinton without the scummy film. Fortunately, the Democrats are in the process of anointing Lurch which may leave Edwards on the bottom of the Democratic ticket come fall which isn’t necessarily good for GW.

Wesley Clark – Rule of thumb -- never trust a general who’s a Democrat and good ole Wes is proving this true. He’s a nut, for God’s sake! And his campaign has taken a spectacular nose dive. The many comparisons to General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove are very appropriate.

Joe Lieberman: In order to be politically correct enough to be accepted in his party, he needs to change his name to Joe Lieberperson. Judging from his "dead heat" for third speech after he went down in flames in the New Hampshire primary, Joe’s pretty out of touch with reality. Do we really want someone this out of touch with reality to be running the country? Aside from the fact that no Democrat can be trusted to be at the helm of our great ship of freedom, we certainly don’t want a Democrat who can’t even be honest with himself and his supporters about his chances. His former running mate wouldn’t even support him! Besides, none of us could dealing with having to listen to that nasaly whine for four years.

Dennis Kucinich: Aside from the fact that he’s a stark raving socialist from hell and proud of it, he looks like Alfred E. Newman’s younger brother. Would you want one of Alfred E. Newman’s relatives running the country?

Al Sharpton: You can sum up Uncle Al in two words: Tawana Brawley. This guy is a shyster from hell. The legitimacy of his candidacy speaks volumes about the sorry state of the Democratic Party in 2004. Can you imagine if the Republicans had accepted David Duke in their list of presidential aspirants? There’s no difference except that the Democrats do it and get by with it.

Bottom line: These guys are what has risen to the top of the bottom of the barrel? Do we really want to trust any of these numbskulls with the future of this nation? NO WAY IN HELL!!!!!

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