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Critics question revised proposal from Sen. Jay Rockefeller to let the White House do what it deems necessary to respond to a 'cybersecurity emergency.' Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Politics and Law.
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Obama 'stimulus' plays favorites with earmarks
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 8/28/2009 6:00:00
A tax policy expert says President Obama has reneged on his promise to keep his economic "stimulus" plan transparent and free of earmarks.
The Associated Press reports that Senators Max Baucus (D-Montana) and John Tester (D-Montana) persuaded the Obama administration to award $15 million in federal stimulus money to a Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that serves only three people a day. A similar checkpoint in North Dakota, which serves about 73 people a day, is also getting $15 million for renovations.
Meanwhile, a border checkpoint in Laredo, Texas -- which serves more than 55,000 travelers and 4,200 trucks a day in an area that is a hotbed of illegal immigration and drug trafficking -- was passed over for stimulus money.
Curtis Dubay with The Heritage Foundation says it is not surprising that a $787 billion bill would include political favors.
"This bill wasn't about stimulating the economy in any way," the senior tax policy analyst contends. "It was about funding spending priorities that had not been funded in previous years -- and they hadn't been funded because they weren't deemed as pressing. Because there was so much money thrown in the stimulus, they can now be funded."
Dubay predicts cases of abuse and influence peddling in stimulus programs will continue to crop up for the next three to five years because many projects have yet to go into effect.
A tax policy expert says President Obama has reneged on his promise to keep his economic "stimulus" plan transparent and free of earmarks.
The Associated Press reports that Senators Max Baucus (D-Montana) and John Tester (D-Montana) persuaded the Obama administration to award $15 million in federal stimulus money to a Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that serves only three people a day. A similar checkpoint in North Dakota, which serves about 73 people a day, is also getting $15 million for renovations.
Meanwhile, a border checkpoint in Laredo, Texas -- which serves more than 55,000 travelers and 4,200 trucks a day in an area that is a hotbed of illegal immigration and drug trafficking -- was passed over for stimulus money.
Curtis Dubay with The Heritage Foundation says it is not surprising that a $787 billion bill would include political favors.
"This bill wasn't about stimulating the economy in any way," the senior tax policy analyst contends. "It was about funding spending priorities that had not been funded in previous years -- and they hadn't been funded because they weren't deemed as pressing. Because there was so much money thrown in the stimulus, they can now be funded."
Dubay predicts cases of abuse and influence peddling in stimulus programs will continue to crop up for the next three to five years because many projects have yet to go into effect.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Non-profit? Grass Roots??
OK, someone should have done this before, and someone should really check this out, on the official side of things...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Freedom? Equality? For Whom?
There have been stories going around for a while now about the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Virginia. You can do a quick search and find a LOT of articles written about it along with several news stories, some supportive, some not. Basically, in case you are not familiar with it, the school is one of 20 International Schools set up by the Saud Family as an operation of the Saudi Arabian Government. As such, it is “controlled” by the State Department. If the State Department tells them to leave, then they will have to. In effect, it is a madrassas –
It was established in 1984 by Royal Decree by King Fahd as a part of the worldwide madrassas that they funded. The curriculum was a Wahhabi interpretation of Islam and included praise for militant jihad to “spread the faith”, permission to kill various “unbelievers”, the permissibility to kill and take the possessions of anyone who “turns from the faith” and anyone who is “polytheistic” (and in their view anyone who is not a believer of Islam is polytheistic), the practice of taqiyya – which is the religiously sanctioned tradition of lying to non-believers, and there are the text books endorse marriage between adults and prepubescent children, and that women should not be judges or exercise “greater governorship”. That is just from a start.
There has been opposition to the school since it opened, really. And that has not changed with the request last year for the school to enlarge. Some of the local opposition to it was from the basis of what it would do to the traffic in the area and how that would affect the people who lived there. Others were opposed to it on the basis of what they teach… Also, a part of the controversy surrounding the school is the 1999 valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is the most famous/infamous/ notorious graduate of the school. He is currently serving 30 years in prison for the attempted assassination of President Bush.
As of the 3rd of August, they got the permission to go ahead with the expansion of the school facilities. In 2006, there was an agreement between the State Department and the Saudi Government that they would remove all of the intolerant passages from its educational material within 2 years, but the books reviewed for the 2008-2009 school year by the National Review, and by the New English Review, didn’t show that to be the case. Besides, how many of us have been in a classroom with a teacher who, when given a new book, continued to teach what they had been teaching previously regardless of what was in the new book? Also, how many teachers do you know that supplement the books with additional material? Just because the text book has been redacted doesn’t mean that the curriculum has been changed.
In Detroit, a woman in Detroit was in court in a hearing for a name change application. She was asked by the judge to remove her headgear -“no hats allowed in the court”. She said, according to courtroom personnel, “It doesn’t mean anything” and took it off without any comment to the judge. Now, with the help of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a lawsuit is being filed stating that the judge “violated her rights” because he asked her to remove her hijab (headscarf). Did she tell him that she was a Muslim? Did she tell him that it was a religious article? Had she done so, I doubt that he would have asked, or insisted, that she remove it. It most likely would not have been a big deal at that point and would have been allowed to remain. If a Nun had been in the courtroom I doubt that he would have made her remove her habit.
Now… while all of this has been going on, we have a VERY different situation that has developed in New Hampshire.
Here we have a 10 year old child, who is being homeschooled by her mother and has been since the first grade. According to the court, she is doing well both socially and academically and she does attend some supplemental public school classes. However, the judge in the case has ruled that she must now be taken from her home schooling and placed into the public school system because the court-appointed guardian in a child custody hearing stated that the child reflected her mother’s “rigidity” on questions of faith, adding that the “girl’s best interest would be served by exposure to a public school setting”. And the Judge stated that the girl’s faith was a “bit to sincerely held and must be sifted, tested by, and mixed among other worldviews”.
Now, would anyone care to guess as to what the “sincerely held” religious beliefs that were so rigidly reflected by this girl were? SURPRISE!! It’s NOT Islamic! She is a Christian. Now, where is the ACLU demanding that her First Amendment Rights are being violated and that this will not be allowed? Where is the outcry from Jesse Jackson? Where are all the other people who protest this sort of thing when it happens like in the court room in Detroit? Why isn’t this all over the national news and on YouTube? Where is the “hue and cry” from the masses about this mother’s right to educate her child as she sees fit? The court even agreed that she was being well educated and was doing well socially. But because she was strongly convicted of her CHRISTIAN beliefs, she is wrong??
What do you think?
Included above are links to some of the articles where I verified some of the information, and a list of the books reviewed.
From the Free Dictionary - (Arabic: “school”) Islamic theological seminary and law school attached to a mosque. The residential madrasah was a newer building form than the mosque, flourishing in most Muslim cities by the end of the 12th century. The Syrian madrasahs in Damascus tended to follow a standardized plan: An elaborate facade led into a domed hallway and then into a courtyard where instruction took place, with at least one eyvan (vaulted hall) opening onto it. The madrasah at the Qalaun Mosque in Cairo (1283–85) has a unique cruciform eyvan on the richly carved qibla (wall facing Mecca) side and a smaller eyvan opposite. Residential cells for scholars occupy the other two sides.
It was established in 1984 by Royal Decree by King Fahd as a part of the worldwide madrassas that they funded. The curriculum was a Wahhabi interpretation of Islam and included praise for militant jihad to “spread the faith”, permission to kill various “unbelievers”, the permissibility to kill and take the possessions of anyone who “turns from the faith” and anyone who is “polytheistic” (and in their view anyone who is not a believer of Islam is polytheistic), the practice of taqiyya – which is the religiously sanctioned tradition of lying to non-believers, and there are the text books endorse marriage between adults and prepubescent children, and that women should not be judges or exercise “greater governorship”. That is just from a start.
There has been opposition to the school since it opened, really. And that has not changed with the request last year for the school to enlarge. Some of the local opposition to it was from the basis of what it would do to the traffic in the area and how that would affect the people who lived there. Others were opposed to it on the basis of what they teach… Also, a part of the controversy surrounding the school is the 1999 valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is the most famous/infamous/ notorious graduate of the school. He is currently serving 30 years in prison for the attempted assassination of President Bush.
As of the 3rd of August, they got the permission to go ahead with the expansion of the school facilities. In 2006, there was an agreement between the State Department and the Saudi Government that they would remove all of the intolerant passages from its educational material within 2 years, but the books reviewed for the 2008-2009 school year by the National Review, and by the New English Review, didn’t show that to be the case. Besides, how many of us have been in a classroom with a teacher who, when given a new book, continued to teach what they had been teaching previously regardless of what was in the new book? Also, how many teachers do you know that supplement the books with additional material? Just because the text book has been redacted doesn’t mean that the curriculum has been changed.
In Detroit, a woman in Detroit was in court in a hearing for a name change application. She was asked by the judge to remove her headgear -“no hats allowed in the court”. She said, according to courtroom personnel, “It doesn’t mean anything” and took it off without any comment to the judge. Now, with the help of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a lawsuit is being filed stating that the judge “violated her rights” because he asked her to remove her hijab (headscarf). Did she tell him that she was a Muslim? Did she tell him that it was a religious article? Had she done so, I doubt that he would have asked, or insisted, that she remove it. It most likely would not have been a big deal at that point and would have been allowed to remain. If a Nun had been in the courtroom I doubt that he would have made her remove her habit.
Now… while all of this has been going on, we have a VERY different situation that has developed in New Hampshire.
Here we have a 10 year old child, who is being homeschooled by her mother and has been since the first grade. According to the court, she is doing well both socially and academically and she does attend some supplemental public school classes. However, the judge in the case has ruled that she must now be taken from her home schooling and placed into the public school system because the court-appointed guardian in a child custody hearing stated that the child reflected her mother’s “rigidity” on questions of faith, adding that the “girl’s best interest would be served by exposure to a public school setting”. And the Judge stated that the girl’s faith was a “bit to sincerely held and must be sifted, tested by, and mixed among other worldviews”.
Now, would anyone care to guess as to what the “sincerely held” religious beliefs that were so rigidly reflected by this girl were? SURPRISE!! It’s NOT Islamic! She is a Christian. Now, where is the ACLU demanding that her First Amendment Rights are being violated and that this will not be allowed? Where is the outcry from Jesse Jackson? Where are all the other people who protest this sort of thing when it happens like in the court room in Detroit? Why isn’t this all over the national news and on YouTube? Where is the “hue and cry” from the masses about this mother’s right to educate her child as she sees fit? The court even agreed that she was being well educated and was doing well socially. But because she was strongly convicted of her CHRISTIAN beliefs, she is wrong??
What do you think?
Included above are links to some of the articles where I verified some of the information, and a list of the books reviewed.
The coming future for all of America?
This is a video of Nabeel Qureshi and David Wood asking questions at Arabfest, Dearborn. The date is June 21st, 2009. There was a booth at the festival which had a banner titled "Islam: Got Questions, We Have Answers..."
History Repeating itself
Here is an audio clip, from 1961, of Ronald Reagan as a private citizen taking part in Operation Coffee Cup speaking against Socialized Medicine, which was proposed then, by the Democratic Party... Sound familiar? How many people out there now remember this happening? Do you remember the reasons why it was defeated then? If so, please bring those arguments back up, and tell the younger people around you about it, and why it was defeated then, and lets stop this again.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
New "Freedom of Speech" Czar - Mark Lloyd
Here we go again... All out attack on Talk Radio. Tell me, is there ANY business out there that can pay 100% of their operating budget to the Government as a "licensing fee", and still be able to operate? I don't think so...
Failed Health Care Public Option
Once again, we have another story, this one from the Wall Street Journal, that shows that the Public Option for Health Care is NOT the way to go. This article gives the breakdown on the Public Option of health care that was tried by the State of Maine. The similarities between this program and the ObamaCare program are shown, and the figures are there.
There have been three states that have tried the public option for health care, and all three have failed. All three failed miserably, all three nearly bankrupted their state. And STILL Congress wants to try it for the US Government? We already have them underestimating the deficit by $2 TRILLION, and they want to add to it?
Read the article and see what you think...
Wall Street Journal 21 AUGUST 2009
There have been three states that have tried the public option for health care, and all three have failed. All three failed miserably, all three nearly bankrupted their state. And STILL Congress wants to try it for the US Government? We already have them underestimating the deficit by $2 TRILLION, and they want to add to it?
Read the article and see what you think...
Wall Street Journal 21 AUGUST 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
U.N. and your children
I have to ask... Does anyone really want the U.N. to be in charge of the schools? I know that I am not really in favor of that.
Adolph Hitler said "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." So think about that, do you want the U.N. to have the ownership of our future?
CNSNews.com - U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation
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Adolph Hitler said "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." So think about that, do you want the U.N. to have the ownership of our future?
CNSNews.com - U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Liberal=Socialist? That seems to be what she is saying...
Have you been looking at what has been going on in with President Hugo Chaves of Venezuela recently? Do you remember the comment that he made that after the auto industry bail out that the US Government has nationalized more assets than he has? And they are looking for more... Based on this anyway.
Charming Liar Progressives Turn on Obama as Air America Exposes Fascist Drug Deal
OK, now this is really interesting... How do you put a positive spin on this? Just say that he is a "Charming Liar" and that makes it all OK?
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Protesting Obama by Open Carry in Arizona
“I’m absolutely totally against healthcare – healthcare in this way, in this manner, stealing it from people. I don’t think that’s appropriate.
“I’m exercising my rights as an American in Arizona.
“I come from another state where open carry is legal, but no one does it, so police don’t really know about it, and they harass people and arrest people falsely. And I think that people need to get out and do it more so that they get kind of conditioned to it.”
Monday, August 17, 2009
Canadian Health Officials: Our Universal Health Care Is 'Sick,' Private Insurance Should Be Welcomed - Longevity | Prevention | Aging - FOXNews.com
PJTV
I just ran across an interesting web site... PJTV, they have a lot of video blogs that are very intersting. This one really caught my attention, it was posted back in May. This is the copy of it that was posted on YouTube. Go to www.pjtv.com and check out some of what they have posted there...
Tea Pary Advertisement
This was done by a teenager in Alabama who was asked by his Mother to help with a way to advertise the local Tea Party.
"I asked Justin if he could help me make a commercial for my group's Tea Party.. He sat down at the laptop for about an hour, and then brought this to me and asked, 'is this okay, Mom?'
After I finished watching it, my stomach was in my throat.
Everyone that I have sent it to has really enjoyed it, so I wanted my friends to see it. I am so proud!"
"I asked Justin if he could help me make a commercial for my group's Tea Party.. He sat down at the laptop for about an hour, and then brought this to me and asked, 'is this okay, Mom?'
After I finished watching it, my stomach was in my throat.
Everyone that I have sent it to has really enjoyed it, so I wanted my friends to see it. I am so proud!"
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
When Liberal Leaders Confront a Centrist Nation
When Liberal Leaders Confront a Centrist Nation
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Really good article here. It shows that really, most of us DO NOT hang a party tag around our necks, and most people look more at the person than at the party.
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Really good article here. It shows that really, most of us DO NOT hang a party tag around our necks, and most people look more at the person than at the party.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Newsbusted, news report
This is pretty good... and a rather funny way to put some information out there...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
41% View Town Hall Protesters Favorably, 35% Don’t
41% View Town Hall Protesters Favorably, 35% Don’t
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I have to ask... Is anyone really surprised by this? I think that the majority of us feel this same way, we just either have not had the opportunity to voice our opinion like this, or we have not been willing to stand up and speak up for what ever reason.
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I have to ask... Is anyone really surprised by this? I think that the majority of us feel this same way, we just either have not had the opportunity to voice our opinion like this, or we have not been willing to stand up and speak up for what ever reason.
Monday, August 10, 2009
God, Guns, Guts and Pick Up Trucks!
Here is a great video of a CNN reporter trying to throw every liberal shot in the book and a really good down to earth, down home guy ready for every shot!
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -9 (see trends).
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -9 (see trends).
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Unbelievable Cartoon From 1934
Look at this cartoon from the Chicago Tribune in 1934 and look carefully at the plan of action.
Remember the adage, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it!"
Looks like we could be in for difficult times.
Could this have been drawn NOW, June 22, 2009?...........
What has changed?
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Now... I wonder how many people noticed this?
This is interesting... Shows just what a politician does
Friday, August 7, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Huh???
OK... I guess that I am just not smart enough to understand what he is saying here. Someone, if you have any ideas, let me know, OK?
"Remember we inherited a 1 point three trillion dollar deficit. The cumulative consequences of the policies this country pursued over the last 8 years left us with 6 million dollars of more debt than we would have had by making a bunch of commitments to cut taxes and add to spending without paying for those."
- Tim Geithner
OK... Now anyone got a good idea about this? As best as I can gather from what he said here, if the budget had just been left alone like it was, then there would have been a deficit of $1.3 trillion, plus an additional $6 million, so $1.9 trillion, right? But we have a Congressional Budget Office estimate of $4.8 Trillion?
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10014/03-20-PresidentBudget.pdf
Also, sorry if I sound a little bit short, but being lectured by a guy who should be in jail for tax fraud/tax evasion about "we are going to have to do what we have to do to increase revenues" is sort of like being lectured by Hugh Hefner about modesty and celibacy. I mean Geithner received reimbursement from the International Monetary Fund for the taxes that he didn't pay! Every year for four years, he had to file requesting the payment for the taxes, and he had to sign a document that he was responsible for the taxes, and the he was going to pay them. Come on... Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion, and this guy gets to be Secretary of the Treasury? What would happen to any of us, the people who he was lecturing, if we didn't pay our taxes for four years?
"Remember we inherited a 1 point three trillion dollar deficit. The cumulative consequences of the policies this country pursued over the last 8 years left us with 6 million dollars of more debt than we would have had by making a bunch of commitments to cut taxes and add to spending without paying for those."
- Tim Geithner
OK... Now anyone got a good idea about this? As best as I can gather from what he said here, if the budget had just been left alone like it was, then there would have been a deficit of $1.3 trillion, plus an additional $6 million, so $1.9 trillion, right? But we have a Congressional Budget Office estimate of $4.8 Trillion?
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10014/03-20-PresidentBudget.pdf
Also, sorry if I sound a little bit short, but being lectured by a guy who should be in jail for tax fraud/tax evasion about "we are going to have to do what we have to do to increase revenues" is sort of like being lectured by Hugh Hefner about modesty and celibacy. I mean Geithner received reimbursement from the International Monetary Fund for the taxes that he didn't pay! Every year for four years, he had to file requesting the payment for the taxes, and he had to sign a document that he was responsible for the taxes, and the he was going to pay them. Come on... Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion, and this guy gets to be Secretary of the Treasury? What would happen to any of us, the people who he was lecturing, if we didn't pay our taxes for four years?
Video Clip
Interesting video clip here. It seems that Secretary of Health Sebelius and Sen Specter did not take well to being confronted at a Town Hall meeting. And Sen Specter did NOT, in my opinion, reply well to the person in the audience. If you listened to what they said, and then what he said, they had already done the first part of what he was telling them to do, which was read the bill... And now they were doing the second part, which was telling them what they thought about it... Seems that this is a really good example of the fact that politicians don't seem to listen to what we have to say...
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower
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