Archive for January, 2010
Curses, foiled again!
Here’s another “great idea” from the Obamessiah that’s not quite panning out the way he hoped.
White House Considers Moving 9/11 Trial Out of New York City
Bowing to intense and deepening bipartisan opposition to conducting the criminal trials for the 9/11 hijackers in the heart of New York City, the Obama White House has begun discussing alternative locations with the Justice Department, senior administration officials told Fox News.
The White House denied a New York Daily News report that it ordered the Department of Justice to find a new location for the trials, which are sure to attract massive publicity and require intense security preparations wherever they are held.
However, senior administration officials confirm alternative trial locations are being sought because Congress is almost sure to deny President Obama the funds necessary to conduct the trials, as originally planned, in the federal courthouse mere blocks away from the Twin Towers, the epicenter of the 9/11 attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 civilians.
Michelle Malkin can tell you why a civilian trial for the Jihadi’s is a bad idea.
Cirque du Jihad: Coming to a federal court near you?
Tags: bad idea, civilian trial, jihad, New York, terrorists
Hoyer (D.-Md.) Lets it Slip
Must be nice to have a job where all you do all day is think of ways to spend other peoples money.
Hoyer: It’s Good for People to Make Money Because Then They Can Pay Taxes
(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D.-Md.) said today in his weekly press briefing that it is good that Americans are making money again because it means they can pay taxes.Hoyer pointed to the fact that projected federal revenues have stopped declining and have stabilized as evidence that people must be making money in America.
“We also had some good news for the first time in approximately two years,” said Hoyer at his weekly press briefing. “The projection of revenues has stabilized, not decreased. That is a very good sign because it is a sign that people are in fact making money and will be in a position, because they’re making money, to pay a portion of that in revenues to the federal government.”
2010 U.S. Economy now ‘Mostly Free’
For the first time ever the United States economic freedom score has dropped from free to mostly free according to the Index of Economic Freedom.
How do you measure economic freedom?
We measure ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic freedom score for each country. The ten components of economic freedom are:
Business Freedom | Trade Freedom | Fiscal Freedom | Government Spending | Monetary Freedom | Investment Freedom | Financial Freedom | Property rights | Freedom from Corruption | Labor Freedom
Out of ten of the components the U.S. has dropped in 7 catagories.
The United States’ economic freedom score is 78.0, making its economy the 8th freest in the 2010 Index. Its score is 2.7 points lower than last year, reflecting notable decreases in financial freedom, monetary freedom, and property rights. The United States has fallen to 2nd place out of three countries in the North America region.
The U.S. government’s interventionist responses to the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 have significantly undermined economic freedom and long-term prospects for economic growth. Economic freedom has declined in seven of the 10 categories measured in the Index.
Uncertainties caused by ongoing regulatory changes and politically influenced stimulus spending have discouraged entrepreneurship and job creation, slowing recovery. Leadership in free trade has been undercut by “Buy American” provisions in stimulus legislation and failure to pursue previously agreed free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea. Tax rates are increasingly uncompetitive, and massive stimulus spending is creating unprecedented deficits. Bailouts of financial and automotive firms have generated concerns about property rights.
If there is any doubt that freedom is under attack in the U.S. then these numbers should dispel that. The damage that the liberal congress is causing our country goes far beyond the recession and into creating obstacles to any kind of recovery.
This is the change promised by Barack Obama and the “going forward” promised by Nancy Pelosi.
I just hope we can survive it til the midterm elections.
*Photo from LMAObama*
Tags: Business, damage, economic freedom score, economy, liberal, Monetary, mostly free, Obama, Pelosi, Property rights, recession, United States
Hitler’s Bummed
Enjoy.
Tags: Brown win, bummed, Hitler
Brown Wins, Dem-idiots Point Finger
This is what kills me about these brainless boobs.
They won’t even consider their escalation of our staggering debt, their criminal neglect in rooting out terrorism and supporting our troops, their distribution of our tax dollars for favors and pork, the attempt at taking over our health care system, the disregard of families and children, their redefinition of justice and right and wrong and on and on.
No…..they see it as a failure to feed the public with enough bullshit and lies to cover their weaknesses.
Dems point fingers over Mass. Senate race
WASHINGTON – The buck stops … Well, it was hard to tell just where the buck stopped Tuesday as Democrats in Boston and Washington began dodging blame and pointing fingers at each other even before the first returns were in.
Cool-headed analysis of what was driving independents to Republican Scott Brown’s column? No. The issue was who botched Democrat Martha Coakley’s Senate campaign more: her state people or national Democrats.
Most spoke the classic Washington way, under the cloak of anonymity. But President Barack Obama’s senior adviser took precise, public aim at Coakley’s camp as Brown closed in on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat.
“I think the White House did everything we were asked to do,” David Axelrod told reporters. “Had we been asked earlier, we would have responded earlier.”
But the signs had been there. In the bluest of blue states, the election was seen, at least in part, as a referendum on Obama, on health care reform, on the Democratic majority that had controlled two of three branches of government for a year.
And the Republican candidate was surging.
What of Obama himself?
“Surprised and frustrated,” reported White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, promising more presidential reaction Wednesday. “Not pleased.”
Democrats could agree on the obvious: Somebody had taken the seat for granted, had underestimated the public’s anger over the economy, over the Democrats’ health care overhaul, over plain old arrogance in Washington.
Make no mistake, Scott Brown worked hard for his victory in Massachusetts, but the truth is that Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, etc. have been making it easy for the Republican challengers.
They ignore us at their own peril.
Tags: Brown, Coakley, democrats Obama, Frank, Massachusetts, Pelosi, Reid, Republicans
Coakley’s Blind Side
Want another reason to hate the vapid offering of the democratic machine in Massachusetts?
Debbie Schlussel points to this article by Dorothy Rabinowitz.
By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001. It was well known, especially, to District Attorney Martha Coakley, who had by then arrived to take a final, conspicuous, role in a case so notorious as to assure that the Amiraults’ name would be known around the globe.The Amiraults were a busy, confident trio, grateful in the way of people who have found success after a life of hardship. Violet had reared her son Gerald and daughter Cheryl with help from welfare, and then set out to educate herself. The result was the triumph of her life—the Fells Acres school—whose every detail Violet scrutinized relentlessly. Not for nothing was the pre-school deemed by far the best in the area, with a long waiting list for admission.
All of it would end in 1984, with accusations of sexual assault and an ever-growing list of parents signing their children on to the case. Newspaper and television reports blared a sensational story about a female school principal, in her 60s, who had daily terrorized and sexually assaulted the pupils in her care, using sharp objects as her weapon. So too had Violet’s daughter Cheryl, a 28-year old teacher at the school.
But from the beginning, prosecutors cast Gerald as chief predator—his gender qualifying him, in their view, as the best choice for the role. It was that role, the man in the family, that would determine his sentence, his treatment, and, to the end, his prosecution-inspired image as a pervert too dangerous to go free.
The accusations against the Amiraults might well rank as the most astounding ever to be credited in an American courtroom, but for the fact that roughly the same charges were brought by eager prosecutors chasing a similar headline—making cases all across the country in the 1980s. Those which the Amiraults’ prosecutors brought had nevertheless, unforgettable features: so much testimony, so madly preposterous, and so solemnly put forth by the state. The testimony had been extracted from children, cajoled and led by tireless interrogators.
Read the whole thing and then contemplate what kind of ideals Coakley holds in her little mind of what justice means.
Is it about the truth or is it about ideology?
Tags: Amiraults, Coakley, democratic machine, Massachusetts, vapid
The Money Quote
Scott Brown basically kicked Martha Coakley’s ass during the debate last night.
Here’s the money quote:
But have no fear, how better to support a loser than by sending a loser to help out.
Kerry Launches Late Money Push for Coakley in Race for Kennedy’s Senate Seat
Sen. John Kerry is rushing to the aid of Democrat Martha Coakley in the race for the Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy, making a last-minute fundraising and get-out-the-vote push as her Republican challenger closes in.
State Attorney General Coakley seemed to have a lock on the race going in. But with the special election one week away, recent polling suggests GOP state Sen. Scott Brown could have a shot at not only winning the longtime Democratic seat but breaking the party’s filibuster-proof majority in Washington.
In a bid to prevent this nightmare scenario for Democrats, Kerry, the state’s senior senator, has contributed his e-mail list of 3 million people to the Coakley campaign. According to an aide, he’s sent out four e-mails to drive up turnout and fundraising. And he plans to campaign for Coakley alongside former President Bill Clinton Friday in Kerry’s first public appearance since his hip replacement surgery a week ago.
The liberals honestly believe that the seat held so long by the inept lifeguard Ted Kennedy actually belongs to them and they are entitled to it.
All those seats belong to the people to put who they deem fit to occupy it.
Tags: Kerry, lifeguard, loser, Martha Coakley, peoples seat, Scott Brown, Ted Kennedy
What’s at stake in Mass. Senate race
The best thing to do is to go to the people who live in the state where the candidates reside and look at how they perceive them.
Tight Massachusetts U.S. Senate race has national implications
1. Fate of Barack Obama’s agenda in America rests on Jan. 19 Massachusetts U.S. Senate election. But National Republican Party not interested!
2. Democrat Martha Coakley, if elected to US Senate, would be most radical ever from Massachusetts.
3. Say it ain’t so! As race gets tighter Republican Scott Brown’s veering to the left.
Each point listed above is addressed by MassResistance, and they point to other articles to read that bolster their point.
It’s an interesting read that shows just how radical and out of touch Democrat Martha Coakley is with the values of our country and why it’s important for the GOP to seize this seat that’s been held hostage by Teddy and the libtards for to long.
This article by Ann Coulter is especially relevant to Coakley’s fitness to be in office…..an unapologetic ideologue who will ignore anyone or anything, even the truth, to advance her career.
Martha Coakley: Too Immoral for Teddy Kennedy’s Seat
In Tuesday’s primary election, Massachusetts Democrats chose as their Senate nominee a woman who kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career.
Martha Coakley isn’t even fit for the late Teddy Kennedy’s old seat. (What is it about this particular Senate seat?)During the daycare/child molestation hysteria of the ’80s, Gerald Amirault, his mother, Violet, and sister, Cheryl, were accused of raping children at the family’s preschool in Malden, Mass., in what came to be known as the second-most notorious witch trial in Massachusetts history.
Tags: democrat, GOP, leftists, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, MassResistance, radical, Republican Party, Scott Brown, Senate race
Pelosi Accomplished the Impossible
She told this whopper without doubling over in laughter while calling the American public a bunch of clueless schmucks.
“There has never been a more open process for any legislation,” Pelosi said at a press conference.
Michelle Malkin has the info on Pelosi’s refusal to allow C-SPAN cameras to air the negotiations between the house and senate version of the bill.
Tags: C-SPAN, healthcare, liar, open legislation, Pelosi
Why we pay taxes?
Yeah, this is the kind of stuff people work their ass off for every week. To hell with food, rent and all.
New York City-Funded Guide Teaches How to Shoot Heroin Safely
NEW YORK — Do you want to learn a safer way to shoot heroin? New York City has a guide for that.
The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene spent $32,000 of tax money on 70,000 copies that offer information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid infection.
“This is a tremendous misuse of city funds, and I’m going to see what I can do to stop it,” Democratic New York City Council member Peter Vallone Jr. told the New York Post. “It’s sick.”
And, it’s not just taxpayers who are angry.
The state’s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration calls the “Take Charge Take Care” guide a “step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison.”
DEA special agent-in-charge John Gilbride says the handout is disturbing.
“It concerns me that the city would produce a how-to on using drugs,” Gilbride told the Post. “Heroin is extremely potent. You may only get the chance to use it once. To suggest there is a method of using that alleviates the dangers, that’s very disturbing.”
The 16-page booklet features seven comics-like illustrations and offers such advice as “Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins,” and “Find the vein before you try to inject.”
Shoot, if we include this with the pamplet on “fisting” then we can teach people how to violate their entire body.
State budgets are losing revenue and it’s becoming apparent why, they’re spending our money on crap.
