Your Government HARD at work.

This is what we are currently paying our government to do each day. Really?

Whole Foods is bad, really?

Here's a comment I left for the Whole Foods Boy-cotters.

Sad part about this little blurb that gets posted, they left some key information out. The CtW Investment Group works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a federation of unions representing nearly 6 million members. In the current health bill, the unions will not be forced to pay for their health care and the regular working public will pick up the majority of the tab.

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/08/24/unions-fighting-for-10-billion-dollar-payoff-in-health-care-rationing-bill/

Of course they want this guy gone. Anyone that has a free thought and is willing to actually speak their mind is a horrible horrible person. It is not beneficial for the unions not to get this deal, therefore, it is not beneficial for CtW. Whole Foods doesn't need the government health care since they are willing to work with their employees and take care of them, but that doesn't matter. They have a model that works, Mackay is providing valid alternatives that Liberals in Congress keep saying that no one is providing.

My question to you. Are you boycotting Whole Foods and dempnizing this man for his opinion because you don't agree with the information or just because you were told that you needed to? Think for yourself and read for yourself, media and government will never tell you the whole truth.

Update for August 19th

So, Halliburton was bad, but how about $24 million to Axelrod's media company for health care ads?

Guns at a protest? Not last week, in Texas in 2000 by the Black Panthers, but that's OK.

Now for this week, the gunman was black???? But I thought it was only white, un-american, nazis that were protesting.

My "Facts" are checked better than your "Facts", and by the way your FACTS are wrong. "Fact checking", the new "synergy", "out-of-the-box", "group-think".

Factcheck.org, yet they only look at the wording, not the impact. That's the issue.

And factcheck.org would never get anything wrong, right?

And now it's time to try and intimidate the insurers and get them to shut up. Chicago politics at it's finest.

Oh, the mobs are "astroturf", but don't pay attention to the calls and web videos calling for BHO supporters to help.

Post office competes with FedEx and UPS. Just what we all want, long lines and unfriendly government employees running our health care.

Update from August 17th

Here are just a few interesting articles that I came across during the day today.

If the UK system is so great, why is a woman having a baby on a sidewalk?

Thousands of surgeries to be cut in Vancouver to cover budget shortfall. Yet the US won't ration health care.

Canadian health care needing an overhaul? I thought I heard that it was the model to follow?

I don't know. No we didn't. Someone else did. OK, maybe we did. White House can't make up it's mind on who sent unsolicited emails.

Some democrats want to keep government run plan, but here is the White House backing away from it. And then here's a blue dog that wants to start over.

Surprise, it wasn't some radical, un-American, mob member that made the poster. It was a college student from Chicago.

Outside of dealers not getting paid, American cars didn't even top the list of Cash for Clunkers.

Gallup poll, more conservatives in all 50 states.

I disagree, therefore I'm racist?

Today, I was planning on a post about the health care issue that we have in front of us. As I went through my day, I was then confronted about the fact of being racist due to my disagreement with the fact that POTUS would speak out without specific knowledge of an event. Also included was the fact that I do not believe that all illegal immigrants should be covered by a health care bill. Not because I don't have feelings or understanding for immigrants, my family was originally immigrants and some of my friends and their parents have just recently received their citizenship. I just want the individuals using the system to contribute their fair share. If I'm paying, my wife is paying, my grandmother is paying, so should everyone else.

So, I ask, is this racist, realist, or just honest? If there is going to be a system for all, is it wrong to expect all to pay? Legal, illegal, visa, or other, shouldn't it be required to pay into a system that you have access to?

And as for the Gates issue...

Sergeant James Crowley is brought to the forefront by BHO's comment during his primetime "press conference". "I don't know all the facts, I might be biased." Are these things that we should be hearing from our POTUS regarding a local arrest? A legal disorderly conduct arrest? Why is it that a white cop arrests a prominenet black man and it's racism, yet I see this same type of arrest on both TV and in person multiple times per month and no national news is brought in? Could it be it's a white cop and a white offender, or a black, hispanic (inset ethnicicity here) and a white (insert ethnicity other than black here) arrest? Is that the reason why there is no national coverage?

Just something to think about......

Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis: Cap-and-Trade Video

Here's another video from the Tax Foundation to help with your Cap and Trade education.

Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis: Cap-and-Trade Video

Cap your wages and Trade your job

On Friday, the House voted to proceed with the Cap and Trade (otherwise known as Crap and Tax) bill. It was passed by a narrow margin, largely in part to the multitudes of individuals that called, emailed, and faxed all of members of the House.

There are those that didn't because they don't see what the big deal is with the regulation of carbon dioxide. Especially when you have POTUS stepping out and saying how much this is going to help the US and the climate.

That being said, for those that are doubtful of the ramifications of this bill, I am putting this post together to educate and provide everyone with the ammunition to fight this bill as it goes to the senate within the next week.

Obama stating that rates would force electricity prices to skyrocket.

Today, he talks about light bulbs, appliances, and yet more regulation. But it seems to depend on what news outlet you go to as to the edits that you see. Some, like the ABC video, that are edited to make everything look good and then others that are the actual full briefing.

The ABC news edited version and the unedited version of the speech which brings up the fact that it will not bring "untenable" burdens.

A Washington Post article about the potential regulation of your light bulbs.

Obama's own information that shows his drive towards controlling the direction of oil, gas, coal, oh, and car companies too.

Blogs are written and anyone can post anything, but have you ever heard of the Wall Street Journal? Here's a link to their article. The Wall Street Journal outlines how this plan is not economically possible and that the costs to the end user, you and I, will be vastly larger than what Obama keeps telling us.

Here's another article that warns governors to be wary of cap and trade since it will have a huge negative impact on their future budgets.

Do the representatives really know what they are voting on? This article was posted just days before the vote on Cap and Trade in the house. Sp what happened the day of the vote? A 300+ page amendment was added at 3AM and a slim majority in the house voted for it. I enjoy reading, but there really isn't anyway for me to get through 300 pages in a day. Plus, as this article outlines dems are relying on a government offices budget projections, repoublicans...MIT.

Another blogger with their opinion on what will happen.

This outlines the amount each state could lose under Cap and Trade, just on electricity.

And oil companies already have plans outlining what they will do if the bill passes. Shut down plants and refineries and move production oversees. Got that information from a little outlet called Bloomberg.

And last, a small thing that was held back until after the vote by the EPA that essentially states that it's all bogus.

Now it's time for action. Either email/comment on this and tell me that I'm full of crap, or start calling your senators and letting them know that this should not pass.

Quick Post for the Day

There are so many articles and items from the day that I should be posting about. I mean the speech today? Does anybody remember the term "flip-flop"? Clinton would be proud of the level of avoidance that went on during today's press conference.

I apologize, I spent the evening at a business mixer hosted by WBAP 820 here in Arlington for the majority of the evening. It was a great start to building and helping to stimulate the economy and business discussions here in the DFW metroplex. There were a wide variety of individuals that attended, from those that provide jobs to those that were looking and those that were looking to help everyone in between. It was a great evening and an event that I hope provides a basis for additional mixers in the future.

Please let me know if you have questions about how this played out or how you might be able to make something happen like this in your own town.

Outside of all of this, I will try to put together a post this weekend about the speech, or among the many other things that have occured over the past couple of days.

FYI: Cap and Trade is set for vote on FRIDAY!!! CALL AND CALL NOW!!! This can not go through. You think it's bad now? This will crush the entire economy, even the states that haven't been hit as hard by all this crap.

When does it all change?

I was sitting here looking at all of the articles that I've bookmarked for postings (supporting information, new developments from the day, and all of the comments made back and forth between politicians), and while reading through them all I began to wonder, when does it all change?

What do I mean? Most politicians claim to be of the people, from the people, and a representative of the people, but how many of them do we really believe at this point?

Pelosi claims that the CIA lied, but has not been willing to provide any proof to support that fact. Frank blames everyone else for the Fannie and Freddie deals. Dodd says that someone else is to blame for the AIG bonuses. Murtha has an airport that only has flights to DC that averages 25-30 passengers per day. Before you say it, yes, these are all dems. There are Republicans that have the same issues, Alaska and the bridge to nowhere, conservatives that have affairs, and on and on.

So when did they lose it? When did they stop being representatives of the people? When did they forget the votes that got them to where they are?

Boxer cuts off a Brigadier General that is respectfully saying ma'am, to emphasize the position that she has acquired as a senator. She has "worked hard to get that title." Worked hard? Isn't she supposed to be working hard for the people that she represents and not splitting hairs with a man that is serving his country and providing a high level of respect to people that don't provide it in return?

I apologize if this comes across as bitter, but when did it happen that "We the people" turned into "We the senators and representatives"?

A Little Entitled? You be the judge.

A couple of good, quick articles.

A very interesting article regarding the support that the President is starting to loose.

Reality Check

And a couple of questions for those that still support him.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/91/browne/browne2.html

History Repeating Itself

I came across this link to You Tube over at The Constitutional Alamo and had to share.

A former Cuban living in America wrote the following letter, posted on YouTube, to the Richmond-Times Dispatch on July 7, 2008. Who to know better than someone who has lived what we are living?

Double standard in media? Well, not since it's state run.

When it comes to monitoring the administration, we used to have checks and balances within the government. We all know that no longer exists. Just look at how unconstitutional it was for the government to seize the auto manufacturers and banks and to dismiss the secured creditors despite multiple precedents regarding bankruptcy law and credit contracts.

So then, who do we turn to? Well, we used to be able to turn to the media. Historically "yellow journalism" and "sensationalism" was frowned upon and the facts were supposed to be supplied without a tilt, lean, or spin. I came across this article today and wondered "Did ABC get a bailout? Are they now under the same control as GM and others?" Here is the story as provided by Drudge Report, as well as another link to updates.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/abc-turns-over-news-programming-to-the-white-house.html

UPDATE: ABC has denied the opportunity for alternative views to pay for advertising during the health care infomercial next week. You'd think they would want all the advertising dollars that they can get their grubby little hands on.

Thoughts?? Now, based on this it appears that this is a policy that is being promoted. Promoted through TV infomercials which ABC is getting really good at (Did any of you catch the Earth 2100? Global Warming Infomercial anyone?). ABC Site Examiner Article

But to the point, Obama recently traveled to Chicago to address the AMA (American Medical Association) regarding his scam, sorry policy.

Now, I understand presidential travel and the need to spend millions of dollars for security, WHEN NEEDED, but this trip seems a little unnecessary when we are all saving and skimping to make ends meet. Unnecessary, just like the trip that his wife took to take the kids sight seeing on the backup 757.

So why has no one written an article like this.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bush-soc-sec-roadshow-pushes-legal-limits

Why is this not under investigation. Where is the checks and balances? Why is this remaining completely unchallenged and researched?

Just one more example of the media's love for the Obama and the lack of respect for the american taxpayer.

How's that stimulus working out for you?

So you've lost your job. You struggle to find another job, resisting signing up for government assistance because your a little too proud. But, finally, to make ends meet, you bite the bullet and sign up. After standing in long lines, dealing with filling out forms in triplicate, you finally start to receive your benefits. Now, you're still struggling month to month, but with the help from unemployment and food stamps that you yourself have spent most of your life paying into, you finally can almost make ends meet.

Then along comes the stimulus package. Not read in entirety by anyone, passed in a matter of hours, and full of enough pork to feed everyone in the US BBQ, you now loose part of your benefits. Sound extreme? Read this and decide for yourself.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g9pNvSzDPSHoozyfN-vY-YbnPItgD98QVC100

So, the stimulus package that was supposed to help is now hurting unemployed individuals. It's now limiting the amount of government assistance that they receive because a small provision stating that the stimulus should not be used in calculating unemployment benefits was not included. Along the same lines as the fact that the tax code has not been adjusted to account for the additional $13/week that we all now "get" from the federal government. So why isn't this at the top of the list to put into law and adjust the tax code before the end of the year? My guess is that it doesn't matter near as much as the shoddy health care plan that POTUS wants to get passed. Health care....Do we really need the government to intervene in that area as well. Let's look at the government run services.

Post Office- Currently running with a major deficit ($2B lost during the last fiscal year) and discussing cutting back on delivery days and service. By the way, FedEx still runs six days a week.

DMV- Do I really need to state the obvious.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid- Each are on the verge of extinction and very few people younger than 40 believe that any of these programs will be around to help them when they retire.

Welfare- Let's see, a program that provides people with the means to not work, have kids, and receive a check. And we wonder why the level of work ethic within the US drops considerably year after year.

And the last point to keep in mind. Unemployment and food stamps are constantly evaluated by the government, but housing is only evaluated when the lease is renewed. Just wonder how many individuals are going to be kicked out of low income housing because they are no longer eligible.

Please support your local Humane Society

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/dog-alerts-local-family-to-fire-dies-in-blaze-159051.html

There are some that are going to blame the family for the passing of the dog, but I know from personal experience, there is no way that they would willingly allow the dog to head back into the house. In a state of chaos, sometimes is it not possible to control the situation that is happening right in front of you. A friend, (I say that based on the role that my dogs play in my life), that is willing to save you and then make sure that everyone is safe by going back into the house should not be mocked and disgraced because someone wants to talk about smoke alarms and leashes (please read the comments). Dogs have unconditional love. Why else would a dog that has been mistreated, starved, and beaten still be the reason why a family is alive today? Dogs don't hold grudges. Dogs don't know hate. Dogs provide love even when love isn't provided in return. Humans could learn a lot from paying a little more attention to our four legged friends.

Rest in Peace Jeter and God, family, and community be with the family and support them through this hardship. If only a few members of what we call humanity could learn from the level of sacrifice that an "animal" is willing to provide to his family, maybe some of the family issues that are becoming more and more common would start to slow and help us to build a more respectful, responsible society.



Moss family, please take care and know that our prayers are with you.

Poker, Bad. No money for you!

So the Government is now going through your bank accounts and freezing any funds that are received from playing online poker. There is currently no legislation on the books stating that playing online poker is illegal. A company cannot exist in the US and cannot operate, but it is not illegal to play.

But, now it has been decided that if you play poker you are taking part in money laundering. The government says that these funds "are subject to seizure and forfeiture 'because they constitute property involved in money laundering transactions and illegal gambling offenses'". And they are using their newest acquisitions, the banking industry, and the fear that fell with saying no to the government to make this happen.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7808131

So next it's anything that you win in Vegas, Shreveport, or any casino because it's bad for you. After that......

It appears that even some in Hollywood are getting fed-up.

Stimulus Money for MT going to CA??

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/06/09/news/state/21-stimproject.txt

So what we have here is a redirection of funds that penalizes local businesses that could help the local economy and provides benefits to a company that is based in the most socialist state within the union. Sound fair? Well life isn't fair. According to BHO, it should be though.

You have to check these out.

It's a great blog that has some great creations.

http://leevandenbrink.blogspot.com/


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Bitter Much?

Don't try and tell me that she is not a bitter woman. I'm married and I know that look. I'm in trouble if I get that look. And she is giving it to the first woman of France in public. Can't even fake it through the D-Day speeches? Don't even remember seeing pictures of Jackie O looking at Marilyn that way.

As the Constitution Falls, Chapter 1

I'm not sure how many individuals have seen this article or been made aware of it, but I wanted to link to it and get it out there.

Couple: County Trying To Stop Home Bible Studies

This is the first that I have heard about this story and I'm sure that it won't be covered by much of the MSM, but it does raise the question about the direction that the country is heading. We currently have a president that has been quoted as saying that the Constitution is a constraint. We have a Supreme Court nominee that has been quoted as saying that the court wrote policy and that a Latino woman is wiser than a white male. (See posts from yesterday for references.)

UPDATE: Here is a ruling against the 1st amendment, guess who ruled against freedom of speech.

The government now holds a major stake in the banking industry. They are seizing control over the automotive industry at an alarming pace. And while doing this, making regulation to limit the growth and the development of those industries in the future. They are currently both owner and regulator. Anyone know anything about conflict of interest cause this sure seems to be one.

UPDATE:This adds even more fuel to that fire. Closing dealerships that donate republican and eliminating competition for favorite dems. And since the governement is in control, there is no oversight, checks and balances, or fighting back. "What I say goes!" (Didn't like it much when my mom said it either.)

As this continues, we the people of the United States of America, will no longer be living in the freedoms that our fore fathers envisioned, we will be living in the same types of situations that we were appalled about with third world countries that oppressed any voice other than the governments.

According to Gibbs, I need to watch what I say! Oops, too late, already have the post up.

Hard to believe that the White House would actually say something like this? (insert sarcasm here).

This is just another case of the WH working to tell the American public what to say, when to say it, and how to say it. I fail to be surprised by these type comments anymore.

Tighten our belts- Govt passes largest budget deficit EVER
Support our National security- They lied to us. We were never told about waterboarding.
We don't need to close the borders- I wouldn't let my family travel.
I will provide transparency- Bills are passed and the stimulus website still isn't operational.
I will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000- Cigarette tax, possible VAT Tax, health care tax, and the burden to my kids (who probably won't make over $250,000).

Life Story? I have a life story, too. Why not nominate me?

Sonia Sotomayor, she's got a story. Big Deal.

Pursuit of Happyness. Great Life Story.
Ray Charles. Great Life Story.
Elvis Presley. Great Life Story.

Hers is a story. Not a great life story. It's just the story of an individual that should actually appreciate the country in which we live and the rights and opportunities that are already provided to everyone that is willing to work for them, not work to negate the system and tructure that got them to where they are.

The sad, but true, aspect is that single parents working after the death or split of the other is not something special. Growing up in a bad neighborhood and getting out? It's been done by both scholars and athletes.

My story should be a great life story. Middle class parents that are still together and mom's still working because they can't afford to retire. Spent summers as a kid learning to work and help out on my grandparents farm. Starting working when I was 15 to have spending money (there was no allowance, I was expected to help take care of the house). Worked my way through college and then have worked my way into the position that I am in today. (Notice the key word- WORKED, not appointed)

So what is this rubber stamped nominee going to give us?

60% of appeals overturned. (I know, there were a lot more cases she handled on the state level, but there are only a limited amount that the US Supreme Court can take on each year.)

Judges make policy? Last time I read my constitution, the judicial branch was just to make sure that laws were valid and in the favor of the American People, not what they FELT was important.

It's not alright to be racist, but it is alright to tell "white males" (which by her own words she is better and wiser than) that they are in the wrong for wanting the promotions that they should have received based on the established testing that had been in place for previous promotions.

And read for yourself about the 2nd Amendment.

Let's just hope that the people wake up and realize that not approving her is not about being a Latino woman. It's about the negative impact that she will have to the future of this country.

WSJ: Gov't pressuring Bank of America board change

So despite the fact that they are putting together the capital and have passed the "stress test" the government still wants to tell the banks what to do. How is it that they have the constitutional right to control the private business of banks? Actually they don't. But click the link and form your own opinion.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D986PO2G0&show_article=1

It's not like when the government is in charge, the banks run better. Here's a quick history link corruption in government banking over the past 100 or so years.

Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’

You have to check out this link.

I seriously can't believe that he said, “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Seriously? Is that what you think BHO??? What about the stimulus, the budget, the printing of money?? Is it that you finally reached your limit to spending our children's money? What is it now, 30 or 40K per person?

Why is it that when regular individuals attend tea parties with this exact phrasing, we are called radicals and put on the watch lists? But the president can use the same phrasing and it's completely OK.

I would say that I'm surprised, but I'm not. It's hard to surprise when you already have a really good idea of the ending.

Air Farce Update

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/06/white-house-release-photo-new-york-flyover/

So now the $300K+ flight that we all payed for is now going to produce a picture. A report and a picture, now how hard was that. Not really sure why it was so difficult for the WH to release the photo in the first place. Now the photo is going to come under additional scrutiny since we all know what is possible with PhotoShop.

But I thought I got to see where the money is spent?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-05-06-stimulus_N.htm

Just another example of the promises that have been broken by this administration. Transparency? I've seen concrete with better clarity.

If the Stimulus is working why is this story out there?

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090505/METRO/905050367/Michiganians-mine-bodies-for-cash-to-make-ends-meet

I understand that people do this, but the selling of plasma and hair are newsworthy events. Why don't we go ahead and provide advertising for the black market organ shoppers.

Despite what you hear, it seems that there isn't any problem putting together 100 Mistakes for the 100 Days

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/100_days__100_mistakes_166177.htm?&ttp://www.nypost.com/seven/04252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/100_days__100_mistakes_166177.htm?&page=0

I still haven't made it through the entire article for fact checks, but at this point all of the pieces can be easily put together. (As long as you use multiple news sources for verification.)

Missing Air Farce Picture