Gary Pezzuti’s “Hmmm....” 7/16/2010
Bill Clinton back in the White House, holds economic meeting with Obama...
"The fastest-growing parts of this Democrat economy aren't jobs [but]
the crushing burden of the national debt and the size of the federal government."
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell
CBS SHOCK POLL: 13% believe President's policies have helped them...
"Have you heard about the administration's propaganda campaign to adorn each federal 'stimulus' project with taxpayer-funded signs to remind us that these projects have been bestowed on us by the beneficence of the Obama administration?
The signs read, 'Project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.'
In the first place, they're not funded by any act, but by the American taxpayer.
This type of government self-promotion is eerily reminiscent of dictatorial governments in modern history that not only deprived their citizens of freedom and private property but also demanded to be glorified for the morsels they doled back out to them."
--columnist David Limbaugh
New rules mean millions more tax forms for businesses...
Holder Questions Death Penalty for 9/11 Terrorists
Meanwhile, the first of many drilling rigs has begun sailing away from the Gulf. Diamond Offshore announced last week that its Ocean Endeavor rig is now bound for Egyptian waters. Don't look for it, or any others, to return soon, either: Estimates put the earliest possible return at a decade or more, given the time and expense associated with these moves.
And therein lies the real goal: Stall, foot-drag, litigate and obfuscate long enough to render the issue moot.
Once the rigs are gone, who cares if the ban is operative?
This piece of the dismantling of America will have been completed by that time, moratorium or not.
Obesity Rating 'Required for Every American by 2014'...
Boys deny fireworks fiasco, claim seat heaters caused car fire
This story has the right elements, but it would be more amusing if you didn't have to work so hard to get through it. I like the part about the boys claiming that the seat heaters -- used in summer? -- caused the car fire. (Yakima-Herald.com)
Fed Wins More Power in Overhaul...
Quotas Hidden in Bank Reform Bill Will Cost Taxpayers Millions
Buried deep in the bowels of the massive financial-regulation bill passed by the Senate Thursday are massive race- and gender-employment provisions that will cost countless millions to enforce and appear to duplicate other civil-rights initiatives already in place, experts say.
MICHELLE TELLS BLACKS TO 'INCREASE INTENSITY'
Budget Panel: $14 Trillion Debt Destroying US Like 'Cancer From Within'
The leaders of President Barack Obama's debt and deficit commission offered a dire assessment of the nation's fiscal future to a convention of state governors Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer "that will destroy the country from within" unless checked by tough spending cuts in Washington .
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill
Seriously, there are only two things needed to drive effectively in NJ:
A horn and a middle finger. Everything else is superfluous, including knowing where you are going.
For those of you who live in Jersey or have lived there, these things may come as no surprise. For those who haven't travelled there before,
Beware, Be Prepared and Be Afraid,,,, Be Very Afraid.
1. You must first learn to pronounce the city name, it is Nork - rhymes with Fork, not New-ark. Also, Trenton is not pronounced Tren-ton, it is Trent-in.
2. The morning rush hour is from 5 AM to NOON. The evening rush hour is from NOON to 7 PM. Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning.
3. The minimum acceptable speed on the turnpike is 85 mph. On the parkway it's 105 or 110. Anything less is considered "Sissy.." (Just ask the former Governor of NJ)
4. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Jersey has its own version of traffic rules. For example, cars/trucks with the loudest muffler go first at a four-way stop; the trucks with the biggest tires go second; However, in Monmouth and Burlington counties, SUV-driving, cellphone-talking moms ALWAYS have the right of way.
5. If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear ended, cussed out, and possibly shot.
6. Never honk at anyone. EVER ! Seriously. It's another offense that can get you shot.
7. Road construction is permanent and continuous in all of Jersey . Detour barrels are moved around for your entertainment pleasure during the middle of the night to make the next day's driving a bit more exciting.
8. Watch carefully for road hazards such as drunks, skunks, dogs, cats, barrels, cones, celebs, rubber-neckers, shredded tires, cell-phoners, deer and other road kill, and the homeless feeding on any of these items.
9. MapQuest does NOT work here -- none of the roads are where they say they are or go where they say they do and all the Turnpike EZ Pass lanes are moved each night once again to make your ride more exciting.
10. If someone actually has their Turn Signal ON, wave them to the shoulder immediately to let them know it has been "accidentally activated."
11. If you are in the left lane and only driving 70 in a 55-65mph zone, you are considered a road hazard and will be "flipped off" accordingly. If you return the flip, you'll be shot.
12. Do not try to estimate travel time -- just leave Monday afternoon for Tuesday appointments, by noon Thursday for Friday appointments, and right after church on Sunday for anything on Monday morning.
SAFE DRIVING ! ! !
DEM GOVS WARN: OBAMA SUIT VS. AZ IS 'TOXIC'
NYT: In private weekend meetings with White House, Dem governors voice deep anxiety about suit against AZ immigration law, worrying it could cost party in fall elections... Developing...
At present, available federal revenues are fully consumed by just three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
"The rest of the federal government, including fighting two wars, homeland security, education, art, culture, you name it, veterans, the whole rest of the discretionary budget is being financed by China and other countries."
-- Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming , co-chair of Obama's debt and deficit commission.
Doctors threaten to pull out of Texas Medicaid
Over fears new cut in reimbursements will result in declining physician participation
--Associated Press
“You gotta love Obama's fair-weather friends of the Constitution.
When a state acts to do the job the feds won't do, Obama's legal eagles run to the Founding Fathers for protection.
When, on the other hand, left-wing cities across the country pass illegal alien sanctuary policies that flagrantly defy national immigration laws and hamper cross-jurisdiction enforcement, the newfound federal preemption advocates are nowhere in sight.
The Obama DOJ's lawsuit against Arizona is sabotage of the people's will and the government's fundamental responsibility to provide for the common defense."
--columnist Michelle Malkin
Government union outrage from New York City:
Taxpayers kick in an average $8.60 for every dollar that city employees contribute to their pensions.
DEM-SPEAK IDIOCY By Neal Boortz
We have now reached the point where the looters can take money from a producer, hand it to a moocher, and call it a tax cut for the moocher. Here's how. It's called a "refundable tax credit."
The looters pass a bill containing a $3000 "tax credit" for people earning under a certain amount. They call this a tax cut ... and it is, for people who actually owe $3000 or more in federal income taxes.
Now ... here comes the oddly-named "refundable" part. If the person eligible for the tax credit owes no income tax to the federal government - or if he owes less than the amount of the credit - the remaining balance of the credit is simply paid to the individual.
That means that people who already pay no federal income tax at all .. and that's almost 50% of all wage-earners in this country .. simply get a check from the government (money seized from actual taxpayers) in the amount of $3000. What's more ... this $3000 is called a "tax cut!"
Don't you just love it! The looters seize the money from the producers, hand it to the moochers .. and tell the moochers they're getting a tax cut.
Obama Family chef elevated to post as 'senior policy adviser'...
Whole Foods bans woman for life after she forgets to pay for item
The woman grabbed a $13 bottle of dinosaur-shaped chewable vitamins and began texting her husband that she was running late. Then her four-year-old announced he had to go to the bathroom. In the confusion, she had put the vitamins in her bag and walked out without paying for them. Now she's banned from Whole Foods for life. (Chicago Magazine)
THOSE DEBT-RELIEF COMMERCIALS By Neal Boortz
Don't you just love those commercials from all of those companies that can help you reduce your credit card debt? Go ahead - if you really want to screw up what's left of your credit rating engage one of these companies to help you avoid your debts. I'm only bringing this up because of a line I heard in one of these commercials: "You only have so much money, so stop giving it away."
Are you believing this? This company is telling you that using your money to pay your debts is "giving it away."
What an incredible message for our young people!
Nanny state alert ... Nine stores in Manhattan and the Bronx have been
hit with $200 fines for leaving their doors open on hot days
in the hope that the escaping cool air would lure sweaty customers.
'CLIMATE CHANGE' CALL TO GIVE UP AIR CONDITIONING...
End 'lavish use in everyday life'...
UN Urges Scientists to 'keep distance from media'...
“… But if Barack Obama is trying to implode the system, and he is to succeed in doing so, how does he know that the people of this nation will not revolt?
Does he assume that people will simply demand a government that makes all of their decisions for them? Perhaps he knows that this is a failing battle, but he realizes that if we manage to teeter for years on the edge, at least he will have accelerated the decline for fundamental transformation, swelling the public payroll and finances, sufficiently hobbling the private sector, weakening our morale and making people exponentially more reliant on government.
Even if he cannot push all the way to totalitarian collectivism, he can still get us close enough that is almost impossible to repeal massive statism."
--columnist Andrew Mellon
We have spent more on economic stimulus since 2008 than we have spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
"I want an American character that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others;
this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home."
--George Washington
Utah: Illegal aliens lose food stamps
Thousands no longer eligible for government aid due to change in state's rules
-- Salt Lake Tribune
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion –
when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing –
when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors –
when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work,
and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you –
when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice –
you may know that your society is doomed."
--author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
"In his major addresses, Obama's modesty about his own country has been repeatedly on display as, in one venue after another, he has gratuitously confessed America's alleged failing -- from disrespecting foreigners to having lost its way morally after 9/11. It's fine to recognize the achievements of others and be non-chauvinistic about one's country.
But Obama's modesty is curiously selective. When it comes to himself, modesty is in short supply. It began with the almost comical self-inflation of his presidential campaign, from the still inexplicable mass rally in Berlin in front of a Prussian victory column to the Greek columns framing him at the Democratic convention.
And it carried into his presidency, from his posture of philosopher-king adjudicating between America's sins and the world's to his speeches marked by a spectacularly promiscuous use of the first-person pronoun -- I. Notice, too, how Obama habitually refers to Cabinet members and other high government officials as 'my' -- 'my secretary of homeland security,' 'my national security team,' 'my ambassador.'
The more normal -- and respectful -- usage is to say 'the,' as in 'the secretary of state.' These are, after all, public officials sworn to serve the nation and the Constitution -- not just the man who appointed them.
It's a stylistic detail, but quite revealing of Obama's exalted view of himself.
Not surprising, perhaps, in a man whose major achievement before acceding to the presidency was writing two biographies -- both about himself.
Obama is not the first president with a large streak of narcissism. But the others had equally expansive feelings about their country. Obama's modesty about America would be more understandable if he treated himself with the same reserve. What is odd is to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence -- yet not of his own country's."
--columnist Charles Krauthammer
CRIMINAL'S DELIGHT: OAKLAND COPS WON'T RESPOND TO 'MINOR' CRIMES
A Guy Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princess... “Will you marry me?”
The Princess said “NO!”
And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf and dated women half his age and drank beer and scotch and had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up and farted whenever he wanted.
The End
Census Director Can Only 'Speculate' on Impact of 'Shaky' Software...
"On July 4th we celebrate Independence Day. From which country did the United States win its independence?"
A poll conducted in June by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, and released just before Independence Day, asked a representative sampling of American adults that question.
Everybody knows the answer, right? It was... um, France . No, China . Uh... Mexico, maybe?
Believe it or not, an incredible 26% of those surveyed didn't know the correct answer: Great Britain .
Of that 26%, 6% gave it a try, incorrectly naming various countries including those mentioned above.
The remaining 20% were "unsure."
French parliament approves burqa ban...
In 2001 and 2003, Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011.
* Personal income tax rates will rise. The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise:
- - The 25% bracket rises to 28%
- The 28% bracket rises to 31%
- The 33% bracket rises to 36%
- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%
* Higher taxes on marriage and family: The "marriage penalty" (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return. The child tax credit will be cut in half. Other tax burdens for families will also kick in.
* The return of the death tax: The families of those dying on or after January 1, 2011 will face a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million.
* Higher tax rates on savers and investors: The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.
NAACP Set to Label Tea Party 'Racist'
THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COMPLEX:
"What kind of country do we actually live in when the so-called U.S. Intelligence Community lists 17 intelligence services ranging from Air Force Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency to the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Security Agency?
What could 'intelligence' mean once spread over 17 sizeable, bureaucratic, often competing outfits with a cumulative 2009 budget estimated at more than $55 billion (a startling percentage of which is controlled by the Pentagon)?
What exactly is so intelligent about all that? And why does no one think it even mildly strange or in any way out of the ordinary?"
Farrakhan Tells Jews He Wants Reparations
How about this one?
Four kindergartners – yes, 5-year-old boys – played cops and robbers at Wilson Elementary in New Jersey .
One yelled: "Boom! I have a bazooka, and I want to shoot you." He did not, of course, have a bazooka.
Nevertheless, all four boys were suspended from school for three days for "making threats," a violation of their school district's zero-tolerance policy.
School Principal Georgia Baumann said, "We cannot take any of these statements in a light manner."
District Superintendent William Bauer said: "This is a no-tolerance policy. We're very firm on weapons and threats."
PAPER: President's approval ratings close to 40%...
WorldNetDaily
Reid: No illegal construction workers in my state
'That may be some place, but it's not here in Nevada'
--WND
Ansche Hedgepeth, 12, committed this heinous crime: She left school in Washington, D.C., entered a Metrorail station to head home and ate a French fry.
An undercover officer arrested her, confiscating her jacket, backpack and shoelaces. She was handcuffed and taken to the Juvenile Processing Center . Only after three hours in custody was the 12-year-old released into her mother's custody.
The chief of Metro Transit Police said: "We really do believe in zero-tolerance. Anyone taken into custody has to be handcuffed for officer safety."
She was sentenced to community service and now carries an arrest record.
NJ top court rules police must explain DWI test laws in 'native' language...
Keith John Sampson, a student-employee at Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis , had the temerity to read
"Notre Dame Versus the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan" during breaks on the job.
One student complained because the book's cover depicted the Klan.
The university then found Sampson guilty of racial harassment!
Congressman 'unaware' of Black Panther case
Town-hall meeting erupts when Democrat denies knowledge of verdict dismissal
--Breitbart.tv
I would propose that every single time a lawmaker proposes an earmark as part of an appropriations bill in Washington the request must be in writing and the Taxpayer's Addendum should be added to the request. Here's how it might read:
"I, ___ (politician's name) ________ do hereby swear and affirm that it is my considered position and belief that it is more important for the government to spend the necessary sums for the completion of the project outlined herein than it would be for the person who actually worked for and earned these funds to be permitted to retain those funds for the payment of their person expenses; including expenses related to basic necessities of life such as food, transportation, shelter, clothing and healthcare."
How many of these politicians do you think would be willing to actually walk up to a wage earner and physically take the money out of that person's pocket to pay for some of this pork?
Boortz
ACLU wants mayor to stop praying with employees before meetings
The ACLU has asked Harrisburg , Penn. Mayor Linda Thompson to end her habit of opening some staff meetings with a prayer. No way, she says.(PennLive.com)
ON CAPITOL HILL
'Abused' staffers net nearly $1 million a year
Complaints of sexual harassment, mistreatment end up costing taxpayers
--Politico
"The political rationale for the lawsuit the Obama administration has filed to overturn Arizona 's immigration law is clear.
... [T]he lawsuit likely is an effort to boost the president's standing among Hispanics.
... Since federal appellate courts -- including the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1976 case -- have held that state laws which enforce federal statutes are not unconstitutional intrusions into federal jurisdiction, the administration is unlikely to prevail in court.
But since the purpose of this lawsuit is political, that may not matter much to this scofflaw president."
--columnist Jack Kelly
Obama Admin OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under HealthCare Law...
Black Tea Party Candidates Erupt at NAACP
African-American tea party candidates erupted Wednesday over an NAACP resolution labeling the grass-roots conservative movement as “racist.”
“I have not experienced the charges of racism that the NAACP is touting,” Vernon Parker, an African-American tea party congressional candidate in Arizona , told Politico.
Parker, former mayor of Paradise Valley , told Politico that he has never felt out of place at a tea party rally because of the color of his skin.
“When I go to tea party events, people don’t look at me any differently,” he said. “They didn’t judge me on the color of my skin,quite frankly, they judged me on my principles."
"There's always going to be a downside to even the best policies,
because the experts don't know as much as they think they do.
Sometimes, they don't even know they're not experts at all."
--columnist Jonah Goldberg
Try this from the Wall Street Journal.
In a recent note to clients, the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell needed more than 150 pages merely to summarize the bureaucratic morass created by Dodd-Frank.
These lawyers are telling their clients that this wonderful financial reform law will require no fewer than 243 new formal rule-makings by 11 different federal agencies.
Don't get me wrong, folks .. the love of big government and regulation is not the sole province of the Democrats.
Republicans were no slouches when it came to growing government and creating even more government agencies when they were running the show.
Boortz
The Obama administration said this week that there is no reason to sue so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate with federal authorities,
whereas Arizona 's new immigration law was singled out because it "actively interferes" with enforcement.
“If we were to adopt a value-added tax as Europe has,
your salary would be worth 20 percent less because you could buy less with it.
Your life savings would be worth 20 percent less.
Your pension would be worth 20 percent less."
Grover Norquist
TheRoot.com, a website devoted to black issues, carries an interesting essay by Sophia Nelson titled "Should Black Folks Give the Tea Party a Second Look?" She answers in the affirmative:
In the final analysis, I think we would all be wise to consider what Thomas Jefferson warned: "Every generation needs a new revolution."
Does anyone among us really believe that government knows what is best for our lives?
Does anyone among us really believe that paying more taxes will solve what is wrong with the poorest and least among us?
Perhaps the African-American community needs to consider what we can do to secure our own economic wealth and our own individual liberties.
Make no mistake--we are in perilous times, and to sit by passively and do nothing in the face of such deprivation is against all that we as Americans stand for.
Remember when Ronald Reagan was president,
we also had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash still with us...
Now we have Obama... and -no Hope- and -no Cash-!
Peter Roff of U.S. News & World Report, meanwhile, relays an ingenious idea:
Both sides are missing the boat in what could otherwise be a teachable moment that, as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says, could draw both organizations toward a focus on finding solutions to America 's most pressing problems.
The leaders of the Tea Party movement at the local level, Gingrich suggested to me Thursday, should approach the local chapters of the NAACP with an open invitation to cohost town hall meetings on the subject of America 's future.
It's an idea more in line with conciliation than with the confrontational style for which Gingrich is perhaps better known. It is a powerful one, seizing upon a moment very much in the spotlight in a creative way to the betterment of all concerned.
If the Tea Party movement is too white, what better way could there be to help integrate it?
And extending such an invitation to the NAACP would challenge the group to prove that it is interested in racial amity rather than in promoting division for partisan ends.
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
What?! FBI weblinks promote Ayers, Peltier
Unrepentant terrorist lauded, freedom sought for convicted killer of 2 agents
--WND
All 10,000 Crime Victim Visas Issued
The government has issued all 10,000 visas available this year for immigrant crime victims who help authorities investigate and prosecute perpetrators.
The last of this fiscal year's supply of visas was approved Thursday morning, marking the first time the government has hit the statutory "U" visa limit since the program became active two years ago.
The visas were created as part of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000. They are given to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and other crimes in exchange for cooperation with law enforcement.
In 2007, attorneys for immigrants who had been victims of crime sued the federal government for failing to issue any visas.
Only 52 were issued in 2008.
About 6,000 applications were approved last fiscal year.
Illegal Immigrants Hold DC 'Teach-In' to Push Bill
In "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America," McCarthy says Obama undermined U.S. relations with a strong anti-terrorism ally in an African region where al-Qaida operates. In 2006, he details in the book how Obama campaigned for a pro-communist candidate running against Nairobi 's pro-American government – "in outrageous contravention of U.S. policy and, probably, federal law."
Obama spent six days barnstorming the Kenyan countryside in support of Raila Odinga, the socialist Luo who was seeking the presidency. Appearing with Odinga at campaign stops, Obama gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive, leaving the masses in poverty.
$20 MILLION SPENT ON STIMULUS SIGNS?
The Aramaic words for “devil” and “demon,” as used in the Bible, are “shida” and “shidana.” More often than not, they were used to refer to a person who had weird ideas, or people who talked too much, or to anyone whose actions were out of favor. So, when the term, “cast out demons” [Matt. 10:8; Mark 3:15; Mark 16:17] is used by Jesus, it refers not only to the healing of mentally unbalanced or insane people. It also refers to helping people who have the wrong outlook on Life—people who have become confused in their political or their religious views. In the context of this usage, certainly, many people today could be said to be possessed by demons. Their outlook on life causes them to pay, what I call, “the hidden luxury tax of negative thinking,” because they do not see themselves rightly, because they view the world with “dark colored glasses,” because they have negative attitudes. They are constantly building up for themselves poisons in their human system, as a result of emotional re-charging of the consciousness of the individual, and they pay “the hidden luxury tax.”
© Eric Butterworth
Europe warns Obama: This relationship not working...
A recent Gallup poll found that Americans now believe that government and politicians are bigger problems for the country than illegal immigration, health care, disaster response or even the federal debt.
They're right. Politicians. Government.
These people are the problem .... these politicians are so full of themselves that they can't even realize that THEY are the problem.
They are so set on being the ones to get the credit for saving this economy that they are willing to let businesses and worker suffer, just so they can say they tried.
If they succeeded, that would be great. But they aren't.
So move over, get out of the way and let the private sector do what the private sector does best!
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
U.S. soldiers can be court-martialed for protecting selves
American fighters endangered by violations of 'rules of engagement'
--WND
Persons who are frequently angry, resentful, and irritated seem to have been cursed with many things that disturb them. But, even an elemental knowledge of psychology reveals that the real cause is inward unrest, which may well be the product of hurt pride or frustration.
When we are upset, it is because in some way, we have become “upsettable.” If we are irritated, it is because we are “irritate-able.”
The problem is within ourselves. The person has not upset us. The person has simply provided us with a marvelous opportunity to be upset, because we have allowed ourselves to get into that position, but the upsetting is in ourselves.
The incident is external. The reaction is our own.
© Eric Butterworth
“To be humble to superiors is duty,
to equals courtesy,
to inferiors nobleness.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Do the businesses out there have the money to expand?
Yes, they do. The desire is there as well. What business doesn't want to grow? So ... what's the problem? Why did you or someone in your family spend the week spinning their wheels looking for a job? What's holding things up?
Consider:
Major corporations are sitting on $2 trillion dollars in cash right now.
Corporate profits are up.
Banks have another $1trillion in excess reserves
As National Review's economics editor Larry Kudlow points out, that's $3 trillion dollars being held in the private sector that could be financing the greatest job-creation and business growth. What's more .. this money could be financing growth in the private sector, not in government. So ... what's the problem?
Obama and the Democrats .. that's the problem.
Springfield Police Charge One-Armed Man With Unarmed Robbery"
--headline, Republican ( Springfield , Mass. ), July 14, 2010
This quote from Chris Dodd on the financial reform bill. This has earned him the title of Rectal-Cranial Inversion Moment of the Day ...
"It is not a perfect bill; I will be the first to admit that.
We don't know ultimately how well the ideas we've incorporated here will achieve the results we desire.
It will take the next economic crisis, as certainly it will come, to determine whether or not the provisions of this bill
will actually provide this generation or the next generation of regulators
with the tools necessary to minimize the effects of that crisis when it happens."
This is the guy charged with the task of saving our economy from any future crisis?
We're going to have to wait for another economic crisis to find out whether or not this financial reform bill the Democrats passed yesterday is going to work?
I need more luggage.
Our federal government at work
... the Interior Department has been using a 1964 environmental law to
block the Border Patrol from building communications towers along the southwestern border in Arizona