...after which he'll make the morning talk show circuit, maybe a couple of appearances on Springer..
Or, perhaps he'll hit the reality TV circuit, and be a temporary move-in with The Osbournes
And if that doesn't work, how about celebrity kick boxing?
With his charisma, and with my photoshop, The possibilities are endless.
Sounds like he'd be perfect to serve in an ethical, open, Obama administration.WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Finance committee will meet Monday to review the tax records of former Sen. Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services who, according to sources, didn't pay taxes on a car and driver he had been loaned.
A Democratic source familiar with the situation told CNN that Daschle was loaned a car and driver by a wealthy friend and failed to disclose it on his income taxes, as he should have. Daschle has since paid what he owed, the source said.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Daschle brought the issues to the committee's attention himself and that Obama is "confident" he will be confirmed.
What's a little cheating on one's taxes among the liberal elite anyway? I mean, actually paying taxes is for the "little people."
Hell. It's the thought that counts.
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I'll have the first piece of mudpie, thanks!Can eating dirt make you healthier?
Several studies called the hygiene hypothesis show that when organisms from bacteria, viruses and worms enter the body from dirt, the immune system becomes stronger, The New York Times reported.
The ongoing studies imply ingesting worms redirects a skewed immune system, curing people with autoimmune disorders, allergies and asthma.
“What a child is doing when he puts things in his mouth is allowing his immune response to explore his environment,” Mary Ruebush, a microbiology and immunology instructor, wrote in her new book, “Why Dirt Is Good” (Kaplan). “Not only does this allow for ‘practice’ of immune responses, which will be necessary for protection, but it also plays a critical role in teaching the immature immune response what is best ignored.”
Dr. Joel V. Weinstock, director of gastroenterology and hepatology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and Dr. David Elliott, a gastroenterologist and immunologist at the University of Iowa,said children who grow up on farms and are exposed to worms and other organisms have been found less likely to develop allergies or autoimmune diseases.
“Children should be allowed to go barefoot in the dirt, play in the dirt and not have to wash their hands when they come in to eat,” Weinstock said.
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Murtha to Step Down
BRATTLEBORO -- After nearly 14 years serving on bench, U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha will move to senior status this July.Curses. I certainly look forward to that day when such a headline will be attributed to the target of this blog.Murtha, approaching 68, said Tuesday that he has fulfilled all the requirements in the full-time position and decided to step down in order to give someone else the opportunity to be a federal judge.
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Mengele selects incoming Jews for labour or extermination in the gas chambers and conducts pseudoscientific medical experiments on inmates, principally infants, young twins, dwarfs and those with genetic abnormalities. He is given his own laboratory block, independent financing and a medical staff.3. Margaret Sanger:He is also supported by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics at Dahlem in Berlin and sends specimens to the institute director, Dr Otmar von Verschuer, his former supervisor at the University of Frankfurt and an expert on the genetics of twins.
Mengele investigates ways to increase human fertility. He tries to find a genetic cause for the disease 'noma' (a rare gangrenous condition of the face and mouth), studies physical abnormalities and contagious diseases, conducts experiments with wounds, and attempts to change the colour of inmate's eyes to blue with injections of chemicals directly into the eyeball. His chief interest is twins.
"It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stoop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them."And last, but certainly not least,
And:
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Her interview with Stephanopolous:
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Why is it that the more and more I see this clown portrayed, the more and more he looks like some infamous commie despot? Is art imitating life? Will we soon see little blue books everywhere we turn? Like on the farm fields of Minnesota?...in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this historic collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency. It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times. (emphases added--ed.)
Over the last several years, Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, has helped steer more than $100 million in contracts to Kuchera, a government contractor founded in 1985 by Bill Kuchera. The company and its employees have donated more than $65,000 dollars to Murtha’s re-election campaign and leadership PAC, according to Federal Election Commission records.
How many more times are the folks in PA-12 going to send this slime-laden, corrupt bloated dinosaur of a politician back to what should be a position of trust in Washington? How many times must he be caught with his fat, greasy fingers in the cookie jar before PA-12 voters finally get sufficiently disgusted to say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?!?"
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Unlike Bill and Hillary Clinton, George and Laura Bush will take few treasured mementos with them from their years at the White House.
When the Clintons left the White House in January 2001, the former first couple took with them more than 50 gifts -- including a chandelier, flatware, and paintings -- valued at nearly $200,000.
The Bushes, however, borrowed from furnishings that already existed within the White House collection, said Sally McDonough, press secretary to Laura Bush.
"Mrs. Bush -- having the experience of being at the White House when her father-in-law was president -- knew how many beautiful things she had to choose from to furnish the residence. And she will go back to Texas with only those items that belong to her," McDonough told FOXNews.com.
Oh shit.
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"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”¹
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
The first graph shows that General Fund Revenue and Expenditure growth has exceeded the consumer price index, CPI. The graph uses FY ’02-’03 as a base, and projects through the upcoming FY ’10-’11 biennium using the November Forecast. Actual Revenues have risen 26.02%, which is above the 22.22% increase in CPI. General Fund expenditures are projected to increase by 36.62% over that time.
The second graph builds on the first. It simply shows total GF revenues and spending from the end of the FY’02-’03 biennium through the FY’10-’11 biennium (November Forecast). If spending had been and would be held to the CPI for that time period there would be a budget surplus of over $7.9 billion for the FY’10-11 biennium given actual revenues raised during that time.
That $7.9 billion represents the tax cut foregone by the state having spent over and above CPI. The $7.9 billion is the total potential cut, over that 8 year period.
The third graph shows that for the current FY’08-’09 biennium (the first biennium under renewed House DFL control) spending vastly exceeded revenues coming in. In fact, over $2 billion more was spent than raised! That level of over-spending could only be enacted due to the large budget surplus the GOP left the DFL.
This spending of over $2 billion more than raised in the current biennium, combined with projected further increased spending and nearly flatline revenues raised leads directly to the November forecast of a $4.8 billion shortfall for the upcoming biennium and a $4.6 billion deficit in the out biennium.
Finally, it should be noted that the adoption of the constitutional amendment dedicating MVST revenues to roads and transit has had a significant impact on the general fund. This was not unexpected, but those responsible for the dedication – and the voters – should understand that a portion of any budget reductions for the current and upcoming biennium can be attributed to this dedication.
For the current biennium, the amendment took $625.8 million out of the GF, which would have solved the deficit in the November Forecast.
For the upcoming biennium, the amendment will divert $798 million from the GF, which is 16% of the shortfall.
State government spending out of control and way beyond increases in the consumer price index. Who'd a thunk it? The fact that we could be sitting on a 7 billion dollar surplus instead of a 5+ billion dollar deficit speaks volumes.
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Preaching... religion. Yep. About sums it up.Preaching global climate change through music
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This, coupled with this, and do we get this?In what would be another unprecedented step, Obama's political staff is deciding whether to create a service organization that would use the vast corps of its grass-roots campaign supporters. As described by one source knowledgeable with the discussions, this nonprofit arm would be used to help victims of natural disasters, but would do so under the Obama umbrella while continuing to build the overall network's massive e-mail database.
Has a president ever had an organized political relief squad, independent from the federal government? This strikes me as quite creepy. "Hi we're here to help...on behalf of Barack Obama....federal relief workers will be here shortly..."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."Will ours be the generation asleep at the switch?
-Ronald Wilson Reagan
'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.'
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The fact that the dead tree media is dying while conservative talk radio, its nemesis lo these past 20 years, is thriving, not only speaks volumes, but nearly perfectly defines irony.Decades of tone deaf liberal pontificating and gleeful smearing of anything remotely center right, ‘reporting’ only the facts that benefit liberal policies and politicians. The one sided liberal bias of the paper made it a must *not* read paper for a very large portion of Minnesotans. And with the fact that people can get the news that they want for free online, clinging to the old business model for news left the Strib as a failure waiting to happen.
It is really just further proof that the free market works.
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...How rude! Notably: When Pawlenty pleaded, on behalf of average Minnesotans, "Please don't raise my taxes," the GOP stood and applauded. The DFL sat on their hands.In the words of another song,
What that tells us is clear: The DFL will raise our taxes, given the chance. This after Tarryl Clark told a recent meeting of St. Cloud area business leaders, "I won't raise your taxes." Senate Tax Committee Chair, Tom Baak, speaking Tuesday evening at the Minnesota Grocers Association dinner in St. Paul, acknowledged that taxes cannot be increased much because it would have a chilling effect on our already frigid economy, and extend our recession. Yet there they were, firmly sitting on their hands to tell us all what their response will be to Minnesotans' plea for no more taxes.
The DFL partisanship against Governor Pawlenty this afternoon was palpable -- evident in everything from silence, smirks and asides, to negative body language. They don't want to cooperate. They want to stick this in Pawlenty and break it off! Tarryl Clark's cold stares and lack of applause spoke volumes. This from a senator who promotes herself as a moderate bridge-builder and a bi-partisan!
When I was a kid, and all the way through the mid 1980s, one of my favorite stores in the world was F. W. Woolworth's at the Cermak Plaza in Berwyn, Illinois. A sundries store, F.W. Woolworth had everything from goldfish to parakeets, from gloves to shoes-- During the early days of living on my own, Woolworth's saved me from frostbite on a number of occasions, as they usually had decent winter gloves at prices I could afford. One of the features that Woolworth's had was a pretty decent cafe. I received a copy of this Woolworth's menu from the 1950s (click on the pic to enlarge it).
Kinda neat, ain't it?
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Meteorologists: Global Warming and Cold Weather Go Hand-In-Hand
Geneva
14 January 2009
The World Meteorological Organization says cold weather does not mean that global warming has abated. WMO says people should not confuse weather with climate.
Isn't that what the global warming chickenlittles have been ramming down our throats lo this past friggen decade? Hurricane Katrina? Global warming. Thunderstorms--Global warming. Tornadoes--Global warming. A warm summer's breeze... of course, global warming. Algore and his merry filthy-stinkin'-rich band of alarmists have blamed every individual weather event from rain to drought on global warming.
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Interesting, but I'm thinking the likeness of the President Elect would have been better placed on the rear end of the boxers, on the inside..
GLENN: Right. But it's interesting also that Janeane Garofalo and Jon Voight are in the same series this year.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: The right and the left actors. Okay. So she's in that one scene, and I'm not going to give anything away but, you know -- I'm not going to spoil the scene for you if you have it on TiVo. But there's this one scene where you know character -- I'm trying to be as vague as I can -- this one character is with Janeane and they need to interrogate. It's 24. You knew this was happening. So they interrogate and the one character says, "I've got to get the answers." And Janeane Garofalo says, "You can't do that. This is America. That's against the law." And the other character says, "They'll kill a bunch of people and we've got to do it! A lot of people will die and it will be a horrible situation!" Janeane Garofalo's character says, "This is against everything we stand for! This is against code, this is against all regulations, this is against the law! I won't have anything to do with it!" And then the character turns with tears in their eyes, says, "This whole thing has been my fault. I've got to set this right. Please, I've got to get the answer. I've got to do this because it's -- I've got to set it right! Please, for me!" And the progressive says, "Okay, I'll wait outside." It wasn't because people are going to die. It wasn't because this guy knows and we need to get it. It wasn't, "We've got to protect our country." She was convinced by, "Please? It will make me feel better." You didn't even have to say, "But okay, let me make the case. I don't think the law applies here or here or here." All you had to do was look at her with puppy dog eyes and say, "Please, it will make my booboo go away."
STU: If that's not every liberal policy.
GLENN: It is.
STU: Feel good emotional.
GLENN: It is. It's wrong. If you want to do it for any other reasons. But if it will make us all feel good, well, then maybe we should.
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President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, said if confirmed he will pursue policies to address [the Easter Bunny] and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.Just how tenaciously are they going to cling to that lie????
At a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Steven Chu said two key challenges facing the United States are [Santa Claus] and making the nation more energy independent.
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Dear ColleaguesNote that Rep. Mariani talks about "... the destructive nature that the current lack of reform and heavy enforcement has had on our local communities" but says not one word about the destructive nature that illegal immigration has had on our community resources, including health care, law enforcement, and social services:
I have been working with several local immigration advocates, and with national advocates, to craft an urgent letter to Pres Obama's Administration to take immediate action on several immigration policies fronts that fall under the purview of the Exec Branch. Primarily these will fall under three key areas: the present nature and scope of the raids, (especially the door to door residential raids), the current nature of detention facilities (falling outside the scope of regulation that even hardened convicted criminals enjoy), and the nature of the 287G agreements that recruit our local public safety officals to carry out immigration enforcement with little or no federal funds to pay for our efforts.
The prime focus of the letter is to promote a more humane approach to enforcement while our nation prepares reform of our immigration policies.
We hope to have a letter ready by the end of this week. I am writing to ask you to consider joining me as a petitioner on the letter.
I do not see this as a partisan issue even as we may disagree on certain elements of current immigration policy and actions. I understand some of you may be sympathetic but hesitant to agree to the full nature of the letter's call to action however, I do not want to make that assumption for you. Let me know if you wish to see the draft letter for your consideration. Also, if you are not prone to sign on perhaps you can consider crafting your own version that you can convey to the new administration seperate from the one I am preparing. It is my belief that there is much common ground on immigration reform, including testifying to the destructive nature that the current lack of reform and heavy enforcement has had on our local communities. Any call to not continue the status quo will be important to make.
I will be issuing this invitation to both House and Senate members, to local elected officials, and to labor and business leaders as well. We will then share our call with colleagues in other states.
Please let me know of your interest as soon as possible.
Thank you for considering this request.
Rep Carlos Mariani
The study concluded that illegal aliens are expensive, costing the state $188 million annually, with costs escalating.Yeah... way to look at all the angles, Rep. Mariani. Proof positive that liberal democrats. Can't. Link.This paper reviews the state study concluding that its population numbers significantly understates actual trends and therefore $188 million significantly understates actual costs. Moreover, the costs included in the study failed to consider a number of other, even critical, issues in education, health care, public safety, jobs and economy, growing energy shortages, loss of natural areas, environmental damage, and threats to the homogeneity of the nation.
Although not cited in the Minnesota Study, in October 2005 a similar study of illegal aliens in Florida was published. This study emphasized the three largest expenditures, as does the Minnesota study, with the identical conclusions. Minnesota is likely 6-8 years behind #5 immigration state Florida in the seriousness of the problems connected with illegals. Florida now spends nearly $2 billion yearly for education, medical care and incarceration. California’s estimates its three million illegal aliens (likely many more) cost taxpayers $9 billion annually.3 Countering the dream of illegals advocates that the idea of tax payments exceeding costs is shattered with the finding that net outlays still amount to nearly $1 billion dollars annually, or about $315 per Florida household headed by a native-born resident. Similar to the Minnesota study, the Florida study begins with an Urban Institute study of these state cost areas. Jeffrey S. Passel, the same demographer cited in the Minnesota study, found the equivalent situation in Florida as in Minnesota where the “official” estimates of illegal aliens were undercounted.4
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Or knock me over with one.
Not that this is any big surprise, or anything, but lo and behold, as The Right Perspective reports, Obama’s choice for energy czar just happens to be a card-carrying socialist.
Oh… not just any socialist, mind you, but Carol M. Browner is a member of the “Commission for a Sustainable World Society,” an offshoot of the organization “Socialist International.”
I’ve often observed that far from being a group of well-meaning tree-huggers, the radical environmentalists see environmental issues as one of the primary vehicles from which they can slam more and more of their radical political agenda down our throats; which more than explains why they cling to their environmental dogma a hell of a lot more than conservatives cling to “guns and religion.” This despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
So is it really any surprise that Barack Hussein Obama, who cut his teeth under the tutelage of such leftist luminaries as Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky, would actually appoint socialists to help run his administration?
Ya get who you vote for.
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~First you say you will, and then you won't,
And then you say you may, and then you don't,
You're undecided now, so what are you gonna do?~
All this angst for and against seating a man who was legally appointed by a sitting governor, who just happens to be a minority.
Don't you just love it when the dems eat their own.
The House’s top defense appropriator has pledged to help strengthen the role of the Pentagon’s comptroller in an effort to curb lobbying by the military services for their controversial programs.
Yet, the Murtha situation is very troubling when you look at CTC’s Form 990. With the exception of three individuals listed on the schedule of officers and directors, all have contributed to Murtha’s congressional campaigns since 2002.I mean, with sweetheart deals like that, why should Murtha even bother to take the time listen to those pesky military folks who actually know what they need?
[SNIP]The Times also notes that CTC has paid somewhere around $500,000 to a lobbying firm. The lobbying firm's executives and clients have contributed over $1.2 million to Murtha in campaign contributions (the Times refers to these as donations) since 1999, according to the Times.
So we have a congressman who was a driving force behind the creation of this tax-exempt entity. That same congressman is earmarking significant amounts of money to that organization. Those who are in control of the organization (several of whom receive significant salaries from CTC) contribute large amounts of money to the congressman’s campaign. We can only wonder how the entity distributes the federal grant money within the local community.
Dear Colleagues,Hmm... accountability guideposts... does that mean that there will be accountability attached to student performance a/la higher achievement scores? Will there be new goals to strive for to provide taxpayers and taxpaying parents measures of the effectiveness of educational programming and the money spent on it?
The New Minnesota Miracle education finance reform bill is outside my office (381) for signatures. This is the bill stemming from the Governor's education finance reform task force and the P.S. Minnesota report. It equitable and adequately provides funding so all students, no matter where they live and what their challenges are, have the opportunity to graduate from high school ready for success in college, university, technical schools or to go straight into a good job. The House K-12 Education Finance Division held numerous hearings around the state last summer and fall on this bill and received rave reviews in every area of the state. It is scalable, so can be phased in with a little or a lot of funding. Either way, it provides accountability guideposts to measure how our state is doing by our students.
Mindy Greiling
[Dear Representative Greiling],To which Ms. Greiling responded:
You had mentioned "accountability guideposts" contained in the (381)Minnesota Miracle Education Bill.
Could you please expand on what the accountability guideposts would entail?
Thank you so much--
Leo Pusateri
School Psychologist
What I meant was that progress on funding adequacy will be openly measured by the public, by viewing at what pace we phase in the bill.So, in other words, in Ms. Greiling's Newspeak vernacular, the term "accountability guidepost" has absolutely nothing to do with accountabilty geared toward greater student achievement. Rather, the word "accountability guidepost" has to do with how much money they--the government (via Joe Taxpayer) throws at education.
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Officials familiar with the choice noted that Panetta, as Clinton's chief of staff, participated in the daily intelligence briefings in the Oval Office and had intimate knowledge of the interaction between the agency and the White House. Panetta also was a member of the Iraq Study Group
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Moonbat Adventures
Glenn Reynolds says, "psycho who?"
"When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money."
(MN Rep. Cy Thao, DFL 65-A)
"Teacher says, everytime a bell rings, another democrat wants to raise your taxes."
-Zuzu Bailey-
