Highlights ot the Obama Kick Back Bill

On January 30, 2009, In Barack Obama, By stix1972

Orlando over at Fort Hard Knox has a post about the Porkulus (Stimulus) Bill which I have affectionately called the “Obama Kick Back Bill”.  It is not a stimulus bill at all, it is a way to pay back his voters. As we in Illinois call it “The Chicago Way”.   Just ask Blogojevich about it, he will be singing like a canary soon, he is not going to go down by himself, h will bring others down with him.

But now to all the goodies going to Obama’s voters,  via Fort Hard Knox:

  • Only 12 cents out of every dollar is for growth stimuli (which doesn’t go into effect for years in some cases)
  • $600 million is to buy themselves new “green” cars (even though they already spend $3 billion per year)
  • $252 billion is for people who do nothing: $81 billion for Medicaid, $36 billion for unemployment benefits, $20 billion for food stamps, and $83 billion for people who don’t pay income tax
  • $54 billion will go to “ineffective” government programs (reported by the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office)
  • $66 billion goes to the Department of Education

It gets worse.  According to CNS News and Fox News:

  • $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple including illegal aliens since social security numbers can’t be checked
  • $335 million for STDs
  • $4.19 billion in “neighborhood stabilization activities” such as ACORN
  • $10 million for bike and walking trails
  • $200 million for plug-in car stations
  • $400 million for climate change research
  • $600 million for grants for diesel emission reduction
  • $650 million for “alternative energy technologies”
  • $1.5 billion for construction of “green schools”
  • $2.7 billion would go toward embryonic stem cell experimentation
  • $75 million for smoking cessation
  • $246 million over 11 years for investors in big budget movie projects
  • $50 billion to the National Endowment for the Art
  • $150 million for bees called “honey insurance”
  • $20 million for “fish barriers”

I am still trying to figure out how this will stimulate antything other than the Machine that gotObama elected.

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THE STATUE

On January 27, 2009, In Our Military, By stix1972

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? WHERE THIS IS?

THE STATUE

statue

This statue
currently stands outside the Iraqi palace,
Now home to the 4th Infantry division.

It will
eventually be shipped home

And put in the
memorial museum in Fort Hood , TX

The statue
was created by
an Iraqi
artist named Kalat,
who for years was forced by
Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds
of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad .

Kalat was so
grateful for the Americans liberation of his country;

He melted 3 of the heads of the fallen
Saddam and made the statue as a memorial to the American soldiers

and their fallen
warriors.

Kalat
worked on this memorial night and day for several months.

To the left of the
kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving the soldier comfort as he mourns the
loss of his comrade in arms.

Do you
know why we don’t hear about this in the news?

Because it
is heart warming
and
praise worthy..

The media
avoids it because it does not have the shock effect.

But we
can do something about it.

We can
pass this along to as many people as we can in honor of all our brave
military who are making a difference.

So
please pass this on!

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Changey Hopey Creepy Pledgey

On January 20, 2009, In Barack Obama, By Jim Lynch

The personality cult presidency of Barack Obama starts in just a few short hours, but some celebrities just couldn’t wait to pledge their allegiance, not to the flag, but to The One™

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=50632298

Granted, some of the things they mention are worthy goals that deserve peoples work and effort. I don’t deride the idea of doing good things or determining to make choices that improve your life and the lives of others, instead it is the eerie devotion to the idea that now with this president we can finally shape our country the way it should be.

I was talking to a co-worker yesterday about this phenomenon. He asked me what I thought drove the idea that Barack Obama could, simply by his election, bring about all of this change. I told him that I believe that a big part of that is the fact that our soon-to-be-trained-on-the-job President is such a blank slate with no record, no history, and no demonstrable core values, that it allows every individual to project on to him the things that they hope for. His candidacy and election remind me of the UPS Whiteboard commercials — you can write or erase whatever you want to get whatever you want and to make things look the way you want.

Frances Romero writing for Time said,

Remember when we used to pledge allegiance to a flag? Not in Barack Obama’s nation. On the eve of his grandly coordinated, $150 million Inaugural, celeb power couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore released a video full of their Hollywood friends and colleagues pledging to Obama to “be the change” that so many want to see with his incoming administration.

And concluded with this,

Overall, there’s some good stuff in here: Smile, mentor someone, drive slower, conserve gas. Steer clear of the last 20 seconds though. Fifty celebrities pledging in unison to serve our new President from an elaborate Brady Bunch grid, is creepy. A little cult-ish even.

Ace remarks,

If you get sick of it, skip to the end, to see a cultish chant to “serve our president” from all of the various B- and C- and F- list celebrities on display.

Remember when they put out a similar video after 9/11? Nope, me neither.

Curt at Flopping Aces observes,

Check out this video of the many ignorant celebrities who have over the last 8 years done whatever they could to tear down our President, stand in his way of making any progress to protect this country and its future, and insulted him at every chance.

[...]

The whole video is embarrassing but in the final moment when the image pulls out and eveyone of these nimrods is a part of the Obama portrait…then it became downright creepy. You just can’t describe this cult of personality any other way other then creepy and scary.

Andrew Breitbart sums it up well at his new Big Hollywood digs.

Remember this video: It is a instructive relic of the era of celebrity decadence and boutique anti-Republican activism under President Bush. It is a sickening display that they want fast and easy absolution for having comported themselves like ill-behaved children for eight difficult and war-torn years.

Good luck, President Obama. The rest of you can go to hell.

Years ago (this video is from 1969) Red Skelton offered a look a what the real pledge should mean. Take a look, especially if you watched the first one.

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Cross-posted from bRight & Early

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Telling Words From Philadelphia

On January 17, 2009, In Conservative Principles, By Jim Lynch

While reading PEBO’s remarks from Philadelphia, one quote stuck out to me.

That is the reason I launched my campaign for the presidency nearly two years ago. I did so in the belief that the most fundamental American ideal, that a better life is in store for all those willing to work for it, was slipping out of reach. That Washington was serving the interests of the few, not the many. And that our politics had grown too small for the scale of the challenges we faced.

My Emphasis.

The first part of the quote, “the most fundamental American ideal, that a better life is in store for all those willing to work for it, [is] slipping out of reach” is correct, but the idea that it is due to too little government, or one that has “grown too small for the scale of the challenges we [face]” is absolutely wrong.

Many, if not most, of the challenges we face are due to an abundance of government, not a lack. Business are failing, or failing to grow, from over regulation not a shortage of regulation. Individual effort, creativity, and entrepreneurship are stifled by government that has grown as large and intrusive as ours.

Several times in this account of his remarks he mentions our founding documents, saying, “What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives – from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry – an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.” There was also this:

For the American Revolution did not end when British guns fell silent. It was never something to be won only on a battlefield or fulfilled only in our founding documents. It was not simply a struggle to break free from empire and declare independence. The American Revolution was – and remains – an ongoing struggle ‘in the minds and hearts of the people’ to live up to our founding creed.

With such an emphasis on our founding documents I would like to remind him what one of them says.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

My biggest concern regarding the new congress and incoming administration is that their answer to any and every problem will be more government. I hope and pray that I will be proved wrong.

Cross posted from bRight & Early

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January 11, 1989

On January 11, 2009, In Conservative Principles, Reclaiming Conservatism, By stix1972

Here is the last 6 minutes of Ronaldis Maximus’ final farewell speech.

H/T to Flopping Aces

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Is Obama going to follow in FDR’s foorsteps

On January 11, 2009, In Uncategorized, By stix1972

FDR’s policies help prolong the Depression and only when WWII started did the Depression end.    FDR’s policies only hurt the economy and it is looking like Obama wants to redo the same policies that made the Depression last longer than it actually would have.   The free markets will correct itself if it is left alone, but when the government interferes it only exacerbates the downturn and will prolong the slower economy.  And Obama’s first thing that he wants to do is replay the detrimental policies that FDR put into place.

FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate

By
Meg Sullivan
| 8/10/2004 12:23:12 PM

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

“Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump,” said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA’s Department of Economics. “We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.”

In an article in the August issue of the Journal of Political Economy, Ohanian and Cole blame specific anti-competition and pro-labor measures that Roosevelt promoted and signed into law June 16, 1933.

“President Roosevelt believed that excessive competition was responsible for the Depression by reducing prices and wages, and by extension reducing employment and demand for goods and services,” said Cole, also a UCLA professor of economics. “So he came up with a recovery package that would be unimaginable today, allowing businesses in every industry to collude without the threat of antitrust prosecution and workers to demand salaries about 25 percent above where they ought to have been, given market forces. The economy was poised for a beautiful recovery, but that recovery was stalled by these misguided policies.—-UCLA Newsroom

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On January 8, 2009, In Uncategorized, By stix1972

My friends Sammy Benoit from Yidwithlid has a great post over at The American Thinker on the hypocrisy in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.  The Palestinians have never held true to the peace treaties,and if they do it is only to re-arm themselves. But when the Israelis defend themselves; the UN, MSM and Eurabia go into a total conniption fit over Israel defending themselves.  Meanwhile the Palestinians fire rockets from school yards and heavily populated places so the Israelis will have to go after places that civilians will get caught in the cross fire. Then we have the willing accomplices in the MSM will display the dead children for the whole world to see and castigate Israel for barbarian tactics. This has been going on for years, and this does not even take into account the staged events that Pallywood puts out that those on the Left eat up like candy.

Sammy’s post is about how the Palestinians use children and civilians for cover, and the less than forthcoming so-called Human Rights organizations look the other way and  blame Israeli for all of the death and destruction.

Human shields: Where’s the outrage?
Sammy Benoit
Hamas’ use of the children and other innocents as human shields at the UN school got its desired effect yesterday.  They fired mortars on Israeli troops, the troops returned the fire, and dozens of civilians died or were injured, along with the terrorists. There is a library full of evidence proving it isn’t the first time Hamas has used innocents as human shields.

Hamas built armories in the basements of mosques and schools, private homes and hospitals. They create their bunkers and weapons factories in crowded neighborhoods. All of this “construction” was done out in the public. Under the watchful eye of the UN as well as human right’s organizations such as Amnesty,  Human Rights Watch (HRW), and B’tselem.—American Thinker

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It is not who votes. It’s who counts the votes.

On January 6, 2009, In Elections, By stix1972

stalin_votingAh yes,good old Stalin to the rescue of Al Franken and the Democrats in Minnesota. If you do not get the votes, recount until you get the desired result. This whole recount is an embarrassment to the entire US voting population. When you have 25 precincts with more votes the n voted on election day, you know there is problems with the recount.

Funny Business in Minnesota

In which every dubious ruling seems to help Al Franken.

Wall Street Journal

JANUARY 5, 2009

Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.

Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on “counting every vote” wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.—WSJ

Stix

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