This'n'That; December 11th[obamaCare;DeathPanels]

"Clown Prince"--The Hypocrite, As Usual!!

[As usual, Fluffy obama is using one of his minions to counter one of his previous positions on legislation. This arschloch will never admit to anything negative; it's all about him!! His handlers cooked up a deal with big pharmaceuticals to ensure they support passage of the obamaCare legislation. As usual, a poliltical payoff-again, with plausible deniability!!

NOTE: Senators Can Block Consideration of a Bill with a “Hold” A “hold” is placed when the Leader’s office is notified that a Senator intends to object to a request for unanimous consent (UC) from the Senate to consider or pass a measure. A hold may be placed for any reason and can be lifted by a Senator at any time. A Senator may place a hold simply to review a bill, to negotiate changes to the bill, or to kill the bill. A bill can be held for as long as the Senator who objects to the bill wishes to block its consideration.]

A deal between the White House and the pharmaceutical industry is holding up a bipartisan amendment to allow the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from abroad.

• Dorgan’s measure, which would permit bulk exports of medicines from countries such as Canada, enjoys broad and bipartisan support and likely has the backing of more than 60 senators, which would guarantee its adoption on the healthcare reform bill.
• Tension between the White House and obamacRATic supporters of the so-called drug reimportation amendment is primarily behind the delay, Senate Majority Moron Whip Dick Turbin (d-Ill.) said Thursday.“There’s a political subtext here,” Turbin said.
• The White House and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) struck a deal this summer to limit the drug industry’s financial exposure under reform to $80 billion over 10 years, though its terms have never been fully disclosed.
• Fluffy obama himself, was one of the 35 co-sponsors of Dorgan’s drug reimportation legislation when he served in the Senate. In addition, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was a leading supporter of the House version of the bill when he served in the lower chamber.
• ”Several obamacRATic senators are objecting to moving ahead with the vote because they believe the amendment has enough support to prevail, said Sen. Olympia Snowe (r-Maine), Dorgan’s lead co-sponsor. “I suspect we haven't had a vote yet because they know it has the votes to pass,” she said.
• obamacRATic senators from states home to pharmaceutical companies, including Tom Carper (Del.), Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Robert Menendez (N.J.), object to the amendment, citing concerns about ensuring the safety of medicines entering the U.S. supply chain from foreign sources.
• Congress Daily has reported that Carper (D-Del.) placed a hold on the amendment, but his office refused to comment to The Hill.
• On Thursday evening, Senate Moron Leader harry reid (d-Nev.) said Lautenberg had offered an alternative to the Dorgan amendment; both amendments will come to a vote at the same time, reid said.The obama administration has sent out mixed messages about drug reimportation this week. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs insisted Tuesday that Fluffy has not changed his stance. “The president said during the campaign that he did. [He] said so in his first budget, assuming that safety concerns … could be addressed. And I think that’s the key.”

The same day, however, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, a Fluffy appointee, issued a letter to senators saying her agency believed Dorgan’s amendment would endanger the U.S. medicine supply and be difficult to enforce. “There are significant safety concerns,” Hamburg wrote. The Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA issued similar cautions during the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations.

The message did not seem mixed to McCain, “The fix is in,” he said. This arrangement between the White House, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (d-Mont.) and PhRMA neutralized a powerful potential opponent.

NO Death Panels.......??

Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is the "Clown Prince’s" “Special Advisor for Health Policy”, is described by the [1] Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US health care system. Emanuel and the White House are attempting to reorganize the delivery and reimbursement systems of health care, changing what the types of procedures doctors rely on, making people more aware of disease prevention, encouraging insurance companies to expand coverage, and so on. It is a process rife with sensitivities, trickeries and, of course, the potential for failure. It is not, he insists, impossible. “It is a complicated process and we have to try and make the choices clear and give people good reasons for making them,” Emanuel explains. “I don’t think that’s an impossible task and thankfully we have one of the great communicators, Barack Obama, at the helm of this ship of state.” Emmanuel recently authored an article in the Lancet describing the various models of non-market health care rationing.

“Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions” In it the authors simply review the pros and cons of the various ways of deciding who gets treated and who doesn’t. The allocation mechanisms they discuss are divided into strategies and substrategies. The pros and cons of each are laid out.

• Treating People Equally Lottery First-come, first served Prioritarianism ***Sickest first ***Youngest first ***Utilitarianism
• Saving the most lives ***Saving the most life-years ***Saving the most socially useful ***Reciprocity (paying back people who have ‘contributed’, such as organ donors)

The authors are not very satisfied with the current metrics used for making medical decisions based on saving the most life-years. Both the “Quality-adjusted life-years” model and the “Disability-adjusted life-years” have shortcomings which they believe can be addressed by another model of their own:

“The complete lives system”, which takes all the factors into account. They write: Because none of the currently used systems satisfy all ethical requirements for just allocation, we propose an alternative: the complete lives system.

This system incorporates five principles:

• youngest-first
• prognosis
• save the most lives
• lottery
• instrumental value
• When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance [graph, above], whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated[=weakened;essentially, they get the shaft!!] … the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption. Age can be established quickly and accurately from identity documents. Prognosis allocation encourages physicians to improve patients’ health, unlike the perverse incentives to sicken patients or misrepresent health that the sickest-first allocation creates. Under this system, patients would receive scarce care according to the graph shown below. The paper concludes: “the complete lives system combines four morally relevant principles: youngest-first, prognosis, lottery, and saving the most lives. In pandemic situations, it also allocates scarce interventions to people instrumental in realising these four principles. Importantly, it is not an algorithm, but a framework that expresses widely affirmed values: priority to the worst-off, maximising benefits, and treating people equally. To achieve a just allocation of scarce medical interventions, society must embrace the challenge of implementing a coherent multiprinciple framework rather than relying on simple principles or retreating to the status quo.” What’s not mentioned anywhere in the discussion, except by implication is the identity of the narrator.
• Who is the “we” in “Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions” that decides who gets scarce medical care?
• The answer is tangentially provided in the paper itself, which writes that “the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption”.
• The “we” is a system; a system that can possibly be easily corrupted; hence Dr. Emmanuel’s efforts to design one in which such distortions will be held to a minimum.

Ultimately health care reform is as much about politics as it is about medicine. The discussion in Dr. Emmanuel’s paper is incomplete if limited to pure public health considerations. Politics is central to the whole issue.

Whatever “guidelines” are chosen, however rational, however humane, can never implement themselves. Human beings in positions of power are required to do that. And while it is important to note that even under the current system these decisions are being made by someone or by some consensus, it is also vital to realize that in any “health care reform” effort, one of the principal outcomes is to shift the power to make those decisions to someone else. That may not be a fit subject for the Lancet, but it is the elephant in the operating room in the national health care debate.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; December 10th-Again["Brick";FUBOwear;FUBO]

"Clown Prince" Rating 'Drops Like A Brick!!'

The "Clown Prince's" job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. Fluffy's immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, had an approval rating of 86 percent, or 39 points higher than Obama at this stage. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he doesn't "put a lot of stock" in the survey by Gallup, which has conducted presidential approval polls since 1938, longer than any other organization. "There's no doubt Fluffy's 47 percent is mainly a result of the continuing bad economy," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. He added: "The Clown Prince" has reason to be concerned about his ratings. Even in tough times, presidents have usually been able to stay above the critical 50 percent mark in the first year, when the public is most inclined to give the new incumbent [incompetent??]the benefit of the doubt."

When Gallup began taking presidential approval polls 71 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt had been president for more than five years. During his remaining time in office, his job approval rating never fell below 48 percent. The next 11 presidents, both obamacRATs and republicRATs, all had higher job approval ratings than the "Clown Prince" at this stage of their tenure. Their ratings were:

• -- The "Clown Prince," 47 percent

• -- George W. Bush, 86 percent
• -- Bill Clinton, 52 percent
• -- George H.W. Bush, 71 percent
• -- Ronald Reagan, 49 percent
• -- Jimmy Carter, 57 percent
• -- Gerald Ford, 52 percent
• -- Richard Nixon, 59 percent
• -- Lyndon Johnson, 74 percent
• -- John Kennedy, 77 percent
• -- Dwight Eisenhower, 69 percent
• -- Harry Truman, 49 percent
• -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 48 percent

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Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; December 10th[Gold;Truckers;Marist]

What Ta Hell's The Big Deal?

***Glenn Beck tells you things you think that ONLY YOU are thinking.

***Glenn Beck tells you the unvarnished, well researched truth. For that reason alone, he's despised by the KoolAid Media.

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***So Glenn Beck is exponentially more intelligent than members of the KoolAid media..... now, that's a big deal!!!

Nation's Truckers Help The Troops!!

[Until "leaving the road" in 2006, I spent alotta years traversing America as "a paid tourist!!!" Along the way, I made one of the most important decisions of my life; to join Owner-Operators Independent Drivers' Ass'n [OOIDA]. This organization is THE ONLY ONE that truly represents professional drivers' interests!!!]

OOIDA’s Truckers for Troops is in full swing The third Truckers for Troops campaign is rockin’ and rollin’. OOIDA’s telethon runs Dec. 7-11, 2009, and raises funds to send care packages to military men and women stationed in combat areas overseas, especially Iraq and Afghanistan. During this week, 10 percent of renewal and new membership fees will be matched by the Association. Land Line Now, the association’s official radio show on Sirius XM satellite radio, the Road Dog channel, will promote the telethon during its regularly scheduled broadcasts, 7-8 p.m. (EST). New and renewal memberships will be discounted from $45 to $25, 10 percent of which will go towards the care package funds. Some of the items included in the care packages sent in past years were self-heating coffees, socks and personal care items. However, among the most popular were the handmade greeting cards. “We’d like for as many people as possible to send us cards and letters to put that special added touch in the care packages,” says OOIDA’s media spokesperson, Norita Taylor. “Especially from kids, it really means a lot.” Earlier this year, OOIDA partnered with country singer and Life Member Leland Martin to raise funds for Truckers for Troops. A portion of the sales of his CD “Truckers for Troops” has been going toward the program. Martin is also including a free DVD with every “Truckers for Troops” CD purchased on http://www.lelandmartin.com/. The DVD has six Leland Martin music videos, two of which are for songs on the “Truckers for Troops” CD. The DVD also includes “behind-the-scenes footage and bloopers. Regarding the notes and letters, towns or school names should be included, but please do not include last names or other personal information. Send them to OOIDA headquarters, attention Norita Taylor or attention to Truckers for Troops, P.O. Box 1000, Grain Valley, MO 64029-0712.

How You Doin'.....??

[From Marist College { www.maristpoll.marist.edu }]

"Clown Prince's" job performance:

• 46% approve of his job performance while 44% disapprove. One in ten voters is unsure. This is the first time the president has lost majority support on this question since taking office.
• Obama’s own party -- 20% -- reports he has missed the mark.

"Clown Prince's" handling of the economy:

• 51% -- disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy.
• 45% of Americans think that in the upcoming year, economically, they will be about the same as they are now. 26% report they will be worse off.

Approval/disapproval of the "Clown Prince's" handling of the economy:

• 51% of ALL polled registered voters disapprove of Fluffy's handling of the economy.
• 75% of obamacRATs approve.
• 84% of republicRATs disapprove.
• 55% of those earning $50k + disapprove.
• 50% of college grads disapprove; 47% approve.
• 55% OF INDEPENDENTS DISAPPROVE.

In the coming year, how will you fare-economically [better/worse/same]:

• Of registered voters-26% better; 27% worse; 47% same.
• Of independent voters-24% better; 31% worse; 46% same.
• Of male registered voters-34% better; 25% worse; 41% same.
• Of female registered voters-23% better; 27% worse; 50% same.

Direction the country is going in:

• Independent voters are evenly split on which way Fluffy is taking the country: 36%, each for better and for worse.
• 37% of Independent women think Fluffy is going in the wrong direction.
• 53% of those earning $50k or more, think the country is going in the wrong direction.
• Those in the age ranges between 30 and dead, the vast majority think the country is going in the wrong direction.
• Only in the 18-29 age group, do they think the country is going in the right direction [61%] {Wait til they have to pay for all this!!!}

Employment/Unemployment:

• 78% of registered voters polled know someone who's lost a job in the last 6 months.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; December 9th[MoreHOAX;Jackson;Jobs?]

What About These?? [Why has the EPA been silent about these underground fires around the world?? We already know; there's no political benefit or photo-op for the "Clown Prince!!"] The underground fire in Centralia, Pa., was started by five members of the volunteer fire company when they were hired by the town council to clean up the landfill. The landfill was located in an abandoned strip mine pit and as the firemen had in the past, they set the dump on fire, let it burn for a time, and then extinguished the fire, or so they thought. It turns out the fire spread through a hole in the rock pit into an abandoned coal mine underground, where it grew in intensity. It continued to rage for years, putting the towns' citizens at grave risk. Now, a mere 9 people--of the original 1,000--continue to live in the area, while the fire is now thought to have spread to an area of over 500 acres. Some worst-case scenario estimates fear the fire could eventually spread to an area of 3700 acres, and burn for another 100 years. Centralia's history was the inspiration for the horror film Silent Hill. Decades-burning coal fires are unfortunately rather commonplace. In fact, it's estimated that a stunning 2-3% of the entire world's industrial carbon emissions may come from uncontained coal fires in China alone--where such fires burn 20 million tons of coal a year. Such unwanted coal fires rage or smolder in the United States, South Africa, Australia, China, India and beyond. They are burning in huge volumes in rural China and blazing in a district of India to such a great extent the flames from some surface coal fires are more than 20 feet high. Here in the U.S., they are burning in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Colorado and Wyoming. Is reid Vying For Nobel Peace Prize??

[I'm wondering, now that the Nobel Peace Prize has been relegated to "trinket" status, is harry reid vying for the award? He probably picked up real quick on the fact that it no longer has to be earned by worthy works or great experience. In an apparent attempt to jockey to the front of the line, reid played his "race card" Monday on the Senate floor. In front of the usual attending morons, he made the following statement:]

• “Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, ’slow down, stop everything, let’s start over.’ If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right,” Reid said.
• “When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said ’slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough.’”
• “When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn’t quite right."
• “When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.”

That seemed to be a reference to Thurmond’s famous 1957 filibuster — the late senator switched parties several years later.

EVEN Jesse Jackson Pissed At The "Clown Prince!"

Fluffy obama has managed to start pissing off those whose efforts bought him the job he's currently baffled by. Jesse Jackson was interviewed by Travis Smiley on PBS on the topics of Afganistan and Fluffy's impending "jobs summit." Here are Jackson quotes from that interview:

• [Afganistan] So we're almost back to where Dr. King was 40 years ago -- can we balance off expanding into adventurous war territory while giving more privileges to the rich and the powerful and leaving the poor essentially on wait.
• [Afganistan] Well, you go to war with a focus on winning, not on exiting, because it may be an overtime ballgame. This is the Super Bowl of global confrontation, and so if the mission is worth pursuing it's worth taking the time to do it. We do not know how long it will take, nor how much it will cost.
• [Economy] Now we bailed out the banks without linking to bailing out homeowners, and so we kind of own it planned out where you have more foreclosures than you have modifications. You own a situation where we're losing jobs by the droves without some plan to stop the hemorrhage and some kind of plan for economic reconstruction.
• [Economy] But you must judge him early by the priorities and the priorities first with the bailout, the banks with no linkage to bailing out domestic America. (Unintelligible) priorities shift it to bailing out Afghanistan and the healthcare plan. In the meantime, within these cities, the unemployment levels are disastrously high. Forty-nine million Americans are food-underserved. They're omitting meals or skipping meals, so to speak.
• [Economy] We need targeted jobs now, for the unemployment, for all of us. Forty-nine million Americans who are food-underserved need a food-directed program now. As for the patterns of race discrimination, we've found through the attorney generals that these major banks target and profile Blacks and Latinos are (unintelligible). That they've violated the laws, they've violated -- they've circumvented fair lending laws, they circumvented community reinvestment laws. As opposed to getting a bailout, they should be facing the courts for breaking the law.

Mister Jackson's comments are very targeted as usual. Although with Afganistan he marginally takes the "Clown Prince" to task on his alleged exit from the war rather than "playing to win!!" Jesse seems to counter the mainstream obamacRAT thinking, that of "Who cares if we win, we have to leave in 18 months." On the economy he spouts the standard not-for-profit rhetoric.... More cash, more food, more government help, blah, blah, blah.... He is wrong with his thoughts on the current economy: NOT more help; more of a push out the door to work!!! The Great Society [LBJ] did little but increase the government handouts-when either a hand-UP or a swift KICK IN THE ASS was [and IS] required!!!

Fluffy's "Brookings" Blather......

"Almost exactly one year ago, on a cold winter's day, I met with my new economic team at the headquarters of my presidential transition offices in Chicago. Over the course of four hours, my advisors presented an analysis of where the economy stood, accompanied by a chilling set of charts and graphs, predicting where we might end up. It was an unforgettable series of presentations. Christy Romer, tapped to head the Council of Economic Advisers, and Larry Summers, who I'd chosen to head the National Economic Council, described an imminent downturn comparable in its severity to almost nothing since the 1930s. Tim Geithner, my incoming Treasury Secretary, reported that the financial system, shaken by the subprime crisis, had halted almost all lending, which in turn threatened to pull the broader economy into a downward spiral.

• Fluffy is expecting a guy who can't figure out how to use "Turbo-Tax" to fix the financial system.
• The sub-prime mess originated with both "Slick-Willie" Clinton and his HUD Secretary, Andrew Cuomo. They both forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as private lenders to loosen their requirements. This resulted in mortgages issued to people who couldn't and wouldn't pay them back; this resulted in people buying homes they couldn't afford and had no intention of paying for.

And Peter Orszag, my incoming Budget Director, closed out the proceedings with an entirely dismal report on the fiscal health of the country, with growing deficits and debt stretching to the horizon. Having concluded that it was too late to request a recount, I tasked my team with mapping out a plan to tackle the crisis on all fronts.

• The continuing "dismal fiscal health" is a direct result of the "Clown Prince's" fascist fiscal policies. Not only does he have ZERO EXPERIENCE, he has never even carried an Econ101 textbook!! This single course would have told him he's "all wet" when it comes to economic principles!!
• There can never be a fix to the country's fiscal health so long as Fluffy's primary objective is "wealth re-distribution!!"

It was not long after that meeting, as we shaped this economic plan, that we began to see these forecasts materialize. Over the previous year, it was obvious that folks were facing hard times. As I traveled across the country during a long campaign, I often met men and women bearing the brunt of not only a deepening recession, but also years - even decades - of growing strains on middle class families.

• Even prior to this "shaping an economic plan"..... do you remember when Fluffy cried on President Bush's shoulder, begging him to have HIS advisors formulate and push through congress, the TARP program to deal with toxic assets?? Remember "we had to have a vote on it 'by Friday' " That was the start of this financial fiasco-coupled with Clinton's and Cuomo's actions.

But now the country was experiencing something far worse. Our Gross Domestic Product - the sum total of all that our economy produces - fell at the fastest rate in a quarter century. $5 trillion of Americans' household wealth evaporated in just twelve weeks as stocks, pensions, and home values plummeted. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs each month, equivalent to the population of the state of Vermont. The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.

• When it's all 'boiled down,' that Porkulus Plan amounted to nothing more than a presidential slush-fund!! It lined many, many pockets of Fluffy's supporters; like all those "created and saved jobs" that came about!!
• By definition, there are a maximum of 435 congressional districts, nationwide-cuz there's 435 morons in the House of Representatives, see how that works?? Fluffy's own website: whitehouse.gov, stated that 440 congressional districts had received porkulus funds and created or saved billions and billions of jobs!! PURE FICTION!!! Many of those "created or saved" jobs occurred in several non-existent districts in Arizona!!!

We acted to get lending flowing again so businesses could get loans to buy equipment and ordinary Americans could get financing to buy homes and cars, to go to college, and to start or run businesses. We enacted measures to stem the tide of foreclosures in our housing market, helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes and helping to stop the broader decline in home values which was eating away at what tends to be a family's largest asset. To achieve this, and to prevent an economic collapse, we were forced to extend assistance to some of the very banks and financial institutions whose actions had helped precipitate the turmoil.

• Again-by definition-stemming the tide of foreclosures only serves to keep people in homes they can ill afford and have no intention of paying for.
• Every segment of the economy is cyclical!! The housing market has ups-and-downs, like every other segment. Over time-if left alone-each segment will recover.
• All this tampering with the economy is nothing more than buying votes!!!

We also took steps to prevent the rapid dissolution of the American auto industry, which faced a crisis partly of its own making, to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs during an already fragile time. These were not decisions that were popular or satisfying; these were decisions that were necessary.

• There is no company or industry too large to fail. Let me repeat that: THERE IS NO COMPANY OR INDUSTRY TOO LARGE TO FAIL!!
• In large part, the primary reason for the auto industry's financial woes are the direct responsibility of the auto workers' unions!! Those very organizations that bought the election for Fluffy; Where do you think his allegiences will lie?? Certainly not with the American populus!!
• The auto bailout not only rewarded poor management and poor performance, it gave Fluffy control-actually ownership-of 60% of the American auto industry!!
• As with everything else the government owns or controls, the value of GM stock plunged compared to that one company that did not take a bailout!! Just for a laugh-unless you're a GM investor-compare Ford Motor Co stock [F] with General Motors stock[MTLQQ.PK] over time:
• [F]-11/008= $1.57/share, 12/09/009= $8.96;
• [MTLQQ.PK]-11/008= $3.18, 12/09/009= 59 CENTS!!
• If you were a "Fluffy Boob" and kept your GM stock-you LOST 190%!!
• If you were like me and BOUGHT Ford in November, 2008, you profited by 471%!! These few statistics paint the picture of the administration: LOSERS!!!

Now, even as we worked to address the crises in our banking sector, in our housing market, and in our auto industry, we also began attacking our economic crisis on a broader front. Less than one month after taking office we enacted the most sweeping economic recovery package in history: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Recovery Act was divided into three parts. One-third went for tax relief for small businesses and 95 percent of working families."

• Really cute "Fluff" from the Blather-meister!! Beside funding the presidential slush-fund, why was $787Billion necessary?? It's been nearly ten-months and only 1/3 of it has been pissed away.
• The most notible investment was the $300Million it took to turn Mary Landrieu from a legislator to the world's most expensive whore!! harry reid pimped her for another obamaCare vote!!!
• I can't wait for the $262.3Billion in federal tax relief.... think it'll ever come? NAH, not for you and I, it'll go for more "Clown Prince" supporters-KoolAiders!!

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That, Again; December 8th[HOAX;Felon]

HOAX Politicized-EVEN MORE!!!

Ya just gotta love 'em!!! The political hacks at the Enviornmental Protection Agency [EPA] have just released "their opinion" that the naturally occurring gas, carbon-dioxide is

......wait-for-it......

hazardous to human health!!!

The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement Monday that greenhouse gases threaten the public health--a major step toward limiting carbon dioxide emissions--could hit hard in those states which get the majority of their energy from coal-fired power plants. With "timing" being "everything," the announcement came as the "Clown Prince" needs to intensify HIS arguments at the international climate conference in Copenhagen. To fortify the HOAX, Fluffy obama needs to show that the United States is aggressively taking actions to combat global warming, even though the Congressional Moron Caucus has yet to act on climate legislation.

We need to explore the possibilities: As with the subtle health care rationing in the proposed obamaCare, there very well could be energy rationing as well.

First, let's look at the gas, itself:

***Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom. CO2 is a trace gas being only 0.038% of the atmosphere. This means the gas has twice as many positive attributes compared to the negative ONE. Certainly doesn't look like the atmospheric concentration is life-threatening to me!!

***CO2 is produced during respiration by plants, and by all animals, fungi and microorganisms that depend either directly or indirectly on plants for food.

***CO2 is generated as a by-product of the combustion of fossil fuels or the burning of vegetable matter, among other chemical processes.

***Small amounts of CO2 are emitted from volcanoes and other geothermal processes like hot springs and geysers; by the dissolution of carbonates in crustal rocks.

***As of March 2009, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 globally, is 387 parts-per-million [ppm] by volume; by percentage of the atmosphere: 0.0360%

***By comparison: if you had earnings of $5,000,000 this year and the tax rate was 0.0360% [unrealistic-to say the least!!]; your federal tax would be a mere $1,800.00!!!!

***The remaining gasses, by percentage of the total atmosphere:

• Nitrogen, [N2]--------------78.08%
• Oxygen, [O2]---------------20.95% *Water, [H2O]--------------0 to 4% Argon, [Ar]-------------------0.93% *Carbon Dioxide, [CO2]--0.0360% Neon, [Ne]-----------------0.0018% Helium, [He]---------------0.0005% *Methane, [CH4]----------0.00017% Hydrogen, [H2]-----------0.00005% *Nitrous Oxide, [N2O]----0.00003% *Ozone,[O3]-------------0.000004%
• [*] Denotes variable gasses.

The obama minions were on the fear-mongering bandwagon long before they bought the most recent presidential election. Along the way, they lined up like-minded morons to fill the influential seats necessary to advance fascism!!

On Nov. 12, the moronic hypocrate--algore, told Conan O'Brien geothermal energy is a promising fuel because "the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot. [actually, it's ONLY 6,650 degrees! Hell, the sun's surface is ONLY 9,980 degrees!!]"

This is from a dunce, aside-from 2 years, sheltered in the Army-has only "worked for wages" for a single year at "The Tennessean," newspaper. Just another self-serving modern-day "snake oil salesman!!" Snake oil salesmanship does pay handsomely!! algore is a partner in the venture capital firm-Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. As the head of their "climate change solutions" group, he stands to gain BILLIONS-of-dollars in personal profit IF the HOAX becomes law!!!

The Latest "Clown Prince" Minion

Remember that couple who crashed a White House "Clown Prince" photo-op?? It looks like Tareq and Michaele Salahi were just a distraction apparently set up by the "Clown Prince's" Social Secretary, Desiree Rogers. Now we know why!! People failed to notice that twice-convicted felon Robert Creamer was in attendence. Why is this important??

• Along with his wife-obamacRAT Jan Schkowsky-is a member of Chicago politics-as-usual.
• While in prison—or “forced sabbatical,” he called it—Creamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win
• The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Stern—the most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White House—and chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted that Creamer’s tome “provides a blueprint for future victories.”

In the book, Creamer draws lessons from decades of experience on the radical left, including the teachings of arch-radical Saul Alinsky, and several episodes from Rep. Schakowsky’s political career. He also lays out a “Progressive Agenda for Structural Change,” which includes a ten-point plan for foisting universal health care on the American people in 2009:

• “We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right.” “We must create a national consensus that the health care system is in crisis.” “Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance.” “We need to systematically forge relationships with large sectors of the business/employer community.” “We need to convince political leaders that they owe their elections, at least in part, to the groundswell of support of [sic] universal health care, and that they face political peril if they fail to deliver on universal health care in 2009.” “We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus.” “Over the next two years, we must design and organize a massive national field program.” “We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community.” “We must systematically leverage the connections and resources of a massive array of institutions and organizations of all types.” “To be successful, we must put in place commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars to be used to finance paid communications and mobilization once the battle is joined.” “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion—fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.”

Democrats have followed Creamer’s plan to the letter [...so, by definition, doesn't that make a twice-convicted felon the author of obamaCare??].

• They have claimed our health care system is in crisis despite polls showing the overwhelming majority of Americans are happy with the care they receive.
• They have—with the help of the "Clown Prince"—circulated false horror stories about Americans dying for lack of health care and health insurance.

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; December 8th[EconMyths;NewCar;HOAX]

Do You Believe "Clown Prince" On The Economy?? [For me, believing Fluffy obama--ON ANYTHING--is ultra-difficult at best!! He and his minions are consistently in error in their judgements and prognostications!! Anything they do concerning statistics is later revised toward the negative.....after the buzz has worn off, when few "serfs" will notice.]

When reading economic statistics, you'll see if they are consistent (they rarely are) and make sense based on real world observations (lately they don't). On Thursday, December 3rd the U.S. productivity numbers were released, as were same store sales and weekly unemployment claims.

• The stories these three pieces of data are telling are quite different, which means at least one and possibly two of them are not correct.
• Productivity in the U.S. is supposedly up astronomically. It rose by 8.1% last quarter and this is after being revised down from being up 9.5%!
• The recent downward revision of third quarter GDP from 3.5% to 2.8% meant the productivity numbers would be lower as well. Productivity is essentially the amount of GDP produced per worker. Since employment is falling in the U.S. and GDP is supposedly rising (the two moving in opposite directions is illogical) productivity has to go up.

According to the government, it is going up a huge amount. Is there any major new technological advance or innovation accounting for this? None, that anyone knows about.

• Economists claim that productivity has gotten better because the least productive workers have been fired. While this might give the numbers a percentage or so boost, it wouldn't give them an 8% boost.
• The alternative explanation is that GDP is being grossly overstated by the U.S. government. There is substantial documentation that this has indeed been the case for the last three decades.
• Same store sales is not a government report and the November numbers clearly show an economy in trouble. Sales were down 0.3% year over year.
• While this may not seem so bad initially, it is when you consider sales were down 7.7% last November, which was the height of the Credit Crisis meltdown.
• They are even lower now.

Analysts (who are almost always wrong) originally forecast a 5% to 8% increase for this November. Consumer spending accounts for 72% of U.S. economic activity and is still obviously in bad shape.

• Yet, the government tells us that GDP is growing nicely. There seems to be a contradiction there.
• If you read the mainstream media coverage of the weekly jobless claims you would have seen that the U.S. employment situation is getting better because there were only 457,000 new claims during the week of Thanksgiving.
• Of course, you might consider that few employers would lay off workers right before a major holiday and that state unemployment offices were closed because of the holiday, so this would obviously lower claims. The BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) states that they make some 'adjustments' for this though. Claims at even the 400,000 level indicate significant recession and they need to drop to the 300,000 level to indicate a healthy economy (you will see much higher numbers cited in most mainstream media reporting).
• Continuing claims are still rising and have hit 5.5 million.
• This number doesn't include an additional 4.5 million on extended umemployment benefits.

A large percentage of the American work force is not eligible to collect unemployment as is, so the numbers are even worse than they appear.

• While there are those who claim that unemployment is a lagging indicator, statistics from the past don't support this notion.
• The real lagging indicator seems to be the truth about what is really going on in the economy.

Buying A New Car??

Here's five things the dealer will try to suck you into buying; most have little value to the consumer:

1. Extended Warranties Extra piece of mind? Buying an extended warranty is more like duplication of expense. Most current new vehicles' warranty will out-live your ownership!! Remember: Always say no. More from U.S. News & World Report » Best Car Deals for December » How to Test Drive a Car 2. Fabric and Paint Protection Stain protection for your seats and floors can cost hundreds of dollars at the dealership. Scotchgard Auto Interior Fabric Protector is available at Wal-Mart or Target (around $10 for a 10-ounce can), and it accomplishes virtually the same thing as what the dealer provides. Another typical dealer extra, Paint Protection, won’t accomplish much more than a good coat of wax will. Again, you can apply this yourself by picking up polymer sealant car wax at the auto parts store. Remember that your car already comes with a good coat of sealant from the factory, so you only need to apply wax about once a year. 3. Rustproofing Unless you plan on keeping your car for decades, you won’t need any extra rustproofing. Modern vehicles are built to withstand rust.

4. Maintenance Plans A maintenance program covers fluid changes and other regular maintenance items as part of your monthly car payment. You will have to take your car to the dealership for service. Note that during negotiations, you might even be able to convince the dealer to throw in a maintenance plan for free. 5. Ding Protection Ding Protection covers the cost of fixing small dents and scratches (often less than four inches long) for a set period of time. Unless you repeatedly ram your new car with shopping carts, this program will have little or no value.

More Unbelieveable obamacRAT Bullshit!!!

This global-warming thingie.....

***It's nothing more than a hoax designed to create hysteria, whereby lining more and more "Ruling Class" pockets!! You may remember when algore was "Slick-Willie's" president-of-vice?? He used that position as well as his senatorial experience to perfect "taking liberties with the truth!!"

Now comes "The Big Release!"

***Somebody had a change-of-heart and couldn't continue promoting the "global warming" hoax. Someone anonymously released 1,079 e-mails, 72 documents, 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. This information came from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in England. ***The most damning is a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. These e-mails show disturbing patterns of “conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more,” says Australian Sun’s Andrew Bolt. ***Man-made global warming hysteria has long been fueled by people using junk science, fear and hyperbole to support an agenda that they personally profit from. The truth is that the average global temperature has fallen since 1998. ***The leading profiteering propagandist is algore. After losing the presidential election in 2000, he became the leader of the hysteria movement. However, this “Eco-Prophet” has hidden a few inconvenient truths of his own. He just happens to be involved with a venture capital firm and stands to personally profit billions of dollars if Cap-and-Trade becomes law. Reports state that algore’s net worth now stands at $100 Million, when it was $2 million when he left politics. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. algore has a history of playing loose with the facts. ***Recently on TV, while discussing geothermal energy, algore made the outrageous claim that “the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees.” However, the actual temperature here on earth is between 5,000 and 9,000 degrees. If Sarah Palin had made this gaffe, the media would have ridiculed her as stupid. ***Speaking of hypocrisy, algore is a living embodiment of it. As he lectures the world on energy use, and lobbies the Congressional Moron Caucus, to regulate productive American companies out of business, algore consumes more than twenty times more energy than the average American, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. This doesn’t count the energy consumption of his jet. ***algore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is full of instances where he plays loose with the facts. A 2007 British court ruled that algore’s film has nine significant refutable errors. These are examples of algore’s scare tactics to induce the public to take radical action (to his financial benefit). *** Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT wrote about scientists being "in the crosshairs" of algore, who "tried to bully" them into changing "their views and supporting his climate alarmism." Lindzen also refers to a failed algore effort to "enlist Ted Koppel (then a TV host) in a witch hunt to discredit anti-alarmist scientists." ***When one side tries to shut another side out of the debate, it is typically because they feel their arguments won’t stand up to scrutiny. These propagandists use various tactics. A favorite is to make people feel guilty if they don’t jump on the “green” bandwagon, and those who do are praised for helping the environment. ***With the Copenhagen meetings here, expect to see “green” propaganda exponentially increasing. Open your eyes to these manipulators of data and people, who while acting like do-gooders, see great (green as in money) gain.

***Even as this egregious hoax is being perpetrated on the American public, the "Clown Prince has the balls to go to Copenhagen to promote it!! It's no wonder he's for it-the many "Ruling Class" gangsters will profit, like himself, Michelle "The Chin" obama, Barney Frank, harry reid, nancy porklosi, Chuckie-Cheese Schumer, Max Baucus and his boinkette, Chris Dodd and the list goes on.... and on..... and on..... and on.... and on.... and on....

Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; December 7th[PearlHarbor;obamaCare;Baucus]

December 7th, 1941....

As President Roosevelt said, this day did "go down in infamy!!" The Japanese surprise attack on US naval and air forces in the Hawaiian Islands precipitated the US entry into World War II. War was declared upon Japan the day after the attack; declared upon Germany on December 11, 1941-in response to the German declaration of war upon the US, issued the same day.

The Pearl Harbor attack inflicted 2,403 killed; 1,178 wounded; 20 ships sunk or severely damaged; 169 aircraft destroyed.

Though there's not many left, today is the day to honor Pearl Harbor Attack veterans and all veterans whose efforts insured our freedoms reign supreme!!

That "Ruling Class"....Ya Gotta Love 'em!!

If they passed the bill, Democrats would be "rewarded in '10, and in 10 years, in 20 years, in 30 and 40," Baucus said. "Nothing's more important." This quote by obamacRATic Senator Max Baucus clearly indicates that he believes the American voter will continue to return these "ruling class" scum-bags to "their rightful place in the hallowed halls!!"

Now is the time for the republicRATs to figuratively "jump in the middle of thier chests" and verbally kick the shit outta them!!! But, what do they do...... issue statements like this one below by Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader:

"obamacRATs are trying to squeeze every single one of their members to swallow a pretty bitter pill for the American people," said McConnell, who repeated RepublicRATs' suggestions that the bill will lead to higher taxes, higher insurance premiums and weaker Medicare programs.

What Mister McConnell might have considered is something more strongly worded: "Listen here, Skippy..... You obamacRATs have done nothing but lie to the American people since the first day of both obamaCare and Cap-and-Tax." He might well have added: "Rather than demand control over 18% of the national economy; demand rather that the health care insurance industry be reformed. This will cover as many or more Americans with far less expense and little added federal control."

AND:

"Now that global warning has all-but-declared an official HOAX, when can we expect the obamacRATs to initiate hearings on the e-mails that revealed it as a hoax??"

A "Ruling Class" Boinker...

I'm a firm believer that folks can live any way they want, so long as all are agreed. I also believe that members of the "Ruling Class" should be above reproach..... Is Senator Baucus?? Nominating one's "main-squeeze" to a federal post is not above reproach. This is a guy Americans may well entrust their health and prosperity to:

Max Baucus, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, recommended that the White House nominate his girlfriend as a U.S. attorney in Montana, his office announced late Friday night.

Earlier this year, Baucus recommended that the White House consider Melodee Hanes and two other names for the U.S. attorney post--at the same time the senator was boinking Hanes, who had been his state director!! The two are now divorced from their spouses and shacking-up on Capitol Hill.

Til Nex'Time....