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How soon we forget, Of course all was pretty good on the economic front then.

From Brietbarts Big Government,
By Publius

Here We Go Again: Rostenkowski, Health Care and the Original Town-Hall Protest,

Back in 1989, the Democrat House, led by Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, passed the ‘Catastrophic Health Care Act.’ The Act promised to expand coverage and benefits, financed by a surcharge on senior’s existing Medicare benefits. Passage of the Act sparked on outcry from seniors. CBSNews goes back into the archives to find footage of one of the protests.



The report forgets to mention that Congress quickly repealed the Catastrophic Act in response to the voter backlash. Something current Members of Congress might want to keep in mind.
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/07/here-we-go-again-rostenkowski-health-care-and-the-original-town-hall-protest/



The bill being voted on in the house tonight has an amazing list of cuts to medicare, I am sure looked at by people who have actually read what is in it.
http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Summary_of_Dem_Medicare_Cuts.pdf


I sure wish ND rep Pomeroy would have taken the time to read it, but Earl knows what is best for us.

Senator Burris’ Conflict with the Constitution

Democratic Party hack Roland Burris, (D-Il) who got his job as a United States senator as a result of disgraced governor Blago’s greed and because of the color of his skin, made a profound observation on Obamacare’s mandated health insurance.

Sen. Burris, a constitutional ignoramus, “pointed to the part of the Constitution that he says authorizes the federal government ‘to provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country.’ “

Advised in an October 21st interview with CNS that the word “health” appears nowhere in the Constitution, Bumbling Burris, an over-achiever if there ever was one, blustered, “That’s under the Constitution.  We’re not even dealing with any constitutionality here.”

Excuse me?

Burris then rambled on about private options, yada, yada, yada, and resorted to the Democrat default position by dredging up a number constantly in flux: ”We’ve got the 48 million people who are without it. [health insurance]”

Disregarding the fact that his number is baloney . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1309)

Rob was a couple days ahead on this, but there are more stepping up to call this what it is.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Fort Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of nondenominational shoplifting.

Ralph Peters sums up the Islamist murder spree at Fort Hood. Sadly he’s one of the few who’s telling it like it is.
ht JWF

And the rest of the politically correct crowd will be blaming the victims soon!
NY Times anyone?

Conservatives who don’t know their you-know-what from a hole in the ground love to try and pin the real estate collapse on the CRA because it points the finger at their second favorite bogeyman, the poor and minority. (Their favorite is the muslim.) They won’t accept that it was the private market and Wall Street that caused themeltdown because they worship at the altar of wealth and the private sector.

Then how will the conservative slugs explain the collapsing commercial real estate market? Did the CRA force banks to loan money to rich developers to build malls and office buildings we didn’t need? Did Barney Frank’s pot-smoking boyfriend cause it? Was it sunspots? FDR? Carter?

3 signs of the next real estate collapse

CRE and the CRA

Maybe Carrick would like to weigh in on this since he’s an expert on, well, everything it seems.

I don’t think much needs to be said,

                       

Saturday morning funny?
more if you care,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024903.php

Curry spice ‘kills cancer cells’

An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown.

The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.

Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer Research Centre show it can destroy gullet cancer cells in the lab.

Cancer experts said the findings in the British Journal of Cancer could help doctors find new treatments.

Dr Sharon McKenna and her team found that curcumin started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.

Hormones in U.S. Beef Linked to Increased Cancer Risk

CHICAGO, IL, October 21, 2009—/WORLD-WIRE/—Beef produced in the United States is heavily contaminated with natural or synthetic sex hormones, which are associated with an increased risk of reproductive and childhood cancers, warns Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

“Increased levels of sex hormones are linked to the escalating incidence of reproductive cancers in the United States since 1975 - 60% for prostate, 59% for testis, and 10% for breast,” Dr. Epstein says.

The hormones in past and current use include the natural estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, and the synthetic zeranol, trenbolone, and melengesterol.

When beef cattle enter feedlots, pellets of these hormones are implanted under the ear skin, a process that is repeated at the midpoint of their 100-day pre-slaughter fattening period, Dr. Epstein explains. These hormones increase carcass weight, adding over $80 in extra profit per animal.

Also, Dr. Epstein says, “Not surprisingly, but contrary to longstanding claims by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), residues of these hormones in meat are up to 20-fold higher than normal.”

“Still higher residues result from the not uncommon illegal practice of implantation directly into muscle. Furthermore, contrary to misleading assurances, meat is still not monitored for hormone residues,” Dr. Epstein emphasizes.

Nevertheless, he points out, the FDA and USDA maintain that hormone residues in meat are within “normal levels,” while waiving any requirements for residue testing.

Following a single ear implant in steers of Synovex-S, a combination of estrogen and progesterone, residues of these hormones in meat were found to be up to 20-fold higher than normal.

The amount of estradiol in two hamburgers eaten in one day by an 8-year-old boy could increase his total hormone levels by as much as 10%, particularly as young children have very low natural hormone levels.

Not surprisingly, Dr. Epstein says, the incidence of childhood cancer has increased by 38% since 1975.

...On January 1, 1989, the European Community placed a ban on meat imports from animals treated with growth inducing hormones. This had a direct impact on the U.S. beef industry, which uses hormones in more than half of the cattle sent to market each year.

Man who threatened Obama sentenced

A Wisconsin man was sentenced late today in federal court in Jackson to three years in prison for making a threat on the Internet to assassinate then-President-elect Barack Obama.




Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, faced a maximum five years in prison.

After a nearly daylong sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate imposed the sentence.

Christopher pleaded guilty in July after Wingate agreed with him that he was competent to stand trial, although the U.S. attorney's office said a psychologist determined Christopher was mentally incompetent.

Christopher said he never intended to harm Obama. He said he made the threat to gain attention for his cause that he is the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse is coming in 2012 and much of the world will be destroyed.

Look at the Friday comments on this American Muslim website regarding the Foot Hood Killings.

They admire Hassan.  They Call him an officer and a gentleman.

This is sedition.

Hey Rob…put SAB on record as promising to support any opponent of those voting for the Health Bill

Who does MoveOn think they are? Acorn?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/liberal-activist-groups-threatens-democrats-opposed-government-run-option/

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Tea-Bagging Anderson Cooper Outed?
Who the hell would name a kid “Anderson,” aside from an artist and heir to the Vandebilt fortune?

Anderson Hays Cooper   began life as a child model, presumably not because his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, needed the bucks.  His 23 year old brother, Carter, took a flying leap to his death from the family’s NYC penthouse but Andy eventually blossomed into the anchorman of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

His show title was quite apt since I’ve always thought Andy was more than a tad light in the loafers and more than a few degrees off compass.

Now Anderson and the truth have been outed, sort of, though Mr. Cooper has yet to admit that he swings the gay way.  The Blog Universe has been clamoring for him to confirm the many rumors: http://bit.ly/lBggd

As Seinfeld said, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” except that there’s a load wrong with that when it comes to a CNN anchor who, the public usually assumes, maintains a modicum of objectivity.

Andy Cooper proved that assumption wrong when back in April he let slip a slab of gay jargon on “teabaggers” in his attempt to demean the anti-Obama, anti-tax TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party Movement.  Specifically, he quipped, “It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging:” http://bit.ly/W0Np

Andy must have been day-dreaming of his hidden life when he said it.

For the unitiated normals out there, “tea-bagging” has nothing . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1307)

Find it here

I thought “tax cuts” caused the recession!

President Obama Has Secret Jobs Plan

by Kent Hoover

President Obama said Friday that his economic team is looking at additional steps that can be taken to grow jobs in the United States.

Some might say it’s about time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate in October climbed to 10.2 percent—its highest level in more than 26 years. Others would say please, no more help. They contend the federal government is doing more to stifle job creation than spur it, because of policies that will lead to higher taxes, higher health care costs, and higher energy prices.

Economists agree that job growth tends to lag overall economic growth, so a little patience is in order. Gross domestic product increased by 3.5 percent last quarter—the largest quarterly increase in two years—so jobs should follow, eventually.(not really; that was an annualized figure, so actual growth for that quarter was one fourth of the reported figure, or .875%-r108)

[...]

To speed job growth, the president said his economic team “is looking at ideas such as additional investments in our aging roads and bridges, incentives to encourage families and businesses to make buildings more energy efficient, additional tax cuts for businesses to create jobs, additional steps to increase the flow of credit to small businesses, and an aggressive agenda to promote exports and help American manufacturers sell their products around the world.”

[...]

Inaction may not be such a bad thing—despite the higher unemployment rate, the rate of job loss is slowing. By the time Obama has decided on his jobs plan—or at least by the time Congress has enacted it—the private sector may have taken care of the unemployment problem on its own.

So the best jobs plan may be the simplest jobs plan: First, do no harm.

When President Bush cut tax rates to facilitate economic growth, yielding about a 5% unemployment rate, the lefties squealed that he was causing a recession.  Now, in times of 10+% unemployment due to the threat of higher taxes and more punitive regulations on the private sector, Obama is promising that his “tax cuts” will “boost job growth”.
There may be an additional layer of flim-flam here: President Bush’s modest tax rate cuts are due to expire in early 2010, so Obama might just renew them, and call that a “tax cut”.

"President Obama today in the Rose Garden, speaking about the Muslim mass-murderer who killed many more Americans yesterday than were killed by the Muslim mass-murderers who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993: “We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

So, at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Steve Emerson marshals some of the answers that have come in about Nidal Malik Hasan: “Born in Virginia, sent to medical school by the U.S. Army, the psychiatrist was chastised for proselytizing to his patients about Islam. Asked his nationality, he didn’t identify himself as an American but as a Palestinian. He appeared pleased by the shooting death of a Little Rock Army recruiter in June and reportedly was heard saying, ‘maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square.’ In the fateful moment before he opened fire on his unarmed victims, he shouted Allahu Akhbar!’”

President Obama has had no problems jumping to conclusions about everything from the stimulus (it was going to keep unemployment below 8 percent) to Honduras (the administration pronounced it a lawless coup when, as the answers came in, it was shown to be the opposite of that). In fact, based on what it acknowledged was no “specific information,” his Homeland Security Department concluded that the country was about to experience a surge of violence from “rightwing extremists.” I don’t know what further answers the president is going to need here, but it seems some pretty obvious conclusions are in order.

By the way, as Steve points out, CAIR has also weighed in. They say . . . we don’t know all the answers yet and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions."


11/06 03:48 PMShare

This gop was kind enough to post it on his own web site.

Stupidity begins about 2:40.