Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Well, he still has "nice-looking guy" ...
articulate and bright and clean
[∏eh ∅ne“open to any idea whether it comes from a Democrat or a Republican or a vegetarian."
Thanks, UN!
enviro-fasciste strike again
Tragedy compounded.
ANGRY residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk....
“We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” [Warwick Spooner —whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze --] said…
“We wanted trees cut down on the side of the road … and you can’t even cut the grass for God’s sake.”
...Another resident said she had asked the council four times to tend to out-of-control growth on public land near her home, but her pleas had been ignored.
There was widespread applause when Nillumbik Mayor Bo Bendtsen said changes were likely to be made about the council’s policy surrounding native vegetation.
But his response was not good enough for Mr Spooner: “It’s too late now mate. We’ve lost families, we’ve lost people."
Beware the Arne
with bonus “flintyness"
[the former leader of Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan,] new U.S. Secretary of Education used a Feb. 10 stop at Wakefield High School to push for support of the president’s economic-stimulus goals. ...
You better listen or he’ll demonstrate some more of that “Chicago flinty toughness.”
Hundreds of students have allegedly been beaten by teachers, coaches and staff at Chicago Public Schools. 2 Investigator Dave Savini continues his ongoing investigation involving the illegal use corporal punishment. ...
Arne’s brought his ...associates, too.
Peter Cunningham… a Chicago Public Schools spokesman will serve as an assistant secretary for communications and outreach in the Education Department.
Cunningham is well connected in the Chicago political world, where his communications firms clients included the public schools, David Axelrod’s firm and Ariel Investments, founded by Obama friend and fund-raiser John Rogers. He also worked as a speechwriter in Mayor Daley’s city hall.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Hope is Also Poor
and a sucker
The Seven P’s of the FBI strike again.
The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.
General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.
Stopping just short of a take-it-or-leave-it stand, Obama has mocked the notion that a stimulus bill shouldn’t include huge spending. He’s also defended earmarks as inevitable in such a package. And he’s pointedly reminded Republicans about who won the November election.
CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing…
Change: ∅
Hope: ∅
Friday, February 06, 2009
ToDaZeD ...uhm, duh
of surprise to no one and of interest to even fewer
President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
Thanks.
Yet ∏eh ∅ne [Big Fat Baby Made Outta Gravy(BFBMOG)] insists that he must have his way. Against all sensible, rational advice and in the face of bands of screaming wraiths demanding their little pet projects and skim-offs be funded with Baloney Bucks. A 12 point drop in approval rating is gonna be a fond memory of good times, JugEars. And welcome to ‘em.
Well, there's *one* job...
webmaster
Wanna know what pork stimulus projects are going on in your area?
Congress and the President are getting ready to spend billions of dollars to try to stimulate the economy. As a result, the U.S. Conference of Mayors has responded by releasing a list of “shovel-ready” projects in cities around the country that the mayors would like to see funded. President Obama, however, has promised to spend stimulus dollars only on critical projects.
“What we need to do is examine what are the projects where we’re going to get the most bang for the buck [and] how are we going to make sure taxpayers are protected,” he has said. “You know, the days of just pork coming out of Congress as a strategy, those days are over.”
StimulusWatch.org was built to to help the new administration keep its pledge and to hold public officials to account. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects.
I’ll get the shovel…
Fairness!!!
neo-Marxist raadio? yum.
OBAMA 1260 ...Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election. But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at...conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett.
[emph mine - e~C]
Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan told radio host Bill Press this week that she thought there needs to be more balance in broadcasting and suggested there would be hearings in the Senate during this Congress on possibly reinstating the fairness doctrine.
“I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether it’s called something else.”
She tied it to President Barack Obama’s pledge of more accountability and transparency, saying “I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place."
How about the “accountability” of “ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured?”
Sen. Debbie Stabenow[’s] husband Tom Athens, is a co-founder of Democracy Radio (creating left leaning talk radio programs) and an ex Air American Executive ...
*cough*nepotism*cough*
Numbahs
they told me there would be no maths in this administration!
Feeling stimulated yet?
63 million voted for ∏eh ∅ne
57 million voted for the Old Maverick
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102 million total, which leaves
183 million nonvoters—who still get to pay for this:
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons;
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
But wait! There’s mooooore.....
Page 46/47—$1,500,000,000 for NASA
Page 47—$1,200,000,000 for NSF
Page 61—$2,000,000,000 for Army Corps of Engineers projects
Page 68—$1,400,000,000 for Colorado river dam fund
Page 70—$14,398,000,000 for DOE for “ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY”
Page 75—$50,000,000,000 for innovative technology loan guarantees
Page 77—$1,000,000,000 for nuclear weapons
[wait - I thought ∏eh ∅ne was gonna unilaterally disarm US?!?]
Page 80—$3,250,000,000 in loans to Western Area Power Authority
Page 84—“get out of debt free” loan forgiveness is given to WAPA for loans
Page 93—$6,000,000,000 for GSA to convert GSA buildings to “green” buildings
Page 95—The $600M for hybrid vehicles everyone has already heard about.
Allow me to highlight this little nugget: $2,000,000,000 for Army Corps of Engineers projects
The Army Corps of Engineers: those are the fellas who are, thanks to the “Clean Water Act of 2007,” are in charge of every freakin’ drop of water in the US of A. Even that gopher hole that only runs during a downpour—yep. That, too.
Thanks to the removal of one word: “navagable.”
So if you’re doing something they don’t like—your life will become ... a tad more complex.
We Gotta Do it NOWWWW
Stampede!!!!!
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other top officials are putting the finishing touches on a plan to overhaul the government’s $700 billion financial rescue program.
Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout funds, told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that Treasury in 2008 paid $254 billion and received assets worth about $176 billion.
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