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• Are Dems AFRAID OF SARAH PALIN

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    I THINK SO

    OMG, how laughable and sad all at the same time. THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY THAT CRIES ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS...........................LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE CIRCULATING............YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING? NOT...................DONATE FIVE DOLLARS............I RESPONDED WITH WHAT ABOUT I GET FIVE DOLLARS FOR MY SON'S LUNCH.........................I CAN'T BELIEVE IT........

    ARE DEMS AFRAID OF PALIN, I THINK SO.................YOU GO GAL............

    Right now, Sarah Palin is on a highly publicized, nationwide book tour, attacking President Obama and his plan for health reform at every turn.
    
    It's dangerous. Remember, this is the person who coined the term "Death Panels" -- and opened the flood gates for months of false attacks by special interests and partisan extremists.
    
    Whatever lie comes next will be widely covered by the media, then constantly echoed by right-wing attack groups and others who are trying to defeat reform.
    
    As we approach the final sprint on health reform, we can't afford more deception and delay. We need to be ready for anything -- and have the resources to respond with ads, events, and calls to Congress when the attacks come.
    
    So we're setting a big goal: $500,000 in the next week to help push back against Sarah Palin and her allies. Please chip in $5 or more to help reach our goal.
    

    

    
    Earlier this month, Palin publicly said that she hopes health reform will be "dead on arrival." And since then, she's been working fiercely toward that goal.
    
    On Tuesday, Palin went on Rush Limbaugh's radio show where she outrageously -- and falsely -- suggested that Americans could "face jail time as punishment" if they don't buy insurance.
    
    Palin has many more interviews scheduled on Hannity and other conservative shows in the next few weeks, with more platforms to go after the President. As soon as she does, the rest of our opponents will likely parrot those attacks.
    
    We need to be prepared. And we're counting on you help. Can you chip in $5 or more?
    
    https://donate.barackobama.com/SarahPalin
    
    Thanks,

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• DEMS AFRAID OF PALIN

  • From: sgin_NV
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    Just thought I would share this email that I received this a.m.  It appears that the dems are going on a attack against Palin and need money.  I felt this is a direct attack plan against Palin...do you?  Why are they so worried about her interviews?  Or her period if they have nothing to hide.

     

    Right now, Sarah Palin is on a highly publicized, nationwide book tour, attacking President Obama and his plan for health reform at every turn.
    
    It's dangerous. Remember, this is the person who coined the term "Death Panels" -- and opened the flood gates for months of false attacks by special interests and partisan extremists.
    
    Whatever lie comes next will be widely covered by the media, then constantly echoed by right-wing attack groups and others who are trying to defeat reform.
    
    As we approach the final sprint on health reform, we can't afford more deception and delay. We need to be ready for anything -- and have the resources to respond with ads, events, and calls to Congress when the attacks come.
    
    So we're setting a big goal: $500,000 in the next week to help push back against Sarah Palin and her allies. Please chip in $5 or more to help reach our goal.
    

    

    
    Earlier this month, Palin publicly said that she hopes health reform will be "dead on arrival." And since then, she's been working fiercely toward that goal.
    
    On Tuesday, Palin went on Rush Limbaugh's radio show where she outrageously -- and falsely -- suggested that Americans could "face jail time as punishment" if they don't buy insurance.
    
    Palin has many more interviews scheduled on Hannity and other conservative shows in the next few weeks, with more platforms to go after the President. As soon as she does, the rest of our opponents will likely parrot those attacks.
    
    We need to be prepared. And we're counting on you help. Can you chip in $5 or more?
    
    http://my.democrats.org/SarahPalin
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mitch
    
    Mitch Stewart
    Director
    Organizing for America

    Paid for and authorized by the Democratic National Committee, www.democrats.org.
    This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
    
    Democratic National Committee, 430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
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• For HOPE

  • From: ExciteM
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    I’ve been crying my damn eyes out over this one — wishing, hoping, dreaming that it’s not true, but knowing in my heart of hearts that it probably is. The same paper that outed the cheater Edwards breaks another story on Queen Michelle and Oprah.
    
    The National Enquirer reports:
    
    "A distraught Oprah Winfrey is telling pals her “thank you” for helping Barack Obama win the presidency has been a knife in the back."


    
    "A jealous first lady has frozen the talk queen out of the White House inner circle, say insiders. “Oprah is devastated,” revealed a friend."


    
    “She had no idea that Michelle was so jealous about the influence she had on Barack. She hated the way her husband would huddle with Oprah over strategy and jump when she called." 


    
    “The jealousy and anger was eating up Michelle. During the campaign, she vowed Oprah would not be a part of the new administration."
 

    
    “Oprah had visions of being a close adviser to the president and a regular visitor to the White House. She was actually planning to redecorate the famous Lincoln bedroom, which is reserved for special guests of the first family." 


    
    “But in the first 10 months of the Obama administration, Oprah has visited the White House only twice, and one visit was for a business meeting to do an interview with Michelle for O magazine."
    
    I know what you’re all thinking – it’s just the National Enquirer.

    But these guys were right all along about John Edwards and the "baby mama", so who are we to doubt them?

    I believe it. Why else would she announce her retirement just before the next election as well as interview Sarah Palin?  
    
    Next week for HOPE: The Enquirer reveals that Malia and Sasha are the result of Michelle’s encounter of the fourth kind with reptilian aliens.
    
    

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• FEDERAL JUDGE DAVID HAMILTON

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    David Hamilton is a hard Left, former ACORN fund-raiser and abortion radical who was rated “not qualified” by the ABA.

    Now, via LifeNews, he is federal judge:

    The Senate voted today 59-39 to confirm a pro-abortion federal judge President Barack Obama appointed to become a new appeals court justice. David Hamilton, of Indiana, is the first pro-abortion judge Obama selected, but he was held up for months because of his extreme views.

    With less than 60 votes, the Senate could have defeated the nomination had lawmakers voted Tuesday to sustain the filibuster pro-life advocates launched against Hamilton.

    The vote saw all but one Republican, Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, who is nominally pro-life, vote against Hamilton while all Democrats supported his nomination except two who were not present for the vote.

    However, the cloture vote saw no Democrats joining the 29 pro-life Republicans who supported it and a defection of some of the more liberal Republicans in the caucus.

    Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest said Hamilton should have been defeated because “judges should uphold Constitutional restrictions on abortion.”

    “As a District Court judge, Hamilton promoted his radical pro-abortion agenda. His promotion to the Seventh Circuit” is a “serious concern to the pro-life community,” she told LifeNews.com.

    Hamilton was tapped by Obama in March to fill a vacancy on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    As he promised he would do, pro-life Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama led the filibuster and said Hamilton should be opposed in part because of his pro-abortion views.

    Sessions noted how Hamilton kept an informed consent measure from being enforced in Indiana, thereby prohibiting women from getting information about abortion’s risks and alternatives so they can find positive alternatives.

    “And for seven years, through a series of rulings, Hamilton kept it form being enforced. This case is a blatant example of allowing personal views to frustrate the will of the people and the popularly elected representatives of the government of Indiana,” Sessions said. “This appeared to me to be obstructionism.”

    Sen. Jim DeMint, a pro-life senator from South Carolina, agreed.

    “Judge Hamilton is the definition of an activist judge and is clearly not qualified to sit on a court of appeals,” DeMint said during the debate. “Hamilton, who spent years working with the ACLU and ACORN, has used his position on the bench to drive his personal political agenda.”

    The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List objected to Hamilton and said it worries about future Obama nominees.

    “If Judge David Hamilton is considered a blueprint for the next judge President Obama will nominate for the U.S. Supreme Court, America is in trouble,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the organization, told LifeNews.com.

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• Only in America

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    ONLY IN AMERICA .....WE SPEND BILLIONS BECAUSE WE CAN'T LET GM AND CHRYSLER GO BANKRUPT, AND THEN, STILL ALLOW GM and CHRYSLER GO BANKRUPT.

    ONLY IN AMERICA ....CAN CONGRESS FORCE FANNIE AND FREDDIE TO BUY SUBPRIME LOANS, AND THEN BLAME FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOR BUYING SUBPRIME LOANS. THEN FIRE THE CEO'S WITH GIANT SEVERENCE PACKAGES AND NATIONALIZE THE COMPANIES SO THE TAX PAYERS CAN PAY OFF ALL THE DEBT!!

    ONLY IN AMERICA ....A FINANCIAL CRISIS REQUIRES SWIFT ACTION BY CONGRESS TO PASS A BILL WITHOUT READING IT, THEN THEY GO ON VACATION FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE THE PRESIDENT FINDS THE TIME TO SIGN IT.

    ONLY IN AMERICA ....YOU CAN BE LEGALLY ILLEGAL.

    ONLY IN AMERICA ....CAN CONGRESS MAKE LAWS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO, OR INTEND TO, FOLLOW.

    ONLY IN AMERICA .....THE VICE PRESIDENT DECLARES 'JOBS' A 3 LETTER WORD.

    ONLY IN AMERICA .... CAN YOU GET A TAX REFUND FOR TAXES YOU DIDN'T PAY.

    ONLY IN AMERICA .... CAN POLITICIANS BLAME OTHERS FOR THEIR OWN FAILURES.

    ONLY IN AMERICA .... YOU HAVE MORE RIGHTS BEING ILLEGAL, THAN YOU DO IF YOU'RE LEGAL

    ONLY IN AMERICA .... CAN YOU BE 13 AND HAVE AN ABORTION WITHOUT TELLING YOUR PARENTS, BUT YOU MUST HAVE A WRITTEN NOTE FROM YOUR PARENT EXPLAINING WHY YOU MISSED SCHOOL.

    ONLY IN AMERICA ....DO WE WORRY ABOUT 3 GUYS THAT GET WATER UP THEIR NOSES, WHILE THEIR ASSOCIATES ARE BEHEADING CAPTIVES AND BLOWING UP CROWDS OF PEOPLE WITH SUICIDE BOMBERS.

    ONLY IN AMERICA ....YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT WITHOUT HAVING A BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

     

    ONLY IN AMERICA .... WHATEVER GOES WRONG WILL ALWAYS BE PRESIDENT BUSH'S FAULT.

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• Double Dipping With DROP

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    The Florida State Legislature wrote into law the Deferred Optional Retirement Program which allows state educators to retire, receive a lump sum retirement payout, then be rehired.

    The latest and most public person taking this option is Seminole State College President, E Ann McGee. McGee makes $230,000 a year and will be retiring November 30th of this year. She will receive a lump sum payment of over $390, 000. And then (get this) she will be rehired on January 1st, 2010 which is in the parameters of the law.

    This practice has happened elsewhere in Seminole County. Remember Seminole County Schools Superintendent Bill Vogel? Remember when the Seminole Country School Board voted against giving teachers raises, but approved one for Vogel. Well, prior that, Vogel had retired under the DROP program receiving undisclosed amount of retirement, then came out of retirement to become Seminole Schools Superintendent. This is also occuring in several Seminole County Schools, and I suspect other county school systems as well.

    What is most disturbing about this, while it is legal, is that teachers cannot get raises, extra curricular activity programs are being scrubbed (including many sports programs), students cannot get the required education (Winter Springs HS for example has gone from an "A" to "C" school), yet a select few administrators are getting their pockets lined.

    Is this happening in your schools system? What other types of budgetary abuses have you witnessed?

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• Tolerance and Compassion

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    It seems like the so called liberal ideology of "tolerance and compassion" is anything but.

    I saw a post yesterday on an "unnamed blogsite" that has a picture of female anatomy "photoshopped" on Sarah's face, and labelling her with the "C" word. Is that tolerance and compassion? Or is the liberal "feel good" agenda only one them and their sheeple?

    Let's take a look, shall we?

    The liberals are supposedly the party of female championing and womens rights. One would think they would be ecstatic about a self made woman who has a wonderful family (issues and all), a full-time career, and who is handling it all in a dignified manner. But no, they tear her down, call her names, and look for new ways to continue their hateful assault on her (just read the Newsweek article, look at their cover).

    When Bill Clinton was being accused of rape by several women. The liberal N.O.W. and media came out in defense of these women, correct? Absolutely not. They tore the accusers apart as well, even calling one of them "trailer trash". Of course, they were all about supporting Anita Hill when she falsely accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harrassment. So, just by these few examples I would have to say the left is about supporting their far left wing agenda, rather than women's rights.

    Let's look at race shall we? I already mentioned the Clarence Thomas ordeal, but there is more. They called him "Uncle Tom" because he did not speak like them, was educated, and was more conservative than they liked. Just like they tore down Michael Steele when he was running for Governor of Maryland and Ken Blackwell in Ohio. They even went so far as to illegaly obtain Steele's credit report and make it public. Yes they called them "Uncle Tom" as well. Who does the left hold as heroes of the black race? Liberals like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, and Louis Farrahkan. Interesting. So, one could again make the case that liberals are not for black people making a better life for themselves, but rather pushing the liberal agenda tolerance, compassion, and "dependence".

    Looking further at the media, when Obama was running for president, an unknown man approached Obama on the campaign trail and asked him about income and taxes. Obama, in one of his many gaffes when he is speaking without his teleprompter, admitted he was for spreading wealth. The media decided to check that out, right? Once again, no. They dug into Joe "The Plumber's" background, and villified him in the press (it ultimately made him even more popular with the general populace). What about 11 AP reporters "fact checking" Sarah Palin's book, which I am sure they did with Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, (as well as Clinton's and Gore's) correct? Nope, they let little facts like Obama (Ayers) writing "The white mans greed runs a world in need" and "siding with the Muslims" slide. Or what about his long standing relationship with radicals like William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Tony Rezko, and his radical "black power" Pastor Wright. They checked those connections out during the campaign, correct? No, but they did send throngs of reporters to Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin. Again, it is the press supporting the far left agenda.

    So happy Sarah and black moderate/conservative denegrating, you intolerant, hating liberals. Try as you will, you will not break them. Come to think of it do your job well and you'll see the country rally behind them to a great extent than they have now. We moderates and conservative outnumber you by a lot.

     

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• My plea to USA citizens ...

  • From: UncleRob
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    Okay, I'm forced to accept the fact that you don't want to impeach mr. wonderful, despite my almost-daily urging.
    
    But please, if nothing else, you have to ensure that he's the first one-term President we've had in a long time. Please?
    
    It's going to take years of hard work to undo the damage this moron is causing! We have to start no later than 2012!
    
    Thank you.
    

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• A.N.S.W.E.R -vs- TEA PARTY

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    A.N.S.W.E.R IS A COALITION GROUP CALLED ACT NOW TO STOP WAR AND END RACISM. 

    Supporters of President Obama's Amnesty plans came out to FT.Lauderdale to PROTEST against the TEA PARTY.

    Friday, the day before the Tea Party rally, ANSWER sent out a provocative email, which is now being cited and criticized extensively in conservative blogs. The email included the following statement:

    Racism is like anything else in this world: in order to make it fall, you must smash it! That is why we are calling on all people to come out tomorrow, to organize a militant confrontation with the so-called 'tea baggers.' Beating back these forces will require us to organize together, take the streets, fight the racists wherever they show their faces and drive them out of every community.

    How can they call americans fighting against BIG government racist? Has anyone heard of A.N.S.W.E.R?

    Watch the video then post your thoughts.

    http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2009/11/16/commie-thugs-beat-tea-partiers-protesting-illegal-immigration/

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/tea-party-protest-turns-v_b_360035.html

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• Obama's recovery chief thinks

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    11/17/09 12:01 PM EST

    G. Edward DeSeve, the man running President Obama's economic recovery effort has a post up today on Recovery.gov that deserves a place in the Out-of-Touch Government Officials Hall of Fame.

    DeSeve is Special Advisor to the President, Assistant to the Vice President and Special Advisor to the OMB Director for Implementation of the Recovery Act.

     

    Titled "Looking at the big picture on the Recovery Act," DeSeve claims all those "mistakes" like the thousands of jobs created in congressional districts that don't exist or counting raises as jobs created by stimulus funding "are relatively few and don't change the fundamental conclusions one can draw from the data."

    DeSeve might as well have said "nothing to look at here, folks, now move along." Or perhaps "hey, it's close enough for government work, so what's the problem?"

    As anybody who knows elementary statistics can attest, putting in one piece of bad data can render an entire database useless, or worse, produce analytical results that bear absolutely no relation to reality.

    DeSeve also claims some of the mistakes are "frustrating typos and coding errors that don't undermine information at the heart of the data." But when hundreds of frustrating typos and coding errors" are found in a database, competent database analysts and statisticians know you go back to the original source, correct the errors, and then start doing analysis and drawing conclusions.

    DeSeve and his bosses in the White House want us to just ignore such data-entry problems and accept the Obama administration's fairy tale conclusions about what the data tell us regarding the success of the stimulus program.

    Third, DeSeve claims that having so many errors is okay because "transparency is going to be messy but it is better than the alternative." That's like telling the cancer patient that your surgeon today didn't finish med school but, hey, letting him cut you open is better than the alternative, which is dying.

    The reality DeSeve is trying to avoid coming to grips with is that, for whatever reason and regardless of who is at fault, the data being produced by his shop is worthless as indicators of the value of the Obama administration's economic stimulus program. It is incredible that he would even attempt to argue to the contrary after multiple mainstream media organizations dug into the numbers and found seemingly endless examples of mis-counting, mis-representation, and outright fraudulent claims.

    Such as here, here, here, and here. And that's just a sample of what's been found so far by mainstream media journalists, bloggers, and investigative journalism outfits. If President Obama is genuinely interested in restoring honesty in government and public trust in its statements, he will fire DeSeve, shut down recovery.gov., and apologize to the American people for allowing this farce to go on as long as it has.

    By the way, if you want accurate data about the stimulus program, check out recovery.org, which is maintained by Onvia, a private company that specializes in tracking government data, funding, contracts, etc. 

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Recoverygov-chief-thinks-site-is-a-great-success--70284072.html

    **I hate to be the bearer of bad news for this joker - but  things are not improving - getting worse perhaps but, not improving. Not sure which universe he lives in, or which time dimension, but not this one! Also I wonder what his goal might be that he considers improved.

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• Barack Obama Called: He Wants

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    Remember those $400.00 and $800.00 tax credits Barack Obama gave you in his stimulus plan? And remember that $250.00 gift he gave social security recipients?

    Well, Obama decided he wants them back. Yep. According to the IRS, Obama has never asked for an adjustment of the tax tables, so millions of Americans are going to get taxed for having received the tax credits back in February — typically through adjustments the federal government demanded businesses make in employees’ withholdings.

    “While implementing a credit through reduced withholding is an effective way to provide economic stimulus evenly throughout the year, it is difficult to account for everyone’s circumstances,” said J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. “More than 10 percent of all taxpayers who file individual tax returns for 2009 could owe additional taxes.”

    The tax credit is also available for 2010. Russell said the problems will continue in 2010 if they are not resolved

     

    WASHINGTON — More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit.

    Taxpayers are at risk if they have more than one job, are married and both spouses work, or receive Social Security benefits while also earning taxable wages, according to a report Monday by the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.

    The tax credit, which is supposed to pay individuals up to $400 and couples up to $800, was President Barack Obama's signature tax break in the massive stimulus package enacted in February.

    Most workers started receiving the credit through small increases in their paychecks in April. The tax credit was made available through new withholding tables issued by the Internal Revenue Service.

    The withholding tables, however do not take into account taxpayers with multiple jobs or married couples in which both people work. They also don't take into account Social Security recipients with jobs that provided taxable income.

    The Social Security Administration sent out $250 payments to more than 50 million retirees in the spring as part of the economic stimulus package. The payments were meant to provide a boost for people who didn't' qualify for the tax credit.

    However, they went to many retirees who also received the credit. Those retirees will have the $250 payment deducted from their tax credit — but not until they file their tax returns next year, long after the money may have been spent.

    "While implementing a credit through reduced withholding is an effective way to provide economic stimulus evenly throughout the year, it is difficult to account for everyone's circumstances," said J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. "More than 10 percent of all taxpayers who file individual tax returns for 2009 could owe additional taxes."

    The tax credit is also available for 2010. Russell said the problems will continue in 2010 if they are not resolved.

    The credit pays workers 6.2 percent of their earned income, up to a maximum of $400 for individuals and $800 for married couples who file jointly. Individuals making more than $95,000 and couples making more than $190,000 are ineligible.

    "Making Work Pay was designed to deliver much needed boosts to the paychecks of 95 percent of all working Americans," said Nayyera Haq, a Treasury Department spokeswoman. "Since enactment, more than 110 million families have benefited from as much as $60 in additional take home pay each month to put toward their family budgets, serving as a steady boost to spending and consumption."

    For many, the new tax tables will simply mean smaller-than-expected tax refunds next year. The average tax refund this year was about $2,800.

    The IRS, in a response to the audit, advised taxpayers to check their withholding throughout the year to make sure they don't get hit with an unexpected tax bill.

    "The withholding system must approximate the tax liability of tens of millions of Americans, and therefore, cannot be tailored precisely to fit every individual situation," Richard Byrd Jr., commissioner of the IRS' wage and investments division, wrote in the agency's response to the report.

    (This version CORRECTS Corrects average refund amount to $2,800 sted $3,000; UPDATES with administration response. Moving on general news and financial services.)

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkep0UU55rYxFXyIKMRy9Zv0Oo-wD9C0NVV81

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• CHANGING THE SUBJECT: WHY O NI

  • From: RightAway
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    CHANGING THE SUBJECT: WHY O NIXED FT. HOOD PROBE
    
    By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
    
    Published in the New York Post on November 16, 2009
    
    As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater." Yet, even as he was posturing against political theatrics, he had just decided that the prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would proceed on the greatest of public stages -- New York City.
    
    With the strict evidentiary rules in force in federal civilian courts, it is easy to see how the prosecution of Mohammed could morph into an indictment of the Bush administration's interrogation techniques and waterboarding. As in rape trials, the magnitude of the underlying crime (masterminding the 9/11 attacks) might well be lost as the defense puts the victim (in this case, the government) on trial.
    
    It is not political theater itself to which Obama objects -- but theater that highlights issues that liberals would rather forget. He is quite content to let the Mohammed trial become the theater of the left. Perhaps even eager.
    
    Obama and his handlers know that the key to building favorable ratings is to control the agenda. And the more the national discussion centers on national security and terrorism, the more Republicans gain. So the Fort Hood terror attack comes at an awful time for an administration trying to turn the nation's attention away from the terrorist threat.
    
    As soon as the killing spree was over, Obama hastened to call it "an act of violence" -- obscuring the obvious fact that it was the most serious terror attack on US soil since 9/11. And, as evidence mounts that the FBI was on to Major Nidal Malik Hasan for years, the president is doing his best to stop Congress from finding out why these warnings went unheeded.
    
    Even as Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee confirmed that the government knew of 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam in Yemen -- who was urging the killing of American troops -- starting last December, Obama hastened to urge Congress to refrain from investigating why the danger signs were ignored.
    
    The Obama administration has a clear agenda here:
    
    1) Stop people from focusing in how his administration permitted the worst domestic terror attack in eight years.
    
    2) Avoid a national airing of how liberal policies -- restraints on the intelligence community, political correctness in the armed forces -- might have inhibited the military from reining in Hasan.
    
    3) Re-ignite a firestorm on the left and abroad against the aggressive anti-terror policies of the Bush administration.
    
    Making all this particularly important for Obama are his other political needs.
    
    As he likely decides to send more troops to Afghanistan and eyes abandoning the "public option" to secure Senate passage of his health-care plan, Obama has to rebuild his credibility on the left. A public circus that focuses on waterboarding and interrogations could be just what he wants and needs.
    

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• RATION HEALTH CARE

  • From: zcat
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    MORE NEWS

    New U.S. guidelines: Routine mammograms start at 50 
    6:52pm EST 

    FACTBOX: New U.S. breast cancer screening guidelines 
    5:16pm EST 

    By Julie Steenhuysen

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cancer experts fear new U.S. breast imaging guidelines that recommend against routine screening mammograms for women in their 40s may have their roots in the current drive in Washington to reform healthcare.

    Critics of the guidelines, issued on Monday by the U.S. Services Task Force, an independent panel sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Quality, say the new guidelines are a step backward and will lead to more cancer deaths.

    Here are some of their concerns.

    * Dr Carol Lee, chairwoman of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Commission, said she fears insurers -- both private and public -- will use them to pare back health costs.

    "These new recommendations seem to reflect a conscious decision to ration care," Lee said in a statement.

    She said since the onset of regular mammogram screening in 1990, the death rate from breast cancer, which had been unchanged for the preceding 50 years, has decreased by 30 percent.

    * Dr Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said the influential group will not change recommendations for routine mammograms for women starting at age 40.

    But he is worried that women will become so confused by the conflicting recommendations they will stop getting mammograms altogether. "Frankly, from our point of view that would be the worst possible outcome," Lichtenfeld said in a telephone interview.

    * Lichtenfeld and other doctors are worried that insurance companies and government insurers will seize on the recommendations as a way to control rising health costs.

    "What is going to happen is insurers are going to say, 'The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force doesn't support screening. We're not going to pay for it,'" said Dr Daniel Kopans, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a senior radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

    "There were no new data to assess. One has to wonder why these new guidelines are being promulgated at a time when healthcare is under discussion and I am afraid their decision is related to saving money rather than saving lives," Kopans said.

    * "The USPSTF recommendations are a step backward and represent a significant harm to women's health," Dr W. Phil Evans, president of the Society of Breast Imaging, said in a statement.

    "At least 40 percent of the lives saved by mammographic screening are of women aged 40-49. These recommendations are inconsistent with current science and apparently have been developed in an attempt to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many women may pay for this unsound approach with their lives."

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• New Immigrants

  • From: PegasusWing
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    You just spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of Hamas, a terrorist organization, to the United States ; housing, food, the whole enchilada.

    HB 1388 PASSED

    Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know.....

    Something happened.... H.B. 1388 was passed, behind our backs. You may want to read about it.. It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.

    Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA . This is the news that didn't make the headlines...

    By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza .

    The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States , was signed and appears in the Federal Register.

    Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

    Let's review....itemized list of some of Barack Obama ' s most recent actions since his inauguration:

    His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.

    His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.

    His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here within the U. S. , but within the world, using U. S. tax payer funds.

    He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.

    He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.

    He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and the "terror attack" on 9/11.

    Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

    These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.

    Doubtful? To verify this for yourself: www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488

     

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• Crap and Trade

  • From: ExciteM
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    The following is some important information on the Cap and Trade Bill that passed the House. If you own a house, better read! 
     
    Obama, this Congress and whoever on their staffs (or PACs) that write this junk are truly out to destroy the middle class of the USA.
    
    Only the beginning from this administration. They are trying to ram through these huge tax bills before they are tossed out on their rears. 

    Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives. If it also passed by the Senate, it will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.

    The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded. However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.
    
    
    But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this:

    A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right. The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included.

    In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator. To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements.

    Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner. If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell.

    And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act. The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initial y so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year.

    The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings. However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time. Sect. 202: Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across America .
    
    Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. You had better sell soon, because the standards will be raised each year and will be really hard to meet in a few years. Whoopee! The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand dollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements if you meet certain energy efficiency levels.

    But, hold on, the State can set additional requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants. You should expect requirements such as "can't have an income of more than $50K per year", "home selling price can't be more than $125K", or anything else to target the upper middle class (and that's YOU) and prevent them from qualifying for the grants. Most of us won't get a dime and will have to pay the entire cost of the retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change you can believe in."
    
    Sect. 204: Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for "at least 90 percent of the residential market within 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act."
    
    This means that within 5 years 90% of all residential homes in the U.S. must be measured and labeled. The EPA administrator will get $50M each year to enforce the labeling program. The Secretary of the Department of Energy will get an additional $20M each year to help enforce the labeling program. Some of this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher standards each year.

    Oh, the label will be like a license for your car. You will be required to post the label in a conspicuous location in your home and will not be allowed to sell your home without having this label. And, just like your car license, you will probably be required to get a new label every so often - maybe every year. But, the government estimates the cost of measuring the energy efficiency of your home should only cost about $200 each time.

    Remember what they said about the auto smog inspections when they first started: that in California it would only cost $15. That was when the program started. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection and certificate; a 333% increase. Expect the same from the home labeling program.
    
    Sect. 304: Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d), Application of National Code to State and Local Jurisdictions, that 1 year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Code energy efficiency standards.
    
    H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us)

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• NYC Terrorist Trial

  • From: ExciteM
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    As we all know by now, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terrorist masterminds will be tried in NYC very soon, even though they have pled guilty in Gitmo.
    
    What follows are the incontrovertible facts surrounding this impending trial.
    
    Let’s just say that, for sake of argument, the judge appointed to reside over this trial is completely impartial and beholden to the law and the U.S. Constitution, and has no political agenda or ideology whatsoever. Let’s also assume that the judge is not a Democrat and not vehemently opposed to all counter-terrorism efforts since 9/11. And let us also assume that this judge will fully uphold the constitution without any countering political retribution. Clearly this is a huge long-shot.
    
    Here’s the heart of this trial: virtually no prosecutorial evidence can be admitted. Why you ask?
    
    It’s simple, interrogations of any suspect are inadmissible, no matter how mild or harsh, without consent of the lawyers of the accused. Furthermore, there has to be proof that KSM and his fellow co-conspirators were effectively issued their respective Miranda Rights. Since we were treating them a enemy combatants, not criminals, and since they are not U.S. citizens techniques were used to gain valuable information, that wouldn't have been used if they were civil criminals. 
    
    Additionally, in the impending USA versus KSM and the co-conspirators, all classified sources and methods would have to be fully revealed. This means that ALL intelligence agencies would have to reveal ALL of the USA’s deepest secrets and would essentially be forced to disband. The CIA, FBI, NSA, DoD, DoJ, and all other agencies would essentially render themselves forever ineffective!
    
    After acknowledging all of these facts, it is clear that without any admissible evidence, beyond “hear-say”, all these defendants will have their cases dismissed. There is absolutely no way that the prosecution of these terrorists will be allowed to continue!
    
    As bad as this all clearly is, it gets worse! These terrorists and all others at Guantanamo would be allowed restitution for their incarceration, costing the U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions and even billions of U.S. tax dollars!
    
    Think about this for a moment. Thanks to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder (whose lawfirm represents some the Gitmo detainees), the families of the 6,000 murdered Americans will be forced to endure the pain of not only this immense breach of justice, but an immense tax burden of financially rewarding terrorists for their horrific crimes against ALL Americans and humanity.

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• Don't Blame it on George W.

  • From: starrman1
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    My thanks to shockhazard for sharing this with me:

    If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
        
    If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in New York City, would you have approved?
              
    If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
               
    If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?  
        
    If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVD's, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
         
    If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassing, narcissistic and tacky?
          
    If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
         
    If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
         
    If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who have either failed to pay or cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
         
    If George W. Bush  had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when  he tried again, would you have winced  in embarrassment?
         
    If George W. Bush had misspelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like people did to Dan Quayle and his misspelling of potato as proof of what a dunce he is?
           
    If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel just to go and plant a SINGLE tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?
           
    If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people, followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?   
            
    If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?  
        
    If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had NO constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
         
    If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt in one year, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, would you have approved?
         
    If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

     

    If George Bush would have said that there were 57 states, would you have questioned his sanity, or senility? Or more importantly, wonder if he knew what country he was running for office in?

        
    So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?
    
    Can't think of anything?  ME NEITHER!
    And yet Obama has done all of this in less than one year in office -- so you'll have three years to come up with an answer.

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• A Letter you might want

  • From: voidthis1966
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    A letter you might to send to so call Sen. or Rep.

    [Sen.] or [Rep.] [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]
    Washington, DC

    RE: STOP Judge David Hamilton Now!

    
    Dear [Sen.] [LAST NAME]:

    Please accept this petition, asking you to OPPOSE AND FILIBUSTER President Obama's nomination of anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-Christian Judge David Hamilton to the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals. 

    Whereas, Judge Hamilton issued anti-liberty, anti-Christian injunctions which prohibited any prayers offered "in Jesus name" by civilian guest pastors visiting the Indiana legislature (which bad decision was later overturned by the 7^th Circuit), and

    Whereas, Judge Hamilton issued anti-life rulings striking down a reasonable law requiring abortionists simply inform women about alternatives to abortion in the presence of a physician or nurse (which bad decision was also overturned by the 7^th Circuit), and

    Whereas, the American Bar Association rated Judge Hamilton as 'not qualified' during his original appointment to the federal bench,

    Therefore, Judge David Hamilton is too extremist and unfit to serve in a place of such authority as the 7^th Circuit Court, the same court which frequently overturned his bad anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-Christian rulings.

    We therefore request you OPPOSE AND FILIBUSTER the nomination of the anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-Christian Judge David Hamilton to the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals. 

    We the undersigned pray to God you will oppose Judge Hamilton, in Jesus' name.

    
    Sincerely,

    [YOUR NAME]
    [ADDRESS]
    [CITY], [STATE] [ZIP]
    Concerned U.S. Citizen

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• Our country deserves better

  • From: dlindberg102
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    Am I so out of step with the majority in this country? Why is it that every time I turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper I find myself getting angry? This week I couldn’t believe that our illustrious Attorney General, Eric Holder was there on Television telling us that they were bringing our sworn enemies to New York for a civilian trial. Where in our Constitution does it say we have to give our legal rights to our enemies? In my mind I am asking who benefits from this stupidity, the families of the victims, the fire fighters who lost their brethren, the police and port authority who still hear the screams of the dying in their sleep. How about us, the general public who witnessed planes full of everyday people crashing into the buildings, or the bodies of innocent office workers hurling themselves out of the twin towers to keep from burning alive. None of the above is the answer in case you wondered. There is one answer that comes to mind but I can’t even fathom anyone could be so callous, It’s been stated that Attorney General Holders former law firm, the one that he will surely return to when this country finally regains its senses, represents several terrorists already. Could this be a motive? Are they that arrogant that they would even consider this?
    
    
    
    
    Are we so intimidated by European opinion that it is really necessary that we close Gitmo? We have been so smothered in political correctness that it is affecting our ability to survive as a world power. Who has earned the right to judge our system of government? What part of Europe didn’t we save from tyranny? What would China be today if we hadn’t stopped the Japanese in WWII? How have our enemies treated our captives, from WWII through Korea, Viet Nam, or in The Middle East? The people held in Guantanamo have it better than they did in their own countries. I call them people only because I am so influenced by political correctness that I find it hard to call them what they really are. In our history we have always been the savior of the world not the bad guy. This administration seems to be of the belief that we have a lot to apologize for. Even though I didn’t vote for him I actually thought that after Obama was sworn in, he would see the world for what it really is and temper his agenda for the good of America. I was wrong, his agenda seems to be to destroy the America we grew up in and remake it into a socialist society. To accomplish this goal he has to break the spirit of our people and render them impotent to his will. He has surrounded himself with a group of people who actually despise our country. Socialist, Communist and some of the loudest voices against American freedom are entrenched in his cabinet and his army of Czars.
    
    
    
    In history we learn what is in our future, if you bother to read the history of Germany and the Soviet Union you will see where we are headed. When the President goes to Copenhagen and signs the treaty on Global Warming, we as a sovereign nation will cease to exist. When we give others the right to make and enforce our laws we will have fought all wars, and left all our battle fields littered with our dead for nothing. America will no longer be the shinning city on the hill that so many have held in reverence. The United States that has been the benefactor to the world deserves better. Shout and shout loud, make these egotistical, narcissists hear your demands. Let them know that this is our land, and we’ll defend it with all we have.

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• Where are the liberals?

  • From: AirForceEd
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    Two month ago the top general in Afghanistan asked for more support troops in that area, the filth of bobama and his lackeys decided he had to "think the situation" while the carnage of the US military continue (it has been the WORST two month of killing of US troops in 6 years) while this is happening he is blocking investigations into the shooting in Fort Hood by his friends the "soldiers of God" muslims, yet the liberal media hasn't comment anything about it, the filth of cbs on air whore couric says that he is "agonizing" in the decision of what to do, she still blowing him.  If this had happen with PRESIDENT BUSH the media would have said in the melodramatic tones that he had abandoned the soldiers who had answer his call to duty, but now with bobama they have decided to shut up and don't stir up the filth that bobama and his lying crew have brought on us like a 18.2 trade deficit, UNDER BOBAMA, an 10.6 unemployment thanks to BOBAMA and his RECOVERY PAKAGE OF LIES, and now the great filth of the asskisser reid has admitted IN PRIVATE that we cant have to bobama health bill with out raising taxes FIRST WITH SENIORS WHO MAKE MORE THAN 200,000 A YEAR, but now bobama and his asskisser in the homeland security the crook from Arizona fatso napolitano are going to invent a new way to legalize ilegals and call it the "immigration reform", this are going to be more "legal voters" for the good friends in ACORN, by the way, have you notice how my prediction of 4 month ago that the media was going to quiet down the link of ACORN with bobama and his democrats has come to passed?

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