200 economists (including Nobel Prize winners) say Obama's stimulus bill is dangerous

...and Larry Kudlow adds this:

Government spending, deficits, and debt creation of this magnitude is simply unheard of. So the added TARP money will surely imperil the entire stimulus package as taxpayers around the country begin to digest the enormity of these proposed government actions. Financing of this type would not only destroy the U.S. fiscal position for years to come, it could destroy the dollar in the process. What's more, the likelihood of massive tax increases -- which at some point will become front and center in this gargantuan funding operation -- would doom the economy for decades.

Please read this and pass it around!

A note from John Ziegler (watch THE VIEW this Monday!)

Dear John Ziegler/"How Obama Got Elected" Mailing List Members:

Just a quick note to let you know that I will be a guest on this coming Monday's edition of "The View" on ABC TV to talk about my recent interview with Sarah Palin, which is somehow still making news.

It looks like I am scheduled for the final segment of the show, live from NYC. It should be interesting.

Thanks for your continued support. The film is coming along great and I will update you soon with more information.

All the best

John Ziegler

Born Again American

TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS!

Hey, Barry: Where's FEMA???

Heck of a job Barry, but people are dying by the dozens while you're schmoozing Congress with steak dinners! KATRINA critics are, mysteriously silent. In Kentucky’s Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said FEMA was still a no-show days after the storm!!!

Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria

...Bush hatred and Obama euphoria -- which tend to reveal more about those who feel them than the men at which they are directed -- are opposite sides of the same coin. Both represent the triumph of passion over reason. Both are intolerant of dissent. Those wallowing in Bush hatred and those reveling in Obama euphoria frequently regard those who do not share their passion as contemptible and beyond the reach of civilized discussion. Bush hatred and Obama euphoria typically coexist in the same soul. And it is disproportionately members of the intellectual and political class in whose souls they flourish.

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Dems party in Caribbean on YOUR dime!

Six Democratic members of Congress enjoyed a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress had approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October.

The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, has asked Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, for a formal review of the Citigroup’s sponsorship of the trip by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel and five others.

The NLPC says the trip violated House rules.

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Michael Yon talks about Israel

He says first:

"It is amazing to me, as an American who travels the world on a near-constant basis, that there is so much confusion over who the terrorists are, who wants war, and who wants peace."

And from the last two paragraphs:

"I hear great concern that our new administration will turn its back on Israel, leaving Israelis to fend for themselves. But these feelings are not limited to the Israelis. Concern comes from numerous allies that the United States might go cold. I'm hearing these concerns from Iraqis, British, Lithuanians, and Israelis, to name a few.

I can safely be called anti-war. But being anti-war does not mean we can hide our heads in the sand in regard to the proximate and growing threat from Iran. If you want to see World War III unfold, just sit quietly about Iran. Iran could be the opening chapter of an apocalyptic era."

From Michael Yon's new article: "How Can the World Be Blind to Israel's Existential Threats?"

Finally! A PRO abortion argument I can agree with!!!

Short and sweet

The shocking truth about the U.S. Military!

Did you know?

The annual fatalities, by any cause, of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2007:

1980____2,392 (Carter)
1981____2,380 (Reagan)
1984____1,999 (Reagan)
1988____1,819 (Reagan)
1989____1,636 (George H W)
1990____1,508 (George H W)
1991____1,787 (George H W)
1992____1,293 (George H W)
1993____1,213 (Clinton)
1994____1,075 (Clinton)
1995____2,465 (Clinton)
1996____2,318 (Clinton)
1997____0,817 (Clinton)
1998____2,252 (Clinton)
1999____1,984 (Clinton)
2000____1,983 (Clinton)
2001____0,890 (George W)
2002____1,007 (George W)
2003____1,410 (George W)
2004____1,887 (George W)
2005____0,919 (George W)
2006____0,920 (George W)
2007____0,899 (George W)

Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths

George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths

Are you surprised when you look at these figures? They indicate the loss from the two latest Middle East conflicts are less than the loss of military personnel during Clinton's presidency when America wasn't even involved in a war--unless you include Bosnia and Mogadishu, Somalia. (Remember Black Hawk Down?) Even more surprising is that in 1980, during Carter presidency, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!

These figures appear to indicate many members of our media and politicians pick and choose the information on which they report--that they present only those "facts" that support their agenda. (Oh, Gosh, Do you think?)

Consider the latest census of Americans. It shows the following distribution of American citizens by race:

European descent 69.12 percent
Hispanic 12.50 percent
Black 12.30 percent
Asian 3.70 percent
Native American 1.00 percent
Other 2.60 percent

Many members of the media lead us to believe the military death ratio is off balanced compared to the distribution by race in America. Here are the fatalities by race over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:

European descent 74.31 percent
Hispanic 10.74 percent
Black 9.67 percent
Asian 1.81 percent
Native American 1.09 percent
Other 0.33 percent

Surprised again?

These statistics are published by the Congressional Research Service and may be confirmed at:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf

The President and The Swimming Pool

In stimulus package language, if Congress taxes to hand out money, one person is stimulated at the expense of another, who pays the tax, who is unstimulated.

A visual representation of the stimulus package is: Imagine you see a person at work taking buckets of water from the deep end of a swimming pool and dumping them into the shallow end in an attempt to make it deeper. You would deem him stupid.

That scenario is equivalent to what Congress and the new president propose for the economy.

Find out the shit we're in HERE!

OY! You will not believe what is in Obama's so-called "stimulus" bill!

(Including earmarks for "great sex!")

See it to believe it!

Let's watch what Germany did to Israel-or rather, to the Jews...

...so we can understand that there is no remedy for these people other than imposing fear and terror on them. (This is a direct quote--it's what the Muslims say in their own language when they think you aren't listening.) Must watch this to see why Obama is dead wrong in his approach.

LIBERAL JEWS WAKE UP!!! HERE IS WHAT IS COMING FOR YOU (YOU WILL SEE IT STARTING AT THE 7-MINUTE MARK IN THIS VIDEO.)

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

What Are They Buying?" by Thomas Sowell

What is really going on in Washginton?

No matter how many times President Barack Obama tells us that these "extraordinary times" call for "swift action," the kind of economic policies he is promoting take effect very slowly, no matter how quickly the legislation is rushed through Congress. It is the old Army game of hurry up and wait.

If the Beltway politicians aren't really trying to solve this crisis as quickly as they could, what are they trying to do?

One important clue may be a recent statement by President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, that "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."

This is the kind of cynical revelation that sometimes slips out, despite all the political pieties and spin. Crises have long been seen as great opportunities to expand the federal government's power while the people are too scared to object and before any opposition can get organized.

That is why there is such haste to do things that will take effect slowly.

What are the Beltway politicians buying with all the hundreds of billions of dollars they are spending? They are buying what politicians are most interested in-- power.

Be careful what you wish for:

This administration and Congress are now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s-- use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations.

To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s. We have the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") taking reckless chances in the housing market that have blown up in our faces today, because FDR decided to create a new federal housing agency in 1938.

Who knows what bright ideas this administration will turn into permanent institutions for our children and grandchildren to try to cope with?

The end of the world as you thought you knew it

textbook example of blaming the victim

It's getting harder and harder to find Geert Wilders' film which is at the crux of this issue (it is a MUST SEE, especially to understand the import of what is going on the world today) but you can still watch it HERE

Subpoenas issued to Obama's senior staff

New subpoenas that have been issued to Obama's senior staff from the Honorable Patrick Fitzgerald Office (you know...the guy that libs love for nailing Scooter Libby):

David Axelrod
Valerie Jarrett
Rahm Emanuel
Tony Rezko

Also served:

Patricia Blagojevich
Friends of Blagojevich, campaign committee
Citizens for Blagojevich, former committee
Robert Blagojevich
Christopher Kelly
Alonzo Monk
Milan Petrovic
John Wyma
Paul Rosenfeld
J.B. Pritzker
Gery Chico
Doug Scofield
Scofield Communications
Service Employees International Union
Tom Balanoff
Change to Win, activist group
Sam Zell, owner of the Chicago Tribune
Nils Larsen
The Chicago Tribune
The Tribune Co.
Michael Vondra
Gerald Krozel
John Johnston, president of Balmoral Park racetrack
Fred Yang
Garin Hart Yang Research Group
William Knapp
Squire, Knapp & Dunn, Knapp’s firm
Doug Sosnick, political consultant

Atheists, run for your life! Al Gore is here!!!

THIS is funny!

"Go grab his ass"

Liberals have been pining for the lost Al Gore presidency for years now...strange, though, given his Bush-esque sympathies!

An anecdote former Clinton counterterror czar Richard Clarke recounts in his memoir "Against All Enemies" is instructive. In 1993, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler was horrified by Mr. Clarke's proposal for "extraordinary rendition," where our spooks turn over prisoners to foreign countries like Egypt so they can do the interrogating.

While Mr. Clinton was still chewing his fingernails and seemed to side with Mr. Cutler, Al Gore arrived late to the meeting. "Clinton recapped the arguments on both sides," Mr. Clarke writes. "Gore laughed and said, 'That's a no-brainer. Of course it's a violation of international law, that's why it's a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.'" [Excerpt from "The Jack Bauer Exception," Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 23, 2009]

Sigh. For the good old days.

So don't go like that

This is the best explanation of why socialism is bad that I can ever remember reading! Do yourself a HUGE favor and read it -- ALL of it -- it gets better and better with each paragraph:

Another Day Older And Deeper In Debt

The Great Obama Crash

Absolute power gets blamed absolutely
By Spengler

Inauguration day brings to mind the reason I don't read science fiction. It's never weird enough. Today, America will place more power than any peacetime president ever has wielded into the hands of a man nobody knows. He has convinced more incompatible constituencies that he takes their side than any politician in American history. And through no fault or merit of his own, he has stumbled into more power than the White House has had since World War II.

From the day Obama was elected to 9:30am Tokyo time on Monday morning, the S&P 500 index has lost 17% of its value, after absorbing Obama's proposed cabinet and hearing the gist of his economic stimulus plan. That can't be blamed on Bush. It counts as the "Obama crash". With the unprecedented power of his office, Obama inherits a commensurately high level of accountability. Unless he offers something radically different, the boomerang of expectations could flatten him faster and more thoroughly than the swift ascent of his star. People in power get blamed; people with absolute power get blamed absolutely. As the economy continues to deteriorate, there will be no one left standing to blame but Obama.

Read the whole thing

Obama cultists and what to do about 'em

Last night I had dinner with a group of mostly 60's type liberals who worship at the Obama alter (one of them absolutely forbade even a single disparaging word about our new President but felt completely free during the entire evening to make the case that George W. Bush was the scum of the earth--real fair and balanced). It is for these, that the following was written:

There is a basic difference between a cult and a political movement. A political movement is geared around issues, a cult is built around a belief that attaching yourself to a particular guru can teach you how to be a better person and "redeem" you and the rest of the world.

You can demonstrate that a political movement is wrong, but demonstrating that a cult is wrong does no good whatsoever. A cult leader functions by convincing his followers to become emotionally and physically invested in the idea that only by following them can they be saved. Cult membership has to be broken, like any emotionally based addiction.

For our purposes, we can classify Obama cultists into several categories...

Check out De-Programming Obama Cultists