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Senator Inhofe declares victory in speech on global warming

 

Hopefully he is correct. Full story here.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress’ most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor.

“I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,’’ the Oklahoma Republican said.

“Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’

Inhofe recalled his own 2003 remarks in which he said much of the debate over global warming was predicated on fear rather than science.

 

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UPS and Unions vs Federal Express

Via HotAir. Link here.

So far, the only major commentary from the Right on the legislative war between UPS and FedEx has been linked to the American Conservative Union’s attempts to woo business from FedEx, in part by offering for sale opinion columns by the ACU’s board members (see here for the ACU response).

 

Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie takes us inside the real issues of the battle between the delivery giants, satirizing the current UPS “whiteboard” ad campaign, and exposing the real villain of the issue — which is neither UPS nor FedEx. Instead, just as with most of the economic messes of the last few years, we have the federal government meddling in the marketplace once again:

 

 

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Nutbusterz.org reporting on ACORN and Working Families Party

 

You knows it’s bad when it takes an entire website to document just how much dirty stuff that you are involved in around the country. Nutbusterz.org is dedicated to reporting on all of the ACORN scandals. It will also covers ACORN’s sister group, The Working Families Party, as they are now in trouble for election fraud in New York.

Here are some details on the latest lawsuit filed against WFP via the New York Post. Full story here.

The labor-backed Working Families Party has engaged in “an audacious scheme to violate the law” to help the party’s favored political candidates get elected, a sweeping new lawsuit charges.

The first-of-its-kind suit says the WFP created a political outfit, Data and Field Services, that it is using to “circumvent state election and local campaign finance laws.”

The way the scheme works, according the suit, is that the WFP gets involved in local races, backing its favored candidates, who in turn hire DFS for vital campaign services, such as phone banking, polling and get-out-the-vote efforts.

But under the plan, the WFP-endorsed candidates pay only “a nominal sum, well below fair market value,” for those services — giving those candidates a major, unfair advantage over their opponents, whose spending is limited by law.

“This is a case about an audacious scheme to violate the law by using corporate subterfuge to hijack our local election process,” says the suit, which was filed in Staten Island.

“It goes to the very heart of our local democracy and undermines the fairness and integrity of our local elections.”

 

 

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Glenn Beck's video Of White House Communication Director saying her favorite political philosopher is Mao.

You mean Chairman Mao the guy who murdered tens of million of his own countrymen? Yes - that Mao.

 

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Kiss Me, Son of God

Well done.

 

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U.S. budget deficit TRIPLES in 2009. It hit a record $1.4 trillion.

 

Fox News reports here.

WASHINGTON -- The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday.

The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White House and its allies in Congress as they press ahead with health care overhaul legislation that could cost $900 billion over the next decade.

The unprecedented flood of red ink flows from several factors, including a big drop in tax revenues due to the recession, $245 billion in emergency spending on the Wall Street bailout and the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then there is almost $200 billion in costs from President Obama's economic stimulus bill, as well as increases in programs such as unemployment benefits and food stamps.

The previous record deficit was $459 billion and was set just last year

And that’s before Obama’s socialized medicine. AND Social Security is head toward a negative cash flow in 24 months.

 

 

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A Poisonous Cocktail. The next housing collapse aka The attack of the CRA part II.

Great. As if the first time around the Community Reinvestment Act didn’t screw up enough of our economy here we go again. Full story here at Forbes. Here comes…drum roll please the Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009:

The White House and Congress want to expand a 30-year-old law--the Community Reinvestment Act--that helped to fuel the mortgage meltdown. What the CRA does, in effect, is compel banks to seek the permission of community activists to get regulatory approval for bank expansions and mergers. Often this means striking a deal with activist groups such as ACORN or unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and agreeing to allocate credit to poor and minority areas that are underserved.

In short, the CRA encourages banks to make loans they would not ordinarily make. What's more, these agreements often require that banks offer no-money-down mortgages and remove caps on how much debt a borrower can take on. All of this is done in the name of "financial democracy."

But wait – it gets better. This time Democrats want to suck in credit unions, insurance companies and mortgage lenders.

In short, the CRA is compelling banks to make trillions in loans to individuals who have poor credit and who often can't or won't make their payments.

Now comes Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, and 50 other co-sponsors (all Democrats) of H.R. 1479 the "Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009," who want to expand the CRA to include not just banks but also credit unions, insurance companies and mortgage lenders. Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has supported the idea in the past. The SEIU and ACORN, along with a host of other activist groups, are also behind the effort.

I wonder what is going to happen? Hmm…..

 

 

 

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Obama's ‘”Safe Schools" Czar, Kevin Jennings, attacks schools for "Promoting Heterosexuality by having kids read Romeo and Juliet".

Just what will those Neanderthal bastards force your children to read next?  OK – new plan. No more reading! No Shakespeare, Twain, Hemmingway, Shelly or anything. We’ll just sit our kids down and watch reruns of Will and Grace all day.

Apparently many people didn’t really understand what Obama was talking about when he said:

Maybe Kevin Jennings gives you an idea what kind of Change he was talking about that day.

Obama’s Diversity Czar: 'White People' Need to be Forced to 'Step Down' 'So someone else can have power'

Let’s meet Mark Lloyd:

 

Obama = Post racial = laugh. Full story here. Here’s Mark Lloyd in his own words. Audio below.

 

This is of course in addition to Lloyd's rather disturbing perspective on the First Amendment.

"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

"[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

And here comes the Animal Farm quote:

This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem.

We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.

What about free speech? Or should the government control all political thought that’s on the radio:

What we're really saying is that the Fairness Doctrine's not enough. And that having a sort of over-arching rule that says broadcasters ought to be "fair" or ought to provide issues important to communities and that they ought to do it in a fair and balanced way is simply enough. Unless you put some teeth into that and put some hard, structural rules in place that are going to result in fairness.

Oh – and don’t forget this video about how much he love Chavez.

 

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