Obama hits links after tough talk | POLITICO 44

Obama hits links after tough talk | POLITICO 44: "A half-hour after President Obama vowed to catch the terrorists behind a plot to blow up a plane on Christmas, he arrived at 10:40 a.m. at the Luana Hills Country Club, where a golf course winds through a rain forest, the pool reports.


UPDATE: The pool reports: 'Sudden departure from the golf course. We are told it is not a matter of national security or because of the president's safety. It is a personal matter.'"

Yeah, his personal approval ratings are plummeting and he realized that his golf outing is a headline?

A Roller Coaster Year: Recession Triggers a Rental Surge | homemediamagazine.com

A Roller Coaster Year: Recession Triggers a Rental Surge | homemediamagazine.com: "Looking toward 2010, studio executives are keeping their fingers crossed that the Redbox phenomenon will be stopped cold by the courts or burn out like a roman candle once the economy recovers and the lure of Blu-ray Disc gets people back into the habit of buying discs."

Dudes, pass that over here.

Extreme Tree Huggers

I have not lost my identity. The great outdoors makes me feel alive too, but come on..

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

Nearly 50 years ago Reagan recognized the threat of socialized medicine, the reasons why the left wants it so bad, and the dangers that socialized medicine would bring to our society.

This is absolutely 100% on point today.

Greenspan backs deficit-reduction commission - Yahoo! News

Greenspan backs deficit-reduction commission - Yahoo! News: "'Our nation has never before had to confront so formidable a fiscal crisis as is now visible just over the horizon,' said Greenspan, who headed the central bank from 1987 to 2006."

Maybe we should spend $1T on healthcare subsidies to prevent bankruptcy.

President Obama: Federal Government 'Will Go Bankrupt' if Health Care Costs Are Not Reined In - The World Newser

President Obama: Federal Government 'Will Go Bankrupt' if Health Care Costs Are Not Reined In - The World Newser: "President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.”"

Makes sense. We are broke and the entitlement programs are unsustainable. The perfectly logical thing to do is to spend an extra Trillion dollars (or three) to sdave us from bankruptcy. Not only is this a terrible fear based sales tactic, it is so illogical that Spock's head is going to explode.

Who in thier right mind thinks that the Government program will be deficit neutral? Not the CBO. Who in thier right mind thinks that we can "bend the curve" to provide healthcare subsidies to millions of people without it costing the government more moeny? The Democratic Congress and the Obama Adminsitration may fool themsleves and some of the American people, but they are not fooling me.

Shenanigans: Schumer has a flight to forget - ANNE SCHROEDER MULLINS | POLITICO CLICK

Shenanigans: Schumer has a flight to forget - ANNE SCHROEDER MULLINS | POLITICO CLICK: "But moments after the flight attendant had told Schumer to shut it off, the phone rang again.
“It’s Harry Reid calling,” the source quoted Schumer as saying. “I guess health care will have to wait until we land.”"

Yes Senator Shumer, the rules apply equally to you as they do the rest of us. Hopefully the Governement takeover of healthcare will have to wait for much longer than your 1 hour flight.

The future will be here soon....

US military boffinry chiefs have stated that they will shortly issue a brace of contracts for "refrigerator sized" laser blaster cannons. One of the deals will see a full-power ground prototype built which will be the final stage prior to America's first raygun-equipped jet fighter.

 

Star Wars is real bitches.    

President Obama: 'Last chance' for health reform - - POLITICO.com

President Obama: 'Last chance' for health reform - - POLITICO.com: "In a provocative argument designed to rescue his foundering health care plan, President Barack Obama will warn Senate Democrats in a White House meeting Tuesday that this is the 'last chance' to pass comprehensive reform.
Obama will contend that if it fails now, no other president will attempt it, aides said.
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer told POLITICO: 'If President Obama doesn't pass health reform, it’s hard to imagine another president ever taking on this Herculean task. For those whose life's work is reforming health care, this may be the last train leaving the station.'"

What a desperate sleazy sales tactic. "Buy now. It's your last chance!"

My Way News - House panel passes college football playoff bill

My Way News - House panel passes college football playoff bill: "A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle."

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Obama to GOP: 'Stop trying to frighten the American people' - TheHill.com

Obama to GOP: 'Stop trying to frighten the American people' - TheHill.com: "President Barack Obama told House Republican leaders to 'stop trying to frighten the American people'"

Actually it is Mr. Obama's "government can solve all problems" attitude and actions that are freightening me. I am scared to death about the reckless fiscal policies and the Government attempts to take over and control every aspect of the economy and our lives. If Obama thinks this is the change people wanted when they elected him, he is mistaken. Polls indictae that America is not confortable with the direction he is taking us and he is misreading his "mandate".

Al Gore Lies

Today Al Gore tried to downplay ClimateGate by saying it was just a few 10 year old e-mails.  Mr. Gore is lying.  The e-mails are as recent as November of this year.  And in addition to the e-mails that show “scientists” conspiring to “hide the decline”, apply “Mikes’ Nature trick”, and ostracize any disparate viewpoint, there is additional evidence in the leaked data that actually exposes the corruption in the statistical data computations relied on by the United Nations and the EPA.

 

Here is what was in the code that shows the Climate Research Unit was deliberately tampering with their data:  (The green lines are comments that programmers use to explain what their code is doing at that point of the program.) 

 

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; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,timey)

That’s a snippet of code written in Interactive Data Language (IDL). This analysis courtesy self-described climate agnostic Robert Greiner at a website called Cube Antics, and covered by wattsupwiththat.com in two articles called Climategate: The Smoking Code and The Smoking Code, part 2.

 

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I saw this covered at RedState.

 

Anyone who says the science is settled is not being honest with themselves or you.  Anyone who is prepared to decimate an economy because of the dangers of global warming needs to put the brakes on and slow down a bit.  Oh wait, I better not say that or Harry Reid  might accuse me of supporting slavery. 

 

End big government nonsense.  American will prosper when individuals are relieved of the burdens of government.  It is called Liberty and Freedom and it has worked very well since the late 1700’s.

Double Down on Record Debt

Spent more last year than ever.  On track to spend even more this year.   The Obama / Pelosi / Reid machine is spending the economy to oblivion.  Reuters looks at the latest CBO report:

 

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. government racked up a gaping shortfall in the first two months of this fiscal year after posting a record budget deficit last year, congressional analysts said on Friday.

Bonds

In October and November, the government spent $292 billion more than it took in, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

That was even worse than the same period last year, when the government was on its way to posting a record $1.4 trillion deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.

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I am wondering what will happen when it all collapses.   I sincerely think the United States of America is in peril.   When Healthcare and Cap and Tax are added we will be beyond the tipping point.   

Today is the day that the idea of Google died for me

Google has pissed me off recently with their liberal agenda.  I have noticed they hide results of news items that are not in line with their political ideology (ClimateGate).  I also have noticed that it pains them to celebrate American historical events and traditions.  For  example, today is Pearl Harbor day and there is no mention of it on Google.  (My new search engine Bing, by comparison, put up a nice picture of Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial.)

 

But here is a real kicker that Google CEO Eric Schmidt laid on the world:

 

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

 

http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-people

 

That one there is a deal breaker for me.  I am sad because I thought Google revolutionized search and I also was a huge fan of their Maps and Earth technology.  At this point, I will wean myself off of any Google service and product that I can manage, which sucks because I was all in on Google and I use them for many things including email and blogging.  But if the CEO has that opinion about privacy then he does not understand the US Constitution and fundamental American principals.