Feb
08
Canadian Official Chooses US Healthcare
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Danny WilliamsNow this is a ringing endorsement of the single-payer, government-run health care system (Not).

Newfoundland-Labrador Premier Danny Williams needs heart surgery, but he will not be seeking his heart surgery at home, in Canada. Instead, he will come to the United States for his treatment.

CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 60, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week. The premier's office provided few details, beyond confirming that he would have heart surgery and saying that it was not necessarily a routine procedure.

Newfoundland and Labrador deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed Tuesday that Premier Danny Williams is in the U.S. for heart surgery and could be off the job for up to 12 weeks.

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Feb
06
Obama Abandons Space
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Gutting the space program

When Obama's 2010 budget was revealed Monday, you could see a gaping hole where NASA's Constellation program — the space agency's next generation in human spaceflight — was supposed to be. He is gutting every program to steal funds for his radical agenda…just like he did with Social Security.

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Feb
04
Flying Pigs
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flying pigWhen the president had lunch with television anchors at the White House the day of the speech, he minimized his political distress. Were the rate of unemployment two points lower, he’d be in fine shape, Obama suggested. That’s probably true.

And if pigs had wings they could fly.

Weekly Standard, The Idealogue

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Feb
03
Palin Calls for PC
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted Emanuel for calling an idea from some of President Obama's supporters "f–ing retarded" during an August meeting with liberal groups and White House aides.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Emanuel made the remarks in response to planned ads attacking conservative Democrats who were critical of Obama's health care agenda.

Palin, whose youngest child, Trig, has Down Syndrome, wrote that Emanuel's expletive was "heartbreaking" and said his "degrading scolding" has been "completely ignored by the White House."

"Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities — and the people who love them — is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking," wrote Palin.

"Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic," she continued.

Well, yes he is. Not someone whose speech can be called "classy" or even diplomatic. But this is stupid. And why would YOU, Sarah, associate the word with your son? Methinks it is a problem you have.

Emanuel reportedly apologized for the remarks in a phone call last week to Tim Shriver, CEO of the Special Olympics, which has launched a campaign to end use of the "R" word.  The R-word?  Good Grief!

On March 19, 2009 the president himself made headlines for a joke on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in which Obama compared his poor performance in a bowling game to the Special Olympics.   "It's like — it was like Special Olympics, or something.”

Yeah — have we all lost our sense of humor?  It was funny!  It IS possible to joke without degrading another. Lighten up!

Now don't get me wrong. I am no fan of Rahm Immanuel, but not because of using the word "retarded." I vehemently object to this man in power who stated that the Freedom of Speech is highly overrated.

But this PC stuff is effen ridiculous! The N-word, now the R-word. It will only lead to all words being banned and people afraid to say anything. Stupid. It is stupid Sarah, Wise up.

How dumb. Oh dear, am I offending someone? Get over it.

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Feb
02
Huffing and Lies
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Arianna Huffington is apparently huffing again.

The dingbat posted that Glenn Beck was "inciting" Americans to violence. Have you ever watched the show? No way has Beck ever done such a thing. In fact, the very opposite.

But she is deliberately misleading the public – and those intentions should speak even louder than her lying words.

On the ABC Sunday talk program, Huffington asked Fox News CEO Roger Ailes if he were concerned that Beck "talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree."

Ailes replied that Beck was referring to massacres by Hitler and Stalin. But Huffington insisted: "No, no, he was talking about this administration."

Alies then said, "I think he speaks English… I don't misinterpret any of his words."

When Huffington continued on the attack, the top Fox News executive rattled off several examples of aspersions that Huffington had published about Ailes on her blog. "Then it really went nasty," Ailes said, "and I thought, 'Gee, maybe Arianna ought to cut this out,' but…."

In discussing Huffington's allegations on his radio program, Beck revealed that Huffington tried to recruit him last year to write for her Web site.
"Arianna Huffington, I would like you to explain this," Beck told listeners.

"The last time and the only time that I've ever seen you or spoken to you, you asked me to write for the Huffington Post and tried to convince me that it would be good, because you are so open minded and everything else.

"Now, were you trying to incite people, when you asked me to write for the Huffington Post? Or are you going to deny that? It was, I can tell you when it was. It was at the Time Most Influential 100 dinner last year when I was an absolute nobody. But I was on Fox News and I was saying the same stuff."

Beck and his team of on-air contributors suggested that Huffington had an ax to grind because he ignored her offer.

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Feb
01
Obama’s $3.8 Trillion Budget
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Welcome Soaring Deficits that can never be paid.

Remember he has promised "fundamentally changing the United States of America"
He has surrounded himself with revolutionaries that believe like Mao, that power comes from the barrel of a gun. 

He believes in "spreading the wealth" (i.e. your wealth).

The fiscal year 2011 budget, sent to Congress Monday, includes buried allotment for Cap and Trade and Health Care a la Obama. All of it
will add $1.3 trillion in deficit spending on top of the current year's projected $1.6 trillion deficit. In fact, his budget depends upon this tax income.

This budget is full of taxes. Taxes on you. How will we survive.

Ironically, Obama said the federal government should stop treating taxpayer dollars like "Monopoly money." But what the hell is he doing?

Sen. Judd Gregg, on the Senate Budget Committee, said the White House is not going far enough in tackling the debt crisis. 

"We've got some pretty big problems here. We need some pretty big solutions," Gregg told Fox News. "This is fiscal insanity — to continue to grow the government the way we're growing it, to continue to spend the way we're spending. … We're going to pass onto our kids a country that basically is insolvent."
 

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