It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we hadPhiladelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." ~ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1787
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
PIVOTING … WHEN HOPELESS IS THE CHOICE AND HAPLESS IS A DIRECTION
SPIT INTO THE WIND, LIKE A ROLLING STONE, TUG ON SUPERMAN'S CAPE, BLOWING INTO THE WIND, LITTLE GUY VS THE SCHOOL YARD BULLY, 7 OF 9 A RENEWAL IN THE FAITH, PERSONAL SACRIFICE FOR THE GREATER GOOD, … THE POINT HAS BEEN GROUND DULL, BLUNT AND POINTLESS … WELL NOT YET …
HISTORY PIVOTS AROUND THE TRUTH … ? OR PERHAPS A DISTORTED VIEW OF THE TRUTH.
SEQUESTER THEME SONG …THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH … CAN I GET THAT WITH BACON
POLITICAL HAT TRICK … SLIGHT OF HAND … OR AS THE ORIGINAL RESIDENTS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY ALWAYS COMPLAINED ABOUT POLITICIANS … "THEY SPEAK WITH FORKED TONGUE" …
THIS IS JUST A WARM UP … TESTING THE WATERS AND VOTER ATTENTION!!! THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION (CR) IS THE REAL BATTLE LOOMING ON THE DANCE FLOOR. 2014 MID-TERM ELECTIONS IS THE PLUM. THE SEQUESTER IS A YAWN … OBAMA HAS THE ABILITY TO DIRECT AND GUIDE THE "CRISIS" …
White House Seeks Broad Authority to Reallocate Defense Funds in CR
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans to ask Congress to allow DOD to fund its programs at the levels called for in the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill when it puts together the continuing resolution needed to fund the government after March 27. The authority to reprogram funds would allow the Pentagon to make up the tremendous shortfall in its operations and maintenance accounts that is forcing the services to curtail training and equipment maintenance planned for the remainder of FY 2013 …
Little Hope for Senate Votes to Fix Sequester
The Senate is moving toward separate votes Thursday on competing plans to replace, or at least mitigate, $85 billion in automatic spending reductions set to take effect Friday. Neither is likely to gain the required 60 votes for passage, though, leaving the March 27 deadline for extending fiscal 2013 funding for the federal government as the real milestone for Congress to address the sequester …
CR to Allow Navy to Continue Ship Repairs, Forbes Says
The House measure to fund the federal government beyond March 27 most likely will include language allowing the Navy to resume much of the ship repair work it recently has cancelled due the fiscal uncertainty stemming from sequestration and the likelihood the service is funded by a continuing resolution for the remainder of fiscal 2013, Rep. Randy Forbes said Monday. Forbes said he was confident “anomalies” in the stopgap measure would allow Navy officials to shift existing funds into accounts that would cover the maintenance work …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
SEQUESTER BLACKMAIL LISTING BY STATE …
The state-by-state reports below show the impact the sequester will have on jobs and middle class families across the country.
POLITICAL ALZHEIMER'S … I DIDN'T SAY THAT … DID I?
GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit - By Andrew Stiles - The Corner - National Review Online
Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today.
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Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who requested the report, revealed the findings this morning at a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The report, he said, “confirms everything critics and Republicans were saying about the faults of this bill,” and “dramatically proves that the promises made assuring the nation that the largest new entitlement program in history would not add one dime to the deficit were false.”
President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future,” Obama told a joint-session of Congress in September 2009. “I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.”
The new report exposes the “lack of honesty” surrounding such claims, Sessions argued. “The big-government crowd in Washington manipulated the numbers in order to get the financial score they wanted, in order to get their bill passed and to increase power and influence,” he said. “The goal was not truth or financial responsibility, but to pass the bill. This is how a country goes broke.”
The GAO report is essentially the first attempt to isolate and calculate Obamacare’s impact on the deficit beyond the traditional ten-year budget window. GAO ran two simulations “based on broad sets of assumptions about health care spending and other components of federal spending and revenue” over a 75-year period. First, a baseline-extended simulation, which “illustrates the long-term outlook assuming federal laws (applicable at the time the simulation was run) remain unchanged,” and second, an alternative simulation, which “illustrates the long-term fiscal outlook assuming historical trends and policy preferences continue.”
The baseline scenario is far more optimistic, largely because it does not take into account the concerns — expressed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Trustees, and Medicare’s chief actuary — about “whether certain cost-containment mechanisms included in PPACA can be sustained over the long term.”
However, the GAO report concluded that even under these “more optimistic assumptions,” Obamacare’s cost-control provisions “were not sufficient to prevent an unsustainable increase in debt held by the public.”
The alternative scenario, which incorporates the more realistic “alternative projections” suggested by CBO, the CMS trustees, and the chief Medicare actuary, is even more dire. Under this scenario, the “primary deficit” increases by 0.7 percent of GDP over the 75-year period. The GAO does not put a dollar value on that figure, but Senate Budget Committee staff has calculated, and GAO has confirmed, that it would amount to a $6.2 trillion increase in the federal deficit.
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated since its initial publication.
Monday, February 25, 2013
WHAT'S 2 AND 1/2 CENTS ON A DOLLAR …
WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET THAT STUFF OFF YOUR SHOE …
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk. Delays await at airports. Padlocks are ready at national parks.
The nation will suffer greater risk of wildfires, workplace deaths, and even surprise weather events, if government predictions are to be believed. Our entire military readiness and superiority are at risk.
What if nobody cares?
President Obama sure does. He’s making the case, aggressively and comprehensively, that the automatic spending cuts set to go into effect at the end of the month will have a devastating impact, both on the economy and on essential government services.
“They will slow our economy. They will eliminate good jobs. They will leave many families who are already stretched to the limit scrambling to figure out what to do,” - Obama
But there are few signs to suggest the public is listening. A poll out late last week found that barely one in four Americans said they’d heard much about the automatic spending cuts — known unhelpfully for public-comprehension purposes as “sequestration” — and four in 10 said they were comfortable with the cuts going into effect.
“Here’s yet another deadline, and everyone’s telling us everything will be destroyed if we go past it,” said Michael Dimock, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which conducted the poll. “It’s very hard to get the same sense of urgency for a third time in a row, just two months after the last one.”
“It really is sad. The president’s stock in trade is political games, and this is another political game he’s playing,” Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., vice chairman of the House Budget Committee, told ABC News. “It results in greater cynicism on the part of the public, and none of the things he’s saying are true. And people recognize this — it’s 2-and-a-half cents on every dollar.”
POLITICAL LIFE SUPPORT … THROW THEM ANOTHER ANCHOR
DISCRETIONARY SPENDING IS LIKE STATES AND NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS SHARING A LOLLY POP ON THE PLAYGROUND … THE SHARING IS DONE THROUGH GRANTS AND OTHER FUNDING MECHANISMS SPONSORED BY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES. WE'VE ALL SEEN IT IN THE FORM OF A GRANT TO EDUCATION IN TOWNS AND CITIES … WHEN THE GRANT RUNS OUT THEN WHAT? WELL THE SEQUESTER CUTS THIS DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LEAVING A FISCAL VACUUM IN MANY PROGRAMS.
OBAMA GOT $600 BILLION IN NEW REVENUE (TAX INCREASES) AVOIDING THE FISCAL CLIFF IN JANUARY 2013 … NOW HE WANTS NEW TAX REVENUES TO AVOID SEQUESTER …
Where’s hardship in sequester cuts?
OBAMA GOT $600 BILLION IN NEW REVENUE (TAX INCREASES) AVOIDING THE FISCAL CLIFF IN JANUARY 2013 … NOW HE WANTS NEW TAX REVENUES TO AVOID SEQUESTER …
Where’s hardship in sequester cuts?
Our president was true to form with his prop-laden speech as to the economic “meat cleaver” impact the sequester would have on our great nation. Hooey. Obama pushes new tax revenues to avoid sequester.
We’ll disregard for a moment that the sequester originated in the Obama White House, as well as we’ll disregard that our president has proclaimed multiple times that he’d veto any sequester compromise that didn’t include cuts of $1.2 trillion in federal spending. Focus on the calamitous cuts our president claims are a doorway to joblessness, disease and general mayhem.
The $85 billion annual sequester amount represents 2.2 percent of our current $3.8 trillion federal spending. Our president warns of cuts to Head Start, border security, teachers, the FBI, the TSA, tuition support, etc., etc. All of this calamity because of a 2.2 percent first-year cut?
As a reminder, on Jan. 1, more than 160 million Americans had their paychecks apparently “gutted” by the ending of the payroll tax cut. I don’t remember Obama doing a"Khrushchev" pounding the podium on their behalf. And no calamity ensued. If 160 million Americans can manage, I’d think this sequester would be a breeze for such competent leadership. While the fiscal cliff deal extended the income tax rates for 99% of Americans, one expiring provision that was not given new life by the 11th hour negotiations was the 2% reduction to an employee’s share of Social Security payroll taxes. For 2011 and 2012, employees paid only 4.2% of their wages towards Social Security. Beginning January 1, 2013, that burden has reverted back to 6.2%. As a result, if you earn a salary, you may have noticed that your first paycheck in 2013 was 2% lighter than your last check in 2012, assuming equal pay.
We’ll disregard for a moment that the sequester originated in the Obama White House, as well as we’ll disregard that our president has proclaimed multiple times that he’d veto any sequester compromise that didn’t include cuts of $1.2 trillion in federal spending. Focus on the calamitous cuts our president claims are a doorway to joblessness, disease and general mayhem.
The $85 billion annual sequester amount represents 2.2 percent of our current $3.8 trillion federal spending. Our president warns of cuts to Head Start, border security, teachers, the FBI, the TSA, tuition support, etc., etc. All of this calamity because of a 2.2 percent first-year cut?
As a reminder, on Jan. 1, more than 160 million Americans had their paychecks apparently “gutted” by the ending of the payroll tax cut. I don’t remember Obama doing a"Khrushchev" pounding the podium on their behalf. And no calamity ensued. If 160 million Americans can manage, I’d think this sequester would be a breeze for such competent leadership. While the fiscal cliff deal extended the income tax rates for 99% of Americans, one expiring provision that was not given new life by the 11th hour negotiations was the 2% reduction to an employee’s share of Social Security payroll taxes. For 2011 and 2012, employees paid only 4.2% of their wages towards Social Security. Beginning January 1, 2013, that burden has reverted back to 6.2%. As a result, if you earn a salary, you may have noticed that your first paycheck in 2013 was 2% lighter than your last check in 2012, assuming equal pay.
KINDA BRINGS A TEAR TO YOUR EYE … THE GOAL IS A NORMAL LIFE (duh!)
Workers who agree to such large fees to cross the border usually end up having employers pay all or much of the smuggling cost. They then have to repay employers with labor, a process that resembles indentured servitude and leads to human rights abuses. (… back on the government plantation … life is a bitch when you live in the shadows!)
Sunday, February 24, 2013
LIVING ON THE GOVERNMENT PLANTATION UNARMED
Star Parker: Blacks Who Back Gun Control Need to Study History of Slavery and Jim Crow OR RELIVE THE PAST | CNS News
At a Friday event billed as a Black History Month press conference, Star Parker said African Americans in Congress who support gun control efforts by President Barack Obama and his administration should consider the history of blacks in this country and people around the globe who were oppressed, including being banned from owning firearms.
CNSNews.com asked Parker, who is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE): “There are a lot of African Americans and people of color in Congress who are backing Obama’s plan for gun control. What would you say to them because today [at this event] it was revealed that there is a direct effect on the African American community with this gun control?”
Parker said: “Well, I'd say they need to revisit their history – black history, black slave history, black Jim Crow history -- and they should visit the histories of other tyrant nations where we had people like Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Every single time there is someone who wants to take away all other rights of the people, the first right they take away is your right to bear arms.”
“I believe that the the Congressional Black community, or the Congressional Black Caucus is absolutely out of step with black America today on this issue,” Parker said.
Speakers at the event in Washington, D.C., defended the Second Amendment and its guarantee that American citizens have the right to own and bear firearms and that the government should not infringe on that right, including Ken Blackwell, chairman of the board of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and a board member of the National Rifle Association.
“That right to protect one’s life and liberty is a God-given right,” Blackwell said in a statement. “It is a gift from God, not a grant from government.”
Parker said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”
MY CALCULATOR WON'T GO THAT HIGH … WHAT DO I DO?
Real Federal Spending Up $822.90 Per American Since 2008 | CNS News
Real federal spending also increased $2437.64 per household between 2008 and 2012.(CNSNews.com) - Inflation-adjusted per capita federal spending went up $822.90 from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2012, according to official data from the U.S. Treasury and the Census Bureau.
In constant 2012 dollars, the federal government spent $3,176,376,470,000 in 2008 and $3,538,446,000,000 in 2012, according to the U.S. Treasury. (The 2008 spending number was adjusted to 2012 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator.)
On April 1, 2008 (the midpoint in the federal fiscal year which ends on Sept. 30), there were 303,381,938 people in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and on April 1, 2012 there were 313,336,712.
The $3,176,376,470,000 that the federal government spent in fiscal 2008 equaled $10,469.89 for each of the 303,381,938 people who lived in the United States that year. The $3,538,446,000,000 the federal government spent in fiscal 2012 equaled $11,292.79 for each of the 313,336,712 people who lived in the United States that year.
Thus from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2012 inflation-adjusted federal spending per person increased by $822.90.
That means that over the past four years, the federal government has increased its spending on average by about another $206 each year for every man, woman and child in the country.
There were 111,115,000 households in the country in April 2008 (the midpoint in the fiscal year) and 114,055,000 households in April 2012. The $3,176,376,470,000 the federal government spent in fiscal 2008 equaled $28,586.39 per household. The $3,538,446,000,000 the federal government spent in fiscal 2012 equaled $31,024.03 per household. Thus from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2012 inflation-adjusted federal spending per household increased by $2437.64.
That means that over the past four years, the federal government has increased its spending on average by about another $609.41 each year for every household in the country.
In order to cut real federal spending in fiscal 2013 back to the level it was at in fiscal 2008, the federal government would need to cut actual spending this year to a level that is $362,069,530,000 below what it was last year.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
THEY ALL NEED THERAPY IN ORDER TO OVERCOME OVERDOSING ON THEIR EGO'S …
THE CITIZENS OF THIS ONCE GREAT COUNTRY HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BY THE RECKLESS POLICIES AND INEFFECTUAL POLITICAL BICKERING. THE CAPITAL DOME IS GETTING WAY TO SMALL TO ACCOMMODATE THE INFLATED EGO'S OF CELEBRITY POLITICIANS SEEKING THEIR 15 MINUTES.
FRAMING THE DRACONIAN ISSUES OF … THE SKY IS FALLING SEQUESTER … WHICH ONLY APPLIES TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING ARE THE FOLLOWING POINTS …
THE RUB
In August 2011, bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate voted for the threat of sequestration as a mechanism to force Congress to act on further deficit reduction. The specter of harmful across-the-board cuts to defense and nondefense programs was intended to drive both sides to compromise. The sequestration itself was never intended to be implemented.
Well, the actions of one Congress can't bind a future Congress, and that's why we have to have people in the House and Senate who are committed to the long-term reform of our budget process. We cut $85 billion this year. There's no guarantee that people in future years are going to follow through with it, especially as long as this president is in office. Remember, the idea of using the sequester was Obama's idea. He thought it was a great idea. And now he says it's brutal and arbitrary and wants it revoked. He once threatened to veto any bill that came to him that tried to stop or overturn the sequester. |
FROM PERP TO VICTIM … A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
YEARS AGO … DURING INTERNET'S INFANCY A JOKE EMAIL WAS CIRCULATED ABOUT GHETTO MATH. LIKE ALL JOKES THE FORMULA IS THE JUXTAPOSITION OF A THREAD OF REALITY WITH THE ABSURD … THE END RESULT OFTEN IS MORE TRUTH AS THE LIGHT OF LAUGHTER SHINES BRIGHTLY WHEN REALITY SUPPORTS THE ABSURDITY. WELL … HOW MUCH REALITY IS IN THIS …
>>Inner City High School Math Proficiency Exam
>>
>> NAME__________________________
>>
>> GANG/CREW NAME______________ Crib_________________
>>
>>
>>1. Ramone has an AK-47 with a 30 round clip. He
>>usually misses 6 out of
>>every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by
>>shooting. How many
>>drive-by shootings can Ramone attempt before he has to
>>reload? ________
>>
>>2. Otis has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball
>>to Antonio for
>>$320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, What is the
>>street value of
>>the rest of his hold? _________
>>
>>3. DeShawn pimps 3 ho's. If the price is $85 per
>>trick. How many tricks per
>>day must each ho turn to support DeShawn's $800 per
>>day crack habit?
>>________
>>4. Darius wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought
>>for $40,000 to make
>>20% profit. How many ounce bags will he need to make
>>to obtain the 20%
>>profit? _______
>>
>>5. Desmond gets $200 for a stolen BMW, $150 for
>>stealing a Corvette, and
>>$100 for a 4x4. If he steals 1 BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3
>>4x4's, How many more
>>Corvettes must he steal to have $900? _______
>>
>>6. LeRoy got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000
>>for the hit. If his
>>common-law wife spends $100 of his hit money per
>>month, How much money
>>will be left when he gets out? __________
>>
>>7. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square
>>feet and the average
>>letter is 3 square feet. How many letters can be
>>sprayed with 3 eight
>>ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint left over?
>>________
>>
>>8. Tyrone knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27
>>girls in his gang.
>>What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked
>>up? ________
>>
>>9. LaSheena is a lookout for the gang. LaSheena also
>>has a boa
>>constrictor that eats 3 small rats per week at a cost
>>of $5 per rat. If
>>LaSheena makes $700 week as a lookout, How many weeks
>>can she feed her
>>snake on one week's income? _________
>>
>>10. Marvin steals Joe's skateboard. As Marvin skates
>>away at 15 mph, Joe
>>loads his 357 Magnum. If it takes Joe 20 seconds to
>>load his piece, how
>>far away will Marvin be when he gets whacked?
>>_________
Friday, February 22, 2013
CAGE MATCH FIGHTER PELOSI FAN CLUB …
Have you ever wondered why folks in Northern California appear so confused?
Consider this:
Consider this:
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ARE WE NOT ALL RESPONSIBLE?
Mother sues Planned Parenthood over forced, botched abortion
I am speechless. Nothing seems to make sense anymore. We want strict gun controls but are pro-choice in killing the unborn. We are a nation of absurd contradictions, a nation without a soul.
There's a clear and consistent agenda here and it's focus is death. Let me explain: The Left wants to kill you in the womb, when you are an easy target. But if you dodge that bullet and are born, then they want to increase the chance that you die sometime during your life; the gun-control laws are designed to empower the bad guys and make you less able to defend yourself, ergo, more deaths of innocents. Most other liberal laws are designed to kill off as many people as possible; even the 'reusable bags' laws have increased risks of food-borne illness which can kill children and the elderly. If you manage to live a long life despite the Left's constant efforts to off you, they will then take advantage of your senile mind and promote Jack Kevorkian's assisted "suicide".
When Ayanna Byer scheduled an appointment at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains to take an abortion pill to end her pregnancy, there was no way for her to foresee the horrors ahead of her. Earlier this month, Byer, through the assistance of the attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom, brought a lawsuit to hold Planned Parenthood liable for the botched abortion that she did not consent to.
According to that complaint, when Byer arrived at the Planned Parenthood clinic, it was determined that her pregnancy was too far along to be terminated through the use of a pill, therefore a surgical abortion was recommended. Ms. Byer agreed upon the condition that she would receive IV anesthesia, for which she would be charged extra. Although the employees could not get the IV started, the doctor came to start the procedure anyway.
The complaint states:
At this time, Plaintiff immediately told the Planned Parenthood Doctor to stop and that she did not want to go through with the abortion procedure because she had not received any anesthetic. Plaintiff also informed Planned Parenthood Doctor and agents or employees of Planned Parenthood Defendants that she believed this to be a sign she should not go through with the abortion. The Planned Parenthood Doctor did not stop despite Plaintiff’s request, and assured Plaintiff the I.V. would be administered and the procedure would only take a few minutes.
At this time, the Planned Parenthood Doctor turned on the vacuum machines and told Plaintiff it was too late to stop.
Seven minutes later, due to Ms. Byer crying from pain, the procedure finally stopped. She received an apology and a prescription for a painkiller and antibiotics and was sent on her way. Planned Parenthood never followed up with her.
About two days later, Ms. Byer went to the hospital due to pain and bleeding, where it was found that part of the aborted baby was still inside her, resulting in an infection. She had to have emergency surgery.
Dr. Foley, who preformed Ms. Byer’s emergency surgery, accused Planned Parenthood of abandoning their patent:
It is not acceptable to refer your patients to the emergency department and assume the on-call doctor will take care of any complications and assume all the risk associated with the complications.
No practicing physician can maintain privileges to practice and perform surgery if they do not provide specific coverage for their patients in case of a complication. It is considered abandonment of your patient
The complaint alleges seven different claims for relief:
- Negligence – alleging that the abortion was negligently performed, causing pain, suffering, and medical expenses to Ms. Byer
- Battery – alleging that the medical procedure without consent caused harm
- Uninformed Consent – alleging that the procedure went on even though Ms. Byer did not consent to an abortion without anesthetics
- False Imprisonment – alleging that Ms. Byer was kept against her will
- Extreme and Outrageous Conduct Causing Emotional Distress – alleging that as a result of a botched surgical abortion that Ms. Byer did not want to have, Ms. Byer suffered from emotional distress
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty – alleging that the doctor and clinic negligently performed the abortion, negligently stopped the abortion, and did not follow up with the client
- Breach of Contract – alleging that Ms. Byer agreed only to a surgical abortion with anesthesia, and no anesthesia was given to her
Michael Norton, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, believes that taxpayer dollars should not be used to support this type of organization:
Is this the type of organization American taxpayers should be funding to the tune of $540 million per year?
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