Weblog Politics Blog: "Reuters now has a report from The Financial Times explaining that banks have quietly borrowed roughly $50 billion from the Federal Reserve the past few weeks."
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Do you qualify for benefits?
BenefitsCheckUp - NCOA's Online Screening Service
from Kim Komando.com
As a whole, we Americans are blessed. Compared to people in many other countries, we are wealthy. We also have access to education and quality health care.
Unfortunately, many older Americans have difficulty making ends meet. Some may be unable to pay for prescriptions or heating.
The good news is that there is help for older Americans. Programs at the federal, state and local level can provide assistance.
So if you need help, visit BenefitsCheckUp. First, you can apply for prescription drug coverage through Medicare.
Then, find more benefits programs that will help with utility bills, food, health care and other needs. You can also apply for these programs from the site.
from Kim Komando.com
As a whole, we Americans are blessed. Compared to people in many other countries, we are wealthy. We also have access to education and quality health care.
Unfortunately, many older Americans have difficulty making ends meet. Some may be unable to pay for prescriptions or heating.
The good news is that there is help for older Americans. Programs at the federal, state and local level can provide assistance.
So if you need help, visit BenefitsCheckUp. First, you can apply for prescription drug coverage through Medicare.
Then, find more benefits programs that will help with utility bills, food, health care and other needs. You can also apply for these programs from the site.
The Church of Global Climate Change
If "change" is so popular among the Clinton/B Hussein crowd, why is climate change so unpopular?
"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition". -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
Terrorists cutting telecom cables?
Weren't we "assured" that this was not possible?
Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency: "There has been speculation that the sheer number of cables being cut over such a short period was too much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have been involved"
Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency: "There has been speculation that the sheer number of cables being cut over such a short period was too much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have been involved"
Parents fighting back!
Parents Rise Up Against A New Approach to Math: "many parents are lobbying the School Board to kill the program. Opponents have submitted a petition with 1,000 names and started a Web site, http://www.pwcteachmathright.com/ . They have been checking out a video called 'Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth.'"
Canadian health care meltdown!
Read the entire article..... and fear for our US healthcare system if the democrats get what they want.
Oh yeah. Fear for your own healthcare too!
In search of Canadian health care: "While waiting for three hours in a walk-in clinic, I finally understood first-hand the plight of our health-care system."
Oh yeah. Fear for your own healthcare too!
In search of Canadian health care: "While waiting for three hours in a walk-in clinic, I finally understood first-hand the plight of our health-care system."
MSM "newspeak"
Townhall.com::Five Questions about Shootings at Universities::By Dennis Prager: "Question 1: Why are murderers always counted in the victims tally?"
Monday, February 18, 2008
When Is Participating "Not Participating?"
It's gotta be tough to be a democrat.
So many new definitions of words, every day!
When Is Participating "Not Participating?" - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime: "Hillary Clinton and Obama each spent about $130,000 in Michigan while Obama spent $1.3 million in Florida--more than any other Democratic candidate and more than eight Republican candidates, who were eligible to win delegates from the state."
I just saw on TV McCain standing next to Romney...
... sure Mitt is taller than Johnny McC but why the heck is Mitt's head about twice the size of McCain's?
GordoM-hopes-our-new-President-has-a-normal-sized-head
GordoM-hopes-our-new-President-has-a-normal-sized-head
Beef recall hysteria infects Grand Rapids school Board
Zombies on the GR BOE do what Zombies always do....
Beef recall hits Grand Rapids schools - Michigan Food Stories, Recipes and Reviews - MLive.com: "Officials said it was the largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a 1999 ban of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats. No illnesses have been linked to the newly recalled meat, and officials said the health threat was likely small."
In a freezer at the Grand Rapids Public Schools food service facility sits 20,000-pounds of hamburger that will never rest between a bun.
The meat, purchased by the district through a contract with the federal government, is part of a recall of meat by a California meat packer being investigated for abusing its cattle.
In a freezer at the Grand Rapids Public Schools food service facility sits 20,000-pounds of hamburger that will never rest between a bun.
The meat, purchased by the district through a contract with the federal government, is part of a recall of meat by a California meat packer being investigated for abusing its cattle.
Just who IS teaching our kids?
Teachers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.........
Schools cut secret deals with abusive teachers - OregonLive.com: "It would take months for the agency that licenses Oregon teachers to discipline a Salem-area teacher for inappropriately touching at least eight girls.
To get Kenneth John Cushing, then 44, away from Claggett Creek Middle School students immediately, administrators cut him a deal: If Cushing resigned, they would conceal his alleged conduct -- clutching students' waists, touching their buttocks and massaging their shoulders -- from the public.
Cushing signed the pact ... with Salem-Keizer Public Schools in 2004, and officials promised not to reveal the teacher's behavior if potential employers called looking for a reference. They would attribute his departure to 'personal reasons,' the document reads, and make 'no reference to this agreement.'"
To get Kenneth John Cushing, then 44, away from Claggett Creek Middle School students immediately, administrators cut him a deal: If Cushing resigned, they would conceal his alleged conduct -- clutching students' waists, touching their buttocks and massaging their shoulders -- from the public.
Cushing signed the pact ... with Salem-Keizer Public Schools in 2004, and officials promised not to reveal the teacher's behavior if potential employers called looking for a reference. They would attribute his departure to 'personal reasons,' the document reads, and make 'no reference to this agreement.'"
Democrat politicians ALWAYS fire cops and cut our military
Lansing State Journal: Short-staffed state police see cases pile up: "The accident occurred in May. Police believe Russell Dunham was drunk and speeding in an Eaton County accident that killed two people.
Dunham was charged in August, but prosecutors didn't get word of the DNA test results on an air bag until late last month - eight months after the accident and barely a week before the case was scheduled for trial."
Dunham was charged in August, but prosecutors didn't get word of the DNA test results on an air bag until late last month - eight months after the accident and barely a week before the case was scheduled for trial."
Blu-ray wins! HD DVD is the new Beta.... bummer dude...
Where are the Congressional hearings?
Oh.
The consumer don't need no stinkin' hearings.....?
Never mind.
"Sony's Blu-ray technology is emerging as the likely winner in the format battle for the next generation of DVD players after Toshiba appeared ready to ditch its HD DVD business."
These people really are nuts
Olbermann Accuses 'Fascist' Bush of Engaging in 'Terrorism' "Calling the President a 'liar' who was 'slinging crap' and using 'a form of terrorism against his own people' to gain support, Olbermann accused President Bush of fascism: 'If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend. You're a fascist! Get them to print you a T-shirt with fascist on it! What else is this but fascism?'"
Democrat leaders allied with terrorists! For money?
This is as bad as it gets.
Democrat leaders side with terrorists because their class action lawyer contributors bought the votes.
This is sick......
Robert D. Novak - Why Torts Trumped Terrorism - washingtonpost.com: "The true reason for blocking the bill was Senate-passed retroactive immunity to protect from lawsuits private telecommunications firms asked to eavesdrop by the government. The nation's torts bar, vigorously pursuing such suits, has spent months lobbying hard against immunity."
Democrat leaders side with terrorists because their class action lawyer contributors bought the votes.
This is sick......
Robert D. Novak - Why Torts Trumped Terrorism - washingtonpost.com: "The true reason for blocking the bill was Senate-passed retroactive immunity to protect from lawsuits private telecommunications firms asked to eavesdrop by the government. The nation's torts bar, vigorously pursuing such suits, has spent months lobbying hard against immunity."
Of the 29 Democratic senators who voted against the FISA bill last Tuesday, 24 took money from the trial lawyers (as did two absent senators, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama).
Ralph Nader ready to jump in?
I thought he had died.
Seriously.
Apparently not. I just got this E-mail from his campaign.
Warms the cockles of my cold, conservative heart.
Ralph's birthday - February 27 - is less than ten days away.
Ralph will decide soon whether to throw his hat into the ring to challenge the corporate powers that control our political system.
Over the past two weeks, we have been exploring whether or not anyone on the national political landscape is effectively addressing a whole slew of major issues......
Ralph will decide soon whether to throw his hat into the ring to challenge the corporate powers that control our political system.
Over the past two weeks, we have been exploring whether or not anyone on the national political landscape is effectively addressing a whole slew of major issues......
GRCC gets tough on grades
A 13% graduation rate without minimum grade requirements?
Yout tax dollars ar work!
GRCC gets tough on grades?:
"Starting this fall, Grand Rapids Community College students will have to work harder if they want to stay in school
Minimum grade-point averages of 1.5 to 2.0 will be imposed for the first time...
Imagine the edjakatin' you get at GRCC with your new higher grade standard of 1.5!
GRCC gets tough on grades?:
"Starting this fall, Grand Rapids Community College students will have to work harder if they want to stay in school
Minimum grade-point averages of 1.5 to 2.0 will be imposed for the first time...
Imagine the edjakatin' you get at GRCC with your new higher grade standard of 1.5!
Mom's gonna be SO proud......
Che Guevara and the Obama Campaign - HUMAN EVENTS
As if we really needed more proof.....
More proof of MSM bias- HUMAN EVENTS: "Imagine -- say -- Huckabee campaign volunteers in -- say -- 'Possum Gulch Arkansas, discovered with their offices displaying David Duke (who despite his looney ravings has killed no one, and who -- as far as I know -- has never advocated the nuclear extermination of the U.S. population) posters.
Do you think there might be a media hullabaloo, with the attendant harrumphing and extortion of apologies by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?"
More proof of MSM bias- HUMAN EVENTS: "Imagine -- say -- Huckabee campaign volunteers in -- say -- 'Possum Gulch Arkansas, discovered with their offices displaying David Duke (who despite his looney ravings has killed no one, and who -- as far as I know -- has never advocated the nuclear extermination of the U.S. population) posters.
Do you think there might be a media hullabaloo, with the attendant harrumphing and extortion of apologies by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?"
Local stores begin selling artificial hormone free milk
At least, this is consumer preference and not government intrusion.
But there is NO science that suggests that "hormone free" cows produce different milk.
Junk science triumphs again: "The US Food and Drug Administration found no difference in milk from cows that were given r-BST and those that were not.
But, that doesn't convince everyone. Including Meijer customer Charlette Muller, who was shopping for her four children. She says, “I had actually pushed water a little more with all the hormone stuff going on. But, now that they have hormone free milk we will definitely drink more milk. That's a guarantee.'"
Of what? Simple "feel-good" idiocy?
But there is NO science that suggests that "hormone free" cows produce different milk.
Junk science triumphs again: "The US Food and Drug Administration found no difference in milk from cows that were given r-BST and those that were not.
But, that doesn't convince everyone. Including Meijer customer Charlette Muller, who was shopping for her four children. She says, “I had actually pushed water a little more with all the hormone stuff going on. But, now that they have hormone free milk we will definitely drink more milk. That's a guarantee.'"
Of what? Simple "feel-good" idiocy?
Top shrink concludes liberals are clinically nuts!
That settles that.....
Top shrink concludes liberals are clinically nuts!: "Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
'Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,' says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, 'The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.' 'Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.'"
'Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,' says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, 'The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.' 'Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.'"
Sunday, February 17, 2008
How SubPrime Really Works
click the link and then click the cartoon to start the PowerPoint slide show.
Be patient while it loads.
Worth your time.
The Big Picture How SubPrime Really Works: "This hysterical piece of financial wit -- in Powerpoint no less -- has been circulating round Wall Street trading desks for a few days now."
Kudlow's Money Politic$: No Recession
We probably have dodged the "recession" bullet.
Hill/B Hussein want us back in the crosshairs of a real recession with their the punish-the-rich populism.
Bummer....
Kudlow's Money Politic$: No Recession: "Speaking in Warren, Ohio, this week, Sen. Clinton singled out oil, credit-card, insurance, pharmaceutical, investment, and student-loan firms in a massive attack on business. She’s attacking corporations that employ 23 million people and, by the way, pay higher than average wages. In other words, Clinton is attacking 23 million jobs. This is the forgotten middle-class. And they know that if politicians curb or confiscate the profits of their companies, it is they, the workers, who will be harmed.
This is what Hill-Bama fails to understand. This is why Hill-Bama policy would be so damaging to the economy. Corporations are profitable, sure. But wage earners get 70 percent of the profits; investors share the remaining 30 percent."
This is what Hill-Bama fails to understand. This is why Hill-Bama policy would be so damaging to the economy. Corporations are profitable, sure. But wage earners get 70 percent of the profits; investors share the remaining 30 percent."
"Kathleen Turner saves cash by riding bus"
Meebee Kathy ought to take less bus and a bunch less eating out.
The former beauty could easily double as a Walmart greeter.
The Detroit News Online: "Kathleen Turner eats out less and often takes mass transit now that she's doing stage work instead of films - and she enjoys getting compliments on the bus."
The former beauty could easily double as a Walmart greeter.
The Detroit News Online: "Kathleen Turner eats out less and often takes mass transit now that she's doing stage work instead of films - and she enjoys getting compliments on the bus."
GordoM-remembers-"Body Heat"-ummmm-Body-Heat....long-time-ago......
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