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Republican wins Democratic New York House seat

With the outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, PRESIDENT OBAMA SUFFERED A SHARP REBUKE TUESDAY WHEN VOTERS IN NEW YORK ELECTED A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN TO REPRESENT A DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT THAT HAS NOT BEEN IN GOP HANDS SINCE THE 1920S.

Bob Turner, the winner, cast the election as a referendum on Obama’s stewardship of the economy and, in the state’s Ninth Congressional District, which has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters, the president’s position on Israel.

With 75 percent of the precincts reporting at press time, Turner had a commanding lead, with 53 percent of the vote, compared with 47 percent for Weprin.

TURNER, 70, A RETIRED CABLE TV EXECUTIVE WHO HAS NEVER SERVED IN ELECTIVE OFFICE, DEFEATED DEMOCRATIC STATE ASSEMBLYMAN DAVID WEPRIN, 55, WHO HAS TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC SERVICE, to fill the seat left vacant when Anthony Weiner (D) resigned in disgrace in June after more than 12 years in the House.

The defeat came as Republicans trounced Democrats in another special House election Tuesday, in northern Nevada, where Republican Mark Amodei led Democrat Kate Marshall, 56 percent to 39 percent almost from the start.

In both contests, THE GOP PULLED AHEAD BY LINKING THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TO OBAMA AND HIS HANDLING OF THE ECONOMY. Both Republican contenders urged voters to “send a message” to the president….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-wins-democratic-new-york-house-seat/2011/09/13/gIQAoos5QK_print.html

You will hear a lot of excuses and finger pointing away from the President regarding this, but this bodes ill for this administration in the coming election.


Back to the Future?

Those who are impressed by words seem to think that President Barack Obama made a great speech to Congress last week. But, when you look beyond the rhetoric, WHAT DID HE SAY THAT WAS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING AND DOING ALL ALONG?

Are we to continue doing the same kinds of things that have failed again and again, just because Obama delivers clever words with style and energy?

Once we get past the glowing rhetoric, what is the president proposing? MORE SPENDING! ONLY THE WORDS HAVE CHANGED -- FROM "STIMULUS" TO "JOBS" AND FROM "SHOVEL-READY PROJECTS" TO "JOBS FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS."

If government spending were the answer, we would by now have a booming economy with plenty of jobs, after all the record trillions of dollars that have been poured down a bottomless pit. Are we to keep on doing the same things, just because those things have been repackaged in different words?...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/13/back_to_the_future_111307.html

This really is Obama’s green jobs bill. It’s just recycled stimulus.


Perry’s Ponzi Point

RICK PERRY HAS GOTTEN A LOT OF HEAT FOR DESCRIBING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM AS "A PONZI SCHEME," AND HE DESERVES IT. The Texas governor owes a big apology to Charles Ponzi. Sure, Ponzi fleeced investors, but THEY AT LEAST HAD A CHOICE ABOUT PARTICIPATING. SOCIAL SECURITY OPERATES ON A COMPULSORY BASIS.

In other respects, though, Perry has a point. In a Ponzi scheme, new investors have to be continually recruited in order to provide fat returns to earlier investors. It works fine until you have so many investors to pay off that you can't find enough new ones to cover the cost.

Social Security is like that. It used to be a comfortable arrangement for all, because there were so many workers paying in and so few retirees getting checks. In 1950, there were 16 workers for every beneficiary. But today, there are about three workers. In 20 years, the ratio will be 2 to 1. A sweet deal has gone sour….

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-socialsecurity-20110913,0,6514632.story#start

It's funny to watch liberals defend SS from the charges it isn't a Ponzi Scheme.  If you tried to set something up like it in the private sector, you would be thrown in jail. 


Obama tries a do-over

…With these three warnings, RIVLIN ANTICIPATED EVERYTHING THAT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS WOULD DO WRONG OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

First, instead of passing a targeted antirecession package, CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS CRAMMED THE STIMULUS BILL WITH SPENDING ON EVERYTHING FROM HEAD START AND PELL GRANTS TO HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND RENEWABLE-ENERGY PROJECTS. The hope was that the legislation would do more than just kickstart a recovery: It would lay a new foundation for the economy, with an electric car in every garage and a Solyndra solar panel on every roof. The result, predictably, was A BILL THAT LOOKED LESS LIKE A TEMPORARY EXERCISE IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND MORE LIKE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S PERMANENT WISH LIST….
….Finally, instead of pivoting from the Recovery Act to deficits and entitlement reform, the DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY SPENT ALL OF ITS POST-STIMULUS POLITICAL CAPITAL TRYING TO PUSH BOTH A COSTLY NEW HEALTH CARE ENTITLEMENT AND A CAP-AND-TRADE BILL THROUGH CONGRESS. Both policies were advertised, intermittently, as deficit reduction, but neither came close to addressing the real long-term drivers of the nation’s debt…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/opinion/the-presidents-do-over.html?_r=1&src=recg

This is an interesting piece on where the Democrats went wrong. In addition I think the huge increase in government regulations is pulling the economy down rather than lifting it up. In fact whatever stimulus you should have gotten from the stimulus bill has been offset by added uncertainty due to the regulations, the healthcare law, and generally hostility Obama and the Democrats have toward business and success.


Wonder why the Schools are failing many students?

WONDERING WHETHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE TRULY INDOCTRINATED IN THE LEFT WING AGENDA? Well, wonder no more. They are; and it's worse -- far worse -- than you can possibly imagine…

… In the section entitled "AMERICA'S FREEDOM FIGHTERS":

• Eight pages are spent covering the life of Frederick Douglass
• Five pages on Susan B. Anthony
• Six pages on Mary McLeod Bethune,
• ZERO PAGES ARE DEVOTED TO THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In fact, the entire Civil War is described only as a backdrop to the lives of Frederick Douglas and Mary McLeod Bethune….

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/09/holy-crap-inside-3rd-graders-social.html

Wonder why our children don't know history?  They aren't being taught history--at least not real history. 

Dark side of the left

Overview


As the clash in Wisconsin continues we are seeing more and more of THE DARK SIDE OF THE LEFT. The legally elected Democrat Senators from Wisconsin have fled the state and continue to hold out somewhere in Illinois. Every time a Fox News Reporter tries to report from Madison, the teachers, firefighters, and other protester start chanting Fox lies. We are getting more and more lies from the unions there and the leftist media covering the story about there not really being a financial crisis or that Governor Walker has caused it.

What has become apparent is that THE LEFT HAS VERY LITTLE USE FOR DEMOCRACY WHEN THEY LOSE. Freedom of the Press is apparently optional, majority rule is only good if it follows left wing desires, and almost any tactic is okay if it is designed to flummox the right.



Progressivism Unmasked

PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS HAVE WILLINGLY ABANDONED THE JOBS THEY’RE PAID TO DO. Unscrupulous doctors have written notes filled with lies to protect them. The mainstream media has referred to runaway, anarchist legislators as heros, and deliberately ignored the same hate-filled rhetoric directed at Republicans they declared unseemly and dangerous after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. Rhetoric that reached a low point on Wednesday, when Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) told a group of union supporters that “[E]very once in awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.”

Really, Mr. Capuano? DOING BATTLE WITH WHOM, THE TAXPAYERS WHO UNDERWRITE UNION WAGES AND BENEFITS? Shame on you.

None of it is flying. It’s not flying because most AMERICANS ARE FINALLY BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE UNHOLY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THEIR UNION BENEFACTORS. Benefactors who contribute well over ninety percent of their campaign contributions—funded almost exclusively by mandatory dues required of union members—to Democrats.

How unholy is this relationship? Perhaps nothing speaks to it better than a unionized New York school system in which “PASSING” A 2009 THIRD GRADE MATH TEST CONSTITUTED GETTING 11 POINTS OUT OF A POSSIBLE 39—WHICH IS A SCORE OF 28%. Was anyone fired for such child-abusing, blatant corruption? Quite the contrary. NEW YORK CITY PAID $100 MILLION IN BONUSES TO TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS FOR THEIR FINE WORK IN “RAISING” TEST SCORES. The kids? 75% of them need remedial instruction if they choose to attend college.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/33794


There is no progress for progressivism.



Bogus statistic from Wisconsin union backers spreads in media despite being debunked

“A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on” – like a false statistic recently disseminated by supporters of Wisconsin’s government-employee unions. Despite being debunked by PolitiFact, it has since been widely repeated in multiple letters to the editor, and it remains uncorrected on the web sites of publications like The Economist.

On Wednesday, PolitiFact debunked the claim by Wisconsin union supporters that Virginia, which bans collective bargaining in state agencies, ranks 44th in the nation in ACT/SAT scores, compared to Wisconsin ranking 2nd. For example, it noted that in 2009, Virginia ranked 22nd in ACT scores, while Wisconsin ranked 13th. As PolitiFact notes, this claim was originally disseminated by the Wisconsin Democratic Party, which has now retracted it.

(Although PolitiFact didn’t note this, in 2010, Virginia actually beat Wisconsin in ACT scores, with Virginia ranked 12th and Wisconsin ranked 17th. Unlike Wisconsin, Virginia is a right-to-work state that bars forcing employees to pay union dues. Collective bargaining with government employee unions is currently mandated in Wisconsin, but banned in Virginia).

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/02/bogus-statistic-wisconsin-union-backers-spreads-media-despite-being-debun#ixzz1F4dcZAcr



I had seen this claim in a number of chats. Quite frankly it seemed too good to be true if you were a liberal, but that seems to be the kinds of facts the left posts. Things that aren’t true but from their way of thinking should be true.




Walker won’t back down

GOV. SCOTT WALKER REFUSED TO BACK DOWN SUNDAY IN HIS BUDGET SHOWDOWN WITH WISCONSIN’S PUBLIC-EMPLOYEE UNIONS, saying the state is poised at a historic crossroads.

“We’re broke,” said the Republican governor, whose battle with unions in Wisconsin has landed him at the center of a national debate about government spending.

“I do believe that this is our moment in Wisconsin history,” he told NBC‘s “Meet the Press.”

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, speaking on the same program, said the governor wasn’t interested in solving the state’s fiscal crisis, ACCUSING MR. WALKER INSTEAD OF WANTING TO BREAK THE STATE’S UNIONS.

Mr. Trumka said the tactic is backfiring, and he predicted the public would support union rights in Wisconsin and in the 2012 presidential elections.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/27/walker-unswayed-by-budget-stance-critics/


I do believe we need a violin for all the poor unions that are screaming that Walker is just trying to break the unions. Perhaps he is because many of the unions have tried to break the state.



MSNBC’s O’Donnell Suggests ‘Racist Message’ in RNC Ad Linking Obama to Labor Unions

On Friday’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, msnbc host O’Donnell seemed to channel his predecessor, Keith Olbermann, as HE RIDICULOUSLY SUGGESTED RACISM IN AN RNC AD WHICH ACCUSED PRESIDENT OBAMA OF BEING BEHOLDEN TO ORGANIZED LABOR, a charge often made against Democrats for many years in the past.

But, as he began an interview with guest Jennifer Granholm, former Democratic governor of Michigan, O’Donnell wondered, "DOES THAT SOUND TO YOU LIKE THEY ARE TRYING TO CONSCIOUSLY OR SUBCONSCIOUSLY DELIVER THE RACIST MESSAGE THAT, OF COURSE, OF COURSE A BLACK MAN CAN’T BE THE REAL BOSS?"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2011/02/25/msnbc-s-o-donnell-suggests-racist-message-rnc-ad-linking-obama-labor-#ixzz1F9aVL9a8


Liberals at times are so entirely predictable. They tend to be so lazy as to resort to name calling instead of mounting an actual intellectual argument for their beliefs or to support their actions. This is just another example of that.




Another fatal blow coming for Obamacare?

Politico today looks at the possibility that federal District Judge Roger Vinson, who struck down Obamacare as unconstitutional, COULD GIVE THE 26 STATES IN THE LAWSUIT A FREE PASS TO STOP IMPLEMENTING OBAMACARE:

The Justice Department asked Vinson to clarify his ruling that struck down the law as unconstitutional. Justice must file its brief on the motion by Monday, AND VINSON HAS SAID HE WOULD RULE QUICKLY AFTER THAT. At issue is whether Vinson meant to stop reform implementation in the 26 states that brought the suit.

The smart money says Vinson will halt implementation, and legal observers are wondering why Justice would take that risk.

“Having lost one game of chicken when it came to the severability of the mandate, the government is now challenging the same judge to back down on whether his decision is binding. Seems like a risky move,” said Randy Barnett, a law professor at Georgetown University.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/another-fatal-blow-coming-obamacare#ixzz1FDjjq1Ka

Hmmm, let’s see. Obama has decided not to defend DOMA because he thinks the law is unconstitutional. Now Obamacare has been declared Unconstitutional and he is still fighting to keep it going. Does anyone see a bit of hypocrisy here?



Obama Administration Nixes Drilling

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Houston this weekend talking with oil executives who are eager to start drilling again in the Gulf of Mexico. That may sound like progress, but AFTER THE MEETING SALAZAR SAID THAT NOTHING HAD CHANGED. HE WAS NOT READY TO APPROVE ANY NEW DRILLING.


Despite everything that energy companies have done to devise advanced containment systems, Salazar is unwilling to issue a single new permit. Systems constructed by the nonprofit Marine Well Containment Company and other entities are now able to handle a flow equal or greater than that experienced during the Deepwater Horizon accident last summer. But that's not enough for Salazar, who stated that EVEN THE MOST ADVANCED SYSTEMS HAVE "LIMITATIONS ON WATER DEPTH AND BARREL-PER-DAY CONTAINMENT CAPACITY."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/obama_nixes_safe_drilling.html


When you are paying $100 to fill up your gas tank, remember it is for your own good. And if you used to work in the oil industry remember that this administration is working night and day to get people back to work.

Take a look at history

TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS FACE: IT HASN'T BEEN SEEN IN OVER FIVE MILLENNIA.

In the year 3289 BC, Otzi trekked up the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps. The Neolithic guy -- dubbed Otzi the Iceman, or "Frozen Fritz" -- wore a coat and leggings made of sheep's fur and moccasins made of cattle leather as he climbed, having just polished off his last meal: unleavened bread and meat.

Severely wounded by an arrow and possibly dispatched with a blow to the head by a cudgel, he died, HIS BODY FROZE AND WAS MUMMIFIED, and he lay in place for a very, very long time

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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/25/artists-recreate-face-5300-year-old-iceman-mummy/


I found it interesting. Hope you do too.