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<title>His Lips Are Moving</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>How can you tell when President Barack Hussein Obama is lying?...his lips are moving.</p>

<p>In yet another pie in the sky speech on day 57 of the worst ecological disaster in our history,  President Obama claims that he is doing everything that can humanly be done to mitigate the damage done by the oil spill.  Of course, that is a lie.  In the first couple of days after the oil rig explosion in the Gulf Of Mexico, the Norwegians offered to send giant skimmers to the Gulf region to suck up the crude oil making its way toward shore, but the Obama administration declined the offer, in writing no less.  All <em>The Great Obama</em> needed to do was to take a lesson from his predecessor, George W. Bush, who waived the Jones Act within the first three days following hurricane Katrina and put out a big 'WELCOME NORWAY' banner.  Fifty seven (57) days into the spill, we have rowboats with Shop Vac's trying to protect our coasts. </p>

<p>In the last third of his speech tonight, Obama indicated that he is a supporter of alternatives to oil for our energy needs, yet in the 18 months since he took office he has shutdown the development of the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and, to the best of my knowledge, has not started any new nuclear power plants.  Yucca Mountain was going to be the only major repository for waste in the country.  The respoitory, which had been under development for over 25 years, was nearing completion and is now officially moth-balled.</p>

<p>If Obama were truly serious about non-petroleum forms of energy, he wouldn't have shut down the Yucca Mountain site.  Is Obama going to go out and find another site to store nuclear waste?  I doubt that it is anywhere near the his to-do list, and is probably not even on the list.   A site similar to the Yucca Mountain site might take another 25 years or more to develop.  Obama is putting all his hopes and dreams on wind and solar energies.  If Obama thinks he can heat all the houses in America in winter and cool them all in summer with wind and solar power he is dreaming.  The technology is just not there, not to mention the power grids, to achieve that now or in the foreseeable future.  </p>

<p>The bigger question is how are we supposed to get to work, move merchandise, or get to the grocery store without gasoline.  There are not enough electric vehicles to even begin to move Americans to and from wherever we are going to do this and, if there were, there is not enough electricity produced to keep the vehicles on the road.  Can you imagine plugging in 150 million or more vehicles every day?</p>

<p>Never mind the words, they are all lies.  Watch what <em>The Great Obama</em> does. </p>

<p>Note:  6/16/2010 - Carl Rove was on Hannity this evening and was perhaps even more critical of <em>The Great Obama</em> than I was.  Rove said that in every area of the speech Obama "misled, he omitted, and he gave misdirection to the American people."   I stand corrected.          </p>]]></description>
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<title>Where In The World Is ...James Carville</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Democratic operative James Carville took President Barack Hussein Obama to task for his ineffective handling of the ecological tragedy in Louisiana in a highly publicized rant.  Since that time he has not been seen or heard from.  If a Republican had taken President Bush to task in such a manner every news organization would have him on their programs night and day.  In this case it appears that our thin-skinned President has given Mr. Carville a time-out.  </p>]]></description>
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<title>Are We Tired Of The Muslim Crap Yet?</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><font color="#33OOCC">I received the following e-mail just before Memorial Day and before the provocation of Israel by Hamas supporters that has once again spawned unwarranted condemnation of Israel by much of the world.  It is a little long but worth taking the time to read it.</font>   </p>

<blockquote>It is IMPORTANT that you read this in its entirety.  WE are giving AWAY our County unless you stand up and become recognized as a Real American who is Tired of all this Crap being doled out by President Obama, Nancy Polosi, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid and the rest of Congress.  UNLESS YOU FIND A GOOD ONE IN THE BUNCH, VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS....  Other than this I have no opinion...David 

<p>REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER</p>

<p><strong>ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ </strong></p>

<p>By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez<br />
Tuesday, 15 January 2008</p>

<p>I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz .... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.  In  Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent.  We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.</p>

<p>The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.  These are the people we burned.</p>

<p>And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.</p>

<p>They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.</p>

<p>Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.</p>

<p>And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.</p>

<p>We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.</p>

<p>What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.</blockquote><font size="-2" color="#33OOCC">Red Meat editor's note: This is a free translation of an article reportedly first published in the Spanish language in a Spanish newspaper.  I have been unable to confirm the name of the author, the name of the newspaper that originally published it, or the date of its original publication.  The earliest date I could find for it was November 21, 2004.  It is likely that the author's name is a pseudonym or nom de plume, apparently to avoid attack by those crazy guys, namely jihadist Muslims.</font></p>

<p>The email continued:<br />
<blockquote>A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.</p>

<p>Absolutely No Profiling!  </p>

<p>Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test about actual historical events.  They really happened!  Do you remember?</p>

<p>HERE'S THE TEST: </p>

<p>        1.  1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:<br />
            a.  Superman<br />
            b.  Jay Leno<br />
            c.  Harry Potter<br />
            d.  A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        2.  In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:<br />
            a.  Olga Corbett<br />
            b.  Sitting Bull<br />
            c.  Arnold Schwarzenegger<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        3.  In 1979, the US embassy in  Iran was taken over by:<br />
            a.  Lost Norwegians<br />
            b.  Elvis<br />
            c.  A tour bus full of 80-year-old women<br />
            d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        4.  During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon  by:<br />
            a.  John Dillinger<br />
            b.  The King of Sweden<br />
            c.  The Boy Scouts<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        5.  In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:<br />
            a.  A pizza delivery boy<br />
            b.  Pee Wee Herman<br />
            c.  Geraldo Rivera<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        6.  In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger   was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:<br />
            a.  The Smurfs<br />
            b.  Davey Jones<br />
            c.  The Little Mermaid<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        7.  In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:<br />
            a.  Captain Kidd<br />
            b.  Charles Lindberg<br />
            c.  Mother Teresa<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
       8.  In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:<br />
            a.  Scooby Doo<br />
            b.  The Tooth Fairy<br />
            c.  The Sundance Kid<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        9.  In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:<br />
            a.  Richard Simmons<br />
            b.  Grandma Moses<br />
            c.  Michael Jordan<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        10.  In 1998, the US embassies in  Kenya and  Tanzania were bombed by:<br />
            a.  Mr. Rogers<br />
            b.  Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems<br />
            c.  The World Wrestling Federation<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        11.  On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the U.S. Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed while the passengers struggled with the hijackers.  Thousands of people were killed by:<br />
            a.  Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd<br />
            b.  The Supreme Court of Florida<br />
            c.  Mr. Bean<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40</p>

<p>        12.  In 2002 the United States fought a war in  Afghanistan  against:<br />
            a.  Enron<br />
            b.  The Lutheran   Church<br />
            c.  The NFL<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        13.  In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:<br />
            a.  Bonnie and Clyde<br />
            b.  Captain Kangaroo<br />
            c.  Billy Graham<br />
            d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40<br />
 <br />
        14.  And now we can add: In 2009, 31 people wounded and 13 American Soldiers murdered on base at Fort Hood by a Major that was known as...<br />
        a: You guessed it - A Muslim male extremist between the age of 17 and 40.</p>

<p>No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?  So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people.  They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor, Joe Foss, but leave Muslim males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.</p>

<p>Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Nancy Pelosis, Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves - if they have any such sense.  </p>

<p>We can not allow the socialist transformation being brought on by the current administration to continue.  Look at what it has done to Europe.  We all must stand together before it's too late and everything America stands for is lost.</p>

<p>The global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000;  that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.</p>

<p>They have received the  following Nobel Prizes:  <br />
                       <br />
                           Literature:<br />
                          1988 - Najib Mahfooz<br />
                           <br />
                           Peace:<br />
                           1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat<br />
                           1990 - Elias James Corey<br />
                           1994 - Yaser Arafat<br />
                           1999 - Ahmed Zewai<br />
                           <br />
                           Economics:<br />
                           (zero)<br />
                            <br />
                           Physics:  <br />
                           (zero)<br />
                           <br />
                           Medicine:<br />
                           1960 - Peter  Brian Medawar<br />
                           1998 - Ferid Mourad<br />
 <br />
                           TOTAL: 7  SEVEN</p>

<p>The global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or  about 0.02% of the world's population.<br />
                      <br />
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:<br />
                          <br />
                           Literature:<br />
                           1910 - Paul Heyse<br />
                           1927 - Henri Bergson<br />
                           1958 - Boris Pasternak<br />
                           1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon<br />
                           1966 - Nelly Sachs<br />
                           1976 - Saul Bellow<br />
                           1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />
                           1981 - Elias Canetti<br />
                           1987 - Joseph Brodsky<br />
                           1991 - Nadine Gordimer World<br />
                        <br />
                           Peace:<br />
                           1911 - Alfred Fried<br />
                           1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser<br />
                           1968 - Rene Cassin<br />
                           1973 - Henry Kissinger<br />
                           1978 - Menachem Begin<br />
                           1986 - Elie Wiesel<br />
                           1994 - Shimon Peres<br />
                           1994 - Yitzhak Rabin<br />
                           <br />
                           Physics:<br />
                           1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer<br />
                           1906 - Henri Moissan<br />
                           1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson<br />
                           1908 - Gabriel Lippmann<br />
                           1910 - Otto Wallach<br />
                           1915 - Richard Willstaetter<br />
                           1918 - Fritz Haber<br />
                           1921 - Albert Einstein<br />
                           1922 - Niels Bohr<br />
                           1925 - James Franck<br />
                           1925 - Gustav Hertz<br />
                           1943 - Gustav Stern<br />
                           1943 - George Charles de Hevesy<br />
                           1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi<br />
                           1952 - Felix Bloch<br />
                           1954 - Max Born<br />
                           1958 - Igor Tamm<br />
                           1959 - Emilio Segre<br />
                           1960 - Donald A. Glaser<br />
                           1961 - Robert Hofstadter<br />
                           1961 - Melvin Calvin<br />
                           1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau<br />
                           1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz<br />
                           1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman<br />
                           1965 - Julian Schwinger<br />
                           1969 - Murray Gell-Mann<br />
                           1971 - Dennis Gabor<br />
                           1972 - William Howard Stein<br />
                           1973 - Brian David Josephson<br />
                           1975 - Benjamin Mottleson<br />
                           1976 - Burton Richter<br />
                           1977 - Ilya Prigogine<br />
                           1978 - Arno Allan Penzias<br />
                           1978 - Peter L. Kapitza<br />
                           1979 - Stephen Weinberg<br />
                           1979 - Sheldon Glashow<br />
                           1979 - Herbert Charles Brown<br />
                           1980 - Paul  Berg<br />
                           1980 - Walter Gilbert<br />
                           1981 - Roald Hoffmann<br />
                           1982 - Aaron Klug<br />
                           1985 - Albert A. Hauptman<br />
                           1985 - Jerome Karle<br />
                           1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach<br />
                           1988 - Robert Huber<br />
                           1988 - Leon Lederman<br />
                           1988 - Melvin Schwartz<br />
                           1988 - Jack Steinberger<br />
                           1989 - Sidney Altman<br />
                           1990 - Jerome Friedman<br />
                           1992 - Rudolph Marcus<br />
                           1995 - Martin Perl<br />
                           2000 - Alan J. Heeger<br />
                           <br />
                           Economics:<br />
                           1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson<br />
                           1971 - Si mon Kuznets<br />
                           1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow<br />
                           1975 - Leonid Kantorovich<br />
                           1976 - Milton Friedman<br />
                           1978 - Herbert A. Si mon<br />
                           1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein<br />
                           1985 - Franco  Modigliani<br />
                           1987 - Robert M. Solow<br />
                           1990 - Harry Mark owitz<br />
                           1990 - Merton Miller<br />
                           1992 - Gary Becker<br />
                           1993 - Robert Fogel<br />
                           <br />
                           Medicine:<br />
                           1908 - Elie Metchnikoff<br />
                           1908 - Paul Erlich<br />
                           1914 - Robert Barany<br />
                           1922 - Otto Meyerhof<br />
                           1930 - Karl Landsteiner<br />
                           1931 - Otto Warburg<br />
                           1936 - Otto Loewi<br />
                           1944 - Joseph Erlanger<br />
                           1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser<br />
                           1945 - Ernst Boris Chain<br />
                           1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller<br />
                           1950 - Tadeus Reichstein<br />
                           1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman<br />
                           1953 - Hans Krebs<br />
                           1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann<br />
                           1958 - Joshua Lederberg<br />
                           1959 - Arthur Kornberg<br />
                           1964 - Konrad Bloch<br />
                           1965 - Francois Jacob<br />
                           1965 - Andre  Lwoff<br />
                           1967 - George Wald<br />
                           1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg<br />
                           1969 - Salvador Luria<br />
                           1970 - Julius  Axelrod<br />
                           1970 - Sir Bernard Katz<br />
                           1972 - Gerald  Maurice Edelman<br />
                           1975 - Howard Martin Temin<br />
                           1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg<br />
                           1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow<br />
                           1978 - Daniel Nathans<br />
                           1980 - Baruj Benacerraf<br />
                           1984 - Cesar Milstein<br />
                           1985 - Michael Stuart Brown<br />
                           1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein<br />
                           1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]<br />
                           1988 - Gertrude Elion<br />
                           1989 - Harold Varmus<br />
                           1991 - Erwin Neher<br />
                           1991 - Bert Sakmann<br />
                           1993 - Richard J. Roberts<br />
                           1993 - Phillip Sharp<br />
                           1994 - Alfred Gilman<br />
                           1995 - Edward B. Lewis<br />
                           1996 - Lu Rose Lacovino<br />
                            <br />
                            TOTAL: 129!</p>

<p>The Jews are NOT  promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.  The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes  at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German  restaurants.  There is NOT one single Jew who has  destroyed a church.  There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.</p>

<p>The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.</p>

<p>Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.</p>

<p>Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind  respect them.</p>

<p>Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab  neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences from Benjamin Netanyahu really say it all:<blockquote>If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.  If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.</blockquote><br />
It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, found the victims of the Nazi death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.</p>

<p>He did this because, he said in words to this effect:<blockquote>Get it all on record  now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.</blockquote>  <br />
Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because<br />
it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. <br />
However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each <br />
country is giving into it.</p>

<p>How many  years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED'   because it offends some Muslim in the United States?  </p>

<p>And now another slap in the face to America!!</p>

<p>Building a Mosque by Ground Zero, is being allowed by New York City Council is unbelievable!!!!!!!! </p>

<p>This Mosque will be opened on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.  9/11/2011.........How does this set with you??</p>

<p>WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, is my question??<br />
                       <br />
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.  This e-mail is being  sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.</p>

<p>Now, more than ever, with Iran, among  others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.  </p>

<p>This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people.  Be a link in the memorial chain and help  distribute this around the world.</p>

<p>Please do not just delete this message; it will take only a minute to pass this along.</blockquote></p>

<p><font size="-2" color="#33OOCC">Red Meat editor's notes:  I particularly like the quote above from Benjamin Netanyahu.</font></p>

<p><font size="-2" color="#33OOCC">The wonderful contributions of Muslims to our society today are largely two-fold: Drugs from the poppy fields in Afghanistan and terrorism.</font>  <font size="-2" color="#33OOCC">How proud the Muslims of the world must be!</font></p>

<p><font size="-2" color="#33OOCC">When will enough be enough?</font></p>]]></description>
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<title>The Politics Of Provocation</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Career diplomat and former United States ambassador to Mauritania, Edward Peck, was among those who were accompanying the flotilla attempting to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.  This was an obvious attempt to provoke Israel, which is demanding to inspect shipments to the Gaza Strip for rockets and other weapons.  Peck is basically a few cards short of a deck.  From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Peck">Wikipedia</a>:</p>

<blockquote>He argues that while Hezbollah could be considered a terrorist organization, it is no more terrorist than Israel or the U.S. itself.</blockquote>

<p>If you see this man on television, and you probably will if you watch MSNBC or Fox News, understand where he is coming from and don't be fooled by his demeanor.  He is generally as anti-Semitic and anti-American as our beloved President, Barack Hussein Obama.  There is even a rumor that Peck has offered to accompany Obama on his next apology tour.    </p>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Howie Carr, columnist for the Boston Herald, wrote a hillarious piece on war hero and Senate <br />
It began:</p>

<blockquote>This Dick Blumenthal even looks a little like Eliot Spitzer.

<p>And now it turns out, as somebody said yesterday, even Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than he did.</blockquote></p>

<p>You can read the entire piece <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1255724&srvc=news&position=4">here</a>.  You will not be disappointed.</p>]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) has, over the years, repeatedly stated that he was stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.  Unfortunately, after receiving 5 deferments, he finally joined the Marine Corps Reserve never serving in Vietnam.</p>

<p>He had this to say when he finally admitted his lies:</p>

<p><s>I never had sexual relations with that woman</s> oops, wrong liar.</p>

<p>Here is what he actually said:</p>

<blockquote>Now on a few occasions, I have misspoken about my service and I regret that and I take full responsibility, but, I will not allow...I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country.</blockquote>

<p>I'm surprised he didn't claim he received the Congressional Medal Of Honor while fighting in Vietnam.  And just how is he taking responsibility for his "misplaced words?"  Blumenthal is running for the United States Senate, attempting to replace another liar, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who claims that he was unaware he received any sweetheart mortgages from his buddy at Countrywide Financial, Angelo Mozilo.</p>

<p>From the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122360116724221681.html">Wall Street Journal</a>:</p>

<blockquote>In response to the charge that he knew he was getting favors, Mr. Dodd at first issued a strong denial: "This suggestion is outrageous and contrary to my entire career in public service. When my wife and I refinanced our loans in 2003, we did not seek or expect any favorable treatment. Just like millions of other Americans, we shopped around and received competitive rates." Less than a week later he acknowledged he was part of Countrywide's VIP program but claimed he thought it was "more of a courtesy."</blockquote>

<p>Just a few more "misplaced words."</p>

<p>Can't the Democrats find anyone in Connecticut who can tell the truth?       </p>]]></description>
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<title>When Adults Ruled The World</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Whenever I hear Carl Rove comment on the political events of the day, I get a little melancholy remembering the days when common-sense adults like him, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush strolled the halls of the White House.</p>

<p>Whenever I think about the current occupants of the White House, I yearn back to the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy.  McCarthy, who was unable to substantiate his claims that there were a number of Communists and Communist sympathizers in the federal government during hearings in the early days of the 1950's, would certainly not have that problem today.  Really a shame...    </p>

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<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 11:16:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Desperation Mode - McCain Will Say Anything</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>John McCain has decided that he was against reading the Miranda warning to the Times Square firecracker bomber, Faisal Shahzad, who is a citizen, albeit naturalized, of these United States, unlike many of the other wacko Islamic jihadists.  This is the same John McCain who doesn't want anyone to be questioned using <acronym title="water boarding">motivational interrogation techniques</acronym>.  In other words, name, rank and serial number...would you like cream and one or two lumps with your tea...and perhaps another scone?</p>

<p>First of all John, if you don't read someone their Miranda warning, it doesn't mean they don't have those rights enumerated in the warning.  They can invoke their right to silence and request an attorney at any time.</p>

<p>The point of McCain's stance is 100% politically motivated.  He knows the handwriting is on his wall...he is gone come the Republican primary unless he turns to the right in an effort to attract some of those right-wing Astroturf tea party whackos he wouldn't be caught dead pandering to in a non-election year.  He wants us to believe that he is tough on terror.  Remember, McCain thinks he is a maverick and mavericks don't always toe the line when it comes to party politics.  Remember, McCain voted for the TARP even though it had billions of dollars of earmarks and pork in it.  Remember, McCain was against water boarding, but I'll bet you he'd let himself be water boarded right now if it meant he would beat J.D. Hayworth.  Remember, McCain was a co-sponsor of McCain-Feingold which limited free speech in elections.  Remember, McCain was for a path to citizenship for illegals until recently, pandering to the Hispanic vote during the presidential campaign, but as soon as he lost and knew he had to run for reelection, he came out for troops on the border.</p>

<p>I also heard McCain try to link Hayworth to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and that may be the case.  Wasn't McCain the unindicted coconspirator and the only Republican involved in the 'Keating Five' saving and loan scandal?  From a <a href="http://old.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml">National Review column</a> written by Mark Levin:  </p>

<blockquote>In its final report (November 20, 1991), here is what the Senate Select Committee on Ethics concluded about McCain's conduct: 

<p>"Mr. Keating, his associates, and his friends contributed $56,000 for Senator McCain's two House races in 1982 and 1984, and $54,000 for his 1986 Senate race. Mr. Keating also provided his corporate plane and/or arranged for payment for the use of commercial or private aircraft on several occasions for travel by Senator McCain and his family, for which Senator McCain ultimately provided reimbursement when called upon to do so. Mr. Keating also allowed Senator McCain and his family to vacation with Mr. Keating and his family, at a home provided by Mr. Keating in the Bahamas, in each of the calendar years 1983 through 1986. </p>

<p>"…[F]rom 1984 to 1987, Senator McCain took actions on Mr. Keating's behalf or at his request. The Committee finds that Senator McCain had a basis for each of these actions independent of the contributions and benefits he received from Mr. Keating, his associates and friends. </p>

<p>"Based on the evidence available to it, the Committee has given consideration to Senator McCain's actions on behalf of Lincoln. The Committee concludes that, given the personal benefits and campaign contributions he had received from Mr. Keating, Senator McCain exercised poor judgment in intervening with the regulators without first inquiring as to the Bank Board's position in the case in a more routine manner. The Committee concludes that Senator McCain's actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him. The Committee finds that Senator McCain took no further action after the April 9, 1987 meeting when he learned of a criminal referral. </p>

<p>"The Committee reaffirms its prior decision that it does not have jurisdiction to determine the issues of disclosure or reimbursement pertaining to flights provided by American Continental Corporation while Senator McCain was a Member of the House of Representatives. The Committee did consider the effect of such on his state of mind and judgment in taking steps to assist Lincoln. </p>

<p>"Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate; therefore, the Committee concludes that no further action is warranted with respect to Senator McCain on the matters investigated during the preliminary inquiry." </p>

<p>McCain was the only Republican implicated in the Keating Five scandal, yet today he lectures his party and his president about "the corrupting influence" of money in politics. He rails against the so-called "wealthy special interests" and their ability to buy access to elected officials, yet this is precisely what the Keating Five scandal was all about. And, of course, under McCain's current standard, a politician who takes a principled position that may benefit a donor is corrupt, even if no law has been violated. </p>

<p>The John McCain of old should be thankful that his political fate wasn't determined by John McCain the reformer.</blockquote> </p>

<p>McCain is nothing more than a sleazy, slimy windbag who will say or do anything to beat J.D. Hayworth.<br />
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<title>Oil Disaster Brings Joy To Left</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The glee was palpable at MSNBC over the ecological disaster in the gulf coast.  Ed Schultz, host of the Ed Show, was grinning from ear to ear and could barely contain himself as he interviewed comrades about the thousands of barrels of oil about to make their way onto the shores of Louisiana and Mississippi.  </p>

<p>This is merely another example of the left rooting for America to fail in order to spread their left wing agenda.  The left is going to find out just how effective their scheme to ween us off oil is  when gas goes to $5 a gallon.  The real losers are going to be the poor and lower middle-class who will have to leave their cars at home and will get to take the bus to work and to shop.  I must admit I will enjoy the less crowded streets and parking lots.        </p>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 10:17:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>On Lloyd Blankfein Of Goldman Sachs</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>While listening to the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, testify before a senate panel today it became apparent that I have never seen anyone so obviously obfuscate, prevaricate and outright lie before a congressional hearing.<br />
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<title>Hyper-Inflation Is At Our Doorstep</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Our economic situation is really no laughing matter.  This Congress is spending and the Federal Reserve is printing money just as fast as they can.  Right now the largest bank note generally in use in the United States is one hundred dollars.  If they keep printing money at the current rate, and sooner than you think, our largest note will have to increase substantially or we will need a wheelbarrel full of money just to buy a loaf of bread.  Just ask the people of Zimbabwe what hyper-inflation is like.</p>

<p>Here is a bank note for one hundred trillion dollars currently in use in Zimbabwe (courtesy of <a href="http://www.capitalistpig.com">capitalistpig.com</a>):</p>

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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:07:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>For a couple laughs, check out the videos 1) Sandra-Lee-Induced-Seizure and 2) Lady Gaga - Pokerface by Applegirl at <a href="http://www.americandigest.org/">American Digest</a>.  They will brighten your day.</p>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:47:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>John And Sarah Sitting A Tree, K I S S I N G</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I admire Sarah Palin for her support of John McCain, even though I don't believe she should support him.  It was, after all, John McCain who brought her to national prominence when he asked her to be the vice-presidential candidate on the Republican ticket in 2008.</p>

<center><img src="http://www.redmeatblog.com/photos/palinmccain2.jpg" height="165" width="244" alt="John, if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times...NO TONGUE ON STAGE!"></img></center>

<p>Unfortunately, Senator McCain (<acronym title="Republican In Name Only">RINO</acronym>-AZ) is on the wrong side of too many issues, especially in the current political environment, and cannot be trusted to vote against Obama's socialist agenda, especially cap-and-trade (see Senate bill S.139 introduced by McCain-Lieberman in 2003) and illegal immigration (see Senate bill S.1033 introduced by McCain-Kennedy in 2005).  </p>

<p>See a complete summary of McCain's cap-and-trade bill from Resources Magazine <a href="http://www.rff.org/rff/News/Features/Understanding-the-McCain-Lieberman-Stewardship-Act.cfm">here</a>.  The overview of the <a href="http://www.rff.org/News/Features/Documents/McCain-Lieberman.pdf">summary</a> is posted below.        </p>

<blockquote><center>Summary and Analysis of McCain-Lieberman – “Climate Stewardship Act of 2003”</center> 
<center>S.139, introduced 01/09/03 (January 28, 2003)</center> 

<center>By William A. Pizer, RFF Fellow, and Raymond J. Kopp, RFF Senior Fellow</center> 

<center>Summary</center> 

<p>The legislation proposed by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) suggests an alternative to the existing approaches to address climate change in the United States based on a new broad, flexible, and domestic framework. Previous approaches include the Clinton administration’s 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement now ratified by 100 countries, which called for significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions by the United States. President Bush rejected the Kyoto Protocol as too costly and unfounded in science and, in February 2002, called for new voluntary measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions. In the fall of 2001, Senators James Jeffords (I-VT) and Lieberman put forward their approach in a so-called four-pollutant bill, which would limit power-plant emissions of carbon dioxide, as well as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury. </p>

<p>In contrast to these international, voluntary, and sector-based approaches, McCain-Lieberman requires domestic, mandatory, and economy wide emissions reductions. While the specific emissions limits will likely be the subject of lengthy debate, we view the architecture of the emissions-trading program in this bipartisan bill to be a significant step forward. The broad coverage and flexibility of the trading program make this bill one of the most cost-effective domestic proposals to date. The bill also features a climate research program and an emissions registry. However, it is the trading program (Title III) that represents the most significant change in the debate over climate change and is the subject of this summary and analysis.</blockquote></p>

<p>McCain's position on immigration which included "a mechanism for subsequent adjustment of status" (read: path to citizenship for people who entered our country illegally) can be found in a bill (<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.1033:">S.1033</a>) he co-sponsored with the late Teddy Kennedy (D-MA) in 2005.  The summary of the bill from the Library of Congress is below.</p>

<blockquote>S.1033 
Title: Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act 
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 5/12/2005)      Cosponsors (9) 
Related Bills: H.R.2330 
Latest Major Action: 5/12/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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SUMMARY AS OF: 
5/12/2005--Introduced.

<p>Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and implement a National Strategy for Border Security and other specified border security programs.</p>

<p>Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Border Security Advisory Committee.</p>

<p>Requires the Secretary of State to provide a framework for security coordination between the governments of North America.</p>

<p>Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY2011 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program; and (2) reimburse states for pre-conviction costs.</p>

<p>Amends the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 to authorize additional funding through FY2011 to reimburse states for indirect costs of incarcerating undocumented aliens. </p>

<p>Establishes: (1) an H-5A essential worker visa program for low-skilled workers; (2) a mechanism for subsequent adjustment of status; and (3) an Essential Worker Visa Program Task Force. </p>

<p>Addresses document security. Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to create a new Employment Eligibility Confirmation System.</p>

<p>Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to address the collection of arrival and departure information.</p>

<p>Broadens the Department of Labor's investigative authority under INA.</p>

<p>Authorizes the Secretary of State to enter into an agreement with foreign governments whose citizens participate in the H-5A program to establish a labor migration facilitation program.</p>

<p>Exempts immediate relatives of U.S. citizens from the annual cap on family-sponsored immigrant visas. Increases numerical limits for specified visas.</p>

<p>Authorizes H-5B nonimmigrant status for undocumented aliens present in the United States on the date of this Act's introduction who meet specified requirements and pay a fine. Provides a mechanism for subsequent adjustment of status.</p>

<p>Defines "authorized representative" for immigration purposes. Makes alien victims of fraud perpetrated by unauthorized representatives eligible for U (victims of certain crimes) nonimmigrant status.</p>

<p>Authorizes the Secretary to establish the U.S. Citizenship Foundation. Requires the Secretary to establish a competitive grant program to address civic integration.</p>

<p>Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend authorization of Federal reimbursement for hospitals that provide emergency care to undocumented immigrants.</blockquote></p>

<p>I wonder if McCain's contemptible, despicable campaign staffers who threw Sarah under the bus after the election are still hanging around.  If they are, they would have been the only ones at the rallies without Ms. Palin showing up.  McCain forgot her name when Leno asked about Republican presidential candidates for 2012, but he obviously knows all about her star power now that he's in trouble.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Health Care Reform Is Really Welfare Reform</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Obamacare claims that by forcing insurance companies to give insurance to people with preexisting conditions it is reforming the health care system.  Of course, this is technically true, but it is really reforming the welfare system and redefining the insurance industry.</p>

<p>Dictionary.com defines insurance as "the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved."</p>

<p>Can you imagine an insurance company insuring your house after it burned down?  Of course not!</p>

<p>Can you imagine an insurance company insuring your automobile after you totaled it?  Of course not!! </p>

<p>Can you imagine an insurance company insuring your boat after it sank?   Of course not!!!</p>

<p>Can you imagine an insurance company insuring your life after you died?  Of course not!!!!</p>

<p>There are no insurance companies in their right mind that would insure you for anything <strong><em>after the fact</em></strong>.  Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats in Congress are merely forcing the insurance companies to dole out <em><strong>welfare</strong></em> under the guise of <em><strong>health insurance</strong></em>.<br />
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