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| IAEA: Um, actually Iran is definitely seeking nuclear warheads Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:19 PM PST We obviously knew this
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| 5 Muslim soldiers arrested at Fort Jackson for trying to poison food supply Posted: 18 Feb 2010 03:57 PM PST I'm sure it was just a "tragic event" and not an act of terrorism (As Obama would put it) This report from CBN News (hattip: StoptheACLU)
Apparently they were caught in early December so why are just hearing about this now? Related posts:
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| Video: Surprise Dick Cheney speech at CPAC 2010 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 11:25 AM PST The crowd roars as his daughter introduces him. Chris Mathews head is spinning off right about now.
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| Napolitano Meets with Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Posted: 18 Feb 2010 10:36 AM PST But hey…the system worked What a joke our homeland security has become.
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| Dubai police point finger at Mossad over Hamas assassination Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:32 AM PST My immediate reaction to this article last week was "So f*cking what? Another dead jihadi." They should be happy, another jackass was dispatched to the abyss, to be with allah.
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BATTLE OF THE VEEPS: Cheney says Biden WRONG that new attack unlikely...
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By: Julie Crawshaw
Economist Arthur B. Laffer, head of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan and founder and chairman of economic research and consulting firm Laffer Associates, says President Barack Obama's proposed budget "is the perfect plan for catastrophe."
"It shows no spending restraint and is raising tax rates," Laffer told Newsmax.TV's Kathleen Walter.
He said the budget blueprint puts a greater burden on people who work and gives more money to people who don't.
Video — Laffer: Obama Budget Is Plan for Catastrophe
"If you tax people who work and pay people who don't, do not be surprised if you find a lot of people not working," Laffer says.
"If you tax rich people and give the money to poor people, you're going to have lots and lots of poor people and no rich people," he says.
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"The dream in America has always been to make the poor rich, not to make the rich poor. Obama's budget literally tries to make the rich poor and does not try to make the poor rich," he says.
If you have two locations with different tax rates, producers and manufacturers will move to the locale with lower rates, he says.
Obama takes no account whatsoever on the effect this will have on global competitiveness and the creation of jobs in the United States, he says.
Obama, Laffer says, is wrong on every single issue, is unrealistic, lacks experience and is causing a lot of damage to the economy.
"It's just incredible how systematic he is in making errors," Laffer observes.
"It's a classic professorial response: In the classroom, you never have skin in the game, you're never held accountable for your pronouncement, and that's exactly what's going on here," he says.
Laffer would like to return to the tactics Paul Volcker used when he took over the Fed, which include intervening in the money markets to maintain purchasing power and parity of the dollar.
"The results were incredible," Laffer says. "The dollar soared, interest rates tumbled and inflation literally disappeared from the U.S."
Laffer also suggests eliminating the alternative minimum tax and reinstating the Bush tax cuts that are currently scheduled to expire this year.
Not reinstating the cuts will make 2010 look very good on paper and cause a major recession in 2011.
"If you know that tax rates are going to go up on January 1, 2011, you try to accelerate all the income you possibly can into 2010, which will make 2010 look a lot better than it should," he points out. "Then, on January 1, 2011, the train goes off the track."
The sheer size of unfunded liabilities is "awesome, just amazing," Laffer says.
Civil service and military retirement and medical benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and that's not even taking into account things like California and unfunded pensions.
The Obama administration needs to go through each of these and literally change the rules.
"You've got to go through all these programs meticulously and make sure you eliminate things that increase unfunded liabilities, which now exceed $100 trillion," Laffer says. "Our GDP is only worth $14 trillion."
Laffer wants to see unspent bailout funds returned.
"Not only have those programs not done any good, they've actually hurt the economy, and they've hurt it a lot," he says.
"You can't bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. For every stimulus check written, there is a liability to someone else," he says. "The sooner we stop the stimulus packages, the better off we'll be."
Laffer expects the U.S. economy will look very strong for 2010, but none of the things that will make it appear strong will be present in 2011.
The government has printed huge amounts of new money, he points out, which has stimulated stock and bond prices and commodity prices, but the effects of that will be short-lived.
However, we should not lose hope that the United States will once again become the land of opportunity, says Laffer.
"All we have to do is go back to common sense economics. If we had a low flat-rate tax … can you imagine how this economy would boom with that? It would be beautiful," he says.
"And if you make the dollar solid … people won't have to go into gold and silver. We can do that just the way Paul Volcker did."
Video — Laffer: Obama Budget Is Plan for Catastrophe
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| With a nationwide TV audience, Barack Obama yesterday tried to trick the nation into believing that he has always been open to conservative ideas on health care. You may have seen his latest ploy. As the Washington Port reported, before the big game Obama sat down with CBS's Katie Couric for a live interview aired during the Super Bowl network's pregame show, an opportunity to reach pigskin fans less than two hours before kickoff. I suppose that shouldn't be surprising that Couric, who had a family member previously serving as Chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, would provide Obama this platform to reach millions. But what is shocking - truly shocking - is that Couric and other journalists would not force Obama to admit he has been well aware of Republican proposals on health care for months. Instead, Obama was allowed to sit on live television, speak to the nation, and say he now wanted to know about Republican ideas on health care. He now wants to see those ideas. Really? For months Republicans have put forward solutions. In fact, the conservative caucus in the House, the Republican Study Committee, has put forward ideas here for months and months. Now, Obama says he wants to invite Republicans to the White House, to hear their ideas. He told Couric and the nation, "Well I think that what I want to do is to look at the Republican ideas that are out there. And I want to be very specific. "How do you guys want to lower costs?" Well either the President of the United States can't read, or he is continuing to mislead the public. Don't allow Republicans to fall for this ploy. Even though poll after poll shows the American people do not want government-run health care Obama will not give up. When will he learn? Now that ACU and others help encourage voters to turn out who then in turn put Scott Brown in the Senate, filling Ted Kennedy's seat, he still won't listen. Now Obama's ploy is to have what he is calling a "summit" at the White House, with Republicans, to "discuss" health care. We don't believe he wants to discuss anything. We think he wants a political and media platform to continue shoving government-run health care down the throat of the American people. We don't want or need our conservatives in Congress to cave in. Do you remember the photo to the right? A photo of Republicans waving the Republican plans for health care while Obama stood up in front of Congress and the entire nation basically deriding Republicans for offering no ideas. For months ACU has been sending you emails showing Republican ideas and giving you and all Americans specific reasons why conservatives opposed Obama's plans. However, he does not care. He only wants a political platform to spew his false statements for political gain. At least Couric pointed out that Obama provided special deals to Senators to try and squeeze his first health care plan through. Remember Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson and his special deal. Remember Landrieu's payoff in Louisiana. If that was Obama's first attempt, what will he now try to offer to specific Republicans to push a plan through? We cannot allow our children and grandchildren's future to be gambled away on this risky, government-run health scheme. Our nation is already billions and billions of dollars in debt. How much further does he want to go? The Washington Examiner newspaper got it right. This morning they said, "Obama wants a showdown with Republicans on health care." In that showdown we cannot afford to have our Republicans and conservatives crumble under a White House push. Now more than ever we need to send a message - no government-run health care. Help us send this message to our conservative leaders on Capitol Hill. Sincerely, Dennis Whitfield ACU Executive Vice President Former Deputy Secretary for Labor for President Ronald Reagan | ||
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A Message From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan .....
The Sand Pit:
It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains , along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.
I also glance at the area around my back side every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle
prod. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy.. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement.
It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days way from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.
I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me, I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns... Actual, living Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do... They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
I'm freezing my *** off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart..' They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning..' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines..They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart.. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.
They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but I'm good at it.
Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move on with your lives. The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter B-S and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here, because you have no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to know. We are your military, and we are doing what you sent us here to do, keep you safe, and keep the fight off of American soil.
You wanna help us ? Take Obama and the Democrat Party out of power !