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Archive for March 2011
8.9
Tsunami Slams Northern Japan After Massive 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast
A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. Tsunami warnings blanketed the entire Pacific, as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West Coast.
I was quite annoyed being woken up much earlier than I wanted by a cat licking the top of my head. Now, my annoyance seems rather petty.
The latest death toll is at 63, according to the television news, and expected to rise. I can only express sorrow for the loss of life, and pray for the survivors. May those in Hawaii and the west coast stay safe.
(video of some of the devastation)
via Yahoo News
Glenn Beck 03/10/11 (The Judge)
Standing Up For The Taxpayer
Bravery and Common Sense Prevail in Wisconsin
The Foundry
In what Reuters is calling “a confrontation with unions that could be the biggest since then President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers nearly 30 years ago,” the Wisconsin Senate approved a scaled-down version of Governor Scott Walker’s (R) budget-repair bill last night that would rein in government union collective bargaining powers. After securing approval from three widely respected nonpartisan agencies—the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the Legislative Council, and the Legislative Reference Bureau—Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald removed the appropriations measures from Walker’s budget, thus eliminating the need for any of the 14 truant Democratic Senators to be present for the vote. The State Assembly will take up the new version of the bill at 11 a.m. today, and if it passes, Walker will have achieved a significant victory for taxpayers everywhere.
Andrew Explains – Public Sector Unions “At Work”
Continued Thuggery
From: XXXX
Sent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PM
To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen
Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.
Read the whole email at Charlie Sykes.
This is what the people of Wisconsin are paying their public workers to do? Threaten ELECTED public officials? I wonder if it was the World Socialists urging such vile behavior? They sure seem to be expecting public sector unions to break the state’s laws. But then, what is law when it comes to such thugs. Contrary to what these animals would like to believe, THEY are the minority. Perhaps they will go on strike, and every damn one of them will lose their jobs. There are thousands who would LOVE to have a job, and I’m sure a great many would be happy to move to Wisconsin to earn a living and support their families.
To say I’m disgusted with the garbage coming out of our former state of residence would be a total understatement! To hear the mobs shouting “this is democracy in action” proves the utter ignorance of the thugs.
Glenn Beck 03/09/11 (The Judge)
Ann on Feckless Public Unions
Six-Figure Bus Drivers & Other Working-Class Heroes
by Ann Coulter
Can we stop acting as if people who work for the government are the heroes of working people?
Fine, we understand that Wisconsin public sector employees like the system that pays them an average of $76,500 per year, with splendiferous benefits, and are fighting like wildcats against any proposed reforms to that system. But it’s madness to keep treating people who are promoting their own self-interest as if they are James Meredith walking into the University of Mississippi.
This isn’t how we usually view people fighting for their own economic interests.
Growing Greenbacks
Police Find Field of Money in Ohio Highway Median
Police north of Columbus, Ohio, are trying to figure out how thousands of dollars in cash ended up along a highway.
Police Chief Russ Martin in the city of Delaware says there were so many bills in the median of U.S. Route 23 on Monday that an officer said it looked as though the field was growing money.
Authorities had been alerted by a motorist, and officers spent hours collecting the cash. Martin won’t reveal the total except to say it was “five figures.”
I wouldn’t mind having a field that sprouted a few bucks now and then. Granted, even five figures doesn’t get ya much these days, but I could sure use a vacation. 
Worth VS Worthless
Sen. Bill Ketron wants TN to consider creating its own currency
State Sen. Bill Ketron is pushing for Tennessee to study whether the state should create its own currency in the event of a breakdown of the Federal Reserve.
Depending on the perspective, Ketron’s proposal is either a harmless step toward safeguarding the state in the event of national financial calamity, or proof that the Republican-led General Assembly is distracting itself from the task of creating jobs and improving the economy.
Ketron has filed a joint resolution to create a committee that would study whether Tennessee should adopt a currency as an alternative to the federal dollar in the event of a “major breakdown” of the Federal Reserve.
When you consider the U.S. dollar is pretty much worthless, isn’t backed up by ANYTHING as it use to be (gold), and the federal government has spent us into a black hole, then yeah….I think it’s time for the states to step up, and consider the ‘worst case scenario’.
Although Ketron stressed his proposal would merely launch a study committee to look at the issue, state Sen. Lowe Finney, D-Jackson, said the legislation was proof that the GOP was losing focus.
“Senator Ketron is trying to change our currency when what I think we ought to be doing is helping people earn more currency,” Finney said. “My question is, How many jobs is this going to create, and what problem is this solving?”
What a maroon! No government, local, state, or federal, creates jobs. That would be the private sector. You work at bringing PRIVATE businesses to the state, through a variety of incentives, and let ‘em grow! Being a Democrat, he obviously doesn’t understand how it works.
One local expert said he believed Ketron’s proposal is “absurd” and “unconstitutional.” Vanderbilt University Economics and Finance Professor David Parsley said the U.S. Constitution forbids states from creating their own form of currency.
“I really don’t know what it’s coming from,” Parsley said of Ketron’s proposal. “Why should somebody be willing to accept Tennessee currency over a Federal Reserve note? Presumably, the United States has a lot more resources at its disposal with which to honor those debts.
This guy is an economics and finance professor? Pfft! I guess he hasn’t been paying attention, all wrapped up in his bastion of liberalism they call a university. Given a choice between being paid in gold or silver, or a worthless piece of paper, backed up by NOTHING, give me the stuff that’s actually WORTH something!
Glenn Beck 03/08/11 (The Judge)
The Nightmare That Is Obamacare
Defund Obamacare’s Secret Stash
The Foundry
While Obamacare is rightly notorious as a fiscal nightmare, less well known is just how massively it transferred power from Congress to the executive branch. In fact, the full scope of Congress’s abdication is still unknown. What is now known, however, is that deeply buried within Obamacare was a $105 billion slush fund that assures its implementation into the future, no matter what future voters think or want.
This makes then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comment to the Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties about Obamacare, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” made a year ago tomorrow, ironically prescient. Just this past month, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated an October 2010 report titled “Appropriations and Fund Transfers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).” The new report found that, unbeknownst to almost every Member of Congress, Obamacare contains $105 billion in direct implementation spending that bypasses Congress’s normal appropriations process.
Funny Dude
‘US dictatorship spreads terrorism’
“The ongoing events in the region and the collapse of dictatorial governments will serve national security and peace and negate terrorism in a long period,” said Larijani in a meeting with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Iraq, Ed Melkart, in the Iranian capital city of Tehran on Monday.
“The creation of democratic governments in the region would help disprove terrorism and establish sustainable security and stability in Iraq,” he added, Majlis news agency (ICANA) reported.
Excuse me, but what would Iran know about democracy? These are the same pigs that gun down their own people who oppose THEIR dictatorial regime. Don’t think anyone should be taking any advice from that bunch of assclowns!
Glenn Beck 03/07/11 (The Judge)
Obama’s Buddies
White House promotes Muslim help against terrorism
The White House is pushing a message of religious tolerance ahead of this week’s congressional hearing on Islamic radicalism, which has sparked protests on grounds it unfairly singles out Muslims as potential terrorists.
Well, I haven’t seen too many Methodists murdering unarmed soldiers, or blowing up women and children on a whim. So, I reckon, if the kuffiyeh fits……
“Being religious is never un-American. Being religious is quintessentially American,” McDonough said.
Really? According to the ACLU, it is. Oh….wait a minute….only if you’re Christian, it’s un-American. Man…I’ve really got to get all this straight!
Ungrateful Afghani
Afghan President Rejects U.S. Apology Over Killings
Afghanistan’s president on Sunday rejected a U.S. apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a NATO air attack and said civilian casualties are no longer acceptable.
According to a statement from his office, Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week’s killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters.
When it comes right down to it, since when does Karzai, or any Afghani give a happy crap about children being killed. Isn’t that the same country that burns girls schools, with the girls still IN them?
“President Karzai said that only regret is not sufficient and also mentioned that civilian casualties during military operations by coalition forces is the main reason for tension in relations between Afghanistan and United States,” the statement said. “It is not acceptable for the Afghan people anymore. Regrets and condemnations of the incident cannot heal the wounds of the people.”
It’s no longer acceptable for the lives of American soldiers to be lost in defense of the most ungrateful piece of crap walking. How about we pull out, and let YOU deal with your evil problems, eh? Or, better yet, we just bomb your sorry asses back into the caves, and make a huge field of glass. My patience is at an end!
In the video, Rodriguez said troops at a base in the valley were responding to a rocket attack and dispatched attack helicopters to the location they were told the rockets came from. He said the helicopters thought they were engaging insurgents, but it later turned out they were boys from a nearby village who were cutting firewood.
How about investigating the person who passed on this information? I think you might find a bit of deceit going on here. Don’t forget…it’s perfectly fine for a Muslim to LIE to ‘infidels’. And if such lying ends in the death of children, well, that’s just perfectly alright too, in their book.
