Cash For Clunkers

 

Think of it this way:

 

A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons of gas a year.
A vehicle that travels  12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons a year.
So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce  US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year. 
They claim 700,000 vehicles so that's 224 million gallons saved per year.
That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.
5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of  US consumption.
More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about $350 million dollars
So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million.
We spent $8.57 for every dollar we saved.
I'm pretty sure they will do a great job with our health care, though.

 

 

One can not expect anything else from a Chicago hood..........

Does this photo of President Obama in the Oval Office convey anything about his attitude? 
Would you speak with the Chief of Staff, your Chief Economics Adviser, your Senior Adviser, or anyone, 
with your feet up on the Resolute Desk - a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880?  

Keep your feet off the Desk

This arrogant, immature, self-centered man has no sense of honor, or simple decency.  While this posture is disrespectful in any culture, it is not appropriate in any executive setting. Further, in over half of the cultures of the world, it is recognized not only as disrespectful, but as an extreme insult.  He thinks of himself as a king, not as a servant of the people, humbly occupying our White House for his term in office.  Electing him was an enormous mistake and will cost us in many ways, for generations.

Holder admits nine Obama Dept. of Justice officials worked for terrorist detainees

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.

Dept. of Justice defends terrorists

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White House Accused of Federal Crime in Specter, Bennet Races

“Whoever solicits or receives … any….thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” — 18 USC Sec. 211 — Bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest: Acceptance or solicitation to obtain appointive public office

Obama has been bribing candidates for office, will there be an investigation

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Obama Tops Bush at Ducking Reporters

By: Joseph Curl
President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor's record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference.

President George W. Bush's longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days - stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio's veteran reporter Mark Knoller.
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Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers

By: Bradley A. Blakeman

Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Now, the Obama administration has moved quietly to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers.
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Who is Rashad Hussain?

By Cal Thomas

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |President Obama's appointment of Rashad Hussain, his deputy associate counsel, as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, charged with safeguarding and protecting "the interests of the Muslim world," should be of serious concern to Congress and the American public. Especially since Hussain, a devout Muslim, has a history of participating in events connected with the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the Chicago Tribune, "the world's most influential Islamic fundamentalist group" whose goal is to create Muslim states throughout the world.

In 1991, a memo written by Mohamed Akram for the Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood spelled out the objective of the organization. Akram said the Muslim Brotherhood "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." I am unable to find any "revelation" that has repealed that objective. Quite the contrary. Terrorists seem on track for implementing it.

The president proudly announced that Hussain is a Hafiz, someone who has completely memorized the Qur'an, but he did not spell out what qualifies Hussain to meet with foreign leaders at a diplomatic level in a role that approximates that of an ambassador. According to Jihad Watch, a blog directed by American author Robert Spencer, which "aims to bring to public attention the role of jihad theology and ideology in the modern world," Hussain's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood date back to his days at Yale Law School.

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THEY GAVE AMERICA AWAY

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The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. 

 

The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. 
The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president. Thinking people did not vote for this fool

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by Eddie Sessions:

 

"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of

make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because

at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good

looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim

name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his

facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House. 

 

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do

you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father"

was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope"

followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who

think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a

"communist with a small 'c'" was the real author. 

 

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be

deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the  Illinois  legislature

to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having

Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal. 

 

He was in the  U.S.  Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was

either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game

plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital.

How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the

Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever

even heard of him before?

 

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took  Iowa  by storm. A

charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black

population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis

of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a

charisma that hid any real substance. 

 

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one

of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then

John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female

governor from the very distant state of  Alaska . It was a ticket that was

reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went

down to defeat. 

 

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl

crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now

over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin,

was extraordinary. 

 

Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years

leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left

to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the

wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the

briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters. 

 

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible

realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy

America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam

initially spread. It knocked on the doors of  Europe , having gained a

foothold in  Spain . 

 

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour"

were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the

reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

 

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has

positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress

because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his

communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college

professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues. 

 

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a  Boston  police

officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would

warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at

Fort  Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no

one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an

isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was

part of an al Qaeda plot. 

 

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at

Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the

battlefield against  America . He could even instruct his Attorney General to

afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever

even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days

before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist

attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following

day because his first statement was so lame. 

 

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush

administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth. 

 

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the

sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and

manufactured this pathetic individual's life. 

 

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this

man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other

documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered

from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain

hidden. 

 

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the  United States of America ?"

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REALLY SIMPLE!!!

Why do I have to press 1 for English???

The Patriotic Retirement Plan

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy.  Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force.  Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.  Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR  Forty million cars ordered Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes...

Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

From an ER doctor

                                                              

Image via Wikipedia This Is An Insult And A Kick In The Butt To All Of Us!!! I live and work in a border state over-run with illegals. They make more money having kids than we earn working fulltime.  Today, in the ER, I had a 25-year-old with 8 kids that’s right -- eight!  All are illegal anchor babies and she had the nicest nails; cell phone; hand bag; clothing etc.  She makes around $1500 monthly for each; do the math..  That's about $12,000 per month folks!! I used to say, “We are the dumbest nation on earth”.  Now I must say and sadly admit: YOU are the dumbest people on earth (that includes me) for we elected the idiot idealogues who have passed the bills that allow this. Sorry; we need a revolution -- vote 'em all out in 2010.   REMEMBER -- IN NOVEMBER 2010 WE HAVE A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN OUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE AND ONE-THIRD OF THE SENATE   If an immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than an elderly woman on Social Security, who has worked all her life! She would only be getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 -- and there's the 'Catch 22.' It is interesting that the Federal Government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month. This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement. Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!