Double Standards in Obamaland

Ex-GM CEO gets retirement package worth over $10M
By TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON, AP Auto Writers
DETROIT – Former General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will retire Aug. 1 with a pension and benefit package the automaker valued at more than $10 million.

Wagoner, 56, who was ousted by the Obama administration on March 30, will get $1.64 million in benefits annually for each of the next five years, plus an annual pension of $74,030 for the rest of his life, according to company documents filed Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Let me get this straight. AIG gets billions in taxpayer dollars, gives millions in bonuses, ACORN and the Obama Administration get their feathers ruffled and basically ruin the lives of AIG execs (class warfare and envy).

GM gets billions in taxpayer dollars. Obama basically orders its CEO to step down. GM asks for billions more and gets it. GM files for bankruptcy. Obama takes over GM for all intents and purposes. GM has a fire-sale and emerges as a "new GM". Then the failed ex-CEO of GM gets over $10 million in bonuses.

Where's the outrage toward the CEO, toward GM and toward Obama. President Obama is the one calling the shots along with his Car Czar... and then we see this headline:

Steve Rattner Resigning As "Car Czar" To Spend More Time With His Money
By Ray Wert
Treasury Secretary Geithner announced today Steve Rattner, former Wall Street financier worth more than $188 million, is stepping down after five months in Washington as the President's "car czar." He does know the U.S. automakers ain't fixed yet, right?

Although there's no firm date set yet for Rattner's departure from leading President Obama's auto task force, we're told he's "decided to transition back to private life and his family in New York City."

It's all about the money with this Administration.

Unemployment and Public Use

Obama: Unemployment likely to keep ticking up
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday declined to predict how high unemployment will climb but made clear he expects it to keep worsening for a while as hiring lags behind other signs of economic recovery.

"How employment numbers are going to respond is not year clear," the president said on a day when he was headed to Michigan, home of a particularly battered economy. "My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months."

I know...I harp on this a lot. The fact that the Recovery Act was needed NOW and that it was an emergrency. We couldn't wait and actually read the bill.

Are we supposed to be soothed by Obama's statement? A couple million jobs have been lost since the Recovery Act was enacted. Obama touted it as a jobs saver. If it really is saving jobs...let us not forget that more jobs are being lost and vastly overshadows any "saved" job. When President Obama says that he has saved 150,000 jobs, he tells you this but wants you to forget the half million jobs lost every month. So instead of 2,150,000 jobs lost ONLY 2,000,000 jobs were lost....

SIDEBAR:
Watching the Sotomayor hearings. They're talking about eminent domain and the difference between public use and public purpose. Under public purpose, the State can take your land and give it to a private developer because it would increase tax revenues. Public Use (that's the one in the Constitution) I believe is taking land for use by the public, ie roads, highways, schools, libraries, municipal buildings, parks...NOT shopping malls for the profit of private developers.

Show Your Support

Show your support for your hard earned money! Also show everyone your disdain for the out-of-control spending Congress has done to enslave our children and grand-children for generations to come.

I was reading Rush Limbaugh's The Limbaugh Letter from August 1993, Page 6, today and found a small item that is more relevant now than in 1993. "Fold Your own". I will reiterate this today.

We need to call it the "Deficit and Unemployment Recovery Spending Act Awareness Ribbon" (DURSPAAR). It will be a ribbon that will help promote the awareness that Obama's Recovery Act will only recover the deficit and unemployment that was ushered in the Great Depression. It will also promote awareness of the hard-earned money that you are giving to the government without getting ANYTHING in return... except maybe unemployment or bankruptcy.

You fold the dollar lengthwise so that it is as thin as the words "IN GOD WE TRUST". Then fold it in the form of a ribbon with "IN GOD WE TRUST" shown on the top.

Busy this weekend...see you on Monday.

Palin Should Leave Party

No where in the US Constitution does it say anything about political parties. George Washington once said: "The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection." (Wikiquote)

I would suggest that Palin get out; either way, I would vote for her if today was Election Day. As an Individualist, I believe that parties should be abolished. It seems that the Two parties are practically the same. Speaking in majorities of parties, the only thing different seems to be abortion. We don't need no stinkin' parties. We need to start voting on person, not party.

Unfortunately, our Congress has the cancer of party within its infrastructure to the detriment of its original purpose. Right now, party has too much power. With a two-party system, the US government is just a parliamentary system with only two options instead of ten. We waste too much time and money on Party. We need to start supporting people not Party.

Audacity of National Security

Supermax prison: Obama's books objectionable
AP
FLORENCE, COLO. —The federal government's most secure prison has determined two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

A prison spokeswoman referred questions to the FBI.

There you go...Obama's own FBI considers certain things Obama has written to be "potentially detrimental to national security" and in the light of this the SuperMax facility in Florence has stopped an al-Qaida member from reading it. How do the 60+ million people who voted for Obama feel about their candidate and his writings? Most never read him, most probably don't care because he is a celebrity "rock star". Sad.

tidbit-Obama's Government (AIG)

Just watching the news. Social Security Administration officials buy out a luxury hotel in Arizona for a "conference". Are they stupid? Why would Obama's SSA do exactly what AIG did? AIG's claim was that the luxury hotel was needed to help ice deals with clients and offer conferencing. Obama's SSA (a government program that is bleeding money in the Billions and is broke) says that it needs their people to go to this luxury hotel for conferencing. The journalist asked the spokeshead "Why is this needed? Can't you use your teleconferencing?". No this was apparently needed. The journalist said this was costing US just under $1 million. Even though this is a small amount compared to the $77 million they pay to dead recipients, it should not be happening. I can't find anything on the internet about it yet.

tidbit-It's EGO not ECO

G-8 leaders agree on climate target
By CHARLES BABINGTON and NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writers
L'AQUILA, Italy – The Obama administration and other world leaders on Wednesday backed new targets for battling global warming, a move the Bush White House had resisted.

White House officials confirmed that President Barack Obama agreed to language supporting a goal a goal of keeping the world's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

This is comical. Did these guys consult God? Are they serious? Did they take into account the fact that Earth's average temperature has dropped in the last decade (an inconvenient fact for Algore)? They probably heard about the spotless Sun getting some spots lately. And considering sunspot activity has been linked to global temperature shifts...what kind of ego do these leaders have?

When "global warming" was touted by Algore in the 1990s he didn't see the global cooling that would ensue in the next decade, so now it's called "climate change". Just changing the name to what ends up being control over carbon emissions either way, it ultimately ends up in control of our lives.

tidbit-Evil Korea's first volley?

Government Web sites attacked; NKorea suspected
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -

A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other U.S. agencies, and South Korean government sites also came under assault.

South Korean intelligence officials believe the attacks were carried out by North Korean or pro-Pyongyang forces. U.S. officials so far have refused to publicly discuss details of the attack or where it might have originated.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that its own Web site was among several commercial sites also hit.

The U.S. government sites, which included those of the Federal Trade Commission and the Transportation Department, were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week. South Korean Internet sites began experiencing problems Tuesday.

Where's the Cyber Czar? Where's the Administration on these attacks...come on, the US and Good Korea websites are attacked. Mmmmm, who could it be? Did anybody really believe the appointment of a cyber czar would actually make us more secure?

tidbit-Michael Jackson

Watching the coverage on TV of the procession of Michael Jackson to Staples Center while listening to Glenn Beck's radio show and also looking for a job online. I've noticed with the Jackson family motorcade that masses of people are lined up along the route and across the overpasses to look at the motorcade. Then I realize that California's unemployment rate is above 10%. Well, it seems Michael Jackson's death has given the unemployed masses something to do. Man, this reminds me of the OJ-Bronco thing.

Rome is burning and the people want a show.

Obama's Nero Complex

Biden Says Israel Has ‘Sovereign Right’ to Hit Iran
bloomberg.com

Biden Says Obama Administration ‘Misread’ Economy
bloomberg.com

VP Biden is a goofball. Are these more gaffes? Either way, this still feeds the fire of Obama criticism. This administration has pushed forward sweeping policies and laws that Congress has blindly (literally since nobody actually read any of these bills) supported that re based upon faulty logic and false premises.

Here's where we're at:

Obama makes deals with Russia, while Iran is in turmoil and Evil Korea is flexing its nuclear muscles and has outwardly threatened the United States. Also, millions of Americans have now lost their jobs since Obama's "Recovery" Act has been enacted and implemented. Why hasn't this "emergency" spending worked? It was never about jobs...it was about funding Progressive pet-projects that will create some jobs at the cost of everyone else's jobs. Nero!

America is burning and Obama is fiddling with Medvedev. Nero rebuilt Rome has he envisioned it. So will Obama. When Nero came back (after Rome had burned) he opened his house to the homeless and paid under his (government) funds...then rebuilt Rome in his image. To deflect the blame, he began persecuting Christians. Who will our government persecute? CEOs, conservatives and individualists, small business owners named Joe, the unborn human child.

We need to see through the Progressive cloud. We (Americans) didn't start the fire, it was sparked by government (Bush, Congress and Obama) and now it's a raging fire that is gutting us out. We cannot allow Obama to continue remaking America in his Progressive image. If I was President and had a Congress for the people and common sense, I would support and sign a very simple law: "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is hereby repealed." Simple wouldn't it be?

Glenn Beck's Common Sense

I just finished reading Glenn Beck's Common Sense. Great book. An eye-opener and mind-opener. It truly is common sense. (I'm going to read Thomas Paine's Common Sense next.)

Here's some of the most poignant parts of the book. When you read it recall what has happened in Congress and the Presidency (the current and last one) and what will happen if nothing is done to stop Progressivism.

"You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense." Glenn Beck's Common Sense, page 17

Remember these:

1. America is good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them; they answer to me.

www.the912project.com

Washington Post = Dept of Health Marketing

WaPo cancels lobbyist event
Politico.com
Mike Allen, Michael Calderone Mike Allen, Michael Calderone – Thu Jul 2

Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that "a flier went out that was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flier would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do."

Is anyone surprised? This only confirms the belief of many of you out there that many a newspaper are practically in bed with the Obama Administration and lobbyists. The surprise here is that it took an (dare I say it) honest lobbyist to recognize this as a breach of ethics.

Would the Obama Administration be "transparent" if this went through? I'm not going out on a limb to say this would have been brushed under the rug.

Regardless of whether or not they would have gone through with the get together, the Washington Post has become yellow journalism and a guard dog for the President. Who's next?

Electronic Cigarettes

http://minicigarette.net/

A smoke-less cigarette that atomizes flavor and nicotine, is rechargeable and in the long run is way cheaper than regular, highly taxed, tobacco products. Just wait...if these become extremely popular with smokers (they can be puffed any where because there's no smoke...the government will eventually find an excuse to over-tax this too. Especially because the tobacco tax revenues would drop like a rock.

Transparency and charity

White House Pushes To Keep Visitor Logs Private
by Don Gonyea (NPR)
Barack Obama's presidential campaign — a call for openness: "Transparency and accountability, getting the American people involved, that's how we're gonna bring about change," candidate Obama said.

And the theme continued on Obama's first day as president: "Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."

But for advocates of open government, the new era of openness has yet to dawn.

"Once all the pretty speeches were over in the first couple of days, the record now isn't quite so great," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

As for "transparency", he is very transparent when it comes to spending. Not so much when it comes to his birth eligibility, and apparently who comes to visit him, or even which specific projects are getting funded. What is he hiding? The same goes with his czars, they are beholden to none but President Obama. Where is the transparency? There are as many American Czars and there were in the Romanov dynasty.


Obama salutes non-profit programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama on Tuesday promised that the White House will do its part to support grass-roots organizations that are successful in their efforts to improve communities.

"Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots. And government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts," Obama told representatives of non-profit programs during a White House gathering.

The president said he was asking Domestic Policy Council director Melody Barnes and the White House innovation team to travel across the country to discover and evaluate the best programs making strides in such areas as education, training and health care.

Obama noted that the community service act he signed into law contained a $50 million innovation fund that he wanted to use to provide aid to the most promising nonprofits in the country. "We'll invest in those with the best results, that are most likely to provide a good return on our taxpayer dollars," he said.

Obama also called on foundations, businesses and philanthropists to take an active role, saying they would require matching investments from the private sector.

How is the President going to "require matching investments from the private sector"? Oh yes, taxes. As I see it, Obama wants to decrease the amount tax payers can deduct for charities, because he believes the government should give our money to charities and "community organizations" that only he approves. All this because the masser hisself knows better'n us slaves.

In the end, immoral and PC organizations such as ACORN, Planned Parenthood, PETA and the NPA, will get the money and Christian-based groups will get less.

tidbit-American Crown & 22nd Amendment

H. J. Res. 5:
111th Congress
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5
This is a joint resolutions (H.J.Res. or S.J.Res.) in the U.S. Congress. Joint resolutions serve two purposes. First, they are used exactly as bills to enact law, generally for limited matters. Used this way, they must be passed by both the House and Senate and must be signed by the President before becoming law. Joint resolutions are also used to propose amendments to the Constitution. Used this way, they must be passed by both the House and Senate and be ratified by three-quarters of the states, but do not require the signature of the President, to become a part of the Constitution.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

Not much to say here...just that the American Crown is trying to establish their rule for a long time.

California here THEY come!

Legal Requirements to Keep State Parks Open for All
Posted: June 30th, 2009
...
Closing State Park facilities that have received assistance from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) State Grant Program could jeopardize future reimbursements and funding under this program. Similarly, closures affecting properties conveyed to the State under the Federal Lands to Parks Program (FLP) could result in reversion of the property to federal ownership for re-disposal.

Hey, California listen up!

Even if the federal government doesn't bail out California's state budget...they still want your public lands. In short, the federal government will take state owned park lands because many of California State Parks have taken money from the federal government...the federal government will call on that debt. Once this is done...California WILL lose those parks f-o-r-e-v-e-r.

We have a federal government out of control...they are taking control of the states (against the Constitution).