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It’s Monday … what else can you say?
Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.
It’s still out there, slamming our next U.S. Congressman Raj Goyle for his lecturer career at Wichita State University. I mean, he taught one class for one semester. Its’ at http://bit.ly/2KV8U
Raj Goyle is just trying to get back home to his wife. He moved to Kansas and she stayed on the east coast. Ask his neighbors how involved he is in the neighborhood.
ON this date, Jul 21st, record setting temperatures for Wichita Kansas
High: 109 °F (2006)
Low: 55 °F (1971)
Image of the day!
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2103/learning20.jpg
Has anyone noticed how many criminal and horrible violence stories are coming out now? People are getting pretty desperate.
Major Cities’ Plummeting Crime Rates Mystifying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071902154.html?wpisrc=newsletter
How dumb are those bank robbers that walk into a bank and rob it without disguise. They must know banks have security cameras. Or, are they so desperate the want the govt. care?
Political_mama
Posted July 20, 2009 at 7:24 am | Permalink
Has anyone noticed how many criminal and horrible violence stories are coming out now? People are getting pretty desperate.
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And pmom tell us. Who is in charge of doing something about that desperation? Who is in charge of the stimulus money that we just had to have. Who is taking over private businesses like GM while the economy is going in the tank.
Poverty BTW doesn’t drive people to crime. Check the crime rates during the depression. They were down.
More bad news for the democrat party.
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White House putting off release of budget update
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today’s bleak landscape.
The administration’s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama’s budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.
The release of the update – usually scheduled for mid-July – has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
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Just a suggestion for the democrat party. You should be concentrating on your own failures and leave the running of the GOP to the conservatives.
RASMUSSEN 2012 poll released at 10:30AM ET
Obama 45% Romney 45%
Obama 48% Palin 42%
India rebuffs US carbon demands
By James Lamont in New Delhi, James Fontanella-Khan in Mumbai and Daniel Dombey in Washington
Published: July 19 2009 19:27 | Last updated: July 19 2009 19:27
India on Sunday night rebuffed an appeal by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, to embrace a low-carbon future in which the two countries would work together to devise new ways of consuming and producing energy.
Mrs Clinton, on a five-day visit to the country, said that low-carbon emissions would not jeopardise India’s high economic growth rates and its goal of lifting millions of people out of poverty. She offered a technological partnership to secure the fast growing nation’s energy supplies and help boost the livelihoods of its farmers.
“There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emissions per capita, face to actually reduce emissions,” Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister told Mrs Clinton. “And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours.”
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Looks as if Hillarys apology tour isn’t going over well.
“Looks as if Hillarys apology tour isn’t going over well.”
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She can’t compete with little Barry, when he apologizes for the country’s behavior around the world he’s sincere!
That’s great, if India and China want to continue poisoning the climate, make them pay out of the arse!
Might have to take some of that ’smoke stack’ industry back to America and do it right.
“Phantom” notes –
“Might have to take some of that ’smoke stack’ industry back to America and do it right.”
And Walmart might have to raise the price of a widget by a nickle. And there would be fewer jobs for 9-year-olds in China! And sailors wouldn’t be Shanghaied to serve on freighters bringing lead-painted toys across the Pacific!!
(Oh, god, this is awful!)
But it won’t be “smoke stack” industries anymore, because of all that “Clean Coal Technology” the CONs promise is there.
Sounds like a win-win proposition to me!
Except that 9-year-old in China may loose her ankle-cuff and have to go to… I dunno… school.
Do you think we will get the cuts, today?
“I’m asking for all of them to identify at least $100 million in additional cuts to their administrative budgets, separate and apart from the work that [Office of Management and Budget Director] Peter Orszag and the rest of our team are doing, to go line by line with the budget and identify programmatic cuts that need to be made,” the President said at his first cabinet meeting on April 20.”
“Hud” asks –
“Do you think we will get the cuts, today?”
Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention, “Hud.”
I’ve been slicing and dicing CONs all morning.
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Monkeyhawk
Posted July 20, 2009 at 1:58 pm | Permalink
“Hud” asks –
“Do you think we will get the cuts, today?”
Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention, “Hud.”
I’ve been slicing and dicing CONs all morning.
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I’ve got a real money maker of an idea.
If we could buy Monkey for what he’s worth and then turn around and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth, we’d all be flush with cash.
“…we’d all be flush with cash.”
Maybe then we could then fund the Health Care Bill.
No Moon landing thread?
Forty years ago we did it. Now? It would take us another 20 years to do it. The loss in opportunity and the short sightedness of not vigorously building on the achievement will be seen by history as almost criminally negligent and stupid. We MUST get back on that road or America’s best days are truly behind us.
I want to take this very rare opportunity to say; I agree with BlueJay.
“outlander” proposes –
“If we could buy Monkey for what he’s worth and then turn around and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth, we’d all be flush with cash.”
You forget you’re dealing with a former ad man here.
I am perfectly capable of wh*ring my talents out to the highest bidder if the price is right.
Make me an offer.
Or are you just flapping your jaws again?
“BlueJay” –
A simple rule of thumb:
If you ever find yourself holding a position “outlander” agrees with, it’s time to reassess your beliefs.
The Apollo Program was a remarkable achievement.
The Discovery Channel has been documenting the 60s space program all day. And the accomplishments, the challenges, the courage those missions represent make me proud to be a fellow human being.
And even if it’s become a cliche, there’s something to “If we can put a man on the moon…” laments.
We humans have the brains, the courage, the physics, the sticktoitivness to achieve remarkable things. But going to the Moon again, or going to Mars, accomplishes what?
Buckminster Fuller used to refer to our planet as “Spaceship Earth.” Right now the spacecraft is experiencing serious threats to our life-support systems. But too many people with too much political clout have decided driving their old 1970 GMC pick-up is more important than the air we breathe.
We’ve been promised by the coal industry they have “clean” coal technologies ready to solve the problem. But burning up fossils seems to be more important to CONs.
“Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em.”
I had coffee with an old guy who was on Normandy Beach June 5, 1944. He wasn’t in the first wave. His biggest memory was eating his first C-Rations in a combat arena. It came with four Camel cigarettes which started his lifelong addiction to nicotine.
He’s dying of lung cancer now.
But not one soldier on D-Day died of lung cancer that day.
CONs who deny or avoid the realities of climate and environmental science are like those cocky kids on Normandy Beach who sat back after the day was over and had “…a Lucky instead of a sweet.”
Most of those guys at Normandy are dead now. Many were dead that day. The rest… well, that’s what happens in life: death.
D-Day was another one of those remarkable human achievements; of humans and technology and systems and the leadership of General Eisenhower and the courage of some pretty remarkable people. Just like the Moon Landing.
But I see no pressing need to replicate it until we accomplish other important things back here on Spaceship Earth.
The space program provides a big bang for the buck.
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NASA Spinoffs with Practical Applications
Under the Space Act of 1958, NASA has had a mandate to share all the information it has gained with the public. Here are a few of the practical applications that have resulted from technologies and information learned by space scientists:
* CAT scans
* MRIs
* Kidney dialysis machines
* Heart defibrillator technology
* Remote robotic surgery
* Artificial heart pump technology
* Physical therapy machines
* Positron emission tomography
* Microwave receivers used in scans for breast cancer
* Cardiac angiography
* Monitoring neutron activity in the brain
* Cleaning techniques for hospital operating rooms
* Portable x-ray technology for neonatal offices and 3rd world countries
* Freeze-dried food
* Water purification filters
* ATM technology
* Pay at the Pump satellite technology
* Athletic shoe manufacturing technique
* Insulation barriers for autos
* Image-processing software for crash-testing automobiles
* Holographic testing of communications antennas
* Low-noise receivers
* Cordless tools
* A computer language used by businesses such as car repair shops, Kodak, hand-held computers, express mail
* Aerial reconnaissance and Earth resources mapping
* Airport baggage scanners
* Distinction between natural space objects and satellites/warheads/rockets for defense
* Satellite monitors for nuclear detonations
* Hazardous gas sensors
* Precision navigation
* Clock synchronization
* Ballistic missile guidance
* Secure communications
* Study of ozone depletion
* Climate change studies
* Monitoring of Earth-based storms such as hurricanes
* Solar collectors
* Fusion reactors
* Space-age fabrics for divers, swimmers, hazardous material workers, and others
* Teflon-coated fiberglass for roofing material
* Lightweight breathing system used by firefighters
* Atomic oxygen facility for removing unwanted material from 19th century paintings
* FDA-adopted food safety program that has reduced salmonella cases by a factor of 2
* Multispectral imaging methods used to read ancient Roman manuscripts buried by Mt. Vesuvius
Most people do not give NASA or space research high priority when they consider what the government needs to fund. However, as seen here, NASA has provided much more than just information about the universe at large, but practical applications that have saved lives, improved the quality of life, and provided high-paying jobs in the private sector. The spinoffs listed here are just a part of what NASA and others have accomplished by sharing information and technology.
On February 26, 2009, acting NASA Administrator Christopher J. Scolese responded to the current NASA budget:
“The $18.7 billion budget proposal for 2010 is fiscally responsible and reflects the administration’s desire for a robust and innovative agency aligned with the president’s goals of advancing our nation’s scientific, educational, economic and security interests. This budget ensures NASA maintains its global leadership in Earth and space research, and it advances global climate change studies, funds a robust program of human and robotic space exploration, allows us to realize the full potential of the International Space Station, advances development of new space transportation systems, and renews our commitment to aeronautics.”
Read more: http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/practical_applications_of_space_technology#ixzz0LphFIlCW
Did you forget Velcro?
A boon to every 3-4 year old who hasn’t figured out how to tie their shoes. :)
You’re missing my point monkeyhawk.
While I am an advocate for the return to the Moon and a voyage to Mars, I am well aware of the more practical things to be done.
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So, just how many of those things GOT done the last 35 years?
MY lament is that we were already on the road. The investment in treasure and time was already on the table. The first steps already taken….
And then, for some reason that will probably debated long after we are dead and gone, we just….quit.
What was it? Did disco or leisure suits cause the nation to lose its nerve? I can’t understand it and I very much doubt history will either.
The problem with arguing what we ought to be doing INSTEAD of some great endeavor is that the “practical” things don’t get done either.
There is something to be said for the value to a society of monumental achievements. You can’t put a price on it.
How are those free condom givaways and sex education classes working out for you libtards????
A new study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found startling figures regarding the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in teen girls. The study, released at the National STD Prevention Conference in Chicago, looked at 838 US girls aged 14 to 19 and found out that overall, more than a quarter had at least one sexually transmitted disease.
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I’m pleased to find outlander in agreement with me.
It lends to what I was trying to say.
Even a fiscal conservative has to look at how far we came and how much we spent and be terribly disappointed with so much investment just …walked away from. It’s an unbelievable shame.
Does anyone know why we are canceling the shuttle program?
That was bush’s decision.
Sort of.
The existing vehicles ARE getting a little long in the tooth. Even Endeavor, built to replace Challenger is probably over 20 years old. It’s probably one of the most complicated and stressed machines humans have ever built. That doesn’t last forever..
Why we didn’t build new shuttles and incorporate upgrades in technology I wouldn’t try to guess. That makes no sense to me either.
ANTI
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,459465,00.html
On shuttle program – the answer is, ‘No one really knows what is going to happen.’
17th STREET IMPROVEMENTS
Date: July 20, 2009
Contact: Communications Team
Grove to Hillside work begins July 27
Reconstruction of 17th Street from Grove to Hillside will begin Monday, July 27. The $3.4 million project will provide a protected left turns at Hillside, new traffic signals at Grove and, at Hillside, new storm sewer and sidewalks. The project is expected to be completed by Aug. 1, 2010.
The construction schedule and traffic plan will be presented at a public meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1817 N. Volutsia.
In the initial stages of the project, 17th Street traffic will be limited to one lane in each direction. Later, only one, eastbound lane will be open; westbound traffic will detour north on Hillside to 18th and south on Grove. Two-way traffic on 17th is scheduled to be restored no later than December 15. Access to businesses on 17th will be maintained during the entire project but left turns will be restricted.
The final phase will begin about Feb. 15 and will include reconstruction of the 17th and Hillside intersection. Traffic will be limited to one lane in each direction on 17th and on Hillside. Left turns will be prohibited at 17th and Hillside during this phase.
Why we didn’t build new shuttles and incorporate upgrades in technology I wouldn’t try to guess. That makes no sense to me either.
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That is my question as well.
Build new or better vehicles, before retiring the existing shuttles.
I would rather not have a 5-10 year gap in our space science endeavors.
outlander posted July 20, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Most people do not give NASA or space research high priority when they consider what the government needs to fund.
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And don’t forget the very important AGW research.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
“The release of the update – usually scheduled for mid-July – has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.”
And isn’t this a little deceitful? Asking Congress to rush through expensive legislation, but refusing to provide them with the budget projections congress should be considering? Obama is withholding information (less open government?) until after the health insurance vote.
Guess Obama is afraid the legislation cannot stand the light of day.
Both parties pi$sed at Obamacare:
both Republican and Democratic governors criticized the bill that many said could turn into another unfunded mandate from Congress. The issue dominated the afternoon discussion.
“The governors are concerned about unfunded mandates, another situation where the Federal government says you must do X and you must pay for it. Well if they want to reform health care, they should figure out what the rules are and how they are going to pay for it,” Democratic Montana Gov.Brian Schweitzer told FOX News.
“Instead what they are proposing is — they’re figuring out the rules and forcing the states to pay for it,” he said.
A major worry for many governors is potential cost increases that would fall on states in order to expand Medicaid programs.
“This huge expansion of Medicaid would be extremely expensive in my state. We anticipate that it would increase spending on Medicaid by 50
percent, and that’s money we don’t have. And other states don’t have it either,” Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., head of the Republican governors, said after the mid-day meeting.
The new chairman of the National Governors Association, Vermont Democrat Jim Douglas said that while many governors want to re-vamp the health care system, they feel the bill’s current structure unfairly burdens the states at a time when their budgets are already stretched thin.
“Our concern as governors is Congress not impose a cost that we can’t absorb at a time when our budgets are under tremendous stress,” Gov.
Douglas told FOX News.
Obama is quickly going down hill. I think maybe he needs to spend MORE MONEY! FASTER!!!
“a measurement that will be closely watched in coming years, nearly three in 10 say they are personally “not as well off” financially as they were when Obama took office.
3 out of 10 already!
Beyond partisan shifts in Obama’s ratings, sharp declines have occurred among those with household incomes above $50,000. And those with incomes
above $50,000 now are split evenly between Obama and Republicans on dealing with health care. In June, they favored Obama by a 21-point
margin.”
Selective copy/pasta is selective.
Obama declared ownership of the economic recovery, but the public still places far more blame on President George W. Bush’s regulatory policies than on Obama’s efforts for the state of the economy. But in the first read of a measurement that will be closely watched in coming years, nearly three in 10 say they are personally “not as well off” financially as they were when Obama took office.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071902176_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009072000002
Gosh AmWay, you should be happy as a lark, and out in your front yard doing the happy dance!!
AmWay, I hope you realize you are just preaching to the choir….
“President Obama’s approval ratings slipping on front-burner issues, a Public Policy Polling survey conducted July 15-16 saw his overall job approval rating drop from 50 percent to 43 percent with 7 percent undecided. ”
Obama better hurry up and spend some more money!!
Nice catch Daniel
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Chas
Posted July 20, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
Gosh AmWay, you should be happy as a lark, and out in your front yard doing the happy dance!!
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That’s the saddest thing. Those people have been reduced to hoping that America crashes and burns because they know that’s the only way that their party will ever even get a sniff at regaining power again.
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Chas
Posted July 20, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
Gosh AmWay, you should be happy as a lark, and out in your front yard doing the happy dance!!
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That’s the saddest thing. Those people have been reduced to hoping that America crashes and burns because they know that’s the only way that their party will ever even get a sniff at regaining power again.
“Since April, approval of Obama’s handling of health care has dropped from 57 percent to 49 percent, with disapproval rising from 29 percent to 44 percent.”
Elevator attendant: “Down please.”
“Since April, approval of Obama’s handling of health care has dropped from 57 percent to 49 percent, with disapproval rising from 29 percent to 44 percent.”
Elevator attendant: “Down please.”
And here’s what counts folks:
“The erosion in Obama’s overall rating on health care is particularly notable among political independents: While positive in their assessments of his handling of health-care reform at the 100-day mark of his presidency (53 percent approved and 30 percent disapproved), independents now are divided at 44 percent positive and 49 percent negative.
It was independents and turncoat republicans who put Obama in office (contrary to those who believe the koolaid that the nation was demanding change).
God Bless em, every one.
You’re right Daniel… They actually WANT Obama and our Nation to FAIL!!! I wonder if the DHS is watching these postings??
“Obama’s approval rating on his handling of the deficit is down to 43 percent, as independents now tilt toward disapproval (42 percent approve; 48 percent disapprove).”
Aren’t those independents just wonderful!
“More broadly, 55 percent of Americans put a higher priority on holding the deficit in check than on spending to boost the economy, compared with 40 percent who advocate additional outlays even if it means a sharply greater budget shortfall. This is a big shift from January, when a slim majority preferred to emphasize federal spending.”
Better get Biden out there screaming, “WE GOTTA SPEND TO KEEP FROM GOING BROKE!!!”
[This is a job for, SUPER BIDEN!!]
Darn those pesky indepedents!
“Independents, who split 50 percent to 46 percent for more spending in January, now break 56 percent to 41 percent for more fiscal discipline. But a larger shift has been among moderate and conservative Democrats, who prioritized more spending by about 2 to 1 in January and March. ”
What!?! D-D-D-Democrats too?
AmWay, you realize do you not, that we are still operating on the final BUSH budget, approved LAST YEAR??? In other words, you havent even seen Obama’s budget WORK yet, and still you are all hot to trot to see Obama FAIL and the nation along with him…
So, do your approved Congress people have an alternative yet??? And if so, WHERE are they keeping it??
“Nearly a quarter of moderate and conservative Democrats (22 percent) now see Obama as an “old-style tax-and-spend Democrat,” up from 4 percent in March.”
“Ouch!” “Thats gotta hurt”
From 4 to 22% in only four months!
Or maybe you just want to see a huge uprising, and have the Anti-government, Anti-tax, Anti-progressive people storm D.C. and just take over?? Ya know, like Third World nations do??
“Support for new spending is tempered by flagging confidence on Obama’s plan for the economy. Fifty-six percent are confident that his programs will reap benefits, but that is down from 64 percent in March and from 72 percent just before he took office six months ago. More now say they have no confidence in the plan than say they are very confident it will work. Among independents and Republicans, confidence has decreased by 20 or more points;
“Ouchy!”
it has dropped seven points among Democrats.”
“EGADS!“
And here it is. In a nutshell:
“for the first time in his presidency, more Americans strongly disapprove of his performance on the economy than strongly approve.”
Worst President. Ever.
“The overall approval rating for congressional Republicans has increased six points since April, to 36 percent (compared with 47 percent approval for Democrats), and they have picked up five points vis-à-vis Obama on the deficit. They have gained seven on health care.”
No brag, just facts. And republicans didn’t do a darn thing!
Finally, those pesky independents again.
“Beyond partisan shifts in Obama’s ratings, sharp declines have occurred among those with household incomes above $50,000. And those with incomes above $50,000 now are split evenly between Obama and Republicans on dealing with health care. In June, they favored Obama by a 21-point margin.”
God bless those independents. Every one.
“AmWay, you realize do you not, that we are still operating on the final BUSH budget, approved LAST YEAR??? ”
No dumb$hit we are operating on the Obama signed Omnibus bill of 2009 (which I posted uddles about in February):
“The $410 billion Omnibus bill for 2009. Depending how you count them, there are upwards of 9,000 earmarks in the bill, which is the product of nine appropriations bills that were not passed last fall. The White House says Obama plans to sign the bill later this week after it passes the Senate. Obama’s aides have downplayed the significance of the earmarks, saying they came from a budget process that mostly took place before Obama was elected. But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said March 2 that Obama will soon be outlining his policy on handling earmarks.”
” hoping that America crashes and burns ”
No, I am reporting the f-a-c-t-s. The above is simply and completely – YOUR SPIN.
There is still time to SAVE AMERICA! The facts give you an opportunity to contact your elected officals and tell them to stop trying to SPEND their way out of debt!
PS: LoL! I’ll stop and pray for Obama just like you guys did for Bush to succeed! (choking on laughter)
“Or maybe you just want to see a huge uprising,”
Naaw! I’ll let the democrats ACORN do that.
“Or maybe you just want to see a huge uprising, and have the Anti-government, Anti-tax, Anti-progressive people storm D.C. and just take over?? Ya know, like Third World nations do??”
Are you planning a huge uprising?
Prestiges and respected: Mayo Clinic’s reaction to House Tri-Committee bill
“Although there are some positive provisions in the current House Tri-Committee bill – including insurance for all and payment reform demonstration projects – the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher-quality, more affordable health care for patients. In fact, it will do the opposite.
In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented. Lawmakers have failed to use a fundamental lever – a change in Medicare payment policy – to help drive necessary improvements in American health care. Unless legislators create payment systems that pay for good patient results at reasonable costs, the promise of transformation in American health care will wither. The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.”
http://healthpolicyblog.mayoclinic.org/2009/07/16/mayo-clinic%E2%80%99s-reaction-to-house-tri-committee-bill/
And elsewhere:
“Under questioning by members of the Senate Budget Committee, Douglas
Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said
”bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate health committee do not
propose “the sort of fundamental changes” necessary to rein in the
skyrocketing cost of government health programs, particularly Medicare.
On the contrary, Elmendorf said, the measures would pile on an expensive
new program to cover the uninsured.” CBO US Government
Congress does not have time to read comments. Congress does not even have time to ALLOW comments and discussion. They have to submit to the executive branch of the government and
Hurry up and rush this bill through before anyone can read it!
Why listen to experts?
“AmWay, you realize do you not, that we are still operating on the final BUSH budget, approved LAST YEAR???”
Hello Chas? You were lying, I mean saying…?
Government Free Food handout purchase:
2 Lbs frozen ham sliced. $1.191 million dollars
@ $1.50 a pound wholesale.
Smithfield sliced ham can be had at $.79 cents a pound retail at the local grocery store.
And these are the guys you want handling your grandma’s healthcare?
Chas
Posted July 20, 2009 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
You’re right Daniel… They actually WANT Obama and our Nation to FAIL!!! I wonder if the DHS is watching these postings??
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Chas we have militant muslims meeting openly in our country with the announced intent of overthrowing our capitalistic government and establishing muslim rule – and you think the DHS is watching this blog.
Your priorities are all confused.
Chas ran away to hide. He got caught making a stupid untrue comment.
(I wonder if DHS was monitoring this website when Bush was president? Do you suppose there are people at DHS laughing?)
No particlar reason but I like the story. Mitch McConnell rose in the Sentate last month to read the horrible wait times suffered by those in Ontario quoting supposedly from reliable statictics. Seems the town he metioned was the home town of the leader of the Conservative Party in the Canadian Senate Sen. Segal who sent a cordial letter to a “fellow senator” pointing out his home town has about 100,000 people, the seat of a very rural area in Eastern Ontario where the medical ammenities were not a plentiful as say, Toronto. He then tore into the wait times listed proving them wrong/bloated and noted that for stones surgery the time waits were interesting in that they are not removed by surgery but smashed by sound impulse then passed by the patient and he pointed out that the times noted for joint repacement included the therapy or weight loss time frames needed to be a good candidate. As a closer, he said that life span expectancy in Ontario is 80 years in Kentucky, 75. This is anecdotal I know and something called The Voice of the Oppostion a “real” Canadian conservative group has a different take on Sen Segal and his letter but I still like the incident.
Just this afternoon, President Obama, speaking at a children’s hospital, responded to Senator DeMint’s comment. Here are his inspiring words:
“Think about that. This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses and breaking America’s economy. And we can’t afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time, not now. There are too many lives and livelihoods at stake.”
[Obama - This Afternoon]
President Obama has announced three bedrock requirements for real health care reform:
Reduce Costs — Rising health care costs are crushing the budgets of governments, businesses, individuals and families and they must be brought under control
Guarantee Choice — Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor – including the choice of a public insurance option
Ensure Quality Care for All — All Americans must have quality and affordable health care
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/organizingforhealthcarevid?source=20090720_dnc
American_Way
Posted July 20, 2009 at 5:33 pm | Permalink
“AmWay, you realize do you not, that we are still operating on the final BUSH budget, approved LAST YEAR???”
Hello Chas? You were lying, I mean saying…?
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WHERE is the lie, numbskull?? The NEW budget hasnt yet been passed… We are still operating under last year’s budget… And GW Bush was Still PRES. LAST YEAR…
Right???
Should be good to see you try to refute that statement….
As for your other alleged lie??? When is asking a question an untrue statement??
I wonder of DHS is watching???
Obama had no respect, he gets no respect.
“The tactic worked and Bono managed to get by with only an awkward-looking handshake. The incident seemingly went unnoticed by those in attendance — everyone, that it, except for then-Senator Barack Obama. “When I sat down I was sitting beside senator Obama,” Bono told Ross. “And he just said ‘nice work with the hug dodge.’”
Chas
Posted July 20, 2009 at 7:05 pm
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Chas,
Obama is full of schitt.
““AmWay, you realize do you not, that we are still operating on the final BUSH budget, approved LAST YEAR???”
Try again to get through the tinfoil:
No we are operating under the 2009 Omnibus Budget.
This budget was approved by both chambers of the 111th US Congress – and signed into law by Barack Obama.
Each year there is an appropriations process to fund the federal government for the coming fiscal year, and then often a large omnibus bill is passed to fund the various government agencies that were not included in the regular appropriations process, for whatever reason (often political reasons). An Omnibus bill is also an oft used vehicle for Congressmen to add special earmarks for their own districts.
Breaking News About the 2009 Omnibus Bill:
3/11/2009 Presented to President Obama – The President signs the bill saying “I am signing an imperfect omnibus bill because it’s necessary for the ongoing functions of government”
3/10/2009 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote – Cleared for White House
3/5/2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said tonight that he was one vote short of the votes needed for cloture. Therefore, the cloture motion on the bill was withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. Note: Cloture is used to stop an opposing filibuster. It takes 60 votes to shut off debate and move to final passage.
2/25/2009 The Bill is Passed/agreed to in the House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 245 – 178 (Roll no. 86).
2/23/2009 The 2009 Omnibus bill is introduced in House by Dave Obey (D-WI), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
The 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act totals about $410 billion and covers funding for fiscal year 2009 for the nine federal agencies that were not funded under the regular appropriations process last year.
We are sailing away under Obama at the helm.
“We are still operating under last year’s budget…”
Chas, whose signature is on the budget we are currently operating on?
I believe you will find it is BHO.
Actually, Hud & AmWay —
The Budget fot fidcal 2009 was BUSH’S budget…
Yhat omnibus package was necessary to continue givernment operations… Bush signed off on the fiscal year 2009 BUDGET… BHO signed the omnibus bill… And they are two DIFFERENT DOCUMENTS…
OBAMA has not yet presented his fiscal budger 2010 yet…
Do try to keep up
Yes Chas, do try.
As posted: “The 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act totals about $410 billion and covers funding for fiscal year 2009 for the nine federal agencies that were not funded under the regular appropriations process last year.”
So no, we are not operating under the Bush budget – we are operating under what remains of the Bush budget and the Obama budget approved by his Congress.
Don’t even try to say that is what you meant by your first post on the subject. This debt and budget are all Obama’s. Four times the debt of the Bush budget.
“BHO signed the omnibus bill…”
Chas, I am wondering if you understand what an omnibus bill is.
I know what it is… Do you, Hud??
AmWay, Did BUSH present a budget to Congress in 2008, or didnt he?? THAT is the issue you are avoiding…
Regular
Posted July 20, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Permalink
Did you forget Velcro?
A boon to every 3-4 year old who hasn’t figured out how to tie their shoes. :)
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And old men who have forgotten how.
Criminals, Let Em Go Free To Commit More Crime! ‘Justice’ In America
Suspect, victim had past violence
BY RON SYLVESTER
The Wichita Eagle
Yusef Samad pleaded with a judge in February to let him off probation early, saying he’d become a better father and learned not to take the mother of his children for granted.
Samad, 31, returned to Sedgwick County District Court Wednesday to face charges that he killed that same woman and endangered one of their children.
In the past two years, court records show, Samad has displayed a history of severe mental illnesses, which Mechelle Reed said fueled violence in their relationship.
Reed was stabbed to death Sunday.
Prosecutors charged Samad Wednesday with first-degree murder, aggravated burglary and two counts of violating a protective order.
Reed had filed a protection from abuse order in May, just months after she’d refused to testify against Samad for making threats against her. They had two children together and she had a third child.
http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-courts/story/893277.html
I don’t go places like this where I might need a gun:
Robber forces pair to take him to QT
By Conor Shine
The Wichita Eagle
Two people were robbed and then forced to drive their assailant to a QuikTrip to exchange coins for cash in an incident that took place early Wednesday, according to police.
Around 12:05 a.m., a man knocked on the door of the two victims, who live in an apartment complex at 8406 E. Harry, according to a police report.
One of the victims, a 21-year-old man, opened the door and the suspect entered, asking for money and showing the 21-year-old and an 18-year-old woman a handgun tucked in his waistband.
The man took some cash and change from the couple and then forced them to drive him to the QuikTrip at the corner of Harry and Webb, police spokesman Gordon Bassham said.
The suspect exchanged the change for cash before forcing the couple to drive him back to the apartment complex. He then fled.
Police described the suspect as a bald black man, 5-foot-10, 150 pounds, with a gold tooth. The man was about 38 years old and was wearing a blue-and-white plaid shirt and black pants.
http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-courts/story/893320.html
I don’t go places like this where I might need a gun:
Police seek help solving beating death
By Conor Shine
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita police are asking the public for help in the unsolved slaying of Craig Barns.
Police found Barns, 27, slumped over in the 800 block of North Edgemoor around 1 a.m. on May 9, Lt. Ken Landwehr said Wednesday.
Barns had been beaten. He died later that day at a local hospital from injuries sustained in the beating.
A witness in the area said Barns was walking down the street when a small, dark blue or black Chevrolet pulled up next to him. The driver of the car got out and beat Barns before driving off, Landwehr said.
Barns did not live in the area where he was found, Landwehr said, but a stolen black Acura that Barns had been seen driving in the previous month was found nearby.
Landwehr said Barns was a known auto thief and may have been casing the area. It is unknown if the beating was related to any theft by Barns.
This is the fourth unsolved homicide of 2009.
http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-courts/story/893272.html
I Don’t Need To Defend Myself, I Simply Dial 911
If you call 911, how long will it take?
BY HURST LAVIANA AND TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
It was a slow Friday night, and dispatcher Elora Randleas was monitoring the Wichita Police Department’s east side officers. A 911 “call-taker” answered a call at 10 p.m. involving a disturbance with a tire iron outside an apartment complex near Harry and Rock Road.
It took 37 seconds for the call-taker to forward the call to Randleas through the 911 computer system. It took 42 seconds for Randleas to dispatch the call to Officer Erik Guzman, who was assigned to beat 33 in the city’s Planeview neighborhood. An officer patrolling the adjoining beat 36 also was dispatched.
It was a Priority 1 call — a disturbance with a weapon — that police deem “urgent.” Police say these calls should be dispatched in three minutes or less.
Wichita police records show that response times last year varied from just over seven minutes in downtown Wichita to more than 15 minutes on the fringes of the city.
Police figures show that the longest response times — about 33 minutes — occur on weekdays between 3 and 5 p.m. On weekends, response times are nearly that long between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Response times are shortest — about seven minutes — on any day between 5 and 7 a.m.
…In some cities, he said, burglaries are such a low priority that officers don’t respond to them. In Wichita, a burglary is a Priority 2 call that must be dispatched within seven minutes of being received.
http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-courts/story/896946.html
(See article for avg response times in your neighbhorhood)
“Did BUSH present a budget to Congress in 2008, or didnt he?? THAT is the issue you are avoiding…”
House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey, D-Wis., today introduced a $410 billion omnibus spending bill to fund most federal agencies through the remainder of this fiscal year, which is nearly half over.
Debate is expected to begin Wednesday in the House. All departments except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs have been operating since October under a continuing resolution (CR) that held funding to 2008 levels. The CR expires March 6.
http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3960195
Chas
Posted July 20, 2009 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
You’re right Daniel… They actually WANT Obama and our Nation to FAIL!!! I wonder if the DHS is watching these postings??
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Chas, you are using a failed argument again.
Government Health Care:
Airman Loses Legs in Botched Gallbladder Surgery, Future of Career Uncertain
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534050,00.html?test=latestnews
Government Health Care: Coming to a Country Near You!
Now you will be able to call an 800 number or go Online to get healthcare in Britain. (Doctors are not available.)
Their health care system is too busy and doesn’t have the capacity to see all the patients. So, have a LIVE CHAT or PHONE CALL with a 22-year old college drop-out phone/email solicitor, INSTEAD of seeing your doctor.
Pandemic flu service to go live
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8159316.stm ”
A national flu service will be launched later this week in England to relieve the pressure on the health service. Health Secretary Andy Burnham said the phone and website service will be able to provide flu diagnosis and access to drugs without the need to go to GPs.
He also defended the government against claims from opposition parties that the service was a month late. He said the government had wanted to wait until the health service was under intense pressure before acting.
But with these latest figures and drawing on advice from the field we have now reached a point where this service is required.
“To act any sooner would have been a distraction to health staff dealing with it.”
Chas is just ret@rded.
Argue with him for fun.
Deputies: Murderer Shot SC Officer
Authorities: Kidnapper Convicted Of Killing Tenn. Man
GAFFNEY, S.C. — Police have released the identity of a man accused of kidnapping and shooting a Cherokee County deputy.
Sheriff Bill Blanton told FOX Carolina that 52-year-old Jerry Douglas Case, of Gastonia, N.C., is the man accused in the shooting.
Before his name was released, Blanton told FOX Carolina that Case had a lengthy criminal history, had previously been convicted of murder and had, at one point, been sentenced to death.
“There is no explanation for how someone with Mr. Case’s criminal history should ever be out of prison,” Seventh Circuit Solicitor Trey Gowdy told FOX Carolina.
“He was convicted of murder in 1992 and he’s out of jail — that’s outrageous,” Gowdy said.
Case is currently paroled under a scholastic and vocational parole program designed to help inmates acclimatize to society, despite his previous sentences.
Blanton spoke with FOX Carolina and explained that Case has a grisly record that includes a previous kidnapping conviction.
According to the Gaston Gazette, Case received the death sentence on March 29, 1986, for the stabbing death of Knoxville, Tenn., cab driver Franklin D. Gorlay.
The paper reported that case pleaded guilty to first-degree murder so his girlfriend and accomplice, Telina Clontz, would receive a lighter punishment. A new trial was ordered in November 1991 and the state Supreme Court eventually ruled in 1992 that Case could not barter his life, according to the Gaston Gazette.
Eventually, Case received a life sentence in August 1992 for second-degree murder, the paper reported.
http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/20100144/detail.html
ANTI
Posted July 20, 2009 at 9:09 pm | Permalink
Chas is just ret@rded.
Argue with him for fun.
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Chazz is the one playing the banjo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY
2009 omnibus bill introduced; first votes to occur this week
By REBECCA NEAL
February 23, 2009
House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey, D-Wis., today introduced a $410 billion omnibus spending bill to fund most federal agencies through the remainder of this fiscal year, which is nearly half over.
The bill would give large plus-ups to numerous agencies, halt all public-private job competitions, end the IRS’ use of private debt collectors to collect back taxes, and beef up staffs at many regulatory agencies.
Debate is expected to begin Wednesday in the House. All departments except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs have been operating since October(2008) under a continuing resolution (CR) that held funding to 2008 levels. The CR expires March 6. (Parenthesis mine)
Among the agencies slated for big increases in the bill, HR 1105: the Census Bureau, FBI, food safety agencies, Social Security Administration and the Energy Department.
The Census Bureau would receive $3.1 billion under the omnibus, $1.9 billion above 2008 funding, to prepare for the 2010 census.
The FBI would receive $7.1 billion, which is $715 million above 2008. That includes $3.8 billion for national security, including hiring 280 new agents and 271 new intelligence analysts.
The Food and Drug Administration would get $2 billion, $335 million above 2008. The Food Safety and Inspection Service would get $972 million, $41 million above 2008.
The Social Security Administration would get $10.5 billion, $709 million above 2008, to speed up claims processing and reduce the backlog of disability claims.
The Energy Department would receive $27 billion, $2.7 billion more than 2008, to build on efforts in the recently signed economic stimulus package to improve clean energy production. It includes $140 million for research into creating more energy-efficient buildings.
Federal building projects will also receive an infusion of cash, with $8.4 billion allocated for the General Services Administration’s Federal Buildings Fund. Funding includes $746 million for new construction and $692 million for building repairs.
Among other agencies slated for increases:
• Drug Enforcement Administration: $1.9 billion, an $84 million increase above 2008.
• Environmental Protection Agency: $7.9 billion, $174 million increase.
• Indian Health Service, $3.6 billion, $235 million increase.
• NASA: $17.8 billion, $385 million increase.
• National Institutes of Health, $30.3 billion for disease research, $938 million increase.
• National Science Foundation: $6.5 billion, $363 million increase.
The bill significantly cuts funding for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a government program aimed at improving life in the world’s poorest countries. The program would receive $875 million, $669 million below 2008 levels, due to slow program implementation.
Gosh Chas, at 9:24 you basically admitted that you were wrong.
It’s pretty obvious Bush signed the Continuing Resolution, in October, 2008…
The Omnibus bill was a House Resolution -Omnibus Bill – that continues the Continuing Resolution(CR) from Bush’s fiscal year 2009 Budget…
Noswk, if y’all want to snark on simple facts, then there is no use of even pretending to have any discussion…
Probably not much use of that, since the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget is about ready to be presented…
Gotta go y’all… got bags to pack for an out of town trip…. Have a nice evening!!
“Chazz is the one playing the banjo.” [Johnson]
Can YOU play a banjo, Johnson?? Hmmmm????
I think Chas has 6 fingers on each hand, that explains the rampant typos and ALL CAPS.
Freaking Hillbilly.
Chas
Posted July 20, 2009 at 9:37 pm | Permalink
“Chazz is the one playing the banjo.” [Johnson]
Can YOU play a banjo, Johnson?? Hmmmm????
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Not like you do!!!!
LOL!
The First Law of Franken? Increase Number of Service Dogs Available to Veterans
Franken wrote in an opinion published Monday in the Star Tribune that his proposed pilot program will train “a statistically significant number of dogs” for veterans living with devastating injuries sustained on the battlefield.
FOXNews.com
Monday, July 20, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/20/franken-looks-increase-number-service-dogs-veterans-legislation/
While the house is burning and falling down all around us, AL FRANKEN is trying to change a light bulb that burnt out.
Relax America! Al Franken is here to save us now!
Woof!
Franken’s Program Cost:
$25,000 per Dog!
Service dogs for the injured vets! What a great idea. Inexpensive and very effective. And they will supply more support for the vets than the above poster.
Dad: “Say kids, whatta ya say we sell Ole Yeller?”
Kids: “No way Dad! Bah bah bah, wah, wah, wah!”
Dad: “We can get $25,000 by sellin Ole Yeller.”
Kids: “$25,000?”
Dad: “Yup.”
Kids: “See ya Ole Yeller! Time to go to your happy NEW home now!”
Woooof!