They have no clue

This Administration has but US(American Citizens) in grave danger.
The policies of appeasement and of how America is to blame for those who seek to destroy US.

I am appalled that they the ( President and his Administration ) would kowtow to the tinpot Dictators of the world.

They have no CLUE!

I repeat they have no Clue!

N. Korea launches additional missile into East Sea: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2009/05/27/69/0301000000AEN20090527001300315F.HTML

And you thought you were taken to the cleaners............

And you thought you were taken to the cleaners............................Get ready to hand in your soap ..................................American people are gonna be taken to the CLEANERS....the Washers.....the give everything to your Government....Taxes out the noes, ears, toes, butt..In fact hang on to to your seats.....For taxes are going to come your way that you never thought that you could be taxed on.


President Barack Obama will unveil new fuel efficiency standards today in an effort to limit the release of greenhouse gases by cars and trucks.

The announcement is the result of the administration’s work with states, businesses and environmental groups on a deal.

California, 13 other states and the District of Columbia have urged the federal government to let them pass more stringent standards than the................................

Good example comes from this site: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1184486/The-end-great-American-gas-guzzler-Obama-gets-set-unveil-toughest-U-S-policy-fuel-efficiency.html

and of course this site where those that pay Credit Cards on-time will be charged Interest each time they use their cards now so they they can pay for those who are deadbeats and run their Cards up to the limit and won't pay!

Get ready:
Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers

By ANDREW MARTIN

Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards, frequent-flier............................
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/19credit.html

Dems red-faced over veteran imposter

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12373595

Democrats are incensed over how a man duped the party and veterans during the '08 campaign.

By Michael Riley
The Denver Post

Posted: 05/15/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT

Updated: 05/16/2009 04:25:01 PM MDT

WASHINGTON — Rick Strandlof, executive director of the Colorado Veterans Alliance and the man most colleagues knew as Rick Duncan, was front and center during the 2008 political campaigns in Colorado.

He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org.

And the mostly Democratic candidates he supported — looking for credibility on veterans issues and the war — lapped it up appreciatively.

Now, politicians are dealing with news that the man they believed to be a former Marine and war veteran wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb, in fact, never served in the military — but did spend time in a mental hospital.

Many of the candidates he supported won their elections handily and now say they were defrauded as much as anyone else.

"His fraud is a slap in the face to veterans everywhere and a betrayal to us all," Rep. Polis, a Boulder Democrat, said in a written statement Thursday.

"It sounds like this man had a problem telling the truth and needs help," said Tara Trujillo, a spokeswoman for Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.

There is little doubt that Strandlof had a remarkable ability to fool people, something aided by the fact that among his fabrications was his claim that he suffered a severe brain injury, which helped cover behavior that associates now concede was often erratic and strange.

But there were also plenty of signs during much of the time Strandlof was working on behalf of candidates for anyone watching carefully.

CVA wasn't registered as a political organization until well after the campaigns were over, and then only at the state level despite being active in federal campaigns.

And although he claimed to represent 32,000 veterans — the biggest post- 9/11 vets group in Colorado — Strandlof always showed up at events with the same small number of supporters, and there were few concrete signs he represented more than a close circle he had gathered around him.

"Nobody really fully trusted any of those numbers. . . . He had a few dozen people who were helping him out. He claimed to have a huge mailing list that no one ever saw. The VFW, the American Legion, none of those traditional veterans groups had ever heard of him," said one prominent veterans activist who worked for Democratic candidates during the campaign and who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"The veterans community was very protective over him because he had portrayed himself as a wounded veteran. This is someone who claimed spending 18 months undergoing physical rehabilitation after suffering debilitating injuries. . . . You don't go at somebody like that hard," the activist said. "Perhaps we learned a good lesson here."

Republicans say the candidates Strandlof supported are either disingenuous or incompetent.

"I think they owe the people in Colorado an apology," said Dick Wadhams, the state GOP chairman. "Somebody who took that kind of prominence in the campaign should have been vetted by the Democrats. Even if they have no idea he was a fraud, I think they bear heavy responsibility."

Strandlof did manage to fool at least one Republican.

Strandlof was on the veterans advisory board for Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs in 2007, and he resigned, saying he didn't support the Republican administration's stance on the war.

And Wadhams, who directed Schaffer's campaign, said that Republicans missed a chance as well to uncover Strandlof, conceding that if his fraud had been revealed during the campaign, it would have "severely hurt Udall and other Democrats."

Representatives for both Udall and Polis said Strandlof didn't directly work or volunteer for either campaign.

In Udall's case, Strandlof appeared in an ad paid for by an independent political group that was legally barred from communicating or coordinating with the Democrat's campaign. (Jon Soltz, head of Votevets.org., said in a statement that his group usually checks the credentials of veterans used in ads but didn't in this case "because he was already a well-established leader of a veterans group in Colorado.")

In Polis' case, the relationship was closer. Strandlof and his group co-hosted what his staff described as "a handful" of events with Polis, including a party highlighting a "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq" held during the Democratic National Convention.

"There is a lot of hearsay, and Rick Duncan claims he's best buddies with Jared — which is not true," said Polis spokeswoman Lara Cottingham. She said Strandlof came to the campaign offering help, and they were glad to have it.

The Polis and Udall campaigns emphasize that Strandlof was a bizarre exception to the outpouring of help they received from veterans disillusioned with Bush-era policies.

"His actions in no way reflect on the credibility of real veterans who supported Mark's campaign or on the importance of their issues," said Trujillo, Udall's spokeswoman.

According to The Associated Press, CVA's board on Wednesday night decided that the group would disband in the wake of news that Duncan was actually Strandlof.

Rent-A-Husband

Well, ever since the terrible husband fire of 75', women just cant seem to afford husbands anymore. The number of good available men dropped, and the demand for husbands went through the roof. But now, thanks to rent a husband, every woman can get a good husband whenever they need one.

Well it is a thought anyway.......Chuckling

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Ann Coulter.....One of top conservatives

Only the second of those alleged facts is true: The president's release of the Department of Justice interrogation memos undoubtedly hurt America's image abroad, as we are snickered at in capitals around the world, where they know what real torture is. The Arabs surely view these memos as a pack of lies. What about the pills Americans have to turn us gay?

The techniques used against the most stalwart al-Qaida members, such as Abu Zubaydah, included one terrifying procedure referred to as "the attention grasp." As described in horrifying detail in the Justice Department memo, the "attention grasp" consisted of:

"(G)rasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion. In the same motion as the grasp, the individual is drawn toward the interrogator."

The end............................... Read more: http://www.anncoulter.com/

Good riddance Sen. Arlen Specter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042801523_pf.html

By Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:43 PM

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch parties and run for reelection in November 2010 as a Democrat, he announced today, a decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for the Senate and President Obama's agenda.

Specter told reporters that he received a "bleak" poll Friday from his advisers that showed virtually no chance of him winning in the GOP primary next spring against Pat Toomey, a former Republican House member who recently led the conservative Club for Growth.

He said that the loss of several hundred thousand GOP voters who left the party in 2008 to vote in the Democratic presidential primary left the Pennsylvania Republican Party too conservative to support a moderate such as him. "I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican Party," Specter said.

After more than 28 years in the Senate, Specter acknowledged he was "not prepared to have that record" obliterated by the conservative primary electorate. He reached the decision over the weekend in consultation with his family and top aides, many of whom are staying with him despite his party switch.

He said informed Republican and Democratic Senate leaders about dinnertime last night.

The move brings Democrats to 59 seats in the Senate, just one shy of the 60 they need to exert filibuster-proof control over the chamber. In Minnesota, Democrat Al Franken holds a 312-vote lead over former senator Norm Coleman (R), but Coleman has appealed the result to the state Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case are expected to begin in June.

Nonetheless, Specter remains an independent voice on many issues, opposing a union organizing bill that is key to many labor groups and rejecting Obama's choice to run a key legal advisory section of the Justice Department. "I will not be an automatic 60th vote," he said.

Specter's announcement, coming on the eve of Obama's 100th day in office, sent shockwaves through political circles.

Specter called the White House this morning to inform Obama of his decision but the president was busy getting his daily economic briefing. When he received a note shortly afterward that Specter was switching parties, the president quickly returned the call, recalled a top adviser who was in the room at the time.

Specter said he received the president's full blessing to run in the Democratic primary largely uncontested next April. "He said he would support me, come to Pennsylvania to campaign for me," Specter said.

Vice President Biden, a long-time friend of Specter's who had counseled him about switching parties, issued a statement late this afternoon saying, "I welcome my old friend to the Democratic Party. Senator Arlen Specter is a man of remarkable courage and integrity. I know he will remain a powerful and independent voice for Pennsylvania and the country."

Republicans immediately sought to cast Specter's move as nothing more than the politics of self-preservation. "Let's be honest -- Senator Specter didn't leave the GOP based on principles of any kind," said Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. "He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Specter told him last night that he was likely to make the shift, then called the Democratic leader this morning to confirm that his decision was final. Reid credited Biden for playing an important behind-the-scenes role in softening Specter's resistance. Reid also said he and Specter "have had a long dialogue about his place in an evolving Republican Party" and praised his willingness to "work in a bipartisan manner, put people over party, and do what is right for Pennsylvanians and all Americans."

Specter will receive his seniority among Democrats as if he had been elected as a Democrat in 1980, when he rode into office on the coattails of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. That effectively means Specter will become chairman of a key subcommittee on the Appropriations Committee, probably the one overseeing the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services. Specter also acknowledged that becoming full appropriations committee chairman -- something that could take another six to 10 years -- "is something I'd like to attain."

As the Senate was wrapping up a procedural vote on popular anti-fraud legislation yesterday evening -- a vote forced upon the chamber by a bloc of hard-line Senate conservatives -- Specter stood by the doorway at the north end of the chamber leading to Reid's office suite on the second floor of the Capitol. According to a Democratic observer, Reid and Specter left the chamber together, entering the majority leader's offices for a private huddle in which Specter confirmed the party switch.

After making the announcement today, Specter turned aside all questions from reporters as he cast a vote on the Senate floor, then joined his wife Joan and son Shanin in the Senate dining room for lunch. He then made a five-minute appearance in the weekly Republican luncheon in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room, off the Senate floor, where his entrance was greeted with a stony silence.

Specter's political standing in Pennsylvania has become increasingly tenuous in recent years. His track record as a moderate combined with the shrinking Republican base in the Keystone State were likely to make a general election difficult, and Toomey, who came within two points of defeating Specter in the 2004 primary, is running again. Polling showed him with a double-digit edge over Specter in a GOP primary.

The move was the latest blow to an already staggering GOP. Senate Republican leaders appeared ashen at a press conference this afternoon. "Obviously, we are not happy that Senator Specter has decided to become a Democrat," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Flanked by GOP colleagues who stared straight ahead, McConnell said Specter visited him in his Senate office late yesterday afternoon "and told me quite candidly that he'd been informed by his pollster that it would be impossible for him to be reelected in Pennsylvania as a Republican because he could not win the primary; and he was also informed by his pollster that he could not get elected as an independent, and indicated that he had decided to become a Democrat."

Grasping for some positive spin on an otherwise catastrophic setback, McConnell warned that Specter's defection could cripple Republican efforts "to restrain the excess that is typically associated with big majorities and single-party rule." He said the pressure would shift to Democrats from conservative states to provide the checks and balances that Senate Republicans would now struggle to provide.

McConnell rejected Specter's assertion that the Republican Party had shifted so far to the right that moderate lawmakers were no longer viable candidates in swing states. "This is not a national story. This is a Pennsylvania story," McConnell said. He said Specter "came to our meeting and talked to us, indicated to me yesterday . . . and again this morning, that he didn't have any problem whatsoever with the way he'd been treated by the Republican conference here in the Senate."

Other moderate Republicans acknowledged they, too, have been approached about changing parties. Sen. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, the Maine Republicans who along with Specter provided the three pivotal votes for Obama's $787 billion stimulus legislation, both said today they have been approached. Neither would comment about how recent the overtures were, although Collins said she has been asked roughly four times during her 12 years in the Senate to consider becoming a Democrat.

"It's something I would never do," she said.

Snowe called Specter's decision "devastating news" for Republicans, particularly Northeastern Republicans who have almost vanished in the Senate during the past decade. "Many Republicans feel alienated and disaffected from the party," Snowe said. "It just helps nourish a culture of exclusion and alienation."

Snowe recalled then-Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, who switched from being a Republican to an independent caucusing with Democrats in 2001. That was a more dramatic switch that flipped power from Republicans to Democrats in the chamber. "Frankly, the party never woke up from that event," she said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a prominent conservative who was John McCain's staunchest supporter in his 2008 GOP presidential campaign, warned that the party has become regionalized in its mentality. "We have to find places in the party for people who couldn't win in South Carolina," he told reporters.

In his remarks to reporters, Specter flashed one brief moment of anger when asked about the role the national Republican Party played in his decision, suggesting his rematch against Toomey will be one filled with a personal vendetta.

He complained about inaction by GOP leaders in Washington when social and fiscal conservatives -- largely funded by the group Club for Growth -- challenged moderate Republicans in primaries. He cited four different races in which the Club for Growth had weighed in and helped a conservative challenger. Each of those seats -- in Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico and Rhode Island -- is now held by a Democrat.

"There ought to be a rebellion, there ought to be an uprising," he said.

Senior White House officials said the decision to switch was Specter's, and he was not lobbied heavily by members of Obama's administration.

"Everyone wanted to give him the space to work things out for himself," a top White House aide said. "We did not dispatch anyone with a basket of goodies."

The one exception was the vice president. In the 10 weeks since the president signed the stimulus bill, Biden has met with Specter face-to-face six times and talked on the phone at least eight times, advisers said.

People close to Biden said the vice president has been urging Specter to make the switch for years. But they said the conversations intensified during the past several weeks as Biden watched political developments in Pennsylvania.

"They certainly talked about the fact that both the vice president and the president would be happy to go to bat for Sen. Specter in every way possible," a top adviser to Biden said.

As Biden pressed his case, aides said he "regularly informed" Obama about the conversations, telling the president recently that he was cautiously optimistic about the prospects.

" 'I talked to Arlan,' " Biden would tell the president, one aide recalled. " 'Still working on him. Still working on him.' [Obama] was obviously aware," the aide recalled.

Specter tried to call Biden early this morning to inform him before news leaked. But aides said the two were unable to connect because Biden was in Texas for an event at the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center.

They talked later in the day.

It was not immediately clear what Specter's decision would do to the Democratic field in next year's Senate race in Pennsylvania. Joe Torsella, the former head of the National Constitution Center, was already seeking the Democratic nomination and raised roughly $600,000 for his bid in the first three months of 2009.

Toomey becomes the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee. Toomey held the competitive 15th district for three terms before giving up his seat to challenge Specter in the 2004 primary. He is a favorite of conservatives in the state, but it remains unclear how competitive he will be given the clear advantage Democrats now enjoy in Pennsylvania.

Assuming the court sides with Franken in Minnesota, it will mark the first time since the 95th Congress -- 1977 to 1979 -- that Democrats have controlled 60 or more Senate seats.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement that the GOP would seek to make the 2010 election a referendum on whether voters wanted Democrats to have unchecked control of Congress. "While this presents a short-term disappointment, voters next year will have a clear choice to cast their ballots for a potentially unbridled Democrat super-majority versus the system of checks-and-balances that Americans deserve," Cornyn said. Earlier this month, Cornyn wrote a letter to Pennsylvania Republicans urging them to rally around Specter, calling him the only GOP nominee who could hold the seat.

Fixing The Economy !!!!!

This is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday.

The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?"

I think this guy nailed it!

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 and their constituents pay their taxes....

OBAMA PLANE PHOTO OP

A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan this morning, panicking New Yorkers, many of whom were forced to evacuate their office buildings.
It was not a terrorist attack, however, but a photo opportunity for Air Force One, sources told the Post.

Now I ask this: How low can they go? It cost $70,000.00 an hour to operated the fighter jet and all for a photo op..while Americans are hurting.....getting laid off..losing their jobs.....and trying to put food on the table and and providing and taking care of their families!
Yes how low can they go?!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/news/regionalnews/obama_plane_photo_op_startles_new_yorker_166470.htm

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Grand Children will be deep in debt

Here are those who will have to pay for what the idiots in Congress are saddling them with.
Yes I am talking about the debt that they will be saddled with.
These low life's are saddling my grand kids as well as all the rest of America's grand kids with unimaginable debt that they will have to pay back.