Remember how The One told us his administration would be the most transparent in history? Remember how Bubba told us his administration would be the most ethical in history? When I hear nonsense like this my antennae go sky high in a heartbeat. It's the same when I hear a politician say, "I'm going to fight for you" What a crock!
Regardless, Obama told us he would never sign a bill until five days after passage and we would all get a chance to read it. Well, that nugget has already been broken with the equal pay for women act. Democrats, today, neglected to allow their constituents the honor of having the ability to read on-line the bills presented. Wonder why? It isn't that long ago, 9/12 as a matter of fact that hundreds of thousands marched on D.C. There's a rumor going around on twitter tonight that the Democrats are going to cram through health care by using some serious shenanigans.
Rise up citizens!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Poverty In America
Below are listed the most poverty stricken cities in the nation according to the Buffalo Business Investors magazine through the U.S. Census Bureau. I don't know what crteria was used to deterime the statics. I always do pay attention to those communites controlled by the Democrats. One would have to go a long way down the list to find a city not made a victim through the failures of the "Great Society" programs of the 1960's and beyond.
1. Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
2. Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
3. Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
4. Newark, 26.1% in poverty
5. Miami, 25.6% in poverty
6. Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
7. Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
8. Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
9. El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
10. Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
11. Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
12. Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
13. St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty
14. Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
14. New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
16. Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
17. Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
18. Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
19. Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
20. Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
21. Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
22. Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
23. Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
24. Houston, 19.5% in poverty
25. Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty
26. Baltimore, 19.3% in poverty
27. San Antonio, 19.2% in poverty
28. Phoenix, 18.9% in poverty
29. Boston, 18.7% in poverty
30. Denver, 18.4% in poverty
30. St. Paul, 18.4% in poverty
32. Tulsa, 18.3% in poverty
33. New York City, 18.2% in poverty
34. Tampa, 17.8% in poverty
35. Santa Ana, Calif., 17.6% in poverty
36. Nashville, 17.5% in poverty
36. Oakland, 17.5% in poverty
38. Corpus Christi, Texas, 17.2% in poverty
38. Washington, 17.2% in poverty
40. Austin, 17.0% in poverty
41. Bakersfield, Calif., 16.7% in poverty
42. Fort Worth, 16.6% in poverty
43. Indianapolis, 16.4% in poverty
43. Kansas City, 16.4% in poverty
43. Oklahoma City, 16.4% in poverty
46. Greensboro, 16.2% in poverty
47. Louisville, 16.1% in poverty
47. Sacramento, 16.1% in poverty
49. Lexington, Ky., 15.6% in poverty
50. Aurora, Colo., 15.4% in poverty
51. Albuquerque, 15.0% in poverty
51. Omaha, 15.0% in poverty
53. Portland, Ore., 14.4% in poverty
53. San Diego, 14.4% in poverty
55. Glendale, Ariz., 14.3% in poverty
55. Wichita, 14.3% in poverty
57. Fort Wayne, Ind., 13.5% in poverty
57. Riverside, Calif., 13.5% in poverty
59. Raleigh, 13.3% in poverty
60. Anaheim, Calif., 13.1% in poverty
61. Las Vegas, 12.6% in poverty
62. Charlotte, 12.0% in poverty
63. Jacksonville, 11.9% in poverty
64. Colorado Springs, 11.8% in poverty
64. Lincoln, Neb., 11.8% in poverty
66. Mesa, Ariz., 11.7% in poverty
67. Seattle, 11.6% in poverty
68. Arlington, Texas, 11.3% in poverty
69. San Francisco, 11.0% in poverty
70. Honolulu, 10.8% in poverty
71. San Jose, 8.9% in poverty
72. Henderson, Nev., 7.5% in poverty
73. Plano, Texas, 6.7% in poverty
74. Virginia Beach, 6.5% in poverty
75. Anchorage, 6.4% in poverty
1. Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
2. Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
3. Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
4. Newark, 26.1% in poverty
5. Miami, 25.6% in poverty
6. Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
7. Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
8. Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
9. El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
10. Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
11. Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
12. Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
13. St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty
14. Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
14. New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
16. Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
17. Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
18. Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
19. Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
20. Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
21. Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
22. Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
23. Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
24. Houston, 19.5% in poverty
25. Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty
26. Baltimore, 19.3% in poverty
27. San Antonio, 19.2% in poverty
28. Phoenix, 18.9% in poverty
29. Boston, 18.7% in poverty
30. Denver, 18.4% in poverty
30. St. Paul, 18.4% in poverty
32. Tulsa, 18.3% in poverty
33. New York City, 18.2% in poverty
34. Tampa, 17.8% in poverty
35. Santa Ana, Calif., 17.6% in poverty
36. Nashville, 17.5% in poverty
36. Oakland, 17.5% in poverty
38. Corpus Christi, Texas, 17.2% in poverty
38. Washington, 17.2% in poverty
40. Austin, 17.0% in poverty
41. Bakersfield, Calif., 16.7% in poverty
42. Fort Worth, 16.6% in poverty
43. Indianapolis, 16.4% in poverty
43. Kansas City, 16.4% in poverty
43. Oklahoma City, 16.4% in poverty
46. Greensboro, 16.2% in poverty
47. Louisville, 16.1% in poverty
47. Sacramento, 16.1% in poverty
49. Lexington, Ky., 15.6% in poverty
50. Aurora, Colo., 15.4% in poverty
51. Albuquerque, 15.0% in poverty
51. Omaha, 15.0% in poverty
53. Portland, Ore., 14.4% in poverty
53. San Diego, 14.4% in poverty
55. Glendale, Ariz., 14.3% in poverty
55. Wichita, 14.3% in poverty
57. Fort Wayne, Ind., 13.5% in poverty
57. Riverside, Calif., 13.5% in poverty
59. Raleigh, 13.3% in poverty
60. Anaheim, Calif., 13.1% in poverty
61. Las Vegas, 12.6% in poverty
62. Charlotte, 12.0% in poverty
63. Jacksonville, 11.9% in poverty
64. Colorado Springs, 11.8% in poverty
64. Lincoln, Neb., 11.8% in poverty
66. Mesa, Ariz., 11.7% in poverty
67. Seattle, 11.6% in poverty
68. Arlington, Texas, 11.3% in poverty
69. San Francisco, 11.0% in poverty
70. Honolulu, 10.8% in poverty
71. San Jose, 8.9% in poverty
72. Henderson, Nev., 7.5% in poverty
73. Plano, Texas, 6.7% in poverty
74. Virginia Beach, 6.5% in poverty
75. Anchorage, 6.4% in poverty
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Field Hockey
I tuned into the Big Ten Network to watch a replay of last weeks' Iowa-Arizona football game. What a disappointment to find out the game was replaced with a showing, a replay too, of an Iowa-Michigan women's field hockey game. I watched exactly four minutes of it before I jumped off my rooftop; headfirst. This is not a game. It's torture. Think soccer with sticks and you know the game. The sticks used to hit the balls are too short for the players and they bend over at the waist when running and hitting.
Did you know that field hockey, aka lacrosse, was invented by the Indians? That would be Indians, American style. As I recall it was some time around 1650 AD that two tribes, Algonquin or Iroquois, invited some colonials to watch their match. In those days the hockey sticks weren't fiberglas. They were sticks with a rock on the end. The naive colonists went to the event and, much to their surprise, had their skulls caved in. And that's the truth.
Did you know that field hockey, aka lacrosse, was invented by the Indians? That would be Indians, American style. As I recall it was some time around 1650 AD that two tribes, Algonquin or Iroquois, invited some colonials to watch their match. In those days the hockey sticks weren't fiberglas. They were sticks with a rock on the end. The naive colonists went to the event and, much to their surprise, had their skulls caved in. And that's the truth.
Cuba: Land Of Paradise?
Once again I've been reading and hearing from the nut jobs in Hollywood about how wonderful every day life in Cuba is with their state of the art medical health care system. Forget congresswoman Maxine Watters who seemingly makes a trip to Havana on a weekly basis, her lips stitched to the butt cheeks of the Castro brothers. Most every member of the congressional black caucus thinks there is a utopia 90 miles south of Key West and it's a year round vacation paradise. And then there are the certified boobs; Michael Moore, Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon and her boy toy live-in. There are the flavor of the month Hollywood wannabes who regularly go on Air America and speak to the three or four listeners and get sexually excited shouting the word, 'Che'. They'll brag about dipping their toes in the Cuban beaches teeming with gold and silver. They'll regale us of stories about how they got to ride around town in a deluxe 1957 Chevy, Cuba's vehhicle of choice.
Well, things seem to be changing. Two months ago we were told that come January, maybe December, there will be no toilet paper in the country. Yep! You read that correctly. It's either leaves or grass. Take your pick. Heck! There won't be a reason to toilet train your kids. "Do it on the floor, sweetie", says Mom. I find this almost unimaginable but the following article comes from The Associated Press:
"President Raul Castro is taking a bold gamble to ease communist Cuba's cash crunch by eliminating a costly government lunch program that feeds almost a third of the nation's population every workday.
The Americas' only one-party communist government, held afloat largely by support from its key ally Venezuela, is desperate to improve its budget outlook; the global economy is slack, and Havana is very hard pressed to secure international financing.
Raul Castro, 76, officially took over as Cuba's president in February 2008 after his brother, revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, stepped aside with health problems.
Though some wondered if Raul Castro would try to move Cuba's centralized economy toward more market elements, so far he has sought to boost efficiency and cut corruption and waste without reshaping the economic system.
And so far it has been an uphill battle, something akin to treading water.
But now, Raul Castro has moved to set in motion what will likely be the biggest rollback of an entitlement since Cuba's 1959 revolution -- starting to put an end to the daily lunch program for state workers, as announced Friday in Granma, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper.
In a country where workers earn the average of 17 dollars a month, and state subsidized monthly food baskets are not enough for families, more than 3.5 million Cuban government employees -- out of a total population of 11.2 million -- benefit from the nutritionally significant free meal.
The price tag is a cool 350 million dollars a year, not counting energy costs or facilities maintenance, Granma said.
But that will come to a halt in four ministries experimentally from October 1, Granma said. As workers stream to the 24,700 state lunchrooms, the government "is faced with extremely high state spending due to extremely high international market prices, infinite subsidies and freebies," Granma explained.
Parallel to the cutback, workers will see their salaries boosted by 15 pesos a workday (.60 dollar US) to cover their lunch."
Well, things seem to be changing. Two months ago we were told that come January, maybe December, there will be no toilet paper in the country. Yep! You read that correctly. It's either leaves or grass. Take your pick. Heck! There won't be a reason to toilet train your kids. "Do it on the floor, sweetie", says Mom. I find this almost unimaginable but the following article comes from The Associated Press:
"President Raul Castro is taking a bold gamble to ease communist Cuba's cash crunch by eliminating a costly government lunch program that feeds almost a third of the nation's population every workday.
The Americas' only one-party communist government, held afloat largely by support from its key ally Venezuela, is desperate to improve its budget outlook; the global economy is slack, and Havana is very hard pressed to secure international financing.
Raul Castro, 76, officially took over as Cuba's president in February 2008 after his brother, revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, stepped aside with health problems.
Though some wondered if Raul Castro would try to move Cuba's centralized economy toward more market elements, so far he has sought to boost efficiency and cut corruption and waste without reshaping the economic system.
And so far it has been an uphill battle, something akin to treading water.
But now, Raul Castro has moved to set in motion what will likely be the biggest rollback of an entitlement since Cuba's 1959 revolution -- starting to put an end to the daily lunch program for state workers, as announced Friday in Granma, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper.
In a country where workers earn the average of 17 dollars a month, and state subsidized monthly food baskets are not enough for families, more than 3.5 million Cuban government employees -- out of a total population of 11.2 million -- benefit from the nutritionally significant free meal.
The price tag is a cool 350 million dollars a year, not counting energy costs or facilities maintenance, Granma said.
But that will come to a halt in four ministries experimentally from October 1, Granma said. As workers stream to the 24,700 state lunchrooms, the government "is faced with extremely high state spending due to extremely high international market prices, infinite subsidies and freebies," Granma explained.
Parallel to the cutback, workers will see their salaries boosted by 15 pesos a workday (.60 dollar US) to cover their lunch."
Friday, September 25, 2009
Feinstein: "Humans Are Losers"
From Investors Business Daily:
Senator Dianne Feinstein voted to deny water to California's drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, families and food are being held hostage to an endangered fish called the delta smelt.
There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive agricultural region in the world. It was a large part of what made the Golden State golden.
Now it's a place where farmers no longer farm, but instead line up at food banks to feed the families of those who once fed the rest of the country and a good chunk of the world.
The largest man-made agricultural disaster since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s is unfolding in the valley due to yet another attempt to protect a fish declared to be threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This damage is being done to protect the hypomesus transpacificus, otherwise known as the delta smelt.
Last December the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in its finite wisdom, issued something called a biological opinion imposing water restrictions on the San Joaquin Valley and surrounding areas to protect the habitat of this tiny fish. The authorities forget the species homo sapiens, also part of the ecosystem, is threatened.
Its habitat is being destroyed — by government edict.
To protect the smelt, billions of gallons of water from the mountains east and north of Sacramento have been channeled away from farms and into the ocean, while farmers watched their crops wither and their once-productive land become barren.
Kern County authorities say that 145,000 acres that are usually irrigated with this water were killed or underirrigated last year. The loss was estimated at $100 million in that county alone. The University of California, Davis, estimates that San Joaquin Valley farm revenue losses ranged from $482 million to $647 million. Total economic losses could hit $3 billion this year.
In affected areas, the jobless rate is at 14%, with farming towns such as Mendota experiencing unemployment near 40%. In August, 50 valley mayors signed a letter to President Obama asking him to come and witness the devastation firsthand.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he "doesn't have the authority to turn on the pumps" that the feds have ordered turned off. In June, the administration denied his request to designate California a federal disaster area because of the drought even though the U.S. Drought Monitor lists 43% of the state as being under "severe drought" conditions.
Senator Dianne Feinstein voted to deny water to California's drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, families and food are being held hostage to an endangered fish called the delta smelt.
There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive agricultural region in the world. It was a large part of what made the Golden State golden.
Now it's a place where farmers no longer farm, but instead line up at food banks to feed the families of those who once fed the rest of the country and a good chunk of the world.
The largest man-made agricultural disaster since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s is unfolding in the valley due to yet another attempt to protect a fish declared to be threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This damage is being done to protect the hypomesus transpacificus, otherwise known as the delta smelt.
Last December the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in its finite wisdom, issued something called a biological opinion imposing water restrictions on the San Joaquin Valley and surrounding areas to protect the habitat of this tiny fish. The authorities forget the species homo sapiens, also part of the ecosystem, is threatened.
Its habitat is being destroyed — by government edict.
To protect the smelt, billions of gallons of water from the mountains east and north of Sacramento have been channeled away from farms and into the ocean, while farmers watched their crops wither and their once-productive land become barren.
Kern County authorities say that 145,000 acres that are usually irrigated with this water were killed or underirrigated last year. The loss was estimated at $100 million in that county alone. The University of California, Davis, estimates that San Joaquin Valley farm revenue losses ranged from $482 million to $647 million. Total economic losses could hit $3 billion this year.
In affected areas, the jobless rate is at 14%, with farming towns such as Mendota experiencing unemployment near 40%. In August, 50 valley mayors signed a letter to President Obama asking him to come and witness the devastation firsthand.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he "doesn't have the authority to turn on the pumps" that the feds have ordered turned off. In June, the administration denied his request to designate California a federal disaster area because of the drought even though the U.S. Drought Monitor lists 43% of the state as being under "severe drought" conditions.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
I'm Depressed
P-BO went to the United nations today and did his usual speech. He downgraded the United States while building up his own presence as our President. Barry received great tribute from Mummar Quaddafy, world-wide murderer. The Libyan leader, looking like a villainous character in a Batman movie rambled for over an hour but did let the UN delegates know that he wanted P-BO to be our President, forever.
As for Obama, I'm getting damned sick and tired of his pontificating and denouncing all of America as a bad-bad-bad country. Barry, go away.
Note: There are twenty-one different ways to spell Quaddafy, according to The Madman. In other words, it's impossible to misspell his name.
As for Obama, I'm getting damned sick and tired of his pontificating and denouncing all of America as a bad-bad-bad country. Barry, go away.
Note: There are twenty-one different ways to spell Quaddafy, according to The Madman. In other words, it's impossible to misspell his name.
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