Nugent and hunting, well worth the read
Here is the latest article from the ultimate conservative, politically and environmentally. Ted Nugent.
I hunt because I am a hunter. Clearly such natural participation in God’s miraculous creation is the last perfect, pure and positive environmental activity available to mankind. Balancing the annual wildlife explosion through respectful sustainable yield utility is universally known to be the perfection that it is. Know it, cherish it, celebrate it and by all means, do it. Life is not meant to be a spectator sport, y’all.
Once again, Nuge writes one that is well worth the read.
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Public school utopia at taxpayers expense
Even a severe recession cannot stop school districts from using taxpayer dollars to build their own utopia.
At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire (California) is the most expensive school ever constructed in U.S. history. To put the price in context, this city’s Staples sports and entertainment center cost $375 million. To put it in a more important context, the school district is currently running a $640 million deficit and has had to lay off 3,000 teachers in the last two years. It also has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country and some of the worst test scores.
This is the opening paragraph in Alyssia Finley’s article ‘Broke – and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History’, appearing in today’s Wall Street Journal.
To say the libs offer no apologies for their excesses is an understatement.
I (Alyssia Finley) asked Mr. Rubin (a consultant for the district’s bond oversight committee) whether some of the school’s grandiose features—like florid murals of Robert F. Kennedy—were worth the cost. “Did we have to do that? Hell no. But there’s no accounting for taste,” he responded.
Mr. Rubin might as well tell the taxpayers to shut the hell up because this is what they wanted and there ain’t a damn thing the taxpayers can do about it.
This isn’t the only news to come out recently regarding a school district getting what they want on the taxpayer’s dime.
In Winnetka Illinois, The New Trier school district just opened a daycare facility exclusively for teachers. The cost to taxpayers? A cool half a million dollars. Here is the story: New Trier Daycare Center Raises Eyebrows.
The same school district that had its $174 million renovation referendum roundly defeated by voters just spent more than $500,000 on a daycare facility exclusively for teachers’ kids.
In exchange for their day care center, teachers will work two extra days without pay this year — a $450,000 benefit, the district says. But instructors won’t be in classrooms with kids. Instead, they’ll be in meetings with each other — so-called professional development days.
The school district decides the teachers get their own personal daycare, funded by the taxpayers, in exchange for two days of teachers not teaching. All behind the backs of the folks who are actually paying for it all.
Oh yeah, a lot of these teachers are already making over $100,000 a year. Follow this link to see their salaries for the year 2009: familytaxpayers.org
A couple more examples of public school utopia, funded by the taxpayers.
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Irony at it’s finest
This is the perfect example of how well the “Summer of Recovery” went.
Plank (owner of a pizzaria in Columbus OH) said business has been slow this summer, in part because the road construction makes it hard for customers to reach his restaurant. He hoped to at least capitalize on the day of the president’s visit, but the expected crowds didn’t materialize.
“I hate to say it, but it was our worst Friday we’ve had in 10 years,” Plank said. “I thought there were going to be all kinds of people down there, but I guess there were only 30 to 40 people, and they were all from Washington.”
excerpt from NPR
Ironic how Obama shows up in Columbus to tout the 10,000th project started under his ‘Recovery Act’ and the nearby pizzaria has it’s worse Friday in 10 years.
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Doctors speak out against Obamacare…… again…….
Think doctors are for Obamacare? HAH!!!!
From the website docs4patientcare.org
“Attempting to enact his big-government health care scheme, President Obama and his supporters frequently claimed that a “majority” of doctors supported his health-care plans. When the American Medical Association – which had opposed HillaryCare – signed onto Obama’s plan last year, the organization seemed to make the President’s case. Most people assumed that the AMA represented most of the doctors in the country. But in fact, the AMA represents less than 20 percent of all physicians in the United States. And yet as the organization’s leadership moved more to the left, it held a near monopoly on media attention on issues pertaining to public health. No longer.”
Yup. Doctors are standing up and fighting the government’s so far successful takeover and socialization of America’s health care system. Oh but why, you may ask, would anyone fight the savior’s plan to heal all? Let’s see what Dr. Hal Scherz has to say in this WSJ article Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare
“Dear Patient: Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish care guidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in charge of your health care decisions. This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world.”
Our doctor’s letter points out that, in addition to “badly exacerbating the current doctor shortage,” ObamaCare will bring “major cost increases, rising insurance premiums, higher taxes, a decline in new medical techniques, a fall-off in the development of miracle drugs as well as rationing by government panels and by bureaucrats like passionate rationing advocate Donald Berwick that will force delays of months or sometimes years for hospitalization or surgery.”
Not that it’s the first time doctors have spoken out against Obamacare. As I posted on this site on July 21, 2009 under Mayo Clinic says the Dem’s health care plan sucks, the world renown Mayo Clinic (that ironically attracts leaders of other countries when their own country’s socialized health care system cannot provide the care they need) spoke out against Obamacare while it was in it’s infancy.
With the November elections right around the corner it is vital American’s realize what the Dems have done to the health care system that provides you and I the best care in the world. Mayo Clinic sent out their warning over a year ago, and now thousands of doctors are sending out theirs.
I say we listen to what our doctors have to say and fight Obamacare the only way we can. We vote out the folks who voted for the government takeover of our health care system and tell the new representatives to turn back the Obamacare mistake.
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Impeach Obama? Kuhner says yes, and makes a good case
Talk about blunt and to the point. Jeffrey Kuhner writes this piece in the Washington Times today: Impeach the president?
The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars of our democracy. As the debate on Obamacare reaches the long, painful end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confronting a political nightmare. She may not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate’s health care bill in the House.
Hence, Mrs. Pelosi and her congressional Democratic allies are seriously considering using a procedural ruse to circumvent the traditional constitutional process. Led by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, New York Democrat and chairman of the House Rules Committee, the new plan – called the “Slaughter Solution” – is not to pass the Senate version on an up-or-down vote. Rather, it is to have the House “deem” that the legislation was passed and then have members vote directly on a series of “sidecar” amendments to fix the things it does not like.
This would enable House Democrats to avoid going on the record voting for provisions in the Senate bill – the “Cornhusker Kickback,” the “Louisiana Purchase,” the tax on high-cost so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans – that are reviled by the public or labor-union bosses. If the reconciliation fixes pass, the House can send the Senate bill to President Obama for his signature without ever having had a formal up-or-down vote on the underlying legislation.
Mr. Obama is imposing a leftist revolution. Since coming to office, he has behaved without any constitutional restraints. The power of the federal government has exploded. He has de facto nationalized key sectors of American life – the big banks, financial institutions, the automakers, large tracts of energy-rich land from Montana to New Mexico. His cap-and-trade proposal, along with a newly empowered Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to impose massive new taxes and regulations upon industry. It is a form of green socialism: Much of the economy would fall under a command-and-control bureaucratic corporatist state. Mr. Obama even wants the government to take over student loans.
I’m not one to hop on the ‘Impeach Obama’ bandwagon, but if Obama will support the Slaughter Solution to get the left’s agenda through (and you know he will), then I say it is worth doing. Remember folks, this is not the first time we have heard of the Slaughter Solution being proposed. Go back to March of this year when it was being proposed for the health care bill: Click here for the Politico story. Instead of using the solution then, they muddied up the political waters to the point where nobody knew what they were looking at, cut deals with just enough fellow Democrats to get the bill passed, and showed Pelosi walking around with a huge gavel held like some battle ax.
This political garbage has to end sometime, and I say now is the right time. The left can say Republicans used this process in the past, and I’ll say I don’t care. Just because something was done in the past doesn’t make it okay now. Throw on top of this, the majority of Americans oppose Obama and the left on the very issues they are contemplating using the Slaughter Solution on. That in itself should give America the opportunity to send the strongest message possible to the president (and the rest of the morons in government) and let them all know circumventing the constitution will not be tolerated.
Kuhner makes a good case for impeachment. Will it go anywhere? Probably not. But if it does, it will be done in the best interest of America because it will be the only way to stop our insane government from continuously going against the will of the people.
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Iran’s government controlled internet to become a reality
First, a nuclear program to provide energy but not a bomb. Now a government run search engine, not to cut off Iran from the rest of the world, but to provide “the most valuable sources of information” to the country’s citizens.
Yes folks, Iran is going the way of China and taking over the internet in their country.
Excerpts from the Jerusalem Post: Iran to Replace Google With ‘Oh Lord’
“They are not just developing a search engine, they want to develop an Intranet, instead of an Internet, which would be some kind of local Internet and only give access to state institutions and internally approved sites,” Pujan Ziaie, a senior IT strategist in Iran’s ‘green’ opposition movement told The Media Line. “The discussion began a few years ago and is based on a feeling that the Internet is a Western weapon. They are threatened by it but they cannot ignore it so they are trying to imitate what China has done.”
In expected fashion, the Iranian government is disputing the takeover theory, saying this:
But a source close to the government, who asked not to be identified, said the initiative was simply a matter of providing more locally relevant content to Internet users.
“In different search enginges, different things come up first,” he told The Media Line. “There’s a certain formula that makes certain things come up first when you use Google whereas when you use Yahoo other things come up first. In Iran, local websites do not appear first in the results, meaning the suggested websites are not necessarily the most valuable sources of information.”
“So I don’t see this as replacing the Internet or current search engines,” he said. “In general the government is just trying to become less and less reliant on Western sources for everything.”
Hmmmmmm……. Search engine, controlled by the government, called “Oh Lord”, with a goal to show only “valuable” information (as dictated by the government).
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Obama turns Arizona into the U.N. for possible human rights violations?
Instead of going on a worldwide ‘Apologizing for America’ tour for Arizona and their desire to hold up immigration laws, Obama and Company has turned Arizona in to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
From Hot Air:
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer angrily demanded yesterday that the White House withdraw their report to the UN Human Rights Council that singled out Arizona’s law as a cause for concern about the American track record on human rights. Calling such a reference “downright offensive” in her letter to Hillary Clinton, Brewer also called the entire report “internationalism run amuck”:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner.
The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.
“The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote.
It looks to me like Obama wants the rest of the world to have a say on America’s immigration policy. How’s this for a load of you-know-what?
QUICK RANT: Obama and the left still fail to admit Arizona is merely enforcing federal law, something the feds have been ignoring for way too long. And the pro-illegal immigration crowd says absolutely nothing about immigration laws of other countries, like Mexico. From Michelle Malkin: How Mexico treats illegal immigrants
– The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?
– If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national sovereignty or security.” They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.
– Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim).
– Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.
– Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.
Notice the part about immigrants proving they will not be economic burdens, no criminal history, pass an exam and prove they can PROVIDE THEIR OWN HEALTH CARE???? Last time I checked, Obama has not asked his beloved U.N. to look into Mexico for potential human rights violations. Does this mean it is okay for a country to have tough immigration laws unless that country is America?
Anyway, back to the load of you-know-what. What kind of POTUS throws one of America’s states under the bus by asking a world wide body to review our immigration law and voice their opinion on a state enforcing said law? I’ll tell you what kind of POTUS: the one who puts his own personal agenda first and the best interest of America last.
Oh yeah, one last thing. For all you who love to say “America was built on immigrants”, don’t forget to include this little tidbit: immigrants that came to America legally.
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Obama: I am ending the Iraq war
Talk about giving yourself all the credit!! Here is the video of Obama talking about how HE is ending the Iraq war.
No mention of the fact he did nothing more than follow the plan laid out by Bush all those years ago………….
Now here comes the big question. If things go downhill in Iraq over the next year, will he give himself credit for that as well?
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Nugent Lays It Out on Fedzilla’s wasteful spending
While the government is pissing away taxpayer dollars, they are telling us we need to pay MORE in taxes to get our nation out of debt. To put it in perspective, imagine your boss taking you out to dinner to inform you of the pay cut you will have to take because the company is in debt, then give the waiter/waitress a thousand dollar tip. Does this sound good to you? I didn’t think so………………………………
Which brings me to the point of this posting. Ted Nugent weighs in on government wasteful spending. Of course, he does it in his usual politically Nuge way.
Excerpts from Human Events: Ted Nugent – Pigs of Waste
Senators John McCain and Tom Coburn just released a report on more insane and wasteful blow torching by Fedzilla (the federal bureaucracy) of our tax dollars on things we don’t need or want and only someone mentally deranged would allow.
After reading an article that illuminated the most wasteful examples of torching our tax dollars, I’m surprised my request for a federal grant to study gopher hunting with grenades on the White House lawn was denied. Seemed like such a gimme.
My favorite part of Ted’s writing is this:
Martin Gross wrote a wonderful, albeit outrageous, book a few years ago titled The Government Racket: Washington Waste from A to Z that identified dozens and dozens of costly and wasteful Fedzilla projects. Buy this book, send it to your congressman and demand a book report.
I’m guessing the liberals in government would say take the health care bill approach and say they just don’t have time to actually read it.
Anyway, read the whole thing. And remember this when your congressman says they need to raise taxes because the country has too much debt.
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Katrina vs. Gulf Oil Spill; what they have in common
Sen. James Inhofe wrote this piece, appearing in Human Events: Bush’s response to Katrina makes Obama look pitiful in Gulf
Excerpts: First, the comparison between Bush’s and Obama’s performances is inapt. This fact has a lot to do with federal law. In the case of Katrina, the statute directing response efforts was the 1988 Stafford Act, which puts on-shore states—not the federal government—in charge. Louisiana officials received federal offers of help as Katrina approached, but they were rejected.
The BP spill is quite different. As explained in a recent Minority Report released by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), on which I serve as ranking member, the federal statute governing the response is the 1990 Oil Pollution Act (OPA), passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The OPA specifies that, in the event of an offshore oil spill, the President shall ensure effective and immediate removal, mitigation, or prevention of a substantial threat to human health and welfare.
In the case of Katrina, the folks who were supposed to be in charge ran away, leaving it up to someone else to take care of. In the case of the oil spill, the person in charge did essentially the same thing. And what do the folks who were supposed to be in charge have in common? I’ll give you a hint: they all were voted in as Democrats. Those who had to step in and take the reigns? Let’s just say they do not carry a card with a donkey on it.
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