Archive for January, 2009

Republicans All Vote No on Pork Filled 819 Billion Dollar Stimulus Bill

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

The $819 billion + economic stimulus bill passed by a vote of 244 to 188 with none of the House’s 178 Republicans voting for it. The bill was a huge money grab for Barack Obama and the liberals in Congress. It’s nice to see the Republicans growing some courage and standing up against this insult to the American people. The 11 Democrats who rejected the bill deserve credit for standing up to their party.

“The bill is extremely expensive for what you get out of it.” – Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del

“Most Republicans will oppose this bill for one reason: It won’t work.” – Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind

“We’re using our economic woes to grow government spending to epic and historic proportions.” – Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif

“Only about 11 percent of this $1.1 trillion bill actually has anything to do with stimulating the economy. It’s become a huge, massive spending bill.” — Rep. Don Manzullo, R-Illinois

“What good is a tax cut when you don’t have a job?” — House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C.

The first stimulus package did not work because it was chasing good money after bad. This takes that to a level beyond comprehension. The nerve of these wolves to take advantage of Americans like this is incredible. We need reform. You know – improvements to the system. The Senate will hopefully fix some of this, but to think the liberals passed this through at the begging of Barack Obama is a shame. You might think you got something out of this, but you’ll pay for it in many ways for years to come. Now you see what happens when liberals have complete control of the government and the media.

Stimulus Bill is the Biggest Fleecing of America in History

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Forget the bailouts – the economic stimulus bill is the biggest robbery of Americans in history. Americans knew their money was being flushed down the toilet with the bailouts. The stimulus bill is supposed to be something that “stimulates” the economy and helps out Americans in need. What it helps is government getting more power. Just read the beginning of the stimulus bill:

Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

The fleecing begins at “And for other purposes.” The bill does more for “other purposes” than it does for the promises before it. This bill is an abomination. It is a 30% increase in the federal budget under the disguise of stimulus. 825 billion dollars here. Think about that. What an insult to call it a stimulus package. The jobs created in this bill aren’t even permanent jobs. Most of the things that appear to be beneficial are probably not, since the government has a history of making promises while simultaneously making huge sums of money disappear.

Government got us in this mess by a combination of greed and being asleep at the wheel. Their answer to get us out is doing more of the same. More of the same in hyper-drive. To paraphrase Barack Obama – only government can get us out of the mess that government got us into. This bill has been drawn up so quickly, how can it possibly be well thought out?

There are billions of dollars in the bill for groups like ACORN. There is $335,000,000 for STD prevention. It takes 335 million to tell people about prevention of venereal diseases? I can tell you the 3 things that can work - not counting luck: Monogamy, abstinence and condoms. I won’t charge you for that information. Barack Obama and the United States Government will charge you 335 million for the same education.

They government has a history of spending money on STD education. In the past they have spent over half a million dollars on such things as “Booty Call” and “Great Sex.” That doesn’t sound like STD prevention. Sounds like a breeding ground for STD’s. Whatever it was, it obviously didn’t work, since venereal diseases are at an all-time high. In this bill:

4) not less than $335,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount to carry out domestic HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually-transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis prevention programs, as jointly determined by the Secretary and the Director;

5) not less than $60,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount to carry out environmental health programs, as jointly determined by the Secretary and the Director;

6) not less than $50,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount to carry out injury prevention and control programs, as jointly determined by the Secretary and the Director;

(7) not less than $30,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount for public health workforce development activities, as jointly determined by the Secretary and the Director;

(8) not less than $40,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to carry out research activities within the National Occupational Research Agenda; and…

These are just a couple examples of the fleecing going on in this stimulus bill. I encourage you to browse through this 647 page monster. Notice the wording such as “not less than” throughout the bill. Do you think you will ever know where even a fraction of this money actually goes, not to mention where it came from in the first place? Barack Obama promised he wouldn’t sign a bill with pork in it. Speaking of pork - it really is ironic that STD prevention and family planning are in this bill, since Americans are being raped by the government here.


Global Warming – Barack Obama Cherry Picking the Facts

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Barack obama, in regards to global warming said: “The days of Washington dragging its heels are over. My administration will not deny facts – we will be guided by them.” Which facts will you use? The ones that hundreds of experts say support the theory of man made global warming or the ones that hundreds of experts say reveal that global warming is a myth?

I don’t want to make comparisons of Barack Obama to evil monsters throughout history, but when you consider only facts that support your view you are in line with the evil deceivers of history. Almost every murdering dictator throughout history used cherry picked facts to justify their actions. Some of those facts were probably true if you take them at face value and do not look at all the other facts. You can justify just about anything when you deal that way. Add that to Barack Obama issuing 5 executive orders in less than one week as President and there are some bad signs here.

Barack and the liberals are about to make enormous changes that the economy cannot handle under the cover of global warming. Some of the economic fallout will handicap the economy for years and people will look around and wonder why things won’t take off. I wonder how long after they make these changes that they will look out the window and see the snow and take credit for stopping global warming. That day is coming. They will suddenly learn how to read a thermometer and determine that humanity will not fry – thanks to them.

The climate has always been volatile, that is nothing new. What is farily new is that a hot spell in summer is global warming and a cold spell in winter is climate change. Heads they win, tails we lose. The only thing man can do to change weather patterns is engage in nuclear war. Worrying about changing the weather and spending lots of time and money there is dangerous to our national security. History is complete with evil people trying to kill others. History does not include man made global warming. Figure out what caused all the other times in history when there was major warming of the planet and rule those causes out in this case – before you make changes to our culture and way of life based on a flimsy theory.

Al Gore is scheduled to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday to again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to fight global warming. This isn’t the first time Al has run into problems on his pollution causing traveling global warming circus because of cold weather. Funny how cold weather seems to cause so many more problems for people than hot weather. I pray for global warming. You can feed more people by growing crops in dirt than you can snow.

Obama and his fellow liberal global warming hallucinators want to put even stricter car emission laws in place. This not only means more expensive cars, but also more expensive inspections and inspection nightmares. If you or someone you know has had a car fail an emissions test and the mechanics could not figure out why, you know what an incredible nightmare that can be. This can happen on newer cars so nobody is immune, except politicians. Even if they are able to identify the problem it can be an enormous expense that hurts the poor, not the rich. Time, money and the nightmare of having to work around the schedules of busy mechanics is not fun. All because of what is often neglibale emission problems and things that do not affect the cars operation. That will get worse. It is a money grab for the politicians and a nightmare for consumers. It can even be a nightmare for mechanics, since inspections are not usually their bread and butter.

China and others will love these economy shaking “factual” global warming decisions. Our economic woes are their gain. Their pollution is far more damaging to the environment than ours, yet they will get a pass on it. Regardless of what is said, they will get the pass. They have gotten a pass on their human rights abuses. Besides, it is only news if it is reported. If we can’t keep track of who is working on nuclear weapons, how are we going to monitor the emissions of countless thousands of factories in China? What would we do about it anyway?

So Obama will address global warming and rule by the facts. You know the old saying “statistics lie and liars use statistics.” To make life altering decisions based on an issue with so much conflicting evidence is frightening. What if the planet is actually cooling? If these decisions do what they are intended to do they would actually speed up the cooling process and have devastating effects. Again, snow is bad for crops.

What other decisions will Mr. Obama make based on selective facts? How long will he be able to make bad decisions and still be able to blame George Bush for the economy? No doubt with all the fear mongering and lowering of expectations going on that Obama and the media will blame him for a long time. Somehow the liberal majority got a pass for their part in the economic mess during the Bush Administration. Now they run “everything” and they are in the process of taking over ”everything” under the guise of government saving the day – based on their facts, of course.


Barack Obama or Islama Obama? First Week of Obama-Nation was an Abomination

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Some people are calling Barack Obama’s appearing on Arab television for his first interview treasonous. It certainly makes you wonder where his loyalties lie.  He showed great weakness basically making apologies for America not understanding terrorists in the past. Add that to ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay without even having the plan in place of what to do with these murderers.

This again makes you wonder what religion he belongs to and also makes you wonder why he doesn’t like to use the word terrorist. He belonged to the Reverend Wright church of hate for many years. His inauguration had a gay preacher who’s specific God went unmentioned and also a preacher who uttered racist comments. Now this. Perhaps he is an atheist. He did mention atheists at the inauguration. I just don’t don’t know. I haven’t seen anything from him that makes me believe he is a Christian.

Obama passed 5 executive orders in less than a week as President. I think we are getting a pretty good idea that this is going to be an extremist presidency. I am not surprised, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. He picked a rich person who doesn’t pay his taxes to head the IRS to go after your hard earned money.

Obama’s stimulus package is a monster that wants to stimulate ACORN voter fraud and abortion. ACORN is under investigation in at least 12 states for a slew of voter fraud allegations. Give them 4.19 billion dollars? It’s another abomination. In a time of economic distress he is spending American money to promote abortions overseas.

Regardless of your opinion on abortion do you think we can afford such things? To think Barack Obama has only been President for one week is scary. I guess there was a reason he had the most liberal record in the United States Senate. The early signs are that this guy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Barack Obama’s First Interview as President was on Arab Television:


My National Grid Column on EzineArticles.com

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I wrote an article titled National Grid’s Dismal Ice Storm Response Shows Lack of Readiness For a Major Disaster on ezinearticles.com. It was a bit lengthy for the blog, even by my standards, so I posted it over there. It is in regards to National Grid and power companies in general not being prepared for a major disaster.

Given that the state of New York managed to get large sums of money from FEMA to cover for National Grid’s inability to proactively deal with potential problems makes this subject of further importance. It is another example of a state getting a ton of money for not being prepared for something that was inevitable. David Paterson and Chuck Schumer had their hands out and now have a lot of federal money at their disposal which may or may not go where needed. Given the track record, I expect much of that will be squandered as well. Where is the accountability for what happened and what is being done to ensure the future safety of the people?

Feel free to publish that article on your own blog/site so long as it is not altered and it has a live visible link to blogchow.com as well. I have some other oldies but goodies posted over there for your reading pleasure as well.

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Kirsten Gillibrand was the Best New York Could Hope for from David Paterson

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Kirsten Gillibrand was as good a Senate pick as you could have hoped for from New York Governor David Patterson. Congresswoman Gillibrand has a one hundred percent rating from the National Rifle Association and she voted against bailing out the banks and insurance companies. That being said she is also endorsed by the liberal Chuck Schumer in addition to David Paterson, so I wouldn’t expect a lot out of her. The governor obviously thinks she will see things his way.

Ironically David Paterson did a worse job running the Senate selection process than Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich did. Paterson allowed Caroline Kennedy to embarrass herself in a big way and left Andrew Cuomo looking slighted as well. Much of that could have been avoided by letting Kennedy know she was not in the running and also by not dragging the selection process out like he did. The New York Governor was even accused of illegality during the process. Blago’s pick was made with apparent decisiveness despite all his BlagoGate problems. Makes you wonder.


Caroline Kennedy’s Senate Hopes Crushed By David Paterson

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Can anyone really believe that after all the posturing for Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat that Caroline Kennedy changed her mind at this stage of the game? I think Ted Kennedy’s health is a smokescreen, since she knew his condition was serious before all this self promotion began. David Paterson is due to make a decision and she pulls out now?

The reality is almost certainly that she was told she would not get the nod from New York Governor David Paterson and publicly pulled herself from consideration, instead of getting overlooked. It’s a political move, perhaps the only one she has made that shows she has the potential to be a politician.

Caroline Kennedy was not qualified for the job to begin with, although Hillary Clinton wasn’t either. Paterson could have saved her all the embarrassment that she has brought on herself by telling her sooner that she was not likely to get the selection. I think he has been watching the polls on this like the typical modern day politician. Andrew Cuomo might be the choice by Paterson, although he seems to have done an adequate job as Attorney General and might be better suited for that. Hopefully if he gets the Senate seat he will be his own man and not a political carbon copy of his father Mario Cuomo.