It was a tough day today at work. I just know life wasn't meant to be this way!
Wednesday
Hurry up retirement!
It was a tough day today at work. I just know life wasn't meant to be this way!
What is this guy smoking!
Borrowed from Jihad Watch:
June 2, 2009
Obama: The United States is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world"
What planet is he on?
"Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too," by Jeff Zeleny for the New York Times Caucus Blog, June 2 (thanks to Randall):
Indonesia: 200 million Muslims. India: 156 million Muslims. Pakistan: 150 million Muslims.
United States: 2.3 million Muslims (according to the Pew Research Center).
June 2, 2009
Obama: The United States is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world"
What planet is he on?
"Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too," by Jeff Zeleny for the New York Times Caucus Blog, June 2 (thanks to Randall):
HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt.Was that an observation or a wish?
In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”...
“What I want to do is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world understands more effectively how the United States, but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy, to discuss the framework for what’s happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran, and also how we view the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” Mr. Obama said.I'm all for that. And I hereby offer my services to assist in this great effort.
The president said the United States and other parts of the Western world “have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.”
“And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,” Mr. Obama said. “And so there’s got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples.”...Here is a What-Is-Obama-Smoking? Alert:
Indonesia: 200 million Muslims. India: 156 million Muslims. Pakistan: 150 million Muslims.
United States: 2.3 million Muslims (according to the Pew Research Center).
“I think the most important thing I want to tell young people is that, regardless of your faith, those who build as opposed to those who destroy I think leave a lasting legacy, not only for themselves but also for their nations,” Mr. Obama said. “And the impulse towards destruction as opposed to how can we study science and mathematics and restore the incredible scientific and knowledge — the output that came about during centuries of Islamic culture.”...
I wonder if he'll bow again
Obama visits Saudi king to open a Muslim dialogue
By MARK S. SMITH, Associated Press Writer Mark S. Smith, Associated Press Writer – 26 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is beginning his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call on Saudi King Abdullah, guardian of Islam's sacred sites in Mecca and Medina.
The monarch of Saudi Arabia plans to greet Obama at Riyadh's main airport with coffee and ceremony when he arrives Wednesday after an overnight flight from Washington.
Saudi Arabia is a stopover en route to Cairo, where Obama is to set deliver a speech that he's been promising since last year's election campaign — aiming to set a new tone in America's often-strained dealings with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.
Many of those Muslims still smolder over Iraq, Guantanamo and unflinching U.S. support of Israel, but they are hoping the son of a Kenyan Muslim who lived part of his childhood in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can help chart a new course. [No doubt he'll whisper in the King's ear: "Hey, I'm one of you guys!"]
"You know, there are misapprehensions about the West, on the part of the Muslim world," Obama said in a pretrip interview with the BBC. "And, obviously, there are some big misapprehensions about the Muslim world when it comes to those of us in the West." [It's all a big misunderstanding isn't it? Geeeze these people are too stupid to pour piss out of a boot!]
Aides cautioned that Obama was not out to break new policy ground in his Cairo speech, which follows visits to Turkey and Iraq in April and a series of outreach efforts including a Persian New Year video and a student town hall in Istanbul. And they said the president is not expecting quick results, even though the speech will be distributed as widely as possible.
"We don't expect that everything will change after one speech," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. "I think it will take a sustained effort and that's what the president is in for." [But if you just keep apologizing for America, maybe they'll like us huh?]
By MARK S. SMITH, Associated Press Writer Mark S. Smith, Associated Press Writer – 26 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is beginning his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call on Saudi King Abdullah, guardian of Islam's sacred sites in Mecca and Medina.
The monarch of Saudi Arabia plans to greet Obama at Riyadh's main airport with coffee and ceremony when he arrives Wednesday after an overnight flight from Washington.
Saudi Arabia is a stopover en route to Cairo, where Obama is to set deliver a speech that he's been promising since last year's election campaign — aiming to set a new tone in America's often-strained dealings with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims.
Many of those Muslims still smolder over Iraq, Guantanamo and unflinching U.S. support of Israel, but they are hoping the son of a Kenyan Muslim who lived part of his childhood in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can help chart a new course. [No doubt he'll whisper in the King's ear: "Hey, I'm one of you guys!"]
"You know, there are misapprehensions about the West, on the part of the Muslim world," Obama said in a pretrip interview with the BBC. "And, obviously, there are some big misapprehensions about the Muslim world when it comes to those of us in the West." [It's all a big misunderstanding isn't it? Geeeze these people are too stupid to pour piss out of a boot!]
Aides cautioned that Obama was not out to break new policy ground in his Cairo speech, which follows visits to Turkey and Iraq in April and a series of outreach efforts including a Persian New Year video and a student town hall in Istanbul. And they said the president is not expecting quick results, even though the speech will be distributed as widely as possible.
"We don't expect that everything will change after one speech," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. "I think it will take a sustained effort and that's what the president is in for." [But if you just keep apologizing for America, maybe they'll like us huh?]
Tuesday
More "Say one thing ...Do another"
Obama said to be open to taxing health benefits
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – 38 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running for president. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., raised the issue with Obama during a private meeting Tuesday with the president and other Democratic senators and later reported the president's response: "It's on the table. It's an option."
The federal government would reap about $250 billion a year if it treated health care benefits given to employees like wages and taxed them.
Baucus and others are eyeing that money as they search for ways to pay for a costly health care overhaul that would extend coverage to 50 million Americans who are now uninsured. That could cost some $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
The president adamantly opposed health benefit taxes during the campaign, arguing they would undermine job-based coverage. But he's now indicating openness to that suggestion from Congress, even if he criticized Republican presidential rival John McCain for proposing a sweeping version of the same basic idea.
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Damn America! When are you going to wake up! Give the government authority over your health and they'll literally have us by the balls!
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – 38 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running for president. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., raised the issue with Obama during a private meeting Tuesday with the president and other Democratic senators and later reported the president's response: "It's on the table. It's an option."
The federal government would reap about $250 billion a year if it treated health care benefits given to employees like wages and taxed them.
Baucus and others are eyeing that money as they search for ways to pay for a costly health care overhaul that would extend coverage to 50 million Americans who are now uninsured. That could cost some $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
The president adamantly opposed health benefit taxes during the campaign, arguing they would undermine job-based coverage. But he's now indicating openness to that suggestion from Congress, even if he criticized Republican presidential rival John McCain for proposing a sweeping version of the same basic idea.
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Damn America! When are you going to wake up! Give the government authority over your health and they'll literally have us by the balls!
Another embarassing moment - brought to you by the Obama administration
So our Tax Cheat In Charge, otherwise known as the Secretary of the Treasury, goes to China. And while there he gave a speech to Chinese college students somewhere in Beijing.
Apparently after the speech was over, Tax Cheat Geithner took some questions from his audience. "Chinese assets are very safe," Geithner said in response to a question from one of the students. This was in reference to the approximately $768 billion worth of US T-Bills owned by the Chinese.
His answer “drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting skepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.”
There’s another line from that speech that probably brought the house down too. Something about "very disciplined" future spending.
So we’ve become the laughingstock of China now!
[Sigh!]
But I’ll console myself with this thought: We might have sold them some worthless crap investments, but they BOUGHT worthless crap investments!
Apparently after the speech was over, Tax Cheat Geithner took some questions from his audience. "Chinese assets are very safe," Geithner said in response to a question from one of the students. This was in reference to the approximately $768 billion worth of US T-Bills owned by the Chinese.
His answer “drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting skepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.”
There’s another line from that speech that probably brought the house down too. Something about "very disciplined" future spending.
So we’ve become the laughingstock of China now!
[Sigh!]
But I’ll console myself with this thought: We might have sold them some worthless crap investments, but they BOUGHT worthless crap investments!
Neal Boortz on the coming Heathcare power grab
There's a lot of truth in this:
AND LET'S DROP THE WORD "INSURANCE" FROM ALL OF THIS
By Neal Boortz @ June 2, 2009 8:32 AM Permalink Comments (9) TrackBacks (0)
It's not health "insurance" we're talking about here; it's a health care payment plan.
Insurance is something you purchase to partially reimburse you for UNEXPECTED expenses related to home or auto ownership, or your health. Your auto insurance policy will step in with some cash for a crash, but not for an oil change or new tires. Your homeowner's insurance will come up with some money for repairs to fire damage, but not to replace your water heater or that 20-year-old roof. There are certain budgetary requirements that come into play when you own a house or a car, and your insurance company would laugh you out of the county if you went to them to be reimbursed for an oil change or having your carpets cleaned.
Why, then, do you think that your health "insurance" should pay for ordinary and expected healthcare expenses? It shouldn't. These are things that you should budget for. But the American people have a different idea. They believe that their health care is someone else's responsibility - either their employer's or the governments. Power-mad politicians are only too glad to pander to that idiotic expectation.
You think the government has control over vast amounts of your life now? Wait until the government controls your health care.
AND LET'S DROP THE WORD "INSURANCE" FROM ALL OF THIS
By Neal Boortz @ June 2, 2009 8:32 AM Permalink Comments (9) TrackBacks (0)
It's not health "insurance" we're talking about here; it's a health care payment plan.
Insurance is something you purchase to partially reimburse you for UNEXPECTED expenses related to home or auto ownership, or your health. Your auto insurance policy will step in with some cash for a crash, but not for an oil change or new tires. Your homeowner's insurance will come up with some money for repairs to fire damage, but not to replace your water heater or that 20-year-old roof. There are certain budgetary requirements that come into play when you own a house or a car, and your insurance company would laugh you out of the county if you went to them to be reimbursed for an oil change or having your carpets cleaned.
Why, then, do you think that your health "insurance" should pay for ordinary and expected healthcare expenses? It shouldn't. These are things that you should budget for. But the American people have a different idea. They believe that their health care is someone else's responsibility - either their employer's or the governments. Power-mad politicians are only too glad to pander to that idiotic expectation.
You think the government has control over vast amounts of your life now? Wait until the government controls your health care.
Quote of the Day
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill
Here's an example of REAL domestic terrorism
Mike Vanderbeogh points out that this guy won't get any press compared to the murdered abortion doctor. Yet this is true Islamic fundamentalism in action HERE in America!
Monday
From the Russian newspaper Pravda...
They "get it". Why don't we?
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Read the rest of the eye-opening article here.
Choose the most likely threat
What’s the most pressing and urgent reason for maintaining an armed populace, if the statistical probability of responding to a threat is your main criteria?
a. Rising rates of violent crime
b. External armed invasion
c. Curbing game animal population growth through hunting
d. Democide, defined as death inflicted by one’s own government
The answer is "d".
Your chance of becoming a casualty at the hands of your own government is by far the most likely occurrence.
As this article makes abundantly clear, more people were killed by their own government during the 20th century than all the wars of that century combined.
a. Rising rates of violent crime
b. External armed invasion
c. Curbing game animal population growth through hunting
d. Democide, defined as death inflicted by one’s own government
The answer is "d".
Your chance of becoming a casualty at the hands of your own government is by far the most likely occurrence.
As this article makes abundantly clear, more people were killed by their own government during the 20th century than all the wars of that century combined.
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