Black unrest over Obama

Heh. Dick Morris:

The friction between the Black Caucus and Obama escalated when Waters berated the administration for failing to rework a business loan from Goldman Sachs to the Inner City Broadcasting Corp. Inner City is run by Pierre Sutton, son of Percy Sutton, the longtime media giant in the African-American community. Two weeks after she raised the issue in a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Emanuel, Goldman saw the light and restructured the loan.

Coming on top of liberal angst with the decision by the "peace" president to escalate the war in Afghanistan, this split with the Black Caucus comes at an awkward time.

Nasty brewing behind the scenes on health care

From Jammie Wearing Fool, there is some disturbing news about health care brewing behind the scenes. First, the Senate is setting pay in the HEALTH care industry now. Second, another report came out about the devastating effects of the Senate health care bill. Follow the links for both. Here is Jammie's link:

First is a vote in the Senate Finance Committee which reduces the amount of compensation that insurance executives receive that is eligible for tax credit. They have moved the limit from the current $1 million amount to $500K. In effect it is an effort to force insurance companies to reduce the amount of compensation that insurance executives can receive.

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The second piece of news to come out is yet another study showing that insurance policies could increase by as much as 54% under the current legislation. A report which of course the White House dismissed before even seeing it.

Another day, another study confirming that ObamaCare will increase the price of health insurance. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has found that premiums in the individual market will rise on average by 54% over the status quo, which translates into an extra $3,341 a year for families and $1,576 for singles. The White House denounced the report as a "sham" before it was even released, which shows how seriously it takes such concerns.

Cutting Medicare

Mind you, it's NOT that I love Medicare. It's the stripping of the system and turning it into welfare that bugs me. Follow this link:

The health care bill soon to pass the Senate hasn't changed anything but the packaging. Cuts to Medicare are still a reality, but a bureaucratic Medicare Commission willindiscriminately make these cuts, and, we're told, not on the basis of age [i]. In practice, it makes no difference, since those benefiting from Medicare are seniors. Charged with deciding how to apply $500 billion in cuts to primary Medicare services, the Medicare Commission will most surely make decisions that result in rationed care for seniors. It's not conspiracy; it's simple arithmetic. Less money equals less care.

Democrat admits, "You WON'T be able to keep your health care!"

It's only true if a Democrat says it. Well, a Democrat said it. Where is the media?

Should Congress scale back the program, “We’re not going to be able to say ‘if you like what you have, you can keep it,’” said Senator Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat. “And that basic commitment that a lot of us around here have made will be called into question.”[SNIP]

And check this out: Blue states -- or at least Obama states -- seem to be somehow getting protection from these cuts:

Senators Charles Schumer of New York, Bill Nelson of Florida and Ron Wyden of Oregon are among those who secured special provisions shielding constituents from cuts.

Casey says he wants “very comparable” protections for his state, where more than one-third of Medicare beneficiaries participate in Medicare Advantage. “It’s the kind of thing that will likely be addressed on the floor,” he said.

How filthy-dirty is that?

Half trillion$ cuts to Medicare

We can't believe this is happening. Is there a complete and utter disregard for human life? Follow the link:

CBO: Medicare Cuts Could “Reduce Access To Care Or Diminish The Quality Of Care.” (CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, Letter To Sen. Harry Reid, 11/18/09, P. 1, 17)

$135 BILLION IN CUTS TO HOSPITALS SERVING SENIORS

(CBO, E-mail To Senate Leadership Staff, 11/20/09)

$120 BILLION IN CUTS TO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE

MORE THAN $40 BILLION CUT FROM HOME HEALTH AGENCIES

(CBO, E-mail To Senate Leadership Staff, 11/20/09)

NEARLY $15 BILLION IN CUTS TO NURSING HOMES

(CBO, E-mail To Senate Leadership Staff, 11/20/09)

NEARLY $8 BILLION FROM HOSPICES

(CBO, E-mail To Senate Leadership Staff, 11/20/09)

Another Muslim plane incident

Be sure to follow the links and read deeper into this incident. It needs to go around the country so people know what's going on:

This is scary stuff, folks. Go read this report over at Ace on Air Tran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston on November 17th, where 11 Muslims boarded the plane dressed in their martyr garb, sat in different sections of the plane, and then as the flight was leaving the gate, the men refused to listen to flight attendants, starting using their cell phones, got up out of their seats, started moving towards the cockpit, yelled in people’s faces in Arabic, and looked like they were going to takeover the plane.

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Here’s what we think the Muslims were really doing: We think they are part of a larger, cooperative, collaborative effort in the Muslim community to roll back the security measures in place since 9/11 so another round of hijackings can take place on that scale. We believe more and more Muslims will stage incidents like Flight 297 during the current administration, knowing the current Attorney General Eric Holder will see to it they are never prosecuted for violating FAA regulations by getting up during a takeoff, moving towards the cockpit and doing other things consistent with taking over the plane. Because they do not have weapons on them, in court they will make up some religious excuse for what they were doing. [SNIP]

5 ecocrimes

Toilet paper, coffee drinking, dumpster diving for clothes, big screen tvs...what more can YOU do? Read over at the New Scientist:

Yet that still means a six-a-day caffeine habit clocks up more than 175 kilograms of CO₂each year. That's the equivalent of a flight across Europe - from London to Rome, say. Add milk, and the methane belched by dairy cows means you increase your coffee's climate-changing emissions by more than a third.

175 kilograms The annual CO₂ emission of a six-a-day coffee habit. Equivalent to a single flight between London and Rome

It doesn't end there, though. The environmental group WWF has calculated that it takes 200 litres of water to produce the coffee, milk, sugar and cup for just one regular takeout latte. So if everyone ditched their pre-work coffee fix that would do wonders for the planet.

Hot air at Copenhagen

Yeah, that's right. The global warmers are full of hot air. Wasting precious resources, jetting around the planet, riding in their limousines....

The U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, roughly the same amount as the carbon emissions of Morocco in 2006.

Those greenhouse gas emissions are comprised of two parts: international travel and local emissions from hotels and transportation venues. Organizers will also reportedly lay 900 kilometers of computer cable and 50,000 square miles of carpet, along with more than 200,000 meals to be served and 200,000 cups of coffee.

Thousands greet Palin in Missouri

What the heck is going on with Sarah Palin? People are going nuts all over the country about her.

Et tu, Jon Stewart?

Democrats protest their own policies

So what are they trying do? Easy. Pressure for more stimulus money, more bailouts, more free Obama money from Obama's stash...

CNN) – Members of President Obama's own political party are charging that the White House and the Democratic Congressional leadership are not doing enough to help the unemployed and are threatening to organize a march on Washington of jobless Americans.

"Obviously there's something that's not getting through to them," said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois. "And we're going to let the White House and everybody who's concerned know that we have got people in our districts who are depending on us to deliver for them."

Matthew McCabe's lawyer speaks with Fox News

Perrysburg native Matthew McCabe is one of the Navy Seals accused of punching a terrorist. Instead of a medal, he needs to get a lawyer.

West Point is the enemy camp

A truly sickening read on hypocrisy

Brace yourselves. It takes courage to read this:

Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of carbon from their private jets or multiple holiday homes around the globe.

There was Sheryl Crow, who had called upon the public to refrain from using more than one square of toilet paper per visit (“except on those pesky occasions when two or three are required”) and who was leading a Stop Global Warming concert tour across America. It was revealed that while Crow travelled in a biodiesel tour bus, her 30-person entourage followed in a fleet of 13 gas-guzzling vehicles.

Global warming believers' foundation cracking

Particularly with the "stepping down" of Jones of the CRU:

None of these outfits is per se corrupt, in the sense that the monies they get are spent on something other than their intended purposes. But they depend on an inherently corrupting premise, namely that the hypothesis on which their livelihood depends has in fact been proved. Absent that proof, everything they represent—including the thousands of jobs they provide—vanishes. This is what's known as a vested interest, and vested interests are an enemy of sound science.

Which brings us back to the climategate scientists, the keepers of the keys to the global warming cathedral. In one of the more telling disclosures from last week, a computer programmer writes of the CRU's temperature database: "I am very sorry to report that the rest of the databases seems to be in nearly as poor a state as Australia was. . . . Aarrggghhh! There truly is no end in sight. . . . We can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!"

Congressional races shaping up

Looks like some Dems are dropping out or not running. Heh.

Republicans winning recruiting battle

Cook Political Report House analyst David Wasserman notes a telling indicator that the political environment in 2010 is shaping up to be favorable for Republicans: Several Democratic candidates have decided to drop out of tough races, while Democratic members of Congress who rarely face serious challenges are finding themselves with their toughest re-elections in years.

PERRYSBURG NATIVE IS CHARGED WITH PUNCHING TERRORIST

Matthew McCabe of Perrysburg is one of the Navy Seals charged with punching one of the world's foremost terrorists currently undergoing court martial. Read here:

Matthew McCabe is Navy Seal Charged for Punching Terrorist

Matthew McCabe is one of three Navy SEALs charged with punching a Fallujah, Iraq terrorist in the mouth and bloodying his lip, or "punching him in the gut" or both.

McCabe is 24 years old. He enlisted in the Navy in 2003 and is originally from Perrysburg, Ohio. He is charged with offenses occuring around September 1st, of one count each of assault of the detainee, dereliction of duty, making a false official statement, and "willfully failing to safeguard a detainee."

Ahmed Hashim Abed, known to the military as Obejctive Amber, is believed to have orchestrated the brutal attack on four Blackwater contractors delivering catering supplies to our military in Fallujah, Iraq. He was one of the most wanted insurgents in in Iraq before three Navy Seals, deployed in an elite commando unit, captured him.

90% of population to die if global tax not passed!!!!!!

Do you believe it? It's going to happen!!!!!!

MOST of the world’s population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK’s most senior climate scientists has warned.

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.

Anderson’s warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.

Voters angry

Well, the tea partiers have been saying this all along.

Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry.

Men are angrier than women, and voters over 40 are more angry than those who are younger. A majority of those over 40 are Very Angry. Only 25% of under-30 voters share that view.

The data suggests that the level of anger is growing. The 71% who are angry at federal government policies today is up five percentage points since September.

Polls sinking

Wow. This is a huge drop.

Missourians Really Souring on Obama

Via Soren Dayton, I learn SurveyUSA polls adults in Missouri, and finds Obama at 33 percent approval, 65 percent disapproval among independents, and at 27 percent approval, 67 percent disapproval among those ages 18 to 34.

Overall, Survey USA finds Obama at with a 38 percent approval rating, 58 percent disapproval.