Friday, December 31, 2010
Democrat regrets language in memo on ‘death panels’ that reignited debate - The Hill's Healthwatch
Democrat regrets language in memo on ‘death panels’ that reignited debate - The Hill's Healthwatch:
More evidence of the corrupt Obama regime
"Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is distancing himself from a memo sent by his office that urged health reform advocates not to advertise new end-of-life counseling regulations to avoid reviving talk of “death panels.”"
Video: The nice young man Eric Holder let off the hook « Hot Air
Video: The nice young man Eric Holder let off the hook « Hot Air
This pretty much proves just how corrupt the Obama administration is.
Immigration enforcement union took a no-confidence vote in its leadership | Washington Examiner
Immigration enforcement union took a no-confidence vote in its leadership | Washington Examiner: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents believe overwhelmingly that their department leadership has become so politicized as to compromise the effectiveness of ICE and the safety of American people. Their union has released a letter announcing its recent unanimous “vote of no confidence” in ICE agency heads, accusing them of “misleading the American public” regarding illegal immigration in order to further a pro-amnesty agenda."
Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010 - By Brian Bolduc - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010 - By Brian Bolduc - Planet Gore - National Review Online: "Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010
December 30, 2010 9:00 A.M.
By Brian Bolduc
On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the warmest year of the century. And then he calms everyone down:"
December 30, 2010 9:00 A.M.
By Brian Bolduc
On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the warmest year of the century. And then he calms everyone down:"
FBI Agents Earning Career Points Every Time They Put Someone on the Watch List
FBI Agents Earning Career Points Every Time They Put Someone on the Watch List: "More than 300 newly released pages of Iowa FBI investigation files confirm the existence of a busy network of federal agents across the Midwest dedicated to clamping down on political dissenters. A Freedom of Information Act request by Des Moines' David Goodner revealed two extensive 'Terrorism Enterprise' style investigations against dissenters mainly run by the Omaha FBI office into Iowa, including digging through garbage, watching restaurants, advanced data mining and cell phone record collection. The agents involved claimed 'statistical accomplishment' of saving our nation from terrorism: this is exactly, how, and why, federal agents endlessly create pretend counterterror campaigns."
Constitutional Know-Nothings | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Constitutional Know-Nothings | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "The 112th Congress has an unprecedented plan. They are going to read the Constitution-the document that each member will swear to uphold-aloud on their first day"
Sanitation workers selfishly slowed down the cleanup - NYPOST.com
Sanitation workers selfishly slowed down the cleanup - NYPOST.com: "These garbage men really stink.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned."
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned."
Morning Bell: Top Ten Reasons America Won’t Miss the 111th Congress | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Morning Bell: Top Ten Reasons America Won’t Miss the 111th Congress | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "The 111th Congress is officially over, and according to Gallup, it’s also officially the worst Congress in the history of polling. Yet despite its 13% approval rating there are those who are hailing the 111th Congress for its myriad legislative “accomplishments.” Not surprisingly, many of those touting those “accomplishments” are the very members of Congress who voted for the legislation in the first place."
Sarah Palin, Tea Party, China among 2010's winners, but Obama, taxpayers, Europe lose big time
Sarah Palin, Tea Party, China among 2010's winners, but Obama, taxpayers, Europe lose big time: "This year has been a tumultuous one, particularly when it comes to politics. The economic pain has continued and has seemingly awoken American voters, who voiced their frustrations at the polls in November. After about 365 days of ups and downs, here's who came out on top, and who didn't fare as well."
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and grants FDA authority to police food safety of foreign nations
Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and grants FDA authority to police food safety of foreign nations: "(NaturalNews) Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it all becomes. For example, did you know there's a global FDA power grab agenda hidden in the Food Safety Modernization Act? Keep reading and I'll quote text straight out of the bill itself."
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Obamacare: The Price Controls Begin | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Obamacare: The Price Controls Begin | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that, starting next year, health insurance companies must receive permission from the Obama administration before they can raise rates higher than 10%. As we warned before Obamacare even became law, this is a form of price control, a government intervention that has a long and well established history of failure."
If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "The most common myth that appears in “net neutrality” debates, even ones that appear in our comment section, is that the internet needs regulation in order to stay “neutral.” In reality, the internet is as open and adaptive as it is because it has been free of government regulation. Slate’s Jake Shafer has fun with this fact with “A counterfactual history of cyberspace” that explores what could have happened “If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet.”"
Morning Bell: Big Government Strikes Back | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Morning Bell: Big Government Strikes Back | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "The 111th Congress, the most unpopular Congress in the recorded history of the United States, ended last week with a flurry of legislative activity that set a record for a lame duck Congress. Some in the media are eager to make the case that last week’s events portend a new era of bipartisan accomplishment, led by the White House, that will extend into the 112th Congress. They are half right"
Bureaucrats Secretly Implement ObamaCare - HUMAN EVENTS
Bureaucrats Secretly Implement ObamaCare - HUMAN EVENTS: "When ObamaCare passed in the partisan manner in which it did, the liberal establishment and its ever growing army of pipsqueak transcribers in the mainstream media said ObamaCare’s passage would be a boon for Democrats and mocked those like Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli who spoke out against ObamaCare and called the measure unconstitutional, particularly the individual mandate requirement that would compel citizens to buy health insurance they may not have otherwise wanted to purchase."
Obama to Enact End-of-Life Planning for Medicare - NYTimes.com
Obama to Enact End-of-Life Planning for Medicare - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1."
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
PRUDEN: Nothing neutral about this unholy scheme - Washington Times
PRUDEN: Nothing neutral about this unholy scheme - Washington Times: "Mr. Chavez is only a step or two ahead of the Democrats on this one. In the name of protecting the much-abused Venezuelans, he has asked for a law imposing draconian broadcastlike regulations on the Internet. He would ban all messages showing 'disrespect for public authorities,' that 'incite or promote hatred,' or create 'anxiety' in the population."
Don't Tangle The Web With Rules - Investors.com
Don't Tangle The Web With Rules - Investors.com: "Nothing new here. The U.N. has been wanting to run the Web for years and is not letting a crisis — the WikiLeaks releases — go to waste. Following the Chicagoland model, it has plans to form an intergovernmental group that would 'attempt to create global standards for policing the Internet.'"
Liberalism truly is a mental disorder
“Littering,“ ”creating a disturbance,“ and ”malicious wounding.” That’s what a group of light-hearted high schoolers are being charged with after they dressed up in wacky Christmas sweaters and distributed candy canes at school:
They call themselves the “Christmas Sweater Club” because they wear the craziest ones they can find. But they also sing Christmas songs at school and try their best to spread Christmas cheer.But now all 10 of them are in trouble because of what they did at their school, Battlefield High School.“They said we were maliciously wounding other kids. But nobody intentionally tried to do that, or did,” said Zakk Rhine, a junior at Battlefield.The boys say they were just tossing small two-inch candy canes to fellow students as they entered school. The ones that are in plastic wrap and are so small they often break apart.Skylar Torbett, also a junior, said administrators told him, “The candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points.” He said neither he nor any of their friend did that.Next thing they knew, they were all being punished with detention and at least two hours of cleaning. Their disciplinary notices say nothing about malicious wounding, but about littering and creating a disturbance.“It was 7 a.m. in the morning, when kids were coming to school. So I can‘t see how we’d be creating a disturbance,” said Cameron Gleason, also a junior.The Principal Amy Etheridge-Conti says she can‘t comment on the students’ discipline, but did say there was lot more to it than handing out candy and that the discipline was warranted.The boys admitted that their incident may have cause litter since some kids dropped their candy canes on the floor. But Cameron Gleason said he spent an hour cleaning up the dropped candy.The boys’ parents think the school went overboard and that maybe administrators were trying to stop their boys from spreading Christmas cheer.Mother Kathleen Flannery said a administrator called her and explained that, “not everyone wants Christmas cheer. That suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps.”
Reflections on the Passing Scene - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative
Reflections on the Passing Scene - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative: "University students rioting against tuition increases on both sides of the Atlantic are painful signs of the degeneracy of our times. The idea that taxpayers owe it to you to pay for what you want suggests that much of today's education fails to instill reality, and instead panders to a self-centered sense of entitlement to what other people have earned."
FCC and Net Neutrality: What Ever Happened to Transparency? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
FCC and Net Neutrality: What Ever Happened to Transparency? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "Although lacking regulatory details, hundreds of consumers, service providers, and other “stakeholders” have filed some 1,900 pages of comments on the FCC’s latest foray into Internet regulation. But anyone hoping to access the comments in the four days leading to Tuesday’s big vote were stymied by a “maintenance” shutdown of the agency’s Web site. Although it’s unlikely that FCC officials actually plotted to block the site, the untimely access restrictions hardly argue for FCC control over all Web transmissions."
Do We Still Believe in American Sovereignty? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Do We Still Believe in American Sovereignty? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "Ultimately, American foreign policy must be controlled by the American people. This is why treaties (such as the New START Treaty) require ratification by the Senate, in addition to the President’s signature. As Groves makes clear, there is no reason to agree to treaties that seek to weaken us. We are self-governing, and have no need to enter treaties desperately. Our Founding Fathers did not fight to secure sovereignty for a country that would – without protest – risk losing it through dangerous treaties and overreaching international organizations a mere two hundred years later."
Robert M. McDowell: The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ.com
Robert M. McDowell: The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ.com: "On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of a long winter's night for Internet freedom.
Mr. McDowell is a Republican commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission."
Mr. McDowell is a Republican commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission."
Morning Bell: It’s Time to Stop the FCC Internet Czars | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Morning Bell: It’s Time to Stop the FCC Internet Czars | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "Imagine a future where the Internet is governed by unelected bureaucrats in Washington, DC, who rule at their own whim, regardless of legislators’ demands or judicial rule. Sadly, that future is now. Today, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to make an unprecedented power grab and assert the authority to regulate the Internet, despite opposition from Congress and a contrary federal court ruling. And while it’s a story that has gone largely unnoticed amid Congress’ big-ticket lame duck decisions, it’s a tale of unchecked government expansion that must be told."
Obama’s FCC Threatens Internet Freedom
Obama’s FCC Threatens Internet Freedom
We have warned, time and time again, that a free Internet is an immeasurable threat to the liberal-socialists who currently control the US government.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Stop START
The Democratic Congress is trying to pull a fast one.
They are using their lame-duck majority — explicitly rejected by the voters of America — to compromise our national security by ratifying the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
The treaty limits the U.S. missile defenses and the preamble suggests that we would not engage in any new military technologies to thwart nuclear weapons. It also says we cannot convert any of our rockets into interceptors and it locks in about a 10,000-unit tactical nuclear warhead edge for the Russians. It reduces strategic warheads — where there is now rough parity — but not tactical ones where Russia has a huge advantage.
Why should we be rewarding Russia by relieving them of the expense of building new missiles and defense systems?
Had Reagan followed this line of liberal thinking, the Cold War would never have been won. Remember that Russia's economy is less than one-tenth the size of ours. So the best way to reduce their power is to make them divert spending into the military. That is the best way to accomplish our basic goal: to bring down a Russia increasingly focused on domination and replace it with a democratic nation that lives at peace with the world.
So, please hit the phones and let your senator know how you feel about New START.
The vote on the treaty will take place soon.
Please call your senator in Washington today at 202-224-3121.
I understand several Republican and Democratic senators are still on the fence. If you live in any of these senators' states, it is particularly important to call them:
Snowe — Maine
Collins — Maine
Brown — Mass.
McCain — Ariz.
Corker — Tenn.
Alexander — Tenn.
Isakson — Georgia
Voinovich — Ohio
Webb — Virginia
Ben Nelson — Neb.
Collins — Maine
Brown — Mass.
McCain — Ariz.
Corker — Tenn.
Alexander — Tenn.
Isakson — Georgia
Voinovich — Ohio
Webb — Virginia
Ben Nelson — Neb.
How Congress Can Fight Union Corruption | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
How Congress Can Fight Union Corruption | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "According to recent polling, 66 percent of union members believe their leaders mostly look out for themselves and a full 89 percent of them believe unions should disclose their spending. Sherk notes that Members of UFCW Local 7 in Colorado recently voted out their President after they learned he gave his children six-figure jobs on the union payroll"
Worst of the Waste: The 100 Outrageous Government Spending Projects of 2010 | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Worst of the Waste: The 100 Outrageous Government Spending Projects of 2010 | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "A report prepared by Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) office reveals taxpayers shelled out $615,000 so the University of California at Santa Cruz could digitize Grateful Dead photographs, tickets, backstage passes, fliers, shirts and other memorabilia."
Morning Bell: The Ghost of Broken Promises Past | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Morning Bell: The Ghost of Broken Promises Past | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "New START is a bad deal for national security at any time. The Administration still refuses to release the treaty’s negotiation records. The Congress elected last month has a far more legitimate claim to approve this treaty than the one sworn into office two years ago, despite Senator John Kerry (D-MA) saying new members don’t count. The tax rates have been frozen. The spending has been frozen. This Senate should just leave New START to the next Congress and go home"
Income Taxes Are Not For Income To The Federal Government | Personal Liberty Digest
Income Taxes Are Not For Income To The Federal Government | Personal Liberty Digest: "Actually the income tax has a dual purpose, and neither is to pay taxes to the government. Its first purpose is to control and redistribute the volume of money. James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States said, “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."
Sunday, December 19, 2010
American Education, Curbing Excellence - Steve Chapman - Townhall Conservative
American Education, Curbing Excellence - Steve Chapman - Townhall Conservative: "America's primary and secondary schools have many problems, but an excess of excellence is not one of them. Not only do our weak students fare poorly in international comparisons, so do our strong ones. Mediocrity is the national norm."
FBI Agents Train Garbage Collectors To Report Suspicious Activity
FBI Agents Train Garbage Collectors To Report Suspicious Activity: "Former FBI agents are helping local authorities train thousands of garbage collectors across the country as a nationwide internal spy force to report “suspicious activity” to police in yet another example of how America is turning into an East German-style informant society as the country decays from within."
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Union Leaders: Tenure Automatic, Even For Unsatisfactory Teachers - Kyle Olson - Townhall Conservative
Union Leaders: Tenure Automatic, Even For Unsatisfactory Teachers - Kyle Olson - Townhall Conservative: "After a three year period, within license, of being on payroll and the DOE has done nothing to stop the clock, you are automatically granted tenure,” Kaufman writes. “In fact you can be theoretically rated unsatisfactory for each of the three years and still get tenure if the DOE doesn't fire you or cause you to extend your probation.”"
Failure Equals Success in Looking Glass World of Cancun - Redmond Weissenberger - Townhall Conservative
Failure Equals Success in Looking Glass World of Cancun - Redmond Weissenberger - Townhall Conservative: "The best commitment the United States and Canada can make is to promise that they will do all they can to relegate the Kyoto protocol to the dustbin of history, leave UN bureaucrats to tilt at windmills – and help all still impoverished people achieve their hopes, their dreams, their true destinies."
Friday, December 17, 2010
America, the Crab Bucket - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative
America, the Crab Bucket - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative: "Our Founding Fathers had quite a different view of 'the American way,' of course. In 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote: 'To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.'"
Food prices rise sharply - and there's more to come
Food prices rise sharply - and there's more to come: "Grocery prices grew by more than 1 1/2 times the overall rate of inflation this year, outpaced only by costs of transportation and medical care, according to numbers released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com
Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com: "A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the Obama administration’s contention that the government is never required to get a court warrant to obtain cell-site information that mobile-phone carriers retain on their customers."
OUR VIEW: stop obama's net neutrality agenda | internet, cour - Opinion - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO
OUR VIEW: stop obama's net neutrality agenda | internet, cour - Opinion - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO: "FCC meddling in the way Internet service providers do business is a slippery slope for a variety of reasons. It’s inappropriate for the FCC to get involved with the nitty-gritty of an Internet service provider’s business. Even more disconcerting, if the FCC can regulate how companies provide access to the Internet, does that mean the government has the authority to regulate content on the Internet, like China does?"
OVERNIGHT TECH: Hutchison moves to stop FCC from enforcing net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
OVERNIGHT TECH: Hutchison moves to stop FCC from enforcing net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley: "“The FCC chairman’s attempt to impose new government regulations on the Internet is unnecessary government overreach that will stifle future innovation,” said Hutchison."
Thursday, December 16, 2010
UN Climate Change Delegates Support Prank Petition to Ban Water & Derail U.S. Economy | The Blaze
UN Climate Change Delegates Support Prank Petition to Ban Water & Derail U.S. Economy | The Blaze: "I’ve got to hand it to the folks at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. They‘ve come up with a creative new way to expose the scientific ignorance of many of today’s climate change fanatics."
Morning Bell: Release the START Negotiating Record | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Morning Bell: Release the START Negotiating Record | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "President Obama’s New START creates an implementing body, called the Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC), and gives it broad powers to promote the objectives of the treaty. These powers could include imposing additional restrictions on the U.S. missile defense program. This is an unacceptable cession of our national sovereignty. President Ronald Reagan walked away from Mikhail Gorbachev’s offer to eliminate nuclear weapons because he asked us to give up our missile defenses in return. No true conservative could support this treaty as it stands."
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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Congress' Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History
Congress' Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History: "Congress' Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History
Thirteen percent approve of the way Congress is handling its job
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance."
Thirteen percent approve of the way Congress is handling its job
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance."
The Associated Press: Earmarkers feast on pork one last time before diet
The Associated Press: Earmarkers feast on pork one last time before diet: "The spending barons on Capitol Hill, long used to muscling past opponents of bills larded with pet projects, are seeking one last victory before tea party-backed GOP insurgents storm Congress intent on ending the good old days of pork-barrel politics."
The Dems' Lame-Duck Land Grab - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative
The Dems' Lame-Duck Land Grab - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative: "In a last-ditch lame duck push, eco-lobbyists have been furiously pressuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pass a monstrous 327-page omnibus government lands bill crammed with more than 120 separate measures to lock up vast swaths of wilderness areas. Despite the time crunch, Senate Democrats in search of 60 votes are working behind the scenes to buy off green Republicans. House Democrats would then need a two-thirds majority to fast-track the bill to the White House before the GOP takes over on Jan. 5."
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Another Failed Flimate Change Conference - Rich Galen - Townhall Conservative
Another Failed Flimate Change Conference - Rich Galen - Townhall Conservative: "In spite of the presence of the new Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning President Barack Obama, the Copenhagen conference ended in failure. A big part of the problem was China's refusal to, according to the U.K. Telegram, 'allow its progress on emissions targets to be verified by other countries,' by refusing to 'sign up to the 'transparency' required by America.'"
Time to Freeze Global Warming - Phyllis Schlafly - Townhall Conservative
Time to Freeze Global Warming - Phyllis Schlafly - Townhall Conservative: "The global warming prophets and propagandists, who enjoy living in style on other people's money, gathered last month in the plush resort of Cancun, Mexico, where January temperatures usually hover around 80 degrees. God must have a sense of humor because Cancun was hit by its coldest temperature in a hundred years."
The Survival Station - NY Schools’ ‘Human Rights’ Curriculum Features Van Jones
The Survival Station - NY Schools’ ‘Human Rights’ Curriculum Features Van Jones: "The web event originated from a classroom at Chestnut Ridge Middle School, a school with a student population that recently scored below-average on statewide tests, according to the New York Times. It is extremely difficult to see how lessons focusing on corporate “greed,” landmine awareness, Chinese labor camps and abolishing the death penalty will do anything to raise student test scores in math, reading and science."
The Cost of Unions: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Files For Bankruptcy | RedState
The Cost of Unions: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Files For Bankruptcy | RedState: "The grocery industry is a highly competitive industry and, as so often is the case, those businesses that are saddled with extraordinary obstacles falter."
Unions That Won’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Unions That Won’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "Part of living in a democracy involves accepting election results. Americans know to move on when their side loses. Neither Republicans nor Democrats would suggest redoing the vote until their side won."
Yup liberalism is a mental disorder
Yet Again, Media Exaggerates Scale of Gun Smuggling from U.S. Into Mexico | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Yet Again, Media Exaggerates Scale of Gun Smuggling from U.S. Into Mexico | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: "There really should not be any dispute about this. It is not an argument about policy. It is about nothing more, or less, than who can look up a number in a government publication more accurately. To its credit, the Post does give the National Rifle Association space for rebuttal, but it leaves the impression that “the gun lobby” is simply trying to defend a long-discredited position. The reality is that, if 60,000 guns – or 75,000, as President Calderon said in May – have been seized in Mexico in recent years, less than a third have been traced back to the U.S."
U.S. flight crew held by foreign authorities for 'insulting' Chavez
U.S. flight crew held by foreign authorities for 'insulting' Chavez: "The cable revealed that on Sept. 30, 2008, the U.S. embassy in Caracas received word the American Airlines crew had been detained, apparently after a friend of a Venezuelan politician believed he heard a crew member insult Chavez"
Government's plan to dissolve America's sovereignty
Government's plan to dissolve America's sovereignty: "'Global governance' is taking shape much closer to home than most Americans realize, as Jerome Corsi proves in his New York Times best-selling book that reveals extensive government plans to promote the gradual integration of the U.S. with Mexico and Canada – the so-called 'North American Union.' And today only, WND readers can get an autographed copy of 'The Late Great USA' for the incredibly low price of $4.95!"
Look who's now getting special travel privileges
Look who's now getting special travel privileges: "In a further indication that the 'North American Union' agenda is quietly proceeding under what remains of the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative in the Obama administration, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano signed an agreement in Mexico with little fanfare that would extend special 'trusted traveler' access to the U.S. to an estimated 84 million Mexicans."
The Daily Outrage: Who, what, when ... where? | Washington Examiner
The Daily Outrage: Who, what, when ... where? | Washington Examiner: "The Daily Outrage: Who, what, when ... where?
TAGS: afghanistan Herat University San Jose State
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By: Examiner Staff Writer 12/04/10 8:05 PM
Examiner Staff Writer
Who: San Jose State University
What: The university will be using a $1.2 million federal grant to train professors at Herat University in western Afghanistan to teach modern journalism techniques -- once its safe for them to travel there.
Why it's an outrage: Afghanistan needs a lot of things, but imported journalism professors from Silicon Valley should be at the bottom of the list.
Where to vent: Call William Briggs, director of the SJSU School of Journalism and Mass Communications, at 408-924-3240."
TAGS: afghanistan Herat University San Jose State
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By: Examiner Staff Writer 12/04/10 8:05 PM
Examiner Staff Writer
Who: San Jose State University
What: The university will be using a $1.2 million federal grant to train professors at Herat University in western Afghanistan to teach modern journalism techniques -- once its safe for them to travel there.
Why it's an outrage: Afghanistan needs a lot of things, but imported journalism professors from Silicon Valley should be at the bottom of the list.
Where to vent: Call William Briggs, director of the SJSU School of Journalism and Mass Communications, at 408-924-3240."
Obama's Tax and Unemployment Package: Moody's May Cut US Rating on Tax Package - CNBC
Obama's Tax and Unemployment Package: Moody's May Cut US Rating on Tax Package - CNBC: "Moody's warned Monday that it could move a step closer to cutting the U.S. Aaa rating if President Obama's tax and unemployment benefit package becomes law."
Father Harassed By CPS For Feeding Kids Organic Food
Father Harassed By CPS For Feeding Kids Organic Food
A father of two was harassed and investigated by Child Protective Services and police for feeding his daughters organic food, refusing to make them drink fluoride-poisoned tap water and not having them injected with mercury-laden vaccines, all of which constitutes “suspicious activity” in the new Sovietized America, a foretaste of what’s to come once Big Sis’ Wal-Mart spy campaign gets up and running.
Monday, December 13, 2010
DailyTech - A Melting Arctic: Happy News for Mankind
DailyTech - A Melting Arctic: Happy News for Mankind: "Alarm over sea ice loss is misplaced.
Recent short-term gains in Arctic ice coverage indicate nothing about the eventual state of the Arctic. Answers to the long-term status of the region lie in the realm of a scientific branch known as paleoclimatology. What does it tell us?"
Recent short-term gains in Arctic ice coverage indicate nothing about the eventual state of the Arctic. Answers to the long-term status of the region lie in the realm of a scientific branch known as paleoclimatology. What does it tell us?"
Yes, ObamaCare Still Worse Than You Thought - Bruce Bialosky - Townhall Conservative
Yes, ObamaCare Still Worse Than You Thought - Bruce Bialosky - Townhall Conservative: "The rules established in this massive bill would set anyone back on their heels. Yet these are only the tip of the regulation iceberg that is aimed at the heart of every American. The NCPA identifies 159 new federal agencies in which bureaucrats define what medical care you may or may not receive. But is that true? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce states there are 183 new federal agencies. It’s perverse enough that all these agencies are being created. But if two reputable organizations can analyze this legislation and still disagree on how much bureaucracy springs from its pages, what hope will we ever have to survive this mind-warped beast?"
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The cost of new provisions in Obama's tax cut deal - Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 | 2:35 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun
The cost of new provisions in Obama's tax cut deal - Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 | 2:35 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun: "The cost of new provisions in Obama’s tax cut deal
The Associated Press
Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 | 2:35 p.m.
The estimated cost, over 10 years, of some of the new provisions added to the tax deal taking shape in Washington:
_ Tax credit for oil refiners who blend ethanol with gasoline, tariff on imported ethanol, other ethanol tax credits, $4.8 billion
_ Grants to reimburse developers of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, $3 billion
_ Incentives for biodiesel fuel production, $2 billion
_ Gulf Coast tax incentive programs enacted after Hurricane Katrina, allowing states to issue tax-free bonds, offer enhanced tax depreciation for investments, $792 million
_ Tax credit for construction of energy efficient homes, $138 million
_ Tax breaks for commuters who use mass transit, $136 million"
The Associated Press
Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 | 2:35 p.m.
The estimated cost, over 10 years, of some of the new provisions added to the tax deal taking shape in Washington:
_ Tax credit for oil refiners who blend ethanol with gasoline, tariff on imported ethanol, other ethanol tax credits, $4.8 billion
_ Grants to reimburse developers of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, $3 billion
_ Incentives for biodiesel fuel production, $2 billion
_ Gulf Coast tax incentive programs enacted after Hurricane Katrina, allowing states to issue tax-free bonds, offer enhanced tax depreciation for investments, $792 million
_ Tax credit for construction of energy efficient homes, $138 million
_ Tax breaks for commuters who use mass transit, $136 million"
Irony alert: The unusually chilly global-warming summit - The Week
Irony alert: The unusually chilly global-warming summit - The Week: "Best Opinion: Wall St. Pit, Independent
The irony: As negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. Climate-change skeptics are gleefully calling Cancun's weather the latest example of the 'Gore Effect' — a plunge in temperature they say occurs wherever former Vice President Al Gore, now a Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist, makes a speech about the climate. Although Gore is not scheduled to speak in Cancun, 'it could be that the Gore Effect has announced his secret arrival,' jokes former NASA scientist Roy W. Spencer."
The irony: As negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. Climate-change skeptics are gleefully calling Cancun's weather the latest example of the 'Gore Effect' — a plunge in temperature they say occurs wherever former Vice President Al Gore, now a Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist, makes a speech about the climate. Although Gore is not scheduled to speak in Cancun, 'it could be that the Gore Effect has announced his secret arrival,' jokes former NASA scientist Roy W. Spencer."
FoxNews.com - It's a Big Mistake to Expand the FDA's Regulatory Reach to Our Food System
FoxNews.com - It's a Big Mistake to Expand the FDA's Regulatory Reach to Our Food System: "Congress has a full legislative plate to clear before the lame-duck session ends, including a measure that would vastly expand federal regulation of the food supply. But that scheme -- a costly and unwarranted intrusion -- is best scrapped."
FoxNews.com - Will Congress Find Funds for Obamacare and Lots of Pork Under the Tree This Christmas?
FoxNews.com - Will Congress Find Funds for Obamacare and Lots of Pork Under the Tree This Christmas?: "Last Christmas Eve, the U.S. Senate gave Americans the lump of coal known as Obamacare. This year, they may take even more of our money to fund it and also force us to buy a pork-barrel full of thousands of earmarks. In a 212-206 vote, House Democrats pushed through a flawed continuing resolution yesterday that funds Obamacare and extends overall funding for the next year at reckless 2010 levels."
Friday, December 10, 2010
Hanoi Jane
Never Forgive A Traitor
For those of you too young to remember Hanoi Jane is a bad person and did some terrible things during the Vietnam war. Things that can not be forgiven!!!!
and now OBAMA wants to honor her......!!!!
In Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton
IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!
She really is a traitor.
A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
This is for all the kids born in the 70's and after who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear..
Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the '100 Women of the Century.'
BY BARBRA WALTERS WRITES:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ' Hanoi Hilton.'
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the 'Hanoi Hilton',,, the first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing in action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a 'peace delegation' visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it , in the palm of his hand.
When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?' Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat.. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper..
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot , South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs)
We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals....'
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her..
I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received... and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as 'humane and lenient.'
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.' Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women' should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can.. It will eventually end up on her computer and
she needs to know that we will never forget. RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343
PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE
For those of you too young to remember Hanoi Jane is a bad person and did some terrible things during the Vietnam war. Things that can not be forgiven!!!!
and now OBAMA wants to honor her......!!!!
In Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton
IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!
She really is a traitor.
A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
This is for all the kids born in the 70's and after who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear..
Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the '100 Women of the Century.'
BY BARBRA WALTERS WRITES:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ' Hanoi Hilton.'
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the 'Hanoi Hilton',,, the first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing in action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a 'peace delegation' visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it , in the palm of his hand.
When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?' Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat.. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper..
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot , South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs)
We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals....'
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her..
I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received... and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as 'humane and lenient.'
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.' Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women' should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can.. It will eventually end up on her computer and
she needs to know that we will never forget. RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343
PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE
Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions | CNSnews.com
Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions | CNSnews.com: "Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions
Thursday, November 04, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey
President Barack Obama makes an opening statement during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivias)
(CNSNews.com) - In a White House press conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama did not rule out using regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to cap carbon emissions in the United States without an act of Congress"
Thursday, November 04, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey
President Barack Obama makes an opening statement during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivias)
(CNSNews.com) - In a White House press conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama did not rule out using regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to cap carbon emissions in the United States without an act of Congress"
Meet the FCC commissioner who wants to control the news | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Meet the FCC commissioner who wants to control the news | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: "In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created a rule requiring broadcasters to cover issues that the government deemed important, and to do so in a way that the government found “honest, equitable and balanced.” If a broadcaster did not agree to abide by this rule, the FCC reserved the right to revoke the station’s broadcasting license. This rule was called the Fairness Doctrine. The FCC abandoned it in 1987. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, a socially conservative Democrat appointed to the FCC in 2001, would like to bring it back."
Top 10 reasons why the S. 510 must be stoped
(NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it's headed to become law. It's being hailed as a "breakthrough" achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens.
There's just one problem with all this:It's all a big lie.
Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:
For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to theCDCisToxoplasma gondii, adiseasethat people acquire fromcatfecescoming into contact with theirfood, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5n...). Salmonella poisoning accounts for553deathsa year. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving acarhas a roughly7600% higher chanceof killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/in...)
In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurizedmilk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address thesefood contaminationdeaths, since those foods are considered "sterilized" at the time of sale.
In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needsan opinion.
Is this "reason to believe" section really true? Yep, and here's how it was amended:
SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi...)
In other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S.Senateremoved the requirement that the FDA needed "credible evidence" in order torecalla product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing "reason to believe."
It is utterly amazing that the U.S.Congresswould give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and evenimprison peoplebased entirely on what the agency "has reason to believe."
Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement thathas any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don't even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you'd have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.
The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.
This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge ofthe food supply, isthe belief system of an insanegovernmentagencythat has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.
In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh produce in many kitchens across America. So the so-called "food poisoning" that's often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the contaminatedchickenmeat people bringhomeand slice on their kitchen cutting boards.
In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.
Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand willrefuse to hire more peopleor expand theiroperations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.
But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in areactionto the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the healthfreedomsand food freedoms of theAmerican people.
The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you've got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meatindustry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren't even addressed in the bill!
The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals -- anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science anddrugcompany trickery. The FDA doesn't seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out byBig Pharmain the name of "medicine." (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_h...)
To think that the FDA -- the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharmadeathmachine -- is now going to "save us" by controlling foodsafetyis highly irrational.
California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize theiralmondsbefore selling them (http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html). This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S. food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.
Not yet anyway.
But there's a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they're probably planning oncriminalizing fresh produceand then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the "intent to distribute."
Yep, farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer's market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the "food smuggling" provisions of S.510.
Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.
Eating the "Standard American Diet" is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It's the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume theAmerican dietstarts to showrecord rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the "safe food" that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.
Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.
Thank you for your support.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html#ixzz17h2N6ufI
There's just one problem with all this:It's all a big lie.
Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:
Lie #1 - Most deaths fromfood poisoningare caused by fresh produce
Here's a whopper themainstream mediawon't dare report: Out of the 1,809 people who die inAmericaevery year from food-bornepathogens(CDC estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer's contamination offresh produce.By far the majority of foodpoisoningis caused by the consumption of spoiled processedfoods, dead foods and animal-human transmission of pathogens.For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to theCDCisToxoplasma gondii, adiseasethat people acquire fromcatfecescoming into contact with theirfood, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5n...). Salmonella poisoning accounts for553deathsa year. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving acarhas a roughly7600% higher chanceof killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/in...)
In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurizedmilk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address thesefood contaminationdeaths, since those foods are considered "sterilized" at the time of sale.
Lie #2 - Under S.510,the FDAwould only recall products it knows to be contaminated
Not true. S.510 merely requires theFDAto have "reason to believe" a food is contaminated. So right there, that meansall raw milk will be targeted by the FDAbecause even without conducting any scientific tests at all, the FDA can say it has "reason to believe" the milk is contaminatedmerely because it is raw.In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needsan opinion.
Is this "reason to believe" section really true? Yep, and here's how it was amended:
SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi...)
In other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S.Senateremoved the requirement that the FDA needed "credible evidence" in order torecalla product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing "reason to believe."
It is utterly amazing that the U.S.Congresswould give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and evenimprison peoplebased entirely on what the agency "has reason to believe."
Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement thathas any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don't even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you'd have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.
The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.
This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge ofthe food supply, isthe belief system of an insanegovernmentagencythat has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.
Lie #3 - They didn't tell you that nearly 70% of grocery storechickensare contaminated withsalmonellaevery day
Yep, it's true: Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody forgot to notice that the vast majority of fresh chickens sold at grocery stores every single day are widely contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_c...). Yet S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It's not even mentioned in the bill.In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh produce in many kitchens across America. So the so-called "food poisoning" that's often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the contaminatedchickenmeat people bringhomeand slice on their kitchen cutting boards.
Lie #4 - S.510 will exclude and protect smallfarmers
TheTester Amendment, which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork and compliance burdens described in the bill. But this dollar amountis not indexed toinflation, meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more "quantitative easing," anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket -- and this will shift even smallfamilyfarms into the $500,000 sales range within just a few years.In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.
Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand willrefuse to hire more peopleor expand theiroperations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.
Lie #5 - The FDA needs more power to enforcefood safety
The FDA already has thepowerto effectively recall foods by publicly announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already has the power to confiscate "misbranded" products, too, and it could easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in areactionto the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the healthfreedomsand food freedoms of theAmerican people.
Lie #6 - Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork
There is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will make their food safer. The real cause of producecontaminationis the existence offactoryanimal farmswhose effluent output (huge rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and equipment that comes into contact with fresh produce.The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you've got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meatindustry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren't even addressed in the bill!
Lie #7 - The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food
The truth is that Americans are dying fromprocessed foodlaced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce. Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame,MSGand artificial food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial contaminations.The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals -- anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science anddrugcompany trickery. The FDA doesn't seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out byBig Pharmain the name of "medicine." (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_h...)
To think that the FDA -- the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharmadeathmachine -- is now going to "save us" by controlling foodsafetyis highly irrational.
Lie #8 - The FDA just wants to make food "safer"
Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more DEAD. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of live food. They think thatthe only safe food is sterilized food, which is why they've supported the fumigation, pasteurization and irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize theiralmondsbefore selling them (http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html). This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S. food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.
Lie #9 - Food smuggling is a huge problem in America
One of the main sections of S.510 addresses "food smuggling." Yep -- people smuggling food across the country. If you've never heard of this problem that's because it's not actually a problem.Not yet anyway.
But there's a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they're probably planning oncriminalizing fresh produceand then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the "intent to distribute."
Yep, farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer's market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the "food smuggling" provisions of S.510.
Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.
Lie #10 - S.510 will make America'sfood supplythe safest in the world
Actually, even with S.510 in place, America's food supply is among the most chemically contaminated in the world, second only to China. You can find mercury in the seafood, BPA in the canned soup, yeast extract (MSG) in the "natural" potato chips, and artificial petrochemical coloring agents in children's foods.Eating the "Standard American Diet" is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It's the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume theAmerican dietstarts to showrecord rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the "safe food" that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.
Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.
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Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html#ixzz17h2N6ufI
S 510 Food Safety bill is still alive and may unleash a new army of FDA agents
S 510 Food Safety bill is still alive and may unleash a new army of FDA agents: "Once an FDA inspection occurs, if the government believes the food grower is producing anything that might pose a risk to the public (and note carefully that 'belief' is the only thing required, not actual scientific evidence of harm), that food grower is then 'suspended' from producing food.
After that, they get dragged into a kangaroo FDA court where a panel of FDA officials then decides their fate. This takes place with no due process, no attorney, no Constitutional protections and no rights whatsoever. This is, in every sense, a 'King's court' where the King can simply decide that you're guilty and put you out of business."
After that, they get dragged into a kangaroo FDA court where a panel of FDA officials then decides their fate. This takes place with no due process, no attorney, no Constitutional protections and no rights whatsoever. This is, in every sense, a 'King's court' where the King can simply decide that you're guilty and put you out of business."
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Waivers Double to 222 as More Unions ‘Opt Out’ of ObamaCare | RedState
Waivers Double to 222 as More Unions ‘Opt Out’ of ObamaCare | RedState: "For a law that was supposed to save America by making health care more affordable, the list of companies and unions who are being given the green light to ‘opt out’ seems to be growing by the day."
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Obama Eats Crow - HUMAN EVENTS
Obama Eats Crow - HUMAN EVENTS: "Barack, the most anti-capitalist President in modern time, was humiliated, both personally and publically, by being forced into backing a two-year extension of the tax cuts he loathes. Obama ate a capitalist sandwich, and you know he hated every bite of it."
POWER GRAB: FCC Commissioner Calls for Gov Run ‘Values Test’, Control Over Minority Characters, Programming & Scheduling of TV | The Blaze
POWER GRAB: FCC Commissioner Calls for Gov Run ‘Values Test’, Control Over Minority Characters, Programming & Scheduling of TV | The Blaze
Then they're gonna control the internet. These people are dangerous
‘Tear Down the Empire’: Socialists Respond to Wikileaks by Calling for U.S. Demise | The Blaze
‘Tear Down the Empire’: Socialists Respond to Wikileaks by Calling for U.S. Demise | The Blaze: "While most of the nation fears the fall out from the latest release of secret documents by Wikileaks, some groups are seeing it as an opportunity. Take the socialists, who have called on democratic socialists to use the leaks as motivation to “tear down the empire,” otherwise known as the United States."
Teacher Assigns Students to Read About ‘Wine-Guzzling Socialist’ Jesus Christ | The Blaze
Teacher Assigns Students to Read About ‘Wine-Guzzling Socialist’ Jesus Christ | The Blaze: "Some parents in Bedford, N.H., are calling for action against school officials who assigned their teenagers a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.”"
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder
Is This the Worst Dream Act Speech Ever? | The Blaze
Is This the Worst Dream Act Speech Ever? | The Blaze: "“Free Education” – you had it, it was called K-12. Higher education is YOUR responsibility, not a prize won by those whose parents brought them across the border before they turned 16 years old…"
Pentagon Has Been ‘War Gaming’ for Economic Disaster Since Early ‘09 | The Blaze
Pentagon Has Been ‘War Gaming’ for Economic Disaster Since Early ‘09 | The Blaze: "While we learned yesterday that the U.S. is preparing its domestic response to a potential economic collapse, the bigger story might be that the U.S. has been playing such “war games” for almost two years."
Canada Health Official ‘Ousted’ After Dismissing HC Concerns With ‘I’m Eating My Cookie’ | The Blaze
Canada Health Official ‘Ousted’ After Dismissing HC Concerns With ‘I’m Eating My Cookie’ | The Blaze: "While the “ousting,” as CBC puts it, is welcome news in a country growing increasingly frustrated with its health care system, one person enraged over the news is Duckett’s wife."
Obama wants us to have the same failed healthcare system as Canada does.
PA Town Removes 57-Year-Old Nativity Scene From Gov’t Building: ‘Highly Disrespectful’ | The Blaze
PA Town Removes 57-Year-Old Nativity Scene From Gov’t Building: ‘Highly Disrespectful’ | The Blaze: "A small Pennsylvania town has removed a Nativity scene from its borough building after a resident complained that the creche is offensive to non-Christians. And while town leaders say they don’t like having to remove it, they say they are legally obligated."
Michael Savage is right. " liberalism is a mental disorder"
Bring an End to the Death Tax - Bruce Bialosky - Townhall Conservative
Bring an End to the Death Tax - Bruce Bialosky - Townhall Conservative: "The death tax is the most illogical, counterproductive form of taxation we have ever established. If someone works all of his life and saves money to pass on to whomever they wish – whether it be family, friends, co-workers or a charity – that should be their choice. They paid taxes on their earnings and they chose to skip the extra vacation or work a little harder, and we should respect and promote – not punish – that behavior. And we certainly should not force them to pay thousands of dollars to “consultants” just to minimize the death tax.
The new Congress has a chance to kill estate taxes for good. This should be one of their top priorities."
The new Congress has a chance to kill estate taxes for good. This should be one of their top priorities."
Washington's "Alphabet Soup" Poisonous to Economy - Adam Hasner - Townhall Conservative
Washington's "Alphabet Soup" Poisonous to Economy - Adam Hasner - Townhall Conservative: "Not long after the Democrats took their electoral “shellacking,” John Podesta, of the George Soros funded Center for American Progress, suggested that 'one of the best ways for the Obama administration to achieve results...is through substantial executive authority to make and implement policy.'"
Obama's contempt of Congress - Frank Gaffney - Townhall Conservative
Obama's contempt of Congress - Frank Gaffney - Townhall Conservative: "The Obama administration's insistence that Senators accede to his efforts to relegate them to rubber-stamps is without precedent. As a bipartisan group of fifteen former senatorsrecently observed, never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the deliberation and vote on an arms control agreement been truncated by their being conducted during a lame-duck session."
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