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When Nancy gives you the look

Cassandra — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:56:14 +0000

I thought House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was going to blow her Botox top last night when Rep. Joe Wilson called President Obama a liar from the House chamber in front of a nationwide audience. We all know Nancy’s as political as they come, but this is one grandmother in pearls who knows how to sear through steel with just one look. That’s all it took.

Michelle Malkin is a bald-faced liar.

Marty — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:18:28 +0000

This might surprise you, but Michelle Malkin is a liar.

To give her the benefit of the doubt that she is a somewhat intelligent woman, I then have to conclude that Maklin knows she is herself a liar. Yet, Malkin does not give her own readers and audience the same benefit of the doubt when it comes to their intelligence. However, she may be justified in that.

On her web site Malkin posted that Democratic U.S. Congresswoman Melissa Bean (Illinois-8th) charges her constituents $25 to go to her town hall meetings. She does not.

Malkin referenced (and linked to) meetings being held by two local chambers of commerce for their own membership, which invited Bean to speak. They did charge their members to attend the meeting, one of which which also included a breakfast.

One of the chambers which organized the private event called it a “Chamber Breakfast with Congresswoman Melissa Bean” in their ad and made no representation of any kind that it was a public event.

Malkin blatantly changed the wording on her post to “Town Hall Breakfast meeting with Congresswoman Melissa Bean”.

The other made no reference at all to theirs being a “town hall” either.

All of Bean’s public town hall meetings are free and open to the public.

And Michelle Malkin is a bald-faced liar.

That's the U.S. for you: Fund wars but not health care

Cassandra — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:13:24 +0000

Can anyone explain why American taxpayers are more willing to fund wars in far-off places than spend their money on health care at home? And why Americans can tolerate so much death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan but show so little interest in saving thousands of citizens’ lives?
This Christian nation’s priorities are terribly confusing. But these church-going people are all up in arms over how much health care reform will cost yet keep their mouths shut over the billions the country has borrowed to crash overpriced planes and helicopters in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Between March 2003 and July of this year, 4,200 U.S. military personnel have been killed in Iraq, according to the Brookings Institution. To deploy one, just one, U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq costs a freaking $390,000, according to the Congressional Research Service. Can you ever imagine paying that much for your health insurance premium? So why does health care spending make people so angry? The real ripoff is military spending. Wake up and smell your hard-earned dollars burning in Iraq, taxpaying public.

Here are some other stats that should make you just a little bit angry:

Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq – $9 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money and $549.7 million in spare parts shipped in 2004 to U.S. contractors. (ABC News)

Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq – $10 billion (Congressional hearings)

$20 billion –amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items

Missing – $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (CBS News)

After tolerating an administration that did nothing to boost American’s esteem, morale and quality of life, people are now so worried about a deficit that was dumped on them by that administration. An administration that focused its misspent energies on doing everything in its power to leave this country in a recession and deep, deep in debt. But the growing debt wasn’t a problem when the Bush folks were creating it. Now, Obama has no choice but to keep borrowing to fund our insane and hypocritical habits even as he makes the case that we need to control costs on the very expense that people are crying is out of hand: health care.

Don’t you wish Americans would start making sense?

Reality Check

Marty — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:48:21 +0000

Please send this link to everyone you know, no matter what side of the debate they are. And ask them to do the same. Thanks! This is the reality, the facts. If you have a web site, it does not matter what the regular content or subject of your site is, it’s time to take a stand and go off topic – post the link!. It’s your site! It’s our future!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/

We should get rid of government run:

Marty — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:20:17 +0000

I think we should get rid of government run:

Air traffic control.

National defense. Got a gun? do it yourself. I’ll buy you a ticket to Afghanistan.

Highways. Privatize all roadways. You’ll love paying tolls on every road and having interchanges every mile or two.

Fire departments and emergency services. I’ll sell you water and a hose. And heck, after an accident just leave ‘em on the roads for the crows.

National Parks, state parks…hell, all parks and green space. Gosh, you know the private sector will do that better.

Sewage and waste-water treatment.

Water: A well for every household. Neighbor’s sewage runs into it? Tough! That’s what guns are for.

Border patrol, immigration, etc.. Let the private sector take care of it. That’s what guns are for. Duh.

Courts and the legal system. Who needs it? We have guns, let’s use ‘em!

It's not about health-care, get it? It's all about…

Marty — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:40:37 +0000

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In the News Today: Republicans and Democrats hit by more scandal

Marty — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:07:30 +0000

Republicans and Democrats hit by more scandal

Reported by Myron Hacktor of the Freepress Daily Inquiry

There is yet more scandal in the Republican party since it was recently discovered that an unmarried Republican senator, John Freeman from Nebraska, has had an affair with an unnamed, unmarried woman. Both are approximately the same age, neither have been married before or have any children from a previous relationship. The Republican leadership is calling for his resignation.

In other news, Democrats showed up at a town hall meeting for a health-care debate in Rural Illinois and gave up their Constitutional rights of mob behavior and free speech by having a rational debate.

Finally, it is confirmed, Obama is indeed a black man…well half…who was born in Hawaii, was elected the 44th president of the United States and has chosen not to be the “Decider”. Against modern precedent, he has given that role to Congress.

And other scandal in this country, it has been discovered that Sonia Sotomayor, despite her testimony to Congress stating that she is an emotionless automaton, has a secret stash of empathy.

Sotomayor sworn in

Marty — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:07:21 +0000

Maddow: INTIMINATION – Nazism is not a metaphor

Marty — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:25:49 +0000

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Maddow: Health care reform? Be afraid!

Marty — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:50:31 +0000

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