We Don't Deserve the FLOTUS or the POTUS

The New FLOTUS Bob

Did your health insurance premiums just rise by 39%? Lucky you! Some older folks had their insurance premiums upped by 75%. Many premiums now exceed the monthly mortgage payment. If your mortgage debt exceeds the value of your home, you are under water. If you lose your job, your new address will be the nearest Wal*Mart parking lot.
You could have avoided all this.
Every civilized nation has an insurance program called single payer. The system covers all citizens regardless of age, wealth or physical condition cradle to grave. The cost averages about half of the US burden. Its universality mandates the widest pool of insureds to build the lowest possible risk exposure.
The US present and proposed health plans leave too many citizens without coverage at prohibitive costs doomed to fail.

No Respect for CNN

Joe Weisenthal
The latest ratings are again horrible for CNN, so bad, in fact that the network has fallen behind CNBC (which is also struggling) in terms of news network ratings.

In an interview with TV Guide, CNN President Jon Klein argued that the network was in a fine position because unlike rivals, CNN was sticking to straight, hard news, and that that was proving to be move valuable than the slanted entertainment of the network's rivals.

Said a Fox News spokesperson in response:

We don’t respond to presidents of fifth-place news networks. The last time we looked, Jon was losing to the Weather Channel, so call us back when he and CNN regain relevancy.”

Zing!

Islamic Hegemony in the West

Geert Wilders
"I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of islamization. Ladies and gentlemen: Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible. It are opposite values.

No wonder that Winston Churchill called Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ “the new Quran of faith and war, turgid, verbose, shapeless, bur pregnant with its message”. As you know, Churchill made this comparison, between the Koran and Mein Kampf, in his book ‘The Second World War’, a master piece, for which, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill’s comparison of the Quran and ‘Mein Kampf’ is absolutely spot on. The core of the Quran is the call to jihad. Jihad means a lot of things and is Arabic for battle. Kampf is German for battle. Jihad and kampf mean exactly the same.

Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That’s a given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage.

We see Islam taking off in the West at an incredible pace. Europe is Islamizing rapidly. A lot of European cities have enormous Islamic concentrations. Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin are just a few examples. In some parts of these cities, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women’s rights are being destroyed. Burqa’s, headscarves, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honour-killings. Women have to go to separate swimming-classes, don’t get a handshake. In many European cities there is already apartheid. Jews, in an increasing number, are leaving Europe."

Islam Incompatible with Christianity

Alan Grayson [D-Fl] Leads both Party Tickets

Republicans like a politician who stands up for what he believes -- even if he believes the Republican Party is populated by a bunch of "knuckle-dragging Neanderthals."

The candidate leading the Florida GOP primary to determine who will take on Rep. Alan Grayson, the Democrat who represents the Orlando-based district, is none other than Grayson himself, according to a poll paid for by his campaign. Grayson is a freshman congressman who has drawn scorn from the GOP and has quickly built a nationwide following of progressives.

The poll has Grayson leading the 13 Republicans -- among Republicans -- with 27.8 percent of the vote.
-Huffington Post

911 Missing Links Blaming the Jews

| 911 Missing Links

The propaganda film "911 Missing Links" is a first rate production. It begins using the "truther" approach to the 911 tragedy. They carry it through until many viewers w ould agree the three skyscrapers imploded. It was an inside job.
Then, they build on the Israeli plot to destroy various American and British targets inside Egypt. The attempt to blame the Arabs for the terrorism failed when one of the bombs went off prematurely. It left an Israeli wounded but able to give-up his fellow conspirators to the authorities. This resulted in a number of hangings and a great deal of embarrassment to the Israeli establishment.[1954] History refers to this as the Lavon affair.
The film's second great proof of Israel's treachery occurred four days into the June War of 1967. The USS Liberty was a US spy ship filled with electronic detection aerials and equipment. There was no mistaking her for a mere freighter close to Egyptian waters. The Israeli Mystere fighter-jet pilots flew so closely to the ship the crewmen waved at them. When the pilots returned, they opened a vicious attack that killed several dozen sailors over a six-hour period. US Phantom jets were already in the air to rescue the Liberty when POTUS Lyndon Johnson ordered them to stand down.
There is no doubt the Israeli abused the Americans in 1954 and in 1967. Blaming the Jews for 911 based on these past incidents is too much of a stretch. The film makers failed to mention a pertinent factor. If the Arabs could have proven the Jews guilty of 911, millions of Afghan and Iraqi lives would have been spared.

US Unemployment for Those Under 25 is 54%

The GOP lacks a sense of urgency about the current economic situation.
Newt Gingritch points to philosophical aspects.

Newt cited Camus.
“The authorities can’t stand the truth.” His discussion of Orwell was more narrowly targeted. The message of “1984,” he explained, is that centralized planning inherently leads to dictatorship, which is why having a secular socialist machine try to impose government-run health care in this country is such a significant step away from freedom and away from liberty, and towards a government-dominated society.
He did not predict the outcome of a gridlocked Congress.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/03/08/100308taco_talk_hertzberg#ixzz0h1DJzBDP

Putting the Unemployed Under the Bus
Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting "because people are being paid even though they're not working."
Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work," Kyl said during debate over whether unemployment insurance and other benefits that expired amid GOP objections Sunday should be extended.
"I'm sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can't argue that it's a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it's a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here," said Kyl
- Huffington Post

Economic Prospects for Citizens Grim to 2019
If the COLA for food stamps is frozen over the next eight years, NPP analysts project a 19% erosion in the buying power of those stamps due to inflation. This means that, by the end of 2019, a similar family of four, eating at exactly the same level, would be paying $611 a month for its food, or $100 more, while still receiving that same $321.
In other words, if the 2011 budget and its projections proceed as planned, a great many Americans will be hungrier and still jobless in a harsher, meaner world, while what budgetary savings are achieved on the backs of the poorest Americans will be gobbled up by wars, weapons, and other “security” needs. Ordinary Americans will largely be left in a sink or swim world and the waters will be very, very cold.

Jo Comerford, National Priorities Project

The Doom Cycle
The good news is, there 's still plenty of time to do for financial reform what Obama should have done for health care -- go out and sell a clear and specific package. And he needs to make the point that, much like health care, doing it incrementally won't work. Leaving too-big-to-fail banks to continue doing business as they have been is like operating on a cancer patient and taking out only half the tumor -- the disease is guaranteed to come back. And eventually prove fatal.
- Arianna Huffington HuffPo

"Security Needs" Doom US Recovery

Economic Prospects for Citizens Grim to 2019

If the COLA for food stamps is frozen over the next eight years, NPP analysts project a 19% erosion in the buying power of those stamps due to inflation. This means that, by the end of 2019, a similar family of four, eating at exactly the same level, would be paying $611 a month for its food, or $100 more, while still receiving that same $321.

In other words, if the 2011 budget and its projections proceed as planned, a great many Americans will be hungrier and still jobless in a harsher, meaner world, while what budgetary savings are achieved on the backs of the poorest Americans will be gobbled up by wars, weapons, and other “security” needs. Ordinary Americans will largely be left in a sink or swim world and the waters will be very, very cold.

Jo Comerford, National Priorities Project