Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton
Not the state of Maine. Mr. Adams copy is one of eleven still known to exist from a printing of 250.
"Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776.
Virginia's high court said that a lower court did not err in its ruling in Adams' favor because Maine didn't prove the document was ever an official town record and that Adams had superior title to the print."
"We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident . . . that gub'mint doesn't have claim to everything."
Obama Administration Supports U.S. Telecommunication Companies' Spy Immunity.
"The Obama administration late Wednesday vigorously defended congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration's domestic spy program.
The administration's legal move should come as no surprise. During his January confirmation hearings, Attorney General Eric Holder told senators that the Obama administration would defend telco immunity. "Unless there are compelling reasons, I don't think we would reverse course," Holder said."
Uh, if Obama supports it, and he is now the President, that would make the program Obama's.
Obama gots Gw's back on the State's Secret thing, too:
"Two weeks ago, Holder announced a review of litigation inherited from the Bush administration in which the so-called state-secrets privilege was invoked. Despite the review, the Obama administration is not parting course from its predecessor."
In other words, the Feds can keep classified info classified in the name of Nat'l secuirty. So, apparently, what got the loon toon screaming meanie moonbats' panties in a twist with GW Bush, is not so bad under Obama.
"After Barack Obama took office, a federal judge in Washington gave the new administration a month to decide whether it wanted to stand by Bush's legal argument. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd says the filing speaks for itself.
"They've now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law," said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented several detainees."
"According to fans of the show, the squid's most memorable moment thus far occurred last week, when it got a little testy during a discussion on whether teenage girls are getting "too sexy too soon" and squirted 12 gallons of ink onto Sherri Shepherd. The antic was met with laughter and applause from the studio audience."
Spewed out wholesale for maximum mesmerizing manipulation.
(Update below)
Karl Rove asks,"Why does Obama routinely ascribe to opponents views they don't espouse?"
"President Barack Obama reveres Abraham Lincoln. But among the glaring differences between the two men is that Lincoln offered careful, rigorous, sustained arguments to advance his aims and, when disagreeing with political opponents, rarely relied on the lazy rhetorical device of "straw men." Mr. Obama, on the other hand, routinely ascribes to others views they don't espouse and says opposition to his policies is grounded in views no one really advocates.
On Tuesday night, Mr. Obama told Congress and the nation, "I reject the view that . . . says government has no role in laying the foundation for our common prosperity." Who exactly has that view? Certainly not congressional Republicans, who believe that through reasonable tax cuts, fiscal restraint, and prudent monetary policies government contributes to prosperity.
Mr. Obama also said that America's economic difficulties resulted when "regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market." Who gutted which regulations?
Perhaps it was President Bill Clinton who, along with then Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, removed restrictions on banks owning insurance companies in 1999. If so, were Mr. Clinton and Mr. Summers (now an Obama adviser) motivated by quick profit, or by the belief that the reform was necessary to modernize our financial industry?
Perhaps Mr. Obama was talking about George W. Bush. But Mr. Bush spent five years pushing to further regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He was blocked by Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank. Arriving in the Senate in 2005, Mr. Obama backed up Mr. Dodd's threat to filibuster Mr. Bush's needed reforms.
Even in an ostensibly nonpartisan speech marking Lincoln's 200th birthday, Mr. Obama used a straw-man argument, decrying "a philosophy that says every problem can be solved if only government would step out of the way; that if government were just dismantled, divvied up into tax breaks, and handed out to the wealthiest among us, it would somehow benefit us all. Such knee-jerk disdain for government -- this constant rejection of any common endeavor -- cannot rebuild our levees or our roads or our bridges."
Whose philosophy is this? Many Americans justifiably believe that government is too big and often acts in counterproductive ways. But that's a far cry from believing that in "every" case government is the problem or that government should be "dismantled" root and branch. Who -- other than an anarchist -- "constantly rejects any common endeavor" like building levees, roads or bridges?
During his news conference on Feb. 9, Mr. Obama decried an unnamed faction in the congressional stimulus debate as "a set of folks who -- I don't doubt their sincerity -- who just believe that we should do nothing."
Who were these sincere do-nothings? Every House Republican voted for an alternative stimulus plan, evidence that they wanted to do something. Every Senate Republican -- with the exception of Judd Gregg, who'd just withdrawn his nomination to be Mr. Obama's Commerce secretary and therefore voted "present" -- voted for alternative stimulus proposals.
Then there's Mr. Obama's description of the Bush-era tax cuts. "A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy," he explained in his Tuesday speech, after earlier saying, "tax cuts alone can't solve all of our economic problems -- especially tax cuts that are targeted to the wealthiest few."
The Bush tax cuts were not targeted to "the wealthiest few." Everyone who paid federal income taxes received a tax cut, with the largest percentage of reductions going to those at the bottom. Last year, a family of four making $40,000 saved an average of $2,053 because of the Bush tax cuts. The tax code became more progressive as the share paid by the top 10% increased to 46.4% from 46% -- and the nation experienced 52 straight months of job growth after the cuts took effect. And since when is giving back some of what people pay in taxes "transferring wealth?"
In his inaugural address -- which was generally graceful toward the opposition -- Mr. Obama proclaimed, "We have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord." Which Republican ran against him on fear, conflict and discord?
Mr. Obama portrays himself as a nonideological, bipartisan voice of reason. Everyone resorts to straw men occasionally, but Mr. Obama's persistent use of the device is troubling. Continually characterizing those who disagree with you in a fundamentally dishonest way can be the sign of a person who lacks confidence in the merits of his ideas.
It was said that Lincoln crafted his arguments in "resonant words that enriched the political dialogue of his age." Mr. Obama's straw men aren't enriching the dialogue of our age. They are cheapening it. Mr. Obama should stop employing them."
But he won't. Covetous tools demand it cheap. And easy. With our grand children's money.
The Obamacornucopia of solve everyone's problem will strive to oblige them.
The guy's a class act in front of the telepromter. Yet, like an fantabulous Vegas magic show, you know the magician has constructed the set and fooled your senses, but you just can't quite fathom the mechanics of the trick.
The bitter clinging folks from days gone by ascribed that quality to the carnival barking, traveling evangelists. He is my shepherd.
"I shall not want. He comforts the afflicted. He is a miracle worker.
He promises to provide for Americans from cradle to grave, while lightening the load of government on the backs of ordinary Americans. He promises not to increase their taxes "one penny." He promises to reduce their taxes."
No, no. That's too jaded.
How about a modern miracle Prize Patrol?! Congratulations!! Here's a $300 billion check! Too bad it's for a bunch a already rich congress lovin' hoes from K-street - and you have to pay for it!!!
Other people's money. Like your grandkids'!
We in Missouri say "Show me." Well, our newly elected guuberner, Jay Nixon, did just that by spilling the uber-leftist, gimme-gimme beans on the record: Missourians are entitled to stimulus money.
But no worries! WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama will give a 'Reaganesque' speech tonight. 'Scuse me whilest I SPIT.
Don't listen to what he says; watch what he does.
It's biggargantuan gub'mint business as usual. The 'No Lobbyist' campaign lie promise went under da bus, and, apparently, so will the 'No Earmarks' promise.
Pelosi and Reid called Bush's budgets "dangerous" and "unpatriotic," but with Obama, they've changed their tune.
"We thought the Bush deficits were big at the time," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, told me this week as he prepared to attend Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit. "But this is going to make the previous administration look like rank amateurs. We could be adding multiple trillions to the national debt in the first year." At some point last week, the sheer velocity of Obama’s spending proposals began to overwhelm even experienced Washington hands. In the span of four days, we saw the signing of the $787 billion stimulus bill, the rollout of a $275 billion housing proposal, discussion of Congress’s remaining appropriations bills (about $400 billion) and word of a vaguely-defined financial stabilization plan that could ultimately cost $2 trillion. When representatives of GM and Chrysler said they might need $21 billion more to survive, it seemed like small beer.
The numbers are so dizzying that McConnell and his fellow Republicans are trying to “connect the dots” — that is, to explain to the public how all of those discrete spending initiatives add up to a previously unthinkable total. Obama’s current spending proposals, Republicans point out, will cost more than the United States spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the general war on terror and Hurricane Katrina in the last seven years.And that’s before you throw in the $2 trillion fiscal stabilization plan.
“This is big government, man,” McConnell exclaimed, his matter-of-fact manner giving way to sheer amazement. “It makes previous attempts at big government pale in comparison — they’re going to go beyond the New Deal and the Great Society by far.”"
Surber breaks it down to the per minute:
"They want to spend nearly $6 trillion this year. That’s nearly $16 billion a day — $660 million an hour, $11 million a minute. Change. Hope. Burning money."
A trillion here. A trillion there. Pretty soon you're talking real money...
Where's all the free speech absolutists? Or does this liberal 'envelope pushing' stop when it doesn't involve body fluids or people who remain docile??
Apparently, Wilders can still get a hearing in the U.S. of A. And why not? The Jew hating, holocaust denying president of Iran, Herr Ahmadinejad, got one in 2007 at Columbia University. Oddly, though, Columbia bans the ROTC from campus. Go figure.
"Wilders’ 15-minute film juxtaposes verses from the Quran with images of violence by Muslims. Wilders has called the Quran a "fascist book" and said it should be banned.
Kyl agreed to facilitate the event because "all too often, people who have the courage to point out the dangers of militant Islamists find themselves vilified and endangered," said spokesman Ryan Patmintra."
How can a 15 minute film cause so many problems? I don't know. How can so many people get worked up over a cartoon?
"Want to know why Republicans are so high on Bobby Jindal? Watch him take two minutes to stake out the kind of economic policy territory that the GOP couldn’t find with both hands and a flashlight in two successive national elections:"
Update: Democrats to U.S. taxpayers: Hey! How about forking over $410 more billion for, oh, say... 9,000 earmark projects leftover from last year?
From the Washington Post! The racists have already issued a discredited doctrine of preemptive apology. But it's not good enough, WaPo!!
This cartoon is obviously a crypto-bigot, rightwing metaphor! It’s an egregious racial attack on the Democrat party (the chimp) which brutally swept away the desired, collective affections of voters (the woman) from a sadly out of shape Republican party {jilted, middle aged white dude of means (note: expensive flowers)}.
Mean spirited hate speech fascists! I demand a DOJ investigation!! ACLU protests!!!
By doing so, Bond makes himself out no better than the skin head morons who spew their racist cranial diarrhea.
It's disgusting that Bond would even suggest such a tragedy should befall our president, and, if the sycophant MSM actually still engaged in journalism, it would rip him a new one for even voicing the prospect.
Plus, if Bond were honest, he would ascribe such prescience, not to the Post & some published scribble, but to Obama himself and Obama's numerous comparisons to Lincoln. (and we all know his end).
An amicable 'he's just not that into you' parody letter to resolve partisan disparity, courtesy of SDoB.
"We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile, slate it up to irreconcilable differences, and go on our own ways.
Here is a model dissolution agreement: Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement.
After that it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell (you are however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move them).
We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies, and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's, and rednecks.
We'll also keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
You can make nice with Iran, Palestine, and France and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or way of life are under assault, we'll provide them job security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian Values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, and Shirley McClain. You can have the U.N. But we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversize luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
You can give everyone health care, if you can find any practicing doctors that are still practicing.
We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and The National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty its best shot.
Since it often so offends you we'll keep our History, our Name, and our Flag. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you ANWAR on who will need whose help in 15 years.
"Well, Mohammed did own slaves; he did slaughter a few hundred Jews, and some of his last words were cursing the Jewish & Christian people... I'm still not seeing how people are interpreting this religion as violent."
A fatwah with Steven Crowder's name on it in 6,5,4...
This might be prudent after your intolerant, pointy-head academic, bigot professor calls you a fascist b@st@rd in class for utilizing 'Faith' as an assignment topic.
A California dairy has converted a pair of 18-wheelers to run on biomethane produced from cow manure, creating what is believed to be the nation's first cow-pie–powered trucks.
Dr. Williams is an American economist and college professor at George Mason University. He's a syndicated columnist, published author, and occasional guest host for Rush Limbaugh and Lawrence Kudlow. He's also a cousin of former NBA player Julius Erving.
Right Wing News caught up with Dr. Williams last week to ask him a few questions about his new book:
~Can you give a basic explanation of why we had this housing crisis? ~Is it a good idea for the government to bail out failing companies? Why or why not? ~Do stimulus packages work? Why or why not? ~What do you say to people who claim that they have a RIGHT to health care or a RIGHT to a "living wage?"
"Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the breasts of Believers. - Sura 9:14"
Egyptian Islamic cleric, Zaghloul Al-Naggar, calls for war against Jews.
"Let me be clear. Jihad is the only way to resolve this issue. With the Jews, one cannot achieve anything by means of peace, or a settlement, or open borders, or diplomatic and commercial ties. They are devils in human form." (video)
'Jihad' is the Islamic term for warfare. What a nice ol' holy man. He and Fred Phelps should make out just fine. (pun!) He also rambles on about Jews being 'the scum of the earth and garbage of the nations', plus how the Crusades are still problematic. Dood. It's been 900 years. Get.Over.it.
RS over at JW hits the nail:
"The jihadists and their supporters keep telling us that this is a religious issue, not a political one, and the learned analysts in the West keep refusing to believe it, and keep telling themselves and us that a concerted effort at winning hearts and minds, to the tune of a few billion here and a few billion there, will solve the problem."
The Kyrgyzstan parliament voted Thursday to force the U.S. military to abandon its air base there.
"This should have been an easy move for the Obama administration. They needed to outbid the Russians, who are now cash-poor after the collapse in oil prices over the last six months. Instead, as comments from the Kyrgyz parliament make clear, the US waffled around until they ran out of time for a counteroffer."
Apparently, Russia wasn't all that impressed by Obama's 'Cabinet of Rivals' brain power.
This set back comes on the heels of Obama pronouncing the war 'winnable' and ordering 17,000 more troops Afghanistan.
Related: We've dealt with the 5 'Stan Brothers' as Great Game energy pawns back here.
Candidate Obama raised $750 million dollars for his presidential bid. He only has $30 million of it left over. Chicago is currently staring down a $50.5 million budget shortfall.
"Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein compromised our nat'l security when she revealed classified information about U.S. predator drones. Naturally, Feinstein was immediately offered a job with the N.Y. Times."
In related news: The NY Times continued its race to the bottom as a leftist, defeat-o-crat mouthpiece when it suspended dividend payments to stockholders in order to raise cash to operate.
Shares closed Thursday at $3.51 - less than the cost of a Sunday paper - and the lowest price ever since the Times first went public in 1960.
Obama does owe the NY Times something for all that free campaign propaganda. So place yer bets, boys n grrls!How long before the Magic Unicornicopia of solve everyone's problem offers 'em a bail out?? to nationalize the newspaper?? Update: the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News has already asked Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell for a $10 million bailout.
"It is ironic to the point of absurdity that leftists could ever complain about conservatives threatening their liberties. Now back in power, they're in a full sprint to grab power and reduce our liberties.
Of course, we always knew the left's spurious charges against President Bush were not just rank partisanship but also classic projection -- accusing him of precisely the type of tactics they would employ if they were in power. And now they are -- big-time.
"A Warren County woman sued Planned Parenthood Friday, accusing its staff of ignoring training and procedures by not reporting her suspected sex abuse when she was a minor, resulting in her being sexually abused for an additional 1½ years.
Planned Parenthood of America is a billion dollar a year industry - most of that money being generated from killing 43 million unborn babies since 1973.
In 2002, a judge found Planned Parenthood of Arizona negligent for failing to report the rape of a 13-year-old girl. The Mona Lisa Project has become Planned Parenthood of America's worst nightmare with the project's repeated video documentation of PPA's profiteering from their refusal to report sexual abuse & facilitation of perverts.
Because no one has depicted the president as a chimp before now. But Al Sharpton is still planning on being as thin skinned as he wants to be.
The fact that the NY Post's cartoon has its origins in (1) a recent news story in which Stamford, Conn. police killed a rampaging chimp; (2) an intellectual conundrum far removed from racism's ugly past known as The Million Monkey Theorem; and (3) the cartoon subject of Al Sharpton's latest race-pimp screed is Congress because the President doesn't write legislation, has gone clear over his race-pimp head.
TV station phones 'ringing off the hook' after 421 stations switched to DTV.
"Now, hold on—didn't Congress vote to delay the DTV transition date from Feb. 17 to June 12? It sure did, but hundreds of stations lobbied the FCC to make the switch on Tuesday, the original analog TV shutoff date. (Only those with older, analog TVs and over-the-air antennas will be affected by the switch.)"
Because aggressively advertising the switch for the last year & a half wasn't enough time for the slackers people to prepare, and the nanny state gub'mint needs more time to get coupons and $$$ to the whiners citizens so they can buy converter boxes!!
And you thought your gub'mint wasn't taking good enuff care of you.
And I say that especially loud in light of the absolutely stupid, utterly backassward, brainless, bleeding heart, frustratingly idiotic, counter-productive, seditious, self-loathing, anti-American moonbat decision of an Arizona jury to award trespassing illegal aliens $77,804 in damages against an Arizona rancher who caught the illegals trespassing on his land!!
They suffered emotional distress.
Then stay the &^%$# off the man's land!!
Idiots.
I shouldn't be all that surprised, though, at this open borders, bleeding heart, crap our own pants nonsense. Our newly elected fearless leader thinks that ICE agents are 'terrorists'.
You're right, fearless leader. The system isn't working & we need to change it.
And dog humping sculptures. And dog butt sniffing sculptures.
Classy.
Many Berkley tax payers aren't impressed with this 'artists' use of their money, and complain that the two large sculptures at either end of the city's new waterfront pedestrian bridge are "visually incomprehensible to passing drivers."
Well, of course. In Berkley, automobiles are evil.
Cost to the tax payer: $196,000.
In related news: Cali. Governor Schwarzenegger announces a 10,000 worker layoff, suspension of public works projects and a $42-billion budget deficit.
Just have all them beautiful people cash in their carbon credits, Arnie.
The United States Postal Service is a quasi-government monopoly in business to make a profit. It has no competition to deliver first class mail, yet it lost nearly $3 billion in 2008. It now seeks to cut back service one day a week & raise price of stamps - again.
Welcome to the definition of 'nationalized'.
Yet, the Postmaster got $800,000 in pay & perks in 2008. The Deputy Postmaster got $600,026 in total compensation in 2008; Chief of Human Resources received $482,820; and two other postal executives got over a quarter-million dollars each, according to Postal Service records.
But have no fear citizens; congress says it will investigate, and the Post Master says he will freeze executive compensation.
"In his congressional testimony, Mr. Potter said the Postal Service's financial outlook remains so dire that officials may have to eliminate a day of mail because of declining mail volume. He also said there are plans to reduce staffing at postal headquarters by 15 percent and cut travel budgets, in addition to the salary freeze. Last week, the Postal Service announced it would raise the price of first-class mail stamps to 44 cents, up 2 cents, effective in May.
Mr. Potter also said the losses occurred even as officials cut costs by more than $2 billion, reduced work hours by 50 million compared with the previous year and reached record levels for on-time delivery. He said the problems were caused, in part, by a weakening economy, billions of dollars in required payments to prefund retiree health care benefits and more people using electronic mail to communicate."
In contrast, FedEx & UPS are thriving and can track a shipment anywhere in the world with a mouse click.
"Mullah Dastagir, the shadow governor of Badghis province, was killed in the Sunday night airstrike in the Balamurghab district along with his brother Mullah Nabi Jan, Dastagir's brother, another known Taliban commander named Mawlawi Hayatullah, and five other Taliban fighters. Dastagir commanded more than 300 full-time Taliban fighters and another 300 part-time fighters."
I guess all that tax payer subsidized funding is addicting.
James Hansen has brought NASA to its lowest point ever by repeatedly endorsing false data, and for 20 years, Hanson has claimed Coal-fired power stations are death factories.
Obama's first WH news conference last week was a carefully massaged piece of administration agitprop.
"Obama even took a question from a "reporter" for the hyper-liberal Web site The Huffington Post. And, unlike Bush, the Obama administration preselected the reporters to be called upon and notified them in advance.
Why did the others even bother showing up? If Bush pulled something like this, they'd call it "the discredited doctrine of pre-emption."
Meanwhile, in Jordan, a 21 y.o. man regrets killing his 24 y.o. sister for not being a virgin. Forensic tests proved that she was virgin.
In France, a Muslim man is sentenced to 20 years in prison for setting his girlfriend on fire in order to 'restore his honor'.
"Chahrazad Belayni, a 21-year-old Moroccan-born woman, suffered third-degree burns to 60% of her body.
The case has highlighted violence against women in poor urban communities with large Muslim populations."
But, wait. Sadly, there's more.
A Muslim polygamist in California is sentenced to 7 consecutive life terms for imprisoning his wives and torturing his children.
"The 'reign of terror' merits the harshest punishment, Riverside County judge says. Mansa Musa Muhummed starved, beat and imprisoned his 3 wives and 19 children for decades."
Yet there are glimmers of hope in the backward regions of this world.
Saudi Society for the Defense of Women's Rights Launches Internet Campaign to Ban Child Marriage.
Will it be enough to stem this inherent tide of oppression & brutality against Muslim females?
Wack job agitprop outfits like code pinko and NOW are strangely silent on this brutality against women & girls.
But the violent Islamists target men, too; Daniel Pearl being the most infamous example when he was behead in Pakistan in 2002. A video of the gruesome act shocked the world as it wormed its way across the internet.
The latest male casualty of the blood thirsty Islamists was beheaded in Pakistan by the Taliban. They video taped it.
"The Islamist militants said on Saturday they had executed the Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, who they kidnapped in September, because the government had refused to free 60 captured militants before Friday’s deadline.
Our prayers and well wishes go out the all victims and families brutalized & murdered by these barbarians.
Oddly, though, the dhimmi cowards at the BBC in London have made a television drama called 'Bonekickers' with an episode showing a 'radical' Christian hacking off a Muslim man's head with a sword!
(Oh, and for you loon toon moonbats crying about mean ol' right wingers attacking this lady? Candidate Obama set that vetting of personal destruction standard against Joe the Plumber. Deal with it!)
She shed tears for her own "kitchen & bathroom - please help."
But lil ol' Henrietta and her able bodied grown son don't live in a car, and have not been "homeless since 2003." (come on, people. use some common sense!)
She did own a $124,000 house in Lee County, Florida. The mortgage was paid in full in 2003, and ownership transfered to her son in 2006. He still owns the property.It was not sold in 2005 for $47,000 as claimed.
Henrietta currently receives an $800/month govt. disability check.
Plus she hasn't run out of options, and has in fact turned down legitimate financial/housing help.
"However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn't being honest about how much help she's had in the past.
The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.
"We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free," said Tanya Johnson.
We Care Outreach Ministry is a faith based organization in Fort Myers.
Johnson says she also gave Henrietta and her son Corey, money, food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused.
Henrietta and her able bodied son deny those allegations.
But, wait. There's more! Henrietta and her son ran a 'poor, poor pitiful me' scam against the kind hearted citizens of Rochester, NY in 2004! and she received public assistance then, too - long before this current economic slowdown.
Well, President Obama, the Magic Unicornicopia of solve everyone's problems didn't get lil ol' Henrietta and her able bodied son any housing assistance, but a mean ol' evil republican state representative from Florida, Nick Thompson & his wife, got them a house.
Funny how those stalwart defenders of truth and information - the MSM - missed all these facts, isn't it?
"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." -Barack Obama August 14, 2007
US Predator strike in South Waziristan kills 25.
This is the second predator drone attack since Obama ascended to the White House. The first occurred Jan. 23rd. These drones are launched from covert bases inside Pakistan, and Pakistan doesn't like it none too much.
"Senior officials in Pakistan's government and military, including the president, the prime minister, and the Army chief of staff, have repeatedly protested US airstrikes inside the tribal areas as violations of the country's sovereignty. The disclosure of the base puts the Pakistani officials in a difficult situation with the citizens of Pakistan."
So how do we know that the U.S. launched such an attack from covert bases inside Pakistan? Why that idiot senator Dianne Feinstein(D) - the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee - demonstrated her woeful lack of any intelligence during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee by acknowledging said covert bases inside Pakistan.
Update: How much time will President Obama give the American people to review the 'Stimulus' before he signs it into law? Another campaign pledge under da bus.
(And) at last night’s presidential news conference, there were zero questions about the Census, or about the tax troubles of multiple Obama cabinet nominees -- although a Washington Post reporter did ask the President about the reported steroid use of baseball player Alex Rodriguez."
But the documentarians expose their own prejudice & stereotypes. (video)
Comments: (I)’d feel safer in Birmingham in a turban than in San Francisco in a Bush/Cheney t-shirt.
Update: I'm always reluctant to link anything about racism to Islam because Islam is a religion, not a race, but I found this article about "Muslims, Assimilation, and Racism" to be further exploration of the projected prejudice & stereotypes exposed in the above video.
"The truth should be dawning on all of us just about now that Democrats, Republicans, economists, Wall Street wizards, and even the high priests of monetary policy at the Federal Reserve have no idea how bad things are going to get or whether anything Congress does can improve the situation -- much less stave off disaster. And that means that the only thing we have to hang our hats on is the credibility and trustworthiness of the president of the United States.
Instead of instilling confidence, Obama is selling fear. Instead of raising us up, he is crushing us with his rank appeal to partisanship. Instead of statesmanship, we get gimmicks like his stimulus bill that the Congressional Budget Office tells us will harm the economy in the long run."
The bigot congress critters seek to tighten their grip of power and not let "a serious emergency go to waste."
"The wording that specifically targets religious speech already has been approved by the majority Democrats in the U.S. House – all GOP members opposed it. In the Senate, Jim DeMint, R-S.C., proposed an amendment to eliminate it, but again majority Democrats decided to keep the provision targeting religious instruction and activities.
The senator said the stimulus bill now becomes an "ACLU stimulus" that has the goal of triggering lawsuits "designed to intimidate religious organizations across the nation."
"This language is so vague, it's not clear if students can even pray in a dorm room renovated with this funding since that is a form of 'religious worship.' If this provision remains in the bill, it will have a chilling effect on students of faith in America," he said. "
Not the state of Maine. Mr. Adams copy is one of eleven still known to exist from a printing of 250.
