Thursday - October 13, 2011
Oops
Yesterday:
Opening new terminal is a ‘defining moment’
Monroe Louisiana - Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo couldn’t help but smile as he toured the new Monroe Regional Airport terminal one last time before Monday’s official grand opening.
The grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the new $35 million Monroe Regional Airport Terminal is at 4:30 p.m. Monday.
“It’s going to be a historic day for the city of Monroe,” Mayo said. “It’s an awesome moment for all of us. It’s emotional as well because we’ve worked so hard to get to this point. Without question, it has been the No. 1 project during my administration. It’s very gratifying to know this will change the gateway into and out of Monroe and the entire northeast Louisiana region.”
The first flight at the new terminal is scheduled to arrive at 8:17 p.m. Tuesday. The first flight out will occur at 6 a.m. Wednesday.
“The first set of passengers who fly into Monroe will probably be shocked when they get off the plane and walk through the loading bridges and come into a brand new facility,” Mayo said.
Today:
Missed connections
Monroe Regional Airport officials learned Tuesday passenger loading and unloading bridges at the new $36 million terminal are not being able to connect to airplanes.
Airport director Cleve Norrell confirmed Tuesday afternoon that some of the loading and unloading bridges at the new terminal appear they will not be able to connect to some of the airplanes.
He said airport officials are working to determine what caused the problem, if the issue resulted from a design flaw during the construction process or if it was a result of an error on the city’s part.
“We are checking them out to see what the problem is, but it looks like some of them will fit and some won’t fit,” Norrell said. “We’re not sure what will fix it right now, but that’s what we’re working on. There are a lot of variables, but we’ll know when we try to put them up to the plane. We’re working to remedy the problem.”
Oops. Still, it’s just a bit of a glich. I’m sure another couple hundred thou can fix things right up. But the real falling short to me is how they spent the money in the first place.
From what I can find out from visiting the “>airport’s homepage, it seems that about two dozen significant commercial flights a day flow through this airport, mostly going in and out of Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta. Wiki tells me they have 3 runways, with the longest one being 7500 feet. That limits this airport to jets smaller than the A320 and modern 737 size; they can fly the old MD-80s and the tiny corporate jets, but that’s about as big as they can go. If they’d spent some of that $35 million on upgrading and lengthening the runway to about 9000 feet, then they could have perhaps grown into a regional hub. Once upon a time Delta was centered out of here, but they moved on to bigger and better airports long ago. To be a playa in the major airport game you need to be able to land the widebodies, and that means long runways built strong enough to fly the heavies. At the very least you need to build to handle the mid-size planes like the A320 and the 737, which make up nearly 1/3 of all native flights, even to make a decent financial go of it. If you can’t do either then you may as well hang Maggie’s Drawers on a pole as a windsock, because your airport will forever just miss the target.
But hey, I’m sure the 900 passengers a day who use the main terminal will be impressed. For $35 million, they damn well ought to be. So good luck to Monroe Regional. And yes, “are not being able to connect to airplanes”, because grammar and writing skills are apparently no longer required to get a degree in journalism.
Monroe is the 8th largest city in Louisiana, located in Ouachita Parish in the northern part of the state, with a population of about 50,000. 3 miles east of town and only 79 feet above sea level, Monroe Regional Airport has two 5000 foot strips and one 7500 foot strip. During WWII more than 15,000 navigators were trained there.
Below the fold: a partial solution?
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 11, 2011
Oh Right, This Will Help
DOD Announces New Defense Policy Board Members
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta today announced the following new members to the Defense Policy Board: Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general; Jane Harman, former U.S. congresswoman; Retired Gen. James Cartwright, former vice chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Retired Adm. Gary Roughead, former chief of naval operations.
These members join the following returning members: John Hamre, chairman; Harold Brown; J.D. Crouch; Richard Danzig; Rudy deLeon, Chuck Hagel; Retired Gen. Jack Keane; Henry Kissinger; Frank Miller; John Nagl; Sam Nunn; Joseph Nye; William Perry; James Schlesinger; Brent Scowcroft; Sarah Sewall; and Retired Gen. Larry Welch.
The Defense Policy Board provides the secretary, deputy secretary and under secretary for policy with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning matters of defense policy.
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14841
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Permalink • Thursday - October 06, 2011
I’m gonna heave
Rep. Edolphous Towns (D-NY) has introduced the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011. That bill would do with Obama’s presidential records what Obama has already done to his personal and collegiate records: Seal them up.
In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.
Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”
If the Democrats’ proposed measure (Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011) becomes law, former presidents will be allowed to assert a new “constitutionally based privilege” against disclosing records of their liking.
No. Not this president. Not any president. Not Bush, not Clinton, not Reagan. Not one word, one recording, one photo or one document. Granted that certain things have to be kept secret for security reasons, National Secrets Act or some such. But those should be accessible to people with the proper clearance levels, and there shouldn’t be all that much of it. The day to day stuff and everything else belongs to us. We The People are paying the bill, so the work product, it’s ideas, and all the machinations behind it belong to us. Every word spoken, every doodle drawn, every gold tee shanked. There is no 9 to 5 time clock for the job, so every utterance from every hour is public. That such a bill should be introduced more than a year before the next election really smells. And Edolphus Towns ought to be run out of town on a rail for putting forth such a tyrannical bill.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 05, 2011
Fast and Furious: It’s Bush’s Fault?
WASHINGTON — The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other Republicans have been hammering the Obama Justice Department over the practice known as “letting guns walk.” The congressional target has been Operation Fast and Furious, which was designed to track small-time gun buyers at several Phoenix-area gun shops up the chain to make cases against major weapons traffickers. In the process, federal agents lost track of many of the more than 2,000 guns linked to the operation.
When Bush, a Republican, was president, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Tucson, Ariz., used a similar enforcement tactic in a program it called Operation Wide Receiver. The fact that there were two such ATF investigations years apart in separate administrations raises the possibility that agents in still other cases may have allowed guns to “walk.”
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, called on Obama to direct the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate. Smith said that newly released department documents suggest the attorney general knew about Operation Fast and Furious as early as July 2010.
Federal law enforcement officials familiar with the matter say Operation Wide Receiver began in 2006 after the agency received information about a suspicious purchase of firearms. The investigation concluded in 2007 without any charges being filed.
After Obama took office, the Justice Department reviewed Wide Receiver and discovered that ATF had permitted guns to be transferred to suspected gun traffickers, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the practice is under investigation by Congress and the Justice Department inspector general’s office.
In a statement, Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that “whether it’s Operation Fast and Furious, Operation Wide Receiver, or both, it’s clear that guns were walked, and people high in the Justice Department knew about it. There’s no excuse for walking guns, and if there are more operations like this, Congress and the American people need to know.”
Following the discovery that agents in Tucson let the guns “walk,” a tactic which has long been against Justice Department policy, the department under Obama decided to bring charges against those who had come under investigation in 2006.
To date in Wide Receiver, nine people have been charged with making false statements in acquisition of firearms and illicit transfer, shipment or delivery of firearms. Two of the nine defendants have pleaded guilty and a plea hearing is scheduled for Oct. 13 for two other defendants.
Last October, Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, raised concerns about investigative methods in Operation Wide Receiver and about the timing of announcing indictments in both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious.
The crap in DC just gets deeper every day. “Bush did it first” is no excuse even if true. The only thing this article shows me is that ATF has been out of control and unchecked for a long time, which is pretty much common knowledge among the firearms owning citizenry.
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 04, 2011
Eric, the bus is coming for you
Pretty much proof that he flat out lied to a congressional investigation. Or else he’s utterly incompetent. Or both!
CBS News: Documents reveal that Holder received briefing on Fast & Furious in July 2010
“ ... straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels.”
No code words or euphemisms there. Nice and specific. And yet Eric Holder, upon discovering that 1,500 guns had been “supplied” to Mexican drug cartels in an operation managed by the ATF, apparently didn’t demand a full explanation. Fancy that.
Go read the story at Hot Air if you’d like.
As we’ve said from the very beginning, this goes all the way to the top. ALL THE WAY. Guess Obama’s “under the radar” plan to subvert the Second kind of blew up on him. Or would that be “backfired” if we stick with the bus terminology?
As far as I’m concerned, this is a major major felony concocted, run by, and screwed up by, the entire top of the DOJ/DHS pyramid. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 28, 2011
SSDD
Fast & Furious: High Crimes & Misdemeanors that should topple a government
Media reaction: Yawn. No story here. So, how about those Yankees?
This is objectively the most important political and legal story in America right now.
But despite the revelations from of documents and testimony obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and repeated calls for full disclosure from senators and congressmen, mainstream media organizations have done everything in their power to bury the scandal. This can only be viewed as a partisan media’s attempt to protect a criminal executive branch.
The Gunwalker conspiracy is the kind of story that journalists dream of breaking their entire careers. It is now in the palms of their hands: a story in which they can make a difference, take down the evil and corrupt, and ensure justice is served.
Instead of reporting, however, they are complicit. They have chosen to acquiesce to a clear and obvious evil, an aberration of our most basic values. They are no longer watchdogs, but docile sheep.
Soylndra scam? Scandal? Crime? Crony money laundering scheme? Just plain stupid investment? Never fear, Obama will do it all over again, TWICE AS HARD.
I guess that pesky Solyndra scandal won’t be deterring the corrupt president from doling out more of your money. Why should Solyndra stop him? It’s not as if many in the media are even reporting it.
Facing a Friday deadline, the Energy Department has approved two loan guarantees worth more than $1billion for solar energy projects in Nevada and Arizona.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the department has completed a $737 million loan guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy for a 110 megawatt solar tower in Nevada, and a $337 million guarantee for Mesquite Solar 1 to develop a 150 megawatt solar plant in Arizona.
The loans were approved under the same program that paid for a $535 million loan to Solyndra Inc., a now-bankrupt solar panel maker that has become a rallying cry for Republican critics of the Obama administration’s green energy program.
I’m pretty close to giving up here. “All the news that fits ... our agenda” has never been more true.
Flush the government. Send all the reporters to jail. No textbooks allowed in schools that were written less than 40 years ago. It’s long past the 9th inning IMO.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 22, 2011
Democrat Economic Ignorance 101
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody
This is Democrat Elizabeth Warren, running for the US Senate in Massachusetts.
Pardon me, Warren, nobody ever said that. People get rich because they have a product/service that others are willing to pay for. (unlike the government job you’re running for.) To get rich takes two things:
1) I have a product/service.
2) I have people willing to pay for said product/service.
The only people that get rich on their own are Democrats in the House or Senate. They steal from us the old-fashioned way: they use the IRS. They certainly do NOT provide a product/service I’d pay for!
Posted by Christopher
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Permalink • Fined for hiring too many people!?
His name is Peter Schiff. It sounded familiar. Didn’t take long to find out why. I read his 2007 book Crash Proof. He’s pretty much a doomsayer on the economy. He admits that in his testimony before the US House. He is a CEO and the most egregious part of his testimony is the following clip: He was fined for hiring too many people.
I’m stunned. For two reasons. The first, and most important, reason is that I cannot find anything in the Constitution that gives the Federal government the right and authority to tell a businessman how many people he can hire. The only limit is how many people a businessman can afford to hire. (Even then, I wouldn’t hire anyone unless I had a need to do so.) Secondly, of course, is that in this current economic slump, don’t we want businesses to be hiring? They shouldn’t be fined more than they already are under existing employer mandates. (healthcare, SocSec, other payroll taxes…)
“In my own business, securities regulations have prohibited me from hiring brokers for more than three years. I was even fined fifteen thousand dollar expressly for hiring too many brokers in 2008. In the process I incurred more than $500,000 in legal bills to mitigate a more severe regulatory outcome as a result of hiring too many workers. I have also been prohibited from opening up additional offices. I had a major expansion plan that would have resulted in my creating hundreds of additional jobs. Regulations have forced me to put those jobs on hold.”
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 13, 2011
Social Security Math
It may only be Tuesday, but my bet is that this is the best comment of the week from any blog:
Eric Praline commenting at Soylent Green, on Social Security being a Ponzi scheme and the GOP candidate’s kerfluffle over such a statement of truth:
Let’s break down the numbers: with a $100 trillion unfunded liability, and the average worker contributes $200,000 over a lifetime (according to investmentpedia, whatever that’s worth) that means 500 million new suckers are needed. With a sucker born every minute, that works out to about 950.6 years.
Romney’s right, that seems like a solid strategy to me. Can kicking FTW.
FTW is right. Effing fantastic.
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Permalink • Friday - September 02, 2011
Less Terminal
TSA to demonstrate new security scanners at Newark Liberty International Airport
Passengers with privacy concerns may soon feel less exposed when flying out of Newark Liberty International Airport, where officials say full-body scanners modified to produce cartoon-like, cookie-cutter images will be unveiled today.
The new images produced by the reprogrammed scanners — which have been likened to a gingerbread man — will replace the specific, anatomically detailed outline of individual passengers that has been criticized by religious groups, civil libertarians and elected officials as an invasion of travelers’ privacy.
All 11 full-body scanners at Newark Liberty have been reprogrammed to produce the new imagery, and will go into use within weeks, once screeners have been trained to use them, said Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.
The TSA will demonstrate the new technology this morning at Newark’s Terminal B.
“This new software ... auto-detects items that could pose a potential threat using a generic cookie-cutter type of outline of a person for all passengers,” Farbstein said. “It’s the same image whether the person is 17 years old or 47 years old, male or female, tall or short.”
If the technology does not detect an anomaly, it won’t produce any physical image, just a simple “OK” against a green screen. Otherwise, the object’s location will be indicated by a box superimposed on the cookie-cutter image.
The TSA began testing the new software in February, and last month announced it would be installed this fall on all 241 millimeter wave scanners nationwide, including the 11 at Newark. The total cost of the new software is $2.7 million, including research and development, Farbstein said.
The TSA is testing similar privacy enhancing software for the 250 other scanners in use at airports nationwide, so called X-ray backscatter scanners which subject passengers to a small dose of radiation. None are used at Newark.
The ACLU has sued the TSA to learn whether the images produced by the reprogrammed scanners are simply overlays, with the original, detailed images preserved unseen in digital form, with the chance of being leaked or misused.
A earlier ACLU suit revealed the U.S. Marshals Service in Florida had created a database of 35,000 full-body images scanned at a federal courthouse in Orlando.
“These machines are designed to store the images,” Jacobs said. “Even if they don’t show them.”
I think I agree with the ACLU. I don’t trust the TSA and their army of ghetto trash workers. Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Permalink • Monday - August 29, 2011
Sign Me Up!
Wardmama too, and her husband. And we’ll get Christopher on board as well.
Be an insulation installer for the government ... $21/hr + benes. $43,680 salary. And no work to do. Oh hella yeah, I’ll take it. And I’m sure they provide the work clothes, gloves, masks etc so you don’t get a daily case of ‘glass ass, which is a terribly irritating affliction.
A green jobs program in one of America’s greenest cities is being called a bust 16 months after a $20 million federal grant to weatherize homes in Seattle ended up putting just 14 people to work in mostly administrative jobs and upgrading only three homes in the area.
“The jobs are not there,” Todd Myers, who wrote the book “Eco Fads,” told Fox News. “So we’re training people for jobs that don’t exist.”
Seattle is not alone. The Department of Energy has allocated $508 million to 41 states for its Better Buildings Neighborhood Program and 600 jobs have been created or retained.
One year into the three-year program, 9,000 homes have had energy audits and received some kind of upgrade. The goal is to weatherize 150,000 homes by 2013 and save consumers $65 million annually on energy bills.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says it’s too early to declare the program a failure.
“We may have to adjust how we market it and the incentives we provide,” McGinn said. “Nobody has really cracked the green jobs code.”
Contractors who do the energy audits and home retrofits blame government for getting in the way. To be a participating business in Seattle, the contractor is required to pay workers $21 an hour with full benefits, including retirement pay. But according to several small business owners in the area, the prevailing wage for new workers who lay insulation is $12. per hour.
McGinn, however, insisted that allowing contractors to pay anything less than what the city has declared a ‘living wage’, amounts to a ‘race to the bottom’ for jobs.
But Myers and others say the biggest problem with the program is government is trying to create a market that consumers don’t want. The average homeowner in the U.S. pays about $2,000 a year for energy.
The weatherization upgrades are aimed at saving 15 percent on energy consumption. If the retrofit costs $10,000 even with all the government incentives, it will take over 30 years to pay off through lower energy bills.
“The problem is the policies the politicians choose, whether green jobs or retrofits, are based on appearance,” Myers said. “They choose things that look good, rather than what’s best for the environment.”
Among the other cities having trouble fulfilling the green jobs promise are Toledo, Kansas City and Phoenix. So far, those cities have created a combined 72 jobs with $65 million in grants.
Sign me up. Hell, sign us all up. BMEWS Insulation Services, going green for the long haul. And the long green.
Saved or retained my ass. The whole !*$(ing stimulus thing is one gigantic pile of crap. “Shovel ready” indeed.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 18, 2011
Big Mistake
We had an off night at league, and managed to win only 1 game last night. This was the first week of position rounds, and we played the 2nd place team who was trailing us by 7 points. Now they are only trailing us by 4 points, which means we will have to face them again next week. If they win all 3 games they get the championship. If we win just 1 game then we get it. Yikes. Too much drama.
I went to the kick off meeting for the Tuesday night league. The motion was made to raise the weekly dues by $2, with the reason given that all the other Big Money leagues charge at least that much and that this league hasn’t raised it’s dues in several years. Funny thing is, this league is not advertised as a Big Money league, and it may not be working as one either.
So I made a serious mistake. I sat down and tried to figure out what the goals of this league are, and how they can be accomplished by the prize fund. Which means I started playing with spreadsheets. Big Mistake. Excel is a dangerous toy to give to an obsessive/compulsive like me. I’ve spent 2 days now running numbers, but the truth is “you can’t get there from here”. At the meeting it was said that this league historically tries to award the 1st place team enough cash so that they wind up bowling for free for the year. That’s great, but what about everyone else? Are we “big money"-ish in that the top places are awarded as best as possible at the expense of the bottom places? Or do the winners bowl free, and everybody else splits the remaining money as closely as possible?
I’ve been running those scenarios, which means I’m plugging away at a 70 page long spreadsheet. And honestly, it looks to me like “winners bowl free” can be done for $5/wk LESS than the current cost. Sure, sure, the more money everybody puts in, the more we can all get out. But it also turns out that the less we put in, the less we get out while at the same time having more in our pockets every week! And then I realized I really am a Tea Party person at heart, because what I’m doing is no different than what Congress does, just in miniature. Give them enough tax money to fund the most important goals, and leave the rest in my wallet.
Now I want to run the “winners bowl free, but everyone else gets a really tight split on what’s left” scenario. Spreadsheets are dangerous.
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Permalink • Monday - August 01, 2011
Nothing Ever Changes
1967:
graphic from Ed Thelen’s web page, home to more Nike missile info than you ever thought possible.
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Permalink • Monday - July 25, 2011
Fire Them All And Start Over
No, I’m not posting much at all on this self-inflicted “budget crisis” / “debt ceiling crisis” crap going on in DC. It never had to happen. It never should have happened. But the idiots in charge have to play their power games, and neither side is on our side, although one side is less not on our side than the other group. It’s confusing, it’s annoying, it’s a 24-7 bullshit fest. It has given us the darkest kind of humor, made even more ironic because these jokes are not at all funny; they’re true!
How bad is the budget crisis? The budget crisis is sooooo bad that Obama has stopped playing golf. It’s so bad that he’s stopped going to his own campaign fundraisers; it’s so bad that he’s sending Joe Biden to them instead!
Harry Reid thinks he’s immune from the First Law of Holes ( when you get to the bottom, stop digging! ) Did you see him on TV today, splatzing his verbal diarrhea? As far as Harry is concerned, me, you, and anyone else who believes in the TEA Party is a right wing extremist. Seriously, those were his actual words. The TEA Party people are right wing extremists. Extremists. Crazy people. Dangerous radicals. Because they believe the We The People are Taxed Enough Already, nickle and dimed to death and beyond, and that the government should be able to run itself on the vast mountains of tax revenue they already bring in without borrowing more. The nerve of us peons.
Tax cheat Timothy Geitner threatened yesterday that if Lord Obama’s plan wasn’t approved, then 80 million government checks wouldn’t go out. Aside from being a complete lie, Turbo-Tax Timmy glazed right over that 80 million part. The government is sending out 80 million checks a month? There are only 300 million people in the whole damn country!! That’s more than 26% of the country, more than 1 person in 4, who is getting some kind of monthly payment from the feds. Who the hell is left to pay the bills???
And to make it even worse, here comes the news we all saw coming months ago ... when everyone who mentioned it (Beck et al) was instantly labeled a racist crazy person willfully trying to destroy the recovery ...
U.S. Credit Rating Now Cut As Boehner Fights Back
It’s official.
The credit rating of the United States government—for the first time in American history—has been cut.
Lost in the headlines generated by Obama press conferences, Reuters reported that the credit rating agency Egan-Jones has in fact become the first rating agency to downgrade the U.S. rating. Egan-Jones, says Reuters:
..has cut the United States’ top credit ranking, citing concerns over the country’s high debt load and the difficulty the government faces in significantly reducing spending.
And what else is being reported about Egan-Jones’ reasoning for doing this?
The agency said the action, which cut U.S. sovereign debt to the second-highest rating, was not based on fears over the country not raising its debt ceiling.
Instead, the cut is due the U.S. debt load standing at more than 100 percent of its gross domestic product. This compares with Canada, for example, which has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 35 percent, Egan-Jones said in a report sent on Saturday.
The startling news, dug out by our friend and talk radio host Mark Levin, comes as House Speaker John Boehner walked out of talks to resolve the issue because President Obama “insisted on raising taxes.”
So this means that the government will now have to pay even higher interest rates on any future money it borrows. Which will push us even further into never ending debt.
But let’s listen to Harry and Oboner and the Gang of Thieves, and pile on more and more programs to ... promote social justice or whatever ... and borrow even more money at even higher rates to pay for them. And the best Crybaby Boehnhead on our side of the aisle can do is come up with a “temporary" plan to allow more borrowing? Followed probably by some more “temporary” taxes to increase revenue by taking even more money from the paychecks of the people lucky enough to still have jobs?
“Temporary”? That’s another punchline. No such thing. Alabama is still collecting money from it’s “temporary” tax they put in more than a century ago to pay the pensions of Civil War veterans. And their last veteran died in 1939!!
And we’re the extremists? We’re the crazy people? Horry Clap. I just can’t face this insanity. That’s why I’m trying to avoid posting on it.
PS - this world ending August 2nd deadline may also be fake. It looks like the real deadline might actually be August 10th. Not that it matters. The world stock markets are already trembling because these jerks in DC can’t work together.
On the other hand, good. Bring the government to a standstill. Don’t send out those checks. Let come what may. Families will take care of each other. It might not be so bad for a couple months. But if one side of the aisle is preaching fiscal sanity, and the other side wants to spend spend spend spend spend with no brakes and no limits ever, then bringing things to a standstill is what I want, and I want my guys to not give an inch. It’s what has to be done. The cupboard is bare; that poor dog has no bone. Stop the spending. At the very very least, do your damn jobs and develop and pass a budget that runs on 90% of the expected revenue. And that means HUGE CUTS across the board. Do it. Cut hundreds of billions in spending, right now, this year, and every year thereafter. Cut a trillion. Cut two trillion. And pass a law to make sure it stays cut. For that, these assclowns can argue till they’re blue in the face and everybody in government is out of a job. Fine by me. Do it. Might as well act like an extremist if I’m going to be labeled one again.
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Nasty Dirty Money
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On: 06/17/11 08:31
Amazing aerial images taken by daring Allied pilots on secret missions during WW 2
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peiper over at Barking Moonbat EWS found some absolutely kickass aerial photos from WWII. I grabbed this one because I’m a big fan of the movie A Bridge Too Far.…
On: 11/23/09 04:14
Clear Thinking and Straight Talk
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Let Them Fight or Bring Them Home Read all of it--and tell every American you know to do so. (Thanks to BMEWS) UPDATE: The author of the above blog is…
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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