1: Missouri is trying to imitate Indiana’s faulty voter ID law….

The Worst Voting Law in the Country–Alternet

2: It’s official, Bob Barr is running for president on the Libertarian ticket…

Bob Barr throws a wrench–ColoradoPols.com

3: Why does GWB hate the American consumer?…

The Bush administration tries to block Mad Cow testing by Meat packers–Crooks and Liars

4: Life is not only unfair, it’s cruel…

Dungeon monster dad Josef Fritzl’s luxury life in jail revealed–The Daily Record

5: I guess the parents just have to take the school’s word for it…

Boy suspended for fight on bus, the school claims they have video proof, but refuses to let it be reviewed by the accused–Libertarian Party of Colorado

6: Mother Nature appears to be putting the world through a blender and shaking things up…

World: Natural Disasters–ThePoliticalCat

7: Too many regulations keep mechanic from changing the world….

Greasy Fingers–Reason Magazine

8: $32 billion dollars worth of unclaimed property is being misused by the states…

States Seize Citizens’ Property to Balance Their Budgets–Signs of the Times

9: Mr. Unpopularity could help bring down the Maverick…

Poll: Bush harmful to McCain’s presidential aspirations–Think Progress

10: Another “senior moment” for McCain?…

McCain Wants It Both Ways On Global Warming, Ends Up Attacking His Own Plan»–Wonk Room

252 días al final de un error…

7 days and a wake-up to R&R!

(Don’t forget to refill your morning cuppa…)

This disastrous legislation could eventually force U.S. taxpayers to fork over $845,000,000,000.00 — in welfare to third-world countries. Here’s what Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and founder of Eagle Forum, recently wrote:

“Obama’s costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend $845 billion on foreign handouts…” [Emphasis Mine]

Ultra liberal  Senator Joe Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just issued a report on the Global Poverty Act and it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on Thursday the 24th.

The bill defines the term ‘Millennium Development Goals’ as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration…”

“In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning ’small arms and light weapons’ and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

“Those U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United Nations whims.”

And, how would the United States pay for this $845 BILLION commitment?  According to a report on the legislation; “A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.”

And that $845 BILLION global tax is in addition to our nation’s current Foreign Aid programs, which, in the single year 2006, cost American taxpayers about $300 BILLION!

Senator Obama’s Global Poverty Act has already passed the House (many Members unfortunately voted in favor of it without carefully noting exactly what was in it) and President Bush may very well sign it!

Here are some of the additional provisions of the Millennium Development Goal:

a “currency transfer tax,” that is, a tax imposed on companies and individuals who must exchange dollars for foreign currency;

a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources”; 

a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection — oil, natural gas, coal”;

“fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.”

a “standing peace force,” meaning a standing United Nations army that might, in time, be large enough to force us to bend to its will;

a “UN arms register of all small arms and light weapons,” the beginning of the end of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution;

the “eradication of poverty” by the “redistribution [of] wealth and land” – How do you suppose the United Nations expects to “redistribute” the land and the wealth?  And what country do you think the third-world majority will go after first?

cancellation of “the debts of developing countries,”

“a fair distribution of the earth’s resources.”

and “political control of the global economy.”

In other words, it’s a blueprint for a world government, owned and operated by the United Nations.

One thing is clear: the Millennium Development Goal is a dagger aimed at the heart of America.

While the Global Poverty Act, as presently championed by its Senate supporters, embraces certain aspects of the Millennium Development Goal, one should wonder if some of our legislators also support land and wealth “redistribution.”

These militants look at former Baptist preacher Huckabee as “God’s candidate” already burning pungent incense for his running for president in 2012 while flagellating themselves with whips braided from used Republican ballots. It is the latest version of the juvenile eats worms and dies pustule common around many irreconcilable extremists.

Excerpted, edited and added to from a May 12, 2008 article by Bob Novak

This time it is Advisor Robert Malley has been ejected from the Obama campaign for admitting to secretly meeting with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. A top Hamas official recently stated flat out that they are hoping Barack Obama wins the presidency which John McCain seized upon.

Obama has promised a much more conciliatory relationship with Iran (some friendly sitdowns and chats with a few toothless sanctions thrown in for show). Iran’s Ahmadinejad recently referred to Israel as a “Stinking Corpse” and said it was “On Its Way To Annihilation.” AND — Iran provides much of the funding and training for Hamas. Getting the picture??

Malley is the latest Obama casualty following foreign policy advisor  Samantha Powers for calling Hillary “a monster” in a British newspaper; before that it was his white grandmother, and of course Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

This continues a pattern of stinking judgement anad threatens a much more serious of having an intern in the White House but this time behind rather than under the Oval office desk.

Manager of the GOP convention has already resigned

McCain chose Doug Goodyear to manage the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, citing his management experience and expertise. Seems that Goodyear has expertise in other areas as well that could become a bit prickly for a candidate who likes to paint himself as a foe of special interests.

Let’s start with the $3 million CEO Goodyear helped DCI Group (a consulting firm) earn by lobbying for clients like ExxonMobil and General Motors. If that doesn’t bother you, how about the $384,000 that DCI collected in 2002 for representing Burma’s military junta in spite of its dismal human rights records? Regardless of the fact that this regime has been condemned by the State Department, it remains in power today. As has been the case with his entire election campaign entourage, McCain continues to surround himself with big-money lobbyists and many with questionable character.

Reading the writing on the wall, Goodyear has already resigned the position, stating that he does not want the issue to become a distraction. How about the real truth, Doug? You got caught with your ethics down and McCain would probably have fired you anyway because he will allow nothing to get in the way of his drive to the presidency.

Supporting the troops but, hey, there’s a limit

McCain has stated his opposition to Senator Jim Webb’s (D-VA) improved and expanded GI Bill. This bill would pay full college benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan (cost not to exceed the cost of the most expensive state school in a veteran’s home state). This effectively brings the GI bill into the 21^st Century, since the original Montgomery GI Bill pays only a fraction of the cost of today’s bloated tuition expenses.

Over the weekend, I noticed some blogs quibbling about what McCain’s exact words were regarding the Webb bill and whether or not he said what was quoted. It was clear that those who support McCain were running interference for him. Here are the facts: John McCain opposes the Webb bill, regardless of his exact words. Echoing the sentiments of the generals and others in the Pentagon, he’s afraid that enlistees will leave the military sooner than they normally would to pursue an education.

McCain is apparently working on his own legislation. On a recent campaign trip he stated, “I want to make sure that we have incentives for people to remain in the military, as well as for people to join the military.” Nowhere does he talk about owing our veterans an education for the sacrifices they’ve made. However, that is the way that Webb, a former Navy secretary and decorated Vietnam combat veteran, views his bill.

Another concern of the Pentagon brass, and the Bush administration, is the cost of this bill – about $2.5 to $4 billion per year. That’s because the country is choking on the $12 billion per month war in Iraq. So, let’s just put this in perspective because the math is very simple. The president didn’t have a problem going to Congress and asking for another big fat bag of money ($178 million through the first quarter of 2009) for his war, but he considers the Webb GI bill too generous (a maximum of $4 billion per year). So you can gain an appreciation for this level of hypocrisy, you do the math. And just so you understand that this is about McCain, not Bush, McCain supports the war in Iraq every time, both ideologically and fiscally.

Opposes equal pay for women

Back in 2007, our misbegotten Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strip Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of much of its potency. This ruling makes it significantly harder for women (and other workers) to sue their employers for pay discrimination by stating that the worker has only 180 days from the date of the first discriminatory pay check to file a complaint. This resulted in the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act (H.R. 2831), championed by Senator Edward Kennedy.

The bill does not create any new civil rights. It simply restores the potency of Title VII by making the 180-day rule apply after each discriminatory paycheck. Although he simply skipped the vote, McCain was opposed to this bill as well. Instead of legislation to assist women in the fight for equal pay he stated, “They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else.” Did you get that? Not only does he act like George Bush, but he also speaks just as eloquently. Allow me to translate this McCain-ism.

Women aren’t discriminated against in pay. They are just not educated enough to receive equal pay. So, we’ll educate them and then their employers will pay them just like they pay their male counterparts. Whoever McCain’s handlers are should inform him that many institutions of higher education in America presently enroll more women than men. Someone should also tell Mr. McCain that women in the higher echelons of organizations, in spite of being equally as or more educated than their male counterparts, rarely receive the same level of pay. He just needs to educate himself on the issue prior to opening his mouth.

While we are on the subject: Can the Supreme Court get any more conservative than it is? It sure can and McCain is determined to see that it does. He says he will use Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., as models for his own nominees. I address this in particular to women, but it should really go to everyone who cares about real freedom: One more conservative appointment could tip the balance of the court and will endanger reproductive and civil rights. He’s already received a zero from NARAL Pro-Choice America based, not only on his voting record, but also on his publicly-stated desire to overturn Roe v. Wade.

McCain’s quiet war on the environment

John McCain, although painting himself as an environmentalist of sorts, has been waging a silent war on the environment. He missed all fifteen critical votes on the environment in 2007, including those where a ‘yes’ vote from McCain would have resulted in the bill passing by a single-vote margin.

He finished dead last among his colleagues, earning him a big fat zero from the League of Conservation Voters. Out of 535 members, McCain was the only member to miss every single key environmental vote. That’s not just hypocrisy. That’s cowardice.

After eight years of George W. Bush, a John McCain administration is the last thing America needs. The American people will not get a true picture of McCain via the mainstream media. They have long since abandoned telling the truth about him. Americans must seek alternative news sources to gain information about all of the candidates running for the presidency, and for a true picture of the real issues surrounding this election.

1: Monsanto helping to bring down India’s farmers….

Monsanto: Wanted for Murder in India–Bring It On!

2: Myanmar cyclone almost takes down the 2008 Republican National Convention…

If It Wasn’t For That Damned Cyclone–duckplops

3: Is Florida being punished for the outcome of the last two general elections?…

Florida, Florida, Florida–Hypocrisy.com

4: Apparently, there really IS “a sucker born every minute”…

Money Marinade–The J-Walk Blog

5: Our Constitutional democracy is in grave danger…

sorry- but this is a must read–life’s journey

6: VoteBoth calling for joint Clinton/Obama dream ticket…

Group pushing Clinton as VP choice tied to her campaign–McClatchy

7: Other states/countries same-sex marriages still recognized in New York, for the being….

NY: Out of state same-sex marriages are legal (for now)–Pam’s House Blend

8: Young, Christian, and (formerly?) Republican and completely flipping the traditional script…

Young, evangelical … for Obama?–Seattle Times

9: Adding insult to injury in Myanmar…

Burma exports rice as cyclone victims starve–Signs of the Times

10: People are sending less mail, but the price of fuel is up (along with the price of postage) and it is not helping the USPS…

Post office $700 million in the red–Yahoo! News

253 días al final de un error…

8 days and a wake-up to R&R!

(Don’t forget to refill your morning cuppa…)

Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama who is outright hostile toward Hillary.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may not save the Homeland Security Committee chairmanship for Sen. Joseph Lieberman if he goes through with plans to address the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Reid will not kick Lieberman out of the Democrat caucus because he has endorsed McCain. A rumor that is blistering Washington DC is that Lieberman recently approached one prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton with a suggestion that he consider supporting McCain if Barack Obama is nominated.

Hillary appears set to overshelmingly win West Virginia

Forty-six percent (46%) of America’s Likely Voters favor a federal gas tax holiday this summer. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% are opposed and 12% are not sure. Most voters who earn more than $75,000 a year oppose the gas tax holiday. Most who make less than $60,000 a year favor that policy change. Among those make less than $20,000 a year, 62% favor the gas tax holiday while only 11% are opposed

OPEC may decide to increase production taking pressure off of prices and feightening speculators who account for 20-40% of crude oil costs. Analyst say there is an even change crude will fall below $100 a barrel if OpPEC increases production.

After the last two elections there were people who absolutely hated my state. Yet to those of us living here it seemed extremely unfair. That whole business of hanging shads and miscounted votes happened in South Florida. Everybody knows that Palm Beach and Miami are partly populated with Yankees; retired New Yorkers, Bostonians and other northerners. It is also a haven for immigrants, legal and otherwise, who may not have a good handle on the English language. But it definitely isn’t representative of the rest of the state.

Nonetheless, Democrats blamed Gore’s loss on Florida, regardless of where in the state you lived. And their anger and bitterness ran so deep that when my state was hit with three consecutive hurricanes in 2004 causing terrible devastation across the state they blamed it on God punishing Floridians for the past elections. Excuse me? You try being huddled in a bathtub for hours on end while not one, not two but three hurricanes come tearing across your front door. There is nothing as unnerving as to suddenly lose power right after your local weatherman announces that the eye of the hurricane was over your hometown. Then as friends and neighbors are cleaning up and making repairs to be told by some scathing Democrats that you deserved it.

They were still angry at us in the 2004 election where Florida was one of the main reasons the Democrats lost, again. If this state is that important to the Democrats you would think they might be a bit nicer to us. But noooooo. After the ’04 loss many of them couldn’t stop saying how stupid we were to vote for Bush again plus to have a Bush as governor, too. I still don’t quite get that strategy. If you want someone on your side you probably shouldn’t call them stupid.

Now here we are in the middle of election season and my state is again in the middle of the debate because Florida leaders moved up the primary date against the party’s rules. The National Republican leaders said they would only count half of the Republican delegates while the Democratic leaders said that they won’t count any of the Democratic Florida’s votes. Even though over 1.5 million Floridians voted for a Democratic candidate they were told that not one of their votes count.

OK, that makes sense. You have a state that has been pivotal in losing the past two elections and you tell them that for this primary their votes don’t even count. I can’t help but think that the National Democratic Committee is still punishing Floridians because of the past two elections. Call it revenge for 2000 and payback for 2004 but I just call it very nearsighted. They will need these votes come November, yet why should the voters turn out for them since the leadership has said they don’t count now in the primaries.

Florida appears to at least have avoided being dragged into an internal party fight for their candidate. Obama Democrats continue to say Florida doesn’t count whereas Hillary’s team wants to count her votes from this state. There were definite signs that the two Democrat groups were going to once again fight over votes from Florida. But as I said up front, luckily it appears that Barack is now in such a commanding lead that even with our votes Hillary still won’t catch up to him. Whew. I feel almost as relieved as I do when a hurricane heading my way turns course at the last minute and goes out to sea. Yet even though we may have missed this one who knows what might churn up come November? I guess we Floridians will just have to hunker down and wait and see what roll we might end up playing this fall. But if we don’t vote for the Democrat’s candidate and they lose for a third time, just call it payback for counting us out in the primary….

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