No Stimulus in the Stimulus Package:

The No Stimulus, Stimulus. What it really is, is a Democrat Christmas wish list.
Note, not a single GOP person voted for this and yet it passed in the House...proof that the DEMS OWN our Government and are not going to worry about Bi-Partisan anything (and why should they?)
The Bill: 647-page, $825 billion

$1 billion for Amtrak (Has not turned a profit in 40 years)
$2 billion for child-care subsidies
$50 million for that economic powerhouse the National Endowment for the Arts
$400 million for global-warming research (economic stimulus?)
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects (Demo projects to boost the economy?)
$650 million for digital TV conversion coupons
$30 billion, or less than 5% for fixing bridges or other highway projects
$40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects
$20 billion for business tax cuts (Actual stimulus)

That is about 97 billion give or take on the projects that can even remotely argued to be stimulus related. What about the other 728 Billion?

$8 billion renewable energy funding (read that as Ethanol and wind energy which are both cost prohibitive)
$6 billion on mass transit (Fare cover just about 50% of the cost to these systems.)

those two will have a net cost to the economy and are not stimulus.

$600 million more for the federal government to buy new cars (Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on its fleet of 600,000 vehicles)

$7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities
$150 million for the Smithsonian

None of the next group can even remotely be considered Economic Stimulus (Not saying they arent worth wile just not related to economic stimulus and do not create new jobs)

$81 billion for Medicaid
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$83 billion for the earned income credit (giving other peoples money to people who have lower incomes and dont actually pay INTo the income tax system)

The next group of expenditures:
$54 billion will go to federal programs
Economic Development Administration
Small Business Administration
10 federal job training programs

and others. All of which the OMB and GAO have classified as ineffective or unable to pass basic financial audits.

And last but not least:
$66 billion to education, more than the entire Education Department spent a mere 10 years ago
but this is not to help students get educations the bill states on page 257 that "No recipient . . . shall use such funds to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary or secondary schools." Can't have money going to nonunion teachers now can we?.

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Dems are using the economic crisis as a means for throwing money at all their favorite boondogles. *sigh* They Won, they get to do what they want *sigh*

First Formal TV Interview after the inauguration

Is with an Arabic news service? Uhh Yooohoo Mr. Prsident...before you jump in trying to mediate a cease fire overseas between two other countries, how bout we deal with a few things right here at home first?

Dems and Liberals diplay extreme lack of class

Not really a surprising thing really, I've always known that the least polite and civilized people I have met were Libs and Democrats. Rude, obnoxious and plain lacking in civility.

The adoring masses gathered at President Obama's inauguration yesterday completely trashed the National Mall, the litter looks like some 3rd world nation where people have never seen a trash can. So much for the concern of the planet these bozos claim to have an exclusive on. Then there is the complete lack of respect and civility for the departing president, chanting and singing in derision. It was a disgrace and to me an ultimate display of ignorance. All this after President Obama made a speach telling us, we are all in this together and we have to work together.

Got news for ya buddy, you have to give respect to get it, and so far your adoring masses haven't earned squat.

President Obama screws up the Oath of office.

Now imagine if you will that instead of Obama it was George Bush........


Personally Im cutting President Obama some slack, the guy has a lot of shit on his shoulders right now. People of his own color are saying he isnt fit to represent because he has no slave blood and all those damn hillbilly rednecks with their guns taking shots at him....oh wait, only one of those things happened...but still he has a global scale crisis on his head and Nancy Pelosi ready to tell him just what to do....nerves are to be expected.

So cut him some slack, he's got a lot going on.

But again, just think and be honest with your self what the liberals would say if it had been GWB and not BO who messed up something simple like the oath of office.

I'll be watching the Daily show to see John Stewart ripping O a new one....yeah like it's gonna happen.

Way to go Steelers!!!

What a game. Ravens vs Steelers, knew it was going to be a tough defensive game...wow.

My only gripe about the whole thing is the TV announcers didnt even tell us how the Ravens running back was doing...would have been nice to know what the word was at the end of the game, that was a SERIOUS hit.

Well I pick the Steelers to annihilate the Cardinals in the Super Bowl.

Are you going to watch this inauguration?

Im not. To me it will be a tribute to all that I think is wrong with our current Government.
$150 MILLION dollars for a party....sorry that is wrong when they are taking tax payers dollars to subsidize bad buisiness practices with the other hand. I also will not watch because it is Barak Obama who is being sworn in. Not because he is dark skinned, there are many black men I would have happily supported and voted for. No I will not be supporting Barak Obama's party because he and I view the world in two radically different ways. He believes in enforced socialism and I do not. I will not however stoop to the liberal lefty level and say "He is not my President" because for good or ill he is, he was elected in the manner that has been set down in law.

Im going to hold my tongue and wait till the man actually DOES something before I criticise. I'll ignore his rhetoric and his speaches to his adoring supporters, and watch to see what is actually enacted....Nancy Pelosi and co. are going to be under close scrutiny, I hope they keep that in mind

Global Warming Strikes again!

Chicago is experiencing -50 degree wind chill and it is 12 degrees here in Maryland.
The Nation as a whole has been experiencing lower and lower average temps over the last 10 years....Im expecting the "Warming" any time now.....sooner would be better.

Coulter's Ban for Life is over.

Apparently "Life" isn't as long a period as I thought :)

Coulter was on NBC Wednesday, seems she is only banned for life from
certain parts of NBC, but not he parts that generate ad revenue or get kickbacks from
promoting books etc.

Happy Birthday to me and Feliz Navidad!!!

Hit 47 today, woohoooo, soon Ill be half a century old....wowzer.

Coulter Banned for Life from NBC

Ya know, I read Anne Coulters book Treason and found it to be an educated and well written assessment of the literal truths on the subject of McCarthy and the whole scandal of communist infiltrators into American Government and Hollywood. I thought she did an excellent job. So I like her writing and her fact finding. I think that she sources her material better than about anyone I have read recently.

I do not really get into her heavy slam bang idiom, that she uses in her columns and on air talking. I prefer a more....calm and less in your face style. So it was interesting when I ran into this tidbit on the Drudge Report:(it is very short so I just posted it whole, I hope this doesn't violate any CopyRight type stuff. The source is http://www.drudgereport.com/)

Mon Jan 05 2009 17:50:57 ET

The nation's top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

Banned for life!

"We are just not going to have her on any more, it's over," a top network source explains.

NBC's TODAY show abruptly cut Ann Coulter from its planned Tuesday broadcast, claiming the schedule was overbooked.

But executives at NBC TODAY replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton, who recently offered $1,000 to anyone who would throw a pie at Ann Coulter. Hilton is also launching a new book this week, RED CARPET SUICIDE.

Coulter was set to unveil her new book, GUILTY.

But one network insider claims it was the book's theme -- a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era -- that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist.

"We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now," a TODAY insider reveals. "It's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either."

For the book, Coulter reportedly received the most-lucrative advance ever paid to a conservative author.

The TODAY show eagerly invited the author months ago, for her first network interview on GUILTY.

The exclusive was to air during the show's 7 AM hour. The cut came Monday afternoon.
Coulter was also to appear on the TODAY's fourth hour. A host even teased the segment saying the 'conservative pit bull and bestselling author' would be a guest.
Developing...

On thing I find interesting is that they dont want her being critical of President Elect Obama.....I really wish they had followed that philosophy when it came to President Bush....they certainly had no problem trying to trash talk him. I also note they state that their viewers dont want to hear from Anne....really? No one asked me...my wife, or anyone I know.... Well I have to say, this is ONE reason why Television ratings are in the dumper and that their viewership is falling fast....people just dont want TV execs speaking for them.

Kinda reminds me of Walter Cronkites arrogance when he pointedly informed people that "It isn't news until WE say it is news"