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A look at the numbers inside the unemployment report including a report that claims 190,000 job losses while also reporting an increase of more than 550,000 unemployed americans. The numbers are staggering. 27 million Americans without full-time work, real unemployment tops 17.5%

This hasn't gotten half the play it should have and for good reason; President Obama's weird, off-putting introduction to his remarks about the Fort Hood massacre reveal him to be something of a cold fish. Shocking insensitivity.

Like many Americans, I’m very concerned about the efforts underway to rush through the 2,000 page Pelosi health care bill this weekend. Why the rush? That’s a lot of pages to read. Why not give everyone the chance to read it and debate it? How much will this bill cost us? It’s unclear because the figures coming out of Washington keep changing – and always in the direction of costing more, not less. The latest numbers show it will cost more than a trillion dollars over the decade, but when has a government program ever come in on or under...

The amount of gymnastics Obama and his team of Chicago street thugs and his Alaska Mafia have performed while trying to stop Sarah is nothing short of extraordinary. They have had their billionaire buddies fund schemes, they’ve coordinated with 3rd rate hate bloggers and so on. They’ve put the full force of the White House as well as their compliant media lackeys up against this supposedly insignificant, washed up moose hunter from Wasilla.

President Obama is playing out a drama on the world stage, addressing Islam as a virtual supplicant, and conceding serious issues, while getting nothing in return. Why? Richard Baehr writes: The President demanded a complete freeze on Israeli settlement building, including in sections of Jerusalem, supposedly in return for some conciliatory gestures by the Palestinians and Arab states toward Israel. The demands on Israel hardened Palestinian attitudes, and the PA made a total settlement freeze a precondition for resuming peace talks. No gestures towards Israel were forthcoming from any Arab party. Instead, the Palestinians and Arab states launched a full...

First of all, let me start with how Governor Palin looked tonight. We all know that she is a beautiful woman, but that does not come close to describing how she looked. She was stunningly beautiful tonight. Maybe better than I have ever seen her look when I have seen her in person. She had on a 2 piece pink business suit on. Not really pink, but a fuchsia, close to a red color. Very tan and nowhere near as thin as she was immediately after her resignation. To me, that was a little too thin. The Governor wore her...

Obama's health care reform agenda is failing, Democrats are turning against it, and the powers that be haven't got an answer on how to turn it around. Obama, however, has a technique sure to turn public opinion in his favor... NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the comic within this thread. Thanks a bunch!

It is not often the case in this crazy time in America that someone like myself would be aligned with a self proclaimed socialist, Bernie Sanders from Vermont. While I find Sanders view on almost everything to be abhorrent, wrong and flat out anti-American, the man has some serious cojones. Specifically the introduction of the bill that he wishes to be called Too big to fail, Too big to exist Act. Actually on the subject of aligning with socialists, Sanders also submitted a version of Ron Paul's House bill to audit the Fed and this would then mark the second...

Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.

1. Why are all the details on Maj. Hasan so slow to come out? He is a member of the military, and thus his personnel records are open to the government. I mean, we knew more about Joe the Plumber at this point than about the Major. 2. Will Barack Obama have to give back his Nobel Peace Prize? 3. Will Barack Obama stand with the Muslims, should the political winds blow in an ugly direction? I'd say the Ft. Hood mini-jihad is an ugly direction all by itself. 4. Has anyone contacted John Murtha (Depends-PA) about this? Will he...

During the campaign, Obama made a definitive promise not to raise any taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year: “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes” (September 12, 2008, Dover, NH) "No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised," Joe Biden said, "whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment...

The House of Representatives, its members and its leaders have not gotten the message. They still are bent on enacting health care reform that is everything but health care reform. It is the most egregious act ever undertaken by any Congress in the history of the republic. It is the most substantial step toward statism and socialistic government yet attempted by anyone. It is, many say, a step toward government control from which the country cannot recover. It is intolerable and unacceptable, and if it passes we are no longer any of the things that have made this country exceptional...

Do you believe there should be immediate racial profiling in the military or should we continue on as usual with political correctness?

— Getting the news from Fox: Sarah Palin learned from Fox News that she and John McCain wouldn’t win last year’s presidential election. When she heard anchor Brit Hume announce that Barack Obama had won Ohio, “Palin swallowed a mouthful of air. ‘Oh, well, that’s it,’ she said.” — No concession on the concession: Palin wanted to give a concession speech, but that was nixed by McCain and his aides. It had been written by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, and would have had her say, “when a black citizen prepares to fill the office of Washington and Lincoln,

Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships. After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for...

I was wondering - I was born in France - may be in France they had german in the military since they love loosing wars and surrender but I was wondering if we had german in the US Army during world war 2 - did they have german in the english Army? Just saying.. The enemy is within and even our own army does not ahve the courage to acknowledge that THE ENEMY IS WITHIN. FREAKING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!! I AM SICK OF THAT. And soo soo sad. A 21 year old PRAGNET woman, just coming back from Irak, DIED YESTERDAY...

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A real death threat made public against Christian convert Rifqa Bary.

Pookie's Toons for November 6th. Enjoy!

Political correctness is going to rout this country. The jihadi who mowed down scores at Fort Hood was an adviser to the Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force. This was at the same time that the DHS was writing reports that right wing extremists like Grandma, Veterans, tea parties, patriots were the real threat. And Hasan had a jihad history. Enemy in the White House. Fort Hood shooter was member of Homeland Security Panel advising Obama Jihadwatch Of course. Why not? He was a "moderate." Until he wasn't. "Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster...

Just this morning we read about Muslims at Fort Meyers playing the usual Islamic victim card. Of course other Muslims have followed their lead. This time Muslims of Chicago are looking to get the focus of non-Muslims, off of the Islamic attack and on to the security of them. Never let them take our focus off of the threat of Islam! One of the Mosques in the Chicago is the Bridgeview Mosque. Here is a little back round information on them. A plea from Bridgeview to a Saudi charity asked for money "before it becomes too late and we may...

Dear Congressman Neal (MA-2): As you know, I have several times called your office and written to you regarding my questions about Obamacare and stating my opposition to it. In response, I have received one form letter in which is reprinted the Democrat talking points and ending with the suggestion that I'm just not smart enough to understand the bill's brilliance. Because you hide from conservative constituants (see: last summer's closed-door "town hall" into which only preselected Liberals were admitted), let me take this opportunity to ask an additional question. As I have waded-through the House's ever-changing bill, I have...

Eline van den Broek, founder of the European Independent Institute, a Netherlands-based free market think tank, presents a video for the Center for Freedom & Prosperity, discussing why less government, not more, is the solution for fixing healthcare. Enjoy!

For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent. A year after his election Obama finds it increasingly difficult to blame the sour economy on George W. Bush or offer reassurances that jobless Americans will soon find work.

Ft. Hood Victims List http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/breaking/2009/11/fort-hood-victims-list.html - Killed> - Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Spokane, Wash., was a physician's assistant who was working on the post as a contracted civilian Reservist John Gaffaney, 56, of Sierra Messa, Calif. Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Okla. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, was killed. PFC Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago. She was pregnant. Spc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn. Wounded> - Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wis.,...

Experts at MSNBC discovered yesterday that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is contagious. Presumably, Kathleen Sibelius is whipping up a vaccine which will soon be placed into the uber efficient HHS delivery system. Army psychiatrist Malik Nadal Hasan slaughtered 13 people and wounded over thirty others. This was no random shooting spree, Hasan chose his time, place and victims. The Muslim doctor has a history of hatred toward the US, saying that the Religion of Peace really ought to rise up against the US. The left is hysterically trying to spin the Islam out of this attack, insisting that Hasan...

(Thanks Freepers for your input and pictures last night. I ended up posting this entry on my blog anonymously addressing it to my race-obsessed lib friend)We heard it from the left on 4/15, again on 9/12, and once again yesterday: All these tea parties and all the government-run health (s)care protests are just angry old white men showing their racism, racism, racism. After all, what's with all the old white people? Well, first off, if there were a lot of old people, it was most likely because (a) it was a Thursday and younger people work, (b) older people tend...

Fight! Soldier To Dr. Phil: Quit The "Psychobabble" & Deal With The Islamic Factor at Ft. Hood

The Honorable Congress Critter Cannon House Office Building United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative XXXXX: I am a registered voter and constituent currently living in XXXXX, XXXXX, and I am writing to inform you of my strong opposition to H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. I cannot support a bill that limits my freedom to choose a health insurance plan that works best for my family. H.R. 3962 would explicitly tax me if the federal government determines that my health care coverage is not "acceptable". Under this bill, my freedom to choose and...

When Barack Obama became president on Jan 20, the nation's unemployment rate was 7.2%. Using "crisis" and fear to pass their ridiculous "stimulus" plan (which was designed to stimulate Obama's parties' favorite constituents) the Obama administration promised that if the stimulus bill was passed, then unemployment rate would not go above 8%. By February, the unemployment rate had exceeded the Obama administration's unemployment projection for the entire year.

Shortly after the White House declared "war" on Fox's news division last month, calling it an arm of the Republican Party and attempting to freeze it out of a pooled press briefing, pundits on both the left and the right cried foul, summoning up comparisons to Richard Nixon's paranoid, vindictive presidency and based on the transcript of a Nixon tape below that comparison is very justified..... The White House has not been happy about Fox's relentless pursuit of the truth, unlike the rest of the mainstream media Fox has covered ALL the news including tea party rallies, anti-health care reform...

Over the past few months, I have been testing the waters with numerous articles advocating Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination to be our Presidential candidate in under three years. The response from readers of this blog, and folks who ran upon the articles that I had written, has been amazing. I have received at least three emails asking me what can I do? How can we start a draft Senator DeMint for President 2012 organization? Will this lead into a Nation-wide third party movement? Not to mention numerous comments in support of...

I knew it wouldn't be long after yesterday's horrific Islamic attack at Fort Hood, before Muslims cried victim. Crying victim, even though they admit that no threats have been made against them. How about us non-Muslims play the victim card and protect ourselves by demanding an end to Muslim immigration? That would be a good start. Islamic Center for PEACE in Fort Myers requests additional police patrols

There's not much that union supporters and I can agree upon. But here is one incident where I can wholeheartedly support the aggrieved members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who have found themselves victims of their own union. The SEIU wanted to renegotiate a contract with officials of Sonoma County, California for its in-home healthcare workers supported by county funds. SEIU representatives met with and crafted a new contract with the assistance of County officials. This was all done behind closed doors without the general knowledge of or the assistance of the workers themselves. But that isn't the...

Well, I have to say that the Islamocreeps of NY based RevolutionMuslim.com, have really made a name for themselves. Even CNN has picked up on them. My message to CNN is that while I obviously do not agree with the agenda of RM, they are speaking the truth about Islam. Maybe you guys will wake up one day and face this reality....but I doubt it.

11.03.09- Part 4 in HD- Glenn Beck's Warning: Buckle Up, America- Prepare For A Crash Landing..This plane is going down..the pilot is intentionally steering us into the trees.

Media and Military Dereliction of Duty: Spinning Like a Whirling Dervish He was picked on and made fun of by his peers. He was a loner with few friends. He spent years listening to the harrowing tales of his patients in therapy, as they struggled with Post Traumatic Stress, due to fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was at Walter Reed. They were going to make him go to war, him, a soldier! He just snapped, like all the other American Shooters. We have to ask what we might have done to cause this. We must insist that the Army...

This is an article posted by an Active Duty member of the Military. He recorded a statement from Jeff Sestak (D) PA. Sounds like they may try to disarm our post war military personal. The audio is a little poor, but if you turn up your volume you can hear the approach Jeff is taking. I don't know how to embed the YouTube video here, so follow the link to listen.

President a no-show.

U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, now a Republican candidate for governor, this morning declared himself in sympathy with those questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A. The occasion was an online chat the congressman had with supporters this morning. And the question came from Tom Crawford of Capitol Impact. Do you believe that Barack Obama is a native-born American citizen who is eligible to serve as president? I am asking because your comments on this issue have been a little ambiguous. I would appreciate your clearing this up. At 9:17 a.m., Deal tapped out this: I am joining...

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll plotz.

Remember those Republican boasts that they would turn health care into President Obama’s Waterloo? Well, exit polls suggest that to the extent that health care was an issue in Tuesday’s elections, it worked in Democrats’ favor. But while health care won’t be Mr. Obama’s Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio.

Friday, November 6, 2009 Why the US Should Bar Muslims from Military Service Once again, yesterday, November 5, 2009, while screaming "Allah Akbar!”, Major Nidal Malik Hasan provided abject and deadly evidence that sincere Muslims cannot honestly serve in the United States military. The Army psychiatrist killed twelve and wounded more than thirty Army personnel at Fort Hood, Texas. In this, he joins such other sincere followers of Islam as Quinton Ezeagwulaby, Mir Aimal Kasi, and US Army sergeant Hasan Karim Akbar in murderously attacking those who stand watch and protect the United States of America either in the United...

It was January 28th 2009 a mire 8 days after Obama was inaugurated. With a stroke of the pen he landed a commanding blow to the bio-fuel companies of America. What a surprise!! Everyone thought Obama was going to be a green president;

The U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 10.2% on the way to who knows where. With Manufacturing Jobs all but gone, America is being relegated to a low-end 3rd world service oriented country. At what point do Americans become so weak (financially) that they have no other option but to submit to the Community Organizing Administrations agenda?

No not Starring David Carradine and Uma Thurman Kill Bill 3 showed on Capital Hill yesterday starring Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Co-Starred Barry Hussein Soetoro. Thousands of United States citizens rallied against Democrats' health care reform on the steps of Capitol Hill protesting the more than $1 trillion dollars and 1990-Page Government Takeover of Health Care proposed by Democrats who completely disregarded Kill Bill 1; the August Town Hall meetings. And who are completely disregarding Kill Bill 2; Democrat loses in Virginia’s and New Jersey’s gubernatorial races which many are attributing to Democrat policies—Health Care being one of those...

10.2% and Rising. http://www.wiseandfrugalgovernment.blogspot.com/ "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." --Ronald Reagan I miss Ronnie. Don't you? Frankly, I am sick and tired of being told American is no longer great. That our only hope is for the government to take over every part of our lives. That we must pay for past sins and successes. I am tired of the finger wagging. And the somber faces. Tired of the incompetence and the arrogance. And I am tired of the lies. Especially Obama's. The Chief Fiddler speaks and acts without experience to support the veracity of his...

As with any "gun free zone." no amount of laws or military regulations can stop a primal urge to kill, or a Jihadist bent on murder. That just can’t be regulated or legislated away. With that being said, here’s a general look at some military base rules about firearms. Many people believe that military bases have tight regulations on firearms possession by soldiers. At this time, the policy changes for service members from base to base, but the policy is heavily influenced by state and local gun laws. If there is a general rule, it is that only MP's and...

ACORN: Bizarre and Corrupt Allie Winegar Duzett, November 6, 2009 According to John Fund of The Wall Street Journal, there is one question above all that Americans should be asking with regards to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now): “How did they get away with so much for so long?” Fund posited two possible answers at Accuracy in Media’s 40th Anniversary Conference held on October 23, 2009, the first being a “presumption of good intentions. ACORN was a community organizing group,” Fund said. “When their offices were raided in Nevada,” he noted, they told the world, “We’re just...

The economic for October predictions were 175,000 non-farm jobs lost, and an unemployment rate at or just below 10%. Just based on initial unemployment filings, I think you’d have had to count on people continuing to drop out of the system to get numbers that low. So what actually happened? As of this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that we lost 190,000 non-farm jobs, and that the unemployment rate has risen to 10.2%. So let’s have a gander at where that puts us on the “OMG Christine Romer and Jared Bernstein Are Teh Suck” chart: That’s pretty...