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big>July 3On the downside the breeze was too strong for us to deploy the MOAB. On the upside it made for a very pleasant evening. By 9pm it was positively chilly, so maybe the "climate change" the lefties are talking about nowadays is really global cooling. You've noticed how they've dropped "global warming" in favor of "climate change?" A subtle but important point, as it would seem to me they've conceded the debate but can't stop the train they've set in motion. Tom the Redhunter, Fraxinus, Kburi, Cindy-True-Supporter, RonGKirby, Mr & Mrs Trooprally, Tolerance Sucks Rocks, Jimmy Valentine's Brother, 3DJoy,...

Reed, Dodd call for stronger sunscreen standardsMay 26, 2009 PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Two New England senators are pushing for stronger testing and labeling standards for sunscreen. U.S. Sens. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, and Chris Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, have introduced legislation that calls on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require manufacturers to test sunscreen products against ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays. Currently, officials say the FDA requires testing and labeling for sun protection factors, which mostly measures UVB rays that cause sunburns. But they add the FDA does not have standards for UVA rays, a major...

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2009 – Walter Reed Army Medical Center opened its doors here 100 years ago today as an 80-bed facility at a time of U.S. peace. Civilians and troops attached to Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Warrior Transition Brigade gather for a group photo in front of the post’s original hospital in Washington, D.C., April 21, 2009. The Walter Reed General Hospital was used until the 1970s when the Heaton Pavilion facility was opened. DoD photo by Samantha L. Quigley  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “There was no ceremony, no dedication and no fanfare,” Walter Reed...

San Jose council votes down porn filters at public library computers A year and a half of debate over filtering pornography out of San Jose public library computers came to a head late Tuesday when the City Council rejected spending money on the technology. After a lively debate that lasted hours, the council voted 7-3 to approve a proposal by the vice mayor and two councilmen that would remind computer users of existing policies to be courteous to others. Mayor Chuck Reed and council members Pete Constant, who led the push for the filters, and Pierluigi Oliverio were opposed, favoring...

Those of us who've done this for several years, and attended many of the rallies and counterprotests in Washington DC or elsewhere have become used to the inanity of the commies, Pinkos, and other assorted lefties. We forget I think how it is for newcomers who've never seen them. A few times at some of the downtown FReeps I've observed people who are obviously tourists who'd accidentally stumbled upon a leftie protest march. Their deer-in-the-headlights gives them away, as they're obviously perplexed as to what they've come upon. FReepers are a little more used to this as even those who've...

Don't spend my grandson's paycheck. He's only two years old. With Obama in the White House, His future's bought and sold. Stop this immoral spending spree. Stop assaulting our liberty. Let me help you comprehend: It ain't your money to spend. Born and bred for freedom. Got me a lot of rights. They're all but disappearing Before your fiscal appetites. You're taking the fruit of my labor To give your next-door neighbor. I'll say it from beginning to end: It ain't your money to spend. It ain't your money to spend. You're acting like a bunch of jerks. I'm the...

I don't know what's going on with our weather - and AlGore can just shut his yap because it is not a "side effect" of global warming - but we have had a spate of incredibly windy days around here. I don't remember getting anything like this in past years. Either that or I'm just getting old and the first thing to go is the memory. Anyway...once again it was so windy that putting up the MOAB was out of the question. Had we done so, it would have taken off like a kite, probably with some of us attached....

President Barack Obama's first budget includes $15 billion a year for renewable energy programs and an ambitious plan to raise $646 billion from a carbon reduction proposal. "Because our future depends on our ability to break free from oil that's controlled by foreign dictators, we need to make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Mr. Obama said Thursday morning. "That's why we'll be working with Congress on legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy." The plan uses money from a cap-and-trade program — which would allow companies to...

"...Now that they have absolute power, our Hussein and friends are using economic terror tactics against this country. Very similar to the way he verbally assaulted our military and brought disillusionment to the citizens of our country about a war we were actually winning, he is blatently and obviously terrorizing this country in order to destroy our economy. He has gotten out the financial wrecking ball and..."

Barack Hussein Obama will propose a massive business tax on greenhouse gases in his FY 2010 federal budget to be presented this week.The massive tax increase and power grab was buried at the end on article on Obama's forthcoming budget proposal in The New York Times:On energy policy, Mr. Obama’s budget will show new revenues by 2012 from his proposal to require companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the permits would raise up to $300 billion a year by 2020. Since companies would pass their...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/ba021209.htm THIRD DEFENDANT IN MORTGAGE FRAUD SCHEME PLEADS GUILTY AND TWO MORE DEFENDANTS INDICTED Terrence White Admits to Paying Over 15 Straw Purchasers, Using False Documents to Buy 25 Properties and Receiving Over $3.8 Million in Fraud Proceeds;Six Defendants Have Been Charged in Fraudulent Loan Scheme Totaling Approximately $18 Million Baltimore, Maryland -Terrence White, age 35, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud arising from the fraudulent purchase of 25 properties in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia using false mortgage and settlement documents, announced United States Attorney for...

Watching Obama this evening, it is clear that this guy is UN-Presidential. He was quite offensive and extremely arrogant. He might actually think he's doing something good by holding this national temper tantrum. I think this is the beginning of something enormous, not in a good way; this seems more like something leading up to 1861. COMMUNISM IS HERE FOLKS. The time we have for years predicted, the worst case scenario is finally here. It sounds like he brought himself a laughing track and applause track. Is that the “news media”? I thought I saw David Gregory humping Obama's leg....

A video inspired by a trip to Walter Reed, set to the beautiful music of Sara Groves "I Saw What I Saw" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5vKKAGttC4

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in early December to discuss the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, his spokesman said. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid didn't want Rep. Jesse Jackson in the Senate, a point he made clear to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a conversation about filling Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Incumbent Democrat Tom Harkin continues to hold a solid lead over Republican challenger Chris Reed in Iowa's U.S. Senate race. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Harkin leading 57% to 41%. Harkin has expanded his lead somewhat from late September,, when he led by 14 points. The senator has been well ahead since tracking of the race began in June. Harkin is seeking his fifth term in the Senate. In his last re-election bid, Harkin beat his Republican opponent, Greg Ganske, 54% to 44%. Reed is a Navy veteran and businessman. The race is noticeably close...

In his State of the Union Speech in 2002, President Bush, speaking to a joint session of Congress, announced his warning shot to America and the world that there was an axis of evil.  This evil threat to the U.S. comprised of Iraq, Iran and North Korea.  Systematically, Pres. Bush began to dismantle the threats.  Leading a regime change in Iraq and bringing N. Korea to the negotiation table, this axis has been slowly but surely been reduced.  He concluded with the warning that this would not be a quick fix but take maybe a decade or two; the American...

WASHINGTON –– Sen. Jack Reed, a key supporting player in this month’s launch of a $700-billion rescue of the financial system, has taken a large fraction of his multimillion-dollar reelection fund from people in banking, securities, real estate and insurance — the industries with the biggest direct stake in the historic federal intervention. The financial sector accounts for more than $1 million of the $4.45 million that Reed has amassed for his campaign for a third six-year term in the Senate, according to compilations by independent watchdog groups. At a moment when the financial markets have triggered a crisis for...

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Nearly a quarter of all contributions to Sen. Jack Reed's re-election campaign have been coming from donors in the banking, securities, real estate and insurance sectors.</p> <p>According to independent watchdog groups, the financial sector accounted for more than $1 million of the $4.45 million that Reed has raised as he campaigns for a third six-year term in the Senate.</p>

Something’s missing on Iowa’s political landscape this year: Tom Harkin’s always red-hot race for reelection. Yet despite the low-to-invisible profile of Harkin’s Republican opponent, Christopher “Who?” Reed, Wednesday’s KCCI poll showed the businessman and first-time candidate with 39 percent of the vote. That might not sound like much, but with near-universal name ID, John McCain got the same 39 percent in that same poll. Christopher Reed in Postville, IA.A Research 2000 poll shows Reed at 40 percent, and the Des Moines Register poll had him at 34 percent two weeks ago, with Harkin in the low 50s in each. So...

“When homes are doubling in price in every six years and incomes are increasing by a mere one percent per year, Fannie’s mission is of paramount importance,” Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, lectured Mr. Mudd at a Congressional hearing in 2006. “In fact, Fannie and Freddie can do more, a lot more.”