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CNBC's Rick Santelli this morning at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange With tongue only partially in cheek, a CNBC analyst on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange this morning responded to President Obama's proposed $275 billion deficit-financed homeowner bailout plan and other massive spending measures with a call for a new "tea party." Rick Santelli, in a nearly three-minute rant that drew approving hoots and comments from nearby traders, said the Obama administration's promotion of bad behavior must be causing the founding fathers to roll over in their graves. "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July," Santelli...

Drudge has a screaming headline about this video, don't miss it! http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853

The trading floor buzz on whether the government's plan to save the economy will actually help the markets, with Jason Roney, Sharmac Capital; Wilbur Ross Jr., WL Ross & Co. and CNBC's Rick Santelli

Fellow Patriots, Obama and his Socialist Democrats have truly thrown down the gauntlet with their Trillion Dollar "Stimulus" bill. The Democrats are going for broke to move America into a condition of permanent Socialism. Next stop: full blown Marxism / Communism. I've become convinced that we citizens no longer have true representation in our government, and our votes aren't making much of a difference, either. No one in Washington is listening to what We The People need and want any longer. The Socialist Democrats and RINOs now in power are only interested in solidifying their power base and their complete...

Our congress is being taken over by liberals and we are sliding down the slippery slope to socialist destruction of the greatest nation the world has known. What are the alternatives? With no representation in congress willing to take the hard tactic of standing on principle to oppose the democrat take over of America what can we do next?

(sigh) Time to bend over and grab the Vaseline.

The is the motherlode. The complete list of contacts for each Senator AND their staff. Flood them now with emails and calls to vote NO!!!!!

California's counties are getting rebellious, and no one can blame them. With the state running short of cash, Controller John Chiang has told counties he will not make $171 million in health and welfare payments the state owes them this month. Most of that money goes to pay welfare grants and foster care providers and to defray the counties' cost of administering these programs. When state payments have been delayed in the past, counties have been able to use their reserves to keep these services afloat. But many counties don't have spare cash this year. They would have to borrow...

What follows are a number of the spending projects included in the economic stimulus bill filed by Democrats late on Friday, which will be voted on in coming days by the House of Representatives. This is not a complete list. Instead, it is an overview of some of the major items found in this bill in terms of spending. No judgments are made about the need for these expenditures. That is up to you, the voter, and your elected members of the House and Senate. You can find the full text of the bill, H.R. 1 at http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf Here is...

There’s no “change” when it comes to politics as usual in The Empire State, in fact the Emperor’s latest edict is not being well-received. Gov. Paterson’s proposed $121 billion budget hits New Yorkers in their iPods - and nickels-and-dimes them in lots of other places, too. Trying to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, Paterson called for 88 new fees and a host of other taxes, including an “iPod tax” that taxes the sale of downloaded music and other “digitally delivered entertainment services.” “We’re going to have to take some extreme measures,” Paterson said Tuesday after unveiling the slash-and-burn budget....

Time and again we’ve heard about the lost jobs and economic impact of failing to bail out the beleaguered American auto manufacturers. But little mention has been made of the consequences of going through with the bailout, and how such an action would be viewed by other Americans. In an interview following a Dec. 10 press conference where he and four other senators aired their opposition to the proposed bailout deal struck by congressional leaders and the White House (and approved by the U.S. House of Representatives 237-170 that evening), Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., warned that the perception that some...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama was in no way implicated in the federal corruption charges against the governor of his home state of Illinois, a fellow Democrat, ... "I should make clear the complaint makes no allegations about the president-elect whatsoever," said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges on Tuesday, including trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Obama. ... Fiztgerald told a news conference .. he had wanted to stop a "crime spree."

Is former Weather Underground terrorist Jeff Jones claiming that Barack Obama's "centrist" appointments are a "smokescreen" and that he is pursuing a strategy of governing that would "make Lenin proud?" That shocking information is being reported by many different conservative blogs and Internet sites as proof that the President-elect is pursuing a political strategy designed to confuse people about his revolutionary agenda. Obama may be a Marxist attempting to fool people, but the "Jeff Jones" post on the Rag Blog website doesn't necessarily prove it. It turns out that the "Jeff Jones" claiming Obama to be a disciple of Lenin...

Free NY does not engage in litigation but I wanted to bring your attention to an important lawsuit that was filed on behalf of fifty New York taxpayers including several active members of Free NY. (Free Rebublic off-shoot) On August 4th, we filed suit in State Supreme Court, Albany County and asked the court to permanently enjoin the state from giving out your tax money to private firms for "economic development." The Constitution bars such grants: "The money of the state shall not be given or loaned to or in aid of any private corporation or association, or private undertaking."...

For several days there was a fierce national debate over whether American car companies in Detroit deserved $25 billion of taxpayer money and whether American jobs should be saved. The automakers and a union representative were ridiculed, didn’t get the money, and were told to come up with a “plan” to save the companies. After backing the $700-billion Wall Street bailout, Bill O’Reilly of Fox News said Detroit didn’t deserve any federal money because the car companies had been mismanaged. This was a point made by many in the media. But Citigroup got $20 billion over the weekend from the...

According to David Bossie, President of the group 'Citizens United for American Sovereignty', based out of Merrifield Virginia, the above- mentioned Senate Bill (S. 2433) is a piece of legislation in the works that all Americans need to know about and know now!

A group of scientists working in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health division has revolted against the corrupt managers of its own department, accusing them of committing crimes by claiming, "There is extensive documentary evidence that managers at CDRH have corrupted and interfered with the scientific review of medical devices." Read the letter yourself here ==> PDFNatural News coverage HERE

“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” That is what is called “redistribution of wealth” a foundation of socialism." As a simple observer, I've come to the conclusion that about half of the USA is FOR socialism, simply because it gives them "stuff". I am 58 years old, a Vet, a Constitutional advocate/activist/organizer and after all these years I firmly believe that our Republic is going to be unrecognizable within my own life time, providing I live another 10 years. With Obama in the WH and a Dem-controlled Congress, socialism will advance exponentially. With McCain...

In conjunction with the entire slate of Westchester County Republican State Assembly candidates, Assemblyman Greg Ball (R, C, I - Patterson) is inviting Conservative activists fed up with taxes in New York to join the "Tax Cap Express" headed to Albany for the Governor's special emergency session on August 19. The “Tax Cap Express” is an eco-friendly biodiesel fuel bus that will be transporting the delegation and tax reform advocates to Albany to rally for enactment of a property tax cap. The bus will be leaving from YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NEW YORK from the home of a resident crushed by the...

That's how a great many people feel about the impromptu rebellion that House Republicans have staged against Nancy Pelosi's refusal to allow a vote to lower energy prices by increasing supply. Last Friday, Pelosi adjourned the House without having done anything to address the country's energy problems. Republicans voted against adjournment, and since then, an energetic band of Republican Congressmen has carried out a guerrilla campaign against the thoughtless arrogance that Pelosi embodies and that typifies the modern Democratic Party. Initially, Republicans refused to go on vacation and instead stayed in the House chamber, continuing to discuss and debate the...

Update from Congressman Lungren! Dear Friend, Something historic is occurring at the House of Representatives. Last Friday, as Americans across our great nation continued to suffer through $4 a gallon gas, some of my colleagues and I refused to leave for five weeks without a vote on increasing American energy production. As Members called for solutions to our energy crisis, the crowd before them was unusual. Normally it would comprise Members of Congress. But with Congress having left for five weeks, the seats were filled by Boy Scout troops, soldiers on leave, and families from back home. Members of the...

House Republicans have begun Day 4 in their "Shadow Session" on gas prices, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is with them. Rep. Adam Putnam (Fla.), chairman of the House Republican Conference, is with them today, making him the highest-ranking GOP leader to show up so far. Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) is expected later this afternoon, and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will probably be here on Friday. There are some new faces among the 18 GOP members taking part in Wednesday's unofficial session, including Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), Judy Biggert (R-Ill.), David Davis (R-Tenn.), John Doolittle (R-Calif.), Ralph...

Blue Dog Democrats take popular, moderate-to-conservative positions in their districts, but back in Washington they play games and often side with the liberal Democratic leadership. Once in a while, some of them vote with the Republicans. But somehow enough of them stick with their party and the Democrats win. The domestic drilling issue is a good example. Lots of them say they support the concept, but because their leadership blocks legislative action, the Blue Dogs bark, but don't vote. There is a way under the House rules, however, to force a vote. It's called a "discharge petition" and requires 218...

Pelosi shut down the House. CSPAN turned off the cameras. The Democrats went on vacation without allowing a vote on offshore drilling. So the Republicans stayed, invited the American people into the People’s House, and blasted away on Friday night. Nice job fellas.

I posted this in the other thread but at the request of several posters ive made a new thread so more can see it. The Dems have shut off camera, mics and lights on the floor to stop debate and this is the only video from the house: http://qik.com/johnculberson

WASHINGTON — When three-quarters of House Republicans balked Wednesday at a housing bill certain to become law, they were signaling three things at once: an ideological opposition to government involvement in the markets, a fiscal objection to writing a blank check that could cost taxpayers dearly if the condition of the mortgage finance system turns much worse and a political judgment that this was a moment to demonstrate their independence from President Bush. Since Mr. Bush had already abandoned his threat to veto the bill, it was clear that their resistance was futile. The measure had overwhelming support in the...

June 15, 2008 Highly Taxed and Fed Up, Rebels Won’t Just Eat Cake By JOSEPH BERGER GREENBURGH THE revolution has begun. On June 2 — remember that date; you may someday celebrate it with fireworks and barbecues — 70 sons and daughters of Westchester gathered in Town Hall here to overthrow the county government. These Minutemen wannabes were not violent sorts, broke no laws we know of. The most aggressive thing they did was come up with a funny name for a Web site they plan to create: Wastechester.org. But make no bones about it: They did vigorously and harmoniously...

The jihadist revolt against bin Laden. Within a few minutes of Noman Benotman's arrival at the Kandahar guest house, Osama bin Laden came to welcome him. The journey from Kabul had been hard, 17 hours in a Toyota pickup truck bumping along what passed as the main highway to southern Afghanistan. It was the summer of 2000, and Benotman, then a leader of a group trying to overthrow the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, had been invited by bin Laden to a conference of jihadists from around the Arab world, the first of its kind since Al Qaeda had moved to...

Presidential candidate Alan Keyes may be leaving the GOP. In a conference call last night, Keyes is said to have told supporters that staying in the Republican Party would be "an occasion of sin" and he's ready to bolt. Keyes ... reportedly wants no part in selecting the "type of deodorant we need to make a stinking candidate acceptable to conservatives." A Keyes supporter confirms to Radar that the former Reagan administration official "stated in the conference call that he could no longer remain in the Republican Party." As for what's next, a third party bid seems like a good...

Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missingBy DANIEL BOFFEY - More by this author » Last updated at 21:43pm on 3rd November 2007  An airline crew faced a rebellion when they told passengers they were going to fly on a jet that had lost its wing tip in a runway crash.  The SriLankan Airlines customers had been on the Airbus A340 a day earlier when it sliced through a wing of a stationary British Airways 747 at Heathrow, delaying departure by 24 hours. So they were amazed to be boarding the same...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFmcQCT6nM8 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peyUBs3pjYo BOCA DEL RIO, MEXICO — Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down on Saturday, just hours after it was erected. Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state. But by 9 a.m. some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, surrounded the figure. Fox, of the conservative National Action Party, ended 71 years of PRI rule with his historic election in July 2000.The crowd launched eggs at the statue, fastened...

On the Road Right There on the Tarmac, the Inmates Revolt By JOE SHARKEY Published: August 14, 2007 ON July 29, Continental Flight 1669, a 737-700 with about 120 passengers aboard, was bound for Newark from Caracas, Venezuela, when bad weather caused the plane to be diverted to Baltimore. It sat there for about five hours with passengers on board as food and water ran low and toilets became filthy. Since Dec. 29, there have been hundreds of reports of passengers unable to get off parked airplanes for 6, 8 and even 12 hours. Just last weekend, for example, a...

Nicolas Sarkozy risks revolt with US holiday By Henry Samuel in Paris Last Updated: 2:29am BST 04/08/2007 Nicolas Sarkozy risked horrifying the historically anti-American French establishment yesterday by choosing to spend a two-week summer holiday in New Hampshire. Wolfeboro is not far from President George W Bush's family estate in coastal Maine The French president, who has already drawn howls of protests for his unashamedly pro-Anglo-Saxon stance, spurned his homeland and the Francophone destinations favoured by his predecessors when he arrived yesterday in the select lakeside town of Wolfeboro, north of Boston. The choice of an American destination was seen...

The GOP leadership is waking up to a persistent reality, and it's one that has fundraisers and strategists at the RNC up at night. Conservatives, the core constituency of the Republican Party, are irate. Far from a passing hobbyhorse, the illegal immigration issue has galvanized Republican voters like no single issue in recent memory, and conservatives are refusing to let it go. The Senate's comprehensive immigration bill, backed by the President and pushed by the GOP establishment, was more than a mere legislative miscalculation, is was the straw that broke the conservatives' back. Moreover, to listen to conservatives, it wasn't...

As an everyday citizen of the United States, what are your realistic options when you believe your country to be in a death spiral from which it almost assuredly won’t recover? If you are an American who still deeply believes in the promise of our republic, how can you fight back against those from within, intent on destroying everything you hold sacred by subverting traditional family values, western civilization, national security, and just plain commonsense? Shockingly, maybe you can’t. I’m told it’s basically too late to save the nation that represents the last best hope for mankind. Six months ago,...

With the announcements by the Islamic Regime of impending gasoline (petrol) rationing, the last few days have seen long lines of upset citizens at gas stations throughout Iran. As supplies dwindled, tempers flared till this evening/tonight upset crowds set fire to some 50 gas stations in Tehran and tens of thousands of protesters marched from the eastern part of Tehran called Tehran Pars to Imam Hossein street.

BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida-linked suicide bomber struck a safehouse occupied by an insurgent group that has turned against the terror network. Friday's attack northeast of Baghdad killed two other militants, police said, the latest sign that an internal Sunni power struggle is spreading. The U.S. military also announced the deaths of five more servicemen. At least 125 American troops were killed in Iraq in May, the third-deadliest month for U.S. forces since the war began more than four years ago. May was also the third-deadliest for Iraqis since The Associated Press began tracking civilian casualties in April 2005. At least...

BAGHDAD - U.S. troops battled al-Qaida in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors. Backed by helicopter gunships, American forces joined the two-day battle in the Amariyah district, according to a councilman and other residents of the Sunni district. The fight reflects a trend that U.S. and Iraqi officials have been trumpeting recently to the west in Anbar province, once considered the headquarters of the Sunni insurgency. Many Sunni tribes in the province...

Pike County is renowned for some of the best whitetail and wild turkey hunting in Illinois. That deserved reputation has turned hunting into a significant revenue source for the county and its residents. A threat to that revenue may cause Pittsfield, the county seat, to someday be known as the spot where a quiet groundswell of protest against the growing proliferation of firearms restrictions finally erupted into grassroots action. On Tuesday evening the Pike County Board citing the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, passed a resolution saying no to any state legislation limiting the right to...

Last week, the board got some answers. In 2006, 739 of Hennepin County's 11,000 MFIP recipients worked for no pay as a condition of continuing to receive welfare benefits. They worked an average of four to six weeks apiece at a long list of local nonprofits. Hennepin County contracts with an outside agency to provide the placements. (Under a separate program, the county spent $600,000 subsidizing the wages of another 200 MFIP recipients who were having trouble finding jobs.) Thirty-two of the people performing unpaid work were eventually hired by the agencies where they were working. Results for the rest...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki faced a widening revolt within his divided government as two senior Sunni politicians joined prominent Shiite lawmakers and Cabinet members in criticizing his policies. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said he wanted to see al-Maliki's government gone and another "understanding" for a new coalition put in place with guarantees that ensure collective decision making. "There is a clear deterioration in security and everything is moving in the wrong direction," the Sunni leader told The Associated Press. "This situation must be redressed as soon as possible. If they continue, the country will plunge into...

Supporters of a senior Shia Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's clerical rulers have clashed with police in Tehran. Police used teargas to disperse the crowd outside the home of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi in southern Tehran, newspapers said on Sunday. Etemad-e Melli newspaper said an estimated 200 protesters formed a cordon around the house to call for the release of several of Boroujerdi's followers who they said had been detained. Some newspapers said the crowd feared Boroujerdi himself might be arrested. Seday-e Edalat reported that the crowd lit fires to stop police from approaching the house. A picture showed...

The great success of Western capitalism has produced a wordsmith class that is utterly removed from the harsher realities of human nature. This pampered governing and media elite shares a fantasy view of human nature as basically benign; aggression is only reactive, not innate. Multicultural egalitarianism is a religious faith, promoted by liberal arts faculties and not subject to refutation by mere facts...

MPs revolt over plan to put asylum seekers on an island By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 11/08/2006) Australia's prime minister, John Howard, suffered the biggest parliamentary revolt of his decade in power yesterday over a proposal to send asylum seekers to remote island detention centres while their claims are processed. Three members of his Liberal Party voted against the Bill and one abstained. It was the worst breach of party loyalty confronted by Mr Howard since he won office from the Labour prime minister Paul Keating in 1996. John Howard shrugged off the party rebellion Despite the MPs' rebellion,...

NEWPORT CITY -- Farmers vowed Tuesday afternoon to defy any effort by the state to make them register their farms as part of the preparations for bird flu or other diseases that could jump from animal to human. Calling the Vermont Agency of Agriculture's livestock premises registration rule a fascist or Nazi plan, the three dozen livestock owners at a hearing at the state office building in Newport City said they would destroy their animals, or pay fines rather than put their names and addresses on a state registry. "I'm not going to comply," said Jack Lazur of Butterworth...

THE REVOLT OF THE ELITES: And the Betrayal of Democracy by, Christopher Lasch Publisher: W.W. Norton & CO. December - 1995 In this book, an American historian finds fault with the values and beliefs of America's professional elites. Christopher Lasch argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset argued in The Revolt of the Masses, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to any nation or place. Lasch contends that as they isolate themselves in their networks and enclaves, they...

Is spending restraint really gaining steam? A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll reveals that voters now consider banning pork projects — rather than immigration reform, tax-cut extensions, and lobbying reform — their number-one priority for Congress this year. In that case, Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Ok.) is more accurately defending the people's will than many of his more senior colleagues. In a body that operates under unanimous consent, where lawmakers rarely challenge each other's parochial spending priorities and extreme deference is given to long-serving leaders, Coburn shattered decorum by challenging seven-term Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Al.) "Bridge to Nowhere"...

We are losing our nation to illegal aliens, to the corporations, to the UN, to the eilitists, to the liberals and those who compromise. We no longer own this land. Our vote does not matter to the politicians who take kick backs from the CEOS who truly run this nation. Our jobs go overseas and what little is left is being taken away by the illegals coming to this nation. Our president and our government WILL NOT do anything about it. They dont care. I believe that the only way to save America is to revolt against the government the...

Iran's recent declaration that it has successfully enriched uranium is bound to further increase tensions between Tehran and the United States. But the Iranian government also has an internal crisis on its hands. The country's high level of poverty has triggered a series of intense social struggles.

JERUSALEM - Underground chambers and tunnels used during a Jewish revolt against the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago have been uncovered in northern Israel, archaeologists said Monday. The Jews laid in supplies and were preparing to hide from the Romans during their revolt in A.D. 66-70, the experts said. The pits, which are linked by short tunnels, would have served as a concealed subterranean home. Yardenna Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority said the find shows the ancient Jews planned and prepared for the uprising, contrary to the common perception that the revolt began spontaneously. "It definitely was not spontaneous,"...