"The List", Obama's Fiftieth Week in Office

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 Obama's Fiftieth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

"The List" for 1/8/2010

Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on December 25, pleaded not guilty Friday to six federal charges

Military members serving overseas will have to resubmit their voter registration this year if they hope to cast a ballot in the November midterm elections.

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats' health proposals  the media.

The federal government's budget deficit reached $389 billion through the first three months of fiscal 2010, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.    This was up from last year's $332 billion at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2009, CBO said.

40% of the unemployed, or 4% of the workforce, a record number of people, or 6.1 million, are now unemployed for over 27 weeks.

In his first year, Obama presides over 4.1 million jobs lost, the most since 1940

Massive 43% jump in unemployment benefits

New data shows that the US lost 85,000 jobs in December

White House visitor logs show that a ‘Jodie Evans’ met with Buffy Wicks, the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE) on June 19, 2009. The meeting came just days after Evans’ group, Code Pink, visited the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza from May 28th to June 14th and was given a letter by Hamas to deliver to President Barack Obama.

Israel's Prime Minister's Office issued a complaint to the White House lamenting ongoing incitement against Israel by Palestinian leaders. In the complaint, senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office urged their American counterparts to demand that Palestinians President Mahmoud Abbas cease to glorify the memory of terrorists who murdered Israelis. The complaint went on to insist that the Palestinians live alongside Israelis peacefully and spread peace.  

President Obama and his White House counterterrorism adviser on Thursday accepted responsibility for attempted terror attack on Christmas Day that could have knocked an airliner out of the sky over Michigan.

"The List" for 1/7/2010

For transparency, Obama holds "Online" video chat for 20 minutes..  

“All of the major leaders of the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan are former Gitmo releasees -- All of them,” U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Thursday. That is among the things the U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence officer learned on his holiday deployment to Afghanistan, he told an audience at Chicago’s Union League Club Thursday.

Fannie Mae is seeking to prop up Florida's real estate market by reviewing hundreds of condo project in the state the currently don't qualify for its loans

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the nation's strictest-ever smog limits this morning, a move that could put large parts of the country in violation of federal air quality regulations.

Secretary Clinton said that the State Department “fully complied with the requirements set forth in the interagency process” about sharing threat information.

There is no specific mention of terrorism in 7-Page indictment of Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airline

The Obama White House rushed Thursday to defend a top counterterror official who went on a ski vacation for six days after an alleged Al Qaeda bomber attempted to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day

The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats, Michael Leiter, did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day

VIDEO: White House press corps clash with the White House spokesman Gibbs over promise to broadcast health care deliberations on C-SPAN

AUDIO: Obama allows only one hour of health care coverage

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer's payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show.

US airplane manufacturer Lockheed Martin has been given permission by the US government to sell 24 F-16 jet fighters to Egypt in a $3.2 billion deal. Additionally, Egypt will receive four batteries of highly advanced Harpoon Block II anti-ship cruise missiles, four fast missile boats, 450 Hellfire anti-tank missiles (to be sold with restrictions on use and transfer, according to the Pentagon), and 156 jet engines for F-16 aircraft.  Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates also have new military acquisition contracts with the United States.

The Obama administration will share control over U.S. foreign aid with recipient countries, ending Washington's longtime policy of "dictating" to those nations how to spend the money, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

Obamacare marriage penalty: Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan

The List" for 1/6/2010

GM backs off and is now trying to re-instate all the dealerships they let go

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span.

Obama wants to tax high-end health plans.  Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they'll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.

December, last, U.S. Congressman Nathan Deal (GA-R) challenged the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of the U.S. presidency.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday that big oil and natural gas companies will no longer be "the kings of the world" like they were under the Bush administration, announcing new drilling policies to protect the environment on western federal lands.  While the reforms would likely slow the permitting process to search for oil and gas on government lands and decrease the number of acres available for energy exploration, Salazar rejected industry claims that the Obama administration's policy change would reduce domestic energy supplies.

The Bloomberg administration has placed the price for security operations for the trials of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terrorism suspects connected to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at more than $200 million a year, which would make it by far the costliest security operation for a single event in the city in recent memory.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdraws his support for Obamacare..says ...health care to nowhere" that's infected with "bribes, deals and loopholes."

Obama administration revokes the visa of the Detroit airline bomber

The United States is “fed up” with Israelis who "adopt the right ideas too late," and also with the “Palestinians who always miss opportunities,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel angrily told an Israeli diplomat recently.

Stimulus dollars go to phantom zip codes in Virginia

VIDEO: Obama promised to televise health care eight times

Obamacare hospital deals.  Hospitals deal for more federal funding in health scare scheme.  A small group of influential hospitals that stand to gain millions in Medicare dollars

The List" for 1/5/2010

Former Bin Ladin guard is among ex-jihadis in Yemen

GMAC financial posts a $5 billion loss after latest bailout

The highly touted intelligence fusion center at the heart of the nation's counterterrorism establishment was preparing for deep budget cuts across 2010, senior intelligence officials said. According to one official, who asked not to be identified because intelligence budget matters are classified, the administration and Congress slashed the budget for the National Counterterrorism Center by at least $25 million.

Obama's Afghan security chief sharply criticised the work of US spy agencies there on Monday, calling them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people.

The Obama administration has suspended transfers of Yemeni detainees held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to their home country.  Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees once believed to be bound for Yemen will instead be sent to a prison in Thomson, Ill., once the all-but-empty prison is purchased and refurbished by the federal government

Obama says terror attack not his fault.  Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence had enough advance information to prevent the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day but failed to connect the dots.   He said there were enough "red flags" that an attack was planned on the U.S. but errors were made by intelligence officials.

The White House accuses the British of making "a mistake" over allegations Britain told American intelligence agents more than a year ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists.

In a little-publicized interview given with the Feminist blog, “BlogHer.com,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised the language in the Senate version of the health care bill because it upholds publicly-funded abortion coverage.

Obamacare: bypasses normal committee meetings, netiotiating in secret- Democratic leaders are likely to sidestep a conference committee in merging the House and Senate versions, an attempt to block Republicans from delaying the bill.

Stimulus money going to fake zip codes in New Mexico

The White House says that it was a "different Bertha Lewis" on the White House visitors' log

The U.S. Senate has rejected one of President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.  The president had nominated Craig Becker, counsel for the Service Employees International Union, to the powerful board. His nomination was rejected last week by the Senate.

The List" for 1/4/2010

Despite the fact that at least 12 former GITMO detainees are returning to terrorism, Obama still is closing the GITMO detention camp

Obamacare expands the IRS' authority

On the first day of supposedly tighter screening ordered by the Obama administrations, a number of countries and some airports around the world admitted that they have not cracked down.  The U.S. demanded more carefully screening but nothing has changed

Obamacare secures a sweetheart deal for big Unions. Unions get to insert language in Obamacare bill to penalize businesses with as few as five employees for not providing health insurance

Senate and House Democrats combine to pass Obamacare in secret, no Republicans allowed

Obama is trying to implement by revitalizing the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), a panel that Congress shut down in 2008 because it had become “too politicized.”

The actual INTERPOL executive order

The Executive order language, and more possible ramifications

After Obama granted diplomatic immunity to INTERPOL, was he aware of their history of Jew hatred?

Documents produced by the Department of Homeland Security indicate that in fiscal 2010 the department is planning to catch only 26 percent of travelers committing major criminal violations while seeking to enter the United States through international airports.

Obama's plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other US agencies, a US newspaper reported late Sunday.

The List" for 1/3/2010

Obama White House insists it will continue to send those Gitmo inmates to Yemen -- a country now recognized as a hotbed of terrorism so dangerous that the U.S. has decided to close its embassy there.

The Obama's administration supports Egypt's vision for a Middle East peace plan that would include a complete halt of construction in West Bank settlements as well as the release of senior Palestinian officials from Israeli prisons, the Qatar-based news network Al-Jazeera reported

The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday. Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that.

ViDEO: Obama security adviser John Brennan talks about possible plea deal with Detroit Terror bomb suspect

Top Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan says the Justice Department made the decision to handle the case of Detroit terror bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the criminal justice system.

Obama's security adviser, John Brennon, attacks Dick Cheney and his criticisms of Obama- Brennan, said Sunday that former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to the Christmas Day terror attempt is misinformed or intentionally false.

President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, will lead the White House review of intelligence community information practices and aviation security, even though he was CEO of the private company the government used to help manage a key terrorism database before he joined the administration.

U.S. and Latin America's relations turn sour under Obama

[Nachum]

Where does the time go?

The List, for much of the 50th week

For those who are keeping track. Kind of like watching a train wreck... in slow motion

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[ThePatriotsFlag]

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[Nachum]

Thanks for that. This has been a learning experience, hasn’t it? I just hope that it is motivational for conservatives come election time.

Thanks for all you do too, and the link.