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President Obama…You Scare Me! September 8th, 2009 by Saul Anuzis AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally...

Today I would like to honor our fellow Americans who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 to a radical and evil force. To some, the war is over and 9/11 is forgotten. To those who lost mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, grandparents, and friends, it is still very real and vivid. To those who were there and survived it, they remember it almost on a daily basis. To honor those who lost their lives on that fateful day, we must not let it be forgotten. We must also press on and continue to fight the war on terrorism,...

U.S. Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Casey and Congressmen Bill Shuster and Mike Doyle today announced that the Pennsylvania High-Speed Maglev Project will receive $28 million in federal funding. The funding is in the form of a grant from the Federal Railroad Administration SAFETEA-LU Maglev Program. “This $28 million award is the most significant development in the 29 years we’ve been working on Maglev,” Senator Specter said. “The vision is to have a 250 mile-an-hour train traveling from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia with intermediate stops. Such a train would be a tremendous economic boon with thousands of new jobs in the...

This is when they first broke into programming on 9/11/01

Today is September 11th. It’s been 8 years since that dreadful day in 2001. It began as such a beautiful day in the USA. Weather from coast to coast was lovely and everything seemed to be going right for a change. But then – our world came crashing down. It is good to remember exactly where you were on pivotal days in history. It reminds us of what happened. Those moments are forever suspended in our memories never to be forgotten. That is unless we ignore them. I was working 3rd shift at the time..

Source: PDF File: apprx 417 KBhttp://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1225222922.pdf ________________________________________________________ "With the New Party’s rise and its entanglements with ACORN [Association of Community Organizers For Reform Now] came the rise of Barack Obama. According to Stanley Kurtz, “Acorn is the key modern successor of the radical 1960’s ‘New Left,’ with a ‘1960’s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism’ to match.” And Barack Obama was ACORN’s lawyer."http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/barack_obama_sought_the_new_partys_endorsement_knowing_it_was_a_radical_left_organization ________________________________________________________ From Obama's official website: When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education....

Pro-Life Advocate Murdered Outside Michigan School Protesting Abortion Owosso, MI -- Local officials and state police are confirming that a pro-life advocate was shot and killed outside a high school in this Michigan town. The person, who is described as well-known but whose identity has not been released, was shot multiple times while protesting abortion outside Owosso High School.

Spare Change Day of Reckoning: My Two Cents on Learning from 9/11 David J. Aland 11 Sep 09 I survived 9/11 without a scratch. I didn’t even get my uniform dirty. Through nothing less than the grace of God, I was not where I was supposed to be when the terrorists slammed an airliner into the Pentagon. Friends, colleagues, and shipmates of mine died that day, but I lived. In the hours, days, and weeks that followed, my hands joined the thousands that picked up, reconstituted, and continued the work of those that had been killed. To this day, I...

In a different kind of back to school special, a pair of brothers who served as top officials of the union representing city school bus drivers pleaded guilty today to extortion charges in Manhattan federal court. Nick and Paul Maddalone became, respectively, the fourth and fifth high-ranking executives of Local 1181 of the American Transit Workers Union to admit their roles in a long-running scheme to extort payoffs from bus operators in exchange for not enforcing union contract rules. The brothers had been influential union delegates and trustees of the local which was long under the thumb of the Genovese...

Police, fire personnel, emergency medical technicians, and the military are often referred to collectively as the "uniformed services." But they share more than just a name. As novelist W.E.B. Griffin writes, they "share a number of unique traits: astonishing courage, loyalty, and camaraderie . . . like no other profession." Griffin omitted something. Each day members of the uniform services report on duty knowing there is a possibility that they may not report off. They do it anyway. Statistically, there are...

A strange object photographed over a lake in Argentina has been described as either a flying saucer or a flying dinosaur.The object, photographed by a fisherman near San Rafael over an artificial lake called El-Nihuil, was, according the the newspaper Los Andes, witnessed by more than one person. Mr Pino, 44, from San Rafael, fishes on the lake and told Los Andes that he often goes down to the water to watch the swans. On Saturday last week, however, he noticed a strange object hovering over the lake and took a series of photographs on his mobile phone.

Spare Change Swallowing the Pill: My Two Cents on the Health Care Speech David J. Aland 10 Sep 09 The classic doctor joke ends with “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” (What a shock to discover that might actually prevent a heart attack!) As the late George Carlin observed, taking pills “is the American way.” We like our solutions encapsulated, easily digested, and quickly administered. This is precisely what the President tried to do last night in his Joint address to Congress: keep it simple, and promise that it won’t hurt. Personally, I never trust a doctor...

General Motors Co. will restore salaried employee pay cuts the company made earlier this year... Workers received an e-mail from GM explaining the situation, thanking them for their sacrifice and that the reinvention of the company is just beginning. The cuts, made earlier this year, that have been restored: Executive level: 10% Manager pay: 7% Other salaries: 5%

There was at least one hard truth about the Barack Obama presidency that should have become painfully evident the day after his hoped-for "game changing" address to a joint session of Congress. For sure, it's now a certainty that we're going to be looking at years of government by bumper sticker sloganeering. As if we didn't get enough of such stuff during last year's "historic" campaign (actually, the history of the country has been marked by a ton of dishonest, empty and vapid political campaigns almost exactly like Mr. Obama's), we're now being forced to sit through it all over...

Most parents have experienced their young children getting restless when waiting for a meal in a restaurant. But not many get the bill at the end of it with a message describing their offspring as a 'little f*****'. This is what happened to parents Craig and Kimberley Cartin at a Mexican restaurant in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where they received the receipt which had 'Thankyyou littell f*****' written on it. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212583/Family-horrified-getting-restaurant-describing-year-old-daughter-little-f--er.html#ixzz0QoIAO8Vk

Spare Change Aspiring to Conspire: My Two Cents on Plodding Mayhem David J. Aland, 10 Sep 09 My theory of conspiracy theories: there is no such thing as a successful conspiracy. Conspiracies take time, resources, and secrecy – the first two require co-conspirators, which usually make the third impossible. In the end, no one is smart enough to find that serendipitous balance between keeping partners and keeping things quiet, which is why most conspiracies fail. Still, as a culture we are fond of theorizing about conspiracies. From the grassy knoll to Area 51, Manchurian candidates and The Matrix, moon landings...

Sorry for the question, but does anyone know how to find the list of original threads from 9/11/01 as it was all unfolding? I used to have them but I lost the link. I tried a search, but it came back empty. God bless us all today. Lest we forget. Billy Kess

OK, President Obama has had his say on health care. Now let's look at some inconvenient truths. Obama insisted Wednesday that his public-option plan would save tax dollars, while not adding "one dime" to the deficit. Moreover, he said, "nothing in our plan requires you to change what [health insurance] you have." The first claim is demonstrably false; the second, profoundly misleading. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has reported that the House Democratic bills would add $220 billion to the deficit over the next decade -- and even more after that. Meanwhile, Obama was technically correct when he said that...

In an incident that sparked a brief panic on the same day mourners marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Potomac River moments before President Obama and his motorcade crossed a nearby bridge.

On national television, President Barack Obama contended this week that his plan to overhaul the country's health care system wouldn't spend a single federal dime on undocumented immigrants.As he spoke, a Republican congressman called the president a liar - once again bringing the incendiary issue of illegal immigration to the forefront of the national debate on health care.While some say undocumented immigrants are scapegoats in an already heated debate, others say they are part of a bigger problem about how to handle a national health care crisis to control medical costs. In a climate of economic trouble and rising insurance...