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It's not just the colossal amount of waste in the Obama Recovery Kill that has my head trying to make apple juice out of pomegranates, but it's trying to figure out how the meatheads who created this thing arrived at some of their funding figures. (Whole cloth comes to mind).For instance, $650 million has been allocated for "abandoned mine sites." Call me uncreative and void of vision, but how exactly does one spend over a half-billion dollars on abandoned mine sites?On bigger signs warning people to stay out?To fill the holes?To put up a gift shop?Interestingly enough, the mine money...

When anyone on the payroll of the Associated Press actually bothers to veer away from Interstate Obama and earn their pay by doing some genuine reporting, i.e., legitimately questioning some of the claims put forth by the Messiah himself, it is definitely worth acknowledging. (It happens so rarely). AP reporter Calvin Woodward has actually done a fairly nice job fact checking some of The One’s assertions made in Elkhart, Indiana on Monday, while the President was attempting to build up support for his pig-meat spectacular, ultimately passed by the Senate yesterday. . The problem is, while doing a respectable...

The so-called "stimulus" package was losing popular support on an almost daily basis until Barack Obama came out in a massive media barrage to support it. But one thing Obama never seems to mention is the fact that its passage will ration health care to the elderly. Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York, has uncovered a few unpleasant outcomes for little Suzy's poor old Grandma if the Generational Theft Act gets passed. Tom Daschle may be gone, now that folks know that this erstwhile Secretary of Health and Human Services didn't bother to pay all his Medicare Taxes....

After reading about Obama's press conference on the stimulus package, I thought did he hit a home run with the press corps? Some of the highlights (not necessarily in the order) of the press conference: Number two is that although there are some programs in there that I think are good policy, some of them aren't job creators. I think it's perfectly legitimate to say that those programs should be out of this particular recovery package and we can deal with them later. But when they start characterize something as pork without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this...

I wanted to see how many dog parks were asked to be federally funded in this pork bill named Stimulus. So I did a quick search and I came up with Four projectsOver $3.5 million dollars. I expect to see an increase in pooper scooper sales and that is where I would put my money. Next, I wanted to see about the world's oldest profession, prostitution. I did a quick search and I came up with one project.This was in Dayton Ohio; $1.5 million to educate and house prostitutes and zero jobs created. I did a quick google search and...

But it’s his own kind – some Democrat voters, anti-war morons, and other various leftwing nuts – who are providing the real entertainment lately. While still chanting their prObama slogans and arguing the case for Barack in public, one by one they are getting that look. You know the look it seems every teenage boy has? That vacant, speechless look like he was just hit in the back of the head with a shovel? That look.

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4. President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims." Few on Capital Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who...

Back in the old days tribes would perform elaborate rituals and sacrifices in the middle of Winter in order to ensure that Summer returns. Their priests and leaders engaged in scare tactics in reasoning that the rituals were necessary and that if the rituals were not performed, Summer would not return. One would think that our society has advanced enough that we would no longer engage in such scaremongering practices, but one would be wrong. Obama and many in Congress are loudly proclaiming that if we don't pass the stimulus package right now, our economy will be permanently damanged. Even...

Chapter 6 - The Whomping Oak and St. Mungo's Hospital Voldemort's attempt to impose his Socialist New World Disorder over the Wizarding Community has hit a snag.

(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s economic stimulus bill would forbid colleges -- both religious and secular -- from receiving stimulus funds to improve facilities that are used for religious purposes. The provision is found in the Higher Education Modernization, Renovation and Repair section (Sec. 9302) of both the House and Senate versions of the bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. According to the provision, none of funds of the $6 billion allotted to the renovation, modernization, or repair of college buildings may be used for facilities “(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or school department of divinity;...

Obama fires shot at Republicans on stimulus plan Agence France-Presse February 05, 2009 10:07am PRESIDENT Barack Obama has fired a sharp warning to Republicans mustered against his $US900 billion stimulus plan, playing the most partisan political card of his young presidency. Obama took a clear shot yesterday at opponents who have increasingly complained the huge plan is bloated by unnecessary spending and lacks sufficient tax cuts, as the measure made its slow way through the US Senate. "In the past two days, I have heard criticisms of this plan that, frankly, echo the very same failed theories that helped lead...

8:00 Eastern time Dear Conservative, We're at a crucial point in our battle to stop the Pelosi\Reid\Obama Stimulus boondoggle. Amendments to the legislation are now being debated and voted on hour-by-hour. In fact, yesterday a $246 million earmark for Hollywood (I'm not making this up) was found and stripped by alert senators like Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. The big vote on whether the thing will pass is still tenatively set for Friday but sources tell us that Majority Leader Reid knows the votes just are not there at the moment so they are considering postponing the vote until next week...

President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing. CBO estimates that by 2019 the Senate legislation would reduce GDP by 0.1 percent to...

President Obama and the Democrats’ “stimulus” package will increase the unemployment rate. The changes they propose will also make us poorer, with fewer, less productive jobs. The most obvious explanation is the $36 billion in increased unemployment insurance benefits. Larger benefits at least for this year will encourage some people, who may be unhappy with their jobs, to be unemployed while they look for something better. Others will be a little more reluctant to take a new job when they are offered it. Unlike the rest of the “stimulus” package that is over two years, since the increased benefits are...

If enacted, the Senate stimulus bill would fund over $100 billion in new government construction projects with the goal of providing additional jobs to unemployed Americans. The House-passed stimulus bill contains explicit language to bar employment of illegal immigrants in these construction projects. However, the Senate bill deliberately omits this language. If the Senate version of the bill becomes law, a great number of the workers employed in government construction programs will, in fact, be illegal immigrants. About one out of seven (or 15 percent) of workers employed in construction in the U.S. is an illegal immigrant.[1] Unless strong mechanisms...

Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.) vented to Air America about the way Speaker Nancy Pelosi was treating members who wanted to do things like read the bills being voted on. It wasn't pretty. Cooper, one of the 11 Democrats to vote against the House version of the stimulus bill, said he landed in hot water with Pelosi because he cared what was in the bill. "I got in terrible trouble with our leadership because they don’t care what’s in the bill, they just want it pass and they want it to be unanimous," he said. "They don’t mind the partisan...

Today's Washington Post headline may say that Democrats don't have the votes to pass the Obama "stimulus" package as it is currently written, but what does that really mean? That instead of a $900 billion monstrosity, it'll be worked and re-worked so that it is transformed into a lean mean $800 billion nightmare?The bottom line is - Republicans tick me off. And it's catching.If this were a petition to that effect, there'd also be a ton of enraged environmentalists, because a whole lot of trees would lose their lives to create the parchment needed to accommodate the signatures.Republicans have been...

1. The $825 billion package will exceed $1.1 trillion after the interest ($300 billion) to pay it back is added in. 2. The legislation could send billions of taxpayer dollars to groups like ACORN, which is under federal investigation for voter fraud. 3. The plan spends $650 million on digital TV coupons. 4. $600 million for new cars for the federal government. 5. $6 billion for colleges/universities -- many of which have billion-dollar endowments. 6. $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. 7. $150 million for the Smithsonian Institution. 8. $44 million for repairs to U.S....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-18 Governor Palin Continues to Express Serious Concerns with President’s Stimulus Package February 3, 2009, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin again today expressed her serious concerns with President Obama’s proposed stimulus package. In a joint letter sent to Alaska’s congressional delegation, Governor Palin, House Speaker Mike Chenault and Senate President Gary Stevens cautioned that unrestrained spending, initiation of new programs that the states may be asked to continue after the federal stimulus is gone, and the borrowing of hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for it may result in serious economic problems in the...

Projects in Puerto RicoThe total of cost of all the projects submitted by Puerto Rico is $22,093,054,016.00 Here is some slick wording on the part of the group. StimulusWatch.org was built to to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed "shovel-ready" projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for...