This is NUTS!

Student, car debt quietly added to bailout plan
By Patrice Hill
Washington Times
September 23, 2008

In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other “troubled” assets held by banks.

The changes, which were included in draft language that also opened the bailout program to foreign banks with extensive loan operations in the United States, potentially added tens of billions of dollars to the cost of the program.
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Skye & Steele

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If only Democrats in Congress would listen!

One day before Hurricane Ike roared ashore in the heart of the U.S. oil and gas producing region in the Gulf of Mexico gas at my local gas station was $3.59 for regular. The next day, the price was $4.19. It’s even higher in many places.

Why the sudden change? My state, like many others, is increasingly dependent on refined supplies of gasoline coming from the Texas, Louisiana area whose refineries and oil rigs in the Gulf had to shut down in advance of the storm.

Democrats in Congress have refused to permit any new development of supplies outside of existing areas like the Western Gulf and their environmentalist allies use every legal and legislative tool to block any development of refinery capacity.

And while the damage caused by Ike, like that of Hurrican Katrina, which was a much stronger storm, did not cause widespread oil pollution from damaged rigs or refineries, the damage to the American economy grows with each passing year we fail to address the problem of increasing supply and refinery capacity.

Even as oil and gas prices fell on world markets, the problem in the U.S. grows as Democrats refuse to listen to the voices of the voters.
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It’s not pretty in there!

Thanks Always on Watch for the heads up!

Quick: Make a wish!

Congressional Democrats running for cover!

The media establishment is coming out in support of Charlie Gibson’s horrible interview of Sarah Palin last night. Not all of them, but some….like Howard Kurtz who writes this unfortunate piece:

After switching to Fox, I learned that part of the interview was controversial.

GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.

On Fox, Newt Gingrich called this “a sad commentary on the growing anti-religious hostility of the news media.” I would call it asking the governor about her own words.

Really? When her own words were NOT the “exact” words she used, as Charlie so smugly stated last night, then I think you may be stepping in it Howie. Her exact words: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not an accident that we haven’t been attacked since 9/11, it’s an ACCOMPLISHMENT!

With only months to go before President Bush leaves office his legacy is already being written. One stunning achievement leaps out: we have not been attacked on our soil since September 11th and the number of terrorist attacks worldwide has dropped dramatically right along with our success in Iraq.

Yesterday we looked back at the seventh anniversary of that awful day our world changed. For many it was painful to recall that day of horror. The days and months that followed were filled with apprehension that similar attacks or worse could be on the way. How many times following those attacks did you turn the television on in the morning filled with dread that we might be attacked again?

One man had the vision and the plan to keep us safe:

President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Lynne Cheney stand at attention during the observance Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, on the South Lawn of the White House of the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. White House photo by Eric Draper

It’s not like the terrorists haven’t been trying. Recall the carnage from the London bombings in 2005 and the foiled 2006 plot that would have brought down airliners bound for the U.S. over the Atlantic and killed thousands.

In this country we’ve been fortunate. Here’s a partial list of the attack plots that have been foiled because President Bush’s Administration “connected the dots” before the attack occurred: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time to show your friends and neighbors where you stand folks!

Here’s a contribution from Mike’s America:

You’re invited to come up with your own slogans and post them in the comments section. Extra credit goes to those who use their graphics program and post a link to the finished product.

Here are a few more ideas from RightWingStuff.Com:

Imagine what your neighbors will think of this yard sign:

or this:
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I’m going to keep this short and simple for a community debate. Do I hear a sigh of relief out there?

I thought - in the spirit of a united 911 USA - this was to be a no-personal-attacks-cone-of-silence-debate to show the “differences” in the candidates.

Then much to my surprise, Woodfuff (as in Judy) was feeding Obama what McCain said.

Then even more to my surprise, Obama said “listening to his presentation….”

So I gather there was no “cone of silence”, and that Obama was in the position to (in a supposed “non partisan, kindly way) able to respond/counter to McCain’s genuine, heart felt answers instead of commenting on his own beliefs without a comparison.

Hardly as “non-partisan” as advertised…. surprise surprise from the media, who couldn’t retire their biased commentary for even today… Sept 11th. Feh…

And oh, by the way… not being a huge McCain fan, I was duly impressed with his “from the heart”, a’political replies. So CentFla? Maybe you saw something in him in the past the rest of us didn’t….. LOL

Any comments? The thread is yours…. Just waiting to see da feedback of the community.

AP Report: Swedish broadcaster SVT on Thursday released a previously unseen film clip purportedly showing the release of presidential candidate John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.

A former SVT reporter, Erik Eriksson, said he found the video in the network’s archives when he was looking for footage for a book he was writing about his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam.

Obummer!

Highlights from Politico’s “Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama:”

“It’s more than an increased anxiety,” said Doug Schoen, who worked as one of Bill Clinton’s lead pollsters during his 1996 reelection “It’s a palpable frustration. Deep-seated unease in the sense that the message has gotten away from them.”
“They were set up to run ‘experience versus change,’ what they had run [against Hillary] Clinton,” Trippi said. “And I think Palin clearly moved that to be change [and] reform, versus change. They are adjusting to that and that threw them off balance a little bit.” “Their 50-state strategy is insanity,” said Schoen. “If they don’t use their financial advantage where they need it most,” he said, citing states from Ohio to Nevada, “and put every thing there and blow it out, they are at deep risk of losing.”

“[The] shift in the public’s perception of the issues, in Democratic pollster Celinda Lake’s words, “tremendously concerns me…”
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Probably the most meaningful post I’ve done. If you don’t know who David Gamboa-Brandhorst is, he was a passenger aboard United Flight 175. And he was 3 years old.

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And thankful we have been kept safe since September 11, 2001!

It’s difficult to revisit a day of such pain and loss. Another anniversary of a day so horrible we wish we could forget but never can. But amongst the sadness of that day are stories of heroism and greatness that we should always honor and remember.

Images like the lifeless body of Father Mychal Judge “The fireman’s chaplain” being carried away from the scene at Ground Zero in New York remind us of the loss of so many brave heroes:

Images too of the cross of steel beams found erect in the debris giving comfort to the rescue workers searching for fallen brothers:
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Some of our liberal friends have been getting a bit defensive lately. As they watch Obama’s lead in the polls slide in states where it was solid a few weeks ago and Sarah Palin arrives to give real change to voters hungering for an authentic, fresh face the Obamatons are trying to change the subject.

They’re squealing like stuck pigs (lipstick or not) that we should be talking about the issues.

O.K. after reading Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver where he used the word “promise” more times than any other it was hard to find any specifics on what Obama has done on issues like education and what he would do. Vague statements like: “our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education,” doesn’t cut it.

So, let’s take a closer look at the Obama record on education:

Sex education for kindergartners who haven’t yet learned to read? Is that the kind of “change” we need?