Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Retirement Choices

There are many retirement options.
Here is a guide to help you make the right choice.  
 You can retire to Phoenix or Tucson , Arizona where...
1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.  
2. You 've experienced condensation on your weeney from the hot water in the toilet bowl.  
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.  
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.  
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!


OR

You can retire to California where...
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can 't afford to buy a house.  
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.  
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.  
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.  

5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.

OR

You can retire to New York City where...
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan .
 2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can 't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature."
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. You 've worn out a car horn. (Ed. Note -   if you have a car).
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

OR
You can retire to Minnesota where...
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco .
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.  
3. You have more than one recipe for casserole.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.
OR
You can retire to the Deep South where...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. "Y ' all" is singular and "all y 'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin" is a valid defense.  
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary  
Ellen, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.
5. Everything is either "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder." It 's important to know the difference, too.


OR

You can retire to Colorado where...
1.  You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.

3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.
OR
You can retire to the Midwest where...  
1. You 've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where 's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"
OR
FINALLY You can retire to Florida where.
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.  
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.  
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.  
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.  
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.




Paralles Carter and Obama ... My Take 4 U

Carter facilitates Komani return to Iran, throwing Pro-US Goverment under the bus ...  US Embassy over run and 444 days of hostages...Carter dithers showing weakness!

Obama facilitates Muslem Brotherhood  take over in Egypt and most of the Middle East while throwing Pro-US  Goverment under the bus ... Today US Embassy over run and flag burned in Egypt,  US Ambassador and staff  killed in Libya...Obama State Department apologizes.   Obama dithers....Is a hostage situation next.

Obama too busy campaigning to meet with Isralie PM to discuss Iran building nuckear bomb....WTF?

If you voted for Obama because he's black...You are a racist!   If you vote for him again knowing he is incompetent and a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO US...You are a FOOL!!!








 
One of the best lines heard lately was from Izzy Kapp, a now retired shop foreman from the old Republic Steel Plant in Cleveland . At 17 Izzy immigrated to the USA from England after his family escaped from Poland when he was 12. A more proud American can not be imagined. He often said, "I am overwhelmed by the opportunities my country offers me!"

All five of his children graduated from college. One got an MS, another got a JD, and the third an MD degree. It took Izzy 13 years of night school to get a college degree. 
When a young Black kid was being laid off at the end of his 90 day evaluation period he confronted Izzy in the huge Republic Steel Plant break room at lunch and tried to intimidate him with all sorts of NAACP / ACLU / threats.
"I want this on-the-record in front of everybody." the young man said. "You' firin' me 'cause I'm Black!"
Without even looking up from his sandwich the foreman said, "No. We hired you because you're Black. We're firing you because you're useless." 
'Great slogan for the 2012 election:

They Voted You In Because You're Black.
We're Voting You Out Because You're Useless.
Delta Flight 15 on 9/11
 
 
 
I always wondered what happened to all those other airplanes on 9/11... 
 
"

 
 
 
> I never heard this story....just amazing.....this is unity and compassion,
> according to snopes it 's true
>
> Here is an amazing story from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written
> following 9-11:
>
> "On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, we were about 5 hours out of
> Frankfurt, flying over the North Atlantic . All of a sudden the curtains
> parted and I was told to go to the cockpit, immediately, to see the captain.
> As soon as I got there I noticed that the crew had that "All Business" look
> on their faces. The captain handed me a printed message. It was from Delta 's
> main office in Atlanta and simply read, "All
> airways over the Continental United States are closed to commercial air
> traffic. Land ASAP at the nearest airport. Advise your destination."
>
> "No one said a word about what this could mean. We knew it was a serious
> situation and we needed to find terra firma quickly. The captain determined
> that the nearest airport was 400 miles behind us in Gander , New Foundland.
> He requested approval for a route change from the Canadian traffic
> controller and approval was granted immediately--no questions asked. We
> found out later, of course, why there was no hesitation in approving our
> request.
>
> "While the flight crew prepared the airplane for landing, another message
> arrived from Atlanta telling us about some terrorist activity in the New
> York area. A few minutes later word came in about the
> hijackings.
>
> "We decided to LIE to the passengers while we were still in the air. We told
> them the plane had a simple instrument problem and that we needed to land at
> the nearest airport in Gander , New Foundland to have it checked out.
>
> "We promised to give more information after landing in Gander . There was
> much grumbling among the passengers, but that 's nothing
> new! Forty minutes later, we landed in Gander . Local time at Gander was
12:30 PM! .... that 's 11:00 AM EST.
>
> "There were already about 20 other airplanes on the ground from all over the
> world that had taken this detour on their way to the U.S. After we parked
> on the ramp, the captain made the following
> announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, you must be wondering if all these
> airplanes around us have the same instrument problem as we have. The reality
> is that we are here for another reason." Then he went on to explain the
> little bit we knew about the situation in the U.S. There were loud gasps and
> stares of disbelief. The captain informed passengers that Ground control in
> Gander told us to stay put.
>
> "The Canadian Government was in charge of our situation and no one was
> allowed to get off the aircraft. No one on the ground was allowed to come
> near any of the air crafts. Only airport police would come around
> periodically, look us
> over and go on to the next airplane. In the next hour or so more planes
> landed and Gander ended up with 53 airplanes from all over the world, 27 of
> which were U.S. commercial jets.
>
> "Meanwhile, bits of news started to come in over the aircraft radio and for
> the first time we learned that airplanes were flown into the World Trade
> Center in New York and into the Pentagon in DC. People were trying to use
> their cell phones, but were unable to connect due to a different cell system
> in Canada . Some did get through, but were only able to get to the Canadian
> operator who would tell them that the lines to the U.S. were either blocked
> or jammed.
>
> "Sometime in the evening the news filtered to us that the World Trade Center
> buildings had collapsed and that a fourth hijacking had resulted in a crash.
> By now the passengers were emotionally and physically
> exhausted, not to mention frightened, but everyone stayed amazingly calm. We
> had only to look
> out the window at the 52 other stranded aircraft to realize that we were
> not the only ones in this predicament.
>
> "We had been told earlier that they would be allowing people off the planes
> one plane at a time. At 6 PM, Gander airport told us that our turn to
> deplane would be 11 am the next morning. Passengers were not
> happy, but they simply resigned themselves to this news without much noise
> and started to prepare themselves to spend the night on the airplane.
>
> " Gander had promised us medical attention, if needed, water, and lavatory
> servicing. And they were true to their word. Fortunately we had no medical
> situations to worry about. We did have a young lady who
> was 33 weeks into her pregnancy. We took REALLY good care of her. The night
> passed without incident despite the uncomfortable sleeping arrangements.
>
> "About 10:30 on the morning of the 12th a convoy of school buses showed up.
> We got off the plane and were taken to
> the terminal where we went through Immigration and Customs and then had to
> register with the Red Cross.
>
> "After that we (the crew) were separated from the passengers and were taken
> in vans to a small hotel. We had no idea where our passengers were going. We
> learned from the Red Cross that the town of Gander has a population of
> 10,400 people and they had about 10,500 passengers to take care of from all
> the airplanes that were forced into Gander! We were told to just relax at
> the hotel and we would be contacted when the U.S. airports opened again, but
> not to expect that call for a while.
>
> "We found out the total scope of the terror back home only after getting to
> our hotel and turning on the TV, 24 hours after it all started.
>
> "Meanwhile, we had lots of time on our hands and found that the people of
> Gander were extremely friendly. They started calling us the "plane people."
> We enjoyed their hospitality, explored the town of Gander and
> ended up having a pretty good time.
>
> "Two days later, we got that call and were taken back to the Gander airport.
> Back on the plane, we were reunited with the passengers and found out what
> they had been doing for the past two days. What we found out was incredible.
>
> " Gander and all the surrounding communities (within about a 75 Kilometer
> radius) had closed all high schools, meeting halls, lodges, and any other
> large gathering places. They converted all these facilities to
> mass lodging areas for all the stranded travelers. Some had cots set up,
> some had mats with sleeping bags and pillows set up.
>
> "ALL the high school students were required to volunteer their time to take
> care of the "guests." Our 218 passengers ended up in a town called
> Lewisporte, about 45 kilometers from Gander where they were put up in a high
> school. If any women wanted to be in a women-only facility, that was
> arranged. Families were kept together. All the
> elderly passengers were taken to private homes.
>
> "Remember that young pregnant lady? She was put up in a private home right
> across the street from a 24-hour Urgent Care facility. There was a dentist
> on call and both male and female nurses remained with the crowd for the
> duration.
>
> "Phone calls and e-mails to the U.S. and around the world were available to
> everyone once a day. During the day, passengers were offered "Excursion"
> trips. Some people went on boat cruises of the lakes and
> harbors. Some went for hikes in the local forests. Local bakeries stayed
> open to make fresh bread for the guests. Food was prepared by all the
> residents and brought to the schools. People were driven to
> restaurants of their choice and offered wonderful meals. Everyone was given
> tokens for local laundry mats to wash their clothes, since luggage was still
> on the aircraft. In other words, every single need
> was met for those stranded travelers.
>
> "Passengers were crying while telling us these stories. Finally, when they
> were told that U.S. airports had reopened, they were delivered to the
> airport right on time and without a single passenger missing or
> late. The local Red Cross had all the information about the whereabouts of
> each and every passenger and knew which plane they needed to be on and when
> all the planes were leaving. They coordinated everything beautifully. It was
> absolutely incredible.
>
> "When passengers came on board, it was like they had been on a cruise.
> Everyone knew each other by name. They were swapping stories of their stay,
> impressing each other with who had the better time. Our flight back to
> Atlanta looked li ke a chartered party flight. The crew just stayed out of
> their way. It was mind-boggling. Passengers had totally bonded and were
> calling each other by their first names, exchanging
> phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses.
>
> "And then a
> very unusual thing happened. One of our passengers approached me and asked
> if he could make an announcement over the PA system. We never, ever allow
> that. But this time was different. I said "of course" and handed him the
> mike. He picked up the PA and reminded everyone about what they had just
> gone through in the last few days. He reminded them of the hospitality they
> had received at the hands of total strangers. He continued by saying that he
> would like to do something in return for the good folks of Lewisporte.
>
> "He said he was going to set up a Trust Fund under the name of DELTA 15 (our
> flight number). The purpose of the trust fund is to provide college
> scholarships for the high school students of Lewisporte. He
> asked for donations of any amount from his fellow travelers. When the paper
> with donations got back to us with the amounts, names, phone numbers and
> addresses, the total was for more than $14,000!
>
> "The gentleman, a MD
> from Virginia , promised to match the donations and to start the
> administrative work on the scholarship. He also said that he would forward
> this proposal to Delta Corporate and ask them to donate as well. As I write
> this account, the trust fund is at more than $1.5 million and has assisted
> 134 students in college education.
>
> "I just wanted to share this story because we need good stories right now.
> It gives me a little bit of hope to know that some people in a far away
> place were kind to some strangers who literally dropped in on
> them. It reminds me how much good there is in the world."
>
> "In spite of all the rotten things we see going on in todays world this
> story confirms that there are still a lot of good and Godly people in the
> world and when things get bad, they will come forward.
> "God Bless America ...and the Canadians."
>
>

One Citizen Speaking...


Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:06 AM PDT
Reuters is reporting that the United States Ambassador to Libya and three other consular workers killed when their car was attacked as they were leaving a consular building under attack by terrorists (not militants, not activists, not protestors) protesting a film which they believe insults the Prophet Mohammad.
This is an attack on the United States and an act of war. The Libyan government should be given 48-hours to round up those who were responsible.
According to Reuters …
U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
According to President Obama and his fellow travelers, Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance. Bullshit! These people go “bat-shit insane” at the slighted provocation. So I have little or no doubt that this was an orchestrated attempt to foment more anti-America trouble in the region.
"The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from the State Department in Washington. U.S. ambassadors in such volatile countries are accompanied by tight security, usually travelling in well-protected convoys. Security officials will be considering whether the two attacks were coordinated.
Libyan deputy prime minister Mustafa Abu Shagour condemned the killing of the U.S. diplomats as a cowardly act.
The consular official had died after clashes between Libyan security forces and Islamist militants around the consulate building. Looters raided the empty compound and some onlookers took pictures after calm returned.
In neighboring Egypt, demonstrators had torn down an American flag and burned it during the protest. Some tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters witness said.  <Source:U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack>
Bottom line …
Muslims respect nothing except their religion, force and the will to use force. It is time to demonstrate to Muslims who attack American property or Americans that their will be a disproportionate “shock and awe” campaign targeting the region’s terrorists. As for collateral damage, don’t worry, every Muslim wants to die a Martyr for Allah. So in a sense, we are doing them a favor.
When is this craziness going to stop? Any rational observer can see that Muslims are all about their perverted religion which has no tolerance for other religions or cultures and the blood of infidels. In fact, when there are no infidels, the fight each other to determine who should control Islam as the defender of the faith. Muslims should be restricted from traveling to the United States at the very least.
For those who say that this unfairly punishes the innocent Muslim people for the acts of a few terrorists, it is these very people who should be keeping the terrorists in check. Unfortunately, there is no separation of church and state and the state’s position is to advance the cause of Islam in any way possible.
Being a cynic, I must ask. Is this a diversionary scheme to keep the United States occupied and away from Iran? Is this a ruse to make Barack Obama look Presidential – tough on terrorism?
Let’s see if Obama and Hillary Clinton will take action.
-- steve
Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:10 AM PDT
For those who have never seen a union contract or wonder what might be hidden in its provisions, here a a great opportunity to see exactly what a union contract looks like and the mind-numbing provisions it contains.
The recently-expired Chicago Teachers contract  can be found at …
After scanning this contract, you will quickly see why rather lazy politicians leave it up to staff to read through the actual contract and work primarily from summary sheets.
Bottom line …
  • The teachers and others in the collective bargaining unit should be pleased that they have a job which pays in excess of the rates found in the private sector. Teachers shall be compensated on rates comparable to the private sector.
  • The teachers should get no salary increases, and suffer a 10% pay cut to align them with the shared suffering put forth by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and President Barack Obama. Both men the recipient of near 100% of union political support.
  • The teachers should pay an increasing part of their medical and pension contributions in line with practices in the private sector.
  • Teachers shall not receive artificial “bumps” in pensions for any reason.
  • The teachers should be switched to a defined contribution pension like the 401(k) pensions found in the private sector instead of a defined benefit pension which is slowly bankrupting Chicago.
  • The teachers should be tested for both subject matter competence and teaching ability once every three years.
  • Teachers should no longer receive tenure and become “at will” employees who can be fired like everyone else in the private sector.
  • Teachers should no longer be forced to pay union dues if they want to teach. All dues should be voluntary.
  • Teachers should not be compensated for being overqualified. Teachers with Master’s degrees teaching second grade will be compensated at the rate for second grade teachers.
  • The union grievance procedure shall be modified so that any case is reviewable in a court of competent jurisdiction if union mediation fails after 48-hours.
  • The loyalty oath as regarding socialists and communists shall be reinstated.
  • Any teacher convicted of a sex crime shall receive the maximum allowable sentence with no plea bargaining, no parole and no pension.
There is absolutely no reason to create a privileged political class that holds the democrat party in thrall with promises or threats related to campaign funding, voter support or the support of an opposing party.
-- steve
Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:07 AM PDT
I couldn’t stop laughing at the Al Qaeda idiot who thought Americans would buy into a “traditional Muslim offer of a conditional and limited peace plan.” This is an old Muslim trick to lull your enemies into relaxing their guard while you recruit, re-group, re-arm and grow stronger.
It would legitimatize the “stateless” Al Qaeda regime as a political power in addition to being terrorists …

Exclusive: Al Qaeda leader's brother offers peace plan

The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri is proposing to mediate a peace deal between the West and Islamists.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Mohamed al Zawahiri unveiled his proposal for the first time, saying he is in a unique position to help end the violence and that both sides need to make concessions. As the al Qaeda leader's brother, he says they are ideologically inseparable, and that if anyone can talk his brother out of violence it's him.
But first you must let me out of jail …
Mohamed spent 14 years in Egyptian jail on charges including terrorism and involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat 1981. He denies the charges. For five years he was in solitary confinement in a cell 180 cm by 180cm (6 feet x 6 feet) where, locked in with his own thoughts, he had plenty of time to plan what to do when released.
The plan …
His six-page proposal offers a 10-year truce if the following terms are met. In brief they are:
• U.S. and West to stop intervening in Muslim lands
• U.S. to stop interfering in Muslim education
• U.S. to end the war on Islam
• U.S. to release all Islamist prisoners.
The document also calls on Islamists to change their behavior too:
• Stop attacks on Western and U.S. interests
• Protect legitimate Western and U.S. interests in Muslim lands
• Stop provoking the U.S. and the West
Not exactly the first time we have heard about a “10-year” peace plan …
On January 25, 2004, senior Hamas official Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi offered a 10-year truce in return for the establishment of a Palestinian state and the complete withdrawal by Israel from the territories captured in the 1967 Six Day War.
So what’s so special about a “10-year” plan?
Hudna is an Arabic term meaning a temporary "truce" or "armistice" as well as "calm" or "quiet", coming from a verbal root meaning "calm". It is sometimes translated as "cease-fire".
The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was an event that took place during the formation of Islam. It was a pivotal treaty between Muhammad, representing the state of Medina, and the Quraish tribe of Mecca in March 628 to decrease tension between the two cities, affirmed a 10-year peace, and authorized Muhammad's followers to return the following year in a peaceful pilgrimage,
How did it end?
In the year 628, when the prophet Mohammed considered his forces to be too weak to overcome the rival Kuraysh tribes, he concluded with them aten-year truce (hudna) referred to as the Hudaybiya accord. Less than two years later,having consolidated their power, the Muslim forces attacked the Kuraysh tribes and defeated them, thereby enabling Mohammed to conquer Mecca.  <Source>  Note: because of the difficulty in transliterating Arabic, there is a difference in spelling of the tribe’s name in the two paragraphs.
Bottom line …
With the another  Al Qaeda terrorist killed in a drone strike, the leadership has become decimated and the adherents demoralized. They need time to recruit, re-group, re-arm so as to be able to mount the next attack on the West.
Unless this terrorist finds someone stupid enough, perhaps Barack Obama, to accept his “peace” plan, he should rot in jail and the rest of the terrorists exterminated like infectious cockroaches.
-- steve
Reference Links …
Exclusive: Al Qaeda leader's brother offers peace plan - CNN.com
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT
Here is a man who is putting up a $1 million bounty on any person who is able to compromise the sanctity of Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns. And what makes him a disgusting American is that he is openly encouraging criminal activity for political purposes.
Larry Flynt’s X-Rated Plan to Expose Mitt Romney
The Hustler publisher, who usually digs for sexual dirt, is determined to expose Romney’s tax returns. He talks to Lauren Ashburn about his million-dollar reward.
The Hustler publisher bought full-page ads in The Washington Post and USA Today, promising “$1 Million” for information about Mitt Romney’s unreleased tax returns and/or details of his offshore assets, bank accounts, and business partnerships.” The ads also ran in papers in Zurich, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands, home to some of the world’s most infamous tax shelters. The unanswered question, in Flynt’s mind: What is Romney hiding?
“The only reason to not release the returns is to avoid taxes or hide assets. He’s hiding assets,” Flynt tells me. “The guy’s a multibillionaire.”
To hear Flynt tell it, Romney isn’t just worth $250 million, as the former Bain Capital boss would have us believe. Flynt insists, without evidence, that Romney is hiding much of his money because he may lose the presidency if it turns out the guy is really, really loaded, not just superrich.  “No working stiff who goes to a ballot box can relate to a billionaire.”
Flynt, who has said he is worth $400 million, knows the power of cash—especially when it comes to getting sources to spill the beans.
He’s betting that the tried-and-true tabloid method of paying for information will sink the Republican nominee, who, says Flynt, “scares me to death” and doesn’t have the best interests of the country at heart.
 And who exactly would have access to Romney’s deepest, darkest financial secrets?
 “I don’t expect his attorneys or his accountants or his cronies to give him up,” Flynt says, “but some clerk will.”
Bottom line …
The idea than an American citizen should be able to place a bounty on another American’s private papers should be illegal. The spirit of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment against the government’s unreasonable search and seizure is being violated. Similar to the government inducing criminals to disclose information on a person of interest and then claiming to have clean hands.
If Larry Flynt was a patriot, he would have made the same offer regarding President Barack Obama’s hidden records. Using Larry Flynt’s line “’scares me to death’ and doesn’t have the best interests of the country at heart,” I am wondering if Obama has traveled abroad to Muslim Pakistan, in contravention of travel restrictions on Americans, using a foreign passport? Whether or not Barack Obama received admissions and financial assistance as a “foreign student,” and why Obama’s Social Security Number appears to have been issued to a long-dead Connecticut man?
If Larry Flynt was a patriot, concened about the country, one would assume that he would want to know if the current holder of the Office of the President is eligible to hold that office or is a Manchurian Candidate being run by handlers who do not wish America well? Isn’t this a much more pressing issue than Romney’s tax returns?
Even assuming Romney is a billionaire – I would much rather have a competent individual with economic expertise and a love for America in the White House over a poseur who seems to have a dodgy history and a dodgy pattern of governing.
Of course, the wheelchair bound Flynt, like most wealthy liberals, is immune from the consequences of Obamacare and most of the other laws Obama might sign into law. If Flynt cares so much for America, let him write a check for $399 million to the United States Treasury.
If Romney’s tax returns are compromised as a consequence of this “stunt,” Larry Flynt should go to jail for aiding and abetting a criminal act.
Reference Links …
Larry Flynt’s X-Rated Plan to Expose Mitt Romney - The Daily Beast
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT
We know that President Obama is a strange duck …
  • A man who managed to get elected in spite of his lack of experience, refusal to provide personal historical data, open ties to communists, socialist training and many other negatives.
  • A man who will do or say anything to gain or maintain political power.
  • Including making bald-faced lies to the American public.
Whoops …

Obama Promises No Vouchers for Medicare . . . But Does it Anyway

One of the promises Obama made in his DNC speech was that he would not ever make Medicare into a voucher program. He said, “I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and the dignity they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we’ll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more. And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it, not by turning it over to Wall Street.”
Evidently, when Obama says “never” as in, he will “never” turn Medicare into a voucher, he means “the next day,” because the day after Obama’s speech, the Department of Health and Human Services authorized a pilot “voucher” program that would for now affect about 2 million Medicare recipients. Money would be given to states to pay for private insurance coverage for those who were disabled or who were poor enough to be on both Medicare and Medicaid. These 2 million or so recipients would be booted out of the Medicare program and put on private insurance company policies managed by their respective states and paid for through funds provided by the federal government.
Health and Human Services has accepted applications from 18 different states seeking to participate in this program, and last month, Massachusetts became the first to be approved. States are looking forward to the cost savings supposedly associated with the program. California says it is poised to save $500 million a year.
Something stinks …
So, while Obama continues to claim that Ryan’s plan will gut Medicare and turn it into a “voucher program”, Obama’s the only candidate running who has actually gutted it in order to pay for Obamacare, and now, he appears to be the only candidate that’s “turning Medicare into a voucher” and leaving the poorest seniors at the “mercy of insurance companies.”
Bottom line …
Obama cannot be trusted with our economy: He has decimated our energy production infrastructure while pushing ineffective “green energy” which supplies power at increasingly higher prices. He has not reduced the size of government. He has shown no leadership in restraining Congressional spending. His party refuses to work with the republicans who represent at least 45% or the country.
Obama cannot be trusted with our national defense: He borrows money from China to pour into foreign aid – much of it sent to our enemies and those who do not wish us well. He openly disrespects our allies and flatters our enemies.
Obama cannot be trusted with our healthcare: He has already gutted 716 BILLION from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. He has nationalized healthcare and produced an impenetrable bureaucracy that is responsible only to the Secretary of Health and Human Services who he controls by executive fiat. He has repeatedly lied about reduced healthcare insurance premiums; while everybody gets a higher bill. And now he is lying about vouchers.
Obama cannot be trusted to govern. Throw him out in the upcoming election cycle.
-- steve
Reference Links …
Obama Promises No Vouchers for Medicare . . . But Does it Anyway
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT
Lest we not forget ...
For those of you who enjoy the almost effortless delivery of streaming audio and video content on the Internet  …
Today is a sad day for our nation and it is a shame that very few people know,  according to the FAA investigation, that it is believed that the first man to die at the hands of the 9/11 hijackers was Danny Lewin, an American born in Colorado and brought up in Israel.
Danny was a brilliant computer researcher whose research at MIT resulted in the algorithms for managing internet traffic. His work was the technology behind the company he co-founded,Akamai Technologies (Hawaiian for Smart or clever), one of the least advertised and most successful Internet companies in the world. A company devoted to providing rich content almost effortlessly to thousands of  simultaneously users.
The first man to die …
Danny was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 (inbound from Logan Airport in Boston with hijack group leader Mohammad Atta on board) and the FAA believes that he was the first man killed as he attempted to foil the hijackers.
This was the plane that first hit the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. on that fateful morning. One of the flight attendants managed to communicate with the Airlines base during the hijacking and was able to relay that two flight attendants were stabbed and Danny’s throat was cut while attempting to intervene in the hijacking.
Danny was probably not unaware of the dangers as he sat near Mohammad Atta and possibly in front of another hijacker.
And he was not an ordinary passenger. Along with being a brilliant and rich computer entrepreneur, Danny was also  member of Israel’s elite Sayeret Matkal group in the Israel Defense Force for four years. Same as Benjamin Netanyahu and his brother Yonatan who led the successful raid on Entebbe. And being fluent in Hebrew, English and Arabic, Danny most certainly knew what was being shouted back and forth in the aircraft.
Bottom line …
I could provide further details of the hijacking and recap Danny’s almost magical life, but the bottom line is that he was one of us, a man with a  common touch, willing to talk with anybody about any subject.
It should be noted that this single man contributed more to modern society than all of the religious crazies living in Muslim nations.
If there are any lessons to be learned from Danny’s death, they are:
one, life is fragile -- no matter how smart, wealthy or well-connected you might at any time be the victim of circumstance;
two, there exists in this world, hundreds of thousands of religious crazies who are willing to trade their lives to cause suffering, death and destruction to those whom they believe are their religious and ideological enemies; and
three, the government’s bureacracy is often so slow, inefficient and wound up in turf and budget wars that they can hardly connect the dots – and when they do – are afraid to take decisive action. Not always, but enough to be troublesome to ordinary Americans.
Had any of these people had access to atomic weaponry, destroying New York, Chicago or Los Angeles would not bring a second thought.
Danny led the way – fighting against a clearly defined enemy.
Do not let the far-left liberals in our government convince you otherwise: unless Islam is reformed it represents a clear and present danger to both America and the non-Muslim world.
We need to elect leaders and keep our eyes open from those who pretend they are friends of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan both come immediately to mind. There are no moderate Muslims – and if there are, they are ineffective in controlling the crazies among them.
We need to understand that our Constitution is not a suicide pact – and that we can take decisive action against religious threats as if they were any other enemy combatant.
“Vigilance and Peace Through Strength” are concepts that are not well understood by the democrat party and its far-left liberal Marxist infiltrators.
Unfortunately, I am not even sure that we can depend on the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and his fellow travelers to protect America from its enemies both foreign and domestic.
Now is the time to honor both nations dear to Danny: America and Israel. It is what he would have wanted and what he died fighting for.
Rest in Peace Danny
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT
                E pluribus unum …
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              Out of many, one!

Whatever political differences Americans may have, whatever color, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or political party – we will stand up to terrorism with one will, with one voice and we will rain hell down upon you – no matter how long it takes to bring you to justice.
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And to the Saudi Royal Family, there will come a day when your involvement and complicity in 9/11 will become known – and you will face justice before both man and God.
From Investor’s Business Daily …
Unanswered: What Was Saudis' Role?
9/11: A new report revealing the hijackers met in Florida with a well-connected Saudi family who fled to Riyadh just days before the attacks raises fresh concerns about the Saudis' role in the plot.
The Saudi hijackers who entered the country from San Diego also met with Saudi handlers. So now we know al-Qaida had Saudi help from coast to coast. According to the Miami Herald, investigators believe the wealthy family at a minimum knew of their guests' evil plans, and possibly aided them.
Just two weeks before 9/11, and after meetings and calls with ringleader Mohamed Atta and other hijackers, the Saudi nationals abandoned three cars, including a new Chrysler PT Cruiser, in the garage and driveway of their Sarasota home. In their haste to leave the country, they also left behind opulent furniture. A safe, however, was cleaned out. They also took a computer.
Their Sarasota home was owned by Esam Ghazzawi, a Saudi financier. He'd been on an FBI watch list for terror-fundraising. The FBI, however, never briefed the 9/11 Commission about his and the other Saudi occupants' connections to the hijackers. Congress also was left in the dark about the house search.
It's one of many mysteries surrounding the Saudis and 9/11. Other questions still unanswered after 10 years:
• Why was the section of Congress' Joint Inquiry into9/11 dealing with "sources of foreign support for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers" kept secret from the public on the orders of President Bush?
Almost 27 full pages were blanked out — an amount equal to the entire U.S. Constitution. The section, which remains sealed, reportedly quotes from a CIA memo that concludes there's "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi government officials supported the hijackers. Why the cover-up?
• And why were the first two hijackers who entered the country received by a Saudi government agent who secured and paid for their housing and arranged flight lessons? Was he acting on his own, or on official orders? Was he, as some investigators suspect, part of an advance team sent by the Saudi consulate to meet the hijackers as they arrived in Los Angeles?
• Was it coincidence or something more that the Saudi agent's salary was increased while settling the hijackers in San Diego? Or that he was able to tap into a $130,000 "welfare" account funded by the kingdom's ambassador to the U.S.? Was money funneled through official Saudi channels to the hijackers?
• Was another Saudi agent from New Jersey, who handled the hijackers on the East Coast, also tasked by the Saudi government?
• Who ordered the massive post-9/11 evacuation of Saudi VIPs — including two dozen bin Ladens, at least one of whom had an open terror file at the FBI — without proper investigations? Why was such a request granted, given the Saudi nationality of 15 hijackers?
• Did Saudi envoy Prince Bandar make the request while he and Bush shared cigars on the Truman Balcony of the White House on Sept. 13, 2001? Did Bush's father or James Baker, who on Sept. 10 had attended a Carlyle Group conference in Washington with bin Laden's brother, intervene? What about Bandar's old racquetball partner Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose wife once received a Jaguar as a Bandar gift?
• Similarly, why was the Saudi minister of mosquesallowed to escape interrogation after feigning a heart attack when FBI agents learned he'd left his Washington hotel to check into the same budget hotel near Dulles airport as the hijackers the night before they attacked the Pentagon?
• Why was an arrest warrant for the hijackers' confidante, Anwar Awlaki — who'd worked for the Saudi Embassy as a lecturer and hajj tour guide — suddenly pulled back the day before he re-entered the U.S. on a Saudi airliner? Why was this dangerous al-Qaida recruiter allowed to leave the country for good?
• Why was the Pentagon attack staged out of a mosque built by the Saudi Embassy? The fax number to the D.C. mosque, where Awlaki preached and the hijackers worshiped, turned up in a key 9/11planner's German flat.
If there are simple answers to these questions, let's hear them. Enough censorship by Washington. The American people deserve to know the full extent of Saudi Arabia's role in helping the hijackers. <Source>
Muslims are not Americans ...
As long as domestic Muslims believe that Sharia Law should replace our Constitution, as long as Muslims believe that there should be no separation between "Church and State," and as long as Muslims try to use our First Amendment to push their own toxic agenda, they may be present in the United States, they may be citizens, but they are NOT Americans.
Bottom line …
The truth will eventually come out – even if high-level United States officials aided and abetted a cover-up.
Meanwhile, let us honor the innocent dead and the brave first responders who ran into doomed buildings, those that rescued the living from the Pentagon – and the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 who deliberately crashed the aircraft to thwart the terrorist attack.
Let us remember the survivors whose incalculable loss can never be remedied.
And let us pledge to turn the next state sponsor of terror into a sea of glass.
And do not forget, it was President Barack Hussein Obama who bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. It was President Barack Hussein Obama who claims to be a Christian, but quotes the "Holy Quran" at every opportunity. It is Barack Hussein Obama, who was originally trained as a Muslim, who openly insulted the Israeli Prime Minister -- both to his face and behind his back. And it is Barack Hussein Obama who refuses to divulge his passport, social security number and school records that many believe shows him enrolled as a foreign student and receiving aid as a foreign student. And it was Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) who suggested that Israel pull back her borders, a move which would leave her virtually undefensible -- while not demanding that the Palestinians stop lobbying daily rockets into civilian populations or using hospitals and Mosques as military bases.
So when it comes to the 2012 election, let us remember both our enemies and that Barack Hussein Obama may not have America's best interests at heart if he should be re-elected to another term.
-- steve

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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