This is too true to be  funny. The next time you hear a politician use the Word 'billion' in acasual manner, think aboutwhether you want the 'politicians'  spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,  But one advertising agency did a good job of putting thatfigure into some perspective in One of its releases. A.  A billion seconds ago it was1959. B.  A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. C.  A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. D.  A billion days ago no-one walked  on the earth on two feet. E.  A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government isspending it. While this thought is still fresh in our brain... let's take a look at New Orleans ..It's  amazing what you can learn with some simple  division. Louisiana Senator,Mary Landrieu (D) was asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS To rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number... What does it mean? A.  Well .. If you are one of the  484,674 residents of New Orleans    (every man, woman and child) You each get$516,528 B.  Or... If you have one of the  188,251 homes inNew Orleans, your home gets$1,329,787. C.  Or... If you are a family of  four...Your family gets $2,066,012. Washington, D.C,HELLO! Are all your calculatorsbroken?? Building Permit Tax CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax (Fed) Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service charge Taxes Social Security Tax Road Usage Tax (Truckers) Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax   State Income Tax   State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Telephone Federal, State  and Local Surcharge Tax Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges  Tax   TelephoneStateand Local Tax Telephone Usage ChargeTax Utility Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax (And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes) STILL THINK THIS IS  FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago... And our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt... We had the largest middle class in the world... And Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What happened? Can you spell 'politicians'! And I still have toPress '1' For English. I hope this goes around  the USA At least 100 times What the hell has happened to our  country?????

Trivializing Four Deaths for the Sake of an Election

The president’s appearance on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” has been well-covered for the statement “If four Americans get killed, that’s not optimal.” Well covered thanks to Conservative blogs, that is. What is less well publicized is the response of  Sean Smith’s mother, Pat Smith, to the president’s remark: “It’s insensitive to say my son is not very optimal — he is also very dead. I’ve not been ‘optimal’ since he died and the past few weeks have been pure hell.

I am still waiting for the truth to come out and I still want to know the truth. I’m finally starting to get some answers but I won’t give up. There’s a lot of stupid things that have been said about my son and what happened and this is another one of them.” Like most things critical of the president, this item appeared in the foreign press. On this occasion, in the U.K.’s Daily Mail Online.
This was not the president’s first misstep concerning the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi; one of his first statements following these murders occurred on “60 Minutes,” when the president was speaking to Steve Kroft. The president referred to the atrocity as “bumps in the road.” The outcry for this analogy was non-existent. Growing grass makes a bigger racket. And the president always gets away with it. He has since he took office.
Our media seem hell-bent on getting the president re-elected at any cost, facts be damned. Any negative press that does manage to escape the reservation immediately gets labeled “racist,” “an overreaction” or, a personal favorite, “out of context.” The problem for the president is that when his remarks are delivered in their entirety, “in context,” the end result is always worse. The problem for the rest of America is that The Ministry of Truth is never willingly going to deliver it; they will keep news away from the public at all costs.
It has become part of “the new normal” that our media doesn’t report the news. The hoi polloi, after all, cannot be trusted with unvarnished information. These media gods, dwelling in the rarified atmosphere provided by the first amendment of the Constitution will, instead, make the news. It is up to them to shape their chosen narrative. And part of that narrative is a desire to keep the masses “in their place.”Scandals about this administration rise and fall faster than the tide. Fast and Furious has all but disappeared from the radar. It took Univision, a Spanish-speaking outlet, to break a story that had been a matter of public record for over a year. Their story was blackballed by the mainstream media as quickly as was humanely possible. Campaign finance irregularities, uncovered a matter of weeks ago, barely saw the light of day.
The president’s use of form letters, sent for condolences to the families of servicemen and servicewomen killed in action? A non-starter. Now Benghazi. There are more troubling questions about the Benghazi cover-up than can be enumerated. The issue is dead on arrival. The attention paid to the incident continues to be blamed on the Romney/Ryan camp.
So what does the media consider newsworthy?The president’s appearances on “The View,” or the Letterman show or on “The Daily Show,” of course. The latest in breaking news pertains to the Oscar de la Renta dress worn by Ann Romney to the second presidential debate. We are breathlessly told the dress cost $1,690 and we are supposed to be scandalized because the dress has not yet been released for sale to the public.
Shocking, elitist behavior, to be sure. Well, in the interest of providing some balance that is missing from the media that found this item compelling, the president’s wife was wearing Marc Jacobs that evening. Her ensemble cost twice as much as Ann Romney’s garb and was part of the 2013 line…not yet released to the public.
The media have been out of control for a long time. Journalistic competence is a thing of the past. News items that should have monumental importance are trivialized. We may not be able to change that in the short run. Getting rid of the focus of the media’s worship in the up-coming presidential election, however, should make a good start.

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The Three Benghazi Timelines We Need Answers About

Every White House sooner or later succumbs to the temptation to cover up an embarrassment.

By JAMES ROSEN

'I do not think," Nixon campaign aide Jeb Magruder told the Senate Watergate committee in the spring of 1973, "there was ever any discussion that there would not be a coverup." Mr. Magruder's lament aptly described the bureaucratic impulse to hide inconvenient facts that seizes every modern White House at some point. His testimony was brought to mind by the growing number of high-profile Republicans accusing the Obama White House of engaging in a coverup in the Benghazi case.
Much remains unknown about the terrorist attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11. To fill in those gaps, three separate probes—by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department's Accountability Review Board, and various congressional committees—are now under way. But in our warp-speed information age, enough evidence has already accrued to the record to lead even dispassionate observers to ponder whether the term "coverup" applies.
William Safire, the late New York Times columnist—and one of the few senior Nixon aides to escape Watergate unsullied—once defined coverup broadly to include "any plan to avoid detection of wrongdoing . . . an act to conceal a mistake."

Today, the issue is not so much the withholding of information as the denial of the obvious: The stubborn insistence by top Obama administration officials on an interpretation of events starkly at odds with the plainly correct conclusion of terrorism. When White House Press Secretary Jay Carney finally acknowledged that the terrorism conclusion was "self-evident" after he had spent the previous eight days pressing a wholly different account of events, Mr. Carney's admission carried strong echoes of Nixon-era Press Secretary Ron Ziegler declaring that his earlier Watergate statements were "inoperative."

Any coverup is attended by competing timelines: the acts of transgression, and the subsequent efforts to conceal or mislead or delay knowledge regarding those events. A famous theme of the Watergate hearings was the quest of investigators into the coverup to find out, as the saying became, what did they know and when did they know it?
The Benghazi episode is best viewed as a series of three timelines. When fully exposed, the facts of the "pre" period before the attacks will tell us how high up the chain, and in which agencies, fateful decisions were made about security precautions for the consulate and annex in Benghazi. We also stand to learn how the planning for the attacks could have been put in motion without being detected until too late.
Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb, who oversees diplomatic security, testified before the House on Oct. 10 that she and her colleagues had placed "the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11 for what had been agreed upon." While not the stuff of a perjury charge, this testimony cannot be true, given the known outcome of the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate and the pleas for enhanced security measures that we now know Foggy Bottom to have rebuffed.
The second Benghazi timeline encompasses the five or six hours on the evening of Sept. 11 when the attacks transpired. A State Department briefing on Oct. 9 offered an account that was riveting but incomplete. When all of the facts of these hours are compiled, we will have a truer picture of the tactical capabilities of al Qaeda and its affiliates in North Africa. We will also learn what really happened to Amb. Stevens that night, and better appreciate the vulnerabilities with which our diplomatic corps, bravely serving at 275 installations across the globe, must still contend.
The third and final Benghazi timeline is the one that has fostered charges of a coverup. It stretches eight days—from 3:40 p.m. on Sept. 11, when the consulate was first rocked by gunfire and explosions, through the morning of Sept. 19, when Matthew G. Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, publicly testified before the Senate that Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
Mr. Olsen's testimony effectively ended all debate about whether the attacks had grown out of a protest over an anti-Islam video. Three days before Mr. Olsen put a stop to the blame-YouTube storyline, U.N. Amb. Susan Rice, echoing Mr. Carney, had gone on five Sunday TV chat shows and maintained that the YouTube video has spurred the violence.
If the Obama White House has engaged in a coverup in the Benghazi case, the ostensible motivation would bear some similarity to that of all the president's men in Watergate. Mr. Obama faces a rendezvous with the voters on Nov. 6, and in a race much tighter than the Nixon-McGovern contest of 1972. In such a circumstance, certain kinds of disclosure are always unwelcome.
As with the Watergate conspirators, who were eager to conceal earlier actions that related to the Vietnam War, the Obama team is determined to portray its pre-9/11 conduct, and particularly its dovish Mideast policies, in the most favorable light. After all, no one wants to have on his hands—even if resulting from sins of omission and not commission—the deaths of four American patriots. Or as Mr. Obama told Jon Stewart on Comedy Central this week, the deaths were "not optimal."
Ms. Lamb, in her congressional testimony, said that from her command center in Washington she was able to track the lethal events of Benghazi in something akin to real time. She was in constant communication with the agent on the consulate grounds who first notified Washington that an assault—"attack, attack," the agent said—was under way. Ms. Lamb also said that the State Department was receiving a steady stream of data on the afternoon of Sept. 11 indicating that terrorism was afoot. Such admissions are what have given rise to charges of a coverup.
"Everyone had the same intelligence," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Fox News last week. But that also appears untrue. How information immediately made known to an assistant secretary of state could somehow be withheld for eight days from the secretary of state herself—and from our U.N. ambassador, from the director of national intelligence, from the analytic corps at the Central Intelligence Agency, from the president's chief spokesman, and from the president himself—now forms the central question in the Benghazi affair.
In Tuesday night's debate with Mitt Romney, President Obama claimed to have "told" the American people that Benghazi was a terror attack the very next day, Sept. 12, when speaking from the Rose Garden. The assertion was untrue, despite moderator Candy Crowley's ruling to the contrary. The president had only spoken generally of terror attacks, and Benghazi would have been understood to fall under that umbrella only if it had been acknowledged as a terror attack.
On Sept. 12, that was not the administration's line. Not until his afternoon appearance on "The View" on Sept. 25—the "two weeks" of delay that Mr. Romney alluded to in the debate—did the president offer Americans an explanation of Benghazi that made no reference to a protest over a video. The YouTube connection had figured prominently in his Benghazi pronouncements as late as Mr. Obama's Sept. 20 appearance on Univision, and even in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on the morning of Sept. 25.
"The business of intelligence has become politicized," says an intelligence source with knowledge of the Benghazi episode, "regardless of which party is in charge." This is an enduring legacy of Vietnam and Watergate. Now, as then, American voters horrified by loss of life in a time of war will cast ballots without having all the facts that might inform their choice.
Mr. Rosen is chief Washington correspondent for Fox News and author of "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate,"

 Bumper Stickers for the Elderly

They say that laughter is good for the soul. If you are over 50 and need a chuckle, read on. If you are not there, take note, the fun is yet to come!   Forward this to every one you can remember right now!  And Never, under any circumstances . . . . take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night!.. . . .

Physical concepts of money..... great graphicsOne Hundred Dollars $100 - Most counterfeited money denomination in the world. Keeps the world moving. Ten Thousand Dollars $10,000 - Enough for a great vacation or to buy a used car. Approximately one year of work for the average human on earth. One Million Dollars $1,000,000 - Not as big of a pile as you thought, huh? Still this is 92 years of work for the average human on earth. One Hundred Million Dollars $100,000,000 - Plenty to go around for everyone. Fits nicely on an ISO / Military standard sized pallet. One Billion Dollars $1,000,000,000 - You will need some help when robbing the bank. Now we are getting serious! One Trillion Dollars $1,000,000,000,000 When the U.S government speaks about a 1.7 trillion deficit - this is the volumes of cash the U.S. Government borrowed in 2010 to run itself. Keep in mind it is double stacked pallets of $100 million dollars each, full of $100 dollar bills. You are going to need a lot of trucks to freight this around. If you spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, you would have not spent $1 trillion by now... but ~$700 billion - same amount the banks got during bailout. One Trillion Dollars Comparison of $1,000,000,000,000 dollars to a standard-sized American Football field and European Football field. Say hello to the Boeing 747-400 transcontinental airliner that's hiding on the right. This was until recently the biggest passenger plane in the world. 15 Trillion Dollars $15,000,000,000,000 - US national debt (credit bill) has just topped the 15 trillion 2 months before Christmas 2011. Statue of Liberty seems rather worried as United States national debt passes 20% of the entire world's combined GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In 2011 the National Debt will exceed 100% of GDP, and venture into the 100%+ debt-to-GDP ratio that the European PIIGS have (bankrupting nations). $ 114.5 Trillion Dollars $114,500,000,000,000. - US unfunded liabilities To the right you can see the pillar of cold hard $100 bills that dwarfs the WTC & Empire State Building - both at one point world's tallest buildings. If you look carefully you can see the Statue of Liberty. The 114.5 Trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund the Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. It is the money USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills. If you live in USA this is also your personal credit card bill; you are responsible along with everyone else to pay this back. The citizens of USA created the U.S. Government to serve them, this is what the U.S. Government has done while serving The People. The unfunded liability is calculated on current tax and funding inputs, and future demographic shifts in US Population. Note: On the above 114.5T image the size of the base of the money pile is half a trillion, not $1T as on 15T image. The height is double. This was done to reflect the base of Empire State and WTC more closely. You'll know what to do with this email....  God Help us.

 

 

Psalm 109:8 ~ "Let his days be few and brief;
And let others step forward to replace him".

A Football Question 
  Put on your football headgear and dig down deep to try and get this question right, football fan or not. 
A Football Question

Last year.....after the Packers / Bills game, Buffalo released quarterback Trent Edwards.

During the Packers / Eagles game, the Packers injured Philadelphia quarterback Kevin Kolb.
Philadelphia then had to play backup quarterback Michael Vick.

During a playoff game against the Eagles, the Packers injured Michael Vick and another backup was needed.

After the Packers / Cowboys game, Dallas fired Wade Phillips and most of his staff .

After the Packers / Vikings game, Minnesota fired Brad Childress and most of his staff.

Four weeks after losing to the Packers, the 49er's coach Mike Singletary and most of his staff were fired and replaced.

During the Bears Playoff game, the Packers injured Jay Cutler and backup Todd Collins forcing the Bears to go with 3rd string quarterback Caleb Hanie.

So here's the question...




Is it just me, or did the Packers create more jobs last year than Obama?