“As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given
the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his
name, but that America gave him the White House based on
the same credentials.”
Newt Gingrich
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs… Really? While Harry Reid bragged that we lost only 36,000 jobs last month, and the total unemployment, including long term, reaches a dangerous 16.8%; one wonders why we are concentrating domestic agendas other than protecting America and getting our people back to work. While it is true that we have signs that our president has diversified, the push for greater employment is not amongst those issues atop his agenda.
Wall Street Journal last week stated:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. nonfarm payrolls declined for the 25th time in the past 26 months, falling by 36,000 in February to a seasonally adjusted 129.5 million, the Labor Department estimated Friday
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Rather than employment this president has taken on two, apparently more pressing issues; legalizing aliens and closing GITMO. I suppose you could argue that it is good that he no longer is concentrating on health care alone, but whatever happened to his promise for three million new jobs?
Furthermore, most economists agree that legalizing 20 million undocumented workers will do little but expand those waiting in line for jobs and unemployment benefits. There are those who argue that it will actually take jobs away from Americans. But from a political standpoint it will most likely expand the voter base of the Democratic Party and is why there is a push for this legislation before the mid-term elections in the fall.
The President has met with two progressive senators, D. Schumer of New York, and R. Graham of South Carolina who have been working on the crafting of this legislation for months. Not unlike health care the president has left the details, and the devil is always in the details, to these two progressives. By the way, can you remember when one said Republican from South Carolina it was synonymous with conservative.
According to the LATimes…
In an effort to advance a bill through Congress before midterm elections, the president meets with two senators who have spent months trying to craft legislation…In the session, Obama and members of his Domestic Policy Council outlined ways to resuscitate the effort in a White House meeting with two senators — Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — who have spent months trying to craft a bill.… Participants in the White House gathering also pointed to an immigration rally set for March 21 in Washington as a way to spotlight the issue and build needed momentum…”We’re very hopeful we can get a bill done. We have all the pieces in place. We just need a second Republican,” Schumer said in a statement
It has also been reported that this dynamic duo along with Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, have also been working on a bill to close GITMO in exchange for moving the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees now scheduled to be tried in New York City, to a new location. Whatever happened to the common sense approach of leaving this brand new multimillion dollar facility open and returning to Military tribunals… held at GITMO? Why should a compromise be necessary when even somebody as far left as Sen. Schumer is dead set against these trials in NYC?
The Wall Street Journal online stated…
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham confirmed Monday he is working with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to break the logjam on closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and bringing the prisoners to trial.
Progressive Republicans like Graham seem to have a predisposition to grasp defeat from the very mouth of victory. Until the Republican Party can act against the radical agenda of this president as a cohesive unit they will find the voters will continue to be more anti-incumbent, than anti-Democrat. As far as Republicans like Graham go; we have met the enemy, and they are us.
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Blogger’s CornerGeneral VoNguyen Giap submitted by Buddy Bud
General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader
of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his
memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi :‘What we still don’t understand is why you Americans
stopped the bombing of Hanoi . You had us on the
ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for
another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It
was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us!
We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we
were elated to notice your media was definitely
helping us. They were causing more disruption in
America than we could in the battlefields. We were
ready to surrender. You had won!’General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed
what most Americans knew. The Vietnam war was not
lost in Vietnam — it was lost at home. The exact
same slippery slope, sponsored by the US media,
is currently well underway. It exposes the
enormous power of a Biased Media to cut out the heart
and will of the American public.A truism worthy of note: … Do not fear the enemy,
for they can take only your life.Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honor.
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Jobs, Jobs, Jos… Really?
Jamestown Patti Warns on Census
To All ~Within the next few weeks, you will undoubtedly receive the 2010 U.S. Census. Please consider these words of caution from the Better Business Bureau:
With the U.S. Census process underway, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, so as not to become a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is underway as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country.
Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the United States and will gather information about every person living at each address including name, age, gender, race and other relevant data.
The big question is – how do you tell the difference between a U.S. Census worker and a con artist? BBB offers the following advice:
If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a handheld device, a Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality notice. Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering questions. However, you should never invite anyone you don’t know into your home.
Census workers are currently only knocking on doors to verify address information. Do not give your Social Security number, credit card or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they need it for the U.S. Census.
REMEMBER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ASK, YOU REALLY ONLY NEED TO TELL THEM HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE AT YOUR ADDRESS.
While the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information such as a salary range, YOU DON’T HAVE TO ANSWER ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION. The Census Bureau will not ask for Social Security, bank account, or credit card numbers, nor will they solicit donations. Anyone asking for that information is NOT with the Census Bureau.
Eventually, Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home. However, the Census Bureau will not contact you by email, so be on the lookout for email scams impersonating the Census. Never click on a link or open any attachments in an email that are supposedly from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Lighter side
GrammySammie send us this one…A short guy is sitting at a bar just staring at his drink for half an hour when this big, trouble-making biker steps next to him, grabs his drink, gulps it down in one swig and then turns to the guy with a menacing stare as if to say, ‘What’cha gonna do about it?”
The poor little guy starts crying.
“Come on man, I was just giving you a hard time,” the biker says. “I didn’t think you’d CRY. I can’t stand to see a man crying.”
“This is the worst day of my life,” says the little guy between sobs. “I can’t do anything right. I overslept and was late to an important meeting, so my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car was stolen and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home.”
He continues, crying even harder. “Then I found my wife in bed with the gardener and my dog bit me. So, I came to this bar trying to work up the courage to put an end to my life, ………….and then you show up and drink the damn poison.”
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Kaybob
Let me tell you about my weekend…An older, white-haired man walked into a jewelry store one
Friday evening with a beautiful young gal at his side.He told the jeweler he was looking for a special ring for
his new girlfriend The jeweler looked through his stock and brought out a
$5,000 ring. The old man said, ‘No, I’d like to see something more
special.’At that statement, the jeweler went to his special stock
and brought another ring over.. ‘Here’s a stunning ring at only
$40,000′ the jeweler said.The young lady’s eyes sparkled and her whole body
trembled with excitement..
The old man seeing this said, ‘We’ll take it.’The jeweler asked how payment would be made and the old man
stated, ‘by check. I know you need to make sure my check is good, so
I’ll write it now and you can call the bank Monday to verify the funds and
I’ll pick the ring up Monday afternoon,’ he said.Monday morning, the jeweler phoned the old man.
‘There’s no money in that account.’
‘I know,’ said the old man, ‘But let me tell
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California Clint
At the end of the tax year, the IRS office sent an inspector to audit the books of a local hospital.. While the IRS agent was checking the books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, “I notice you buy a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there’s too little left to be of any use?” “Good question,” noted the CFO. “We save them up and send them back to the bandage company and every now and then they send us a free box of bandages.” “Oh,” replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
“What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what’s left over after setting a cast on a patient? “Ah, yes,” replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. “We save it and send it back to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of plaster.” “I see,” replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all CFO. “Well,” he went on, “What do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?” “Here, too, we do not waste,” answered the CFO. “What we do is save all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick.”
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Marvelous marcel
During a visit to the retirement home, I asked the director, How do
you determine whether or not a person should be institutionalized?”‘Well,’ said the Director, ‘ we fill up a bathtub, and then we offer a
teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to
empty the bathtub.’‘Oh, I understand,’ I said. ‘A normal person would use the bucket
because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup.’‘No.’ said the Director, ‘A normal person would pull the plug.
Do you want a bed near the window?’I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.
I took out my wallet, got out ten dollars and asked, ‘If I give you this money, will you buy wine with it instead of dinner?’
‘No, I had to stop drinking years ago’, the homeless woman told me.
‘Will you use it to go shopping instead of buying food?’ I asked..
‘No, I don’t waste time shopping,’ the homeless woman said. ‘I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.’
‘Will you spend this on a beauty salon instead of food?’ I asked….
‘Are you NUTS!’ replied the homeless woman. I haven’t had my hair done in 20 years!’‘Well’ I said, ‘I’m not going to give you the money… Instead, I’m going to take you out for dinner with my husband and me tonight.’
The homeless Woman was shocked. ‘Won’t your husband be furious with you for doing that? I know I’m dirty, and I probably smell pretty disgusting.’
I said, ‘That’s okay. It’s important for him to see what a woman looks like after she has given up shopping, hair appointments, and wine.’
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