Chicago governor Blagojevich just outdid himself in outrageous behavior. He scheduled a press conference and after an anxious wait by reporters he was preceeded to the front of the room by several persons. He then arrived considerably later, walked in as if he had been voted the most popular man in America and began a long rambling speech about why the Illinois House has voted to impeach him. According to Blagojevich it is because he helped enact legislation that helped the people on stage with him when they were desperately ill. He told about the circumstances of each person's illness and the specific legislation that saved their life. After each one he said; "And that is why the House wants to impeach me."
Does it seem odd to anyone else that the House held off on this action until Burris was accepted as the appointed Senator to fill Obama's seat? JC
Illinois House Impeaches Governor
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: January 9, 2009 Filed at 11:46 a.m. ET
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
Impeachment required just 60 votes. The final result was 114-1. Legislators accused the second-term Democratic governor of letting down the people of Illinois by letting ego and ambition drive his decisions. ''It's our duty to clean up the mess and stop the freak show that's become Illinois government,'' said Rep. Jack D. Franks, a Democrat.
Texans on the program this morning on Imus in the Morning. Jim Nantz and Former President George H. W. Bush. Former President George H. W. Bush, is commemorating the Nuclear aircraft carrier named after him on this day.
The famous Iditarod Race starts March 7th, 2009 in Sarah Palin's home town, Wasilla, AK. Born from an effort to avert a tragedy, it attracts the interest of people from all walks of life. But only the very toughest dare compete. JC
You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska.
From Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast, each team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher cover over 1150 miles in 10 to 17 days.
It has been called the “Last Great Race on Earth” and it has won worldwide acclaim and interest. German, Spanish, British, Japanese and American film crews have covered the event. Journalists from outdoor magazines, adventure magazines, newspapers and wire services flock to Anchorage and Nome to record the excitement. It’s not just a dog sled race, it’s a race in which unique men and woman compete. Mushers enter from all walks of life. Fishermen, lawyers, doctors, miners, artists, natives, Canadians, Swiss, French and others; men and women each with their own story, each with their own reasons for going the distance.
The Iditarod Trail, now a National Historic Trail, had its beginnings as a mail and supply route from the coastal towns of Seward and Knik to the interior mining camps at Flat, Ophir, Ruby and beyond to the west coast communities of Unalakleet, Elim, Golovin, White Mountain and Nome. Mail and supplies went in. Gold came out. All via dog sled. Heroes were made, legends were born. In 1925, part of the Iditarod Trail became a life saving highway for epidemic-stricken Nome. Diphtheria threatened and serum had to be brought in; again by intrepid dog mushers and their faithful hard-driving dogs.
The Iditarod is a commemoration of those yesterdays, a not-so-distant past that Alaskans honor and are proud of. Cont. http://www.iditarod.com/learn/
How Diptheria Gave Birth to the Iditarod: History of the Biggest Sled Dog Race February 09, 2006 by W. Richard Reegan
Only the dogs could save the people. The city of Nome had been hit with a deadly epidemic - diptheria. Without lifesaving vacine, many, if not all, would die. It was 1925. Anchorage had a supply, but it was nearly 1200-miles away. What could Nome do? It was winter, the ports were blocked by sea ice. Primitive airplanes were no match for the vastness of Alaska. Train tracks hadn't even been laid yet. That left only one possibility - sled dogs. Huskies would pull a sled guided by a man (known as a "musher") and in relay fashion - one team to the next - speed the medicine across the frozen tundra to the people of Nome.
Check out the following information about that wonderful vacation land known as Chicago and who runs the show there.
Is there anyone listed who is not under some sort of cloud?
Chicago.... Who Runs it?
Senators: Roland Burris (tenatively) & Dick Durbin Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr. Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich (arrested last month) Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike) Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J Daley)
The leadership in Illinois ? .....all Democrats. Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Body count in the last six months: 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago 221 killed in Iraq
State pension fund - $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax - 10.25% highest in country. (Look it up).
Chicago school system - rated one of the worst in the country and Obama just named it's head Secretary of Education.
Of course, they're all blaming each other. They can't blame Republicans, there aren't any.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois . And he's going to '"fix" Washington politics for us? May you reap what you sow!! Good luck and may God help us all.
Will there be a tax on this iconic vintage Barbie?
In yet another liberal goofy idea to raise money APPOINTED New York Governor David Paterson has proposed a 15% (or 18% as reported on Nightline) tax on naturally sweetened sodas. This doesn't make sense. If the idea is a tax on obesity causing foods, Why pick on coke?
A 12-ounce cola = 150 calories
A Dunkin Donuts medium Mocha Spice Latte = 330 calories
A Starbuck’s Chai Latte, whole milk, Venti = 398 calories
A Seattle's Best medium Peppermint Mocha Trio = 460 calories
A 12-ounce eggnog = 514 calories
Well, maybe he can ask Caroline Kennedy to solve some of the state's budgetary shortfalls because this idea fails miserably. According to the latest New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Community Health Survey, about 1.66 million NYC adults drink one 12-ounce serving of sugar-sweetened soda per day. Even at a retail cost of $1 apiece, a 15-cent tax would raise about $249,000/day or $90.9 million/year — still leaving at the end of the year a $13.2 billion deficit.
New York Governor, David Paterson, is reported as proposing a 15% tax on sugar-sweetened sodas, calling it an obesity tax. That makes it sound like it has a noble intention of public health concerns over obesity, when, as the Financial Times noted, it’s really just a way to raise money to help address the state’s $13.3 billion deficit.
But even that’s pretty sorry math. http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/12/fat-discrimination-tax.html
But the real health concern is who told him diet drinks are better? They are not. Aspartame - Other Sweeteners Many people want to know what other artificial sweeteners they can safely use instead of aspartame. My first recommendation is NOT to use any chemical sweeteners at all, but merely use natural sugars or learn to adjust to the natural sweetness of raw foods themselves.
I have provided a list of alternative artificial sweeteners available on the market today, even though I am not recommending their use over natural sweeteners. I do recommend them above aspartame, nonetheless, as their side effects are less harmful to human health.
The best thing to do is avoid all artificial and chemical sweetener substitutes. They have NO food value, trick the body into thinking it is eating something sweet, and they have by-products of harmful toxic side effects. And remember that aspartame was discovered as an ulcer drug, not a sweetener. Every diet drink you used to drink was a dose of medication .
Information on Aspartame and Other Chemical Sweeteners:
The Research Scientific evidence strongly suggesting the chemical sweetener sucralose (Splenda) may harm your body. Perhaps there is no "free ticket" to eating all the sugar-free products you want without paying a high price physically – even weight gain!
Poker players know everyone has a "tell". Mannerisms or actions that give away the discomfort of a person lying or misrepresenting themselves. Obama's "tell" is his stuttering. Watch here:
by Janet Crain As reported here CNN published an article about failed and discredited politicians in 2008 and included Sarah Palin in with rogues like Blagojevich, Spitzer, and John Edwards. The anonymous hack who came up with this dumb idea has now scrubbed her name from the article. No public apology, but reportedly CNN did send Governor Palin a private apology. Thanks to all who wrote letters to CNN.
CNN quietly scrubs Palin’s name from article Posted by Josh Painter Monday, January 5th at 5:51PM EST CNN must have felt the love. The cable news network had included Sarah Palin with the likes of Rod Blagojevich, Elliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Ted Stevens and others in a year-end political review titled “Politicians who fell from grace in 2008.” As frequent RedState contributor Warner Todd Huston had pointed out at NewsBusters.com, every person named in the article, with the exception of Sarah Palin:
“have either been convicted of criminal actions, are indicted for corruption, lost their positions, been drummed out of their party, or are soon to face jail time.” That there was no reason for Gov. Palin’s name to be associated with those of the seven criminals featured in the article seems to have been clear to everyone except the anonymous author of the CNN smear job.
"Oh, I think these are handmade, one of a kind, something special like that."
-Store Employee
May 25, 2008...11:19 p05
Palestinian Scarf Fashion Item
Young people in her neighborhood, Harlem, were wearing a checker-patterned cloth with tassels around their necks, like a bandana pulled down off the face.
A few even came into her clothing store, Connection One Fashion, which specializes in urban apparel, to ask if she carried them. No one knew their name, and several asked for “A-rab,” “Taliban” or “Bin Laden” scarves. The epithets gave Thompson a hint of political connotations, but she decided to give them a try anyway. She bought the traditional black and white colors, plus purple, pink, green, red and a few other patterns and displayed them beginning last month for $10 apiece next to jeans, belts and sneakers. They almost sold out immediately. “Everybody is wearing them on the street,” said Thompson, 41, whose main display in the storefront window is a female mannequin wearing a stylized purple hooded sweatshirt, a matching baseball hat, and a black and white kuffiyeh, the scarf’s traditional name. “They wear anything in style; they don’t even know the meaning.”
The kuffiyeh, traditionally a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, is gaining popularity in hip-hop fashion in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and other cities — and losing its potent symbolism in the process. Mainstream artists like Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Chris Brown have sported the checkered Middle Eastern scarf in recent months, fueling a long-running debate on the commercial adoption of the politically charged square fabric popularized by Yasser Arafat, Hamas militants and others. “People like Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri and other mainstream hip-hop guys wearing it is the new development,” said Ted Swedenburg, a professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas who has studied the kuffiyeh and its place in American fashion. “The tendency is towards diluting the political message.”
The kuffiyeh’s political message took shape when Palestinian peasants wore the utilitarian cloth over their heads in solidarity against British rule in the 1930s. Its place in Palestinian identity was solidified in the 1960s when Arafat and his resistance movement adopted it in its fight against Israel. Today, the kuffiyeh is the most recognizable symbol of the Palestinian independence movement, provoking both admiration and anger, depending on one’s political beliefs. Palestinian groups such as Fatah and Hamas often wrap themselves in kuffiyehs, black and white or red and white, respectively. The kuffiyeh’s political roots are often lost as the fashion grows in hip-hop style.
“I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”
~~ Barack Obama, at a rally for State Senator Creigh Deeds, Tysons Corner, Virginia, August 6, 2009
"....all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Obama's Health Plan
...............You
2009 Town Hall Meetings
Democracy Break Down
Best Seller
"I happen to be a proponent of single-payer, universal health care coverage." Barack Obama 2003
DO YOU REALLY THINK HE'S CHANGED HIS MIND?
The President, Vice President, Speaker of the House and All Senators and Representatives should receive the same Health Plan they force on other Americans:
Sic 'em!!!
"We in America do not have government by the majority.
We have government by the majority who participate."
"Think as I think," said a man, "Or you are abominably wicked; You are a toad."
And after I had thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad."
--Stephen Crane
Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted
Signs of the Time
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
--French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
'There's no doubt that Lincoln held office during difficult times...But think of poor George Washington...He didn't have a previous administration to blame for his problems.'
I am an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. I believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
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