Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Citizens United Supreme Court Decision
January 21, 2010

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Geert Wilders is possibly the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands, yet is trial for speaking the truth about Islam. For making the movie Fitna. Making that movie got him banned for hate speech in Britain. The Brit's finally figured out the idiocy of banning the future PM.

Mr. Wilders spoke before the British parliament, and laid out for all How Islam Sucks. Thank you sir. I reproduce the whole thing below the fold. Please read.

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Obama poured $5 billion into weatherization as part of last year's stimulus and wanted to spend billions more in a second stimulus. The Department of Energy managed to get the money to the states, where it has swelled the coffers for weatherization and done little else.

According to a Department of Energy inspector general report last month, "only 2 of the 10 highest funded recipients completed more than 2 percent of planned units." New York had completed 280 out of 45,400 planned units as of December, Texas had completed 0 of 33,908, and California 12 out of 43,400. That's 292 homes in three states with a total population of roughly 80 million.

So much for the 87,000 jobs the administration promised "right away." The inspector general report is unsparing: "The job creation impact of what was considered to be one of the Department's most ‘shovel ready' projects has not materialized," and neither have "the significant reductions in energy consumption."

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On the campaign trail Obama said he would bring 2 million new jobs to America. Since Obama’s policies took effect and this became his economy (from the stimulus bill forward), we have lost 4 million jobs. Now he only has to create the conditions for 6 million jobs within the next 2 and a half years. Good luck. Oh wait! I forgot about those 35 or 40 million jobs he “saved or created,” or is it more than that? Never mind about the unemployment rate or the record numbers that are unemployed (15 million plus), you gotta look at all those “saved and created” jobs, that’s really what counts. Just ask Barack, he’ll tell you!

Most people have been focused on the economy and job creation over the past year while Obama has been using that as cover to trample the constitution and socialize as much of the country as possible with no interest in the economy or jobs, just expanding big government. Extending unemployment benefits with the stroke of a pen, is hardly focusing on jobs. Sorry, that doesn’t count.

What was it? A couple of short weeks ago with Scott Brown’s election all of a sudden the usual suspects (Obama, Reid & Pelosi) decided that the economy and jobs really were the most important issues the country faced. How long did that last? 2, maybe 3 days, then its right back to ramming socialized medicine down our throats, and the economy has been put on the back burner. All I can say is, you get what you vote for.

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(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a "big fabrication" that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel.

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There are rules of thumb for housing but I don't know of one for transportation. I'm thinking of getting a new ride so this has been on my mind.  Almost every new vehicle has been the most expensive car I had ever purchased at the point in time. and this next one will be the same.

Sometimes I step back and look at the numbers and just think "Wow, that is a lot of money".

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To add to Bart's point in the post below, Australia's ABC published this bit of inconvenient truth:
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2835581.htm

Somehow the tables have turned. For all the smears of big money funding the "deniers", the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. How times have changed. Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking.
 
Oh, say it ain't so!  Big Oil!!!  Big Oil!!!

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My trusty Gateway with a Centrino 2.0 GHz Duo Core with 4GB of RAM running Vista just can keep up anymore. I tried to upgrade to Windows 7 but the upgrade didn't work and I have too much stuff on the laptop to keep risking it.

I looked at the i5 machines at Best Buy that are around $900. Best Buy has a Blue Label program that seems to be what I need. Then there is a Sony laptop with an i7 chip set. It's the second fastest laptop in the store (After a Mac of course) and I'm thinking maybe I should go for it and get the fastest machine possible and hope to get 2 years out of it. The new 64-bit machines can handle 8 GB of RAM and have Windows 7 which should help speed things up.

Anyway, you guys are all geeks, so what do you think? I'll probably buy one next week.

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The blood discussion reminded me of another issue where the scientists lied to the public.

AIDS is primarily a disease that affects homosexuals and drug users. This is a fact. Doctors knew this very early on. The odds of two healthy heterosexuals transmitting AIDS is very low.

In order to develop sympathy for AIDS victims and get millions in grant money for research, doctors lied to the public about the likelihood of heterosexual transmission of the disease. There isn't much debate about this as the heterosexual epidemic predicted never occurred.

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Sen. John Kerry called on the government Thursday to abolish a "discriminatory" law that bars homosexual men in the U.S. from donating blood, saying "not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban."

"The three largest blood donation organizations in our country -- the American Red Cross, America's Blood Centers, and AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) -- all agree calling the ban 'medically and scientifically unwarranted,'" wrote Kerry.

Gay rights group have also decried the practice both in the United Kingdom and the United States. The Gay Men's Health Center reported last month that the ban was created at a time when the transmission of HIV was unknown and creates a stigma that is inconsistent because straight people who have sex with "commercial sex workers" only have to wait a year before donating blood.

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The amount of lying I see on the left never ceases ot amaze me. I have long ago concluded not only they have no shame, but that assume that the American public is astindingly stupid.

Check out this article where Nancy Pelosi's lies are so blatant that the author is unable to hide them.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she was confident of satisfying Democratic concerns about a Senate-approved healthcare bill and passing the measure.

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One of our "liberal" commentors suggested these two solutions for ways to reduce government debt.  These two "solutions" preceded the Final Solution in Nazi Germany.  They were employed by Mao in China.  The USSR had the Gulag Archipelago.  Pol Pot had camps.

The first instinct of a totalitarian progressive is to strip away basic rights.  Progressives seem to hate free speech, so they use everything from mocking (Bill Maher) to criminal courts (Mark Steyn in Canada) to silence opinions they don't approve of.

Who on Earth would give government the power to decide who gets sterilized and who does not?  A totalitarian progressive.  Who on Earth would give government the right to set up forced labor camps? A totalitarian progressive.  They have done it before, and they may do it again.

 When you think about it, Obama's $12 trillion national debt has pretty much turned America into one big forced labor camp, with the illusion of freedom.  Now if he could just do something about the 10% unemployment in the People's Republic.

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This is what you get when you run your mouth and can't back it up.  Something tells me this youngster will think twice before he steps up and tries to start a fight with another vet. 

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Yielding to actual bipartisan pressure, Democrat crook Charlie Rangel is leaving his chairmanship of the House Ways & Means committee.  Isn't that nice?  The guy who stewards tax legislation being investigated by the House Ethics committee for, well, avoiding paying taxes.

It was the corporate funded Carribean vacations that finally got him.  But his shady practices like using rent-controlled housing for dubious purpose, and soliciting contributions for a university center named for him have all raised eyebrows in the Capitol.

But  is anyone surprised?  The "most ethical Congress ever" is hardly that.  There has been a whole lot of backdoor dealing and political payoffs from the "Transparent" administration and Congressional leadership.  Is it any wonder that their approval ratings are the lowest in American history?

Rangel isn't an aberration, he's a poster child.  Hopefully the people of Harlem will help the 79 year old thief transform that "temporary" to permanent, but since he's a Democrat, I won't hold my breath.

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Here is another example of GloBull Warming being blamed for two opposite events.

Heavy snowfall in the East Coast? GloBull Warming

Light snowfall on the Sierra Nevada's? Glo Bull Warming

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I just realized the someone is buying me lunch every day this week.

I often find it interesting to think about what I'm doing now vs. where I was at some time in the past. I was a typical broke college student and I still remember one day I stopped at the Fowl Play and spent $7 on lunch. It was a treat, it was something I couldn't afford to do everyday. I remember thinking that someday I'd be able to afford to eat lunch out everyday. That was a big goal for me at that point in my life. That is what I defined as a marker of success.

Needless to say, I hit that milestone quite a few years back. I guess I'm now moving into a different phase where people buy me lunch. I'm not bragging, my life has had many twists and turns and I find that some of the small ones can be as interesting as the big ones.

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The state of Minnesota has a $60 billion biennial budget, so the state spends $30 billion a year. Here is a link to a detailed budget for 2009. Dig and find your favor examples of waste.  The liberals would have us believe that the MN budget has been cut to the bone when the exact opposite is true. Government spending has out paced inflation and population growth for years. Over sized government has stunted each of the last recoveries and is making the great recession far worse than it should be.

The Arts Board gets $20 Million, If the left is worried about throwing vets off of GAMC, how can they support arts spending over the health of people?

$851,711,000 in Property Tax Refunds. $331,618,000 of this money is wasted on renters credits. Why should renters get rebates on Property tax bills? The other $500,000,000 is refunds to home owners. WTF??? Why should some home owners get a break on property taxes? If you can't afford your property taxes, go down an bitch to your city council.

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Self explanatory.

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So I'm slaving away at my desk when I get an email from Jeff Teresi. My spam filter didn't catch it so I figured I'd see what they deal was. It was titled "The Poor in MN". It starts like this:

There are currently over 35,000 Minnesotans who are about to lose their
health care (currently April 1).  These are the poorest of the poor – most
with incomes for single people between $76 and $600 a month (most around
$200) and somewhat  more for families depending on the number of children. (Blah, BlahBlah, waa, waa, WAAAAAA!)

and it ends like this

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When us right wing fanatics (the 48% who didn't vote for Barry, and now the 57% who do not approve of his job performance) say he's being a socialist that's code for the big "N" word and all criticisms are racist hate speech. Someone recently referred to Obama as “skinny”; another code word we’re informed, and more right wing racist hate.

In fact pretty much any criticism is racist hate speech. Whether it's actual lefty delusion that all conservatives are somehow by definition racists, or the cynical attempt to silence critisism matters not. I'mfuckin sick of it!

On the other hand leftists fixated by race make repeated condescending comments about "people of color" (all non whites) that without the help of these same magnanimous liberals the "oppressed" could never take care of themselves. These liberals who seem to think of minorities as some kind of quaint pets requiring their special progressive guardianship, are hailed as enlightened.

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