U.S. Military to Help Haiti while forgetting their own Fellow Americans

The Obama administration has ordered U.S. troops & rescue teams to save Haitians first, while American citizens are dying at hotel Montana. Several American students and faculty members from Lynn University are still trapped under the rubble under the hotel Montana. Several tv and newspaper reporters continue to hear taps from under the rubble.Yet, the 11,000 + U.S. troops are nowhere to be found. Instead, they are busy pulling Haitians from the rubble elsewhere in the city.
 
It took 6 days until the many of the families of these trapped Americans heard back from the U.S. government. Our government should be locating and saving U.S. citizens before helping the locals in Haiti.

The cost of the rescue, cleanup and rebuilding (nation building) effort in Haiti could cost the U.S. taxpayers well over $1 Billion dollars over the next few years. That would be another $1 Billion dollars borrowed from China.

President Obama has already released the first $100 Million dollars which will last about a week. The Congressional Black Caucus is urging the U.S. government to replace every damaged home in Haiti with a new home that would meet very strict building codes. The White House pledged to lead the effort to rebuild every road and school.

While many Americans are happy to help now, that will change in a few months when Americans continue to see their tax dollars go into the bottomless pit of Haiti while the U.S. infrastructure continues to crumble, our military continues to be stretched too thin and homes & infrastructure in New Orleans continues to go unrepaired.

Our government should be pouring their efforts into our own infrastructure and let the American people help the Haitians. People like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Wyclef Jean who are giving of their own money to help the relief efforts should be commended.

Attn: Homeland Security- Inconvenience Me All You Want

I've been watching the media coverage on the terrorist plot by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Tonight I decided to catch Ed Schultz on MSNBC. Ed had some distinguished guests on the show talking about airport security. The one CIA officer said that we shouldn't use race or image as a way of profiling for terrorists but that we should look at behavior. Hmm. Yea, because the twenty year old girl checking my ID can tell that I'm fidgeting. Well, am I fidgeting or do I just need to use the little girl's room?? None of our airports are equiped with that level of staff. Judging someone for suspicious behavior falls in the behavior analysis field which I'm pretty sure is not in Baggage Claim 101. Staff of that caliber would have to go through years of training mostly conducted by the CIA. So is that what we should do? Take CIA officers and reassign them to baggage claim?  But I could make a sure bet that the twenty year old ID checker girl isn't color blind and can read a name like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and say "step over there."

So the show concludes with Ed sending a message to Homeland Security. He said "Homeland Security needs to stop worrying about the passengers that don't follow the rules and to start paying attention to the ones that do follow the rules." He told Homeland Security "Don't inconvenience me. I follow the rules. Don't delay me and make me late. Start caring about the ones that aren't terrorists."

It was this statement that prompted me to write this post. I have a message to Homeland Security as well. And here is mine- "PLEASE inconvenience me and my family all you want. Stop me. Check my bags. By any means necessary please ensure that I am a safe passenger to board an American plane. This will give me a sense of peace about my upcoming flight because I am then aware that you will be checking everyone else that is about to board the same flight as my family and I."

Maybe if the airport staffers on Sep. 11th 2001 had "inconvenienced" a few more people there wouldn't have been 3,000 families "inconvenienced" for life. Shame on Ed Shultz to think that his busy schedule shouldn't dare be delayed even if it may save American's their lives.

Wall Street Journal story on the Tea Parties in Kentucky

A few weeks ago I was contacted by a Wall Street Journal reporter. He approached me because he was doing a story incorporating the "traditional" Tea Parties with the "political" Tea Parties that have emerged over the last year throughout the nation. I welcomed the interview and he flew from New York to meet me. Barry Newman, the reporter, was nice, cordial, and very complimentary of mine and my husband's restaurant. The story was published on the front page of the WSJ on December 24th. Here is the story.

Why I Am A Democrat

Why I Am A Democrat

I sometimes hear the question, "Why are you a Democrat?" and frankly, I have to laugh. Laugh and laugh, because perhaps this person may tire of my laughing, and he will eventually wander off. Sometimes I ponder seriously when I hear this question, because I'll look around and around and there's nobody there asking the question. Why am I a Democrat?

I am a Democrat because I believe everyone deserves a chance. And if necessary, a second chance. And if, by the eighth or ninth chance, this guy needs another chance, I mean, come on. This guy is due.

I am a Democrat because I believe in helping those in need. All of us, you and I, have an obligation to those less fortunate. You go first, okay? I'm a little short this week.

I am a Democrat because I believe in the equality of all people, regardless of their race. That is why I think we should give free medical degrees to minorities because, well, duh. Like any of those types are going to make it through medical school.

I am a Democrat because I fervently believe in tolerance. Tolerance is critical in our diverse society, and if you have a problem with that, mister, then I will inform the authorities and I bet that after a few hours in their "special room" you too will agree that tolerance is critical.

I am a Democrat because I believe that we should take our noses out of other people's bedrooms. I say we move the noses to their banks and storage sheds and scout troops, and so forth.

I am a Democrat because I hold sacred freedom of the press, as well as freedom of the TV and freedom of the movie. Where I draw the line is freedom of the talk radio, and don't even get me started about that damn Internet business.

I am a Democrat because I recognize that education is important. Very, very, extremely very important. We must increase spending on education and enact important education reforms, such as eliminating standardized tests. Because we can never hope to measure this beautiful, elusive, important thing we call education.

I am a Democrat because I believe in the separation of church and state. We must stop the religious extremists who want school-sanctioned prayers. Now, you tell me - with all that chanting and praying and incense-burning going on, how can our kids concentrate on the big condom-and-banana midterm?

I am a Democrat because I believe in the rights of women, be they lawyers or housewives or skanky interns. For too long women have been the victims of discrimination, and we must target programs to help these women, and also the various people who have descended from women.

I am a Democrat because I believe in women's right to choose. I mean, not a church school or a tax shelter, or something like that, obviously. Let's be reasonable.

I am a Democrat because I believe in the rule of law. Or, at least, lawyers. Because hey, according to my attorney, I could have been on the Number 7 bus when it crashed yesterday. As far as you know.

I am a Democrat because I believe a healthy economy depends on good jobs at good wages. So fork 'em over, you fat b@stard boss man.

I am a Democrat because I believe the government should step in to create good jobs when that fat b@stard boss man moves my good job to Mexico. Hey, I know! Maybe we can take all the money that boss man spends on non-job-creating stuff, like solid gold yachts and mink spats, and use that money to create jobs.

I am a Democrat because I fear the power of giant unrestrained monopolies, such as Microsoft, Nike, Parker Brothers, Univac and the Erie Canal Company. The government must wage an unrelenting, all-out war to crush these scary monopolies to a pulp before they get too powerful.

I am a Democrat because I believe in a strong military. Strong, yes, but caring and thoughtful too, and ready to face new challenges. A military that enjoys long strolls on the beach, cuddling in front of a warm fire, unafraid to show its vulnerable side. Must be NS/DDF.

I am a Democrat because I believe there is too much violence in society, especially in our schools. To avoid another Columbine tragedy, we should have mellow "rap" sessions with at-risk teens, such as the Goths. The violence will only end after the teen Goths see that we adults really care, and are "hip" to their groovy teen Goth scene.

I am a Democrat because I believe in campaign finance reform. Sadly, our politics are dominated by advertisements, paid for by the contributions of giant corporations. All too often, these drown out legitimate grassroots opinions, like the kind heard on TimeWarner-AOL-CNN, TimesCorp, or Disney-ABC.

I am a Democrat because I believe in public support of the arts. By "the arts," I of course mean those things made by, or excreted by, an artist of some sort. It is especially important that art be provocative and take controversial stances, like opposing Jesse Helms, and so on.

I am a Democrat because I believe in the environment and conservation. For instance, we must raise the price of gasoline, like they do in Europe, to increase conservation. If we don't, there will soon be a big gas shortage, and this will mean higher gasoline prices for you and me.

I am a Democrat because I detest greed. Especially the sickening greed of those who struck it rich in the 1980s, and greedily refuse to give me any of their stuff.

I am a Democrat because I... hey look! A new episode of Survivor! Geez, I hope they don't vote off Jenna, she's my favorite.

-David Burge
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Global Warming- The Greatest Scandal in Modern Science

The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) receives millions of government money to research the issue of "climate change." This university serves as one of the main resources that Al Gore and other Global Warming proponents get their data in which to quote from.

Last week hackers, that had hacked into the email and files of these scientists from the CRU at the University, uploaded more than 61 megabytes of data to the internet. The emails and files show where the scientists have been fraudulently changing the degrees in their research to prove the incline of temperatures to hide the decline in temperatures.

OMG! Does this mean that Global Warming is a hoax? So all those statistics that Al Gore was quoting weren't really true? So Al boy was just lining his pockets with what is going down as "The Greatest Scandal in Modern Science"? It just can not be true! What happens to Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize?

This just goes to show that the only hot air around here is Al Gore. Which anyone with half a brain already knew. Thanks folks for catching up to the rest of us. Glad you all joined the "we have a brain" train! Too much? Next topic please...

Facts on Sarah Palin

By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.

The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska .  I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year.  Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it.  It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things.  Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

 2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

 3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

 4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started... This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house.  Alaska won again.

6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

 By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.

So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.

 I rest my case.

 Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.

Meeting Sarah Palin in Cincinnati

I had the most fortunate opportunity to meet Sarah Palin in Cincinnati OH today. There were 1,000 tickets sold for the event and there were way more than 1,000 people there! I was a VIP at the event so I was the 2nd person she saw so she was overwhelmingly eager to talk. She shook my hand and asked my name and signed my books. She was so sweet and down to earth. She is everything and more in person. Because I was the 2nd person to get my books signed, I was flocked by the media and was asked many questions on camera. The media was just as sweet and excited to be there. I also want to note that the crowd was very distinctive. I met and talked to some of the most wonderful people. There was not one protester or negative word said about the Governor. The place was packed to its capacity and probably times 3. But everyone was so respectful and sweet and talkative. I met some great patriots! It just goes to show and says a lot about her followers!

Here is a video of her at Joseph Beth today. She welcomes everyone and then walks down the stairs at the end. She only shook my hand and one other girl's. If you watch closely at the end, you will see me.

Gosh Golly Darn It! I just love her! 

How LOW will he go?

Yup, he did it AGAIN. Just when I thought that his guy in no way could embarrass America anymore, he proves me wrong yet again. What's wrong with him? Does he really think that America is that inferior? Well, I guess we kinda are now that BO has put us in so much debt to Japan. Maybe that's a "thank you for giving us money and making America in debt to you most indefinitely" bow. Such a proud moment. Geez, he's so much better then Bush ever was! Bush only shook the guy's hand! Can you believe it?

How many times is he going to freaking bow?

Even the LA Times is making fun of him. Could this get any worse? I'd hope not but I'm sure it will.I will say this, BO has inspired everyone to follow suit because America is most certainly bowing their heads as well, but just in embarrassment.

Oh and just in case you forgot this one...

Napolitano on Ft. Hood

Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano is very concerned over the massacre at Ft. Hood last week. She is asking help from groups all over America. She is so concerned over this act of terrorism that she is putting forth all efforts to deflect the backlash America might have on the Tea Party-goers. She has warned us all that the Tea Party participants are right-wing extremists and we must be very cautious. It's those Americans that we need to worry about not the Muslims.

Napolitano's statement on the Ft. Hood Massacre.

Global Warming on the Uprise!

Or is it Global Cooling?? Geez, I can never keep up. Drudge does though.

NOAA: Third Coldest October on Record...