Republicans to Cut Everything but Military

Republicans to Cut Everything but Military
Friday, January 21, 2011 – by Staff Report

Moving aggressively to make good on election promises to slash the federal budget, the House GOP today unveiled an eye-popping plan to eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Gone would be Amtrak subsidies, fat checks to the Legal Services Corporation and National Endowment for the Arts, and some $900 million to run President Obama’s healthcare reform program. What’s more, the “Spending Reduction Act of 2011″ proposed by members of the conservative Republican Study Committee, chaired by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, would reduce current spending for non-defense, non-homeland security and non-veterans programs to 2008 levels, eliminate federal control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cut the federal workforce by 15 percent through attrition, and cut some $80 billion by blocking implementation of Obamacare. – US News and World Report

Dominant Social Theme: It is important to defend the realm.

Free-Market Analysis: House Republicans have issued a list of cuts to be made to federal spending. We quote from the article excerpted above: The proposals "would reduce current spending for non-defense, non-homeland security and non-veterans programs to 2008 levels." Homeland Security is apparently exempt from most cuts as is the Pentagon.  Read More

USDA found to be poisoning bird populations

USDA found to be poisoning bird populations, causing mass die-offs involving millions of birds

January 21, 2011
by Mike Adams,the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) Not all the mysterious bird die-offs that have been witnessed around the globe recently are due to unexplained causes. A recent mass die-off event witnessed in Yankton, South Dakota was traced back to the USDA which admitted to carrying out a mass poisoning of the birds.

After hundreds of starlings were found dead in the Yankton Riverside Park, concerned citizens began to investigate. Before long, a USDA official called the local police and admitted they had poisoned the birds. "They say that they had poisoned the birds about ten miles south of Yankton and they were surprised they came to Yankton like they did and died in our park," says Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel, as reported by KTIV (http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.as...).

The USDA then confirmed the story and explained it was all "part of a large killing" in Nebraska. Some of the birds that ate the poison apparently flew all the way to Yankton before succumbing to the poison.
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Hawaii Senate Ends Daily Prayer

Under Pressure From ACLU, Hawaii Senate Ends Daily Prayer

Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:52pm by Meredith Jessup

HONOLULU (AP) — Fearing a possible court challenge, Hawaii’s state Senate has voted to silence the daily prayer offered before each session began — making it the first state legislative body in the nation to halt the practice.

A citizen’s complaint had prompted the American Civil Liberties Union last summer to send the Senate a letter noting that its invocations often referenced Jesus Christ, contravening the separation of church and state.

That prompted the state attorney general’s office to advise the Senate that their handling of prayers — by inviting speakers from various religions to preach before every session — wouldn’t survive a likely court challenge, said Democratic Majority Leader Brickwood Galuteria.

“Above all, our responsibility is to adhere to the Constitution,” Galuteria said after Thursday’s vote to halt the daily blessings.  Read More

Van Jones Explains Social Justice

Posted by therightscoop on Jan 21, 2011 in Politics

Van Jones spoke at Guilford College in North Carolina a couple of days ago and defined Social Justice for the audience. He said that if you could write your life on a card and put it in a hat filled with cards from everyone else in your country, and that you could then be totally assured that any card you pulled out would be a good life for you to live, then you know you live in a social justice country.

As the makers of the video points out, that’s communism:

Rush talks on Obama's missing birth certificate

Posted by therightscoop on Jan 21, 2011 in Politics

Rush spent nearly his entire first segment talking about a story he’s been sitting on all week. He say she wanted to see what happened to it before he weighed in on it. I’ve gotten emails on it myself but I’ve pretty much ignored it. The story is the case of Obama’s missing birth certificate.

The new Hawaii Governor, who vowed to end this birth certificate conspiracy, now claims that he can’t find it in the archives. There’s only a notation that it exists, but no actual birth certificate. Rush says that something is certainly not right about this story, but he believes that it may just be more trickery to get the birthers all worked up.

In the segment following this one (which is not included in the video), he made the point that they have someone on record in 2008 vouching for Obama, saying that they actually saw it. And now the Hawaii Governor can’t find it? He warns of deception and trickery here.  Read More and Listen

Powerful “Globocrat” Elites Are Running Things

Bilderberg Owned Publication The Economist: Yes, Powerful “Globocrat” Elites Are Running Things, It’s Not A Conspiracy

Agenda for global centralized control system is public and out in the open

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Friday, Jan 21st, 2011

We have referred many times to the push for a centralized world government control system as the “open conspiracy”. Groups such as Bilderberg, The Trilateral Commission and The Council on Foreign Relations are kingpins of this agenda, shaping the policies of the politicians and power brokers that they have effectively bought.

A rather bizarre article in The Economist today addresses this power structure and far from dismissing it as a conspiracy theory, simply reaffirms the fact that “the cosmopolitan elite” do indeed “flock together” at such gatherings and elusive clubs to shape the world that the “superclass” wishes to inhabit.

Of course, The Economist is a perfect avenue for the open conspiracy to be flaunted, given that its editor is a regular attendee at the annual Bilderberg conference, an admission the piece proudly discloses in its opening paragraphs.

Tongue firmly in cheek, the piece describes Bilderberg as “an evil conspiracy bent on world domination”, and then goes on to affirm that actually yes, the group really does dominate world events.  Read More

Greenpeace Founder Questions Man-Made Global Warming

The Blaze
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 3:05pm by Jonathon M. Seidl

Patrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental organization Greenpeace, isn’t too hot about global warming. Appearing on Fox Business Network with Stuart Varney on Thursday, he said global warming is a “natural phenomenon,” there’s no proof of man-made global warming, and suggested that “alarmism” is driving politicians to create bad environmental policies. He also said he’s not the only environmentalist that believes like him:



Moore is the author of the book, “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist,” in which he exposes the green movement and explains why he left the organization.

While talking with Varney, he explained that departure was in part due to the group’s “extremist positions” and it being hijacked by political and social causes as well as the left:

Is College Worth the Cost?

Study confirms that college is pretty much a total waste of time

Jan 19, 2011 9:17 PM by Allahpundit
Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority, a new report shows.

Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives, according to the report, based on a book titled Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Findings are based on transcripts and surveys of more than 3,000 full-time traditional-age students on 29 campuses nationwide, along with their results on the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test that gauges students’ critical thinking, analytic reasoning and writing skills.

After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.

Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.
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Winter wonderland - Mauinews.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Visitor's Information - The Maui News

Donald Trump Knocks State Dinner

As Washington returns to normalcy after the pomp and circumstance of Wednesday's state dinner, businessman — and perennial "maybe" presidential candidate — Donald Trump isn't happy about the night's festivities.

He called in to "Fox & Friends" and unleashed.

"For us to be holding state dinners for people who are just totally manipulating their currency ... is hard to believe," said Trump. "You don't give dinners to the enemy and that's what they're doing."

If it were up to a President Trump? "I woud say, 'Get off your plane, come to my office and let's talk.'" (Trump has made China the subject of many criticisms of late).

If that didn't go so well, Trump had a back-up plan: "I would have sent them to McDonalds if we didn't make a deal and say, 'Go home.' The fact is they're laughing at our leadership and we're letting them get away with murder.

Facebook Deemed a Larger Security Threat Than Wikileaks

NewsFlavor
Published by Jack Rodnessey on January 19, 2011

Most Security experts would agree with this.

With all the talk about Wikileaks releasing top secret documents and Julian Assange accusing the US of keeping Bradley Manning as a ‘political prisoner’ it makes one wonder can the internet be an even greater threat on a more personal level?

Internet security experts have said “Yes, as many sites are now integrating Facebook as a way to log into websites”. As Facebook is one of the must have websites on other websites such as the mini-google search box many sites have begun adding Facebook connectivity to their products.

“The current danger may be that a hacker may impersonate another user in a websites comments, where Facebook is used” says another security expert. However, others have cited other long term consequences where Facebook collects websurfing data and uses this to ‘enhance’ Facebooks targeted advertising system.

To the general population Facebook may provide a convenient way to log into multiple sites without multiple passwords. From a security stand-point Facebook is a disaster waiting to happen for if a hacker got into the passwords database the entire internet may be at risk resulting in a show of why there cannot be one central way to log into all of the websites on the internet.

Report Card on Obama's First Two Years

January 20, 2011
By K.E. Campbell

Two years ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States. Are you better off today than you were two years ago?

Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:  Read More

Green Follies Escalate in the Face of Failure

January 20, 2011
By Ed Lasky

Those widely heralded compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) turn out to be a bit of dud in the real world.

For years, we have seen traditional light bulbs vanishing from shelves of hardware stores and Home Depots across America. They have been replaced by those screw-shaped things that bespeak the future -- a future of dull lights, money flowing overseas, Americans jobs being terminated, and promised energy savings going up in smoke.

From the Wall Street Journal:

California's utilities are spending $548 million over seven years to subsidize consumer purchases of compact fluorescent lamps. But the benefits are turning out to be less than expected.  Read More

ObamaCare repeal passes the House

Thursday, January 20, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a repeal of Obama's health care reform, voting largely along party lines at 245 to 189 (three Democrats supported the vote). The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promises to block it from ever coming to a vote there.

Congressional Republicans characterized Obamacare as "job-killing" and called it a "trillion-dollar tragedy." In response, one Democrat compared Republican rhetoric to World War II Nazi propaganda.

Democrats, predictably, attempted to emphasize how Obamacare would "create jobs." Of course it would create jobs: When the system doesn't help anybody get healthy, the number of patients needing disease management services skyrockets, and that translates into job creation in the sick-care industry.

A person could similarly "create jobs" by unleashing an infectious virus in a major U.S. city and seeing how many people line up for emergency care at the hospitals. But that's moronic. "Creating jobs" shouldn't be done on the backs of sick people -- especially when that sickness could be prevented through the application of commonsense nutrition.

Then again, one should never expect the rhetoric of lawmakers to follow any economic logic in the first place. Both war and disease create plenty of jobs. But those aren't the kind of jobs that improve the quality of life for the American people.

The real story behind health care reform:  Read More

Snow closes road to Haleakala summit

Maui News
January 19, 2011

HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK -- The road to the summit of Haleakala was shut down Wednesday morning because of snow, slush and ice and the roadway, a park official said.

Visitors were being stopped at the park headquarters at 7,000 feet, which remained open as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, said Navnit Singh, public affairs officer at the park.

The road closure was being done as a temporary safety measure while park officials monitor the situation and will re-open the road when it is no longer hazardous.

The snow began appearing at the dormant volcano's 9,000-foot level, he said.

"It's not that deep. It's more like a dusting," he said.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a winter weather warning for the summit and upper slopes of Haleakala until 6 p.m. Wednesday.