GOP Governors Smell State Pork, Urge Passage of “Stimulus”

Vermont Republican Governor Jim Douglas Throws Out Principle...Supports Stimulus

Just when you compliment Republicans for showing a little bit of fortitude for not supporting the trillion dollar swindle, they have to go and remind you that, by and large, they don’t have much more scruples than the dems.

After the House Republicans voted unanimously to reject Obama’s bill, most Republicans have decided to side with Obama and the bill.  There’s an old political adage at work here:  If all your co-workers are going to participate in mass plunder, it makes no sense for you not to join in.  If the Federal Government is going to start passing out money, you turning it down does make the money go away…it just gets sent to another state.  It makes sense for you, as a governor to participate in the mass plunder.

It doesn’t make the bill any wiser, but if you as a State Governor don’t bring any of this loot home, there may be serious rumblings about your ability to bring home the bacon come election time.

GOP Governors Press Congress To Pass Stimulus Bill 

NEW YORK (AP) — Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama’s economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care.

Their state treasuries drained by the financial crisis, governors would welcome the money from Capitol Hill, where GOP lawmakers are more skeptical of Obama’s spending priorities.

The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, planned to meet in Washington this weekend with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other senators to press for her state’s share of the package. (Read more.)

Super Bowl Eve: Current Line Steelers -6.5

16 Hours Till Game Time

I guess I have to prove once again why I never gamble on professional football…besides, ahem, sports betting is illegal (for those of us not in Vegas).

So here I go…remember this is for entertainment purposes only!  As much as I’d like to see the Arizona Cardinals holding up the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the day—-I just don’t see that happening.

It looks to me like a comfortable Steelers victory.  They are the more physical team and I think they will control the line of scrimmage.  I think their defense will put enough pressure on Kurt Warner to force him into some poor decisions.

The Cardinals have a big play offense centered around Warner, Larry Fitzgerald and Anquoin Boldin and they need to get out front because they need to be able to run the ball just to keep the Steelers’ line honest enough so that they don’t just pin their ears back and go after Warner.

On offense I wouldn’t be surprised if Steelers tailback Willie Parker had a big game.  He generally is feeling pretty fresh and defensively, the Cardinals are not the Baltimore Ravens.

I think the Cardinals need to force turnovers and produce touchdowns,  not field goals…if that happens then we’ll have a ball game.  I think the Steelers, in the end, are the steadier, more balanced team, and that’s why the B.S. Report selects the Steelers by 11 points.

Steelers       31

Cardinals    20

I’ve also instructed my webmaster to delete this post if it begins to be an embarrassment for me….

Freedom Quote Of The Day

(See, once upon a time the powers delegated to the federal government were few and defined…But, alas, that was back when we had a Constitution.)

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce: with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.

–Publius (James Madison)

No Wonder She Wasn’t Invited…

HEBRON, Ind. (AP) — A woman who wasn’t invited to her sister’s wedding reception showed up anyway and attacked the bride, pulling out clumps of her hair, police said. Annmarie Bricker, 23, of Valparaiso, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of battery.

Jeremy Glotzbach told police he was hosting a reception for newlyweds Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes at his home on Jan. 23 when Bricker, Kappes’ sister, attacked Kappes on the front porch.

Bricker pulled out clumps of Kappes’ hair, struck her head and took the bride to the ground during a struggle, according to the Porter County Sheriff’s Department.

Bricker told police she went to the house because she “just wanted to talk” to her sister and parents about family problems. She said she never touched her sister, but five witnesses contradicted her, authorities said. Kappes did not need medical treatment.

Bricker later resigned from her job as a Porter County 911 dispatcher, officials said.

B.S. Report–The Fight Looked Something Like This…

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Australian P.M. Happy To Embrace World Socialism, Too

New Leadership...Same Old Socialism

Time For A New World Order

KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of “social capitalism” in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily.

In an essay to be published next week, the Prime Minister is scathing of the neo-liberals who began refashioning the market system in the 1970s, and ultimately brought about the global financial crisis.

“The time has come, off the back of the current crisis, to proclaim that the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed, that the emperor has no clothes,” he writes of those who placed their faith in the corrective powers of the market.  (More here.)

B.S. Report-Just where is this mythical place with “unfettered” capitalism that he’s referring to? Government injecting themselves into all areas of private business is the problem–definitely not the solution.

He goes on later in the article to say that we need another FDR-style economic program of the likes that led the U.S. out of the Great Depression.  We now know that nothing could be further from the truth.  FDR’s policies are now believed to have extended the depression for as many as 9 more years.  Read Amity Shlaes great book, “The Forgotten Man.”

A P.M. advocating Socialism is hardly news.  Politicians lust for power–and if the people want to willingly turn their lives over to supposed saviors like Rudd or Obama, then they will happily oblige and take as much power as the people are willing to grant them.

Mr. President, “You’re Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of Your Mouth”

How can the "stimulus" package be so crucial...and yet it's still going to take us years to recover?

Stimulus Package Is Not About Stimulus, It’s About Power

Over and over again we hear President Obama talk about the need for “immediate” action to ward off our economic woes.  Yet, then he tells us that his special stimulus plan; chosen and designed specifically to ward off our economic woes, will not do the job because we will still be in recession years from now.

The President is trying to have it both ways.  First, he tells us that we must do the “stimulus” for the good of the country, and then he backpedals and tries to distance himself from its inevitable failure.

How else are we supposed to understand his repeated statements about this economic downturn lasting “several” more years?  The real reason is that all these financial maneuverings being advocated by the Obama team is really not about fixing our economy at all–it is about grabbing and entrenching as much power in the hands of the Democratic party.

Politicians are interested in one thing:  power.  They have no expertise in the areas that they will soon be overseeing.  Politicians expertise is in getting themselves elected to office.  But soon they will have the power to dictate policy to those people who actually do have the talents earned in their particular industries.

People who specialize in areas such as running banks, financial services companies, and designing automobiles will be forced to take their orders directly from Washington.  Politicians will be, in effect, the CEO’s of many of our major industries; industries that they have no specific talent or training in.  Toss in health care and we’re taking a huge portion of our economy out of the hands of its most productive and vibrant force:  the private sector.

Thomas Sowell wrote a brilliant column about this.  He always has a few pearls of wisdom in each of his essays.  What Dr. Sowell explains is how ineffective “infrastructure” projects are as a means to getting out of a recession.  These projects themselves take years in planning before they are actually given a go-ahead. To the degree that they ever produce any results, those effects are years away.

If the goal is to get money flowing through the economy again, this is precisely the slowest method one can opt for. Tax cuts, on the other hand, give  people an immediate benefit and they would spend more right away.

Here is President Obama’s speech about his latest financial proposals regarding the mortgage markets.  Scary stuff.

New Taxes, $4 Billion Dollar Deficit, And You’re Worried About Salt

Mayor Bloomberg Strikes Somber Tone While Addressing Startling NYC Economic Crisis

Just cut taxes and forget about the darn salt.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially announced Friday the city’s $4 billion budget gap and unveiled a new budget filled with painful cutbacks that will impact every New Yorker.

Wall Street got sick and now New York City residents have to take their medicine, and Bloomberg’s budget solution will probably be hard for most of us to swallow. New taxes, a smaller workforce, and reduced city services – all the ingredients of Friday’s “Doomsday” budget plan.

“This is a very tough time for our city and nation,” Bloomberg said. “We have a $4 billion budget gap. It is serious, I think it is manageable.”
(Read more here.)

There Was “Big Brother,” Now There’s “Big Mother”… NY Mayor Bloomberg Wages War…On Salt

You watch your salt, I’ll watch mine!

Bloomberg:  The New Salt Police

Politicians do just about everything these days:  except the job they were elected to do.  Since when is it the Mayor’s place to wage a war on salt?  What kind of a wimpy place is the U.S. becoming when the Mayor of our largest city thinks it’s his job to tell the people how to use salt.

Soon he will be telling New Yorkers that they don’t get enough sleep and that he now mandates a 10:00 p.m. bedtime.  Talk about a “Nanny State!”  New Yorkers are just as capable of reading food labels as anyone else is in this country.  If they choose to use too much salt for the Mayor’s taste, that’s just tough.

Mr. Mayor, if you really want to be helpful to all New Yorkers, cut taxes.  But instead you’re raising them!  You’re an elected official, which is amazing in itself, but your job, when you perform it properly, is to cut ribbons and stay out of the way of private individuals’ lives and businesses.  But, like just about every politician, you just can’t resist butting in.

Instead, you run around doing everything except your job.  And now you’re worried about salt…show us all that passage of the constitution that grants you this power to be some kind of “health czar.”  And now you’re cutting New Yorkers’ service by $1 billion, see above.  (Story here.)

Dog Cloning To Be Cheaper In South Korea; We Are Talking About Pet Dogs, Aren’t We?

These dogs are chows, not dog chow, right?

Bio firm says dog cloning to be cheaper

SEOUL (Reuters) – Cloning a Chow Chow is expected to be easier and perhaps as much as 50 percent less costly, a South Korean biotech firm said Thursday as it unveiled a new cloning technology.

But pet owners — who have to shell out $100,000 or more to clone a pet dog — will still have to pay tens of thousands of dollars if they want to clone their beloved dogs and should be prepared for long waits because most commercial canine cloning is for working animals including sniffer dogs at airports. (Full story here.)

B.S. Report-I’m just trying to clarify that we’re talking about pets, not pet food.  I think we are.  Good.

She Must Be Really Dumb To Ask You…Because You Ain’t That Bright

Dude, maybe you should have toned it down a bit...

New York Boy Dressed As Girl To Cheat On Exam

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Dressing as a girl to take a high school Regents exam in place of another student landed a 17-year-old upstate New York boy in some serious detention. Deandre Ellis, 17, of Schenectady was arrested on a felony charge after the incident Tuesday. City school officials said a monitor verifying that each student was taking the proper exam suspected something was amiss when the name on the test and the person taking it didn’t match.

District spokeswoman Karen Corona said a closer look revealed the test-taker was a boy masquerading as a girl.

Police said Ellis, who was released to probation authorities, was charged with burglary for entering the school to commit a crime. His public defender didn’t immediately return a phone call or e-mail seeking comment.