Need proof the Obama ‘stimulus’ plan is a disaster…Jimmy Carter supports it!

Carter Supports Obama Plan

ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has voiced support for President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the economy.

Carter says he has “full confidence” in Obama’s proposal and expects it will take about six months for the economy to begin improving.

The 39th President made his remarks Thursday after announcing the $10 million overhaul of his presidential library, which is scheduled to close Apr. 27 and reopen on Oct. 1 to coincide with Carter’s 85th birthday.

Carter acknowledges the challenges Obama inherited upon taking office. But he says the current situation does not compare to the Great Depression, which he says was much more severe.

During the Depression, Carter says, there was no money and no way to control unemployment.

B.S. Report–When the worst president of the past 100 years (and a pretty darn bad ex-president, too) throws his support your way and supports your plan, you may want to re-evaluate your plan.

President Obama, I support your plan completely!

‘I’m In The Mood For A Nice Thick Steak…No, Instead, Make That A Nice Juicy Rat!’

Yummy New Delicacy On The Indian Menu–Rat

NEW DELHI, Aug. 19 (UPI) — Indian officials say they are working on a deal with the poor rat hunters in the state of Bihar to commercialize the sale of rat meat as a delicacy.

Rat--It's What's For Dinner!

Vijay Prakash, principal secretary in the social welfare department, said the government is in talks with the rat-eaters, known as Musahars, to turn their niche market into a commercial enterprise, the Inter Asian News Service reported Tuesday.

Prakash said the talks are in part aimed at raising the socio-economic status of the Musahars.

“The government has decided to engage the Musahars in commercialization of rat meat for their overall development,” Prakash said. “We will encourage and help the Musahars to organize rat farms in order to commercialize rat meat.”

He said the estimated 2.3 million Musahars living in Bihar have long been among the poorest citizens of the state and the commercialization of rat meat could help them by supplying a steady source of income.

B.S. Report–Don’t they have any real food or drink in India?  I mean, they just introduced cow urine as their challenger to coke and pepsi, and now they offer up rats instead of real food.

And all the while they have thick, juicy steaks sharing their streets with them–completely unafraid of being on the menu.  Here in the states we do everything we can to keep rats and rat hair from infesting our food–and now they’re saying it’s a delicacy!

Well, sayin’ it doesn’t make it so.  I’ve just got to say “Rats” to this whole idea!

Church’s Suicide Prevention Program Not 100% Successful…

Man Kills Himself in Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. – A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday as a nearby volunteer told a group of visitors about the church’s suicide-prevention program, police and church officials said.

The suicide section is on the 5th floor...

The man handed a note and his driver’s license to two ushers, walked to the cross and then shot himself in the head as he appeared to be praying, Senior Pastor Juan Carlos Ortiz said.

The Orange County coroner’s office identified the man as Steve Smick, 48. Church spokesman Mike Nason said there was no record of Smick at the cathedral.

Betty Spicer, a volunteer usher at the famous sanctuary, said she greeted Smick when he entered.  She said he handed her a folded note with two cards inside as the man told her:  “You may want this.”

Spicer said he then walked to the foot of the cross. She and Yvette Manson, another volunteer, said they thought Smick was praying when they heard a pop.

The man used a semiautomatic handgun, said police Lt. Dennis Ellsworth.

A tourist, one in a group of several visitors from Canada, told Manson the man had shot himself.

“I didn’t realize it. I thought he was praying,” Spicer said.

Manson said she “had just finished telling them about our intervention hotline that we have — suicide prevention on the fifth floor — and all of a sudden I heard this pop, a loud pop, it almost sounded like a firecracker,” she said.

Spicer said one of Smick’s cards was a driver’s license, and that the note mentioned a pickup truck in the parking lot.  (Read more.)

I bet you didn’t know the federal “stimulus” was a “black bill”…did you?

Rep. Clyburn playin' the race card

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is “a slap in the face of African-Americans.”

U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said he was insulted when the governors of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and his home state, which have large black populations, said they might not accept some of the money from the $787 billion stimulus package.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he would accept the money, and none of the others has rejected it outright. The Republican governors of Idaho and Alaska also said they had reservations about whether the money would come with too many strings attached, but Clyburn said he was particularly taken aback by southern governors who said they might decline it.

“These four governors represent states that are in the proverbial black belt,” Clyburn said.

A spokesman for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford accused Clyburn of playing the race card.

“Spending money at the federal level that we do not have represents a future tax increase on all South Carolinians, regardless of their color,” Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said in an e-mail statement. “And in the process of doing so, he’s ripping off everyone he claims to represent.”

Speaking earlier Thursday on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Sanford said being against the stimulus plan doesn’t preclude taking the money. He said he opposed President Barack Obama’s economic plan because it’s “a bad idea,” but would look over it and decide whether some parts would work for South Carolina.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–We’ll see how long it takes before we’re allowed to criticize the President or any of his agenda.

‘Well I’ll Be A Monkey’s….Mother!’

Monkey “Mom” Is One Confused Woman!

She fed him filet mignon and lobster tails. They shared cozy glasses of wine. They bathed and slept together. He tenderly brushed her hair. She gave him gifts and sweet kisses. He drew her pictures.

"Travis" as a harmless baby chimp...

But this was no ordinary affair of the heart. Sandra Herold was engaging in these loving acts with a 200-pound pet ape.

Herold’s human friends said they were always leery of the interspecies intimacy.

If you love a simian, set them free, some tried to tell her – long before Travis went bananas Monday and mauled and mangled Herold’s 55-year-old friend Charla Nash.

“It’s just weird,” one friend said. “It’s an animal, not a person. What she had with that monkey was not normal.”

It is not uncommon for people to replace the affection of a departed loved one with that of an animal, experts say.

Travis became both a surrogate child and spouse, following the deaths of her daughter in a car accident several years ago and her husband five years ago, friends and psychologists said.

Even if there was no monkey-panky, pals say they were intimate.

“In popular culture, chimpanzees are used as a kind of parody of human behavior – and it seems that this animal became almost a parody of her relationship with her husband,” said Howard Welsh, a professor of clinical psychiatry at NYU.

“At the same time, this woman was depriving this animal of a whole world. She made this world for the chimp simply her. He was a chimp in a gilded cage.”

Travis lived his entire life in Herold’s habitat. In his younger days, he appeared in commercials, including spots for Old Navy and Coca-Cola, but mostly he was hers and hers alone.

He worshipped her, friends said. Travis would make crayon drawings and proudly hand them to Herold.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–This woman just doesn’t get it–“Travis” is not her son.  Travis is a chimpanzee, a wild animal.  She raised this chimp as a human child and she wonders why Travis flipped.  Even if there was no “monkey-business” between the two, she had a love-affair with that chimp.

The woman says that Travis knew how to drive and took the car on public streets on occasion!

You watch this video and it’s like we’re watching idiots!  Does it really need to be explained why a chimpanzee can’t be trusted to live 100% of the time around human beings.  They say how close we are genetically to chimps…true enough.  But you would have to say that chimpanzees would still qualify as very, very, very dumb humans!   Almost as dumb on the human intelligence scale as politicians!

When a human being is about the same intelligence as a chimpanzee, we put him or her in a psychiatric hospital under very close observation.  But a chimp is just being a chimp–they are that dumb!  You can’t trust them because if they wake up in a bad mood they are strong enough to kill you!

Another uncomfortable thing about Sandra Herold (the chimp’s “mom”) is that she doesn’t seem to spend much time talking about her dear friend that her chimp ripped to shreds!  Shouldn’t she be at the hospital on a vigil?

When I see stories like this I realize that inter-species marriage cannot be far off.  Even Tarzan had more suitable boundaries between himself and Cheetah than Sandra Herold did.

Don’t we ever learn?  We’ve all seen this story before…and that didn’t end happily either.

California Passes Budget…Taxpayers Get It In The…End

CALIFORNIA

Last Republican Standing Finally Caves In Marathon Session

The deal is done.  (B.S.–And so is California…)

The California Legislature voted early today to approve a massive budget package of tax increases, spending cuts and borrowing to close a $40 billion deficit after granting major concessions to one holdout Republican senator.

Lawmakers had been at a five-day impasse until Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders today agreed to give Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, major changes he demanded in exchange for providing a crucial 27th vote for the state budget.

The votes came after what Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said was, at 45 1/2 hours, the single longest Senate floor session in California history.  (B.S.–Yes, we were safe for 45 1/2 hours…)

Schwarzenegger applauded legislators as having the “courage to stand up and put the needs of Californians first.”  (B.S.–Yes, that’s exactly what Californians needed…a massive tax increase!)

“This is a very difficult budget, but we have turned this crisis into an opportunity to make real, lasting reforms for Californians,” he said in a written statement. “Some special interests may not like this budget — but like I always say, what’s good for the people is not always good for special interests.”

Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, who ascended to the role of Senate Republican leader after Dave Cogdill was ousted early Wednesday, continued to warn Democrats this morning that the budget deal was bad for the state.

“I’m sure that after this is over, there will be lots of hugging, backslapping and congratulatory wishes that this budget is finally done,” he said. “You may count this as a win because you got a few Republicans to vote for it. The vast majority of Republicans are standing here saying raising taxes is the wrong thing to do. The taxpayers of California are going to view this as a loss.”   (B.S.–We live in a strage world where a huge tax increase could be greeted with hugging and backslapping…)

The deal comes at a time when California was headed for fiscal calamity, already unable to pay all its bills and on the precipice today of suspending 374 construction projects that were valued at $5.58 billion and could have affected more than 90,000 jobs statewide.

As part of Maldonado’s agreement, lawmakers approved measures asking voters to approve constitutional amendments to establish an open primary system and ban legislative pay increases during deficit years. But legislative leaders refused to grant him his proposal to eliminate legislative pay altogether when the budget is late.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Wow, I can’t tell you how proud I am of this renegade pseudo “Republican,” Abel Maldonado.  What a negotiator!  He insists on an “open primary” system in California which means that the top two vote-getters in the primary election will run against each other in November.  This being California, do you think there’s a darn good chance that 2 Democrats will be running against each other?  Ya think?

Then he decides that instead of a 12 cent increase on gasoline, he decides that California needs a quarter-cent increase on our sales tax instead!  Neither are good, but an increase in sales tax could be worse.  This one man had the power to do all this.  What a joke!  Come on people, it’s almost time to dump our tea (or coffee) in the Pacific and get California back on track.

Freedom Quote Of The Day

Here’s a quote from the “Father of the Constitution” that will make you choke on your breakfast…

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution are few and defined.  Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

–James Madison, Federalist No. 45, January 26, 1788

The ACLU Is Going To Jump All Over This Case…NOT!

OKC Officer Pull Man Over For An Anti-Obama Sign On Vehicle

An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.

The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, which read “Abort Obama, not the unborn.”

Chip Harrison said he was driving to work when a police car followed him for several miles and then signaled for him to pull over.

”I pulled over, knowing I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Harrison said in a recent phone interview.

When the officer asked Harrison if he knew why he had been pulled over, Harrison said he did not.

”They said, ‘It’s because of the sign in your window,'” Harrison said.

”It’s not meant to be a threat, it’s a statement about abortion,” Harrison said.

It's still too early to criticize the "annointed" one.

He said he disagrees with the president’s position on abortion.

”I asked the officer, ‘Do you know what abort means?'” Harrison said. “He said, ‘Yeah, it means to kill.’ I said, ‘No, it means to remove or terminate.'”

Harrison said his sign was to be interpreted as saying something like: Remove Obama from office, not unborn babies from the womb.

The officers confiscated Harrison’s sign and gave him a slip of paper that stated he was part of an investigation.

Harrison said he later received a call from a person who said he was a lieutenant supervisor for the Internal Investigations Department and wanted to know his location and return his sign to him.

According to Harrison, the supervisor said the Secret Service had been contacted on the matter and had told them the sign was not a threat to the president.

Harrison was asked if he would like to file a complaint. He said he was not sure but would take the paperwork, just in case.

But his run-in with the law wasn’t over yet.

”The Secret Service called and said they were at my house,” Harrison said.

After talking to his attorney, Harrison went home where he met the Secret Service.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report– Do people who want to kill the President usually advertise that fact on their vehicles’ car window?  I’m not sure they do.  Even Captain Steve agrees that it wasn’t “McCool” for the officer to take the sign.

Actually, I don’t like that the sign says “Abort Obama” as opposed to some term that would be less likely to be misinterpreted–but the law protects his right to say it that way.

The point is, the guy doesn’t like President Obama because of his abortion stance and that’s the viewpoint he’s advertising–not that he wants the President violently taken out.

Clearly, the guy has the first amendment right to his opinion…that is, until all the Obama maniacs get so mad at him that it starts to cause a dangerous disturbance on the road.

At many schools, they let kids get away with wearing all sorts of inflammatory or crude T-shirts explaining it away as protected speech…but that’s not actually true since we’re talking about children (“minors”) at a publicly financed institution.  This is genuinely protected political speech–exactly the intention of the Framers of the Constitution.

Do I like the sign–no I don’t.  However, I do share the man’s sentiment in looking forward to the day that Obama, and the national plague that is the Democratic Party, has been safely removed from office.   We’re only one month into this administration and the amount of damage they’ve already foisted on the citizenry is incalculable.

Jury Awards Widow $8 Million; Apparently There Are Still People Out There That Think Cigarettes Are Health Food…

Judge Orders Phillip Morris to pay $8 Million To Widow Of Smoker

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Philip Morris was ordered by a jury Wednesday to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits.

The six jurors deliberated over two days before returning the award for Elaine Hess, 63, whose husband Stuart Hess died in 1997 at age 55 after decades as a chain smoker.

The award amounts to $3 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages against Richmond, Va.-based Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group Inc. Hess’s attorneys sought up to $130 million.

“It wasn’t about the money from the beginning,” Hess said after the verdict. “It was about doing the right thing. I just really hope this can help all the thousands of families who have also suffered.”

The Hess case was the first to go to trial since the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 voided a $145 billion class-action jury award in the so-called Engle case, by far the highest punitive damage award in U.S. history. The court said each smoker’s case had to be decided individually merits, but let stand that jury’s findings that tobacco companies knowingly sold dangerous products and hid risks from the public.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–I just don’t get it…who still thinks that smoking is good for you?  I don’t smoke but how can a jury award a widow $8 million?  Who tricked this guy into smoking?  Here, lets interview a juror directly…How did you conclude that Phillip Morris was responsible for the man’s personal choice to smoke?

Ah, just as I thought… he’s too ashamed to even talk about their ruling… And he’s the Jury Foreman!

Perhaps We Shouldn’t Bail Them Out…

Despite Bailout, GM Still May Collapse

DETROIT – A government-backed bankruptcy reorganization remains an option for saving General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, analysts said on Wednesday, even though the automakers have said they would rather not go down that road.

GM and Chrysler asked for billions of dollars more in federal aid on Tuesday and announced sweeping changes including capacity reductions and job cuts.

Some Wall Street analysts were disappointed that the restructuring plans submitted to the U.S. Treasury did not include key concessions from the United Auto Workers union and the automakers’ bondholders.

One analyst said that taking the bankruptcy option off the table would reduce the bargaining power of the companies.

Both GM and Chrysler analyzed a possible bankruptcy filing in their restructuring plans but stressed that it was not their preferred method for reorganizing and that they hoped to avoid this scenario.

GM, which has requested $16.4 billion in additional loans from the U.S. government for a total of up to $30 billion, has said it would run out of cash as soon as March without new federal funding.

The request came shortly after smaller rival Chrysler asked for another $5 billion in aid.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Look at the kind of monopoly money figures everyone’s tossing around…but whose money is it that they plan on “giving” to GM, and all the rest of them?  That’s right:  John and Jane Taxpayer.  At this point they’re just throwing good money after bad.

Like this car, GM is upside down and it doesn’t appear that they will be able to right themselves.