Hell for three leaders ... Thanks Marge!

George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die

and go to Hell.



Upon arrival and while being checked in, they spot a red phone

and ask what the phone is for.



The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth.

Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes.

When he is finished the devil informs him that the cost is a

million dollars, so Putin writes him a check.



Next Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for 30 minutes.

When she is finished the devil informs her that the cost is 6

million dollars, so she writes him a check.



Finally George Bush gets his turn and talks for 4 hours. When he

is finished the devil informs him that the cost is $5.00.



When Putin hears this he goes ballistic and asks the devil why

Bush got to call the USA so cheaply.



The devil smiles and replies, "Since Obama took over, the



country has gone to Hell, so it's a local call."

Xenos- Means "hospitality" SamKat

Xenos Church in Westerville:

Hypocritical Christian and  devoted Tea Party that I be as a Christian conservative, please indulge my Sunday morning's musings. 

First off, PhD. Lee Campbell (filling in for M.D. Jeff Gordon) brought a lesson from John 17 explaining Glory this morning.  Dr. Campbell's explained purpose is to give glory to God.  Christ was God's gift to all Christians so that they may share eternity with Him in Heaven.

Nearly sacriligiously, 610 AM radio has a Sunday morning talk show in which Larry Larson has been part of for the last few years.  This morning was Larry's last show and the call in testimonials were nearly unbelievable from notable sports people.  Larry has brought glory to many in the local sports area, particularly the outstanding high school athletes he has interviewed.  The man has been consistently positive in his many relationships and notable after notable has said so.

Kegleys are just common people who have been privileged to know Larry through our teacher-coach son, Jeff.  I believe he gives the quiet Christian testimonial by being the person without just saying so.

Larry's adored wife, Jeanie, admonished him to look forward not backwards, just before her death to cancer a few years ago.  He does that daily.

Larry's glory goes to Jesus and His Father, God, in my humble opinion.

Thank you Larry Larson!

SamKat

Obamacare explained by Trump ... Thanks Doug Brooke!

ØbamaCare Explained"



No one can sum it up better than Trump!





Let me get this straight . . . .. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care

plan we are forced to purchase and

fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least

ten million more people,

without adding a single new doctor,

but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

written by a committee whose chairman

says he doesn't understand it,

passed by a Congress that didn't read it but

exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who

didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any

benefits take effect, by a government which has

already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general

who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!





“What the hell could

possibly go wrong?”





Øbama, you’re fired!!!

Little girl on an airplane ... Thanks Marge Rusnak!

*LITTLE GIRL ON AN AIR PLANE*



An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an

airplane and he turned to her and said, "Do you want to

talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation

with your fellow passenger."



The little girl, who had just started to read her book,

replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to

talk about?"



“Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why

there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after

death?" as he smiled smugly.



"OK," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but

let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a

deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes

little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but

a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"



The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's

intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no

idea."



To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel

qualified to discuss why there is no God, or no Heaven

or Hell, or no life after death, when you don't know shit?"



And then she went back to reading her book.

Medicare coverage in a nutshell ... Thanks Sarah Rapp!

MEDICARE COVERAGE IN A NUTSHELL



The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello..'



'Mrs. Sanders, please.'



'Speaking.'



'Mrs.. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your husband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good.'



'What do you mean?' Mrs.. Sanders asks nervously.



'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for HIV.... We can't tell which is which.'



'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?', questioned Mrs. Sanders..



'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'



'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'



'The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town . . If he finds his way home . . don't sleep with him.'

The Columbus Dispatch 07/30/2011- Larry Larson

Michael Arace commentary: Whatever it was, it worked for Larson

Saturday, July 30, 2011 03:04 AM





The Columbus Dispatch



Larry Larson is retiring to California to be near his stepdaughter and her family.



Columnists

Michael Arace

Bob Hunter

Rob Oller


The WTVN radio website has a video tribute to Larry Larson, who is retiring to California to open a new chapter in his life. Midway through the video, one of Larry's colleagues, John Corby, says: "You started, you didn't know anything about radio. You ended, you don't know anything about radio."



There is a glowing ember of truth in this good-natured barb.



Larry has spent the past 20 years reading the morning scores over our car radios and reporting from the Horseshoe, Nationwide Arena, Value City Arena, Muirfield Village, wherever there was a game. Most notably, he has been the voice of fall Friday nights, running down high-school football scores far and near.



He is known as Mr. High School Sports. He is more like Uncle High School Spirit. Either way, he is a stylistic nightmare. He barks through the speakers like a hoarse camp counselor. He sounds like Don Pardo in intensive care, or like a high-school football coach.



Of course, he was a high-school football coach, as well as a teacher and athletic director, before he went into radio. And he did not truly go into radio. He assumed it. Somebody pointed him at a microphone, and he did Larry. He picked up his yellow legal pad, put a smile on his face, opened his mouth and assaulted us with enthusiasm. Who needed to know this business? If the job was to sound as un-phony as humanly possible, well, Larry has filled that bill since he came into this world, on July 27, 1943.



He was raised in the shadow of the 'Shoe and, save for the few summers he spent in New York City when his mother was trying to make it on Broadway, he has lived his entire life in Columbus. It has been quite a relationship.



Larry touched thousands of young lives during his 32 years as a teacher/coach, mostly in the Grandview Heights system. He moved easily to radio, if not journalism. If you have ever heard one of his motivational speeches, you understand his power (and you have an inkling how little Grandview went 9-0-1 in 1979).



Larry has for the past 20 years mentored select high-school student-athletes and sent them forth to spread positive messages to younger children. It also has been his habit to tutor high-school and college students who were interested in broadcasting. More often than not, he had a student in tow at whatever big event he was covering.



Lori Schmidt of WBNS (97.1 FM) got her start tagging along with Larry. So did Kelsey Webb of the Morning Zoo crew on WNCI (97.9 FM).



"He has just blessed so many people," Webb said. "I don't know anyone more deserving of some good fortune than Larry Larson."



Larry's wife of 25 years, Jeannie, lost a wicked fight with cancer in August 2008, and Larry's world has been atilt ever since. Ultimately, he felt compelled to leave his hometown and settle in southern California, to be near his stepdaughter, Liza; her husband, Glenn; and their 6-year-old son, Jack.



"Liza is the closest thing to Jeannie that I have left," Larry said. "For nine months, I have known it was the right time to go. There is also something to be said about going out on top."



Larry will sign off from WTVN (610 AM) at the end of his Sunday morning sports show, of which he is co-host with Dave Maetzold. Larry's last three scheduled guests, in order:



• Dario Franchitti, whom Larry counts among his favorite interviewees. The international jet-setter/Indianapolis 500 champion shares a wonderful rapport with the Chuck Taylor-wearing/bowtie-clad Mr. High School Sports. Seriously.



• Dave King, the former Blue Jackets coach and Larry's erstwhile jogging mate. The two forged a friendship during those early years of NHL hockey in Columbus.



• Faith Washington, Reynoldsburg High School All-America hurdler, who once said to Larry, "Track is just like life. There is a starting line - and there is a finish line."



Larry said, "I have had a wonderful, wonderful tenure here. And now, in the parlance of Faith, I am on to the next event."



Michael Arace is a sports reporter for The Dispatch.



marace@dispatch.com

SamKat postscript:  My family and I enjoy the great honor of being friends of Larry Larson.  Our son Jeff first knew him through Jeff's and Larry's experiences at Grandview Heitghts where Jeff has taught for the last twenty-some years.  We each met him at various sporting events, mainly at Grandview.  I enjoyed further privilege in interviewing Larry for my second book: "Acquaintances With Integrity".  I was so impressed with Larry's coverage of high school sports when we arrived here from Portsmouth Ohio, I wished for him the job of Sports Information Director for my alma mater, the University of Kentucky.  It would not have been right for this true Columbus Ohio boy who walked the oval and campus of Ohio State with his grandfather as a young child and a young man.

  There becomes a few man-love situations for the straights of our lives and Larry becomes one for me.  I so appreciate what he has done for all athletes in this area.

Go west, young man, and enjoy the rest of your life!

Federal judge throws out atheist law suit vs. Gov. Perry

Case against Perry, 'Response' dismissed

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 7/28/2011 3:15:00 PM

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed to block Texas Governor Rick Perry from having a role in an upcoming prayer event in Houston.


U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller on Thursday afternoon ruled that the group of atheists and agnostics that filed the suit, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, did not have standing to sue. The plaintiffs argued that Perry's day of prayer and fasting would violate the Constitution. The event, called The Response, is scheduled for August 6.


Perry defended the event, comparing it to President Barack Obama's participation in the National Day of Prayer. He said "my prayer is that the courts will find that the First Amendment is still applicable to the governor."






Story continues below ...




Should elected officials have the right to call for prayer?







Kelly Shackelford of Liberty Institute tells OneNewsNow the plaintiffs filed the suit because they simply do not like the event and the fact that the governor had said complimentary things about it.


"Just because your feelings are hurt, you know, welcome to a free country," the attorney responds. "So [the judge] threw the thing completely out -- which we agree there was no basis for the lawsuit .... [T]his really horrible attempt to shut down speech and prayer and religious freedom has been completely rejected."



The Foundation also asked the judge to stop Governor Perry from speaking in any favorable way towards the prayer event, block him from endorsing it, or encouraging people or to even say it is a good thing.


"In fact they wanted him specifically to give a remark distancing himself from this prayer event," Shackelford continues. "And so the idea that they were asking a federal judge to enjoin a sitting governor from saying something positive about prayer shows how extreme this was."


Perry has invited other governors and Christians throughout the U.S. to join him to pray and fast for America on August 6 at Houston's Reliant Stadium.

House approves and Senate rejects - Newsmax.com

Debt Ceiling Crisis: Economist Warns 90% Stock Market Crash. See Evidence.



Newsfront Tags: US
Debt
Showdown House Approves Debt Bill; Senate Rejects It Two Hours Later

Friday, 29 Jul 2011 07:00 PM

Forward Article WASHINGTON — In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an unprecedented government default and Senate Democrats scuttled it less than two hours later in hopes of a better deal.



"We are almost out of time" for a compromise, warned President Barack Obama as U.S. financial markets trembled at the prospect of economic chaos next week. The Dow Jones average fell for a sixth straight session.



Lawmakers in both parties said they were determined to avoid a default, yet there was little evidence of progress — or even significant negotiations — on a compromise during a long day of intense political maneuvering.



The House vote was 218-210, almost entirely along party lines, on a Republican-drafted bill to provide a quick $900 billion increase in U.S. borrowing authority — essential to allow the government to continue paying all its bills — along with $917 billion in cuts from federal spending.



It had been rewritten hastily overnight to say that before any additional increase in the debt limit could take place, Congress must approve a balanced budget-amendment to the Constitution and send it to the states for ratification. That marked a concession to tea party-backed conservatives and others in the rank and file who had thwarted House Speaker John Boehner's attempt to pass the bill Thursday night.



"Today we have a chance to end this debt limit crisis," Boehner declared, his endgame strategy upended by rebels within his own party.



But the changes he made to the House GOP bill further alienated Democrats. And they complicated prospects of a compromise that could clear both houses and win Obama's signature by next Tuesday's deadline.



At the other end of the Capitol, Senate Democrats rejected the measure without so much as a debate. The vote was 59-41, with all Democrats, two independents and six Republicans joining in opposition.



Moments later, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., unveiled an alternative that would cut spending by $2.4 trillion and raise the debt limit by the same amount, enough to meet Obama's terms that it tide the Treasury over until 2013.



Reid invited Republicans to suggest changes, saying, "This is likely our last chance to save this nation from default."



The Senate GOP leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, accused Democrats of "rounding up 'no' votes to keep this crisis alive," and noted the House had passed two bills to raise the debt limit and the Senate none.



The House, eager to return the Senate's favor rejecting the Boehner bill, set a vote to reject Reid's proposal on Saturday. The Senate set a test vote for shortly after midnight on Sunday, a middle-of-the-night roll call that underscored the limited time available to lawmakers



At the same time Reid appealed for bipartisanship, he and other party leaders accused Boehner of caving in to extremists in the GOP ranks — "the last holdouts of the tea party," Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois called them.



Republicans conceded that the overnight delay had weakened Boehner's hand in the endgame with Obama and Senate Democrats.



But the Ohio Republican drew applause from his rank and file when he said the House, alone, had advanced legislation to cut deficits, and that he had "stuck his neck out" in recent weeks in hopes of concluding a sweeping deficit reduction deal with Obama.



Boehner's measure would provide a quick $900 billion increase in borrowing authority — essential for the U.S. to keep paying all its bills after next Tuesday — and $917 billion in spending cuts. After the bill's latest alteration, any future increases in the debt limit would be contingent on Congress approving the constitutional amendment and sending it to the states for ratification.



"With conservatives insisting on the addition of a balanced-budget amendment requirement, Speaker Boehner's bill will now cut, cap and balance" federal spending, said Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona as Friday's scheduled vote approached.



The White House called the bill a non-starter. Press secretary Jay Carney issued a statement that called it a "political exercise" and said congressional leaders should turn their efforts to a compromise that Obama can sign by Tuesday.



The developments occurred one day after Boehner was forced to postpone a vote in the House for fear the earlier version of his measure would suffer a defeat. But by forcing a delay the conservative rebels upended the leadership's strategy of making their bill the only one that could clear Congress before a default and win Obama's reluctant signature.



"Everybody acknowledges that because of the dust-up yesterday we've lost some leverage," said Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, an ally of the speaker.



The rebels said they were more worried about stemming the nation's steady rise of red ink.



Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., a, a first-term lawmaker, issued a statement saying his pressure had paid off.



"The American people have strongly renewed their November calls of bringing fiscal sanity to Washington. I am blessed to be a vehicle driving their wishes to fruition," he said. "This plan is not a Washington deal but a real solution to fundamentally change the way Washington operates."



Administration officials say that without legislation in place by Tuesday, the Treasury will no longer be able to pay all its bills. The result could inflict significant damage on the economy, they add, causing interest rates to rise and financial markets to sink.



Executives from the country's biggest banks met with U.S. Treasury officials to discuss how debt auctions will be handled if Congress fails to raise the borrowing limit before Tuesday's deadline.



But Carney said the administration did not plan to provide the public with details Friday on how the government will prioritize payments.



The day's economic news wasn't very upbeat to begin with — an economy that grew at an annual rate of only 1.3 percent in the second quarter of the year.



The Dow Jones industrial average suffered through a sixth straight day of losses, and bond yields fell as investors sought safer investments in the event of a default.



At the White House, Obama cited the potential toll on the economy as he urged lawmakers to find a way out of gridlock.



He said that for all the partisanship, the two sides were not that far apart. Both agree on initial spending cuts to take effect in exchange for an increase in the debt limit, he said, as well as on a way to consider additional reductions in government benefit programs in the coming months.



"And if we need to put in place some kind of enforcement mechanism to hold us all accountable for making these reforms, I'll support that, too, if it's done in a smart and balanced way," he said.



That went to the crux of the conflict — his insistence that Congress raise the government's borrowing authority by enough to avoid a repeat of the current crisis during the heat of the 2012 election campaigns.



Republicans have resisted, accusing him of injecting purely political considerations into the debt limit negotiations.



But Boehner's failure to line up the votes for his legislation Thursday night seemed to embolden Democrats.



Obama asked his 9.4 million followers on Twitter to send tweets to Republican lawmakers.



"The time for putting party first is over. If you want to see a bipartisan (hash)compromise, let Congress know. Call. Email. Tweet," Obama wrote in a tweet, signed "-BO."



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Amen to this ... Right on, Mr. Massey!

Subject: AMEN to this!




Dear Mr. President, I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks if the debt ceiling isn't raised.

Why is it the scare always has to do with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay?

Why not stop your pay, your staff, or Congress and the Senate to save more money for our country?

Why use Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples?

Take the money from those who take no risks and reap the benefits!! Repost if you agree

Instead of threatening to withhold Social Security, VA and disability payments of people who really need the money....

Let's hold the paychecks of all house & senate members, then see how fast they resolve the debt ceiling crisis !!!!!

If you agree repost this & keep it going across the whole USA

Remember this guy? Thanks John & Yvette!

Thanks John and Yvette!

Isn't it interesting tht the main stream media is really raking this Norwegian terrrtorist over the coals as a "Christian" and many questioned Ronald Reagan's Christianity.  To me the guy had more courage in one little finger than the entire liberal representation in our current presidency or Congress.   I personally believe Jesus enjoys his time with Ronald Reagan.





sometimes, even in politics, its best to recall the past. and try to do better





Remember This Guy?





"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." -Ronald Reagan



'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.' - Ronald Reagan



'The most terrifying words In the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' -Ronald Reagan



'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.' -Ronald Reagan



'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. - Ronald Reagan



'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.. -Ronald Reagan



'The taxpayer: That's someone who works For the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.' - Ronald Reagan



'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other' - Ronald Reagan



'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.' - Ronald Reagan



'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first' - Ronald Reagan



'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it' - Ronald Reagan



'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.' - Ronald Reagan



'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' - Ronald Reagan



'If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.' -Ronald Reagan



IF YOU AGREE, PLEASE FORWARD



IF NOT, READ IT AGAIN.

NASA data confirms clamate change to cold era ... Thanks Alma Holl!

Press Release 1-2011



NASA Data Confirms Solar Hibernation and

Climate Change to Cold Era







Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 3:00 PM



The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) announces today that the most recent data from NASA describing the unusual behavior of the Sun validates a nearly four year long quest by SSRC Director John L. Casey to convince the US government, the media, and the public that we are heading into a new cold climate era with 20 to 30 years of record setting cold weather.









According to Director Casey, “I’m quite pleased that NASA has finally agreed with my predictions which were passed on to them in early 2007. There is no remaining doubt that the hibernation of the Sun, what solar physicists call a ‘grand minimum’ has begun and with it, the next climate change to a prolonged cold era.



When I first called Dr. Hathaway and told him the NASA and NOAA estimates for the Sun’s activity were “way off” in both sunspot count and in which solar cycle the hibernation would begin (cycle 24 vs. cycle 25), he was polite but dismissive. Since that time both NASA and NOAA have been revising their sunspot estimates for solar cycle 24 lower every year and with each year their numbers have been getting closer to mine and the few other scientists around the world who had similar forecasts.. The January announcement by NASA is now virtually identical to mine made almost four years ago.”









NASA’s solar physics group headed by Dr. David Hathaway at the Marshall Space Flight Center, alerted the solar physics community on January 3, 2011 that the latest sunspot prediction for our current solar cycle 24 had been adjusted downward by a significant amount from recent years to a value of 70 ± 18 and an estimated peak of 59 sunspots during solar maximum in the June-July 2013 time frame. This number compares with their prediction of a much larger 2006 estimate of a very active Sun with 145 sunspots at peak. Many of the measures by which the Sun’s activity is measured like sunspot counts, have since set record low levels. Casey’s 2007 forecast however, came during the height of the man-made global warming movement at a time when any mention of a reduction in the Sun’s energy output much less a new cold climate, was political and scientific heresy.









As Casey recounts, “Once I made my forecast for the Sun’s reversal in phase from global warming to global cooling and the start of a new cold climate period I was immediately attacked from all sides. Regrettably, that is the history of new scientific discoveries when anyone says the opposite of a belief that is well entrenched in conventional thinking. My prediction also ran into political roadblocks since at that time both presidential candidates were trying to woo the ‘green’ vote in what all knew was going to be a close election where every vote counted. Both Republicans and Democrats were saying manmade global warming was real and something should be done about it. Despite my strong space program credentials, what I was saying then was a message no one wanted to hear. Both liberal and conservative web sites launched attacks to discredit my research. Fortunately, the Sun has been on my side and it is a powerful ally. At long last, NASA has now come out with their own data that confirms my past predictions.









After I had completed my original research and notified NASA, I tried to find others who had come to the same conclusion about the Sun and the next climate change. I want to take the time today to mention some of these prominent researchers who made the courageous step forward back then and went public with their predictions. The list is also posted at the SSRC web site. They include in the US: Dr.’s Ken Schatten, D. V. Hoyt, and W. K. Tobiska; in Europe and Russia: Dr.’s Habibullo Abdussamatov, Oleg Sorokhtin, Boris Komitov, Vladimir Kaftan, O. G.. Badalyan, V. N. Obridko, J. Sykora, and J. Beer; in Australia: David Archibald, Dr.’s Ian Wilson, I. A. Waite, Bob Carter and Peter Harris; in China: Dr.’s Y.T. Hong, H.B. Jiang, L.P. Zhou, H.D. Li, X.T. Leng, B. Hong, X.G. Qin, L. Zhen-Shan and Sun Xian, and in Mexico: Dr. Victor M. V. Herrera. I also want to express my thanks to and hope to soon add the many more researchers to this partial list who have supported the position that the Sun drives climate change, not mankind, and that we have begun the transition to the next cold climate.”









As to the linkage of the new cold era with this now confirmed solar hibernation by NASA, Director Casey clarified, “NASA is not the primary source for US government weather and climate forecasts. With the exception of NASA Goddard, that’s NOAA’s area of responsibility though we all rely on the data from weather satellites that NASA launches into orbit around the Earth and the Sun. But don’t ask any of the NASA or NOAA scientists to agree with the end of global warming and the now confirmed start of the next solar hibernation or for that matter a cold climate change.. That would be career suicide given the measures the current administration goes to in order to preserve the myth of manmade global warming. In any case, decades of extreme cold weather always follow these hibernations of the Sun as the research shows going back 1,200 years or more. This next one has begun right on schedule, just as I predicted. We should therefore expect the same climate change to a long cold period just like it has done before. The last three record cold and long winters around the globe along with the lack of growth in the planet’s average temperature for the past twelve years, and a new long term downward trend in global temperatures are solid enough signals to prove that global warming ended as and when I predicted and that the Earth is rapidly proceeding into a long cold era.









NASA’s announcement is clearly vindication for those of us who have spoken out for years against conventional climate science thinking, false statements and misleading reports of the UN and US government climate science officials, and had to endure slander and ridicule from AGW extremists. Now we need to prepare for what has arrived; twenty to thirty years of record setting, crop destroying cold weather. We should stop wasting precious resources on the past climate phase of Sun-caused global warming, bury this hubris of man-made climate change and listen to what the Sun is telling us. We need to do so immediately.”





See the new NASA Solar Cycle 24 prediction at: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml

Catching pigs ... Thanks Dan Baird!

draw your own conclusion



CATCHING PIGS

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.



In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"



The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.



"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.



When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.



You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn . They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."



The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, , tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.



One should always remember two truths:



1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it

2) and when you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that youve also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.



If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends.



If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email.





But God help you when the gate slams shut!

Healing miracle for burns ... Thanks Marge Rusnak!

I am sending this to my young and beautiful friend, Gail Nolan, who recovered from a terrible burn the long way.


Subject: Healing Miracle for burns





A young man sprinkling his lawn and bushes with pesticides wanted to check the contents of the barrel to see how much pesticide remained in it. He raised the cover and lit his lighter; the vapors inflamed and engulfed him. He jumped from his truck, screaming. His neighbor came out of her house with a dozen eggs, yelling: "bring me some eggs!" She broke them, separating the whites from the yolks. The neighbor woman helped her to apply the whites on the young man's face. When the ambulance arrived and when the EMTs saw the young man, they asked who had done this. Everyone pointed to the lady in charge. They congratulated her and said: "You have saved his face." By the end of the summer, the young man brought the lady a bouquet of roses to thank her. His face was like a baby's skin.







Healing Miracle for burns:





Keep in mind this treatment of burns which is included in teaching beginner fireman this method. First aid consists to spraying cold water on the affected area until the heat is reduced and stops burning the layers of skin. Then, spread egg whites on the affected are.



One woman burned a large part of her hand with boiling water. In spite of the pain, she ran cold faucet water on her hand, separated 2 egg white from the yolks, beat them slightly and dipped her hand in the solution. The whites then dried and formed a protective layer.



She later learned that the egg white is a natural collagen and continued during at least one hour to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg white. By afternoon she no longer felt any pain and the next day there was hardly a trace of the burn. 10 days later, no trace was left at all and her skin had regained its normal color. The burned area was totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins.



This information could be helpful to everyone: Please pass it on.

Thanks you Dawood Kahn aka Dave Kaelin!

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Boehner, Debt Default, Deficit, Deficit Reduction, Economy, Obama, US Debt Default, US Debt Reduction, US Deficit, Warren Buffet





Warren Buffet on the Deficit

In Politics, Quotes, thinking out loud on July 28, 2011 at 3:40 pm

One way to avoid deficits is to prevent re-election for every Congressperson and the President whenever the deficit gets over three per cent.







“The threat of force lies behind every tax dollar the government collects.”



— Gene Healy



Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace…avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt.



— George Washington



“The only difference between government and gangsters is your opinion.”



– Chris Lyspooner

Social Security Checks Aug. 3, 2011 ... Thanks Marge!

What's to worry, Marge,  when we have one crook directing another crook for all of us?

Sam

I hesitated about sending this one around but finally decided I should. You can take it or leave it. It came to me from a very reliable source. Apparently those scare tactics are working on people throughout the Nation. But it is also apparent that people of all three Parties are starting to see the light. Hope enough see it before it is too late. I don't know how true this info is, but I'll check it out. Mark Levine is on the same stations as Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannity. He thinks like they do and he always knows what he is talking about. If he says it, I think we can believe it. (Local is WMAL 630 AM) It looks like it is going to run right up to the 11th hour.






Social Security Checks, August, 2011



Just heard Mark Levine on WGST talk radio. He is a Constitutional lawyer. He quoted from a U.S. House committee investigative session where it was discovered that the U. S. Treasury will have sufficient funds to pay Social Security and Veterans benefits for the month of August 2011.



So the head of the Social Security Administration was questioned as to how these benefits would not be paid (Obama had threatened to stop Social Security payments on 3 Aug.).



The committee found that Social Security does not have the authority to issue checks.



The Social Security checks are issued by the Treasury Department headed by Timothy Geithner.



Even Geithner does not have the authority to not issue Social Security unless he is directed by President Obama to not issue the checks.



Pres.Obama alone will be responsible if Social Security checks are not issued starting on August 3, 2011.



Every senior citizen and every American should work to remove this man from the White House in 2012.



Had enough change yet?

The school reunion Thanks Clay Vice!

Very true and funny :-)



The school reunion





Every ten years, as summertime nears, An announcement arrives in the mail, A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand; Make plans to attend without fail.





I'll never forget the first time we met; We tried so hard to impress. We drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars, And wore our most elegant dress.





It was quite an affair; the whole class was there. It was held at a fancy hotel. We wined, and we dined, and we acted refined, And everyone thought it was swell.





The men all conversed about who had been first To achieve great fortune and fame. Meanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses And how beautiful their children became.





The homecoming queen, who once had been lean, Now weighed in at one-ninety-six. The jocks who were there had all lost their hair, And the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks.





No one had heard about the class nerd Who'd guided a spacecraft to the moon; Or poor little Jane, who's always been plain; She married a shipping tycoon.





The boy we'd decreed 'most apt to succeed' Was serving ten years in the pen, While the one voted 'least' now was a priest; Just shows you can be wrong now and then.





They awarded a prize to one of the guys Who seemed to have aged the least. Another was given to the grad who had driven The farthest to attend the feast.





They took a class picture, a curious mixture Of beehives, crew cuts and wide ties. Tall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini; You never saw so many thighs.



At our next get-together, no one cared whether They impressed their classmates or not. The mood was informal, a whole lot more normal; By this time we'd all gone to pot.





It was held out-of-doors, at the lake shores; We ate hamburgers, coleslaw, and beans. Then most of us lay around in the shade, In our comfortable T-shirts and jeans.





By the fiftieth year, it was abundantly clear, We were definitely over the hill. Those who weren't dead had to crawl out of bed, And be home in time for their pill.





And now I can't wait; they've set the date, Our sixtieth is coming, I'm told. It should be a ball, they've rented a hall At the Shady Rest Home for the old.





Repairs have been made on my hearing aid; My pacemaker's been turned up on high. My wheelchair is oiled, and my teeth have been boiled; And I've bought a new wig and glass eye.





I'm feeling quite hearty, and I'm ready to party I'm gonna dance 'til dawn's early light. It'll be lots of fun; But I just hope that there's one Other person who can make it that night.



Author Unknown Life is Wonderful. Don't forget it!----Praise The Lord, we've made it this far!!!!



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Best joke of year ... Thanks Pat Whitehead!

NOMINATED THE BEST JOKE OF THE YEAR




A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States. He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. American for letting me come into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!"

The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican."



The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America .."



The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese."



The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful America!



That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East . I am not American."



He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an American?"



She says, "No, I am from Africa .."



Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?"



The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."



IF YOU DON'T PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS, BY TOMORROW, YOU WILL RECEIVE THREE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ABSOLUTELY FREE.



JP

The dirty Chrysler Story- Any Reps in Congress?

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Sent: 7/23/2011 12:10:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time

Subj: Fw: Chrysler-A Very Dirty Story

Sooner or later it will all come to light!

This could be a scandal of epic proportions and one that makes Nixon's Watergate or Clinton 's Monica Lewinsky affair pale by comparison.



Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to which dealerships of the Chrysler Corporation were to be closed?



Roll the clock back to the weeks just before Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Chrysler, like GM, was in dire financial straits and federal government "graciously" offered to "buy the company" and keep them out of bankruptcy and "save jobs."



Chrysler was, in the words of Obama and his administration, "Too big to fail," same story with GM.



The feds organized their "Automotive Task Force" to fix Chrysler and GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy named Steve Rattner to be the White House's official Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is.



Rattner is the liaison between Obama, Chrysler, and GM.



Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler 'had made this list of dealerships'. Not true!



The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Fox News and a host of other news agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by the "Automotive Task Force" headed by no one other than Mr. Steve Rattner.



Now the plot thickens.



Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why certain dealerships were closed?



Actually there's a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down. Again, on May 27, 2009, The Washington Examiner and Newsmax exposed the connection.



Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal

government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes. The only "Democratic" dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700 to Hillary's campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards. This same dealership, reportedly, also gave $20000 to Obama's campaign.



Does that seem a little odd to you?



Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together. Well, he happens to be married to a Maureen White. Maureen happens to be the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the nation- Republican or Democrat. But of course, this is just a wacky "coincidence," we're certain.



Then comes another really wacky "coincidence."



On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas , North Louisiana, and Southern

Missouri . It seems that Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealership in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson.



Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter and financier.



These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one! While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were!



Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone. Isn't that amazing?



Go look in The Washington Examiner, the story's there, and it's in a dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn't being made up.



Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat, you are mistaken. Under the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers union! Fiat owns 20%. The other 15% is still privately owned

and presumably will be traded on the stock market.



Obama smiles and says he doesn't want to run the auto

industry.



As horrifying as this is to comprehend, and being as how this used to be the United States of America , it would appear that the president has the power to destroy private businesses and

eliminate upwards of 100,000 jobs just because they don't agree with his political agenda



There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to

the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what has been done.



Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story. If you've ever wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the phone to your national senator or representative in the House and demand an investigation into this.



Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said, "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."



Car Czar No More



An amazing thing happened as this story was going to press. Obama's Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned on July 13 and was promptly replaced by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom.



According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and spend time with his family."



Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future."



By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York .....



Uh-oh!



But, we're certain that had nothing to do

with his resignation. And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal

involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships.

Really?



Again, that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's

ridiculous! Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with his family."



Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority. But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,"... as Tim Geithner likes to say!



SOOOOO.

HOWS THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?..



Check it out at the following websites.....



http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Furor-grows-over-partisan-car-dealer-closings-46261447.html



http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html



http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html



This goes from beyond corruption in high places - to gross criminal actions on the part of our government!



I hope you will spread this far and wide, and hopefully the taxpaying public will demand some of that transparency we were promised...... followed by criminal prosecution of the perpetrators!

water left in car ... Important recycle .. thanks Bob!

No matter how many times you get this E-mail,

Please send it on!!!!

Bottled water in your car is very dangerous!





On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her breast cancer.

It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue..



Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle which releases dioxin into the water. Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue.

So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.



Pass this on to all the women in your life. This information is the kind we need to know that just might save us!

Use a stainless steel canteen or a glass bottle instead of plastic!



LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE / GIRLFRIEND / DAUGHTER KNOW PLEASE!



This information is also being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center ...

No plastic containers in microwaves.

No plastic water bottles in freezers.

No plastic wrap in microwaves.



Dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer.

Dioxins are highly poisonous to cells in our bodies.

Don't freeze plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently the Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.



He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating food in the microwave using plastic containers.....

This especially applies to foods that contain fat.



He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastic releases dioxininto the food.



Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Pyrex or ceramiccontainers for heating food.. You get the same result, but without the dioxin..

So, such things as TV dinners,instant soups, etc.,should be removed from their containers and heated in something else.



Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's safer to use tempered glass, such as Pyrex, etc.



He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the styrene foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons....



Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Cling film, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave.

As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food..

Cover food with a paper towel instead.



This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life!

Lawyers Ltr to the FHA ... Thanks John & Yvette!

John & Yvette Massey

Part of rebuilding New Orleans caused residents often to be challenged with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years. With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership.

Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a

client:



You have to love this lawyer....



A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.



(Actual reply from FHA):

"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While

we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803.

Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:

(Actual response):



"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France, in 1803 the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain

The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella. The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus 's expedition.....Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana. God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?"



The loan was immediately approved.

And you want Government running health care?

Arab way vs. civilized way- Interesting isn't it Ramey!

I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations.



This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery. This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza , who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.



We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza . She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva. One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt.



She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life.



It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.



This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel . It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational conflict, or rather a war between civilization & barbarism. Bibi (Netanyahu) gets it, Obama does not. I have never written before asking to please forward onwards, so that as many as possible can understand radical Islam and what awaits the world if it is not stopped. Dr Arieh Eldad



Eldad is a professor and head of the plastic surgery and burns unit at the Hadassah Medical Center hospital in Jerusalem. He studied medicine at Tel Aviv University, where he earned his doctorate. He served as the chief medical officer and was the senior commander of the Israeli Defense Forces medical corps for 25 years, and reached a rank of Tat Aluf (Brigadier General). He is renowned worldwide for his treatment of burns and won the Evans Award from the (//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Burns_Treatment_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank") American Burns Treatment Association. He also lives in Kfar Adumim, a setlement on the West Bank.



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What have we learned?

What have we learned in 2,056 years?




"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,



public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be



tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should



be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to



work, instead of living on public assistance."



- Cicero - 55 BC




Evidently nothing.

I figured, Doug,but I'm sure it has come through before

See if you can figure this out - NO peeking!








I am sending this only to my smart friends. See if you can figure out what these words have in common.



1 Banana

2 Dresser

3 Grammar

4 Potato

5 Revive

6 Uneven

7 Assess



Are you peeking or have you already given up?

Give it another try Look at each word carefully.



(You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer.)



This Is Cool.

Answer: No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters, nor is it about the vowel arrangements, tempting though they were at first glance..



Scroll down











Answer:

In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.



Did you figure it out? No? Then send it to more smart people and stump them as well. Then, you'll feel better too.

NewsMax.com on possible three trillion dollar debt cut

Forward Article Democrats reacted angrily to reports that the White House is cutting a deal with House Republicans to boost the U.S. debt ceiling and reduce deficits by about $3 trillion over 10 years without immediate revenue increases.



President Barack Obama’s team has told congressional leaders it is pursuing such a deal, according to two officials familiar with the talks, as the White House and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio denied one was at hand.



The officials, who described outlines of the plan on condition of anonymity, said congressional leaders were told it would enact spending reductions while calling for a future tax overhaul that could raise $1 trillion in additional revenue.



Obama summoned Democratic leaders from the House and Senate to a White House meeting at 5:30 p.m., a Democratic official said.



Little more than a week is left before the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling and averting a default. Negotiations for a deficit-cutting deal to set the stage for raising the cap were moving quickly, and some Democrats said they feared they might be asked to swallow a plan they couldn’t accept: steep reductions in programs including Medicare and Social Security, with no promise of higher tax revenue.



Lew Meeting



Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada confronted White House Budget Director Jack Lew about such a possible deal at a closed-door lunch at the Capitol, and Lew said he wasn’t aware of any agreement, according to Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Some Democrats believe they are being left out as Obama bargains with Boehner, Lieberman said.



Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, said a major budget deal that doesn’t include new revenue “obviously” couldn’t pass the Democratic- controlled Senate.



“We are very volcanic at this moment,” Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, said as she left the session with Lew. She said Democrats don’t want an agreement similar to last year’s deal between Obama and Republicans that extended Bush-era tax cuts for all taxpayers, including the wealthy.



‘False’



The news of a potential deal in the debt-limit dispute was first reported today by the New York Times and was quickly denied by White House press secretary Jay Carney. Boehner said in a Twitter message that reports of a deal were “false.” Lew, leaving his session with Senate Democrats, said, “There is no agreement.”



“There is no progress to report,” Carney said at a briefing in Washington. He said the administration is “absolutely confident” an agreement to avert a default can be reached before Aug. 2, when the Treasury Department says the U.S. would exhaust its borrowing authority.



Standard & Poor’s warned there is a 50 percent chance it will lower the U.S. government’s AAA credit rating by one or more levels within three months. S&P said today that, even if Congress raises the debt limit in time to avert a default, it might lower the U.S. sovereign rating to AA+ with a negative outlook if it isn’t accompanied by a “credible solution” on the debt level.



Borrowing Costs



Such a ratings change, which could come as soon as early August, would “modestly raise” the federal government’s borrowing costs, S&P said. If the U.S. defaults on some obligations after Aug. 2, even if it pays bondholders, S&P forecast short-term interest rates would rise by 50 basis points or 0.50 percentage points and long-term interest rates by 100 basis points or 1 percentage point.



Boehner plans to meet with rank-and-file Republicans tomorrow morning to brief them on the status of the talks. Republicans insist that any debt-ceiling boost be accompanied by spending cuts and measures to reduce the long-term debt without raising taxes.



Boehner told reporters he has prepared his membership for the possibility of a compromise with Democrats to raise the debt limit, and that he believed a majority of the 240 Republicans are prepared to do so. “We have a responsibility to act,” he said.



Tax Revenue



Democrats say more tax revenue must be part of any final compromise.



“The president always talked about balance, that there had to be some fairness in this, that this can’t be all cuts,” Reid told reporters at the Capitol. “There has to be a balance, there has to be some revenue with the cuts. My caucus agrees with that. I hope the president sticks with that. I’m confident he will.”



Lieberman said Democrats “are anxious that the president is negotiating with Speaker Boehner, and that somehow that an agreement made there will be forced on the Senate.”



At the same time, a bipartisan group of six senators who revived hopes this week for a grand bargain haven’t produced details sought by leaders, making it harder to add their proposals to any debt-ceiling endgame, said two Democratic aides familiar with the deliberations.



Gang of Six



The so-called “Gang of Six” outlined a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan and Obama embraced it this week. Some Republicans have endorsed it or signaled openness to considering its elements. The group was meeting with Senate leaders today to determine which of their ideas -- if any -- would offer a way out of the current conflict.



Senate leaders have also discussed a fallback plan by Reid and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to give Obama $2.4 trillion in borrowing authority. It could be combined with spending cuts and a committee charged with pushing through longer-term debt reduction in the coming months.



The two parties blamed each other for the stalemate. Reid said the House’s decision to be out of session this weekend presents “a bad picture” to Americans as the deadline nears for possible default on federal debt.



Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, responded with an e-mail saying the House had passed its plan, which would condition a debt-ceiling increase on passage of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Democrats say the plan can’t pass the Senate, which plans to vote on it tomorrow or July 23.



Opening Seen



Democrats seized on comments by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, as providing an opening for Republicans to accept some revenue increases.



Norquist told the Washington Post editorial board that allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire as scheduled at the end of 2012 wouldn’t violate the no-tax-increase pledge that almost all Republican members of Congress have signed.



“Not continuing a tax cut is technically not a tax increase,” he said. Congress could allow the tax cuts to expire without a vote. Democrats have called for allowing the tax cuts for high-income taxpayers to expire while permanently extending most of the cuts.



Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said Norquist’s statement is a signal that House Republicans should “step back from the brink.”



Norquist’s group issued a statement later saying that letting the tax cuts expire would amount to a tax increase opposed by the group.



Americans for Tax Reform “opposes all tax increases on the American people,” the group said in an e-mailed statement. The Gang of Six plan appears to “dramatically increase taxes on the American people.”



--With assistance from Kate Andersen Brower, Catherine Dodge, Kathleen Hunter, James Rowley, Roger Runningen, Julianna Goldman, Peter Cook, Brian Faler and Richard Rubin in Washington. Editors: Laurie Asseo, Don Frederick



To contact the reporters on this story: Julie Hirschfeld Davis in Washington at Jdavis159@bloomberg.net; Laura Litvan in Washington at bfaler@bloomberg.net



To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net



© Copyright 2011 Bloomberg News. All rights reserved.





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Entitlement and social security- Strong language but right on!

Thanks John Massey and friends!  John doesn't quite use language the least bit off color, but I know he agrees with the sentiments expressed below, as I do.  Our Social Security  was paid for by us, the taxpaying social security deducting proletariat.  The Non-Representatives in our Congress have violated our trusts so oftenby stealing money from the separate funds for the general fund.  We have a former speaker of the House economist like Pelosi who earnestly believes the government can stimulate the economy by giving out more food stamps.  They have been redistributingg the wealth for a long time.  o is only a better thief.
‘Entitlement’ my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits , aka. free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement, an ‘entitlement’ !!!!!!.....scroll down................












What the HELL's wrong with us???



WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!





Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side :





1- Calif's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit.





2- The Calif. Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits.





Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?





3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif. Taxpayers from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -



At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over $25 million a year!



Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!



We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????



In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey . And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!



Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!





They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?







We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.



AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc, etc.





YET......................

They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents, clothes, bedding, doctors, and medical supplies.



Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.



Sad isn't it?



99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.

I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.


‘Entitlement’ my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits , aka. free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement, an ‘entitlement’ !!!!!!.....scroll down................





What the HELL's wrong with us???



WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!


Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side :





1- Calif's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit.





2- The Calif. Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits.





Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?





3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif. Taxpayers from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -



At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over $25 million a year!



Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!



We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????



In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey . And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!



Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!





They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?







We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.



AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc, etc.





YET......................

They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents, clothes, bedding, doctors, and medical supplies.



Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.



Sad isn't it?



99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.

I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.

Charles Krauthammer- the half trillion dollar plan- JWR

Jewish World Review July 22. 2011 / 20 Tamuz, 5771



The Half-Trillion Plan



By Charles Krauthammer


http://www.JewishWorldReview.com
The debt ceiling looms. Confusion reigns. Schemes abound. We are deep in a hole with only three ways out: the McConnell Plan, the G6 Plan and the Half-Trillion Plan.



— The McConnell essentially punts the issue till after Election Day 2012. A good last resort if nothing else works.



— The G6, proposed by the bipartisan Gang of Six senators, reduces 10-year debt by roughly $4 trillion. It has some advantages, even larger flaws.



— The Half-Trillion raises the debt ceiling by that amount in return for an equal amount of spending cuts. At the current obscene rate of deficit spending — about $100 billion a month — it yields about five months’ respite before the debt ceiling is reached again.



In my view, the Half-Trillion is best: It is clean, straightforward, yields real cuts, averts the current crisis and provides until year-end to negotiate a bigger deal. At the same time, it punctures President Obama’s thus far politically successful strategy of proposing nothing in public, nothing in writing, nothing with numbers, while leaking through a pliant press supposed offers of surpassing scope and reasonableness.



As part of this pose, Obama had threatened to veto any short-term debt-ceiling hike. Which has become Obama’s most vulnerable point. Is the catastrophe of default preferable to a deal that gives us, say, five months to negotiate something more significant — because it doesn’t get Obama through Election Day?



Which is why Obama is already in retreat. On Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney showed the first crack by saying the president would accept an extension of a few days if needed to complete an already agreed long-term deal.



Meaning that he would exercise his veto if that larger deal required several months rather than several days? Call his bluff. Let the House pass the Half-Trillion. Dare him to put America into default because he deems a short-term deal insufficiently grand. After all, it dovetails perfectly with parts of the G6, for which the president has expressed support and which explicitly allocates roughly the same amount of time — six months — to work out the grander $3 trillion to $4 trillion deal.



The G6 conveniently comes in two parts. Part One puts immediately into effect, yes, a half-trillion dollars in cuts, including a more accurate inflation measure (that over time greatly reduces Social Security costs) and repeal of the CLASS Act (the lesser-known of the two new Obamacare entitlements, a fiscally ruinous, long-term-care Ponzi scheme).



Part Two of the G6 is far more problematic. It mandates six months of committee negotiations over the big ones — Medicare, Social Security, discretionary spending caps and tax reform. Unfortunately, the Medicare and Social Security parts are exceptionally weak — no mention of any structural change, such as raising the eligibility age to match longevity. As for the spending caps, I wouldn’t bet my dog’s food bowl on their durability.



On tax reform, the G6 calls for eliminating deductions, credits, exclusions and exemptions to reduce rates across the board. The new tax rates — top individual rate between 23 percent and 29 percent — would bring us back to Reagan levels (28 percent). This would be a good outcome, but the numbers thus far are fuzzy and some are contradictory. Moreover, those negotiations have yet to begin.



In principle, however, if the vast majority of the revenue raised by closing loopholes goes to rate reduction, and if the vast majority of the net revenue raised comes from the increased economic activity spurred by lowering rates and eliminating inefficiency-inducing loopholes, the trade-off would be justified. We shall see.



What to do now? The House should immediately pass the Half-Trillion Plan, thereby putting something eminently reasonable on the table that the president will have to address with a serious counterproposal using actual numbers. If the counterproposal is the G6, Republicans should accept Part One with its half-trillion dollars in cuts, consumer price index change and repeal of the CLASS Act, i.e., the part of the G6 that is enacted immediately and that is real. Accompany this with a dollar-for-dollar hike in the debt ceiling, yielding almost exactly the time envisioned in the G6 to work out grander spending and revenue changes — and defer any action on Part Two until precisely that time.



The Half-Trillion with or without the G6 Part One: ceiling raised, crisis deferred, cuts enacted and time granted to work out any Grand Compromise. You can’t get more reasonable than that.



Do it. And dare the president to veto it.

Dick Morris- 'Gang of Six' Sellout

The new Gang of Six proposal brewing in the Senate is a total sellout which promises to usher in a vast new round of new taxes. Not just closing of loopholes, but real live taxes we will all have to pay.




The proposal is based on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission as modified by the "Gang of Six" US Senators. It plans to raise $1 trillion in new tax revenues. While the gang is vague on the details of the new taxes, the Bowles-Simpson Commission was quite clear - it proposes the virtual elimination of all tax deductions, certainly for taxpayers with joint incomes of over $200,000 and possibly for everyone. The revenues it would generate from eliminating or sharply curtailing the mortgage interest, charitable, and state and local tax deductions are set to generate $1 trillion of new revenues over ten years and to finance a vague and unspecified hoped for cut in the top tax bracket.



The elimination or significant curtailment of these deductions would have a ruinous economic impact.



Cutting out the mortgage interest deduction would cost American taxpayers almost $100 billion a year. It would decimate the already moribund real estate sector and would make their current homes unaffordable for millions of homeowners by changing the financial rules in the middle of the game.



Restricting or eliminating the state and local tax deduction is, in effect, to levy a 25-35 percent surcharge on state and local taxes - income and property - hammering people who live in high tax states. The cost in jobs and state revenues are likely to be staggering.



Limiting the charitable donation deduction is the unkindest cut of all since it hurts precisely the poor people Obama and the Democrats say they most want to help. They apparently only favor help to the poor when it comes through the government and buys their votes.



But the most dangerous part of the proposal is that to establish a commission to monitor the deficit reduction measures to assure that they unfold as planned. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has been pushing this idea for more than a year now hoping to equip the commission with automatic authority to cut spending and to raise taxes without legislative authorization. It would allow a tax increase without requiring any member of Congress to vote for it.



The House has taken a bold and important step in passing the "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan to deal with the deficit. By cutting spending, capping it as a proportion of GDP, and passing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, the House Republicans have put the perfect plan on the table. They should not blink in the face of the Senate proposal but should stand up and demand that their leadership not be gulled into signing on to any variation of the Gang of Six plan.



One hopes that the Republican voters in the states the Republican accomplices of Conrad represent remember their decision to cast their lots with the Democratic members of the Gang to derail the House proposal and to add momentum to this monstrous deal. They are: Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. They all deserve a primary when they run again.


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USA Today Editorial page has this opposing view P8A

Under the USA Today editorial praising the 'Gang of Six' offers  balanced approach to debt reduction, Jim Jordan gives an opposing view I very much agree with. 

"If this bad deal sounds familiar, it should.  In 1982 Congress and the president agreed to cut $3 of spending for every $1 of tax increases.  The tax hikes were real but the spending cuts vanuished into thin air.  The same thing happened again in the 1990 deal, and there is no reason to expect anything different this time."

Rep Jim Jordan R of Ohio is Chairman of the
Republican Study Committyee, which is devoted to advancing a conservative agenda in the house.

Go with the 'Gang of 234', not the dastardly 'Gang of 6'.

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