Archive for July, 2010

Obama Spends $151.4 Million To Create 300 Jobs

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

President Obama shakes hands with Peter Ban-Suk Kim, on Thursday at the groundbreaking ceremony in Holland, MI of Compact Power, Inc. a subsidiary of LG Chem Ltd a South Korea Battery Plant Co which is receiving $151.4 Million Dollar Grant from the Dept of Energy to create (maybe) 300 jobs–that works out to $504,667 per job courtesy of the taxpayers.

Compact Power is slated to produce lithium-ion batteries for the electric cars Chevy Volt and the Ford Focus

There is but one major problem, Michigan denied permits to build a new coal fired power plant to charge the new electric cars.

76% Of Americans Dissatisfied With Direction Of Country

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Not good news for Obama and his Democrat-Socialists in Congress who control both Houses of Congress, now 107 days before the mid-term elections.

76% of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country

Related Posts: Why the Obama Stimulus Failed Via Heritage Foundation

Is ObamaCare Life Changing? Via Politically Illustrated

ObamaCare Impact on the States Via Heritage Foundation

ObamaCare Mandates Obesity Rating For Every American Via CNS News

Consumer Confidence Falls To Lowest Level In 11 Months

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Consumer sentiment weakened in July to its lowest level in 11 months on a resurgence in fears about the economy.

President Obama acknowledges that the Fall elections (in 109 days) could amount to a referendum on his stewardship, during an interview with NBC—-With continuing high unemployment, Obama says,”my policies that got us out of this mess” while praising what his administration is doing for the American people.

Riiight

More here from Matzav.com

The Anti-Women Agenda At Hillary Clinton’s State Dept

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has proven that the only 3:00 am calls that they are willing to answer are calls that further a dangerously misguided Progressive agenda.

During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Hillary Clinton proudly proclaimed that she’d be ready on Day One but she neglected to mention that she’d only be ready to push dogmatic ideological movements.

Two examples in the past month alone attest to this fact. First, Hilary Clinton’s remarks regarding the G-8 Summit in Canada and the plans discussed therein to address maternal health, including high maternal and infant mortality rates in poor and developing countries…The Lefts racist and misogynistic tendencies were further on display at Hillary Clinton’s State Dept with their utter disregard for the fact that Iran was appointed to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The State Dept had this to say:

“We’re not going to stand up and cheer, by the same token, that is less onerous than the Human Rights Council because Women in Iran, relative to other countries, actually have greater rights.”

Oh well, as long as you don’t cheer, after all its only Women whose rights are being violated. Women in Muslim societies can be lashed for bearing an ankle or stoned to death for violating Islamic tenants.

Stoning to Death is no big whoop to Obama’s State Dept either by evidence of the repugnant statement regarding Sakineh Mohammed Ashitani sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of adultery. Her confession which she retracted was only obtained after she received 99 lashes in front of her Son. Her testimony pursuant to the Laws of Iran, only counted as half as that of a Man’s. What did our State Dept say about this?

“We have grave concerns that her punishment doesn’t fit the crime the alleged crime…from the United States standpoint, we don’t think putting Women to death for adultery is an appropriate punishment.”

Full Post here by Lori Ziganto Via Human Events

Related Post: Hillary Clinton: Money Is More Important Than Human Rights

The NAACP Descent—The Glory Days Are Long Gone

Friday, July 16th, 2010

The NAACP’s decision to condemn “racist”  elements within the Tea Party movement is about as surprising as the United Nations Human Rights Council voting to condemn Israel, still there is a difference. The U.N. Human Rights Council, never had any moral authority to lose. The NAACP did.

The NAACP was formed on the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1909 in a small New York apartment, “The Call” proclaimed the organizations mission:

If Mr. Lincoln, could revisit the country in the flesh he would be disheartened and discouraged, he would learn that on 01 January, 1909 Georgia had rounded out a new Confederacy by disfranchising  the Negro, after the manner of, all the other Southern states…Added to this the spread the lawless attacks upon the Negro, the North, South and West—even in the Springfield made famous by Lincoln—often accompanied  by revolting brutalities , sparing neither sex nor age nor youth, could but the author of the sentiment that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not punish the earth.”

Rest here by Mona Charen Via The National Review

Related: CNN’s Don Lemon, Argues With Black Tea Party Member Via NewsBusters

How The 2,319 Page Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Legislation May Kill The Struggling U.S. Economy

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Democrat-Socialists in the Senate aided by RINO’S Scott Brown, R-MA together with Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins both from Maine, today passed the 2,319 page Obama’s Sweeping Financial Reform legislation with far reaching hands not just into Banks but attaches new regulations on Mine Operators and their subsidiaries operating mines, setting up 20 new offices that mandates new gender and racial quotas to addressing the Sense of Congress relating to the Democratic Republic of Congo who knows what these have to do with financial regulatory reform?

“Nowhere in the final bill will you see even a pretense of rolling back the endless federal incentives and mandates to extend credit, particularly mortgages to those who can not afford to pay them back. After all, the popular narrative insists that Wall Street Fat Cats must be to blame for the credit crisis, despite the recognition that mortgages were offered to unqualified individuals and families—banks will still be required to under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to meet government imposed lending quotas” according to Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulations Studies at the Cato Institute

Democrat-Socialists leave to chance that Bureaucrats are somehow uniquely qualified to make decisions when it comes to levels of compensation of bank executives, the types of proprietary investments that banks may pursue to determining when a firm is too big to fail.

President Obama and his Socialist allies, specifically were granted authority to seize control and liquidate banks and other institutions under provisions of the Dodd-Frank bill.

How will the Dodd-Frank bill stabilize the financial markets? It is much more likely the Obama Financial Overhaul Legislation will strangle an already struggling, fragile economy teetering on a path to a double-dip recession with new government regulations and Congressional mandates in this latest Democrat-Socialist power grab now 110 days out until the mid-term elections.

Related Posts: Finance Bill Favors Interests Of Unions and Activists

U.S. Economy is Failing Towards Another Credit Collapse? Via Global Research

Real Joblessness Grimmer Than Government Stats Via Investors Business Daily

“Nazi Sexy Mouse” Goes Up In Poznan, Poland

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

A poster of “Nazi Sexy Mouse” by Italian Artist Max Papeschi, hangs on a building under construction in Poznan, Poland

More here from Jerusalem Post

Obama’s “Recovery Summer” Campaign Travels To Michigan

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Today President Obama travels to Holland, Michigan as part of his “Recovery Summer” campaign, championing the success (actually the failures) of his $862 Economic Stimulus which has resulted in increasing Unemployment in Michigan up to 13.6% from 12% in February, 2009—Michigan has lost 112,707 during the past 18 months, Holland alone has shed some 3,000 jobs.

Obamanomics have killed jobs “by reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the marketplace and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses,” said Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg during a speech last month.

White House Shrugs Off Concern That Regulations Could Inhibit Job Growth

Related: Summer of Sunny Skies for Stimulus? Via The Washington Times

Small Business Owners Uneasy With Obama Via Politico

Obama Inefficiency Economic Stimulus At Work

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

$20 Million Dollars spent of the taxpayers money on Obama Economic Stimulus Signs putting Americans to work? Three Construction Worker and what appears to be one Supervisor observing, were put to work erecting this one sign.

The Obama Administration claims that its $862 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus has worked even better for the economically struggling economy than first reported, projecting that they have saved or created between 2.5 to 3.6 million jobs.

What is a Saved Job?

President Obama pledged to create 3.5 million new jobs by 2010 which would place total U.S. Employment at 137.8 million. Using that figure as a target, Obama’s jobs deficit (the difference between the end target and the current employment level) currently stands at more than 7 million jobs deficit.

More here Via The Heritage Foundation

Related Post: Three Million Imaginary Jobs Via The Wall Street Journal

Feds Delay Integrity Pressure Tests Of BP Oil Containment Cap

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Day 85—Feds stop integrity pressure testing of containment cap to give bureaucrats more time to analyze data and hold a meeting to determine when to proceed.

More here Via TIME