The Sad Truth Is..

Growing Discontent Over Government Healthcare Reflected by Vote

BOSTON — Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M. Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts.

By a decisive margin, Mr. Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the state’s Democratic attorney general, who had been considered a prohibitive favorite to win just over a month ago after she easily won the Democratic primary. With 93 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Brown had 52 percent of the vote to Ms. Coakley’s 47 percent.

Senate Republicans moved quickly on Tuesday night to cast the election results in Massachusetts as a referendum on the Democrats’ health care legislation and to urge the Democrats to abandon the bill.

Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, issued a statement calling on Democrats to go back to the drawing board.

“With the election results in a state like Massachusetts, I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will be convinced to go back to the drawing board on the issue of health care reform,” Mr. Corker said. “If the president wants to take a truly bipartisan approach on health care, he would go a long way by reforming Medicare to ensure it remains solvent instead of taking money from it to create a new entitlement as the current bill does. Doing so would have a positive effect on our economy by reducing our long-term debt and strengthening the dollar.”

SOURCE: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/20/analysis.massachusetts.election/

SOURCE: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31693.html

United Nations & Obama Administration to Back Gun Control via N.W.O.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making."

"Consensus is needed to ensure the widest possible support for the Treaty and to avoid loopholes in the Treaty that can be exploited by those wishing to export arms irresponsibly," Clinton said in a written statement.

While praising the Obama administration's decision to overturn the Bush-era policy and to proceed with negotiations to regulate conventional arms sales, some groups criticized the U.S. insistence that decisions on the treaty be unanimous. Arms exporters China, Russia and Israel abstained last year in a U.N. vote on the issue.

SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015

Global Climate Center Scam

 Apparently a "Global Climate Center" was hacked and the contents have been posted to the Internet.  A ZIP file exceeding 60MB and containing a huge number of emails and other documents has been posted worldwide. Original speculation as to whether the files posted were legitimate or some sort of spoof appears to now be confirmed as legitimate:

“It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”

I have not had time to read all of the material yet (there are over a thousand files involved!) but what I have skimmed looks VERY damning.  Contained within the documents are what appear to be admissions of intentional tampering with data as well as intentional falsification of results to "show" man-made global warming. One of the emails says:

"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."

That is, to hide a decline in global temperatures. It gets better. Another message, this one allegedly from 2000: Click below to read more...

SOURCE: http://market-ticker.org/

Why would the government be scared of just a question?

White House advisers pledged on Sunday to book administration officials on Fox News despite claims by the president's inner circle that the cable network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming "is geared toward making money."

New Federal Law Imposes Regulations on Garage Sales

Americans who slap $1 price tags on their used possessions at garage sales or bazaar events risk being slapped with fines of up to $15 million, thanks to a new government campaign.

If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of any product with a recall.

Lothrop's daughter, Laura, was upset about four years ago when Mattel changed the clothing for many of the Polly Pocket dolls from a rubber-type material to plastic and inserted small magnets to hold it on the figures.

Now, Nancy and Laura Lothrop must do a painstaking inventory of her collection, searching for tiny model numbers to see whether they match any of the recalled items. If they find matches, they'll pull the recalled dolls and accessories from the group that they're selling.

Nancy Lothrop, though, doesn't quite understand why the dolls are being singled out.

"Many toys have small pieces that could be dangerous," she said. "My son played with army men, Lego blocks, all kinds of things with little parts. A toddler can put anything in his mouth. Parents need to have common sense. Ultimately, the parent needs to really evaluate and be watchful of what the child is playing with. We as consumers have to be careful. It really comes back to us."

The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.

Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of ALL recalls for THOUSANDS of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.

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Cass Sunstein -Anti 2nd Amendment Czar aka "Regulatory Czar"

What can you ask is just as important as the health care reform? How about the appointment of 1 man. Cass Sunstein is Obama's pick for Regulatory Czar. Here are just a few of his public beliefs.

1. Sunstein believes in regulating hunting out of existence.  He told a Harvard audience in 2007 that “we ought to ban hunting.” In Sunstein’s plan, animals should have just as many rights as people … and they should be able to sue humans in court via a government appointed attorney! <-- Kooky

2. Sunstein has been quoted "Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine…. Citizens should not be so confident in their enthusiasm for invalidating gun control legislation." Hmm, what part of “shall not be infringed” does Sunstein not understand?

What will the "Regulatory Czar" do: He regulates laws — past, present and future. He tweaks them.

What could that mean to you? Well, consider that Sunstein is a man who doesn't believe we should be eating meat; a man who believes that animals should be provided attorney's in courts of law; a man that believes that everyone must be an organ donor; a man who believes that maybe you shouldn't be able to remove rats from your home, if it causes them any pain. Cass Sunstein doesn't have to pass a law to ban meat, he just works with the environmental agencies to make sure feed is tougher to obtain, grazing lands are more protected and it's much more difficult to ship. So ranchers can't graze their cattle.

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Tea Party attendees demand Van Jones resignation, and it happens..

In what seems like an uncanny prophetic occurrence, Bill Cunningham asked Tea Party attendees on Saturday if they thought Van Jones ought to step down. The air was filled with the cheers of approving voices. And  then news headlines on Sunday announced, "Obama ‘Green Jobs’ Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy." Score one for the Tea Party — a major one.  Coincidence? Maybe.  But I still find the timing very interesting.

Van Jones, the former registered communist turned White House green jobs "czar" in an expletive-laced rant against Republicans calling the a$$holes. Not to mention other racial and anti USA rederick.

SOURCE: Cincinnati Christian Examiner

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Cash For Clunkers fails within 1 week

The Cash for Clunkers program sponsored by the Federal Government as part of the Stimulus has been suspended......within a week.

The government couldn't run a billion dollar program for more than one week without screwing it up. Tell me again why we should turn over 1/5 of our economy over to the feds in the form of government run control healthcare?

SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8218841&page=1

Young Obama was an Indonesian citizen?

An Associated Press photograph of Obama's school registration papers as a child in Indonesia showed the president listed as a "Muslim" with "Indonesian" citizenship. An investigation into Indonesian citizenship law and a review of Obama's biography and travels suggest the politician at one point may have been a citizen of Indonesia. That would not necessarily disqualify Obama to serve as president, but it could raise loyalty concerns. A 2007 Associated Press photograph taken by Tatan Syuflana, an Indonesian AP reporter and photographer, surfaced last summer on the Daylife.com photographic website showing an image of Obama's registration card at Indonesia's Fransiskus Assisi school, a Catholic institution. In the picture, Obama is registered under the name Barry Soetoro by his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. The school card lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His religion is listed as Muslim. Jack Stokes, manager of media relations for the AP, confirmed to WND the picture is indeed an AP photo. After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama later was enrolled at SDN Menteng 1, an Indonesian public school. The White House did not return repeated queries asking for a clarification regarding the school documentation listing the presidential candidate's citizenship as Indonesian.

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