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- Annie (and Andy!) Get Your Guns...???
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- Pearl River, NY High School Class of '81; Northeastern University, Boston, MA Class of '87.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6910429.html#none
The State Board of Education tentatively approved new standards for social studies Friday with members divided along party lines — some blasting them as a fraud and conservative whitewash, others praising them as a tribute to the Founding Fathers that rightly portrays America as an exceptional country.
* YOU FOLKS CAN GUESS WHICH SIDE I'M ON. (*SMILE*) BUT, HEY... THE LINK IS PROVIDED... FOR THE LEFTIST PERSPECTIVE READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
Democrats on the board — all of them black or Hispanic — complained...
(*SCRATCHING MY HEAD*)
* JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY... WHY WOULD ALL THE DEMOCRATS BE BLACK OR HISPANIC...??? DOESN'T SOUND VERY... er... DIVERSE... DOES IT?
Terri Leo, R-Spring, called the proposal “a world class document” and told her Democratic colleagues the board has “included more minorities and historical events than ever before...
* UNFORTUNATELY, DO TO THE USUAL LOW STANDARD OF REPORTING/EDITING THERE'S NO INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION NOR CONTRADICTION OF THIS CLAIM TO BE FOUND WITHIN THE ARTICLE... (*SIGH*)
Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, said the proposed standards reflect the desires of his constituents to emphasize “personal responsibility and accountability” and “to honor our Founding Fathers, and our military.”
* PERSONALLY, I'D BE HAPPIER WITH HONORING OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND OUR CONSTITUTION... (*SHRUG*)
Some board members failed Friday to restore “hip- hop” music to the draft proposal's high school social studies standard on culture.
(*SNORT*)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-web13-2010mar13,0,1749979.story
When he was a senator, Barack Obama pushed through a law setting up a kind of "Google-for-government" website -- a one-stop-shop for tracking the $1 trillion handed out in federal contracts.
Obama said the new site would help create a more transparent government.
But now that he is president, Obama's Office of Management and Budget is responsible for keeping up the website -- and government auditors have found deficiencies.
A Government Accountability Office audit released Friday found broad compliance with the law establishing the spending tracker. But in some cases, information was missing or unreliable, the GAO said.
"Not everything that should have been reported was reported, and that which was reported was not always accurate," David Powner, the GAO official who led the audit, said in an interview.
The audit of USAspending.gov covered the period from June 2009 to March 2010. A total of nine federal agencies failed to report 15 government contracts, the audit showed.
After reviewing 100 federal contracts, the GAO also found "widespread inconsistencies" in what appeared on the website and what was contained in records provided by the agencies.
The OMB also did not include information on subcontracts, which was required under the bill advanced by then-senator Obama and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Nor does the OMB "have a plan or process in place" for including such information, the report said.
"We're concerned the site still contains inaccurate and incomplete information," said John Hart, a Coburn spokesman. "It's clear the public's demand for transparency continues to exceed the government's ability to deliver transparency."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-11-tax-refunds_N.htm?csp=34
Residents eager to get their state tax refunds may have a long wait this year: [O]fficials in half a dozen states [are] consider[ing] freezing refunds, in one case for as long as five months.
States from New York to Hawaii...say they have either delayed refunds or are considering doing so because of budget shortfalls.
* THE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND IS... THEFT. (UNLESS OF COURSE THEY'RE PLANNING ON PAYING INTEREST - AND EVEN THERE WHAT IF TAXPAYERS DON'T WILLINGLY AGREE TO THE DELAYS?)
New York, hit with a $9 billion deficit, may delay $500 million in refunds to keep the state from running out of cash, says Gov. David Paterson.
* THOSE PRIC... er... OFFICIALS OWE US $1,795 AND I WANT MY MONEY...!!!
Hawaii's Department of Taxation says some residents may not see state income tax refunds until the end of August, The Honolulu Advertiser reported. It was part of a plan by [Republican] Gov. Linda Lingle...
* HEY... I CALL 'EM LIKE I SEE 'EM; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY...
Delays in paying refunds and other state bills can trigger interest on those overdue payments, depending on state laws..
* I WOULD HOPE SO! TAXPAYERS ARE CHARGED INTEREST - AND PENALTIES - WHEN THEY DON'T PAY ON TIME. THE REVERSE SHOULD BE TRUE.
California's massive budget shortfall of more than $20 billion last year prompted it not only to delay tax refunds but to issue billions of dollars in IOUs to vendors and others who were owed money.
* AGAIN... THE WORD "THEFT" COMES TO MIND. (IOUs...) (*HEADACHE*)
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/2604016/irs-suits-pay-visit-to-car-wash.html
It was every businessperson's nightmare.
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... four cents.
Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35.
[Interestingly enough] an Oct. 22, 2009, letter from the IRS that states Harv's "has filed all required returns and addressed any balances due."
IRS spokesman Jesse Weller isn't commenting "due to privacy and disclosure laws."
* AS SOME READERS KNOW, MY WIFE WORKS FOR A CPA FIRM. ACCORDING TO HER, THE IRS IS ABSOLUTELY INCOMPETENT AND SHE CITES THE FACT THAT THEY'RE WRONG 90% OF THE TIME AS EVIDENCE TO BACK UP HER CLAIM.
* THIS KIND OF THING IS FUNNY... BUT THEN AGAIN... IT'S REALLY NOT FUNNY.
(*SHRUG*)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B48P20100312?type=politicsNews
Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs he signed when lawmakers considered his nomination to his current job, according to a letter released on Friday.
Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from a military prison in South Carolina where he was being held after then-President George W. Bush designated him an "enemy combatant."
Padilla was held in a military brig for three years before his case was moved to a criminal court in Miami, where he was convicted on charges of offering his services to militants.
The Justice Department sent the Senate Judiciary Committee, which vets presidential nominees, a list of briefs that were omitted on Friday. "We regret the omission," Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said in a letter to the panel.
(*SNORT*)
Previously, Holder has disclosed to the Senate five briefs he submitted to the Supreme Court during his law practice. Earlier this week, the Justice Department said Holder failed to tell the Senate about one brief he signed related to the Padilla case... The other six briefs related to issues such as race discrimination and a challenge to a prison sentence.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703625304575116490675891102.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
Like a drunk tempted to go on one more binge at a stressful moment, New York state may soon reach for the debt bottle in the face of mounting deficits.
The stress is real. State officials need to close a looming deficit of $9 billion for the current fiscal year, which begins on April 1. That budget gap is more than $1.6 billion higher than the estimate Gov. David Paterson presented in his original fiscal year 2010-2011 budget proposal, in January. Projected deficits over the next five years now add up to $43 billion.
Enter Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, the 76-year-old New York City developer, financier, labor negotiator and onetime transit czar whose appointment by [New York's Governor] Paterson last year to the No. 2 slot added gravitas to an administration sorely in need of it. The governor assigned Mr. Ravitch to study potential long-term solutions to the fiscal crisis.
On Wednesday Mr. Ravitch proposed a five-year plan for restoring "structural balance" to the state budget. The proposal includes borrowing $6 billion over the next three years and a possible three-month extension of the fiscal year that ends March 31. In return, Mr. Ravitch wants the Legislature to shift the fiscal year start from April 1 to July 1, matching the norm in other states, and to transform the annual cash-basis budget to an accrual-based, long-term financial plan. He also wants the governor to have the power to impound spending if, in any given quarter, the plan is found to be out of balance by an "independent" Financial Review Board. Most of these reforms mimic the fiscal rules that now apply to New York City.
New York City's fiscal crisis in the 1970s established one key precedent Mr. Ravitch has so far ignored: the power of the state to freeze public-sector wages, notwithstanding contracts, in a fiscal emergency. Instead, Mr. Ravitch's proposal would give legislative Democrats, led by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a rationale for permanently extending the large temporary personal income tax hike enacted by the state last year. This will suppress the economic growth the state desperately needs to grow its way out of its current problems.
As a potential road map for states in similar fixes, Mr. Ravitch's plan offers all the surface appeal of the deus ex machina engineered by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger early in his tenure. After voters approved his package of fiscal reforms linked to massive borrowing to cover the deficit in 2004, Mr. Schwarzenegger boasted, "We tore up the credit card. Never again will government be allowed to spend money it doesn't have." Famous last words. Five years later, the Golden State was again a fiscal basket case, more deeply in the red than ever.
California, here we come?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704131404575117314262655160.html
Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data to support dire global warming scenarios and sought to block scholars with a different view from getting published. What does this scandal say generally about the intellectual habits and norms at our universities?
This is a legitimate question, because our universities, which above all should be cultivating intellectual virtue, are in their day-to-day operations fostering the opposite. Fashionable ideas, the convenience of professors, and the bureaucratic structures of academic life combine to encourage students and faculty alike to defend arguments for which they lack vital information. They pretend to knowledge they don't possess and invoke the authority of rank and status instead of reasoned debate.
Consider the undergraduate curriculum. Over the last several decades, departments have watered down the requirements needed to complete a major, while core curricula have been hollowed out or abandoned. Only a handful of the nation's leading universities—Columbia and the University of Chicago at the forefront—insist that all undergraduates must read a common set of books and become conversant with the main ideas and events that shaped Western history and the larger world.
There are no good pedagogical reasons for abandoning the core. ... The real reasons for releasing students from rigorous departmental requirements and fixed core courses [include] professors prefer to teach boutique classes focusing on their narrow areas of specialization. In addition, they believe that dropping requirements will lure more students to their departments, which translates into more faculty slots for like-minded colleagues. [Finally,] the most important reason is that faculty generally reject the common sense idea that there is a basic body of knowledge that all students should learn. This is consistent with the popular campus dogma that all morals and cultures are relative and that objective knowledge is impossible.
The deplorable but predictable result is that professors constantly call upon students to engage in discussions and write papers in the absence of fundamental background knowledge. Good students quickly absorb the curriculum's unwritten lesson—cutting corners and vigorously pressing strong but unsubstantiated opinions is the path to intellectual achievement.
[O]ur universities don't recognize they have a problem. Instead, professors and university administrators are inclined to indignantly dismiss concerns about the curriculum, peer review, and hiring, promotion and tenure decisions as cynically calling into question their good character.
Our universities shape young men's and women's sensibilities, and our professors are supposed to serve as guardians of authoritative knowledge and exemplars of serious and systematic inquiry. Yet our campuses are home today to a toxic confluence of fashionable ideas that undermine the very notion of intellectual virtue, and to flawed educational practices and procedures that give intellectual vice ample room to flourish.
Just look at Climategate.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703701004575113531057819548.html
[V]oters who oppose ObamaCare cite their fear over costs: They think it will cause their insurance premiums to soar and result in far higher taxes to fund a vast new entitlement. The public is right on both counts...
A new entitlement can "save" money. That was the main thrust of a recent Washington Post op-ed by White House aides Peter Orszag and Nancy-Ann DeParle. The plan "more than meets the president's commitments that health-insurance reform not add a dime to the deficit," they write.
It's true that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Senate version of ObamaCare would reduce the deficit by $118 billion over 10 years.
But...that number was concocted by budget gimmicks, such as using ten years of new taxes to fund six years of benefits...
Mr. Orszag says this doesn't matter because CBO says the bill will save some $1 trillion in the second decade too. In fact, CBO is careful to stress that it doesn't really know "because the uncertainties involved are simply too great" over such a long time period. CBO also says that the new entitlement will grow by 8% a year, even as Medicare and Medicaid grow by similar magnitudes and overall federal spending is already at 25% of GDP.
Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama's communications director, took to the White House blog to claim that the plan "will make insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care."
So subsidies are really tax cuts?
Insurance subsidies are transfer payments in which government takes money out of the private economy and gives it to someone else. Subsidies thus put an even larger share of health-care spending in government hands. When you subsidize something, you get more of it, which means higher demand for insurance and health-care services. Combine this with new mandates that have raised costs in every state where they have been tried, and you will get higher premiums. In Massachusetts - where Mitt Romney imposed the beta version of ObamaCare in 2006 in the name of controlling costs—insurance carriers asked regulators this week to approve premium increases ranging from 8% to 32% for small businesses and individuals. That isn't far from the top 39% increase by Anthem Blue Cross in California that Mr. Obama claims his plan would prevent.
ObamaCare's real cost-control plan boils down to this: First subsidize coverage so much that costs explode, raise taxes as much as possible to pay for it, and when that isn't enough hand power to an unelected committee to limit treatment and control prices by government order. This is what Democrats are voting for.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527215
Top California Republicans have shied away from a November ballot confrontation with unions.
Until a few days ago, it looked as if California voters would get a chance this November to seize the [government employee pension reform] initiative from their union-ridden Legislature and enact reform through a ballot measure. Leading Republicans, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman, the GOP's most likely nominee to succeed him, are all for public pension reform — to judge from their public statements.
You might think these leaders would lend their support to a ballot initiative that would do what Schwarzenegger has proposed — scaling back benefits to more reasonable levels for new employees.
This measure was crafted by a citizens' group, the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, whose leaders had hoped to get at least an endorsement from Whitman and Schwarzenegger, and maybe some money. It's not cheap to mount a signature-gathering campaign in a state as huge as California. The foundation had figured it would cost $2 million to get enough signatures to qualify.
So it came as a disappointment recently when Whitman and Schwarzenegger both decided to sit this one out. Foundation President Marcia Fritz told the Sacramento Bee that her group's overtures were rebuffed.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527181
[W]hy not put an end to second-guessing anti-terrorism protocols since the Obama administration has quadrupled the number of assassinations by Predator drones of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida operatives in Pakistan?
After all, the targeted killing of hundreds of suspects is far more questionable than waterboarding three confessed killers.
(*SHRUG*) (*NOD*)
The Obama administration seems to have embraced the once widely criticized Bush-Petraeus strategy in Iraq of gradual withdrawal in concert with Iraqi benchmarks. Indeed, Vice President Joe Biden in Orwellian fashion claims that our victory in Iraq may be one of the administration's "greatest achievements."
Was it not...Biden who not long ago advocated the trisection of Iraq into separate nations?
(*SHRUG*) (*NOD*)
And after months of waiting, Obama finally sent more troops to Afghanistan, adopting a surge strategy that looks a lot like Bush's 2007 escalation in Iraq — this after he once assured the country that Bush's surge, in a tactical sense, "wasn't working."
* FULL DISCLOSURE: I OPPOSE THE "SURGE" IN AFGHANISTAN AND BELIEVE WE SHOULD BE MAINLY OUT EXCEPT FOR SPECIAL FORCES AND SEA/AIR POWER.
Almost all of the once-derided Bush anti-terrorism protocols are still in place — wiretaps, intercepts, tribunals and renditions.
(*SHRUG*) (*NOD*)
Our efforts to reach out and negotiate directly with Iran failed. Secretary of State Clinton effectively acknowledged the impasse, citing the unexpected de facto military coup by the Revolutionary Guard. In any case, does anyone think more Obama speeches, videos, diplomacy and deadlines will halt an Iranian nuclear bomb?
President Obama was once a fierce critic of the former administration's Mideast policies. A year ago, he thought new outreach to the Palestinians and rebuke to the Israelis might lead to a breakthrough. It did not. In a Time magazine interview, Obama confesses of the 70-year struggle: "I'll be honest with you. This is just really hard."
Obama assumed we could borrow a trillion dollars from the communist Chinese and then turn around and lecture them on Tibet, human rights and international trade and currency — sort of like a debtor admonishing his lender about his bank's shortcomings. Now the Chinese claim that their relations with America are "seriously disrupted," as they seek to dethrone the dollar as the global currency.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527214
Spain exposed the boondoggle of wind power in 2009, discrediting an idea touted by the Obama administration. In response, U.S. officials banded with trade lobbyists to hide the facts.
It was a cold day at the Energy Department when researchers at King Juan Carlos University in Spain released a study showing that every "green job" created by the wind industry killed off 4.27 other jobs elsewhere in the Spanish economy.
Research director Gabriel Calzada Alvarez didn't object to wind power itself, but found that when a government artificially props up this industry with subsidies, higher electrical costs (31%), tax hikes (5%) and government debt follow. Fact is, these subsidies have the same "Cuisinart" effect on jobs as wind-generating propeller blades have on birds. Every green job costs $800,000 to create and 90% of them are temporary, he found.
Alvarez made no bones about the lessons of Spain for the Obama administration, which has big plans for "green jobs." His report warned of "considerable employment consequences" from "self-inflicted economic wounds." It forecast that the U.S. could lose 6.6 million jobs if it followed Spain, and it "should certainly expect its results to follow such a tendency."
A few months later, Danish researchers at the Center for Politiske Studier came to the same conclusion about subsidized wind power from their own country's experience.
"It is fair to assess that no wind energy to speak of would exist if it had to compete on market terms," their report said.
Straightforward experience, facts and the logical conclusions about policy failure in Europe should be de rigueur in science, and the reports coming from nations with long experience in wind power ought to be taken seriously.
But they had no place in the Obama administration, which had declared a "green jobs" agenda with $2.3 billion in tax credits to create 17,000 "high-quality green jobs."
* FOLKS... PLEASE... FOLLOW THE ABOVE-PROVIDED LINK AND READ THE DETAILS CONCERNING CONTINUING ATTEMPTS BY THE ADMINISTRATION TO POLITICIZE ENERGY POLICY WHILE IGNORING BOTH THE ENERGY SCIENCE AND THE ECONOMIC SCIENCE.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527216
Our secretary of energy pushes bio-refineries and windmills to oil executives at an energy conference as the administration announces a three-year offshore drilling ban. This is a policy for economic suicide.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu addressed CERAWeek 2010, a premier industry conference hosted by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. With an economy struggling to regain sound footing, Chu advocated a starvation diet devoid of additional fossil fuels that are to remain under the ground and seabed. Instead, he supports 53% more funding for wind research and a 22% jump for solar research.
Subsidizing alternative energy fits the classic definition of insanity. Despite huge subsidies, it has proved to be neither cost-effective nor a reliable, significant contributor to our national power grid. Yet we keep subsidizing it, expecting a different result.
"Oil is an ideal transportation fuel, so it will be with us for decades," Chu conceded, even as the administration forbids us from getting more of it here, creating energy jobs, lowering energy costs and cutting our trade deficit. Instead we'll rely increasingly on foreign and often unfriendly suppliers.
The headline above a story in the New York Times read, "Oil Execs Chortle as Obama Admin Promotes Renewables." Except that it's not funny; it's tragic. To leave vast stores of domestic energy untapped while Americans are looking for cheap energy and jobs is irresponsible.
[T]his administration has no long-term energy solution, other than hoping for a lot of cloudless and windy days.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters on Friday that the administration's six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will morph into a three-year total ban. We are forbidden from finding more [domestic] oil and gas...
After President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on Outer Continental Shelf leasing, drilling was expected to begin by this July. "Secretary Salazar has finally confirmed what has long been feared — that the Obama administration has no intention of opening new areas for offshore drilling during his four years in office," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., ranking member on the House Natural Resources Committee.
A study by Science Applications International Corp. at the request of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Gas Technology Institute and others shows that as a result of this administration's energy policy, the U.S. economy will suffer $2.3 trillion in lost opportunity costs over the next two decades, monies that would go a long way to reining in runaway deficits and creating economic growth.
http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmE5MDRjNzNjOTk0NmU3MWNjODllZTg4ODg3M2E0YjE=
This week will be the last stand for Obamacare, and the trickery that Speaker Pelosi is concocting to get the 2,700-page Senate bill through the House almost defies belief. It’s aptly called the “Slaughter Strategy,” after Rep. Louise Slaughter (D., N.Y.), who chairs the House Rules Committee.
Under this scheme, House members would vote on a bill of amendments to the despised Senate bill, and the Senate bill would be “deemed” to have passed if this companion bill is approved. This is supposed to inoculate House members, who could say they never actually voted for the Senate bill.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has the best line: Last year, the House was passing bills without reading them. This year, they’re passing bills without voting on them.
If you pull out your copy of the U.S. Constitution, you will find that in Article 1, Section 7, it clearly states that the House and Senate have to pass a bill before it is sent to the president to be signed into law.
The Slaughter Strategy would allow the Senate bill to be approved by the House via a “self-executing rule.” ... It is not surprising that Pelosi lieutenant Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) has warned members to avoid any talk of the unconstitutional way they plan to pass the Senate bill.
Rep. Mike Pence (R., Ind.) gave the rallying cry for opponents in a speech this week: “This is a five-alarm fire! Think about the biggest battle you have ever fought and double your effort. This is the most important fight of our time!”
Sounds as though the Whites have dropped the ball--responsibility-wise--and are content to stand on the sidelines with teabags hanging from the brims of their colorful hats, whining, bitching and moaning? (And, no, that's not a law firm.)
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