Hey Gang!
I'm getting a late, late, late start on blogging today.
Appeared on Frank Fornario's radio show on WTBQ this morning.
Good show. I endorsed Republican challenger Nan Hayworth for New York's 19th Congressional District seat and Democratic challenger Roxanne Donnery for New York's 96th Assembly District seat. To round things out I refused to endorse either Republican incumbent Bill Larkin or Democratic challenger Harley Doles for New York's 39th Senatorial District seat.
After the show I headed up to Goshen to see Carl Paladino, who was making a campaign whistle stop at the Orange County Government Seat. I didn't bother introducing myself to Mr. Paladino for the simple reason that I knew I wouldn't have been able to resist making a scene by informing Paladino that his "host," Bill DeProspo - Chairman of the Orange Country GOP - is a weasel... exactly the sort of political hack that Paladino has been fighting against.
I did get one shot in against the media though! After doing a photo-op Paladino stepped up (down, actually... he had been on a deli porch chatting and drinking coffee) to the mics to do a media Q&A on the street the first two questions out of the halfwit "reporters" (and I use the term loosely) were about false rumors circulating (and circulated by the Democrat's dirty tricks machine) concerning Paladino's military record. The moment Paladino finished up answering the second stupid question in a row I spoke up loud and clear by posing the rhetorical question, "Hey... any chance any of you media folks are going to ask a policy question?"
For a second there was silence, than supportive snickering (Paladino cracked a smile) and knowing they had overplayed their hand, the reporters from that point on stuck to policy questions.
After the press conference broke up I headed to the Chrysler-Dodge dealership right down the road and got an oil change for Hank. Well... that was the plan at least. Actually, while performing the oil change and standard inspection the mechanic found a loose tie-rod which had to be replaced and then of course I needed an alignment...
(*SIGH*)
Long story short, I didn't end up getting home till after 4:00 p.m. That said, Hank is very happy with his new tie-rod, alignment, oil, and filter.
Synthetic oil and a K&N filter of course...
Anyway... let me throw a few newsbites on the comments section before heading to bed!
Synthetic oil and a K&N filter of course...
Anyway... let me throw a few newsbites on the comments section before heading to bed!
4 comments:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/debt-has-increased-5-trillion-speaker-pe
* AS REGULAR READERS ARE AWARE, I RARELY, RARELY CITE CNS NEWS. I'M MAKING AN EXCEPTION BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO A POINT I OFTEN MAKE HERE AT USUALLY RIGHT.
When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.”
Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
* YEP!
At the close of business on Jan. 4, 2007, Pelosi’s first day as speaker, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 ($8.67 trillion), according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department.
At the close of business on Oct. 22, it stood at $13,667,983,325,978.31 ($13.67 trillion), an increase of $4,997,387,083,005.27 (or approximately $5 trillion).
(*SHRUG*)
Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and 111th Congresses. [It's just a simple, undeniable matter of fact that as] the 60th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, [Pelosi] has added more to the national debt than the first 57 House Speakers combined.
(*SHRUG*)
Thus far (the 111th Congress will not be done until the end of the year), Pelosi has increased the debt by an average of $2.5 trillion for each Congress she has led as speaker. Hastert increased the debt by an average of about $785 billion per Congress, while Gingrich increased the debt by an average of $406 billion per Congress.
Annual federal expenditures have increased by about $730 billion in the Pelosi era, while annual deficits have increased almost eight fold.
In fiscal 2007, when Pelosi became Speaker, the federal government spent $2.73 trillion and ran an annual deficit of $162.8 billion, according to the Treasury Department. In fiscal 2009, the federal government spent $3.52 trillion and ran an annual deficit of $1.4157 trillion. In fiscal 2010, the federal government spent $3.46 trillion and ran an annual deficit of $1.2941 trillion.
“The 2010 deficit was equal to 8.9% of gross domestic product (GDP), CBO estimates...the second-highest shortfall - [with] 2009 the highest - since 1945 relative to the size of the economy.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101025/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestiranpolitics_20101025212154
Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted Monday that his chief of staff had received "bags of money" from Iran but insisted the payment was transparent and a form of "aid" from a friendly country.
* YEP... ONCE AGAIN... WHAT YOU THINK YOU JUST READ IS... er... WHAT YOU ACTUALLY JUST READ. (HAVE I MENTIONED LATELY THAT WE'RE LIVING IN THE AGE OF OBAMA...???)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/treasury-draws-negative-yield-for-first-time-during-10-billion-tips-sale.html
The Treasury sold $10 billion of five-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities at a negative yield for the first time at a U.S. debt auction as investors bet the Federal Reserve will be successful in sparking inflation.
* YEP... YOU READ THAT RIGHT... "...AS INVESTORS BET THE FEDERAL RESERVE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN SPARKING INFLATION."
* FOLKS... I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE TO POINT THIS OUT, BUT... THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED WAR AGAINST THE U.S. DOLLAR.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/u-s-treasury-shielding-of-citigroup-with-deletions-make-foia-meaningless.html
The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup Inc. that the government had agreed to guarantee. He made the request on the grounds that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used.
* SOUNDS REASONABLE...
More than 20 months later, after saying at least five times that a response was imminent, Treasury officials responded with 560 pages of printed-out e-mails - none of which Pittman requested. They were so heavily redacted that most of what’s left are everyday messages such as “Did you just try to call me?” and “Monday will be a busy day!”
* SOUNDS LIKE... er... S.O.P. FOR THE AGE OF OBAMA.
None of the documents answers Pittman’s request for “records sufficient to show the names of the relevant securities” or the dates and terms of the guarantees.
President Barack Obama vowed to usher in a new era of open government.
* YEAH... (*LAUGHING*)... A LONG, LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY... (*CUE STAR WARS THEME*) (*SMIRK*)
From the 2008 Bear Stearns Cos. rescue to the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing in 2010, the Obama administration has delayed disclosures and defended its right to secrecy in court, said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch Inc. “This is an unprecedented crisis for open government,” said Fitton, whose Washington-based organization says it sued the Bush administration 48 times over disclosure issues. “When it comes to the bank bailout, the Obama administration has made a decision to err on the side of secrecy.”
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