Lung cancer? Double pneumonia? This friggin' cough has been with me off and on since early December!
And now... another "cold" just to add to the mix.
(*SIGH*)
Come Monday... time to call the doc and get a chest x-ray.
(*SHRUG*)
Splurged on pizza last night! My pizza guy is on winter vacation (he's a one man operation; closes the shop) and so Mary and I tried the new "hand tossed" pizza from Pizza Hut - $10 for a limited time only!
(*WINK*)
Actually... it came to $13.25 with extra cheese extra... and tax. (The bacon, sausage, pepperoni, and mushrooms were "free.") It was actually a pretty good pie!
So... anyone who isn't already "friends" with me on FB should send a link request. Until recently I didn't use my FB page for anything besides a placeholder (so folks could find me) and as an access portal to others, but since we've gotten back from the UAE I've been posting photos there. Check 'em out!
4 comments:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/homeland-security-secretary-illegals-have-earned-right-be-citizens
Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.”
* FOLKS... THIS IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION... (AND FAR TOO MANY RINOs...)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/24/Backdoor-Amnesty-Immigration-Court-Cases-Closed-Based-on-Prosecutorial-Discretion-Up-By-Almost-70
More immigrants facing deportation in immigration courts across the nation are having their court cases closed because of Obama’s prosecutorial "discretion" policy, researchers at Syracuse University found.
Meanwhile, the number of removal proceedings initiated in immigration courts by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has dropped since the new policy was implemented.
In fiscal 2013, immigration courts cited the exercise of “prosecutorial discretion” (PD) as the reason to dismiss 16,306 cases.
That is a 68% increase from the 9,684 cases that were tossed in 2012 for the same reason.
In total, from October 2011 when Obama’s discretion policy was implemented through December 2013, there were 28,983 PD-related closures in immigration courts across the U.S.
The number of deportations proceedings initiated in immigration courts by ICE has also dropped since Obama’s discretion policy was implemented.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/369333/us-chamber-commerce-vs-america-michelle-malkin
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a politically entrenched synod of special interests.
* REPEAT:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a politically entrenched synod of special interests.
(*NOD*)
These fat cats do not represent the best interests of American entrepreneurs, American workers, American parents and students, or Americans of any race, class, or age who believe in low taxes and limited government. The chamber’s business is the big business of the Beltway, not the business of mainstream America.
* REPEAT:
The chamber’s business is the big business of the Beltway, not the business of mainstream America.
(*NOD*)
If you are a business owner who believes your country should strictly and consistently enforce its borders and deport illegal immigrants who violate the terms of their visas, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t represent you.
If you are a worker who believes that the feds should punish illegal aliens who use fake documents to obtain jobs instead of rewarding them with “legal status,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t champion you.
If you are a parent or educator who opposes top-down federal education schemes such as Common Core that undermine local control, dumb down rigorous curricula, and threaten family privacy while enriching big business and lobbying groups, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t speak for you.
If you are a taxpayer who has had enough of crony capitalism and publicly funded bailouts of failing corporations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t work for you.
* ALL TRUE...
Last year, the Chamber poured more than $52 million into K Street lobbying efforts on behalf of illegal-alien amnesty, Fed Ed Common Core programs, and increased federal spending.
This year, chamber bigwigs are paving the perilous pathway to GOP capitulation.
The Left hardly needs to lift a finger against tea-party candidates and activists who are bravely challenging the big-government status quo. The Chamber has already volunteered to spend $50 million subsidizing the Republican incumbency protection racket and attacking anti-establishment conservatives.
(*NOD*)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Allow me to say, “I told you so.” In 2010, when President Barack Obama hypocritically attacked the Chamber for accepting “foreign donations” right before the midterm elections, many on the right rushed to the group’s side. But as I warned then, the purported enemy of my enemy is . . . sometimes my worst enemy. Barely three months after their Kabuki campaign fight, Obama and the Chamber had already kissed and made up. The Chamber joined hands with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations on a joint campaign to support Obama’s increased government infrastructure and spending proposals, stuffed with Big Labor payoffs.
* DID YOU KNOW THIS?
The Chamber is one of the staunchest promoters of mass illegal immigration, and it joined with the AFL-CIO and American Civil Liberties Union to oppose immigration-enforcement measures. The Chamber opposed E-verify and sued Arizona over its employer-sanctions law. The Chamber supported a pro-ObamaCare, pro-TARP, pro-stimulus, pro-amnesty Democrat in Arizona over his free-market GOP challenger. The Chamber supported the George W. Bush/Obama TARP, the Bush/Obama auto bailout, and the billion-dollar, pork-stuffed stimulus.
* DISGUSTING...
This isn’t about letting the best ideas and businesses thrive. It’s about picking winners and losers. It’s about “managing” competition and engineering political outcomes under the guise of stimulating the economy and supporting “commerce.” What’s in it for the statist businesses that go along for the ride with Obama and his team of corruptocrats? Like they say in the Windy City: It’s all about the boodle — publicly subsidized payoffs meted out to the corruptocrats’ friends and special interests.
* AND I'M TOLD VIOLENCE ISN'T THE ANSWER...
(*SIGH*)
In the case of Common Core, the Chamber has made common cause with the Left-wing, corporate bashing Center for American Progress in a new Bootleggers and Baptists coalition. They are strange bedfellows who both profit from increased federal government intervention. For giant corporate publishers, such as Pearson and other big business ventures backed by the Chamber, it’s all about cashing in on the public schools’ Common Core captive guinea pigs in testing, teaching, data collection, and data analysis.
(*NOD*)
When businesses get in the government handout line, it’s not a “public-private partnership.” It’s corporate welfare. It’s venture socialism. Whatever you call it, it stinks as much under Democrat administrations as it does under Republican ones.
Always beware of Washington business-boosters wearing false free-market facades.
* AMEN!
Post a Comment