From the L. A. Times, this was sent to me...

Just One State – be sure and read the last part..
This is only one State................If this doesn't open eyes, nothing will!
From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County (L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7... The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish..
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County.)

(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens .
We are fools for letting this continue...

This is only one State...............

If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will, and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters!
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Windfall Tax on Retirement Income ...
Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. ...............
Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.

Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds!

Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
This woman is frightening.

She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:

'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'

(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.

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"SHADES" of a really bad movie-
Women tried to smuggle corpse onto plane?

Tue, Apr 6 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - Two women were arrested at a British airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight bound for Germany, police said on Tuesday.

The 91-year-old deceased man was pushed in a wheelchair through Liverpool's John Lennon airport wearing sunglasses before check-in staff became suspicious and he was prevented from boarding the plane.

He was believed to have been driven about 35 miles to the airport by taxi from Oldham, Greater Manchester, police added.

The women were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death and were released on bail.

"At 11 a.m. on Saturday 3 April 2010, police at Liverpool John Lennon airport were alerted to the death of a 91-year-old man in the terminal building," police said in a statement.

"Two women aged 41 and 66 were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of death."

The cause of death is not known.

(Writing by Avril Ormsby; Editing by Steve Addison)

© Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved.

The World’s Ugliest Statues - By Joshua Keating | Foreign Policy

The World’s Ugliest Statues - By Joshua Keating

Political art just reeks of bad taste and a lot of out-sized scale, like the patrons who sponsored them.

Which reminds me of my local town.

The American Spectator : Republicans Against Repeal

The American Spectator : Republicans Against Repeal

I grew up in a home with a "Wilkie Republican father and a (FDR) Roosevelt Democrat Mother.

It was hard to tell what side they stood on many times, if the stood anywhere at all. They loved Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevaried, Murrow more for his sycophantic 'Person to Person' shows and 'This is London' radio broadcasts during the War, and Sevaried for his pompous vague, New York Times' safe opinions on what Americans SHOULD think.

My folks did have some contradictory strong opinions that were not too uncommon in the 1960's. As an FDR Democrat, mother was anti-civil rights. As a Wilkie 'One-World' Republican, father hated Ronald Reagan.

You see, I'm third generation Californian (grandma, dad & I were all born in Los Angeles County), and when the "actor" Ronald Reagan became Governor, he cut spending and raised tuition for the University of California and State Colleges from nearly free to just above free to attend higher education. One of my brothers went to UCLA and was planning to go to Greece for an archaeological dig as part of the campus program on the taxpayer. Reagan cancelled this type of program unless the student's contributed to the cost. Dad took that personally.

The point of this tale about my folk's politics is that too many of the sitting Republican Office Holders are the go-along-get-along Wilkie type Republicans (also known as County Club Republicans) who like to sit and complain over drinks on the veranda about how low the Democrats treat them, but they refuse to lead. Even under Newt Gingrich, the Democrats got their way. They use classic dialectical materialist tactics, two steps forward, one step back. Obama is a dancing-master of this step.

If you want to stand for something, then stand up first! Don't talk repeal of Obamacare...REPEAL IT!

It will take years, probably a new President, but we are now on the road to perdition of "where do I get my free healthcare?" Free healthcare will cost our freedom (what is left of it) and Obama knows it and wants it.

Pertinent reminders of Weenie Republicans-

"Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who chairs the committee responsible for getting GOP candidates elected to the Senate this fall. Cornyn initially unfurled the "repeal and replace" banner, only to quickly make an exception for the "non-controversial stuff," such as the ban on preexisting conditions which is unfortunately exactly what necessitates the "controversial stuff" like the individual mandate."

"Republicans against repeal have found an amen corner in the cooler heads among conservative commentators. One Oliver Garland evencounseled that repeal was fundamentally unconservative: "True conservatives are not radicals; they respect tradition and work for stable reform to fix institutions."

"There you have it: Repealing a bill that became law last month is radical. Acquiescing to a decades-long flurry of legislation that effectively repeals the Constitution's limits on federal power is conservative. Ronald Reagan should have raised taxes to conserve the Great Society and shouted, "Mr. Gorbachev, remember and reform that wall!""

Then again, this appears to be the working definition of conservatism embraced by most GOP politicians. Republicans campaign on canceling spending programs, shutting down government agencies, and overturning Roe v. Wade. But once safely in office, they tend to leave most liberal handiwork alone, failing to repeal even Bill Clinton's tax increases. Occasionally they add a few big-government flourishes of their own -- a new entitlement to enlarge Medicare's unfunded liabilities here, a record increase in federal education spending there."

On the other side, Joe Hicks in his HICKS FILE believes "We Can Repeal Obamacare."
Let's hope he's right!

Obamacare May Allow Viagra Coverage for Sex Offenders

Hey, we found where the healthcare is free!

Health Law May Allow Viagra Coverage for Sex Offenders

(Posted on 4/7/10 at 12:03 p.m.)

CRS: Health Law May Allow Viagra Coverage for Sex Offenders
By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
April 7, 2010, 12:42 p.m.


The Congressional Research Service confirmed in a memo Wednesday that rapists and sex offenders may get federally subsidized Viagra and other sexual performance enhancing drugs under the recently passed health care reform law — information that Republicans charge will haunt Democrats in upcoming elections.

“Providing child molesters with taxpayer-funded Viagra shows the folly of government-run health care. Senators who allowed this to happen will be haunted by this vote for years to come,” said John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Coburn, who requested the CRS review of the health care reforms, sought to add last-minute changes to the health care reconciliation bill that would prohibit sex offenders from receiving drugs such as Viagra under the health care law. However, that amendment was defeated during the Senate’s vote-a-rama.

According to the CRS, under existing rules there are no prohibitions against providing erectile dysfunction drugs to rapists, pedophiles or other types of sex offenders.

The new law does “not appear to prohibit a qualified health plan in a health insurance exchange from providing coverage for drugs prescribed to treat ED for a non-incarcerated beneficiary who was previously convicted of rape, child molestation, or another sex offense” the CRS said in its memo, dated April 2 but released Wednesday. The report also said that “a convicted rapist, child molester, or other sex offender who is not incarcerated would not appear to be excluded from enrolling in a qualified health plan offered through an American Health Benefit Exchange in their state solely because of that conviction.”

Country rankings for trade, business, fiscal, monetary, financial, labor and investment freedoms

Country rankings for trade, business, fiscal, monetary, financial, labor and investment freedoms

April 6, 2010 Heritage Foundation: U.S. not free Top Ten of 2010 Your search included the following criteria: YEAR: 2010 Index of Economic Freedom World Rankings world rank country year overall score change from previous business freedom trade freedom fiscal freedom government size monetary freedom investment freedom financial freedom property rights freedom from corruption labor freedom 1 Hong Kong 2010 89.7 -0.3 98.7 90 93 93.7 83.1 90 90 90 81 87.4 2 Singapore 2010 86.1 -1 98.2 90 90.7 95.3 80.9 75 50 90 92 98.9 3 Australia 2010 82.6 0 90.3 85.1 61.4 64.9 82.7 80 90 90 87 94.9 4 New Zealand 2010 82.1 0.1 99.9 86 63.6 51.3 83.1 80 80 95 93 88.8 5 Ireland 2010 81.3 -0.9 92.8 87.5 71.1 61.8 79 95 80 90 77 79 6 Switzerland 2010 81.1 1.7 81.2 90 68.2 68.9 81.3 80 80 90 90 81.8 7 Canada 2010 80.4 -0.1 96.5 88.1 76.7 54.1 75.4 75 80 90 87 81.5 8 United States 2010 78 -2.7 91.3 86.9 67.5 58 78.1 75 70 85 73 94.8 9 Denmark 2010 77.9 -1.7 97.9 87.5 35.9 22 79.3 90 90 90 93 93.7 10 Chile 2010 77.2 -1.1 64.8 88 77.5 89.6 73 80 70 85 69 75.4

The United States’ economic freedom score is 78.0, making its economy the 8th freest in the 2010 Index. Its score is 2.7 points lower than last year, reflecting notable decreases in financial freedom, monetary freedom, and property rights. The United States has fallen to 2nd place out of three countries in the North America region.

The U.S. government’s interventionist responses to the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 have significantly undermined economic freedom and long-term prospects for economic growth. Economic freedom has declined in seven of the 10 categories measured in the Index.

Uncertainties caused by ongoing regulatory changes and politically influenced stimulus spending have discouraged entrepreneurship and job creation, slowing recovery. Leadership in free trade has been undercut by “Buy American” provisions in stimulus legislation and failure to pursue previously agreed free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea. Tax rates are increasingly uncompetitive, and massive stimulus spending is creating unprecedented deficits. Bailouts of financial and automotive firms have generated concerns about property rights.

This Roy Blunt Ad Would Have Worked With a Horse, Too

This Roy Blunt Ad Would Have Worked With a Horse, Too
Except Moose.

Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public | McClatchy

Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public | McClatchy

Doesn't anyone listen? You can't get it until 2014! You pay NOW! SURPRISE!??!
And don't hold your breath for 'free' health care in 2014, 2015, 2016... But you will pay for it none the less. If you need health care, see a doctor, pay your doctor. The system is all botched up now.

Dutch sidestep EU red tape to rescue German ship - Yahoo! News

Dutch sidestep EU red tape to rescue German ship -4/6/2010

Thomas Friedman Needs to Bailout

Please forget the parachute!

This is about the shortest thing Thomas Friedman has written, "Start-Ups, Not Bailouts."

I happened to be in my car and not on Moose. So Rush Limbaugh was on the radio and he was talking about Thomas Friedman from the NY Times and author of the most contradictory and misguided books this side of the books written by Tom Brokaw's staff. Rush Limbaugh spoke about his opinion of Friedman and specifically about the inane opinion piece Friedman wrote in the NY Times.