Posted on 04 August 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Yes, it is true. Paula Abdul is not coming back to American Idol next season…Oh well…Who cares?
I mean, with all the real problems in the world…like health care, Cap and Trade, Cash for Clunkers, flag@whitehouse.gov, etc. why focus on this…But, of course, CNN will…
Told you CNN would cover it!
Read–CNN
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Posted on 29 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Folks, this is deception if I’ve ever seen it. The AP is reporting that, in Oregon, lawmakers have spent $176 million to create jobs.
They created 3,236 jobs. Most of which lasted only 35 hours. One work week…
From the AP:
“The White House requires states to report numbers in terms of full-time, yearlong jobs. That means a part-time mechanic counts as half a job. A full-time construction worker who has a three-month paving contract counts as one-fourth of a job.
Using that method, the AP’s analysis of figures in Oregon shows the program so far has created the equivalent of 215 full-time jobs that will last three months.”
More from the AP:
“If Oregon’s dollars-to-jobs ratio remains steady, the program will create about 688 full-time, yearlong jobs. So far, it’s generated only enough hours to employ 54 people full-time for a year.”
Is this what is happening nationwide?
Posted on 20 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
UPDATE: California has passed a budget…check back for more updates…
Here is the previous post…:
Yes, ladies and gentlemen of California, Governor Arnie said today that he and lawmakers had reached a “basic agreement” on a budget…
Just days ago, I reported that California was getting close to a deal…
But will it last? If it does…we can pay our bills…and maybe no more furloughs…
All Democrats and several Republicans must vote in it’s favor for it to pass.
California socialite, Karen Bass, spoke of the deal, saying “We have closed the deficit. … We have protected the safety net.”
However, the plan includes $15 Billion in budget cuts…
There is also a plan to allow drilling off of the California coast…
However, several state parks will have to close.
All with no tax increases…
Now, keep in mind, this plan isn’t great…it works…and slows the free-fall we were in just days ago…
If they can pass it…
Read–CBS 13-Sacramento
Read–CNN
Posted on 20 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Folks, Politico is reporting that the total amount of money that has been paid, will be paid, or guaranteed is…
wait for it…
$23,000,000,000,000.00
Click here to read Politico’s comparison to other expensive American endeavors…
Posted on 20 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Folks, this kills me. Here are some of the things on which Recovery.gov has said that we have spent money:
All links to their respective invoices…
Ladies and gentlemen, it turns out there actually is pork in the stimulus package…
$5,708,260 to “Process Cheese”
$1,562,568 for “Mozzarella Cheese”
$351,807 to “Replace and Upgrade the Dumbwaiter” Now, if I may, why not just upgrade or replace? Why do both?
$1,191,200 for “2 Pound Frozen Ham, Sliced”
$2,531,600 for “Ham, Water Added, Cooked, Frozen, Sliced, 2-lb” Now, if I may, isn’t that what they spent money on above?
And, if you look closely…they’re the SAME DAMN company…
So, actually, they spent $3.7 Mil for ham…
I looked up projects near my homeland of Sacramento, California. Here are some of them…
In San Fransisco:
Recipient Name :DEL MONTE CORPORATION
Project Description :undefined
Available Funds :$5,510,268
Project Location : SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Recipient Name :DEL MONTE CORPORATION
Project Description :undefined
Available Funds :$3,424,258
Project Location : SAN FRANCISCO, CA
So, they just kinda have almost $9 Mil to play with…
In Placerville–which is not that big of a place on Highway 50…:
Recipient Name :REVA MURPHY ASSOCIATES, INC.
Project Description :“RECOVERY” ROOF REPLACEMENTS FOR THE CARPENTER SHOP, AUTO SHOP, ECHO SUMMIT CHALET, BUNKER HILL LOOKOUT WALKWAY & ALDER RESIDENCE.JOB CODE 0503 CRFR01. THIS IS BEING DONE AS AN 8(A) CONTRACT.
Available Funds :$399,997
Project Location : PLACERVILLE, CA
In Redding–Also not a big place up north of Sacramento:
Recipient Name :CH2M HILL INC
Project Description :REMEDIAL ACTION (SEDIMENT REMOVAL, YEAR 2-PHASE) AT IRON MOUNTAIN MINE SUPERFUND SITE, SHASTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Available Funds :$20,550,000
Project Location : REDDING, CA
Click here to look up your area…the bigger the circle, the bigger the cost…
UPDATE: July 21, 2009:
In defense of Ham, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, said that they did not buy two pounds of ham, but rather, 760,000 pounds of ham for $1.2 Million–about $1.50 a pound…
He went on to say that his department bought 837,936 pounds of mozzarella cheese…
Posted on 11 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Ok, folks, this is idiotic.
The Economic Stimulus Package “has worked as intended.”
“It has already extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who have lost their jobs in this recession. It has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and business.”
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I’m getting a little confused on who wants what, here. Let’s break it down–no one will be dancing…
In my post from a couple of days ago, I reported that an Obama adviser wants a second stimulus…
So, chalk one up for both sides. Joe Biden thinks we should hold off, but the adviser says we should go for it.
Now, let’s take a look at how the Economic Stimulus has worked…
Of course, many have heard about how dead people are receiving economic Stimulus checks…
Economic Stimulus money has surpassed taxation as biggest revenue generator for States.
Illinois has snagged 12% of the economic stimulus money…and, of the 2,000 approved projects, 243 of them go to the state of Illinois…coincidence?
Just remember, that was all supposed to happen…
Oh, and, not to stir the pot, but, Where are those jobs? I don’t even remember how many we were supposed to create, or save, or creatorsave or whatever the verbiage of the administration is at the time of this writing…
Posted on 07 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
So, apparently, some people think we need a second stimulus.
Here is what I initially said about it in a post earlier today:
Bloomberg is reporting that Laura Tyson, an “outside adviser” for Obama, said that the nearly Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) economic stimulus package was, “a bit too small.”
Ladies and gentlemen, when is a trillion dollars too small?
What is a trillion?
To quote various parts of a CNN report:
“To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion.”
“A million seconds is about 11½ days. A billion seconds is about 32 years, and a trillion seconds is 32,000 years.”
Now, there’s someone else who thinks it would be a good idea to spend, spend, spend…
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wants to spend some more too.
Hoyer said, “Certainly, I don’t think we can make a determination as to whether or not that’s been successful — certainly as successful as we want it to be, certainly not as quickly as we want it to be. I think we need to be open to whether or not we need additional action.”
So, in essence, what he is saying is, “We can’t determine if the stimulus worked, even though the President said it has worked. And because we cannot make that determination, we should spend more.”
Even Joe “stand up, Chuck” Biden thinks we should hold off for a while…An article on Bloomberg said,
“Tyson’s comments contrast with remarks made two days ago by Vice President Joe Biden and fellow Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee, who said it was premature to discuss crafting another stimulus…”
This, all while everyone watches Michael Jackson’s funeral…
Posted on 07 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Folks, the Obama administration’s striking ability to say one thing but mean and do another has struck again–twice in one day, in fact.
Joe “Give me a f****n’ break” Biden, in a stunning display of competence, said, “We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they’re existentially threatened.”
Seems reasonable, right?
Not a week later, Barry said they don’t have US approval.
From the Jerusalem Post, “Asked by CNN whether Washington had given Israel a green light for such an attack, Obama answered: ‘Absolutely not.’”
Now, ladies and gentlemen, if that wasn’t bad enough, here’s what happened today…
Barack Obama said today at–according to the Drudge Report–4:15 AM, “The future does not belong to those who gather armies on a field of battle or bury missiles in the ground.”
Poetic, right? Poetically ironic.
The AP is reporting that the US did just that, and killed fourteen militants…
That seems schizophrenic…
Now, not to parse Obama’s language, but, who would bury a missile?
UPDATE: More stimulus? Not yet? More schisms in the Obama Administration after the jump…
Posted on 26 June 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Surrounding Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Mark Sanford, and Ed Sullivan, it might be hard to remember that THERE IS A VOTE ON THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE EVER on the floor today…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, congress, in order to ram through the 1,201 page bill, they have decided to vote today.
Thanks to @CalebHowe
This is ridiculous. How are they expected to read the bill? To put it in perspective, they are asking the other representatives to read Atlas Shrugged in one day…and UNDERSTAND IT!
Now, an organization called Let Freedom Ring has made a pledge card that asks congresspeople to vote on the healthcare bill, only after they have personally read it and it has been made available to the people.
And as a quick asside, two people have signed the pledge… Jim Demint and James Inhofe…
Now they just need one for the largest tax ever…
Looks like they’ll need a speed-reader…
UPDATE: HA! I knew it. Harry “Doesn’t want to” Reid says no to allowing a week to read the Cap and Trade bill…
UPDATE: Tell those swing votes to vote no!
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Click here to see a list of swing votes.
Read–Chicago Tribune
Read–Breitbart
UPDATE: Jesus Christ, folks. House holds a moment of silence for Michael Jackson. Kills me. It’s a circus.
UPDATE: Greenpeace is against Cap and Trade? Who knew? So, it seems that the Congress is trying to put the screws to the economy for the sake of expansion of government…
UPDATE: They are really trying to pass a bill with a placeholder? It’s a circus.
Rangel supports horse-trading on House floor…
Carl Levin says C&T is moral imperative…
John Larson invokes the name of T. Boone Pickens…Which is odd…because T. Boone’s Prop 10 was voted down in California in 2008…
And someone needs to tell him to stop yelling…
Is anyone else worried about all these Democrats invoking the ideas of “terrorism” and 9/11 while trying to get votes for C&T?
The Cap and Trade bill costs $700 Million a page!
UPDATE: Representatives caught horse-trading…Barton said it best, “At least its transparent…”
UPDATE: Gohmert: “Where is a physical copy [of the 300 page amendment?]”
–silence–
That silence is so telling.
Apparently, they can’t find a physical copy of the 300 page amendment…
And also, there isn’t a rule that requires a physical copy to vote…or, if there is, the important sounding person at the big podium isn’t aware of one…
Barton: “If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass House, could bill be sent to Senate having no copy?”
Apparently there isn’t a copy…anywhere…even on the desk…
Will they recess to form a search party to find the 300 page amendment? Barton requested a short recess to find the official copy…
Markey says no.
It’s a circus…
Jason Chaffetz, Representative from Utah, said on tweeted, “Dems still don’t have a final finished hard copy of bill, 1,500 pages now. And we are supposed to vote on this? Nobody has read it in full.”
Representative Bilbray: “The biggest threat to environment is the smoke coming from backroom deals”
A representative wished to have a moment of silence for those who will lose their jobs had his request objected to…
UPDATE: Well, John Boehner is going to fillabuster! He is going to read every page of the 300 page amendment…
I guess that means they found it…
Hope he brought a diaper…or a pail…
Boenher turned 2.5 minutes into an Hour! Good work, sir!
WORK THOSE PHONES!
Watch him tell it like it is…
“It is the custom of the house is to listen to the leader’s comments.”
Cap and Trade has passed in the House.
Now we must work the Senate. And find out who those 8 Republicans were…
219-212
After the jump: Who were the Republican turncoats? Also, more updates…
Posted on 29 April 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Barack Obama will announce Chrysler’s bankruptcy tomorrow.
Yes. Barry O. will make the announcement…
Fiat will buy 20%, a “union retiree healthcare trust fund” will own 55%, and the government will own the rest!
yay!
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