Not much else can be said, except, “Thank you!”
Here is a tribute from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)
Also, please visit The Wounded Warrior Project, Soldiers’ Angels – Project Valour IT, Military Ministry and ecarepackage.org and contribute your time or money to these very worthy causes.
Feeling the pinch of the second edition of the “Summer of Recovery” ?
Well, do not worry, you can feel a little better knowing that those who helped kick off The Second Great Democrat Depression got plenty rich from you, your family’s and neighbor’s treasure.
About the only “good” part of the profane Dodd/Frank Wall Street Act (which is about as misnamed as the Ted Kennedy Violence Against Women Act) is that it did provide for a mandated “audit” of the Federal Reserve. Even a timid audit of this kind produced some amazing findings.
From The Raw Story:
The U.S. Federal Reserve gave out $16.1 trillion in emergency loans to U.S. and foreign financial institutions between Dec. 1, 2007 and July 21, 2010, according to figures produced by the government’s first-ever audit of the central bank.
Last year, the gross domestic product of the entire U.S. economy was $14.5 trillion.
Of the $16.1 trillion loaned out, $3.08 trillion went to financial institutions in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) analysis shows.
Additionally, asset swap arrangements were opened with banks in the U.K., Canada, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Mexico, Singapore and Switzerland. Twelve of those arrangements are still ongoing, having been extended through August 2012.
So about 10% higher than the entire size of the U.S. economy. But, don’t worry. All of that “stimulus” will produce $100,000 jobs for everyone. Maybe. Possibly. One of these days. Or maybe not.
Well, seeing that these same officials are exempt from MengeleCare, paying taxes or being subject to the regulations that are produced from cloistered, maze-like, Alice-like rabbit holes in the LSD trip that is the monstrous administrative state, it is hardly, I repeat, hardly surprising that those are who are overseeing this real life version of the dildo anal rape scene from “Myra Breckenridge” get a free pass on this as well.
From AP via Michelle Malkin:
Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.
Aviation security officials would not name those who can skip the controversial screening, but other officials said those VIPs range from top officials like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller to congressional leaders like incoming House Speaker John Boehner, who avoided security before a recent flight from Washington’s Reagan National Airport.
The heightened new security procedures by the Transportation Security Administration, which involve either a scan by a full-body detector or an intimate personal pat-down, have spurred passenger outrage in the lead-up to the Thanksgiving holiday airport crush.
But while passengers have no choice but to submit to either the detector or what some complain is an intrusive pat-down, senior government officials can opt out if they fly accompanied by government security guards approved by the TSA.
On the other hand, a patdown of the like of Nappy, Boxer, Water or Nadler would truly be Where No Man Has Gone Before. I would give combat pay and a bar of Lava soap to any TSA rent-a-pedophile who actually had to perform that task.
By the way, I have a flight reservation in a few weeks. I am wondering if I should wear boxers or briefs, or just keep stripping once the shoes come off. Hey, anything to help my government, you know.
I must say that I already cannot wait until 2012.
If only for my sanity (and Tums bottle) and nothing else whatsoever.
We now have a doozy of an a example of GOP Self-Inflicted Electoral Kevorkianism. While it is certainly not surprising, is still damned hair-pulling. It is stunts like this that are why the GOP will always be known as The Stupid Party.
And more than deservedly so.
From The Washington Post (Via Hot Air and Conservatives4Palin:
Sean Cairncross, the general counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, is headed to Alaska at the request of Sen. Lisa Murkowski to help provide guidance to the GOP incumbent finds herself trailing attorney Joe Miller by roughly 1,600 votes…
Committee sources insisted that too much should not be read into Cairncross’ presence in Alaska — only that the NRSC is an incumbent-retention committee and, as such, provides assistance when Senators ask for it.
As evidence that the committee is not putting all of its chips on Murkowski, a GOP source tells the Fix that Rob Jesmer, the bespectacled executive director of the NRSC, spoke by phone with a top Miller aide yesterday — making clear that if he wins the election the committee will support him wholeheartedly.
How Kyl, the NRSC and their assorted mental midgets think is going to help the GOP recapture the Senate (or even come close) is still open to a sanity check.
While most Dems in Congress need to be given an IQ test, a hell of a lot of Republicans, especially those in leadership positions, need to be given a mental testertone test. Just to see if there are any brains present and if they are located in the right place.
Well, those tin foil hat wearing X-Files nerds and their chip implant conspiracies sound a little less kooky nowadays, not don’t they, yes?
If it is not bad enough that they soon, under the guise of the Global Climate Warning Change Hoax, want to regulate the amount of energy you use by use of government-approved meters (something that failed to pass in California last year) and cut you off if Al Gore is offended. Now we have “chipped” recycle bins that will tattle-tale on you if you have not recycled all of your plastics, cardboard and metal cans.
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)
It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders’ trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t.
The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.
The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn’t been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.
I can just see it. SEIU thugs, in green and purple shirts, all emblazoned with Obama’s face on the front and Gore’s (minus his straight-jacket) on the back. Going through your garbage, just to make sure you help Great Leader lower the oceans and lower Gaia’s temperature (while looking for credit card and bank statement records that anyone was foolish enough not to shred).
One question. Does a city or county worker going through bags of used kitty litter count as a “shovel ready” job?
It appears that it has been confirmed that former U.S. Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was aboard the plane that crashed in Alaska on Monday night.
From Yahoo News via Reuters:
Former Republican Senator Ted Stevens was among those killed when a small plane crashed in Alaska on Monday night, local television station KTUU said on its website on Tuesday, quoting a longtime family friend.
Omaha Beach. Utah Beach. Places and names that will forever be etched into the fabric of world history. Words that symbolize the enormous sacrifices of the forces of good against one of the greatest evils Man has ever seen.
While Google and other assorted leftists forget, ignore or would rather not think about such a seminal moment, many, many others choose to honor those whose bravery and ultimate effort began the fall of Nazi regime.
Not surprisingly, no one can say it better than President Ronald Reagan. Here is famous 40th anniversary speech at Point-du-Hoc:
God bless our fighting men and women.
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