Yep, just ask Humana..

another story..

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/713670--potter-daring-hoax-exposes-limits-of-instant-journalism

huh.. try it now..

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28456.html

must have been the # at the end..

HAHAHAHA!!!!

Apparently CNBC, CNN, The NYT, Reuters and the Washington Post are so eager to go to bat for the debacle that is the proposed cap-and-trade "climate change" legislation trumpeted by the Obama Administration that they can be duped in to running with a fake press release stating that the US Chamber of Commerce had changed it's stance on the controversial legislation. A press release that had the name of the Chamber President misspelled..

This from the "news organizations" that fact checked a Saturday Night Live skit but can't be bothered to do the same regarding the lies they tell about someone like Rush Limbaugh and instead rely on wikipedia citations..



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28456.html

I'd like everyone to parouse the following House Financial Services Committee collection of press releases. Committee Chairman Barney Frank was more interested in EXPANDING government subsidies for "Affordable Housing" and urging the President, ie George Bush, to drop his push for regulation on Fannie and Freddie than he was on focusing on the purpose of the committee he chairs, which is to keep an eye on the financial and housing.

http://financialservices.house.gov/press2004.html

Indeed in a letter from the Committee to the President, members write:

""Affordable housing is a critical issue for thousands of families across the country," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. "We call on the Bush Administration to work with us to find an appropriate balance for GSEs that includes both sound financial oversight and a vigorous affordable housing mission. One cannot come at the expense of the other.""

Well clearly, sound oversight came at the cost of promoting the Democrats' sacred cow / vote buying scheme otherwise known as "affordable housing"

By near everyone's account, the current financial/economic situation is rooted in the subprime mortgage issue.

Please refer to the Community Reinvestment Act

Please also refer to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack and their outright refusal to correct the lending and underwriting practices despite regulatory pleas to do so.

Please also refer to the "system being gamed" as being set up outside of the natural constraints of the capitalistic values. Otherwise, let me borrow $10,000 from you without any assurances whatsoever that I'll be able to pay that money back to you at all.

Please also refer to the 2004 Hearings in Congress where Democrats outright LIED about the situation with the Housing Market, sliming the OFEO and those in Congress as racists. They were told what was going on and the footstomping of Democrats in congress, doing their very best to make it a racial issue, put a halt to attempts to put the regulations neccessary to perhaps put the brakes on steps Republicans in Congress (and the Bush White House, I might add) were calling for!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

The Voting Rights Act was intented to protect voters, not the Democrat Party.

Sorry, mirror, the town is 58% black, according to reports I'm reading and represent 65% of the registered voters. So.. They are not "minorities", they are in fact, in every true sense of the term, the majority.

The history of abuses has been on the part of Democrat lawyers in the Federal Bereaucracy to use the Voting Rights Act to empower the Democrat Party, regardless of the will of the voters. And this very much a case of that happening.

Hook. Line. and Sinker.

Yesterday I heard a blurb on the radio that talked about flu vaccines. The story indicate that individuals recieving only the seasonal flu innoculation without recieving the Swine flu vaccine would be left more succeptible to H1N1 than if they hadn't recieved the seasonal vaccine at all..

I haven't been able to turn up any corresponding stories anywhere in the digital press. So I'm wondering if anyone else heard that, might be able to point to some coroberating story or knows anything about this..

just wondering.. there's so much going around now about vaccine this and vaccine that. Given the shortage of H1N1 vaccines even available at this point and given that I'm undecided, as I'm sure are many others, as to whether or not to get either or none of the flu vaccines..

The racism is in the assumption on the part of the justice department that white voters will only vote for black candidates if they know they're affiliated with the Democrat Party. Whether its true or not is of little concern.

What is of concern is that the Democrat-controlled Justice Department, under instruction from the White House no doubt, has acted overtly to protect the Democrat Party, from itself apparently. It's not as if this move was a subversive attempt by the Republican Party to make inroads in a Democrat-heavy district. It's a one party town, which is an issue all unto itself.. Why, then, doesn't the White House or the DNC simply appoint whomever it wants to whatever seat it wants and be done with it? Why excercise the democratic process at all?

The voters of the town voted decided at a near 2 to 1 margin in a town that's over 2/3 black in an election cycle that saw the heaviest voter turnout in memory and hasn't elected a Republican that anyone can recall(a virtual impossibility to accomplish without a definitive majority of black voters being for it) to do away with party affiliations for local races. Let them run their elections however they want..

Even the President of the local chapter of the NAACP thinks the decision handed down by "Justice" is ridiculous.. that's good enough for me in this case.

"But the supreme court never ventured in to the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. So as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the constitution, at least as it's been interpreted. And the Warren Court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberities. it says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power though which you bring about redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that" -Barack Obama, 2001

Obama sees the classical interpretation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights as obstacles to reshaping America in such a way that wealth and resources are "redistributed" in a way that he deems fair and just..

This is the lynch pin of his political philosophy.. America is an unjust nation.. Only remaking it in his own image will make it a just nation.

This is our president.. not some left wing kook protesting outside a Starbucks in San Diego.. The President..

Nearly every domestic agenda item or policy change he's made has been to this end.. to redistribute, through the power of the Federal Government, the wealth of this nation. from each according to his means, to each according to his need.

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody" - Barack Obama, 2008

Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room

By Susan Crabtree - 10/20/09 05:47 PM ET

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.



For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.

Republicans charged that Towns cancelled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans.

A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack” and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage, where it remained as of press time.

Towns’s staffers told Republicans they were not happy about the presence of the video camera in the hearing room when they were not present. Issa’s spokesman said the Democrats readily acknowledged to Republicans that they changed the locks in retaliation to the videotape of the Democrats’ absence from the business meeting even though committee rules allow meetings to be taped.


"It's not surprising that they would choose to retaliate given the embarrassment we caused by catching them in a lie on tape,” said Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella. “If only they
would use their creative energy to do some actual oversight rather than resorting to immature tactics, but I guess we're getting some insight into what lengths they'll go to avoid addressing the Countrywide VIP issue."

Towns’s office said in a statement the locks were changed on Republicans "because they don't know how to behave." As for the video the GOP made, Towns's office pointed out: "The minority is using taxpayer dollars to make these campaign style videos."

The partisan sniping recalls a similarly bitter name-calling match between House Republicans and Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee in 2003 when Republicans controlled the majority and former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) chaired the panel. The episode ended in Thomas, known for his acerbic tongue, summoning the Capitol Police to evict an outraged gaggle of Democratic colleagues from a library in the Longworth House office building.

The committee had convened that morning to consider a bipartisan bill that would revise the nation's pension and retirement-saving system.

Democrats objected when Thomas brought up a 90-page substitute measure that had been released shortly before midnight the night before. Democrats said they needed more time to read it. Thomas disagreed.

In response, Democrats objected to a normally perfunctory motion to dispense with the reading of the dense legislation. A clerk obligingly began reading it line by line.

Democrats departed to a library just off the main hearing room, leaving only Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-Calif.) to prevent the Republicans from obtaining unanimous consent to skip the reading. After a few minutes, Thomas asked again for the unanimous consent, and instantly brought down his gavel. Stark told reporters he had objected, but Thomas had replied, "You're too late."

Even before Thomas gaveled the reading to an end, he had directed staff to call the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats form the library.

Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America, was reported to have given VIP loans and treatment to lawmakers and officials at the federal and local level who were in a position to influence policy affecting the mortgage giant. Issa has repeatedly reminded Committee Democrats that Bank of America officials had said they would turn over records on the VIP program – but only in response to a subpoena.

Towns, who received a mortgage loan from Countrywide but insists he was not part of the VIP program, has said he declined to launch an investigation because he does not want to interfere with an ongoing Justice Department probe into the matter.

read the next couple of paragraphs..

"To begin with, 'nonpartisan elections' is a misconceived and deceiving statement because even though no party affiliation shows up on a ballot form, candidates still adhere to certain ideologies and people understand that, and are going to identify with who they feel has their best interest at heart," said William Cooke, president of the Kinston/Lenoir County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Mr. Cooke said his group does not take a position on this issue and would not disclose his personal stance, but expressed skepticism about the Justice Department's involvement.

Others noted the absurdity of partisan elections since Kinston is essentially a one-party city anyway; no one among more than a half-dozen city officials and local residents was able to recall a Republican winning office here.

That voting district/town is 2/3 black..

The measure passed with a near 2/3 majority..

Are the Blacks in that town somehow gerrymandering themselves out of political power???

The Voters voted. They passed a measure to affect their own local elections but the Obama Justice Department decided that their control over their own elections threatened the position of Democrat politicians. period..

FAIL

Then clearly, do either haven't done all the research you claim to have or you don't take him at his word. do a search on youtube for "WBEZ Obama 2001"

Switzerland isn't a great model to compare the United States to. The number of differences is miles long. First, they're landlocked alpine country with mandated military service. We're a continent wide with three coasts to protect. I'm not even sure if Switzerland has a navy, if they do, it's not a blue water navy.

Obama's got a serious hard-on for America's History. The way he sees it, America never did anything for humanity before electing him as president.. Recall all his references to "in the past 9 (or 10) months" all the "progress" that's been made. yada yada. clearly coincidental with his innaguration..

His wife's reference to "never having been proud of her county" untill Barack won a few primaries.. He's been inculcated with the notion his entire life that the US is a force for Evil in the World and it must be remade, in his image, before it can be a truely great nation..

Bullcr@p. I like my constitution and bill of rights as they are.. His vision of America clearly is one with those two document either wiped completely off the boards or totally rewritten.. to include "what the government must do on your behalf"

The White House engaging in a mud fight with any arm of the media is Nixonian at best. He's already shown his affinity for Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his technique of handling his opponents. Chavez has nationalised some media outlets and shut down others.

I'm not saying that Obama has alluded to "shutting down" Fox News but his appeal to the Liberal-friendly media to shun the conservative outlet is just a slight step short of such a move..

People forget it was Fox that broke the drunk driving story on Bush just days short of the 2000 election..

Fox clearly has a place at the cable media table. Just take a look at their audience share. They pull a bigger audience at 3 am than CNN pulls in primetime..

To call CNN and MSNBC and ABC News "straight news organizations"... come on.. Anyone remember the Chris Matthews getting "this furrowing going up [his] leg" in reference to hearing Obama speaking? Did any of those "straight news" organizations that ran story after story after story about how Sarah Palin was a dunce cheerleader who had her clothes picked out and paid for by the RNC ever even talked about all the stupid **** that poured out of Biden's mouth day after day?? No! None of them did..

Anyone seen very many stories from ABC Nightly News about the counter proposals for healthcare reform being offered by the Republican representation in the Congress? Hell no.. All you hear is how "Republican Opposition" in the Congress is "stalling the much needed reform that Democratic legislators are fighting for"..

The Dems in congress don't need a single vote from the other side of the isle.. They just want cover.. and they can't even marshall the entire Democrat contentgent to agree on a bill..

Please.. The White House is getting more and more Stalinistic as the days go by.. Going after its opposition in the media with the wieght and power of the Federal Government?

Is that the "Hope and Change" you voted for??

Thank you for your service to our nation! We sleep more soundly at night thanks to your sacrifice and that of your comrades!

Well, Anita Dunn's favorite politcal philosopher is Mao Tse Tung.. the man responsible for the deaths of between 40,000,000 and 70,000,000 chinese citizens..

Van Jones is a self described communist.

This administration and the Democrat Party for that matter is entrirely run through with marxist-communists..

So the Justice Department has essentially concluded that Black voters in a North Carolina town aren't smart enough to be able to identify which candidate is their "candidate of choice" without the aid of a parenthetical D or R next to the candidates name. This, despite the overwhelming majority of voters in an election with the highest turnout in recent memory.

The conclusion can only be that the Justice Departement doesn't value the democratic process and that the white voters of this city will only vote for a black candidate if they know he's a Democrat..

wow.. just wow..