Posts Made By: david elosser

Just when you think the stupid stimulus stories have gone by the wayside, up crops another one. One school district is spending $350,000 of our tax dollars to give iPods to parents. "The school district is using the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who fill out a 10-minute online survey." Geeze! If I had a child with a disability I don't think an iPod would do me much good compared to the other special health and education costs. They said that the "district wants to know how well it's connecting with the parents and how to get parents involved in their children's education." Another Geeze! First, if I were that district superintendent I'd be embarrassed as hell for people to know my district is that clueless. Second, I'd save the American people some tax money and tell each school principal to get their secretaries to get off their butts and do the job. :S

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2010/2/10/581592.html

David E

I havn't seen articles like this in the American media, maybe they are out there, just havn't seen them.

"We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece

"Professor [Phil] Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon...And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html

"Even more strikingly, [Phil Jones] also sounds much less ebullient about the basic theory, admitting that there is little difference between global warming rates in the Nineties and in two previous periods since 1860 and accepting that from 1995 to now there has been no statistically significant warming."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1250813/MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-COMMENT-The-professors-amazing-climate-change-retreat.html

"Researchers said yesterday that warming recorded by weather stations was often caused by local factors rather than global change."
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214

David E

"In a wide-ranging interview with "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith, Biden also said the economic stimulus package is working better than people realize, adding that the best is yet to come from it - jobs creation."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/17/earlyshow/main6215792.shtml

Okay, so how can this be...?
"Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits — a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," ..."One of the things that we've noticed is a lot more unsheltered, mostly men who claim this is the first time they've been homeless, who indicate that it's due to a loss of wages or loss of job, because of the economy,"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/ap_on_re_us/us_suburban_homeless

David E

"More than $3.5 billion in economic stimulus funds are going to programs that President Obama wants to eliminate or trim in his new budget."

"Obama's proposed budget also includes $334 million in cuts to programs that got more than $3 billion in stimulus money. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-17-stimulus-funds_N.htm

David E

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/17/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6216739.shtml
"Ten "Miss Me Yet?" items were on the company's list of its top-selling designs...There were no Obama-themed designs on the list,... Bush has stolen the political spotlight, just like Sarah Palin did the week before when she re-surfaced with crib notes written in her palm."

http://shop.cafepress.com/miss-me-yet

David E

Hmmm, last I heard this was a done-deal:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aKCx8V5ZEu6E&pos=13

More hope and change for GM. And right on the heels of the Senate hearings on Toyota. The timing is quite coincidental! Perhaps the Chinese didn't like the US embarrassing their neighbor and kin?

David E

"Revised projections now show that about 23,000 workers at and around Kennedy Space Center will lose their jobs because of the shuttles' retirement and the new proposal to cancel the development of new rockets and spacecraft...The updated numbers also include the cancellation of Project Constellation and other initiatives as outlined in the president's 2011 budget..."

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100226/NEWS0204/2260321/23-000-now-expected-to-lose-jobs-after-shuttle-retirement

David E

Overall, 56% think that the Democrats and Obama have grown the government so large that it "it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/26/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights/?fbid=EOH9S9_c_zl

David E

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alet_UTqF04M

"Fannie Mae will seek $15.3 billion in U.S. aid, bringing the total owed under a government lifeline to $76.2 billion, after its 10th consecutive quarterly loss."

"“Our financial results for 2009 reflected the continued adverse impact of the weak economy and housing market, which has resulted in record mortgage delinquencies and contributed to our recording significant credit-related expenses and net losses during each quarter of the year,” Fannie Mae said in the filing."

And get this: "After the next government payout, Fannie Mae’s borrowings will carry an annual dividend cost of $7.6 billion, which the company said it will repay by borrowing more money from the Treasury[!]."

I guess that's called compassionate liberalism?

David E

"They've had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard," [Pelosi] said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning. "Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes."



David E