Posts Made By: david elosser

http://www.breitbart.tv/helen-thomas-tells-jews-get-the-hell-out-of-palestine-and-go-back-to-germany-poland

Government Motors is recalling 1.5 MILLION vehicles, including "several pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, crossovers and passenger car models from the 2006 to 2009 model years. GM conducted a similar recall in 2008 but came across new reports of fires in vehicles that had been fixed. GM said it would disable the heated washer fluid system module that could lead to fires."

I guess it's time for GMC's general manager and CEO to head up to Congress for hearings, just like they did for Toyota. And I'm sure Mr Whitacre will apologize to those millions of owners for putting their lives and safely in danger.
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-gm-recall-100609,0,5084040.story

Oh, and I'm equally sure that the meager $100 bucks they are paying owners and lease holders NOT to have their heated windshield washer fluid system functional is coming right out of Mr Whitacre's meager nine million dollar bonus he got this year.
http://www.lockergnome.com/leftystrat/2010/02/19/general-motors-ceo-gets-9-million-package/

David E

Arizona's tough new immigration enforcement law is fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state seven weeks before it goes into effect, according to officials and residents in the state...The Balsz Elementary School District is 75% Hispanic, and within a month of the law's passage, the parents of 70 students pulled them out of school...About 100,000 illegal immigrants left Arizona after the state passed a law in 2007 that enhanced penalties on businesses that hired them, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Some early signs suggest another exodus.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-06-08-immigration_N.htm

David E

BP's been lobbying our lawmakers really, really hard to pass a cap-and-tax bill, tax increases, greenhouse gas restraints, the stimulus bill, the Wall Street bailout, and subsidies for oil pipelines, solar panels, natural gas and biofuels, all of which it would profit [SIZE="Large"]BIG TIME[/SIZE]. They are also behind Obama's dream of dismantling our coal industry, replacing it with natural gas which BP would then sell a lot of. (Just by coincidence, of course! :S )

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Once-a-government-pet-BP-now-a-capitalist-tool-95942659.html

David E

Imagine this: Your neighborhood of 20 houses is rapidly catching fire, the local fire department is overwhelmed, and cannot put out all the flames. Local volunteers offer their manpower and equipment to help, but the fire department is unionised and the volunteers are not- and there's a law saying only union workers can put out a house fire. So 18 of the 20 homeowners just sit there while their houses burn to the ground while the fire department is able to work on only two houses. Sound incredible? Well, maybe not in Obama-Land...

It turns out that some of the world's best oil cleaning technology offered to the US is being turned away because of a near century old act, the Jones Act, that requires vessels working in US waters be built in the US and be crewed by US workers. So we have massive oil spills hitting our shores all along the southeastern seaboard but are left alone to clean up our own mess by law. So Obama's hands are tied? No, not really. The president can waive the Jones Act in a national emergency, like President Bush did with the Katrina disaster (remember Bush, the guy all liberals love to hate?) But to date President Obama has not waived the Jones Act. Why? Well, labor unions love the Jones Act and hate to see it waived for any reason because it protects union jobs. And Obama is, of course, extremely pro-union. So, is Obama allowing the oil spill to creep on our shore just to protect union jobs? Well, you be the judge (be sure to read the last paragraph):
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/10/jones-act-slowing-oil-spill-cleanup/?test=latestnews

David E

...when the Rolling Stone critizes you!

"...the disaster in the Gulf was preceded by ample warnings - yet the administration had ignored them. Instead of cracking down on MMS, as he had vowed to do even before taking office, Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency's culture of corruption. He permitted it to rubber-stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP - a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company - with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry-friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years. He calibrated his response to the Gulf spill based on flawed and misleading estimates from BP - and then deployed his top aides to lowball the flow rate at a laughable 5,000 barrels a day, long after the best science made clear this catastrophe would eclipse the Exxon Valdez...Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig - one of the world's largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon...the [Atlantis] platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components ..."

The last sentence of that page is the most troubling quote of all: "The administration's response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had "zero contact" with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0

David E

Apparently NASA is letting the Moon mission wither rapidly on the vine before Congress has a chance to act on it. From Times UK:

"Nasa has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon - effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so."

"Mr Obama proposed in February that it should be scrapped because it was over budget, behind schedule and lacking in innovation"..."

Hmmmm. I guess with those guide lines we'll be scrapping about 90% of the rest of our budget!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7149543.ece

For the good or the bad, Obama's kissing that Moon mission goodbye.
David E

First, Obama "encourages" BP to cancel dividend payouts from profits it made LAST YEAR, and now the trust fund...

Headline from a British newspaper:
[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="Large"]Obama bullies BP into £13.5bn fund for oil spill victims...[/SIZE][/COLOR]

And who suffers? "And the news was a major blow for Britain's pension funds, which rely on BP's dividend income to provide 1 pound in every 6 they receive each year."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287222/BP-oil-spill-British-pensioners-pick-BP-compensation-fund.html#ixzz0r4JU2bWt

I hate to sound insensitive to our friend across the pond, but it's pretty clear from news reports here that BP rushed to finish an oil rig that was running behind schedule, was committing numerous safety and regulatory violations, refused to follow the recommendations of experts in the field like Halliburton, and made obious attempts at saving money rather than concentrating on plugging the hole. I'm not really in favor of this escrow thing, but we have to take as many steps as possible to defray the costs of the damage to our jobs, wildlife, and ecosystems this oil spill has done and continues to do. I really don't want to see BP go complete under as a result of this, but hell they are responsible are they not?

David E

This one?

From Mike Allen's Playbook in The Politco:
"OBAMA, BIDEN DECLARE "RECOVERY SUMMER": Vice President Biden today will kick off "Recovery Summer," a six-week-long push designed to highlight the jobs accompanying a surge in stimulus-funded-projects... Biden will present President Obama with a report laying out a spike in stimulus activity this summer, and how it will contribute to a steady climb to a total of 3.5 million Recovery Act jobs by the end of the year...David Axelrod said: "Just over a year later, the Recovery Act is putting millions of Americans to work and helping the economy grow again."
http://www.politico.com/playbook/

Or this one?

From Associated Press:
(headline)"[SIZE="Large"]New claims for jobless benefits rise sharply[/SIZE]"
"The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped last week after three straight declines, another sign that the pace of layoffs has not slowed...Initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000...A lack of robust job growth has kept the recovery from gaining strength."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-claims-for-jobless-apf-1639241920.html?x=0&.v=3

David E
(me, I'm in the latter reality. :C )

Why this hasn't been in the news is puzzling to say the least. At least, I havn't heard anything about it until yesterday. Seventeen Afghani national military officers learning to become pilots at a USAF base in Texas went AWOL, and only seven have been accounted for.

The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches English to military pilot candidates and other air force prospects from foreign countries allied with the U.S. "I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute," said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs, 37th Training Wing, at Lackland AFB. "They disappeared over the course of the last two years, and none in the last three months."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/18/exclusive-undetermined-number-afghan-military-members-awol-air-force-base/

Interesting. So up to 17 Afghan military officers being trained here in the US end up missing during Obama's administration, I would think that would be newsworthy... but then again

David E
(Afghans are not the only foreign military who have gone AWOL from Lackland, Emery said.)