Posts Made By: david elosser

(Quoted from Andy Griffith's recent Medicare ad

"And with the new health-care law, more good things are coming. Free checkups..."

Hot dog! Free checkups! Only question I have is, do those free checkups include free eye checkups and dental checkups? Boy they sure do cost a lot of money. I think they should be free too, don't you?

David E

[SIZE="Large"]"The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high..."[/SIZE]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/08/05/food_stamp_use_hit_record_408m_in_may/

[SIZE="Normal"]One eighth of the American population is now on food stamps, unable to buy food with the money that they earn. But that record for the Obama administration may not last long:[/SIZE]

"The figure is projected to rise to 43.3 million in 2011."


David E

...like about 18 months; but better late than never:


Romer predicted that following passage of the stimulus bill, unemployment would plateau below 8 percent last fall and by this month register at 7 percent. That's not close enough for government work, as unemployment stands at 9.5 percent today. It would be higher except that hundreds of thousands of frustrated job seekers have given up looking for new jobs and dropped out of the labor force...Americans say Obama has the country on the wrong path. Obamanomics has failed miserably and it's time for everybody in [Washington] to admit it so we can move on.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Time-to-admit-Obamanomics-has-failed-1008050-100154469.html

I noticed that this editorial is unsigned. I guess the last thing he wanted was to be castigated by his piers for speaking the truth.

David E

The past 18 months have exhausted President Obama's economic team and that is the reason a key member is quitting, his spokesman says...Romer and the rest of the White House economic team have worked the equivalent of six years in the 18 months they've been in office, [White House Press Secretary Robert] Gibbs told the newspaper.

WOW! 8O No wonder Christina Romer quit her job. Why, if I had worked 25 hours a day seven days a week while my boss played golf every other day and took vacations every other week, I'd quit too! :S

http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=196805

David E

Today's headlines from various sources (I won't bother with the links, you can visit the websites if you want further information.)

From Drudgereport.com (link to Foxnews.com):
[SIZE="Large"]FIRESTORM AFTER DEMS CUT FOOD STAMPS TO BAIL OUT TEACHERS [/SIZE]

AP has [SIZE="Large"]Trade deficit widens to $49.9 billion in June...Trade deficit jumps to highest level in 20 months as imports of consumer goods hit record high [/SIZE]

While Bloomberg.com posted [SIZE="Large"]U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Widens to $49.9 Billion as Exports Decline [/SIZE]

From Rasmussenreports.com today (8/11/10): [SIZE="Large"]Obama Approval Index: -22 (Matches all-time low for this president)
Strongly Approve 24% Strongly Disapprove 46% (Matches highest for this president) Total Approval 43%[/SIZE]

While the Guardian UK has this headline: [SIZE="Large"]Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested'...White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama's critics on the left are 'crazy' [/SIZE]

Bloomberg.com has [SIZE="Large"]Economists Reduce U.S. Growth Estimates as Lack of Jobs Hinders Consumers[/SIZE]

And CNBC.com has [SIZE="Large"]America Is 'Bankrupt Mickey Mouse Economy'...[/SIZE]

But it's not all doom and gloom out there. Bloomberg.com has some good news for you professional wrestling enthusiasts: [SIZE="Large"]World Wrestling's Ex-CEO McMahon Wins Senate Nod in Connecticut [/SIZE]
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


David E

"This morning at DFW Airport, President Obama greeted 150 (very surprised) troops as they arrived home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their expressions were so priceless!"

President Obama took some time off from his busy schedule to greet and thank returning troops for their service to their country. This must have been a very uplifting moment for these troops.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6894887&id=361997510504&comments



David E


(Okay, Obama was too busy playing golf so he appointed someone else to go in his place.)

Okay, so the Muslims can build their mosque at ground zero and open it on 9-11's anniversary, all in the name of "religious tolerance." Too bad someone like Mother Teresa couldn't get the same tolerance from New York while she was alive. From A Diagnosis Of Communal Insanity, The Death Of Commonsense by Philip Howard: "In the winter of 1988, Mother Teresa's nuns of the Missionaries of Charity walked through the snow in New York's South Bronx in their saris and sandals looking for abandoned buildings to convert into homeless shelters. They found two, which New York offered them at $1 each. The nuns set aside $670,000 for the reconstruction, then, for a year-and-a-half, they went from hearing room to hearing room seeking approval for the project. Providence, however, was no match for law. New York's building code requires a lift in all new or renovated multiple-storey buildings of his type. Installing a lift would add upwards of $130,000 to the cost. Mother Teresa didn't want to devote that much money to something that wouldn't really help the poor. But the nuns were told the law couldn't be waived even if a lift made no sense." So, Mother Teresa did not get her homeless shelters built. But even after her death she has been shunned by New York. On February 2 of this year, an application was submitted to the Empire State Building Lighting Partners requesting that the tower lights feature blue and white, the colors of Mother Teresa's congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, on August 26. Three months later the request was denied without explanation. They did however, approve honoring the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Revolution with red and yellow lights. :S

David E

It's not just Sara Palin and Newt Gingrich. It's:

Juan Willims:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/juan-williams-opposes-ground-zero-mosque
Williams said that the proposed mosque and the imam's actions are "a thumb in the eye to so many people who lost their lives and went through the trauma there. It's not promoting dialogue or understanding. In fact, it's polarizing. So it's not achieving his stated goal. And for that reason, I just think he's wrong to do it."

Anti-Defamation League: "building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and that is not right."

Senator Harry Reid: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/afternoon-fix/harry-reid-opposes-ground-zero.html

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/08/mcdonnell_differing_from_obama.html
"If it were my decision, I would not put that center there. It is a site where nearly 3,000 people lost their lives and I certainly would not locate that center there if I had a voice."


Senator John McCain (the "Maverick"): http://senatus.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/mccain-opposes-mosque-near-ground-zero/
"I oppose the planned location of a mosque in close proximity to Ground Zero. The concerns of the 9/11 victims' families and the citizens of New York City should be respected."

Rick Lazio:http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/good_day_ny/lazio-opposes-mosque-near-ground-zero-20100708 "We're not saying the mosque in itself is a bad thing. There are troubling issues. Where is the money coming from to build this mosque? The imam (behind this) has said some inflammatory things: Osama Bin Laden is made in the USA; he says Hammas is not a terrorist organization,"

Six out of ten New Yorkers: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/new_york/58_in_new_york_oppose_mosque_near_ground_zero

New York Representative Peter King (chairman of House Homeland Security Committee): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQNKIRoReA

Mosab Hassan Yousef (the "Son of Hamas"): http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=183873 "All I can say [is] shame on Muslims to do this, to build a mosque on a graveyard that all its victims were killed [in] the name of the god of the Quran, who mandated the killing of those innocent people,"

Democrat Richard Brodsky (running for Attorney General in NY):http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/brodsky-remains-personally-opposed-ground-zero-mosque

Jeff Greene, Florida's Democratic candidate for US Senate: http://www.wpbf.com/r/24632844/detail.html "(Obama) should be on the side of the individuals at 9/11 who lost their lives and their families, and he should be on the side of Americans who have gone around the world to defend us,"

and on and on...

David E

Hollywood, the land of fantasies and fairy tales, was a very appropriate venue for Obama's recent fund raiser speech.
"We have been able to deliver the most progressive legislative agenda - one that helps working families - not just in one generation, maybe two, maybe three,...I hope you understand why we're here tonight," Obama told the crowd at producer John Wells's home. "It's not to take a picture with the president. We're here to make sure those who took the tough votes are rewarded."


If I were you guys, I'd get your picture with the president while you can and forget about the reward.

David E
(Come November 2nd, we got your reward right here. )

I actually heard this first from a caller at the end of the third hour of Rush's radio show. Now there's this article from NYDaily News:

A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing not to work on the mosque planned near Ground Zero..."I wouldn't work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11,"..."Thousands of people are signing up from all over the country," said creator Andy Sullivan, a construction worker from Brooklyn. "People who sell glass, steel, lumber, insurance. They are all refusing to do work if they build there."

Whether you agree or disagree, I have to admit I admire that they are taking a stand even when it means giving up a scarce source of income in these rotten economic days. Standing up for one's principles seems to be a rare commodity these days.

"There were construction workers killed on 9/11 and many more who got horribly sick cleaning up Ground Zero," Coletti said. "It's very emotional."...[L.V. Spina said] "Hell, you could do it next to my house in Rockaway Beach, I would be fine with it. But I'm not fine with it where blood has been spilled."

Many people have criticized Obama for speaking out in favor of the mosque while at the same time ignoring the plight of many of the workers who died or got sick during the clean-up operations.

"It's a very difficult dilemma for the contractors and the organized labor force because we are experiencing such high levels of unemployment," [Coletti] said. "Yet at the same time, this is a very sacred sight to the union guys."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/20/2010-08-20_we_wont_build_it_hardhats_say_no_way_they_will_work_on_wtc_mosque.html

David E