Practically Speaking
Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Dave Ramsey's Bailout similar to Ryan & Sensenbrenner's
http://www.daveramsey.com/media/pdf/the_common_sense_fix.pdf The Common Sense Fix
Years of bad decisions and stupid mistakes have created an economic nightmare in this country, but $700 billion in new debt is not the answer. As a tax-paying American citizen, I will not support any congressperson who votes to implement such a policy. Instead, I submit the following three step Common Sense Plan.
INSURANCE
a. Insure the subprime bonds/mortgages with an underlying FHA-type insurance.
Government-insured and backed loans would have an instant market all over the
world, creating immediate and needed liquidity.
b. In order for a company to accept the government-backed insurance, they must do two
things.The Common Sense Fix
Years of bad decisions and stupid mistakes have created an economic nightmare in this country,
but $700 billion in new debt is not the answer. As a tax-paying American citizen, I will not support
any congressperson who votes to implement such a policy. Instead, I submit the following threestep
Common Sense Plan.
I. INSURANCE
a. Insure the subprime bonds/mortgages with an underlying FHA-type insurance.
Government-insured and backed loans would have an instant market all over the
world, creating immediate and needed liquidity.
b. In order for a company to accept the government-backed insurance, they must do two
things:
1. Rewrite any mortgage that is more than three months delinquent to a
6% fixed-rate mortgage.
a. Roll all back payments with no late fees or legal costs into the
balance. This brings homeowners current and allows them a
chance to keep their homes.
b. Cancel all prepayment penalties to encourage refinancing or
the sale of the property to pay off the bad loan. In the event of
foreclosure or short sale, the borrower will not be held liable
for any deficit balance. FHA does this now, and that
encourages mortgage companies to go the extra mile while
working with the borrower—again limiting foreclosures and
ruined lives.
2. Cancel ALL golden parachutes of EXISTING and FUTURE CEOs and
executive team members as long as the company holds these
government-insured bonds/mortgages. This keeps underperforming
executives from being paid when they don’t do their jobs.
c. This backstop will cost less than $50 billion—a small fraction of the current proposal.
II. MARK TO MARKET
a. Remove mark to market accounting rules for two years on only subprime Tier III
bonds/mortgages. This keeps companies from being forced to artificially mark down
bonds/mortgages below the value of the underlying mortgages and real estate.
b. This move creates patience in the market and has an immediate stabilizing effect on
failing and ailing banks—and it costs the taxpayer nothing.
III. CAPITAL GAINS TAX
a. Remove the capital gains tax completely. Investors will flood the real estate and stock
market in search of tax-free profits, creating tremendous—and immediate—liquidity in
the markets. Again, this costs the taxpayer nothing.
b. This move will be seen as a lightning rod politically because many will say it is helping
the rich. The truth is the rich will benefit, but it will be their money that stimulates the
economy. This will enable all Americans to have more stable jobs and retirement
investments that go up instead of down.
This is not a time for envy, and it’s not a time for politics. It’s time for all of us, as Americans, to
stand up, speak out, and fix this mess.
Brookfield's City Clerk & voter registration checks
http://legalnewsline.com/news/216035-judge-oks-van-hollens-lawsuit-against-elections-officials
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van
Hollen will be allowed to sue state elections officials to force them
to verify thousands of voters' identities, a judge has ruled.
Van
Hollen, a Republican, is seeking to force the state Government
Accountability Board to confirm the identity of thousands of voters
before the Nov. 4 election by cross checking information on thousands
of voter registrations against information in other state databases.
Democrats claim that the attorney general's lawsuit is a means to suppress the vote.
Van
Hollen filed the lawsuit last week against the state's Government
Accountability Board over claims the board failed to meet the federal
Help America Vote Act of 2002, known as HAVA.
The Government
Accountability Board's attorney,Lester Pines, had argued that Van
Hollen should be disqualified because state Supreme Court rules say
attorneys cannot sue their own clients.
Dane County Circuit
Judge Maryann Sumi on Wednesday disagreed, saying that the attorney
general can sue to force state agencies to adhere to the law.
"Whether
or not the attorney general should be using his authority in this way
is something to be decided at the ballot box when the attorney general
is subject to reelection," Sumi said.
In his lawsuit, Van Hollen
said Wisconsin was required to have a system in place that would meet
federal elections requirements no later than January 1, 2006. However,
the system was not in place until just recently.
The attorney
general said had Wisconsin met the HAVA deadline, new voters who
registered by mail since January 1, 2006, would have been subject to a
so-called "HAVA check" to ensure that the information they provided to
election officials matched the information in other public databases.
"The
goal of this requirement is to protect the integrity of elections by
ensuring that only those who are qualified and properly registered
would be permitted to cast ballots," Van Hollen said, announcing his
lawsuit.
Some food labels to state country of origin
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-10-01-food-labeling_N.htm Food now gets label of origin
If Liberals cite Bible, they should know the Bible
The L.A. Times just came up with this phony roadblock to Governor Sarah Palin's new role as Republican VP nominee: To some evangelicals, Palin's career violates biblical teachings. Actually, following their logic, she should not have run for mayor or governor then either.
Guess the LA Times writer never read about the Proverbs 31 woman, or Deborah the Judge of Israel, Queen Esther who saved the Jews from extermination. But then, I would guess Teresa Watanabe has not really read the Bible much less studied it.
Shorewood native David Zucker's movie American Carol, opens Oct. 3
I went to school with the Zucker brothers. Jerry was in my class; David was 2, maybe 3 years ahead. Although I really did not know them, I remember they were funny even back then.
You may be familiar with David Zucker's work from the 1980s movie Airplane. He and fellow Shorewood grad. Jim Abrahams wrote and directed that movie The rest as they say is history.
Why did warnings of financial doom fall on deaf ears?
Right now we are seeing the results of warnings unheeded. Freddie and Fannie, once thought too big to fail, did. The taxpayer had to bail them out. Now many lending institutions are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The taxpayers again need to bail them out.
More and more is coming out about the warnings sounded by Republicans about the Community ra. No one listened then. They were dismissed by Barney Frank and Maxine Waters?
Tax break for wooden arrows? And that's the good part of Senate bailout
The Senate bailout plan passed Tuesday night. The bill went from the 113 page house version to 450-something pages! How could the Senators even read 450 pages?
This travesty of a bailout bill epitomizes everything wrong with Washington: Dire problem...Don't fix problem...Load on the pork...Make problem worse.
2nd Obama ad lies about McCain/Palin stem cell stance
I heard it again today. A new campaign ad that lies about McCain and Palin's stance on stem cell research.
This new one says that McCain cannot be trusted on stem cell research. That McCain voted both ways in the Senate. That Palin is against ALL stem cell research. THIS IS NOT TRUE.
links: Acorn, voter fraud
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723
ACORN's Senator
sunspots, solar flares knock out grid
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f1ddaf0-8fd9-11dd-9890-0000779fd18c.html
Not every bank is broke, Wells Fargo to buy Wachovia
Last week, I was at US Bank; a CD had matured. I asked the banker, does US Bank have money to lend? Could I get a loan if I needed one? He said, Yes, it was no problem. (I have a good credit score.)
A local car dealer last week said they had money for financing too.
"Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
Short trips: Out and about in West Bend
The weather promises to be beautiful this weekend. How about a short trip to the north?
My sister and I recently took a little jaunt to West Bend. Our mission was to visit the Museum of Wisconsin Art and hopefully do a little digging into some background information on Wisconsin artist Francesco Spicuzza.
Barney Frank
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,432501,00.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/
ACORN at root of voter fraud and mortgage mess
http://marklevinshow.com/2008/10/01/acorn-and-obama/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQAHKxuR1Q&feature=related
Uncle Sam is broke. Where will Obama get money for promises?
Early in his campaign, Obama said he would get money from Iraq war? Now he is sending troops to Afghanistan. look up http://www.angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20159
Obama, in turn, has proposed billions of dollars in spending to create jobs and pad government programs aimed at helping the less fortunate. He has said that the money will come from ending the Iraq war, slicing tax breaks for corporations, and raising taxes on high-income earners, efforts he says are intended to shift more of the tax burden to wealthy Americans.
Democrat's donations key to why they think rich must pay more taxes?
I always find it interesting to see how much politicians give to charity. Senator Joe Biden gave a paltry $995 last year, yet he made $2,450,042! And his $995 to nonprofits was over twice his normal yearly giving for the past 9 out of 10 years. Why do I say paltry? Because many teens I know give more money from their part time job income than he gave in his past average donations. Biden made almost $2.5 million but gave such a little amount... amazing.
Actually, I am surprised at his Scrooge-ishness, because Biden says he is a Catholic. I would have thought he would have given his church more. (David Wade, a spokesperson, said the Bidens did give to their church, “The charitable
contributions claimed by the Bidens on their tax returns are not the
sum of their annual contributions to charity.” That could be the case. But why they wouldn't record these donations and put them on their tax return is beyond me, since that is such a standard practice. It raises the question, if you aren't claiming the entire amount, then why list any at all?)
The silver lining is...oil prices fell 40% since July
Boy, that bailout bill really helped, didn't it? The Dow is now below 10,000 at the time of this writing. The rest of the world isn't faring much better.
But don't they say that every cloud has a silver lining, or it is an ill wind that blows no good?
The Teflon, Velcro, and Teflon II of presidential politics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/oct/05/barackobama.sarahpalin
Storm over Palin's terrorist jibe at Obama
The Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has signalled the gloves are off, accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists"
Why bailout won't work
http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/10/02/senate_bailout_bill/
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Why the Senate Bailout Bill Will Fail Taxpayers
My BIG campaign issues: economy & voter fraud
Both are tied to ACORN. Both are tied to Obama
Newsweek, Palin Just one of them folks?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/06/newsweek-palin-too-common-too-stupid-be-vice-president-shes-dang http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/06/newsweek-palin-too-common-too-stupid-be-vice-president-shes-dang
Newsweek's Jon Meacham thinks that Governor Sarah Palin is too much a commoner and too stupid to be allowed to become vice president of the United States of America and apparently his employer agrees with him. The October 13 cover of Newsweek features a close up photo of the Governor with the headline "She's One of the Folks (And that's the problem)," and Meacham writes the accompanying cover story. Be clear about what this means: This is a direct attack on Mr. and Mrs. America. We are all too stupid to be president in the elite opinion of Jon Meacham and Newsweek magazine.
It's Puffball mushroom season
There was a buzz of excitement amongst the adults in my aunt and uncle's Brookfield home, as they laid their treasures on the kitchen counter. They had just returned from a mushroom hunting expedition at Kinsey Park and the 2 neighboring homes and had struck pay dirt.
Boxes of Puffball and Morel mushrooms were their prize.
Comic Relief: ABC's Match-o-Matic on Obama & McCain
Between the voter fraud issue and yesterday's stock market, sometimes a body needs a little comic relief!
Here it is: How well do you know your Presidential Candidate? Match-o-Matic II
Carp seemed like a good idea at the time or Don't mess with nature!
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=802759 Surge in Asian carp could lead to expanded range Oct. 5, 2008
Want to know why I am so leery of "scientific" intervention into a natural problem? Try a track record of blunders in the name of preserving nature. Trout introduced into Lake Yellowstone, the St. Lawrence Seaway introducing parasitic species into the Great Lakes, damming rivers that leads to destroying habitat and species, and more.
ACORN's Las Vegas office raided. Reason? Voter fraud complaints
That's right. ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation this morning: (My emphasis)
Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
Ayers Obama connection
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/dnc/1127918,ayers082608.article
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308271974461547 Obama's Real Problem With Ayers
Why bother getting a good education?
We are told time and time again that we need to spend more on public education. Why? So that our children can be competitive in a world market.
Parents want their children to succeed in life and most young adults want to land a job that has a big, fat paycheck. Some college students might play the game that they are not interested in materialism, but that is probably because they are living off their parents!
McCain goes to La Crosse Friday, Palin not willing to give up Michigan
On the news yesterday, I heard that John McCain and Sarah Palin will go to La Crosse Friday after their stop in Waukesha on Thursday. I think that is a good move. McCain will also be in Mosinee, WI, and Palin in Wilmington, OH later on Thursday.
Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin said she wanted to go back to Michigan--she wasn't giving up on that state. That is good news for Michigan since The GOP in Michigan is still trying to "boost efforts" in the state.
George McGovern backs voter privacy, Obama doesn't
Would you like to go to the polls on Nov. 4th and have everyone view your ballot? Not too many people would. The right to a private ballot is important to Americans.
Peer pressure can be a powerful force--especially in unions. There is a bill right now called the Employee Free Choice Act, HR 800. The name would make you think it protected privacy. It doesn't. Senator Barack Obama co-sponsored and voted for it.
From little ACORNs big voter fraud grows
Is ACORN Stealing the Election? That was the title of Wednesday's Investor's Business Daily's editorial. It is a long but worthwhile read (also sickening.) The connections to Obama are troubling: Obama worked for ACORN and his campaign paid ACORN.
It's a legitimate question to raise now that the FBI has raided the offices of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Nevada and North Carolina, two states where Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck. ACORN has registered bogus voters in both states.
Not every vote should count, but which ones shouldn't?
The specter of voter fraud looms larger every day in the battleground states. People all over our country are wondering if the winner on Nov. 4th will be the legitimate recipient of properly registered voters or the product of massive voter fraud. There is growing fear and evidence it could be the latter.
Yesterday, authorities raided the Las Vegas ACORN/Reform Now office. How many fraudulent registrations did they find? Who knows. From The Las Vegas Review-Journal:"We don't know how many (falsified forms) are here; there may be two, or there may be thousands," said Bob Walsh, spokesman for the secretary of state's office.
Wall Street Journal on McCain vs. Obama's health plan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122343823408914411.html Obama and Health-Care Equity, Barack defends tax subsidies for the rich
An American Carol: Funny & thought provoking, but w/reservations
I saw An American Carol on its debut, Friday, Oct. 3. Usually I wait for a movie to hit the Budget Theater, but with these more offbeat type films, often you better see them when you can. (Same thing happened with the movie, Expelled. It just came out on DVD in case you missed that one.)
The movie had some very funny lines, bits, and situations, but also contained some real points to ponder. Actor Leslie Nielsen plays a grandfather of a Navy man, the Bob Cratchit of the story, who is about to ship out to the Persian Gulf. The Navy man's uncle is the Michael Moore-like character, Michael Malone--the Scrooge.
Chicago Annenberg Challenge: The Obama and Bill Ayers connection: Stanly Kurtz on
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=190453 Conservative columnist breaks down his research on Obama-Ayers Ties
Stanly Kurtz from the Ethics and Public Policy Center talks about the Obama / Bill Ayers connection.
It stinks. Why can't we ask?
Today's Washington Times piece, PRUDEN: Smells from the shadows sums up much of what's fishy about this election: the voter fraud, the biased media, and of course, Sen. Barack Obama's questionable associations. (My emphasis)
Something odd is going on. The Obama campaign boasts of a landslide in the making even as his polling lead slips a point or two, and there's anger bordering on rage when John McCain and Sarah Palin raise questions about Barack Obama's judgment in his unexplored past in Chicago.
A plea for poll watchers to avert voter fraud
At yesterday's McCain/Palin Town Hall meeting, a person from Milwaukee County's Republican Party passed out info to the waiting crowd: "Your VOTE is being STOLEN!" It gave some information about the problem of voter fraud.
"National activist groups such as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), come to Milwaukee and members have been charged with padding the voter list by adding fake names. Once these fake names are on the voter lists, they can be voted by people claiming to be that person."
Questioning Obama's character and judgment
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_character_still_questio.html A Question of Barack Obama's Character, Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association.
Jay's Teflon Obama
Teflon Obama http://www.rightviewwi.com/the_right_view_wisconsin/2008/10/teflon-obama.html
McCain & Palin up close at Waukesha Town Hall + pictures
Well, I got up bright and early on Thursday and was out in Waukesha by about 8:20 for the McCain & Palin Town Hall meeting. The morning was sunny and the crowd excited. (I should have been there earlier.)
Indiana's ACORN operation run from Milwaukee
You cannot make this stuff up. CNN reported that Indiana ACORN office turned in half of their registrations from deceised people.
Milwaukee's ACORN office is helping in Indiana
Elm Grove's Sendik's Fall Extravaganza Oct. 9-15th
Here is something fun to do this weekend...stop in at the Balistreri Sendik's stores and celebrate fall!
The brochure said there were drawings over the weekend, chef demos, samples, and great values. "Each time you shop you can enter to win one of several fabulous prizes": 2 Midwest Express tickets, Golden Guernsey Milk for a year, a Sendik's shopping spree and an entertainment package.
Will Germantown buy into school not costing taxpayers?
When the Germantown school board opted to end all day 5K???next year to send the message to their residents that they were in such need of extra space (code for they needed a new elementary school, they never dreamed that the stock market would tank by election day.
"Osama" on one N.Y. county's ballots, no kidding
It's the old typo problem again. Barack 'Osama" on Rensselaer County ballots! Hundreds of the absentee ballots were mailed out in that county.
"Is it a Freudian slip, intentional act or a mistake? Voters are sure to have opinions, and one pol pointed out that the letters 's' and 'b' are not exactly keyboard neighbors.
Beautiful day? Try lunch up on the roof garden
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Last July my high school girlfriends and I lunched at an interesting restaurant in Shorewood, the ANABA TEA ROOM.
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It was a beautiful day and we opted to have lunch up on their roof garden.
Farrakhan equates Obama to The Messiah
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=77539
Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'
'Barack has captured the youth,' will bring about 'universal change'
Posted: October 09, 2008
8:03 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
McDonald's noticed some weren't "Lovin' it"
McDonald's Straightens Up and Fries Right!
Additional Resources
California bailout: try spending less!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122368038058324729.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
California Is Headed for a Real Fiscal Train Wreck, The state should spend less before calling on Uncle Sam.
He was for Public Financing before he ditched it
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367340072924059.html?mod=djemEditorialPage Rich vs. Poor, Obama crushes McCain with his wallet.
No doubt about it, Barack Obama is spending a lot more on ads than John McCain. You would think Obama would be higher up in the polls. Maybe that should be the story.
Idaho's earliest snow, Still no sunspots
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_global_warming;_ylt=Agqlv09zKbJs1eUUt1SWMaGs0NUE
eFFORTS ON GOLBAL WARMING CHILLED BY ECONOMIC WOES
A call for emergency legislation
I was just thinking...could Congress enact some sort of emergency legislation for a nationwide voter ID requirement, and if a voter did not have one, their ballot be cast provisionally. Guess I wasn't the first.
GrasstopsUSA sent out an email, asking that we demand "Congress be called back into session IMMEDIATELY and emergency legislation must be passed that simply states that voters must produce a valid state or federal ID at the polls or have their vote counted provisionally." (I do not support GrasstopsUSA financially but find their emails interesting.) This has a snowballs chance of going anywhere, but dealing with voter fraud after the fact is pretty ineffective.
Tax refund to those who don't pay taxes
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/13/obama-tax-cut-refunds-those-who-dont-pay/
Obama tax cut refunds those who don't pay
Volunteers for Obama...all the way from Hamas' Gaza Strip
Did you get your phone call yet? Believe it or not, some Gaza youth support Obama's presidential bid and are making phone calls for him:
"Hello, I'm calling from Gaza. I want some of your time. We are supporting Barack Obama…" For the past seven months, a group of 24 students and young professionals have gathered in the Gaza Strip nightly to phone random telephone numbers in the United States, urging the voices at the other end to "vote for Barack Obama."
Christianity is not an ala carte menu
One of the most important differences between the 2 political parties is their Pro-Life or Pro-[Abortion]Choice stance.
Democrat candidate Barack Obama has the most liberal record on abortion.
What is a tax cut?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385651698727257.html#printMode
Obama's 95% Illusion, It depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is
A Hooters in Brookfield? So much for image
Adios Pedro's. Hola Hooters. UGH
We learned last week that Hooters restaurant won the auction for the bankrupt Pedro's restaurant. So much for Brookfield's image.
The voter fraud ACORNs just keep piling up
An Ohio woman explains how ACORN workers pushed her to vote multiple times. "Even if you tell them that, 'I've already registered,' they'll be like, 'Well, just sign your name and give us the the last four of your social and we'll do the rest."
From Fox News: (My emphasis)
I'm wondering about a Bradley Effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect The Bradley Effect
Not in the way you might think. I am wondering about the Bradley Effect among African Americans.
McCain asks for election monitoring help
We
need your help to ensure a fair and honest election. Already we have
seen nationwide voter registration fraud by ACORN - a group closely
linked to Barack Obama.
ACORN is under investigation for fraudulent activities in at least 11
states and they are accused of wrongdoing in many others. Election
officials across the country have reported that 40-50% percent of
registrations being turned in by ACORN are fictitious and are clogging
up the system.
We have seen corruption in nearly every contested state:
ACORN's
activities are poisoning the political system while advocating for
Barack Obama's campaign. Make no mistake about it: voter registration
fraud has only one purpose and that is voter fraud.
We need you to sign up today to ensure that this election is not stolen.
If you haven't done so already, we still need your
commitment to volunteer to participate in our campaign's Election Day
and Pre-Election Day voting activities. Please sign up to help at the Elections Day Operation Sign Up website today.
There are many ways you can help reduce voter fraud during this
election. Examples include serving as an election monitor,
participating in a legal response team, and serving in an election
response center. Roles exist for concerned citizens, attorneys, and law
students.
R and PG-13 movies in Elmbrook Schools
've recently become aware by parents in our community, as well as by School Board members, that "R" rated movies are being shown in classrooms within our Elmbrook Schools (as part of "curriculum") and are also kept within the school libraries. Please consider contacting Elmbrook School Board members as this item will be up for discussion very soon. Board Members need to hear from the community in order to make changes to this policy (or lack thereof). Board Member email addresses can be found in the email address section below.
To: "Glen Allgaier" <allgaieg@elmbrookschools.org>
, "Tom Gehl" <gehlt@elmbrookschools.org>, "Gary Jones" <jonesg@elmbrookschools.org>, "David Marcello" <marcelld@elmbrookschools.org>, "Stephen Schwei" <schweis@elmbrookschools.org>, "Meg Wartman" <wartmanm@elmbrookschools.org>, "Robert Ziegler" <zieglerr@elmbrookschools.org>
Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 8:43 PM
Arnold Schwarzenegger OK, Howard Dean OK, but Sarah Palin NOT OK?
It amazes me that the question is still out there: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be Vice President or God forbid, President? Considering Senator Barack Obama has so little experience, the question is laughable.
In the race for the White House, Governors traditionally are hands down the favorite against Senators or Congressmen. Since Governors must prepare a budget and run their state, it is thought that their executive experience translates more completely to the presidency than experience in other branches of government.
Parents, what is your child learning at school?
We value education in the United States. Parents often make sacrifices to send their children to good colleges. But do you know who is teaching your child? Do do you know what your young adult is learning at their school?
More and more information is coming out about William Ayers, the self proclaimed terrorist, member of the Weather Underground that bombed the Capitol, Pentagon, and police headquarters, and professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. A terrorist, whose only regret about the bombings was "we didn't do enough," a college professor?
Fed up? Where do you get your news?
I stopped watching network news long ago. I just couldn't take it anymore. CNSNews.com
New twist on Reagan's "I'm from the govt...to help"
One of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotes is, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
I spotted an artful new twist on that same theme on a Drudge Report ad,
Lincoln's platform in direct contrast to Obama's
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
~ President Abraham Lincoln, a founder of the Republican Party
GrassTops
Sing it: ACORNs keep falling on my head...
Remember the song, Raindrops keep falling on my head? I'm thinking we need a new version: ACORNs keep falling on my head! (Sing along to the original song's last refrain.)
ACORNs keep falling on my head,
Obama is no Robin Hood
Joe the plumber, fox news kabuto
America was socialistic once, it didn't work
Bradford and Pilgrims tried communal farming. It did not work then, it won't work now
Recession proof businesses, not many in Brookfield
Recession proof businesses
It is not over yet
I remember during the 2004 election, it seemed George Bush was doomed. The results were different however: Zogby got it right. So this time around, I don't pay much attention to the other polls, which often are stacked with more Democrats than Republicans, I just check Zogby. Today, Obama is down .8% and McCain up 2.4% from yesterday; they are 3.8 % apart. Rasmussen is another poll that is respected. It shows a 5% lead for Obama nationally.
Considering that Obama is outspending McCain at least 5 to 1, you would think Obama would be way ahead, not just around 4% nationally. The bad economy helps Obama more than it helps McCain. Add to that the lack of coverage by mainstream media to report anything controversial about Obama and it makes McCain's down by 4% look more positive.
Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays
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The fix: What works?
Lower taxes--Reagan, Kennedy Raise taxes--Hoover, Carter?
Lower corperate taxes--Ireland, Raise corperate taxes, Europe?
**Obama on Partial Birth Abortion: Are you for or against? Yes
Partial Birth Abortion is a barbaric procedure in which doctors induce a late term pregnant woman to actually give birth, but before the baby is totally delivered, doctors will puncture the child's brain to kill it. If any other culture did that we would be outraged. (This procedure is to be confused with late term labor induced abortion, which occurs earlier in the pregnancy.)
Partial Birth Abortion was "banned by the Congress and signed by the President in 2003" The Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2007. Even pro-abortion Sen. Daniel Moynihan, Democrat from N.Y. voted to ban partial-birth abortion. He said the practice was "too close to infanticide."
Canada just elected new Prime Minister, will US follow suit?
Our race for the White House seems like it has gone on forever. Canada just got the job done in less than 2 months. (Lucky them!)
Who did Canadians elect? The Conservative or the Liberal?
Love that Joe the plumber, he calls Obama on tax plan
We are learning more and more about Barack Obama's tax plan--it is not a tax cut but a socialistic increase in spending.
As Obama was on the campaign trail in Ohio this week, Obama encountered Joe the plumber--a small businessman. He was not impressed with the Obama tax plan. Fox News Neil Cavuto interviewed Joe.
A chilling comparison: Obama & Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
On Tuesday, I listened to Mark Levin. (WISN radio, 9pm) I like Mark Levin, but what he said sickened me.
I challenge you to listen to the podcast from 10/14 The Mark Levin Show. The first half of the broadcast is primarily about how Obama's campaign is straight out of Alinsky's book.
It's Puffball mushroom season again
There was a buzz of excitement amongst the adults in my aunt and uncle's Brookfield home, as they laid their treasures on the kitchen counter. The grownups had just returned from a mushroom hunting expedition at Kinsey Park and the 2 neighboring homes and had struck pay dirt.
Boxes of Puffball and Morel mushrooms were their prize.
Sources from joe the plumber and socialsim
http://fairlyconservative.com/good-job/i-heart-huckabee/ I heart Huckabee
Joe the plumber sure put a face on the problem with taxing small businessmen and giving it to workers paying little or no Federal income tax at all.
How Ireland expanded their economy and attracted businesses
Lowered the taxes on business.
Democrats love to harp on how many jobs are sent overseas. Yet they continue to make the business climate in America very uncomfortable. Just like anyone would, a business will locate where the conditions are the most favorable.
...with liberty, and drivers license for all (including illegal aliens)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KznfyCqL44c
http://www.nationalrepublicantrust.com/licenseforillegals_dr.html
Elmbrook's levy rate increases, property values decrease
Elmbrook's tax rate on the rise
http://www.brookfieldnow.com/watch/?watch=14&date=10/15/2008&id=47561
Elmbrook's referendum off to an over budget start
http://www.brookfieldnow.com/watch/?watch=14&date=10/15/2008&id=47553
About 10% over?
School construction bids $300K over budget
It's not Obama's skin color I object to, it's that he leans too RED
Presidential candidate Barack Obama has used his skin color to his advantage in this election. Anytime anyone brings up his past associations with Rev. Wright, terrorist William Ayers, Father Flager, or FannieMae's Franklin Raines, etc., Obama's campaign squawks, that's racist. (Go figure, 2 of those men are white.) Referencing Obama as a community activist/organizer was deemed a code word for black too.
But in just the past few weeks, more disturbing relationships have come to light: Obama's ties and associations with The New Party socialists and Marxists.
Biden warns of international crisis in 1st 6 months, "Gird your loins"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html Biden to Supporters: "ird Your Loins", For the Next President "It's Like Cleaning Augean Stables"
ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday
guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested
by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he
will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly
unpopular, decisions.
"Mark my words," the Democratic vice
presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle
fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests
Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're
about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United
States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't
remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international
crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
"I
can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might
originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the
Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And
the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not
financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence,
your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's
not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're
right."
Not only will the next administration have to deal with
foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current
economic crisis.
"Gird your loins," Biden told the crowd.
"We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this
is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is
gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the
Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think
about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital
crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we
have with this economy."
The Delaware lawmaker managed to rake
in an estimated $1 million total from his two money hauls at the
downtown Sheraton, the same hotel where four years ago Sen. John Kerry,
D-Mass., clinched the Democratic nomination. Despite warning about the
difficulties the next administration will face, Biden said the
Democratic ticket is equipped to meet the challenges head on.
"I've
forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so
I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added,
but this guy has it," the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of
Obama. "This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I
promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going,
'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so
down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some
incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you
now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the
faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce
us."
"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa,
wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision',"
Biden continued. "Because if you think the decision is sound when
they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not
likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular,
they're probably not sound."
Biden emphasized that the
mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of particular concern, with
Osama bin Laden "alive and well" and Pakistan "bristling with nuclear
weapons."
"You literally can see what these kids are up against,
our kids in that region," Biden said in recalling when his helicopter
was forced down due to a snowstorm there. "The place is crawling with
al Qaeda. And it's real."
"We do not have the military
capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to
dictate outcomes," he cautioned. "It's so much more important than
that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it."
After speaking for just over a quarter of an hour, Biden noticed the media presence in the back of the small ballroom.
"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked.
"All
kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place," he then
said of the Bush regime, promptly wrapping up his remarks. "We have the
ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so
I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."
The UN-Fairness Doctrine, set for comeback under Dem. majority?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/dems_get_set_to_muzzle_the_right_134399. DEMS GET SET TO MUZZLE THE RIGHT
America's early socialist experiment
Socialism! There, I've said it
Liberals, such as Obama, might deny human nature, but they can't change it. And human nature happens to dictate that people will not produce as much when you confiscate more of what they produce and give it to others. The working wealthy, especially Christians and conservatives, are some of the most generous people in the world, but we're talking about voluntary charitable contributions, not unconstitutionally coerced redistributions.
Enough with the stimulus pkgs--Uncle Sam is broke!
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE49J60N20081020
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday it remained open to the idea of a second economic stimulus package but its willingness to accept a new plan would depend on details put forth by the Democratic-led Congress.
Joe the plumber not real? Too bad Obama's "Spread the wealth around" is
Joe the plumber sure put a face on the problem with taxing small businessmen and giving it to workers paying little or no Federal income tax at all.
Now we learn that Joe isn't Joe, he isn't a licensed plumber*, and in actuality, is not in such a high tax bracket**.
Houses ARE selling in Brookfield, Wisconsin, & U.S.
Daily, we are bombarded by bad news about the housing market. The media makes it seem that nothing is selling and that a mortgage is impossible to obtain. But this is not true. Take a look at our local market GOING PRICES
We had a home sell very quickly on our street that was on that price list. It seemed to sell fast too--in about 2 months. The new owners now occupy. Another home in our neighborhood on that list also sold over the summer.
FDR's New Deal slowed recovery just like Newest New Deal will
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455099434052597.html?mod=djemEditorialPage Get Ready for the New New Deal Obama is much more dangerous to economic freedom than FDR
Private retirement plans vs. Social Security: Which gives more?
Do you know how much you contribute to Social Security every month? What if you had that money to invest yourself? Would you have done a better job?
Ever look at your yearly Social Security statements? It is enough to make you cry.
...with liberty and health care for all
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401623_pf.html Importing Poverty
A second reason is that immigration affects government policy. By default, our present policy is to import poor people. This imposes strains on local schools, public services and health care. From 2000 to 2006, 41 percent of the increase in people without health insurance occurred among Hispanics. Paradoxically, many Hispanics are advancing quite rapidly. But assimilation -- which should be our goal -- will be frustrated if we keep adding to the pool of poor. Newcomers will compete with earlier arrivals. In my view, though some economists disagree, competition from low-skilled Hispanics also hurts low-skilled blacks.
With age comes Wisdom... Teeth
Sometimes procrastinating pays off.
***Economic factsThe "New Tax Welfare"
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D944H6EO0&show_article=1 Obama infomercial short on taxes? http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDMzMzRlOTJhNjdmYWI1YWY3OTg3MTVjNjZiNjI5MjU= Obama's New Tax Welfare Behind the 95
Barack Obama says he plans to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers. That sounds terrific, but there are three problems. One, it is meant to draw attention from the real core of the Obama tax plan: proposed increases in every major federal tax. Two, the structure of the cuts will create perverse incentives. And three, many of the people receiving “tax cuts” don’t pay taxes to begin with, meaning they’ll be in effect getting welfare.
About 1/5th of uninsured are illegal aliens
Mark Levin Show, Oct 21, about 1/4 to 1/2 into podcast.
When I was in grade school, Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey were popular TV series. I have a vague memory of one episode where an uninsured person, a woman, I think, goes to the hospital emergency room. She is turned away. I can't remember if she died or not, but it was a dramatic show.
**Welcome to the gulag: media investigations
State of Ohio used their data base to investigate Joe the Plumber. look for link
*Nov. 9th: International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church
Sunday, November 9th is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
We Americans have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please and often are unaware of the plight of believers in other parts of the world. Organizations such as Open Doors and Voice of the Martyrs work to raise awareness of worldwide religious persecution and strive to aid these persecuted believers.
Now Democrats are after our 401Ks?
We've invested $81 billion into 401Ks because those investments are made from pre taxed dollars! they consider those to be theirs!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122477680834462659.html Eyeing Your Pension Are 401(k)s safe from congressional Democrats?
The Open Doors challenge: Send Bibles to Muslim converts
Open Doors is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the
persecuted Christian church around the world. It was the result of a one man
crusade, that began in 1955, to support the local persecuted church in Iron Curtain countries. That
man was Dutch Christian, Andrew van der Bijl, better known as Brother Andrew.
Brother Andrew turned 80 this summer (pictured left), and he is still going strong.
The boycott is over, "McDonald's straightens up and fries right!"
I almost forgot about this: the McDonald's boycott ended about 2 weeks ago. Family Research Council reports:
The Big Mac attack on family values is finally over! After a five-month boycott, Americans finally got what they ordered-McDonald's agreement to stop financing the homosexual agenda. Back in May, the fast food giant joined the Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to the dismay of millions of customers who did not feel served. At the time, company Vice President Richard Ellis refused to back down, even calling conservatives "haters" in a public statement.
Stay in our hotels, aborting young mothers do
Family Research Council brought this very disturbing news to my attention: Choice Hotels' Quality Inn in Maple Shade, New Jersey and the Clarion Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey are offering a room discount up to $50 to women who are in the process of having an abortion. From Family Research Council:
According to volunteers from the area's [New Jersey's] "40 Days for Life" campaign, many of the patients leaving the Cherry Hill clinic are "alone, crying, and in extreme pain." After their digoxin injections, these mothers are sent home or to area hotels to wait for their babies to die. The next day, they return to the clinic to deliver their dead children.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asks, Want a TV section?
Most people I know are thoroughly disgusted with the Milwaukee Journal's liberal bias. One woman canceled her paper after the Journal failed to quote Governor Palin accurately in a headline...it was her last straw.
Now the paper asks, do you still want to receive the TV Cue section on Sundays?
Want to still receive it? That is one of the reasons we get the paper! ;-) Oh, the Sunday ads are good too. (The articles are online after all and I hate the piles of newspaper that gather in the house.)
Unique, handmade gifts: Holiday Marketplace annual sale Oct. 24th & 25th
Two very talented ladies hold a wonderful sale every October in a home in my neighborhood.
This year their sale is Friday, Oct. 24th from 7pm to 10pm, and Saturday from 10am to 4pm.
Krauthammer's right on the money
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=309651841624262
Why would Colin Powell's edorsement matter?
The fact that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama late in the game doesn't surprise me at all. What does surprise me is that Democrats made so much of it.
Many Conservatives were never too impressed with Colin Powell, so the fact that he favors Obama now doesn't make us shake in our boots. If someone like Justice Clarence Thomas would endorse Obama, that would shake things up, but not Powell.
Yikes! Oil at $60-something/barrel, Gasoline at $2.69
Tuesday I got a tank full of gas for $2.69 a gallon. Sure wish gas prices were that low in August when we went to Yellowstone! Our trip cost us $549 in gasoline for 3,188 miles. If we made that trip now, we would have saved about $200. (Of course, Old Faithful Lodge is now closed for the winter season.)
The U.S dollar ended stronger than usual. One US dollar will now purchase $1.26 in Canada, .62 Pounds, and .78 Euros.
Candidates had foreign policy briefing. What does Biden know that we don't?
Both parties' candidates just had a foreign policy briefing--a standard practice used to bring the next president up to speed. What isn't standard is a candidate shooting his mouth off after the briefing. Biden's warning: (My emphasis throughout.)
"Mark my words," Biden said in San Francisco last Saturday. "With the next, first six months of this administration, if we win, they're going to — we're going to face a major international challenge. Because they're going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They're going to want to test him."
Unique handmade gifts at Holiday Marketplace annual sale: Oct. 24th & 25th
Two very talented ladies hold a wonderful sale every October in a home in my neighborhood.
This year their sale is Friday evening, Oct. 24th from 7pm to 10pm, and Saturday from 10am to 4pm.
Polls have a bias--they will tighten up now because they all want to be right
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=278 Eighty-Four percent say they'd never lie to a pollster, Oct. 15
...In addition to the social pressure to constantly prove you're not a
racist, apparently there is massive social pressure to prove you're not
a Republican. No one is lying about voting for McCain just to sound
cool.
Reviewing the polls printed in The New York Times and The
Washington Post in the last month of every presidential election since
1976, I found the polls were never wrong in a friendly way to
Republicans. When the polls were wrong, which was often, they
overestimated support for the Democrat, usually by about 6 to 10
points.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter narrowly beat Gerald Ford 50.1 percent to 48
percent. And yet, on Sept. 1, Carter led Ford by 15 points. Just weeks
before the election, on Oct. 16, 1976, Carter led Ford in the Gallup
Poll by 6 percentage points -- down from his 33-point Gallup Poll lead
in August.
Reading newspaper coverage of presidential elections in 1980 and
1984, I found myself paralyzed by the fear that Reagan was going to
lose.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan beat Carter by nearly 10 points, 51 percent
to 41 percent. In a Gallup Poll released days before the election on
Oct. 27, it was Carter who led Reagan 45 percent to 42 percent.
In 1984, Reagan walloped Walter Mondale 58.8 percent to 40
percent, -- the largest electoral landslide in U.S. history. But on
Oct. 15, The New York Daily News published a poll showing Mondale with
only a 4-point deficit to Reagan, 45 percent to 41 percent. A Harris
Poll about the same time showed Reagan with only a 9-point lead. The
Oct. 19 New York Times/CBS News Poll had Mr. Reagan ahead of Mondale by
13 points. All these polls underestimated Reagan's actual margin of
victory by 6 to 15 points.
In 1988, George H.W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis by a whopping 53.4
percent to 45.6 percent. A New York Times/CBS News Poll on Oct. 5 had
Bush leading the Greek homunculus by a statistically insignificant 2
points -- 45 percent to 43 percent. (For the kids out there: Before it
became a clearinghouse for anti-Bush conspiracy theories, CBS News was
considered a credible journalistic entity.)
A week later -- or one tank ride later, depending on who's telling
the story -- on Oct. 13, Bush was leading Dukakis in The New York Times
Poll by a mere 5 points.
Admittedly, a 3- to 6-point error is not as crazily wrong as the
6- to 15-point error in 1984. But it's striking that even small "margin
of error" mistakes never seem to benefit Republicans.
In 1992, Bill Clinton beat the first President Bush 43 percent to
37.7 percent. (Ross Perot got 18.9 percent of Bush's voters that year.)
On Oct. 18, a Newsweek Poll had Clinton winning 46 percent to 31
percent, and a CBS News Poll showed Clinton winning 47 percent to 35
percent.
So in 1992, the polls had Clinton 12 to 15 points ahead, but he won by only 5.3 points.
In 1996, Bill Clinton beat Bob Dole 49 percent to 40 percent. And
yet on Oct. 22, 1996, The New York Times/CBS News Poll showed Clinton
leading by a massive 22 points, 55 percent to 33 percent.
In 2000, which I seem to recall as being fairly close, the October
polls accurately described the election as a virtual tie, with either
Bush or Al Gore 1 or 2 points ahead in various polls. But in one of the
latest polls to give either candidate a clear advantage, The New York
Times/CBS News Poll on Oct. 3, 2000, showed Gore winning by 45 percent
to 39 percent.
In the last presidential election the polls were surprisingly
accurate -- not including the massively inaccurate Election Day exit
poll. In the end, Bush beat John Kerry 50.7 percent to 48.3 percent in
2004. Most of the October polls showed the candidates in a dead-heat,
with Bush 1 to 3 points ahead. So either pollsters got a whole lot
better starting in 2004, or Democrats stole more votes in that election
than we even realized.
*Is Wall Street's plunge reflecting fears of Obama presidency?
Today, Cindy Kilkenny at Fairly Conservative posted Is an Obama win already priced into the stock market? She said there was a "lively discussion on CNBC this morning" on the subject. She has a graph that is worth looking at showing a possible correlation between Obama's lead and the market's fall.
Her post triggered my memory that I started working on a similar post. This one. Others have suggested the same idea. In June, Newsmax came out with a 'President Obama and the Coming Stock Market Crash' Special Report: (My emphasis)
What can you expect when the liberal media chose both candidates?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15718&R=13C7B8B Sarah Palin's Future Alaska's most valuable resource oct 27 Fred Barnes
Elon, North Carolina
Six thousand tickets were grabbed up in three hours for Sarah Palin's
speech here at the baseball field of Elon University. An even larger
crowd--9,000 inside, 3,000 outside--showed up across the state in
Greenville a few days earlier. But impressive attendance isn't the half
of it. What's extraordinary is the effect Palin has on crowds. "When
she hits the stage audiences erupt and they don't calm down," says
Republican senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, who appeared with
Palin here and in Greenville. "I've been with Bush, Clinton, 41--and
I've never seen anything like this."
Bailouts and new govt. programs: like a shark feeding frenzy
Maybe I should say Shark Spending Frenzy? Trouble is, the government is the shark and our wallets are what they are feeding on!
Right now, Washington Democrats are working on Ted Kennedy's health care bill. They are discussing a new reitrement program that would do away with your 401K type investment.
Silver lining: Illegals return home because of economic slump?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Headlines/Default.aspx?id=298968
Poor US economy forcing illegals to return home
Obama lawyers ask for voter fraud investigations delay 'til after Nov.4th
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297446 Obama seeks delay in voter fraud investigation
Barack Obama's presidential campaign is pressuring the Department of Justice to put off a probe of voter registration fraud allegations leveled against the now infamous liberal group ACORN.
I just don't get it people don't like policy, but vote for dems
Congress has the lowest approval rating of all time.
Democrats in both houses do not support any real domestic oil exploration and drilling, but the majority of Americans do.
Barney Frank calls for major defense cuts, Biden says we're i
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/10/24/frank-calls-for-25-percent-cut-in-defense-spending-eventual-tax-hikes/ Frank Calls for Major Devense Cuts, 'Eventual' Tax Hike
Businesses in panic over Dem majorities, will run ads
Mark Levin, oct 24 10pm? Mark talks about chamber of commerce of some type will start to run ads because they are terrified of an obama victory and how bad that will be for biz if house and senate are filibuster proof
ACORN overstated their "harvest"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24acorn.html?em Group's Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated
On Oct. 6, the community organizing group Acorn and an affiliated charity called Project Vote announced with jubilation that they had registered 1.3 million new voters. But it turns out the claim was a wild exaggeration, and the real number of newly registered voters nationwide is closer to 450,000, Project Vote’s executive director, Michael Slater, said in an interview.
The "Gore Effect," chilling!
I found this interesting blog, The Reference Frame, on the Drudge Report. It's written by Lobos Motl, a Czech physicist.
Seems Al Gore is having a tougher time speaking out about the dangers of Global Warming. Frequently, unusually cold weather accompanies him on his speaking engagements. This must happen fairly often because there is even a term for it, The Gore effect:
posts
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/25/comedy-gold-wftv-interviews-biden/ Comedy gold: WFTV interviews Biden,
America already IS land of Hope & Change
Franklins quote, A Republic, if you can keep it.
Elmbrook to discuss Chapter 220 enrollment Tuesday R movies?
enrollment R movies
Obama wish list--Obama reality check
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_michael_barone/a_reality_check_on_obama_s_wish_list A Reality Check on Obama's Wish List, A commentary by Michael Barone Oct. 25, 2008
What will an Obama administration and a Congress with increased Democratic majorities do? That's a relevant question, given the Democrats' leads in the polls. And it's a little hard to answer, given the financial crisis that has been raging and the recession that seems to be ahead.
The elitists don't like Palin...they didn't like Reagan either
I've been to 2 McCain Palin rallies. Believe me, Republicans and conservatives adore Sarah Palin. Many of them would never have braved the crowds and long lines for John McCain. But for Sarah? Yes. The question, Can we reverse the ticket? (Palin, McCain) is more than a light hearted joke.Yet, there are those supposed Republican elitists who look down their noses at her with disdain. Some go as far as throwing their support to Barack Obama. Can someone who says they are a conservative or Republican really be for Barack Obama? Does that ring true?
Would employers still offer health insurance if govt.'s is cheaper?
Hawaii had to drop their free coverage for children. Parents who were paying for their children's coverage dropped it in favor of the freebie plan?//Look for link
Some good health insurance plans cost the employer about $1,500/mo. Would that employer still offer that plan or just pay the fine? Even the McCain plan characterizes the family insurance premiums at $14,000 per year.
Biden: "We've not paid them [ACORN] one single penny"
An interview of Sen. Joe Biden by Barbara West at Florida's WFTV caused quite a stir over the weekend. She asked several very blunt questions about ACORN, the international crisis Biden forecasted if Obama was elected, and is Obama a Marxist? HotAir dubbed West's interview, Comedy gold: WFTV interviews Biden: (Video link included)
Barbara West began the interview with,
Equal pay for women? Obama pays women 83 cents/dollar men earn
Get your political flier on Obama wanting equal pay for women? I did .
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10222008/news/politics/shop_spree_sarahs_150g_party_clothes_134694.htm Oct. 22, 2008 Shop-spree Sarah's 150G 'Party' clothes
Obama's Spread the Wealth interview vs. my Spread the Wealth
http://fairlyconservative.com/obama/is-obamas-spreading-of-the-wealth-a-euphmism-for-reparation/
You Tube
Obama lowered income for tax increase to $200,000, Biden to $150,000, see a trend?
Over weekend, Obama lowered that income level that he would start "taxing" to $200,000 from $250,000.
That doesn't mean much to me since we are closer to mid 6 figures. But to dual income families, this will mean a lot. Same for those Joe the Plumber small business men.
Journalism died during this campaign, 1st Amendment soon to take hit
http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/1176/10/1176_1224605107.pdf Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? Monday, Oct 20, 2008
Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper
columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting
the current state of journalism.
An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism.
You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the
public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the
evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the
rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
U.N. hopes for Obama victory and errosion of U.S. Soverignty
Obama's Global Poverty Act not only would cost Americans nearly $860 billion??? but more importantly it would compromise America's sovereignty. Is it any wonder those at the U.N. are rooting for Barack Obama?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102502011_pf.html At the U.N., Many Hope for an Obama Win Oct 26
Frank: cut 25% on military spending, Biden: We're underprepared
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081024/NEWS/810240332/-1/NEWS10
Frank envisions post-election stimulus from Democrats Oct. 24,
Kennedy works on Govt. healthcare with or without Obama
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/24/kennedy-secretly-crafts-health-care-plan/
Kennedy secretly crafts health care plan Turns 'cause of his life' into '09 bipartisan bill Oct 24
How to control a society
Taxes, health care, and retirementWhich candidate would you invite for coffee? Sarah, meet Silvia
Governor Palin returned to her home state, Alaska, after the convention. In watching interviews with the locals, it was pretty hard to miss that they all call her "Sarah." (She does enjoy a 68 to 80% approval rating.)
The ability for the public to relate to a candidate and imagine going out for a beer with in elections is a huge advantage they say. Since I don't drink, I will translate that familiarity to having coffee together.
Elmbrook to discuss Chapter 220 enrollment, Tues. Oct. 28, 6pm & 7pm
The Elmbrook School Board will be discussing future Chapter 220 enrollment at their work session on Tuesday, Oct. 28th from 6:00 to 6:55pm at the District Offices.
The actual board meeting begins at 7pm with the 2009-2010 Chapter 220 and Open Enrollment planning topic starting at 8pm.
A real letter from Corey the driller
http://www.eclecticwill.com/2008/10/open-letter-to-sen-obama-from-corey-miller-the-well-driller/ Open Letter to Sen. Obama from Corey Miller the Well Driller
Good day boys and girls. A friend of mine forwarded me the letter that I’m about to post. She apparently got a hold of it from a talk show out west and it was written to the talk show host by a real person. I have done my due diligence, checked it out on snopes and checked out the website of the person whose name was quoted in the email.
Business "officially horrified" at prospect of filibuster-proof Senate
I first heard about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ads on Mark Levin's Friday, Oct. 24th broadcast. (About at the 40 minute mark.) Mark also discussed socialism and floated the possibility that Obama somehow considers his spreading the wealth as reparations.
Mark characterized the business community as being "officially horrified" at the prospect of being under a Democrat majority House, Senate, and presidency. From the Wall Street Journal, Business Finally Fights Back The U.S. Chamber of Commerce throws its weight against a filibuster-proof Senate: (My emphasis)
13 fewer "bogus" Ohio Obama votes--from workers + other fraud
Would these 13 be some of those campaign workers Biden was proud of? In fairness, the McCain campaign was warned too, but I have not seen details about numbers of them withdrawing their ballots. (My emphasis throughout.)
BAM Staffers pull their bogus Ohio ballots Oct. 25, 2008
Catholic Church solidly against abortion
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081026/OPINION10/81025022/1004/OPINION
Catholic Church has made no exception regarding abortion since ancient times oct 26
Media bias so blatent even Dan Rather agrees!
When Dan Rather notes the media is biased in favor of the Obama campaign, how can you continue to deny it? (My emphasis throughout)
Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather says there is a huge double-standard in the media when it comes to coverage the Barack Obama campaign receives, which is clearly made evident in the lack of scrutiny given to comments Obama’s vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden made earlier this week. [Re: international crisis]
McCain's health plan explained, benefits are NOT taxed
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/19ba2f1c-c03f-4ac2-8cd5-5cf2edb527cf.htm
Obama doesn't think HE should have to spread his wealth
Funny thing about Socialists and Marxists. They say everyone should spread the wealth around. quote from Marx each according to his ability but they believe they themselves are exempt from that mandate.
Did Fidel Castro live the same lifestyle as the average Cuban?
I repeat: who is teaching our kids? Ayers & other terrorists
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=279 AYERS: Radical Loon When Obama Was Only 47
The media are acting as if they completely and fully vetted Obama
during the Democratic primaries and that's why they are entitled to
send teams of researchers into Alaska to analyze Sarah Palin's every
expense report.
In fact, the mainstream media did no vetting. They seem to have
all agreed, "OK, none of us will get into this business with Jeremiah
Wright, 'Tony' Rezko, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and everyone's
impression of an angry Michelle Obama on 'The Jerry Springer Show.'"
During one of the Democratic primary debates, Hillary Clinton was
hissed for mentioning Syrian national Rezko, and during another, ABC
moderator George Stephanopoulos nearly lost his career for asking Obama
one question about William Ayers.
In the past week, TV anchors have taken to claiming that Obama
"refuted" John McCain's statement that Obama launched his political
career at the home of former Weather Underground leader Ayers.
No, Obama "denied" it; he didn't "refute" it. If "denying"
something is the same as "refuting" it, then maybe the establishment
media can quit harping on Palin's qualifications to be president, since
she too "refuted" that by denying it.
Back before the media realized it needed to lie about Obama
launching his political career at Ayers' house, the Los Angeles Times
provided an eyewitness account from a liberal who attended the event.
"When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard,
innocuous little talk in the living room of those two
legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were
launching him -- introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best
thing since sliced bread."
The Times has now stripped this item from its Web page, but the great blogger Patterico has preserved it for posterity on his Web page.
Obama's glib remark that "Bill Ayers is a professor of education
in Chicago; 40 years ago when I was 8 years old he engaged in
despicable acts with a domestic group. I have roundly denounced those
attacks" -- doesn't answer anything.
First of all, the fact that Ayers is a professor of education
proves only one thing: He is dumber than any person without an
education degree.
Ayers is such an imbecile, we ought to be amazed that he's
teaching at a university -- even when you consider that it's an ed
school -- except all former violent radicals end up teaching. Roughly
80 percent of former Weathermen are full college professors -- 99
percent if you don't include the ones killed in shoot-outs with the
police or in prison -- i.e., not yet pardoned by a Democratic
president.
Any other profession would have banned a person like Ayers.
Universities not only accept former domestic terrorists, but also move
them to the front of the line. In addition to Ayers, among those once
on the FBI's most-wanted list who ended up in cushy college teaching
positions are Bernardine Dohrn (Northwestern University), Mark Rudd (a
junior college in New Mexico) and Angela Davis (History of
Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz).
While others were hard at work on Ph.D.s, Susan Rosenberg was
conspiring to kill cops and blow up buildings, and was assembling
massive caches of explosives. This put her on the fast track for a
teaching position at Hamilton College!
Despite having absolutely no qualifications to teach, having
earned only a master's degree in "writing" through a correspondence
course, Rosenberg was offered a position at Hamilton within a few years
of President Clinton pardoning her in 2001, releasing her from a
58-year prison sentence for participating in the murder of cops and
possessing more than 700 pounds of explosives.
But Obama thinks it's a selling point to say that Ayers is a college professor.
Hundreds of college professors have signed a letter vouching for
Ayers, which would be like Lester Maddox producing a letter from George
Wallace assuring us that Maddox is a respected member of the community.
No, really, I've got the letter right here!
The media keep citing the fact that the money Obama and Ayers
distributed to idiotic left-wing causes came -- as The New York Times
put it -- "from Walter H. Annenberg, the billionaire publisher and
philanthropist and President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to the
United Kingdom."
Great Republican though he was, Walter Annenberg died in 2002. The
money came from the Annenberg Foundation, which, like all foundations,
distributes money to projects that its founder would despise. John
Kerry ran for president on the late John Heinz's money. That didn't
mean Republican Heinz was endorsing Kerry.
As John O'Sullivan says, any foundation that is not explicitly
right-wing will become a radical left-wing organization within a few
years. It could be the Association of University Women, the American
Association of Retired People, the American Rose Growers, the
Foundation for the Study of Railroad Engineers or the Choral Society of
Newport Beach.
Left-wing radicals swarm to free foundation money, where they can
give gigantic grants to one another and they will never have to do a
day's work. That's exactly what Obama and Ayers did with Annenberg's
money.
None of the Annenberg money went to schoolchildren. It went to
Ayers' left-wing crank friends to write moronic papers that we hope no
one ever reads.
Instead of teaching students reading and writing, Ayers thinks
they should be taught to rebel against America's "imperialist" social
structure. In 2006, Ayers was in Venezuela praising communist dictator
Hugo Chavez, saying, "We share the belief that education is the
motor-force of revolution."
He has backed a line of schoolbooks such as one titled "Teaching Science for Social Justice."
Forget about Ayers' domestic terrorism when Obama "was 8 years old." Does he agree with Ayers' idiot ideas right now?
Spread the Wealth already at Elmbrook and other schools
Everytime your child works on a cooperative learning project, they are the victim of spread the wealth around ideology
Even a masters paper can be written cooperatively.
Charitible contributions sink because of economy and Obama
See the New Tax Welfare Milwaukee arts group, symphony, charity,
LA Times won't release Obama toasting "Ex-PLO Operative" video
I am almost afraid to ask, what else don't we know about Barack Obama?
How about another friend, "Ex-PLO operative" Rashid Khalidi? Obama characterized Khalidi as just someone who sent his children to the same school as the Obama's did. But like William Ayers, it was a little more than that. (Ayers by the way is a friend of Khalidi.) Looking at the April 9th LA Times article about Obama at the 2003 farewell party for Khalidi, Obama himself said there was more,
One thing I'm glad Obama didn't accomplish: Global poverty act
http://www.govtrack.us/users/questions.xpd?topic=bill:s110-2433
Elmbrook's 2008-09 enrollment decline affects 2009-10 budget
Elmbrook enrollment down by 103 students, but no need to worry...now. "The state exempts districts from fluctuations in enrollment for one year."
I first learned about this delay at the April 8th school board meeting when they discussed the 2008-09 budget. There was mention that although the 4K pilot program was discontinued, Elmbrook's budget would still be based on their higher 2007-08 enrollment numbers*. It was a boon--a bit of free money.
Home Depot figured "...we need a little Christmas"?
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Dear Kyle,
Even janitor would know life began for some Obama said should dieNo wiggling out of this question by saying it is above my paygrade. Even a janitor would know these babies were children and were alive http://www.bornalivetruth.org/ Born Alive Truth Almost every job I had came from a rich personSen. Barack Obama's encounter with Joe the plumber gave us a glimpse into Obama's position on wealthy individuals and small businesses. Obama not only said those now famous words, I just want to spread the wealth around 2 more examples of the Big Chill, a.k.a. Global Chilling?The world must not have gotten Al Gore's memo that the earth is warming. Yesterday Record cold swept over the region Wednesday in Ocala, Florida. (My emphasis throughout)
Obama doesn't spread HIS wealth around but wants you toObama wants you to spread your wealth around, but doesn't do it himself. His charitable donations are abysmal, amounting to less than 2% on average. He wants you to contribute $845 billion to his Global Poverty Act, but he doesn't even help his own half-brother in Kenya. Guess he has no responsibility to half-brothers? That was quick. Choice Hotels responds to public pressurePeople, you have a voice. Use it! When you speak up in volumes to corporations or to Congress, it usually has a positive affect. McDonald's recently reversed its support for gay and lesbian political and social issues. Sen. McCain is talking about drilling domestically because Americans demanded it. Obama's I voted against it before I said I was for itOne of my favorite lines from the 2004 presidential campaigns was John Kerry's, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” His statement evolved into I voted for the war before I voted against it, and it became synonymous with the term flip-flop. Most politicians do this to a certain extent. John McCain has changed his stance on domestic oil drilling. Barack Obama certainly is not letting me down! Obama, JFK, technology, and the Cuban Missile Crisis--chillingRemember last week when Sen. Joe Biden predicted an international crisis if Obama was elected? "Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy" (Actually, Kennedy's test came 22 months after taking office.) Although the idea that an Obama presidency would generate an "international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy" is troubling, yet the comparison of Obama being like John F. Kennedy is flattering. Unfortunately, there is no comparison. 401K down? What about govt. takeover?http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/11d5316336c9cfe0
Vicki mcKenna linksVoter Public Access - Check Your Voting Record - Here Clinton says Obama asked, tell me what's right--I'll...sell itRemember when John McCain suspended his campaign and went to Washington to work on the economic crisis? Obama just said, if you need me, call me. Obama, JFK, technology, & the Cuban Missile Crisis...chillingRemember when Sen. Joe Biden predicted an international crisis if Obama was elected? "Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy" (Actually, Kennedy's test came 22 months after taking office.)
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