US pays $23,000,000 to Norway for Security as Obama receives Peace Prize.

The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, with the winner, Barack Hussein Obama.

Karzai sentences US to fifteen to twenty of hard time. Obama's War to be Odyssey

Is anyone getting the impression that the Obama Administration is on the verge of an intellectual collapse?

Wrong about health care, wrong about TARP, wrong about foreclosures, wrong about global warming, wrong about cap and trade, job creation, fiscal stimulation and the bank bailouts, the community organizer once wrong about the surge in Iraq is now pitifully wrong about Afghanistan.

Within five days of Obama explaining his strategy for Afghanistan, he is contradicted about the time line by none other than his secretaries of state and defense. They were bobbing and weaving while their boss was shucking and jiving over just how long we will be in Afghanistan at the cost of one million dollar per year per man.

Now comes the comments of a man who should know more about Afghanistan than Obama, and that is the President, Hamid Karzai. Fifteen to twenty, he says.

Pity the Polar Bears

Climate change ‘ forcing polar bears to become cannibals’
But Inuit leaders have dismissed the idea, saying that it is a normal occurrence totally unconnected with global warming.

A polar bear with a cub it has killed and partly eaten

Foreign Staff Times on Line

A male polar bear dragged the grisly remains of a cub that it caught and killed in the Hudson Bay area, Canada, after separating it from its mother — one of a growing number of instances of cannibalism on record, according to climate change campaigners.

The bears may be forced into eating their own kind when the slower formation of Arctic ice leaves them with a shrinking platform from which to hunt seals, according to a study by American and Canadian scientists in 2006. The World Meteorological Association reported yesterday at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen that this decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top five warmest years.

However, a local Inuit leader dismissed the idea of any link between cannibalism and climate change. Jose Kusugak, the president of the Kivalliq Inuit Association, told reporters: “A male polar bear eating a cub becomes a big story and they try to marry it with climate change and so on. It becomes absurd — when it’s a normal, normal occurrence.”

IRS takes single mother of two down for being too poor

Rachel Porcaro, 32, a single mother of two, spent more than a year fighting off an Internal Revenue Service demand that she pay the government $16,000 for failing to report sources of taxable income outside her hair dresser's salary on her 2006 and 2007 tax returns. What drove the IRS to that conclusion? The fact that, according to their statistics, Porcaro, who earned just under $19,000 in 2006, couldn't possibly afford to raise her children in Seattle on her salary alone.

"The tax compliance officer pulled out an Excel spreadsheet printout and said something to the effect of … (that) IRS data showed that it takes $36,000 to support a family of three in Seattle," said tax manager Dante J. Driver, an accountant who worked with Porcaro to appeal the IRS's claim. "It looked and smelled like she was getting audited for being too poor."

In August the two sides agreed that Porcaro would pay just $1,600 to the IRS instead of $16,000. Driver said she could have fought that $1,600 debt too -- a charge the agency levied because it alleged Porcaro wrongly filed as head of household on her taxes and should not have claimed tax deductions for supporting her sons. But the time and money it would have cost to keep the battle going, Driver said, wasn't worth it.

The agency, meanwhile, didn't stop with Porcaro. The same month Porcaro agreed to pay $1,600, the agency audited her parents. The IRS auditor pursuing Porcaro's case "flat out said she was looking into them because of me," Porcaro said. "It was just a vicious cycle." Among the records Robert Porcaro and his wife were asked to provide: blueprints of his Seattle home showing where his granchildren, Rachel Porcaro's children, live.

"It's just been a real nightmare," he said. "I got the sense that they had somebody in their grips that they were going to make an example of."

The 59-year-old said that, fortunately for him, the IRS's audit ultimately found that he didn't owe anything more. In fact, it was just the opposite: The audit determined that government owed Porcaro some $200. That was cold comfort to the Seattle man, however: His accounting fees totaled $2,000. Rachel Porcaro's accounting bill is even higher -- $8,000.

A War By Any Other Name...

Months ago the Obama Administration banned the phrase “war on terror”. Now, with a rash of terrorism occurring on US soil, the priority of Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, has not been the safety of American citizens but to fly to the United Arab Emirates to assure the energy providers we depend on that the U.S. government objects to anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of a variety of incidents in 2009:

1. Major arrests of Americans accused of plotting with Al Qaeda and its allies, including an Afghan American charged in a New York bomb plot described as the most serious threat in this country since the Sept. 11 attacks.

2. Extremism suspects joining foreign networks, including Somali Americans going to the battlegrounds of their ancestral homeland and an Albanian American from Brooklyn arrested in Kosovo.

3. The FBI arresting homegrown terrorism suspects in Dallas, Detroit and Raleigh, N.C., saying that it had broken up plots targeting a synagogue, government buildings and military facilities.

4. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who once said that infidels should be beheaded and boiling oil poured down their throat, killing 13 people in a Ft. Hood, Texas, shooting rampage last month.

5. A shooting in June by an American convert who killed a soldier and wounded another at an Arkansas recruiting center, apparently a case of a lone wolf radicalized in Yemen.

Citizen Rufus: A jobs and energy program that would work

Rufus Said:

We could put a 25 million gallon/yr ethanol refinery in all 3,000 Counties for about the same money we gave AIG. We could have it done in 5 years.

If so ordered, the automakers could make every new car, and light truck Flexfuel Next Year.

We would, for all intents, and purposes, be OUT of the Oil "Importing" Business.

December 06, 2009 6:40 PM


rufus said...
It would be a One-Time Cost to us of just about what we're spending in the Middle-East Every Year.

December 06, 2009 6:44 PM


rufus said...
It would knock about $15,000,000,000.00/Mo off our Current Accounts Deficit, and turn our Dollar into Solid Currency, again.

December 06, 2009 6:49 PM


The beauty of ethanol is that every locality has a feedstock. We can save a lot of money on transportation costs by keeping it local.

December 06, 2009 6:59 PM


rufus said...
I'm sitting here watching the "local" channel. A local National Guard Battalian is getting ready to deploy to Iraq.

We have about 120,000 Great Guys in Iraq. THAT is just about how many people would be employed by my LOCAL ethanol Refineries.

I don't know about you all, but I'd one hell of a lot rather have them over here making fuel for my car than "Over There" guarding "Theirs."

December 06, 2009 7:05 PM

Mon Dec 07, 12:20:00 AM EST

Obama Deporting Veterans

Federal law requires everyone who enlists or re-enlists in the Armed Forces of the United States to take the enlistment oath. This oath is a permanent oath of allegiance to the United States of America very much like the oath taken by my best friend Fely on the Fourth of July, 2008 to become an American citizen.

The U.S. Army strengthened efforts to recruit more skilled soldiers by offering a fast track to U.S. citizenship if immigrants enlist. Currently there are 30,000 non-citizens serving in the US Army alone. My own father was a Philippine national who became a US Citizen by serving in the US Navy in the 60s and 70s. "When your tour ends," Obama said to those now serving, "when you touch our soil, you will be home in America that is forever here for you, just as you've been there for us. That is my promise."

According to the Cato Institute, immigrants account for more than 20% of recipients of Congressional Medals of Honor, the country's highest award for battlefield valor, equating to more than 700 immigrants who served the U.S. in wars with heroism "beyond the call of duty,"

Few of us can imagine the horror of combat, the physical and mental injuries sustained by our troops in war. Many of our troops find it difficult to adjust when they rotate back to the "world" and some of these get in trouble with the law. Almost half of the Vietnam veterans with PTSD have been arrested or jailed.


Approximately 3,000 military veterans from wars in Vietnam, Grenada, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan are currently deported or imprisoned awaiting deportation. Most of their cases involve misdemeanors and felonies. Some combat Veterans are being deported after serving time in jail, and some without any jail time at all.

I'm all in favor of law and order, but I'm also about keeping our promises.

More Self Delusional Nonsense on Green Building

Go to the 25 second mark and look at what is going on in the background while this clown is talking about this project.




Radio Netherlands

China’s certainly going to be under discussion at the UN Climate Change Summit, which kicks off in Copenhagen next Monday. For years China has been coming up with plans for sustainable cities and green villages – but until recently none of them got off the drawing board. The much-heralded plan for a green city near Shanghai for instance, drawn up by British company Arup. Other projects like the green village developed by the famous American environmental architect William McDonough were a failure. The houses were much too expensive for the villagers and it also transpired that few of the houses were actually built following the original plan.

Hopes are now settled on a joint Chinese-Singaporean plan on the Bohai Sea. Top political figures are involved in this projected green city and construction work has already begun.

Close to the area where this project is underway, the Dutch engineering firm DHV is quietly working on another green neighbourhood: a series of artificially created islands in the sea to house 20,000 people in an environmentally friendly fashion. But again the question is, just how green will this green city turn out to be?