Video: Differences Between Congressional, Taxpayers under ObamaCare

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEALTH CARE YOU WILL RECEIVE
...AND THE HEALTH CARE CONGRESS and the PRESIDENT WILL RECEIVE

Will this video change your mind?

* Not if you're well-informed.
* Not if you're a liberal.
* Not if you're a member of Congress--and whatever decisions you make on health care for the little people won't affect you and your family.
* Not if you're a billionaire left wing financier who funds causes you don't have to deal with--because you are rich enough to avoid their consequences.

Anyone else?

Watch and let us know.





Another public service from Zoltar and the folks at I Own the World.


by Mondo Frazier
image: DBKP file

Forgettable Chuck Hagel: Senator WHO Attacks Rush Limbaugh

Chuck Hagel:
Most Known For

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For the complete version of this article, plus updates:

Chuck Hagel Attacks Rush Limbaugh: Senator WHO Retires Gracelessly

at DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts.com - DBKP

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Chuck Who?


Chuck Hagel celebrated the end of a Washington career by attacking Rush Limbaugh and others in Congress who disagreed with him.

"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh," Hagel said Tuesday during a speech in Washington, according to the Huffington Post.

"You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office," a sarcastic Hagel continued. "They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they have an answer for everything. And they would be elected overwhelmingly. [The truth is] they try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody but they don't have any answers."

"The American people don't like what is going on… they want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do, address the problems, find some consensus to governing. Get along. There will be disagreements, sure… but in the end we can't hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis."

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The Wit and Wisdom of Chuck Hagel

Hagel has compiled quite a record during his 12-year tenure in the U.S. Senate.




Hagel was initially elected in 1996 in a stunning upset that might be called "ethically-challenged".

[Hagel] also served as a Chairman and was CEO of American Information Systems Inc. (AIS), a voting machine manufacturer, this same company electronically counted 80% of the votes in the state in the very same election that he had his stunning upset. He did not disclose his position as CEO of the company in his mandated disclosures, until its name-change to Election Systems & Software (ES&S) in 1997. He had ownership interest in ES&S through its parent company The McCarthy Group as of January 29, 2003, when The Hill reported that, due to his ownership interest, “Hagel’s ethics filings pose disclosure issue”.

Hagel has been mentioned--most notably by his staff--as a cabinet possibility in the upcoming Obama administration. Failing that, he may return to lobbying.

Hagel will most be remembered for




Friends of the Senator, who wished to remain off-the-record, did say that "he works and plays well with others".

by Mondo Frazier
image: CNN-Getty

Bills in Congress Want to "E-Fence" the Internet

Congress to Make Ebay a Rat
Jason Lee Miller
WebPro News





Edward Feulner of the Cato Institute has said that Bills in Congress would turn Ebay and any website that conducts e-commerce into snitches for the government. The bills would force websites to conduct investigations into their customers that come under suspicion.

Jason Lee Miller, WebPro News, has the scoop.

None of the bills, two in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate, is expected to come to a vote before the Congressional recess—they’ve got bigger fish to fry in Bailout Brand oil at the moment—but the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing on the subject recently.

The purpose of the legislation is to target organized retail crime, or bands of shoplifters and hustlers hocking ill-gotten goods online, where the National Retail Federation, which has come out aggressively in favor of the legislation, says thieves can sell goods at 70 percent value. Street corners typically only bring 30 percent of the retail value.

The problem was highlighted recently when a New York vendor was busted selling Victoria Secret brassieres on eBay for $25 a pop. They typically sold for between $40 and $80. If you’re wondering why Homeland Security is being dragged in to this, it’s likely because of alleged past connections between organized retail crime syndicates traced to Hezbollah and Hamas.

Naturally, the Internet is to blame.

Though, NetChoice’s Steve DelBianco colorfully compared this logic to blaming the back seats of cars for teenage sex, the NRF’s vice president for loss prevention, Joseph LaRocca, has elevated the problem to the level of addiction to Class A narcotics. At the aforementioned hearing, LaRocca said:

"The Internet seems to be contributing to the creation of a brand new type of retail thief – people who have never stolen before but are lured in by the convenience and anonymity of the Internet. Thieves often tell the same disturbing story: they begin legitimately selling product on eBay and then become hooked by its addictive qualities, the anonymity it provides and the ease with which they gain exposure to millions of customers. When they run out of legitimate merchandise, they begin to steal intermittently, many times for the first time in their life, so they can continue selling online. The thefts then begin to spiral out of control and before they know it they quit their jobs, are recruiting accomplices and are crossing states lines to steal, all so they can support and perpetuate their online selling habit."

Soon you’re likely to see them on A&E’s “Intervention.” Though evidence of the above scenario is lacking, it sounds like Congress is taking this just as seriously as the NRF.

Individually, the bills are: H.R. 6713, the E-Fencing Enforcement Act of 2008, sponsored by subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott, D-Va.; H.R. 6491, the Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008, sponsored by Representative Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind.; and S. 3434, the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008, sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill.

Congressman Scott’s E-Fencing Enforcement Act mandates that online stores and resellers disclose contact information for high-volume sellers—with sales of $12,000 or more per year or sales of $5,000 or more in any single offering—“to any inquirer with standing under this section.” An “inquirer with standing” is defined as anybody who sends a copy of a signed report made to or received from law enforcement in the past year involving goods matching the description of those offered online after a theft.

Continue reading: Congress to Make Ebay a Rat

The Internet--and Alaska--represent the last frontiers in America. These bills, if passed, would leave Alaska, where the federal government already owns over 60% of Alaska.


by Mondo
image: dbkp
Source: Congress to Make Ebay a Rat

Drilling in ANWR: Like A Postage Stamp on a Tennis Court

Postal Crazy
Red Planet Cartoons



The dysfunctional energy policy of the US Congress is the subject of today lesson by Red Planet Cartoons, and RPC zeros in like a laser beam.

Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress’s recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate’s carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall profits tax on oil companies, to new punishments for “price gouging” – everything except expanding domestic energy supplies.

Amid $135 oil, it ought to be an easy, bipartisan victory to lift the political restrictions on energy exploration and production. Record-high fuel costs are hitting consumers and business like a huge tax increase. Yet the U.S. remains one of the only countries in the world that chooses as a matter of policy to lock up its natural resources. The Chinese think we’re insane and self-destructive, while the Saudis laugh all the way to the bank…
--from The Wall Street Journal: $4 Gasbags

Our only comment is that "gasbags" is too nice a term for the economically-illiterate buffoons in Congress who restrict supply and castigate oil companies who won't give their products away.

Red Planet also links to an assortment of interesting info:

* McCain Backs Incentives to Boost Offshore Oil.

* Top 10 Reasons to Support ANWR Development.

* The Only Domestic Drilling Democrats Support…

Other links are just as attention-grabbing, including "U.S. Has Enough Reserves to Be the #1 Oil Producer in the World."--something we've been speculating on for some time. Gateway Pundit moves the subject out of the realm of speculation.

Drilling in ANWR "won't produce any oil for ten years" is the Democrat mantra. Ten years ago, a little foresight would have helped ease gas prices right about now. What will it be like ten years into the future?

The reader is free to make his or her own guesses.

by Mondoreb
Source: Postal Crazy
Image: Red Planet Cartoons

OPEC Minister to American, Congress: Thanks!

Seen while perusing the Internet.

FOR CONGRESS TO MULL OVER

Think about it:

The OPEC minister may look you in the eye and say, "We are at war with you infidels and have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven't even recognized it.

You have more missiles, bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy.

We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!

While I am here I would like to thank you for the following:

* Not developing your 250-300 year supply of oil shale and tar sands. We know if you did this, it would create thousands of jobs for U.S. citizens, expand your engineering capabilities, and keep the wealth in the U.S. instead of sending it to us to finance our war against you infidels.

* Thanks for limiting defense dept. purchases of oil sands from your neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.

* Thanks for over-regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying, by decades, the development of alternate fuel technologies.

* Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in Alaska, and anywhere there is an insect, bird, fish, or plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer. Glad to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.

* Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the inside with theses types of policies. This is a gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use more energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive up food prices.
Thank you U.S. Congress!

* And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece you without end. You will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your debt and now manipulate your
markets, currency, and economies for our benefit.

THANK YOU AMERICA!

You stupid fools!

Praise Allah!

--We'll say it once again: sometimes the comments are better than the article posted.

by Mondoreb
Source:
* Comment by Barbara E., Scottsdale, AZ
on ENPR: Republicans Demoralized But Presidential Race Still Close
images: american

Elected Representatives: Working for Us or Themselves

Our Public Servants
by Nancy Morgan

Typical Congressional Budget Committee meeting


As millions of Americans are adjusting their lives and their pocketbooks to the new reality of exploding gas prices, our elected representatives continue toiling endlessly on our behalf.

A house subcommittee last week voted down a GOP led measure that would allow the U.S. to open up off shore areas for oil exploration. "The United States can't drill its way out of this problem", our servants endlessly intoned, as they effectively denied Americans the apr. 86 billion barrels of oil that lie off our coasts. Oh well, they're the experts. And after all, based on the latest Rasmussen poll only 67% of voters are in favor of drilling.

As ethanol mandates imposed by these very same experts continue causing some very serious unintended consequences, like global food riots and starving people, our elected servants astutely ignore this crisis of their own making, focusing instead on other vital issues of the day.

The House was busy passing an extension of jobless benefits for unemployed Americans, knowing full well that this measure had a very slim chance of passing the Senate and virtually no chance of surviving the promised White House veto. Their intentions were noted.

As the Supreme Court handed down a decision that effectively hinders the war on terror by allowing foreign terrorists the constitutional privilege of habeaus corpus rights, our dedicated public servants responded in various ways. A group of House Democrats kept busy petitioning Attorney General Mukasey to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate torture. Meanwhile, Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee is busy holding his own hearings on torture. Hoping, no doubt, to determine if using panties while interrogating terrorists violated their rights.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich took time off from his strenuous efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq to introduce another resolution to impeach President Bush. And Congressman Weiner (D-NY) had his hands full trying to fix what he perceived to be a shortage of fashion models in New York by sponsoring a bill that would give foreign models "of distinguished merit and ability" their own visa classifications.

Two other of our public servants, both openly gay, and of course, Democrats, were busy recruiting 50 of their colleagues to officially join them in promoting the homosexual agenda in Congress. Thanks to their tireless efforts, we now have the new House Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus. I, for one, will sleep better tonight knowing that the GLBT crowd will now have an official venue for their input.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) took a brief hiatus from their relentless search for the culprits responsible for the mortgage meltdown in order to spin the fallout from their very own 'sweetheart deals' extended to them by bad boy sub-prime mortgage lender Countrywide. Both Senators expressed frustration over 'the people's' inability to appreciate nuance and context.


Congressional cafeteria

We, 'the people,' are resting easier, knowing that our servants are experiencing the same spiraling food prices the people are. Apparently, feeding our public servants is getting so costly that the Senate dining concession needed another $250,000 of our tax dollars in order to continue providing the level of service to which our servants have become accustomed. Rather than allow this to happen, our servants in the Senate took a brave stand and voted to, gasp, privatize its failing restaurants. It was agreed by all that the fact that this government-operated food service lost about $18 million of the people's money over the last 15 years was unfortunate and unintentional.

Not to worry. Privatization is a desperate measure of last resort and our public servants assure us they will not consider this solution when addressing the people's business, like health care, social security, and education. After all, our servants are well aware that their primary job is to save ordinary Americans from the consequences of their own choices.

Oh, the travails of our noble, hard-working public servants. Selflessly toiling on the people's business, enriching their, oops, our lives and solving all the problems they create. Having to get by with less and less national appreciation and adoration as the media switches its focus to getting Obama comfortably installed in the White House. But they toil on, putting their own needs last as they fight to save America from itself.

As one of 'the people' whose business these selfless public officials are serving, I'd like to propose a big round of appreciation for these guys and gals. I think they have earned a long vacation and I'd be more than willing to allocate a portion of my 'investments' to see them get it.

Reuters wire: The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday's municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent.



by Nancy Morgan

Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina.
Article may be reprinted, with attribution.

images:
* Right Bias
* sixbucksamonkey.vox

Winning a Seat in Congress Like Hitting the Lottery

Congressional Members Strike it Rich

"Members of Congress, who are now paid about $169,000 annually, saw their net worths soar 84 percent from 2004 to 2006, on average."

The three "M"s: mining, manufacturing and money.

Those used to be the three tried and tested ways to strike it rich in America and elsewhere, with a lot of work--and a little luck.

Now, add "E" and "C" to those letters: Earmarks and Congress.

A study released yesterday said that entering Congress is one of the surest ways to increase personal wealth. Readers probably already guessed that, but the study puts facts to the claim.

Personal wealth of Congressman and Senators has skyrocketed in recent years--no surprise--with lawmakers far more richer than most Americans as of 2006.

Is it any wonder that there's such a battle to eliminate earmarks?

Earmark some project back home--it's only federal money, after all--and voila! Almost if by some force of nature, some of it finds its way back to the politician, his family or his campaign.

The median net worth of senators was estimated at $1.7 million and House of Representatives members at $675,000, said the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington watchdog group that monitors the influence of money on government.

The center released a report saying that until the recent economic slowdown, lawmakers "enjoyed an extraordinary run in their personal investments and other finances."

The report said, "Members of Congress, who are now paid about $169,000 annually, saw their net worths soar 84 percent from 2004 to 2006, on average."

It's no surprise that the "party of the poor", the Democrats, contain some of the wealthiest members.

Having lots of money shields politicians from the consequences of the laws they pass.

Joe Six-pack finds it a lot harder to hire a battery of tax attorneys and lawyers to handle the latest tax, but not wealthy Congressmen--or women.

Congress' wealthiest member was estimated to be California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman. The Los Angeles-area lawmaker is married to Sidney Harman, founder and executive chairman of audio products maker Harman International Industries.

The center said its findings were based on lawmakers' financial disclosure reports filed most recently, covering 2006, and from reports for the preceding two years. Data for 2007 will be made public this summer, it said.

The center estimated Rep. Harman was worth $409 million in 2006, but it said her net worth could be as high as $597 million and as low as $222 million because lawmakers are only required to disclose assets and liabilities in ranges.

"Determining an official's precise net worth is impossible using the financial disclosure forms that Congress currently employs," the center said.

"Like a lot of Americans, as the economy did well, Congress did well -- but lawmakers did especially well," said Sheila Krumholz, the center's executive director, in a statement.

"Now that the nation's economic road is turning rougher, members of Congress have a far more comfortable cushion than most Americans have to ride it out," she said.

Exactly.

No surprise, either that congressional investment flow to industries that seem to need constant legislation from those same congressional investors.

"They have millions of dollars invested in politically influential industries that they also regulate," such as real estate, banking, pharmaceuticals and energy, the center said.

When someone on Wall Street benefits from advance knowledge or inside knowledge, it's a crime. Just ask the many victims of Eliot Spitzer.

And no, we're not talking about the prostitute he had unprotected sex with. We're talking about the many businessmen strong-armed by Spitzer into copping pleas when he was on his prosecuting way to the New York governorship.

In many cases, "insider knowledge" was a Spitzer charge.

If only Spitzer's targets had been congressmen--then they all could have all had a laugh and a drink over the latest legislative coup.

It's only a matter of time before this study is confirmed by events that touch daily life. The one way readers can tell that winning a congressional seat is the way to a quick buck:

The late-night infomercial.

by Mondoreb
hat tip: Powell Gammill, FPhoenix
image: mesastate
Source: Get Elected to Congress and get Rich: study
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Congress Moves to Seize Control of ALL Water

We would call it a "land grab", but it isn't that, exactly.

It's a power grab, a rights grab and a water grab.

Congress Moves To Seize Control Of All US Water From Bathtubs To Baptismal Fonts

Congress Moves To Give the Corps of Engineers Control Of All U.S. Waters

Now, some will say, "so what?"

Those would be the sheep in the crowd.

Thank God, their kind was in the minority 231 years ago.

And for many of those in Congress?

231 years ago, they would have been the agents of King George III.

From the American Land Rights Association:

Issue: Having been slapped down by the U. S. Supreme Court's recent decision that the words "navigable waters" in the Clean Water Act limited federal agencies to regulation of navigable waters only. Democrats and liberal Republicans in Congress are striking back.

They are attempting to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (HR2421 and S1870) that would amend the 1972 Clean Water Act and replace the words "navigable waters" with "waters of the United States."

Further, it defines "waters of the United States" with such breathtaking scope that federal agencies would be required to regulate use of every square inch of the U.S., both public and private.

The proposed definition states: "The term 'waters of the United States' means all waters subject to ebb and flow of the tides, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes [a flat dried up area, esp. a desert basin.] natural ponds and all impoundment of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution."

Obviously, those behind this legislation have only contempt for the Constitution, limited government and private property rights.

After the above explanation, a few relevant quotes followed, which we have reproduced below.

To understand what the framers of the Constitution intended, one need only look to their writings and the writings of those from whom they took wisdom and direction. A few of thousands of quotes follow:

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments from Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free."

- John Adams, A Defence of the Constitution of the United States against the Attacks of M. Turgot, 1787.

"What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent."

- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Circular Letter, 1768.

".'tis not without reason that [man] seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates which I call by the name of property."

- John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1690

"The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable."

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Another in the long line of continuing encircling tentacles of government and its regulations.

This time over water.

All water.

What's next? Air?

by Mondoreb
image: iowastormwater
Sources:
* Rense.com
* Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association



Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Today in History: January 12, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, JEWS, CONGRESS, PROGRESS, DECREES, UNION, EXPELLED, FAUX COMPUTER, MARRIAGE, MEDICINE, REBELLION, SPORTS, FINANCE, WOMEN, PATENTS, VICTORY!, SCIENCE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SUPERMARKETS, DEATH PENALTY, CIVIL RIGHTS, DIPLOMACY, SERIAL KILLERS. CLIMATE, BANS, PLOTS, EXPELLED, RODENTS, MUSIC, BORN, DEATH, RESIGNATION


1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles

WAR!

1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814)

1836 Battle of Wetumka

1861 FL state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens

1863 President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address

1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC

1879 British Zulu War begins Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand

1942 National War Labor Board created

1942 British troops reconquer Sollum

1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender

1944 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh

1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterdam

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of the Bulge

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria

1991 US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)

TERRORISM

1971 Fed grand jury indicts Reverand Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

JEWS

1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily

1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow

CONGRESS

1933 US Congress recognize independence Philippines

DISASTERS

1552 Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed

1807 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Netherlands, 150 die

1903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown PA, killing 170

1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die

1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hours later 2nd one-kills 115

1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)

1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

PROGRESS

1812 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez

1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk PA

1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana

1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage

DECREES

1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever

UNION

1974 Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"

EXPELLED

1989 Idi Amin expelled from Zaire

FAUX COMPUTERS

1997 HAL becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey); this date was given as January 12, 1992 on screen, but 1997 is the date used in both the novel and screenplay

SCIENCE

1820 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England

1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia

1986 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched

MEDICINE

1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

REBELLION

1904 Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garrison

1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies

1964 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence

SPORTS

1906 Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass

1921 Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball

1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring

1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points

1966 Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics

1969 Super Bowl III New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath, New York Jets, Quarterback

1975 Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, Running Back

1988 Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1993 Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease

FINANCE

1906 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)

1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates

WOMEN

1915 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote

PATENTS

1937 Plow for laying submarine cable patented

FASTS

1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast

VICTORY!

1943 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)

SUPERMARKETS

1948 1st Supermarket in UK opens

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1949 "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV

1965 "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV

1968 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV

1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV

1981 "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins, premieres on ABC-TV

DEATH PENALTY

1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1928 Ruth Snyder 1st woman to die in electric chair

1950 USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage

CIVIL RIGHTS

1952 University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student

1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes



MARRIAGE

1993 MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow

DIPLOMACY

1961 UN genocide pact goes into effect

1976 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organization

MUSIC

1963 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1

1974 "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1

SERIAL KILLERS

1979 Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham

CLIMATE

1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

RESIGNATION

1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training

BANS

1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

PLOTS

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder

POPES

1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia

RODENTS

1965 Porcupine in Washington DC zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent

BORN

1580 Jean Baptiste van Helmont Belgian chemist, (found boiling point temperature)
1588 John Winthrop 1st Governor (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
1588 Jose Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto] Spanish painter
1599 Adrian van Utrecht Flemish painter
1729 Edmund Burke British author (Philosophy & Inquiry)
1737 John Hancock patriot (1st to sign Declaration of Independence)
1852 Joseph J C Joffre French field marshal (Indo-China, Marne)
1863 Vivekananda Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
1876 Jack London writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1893 Hermann Goering Reichsmarshall/propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
1902 Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia)
1906 Henny Youngman England, comedian (Take my wife please...)
1906 Tex Ritter Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, The Wayward Wind)
1916 A P(ieter) W Botha Orange Free State, President of South Africa
1917 Walter Hendl West New York NJ, conductor
1920 James Farmer Marshall TX, civil rights leader
1921 John Henry Davis Jr Smithtown NY, light-super-heavyweight (Olympics-gold-1948, 52)
1921 Leo Smit Philadelphia PA, pianist/composer
1926 Ray Price country singer (For The Good Times)
1930 Glenn Yarborough singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
1935 "The Amazing" Kreskin Montclair NJ, mentalist/telepath
1943 Ray Manzarek rock pianist (Doors-Light my Fire, People are Strange)
1944 Vlastimil Hort Czechoslovakian/German chess player
1947 Tom Dempsey NFL record-holder (longest field goal, 63 yards)
1951 Kirstie Alley Wichita KS, actress (Star Trek II, Cheers-Rebecca)
1951 Rush Hudson Limbaugh III Cape Girardeau MO, conservative radio & television host
1951 Bill Madlock 4X NL batting champ (Chicago Cubs)
1951 Chris Bell Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Big Star)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Danville VA, country musician (Somebody Lied, From a Jack to a King, Rockin' Years)
1954 Howard Stern Roosevelt NY, "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
1960 Dominique Wilkins NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1968 Heather Mills Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb)
1996 Sarah Morales Mexico, Siamese twin (survived)
1996 Sarahi Morales Mexico, Siamese twin (died on Jan 27, 1996)

DEATH

1517 Vasco Núñez de Balboa Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41
1829 Friedrich von Schlegel German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56
1962 Ernie Kovacs comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42
1976 Agatha Christie mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85
1978 Nancy Spungen stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
1981 Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89

January 12, the 12th day of the year. There are 354 days left in the year.

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Source: Today in History





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One Year Out: How Have the Dems Done?

It's been one year since Democrats won the 2006 elections. As Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) points out:

One year ago, when they took control of Congress, House Democrats made many promises. Most of all, Democrats promised you that they were ready to govern – over the past year it has become all too clear that they have let you down.

Take a moment to watch our latest web video, which highlights the performance of House Democrats over the past year. With an 11 percent approval rating, the lowest in recorded history, it’s no wonder that Speaker Pelosi recently remarked, "I know that Congress has low approval ratings, I don’t approve of Congress, because we haven’t done anything."

This may be the solitary instance when we've heartily agreed with Nancy Peolosi.

Watch the video and make up your mind. Were the Democrats right to commission RAPH for a new symbol?

What do you think?

by Mondoreb
[graphic: RidesAPaleHorse; video: ericcantor]



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Democrat Leadership

The sign says it all.

Source: Michael Ramirez in IBD.

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Democrat Congress Takes a Vacation, Military Funding Takes it On the Chin

[Above]: Democrat leaders go on vacation; troops abandoned in the field

Congressional Democrats demonstrated what they do best: nothing.

Well, vacation is a break from work and that's what they did. Of course, it's hard to tell from their list of accomplishments(sic) when this Congress is in session or when it's recessed.

Normally, the fact that Congress is not in session is to be applauded: if America needs one thing less than a terrorist attack, it's another law. The "there ought to be a law" mentality is perfect for both trial lawyers and those to lazy to think of alternatives or unintended consequences of new laws. Congress not in session equals no laws being written.

But this Congress has left a standing U.S. Army in the field, in need of funds. While members of Congress are out pursuing votes, the military will out pursuing funds. More on this latest example of how this Congress supports the troops from Wake Up America's Congress Goes on Vacation and Abandons the Troops:

They failed in their 41st attempt to force an immediate withdrawal and they went on vacation without passing the bill to fund our troops in the field, even after Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned them what the ramifications of such actions would do to our military.

Basically they are determined to punish our troops for doing the unthinkable and succeeding in Iraq, which even the die hard liberal media outlets are blasting across their front pages because the progress is undeniable.

Next time you a Democrat leader uses the word 'historic' in relation to this Congress, give them their due.

It would be the first time an army, victorious on the field of battle, has been de-funded by it's own country in an effort to reverse the victory.

by Mondoreb




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Great Moments in Congressional History

Michael Ramirez in IBD.

Bush Blasts Congress? More Like BB Gun Rhetoric

[photo:CNN]
by Mondoreb

At CNN's website, the headline read "Bush Blasts Congress". Oh, if only that had been true. What was reported in the story and what the headline screamed were two different thingss. President Bush's press conference sounded pretty tame for a 'blasting'.
From CNN:

President Bush attacked Congress on Wednesday, ripping the new Democratic leadership for failing to achieve much in their first nine months of power.

Bush used his opening statement to list areas where he said "Congress has work to do": health care; security; the budget; education; housing; trade; help for military veterans; law enforcement and the judiciary.

He complained about progress on a number of bills before Congress, including children's health insurance, spending plans and internal surveillance legislation, saying Congress has wasted much of the past nine months.

"Now the clock is winding down. In some key areas, Congress is just getting started," Bush said.

"One of Congress' basic duties is to fund the day-to-day operations of the federal government. Yet Congress has not sent me a single appropriations bill," Bush said.

Bush said congressional Democrats are wasting time with proposed legislation calling the actions of Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I "genocide." Video Watch Bush address the Turkey issue »

"With all these pressing responsibilities, one thing Congress should not be doing is sorting out the historical record of the Ottoman Empire," Bush said. "The resolution on the mass killings of Armenians beginning in 1915 is counterproductive. ...

Yeah, Bush's a regular demolition man. "Congress has work to do" is pretty strong language. Contrast with the everyday invective the President endures from Congressional Democrats.

Yahoo News reports the following quotes of Democrats about Blaster Bush.

"Never has it been clearer how detached President Bush is from the priorities of the American people. By vetoing a bipartisan bill to renew the successful Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), President Bush is denying health care to millions of low-income kids in America." — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

"The president has denied basic health coverage to four million children, putting ideology ahead of compassion and common sense." — Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

"This president's priorities are unconscionable." — Presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

Need more?

Boston.com:

"President Bush needs to quit stonewalling about his White House's connection to corruption, and finally tell us how he's going to reform Washington," Reid said.

And again:

"The president's budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality, and continues to move America in the wrong direction. This administration has the worst fiscal record in history and this budget does nothing to change that. It clings to the same misguided policies: costly tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthiest, cuts in domestic priorities and more fiscal irresponsibility." -- Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D.

Compared to the opposition, Bush did no blasting yesterday. He was using a rhetorical BB gun. Unless you happen to be reporting from the mainstream media.
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