The Pope Visits Alaska

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Jan 132009
 

The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sight-seeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope-mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods.

A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a ‘Save the Whales’ hat and a ‘To Hell with Bush’ T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly bear.

As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a .44 magnum into the Bear’s chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the Bear’s grasp, then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck, while the third tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.

As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over.

‘I give you my blessing for your brave actions!’, he told them. ‘I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic Environmental Activists, but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true.’

As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies, ‘Who was that guy?’

‘It was the Pope,’ another replied. ‘He’s in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom.’

‘Well,’ the logger said, ‘he may have access to all wisdom, but he sure don’t know nothin’ about bear huntin! Is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and get another one?’

The Big 3 Bail-out Plan Includes a Pay Raise For Judges

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Dec 112008
 

So Congress gets its raise, the Judges get a raise, the Union Workers get paid the same even though their over priced contracts are causing the Auto companies to lose tens of billions of dollars.

And you, the American Taxpayer what do you get? Well, the bill of course. Merry Christmas!

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Pay raise for judges tucked into bailout plan

If the $14 billion bailout plan for U.S. automakers passes, it will help more than just Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. Federal judges would get a pay raise, as well.

The raise — labeled a cost of living adjustment — would bring U.S. District court judges up to par with members of Congress, who will receive an almost $5,000 boost on Jan. 1. District judges and lawmakers now earn $169,300 a year but are expected to be awarded a 2.8 percent raise next year, said Dick Carelli, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., insisted that the judicial pay raise go into the automaker loan measure, which is the only item of business on Congress’ lame-duck agenda.

Under ethics legislation enacted almost two decades ago, members of Congress get a cost of living raise automatically, but they have to vote to give judges an identical raise. Because the spending bill covering U.S. courts has not passed, the step is necessary if judges are going to get their raise.

Even with the raise, judge earn far less than lawyers at big firms, just as members of Congress make less than most lobbyists.

Bailed-out Firms Gave Millions To Underwrite the Democratic and Republican Party Conventions

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Dec 112008
 

Now let me get this straight, the financial firms that bank rolled the conventions are now being bailed out? If you were looking for proof that the US has the best government money can buy here it is.

How much more of this will the hard working peasants take before they start the next revolution?

Report: Bailed-out firms bankrolled conventions

What were major corporations such as AIG, Ford, Citigroup and Freddie Mac doing in the weeks before they asked Washington for taxpayer-funded financial bailouts?

They were donating millions of dollars to underwrite the Democratic and Republican Party conventions.

According to a new report released today by the Center for Responsive Politics in conjunction with the Campaign Finance Institute, the companies were some of the largest sponsors of the political conventions that resulted in the nomination of Barack Obama and John McCain for president.

In the two years spent fundraising for the conventions, CFI claims the two parties only provided the names “they elected to disclose. The institute announced today that the first official host committee reports have been released, and it now has a complete list of donors.

“The two convention host committees raised $118 million, virtually all of it in private funds: $61 million for the Democratic conclave in Denver and $57 million for the Republican one in Minneapolis-St. Paul,” it reveals. “The latter figures are almost four times the separate $16 million each party received from the federal government to support its convention.”

Key industry actors in the current financial crisis gave $14 million to conventions, CFI reports. The following are some of its findings:

  • Freddie Mac gave $500,000, half to each committee.
  • Ford Motor Company donated $200,000 for the conventions, half to each host committee (Also, Kirk Kerkorian, Ford’s largest shareholder with ties to GM and Chrysler, gave $3.5 million).
  • General Motors provided 735 new cars to the Democratic and Republican Party convention committees for elected officials’ use.
  • American International Group, or AIG, gave $1.5 million split evenly between the two committees
  • Hedge funds and their managers gave $3.9 million – $2.7 million to Republicans and $1.2 million to Democrats.
  • Investment companies including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase, UBS and Lehman Brothers, gave $1.5 million.
  • Other financial institutions that have received or are eligible for bailouts, such as Citigroup, U.S. Bancorps, Wells Fargo, Cobank and Bank of America, donated $2.9 million – much of it was given to the Republican committee.

Finance, insurance and real estate companies gave $24.6 million toward the conventions, according to Center for Responsive Politics, or CRP.

“If the executives who have come to Washington, hat in hand, looked familiar to members of Congress, maybe it’s because they met over the summer at the conventions,” CRP Executive Director Sheila Krumholz said in a statement. “The conventions provided representatives of major corporations and industries with many opportunities to interact with Washington’s decision-makers. Those conversations may have paid off just weeks later, when the government started handing out money to those companies and industries that are struggling.”

The study also found that the drug industry gave $9.8 million to the parties, Internet companies donated $4.1 million to Republicans and $3.1 million to Democrats, while unions representing government employees contributed all of their $2.7 million to the Democrats’ convention in Denver.

Krumholz said, “By taking advantage of the false distinction between a political party and the committee hosting the party’s convention, unions were able to support the Democratic Party in a way that hasn’t been allowed since the days of soft money, when labor was among the biggest givers.”

Joke Of The Day: Liberal Media

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Nov 112008
 

A man is walking through the zoo when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to devour her right in front the little girl’s screaming parents.

The man runs to the cage, hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back letting go of the girl and the man returns her to her terrified parents.

A reporter has seen the whole scene and says to the rescuer: ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.’

‘Why, it was nothing,’ said the man. ‘Really, the lion was behind bars and I knew God would protect me just as He did Daniel in the lions den long, long ago. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt was right.’

‘I noticed a bible in your pocket. Are you a Republican,’ asked the journalist.

‘Yes, and I’m a Christian on my way to a bible study,’ the man replies.

‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed… I’m a journalist and tomorrow’s paper will have this on the front page. The journalist leaves.

The following morning the man buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads on first page: “Right Wing Republican Christian Fundamentalist Assaults African Immigrant and Steals His Lunch.“

What Caused Our Current Economic Crisis?

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Sep 272008
 

This is a good video that you should see if you want to understand what caused this current financial crisis. It is kind of like the “Economic Crisis for Dummies”.

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Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?



A highly informative video that traced the cause of our current crisis that had its roots planted 12 years ago.

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