Friday, July 6, 2012
ALL THE LEFTIES WANT MORE STIMULUS MONEY..WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FIRST $729 BILLION FREAKING DOLLARS??
AND IT ALL PRODUCED JACK SHIT !!! ALMOST ALL THE MONEY WENT TO KEEP HIS VOTING BLOCK OF UNION FOLKS, FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOCRAT VOTING BLOCKS FAT AND HAPPY FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS WHILE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA SUFFERED WITH 8% + .. A NUMBER CALCULATED BY COUNTING THOSE UNEMPLOYED WHO HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR WORK ONLY FOR THE PAST 4 WEEKS!!
COMPARE OBAMA AND REAGAN !!
One Year Later, Another Look at Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics
( OBAMA RECORD IS A PIECE OF SHIT...! )
February 2, 2012 by Dan Mitchell
On this day last year, I posted two charts that I developed using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s interactive website.
Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s.
But perhaps that was an
unfair comparison. Maybe the Reagan recovery started strong and then hit a wall. Or maybe the Obama recovery was the economic equivalent of a late bloomer.
So let’s look at the same charts, but add an extra year of data. Does it make a difference?
Meh…not so much.
Let’s start with the GDP data. The comparison is striking. Under Reagan’s policies, the economy skyrocketed. Heck, the chart prepared by the Minneapolis Fed doesn’t even go high enough to show how well the economy performed during the 1980s.
Under Obama’s policies, by contrast, we’ve just barely gotten back to where we were when the recession began. Unlike past recessions, we haven’t enjoyed a strong bounce. And this means we haven’t recovered the output that was lost during the downturn.
This is a damning indictment of Obamanomics
Indeed, I made this point several months ago when analyzing some work by Nobel laureate Robert Lucas. And it’s been highlighted more recently by James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute and the news pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Unfortunately, the jobs chart is probably even more discouraging. As you can see, employment is still far below where it started.
This is in stark contrast to the jobs boom during the Reagan years.
So what does this mean? How do we measure the human cost of the foregone growth and jobs that haven’t been created?
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, former Senator Phil Gramm and budgetary expert Mike Solon compare the current recovery to the post-war average as well as to what happened under Reagan.
But I want to make a different point. As I’ve written before, Obama is not responsible for the current downturn. Yes, he was a Senator and he was part of the bipartisan consensus for easy money, Fannie/Freddie subsidies, bailout-fueled moral hazard, and a playing field tilted in favor of debt, but his share of the blame wouldn’t even merit an asterisk.
My problem with Obama is that he hasn’t fixed any of the problems. Instead, he has kept in place all of the bad policies – and in some cases made them worse. Indeed, I challenge anyone to identify a meaningful difference between the economic policy of Obama and the economic policy of Bush.
This is why I always tell people not to pay attention to party labels. Bigger government doesn’t work, regardless of whether a politician is a Republican or Democrat. The problem isn’t Obamanomics, it’s Bushobamanomics. But since that’s a bit awkward, let’s just call it statism.
Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s.
But perhaps that was an
unfair comparison. Maybe the Reagan recovery started strong and then hit a wall. Or maybe the Obama recovery was the economic equivalent of a late bloomer.So let’s look at the same charts, but add an extra year of data. Does it make a difference?
Meh…not so much.
Let’s start with the GDP data. The comparison is striking. Under Reagan’s policies, the economy skyrocketed. Heck, the chart prepared by the Minneapolis Fed doesn’t even go high enough to show how well the economy performed during the 1980s.
Under Obama’s policies, by contrast, we’ve just barely gotten back to where we were when the recession began. Unlike past recessions, we haven’t enjoyed a strong bounce. And this means we haven’t recovered the output that was lost during the downturn.
This is a damning indictment of Obamanomics
Indeed, I made this point several months ago when analyzing some work by Nobel laureate Robert Lucas. And it’s been highlighted more recently by James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute and the news pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Unfortunately, the jobs chart is probably even more discouraging. As you can see, employment is still far below where it started.
This is in stark contrast to the jobs boom during the Reagan years.
So what does this mean? How do we measure the human cost of the foregone growth and jobs that haven’t been created?
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, former Senator Phil Gramm and budgetary expert Mike Solon compare the current recovery to the post-war average as well as to what happened under Reagan.
If in this “recovery” our economy had grown and generated jobs at the average rate achieved following the 10 previous postwar recessions, GDP per person would be $4,528 higher and 13.7 million more Americans would be working today. …President Ronald Reagan’s policies ignited a recovery so powerful that if it were being repeated today, real per capita GDP would be $5,694 higher than it is now—an extra $22,776 for a family of four. Some 16.9 million more Americans would have jobs.By the way, the Gramm-Solon column also addresses the argument that this recovery is anemic because the downturn was caused by a financial crisis. That’s certainly a reasonable argument, but they point out that Reagan had to deal with the damage caused by high inflation, which certainly wreaked havoc with parts of the financial system. They also compare today’s weak recovery to the boom that followed the financial crisis of 1907.
But I want to make a different point. As I’ve written before, Obama is not responsible for the current downturn. Yes, he was a Senator and he was part of the bipartisan consensus for easy money, Fannie/Freddie subsidies, bailout-fueled moral hazard, and a playing field tilted in favor of debt, but his share of the blame wouldn’t even merit an asterisk.
My problem with Obama is that he hasn’t fixed any of the problems. Instead, he has kept in place all of the bad policies – and in some cases made them worse. Indeed, I challenge anyone to identify a meaningful difference between the economic policy of Obama and the economic policy of Bush.
- Bush increased government spending. Obama has been increasing government spending.
- Bush adopted Keynesian “stimulus” policies. Obama adopted Keynesian “stimulus” policies.
- Bush bailed out politically connected companies. Obama has been bailing out politically connected companies.
- Bush supported the Fed’s easy-money policy. Obama has been supporting the Fed’s easy-money policy.
- Bush created a new healthcare entitlement. Obama created a new healthcare entitlement.
- Bush imposed costly new regulations on the financial sector. Obama imposed costly new regulations on the financial sector.
This is why I always tell people not to pay attention to party labels. Bigger government doesn’t work, regardless of whether a politician is a Republican or Democrat. The problem isn’t Obamanomics, it’s Bushobamanomics. But since that’s a bit awkward, let’s just call it statism.
OBAMA THE DISMAL JOB MAKER...So now he will blame the Chinese??? Hel Who Knows!
Remember back in 2009, when President Obama and his team told us that we needed to spend $800 billion on a so-called stimulus package?
The crowd in Washington was quite confident that Keynesian spending was going to save the day, even though similar efforts had failed for Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s, for Japan in the 1990s, and for Bush in 2008.
Nonetheless, we were assured that the stimulus was needed to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.
Well, that claim has turned out to be hollow. Not that we needed additional evidence, but the new numbers from the Labor Department re-confirm that the White House prediction was wildly inaccurate. The 8.2 percent unemployment rate is 2.5 percentage points above the administration’s prediction.
Defenders of the Obama administration sometimes respond by saying that the downturn was more serious than anyone predicted. That’s a legitimate point, so I don’t put too much blame on the White House for the initial spike in joblessness.
But I do blame them for the fact that the labor market has remained weak for such a long time. The chart below, which I generated this morning using the Minneapolis Fed’s interactive website, shows employment data for all the post-World War II recessions. The current business cycle is the red line. As you can see, some recessions were deeper in the beginning and some were milder. But the one thing that is unambiguous is that we’ve never had a jobs recovery as anemic as the one we’re experiencing now.
Job creation has been extraordinarily weak. Indeed, the current 8.2 percent unemployment rate understates the bad news because it doesn’t capture all the people who have given up and dropped out of the labor force.
By the way, I don’t think the so-called stimulus is the main cause of today’s poor employment data. Rather, the vast majority of that money was simply wasted.
Today’s weak job market is affected by factors such as the threat of higher taxes in 2013 (when the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are scheduled to expire), the costly impact of Obamacare, and the harsh regulatory environment. This cartoon shows, in an amusing fashion, the effect these policies have on entrepreneurs and investors.
Postscript: Click on this link if you want to compare Obamanomics and Reaganomics. The difference is astounding.
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Send this man Hussein Obama to the gallows for the number suicides and hearbreaks he has caused while he chases his Socailist Cause!!
The crowd in Washington was quite confident that Keynesian spending was going to save the day, even though similar efforts had failed for Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s, for Japan in the 1990s, and for Bush in 2008.
Nonetheless, we were assured that the stimulus was needed to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.
Well, that claim has turned out to be hollow. Not that we needed additional evidence, but the new numbers from the Labor Department re-confirm that the White House prediction was wildly inaccurate. The 8.2 percent unemployment rate is 2.5 percentage points above the administration’s prediction.
Defenders of the Obama administration sometimes respond by saying that the downturn was more serious than anyone predicted. That’s a legitimate point, so I don’t put too much blame on the White House for the initial spike in joblessness.
But I do blame them for the fact that the labor market has remained weak for such a long time. The chart below, which I generated this morning using the Minneapolis Fed’s interactive website, shows employment data for all the post-World War II recessions. The current business cycle is the red line. As you can see, some recessions were deeper in the beginning and some were milder. But the one thing that is unambiguous is that we’ve never had a jobs recovery as anemic as the one we’re experiencing now.
Job creation has been extraordinarily weak. Indeed, the current 8.2 percent unemployment rate understates the bad news because it doesn’t capture all the people who have given up and dropped out of the labor force.
By the way, I don’t think the so-called stimulus is the main cause of today’s poor employment data. Rather, the vast majority of that money was simply wasted.
Today’s weak job market is affected by factors such as the threat of higher taxes in 2013 (when the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are scheduled to expire), the costly impact of Obamacare, and the harsh regulatory environment. This cartoon shows, in an amusing fashion, the effect these policies have on entrepreneurs and investors.
Postscript: Click on this link if you want to compare Obamanomics and Reaganomics. The difference is astounding.
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Send this man Hussein Obama to the gallows for the number suicides and hearbreaks he has caused while he chases his Socailist Cause!!
OBAMA GUN CONTROL THROUGH THE UN... THIS ASSHOLE WILL DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO UNDERMINE AMERICA!!
The Global Gun Control Threat
By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com on July 6, 2012
Dear Friend,
Click Here to sign the petition to stop the US from signing the Arms Trade Treaty!
On July 27th, the nations of the world are scheduled to meet in New York to sign a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Disguised as a way to prevent the proliferation of small arms throughout the world, it is, in fact, a backdoor way to legislate gun control in the United States and effectively repeal our Second Amendment.
The ATT will set up a global body which will require all nations to regulate firearms so that they can prevent their exportation to other countries. Inevitably, this will require countries to inventory the guns in private hands and to register them. A gun ban is not far away.
The ATT, under the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, would have the power of a constitutional amendment and would, effectively, repeal the Second Amendment guaranteeing us the right to bear arms. We must fight to stop the US from signing the treaty and, if we fail, block Senate ratification.
Please sign the petition and include your name and address so we can send it to your Congressman and Senators.
Click Here to sign the petition to stop the US from signing the Arms Trade Treaty!
Thanks very much,
By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com on July 6, 2012
Dear Friend,
Click Here to sign the petition to stop the US from signing the Arms Trade Treaty!
On July 27th, the nations of the world are scheduled to meet in New York to sign a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Disguised as a way to prevent the proliferation of small arms throughout the world, it is, in fact, a backdoor way to legislate gun control in the United States and effectively repeal our Second Amendment.
The ATT will set up a global body which will require all nations to regulate firearms so that they can prevent their exportation to other countries. Inevitably, this will require countries to inventory the guns in private hands and to register them. A gun ban is not far away.
The ATT, under the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, would have the power of a constitutional amendment and would, effectively, repeal the Second Amendment guaranteeing us the right to bear arms. We must fight to stop the US from signing the treaty and, if we fail, block Senate ratification.
Please sign the petition and include your name and address so we can send it to your Congressman and Senators.
Click Here to sign the petition to stop the US from signing the Arms Trade Treaty!
Thanks very much,
Dick Morris
FIGHT TO KEEP YOUR RIGHT
Government Pilot Program Testing Illegal Alien Amnesty !! WHO THE HELL IS THIS GOVERNMENT
FROM JUDICIAL WATCH: TOM FITTON
JW Sues DOJ for Records Detailing Government Pilot Program Testing Illegal Alien Amnesty
Many citizens in the cities of Baltimore and Denver might be surprised to learn that they provided a "testing ground" for the Obama administration's dangerous (and unlawful) policy of suspending the deportations of illegal aliens last year.
But that's exactly what happened. And Judicial Watch has initiated an investigation of the matter. On June 11, we filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice seeking records pertaining to this six-week pilot program designed to test the Obama administration's new "standards" for the dismissal of immigration charges against certain illegal aliens. The Obama administration tested the program first in the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Denver, Colorado beginning on December 4, 2011.
Here's what we're after specifically pursuant to our original November 23, 2011 FOIA request to the Executive Office of Immigration Review ("EOIR"), a component of the Justice Department:
The Justice Department acknowledged receiving our FOIA request on November 28, 2011 and was required by law to respond by January 11, 2012 at the latest. As of the date of our lawsuit, however, the Obama administration has failed to turn over any records responsive to the request, indicate which records are exempt from disclosure, or notify Judicial Watch when a response is forthcoming.
And so, we filed a lawsuit to prod them into action.
If you've been reading this space for some time, you know that this "suspended deportation" controversy has been unfolding now for over two years.
It all began on June 30, 2010, when John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent a memo to all ICE employees instructing local immigration officials to use their discretion in "prioritizing" illegal immigration deportation cases. (The memo was leaked to the press and caused a massive uproar.)
On June 17, 2011, John Morton followed up with another memo to all field officers, special agents and to the chief counsel further defining the term "prosecutorial discretion," which, in essence, asked immigration officials to focus deportation proceedings on illegal aliens convicted of crimes. However, Judicial Watch uncovered documents proving immigration officials considered suspending the deportation of illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes.
In November 2011, as reported by CNN, the Obama administration announced that on December 4, 2011 it would begin a pilot program in Baltimore and Denver to "test the process for reviewing cases pending before the immigration court." Details regarding this program were sparse, prompting JW's investigation.
The Obama administration has been playing games with its immigration policy from the beginning in its attempt to evade Congress and implement illegal alien amnesty. First Obama administration officials tried to implement stealth amnesty outside of the public eye, and then when the cat was out of the bag, they doubled down on the policy in open defiance of the law. (An alien who fails to register after 30 days with ICE and keep registration papers on their person is in criminal violation of the law - and can be jailed for up to 30 days - in addition to being deported. This administration is ignoring and condoning this mass criminality.) We know that any number of illegal aliens who receive "get out of jail free cards" from the Obama administration will go on to commit additional crimes, including murder. Obama's stealth amnesty and sanctuary policies will result in the killing of innocent Americans as surely as night follows day.
And on Friday, June 15, 2012, the Obama administration doubled down again, announcing it would no longer deport unlawfully present immigrants under age 30 who came to the United States as children, a policy described by Politico's Steve Friess as "a temporary, de facto implementation of a part of the stalled DREAM Act," that sends "a loud message to Hispanic voters to remember Obama in November."
The American people are tired of the obfuscation and gamesmanship from the Obama administration on such a serious issue: especially when they can plainly see this is all for political purposes. The message to the Obama administration is simple: No more secrecy. No more games. Obey the law. Release the records.
Until next week...
Tom Fitton
President
JW Sues DOJ for Records Detailing Government Pilot Program Testing Illegal Alien Amnesty
Many citizens in the cities of Baltimore and Denver might be surprised to learn that they provided a "testing ground" for the Obama administration's dangerous (and unlawful) policy of suspending the deportations of illegal aliens last year.
But that's exactly what happened. And Judicial Watch has initiated an investigation of the matter. On June 11, we filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice seeking records pertaining to this six-week pilot program designed to test the Obama administration's new "standards" for the dismissal of immigration charges against certain illegal aliens. The Obama administration tested the program first in the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Denver, Colorado beginning on December 4, 2011.
Here's what we're after specifically pursuant to our original November 23, 2011 FOIA request to the Executive Office of Immigration Review ("EOIR"), a component of the Justice Department:
i. Any and all records regarding, concerning or related to the six-week pilot program in Baltimore and Denver that is scheduled to begin on December 4, 2011 and under which the immigration-related charges against certain undocumented residents may be subject to dismissal. This request includes, but is not limited to, any and all policy guidelines, implementation plans, training materials, and directives regarding the pilot program.
ii. Any and all records of communication between any official, employee or representative of the Executive Office for Immigration Review and any official, employee or representative of any other government agency, office or department (including, but not limited to, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Executive Office of the President, the City of Baltimore, and the City of Denver) regarding concerning or related to the pilot program.
ii. Any and all records of communication between any official, employee or representative of the Executive Office for Immigration Review and any official, employee or representative of any other government agency, office or department (including, but not limited to, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Executive Office of the President, the City of Baltimore, and the City of Denver) regarding concerning or related to the pilot program.
The Justice Department acknowledged receiving our FOIA request on November 28, 2011 and was required by law to respond by January 11, 2012 at the latest. As of the date of our lawsuit, however, the Obama administration has failed to turn over any records responsive to the request, indicate which records are exempt from disclosure, or notify Judicial Watch when a response is forthcoming.
And so, we filed a lawsuit to prod them into action.
If you've been reading this space for some time, you know that this "suspended deportation" controversy has been unfolding now for over two years.
It all began on June 30, 2010, when John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent a memo to all ICE employees instructing local immigration officials to use their discretion in "prioritizing" illegal immigration deportation cases. (The memo was leaked to the press and caused a massive uproar.)
On June 17, 2011, John Morton followed up with another memo to all field officers, special agents and to the chief counsel further defining the term "prosecutorial discretion," which, in essence, asked immigration officials to focus deportation proceedings on illegal aliens convicted of crimes. However, Judicial Watch uncovered documents proving immigration officials considered suspending the deportation of illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes.
In November 2011, as reported by CNN, the Obama administration announced that on December 4, 2011 it would begin a pilot program in Baltimore and Denver to "test the process for reviewing cases pending before the immigration court." Details regarding this program were sparse, prompting JW's investigation.
The Obama administration has been playing games with its immigration policy from the beginning in its attempt to evade Congress and implement illegal alien amnesty. First Obama administration officials tried to implement stealth amnesty outside of the public eye, and then when the cat was out of the bag, they doubled down on the policy in open defiance of the law. (An alien who fails to register after 30 days with ICE and keep registration papers on their person is in criminal violation of the law - and can be jailed for up to 30 days - in addition to being deported. This administration is ignoring and condoning this mass criminality.) We know that any number of illegal aliens who receive "get out of jail free cards" from the Obama administration will go on to commit additional crimes, including murder. Obama's stealth amnesty and sanctuary policies will result in the killing of innocent Americans as surely as night follows day.
And on Friday, June 15, 2012, the Obama administration doubled down again, announcing it would no longer deport unlawfully present immigrants under age 30 who came to the United States as children, a policy described by Politico's Steve Friess as "a temporary, de facto implementation of a part of the stalled DREAM Act," that sends "a loud message to Hispanic voters to remember Obama in November."
The American people are tired of the obfuscation and gamesmanship from the Obama administration on such a serious issue: especially when they can plainly see this is all for political purposes. The message to the Obama administration is simple: No more secrecy. No more games. Obey the law. Release the records.
Until next week...
Tom Fitton
President
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Obama sticks it to America. Increases his staff when its a recession for the rest of us!!!
White House Salaries Jump
White House salaries and hiring increased in 2012, according to an annual report released Friday by the White House.
The "Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff" reveals that White House staff salaries jumped from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8 million in 2012, with the total number of White House workers increasing from 454 in 2011 to 468 in 2012.
Topping the list at an annual salary of $172,000 were 20 individuals, including: Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew, Press Secretary Jay Carney, Senior Advisors David Plouffe, and Valerie Jarrett.
According to the U.S. Census, per capita annual income is $27,334.
Of course the dump the info on FRIDAY TO HIDE !!
The White House released its annual report to Congress on staff salaries. At 4:39 p.m. on Friday.A quick review found the White House payroll appears to have grown since last year, going from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8 million in 2012. The number of employees listed also grew -- from 454 last year to 468 in 2012.
White House officials did not immediately respond to a message seeking explanation of the growth. Overall, the payroll has shrunk since 2009, when it totaled $39.1 million.
(PHOTOS: Lawmakers' wealth)
On this year's report, there were 68 special assistants to the president, 22 assistants to the president and 24 deputy assistants. They cover a wide range of specializations from legislative affairs to economic policy and presidential correspondence.
The full report can be seen here.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/2012-Report-White-House-Staff.csv
HOMES IN FORECLOSURE AS DOTS ON A MAP....FRIGHTENING AND REAL..OBAMA FUCK YOU TO HELL!
A Frightening Satellite Tour Of America’s Foreclosure Wastelands
On the whole things are getting worse.
72 percent of major metro areas saw an increase in foreclosure volume. Although some of the worst hit areas in Nevada, California and Florida improved from 2009, the foreclosure rate in these areas remains shockingly high. If not for some foreclosure suspensions due to the robosigning scandal, these numbers would have been higher.
For a frightening way to visualize the foreclosure crisis, we’re borrowing a Google maps technique described by Barry Ritholtz.
20) Boise, Idaho — 1 in 21 homes in foreclosure (The red dots show foreclosures)72 percent of major metro areas saw an increase in foreclosure volume. Although some of the worst hit areas in Nevada, California and Florida improved from 2009, the foreclosure rate in these areas remains shockingly high. If not for some foreclosure suspensions due to the robosigning scandal, these numbers would have been higher.
For a frightening way to visualize the foreclosure crisis, we’re borrowing a Google maps technique described by Barry Ritholtz.
19) Sarasota, Fla. — 1 in 21 homes in foreclosure
18) Lakeland, Fla. — 1 in 21 homes in foreclosure
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-tour-foreclosure-cities-2011-1?slop=1#slideshow-start%23ixzz1CHII8G00%23ixzz1CLP0ArgD
FAST AND FURIOUS DID NOT WORK.. SO THEY ARE TRYING THE UN!
URGENT!
OBAMA & HILLARY TO SIGN UN GUN BAN JULY 27!
THEY TRIED IT WITH FAST AND FURIOUS AND GOT FUCKED..NOW THEY ARE TRYING IT THROUGH THE UN
THEY TRIED IT WITH FAST AND FURIOUS AND GOT FUCKED..NOW THEY ARE TRYING IT THROUGH THE UN
URGENT UPDATE: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are scheduled to sign the 2nd Amendment killing UN GUN BAN Treaty JULY 27!
The Supremacy Clause of our Constitution says that treaties are the "law of the land" and cannot be overwritten by acts of Congress or acts of the State Legislatures. So IF the Senate ratifies the UN Arms Trade Treaty that Obama and Hillary intend to sign July 27, the UN Gun Ban will VOID THE SECOND AMENDMENT!
The UN Arms Trade Treaty seeks to set up an international agency that will control the availability of arms and ammunition around the world. This new international body will have the authority to tell signing nations what they can and cannot sell within their own borders. In addition, the international body will have the authority to ban existing guns within countries.
In other words, if the UN decides they don't like your .45 or your 30.06, they can and will ban both the guns and the ammo!
Feel like giving the UN your personal protection weapon any time soon?
How about your hunting rifle?
Neither do I !
Let's get busy and demand the Senate STOP THE UN GUN BAN!
UN TARGETS HANDGUNS & HUNTING RIFLES
STOP THE GUN GRAB!
Gun Control Advocates like Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton, keep insisting that the United Nation's Small Arms Treaty won't affect the average American - only bad guys with big scary weapons. But this treaty has nothing to do with disarming cartels and criminal regimes; rather it is about disarming the citizens of the freest country in the world - America.STOP THE GUN GRAB!
The United Nation's and their globalist supporters hate guns...ALL GUNS. Your hunting rifle. My personal protection weapon. Don't believe it? Take a good look at the statue that graces the United Nations plaza - a .38 with the barrel tied in a knot.
The Canadian government just filed an emergency petition to exclude hunting rifles from the upcoming United Nations Arms Treaty - Mexico subsequently objected. THE UNITED STATES REMAINED SILENT!Americans have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to keep & bear arms, so why isn't our government the one working to exempt hunting weapons? Because Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want us totally and completely disarmed.
Will you wait until mandatory gun confiscation programs go into effect?
Or will you stand with me now and INSIST our Senate NEVER let this unConstitutional, Freedom killing, Agenda 21 enabling, UN Treaty ever so much as reach the Senate floor?
Because if we don't ACT NOW, we can kiss our hunting and personal protection right goodbye.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been working for years to completely disarm Americans. Back in 2009, Clinton announced the United States would reverse Bush administration opposition to international small arms control. Now with a little help from her Marxist pal Barack Obama and the NWO United Nations, she is just weeks from success.
Hillary and friends claim the sole purpose of the UN Arms Trade Treaty is to stop terrorism and crime. But the truth is, this abominable treaty would do nothing more that prevent Americans from defending themselves from petty crime and tyranny alike. THE UN ARMS TRADE TREATY WILL CONFISCATE AND BAN ALL GUNS OWNED BY AMERICANS!
In a recent meeting, high level staffers from Senator Marco Rubio's office told Unite In Action that the UN Gun Treaty is everything we feared and worse. One Rubio staffer identified this treaty as the single most deadly threat to American freedom EVER. The gun grab is real, and the fight to strip Americans of our guns is happening right now!
Former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, agrees; "[The UN] is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control" said Bolton.
The UN Arms Trade Treaty Preparatory Committee is attempting to defend its stance by claiming the UN is, "Concerned by the misuse of weaponry around the world, civil society organizations have successfully mobilized governments and parliamentarians to call for the global regulation of the conventional arms trade."
And now, that same Third Preparatory Committee has figured out how to bend the US to the New World Order's will. In July, the group decided that a majority vote will NOT be required for the treaty to pass. That means dissent will be stifled and this international gun-grabbing scheme will pass if we the American people do not act to protect our Second Amendment Rights!
Throughout history tyranny has succeeded in crushing freedom only by disarming the citizens.
Will you silently relinquish your rights? Because silence now WILL result in the loss of YOUR guns.
Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.
Together we can save America!
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Thank you. I know I can count on you.
In Liberty,
Stephani Scruggs
President, Unite In Action, Inc.
National Co-Chair, The 912 Project
About Stephani Scruggs:Stephani Scruggs serves as the National Co-Chair of The 912 Project as well as President of Unite In Action, Inc. As a writer, speaker and analyst, Stephani focuses on the principles of liberty. She has made numerous television and radio appearances including the Glenn Beck Show to discuss the importance of the American Constitution and the rights it grants its citizens.
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BREAKING! Detective Probes Obama SSN Mystery - Files Suit in Ohio!
THIS ASSHOLE OBAMA HAS SO MANY CROOKED THINGS TO DEAL WITH SURELY THE LEFTY PRESS SEES AT LEAST SOME SUSPICION ?? NAH... THE BOOT LICKING LITTLE COCKROACHES ..ONE AND ALL!
FORGERY-GATE
Obama's Social Security Number challenged
Exclusive: Jack Cashill reports on woman's court filing based on myriad anomalies
TIME WARNER OWNS HBO ...AND WHOLE LOT OF OTHER LEFTY MEDIA OUTLETS.
TIME WARNER OWNS HBO ...AND WHOLE LOT OF OTHER LEFTY MEDIA OUTLETS.
- We Must expose them and boycott them.
- Time Warner Company
- One Time Warner Center New York, NY 10019
- Voice (212) 484-8000
- http://http//www.timewarner.com/
- 1898
- Henry Luce, son of an American missionary, is born in China
- 1918
- The four Warner Brothers, Jack, Albert, Harry and Samuel, open their first West Coast studio
- 1921
- Luce and Yale classmate Briton Hadden begin working together as reporters for The Baltimore News
- 1923
- The four brother's film distribution and production business is incorporated and called Warner Brothers Pictures Inc.
- 1923
- Luce and Hadden use the $86,000 they raised to release Time magazine. Hadden becomes editor while Luce serves as business manager
- 1927
- Warner Brothers film production releases the first "talkie" Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer
- 1928
- First Time Man-of-the-Year features Charles Lindbergh
- 1929
- Hadden dies of a streptococcus infection. Luce takes over as Time editor
- 1930
- Fortune magazine is launched by Luce as part of Time Inc.
- 1931
- March of Time radio program first airs
- 1934
- Luce launches Architectural Forum
- 1935
- March of Time newsreel first runs its first newsreel
- 1936
- Life magazine is launched
- 1937
- Detective Comics (DC) is created
- 1938
- Ted Turner born in Cincinnati, OH
- 1940
- Bugs Bunny appears for the first time in a Warner Brothers' short A Wild Hare
- 1942
- arch of Time became straight news program
- 1944
- Leon Schlesinger sells his cartoon studio (Looney Tunes) to Warner
- 1947
- Jack Warner testifies before House Committee on Un-American Activities
- 1948
- Warner Brothers sells film library to MGM. The Supreme Court's anti-trust Paramount Decree forces movie studios to divest themselves from owning theaters
- 1950
- Elektra Records is founded by a college student, Jac Holzman
- 1952
- House and Home magazine launched. Time makes first investment in television industry by purchasing KOB-TV Albuquerque, NM
- 1954
- Sports Illustrated is launched
- 1958
- Warner Bros. Records is founded. Label is later called WEA (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic)
- 1960
- Brown University expels Ted Turner
- 1961
- Time-Life Inc. is formed to be Time Inc.'s book division
- 1963
- Ted Turner's father Ed commits suicide because of financial difficulties. Ted takes over family's billboard business
- 1963
- Animation division at Warner closed. Frank Sinatra sells his Reprise record label to Warner Brothers
- 1967
- Henry Luce dies in Phoenix, Arizona
- 1967
- Seven Arts Ltd. buys Warner Brothers for $84 million. Company becomes known as Warner-Seven Arts. Warner Seven-Arts purchases Atlantic Records
- 1967
- New Line Cinema formed
- 1967
- Kinney National Company, a funeral parlor conglomerate purchases D.C. Comics and All-American Comics. Kinney also buys Ashley Famous talent agency
- 1968
- Time-Life Inc. acquires Little, Brown and Company
- 1969
- Kinney National Company acquires Warner-Seven Arts and in 1972 renames the company Warner Communications Inc.
- 1970
- Holzman sells his Elektra Records to Warner Communications
- 1970
- Turner purchases Atlanta UHF television station, WJRJ, renaming it WTCG (Turner Communications Group)]
- 1972
- Time Inc. buys Home Box Office (HBO) from Charles Dolan. HBO transmits first programming to 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Money magazine launched
- 1974
- People magazine launched
- 1976
- Ted Turner purchases Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves. Turner Broadcasting's WTCG becomes cable television's first Superstation as it is beamed via satellite to cable homes across the country
- 1976
- Video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell sells Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million.
- 1977
- Turner Communications Group purchases the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks. Turner wins yachting's America's Cup
- 1978
- Warner Communications acquires cable operator American Television & Communications (ATC)
- 1979
- Turner Communications Group becomes Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. WTCG is renamed WTBS
- 1980
- The first 24-hour, all-news network, CNN, is launched with 1.7 million subscribers
- 1982
- Turner Broadcasting launches CNN Headline News and thwarts a takeover attempt by Westinghouse
- 1984
- Warner Communications sells most of its stake in Atari off to Jack Tramiel, deposed president of Commodore Computers.
- 1986
- Time acquires Scott Foresman & Company book publishing unit
- 1986
- Turner Broadcasting buys MGM library of movies and television shows
- 1987
- Warner acquires Chappell Music
- 1988
- TNT cable network launched
- 1989
- Time Warner Inc. is formed after Time merges with Warner Communications
- 1989
- Publishing houses Scott Foresman and Little, Brown sold off to Harper Row
- 1990
- Entertainment Weekly is launched
- 1991
- The Internet bulletin-board system Quantum Computer Services changes name to America Online. Steve Case is one of the company's founders
- 1991
- The Tribune Company receives a 9% stake in AOL after making a $5 million investment in the company
- 1992
- Gerald Levin takes control of Time Warner after death of Steven J. Ross. New York 1 News launched
- 1992
- America Online becomes a publicly traded company
- 1992
- Turner Broadcasting launches Cartoon Network
- 1993
- Turner Broadcasting System merges with Castle Rock and New Line
- 1994
- AOL reaches 1 million subscribers
- 1994
- Turner Classic Movies is launched
- 1994
- Warner/Chappell Music becomes the world's largest music publisher after it acquires CPP/Belwin
- 1994
- In Style magazine is launched
- 1994
- Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Seagram company acquires a 14.5% stake in Time Warner
- 1995
- AOL launches services in Europe. AOL purchases WebCrawler
- 1995
- Time Warner acquires Houston Industries
- 1995
- WB network broadcast network is launched
- 1996
- Telecommunications Act of 1996. Time Warner acquires Turner Broadcasting System
- 1997
- Time Warner sells American Lawyer magazine to investment bankers Wasserstein Perella
- 1997
- AOL acquires CompuServe and ICQ
- 1998
- AOL acquires Netscape
- 1999
- AOL acquires Spinner, Winamp, SHOUTcast and DMS
- 1999
- Turner acquires a National Hockey League expansion franchise. The Atlanta Thrashers begin play in 1999
- 2000
- AOL acquires MapQuest
- 2000
- Time Warner makes deal with Tribune Company for Times Mirror magazines that include Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream, and Yachting
- 2000
- AOL and Time Warner announce their $183 billion merger. The largest corporate merger in history is finalized in January of 2001. The world's largest media and entertainment company changes name to AOL Time Warner
- 2001
- AOL Time Warner acquires the United Kingdom's top magazine publisher, IPC Media, from Cinven for $1.67 billion.
- 2002
- AOL Time Warner buys out AT&T's stake in Time Warner Entertainment. AOL-Time Warner then created its own cable operation while AT&T merged with Comcast.
- 2003
- Steve Case steps down as AOL Time Warner chairman. Dick Parsons replaces Case. AOL Time Warner reports $54.24 billion quarterly loss. Company changes name back to Time Warner
- 2004
- Time Warner sells the Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, and Philips Arena to a local investment group
- 2004
- The Time Warner Center opens
- 2004
- Time Warner finalizes deal to sell the WEA CD and DVD manufacturing division to Cinram International. The company agrees to sell Warner Music Group (including its record labels Warner Brothers, Atlantic, Elektra and music publishing division Warner Chappell) to private investor group led by Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
- 2005
- Ex-executive chairman Steve Case resigns from Time Warner board
- 2005
- Time Warner donated the maximum contribution of $250,000 to George W. Bush's second presidential inauguration
- 2006
- Global publishing company Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) acquired the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner
- 2007
- New CEO Jeffrey Bewkes considers such cost-trimming measures as selling AOL and Time Inc
- 2008
- Michael Lynne and Bob Shaye, o-chairmen and CEOs of New Line Cinema, resign from their positions, protesting Bewkes' alleged plans to dissolve the movie studio into Warner Bros. and thus cut costs
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TMZ Radio THE LEFTY MEDIA MUST BE OBLITERATED..THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN
OBAMA BULLSHITS ABOUT HIS JOBS RECORD
Worried Obama Spending Millions to Hype Jobs Record
Thursday, 05 Jul 2012 07:38 AM
With four months to go until Election Day, President Obama’s well-funded campaign on the airwaves is focusing on two broad themes: that he is a fighter for the middle class who needs more time to finish the job, and that Republican rival Mitt Romney is obsessed with corporate profits to the point of being borderline unpatriotic.
“Outsourcing versus insourcing - it matters,” declares a TV ad from the Obama campaign this week that criticizes Mr. Romney for moving jobs overseas during his tenure at the helm of Bain Capital LLC, a private-equity firm. Airing in nine battleground states, it is typical of the negative ads that Mr. Obama’s Chicago team has aimed at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Some of the commentary accuses Mr. Romney of ignoring what’s best for America.
Editor's Note: Will Obama Be Defeated? Vote Here!
“Mitt Romney’s economic philosophy has always put maximizing his profits above anything else,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told reporters Tuesday. “Even if it means refusing to bet on America and its workers.”
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg countered: “We are happy to put Gov. Romney’s record of job creation in the private sector, and as governor, up against President Obama’s any day.
“If President Obama had even half of Mitt Romney’s record on jobs, he’d be running on it,” she said. “But President Obama has the worst record on jobs and the economy of any president in modern history, which is why he is running a campaign based on negative attacks, distortions and distractions, not solutions.”
The Obama campaign’s attack on Mr. Romney’s record in the private sector is aided by the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, which is run by two former Obama White House staffers, Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney. From April 10 through June 28, 100 percent of the ads sponsored by Priorities USA mentioned Bain Capital by name, according to a study by Kantar Media’s campaign media analysis group.
The president also is the target of relentlessly negative ads, funded in part by wealthy conservatives who can spend unlimited amounts independently of Mr. Romney’s campaign. Mr. Obama has worried aloud to supporters that he might be outspent in this race, and he is countering the Republican attacks with an advertising blitz in battleground states to reintroduce himself to voters.
The campaign spent $12 million on TV ads in a single week last month, after a $25 million, monthlong ad buy that ended in early June. The Obama team has purchased $6.5 million worth of airtime for TV ads during the Olympic Games in London, which begin July 27.
One Obama commercial that aired recently reminded viewers that the Great Recession began before Mr. Obama took office and recounted the president’s achievements such as rescuing the auto industry and killing Osama bin Laden.
“Some said our best days were behind us,” the ad’s narrator says. “He believed in us. He fought for us. We’re coming back.”
The president’s ads play heavily toward the female vote, citing his advocacy of equal pay for equal work and his support of contraception coverage. The campaign’s first national TV ad, which aired last month, featured actress Sarah Jessica Parker of “Sex and the City” fame, who was hosting a fundraising dinner for Mr. Obama at her home in Manhattan. In the spot, she called the president “the guy who ended the war in Iraq, the guy who says you should be able to marry anyone you want, the guy who created 4 million new jobs.”
The only time Mr. Obama’s ads mention debt is when they are talking about Mr. Romney and the debt he amassed while governor of Massachusetts.
Of the $25 million ad buy, the Obama campaign devoted $5 million each to Ohio, where the president will begin a campaign bus tour on Thursday, and to Florida, where the TV ads are continuing in a summerlong bombardment. The campaign is spending most of its Florida budget on the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, a region that is home to a burgeoning Hispanic population.
“Outsourcing versus insourcing - it matters,” declares a TV ad from the Obama campaign this week that criticizes Mr. Romney for moving jobs overseas during his tenure at the helm of Bain Capital LLC, a private-equity firm. Airing in nine battleground states, it is typical of the negative ads that Mr. Obama’s Chicago team has aimed at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Some of the commentary accuses Mr. Romney of ignoring what’s best for America.
Editor's Note: Will Obama Be Defeated? Vote Here!
“Mitt Romney’s economic philosophy has always put maximizing his profits above anything else,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told reporters Tuesday. “Even if it means refusing to bet on America and its workers.”
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg countered: “We are happy to put Gov. Romney’s record of job creation in the private sector, and as governor, up against President Obama’s any day.
“If President Obama had even half of Mitt Romney’s record on jobs, he’d be running on it,” she said. “But President Obama has the worst record on jobs and the economy of any president in modern history, which is why he is running a campaign based on negative attacks, distortions and distractions, not solutions.”
The Obama campaign’s attack on Mr. Romney’s record in the private sector is aided by the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, which is run by two former Obama White House staffers, Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney. From April 10 through June 28, 100 percent of the ads sponsored by Priorities USA mentioned Bain Capital by name, according to a study by Kantar Media’s campaign media analysis group.
The president also is the target of relentlessly negative ads, funded in part by wealthy conservatives who can spend unlimited amounts independently of Mr. Romney’s campaign. Mr. Obama has worried aloud to supporters that he might be outspent in this race, and he is countering the Republican attacks with an advertising blitz in battleground states to reintroduce himself to voters.
The campaign spent $12 million on TV ads in a single week last month, after a $25 million, monthlong ad buy that ended in early June. The Obama team has purchased $6.5 million worth of airtime for TV ads during the Olympic Games in London, which begin July 27.
One Obama commercial that aired recently reminded viewers that the Great Recession began before Mr. Obama took office and recounted the president’s achievements such as rescuing the auto industry and killing Osama bin Laden.
“Some said our best days were behind us,” the ad’s narrator says. “He believed in us. He fought for us. We’re coming back.”
The president’s ads play heavily toward the female vote, citing his advocacy of equal pay for equal work and his support of contraception coverage. The campaign’s first national TV ad, which aired last month, featured actress Sarah Jessica Parker of “Sex and the City” fame, who was hosting a fundraising dinner for Mr. Obama at her home in Manhattan. In the spot, she called the president “the guy who ended the war in Iraq, the guy who says you should be able to marry anyone you want, the guy who created 4 million new jobs.”
The only time Mr. Obama’s ads mention debt is when they are talking about Mr. Romney and the debt he amassed while governor of Massachusetts.
Of the $25 million ad buy, the Obama campaign devoted $5 million each to Ohio, where the president will begin a campaign bus tour on Thursday, and to Florida, where the TV ads are continuing in a summerlong bombardment. The campaign is spending most of its Florida budget on the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, a region that is home to a burgeoning Hispanic population.
“It appears that Barack Obama feels he’s in trouble in Florida,” said Republican consultant Jamie Miller of Sarasota, Fla. “Obama has come out of the gate swinging hard at Romney because it is clear that Floridians are rejecting Obama’s failed policies.”
In June, Obama for America spent more than $2.1 million on more than 2,390 TV commercials in the Orlando market, according to a review by the Orlando Sentinel. In May, the Obama campaign spent more than $2 million for 985 commercials in the same region.
The latest census figures show 4.36 million Hispanics in Florida - representing 23 percent of the state’s population. Priorities USA is also teaming with the Service Employees International Union on a $4 million Spanish-language ad campaign in Florida, Colorado and Nevada to portray Mr. Romney as uncaring about average workers.
Mr. Romney’s campaign hasn’t aired TV ads in Florida, although four Republican groups - including the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future - spent a total of $1.4 million in the Orlando TV market last month
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