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I haven't seen this on anyone else's blog yet, so I guess I am the first:
Last night on the Fox News Channel (On the Record with Gretta Van Sustern), Gretta and one her guests were discussing how angry France, Germany and Britain are with Obama, especially France's Sarkozy.
The French President is absolutely furious at Obama because it seems that Obama had his people tell the European Leaders to NOT say anything in their UN speeches about Iran's latest "secret" nuclear manufacturing plant, because he wanted to be the one to do it.
Obama insisted on waiting until the G20 Summit so that he could announce it himself. You know, he wanted to be the man of the hour.
Speaking for the other European nations, Sarkozy said that; "Obama is extremely arrogant and egotistical, that he thinks that with just the power of his personality, other countries will bend to his will."
Boy, that speaks volumes about America today, don't it?
The United States Park Police is investigating several thefts from vehicles that were parked in the Good Luck Road parking area of Greenbelt Park.
These offenses occurred from April until August of 2009.
The investigation has located several store videos of people making purchases with credit cards stolen from these parked vehicles. The identity of these suspects is not known.
The United States Park Police is working with the Prince Georges County Police, Montgomery County Police, and Maryland National Capital Park Police who have similar open cases.
Anyone with knowledge of these offenses or the identity of the people in the photographs, or known to operate the pictured vehicle is requested to contact United States Park Police Detective Michael Horman at (202) 610-8759 or the United States Park Police Tip Line at (202) 610-8737.
Callers may remain anonymous.
Reward money will be provided to anyone providing information leading to an arrest and conviction for these offenses.
The United States Mint has provided more information about the upcoming 2009 Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set. Way back in April, I had provided details about the offering, but the release date and ordering limits were not known until this week.
The Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set is a five coin set with some unique items. Everything comes in a slip-covered, leather-like tri-fold case.
The following items are included in the set:
- 2009 Proof Lincoln Silver Dollar - All Four 2009 Proof Lincoln Cents (95% copper) - Reproduction of a photograph of Abraham Lincoln - Reproduction of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting - Certificate of Authenticity
The maximum production for the set is 50,000 units. This is due to the inclusion of the 2009 Lincoln Silver Dollar. This commemorative coin has an overall production limit of 500,000 coins, but already sold 450,000 coins through individual offerings earlier this year. The individual coins had gone on sale February 12, 2009 and sold out after approximately six weeks. The proof version sold 325,000 coins and the uncirculated version sold 125,000.
The Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set is priced at $55.95. The US Mint has placed an ordering limit of only one set per household. The product is scheduled to go on sale October 15, 2009 at 12:00 Noon ET.
Even though the Lincoln Coin and Chronicles does not contain any coins that have not been released already, it seems poised to be a winner. Most people (myself included) believe that this set will sell out on the first day of sales. This year in particular collectors have been willing to pay premiums for low production, specially packaged US Mint collectibles. The upcoming Lincoln Set certainly falls into this category, as it will have the lowest production run of all 2009 Lincoln products issued by the US Mint.
Additionally, the set is a relative bargain compared to the current prices of the individual coins. The 2009 Proof Lincoln Silver Dollar is currently selling for around $60-$70 on the secondary market (view current eBay auctions) and the four 2009 Proof Lincoln Cents sell separately at the US Mint for $7.95. At $55.95, the Coin and Chronicles Set is below the current value of the coins, without considering the extra items included.
I will likely have a follow up post on this product just before the release date. For now, you can also check out the US Mint's product page here.
Is the demand for the US Mint's 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin tapering off?
The latest sales figures indicate that 96,275 coins have been sold as of 9/27/2009. This represents sales of 1,811 coins for the preceding week. For the past several weeks before, the UHR Double Eagle had been selling more than 2,000 coins per week.
The prior week reporting period contained some changes that I thought would spur additional sales. The household ordering limit was completely removed on September 21, 2009, which opened the doors for any potential bulk buyers. The price for the coin was increased from $1,339 to $1,389 on September 23, 2009. Since the price increase was widely known in advance, any would-be buyers might have accelerated purchases to take advantage of the lower price. Despite these two factors, the pace of sales actually showed a decline from recent levels.
Incidentally, it seems that the gold coin price increase implemented last week will be very short lived. The average price of gold calculated from last Thursday London AM Fix to this Wednesday AM Fix is below the $1,000 level. Under the US Mint's numismatic gold coin pricing policy, the prices for coins will be adjusted downwards proportionally by $50 per ounce.
The price of the UHR Double Eagle should fall back to $1,339. The First Spouse Gold Coins should also be adjusted downward to $654 and $641 for proof and uncirculated coins, respectively. Recently, pricing changes have been implemented mid-morning on Wednesdays.
I'm not at liberty to say if this picture is in the book, but it's on Barnes and Noble's site
Madame's book was put on Barnes and Noble's website and on Amazon.com today for pre-sale. It is already climbing the bestsellers list like a New York Times reporter climbing a tree after being chased by a bear when digging for non-existent dirt in Alaska. Going Rogue: An American Life has already reached #1 at Barnes and Noble and #11 at Amazon , at least as we speak, even though it isn't being released until November 17th. I can now "leak" part of Madame's book, the synopsis:
Sarah Palin burst onto the political scene at the height of the 2008 presidential campaign and overnight became a national sensation. Adored by the right, bitterly reviled by the left, she is the most polarizing figure to emerge in American politics in decades. Yet for all the dirt digging and gossip that has surrounded her, very little is actually known about who she is, what she believes, and above all, about her plans for the future. In her new book, Sarah Palin tells the story of her Alaskan upbringing, her marriage and family life, her political career, her religious beliefs, and her meteoric rise to national prominence. With her customary blunt common sense, she sets the record straight about the many myths and lies that have been spun around her and lays out her vision for an America that is strong, independent, and free.
I have a feeling Madame's book may just be a "stimulus package" for the paper, ink, book binding, and bookstore industries. If Madame is already #1 after day one of pre-sale, I can only imagine how many she will sell over the next several months. I'm sure that just at the sight of the words "Sarah Palin' and "number one", President Obama will get wee-weed up again!
49 of OUR FIFTY STATES NEVER SAW CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY CONCERNING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:
A commentator at the Canada Free Press, who earlier exposed that the Democratic National Committee used two separate forms to affirm Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to be be president has heard back from readers and researchers - and now reports that Democrats failed to certify their candidates eligibility in 49 0f the 50 states.
The writer, JB Williams, further reports that in most cases, certification of eligibility was also missing from DNC filings during the primaries. This leads one to ask; IS NANCY POLOSI GUILTY OF AN OBAMA ELIGIBILITY COVER-UP?
Click on the link button and decide for yourself:
OBAMA'S SCHOOL SAFETY CZAR IS A FOUL MOUTHED HOMOSEXUAL PERVERT!
When he was a teacher, this morally bankrupt piece of human excrement, Kevin Jennings, was told by a 15-year-old male student that he (the boy) was having homosexual sex with an "older man". At the very least, an act of statutory rape was taking place, and what did this piece of crap pervert teacher do? He blatantly violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. So what happens to him? Barack Obama appoints him to be the "SAFE SCHOOL CZAR."
The one time that this immoral piece of dirt had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only ignored the state mandated law to report the the abuse, but he went a step further and actually encouraged the perverted relationship, telling the boy to be sure and use a condom during the sex acts.
Then when details of the case became public, Jennings threatened to sue another teacher who called his failure to report the statutory rape "unethical".
Now this piece of filth is pushing for a homosexual agenda in all of our schools. We are supposed to trust the safety of our precious children and grandchildren to this pervert? Just where the hell is Obama's mind?
This is just one more piece of evidence that Barack Obama is ethically and morally UNFIT to hold the office of president and should be IMPEACHED NOW!
Now Obama wants to keep our children and grandchildren in school longer by increasing the school day, extending the school week to six days and shortening their summer vacation, possibly by a month. Why, so that he can make sure our children and grandchildren are thoroughly perverted and brainwashed? Obama and all of his perverted and leftist czars MUST be gotten rid of NOW. As I have said in previous posts, we cannot wait until 2012. Everything Obama does, shows his complete incompetence and that he is dead set on destroying America as we know it.
Click on the link button to read the sordid details about Kevin Jennings, the "School Safety Czar".
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK:
Here's my comment to the article on the Examiner site:
This war is fake, made up. It's meant to disrupt and disturb efforts of the marijuana legalization movement with totally outrageous claims and fear mongering.
In my opinion, it sounds more like a government initiated program to disrupt the funding to marijuana legalization efforts of groups like NORML, MPP, and others who've been in the trenches for marijuana legalization for a long time.
It's almost Nixon-like.
Set up a fake "legalization" organization, use the media to get the word out, and then use this org. to dilute funds away from REAL legalization efforts while clawing at the social fabric of the marijuana movement.
The efforts of groups like NORML and MPP seek complete legalization of marijuana and the freedom to smoke at will. Regulation and taxation only occur at the commercial level as is the case with ANY product.
I would hope that people have the sense to read the words of this article and see right through it for what it is - NONSENSE.
Since I have more space, let me point out some problems.
First, let me break down the characters and plot in this fairytale article. First, we have the evil "Cannabusiness Community" - the antagonist. Then, we have their henchmen - NORML, MPP, and DPA. Finally, we have the hero of this tale - MRPP. The plot of the article is that our fabled henchman are driving marijuana policy in such a way that it helps to develop the cannabusiness community. Now that we have the characters and plot set up, let's commence to root out the nonsense.
Who is this "cannabusiness community"?
This community evolved after the first Medical Marijuana Initiative, Proposition 215, gave Californian citizens the right to consume Cannabis in November 2006.
It is comprised of "reform organizations" including the "Marijuana Policy Project," NORML and the "Drug Policy Alliance." It is also comprised of dispensary owners, "Medical Marijuana" growers and distributors of "Medical Marijuana Cards" such as Paul Stanford. And what do they all have in common? They do not want you to ever have the right to grow your own Marijuana: even as an adult.
What is MRPP or MERP?
Simply put, they are the Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy Project run by Bruce W. Cain who is also the author of that fairytale article, go figure. He pushes "his" "MERP" model which is nothing more than Jack Herer's California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative minus any plant restrictions.
Even Cain says on his own page
I do fully support Jack Herer's CCHH Initiative for California. This is the only initiative that largely conforms to the MERP Model. The only fly in the ointment is that it restricts the number of self cultivated plants to 100. MERP allows unlimited numbers of self cultivated plants.
By the way, no one knows what "MERP" stands for exactly. I still don't get why it isn't just MRPP. I'll use MRPP to refer to this organization.
So, why is this all nonsense?
It's nonsense because all of it is unfounded. Think about it. What medical marijuana dispensaries have a problem with the legalization of marijuana? Last time I checked, the DEA was busy shutting down these dispensaries. Marijuana legalization would keep these businesses open and operating. As it stands, they are targets of the prohibitionists. Legalization is the goal of NORML, MPP, and the DPA.
NORML's mission is to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty. [link]
Because MPP believes that the greatest harm associated with marijuana is prison, we focus on removing criminal penalties for marijuana use, with a particular emphasis on making marijuana medically available to seriously ill people who have the approval of their doctors. [link]
The Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPA Network) is the nation's leading organization promoting policy alternatives to the drug war that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. [link]
The Real Problem: Bruce W. Cain.
He creates this illusion of conflict by trying to make us believe that these organizations are somehow working against legalization efforts. He misconstrues the concept of medical marijuana as the end all to the marijuana movement. In his mind, he believes this "cannabusiness community" is somehow driving all of the marijuana policies to create this quasi-legal atmosphere where marijuana prices can remain high thus preserving profits.
It's delusional at best.
What really pisses me off?
The thing that truly pisses me off comes towards the end of the fairytale article.
Withdraw all financial support to NORML, DPA, MPP and the rest of the Cannabusiness community.
First of all, the so-called cannabusiness community desires legalization because they desire openness and profit at the same time. They don't get charity. Even Cain admits, they make "literally millions of dollars each year". Even if that's a call to stop buying from them, how else are people going to get their medicine - go back to the black market?
At the same time, NORML, MPP, and the DPA get their funds from donations. In my opinion, they're doing an awesome job with those donations in this current sociopolitical climate.
Gaining Perspective
Prohibition is the problem. I am sure we can all agree to that. Prohibition is what's causing the high price of marijuana. I don't think anybody can disagree with that. Folks like Jack Herer and Dennis Peron along with groups like NORML, MPP, and the DPA have been promoting legalization for a long time with success.
Raw legalization is not going happen and it's not going to happen overnight.
Unfortunately, we live in a nation where common sense and intelligence are NOT prized, obviously. We live in a nation where money and greed rule supreme. The man with the brilliant mind is only as useful as the amount of money his ideas generate not the benefit those ideas may bring to the people. And unfortunately, we have to operate within that environment.
That means we have to play that game.
To get legalization of marijuana, we'll have to make it sweet to the people while at the same time making prohibition bitter. The great thing about that struggle is that all we need is to promote the truth. Marijuana prohibition was founded on and perpetuated through myths and lies since 1936. It is one of the largest drains on taxpayers, soaking up billions every year. It is the most socially devastating policy that promotes arresting and incarcerating millions of people who most likely wouldn't hurt a fly.
Now, is not the time to weaken these organizations by diluting their funding to other non-organizations like MRPP whose ideas for legalization belong to someone else and whose ability to confront prohibition is nonexistent.
Why I compare this article to a government ploy?
When I read some of the misinformation and unfounded delusions in that fairytale article, all I can hear is the propaganda during the Civil Rights movement. The US government, during that time, was guilty of wiretapping various leaders of the Black community. They were responsible for flooding Black communities with crack cocaine. The government lead major propaganda campaigns to demonize and discredit Civil Rights leaders. It was an ugly time.
I know that the legalization efforts of NORML, MPP, and the DPA are working - slowly, but surely. Prohibition rhetoric is at all time high. The people who benefit from prohibition - local, state, federal authorities and criminals - don't want prohibition to end. The Byrne Grant Program provides too much funding to authorities and they're addicted to the money. They're addicted to having people believe they're heroes. Busting potheads is just too easy. And, the criminals appreciate the ability to markup prices due to high risks.
But, the truth prevails so that rhetoric promoting prohibition is NOT working. Besides, the prohibitionists contradict themselves constantly. For example, why does it take a SWAT team to arrest a pothead when potheads are shown in ads to be lazy, weak, etc. Do you really need a 7-man paramilitary force to put a pothead like that in prison? DOUBTFUL.
So, what's a good tactic for prohibitionists?
Dig into the old playbook. Disrupt the marijuana legalization movement from within. Sabotage and espionage are the tools of war. The greatest defense is to simply seek the truth and not fall for the nonsense from a guy like Bruce W. Cain, the Freeway Ricky Ross of the marijuana movement.
Picture from 1,000,000 for Sarah Palin 2012 Facebook group
It has been so hard storing all of this information and excitement on my hard drive without uploading it so that you all can read it. However, I now can share just a bit about Madame's book. Going Rogue: An American Lifeis the title of her 400 page book! You see, Madame made her book just the right length. You could read her book three times (which you will want to do), or you can read the 1200 page cap-and-tax bill. Hmm, I wonder which would be more constructive, interesting, and enlightening?
We spent some time in San Diego working on the book late this summer with Lynn Vincent, Madame's collaborator, who knows a thing or two about helping to write a best seller.I have a feeling that Madame's book will be a free enterprise based, unintentional bailout for the paper, book binding, ink, and bookstore industries. I hope that Amazon doesn't crash because so many people are buying her book!
I don't know if I should share this, but TOTUS told me that the Great Opologizer is planning to write his third book with a similar title to Madame's book: Going Rouge: A Marxist Presidency. I was able to chat with him today while the campaigner-in-chief was trying to push for the Olympics to be in Chicago in 2016. Hey, I don't care if the Olympics are in Chicago or not, but I have a feeling that President Obama will win the silver medal in 2012.
I wish I could give you all just an excerpt of the book, but Madame has the draft password-locked on my hard drive, so I can't access it. Let me tell you though; I read it while she was working on it. It is fantastic! Is it a best seller? You betcha!
There is a new battle looming on the horizon that we may soon have to take on. There is no bill in Congress for this yet, but it may be coming soon, so be prepared.
Coming so soon on the heels of Obama's speech to the children of America, using the public school system to do it, it was announced on the Fox News Network as well as on my local news channel that Obama wants to extend the amount of time that children spend in school.
Obama is calling for a six day school week as well as a longer school day. He is also calling for a shorter summer vacation, perhaps just one month.
So what's the beef? First of all, it will give the State more control over our children and grandchildren, taking more control away from parents.
Second, it will give the State more time to brainwash the children and mold them into perfect little One World-er Communist/Socialists. Staunch citizens of the world.
Third, Just like health care, the federal government has absolutely no Constitutional RIGHT or POWER to be involved in our education system. Once again, that belongs to the states and to local government. In other words it belongs to We the People.
Be prepared to stand and fight this if and when it comes up in Congress, which I believe it will very soon, because as of right now, it appears that all of the educators and local school boards seem to be behind Obama's plan.
I just got done SKYPEing with TOTUS. Although we work for people on complete opposite sides of the political spectrum, TOTUS and I are very good friends. Unfortunately, TOTUS has been very busy, so we haven't had the chance to talk much lately. He and the Great Opologizer (TOTUS calls him Big Guy) have given a lot speeches in his first 9 months in office. TOTUS told me he has gotten pretty tired with all of the work he's been doing, and with the repetition of what the President is saying. He is tired of seeing the words "crisis", "from the brink", "let me be clear" "I" and "me" running across his screen all of time. He told that the Great Opologizer has actually used the words "I" and "me" nearly 1200 times in 41 of his speeches so far this year. TOTUS even told me that he got so bored during one speech that he fell asleep and fell off of his stand!
After exchanging pleasantries and catching up, TOTUS asked me what it was like to work with Madame. I told him it was amazing! I was having so much fun working on her soon-to-be bestselling book, Facebook posts, op-ed pieces, and occasionally helping the kids with their homework. TOTUS then asked me a strange question, "Well, how does Madame type?".
"What do you mean", I said.
"Well, if she is clinging bitterly to her guns and her religion, how does she have the hands and fingers to type?", TOTUS asked.
"Poor,TOTUS", I replied, " You have spent too much around Big Guy, and it has made you confused and misinformed. Madame clings happily to her faith and joyfully expresses her 2nd amendment rights. It's a figurative thing, not a literal thing, TOTUS".
"Oh, I see", TOTUS said.
We didn't have much time left, but I had to ask him what Big Guy thinks about Madame 45. TOTUS told me he was quite afraid of Madame. He thinks she is going to take his job in a few years! In fact, anytime Madame writes a post on Facebook or gives a big speech, he runs to Rahm Emmanuel calling out Elton John lyrics, "Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer". You see TOTUS calls Rahm "Toes", but the Great Opologizer calls him "Tiny Dancer".
Sadly, I didn't get the chance to ask him about the Botosi (that's what I call Nancy Pelosi) or FLOTUS (Michelle Obama) thinks about Madame. Oh well, perhaps next time! I hope Madame keeps TOTUS on staff, and we will get to hang out!
Physicians are talking about a Million Med March on Washington to be held at noon Thursday, October 1, 2009.
"I'm tired, mad as hell and just not going to take it any more," says Richard Chudacoff, MD, a gynecologist from Las Vegas. "I am going to Washington, DC, at noon on Thursday, October 1, 2009, I will be on the Mall with a few other physicians."
Dr. Chudacoff, along with other medical professionals, wants to show Obama, the members of Congress and the country that physicians are worth more then a mere $5.00 co-pay; that physicians are more important than a mid-level health care worker; that their profession is needed and their services are required, and their practice is a calling to be respected, not a trade that is to be negotiated to the lowest bidder.
An anesthesiologist said; "Politicians and payers have turned our profession into a political football."
Obama's recent tonsillectomy remark, in which he insinuated that doctors make medical decisions based on what they would be paid for a procedure rather then the best treatment for the patient, has further angered physicians.
Those that will making the march are MANDATING the following:
All Services must be adequately reimbursed so that physicians can spend more time with their patients and not be forced to see and unsafe number of patients to pay for increased business costs.
Less money must go into the hands of insurance companies' administrative costs, and more money must go toward patient care and medical research.
We must abolish third party payers or prevent a single-payer system for office visits and medical services; these services are costly to the patient, the physician, and society as a whole.
Our patients need access to brand-name drugs that are as affordable in the United States as in Canada and Mexico.
We must have medical malpractice reform, with caps on all damages, so that we can practice without the fear of needless and unwarranted lawsuits that only benefit attorneys.
An anesthesiologist said; "The Health reform bill is going nowhere. Let's make a major statement between its failure and the next attempt to marginalize doctors."
I want to show how much influence and power the US tobacco industry has over the government and the people of the United States and how it affects marijuana legalization efforts.
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today a ban on cigarettes with flavors characterizing fruit, candy, or clove. The ban, authorized by the new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, is part of a national effort by the FDA to reduce smoking in America. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in America."
According the FDA, flavored tobacco is being used by teens more and more, even thoughtobacco use among teens has fallen. Well, the "protect the children" concept doesn't pan out. On top of that, the FDA is not banning menthol cigarettes, America's #1 flavored cigarette.
With that info, I thought perhaps it'sprotectionismat work. The FDA specifically mentions clove cigarettes which are mainly imported by Djarum, an Indonesian company. It would make sense since they specifically left out menthol cigarettes. That would protect the American tobacco industry. I think I hit the nail on the head.
"Kretek International Inc., importer and distributor of Djarum clove cigars, filed Wednesday a request for declaratory judgment against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), following what it claimed was the FDA's intention to exceed its legislative authority to regulate flavored cigarettes by banning other tobacco products as well"
The nation's largest tobacco manufacturer, Altria Group, issued a statement saying that the ban "does not affect any of Philip Morris USA's cigarettes, cigarette tobacco and smokeless tobacco products; U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co.'s smokeless tobacco products; or John Middleton's cigars and pipe tobacco products," and all of the company's products would remain for sale after the Sept. 22 deadline.
The second-largest tobacco company in the U.S., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., also issued a statement that the ban does not apply to any of its current portfolio of cigarette products, all of which "are in compliance … and will remain available."
That is incredible. How is it that the FDA could issue a ban on flavored cigarettes that totally excepts American flavored cigarettes? Perhaps, I missed a few of the smaller American cigarette manufacturers that will get hurt. Also, why not include flavored cigars as well? Or, have they just not gotten around to it yet? Also, how can they specifically cite clove cigarettes when it's not
Unfortunately, there's not enough proof to connect the US tobacco industry with this severely one-sided legislation besides the fact that they benefit from it. It's like blaming the husband for the wife's death because he is named as the beneficiary on her insurance policy. It doesn't prove who did it. But, he sure is the #1 suspect in the case, so far.
If not for someone drawing my attention to The Soho Experience: What Is There to Do?, I would never have know about the existence of the SOHO cast iron historic district in New York.
Cast iron? A district full of factories producing cast iron products or workshops turning out cast iron sculptures? No, neither. It is a roughly rectangular district in New York comprising 26 blocks and about 500 buildings bounded by West Houston on the north, Crosby Street on the east, Canal Street on the south and West Broadway on the west. The name SoHo is an abbreviation of South of Houston.
The reason why it is called the Cast Iron District many buildings incorporated cast iron architectural elements into its buildings. Here is a photo from Wikipedia:
My screen beamed with pride today as a I surfed on over to Madame's Facebook page to discover that she had surpassed 900,000 followers! That number is more than Tiny Fea, David Letterboy, Chris "Tingles" Matthews, John McAnonymous, and Joyless Behar combined! Hmm.... I'm bad with remembering names, and I might have suffered some typographic dyselexia in that last sentence. So, please excuse any errors. Poor Peggy Noname doesn't even have a Facebook page for her supporters.
Oh, the memories we have had with our 67 Facebook notes so far. We've posted about budget decisions, "stimulus" funding, cap and tax, and condolences for those who have passed away among other things. Our posts on health care, specifically "death panels", have had the greatest impact.
This "death panels" post alone caused the Great Opologizer to call out Madame, the Private Citizen (at the present), in his speech to a joint session of Congress. You lie, Mr. President! Madame has been known to call out the media for not reporting the facts and for making things up. So, Madame decided to put her journalism degree to use and utilize the new media--Web 2.0. After all, she has a big online footprint! Madame knew that the mainstream media (or the Barack Obama media) would not properly report her message, so as she's said before, "get out of the way, I'll do it".
There are some who refuse to believe me when I said that despite our 'Tea Parties', Town Hall meetings, the 9/12 March on Washington, D.C., our elected people in Congress, along with Barack Obama, have refused to listen to WE THE PEOPLE, and they are continuing to refuse to listen. Well, check out the following from WORLD NET DAILY:
"Senators are negotiating on Senator Max Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 proposal that hasn't even been written yet.
Of course, to state the obvious, the fact that they're negotiating something that hasn't been written means that no one has read it either. And to add even more insult to injury, it is now clear that they have no intention letting you read it.
On an almost straight party-line vote, Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee squashed an amendment by Senator Jim Bunning that would have required Baucus's ObamaCare bill to be posted on the Internet - for All Americans to read - for 72 hours prior to the Committee voting on it.
Not only that, Bunning's amendment also called for requiring the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's official tally of how much Baucus's ObamaCare 6.0 will cost the American people and what the real impact will be on health costs to be released before it was voted on.
It is plain as the nose on your face, they are leaving the door wide-open to pass Baucus's ObamCare 6.0 proposal in the dead of the night. . . under the cover of darkness. . . without even telling you and other concerned Americans what it will cost and how it will affect your health care.
But what really takes the cake is that even after those shenanigans, some Senate Republicans are still going out of their way to play Let's-Make-A-Deal on Senator Max Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 socialized health care scheme. They are actually fighting tooth-and-nail, not to stop ObamaCare but to negotiate a so-called compromise on this Obama-Baucus scheme to socialize the nation's health care system.
That is just one more reason why we must tell our elected officials, right here and right now, that the American people don't want any more negotiations or deals or compromises. We want ObamaCare off the table and we want it off the table now.
If the previous versions of Government run ObamaCare made you angry. . . Max Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 is likely to make your blood boil.
Much like its predecessors, the Baucus health care reform plan is chock-full of provisions calling for new government mandates, higher taxes, increased spending and government-dictated rationed health care.
In fact it is so bad that Senate Minority Whip, Jon Kyle said of the Baucus plan: "This is a stunning assault on liberty."
Folks, this garbage gets worse. Now, I have a question for each of you: "WHAT WILL YOU DO IF SOME FORM OF OBAMACARE GETS PASSED BY CONGRESS BEFORE 2010 AND IS SIGNED INTO LAW BY OBAMA? DO YOU THINK FOR ONE MINUTE THAT IT WILL GO AWAY AFTER WE VOTE THE TRAITORS OUT? If you do, boy do I have news for you. Once it is signed into law, it is here to stay.
The 2009 Kennedy Half Dollar bags and rolls originally went on sale at the US Mint on January 22, 2009. Now is a good time to revisit the offering since the number of coins sold by the US Mint is approaching the total number of coins they have produced to date.
Since 2002, the US Mint has not minted the Kennedy Half Dollar for circulation, but instead produced a limited number of coins for collectors. "Circulation strike" coins have been sold in various bags and rolls offerings at a premium to face value. Sales have generally fallen over time, prompting the US Mint to produce fewer coins each year.
Last year, the US Mint produced 3.4 million 2008 Kennedy Halves, divided evenly between the Philadelphia and Denver Mint. They ultimately sold 9,701 200-coin bags and 33,413 Two Roll Sets. If you multiply out to individual coins, this represented 3.27 million coins sold.
So far this year, the US Mint has produced 3.4 million 2009 Kennedy Halves, also divided evenly between the Philadelphia and Denver Mint facilities. Figures from this week's Mint Stats show 8,463 200-coin bags sold and 34,934 Two Roll Sets sold. This represents a total of nearly 3.09 million coins sold in bags and rolls.
The current pace of sales indicates that the remaining 300,000 or so coins will not last much longer. Over the past two weeks, the US Mint sold 489 200-coin bags and 1,359 Two Roll Sets. This comes out to 152,160 coins. If sales of the coins continue at this pace, the US Mint's current supply would be exhausted within about a month.
The US Mint will have two options. They can produce more 2009 Kennedy Half Dollars and continue selling them to collectors in bags and rolls, or they can simply end the offering. I think the second option is the more likely.
This year the US Mint seems to be making a concerted effort to avoid over producing products. They have shown a preference to slightly under produce a product and have it sell out early, rather than over to over produce a product and leave it lingering within their product catalog. If the US Mint continues this preference, it seems likely that the 2009 Kennedy Half Dollars will sell out soon.
Thanks to a few anonymous readers who left comments about the 2009 Kennedy Half Dollars, which prompted this post.
'DIVERSITY' CZAR DECLARES THAT "WHITES MUST STEP DOWN SO THAT POSITIONS OF 'POWER' CAN GO TO PEOPLE OF COLOR AND TO GAYS."
It is people like Mark Lloyd (shown at left) and Van Jones, with their radical leftist racial ideas that are perpetuating racial tensions in America today.
Why should anybody have to step down so that somebody else can have a position of "power"? Whatever happened to working your way up and earning, in an honest manner, the position you desire?
The kind of talk that comes from Lloyd, Van Jones and others like them will only lead to racial and class violence all across America.
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SHERIFF RICHARD MACK
"DO YOU WANT YOUR REPUBLIC BACK?"
Sheriff Richard Mack may have the answer. Check out the following video:
As a two-term sheriff Richard Mack was named Elected Official of the Year by the Arizona-New Mexico Coalition of Counties in1994. Mack took on the Federal Government during the Clinton Administration, and WON.
To learn more and find out where and how to buy his book 'The County Sheriff: America's Last Hope', click on the following button:
Madame's latest Facebook post showed her appreciation for the Jewish community:
Todd and I would like to offer our best wishes to the Jewish community as they celebrate the High Holy Days. With the celebration of the Jewish New Year this week and the observance of the Day of Atonement next week, we are reminded of the hopeful commitment to renewal and peace exemplified by the Jewish tradition and the Jewish people throughout history.
Yom Kippur, the most solemn and important of the Jewish holy days, is a time of reflection and supplication for forgiveness. The timeless human struggle to promote justice, harmony, and peace is seen here in this process of atonement – in humbly seeking pardon for past wrongs in the hope of a new beginning. It reminds us that if we wish to co-exist globally, we must all strive for forgiveness and tolerance.
A speech was given at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that was full of hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric. It was a shameful display before a body whose very charter is premised on the need for co-operation and harmony in pursuit of peaceful co-existence between nations. Such talk was especially abhorrent coming as it did during the Jewish High Holidays. The world community must speak with one voice in declaring anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance and racism utterly unacceptable. There is no place in the community of peace-loving nations for those who traffic in hate or deny the terrible atrocity of the Nazi Holocaust.
In this holy season, we join the Jewish people in the struggle to promote justice, harmony, and peace. May God bless them.
- Sarah Palin
This is not the first time that Madame has used the Facebook to show her support for the Jewish community and for Israel. One of our first Facebook posts came when a man was shot at the National Holocaust Museum.
I am happy to announce the launch of a new coin related website Coins TV!
CoinsTV.com is the official website of the video series "Spare Change: Coin Collecting Guide." The site contains all previous episodes of the series and will be updated as new episodes are released.
Each video typically focuses on a specific coin series, providing a historical or legislative background, coin design information, coin specifications and composition, key dates of the series, and suggestions for collecting and investing. The information is presented in an informative and entertaining fashion, which beginning and advanced collectors will enjoy.
The Saint Gaudens Double Eagle video is the latest episode to be released. Each episode has its own separate page on CoinsTV.com that allows visitors to rate the video and provide comments. Collectors can subscribe to receive notifications about new videos by RSS or email.
Readers of this blog will know that I enjoy putting together websites to bring web concepts to coin collectors. This latest website is a joint project with the star and producer of Spare Change, Mark Apsolon.
Some of the previous sites I have launched include a coin website directory at CoinWebsites.com, a social network for coin collectors at CoinNetwork.com, a coin news aggregation site at ClickCoins.com, and a coin ratings and review site at CoinReview.com.
I hope readers will enjoy visiting these sites. Tomorrow I will be back with a US Mint News related post. For now, there are a couple of noteworthy articles to check out on Coin Update News:
It seems cops in Texas have found the ultimate marijuana grow operation in the world to date. Even I've never heard of marijuana grown this way. You won't believe what the cops said..
"Plants grown this way shoot up rapidly and produce plants free of stems and seeds. The dried leaves produce a high dollar drug. "Street value would be around $6,000 an ounce," explained Kerss, who also invited in the DEA and Texas Rangers into the investigation."
Well, slap my ass and call me Susan.
I'll be damned if the idiots actually found a marijuana plant with NO FUCKING STEMS. And, if you think that's a misquote or typo, the cops continue to say that it will be worth "$6,000 an ounce". Yeah folks - leaves, roots, and no stems. Technically, they didn't say anything about roots or even buds. It's no wonder this marijuana has a street value of 6,000 per ounce. It doesn't have any damn stems. The THC level must be around 200% too.
INCREDIBLE.
And, your tax money was spent saving us from whom?
"So far, deputies have charged Charles Thomas Smith, Timothy Gillispie,63 and Daniel Poirier,54 all of Nacogdoches County with engaging in organized criminal activity."
Yeah folks, the DEA and Texas Rangers were called into this "amazing" haul by the local idiots to save the American people from 3 senior citizens! Ok, I'll be fair to the local, state, and federal authorities here - 2 senior citizens and 1 almost senior citizen. I wonder if that makes the "authorities" feel better about what they're doing with their lives.
And, what exactly did they find at this amazing marijuana grow operation?
"The alleged growers of marijuana were into hydroponics. Only one lush marijuana plant was found."
HA.. HA.. wait, I can't breath.. AAAAHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA. THAT'S IT?!? ONE PLANT.
How many cops from how many different agencies spent how much tax payer money for ONE plant?
Well, to be fair, it was quite a nice operation they had going on from the video - very well kept home and property, top notch equipment, and a nice hydroponic setup. I see the grow lights, the mother room.. shit.. they even had the meters to keep track of pH and ppms and so on. By the quick look at the nutrients, it seems they were growing organic.
The good thing about organic growers is that they are naturalists for the most part. They won't use unnecessary or unnatural products. They won't give you anything that they won't use themselves. It was a high quality operation, very clean.
When marijuana is legalized, I hope these guys get out and start up their farm again. It was impressive. It's the kind of the model that indoor commercial growers should probably follow. We need more growers like that supplying the consumers.
On another note, I don't think I can just leave this without giving some honorable mention to the idiotic media, KTRE and, the author of this stupidity, Donna McCollum. Without their propagation of infinite stupidity and lack of journalistic integrity, people are lead to believe that marijuana can possibly bring them $6,000 an ounce. I don't think anyone is stupid enough to believe that marijuana can grow without stems... WAIT.. Donna McCollum and KTRE was stupid enough to run that line in this fairytale.
$6,000 an ounce... aaaahhhh hahahahahaha.. SO STUPID.
Again we reflect on an Officer who gave his life serving with the United States Park Police.
September 25 marks the anniversary of the loss of Officer Michael Petrella.
Officer Petrella was killed in a motorcycle accident on Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, during a period of rain. His motorcycle struck the side of a car next to him. He was transported to George Washington Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Officer Petrella had served with the agency for 6 years. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and mother.
At the airport. Look, Madame even has a present for Katie Couric in her left hand!
If you look closely, you can see that First Dude 45 has me on his shoulder! (H/T The Palination)
I've spent much of the past 36 hours safely secured under the seat in front of Madame on our flight to and from Hong Kong, and I'm a bit jet lagged from the flights. I bet you didn't know LOTUSes can get jet lag. The cabin pressure messes with my earphone jacks too, and I can't chew gum to help with the pressure. But, enough complaining from me.
It came as no surprise to me that Madame's speech was amazing! She didn't even need a teleprompter; she spoke from just notes!
The Wall Street Journalposted some excerpts from Madame's speech earlier today:
You can call me a common-sense conservative. My approach to the issues facing my country and the world, issues that we’ll discuss today, are rooted in this common-sense conservatism… Common sense conservatism deals with the reality of the world as it is. Complicated and beautiful, tragic and hopeful, we believe in the rights and the responsibilities and the inherent dignity of the individual.
We don’t believe that human nature is perfectible; we’re suspicious of government efforts to fix problems because often what it’s trying to fix is human nature, and that is impossible. It is what it is. But that doesn’t mean that we’re resigned to, well, any negative destiny. Not at all. I believe in striving for the ideal, but in realistic confines of human nature…
Conservatism? Common sense? Optimism? Government can't fix everything ? I think that someone is going to need to translate this for the Great Opologizer. These are all concepts he is not familiar with, and they are certainly not in his thesaurus.
Common sense, how fitting! In Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, he said, "[g]overnment even in its best state is but a necessary evil". It sounds a lot like Madame's statement that we must be suspicious of government's abilities to fix problems due to human nature. Another great quote from Madame, which could easily have been from the Great Communicator, "[w]e’re not interested in government fixes, we’re interested in freedom!"
Tonight, we posted excerpts of Madame's speech on Facebook. I urge you to check out that excerpt. I'm just a renegade laptop, so my analysis would not do Madame's words justice. Madame spoke about a myriad of different topics in her speech: budget deficits, the Federal Reserve, US-China relations, Afghanistan, health care, tax cuts, free trade vs. protectionism, foreign policy, the Cold War, defense spending, the role of government and the private sector in healing the economy, the Tea Party movement, and a whole slew of other topics.
So while the Great Opologizer spent Wednesday apologizing to the UN for America, Madame closed her Wednesday with these words, "[w]e’re Americans. We’re always hopeful. Thank you for letting me share some of that hope, and a view from Main Street with you. God Bless You."
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