Heal the earth, insure the homeless, pay your mortgage and put food on your table. The Obamassiah has made a lot of promises. “Pass the stimulus and unemployment won’t go over 8%” said Obama earlier this year. It’s now about to hit 10%. ACORN/Census workers are plotting the GPS coordinates of your front door, and soon, you may be required to have a GPS in your car.
A federal commission concluded a GPS-based mileage tax to offset the revenue decline by newer, more fuel-efficient vehicles was the “best path forward”, and now University of Iowa researchers are tweaking a GPS system that will track your vehicles every move. With the current by-the-gallon fuel tax is not generating enough revenue, many are proposing a pay-by-the-mile tax. The only way to accomplish this would be to equip all vehicles with a device to track your mileage.
I think the concept of a pay-as-you go fuel tax may have merit, but using GPS is not the answer as it will allow a further breach of our civil liberties. With the technological advances in the last decade, far less intrusive technology could be used. How about a device that doesn’t track your vehicle, but records your mileage since your last fill up at the gas station and charges you at the pump?
Proponents of the project claim the GPS devices could also be used to as a tool to help manage traffic and relieve congestion. Bullshit. There are other ways to monitor traffic including below pavement ground sensors, cameras, etc.
As one blogger put it, “I’m also paranoid enough that I’d prefer not being harassed or suspected of a crime because I’m one of 200 other cars listed as “near” a crime scene.” Or another who said:
I’m a pretty good shade tree mechanic, even on newer cars.
You’d better believe that the transponder on my next car is going to get removed and will be emitting a nice, regular signal from the corner of the garage, while it gathers dust. It will keep company with the restrictive catalytic converter, intake manifold, and exhaust system that I removed from my sports car.
A new Gallup Poll finds a booming increase in the number of Americans that think the democratic party is too liberal. Who’da thunk?
PRINCETON, NJ — A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party’s views as being “too liberal,” from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the party’s losses in that year’s midterm elections.
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Notably, there has been no change over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say the Republican Party is “too conservative,” though the 43% who say the party leans too far to the right matches the historical high mark set last year.
The economy is in the tank. Nationally the the jobless rate is approaching 10%, and closer to home the unemployment rate for May in Kokomo jumped to 18.8 percent, up 11.7 percentage points from a year ago. The Elkhart-Goshen unemployment rate rose to 17.5 percent. That’s up 11.4 percentage points from last year.
As we continue to pull-out early from Iraq, violence is on the upswing. All the while Obama is continuing his romance with fascist dictators like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to the point of even sending Ambassadors to each country.
But the big news from the White House – the Obamassiah is pounding his chest over new efficiency standards he’s going to cram down our throats on light bulbs. He claims that between 2012 and 2042 it will save us up to $4 billion annually and that’s enough to power every U.S. home for 10 months.
Bullshit.
Maine governor John Baldacci signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring manufacturers of compact fluorescent light bulbs containing toxic mercury to share in the cost of proper disposal.
Legislative Directive 973 goes into effect September 12 and requires manufacturers to pay for the collection and recycling of bulbs, rather than taxpayers. Manufacturers must submit recycling plans by 2010 and begin collection by 2011.
California, Vermont and Massachusetts all have similar bills pending and are expected to follow Maine’s lead.
Want to guess who’s really going to pay for this? You, because the manufacturers will pass along the cost to the consumer.
And if you break one, be careful who you call.
WASHINGTON – Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter’s bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials accident, while Bridges works on a way to pay off a $2,000 estimate by a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb. Complete story is [here].
It’s no wonder Obama’s approval ratings keep dropping.
2007-08
State Average – 77.8%
Gary Community School Corp – 50.3%
2006-07
State Average – 76.4%
Gary Community School Corp – 46.1%
2005-06
State Average – 76.1%
Gary Community School Corp – 50.6%
ISTEP Pct Pass both English and Math
2008-09
State Average – 64.8%
Gary Community School Corp- 40.0%
This proves tossing money at a school district is not the answer.
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After hours of cry baby antics by house democrats, the Indiana House voted 62-37 today for a new two-year two-year $27.8 billion budget which includes about $1 billion in federal stimulus dollars. The budget gives schools an overall increase of 1.1 percent in 2010 and 0.3 percent in 2011.
It now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate where undoubtedly it will pass.
One of the biggest cry babies was house Representative Vernon Smith, D-Gary who complained the new budget will cost Gary, Indiana’s school system $12 million. He never mentioned the fact that Gary’s school system spends $11,535 per student, while the statewide average is only $6995 per student.
All 48 Republicans voted yes, and they were joined by 12 Democrats.
The Supreme Court today narrowly ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and others that had come to play a large role in the consideration of her nomination for the high court. More [here].
So the shoe drops on Obama’s first Supreme Court selection proving yet again she’s not one of the brightest bulbs in the pack.
President to Nation– My Health Care Plan for the Country Is NOT GOOD ENOUGH for HIS CHILDREN
You simply cannot make this up:
“Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.
The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.”
Patients United Now will be in Fort Wayne on July 9th at 12:00 noon, with a presentation by David McIntosh, discussing the costs of government run health care.
During the Reagan administration, he served as special assistant to the Attorney General and as special assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs. During the first Bush administration, he served as executive director of the President’s Council on Competitiveness and assistant to the Vice President. He later represented Indiana’s second district in the House of Representatives (1995 until January 2001), becoming chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Relief, which had oversight of environmental, labor, and FDA regulations.
We will have more information on the event location early next week. Free Coney Dogs, chips and soda will be available to the first 150 attendees.
White Supremacist Material, Guns Found in Illinois Bust
Authorities say twin brothers were arrested following the search of a northern Illinois home, where agents recovered assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and white supremacist material.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Tom Ahern says the arrest and search warrants were served Thursday in Davis Junction for violations of federal firearms laws.
Ahern says Dennis and Daniel Mahon were the subject of a sealed federal indictment out of Arizona.
And another White Supremacist was arrested yesterday in North Bergen, N.J.
And another ATF raid this morning here on gang members in Los Angeles. Busy guys.
End update.
Thomas Metzger, the founder of the American White Aryan Resistance movement had his home search by federal ATF agents early this morning. No arrests were made.
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