Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter 2013: Bing Vs Google - March 29th, Obama Declares March 31 As Cesar Chavez Day

By Susan Duclos

Reminder- Barack Obama on March 29, 2013. declared March 31, Cesar Chavez Day.:  (Via White House Website)

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2013, as Cesar Chavez Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate service, community, and education programs to honor Cesar Chavez's enduring legacy.


It is Easter Sunday and it has been noticed that Bing and Google are handling the Christian Holiday quite differently.


Google honors Cesar Chavez:

Screen cap from Easter Day March 31, 2013



Versus 

Bing honors Easter:

Screen cap from Easter Day March 31, 2013


[Update] Looks like Bing just earned themselves quite a few new users who are vowing to switch over from Google to Bing.


Media And Liberals Attack Dr. Ben Carson For Using Examples But Ignore Sotomayor Incest Example

By Susan Duclos

John Nolte noticed that Dr. Ben Carson, who happens to hold conservative ideologies on the issue of the definition of marriage, being between a man and woman, was treated far differently by liberals and the media than liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, when both used 'examples" to make a point.

Carson's, discussed here, are shown below:

During Sean Hannity's show on Tuesday, when asked about the matter before the Supreme Court, Carson said, "Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are. They don't get to change the definition."

 After liberals and the media went nuts over his examples, claiming he was "comparing" gays to NAMBLA, Carson apologized if the examples he used offended and explained:

"I think people have completely taken the wrong meaning out of what I was saying," the 61-year-old surgeon said in a telephone interview Friday. "First of all, I certainly believe gay people should have all the rights that anybody else has. What I was basically saying is that as far as marriage is concerned that has traditionally been between a man and a woman and nobody should be able to change that."

"Now perhaps the examples were not the best choice of words, and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone," he added. "But the point that I was making was that no group of individuals, whoever they are, whatever their belief systems, gets to change traditional definitions. The reason I believe the way I do, I will readily confess, is because I am a Christian who believes in The Bible."

The Bible, he explained, "...says we have an obligation to love our fellow man as ourselves, and I love everybody the same -- all homosexuals. Everybody who knows me knows I would never say anything to intentionally hurt someone."

Nolte over at Breitbart points out that while on opposite ends of the political spectrum, Sotomayor too used an example that, had Carson or any other conservative used to make a contrasting point, would have been skewered for, yet the media and liberals have been oddly silent.

Incest.


JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR:

Mr. Olson, the bottom line that you're being asked -- and -- and it is one that I'm interested in the answer: If you say that marriage is a fundamental right, what State restrictions could ever exist? Meaning, what State restrictions with respect to the number of people, with respect to -- that could get married -- the incest laws, the mother and the child, assuming they are of age -- I can -- I can accept that the State has probably an overbearing interest on -- on protecting the a child until they're of age to marry, but what's left? 
 Nolte states quite clearly that Sotomayor wasn't making a comparison between gay marriage and incest just as Carson wasn't making a comparison, both were simply using examples about separate aspects of an issue.

The point of Nolte's piece is the hypocrisy and double standard shown on the part of liberals and the media coverage of the two, one liberal and one conservative.

Is anyone naive enough to believe that had Carson used those same examples, in some way, in favor of changing the definition of marriage, he would have been attacked for it?

If so, there is this bridge in Brooklyn I am selling, give me a call, we will discuss the price.

Other examples of Carson being attacked relentlessly since he took Obama's policies to task at the National Prayer Breakfast, from an earlier piece:

Examples of previous attacks against Carson, which started when he took Obama's policies to task at the National Prayer Breakfast, while Obama sat a couple seats away from him, can be found here, here and here.

Since that initial National Prayer Breakfast video of Carson went viral, liberals have called him an "Oreo," a "Token,"   a white man's "Negro," an "Uncle Tom,"  a "Negro du jour," and Nigger, among other things.




2013: Happy Easter - Happy Passover- Whatever You Celebrate, May The Day Be Wonderful

By Susan Duclos

Sunday March 31, 2013 is Easter Sunday. Passover 2013 began in the evening of March 25th and ends the evening of April 2nd.



Whatever holiday you are celebrating, may it be a wonderful one for you. If you celebrate neither, then have a happy Sunday.

[Update] Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs:

Rabbits have been associated with springtime since ancient times. It is believed that the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring, Eostre had a hare as her companion. The hare symbolizes fertility and rebirth. Later Christians changed the symbol of the hare to the Easter bunny.

The tradition is that the Easter bunny leaves Easter eggs on Easter Sunday. Parents hide eggs in the garden and the children go on an egg hunt to find them.

The idea of an egg-laying rabbit was taken to America in the 1700's German immigrants. They told their children to make 'nests' with their caps and bonnets, and if they were good the Easter bunny would leave them colored eggs.

Related:

New research suggests Shroud of Turin dates to Jesus' era

Google celebrates Easter with ... Cesar Chavez birthday tribute 

13 things you need to know for Passover 2013

While Google honors Cesar Chavez, Bing delivers Easter eggs  

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Welfare Cash Withdrawals Being Used At Amusement Parks, Strip Clubs And Liquor Stores

By Susan Duclos

A little late on this one, since the original investigation was reported on in February, but it is still relevant.

Electric Benefit Transfers (EBT) are being made at amusement parks, strip clubs and liquor stores, according to an 2News I-Team investigation into over 180,000 EBT ATM withdrawals in Massachusetts from July.

Before getting to their findings,  let's look at what EBT's are and what they are supposed to be used for:

  • EBT is used in all states to issue food stamp benefits to recipients.
  • Many states also issue cash benefits such as TANF using EBT.
  • Recipients are issued an “EBT Card” similar to a bank ATM or debit card to receive and use their food stamp and/or cash benefits.
  • Benefits are automatically deposited onto the card by the State.
  • Recipients with food stamp benefits can use their EBT Card for eligible food purchases at most grocery stores and some other retailers. Food stamps can only be used for food and for plants and seeds to grow food for your household to eat. Food stamps cannot be used to buy:

  • - Any nonfood item, such as pet foods, soaps, paper products, and household supplies, grooming items, toothpaste, and cosmetics.
    - Alcoholic beverages and tobacco.
    - Vitamins and medicines.
  • Recipients with cash benefits can use their EBT Card like cash for purchases and cash-back with purchases at grocery stores and at most ATMs (automated teller machines).

Keeping the descriptions in mind, the 2News investigation's findings suggest rampant abuse and a lack of oversight that is concerning and disturbing, considering it is taxpayer's money that is being used:

$25 Million is taken out in cash each month and a 22News I-Team investigation reveals some potential loopholes in the system.  

Amusement Parks, Strip Clubs and Liquor Stores. 

The 22News I-Team went through more than 180,000 EBT ATM withdrawals in Massachusetts from July.  We discovered those kind of establishments are where tens of thousands of dollars are being taken out each month.  

"I think its appalling", says State Representative Shaunna O'Connell from Taunton. 

Representative O'Connell has served on two commission examining welfare abuse in the state.

"DTA (Division of Transitional Assistance) is not doing their job.  They are not performing the core responsibilities of oversight verification and fraud prevention and investigation.  They just have no interest whatsoever in protecting the tax payer dollars and overseeing this program like they're supposed to", says O'Connell.

More than $2000 in EBT cash was taken out at an ATM inside a liquor store on State Street in Springfield in July.  While there is no way to tell if that money was actually spent inside, just 200 feet away; a bank ATM where money could have been withdrawn.  

The 22News I-Team found more than $38,000 taken out at liquor and package stores in Western Massachusetts in one month. In the state it's much more.  On average, more than one million dollars a year in EBT money is taken out at liquor or package stores.  The state gives out around $30 Million a month in this program, $25 Million is taken out in cash.  

"We have got to get a hold on where this cash is going", says Representative O'Connell.
Division of Transitional Assistance Commissioner Daniel Curley resigned from his post on February 1st.  An internal report found that 47,000 families receiving taxpayer-funded benefits are unaccounted for and nearly $30 million in food stamp money went to recipients who weren't eligible.

The investigation found more examples of the abuse:

 Our investigation uncovered people taking out EBT money at an IMAX movie theater in California, a pawn shop in Rhode Island, a strip club in Connecticut, sex novelty shops in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.  Universal Studios Florida and Mount Rushmore, just to name a few.   

That is an investigation into one state, now multiply that by 50 (or 57 if you are Obama)  and we are talking about some welfare recipients using taxpayer money for uses that welfare was not intended for. Abusing the system and regulators not doing their jobs to prevent the abuses.

As of October 2012, welfare is the single biggest chunk of federal spending, above Social Security and basic defense spending.

Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent over the past four years, fattened by President Obama’s stimulus spending and swelled by a growing number of Americans whose recession-depleted incomes now qualify them for public assistance, according to numbers released Thursday.

Federal spending on more than 80 low-income assistance programs reached $746 billion in 2011, and state spending on those programs brought the total to $1.03 trillion, according to figures from the Congressional Research Service and the Senate Budget Committee.

Welfare benefits are supposed to be a helping hand, a temporary measure to help those that have lost their jobs or suffered some personal downfall. A stepping stone to help them get their feet back under them so they can support themselves and their families.

Taxpayers should be outraged that their hard earned money is being used in sex shops, liquor stores, movie theaters, amusement parks and strip clubs, instead of for food, rent, utilities and basic necessities.




Weekly Republican Address 3/30/13: Rep. Lee Terry: 'The Keystone XL pipeline is a no-brainer'

By Susan Duclos

Upping the pressure on Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, which has bipartisan support in both the democratically controlled U.S. Senate and the Republican controlled House of Representatives, as well as the majority of Americans, the GOP's weekly address by Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.), calls the Keystone XL pipeline a "no-brainer."

Video below:



Keystone XL Pipeline Project

The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed 1,179-mile (1,897 km), 36-inch-diameter crude oil pipeline beginning in Hardisty, Alta., and extending south to Steele City, Neb. This pipeline is a critical infrastructure project for the energy security of the United States and for strengthening the American economy.

Along with transporting crude oil from Canada, the Keystone XL Pipeline will also support the significant growth of crude oil production in the United States by allowing American oil producers more access to the large refining markets found in the American Midwest and along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

For more information on the project please visit the Keystone XL Pipeline Project website at Keystone-XL.com.

Dr. Ben Carson's Apology Gives Him A Chance To Make His Point Again And Again

By Susan Duclos

Liberals are up in arms again over comments made by Dr. Ben Carson.

Dr. Benjamin Carson, the famed Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, apologized Friday for his "choice of words" and use of examples in discussing gay marriage on Fox News earlier in the week.

During Sean Hannity's show on Tuesday, when asked about the matter before the Supreme Court, Carson said, "Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are. They don't get to change the definition."

The comparison of gays to members of the North American Boy/Man Love Association and those who engage in bestiality set off a backlash of criticism in the media, online and on campus. There is now a petition circulating at Johns Hopkins Medical to have Carson removed as commencement speaker in May at the School of Medicine.
Carson was to be the commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins University and students started circulating a petition to replace him due to his comments quoted above.

Carson has offered to withdraw as commencement speaker if necessary and  during an interview he also offered his apologies for offending people, then went on to make his original point again.

"I think people have completely taken the wrong meaning out of what I was saying," the 61-year-old surgeon said in a telephone interview Friday. "First of all, I certainly believe gay people should have all the rights that anybody else has. What I was basically saying is that as far as marriage is concerned that has traditionally been between a man and a woman and nobody should be able to change that."

"Now perhaps the examples were not the best choice of words, and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone," he added. "But the point that I was making was that no group of individuals, whoever they are, whatever their belief systems, gets to change traditional definitions. The reason I believe the way I do, I will readily confess, is because I am a Christian who believes in The Bible."

The Bible, he explained, "...says we have an obligation to love our fellow man as ourselves, and I love everybody the same -- all homosexuals. Everybody who knows me knows I would never say anything to intentionally hurt someone."

In an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, he also said "“Marriage is a very sacred thing and we need to maintain it as a sacred thing. When I say we don’t want to change it or degrade it by calling everything marriage, that’s not aimed at any particular group. But the fact of the matter is, the Bible and God have set very specific standards. It’s very clear what’s being said. God doesn’t change, man changes. Our duty is to allow for that change and to still love them and in terms of what happens with them, that’s a decision that’s up to God, that’s not our decision."

By sincerely apologizing for offense and saying he used bad examples in his original argument, he has taken the hammer liberals have been using to hit him with, away from them, then proceeded to make his original point, again and again.

What Carson is learning about the world of politics is that one cannot be black, successful and conservative, without liberals attacking you as if you were the devil.

Examples of previous attacks against Carson, which started when he took Obama's policies to task at the National Prayer Breakfast, while Obama sat a couple seats away from him, can be found here, here and here.

Since that initial National Prayer Breakfast video of Carson went viral, liberals have called him an "Oreo," a "Token,"   a white man's "Negro," an "Uncle Tom,"  a "Negro du jour," and Nigger, among other things.




Full War Statement: North Korea Says It Has Entered State Of War Against South Korea

By Susan Duclos

North Korea's little lunatic leader, Kim Jong-un, first allowed photos of his emergency meeting to go public, showing charts of of bombing targets which included Hawaii, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

Then to top off his lunacy, North Korea then issued a "Full War  Declaration Statement," against South Korea, which reads like a very bad movie script.

Statement below, via Reuters:

The moves of the U.S. imperialists to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and encroach upon its supreme interests have entered an extremely grave phase. Under this situation, the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu, convened an urgent operation meeting on the performance of duty of the Strategic Rocket Force of the Korean People's Army for firepower strike and finally examined and ratified a plan for firepower strike.


The important decision made by him is the declaration of a do-or-die battle to provide an epochal occasion for putting an end to the history of the long-standing showdown with the U.S. and opening a new era. It is also a last warning of justice served to the U.S., south Korean group and other anti-reunification hostile forces. The decision reflects the strong will of the army and people of the DPRK to annihilate the enemies.



Now the heroic service personnel and all other people of the DPRK are full of surging anger at the U.S. imperialists' reckless war provocation moves, and the strong will to turn out as one in the death-defying battle with the enemies and achieve a final victory of the great war for national reunification true to the important decision made by Kim Jong Un.



The Supreme Command of the KPA in its previous statement solemnly declared at home and abroad the will of the army and people of the DPRK to take decisive military counteraction to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of its supreme leadership as regards the war moves of the U.S. and south Korean puppets that have reached the most extreme phase.



Not content with letting B-52 make sorties into the sky over south Korea in succession despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, the U.S. made B-2A stealth strategic bomber and other ultra-modern strategic strike means fly from the U.S. mainland to south Korea to stage a bombing drill targeting the DPRK. This is an unpardonable and heinous provocation and an open challenge.



By taking advantage of the U.S. reckless campaign for a nuclear war against the DPRK, the south Korean puppets vociferated about "preemptive attack" and "strong counteraction" and even "strike at the commanding forces", openly revealing the attempt to destroy monuments symbolic of the dignity of the DPRK's supreme leadership.



This clearly shows that the U.S. brigandish ambition for aggression and the puppets' attempt to invade the DPRK have gone beyond the limit and their threats have entered the reckless phase of an actual war from the phase of threat and blackmail.



The prevailing grim situation more clearly proves that the Supreme Command of the KPA was just when it made the judgment and decision to decisively settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets by dint of the arms of Songun, because time when words could work has passed.



Now they are openly claiming that the B-2A stealth strategic bombers' drill of dropping nuclear bombs was "not to irritate the north" but "the defensive one". The U.S. also says the drill is "to defend the interests of its ally". However, it is nothing but a lame pretext to cover up its aggressive nature, evade the denunciation at home and abroad and escape from the DPRK's retaliatory blows.



The era when the U.S. resorted to the policy of strength by brandishing nuclear weapons has gone.



It is the resolute answer of the DPRK and its steadfast stand to counter the nuclear blackmail of the U.S. imperialists with merciless nuclear attack and their war of aggression with just all-out war.



They should clearly know that in the era of Marshal Kim Jong Un, the greatest-ever commander, all things are different from what they used to be in the past.



The hostile forces will clearly realize the iron will, matchless grit and extraordinary mettle of the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu that the earth cannot exist without Songun Korea.

Time has come to stage a do-or-die final battle.



The government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK solemnly declare as follows reflecting the final decision made by Kim Jong Un at the operation meeting of the KPA Supreme Command and the unanimous will of all service personnel and people of the DPRK who are waiting for a final order from him.



1.From this moment, the north-south relations will be put at the state of war and all the issues arousing between the north and the south will be dealt with according to the wartime regulations.



The state of neither peace nor war has ended on the Korean Peninsula.



Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war. Accordingly, the DPRK will immediately punish any slightest provocation hurting its dignity and sovereignty with resolute and merciless physical actions without any prior notice.



2. If the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group perpetrate a military provocation for igniting a war against the DPRK in any area including the five islands in the West Sea of Korea or in the area along the Military Demarcation Line, it will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war.



It is self-evident that any military conflict on the Korean Peninsula is bound to lead to an all-out war, a nuclear war now that even U.S. nuclear strategic bombers in its military bases in the Pacific including Hawaii and Guam and in its mainland are flying into the sky above south Korea to participate in the madcap DPRK-targeted nuclear war moves.



The first strike of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will blow up the U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam and reduce not only its military bases in south Korea but the puppets' ruling institutions including Chongwadae and puppet army's bases to ashes at once, to say nothing of the aggressors and the provokers.



3. The DPRK will never miss the golden chance to win a final victory in a great war for national reunification.



This war will not be a three day-war but it will be a blitz war through which the KPA will occupy all areas of south Korea including Jeju Island at one strike, not giving the U.S. and the puppet warmongers time to come to their senses, and a three-dimensional war to be fought in the air, land and seas and on the front line and in the rear.



This sacred war of justice will be a nation-wide, all-people resistance involving all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas in which the traitors to the nation including heinous confrontation maniacs, warmongers and human scum will be mercilessly swept away.



No force on earth can break the will of the service personnel and people of the DPRK all out in the just great war for national reunification and of all other Koreans and overpower their might.



Holding in high esteem the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu, the Korean people will give vent to the pent-up grudge and realize their cherished desire and thus bring a bright day of national reunification and build the best power on this land without fail.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Marine Vet Forced To Remove American Flag From Yard Because He Didn't Have A Permit For Flagpole

By Susan Duclos



Ridiculous item of the day, via WPTV:

Days after a Iraq War veteran Gregory Schaffer returned home to his Hypoluxo, Florida home and hoisted an American Flag in his front yard, the Marine received a citation from the Town of Hypoluxo listing the flag as a code violation.

“It’s sad. It’s sad that we have to go through that just to fly a flag,” Schaffer told WPTV.

The 24-year-old veteran said after serving his country, it was imperative to fly the flag in his yard and have others see it as a symbol of pride. Nonetheless, an anonymous neighbor filed a complaint with the town, according to the report.

“It’s disgusting that anybody should have to go through that. I fought for the flag, now I’m paying for the flag,” said Schaffer.

Hypoluxo spokesman Tim Large said the issue is not the flag, but rather that Schaffer needs a permit for the actual flagpole, which is considered a structure.

It will cost Mr. Schaffer $1,000 for a third party contractor to apply for the permit.

A Town of Hypoluxo building department official says the town will try to work with Schaffer to make sure he has every opportunity to fly his flag.

The cowardly "anonymous neighbor" that filed the complaint with the town over the flag, should be ashamed.



Planned Parenthood Endorses Post-Birth Abortion Of Living, Breathing Child, After Botched Abortion

By Susan Duclos

The video below is of testimony given by Alisa Laport Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, where she is clear that it is Planned Parenthood's position that if a baby survives a botched abortion, then the "woman, her family, and the physician," should then be able to decide whether that child struggling for life, should be given medical attention to save the living, breathing, child's life.

Via TWS:

"So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief," said Rep. Jim Boyd. "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”

"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician," said Planned Parenthood lobbyist Snow.

Rep. Daniel Davis then asked Snow, "What happens in a situation where a baby is alive, breathing on a table, moving. What do your physicians do at that point?”

"I do not have that information," Snow replied. "I am not a physician, I am not an abortion provider. So I do not have that information.”

Rep. Jose Oliva followed up, asking the Planned Parenthood official, "You stated that a baby born alive on a table as a result of a botched abortion that that decision should be left to the doctor and the family. Is that what you’re saying?”

Again, Snow replied, “That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.”

Video below:



Words fail.


North Korea Reveals Bombing Targets: Hawaii, DC, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas

By Susan Duclos

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is crazier than his daddy was and has allowed the release of photos from an "emergency meeting," showing charts of bombing targets in Hawaii, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

According to KCNA news agency "He finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets, ordering them to be on standby to fire so that they may strike any time the US mainland, its military bases in the operational theatres in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea."

The text on the map, which shows the west coast of North America, says “Plan to hit the U.S. mainland” 


Close up photo via NKNews, below:






Although North Koreas long distance capabilities are untested, analysts do not believe North Korea has the capability of striking targets as far away as the U.S. mainland.

This follows what is being termed as a "show in force" by the U.S. after prior threats from Kim Jong-un.

On Thursday, the United States flew two radar-evading B-2 Spirit bombers on practice runs over South Korea, responding to a series of North Korean threats. They flew from the United States and back in what appeared to be the first exercise of its kind, designed to show America's ability to conduct long-range, precision strikes "quickly and at will", the U.S. military said.

More from Reuters:

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported there had been additional troop and vehicle movements at the North's mid- and long-range missile sites, indicating they may be ready to fire.

Opinions differ on whether this threat from North Korea is any more credible than previous threats. Some believe it is and some believe it isn't.

Foreign Policy:

But there's another point that is often overlooked: North Korea today can threaten all of South Korea and parts of Japan with its conventional missiles and its conventional military. The North can fire 500,000 rounds of artillery on Seoul in the first hour of a conflict. Stability has held for 60 years because the U.S. security alliances with South Korea and Japan make it clear to the North Korean leadership that if they attacked South Korea or Japan, they would lose both the war and their country. And, for half a century, neither side believed that the benefits of starting a major war outweighed the costs. The worry is that the new North Korean leader might not hold to the same logic, given his youth and inexperience. 

 CNN World:

But the fact is that despite the bombast, and unless there has been a miraculous turnaround among North Korea’s strategic forces, there is little to no chance that it could successfully land a missile on Guam, Hawaii or anywhere else outside the Korean Peninsula that U.S. forces may be stationed.

Even if North Korea did have the capability and chose to use it, the likelihood of an overwhelming U.S. military counterattack would render any such attack self-defeating for Kim Jong Un’s regime. Indeed, as Danger Room's Spencer Ackerman tweeted a few weeks ago, any such move would amount to "North Korea basically telling the world it would like to be made into a parking lot.”

Maybe Dennis Rodman could call his new best friend and ask him what he is thinking.


Obama Daughters Vacationing In Sun Valley Right After The Atlantis Resort Vacation?

By Susan Duclos

[Update] WMTV removed the report from their website, without explanation. Now page says "The page you are looking for cannot be found." Anyone else a little tired of Obama controlling the media by forcing them to remove stories the Obama administration wants removed? [End Update]

KMVT.com is reporting the Obama daughters, Malia and Sasha, are off skiing at Sun Valley on another vacation, right on the heels of reports earlier in the week of their Bahama Atlantis Resort vacation, all on the taxpayers' dime.

From the previous piece:

While Barack Obama and his administration is forcing agency heads to to implement reductions to increased spending in the most damaging way possible and threatening to cancel White House tours, the Easter Egg hunt at the White House, military benefits, etc..... his daughters are once again on another taxpayer funded vacation in the Bahama's at the "Atlantis" resort.

Unfortunately, until an organization such as Judicial Watch, files Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits, we won't know exactly how much this latest trip for the first daughters will end up costing taxpayers, many of which haven't been able to afford a vacation for themselves since Obama took office in January 2009.

 Via the KMVT link:

Sun Valley, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KTWT-TV ) Sun Valley is known to be a getaway for celebrities and the First Family is no different.

In an exclusive photo obtained by Idaho's First News, you can see the First Daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama skiing at River Run Thursday.

The Sun Valley Ski Patrol confirms the girls were enjoying the wonders of the mountain. We also received unconfirmed reports the daughters were staying at Thunder Spring in Sun Valley.

If both reports are accurate that means Obama's daughters get two Spring Break vacations funded by American taxpayers, some of whom haven't been able to take one vacation since the recession?

Maybe the NRCC should be adding these expenses into their Government Waste List.


Thursday, March 28, 2013

NRCC Identifies $18,224,377,097 In Government Waste Spending #ThewasteList

By Susan Duclos

The NCRR has created a website which identifies wasteful government spending and how much is spent on each item. The total so far is $18,224,377,097. Readers can sign also sign up for updates on wasteful government spending.

List of identified waste as of Thursday, March 28, 2013, below:

waste WASTE: Circus classes  - $20,000
waste WASTE: Toy exhibit  - $150,000
waste WASTE: Abuse of college tax credits  - $3,200,000,000
waste WASTE: Black liquor tax loophole  - $268,000,000
waste WASTE: Improper food stamp payments  - $4,500,000,000
waste WASTE: Robot Squirrels  - $325,000
waste WASTE: Motorsports museum  - $300,000
waste WASTE: Lego city  - $3,700
waste WASTE: Sidewalks to nowhere  - $1,100,000
waste WASTE: Mars Menu  - $947,000
waste WASTE: Penny production  - $70,000,000