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ECONOMY:

I love this headline: Administration Targets Jobs Puzzle. What puzzle? Government is crushing the life out of our economy. There's no puzzle. It looks like Obama just sent out invitations to union heads and other Obama donors, not job creators. Shocker.

TAX AND SPEND:

Obama to spend remaining TARP funds buying votes under the guise of job creation. Somebody tell me how extending unemployment benefits helps people get employed?

HEALTH CARE:

Senate votes to force health insurers to raise prices on other services to pay for mammograms and other preventive screenings. If insurers refuse, government will will invade their offices with armed men, wrestle their officers to the ground, handcuff them, drag them off to little cells and lock them away. All because insurers have the audacity to think that if somebody wants a mammogram or mammogram insurance coverage, they should pay for it like everything else. We've created a monster. We live under the pervasive threat of extreme violence from government 24/7/365 if we don't conform to every order that government makes. And all these orders go against our nature, or they wouldn't exist. Government has created so many of these orders, no individual in America knows them all. That's why we have by far the highest incarceration rate of any so-called civilized nation on earth.

I'm all for Republicans using every parliamentary option available to them to stop this health care fiasco, but I don't think using these tactics "without cause" will help. That's the lazy party's way out and will backfire politically. I'm sure this health care oppression offer the opportunity to employ every single parliamentary maneuver available with cause. Find cause and use it. I'm going to inform Sen. Voinovich of my opinion. It's worked so well so far.

Democrats have played the system masterfully. They learned in August that the American people violently oppose this bill, so they backed off and took it slow so the people's anger would diminish and allow them to pass it. They've overcome every hurdle by quietly using our money to buy the votes necessary to pass each hurdle, and the American people have not risen up like they did in August to stop it. We're nearing our last chance. Our best chance to stop this bill is right now on the Senate floor. Right now is when we need that town hall and tea party anger to flood the Senate. Democrats are counting on the American people becoming complacent, and so far that has worked in their favor. We must not be complacent now. When is the last time you wrote your senator? If it isn't tonight, why not? Do you think you're helping by not contacting him or her? Our political process may be horribly corrupt and our power small, but if we don't exercise it, our power is nothing. If the people at large rise up, even in our corrupt system, our power is irresistible in Washington. We've seen it over and over again. Get your friends and neighbors to call and write. Run ads. Do whatever you can to kill this bill.

Plan B for the public option. If we don't get on the ball, Democrats are going to get everything they want in this health care monstrosity. Nice to know my senator Sherrod Brown is insisting on the public option. That puts him right there with Blagojevich nominee Burris. The time to get out the pitchforks and torches is before this thing gets passed. Afterward, it will be too late. We need a major, and I mean millions of people, anti-health care oppression march on Washington ASAP.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Naturally leftists like Sen. Boxer who have made a career out of this global warming fraud are calling for the prosecution of the hacker who exposed the frauds instead of the prosecution of the frauds. Note to Sen. Boxer: the global warming fraud is the biggest fraud in history. Al Gore makes Bernie Madoff look like a kid stealing lunch money. That's the real crime.

WAR:

This is an ignorant, politically motivated comment from George Will:

"Obama revealed Tuesday that he thinks the job in Afghanistan is to get out of Afghanistan."

Really? It seems to me that even Obama, if he thought the job in Afghanistan was to get out of Afghanistan, would come up with a better plan than sending 30,000 more American troops into Afghanistan for the next 18 months. For example, he could recall the troops immediately, which is what he should do. Instead, Obama is going to get hundreds if not thousands of more Americans and 10s of thousands of Afghans killed for nothing. Al Qaeda is already gone from Afghanistan. We can't make them any more gone. Once we're gone, nothing we have done will stop them from coming back. That will up to the Afghan people. Afghanistan is not Iraq. Trying to create a self-governing state there is futile. The future of Afghanistan is in the hands of the Afghans, not the Americans. All we can do is delay them from controlling their own destiny by killing many of them and them killing many Americans. Will should be embarrassed.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Iran releases British sailors who weren't in Britain's navy. That's good to learn. I guess it will be a few more weeks before Iran catches sailors from the British navy. But if you were a civilian British sailor, would you be sailing along the Iranian coast? I can see why Iran checked them out.

MEDIA:

OMG, this is a chilling quote:

""News is a public good," FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said. "We should be willing to take action if necessary to preserve the news that is vital to democracy." "

The old "public good" excuse again.

LOCAL:

I have no problem with temporarily housing federal prisoners in the Montgomery County jail while they're being tried here in federal court. I don't like the idea of this as a money maker for the county - nothing good can happen when administrators look to imprisoning people as a source of income. I also have a problem with the federal government having a tremendous criminal code. Criminal justice is supposed to be the purview of the states.

MISC:

This is funny.

I've basically ignored this Tiger Woods story, only catching snippets on TV before I turned the channel. Top athlete has multiple affairs is the second oldest dog bites man story in history and not worth a second of anybody's time. But the following headline caught my attention because it told me something about Tiger than I wouldn't have expected - he's STOOPID! Tiger Woods Sex Text Messages... Sorry Tiger. If you sext the girls you're having affairs with, you surrender any hope for privacy. Quit apologizing you two-faced bastard. You're not sorry you had the affairs. You're only sorry you got caught, just like the rest of them.