Happy New Year 2010

May the Rumblings of 2009

become the Fireworks of 2010

securing our Liberties

over the Tyranny in the Capitol

Dems Angered over Cheney’s “Weakness” Assertions: Rep. Massa challenges him to a Debate

from Gateway Pundit:

Kook Alert. Rep. Massa Wonders Why Cut-&-Run Party Is Viewed as Weak on Defense -Challenges Cheney to Debate (Video)

Thursday, December 31, 2009, 12:16 PM

Jim Hoft

The kooks are infuriated that former Vice President Dick Cheney has criticized Snorkler in Chief on his weak security record.
Blowhard dem Rep. Eric Massa challenged former Vice President Dick Cheney to debate national security:

For full post: http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/kook-alert-rep-massa-wonders-why-cut-run-party-is-viewed-as-weak-on-defense-challenges-cheney-to-debate-video/

CNN Sanchez Doesn’t Want to Discuss Healthcare or Terrorism with Sen. Ensign

Senator John Ensign Goes On CNN To Talk About Terrorism, Gets Ambushed By Rick Sanchez on Sex Scandal

Sanchez asks 7 times after Ensign says he’s not going to talk about the situation:

Would low-life Rick Sanchez ever ambush a Democrat like this?

Let me remind everyone about a story in 1990 of Rick DUI Leaving the scene Sanchez:

On December 10, 1990, Sanchez struck a pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium after Smuzinick darted into the road. Smuzinick was paralyzed and eventually died in an assisted living facility in 1995. Sanchez, who had just left an NFL football game with his father (and left the scene of the accident), was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to DUI.

 

http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/12/senator-john-ensign-goes-on-cnn-to-talk.html

Do You Feel Secure With Janet Napolitano at the Helm of Homeland Security?

     Pres. Obama has called the Christmas Bomb Attempt an “attempted terrorist attck”. Yes, he used the “T” word!. He has said that the “system failed”. That was, of course, after Janet saidthe system worked, and then backtracked!!

     In the days that have followed the failed bombing, the finger-pointing in the Obama White House has gone in many directions, and we have had the customary “Blame Bush” rhetoric added to it. As Dick Cheney has said, Obama does not believe that we are fighting a war on terror. After all, he said in 2007 and on the campaign trail that the Muslim world will love us because of his ties to the Muslim world, including his sister being Indonesian!

     The calls for Janet Napolitano’s resignation have begun, and I believe that they will grow louder as the legislators return to DC from their recess. Several weeks ago, it was mentioned in an interview that Napolitano would resign when Obama appoints her to the US Supreme Court. She has shown her incompetence in her Cabinet position…. and these fools think she should go to the Supreme Court?? Now I really feel safe!!

Related: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31092.html

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/article_4f45c2ea-f600-11de-8983-001cc4c03286.html

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/73877-parties-spar-over-blame-for-failed-christmas-day-attack

13 State Atty Generals Warn Pelosi and Reid of their Legal Challenge to ObamaCare Constitutionality

Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.

“We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed,” South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

“As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision,” they wrote.

In a rare Christmas Eve vote, Senate Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system. The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many days Democrats posted a supermajority needed to advance the legislation.

The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. All are Republicans, and McMaster and the attorneys general of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are running for governor in their respective states.

For full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091231/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_deal_states

Obama’s Achille’s Heel: Weakness in the Face of War

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror” and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

“We are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. “Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency — social transformation — the restructuring of American society.” . . . MORE

http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/12/dick-cheney-says-obama-trying-to.html

Trends 2010

From Trends Research:

The Collapse of 2010
	In November of 2007, we predicted the “Panic of ’08.” There was a panic. In November of 2008, we forecast the “Collapse of ’09.” In March ‘09, the global equity markets collapsed. But before they could crash all the way to the ground, a scaffold of emergency props was erected. An unparalleled array of government cash infusions, rescue packages, bailouts and incentives papered over the crisis. Today, even as government spokesmen and the major media proclaim that the world is emerging from its near-cataclysmic recession, we predict the “Crash of 2010.” The rising equity markets, on which claims of recovery are based, are worlds away from the hard reality of the streets….
Terrorism 2010
	While we can’t predict precise dates or the magnitude of terror attacks, we can be fairly certain they are on the way.  The “Fort Hood Gunman” is being recognized by the intelligence community as the poster boy for an alarming new terror phenomenon termed “lone-wolf, self-radicalized gunmen.”  Years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq – and now Pakistan – have intensified anti-American sentiment and increased the number of individuals seeking revenge.  NATO allies contributing troops to the wars will also be targeted……
Not Welcome Here
	In 2010, the anti-immigration movement, long building, will arrive and stay in the US and abroad.  America and Europe, with their immigrant populations close to double digits, are experiencing an identity crisis.  In Europe, fear and resentment of Muslims has led to huge gains for anti-immigrant political parties.  In the US, with mid-term elections coming up, what to do about the “illegals” will be a hot- button issue that will top the political agenda and serve as a galvanizing force for a new party…..
Mothers of Invention
	The ongoing shock to the economic system is rebooting “Yankee ingenuity.”  The need to overcome the effects of reduced individual buying power will lead to the invention of a new class of product which will be a major trend of 2010 and into the future: “Technology for The Poor.” Growing with the same speed as the Internet Revolution, the trend will be recognized, explored and exploited by legions of skilled but jobless geeks, innovators and inventors who will design and launch a new class of products and services affordable by millions of newly downscaled Western consumers……

for the full post:  http://www.trendsresearch.com/journal.html

Justice Dept. Transfers “Panther” Prosecutor

The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year’s elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the US attorney’s office in South Carolina.

Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint’s filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month.

The complaint, which accused party members of intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place while wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, and wielding a nightstick, was later dismissed by Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department.

The incident gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube.

The dismissal resulted in outrage by some Republican members of Congress and in a formal investigation by the US Commission on Civil Rights, which subpoenaed Mr. Coates and J. Christian Adams, the lead attorney in the case, to testify on why the complaint was dismissed. The commission also is seeking documents to explain why the charges were dropped just as a federal judge was about to approve sanctions…

Justice Department insiders said Mr. Coates’ transfer was not unexpected, despite the fact that many within the department consider the veteran prosecutor as key to efforts by Justice to apply federal civil rights laws in a fair and neutral manner.

For full post: http://www.newmediajournal.us/the_fifth_column/12292009.htm

Channelling the “Kennedy” Spirit

     Say what you want about Ted Kennedy, but rest assured that he would NOT have supported this one-sided obamanation we refer to as ObamaCare. As Sen. Jihn McCain pointed out, Kennedy would have found the common ground to use as the foundation for legislation.

     In the long debates in the Senate, Sen. Max Baucus appears to be “literally” invoking Kennedy’s spirit(s)….. who has the keys to Teddy’s office?

Arrow Trucking Ceases Operations Without Notice

     Don’t let the stock market or the White House fool you…. the economic problems of the USA are far from over, and may not have yet bottomed out:

Arrow Trucking Tells Employees To Turn Over Trucks To Nearest Dealer

by Chuck on December 27, 2009 at 5:22 pm · 9 Comments
Tags: Arrow Trucking, Trucking, YRC Worldwide, YRCW

Arrow Trucking of Tulsa Oklahoma, suddenly and without any advance warning closed up operations and instructed all drivers out on the road to take their trucks to the nearest dealer and hand over the keys. And as far as getting home the drivers are supposed to get a company paid bus ticket.

Arrow operates (or I should say, did operate) 1,400 flatbed trucks and 2,600 trailers throughout the United States.

“the trucking industry is still in the worst slowdown since the Depression,” writes Clayton Boyce, spokesman for the American Trucking Associations (ATA), in an e-mail. In October, the ATA’s truck tonnage index – a number that measures the amount carried on trucks for a given month – fell slightly from a month earlier. Truck freight volumes are down 20 percent to 30 percent from what they were less than two years ago”[...]

Trucking loads down 20 to 30 percent from where it was just before the credit crisis got into full swing. That does not sound like economic growth to me. And how about YRC Worldwide (YRCW)? That company has not exactly been doing well either. Recall that on December 8, 2009 YRC Worldwide announced it needed to do a debt for equity exchange to raise capital.

For full article: http://blog.rebeltraders.net/2009/12/27/arrow-trucking-employees-hand-over-trucks-to-nearest-dealer/