Libtard liars
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Coward Deanpeace told Kansas Gov. Sebelius to not ask for help and lie about Natl Guard...

XM Radio's War Room: Dean Told Sebelius to Lie about Natl Guard

Did Howard Dean order KS gov to lie about FEMA’s response to the Greensburg tornado?

XM Radio’s Quinn & Rose made the allegation that DNC Chairman Howard Dean called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius early Sunday morning and instructed her not to request federal assistance in recovery from the Greensburg tornado, and to lie about the federal response to date, on their show, The War Room, today. After I discussed the story via phone with both Quinn and Rose today, here’s what they sent me.

PLEASE NOTE: The following is information we have received from a reliable source. We have never been misinformed by this person in the past.

It seems that, on Sunday, a few hours after Kansas Governor, Kathleen Sebelius, made her remarks about Bush sending all their National Guard Members and Resources to Iraq, she made a call to Brownback

Sebelius, was calling to apologize to the Senator for making the Political statements that she did. She explained that she did not believe them and that they actually had too many National Guardsmen show up.

Governor Sebelius explained “Sam, you know how political everything is right now and we’re not allowed to let an opportunity like this just pass.” She continued “I made sure not to blame you or Pat (Senator Roberts?) or anybody outside the White House. With his (Bush’s) numbers, you can’t really blame me for usin’ that.”

Then Sebelius explained the path to her comments. After Brownback told her that he was very disappointed in her, She pleaded “You know me Sam, I wouldn’t have said it if I didn’t have to.” She declared “Howard (Dean) called me around 5 o’clock (in the morning) and told me not to ask The White House for any help or make any statements until I heard back. Dick (Durban?) called me an hour or 2 later and that’s when he told me we needed to use this ‘n’ said to talk about the Guard all bein’ at war.”

She then explained the thinking; “Speaker and Harry got so much heat on them from both sides over this damn war, ‘n’ they need to get the press on somethin’ else. I didn’t think it was right to use it like this either, but I didn’t see’s I had much choice in this climate, Sam.”

She the[n] apologized a few more times and promised that she’d try to move away from the comment when she and Brownback were to meet up later and tour the damage, but she had to so it without disappointing Dean and Pelosi.

I asked them to characterize their source, and they replied that she or he would be in a position to have knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Brownback and Gov. Sebelius and has never misinformed them before. Sean Hannity has called Sen. Brownback’s office to either verify or debunk the story, but so far the senator has done neither. There is word that the senator may attempt a “limited hangout” strategy this weekend, in which he acknowledges that the conversation took place but won’t remember the Dean angle. Such a strategy, if that’s what Sen. Brownback does, might be an attempt to maintain comity in what has until now been by all accounts a smooth relationship between the Democratic governor and Republican officials in Kansas. Comity shouldn’t come at the price of truth, however.

At this point, I have no way of verifying whether DNC Chairman Howard Dean called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and instructed her to lie about the federal response to Friday’s devastating tornado. But I will make some calls and see what I can find out. Quinn & Rose’s story does fit the timeline and does fit the Democrat M.O. of late, in which they find a way to blame every single thing under the sun on Bush and on the war in Iraq. Other Democrat governors have pre-emptively blamed the lack of response to disasters that haven’t even happened yet on Bush and the war in Iraq. So on its face the story strikes me as very plausible.

More: Here’s the original post to catch everyone up on Sebelius’ original statements, the WH and Pentagon and Brownback rebuttals, and then Sebelius’ quick climb down. Obama makes his “10,000 dead” gaffe (has anyone seen video of that gem yet?) and Dingy Harry assails the WH long after Sebelius’ original statements had been debunked. **Here’s the Obama gem. Heh. I’d been off the site and missed it when Ian posted it.

Hot Air ~ Bryan ** Did Howard Dean order KS gov to lie about FEMA’s response to the Greensburg tornado?

Dems conspiring to make false accusations? No shocker there... I wouldn't put it past Coward Deanpeace.

April Revenue
Mood:  special
Now Playing: BUSH'S FAULT
Topic: News

Revenue Collections Hit Record in April

WASHINGTON -- Federal revenue collections hit an all-time high in April, contributing to a further improvement in the budget deficit for the year.

Releasing its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Thursday that through the first seven months of this budget year, the deficit totals $80.8 billion, significantly below the $184.1 billion imbalance run up during the first seven months of the 2006 budget year.

So far this year, tax revenues total $1.505 trillion, an increase of 11.2 percent over the same period last year. That figure includes $383.6 billion collected in April, the largest monthly tax collection on record.

Tax collections swell in April every year as individuals file their tax returns by the deadline.

For the first seven months of this budget year, which began Oct. 1, revenue collections and government spending are at all-time highs.

However, the spending total of $1.585 billion was up at a slower pace of 3.2 percent from the previous year.

The difference in the growth of tax collections and spending is the reason for the narrowing deficit.

The Congressional Budget Office said that it now expects the deficit for all of 2007 to total between $150 billion and $200 billion. That would be a significant improvement from last year's deficit of $248.2 billion, which had been the lowest imbalance in four years.

The federal budget was in surplus for four years from 1998 through 2001 as the long economic expansion helped push revenues higher. But the 2001 recession, the cost of fighting a global war on terror and the loss of revenue from President Bush's tax cuts sent the budget back into the red starting in 2002.

The administration's budget sent to Congress in February projects that the deficit will be eliminated by 2012 even if the president achieves his goal of getting his tax cuts made permanent. They are now due to expire in 2010.

However, critics say the improvement in the deficits will be only temporary with deficits expected to balloon again with the higher Social Security and Medicare payments needed as 78 million baby boomers retire.

While Bush sought to make entitlement reform the centerpiece of his domestic agenda in a second term, his proposals to bolster Social Security with personal savings accounts has gone nowhere in Congress.

For April, revenue receipts totaled $383.64 billion while spending totaled $205.97 billion, leaving a surplus for the month of $177.7 billion.

Breitbart.com ~ Associated Press - Martin Crutsinger ** Revenue Collections Hit Record in April

BIGGEST GOVERNMENT EVER! Fed revenue collections and spending at all-time highs
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Yahoo News ~ Associated Press - Martin Crutsinger ** Revenue Collections Hit Record in April

Libtard child care
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: LIBTARD ''FAMILY VALUES'' ALERT
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Sperm donor must pay child support

By Reggie Sheffield/The Patriot-News

Jodilynn Jacob (left) holds daughter Catie,3, with her partner Jennifer Schultz-Jacob. Catie was born after Jacob was artificially inseminated. ↓

Pennsylvania Patriot-News ~ Reggie Sheffield ** Sperm donor must pay child support

The judge ordered a dead guy to pay child support!

TV Shows Suck
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

TV Ratings Down Because Shows Suck

RUSH: You know, the television networks -- I have this story in the stack here -- say that two and a half million fewer people are watching primetime television this season than last. They're all trying to figure it out: "Why is this happening?" They're chalking it up to the early Daylight Savings Time. Early Daylight Savings Time, my rear end! Try, "the shows suck," maybe.

Rush Offers Katie Couric an Interview to Fix CBS' 20-Year, Record-Low Ratings

The interview of the century will boost those Nielsens.

Data Says 2.5 Million Less Watching TV

NEW YORK -- Maybe they're outside in the garden. They could be playing softball. Or perhaps they're just plain bored. In TV's worst spring in recent memory, a startling number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months: More than 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox than at the same time last year, statistics show.

Everyone has a theory to explain the plummeting ratings: early Daylight Savings Time, more reruns, bad shows, more shows being recorded or downloaded or streamed.

Scariest of all for the networks, however, is the idea that many people are now making their own television schedules. The industry isn't fully equipped to keep track of them, and as a result the networks are scrambling to hold on to the nearly $8.8 billion they collected during last spring's ad-buying season.

"This may be the spring where we see a radical shift in the way the culture thinks of watching TV," said Sarah Bunting, co-founder of the Web site Television Without Pity.

The viewer plunge couldn't have come at a worse time for the networks -- next week they will showcase their fall schedules to advertisers in the annual "up front" presentations.

The networks argue that viewership is changing, not necessarily declining. Some advertisers respond that they are no longer willing to pay full price up front to reach viewers that may not tune in later.

This fall, both sides will be watching what happens with families like Tony Cort's. During prime-time, Cort, his wife and four kids tend to scatter to computers or other activities in different parts of their New Jersey home. (Not during "American Idol" or "Lost," though.) They're definitely watching less TV, said Cort, who runs a Web site for martial arts aficionados.

"I remember when `24' was on, that was something there was a lot of interest and excitement about," he said.

News flash: "24" is still on. Its ratings are down, too, amid a critically savaged season.

More bad news abounds. NBC set a record last month for its least- watched week during the past 20 years, and maybe ever -- then broke it a week later. This is the least popular season ever for CBS' "Survivor." ABC's "Lost" has lost nearly half its live audience -- more than 10 million people -- from the days it was a sensation. "The Sopranos" is ending on HBO, and the response is a collective yawn.

Events like "American Idol" on Fox (which is owned by News Corp.) and "Dancing With the Stars" on ABC (owned by The Walt Disney Co.) are doing the most to prop up the industry. But still, in the six weeks after Daylight Savings Time started in early March, prime-time viewership for the four biggest broadcast networks was down to 37.6 million people, from 40.3 million during the same period in 2006, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Millions of missing viewers could translate into millions of missing dollars for the networks heading into the up-front sales season.

Advertisers don't believe that the drop in viewership is as dramatic as the numbers suggest, but they're no longer willing to spend what they once did in the spring market, said Brad Adgate of Horizon Media, an ad buying firm. Johnson & Johnson and Coca-Cola sat out the spring market last year -- betting they could get lower prices later -- and it's likely other companies will do the same this year, he said.

The early start to Daylight Savings Time has hurt ratings. Prime-time viewership traditionally dips then as people do more things outside, and this year folks had a three-week head start to get into the habit of doing something else. More network reruns during March and April dampened interest, too.

"We let them get out of the habit of watching television a little bit, and it's going to take some time to get these people back in front of their television sets," said David Poltrack, chief researcher for CBS (owned by CBS Corp.).

Strategic decisions to send some popular serial dramas on long hiatuses appeared to backfire. NBC's "Heroes," CBS' "Jericho" and "Lost" lost significant momentum when they returned. Besides HBO's "The Sopranos," there are no lengthy countdowns toward the end of very popular series, unless you count "The King of Queens."

There also are technical reasons that this apparent diminished interest in television may be overstated.

This year, for the first time, Nielsen is measuring viewership in the estimated 17 percent of homes with digital video recorders -- but it only counts them in the ratings of a specific show if they watch it within 24 hours of the original air time.

If you recorded "Desperate Housewives" this spring and watched it two days later, you're not counted in the show's ratings. And you're not counted by Nielsen under any circumstances if you downloaded a show on iTunes and watched it on your iPod or cell phone, or streamed an episode from a network Web site.

Since last year's Nielsen sample contained no DVR homes and this year's sample does, logic dictates that fewer Nielsen families are watching TV live this year, deflating ratings.

"People are not consuming less television, they're watching it in different ways, and the measurements haven't caught up," said Alan Wurtzel, chief research executive at NBC (owned by General Electric Co.).

The numbers can be significant. When "The Office" aired on NBC on April 5, Nielsen said there were 5.8 million people watching. Add in the people who recorded the episode and watched it within the next week, and viewership swelled to 7.6 million, a 32 percent increase, Nielsen said.

"The Sopranos" is another interesting case study. For its first four episodes this season, the show averaged 7.4 million viewers for its weekly Sunday night premiere, down from 8.9 million at the same point its last season.

But HBO shows each new episode eight times a week. Between the multiple plays and DVR viewing, each episode this spring gets 11.1 million viewers, down from 13 million last year. And these figures don't count people who watch on demand.

Numbers for "The Sopranos" may be down because people can watch whenever they want. They may not be as interested in the show as they used to be -- or it could be a combination of both.

Television has made billions based on how many people watch a show at its regular time. That idea may already be obsolete. So should the industry use DVR viewing when setting ad rates? If so, how quickly must people watch the shows -- within two days? A week? What about people who watch shows on their cell phones or on network Web sites, which Nielsen doesn't measure yet? Later this month Nielsen will begin measuring how many people watch commercials. Should those be used to compute advertising costs?

Right now, none of those questions have answers.

However, "if we continue to do business assuming people will watch television as they always have," said NBC's Wurtzel, "it's a dead-end game."

Breitbart.com ~ Associated Press - David Bauder ** Data Says 2.5 Million Less Watching TV

Gas prices
Mood:  silly
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Gas station owner told to raise prices 

MERRILL, Wis. -- A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices. Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.

But the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says those deals are too good: They violate Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, which requires stations to sell gas for about 9.2 percent more than the wholesale price.

Bhandari said he received a letter from the state auditor in late April saying the state would sue him if he did not raise his prices. The state could penalize him for each discounted gallon he sold, with the fine determined by a judge.

Bhandari, who bought the station in May 2006, said he worries customers will think he stopped the discounts because he wants to make more money. About 10 percent of his customers had used the discount cards.

Dale Van Camp of Merrill said he bought a $50 card to support the local youth hockey program. It would have saved him about $100 per year on gas, he said.

Information from: Wausau Daily Herald
Yahoo News ~ Associated Press ** Gas station owner told to raise prices

Funny, I thought the Demented-crat party was supposed to be the party for the little guy and anti-big oil and all that.

(D) Jim Doyle -- Wisconsin governor. Also of note: Vetoed concealed carry. Has 'proposed' legislation taxing oil companies.

The state of Wisconsin is dictating the price and guess who takes the hit... the consumer and the station owner trying to benefit the community and his customers. Oh the wonders of government meddling in the free market.

Enviro-tards
Mood:  spacey
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Children 'bad for planet'

Parents have been told to take the environment into account when having children.

Having large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights.

"The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child."

In his latest comments, the academic says that when couples are planning a family they should be encouraged to think about the environmental consequences.

"The decision to have children should be seen as a very big one and one that should take the environment into account," he added.

Professor Guillebaud says that, as a general guideline, couples should produce no more than two offspring.

The world's population is expected to increase by 2.5 billion to 9.2 billion by 2050. Almost all the growth will take place in developing countries.

The population of developed nations is expected to remain unchanged and would have declined but for migration.

The British fertility rate is 1.7. The EU average is 1.5. Despite this, Professor Guillebaud says rich countries should be the most concerned about family size as their children have higher per capita carbon dioxide emissions.

Full coverage: Climate change in-depth
Australian Sunday Times ~ Sarah-Kate Templeton ** Children 'bad for planet'
Related: Environmentalist calls mankind a 'virus'
Gore sees 'spiritual crisis' in warming
Sheryl Crow: 'We have risen to great heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that the earth is changing'

Unrelated (Sanity): Prominent climate scientist calls warming fears 'absurd'

Sarkozy Victory
Mood:  sharp
Topic: News

Conservative, Pro-American WINS French Presidency

Just posting the Drudge Report news links pertaining to even more libtard frustration, in the most libtarded region on Earth -- the socialist "utopia" -- France.

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

RÉVOLUTION 

VIOLENT CLASHES AS SARKOZY CELEBRATES VICTORY   
 

DÉFAITE ROYAL

SARKOZY'S VICTORY MESSAGE TO AMERICA: 'YOU CAN COUNT ON FRANCE AS A FRIEND'

Defeated Socialists search for scapegoats

 

Libtard anti-energy plan
Mood:  silly
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Libiot Dems Ban Power Lines, Complain About Blackouts

RUSH: "East Coast lawmakers banded together yesterday in a bid to short-circuit a federal decision making it easier to build major power lines." Now, why would somebody want to stand in the way of this? We need energy, for crying out loud! "From New York to Virginia, there is a prospect of new high voltage line construction after the Energy Department last week proposed a 'national interest electric transformation corridor.'  A 2005 law gives the government new authority to approve line construction even if state officials object." (A little federalism there.) "Various projects up and down the East Coast have met fierce local resistance... Yesterday, some lawmakers said they try to use the annual federal spending bill for water and energy to bar the government from going forward with the plan... The law establishing the electricity corridor is designed to relieve bottlenecks in the national power grid, decreasing the threat of blackouts like the one that swept from Ohio to New York City in 2003."

Now, when I read this kind of story, it convinces me that we have our share of blithering idiots in this country. We had all these people that were fried, that were roasted, that were mad as hell after that blackout -- and nobody could figure out what had happened and how it could have been stopped and why wasn't power restored quickly. It was a week long I think in some parts of the country; maybe more. So now it's going to happen again, and these same blithering idiots who are stopping progress here with power lines (for who knows why) are going to be the first ones to bellyache and whine and moan about the next blackout! And then they're probably going to end up in a poll: "A majority of Americans think power lines are dangerous." Then we don't do it because a majority of ignorant idiots think we shouldn't have power lines.

Officials unite on blocking power lines

East Coast lawmakers banded together yesterday in a bid to short-circuit a federal decision making it easier to build major power lines.

From New York to Virginia, there is a prospect of new high-voltage line construction after the Energy Department last week proposed a "national interest electric transmission corridor."

A 2005 law gives the government new authority to approve line construction even if state officials object. Various projects up and down the East Coast have met fierce local resistance including Dominion Power's plans for a 550-kilovolt power line in Northern Virginia that opponents charge would spoil the beauty of Civil War battlefields.

Yesterday, some lawmakers said they would try to use the annual federal spending bill for water and energy to bar the government from going forward with the plan.

Rep. John Hall, New York Democrat, said his Hudson Valley constituents were "in a fighting mood" and willing to take that fight to Congress.

Blocking the decision through a spending bill would be easier than trying to pass a stand-alone measure. But because it is an annual budget, any such freeze would expire the next year.

The law establishing the electricity corridor is designed to relieve bottlenecks in the national power grid, decreasing the threat of blackouts like the one that swept from Ohio to New York City in 2003.

Critics such as Rep. Michael Arcuri, New York Democrat, who lives about 400 feet from a proposed power line, said the construction would not fix the more important problem of failing local lines.

Rep. Christopher Carney, Pennsylvania Democrat, said a line in his district "is basically a flyover" -- doing nothing for the area while providing power to other parts.

The corridor designations could help private industry obtain permits from state regulators or work in conjunction with regional groups to build new lines. Utilities in New York and other states have accused state authorities of being reluctant to approve new lines, often because of local opposition.

Authorities will hold public meetings on the corridors in San Diego, Arlington and New York City.

After the public comment period ends by July, the law calls for state regulators to try to reach agreements on where to build new lines.

If state authorities do not approve any construction after a year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has the authority to approve a project if the new line is deemed necessary for national power needs.

Washington Times ~ Associated Press ** Officials unite on blocking power lines

Ouch
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: Odd Stuff

Reuters Photo: Naked cyclists take part in a march through central Madrid in this June 10, 2006 file photo. A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday. ↓

Naked man superglued to exercise bike

JOHANNESBURG -- A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday.

SAPA news agency said the attackers, dressed in suits, hijacked a man in his 50s and forced him at gunpoint to take them to his home in Johannesburg.

"The victim was then forced to strip, after which he was superglued to the seat of an exercise bicycle, his hands were superglued, as were his feet and then his mouth was superglued shut," SAPA quoted Mark Stokoe, a spokesman for emergency services Netcare 911, as saying.

The man was rescued about three hours later when his partner arrived home, SAPA said.

South Africa is battling one of the world's highest crime rates which has prompted concerns that violence might mar the 2010 soccer World Cup, which the country is due to host.

A police spokesman could not immediately comment on the report. No one at Netcare 911 could be reached.

Yahoo News ~ Reuters ** Naked man superglued to exercise bike

So, when do we start the 7-day waiting period for superglue?

When you outlaw superglue, only outlaws will have superglue! They can have my superglue when they pry it my fingers!

GOP Debate
Mood:  silly
Now Playing: LIBTARD MEDIA ALERT
Topic: Lib Loser Stories