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One highlight for this first grade St. Robert Bellarmine Elementary School student was the Wednesday afternoon candy-drive. Once a week,Sister Marie Rose Christianson allowed disheveled kids in brown uniforms and crooked clip-on ties entry into our classroom to sell penny candy.
On the sly my grandmother would pass me a few cents from the linty pocket of her apron giving me access to a little bit of Catholic School candy heaven.
In fact, 40+ years later I can still remember the aroma of the thick strings of warm red licorice. Believe me, it smelled nothing like the institutional cafeteria wafting with the fetid odors of sweaty kids, bologna sandwiches, rotten fruit and warm milk.
Thinking back I'm convinced hot cocoa and bagels ferried me through high school. Academically, I was less than mediocre. In fact I still wonder how I managed to graduate. The whole event is a blur save olfactory memories of warm peanut butter cookies and cheap pizza. Unhealthy school lunch choices and truant officers kept me coming back for more.
Being a kid in the 60's and 70's offered benefits students in 2010 lack. How depressing to learn, "the Obama administration is expected to unveil a plan this week to bring healthier school lunches to children across the U.S."
If the government has its way,Sister Mary Rose Christianson might as well resign herself cursive writing knuckle smacking because the only "candy-drive" schools will be able to sponsor are "drives that ban candy and junk food from schools."
Representing the feds Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to exorcise Oreos from vending machines and stock them with (gag) nutritious offerings like hermetically sealed organic carrots.
The First Lady is "expected to be in the forefront of the program, having called for an end to child obesity." At a "healthy eating event" in Virginia Mrs. Obama, referred to Sasha and Malia's questionable BMI. A sensitive Michelle related to the audience admitting even the Obama's, "Often simply don't realize that those kids are our kids, and our kids could be in danger of becoming obese. We always think that only happens to someone else's kid -- and I was in that position."
Hey Michelle, could it have been the "Maxed Out Pepperoni, the packets of powdered Kool-Aid, the Ham & American Stackers, or the bite-size Snickers bars"fellow students spotted in Sasha's lunch box? But I digress.
According to Michelle's new [ain't it great to be a kid] policy all of America's children, including Sasha and Malia, will be treated to quite a different fare in their Jonas Brother lunch boxes."The girls had to adhere to new ground rules - less burgers, low-fat milk, fruits and water instead of sugary drinks; the change was significant."
How will Big Brother accomplish the goal? "The administration reportedly asked for another $1 billion in addition to the $18 billion already set aside for the federal meals program in order to fund the initiative." The U.S. is not the first to nudge junk food-lovers toward better choices. In 2004, socialized medicine blessed Britain received help from Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and $436 million dollars in healthy school lunch monies to launch a similar initiative.
In the near future,memories of cubed red dye #40 Jell-O, little brown bags of M&M's, French fries and Corn Dog Mondays are slated to fade into the past. Michelle Obama, Tom Vilsack and the federal government plan towoo red licorice eaters to class with pumpkin rice laksa soup, government provided Vitaminwater and a side of delicious soy chips. Yummy!
That Major Nidal Hassan was not recognized for the obvious terror danger he represented is an outrage, made even more acute by the fact the Army terror experts were warned of the dangers of jihadism to personnel serving in the United States. Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports:
Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism - Islamic holy war - was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference.
The annual Army anti-terrorism conference in Florida in February 2008 included presentations on the threat by counterterrorism specialists Patrick Poole, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Myers and Terri Wonder.
Of course, AT readers already knew about these dangers. Patrick Poole and LTC Myers have been informing Americans of these dangers on our pages.
Once again, it appears the military has brought a meritless case against our troops, accusing them of wrongdoing on very flimsy evidence :
The military has canceled the deposition of an alleged terrorist mastermind who claimed that he was assaulted by the military following his capture last year. The law firm Puckett and Faraj, representing Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe, made the announcement on Sunday.
Major General Charles Cleveland, the convening authority for the upcoming special courts-martial for three of the Navy SEALs involved in the operation, has decided to cancel the trip to Iraq to depose Ahmed Hashim Abed. Since the SEALs have a Constitutional right to confront their accuser in court, the alleged terrorist's statements won't be used as evidence for the case.
Abed, who is still in U.S. custody, is believed to be the al Qaeda mastermind behind the 2004 Fallujah ambush where four U.S. private security contractors were killed and their bodies mutilated. According to court documents, he claimed that he received what amounted to a punch in the stomach while in U.S. custody.
The prosecution's case against the SEALs appears weak. For instance al Qaeda's training manual states that once captured, members should claim torture and abuse. In addition Abed was initially detained at an Iraqi facility, which presents a chain of custody issue. Complicating matters further, the military has not released any corroborating evidence, such as medical records or photographs, and the sailor who claimed to witness the incident has given five conflicting statements. Also, the SEALs were initially offered an Article 15 hearing, which carries relatively light non-judicial punishment. Instead, the sailors requested trial by courts-martial, which allows all evidence to be considered, but carries much heavier punishment - including incarceration.
After Haditha, one would think the military would shy away from bringing courts martial in high profile cases based on no good evidence, but one would be wrong. It looks to me like "winning hearts and minds" by bringing warrantless cases against our troops remains the policy track of choice if the case has engendered enough media attention..
Bad news for Dems: Here comes another special election
Thomas Lifson
The death of Rep. John Murtha will require a special election to replace him before November, according to Pennsylvania Law. The Washington Post reports:
According to state law, the governor has ten days once the vacancy is officially declared to decide on the date for the special election, which can come no sooner than 60 days following that proclamation.
That likely means the special election will be held on May 18, which is the date already set for federal primaries around the state. (Special elections costs the state huge sums of money and it's likely that Gov. Ed Rendell will choose to go with an already established election day to save some cash.)
There is a good chance that the Republican Party will pick-up another House seat in the special election. The Post notes:
Murtha's district is the only one in the country won by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 2004 and by Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz.) in 2008, according to Republican sources, and that trend line coupled with the volatile national environment for Democrats ensures Republicans will heavily target the contest.
Ed Lasky points out:
Murtha's death makes Pennsylvania perhaps the most competitive state in the country when it comes to the battle for the House. Republicans will target the 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th districts while Democrats see opportunity in the 6th and 15th.
Special elections have been a disaster for the Democrats lately. If they hold Murtha's seat, that would stanch GOP momentum to a degree. On the other hand, a GOP victory would further weaken Obama's hold on Congressional Democrats.
Despite its huge crude reserves, the South American OPEC member relies on hydro-electricity for 70 percent of its power needs, and a drought has hit supply since late 2009.
"We are ready to decree the electricity emergency, because it really is an emergency," Chavez said in the first edition of a show on state radio air waves called "Suddenly Chavez."
With electricity cuts weighing on Chavez's popularity ahead of important legislative elections in September, the government blames the shortages on the drought and soaring demand during five years of economic growth until 2008.
But critics say poor management and under-investment have undermined the power grid and exposed the failings of Chavez's "21st century socialism" policies during his 11-year rule.
Analysts say power cuts have played a big part -- along with water shortages and high crime levels -- in cutting Chavez's popularity levels from more than 60 percent a year ago to around 50 percent now.
A formal decree of emergency would enable the government to speed up moves to confront the power crisis, which range from stricter rationing and more thermoelectric generation, to the "seeding" of clouds in an attempt to produce rain.
"I call on the whole country: 'Switch off the lights.' We are facing the worst drought Venezuela has had in almost 100 years," Chavez said in what appeared to be a new radio version of his long-running "Hello Mr. President" TV show on Sundays.
This is what President Obama has in store for our energy future. Shared scarcity. Calls for sacrifice. Who knows, maybe Obama will start a radio show too. "Suddenly, Mr. President" has a nice, breezy ring to it don't you think? Except in the US, there's more than a couple of radio stations we can flip to in order to escape the propaganda.
Meanwhile, Chavez's regime is becoming more cultlike all the time. His new radio show is reminiscent of Jim Jones at Jonestown:
Chavez said the program would always be preceded by the sound of a harp playing local folk-music. "When you hear the pluck of a harp on the radio, maybe Chavez is coming. It's suddenly, at any time, maybe midnight, maybe early morning."
Jones would get on the PA system at all hours of the day or night, haranguing his cult followers about the end of the world. Maybe Chavez sees his new show as a way to break down the resistance of the people to his program.
I'm sure Venezuelans will be on pins and needles at all hours of the day and night just waiting for Chavez to "suddenly" brighten their lives.
Senator Ben Nelson, whose popularity is plummeting in Nebraska because of his support for Obama and the disgraceful Cornhusker Kickback, will oppose Barack Obama's nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D) on Monday announced he would oppose Craig Becker's nomination to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) -- a move that could ultimately scuttle Becker's confirmation indefinitely.
Senate Democratic leaders needed the help of their entire 59-vote caucus, plus one Republican defector, to invoke cloture this Tuesday on Becker's nomination, which has awaited a full Senate vote since the summer of 2009. But Nelson's decision to oppose the White House's top candidate for the job seriously threatens those plans, as it now appears Democrats will not have the votes they need to proceed as intended this week.
"This is of great concern, considering that the Board's main responsibility is to resolve labor disputes with an even and impartial hand," Nelson added. "In addition, the nominee's statements fly in the face of Nebraska's Right to Work laws, which have been credited in part with our excellent business climate that has attracted employers and many good jobs to Nebraska. Considering these matters, I will oppose the upcoming cloture motion and the nomination."
Becker's nomination has drawn its fair share of political foes -- especially from the right, as many Republicans fear he is too pro-labor to work for an agency that handles employer, employee and labor disputes.
He is an adamant supporter of card-check legislation -- a proposal that allows unions to form more easily, supported by the White House -- and has done considerable work for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union. Consequently, a handful of business groups have signaled staunch opposition to his nomination, and a few Republican senators -- including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) -- have threatened filibusters.
Blanche Lincoln's political fortunes in Arkansas are plummeting by the minute. Republicans fare better in the generic Congressional ballot by seven points . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is tottering, despite having a massive campaign fund (a perk that comes with power). Barack Obama popularity is on the wane - he is losing the left, the center, and he long ago lost any on the right who were seduced by his speeches in 2008.
While Obama and his team try to pick off one or two Republicans, maybe they should start shoring up their own base in the Senate who increasingly may stake out an independent course away from the man and the team who are destroying their careers.
Toyota response to crisis an object lesson for business
Jane Jamison
The bad news just keeps piling on for the Toyota Motor Company.
The company has been struggling to deal with a "sticky accelerator" and floor mat safety issue by recalling 8-10 million of its Toyota and Lexus vehicles sold worldwide. That figure is higher than the number of cars Toyota sells in one year.
A new recall will apparently be announced tomorrow for 300,000 Toyota Prius hybrid cars with faulty brakes.
This is scary news for consumers who have grown used to the reliability of their Toyotas, but what is most remarkable is how the top executive at Toyota is behaving.
Toyota's CEO Akio Toyoda has "manned up." He says he is very sorry.
Toyoda is not only sorry, he bowed deeply over and over again during a news conference.
"Toyoda said he was sorry in Japanese and then sent a message to consumers worldwide in English. "I am a little bit worried that while they are driving they feel cautious," said Toyoda. "But believe me, Toyota's cars are [safe] and we're trying to [improve] our product."
"It's not at all uncommon for executives on the hot seat to resign and then commit suicide," said Roland Kelts, a professor at the University of Tokyo and an expert on Japanese culture.
At least a dozen Japanese business executives have killed themselves over business setbacks since 1998.
Kelts, author of the book "Japanamerica," noted that Toyoda had bowed very deeply. "The deeper the bow," said Kelts, " the greater respect you show and quite literally you are exposing the back of your neck."
"In samurai days" said Kelts, "you were offering your head, which could be cut off."
Imagine that. A CEO of a multi-billion dollar world-wide corporation facing millions of dollars of product liability choosing to go on television and beg his customers and potential litigants for forgiveness.
Toyota even went one more step with an expensive "mea culpa" Super Bowl ad.
Toyota customers probably do have reason to worry about their cars right now, but the head of Toyota is showing the true measure of a man in taking full responsibility (even though industry watchers say some of the policies which led to the flaws are the fault of Toyoda's predecessor) apologizing profusely, and doing whatever possible to timely right the wrong.
Imagine that: Akio Toyoda isn't blaming George Bush. Jane Jamison is publisher of the conservative news/commentary blog, UNCOVERAGE.net
Thomas Lifson adds:
It is customary in Japan for the chief executive of a company which has done something major wrong and inconvenienced its customers and the public, to bow deeply in apology, at a minimum. The more serious measure is to resign to take responsibility, regardless of personal culpability.
Akio Toyoda's father actually resigned as Toyota's president in the early 1950s, when the company entered bankruptcy, which was due to the extreme circumstances of early postwar Japan (its factories in ruins and the domestic auto market tiny). These factors were obvosuly beyond his control, but he did the right thing (in Japanese eyes) by resigning.
Full disclosure: I served as a consultant to Toyota for several years. These comments are based on publicly available information.
"It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question. I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn't under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn't on my watch. And it wasn't on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement - the prescription drug plan without a source of funding. And so I think it's important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we've actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word socialist around can't say the same." President Obama.
While stomping in Massachusetts for Martha Coakley and against Scott Brown, President Obama was comfortable going after Brown despite admitting, "I don't know his record."
Truth be told, I don't know much about the Democrat candidate for Lt. Governor who won the Illinois Primary last week and stepped down today because of a just discovered scandal. While admitting I know little about Scott Lee Cohen (I was busy deciding which IL Republicans to vote for), I am quite comfortable patronizing the political commercials campaign that helped get him elected. In fact, I believe one commercial in particular could make a great conservative teaching tool:
In the election for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Scott Lee Cohen stands out from the crowd. Other candidates talk about the economy, but Democrat Scott Lee Cohen is doing something about it right now. Scott is holding job fairs to help Illinois families get back to work.
In the mind of a liberal, I suppose a politician holding a job fair is really doing something constructive (as if there are not enough headhunters and employment agencies out there already). The reality of course is that sponsoring job fairs and connecting a lucky few with an employer does not create any new jobs, and for that, we need permanent tax breaks for businesses.
Scott is not a career politician.
In other words, Barack Obama and fellow Democrats are not really career politicians, just community organizers fighting for the little guy.
He is a small business owner...
In other words, sounds like Democrats are starting to identify with the problems of small business owners; kind of like Republicans have been doing all along.
... and the founder of Rod Must Resign, a citizens group that fought to remove Rod Blagojevich from office.
In other words, a Democrat is willing to throw a fellow Democrat under the bus if he needs to distance himself from the unpopular crook.
Vote Democrat, Scott Lee Cohen for Lt. Governor. "I'm Scott Lee Cohen and I approved this message."
In other words, "I'm a lifetime Democrat politician and I'm not happy with this message."
NBC's Brian Williams and Lisa Myers made a startling discovery today: In a story carried not only on NBC, but also on the MSN homepage, President Obama's Private MSM Guard lowered the drawbridge, raised the portcullis, and entreated the lord's serfs to swarm the Citadel, arming them with pitchforks as they passed into the heretofore impenetrable fortress.
What caused this breach in security?
NBC discovered that there is a problem with federal spending, the federal deficit, and the national debt.
Please watch if you haven't seen this footage already; it is a jaw-dropping betrayal by the MSM Guard. Here are a few quotes:
On America's future debt: "Eye popping....Uncharted....Nasty future shock for the American way of life....End of the American way of life."
The report speaks to graver things in store, "...[M]uch worse, ...staggering [government action]...has soared debt to 40% of the economy...and doubles in eight years."
Even David Gergen chimes in, "Government has been on a binge...we have a huge problem that even long-term economic growth won't fix."
(Is this a crisis that must not go to waste?)
The story reveals that we are, "mortgaging our kids' futures," and that we are now, "dependent on the Chinese."
Perhaps most importantly-pay close attention Republicans-NBC reports that "Republicans won't raise taxes, and Democrats won't cut programs...resulting in gridlock."
NBC frets that while Americans are presently spending 31% of their incomes in taxes, within twenty years that figure will rise to 45% to cover, "existing promises."
It bears repeating; this story is from NBC, and MSN! The Citadel stands unguarded, at least for the moment. Look for the reserve troops to show up on Tuesday. But the Keep is truly vulnerable, even if this is a White House feint. Conservatives must at least destroy the portcullis.
At the Democratic National Committee fundraiser the other day, President Obama illustrated the need for healthcare "reform" by using the death of one of his campaign workers from breast cancer. He gives us the gratuitous detail that she insisted on being buried in her Obama T-shirt. The audience took that as a punch line and laughed, but Obama looked at them sternly: being buried, or cremated, in your Obama T-shirt is no laughing matter.
You can read more details about Melanie Shouse on the Aggressive Progressive Web site ("Ideas. Inspiration. Action"):
So when the lump came, denial seemed the most pragmatic option. When diagnosis finally followed, the cancer had spread through her body to bone, lungs and liver. It was Stage 4 breast cancer.
At this point, Melanie had some coverage, in the form of Missouri's Medicaid program - a public option, if you will. And she got better, for a spell. But then her private carrier denied coverage for a treatment her oncologist had recommended.
"Denial seemed the most pragmatic option." What an artful sentence. So now denial is a "pragmatic option" when dealing with a lump in the breast? "Pragmatic" is a nice touch here, shows how down to earth, how practical, how, well, pragmatic liberals are. They demand solutions that work! Except, in this case, Melanie's brand of healthcare reform turned out to be anything but pragmatic.
And what was the treatment that she was denied? The implication is that it would have saved her life. What would it have cost? What are the one-year outcomes for that treatment at her stage of illness? The five-year outcomes? Would it have given her another month? Two? Her private carrier is excoriated, but why no criticism for Medicaid? It would appear that the government denied her coverage for the treatment as well. Details are sorely wanted, details that Obama, and Aggressive Progressive, feel no need to provide.
Henry Percy is the nom de guerre for a technical writer living in Arizona. He may be reached at saler.50d@gmail.com.
Barack Obama has been trying to justify his anti-terror policies by likening them to those of George Bush. Aside from the hypocritical irony can we discover anything else of interest from statements, particularly this one:
"I think that the most important thing for the public to understand," he told Ms. Couric, "is we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11." Mr. Obama went on to add that "190 folks"-folks presumably just like the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks-had been tried and convicted in civilian court during Mr. Bush's tenure.
Where did Obama get the figure of 190 ? Not from government sources, but from a George Soros group.
The figure comes from a report by Human Rights First (they actually claim 195), which ransacked the federal files to find any cases even remotely connected with terrorism. Most charges, the report concedes, involve not acts of terrorism but charges of material support. These 190 men and women may be guilty of bad things, but to suggest they are comparable with KSM is highly misleading.
Barack Obama mislead? Sacra bleu.
What is Human Rights First? None other than one of the many groups (led by the Center for American Progress) that George Soros-sugar daddy of the Democratic party and one of Barack Obama's early and most generous supporters has formed as tools to move American policy in the direction Soros wants.
Human Rights First does not put human right first, it puts the agenda of George Soros first and has taken a hard-left tack on many issues (what happens at Ground Zero, for instance); pushed for American to become involved in the America and Israel-bashing Durban II conference.
Similar to the Center for American Progress (variably called Obama's Brain Trust or his Idea Factory ), Human Rights First has served as a hiring hall for the Obama administration. Its former Executive Director and president, Michael Posner, was appointed by Barack Obama to serve as the leader of the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (recently heard from when it unleashed an attack on Israel - one goal that obsesses George Soros ).
Soros has many front groups in Washington; he also has many front men who do his bidding there, as well. But how high up do they go?
As of one the world's big economic players, India has walked away from the IPCC, stating that the panel is unreliable, putting economist Dr R.K Pachauri, who chairs the UN"s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is in direct conflict with his own government in India.
...false claims have heightened tensions between Dr Pachauri and the government, which had earlier questioned his glacial melting claims. In Autumn, its environment minister Mr Jairam Ramesh said while glacial melting in the Himalayas was a real concern, there was evidence that some were actually advancing despite global warming.
Dr Pachauri had dismissed challenges like these as based on "voodoo science", but last night Mr Ramesh effectively marginalized the IPC chairman even further.
He announced the Indian government will established a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world's ‘third ice cap', and an ‘Indian IPCC' to use ‘climate science' to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country.
"There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report, [the] IPCC doesn't do the original research which is one of the weaknesses... they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks.
India's environment minister is obviously being diplomatic. He points out ‘weaknesses' which are serious flaws inserted into a document, which is to have worldwide and destructive economic ramifications. With over a billion citizens and an economic growth of 6.1% in 2009, India has a good reason to turns its back on the defective Noble prize winning report.
The India government has gone so far as to found its own monitoring body, which Mr Ramesh said:
... will not rival the UN's panel, will publish its own climate assessment in November this year, with reports on the Himalayas, India's long coastline, the Western Ghat highlands and the north-eastern region close to the borders with Bangladesh, Burma, China and Nepal. "Through these we will demonstrate our commitment to climate science," he said.
When dealing with India's climatic well-being, that nation has decided that it is best serviced by performing its own observation and research. The rational being "India is a very large country and cannot depend only on [the] IPCC."
To put it more succinctly, the UN's IPCC can't take care of the needs of India, let alone the whole world, and since that is the care, and a very reasonable one, watch for other economically dynamic nations to decided to ‘take a walk.'
"This is someone who in law school worked with [Harvard professor] Larry Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein's theory of relativity," said senior adviser David M. Axelrod. "He does have an incisive mind; that mind is always put to use in pursuit of tangible things that are going to improve people's lives."
Hmmm... should we be impressed?
What is astonishing --- what's mind-boggling --- but explains a lot --- is that:
1. Lawrence Tribe, always mentioned as the next Supreme Court nominee, would lend his name to such utter sophomoric moonshine, thereby exposing himself to ridicule from the entire Harvard Faculty, and screwing up his chances to ever get to the Court.
2. That Obama himself would fall for it --- as the elected chief honcho of the Harvard Law Review! (Although it may explain why nothing he wrote ever got published).
3. That David Axelrod, supposed PR genius, would cite this arrant nonsense as a point IN FAVOR of his boss.
4. That a WaPo reporter would publish it in a recitation of why the man in the White House is sane after all, even while expecting the Democrats in Congress to commit political suicide for the greater glory of Obama.
5. That some editor at the WaPo allowed it to pass, in spite of the fact that everybody with any scientific background is laughing their heads off as this juicy bit of news is buzzing around the web.
And yet, and yet... there it is. It's an "admission against interest" in legalese, and therefore all the more credible.
I conclude that:
1. The President and his inner circle are unbelievably ignorant about science and technology, not to mention the legal implications of Einstein (of which there are exactly none).
2. This Administration is just as scientifically illiterate and brain-suckered as its wholehearted support of the Global Warming Fraud would lead one to believe.
3. That the official Illuminati of the Left have now indoctrinated THEMSELVES so that they believe their own superstitions --- where previously all that just seemed to be another cynical ploy.
4. That we are therefore much worse off than I had previously imagined, because our leadership in Washington DC is not just cynical and mendacious, but objectively ignorant beyond belief.
5. That the Global Warming Fraud actually reflects the genuine beliefs of the Best and the Brightest that the liberal elite has on offer.
