Nov. 28, 2008 at 08:13
by BrendaBee
Why does this not surprise me? The American tax payer is being asked to bail out the American Auto makers just so they can beef up their plants in other countries. And you know what? Our Congressmen are going to give them the money! The of course since the money will be spent outside of Detroit the Big 3 will have to come back to Washington with their hand out saying they need more money to keep the plants in Detroit open and save American jobs. BB
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14090&ArticleId=320903
By Russ Dallen
Latin American Herald Tribune staff
"General Motors (GM) plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.
According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to "complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012."
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Nov. 26, 2008 at 15:55
by BrendaBee
Oh Dear. I guess I have been right all along in saying Americans aren't equipped to understand the issues of today because they lack knowledge of the past. Only thing is, I wasn't "right" enough. I really had no idea just how bad it really is/was and most certainly is gonna be.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
"A new report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) on the nation's civic literacy finds that most Americans are too ignorant to vote.
Out of 2,500 American quiz-takers, including college students, elected officials and other randomly selected citizens, nearly 1,800 flunked a 33-question test on basic civics. In fact, elected officials scored slightly lower than the general public with an average score of 44 percent compared to 49 percent.
Only 0.8 percent of all test-takers scored an "A."
There was an interesting article in The Princetonian http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/09/20/news/18641.shtml ).
It up held the finding that incoming freshman knew more than graduating seniors. Both groups however failed the test as far as the grading scale is concerned. I suppose this is one where we have to fall back on the old Bell Curve for the Stupid grading system. But only of course after throwing out the very few high scores.
I got a sad laugh out of one more of my bitches about the so-called "Intellectuals" or "Intelligensia". You know, those people dictators usually knock off when they come into power along with the people in the asylums. It is called ridding the population of the undesirables and misfits. I'm not in agreement with the dictators that those with mental disabilities should be placed in the same class as the "intellectuals". No I think I would allow the mentally disabled to live.
Anyhow, the article said, "Some Princeton professors questioned the report's claims." You bet they did with brick bats from "it means nothing" to "it is political" to the dumbest of all: "History department chair Jeremy Adelman said, "Not knowing is not the same as being ignorant," he said. "And if we can teach our students that there's a distinction between the two, then I think we have done a good job. I have a feeling that some people who ran that survey don't understand."
Well if a graduate of Princeton University doesn't know in his/her senior year then I simply do not understand the meaning of ignorant, and Dr. Jeremy Adelman with a slew of degrees and awards for outstanding scholarship hanging on his wall, was quite correct that some of us, who by the way passed the test with a score of 100%, simply "don't understand". BB
Take the quiz yourself at:
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
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Nov. 26, 2008 at 14:02
by BrendaBee
I have blogged on this before, but now with the Democrats controlling Congress passage of this bill is likely. Senate Bill 2344. This bill has a lovely sounding name but it will in effect turn American sovereignty over to the United Nations.
Read the Senate bill (reference below) and you will see how like most bills of this nature the proposals all sound so fair and good and lovely. But dig a bit deeper and it will scare you as it has me as to just how subversive this bill is. It gives the President power to do just about anything he wants in terms of committing the United States to the desires of the United Nations under the guise of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal. S 2344 actually is a scam that many Seantors are planning to pull over on the American people. And, I would venture to say that many of them have no idea what the bill says. The bill would put the rights of Americans under the control of the United Nations by giving the UN authorityto tax us, eliminating our 2nd Amendment rights, creating an international courts system which would all but eliminate our rights under the Bill of Rights and our Constitution. Can you imagine Americans being forcibly tried for crimes by the United Nations body? We would have been better off losing WWII and being ruled by the Naziz and Hitler! You may think I am exaggerating, but I have given references for you to see for yourselves just what is being planned for us.
I have been concerned with this, but knew there was no way Sen. John McCain would allow anything like this to endanger the country he loves so much. Barack Obama however is the sponsor of this piece of madness. BB
Accuracy in Media February 12, 2008
Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote
This is a must read article. This bill passed the House in 2007 on a voice vote. It was brought up and passed off by it's sponsors as no big deal so most House members just gave it lip service and moved on. Now it is in the Senate and if it passes the Senate our country is in great danger.
Can anyone who has any intelligence at all want to have the America condemning and hating United Nations have the power to subvert our Bill of Rights and Constitution? BB
Check out the list of Senators who have co-sponsored this bill.
S.2433
Title: A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 12/7/2007) Cosponsors (30)
Related Bills: H.R.1302 ( Passed by voice vote)
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2008 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.
Senate Reports: 110-331 This is the Thomas Library and gives us a liting of all currently sponsored bills in the Senate and how many Senators are co-sponsors.
COSPONSORS(30), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
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Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [DE] - 2/12/2008
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Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [NM] - 5/22/2008
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Sen. Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 6/12/2008
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Sen. Brown, Sherrod [OH] - 5/8/2008
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Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 12/7/2007
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Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 7/15/2008
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Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] - 6/2/2008
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Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] - 7/15/2008
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Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] - 5/13/2008
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Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] - 2/12/2008
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Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 2/7/2008
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Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 2/13/2008
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Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] - 1/23/2008
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Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] - 12/7/2007
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Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 2/28/2008
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Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] - 2/29/2008
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Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/1/2008
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Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] - 7/28/2008
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Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] - 7/15/2008
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Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 7/16/2008
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Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] - 2/5/2008
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Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 2/11/2008
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Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 5/13/2008
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Sen Murray, Patty [WA] - 2/27/2008
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Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 6/17/2008
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Sen Smith, Gordon H. [OR] - 3/10/2008
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Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] - 2/25/2008
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Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] - 7/24/2008
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Sen Webb, Jim [VA] - 7/24/2008
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Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] - 6/23/2008
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http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2433/text
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2433/text>
SENATE BILL S. 2433 THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT (as it is written)
If this is not enough for you please google: Global Poverty Act. This bill is the first step towards a world government, and the total destruction of the United States. Take a good look at who (what countries) would be making laws for us under a world court system. Take a good look at what countries would be taxing Americans. BB
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Nov. 23, 2008 at 21:57
by BrendaBee
We who said Hell No to the Bail Out were Right. Now on PBS has three videos that are a must see. Insiders speak out on what really happened. It was all greed that led to creating derivatives with smoke and mirrors. Check these out at: PBS
http://pbs.org/now/shows/446/video.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/446/index.html
Congress did not listen to the tens of thousands of tax payers who emailed, phoned and wrote to them to say no to the Bail Out. Now these same Congressmen being lead again by Democrat Barney Frank and Democrat Senator Dodd the two most vocal and most influential people in this scam are yelling the loudest that it was a scam and they were lied to. Well I'll be darned, can you actually believe the hoodlums on Wall Street actually lied to these dear gentlemen? How dare they?!
Now just keep your eye on these two guys because they are going to be the very top dogs in Congress who are going to lead us all right into the black hole that bailing out the auto industry in America will be. BB
For my posts on this whole deal look under National stories, National News.
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Nov. 21, 2008 at 15:36
by BrendaBee
I personally have been defending homosexual men and lesbian women all my life as I believed then and research has born out my conviction that our sexual orientation is a genetic, in us at birth trait that people can not control or determine for themselves. I based my opinion on having grown up with two such individuals as playmates and friends who as adults agonized over their sexual desires.
Both of my dear and close friends , one male and one female, married and tried thru every means available to them to make themselves "normal". It didn't happen, and after raising their families and doing their "duty" to society they both divorced their spouses and finally did what nature had always told them was right for them. In the case of the man, his wife was understanding and worked with him during their marriage with only one wish and that was that he honor their marriage vows and when he could no longer then they would divorce. After the divorce they wife and children still are friends and offer him their love and companionship and support. The woman wasn't so fortunate and after the divorce and her admitting to her family what her true feelings were, they all denounced her.
Both have now found companions they can love and be loved by. They quietly live together and are accepted in their communities where they attend parties and get together and meetings together. And are now as concerned and ashamed of those militants who are demanding rights that are not at all so-called civil rights.
People are not as biased and ignorant and unforgiving as they once were. Behaviors and beliefs and living habits are all acceptable le to most reasonable people as long as it is done with some dignity and discretion. I do not allow anyone into my bedroom, nor do I invite judgmental guests into my home or allow them to decide how I am to conduct myself in my home unless I am breaking some laws. This is how I want and expect it to be with homosexuals and lesbian couples. You see this is the right. Yes, their right as human beings and as Americans. But this is the only fundamental right that they have with reference to their sexuality.
Homosexuals and Lesbians have no right to change the way society has forever determined what marriage is and who can legally marry morally or under the law. Civil agreements as to business and living arrangements, distribution of and power over assets during illness and after death are available to couples other than one man and one woman arrangement. Both of my friends have made these arrangements.
The voters in California during the last election in a free and legal right of all adults living in the state to one vote, voted for Proposition 8 on the ballot. A proposition that disallows homosexuals and lesbians the right to a legal marriage such as the one offered to heterosexual couples. The majority of the people freely made their choice and opinions known. In a democracy this is how controversies are settled once and for all and all accept the will of the majority of the people.
This isn't the case with the vote in California. Militant gays are violently protesting this vote all over the nation. In this they are doing themselves and others much more harm than good. My friends reported having their home where they have lived for fifteen years in peace was egged last night.
Needless to say I am so sorry and so upset about so stupid lout in a neighborhood I once called my own taking upon themselves this cowardly and hateful action. I only hope the community, many of whom are helping to clean the house and yard today, will denounce this behavior and the culprits are caught and prosecuted.
I have been busy today and had only time to check my email so haven't check out any of my usual web sites for mail. An hour ago one of these friends whose home was egged sent me a reference to the following article with the comment, "Why can't these people just go away! This is not the way to get along. This is only the way to make people hate us."
I am so sorry to have to agree with my dear friend that yes this is a way to make those who are not perhaps easy with homosexuality but no condemning it either to move to the side of those who are. BB
Townhall.com
Friday, November 21, 2008
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/11/21/the_eharmony_shakedown
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Nov. 13, 2008 at 20:21
by BrendaBee
This is the first time in my life I have seen a legally conducted election result protested with marching, shouting protests and rioting in the streets. And it appears the organizers are calling for the protest to spread to other states. This is common in Third World countries where the populations are ignorant and easily stirred to riot. We see it often in the Muslim countries. I find it a sad commentary on just how decadent, immature, irresponsible and uneducated our society has become. It only proves what I have been noticing for some years now: Americans have lost their way and are disconnected with their history and their identity as a free people who have rights yes, but who understand that one person's rights stop where another person's rights begin. One does not have the right to push ones beliefs onto another person. One minority group does not have the right to push their desires onto the majority of our citizens. That Americans were a people who wished to live in harmony and would fight vehemently for their beliefs, but when the issue became so divisive as to threaten harmony then the issue was brought to a vote and all people would accept and live by the decision of the majority of the voters. I had always believed and took pride in the fact that we Americans understand the democratic system of one man one vote, and the majority opinion is the one that becomes the law for all of us. I was proud of the fact that tho those whose view did not prevail might be disgruntled and upset as I am about the presidential election, but after the count is taken we would endeavor to accept and live the democratically taken vote. And if we feel so strongly about the issue we have the right to begin again working for another legal means of achieving the outcome we wanted, or some compromise.
I guess I am wrong in my beliefs and understanding of democracy and pride in Americans as a civil people who knew how to live in a society in harmony after all was said and done, Yes, I guess I was wrong. BB
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Nov. 12, 2008 at 10:05
by BrendaBee
The Democrats are known for their giving natures. They give and give and give. Of course studies have shown that Democrats, who are liberals and progressives, do not give their own money. No way! They give your money away by the buckets full every chance they get, and they are getting another chance thanks to the UAW (United Auto Workers Union).
Now just to remind you who the UAW is: it is one of the unions the newly elected President and the Democrat Congress want to pass the Employee Free Choice Act for. That little bill that will make it easier for unions to take over companies because workers can just sign a card saying they want a union instead of having the time honored secret ballot. This is so that if a worker doesn't sign the card the union thugs can put some hurt on him. Whereas with a secret ballot no one knows who to strong arm.
Anyhow to get back on topic: The UAW (United Auto Workers) with their greedy demands for more and better wages and benefits for the workers have finally totally bankrupted the American auto industry. It is another "crisis" for Congress to jump into and fix. The fix is all for the workers and the economy and has to be done and done quickly.
The New York Times
Headlines: Democrats Seek Help for Automakers
Published: November 11, 2008
"House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said Congress and the administration “must take immediate action” to stave off a possible collapse of the American auto industry."
Another crisis just like the one that cost our great grandchildren $700 billion just a few weeks ago. This of course followed after the Federal Reserves intervening with loan guarantees for hundreds of billions of dollars for financial institutions and the Congress already bailing out, actually buying, the privately owned Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac! Indeed Congress has gone on a mad shopping spree because just putting Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac in their shopping cart wasn't enough, they had to buy the stock of several national banks and a huge amount of the stock of AIG a large international insurance company that had gotten in trouble insuring toxic mortgage derivatives.
So, why not add a couple American automobile companies to the federal governments portfolio?!! After all it is the tax payers money doing the buying and in the meantime the Congressmen can play real time Monopoly. Talk about a Reality Show.
“Next week, during the lame-duck session of Congress, we are determined to pass legislation that will save the jobs of millions of workers whose livelihoods are on the line,” the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said in a statement.
Refer to yesterday's post "Unions, the US auto workers and the consumers--a disconnect ". The unionized auto workers under the UAW (United Auto Workers union) do indeed have a livelihood well worth our tax dollars to save since they only pull down and average of $78.21 an hour .
"Congressional aides said that Democrats, should they move ahead with emergency legislation, would have to decide whether to put forward a stand-alone measure for the auto industry or include the aid in a wider economic stimulus measure. Such a package as the latter is likely to include extended unemployment benefits, aid to strapped states and cities, new money for health care and food stamps and possibly money for public works — all programs Mr. Bush has resisted."
And just look how accommodating the auto industry is being to the Democrat Congress, they are providing the opportunity for this Congress to pass a huge "economic stimulus" package of pork they have been just itching to pass. They thought they would have to wait for Obama to take office before they could get on with more spending, but this newest "crisis" is just too good of a chance to miss.
The fact is the American auto industry has been dying for 30 years now since the Japanese got into the auto producing business and began making automobiles cheaper, better and with better mileage than anything put out by Detroit. It really is about time the government just bury the corpse.
There is nothing that is going to stop this depression from happening. There might have been a chance a month ago if the Congress had used the $700 billion to bail out the economy by producing jobs such as the "possibly money for public works" that is now being bandied about. But take note of the word "possibly" about the public works but no such "possibly" for the "extended unemployment benefits, aid to strapped states and cities, new money for health care and food stamps". No these little non-productive welfare handouts are not a possibility, they are a sure thing.
Are you disgusted with this Congress yet? Well hold onto your seats because the American public just voted in more Democrats to insure the ever larger welfare checks and rewards for failure continue to go out unimpeded. BB
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