Occupy Wall Street protestor almost dies jumping in front of train

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Arnold Swatzenegger. “The Voters have spoken we will cut the budget by billions”

Teaparty california style

KUTV

California Faces Its Day Of Fiscal Reckoning

Posted: 3:45 pm PDT May 22, 2009Updated: 3:58 pm PDT May 22, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The day of reckoning that California has been warned about for years has arrived.

The longest recession in generations and the defeat this week of a package of budget-balancing ballot measures are expected to lead to state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they could rewrite the social contract between California and its citizens. They could also force a fundamental rethinking of the proper role of government in the Golden State.

“The voters are getting what they asked for, but I’m not sure at the end of the day they’re going to like what they asked for,” said Jim Earp, executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, which represents the hard-hit construction industry. “I think we’ve crossed a threshold in many ways.”

California is looking at a budget deficit projected at more than $24 billion when the new fiscal year starts in July. That is more than one-quarter of the state’s general fund.

This week, voters said they no longer want the Legislature to balance budgets with higher taxes, complicated transfer schemes or borrowing that pushes California’s financial problems off into the distant future. In light of that, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it clear he intends to close the gap almost entirely through drastic spending cuts.

The governor’s cutbacks could include ending the state’s main welfare program for the poor, eliminating health coverage for about 1.5 million poor children, halting cash grants for about 77,000 college students, shortening the school year by seven days, laying off thousands of state workers and teachers, slashing money for state parks and releasing thousands of prisoners before their sentences are finished.

“I understand that these cuts are very painful and they affect real lives,” Schwarzenegger said. “This is the harsh reality and the reality that we face. Sacramento is not Washington — we cannot print our own money. We can only spend what we have.”

He also has advocated selling state assets to raise cash, including the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and San Quentin State Prison.

 The Democrats who control the Legislature do not want major spending cuts, but so far they don’t have a plan for closing the deficit. And if their solution is higher taxes and more borrowing, they will probably not have enough Republican votes to get the two-thirds approval needed for passage.

Michael Steele. The media didnt vet Obama because of his race

The Hill

He was not vetted, folks,” Steele said. “He was not vetted because the press fell in love with the black man running for the office.

” ‘Oh, gee, wouldn’t it be neat to do that? Gee, wouldn’t it make all of our liberal guilt just go away? We can continue to ride around in our limousines and feel so lucky to live in an America with a black president,’ ” Steele said, mocking what he sees as a biased media.

Gitmo Detainees enjoying the good Jihadi life

Grr leave it up to WordPress to mess up the video

Can see it   here

Oh my Democrats ready to kill Climate Bill ?

Al Gored

From the Hill

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) said on Thursday that he has the votes to take down Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) climate change bill.

Peterson’s boast comes as Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Waxman has backed off on his desire to have his bill go straight to the floor. Waxman told reporters Thursday afternoon that he expects the bill to go to Peterson’s committee, as well as to the Ways and Means and Foreign Affairs committees, for additional markups.

RI Congressional Candidate. I offer $1,000 Dollars if Bush, Cheny or Condi gets waterboarded”

Why do they have problems waterboarding Terrorists but no problem waterboarding fellow americans ?

AP News via Wyoming

 

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island lawmaker says he’ll donate $100 to charity for every second former President George W. Bush withstands waterboarding, an interrogation technique his administration used on some terror suspects.

Rep. Rod Driver, a Democrat, also included former Vice President Dick Cheney and ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in his offer. He sent letters to all three.

Driver said that if Bush is so confident that waterboarding, which simulates drowning, is not torture, he should try it for himself while being videotaped. His offer was first reported Thursday in The Westerly Sun.

Picture of Mr Driver. Sort of looks like Ed Koch.

 Has a real anti Israel bias on his blog

Palistinians to Obama ” we want deeds not words. Stop Israel and we will believe you”

Obama comes full circle in rhetoric

ACORN to get Taxpayer money

Great

more about “ACORN to get Taxpayer money“, posted with vodpod

 

Pete Stark’s Constituents “Stop Israel and terrorism will stop” plus Obama is the solution to all our problems”

It is San Francisco

Warning  Audio Quality is a little poor

Castro. I wont outlive the Obama Presidency

Russia Today

Castro foresees the end

Fidel Castro doesn’t expect to be alive to witness the end of President Obama’s first term in office. That is according to an editorial written by the former Cuban president on an official website.

“I have had the rare privilege of observing events over a long period of time. I get information and meditate carefully over these events,” Castro wrote. “I don’t expect to enjoy this privilege in four years, when Obama’s first term in office concludes.”

Castro watched the US inauguration on television and proceeded to express a trust in Barak Obama’s honesty, breaking a silence which lasted more than a month. His last essay was published on the 15th of December. Castro lavishes praise on the new U.S. president:

“The intelligent and noble face of the first black president of the United States since its founding two and one-third centuries ago as an independent republic had transformed itself under the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King into a living symbol of the American dream,” the ex-Cuban leader writes.

“But despite noble intentions, there are still many questions to answer,” Castro added, specifically pointing out the question of whether a capitalist system can protect the environment.

The long break in Castro’s essay writing has prompted speculation about his health. He has largely kept out of public view since being treated for an undisclosed stomach complaint in 2006.