Fact Checking the SOTU - Corporate Taxes

The Most Important Paycheck in the World

No Need to Panic About Global Warming

Another "Green" Bankruptcy on the Taxpayers' Dime

We often discuss how Barack Hussein Obama doesn't seem to like to do the actual job behind being President. Apparently his speech writers are ripping a page from his playbook. Obama's State of the Union speech was mostly a redux from of previous speeches.

Due to Barack Hussein Obama's halt on deportations of illegals to Haiti, a Haitian illegal (and twice convicted felon) in the USA was released from prison and two months later killed 3 US citizens.

The episode is a black eye for U.S. authorities, who by law could not detain Dufrene indefinitely after the Obama administration ordered a temporary halt of deportations to the island nation. The deportations were halted because of the carnage wrought by Haiti's January 2010 earthquake.

"Because of the moratorium on removals to Haiti in effect when Dufrene came into ICE custody, his removal to Haiti was not likely in the reasonably foreseeable future," an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said in a statement Friday.

ICE is prevented from indefinitely holding any illegal if their removal is not in the foreseeable future. So even with a laced history of crimes, Dufrene was released. Dufrene had a history of nine arrests starting with beating a teacher at age 14. Dufrene committed the 3 murders and later killed himself.

So let's describe the change we've seen under Obama:
Only change left over from the paycheck; the rest is redistributed to those who didn't earn it.
Change is the unemployment numbers from 7% to over 10%;
Change is the spiraling upward debt - almost $16 trillion;
Change is ignoring the US Constitution;
Changes is forcing people to purchase a product;
Change is bowing to foreign dignitaries;
Change is a disregard for the US Military;
Change is ObamaCare;
Change is unlimited unemployment insurance;
Change is lots of vacation, golf and luxury fund raising;
Change is committing taxpayers money to failed energy policies and companies;
Change is bald face lying;
Change is shutting down Disney World to promote tourism;
Change is separate air transportation for the presidential couple;
Change is an uninvolved president;
Change is more czars;
Change is more job killing regulations;
Change is more cronyism in the White House;
Change is a pervert as Secretary of Education;
Change is arrogance and narcissism;
Change is ticking off our allies;
Change is cozying up with Venezuela and Iran;
Change is redistribution of wealth;

And so we could go on and on. But most of all "change is" a different President in 2012.

Now just why are US taxpayers paying for Solyndra employees to crush new glass tubes that cost over $2 million? The bankruptcy judge agreed to the tube destruction after being told it would cost more than they were worth to store the tubes.

However, the bankruptcy trustee never listed the tubes on the asset list therefore no one was able to provide a bid to purchase them at auction.

Oh well, it was just taxpayers' money.

The following is a reported translated transcript between the Port Authority of Liverno, Italy with Captain Coward from the Costa Concordia after the ship started sinking.

Coast Guard: "Listen Schettino, there are people trapped on board. Now you need to go on your life boat, under the bow of the ship on the side. There is a ladder. You need to climb up the ladder and board the ship. Get on board and report to me how many people there are. Is that clear?. . . . "

Schettino: "At this moment the ship is tilted."

Coast Guard: "I understand. Listen, there are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board. . . . Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear? . . . Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!"

Schettino: "Please . . . "

Coast Guard: "There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!"

Schettino: "I am in the life boat, under the ship, I haven't gone anywhere, I'm here."

Coast Guard: "What are you doing?"

Schettino: "I am coordinating . . . "

Coast Guard: "What are you coordinating there? Go on board! Coordinate the rescue from on board! Are you refusing?"

Schettino: "No, I am not refusing."

Coast Guard: "Tell me the reason why you are not going back on board."

Schettino: "There is another life boat ... "

Coast Guard: "You go back on board! That is an order! There is nothing else for you to consider. You have sounded the 'abandon ship.' Now I am giving the orders. Go back on board. Is that clear? Don't you hear me?"

Schettino: "I am going on board."

Coast Guard: "Go! Call me immediately when you are on board. My rescue people are in front of the bow."

The Coast Guard said Schettino defied their entreaties to return to his ship as the chaotic evacuation of some 4,200 people was in progress.

Evacuation of a ship is sure to be a traumatic moment. Having seen how many passengers storm a food buffet or the gangplank to be the first off at a port, without the calm but firm hand of the Captain and ship's officers, evacuation in itself would be a nightmare no one would want to go through.

Having been on many cruises, we often comment at lifeboat drills that their simulation would be nothing like the real thing when people believe their lives are in danger.

Currently the known death toll from this incident is reported at 11, with 29 (25 passengers, 4 crew) still missing.

You've got to be kidding me! Andrew Sullivan, liberal left-wing hack writes an Obama campaign article and Newsweek (no, we won't be linking to them) dares to print this insanity just to apparently prove they are the sleaziest rag around. For Obama supporters like Sullivan who apparently can't read, Ace of Spades has drawn you a picture.

Now just how dumb is it to be against someone who spends taxpayers' money like it grows on trees. $5 trillion additional deficit in 3 years is REALLY dumb, especially when it produced payoffs to your cronies through fiascoes like Solyndra!

Dumb would be voting for a jerk who offers the Queen of Great Britain an iPod with his speeches on it. Dumb would be a President who offers a toast while God Save the Queen is playing. Dumb is a couple in the White House who have to take separate fights at the expense of the broke US taxpayers 4 hours apart to go on a luxury vacation. Dumb is a President who is rude to our ally Israel while bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and the Chinese Emperor. Dumb is a guy that preaches shared sacrifice while taking luxury vacations and playing golf. Dumb is preaching made in America and jobs while riding a $1 million bus made in Canada.

It's also dumb to defend a guy who talks jobs, jobs, jobs all the while implementing regulation after regulation that kills jobs, then adds ObamaCare on top just to make sure he sinks every small business in the USA. It's also really dumb to support a President that can't even get the right name of the soldier to whom he's presenting the Medal of Honor. This same President also complains about having to take too many photos with US troops who are putting their lives on the line for the USA.

Taxpayers learned about the over 1/2 billion dollars that flowed out to Solyndra, a solar panel company with Obama campaign donors as investors; but that's merely a dip in the $6.5 billion bucket. There are 11 more Solyndras the taxpayers will soon find out about.

Five have filed for bankruptcy. The junk bond rated Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, Spectra Watt, AES (a subsidiary of - Eastern Energy) and of course Solyndra.

The others are not far behind; Nevada Geo Thermo (NGP) personally endorsed by Harry Reid, the recipient of $98.5 MILLION in loan guarantees, warns of multiple potential defaults, Sun Power received a $1.5 BILLION loan guarantee after a French oil company took it over, now owes more than it is worth, First Solar (the biggest S&P 500 loser in 2011) even though the CEO was forced out, taxpayers were forced to pony up $3 BILLION in loans.

Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the murder of Natalee Holloway who disappeared in 2005 in Aruba, was given 28 more years in a Peruvian prison for the murder of Stephanie Flores. Flores was murdered by van der Sloot 5 years to the day that Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba.

The Peru prosecution asked for 30 years after van der Sloot plead guilty to the murder for Stephanie Flores. The judge gave van der Sloot credit for time served and issued a sentence of 28 more years. However, this could be cut as much as 1/2 for good behavior and taking classes.

Stephanie's father maintains that currently van der Sloot receives special privileges including isolation from the prison population, a television and a game console in his cell.