http://www.katablog.com/ Life, Liberty and the pursuit of mice en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:57:32 GMT Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:33:20 GMT Katablog.com http://www.katablog.com/rss.cfm kat@katablog.com kat@katablog.com http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=3E68B04D-94BF-E776-099DB4BE72C80401 This exchange between Robert Reich and George Will allows objective Americans to see exactly what liberals think about the American people. Of course, maybe Reich has a point because look who the American people put in office over and over.One great point by George Will is that while the liberals love to demonize the insurance companies, their "profits" are no higher than many other industries. Next, their ability to compete is stifled by laws preventing competition across state lines. This is the fault of government laws, not insurance companies.But the bottom line is that liberals would have us believe that government needs to provide and choose for us because we (the dirty, unwashed masses) aren't smart enough to care for or choose for ourselves. Of course this is really a political ploy because once you depend on government for your very life - they own you. Health Control Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:33:20 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=3E68B04D-94BF-E776-099DB4BE72C80401 http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=340EE00D-C8E4-E730-35274008968A1A6E Harry Reid said yesterday was a good day because only 360,000 more Americans lost their jobs in February. So I suppose Dirty Harry will be ecstatic when he learns that the Obama's budget deficit estimation is only $1.2 trillion more than they estimated, for a total deficit of $9.7 trillion added to the deficit by the O administration! What great change!WASHINGTON - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obama's budget plans would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8 trillion. That's $1.2 trillion more than predicted by the administration....The deficit picture has turned alarmingly worse since the recession that started at the end of 2007, never dipping below 4 percent of the size of the economy over the next decade. Economists say that deficits of that size are unsustainable and could put upward pressure on interest rates, crowd out private investment in the economy and ultimately erode the nation's standard of living. What Dirty Harry and the Obama administration fail to realize is that those are real people who lost their jobs, stacked on top of millions of other real people who lost their jobs. In addition the US Government is spending real money that it really doesn't have and there seems to be no end in sight.Looks like we are going to have a lot more Harry Reid "good days" in the future. Politics Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:19:02 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=340EE00D-C8E4-E730-35274008968A1A6E http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=2ECBF307-0CB8-F3E4-131AC3E3814FB9BC This time it's Barack Hussein Obama who is paying to play. He's looking for Democrats who will vote for the monstrosity of a "health care" bill Congress concocted. We'll watch with interest to see what happens with Utah Democrat Jim Matheson's vote since Obama appointed his brother, Scott M. Matheson, Jr, as a Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. So far Matheson's "no" vote has become an "undecided".While Matheson makes up his mind, Obama treated 10 more Democrats to a special dinner with himself last night, courtesy of the US taxpayer of course. Politics Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:47:50 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=2ECBF307-0CB8-F3E4-131AC3E3814FB9BC http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=25D52797-067F-E517-E466613A00026D40 I received this letter through email. It expresses how many of us Americans feel:GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:"I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent.There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seek representation: One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels.. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with legal immigration.Two, the STIMULUS bill. I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.Three: Czars. I want the circumvention of our constitutional checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical legislation. Quit throwing our nation into politically-correct quicksand.Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision that will burden me, my children, and grandchildren. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading it. Slow down! Fix only what is broken -- we have the best health care system in the world -- and test any new program in one or two states first.Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. More is not better! Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you start there.Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes -- how did they pull that one off? Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with any of our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs -- and that is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person! Why do you want me to hate my employers? And what do you have against shareholders making a profit?Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Every company must sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. (Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?) We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk.. Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with clever wording.. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.Take a breath. Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from nonpoliticians and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed-reading our bills into law. I am not an activist.. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent.. I work. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligibly ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent spending of our tax dollars.From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington . Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented.. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone... and we are now looking at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have canceled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this.. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them.. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you.If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming "When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson Amendment 28 (should be) Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States. SUPPORT IT Profound Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:01:18 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=25D52797-067F-E517-E466613A00026D40 http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=245908C5-0E02-869A-966E0C28330F6F72 Yep, we have proof of 2,000 new jobs created with a mere $450 million of US taxpayers" money. Thanks to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Stimulus a Chinese company is helping build a massive wind farm in west Texas. The firm will receive $450 million in Stimulus cash. The project will save or create 300 jobs in Texas and 2,000 manufacturing jobs in China.Too bad the jobs are in China. Political Speak Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:06:07 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=245908C5-0E02-869A-966E0C28330F6F72 http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=1F740A46-A108-E6E9-1CA35246E470D7FA Of course the media likes to call this latest program "Obama's cash for caulkers" plan, but it's really the American people being force to finance remodeling of homes where the owners didn't keep up with maintenance. You paid for a bailout of US Banks when they were irresponsible. You paid when Wall Street firms failed. You paid for Stimulus Funds that didn't stimulate anything but big government. You paid for the automakers inability to adapt. You bought Government Motors. You paid for people to trade in their old cars. You paid for the fat cats in Washington to go on excursions and junkets, eat Wagyu beef at the White House and party with Hollywood celebrities. You paid for irresponsible people to get mortgage credit counseling. You paid to update people's old appliances. So why not pay for irresponsible homeowners' maintenance on their property? Politics Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:17:30 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=1F740A46-A108-E6E9-1CA35246E470D7FA http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=101EC2EA-A143-018E-1FCB2495960826CF An massive earthquake, registering 8.8 on the Richter scale hit 200 miles southwest of Santiago, Chile this morning. A 8 foot Tsunami has already hit near Talcahuano, Chile and many Pacific islands are warned of possible Tsunamis on the way, including New Zealand, Hawaii, and American Samoa. At least 16 are current reported dead, with the death toll expected to rise. Disasters Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:50:03 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=101EC2EA-A143-018E-1FCB2495960826CF http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=100A8E03-EADE-ED25-D282CC2B7D6D8E0F The American people have rejected Obama care. Over 70% wanted Congress to start over. Obama is determined to ram it through. During his health care summit which Obama called in order to listen to the best ideas, Obama couldn't stop talking. And these days, every time Obama talks, his ratings go down. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for President Obama. Gone are the days of the masses swooning to his every word. Just wait until the polls catch up with the "health care summit". Politics Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:27:59 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=100A8E03-EADE-ED25-D282CC2B7D6D8E0F http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0BAF96A3-0E50-ABFC-C098B6BBFD21DEDE At least 90% of the US Government's sensors placed to detect earth's surface temperatures on a daily basis are too close to possible sources of heat to meet the government's own standards. The US Government standards require the thermometers to be placed at least 100 feet away from sources that might compromise the data they record. Yet a group of layman searched out these thermometers and found 90% of them not in compliance with thermometers being found next to halogen lights, next to burn barrels, and at airports and utility plants. Politics Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:10:09 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0BAF96A3-0E50-ABFC-C098B6BBFD21DEDE http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0B8E2150-E9CB-3912-C8A7F9C2F5AAD83C The Senate and House with Obama, intend to totally ignore the will of the American people and pass the 2,000 page "health care" bill by Easter break. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), to George Stephanopoulos, anchoring GMA from the Newseum: "To go to the 51 votes, instead of this traditional 60 in the United States Senate, will have CATACLYSMIC EFFECTS." This time, John McCain is right on target. A woman scorned might bring fury from hell, but a 2,000 page bill that changes the American people's health care will be a total tsunami, the likes of which the US Government has never seen. Health Control Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:33:36 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0B8E2150-E9CB-3912-C8A7F9C2F5AAD83C http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0AD3DF08-DD3F-EABE-8D1A420303825996 So Barack Hussein Obama had a "bipartisan" health care summit yesterday which he set up to listen to the best ideas. It becomes pretty clear whom he felt had the best ideas by the time he allotted for various groups to speak:President Obama pledged to "listen" at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice.By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes - nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes, according to a "talk clock" kept by GOP aides. Next thing we know Obama will be updating the Queen of Britain's iPod with his latest 119 minutes of jaws flapping.UPDATE The Daily Beast, a liberal blog, provides a clear picture of Barack Hussein Obama's Health Care Summit The marathon TV teach-in-in which Obama was more schoolmarm than president-should be regarded by Democrats as a great disappointment. They made no clear gain, and won no clear argument. It became apparent from the very beginning-when a testy Obama said Let me finish, Lamar! to the courtly Lamar Alexander-that this was not to be an open-minded exploration of the issues in question. It was, instead, a simulacrum of a debate, a pretend-conversation, one in which Obama established, yet again, his command over fact and detail, but in which he also revealed reflexive superciliousness, intolerance of different opinions, and a shortness of patience unbecoming of a president. (He also showed that he's a tedious clock-Nazi, cutting people off all the time, while showing no inclination to edit himself.) Health Control Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:10:09 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0AD3DF08-DD3F-EABE-8D1A420303825996 http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0AC82C51-F058-5652-4EBC6D5EFF8EBB31 Obama doesn't think the American people care about how the health care bill was made and he surely isn't ready to start over even when confronted with what the American people want. And with that, we provide the most recent Rasmussen Passion rating: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20. Democrats: an election is coming up in November 2010, BEWARE. Health Control Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:57:23 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=0AC82C51-F058-5652-4EBC6D5EFF8EBB31 http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=08B7039C-EDF2-2D62-778684DE4F7036FD These are the clowns who are charged with protecting us! Two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security reportedly lost nearly 1,000 computers in fiscal year 2008, costing taxpayers approximately $13.3 million.CBP's total inventory of lost and stolen equipment, or 1,975 pieces, totaled $7.5 million; ICE's inventory, meanwhile, was 1,547 items, equating to a loss of $5.8 million.The losses include over 1,000 computers, an international harvester vehicle truck worth $116,000(pretty hard to misplace a truck!) and 235 night vision scopes. You really have to wonder since these people are in charge of the nation's security! But then it's not their money now is it? Politics Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:19:24 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=08B7039C-EDF2-2D62-778684DE4F7036FD http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=05A67747-A271-B7F0-298633CBD580016A Today Barack Hussein Obama holds his infamous "bipartisan health care summit". State Governors, who will be on the hook to implement any procedures, are not invited. Furthermore, only 25% of Democrat (and approximately 30% of all Americans) want the current health care legislation to pass. Yet the Democrats and the Obama administration drive on, in total disregard for what We the People want.Could be the reason that only 21% of Americans say that the US Government has the consent of the governed, as required by our founding document, the US Constitution. 75% of Americans are angry at their own government. Yet Obama drives on. Health Control Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:02:27 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=05A67747-A271-B7F0-298633CBD580016A http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=008BBD24-B72C-7347-854386DC1A2BCE24 Michelle Malkin details the conflict of interest in the Department of Justice (DOJ) created by Attorney General, Eric Holder and his former Covington and Burlinglaw firm buddies.Now of course the DOJ is suppose to ensure justice for the American people. However, thanks to Eric Holder the DOJ staff contains no less than 9 attorneys who have previously represented Gitmo detainees. We must believe that in order to actually represent a Gitmo detainee, the attorney doing so would have their client's best interest at heart. Right? So let's look at what the Obama Administration and DOJ have done in a mere 1 year: In office only one day, Mr. Obama ordered the shuttering of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, followed later by the announcement that he would bring terrorists to an Illinois prison. He terminated the Central Intelligence Agency's ability to use "enhanced interrogations techniques" to question al Qaeda operatives. He stayed the military trial, approved by Congress, of al Qaeda leaders. He ultimately decided to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner of the 9/11 attacks, to a civilian court in New York City, and automatically treated Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, as a criminal suspect (not an illegal enemy combatant).The Holder ordered the re-investigation of the the CIA's detention and interrogation of al Qaeda leaders. The Obama administration, by way of the DOJ, decides what to do with Gitmo detainees - would Holder ask the American people to believe the DOJ favors the American people while making these decisions? Do decisions to date look like the American people have any representation in Holder's DOJ?Isn't that sort of like asking Americans to believe the US Government (current majority owner of General Motors) will deal fairly with Toyota? Politics Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:15:10 GMT http://www.katablog.com/display_blog.cfm?bid=008BBD24-B72C-7347-854386DC1A2BCE24