Monday, March 29, 2010
"..longest wet kiss....".
"I mean, since this thing (Obamacare) passed last weekend, we have seen the longest wet kiss in political history given to the Obama administration by the liberal media elite, and every day that goes by, it gets sloppier."
~ Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour
Monday, March 15, 2010
'WE' Know What Works....
A crowd of 6,000+ were in Tulsa to hear Glen Beck and Sarah Palin on March 13.
"The funny thing is that Washington wants all of us to think this (healthcare reform package) is just way over our heads and all of this is just way too complicated for all of us to understand. But everyday Americans know better.
And we’re not taking it anymore.
We’re not believing everything the ‘lamestream’ media is spewing at us, and that the White House wants to twist and pivot around … We know better, because we know real history, and we know what works.”
~ Sarah Palin
"The funny thing is that Washington wants all of us to think this (healthcare reform package) is just way over our heads and all of this is just way too complicated for all of us to understand. But everyday Americans know better.
And we’re not taking it anymore.
We’re not believing everything the ‘lamestream’ media is spewing at us, and that the White House wants to twist and pivot around … We know better, because we know real history, and we know what works.”
~ Sarah Palin
Thursday, March 11, 2010
STOP SQ 744
Oklahomans For Responsible Government has taken its fight against State Question 744 up a notch with the purchase of an ad on The McCarville Report Online and Mark Shannon.com seeking petition signers.
Those who click on the ad are taken to www.STOP744.com an online resource to help defeat State Question 744 on the Oklahoma ballot this November! (scroll down, link on right of this page).
SQ 744 is a proposal by the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) that would force the state to spend nearly a billion dollars more on education by cutting all other state agencies or raise your taxes by the same amount.
SQ 744 will be on the November 2010 ballot.
Those who click on the ad are taken to www.STOP744.com an online resource to help defeat State Question 744 on the Oklahoma ballot this November! (scroll down, link on right of this page).
SQ 744 is a proposal by the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) that would force the state to spend nearly a billion dollars more on education by cutting all other state agencies or raise your taxes by the same amount.
SQ 744 will be on the November 2010 ballot.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The MOTHER of All Bail-outs To Come!
The Mother of All Bail-outs To Come!
Opinion/editorial by J.C. Watts Jr.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal - 2/28/10
I'm all for bipartisan agreements that make sense. However, when I look at what is unfolding in Congress in the name of bipartisanship on banking reform, it makes me extremely nervous.
Here we go again. Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., are working on bipartisan legislation to revamp the regulatory structure of the financial services industry. The House passed Rep. Barney Frank's version Dec. 11. The bill from Frank, D-Mass., would create a controversial Consumer Financial Protection Agency and codify a permanent bailout authority for the federal government.
The big question for Americans who hate bailouts is whether the Senate will follow the House's lead and grant the Federal Reserve the statutory authority to bail out individuals, partnerships or corporations to the tune of $4 trillion.
On Page 506 of the House-passed bill, which is titled the "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" is the following language: The amounts made available under this subsection shall not exceed $4,000,000,000,000.
This so-called "reform" and "consumer protection" legislation authorizes a $4 trillion bailout fund for Wall Street. That is more money than President Obama's 2011 budget ($3.8 trillion), the gross domestic product of Germany ($3.7 trillion), and between five and six times the amount of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. A majority of House members actually voted for a bill containing $4 trillion in new bailout authority. You just can't make this stuff up. It is really in the bill.
David Reilly, a columnist for Bloomberg News, said the bill "authorizes Federal Reserve banks to provide as much as $4 trillion in emergency funding the next time Wall Street crashes. So much for 'no-more-bailouts' talk. That is more than twice what the Federal Reserve pumped into markets last year. The size of the fund makes the deal-making in the Senate's health care bill look minuscule."
Current law allows the Federal Reserve to open the lending window in "unusual and exigent circumstances." According to the Congressional Research Service, this authority had been used in the past to authorize entities created by the Federal Reserve's Bear Stearns merger and bailout of AIG. Nowhere near $4 trillion has been committed under existing authority.An explicit authority would be created under the Frank approach to financial services reform to allow the Federal Reserve to make $4 trillion in commitments in unusual and exigent circumstances.
This provides the Federal Reserve with more authority to bail out failing industries without the need for getting the prior consent of Congress. The words "unusual" and "exigent" are vague and ambiguous enough to give the Federal Reserve sweeping new bailout authorities to dispense massive commitments to private and public entities.
Here's how it would work: The Fed would have to make a written determination that a "liquidity event exists that could destabilize the financial system" with a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Financial Oversight Council. The next step would be to secure the written consent of the secretary of the treasury as another condition to the commitment of monies, and the president would have to certify that an emergency exists. The Fed then would authorize a Federal Reserve bank to make a commitment in consideration for "notes, drafts, and bills of exchange" consistent with the order from the Fed, Treasury and the president. The House and Senate would be notified of the action by the Fed. There is a requirement that the secretary of the treasury believes that the funds will be paid back.
I remind you these are all the same entities who were asleep at the wheel in oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, allowing them to run amok. There is a provision for a joint resolution of congressional disapproval, but the commencing of any resolution would not happen until after the commitment of funds had already been made. It is unlikely that members of Congress would be able to unravel any action.
The Senate has the power to run away from this new bailout authority or to embrace it when senators debate financial services reform legislation. The direction that Dodd and Corker take in negotiations on this important issue will have severe ramifications for government policy on the proper role of the Federal Reserve to prop up failing companies in times of crisis.
If this bill passes the Senate with bailout authority intact and gets one step closer to the president's desk, then voters will be mad at yet another abuse of the taxpayers' dollars. The idea of a small and limited government is inconsistent with the idea that the Federal Reserve should have $4 trillion more in bailout authority.
-posted Fair and Biased
Opinion/editorial by J.C. Watts Jr.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal - 2/28/10
I'm all for bipartisan agreements that make sense. However, when I look at what is unfolding in Congress in the name of bipartisanship on banking reform, it makes me extremely nervous.
Here we go again. Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., are working on bipartisan legislation to revamp the regulatory structure of the financial services industry. The House passed Rep. Barney Frank's version Dec. 11. The bill from Frank, D-Mass., would create a controversial Consumer Financial Protection Agency and codify a permanent bailout authority for the federal government.
The big question for Americans who hate bailouts is whether the Senate will follow the House's lead and grant the Federal Reserve the statutory authority to bail out individuals, partnerships or corporations to the tune of $4 trillion.
On Page 506 of the House-passed bill, which is titled the "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" is the following language: The amounts made available under this subsection shall not exceed $4,000,000,000,000.
This so-called "reform" and "consumer protection" legislation authorizes a $4 trillion bailout fund for Wall Street. That is more money than President Obama's 2011 budget ($3.8 trillion), the gross domestic product of Germany ($3.7 trillion), and between five and six times the amount of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. A majority of House members actually voted for a bill containing $4 trillion in new bailout authority. You just can't make this stuff up. It is really in the bill.
David Reilly, a columnist for Bloomberg News, said the bill "authorizes Federal Reserve banks to provide as much as $4 trillion in emergency funding the next time Wall Street crashes. So much for 'no-more-bailouts' talk. That is more than twice what the Federal Reserve pumped into markets last year. The size of the fund makes the deal-making in the Senate's health care bill look minuscule."
Current law allows the Federal Reserve to open the lending window in "unusual and exigent circumstances." According to the Congressional Research Service, this authority had been used in the past to authorize entities created by the Federal Reserve's Bear Stearns merger and bailout of AIG. Nowhere near $4 trillion has been committed under existing authority.An explicit authority would be created under the Frank approach to financial services reform to allow the Federal Reserve to make $4 trillion in commitments in unusual and exigent circumstances.
This provides the Federal Reserve with more authority to bail out failing industries without the need for getting the prior consent of Congress. The words "unusual" and "exigent" are vague and ambiguous enough to give the Federal Reserve sweeping new bailout authorities to dispense massive commitments to private and public entities.
Here's how it would work: The Fed would have to make a written determination that a "liquidity event exists that could destabilize the financial system" with a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Financial Oversight Council. The next step would be to secure the written consent of the secretary of the treasury as another condition to the commitment of monies, and the president would have to certify that an emergency exists. The Fed then would authorize a Federal Reserve bank to make a commitment in consideration for "notes, drafts, and bills of exchange" consistent with the order from the Fed, Treasury and the president. The House and Senate would be notified of the action by the Fed. There is a requirement that the secretary of the treasury believes that the funds will be paid back.
I remind you these are all the same entities who were asleep at the wheel in oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, allowing them to run amok. There is a provision for a joint resolution of congressional disapproval, but the commencing of any resolution would not happen until after the commitment of funds had already been made. It is unlikely that members of Congress would be able to unravel any action.
The Senate has the power to run away from this new bailout authority or to embrace it when senators debate financial services reform legislation. The direction that Dodd and Corker take in negotiations on this important issue will have severe ramifications for government policy on the proper role of the Federal Reserve to prop up failing companies in times of crisis.
If this bill passes the Senate with bailout authority intact and gets one step closer to the president's desk, then voters will be mad at yet another abuse of the taxpayers' dollars. The idea of a small and limited government is inconsistent with the idea that the Federal Reserve should have $4 trillion more in bailout authority.
-posted Fair and Biased
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Phone Gall!
For once 'we' agree with TW:
Editorial - Tulsa World
February 24, 2010
World Editorial writers
Phone Gall!
When the Corporation Commission started out on plans to make all long-distance phone calls inside the state of Oklahoma toll-free, we were dubious. Someone, somewhere would end up paying the bill, we said.
Forgive us for pointing out that we were right.
The commission's staff has come up with a plan to pay for the "free" calls and has revised it, upping the ante. Sure enough, the plan amounts to a cost shift. Instead of people paying for their own calls, the plan would have everyone who uses a phone — including cell phone customers who already have toll-free long distance — pick up the costs.
The current scheme is to add more than $3 to the monthly phone bill of every telephone user in the state — that's more than 7 million phones, including land-lines and cell phones.
And exactly what is the benefit?
Not very much if you live in Tulsa, which already has one of the largest toll-free calling areas in the nation.
The primary beneficiary would be land-line telephone users in the remote parts of the state. They would be able to call friends and business associates in Oklahoma City and Tulsa or anywhere else for free.
Strike that. It's not free, it's just that everyone else would end up paying for it.
The toll-free calling scheme is a waste of time for the commission and a bad deal for most telephone users in Oklahoma. Someone disconnect this line before it goes any farther.
Copyright © 2010, World Publishing Co. All rights reserved
Editorial - Tulsa World
February 24, 2010
World Editorial writers
Phone Gall!
When the Corporation Commission started out on plans to make all long-distance phone calls inside the state of Oklahoma toll-free, we were dubious. Someone, somewhere would end up paying the bill, we said.
Forgive us for pointing out that we were right.
The commission's staff has come up with a plan to pay for the "free" calls and has revised it, upping the ante. Sure enough, the plan amounts to a cost shift. Instead of people paying for their own calls, the plan would have everyone who uses a phone — including cell phone customers who already have toll-free long distance — pick up the costs.
The current scheme is to add more than $3 to the monthly phone bill of every telephone user in the state — that's more than 7 million phones, including land-lines and cell phones.
And exactly what is the benefit?
Not very much if you live in Tulsa, which already has one of the largest toll-free calling areas in the nation.
The primary beneficiary would be land-line telephone users in the remote parts of the state. They would be able to call friends and business associates in Oklahoma City and Tulsa or anywhere else for free.
Strike that. It's not free, it's just that everyone else would end up paying for it.
The toll-free calling scheme is a waste of time for the commission and a bad deal for most telephone users in Oklahoma. Someone disconnect this line before it goes any farther.
Copyright © 2010, World Publishing Co. All rights reserved
If you would like to 'reach out and touch' the Commissioners on this new tax:
Jeff Cloud, Commissioner (405) 521-2264
Bob Anthony, Commissioner (405) 521-2261
Dana Murphy, Commissioner (405) 521-2267
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Coakley 'croaks' as Republican Scott Brown streaks to Victory!
Republican Scott Brown Wins BIG in Massachusetts!
Like the shot heard round the world,* and once again from the cradle of Liberty....today, Americans fired a 'vote' that will, like that shot of old, be heard round the world.
Today Americans started a Revolution that this time will not be won at Concord or Bunker Hill, but will be won at the ballot box.
Voters today in Massachusetts started 'for real' the taking back of America! It wasn't this party against that party; it was the coming together of Americans who used their precious vote to make it clear they are fed up. In just a short few months, 'change' that was touted during campaigns turned out to be NOT change for the better, but change for the worse!
Voters today issued a referendum on the current direction our country is being dragged. Voters stated loud and clear they do not like, nor want, government takeover of every facet of their life; no government intrusion into their personal medical problems - government deciding if and when medications and treatment can be administered; their hard earned tax dollars being used for bribes and sweetheart deals for the 'buddies' and 'privileged few'; massive trillions of dollars of debt that will be impossible to pay; debt and creeping socialist policies that will stifle business, deteriorate the fabric of society and the way of life for hard working Americans; crippling tax increases that will prevent Americans from being able to adequately provide for their families and their futures. Today, voters said NO...this is NOT the American way!
Massachusetts has fired the first 'shot' in the battle that will bring Americans out in droves across our Nation to join the battle this November and next. Other Americans will use their vote to echo Massachusetts in that we will not allow our blood bought liberties, our freedoms, our way of life to be taken away by those who have become greedy with power, arrogant, self-serving, turning a deaf ear to the electorate they swore an oath to represent!
Follow Massachusetts America! They have just reminded us.......It IS government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
gjw aka Grapevine
*Opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Concord Hymn', written 1837, and came to refer to the beginning of the American Revolution!
Like the shot heard round the world,* and once again from the cradle of Liberty....today, Americans fired a 'vote' that will, like that shot of old, be heard round the world.
Today Americans started a Revolution that this time will not be won at Concord or Bunker Hill, but will be won at the ballot box.
Voters today in Massachusetts started 'for real' the taking back of America! It wasn't this party against that party; it was the coming together of Americans who used their precious vote to make it clear they are fed up. In just a short few months, 'change' that was touted during campaigns turned out to be NOT change for the better, but change for the worse!
Voters today issued a referendum on the current direction our country is being dragged. Voters stated loud and clear they do not like, nor want, government takeover of every facet of their life; no government intrusion into their personal medical problems - government deciding if and when medications and treatment can be administered; their hard earned tax dollars being used for bribes and sweetheart deals for the 'buddies' and 'privileged few'; massive trillions of dollars of debt that will be impossible to pay; debt and creeping socialist policies that will stifle business, deteriorate the fabric of society and the way of life for hard working Americans; crippling tax increases that will prevent Americans from being able to adequately provide for their families and their futures. Today, voters said NO...this is NOT the American way!
Massachusetts has fired the first 'shot' in the battle that will bring Americans out in droves across our Nation to join the battle this November and next. Other Americans will use their vote to echo Massachusetts in that we will not allow our blood bought liberties, our freedoms, our way of life to be taken away by those who have become greedy with power, arrogant, self-serving, turning a deaf ear to the electorate they swore an oath to represent!
Follow Massachusetts America! They have just reminded us.......It IS government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
gjw aka Grapevine
*Opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Concord Hymn', written 1837, and came to refer to the beginning of the American Revolution!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Global Warming ~ Global Freezing! HOAX!
Jan. 10, 2010
To the Editor:
The past few days here in Oklahoma has felt like sitting on a glacier edge on the north side of Nome. Not to mention the Christmas eve blizzard. Citizens of the US have been told that ‘global warming’ is their fault. We are told that we need to quit using freon, hair dryers, combustible engines, letting cows fart, and 1000's of other products and resources. We need to change our habits, our activities, and our life styles, to stave off global warming and it’s catastrophic effects!
Now, I need these same ‘greenies’, the environmental ‘experts’, to tell me/us what to do to stave off this ‘global freezing’. If we can influence global warming, obviously we can do something about the freezing too!
Appears the 'experts' need to start with Alaska and Canada as that seems to be where this frigid air is originating! Those areas must be using products and living lifestyles that are horribly wrong!
I need answers asap as I am almost out of gas, wood, coal, and other heat producing products needed to keep me from freezing to death!
Oh, btw…all those items are on the government’s hit list too!
gjw aka Grapevine
printed w/slight editing - Oklahoman Jan. 13.
Meanwhile:
Rolling Stone lived up to its liberal reputation in the current issue, which features a cover story on global warming titled "You Idiots!" and names Senator Jim Inhofe as one of the "planet's worst enemies.''
Inhofe's response: "My first response was I should have been No. 1, not No. 7," said Inhofe, the most vocal global-warming skeptic in Congress who has generated worldwide news coverage of his views. "I am serious about that. I have spent now literally years on this thing, and it has been a long, involved thing.''
Although the magazine did not actually rank its "Climate Killers" by number, it does appear Warren Buffett, the legendary investor from Nebraska who is one of the richest people in the nation, took the top spot.
PLUS - Don't miss syndicated columnist Walter Williams latest article: 'Global Warming is a Religion'.Read at: www.townhall.com
To the Editor:
The past few days here in Oklahoma has felt like sitting on a glacier edge on the north side of Nome. Not to mention the Christmas eve blizzard. Citizens of the US have been told that ‘global warming’ is their fault. We are told that we need to quit using freon, hair dryers, combustible engines, letting cows fart, and 1000's of other products and resources. We need to change our habits, our activities, and our life styles, to stave off global warming and it’s catastrophic effects!
Now, I need these same ‘greenies’, the environmental ‘experts’, to tell me/us what to do to stave off this ‘global freezing’. If we can influence global warming, obviously we can do something about the freezing too!
Appears the 'experts' need to start with Alaska and Canada as that seems to be where this frigid air is originating! Those areas must be using products and living lifestyles that are horribly wrong!
I need answers asap as I am almost out of gas, wood, coal, and other heat producing products needed to keep me from freezing to death!
Oh, btw…all those items are on the government’s hit list too!
gjw aka Grapevine
printed w/slight editing - Oklahoman Jan. 13.
Meanwhile:
Rolling Stone lived up to its liberal reputation in the current issue, which features a cover story on global warming titled "You Idiots!" and names Senator Jim Inhofe as one of the "planet's worst enemies.''
Inhofe's response: "My first response was I should have been No. 1, not No. 7," said Inhofe, the most vocal global-warming skeptic in Congress who has generated worldwide news coverage of his views. "I am serious about that. I have spent now literally years on this thing, and it has been a long, involved thing.''
Although the magazine did not actually rank its "Climate Killers" by number, it does appear Warren Buffett, the legendary investor from Nebraska who is one of the richest people in the nation, took the top spot.
PLUS - Don't miss syndicated columnist Walter Williams latest article: 'Global Warming is a Religion'.Read at: www.townhall.com
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