"We're Out Of Money" Because Of Health Care?

No way you can make this stuff up. We are in a financial crisis, not because of the match called Fannie & Freddie that lit the fuse, but because we did not, "make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades."

Huh?

How far down Alice's hole will Obama take us?

C-SPAN
SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?

OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades.

So we've got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it's putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off.

So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don't reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can't get control of the deficit.

So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it's too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can't afford it. We've got this big deficit. Let's just keep the health care system that we've got now.

Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything...

It may be the mental health of Frank, Dodd, Pelosi, Reid, etc., but health care caused this financial mess? Besides out and out corruption in Congress the problem is big government and making it bigger will not improve one damned thing.

Dems Open Mouth, Insert Foot, Go Abroad - Fast

Let's see, Jabbering Joe is in a secure place, but it isn't in his super secret bunker at the Naval Observatory house, our Nanny is in search of some truth all of a sudden, in Shanghai and our glorious leader is still out in left field, somewhere.

SPEAKER SURPRISE IN SHANGHAI!

Jabbering Joe brought his unity, hope and change sudden whirlwind tour to Kosovo.

Biden visit to Kosovo monastery splits Serbian Orthodox Church

Then JJ was off to Lebanon to spread some more love.

Biden's election support irks Hezbollah

Of course, they are just two, actually numbers 2 & 3 in the ascension ladder to the presidency, of the liars that make up the leadership of the Democrat Party.

The Liars Club

Of course, JJ has a long history of lying and the media has always looked the other way.

Why Is Media Allowing Joe Biden to Lie About Drunk Driver Killing His First Wife?
Joe Biden - His Lies and Exaggerations
Noted Liar Joe Biden Caught Lying About Bush
Joe Biden Plagiarism Scandal Surfaces » Right Pundits
The Legend Grows: Joe Biden Lying About Bosnia?

You get the idea. Pelosi is normally more adroit in covering her lies.
Both love to travel at a moments notice. Obviously.

Obama Doesn't Know History-Makes Same Mistakes

I got this from a friend at Majority America and it is absolutely relevant today. It also illustrates that some people are not capable of learning from the past.

Joe Klein: As A Cripple, Krauthammer Can't See As Well

Liberals are nuanced and sensitive people or so that crock of crap is oft repeated. I believe this pot of intellectual and emotional paralysis is calling the kettle of physical paralysis black.

Barack Obama's biggest critic: Charles Krauthammer
"There's something tragic about him, too," Klein said, referring to Krauthammer's confinement to a wheelchair, the result of a diving accident during his first year of medical school. "His work would have a lot more nuance if he were able to see the situations he's writing about."

"My writing speaks for itself," Krauthammer responded in a curt e-mail. Read more: "Barack

Obama, ACORN, Fannie, Freddie, etal, Dirty Money Nationwide

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This subterranean dirty money being passed by federal decree to fill the wallets of Democrat Party supporters is now being done so out in the open. The media won't report it let alone explain how this works, but quietly hopes that this will launder the money and the corruption to the public's mind, ie, this is legal. It is not legal.

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These are the groups and individuals that brought our current economic problems to a boiling point, all while saying the crisis is Bush's fault.

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Follow the chart and the money and it is easy to see who is making millions and who is grabbing power.

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Voter fraud as a profit center to fund further voter fraud to solidify corrupt power.

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If that ain't change...

Barack Strickland Brings Back Barack Celeste

Ohio Unemployment Rate Exceeded 10 Percent In April
Ohio has an unemployment rate of more than 10 percent, for the first time in more than 25 years.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services announced Friday that the state jobless rate for April was 10.2 percent, up from 9.7 percent in March.

Department spokesman Brian Harter said last month's rate was the highest since December 1983, when joblessness in Ohio hit 10.4 percent.

2009 & 1983. Strickland and Celeste. What a pair. One had a wife who preferred to live in another state and vacation with a sexual deviant employed by her husband and the other had a wife who felt she was forced to file for divorce from a sex addict and secretly become a 'catholic' priest.

They have more in common than shafting Ohio's workers with their anti-business programs.

Obama Snubs Everybody

Sobbing Kindergarteners Snubbed for Steelers?
Thursday was supposed to be the highlight of the year for more than 100 kindergarteners from Stafford County, Va. They got up early and took a chartered bus to the White House for a school field trip. But when they arrived, all the 5-year-olds got was a lesson in disappointment.

This sure isn't new;

Jimmy Kimmel - Obama Snubs FOX NEWS
OBAMA SNUBS BUSH
Obama Snubs Vegas?
Obama Snubs Clinton at State of the Union
Obama Snubs Nancy Reagan
Obama snubs queen
Obama Snubs "State of Black America Conference"
Obama Snubs Bush's Farewell Address. He went out to dinner instead,
Why Obama snubbed the troops? No cameras no photos ops

He can be nice to some people though;
Obama Bows Before Saudi King; Grovels Before Racist Prince Phillip
Obama Hugs / Kisses Hugo Chavez 4/18/09 - How Many Comunist ...

Some people are just lucky I guess and some nations aren't.

Obama Succeeding:Turning US Into 3rd World Nation

The unanswered question is why is he doing this. Either he has a well thought out plan or he is actually too ignorant to be in the position, but what are the options with Jabbering Joe in 2nd and Bellicosi Pelosi in 3rd. In short, we are screwed.

Geithner Vows to Cut U.S. Deficit on Rating Concern
The dollar extended declines today after Treasuries and American stocks slumped on concern the U.S. government’s debt rating may at some point be lowered. Bill Gross, the co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., said the U.S. “eventually” will lose its AAA grade.

How do you say America in Congonese?

SHOCK: House Dems Block Pelosi Probe!

Okay, they have Biden cooling his heels in a bunker in East Numbnut where they don't speak English, Richardson is still off trying out for the major leagues, they hid Jefferson in the freezer, they told Rangle to get his Benz out of the House parking garage and drive it to the Dominican Republic, Dodd is trying to figure out which mansion basement he's going to hide in, but it looks like they're gonna hide Pelosi in plain sight inside a box of obstruction and rejection of principle. Typical.

House rejects probe into Pelosi CIA claims
House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.

The House voted 252-172 to block the measure that would have created a bipartisan congressional panel. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, sponsored the resolution.

"This is partisan politics and an attempt by the Republicans to distract from the real issue of creating jobs and making progress on health care, energy and education," said Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami.

Nadeam probably has a hard time sleeping at night as she tosses and turns over that thin tissue of lies already told and thinking up new ones. BTW Nadeam, great job you guys are doing on the job creation thing.

Obama Gives Payola To Workers He Screwed

Feds give $50M in aid to towns hit by auto layoffs...

Of course he owes nothing to the others hurting so, he'll just keep giving our money to his buddies and supporters, both those he and Congress are screwing and those who are actually profiting from this mess.

Machine Socialism at its worst. Even by Chicago standards.

PelosIknew

Pelosi's approval rating plummets
In the new survey, conducted Thursday through Sunday while Pelosi was embroiled in controversy over how much she was told about waterboarding of terrorist suspects, 48 percent of respondents said they disapproved of her performance.

Well, you know torture is kind of chic in San Fransisco, but who knew Nancy was into that stuff? Obama may want to throw her under the bus with mom and grandma, but the House Dems will keep her until she starts whistling for her imaginary dog, Checkers.

Obama's 'No New Tax' Lie Moves To Detroit

Obama's new auto mileage, emissions rules; Cost consumers extra $1,300 per vehicle...

But will they have little tiny sensors to stop the vehicle immediately so cute little bunnies and squirrels can be saved?

Government Motors Is The Reality?

GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov't

The board of the new company would be established with the tacit approval of the government. Fritz Henderson, who took the helm of GM earlier this year after the government pushed out Rick Wagoner, would likely head the new company, the source said.

Russ Feingold Is Such A Loser

and he's such a sissy man who is afraid of a real man with real policy that worked. Unlike Feingold's.

Feingold Blocks Bill to Honor Reagan
Republicans are trying to pass legislation in the next few weeks to kick off the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the only hurdle appears to be Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is refusing to let the Senate vote on the bill.

Obama Kills Another 30,000 Job In One City!

Bam Bam is on a roll. Soon everybody will be on the government dole, just as he wants.

Obama’s Defense Cuts Cost St. Louis 30,000 Jobs.

Democrat Panetta Calls Pelosi Liar

Swamp cleaner Pelosi is mired in lies and has totally screwed the pooch after telling the nation that the CIA lied to her. Leon is not happy that America's Nanny lied about the agency he heads just to cover her Ms California butt. Of course, the real Miss California is in trouble for telling the truth.

Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth
"Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing “the enhanced techniques that had been employed.” Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened."

I see a Speakership slipping away. If Democrats don't kick out of the Speaker's chair it will haunt them next election. Personally, I think she should be prosecuted for her lies which have weakened the nation and emboldened our enemies.

Obama's Closing of Thousands Of Dealership To Cost 100,000 + Jobs

In the blue-smoke & mirror economics of Obama's world he has not raised taxes on those making less than $250,000 even though he is actually raising billions of dollars in new taxes from them.

In the same world where Obama lives he is putting people back to work and improving lives by firing them. Not just CEOs, but all workers.

15 Chrysler Dealerships To Close In Md
Government bailouts mean government control. In a move backed by the White House's Auto Task Force, 789 Chrysler dealerships will be shut down.

Dealers received termination letters Thursday morning."What we didn't sign up for is having the government come out and say, `Hey, we're going to cut 2,500 GM dealers and 800 Chrysler dealers because we think ultimately it's going to make those companies more successful,'" said Peter Kitzmiller, president of the Maryland Automobile Dealers Association.

He says shutting down local dealerships won't work.

Unfortunately, Mr. Kitzmiller is wrong about his conclusion and wrong about why the dealerships are being closed against the will of the owners and their workers. This is part of Obama's overall plan with a strategy of making problems so bad that only the government can fix them and, of course, own part or all of the business which will only sell government approved products.

The Democratic Party is now the Socialist Party of America. I hope that loyal Democrats are totally and completely ashamed. When will the citizenry turn on the party and the administration? Hopefully soon.

They Vote, Why Not Checks

Precinct lines and city limits are just suggestions in Chicago politics, as are mental stability and the ability to breath, when voting for wildly popular politicians. So, it makes perfect sense that dead people are getting checks by the Chicago mafia in DC because they're just paying back their supporters. Hey they're giving auto corporations to the unions. This is only fair.

Dead People Get StimulusChecks
The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, says that some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars.

The feds blame a rushed schedule, because all the checks have to be cut by June. The strange thing is, some of the checks were made out to people -- like Romonini -- who were never even part of the Social Security system.

After they get done with this, the upcoming ACORN census will list millions of inner city imaginary voters. No problem, just send imaginary checks to all the new imaginary voters. Problem solved.

Pelosi Not Good In Briefs

Unlike, say, Bubba Clinton.

"I was not briefed on what was in that briefing"

Old Ohio Penitentiary

Sausage With That Waffle Ms Pelosi?

This is almost as funny as her mangled Bible verses.

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Democrats Vote To Continue Corruption

Nancy you're pumps ain't draining your swamp. They're pumping more in.

Democrats stop GOP effort to start ethics inquiry
House Democrats on Tuesday stopped a Republican plan to force a campaign finance inquiry that likely would have investigated several influential Democrats. It was the eighth time since late February that the Republican move was halted.

One of the biggest recipients has been the chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

The vote was 215-182 to stop consideration of a GOP resolution to initiate a House ethics committee inquiry. It called for an investigation into campaign contributions to House lawmakers by recipients of pet project money and their lobbyists.

Economic Recovery Best Served

Thanks to Webutante for this great photo.

Obama's '95% Will Get Tax Break' Lie

Approximately 20% of Americans smoke and over 60% of Americans consume alcoholic beverages. What our glorious leader and his puppet masters in DC really want is to increase taxes and the power of the federal government and what could be better than slamming sinners?

Smokers, drinkers to carry tax burden?

By taxing those "addicted" the government isn't really raising taxes, but only helping those poor souls and lifting a burden from their future national health care system so they're actually saving money, right? Wrong.

The myths of the zealots have taken hold in our ever truthful media which always tries to find a campaign to mount for the betterment of society their dwindling sales. Many new "zealots" now serve in Congress, the federal bureaucracy and in the current administration, but their real zeal is simply to grab as much power as possible.

Let's tax hot air and these morons alone could fund the entire nation.

Obama Uses Stealth To Open The US To Nuclear Attack

and the media is assisting him every step of the way by spending their time counting the moments that Obama and Michelle hold hands and telling us just how cute that damned dog is. All of that will be irrelevant if their reader's skin falls off when they try to hold hands or the dog turns ugly because of radiation burns, but hey, who cares, they have the love of a stalker for Obama and his stupid ideas and that has gone way beyond creepy. It has become an illness.

Obama Breaks With Gates, Cancels Nuke Program
"My colleagues just stared at that line," says Joe Cirincione, a longtime nonproliferation expert and president of the Ploughshares Fund. "They had never seen anything like that." Killing the program, he said, was "the first programmatic impact of the new [zero nukes] policy. People have said they want to see more than words, this is the very first action."

Gates has said:

"[t]o be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program."

This is a very dangerous and naive game of playing president that Obama is doing. It may work great in educational and pseudo-intellectual circles, but as we witnessed with two world wars the world isn't made safe by chatting up the world's megalomaniacs and other bad people.

Obama: Marketing Master To Detroit

There is nothing this guy can't do! He's read all the books and that makes him qualified to run multi-national companies, dole out stock to those he deems best to have them and dole out pink slips to those he is not boss to nor equal to.

Obama Slashes CHRYLSER's Advertising Budget by Half...

I'm afraid Obama is a Jack of all trades, but master of none.

Obama Resettling Hamas In US

Got this in my email......

Couldn't believe this, had to see it for myself... sure enough, it's in the Federal Register... check for yourself. I knew he donated $900 Million (of our money!) to rebuild Gaza for Hamas but did not know this. We have been hearing stuff about this from Hannity...and Glenn Beck.... Limbaugh. Most commentators won't touch the subject.

This guy should scare us all

Verify for yourself: www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488

Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas to Resettle in US.

Here is yet another unilateral action taken by our new President, for which we must rely upon the information of friends to discover.

I wonder how the "Jewish" block of Democratic voters now feels about this President now?

Try and tell the American people that Obama doesn't have ties to the Islamic terrorist world. Obama funds $20M tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA.

This is news that didn't make the headlines... WHY NOT?

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza .

The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27th and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4th.

Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006. Don't believe it?.... then read it and you'll see!

A review of Barack Obama's most recent actions since he was inaugurated: His first call to any head of state as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory. His first one-on-one interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television. He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted. He ordered all overseas CIA interrogation centers closed. He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and 9/11. Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to and live in the US at American taxpayer expense.

Unbelievable.

Bloated Federal Bureaucracy Getting Fatter At Taxpayer Expense

Obama and crew are creating more liberal voters one job at a time at an average clip of $75,419 per vote. Maybe that is what the trillions and trillions of dollars are really needed for.

It's A Good Time To Work For Uncle Sam
At a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, the U.S. government is on a hiring binge.

Executive branch employment — 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department — is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

There's little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.

But on the bright side, ACORN will be getting their voter fraud bonuses, so one can't say that Obama doesn't take care of his friends and former peer workers.

Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

Back on the dark side, taxpayers will have to foot the bill for all of this nonsense.

Liberal Democrats To Tax Poor Children & Easter Bunny

In their never ending crusade to force good health, socialized medicine and control over us from cradle to grave, Democrats in general and Liberals specifically, will tax us to death to keep us alive in their Utopian Society.

Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is set to hear proposals from about a dozen experts about how to pay for the comprehensive health-care overhaul that President Barack Obama wants to enact this year. Early estimates put the cost of the plan at around $1.2 trillion. The administration has so far only earmarked funds for about half of that amount.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based watchdog group that pressures food companies to make healthier products, plans to propose a federal excise tax on soda, certain fruit drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and ready-to-drink teas. It would not include most diet beverages. Excise taxes are levied on goods and manufacturers typically pass them on to consumers.

Senior staff members for some Democratic senators at the center of the effort to craft health-care legislation are weighing the idea behind closed doors, Senate aides said.

As Congress dines on the sweet pork of corruption, they will tax sweets to fund programs to force us to stop having sweets. And the beauty of big government is that they will parade "experts" in health and wellness from the public sector of government bureaucrats, government unions, educational unions and private sector "experts dependent on government money to testify just how dangerous sweets are to society.

Thus begins the Obama National Socialism movement, a movement that will make poor people poorer, children go without that which the movement deems unnecessary and make the better society the movement demands whether this society wants it or not.

Yep, Happy Mothers Day

From your loving kids.

An ACORN Doesn't Fall Far From The Census Stink Tree

Was ACORN there or will they just get the minutes so they can "fix" the malfunctioning hand-held computers?

Doors closed at census session
Before the meeting began, The Post questioned why it was closed to the media.

Commerce Department spokesman Nick Kimball said the decision to keep it private did not conflict with the Census Bureau's attempts to publicize the 2010 census.

"This is more of a briefing for the secretary to get a sense of where things are in Denver," Kimball said. "So it's not necessarily a big promotional event to draw attention to what's going on."

This administration is transparent. In fact, its corruption and lying is so transparent that the media seems to see right through them without noticing a thing, so why would they question a corrupt census by the "grow our vote" party?

Al Baby Boom-Boom Gore Statue

The state should mandate that it is made of green ice cream.

Senate To Vote On Al Gore Statue
Resolution Previously Passed House Unanimously

When Mommy Lies

Mothers want their children to do what they think is the right thing to do. What should be done when mommy doesn't tell the truth? How can the kids believe anything mommy says when they catch her in a bald faced lie, not once, but many, many, many times?

CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'

Of course, in some sects, children can divorce their parents, but can they spank them?

Another Political Spectrum

Thanks to Madrigal Maniac. These can be fun.

No Woman For Supreme Court

No woman, no black, no white, no latino, no oriental, no martian.

Practical politico, and woman, sought for court

The nominee should be a person that is precisely 5'5" and a half, black hair, green eyes, with a slight lisp, wears no natural fiber clothing, owns a cur and a cat, drives a 1972 Pinto, has never riden a mule in the Grand Canyon, once did volunteer work at the Mustang Ranch, has had at least one known acquaintence without a STD and is at least 3 years delinquent on all of their taxes to prove once and for all that liberals never use quotas, just friends.

Kemp, A Specter Of Death Used

Specter hints Kemp died of GOP agenda

Jack Kemp would have brought Arlen Specter down a notch, because Jack Kemp was a caring man who worked to understand the world he lived in to make it better. Specter wouldn't have a clue what that is all about.

Kemp didn't use people, but he allowed others to use him to improve themselves. Again, Specter wouldn't know what Kemp understood.

I witnessed Jack Kemp speak in churches, halls and other places conservatives normally weren't welcome. In many cases he wasn't welcomed when he arrived, but left to standing ovations still rising on the message he had brought to them.

He wasn't coy nor calculating with people. He spoke directly, without artifice and let his message carry itself. His infectous enthusiasm actually moved people to do or attempt that which they had not thought themselves capable of.

Unfortunately, today I went to a memorial service for my neighbor who passed long before his time. There, among friends and family from far away and from our little village, we recited a passage from the Gospel According to John.

Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where you go; and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.

For both my friends, you both are in a better place and we are at loss, but not lost because of you.

Schakowsky Strikes Again For Socialism

Jan Schakowsky doesn't much like our republic. To her, individuals are to be made to feel special so she can take their individualness away with their help.

She is a Socialist. Though she appears feisty, she's just ruthless.

I wrote about her before because she thinks us mere peasants should just shut up.

Jan Schakowsky Despicable And Shameful
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted "tea party" protests yesterday, labeling the activities "despicable" and shameful."

"The ‘tea parties’ being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs," Schakowsky said in a statement.

She knows the above statement isn't true. To some, lying in politics is a perfectly okay, even necessary. I believe that is called the Saul Alinsky school of politics. The means don't count for squat, only the ends. In fact, those that think the means do count are poor dumbs hicks that are too dumb to be involved.

Now Schakowsky, while in her element, turns the tables and speaks her pathetic truth to power crap that government is better and more important than individuals and private business.



She's pathetic because she actually believes most American citizens are too pathetic to understand that she is doing all this for them.

We're not pathetic nor stupid. We disagree with her, dislike that she is untruthful with every plan and speech and despise that she is taking advantage of the very people she claims she is helping..

Imichelda's $540 Sneakers

HOPE! CHANGE!

First Lady Michelle Obama steps out in Lanvin sneakers and they're only $540!

"They're shoes," the First Lady's reps sniffed when curious reporters inquired about the fancy footwear.

Michelle has stepped out in Lanvin before while getting down to business. A week ago, she shoveled dirt at a tree planting while wearing the line's chiffon tank.

Dresses and strappy pumps cost upward of $1,500, while tops go for $400 to $1,000. Read more: "First Lady Michelle Obama steps out in Lanvin sneakers and they're only $540!"

Of course, we must look on the bright side for this historic administration. A mere $540 sneaker may not stimulate the economy, but think of the stimulus when she breaks out her custom gold lamé high heeled sneakers and the trend sweeps the country! (This was when Leon was Leon, not a caricature of Leon)

Tea Parties Really Getting Under Lib/Dem Skin II

If it were me, I'd get a shrinkoligist and a new cd of Pete Seeger' Greatest Hits (Happy 140th dead-birthday Pete!) just to deal with the denial and pain.

Stages of Denial
Take pity on the left as it grapples with the tea party revolt

According to Pajamas Media, 700,873 people attended some 883 tea party protests on April 15. It was a remarkable day, a tangible expression of public outrage that I have not experienced in my 25 years of advocacy and grassroots organizing on behalf of free-market principles.Judging from the left's hysterical reaction, something really big must have happened. But the only way to really understand the left's misinformed and paranoid attacks is to realize that the protests represent tangible proof that basic libertarian values continue to resonate with the American electorate. That, apparently, is a difficult thing for some to accept.

Judging from the left's hysterical reaction, something really big must have happened. But the only way to really understand the left's misinformed and paranoid attacks is to realize that the protests represent tangible proof that basic libertarian values continue to resonate with the American electorate. That, apparently, is a difficult thing for some to accept.

Some tried to diminish the tea parties as misguided tax protests. In reality, the protestors demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of economics that went well beyond objections to higher tax rates. You can't spend money you don't have, the tea party attendees understood, and government spending above current revenues must be paid for with higher taxes, more borrowing (to be paid for with higher taxes in the future), or artificial government expansion of money and credit, which can only debase the currency and make everyone poorer through inflation.

So how did the media miss the real story? Perhaps the question itself is silly because it assumes that left-of-center reporters were actually trying to "report." Some were, though most simply regurgitated the talking points supplied by partisans in the blogosphere.

The Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Law Concerning A Crime That Wasn't A Hate Crime

Thanks to Bizzy Blog for this story which I had not recalled.

New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder
Six years ago, on a cold October night on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyo., 21-year-old gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead. He was found 18 hours later and rushed to the hospital, where he lingered on the edge of death for nearly five days before succumbing to his injuries.

The story garnered national attention when the attack was characterized as a hate crime. But Shepard's killers, in their first interview since their convictions, tell "20/20's" Elizabeth Vargas that money and drugs motivated their actions that night, not hatred of gays.

While Shepard lay unconscious in a hospital, the national press quickly arrived in Laramie. Cal Rerucha, who prosecuted the case, told Vargas the media descended on Laramie "like locusts."
"We knew in the newsroom the day it happened, this is going to be a huge story, this is going to attract international interest," said Jason Marsden of "The Casper Star-Tribune."

"I remember one of my fellow reporters saying, 'this kid is going to be the new poster child for gay rights," he added. News of Shepard's death sparked reaction overseas and demonstrations across America.

That a human was brutally murdered is tragic. That his death was used and twisted for personal and political gain is equally tragic.

Once the emotional political agenda faded from the story many other facts that told a different story started to emerge, but that hasn't stopped Congress, the media and the gay community from using a drug related murder to violate the First Amendment and continue to push an agenda that our country does not agree with.

Does that make us gay bashers? No.

Does it make this another lie driven piece of legislation for an over all agenda to further distort the core of America? Yes.

This is just another step to enlarge 'especially equal' voter blocks for the Democrat Party. It is smart politics, but unconstitutional and plain wrong.

Shame on those that prey on people. Shame on those that prey on society for political gain. Shame on all members that have or will vote for this legislation and any like it.

My Apologies To My Visitors

I enjoy very much being part of BNN/Ohio and having the opportunity to read opposing views. Even though I may disagree with many of them I find that most are good people with interesting and thoughtful views. Lisa Renee does an absolutely outstanding job of being editor and has never been anything but gracious and receptive to my ideas and responsive to my questions.

Why am I apologizing? Simple, my visitors have had to see extreme vulgarities in a few of the headlines on the BNN feed that I have on my site. Unfortunately, some spew their trash as a child might to act cool and 'grown up.' They are neither.

Lisa Renee allowed me share my concern with her. I expressed to her that I have been known to cut loose with some most colorful language from time to time. Unfortunately, many of my friends can attest to that. I am careful not to offend those who do share my opinion that it is perfectly okay to reply to a stupid statement with a, "I don't give a dead rat's (behind)." When I do, it is the child in me that I allow out. My late mother and my wife have never been impressed, swayed or humored when that juvenile in me slipped out the few times it did within their earshot. I apologized immediately and made sure I didn't offend again as I would to any person.

I have no doubt that those that speak like this in a public forum such as BNN's headline ticker do not care if others are offended. They don't care if those with deep feelings of religion or just plain common self respect are offended because these writers understand neither. Actually, I think they're probably amused by their immature and offensive headline histrionics.

Again, I apologize if you have been offended and I am trying to effect a change.

Hate Crime Legislation Or Robespierre Comes To America

I'm pretty sure why Specter is a co-sponsor of a law that would prevent a lot of 'hate' speech directed at him right now. I wonder if Collins and Snowe will jump off the bridge just because Arlen did. Mom?

Obama urges passage as Kennedy introduces hate crimes bill in Senate
As U.S. House lawmakers made preparations Tuesday for a floor vote on hate crimes legislation, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced similar legislation in the Senate.

The new Senate bill, called the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, is named after a gay college student who was murdered near Laramie, Wyo., in 1998 because of his sexual orientation. Like the House bill, it would enable the Justice Department to prosecute hate crimes committed against LGBT people.

In a statement Tuesday, Kennedy said the legislation is "long overdue" and "hate crimes are especially poisonous."

"They are acts of domestic terrorism that target whole communities, not just individuals," he said. "This bill will bring greater protection to our citizens and much-needed resources for state and local law enforcement to fight these vicious crimes."

Other sponsors of the Senate bill include Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). A Senate Judiciary Committee spokesperson said she didn't know when the committee would take up the legislation.

I do not believe the personnel in our court systems are sophisticated enough, including jurors, to understand how this law would be able to be spun to further take away our rights and to alter our culture in the direction the supporters want it to go. They ain't jabbering about traditional values.

This bad legislation. This is a bad idea. We have a Constitution that addresses this issue and this law will eventually lead to the First Amendment becoming completely illegal.

No free expression, no religion. How Robespierre. The state will be the only religion.

Swine Socialist Flu Comes To The United States

If only the U.S. had a Socialist health care system like Mexico or a Socialist economic system like so many other Socialist nations, then all the illegal aliens would go home. Why not suffer the same inadequate care and poverty near family and friends.

Mexico's health care on a pedestal
Universal coverage, seeking to reach tens of millions since 2003, has become a model for other nations

Mexico, socialist-dominated for most of the 20th century, has had socialized insurance plans since 1943, but only those with full-time jobs had access to free health care. That left out half of the country's population. Frenk, working for Mexico's first post-socialist government under President Vicente Fox, set out with specialists to create a plan that would bring universal health insurance to everyone who needed it - and that meant 50 million people. And he wanted it accomplished within seven years.

First Confirmed U.S. Swine Flu Death: Toddler Was Mexican or American?

The death of a child is tragic. The death of all persons fleeing a 'universal' or socialized form of medical care is a national disaster that is coming to the United States. The 23 month old child reportedly was from Mexico, who was in Brownsville when the child showed symptoms of the flu and was shipped to Houston and died. Other reports state that the child was brought to the United States from Mexico for treatment.

RELATED: How many more 'disasters' does the Obama Administration need to distract the voters while they implement more and more government control of business, banking, medicine and our personal lives?

Media Drumbeat Amplifies Coverage of Flu Outbreak

How ironic that the news is about a pork flu that may just increase into the ultimate pork, government universal health care, because only the government cares and only the government can. YES WE CAN! GOT HOPE? CHANGE!

Specter Knifes Republicans In The Back

Democrats will have to learn if they can work with a person of such low moral character and traitorous behavior. It will help that they have leaders that have shown that they will do whatever it takes to win which is exactly how Specter obviously works. That a person would show such devious selfishness at such as time demonstrates a disloyalty that will, no doubt, warm the hearts of the Obama Administration.

Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats
"I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he said in the statement.

"I don't have to say anything to them. They said it to me," Specter said, when asked in a Capitol corridor about abandoning the GOP.

A senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because no announcement has yet been made, said at 10:25 a.m. EDT Tuesday President Barack Obama was handed a note while in the Oval Office during his daily economic briefing. The note said: "Specter is announcing he is changing parties." At 10:32, Obama reached Specter by phone and told him "you have my full support" and that the Democratic Party is "thrilled to have you."

This victory for the Democrats has Rahm Emanual written all over it just as the strategy and tactics do in the Minnesota recount. Specter and Franken will make fine additions to their members in Congress and will give Obama 60 vote margin necessary to ride roughshod over the Constitution and the American public.

I will do everything possible to make it as difficult as possible for Specter to retain his seat.
Specter, what an unprincipled low-life.

Gitmo Terrorists To Come To US?

Via The Keeler Report

U.S. plans to accept several Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo
The Obama administration is preparing to admit into the United States as many as seven Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in the first release of any of the detainees into this country, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Their release is seen as a crucial step to plans, announced by President Obama during his first week in office, to close the prison and relocate the detainees. Administration officials also believe that settling some of them in American communities will set an example, helping to persuade other nations to accept Guantanamo detainees too.
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The move would also incense Chinese officials, who consider the Uighurs domestic terrorists and want those held at Guantanamo handed over for investigation. U.S. officials no longer consider the Chinese Muslims to be enemy combatants and fear they would be mistreated in China.
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Officials have not said where in the United States they might live. But many Uighur immigrants from China live in Washington's Virginia suburbs, and advocates have urged that the detainees be resettled near people who speak their language and are familiar with their customs.
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But the TV privileges underscored potential difficulties to come, according to one current and one former U.S. official. Not long after being granted access to TV, some of the Uighurs were watching a soccer game. When a woman with bare arms was shown on the screen, one of the group grabbed the television and threw it to the ground, according to the officials.

Good job BamBam. Scare Virginia, spread worry nationwide and tick off China all at the same time just to "set an example" of your political naivete.

Oh, and you better have Michelle stop with the sleeveless dresses. Our newest citizens don't like that.

Beginning Of The End For SS

April 27

The federal government distributes the nation's first Social Security checks. 1937

But there will always be funds for left handed liberal nuns for socialistic justice.

Talladega Demolition And Airline

Yes, this race will be remembered for spectacular wrecks, but the racing was absolutely phenomenal.

Obama Has Emptied The Cupboard

Obama vows 3% of GDP for science research... Developing...

With all of his promises it appears Obama has promised about 101% of GDP to programs.

What's 101% of nada?

Old Stone House

Old Stone House Road in Granite Quarry (formerly Granite Ridge), Rowan Co, NC

This house was built with local stone by Dutch Immigrant Michael Braun in 1766. It is the last remaining colonial structure in Rowan County. This historical site is owned & operated by Rowan Museum, Inc.
It is worth noting that Michael immigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania before settling here. At the time this area was considered wilderness but covered in heavy thicket, rather than forests as generally thought. Also, the structure was not typical of the period, but much more grand.

California Separatist Constitutional Convention

California ponders changes in constitution

This story ponders the complexities of the California Constitution and how they hinder raising taxes, funding the state's ever growing list of ridiculous and anti-American laws, regulations and programs. A state Constitutional Convention is proposed to fix the system.

I call BS.

Latino separatists have wanted this for years, but not for state budgets. Those that say that a convention could be very focused and narrow, just dealing with state budget problems, obviously have not read this or this or this or this or this or this or this.

WCVI Co-Sponsors Summit on California Constitutional Convention
Tuesday's Sacramento summit on a possible new state constitutional convention is picking up some interesting support, including the William C. Velasquez Institute, a think tank on Latino affairs."The disastrous state of California's government is of concern to us all," according to a news release from the institute, which is based in Texas and has offices in California and Florida."Latinos will soon be the majority in California, and we have a vested interest in not only government reform, but making sure our community is properly represented during the convention development process.

This has been a goal of La Raza, Aztlan, the Mexica Movement and other radical groups such as MEChA.

La Raza -Chicano Activism in California
The predicted demographic shift from minority to majority status is a triumph for Chicano activism and brings vast new political opportunities for its leadership. But the literal "retaking" of California pales in comparison to its symbolic value - the long-awaited return of those "illegally annexed territories" which the Chicano movement claims were stolen from their indigenous forebears in 1848, by the occupying forces of the United States, after the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo.
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The uniformed "Brown Berets of Aztlan" stood shoulder to shoulder along the walls of the meeting room; Mexican flags were flying and student tee shirts bore the message, "We don't need no stinking green cards." Benicio Silva of UC Berkeley declared that having to show them at the border was a "violation of our human rights" because "Aztlan is ours and the white man is the invader."

"They say we're 'Latinizing' Los Angeles! Don't you love it?" boomed fiery orator Jose Angel Gutierrez, long-time University of Texas faculty member. "We are fighting to build a new Mestizo nation," he shouted, "in this, our historic homeland for for-ty thou-sand years."
At that, the Brown Berets raised their fists in the air and the excited crowd screamed "Chicano Power" and began stomping and clapping with the familiar two-three beat: clap-clap, clap-clap-clap. "We are here again," Gutierrez continued, "we are millions and millions, and the aging white Americans are not making babies, we've got to get ready to govern!"

California is just the start. The Reconquista Movement wants all of the Southwest and as far north as the state of Washington. Their movement is growing and being assisted by many organizations in the US and, it seems, by the government. In doing work throughout the Midwest I saw entire towns of illegal aliens. The surrounding communities state they need the illegal alien's support of the local economies which is what the separatist movement has planned all along.

A Constitutional Convention in California is just their first step.

Pelosi Tells Another Whopper

Pelosi: I didn't know about waterboarding

Making up Bible verses, lying about Catholic doctrine and making up false time lines that a third grader can look up, telling the nation that she's going to drain the GOP swamp that she helped create and used like payola like some city machine mayor, laughing as she lies about earmarks and on and on and on.

If this woman said 'good day' I'd look for the sun and expect the moon.

"I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information"

Come on guys, she's serious.


"Well, it won't surprise you that I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information," Clinton said of the former vice president.

The First Earth Day April 22, 1970

The first Earth Day observances take place. April 22, 1970 and the assualt on private ownership of land hasn't stopped.

I suggest we start Hearth Day to celebrate family and liberty. Of course we have July 4th, but that day seems to upset liberals.

New York, 1774, Mohawk Tea Party

New York "Mohawks" have a "tea party." April 22, 1774

Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. Although the acts were intended to check colonial opposition to Britain, they only inflamed it.

Mohawk was Emerging as a Symbol of Liberty in the New Land

Almost everyone, regardless of knowledge of history knows that the patriots who participated in the most famous protest of American Revolution were dressed as Mohawks. But there is almost no information on why this specific disguise was chosen. And the lack of information makes many people believe the Indian dress was chosen merely out of convenience or by chance. Hardly this is the case. The history of Sons of Liberty and Freemasonry shows that these organization place a great deal of importance on symbols. Take for example symbolic hangings of effigies by the Sons or the artifacts of Masonic ceremonies. In fact the Mohawk image was emerging as a revolutionary symbol of liberty in the new land...

Following the Boston tea party, a broadside was widely released - containing a song/poem written about the tea party. It is speculated (in the biography I have of Sam Adams) that he had a hand in writing it. Sounds like his high-energy blazing style.

TEA, DESTROYED BY INDIANS

YE GLORIOUS SONS OF FREEDOM, brave and bold,

That has flood forth ---- fair LIBERTY to hold;

Though you were INDIANS, come from distant shores,

Like MEN you acted --- not like savage Moors.

CHORUS

Our LIBERTY, and LIFE is now invaded,

And FREEDOM's brightest CHARMS are darkly shaded:

But we will STAND --- and think it noble mirth,

To DART the man that dare oppress the Earth.

Bostonian's SONS keep up your Courage good,

Or Dye, like Martyrs, in fair Free-born Blood.

How grand the Scene! --- (No Tyrant shall oppose)

The TEA is sunk in spite of all our foes.

A NOBLE SIGHT -- to see th' accursed TEA

Mingled with MUD -- and ever for to be;

For KING and PRINCE shall know that we are FREE.

Bostonian's SONS keep up your Courage good,

Or Dye, like Martyrs, in fair Free-born Blood.

Must we be still --- and live on Blood-bought Ground,

And not oppose the Tyrants cursed found?

We Scorn the thought -- our views are well refin'd

We Scorn those slavish shackles of the Mind,

"We've Souls that were not made to be confin'd.

"Bostonian's SONS keep up your Courage good,

Or Dye, like Martyrs, in fair Free-born Blood.

Could our Fore-fathers rise from their cold Graves,

And view their Land, with all their Children SLAVES;

What would they say! how would their Spirits rend,

And, Thunder-strucken, to their Graves descend.

Bostonian's SONS keep up your Courage good,

Or Dye, like Martyrs, in fair Free-born Blood.

Let us with hearts of steel now stand the task.

Throw off all darksome ways, nor wear a Mask.

Oh! may our noble Zeal support our frame,

And brand all Tyrants with eternal SHAME.

Bostonian's SONS keep up your Courage good,

And sink all Tyrants in their GUILTY BLOOD.

I. F. Stone Was A Soviet Spy

I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed

He'd have an easier time today.

John Singleton Mosby - The Grey Ghost

I came across this photograph which brought back many memories.

My childhood was spent with scads of time spent re-enacting the exploits of a distant relative, the Grey Ghost, throughout our fields and woods. I would charge out of ravines and across creeks giving my best rebel yell while I controlled my imaginary horse and the raiders following me. Mosby, in my mind and my mother's stories, always was out front leading his men. Later, when I learned to ride I still had those thoughts and it made me ride a bit more upright.

For evening prayers my mother had taught me to ask God to bless "the General and his eyes beyond the horizon." Just before my father died he asked me one evening who had been Eisenhower's eyes beyond the horizon and why all those years I had held such a fascination for the General. My mother quickly left the room before I answered that the General and his eyes had nothing to do with President Eisenhower, but in fact were Robert E. Lee and J.S. Mosby. I quickly followed my mother before the explosion. I obviously was no fearless Mosby. My father, a Northerner and rock ribbed Unionist, resolutely maintained that all Confederate officers should have been shot at the end of the war for treason to their oaths. My mother's grandfather had been a Colonel with the Virginia 18th, Co E, Army of Northern Virginia.

The only time my mother responded to his spoken thought of firing squads was to gently point out to him that "such an odious act would make our marriage problematic."

Grey Ghost
Mosby’s exploits included a daring raid far inside Union lines at the Fairfax County courthouse in 1863, where his raiders captured some key Union officers, including General Stoughton, whom Mosby found in bed, waking him with a slap to his rear. Upon being so roused, the general exclaimed, "Do you know who I am?" Mosby quickly replied, "Do you know Mosby, general?" "Yes! Have you got the rascal?" "No but he has got you!"
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He was also a vital element in the Confederate secret service, moving spies into and out of Washington; he frequently rode himself in disguise into the capital. Once while in Washington, Mosby sent of a lock of his hair to Abraham Lincoln as a gift. It is reported that Lincoln’s keen sense of humor fully appreciated the gesture. Mosby and his notorious raiders refused to surrender at the end of the war. While the group disbanded, they never surrendered.

Mosby spent his later years in San Francisco with friends and family. One particular family lived nearby with a young boy. The boy would often come over and eagerly listen to the stories of the old Grey Ghost. Mosby would entertain the young boy with tales of his gallant exploits and daring raids. The two became fast friends and would play war games outside. Mosby taught the young boy the secrets of Guerilla warfare. He taught him to fight like a raider, to fight like a guerilla.

The young boy was George S. Patton.

Tea Parties Really Getting Under Lib/Dem Skin

Now! Hampshire: The thousands of taxpayers who gathered in several locations around the Granite State on Tax Day “didn’t even know what they were protesting,” according to the state’s top Democratic Party official. “They looked like they lost their minds,” said Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party of the protesters.

The protesters knew exactly what they were protesting, but the NH Dem Chair knows that. He's just shilling the party line.

Bummer

Between our recent coronation and the total disconnect by the media and the left concerning the rising discontent as opitimized by the "Tea Party" movement, Blogical Conclusions has shut down. This is a loss for all of us.

I am leaving Blogical Conclusions on my blogroll in hopes that he will return.

Man Made: Congress Causes Global Warming!

As the corrupt investigate corruption, while pontificating about a new transparency they hide their corruption and now, as they lie about made made global warming for profit, they cause, if you buy their formula "proving" their lies, global warming.





*CONGRESS BATTLES THE BULGE;MEMBERS BLAME RECESSION FOR BEING OVERWEIGHT...

SCIENTISTS' ALERT: FATTIES CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING

Ahmadinejad Moves People

Yep, Chairman Short moves them right out the door with his words. He is a creepy little man.

Walkout at UN conference after Iran president calls Israel 'racist'

British delegates joined a dramatic diplomatic walkout today when President Ahmadinejad of Iran told a major UN conference against racism that the state of Israel had been founded "on the pretext of Jewish suffering" during the Second World War.

Around 20 delegates, including envoys from the UK, France, and Finland stood up and left the room at what was considered an anti-Semitic remark by the Iranian leader, who has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Nine Western countries including Israel and the United States had already decided to boycott the conference entirely because its draft declaration endorsed the conclusions of an anti-racism conference in South Africa eight years ago in which Islamic nations pushed through a text equating Zionism with racism.

Even before the walkout, Mr Ahmadinejad's speech had been interrupted by three protesters dressed as clowns who where quickly bundled from the vast conference room at the Palais des Nations by guards.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

Of course Gertie wouldn't like this, but Socialism by any other name would smell just as bad.

This is an excellent and concise read from Maggie Thurber. I recommend it to you:

Calling it 'capitalism' doesn't make it so

Another Thurber, James, said;

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

and

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. "

Dear Aunt Matilda

Fish Oil Could Curb Cow Flatulence