Boehner: Climate bill a 'pile of s--t'

The Hill By Molly K. Hooper

Posted: 06/27/09 09:22 PM [ET]

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday. When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, "Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of s--t..." I think that pretty well sums up the "cap-and-trade" bill! It's going to cause us to be more dependant on foreign sources of energy. It's going to cost jobs and, most importantly, it's going to hit everyone big time in the wallet!

Tea Party Challenge for Garofalo

I suspect, like every other liberal, that she is too cowardly to face a dissenting view!

'Capitalism Will Fail,' Marijuana Leaf Part of California School Mosaic

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By Joshua Rhett Miller


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Communism's hammer and sickle is seen in the "Class of 2007" mosaic outside of the Black Pine Circle School in Berkeley, Calif.

Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that "capitalism will fail" aren't exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you'd expect from an eighth grader.

But that's precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their "Class of 2007" mosaic...

This doesn't surprise me coming out of Berkeley. The people out there have always loved communism more than they do freedom! Sadly, the children out there clearly haven't been taught about the founding of this great nation or the great men that put it together and what they risked to do so. The fact that a child would know more about and admire the likes of the USSR(the Soviet Union), Stalin, Lenin, Castro, and Che Guevara(all of which are communists who murdered millions of people), than they do about The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Boston Tea Party, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine, et. al(all of which risked everything they had to create the freest and greatest nation ever devised by man) is not just sad and tragic, but also, disgusting!

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The Housing Boom and Bust

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009

Hot off the press is my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell's 43rd book, "The Housing Boom and Bust." The book is an eye-opener for anyone interested in the truth about the collapse of the housing market that played a major role in our financial market crisis.

The root of the problem lies in Washington. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, later given teeth during the Bush and Clinton administrations, forced financial institutions to make risky mortgage loans they otherwise would not have made. President Clinton's Attorney General Janet Reno threatened legal action against lenders whose racial statistics raised her suspicions. Bank loan qualification standards, in general, came under criticism as being too stringent regarding down payments, credit histories, and income. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises, by lowering their standards for the kinds of mortgage paper they would purchase from banks and other mortgage lenders, gave financial institutions further incentive to make risky loans...

But Barney Fwank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Watters, et. al., said that Fannie and Freddie were fine! Just a reminder for those that may not know Dr. Sowell or may want to argue with him, he is a Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institute at Stanford Universtity and Professor of Economics .

Empathy Versus Law

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2009

President Obama's articulated criteria for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is: "We need somebody who's got the heart to recognize -- the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges..."

A judge is supposed to be dispassionate, rule on the law and on the merits of the case. They are not to rule based on how they "feel" or to legislate from the bench.

Move Update

For those of you who care or are interested, my efforts to move to the Jacksonville, FL area are still progressing. I have been to a professional resume writer to help me with my disaster of a resume. Having now seen the product she has developed for me, it is clear why my old resume never got me anywhere! She has also written a couple cover letters for me to go along with the resumes. All of these are now posted on careerbuilder.com, monster.com, yahoojobs.com, etc. I've sent out several copies already to various companies and firms. Hopefully they will produce something soon. My goal is to be moved or in the process of moving by the beginning of October.

Yes, I am working on a law enforcement career down there as well. I've submitted an application to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. I'm in the process of finishing an application to submit to the St. John's County Sheriff's Office when I go down next month for a week to do some job hunting. I am also working on submitting all the required information to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in order to gain my equivalency with them so as to not have to go through their entire academy process.

On the housing front, I've obtained a preliminary approval for a home loan in order to buy something. The catch is, I have to have gain employment in order to get full approval for the loan. This isn't that big a deal though. I need to have a job before I can proceed with anything else.

So, that's where things stand at present. I'll keep everyone updated as things progress.

Race Talk

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009

What to call black people has to be confusing to white people. Having been around for 73 years, I have been through a number of names. Among the polite ones are: colored, Negro, Afro-American, black, and now African-American. Among those names, African-American is probably the most unintelligent. You say, "What do you mean, Williams?" Suppose I told you that I had a European-American friend or a South-America-American friend, or a North-America-American friend. You'd probably say, "Williams, that's stupid. Europe, South America and North America are continents consisting of many peoples." You might insist that I call my friend from Germany a German-American instead of European-American and my friend from Brazil a Brazilian-American rather than a South-America-American and my friend from Canada a Canadian-American instead of a North-American. So would not the same apply to people whose heritage lies on the African continent? For example, instead of claiming that President Barack Obama is the first African-American president, it should be that he's the first Kenyan-American president. In that sense, Obama is lucky. Unlike most American blacks, he knows his national heritage; the closest to a national heritage the rest of us can identify is some country along Africa's gold coast...

It seems to me that people are not remembering, let alone applying, the statement by Dr. King that people be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. The other thing about this is the hyphenated Americanism taking place today. I am an AMERICAN! John Wayne has an excellent dialog about this. I highly recommend that eveyone find this and listen to it.