Posts Tagged ‘white house’

White House endorses Twitter, Facebook

August 10th, 2009 | 4 Comments

The White House rolled out its snitch page today.  This is the page your neighbors and people you thought you could trust turn you in to the Truth Commission where you are at the very least ostracized publicly, or worse, put on the SEIU hit list. But, to me, that’s the least of my concerns.  [...]

Who ya gonna trust, EIA or your local electric company?

August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

The Energy Information Administration, who touts themselves as “Official Energy Statistics from the US Government”, released a rather astounding conclusion.  While most people have been scare-mongering by saying Waxman-Markey will practically bankrupt most lower income people through much higher energy prices, EIA says this is not true at all: ACESA increases energy prices, but effects [...]

Protesting health care reform

August 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments

I’ve been watching some videos of people getting very agitated while attending health care reform forums.  In some cases, legislators have resorted to locking people out entirely, such as this: To ease the tensions surrounding the issue, Obama’s staff have vowed to “punch back twice as hard“.  And of course, some Democrats are accusing Republicans, [...]

Change we can believe in – civil liberties, Gitmo, indefinite detentions

May 14th, 2009 | No Comments

On August 1, 2007, Obama posted on his site a long list of what he would do as President. Part of that included: …..This brings me to the fourth step in my strategy: I will make clear that the days of compromising our values are over. Major General Paul Eaton had a long and distinguished [...]

Anyone seen my $13 BILLION helicopter?

May 8th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Ever wonder how we have trillion dollar deficits?  Here’s a good example.  This was the original request: The Presidential Helicopter is responsible for the safe, reliable transport of the President in administrative and contingency environments, worldwide. The VH-71 is being developed to replace the existing VH-3D and VH-60N helicopters, which currently serve as “Marine One”. [...]