SubscribeWhy is Obama meeting someone in the White House who pretends to have magical powers?
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and if he had his way, the dictator of Tibet, is traveling to Washington D.C. to meet President Obama in the White House.
Why is the president meeting him?
It’s bad enough that the Dalai Lama is able to dupe so many naive Tibetans and others such as Richard Gere in to believing that he is a reincarnated deity. He’s not a deity. He’s just an old man that has spent his entire life pretending to be something he’s not.
What’s next, a Jedi Knight? President Obama should not be meeting him.
Is this as good as it gets?
The fight for health care reform has really made me think about things. When I look at this joke of a bill coming out of the Senate, I have to wonder what being a Democrat really means.
Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and the House. If there was ever a time that we could get substantial health care reform in this country, it’s now. If there was ever a time we could make sure that every American has access to quality, affordable health care, it’s now.
Instead, we get a health care reform bill that the Republicans could have written. It does not have a public option. It does not expand Medicare. It requires all Americans to purchase health insurance from the for-profit health insurance cartel.
That last part is the real kicker for me. I can see requiring Americans to purchase health insurance if there was a not-for-profit alternative. Because this bill lacks a public option, this is not the case. This is requiring Americans to purchase a product that’s purpose is not to improve health, but to make a profit for the health insurance company.
I cannot help but thing the Democratic party is a lot like a dog chasing a car that doesn’t quite know what to do when it catches the car. The Democrats are in position to enact a good health care reform bill. They are choosing not to do that.
I have a real problem with that.
Dana Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term’
I guess former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino has never seen one of those “Never Forget” 911 bumper stickers. Not only was there a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term, it was a fairly large one. In fact, it was the largest terror attack the world has ever seen.
I guess Fox News is trying to pin the blame for the Ft. Hood massacre on President Obama because he doesn’t understand that we are in a war on terror. If we are in fact in a war on terror, why didn’t President Bush have congress declare war on terrorism?
Terrorism is a technique. You can’t wage war against a technique.
Will someone please tell Obama to stop bowing?
What is it about President Obama that prompts him to bow to foreign dignitaries? First he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, now he has bowed to the Japanese Emperor Akihito. Does he just go around bowing to everyone he meets and we don’t see it because there isn’t a photographer around?
I don’t get it.
I bow to no one. I never have and I never will. Is it too much to ask that the guy living in the White House do the same?
He needs to knock it off and start practicing better posture. It’s embarrassing enough that he’s a Chicago White Sox fan. Is he trying to give TEA Baggers a photo to put on their protest signs?
Richard Nixon was all for aborting mixed-race babies
More tapes from the Nixon White House were released Tuesday and it appears President Nixon had an opinion about the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that struck down state laws that banned abortion. It appears he wasn’t against abortion in all cases. From the New York Times:
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.”
I wonder what President Nixon would think about today’s Commander-in-chief? President Obama is the son of a white mother and a black father. The irony in that is really quite something.
Money for nothing
To help stimulate the economy, Congress and the White House have struck a deal to begin “rushing” tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 to tax payers hoping we will quickly spend this free money on something stupid and in the process shock this ailing economy to life. If I remember correctly, Bush did this shortly after he took office. It seems so long ago that I can’t really remember.
I’m glad that the federal government has so much extra money that they can just dispense it in such a haphazard way.
Even if the Senate quickly approves this free money scheme, the checks will not start going out till May. It could then take months before everyone gets their free money.
The fear is that people will not take this money and spend it. They might just do something responsible with it and put it away for a rainy day. That wont stimulate the economy. If they really want to make sure people use the money for it’s intended purpose, they ought to issue Visa or Mastercard debit cards. Make them so they can’t be used for anything other then something that would stimulate the economy. That means you couldn’t squirrel it away for the proverbial rainy day. You would have to use it.
I wont believe we are getting this money until we actually get the check and the check clears. Until that happens, I’m not counting on getting it.
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