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16,500 jobs created! YES!!!!!

Has it always been your dream to breathe down people's necks, forcing them to do your will?

If the answer to that is yes, then go ahead and apply to the Internal Revenue Service.

This is what Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) had to say about it this morning on the Chris Baker show on KTLK-FM.

"When we didn't think that this (Obamacare) could get any worse, it IS worse. What we're finding out now with this new job-killing government takeover of healthcare is that the IRS is the enforcement mechanism for this new healthcare plan. The IRS agents will be breathing down the necks of 300 million Americans. Their task will be to verify that all of us have acceptable-to-government health care coverage. They won't just be verifying once a year, they verify every month that all 300 million Americans have "acceptable" healthcare coverage which means that they have to hire 16,500 new IRS auditors, agents, other employees. They'll have the power to confiscate our tax refunds, there will be increased audits, and also they'll have the power to fine us up to 2% of our income, or $2,250, whichever is greater, if we fail to prove to government satisfaction, that we've purchased "minimum essential coverage".

So the IRS is going to have access to Americans' financial records every month.

Notice that I said the IRS will have access to Americans' financial records. Congresswoman Bachmann continues by saying that there are going to be people that WON'T have to pay these fines and penalties. They are.... "illegal aliens and people serving behind bars." (I don't think she meant bartenders, either.) Those people are "specifically enumerated as being exempt from having to pay taxes or fines. "

People will be in this country ILLEGALLY, which technically makes them criminals. Harsh, maybe, but true. If THEY decide not to pay, then they don't have to pay the fines. Betcha they'll still be showing up at the emergency room for treatment for their cold symptoms.

Apparently the IRS will be getting the information about who's paying for coverage and who's not from employers. If people are getting paid cash, under the table, then it's a safe bet that they usually don't pay taxes anyway.

Get this, too. The IRS will now have the power to reveal OUR CONFIDENTIAL TAX INFORMATION to the Department of Health and Human Services.

We know in our court system, that if we are accused of a crime, we are innocent until proven guilty. Per the IRS rules, citizens are guilty until we prove ourselves innocent. It's been that way with the IRS for years.

What does the IRS have to do with healthcare? Really? NOTHING. The agents will say "oh I'm just doing my job".

I'm declaring shenanigans on this, right now.

I figured it out!

I finally get it! After all this time it finally makes sense!

The money for the tax increases that are going to happen if Obamacare passes (or is just deemed in, who cares about procedure anyway... Obama said that we don't care about it) will come from states 51-58! Boy I feel sorry for the people who live in states 51-58. You're really gonna have to pay. I mean, since none of us living in the 50 states that we all thought we had (well that's what we get for thinking) are going to have to pay for this, then it's GOTTA come from 51-58!

He said it himself. He had been to 57 states, with one more to go.

Bullying and corruption!

I have been trying all morning to get hold of Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. What a coward. He got strongarmed into a "yes" vote on Obamacare. I told my husband this morning that if we still lived in Ohio, we would have to move. (Now we live where our Senators are blatantly liberal and have proven that they don't care what the people think. Doesn't matter to them whether or not they are reelected. Yeah, yeah, don't let the door hit you on the way out.)

But THIS one takes the cake.

Now the government is going to turn California's water back on, in exchange for votes?
I cannot believe the corruption. I've seen it before though. Didn't Saddam Hussein withhold
clean water from the Kurds, in order to ensure their submission?

I love this country, but I don't love what she is becoming.

A deeper question

Well, it looks like the "Slaughter Solution" is toast. Good. It SHOULD be. I haven't heard of much that's more unconstitutional than that piece of garbage. Sure, let's go ahead and pretend that we passed the Senate healthcare bill, and put it on the President's desk to sign. Then we'll work out the problems with it later.

Yep. I'm betting that if that had happened, there would never have been any changes made.

Just in case you're wondering, like I did, exactly HOW that great idea named the Slaughter Solution is unconstitutional, here it is. Article 1, Section 7.

"Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States;"

So every bill has to pass both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Strike one, Representative Slaughter.

"If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.

That's two-thirds. Not a simple majority. Strike two, Senator Reid.

"But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.

So all votes are counted, and recorded, so each Senator or Congressman (or Congresswoman - go Michele Bachmann!!!) will be ON RECORD as to which way his vote went. Strike three, Speaker Pelosi, you're out on this one!

But, you know, there is an even deeper question than whether the Senate Majority Leader, or the Speaker of the House, or Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York intended to violate the Constitution of our country. This is directly from Article 2, Section 1, Clause 8:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."



This particular oath was taken on January 20, 2009, and again on January 21, 2009.
I think that especially since it was taken twice, it would be even that much more important. Since the President didn't come out and speak against the Slaughter Solution, I think he may have been planning to sign the bill into law when it got to his desk. That's unconstitutional, Mr. President, and you SWORE to preserve, protect, and defend the very Constitution that's being threatened.

ACORN... again...

A few months ago, I couldn't turn on the news (Fox News, it IS real news!) without hearing about the ACORN scandal. I don't hear much about it anymore. I guess they finally wised up and stopped having their people advise hookers and pimps on how to evade their taxes.

But today.. oh it's my lucky day.

I'll give you a minute to read the story. Meet you right back here.

Are you SCREAMING??? WHAT THE HECK KIND OF NONSENSE IS THAT???

This is what bugs me the most:

"The judge, however, wrote that it was "unmistakable that Congress determined ACORN's guilt before defunding it." She said Congress is entitled to investigate ACORN but cannot "rely on the negative results of a congressional or executive report as a rationale to impose a broad, punitive funding ban on a specific, named organization."

So, Judge, what you're saying, is.. it's okay for Congress to investigate ACORN but if they find that ACORN is guilty of, let's see... promoting tax evasion at the very least, they shouldn't use the results of their investigation to decide that funding should be cut off.

That's just like saying that the police have the ability to investigate a crime, but when they prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person is guilty of that crime, the court shouldn't use that proof to decide an appropriate punishment.

Shame on you, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon.

Sometimes you just gotta laugh!

I don't have much to smile about when it comes to this health care garbage. Thanks to the Onion for giving me a big laugh today!

Oh, Harry....

'nuff said.

THE CENSUS BUREAU: What, exactly, do we have to tell them?

It's census year again and this video makes me wonder exactly what we have to tell them if they come knocking on our door, asking very personal questions.

Wonder why they wouldn't answer this man's questions to them?

I really like the idea of videotaping the census worker, and asking them the questions myself!

Such a GREAT idea, why don't we use it too?

Remember Ellie Light? "She" wrote letters to the editors of many US newspapers. I don't think that "Ellie" got a call from the President, asking for the letters to be written. (Yes, Ellie Light is a real person, named Winston Steward. He's 51 years old, and lives in California. He started the letters from "Ellie" with one to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)

Lives in California, writes to Cleveland and other areas in the US... Hmmm.. I bet he'd never read the Plain Dealer or any other newspaper to which he wrote the letters. Wow. What a great idea! Maybe we could take it to another level. I mean, more people are getting their "news" online than ever before. And, people are listening to talk radio more, too. We could put a webpage up with talking points (No, let's not call them "talking points". That's got a bad connotation. Let's call them "discussion points".) Anyway we can put up one talk show for people to call, whether or not they're listening, and if the line is busy, we can put up a link to click that would change the talk show/number to call. That way we could just keep calling those progressive talk shows and flood them with our calls. Yeah, I know we could make a difference by starting off with Air America. Progressive talk radio has so many listeners it's not even funny.

What? They went off the air in January because they couldn't pay their bills? Oh..
Well there's gotta be a way to get our point across... There has to be a way to make it plain that this health care bill is going to raise our taxes. That health care is going to keep being offered to people who are in the US illegally. That health care decisions are going to be taken out of the people's hands and put into the government's..


WHAT? Somebody already took my idea?

Who in the world would want to do that?

Well, would you look at that.

For some reason, I'm not surprised.

Sit down and shut up, John...

I believe that John McCain is a progressive. I'm a conservative, so I have my differences with Senator McCain. However. This morning, the Senator was at the "Health Care Summit", and it was his turn at the mic. He said...

"Both of us, during the campaign, promised change in Washington. In fact, 8 times, you said that negotiations on health care reform would be conducted with the C-SPAN cameras. (and a little smile for the cameras, dunno about that, John..) I'm glad, more than a year later, that they are here. Unfortunately, this product was not produced in that fashion. It was produced behind closed doors. It was produced with unsavory, I say that with respect, dealmaking."

The President's first remark to Senator McCain was this: "Let me just make this point, John. Because we're not campaigning anymore. The election's over."

I was waiting for him to say the same thing he said when Republicans were trying to voice their opposition to the "stimulus" package he signed off on in 2009. He said, "I won." When the "summit" started running long on time, he said, "There was an imbalance on the opening statements, because, I'm the President. I didn't count my time (speaking) in terms of dividing it equally." (between parties, I am assuming.)

Wow - he's good at changing the subject. He did not respond to Senator McCain's statements that:
1. It took over a year for the negotiations to be broadcast on C-SPAN
2. The health care bill being discussed was produced behind closed doors (so much for transparency)

I don't agree with Senator McCain on some things, but what he said was the truth, and the only way around it was with insults? Reminders that McCain lost the election? I suppose when you know you're doing something you shouldn't be doing, and you get caught, you try and talk your way around it.

Reminds me of a song from the 80s, by a group called Berlin. The song was "No More Words".

"You're talking and it all sounds fair
You promise your love, how much you care
I'm still listening and still unsure
Your actions are lacking, nothing is clear
No more words
You're telling me you love me while you're looking away
No more words, no more words
And no more promises of love
Remember when the words were new
They carried a meaning, a feeling so true
I'm looking for a long romance
Not a picture of passion or one time chance
Don't fool your self
Your empty passion won't satisfy me
I know, so don't pretend that you want me
You don't want me
We make love and it's all the same
Your eyes show nothing, no lover's flame
Don't promise we can work it out
You can leave right now if you're feeling doubt"



I haven't seen this video since the early 80s so I had forgotten that it's set in the Great Depression.... how fitting!

A Rat By Any Other Name...

I have heard from a lot of people that they have never heard of the Senate using "Reconciliation" before, to pass a bill that won't get 60 votes, which is the Senate rule. Well, it has happened before, but I didn't hear much about it until today. I heard Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh talking about 2005, when President Bush wanted to use a simple Senate majority to confirm a Supreme Court Justice. It was called the "Nuclear Option". They (Glenn and Rush) played sound bites from several Senators who were completely against allowing the simple majority and overriding the Senate rules.

Senator Barack Obama was talking about President George W. Bush and the "nuclear option", saying "He hasn't gotten his way, and that is now prompting, you know, a change in the Senate rules that, really, I think, would change the character of the Senate, forever, and what I worry about would be you essentially have still two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side, and that's just not what the founders intended."

I didn't know "majoritarian" was a word. Guess I'll have to "axe" an English teacher about that, and about using run-on sentences.

Senator Hillary Clinton said "So this President (GWB) has come to this majority in the Senate and basically said, change the rules! Do it the way I want it done!"

Senator Schumer said that we were facing a "Constitutional crisis". That "the checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic" were "about to be evaporated by the nuclear option." That it was "amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum".

Senator Feinstein said (this is one of my favorites): "The nuclear option, if successful, will turn the Senate into a body that could have its rules broken at any time by a majority of Senators unhappy with any position taken by the minority. It begins with judicial nominations. Next will be executive appointments, and then, legislation."

Holy cow I think she's on to something!

My favorite quote, though, comes from Senator Joe Biden. He said that the nuclear option "is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power".

Yesterday, Senator Harry Reid said that Republicans "should stop crying about reconciliation as if it's never been done before. It's been done in almost every Congress. And they're the ones who used it more than anyone else." But wait! Harry Reid is the one that said in 2002 that "The right to extended debate is never more important than when one party controls Congress and the White House."

So what is happening now, with Obamacare? The majority of Americans do NOT want it! But instead of going back to the drawing board and making a plan that a majority of Americans can agree upon (doesn't have to be a landslide or anything, we found that out on November 4, 2008), the Democrats in the Senate, along with the President, met and worked out the new bill. You know, the one that's going to be presented to the GOP in the "Health Care Summit" on February 25th. The Democrats are planning to tell the Republicans to take it as it is, or leave it. No more talking, no more stalling, and we're going to do this with "reconciliation" whether you like it or not. Hmmmm, Senator Reid, I thought that extended debate was really important when one party is in control.

Reconciliation = nuclear option = a no-go for all the Senators that I have quoted here, as well as all the others in the video below that I didn't quote.

I suppose reconciliation only means a no-go when you're not the majority.

I dunno, Secretary Clinton, I think you would have impressed the heck out of me if you had said to President Obama what you said to GWB:

"You have to RESTRAIN YOURSELF, MR. PRESIDENT."

Thanks to the 912 project for posting this video, so you can see and hear all that I've quoted, and more, for yourself.

This has been a CRAZY year (and a month...)

.... but I have to say I have learned a lot. About myself, about my family.. one of the things that I have learned, probably the most important, is that homemade is better, and much less expensive than processed.

For example - beans. Come on, sing it with me... "Beans, beans, the magical fruit..." But seriously. I served my family refried beans, out of a can, heated up in the microwave. They were fine. Then I realized that those same refried beans cost at least a dollar a can. For a dollar or a little more, I could buy dried pinto beans, cook 'em up, and fry 'em up. About 10 times.

Tortillas - corn, thankyouverymuch. Unless they are on sale, a GOOD sale, they're $1.59 for a package of 36 tortillas, at Aldi. They're $1.15 for the same sized package at Mercado Central (a wonderful Mexican market/bakery/restaurant/tortilleria) in Minneapolis. Well, one 4 pound package of Maseca (corn flour) is $2.59. I can get about 200 tortillas out of that package.

And it's not just Mexican food! Or food, for that matter. Need a dish/pot scrubber? Just wad up an empty mesh bag that you bought onions or oranges in. Works like a charm.

It's amazing the things you can come up with, to keep your family's budget down. The internet is a wonderful thing. Swagbucks searches are your friend!

Agnostic? Really?

It's nice to be back! I had the time of my life on a cruise to Mexico with my wonderful husband, and now it's time to get back to it!

So, here I go...

AGNOSTIC (ag näs′tik)

1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
2 : a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something


Just in case you haven't heard, this is what I'm talking about, as far as the President being "agnostic". According to the Washington Bureau of the New York Daily News, the President has said that he's now "agnostic" about raising taxes on families with incomes of less than $250,000 a year. We'll be able to read the full interview with the President in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will be in newsstands Friday.
Since President Obama has said he is a Christian, I'm going to assume that definition number 2 (hahaha... I said number 2.... can you tell I have a 6 year old?) is the one that applies here. I cannot say whether the President is a Christian or not. That's between him, and God. (that's God, with a capital G)

A person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something... wait a minute. Remember this?



That certainly seems like an opinion to me! He also said the same thing in his first speech to Congress on February 24, 2009, but I can't find a video. Sorry. It just appears that he said what he needed to say to get elected. I know, I know, George H.W. Bush said the same thing - "Read my lips, no new taxes." Then when he went back on that, people went ballistic. If taxes are raised on middle-class families, I wonder if anyone is going to call the President out on his words, like Bill Clinton did to GHWB in 1992.

Oh but wait. Anyone running for any office can say anything they want to. Then it'll just get brushed off. This one was about C-SPAN.



"There are a lot of things he was for, on the campaign trail."

I have a feeling that you'll always remember those words, Speaker.

Can't wait to find out what's next!

Who is Ellie Light?

Ellie Light is a letter writer. "She" has been writing letters to the editor, in serious support of President Obama at a whole lot of newspapers all over the country.

The story is here: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/letter_writer_claims_diverse_r.html

I'm putting the story link up because I don't know how to do it any other way! Sorry..

Keep your propaganda to yourself, "Ellie".

I wonder..

why Tareq and Michaele Salahi (the White House "gate crashers") had to appear before Congress. They took the 5th and refused to testify. What's up with that? Millions of people enter this country illegally every year. They bypass border checkpoints, and sneak in. They don't hide once they get here, though. They are proud to have broken the law.

Yet the United States government wants to give these criminals a "pathway to citizenship". This is from the White House website:

"President Obama supports a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens."

Do illegals WANT to be US citizens? I'd have to say no to that. They don't want to blend in, and become part of a group. They're already part of a group.

But, that's another subject. This is about the Salahis. So my question is... why the big problem with them going to a party? Oh, I get it. People aren't supposed to go to the White House without being invited, but they can live next door to MY house, no problem, no questions asked.

The shot heard 'round the world

So that was how we started.

Last night, Massachusetts gave us "The Scott Heard 'Round the World". (I really wish I had made that up, but I didn't...) While I laid on the couch watching the election returns, I couldn't say much. Two reasons. One, I'm sick and my throat is on fire. Two, I kept seeing 52% Brown (R), 47% Coakley (D). Those figures didn't change. Then, when the results hit 75% of the votes counted, and the AP called the election for Brown, I was shocked. I mean, Massachusetts is seriously blue! Ted Kennedy, "the liberal lion", held that seat for so many years.

Now it's time for.... the blame game!

The blame game goes all the way to the top. Second (and third, fourth, fifth.. by now I don't remember) verse, same as the first. Here's what White House press secretary Robert Gibbs had to say last night during a press briefing about Tuesday's elections.

"The electorate is expressing a sense of anger that has been continuous since before the 2008 election that brought President Barack Obama into the White House. There is a tremendous amount of upset and anger. In many ways, we are here because of that upset and anger.”

Oh. Really? George W. Bush is at fault. That's getting old. Mr. Gibbs, you sound like my kids. Never accepting responsibility and blaming someone else when they get found out.

So what's next? We've seen that President Obama doesn't care at all about the Democrats. He completely ignored them in his health care speech on September 9th, 2009, by talking to "my Republican friends", and "my progressive friends". As we have seen, especially in the Senate, when they were trying to get their 60 votes, "democrat" does not necessarily mean "progressive".

What is next for me, is waiting to see when the Democratic Party starts to self-destruct. It's coming. I wonder if "The Scott Heard 'Round the World" is the start of the next American Revolution....

When are lying, cheating, or stealing ever okay?

I'm a mom. We teach our kids to tell the truth. Sometimes they don't, but there are consequences for bad behavior. We teach our kids to be honest; we teach them not to cheat, or steal. I'm not THAT old. My kids think I'm ancient, but I'm really not. 40-something is NOT ancient. But when I was a kid, being honest meant something. A person's actions and words showed exactly who that person was. Now, unfortunately, not so much.

Meet Ed Schultz. He's a host for MSNBC, and he has a syndicated talk radio show. Never heard of him before today, because I don't watch MSNBC, and my taste runs to conservative talk radio. (Surprised? LOL) He said this on his radio show last Friday, when he was talking about the special election being held in Massachusetts tomorrow, to elect a Senator for the seat that was vacated when Senator Kennedy passed away. (By the way, it's NOT an election to find someone to fill "Teddy Kennedy's seat".)

"I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I'd try to vote 10 times," said Schultz on his Friday radio show. "I don't know if they'd let me or not, but I'd try to. Yeah, that's right. I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. 'Cause that's exactly what they are."

Here's the audio:



Why is it okay for liberals to call people names, and advocate lying, cheating, and stealing? Mr. Schultz, you did advocate all three. Voting more than once to win an election would be stealing it, wouldn't you say?

I say, Ed Schultz, shame on you.

Your words and your actions have shown us your character.

I just had to laugh!

When I'm watching TV, I'm usually watching episodes of Clean House that I DVRd, or I'm watching Food Network. LOVE.IT. Iron Chef America is one of my favorites. I have to admit that I'm a bigger fan of the uber-cheesy original Iron Chef, but since I've seen most of those, I look forward to watching Iron Chef America.

I wasn't so thrilled when I found out about the "super battle" featuring the White House executive chef, and an appearance by Michelle Obama. I thought, "Oh, man, my favorite network is being taken over." But I watched it anyway. I like Emeril, and Bobby Flay, and Mario Batali. So why not watch? It was on my DVR, and I needed something to watch while I was doing the free step for a half hour on my Wii Fit.

The secret ingredient? "Anything from the White House garden", says Mrs. Obama. Sweet potatoes, cauliflower, beans, honey... Honey? Did you know there is a beehive on the South Lawn of the White House? No? Me neither.

The battle was okay, it was no surprise that the White House executive chef's team was the winner. I deleted the show from the DVR to make room for other stuff and moved on. Until today... when I read this.

"Due to the production delay between the shoot at the White House and the shoot at Food Network, the produce used in Kitchen Stadium during the 'Super Chef Battle' was not actually from the White House garden."

Okay it's understandable, from a production/time standpoint. By the time they actually shot the battle, the produce would have been spoiled, so they ended up using the "exact types" of produce grown in the White House garden. So, why not change the First Lady's line to "The same types of produce that we grow at the White House"? I mean, that was the truth, right?

I'm really not upset about the whole produce thing. You can't believe a whole lot of what you see or hear on TV. Like President Obama when he said that if a family doesn't make $250,000 a year, there will be absolutely NO tax increases. Like Nancy Pelosi when she said that "there has never been a more open process for any legislation". Ready for those closed-door meetings, Speaker?

Oh wait. We can certainly believe our elected leaders, can't we?

What in the world is happening to our country?

Take a look.



I just watched this video, and I am disgusted.

I don't usually watch Bill O'Reilly. We're trying to get things settled down around the house when he's on.

Why didn't I hear about this on NBC? CBS? ABC? CNN? MSNBC? Just asking.

Not much leaves me speechless. This did it.

I am...

Oh, I really don't like saying that. Jesus said it. "I AM." I want to be more like Jesus, but I'm not even close.

I am a wife, a mom, a homemaker, a daughter, niece, cousin, friend..

I'm NOT conservatively liberal. I'm not liberal at all. I'm not moderate.

What I am, is conservative, and I'm not ashamed of it.

I don't believe that it's possible to be "moderate". You're either conservative, or you're liberal.
In my opinion, if you're not one, you're the other.

My husband calls me "a polimom".

We'll see!