*Interesting Items 3/23 - by Alex Gimarc*
Monday, Mar 23, 2009 Interesting Items 3/23 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Redoubt 2. AIG 3. Wounded Vets 4. Video 5. Legal Bills 6. Stimulus ------------------------------ 1. Redoubt. Mount Redoubt erupted last night starting around 2230 local. As of this writing, there have been 5 blasts and we are in the midst of the fifth one. Weather is cloudy this morning and the eruption is not visible from Anchorage yet. Winds are such that Anchorage should not get dusted for the next 24 hours. For additional information, you can surf to the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) web site at: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/ 2. AIG. The latest Kabuki Dance from the fascist congress and the President Teleprompter administration is a nicely orchestrated outrage for a series of retention bonuses paid to executives at AIG, one of the companies supported by the TARP bailouts. AIG has laundered nearly $170 billion of TARP monies since the initial legislation was passed last October. Approval of nearly $168 million in retention bonuses for AIG was part of the Stimulus legislation passed last month. When news of the bonuses broke, and the timing was highly suspicious, all Hell broke loose in congress and in the Teleprompter administration, with democrats running around like headless chickens demanding immediate return of the contractually obligated bonuses. The fascists in the House passed legislation by weeks’ end punitively taxing all executive bonuses for companies that receive TARP funding at 90%. This is an unconstitutional, retroactive Bill of Attainder. As of today, this awful legislation sits in the senate awaiting their action. Over the weekend, the Teleprompter administration talked about extending federal control and limits to all executive bonuses and compensation and discussed inflicting those limits via regulation without an act of congress. It is just as well, as this sort of thing, reminiscent of Hugo Chavez economics, is to be expected out of this group of self-important pocket fascists. The back story is that the administration, the Treasury and congress all knew about the bonuses; how large they were to be; and when they would be paid. They approved the bonuses. They passed the bonuses in the stimulus legislation. They have lied to the American people about it while pretending to be shocked, simply shocked that the bonuses were paid. Limbaugh believes that Obama is using the faux outrage to cover the much larger scandal of exactly what happened to the $170 billion in bailout money paid to AIG. Obama is also using this as yet another vehicle to further damage the free market and capitalism so that he can remake it in the image of his leftist ideals. Congress is simply covering their sorry back sides. Here in Anchorage, our Boy Senator, Mark Begich took no small amount of heat voting for the stimulus bill. He called one of our local afternoon talk shows and claimed to know everything that was in the bill, having read it. Late last week as the AIG bonus story was percolating along nicely, he blasted AIG and said he didn’t know it was in the legislation. Local talk show host Eddie Burke played audio of Begich’s telephone call to his program after the stimulus was passed saying otherwise. The final piece of this story is the demagogues in congress turning the mobs loose on AIG executives. Over the weekend, there were several stories of mobs going after people at their homes on the East Coast. I suppose this is an example of what gun control was supposed to allow in that part of the country. 3. Wounded Vets. Apparently the only people who will have to pay for their health care in the era of universal medical care are wounded vets. The Obama administration floated a trial balloon last week that would have wounded vets cover medical care for their combat related injuries with their private insurance before they received any VA medical care. This was to apply to all post-military medical care for service-related injuries. The Obama’s were hoping to generate $540 million by gouging the very people they are most morally obligated to provide government paid health care for. By weeks’ end they had backed off the attempt and claimed to have dropped the idea. Like most other things out of this administration and congress, expect to see it quietly inserted back into legislation somewhere most likely during budget reconciliation. 4. Video. Last Monday, President Teleprompter got confused during a photo op with the Irish Prime Minister. The teleprompter feeds got mixed and President Teleprompter ended up giving the speech for the Irish PM. Everybody had a nice laugh and they moved on to the next event. Normally something like this goes viral in a very short time and makes the rounds of the web like wildfire, yet as of weeks’ end, nobody could find it on the web. We know that CNN has a copy, and they aren’t releasing it. Sean Hannity may or may not have a copy as there are some reports that he showed it on his FNC show Monday. Media cover up for Obama’s incompetence continues and they seem to be getting better at it now that they have the full force of the US government to enforce the disappearing. 5. Legal Bills. Governor Palin Friday night announced that her family had run up legal bills approaching a half million dollars defending her and her family from a wave of ethics complaints. The complaints started August 29 last year when she was selected as McCain’s VP nominee. They haven’t let up. The way the ethics laws work up here is that the accused must get their own private attorney to respond to the complaints. We are at the point where one’s political opponents can send their political opponents to personal financial ruin simply by filing ethics complaint after ethics complaint after ethics complaint. Part of the problem goes to Palin herself, who came into office pushing new ethics legislation which make this sort of thing possible. Part of the problem goes to the legislators drafting the legislation, as they had not sufficiently thought out the ramifications of abuse of ethics complaints. The short term solution is to do what the Clintons did, and set up a legal defense fund and ask for donations. So far, the Palins have chosen not to do so. Personally, I find this a terribly distasteful outcome. I am sure that we conservatives will hear from the leftists yet another version of their incessant “so’s your old man” routine as they point out the thousands of ethics complaints filed against the Clintons during their infestation of the WH. How do we stop this? Personally, I would call for a repeal of a bunch of the state ethics laws, as they must be written so they cannot be abused to the point where they turn into a political weapon against the target. ADN, Sat. 6. Stimulus. Governor Palin announced late last week that she would be turning down around 45% of the stimulus money targeted toward Alaska. She will accept the money for capital projects and turn down the monies with federal strings attached. While she may make the proposal, it is up to the legislature to make the final call on this. As expected, the political discussion picked up nicely following the announcement, with protestors turning out Saturday to berate Anchorage legislators who were in town for the weekend. Particularly galling to the leftists was Palin’s refusal to accept free education money. The Anchorage School District Superintendent who is in the midst of pushing a budget that this year will spend over $15,000 / kid was apoplectic and noted that two years from now when the money runs out, they would be able to move some money around and make up for the expected shortfall. The obvious response is that if they are able to simply move money around, they have too much money and need to start cutting the school budget. Governor Palin is to be congratulated on her decision. While I would have been most pleased with the refusal of all stimulus money, I will take what I can get. One thing the protestors ought to remember is that one of the very most expensive thing in this world is free money. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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