Monday, February 13, 2012
Even More Confusing Math
The President announced today a new budget. Wait hasn't the Senate missed that mark by over 1,000 days now? His math adds up to this. $3.8 trillion in new spending (shocking) $4 Trillion in cuts. $6.6 Trillion in entitlement growth. So, in my head that leaves a net loss of $6.4 Trillion. And we currently are at $15.36 Trillion in debt. So, we have taken out a credit card from the Bank of China? No wait that's what Bush did right Barry! All of this talking in circles and spinning math, I am confused! I guess that is probably the intention. What does your calculator read?
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
What the .... more proof that the left hates America!
Courts - POLITICS
Ginsburg to Egyptians: I wouldn't use U.S. Constitution as a model
Published February 06, 2012
| FoxNews.com
As Egyptian officials prepare to send to trial 19 American democracy and rights workers, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Cairo last week where she suggested Egyptian revolutionaries not use the U.S. Constitution as a model in the post-Arab Spring.
"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. "I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done."
As Egypt prepares to write a new constitution, Ginsburg, who was traveling during the court's break to speak with legislators and judges in Egypt as well as Tunisia, spoke to students at Cairo University, encouraging them to enjoy the opportunity to participate in the "exceptional transitional period to a real democratic state."
In a long interview with a reporter who asked her to explain the foundation of the U.S. Constitution and how it would be applied in today's Egypt, Ginsburg suggested with pride that "we have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'"
Ginsburg also extolled several aspects of the document, particularly the separation of powers, the concept of checks and balances and an independent judiciary that can't have its salaries diminished if it rules a law enacted by Congress as unconstitutional.
But asked about models for the Egyptian people, Ginsburg said Egyptians "should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone on since the end of World War II."
She then pointed not only to South Africa's constitution, but to Canada's 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Convention on Human Rights.
"Why not take advantage of what is else there in the world? I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others," Ginsburg added.
Indeed, Ginsburg's comments are not foreign to her overall philosophy. The justice has previously stated that she weighs foreign law as well as U.S. law when forming a legal opinion.
"The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification," Ginsburg told an audience at the American Society of International Law in April 2005.
Ginsburg told the Egyptian interviewer that she can't dispense advice for Egyptian society about how to set up its constitution, nor can she comment on a document that isn't written or in force yet.
But she said looking at the Federalist Papers -- essays written by the drafters to expound upon the articles before they were ratified by the states -- it's clear that a discussion must be held by all members of the country. She also suggested that a constitution is only as good as the people who live by it.
"If the people don't care, the best constitution in the world won't make any difference," she warned.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/06/ginsburg-to-egyptians-wouldnt-use-us-constitution-as-model/#ixzz1ldfV6KYZ
Ginsburg to Egyptians: I wouldn't use U.S. Constitution as a model
Published February 06, 2012
| FoxNews.com
As Egyptian officials prepare to send to trial 19 American democracy and rights workers, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Cairo last week where she suggested Egyptian revolutionaries not use the U.S. Constitution as a model in the post-Arab Spring.
"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. "I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done."
As Egypt prepares to write a new constitution, Ginsburg, who was traveling during the court's break to speak with legislators and judges in Egypt as well as Tunisia, spoke to students at Cairo University, encouraging them to enjoy the opportunity to participate in the "exceptional transitional period to a real democratic state."
In a long interview with a reporter who asked her to explain the foundation of the U.S. Constitution and how it would be applied in today's Egypt, Ginsburg suggested with pride that "we have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'"
Ginsburg also extolled several aspects of the document, particularly the separation of powers, the concept of checks and balances and an independent judiciary that can't have its salaries diminished if it rules a law enacted by Congress as unconstitutional.
But asked about models for the Egyptian people, Ginsburg said Egyptians "should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone on since the end of World War II."
She then pointed not only to South Africa's constitution, but to Canada's 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Convention on Human Rights.
"Why not take advantage of what is else there in the world? I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others," Ginsburg added.
Indeed, Ginsburg's comments are not foreign to her overall philosophy. The justice has previously stated that she weighs foreign law as well as U.S. law when forming a legal opinion.
"The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification," Ginsburg told an audience at the American Society of International Law in April 2005.
Ginsburg told the Egyptian interviewer that she can't dispense advice for Egyptian society about how to set up its constitution, nor can she comment on a document that isn't written or in force yet.
But she said looking at the Federalist Papers -- essays written by the drafters to expound upon the articles before they were ratified by the states -- it's clear that a discussion must be held by all members of the country. She also suggested that a constitution is only as good as the people who live by it.
"If the people don't care, the best constitution in the world won't make any difference," she warned.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/06/ginsburg-to-egyptians-wouldnt-use-us-constitution-as-model/#ixzz1ldfV6KYZ
Monday, February 6, 2012
MNCC Endorsements
The group declared official endorsement for two of our favorite Representatives. First we recognized the great efforts of Sen Sean Nienow. A true champion. We also, support Rep Bob Barrett. Another hard working leader that has found his path in St Paul. He will do great things with a second term.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
It's Feeling Pretty Ugly!
So, the word is that Newt didn't call Romney to congratulate him on his Florida victory. Why would he do that? Is it me or does it feel like the Republicans are acting like Democrats. The lefties have had a long history of being really mean during the nominating process. I don't remember the last time I felt such hate between camps in a presidential election. The dislike that these two are showing each other seems to be spilling into their supporters. Weigh in, is it just me?
Friday, February 3, 2012
Gay marriage ban supporters raise over $1.2M
By (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
KARE11.com
MINNEAPOLIS - Groups supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage in Minnesota say they've raised more than $1.2 million to persuade voters to approve the ballot measure in November.
Minnesota for Marriage, the main coalition backing the amendment, says it raised $830,000 last year and recruited more than 10,000 volunteers.
The Minnesota Catholic Conference says it raised $750,000, including $650,000 from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and $50,000 each from the dioceses of New Ulm and Duluth. The conference then contributed $350,000 to Minnesota for Marriage.
The archdiocese says it was part of a statewide effort of bishops. It says the money it donated came from investment income, not collection plates or other donations.
The largest anti-amendment group, Minnesotans United for All Families, has more than $1.2 million.
KARE11.com
MINNEAPOLIS - Groups supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage in Minnesota say they've raised more than $1.2 million to persuade voters to approve the ballot measure in November.
Minnesota for Marriage, the main coalition backing the amendment, says it raised $830,000 last year and recruited more than 10,000 volunteers.
The Minnesota Catholic Conference says it raised $750,000, including $650,000 from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and $50,000 each from the dioceses of New Ulm and Duluth. The conference then contributed $350,000 to Minnesota for Marriage.
The archdiocese says it was part of a statewide effort of bishops. It says the money it donated came from investment income, not collection plates or other donations.
The largest anti-amendment group, Minnesotans United for All Families, has more than $1.2 million.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Romney Wins Florida!
It is no surprise. Mitt Romney easily takes the "sunshine" state. Does that dramatically change the landscape? Who will be the next to drop? What are your thoughts?
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Isn't that funny! - Thanks Fox News
As President Obama prepares to raise the debt ceiling -- after the Senate waived its opposition last week -- $5 trillion hikes evidently are no longer "unpatriotic" as Obama said they were in 2008 while describing former President George W. Bush's $4 trillion increase over eight years.
The White House requested authority earlier this month to raise the debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion, up $1.2 trillion from last summer and more than $5 trillion from the statutory limit of $11.3 trillion set in October 2008 before Obama took office. The debt at the time Obama entered the White House was $10.6 trillion. The ceiling was raised to $12.1 trillion within a month of his inauguration.
Such increases used to be anathema to Obama, who voted in March 2006 along with all his Senate Democratic colleagues against Bush's hike of the debt ceiling to $8.9 trillion.
At the time, Obama called raising the debt limit "a sign of leadership failure." Out on the campaign trail in July 2008, he suggested the move was downright un-American.
"The problem is that the way Bush has done it in the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion from the first 42 presidents. No. 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome. So we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. $30,000 for every man woman and child. That's irresponsible, that's unpatriotic," he said.
In April 2011, during the heat of the debt ceiling debate with Congress, Obama expressed regret for his 2006 stance, which he said was delivered from "the vantage point of a senator versus the vantage point of a president."
"When you're a senator, traditionally what's happened is, this is always a lousy vote. Nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit -- for the United States by a trillion dollars. As president, you start realizing, you know what, we, we can't play around with this stuff. This is the full faith and credit of the United States."
Under an arrangement reached last summer as the U.S. was about to hit the statutory ceiling, Republicans agreed to let the president raise the limit unless there was effectively a veto-proof majority to disapprove of it. Last week, the House voted to prevent the increase, but the Democratic-led Senate voted to let Obama hike U.S. borrowing capacity.
That would make the fifth increase in the debt ceiling since Obama entered office in January 2009. Under Bush, Congress raised the debt ceiling seven times in his eight years.
On Sunday, House Budget Committee Paul Ryan suggested that it's time to put a stop to the borrowing.
"We are not getting the kind of leadership we need from the outside. At the time when America needs it the most, we have a debt crisis on our horizon. The Senate hasn't budgeted for 1,005 days now. The president is not even proposing to tackle this fiscal crisis," Ryan, R-Wis., told "Fox News Sunday."
"So, what we need is a new president and a new Senate, and we need to give the country a very specific plan, a set of ideas of how we're going to solve these problems and let the country choose in November what they want America to become," he said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/30/as-debt-ceiling-skyrockets-obama-no-longer-calling-bush-increases-unpatriotic/#ixzz1kyz2QrOl
The White House requested authority earlier this month to raise the debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion, up $1.2 trillion from last summer and more than $5 trillion from the statutory limit of $11.3 trillion set in October 2008 before Obama took office. The debt at the time Obama entered the White House was $10.6 trillion. The ceiling was raised to $12.1 trillion within a month of his inauguration.
Such increases used to be anathema to Obama, who voted in March 2006 along with all his Senate Democratic colleagues against Bush's hike of the debt ceiling to $8.9 trillion.
At the time, Obama called raising the debt limit "a sign of leadership failure." Out on the campaign trail in July 2008, he suggested the move was downright un-American.
"The problem is that the way Bush has done it in the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion from the first 42 presidents. No. 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome. So we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. $30,000 for every man woman and child. That's irresponsible, that's unpatriotic," he said.
In April 2011, during the heat of the debt ceiling debate with Congress, Obama expressed regret for his 2006 stance, which he said was delivered from "the vantage point of a senator versus the vantage point of a president."
"When you're a senator, traditionally what's happened is, this is always a lousy vote. Nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit -- for the United States by a trillion dollars. As president, you start realizing, you know what, we, we can't play around with this stuff. This is the full faith and credit of the United States."
Under an arrangement reached last summer as the U.S. was about to hit the statutory ceiling, Republicans agreed to let the president raise the limit unless there was effectively a veto-proof majority to disapprove of it. Last week, the House voted to prevent the increase, but the Democratic-led Senate voted to let Obama hike U.S. borrowing capacity.
That would make the fifth increase in the debt ceiling since Obama entered office in January 2009. Under Bush, Congress raised the debt ceiling seven times in his eight years.
On Sunday, House Budget Committee Paul Ryan suggested that it's time to put a stop to the borrowing.
"We are not getting the kind of leadership we need from the outside. At the time when America needs it the most, we have a debt crisis on our horizon. The Senate hasn't budgeted for 1,005 days now. The president is not even proposing to tackle this fiscal crisis," Ryan, R-Wis., told "Fox News Sunday."
"So, what we need is a new president and a new Senate, and we need to give the country a very specific plan, a set of ideas of how we're going to solve these problems and let the country choose in November what they want America to become," he said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/30/as-debt-ceiling-skyrockets-obama-no-longer-calling-bush-increases-unpatriotic/#ixzz1kyz2QrOl
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