TagsTagsDrudge Report has a big headline up, suggesting that the government spent over a million dollars to buy one 2 pound sliced ham. Fail. The references to “2 pound frozen ham sliced” are to the sizes of the packaging. Press reports suggesting that the Recovery Act spent $1.191 million to buy ...
Is it time for The American Tea Party?
Economy, Finance, Business, Pork, Stimulus, American Tea Party
If there’s anyone still alive with a worse record on addressing economic problems, I don’t know who it would be. Jimmy Carter gives the stimulus bill the Kiss of Death. ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has voiced support for President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the economy. Carter says ...
Mike Huckabee is appearing on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News tonight, to throw some more red meat to fundamentalist zealots with his cretinous claim that the stimulus bill persecutes Christians. Never mind that pesky Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Huckabee wants to throw ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Establishment Clause, Mike Huckabee
The largest spending bill in history has passed the House. Here are the Final Vote Results for Roll Call 70.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus
Congress has reached an agreement on the spendulus bill ... or have they?
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus
Mike Huckabee is at it again, joining Jim DeMint in claiming that the stimulus is ‘anti-religious’. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.” In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Establishment Clause, Mike Huckabee
The Senate has passed the largest spending bill in history. And the Dow index slipped below 8,000 this morning. UPDATE at 2/10/09 10:05:45 am: The vote was 61-37. UPDATE at 2/10/09 10:48:02 am: Here’s the roll call: U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home - Votes - Roll Call Vote.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Krauthammer
The Senate will be voting soon on the largest spending bill in history, so here’s a thread for people to discuss, criticize, and commiserate... UPDATE at 2/10/09 8:55:31 am: The Associated Press is actually criticizing Obama’s claims about the bill.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus
Yes, the Republicans and Democrats have magically reached a deal right at the end of the day, on a Friday, right before the weekend. Exactly as I predicted last night. Call me Little Green Nostradamus.
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer cuts through the smokescreen to the real issue: The Fierce Urgency of Pork. It’s not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It’s not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Democrats, Congress, Pork, Stimulus, Krauthammer
It’s worse than you think, maybe worse than you could have imagined: 50 De-Stimulating Facts. A trillion dollars in unprecedented handouts, giveaways, leftist causes, and pure pork.
Popular British news outlet The Muslim Weekly explains the Islamic prohibition against the other white meat: Oink Oink! - Why Islam forbids Pork. The abstention from eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene and to attain purity of soul. There is a saying in English ...
The Council on American Islamic Relations is setting up shop in Minnesota, a hotbed of recent grievance theater events: Muslim organization revives Minnesota branch. A controversial national Islamic civil liberties organization has revived its Minnesota chapter after a series of highly publicized incidents involving Muslim taxi drivers, store clerks and airline ...
Minneapolis, Radical Islam, CAIR, MAS, Muslim Brotherhood, Target, Pork
Minneapolis is the scene of yet another intrusion of extremist shari’a law into US society, as Muslim cashiers at Target stores are refusing to handle pork. The other day, I got a call from someone who said that an employee at the Target store downtown refused to run his bacon through ...
Minneapolis, Radical Islam, CAIR, MAS, Muslim Brotherhood, Target, Pork
Looks like we spoke too soon last Wednesday, because pork soup is racist in France after all. PARIS — A top French judge ruled that an extreme-right group cannot serve pork soup to the needy, saying the charitable handouts aim to discriminate against Muslims and Jews who don’t eat pork ...
I hope you’re sitting down, because a French court has ruled that pork soup is not racist. PARIS (Reuters) - A French court ruled Tuesday that an organization with far-right links can continue offering pork soup to the homeless, rejecting police complaints that the food distribution was racist. Police banned the soup ...