tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981660719100623982024-02-02T13:09:25.781-08:00Brand New CitizenSee America through the eyes of a recently naturalized immigrant.OnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-19493578554550751972008-11-22T12:18:00.000-08:002008-11-22T12:48:37.120-08:00Arianna Huffington And Political SexI have read HuffPost, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's blog site for almost a year. It is in fact a liberal online news and commentary website AND aggregated blog.<br /><br />Interesting place. Good writings, mostly. Arianna's pieces are really good.<br /><br />But I did not know until today that she was a liberal when she was living with Henry Bernard Levin (a British journalist who was 22 years older), and later when she was involved with Democratic politician and then-governor (currently Attorney General) of California, Jerry Brown.<br /><br />After that, <strong>she was a champion of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution</strong> while she was married to Bush family friend and oil billionaire Michael Huffington!<br /><br />But wait ... check this out!<br /><br /><em>"The couple divorced in 1997, and in 1998 Michael Huffington disclosed his </em><em>bisexuality</em><em>. A 1999 magazine article claimed that Arianna Huffington "entered the marriage... with full knowledge of Michael Huffington's sexual interests in men".</em><em> The financial terms of their divorce agreement remain undisclosed, but <span style="color:#ff0000;">Huffington gained most of her wealth from her husband</span>."</em><br /><br />I guess the experience of being married to a bisexual Republican man has forced her to make up her mind ... hopefully. <span style="color:#ff0000;">She switched again,</span> back to liberalism!<br /><br />I bet that her involvement with funny guy Roger Delano "My Brain Hurts" Hinkins' movement was quite adventurous, too.<br /><br /><em>"After her attempts to woo the religious right, in 1994, </em><em>Doonesbury</em><em> Cartoonist </em><em>Garry Trudeau</em><em> created a spoof of Arianna Huffington's spiritual experiences with a Los Angeles-based spiritual organization founded by John-Roger, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. The purpose of the </em><em>Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness</em><em> (MSIA) is to teach Soul Transcendence, which is becoming aware of yourself as a Soul and as one with God, not as a theory but as a living reality."</em><br /><br />No comments.<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-7120763345518384552008-11-21T13:07:00.000-08:002008-11-21T13:10:55.013-08:00The best George W Bush BAILOUT JOKERe: Republican George W Bush's use of PUBLIC money to buy worthless PRIVATE bank assets to shore up a devastated economy on the brink of collapse.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Communism first nationalized, then devastated; in Bush's "self-regulating" capitalism it is the other way around.</span><br /><br />BrandNewCitizen's take: Bwaaaa haaaaa haaaaa!<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-66185079470200399562008-11-21T10:39:00.000-08:002008-11-21T11:01:02.079-08:00News for the vitamin popping zombies out there: YOU ARE STUPID!A large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking vitamins E and C for a decade showed no meaningful effect on cancer rates.<br /><br />Another recent study found no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease.<br /><br />In October 2008, a major trial studying whether vitamin E and selenium could lower a man’s risk for prostate cancer ended amidst worries that the treatments may do more harm than good.<br /><br />And recently, doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York warned that <span style="color:#ff0000;">vitamin C seems to protect not just healthy cells but cancer cells</span>, too.<br /><br />I am an engineer and have my common sense with me (almost) all the time (:-)<br />Saved about $40,000 by not buying the crap sold at drug stores and vitamin shops and by not seeing my doctor for almost 9 years ... and I'm doing well. No smoking, 2 glasses of wine daily, eat only full-fat butter (French), I like beef, pork, and most other meats, and drink only whole milk (rarely). Beer too.<br /><br />Do you really need a study to tell you that you don't need to take those stupid vitamins? I mean, one glass of orange juice is taking you over the top on vitamin C. One glass of milk gives you the calcium. One day of sunbathing (with no sunscreen or a low SPF one if you really have to) will give you all the D vitamin you need. And so on ... you can get all the vitamins you need naturally, mostly from the food you eat.<br /><br />Looks like the vitamins have the same effect as praying, but prayers are free (if you don't have to pay your church any dues).<br /><br />Better start doing something useful: like NOT watching idiotic shows about vampires, 11th Hour, The Mentalist, Medium, or Fringe. Jeeezus!<br /><br /><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/news-keeps-getting-worse-for-vitamins" target="_blank">READ ABOUT IT HERE</a> (Full article in New York Times)<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-91320894304081632582008-11-21T10:26:00.000-08:002008-11-21T10:32:51.511-08:00Trust C.I.A.? It's up to you!In 2001, C.I.A. surveillance aircraft in Peru mistakenly identified a civilian plane as a drug-smuggling aircraft, and a Peruvian military jet shot it down. An American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter were killed.<br /><br />Yeah, you guessed right - here comes the cover up!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/world/americas/21inquire.html" target="_blank">C.I.A. Withheld Data in Peru Plane Crash Inquiry</a> (in The New York Times nytimes.com)<br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-26989492695193597352008-11-21T10:01:00.000-08:002008-11-21T10:08:31.476-08:00Dr. Joseph "Pop A Pill, Kid!" Biederman of HarvardDr. Joseph "Pop A Pill, Kid!" Biederman's work at the prestigious Harvard University has fueled over the years an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children.<br /><br />During the same time. he had earned at least $1.6 million from drug makers between 2000 and 2007.<br /><br />Oh, and he failed to report most of this income to his university.<br /><br />And he may have violated federal and university research rules.<br /><br />And maybe he goes to Hell soon ... I'll be there for him. (:-)<br /><br />Does he have any kids? If yes, do they take pills? If so, how many? Anyone out there knows anything?<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-672262121880429572008-11-21T09:56:00.000-08:002008-11-21T10:00:56.232-08:00Charles B. Nemeroff (Emory University), aka Dr. MoronDr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory University, arguably one of the nation’s most influential psychiatric researchers, earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007.<br /><br />He failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university.<br /><br />He violated federal research rules by failing to disclose his ties to the drug makers in applications for research grants.<br /><br />As a result, the National Institutes of Health suspended a $9.3 million grant to Emory University and placed restrictions on other grants.<br /><br />Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff was forced to relinquish his chairmanship of Emory’s psychiatry department.<br /><br />F**k off, nemeroff!<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-24870059945392936832008-11-21T09:41:00.000-08:002008-11-21T09:55:06.792-08:00Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin and your childrenDr. Goodwin, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health is a psychiatrist and popular radio host.<br /><br />On Sept. 20, 2005, in a program produced by Bill Lichtenstein, Frederick Goodwin warned that children with bipolar disorder who are left untreated could suffer brain damage.<br /><br />I am an engineer and have my common sense with me all the time - when I see all these young Americans popping 5-10 pills every day, my heart sinks. It is because morons like Goodwin that your kids become pill-devouring zombies. <strong>Just check this out:</strong><br /><br />“But as we’ll be hearing today,” Dr. Goodwin reassured his audience, “modern treatments — mood stabilizers in particular — have been proven both safe and effective in bipolar children.”Dr. Goodwin warned that children with bipolar disorder who are left untreated could suffer brain damage, a controversial view. “But as we’ll be hearing today,” Dr. Goodwin reassured his audience, “modern treatments — mood stabilizers in particular — have been proven both safe and effective in bipolar children.”<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">That very day, GlaxoSmithKline paid Dr. Goodwin $2,500 to give a promotional lecture for its mood stabilizer drug, Lamictal, at the Ritz Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Fla. Indeed, Glaxo paid Dr. Goodwin more than $329,000 that year for promoting Lamictal, records given Congressional investigators show.</span><br /><br />Dr. Frederick Goodwin is not stupid. He's just another mothe*f***er making a good living on parents' ignorance and fear (after all, they love their children and would do anything for their well being).<br /><br />Anyone knows where Frederick lives?<br /><br />Also, would you buy any drug from GlaxoSmithKline after they proved again and again that they care only for their profits?<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-34996944523745801452008-11-21T09:22:00.000-08:002008-11-21T09:37:13.811-08:00Missouri - The Dumb And Dumber State - Voted REPUBLICAN three times in a row!The uneducated and ignorant citizens of Missouri voted for the George W "Legendary Incompetence" Bush in 2000 and 2004.<br /><br />One would assume that after voting twice for the greatest failure in the American presidential history, the state of Missouri would wake up and do the right thing.<br /><br />But no, those flea-brained cave dwellers voted again for the republicans and their Sarah "AirHead Bimbo" Palin and John "Forgot What Day Is Today" McCain (you know him, the senior citizen on Sarah's presidential campaign bus).<br /><br />This while the American economy is on life support after 8 years of idiotic republican administration, losing almost ONE MILLION JOBS in the first 10 months of 2008 alone!<br /><br />Not to mention the SOCIALIST purchase by Bush's republican administration of worthless PRIVATE BANK assets using PUBLIC money! Even Stalin wouldn't have done it better!<br /><br />Well done, Missouri evangelical Christians - hope you grow some brains during the coming recession!<br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-89807223479113190592008-11-19T10:18:00.000-08:002008-11-19T10:29:31.081-08:00Kristol Thinks Americans Are Smart"You think Americans are such idiots, Americans wouldn't understand that people die in a war unless you show brains in the road?" Kristol asked."They think it's a movie," Hamill said. "Let them see a coffin."<br /><br />Well, at the end of the most incompetent presidency ever, with the economy in deep recession and almost one million jobs lost in just the past year, 28% of Americans still think that their country is on the right track.<br /><br />At the beginning of the Iraq war, 76% of Americans believed that there was a direct connection between the 9/11 attack and Saddam although there was ABSOLUTELY NO evidence to support such claims.<br /><br />The republican party strongly believes that the Americans are idiots - just see Sarah Palin's comments regarding Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. Or all that smear and efforts to push non-issues at the front of the national debate when the country was on life-support - with McCain declaring that the fundamentals are strong!<br /><br />No comments.<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-34115307800472890652008-11-19T10:05:00.000-08:002008-11-19T10:15:12.336-08:00Palin / Joe For President 2012Joe "Samuel" The Wurzelbacher Plumber bites McCain and dreams of being the GOP candidate for vice president in 2012.<br /><br />If Sarah would be a red lollipop, Samuel would have licked her to the stick in 2 seconds.<br /><br /><em>"Also, if I were to run for Congress, it [would be] a very big sacrifice. I would not take it lightly or as a sense of entitlement as some congressmen do. I would actually represent the people. I would be out there day to day, talking to people and finding out what is going on."</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Read entire interview at <a href="http://www.tuftsdaily.com/an_interview_with_joe_the_plumber" target="_blank">http://www.tuftsdaily.com/an_interview_with_joe_the_plumber</a></em><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-41601330408069680812008-11-19T09:45:00.001-08:002008-11-19T09:58:47.322-08:00GM Ford Chrysler CEOs Fly Luxury Jets To Ask For Public Money Bailout!Rick Wagoner (General Motors), Alan Mulally (Ford Motors), and Robert Nardelli (Chrysler) have all traveled on three luxurious corporate jets to DC on Tuesday to beg for public money for their failed companies.<br /><br />Their companies are on the brink of bankruptcy and these clowns are asking for public money while flying $36 million corporate jets???<br /><br />And check this out: Ford CEO Mulally's corporate jet is a perk included in his contract for BOTH he and his wife!<br /><br />His salary: $28 million! Mulally actually lives in Seattle, not Detroit. The company jet takes him home and back on weekends.<br /><br />What about selling the jets, shaving $8 million off his salary, and moving to Detroit? Right there, $50-$100 million available for the day-to-day operations of his company.<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-3354264513929310392008-11-18T09:33:00.000-08:002008-11-18T09:42:25.754-08:00Jeffrey Norris, S.E.C. Lawyer And George W Bush AdulatorFrom the email sent by Jeffrey Norris, S.E.C. lawyer in Fort Worth, Texas to Mr. Cuban:<br /><br /><em>"If someone else is the victim of an absurd conspiracy theory, you defend your right to participate in smearing the good name of a patriot like President Bush. But, when you are the subject of a parody of the attack you have endorsed, you suddenly issue threats."</em><br /><br />Huh?<br /><br />Chairman Cox here, chairman Cox there, Jeffrey is using chairman Cox as a form of intimidation, although if chairman Mao would have been mentioned the effect would have been much, much greater.<br /><br />John Nester, an S.E.C. spokesman, said that the investigation was conducted by the S.E.C.’s Washington office, and that Mr. Norris was not involved in it. He added:<br /><em>“Chairman Cox has never met the individual who corresponded with Mr. Cuban, nor has he spoken or corresponded with him in any way. After those communications came to light, the matter was referred for disciplinary action against the individual. To avoid any potential appearance issues, Chairman Cox recused himself from the Commission vote, and he has not been involved in this investigation at any time.”<br /></em><br />Read the <a href="http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/insider-trading-or-political-persecution/" target="_blank">entire article </a>at NYTimes.com<br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-22898032703266385442008-11-18T08:09:00.000-08:002008-11-18T08:18:54.015-08:00Threatening With Lien Against An Old Woman's House For ONE CENT!Eileen Wilbur, a 74-year-old blind woman from Attleboro, Massachusetts received a letter from the city administration saying that her home will have a lien placed on it unless she paid ONE CENT that was overdue on her water bill. The stamp on the letter was FORTY TWO CENTS!<br /><br />Oh, the beauty of incompetence!<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-15786206918917176052008-11-18T07:51:00.000-08:002008-11-18T08:05:28.414-08:00Ford Motor Company, CEO Alan Mulally: Public Money Or ElseFord Motor Company, manufacturer of low quality moving mounds of metal known as Ford vehicles, thinks that you, the taxpayer, are stupid.<br /><br />These boneheads fought for years any efforts to increase fuel economy standards, they promoted monstrosities like the Hummer, inefficient SUVs and pickups as demand for foreign oil increased daily, and manufactured junk cars while Toyota and Honda invested billions in efficient cars (see Toyota Prius).<br /><br />He basically says that no, Ford did not cause its own problems by being an incompetent and arrogant bunch of lazy thinkers ... and that bailing out Detroit was essential to the U.S. economic recovery. In other words, more billions of public money for a company that proved to be a total business failure. Otherwise, America will lose another gigantic icon of abysmal ineptitude and now that Bush is gone we can not risk that.<br /><br />Ford CEO Mulally: "<em>we have been there on the fuel efficiency from day one, and it's been part of Bill Ford's original vision of sustainability and energy efficiency and being better environmentally concerned</em>."<br /><br />Haaaaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaaaa!<br /><br />NO PUBLIC MONEY FOR THESE CLOWNS!<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-28939579525469467802008-11-17T22:26:00.000-08:002008-11-17T22:32:17.476-08:00The Bear Stearns Sad Story: Arrogance And Incompetence, The New Pride And PrejudiceBear Stearns, one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world, has met its pathetic end through a fire-sale to JP Morgan Chase for about $10/share, a far cry from its $133.20/share.<br /><br />Why? It's simple: Greed. Arrogance. Incompetence. Carelessness.<br /><br />Its CEO and other financial "wisemen" should be in jail.<br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-80751183090339874922008-11-17T22:22:00.000-08:002008-11-17T22:26:00.861-08:00Save Huge With USPS Vs FedEx and UPSFor next day delivery, the U.S. Postal Service prices are as much as 281 percent cheaper than FedEx and UPS.<br /><br />You must be a GM executive (or Goldman, Citi, Bear Stearn, AIG, etc imbecile) to use UPS or FedEx when USPS is up to 281% less expensive for same service.<br /><br />Oh, don't you love the free market?<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-35196974988562301642008-11-17T22:15:00.001-08:002008-11-17T22:21:18.604-08:00Vikram Pandit's Citi: A Study In ImbecilityVikram Pandit did his best. Too bad that his predecessors were a bunch of arrogant incompetents.<br /><br />Citigroup will cut 50,000 jobs, or about 14% of its workforce in the near-term, according to an internal memo. Its stock price has fallen more than 70% from its 52-week high.<br /><br />If you have money with CitiBank, I would say this: take it and run away! No more Citi Bank, just the matress. Better than to have it lost in a financial worldwide bank collapse.<br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-83976688226640007142008-11-17T22:07:00.001-08:002008-11-17T22:12:26.991-08:00No Public Money Bailout For The Incompetent GMInvesting public money in an abject failure called GM? No way!<br /><br />That company is unamerican ... almost as incompetent as a Bush presidency ... when Toyota was spending money on developing the Prius, GM executives were making jokes about it and spending money on that abysmal atrocity called Hummer.<br /><br />GM - Manufacturer of American junk.<br /><br />Stupid morons - should be in jail. Instead, they are again f***ing up America!<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-75140675752738002352008-11-17T19:44:00.000-08:002008-11-17T19:52:55.440-08:00Sarah Palin “not a reader but a breeder ” - Bill MaherHaaaa haaa haaa.<br /><br />”Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast”<br /><br />One pregnancy for every college Sarah Palin went to ...<br /><br />"... frayed syntax, bungled grammar and run-on sentences that ramble on long after thought has given out completely are a candidate’s valuable traits?"<br /><br />"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”<br /><br /><em>My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars. </em><br /><br />And, she concluded, “<em>never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue</em>.”<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.<br /></span>(A cynic might wonder if Wasilla High School’s English and geography departments are draped in black.)"<br /><br />EXCELLENT ARTICLE - MUST READ - <a href="http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla" target="_blank">The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla </a>by Dick Cavett in NYTimes.com<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-88314527911717812682008-11-17T19:41:00.000-08:002008-11-17T19:43:30.129-08:00Why Does Palin Have Only 5 Children?Where go five, who cares about a 6th? No more sex? Use condoms? Did they plan for 5? The clock has stopped?<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-49183467638864682342008-11-17T18:41:00.000-08:002008-11-17T19:02:11.745-08:00Arianna Huffington Pays For Her Sushi With Stupid Weight Loss Ads<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUmWitKFjjbXZTbJ5dQ3CD17VxKbRGpNd9YvBeTplrg9UYGB2hFHRikXPScOi3vVP9b1-BA0tbeOxHHV4vv_OdTQlRfZQ6I15sjRU-TL-QPEFXAYVTb8eKgs8E6VjrAQfVmIQy76KHHw/s1600-h/hufpost_jenny.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269825596044079058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUmWitKFjjbXZTbJ5dQ3CD17VxKbRGpNd9YvBeTplrg9UYGB2hFHRikXPScOi3vVP9b1-BA0tbeOxHHV4vv_OdTQlRfZQ6I15sjRU-TL-QPEFXAYVTb8eKgs8E6VjrAQfVmIQy76KHHw/s400/hufpost_jenny.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div>HuffingtonPost.com used to be a place where brain owners could go and read articles that actually make sense and write opinions in whole sentences ... a place where they would not feel like endangered species in a country where George W Bush and Sarah Palin were torturing the English language.</div><br /><div>But lately that special place is little by little becoming just another of those web sites where commercial ads for suckers are popping up every two paragraphs, trying to sell you erection enhancing vitamins or quick weight loss potions.</div><br /><div>Please, show me ONE of HuffingtonPost.com readers who would ever think about clicking on the stupid ad above left. Yeah, that disgusting ad targeting the brainless and the desperate was shown on Arianna Huffington's web site on the front page and on Arianna's blog.</div><div> </div><div>Little Jennie, she only wants to tell you how she lost 36 pounds in 3 months, nothing else ...</div><div> </div><div>Arianna, please do something about your GoogleAds program, it is really bringing the site down to the level of those AM talk shows with their Viagra ads every 10 minutes.</div><div><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizen</div>OnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-26113930947933743582008-11-16T16:13:00.001-08:002008-11-16T16:16:52.487-08:00Fat West Virginians Vote Republican<em>"As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue.<br />"It doesn't come up," said David Felinton, 5-foot-9 and 233 pounds, as he walked toward City Hall one recent morning. "We've got a lot of economic challenges here in Huntington. That's usually the focus."<br />Huntington's economy has withered, its poverty rate is worse than the national average, and vagrants haunt a downtown riverfront park. But this city's financial woes are not nearly as bad as its health.<br />Nearly half the adults in Huntington's five-county metropolitan area are obese — an astounding percentage, far bigger than the national average in a country with a well-known weight problem."</em><br /><em></em><br /><em><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081116/ap_on_he_me/med_unhealthiest_city" target="_blank">Read the entire article</a> at Yahoo News</em><br /><br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-5352233657055821652008-11-16T15:50:00.000-08:002008-11-16T16:03:18.486-08:00George W Bush's Departing Gifts To The Oil Industry"The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge — an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates — could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry."<br /><br />"This is the fire sale, the Bush administration's last great gift to the oil and gas industry ..."<br />"The tracts of land offered here, next to Arches National Park or above Desolation Canyon, these are the crown jewels of America's lands that the BLM is offering to the highest bidder."<br />Stephen Bloch, a staff attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.<br /><br />After George W Bush, also known as the incompetent-in-chief, brought an 8-year national nightmare upon our country, there was no logical reason to not let Obama start his presidency on November 5th.<br /><br />If Bush stays in office until the end of Januaray 2009, there will be no functional country for Obama to lead, since incompetent-in-chief's minions will do a "fire-sale" of anything worth something to the oil industry and other corporate backers.<br /><br />It's really a shame. And Bush will forever go down in history as the worst American president ever.<br /><br />If a foreign entity would have devised a plan to bring so much destruction to the American economy and to our country's standing on the international stage as Bush did, that entity would have been designated ENEMY OF THE STATE!<br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-5644544763083892982008-11-15T13:34:00.000-08:002008-11-22T12:51:36.446-08:00Ted Tedesco, Retired U.S. Marine Corps Major, Retired And BoredTed Tedesco, 55, bored to death in his early retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps, could not find anything more useful for the community he lives in than stirring things up at the local school, Woodbury Elementary School (Woodbury, Vermont). The target of his efforts? You guessed it, he pledge of allegiance.<br /><br />"Saying the Pledge in the classroom is legal, convenient and traditional," said Tedesco. "Asking kindergarten through sixth graders who want to say the Pledge to leave their classrooms to do so is neither convenient nor traditional."<br /><br />BrandNewCitizen's take: Farting in the classroom is also legal, convenient, and traditional. And constitutional!<br /><br />Or maybe not!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1121083gas1.html" target="_blank">Florida Boy Arrested For "Breaking Wind" In The Classroom</a><br /><br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698166071910062398.post-10206032532398798802008-11-11T21:09:00.000-08:002008-11-11T21:19:35.120-08:00Support The GOP (The Republican Reform Movement)The Reformist view in the republican party is articulated most fully by books, such as “Comeback” by David Frum and “Grand New Party” by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, as well as the various writings of people like Ramesh Ponnuru, Yuval Levin, Jim Manzi, Rod Dreher, Peggy Noonan, and David Brooks.<br /><br />The Traditionalist view is promoted by guess whom? Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform), Leonard Leo (Federalist Society) and Tony Perkins (Family Research Council).<br /><br />If GOP hopes to ever regain lost political territory, it must support a reform within the party. The traditionalist camp will only keep the conservative movement from becoming again a force on the American political stage.<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.buy.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&aid=10388146&pid=2350979&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fretail%2Fclearance%2Ftodays_deals.asp%3Floc%3D14982" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kingston, Sandisk, Viewsonic, Canon, Toshiba" src="http://www.afcyhf.com/pg70fz2rxvGJKMHQOQGIHKPPILN" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Blog 4 BrandNewCitizenOnDutyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11881457491019767476noreply@blogger.com0