As the debt ceiling-budget stand-off continues in Washington DC with Republicans drooling over their big chance to roll back FDR’s New Deal programs and slash the tires on LBJ’s Great Society jalopy, some words from Franklin Roosevelt’s Inaugural speech of Jan 20, 1937 seem appropriate for the short-sighted on Capitol Hill. Actually, I believe theses Utopians are very long-sighted since the plan
Tag: White House
Obama administration turns heavy-handed with reporter
Whoa, it seems the Obama administration has a beef against a free press. Or should a reporter breaking a politician’s rule be overlooked?This incident could resound in a loud tsk tsk upon the administration’s promised transparency. But they all promise transparency as they walk in the White House door, don’t they? Old secrets await them and new secrets pile up as the presidential days tick by.And
White House Releases Obama’s Birth Certificate!
NPR BREAKING NEWS: Copy Of Obama Birth Certificate Released The White House has released a copy of the long form of President Obama’s birth certificate from Hawaii. The president was expected to discuss his birth certificate in a statement later Wednesday. More at NPR.
White House Visitors Logs Full of Gaps (video)
The promised transparency of the Obama White House seems…Swiss-cheese-like with a Cheney tinge when it comes to who met with the president on key issues at key times within the environs of the people’s White House, and the "junior aide" ploy seems a ruse meant to confuse.Can anyone be surprised?
2012? The prez-runniness of Newt Gingrich
Update 9:42 pm est: With Gingrich’s IRS filing completed, you may now donate as you wish.Original post begins here:Will the erstwhile fellow toss his hat into the White House ring or won’t he?Apparently a certain political maverick of dinosaur proportions will run for president in 2012 but Newt Gingrich has a lot of past baggage to shift around and repack before he even begins trudging the
John Wheeler death a "targeted hit" says widow
Here’s a recent update on the mysterious December 2010 murder of former White House aide and bioweapons expert John P. Wheeler reporting his widow’s opinion that her husband’s murder was a professional "targeted hit".And she and the Wheeler family have been treated like "criminals" during the police ‘investigation’! Mr. Wheeler’s body was apparently thought to be permanently hidden in a dumpster,
More on John Wheeler murder, dead birds, and Phosgene
What Does It Mean? has information on the recent murder of John Wheeler with details on the Air Force base in Arkansas from which deadly Phosgene was being transported and used in devilish experiments in Arkansas where the first reports came about mysteriously dead red wing blackbirds. Area residents have experienced hundreds of minor earthquakes possibly due to the US military’s actions with
Scott Simon encapsulates Labor Day 2010
No Astrology this morning, just a link to one of the best Simon Says features I’ve heard NPR Weekend Edition’s Scott Simon deliver in a long time. It gives an intimate picture of Labor Day 2010 in America – personal without being too personal – and the sorry unemployment rate that Americans and their families are dealing with.They’d Trade Labor Day for Days of Labor briefly but succinctly
Virgo New Moon for Rosh Hashannah Sep 8, 2010
Do you know there’s more to Rosh Hashanah than being New Years Day in the Jewish calendar?Beginning at sundown on September 8, 2010, this year’s 48-hour festivities are marked by a New Moon 15Vir41 in 11th house of *Israel’s 1948 natal chart (ASC 23Lib01 with chart-ruler Venus 4Can48 in 9th house and conjunct US n Venus and Jupiter; Israel’s mavericky n Jupiter 27Sag39 Rx in 3rd house.) The New