The List, Obama's Eighty Third Week in Office

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Obama's Eighty Third Week in Office

"The List" for 8/26/2010  

Immigration enforcement officials have started to cancel the deportations of thousands of immigrants they have detained, a policy they said would pare huge case backlogs in the immigration courts.

Earlier this year, Michelle Obama announced she wanted to take on childhood obesity, then rolled out the 'Let's Move' initiative, wanted to bring 'those lessons' about not being able to cook for her family, but forgot all that today in Iowa- trying to win over Iowa voters...., "   “Our main reason…at least the girls and I…we’re here for the state fair. I don’t know about you. We’re going to get some stuff on a stick. I don’t care what it is – a hot dog, a Snickers bar -- we’re eating everything on a stick today.”

Obama has raked in millions for the Democrats despite low poll numbers

Charlie Crist Secretly Went to See Obama This Past Friday

Obama in 4th round of golf on Martha's Vineyard

9/11 Mosque Imam Boasts in Arabic, "Obama's historic speech in Egypt came from me!" (audio link on page)

Ohio “Stimulus” Tax Dollars Create Jobs… in El Salvador

Hospital to cut about 50 jobs Cutbacks blamed on Obamacare

HealthMarkets, the North Richland Hills-based seller of health insurance, laid off 70 employees this month and expects to trim 180 more positions by the end of the first quarter of 2011, according to a recent federal filing.  

EPA Now Accepting Public Comment on Petition to Ban Lead in Ammunition and Fishing Tackle

The fishermen’s flotilla: Showdown at Martha’s VineyardA local fisherman took out a full-page ad in the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette. How about a fish and chips summit, Mr. President?

"The List" for 8/25/2010  

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has dropped its requirement for "stimulus" project propaganda signage, according to a communiqué from the department’s inspector general. As of July 15 the policy changed, the I.G. says, and signs and plaques promoting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) at jobsites and on things like "stimulus"-funded railroad cars were “strongly encouraged” in lieu of the mandate.

The parents of an American soldier in Afghanistan have accused the U.S. government of leaving defenders of its freedoms without basics such as blankets, food, feminine hygiene supplies and even bullets

Deere & Co. (DE) has quietly dropped out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer of farm machinery, opted to leave the U.S. Climate Action Partnership in May because the group’s legislative strategy “no longer served as a foundation for moving forward”

Obama breaks from vacation to phone Geithner, Summers

A damning memo shows the administration knew its oil drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico would kill tens of thousands of jobs but did it anyway.

The State Department has had the taxpayers bankroll what amounts to an Obama campaign pamphlet concocted for the consumption of a foreign entity: the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Its message: "A more perfect union, a more perfect world."

President Obama Says "I'm Having a Great Time" On Vacation

More information on Imam Rauf's Hush-Hush Taxpayer-Subsidized Middle East Tour — Plus, Inside the Victory Mosque's Shady Washington-Riyadh Finance Trail

Report of Investigation Park 51: the Money Trail   “global warming,” “global governance” and “sustainable development” connection with the proposed Ground Zero mosque and the Obama administration

Obama war on oil: Drillers May Face Months of Waiting Even After Obama Lifts Deep-Water Ban

Destabiliztion of Iraq from Obama withdrawals: Dozens killed in wave of bombings across Iraq

The Obama administration's plan to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 is giving a morale boost to the Taliban, Afghan officials said Wednesday, echoing remarks made by a top U.S. military official a day earlier.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976

Biden: GOP arguments on extending tax cuts 'a bunch of malarkey'

Biden: NIH Critics ‘Know Nothing About Science’

Obama’s Justice Department has argued in favor of federal law enforcement officers using race as a factor in determining whether to stop someone for a suspected immigration violation. It has done so despite the fact that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report that they do not engage in “racial profiling.”

Pentagon Whitewashes Cause of Ft. Hood Massacre

Obamanomics: An economist who advised Democrats on the $787 billion stimulus has increased his prediction of the odds of the economy entering a double-dip recession. Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, pegged the chances of a second recession at one in three.

Obama on at least two occasions told specifically Muslim audiences that America is a nation of   "non-believers

VIDEO: Letterman: Obama Will “Have Plenty of Time for Vacations After His One Term is Up.”

New home sales fell 12.4 percent in July to the slowest pace on record, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, confirming that the U.S. housing market continues to falter.

Obamaconomy: Morgan Stanley Says Government Defaults Inevitable

1 in 5 Seniors could be forced to switch their drug plan under Obamacare

"The List" for 8/24/2010  

AUDIO: Rauf's admission about Cairo speech

9/11 Mosque Imam, Rauf, Says He Wrote Much of the Guts of Obama's Cairo Speech

The State Department author confirmed Obama was a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S. from 1961 to 1963 and a dual citizen of Kenya and the U.S. from 1963 to 1982, because his father was a Kenyan citizen when Obama was born in 1961

Obama''s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council is used to bash Arizona's immigration law -- and possibly transfer jurisdiction over the law from Arizona to the UN.

Obama response to shots across Mexican/Texas border?  Keep the kids home and out of the line of fire.  The U.S. consulate in Monterrey warned local U.S. citizens that Friday's shootout in front of the prestigious American School Foundation stemmed from a failed kidnapping, and advised personnel to keep their children out of school—

Weekly unemployment claims hit 500,000 exceeding every forecast

The Obama administration will appeal a court ruling that undercut its efforts to expand stem cell research

Top Obama backer hosts fundraiser for Crist's independent bid

State Department “Aware” of Ground Zero Mosque Imam’s Controversial Remarks

Ground Zero imam hails Iran's Islamic revolution

US funding the State Department to purchase and distribute copies of Ground Zero Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's book, What's Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West

The controversial imam behind a proposal  to build an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero has advocated a plan that is widely regarded here as promoting the eradication of Israel as a Jewish state.

WH: No further comment from Obama on NYC mosque

The top U.S. Marine general said President Barack Obama’s announced July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan had given “sustenance” to the Taliban.

BIDEN: 'We're moving in the right direction'

Marines don't want to share rooms with gays: General

Obama's Martha's Vineyard lodging costs between $35,000 and $50,000 a week

The Justice Department threatened several universities with legal action because they took part in an experimental program to allow students to use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks.

VIDEO: Rod Blagojevich says his ethics the same as senator Reid, Rahm Imanuel, and Obama

ICE Won’t Arrest Illegal Aliens Caught In Traffic Stops

Border Patrol Joins ICE Agents In Condemning Obama Administration

U.S. Second Fleet in jeopardy as DOD continues to trim budget

While Obama  was “forcefully” endorsing the Ground Zero Mosque, Michelle Obama was paying homage with her presence to the Great Mosque at Granada,  which overlooks what was once Islam’s most important outpost in Europe, the Alhambra palace in Granada.

A White House report unveiled Tuesday says tens of billions of dollars in stimulus energy funding is helping to greatly expand deployment of technologies such as solar power, “smart” electrical meters and advanced batteries

U.S. taxpayer money is funding mosque development around the world. Just a cursory search of the term “mosque” on the State Department’s list of “projects” reveals 26 examples of federal funds going to fund construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of various mosques abroad

Existing home sales dive to 15-year low

The sale of existing U.S. homes sank 27.2% in July - the biggest one-month drop ever - largely because of the phase-out of a federal tax credit, according to an industry trade group

Ground Zero Imam’s Wife Now Being Sent on Taxpayer Funded Trip to Middle East

Texas Governor Rick Perry has accused President Barack Obama of "gambling with American lives" after a bullet believed to be from a gun battle in Mexico hit a building in the US state

Fishermen against Obama job destruction; On Thursday, a fleet of fishermen will gather at Martha’s Vineyard to protest Obama’s destructive eco-policies.

Obama administration relented on Monday in the face of public pressure and national news highlighting how the Health and Human Services Department refused to make public a new study showing the effectiveness of abstinence education programs

Despite that Obama made Cap and Trade and other green policy plans a focal point of his early days in office -- not to mention his campaign for president -- the White House has quietly scrubbed from its official website many of Obama's promises and green initiatives

Cut and run Obama: A majority of Iraqis believe it was the wrong time for a major withdrawal of US combat troops, a poll said on Tuesday, with more than half also warning that it would have negative consequences.

"The List" for 8/23/2010  

Obama's administration asked U.S. doctors Monday to get on board with health reform legislation passed in March, saying those who embrace change will prosper.

Navy delays new combat ship contract

The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America's human rights record is less than perfect in a UN report

A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of Congress. The ruling by Judge Royce C. Lamberth was a blow to the Obama administration, which last year issued guidelines to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

On Friday the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation momentarily took over(Obama) politically-connected ShoreBank, just long enough to relieve it of some of its woes and then turn it back over to the same people to continue its same failed mission.

The United States is concerned about Iran's nuclear intentions, not the weapons systems it develops, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, referring to several recent unveilings by the Islamic Republic of self-made advanced military equipment.

U.S. court rules against Obama's stem cell policy

WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of The Washington Times offices after being confronted with his own statments

Was Obama given a certificate number which had belonged to someone else?

Confirmed: Stanley Ann Dunham began studies in September 1961, not August

Neither the White House nor critics of an Obama administration report is crying uncle in a dispute over a government report suggesting that three-fourths of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is "gone."

Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by Obamacare.

Justice Department caves in- approves Georgia voter verification system

Cordoba Mosque, Imam Rouff in 2005: US has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda does of innocent non-Muslims (currently on State Dept. paid tour)

Iran Goes Nuclear, Obama Goes Swimming!

Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war

Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts DEA wants “Black English” linguists to decipher bugged calls

FDA chief on salmonella: Agency needs more authority

FDA exploits salmonella eggs recall to pursue food sterilization agenda

WH Visitor Logs Suggest J Street Contributed To U.S.-Israel Diplomatic Crisis J Street representatives met with the Obama administration frequently during the flare-up resulting from Joe Biden's visit to Israel.

Obama ‘personally told the Muslims that he is a Muslim,’ Iowa Republican says. Kim Lehman, who is one of Iowa’s two national Republican Committee members, may be one of the first national committee members to publicly state she believes Obama is a Muslim.

Obama in 2004 interview: I'm a Christian

Obama to tax foreign tourists $10 each...to fund a program promoting tourism to foreigners.

The List" for 8/22/2010  

Obama's recess appointment, Dr. Donald Berwick, to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is a key figure in Physicians for Human Rights, an international organization that in recent years has been an aggressive and dishonest critic of Israel.

Obamanomics: In Striking Shift, Small Investors Flee Stock Market

Obamanomics: Fund Flows Show An Enormous Panic

New York Times: Nonprofit Fund Faces Questions About Conflicts and Selection Procedures

Questions arise as millions in federal grants go to former employers of Obama admin officials: In July, the Obama administration established a new $50 million federal “Social Innovation Fund” aimed at financing successful non-profit programs. According to this New York Times report, it looks like the program is potentially rife with conflicts of interest and has made questionable grants:

The United States sees no "proliferation risk" from Iran's Russian-built first nuclear power plant at Bushehr that was loaded with fuel Saturday, the State Department said.

Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday that President Obama's political advisers are out of touch with average Americans and need to ''spend some time outside Washington.''

Obama's Played More Golf in 2 Yrs. Than Bush Did Both Terms

New Morning-After Pill Ella Wins FDA Approval; effective for up to five days after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure.

Not Church day, it's Sunday and Obama is on vacation, so that means it's time for another round of golf on Martha's Vineyard.

Obama plans a major speech on Iraq after his return to Washington as the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Iraq

New Evidence That The Obama Stimulus Was a Bust; it would have been the same if we had done nothing

The List" for 8/21/2010  

Outrage: DoD’s final report classifies Fort Hood jihad as “workplace violence”

Michelle Obama portrait debuts at Smithsonian

Photo: Obama's irregular passport

Obama passport mystery continues: -ays he was born in Hawaii, but the White House has strategically fuzzed out certain data, also the “M” in Obama and the “M” in America- are not the same and the security features (the stars) that are across his face are not centered in the same place as other passports

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ decision to close the Joint Forces Command has the backing of its former and incoming commanders and is likely to be approved by President Barack Obama before Sept. 1, according to a memo widely circulated to Hampton Roads elected officials Friday.

Obama warned voters Saturday about the hidden influence of corporate donations in midterm campaigns after a Supreme Court decision this year that allows companies, unions and other special interests to spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of candidates and causes for the first time. The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide."

Obama once again lashed out at corporate America, foreign corporations

DHS Helping Illegal Alien Felon Who Voted To Become a U.S. Citizen

Oil Drilling Ban Costs 23,000 Jobs, Administration Found

Obama Administration Stonewalls Full Release of Major Abstinence Study ; The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is withholding the full results of a government study that makes a strong case for promoting abstinence before marriage over sexual education promoting “safe sex.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is firing back at Obama’s renewed call to pass a campaign-finance reform bill before the November election. Chamber Vice President Bruce Josten on Saturday said Democrats are trying to push the legislation as a way to protect their own jobs in Congress rather than focusing on creating jobs for Americans across the country.

The List" for 8/20/2010  

A local project that Obama cited during a visit Wednesday to Columbus as an example of how the federal stimulus package has worked isn't actually being funded with stimulus dollars.

The Obama administration asked Friday that the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 be returned to a Scottish prison.

Shame of Obama aunt asylum files: An aunt of Obama was allowed to stay in the United States on the shocking grounds that she would be persecuted by Kenyan leaders if she was forced to return to the country.  The Kenyan government reacted angrily to the US Immigration court’s apparent endorsement of claims by Ms Zeituni Onyango -- the half-sister of the American President’s Kenyan father -- that she would be persecuted if she was deported.  Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Mutula Kilonzo described the claims as “ridiculous and an insult to Kenyans”.

Obama propaganda: The U.S. Department of Transportation imposed strict guidelines for the placement, size, and visibility of signs promoting the $862-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Nearly half of the homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration's flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out.

White House web site has a disappearing Cap-and-Trade Act

Obama now blames poor job numbers on congressional inaction.

More Afghan War Deaths Under Obama Than Bush

Napolitano: Government pro-active on border security

ICE Chief Morton to Field: See No Illegal Aliens

Another Team Obama draft memo we’re not supposed to worry about

As Obama runs away, Iraq prepares for civil war

Large employers are expecting next year’s health costs increase more than they did this year, with ObamaCare’s new regulations taking much of the blame

According to an analysis by Weiss Ratings, several small insurers will be driven out of business by ObamaCare’s new restrictions. “

Obamacare: Faced with rising health costs, large employers plan to shift burden to workers

Obama has appointed Maria del Carmen Aponte to be Ambassador to El Salvador. Three United States Senators have a hold on her nomination. Why? Because she had a longterm relationship with a top Cuban spy

[Nachum]

Another week, another few rounds of golf.

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[JoeFromCA]

It’s interesting to me that overweight people, like Michelle Obama and Dr. Phil, can lead campaigns for people to loose weight. Seems to me their credibility would be questioned.

[Nachum]

You would think!