Obamas use our vets for political power
based on a post by Laura Ingraham – 05/18/12

The Obama campaign is unveiling its "Military Families and Veterans for Obama" ad push and nary a word from our “mainstream” media about the propriety of this. And who thinks that the Dems and their media wouldn't be in full melt-down if Republicans tried anything like this. Of course individual service members are part of the electorate like everyone else and have political opinions that are by no means monolithic. But all Americans should agree that the military shouldn't be used as props for political purposes, shouldn't be politicized by consultants and campaign hacks.

Obama can advertise that the military loves him while any and every military person is prohibited by military law from stating a contrary opinion!

All responsible citizens of every stripe should call out our commander-in-chief for allowing this cheap and tasteless politicizing of the military. This is just plain disgusting.

Hefty Salaries, Perks, For Union Leaders Raise Eyebrows

First-class travel. Six-figure salaries for half the 132 officers and staffers. Plenty of plum jobs for family members.

Life is good at the top of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers.

The union, with its headquarters in Kansas City, Kan., represents about 59,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada who make and repair boilers, fit pipes and work on ships and power plants. The recession has hit their trade hard, reducing union membership.

At the same time, the president’s salary has surged 67 percent in the past six years, not counting a recent raise. Add in travel and some other expenses, and Newton B. Jones received more than $600,000 last year, putting him at the absolute top of the presidents of the dozen biggest unions in the country.

Many relatives of union officers also ride the payroll.

Totaling the pay to just the families of Jones and two other executives, the union and its affiliates gave them more than $2 million in annual salary, according to the most recent financial reports filed by the organizations.

This pisses me off. This is what socialism is. The masses get the shaft in the name of "fairness" and "equality" while the elite get their personal s

http://www.afp.com/en

In his most forensic examination of Romney's record yet, Obama praised the former
Massachusetts governor and millionaire venture capitalist as a patriot and a good family man,
who had done well in business.

"But I think he has drawn the wrong lessons from those 
experiences. He sincerely believes (when) CEOs and wealthy 
investors like him make money the rest of us will automatically
prosper as well."

Obama is actually correct on this one. Romney seems to believe that when corporations are profitable they reinvest in the private market, growing their business and growing the economy.

Where as Obama seems to believe that sponging up all the profit from the private market and redistributing it in places like Solindra and amongst his political cronies and special interest groups will somehow help the country.

Obama reverts to 2008 plan: Blame Bush

No sooner had Mitt Romney effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination than President Obama began to sharpen his attacks — on former President George W. Bush.

In pushing for a tax increase this week on millionaires, Mr. Obama said an unfair impact of tax cuts for the wealthy were enacted during the “eight years before I took office.” A White House spokesman argued that Mr. Bush’s tax policies contributed to “global economic chaos.”

He knows he owns our economic problems and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. In fact, if Bush is responsible for destroying life as we know it, Obama should be held criminally liable for ignoring it while he and his liberal cohorts had the government in a full nelson. Instead, he decided health care would be the solution to all our problems and squandered a Democratic lock on Congress.

Cops Take School Kids' DNA in Murder Case

The Sacramento Sheriff's Department, which has been spearheading the investigation into the murder of Jessica Funk-Haslam, 13, said parental consent was not required in the DNA collection and interview of minors, several of whom were taken out of class during the day last week at Albert Einstein Middle School.

"These are interviews, not interrogations," Sheriff's Deputy Jason Ramos told ABCNews.com. "They are all consensual. Once it's done, there is a mechanism in place for school administrators to notify parents."

So a cop with a gun leaning over a kid and intimidating them into allowing an invasive search is considered "consensual"? If the kid had refused what would have happened? My guess is that they would have immediately been considered a "person of interest" in the case and further action would have been taken.

Charla Nash’s Lawyer Blames State For Chimp Attack, Seeks $150 Million

STAMFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) - Charla Nash is still recovering from a face transplant and wants to sue the state of Connecticut over the chimpanzee attack that nearly killed her three years ago.

The problem here is that the state's failure to enforce a law didn't create a reasonable assumption of safety. Mrs. Nash knew the chimp was there. If she had walked in without knowledge of a dangerous animal, and the animal attacked, she may have a case that a statute created a false sense of security.

This looks more like an ambulance chaser got a hold of her and convinced her she could hit the jackpot. Too bad it's the taxpayers that will be funding this lawyers next trip to the Bahamas.

Lol at all of you who thought TPC was dead. We're revving up for round three. I've got a lot of catching up to do so stand by while I repopulate the front page.

Welcome back!

Deuteronomy 5:21 — Commandment # 10

21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair…

Liberal class warfare rhetoric has nothing to do with “fairness” but everything to do with coveting thy neighbor’s portfolio.

Supermarket Agrees to Pay Student $10K For Hitting This Half-Court Shot…After ‘Occupy’ Protest

When University of Kentucky freshman Vincent Swope hit a half-court shot at halftime on Saturday — the kind no one ever really makes — he took a victory lap. He had just won $10,000. Or did he?

Almost immediately, someone from the contest approached him with the rules, and said that Swopes might not win the money from the sponsor — the supermarket chain, Kroger — because he could have been slightly over the line.

This only goes to show that we don't need rules. We just need to protest when we don't like something and all will be made right.