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The USDOT was about to shut down construction projects and furlough about 2000 employees on Monday.  Who is to blame?  Senator Bunning who should, as Laura Ingram pointed out on her show yesterday, should win some kind of an award for trying to avoid further debt spending..

The Department of Transportation (WAS EXPECTED- Sic) will furlough nearly 2,000 employees without pay Monday, temporarily shutting down highway reimbursements to states worth hundreds of millions of dollars, national anti-drunk driving efforts, and multi-million dollar construction projects across the country.

The action comes as a result of Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning’s decision to block key legislation that would have extended several critical priorities for middle class families. That legislation covered tax credits for COBRA health coverage, unemployment insurance for 400,000 people, as well as the short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund. The Fund supports all surface transportation programs for the nation – highways, bridges, transit and safety inspections, as well as efforts to encourage seat belt use and to fight distracted and impaired driving.http://www.dot.gov/affairs/2010/dot3610.htm

We understand some of these projects are probably necessary, but when it comes down to putting in sidewalks in the Virgin Islands and making the entryway more appealing at Sequoia National Park- you have to stop right there and say enough is enough.  These are not projects that we would define as critical as LaHood claims.

LaHood saying, “The action comes as a result of Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning’s decision to block key legislation,” is politics at its best.  The action comes on the heels of the largest debt the U.S. has ever-seen with President Obama signing away billions in federal funding.

The mention of spending  federal funds for seat belt education just boils my blood.  Mandatory seat belt laws gave police the right to pull you over and cite you with a ticket if they see you driving with out being buckled up.  Click it or Ticket.   In our state you are required then to attend a government sponsored traffic and education program that you are also required to pay for. 

We wear our seat belts not because the government makes us but because it saves lives. In fact we were rear ended by a drunk who managed to literally leave tire tracks on the driver side doors.  Kids in the car seats with adults buckled up thankfully.  We were okay, he on the other hand flew through the window.  Jackass.  MADD- Mother’s Against Drunk Driving has good intentions but to receive federal funding at a time when many Americans can’t afford to buy a new car? 

“The Senate acted late tonight to break its logjam, extending the Highway Trust Fund for another 30 days,” wrote Ray LaHood http://fastlane.dot.gov/2010/03/senate-extends-highway-trust-fund-dot-employees-back-on-the-job-wednesday.html.

Here’s a look at some of the “critical” construction projects that you are paying for:

Federal Lands Construction Affected By Furlough  
State Project Cost
Alaska Tongass National Forest road clean up $1,100,000
Alaska Coffman Cove Dock construction $885,000
Arizona Coronado National Monument main park entrance $1,500,000
Arkansas East Fly Gap and Gunner Pool Roads landslides restoration $923,000
California Sequoia National Park main entrance $15,000,000
California South Fork Smith River $13,800,000
California Golden Gate National Recreation Area road construction $8,700,000
District of Columbia 9th Street Bridge replacement $50,000,000
Georgia Chicakamauga & Chattanogga National Military Park constrution $634,000
Idaho Salmon River Road Nez Perce National Forest consctruction $20,133,000
Idaho Little Salmon River Bridge Nez Perce National Forest intersection $3,800,000
Idaho Fernan Lakes Idaho Panhandle National Forest $14,600,000
Illinois McRraven Road reconstruction $1,100,000
Maryland Great Falls Park entrance road construction $3,100,000
Maryland Piscataway National Park erosion and slope damage repair $89,000
Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway resurfacing $8,100,000
Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway trail construction (Ridgeland County) 5,600,000
Mississippi Vicksburg National Military Park road rehabilitation and resurfacing $5,000,000
Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway trail construction (Madison County) $4,700,000
New Mexico Carlsbad Caverns National Monument roadway rehabilitation $9,000,000
North Carolina Newfound Gap road rehabilitation $9,900,000
North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway reconstruction and resurfacing $6,000,000
North Carolina Goshen Creek Bridge replacement $3,000,000
Ohio Fitzwater Road bridges replacement $4,400,000
Oregon Beaver Creek Road Ochoco National Forest $6,200,000
South Carolina Ft. Sumter Historic Site entrance road and parking area rehabilitation $262,000
Tennessee Cades Cove Loop Road rehabilitation $6,700,000
Tennessee Shilo National Park tour roads and parking area rehabilitation $3,000,000
Tennessee Catossa Wildlife Management Area bridge replacement $1,000,000
Utah Bear River Access Road $13,800,000
Virginia/DC George Washington Parkway Humpback Bridge replacement $36,000,000
Virginia Blue Ridge Parkway reconstruction and resurfacing $12,000,000
Virginia Petersburg Park tour road relocation $1,500,000
Puerto Rico Vieques National Wildlife Refuge road and bridge reconstruction $6,000,000
Puerto Rico El Yonque National Forest slide repair $3,000,000
U.S. Virgin Islands Christiansted Bypass construction $14,000,000
U.S. Virgin Islands Centerline Road reconstruction $9,000,000
U.S. Virgin Islands St. John roundabout construction $7,200,000
U.S. Virgin Islands Long Bay Road reconstruction $5,500,000
U.S. Virgin Islands University of Virgin Island sidewalk construction $988,000
U.S. Virgin Islands North Shore Road reconstruction $448,000

Enough with the national monuments and national parks, how about fixing some simple potholes on the nation’s highways first?

Note that 37.5 million is being spent in Nancy Pelosi’s home state of California, and 37.2 million in the Virgin Islands.  Yes, the Virgin Islands- must be all that snow that they are getting from global warming tearing up the road surfaces.

All those projects and only 2000 employees were going to be effected?  What?  Are these the people that sit in offices or the actual construction workers themselves?  How much money are we talking about in salary for these 2,000 people? How much money did everyone of those stupid dot gov recovery gov signs cost?  There’s some savings for you!

More information is also available at Secretary LaHood’s twitter account, www.twitter.com/RayLaHood, and at his facebook page, www.facebook.com/sec.lahood. should you want to ask him why the investigation of Toyota has taken so long as well.

As for Bunning, pretty disgraceful of the Republicans to not stand by his side.  He may be long off the pitcher’s mound, but don’t think for one minute he isn’t going to throw another curve ball when it comes to spending.

Next time around, we would hope the Republicans, and hope against hope that some Democrat would rise up and catch the foul ball in the debt game that the Senate is playing. 

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“THE PATRIOT MICRO CHIP” is intended to be implanted in Terrorists. The implant is specifically designed to be installed in the forehead. When properly installed, it will allow the implantee to speak to God.
It comes in various sizes.
The exact size of the implant will be selected by a well-trained and highly-skilled technician.  The implant may or may not be painless.  Side effects, like headaches and nausea, are temporary.  Some bleeding or swelling may occur at the injection site.  Please enjoy the security we provide for you.
The US MARINES!
This came from a reader at Glen Beck’s fan club on facebook http://www.facebook.com/GlennBeck?ref=nf which is full of political visions.
Nine years later no decision has yet been made on where, nor what kind of trial should be held for the 9-11 terrorists by The White House.  
Attorney General Eric Holder is leaving open the possibility of trying professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission instead of the civilian trial originally planned for New York City.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123641904
The decision of the trials ultimately falls to the President of the United States.  Bush couldn’t get it done under his term and we are coming to wonder if these trials will occur during the Obama Presidency or the next administration. 
It’s a good thing we didn’t close Gitmo after all.  
Twelve images newly released by the government of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center provide a fresh look at the tragedy and its impact on New York City via http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/newly-released-sept-11-photos-world-trade-center/story?id=9798856.
ABC calls it a fresh look at the tragedy!  These horrific images should be displayed everyday as a reminder of what Mohammed and his co-defendants, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi and Walid bin Attash are accused of.
The charges:  committing terrorism and conspiring with al-Qaida to murder civilians on September 11, 2001   They also face 2,973 counts of murder, one for each person killed in 2001 when hijacked passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/alqaida.guantanamo

Click on the candle for a list of names of people who died in September 11 Memorial

On June 5, 2008 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged al-Qaida co-conspirator faced a US military judge for the first time.  What kind of presidence is it to show the world it takes seven years for your first court appearance?  American justice is not putting it’s best foot forward.  Now almost another two years later even Obama, a supposed Harvard educated lawyer is dragging his feet to put the trial behind us.
The alleged mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks has disposed of the US military lawyer allocated to defend him and told a Guantánamo tribunal that he would welcome being put to death, reported The Guardian.
We be willing to bet that the 2,973 families who lost loved ones would welcome his death as well.   The Marines Patriot Microchip seems like a good solution.

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As Senator Bunning has voted no to unemployment benefit extensions, the government is blaming winter for higher jobless rates!

Where’s the money honey?  There isn’t anymore.  Period. 

Finally someone, that person being Senator Bunning, has stood up in halt the extension of unemployment benefits to stop the sucking sounds coming from our national debt. 

Claiming he already explained why he was filibustering a bill, he refused to talk to the press en route to the Senate Floor…

Senator Bunning was even more expressive before the cameras arrived, using a little sign language.  When Senate producer Z. Byron Wolf spotted Bunning exiting his office, Bunning said, “I’m not talking to anybody.” When Wolf asked him to stay and talk to our cameras, Bunning walked toward the elevator and shot the middle finger over his head via http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/sen-bunning-tells-abc-senators-only-ele

Too bad more Senators and Americans don’t use that finger more often at the abuse our Constitution and the U.S economy is taking under President Obama.  Yes we get that we need health care reform and a whole lot of other things too, but the way to do it is to lower taxes for business and create jobs to get people off unemployment and the welfare system. 

Enough already, stop the printing presses if you really want to hug a tree.  China is selling its U.S. treasury debt to Japan.  Russia and others and even the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are revisiting the U.S. dollars reliability as the basket currency.   In all actuality, we may not have to worry about keeping those printing presses going because the dollar will be worthless and at the very least, worth less.

Here’s the latest data on unemployment data from http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm.  It is a lot of people, some being on unemployment for around 199 weeks! 

The outlook isn’t looking better anytime soon.  To put a spin on more expected bad news in anticipation of this Fridays coming jobless report, Reuters is reporting that White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday, “Winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures.”

The government is blaming winter for higher jobless rates!  Like we’ve never had winter before?  This is the same federal government that is shoving cap and trade, global warming, health care, the H1N1 vaccine, mercury laden light bulbs, and near socialism right down your throat. 

Still analyzing February weather data, “During the month of January, the U.S. experienced near–normal temperatures and slightly above–normal precipitation — see the national temperature and precipitation state of the climate report. These environmental conditions, as well as record snowfall during December 2009, were associated with above-normal snow cover extents across the contiguous U.S. and North America for the month. Snow cover extent during January 2010 ranked as sixth largest January extent since 1967 for North America and the United States,” said the government at http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=snow&year=2010&month=1

The Moderate Voice had this to say,http://themoderatevoice.com/64559/its-snow-news/:

The previous week, the local news stations and TV all-news networks identified a crippling snow as “Snowmageddon” and “Snowpocalyse.” This week, with its winds, we learned about “Snowicane.”

“And so for two back-to-back snow-somethings, we had almost unlimited Team Coverage. The teams interviewed business owners—”So, how’s the snow affecting your business?” They interviewed residents—”So, how’s the snow affecting your plans?” They even interviewed public officials—”So, how’s the snow affecting your budget?”

Praise and props to Bunning.  Surely somehow our elected officials will figure out a way to reinstate the benefits to help people.  Surely the climatologists will find that global temperatures are increasing.  In the meantime, the unemployed with nothing else to do will be bundling up, shoveling more snow listening to more crap. 

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Giving total props to http://polizeros.com/2010/03/01/national-hurricane-center-disagrees-with-ipcc-about-global-warming-and-hurricanes/

We have come to substantially different conclusions from the IPCC,” said Chris Landsea, a lead scientist at the American government’s National Hurricane Center, who co-authored the report.

He added: “There are a lot of legitimate concerns about climate change but, in my opinion, hurricanes are not among them. We are looking at a decrease in frequency and a small increase in severity.” Landsea said he regarded the use of hurricane icons on the cover of Gore’s book as “misleading”.

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Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist acted alone in the anthrax attacks of 2001, according to a now closed investigation by the U.S. Government.

Feb. 20, 2010. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The federal government yesterday formally closed the books on the 2001 anthrax attack that terrorized Palm Beach County and a nation still reeling from the Sept. 11 attack just weeks earlier.

The Justice Department said yesterday that it was convinced that Bruce Ivins, an Army microbiologist, sent the letters laced with anthrax powder that killed five people, sickened 17 and shut down government offices and media outlets across the country. http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2010/02/20/copy/Anthrax_COX_0220.ART_ART_02-20-10_A3_72GL50O.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Adding:

Stevens’ attorney, Richard Schuler, has questioned how a mentally unstable man (Ivins) could be allowed to continue working with dangerous substances.  “All the information (released yesterday) is very helpful to our case,” Schuler said yesterday.  “If you look at what they wrote, the lapse in security was horrendous. They didn’t have any way to keep track of these highly dangerous substances,” he said.

Ivins Beaker?

According to his therapist Jean Duley, we have allowed a homicidal maniac to work with anthrax for at least the past 7 years, as a United States government microbiologist and vaccinologist for 36 years and senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland for 18 years. This shows either extraordinary incompetence or very excellent planning. via http://conspiracytheory.itsverycool.com/dr-bruce-ivins-the-perfect-patsy/911/2008/08/04/

 In 2008, “The FBI says that in the days before the letters were sent, he grew frustrated with the state of his research, spent late nights in his lab, and sent e-mails describing his paranoid delusions. Ivins’ e-mails (PDF) also warned that Osama Bin Laden had “decreed death to all Jews and all Americans”—language similar to that used in the anthrax letters.http://www.slate.com/id/2196986/

Slate goes on to say, “Just after the 9/11 attacks—and weeks before the anthrax letters were found—the White House distributed the antibiotic Cipro to staffers, including those traveling with Vice President Dick Cheney. This has drawn the attention of many on the conspiracy fringe. Why would the White House have handed out an antibiotic used to treat exposure to anthrax—unless, maybe, possibly, our government knew something that we didn’t?

Hereinreality had this to say, ” All of this flies in the face of the picture that friends, neighbors and co-workers paint of a man who played music in church, juggled at Red Cross fundraisers, and wrote and performed songs for retiring co-workers (and was awarded the highest honor the Department of Defense gives to civilians).http://www.hereinreality.com/anthrax/whoisjeanduley.html

In July 2008,,”…the Justice Department cleared Ivins’ colleague, Steven Hatfill, who had been wrongly suspected in the case, and paid him $5.8 million.”  http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/08/01/bruce-e-ivins-2001-anthrax-suspect-commits-suicide-as-fbi-justice-department-about-to-file-charges/

An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick’s infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said…, raising concerns that officials wouldn’t know whether dangerous toxins were missing.   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703271.html  As reported previouslyhttps://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/ft-detrick-lab-missing-9000-virus-vials-scientists-still-dying-from-unnatural-causes/-in June 2009-

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Years after the anthrax attacks and vials are still going missing!

The Wall Street Journal claimed in January 2010 that the anthrax case is far from being closed, “If Ivins had neither the equipment or skills to weaponize anthrax with silicon, then some other party with access to the anthrax must have done it. Even before these startling results, Sen. Leahy had told Director Mueller, “I do not believe in any way, shape, or manner that [Ivins] is the only person involved in this attack on Congress.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011421223515284.html?mod=rss_Today’s_Most_Popular

We repeat the closing paragraph from WJS, “even though the public may be under the impression that the anthrax case had been closed in 2008, the FBI investigation is still open—and, unless it can refute the Livermore findings on the silicon, it is back to square one.

Square one? 

Biological warfare and anthrax vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass who has followed the case at http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2010/02/fbi-case-closed-and-ivins-did-it.html has this to say:

Actually, the 96 page FBI report is predicated on the assumption that the anthrax letters attack was carried out by a “lone nut.” The FBI report fails to entertain the possibility that the letters attack could have involved more than one actor. The FBI admits that about 400 people may have had access to Ivins’ RMR-1029 anthrax preparation, but asserts all were “ruled out” as lone perpetrators. FBI never tried to rule any out as part of a conspiracy, however. That is only the first of many holes in FBI’s case.

Nass also notes that the release of information now comes before the National Academies of Science (NAS)as it is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, suggesting a) asking NAS to investigate the FBI’s science was just a charade to placate Congress, and/or b) NAS’ investigation might be uncovering things the FBI would prefer to bury, so FBI decided to preempt the NAS panel’s report.

Two years into the investigation, On March 14, 2003, Ivins and two of his colleagues at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick received the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service—the highest award given to Defense Department civilian employees – for helping solve technical problems in the manufacture of anthrax vaccine. http://www.dcmilitary.com/dcmilitary_archives/stories/031903/22098-1.shtml  Ivins reacted to the award by saying, “Awards are nice. But the real satisfaction is knowing the vaccine is back on-line.” 

There are lots of who dunnits and why’s.   The truth of the matter is that there is one more dead scientist and he can not defend himself or claim guilt or innocence from the grave.  His suicide from an overdose of Tylenol came prior to any FBI charges.  The five dead people who died in the anthrax attack don’t have much to say either.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0301101ivins1.html lists the first of the FBI’s reports..  The report says that agents were outside of his home at the time of Ivin’s suicide.  No autopsy was performed on his body.

FBI document of Ivins Death

Also of interest in analyzing the 2001 Anthrax letters is http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/messageanthrax.html

There is a forum http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4275655&mesg_id=4275902 discussing the idea that Ivin’s did not have access to the equipment to make the anthrax in the first place.

A patsy?  For whom?

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