Head Start isn’t

The United States has spent over $1 trillion on Head Start ($8 billion per year federal preschool program) since its inception almost 50 years ago in an effort to rescue young children from the effects of poverty, poor parenting, and ill health. For people who try so hard to eliminate babies before they are born, liberals sure do work hard at failed programs to help them succeed. Head Start does provide quality day care for mothers who want to work, and it does provide many jobs, some for the parents of the children. Unfortunately, the studies all along the way, including the most recent by HHS, show most benefits dissipate by first grade.

The way to prepare a child for a better chance at a good life is married parents with good jobs--Obama has set a good example on marriage, and a very poor one on jobs for low income people. No politician will ever dismantle this boondoggle--in fact, they snuck more funding for Head Start ($100 million) into Sandy relief. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/head_start_executive_summary.pdf

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/14/head-start-sad-and-costly-secret-what-washington-doesnt-want-to-know/

Pillow talk

The wife of Doug Shulman, commissioner of the IRS during these major scandals when he visited the White House 157 times, is Susan L. Anderson. She is the "senior program advisor for the Washington-based nonprofit organization Public Campaign, which claims that it “is laying the foundation for reform by working with a broad range of organizations, including local community groups, around the country that are fighting for change and national organizations whose members are not fairly represented under the current campaign finance system.” "

Even though "fighting for change" and "reform" are in the description, her group probably hasn't had their board and staff audited, threatened by OSHA or investigated by ATF. Wonder why.

Apparently, Shulman didn’t like being questioned by Congress about his politics and contributions.  Appointed by Bush, his money and ethics leans heavily Democratic.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/31/former-irs-commissioner-shulmans-wife-works-for-liberal-group-fighting-open-campaign-spending/

http://www.americanclarion.com/20633/2013/05/23/irs-commissioner-upset-by-political-questions/

Criminal behavior in the IRS profiling

Now we know why there were reports of the enthusiasm for the Tea Party groups was waning--the people who might have attended or contributed were being profiled for audits by the IRS, and other agencies like ATF, OSHA and EPA. That's not only bigotry, it's terrorism of the bureaucratic kind. After all, they have the power to destroy your business and reputation. Lefties are also targeting this journalist, Scottie Hughes.  She’s very pretty, very conservative, and very outspoken.  That makes her a target for the Democrats’ War on Women.

http://townhall.com/columnists/scottiehughes/2013/05/30/the-tea-partys-message-is-bigger-than-even-its-most-courageous-messengers-n1608791

As the backlash against the IRS’s lawless assault on the Tea Party shows, that which does not kill the Tea Party makes it stronger. Americans everywhere are Lerning (pun intended) that the I.R.S.’s respect for the law isn’t merely Nixonian – it’s Dillingeresque. They are seeing what the founders warned about – that power corrupts. And they’re rightly concluding that a law like Obamacare – which gives vastly more power to the already out-of-control I.R.S. – is a threat to American freedom.

Mr. Clean

The IRS scandal and Obamacare

“A year ago, the IRS finalized a regulatory ruling to the effect that it will issue tax credits through Obamacare’s federal insurance exchanges. . . [for which] it has been granted no legal authority, by the Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or any other act of Congress, to issue such credits. In fact, the ruling flouts the explicit language of Obamacare.”http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/28/an-irs-scandal-inseparable-fro

Huge loss for conservatives—Bachmann will not run

                

One of the reasons the lefties like to hate on Palin and Bachmann is because they are attractive and have sex appeal as well as being very smart.  Also they are mothers several times over. Bachmann was even a foster mother to other women's children. Palin chose not to abort her disabled child--driving the ugly left who think allowing a disabled child to live is irresponsible over the cliff .  The left is all about blurring lines and making men and women not only equal, but equally unattractive sexually.  The leftist women who know how to dress are the transsexuals.  If you want to know what brains and beauty looks like compare the Fox women to MSNBC.  I'm linking to Daily Kos and its unflattering, negative story on Bachmann.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/29/1212326/-Michele-Bachmann-will-not-run-in-2014-but-insists-my-future-is-full-it-is-limitless#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pedro dressed for the dance.

Catholic writer bullied and silenced by IRS

It wasn't just Tea Party or Patriot groups. Catholic writer and professor Anne Hendershott wanted the public to know that Obamacare funds abortions and the IRS audited her. She was bullied by IRS agent Michael Iannotti about her Obamacare views. Usually she writes for free, and doesn't make much more than $5,000 a year for her articles. She wasn't allowed to bring her CPA to the "interview." She was intimidated into writing less on the topic--the whole point of targeting Obama’s critics. So if you heard that the Tea Party was losing its influence or critics were softening on Obamacare, now you know why—the Chicago way had wiped them from the stories you should have been reading.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/picture-emerges-that-irs-targeted-obamas-political-opponents-and-critics/

Good-byes just don’t get any easier

Today my husband and son are enjoying the Memorial tournament, so I made an appearance at the farewell luncheon for Pastor David Drumel and wife to give him a painting from my husband. They are moving back to the Nashville area after 6 years in Columbus ministering to our seniors at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church.

There is only one little difference between these two crooks

Nixon accepted the responsibility and did the honorable thing.  Obama knows nothing of honor, patriotism, honesty, hard work, or history.

Stop government bullying now

The IRS is bullying conservatives, Christians, wealthy Republican donors and small government patriots, and using audits, electronic snooping, OSHA and ATF to terrify the president's enemies--maybe they could make a new poster?

Waste, fraud and excessive costs—that won’t change

"About 30 percent of health spending in 2009--roughly $750 billion--was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state." Summary, Best Care at lower cost report, 2012, National Academies Press. So why didn't Obama start there instead of grabbing our health insurance? The illusion that someone else pays is what causes the unnecessary and excessive costs. When has creating a bloated government agency reduced costs? http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13444

Telephone surveys on health care

I know why Americans sound so stupid on these surveys. I got one last night, and because of the complexity of the questions finally had to interrupt the woman and tell her to call the next person on her list. She wasn't a very good reader, had difficulty pronouncing the words and I doubt she understood the questions either. It was about Comparative Effectiveness Research which preceded Obamacare (never used this word in the survey), but is now incorporated in it. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/04/comparative-effectiveness-research-under-obamacare-a-slippery-slope-to-health-care-rationing

Are the wealthy getting all the breaks?

So you think the wealthy are getting the tax breaks? You're absolutely right. But they are the ones paying the taxes. It's hard to cut what you don't pay in.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/cbo-tax-expenditures-eye-beholder

This non-profit had no problem with approval of status

Malik Obama's foundation (he used to go by a different name), which had no problem getting 501c3 status from the IRS while conservative groups waited years, seems to be funding his wives--he's a Muslim polygamist like his father. He has two foundations named after his father, Barack, and grandmother Sarah. These "non-profits" are supported by Americans and funds are used to send young men to radical Islam training. http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/obama-half-brother-uses-irs-status-to-fund-polygamy/

http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/New_IRS_Scandal_052113.pdf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287565/Obamas-brother-accused-attacking-2-TWELVE-wives-seducing-schoolgirl.html

Roy Abong’o Malik Obama is the first son of Barack Obama senior
and was best man at the president’s wedding.

The investigation of Eric Holder

Government health care with fringe benefits

The plumber’s friend

With fancy bathrooms and low flow toilets, I decided to buy some new plungers--just in case. The $3  old fashioned kind at Wal-Mart are sort of ugly, but for $15 I can get one in a cute little brushed nickel canister or bronze, and if want to scare the guests to death, there is one with a handle like a sea monster, so when it's in the toilet it looks like some something is attacking. Garden pots work too for storing the ugly ones. This is $30 at Bed Bath & Beyond, but only $15 at TJ Maxx.

Young, healthy males will be subsidizing the older, less healthy and females under Obamacare

"ObamaCare institutes several types of price controls on insurance premiums. The elimination of gender-based ratings forces young men to subsidize the substantially higher claims of young women, ending claims-based differentials of up to 70 percent under age 40. The 3:1 age rating limit requires younger people to subsidize older people, ending the roughly 6:1 rating that was based on actual costs. The elimination of health status as a rating factor forces those in good health to subsidize those in poor health, whether or not good health is due to self-control or lucky genetics." John Goodman, National Center for Policy Analysis.

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/obamacares-war-on-men/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA

Lumpy has passed away

I didn’t see Leave it to Beaver until I was an adult and caught the popular early TV sit com on reruns.  My parents didn’t have a TV until after I went away to college. Interesting observation in this story about the death of one of the Beaver characters, Lumpy who went on to a successful career in business.

Beaver and Wally, and their pals Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford, were a complete breed apart from today's horrific sitcom children. They didn't mouth off. They were actual kids playing average kids - not secret rock stars or internet moguls. They were always respectful — even if it was fake, as in Eddie's case. Their parents knew more than they did. Their actions had consequences. Failure - in school or on the playing field - wasn't whitewashed with an undeserved "awesome!" and a "participation trophy." There was more reality in an episode of Leave It To Beaver than in an entire season of any given show today.

http://family.lifegoesstrong.com/article/another-leave-it-beaver-death?cmp=&utm_source=OB_LGS

In 2007 The New York Times was more skeptical about Obama

The NYT in 2007 accurately raised the alarm about Obama’s voting record in Illinois as a Senator—when he would vote “present” on difficult issues, like gun control.  If he knew he’d get in trouble with Chicago gangs and Blacks, he just didn’t say yes or no.

Sometimes the “present’ votes were in line with instructions from Democratic leaders or because he objected to provisions in bills that he might otherwise support. At other times, Mr. Obama voted present on questions that had overwhelming bipartisan support. In at least a few cases, the issue was politically sensitive. . .

The vote on the juvenile-justice bill [ to let children as young as 15 be prosecuted as adults if charged with committing a crime with a firearm on or near school grounds] appears to be a case when Mr. Obama, who represented a racially mixed district on the South Side of Chicago, faced pressure. It also occurred about six months before he announced an ultimately unsuccessful campaign against a popular black congressman, Bobby L. Rush. . .

The measure passed both houses overwhelmingly. In explaining his present vote on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Obama said there was no proof that increasing penalties for young offenders reduced crime, though he acknowledged that the bill had fairly unanimous support.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0