[osint] Team Obama Regulates Goat Herders' Workplaces
One of the readers comments: BEDROOMS: Only one goat per person allowed in individual sleeping quarters. To alleviate jealousy and arguments leading to fights, individuals may claim their goat, including gay goats, as their own. Naming your goat is allowed but no goat can be named 'Obaama.' http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45722 Team Obama Regulates Goat Herders' Workplaces The Obama administration is setting new workplace regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S. , including employee-paid cell phones and comfy beds. These new special procedures issued by the Labor Department must be followed by employers who want to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform sheep herding or goat herding activities. It describes strict rules for sleeping quarters, lighting, food storage, bathing, laundry, cooking and new rules for the counters where food is prepared. “A separate sleeping unit shall be provided for each person, except in a family arrangement,” says the rules signed by Jane Oates, assistant secretary for employment and training administration at the Labor Department. “Such a unit shall include a comfortable bed, cot or bunk, with a clean mattress,” the rules state. Diane Katz, a research fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation, unearthed the policy in the http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45722 Federal Register, the massive daily journal of proposed regulations that Washington bureaucrats publish every day. Under the Obama Administration, the nanny state has imposed 75 new major regulations with annual costs of $38 billion. “This captures what is wrong with government,” Katz said. “I could not have made this up.” With unemployment holding steady at 9% and government regulations adding more burden to small businesses, such as those run by ranching families, Katz said, bureaucrats aren’t helping. “Instead of remedying the problem, the regulations make it that much harder,” Katz insisted. “We may need a whole set of regulations just to define what a comfortable bed is. I imagine it’s not straw. The new lighting standards say that in areas where it is not feasible to provide electrical service such as tents or mobile trailers, lanterns must be provided. “Kerosene wick lights meet the definition of lantern,” the regulations say. “When workers or their families are permitted or required to cook in their individual unit, a space shall be provided with adequate lighting and ventilation.” “Wall surfaces next to all food preparation and cooking areas shall be of nonabsorbent, easy-to-clean material. Wall surfaces next to cooking areas shall be of fire-resistant material,” the regulations say. “It makes you wonder,” Katz said, “how they ever did this before the government got involved?” “Who knew we needed all of this federal help for herding goats?” Katz quipped. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] US DOT's Expanded Airline Passenger Protections Take Effect
U.S. DOT's Expanded Airline Passenger Protections Take Effect Includes Fee Refunds For Lost Baggage, Greater Protection From Tarmac Delays New consumer protections for airline passengers established by the U.S. DOT went into effect Tuesday, which Secretary Ray LaHood says will make flying more convenient and hassle-free for air travelers nationwide. The new consumer protections, finalized earlier this year, include requirements that airlines refund baggage fees if bags are lost, increase compensation provided to passengers bumped from oversold flights, and provide passengers greater protections from lengthy tarmac delays. The Obama Administration believes consumers have the right to be treated fairly when they fly, said Secretary LaHood (pictured). The Department of Transportation's new passenger protections will help ensure that air travelers receive the respect they deserve before, during and after their flight. Effective Tuesday, airlines will be required to refund any fee for carrying a bag if the bag is lost. Airlines are already required to compensate passengers for reasonable expenses for loss, damage or delay in the carriage of passenger baggage. Under the new rules, airlines must now prominently disclose all optional fees on their websites, including but not limited to fees for baggage, meals, canceling or changing reservations, or advanced or upgraded seating. The new rules also double the amount of money passengers are eligible to be compensated for in the event they are involuntarily bumped from an oversold flight. Previously, bumped passengers were entitled to cash compensation equal to the one-way value of their tickets, up to $400, if the airline was able to get them to their destination within a short period of time (within 1 to 2 hours of their originally scheduled arrival time for domestic flights and 1 to 4 hours for international flights). If they were delayed for a lengthy period of time (more than two hours after their originally scheduled arrival time for domestic flights and 4 hours for international flights), they were entitled to double the one-way price of their tickets, up to $800. Under the new rule, bumped passengers subject to short delays will receive compensation equal to double the one-way price of their tickets, up to $650, while those subject to longer delays would receive payments of four times the one-way value of their tickets, up to $1,300. Inflation adjustments will be made to those compensation limits every two years. The Department of Transportation's new rule also expands the existing ban on lengthy tarmac delays to cover the international flights of foreign airlines at U.S. airports, and establishes a hard four-hour time limit on tarmac delays for all international flights at U.S. airports. It also extends the three-hour tarmac delay limit for domestic flights, currently in place only at large-hub and medium-hub airports, to flights at small-hub and non-hub airports as well. All carriers subject to the tarmac rule will be required to report lengthy tarmac delays to DOT. In all cases, exceptions to the time limits are allowed only for safety, security or air traffic control-related reasons. Carriers must also ensure that passengers stuck on the tarmac are provided adequate food and water after two hours, as well as working lavatories and any necessary medical treatment. Additional measures under the new rule will take effect January 24, 2012, including: * Requiring all taxes and fees to be included in advertised fares. * Banning post-purchase price increases. * Allowing passengers to hold a reservation without payment, or to cancel it without penalty, for 24 hours after the reservation is made, if the reservation is made one week or more prior to a flight's departure date. * Requiring disclosure of baggage fees when passengers book a flight. * Requiring that the same baggage allowances and fees apply throughout a passenger's journey. * Requiring disclosure of baggage fee information on e-ticket confirmations. * Requiring prompt notification of delays of over 30 minutes, as well as cancellations and diversions. The final rule, proposed rule and comments are available on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov/ www.regulations.gov. FMI: www.dot.gov http://www.dot.gov/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The
[osint] Libya: Dictator Down, Islam Rising
http://lopez.pundicity.com http://lopez.pundicity.com Clare M. Lopez http://www.pundicity.com Pundicity Libya: Dictator Down, Islam Rising by Clare M. Lopez Big Peace http://bigpeace.com/clopez/2011/08/24/libya-dictator-down-islam-rising/ August 25, 2011 http://lopez.pundicity.com/10184/libya-dictator-down-islam-rising http://lopez.pundicity.com/article_send.php?id=10184 Send http://lopez.pundicity.com/lopez/rss.xml RSS Share: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flopez.pundicity.com%2F10184%2Flibya-dictator-down-islam-rising Facebook http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flopez.pundicity.com%2F10184%2Flibya-dictator-down-islam-risingservice=bit.lysource=pundicity Twitter http://lopez.pundicity.com/facebook_like.php?ref_id=10184ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Flopez.pundicity.com%2F10184%2Flibya-dictator-down-islam-rising Google +1 http://lopez.pundicity.com/facebook_like.php?ref_id=10184ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Flopez.pundicity.com%2F10184%2Flibya-dictator-down-islam-rising http://lopez.pundicity.com/images/icons/fb_like/fb.png Be the first of your friends to like this. Watching the jubilant Libyan rebels celebrating in the streets of Tripoli, it's easy to get caught up in the euphoria of the moment as a brutal tyrant is at last being brought down. The spokeswoman at the Department of State was giddy with visions of those universal human rights the Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) supposedly espouses. RAND trotted out Frederic Wehrey http://m.npr.org/news/World/139857892 , a senior policy analyst at the Rand Corporation, who perfectly seriously discussed the weapons buy-back programs that he thinks NATO countries might launch in Libya to disarm everybody once the fighting is done. Even commentators at the usually more sober-minded Fox News were giving President Obama B grades for his success in helping remove Qaddafi from power. One of the only analysts of substance who seemed to be keeping his head even as all around him were happily losing theirs has been the IDC Herzliya Gloria Center's Barry Rubin http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/03/the-coming-crisis-in-the-middle-east-3 , who rightly faults the Obama administration for approaching events in the Middle East not as a lion but as a jackal and projecting weakness by demonstrating a fundamental failure to perceive what is, in fact, a determined regional sweep by the forces of jihad and shariah. As Rubin wrote in his 21 August 2011 post http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/03/the-coming-crisis-in-the-middle-east-3 , The gap between dominant Western perceptions of the Middle East and the region's reality is dangerously wide. Part of that reality is actually on full display with the online posting of Libya's Draft Constitutional Charter http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Libya-Draft-Constitutional-Charter-for-the-Transitional-Stage.pdf for the Transitional Stage. As the equally level-headed Dr. Andrew Bostom wrote in his 22 August 2011 posting http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/22/the-new-libyan-zabibah-stan-made-safe-for-sharia , the salient feature of Libya's new draft constitution is Part 1, Article 1: Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia). [emphasis added] For those still unsure of what is actually happening in Libya, that Article, which places Islamic law (shariah) at the very top of the constitution, means that principles Jeffersonian republicans consider foundational to a democratic system—such as equality, individual freedom, pluralism, tolerance, minority protections, consent of the governed, natural rights/natural law derived through exercise of human reason, independent (secular) judiciary, and a vibrant free press—even if mentioned later in the draft text, have no real validity. It is what comes first and is stated explicitly in the constitution that carries the real weight. In Libya's case, that means Islamic law. That should not surprise anyone who's been watching Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the Libyan Transitional National Council spokesman: that prominent bruise in the middle of his forehead is called a zubibah. It's the bump a devout Muslim gets from pressing his face to the floor five times daily while praying. Described by human rights advocates as a strong proponent of the rule of law, Jalil studied Islamic law at the University of Libya. He's also served as a judge, prosecutor, and Justice Minister under Qaddafi's rule. So, he's an experienced and knowledgeable jurist. The only question, then, is Of which law is Jalil such a champion? The obvious answer is Islamic law—shariah. Western analysts, leaders, and media seem somehow oblivious to the fact that Middle Eastern Muslim Arabs have nothing in their experience to prepare them for anything remotely resembling universal human rights. Quite to the contrary, these Islamic tribal
[osint] Obama has a 'Competency Crisis'
http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/ http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/mort-zuckerman-obama-has-a-co mpetency-crisis/ Mort Zuckerman: Obama has a 'Competency Crisis' http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/ Scotty Starnes | August 25, 2011 at 1:33 PM | Tags: http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=competency competency, http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=debt-crisis debt crisis, http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=economy economy, http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=jobs jobs, http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=mort-zuckerman Mort Zuckerman, http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=president-obama President Obama, http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=unemployment unemployment | Categories: http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?cat=35145 Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5KC http://wp.me/pvnFC-5KC I love to see an Obama zombie wake up only to suffer from buyer's remorse. Priceless. Mort Zuckerman opines via http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576526611297517664.h tml WSJ: The rising impatience with the leadership of President Obama was epitomized on Aug. 8 in the middle of one of the now-habitual Wall Street roller coasters. His speech on the economy was 53 minutes late. What showed on TV screens was an empty White House podium, an image suggestive of the absence of leadership. When the president did speak, the best he could come up with was We've always been and always will be a triple-A country. The market's response was a Bronx cheer, a drop of another 300 points. Mr. Obama seems unable to get a firm grip on the toughest issue facing his presidency and the country-the economy. He now asserts he is going to pivot to jobs. Now we pivot to jobs? When there are already 25 million Americans who are either unemployed or cannot find full-time work? Does this president not appreciate what is going on? Fewer Americans are working full-time today than when Mr. Obama took office. We have lost over 900,000 full-time jobs in the last four months alone, and long-term unemployment is at a post-World War II high. The public's faith in his ability to deal with the economy has plunged. As Doyle McManus of the L.A. Times put it, Can this president persuade voters to let him keep his job when so many have lost theirs? Even Jimmy Carter didn't plumb the depths of national dissatisfaction revealed in the stunning Gallup poll taken Aug. 11-13. The president's approval rating was only 39% with a mere 26% approving of his handling of the economy. All of Obama's economic numbers are worse than Bush's, yet the left continues to claim they have turned the economy around (see Debbie Wasserman Shultz). Meanwhile, everyone in the business world is pleading for some kind of adult supervision to build a national platform for sustained growth that includes a long-term fiscal plan that addresses our ballooning debt. They are desperate for strong leadership and feel that all we are getting out of Washington is a lot of noise as Democrats and Republicans blame one another. And Obama blames both plus everything from tornadoes to tsunamis for his economic policies that have made a bad situation worse. Since the president is the one who represents all of America and all Americans, the buck stops with him rather than with the Congress. It is the president's job to offer a coherent program for the twin threats of a static economy and an unsustainable explosion of our debts and deficits. But the only core issue on which he took a clear position in the recent debt-ceiling negotiations was that it would have to include new taxes on the wealthy-and he didn't even hold to that. This is buyer's remorse. This is what happens when you elect an unqualified individual to run the worlds largest economy simply based on a catchy campaign slogan (Hope and Change). He made the politically tested and calculated statement that if you raise taxes on billionaires and millionaires you could solve the problem. This is not so. Even for those who support higher taxes on the wealthy, as I do, we must remember that we have an income tax system in which fully half the taxpayers pay no tax at all, and in which the variety of loopholes cries out for a real reform of the tax code. Even if the government instituted a 100% tax on both corporate profits and personal incomes above $250,000 per year, it would yield enough revenue to run the government for only six months. Why? Because under Mr. Obama's presidency, government spending has swelled to 24% of GDP from 18%. We need real reform of the tax code in which everyone is asked to make some contribution, however small. Hardly anyone on either side of the aisle has a good word to say for the present hodgepodge of selective punishment of the middle class-replete with exceptions, loopholes, and special allowances. Worse, there are no serious proposals being canvassed among the White House, the Congress and
[osint] US Department of Agriculture Partners with Terrorist Group HAMAS
Islam delenda est. Almost treasonous? B http://www.wnd.com/images/pgeller.gifhttp://www.wnd.com/images/pgeller11.jpg _ http://www.wnd.com/images/header_exclu_comm.gif _ Hamas-linked group eats up your taxes _ Posted: August 23, 2011 1:52 pm Eastern C 2011 The line between mosque and state continues to blur under the Obama administration. What happened to the foundational principle of separation of religion and state? Do we not even so much as pretend anymore? The White House's official website Aug. 10 posted a story http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/08/10/islamic-relief-usa-starts-its-fir st-summer-food-service-program entitled Islamic Relief USA Starts Its First Summer Food Service Program, boasting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is now helping this Islamic group get its program started. What kind of help is the USDA giving to Jewish and Christian charitable groups? Islamic Relief USA has ties to Hamas. How many other groups with ties to terror organizations are working with the USDA? And why is the United States government subjugating itself in this way? The story featured a photo with the caption: Max Finberg, Director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships at USDA, and IRUSA's Abed Ayoub cut the ribbon launching summer feeding program at An Nur (Photo courtesy of IRUSA). Reporter Marissa Duswalt quoted Kareema Dickens, the principal of An Nur School in Lanham, Md., as giving heartfelt remarks. Dickens said: We are very grateful to USDA for helping us feed our students this summer and letting us know about this wonderful program. We hope to continue this partnership and serve meals to our students throughout the year. I equate Islamic Relief with dhimmi pain. This is jizya, the poll tax imposed upon non-Muslims by their Islamic betters, who are commanded by the Quran to make sure that the dhimmis pay it with willing submission and feel themselves subdued (9:29). Join Pamela Geller in her fight to battle jihadist initiatives in our local communities -- read http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Current-Affairs/Stop-the-Islamization-of-Am erica-A-Practical-Guide-To-The-Resistance-Autographed-Hardcover Stop The Islamization Of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance Islamic Relief USA is a spinoff of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), which is headed up by Dr. Hani Al-Banna. Al-Banna was formerly with the Muslim Aid (MA), a London-based Islamic charity based in London that was a http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29100 partner organization with the Al-Salah Islamic Association, a Hamas fundraising machine headed up by Ahmed Al-Kurd, whom the U.S. government officially designated as a terrorist. Muslim Aid also worked with groups linked to Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim Brotherhood http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386 of Pakistan. IRW received $50,000 from a front for Osama bin Laden in 1999, and has given millions to the jihadists in Chechnya. And IRW official Iyaz Ali has admitted http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2012 to aiding Hamas while serving as project coordinator at IRW's Gaza branch in late 2005 and early 2006. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islami c+Fundamentalism-/British+national+arrested+for+assisting+Hamas+29-May-2006. htm reported that incriminating files were found on Ali's computer, including documents that attested to the organization's ties with illegal Hamas funds abroad (in the U.K. and in Saudi Arabia) and in Nablus. Also found were photographs of swastikas superimposed on IDF [Israeli Defense Force] symbols, [as well as photos] of senior Nazi German officials, of Osama bin Laden http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=690 and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=788 , as well as many photographs of Hamas military activities. Wait, it gets better. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs also noted: The IRW provides support and assistance to Hamas' infrastructure. The IRW's activities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are carried out by social welfare organizations controlled and staffed by Hamas operatives. The intensive activities of these associations are designed to further Hamas' ideology among the Palestinian population. These associations' educational and religious institutions incite against the State of Israel and advocate terrorist actions against it and its citizens. The associations provide support to the families of terrorists who were wounded in actions against Israel, and to Hamas prisoners and detainees. These associations thus promote Hamas' goals including the destruction of the State of Israel. IRUSA is no better. Jehangir Malik, its former program coordinator, was in 1999 a featured speaker at a Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA) event. MYNA is
[osint] The United Nations’ $72 trillion lie
http://netrightdaily.com/2011/08/the-united-nations%e2%80%99-72-trillion-lie/ Thursday August 25th 2011 The United Nations’ $72 trillion lie http://netrightdaily.com/2011/08/the-united-nations%e2%80%99-72-trillion-lie/ http://netrightdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/united-nations-logo.jpg United NationsBy Howard Rich – In addition to preserving the inalienability of our individual liberties, limited government ideology has always revolved around the belief that the invisible hand of the free market creates more prosperity for more people than command-and-control economic wealth redistribution. Actually this isn’t so much a belief (or theory) as it is an incontrovertible economic law. Unfortunately, this law has been willfully ignored by Barack Obama and his congressional allies, who have rung up trillion dollar deficits as part of an ongoing socialist crusade to “spread the wealth around” here in the United States. A rising tide lifts all ships, the old cliché goes — while teaching a person to fish will feed them for a lifetime, not just one day. These fortune cookie truisms — ignored both at home and abroad — were lent vital new expression earlier this month when the United Nations effectively acknowledged that its global wealth redistribution scheme has failed to eradicate poverty as efficiently as good old-fashioned capitalism. In the UN’s “Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf%3chttp:/www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf ” — released on July 7 to virtually no American media coverage — the international organization acknowledged that poverty rates were falling fastest in those nations which have embraced free market reforms. “The fastest growth and sharpest reductions in poverty continue to be found in Eastern Asia, particularly in China, where the poverty rate is expected to fall to under five per cent by 2015,” the report notes http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf%3chttp:/www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf . “India has also contributed to the large reduction in global poverty. In that country, poverty rates are projected to fall from 51 per cent in 1990 to about 22 per cent in 2015.” Meanwhile in Sub-Saharan Africa — which has received the lion’s share of foreign aid over the last half-century — there have been negligible reductions in poverty. Not only that, there is increasing empirical evidence to suggest that the massive aid being dumped into this region has actually suppressed economic growth while perpetuating popular dependence and government corruption. “Aid has so spectacularly failed to achieve its intended outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa because high aid intensity is actually associated with an erosion in the quality of governance,” notes a 2009 report in the Stanford Journal of International Relations http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir/pdf/Aid_11.1.pdf . “Foreign aid appears simply to increase the volume of funds at the disposal of already corrupt government officials and kleptocratic elites.” Even studies which argue for the infusion of additional aid into the region acknowledge that the impact of this avalanche of foreign cash is “difficult to pin down” and that its failure to stimulate economic growth is “confounding.” http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/6356/2/467246.pdf Of course the UN — which has not-so-cleverly disguised its wealth redistribution scheme under the guise of climate-friendly “green investment” — isn’t the least bit confounded. Even as its own data conclusively proves the efficacy of free market reforms (and the futility of government handouts), the global bureaucracy is once again inexplicably upping the command economic ante. After paying lip service in its millennium report to the creation of “conditions in which people are able to carve out and sustain a livelihood,” a separate UN paper released earlier this month proposes the largest wealth transfer in human history. As part of a $72 trillion plan to “overcome poverty, increase food production to eradicate hunger … and avert the climate change catastrophe,” the UN wants to shift $38 trillion from wealthy nations to developing nations over the next four decades http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_current/2011wesp.pdf . That staggering sum is more than twice America’s annual gross domestic product — to say nothing of its $14.3 trillion debt. America simply cannot afford to continue pouring tax dollars into failed wealth redistribution schemes — whether at home or abroad. Not only are these plans destined to fail, but they actually prevent the free market from reducing poverty. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com.
[osint] Michelle Obama: 'She's Like a Junkie'
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/08/white-house-sources-dish-on-michelle.html White House Sources Dish on Michelle Obama: 'She's Like a Junkie' Obviously some people are sick and tired of seeing this woman freeload off the public. There's going to be hell to pay for http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html this, no doubt. The Obamas' summer break on Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets. But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances. White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year. Branding her 'disgusting' and 'a vacation junkie', they say the 47-year-old mother-of-two has been indulging in five-star hotels, where she splashes out on expensive massages and alcohol. Don't forget the burritos, french fries, shorts ribs and cheeseburgers. Only for her, of course. The 'top source' told the National Enquirer: 'It's disgusting. Michelle is taking advantage of her privileged position while the most hardworking Americans can barely afford a week or two off work. 'When it's all added up, she's spent more than $10million in taxpayers' money on her vacations.' The First Lady is believed to have taken 42 days of holiday in the past year, including a $375,000 break in Spain and a four-day ski trip to Vail, Colorado, where she spent $2,000 a night on a suite at the Sebastian hotel. And the first family's nine-day stay in Martha's Vineyard is also proving costly, with rental of the Blue Heron Farm property alone costing an estimated $50,000 a week. The source continued: 'Michelle also enjoys drinking expensive booze during her trips. She favours martinis with top-shelf vodka and has a taste for rich sparking wines. 'The vacations are totally Michelle's idea. She's like a junkie. She can't schedule enough getaways, and she lives from one to the next - all the while sticking it to hardworking Americans.' I believe the left likes calling this greed. Posted by JammieWearingFool at http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/08/white-house-sources-dish-on-michelle.html 9:01 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
