Well, we knew it was just a matter of time.  Obama wants to keep the troops in Iraq as long as Bush wanted them, and he is "surging" troops into Afganistan.  Yet he has the audacity to deny them the equipment and funds they need to do their job.  He is threatening to veto the 2010 bill that will give them money for bullets, body armour, guns and even toilet paper!!!!  That is not the hope and change we need.  Call the Whitehouse now and tell the switchboard that boy works for us, not the other way around. We want our troops to be fully funded...Quit threatening to take away their bullets...Read the unbelievable story here...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/...

Chicago Violence Endangers Vital Blood Supply

Well, well, well.  Looks like Dr. Obama thinks he knows more about medicine than your family doctor.  He wants to tell your doctor when you can have a MRI or Cat scan...Obama is going to "save" money by denying much needed imaging services.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynami...

This little excerpt is so classic....

Health Care for America Now, backed by progressive and labor groups, launched $1.1 million in television ads in 10 states supporting Democrats' health efforts, including states with lawmakers on committees writing the legislation.

"Tell your senators - it's your health. It should be your choice," the ad says.

Wrong again, morons... Its not your choice, or your doctors choice whether you get that life saving CAT scan.  It is Obamas choice.  It will be some faceless bueracrat that decides whether you live or die...

Hmmm... I guess we can hope for more change, and get nothing.  Obama closes door on openness..... His pathetic followers will surely blame Bush.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/...

As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies."

The hard line appears to be no accident. After Obama's much-publicized Jan. 21 "transparency" memo, administration lawyers crafted a key directive implementing the new policy that contained a major loophole, according to FOIA experts. The directive, signed by Attorney General Eric Holder, instructed federal agencies to adopt a "presumption" of disclosure for FOIA requests. This reversal of Bush policy was intended to restore a standard set by President Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno. But in a little-noticed passage, the Holder memo also said the new standard applies "if practicable" for cases involving "pending litigation." Dan Metcalfe, the former longtime chief of FOIA policy at Justice, says the passage and other "lawyerly hedges" means the Holder memo is now "astonishingly weaker" than the Reno policy. (The visitor-log request falls in this category because of a pending Bush-era lawsuit for such records.)

Administration officials say the Holder memo was drafted by senior Justice lawyers in consultation with Craig's office. The separate standard for "pending" lawsuits was inserted because of the "burden" it would impose on officials to go "backward" and reprocess hundreds of old cases, says Melanie Ann Pustay, who now heads the FOIA office. White House spokesman Ben LaBolt says Obama "has backed up his promise" with actions including the broadcast of White House meetings on the Web. (Others cite the release of the so-called torture memos.) As for the visitor logs, LaBolt says the policy is now "under review."

Ever wondered what airline it is that has a noisy MD-83 fly out of Bakersfield between 8:30 and 9:00 pm every night and head south?  The one that does not have a published IFR clearance that you can view on Flightaware.com?  Well taxpayers, it is your own personal airline, paid for by the "change" in your pockets.

Its a JPATS flight.  http://www.usmarshals.gov/j...

Thats all fine by me.  Sounds like a good way to move prisoners from one place to another without exposing them to the flying public.

Every night, a big tour bus full of  people shackled at the ankles and wrists pulls up to the tarmac south of the passenger terminal.  An unmarked MD-83 lands around 8pm and quickly taxis to a stop.  Self contained airstairs deploy and 10-15 air marshalls get out and begin checking in the "passengers".  Armed guards take up positions north and south of the aircraft.  The shackles of each passenger are checked and then they are directed to frog march up the stairs.  A flurry of paper work is shuffled around, the fuel tanks topped off, and in a matter of moments, the flight suited pilot bounds up the stairs and starts the engines.  By 9pm, they are usually on their way south to who knows where??  LAX?? Mexico?

Questions for the Californian.   Who are these prisoners?  Where have they been?  Where are they going?

This little airline operates out of Meadows five days a week, 52 weeks a year.  A steady stream of prisoners heading south..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...

File this under More Change you can believe in.

Obama's move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.

St. HOPE Academy ended up repaying more than $400,000 in government funds.

The IG found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car.

The U.S. attorney's office reached a settlement that requires the St. HOPE Academy to repay nearly $424,000 — almost half of the $850,000 it received — in return for the government lifting its suspension on future grants.

Brown said at the time of the settlement that prosecutors determined there was no fraud, but rather a culture of "sloppiness" in St. HOPE's record-keeping.

Hmmm... So the guy that uncovers the "sloppiness" gets canned.  The guys that engaged in the "sloppiness" get to keep their jobs, AND in return OBAMA will give them even more taxpayer money....And a new IG is hired that I am sure will not be looking in that direction to see if the "sloppiness" has been cleaned up.

Yup, more change you can believe in...

The new Miss California agrees with the fomer Miss CA, as well as the First Teleprompter and Hillary Clinton.  Marriage should be between a man and a women.

Read the hate here....

More change from the Teleprompter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/ap...

Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore

Hmmm Hmmm hmmm....Looks like Tele's economic policies are turning into a disaster.......

The stage is set for Obama to commute Mr. Hankins sentence and appoint him the Health Care Czar....time will tell.  Hankins is an innocent hero and his life needs to be spared....

HUNTSVILLE — Terry Lee Hankins’ surrender to police for the slayings of his estranged wife and two stepchildren opened up two more homicide investigations when he told authorities in Tarrant County he also was responsible for killing his father and his half-sister — almost a year earlier.

When officers went to the mobile home of 55-year-old Earnie Lee Hankins, they found him shot to death and his decomposing body in a recliner, surrounded by air fresheners. Then they found the remains of Pearl “Sissy” Stevenstar, 20, Hankins’ half-sister, stuffed into a plastic ice chest hidden in a car at his father’s auto repair shop. She’d been fatally beaten with a jack stand. Court documents later would show Stevenstar was the mother of Hankins’ child and was pregnant again by him.

“It was a very unusual set of circumstances,” said Sheila Wynn, the assistant Tarrant County district attorney who prosecuted Hankins for capital murder. “I don’t even know how to put it into words.”

Hankins, 34, was set to die today evening for the 2001 slayings of Kevin Galley, 12, and Ashley Mason, 11, children of his estranged wife, 34-year-old Tammy Hankins. All three were gunned down inside their mobile home in Mansfield, about 20 miles southeast of Fort Worth.

He would be the 16th prisoner executed this year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.

His appeals were exhausted and no last-minute attempts to delay the lethal injection were expected, William Harris, Hankins’ attorney, said.

“I don’t have anything I can think of in this case that stands any kind of chance of doing any good,” Harris said.

Hankins declined to speak with reporters from death row.

“What else is there to say?” Harris said. “I think he regrets what he did but I also think he’s fatalistic about the fact he can’t change it.”

Before his arrest, Hankins had told people he’d sent his half-sister to a home for pregnant mentally challenged women and that his father had moved out of state.

He did not testify at his trial, but police found a note Hankins wrote on a bank envelope.

“I guess to sum it all up, I’m guilty of murder, incest, hatred, fraud, theft, jealousy, envy,” he wrote.

When Tammy Hankins failed to show up for work at a Burger King restaurant she managed and her children failed to show up at school, her mother, Linda Sheets, and a sister went to her trailer to see if something was wrong. A pile of clothes was on Tammy Hankins’ bed.

“I pulled the clothes down, and there was Tammy,” Sheets told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story published Sunday. “We found Ashley under a bunch of clothes on a sofa in her living room, and we found Kevin in his bed, covered over.”

Police already were familiar with the home. They’d been summoned to the trailer park four times over four months for domestic disturbances, fighting and breaking and entering.

Terry Hankins was tracked down to Arlington where his estranged wife’s car was parked outside his girlfriend’s apartment. He surrendered after a five-hour standoff with police.

In a diary recovered by officers, Hankins wrote he had become a “non-caring monster.” He rambled about his troubled childhood with a divorced inattentive father and two stepmothers who molested him and taught him sex acts.

“I just didn’t like myself,” he wrote, saying he didn’t know why he killed his wife and stepchildren. “People always told me I was nothing and wouldn’t amount to anything. I guess they hit the nail on the head with that one.”

Hankins was tried only for the deaths of his two stepchildren, who were shot while they slept.

“I don’t want revenge,” Sheets said. “And I don’t think other people should judge him, either. He was judged already by a jury of his peers. They found him guilty and gave him the death penalty. And now he is going to meet his maker.”

Death penalty opponents planned protests for what would be the 200th execution of Rick Perry’s tenure as Texas governor.

“Perry has allowed more executions to proceed than any other governor in U.S. history,” said Scott Cobb, of the Texas Moratorium Network.

“The governor, like most Texans, believes capital punishment is the appropriate penalty for those who commit the most heinous crimes,” said Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle.

At least five other condemned Texas inmates have execution dates in the coming weeks. Scheduled to die next, on July 16, is Kenneth Mosley for the 1997 shooting death of a Dallas-area police officer during a bank robbery.

http://cbs2chicago.com/loca...

Chicago is the Second City in nickname and the third in population, but when it comes to murder, the city has the dubious distinction of being second to no city in America.
 

Sounds like a certain midwestern city is missing their village idiot community organizer.....  Maybe the Teleprompter will send the US Marshals to Chicago..