Government uses our money to order up $200 million of worth of fancy pants jets so the big wigs can travel in luxury and style.

Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies. But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.

Cash for clunkers big boom for FOREIGN car companies.

Four of the top five models sold so far under the U.S. “cash for clunkers” program, aimed at boosting the auto industry, are made by foreign automakers, according to Transportation Department data. Ford Motor Co.’s Focus was the top seller, followed by Toyota Motor Corp.’s Corolla, Honda Motor Co.’s Civic and Toyota’s Prius and Camry, data from the department showed today.

Transparent Obama administration refusing to release all data on the cash for clinkers program. I guess they need more time to dummy up the info.

The Obama administration is refusing to quickly release government records on its “cash-for-clunkers” rebate program that would substantiate — or undercut — White House claims of the program’s success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales. The Transportation Department said it will provide the data as soon as possible but did not specify a time frame or promise release of the data before the Senate votes whether to spend $2 billion more on the program.

Soldier gets 30 days in the clink for refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan.

A 24-year-old Fort Hood soldier has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. Spc. Victor Agosto, of Miami, was sentenced after entering a guilty plea during an hourlong military-court hearing Wednesday at the central Texas Army post.

Enviroweenies and “green jobs” fanatics won’t want to read this, their little pin heads will explode.

Nothing is perhaps more pathetic than the exertions of economic developers and politicians grasping at straws, particularly during hard times. Over the past decade, we have turned from one panacea to another, from the onset of the information age to the creative class to the boom in biotech, nanotech and now the “green economy.”

Citizens in Wisconsin, a bastion of Democrat voters and politicians, go gonzo at healthcare townhall meeting with Congressman. Cops called to settle things down.

The health care debate made it’s way to Green Bay Monday night, but it was less a debate than a shouting match. Democratic Congressman Steve Kagen faced heavy opposition during a public listening session at the Brown County Library.

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What happens when the “fasten seat belt” light comes on during flight and morons ignore it. Unfortunately the idiots who blew it off and got hurt will now wind up with a pile of money.

At least 26 people were hurt this morning when Continental Airlines Flight 128 bound for Houston from Rio de Janeiro encountered severe turbulence, forcing it to be diverted to Miami. Mary Clark, a spokewoman for the Houston-based carrier, said 28 people were treated at the scene and “a number” were hospitalized in the Miami area.

Seems few people are interested in being a police officer in Massachusetts these days. Hard to imagine why.

The blood on the mannequin’s chest was fake and so was the pink money on the table. The drugs lying next to it weren’t real, either. (SNIP) “It’s pretty cool,’’ said Michaela Peterson, a 15-year-old from North Cambridge who, like the other teens, is getting paid $8 an hour for the six-week summer program. “It’s sort of like a game.’’ But Peterson, like many of her fellow investigators, has little interest in turning this game into a career, an obstacle that many police departments across the state have been facing in their quest for future officers.

Guilt trippin’ white liberals bailing out on Obama? It has to be this group they’re talking about in this article because they are the only reason he is in office.

His support among white voters fell to below 50 per cent for the first time in his presidency following his accusation the police “acted stupidly” in arresting a black Harvard professor. A Pew research poll found that 53 per cent of white voters approved of Mr Obama’s job performance before his prime-time intervention in the furore over whether Sergeant Joseph Crowley, a white officer, was right to arrest Henry Louis Gates Jr, a black studies professor.

Say, I wonder how much Obama’s mother-in-law is paying to live in our White House?

Recently, high-profile visitors to the White House, including senior corporate executives, have found themselves paying for their own meals when sitting down with President Barack Obama, something unheard of in previous White Houses, according to former aides to President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton.

PBS (should be LBS-Liberal Broadcasting System) jazzed that Obama is going to send them hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars because they can’t support themselves because nobody watches them because it’s nothing but boring left wing drivel.

PBS chief Paula Kerger says budget numbers tell the tale of how public TV is faring under the Obama administration, compared to that of former president George W. Bush. Kerger said that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s $430 million budget for this year was left intact by President Obama, in contrast to the Bush administration’s repeated bids to reduce or eliminate the federal subsidy. Kerger says Congress countered Bush’s actions.

Clunker cash stupidity. “Replacing an 18 mpg car with one that offers 22 mpg gets a subsidy. But you cannot get any subsidy if you replace a 19 mpg car with one that gets 42 mpg.”

The “cash for clunkers” program stalled less than a week after it started. The $1 billion in funding was intended to last until Nov. 1, but the money is all gone. Not only is the program broke, the fine print reveals that the real piece of junk is the law.

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After 18 years of lying buried in the Iraqi desert, Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher is coming home.

Navy officials announced early Sunday that Marines in western Anbar Province, Iraq, had found remains that have been positively identified as those of an American fighter pilot shot down in the opening hours of the first Gulf War in 1991. The Navy pilot, Michael Scott Speicher, was the only American missing in action from that war.

Liberal, activist judges doing more damage out there in CA. Just what the state needs with it’s 12% unemployment rate and multi billion dollar deficits.

A San Bernardino County Superior Court judge has ordered the city of Rialto to invalidate its approvals for a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter because the city did not adequately analyze the project’s environmental effect, among other factors. (SNIP) In May, Judge Barry Plotkin, also of San Bernardino County Superior Court, rebuffed Wal-Mart’s plan for a supercenter in the desert city of Yucca Valley, partly on the grounds that it had failed to take measures to reduce its contribution to global warming. Plotkin ordered Yucca Valley officials to examine the feasibility of an “environmentally superior ‘green’ Wal-Mart supercenter alternative.” These and other rulings suggest a growing legal consensus that climate change must be considered by businesses and governments promoting new developments.

Maybe this nitwit should sue the Obama administration instead.

She has given new meaning to a class-action lawsuit. Trina Thompson gave it the old college try, but couldn’t find work. Now she thinks her sheepskin wasn’t worth her time, and is suing her alma mater for her money back.

Wow, never could have seen this one coming. Of course a grip of Obama supporters don’t pay federal taxes anyway so they aren’t going to care. Everything out of this administration from day one was and is a lie.

To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.” Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn’t do it. “We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” Geithner told me. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”

Somehow I just don’t think the American people want blind folks driving down the road behind the wheel.

Several blind people were able to get behind the wheel of a new high-tech vehicle designed by Virginia Tech engineering students. Twenty blind people took turns maneuvering the retrofitted dune buggy Friday in a parking lot at the University of Maryland.

Hey all you British folks with bad backs, how’s that government run healthcare workin’ for ya these days?

Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned. The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.

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Knucklehead shuts down New York City’s busy LaGuardia airport with fake bomb.

LaGuardia Airport’s central terminal was evacuated Saturday after a kook with a fake bomb in his bag was busted while trying to go through security, authorities said. Just after 5:00 a.m., a man identified as Scott McGann, 32, checked in for a United Airlines flight to Oakland. The ticket agent noticed McGann was intoxicated and “spaced out” and alerted TSA agents.

Old folks get the famous middle finger from Obama when it comes to flu vaccines for the up coming pre-planned swine flu surge in the fall.

Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to minimize suffering and death from influenza, the Health and Human Services Department says on its Web site. But some senior citizens complain they’ve been left off the list of people who will be first in line to get the swine flu vaccination, when it is ready.

Seattle bank teller chases down would-be robber, holds the perp for police. The man’s employer, Key Bank, promptly fires him.

Jim Nicholson knew he should have just handed over the cash. But when the thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank counter and demanded money, Nicholson says his instincts took over.

Kay Bailey Hutchison’s bid for governor in Texas takes a kick in the groin with this stupid move.

A day after defending hidden phrases placed on a campaign Web site, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s gubernatorial campaign severed ties Friday to the consulting firm credited with the “hidden phrases” strategy and removed the 2,200-plus phrases. “This whole story about computer-generated source code is a distraction,” her spokesman, Jeff Sadosky, said. “In order to once and for all put this issue to rest, we have decided to part ways with the firm responsible.”

More left wing media bias by CBS “news.”

On Friday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a report recounting mortgage company Countrywide Financial’s history of offering special deals on loans to government officials – including figures with connections to President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama. But, while the two most prominent figures currently still in government who are implicated in the scandal are Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad, neither Senator was identified by Attkisson as a Democrat.

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