Wasn't it you who mentioned the other day that the price index is also rising ? Rather than recovery, it sounds like we are going into phase II of the recession. We're in debt up to our ears, the dollar is weakened, other countries aren't too keen on buying up more and more of our massive debt. We're printing money, the GDP is shrinking, unemployment is the highest in 25 years, we can't sustain all our entitlements, and our industrial base is vanishing. And Obama wants to raise energy prices through the roof, spend like a drunken sailor, create more entitlements, and increase taxes.

What could possibly go wrong ? Besides everything, that is. Rather than recovery, it sounds more like the perfect storm to me.

Our bonds aren't worth nothing because wall street is under fire from the govt. No one is going to invest in this market. and we have no and I mean no good risks coming along as far as industrial base GNP projects. We are losing our value. This is what happens when the guy you hire has no experieince and needs on the job training.

Did you hear about the Treasury bond auction ? Demand was so weak that we had to pay higher interest rates to get anyone to buy our long term debt. That means more interest on the debt, which will make the Obama deficit and debt projections run even higher than estimated. A lot higher if the trend continues. Our entire federal government has become an unraveling Ponzi scheme. Soon, Obama will have to either drastically cut government spending, or drastically increase taxes. There isn't much doubt about which one he'll pick.

And everybody is pretending they don't see the commercial mortgage market collapse coming, or the SS/Medicare debt tidal wave.

The worst is yet to come, with Obama and the Dems making things far worse than they already were to begin with.

But hey, at least Obama cut $17 billion in federal programs, eh ? That'll help, even though he really didn't cut anything, because that money is going to fund OTHER federal programs, not to reduce the deficit. Somehow the media missed that too.

Another piece of news they can't use would be that DC power is all run by Natural Gas now instead of coal and gas. hhhmmmmmm. I wonder if T.Boone or Nancy or Al had any influence. Just sayin'….

I also heard that if you count all the people who have fallen off the unemployment rolls and either haven't found work or are working part time jobs, the unemployment rate goes up to over 15%. Employers all over the country are also scaling back employee hours. The average work week is now 33 hours. Of course, those facts didn't come from the mainstream media.

The ultimate phony straw man argument. Nobody has ever suggested such a thing, and nobody ever will.

Here's the real argument. You capture the mastermind of 9/11, KSM, and he is planning other attacks against America. When asked whether such plots might be planned, KSM, a high-level Al Qaeda operative, says "soon you will know." So you make the decision to subject him to waterboarding, and he starts to talk, thus revealing key intelligence that prevents subsequent terrorist attacks. The real question is – do you prosecute the presidential administration for ordering such interrogation methods, or do you give credit to that administration for stopping the murder of innocent American (and other) civilians?

The Rev says – let Americans and other innocent people die, because KSM should be granted all the rights of full American citizenship during wartime, even though he already murdered nearly 3,000 Americans prior to that. The Rev doesn't even realize that we are at war with people who want to kill us. He thinks it's all about oil, or enriching Halliburton, or proselytizing Muslims into the Christian faith, or some such nonsense.

I disagree. Wholeheartedly. I'm on the side of my country.

Don't you think you have sunk to the ridiculous with that question?

It probably wouldn't matter to the libs though. They would rather see millions blown up than interogate a terrorist that knows for sure where and when the next attack will be. They would rather try to gain his trust, take him to dinner and drinks, maybe buy him one of their hookers. I feel so safe with you guys in charge.

Rev there is no incriminating evidence against Bush and Cheney. The only evidence is the science fiction the left has made up on the conspiracy weblogs and the lying heads on MSNBC. The evidence is in your minds because your party leaders placed it there. They know that if you tell a bad enough lie long enough it will become truth for some. Sort of like the bully in school that mad fun of the weakling that that had dandruff, by the end of the day the story was repeated so many times he had headlice. From that moment on he was known as the kid with lice. Even though most knew it was a lie. That's how Bush and Cheney are, the stories are made up. Just like global warming. Fish on!! Fish on!! can't you guys feel the hooks in your jaws?

Maybe Obama can release flyover pictures when he releases the traincar load of incriminating evidence against the Terror Twins.

I wonder what it would take for torture apologists to turn on the neo-con criminals.

Here's a question for ya'. In a ticking time bomb situation, the script taken directly from "24", you know, keeping it real……would it be okay if the torturers rounded up the detainee's children and began cutting off their fingers, one at a time, in front of the torturee until he spilled his guts?

Would that be okay? See….no organ failure or threat of death….so it would also fall within the guidelines of Comrade Yoo. How about it?

I wonder how long it will take for Democrats to realize that the deficit in 2007 (before the Dems took Congress) was $175 billion. Since they've taken Congress, the deficits have been $485 billion and $$1.8 trillion. And now, with the Big O in charge, we are going to run the biggest deficits in history year after year after year. Even if Obama's fondest dreams come true, we are going to run the biggest deficits in our country's history.

But Obama is going to REDUCE government…..by $17 billion. This is the all-time biggest joke (and lie) ever perpetrated against the American people.

If global warming is, indeed occurring, which I'm not so sure about (remember when all the buzz was about the next coming Ice Age, lol?), then why does Tim Ball, a Canadian climatologist, think that the global warming scare is a huge waste of money and resources? http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm "Meanwhile, politicians are being listened to, even though most of them have no knowledge or understanding of science, especially the science of climate and climate change. Hence, they are in no position to question a policy on climate change when it threatens the entire planet. Moreover, using fear and creating hysteria makes it very difficult to make calm rational decisions about issues needing attention."

I agree that the MSNBC story about Biden and Obama going for burgers was extremely important. Think of all the vegetarian outrage this will provoke, lol. It seems obvious from the way they're doing photo-ops for the press instead of working where their priorities are. As far as panicking the citizens of post-9/11 New York, I'm just wondering if any of those folks have heard of PhotoShop? No president will ever be completely free of stupid judgement calls (to the tune of $328,000) being made during his time in office, obviously, but why call for an investigation but not share the evidence? As a taxpayer and citizen, I feel a little like a partial owner in a company who's not being informed about the company's activites. If I want the information, I should have the right to request it in a matter that doesn't involve national security.

I am with larry d. in thinking there are no pictures or that day from those planes. It may well have been a fear producing exercise aimed at seeing if New Yorkers have forgotten 9/11. Remember all those Chicago politicians who are involved as head men in Obama's "brain trust".

The story about Scare Force One was about the Obama admin not releasing the pictures, not about the flyover itself. Kinda hard to keep the flyover quiet when New Yorkers get the bejesus scared out of them and are running through the streets.

And what larry said about the Obamans threatening Chrysler's creditors, who, btw, are NOT Chrysler. They're the people Chrysler owes money to.

The Pew poll (and many others) says the media is liberal.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/143lkblo.asp

The Gallup poll says the media is liberal.

http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=4086

Here's a link showing how the AP overpolls Dems to skew results.

http://vocalminority.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/liberal-media-bias-ap-fixes-poll-by-polling-twice-as-many-dems-than-gopers.html

Here's a Pew poll showing that journalists wanted Obama to win the presidency by a margin of 8 to 1.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/10/23/nearly-8-1-voters-say-journalists-want-obama-win

Here's a study from 2005 that says 58% of Americans think the media has a liberal bias. There's also a ton more evidence at this link.

http://www.home60515.com/7.html

In 2004, MSNBC looked at political contributions from journalists. Of 143 who made campaign contributions, 125 gave to Dems, and only 16 gave to Repubs.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/

Here's a link showing that 81% of media people voted Democrat in the 70's.

http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/biasbasics3.asp

Here's a link showing that in 2008, journalists made campaign donations at a rate of 10 to 1 in favor of Democrats over Republicans.

http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301702713742569

This should give you the real picture.

What about this crazy stunt flying? Do F-16 pilots really take promo shots while navigating through cityscape canyons? I don't think there are pictures.

I think King doesn't like the thought of the federal government threatening private citizens and entities with media smears, etc., Reverend. He's got some weird kind of bigotry toward fascist tyrants, I know.

The media may be mocking Gore about global warming, but the dem Congress is still 'all in,' on our dime, Reverend.

King…the Air Force One flyover is a non-story. The media did report on it the day it happened. There's just no story there.

Why bring up Chrysler? You wanted American automakers punished with bankruptcy….so why do you care if Obama got tough with their creditors?

And really, do we have to go round and round eternally on climate change?
America, global warming or not, needs to get off of oil, for national security reasons.

The media I see is continually mocking Al Gore over global warming….so I don't know what you're talking about.

For anyone who wants to intelligently discuss this subject, try the above link. Alterman also has a brilliant book on this topic.