China Goes On U.S. Buying Spree- 6.7 Billion in Morgan Stanley

This ought to be a wake-up call, but it won’t. One can only wonder about the backroom deal with Morgan Stanley. What happens when they dump their shares? And our treasuries?

BEIJING (AP) — China’s giant sovereign wealth fund revealed it has accumulated stakes totaling $9.6 billion in major U.S. companies including Coca-Cola, Apple and Goodyear following a buying spree last year.

Most of the stakes are small, reflecting China Investment Corp.’s strategy of avoiding politically sensitive acquisitions. But they highlight its growing presence in global markets as it invests a portion of Beijing’s $2.4 trillion in foreign reserves.

That strategy is reflected in its disclosure, which includes small holdings in dozens of companies, including $353.8 million in Visa Inc., $6.3 million in Apple Inc., $9 million in Coca-Cola Co. and $1.4 million in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

It also listed a $1.7 billion stake in Morgan Stanley, which CIC bought in June when the investment bank raised money to repay U.S. government bailout funds. CIC also agreed in 2007 to pay $5 billion for a nontradable 9.9 percent share of Morgan Stanley, but that did not appear in the latest disclosure.

Hat Tip- Lucianne

http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=240522

Reports: Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson to oppose Craig Becker radical SEIU appointee

When Scott Brown won Mass, it really ticked off  Patrick Kennedy. Not because of Healthcare, but because of Craig Becker. Apparently Ben Nelson got religion too. Thanks Scott Brown for this “new attitude”

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) castigated Brown for having pushed to be sworn in ahead of schedule to permanently fill the Senate seat left vacant by the congressman’s father’s death in August.

“Brown’s whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama’s appointment to the NLRB,” Kennedy said Thursday.

A deal had been cut with labor–shut up, and we will give you Becker by not seating Brown until after the Becker vote- while we still have the super majority.

According to the WSJ: Big Labor might not even need card check if Craig Becker has his way. “He is Andy Stern’s go to guy,”According to the WSJ. He is currently the associate Counsel for Andy Stern.

http://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/patrick-kennedy-scott-browns-candidacy-a-joke/

 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124226652880418035.html

For the full story on this Marxist to be, check out our earlier post on Craig Becker.

http://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/nlrb-nominee-craig-becker-next-marxist-to-be/

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D) on Monday announced he would oppose Craig Becker’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — a move that could ultimately scuttle Becker’s confirmation indefinitely

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/09/nelson-to-support-filibuster-on-becker/

Obama Administration Forming A New Federal Agency to Monitor ‘Climate Change’

Just what we need, a new agency.How many new federal employees will this agency need? Oh, I get it- we will need a new Czar. Someone that does not need to be approved by congress. There is no one that could head up this merry group already in Place?  What is so puzzling, is the timing. Is Obama’s completely indifferent to public sentiment? Still pushing Cap and Trade. On Super-bowl Sunday, he is  indicating he has not made up his mind about the re- location of the trial in NYC. There is more beneath the surface about him and his agenda that is yet to be revealed.

 The  administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.
 
“Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat,” Locke said Monday at a news conference.
 
Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.” She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health officials.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61126

Homeland Security Collected Information on Wisconsin Abortion, Pro-Life Activists

It would be interesting to know if the Tea Party Convention was infiltrated.  Sarah’s comment about  the movement  and her  statement that it was the ” beginning of a revolution” had the MSM all wee weed up. Good to know Janet is keeping her eye on the important matters of the day.The following information was obtained under the “Freedom of Information Act.” This was  an illegal act by DHS.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a threat assessment of local pro- and anti-abortion rights activists before an expected rally last year, even though they did not pose a threat to national security.
 
The DHS destroyed or deleted its copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence-gathering guidelines by collecting and sharing information about “protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security,” according to a department memo written last year.
In the department’s Feb. 4 response, Capt. Noel Kakuske confirmed the department kept a copy of the report but declined to release it. He said the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which runs the intelligence center, and the Department of Homeland Security agreed the report should be withheld because it contains sensitive law enforcement information.

“It’s very disturbing that a local police department has tapped into the security apparatus of the federal government to potentially obstruct free speech,” she said. “It’s additionally disconcerting they will not release the documents in order for we the public to examine them.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61104

Murtha Dead– so much for government healthcare

I will stay P.C … enough said for a government-run healthcare facility….interesting that he moved on to a private hospital…..nice he had that option. More options than he was willing to let us have. I will pass on commenting on the rest of his corrupt tenure in the congress.

The 77-year-old Democrat underwent scheduled laparoscopic surgery to remove his gallbladder at Bethesda Naval Hospital last Thursday but then, after his release, sought care at the Virginia Hospital Center over the weekend.

The congressman’s spokesman declined to say Tuesday what led him to be hospitalized again. But responding to questions Wednesday, he said that Murtha was in stable condition. Two persons said it appeared Murtha’s intestine had been cut inadvertently during the gall bladder removal.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/08/murtha-dead-at-77/

Sarah- A hand can tell a super plan

MSM going wild over Sarah’s idea that “Lift American Spirits”  noted on her hand, somehow indicating “She was cheating”. Yes, the vile rhetoric with the commentors literally foaming at the mouth was a sight to behold. Oh yes, how dare she make a comment about Potus and his prompter, when she herself used as CNN described it “Aids”.  Let me see, a couple or words versus talking to 6th graders with a prompter. Yep, seems the same.
Huffington Post is all over this image, showing Sarah Palin’s hand during the Tea Party Convention speech. On it, she has written: “Energy, budget cut tax, Lift American Spirits.”

Monday, February 08, 2010

If You Can Write It On Your Hand, You’re Probably On The Right Track

Posted by: Jillian Bandes at 7:01 AM

Huffington Post is all over this image, showing Sarah Palin’s hand during the Tea Party Convention speech. On it, she has written: “Energy, budget cut tax, Lift American Spirits.” Here’s HuffPo’s Stefan Sirucek’s analysis: The takeaway is that this presidential contender apparently can’t remember her supposed core principles and needs a cheat-sheet when simply asked about her beliefs. I don’t know about you, but I’d be thrilled if all Republican politicians wrote their core principles on their hands and referenced them frequently. It’d be a welcome change from ostensibly having principles and then forgetting about them. And I don’t buy the elitism in his analysis: Americans are probably more in touch with someone who occasionally writes on their hand rather than someone who never does.    http://townhall.com/blog/g/d06806da-202c-4cc3-9f25-5bc2bd7ee9d6

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS GET “KISS OF DEATH” FROM OBAMA

It happened to Democratic campaigns in the States of New Jersey, Virginia and  Massachusetts.  Now Obama’s
“kiss of death” has even transended to the NFL and the Super Bowl.  I’m sure Peyton Manning wishes Obama would have kept his mouth shut because he won’t be going to Disney World this year. 

“WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the Indianapolis Colts “have to be favored” in the Super Bowl, even though he has a “soft spot” for the New Orleans Saints.  Obama’s Super Bowl prediction was based on his opinion that the Colts have “perhaps the best quarterback in history.” “Peyton Manning is unbelievable,” the president told CBS’ Katie Couric during a live pre-game interview.  Still, Obama says he has a soft spot for New Orleans, “mainly because of what the city has gone through over these last several years” since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Obama says he may be biased against the Colts, since they beat his hometown Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl in 2007.”

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100207/D9DNJOI80.html

Another “Kiss of Death” by Obama

Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:48:07 AM by Snurple

“The Kentucky Wildcats were 19-0 going into last nights game with SC. Obama called the team earlier in the day to thank them for the fund raising they had done for Haiti, and gave them a little advice on the game. They lost their first game of the season later that evening. Obama screws up anything he gets near!”

Buzz off Prez, you are getting old,old, old.

Yep, Hoppenchange, please button up. Great to see you on Super Bowl day. Why, a day without you would be just the best.

For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they’ll change. 

He has advised parents to “replace that video game with a book and make sure that homework gets done.” He has urged members of Congress not to read blogs or watch 24-hour cable news. And he’s challenged lobbyists, lawmakers, bankers, journalists, insurance companies and other heads of state to do a better job.

 He’s prodded people to get off the couch, eat healthier and exercise more. He’s even suggested Americans buy stocks, U.S.-made cars and energy-efficient light bulbs, while cautioning them not to max out their credit cards.

 At times, having Obama in the Oval Office is like having a really powerful Dr. Phil around.

 But lately, Obama’s tsk-tsking has gotten him into some trouble. At the very moment he’s trying to recover his declining popularity and revive his party heading into the November elections, even some Democrats worry that he risks coming off not as the inspirational figure who galvanized the electorate in 2008 but as the embodiment of a dour Democrat that turns off some voters. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32661.html

RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC

Oh my Dear Robert– take a look out the ole window– guess what? Most snow since, oh well, dunno, but well I guess we are starting to put a stake in the ole Global Warming scenario? Wonder why Sarah is doing so well? It’s you looney liberals that want us “little people” the great unwashed, or as one CNN commentator explained, “They (hint us)  just don’t have enough band width to understand”.– just please go away.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington’s C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy. 

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/RFK-79834057.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#ixzz0ewuxpF3U

MSNBC Mocks ‘Controversial’ Tea Party Convention and the ‘Funny Outfits’ of Attendees; Lefty Schultz to Anchor Palin Speech

Here is where we don’t want to be: Watching MSNBC as our gal Sarah takes them on tonight at the Tea Party Convention. 9:00pm  Might want to saddle on over to Fox- you go girl! (She who laughs last laughs best) P.S. Sarah locked and loaded? Now THATS a funny outfit.

MSNBC on Friday continued to mock and deride the “controversial” tea party movement. Host David Shuster commented on the group’s Nashville convention and asserted that it’s “full of workshops, meetings, funny outfits and speeches.” Setting the tone for how the conventioneers would be portrayed, Shuster introduced the segment by playing a clip of an unidentified woman.

“I just couldn’t sit down anymore and not do anything, because it reminded me of what happened during the reign of Hitler,” the woman asserted. Couldn’t MSNBC have found someone complaining about spending or the size of government? Reporter Domenico Montanaro dismissed keynote speaker Sarah Palin. He wondered if “she’s a politician first or a political celebrity first, now.”

Shuster closed the segment by informing viewers that far-left host Ed Schultz would anchor MSNBC’s live coverage of Palin’s keynote speech on Saturday night. This is the same person who, on his June 16, 2009 show, trashed Palin as “political slime.” Is this MSNBC’s idea of balance?

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/02/05/msnbc-mocks-controversial-tea-party-convention-and-funny-outfits-att#ixzz0elbPz38k