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Instead, they are worrying about global warming:

The nation’s top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests.

Re-tasking the satellites away from watching Russia, North Korea, and Iran, not to mention looking for Waldo-bin-Laden? Sounds like a plan to me.

Ida May Fuller was the first Social Security recipient.

She is a case study in socialized  medicine, too.   She is a case study in socialized anything!

Be assured that Miss Fuller did nothing wrong.  She was just the first Social Security recipient and is an example of what can happen with socialized healthcare, too.

Facts about Miss Fuller:

• She contributed $22 in taxes from 1937 to 1939.
• She contributed to Social Security for less than three years.
• She retired in November 1939.
• She received her first Social Security check in January 1940.  That check was for $22.54.
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• She never married and never had children.
• She lived with a niece.
• She lived to be 100.
• She died in 1974 after have received $20,944.42 in benefits.

Are there any “Ida May Fullers” out there who will be receiving socialized medicine?   The answer is YES!   They are the immigrants both legal and illegal will come to this country.  It will be the extended family members who will be sponsored into this country by their children who immigrated and became citizens.  These older people will be “Ida May Fullers”.

Who will pay for it?  The working taxpayers will pay for it.

Obama is clearly in the campaign mode.  He displays here that he cares little for the victims of his Muslim brother’s killing spree. (more)

Fox News channel has reported:

• Hasan’s father was from a village in Palestine.  
• He stood on a table and shot down into cubicles in the processing center
• He can be turned over to Texas authorities to be prosecuted.  (Bring back “Ole Sparky”!)
• Hasan has been a Muslim from birth.
• Investigators are looking into Hasan’s computer and his connections.

Meanwhile, the London Guardian newspaper reports that a unpublished U.N. report states that the Iranians have tested a nuclear warhead.  (more)

Obama came to the presidency with no experience other than being  a community organizer.  When will be start being the leader of the Free World and stop campaigning?

Just had a guy on Twitter claiming that 30% of every premium dollar goes to health-care insurance companies profits. So I figured I’d check out a couple of companies, via Morningstar Advisor Workstation.

Turns out that for 2008 and 2009 (so far), Humana had operating margins of 3.7% and 4.5% respectively — which provided a return on assets of 5.0% and 6.3%, and a return on equity of 15.3% and 18.2%. Not bad, but obscene? Give me a break.

Health Net, another “evil health insurance company” had operating margins of 1% and 1.1% for 2008 and 2009 to date — giving these bastards a whopping return on assets of 2% and 2.4% — and return on equity of 5.2% and 6.4%.

Bear in mind that they did, in actuality, turn a profit — a feat the Federal government has yet to replicate with Amtrak or the US Postal Service.

Perhaps my Twitter friend will point me towards this evil cabal of companies making 30% profits out of their revenues, as he claims. Somehow, I doubt it.

Yesterday, the AP reported that

Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs,” issued a statement of apology on Thursday. When asked on Friday whether President Barack Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones “continues to work in the administration.”

Continues to work? Now that’s a ringing endorsement.