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State Auditor General David W. Martin has modified his stance on whether Okaloosa County can spend bed tax revenue on lifeguards, beach patrols and beach shuttles.
In a preliminary report released Dec. 18, Martin said such uses of tourist development tax money aren't allowed under state law. He also said the county should restore $2.47 million spent on those services from May 2010 to May 2012 to its bed tax account.
But on Friday the auditor general's office changed that recommendation. It advised the county to seek an opinion from the Florida attorney general "as to the allowability" of the $2.47 million in questioned expenditures. If the attorney general calls for it, the county should restore the money to its bed tax accounts, the auditor general said.
Read a portion of that report. >>
"I think he made the right decision," County Commissioner Nathan Boyles said Wednesday.
Boyles said it's important for the county to use bed tax money to "provide reasonable considerations for safety" on local beaches. Those safety measures, in turn, foster the tourist industry, he said.
County Commission Chairman Don Amunds agreed, adding that the board has deemed that use of bed tax money as vital to promoting tourism.
"I think we have the responsibility to do what we can to protect our swimmers, and especially our tourists," he said.
Amunds said many other counties in Florida do the same thing.
"There are tons of counties that have determined this to be a public need," he said.
In the initial report, Martin based his recommendation on a 1990 attorney general's opinion that determined bed taxes can't be used to pay for lifeguarding "or general governmental functions owed to the public at large."
From May 2010 to May 2012, Okaloosa County paid $1.9 million to fund a portion of lifeguard and beach patrol services provided by the Destin Fire Department and Okaloosa County Beach Safety. The county also spent $564,000 to fund a portion of the beach shuttle service.
The auditor general's preliminary report was released seven months after his office began an operational audit of the county's oversight of the Tourist Development Council. Sheriff Larry Ashley requested the audit after county officials discovered an extensive fraud scheme put in place by former tourism head Mark Bellinger.
The preliminary audit report contains 25 key findings in 11 areas that range from oversight and fraud prevention to travel expenses between May 2010 and May 2012.
The county has 30 days to respond to the audit's recommendations and submit a set of corrective actions to the state.
County commissioners are scheduled to discuss their response and the corrective actions at their meeting Jan. 8 in Crestview.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari Barlow at 850-315-4438 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.


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Ranunculus is a large genus of about -5,000 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae. It includes the buttercups, spearworts, water crowfoots and the lesser celandine (but not the greater celandine of the poppy family Papaveraceae).
They are mostly herbaceous perennials with bright yellow or white flowers (if white, still with a yellow centre); some are annuals or biennials. A few have orange or red flowers and occasionally, as in R. auricomus, petals may be absent. The petals are often highly luster, especially in yellow species. Buttercups usually flower in April or May but flowers may be found throughout the summer especially where the plants are growing as opportunistic colonisers, as in the case of garden weeds.
The Water crowfoots (Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium), which grow in still or running water, are sometimes treated in a separate genus Batrachium. They have two different leaf types, thread-like leaves underwater and broader floating leaves although for some species, such as R. aquatilis, a third, intermediate leaf form occurs.
Ranunculus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Hebrew Character and Small Angle Shades. Some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers.
In the interior of the Pacific Northwest of the United States the buttercup is called "Coyote's eyes" — iceyéeyenm sílu in Nez Perce and spilyaynmí áčaš in Sahaptin. In the legend Coyote was tossing his eyes up in the air and catching them again when Eagle snatched them. Unable to see, Coyote made eyes from the buttercup.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - Steve Mason will get a chance to face his former team for the first time, as his Philadelphia Flyers host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday in the opener of a home-and-home series.
Mason was a third-round draft pick by Columbus in 2006 and spent his first four-plus seasons in the NHL with the Blue Jackets before getting dealt to Philadelphia in April of this year. The 25-year-old goaltender had his best season in Columbus as a rookie in 2008-09, when he won the Calder Trophy and led the Blue Jackets to their one and only playoff appearance.
Although Mason struggled over his last four seasons with Columbus, the netminder has done well since joining the Flyers, and he is 12-9-4 with a 2.34 goals against average and .924 save percentage this season.
While Mason expects to get a crack at his old club tonight, the same can't be said for injured Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, a former Flyer who is expected to be out until at least early January with a strained groin.
Bobrovsky, who is also 25 years old, was traded by the Flyers to Columbus in the summer of 2012 and he made Philadelphia regret the move by winning the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender during last year's lockout- shortened season. However, even before getting injured, Bobrovsky was not off to a good start in 2013-14, going 10-11-2 with a 2.72 GAA and a .909 save percentage in 23 games.
In Bobrovsky's absence, Curtis McElhinney expects to start tonight after missing the previous two games due to a lower-body injury of his own.
A bruised and batter Columbus club enters Thursday with a handful of key players sidelined due to various ailments, including forwards Jared Boll, Marian Gaborik, Nathan Horton and Derek MacKenzie and defensemen James Wisniewski and Dalton Prout. Horton, who has yet to play for Columbus since signing a seven-year deal with the club in the offseason, could make his season debut on Saturday when the Blue Jackets host the Flyers. Gaborik, who hasn't played since Nov. 14 due to a knee injury, could also play in the return trip to Columbus.
Tonight marks the first of four meetings this season between the Blue Jackets and Flyers, who are now Metropolitan Division rivals with the onset of realignment. Philadelphia has won four of six overall against Columbus and the Blue Jackets have never won a road game in this series, going 0-4-0 with a tie in five all-time encounters in the City of Brotherly Love.
The Blue Jackets enter Thursday's meeting having lost two straight after beginning the month of December with four wins in five games.
Columbus recently went 0-1-1 during a brief two-game homestand, losing in overtime to St. Louis on Saturday before falling 3-2 to Winnipeg on Monday. Evander Kane's goal midway through the third period proved to be the difference for the Jets in their close win at Nationwide Arena.
RJ Umberger and Fedor Tyutin scored for the Blue Jackets, who had won six straight against the Winnipeg franchise before Monday's loss. Mike McKenna turned aside 29-of-32 shots for Columbus.
The Flyers, meanwhile, have won two of their last three tilts after splitting a home-and-home series against Washington. Philly dropped a 5-4 shootout decision in D.C. on Sunday after blowing a 4-1 third-period lead, but the Flyers rebounded with Tuesday's 5-2 home win against the Capitals.
With the scored tied at 2-2 late in the second period, Philadelphia was given a five-minute power play after Flyers forward Brayden Schenn was drilled by Washington's Tom Wilson, who was given a 10-minute misconduct for the charge. Although Schenn had trouble staying on his feet following the hit, he did not suffer a concussion and could even play tonight.
The Flyers made the Caps pay by scoring twice during the lengthy advantage, with Mark Streit and Jakub Voracek tallying the goals for Philly.
"Obviously it was a turning point in the game so very important for us to capitalize on the five minute major and the guys did a good job," said Philadelphia head coach Craig Berube.
Voracek scored twice to lead the Flyers on Tuesday, while Matt Read posted a goal and an assist. Mason turned away 24 shots to record the win for Philadelphia, which entered Tuesday having lost four of their previous five games.


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The developers say otherwise. Who am I going to trust more? You or the actual people who worked on the project?
Your call. Considering countless individuals, and teams have been able to bring back a start menu, I find it highly unlikely the minds behind the windows code couldn't do it effectively, or "without problems". Just sayin'
Be like LG not putting a door on their fridges because it took up room and caused problems when closed, and a bunch of people making a door that fit perfectly, and functioned 100%. To me that would seem like LG did it for a reason, and felt like saying it couldn't be done instead of saying: "We were told not to do it."


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For my final project I wanted to attempt to make a video shot entirely in reverse to see what kind of unique effects I could create. The concept is similar to the stop motion assignment in that it changes the effects of time and space in the film. I wanted the video to be very stylized and payed close attention to detail especially in the editing and post production phase. The meaning of the film is open to interpretation but as I stated in class it is supposed to be me coping with the packers loss, a bit of a switch from what one would expect from the introduction. I had a lot of fun shooting this video but really enjoyed, as always, editing and adding music in final cut. I am very pleased with the way this project turned out and definitely plan on experimenting more with the concepts and possibilities made available through this format.


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This is the final week at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) for the highly regard exhibition James Rosen: The Artist and the Capable Observer.
The survey of paintings, drawings, and prints by a master American artist concludes its extended run this weekend. The last day for the exhibition is Sunday, Feb. 13.
Visit this exceptionally beautiful exhibition that, in the words of Riverfront Times art critic Jessica Baran, invites viewers to take "time for contemplation, time for consideration, time for appreciation."
MOCRA is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Admission is free. Call 314-977-7170 or visit mocra.slu.edu for more information.
The Artist and the Capable Observer opens Sept. 26, and continues through Feb. 13.American artist James Rosen has produced a body of visually arresting paintings, watercolors and drawings that gently invite viewers to stay a while.
Rosen seeks "capable observers" who bring to bear their own intellect and imagination in order to observe poetic images that are conducive to quiet contemplation.
The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) is fortunate to have more than 100 Rosen works either in its collection or on long-term loan. His work has been included in many of MOCRA's group exhibitions over the years and never fails to draw appreciative comments from visitors.
Drawing primarily on these works, The Artist and the Capable Observer presents work from the 1950s to the present, offering viewers the opportunity to observe Rosen's visual journey through paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints.
The exhibition culminates with a series of oil/wax-oil emulsion paintings that are homages to the religious art of the European past. Rosen is especially drawn to some of the great European religious masterworks by artists such as Duccio and Grunewald.
Painted with up to 60 thin layers or "veils" of oil paint and wax, these works possess a sense of mystery as they slowly disclose themselves to the patient and attentive observer.
Rosen notes, "My paintings are about time. They have up to 60 veils of wax/oil and they have taken me sometimes a year to finish. They require time of the viewer as well. Only by spending time with the work, looking at it in subdued lighting, does one experience the work beginning to reveal itself to the viewer."
James Rosen has had a distinguished career as an artist and lecturer.
Educated at Cooper Union, Wayne State University, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, he has taught at the University of Hawaii, the University of California - Berkeley, Augusta College, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
He has exhibited widely and his works are in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Whitney, and the Ashmolean Museum.
Influenced by artist Mark Rothko and art historian Meyer Schapiro, Rosen's work demonstrates his keen understanding of art history, mastery of form, and ability to imbue canvases with mystery. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, and the Leyton Gallery, St. John', Newfoundland.
Since 1993, Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) has explored the ongoing dialogue between contemporary artists and the world's faith traditions.
Housed in a spacious former seminary chapel, the museum has mounted more than 35 exhibitions involving more than 160 artists.
MOCRA's exhibitions have demonstrated the range of contemporary religious and spiritual artistic expression, presenting the work of artists who have attained recognition regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Some work overtly pays homage to particular faith traditions while other works are more oblique but nonetheless spiritual in content.
The media employed have varied from traditional materials such as oil, acrylic, and ink, to non-traditional materials such as blood, earth, mylar, and helium.
Exhibitions at MOCRA have been enhanced by numerous conferences, lectures, and performances involving major theologians, visual artists, art historians, museum directors and curators, doctors, lawyers, philosophers, psychologists, choreographers, and musicians.


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Quarterly Report: 2013, October - December (Q2), Platinum
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Community Sanitation Overview:
Nine households and the public school are connected to a piped water system and operate private septic sewage systems. The remaining households, roughly eight, access water from public watering points and dispose of honeybucket waste in private seepage pits. The public water system distributes untreated water. A washeteria constructed in recent years is not in use. A state Village Safe Water Water/Sewer and Solid Waste Feasibility Study was funded in FY 2003 to assess water, sewer and solid waste needs including a water storage tank, new water treatment plant, connections and plumbing, sludge disposal site, and landfill. The water/sewer system renovation project, with assistance from Village Safe Water, is in design and construction was to start summer 2009 but is currently on hold. The City operates the electric utility and landfill. Community fuel storage capacity is as follows: Arviq village corporation. (67,100 gals.); City Power Plant (20,000); Lower Kuskokwim Schools (7,000).
RUBA Status & Activities This Qtr:
The Village Safe Water (VSW) engineer advised RUBA that funds for the construction of the water plant have been pulled due to the project not being feasible. It was stated that the number of homes the plant would service would generate a cost per user greater than people could pay. Indian Health Service (IHS) will fund a purchase of the pumper truck for septics and do some onsite work on non-HUD homes for septic and water hook ups. RUBA staff learned that some of the original houses that were on the list for septics were deemed not eligible due to the homes are still in the HUD program. A meeting was scheduled at VSW for acquisition of the pumper trailer and finalization of determining eligible houses and the septic dump site and the leach field work. The VSW engineer told RUBA staff none of the projects left were RUBA contingent. RUBA staff will continue to work with the traditional council on the essential indicators to increase local capacity, however, contact with the traditional council is sporadic and inconsistent.
RUBA Activities for the Coming Qtr:
Based on this assessment, the traditional council needs to develope a work plan to deal with the problems. The work plan needs to be an effort to bring the community up to an acceptable management performance standard. Continued RUBA assistance to this community depends on the community meeting a baseline level of progress towards improvement. The Council needs to sign a RUBA Agreement that outlines the services this division will provide that stipulates the actions the traditional council must take and continue to provide in order to receive the continued RUBA assistance.
Essential Indicators:
20 of 26
Sustainable Indicators:
17 of 25
Total Score:
37 of 51
Essential Indicators
All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget.
The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget.
Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board.
The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills.
The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply.
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs.
YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted.
YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted.
A monthly manager's report is prepared.
Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
Finances Comments
The tribal council uses QuickBooks Pro 2011 for all of the accounting functions. The village council adopted budget CY12 on February 20, 2012. A copy of the approved budget was submitted to the Dillingham Regional Office. The budget is balanced and realistic. The bookkeeper provides the village council with monthly financial reports but the reports do not compare actual YTD revenues and expenses with the budget. RUBA has verified that the utility is not current with the electric bills. Heating oil for the utility is delivered by barge two times per year. The utility uses a minimal amount of fuel. The utility budget includes $450.00 for heating oil. Financial reports are available for the period ending May 2012, financial reports have not been provided since that time. Due to lack of reports it was undetermined if revenues are exceeding expenditures for the quarter. The utility does have a line item for Repair and Replacement expenses in the budget. The meeting minutes and agendas have not been provided for the quarter ending December 2012.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
The utility billing and collection procedures are included in the utility ordinance, adopted on July 21, 2006. RUBA staff has a copy of the approved ordinance on file. There are no current accounts receivable reports. The traditional council has a hard time shutting off water due to no curb stops and there are watering points throughout the community. Staff uses QuickBooks 2011 for bookkeeping. Invoices and payment for each customer are entered into the accounts receivable program. The utility bookkeeper uses QuickBooks 2011 for financial recordkeeping, including all payroll records. It is undetermined if the payroll records are up to date. The bookkeeper is proficient in the use of QuickBooks. The utility clerk writes a receipt for any income received. A copy of every receipt is kept in a permanent receipt book. At the end of the month, new data from the receipt book is entered into the utility's computerized accounting system. All payments are made by check. Every check includes an amount, an expense account and a description of the payment. A copy of each paid invoice is kept in the vendor files. The utility's chart of accounts identifies all asset account (un-deposited funds, bank accounts, and accounts receivable), all liability accounts (current, long-term and payroll liabilities), and fund balances. Income and expense accounts are identified in a manner that matches the income and expenses line items in the budget. it is unknown if Bank reconciliations have been completed this quarter due to lack of reporting. The utility does not require purchase orders for proposed purchases, however requires authorization of the council on any expenditures per the constitution and bylaws of the traditional council.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
On December 14, 2012, the traditional council was granted tax clearance by the Department of Labor through September 30, 2012. The IRS has not deemed the taxpayer compliant with Federal Tax Deposits and Reports as a release for information was not submitted by the traditional council. The traditional council is not found on the most recent Lien Watch report dated October 2012.
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Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
The Notice of Insurance was posted in plain view in the village office. According to the Notice of Insurance, worker's compensation insurance is provided by the Alaska National Insurance Company. A September 19, 2012 check of the Division of Worker's Comp website did not confirm that the policy was in effect. A copy of the traditional councils personnel policies, adopted August 1995, is on file with RUBA staff. Job descriptions are up to date and expressly outline each employee's required duties. RUBA staff has copies of the job descriptions on file. The traditional council does have a written evaluation process. The hiring process is described in the utility's personnel policies adopted August 1995, A copy of the policy is on file with RUBA staff. Personnel folders are not current or available for all employees. The probationary period or introductory period for new hires is at least ninety (90) days, as described in the personnel policy. New hires are evaluated at the end of the probationary period. The utility budget includes an appropriation of $1,570.00 for staff training.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
The utility ordinance identifies the village as the owner and operator of the utility. Council meeting minutes confirmed that the council reviews policies and rates on an annual basis and makes changes as needed. Meeting minutes for the past three months confirms that the traditional council takes an active role in enforcing utility policy. The administrator develops and oversees the utility budget, is also the utility operator and provides monthly reports to the governing body. The administrator has over ten years experience on the job and maintains all of the accounting systems to the best of her abilities. The utility is a Small Water System/Treated. According to the ADEC website, the utility operators have the required level of training and certification for this system. The village council adopted a utility ordinance in August 2007. RUBA staff has a copy of the signed ordinance on file. The village council has an organizational chart that is updated as needed. The copy of the organizational chart is on file. Regular council meetings are held once a month; special meeting are held as needed. All meetings for the current quarter have been held as scheduled. The meeting files and minutes confirm that agendas are posted.
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification.
The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities.
Sustainable Indicators
The manager receives a monthly O&M report from the utility operator and routinely "spot checks" the facilities to see that the maintenance items are being completed.
The utility has a safety manual and holds safety meetings.
Utility facilities have not suffered any major problems/outages due to management issues that are unresolved.
The utility is operating at the level of service that was proposed.
The operator provides status reports to the manager on a routine basis.
The utility has completed and distributed its "Consumer Confidence Report".
The utility is not on the "Significant Non-Complier" (SNC) list.
The utility maintains an inventory control list.
The utility maintains a critical spare parts list.
Operation of Utility Comments
According to the ADEC website, the facility is a Small Water System that is untreated. The primary operator has a Small Untreated- certification that expires December 31, 2012 and has the required number of CEU's to maintain certification. There is a backup operator that does not have the required certification or number of required CEU's. The utility states they have a preventative maintenance plan that was developed by the Remote Maintenance Worker. A copy of this was viewed by RUBA. The operator reports using a checklist to verify that preventive maintenance is performed. The administrator checks the utility on a routine basis. The utility has a safety manual on file. RUBA staff does not have a copy of the 2011 CCR on file. According to the utility clerk the last CCR was mailed to all residents in June of 2011. The utility does not have an inventory control list. The utility does not have a critical spare parts list on file. To prevent unnecessary outages, critical spare parts are reported and were observed by RUBA staff and are kept in stock at the utility. The utility is found on the SNC list for failure to sample for total coliform, Nitrate, VOC, and inadequate treatment- failure to filter (SWTR).RTC'd total coliform samples. To return to compliance: Sample for Nitrate, and VOC. Install required SW treatment and begin monitoring and reporting required SW treatment data. Known hardware problems are the :GWUDIS system with no filtration or disinfection equipment. A VSW project is in progress to address the issue.
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Conservative Bloggers Unite To Defeat Obama
Posted by KingShamus on November 1, 2012
Barack Obama must not be allowed another four years in the White House. If you've read my blog in the past, you know how adamant I am about this. It is for this reason why I am joining a coalition of the awesome. Here are six bloggers with very good reasons why Mitt Romney must defeat Barack Obama. I will add my two cents at the end. Please reblog this and share it with your friends and family.
Do you know someone who is planning to vote for Obama? Here are some arguments you can use to try to change their minds. A half-dozen conservative bloggers have united and will all have the same post on their blogs today in an effort to help defeat President Obama. Please read this post in its entirety and be sure to go visit each bloggers site via the links. I would also encourage anyone to reblog or link this post to get the word out to as many people as possible. Romney may not be the first choice for some of these contributors, but we can all agree that Obama must go so help us spread the word! Join us to help the undecided vote to stop the destruction of America!
"Why bankruptcy is preferable to bailouts" by Spellchek
President Obama has been on a chest-thumping tour touting the success of the bailouts both in the auto industry as well as the financial industry.Supporters and critics alike have focused upon what constitutes a success.Some will calculate the cost to the taxpayers.Others will focus on the jobs saved.It is these glass half-empty/half-full arguments that highlight the crux of the problem.Bailouts v. bankruptcy is not an apples to apples comparison.
A bailout by its very nature is the epitome of a reward for past indiscretions.The idea is how best to cushion the blow and alleviate the pain.The fear card plays a big role here as witnessed a full-fledged campaign to warn us of the disaster awaiting should we decline to bailout a failing company/industry.Then to make it worse,we saw government picking the winners and losers in the fallout.
A bankruptcy is intended as a poison pill as much as a legal recourse to alleviate a failing business model.It's called moral hazard.It is painful by design so it will have a preventative effect.The path chosen by Obama eliminates this.Companies/industries know they can operate with high risk or inefficient practices when an implied guarantee of a bailout is always awaiting.
The key difference is that implied guarantee.It enables risky behavior and distorts the free market.And why not? When you know there is reward as opposed to pain available,who wouldn't engage in high risk/high reward practices? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enabled the housing bubble accordingly. AIG and the other players in the banking sector engaged in the derivatives market with our 401(k)s and pensions as monopoly money.
Bailouts encourage and enable bad business practices.Bankruptcy penalizes it.So when you question whether or not Obama succeeded with his bailouts,you should instead be asking why he engages in a policy that promotes risky investments and inefficient business practices that will eventually require you the taxpayer to pay for it.
"The Libyan Scandal" by What Would The Founders Think
Politicians lie. There is nothing that is earth-shattering about this statement. Presidents are politicians and they generally adhere to the stereotype.
There have been exceptions to the rule, but Presidents like Washington and Garfield are few and far between.
Sometimes presidents lie with the best of intentions. More often than not they lie to protect themselves and their careers.
But while the reasons presidents lie are probably as numerous as the lies that they tell, the depth of mendacity demonstrated by President Obama is unique in American political history. It is not merely that he will do or say anything to remain in office, but the reason he will do or say anything to remain in power – his hatred of American pre-eminence on the world stage. We have never had a president who felt it his mission to reduce the nation to benefit other nations.
It is an established fact that Obama is a devotee of Saul Alinsky – a completely amoral – "ends justify any means" individual. Obama has learned his lessons well and seeks to bring America down a peg by any and all means necessary. Obama is apparently quite comfortable with Lenin's adage, "You've got to break a few eggs to make an omelet."
It is only when one understands Obama's motivations and complete lack of morality, that one can understand how this callous president could refer to the death of an American ambassador and other Americans in Libya as "bumps in the road." One has to wonder, where does that road lead?
"Barack Hussein Obama & The Race Card" by Mind Numbed Robot
Barack Hussein Obama was swept into office by a wave of voters willing to give the new guy a shot. He offered a chance to redeem America from its original sin and at the same time promised to end the bi-partisan bickering of politics as usual in the DC beltway. He was a relative unknown on the national scene and took every advantage of that fact. After all, when a candidate doesn't have a record to campaign on, it's much easier to paint himself as the elixir for the times.
Four years later, we know a lot more about the man at the helm of our ship of state and it should be clear that Obama was either not ready for the task he was given or his prescriptions did not work as advertised. In fact, if they were meant to heal a nation of its economic malaise and draw the political parties together in some magical union of left and right then the cure was worse than the disease. The patient should switch doctors, stat.
Too many also, voted for Obama under the premise that he would close the supposed divide between the races, a flag his surrogates in the media fly on his behalf but one he seldom raises himself, as if to stay above the fray. Indeed, the subject of Obama's race is ever in play by the media and that too has had the opposite effect than what Americans were promised, namely, more division, not less.
Sooner or later Barack Hussein Obama must lose his pigment to be judged by actions and results. That time is now. Americans must look at the man without the rainbow goggles and flowery rhetoric to discern what he and his party have accomplished in 4 years. We must decide if we are pleased with the results of Obama's Transformational Vision for America:
An America that believes the Constitution is flawed and must be remade or flat-out ignored.
An America that owes the world an endless apology.
An America that is not the last bastion if freedom in the world, not that shining city on the hill, but just another third world ghetto.
My friends, America deserves and demands better than Barack Hussein Obama's dismal vision for our future. We must make that message crystal clear on November 6th in numbers that cannot be denied or ignored.
"US Relations With Islamic Countries _ Another Reason To Vote For Romney" from Conservatives on Fire
Obama came into office with zero experience in anything useful. But, narcissist that he is, he was sure that because his middle name was Hussein and because he went to a Muslim school in Indonesia when he was a child and because he had dreams from his Kenyan father that he could single-handedly resolve all the problems between the Muslim nations of the world and America.
Mitt Romney, of course, has no foreign affairs experience. But, we know that he has been a very successful businessman. So, we can expect him, like a good businessman, to surround himself with the most capable people in foreign affairs that he can find. He would never nominate a woman to be Secretary of State whose only claim to fame was that she married a sexual predator who was once President of the United States. We know that a President Romney would never make a trip to Cairo to apologize for Americas past actions in the area nor would he bow to a Saudi king. A president Romney would not have ended the war in Iraq without maintaining a large air base we had there for strategic reason just because the Iraqi government, that we helped to bring about, didn't want us there. A president Romney would never have announced two years in advance our withdrawal from Afghanistan giving the Taliban no reason to seek peace. A President Romney would have supported rebels in Iran in 2009. He would never have permitted his Secretary of State to train young Arabs from North Africa on how to organize protests against their governments. There never would have been an Arab Spring and there would still be the tenuous stability in the Middle-East held for the last forty years. Our embassies would not have been left unprotected and we would not have a dead ambassador and three of his staff in Libya. And, if there had been attacks on our people in that region, a president Romney would not have tried to place the blame on some stupid You Tube video when it was obviously a well planned terrorist attack. And, following some such attack, a president Romney would not have gone before the UN General Assembly and, at first defend our constitutionally protected right of free speech, only to turn around and say that we can't let the world be won by those who insult Islam. And, a President Romney would not be seeking emergency aid for Egypt just after their Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi, stood in front of the UN General Assembly and told America where they could stuff it.
A President Romney may not be able to bring peace to the Muslim nations, not after the mess Barack Obama has made of our relations there; but we can know that he would deal with those nations from a position of strength and not of weakness, as Obama has done. Because of Obama, the Muslim world is a more dangerous place. Ask yourself, if trouble breaks out in that region, who would you rather have as the US president?
On November 6, 2012, vote for Mitt Romney!
"Supreme Court is Another Reason to Vote Romney This November" by Motorcitytimes.com
I didn't support Romney in the primaries. However, after it became clear that he was going to become our nominee, I had an offline discussion with a smart and passionate Ron Paul supporter.
We discussed the wisdom of voting for, what amounts to, my second choice candidate. We bantered back and forth a few times then I said "no matter how bad you think Romney is, he would never nominate a left-wing lunatic like Elena Kagan or Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court." And I added, "Justice Kennedy has announced he plans to retire sometime after the 2012 election and Ginsberg is no spring chicken."
What is worse, I said this to my passionate Libertarian friend before Justice Roberts flipped his vote in the ObamaCare debacle underscoring the urgency of getting more Constitutionalist Justices on the Court.
Intellectually, I understand why some passionate Libertarians and Conservatives want to sit out the upcoming elections. They are tired of holding their noses while voting for 'the lesser of two evils.'
However, the prospect of Obama getting TWO MORE Supreme Court appointments, shifting the court even further to the left should frighten all freedom loving Americans into action.
Imagine four Obama Supreme Court Appointees blocking conservative reforms while rubber stamping every left-wing agenda item for the next 25 years.
If this happens, Obama will have succeeded in fundamentally transforming America.
"America's Need for Energy" by WyBlog
President Obama calls his energy strategy "all of the above". That's actually a good description, because he's gung-ho for everything that's above the earth and absolutely opposed to using anything found below ground.
Coal? Not in his plans. And he's shuttering coal power plants as fast as he can, putting thousands of Americans out of work in the process. When he said he'd bankrupt the coal industry, he meant it.
Oil? Sorry, we can't drill for it, and we surely can't build pipelines to deliver it.
Natural Gas? Only if it magically rises to the surface without drilling or fracking.
Nuclear? He's instituted a moratorium on uranium mining. Harry Reid has ensured there's no place to store nuclear waste. And so there are no new plants on the horizon.
But solar power is the future! Just so long as you don't put all those solar panels anywhere near an endangered species or pristine wetland. And wind turbines are all the rage, unless they'd block the Kennedy clan's view or make too much noise near Barbra Streisand's house.
The real danger with all these changes to the power grid is instability. Those coal plants provide a valuable service, keeping the flow of electricity constant in the face of varying demand. Solar cells can't do that at night (or in the rain). And wind turbines don't spin without wind. So you can't flick a switch and expect them to work on a moment's notice. We'd better get used to the idea of brownouts, and probably rolling blackouts too.
Just imagine the next hot summer day when you go to switch on your air conditioner only to discover that Obama's "Smart Grid" has decided you're not on the list for extra electricity today. Because that's what's coming if we don't replace the 36,000 megawatts of generating capacity Obama has mothballed in the cause of saving the planet.
Strangely though President Obama insists everyone should drive an electric car. I suspect he's unclear on exactly where the electricity comes from, because as the EPA shuts down many of our existing power plants the supply of electricity keeps shrinking. Hanging solar panels on lampposts won't take up the slack either.
Yet if the price of gasoline keeps going up we may have no choice. California's environmental regulations are generally held up as a model for the nation. And thanks to those regulations California leads the way in gas prices, topping $5 per gallon. They're well on their way to fulfilling Steven Chu's dream.
So what's a concerned citizen to do? The good news is Governor Romney plans to take a more practical approach to energy policy if he's elected president. Drilling for oil and gas is not incompatible with protecting the environment. American ingenuity and engineering know-how is the best in the world. We can make our nation energy independent, create good jobs, and do it safely and efficiently.
When it comes to energy the choice is clear. President Obama will ensure that we freeze in the dark. Mitt Romney can keep America working, with a balanced approach that recognizes the value in coal, oil, gas, nuclear, and yes green technologies too.
"My Life With The Obama Kill-Joy Kult" by KingShamus
"…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…" Barack Obama, June 3 2008.
Never has a presidential campaign began with such a breathtaking promise. But then again, Barack Obama has never been content with understatement when it comes to himself. As the junior US senator from Illinois Obama finally secured the Democrat Party's nomination on that early June day, his words declared in no uncertain terms that his would be no ordinary political candidacy.
Mr. Obama wasn't running to be the leader of a mere country. Instead, he was striving to be the Commander-in-Chief of Heaven. Since Obama's Election Day '08 win, the United States has been suffering with the consequences of electing a messianic president.
We no longer have a national leader, at least in America's historically understood tradition. What we have is the head of a cult of personality. Obama doesn't meet with his Cabinet. Obama can't be bothered to caucus with his jobs council. Obama won't meet with foreign leaders. Obama has even alienated dyed-in-the-wool statist hacks like Nancy Pelosi with his haughty demeanor. In short, Barack Obama just isn't that into anybody except himself.
When the president has transcended the grubby day-to-day grind of politics, he doesn't have to do the lowly things that other leaders have to do. Like get congressional approval for a war. Like using the legislative process to determine immigration policy. Like passing a budget.
No, the current occupant of the White House doesn't believe that America's rules apply to him.
To be fair, more than a few US presidents have pushed at and toppled over their Constitutionally defined limits. Obama isn't the first to egregiously abuse his power. What makes Obama so dangerous is not just his constant self-exemptions from traditional limits. It is the fact that at no time in our nation's history has the professional media done so much to aid and abet the machinations of a leader with imperial ambitions.
Even worse, it's not just the press that enables Mr. Obama. The celebrity class is nearly unanimous in its canine devotion to this President. Between slavish videos pledging undying fealty and the massive campaign contributions given by the entertainment community to Obama, the current administration has enjoyed the sort of criticism-free treatment no other American leader has ever been granted.
If one was to take them separately Obama's recklessness, the media's bias and Hollywood's brainless hero-worship would be troubling.
Put all of these factors together and you have the makings of a national cult.
This is a dangerous moment in our history. The American republic is being distorted beyond recognition. There is a sizable and influential percentage of the US population that would be perfectly happy replacing respect for the Presidency with unbridled hero worship.
This process cannot be allowed to continue. Sadly, at the present time, there is only one way that we can stop this slide into soft despotism. The one method you have at your disposal to stop the rise of an American god-king cult is to vote for Mitt Romney.
Is Mitt Romney perfect? No. He is a candidate with obvious strengths and glaring deficits. Then again, America has had quite enough of 'perfect' leadership. Our country cannot stand another four years of messianic rule.
A vote for Mitt Romney is an affirmative vote for many tangible and beneficial things. As Spellcheck notes, stopping the culture of too-big-to-fail bailouts will return some sanity to our economy. The blog What Would The Founders Think believes the Benghazi disaster and cover-up is indicative of Obama's inherent amorality. A Romney Administration would eschew that kind of barren reductive foreign policy. The Mind-Numbed Robot believes that Obama's racial politics is poisonous. As a candidate, Mitt Romney has worked hard to embrace Martin Luther King's color-blind ideals. As Conservatives On Fire asserts, Romney would deal with the Islamic sphere from a position of strength and certitude, not hand-wringing and appeasement. The Supreme Court hangs in the balance and Steve over at MotorCityTimes notes that Romney's commitment to originalist judges will help ensure proper Constitutional limits on government are maintained. Wyblog believes that America's dependence on foreign energy can be greatly ameliorated by Mitt Romney's policy proposals.
All of these are to be celebrated and encouraged. All of them things deserve our support at the ballot box.
Moreover, a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote against Obama's personality Cult. A Romney Administration will be led by a man. Not a glittering Celebrity-in-Chief. Not a flawless symbol of gaseous hope and nebulous change. Not a petulant monarch who cannot be criticized for fear of public ostracism.
No, if Mister Romney is elected, the president will be a man worthy of respect not unthinking deference. The president's actions and policies will be judged not on the basis of insane trumped-up expectations but from the standpoint of actual results. There will be no blinkered worship of the commander-in-chief.
Instead, we will get a mortal to lead us. Whether he succeeds or fails will be up to his political acumen, his ability to rally people to his cause and the whims of fortune. Free people should be governed by men and women. Sovereign citizens have no need for secular messiahs.
Voting for Mitt Romney may not stop natural disasters. Voting for Mitt Romney may not create a heaven on Earth. However, voting for Mitt Romney will do much to re-calibrate our political system away from messianic rulers. That should be good enough for our republic.
5 Responses to "Conservative Bloggers Unite To Defeat Obama"
November 1, 2012 at 7:09 pm
We are winning. d(^_^)b
November 1, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Sometimes I think that our Republic is doomed, that Americans want a strongman to lead them. With the press beating the drumbeat for a strongman it's difficult to maintain faith in a limited government (especially since the mainstream Republicans are every bit as statist as the Democrats.0
But I will vote for Romney. It is the last hope for America.
November 2, 2012 at 5:10 am
Thanks for the repost. I really like your discussion about the Obama Cult of Personality. Excellent point.
Speaking of "Cult of Personality" I know what I'm going to listen to on the way to work this morning.
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Obituaries: Nellie B. Phillips
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|Nellie B. Phillips, 91, of Barnesville, Ohio, departed for heaven on October 20, 2013, surrounded by her family. She was born October 16, 1922 in Lamira, Ohio, daughter of the late Erastus F.H. Wright and L. Belle Showalter Wright.
She was a member of First Christian Church. She loved spending time with her family, cooking, and baking. She served her entire family dinner every Sunday for more than 40 years, affectionately showing her deep love.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Hubert M. Phillips in 2007; infant son, Donald Ray Phillips; sisters, Ruth Hudson, Mary Delaney; and brother, Glenn Wright.
Nellie is survived by her daughters, De Dee Headly of Florida, Karen (Darrell) Long of Quaker City, Ohio, Jana (Mike) Crawford of Speidel, Ohio, and Karla (Mark) Mueller of Belmont, Ohio; sons, Dennis (Cyndi) Phillips, Darrell (Denise) Phillips all of Barnesville, Ohio; grandchildren, Bill (Leisha) Smith, Amy (David) Hartsock, Darren (Sherry) Long, Devonee (Toby) Patrick, Destinee (Nick Logan) Long, Jonell (Zachary Tolzda) Mueller, Terry Akers, Christopher and Colby Crawford, Megan and Aaron Phillips, Shane and Ashley Hughes; eight great-grandchildren; two step great-grandchildren; sister-in-laws, Helen (John) Schlosser, Madeline Shivers; brother-in-law, David Phillips; and several nieces and nephews.
Nellie has now been reunited with her two very dear friends, Bonnie Wilson and Freddie Young.
|Family and friends may visit, Tuesday from 2 to 8 pm, Kelly Kemp Braido & Patron Funeral Home, 702 E. Main Street, Barnesville, Ohio.
|The service for Nellie will be conducted, Wednesday 11 am at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Ebenezer Cemetery, Bethesda, Ohio.
|Ebenezer Cemetery
|Kelly-Kemp-Braido-Patron Funeral Home
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