West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

World leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez demanded the return of the leftest Honduras president ousted in a military coup.

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The so-called “military coup” in Honduras was a successful effort by Honduran patriots to preserve their constitutional system of government from an international alliance of communists and socialists backed by Iran. Not surprisingly, President Obama has come down on the anti-American side.

Obama Sides with Marxists Over Honduras

6/27/09 – 9:21 p.m. at 3400 block of Agency.
Timothy Allen Roach, 20, 611 W. Van Weiss #32, West Burlington; driving while license suspended.

06-27-09 - 4:00 p.m. at Hagerlas Trading Post.
Travis Leslie McAllister, 22, Danville; second degree theft.

6/28/09 – 12:54 a.m. at 122 Ballard, West Burlington.
Heidi Beth Schroeder, 43, 122 Ballard, West Burlington; failure to yield to emergency vehicle & operating while intoxicated – first offense.

6/28/09 – 8:56 p.m. at 324 W. Agency (Wal-Mart), West Burlington.
Kevin Floyd Walters, 46, 630 N. 6th #101, Burlington; fifth degree theft.

6/28/09 – 5:37 p.m. at 550 S. Gear, West Burlington.
Teddy Richard Johnson, 43, 14657 100th St. #33, Wapello; driving while revoked, failure to obey traffic control device.

6/27/09 – 3:25 p.m. at 324 W. Agency (Wal-Mart), West Burlington.
James Robert Vancil, 28, 503 E. Oak St., Salem; fifth degree theft.

6/27/09 – 2:40 a.m. at 701 E. Pennington #103, West Burlington.
Emily Christine Warth, 23, 701 E. Pennington #103, West Burlington; warrant arrest for failure to appear on disorderly conduct.

Natural forces, not human activity, are largely responsible for temperature fluctuations, according to a new study the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released before Congress voted to approve global warming legislation.

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This is a must read piece by L.E. Ikenga, a West African-American woman from Nigeria who calls Obama an 'African Colonial'. She nails Obama's mindset. Click link to read whole article. Here are a few excerpts:

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

The African colonial (AC) is a person who by means of their birth or lineage has a direct connection with Africa. However, unlike Africans like me, their worldviews have been largely shaped not by the indigenous beliefs of a specific African tribe but by the ideals of the European imperialism that overwhelmed and dominated Africa during the colonial period. AC's have no real regard for their specific African traditions or histories. AC's use aspects of their African culture as one would use pieces of costume jewelry: things of little or no value that can be thoughtlessly discarded when they become a negative distraction, or used on a whim to decorate oneself in order to seem exotic. (Hint: Obama's Muslim heritage).

I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The African colonial who is given too much political power can only become one thing: a despot.

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Falcon:

Americans elected one of the greatest Flim-Flam Men of all time to the presidency and when you combine that with a congress infested with nothing more than spineless self serving people you have the recipe for the destruction of the American way of life.

The EPA suppresses the true facts about “Global Warming” because their just as spineless as the congress and for fear of losing their cushy overpaid jobs they lie about this weather warming myth.

A man that knows no science or anything about weather was elevated to be the spokesman by the weather loons and was even given a Nobel when in fact he’s about as smart as a door knob, although when it comes to ripping off the people Al Gore is a genius. He stands to make millions off the global warming lies and so do GE and other American socialist led companies.

The American people better wake up and put an end to this craziness perpetrated by Obama and his den of tax evaders and czars. We have all the self-sustaining natural resources we need but the president and his henchmen are forbidding its use and suppressing this information from the American people.

What fools the American people have become by electing this “craziness” to our highest office.

-Sick of It

6/26/09 – 11:05 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant & Roosevelt, Burlington.
Alexander Flores Mendoza, 33, 210 West Burlington Ave., West Burlington; public intoxication.

Iowa's public employee pension fund will likely be forced to reduce benefits for future retirees because of fund's financial troubles, state officials say.

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6/26/09 – 12:56 a.m. at Argyle & Valley, Burlington.
John Edward Daniels, 29, 701 E. Pennington St. Apt 258, West Burlington; assault without intent to injure.

Scientific findings at odds with the Obama Administration’s views on carbon dioxide and climate change are being suppressed as a result of political pressure.

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24-year-old former player & meth user kills Parkersburg football coach Ed Thomas.

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"I doubt whether there are many Americans who think Congress has either the right or competency to choose where they live, what clothes they wear or what cars they drive. Yet many Americans stand ready to allow Congress to decide what doctors they go to and what treatments they receive. We forget that once we have government-sponsored health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on liberty."
--economist Walter E. Williams

"The president claims that we must pass a government-run health insurance program -- possibly the most wide-ranging and intricate government undertaking in decades -- yesterday or a 'ticking time bomb' will explode. If all this terrifying talk sounds familiar, it might be because the president applies the same fear-infused vocabulary to nearly all his hard-to-defend policy positions. You'll remember the stimulus plan had to be passed without a second's delay or we would see 8.7 percent unemployment. We're almost at 10."
--columnist David Harsanyi

Falcon:

It’s obvious that Loebsack is just more spineless than the rest of the gang in Washington. Votes in Washington have no relationship at all to those back home and are usually based on special interest or personal gain.

-FFS

Notre Dame baseball diamond renamed ‘Winegard Field’

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Randy Winegard throws out the first pitch after Notre Dame High School named its baseball field, ‘Winegard Field’ in honor of his father, the late John Winegard. In 1965 John Winegard donated the construction of Notre Dame’s baseball diamond.

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Notre Dame shortstop Jacob Giertz tags West Burlington’s Skylar Schmeiser out after Schmeiser tried to steal second base in the first inning. Notre Dame defeated West Burlington, 5-3.

Score by Inning
WB 000 120 0 – 3
ND. 111 020 x – 5

Team Records
West Burlington 9-5 (5-3), Notre Dame 5-10 (3-5)

Box Scores
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Notre Dame

S.O.F.T. Care Package Drive for local Troops

S.O.F.T. is collecting items for Care Packages for our local deployed Troops on this Saturday, June 27th at Community Field before and during the Bees Game.

Items frequently requested are: Beef Jerky; Trail Mix; Nuts; Dried Fruit; Gum; Lip Balm; AA and AAA Batteries.

Anyone with a loved one deployed is invited to share an address, so he or she will also receive a package!

Items or donations for shipping costs may be brought to the Bees Game Entry Gate or dropped off in the parking lot, near the flagpole from 4:30 to 8:00 p.m.

For more information, call 319-752-4201.

Thank you for your support!!

6/19/09 – 11:21 p.m. at 324 W. Agency, West Burlington.
Timothy Allen Roach, 20, 611 W. Van Weiss #32, West Burlington; harassment.

6/19/09 – 5:43 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant St., Burlington.
Brent Joseph Stevens, 46, Danville; leaving the scene of personal injury accident & failure to maintain control.

6/17/09 – 4:34 a.m. at 701 E. Pennington #155, West Burlington.
Anthony Raymond Mason, 20, 729 Ave. E 2, Ft. Madison; public intoxication.

Falcon,

The House approves a resolution to support Iranian dissidents by a vote of 405 to 1 - and our Congressman Loebsack votes present? Who doesn't he want to offend? Is afraid of offending his base?

-Can't believe it

House approves Iran bill 405-1

Dr. David Scheiner took care of Obama for 22 years. But they don't see eye-to-eye on how to fix the health care system.

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Experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new study warns being skinny is more dangerous, and chubby people live longer.

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6/17/09 – 5:52 p.m. at Jefferson & Main, Burlington.
Matthew John Hollenbeck, 24, 890 W. Mt. Pleasant St., West Burlington; Des Moines County warrant for probation violation.

Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, said cnesus questions have become "very intricate, very personal" and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter fraud efforts last year, will misuse the information collected.

"I know for my family the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home," she said. "We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that."

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Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is looking into the abrupt firings last week of two inspectors general one of whom was fired by the White House while auditing Obama's AmeriCorps.

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Ousted AmeriCorps watchdog defends waste probe

6/17/09 – 2:09 p.m. at 14876-51 Washington Rd., West Burlington.
Thomas Nathaniel Clouse, 30, 14876-51 Washington Rd., West Burlington; assault.

Courtesy of Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) new report, “100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion”, here are the Top Ten most dubious Obama stimulus projects:

1. “Free” Stimulus Money Results in Higher Utility Costs for Residents of Perkins, Oklahoma.

2. FutureGen: The Stimulus Earmark that Wasn’t, Becomes the Costliest Pork Project in History.

3. Little-Used “Shovel-Ready” Bridges in Rural Wisconsin Given Priority Over Widely Used Structurally Deficient Bridges.

4. $800,000 for little-used Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the “Airport for Nobody” Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer dollars.

5. $3.4 Million for Wildlife “Eco-Passage” in Florida; Project Still May Take Years to Finish.

6. Nevada Non-Profit Gets Weatherization Contract After Being Fired For Same Work.

7. Non-Existent Oklahoma Lake in Line for Over $1 Million To Construct a New Guardrail.

8. Taxpayers Taken for a Ride: Nearly $10 Million to be Spent to Renovate a Century Old Train Station that Hasn’t Been Used in 30 Years.

9. Ten Thousand Dead People Get Stimulus Checks, Social Security Administration Blames a Tough Deadline.

10. Town of Union, New York, Encouraged to Spend Money It Did Not Request For a Homelessness Problem It Does Not Have.

6/17/09 – 3:43 a.m. at #1 Val Aire Drive, Burlington.
Zachary Allen Kemp, 18, 15874 Washington Dr. #45, West Burlington; possession of alcohol under age.

6/15/09 – 4:18 a.m. at 701 E. Pennington #245, West Burlington.
Stephanie Lynn Graham, 22, 701 E. Pennington #245, West Burlington; possession of controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, & aiding and abetting violation of no contact order.

6/15/09 – 7:22 a.m. at 701 E. Pennington #227, West Burlington.
Jamel Allen Sykes, 25, 701 E. Pennington #227, West Burlington; violation of no contact order & fourth degree criminal mischief.

6/13/09 – 5:09 p.m. at 1116 Valley St., Burlington.
Ricco Dajuan Williams, 36, 1116 Valley St., Burlington; aggravated assault.

6/14/09 – 9:22 p.m. at 324 W. Agency, West Burlington.
Tasha Temika Martin, 30, 701 E. Pennington #203, West Burlington; aggravated assault.

40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, and 21% as liberal.

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President Obama will unveil a plan to give the government new powers to seize key companies.

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“What’s undeniable is that the federal government has burrowed its way deep into the quotidian workings of American capitalism. Since the onset of the financial crisis nine months ago, the government has become the nation’s biggest mortgage lender, guaranteed nearly $3 trillion in money-market mutual-fund assets, commandeered and restructured two car companies, taken equity stakes in nearly 600 banks, lent more than $300 billion to blue-chip companies, supported the life-insurance industry and become a credit source for buyers of cars, tractors and even weapons for hunting.” And check out this graphic.

-Glenn Reynolds

Federal Intervention Pits 'Gets' vs. 'Get-Nots'

6/13/09 – 5:09 p.m. at 1116 Valley, Burlington.
Ricco Dajuan Williams, 36, 1116 Valley, Burlington; aggravated assault.

6/13/09 – 1:03 a.m. at 700 block of Leffler, West Burlington.
Amanda Jean Marshall, 18, 319 Broadway, West Burlington; possession of drug paraphernalia.

6/14/09 – 7:57 p.m. at 611 W. Van Weiss, West Burlington.
Brian Christopher Clark, 22, 611 W. Van Weiss #30, West Burlington; driving while barred.

CIA director Leon Panetta, an Obama appointee, claims former vice president Dick Cheney wants to see another attack on the United States.

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Maybe the headline should read, "Baseball Umpire Overreacts"

An umpire ejected all the fans at a West Burlington High School baseball game on Thursday.

West Burlington Superintendent Jim Sleister said he didn’t see any unusual behavior and thought the umpire overreacted.

WBPD officer Al Waterman said no arrests were made and he witnessed no unruliness himself.

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No joke. Obama may do it.

Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.

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Iowa Supreme Court sides with church in sewage battle.

A Webster City, Iowa church that flooded with sewage in 2005 won its negligence lawsuit against Webster City. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Webster City is responsible for damages caused by the sewage backup.

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Falcon,

TC did a good job of outlining the differences between liberals & conservatives. I do think he shortchanged most liberals and I hope to build on liberals’ thoughts:

1. George Tiller, Bill Ayers & Michael Moore are heroes
2. Tax cuts, not spending cause deficits
3. Raising taxes on the rich will stimulate the economy
4. The price of gasoline is still being controlled by Bush & Chaney
5. GW Bush caused our current economic recession by cutting taxes on the wealthiest 2% and creating huge deficits. Raising taxes and creating even larger spending deficits can correct it.
6. Government regulation & control will make healthcare affordable and plentiful
7. School choice should be available for rich democrats only
8. Preschool should be free and mandatory
9. The right to a secret ballot should be taken away from workers.
10. A 25% military cut in military spending is a good thing.
11. Democrats were against going to war in Iraq.
12. Democrats knew there were no WMD¹s all along
13. The government should seize control of talk radio
14. Foreign terrorists captured on foreign soil are entitled to American civil trials and ALCU lawyers
15. The three terrorists that were water-boarded 6-years ago did not provide useful information about potential attacks.
16. The information gathered from water-boarding three terrorists should remain classified. Water-boarding pictures should be released to the New York Times.
17. Windmills & ethanol will supply our energy needs.
18. Electric cars do not require energy
19. The coal industry should be bankrupted
20. Nuclear power is evil
21. Barack Obama was a well-qualified & vetted candidate
22. Fox news is a Republican network
23. Katy Coric, NBC, MSNBC labor leaders provide all the news we need to hear.
24. We need more gun laws. Gun legislation passed under Bill Clinton saved lives.
25. No one needs or deserves to own a handgun it only tempts law-abiding citizens.
26. Evil Republicans want to gamble our social security savings.
27. We¹re to stupid to invest even 4% of our own social security savings.
28. William ³cold cash² Jefferson was only doing a science experiment by hiding $100,000 in his freezer.
29. John Murtha was setup by the FBI
30. CEO and executive salaries should be capped.
31. Healthcare is a right.
32. Healthcare should be free
33. We should not drill for more oil. We should not build more refineries
34. Bill Clinton / Al Gore fought against NAFTA
35. Barack Obama is making our country safer.
36. More government regulation is needed.
37. Barack Obama is a moderate democrat.
38. The president answers the phone in the White House (even at 3 A.M.).
39. The government controls the economy.
40. The government should provide everyone jobs.
41. Election campaign should only be funded by Federal Campaign funds, unless of course you are Barack Obama.
42. Iraq was an illegal war.
43. Ted Kennedy should be excused for leaving the scene of an accident when Mary Jo Kopechne died because it was past his bedtime. Ted was the victim.
44. Only the GOP party is controlled by special interest groups.
45. Ted Kennedy didn't write the No Child Left Behind Act.
46. Nancy Polosi is a babe.

--Jeff H.

Erin Mickey grand slam carries Falcons over Rockets,

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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Erin Mickey hits a grand slam that bounced over the center field fence in second inning against Harmony at Barb Carter field in West Burlington Thursday. West Burlington – Notre Dame defeated Harmony, 8-1.

HARM 000 010 0 – 1
WBND 241 100 0 – 8

Team Records
Harmony 0-5 (0-5), West Burlington – Notre Dame 8-3 (4-1)

Box Scores
Harmony
West Burlington - Notre Dame

6/8/09 – 7:30 p.m. at 122 Broadway, West Burlington.
Jason Roger Graber, 31, 121 Ramsey, West Burlington; assault.

"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
--Benjamin Franklin

Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans say the rest of the new government spending authorized in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan should now be canceled. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 36% disagree and 20% are not sure.

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"The Obama administration was out in full force defending the stimulus this weekend. The mantra is that the economy is getting better but Americans need to be patient to see progress. The problem is that, so far, there hasn't been any economic progress. White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee promised on 'Fox News Sunday': 'It's going to take more than a few months to turn it around.' That contradicts White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers' promise in January that the economy would start improving 'within weeks' so long as the president's $787 billion stimulus was passed. The stimulus actually has dampened economic projections. In January, before the stimulus was passed, 53 business economists and forecasters surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expected gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter (July through September) to rise by 1.2 percent at an annual rate. Predictions became gloomier after the stimulus passed in [February]. In May, these experts forecast only a 0.6 growth rate for the third quarter. White House adviser David Axelrod told CBS' 'Face the Nation': 'The president was very clear when he enacted the stimulus ... unemployment was going to go up and go up for some time.' We only find administration officials back then warning about unemployment rates if the stimulus didn't pass. The stimulus did pass, and unemployment rose to 9.4 percent in May. ... Mr. Goolsbee said that 'Obama is cutting the deficit more than $2 trillion over the 10 years compared with what he was inheriting.' This claim conflicts with the Congressional Budget Office, which forecasts that the Obama administration will create a $9.3 trillion budget deficit over the next 10 years. The Obama administration is trying to rewrite history even as it is being made. The stimulus appears only to have delayed the recovery that economists were expecting before it was passed."

--The Washington Times

The girls are back in town! The girls returned from their school trip to Florida at 3am Saturday morning and were playing softball by 11am. The Bears were hosting their annual Danville Bank Classic and despite not playing in more than a week they responded well.

In the Bears opening game 8th grader Regan Fraise got her first varsity start and responded with a 11 strikeout performance, allowing 1 run on 3 hits in picking up her first career win. The Bears scored 5 in the 5 to 1 win, on 9hits. Rebecca Nelson and Liberty Helt collected a pair of hits. Taylor Bowling, Alexa Hogberg,Lindsey Reed,Janelle Schneiderman and Brooke Byars also chipped in with hits. Helt and Reed had 2 RBI’s.

Senior Janelle Schneiderman gave up only one run on 4 hits, but it took 8th grader Lindsay Schaffer’s first career hit in the bottom of the seventh a two out single up the middle driving in Liberty Helt and Lindsey Reed with the tying and winning run in the 2 to 1 win over Mediapolis, setting up the championship game with Mt Pleasant. Taylor Bowling, Rebecca Nelson and Brittney Holezen also had hits in the game.

In the championship game we seemed poised to win jumping out to a 5 to 2 lead, but I think the Florida trip may have finally caught up to us as Mt Pleasant came back to tie the game and then push across the winning run in extra innings. Alexa Hogberg and Janelle Schneiderman had two hits, Liberty Helt was 3 for 4 with an RBI. Bowling,Nelson,Reed and Byars also had hits. Hogberg,Helt,Reed,and Byars had RBI’s.

Monday we traveled to always tough New London and played well, we just could not get our offensive going as senior Lindsey Reed managed to get our only hit in the 2 to 0 loss. Janelle Schneiderman pitched a great game allowing only 3hits in the tough luck loss.

All in all it is just good to finally be playing softball and I am looking forward to a great year.

-Coach Randy Kester

Falcon,

I think I have had enough of the new president, not sure I can stomach three and a half more years of his and the first ladies arrogance.

I hear him tell the American citizens we must tighten our belts and restrain our spending, that’s fine I think all of us are ready willing and able at least those that are paying attention.

The problem I have with the presidents remarks are he turns around and flies his wife to New York City for dinner and theatre at a cost of $224,000.00, now I have been to Washington DC and I know for a fact there are lots of restaurants even some very nice ones. I have only driven through New York City so I’d probably have to check with Mike Sweet to see if the restaurants in DC compare to those in NYC.

He chastised the CEO’s of the auto companies about flying corporate jets to DC for there powwow, then the president sends Air Force One to NYC another time to get some photo shots flying by the Statue Of Liberty at the same time scaring the be Jesus out of all the people on the ground reminding them all of another day that was also filled with lots of photos and video footage thankfully the people on the ground were just overreacting, I mean all they had to do was look at the side of the plane and know it was Air Force One. I think it cost around $330,000.00 but who’s counting in the age of trillions.

This week the First Lady is hanging in Europe doing a little shopping. The verdict is still out on the cost of this little jaunt across the pond. I’m sure the press secretary will be able to spin it to a press that checked its journalistic integrity at the door on January twentieth and now just nods in unison whenever Mr. Gibbs says anything.

We also inherited a car company or two along the way, I don’t know about anyone else but I really didn’t want a car company, I was still waiting on the return on the railroad we took over back in 1972 at that time we were told that it would only take 3 years to turn it around and people would be clamoring for some ownership of Amtrak.

37 years and tens of billions of dollars later and still counting the railroad just can’t seem to get over that last hurdle of being profitable.

This gives me a lot of confidence that the president and his administration know exactly what there doing.

I almost forgot the seven hundred billion dollar stimulus package that also made us the proud owners of banks and insurance companies.

As I write this I can see the wisdom of the president’s moves here, we all own banks, car companies and insurance companies, looks like I’ll be driving around in a new ride with a federally backed loan and my insurance paid for.

By the time 2012 rolls around everything will be run by the government with zero unemployment because we’ll all be working for the government.

The only problem I think I will have with this is what Czar am I to answer too is it the Energy Czar, Urban Czar, InfoTech Czar, Faith Based Czar, Health Reform Czar, Tarp Czar, Stimulus Accountability Czar, Non Proliferation Czar, Terrorism Czar, Regulatory Czar, Drug Czar, Guantanamo Closure Czar, Auto Czar, Cyber Security Czar, Aids Czar, Green Jobs Czar, Weather Czar, Pay Czar, U.S. Border Czar, Iran Czar, Middle East Czar, Pakistan Czar or Afghanistan Czar. I don’t know about you but that sure seems like a lot of Czars along with the members of his cabinet. I can see now why we will run a $1.7 trillion deficit; it’s to pay all these payrolls for the new jobs created by this administration.

To those of you that voted for Mr. Obama I want to give you some words of advice, if you buy a new car and that car is in the shop 10 or 12 times the first five months the government allows you to have that car, two things I want you to understand. Number one that car was probably built by the Federal Government and number two that car is most likely a lemon.

I am asking you today to quit listening to the rhetoric and start looking at his actions, remember actions speak louder than words.

Do you really want the change this guy is peddling? And can we ever hope to return back to a country where the government knows its place and doesn’t infringe on our freedoms?

-Troy Chambers

I am a conservative and this is what I believe

1 - I believe the United States is the greatest country is the history of the world

2 – I believe God had a hand in the founding of this nation.

3 – I believe that what makes this country great is the people who get up every morning and do what it takes to make a living, raise there children, volunteer for the community and the school, lend there friends and neighbors a hand and donate money and aid to people affected by a disaster on the other side of the world that they don’t know and will never meet.

4 – I believe that the people in government at all levels have made things worse.

5 – I believe the best government is the smallest government.

6 – I believe that spanking a child is not child abuse

7 – I believe I know how to raise my children better than the government does

8 – I believe the majority of rich people didn’t cheat or steal to get to where they are

9 – I believe that the majority of poor people choose to be poor

10 – I believe that most politicians are corrupt

11 – I believe the government should only spend money on the military and roads

12 – I believe the American dream is alive and well

13 – I believe the only thing anyone is entitled to is life, liberty and the pursuit 0f happiness

14 – I believe I know how to spend my money better than the government does

15 – I believe everyone pays too much in taxes

16 – I believe our education system is a disaster

16 – I believe spending more money is not the solution to every problem

17 – I believe that life begins at conception

18 – I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman

19 – I believe that if someone doesn’t agree with me it doesn’t make them close minded

20 – I believe everyone has the right to be wrong

21 – I believe that those who serve in the military should be honored

21 - I believe that things started going to hell in this country when we established the Federal Reserve and the IRS

22 – I believe our founding fathers were geniuses.

23 – I believe liberalism left unchecked will destroy this country

24 – I believe it’s everyone’s duty to question the government

25 – I believe a government that doesn’t like being questioned is dangerous

26 – I believe next to the Bible, The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are the most important things ever written.

27 – I believe that every American should own a gun

28 – I believe all the problems we face as a nation can be solved with a little common since

29 – I believe the states should take back the power that was granted to them by the constitution.

30 – I believe the media should be tried for treason

31 – I believe the media has chosen sides

32 – I believe the constitution was written to tell the government what the government could NOT do. Not to tell the people what the people could do

33 – I believe if white people disagree with Barrack Obama that doesn’t make them racist

33 – I believe George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan were the three greatest presidents this country will ever have.

34 – I believe that lawyers create more problems than solutions

35 – I believe that capitalism is the greatest economic system ever devised

36 – I believe man made global warming is one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on the people

37 – I believe Al Gore is a criminal and should be tried for treason

38 – I believe the war on poverty has been a huge waste of money

39 – I believe the best way for the black community to succeed is from within the black community

40 – I believe everyone should exercise there rights on a regular basis

41 – I believe we all have a responsibility to leave this country better than we found it.

42 – I believe anyone should be welcome in this country as long as they come here legally

43 – I believe this country was founded on Christian principals

44 – I believe too many people get offended to easy

45 – I believe political correctness is stupid

46 – I believe when in doubt we should look to the constitution

47 – I believe judges should only interpret the law and those that impose there personal views from the bench should be tried for treason.

48 – I believe if the words one nation under God offends you, you need to get over it.

49 – I believe there’s no difference between the Democrat and Republican Party’s anymore

50 – I believe there should be term limits for all politicians at all levels of government.

51 – I believe the United Nations is a joke and we should drop out

52 – I believe the problems Europe and the rest of the world has with us is based on jealousy

53 – I believe English should be the official language in the United States

54 – I believe if you buy hot coffee and you dump it on your lap, and you want to sue, you should be required to take classes on how to handle hot coffee.

55 – I believe a partisan congress that fights and gets nothing done ever is a wonderful thing.

56 – I believe everyone should have to pass a civics test before they are allowed to vote

57 – I believe every child should be taught the Constitution every year they are in school.

58 – I believe as long as I’m paying for my gas. It’s no ones business how good my MPG is

59 – I believe if you really want to screw things up just let the federal government run it for a while

60 - I believe my country is great it’s the idiots running government that’s the problem

61 – I believe that I pay about six dollars a gallon for ethanol when I figure in all the subsidy money that goes to farmers and manufacturers to make it in the first place

62 – I believe we have more oil than we know what to do with and it’s going to be a couple of hundred years before we run out

63 – I believe necessity is the mother of invention and someone will invent a new source of power before we run out of our current source. It will most likely be energy companies

64 – I believe if you disagree with 62 and 63 go back and re read 19 and 20

65 – I believe “people” are every bit as much a part of nature as wildlife is, even though we don’t live in a house made of twigs and we have modern conveniences.

66 – I believe the best stewards of the land are hunters and fisherman not some bureaucrat behind a desk in an office in Washington.

67 – I believe the utility companies have a monopoly, if you don’t believe me try getting your power from a different utility company.

68 – I believe that a politician that is moving his mouth is most likely lying.

69 - I believe Barrack Obama is just a typical politician that gives good speeches with a teleprompter.

70 – I believe if you want to save something such as animals or forests make it profitable to do so, and you’ll see both thrive

71 – I believe if you agree with this list you are a conservative

72 – I believe the majority of the people in this country probably agree with this list

73 – I believe number 1 on this list is no more important than number 72

I am a liberal and this is what I believe

1 – I believe the government should take care of me

2 – I believe if you are rich you cheated or stole to get what you have

3 – I believe that competition might hurt some ones feelings

4 – I believe abortion is a great form of birth control

5 – I believe a women has a right to choose what to do with her body as long as she doesn’t do something with it that offends me

6 – I believe those crazy Christians are a problem

7 – I believe we should get rid of our military advantage because it’s not fair we are the only super power in the world

8 – I believe I should get a tax cut even if I don’t pay taxes

9 – I believe Barrack Obama is wonderful and I pledge my complete devotion to him

10 – I believe Bill Clinton was railroaded and lying under oath isn’t a big deal when it’s about sex because everyone lies about sex

11 – I believe the war in Iraq is for oil

12 – I believe the war in Iraq is about money

13 – I believe the war in Iraq is about settling a score for George H.W. Bush

14 – I believe Carl Marx should be taught in every school every year

15 – I believe Fox news is a crazy Republican network

16 – I believe Keith Olberman and Ed Schultz are fair and balanced

17 – I believe you should be able to say what you think as long as it doesn’t offend me

18 – I believe if you disagree with me you are closed minded

19 – I believe FDR got us out of the great depression

20 – I believe the rich should pay more in taxes because they make more

21 – I believe I’m entitled to a house even if I can’t afford it
22 – I believe we should make more gun laws

23 – I believe making more laws solves lots of problems

24 – I believe FDR, Kennedy and Clinton were great presidents

25 – I believe we should look to the international community for legal precedent

26 – I believe we should keep the United Nations happy and not make them mad at us

27 – I believe Cuba has a wonderful health care system

28 – I believe anything on television must be true

29 – I believe Michael Moore is a genius

30 – I believe the Constitution is a living document

31 – I believe Al Gore invented the internet and is a scientist

32 – I believe if you run for president and win the popular vote you should win the election

33 – I believe animals should not be killed under any circumstance

34 – I believe government should mandate hybrids

35 – I believe we are destroying the planet

36 – I believe Jimmy Carter was misunderstood

37 – I believe I like the term progressive better than liberal

38 – I believe the evil logging industry should be stopped

39 – I believe capitalism isn’t fair to those that fail

40 – I believe al Qaeda is just like our founding fathers

41 – I believe illegal aliens should be allowed to have a driver’s license

42 – I believe there should be a living wage imposed on all business owners

43 – I believe the first priority of all businesses is to provide jobs for people

44 – I believe corporations are too concerned about profits
45 – I believe that I shouldn’t have to pay for my healthcare

46 – I believe if we make al Qaeda mad at us they will attack us again

47 – I believe we should coddle violent criminals and try to understand there point of view

48 – I believe we should print warning labels on everything

49 – I believe warning labels should be printed in every language there is.

50 – I believe the government should pay for my college

51 – I believe gays should be allowed to get married and should be protected as a minority group

52 – I believe the white people should apologize for all the problems in the world

53 – I believe Neville Chamberlain knew how to deal with national security threats

54 – I believe America should apologize to the rest of the world for everything

55 – I believe 9/11 was in inside job and Bush knew about it

56 – I believe John Kerry is a great American hero who should have been president

57 – I believe John McCain tried to use his POW status in Vietnam to portray himself as a hero and the American people saw right through it.

58 – I believe we shouldn’t put to much stock in what Thomas Jefferson said because he owned slaves

59 – I believe if Joe Biden says something stupid we should just forget it because what he said wasn’t what he meant to say

60 – I believe we shouldn’t call illegal aliens illegal aliens we should call them Spanish American transitional citizens who are being bullied by an imperialistic American empire

-TC

6/8/09 – 7:30 p.m. at 121 Ramsey, West Burlington.
Jason Roger Graber, 32, 121 Ramsey, West Burlington; simple assault.

6/8/09 – 3:40 p.m. at 609 S. Gear, West Burlington.
Joshua Joe Clark, 21, 2108 Burlington Ave., Burlington; warrant for operating while intoxicated second offense & warrant for failure to maintain control.

6/8/09 – 7:31 a.m. at 4304 W. Mt. Pleasant, West Burlington.
Anthony M Nichols, 49, PO Box 243, Wallingford, VT; possession of drug paraphernalia & public intoxication.

6/7/09 – 11:15 a.m. at 611 W. Van Weiss Apt. 46, West Burlington.
Michael Allen Weyer, 23, 907 N 9th St., Burlington; simple domestic assault.

6/3/09 – 11:59 p.m. at Luers Park, West Burlington.
Jesse Joseph Dodge, 25, 11781 Northview Dr., Burlington; operating while intoxicated first offense & possession of drug paraphernalia.

6/5/09 – 12:31 a.m. at 111 Broadway, West Burlington.
Sean Richard Lee Robbins, 23, PO Box 242, 4th & Knox, Oquawka, IL; possession of controlled substance – marijuana & public intoxication.

6/4/09 – 12:45 p.m. at 306 E. Agency (Kohl’s), West Burlington.
Donald Craig Hunt, 20, 1244 Agency, Burlington; fifth degree theft.

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2009 Danville Softball Team

Front Row L-R: Kourtney Menke, Regan Fraise, Alexis Farren, Trinity Howe, Taylor Bowling, Brooke Byars, Cate Mura, Janelle Schneiderman, Lindsey Reed. Back Row L-R: Head Coach Randy Kester, Micaela Williams, Alexa Hogberg, Liberty Helt, Brittany Hoelzen, Rebecca Nelson, Lindsay Schaffer, Ali Stellern, Asst. Coach Kara Kester.

90-days ago the Federal Reserve launched a $1.2 trillion spending spree. It was designed to push down mortgage rates and revitalize the housing market.

But the big government spending program had the opposite effect. Mortgage rates and Treasury debt are skyrocketing higher as bond investors worry about a new round of inflation.

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Falcon,

After reading Sunday's Hawkeye stories about the County E911 expenses and management, I think Dan Cahill is doing a good job. It is his job to watch and question mismanagement and spending. It appears that the clique at the courthouse doesn't like anybody to question anything they do and they will treat them poorly. Elected officials, especially Jeff Heland, always campaigned on good and honest OPEN government. They like the articles and the press that agrees with them, but when there is something like this that is questioned, then they don't like how it is handled in the media. They don't want the public to know about some of this. The sheriff's comments were disappointing too. Maybe he should watch the taxpayers’ money a little better too. The Hawkeye is doing their job. Suggestion: If Strause needs to drive 300 miles in one day driving the county site seeing and looking at his signs, he should use a County car. The County and taxpayers own several cars that are sitting idle part of the day that could be used. He could plan the day that he needs it and the County could free up one. Not many businesses are paying 55 cents per mile. Sounds like some employees are using this system to supplement their income. Also, too many cars are allowed to be taken home on taxpayer expense. It's abused. We need more Dan Cahills.

The County just gave employees a pay raise, and now they don't have enough money to meet the payroll. So they borrow 1 million dollars and raise our property taxes. What business would do this? Would Jeff Heland operate his business this way? No way. But taxpayers can be expected to pay this. Isn't this how GM went bankrupt? Heland is in office for the wrong reasons and all we have to do watch what he does and it sure is not in the best interest of the taxpayers. They should have taken salary freezes in this poor economy, not raise taxes and get pay raises. Vote for the same people and this is what we get.

-Taxpayers

Unemployment Report Fuels Attack on Obama Policies

Unemployment Hits 26-year High.

One in Ten Americans Out of Work - Unemployment Rises to 9.4%.

Falcon,

I’m writing to ask all your readers to contact Congressman Loebsack’s office (202)-225-6576 and demand he co sponsor H.R. 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009. This bill currently has 186 co-sponsors.

I don’t know if all your readers are aware that the Federal Reserve is no more of a Federal Institution than Federal Express. It is a private corporation who since it’s inception in 1913 answers to no one, they cannot be audited and they cannot be controlled by our government or anyone else for that matter. Sounds like a pretty good racket to me.

The Fed tells the government that they can go ahead and print money because the fed has loaned it to them (basically they have created money out of thin air) then the federal government pays the Fed back plus interest. It cost about three cents to print a dollar bill or a hundred dollar bill. The fed has given nothing to the government except a promise to back that money and since they can’t be audited we don’t know if they have anything tangible to back up there promise. It’s time we start taking our country back and this is how we are going to do it one battle at a time, so again I ask you to please contact Loebsack

Thanks
Troy Chambers

Tigers down Falcons by 10-run rule in the fifth.

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New London second baseman Logan Chiri snags a popup hit by West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kaitlyn Caston between teammates Ashley Blint (19) and Rachele Thornburg (15) in the first inning of Friday’s game in West Burlington. New London defeated the Falcons, 11-1 in five innings.

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West Burlington – Notre Dame catcher Emma Shipley makes the tag at home against New London’s Rachele Thornburg (15) in the fourth inning of Friday’s game in West Burlington. Falcons fell to the Tigers, 11-1 in five innings.

Score by innings:
NL. 010 46 – 11
WB 001 00 – 01

Team Records:
New London 2-0,(2-0), West Burlington 5-2, (2-1)

Box Scores:
West Burlington
New London

President's popularity fades.

Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 34% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of 0. That’s the highest level of strong disapproval and the lowest overall rating yet recorded.

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Trains couldn't use the Mississippi River bridge at Burlington for about 2-hours after a barge struck the structure protecting the bridge.

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West Burlington’s Taylor Newland beats a pickoff throw to Nike first baseman Kameron Gray in the first inning of Thursday’s game in West Burlington. West Burlington defeated Notre Dame, 10-5.

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West Burlington foreign exchange student, Hideto Yamashiro celebrates his 2-run homerun to put the Falcons up 4-0 in the second inning. It was Yamashiro’s last game with the Falcons before returning to his home country. West Burlington defeated Notre Dame, 10-5.

West Burlington Box Score

Notre Dame does not report

A Davenport, Iowa, Monroe Elementary School student gave rat poison to seven 2nd & 3rd grade classmates, but officials say no one fell ill.

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6/1/09 – 3:54 p.m. at Burlington High School.
Trey Shaquil Martinez, 16, 318 Swan, West Burlington; assault.

6/1/09 – 9:00 p.m. at 122 Broadway, West Burlington.
Bruce Eugene Boyles, 52, 310 Prairie, West Burlington; dangerous and vicious animal.

Hounds top Falcons, 7-0

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Burlington’s Miranda Kramer (2) makes it safe to first, just beating the throw to West Burlington – Notre Dame first baseman Katie Cook in the third inning of Wednesday night’s game in West Burlington. Both teams were undefeated with 5-0 records going into the game. 13th ranked Class 4A Burlington defeated WBND, 7-0.

Team Records:
Burlington 6-0 (0-0), West Burlington – Notre Dame 5-1 (2-0)

Burlington Box Score

West Burlington Box Score

President Barack Hussein Obama tells Arabs, "if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world".

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ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign.

During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago."

In his April 6 address to the Turkish Parliament, President Obama referenced how many "Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them."

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West Burlington 7th Grade Softball

Front Row L-R: Dayton Elliott, Autumn Doane, Jalyn Brissey, Alexis Hawley, Brandall Diaz, Brittani Johnson Back Row L-R: Coach Amber Crawford, Carissa Todd, Mickenzie Larpenter, MaKenzie Whitmore, Kaylee Dochterman, Maddy Hand

Iowa law requires every county with gambling to again seek approval from voters in November 2010.

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An Easily Understandable Explanation of Financial Markets

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later.

She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Heidi's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Detroit.

By providing her customers' freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar. He so informs Heidi.

Heidi then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since, Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Heidi's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the Government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers.

Now, do you understand?

-Federalist

5/31/09 – 9:58 p.m. at 3001 Kirkwood, Burlington.
Zachariah Jorel Ellis, 16, 602 W. Mt. Pleasant #26, West Burlington; possession of marijuana & possession of drug paraphernalia.

Billboard recognizes Marine Sergeant Joshua Kelly of Danville as ‘Hometown Marine’

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United States Marine Corps recognizes Sergeant Joshua Kelly, a 24-year old graduate of Danville High School, with a billboard as part of their ‘Hometown Marine’ program that “recognizes men and women who’ve received a commendation for their service in the Corps.”

The billboard with Kelly’s picture is displayed at the intersection of old Highway 34 and 406 in West Burlington.

A Marine Corp website states, “In February 2003, Sgt Kelly deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a LAV [light armored vehicle] driver, and in August 2004, he deployed to Iraq again as a vehicle commander.”

“Sgt Kelly was awarded the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Combat “V” for his heroic service while serving in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from August 2004 to March 2005. At the time, Sgt Kelly was a Cpl and an LAV commander with Company D, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division. While patrolling the Hit city bridge for suspected roadside bombs, Cpl Kelly’s platoon was ambushed by a numerically superior force from the opposite side of the Euphrates River. Unnerved by the enemy’s persistent fires and disregarding his own safety, Cpl Kelly maneuvered his vehicle to a firing position, identified several enemy targets and issued accurate fire commands to his gunner. When the platoon’s dismounted scouts were caught in an exposed position, he deliberately moved his vehicle in front of them, distracting the enemy’s attention and effectively enabling the scout squad to move to a covered position, while drawing much of the enemy’s fire. He also facilitated the platoon’s maneuver and the massing of its fire against the enemy, which broke the insurgents’ will to fight. Cpl Kelly’s initiative, perseverance and total dedication to duty reflected credit upon him and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.”

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Falcon:

Our worthless governor signed a bill last week that allows cities to put up to a 5% tax on our utility bills under the guise of a franchise tax. Our thieving city will, with out a doubt use it to the fullest extent in order to line up next years wage increases and bonuses for city employees.

Burlington already puts a tax on utilities although the state doesn’t.

-Disgusted

"By the time you read this on Monday morning, General Motors will have declared bankruptcy. ... On April 28, 2000 a share of GM would have cost you $93.63. Last night you could have bought about 125 shares for that same money as GM was trading at 75 cents. ... Obama will own over 72.5 percent of whatever the 'new' GM looks like with a trust fund of the United Auto Workers owning the second biggest chunk at 17.5 percent. For those of you who, like me, are deficient when it comes to carrying-the-ones I did the arithmetic: The Obama Administration and the UAW will own 90 percent of General Motors. ... The government can't force us to buy GMs or Chryslers, but they can provide incentives for us to do it. The Congress can pass legislation giving an additional tax exemption or deduction for the purchase of any car made by a company which is more then 50 percent owned by the federal -- the American federal -- government. Conversely the Congress might pass a law putting an excise tax on the purchase of any vehicle not manufactured by a company which is more than 50 percent owned by the U.S. government. The scary part about how far across the collectivism causeway we have come in so short a period of time is this: A few months ago you would have snorted at the silliness of a suggestion like that. This morning you're saying, 'Oh, my, he's right. They might just do it.' The auto industry and health care are tied together. The thought of the government running them makes me car sick."

--political analyst Rich Galen

5/30/09 – 2:19 a.m. at Highway 34.
Belinda Jo Hill, 44, West Burlington; operating while intoxicated first offense.

5/30/09 – 11:38 a.m. at 1500 W. Mt. Pleasant St., West Burlington.
Jay Fredrick Smith, 21, 515 S. Marshall, Burlington; warrant arrest.

5/30/09 – 12:28 a.m. at Hwy 34, Middletown exit.
Adam Steven Hanson, 28, 14351 Flint Bottom Rd., West Burlington; operating while intoxicated – third offense.

5/28/09 – 11:45 p.m. at 122 Broadway St., West Burlington.
Timothy Allen Roach, 20, 611 W. Van Weiss #32, West Burlington; simple domestic abuse assault, obstruction of emergency communications, & trespassing.

5/27/09 – 6:45 p.m. at 1221 S. Gear, West Burlington.
Donald Terral Hawkins, 37, 701 E. Pennington #138, West Burlington; warrant for fifth degree theft.

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West Burlington 8th Grade Softball

Front Row L-R: Caitlin Salvador, Tara Goff, Kassandra Cavazos, Sierra Hase, Lindsey Johnson Back Row L-R: Coach Amber Crawford, Brittany Cooper, Kaylea Atwater, Emily Wilkerson, Taylor Ludwick, not pictured Jordan Bloomberg, Joslyn Hicks Mgr.

A solar flare observed back in Dec. 2006 by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.

Frost Watch issued for New York.

An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle.

"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

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Who knows more about Marxism than the Russians?

"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people."

"First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish."

"The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe."

"These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?"

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