West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

Are we done lying to ourselves? Are we willing to admit we screwed up? More importantly are we done trying to say we have this awesome President who is being treated unfairly with the rare criticism that he is actually being given in the mainstream media?

Recently, as I was reading through different online news articles and the comment sections to each article, I couldn’t help but notice a similar theme to each of them. The theme goes something like this “Barrack Obama is a good president, to say anything else makes you a right-wing idiot.” Or my favorite it makes you a “close-minded” person to say anything negative about Obama.

Anyways, as I was reading through the comments of others I came across a couple of the following:

· “I have never seen a more harshly treated President. Ever. And I have been alive to see Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr., and now Obama.”

· “The way the people in this country behave is completely and utterly incomprehensible.”

These are a couple of the many quotes I came across and I will be honest I did a double take over these quotes. To say that Obama is being treated worse than any of the recent Presidents is complete bogus. The only President who can honestly say he was criticized from all directions is George W. Bush. He had a media with a vendetta against him, he had Americans who are gullible and listen to whatever Liberal America wants them too. And yet Obama is the “poor president”? Give me a break.

Three months into office, President Obama effectively signed a check to the amount of $800,000,000,000.00 made payable by the United States Government. Actually, that’s a lie, that check was made payable by some foreign governments, because America can’t afford that much spending.

President Obama six months into his Presidency has attached himself to the reform of health care (something that isn’t in dire need of reform by the way.) What was the estimated figure on that project? At least $1,000,000,000,000.00. That’s right ladies and gentlemen we’re not even in the billions anymore!

So, so far we have a president who has spent away 800 billion dollars and wants to put at least 1 trillion towards a health care reform?

And yet, we’re expected to go along with this? We’re expected to roll over and let our taxes go over the roof? Honestly, the government (both federal and states) are already looking at every single possible way to tax us. Is it really necessary to keep piling on the already outrageous debt this nation is in?

And to the gentlemen who said that the way the people in this country behave is completely and utterly incomprehensible. Yes, I agree with you, the people of this nation are so ignorant and idiotic it’s just rather sad. But in essence this reflects my generation quite well… spend what you don’t have and forget all of the morals that have helped make this great nation, great.

At this rate, my future grandchildren will live in an America where democracy is laughed at, where America is known as the country with no back bone what-so-ever, and more importantly a country that gives it peoples no individual freedom.

We’ve set ourselves up for this future. We have a man in the Presidency that ought not be there. For a true United States President commands the respect of the world, whether they like him or not. A true United States President leads his nation and sets the tone to world affairs. What a United States President does not do is wreck the United States economy. What a United States President does not do is act cowardly and timid. A United States President does not back down when foreign regime leaders threaten the safety and security of this nation or of other nations in the world.

Barrack Obama has already done almost irreparable damage to this country and he’s been in office for less than a year. Let’s hope America will have grown up enough and matured by 2012 to look past the color of a person but rather at the contents and character of the individual.

-D.N.

Obama's simulus not working.

Far more jobs than expected were lost last month as the unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, the highest in 26 years.

467,000 jobs were lost according to the Labor Department, 100,000 more than economists had expected, with virtually no major economic sector spared.

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7/1/09 – 10:07 p.m. at 701 E. Pennington, West Burlington.
Angela Lafaune Lloyd, 32, 701 E. Pennington #249, West Burlington; pharmacy pseudoephedrine sale.

Falcon:

With the death of Michael Jackson and all the attention it’s been getting on TV and the press, who in the world is watching Obama and monitoring the crap he’s forcing through our spineless dimwits in Washington? Our non-representation in Washington pass bills having never read them nor have a clue about what they’re doing to ruin the American way of life for generations to come.

Obama is proof the American voter is ignorant, uneducated and very easy to hood wink into believing lies perpetrated by a smooth talking person no one knows anything about. Can anyone tell us where our president was born, what schools he attended and how did he get the money to front his education in the Ivy League schools. Did he every have a job? What’s the true story about his father? Has anyone seen his birth certificate? How could he attend a church for 22 years and never hear the pastor, a known racist say anything bad about whites or others.

Wake up America we are being destroyed from within and this Obama character is doing it with the help of a spineless, dimwitted congress.

-Worried

Falcon,

The Hawkeye newspaper is worthless and doing the people that buy it a great disservice. Today in the paper there was no mention of the horrendous energy package "cap and trade" that Obama and his cronies are trying to push through, congress signed on without even reading what's in it, there were 300 pages of amendments added to it just before they signed it! This was done on a Friday so the news groups wouldn't have all week to talk about it. The EPA covered up documents on global warming, knowing that its a bunch of bull, so Obama can get this green energy bill passed. This bill alone will cost every family up to 1800.00 more a year to heat and cool their homes, not to mention the cost of gas, clothing, groceries, etc, will rises greatly.

Obama's stimulus package is not working, the unemployment rates are higher than Obama stated and going higher. Obama's National Health package is a disaster. The America that we know is no longer and people don't seem to realized how critical this is!

The Hawkeye seems to want to keep it's readers in the dark, and Steve D., says he's a republican, sure could fool me. Obama's sweet talk campaign promises for not taxing the middle class is going by the wayside, his sweet talk was just that, to get elected now that he's in charge the real person is coming through, he got his start in Chicago politics which everyone knows is quite corrupt, but these tactics seem to be working in Washington. Please citizens wake-up, because Obama's plans for America is straight up Socialism. It's time to save what rights our great men and woman fought for over the years, tell Washington no more!

-M.H.

Great Lakes Airlines’ Food Drive to Benefit the Des Moines County Neighborhood Center in Burlington

CHEYENNE, Wyo., – Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: GLUX.OB – news) is helping in the battle to fight hunger with their “Flying 4 Food” campaign to benefit the Des Moines County Neighborhood Center in Burlington.

Did you know that 1 in 8 Americans are at risk for hunger? From children and seniors to the working poor, millions of Americans are either hungry or nearing hunger. Today many public food-assistance programs and private organizations strive to meet the nutritional needs of these vulnerable Americans. Great Lakes Airlines and the Des Moines County Neighborhood Center are asking for your help.

Throughout the month of July, bring a non-perishable food item to the Great Lakes counter and you will be eligible to win one of 4 round trip tickets between Burlington and Kansas City. Donate as much as you like, however only one entry per person / per week is permitted. Donations will be accepted Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport, 2501 Summer Street. Weekend hours are limited. Please contact Great Lakes’ Regional Sales Manager, Kassi Mohlenkamp at 307-432-7018 with any questions.

Great Lakes is providing scheduled passenger service at 66 airports in seventeen states with a fleet of Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and Raytheon/Beech 1900D regional airliners. A current route map may be viewed at http://www.flygreatlakes.com/route_map/route_map.htm.

All scheduled flights are operated under the Great Lakes Airlines marketing identity in conjunction with code-share agreements with United Airlines and Frontier Airlines at their Denver, Phoenix, and Billings hubs. Code-share agreement with only United at their Kansas City and Ontario hubs; and only Frontier at their Albuquerque hub. The company also operates hubs in Milwaukee and St. Louis.

Additional information about Great Lakes Airlines is available at www.flygreatlakes.com

7/1/09 – 2:01 a.m. at 1221 S. Gear (GRMC), West Burlington.
Juli Anne Barton, 54, 912 Iowa St., Burlington; public intoxication.

6/30/09 – 9:00 a.m. at 314 Melville St., West Burlington.
Steven Eugene Weigert, 51, 314 Melville St., West Burlington; disorderly conduct.

Siefken’s grand slam gave WBND all the runs they needed.

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West Burlington – Notre Dame right fielder Emily Siefken celebrates after hitting her first homerun, a grand slam, in the second inning of Tuesday night’s game in West Burlington. WBND defeated Van Buren, 7-0.

Score by innings
VB .. . 000 000 0 – 0
WBND 040 003 x – 7

Team Records
Van Buren 6-15 (2-7), West Burlington – Notre Dame 14-11 (7-4)

Box Scores
Van Buren (not available)
West Burlington - Notre Dame

Falcon:

Looking at the arrest blotter it would seem a barbed wire fence around 701 E. Pennington would end much of the criminal activity in the West Burlington area.

How could so many bottom feeders live in one area? Why does the criminal element or the, “I just don’t give a damn element,” have such an attachment to 701 E. Pennington? Does anyone know what draws them to this location?

-Wondering

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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