Spike,

"While the U.S. and Europe struggle with flagging economies, the power outages are symptomatic of China's torrid growth and officials' capricious use of their powers to meet the authoritarian government's goals."

Today China. Tomorrow Burlington? It could be coming soon thanks to authoritarians governing you.

It takes money to make money. It takes energy to make something to sell so you have money to make money. Remove energy from the mix and it all gets nixed.

Cap and Trade would create increased costs for energy. Research being constantly questioned is constantly sited by those who rule to further their own power. They have allies who helped halt an electric generating plant here in Iowa.

Cap and Trade passed in the U. S. House of Representatives by a narrow margin. Our Congressman voted for it. If it clears the Senate, prepare to pay more for less and perhaps do with none.

When the lights dim, your job goes away and you can no longer afford to heat your house, authoritarian leaders will be there for you. Not just in Washington, but right here at home.

County Supervisor Heland will tell you his latest 17% tax increase is no great sacrifice. It is for your own good.

Do yourself a favor this Fall. Flip the switch and make it lights out for authoritarian leaders like our Congressman and his tax and spend County Supervisor side kick.

Neina Watts

Spike,

"For example, the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish were surprised to learn that they might have been governed by a drunk. This is particularly true of recent years that Blair spent at his residence at Downing Street."

This sounds all too familiar.

J. Walker Red

The difference is the U.K. might have been governed by a drunk. Burlington has been governed by a bunch of drunks.

Spike

"In 2008, federal prosecutors decided to drop a criminal probe into the finances of Sharpton and NAN. But Sharpton — who also has a lucrative syndicated radio show and a speech-making and consulting business — agreed to pay back more than $2 million in overdue personal and NAN taxes.

The audit said NAN still owed $1.348 million in delinquent city, state and federal taxes and penalties at the end of 2008. The IRS has filed dozens of liens against NAN over the past decade, including one as recently as April of this year.

Last year, the Federal Elections Commission slapped Sharpton with $285,000 fine, in part for illegally using NAN funds to cover the costs of his 2004 presidential campaign."

"Former Northwest Airlines Capt. John Hansen flew the airline's Boeing 747 route from Detroit to Toyko for years. In 2002, the plane tried to kill him and 400 passengers. This is the never-before published story of how he saved them.

Hansen told the story in a 2006 court hearing, and the version below is his own words edited from the transcript. After taking off from Detroit in October 2002 and reaching the halfway point over the Bering Sea, Hansen and his co-pilot were retiring to the crew bunk while the other two officers took over for the remainder of the trip:

I was just settling down with my book and I felt the airplane do a very odd maneuver. We could feel the airplane doing something very significant and abnormal. And, after about eight or ten seconds after they recovered from it, I knew this was not right. I got up and began putting my uniform on. (First Officer) Dave (Smith) did the same thing. And just then, we got the emergency crew call from the cockpit. There's a chime that they can ring. And when the chime goes off, it means we need you right away."

On August 1, the Pacific Sun ran into a heavy storm 400 miles north of New Zealand, hitting 25-foot-tall waves and 50-knot winds. Its 1732 passengers weren't prepared to endure the madness that ensued.

The second video is not the same ship but undergoing a more severe roll in heavy seas.

"All this week, Judge Andrew Napolitano and several special guests will look back at some of Glenn's best segments from the past year..crash courses, if
you will. These will be great shows to pass along to friends or family who may be on the fence about Glenn and/or those who know something isn't right with the country, but can't quite put their finger on it. Don't miss tomorrow's crash course on revisionist history- things you should have learned in school, but never did- thanks to progressives."

Despite hiring, US unemployment rate seems frozen

"Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work.

Private employers added a net total of 67,000 jobs in August. But the unemployment rate rose to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, because the number of job-seekers overwhelmed the number of openings.

The unemployment rate has exceeded 9 percent for 16 straight months and is all but sure to extend that streak into next year. If it does, it would break a record of 19 straight months above 9 percent, set from 1982-83, after a severe recession.

Nearly 15 million people are unemployed this Labor Day weekend, and the sluggish economy is putting pressure on President Barack Obama and the Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections. Obama said Friday that he intends to unveil a new package of proposals that will likely include tax cuts and spending to spark job growth.

On top of the jobs that companies created last month, both July and June's private-sector job figures were upwardly revised. Overall, the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month as 114,000 temporary census positions ended."

Spike,

"It is entirely conceivable Heland lacks the ability to write a book. Could Heland hire a like-minded ghost writer at the Ad Vertiser?"

The answer to Charles D's question must be no. Once upon a time, yes.

The Hawk-Eye's newsroom produced objective, informative, easy to read, competent works of journalism. Some in the newsroom even authored books of local interest. They knew well what they covered.

The Ad Vertiser's newsroom is filled with minds like Heland's. It shows.

Beyond the bias, an autistic style often lacking facts makes the back of a cereal box easier and more informative morning reading. When it comes to place, you have documented hilarious geographic gaffes. They do not know what they are covering, nor often times where it even happened.

If Heland needs anonymous assistance selling higher taxes with a book, have you any suggestions?

Johannes

He has a stable of writers on South Main to choose from. They write nonsense everyday so to ghost write a Heland book only takes a few more days.

'Course it is harder to write a book since you can't repeat yourself for 2 or 3 weeks at a crack without adding any new material.

Spike

Spike,

"Mark Rauschert of Friends of the Constitution, a Bushnell-based group seeking to oust Rep. Hare, said Wednesday that Canton officials have told the group its billboard there must be removed by Sept. 2. He shared an e-mail from Marla Diden, an agent of the city, stating the sign violated Canton's ordinance limiting signs to 30 days before an event; the election is Nov. 2."

Phil Hare is Gulfport's Congressman. Phil Hare "represents" Illinois 17th District. Illinois 17th Congressional District was shaped like a serpent by state legislators so fellow party animals like Phil Hare can hold it.

Just like Burlington's Congressman, Phil Hare voted for Obamacare and a host of other Socialist legislation. Just like Dave Loebsack, Phil Hare is there to serve Nancy Pelosi rather than the people who elected him.

Unlike our Herr Doktor Professor Loebsack, give Congressman Hare an A+ for honesty. Phil Hare makes no pretense when comes to ignoring Constitutional limits on government. The Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.

Phil Hare's friends running the City of Canton, IL believe they can ignore the 1st Amendment. Free speech may be abridged in Canton if anybody dares to attack Phil Hare. If national defenders of the Constitution get wind of this, it could mean trouble for Canton taxpayers.

Canton's City leaders should look to the west before pushing this issue. Canton's big frogs could see well financed, competent legal talent drain their little pond.

The City of Burlington believed itself above the law vis-a-vis the BNSF. Burlington was over half a million poorer when its fight was over. It would have been worse had not a merciful judge decreed, "Without merit." Burlington taxpayers were the big losers.

Losers like Congressman Phil Hare and Congressman Dave Loebsack need to do just that. Go to the polls and make it so.

Sunday Crowsnest Krew

Spike,

"Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit.

Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs."

Once motor city to the world, Detroit has come to symbolize America's post industrial decline. This does not mean entrepreneurship in Michigan is dead.

Disassembling a gas guzzler to recycle its profitable parts is providing "green jobs." The regime's dream is coming true.

R. E. O.

This video starts at the beginning of the interview that Anderson Cooper conducted with Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Readers are invited to start the video from the beginning for the additional background information provided by Anderson Cooper's 360.

Spike,

"Lee said at the time that he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”

Liberals writing books and film scripts can inspire people to action. Fiction as fact may cause some to inappropriately react.

Has Heland written a book yet? It is entirely conceivable Heland lacks the ability to write a book. Could Heland hire a like-minded ghost writer at the Ad Vertiser?

"An Inconsequential Tax," by Jeff Heland would be appropriate. Heland likes writing and passing tax increases. Heland claims 17% tax increases are saving the county and are of little pain to taxpayers.

Is Heland capable of inspiring masses of people to action?

While not suggesting, nor advocating, to do as the late Mr. Lee, there is an imminent shot at salvation by ballot box. Mass action could save our little portion of the planet by making County Supervisor Heland go the way of previous political parasites.

Charles D.

But Heland's book would be not be fiction.

Spike

Spike,

I am so fed up with Heland's long winded gaseous emanations. I listened to the KCPS Big Show on Tuesday and I still have no idea what Heland was trying to say to the voters. All he talked about was protecting the county employees from layoff and his an outline of his tax position.

I don't want to see any employees lose their job. But if Heland has no solution for the dilemma of his unfettered spending habits, the only solution is to fire Heland. We need to see if Broeker can do the job. If he can't do the job, fire him too.

Next

Did anyone ask Heland where the $11 million budget surplus went?

Spike

Spike,

"At a news conference organized by self-identified gang members Thursday morning, several speakers complained that police and city (Chicago) officials do not respect them, and that the only way to curb violence is to provide jobs and improve their community."

Do they not know that opportunity awaits only a few hours bus ride away? Could this be due to our local economic development leaders incompetence?

Horace Greedy
Residential Property Manager

Spike,

“People are moving out more than usual,” said Sherry Clark, a sales representative for the moving company Allstate Moving in Las Vegas."

Vegas is holding half a pair of aces. People are cashing out and leaving. Where do you run to?

Think back to the economic development hype Burlington has been fed over the years on gambling. Leave the kids in the tax supported pool and put it all on the table. We were all to get rich.

How many Vegas refugees have roosted here?

JTG

Lost amid the decline brought by Obama's socialist March of Despair was Satan Steve Scheffler's proclamation to his fleeced flock 'Haley Barbour is ‘toast’ in Iowa.'

Having pondered Satan's missive now for months I was somewhat surprised to find Haley Barbour has been the focus of a 5-part Hoover Institution interview regarding the Republican Party and the power Barbour wields. I heard no mention Satan was a player. How could such a powerful demon like Scheffler not be consulted before such interviews are conducted? How could the Hoover Institution ever conduct an interview that is such a blatant slap at Satan's authority without the fear of reprisal?

It would seem that Satan is going to have his toast buttered for him after the election. And I would guess that stem cell marketeer Kim Lehman will be joining Scheffler on the ride back to nowhere.

Maybe Barbour will help spread the jam for these two.

Spike

5 Days - 1.48 Million Views

"WASHINGTON - It’s one of the most widely recorded moments in history. Search the internet and you’ll easily find black and white images from Sunday, September 2nd, 1945. That’s the day the Japanese surrendered at Tokyo Bay, formally ending World War II.
But one man on the USS Missouri that day captured something on film seen by few people until now."

Community Organizer = Mobilize Resentment, Divide, Polarize to Get What They Want

"Always a popular guest, Dr. Thomas Sowell returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Dismantling America. The book’s focus is wide ranging, as is the discussion. To take one example, Dr. Sowell questions whether most people understand what is meant by President Obama’s background as a “community organizer.” A community organizer isn’t a friendly local expert doling out advice on better living, but is rather someone who mobilizes resentment at the behest of third party interests to put the public into battle on their behalf.

Dr. Sowell’s basic accusation of those who he believes are destroying America is that they do not–and have never–believed in the fundamental principles of the United States. President Obama, he argues, has always sought out associates who share this skepticism. Nevertheless, Obama is not responsible for the development of this thinking, but is rather the culmination of a long standing trend. This trend has been happening rapidly under Democratic presidents and unfortunately persists ,albeit more slowly, under Republican presidents."

"Is the Department of Justice ditching the red, white and blue? They've just re-designed their website because it apparently looked 'too patriotic'. Plus, more attacks on Glenn from the left wing press- and the progressives and unions are so upset and determined not to let the 'tea party types led by Glenn Beck' win, that they have planned their own event in D.C. on October 2nd. Among the groups taking part: Code Pink, NAACP, La Raza, SEIU and Van Jones' groups 'Green For All' and 'Color For Change'. Guess Who is behind the event?"

Spike,

"Wal-Mart, which boasted not too many years ago of its Made-in-the-USA product line, now sells 91 percent of its merchandise loaded from Chinese ports.....Because our wallets don't always consider the bigger picture, we'll shop at Walmart to make our paychecks stretch a little further."

If Perry White Allison is so snow white, does that mean the Ad-Vertiser will not accept advertising from Walmart? Were I running Walmart's advertising budget, I would make certain Mr. Allison never had the chance to say no by purchasing advertising anywhere but the Ad Vertiser.

John Boy