Obama elbowed trying to play basketball

President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday with a group of family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement that Obama was inadvertently struck by an elbow. The elbow’s owner wasn’t identified.

Obama received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor White House after he returned home.

The president had traveled to nearby Fort McNair to indulge in one of his favorite athletic pursuits, basketball. It was a five-on-five contest involving family and friends and including Reggie Love, Obama’s personal assistant who played at Duke University.

“After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player’s elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the president received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit,” Gibbs said.

Update:

Opposing players whisked off to Club Gitmo after game..........sic

Millionaires to small business and the midde class: Screw You!

While the New York Post reported Wednesday that more than 80 percent of Americans believe that keeping the Bush tax cuts is “a priority,” more than 80 millionaires are asking President Barack Obama to “please let the Bush tax cuts expire and raise our taxes.”

In a letter addressed to the President, the millionaires make their case, saying that as successful Americans they are ready and willing to do their “fair share.”

“For the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our fellow citizens, we ask that you allow tax cuts on incomes over $1,000,000 to expire at the end of this year as scheduled,” they write. “We make this request as loyal citizens who now or in the past earned an income of $1,000,000 per year or more.”

The Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, include musician Moby, Men’s Warehouse CEO George Zimmer, Princeton Review founder John Katzman, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

They already have their money, so screw all who want to better themselves...

Ryan Ellis, tax policy director for Americans for Tax Reform, said that the fact that these individuals were already wealthy was very telling.

“Jack Kemp used to say that our tax code isn’t hardest on the rich (they can hire accountants to find loopholes). It’s hardest on those trying to get rich. These guys are pulling up the ladders,”

Al Simpson says of seniors: "I think this is the greediest generation,"

During Al Simpson's nearly 50 years in government, he hasn't been afraid to take on critics and naysayers of his work in the U.S. Senate or on a variety of high-profile commissions and committees.

But as the co-chair of President Obama's debt commission, the Wyoming Republican said he's been taking an unprecedented amount of flak for the commission's draft proposals to help erase the nation's $13.8 trillion debt.

Simpson said that while every interest group that testified before his committee agreed that the mounting federal debt is a national tragedy, they would then talk about why government funding to their area of interest shouldn't be touched.

"We had the greatest generation -- I think this is the greediest generation," he said.

"You don't want to listen to the right and the left -- the extremes," he said. "You don't want to listen to Keith Olbermann and Rush Babe [Limbaugh] and Rachel Minnow [sic] or whatever that is, and Glenn Beck. They're entertainers. They couldn't govern their way out of a paper sack -- from the right or the left. But they get paid a lot of money from you and advertisers -- thirty, fifty million a year -- to work you over and get you juiced up with emotion, fear, guilt, and racism. Emotion, fear, guilt, and racism.

Doctors say Medicare cuts force painful decision about elderly patients

Want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Easton, Md.? If you're a senior covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks.

Doctors across the country describe similar decisions, complaining that they've been forced to shift away from Medicare toward higher-paying, privately insured or self-paying patients in response to years of penny-pinching by Congress.

"Physicians are having to make really gut-wrenching decisions about whether they can afford to see as many Medicare patients," said Cecil Wilson, president of the American Medical Association.

TSA germ alert

Syphilis, lice, gonorrhea, ringworm, chlamydia, staph, strep, noro and papilloma viruses all are part of the possible fringe benefits when airline passengers next go through a full hands-on pat-down by agents of the federal government's Transportation Security Administration, according to doctors.

But neither the TSA nor federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control are willing to comment on the possibilities that infections and other loathsome afflictions could be passed from passenger to passenger.

How come doctors have guidelines, and must wear gloves and have oversight, it's very different for the TSA?

Do TSA agents ever change gloves?

Trooper 4 has located black honda crv

the subject who shot at the officer that I reported on first at 1:28 AM vehicle has been spotted in the woods off of nanticoke road doors are open looks like subject has fled on foot.

Mr. Smut goes to Washington

While November’s election brought a tsunami of change to Michigan policies, some incumbents are untouchable. So untouchable, apparently, that they openly read girlie magazines on their trips to and from Washington. Detroit Congressman John Conyers was caught on camera in a late July flight to DC this summer ogling a Playboy magazine.

The video and pictures – first posted by ex-Detroit News reporter and New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie LeDuff on his Facebook page – were taken by an anonymous passenger seated in the same row as the 81-year old congressman. Conyers – in his aisle seat – is shown flipping though pages showing two nude gal pals in the August issue of Playboy. And he also apparently reads Hefner’s product for the articles! He appears to linger on an article titled “La Chatte” by Maureen Gibbon.

Of course, Mr. Conyers is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, so it is entirely possible he is preparing for a committee hearing on the legal definition of pornography. Or perhaps he is studying new TSA pat-down procedures for female passengers.

Whatever the case, the congressman doesn’t seem bashful about sharing his reading habits with nearby passengers and passing flight attendants.

The Crazies: Black Friday

Some shoppers in Massachusetts are accusing Wal-Mart of false advertising.

Shoppers say their Wal-Mart flyer advertised stores in Massachusetts would open at midnight on Black Friday.

People started lining up outside locations some as early as 8 p.m. Thursday.

They became furious when it was announced the stores actually wouldn't open until 4 a.m. Friday.

"Security told us, they were going to open at 12 o'clock and now they're opening at 4, here we're sitting in the pouring rain," said one shopper. "They were very upset, they thought they were opening at 4 o'clock."

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The Tea Party Movement Gains Traction in the U.K.

The Tea Party movement's recent electoral gains have gotten international attention, including in the mother country whose taxes inspired the first Tea Party -- the United Kingdom.

A new rebellion against big government and high taxes is resonating in Ye Olde England.

"Ideas around limited government, absolutely, there's lots of people in Britain who share those as well." says Matthew Sinclair of the Taxpayers' Alliance. The group -- formed in 2004, naturally calling for lower taxes -- is one of the largest in Britain with a Tea Party slant. It boasts some 60,000 supporters.

The group organized workshops this past fall with FreedomWorks and other American Tea Party support groups. "We're always trying to learn how to campaign better. We're always trying to learn if there are policy initiatives in the states which have succeeded," Sinclair explains.

Girl, 15, arrested over 'Facebook Koran burning video'

The 15-year-old, who lives in the West Midlands, in Britain, allegedly posted the video, filmed two weeks ago on her school premises, on Facebook.

Catherine Heseltine, chief executive officer of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, said burning the Koran was one of the most offensive acts to Muslims that she could imagine.

She said: "The Koran is the most sacred thing to over a billion Muslims worldwide."

Freedom of speech and freedom of religion, however, do not seem to be very sacred.

To those who still have their heads, Merry CHRISTmas!

Canada says NO to U.N. sponsored racism

While most of us here in America were celebrating Thanksgiving with friends and family, Canada’s Jason Kenney was making us proud of our neighbor to the north. The Epoch Times reports that:

Canada will be boycotting the latest in a series of United Nations anti-racism events, Citizenship and Immigration Ministers Jason Kenney told reporters on Thursday, because it is dominated by some of the world’s worst human rights abusers and anti-Semitic governments.

“Canada will not participate in this charade,” said Kenney.

Last year Canada was the first nation to pull out of the Durban Conference and was followed by the United States, Australia, Israel and the majority of the European Union’s member countries. The delegates who chose to attend last years conference were treated to a vile and hateful speech from Iranian President Ahmadinejad in which he condemned the United States and spoke out against Israel’s right to exist.

In standing against the hypocrisy of the United Nations anti-racism program, Kenney said “If more countries had taken the same position as Canada…it would have lost any credibility very early on.” Kenney also singled out the U.N.’s condemnation of Israel as clear evidence that the Durban Conference has helped promote anti-Semitism.

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Bobby Jindal: Make Congress part-time

Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wants members of Congress to stay home more often.

“We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let's pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.,” Jindal said in an interview with Human Events. “Mark Twain said that our liberty, our wallets were safest when the legislature's not in session.”

“Make them part-time, give them term limits,” Jindal said. “Don’t let them become lobbyists. When they have to live under the same rules and laws they pass for the rest of us, maybe you’d see some more common sense coming out of Washington, D.C.”

As the system works today, he said, “you’ve got a permanent governing political class.

A tax cut deal that could work

Extend the full Bush-era tax cuts for three years, drop the small-business tax rates to 25 percent and then secure a guarantee to a more permanent overhaul and simplification of the U.S. tax code.

This would send a clear message for the economy during a difficult time while also laying the groundwork for a debate around how to secure real and sustainable prosperity for our nation's future.

The bottom line? You don't raise taxes during a time of recession. And not only has massive government stimulus failed to get our economy moving again, but a second round will make our nation's addiction to debt and spending even worse.

Taxpayers have become the servants in Montgomery County

A sobering report released by the county's Office of Legislative Oversight revealed that personnel costs increased 64 percent during the past 10 years. Compensation for Montgomery County employees now consumes 82 percent of all tax-supported spending in the county's $4.2 billion budget. And for every tax dollar the county spends on bloated salaries, it spends another 52 cents on benefits for those same employees. This is even more than the 51 cents the federal government spends on benefits for its employees -- and twice as much as is typically spent in the private sector.

For 10 years, county employees' compensation outpaced inflation and population growth by 20 percent. Most of the higher pay and benefits went to the public school system, which gobbles up more than half of all county revenue and employs two-thirds of its total work force.

Shots Fired At Police Car On Levin Dashiell Road

Car is headed toward Nanticoke Road..suspect Wyatt Young White Male

It's Black Friday!!

Be safe out there today while trying to get those great deals. People can be a tad bit preoccupied so be extra careful.