DailyConstruct's Revelife

Pro-illegal 'Amnesty group' attacks Tea Party protestors in Florida

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:37:13 GMT

The dog Obama keeps bowing. Why?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:50:31 GMT

Obama seems cultured enough in the cultures and traditions of the world, save that of his own country. First he bowed before the Saudi king, now this. That rendition of the Star Spangled Banner sucks, btw.

Nixon also bowed before the Japanese Emperor once, but here was his bow. For all of Obama's "cultural understandings" of the world, he screwed it up and ends up looking like a begger.

Notes an academic and Obama supporter,

"Nixon gets the bow right. Slight arch from the waist hands at his side.

"Obama's handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush's back-rub of Merkel."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/on-president-obamas-bow-to-the-japanese-emperor-an-academic-friend-writes-that-both-the-left-and-the-right-are-wrong.html

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:37:29 GMT

If they claim mental illness was the cause of the murdering rampage, then I would argue that there is a certain percentage of muslims who are mentally ill and parts of the Koran serves as a guidebook to become mentally ill.

White House Releases Visitors List...Ayers, Wright, Soros, ACORN/SEIU and others

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:20:44 GMT

freerepublic.com

The White House has been barraged with requests to release the names of its visitors. Today they release the first 500 visits, all from the period of Jan 20-July 31. Some of the Names you can find on the list are Bill Ayers 2x, George Soros 4x, Michael Moore 8X, the head of the ACORN affiliated Union the SEIU Andrew Stern 20x,Jeremiah Wright, GE/NBC head Jeff Immelt 5x, Jesse Jackson 6x, John Edwards2x, Al Sharpton 2x, and of course television goddess Oprah Winfrey.

Strangely each party's house leader Pelosi, and Boehner were only at the WH once. The Senate leadership weren't there even once.

Below is the complete list.

White House Visitor Records Requests

FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:13:42 GMT

WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry.

In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."

Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.

Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the latest annual measure. This partly explains why the credit ratings of some of the largest insurers were downgraded to negative from stable heading into this year, as investors were warned of a stagnant if not shrinking market for private plans.

Insurers are an expedient target for leaders who want a government-run plan in the marketplace. Such a public option would force private insurers to trim profits and restrain premiums to compete, the argument goes. This would "keep insurance companies honest," says President Barack Obama.

The debate is loaded with intimations that insurers are less than straight, when they are not flatly accused of malfeasance.

They may not have helped their case by commissioning a report that looked primarily at the elements of health care legislation that might drive consumer costs up while ignoring elements aimed at bringing costs down. Few in the debate seem interested in a true balance sheet.

But in pillorying insurers over profits, the critics are on shaky ground. A look at some claims, and the numbers:

THE CLAIMS

_"I'm very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who also welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers' "obscene profits."

_"Keeping the status quo may be what the insurance industry wants their premiums have more than doubled in the last decade and their profits have skyrocketed." Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, member of the Democratic leadership.

_"Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe." A MoveOn.org ad.

THE NUMBERS:

Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries. As is typical, other health sectors did much better — drugs and medical products and services were both in the top 10.
The railroads brought in a 12.6 percent profit margin. Leading the list: network and other communications equipment, at 20.4 percent.

HealthSpring, the best performer in the health insurance industry, posted 5.4 percent. That's a less profitable margin than was achieved by the makers of Tupperware, Clorox bleach and Molson and Coors beers.

The star among the health insurance companies did, however, nose out Jack in the Box restaurants, which only achieved a 4 percent margin.

UnitedHealth Group, reporting third quarter results last week, saw fortunes improve. It managed a 5 percent profit margin on an 8 percent growth in revenue.

Van Hollen is right that premiums have more than doubled in a decade, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study that found a 131 percent increase.

But were the Bush years golden ones for health insurers?

Not judging by profit margins, profit growth or returns to shareholders. The industry's overall profits grew only 8.8 percent from 2003 to 2008, and its margins year to year, from 2005 forward, never cracked 8 percent.
The latest annual profit margins of a selection of products, services and industries: Tupperware Brands, 7.5 percent; Yahoo, 5.9 percent; Hershey, 6.1 percent; Clorox, 8.7 percent; Molson Coors Brewing, 8.1 percent; construction and farm machinery, 5 percent; Yum Brands (think KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), 8.5 percent.

-AP
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Associated Press writer Tom Murphy in Indianapolis contributed to this report.

CNBC cuts off business analyst critical of Obama

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:40:48 GMT

Guess they had to do it since all of NBC from Tingle up my leg Matthews to Olbermann has been in bed with Obama. Should be no surprise. I've seen them do this several times to Peter Schiff whenever they've invited him on "Fast Money".

I've wondered this often myself..

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:42:42 GMT

White House tries to bar Fox News from intervewing pay czar

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:21:09 GMT

Surprisingly, the rest of the heads of the liberal news bureas(ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) all said they would not agree to the interview if Fox News was not included. Don't know if this White House is showing their stupidity or their arrogance. Real liberals wouldn't buy it - because for a real liberal, anything things goes for anyone -- including Fox.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34087

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:19:44 GMT

After Obama and his top advisers had a secret meeting with commentators from MSNBC and New York Times reporters... and after saying "Fox News is a wing of the republican party", the White House live feeds MSNBC to "correct" them. Who is a wing of who?

"The White House did just e-mail saying that interaction with Jake Tapper was not heated..." - during a live discussion.

Big Brother is watching you and he doesn't want you talking ill of him.

Obama's Manufacturing Czar: "We agree with Mao; The Free Market is a joke"

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:58:47 GMT

Every day a new communist sympathizer is revealed in the Obama Administration. This was a speech made in February 2008 at an Investors forum in New York. Obama is not a muslim, but he is a communist.

I guess they'll keep calling us the crazies. Sadly many are averse to the truth and the proof.