Thank You, Thank You and Thank You again!

for making September the best month in 2011 for Common Cents and the best month in the last 12.  We more than doubled Page Views from Sep 2010 and registered a 33% increase from August.  And all this in a short month.  If you like Common Cents please tell a friend, or two, and if you ever use Amazon, 1-800 Pet Meds, Orbitz please click there via Common Cents.  Again, thank you all again!!!

Video: Kids recreate Bellagio Water Fountain:

Amazing.  Las Vegas Bellagio Casino's Fountain recreated by kids using Water Pistols: 

Only those blessed with the fountain of youth could achieve this - an incredible recreation of the world's most famous bubbler. Using water pistols and acrobatics a group of Tennessee teenagers have produced their own Las Vegas Bellagio fountain. The hilarious two-minute sketch featuring 19 youngsters has now become an internet sensation having been viewed by more than 625,000 around the world.

Video: Fast and Furious Update:

Operation Fast and Furious Update:

9/28 2011 - The most Epic day in Baseball History:

Quite a statement but it may be true.  If there was a more exciting day for baseball I'd like to now what it is:

The most Epic night in baseball history (9/28/11)

Amazing: NC Democrat Governor Bev Perdue calls on 2012 Elections to be "Suspended"

What do you do when you know your side is going to get wiped out?  If you a Democrat you call for the next elections to be suspended.  Audio is below:

NC Governor Bev Perdue asks for 2012 elections to be suspended:

Thanks Obamacare!

Well they did it to gasoline ($1.70 on Inauguration Day) and now they are doing it to Health Care.  Reversing a several year decline (yes decline) in the rate Health Care Costs, 2011 is seeing an increase of over 9%.  Health Care had been rising at only a 2.9% rate in 2010 but thanks to new mandates and regulation soon to come we are back to over 9% increases.  And wasn't the whole point of Obamacare to save us money?  Investors Business Daily put out another superlative editorial on the effects of Obamacare:

Posted 09/27/2011 06:42 PM ET

Health Care: Until now, many of the fears about ObamaCare have been theoretical. But this year's 9% spike in premiums is concrete evidence of the substantial harm it's already doing to our health care system.
As soon as the Kaiser Family Foundation's annual report on insurance premiums was released, ObamaCare defenders dismissed its most troubling finding: Insurance premiums for family coverage shot up an average $1,482 this year.
Nothing to worry about, they said, it's just a response to higher health costs and bad forecasts. But wait a minute! Didn't Obama promise his signature health reform plan would lower insurance premiums? As a matter of fact he did, saying just before he signed it into law that ObamaCare would "bring down the cost of health care for families, for businesses and for the federal government."
Not only did that not happen, ObamaCare has reversed a years-long trend toward smaller annual premium increases (see chart), suggesting insurers finally started to figure out how to get costs down.
The only thing that changed this year was the leading edge of ObamaCare's hurricane of mandates and regulations. Insurers now have to let children stay on their parents' plans until age 26. Annual coverage limits have been forced up. And Washington bureaucrats are busy writing rules on what insurers must cover.
There were plenty of warnings that these "reforms" would quickly push up prices. Hewitt Associates predicted premiums would climb 8.8% in 2011 — highest in five years — blaming reform for at least part of that rise.
Even the AARP, which strongly backed ObamaCare, told its own employees last November that they could expect higher premiums, in part thanks to the reform

 Read the rest of the editorial here.

NJ Gov Chris Christie speech at the Reagan Library:

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave the Keynote address at the Ronald Reagan Library Monday night

Chris Christie speech at the Reagan Library - Part 1

Chris Christie speech at the Reagan Library - Part2

Video: ManBearPig, Climategate and Watermelons

Interview with James Delingpole is a bestselling British author and blogger who helped expose the Climategate scandal back in 2009. Reason.tv caught up with Delingpole in Los Angeles recently to learn more about his entertaining and provocative new book Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors. At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. In other words, it's green on the outside and red on the inside. At the end of the day, according to Delingpole, the "watermelons" of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.

Climategate Scandal

Video: New Cover-Up in ATFs Fast and Furious Scandal:

Fox News broadcast new developments in the Fast & Furious Scandal.  Possible cover-up in Agent's murder:

Finally. 2,000 year old Dead Sea Scrolls posted online:

Discovered in a cave in 1947 The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest surviving Old Testament manuscripts.  Some of the scrolls which just became available include:

The Great Isiah Scroll:

The Temple Scroll:

 

The War Scroll:

 

The Community Rule Scroll:

 Video:  The Dead Sea Scrolls:

Homepage:  The Great Dead Sea Scrolls

Free Streaming Radio Shows over the Internet:

Free Streaming Radio over the Internet: 

COMMON CENTS readers may be not be aware of the fact that we have a sister site:  The Internet Radio Network. At the IRN you can listen to over 80 of your favorite Talk Radio Shows via Free Streaming Audio. These shows include Politics (Rush, Sean, Levin, Beck), Religious Programing, Investing, Sports and much, much more - all via Free Streaming Audio:

Studies show that the Talk Radio Audience has successful upscale demographics and usually:

• have an income over $75,000 (vs. median US income of $48,200)
• have graduated college
• own their residence
• are likely to use the Internet
• are 25-65 years old (with the numbers of women listeners steadily increasing)

You can visit The Internet Radio Network here.

Herman Cain Video: "Two very different visions for America"

Herman Cain won Saturday's Florida Straw Poll.  His latest Campaign Video is outstanding!

Herman Cain - "A Failure to Lead"

Video: Saturday Night Live spoofs the GOP Debate:

Funny Stuff.  They do tease everyone and Saturday Night Live does a good job poking fun at Fox News and the GOP Debaters.  Alec Baldwin plays Rick Perry in this funny skit.

Common Cents Presidential Straw Poll:

A little Saturday evening fun.  Vote here in Common Cents' 2012 Presidential Straw Poll:

Straw Poll - Who do you support for President?

Who do you support for President in 2012?
	Barack Obama
	Rick Perry
	Mitt Romney
	Newt Gingrich
	Rick Santorum
	Herman Cain
	Michelle Bachman
	Gary Johnson
	Ron Paul
pollcode.com free polls

Video: Who is Rich in America?

Fox News posed this question - at what level of income are you "Rich"?

Facts and Logic about the Middle East:

Building on yesterday's video we introduce you to FLAME (Facts and Logic about the Middle East).  Flame gives you information you need concerning all things Middle East ESPECIALLY concerning Israel.

FLAME’S COLLECTION OF MESSAGES ON THE MIDDLE EAST Since 1987, with the help of concerned citizens, the following messages have appeared in national media.  All are available in an HTML format, and some are also available in a pdf format, exactly as they appeared in print. Ad #128 Why Should the U.S. Fund the Terrorist Group Hamas? Congress now sends nearly  a billion tax dollars annually to the Hamas-linked Palestinian Authority:  Is this a smart use of U.S. foreign aid? HTML     PDF   Ad #127 Are the Palestinians Ready for Peace? Why Arab intransigence makes peace most  unlikely. HTML     PDF   Ad #126 Apartheid in the Arab Middle East: How can the U.N. turn a blind eye to hateful,  state-sponsored discrimination against people because of their race, ethnicity,  religion and gender? HTML     PDF   Ad #125 A Most Stalwart and Reliable Ally: Is Israel indeed America's unsinkable  aircraft carrier? HTML     PDF   Ad #124 The Truth About the Muslim Brotherhood: Is it a moderate Egyptian party  committed to democracy . . . or a jihadist group seeking to create an Islamist empire? HTML     PDF   Ad #123 The Truth about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement Does it  stand for Middle East peace or does it seek Israel’s destruction? HTML     PDF   Ad #122 The Great “Peace Flotilla” Ambush? How Israel fell into a trap, carefully set by its enemies HTML     PDF   Ad #121 Israel: An Apartheid State? Is there any truth at all in this oft-repeated calumny? HTML     PDF   Ad #120 Jerusalem (III): Should Israel be able to build residences in its capital city? HTML     PDF   Ad #119 Israel: A Light unto the Nations: Those who demonize Israel are either misinformed  or malevolent HTML     PDF   Ad #118 Mr. Netanyahu’s Offer (II): Are the objections of the Palestinians justified? HTML     PDF

Bibi Netanyahu addresses the United Nations

 Benjamin Netanyahu slams the U.N. as "Theater of the Absurd"

Post GOP Debate. Frank Luntz Focus Group:

Pollster Frank Luntz conducted a Focus Group immediately after the GOP Debate in Orlando. The consensus was that Mitt Romney won!

Video: GOP Debate in Orlando, FL

Opening 15 minutes of the Republican Presidential Debate in Orlando, Florida:

GOP Presidential Debate

Links: Live blogging the GOP Debate in Orlando

A collection of sites that will be live blogging the Republican Presidential Debate in Orlando:

Wall St Journal

ABC News

Fox News Insider

Yahoo News

Fox News You Tube Channel

Watch Live - GOP Debate

$16 Dollars for a Corm Muffing - $8 a cup of coffee. Your Gov't at work

Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano unloads on the Dept of Justice paying $16 for corn muffins at a recent conference.  Amazing!

$16 for a Corn Muffin!

Bill O'Reilly unloads on "Muffin-gate"

Tropical Storm Ophelia

and possibly soon to be Hurricane Ophelia is out there and heading toward the United States.  The latest:

Tropical Storm Ophelia Storm Track:

Tropical Storm Ophelia Computer Models:

NOAA's TS Ophelia Forecast Discussion

Weather.com - Hurricane Central

Rick Perry's first Presidential Campaign Ad "Proven Leadership"

GOP Presidential Frontrunner Governor Rick Perry's first campaign ad is out and it is excellent.  He paints a clear distinction between himself and President Obama.  If the Perry campaign can keep this up we may be saying "President Perry" in two years.

Texas Governor Rick Perry "Proven Leadership"

"The Limbaugh Tax - 'Tax the Democrats' "

Brilliant idea by Rush Limbaugh "The Doctor of Democracy".... 'Tax the Democrats'

AP Fact Check: No secretaries do not pay a higher tax rate than millionaires

You've heard President Obama state this countless times - the idea that Warren Buffet's secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does.  Associated Press did a fact checks and the results are about what you expect.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama makes it sound as if there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their secretaries. "Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires," Obama said Monday. "That's pretty straightforward. It's hard to argue against that." The data tell a different story. On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a higher rate, and as a group, they contribute a much larger share of the overall taxes collected by the federal government. There may be individual millionaires who pay taxes at rates lower than middle-income workers. In 2009, 1,470 households filed tax returns with incomes above $1 million yet paid no federal income tax, according to the Internal Revenue Service. That, however, was less than 1 percent of the nearly 237,000 returns with incomes above $1 million. In his White House address Monday, Obama called on Congress to increase taxes by $1.5 trillion as part of a 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He proposed that Congress overhaul the tax code and impose what he called the "Buffett rule," named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett. The rule says, "People making more than $1 million a year should not pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay." "Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. There is no justification for it," Obama said. "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million." Buffett wrote in a recent piece for The New York Times that the tax rate he paid last year was lower than that paid by any of the other 20 people in his office.
This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank. Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent of their income in federal taxes. Lower-income households will pay less. For example, households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will pay an average of 12.5 percent of their income in federal taxes. Households making between $20,000 and $30,000 will pay 5.7 percent.

Read the rest of the story here.

Hilarious! Elderly Couple caught on webcam trying to get it to work:

only they don't know they are being recorded.  Funny 3 minute clip of two Seniors at a retirement home trying to get their webcam to "Take a picture".  Only unknown to them they are being recorded the whole time!  The video was posted online - has gone viral making them famous.  "Why won't it take a picture"?

Elderly Couple caught trying to use a Webcam

ABC's Good Morning America has the interviewed the now famous Senior Couple to talk about their computer blues:

Hat Tip Mediate.com

Video: Herman Cain and his 9 + 9 + 9 Plan

Or is it Herman Cain's 999 Plan?  Either way it is an interesting idea:

Video: John Stossel "Stupid in America"

Amazing documentary by Fox News' John Stossel "Stupid in America".  Should be required viewing:

Video: New Black Panther Party Declares War on Capitalism

Gird Your Loins, This Is War Against Capitalist Bloodsucker American: New Black Panther President Shabazz Tells Harlem Audience To Fight War Here At Home. 

Is anyone looking for a new job or career?

Hello America.  Is anyone out there looking for a new job or career?  We here at Common Cents sincerely hope that this list of job sites helps you find that next job or career.  Good luck to you!  The Number One way people find jobs is by Networking.  Tell EVERYONE you know you are looking.  Expand your circle of friends and acquaintances.  Strike up conversations with strangers!! 

The number two method to find a new job is via online job postings.  With that in mind we bring you the following list of sites that will help you in your job search:

• Monster.com is the largest internet job search site.  If your resume is not posted here you are wrong.
• Idealist.org - Over 4,500 Not For Profit jobs posted!
• CareerOneStop.org- Your one-stop-shop for all things careers!
• WorkTree claims to be scans MILLIONS of jobs in seconds! View jobs from thousands of online sources INSTANTLY! 50,000+ links to job sites, recruiters, employers and more!
• Job.com is another very large job search site. Registration and resume posting is free and this job search site always ranks as one of the top career sites on the Internet.
• Beyond.com - You can do it all at Beyond.com.  Currently there are thousands of Jobs Posted.
• SnagAJob.com is America’s largest hourly job website, featuring more than 100,000 active job postings in industries including: restaurant, retail, office and more.
• Indeed.com claims to have 815,010 jobs in the last 7 days.  Search job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages.
• Simply Hired.com claims to have over 5,083,575 jobs are posted right now!!!
• Execu-Search.com specializes in jobs for Executives
• The Ladders.com search for jobs paying $100,000 and up at The Ladders.com!!
• The Federal Government is always hiring!
• Resume Mailman.com - emails your resume to 1000s of recruiters
• Resume Zapper.com emails your resume to thousands of recruiters!
• Hot Resume.com - post your resume here for free!
• Conservative Jobs.com - The name says it all!
• Salary.com - Find out how much you should be paid for your job!!
• Hoovers.com - Get all the up-to-date information on your company and others

Other money making ideas:

• Craig's List  - has thousands of jobs available in every sector.  Free to use, free to post and no charges for anything.
• The Day Job Nuker - is a easy to navigate site dedicated to showing you how to make a living online - written by someone who is doing it!!!
• Need to make money now?  - These companies will pay you to turn your car into a traveling billboard by covering it with advertising!  Interesting idea...
• Very Easy money -  Make money selling used golf balls.

VIDEO: WW II Airplane crashes into crowd at Reno Air Show:

Reno Air Show Plane Crash.  WWII P-51 crashes into stands at Reno Air Show

Local station KOLO has more on the crash:

A total of 25 victims are currently being treated.
The 2 dead is a man and a woman not including the pilot. According to Renown, 12 are in critical condition and 11 fair. Thirteen family members have shown up and 15 support staff are working with them.

The nursing staff is at capacity. Renown south, has taken 4 patients listed in fair.
Multiple casualties at the Reno Air Races after an Unlimited plane P-51 crashed into the box seats directly in front of the master of ceremony soon after take-off. Reno Air Races president and CEO Mike Houghton says that among the dead was 74-year-old pilot Jimmy Leeward
According to the Associated Press Regional Emergency Medical Service Authority spokeswoman Stephanie Kruse said 25 people were critically injured and another 25 people were seriously hurt in the crash. More than 25 more people were treated for minor injuries.
Kruse said the critically injured were considered to have life-threatening injuries.
According to the Director of Communications at Renown, Kathy Carter, they are under 'code triage' which means extra available personnel will be called in and extra beds will be made available.
Renown has been told to expect 80-100 injured.
Unlimited plane has crashed at the Reno Air Races just after 4 p.m., Friday that earlier reports 12 people and injured at least 30 Friday, hitting people seated in the box seats near the grandstand.
According to witnesses veteran pilot Leeward was flying the Galloping Ghost, that went down soon after take-off during the beginning of the Unlimited race. It was the third lap and he was in second position when he veered skyward and crashed suddenly.
The Unlimited plane slid into the grandstand, box seats injuring dozens of spectators.
Reno-Stead airport authorities are asking everyone to go home.
All planes are grounded.
Summit Christian Church at 7075 Pyramid Hwy is having a blood drive tomorrow (Saturday) from 4 PM to 7:45 PM and on Sunday from 8 AM to 1:30 PM.

Newsbusted!

In the spirit of Saturday Night Live, Newsbusters daily short video clip is hilarious!  Newsbusted should be daily viewing!

BRILLIANT VIDEO: "That's what America is all about"

Ford hit it out of the park with this commercial - touting made in USA and they (Ford) not taking government handouts. 

Ford Drive One "Press Conference: Chris" Commercial

Sitting and looking sincere and serious, Chris says: “I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That’s what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta’ pick yourself up and go back to work. Ford is that company for me.” 

IBD: 5 Myths Behind President Obama's Infrastructure Spending Push:

Investor's Business Daily does it again with an outstanding piece on the disinformation about infrastructure spending.  This should be required reading:

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Shortly after the $830 billion stimulus bill was enacted in 2009, President Obama boasted that it included the "largest new investment since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System," and said it would "help states create a 21st century infrastructure" and "fuel growth in an industry that's been hard hit."
Now, nearly 2 1/2 years later, Obama wants another $50 billion as part of his American Jobs Act to create jobs and fix "our crumbling infrastructure." But he still seems to buy into several myths about the nation's infrastructure.
• Infrastructure spending is declining: "We have deferred tough decisions," the president said last fall, and "our shortsightedness has come due."
But inflation-adjusted infrastructure spending climbed 23% from 1990 to 2007, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Federal, state and local governments spend a combined total of more than $356 billion a year. It was 2.4% of GDP in 2007, not far from the 3% in 1960, when the U.S. was first building the interstate highway system.
To be sure, groups such as the American Society of Civil Engineers have consistently urged greater spending to improve deficient or obsolete roads, bridges and water supply systems.
• Our infrastructure is falling apart: Touting the new jobs bill, Obama complained about "our crumbling roads and our crumbling bridges." This alarm has been sounded for decades.
In 1988, a Federal Highway Administration official said America faced a looming "bridge crisis." In 1993, President Clinton pushed in vain for $100 billion more infrastructure spending to avoid a "crisis." A 2005 USA Today headline screamed: "Report: Nation's in frastructure crumbling." In 2009, the New York Times reported that "U.S. infrastructure is in dire straits." But the dire warnings never seemed to come true.
"It is crumbling somewhere, but not everywhere," said Samuel Staley, a Reason Foundation transportation expert and associate director at Florida State University's DeVoe Moore Center. "Some states have done really well with their transportation money."
• We're falling behind China: Obama told Congress that we shouldn't "sit back and watch China build newer airports and faster railroads."
Others say the comparison isn't apt, because countries like China and India are pretty much just getting started. Despite all the money they're spending, these countries have horrific traffic problems. Beijing scored 99 out of 100 in IBM's "commuter pain" index; New Delhi scored 81. Far down on the list is Los Angeles at 25 and New York at 19.

Rush Limbaugh Morning Update:

Rush opines on the NY-9 Special Election - September 15, 2011:

Global Warming Update:

Common Cents brings you this week's collection Global Warming Updates.  And remember we're still in Summer!

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns in "disgust" over Global Warming controversy

Summer Snow hits Colorado!

Bitter Cold hits Auckland, New Zeland - Coldest day in 72 years!

Minneapolis / St Paul ties Record Low

International Falls - First temp in "teens" ever in September

Record low temps for Iowa

Northwest Florida sets record Cold Temperatures

The Solyndra Scandal:

Blogger Extraordinaire Michelle Malkin has been ALL OVER the Solyndra Scandal where a Solar Panel manufacture went bankrupt even after receiving over $500 million in government stimulus money.  Her latest column is outstanding!

With the scandalous bankruptcy of Solyndra (a shady California solar power company that received $535 million in stimulus funds and is now under investigation by the FBI) hanging overhead, President Obama wisely whitewashed any mention of “green jobs” out of his latest address to Congress.
But buried in the details of his latest government jobs bill released this week — Spawn of the Spendulus, Porky’s II, Night of the Keynesian Dead — are yet more big green boondoggles that will reward cronies, waste taxpayer dollars and make no dent in the jobless rate.
After pouring half a billion bucks into Solyndra, the company filed for Chapter 11 last month and laid off 1,110 employees. Obama administration officials met with Solyndra execs at least 20 times; the green cheerleader-in-chief personally visited and promoted the company in 2009 before his administration fast-tracked approval for the loans.
Solyndra is now the third solar company to go belly-up this year. Yet the Energy Department is doubling down on failure. As the FBI and House GOP investigators launch a probe into Enron-style accounting problems with Solyndra’s books, DOE is doling out more than $850 million in new loan guarantees for another California solar firm sponsored by NextEra Energy, along with nearly $200 million more for separate solar manufacturing facilities on the West Coast.
Obama claims new “investments” in environmentally friendly school construction projects will put thousands of Americans back to work immediately. (Never mind that Big Labor-backed rules and executive orders will raise the cost of the projects, slow their implementation and freeze out the vast majority of non-union contractors.) Among the new green pork initiatives: $25 billion for green roofs, green cleaning, installation of renewable energy generation and heating systems, and “modernization, renovation, or repair activities related to energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Read the rest of her column on Solyndra here.

Fox News:  The Green Scam and the Solyndra Scandal

ATTACK WATCH Parody Commercial:

Hilarious.  A promotion for the White House's latest genius campaign idea, AttackWatch.com. For more information, visit http://twitter.com/misfitpolitics.

Video: Political Tsunami - Republican wins a NY House Seat

Republican Bob Turner shocked the political world by winning a House Seat (NY-9) the GOP had not held since 1923.  Turner won with 54% and all of the talking heads are saying this was a referendum on President Obama!  Fox News has the video of Turner's victory speech and some analysis:

Special Election Results (NY-9 and NV-2):

Today there are two special elections being held for the US House of Representatives.  The New York 9th Congressional District was vacated by Anthony Weiner and the 2nd District of Nevada is also open and contested.

New York 9 - Special Election Results:

NY Secretary of State Election Results Homepage

Associated Press:  NY-9 Special Election Results

Nevada 2 - Special Election Results

Nevada Secretary of State Election Results Homepage

Associated Press:  NV-2 Special Election Results

WOW! Why being an American is Awesome!

9/11 Tribute at Soldier Field in Chicago.  The Star Spangled Banner was sung by Jim Cornelison.  This is one amazing video!

One of the many reasons being an American is amazing: An awe-inspiring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by Jim Cornelison on the 10th anniversary of 9-11. This took place as the Bears hosted the Falcons on the NFL's opening season.

All rights reserved by Fox Sports and the National Football League.

All prayers and praise to those in NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, and around the nation that have been touched by the events of 9-11.

God bless America!!

Video: 9/12 GOP Presidential Debate in Tampa, FL

Early fireworks from tonight's CNN debate.  The eight major Republican Presidential candidates faced off tonight in Tampa, FL.

GOP Presidential Debate:

10 Minute Ticker:

Harvest Moon:

September Harvest Moon brightens September Sky

Strike a Pose:

Miss Universe 2011 - The World Cup of Beauty Pagents

Hot Air.com

LA Gov Bobby Jindal endorses TX Gov Rick Perry

Congressional Special Elections:

Democrats fear losses in Nevada & NY Elections

War Number 3:
US Boots on the Ground in Libya

Storm Tracks:
Tropical Storm Maria Storm Track

Bob Turner (NY 9) for Congress:

Tuesday there is a Special Election in New York's 9th Congressional District for Anthony Weiner's old seat.  Republican Bob Turner is on the brink of shocking the political world in this Blue District.  Polls show him with a small but steady lead.  Here is his homepage and below are some videos from his campaign.

September 11, 2001 as seen from Outer Space

The only American on the International Space Station Frank Culbertson (USN Retired) took these pictures of the smoking World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks:

“The smoke seemed to have an odd bloom to it at the base of the column that was streaming south of the city. After reading one of the news articles we just received, I believe we were looking at NY around the time of, or shortly after, the collapse of the second tower. How horrible…”-Frank Culbertson

Video: George W. Bush Flight 93 Memorial Service:

Former President George W. Bush gave a wonderful speech today in Shanksville, Pennsylvania for the 10 year anniversary of 9-11. It was one of his best. The audience including Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton gave him a standing ovation.

President Bush:  Flight 93 Memorial Service:

September 11 Dramatic Videos:

September 11th as it happened.  Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the American and The World Trade Center.  Almost 3,000 people died in these attacks.  Some videos to help us remember what happened that day.  Warning - these videos contain graphic video:

September 11, 2001 - As it Happened

9/11 Video:  2nd Tower Collapses Live

Darryl Worley - "Have You Forgotten"?

Video: Todd Beamer - The first hero of 9/11

"Let's Roll".  Todd Beamer and the Story of Flight 93.  Amazing story of our first victory in the War against Terror.  Remember Flight 93 was heading toward Washington DC toward either the White House or the Capitol before the passengers took it down.

Friends of Common Cents:

http://theothLight Bogging today, or at least this morning.  In the meantime check out these outstanding sites:

Newsbusters

Coffee with the Hermit

The Other McCain

In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Washington Rebel

Freedom's Lighthouse

Tom's Place

Sultan Knish

The Elector Retards

PS.  Check back this afternoon for 9/11 Video Tributes

Drill Baby Drill - A super simple solution to create jobs in America:

Video:  How to create good high-paying jobs in America.  

George W. Bush Interview - The events after 9-11

George W. Bush was recently interviewed by USA Today about the events on and immediately after September 11, 2011.

Saturday, Bush and his wife, Laura, will lay a wreath at the Pentagon and speak at the dedication of the Shanksville, Pa., memorial to Flight 93. Sunday, he'll attend the New York 9/11 ceremony.

Bush said he is concerned the nation is "becoming isolationist" and will "grow weary to the point where we say it doesn't matter" whether young democracies survive.

"Democracies, when they take hold, yield peace," Bush said. The Middle East "is the part of the world that needs peace, and we'll be successful — unless, of course, we quit," he said. "My concern is that isolationist tendencies … cause America to retreat from the world."

Except for his wedding and twin daughters' birth, he said, 9/11 was "the most profound moment" of his life: "It will always be vivid."

Bush also shared his thoughts on:

•What he remembers most about that day after he learned of the attacks in a Sarasota, Fla., second-grade classroom. "I, of course, remember (White House Chief of Staff Andy Card) whispering in my ear. I remember the faces of the children. … It was a moment of clarity because people were going to watch how I reacted, and I had enough experience with crises to understand that if you're head of an organization, it's important to project calm in the initial stages of a crisis."

•His first thoughts. "The key thing that I tried to do was to say let's gather facts so we know what's happening. The problem that I faced — and the truth of the matter is, many in my administration faced — was during certain moments during the day, there was a fog of war, and the information flow was just really inaccurate. … We needed to take steps to make sure that the attack was a four-plane attack, not a 10-plane attack. We just didn't know. … My mind eventually became focused on finding out who did it and seeking justice, but initially it was respond and prevent."

•Watching on TV as thousands of Americans died. "There were moments when I said I'd like to be alone and just thinking through the ramifications and making sure that my thoughts were clear. I prayed for the victims. I prayed for our country. I would see people jump off buildings, and it just was horrific, but I was also determined to lead the country."

•His televised remarks from Florida and Louisiana. "The first two statements were on the fly. I didn't realize I had missed the mark. … I just did the best I could do given the circumstances, but obviously it wasn't the best setting for a president to try to calm the nerves of the country. I wanted to speak from the Oval Office. I wasn't going to address our nation from a bunker. It would have been a huge psychological victory for the people who attacked."

•What he learned about himself. "The job of the president was to say here are the facts, here's what we're dealing with, and deal with them. Not to feel sorry for yourself, or not to say why did it happen under my watch? That's not a leadership trait that is admirable. … I felt like I had the capacity to deal with the crisis, and you don't know until it happens. When I look back on it, I don't feel a sense of being overwhelmed."

•Whether he wishes he had done anything differently. "Not that I can think of. I mean, I think the response, laying out tools so that future presidents can have a better chance to protect the country, it's a legacy that I hope historians will say, 'It's a good legacy: He used tools that he thought were necessary and then he helped work with the Congress to codify them, so future presidents, if they so choose, can use those tools.' "

•The night of 9/11, when an erroneous report of an incoming enemy aircraft prompted Secret Service agents to move him and Laura Bush from their bed to the White House's underground bunker. "My mind was just churning over the events, the response, the information that had been given through a variety of National Security Council meetings. … And then just as I was kind of dozing off, (a Secret Service agent said) 'Mr. President,' and off we go. I had the T-shirt on and the running shorts and grabbed Laura, who didn't have her contacts on, grabbed (dog) Barney. We must have been looking like a motley crew as we headed down. … It was almost surreal, these big pneumatic doors as you're heading into the bowels of the White House, guys in black uniforms and guns.

Video: President Obama's speech to Congress:

A 13 minute clip of President Obama's speech to a Joint Session of Congress:

Live Blogging President Obama's Speech to Congress:

Short list of sites that are Live Blogging President Obama's speech to a Joint Session of Congress:

The Washington Post

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Hands Down The Best Editorial Page Out There

is Investor's Business Daily.  IBD publishes easy-to-read editorials that clearly show the benefits of Free Markets and Capitalism.  A sampling:

Jobs:  In his speech Thursday, the president is expected to announce a Stimulus 2.0 package said to cost $300 billion. But why should anyone expect this to work any better than the $4 trillion in stimulus already in the economy?

Medical Spending:  Yet another study finds that ObamaCare is going to increase costs. And this one wasn't issued by an opponent of the Democrats' reforms. In fact, one of its authors is an ObamaCare apologist.

The Law:  Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico's cartels, extends now to three White House officials. A bell goes off with the one named Dan Restrepo.

Politics:  In a new campaign ad, Ron Paul questions the bona fides of the Texas governor as a true GOP conservative, charging he once turned his back on the Reagan revolution. The truth is somewhat different.

Incivility:  Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa Jr. introduced President Obama to union hordes by declaring war on the Tea Party and offering him an army against Republicans. Why no condemnation from "The Great Uniter"?

Corruption:  A top bundler and major investor in a now-bankrupt green company made multiple White House visits before he got a guaranteed stimulus loan that the administration monitored to ensure it was granted.

Journalism:  That the media reek of liberal bias has been proved so many times in so many ways it's now axiomatic. Less certain is whether that bias affects public opinion. Now comes a study that says it does — big time.

Video: Watch the GOP Debate here:

Hat Tip to MSNBC for this one.  You can watch the entire 108 minute GOP Presidential Debate from the Reagan Presidential Library in California right here:

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Video: America needs jobs, not speeches:

Video:  America needs jobs, not speeches:

Texas Wildfires: Barbarians to the Rescue:

Remember the other day when VP Biden called the Tea Party and Conservatives "barbarians"? Well those barbarians are organizing an effort to help with the Texas Wildfires.  From Citizen Patriot Response:

TEXAS WILDFIRES:
CALL TO ACTION
More than 1,000 homes have burned near Bastrop in one of the most destructive and largest fires in Texas history. Over 180 fires have erupted across our state in the past week alone.
Citizen Patriot Response requests Tea Party, 9-12, and other liberty-minded individuals and groups to organize efforts to assist the roughly 1,200 firefighters working on
the frontlines of this historical outbreak of Texas wildfires.
Citizen Patriot Response is preparing to begin delivering cold bottles of water to firefighters in the Bastrop area in an effort to do our part. Many other organizations and
individuals in Texas are doing the same. We need support, we need more efforts
initiated across the state, and we need communication and collaboration between
group leaders to ensure that men and women fighting the Texas wildfires have
full support.
The Citizen Patriot Response headquarters and shelter is located in Hays county and now has limited space available for Texans left homeless by the wildfires.
Please contact grocery stores, churches, offices, and friends and request:

1. Bottled
   water
2. Coolers
3. Ice or money for ice
4. Gas cards for deliveries and pickups
5. Rental or borrowing of trailers

Classic Rush Limbaugh "When will Obama repudiate Hoffa? - Never"

Classic Rush Limbaugh on the controversy over the Jimmy Hoffa comments:

RUSH:  So everybody's wondering when is Obama gonna repudiate Hoffa?  How do we know that Obama did not suggest to Hoffa that he say what he said?  What do you mean repudiate?  He went up there after Hoffa said what he said and basically praised him.  I mean, what is this, when is Obama gonna repudiate Hoffa?  Obama wrote it for Hoffa!  Who the hell do you think is inspiring these sons-of-bitches anyway?  Quote, unquote.  Well, I mean if Hoffa can use the lingo, and if Obama can find nothing wrong with it, I mean what are we talking about here, folks?  And Obama's gonna be making a speech to those sons-of-bitches on Thursday night.  Yeah, Cookie asked me, "Should I delete the word 'bitches'?"  No.  Hoffa used it.  This is your Democrat Party.

By the way, greetings and welcome.  It's El Rushbo, and I feel confident that your kids that are worth anything are back in school, so I don't mind using the lingo.  If your kids are not in school they are worthless kids anyway and probably already know the lingo before I do. And, yes, I'm in a fit to be tied mood today about a whole bunch of stuff so just bear with it.

You probably heard Jimmy Hoffa's attack on the Tea Party at the Labor Day speech in Detroit and Obama's praise of Hoffa afterwards.  Everybody says, "Well, when is Obama gonna refute Hoffa?"  Hell, Obama wrote it for Hoffa.  Obama suggested it.  Before we get to what was said, don't you just love the irony?  Here we have James Hoffa and Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, commemorating Labor Day in Detroit, a city that epitomizes the disaster brought about by the alliance of labor unions and government.  Here is a city that is crumbling.  They are bulldozing parts of the city.  It's a city run by Democrats and unions for 50 years.

What is the unemployment rate in Detroit?  Something like 50%. Detroit is one of our strong markets.  The unemployment rate in Detroit is astronomically high.  They're tearing half the city down.  They're leaving it for farmland.  Obama goes there to celebrate the triumph of organized labor.  You know, it's perfect, really, because what you have there is everything you need to know about unions.  Everything you need to know about 'em.  And as you may have heard by now, ladies and gentlemen, in his introduction of Mr. Obama, Jimmy Hoffa said... wait, why read it?  Why not let you hear it.  But before we play Jimmy Hoffa let's put this in the proper context, shall we? 

The Seven States that will determine the 2012 Presidential Election:

Early Electoral College Math.  Larry J. Sabato recently published an outstanding article in the Wall St. Journal where he detailed the way that the 2012 election will be determined.  Sabato divided the US States into firewall states, lean Democrat/Republican and toss ups.  The synopsis:

Democrat Firewall: (177 Electoral Votes)

Barring a Carter-like collapse, President Obama is assured of 175 electoral votes from 12 deep-blue states and the District of Columbia: California (55 electoral votes), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), Hawaii (4), Illinois (20), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), New Jersey (14), New York (29), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Washington state (12) and Washington, D.C. (3). Three more states are not quite as certain, but still likely Democratic: Maine (4), Minnesota (10) and Oregon (7). Even though Minnesota is competitive enough to vote Republican under the right set of conditions, it is the state with the longest Democratic presidential streak, dating to 1976

Lean Democrat: (51 Electoral Votes)

Four other states usually vote Democratic for president, but they're hardly a sure thing: Michigan (16), New Mexico (5), Pennsylvania (20) and Wisconsin (10). A low Hispanic vote in 2012 could flip New Mexico, as Al Gore carried it by only 366 votes in 2000 and a dedicated effort by George W. Bush flipped it in 2004. In Michigan, economic problems might cause voters to cool on Democrats. Wisconsin, narrowly Democratic in 2000 and 2004, is a cauldron of unpredictable countertrends. And although Pennsylvania has frustrated all GOP attempts to win it over since 1988, recent polls have shown weakness for Mr. Obama there. These 51 electoral votes will be GOP targets if conditions in the fall of 2012 approximate today's.

Republican Firewall: (105 Electoral Votes)

Almost any sentient GOP nominee will carry Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arkansas (6), Idaho (4), Kansas (6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (8), Mississippi (6), Montana (3), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (9), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Utah (6), West Virginia (5) and Wyoming (3). These 18 states have 105 electoral votes.

Lean Republican: (101 Electoral Votes)

The Obama forces have bravely boasted that they can turn Arizona (11), Georgia (16) and Texas (38), mainly because of growing Latino voting power. But with the economy in the tank, electoral claims on these big three will likely go the way of John McCain's early declaration in '08 that California was within his grasp.

Indiana (11), North Carolina (15), or an electoral vote in Nebraska (which like Maine awards one vote per congressional district), yet all three went for Mr. Obama by small margins. In 2012, Indiana is likely to desert him, as is the one Cornhusker district. To keep North Carolina, the Democrats chose Charlotte for their national convention and will make a big play statewide. As of now, it looks tough for them. Thus Republicans are in the lead to win 26 more electors. Missouri was the sole squeaker that went for McCain; few believe it will be tight next year, so the GOP will likely have those 10 votes, too.

The Seven Swing States that will determine the 2012 Election:

That's why seven super-swing states with 85 electors will determine which party gets to the magic number of 270 electoral votes: Colorado (9), Florida (29), Iowa (6), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Ohio (18) and Virginia (13). 

Common Cents Prediction:  Count Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire in the Republican column.  13 + 29 + 18+ 6 + 4 = 70 Electoral Votes from the Swing States. 

• GOP CANDIDATE:  276 EV
• PRESIDENT OBAMA:  264 EV 

Of course a lot can happen.  If the Republicans can flip Pennsylvania (20 EV), Michigan (16 EV), or Wisconsin (10 EV) the election isn't close.

And if President Obama wins Florida or Ohio all bets are off.  Stay tuned...

Hurricane Katia Storm Tracks:

Hurricane Katia is forecast to take a right-turn and miss the United States. Below we have the latest Tracking Cone and Computer Models for Hurricane Katia:

Video: Jimmy Hoffa Jr: "Lets take these Sons of Bitches Out"

WOW!  Imagine if a Republican had said this.  Jimmy Hoffa Jr. at a Labor Day Rally - "Lets take these Sons of Bitches Out" referring to Republicans:

Video: The most dangerous jobs in the world!

Video - The worst and most dangerous jobs in the world:

Cleaning out the Cobra Cage:

Needs a strong stomach even to watch:

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Video: Dick Cheney interviewed on Fox News Sunday:

VP Dick Cheney was interviewed today on Fox News Sunday

Video: No new jobs in US in August. Zero

For the first time since 1945 ZERO new jobs were created in the USA.

For the first time since 1945 no new jobs have been created in the US. The unemployment rate remains at 9.1%, and while President Obama is set to announce his jobs creation plan next week, many Americans wonder how the US will get out of its unemployment slump. Stephen Denning, former program director of the World Bank, tells us what is needed to get more American jobs.

Rush Limbaugh (transcript) The Single Biggest Destroyer of Jobs in History:

Rush Limbaugh was on a tear Friday Afternoon

RUSH: There weren't any jobs.  What is there to say?  In fact, I'll tell you, I don't know how they're gonna revise this number down.  They revise the number down every month, right?  How are they gonna revise zero down?  Well, yeah, there had to be a net loss of jobs.  Now, actually, there was a guy hired in August.  And all of the networks had planned live interviews with the guy who got the job in August, but he got laid off on August 31st, so there was no job created.  There was one guy who got a gig somewhere, I don't know where and I don't know what the job was, but the networks were all excited.  They were gonna interview this guy as part of the Labor Day weekend, but he got laid off less than two weeks after he was hired. (laughing) It's no laughing matter, I know.  It really isn't.  It's a disaster out there.  Yeah, we need a jobs program after almost three years of Obama jobs programs.  

You see the latest CNN/ORC poll?  Supposedly more than eight in ten Americans think the economy is in another recession, 80%.  When's the last time that 80% of Americans agreed on anything?  I ask you, and yet 80% of Americans think that we are in another recession.  You compare that, for instance, to the so-called consensus on manmade global warming.  Now, it's funny, folks, as you well know, when there is a Republican in the White House, if most people think that we're in a recession, and we are, that's all it takes.  In fact, we can be in a recession even when most people don't think we're in a recession.  CNN is so eager to save Obama's bacon that they point out, even after 80% of the American people think we're in a recession, they're wrong, CNN says. Now, if it were Bush, and if 80% thought we were in a recession, they'd be right.  But in this story, 80% of the people in their poll say they think they're in a recession, CNN then goes on to correct them and to explain that officially a recession's two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Never mind that they and the rest of the media have been saying for years that the recession started back in December 2007, even though there had not been two straight quarters of negative GDP at that point.  But all of this talk about slipping back into recession and even the jobs number, zero, I'll tell you, it's geared to next week's big speech.  One thing:  Smoothing the way for Obama to ask for another round of stimulus spending next week.  Just get prepared for it, folks.  It's gonna be outrageously big, so much so, the Republicans can never support it, and then that will set up Obama running against Republican obstructionism, even though the Republicans have only been in power the last seven months of the little over two and a half years of the Obama regime.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT The BusinessInsider.com: "While the overall U.S. employment situation is dismal, today's jobs report shows the crisis is much worse for minorities.  The unemployment rate for black Americans spiked to a shocking 16.7% in August, up from 15.9% the previous month. It's now the highest it has been during Barack Obama's presidency, up from the previous record of 16.5% in March and April 2010." By the way, this is the first time since 1945 that a jobs rate has been zero.  Now, an old buddy, we like this guy a lot here at the EIB Network, James Pethokoukis, he dabbles at Reuters.  Somehow he snuck in there, and he does blog posts and writes columns.  He's not a lib, let's put it that way.  We didn't create a single job, and the unemployment rate dropped nevertheless, right, went from 9.2 to 9.1.  Pethokoukis points out that the unemployment rate, if the labor force was as big as it was when Obama took office, would be 11.4%.  The way they get this down to 9.1% is simply reduce the number of jobs in the universe, just arbitrarily.

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Tropical Storm Lee set to dump up to 20 inches of rain on LA and TX.

Well they need the rain but this much?  Tropical Storm Lee is set to dump up to 20 inches of rain on Louisiana and Texas. 

Notre Dame 2011 Football Preview:

Actually a highlight film of maybe the last 10 years.  Hope reigns eternal, will this be the year for Notre Dame Football?  Let's hope so!

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Operation Fast and Furious - The Cover Up Grows!

The coverup of the US Gun-Running operation "Fast and Furious" continues to grow and grow.  Big Hat Tip to Redstate for this one!

Executive background summary, for those who don’t remember/aren’t following: Operation Fast & Furious was an incredibly ill-advised program where the federal government directed various law-enforcement agencies to permit guns to be illegally resold to Mexican narco-terrorist gangs. The above quote is referencing a situation where some of those guns were traced to the Terry murder scene: the email trail indicates that the ATF was aware of the link between the two cases from the start. This is important because the ATF later attempted to stonewall Congressional investigators out the link, in the person of US Attorney (District of Arizona) Dennis Burke.
And now you know why Dennis Burke resigned (and why ATF whistleblower Kenneth Melson was abruptly transferred a few days ago). And why House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member (for now) Chuck Grassley have promptly expanded their investigation to include the Arizona District’s US Attorney’s office. And why questions are being asked about why Burke refused a routine request to designate the family of slain Agent Terry as being crime victims. And why questions are being asked in general, in fact. Questions like “Who authorized this program?” “What was the true oversight chain?” “Who in the White House knew the most about this program?”
No, the answer to that last one is not “Nobody in the White House knew anything about this program.” It’s just come out that the level of communication about Fast & Furious that took place between former ATF Phoenix field office head William Newell and White House national security regional director Kevin O’Reilly was deeper than Newell originally reported. While not a true smoking gun, it does indicate that early assurances that the administration was not involved in this debacle are at best unsupported…
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: My usual comment about this investigation, at this stage: these things take time to develop. We’re starting to exit the ‘ask questions’ part and starting to enter the ‘here, let me pull on these loose threads here’ stage; patience is a virtue generally, and doubly so when it comes to a (potential) scandal of this magnitude. The real fun starts when people increasingly under the magnifying glass start realizing that while, say, the Attorney General can count on having a signed pardon covering his departure, they cannot…