JeffsReaganisms

2009-10-07T07:04:00.001-07:00

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan

2009-10-07T06:58:00.000-07:00

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

Federalist Papers

2009-05-07T13:28:00.000-07:00

Great link

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/federalist/

Obama Buzzes New York City with Air Force One/

2009-04-28T10:29:00.000-07:00

What an incompetent idiot and once agian it "Wasn't me" is what Obama has to say again.

AIR HEADS IN DC TERRORIZE CITY
FED WING NUTS' IDIOTIC FLIGHT SPURS '9/11' EVAC
By MURRAY WEISS, DAVID SEIFMAN and JEREMY OLSHAN
Click for photo gallery PLANE CRAZY: The 747 banks left over the Jersy waterfront, causing uproar across the Hudson, as well as in Manhattan.
Posted: 1:16 am
April 28, 2009

"Air Farce One" played out over lower Manhattan yesterday -- in a terrifyingly bizarre military photo op that sent office workers fleeing from their buildings fearing a new 9/11-type attack.

Obama Calls Flyover a 'Mistake'
But it turned out that the backup Air Force One jet and the fighter that appeared to be pursuing it only 1,000 feet above Ground Zero were staging the spectacle to get publicity shots of the presidential plane with a New York backdrop.

"We all ran to the window, and I thought, that's it, we're all dead," said Chris Biancamano, 36, who works at a brokerage in Jersey City. "It brought back all the memories of 9/11. I said, 'I have to get out of here now!' "

The planes flew over the Verrazano Bridge, buzzed Lady Liberty's left ear, continued up the Hudson past Jersey City and then circled back toward Staten Island, federal officials said. The jets then completed two more loops as photographers aboard the F-16 took the world's most expensive snapshots.

Although the Air Force had permission for the 10 a.m. flyover, no one bothered to warn the people on the ground, and as the two jets hurtled toward lower Manhattan, many mistook Obama's plane for Osama's.

President Obama himself was not in the plane at the time, but the 747 flew so low that New Yorkers had no trouble reading the aircraft's insignia.

Dominick Caglioti, who works at the Mercantile Exchange in lower Manhattan, thought the planes were headed straight for his window. After learning it was all a photo op, he fumed.

"It's so stupid because they tell you about every fire drill, but they didn't tell us about this," he said.

Jillian Pizzarello, who also works at the Mercantile Exchange, said, "You don't do this to people down here after all we have been through."

Thousands of people were evacuated from buildings on both sides of the Hudson during the half-hour episode.

Federal aviation officials had notified Mayor Bloomberg's office -- but not the mayor himself -- and the NYPD last week. But officials were given clear instructions not to share the classified mission with the public, sources said.

NYPD brass told 911 operators in advance to explain to callers that the planes -- which came within 500 feet of the Statue of Liberty's torch -- were conducting an "authorized" military operation.

The only relatively high-ranking person in the Bloomberg administration told of the plan was Marc Mugnos, the director of operations in the Office of Citywide Event Coordination -- a man normally charged with approving street fairs, sources said.

Bloomberg said he never received word of the plans, and he was "furious."

"Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe de fies imagination," he said. "Poor judgment would be a nice way to phrase it. Had I known about it I would have called them right away and asked them not to." Mugnos was reprimanded for failing to notify the mayor, a source said.

It's unclear how much the stunt cost taxpayers, but officials said earlier this year that flying Air Force One comes with a $40,000-per-hour price tag.

At first, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed complaints and said he had no knowledge of the flyover.

"I was working on other things. You might be surprised to know I don't know every movement of Air Force One or what happens to it," he said.

But Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, later said he approved the mission.

"I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption," he said. "I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused."

Obama did not know of the elaborate plans for the photos.

"When he found out, he was absolutely furious," a White House aide told The Post.

The new photo of the plane with the Statue of Liberty was to replace the current publicity shot of Air Force One above Mount Rushmore.

Additional reporting by Kirsten Fleming and David Hastie

murray.weiss@ny post.com

Socialism in Classroom

2009-04-27T06:39:00.000-07:00

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.

2009-04-21T11:42:00.001-07:00

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-21T11:34:00.001-07:00

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-21T11:32:00.000-07:00

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:52:00.001-07:00

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:49:00.001-07:00

Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:47:00.002-07:00

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:47:00.001-07:00

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:46:00.001-07:00

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:45:00.001-07:00

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:42:00.000-07:00

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:41:00.002-07:00

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:41:00.001-07:00

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:40:00.001-07:00

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:38:00.000-07:00

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:37:00.001-07:00

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:36:00.001-07:00

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

2009-04-17T13:33:00.000-07:00

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

It is our turn to stand tall

2009-04-17T13:31:00.000-07:00