2,000 House Staffers Make Six Figures

Talk about working their hustle.

House staffers not only are exempt themselves from Obama Care, but they get fat paychecsks in the process.

Is this the type of government you want America separate standards for the government and those they govern?

Wise up!

From the Politico:

Nearly 2,000 House of Representative staffers pulled down six-figure salaries in 2009, including 43 staffers who earned the maximum $172,500 — or more than three times the median U.S. household income.

Starting salaries on Capitol Hill are still low — many entry-level congressional jobs pay less than $30,000 a year. And many of the most highly paid staffers could make several times the maximum by jumping to lobbying and consulting jobs in the private sector.


But the salary data, compiled for POLITICO by LegiStorm.com, show that it’s possible to make an enviable living in Congress, even without winning an election.

The 43 staffers who maxed out at $172,500 — the salary cap for leadership and committee staffers — include John Lawrence, chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Paula Nowakowski, the late chief of staff to House Minority Leader John Boehner; and House Parliamentarian John Sullivan. They earned only slightly less than rank-and-file members of Congress, who make $174,000.

All the salary data are part of the public record and are culled from congressional office disbursement reports.

Most of the staffers at the top salary level serve in upper-level committee and leadership office staffs, including staff directors, policy advisers and legislative counsels — positions that have often had direct input on the formation of major legislation, such as health care. Many of those staffers also have law degrees.


But while these top earners are a small percentage of the overall congressional work force, their numbers are growing at a rapid rate under the Democratic Congress.

The number of staffers earning within the upper 3 percent of House salaries — currently $163,358 or more — has increased by nearly 39 percent in the past four years, according to LegiStorm data. In 2005, there were 203 staffers earning in the top 3 percent. That number spiked to 304 people in 2008 but then dropped in 2009 to 282, likely caused in part by the economic downturn.
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South Korean Navy Ship Sinks Near North Korea DMZ

Don’t look for President Obama to leap in the defense of South Korea even though their our ally.

No, he only gets concerned when our enemies need a helping hand.

Market Watch.com reports:

A South Korean Navy patrol boat sank Friday near the western maritime border with North Korea following an explosion, according to Korean media reports.

There are no details on the cause of the explosion but South Korean officials are not ruling out a possible torpedo attack from North Korea, the reports said.

Another South Korean Navy vessel that was patrolling nearby fired at unidentified ships to the north of the area, according to an online report from the Korean Broadcasting System.

So far, 54 of the 104 crew on the 1,200-ton Cheonan have been rescued, the reports said. South Korean security officials have convened an emergency meeting to discuss the developments.

Via Market Watch.com

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Gay Jesus Play Upsets Texas Town

Every Easter we have these kind of assaults on the Christian faith.

It’s funny how every time we voice our displeasure with this type of crap, we’re labeled the intolerant ones,

Is this what happens when we’re no longer a Christian country like Obama says?

Fox News reports:

Residents of Stephenville, Texas, say they're furious that a local university will allow the performance of a play in which a gay Jesus shares a kiss with Judas and marries two apostles in a same-sex ceremony.

A college student's production of a play in which Jesus is portrayed as the "King of Queers" has outraged residents in a Texas town that fancies itself the Cowboy Capital of the World.

Just in time for Easter, Tarleton State University is playing host to a student performance of Terrence McNally's 1998 play, "Corpus Christi," which depicts a gay Jesus performing a same-sex wedding for two of his apostles.

And though Jesus washed the feet of his disciples in the traditional biblical narrative, his character (called Joshua) in the play shows Judas the full extent of his love, kissing the son of perdition at Pontius Pilate High School's senior prom.

It's all too much for some residents of Stephenville, Texas, who say there's far too much passion in this Passion play. They are pressuring the university to call off the Saturday performance, which has already been moved ahead eight hours to an 8 a.m. start time to help head off protests.
"It infuriates me that somebody would be given a platform to be able to demean and degrade the Son of God," said David Harris, pastor of the town's Hillcrest Church of Christ. "I'm angry about it and every Christian should be."

Harris, who hosts a radio show, said phones were ringing off the hook in objection to the play's performance.

A school spokeswoman said it changed the performance time and boosted security to guarantee a "safe and secure environment" for the students, and it has now closed public access to the theater, which seats only 90 people. Only students and invited family members will be allowed to attend the show, which is an abbreviated version of McNally's play.

The production is a class project for student-director John Jordan Otte, who said in a written statement that he chose the play to "bring people together" and help gain acceptance for gay Christians, who he said often feel alienated from their churches.

"It is being said often that this play is a direct attack on Christians — their faith and their deity. It simply is not true," wrote Otte, 26, who said he is a devout Christian.

"I am not attacking anyone in choosing this play. I want people to see and understand another side to faith. I want us all to know that unconditional love means just that -- unconditional -- and I believe tolerance is a key message in this play. None of us, not one of us, should ever feel alone or separated from God or whomever we believe in."
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When are we going to hear about a Gay Mohamed play or would that be considered hate speech?

I’m just saying…

Let free speech apply to Muslims too.

Via Fox News

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Binyamin Netanyahu Humiliated by U.S. President

Actions speak louder than words!

Israel is the only democracy in the region of the Middle East; they’re a close ally of the United States surrounded by Muslim nation that would wish them out of existence if they could, and this is how President Barack Hussein Obama treats the leader of Israel?

What more evidence do you need of a man who sat in a church for 20 years listening to a pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who spews anti-Semitism on a regular basis, who continues to embrace Louis Farrakhan, another anti-Semite, to draw the conclusion that President Barack Hussein Obama is himself an anti-Semite!

What does that say for the security of Israel and how much support can they expect from this president?

From the London Times:

The President was said to have walked out of the meeting, saying to Mr Netanyahu: 'Let me know if there is anything new'
For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.

After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and “let me know if there is anything new”, a US congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.

“It was awful,” the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting “a hazing in stages”, poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line. Another said that the Prime Minister had received “the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea”.

Left to talk among themselves Mr Netanyahu and his aides retreated to the Roosevelt Room. He spent a further half-hour with Mr Obama and extended his stay for a day of emergency talks to try to restart peace negotiations.

However, he left last night with no official statement from either side. He returned to Israel yesterday isolated after what Israeli media have called a White House ambush for which he is largely to blame.
Sources said that Mr Netanyahu failed to impress Mr Obama with a flow chart purporting to show that he was not responsible for the timing of announcements of new settlement projects in east Jerusalem. Mr Obama was said to be livid when such an announcement derailed the visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the Vice-President, this month and his anger towards Israel does not appear to have cooled.

“The Prime Minister leaves America disgraced, isolated and altogether weaker than when he came,” the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said.
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I’m soryy!

But, this president is pathetic!

Is Barack Obama truly a Chrisitan or an under cover Muslin? He really is convincing me of the latter.

Via London Times

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Jerusalem Post poll: Obama Still in Single Digits

I’ve never seen in my lifetime a president that kisses our enemies asses and treats our allies like dirt.

I just don’t get it.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

9% of local Jews say US administration pro-Israel; 48% call it pro- Palestinian.

Just 9 percent of Jewish Israelis think US President Barack Obama’s administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of The Jerusalem Post.

Forty-eight percent said that the Obama presidency favored the Palestinian side, 30% said his administration was neutral and 13% chose not to express an opinion for the survey, which has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

The poll of a representative sample of 500 Israelis was conducted on Sunday and Monday after weeks of heightened tensions between Obama and Israel, but before the crisis intensified during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.

Respondents who consider themselves right-wing were more likely than the rest of the population to characterize the Obama administration as more pro-Palestinian (72%). Those who define themselves as left-wing were more likely to call the administration in Washington more pro-Israel (16%).

The number of Israelis who see Obama’s policies as pro-Israel has risen from 4% in the last Smith Research poll taken on behalf of the Post in August. In that poll, 51% of Jewish Israelis said Obama’s administration was more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel, while 35% considered it neutral and 10% declined to express an opinion.

A widely reported Post poll published on June 19 that put the first figure at 6% had been cited by top officials in both the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office as a catalyst for American efforts to improve the American-Israeli relationship. Taken shortly after Obama reached out to the Muslim world in a landmark address in Cairo on June 14, that poll found that 50% of those sampled considered the administration’s policies more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. The remaining 8% did not express an opinion.
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Famed High School Coach Oliva Charged with Child Rape in Massachusetts

Let me say something about this high school since my son went there. They only care about their sports programs and give lip service to educations.

Also, they don't care who attends the school by the amount of Gang Bamgers who attnded CTK during the time my son went there. He called it "a public school with uniforms."

From the New York Post:

Bob Oliva, the iconic Christ the King Regional High School basketball coach who resigned in disgraced amid sex abuse allegations last year, was charged today with child rape by Massachusetts prosecutors for an attack that allegedly occurred 33 years ago.
Oliva, 65, is accused of raping a then 14-year-old boy during a trip to Boston between July 31 to August 1, 1976.

Oliva, whose attorney did not immediately return a call for comment, was also charged disseminating pornography to minor, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Boston.

"We’re in contact with his attorney and expect to schedule his surrender and arraignment in the near future," Wark said.

For thirty years Oliva was regarded as the best boy’s high school basketball coach in the region winning several titles and retiring with a 549-131 record.

He resigned last year and blamed the sexual abuse allegations for causing heart problems.

Massachusetts law allows sex abuse crimes to be prosecuted even after the statute of limitations expired if the alleged perpetrator left the state.

Via The New York Post

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