Moving Day!

I've been working on moving The Hammond Report to my own domain and learning how to use Wordpress instead of posting. I still have a few things to do like transfer over my podcasts and tweak my sidebar but I feel ready to officially move over today.

I will try to get back so podcasting and posting more regularly. I've been busy at work and playing with my new Wordpress site.

Let me know what you think.

Harry Reid & MSM Trying to take Credit for Rush's Ebay Record

The "phony soldier" letter Harry Reid and 41 Democrat Senators, including Baucus and Tester, sent to the Clear Channel CEO that Rush put up for bid on Ebay has made $2,100,000 for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Rush has matched that amount which give the MCLEF a grand total of $4,200,000!

The amazing thing now is Harry Reid and the MSM are trying to give the Democrats credit for raising the money!

Reid said this on the floor of the Senate: (emphasis mine)

"But without qualification Mark May, the owner of the network that has Rush Limbaugh, and Rush Limbaugh should know that this letter that they're auctioning is going to be something that raises money for a worthwhile cause. I don't know what we could do more important than helping to ensure that children of our fallen soldiers and police officers who have fallen in the line of duty have the opportunity for their children to have a good education," he said.

The closing of this ABC News blog is breathtaking:

The bidding ends at 1:00p.m. No mater what, Democrats are going to make a ton of money for a charity off their political vitriol.

So in typical Liberal fashion, they are trying to take credit for something without having to "pay" for it themselves.

Come on Reid, Baucus and Tester, cowboy up and show your support by matching the $2,100,000 like Rush did!

Place Your Bid

Rush has put the original letter from Harry Reid and 41 Democrat Senators to the CEO of Clear Channel asking for Rush to apologize for the phony soldiers controversy up for bid on ebay.

As of this post, the high bid is $40,2000. All of the money will go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation which Rush has been a board member for many years.

Rush also issued the following challenge to the 41 Senators who signed the letter.

Every dollar raised, however much it ends up being, is going to go to Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. And I would like to issue this challenge to Senator Reid and the 41 senators who signed his letter. You say you support the military. You say you're big, and you think it's patriotic, and that I was unpatriotic. Well, I would like for each of you, Senator Reid, and the 40 Senators who signed, to match whatever the winning bid is. Show us your support for the US military by all 41 of you pro-military people, Democrats in the Senate, match whatever the winning bid is and send that amount to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.

Let's see what Max and Tester do.

FDNY Tribute

This is cool.

Podcast Episode 4 Andy's Journey from Liberal Leaning to the Conservative he is Today

This is my first episode without a script, scary! I have a silly intro then go into my journey from being a Liberal leaning moderate to the Conservative I am today. I finish up with a bit of a ramble on debate which I plan on exploring further in a future episode.

British Court Finds 11 Inaccuracies in Gore's Movie

A British court found that Al Gore's movie Inconvenient Truth contains 11 inaccuracies that must be reported to school children by their teachers before they view the movie.

The 11 inaccuracies are:

The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.

The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.

The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.

The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.

The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.

The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.

The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.

The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.

The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.

The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.

The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

From the Mouths of Babes...

My 16 year old daughter came home the other day telling me one of her teachers told the class that GWB was a baby killer. Seriously. I, of course, asked why in the world would he say that about our President, and thought that the teacher was referring to the Iraq war. She told me that it was because Bush vetoed the SCHIP reauthorization and because of that thousands of babies would die from not having insurance. We both chuckled at this because we have had discussions about this liberal wacko teacher before and my daughter and I use his liberal indoctrination attempts as learning opportunities.

I explained my point of view on the subject and then we sat down at the computer and did a little bit of research. We found the following information on Whitehouse.gov explaning Bush's position on SCHIP.

Guess what she discovered with just a quick google search? That Bush actually supports the reauthorization of SCHIP and a 20% increase in funding and wants to maintain the original purpose of the program of targeting the dollars to poor children.

We, she actually, also discovered the real and truthful reasons Bush vetoed the bill.

MYTH #2: Cost is the only reason for President Bush's veto threat.

• FACT: There are numerous problems with Congress's SCHIP bill. In addition to raising spending by $35 to $50 billion, the legislation:

1. Turns a program meant to help poor children into one that covers children in some households with incomes of up to $83,000 a year.

2. Would move millions of American children who now have private health insurance into government-run health care.

3. Is an incremental step toward the Democrats' goal of a government-run health care system.

4. Raises taxes on working Americans.

5. Relies on a budget gimmick that drops SCHIP funding by almost 80 percent in year six, masking future deficits and ultimately resulting in a choice between higher taxes or forcing millions of children to lose health insurance.

6. Creates new funding schemes inviting states to overspend their budgets and shift health care costs to the Federal government by using SCHIP funding to offset state Medicaid spending.

7. Provides incentives to states to relax protections against enrolling ineligible individuals, including illegal immigrants.

MYTH #3: President Bush is wrong in claiming the Senate SCHIP bill would cover children in some households with incomes of up to $83,000 per year (400 percent of the Federal poverty level).

• FACT: The Senate bill grandfathers in New York at a higher SCHIP match rate than the rest of the country – allowing SCHIP to cover children in some households with incomes of up to $83,000 per year.
  

I then directed her to this story about middle school student Graeme Frost who gave the Democrat rebuttal on Bush's reasons for vetoing the bill. She was shocked and amazed that this family, with everything they own and paying private school tuition would have the nerve to say they cannot afford private health insurance. It ticked her off to say the least because she knows that we pay for our own insurance and have to make sacrifices on many things in order to be able to afford it.

After reading and talking about what we discovered, she asked me, "Dad, do democrats think we're all stupid?" I asked her why she asked that. She answered by saying "Well, it's not that hard to find out why Bush vetoed the bill and why would they have a kid who has more than most people whining about how his parents can't afford their own health insurance?"

I then asked her "What do you think?" She said "Yep, they think we're all stupid."

I think she nailed it.

New Look

I've been bored with the "Tekka" look of my blog and have been exploring moving over to Wordpress. I'm still debating whether I want to start my own domain so I can have the flexibility I need and get with for free with Blogger.

Anyway, I changed the look of The Hammond Report.