UK INQUIRY: Schizophrenic murderer of 4 was failed BY NHS

TOL: Schizophrenic Daniel Gonzales stabbed four people after NHS ignored his pleas

A schizophrenic killer who murdered four people in three days was failed repeatedly by an ineffective NHS, an inquiry has found.

The treatment of Daniel Gonzales was full of missed opportunities that could have prevented him stabbing three pensioners and another man to death.

Despite nearly 60 appointments with doctors and psychiatrists and his own pleas to be admitted to a hospital, Gonzales was free to fulfil his ambition of becoming a serial killer resembling the film character Freddy Krueger, from the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

Gonzales's mother, Lesley Savage, had written to her MP begging for help, saying that she feared her son would only get the treatment he needed if he killed someone.

An independent investigation found that the work of Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust had been hampered by human errors, a lack of funds, system failure and bad luck.

THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS US TO EMULATE.

SHEESH.

CHECHNYA PROVES THAT "HONOR KILLINGS" ARE ISLAMIC, NOT JUST ARABIC

WALES ONLINE:

The President of Chechnya justified the right of male relatives to carry out ’honour killings’ after seven young women were found shot dead.

Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had “loose morals” and were rightfully shot.

“If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed,” Mr Kadyrov said outside a mosque in Grozny where he had attended afternoon prayers.

The 32-year-old former militia leader is carrying out a campaign to impose Islamic values and strengthen the traditional customs of predominantly Muslim Chechnya, in an effort to blunt the appeal of hardline Islamic separatists and shore up his power.

In doing so, critics say, he is setting up a dictatorship where Russian laws do not apply.

Some in Russia say Mr Kadyrov’s attempt to create an Islamic society violates the Russian constitution, which guarantees equal rights for women and a separation of church and state.

But the Kremlin has given him its staunch backing, seeing him as the key to keeping the separatists in check, and that has allowed him to impose his will.

THIS IS THE SAME THING THAT PAKISTAN AGREED TO IN SWAT.
IT'S IMMORAL. LIKE ACCEPTING SLAVERY.
PUTIN AND THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT ARE IMMORAL

MORE PROOF WE'RE GETTING SCREWED BY THE POLITICIANS AND THEIR PALS VIA THE MORTGAGE CRISIS THE BANK BAILOUTS!

NYTIMES:

Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans, helping set off a chain of events that has the economy staggering.

So it may come as a surprise that a dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from the home mortgage mess.
Stanford L. Kurland, Countrywide’s former president, and his team have been buying up delinquent home mortgages that the government took over from other failed banks, sometimes for pennies on the dollar.
They get a piece of what they can collect.

“It has been very successful — very strong,” John Lawrence, the company’s head of loan servicing, told Mr. Kurland one recent morning in a glass-walled boardroom here at PennyMac’s spacious headquarters, opened last year in the same Los Angeles suburb where Countrywide once flourished.

“In fact, it’s off-the-charts good,” he told Mr. Kurland, who was leaning back comfortably in his leather boardroom chair, even as the financial markets in New York were plunging.

As hundreds of billions of dollars flow from Washington to jump-start the nation’s staggering banks, automakers and other industries, a new economy is emerging of businesses that hope to make money from the various government programs that make up the largest economic rescue in history.

They include big investors who are buying up failed banks taken over by the federal government and lobbyists. And there is PennyMac, led by Mr. Kurland, 56, once the soft-spoken No. 2 to Angelo R. Mozilo, the perpetually tanned former chief executive of Countrywide and its public face.

Mr. Kurland has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from big players like BlackRock, the investment manager, to finance his start-up. Having sold off close to $200 million in stock before leaving Countrywide, he has also put up some of his own cash.

While some critics are distressed that Mr. Kurland and his team are back in business, the executives say that PennyMac’s operations serve as a model for how the government, working with banks, can help stabilize the housing market and lead the nation out of the recession.

SICKENING...

• THEY DUG THE HOLE WE'RE IN - WITH FANNIE MAE'S HELP.
• THEN, THEY LEFT US HOLDING THE BAG.
• NOW - WITH THE HELP OF THE US TREASURY, THEY'RE GETTING TO BUY BACK THE BAG AT A BARGAIN PRICE.

• THESE VULTURES ARE SCREWING US THREEFOLD.
• PREVIOUS POSTS ON THE VULUTRES HERE AND HERE.
• THEY COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE COOPERATION OF THE POLITICANS...

MORE PROOF AGW IS BULLSHIT - AND CAP & TRADE A SCAM

DISCOVERY CHANNEL:

Earth's climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year

trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.

"This is nothing like anything we've seen since 1950," Kyle Swanson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said. "Cooling events since then had firm causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La Ninas. This current cooling doesn't have one."

Instead, Swanson and colleague Anastasios Tsonis think a series of climate processes have aligned, conspiring to chill the climate. In 1997 and 1998, the tropical Pacific Ocean warmed rapidly in what Swanson called a "super El Nino event." It sent a shock wave through the oceans and atmosphere, jarring their circulation patterns into unison.

How does this square with temperature records from 2005-2007, by some measurements among the warmest years on record? When added up with the other four years since 2001, Swanson said the overall trend is flat, even though temperatures should have gone up by 0.2 degrees Centigrade (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) during that time.

The discrepancy gets to the heart of one of the toughest problems in climate science -- identifying the difference between natural variability (like the occasional March snowstorm) from human-induced change.

IOW: AGW = BS.

GORE SHOULD STFU, AND OBAMA SHOULD FORGET ABOUT CAP & TRADE.

ALL CAP AND TRADE COULD ACCOLMPLISH WOULD BE TO CAP OUR POTENTIAL GROWTH AND TRADE AWAY OUR PROSPERITY.

(VIA HOT AIR.)

Obama: a president who would rather redistribute income than create wealth

DINOCRAT:

Dreary words and figures

Dick Morris does some numbers:

President Obama’s will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We’re speaking, of course, of Obama’s plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He’s not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he’s also disallowing about one-third of top earner’s deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

And soon the next shoe will drop — he’ll announce that he’s keeping yet another of his campaign promises: to apply the full payroll tax to all income over $250,000 a year. (Right now, the 15.3 percent Social Security tax only applies to the first $106,800 of income — you neither pay the tax on income above that, nor accumulate added benefit.) For many taxpayers in this bracket, this hike will raise their total taxes by about half. Finally, he’s declaring war on investors by raising the capital-gains-tax rate to 20 percent.

These increases are politically insignificant: The top 2 percent of the nation casts only about 4 percent of the votes, barely enough to attract the notice of even the most meticulous pollsters. But they have enormous economic significance. Those who earn more than $200,000 pay almost 60 percent of America’s income taxes and account for a third of its total disposable income…

Here is a president who would rather redistribute income than create wealth. He thinks it more important to grow government than to fight inflation…. We have a president, in short, who will stand on his principles. Unfortunately, they’re bad ones.

Clever commentators who fancy themselves conservative and use big words like epistemological are having second thoughts about the second coming. ‘Bout time.

OBAMA IS ALREADY THE WORST PRESDIENT OF ALL TIME.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: MCCAIN GETS ANGRY AT OBAMA - SIX MONTHS TOO LATE...

POLITICO:

Monday’s floor speech was the most personal attack yet by the Arizona Republican in what has already become a surprisingly strained, often hostile approach to the new president.

“If it seems like I’m angry, it’s because I am,” McCain said, taking the White House to task for treating the bill as leftover business — and not subject to the full measure of earmark reform promised by candidate Obama.

“Last year’s business?” McCain asked, incredulous.

“The president will sign this appropriations bill into law. It is the president’s business. It is the president of the United States’ business. It is the president of the United States’ business to do what he said — stated — when we were in debate seeking the support of the American people — where he said he would work to eliminate earmarks.”

“We need earmark reform and when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure we’re not spending money unwisely,” McCain said, reading back Obama’s words at a debate last fall.

“That’s the quote, the promise of the president of the United States made to the American people in a debate with me in Oxford, Miss.

So what is brought to the floor today — 9,000 earmarks.…

So much for change.”

I WISH MCCAIN HAD GONE FOR OBAMA'S JUGULAR LAST AUTUMN.

INSTEAD HE BACKED OFF, LIKE A GENTLEMAN WHO THOUGHT OBAMA WAS A MAN OF HIS WORD.

HAH!

MEDIA TOUTING OBAMA'S HEALTH CLINIC PLAN! ER UM... BUSH HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT! AND DONE IT MO' BETTER, TOO!

REUTERS - VIA DRUDGE:

Obama pushes centers as one focus of health reform

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has been vague about details of his healthcare reform efforts, but he provided a hint on Monday of one direction he could take -- community health centers.

As he announced the nominations of his two top health executives, Obama highlighted the allocation of $155 million to 126 community health centers

NYTIMES - 12/26/08:

President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.

For those in poor urban neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the only dependable providers of basic services like prenatal care, childhood immunizations, asthma treatments, cancer screenings and tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

As a crucial component of the health safety net, they are lauded as a cost-effective alternative to hospital emergency rooms, where the uninsured and underinsured often seek care.

THEY CALLED THE BUSH EXPANSION UNPRECEDENTED. THEY WERE RIGHT.

I GUESS THAT MAKES OBAMA'S MODEST INCREASE PRECEDENTED. AND MINSCULE IN COMPARISON.

BUSH WAS BETTER FOR HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR THAN OBAMA.

FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC BAILOUTS LEADING TO NATIONALZIATION

THESE BAILOUTS HAVEN'T SOLVED THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OR THE REAL ESTATE CRISIS.

AND NOW, EXPERT DOUBT THEY CAN BE UNDONE!

NYTIMES: Fannie and Freddie Are Unlikely to Be Restored

Despite assurances that the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be temporary, the giant mortgage companies will most likely never fully return to private hands, lawmakers and company executives are beginning to quietly acknowledge.

The possibility that these companies — which together touch over half of all mortgages in the United States — could remain under tight government control is shaping the broader debate over the future of the financial industry. The worry is that if the government cannot or will not extricate itself from Fannie and Freddie, it will face similar problems should it eventually nationalize some large banks.

The lesson, many fear, is that a takeover so hobbles a company’s finances and decision making that independence may be nearly impossible.

... Last week, Fannie Mae announced that it lost $58.7 billion in 2008, more than all its net profits since 1992. Freddie Mac is also expected to reveal record losses in coming days.

Most important, by taking over the companies, lawmakers have gained a lever over the housing market and national economy that many — particularly Democrats — are loath to discard, legislators say.

“Once government gets a new tool, it’s virtually impossible to take it away,” said Representative Scott Garrett, a Republican of New Jersey and member of the Financial Services banking subcommittee. “And Fannie and Freddie are now tools of the government.”

One reason that Fannie and Freddie will never return to their earlier forms is simple mathematics: to become independent, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must repay the taxpayer dollars invested in the companies, plus interest. Even if the firms achieve profitability, it could take them as long as 100 years — or longer — to pay back the government. And almost no one expects the companies to return to profitability anytime soon.

Moreover, the takeover has provided legislators with a long-sought ability to influence the mortgage marketplace directly and pursue social goals like low-income housing.

I'M PUZZLED: DIDN'T BARNEY FRANK PROMISE US THIS COULDN'T HAPPEN!? (SARCASM OFF.)

• WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND WE NEED HER NOW!

• THATCHER UNDID ATTLEE'S NATIONALIZATION AND SOCIALISM - AND SAVED BRITAIN.

• OBAMA IS OUR ATTLEE.

• WHERE IS OUR THATCHER?!

OBAMA: "HEY, LET'S APPEASE PUTIN!"

GATEWAY HAS THE PUTIN ANGLE.

"OBAMA KISSING UP TO PUTIN " ROUND UP HERE.

FACT: OBAMA HAS ALREADY COST US MORE THAN 9/11

1 - THE ECONOMIC LOSSES TO THE USA ECONOMY OF 9/11 HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED AT $1 TRILLION - SOME SAY $2 TRILLION.

2 - SINCE OBAMA'S ELECTION MADE THE PROSPECT OF OBAMANOMICS A CERTAINTY, THE USA ECONOMY HAS LOST $6 - COUNT'EM $$IX!!! - TRILLION.

CHART OF THE DOW LOSSES RIGHT HERE.

FACT: OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE COST US THREE TIMES MORE THAN BIN LADEN'S.

THIS WAS ANTICIPATED BY THE IHT - ONE THE WEEK AFTER THE ELECTION:

Resounding cheers around the world greeted Barack Obama's election as U.S. president, but the world did not put its money where its mouth was. Stock markets nearly everywhere sank in the days that followed.

Plunging markets have been commonplace for months, and Obama was a short-priced favorite, so the timing could always be coincidental.

But anxiety over what he will do when he is handed the keys to the White House is likely to account for some of the decline.

Investors might expect a Democratic president with populist appeal and a very liberal voting record during his brief tenure in the Senate to shape policies unfriendly to their interests, especially when both houses of Congress have large Democratic majorities.

PLUS HE'S RAISING TAXES AT LEAST $1.5 TRILLION - WHICH WILL FURTHER RETARD ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY.

AND HIS CARBON SCAM WILL COST THE ECONOMY ANOTHER $65 BILLION A YEAR.

FACE IT FOLKS: OBAMANOMICS IS THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE OF ALL TIME.

WHICH BRINGS US TO THIS: THE STUPIDEST BOOK OF ALL TIME:

Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Economics in the Obama Presidency)

"BOTTOM-UP"!?!?! SHEESH.

WELL, THEN AGAIN... MAYBE. MAYBE AFTER OBAMANOMICS MAKES SURE WE HAVE HIT ROCKBOTTOM!

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

ROVE SCHOOLS GUCCI MARXIST VANDEN HEUVEL

Hat Tip: Pat Dollard

THE ROAD TO RUIN: OBAMANOMICS: THE MOST FOOLISH SINCE CARTER, THE MOST LEFTIST SINCE FDR

DINOCRAT:

Bloomberg says that traders and investors in the stock market have lost hope as losses mount. Virtually all of the gains since Alan Greenspan warned of “irrational exuberance” in 1996 have vanished, mostly in the last few months. Excerpt:

Options investors are paying twice this decade’s average to protect against losses in U.S. stocks through 2011, signaling the bear market that already wiped out $10.4 trillion of equity value may last two more years.
“There’s a real panic in the markets, with some people wanting to buy long-term insurance at any price,” said Peter Sorrentino, who helps manage $16 billion, including $130 million in options at Huntington Asset Advisors Inc. in Cincinnati. “People have lost hope.”

We find it very odd indeed that the commentaries on the market’s tumbling below 6800 do not seem to credit the Obama administration for this achievement. Not only did the administration produce an awful economic plan, its near-wiping-out of shareholders in Citibank has had precisely the effect on financial stocks that we predicted, namely, the stock prices of financial institutions have been destroyed.

We have now the most foolish economic policies since at least the 1970’s, arguably the most radical economic policies since the 1930’s, and we are paying the price. Why don’t most of the market commentators seem to see what is going on?

• IGNORE THE MARKETS FOR A MOMENT AND YOU MIGHT SEE THAT THE ECONOMY IS ACTUALLY BOTTOMING OUT AT A PACE THAT WOULD MEAN WE COULD RECOVER IN A FEW MONTHS ------ AND EXCEPT FOR OBAMA'S ECONOMIC POLICIES WE WOULD!

• OBAMA IS RUINING THE ECONOMY - AND AT A FURIOUS RATE: IF OBAMA'S SOCIALIST POLICIES CONTINUE TO GO THRU, THE DOW WILL BE 3500 AND OBAMA AT 35% BY JULY.

YET ANOTHER TAX CHEAT IN BHO'S ADMINSTRATION?

See this about Ron Kirk, nominee for U.S. Trade Representative.

Just one example of how he cheated on his tax return:

Kirk routinely gave any speaking fees he earned to Austin College, the committee said, and did not list them on his tax returns.

Instead, the committee said he should have listed the fees as income, then claimed them as charitable donations. The estimated effect was to reduce Kirk's tax bill by an estimated $5,800, according to the report.

Much more obfuscation and fraud at the above link.

Kirk owes about $10,000 in back taxes and is making arrangements to pay up - now that he's under scrutiny.

Not much scrutiny, however:

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued a statement calling Kirk "the right person for this job," and said he would attempt to have the nomination moved through the panel quickly.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:

• HE'S NOT EVEN BARELY QUALIFIED, EITHER:
• HE'S NEVER BEEN IN BUSINESS AND NEVER NEGOTIATED ANY INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS OR TREATIES.
• HE GOT THE JOB BECAUSE OF HIS RACE AND HIS PARTISAN CONNECTIONS.

DISGUSTING.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

MY MUSLIM PRESIDENT

Surprise, Surprise...Asma Gull Hasan, a dedicated Muslim, writing in Forbes, conveys to us the sustained belief that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., is indeed America's First Muslim President!!!

THIS WEEK'S COVER OF NEWSWEEK

Note the following text: RADICAL ISLAM IS A FACT OF LIFE. HOW TO LIVE WITH IT.

Article HERE.

Take your Pepto Bismol before reading the article.

GABRIEL STANDS HER GROUND

Hat Tip: Big Hollywood

Yes, I also despise Bill Maher but Brigette Gabriel did a fabulous job, rebutting his typical left wing rhetoric.

RAPES BY MUSLIMS AGAINST NATIVE BRIT WOMEN SOARING

HERE.

MISSILE ATTACK IN PAKISTAN - 7 DEAD; FOUR FOREIGNERS: DID OBAMA GET OSAMA - OR ZAWAHIRI???

BBC: Missiles 'kill seven' in Pakistan

Missiles said to have been fired by US unmanned aircraft have killed seven people close to Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, Pakistani sources say.

Two missiles reportedly struck a house in Sararogha, in South Waziristan, and the dead are believed to include suspected militants.

The region is a stronghold of Pakistani Taleban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

US drones have targeted the area with missiles before, in attacks criticised by Pakistani politicians.

Local people said Taleban militants had been operating from the house which was attacked.

When asked about the attack, Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he would not talk about the specifics of US operations.

But, speaking to Fox News, he added that the military overall was "carrying out guidance from [US] President [Barack] Obama" in the region.

'Taleban sanctuary'

A villager, named by Reuters news agency as Hakeemullah, said that people were searching the rubble for more casualties.

"It was a Taleban sanctuary, which was destroyed in the attack," an unnamed Pakistani security official told AFP news agency.

"Some foreigners were possibly among those killed."

At least four of the dead are believed to have been foreign militants, unnamed Pakistani officials told the Associated Press.

I HOPE AND PRAY THE FOREIGNERS KILLED WERE AL QAEDA BIGSHOTS.

STAY TUNED...

THE DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA

OLDIE BUT GOODIE:



THE CHORUS IS NOT OVER THE TOP; IT'S RIGHT ON.

NEED PROOF?

HERE, JIMMY CARTER:

in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonials' really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.

HE'D RATHER BE A CANADIAN.

I'D RATHER HE WAS A CANADIAN, TOO.

HIM AND THE WHOLE LOT OF 'EM.

POLL SHOWS CONTINUED EROSION OF SUPPORT FOR OBAMA AND GROWING DISCONTENT

MORE AND MORE, PEOPLE'S EYES ARE BEING OPENED.

THE MORE THEY SEE THE LESS THE LIKE.

SEE HERE FOR DETAILS.

• THE SOONER THE MARKETS REBOUND -WITHOUT PORKULUS OR REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES OR CARBON SCAMS - THE MORE PEOPLE WILL SEE OBAMA SIMPLY AS A LOQUACIOUS LEFTIST FEARMONGER.

• AND HIS NUMBERS WILL PLUMMET BELOW 45%.

• PREDICTION: JULY.

A SIMPLE WAY TO PREVENT SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE: DEMAND CONGRESSMEN AND THE PRESIDENT'S FAMILY BE ENROLLED IN ANY PLAN THEY PASS

IF ALL CONGRESSMEN AND THE PRESIDENT'S FAMILY
HAD TO BE ENROLLED IN ANY PLAN THEY PROPOSE,
THEN THEY WOUDN'T PASS A NATIONALIZED PLAN.

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF WHY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION IS STUPID AND BOUND TO FAIL EVERY TIME

Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich in order to lower them on the poor and the lower middleclass and in order to pay for more welfare for the poor and lower middleclass.

Basically, Obama is going to take about $15000 dollars (approximately) from every "wealthy" person so he can give $500 dollars to every poor person.

• On the one hand, the amount the poor person is going get from Obama is not going to be enough to make a real difference in their life.

• On the other hand, the amount the rich are going to lose is going to be enough to retard investment and slow economic growth and the creation of more jobs and greater prosperity.

That's why there's a net loss for the economy and why poverty goes on essentially unabated at best - or worsens under socialism.

If multiplier effects of make-work government spending and welfare truly grew the economy then the USSR would be the richest economy on Earth - (right ahead of Zimbabwe and North Korea. And Thatcher wouldn't have had to save Britain from Attlee - or Reagan save the USA from The Great Society).

SO, WHERE IS THE USSR TODAY?

Well, now you know why.

PS: To Obama, rich means anyone making more than $250,000. In NYC that's A LOT of people. And they mostly voted for Obama. Idiots.