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Cash for Clunkers: Better Than We Thought
Do You Miss George W Bush Yet? (You Should)
Comparing Presidents Ronald, George W, and Barry
Rush Limbaugh, Inadvertent Socialized Medicine Fan
Thomas Friedman says Bush was right about Iraq
Praise for George W Bush -- Mission accomplished, indeed
Culled Out (Zero Admin May Ban Fishing)
A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully (detention of "enemy belligerent" aka protester)
Job Openings in U.S. Climb for Second Month as Employers Gain Confidence
Queers Marry in D.C.
Chevron cutting 2,000 jobs in refining restructuring (Blood Dancing in high gear!)
Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors: Social Security Checks May Get Smaller
Staunch Anti-Gay GOP State Senator Roy Ashburn Finally Admits He's Homosexual
Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Over Torture Of US Citizens
Limbaugh ‘Leaving The Country’ If Health Reform Passes
Runaway Toyota Prius Takes Man For A Ride Of His Life
Ken Starr: Liz Cheney’s Attack On DOJ Lawyers 'Out Of Bounds’
Sarah Palin Raising Cash For John McCain
Moderate Dem Rethinks Position On Health Bill
Libertarianism Is Real Conservatism
U.S. Economy Could Add 300,000 Jobs This Month, First Trust's Wesbury Says
Palin Derangement Syndrome - Yukon Edition
Quick Get Dan Rather's Obama Watermelon Comments Off the News: There is a Racial Crisis at Walmart with Barbie Dolls
Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon
Box-of-Rocks for Brains Barry H. Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated ObamaCare Savings by $868B
Dan Rather: 'Articulate' Obama Couldn't Even 'Sell Watermelons'
U.S. Employers Anticipate Hiring to Inch Ahead in Second Quarter, According to Manpower Employment Outlook Survey [More Bad News For The Blood Dancers]
"Brutus" No. 3 representation is merely nominal — a mere burlesque;
To you dumbasses who say Sarh Palin is admitting Canada health care is better
NYPD’s Quotas Mean Innocent People Being Arrested: Officer
Palin's claim family sought medical care in Canada prompts scrutiny, ridicule
All Star Alcoholics -- Superb Drunks Who Also Happened to be Superb Athletes
The Successes Of Obama
Naked Rahm Emanuel Pokes Congressman
Jackson Health System to layoff 4487 people (update)
Like Clockwork, Borders Begins Another Round of Layoffs
Then All At Once (Kuntsler on how Oil cost will kill recovery)
Barney Frank: The Liar Is (Again) In The House
Members of Obama's Favorite Religion Attack Christian Village, 300 Hacked to Death Including Women and Children With Machetes...
Stimulus funds pay for monkey research in N.C.
Short-Sale Program to Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss
Obama Keeps U.S. Troop Withdrawal Plan After Iraq Poll
Iran's Ahmadinejad Calls Sept 11 "Big Fabrication"
Iran Launches Missile Production Line
'Iran Developing Massive Launch Site'
Secret Israeli Report: U.S. Cozying Up To Palestinians
Dr. Barry Hussein Obama MD treats kids' asthma w/ a breathalyzer
Tom DeLay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be
Kansas City Wants To Close Half Its Public Schools
Sarah Palin: God wrote on his hand too
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Cash for Clunkers: Better Than We Thought
Post Date: 2010-03-10 11:44:23 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The government's Cash for Clunkers program resulted in a far bigger boost to car sales than was previously estimated, even by the government, according to a new analysis by Maritz Research, an automotive market research company. Maritz estimates that a total of 765,000 new vehicles were sold because of the program. Those cars wouldn't have rolled off dealer lots without the offer, they say. That's more than double the Department of Transportation's estimate of 346,000 sales that wouldn't otherwise have been made. Maritz' estimate of additional new car sales resulting from the program is actually even larger than the total number of ...
Do You Miss George W Bush Yet? (You Should)
Post Date: 2010-03-10 11:13:40 by dont eat that
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I know you’re not supposed to, but I just love to say I told you so. What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office George W. Bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia. The responses (over 300 before the comments were closed) to that prediction were overwhelmingly negative; even the very few who agreed with me attributed what they took to be a sad fact to the stupidity of the American people. The other 290 or so said things like “No way”; “Are you kidding?”; ”Are you mad?”;“What a ridiculous and insulting premise!”; “I’ll miss him like a rash”; “This must be ...
Comparing Presidents Ronald, George W, and Barry
Post Date: 2010-03-10 11:00:51 by dont eat that
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Rush Limbaugh, Inadvertent Socialized Medicine Fan
Post Date: 2010-03-10 10:48:54 by go65
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The low-end of the right-wing, hate-talk AM dial has a socialized medicine supporter! OK, an inadvertent public option supporter. It all started in January, when Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a hospital in Hawaii with chest pains. At a press conference after his recovery, he crowed: “Based on what happened here to me, I don’t think there’s one thing wrong with the American health care system. It is working just fine, just dandy.” What Limbaugh appears to not have known is that since 1974, Hawaii has had a state-wide employer mandate for health insurance. The employer mandate is one of the key points of health care reform that right-wingers like Limbaugh have railed ...
Thomas Friedman says Bush was right about Iraq
Post Date: 2010-03-10 10:43:31 by dont eat that
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We haven’t had the Real Revo Flying Pig out for a while but Thomas Friedman’s op ed in the New York Times is flying pig worthy. This from a man who brutally attacked Bush policy throughout the war and called it the “babysitting of a civil war.” Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right. It should have and could have been pursued with much better planning and execution. This war has been extraordinarily painful and costly. But democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in a place like Iraq, which has never known any such thing. I wonder if Dubya reads the Times.
Praise for George W Bush -- Mission accomplished, indeed
Post Date: 2010-03-10 10:24:48 by dont eat that
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RONALD REAGAN liked to say that there was no limit to what a man could accomplish if he didn’t mind who got the credit. The transformation of Iraq from a hellish tyranny into a functioning democracy will be recorded as a signal accomplishment of George W. Bush’s presidency, and he probably doesn’t mind in the least that the Obama administration would like to take the credit. This week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq brought 12 million voters to the polls - a remarkable 62 percent turnout, notwithstanding a wave of Election Day bombings that killed 38 people. “Iraqis are not afraid of bombs anymore,’’ a middle-aged voter named Maliq Bedawi told a New ...
Culled Out (Zero Admin May Ban Fishing)
Post Date: 2010-03-10 08:07:41 by reaganisright
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I heard about this on an outdoors radio show two and 1/2 weeks ago, it's just getting national attention. And I'm posting something other than football and baseball! The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters. This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters. That's a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have ...
A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully (detention of "enemy belligerent" aka protester)
Post Date: 2010-03-10 06:57:30 by A K A Stone
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A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully Mar 5 2010, 3:40 PM ET Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump. According to the summary, the bill sets out a ...
Job Openings in U.S. Climb for Second Month as Employers Gain Confidence
Post Date: 2010-03-09 18:25:43 by Brian S
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March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Job openings in the U.S. rose in January to the highest level in almost a year, signaling employers are gaining confidence as the economic recovery takes hold. Openings increased by 193,000 to 2.72 million, the most since February 2009, the Labor Department said today in Washington. More people were hired and the number of workers fired decreased to the lowest level in almost two years, the report also showed. The figures indicate that the world’s largest economy, which expanded in the second half of 2009, is poised to add workers after payrolls dropped less than anticipated last month. Nonetheless, the labor market will take time to overcome the loss of 8.4 ...
Queers Marry in D.C.
Post Date: 2010-03-09 16:44:51 by Happy Quanzaa
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Sinjoyla Townsend, left, and Angelisa Young walk through cheers and down the aisle as a marriedcouple on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the first day that gay marriage is legal in Washington.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP) After years of legal battles, same-sex couples in the District were finally able to walk down the aisle Tuesday on the first day gay marriages could legally be performed in Washington. Angelisa Young, 47, and Sinjoyla Townsend, 41, were among the first to legally wed in D.C., during a morning ceremony at the Human Rights Campaign's national headquarters near Dupont Circle. The couple have been together for 12 years and have two children. Young wore a cream-colored lace ...
Chevron cutting 2,000 jobs in refining restructuring (Blood Dancing in high gear!)
Post Date: 2010-03-09 14:02:50 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Chevron cutting 2,000 jobs in refining restructuring Explore related topics Gas/Utilities Canada Chevron Corp Exxon Mobil Corp By Steve Gelsi, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Chevron Corp. said Tuesday it plans to cut 2,000 jobs this year as part of an effort to realize savings in its refining operations, as the oil major signals that recent woes in the business of making gasoline and diesel fuel will persist well beyond 2010. Separately, Chevron plans to boost its production by about 1% a year for the next four years, as it ramps up mega-projects such as the Gorgon LNG facility in Western Australia. Chevron /quotes/comstock/13*!cvx/quotes/nls/cvx (CVX 74.70, +0.06, +0.08%) ...
Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors: Social Security Checks May Get Smaller
Post Date: 2010-03-09 13:51:07 by Murron
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Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors: Social Security Checks May Get Smaller by Ellen E. Schultz A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old. Social Security benefits are off–limits to creditors, such as credit–card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by "offsetting," or withholding Social Security and disability payments. The Treasury currently withholds benefits of 3.1 million Social Security recipients to recover defaulted student–, farm– and small– ...
Staunch Anti-Gay GOP State Senator Roy Ashburn Finally Admits He's Homosexual
Post Date: 2010-03-09 13:23:24 by Brian S
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LOS ANGELES - A GOP state senator with a staunch anti-gay voting record came out of the closet Monday and asked for his constituents' prayers. "I am gay," state Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) said, breaking his silence on a conservative AM talk radio show based in his working-class California district. "Those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long." The admission ended mounting speculation that began last week when Ashburn was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving near a gay nightclub he reportedly patronized in Sacramento, Calif. A divorced father of four, Ashburn said he was wracked with "restless nights" and "soul ...
Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Over Torture Of US Citizens
Post Date: 2010-03-09 13:11:34 by Brian S
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A federal judge in Chicago ruled on Friday that a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, brought by two Americans who had worked for an Iraqi contractor, can be allowed to proceed.In his ruling (PDF), US District Judge Wayne R. Andersen said the plaintiffs had provided enough concrete evidence of torture to allow the suit to go forward. The judge dismissed Rumsfeld's arguments that his position near the top of the executive branch immunized him from lawsuits involving the authorization of torture, the Associated Press reported.According to court documents, Nathan Ertel and Donald Vance went to Iraq in 2005 to work for an Iraqi contractor, Shield Group Security. Once ...
Limbaugh ‘Leaving The Country’ If Health Reform Passes
Post Date: 2010-03-09 13:09:39 by Brian S
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For years, promises to leave the United States in the wake of an undesirable political development have been the domain of liberals. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon all at some point suggested they would move to Canada if a Republican won the White House.(There's even a Facebook group around to motivate them, complete with a helpful link to Canada's department of citizenship and immigration.)While most of those were empty threats, there are notable exceptions: Film director Robert Altman moved to France after George W. Bush's victory in 2000; Law & Order star Michael Moriarty shipped off to Canada well before that.But now the decidedly ...
Runaway Toyota Prius Takes Man For A Ride Of His Life
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:55:31 by Brian S
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A Toyota Prius accelerated out of control on a busy California freeway on Monday before police intervened to bring the vehicle to a standstill, police said. James Sikes, 61, was driving on the busy Interstate 8 freeway outside San Diego when he noticed his car was starting to accelerate of its own accord, the California Highway Patrol said. The terrified motorist was helpless as the car hurtled out of control along the road at speeds more than 90 miles per hour. However Sikes was able to call police, and officers using a loudspeaker were talked the driver through the process of slowing down by using his emergency brake and then turning off the engine. Police then pulled in front of the ...
Ken Starr: Liz Cheney’s Attack On DOJ Lawyers 'Out Of Bounds’
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:53:57 by Brian S
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Ken Starr has joined a list of prominent conservative attorneys to step up and rebuff Liz Cheney's recent attack campaign against Justice Department lawyers.Cheney's political advocacy group "Keep America Safe" last week launched an ad suggesting that a number of Justice Department officials are terrorist sympathizers for having represented detainees during the Bush administration. The spot labels them the "Al-Qaeda 7" and questions their "values.""This was very unwise, and really an out-of-bounds characterization and challenge to good, honorable lawyers," Starr said in his first-ever appearance on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann. ...
Sarah Palin Raising Cash For John McCain
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:41:41 by Brian S
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is helping out her former running mate with a high dollar fundraiser at the Arizona Biltmore. Palin will be courting contributions for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) – the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee – on March 23 as part of her swing through Arizona to aide his re-election campaign. For $2,500, McCain donors can attend an hour-long reception with the former GOP vice presidential nominee and get a chance for a picture with Palin. Those not attending the reception can pay $500 each for a two-hour dinner, or $1,000 for preferred seating. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), along with Arizona GOP Reps. Jeff Flake, Trent Franks and John Shadegg will also be ...
Moderate Dem Rethinks Position On Health Bill
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:25:58 by Brian S
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(03-09) 07:39 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A moderate Democrat who had vowed to oppose any effort by party leaders to push a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote is rethinking her position. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Tuesday that she wants to see what is in the companion bill before deciding. Democratic leaders are looking at a two-step approach in which the House approves a Senate-passed bill from last year, despite House Democrats' opposition to several of its provisions. Both houses then would follow by approving a companion measure to make changes in that first bill. Weeks ago, Lincoln had said she opposed that approach. One of the more endangered ...
Libertarianism Is Real Conservatism
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:15:50 by mininggold
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Libertarianism Is Real Conservatism During a question and answer session at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, one man opined “One thing I’ve learned here at CPAC is that the ‘C’ actually doesn’t stand for ‘Libertarianism,’ it’s not ‘L’PAC.” When Congressman Ron Paul won the annual straw poll at CPAC, talk host Rush Limbaugh made a point to tell his listeners that CPAC wasn’t conservative this year because a libertarian had won. Both men are worse than just wrong. They’re on crack. Probably the most popular and cited history of American conservatism, George H. Nash’s book The Conservative ...
U.S. Economy Could Add 300,000 Jobs This Month, First Trust's Wesbury Says
Post Date: 2010-03-09 12:08:14 by Brian S
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March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy could add 300,000 jobs this month as businesses rebound from blizzards last month that prevented hiring in parts of the country, said Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Portfolios in Wheaton, Illinois. “We could easily see that,” Wesbury said today in an interview on Bloomberg Radio. “I don’t expect to see consistent gains of that size, but clearly March could be that number.” In February, the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent and payrolls fell a less-than-forecast 36,000, the Labor Department reported March 5. Snowstorms prevented an estimated 1 million people from getting to work during the week that the ...
Palin Derangement Syndrome - Yukon Edition [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-09 11:07:32 by dont eat that
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Yesterday almost was the greatest day in the history of Palin Derangement Syndrome. A deep, dark secret was revealed: When Palin was a child in the late 1960s, her family on a few occasions skipped across the border into Canada and ... (wait for it) ... went to the doctor!!! Proof positive that socialized medicine as practiced in Canada is superior to our health care system. Hoorah, Hoorah .... Obamacare, Obamacare!. But wait. As reported by Ben Smith, it is not clear why the Palins went to Canada, and it may have been that they were living in a very remote area of Alaska so the geography of crossing the border worked. Oh. And then, as "updated" by Smith, the medical system in ...
Quick Get Dan Rather's Obama Watermelon Comments Off the News: There is a Racial Crisis at Walmart with Barbie Dolls
Post Date: 2010-03-09 10:55:08 by dont eat that
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Dan Rather stuck his foot in his mouth over the weekend connect Obama to watermelon. In case you missed it, Rather said Obama couldn’t sell watermelons on the side of the road with the highway patrol directing traffic into his stand. I think it’s quite easy to point out the stereotype Obama used to make his comment about Obama’s failure to lead. I find it interesting we have a bigger racial problem in this country than a liberal journalist who stuck his foot in his mouth with a stereotype. Black Barbie is being sold for half the cost of white Barbie at Walmart. ABC is demanding answers from Arkansas. The darker skinned Theresa doll was marked for clearance while the white ...
Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon
Post Date: 2010-03-09 10:08:01 by mininggold
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Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon PORTLAND, Ore. – Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders. A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized this year under a program that has been denounced by those who say there are far greater dangers to salmon — including the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia. This is the second year of the program, which is administered by wildlife officials in Oregon and ...
Box-of-Rocks for Brains Barry H. Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated ObamaCare Savings by $868B
Post Date: 2010-03-09 08:53:25 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama boasted Monday that Democrats' health care proposals would cut deficits by $1 trillion "over the next decade," a flub that inflated the actual estimate by $868 billion. President Obama, making his final push for health care reform, pitched his proposal Monday to a crowd in Pennsylvania with a deficit-reduction figure that the White House later admitted missed the mark. "Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people's premiums and brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion dollars over the next decade because we're spending our health care dollars more wisely," Obama told an audience at ...
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