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Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
Post Date: 2010-01-29 22:36:28 by borntoweardiamonds
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The scene is the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut . The year 2000. The congressman has $100 chips stacked high, having a grand time at the crap table. He likes to gamble and isn't afraid to show some temper when he loses. Along for the ride are his campaign manager and one of the two biggest lobbyists handing out campaign money from various Indian tribes who was also a 20 year friend of the legislator. By now we've all heard about the money J.D. Hayworth received from an Indian tribe by way of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was one of the two big boys in Indian tribe money lobbying. Pot, meet Kettle.... However, it was not J.D. Hayworth, nor Jack Abramoff at the crap ...
THE STATE OF THE UNION: A HOLLOW SPEECH
Post Date: 2010-01-28 15:18:27 by Badeye
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THE STATE OF THE UNION: A HOLLOW SPEECHBy Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 01.28.2010 When President Bill Clinton faced Congress in 1995, after first losing any hope of health-care reform and then control of Congress, he used his State of the Union speech to declare, “The era of big government is over.” President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night only served to remind us that the era of big speeches is over. As America struggles with a 10 percent unemployment rate, stubbornly refusing to go down even as other economic numbers seem to rise, the public will no longer believe in speeches — only in results. As Cuba Gooding Jr. says to Tom Cruise in “Jerry ...
Get Real, Bernanke Didn't 'Save' Our Economy
Post Date: 2010-01-28 13:00:40 by Badeye
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Get Real, Bernanke Didn't 'Save' Our Economy By Alex Epstein - FOXNews.com The Fed is printing more money, lending it more cheaply than Alan Greenspan did, and encouraging Americans (and their government) to borrow and spend far more than they can afford. Most participants in the debate over the re-appointment of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke agree on one thing: in the last year and a half, he has saved us from economic calamity. Senator Harry Reid’s view is typical: “An expert on the Great Depression, Chairman Bernanke helped steer us away from a second one.” The basis of this view seems to be that, a year and a half after the onset of the financial crisis, ...
Conspiracy Central: Beck, Birchers to Converge at Conservative Conference
Post Date: 2010-01-27 14:23:11 by go65
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The John Birch Society, whose conspiracy theories eventually became so fantastic that it faded into irrelevance, has edged back toward the mainstream – or at least the mainstream of conservative thought. It’s listed as one of 87 co-sponsors of next month’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference [CPAC] in Washington, D.C. The conference is “the year’s must-attend event for the Republican establishment,” says POLITICO.com. Speakers at the Feb. 18-20 conference include Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty – all potential GOP presidential candidates in 2012. The fanatically anticommunist John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, ...
McCain Should Retire
Post Date: 2010-01-26 13:07:57 by Badeye
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McCain Should Retire By Claude Sandroff John McCain clings to more liberal positions than almost any other Republican in Congress. Whether encouraging economic suicide by standing against drilling in Alaska, putting the nation's security at risk by equating waterboarding with torture, demanding the shuttering of Guantanamo, joining hands with Ted Kennedy to open the floodgates of amnesty to illegal immigrants, nothing seems to satisfy his vanity more than hearing compliments from the leftist press after crossing over to the other side of the aisle. Now that the Supreme Court has declared much of his crown legislative jewel -- the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) -- to ...
MUR 6142: CALL FOR AN AUDIT OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN FINANCES
Post Date: 2010-01-24 13:09:00 by Jethro Tull
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MUR 6142: CALL FOR AN AUDIT OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN FINANCES In light of the long overdue ruling by the Supreme Court to throw out the free speech killing and unconstitutional McCain Feingold finance law (was there ever a more destructive, corrupting influence on elections ever?):Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the main opinion, which reads in part that there is “no basis for allowing the government to limit corporate independent expenditures.” “There is no basis for the proposition that, in the political speech context, the government may impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers,” he wrote. “The government may regulate corporate speech through disclaimer ...
Stay the Course: Reagan's Example for Obama
Post Date: 2010-01-23 11:41:27 by go65
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On February 8, 1982, after lunch at the White House with all-star players from the National Hockey League, President Ronald Reagan flew to Minneapolis to give his first political fundraising speech of the year. He was greeted by masses of demonstrators bearing a banner with the words, "Welcome President Hoover." After a lackluster speech about voluntarism, Reagan gave a rambling interview to a local radio station in which he said "1941" when he meant "1981" and referred to the recession of 1970 as a "depression." It was an absent-minded performance, reflective of a presidency that was back on its heels. A year into his presidency, not quite halfway ...
Why America and China will clash
Post Date: 2010-01-18 19:56:47 by A K A Stone
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Google’s clash with China is about much more than the fate of a single, powerful firm. The company’s decision to pull out of China, unless the government there changes its policies on censorship, is a harbinger of increasingly stormy relations between the US and China. The reason that the Google case is so significant is because it suggests that the assumptions on which US policy to China have been based since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 could be plain wrong. The US has accepted – even welcomed – China’s emergence as a giant economic power because American policymakers convinced themselves that economic opening would lead to political liberalisation in China. ...
Barnes: Is a GOP Senate Takeover Possible?
Post Date: 2010-01-18 13:15:26 by Badeye
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Barnes: Is a GOP Senate Takeover Possible? Senate races, by the numbers. BY Fred Barnes January 15, 2010 5:41 PM ShareThis Republican takeover of the Senate is no longer impossible in 2010. If Scott Brown wins in the special election Tuesday for the Senate in Massachusetts, it would mean Republicans would have to net 10 seats to take control. If he loses, 11 would be needed. Either way, polls in state after state show Republicans have a shot of either capturing the Senate outright or gaining enough seats to be able to block liberal initiatives by denying Democrats the votes to halt filibusters. In states where they have credible candidates, Republicans are ahead or tied. Should Brown win ...
Obama is Killing the Economy
Post Date: 2010-01-18 13:05:19 by Badeye
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EDITORIAL: Obama is killing the economy THE WASHINGTON TIMES Barack Obama has the worst budget record of any president in American history. White House budget office spokesman Tom Gavin claimed "a very strong beginning" for the president's purported first-year attempts at controlling spending - for example, zeroing out a $17 million program for work incentive grants. But such paltry efforts are round-off numbers compared to the gush of red ink created by President Obama and congressional Democrats. This government is setting the United States on an inevitable path to permanent debtor status. The White House entitled Mr. Obama's first budget "A New Era of ...
The Fall of Obama
Post Date: 2010-01-15 10:31:02 by Badeye
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WASHINGTON -- What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent -- and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president's second year. A year ago, he was leader of a liberal ascendancy that would last 40 years (James Carville). A year ago, conservatism was dead (Sam Tanenhaus). Now the race to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in bluest of blue Massachusetts is surprisingly close, with a virtually unknown state senator bursting on the scene by turning the election into a mini-referendum on Obama and his agenda, most particularly health ...
Americans Split on Obama's First Year
Post Date: 2010-01-13 11:14:09 by Badeye
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A new sheaf of opinion polls show Americans sharply divided on President Barack Obama's first year in office, as his ratings on key issues like health care and the economy hit new lows. Polling also suggests independent voters are turning away from Obama as he nears the anniversary of his January 20 inauguration -- though in a sign of hope for his administration, he remains more popular than his policies. In a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, US voters were split 45-45 on whether Obama's first year was a success or failure. When voters were asked in a CNN/Opinion Research survey published on Tuesday to rate Obama's performance since taking office, 48 percent ...
Goldi is a................ [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-12 23:41:55 by Wood_Chopper
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#156. To: Goldi-Lox (#149)
He will NOT apologize, and thus, will not be back on LP.
Goldi, you're a dickhead.
Fred Mertz posted on 2010-01-12 23:12:43 ET Reply Trace
Captain Obvious Learns the Limits of Cool (Dowd Spanks Obama, Again.)
Post Date: 2010-01-10 09:02:39 by borntoweardiamonds
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Title: Captain Obvious Learns the Limits of Cool (Dowd Spanks Obama, Again.) NYT < Our president came down from the mountaintop. He had applied the freshness of his independent thought to the critical matters at hand. He had convened his seminar, reviewed the reviews, analyzed the intelligence every which way, thought anew about everything, and lo and behold, he finally emerged to tell us some stuff we already knew. We are under attack. There is evil in the world. Yemen is a dangerous place that breeds people who want to kill us. Al Qaeda is determined to attack inside the United States. Al Qaeda is casting a wide recruiting net for vulnerable young men. Aspirational terrorists ...
The Husband and Wife Stores
Post Date: 2010-01-08 09:11:18 by sneakypete
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Husband Store A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates: You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building! So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign ...
BOOK: BEHIND-SCENES PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN REVELATIONS
Post Date: 2010-01-07 19:32:34 by A K A Stone
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Thu Jan 07 2010 17:28:11 ET Asked by Barack Obama if she would be his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton –after initially turning him down - was concerned that her husband’s penchant for causing controversy would interfere with her new role. Sarah Palin was so overwhelmed by the amount of information she needed to learn to debate Joe Biden that campaign staffers thought the debate might be a “debacle of historic and epic proportions.” Those are some of the revelations in 'GAME CHANGE,' a new book about the presidential campaigns by political reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who say they interviewed 200 Democrats and Republicans with inside knowledge. ...
Facial profiling and Coke Zero game
Post Date: 2010-01-07 14:47:39 by A K A Stone
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Technology can be fun and provide many conveniences, but it often comes with a hidden price; a price that includes compromises to one’s privacy. The new “Coke Zero” facial profiler, as many have seen on Facebook or Coca Cola’s webpage, encourages people to post their pictures online as part of a benign game to try and find their “mirror image,” just as Coke Zero is considered Coke’s mirror image. While the thought of finding another individual somewhere in the world who looks like you may be an amusing pastime, a person embarking on a voyage to find his “twin,” should keep a few things in mind.
Coca Cola is a multi-national corporation which means it operates in conjunction with and ...
Harry Reid's Corrupt Christmas Present
Post Date: 2010-01-07 13:14:47 by A K A Stone
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The Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate reportedly are planning on finalizing their differing health care "reform" bills in secret. That's right. They're kicking out the C-SPAN cameras and planning on huddling behind closed doors with a few Obama Administration power brokers to transform the American health care system. Not that anyone should be surprised by this, of course. "Secret" and "corrupt" are the two words that best describe the process by which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid produced his trillion-dollar government takeover of our health care system. A First Look At Harry Reid's Corrupt Christmas Present The American people ...
What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration
Post Date: 2010-01-07 13:05:55 by A K A Stone
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Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats with no apparent concern for their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago, "What do they know that we don't?" We may have found out. It's called universal voter registration. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund described the Democrat plan recently at a David Horowitz ...
The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
Post Date: 2010-01-07 06:20:43 by A K A Stone
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Historians may someday debate whether the financial crisis that began a year ago is most notable for how much damage it did to the United States, or how little it inflicted on the world’s major rising power, China. Helped by huge state intervention and buoyant optimism almost surreally undiminished by the crisis of confidence across the Pacific, China has had a very good downturn. It is closing the gap with the world’s most developed economies faster than anticipated and could overtake Japan as the world’s second-largest economy when the final figures for last year are tallied. China’s already rapid emergence is changing many things, from diplomatic alliances in Africa ...
Weekend LP poster's return
Post Date: 2010-01-05 19:09:31 by Wood_Chopper
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This weekend, the LP weekend striker returned, posting his garbage. He's back today with the thread: "Would You Suck A Guy's D**k if a Beautiful Woman Told You it Turned Her On? Any idea why this person does this? My guess is that it has something to do with the subject of "moderators" being installed at LP. Your thoughts?
Obama And Our Post-Modern Race Problem
Post Date: 2010-01-04 23:20:03 by A K A Stone
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America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace. The essence of our new "post-modern" race problem can be seen in the parable of the emperor's new clothes. The emperor was told by his swindling tailors that people who could not see his new clothes were stupid and incompetent. So when his new clothes arrived and he could not see them, he put them on anyway so that no one would think him stupid and incompetent. And when he appeared before his people in these new clothes, they too—not wanting ...
Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010
Post Date: 2010-01-04 22:37:25 by A K A Stone
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-- In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that “extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan” to “disorderly regions and diffuse enemies”. He called this “global security” and invited our gratitude. To the ...
The US And China - One Side Winning, The Other Losing
Post Date: 2010-01-04 22:15:38 by A K A Stone
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Introduction Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building. One Day's Read of the Financial Times Even a cursory read of a single issue of the Financial Times (December 28, 2009) illustrates the divergent strategies toward empire building. On page one, the lead article on the US is on its expanding military conflicts and its 'war on terror', entitled "Obama Demands Review of Terror List". In contrast, there are two page-one articles on China, which describe China's launching of the world's ...
If any of your idiot friends still believe in Global Warming, make them read this letter
Post Date: 2010-01-04 15:37:03 by A K A Stone
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Lord Monckton has written a letter about AGW to Kevin Rudd, offering to give the Aussie premier a private briefing to correct a few misconceptions he may have on the subject. It’s a corker. (You can read it in full at Watts Up With That.) On the “conspiracy theory” that the AGW apparatus is really about creating world “government”. Your speech mentioned my remarks about the proposal for world “government” in the early drafts of what had been intended as a binding Copenhagen Treaty. These proposals were not, as you suggested, a “conspiracy theory” from the “far right” with “zero basis in evidence”. Your staff will find ...
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