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Obama 2012 diagnosis: Stage Two Death Rattle
Post Date: 2012-10-29 12:06:44 by calcon
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As a veteran of numerous national, state and local campaigns, I can tell you that each race and each campaign has its own life cycle. The 2012 presidential contest is no exception. As polls tighten, and especially since Mitt Romney’s decisive performance in the first debate, Team Obama and the president himself are showing signs of what I term a campaign’s “death rattle.” GOP contender Rick Santorum withdrew from this year’s Republican primary within three days of my declaration that his campaign was in the final stages of “death rattle.” The phenomenon has three distinct stages. In Stage One Death Rattle, the candidate veers sharply off-message, ...
Hurricane Sandy Updates Monday, Oct 29
Post Date: 2012-10-29 12:05:12 by Brian S
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Instead of loading up the sidebar with Sandy related articles, I'm going to put mine on this thread and anyone else that wants to is welcome as well.
Chris Christie Praises Obama For Hurricane Sandy Preparation
Post Date: 2012-10-29 12:02:45 by Brian S
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) put aside his campaigning for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday to praise President Barack Obama for his responsiveness to the Garden State's needs in preparing for Hurricane Sandy. During a briefing with emergency personnel, residents and press, Christie thanked Obama for holding a conference call with him and governors of other states expected to be impacted by the storm, the Star-Ledger reports. “I appreciated the president’s outreach today in making sure that we know he’s watching this and is concerned about the health and welfare and safety of the people of the state of New Jersey,” he said. Christie ...
President Obama Signs New York Emergency Declaration
Post Date: 2012-10-29 11:02:06 by Brian S
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The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of New York and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy beginning on October 27, 2012, and continuing. The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public ...
Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey; Maximum Sustained Winds...90 Mph.
Post Date: 2012-10-29 10:56:47 by Brian S
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Hurricane Sandy, the Atlantic’s largest tropical storm, will strike the East Coast today or early tomorrow with a life-threatening surge, emptying the streets of the nation’s largest cities and lashing a region of 60 million with gales, rain and even snow. The storm, 900 miles across, shut the federal government and state administrations from Virginia to Massachusetts. It halted travel, prevented U.S. stock markets from opening and upended the presidential campaign. It may cause more than $6 billion in damage and knock out power to 10 million for a week or more. “We have to take this seriously,” PresidentBarack Obama said of what he called “a serious and ...
Hurricane Sandy: Experts See Record "Destruction Potential" In Storm Surges
Post Date: 2012-10-28 22:21:05 by Brian S
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KENSINGTON, Md.As residents along the eastern seaboard brace themselves for the full impact of Hurricane Sandy, experts warn that water from storm surges will likely pose the greatest danger. Water usually kills and does more damage than winds in hurricanes, and the National Hurricane Center has described the storm surge threat as "life-threatening." In this case, seas will be amped up by giant waves and full-moon-powered high tides. That will combine with drenching rains, triggering inland flooding as the hurricane merges with a winter storm system that will worsen it and hold it in place for days. Play Video Sandy bringing "tremendous" storm surge, ...
Yahoo won't recognize 'Do Not Track' in Internet Explorer 10
Post Date: 2012-10-28 21:27:57 by A K A Stone
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ahoo to ignore DNT in IE10. Microsoft decided that it would make "Do Not Track" the default setting in its Internet Explorer 10 browser (on Windows 8), which if honoured would dramatically reduce advertisers' ability to snoops on web users' habits. At the time, it was warned that making the setting default might force some web services to ignore the flag entirely. The first sign that the predictions were correct came as Apache patched its open source web server software, present on around 60 percent of all websites, to ignore the DNT setting in Internet Explorer 10. Now. Yahoo has decided that it will ignore the DNT flag in Internet Explorer 10 also. It says that the DNT ...
Traitor in the Whitehouse
Post Date: 2012-10-28 21:15:15 by A K A Stone
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The Dictionary describes treason is the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery. With information coming out daily from whistleblowers, it is becoming apparent that information early on, was sent to the situation room in the White House. It is very possible that people in the situation room were watching the attack in Benghazi in real time. Whether or not the President was there his National Security Council members certainly were. If the President was not present he would be contacted. There is only one person who could refuse to help or to give an order to stand down and that is the president himself. The order not to help and the order to stand down is a ...
Obama Watched The Seals Die and Laughed About It
Post Date: 2012-10-28 21:11:57 by A K A Stone
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View Profile N.J. Nuclear Plants Brace For Oncoming Storm, Rising Waters
Post Date: 2012-10-28 18:23:09 by Brian S
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New Jersey's nuclear plants are bracing for Sandy today, federal regulators and officials for PSEG Nuclear and Exelon said. "We'll have to see where it goes, but it looks like it's going to have a pretty good hit on New Jersey," Sheehan said today. Sheehan said that federal inspectors with satellite phones will be stationed at the plants through the storm. "These plants have to be able to withstand all sorts of natural phenomena: earthquakes, severe flooding, tropical storms, lightning storms, tornadoes. They need to be able to deal with all of that," said Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "We like to say they're ...
New York Stock Exchange Suspends Physical Floor Trading Due To Hurricane Sandy
Post Date: 2012-10-28 18:20:05 by Brian S
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TORONTO - Hurricane Sandy is set to overshadow the start of the trading week after the operator of the New York Stock Exchange said that it is suspending physical floor trading operations. NYSE Euronext said late Sunday afternoon that while the exchange will remain open for trading Monday, it will invoke its contingency plan which involves trading all NYSE-listed securities on its Arca system, its fully electronic exchange. The move by the NYSE came after it was announced that New York’s public transit system would shut at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday while 375,000 residents would be evacuated from low-lying areas of the city. Many major businesses in lower Manhattan are suspending or ...
Dem warning: Obama could lose Wisconsin
Post Date: 2012-10-28 17:37:23 by A K A Stone
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MILWAUKEE – The Democratic mayor of Denver said Sunday that President Obama could lose the battleground state of Wisconsin if the incumbent’s supporters fail to increase early voter turnout in the Badger State. “If the election was held today, President Barack Obama would lose the state of Wisconsin because where his base is, we have not turned out the vote early," Mayor Michael Hancock told a Democratic rally. "The suburbs and rural parts of Wisconsin – the Republican base – are voting. President Obama’s base has yet to go vote. "We've got to get our people to go vote," Hancock said. Early voting, which began in Wisconsin on Oct. ...
What the Obama Administration does not want you to see
Post Date: 2012-10-28 17:05:37 by A K A Stone
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There were many security cameras at the Benghazi US Consulate. One camera was positioned to (and did) record Ambassador Stevens, on September 11, saying good night at 8:40pm Libya time to a Turkish Diplomat. The video from this camera – I am told – shows (and proves) there was NO PROTEST outside our Consulate. The Obama Administration had that tape immediately and they knew what it showed and knew it immediately. Anyone who watched the video observed the obvious. Don’t you think the Obama Administration should release that video so that the American people can see for themselves what REALLY happened and not what the Obama Administration tried to feed them in the weeks after ...
Jim Robinson Endorses Romney: Woo hoo!! Nine more days until we vote Obama's corrupt Marxist regime OUT!! [FReepathon XXV]
Post Date: 2012-10-28 16:59:27 by A K A Stone
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Woo hoo!! Nine more days until we vote Obama's corrupt Marxist regime OUT!!
And I guess hell has frozen over because as much as I dislike Romney's prior RINO positions, I have decided to make my anti-Obama vote count in the only way it might actually do some good. I'm marking my absentee ballot today for Romney-Ryan and I'm voting straight Republican down ticket and no on every ballot issue that would raise taxes, spend money or aid big government or help greedy, thieving socialist workers unions.
To hell with Obama! To hell with Governor Moonbeam's taxes and trains! To hell with gun-grabbing Feinstein! To hell with the godless Democrats and their big spending socialist plans for us, ...
Extended 'Grid Down' Survival Scenario About To Be Unleashed Across Eastern Seaboard
Post Date: 2012-10-28 16:51:53 by Brian S
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(NaturalNews) Millions of U.S. residents along the Eastern seaboard are expected to experience a "grid down" survival scenario beginning as early as Monday night. The "Frankenstorm" Hurricane Sandy is a convergence of multiple weather events rarely seen in human history. Most people living in the region have never seen a storm like this in their lifetime.According to Weather.com, the storm brings together five weather events:• A Northbound hurricane• A winter storm front• A blast of Arctic air from the North• High tides that worsen flooding• Combination of high winds and heavy snowIt is that last item which really brings home the reality of the ...
5 Reasons Why Sandy Is Expected To Be A Superstorm
Post Date: 2012-10-28 16:08:09 by Brian S
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1. A NORTHBOUND HURRICANE Hurricane Sandy is moving slowly toward the north-northeast but is expected to turn to the north and west later Sunday and Monday, forecasters say. At some point, it's expected to become what's known as an extratropical storm. Unlike a tropical system like a hurricane, which gets its power from warm ocean waters, extratropical systems are driven by temperature contrasts in the atmosphere. Although Sandy is currently a hurricane, it's important not to focus too much on its official category or its precise path (current models show it making landfall over New Jersey or Delaware sometime early Tuesday). It's a massive system that will affect a huge ...
Poll: Majority Of Americans Are Racist Against Blacks
Post Date: 2012-10-28 15:57:19 by Brian S
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So much for a post-racial America. A slight majority of all Americans show some prejudice toward blacks, whether the realize it or not, according to an Associated Press poll released on Saturday. In the survey, 56 percent of Americans showed some anti-black feelings, whether implicitly or explicitly. That percentage has actually risen in the four years since President Obama took office—up from 49 percent in 2008—indicating that, if anything, anti-black attitudes have become more prevalent since that landmark election. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1331163101011-9'); });That finding is based on poll questions that both directly asked ...
Evacuations ordered in New York City ahead of Hurricane Sandy
Post Date: 2012-10-28 15:30:12 by Hondo68
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The latest image of Hurricane Sandy Photo: National Hurricane Center More than 375,000 people are being evacuated from their homes in New York City ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. President Obama said the storm was "serious and big" and he urged resident on the east coast of the US to take the warnings "very seriously". Speaking at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he said he was not anticipating that the storm would affect voting in the forthcoming US presidential election. The Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has ordered mandatory evacuations for low-lying areas that are expected to be worst hit by storm-surge flooding. The ...
WOW!! Just watched Citizens United/Bannon's 30-minute Infomercial - Devastating!!!
Post Date: 2012-10-28 14:13:50 by A K A Stone
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Did Obama Fire General Ham Of Africom For Attempting To Buck His Order And Rescue Stevens?
Post Date: 2012-10-28 14:08:24 by A K A Stone
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The latest hot rumor flying around the internet is that General Ham of Africon, whose departure was announced last week, was actually fired for attempting to buck Obama’s order not to rescue Ambassador Stevens. He’s not exactly leaving early for his type of command, plus, he’s still in command, I have to assume, since his replacement still has to be confirmed by the Senate. Even if it’s an urban legend, it’s such a cool one that it’s kind of a duty to pass it on. Here’s the text most-often seen in emails, message boards and blog posts: I heard a story today from someone inside the military that I trust entirely. The story was in reference to General Ham ...
Christie Declares State of Emergency, Mandatory Evacs
Post Date: 2012-10-28 11:05:03 by Hondo68
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Mandatory evacuations have been issued for N.J.'s barrier islands from Sandy Hook down to Cape May, and Atlantic City casinos by 4 p.m. SundayView more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com.People living on the barrier islands in Cape May County have begun to evacuate in anticipation for Hurricane Sandy. NBC10's Terry Ruggles has the story.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced a state of emergency at a Saturday afternoon news conference, two days before Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall -- most likely somewhere on the New Jersey coastline. Christie ordered mandatory evacuations for all barrier islands from Sandy Hook down to Cape May and for Atlantic City casinos ...
The DesMoines Register endorsement: Mitt Romney offers a fresh economic vision
Post Date: 2012-10-27 20:23:37 by A K A Stone
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Ten months ago this newspaper endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for president. An overarching consideration was which of the party’s candidates could we see occupying the White House, and there was no question that Romney was qualified for the job. Now, in the closing days of the general election campaign, the question is which of the two contenders deserves to be the next president of the United States. Both President Barack Obama and Governor Romney are superbly qualified. Both are graduates of the Harvard University Law School who have distinguished themselves in government, in public service and in private life. Both are devoted husbands ...
State Department warns Texas AG not to arrest UN-affiliated election observers
Post Date: 2012-10-27 08:40:47 by A K A Stone
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exas Attorney General Greg Abbott has warned a group of UN-affiliated “international election observers” that they could be subject to criminal prosecution if they breach state laws by being within 100 feet of polling place entrances.
The US State Department issued a warning as well. No, not to the election observers — to Texas:
International election observers planning to visit Texas polling places have “full immunity” from being arrested in the United States, the State Department said when discussing a letter from the Texas Attorney General.
“I’m not going to get into any kind of hypothetical situations or predict where this is going to go other than to say we have every ...
He died penniless, but rich with friends
Post Date: 2012-10-27 08:31:04 by A K A Stone
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It was just before sunrise when Bernie Kern wheeled himself to an outdoor plaza at Laguna Honda Hospital for his usual morning cigarette. He'd been living in the hospital for five years, but four decades of homelessness before that had left him with an enduring affection for the early morning chill and quiet.
The cigarette was done in a few minutes. It was his last.
Kern was found peacefully slumped in his wheelchair just outside the elevator, his heart given out from the long years on the streets.
That was Oct. 9. He was 90.
Having long outlived every relative he knew, there was no family to claim him. The normal city policy in such cases is to cremate him along with other ...
PICKET: Hillary Clinton calls on Iranian gov't to release jailed filmmaker and 'all political prisoners' Read more: PICKET: Hillary Clinton calls on Iranian gov't to release jailed filmmaker and 'all political prisoners'
Post Date: 2012-10-26 23:48:27 by A K A Stone
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the following statement regarding the Iranian government's imprisonment of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi: The United States congratulates Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi for receiving the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. We also wish to congratulate the other finalists, Ales Byalyatski, a recipient of the State Department’s 2011 Human Rights Defender award, Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina. The work of Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi to uphold human rights and promote freedom of ...
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