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Out, damn Newt: Five Reasons Why Gingrich Is Headed for Footnote Status ['Cause he's mcStain Jr.?]
Post Date: 2011-12-28 17:23:47 by Capitalist Eric
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Rainier Ehrhardt Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a campaign stop, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, in Columbia, S.C. For a week or so, Newt Gingrich was riding high in Dubuque, Iowa. His poll numbers were great nationally. In battleground states such as New Hampshire and Florida, he elbowed more credible contenders -- and also Mitt Romney -- aside. There really was a week there when Gingrich was the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. But that's all over now. In the 2012 Republican race, everyone gets to be the front-runner for a week, and Gingrich has had his week. Now, Gingrich is tumbling. Fast. The attacks ads ...
VAN HALEN ANNOUNCE 2012 TOUR, ON SALE JANUARY 10
Post Date: 2011-12-28 13:49:39 by A K A Stone
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Ocean Marketing vs. Penny Arcade: Paul Christoforo PR Disaster Goes Viral [TEXT]
Post Date: 2011-12-28 13:08:09 by A K A Stone
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There are many instances of exemplary customer service, but this isn't one of them. In fact, this might be one of the most reprehensible exchanges in the history of public relations. Here's the gist of the events: Man orders special game controller; man asks company's PR rep where his order is; man becomes frustrated with unprofessional customer service; PR rep insults and belittles customer; customer shares story with Internet; Internet explodes. Here's a little more detail: On Dec. 16, a customer known only as "Dave" began a series of e-mail exchanges with Ocean Marketing, the PR firm that represents N-Control, a maker of modified game controllers for hardcore ...
6 years later, Katrina victims fight FEMA debts
Post Date: 2011-12-28 12:37:09 by We The People
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(AP) NEW ORLEANS — When the Federal Emergency Management Agency mailed out 83,000 debt notices this year to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other 2005 storms, one of the letters showed up in David Bellinger's mailbox. Bellinger, who is blind, needed a friend to read it and break the news that FEMA wants him to pay back more than $3,200 in federal aid he received after Katrina. "I nearly had a stroke," recalls the 63-year-old, who moved to Atlanta after the storm wrecked his New Orleans home. "I'm totally blind. I subsist entirely on a Social Security disability check. If I have to pay this money back, it would pretty much wipe out all the savings I have." ...
Surging in Iowa, Ron Paul Takes His Turn as Rivals' Punching Bag
Post Date: 2011-12-28 12:05:15 by We The People
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For months, Ron Paul was by turns ignored, tolerated and occasionally even praised by his opponents in the Republican presidential race. But with the libertarian-leaning candidate surging to the front of the field in Iowa with less than a week to go before the caucuses, Paul's extensive record of outside-the-GOP-mainstream comments and views is coming under withering attack by his competitors. While some of his fellow Republicans have practically adopted his unwavering criticism of the Federal Reserve and Washington's spending habits over the course of the campaign, they are picking apart other aspects of his record -- in particular singling out his foreign policy views as ...
Cheetah, chimp star of Tarzan movies, dies at 80
Post Date: 2011-12-28 10:10:10 by Fred Mertz
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Cheetah, the chimpanzee that appeared in Tarzan movies in the early 1930s, has died of kidney failure at the age of 80, WTSP TV reports. The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Fla., says the community "has lost a dear friend and family member" with the death of Cheetah on Dec. 24. Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb tells The Tampa Tribune that the chimp was outgoing, loved finger-painting and liked to see people laugh. Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from the estate of Johnny Weissmuller, former American Olympic gold medal swimmer who played Tarzan in the 1930s. Cheetah played Tarzan's comic sidekick from 1932 to 1934, the sanctuary tells WTSP. Ron ...
U.S. Criticizes Japan, China on Currencies
Post Date: 2011-12-28 00:51:44 by A K A Stone
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The Obama administration again declined to label China a currency manipulator, while it criticized Japan's efforts to limit the yen's appreciation. The Treasury Department, in its overdue semiannual currency report, offered its most direct criticism to date of Japan's two latest currency interventions, which the U.S. didn't support. The move could complicate any further attempts by Tokyo to intervene in currency markets. Treasury also said in the report, released Tuesday, that it would continue to press Beijing for greater exchange-rate flexibility, as well as to level the playing field for foreign companies and to shift China's economy away from export-led growth. In ...
Romney: Gingrich Like 'Lucille Ball at Chocolate Factory'
Post Date: 2011-12-27 19:25:42 by A K A Stone
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As he sought to consolidate his strong support in New Hampshire before heading to Iowa, Mitt Romney opted on Tuesday for mockery over menace in criticizing Newt Gingrich, even as his GOP presidential rival denounced Romney's attack ads and record as Massachusetts' governor. Appearing in Portsmouth, Romney noted a statement that Gingrich’s campaign director compared the former House speaker’s recent inability to qualify for the Virginia ballot as a setback comparable to Pearl Harbor from which the campaign would recover. (CAMPAIGN 2012: Gingrich, Perry Fail to Qualify for Virginia Primary) “I think he compared that to Pearl Harbor? I think it’s more like ...
Newt Gingrich Would Rather Obama Get Reelected Then Support Ron Paul for President.
Post Date: 2011-12-27 19:12:50 by A K A Stone
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he couldn't vote for rival Ron Paul if he were to become the GOP's presidential nominee. Gingrich sharply criticized Paul in an interview with CNN for what he said were "racist, anti-Semitic" comments in newsletters that carried Paul's name in the 1990s. Paul says he didn't write the newsletters or even read them. Gingrich says there will come a morning when people won't take Paul as a serious person. The former House speaker also calls Paul's total record, one of, in his words, "systemic avoidance of reality." But Gingrich also said voting for the Texas congressman ...
Want the job? Gotta attend a 'gay' parade
Post Date: 2011-12-27 07:00:14 by CZ82
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Want the job? Gotta attend a 'gay' parade Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 12/22/2011 4:05:00 AM A Planned Parenthood group in New York isn't only hiring children to promote the group's sex agenda, but to do something else that is causing concern in that state. The Planned Parenthood program for which the youngsters are hired is called "Seriously Talking About Responsible Sex" (STARS). Duane Motley of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms tells OneNewsNow his group had no idea of all the facts behind the abortion-provider's use of teens. He says the idea that teens are being hired to spread the philosophy of Planned Parenthood is absurd. "They [the ...
For those of you with taglines
Post Date: 2011-12-25 19:21:40 by no gnu taxes
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Can you please change the font or size of your text to distinguish these from your main text? Thanks.
ROTFL: Gingrich and Perry fail to qualify for Virginia primary
Post Date: 2011-12-24 11:53:18 by buckeroo
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The former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas governor, Rick Perry, have both failed to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, Republican party officials have said. Neither politician, who were both frontrunners for the US presidential candidacy for the GOP, submitted enough signatures from registered voters to stand for the state's Republican primary on 6 March. The Republican party in Virginia (RVP) announced the news early on Saturday on its Twitter account. "After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10K signatures and has not qualified for the Va primary," it said. Perry's rejection was revealed late on Friday. This ...
Can Congress Subpoena Judges?
Post Date: 2011-12-23 19:48:52 by CZ82
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Can Congress Subpoena Judges? Posted by Leon H. Wolf (Diary) I have to confess at the outset that I am at a loss to explain the hyperventilation in some quarters about Newt Gingrich’s remarks in Saturday night’s debate that he would subpoena federal judges to testify before Congress. I don’t really want to get sidetracked in a discussion of whether such a move would be a good idea, politically (it would almost certainly not, as evidenced by the fact that it is never done), my only beef is with the suggestion that it literally could not be done. In other words, to some extent this is probably the sort of discussion that only a soul-sucking lawyer fascinated by the question ...
Sarah Palin Interested in Ron Paul?
Post Date: 2011-12-23 16:24:00 by We The People
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Sarah Palin may not be running for president but she still has the opportunity to help determine which GOP candidate will be challenging Obama one-on-one come 2012. Her supporters have turned their attention from “Wiill Sarah run?” to “Who will Sarah endorse?” In an interview with Eric Bolling on Fox Business Network’s show Follow the Money, Palin gave the public a glimpse of whom she may give her stamp of approval: Ron Paul. “You know the endorsement that I’m most interested in?” Palin asked Bolling. “Ron Paul’s, to tell you the truth.” While she made it clear she did not agree with Paul’s foreign policy, she said he was ...
Indefinite Detention Act!! Are You Serious??
Post Date: 2011-12-22 22:01:13 by A K A Stone
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Is War With Syria Imminent? White House Press Release
Post Date: 2011-12-22 21:58:35 by A K A Stone
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For Immediate Release December 21, 2011 Statement by the Press Secretary on Syria The United States continues to believe that the only way to bring about the change that the Syrian people deserve is for Bashar al-Assad to leave power. The words of the Assad regime have no credibility when they continue to be followed by outrageous and deplorable actions. Only two days following the Assad regime’s decision to sign the Arab League initiative, they have already flagrantly violated their commitment to end violence and withdraw security forces from residential areas. The United States is deeply disturbed by credible reports that the Assad regime continues to indiscriminately kill scores of ...
CNN Poll: Ron Paul Most Popular Republican Amongst Non-Whites [So much for the “racist” smear]
Post Date: 2011-12-22 15:40:08 by Capitalist Eric
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While the establishment media continues to hype a 15-year-old story concerning decades old newsletters as part of a dirty tricks campaign to smear Ron Paul as a racist, the latest CNN poll shows that Paul has the most support from non-whites out of all the Republican candidates. The latest CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday finds that Congressman Paul scores highest amongst minorities when matched up against Barack Obama in a hypothetical election head to head. Paul scores 25% of the vote amongst non-whites, whereas Romney polls at 20% and Gingrich gets 15%. Ron Paul is clearly the most popular GOP contender amongst non-whites out of the entire field, suggesting that the “racist” ...
What if Ron Paul wins Iowa – and New Hampshire, too?
Post Date: 2011-12-22 13:02:10 by Capitalist Eric
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Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. In polls of Hawkeye State Republican voters, Rep. Paul has jumped from about 12 percent support on Dec. 12 to 21.7 percent support today, according to the RealClearPolitics rolling average. With Newt Gingrich’s Iowa support collapsing, Paul is suddenly the GOP frontrunner there – and the caucuses are only two weeks away. Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, signs an autograph for a supporter during a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., Monday. Charles Krupa/AP As Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post notes in her “Right Turn” blog, there is now a distinct possibility that Paul will win in Iowa. He’s got both the ...
'Body Man' Reggie Love to Obama's Rescue
Post Date: 2011-12-22 11:05:09 by A K A Stone
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President Obama's former shadow, so-called body man Reggie Love, now has a new job in the spotlight: promoting his former boss's re-election campaign.
What's more, he's telling secrets. As in urging supporters to hurry up and enter the $3 raffle for a campaign dinner with Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. He calls the event a rare and special moment that any presidential fan should jump at a chance at.
[Read: Lunch With Rummy $9,995 More Than Obama]
"You should know this practically never happens," he writes in a campaign E-mail we just received. "While Barack wants to do these dinners throughout his campaign, I know that dinner with Barack and Michelle is something that usually ...
'He Got Several Deferments. He Chose Not to Go'... Paul Hits Newt on 'Nam
Post Date: 2011-12-22 10:49:07 by A K A Stone
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Air Force veteran and presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul. R-Texas, has opened up a new line of attack against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
Interviewed by Megyn Kelly on Fox News Channel, Paul was responding to the negative ads he’s running against Gingrich when he added, “you know, there was one other issue that I personally found annoying is that he’s probably as aggressive with the military as anybody. He supports all the wars in the Middle East a thousand times more than I would. But, you know when, in the 1960′s when I was drafted in the military, you know, he got several deferments. He chose ...
Romney Says He'd Deport Obama's Uncle
Post Date: 2011-12-22 10:40:26 by A K A Stone
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ASHLAND, N.H. -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he would deport President Barack Obama's uncle, who police said was arrested in August for drunken driving near Boston and is an illegal immigrant. In an interview with Boston radio host Howie Carr on Wednesday, Romney said "yes" when asked if Onyango Obama should be deported. Romney at first did not recognize the name, but said the nation's immigration laws should be enforced. Onyango Obama is the 67-year-old half-brother of the president's late father. His case is pending in Framingham, Mass., District Court. He was initially held without bail on a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
A politician finally tells some truth, 1st Wookie has a super-sized ass!
Post Date: 2011-12-22 07:56:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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Lawmaker Says Michelle Obama Has ‘Large Posterior’ By Betsy Rothstein on December 21, 2011 3:14 PM Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), known for his cantankerous ways and for not speaking to media unless it’s his idea, was overheard at the Delta Crown lounge at Reagan National Airport today talking on his cellphone about an incident he said occurred three weeks ago while at an Episcopal church auction. Please note, a church auction. Our source, a Democratic operative who heard the whole thing, said he was “very loud”. Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that after buying all their “crap” (his word) a woman approached him and praised first lady Michelle ...
Airline flight attendants reject union
Post Date: 2011-12-21 22:44:27 by CZ82
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Airline flight attendants reject union Thomas Lifson New rules more favorable to unions were not enough to enable the Transport Workers Union (TWU) to succeed in unionizing the flight attendants at Virgin America Airlines, who rejected the union by a 59% to 41% margin. Terry Maxon of Dallasnews.com reports: Flight attendants at Virgin America have voted against being represented by the Transport Workers Union , the National Mediation Board said Tuesday. The NMB said 223 employees voted in favor of TWU representation, while 324 voted for no representation. We take note that the election results were the same under the new NMB rules for union representation votes as they would have been ...
Open Letter to 'The Republican Establishment' – What the Military and Mainstream Knows About Ron Paul that You Should Learn
Post Date: 2011-12-21 12:43:12 by Capitalist Eric
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Ron Paul’s surge to the top of the polls in Iowa, and increasing likelihood that he will win is causing angst among many of you "Establishment Republicans". You are quick to try and dismiss a potential win as some sort of fluke, or owing to Independents registering to vote for him. Your typical argument against him is that "Ron Paul is too far out of the mainstream", and that his rise in the polls could be bad for Iowa’s standing as the first caucus and bad for the Republican party. Let’s address the idea that Ron Paul is out of the mainstream, and by implication, unelectable. Divide Ron Paul’s positions into domestic and foreign policy. ...
Brazilian baby 'born healthy with two heads... and both are suckling mother's breasts'
Post Date: 2011-12-21 10:28:59 by A K A Stone
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A Brazilian woman who has given birth to a baby with two heads, admitted she had initially expected twins. Maria de Nazare, gave birth by caesarean at a hospital in Anajas, in Brazil's northern Para state, with her newborn weighing 9.9lbs. And in a tribute to the religious celebrations at Christmas, she has decided to call the pair Emanoel and Jesus. The baby has two heads but all his organs are functioning healthily. The mother was said to have found about the abnormality only minutes before he was born Following the birth of her baby, mother Maria, 25, admitted that she had been told she was set to welcome twins. But following a number of tests, doctors have revealed that the ...
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