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Democrat wins West Virginia governor's race
Post Date: 2011-10-05 10:10:05 by go65
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin overcame weeks of Republican attack ads to win the West Virginia governor's race Tuesday, successfully distancing himself from the Obama administration and the president's health care plan. Tomblin, who has been acting governor for the past year, will finish the final year of a term left vacant by Joe Manchin, a well-liked governor who stepped down after he won a U.S. Senate seat. The race was fraught with negative ads from both sides and narrowed in the final weeks. The national parties spent millions of dollars on each campaign. With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Tomblin had 50 percent of the vote compared with Republican Bill ...
The President's Plan to Reduce the Deficit and Invade Your Cell Phone
Post Date: 2011-10-04 18:48:10 by nolu chan
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The President's Plan to Reduce the Deficit and Invade Your Cell Phone nolu chan October 4, 2011 The President's Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction, of September 2011, aka Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future, contains a provision to assist in debt collection. Current law (The Communications Act of 1934 as amended by the Telecom Act of 1996) protects your cell phone from the plague of robocalls. The administration plans to fix that so the government can reach out and touch even if you disconnect your land line. While the current plan reads only to provide this benefit to government agencies, other debt collectors are sure to follow. A government agency ...
CBS News Reporter Says the Corrupt Obama White House Screamed, Swore at Her Over Fast and Furious
Post Date: 2011-10-04 16:14:30 by no gnu taxes
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The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns, just keeps escalating. The latest development centers around whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the controversial gun trafficking operation. Recently released documents say Holder was briefed about the operation long before he told the Judiciary Committee he was first aware of what was going on. (Holder now claims he misunderstood the question was being asked.) What's more, CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson -- who's been covering the scandal from the beginning -- says in an interview on the Laura ...
Hank Williams Jr. apologizes for Hitler-Obama comparison
Post Date: 2011-10-04 15:41:38 by Ferret Mike
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(CNN) -- Hank Williams Jr. apologized Tuesday for comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler, a remark that prompted controversy and resulted in "Monday Night Football" pulling his popular musical introduction from this week's game. "I have always been very passionate about politics and sports and this time it got the best or worst of me," the country singer said in a statement. "The thought of the leaders of both parties jukin' [sic] and high fiven' [sic] on a golf course, while so many families are struggling to get by, simply made me boil over and make a dumb statement, and I am very sorry if it offended anyone. I would like to thank all my ...
Herman Cain: 'Growing Up in the Segregated South, I am Not Mad at America'
Post Date: 2011-10-04 13:13:50 by no gnu taxes
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HERMAN CAIN: When I was growing up, we didn't have a lot of money. I can remember my dad could only give my brother and I money to eat in the school cafeteria one day a week, on Fridays, and it was 25 cents. SEAN HANNITY: Pizza day. CAIN: No, hot dog, apple and a carton of milk. HANNITY: Oh sorry, CAIN: It wasn't even pizza day. And so we would saying, you know, it would be nice to make $20,000 a year. Why? I had read somewhere that if make $10,000 a year, you could qualify for an American Express card. I wanted two of them. That was my material lifelong American dream. And I'll never forget the day that boss at the (INAUDIBLE) laboratory, when I was a ballistics analyst, ...
Exposing the racial agenda of Obama's Justice Department
Post Date: 2011-10-04 12:33:16 by no gnu taxes
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I was in Washington on election day helping to manage the information traffic coming into the Voting Section while nearly every other lawyer and section employee was scattered across the nation doing election coverage.… I received an early report about the Panther incident in Philadelphia. Voting Section chief Chris Coates had kept me at the Washington desk for just this sort of eventuality. Normally another lawyer would manage all the traffic on election day, but Coates didn’t trust him because there were already signs within the DOJ that some attorneys had used their position and power to aid the Obama campaign. Not only were key DOJ election officials large donors to Obama, ...
Sasha Obama enjoys nachos, chicken strips, lobster rolls, steak fries, & small fro-ho
Post Date: 2011-10-04 11:41:09 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obamas dine at Eve, Sasha feasts at Serendipity3 DC Before the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday night, the first couple celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary at Restaurant Eve in Alexandria. A Yeas & Nays spy tells us they pulled up in their limousine at about 8 p.m. Meanwhile, youngest Obama daughter Sasha made the most of a cold, wet Saturday. According to a Yeas & Nays spy, she grabbed a big lunch with two female friends at Serendipity3 DC, where the girls ordered the famous Serendipity3 DC All In Nachos, chicken strips, lobster rolls and steak fries. For dessert, they enjoyed a small "fro-ho" (frozen hot chocolate) and vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and ...
Obama Couldn't Beat Christie In The 2012 Election
Post Date: 2011-10-04 10:10:40 by no gnu taxes
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Preference for President: Zerobama 45% Christie 45% which means a couple things: -Christie is up by at least 5 since the undecided will break for the challenger -It's probably even more than that as the polled would not want to be thought a racist by refusing to be for a nigger.
Whoopi can say nigger, Barbara can't
Post Date: 2011-10-04 07:22:44 by A K A Stone
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In the 'Hot Topics' segment on "The View" this morning, the ladies discussed a Washington Post story about a rock with the word "Niggerhead" written on it at the gated entrance of a hunting camp leased and frequented by Rick Perry and his father. Host Barbara Walters used the n-word while explaining the story, causing co-host Sherri Shepherd to take offense. Shepherd says she didn't like the way Barbara Walters said it. However, Shepherd was okay with Whoopi Goldberg, the main host of "The View," using it. Shepherd explained herself: "When I heard you (Whoopi) say it, it was fine. You said it a different way. When I heard you (Barbara) say ...
After demise of ‘don’t ask,’ activists call for end to military ban on transgenders
Post Date: 2011-10-03 20:58:19 by CZ82
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After demise of ‘don’t ask,’ activists call for end to military ban on transgenders With homosexuals now able to serve openly in the military, the gay rights movement’s next battleground is to persuade the Obama administration to end the armed forces’ ban on “transgenders,” a group that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers. “Our position is that the military should re-examine the policy, the medical regulations, so as to allow open service for transgender people,” said Vincent Paolo Villano, spokesman for the 6,000-member Center for Transgender Equality. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), which pushed to end the ...
The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School
Post Date: 2011-10-03 20:47:45 by CZ82
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The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School School districts hire special investigators to follow kids home in order to verify their true residences.. By MICHEAL FLAHERTY In case you needed further proof of the American education system's failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That's the charge that has landed several parents, such as Ohio's Kelley Williams-Bolar, in jail this year. An African-American mother of two, Ms. Williams-Bolar last year used her father's address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After ...
Anti-Wall Street Protests Spread Nationwide
Post Date: 2011-10-03 20:21:15 by Brian S
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(10-03) 17:11 PDT New York (AP) -- Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed. In Manhattan, hundreds of protesters dressed as corporate zombies in white face paint lurched past the New York Stock Exchange clutching fistfuls of fake money. In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city's financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars in Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. The arrests of 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge over the ...
The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans
Post Date: 2011-10-03 20:19:37 by A K A Stone
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The Department of Justice produced it prior to the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But they won't release it. Outside the U.S. government, President Obama's order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has proved controversial, with experts in law and war reaching different conclusions. Inside the Obama Administration, however, disagreement was apparently absent, or so say anonymous sources quoted by the Washington Post. "The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials," the ...
Oh, It's Not Just Morgan Stanley Either
Post Date: 2011-10-03 19:36:20 by Capitalist Eric
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So you think Morgan Stanley diving 8% today is bad eh? Don't look at Bank of America, down 8.5%. Or Citibank, down 9.5% (and don't forget they reverse-split, so this is really a stock price just over $2) Yeah. I hope you folks in Congress are happy with yourselves and the destruction you are about to wreak on the American economy. Oh sure, the economy has been slowing, but I hope you realize that the "slowdown" is despite blowing 12% of GDP in borrowed funds - a pace of borrowing that you cannot sustain. No, the news is that a new credit lock-up is imminent. One that you can't respond to this time, as you spent your bullets with the continued enabling of fraud and ...
Scott Brown sidesteps poll tie with Elizabeth Warren
Post Date: 2011-10-03 12:47:11 by Ferret Mike
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US Senator Scott Brown today sidestepped a poll showing him in a statistical tie with potential Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren, saying more than a year before the general election, “I’m not worried about polls.” Speaking with reporters after a congressional hearing at the State House, the first-term Republican said: “I’m going to have an opponent in November (2012), and I’m going to continue to do my job, and working on the very important things that people care about, and that’s jobs, job creation.” He added: “It’s, what, 13 months away? I’m not worried about it.” Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who recently left ...
Black Entertainment Television's Robert Johnson To Obama: Stop Attacking The Wealthy
Post Date: 2011-10-03 11:21:29 by jwpegler
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BET founder Robert Johnson on the "FOX News Sunday" program: "Well, I think the president has to recalibrate his message. You don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. You know, I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I've earned my success. I've earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so. "And by attacking me it is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. You know, it is the old -- I think Ted and Fred and I we both sort of take the old Ethel Merman approach to life. I've tried poor and I tried rich and I like rich better. It doesn't ...
PBS Star Ken Burns Insists Prohibition Era Republicans Just Like Today's GOP/Tea Party with Racist Immigration Demonizers
Post Date: 2011-10-03 09:38:45 by Godwinson
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PBS Star Ken Burns Insists Prohibition Era Just Like Today with Racist Immigration Demonizers By Tim Graham | October 01, 2011 | 23:24 Star PBS filmmaker Ken Burns appeared on The Colbert Report Wednesday night to sell his new PBS documentary Prohibition. Perhaps he’d had a few drinks, because he tried to compare the political environment that passed Prohibition to today’s Tea Party. Both eras apparently demonized immigrants and ruined civility in politics, and speak in racist code words about “taking our country back.” KEN BURNS: This is a story of single-issue campaigns that metasasize into horrible unintended consequences – the demonization of immigrants, ...
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Post Date: 2011-10-03 08:33:25 by lucysmom
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As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that ...
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama
Post Date: 2011-10-02 19:06:14 by A K A Stone
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Despite their honest intentions, many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being suckered into a trap and calling for the very “solutions” that are part of the financial elite’s agenda to torpedo the American middle class – higher taxes and more big government. Watch the clip below in which journalist Adam Kokesh talks to Occupy Wall Street protesters. The ignorance displayed in this interviews knows no bounds. These protesters just don’t get it. They are calling for the government to use force to impose their ideas, all in the name of bringing down corporations who they don’t realize have completely bought off government regulators. Corporations and ...
More Than 700 Arrested In Wall Street Protest
Post Date: 2011-10-02 13:41:22 by Brian S
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NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span. The arrests took place when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes. "Over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets have been issued in connection with a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the ...
Roseanne Barr: Behead Bankers, Rich Who Won't Give Up Wealth
Post Date: 2011-10-02 10:58:17 by A K A Stone
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Actress, comedienne and now author Roseanne Barr shares her solution for dealing with the rich and how the banks could repay the money the U.S. government bailed them out with in 2008. "Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their guilty leaders getting away with murder. Because it teaches children, you know, that they don't have to have any morals as long as they have guns and are bullies and I don't think that's a good message," Barr told Russia Today (RT). "I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty. "I first would ...
Frankenstein finance: How supercomputers preying on human fear are taking over the world's stock markets
Post Date: 2011-10-01 23:07:53 by Sebastian
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A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of capitalism. A vast and highly unstable mixture of debt — trillions of dollars of sovereign, corporate and private borrowing accumulated over decades — is strapped to the advanced Western economies like a suicide bomber’s gelignite vest. The task facing our politicians is somehow to defuse this bomb without inadvertently triggering the sequence of defaults and bankruptcies that would set it off. No wonder they walk around the problem scratching their heads, prodding it gingerly here and there. The horrible truth is dawning that the problem may well not be technically solvable. For the first time in my life — I am 54 — I ...
'Prohibition': Drunk with power (The GOP have been crazy for a long time)
Post Date: 2011-09-30 22:06:47 by Godwinson
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'Prohibition': Drunk with power AMBER RAY/METRO NEW YORK Published: September 29, 2011 5:26 p.m. Last modified: September 29, 2011 8:35 p.m. In the simplest terms, Prohibition — the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” — became law under the auspices of lobbyists who believed that a corrupt society could be bettered with the elimination of alcohol. Of course, nothing about Prohibition is simple. “We not only didn’t fix everything about society, we made half the nation lawbreakers, and we created organized crime and a host of other horrific unintended consequences,” ...
America's Growing Bromodrosis Problem
Post Date: 2011-09-30 20:34:42 by jwpegler
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A new study shows that 1/3rd of Americans (more than 33%) have Bromodrosis -- stinky feet. Half of them have extremely stinky feet. Stinky feet are not only a personal issue. They affect a person's career, social life, and in fact, their very existence. It's a huge epidemic that is poised to destroy our civilization. Surveys show that a large segment of Americans are prejudiced against people with stinky feet. "A lot of people at work have stinky feet," said Lance, a computer programmer from Seattle. "I can't stand working with them. I do everything possible to avoid them". Yet, only 9% of Americans will tell someone if they have stinky feet. Sally, a ...
Eyewitness to Texas Wildfires Watches Austerity Burn Rural Community
Post Date: 2011-09-30 19:29:33 by Brian S
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I knew the economic and political situation in Texas was dire, but I was completely unprepared for just how appalling conditions have become. As an emergency medical technician (EMT) from a large city, I volunteered to go to rural Bastrop, Texas, to assist the residents who are fleeing from the wildfires raging there; many of them have been injured. I was looking forward to working in a small community for a change. As an urban EMT, I have witnessed too many drug and alcohol overdoses, stabbings, beatings and shootings, along with vehicular fatalities. On the drive to Bastrop, I learned that the town was originally a small Spanish fort. It came under Texas' control when Texas fought a ...
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