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Lesbian marine to be jailed after she and girlfriend 'faked marriages with male colleagues to pocket $75,000 in allowances'
Post Date: 2011-07-03 17:31:23 by Sebastian
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A lesbian marine in San Diego is expected to be jailed for up to one year after she and her girlfriend allegedly married male colleagues to claim $75,000 in married couple allowances.Corporal Ashley Vice has been charged with conspiracy, making false official statements, fraud and adultery for allegedly marrying to qualify for financial assistance offered to heterosexual married couples.Vice said that she married a straight colleague because she wanted to live off base with her civilian girlfriend but could not afford it. Scheme: Ashley Vice, right, and her girlfriend Jaime Murphy bother married male marines to qualify for married couples allowance Fellow marine Jeremiah Griffin agreed to ...
McCain, Lieberman, Graham Criticize Afghan Drawdown Plan
Post Date: 2011-07-03 13:32:09 by Brian S
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KABUL — A trio of high-profile U.S. senators on Sunday criticized President Obama’s plan to withdraw 30,000 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of next summer and cast doubt on the prospects for a negotiated political settlement with the Taliban. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), speaking at a news conference in Kabul alongside Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), called the pace of withdrawal an “unnecessary risk” and one that would undermine U.S. troops’ ability to confront the insurgency in eastern Afghanistan during next year’s summer fighting season. “I believe that the planned drawdown is an unnecessary risk, and ...
Sen. Joe Lieberman Predicts ‘Day Of Reckoning’ For Iran
Post Date: 2011-07-03 13:24:35 by Brian S
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On Fox News Sunday, two of the Senate’s leading Iran hawks pressed the administration to do more on Iran and issued thinly-veiled threats to the Islamic Republic. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who has advocated for “retir(ing) our ambiguous mantra about all options remaining on the table” for Iran and made sure then-Defense Secretary nominee Leon Panetta has a plan for attacking, warned the Islamic Republic that a “day of reckoning” was ahead: I would say that a day of reckoning is coming for this extremist regime in Iran, when a majority of Iranians who really yearn for freedom can see this dream come true. And I hope we do everything we can to make ...
Exxon Oil Spill In Montana's Yellowstone River Prompts Evacuations
Post Date: 2011-07-03 13:20:47 by Brian S
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LAUREL, Mont. - Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts Saturday to close intakes. The river has no dams on its way to its confluence with the Missouri River just across the Montana border in North Dakota. It was unclear how far the plume might travel. Cleanup crews deployed booms and absorbent material as the plume moved downstream at an estimated 5 to 7 mph. "The parties ...
Historical fact: Independence Day is a celebration of freedom from government tyranny
Post Date: 2011-07-03 10:49:13 by Hondo68
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(NaturalNews) Happy July 4th, my fellow Americans. It's the Independence Day weekend! Independence from what, you might ask? As even the somewhat revisionist history taught in public schools readily admits, July 4th is a celebration of independence from government tyranny under British rule.And what kind of government tyranny, specifically? Well, the kind that involves warrantless searches of peoples' homes, where government agents could just waltz right into your private home for no reason and conduct a search without even getting a court-issued warrant. That was a form of government terrorism waged against the people, and when the USA declared its independence from British rule, ...
How Herman Cain Succeeds in Spite of Racism ("I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back")
Post Date: 2011-07-02 20:00:24 by Hondo68
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In corporate America, he downplayed racial grievances. As a Republican presidential primary candidate, he has an incentive to play them up. In the GOP primary, the award for most impressive biography goes to former CEO Herman Cain. Born in 1945 and raised in Atlanta, his father held three jobs, his mothered earned extra money doing domestic work, and until the eighth grade, he slept in the kitchen on a roll-away bed that he shared with his brother. "The rules of the house were simple and direct," he once said. "Don't get into trouble. Don't talk back to your mother. Go to church. Study hard and finish school."Those aren't the words of a presidential ...
Fed's Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact: Greenspan
Post Date: 2011-07-02 09:03:36 by CZ82
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Fed's Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact: Greenspan Thursday, 30 Jun 2011, By: Margo D. Beller The Federal Reserve's massive stimulus program had little impact on the U.S. economy besides weakening the dollar and helping U.S. exports, Federal Reserve Governor Alan Greenspan told CNBC Thursday. In a blunt critique of his successor, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Greenspan said the $2 trillion in quantative easing over the past two years had done little to loosen credit and boost the economy. "There is no evidence that huge inflow of money into the system basically worked," Greenspan said in a live interview. "It obviously had some effect on the exchange rate and the ...
California enacts Internet sales tax; Amazon bolts
Post Date: 2011-07-02 08:53:32 by CZ82
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California enacts Internet sales tax; Amazon bolts 12:33 AM 07/01/2011, By C.J. Ciaramella California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Wednesday requiring online businesses to collect state sales tax, calling it “a common sense idea,” but Amazon and other large online retailers said they no longer see the business sense in staying in the Golden State. Amazon and Overstock.com both announced shortly after the bill was signed that they will be closing all of their affiliate programs in California. Affiliates are small websites and businesses that sell products through sites like Amazon and receive a small commission. The new law requires online retailers with local ...
A Union 'Off-Target'
Post Date: 2011-07-01 21:20:25 by CZ82
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A Union 'Off-Target' By Brendon S. Peck Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW. That average Americans continue to stand against these job-killing, profit-leaching forces is most encouraging. But make no mistake, the fight is far from over. Labor unions are in decline and desperate. Today, union membership is under 12% of the U.S. workforce -- it was over 20% in the 1980's. Among retail unions, like the United Food and Commercial Workers International (UFCW), membership has also undergone sizeable erosion, down over 40% nationwide since 1983. More, public ...
Official Calls For Riverside, 12 Other Counties To Secede From California
Post Date: 2011-07-01 17:06:19 by Hondo68
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New state would have no term limits, part-time legislature RIVERSIDE (CBS) — Is the state of California about to go "South"? Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone apparently thinks so, after proposing that the county lead a campaign for as many as 13 Southern California counties to secede from the state. Stone said in a statement late Thursday that Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties should form the new state of South California. The creation of the new state would allow officials to focus on securing borders, balancing budgets, improving schools and creating a vibrant economy, he said. ...
Nearly 1.3 Million In Ohio Sign Recall Of Union-Busting Bill, Placing It On The November 8 Ballot [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-07-01 11:41:08 by Brian S
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The pro-labor coalition We Are Ohio delivered nearly 1.3 million signatures Wednesday to repeal SB 5, a new law restricting the collective-bargaining rights of public employees, placing it on the November 8 ballot. People's World reported that the 1,298,301 signatures were delivered to the Secretary of State's office by a semi-truck packed with 1502 boxes of petitions and accompanied by a large "People's Parade." We Are Ohio collected more signatures than any other petition drive in Ohio history thanks to the work of more than 10,000 volunteers. The signatures must now be validated by each county board of elections office. “Today we celebrate the unprecedented ...
Minnesota Government Shuts Down
Post Date: 2011-07-01 11:29:33 by Brian S
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota's state government began a broad shut down on Friday going into the July 4 holiday after Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders failed to reach a budget deal. Parts of the government had already begun to shut down on Thursday ahead of the midnight budget deadline, including some websites and dozens of highway rest stops on one of the biggest travel days of the year. The budget impasse means that some 23,000 of the roughly 36,000 Minnesota state employees will be furloughed and state parks and campgrounds closed ahead of what is usually their busiest stretch of the year for the July 4 holiday. Dayton and Democratic ...
Slavery To Continue At Walmart???
Post Date: 2011-07-01 08:42:24 by CZ82
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Slavery To Continue At Walmart June 28, 2011 by Robert Ringer WALMARTSTORES.COM The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 1.5 million women at 3,400 Walmart stores in the United States had too little in common to allow a class-action lawsuit to move forward. In a June 20 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck a note for liberty when it overruled Federal courts in San Francisco that had allowed all women who worked for Walmart since December 1998 to join in a single, nationwide suit seeking back pay. I say struck a note for liberty, because this was about far more than Walmart’s winning out over a bunch of high-priced litigators who represented a group of ungrateful Walmart employees. ...
A Dangerous Point of View...Indeed
Post Date: 2011-07-01 08:27:25 by CZ82
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A Dangerous Point of View...Indeed Russ Vaughn Congressman John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan, has just served up the money quote regarding his party's true position on doing something about our nation's budget woes: "This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of the Congress, my colleagues, who say, 'I don't care if I get reelected or not, I want to cut the budget by $100 billion or whatever,'" said a bewildered Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), who was first elected to Congress in 1964. "I've never seen that kind of a member before. ... It's a dangerous point of view from my perspective." Those weren't ...
Heritage Lies About Origin Of Tax Breaks For Jets
Post Date: 2011-06-30 18:59:49 by war
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Judging by their Twitter feed, the Heritage Foundation really wants you to believe that President Obama "created" a tax break for private jets in "his own stimulus." But the charge is undercooked, and if Heritage investigative reporter Lachlan Markay had taken a real look at the Recovery Act's tax provisions rather than spitting up the first convenient Associated Press article he "investigated," he would know this doesn't make sense. First, the tax break in question was "created" in 2002 by Sec. 101 of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, which added the tax breaks for "transportation property" to the federal tax code ...
That Perk in the Sky Has Defenders on Land
Post Date: 2011-06-30 18:57:42 by war
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THERE are bad economic times. Then there are bad economic times made even worse by a furious public and political fallout against high-end spending. The luxury hotel industry, as I’ve said, was the first to feel this effect. It started with understandable public outrage last fall when the insurer American International Group ran up a hotel bill of $443,343.71 for an incentive junket for its salespeople at a fancy Southern California resort five days after accepting a big emergency federal bailout loan. The ensuing furor caused many corporate travel managers across the country to abandon the use of luxury hotels, partly for the sake of appearances. Next to feel the populist heat was ...
Why the Left Fears Libertarianism
Post Date: 2011-06-30 16:28:00 by Capitalist Eric
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Leftist criticisms of libertarianism have surged lately, a phenomenon warranting explanation. We libertarians could justifiably find it all quite confusing. For decades we have thought our battle a largely losing one, at least in the short term. We are a tiny, relatively powerless minority. The state has raged on, expanding in virtually every direction, for my entire lifetime and that of my parents. Yet nearly every week our beloved philosophy of non-aggression is subject to some progressive’s relatively widely read hatchet job. On the surface, it appears at least as misdirected as the rightwing hysteria about Marxists during the Cold War. But at least Marxism was the supposed tenet of ...
Did Obama Forget Those Private Jet Tax Breaks He Just Denounced Were Created By His Own Stimulus Plan? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-30 15:34:55 by no gnu taxes
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Before signing the stimulus bill (aka “Porkulus”) in February of 2009, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said that, even though the president probably hadn’t read the entire 1,079 bill cover-to-cover, he knew it was okay to sign because he had “a team of the best legislative and economic experts in the country who advised him.” Apparently Obama didn’t check with them before letting loose on private jet tax breaks at today’s press conference. From the Heritage Foundation: The chief economic culprit of President Obama’s Wednesday press conference was undoubtedly “corporate jets.” He mentioned them on at least six occasions, ...
John Kasich Is A Democrat
Post Date: 2011-06-30 14:19:36 by war
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John Kasich on Clinton's 1993 Budget: "This plan puts the economy in the gutter…. If it was to work, then I’d have to become a Democrat.” When did he change his affiliation?
Republicans Move to Cut Trade Bill’s Worker Aid
Post Date: 2011-06-30 13:40:39 by Brian S
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Republican senators proposed striking a worker aid program from legislation on a free-trade agreement with South Korea as President Barack Obama’s chief trade official said “the ball is now in” their hands. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, offered 26 amendments to the trade- deal bill that will be considered by the panel today, on issues ranging from federal funding for abortion to Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Senators also proposed eliminating Medicaid for early retirees, renewing trade promotion authority through 2015 and encouraging U.S. beef trade with China and Japan. The amendments underscore ...
Jobs Picture Remains Ugly as Weekly Claims Still High
Post Date: 2011-06-30 13:19:43 by Capitalist Eric
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The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits barely fell last week, a government report showed on Thursday, suggesting the labor market was struggling to regain momentum. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped just 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 428,000, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims dropping to 420,000. The prior week's figure was unrevised at 429,000. It was the 12th straight week that claims have been above 400,000, a level that is usually associated with a stable labor market. Employment stumbled badly in May, with employers adding just 54,000 jobs—the fewest in eight months. "Payroll ...
Toyrianna Smith Kills Baby for Waking Her Up -- Then Takes Him Shopping
Post Date: 2011-06-30 12:01:31 by no gnu taxes
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Toyrianna Smith enjoys swimming, long nights of restful sleep, and murdering small children
Toyrianna Smith, along with her 3-year-old daughter and and 3-month-old son, spent the night partying at a friend's house in Harvey, Illinois. Instead of heading home, the trio decided to sleep in a spare bedroom that night. But the baby boy was fitful during the wee hours...
He began to cry. Smith, apparently hammered and pissed that her sleep was being disturbed, decided to quell his outburst by putting a blanket over his head, then punching him multiple times in the face until he was quiet. (See her Facebook page here.)
The baby would cry again later that night. So Smith took on a ...
Halperin On Obama Presser: 'I Think He Was Kind Of a Dick'
Post Date: 2011-06-30 09:45:28 by no gnu taxes
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When Mark Halperin asked if the seven-second delay was working prior to offering his observation on President Obama's performance at his press conference of yesterday, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski seemed to assume he was joking, and invited the normally mild-mannered pundit to proceed. But it immediately became obvious that the joke was on the Morning Joe hosts, because when he spoke, Halperin said of Obama "I think he was kind of a d--k yesterday." As evidenced in the screengrab, Mika and Joe reacted with shocked amusement. View video after the jump. Watch Halperin beat the director, finger hovering over the delay, to the punch! MARK HALPERIN: Do we have the ...
Amazon ends deal with 25,000 California websites
Post Date: 2011-06-30 09:36:00 by Rudgear
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Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California's tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts say. The bill, AB 28X, takes effect immediately. The state Board of Equalization says the tax will raise $200 million a year, but critics claim it will raise nothing because online retailers will end their affiliate programs rather than collect the tax. Amazon has already emailed its termination of its affiliate advertising program with 25,000 websites. The letter says, in part: (The bill) specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers - including but not limited to ...
Why Can’t Obama Be More Like His Daughters?
Post Date: 2011-06-30 09:18:42 by no gnu taxes
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It’s not always easy to get two persons to agree on something, much less getting Congress to agree on any major issue that’s especially divisive and has enormous stakes. So, in a certain way, I can sympathize with the president for feeling frustrated by his inability to get Congress moving on some important issues. But when Obama recently scolded the Congress for failing to get something moving on the debt ceiling deal, telling them that his daughters always complete their homework in a prompt and timely manner. He questioned why it is that Congress routinely dilly-dallies on important legislation while his daughters have figured out how to finish their homework in a prompt and ...
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