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Worst Drought in More Than a Century Threatens Texas Oil Boom
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:54:25 by Brian S
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By Joe Carroll June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The worst Texas drought since record-keeping began 116 years ago may crimp an oil and natural- gas drilling boom as government officials ration water supplies crucial to energy exploration. In the hardest-hit areas, water-management districts are warning residents and businesses to curtail usage from rivers, lakes and aquifers. The shortage is forcing oil companies to go farther afield to buy water from farmers, irrigation districts and municipalities, said Erasmo Yarrito Jr., the state’s overseer of water supplies from the Rio Grande River. Concern over water usage is especially acute in southern Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale area because ...
2 More Years to Recover from Obama’s Depression
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:44:32 by no gnu taxes
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The worst curve - for returning jobs - ever is Obama's The past two days alarm bells have sounded on the economy. More bad times coming. Housing prices will go down for another year. Inflation will get worse. Energy prices will go up. Stocks should go down. Unemployment will go up. Bad news. The really bad news is that it will take 2 years, two whole years, from today for things to start getting better. And, that happens if, and only if, a new President and Congress hit the ground in January with major policy changes. Only if POTUS and Congress take the big steps to produce capital in January 2013 will the economy respond, create capital and create jobs in June 2013. POTUS and ...
Obamunism! The Obama Depression Beats the Great Depression!
Post Date: 2011-06-13 12:39:45 by no gnu taxes
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At least in housing prices: The ailing US housing market passed a grim milestone in the first quarter of this year, posting a further deterioration that means the fall in house prices is now greater than that suffered during the Great Depression. The brief recovery in prices in 2009, spurred by government aid to first-time buyers, has now been entirely snuffed out, and the average American home now costs 33 per cent less than it did at the peak of the housing bubble in 2007. The peak-to-trough fall in house prices in the 1930s Depression was 31 per cent – and prices took 19 years to recover after that downturn… And it also took a baby boom and a resultant massive demand for new ...
28 Months Later, Obama Says: Recovery’s ‘Going to Take Time’
Post Date: 2011-06-13 11:32:38 by no gnu taxes
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Twenty-eight months ago—on Feb. 13, 2009--Congress passed a $787-billion economic stimulus law and sent it to President Barack Obama who signed it while declaring it would create or save 3.5 million jobs. This Saturday, in his weekly address, President Obama pointed to his predecessors for causing problems in the economy and indicated a full recovery would not come soon. “I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems,” Obama said. “But the truth is, we didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight. It’s going to take time.” When Obama signed the stimulus, the most recent unemployment statistics ...
Santorum: All Abortion Doctors Should Be ‘Criminally Charged’
Post Date: 2011-06-13 11:07:19 by Brian S
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Sunday that all abortions should be illegal without exceptions for rape or incest. “Do you believe there should be legal exceptions for rape and incest when it comes to abortion?” NBC’s David Gregory asked Santorum. “I believe that life begins at conception and that life should be guaranteed under the Constitution,” Santorum replied. “Even in the case of rape or incest? That would be taking a life?” Gregory pressed. “That would be taking a life,” Santorum agreed. “I believe that any doctor who performs an abortion — I would advocate that any doctor who performs an abortion should ...
Obama’s Old Faithful – Economy Sucks, Policies Failing: Blame Bush, Blame the Media, Blame the People
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:52:40 by no gnu taxes
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Seemingly unable or unwilling to accept the fact that he has been in charge going on three years Obama continues to drag out his previous talking points. Blame Bush. Really a ridiculous position given he specifically asked for this job, and he stated he has solutions, yet everything he has tried has failed miserably.... (Daily Caller) — A cascade of bad economic and political news knocked President Barack Obama off his game today, and prompted him to revive his 2008-style criticism of his predecessor, and also to suggest that investors, consumers and even the media are responsible for today’s stalled economy. The blame-game rhetoric – which pollsters say is ...
Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War, Study Reveals
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:48:50 by no gnu taxes
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As a candidate for president, Barack Obama decried the financial toll that the Iraq war was taking on the economy, but Obama’s proposed spending on welfare through 2010 will eclipse Bush’s war spending by more than $260 billion. “Because of the Bush-McCain policies, our debt has ballooned,” then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Charleston, W.V., crowd in March 2008. “This is creating problems in our fragile economy. And that kind of debt also places an unfair burden on our children and grandchildren, who will have to repay it.” During the entire administration of George W. Bush, the Iraq war cost a total of $622 billion, according to the Congressional Research ...
I have a simple political question. What does Obama have to offer in 2012?
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:29:05 by no gnu taxes
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Another extension of the Bush Tax Cuts? Another extension of the Patriot Act? Another extension of the Bush War on Terror? Another promise to close GITMO? or Another promise to cut the deficit in half? Another promise to be the most transparent administration? Another promise to keep unemployment below 8%? Another promise to not be a president of special interest? or To put his boot on someone else’s throat?
Obama’s Job Loss Blamed on Natural Disasters, Bush’s Job Growth ‘False’ Because of Natural Disasters
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:21:47 by no gnu taxes
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From the “figures lie, but liars figure” department we find that left-leaning cable newser MSNBC reported that the main reason Obama’s job stats are tumbling andunemployment is so high is because of the harsh tornado season and other natural disasters we have been experiencing over the first half of 2011. Yet, hypocritically, if we take a peak back to the unemployment rates reported by MSNBC in 2004, during Bush’s era, his jump in hiring was called false because of—you guessed it—hurricanes and other natural disasters. That’s right, folks, MSNBC is using natural disasters to explain away Obama’s high unemployment rates when they used the very same ...
Comparing Job Creation of Obama vs. Bush
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:10:49 by no gnu taxes
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Criticize them both as much as you will from both sides of the aisle, Presidents Bush and Obama do have some similarities. Notably they both inherited recessions. And though the recession President Bush inherited was weaker than the recession President Obama inherited (though it was constantly claimed to be the worst economy in 50's years) a juxtaposition between the two presidents in terms of job growth is very interesting. Upon inauguration in January, both suffered job losses, Obama more than Bush, but again in intellectual honesty due to the severity of the recession. And though volatile, changes in non-farm payroll jobs was less volatile under Bush than it was Obama. Despite the ...
OBAMA SCREAMS AT STAFF: “What the Fuck Was That?” After Netanyahu Meeting
Post Date: 2011-06-13 08:37:11 by no gnu taxes
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Body language expert Tanya Reiman told Bill O’Reilly recently that Obama lied – He was no friend of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Reiman said that Obama had “contempt in his eyes” and displayed it with his body language when he was with Benjamin Netanyahu. It was obvious. Shortly after the photo-op meeting and “working lunch” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that saw President Obama openly chastised by the Prime Minister for Obama’s earlier public comments regarding wanting to see Israel return to its 1967 borders, the president verbally “went off” on Richard Daley in the private study area that adjoins the Oval ...
This Is the Obama Recovery
Post Date: 2011-06-13 08:25:13 by no gnu taxes
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The ObamaMedia is beside itself right now .. it can’t seem to understand why or how Barack Obama’s economic policies aren’t translating into jobs and growth. This must be the case because they seem to be caught quite off-guard with all of these “unexpected” jobs figures. Unwilling to blame their savior, Barack Obama, they are now trying to come up with other ways to justify this lousy economy. I know … let’s blame the Republicans! Take a look at this headline: Are Republicans Intentionally Sabotaging Economy For Political Gain? Can you believe that? The headline doesn’t ask if Democrats are scaring the diapers off old ladies for political gain. Not, ...
SEIU California to Launch…a Republican PAC?
Post Date: 2011-06-12 15:43:56 by CZ82
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SEIU California to Launch…a Republican PAC? by Billy Hallowell The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has a reputation for supporting Democratic candidates. But, the controversial labor union is gearing up for an effort that will explicitly support Republican contenders. The California branch of SEIU is planning to launch a political action committee with the sole purpose of getting moderate GOP candidates elected to California state office. The Capitol Alert has more: The union says 87,000 of its 700,000 members are registered Republicans. With redrawn legislative boundaries looming and the creation of the top-two primary system, SEIU’s new leader Dave Kieffer has ...
Haters Whining That They Are Hated _Right Wong Cry Babies Boo Frickity Hooing That Their Intolerance Is Fomenting...Intolerance...
Post Date: 2011-06-12 14:49:23 by war
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As the gay-rights movement advances, there is increasing evidence of an intriguing role reversal: Today, it is the conservative opponents of that movement who seem eager to depict themselves as victims of intolerance. To them, the gay-rights lobby has morphed into a relentless bully, pressuring companies and law firms into policy reversals, making it taboo in some circumstances to express opposition to same-sex marriage. "They're advocating for a lot of changes in the name of tolerance," said Jim Campbell, an attorney with the conservative Alliance Defense Fund. "Yet ironically the tolerance is not returned, for people of faith who don't agree with their ...
More Anthony Weiner Photos Surface Online
Post Date: 2011-06-12 13:24:14 by Brian S
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Rep. Anthony Weiner took several pictures of himself grabbing his privates, part of a new batch of embarrassing photos that surfaced online Sunday morning. The gossip website TMZ.com posted 11 photos it claimed were taken in the House member’s gym, a private exercise facility in the Capitol complex that is open to current and former lawmakers. The photos show Weiner standing in front of a mirror, his BlackBerry pointed forward snapping shots of bare chest, often with just a towel draped over his genitals. There are also shots of him in the middle of the exercise room, with empty elliptical trainers behind him. The online gallery of Weiner’s bizzare shots was posted the day ...
Gabrielle Giffords Releases Photos on Facebook
Post Date: 2011-06-12 09:44:21 by Ferret Mike
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Two photos of a smiling Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona were released Sunday by her office, her hair short but few other telling signs of the gunshot wound to the her head. Representative Gabrielle Goffords, left, with her mother. The photos, which appeared on her Facebook page, were taken May 17 outside her Houston hospital, and are the first clear snapshots of Ms. Giffords since the shooting five months ago during a constituent meet-and-greet in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson. The photos showed how far she has come since she was wounded in the left side of her forehead, but her spokeswoman, Pia Carusone, has cautioned that Ms. Giffords still has a long way to go. They ...
Woman with open wallet creates uproar at store
Post Date: 2011-06-12 09:26:39 by Ferret Mike
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Claudia Smith yells at customers inside an Oceanside store Wednesday OCEANSIDE — A bizarre scene unfolded inside a discount store in Oceanside Wednesday afternoon as a 66-year-old white woman, intent on buying things for “poor Mexican women” paid for $5,000 worth of clothing purchased by about 50 women. The night before, Claudia Smith, who lives in the neighborhood, had walked into the same store, Everything a Deal on Plaza Drive east of College Boulevard, and bought $2,200 worth of clothing for a handful of customers. The question was why. The answer, very confusing. At times Wednesday, Smith screamed out “Aye, Aye Aye Aye, Ayeeeeee!” while standing in the ...
Sex Declared Illegal in the State of Florida
Post Date: 2011-06-12 09:15:49 by Ferret Mike
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Sex has been declared illegal in Florida. A poorly worded piece of legislation has inadvertently rendered engaging in sexual activity synonymous with the commission of a crime. Sexually active adults headed for the ironically phallically-shaped state had better change their travel plans. And those Florida residents now engaging even sporadically or, God forbid, regularly in sexual contact had better stop, cease, and desist immediately or suffer the consequences. Yes, somebody goofed. An obviously taxonomically challenged elected official has, with an ineptly worded "miasma of a law" made it illegal, effective October 1, 2011, for people--even married consenting adults--to have ...
Huge AZ Wildfire Spreads, Health Conditions Worsen
Post Date: 2011-06-11 19:59:10 by Brian S
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SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. — An eye-stinging haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona added a potentially serious public health threat to the conflagration on Saturday as firefighters moved to counter spot fires erupting across the state line in New Mexico. The 640-square-mile blaze remained largely uncontained and firefighters worried that a predicted return of gusty southwesterly winds in the afternoon would cause it to grow even larger. “We expect the winds to be testing a lot of our lines out there,” fire spokeswoman Karen Takai said. The fire began spotting across the state line Friday night and 150 additional firefighters and several fire engines ...
Politically Correct Washington Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction
Post Date: 2011-06-11 19:12:30 by CZ82
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Politically Correct Washington Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction Selwyn Duke In 2007, Kevin L. Monday Jr. was convicted for the murder of Francisco Green and received 64 years in prison. The incident was caught on a 3-minute video recording shot by a street performer, and the footage clearly shows Monday coolly and calculatingly firing 11 shots at Green on a crowded Seattle, Washington, street corner. Thus, despite the reluctance of witnesses to testify, it was an open-and-shut case. But now the Washington Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling, has overturned the conviction and a lower court that upheld it -- thus forcing a retrial -- claiming that the prosecutor used ...
U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions, 61 trillion
Post Date: 2011-06-11 16:30:11 by CZ82
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U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY The federal government's financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. That brings to a record $61.6 trillion the total of financial promises not paid for. This gap between spending commitments and revenue last year equals more than one-third of the nation's gross domestic product. Medicare alone took on $1.8 trillion in new liabilities, more ...
The Revival of the Hollywood Blacklist
Post Date: 2011-06-11 15:32:25 by CZ82
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The Revival of the Hollywood Blacklist During the 1940s and 1950s, Hollywood producers, directors, and actors were scrutinized for their political beliefs. The period of “red hysteria” put people’s jobs in the film industry in jeopardy. “Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy toward the American Communist Party, involvement in liberal or humanitarian political causes that enforcers of the blacklist associated with communism, and/or refusal to assist federal investigations into Communist Party activities; some were blacklisted merely because their names came up at the wrong place and time.” Writers and directors ...
Malikah Shabazz, Malcolm X's Daughter, Pleads Guilty To Stealing 70 Year-Old's Identity
Post Date: 2011-06-11 09:12:14 by sneakypete
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NEW YORK -- A daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X has pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of an elderly family friend to run up more than $55,000 in credit card bills. Malikah (mah-LEE'-kah) Shabazz was freed from jail Thursday after entering the plea at a courthouse in New York City. She had been in custody since her Feb. 18 arrest in North Carolina. Her deal with prosecutors calls for her to pay back the money and be on probation for five years. Queens prosecutors say the 46-year-old used the name of a 70-year-old woman whose late husband was one of Malcolm X's bodyguards to acquire credit cards that Shabazz used to run up big debts. Her lawyer, Russell ...
Why I’m a Global Warming Skeptic
Post Date: 2011-06-11 09:10:12 by no gnu taxes
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Let’s begin by acknowledging that the science of global warming is beyond the vast majority of us. Nonetheless, this does not mean we turn off our brains and simply accept the pronouncements of those sounding the alarm and offering their remedies. I am a global warming skeptic (to say the least) specifically because I have thought through the issue and the claims of the alarmists just don’t add up. What follows is my thinking and what it is that has led me to conclude that global-warming is a leftist farce which is being perpetuated for both financial and political reasons. First, I am skeptical because skepticism is the scientific starting point. Not cynicism but skepticism. ...
Flag Day: June 14th 2011
Post Date: 2011-06-11 08:20:05 by war
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The U.S. flag should always be treated with utmost care and respect. Remember, the flag represents a living country and, as such, is considered a living thing. # Always display the flag with the blue union field up- never display the flag upside down, except as a distress signal. # Always hold the flag carefully- never let it touch anything beneath it: the ground, the floor, water or merchandise. # Always carry the flag aloft and free- never carry it flag or horizontally. # Always keep the flag clean and safe- never let it become torn, soiled or damaged. # Always dispose of a flag properly, preferably by burning it. Always treat the flag with respect. Never use it for advertising ...
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