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Usually a job engine, localities slow US economy (467K govt. jobs gone)
Post Date: 2011-06-06 11:13:29 by go65
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WASHINGTON — In a healthy economic recovery, states and localities start hiring, expand services and help fuel the nation's growth. The U.S. economy is moving ahead, however fitfully. Yet state and local governments are still stuck in recession. Short of cash, they cut 30,000 jobs in May, the seventh straight month they've shed workers. Rather than add to U.S. economic growth, they're subtracting from it. And ordinary Americans are feeling it — from reduced services to fewer teachers, police officers and firefighters. The Great Recession officially ended two years ago this month. By the same point during previous recoveries, state and local governments were engines ...
McCain calls for limited US Afghan withdrawal
Post Date: 2011-06-06 09:44:53 by buckeroo
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John McCain, the top Republican on the US Senate armed services committee, has called on President Barack Obama to withdraw no more than 3,000 troops when he commences the US drawdown in Afghanistan next month. The former presidential candidate told the Financial Times that he hoped Mr Obama would announce only a small reduction in troop numbers when he unveils his plans for the first stage of the US withdrawal. “I would hope that it is very small. I would hope that it is 3,000,” Mr McCain said. “We need another fighting season.” As Mr Obama mulls the pace and size of the drawdown, Mr McCain stressed that US and Nato forces needed one more “fighting season” ...
'Sign of the apocalypse': Kucinich's Libya bill gets GOP support
Post Date: 2011-06-05 23:22:55 by jwpegler
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One Democrat called it the "sign of the apocalypse." An anti-war resolution authored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who spent years trying to impeach the last Republican president for prosecuting an illegal war, won more support from Republicans than Democrats on the House floor. That was the case Friday as the House debated how to respond, belatedly, to President Obama’s military intervention in Libya. Kucinich’s resolution, which would mandate an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces absent congressional authorization, failed by a wide margin, 265-148, but it garnered votes from more than one-third of the Republican conference. Eighty-seven Republicans voted for the ...
Abortion Showdown Could Cost Indiana $4.3 Billion
Post Date: 2011-06-05 15:21:01 by Brian S
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(06-05) 12:08 PDT Indianapolis (AP) -- A looming showdown over Indiana's new law that cuts funding for the Planned Parenthood organization may test how far Republican-led states are willing to go in pressing their tough new anti-abortion agendas. The stakes are high. The future of health care for more than 1 million poor and elderly Indiana residents hangs in the balance. Indiana became the first state this year to cut off all government funds to Planned Parenthood, fulfilling conservatives' goal of financially weakening organizations that provide abortions. Other conservative states have considered such action in recent years but backed away under the threat of loss of all ...
Protesters Open ‘Walkerville’ Tent City In Madison, Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-06-05 15:10:39 by Brian S
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In a move meant to evoke the infamous "Hooverville" tent cities of the Great Depression, protesters in Madison, Wisconsin opened "Walkerville" on Saturday evening, a tent city in the heart of Madison intended as a protest of Governor Scott Walker's budget plan. The Wisconsin Sentinel Journal calls the protest "the latest act in the 2011 political drama featuring the governor's push to eliminate most collective bargaining rights for most public employees". By 9:00pm, an estimated 250 campers in up to 100 tents were arrayed throughout the designated protest area, with many campers pitching their tents on concrete sidewalks. City police, state troopers, ...
Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show Ratings Soar, Fox News Slumps In May Numbers
Post Date: 2011-06-05 15:03:31 by Brian S
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Comedy Central and "The Daily Show" both surged in the May Nielsen ratings, posting their best numbers yet. "The Daily Show" dominated its time slot across all of television, cable and broadcast, and boasted a very impressive 19 percent increase in viewership in May alone. Meanwhile, according to Mediabistro's TV Newser, Fox News suffered an overall decline in viewers in the highly sought-after 25-to-54-year old demographic for May, with total ratings down 10 percent. Bill O'Reilly's viewership dropped 9 percent, Sean Hannity's 6 percent, with Greta Van Susteren and Glenn Beck suffering the steepest losses with Van Susteren's "On the ...
Terrorist Training camps in America
Post Date: 2011-06-05 14:32:53 by CZ82
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Howard Dean warns Democrats Sarah Palin could beat Obama in 2012
Post Date: 2011-06-05 09:25:37 by A K A Stone
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Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012. Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year. “I think she could win,” Dean told The Hill in an interview Friday. “She wouldn’t be my first choice if I were a Republican but I think she could win.” Dean warns the sluggish economy could have more of a political impact than many Washington strategists and pundits assume. “Any time you have a contest — particularly when ...
Double standard for Marchers
Post Date: 2011-06-05 02:47:56 by socalv8
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Since the nationalist grass-roots tea party movement began in 2009, the left-wing media in America, and abroad, have succeeded wildly in misbranding their stated goals of holding out-of-control spending and taxation in check, holding government accountable to its citizens, and reminding us all that our Constitution contains laws that various levels of government today appear to interpret at will. Instead, tea party supporters are vilified by the mainstream media as ---- select any ---- greedy, corporate, religious, capitalist, anti-immigrant, anti-worker, homophobic, Islamophobic and racist, as evidenced by virulent op-ed columns following any tea party protest, whether at Temecula's ...
Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It
Post Date: 2011-06-04 19:06:47 by Mad Dog
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Collier County, Florida -- Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank? Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank. Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff's deputies foreclose on the bank. It started five months ago when Bank of America filed foreclosure papers on the home of a couple, who didn't owe a dime on their home. The couple said they paid cash for the house. The case went to court and the homeowners were able to prove they didn't owe Bank of America anything on the house. In fact, it was proven that the couple never even had a mortgage bill to pay. A Collier ...
Sarah Palin's tour a rolling menace
Post Date: 2011-06-04 15:29:14 by Mad Dog
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SEABROOK, N.H. — Sarah Palin’s bus is plastered with a mock-up of the U.S. Constitution. But her entourage — both the three-vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller, two-SUV version she uses for smaller events — hasn’t been very respectful of traffic laws. They speed. They run red lights and stop signs. They make last-second lane changes to get off the highway, sometimes without signaling. So do the reporters following them. Journalists in the caravan trailing her “One Nation” tour bus describe the experience as harrowing, a rolling menace careening up the East Coast in hot pursuit of the former Alaska governor who declined to provide any ...
Palin’s Set of Improbable Coincidences
Post Date: 2011-06-04 11:54:12 by go65
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On most of the stops, Palin hasn’t lingered: she didn’t see the slave quarters or take the cruise at Mount Vernon; she spent only 20 minutes at Fort McHenry, 30 minutes at the National Archives; under an hour at Gettysburg and Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Really, just long enough for a photo op, to answer a couple of questions from reporters and to sign some paraphernalia for supporters. And her staff is leaking to select reporters where and when she’s going next in case they lose the bus. But, really, it’s all coincidence. Click for Full Text!
Sarah Palin collects a bushel of Pinocchios on her bus tour
Post Date: 2011-06-04 05:39:55 by Ferret Mike
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“This Sunday, May 29th, Governor Palin and the SarahPAC team will begin a trip through our nation's rich historical sites, starting from Washington, DC, and going up through New England. The ‘One Nation Tour’ is part of our new campaign to educate and energize Americans about our nation's founding principles, in order to promote the Fundamental Restoration of America.” — Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s Web site Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has spent this week taking a high-profile bus tour up to New Hampshire, in what may or may not be a prelude to a presidential run in 2012. She spent half an hour the other day chatting with Fox ...
Palin Whoppers on Debt, Oil Imports
Post Date: 2011-06-03 22:37:00 by go65
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Sarah Palin made two wildly inaccurate claims on the debt accumulated under President Obama and oil imports. She wrongly said that the debt had grown more under Obama than "all those other presidents combined." She also was way off when she claimed that the U.S. is going to spend "$8 billion a day" on oil imports this year and next year to make up for declining oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. The actual amount is less than $20 million a day. Wrong on the Debt The former Alaska governor granted an interview to Fox News' Greta Van Susteren from her tour bus. She said about the debt: Palin, May 31: Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two ...
Are America's Wounded Troops Getting A Square Deal
Post Date: 2011-06-03 17:53:32 by CZ82
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Are America's Wounded Troops Getting A Square Deal? by Maj. General John K. Singlaub 05/17/2011 President Teddy Roosevelt once said, “A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward.” With the patriotic Memorial Day holiday approaching, now is the perfect time to ask if our troops who have shed their blood in Afghanistan or Iraq are being properly thanked for their sacrifice. The answer, sadly, is no. Consider the case of Marine Christopher Chaput, from New Bern, NC. Christopher took a body full of shrapnel while hunting down terrorists in Afghanistan in September 2009. While trying to recover from his painful ...
Funniest Football Punt
Post Date: 2011-06-03 17:13:04 by no gnu taxes
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How bad Obama sucks: Unemployment is higher than it was projected to be if no stimulus had ever been passed
Post Date: 2011-06-03 14:37:55 by no gnu taxes
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James Arness, Marshal on ‘Gunsmoke,’ Dies at 88
Post Date: 2011-06-03 14:34:43 by Get Outta Dodge!
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Michelle Obama to visit Africa -- If we're lucky, maybe she'll just stay there!
Post Date: 2011-06-03 14:26:43 by no gnu taxes
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Michelle Obama is heading to Africa on an official visit later this month, stopping in South Africa and Botswana where she'll continue her efforts to encourage young people to get involved in their societies. The first lady also will visit Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa and Gaborone, Botswana during the June 21-26 trip. The official said Mrs. Obama's visit will highlight the important stake the U.S. has in the success of Africa's many nations, as well as the historic connections between the American people and those who live on the African continent. President Barack Obama's late father was Kenyan. Sounds like just another taxpayer funded vacation to me. No ...
Paul Revere warned the British, according to Sarah Palin [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-03 14:07:57 by Ferret Mike
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-- "He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed." -- Sarah Palin This is embarrassing. Even to me. As an American, as a woman, as a human being. How can it possibly be that even one person in this country considers this person qualified for the presidency. My Note: This tops how a few weeks ago, Michelle Bachman came in New Hampshire and announced that the revolution started in Lexington and Concord (NH). Good going Sarah.
Did a pork-coated bullet kill Bin Laden? (Silver Bullet Gun Oil - 13 per cent USDA liquefied pig fat)
Post Date: 2011-06-03 13:18:26 by Hondo68
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Was Osama bin Laden shot with a bullet soaked in pork fat, denying him a place in paradise?Yes, if one rather shady website, that peddles gun oil containing liquefied pig fat, is to be believed.The makers of Silver Bullet Gun Oil claim it contains 13 per cent USDA liquefied pig fat thus making the product 'a highly effective counter-Islamic terrorist force multiplier.'The apparent owner of the gun oil site, who goes by the name 'The Midnight Rider,' explains how the pig fat will transfer onto anything the bullet strikes.This 'effectively denies entry to Allah's paradise to an Islamo-fascist terrorist,' Rider adds.The oil, which costs $8.95 for 4oz, apparently ...
Obama's Cloud Economy (Face it Leftards: Obama OWNS This Economy)
Post Date: 2011-06-03 13:02:25 by no gnu taxes
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You just know the American economy is out there somewhere. If only someone knew which buttons to push to retrieve it from the storage cloud. Here are three headlines that floated by on yesterday morning's screens alone: "U.S. Manufacturing Growth Slows Substantially" "Housing Imperils Recovery" "Private Sector Added Few Jobs in May" Let it be noted for the record that presidents normally do not take ownership of a weak economy. Jimmy Carter owned the 1980 election-year economy. George H.W. Bush owned the 1992 election-year economy. Both were one-term presidents. Happily for his opponents, Barack Obama has taken ownership of the 2011 economy, a full ...
Chevy Volt dealers inflate prices, take tax credits
Post Date: 2011-06-03 12:11:26 by Skip Intro
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Chevy Volt dealers inflate prices, take tax credits Several dealerships, including at least one in California, have marked up new Volts more than $20,000. Others are selling the cars as used, claiming a $7,500 tax credit for themselves. Car sales may be in a slump, but the hybrid-electric Chevrolet Volts are hot, and that's leading to shortages — and in some cases extreme dealer markups. Several dealerships, including at least one in California, have priced new Volts more than $20,000 above General Motors Co.'s suggested $41,000 retail tag. Others are selling the vehicles as used, claiming a $7,500 tax credit for themselves and leaving the eventual buyers ineligible. And ...
Cain: With All Due Respect, Obama Couldn't Run a Pizza Joint
Post Date: 2011-06-03 11:30:26 by no gnu taxes
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Fast-rising GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO emerging as a strong contender in the Iowa caucuses, blasted President Barack Obama’s leadership abilities in an exclusive Newsmax interview, saying Obama “could not run one Godfather’s pizza restaurant.” Cain, who has been rising fast in the polls after his impressive showing in last month’s presidential debate in South Carolina, called the president as an indecisive leader who has lost most Americans' confidence. “The president has demonstrated that he lacks leadership in a whole lot of ways [and] could not run a company,” Cain told Newsmax. “And I ...
Pro-Obama Media Always Shocked by Bad Economic News
Post Date: 2011-06-03 09:47:57 by no gnu taxes
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Unexpectedly! As megablogger Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, has noted with amusement, the word "unexpectedly" or variants thereon keep cropping up in mainstream media stories about the economy. "New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed," reported cnbc.com May 25. "Personal consumption fell," Business Insider reported the same day, "when it was expected to rise." "Durable goods declined 3.6 percent last month," Reuters reported May 25, "worse than economists' expectations." "Previously owned home sales unexpectedly fall," headlined Bloomberg News May 19. "U.S. home construction fell ...
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