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Rand Paul wants government hands off his toilet
Post Date: 2011-03-11 08:41:58 by A K A Stone
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If the federal government can support abortion rights, why can’t it also support light bulb choice, Sen. Rand Paul asked Thursday morning. And don’t even get him started about his toilet. The Kentucky Republican began making the link between the personal, the political and the plumbing-related when he asked Kathleen Hogan, the DOE deputy assistant secretary on energy efficiency, “I was wondering if you’re pro-choice?” “I’m pro-choice of bulbs,” Hogan responded. “Actually, that’s the point,” Paul said, during an appliance efficiency hearing at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “The point is that most members of ...
Terry Nichols Begins Hunger Strike at Supermax Feb 2010
Post Date: 2011-03-10 21:27:48 by A K A Stone
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Terry Nichols, serving a life sentence for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, has filed a notice with the U.S. District Court in Denver (where he has a civil suit pending against the Bureau of Prisons) advising that he has begun a hunger strike due to the inadequate fiber and excessive refined foods in his diet. Nichols is representing himself in a pending lawsuit about his diet. He says the lack of whole grains and fresh food in his diet harms his health and violates his religious beliefs, causing him to "sin against God." Nichols' handwritten six page filing, available on PACER, says he knows that he will be thrown "in the hole" for his hunger strike after ...
Author links man arrested in Quincy to the subject of her book on Oklahoma City bombing
Post Date: 2011-03-10 20:59:20 by A K A Stone
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The author of a book on the Oklahoma City bombing says a homeless man arrested in Quincy on Wednes day is the same man identified by several witnesses to the bombing as having been with Timothy McVeigh on the day of the deadly attack. Quincy Police on Thursday spoke with the author and noti fied the FBI of the arrest of Hussain Al-Hussaini for slash ing a man’s face with a beer bot tle. Capt. John Dougan said the man arrested in Quincy on Wednesday has the same name as a man featured prominently in the 2004 book “The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Con nection to the Oklahoma City Bombing.” Both Dougan and the author of the Oklahoma City book said the man arrested in Quincy ...
Drudge Had A Link About OK City Bombing And Now It Has Gone Poof
Post Date: 2011-03-10 20:54:00 by A K A Stone
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http://www.drudgefeed.com/vim/hussain_al_hussaini Hussain Al Hussaini... Posted to DrudgeReport @ 01:25:01 AM on 03/11/11 BOSTON -- The author of a book on the Oklahoma City bombing said a homeless man arrested in Quincy on Wednesday was identified by several witnesses to the bombing as having been with Timothy McVeigh on the day of the deadly attack, the Patriot Ledger reported. Thursday, March 10, 2011. [View Article]
GM chief financial officer resigns unexpectedly
Post Date: 2011-03-10 14:59:02 by jwpegler
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General Motors' finance chief is leaving after being passed over for the CEO job. Chris Liddell, who guided the company to its first profitable year since 2004 and led its successful public stock offering, will step down on April 1 after just 15 months at GM. He'll be replaced by Treasurer Dan Ammann, a former Wall Street banker, the company announced Thursday. Liddell, the former CFO of Microsoft Corp., was once considered a candidate to succeed Chief Executive Ed Whitacre. But GM's board instead picked current Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson when Whitacre left last August. During a hastily arranged conference call with reporters, Liddell said he had no job lined up, but ...
It’s Over in Wisconsin, Walker wins, assholes lose
Post Date: 2011-03-10 14:04:34 by no gnu taxes
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he standoff over union rights that rocked Wisconsin and the nation for weeks headed for a swift end Thursday, as Republican lawmakers were set to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state's public workers and deliver one of the strongest blows to the power of unions in years. Wisconsin Senate Republicans outmaneuvered their missing Democratic colleagues late Wednesday, using an unexpected but surprisingly simple procedural move to remove all spending measures from Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining legislation and allow them to vote without Democrats present. The gambit set up a Thursday vote in the Assembly, after which the legislation would need only ...
Walker Wins, Government Unions Lose, Fleebaggers Throw Temper Tantrum
Post Date: 2011-03-10 14:01:49 by no gnu taxes
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It turns out President Obama's efforts to foment civic unrest organize government unions against taxpayers were just as successful as his laser-like focus on jobs. Which is to say: the result was an epic fail. Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats. All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" -- a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall. The Senate requires a ...
Wisconsin Democrats Can Now Kiss Scott Walker's Ass
Post Date: 2011-03-10 12:56:41 by no gnu taxes
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Wisconsin Senate Republicans pass Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill Late last night Senate Republicans passed an amended version of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill with a vote of 18-1. This Budget Repair Bill strip s the vast majority of collective bargaining rights from public employees. The new bill removed the fiscal elements of the proposal however it still curbs collective bargaining and increases employee payments in pension and health benefits. It has been reported by other media outlets that the Republicans would not explain how the bill manged to pass despite not having the 20 senators required by law to vote on fiscal matters as Wisconsin Senate ...
Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate (Margaret Thatcher labelled Republican Rep. King a terrorist sympathizer)
Post Date: 2011-03-10 10:52:41 by Godwinson
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Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 5, 2011 In 1985, the Irish government boycotted the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, the biggest celebration in the Irish American calendar. The cause of its umbrage was Peter T. King, that year's grand marshal and someone the Irish government said was an "avowed" supporter of a terrorist organization, the Irish Republican Army. King, then a local politician on Long Island, was one of the most zealous American defenders of the militant IRA and its campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. He argued that IRA violence ...
Suspect in MLK bomb tied to racist movement
Post Date: 2011-03-10 10:04:09 by go65
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Federal agents today arrested an ex-soldier with ties to the white supremacist movement and charged him with planting the backpack bomb along the planned route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in downtown Spokane. Kevin William Harpham, 36, of Colville, could face life imprisonment on charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and possession of an unregistered explosive device, according to documents on file in U.S. District Court. Click for Full Text!
Maine Librarian's Pointed Budget Message Hits the Mark
Post Date: 2011-03-10 09:43:13 by go65
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She told the committee that she recently won a national "I Love My Librarian" Award from the Carnegie Corp. and The New York Times -- an honor that included a check, made out to McDaniel, for $5,000. "I plan to report that money on my income tax and I expect to pay taxes on it," she told the lawmakers. "Even though I donated the money in its entirety to the public middle school where I work." You heard that right. She gave the whole five grand, after taxes, to her school. If you live in Portland, that's your school, too. It was only the beginning. McDaniel said she's "happy to pay those taxes" because the way she sees it, taxes are ...
Prison Labor Used to Build Parts for Patriot Missiles
Post Date: 2011-03-10 08:44:39 by A K A Stone
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This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece. But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the workers manufacturing parts for those Patriot missiles are prisoners, earning as little as 23 cents an hour. (Credit Justin Rohrlich with the catch.) The work is done by Unicor, previously known as Federal Prison Industries. It’s a government-owned corporation, established during the Depression, that employs about 20,000 inmates in 70 prisons to make everything from clothing to office ...
David Broder, the Best Boy on the Campaign Bus, Dies at 81
Post Date: 2011-03-10 08:38:55 by A K A Stone
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"The high priest of political journalism, the most powerful and respected man in the trade was David Broder." -- "The Boys on the Bus" by Timothy Crouse, 1973 For nearly four decades, from the late 1960s to the 21st century, David Broder of The Washington Post, wore those priestly robes lightly, treating his journalistic calling and the American voters with reverence, never succumbing to the know-it-all self-importance that is an occupational hazard on the political beat. Broder, who filed his last column for the Post just a month ago, died Wednesday at age 81 from complications from diabetes. Transcending his 1973 Pulitzer Prize for commentary (based on his columns ...
Ex-officer admits to molesting hundreds
Post Date: 2011-03-10 08:31:30 by A K A Stone
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A former Crescent City police officer admitted to a judge Tuesday that he was a pedophile and molested hundreds of children. Sixty-year-old Pomona Park resident Paul Joseph Blair confessed to a lifetime of sexually abusing children during a dramatic hearing at the Putnam County Courthouse in Palatka. "I've been a pedophile my whole life," Blair said. "In my lifetime, I've probably molested 200-300 girls." Blair was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in state prison for two counts of sexual battery on a minor 12 to 18 years of age. "You have wrecked and ruined quite a few lives, even more than I think anyone realized," Circuit Judge Patti Christensen ...
Wis. GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining (NEA union mafia defeated)
Post Date: 2011-03-09 22:36:17 by Hondo68
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Opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill, including C.J. Terrell demonstrate outside the senate parlor at the Wisconsin State Capitol Building as legislators inside voted to move forward on an amended version of the controversial bill Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The new bill removes the fiscal elements from the bill and strips public employees of collective bargaining rights. MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting Wednesday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans discovered a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats and approve an explosive proposal that has rocked the state and ...
Gingrich: Love of country contributed to affair
Post Date: 2011-03-09 18:37:54 by go65
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WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich says his passion for his country contributed to his marital infidelity. In an interview posted Wednesday by The Christian Broadcasting Network, Gingrich — who recently converted to Catholicism — said he had sought God's forgiveness for mistakes in his past. "There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," Gingrich said. Click for Full Text!
Americans see U.S. on wrong track: Reuters/Ipsos poll (O approval down 10%)
Post Date: 2011-03-09 17:31:15 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans' confidence in the way the country is going has slumped to a two-year low in the last month, and one pollster blamed soaring gas prices. A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday the proportion of people who believe the United States is on the wrong track rose seven points to 64 percent from February, in a fresh challenge to President Barack Obama. It was the highest number of people in an Ipsos poll who think the country on the wrong track since Obama took office in January 2009. The survey comes as many indicators show an improving U.S. economy. Ipsos pollster Cliff Young said the rating was a direct result of gasoline prices that have risen ...
The House of Representatives Definition of “Natural Born Citizen” = Born of citizen “parents” in the US.
Post Date: 2011-03-09 17:27:22 by A K A Stone
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During a debate (see pg. 2791) regarding a certain Dr. Houard, who had been incarcerated in Spain, the issue was raised on the floor of the House of Representatives as to whether the man was a US citizen. Representative Bingham (of Ohio), stated on the floor:
“As to the question of citizenship I am willing to resolve all doubts in favor of a citizen of the United States. That Dr. Houard is a natural-born citizen of the United States there is not room for the shadow of a doubt. He was born of naturalized parents within the jurisdiction of the United States, and by the express words of the Constitution, as amended to-day, he is declared to all the world to be a citizen of the United ...
Cap'n Crunch sails into obscurity
Post Date: 2011-03-09 17:19:42 by A K A Stone
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The Soggies have finally won: Cap'n Crunch is quietly sailing into retirement. Long derided by health experts for its high sugar content – a single serving contains 12 grams – the cereal is no longer being actively marketed by Quaker, DailyFinance reports. It appears parent company Pepsico is forcing the good Cap'n to walk the plank. Cap'n Crunch was once the No. 1 breakfast cereal, but pressure from the White House and health activists is having an effect on how PepsiCo and other food companies peddle their products to kids. Sales of the cereal were down 6.8 percent in 2010. Last year, PepsiCo vowed to reduce added sugar per serving by 25 percent and saturated ...
NY Muslim TV exec sentenced to 25 to life for beheading wife
Post Date: 2011-03-09 17:04:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A former New York television executive was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for beheading his wife two years ago. Muzzammil Hassan was found guilty of second degree murder in February. Prosecutors painted the 46-year-old as an abusive husband who planned the attack on his third wife, 37-year-old Aasiya Zubair Hassan. The murder took place on Feb. 12, 2009 at Bridges TV, the Orchard Park, N.Y., television station the couple founded. Hassan allegedly lured his wife to the studio, then attacked her from behind, stabbing her more than 40 times with two hunting knives and cutting her head off, according to The Buffalo News. The Pakistan-born Hassan, who ...
Does Peter King know the IRA killed an American? A London car bombing by the Irish terrorist group -- backed by the now-congressman -- left one young American dead
Post Date: 2011-03-09 16:36:34 by Godwinson
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WEDNESDAY, MAR 9, 2011 13:57 ET Does Peter King know the IRA killed an American? A London car bombing by the Irish terrorist group -- backed by the now-congressman -- left one young American dead BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT After a decade of U.S. politics dominated by blanket denunciations of terrorism, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has given several media interviews about his longtime support for the Irish Republican Army and revealed that he believes some forms of terrorism are acceptable. King is in the news right now because he's holding a hearing Thursday on "radicalization" of U.S. Muslims, and many people have pointed out the contradiction between his defense of Irish terrorism ...
What American TV will look like when Hispanics take over
Post Date: 2011-03-09 12:45:05 by Godwinson
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Boehner Signs Up Staffer for Etiquette Class ($5,800)
Post Date: 2011-03-09 12:39:57 by go65
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John Boehner famously grew up mopping the floors of his father’s bar, so presumably he knows little about hobnobbing with foreign royalty, one of his duties as Speaker. So in December, the Ohio Republican’s office spent $5,800 to register a staff member for a protocol class to learn the niceties of exchanging gifts, arranging seating plans and organizing large events with visiting dignitaries. The class is run by an accredited private academy, the Protocol School of Washington. The five-day training to take place in May — Boehner’s office saved $500 on the tuition by registering ahead of time — covers topics such as dining skills, titles and forms of address, ...
President Bush: "Miss Me Yet?” and the answer is quickly becoming a resounding “YES WE DO! because Obama is the worst F'ing President EVER
Post Date: 2011-03-09 12:00:54 by no gnu taxes
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There’s a picture going around on the internet that has President Bush waving and underneath it says “Miss Me Yet?” and the answer is quickly becoming a resounding “YES WE DO!”. I miss President Bush (both of them) and I really miss Ronald Reagan. In fact, I miss President Clinton. Hell, I wish Hillary Clinton had became our President. Instead we got Barack Obama. Let’s review.. President Bush’s two terms in office, two on-going wars, high deficits, and the Patriot Act, and that was the bad. There was a lot of good things in President Bush’s presidency as well. Remember when he stood on that rubble and yelled into the bullhorn, “I can hear ...
Wisconsin governor offers concessions on budget bill
Post Date: 2011-03-09 11:30:58 by go65
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An e-mail exchange released by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's office on Tuesday has revealed a series of potential Republican concessions to a three-week standoff over a budget bill that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of most public workers. The e-mails show a discussion between Walker's deputy chief of staff, Eric Schutt, and Democratic state Sens. Tim Cullen and Bob Jauch in a correspondence that reveals offers and counter-offers between two sides who have remained at an impasse since mid-February. Click for Full Text!
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