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Madison Police Chief Asks Walker To Explain ‘Troubling’ Comments
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:46:33 by Brian S
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Police chief Noble Wray of Madison, Wisconsin on Thursday asked Republican Gov. Scott Walker to explain "very unsettling and troubling" comments made in what he thought was a private phone call. Pranked by a gonzo journalist pretending to be conservative billionaire David Koch, Walker said on the 20-minute call that his administration considered planting "troublemakers" in the crowd of demonstrators opposing his budget, which curtails the collective bargaining rights of public employees. "I spent a good deal of time overnight thinking about Governor Walker's response, during his news conference yesterday, to the suggestion that his administration 'thought ...
Scott Walker… Wisconsin Governor – Keeping His Election Promises
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:39:14 by no gnu taxes
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One of the craziest things I have heard floated by the Left is that Governor Walker’s initiatives are a surprise… that somehow he duped the voters into voting for him and that he is somehow now undertaking policies that run counter to what voters expected. This is not so in the least. It is a sad attempt to discredit Wisconsin voters. It is a canard designed to undercut the validity of the election in November. The piggies on the Left never tire of floating lies… even when the truth is so very obvious to anyone armed with a search engine. Governor-elect Walker campaigned for 18 months on controlling state spending, part of which is bringing public sector benefits in line ...
Goldman Sachs: House Spending Cuts Will Hurt Economic Growth
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:34:52 by go65
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A confidential new report prepared by Goldman Sachs for its clients says spending cuts passed by the House of Representatives last week would be a drag on the economy, cutting economic growth by about two percent of GDP. “Under the House passed spending bill [which cut spending by $61 billion],” says the report, which was obtained by ABC News, “the drag on GDP growth from federal fiscal policy would increase by 1.5pp to 2pp in Q2 and Q3 compared with current law.” The report, which is signed by Goldman economist Alec Phillips, goes on to predict that the House- passed bill is unlikely to become law because it won’t pass the Senate and, in any case, the president ...
Democrats Silent on Gas Prices Unlike the Bush Years
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:26:35 by no gnu taxes
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Heard on the radio this morning that analysts are expecting $4/gallon gasoline by summer and $5/gallon by 2012. Back in ’06, ’07 and ’08 there was a lot of public outcry and political pressure on President Bush to do something. It’s curious to me why no one seems to care about high gasoline prices like they did 5 years ago. I suppose that people have simply gotten used to paying $3/gallon. Why, just last month Ford sold more of their gas guzzling Explorer vehicles than ever before. I wonder how people will react to $5/gallon gas. I know I won’t be happy. The Democrats were quick to blame Bush over high prices. I’m not hearing any Democrats have as much concern ...
Hold Obama Accountable for High Gas Prices
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:50:52 by no gnu taxes
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Whereas someone like me always cares about keeping the price of gas low so that our economy can boom and so that poor people can get to work, many only care about high gas prices when a Republican is in charge. Through the beauty of custom search tools on google, you can now time-travel back and see how journalists and bloggers and politicians in the past reacted to certain events and then compare their reactions to events of the present day. You can expose them then as hypocrites and opportunists, who only care about a subject when it suits their interests, and who seize on bad information merely to move their political agenda. Let's compare the reaction of the liberal elites in the ...
NICE GOING OBAMA, YOU A**HOLE: YOU HAVE STARTED WORLD WAR III
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:47:14 by no gnu taxes
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When Saddam Hussein's tank battalions brutally invaded Kuwait in 1992, the United States was able to knock Saddam's Air Force out of the sky in a matter of days. In the subsequent tank battles the United States ruled the air. After kicking Saddam out of Kuwait we maintained a no-fly zone over half of Iraq for the next six years, thereby stabilizing the Gulf on both sides. Where the USAF and USN ruled the skies Saddam could not launch a single plane or missile. The world's oil supply was protected, allowing European leftists to drive their cars at reasonable gas prices to noisy demonstrations to scream and rage at us, all because Uncle Sam was the good cop and kept them free.
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Obama, The Antithesis of America
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:41:49 by no gnu taxes
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Obama cares nothing for this country, the extent of his concern is where he will take his next vacation or which golf course he will tee off on. Our country is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression: * Unemployment over 10%(perhaps as high as 17%). * Rising inflation. * Record debt and deficits. Since taking office Obama’s foreign policy has consisted of: * Apologizing to our enemies and dictators around the world for “American aggression”. * Embracing our enemies. * Giving lip service to our allies. * Turning his back on Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East. As far as domestic policy is concerned, Obama has been and is a ...
DARK TIMES AHEAD FOR HUSSEIN HOPE N CHANGE!
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:39:09 by no gnu taxes
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Things are about to get real bad for Hopenchange. For a community organizer who sold himself to be a savior, he is about to enter very dark times. And he will not enter the abyss alone. Obama will take a good part of the Democrat party down with him. The last election will look like an ACORN meeting after extorting a bank and buying Cadillacs come November 2012. Gas prices are going to skyrocket like never before. The radical Islam movement that is about to overtake the Middle East will reduce the flow of oil to America to a trickle. Obama and his disgraceful EPA have illegally shut down off shore drilling in Louisiana and those platforms are now in Brazil and other parts. They won’t ...
Oil At $101 A Barrel. What's Obama And Reid Doing About It?
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:36:42 by no gnu taxes
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Oil is now over $101 a barrel and gas prices are going to go up and up and up. $4 a gallon of gas soon, hurting the poor and middle class the hardest. Las Vegas is going to be hurt terribly, all at a time when the economy needs to improve. So, what is Obama's solution to the problem? Green energy, send in union thugs to make sure taxes go even higher and then nothing. Reid's: Outlaw prostitution. Can't wait for 2012. The American people will realize what a mistake the 2008 elections were and in 2012, the conservatives, not RINOs, will be swept into office.
Obama is going to leave a completely messed up Country for the next President to clean up
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:33:30 by no gnu taxes
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President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission -- and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. His first two budgets led to the largest deficits in U.S. history. The ensuing $3 trillion dollars in red ink prompted the tea party movement and led to the largest midterm defeat of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives since 1938. No matter. The president has proposed a new budget with an even larger, $1.6 trillion deficit. That record federal borrowing prompted columnist Charles Krauthammer to describe it as Louis XV indulgence, an allusion to the wild royal spending that brought ...
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said Thursday that he found comments by Gov. Scott Walker made about protesters at the state Capitol during a prank phone call "very unsettling and troubling."
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:30:32 by Godwinson
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he Journal Sentinel reports: Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said Thursday that he found comments by Gov. Scott Walker made about protesters at the state Capitol during a prank phone call "very unsettling and troubling." In a statement, Wray said he spent time overnight thinking about the comments Walker made during a 20-minute conversation with a Buffalo N.Y. blogger who posed as a major Republican donor during the call... Wray said he was disturbed that Walker thought about planting troublemakers among peaceful protesters. "I would like to hear more of an explanation from Governor Walker as to what exactly was being considered, and to what degree it was discussed by his ...
California To See $4 A Gallon For Gas; Obama Must Be Happy
Post Date: 2011-02-24 13:29:12 by no gnu taxes
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Remember predictions just last week that gas prices in California could top $4 a gallon before Memorial Day? Bank on it, and possibly within a few weeks. -- The uprising in Libya unleashed the specter of record-setting prices in the state Wednesday, fueled by crude oil touching the benchmark of $100 per barrel for the first time since 2008. “Investors and speculators didn’t get too excited with unrest in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain,” said Tom Robinson, president of Robinson Oil of San Jose. “But Libya has really spooked them.” Robinson, whose company owns the Rotten Robbie gas stations, said spot market prices for unleaded gas in the Bay Area jumped 10 cents ...
Report: Army Targeted U.S. Senators With Psy-Ops
Post Date: 2011-02-24 12:15:15 by Brian S
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The U.S. army reportedly deployed a specialized "psychological operations" team to help convince American legislators to boost funding and troop numbers for the war in Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops, ordered the operation, Rolling Stone Magazine reported in a story published late on Wednesday. An officer in charge of the unit objected when he was ordered to pressure the visiting senators and was harshly reprimanded by superiors, according to the magazine. "My job in psy-ops is to play with people's heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," the officer, Lt. Colonel Michael ...
10 Things You Need to Know About High Gas Prices and Obama’s Oil Policy
Post Date: 2011-02-24 12:10:20 by no gnu taxes
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This week the media’s attention is finally focused on oil prices. After two years of continually rising consumer gas prices in America, the oil futures market has captivated the Mideast storyline. And attention is much needed. December 2010 saw the highest gas prices for the month of December in our nation’s history. This month, we’re setting similar records with the national average of $3.14/gallon–fifty cents higher than it was a year ago. If this trend continues, the summer of 2011 will hit consumers much harder than in the summer of 2008 when prices soared above $4/gallon. But if you only read, hear or see this week’s news reports, you would think that oil and ...
After Devoting Five Minutes to Libya Crisis, "Party Boy" Obama to Host Yet Another Concert Tonight
Post Date: 2011-02-24 12:00:29 by no gnu taxes
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Need another sign sign this White House is completely tone deaf? After ignoring the Libya crisis for a week until yesterday, and then merely offering a perfunctory statement, it's back to party time in DC. Let's just hope Michelle has jetted back from her lavish ski vacation in Vail so she doesn't miss anything. Can't wait to see what's on the menu. President Barack Obama is celebrating classic rhythm and blues on Thursday, spotlighting the music of Motown in a White House concert. Stars invited to tonight's event include Motown icon Smokey Robinson as well as contemporary singers Sheryl Crow and John Legend, who will perform Motown hits. It's the latest ...
Saudi Student Arrested In Plot To Bomb Bush Home
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:54:09 by Brian S
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U.S. authorities have arrested a 20-year-old Saudi national on charges he tried to use a weapon of mass destruction and potentially targeted former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department said Thursday. FBI agents arrested Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, who was admitted into the United States in 2008 on a student visa, in Texas on Wednesday. The Justice Department accuses him of purchasing chemicals and equipment to make an improvised explosive device. Aldawsari, a student at South Plains College near Lubbock, allegedly referred to Bush's Dallas home as "tyrant's house" and possibly contemplated using dolls to conceal the explosives, the statement said. He is due to ...
Obama -- The AWOL President
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:23:31 by no gnu taxes
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Share95 Print Forward 57 Comments The AWOL President Obama is silent after four Americans are murdered. by John Hayward 02/23/2011 Jokes about Barack Obama’s tendency to “vote present” have flowed between those who paid attention to his lackluster Senate resume since 2008, but this is ridiculous. Four Americans were murdered by Somali pirates yesterday, and the President has not said a word. Maybe he’s chewing on former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer’s Tweet, in which Fleischer advised, “If I was a Somali pirate & O doesn’t retaliate, I’d keep taking hostages. If crime/terror pays, there will be more crime/terror.” I can see where it ...
Gov. Walker admits to FOX's VAN SUSTEREN he thought of carrying out dirty tricks against Union protestors.
Post Date: 2011-02-24 09:53:56 by Godwinson
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WALKER: I mean, I think it's interesting because the prankster there tried to insinuate at least that this person was going to push for people to come in and cause a disturbance amongst the protesters. I made it very clear that's not right. That's not -- that doesn't work. That adds no value. VAN SUSTEREN: Well, you said you'd thought about it. WALKER: Well, he did. (CROSSTALK) VAN SUSTEREN: ... in the transcript, when you brought up the part about, basically, dirty tricks in the crowd, you said, Well -- he says, You -- as least you're quoted as saying, "You know, well, the only problem with that, because we thought about that, the problem that my only gut ...
Governor Walker is Right
Post Date: 2011-02-24 09:35:32 by no gnu taxes
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A storm’s a raging in Madison, Wisconsin between responsible government and what the BIG, BULLY Union thinks its public workers are owed. With 14 million Americans out of jobs (9% unemployment) and many more private sector employees suffering pay and benefit cuts, unionized public workers have the audacity to refuse to budge an inch on their demands. News flash unions, the country is in a recession and your wages aren’t off limits from cuts. Facing a $3.6 billion state budget shortfall, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wants to reduce state employee benefits and end the ability of some public unions’ collective bargaining rights. Governor Walker is right not to bow to the ...
Trump gives the Kenyan failure low grades ‘C’ or lower, praises Gov. Walker
Post Date: 2011-02-24 09:24:19 by no gnu taxes
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Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump released a video on his YouTube channel Wednesday weighing in on turmoil in the Middle East and the Republican-led effort to reduce the power of unions in Wisconsin. Trump spoke at the beginning of the video about a Newsweek/Daily Beast poll released on Tuesday. The poll showed Trump only two percent behind Obama in a hypothetical match-up. By comparison, Sarah Palin trailed Obama by eleven percent, Mitt Romney by two percent, and Mike Huckabee tied with Obama. “The poll came out, and we’re in a virtual tie and I haven’t campaigned,” Trump said in the video. ”I’m not really, despite that, that surprised, because ...
Wisconsin Gov. Walker's Punk'd Phone Call Is A Viral Hit
Post Date: 2011-02-24 00:00:48 by Brian S
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Really? A 20- to 25-minute conversation and he didn’t know he was being punk’d? The tale of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s bogus phone conversation with a guy he thought was multi-billionaire conservative tycoon David H. Koch is making serious waves. The AP story says: “On the call, Walker joked about bringing a baseball bat to a meeting with Democratic leaders, said it would "be outstanding" to be flown out to California by Koch for a good time after the battle is over, and said he expected the anti-union movement to spread across the country. Audio was posted on the Buffalo Beast, a left-leaning website based in New York, and quickly spread across the ...
Newspapers, GOP call for crazy Dem congressman to resign
Post Date: 2011-02-23 19:38:11 by Happy Quanzaa
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Seven-term Democratic Rep. David Wu faced increasing pressure Wednesday to step down amid a series of bizarre revelations in recent days about his mental health, including a photo he sent to staffers during his re-election bid showing him wearing a tiger costume. The state Republican chair and one of Oregon's largest newspapers said Wu should resign, but Wu says he has no intention of quitting. "He has a really important job, and the citizens of Oregon and the citizens of the congressional district deserve to have a congressman who's completely focused on serving them and being a great congressman," Oregon Republican Party Chairman Allen Alley said ...
Anti-Government Extremist Groups On Rise In US: Study
Post Date: 2011-02-23 18:28:34 by Brian S
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CHICAGO – Membership in anti-government extremist groups continues to explode in the United States amid frustration over the lagging economy and the "mainstreaming of conspiracy theories," a study released Wednesday found. After nearly tripling in 2009 in the wake of the election of the nation's first black president, anti-government 'patriot' groups and militias grew another 61 percent in 2010 to 824, the report by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. Meanwhile, the number of active hate groups rose 7.5 percent to top 1,000 for the first time since the civil rights group first began tracking them in the early 1980s. Combined with modest growth among ...
Update: Official Who Wanted 'Live Ammunition’ Used On Protesters Has Been Fired
Post Date: 2011-02-23 18:27:29 by Brian S
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Update (3:15 pm ET): Indiana deputy attorney general loses job The Indiana Attorney General's office announced Wednesday that the deputy attorney general who called for Wisconsin riot police to use deadly force on protesters is no longer employed by the agency, according to WISH. Update (2:30 pm ET): Indiana official delete personal blog An Indiana deputy attorney general who called for Wisconsin riot police to use "live ammunition" on protesters has deleted his personal blog. Jeff Cox had claimed that Mother Jones would try to "silence" him. Original report continues below... One official in Indiana suggested over the weekend that riot police should use deadly ...
To the dumbasses here who think Alaska is "socialist" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-23 18:00:01 by no gnu taxes
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Socialism (and Communism) is the government taking from one person and giving it to another. Alaska is merely taking revenues derived from people owned resources and distributing it back to the people with the government having no say in who gets what; it's distributed equally without regard to so called "need." The oil is not State owned. It is people owned. They are simply giving the residents back the money that the oil companies paid to drill on their lands. Being a resident means they own a piece of that land so if money is made off of it they should have a right to it. I know you fucking moron socialists who think everything is State owned won't get this, but ...
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