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GOP sellout in offing?
Post Date: 2010-12-03 11:18:39 by continental op
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In Newsweek, Mickey Kaus blogs: "When I worried that the Obama White House might have a plan to enact the so-called DREAM Act in "some sort of insidiuous tax-cuts-for-amnesty grand bargain," I figured it was just paranoid speculation. That's what bloggers are for, right? Unfortunately, the possibility of a lame-duck grand bargain that would include a big immigration amnesty has become more realistic since then. Two things have happened: (1) The White House, Hill Republicans, and Hill Democrats have appointed a special negotiating group to hash out lame-duck issues, especially what to do about the expiring Bush tax cuts, and (2) 42 Senate Republicans have signed a letter ...
November jobs report: Unemployment rate up
Post Date: 2010-12-03 09:42:03 by go65
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The government's monthly labor report threw a curve ball Friday morning as November's job growth came in far lower than expected and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%. U.S. employers added 39,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the Labor Department reported. That marks a major slowdown from October, when the economy added an upwardly revised 172,000 jobs. November's numbers also fell short of the 150,000 gain that economists surveyed by CNNMoney.com were expecting. 85 EmailPrintComment "The overall pace of job growth is disappointing," said Wells Fargo Chief Economist John Silvia, who had forecast a gain of 130,000 jobs in the ...
Delaying Tax Vote Could Crash Stock Market
Post Date: 2010-12-03 02:35:33 by WhiteSands
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Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts, especially locking in the 15 percent capital gains tax rate, will spark a stock market sell off starting December 15 as investors move to lock in gains at a lower rate than the 20 percent it would jump to next year, warn analysts. [See who gets the most money from the financial industry.] While it is unclear how bad the sell off could be, it could wipe out the year's gains, they warn. "Capital gains tax rate will increase from 15 to 20 percent if the tax cuts are not extended. The last time the capital gains tax rate increased--on Jan. 1, 1987 from 20 to 28 percent--investors realized their gains at the lower tax rate," said ...
Rangel Censured by House for Ethics Violations
Post Date: 2010-12-02 18:52:24 by WhiteSands
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The House on Thursday formally censured Rep. Charlie Rangel for financial misconduct despite pleas from the New York Democratic lawmaker and some of his colleagues for a less punishing reprimand. The House voted to censure Rangel 333-79. Rangel, who became the 23rd House member to be censured, appeared at the front of the chamber while Speaker Nancy Pelosi read the resolution. Rangel responded that he won't be judged by this Congress, "but I'm going to be judged by my life, my activities, my contributions to society and I just apologize for the awkward position that some of you are in." "But at the end of the day -- as I started off saying -- compared to where ...
Prayer Vigil Held For Ailing Aretha Franklin
Post Date: 2010-12-02 16:56:28 by Murron
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Prayer Vigil Held For Ailing Aretha Franklin Dec 2, 2010 DETROIT – A community prayer vigil has been held in Detroit for Aretha Franklin, a day before organizers say the singing legend is to undergo a medical procedure. AP – FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll... City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson and others gathered downtown Wednesday to pray for Franklin. Last month, the 68-year-old singer announced she was canceling all concert dates and personal appearances through May on the orders of her doctors. Franklin wasn't at the vigil, but in a statement she thanked the City Council, saying "all prayers ...
House passes extension on middle-class tax cuts only
Post Date: 2010-12-02 16:19:23 by go65
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WASHINGTON — The House has passed a bill to extend middle-class tax cuts while letting those for the wealthy expire, even as talks continue on extending the cuts for everyone. The bill is a political maneuver to satisfy Democratic supporters who oppose extending tax cuts for the wealthy. Even if the bill passes the House, it has no chance in the Senate, where Democrats need Republican support to pass a tax bill. Sweeping tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush expire at the end of the year. A small bipartisan group of lawmakers and Obama administration officials continued negotiating Thursday on a deal that could extend all the tax cuts, at least temporarily. The ...
Snowman With Noose Appalls Idaho Home's Neighbors
Post Date: 2010-12-02 14:25:50 by Brian S
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HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) -- A white separatist drew complaints from neighbors and a visit from law enforcement officers after erecting a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn. Kootenai County sheriff's deputies told Markus Eliseuson Wednesday that he could be charged with a crime because the 10-foot-tall snowman was holding what appeared to be a noose. Deputies were called by neighbors who were appalled by the pointy-headed snowman with two dark eyes. Hayden for decades earned notoriety for being near the former rural compound of the Aryan Nations. Eliseuson could have been charged with creating a public nuisance. Idaho law defines such a nuisance as anything ...
Calling The Senate GOP's Bluff: Multiple Bills Likely To Come Up Before Tax Cuts
Post Date: 2010-12-01 22:32:11 by go65
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate GOP's threat to filibuster every single piece of legislation until the chamber resolves budget and tax cut measures will likely be tested as soon as Friday. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) received a letter signed by all 42 Senate Republicans, which stated, "[W]e write to inform you that we will not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers." But Reid plans to file cloture this week on at least three measures: the DREAM Act, collective bargaining for ...
Republicans Block Legislation To Feed More Children, Improve School Lunches
Post Date: 2010-12-01 16:38:28 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands more hungry children. Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday to try to amend the $4.5 billion bill, which would give more needy children the opportunity to eat free lunches at school and make those lunches healthier. First lady Michelle Obama has lobbied for the bill as part of her "Let's Move" campaign to combat childhood obesity. House Democrats said the GOP amendment, which would have required background checks for child care workers, was an effort to kill the bill and delayed a final vote on the legislation rather than vote on the amendment. House ...
Fed Says U.S. Economy Gains Strength in 10 of 12 Regions
Post Date: 2010-12-01 14:59:36 by go65
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The Federal Reserve said the economy gained strength across much of the U.S. as hiring improved, manufacturing expanded and retailers anticipated a stronger holiday shopping season. Five Fed banks, including Boston and San Francisco, said the economy grew “at a slight to modest” rate, while five others, including New York and Chicago, reported a “somewhat stronger pace of economic activity.” Conditions were reported as “mixed” in the Philadelphia and St. Louis regions. The report, based on anecdotal information, signals an improvement in the economy after sluggish growth in the summer prompted the Fed last month to announce $600 billion in asset purchases to ...
Rep. Cantor Puts Defense Spending ‘On The Table’
Post Date: 2010-12-01 12:13:21 by Brian S
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The next House Majority Leader is so serious about cutting the federal budget that he is open to cutting defense spending, he said. "I think, you know, we've got to have everything on the table right now, Matt," Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Matt Lauer of NBC's Today Show on Tuesday. Cantor's answer came after Lauer asked him how the Republican-led House next session will cut federal spending, as its newly-elected leadership has promised. "So let me try this again with you, Congressman. Are you willing to perhaps raise the Social Security retirement age? Are you willing to make cuts in Medicare? Are you willing to make cuts in defense spending? Are any of those ...
Senate GOP pledges to block all bills until tax dispute resolved (Government shutdown on Friday)
Post Date: 2010-12-01 11:33:39 by go65
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Washington (CNN) -- Senate Republicans promised Wednesday to block legislative action on every issue being considered by the lame-duck Congress until the dispute over extending the Bush-era tax cuts is resolved and an extension of current government funding is approved. All 42 Senate Republicans signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, vowing to prevent a vote on "any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers." "With little time left in this congressional session, legislative scheduling should be focused on these critical priorities. While ...
Moffett: FCC Net Neutrality Proposal Backs Usage-Based Pricing
Post Date: 2010-12-01 11:28:30 by go65
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Saying that "broadband rationing is now the order of the day," Bernstein Research senior analyst Craig Moffett says that the FCC's just-circulated order on codifying and expanding network neutrality guidelines "specifically and expressly endorses usage-based pricing for broadband." The item was circulated at around midnight Tuesday, just beating a customary deadline of three weeks before a public meeting, in this case the Dec. 21 meeting. Moffett says that will be a big boost to cable operators, who should be able to boost penetration with lower-priced tiers, and help address the cord-cutting issue by migrating video customers to broadband, or discouraging ...
Armed Services Members: WE DON'T WANT NO EFFIN FAGGOTS HERE!
Post Date: 2010-12-01 10:26:41 by no gnu taxes
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THE REAL PENTAGON POLL: 91% REJECT HOMOSEXUAL LEADERS. 85% OF COMBAT MARINES DISTRUST, 71% WON’T SHARE SHOWERS, 24% WON’T RE-ENLIST. HALF MILLION TROOPS, ONE IN FOUR, WOULD LEAVE THE MILITARY Former Navy Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt just read the full Pentagon report on repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and here's his analysis: "Don't believe the phony liberal media reports that 70% of troops support open homosexual service, because that statistic included 'mixed' feelings. A closer reading of the fine print in the newly released Pentagon survey shows our troops answered as follows: Q45. If you had a leader whom you believed was gay or ...
Anderson Cooper Shellacks Texas Birther With Torrent Of Facts
Post Date: 2010-12-01 09:17:25 by go65
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CNN's Anderson Cooper took Texas birther and state Rep. Leo Berman (R) down a whole bunch of pegs last night over Berman's birther bill. "You're basing legislation on stuff that's just rumors and stuff that's been proven to be false," Cooper told him. Earlier this month, Berman introduced a bill in the Texas House that would "require any candidate for president or vice president of the United States to show his or her birth certificate to the Texas secretary of state," because, as Berman put it, "we have a president whom the American people don't know whether he was born in Kenya or some other place." Berman, who has also called ...
Private-sector job growth biggest in 3 years [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-12-01 08:54:25 by go65
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Private-sector employment posted its biggest improvement in three years last month, according to a report issued Wednesday, while separate data showed the biggest increase in job cuts in eight months. Payrolls among private employers rose by 93,000 in November, the 10th consecutive month of increases, payroll processor ADP said in its report.. That was a much bigger jump than economists had expected. The ADP employment report was expected to show a gain of 58,000 jobs in November, according to the Briefing.com consensus of economist forecasts. In addition, the October gain was revised by nearly double to 82,000 from the originally reported 43,000. Employment in ...
I am a racist.
Post Date: 2010-11-30 18:23:34 by continental op
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CWNY has taught me that there is dignity in racism. I am a racist. Below are selected quotes from this elegaic article: http://cambriawillnotyield.blogspot.com/2010/11/light-of-europe.html -------- In the case of the white man who believes his race is superior to the colored races, we witness a man who respects humanity enough to make distinctions of value between peoples and cultures. What could be more Christian? And in the case of the white man who prefers his own because they are his own, we have a man who knows that the love of God is closely allied to the love of hearth. Again, what could be more Christian? Yes, He did tell us to spread the Gospel. But can the Gospel be spread by ...
Dr Doom Deals A Losing Hand.
Post Date: 2010-11-30 16:07:22 by Skip MacLure
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Imagine that Obama’s latest disaster wasn’t dead on arrival. Say the nation suddenly decided en masse to completely dismantle our nuclear deterrent as a shining example to the world. How safe would you feel? Realistically, we’d be stuck in a conventional defensive posture without the strength to curtail the spread of nuclear weapons. With smaller dictatorships lining up to be able to access tactical or larger bombs, sooner or later someone is going to pop a cap, to use the street parlance for it. Worst case would be that one of them would decide to toss one our way just make a point… or several if they thought they could get away with it. Yeah, ok, it is a pretty far ...
Tempers Flare As Unemployment Benefits Near Expiration
Post Date: 2010-11-30 15:51:41 by Brian S
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Unemployment benefits for more than 100,000 people in both Kentucky and Indiana could run out in a matter of days if Congress doesn't act. Many people are filing for benefits, others are looking for jobs, but with the threat of benefits running out, tempers are flaring. In the time that a WLKY reporter was at the Louisville Office of Employment and Training, at least two people were escorted out. Right now, benefits are scheduled to run out Wednesday for people who have been jobless for more than six months. Congress could take up the issue as early as Tuesday. Even if both houses of Congress move quickly, there will still be administrative odds and ends that ...
Bob Kerrey: Obama is so Incompetent He Needs Someone to Do His Job for Him
Post Date: 2010-11-30 15:11:16 by no gnu taxes
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No, he doesn’t quite say that, but it’s really hard to draw any other conclusion when he suggests that we create a Chief Operating Officer for the administrative branch: The COO’s duties would lie in execution of government policy, including ensuring that the government is well managed and that it addresses key national priorities as one entity and not as hundreds of separate agencies operating in silos. In other words, Obama didn’t learn on the job like everyone had hoped, nor had running for president prepared him to be president. Who knew? So the Democrats are trying to figure out how to help the president limp toward 2012 without embarrassing himself too much. But ...
State Tax Revenues Rise For 3rd Straight Quarter
Post Date: 2010-11-30 15:02:55 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- State tax revenues rose over the summer for the third straight quarter, giving a much-needed boost to beleaguered government budgets. The Rockefeller Institute, a research group at the State University of New York, says the amount of tax money states collected increased by an inflation-adjusted 2.6 percent in the July-September quarter, compared to the same period a year ago, Still, the increases aren't enough to make life easier for governors and state legislators. Most states face persistent budget gaps that are forcing widespread spending cuts and tax hikes. Budget shortfalls have prompted many states to lay off government workers and cut programs, serving as a ...
Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus
Post Date: 2010-11-30 14:43:09 by WhiteSands
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In the name of job creation and clean energy, the Obama administration has doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted them sweeping exemptions from the most basic form of environmental oversight, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has found. Related Stories: * NEPA Exemptions: The Dirty Dozen List * Wisconsin Firm Receives Energy Grant Despite Chronic Pollution Problems The administration has awarded more than 179,000 “categorical exclusions” to stimulus projects funded by federal agencies, freeing those projects from review under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. Coal-burning utilities like ...
Hoyer: Military Should Also See Pay Freeze
Post Date: 2010-11-30 13:39:06 by Brian S
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The second-ranking House Democrat said Monday that President Obama’s move to freeze the pay of civilian federal employees should also be extended to military personnel. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said including the military would have increased savings and add “an element of fairness." He made the comments in a statement about he president’s announcement of a two-year pay freeze. “While I appreciate that the president reduced the length of his proposed pay freeze from three to two years,” Hoyer said in a statement, “it would have produced significantly more savings had that sacrifice been shared between federal civilian and military personnel ...
Cantor: Republicans Will Keep Some Provisions Of Healthcare Reform Law Intact
Post Date: 2010-11-30 13:18:19 by Brian S
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House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Republicans will not be seeking to completely scrap the healthcare reform law. Cantor said there are certain elements of current law that will be included in the GOP plan, which he said will move simultaneously with a repeal measure through the House. Provisions that Republicans will seek to retain include the barring of insurance companies from refusing coverage to patients with a pre-existing condition and allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26. Speaking to more than 100 students at a town hall event at American University in Washington. D.C., Cantor responded to a question ...
Eight GOP Senators Vote To Keep Earmarks (ban goes down to defeat)
Post Date: 2010-11-30 13:03:26 by Brian S
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Eight Republican senators on Tuesday voted to preserve earmark spending despite pressure from the Tea Party movement. Sens. Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), James Inhofe (Okla.), Dick Lugar (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Richard Shelby (Ala.) voted against an amendment to food-safety legislation that would have enacted a two-year ban on the spending items. Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio) and defeated Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) also voted against it. Senate Republicans had already passed a voluntary earmark ban, but Tuesday's vote shows that the conference is still divided over the issue. The overall Senate proposal failed 39-56. Even though earmarks represent a ...
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