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Boehner Warns GOP on Debt Ceiling (Wants them to act like "Adults")
Post Date: 2010-11-22 13:16:01 by go65
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Raising the debt ceiling is shaping up as a difficult early vote for the new House GOP majority. Many of the new Republican lawmakers harshly criticized their Democratic opponents during the campaign for voting to raise the limit in the past, citing it as an example of the Democrats’ recklessness with federal tax dollars. Speaker of the House-elect John Boehner (R., Ohio) at a news conference with fellow GOP House leaders Thursday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) But on Thursday, Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said he’s been talking to the newly elected GOP lawmakers about the need to raise the federal debt ceiling when it comes up early next year. ...
From Messiah to Failure in Two Long Years
Post Date: 2010-11-22 12:48:36 by no gnu taxes
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Newsweek’s latest edition has an image of President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) as the Hindu god Shiva, leading to cries of blasphemy from American East India practitioners of that religion. The cover of the 2-reader magazine depicts Obama with several arms holding policy issues while balancing on one leg. Its headline: “God of All Things” with the apologetic subtitle, “Why the Modern Presidency May be too Much for One Person to Handle.” Shiva is one of three pre-eminent gods in the Hindu religion along with Brahma and Vishnu. The figure is considered the destroyer of the world, which must end in order to be reborn as a more universalistic place. ...
Oregon Senator Wyden Effectively Kills Internet Censorship Bill
Post Date: 2010-11-21 19:03:51 by Brian S
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It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor the Internet will not pass this year thanks to the Oregon Democrat, who announced his opposition during a recent committee hearing. Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes. Even then, its passage is not certain. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would have permitted a blanket ...
Absolute Outrage!
Post Date: 2010-11-21 18:05:01 by Skip MacLure
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I am so angry and disgusted with the TSA’s depredations against the citizens of this country, it’s going to be very difficult to articulate without going into expletives. We’re finding the words revolt and rebellion in our lexicon far more frequently than I’ve ever heard them used before… excepting perhaps in San Francisco’s looney-tune Haight-Ashbury hay-days, and around ‘underground’ (albeit highly promoted) meetings of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society, a soviet-sponsored communist front group) around my own and other college campuses during the 60s and 70s, from which sprang, amongst others, those sterling individuals Bernadine Dorn, ...
Ex-AIPAC Official Threatens To Uncover Mass Spying At Israel Lobby
Post Date: 2010-11-21 17:57:02 by Brian S
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Top AIPAC officials visited prostitutes, regularly watched porn at work: claim Is US's most influential advocate for Israel about to implode? A former foreign policy chief for the largest Israeli lobby in the US is threatening to provide evidence members of the organization regularly trafficked in classified US government information. The claim comes in the midst of an increasingly ugly lawsuit in which parties have alleged or admitted to mass viewing of pornography among senior staffers at AIPAC as well as extra-marital affairs. Steve Rosen, who was in charge of foreign policy issues at AIPAC until 2005, is suing his former employer for $20 million, alleging that AIPAC defamed him when ...
IT'S TIME FOR THE U.S. TO START PROFILING FOR OUR PROTECTION
Post Date: 2010-11-21 13:54:08 by WhiteSands
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As controversy swirls over the use of full-body scanners at U.S. airports, the former security director for Israel’s national airline says airline security in America is an “illusion” and the U.S. should profile passengers to ensure safety. It's time to admit that our common security requires a clear understanding of where the terrorist threat is coming from. It is coming from the followers of Radical Islam. We must throw out the phoney political correct proceedures that require every air traveler to be searched so we don't offend anyone. It's time to remove the blinders of political correctness that weakens our efforts in providing security for air travelers and ...
Palin's Facebook Target -- Apology NOT Accepted
Post Date: 2010-11-21 11:23:11 by go65
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TMZ spoke with "Tre" -- the person whom Willow called a "f**got" after he criticized "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on his Facebook page. Tre -- who tells us he's not gay -- claims he was offended by the comments and felt bullied by both women ... saying, "Willow called me a f**got in front of the whole world and my family." When asked if he thought Willow was a homophobe, Tre replied, "I think she might be ... She says 'queer' and 'gay' so much ... so probably ... maybe." Although Bristol issued a public apology through Facebook on behalf of her and Willow -- Tre says he's yet to hear from either one of them. We asked ...
Barbara Bush: Palin should stay in Alaska
Post Date: 2010-11-21 11:21:29 by go65
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Former first lady Barbara Bush says she hopes Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. In a preview for a Larry King interview to be shown Monday on CNN, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, are shown addressing topics such as the Tea Party influence, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, and their son's book. Asked for her read on Palin, Barbara Bush responded: "I sat next to her once, thought she was beautiful and I think she's very happy in Alaska — and I hope she'll stay there." Palin has been active in election campaigns, acknowledged she is looking at the possibility of a 2012 presidential bid and plans a promotion tour for ...
George Soros also profiting off controversial new TSA scanners
Post Date: 2010-11-21 00:37:38 by WhiteSands
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Be sure and read Tim Carney’s Examiner column today on the politically-connected lobby for the controversial new TSA scanners that are upsetting airline employees and travelers everywhere. Carney notes that a company called Rapiscan got a $165 million contract for the new body image scanners four days after the underwear-bomber incident this past Christmas. Not surprisingly, Rapiscan is politically connected, observes Carney: Rapiscan got the other naked-scanner contract from the TSA, worth $173 million. Rapiscan’s lobbyists include Susan Carr, a former senior legislative aide to Rep. David Price, D-N.C., chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee. When Defense Daily reported ...
Extensive insider trading investigation drawing to close, official says
Post Date: 2010-11-21 00:15:43 by WhiteSands
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Reporting from Washington — Federal investigators in New York are wrapping up an extensive investigation into allegations of insider trading and other stock-trading irregularities that could bring criminal charges or monetary fines against a large number of Wall Street executives and investors, a Washington official who has been briefed on the inquiry said Saturday. Speaking anonymously so as not to jeopardize the case, the official said the investigation has been underway for "several years" and is likely to result in the prosecution of traders "around the country." "They are in the final stages with this," the official said. "It could bear fruit ...
TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine
Post Date: 2010-11-21 00:00:14 by WhiteSands
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A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of Lansing, Mich. Sawyer is a bladder cancer survivor who now wears a urostomy bag, which collects his urine from a stoma, or opening in his stomach. “I have to wear special clothes and in order to mount the bag I have to seal a wafer to my stomach and then attach the bag. If the seal is broken, urine can leak all over my body and clothes.” ...
Chinese Missile Launch L.A.: The single plume
Post Date: 2010-11-20 23:49:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LHeuQKrPmg Look at the fucking plume, you missile deniers. Are you people who claim it's a commercial jet insane? Commercial jets don't fly vertical. And you can see the fucking SINGLE plume from the motor. That isn't a jet engine from a commercial jet.
Scalia loves his gadgets (Latin Mass), but not cameras in court
Post Date: 2010-11-20 11:29:20 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Antonin Scalia seems solidly old-fashioned. He's devoted to the Constitution's original meaning, prefers the Roman Catholic Mass in Latin and opposes TV cameras in the Supreme Court. But the 74-year-old Scalia wants it known that he owns an iPod and an iPad and does so much work on his computer that he "can hardly write in longhand anymore." Scalia revealed his embrace of modern technology at a Thursday dinner of the conservative Federalist Society, which he helped launch nearly 30 years ago to combat perceived liberal bias on the nation's law school faculties. The Supreme Court justice was not so much the after-dinner speaker as the ...
Krauthammer: “Don’t touch my junk” is the new “don’t tread on me”
Post Date: 2010-11-20 00:51:13 by WhiteSands
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An instant classic. It’s like “Braveheart,” but with lots more groin allusions. Imagine how different our national debate would have been this week if John Tyner had said to that TSA screener, “Don’t grab my crank” or “don’t wrangle my sack.” Maybe the Democrats are right, my friends: Maybe “messaging” really is everything. Not quite the 18th-century elegance of “Don’t Tread on Me,” but the age of Twitter has a different cadence from the age of the musket. What the modern battle cry lacks in archaic charm, it makes up for in full-body syllabic punch. Don’t touch my junk is the anthem of the modern man, the Tea ...
No Security Pat-Downs for Boehner
Post Date: 2010-11-19 20:19:56 by Brian S
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Representative John A. Boehner, soon to be the Speaker of the House, has pledged to fly commercial airlines back to his home district in Ohio. But that does not mean that he will be subjected to the hassles of ordinary passengers, including the controversial security pat-downs. As he left Washington on Friday, Mr. Boehner headed across the Potomac River to Reagan National Airport, which was bustling with afternoon travelers. But there was no waiting in line for Mr. Boehner, who was escorted around the metal detectors and body scanners, and taken directly to the gate. Mr. Boehner, who was wearing a casual yellow sweater and tan slacks, carried his own bags and smiled pleasantly at ...
TSA: Pilots To Be Exempt From Some Airport Checks
Post Date: 2010-11-19 18:31:30 by Murron
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TSA: Pilots To Be Exempt From Some Airport Checks By DAVID KOENIG and EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration has agreed to let airline pilots skip the security scanning and pat-downs that passengers face at the nation's airports, pilot groups said Friday. Beginning Friday, pilots traveling in uniform or on airline business will be allowed to pass security by presenting two photo IDs, one from their company and one from the government, to be checked against a secure flight crew database, the TSA said. The Obama administration's retreat on screening pilots comes less than a week before the hectic Thanksgiving holiday travel ...
At NATO summit, Obama's ride is talk of the town
Post Date: 2010-11-19 17:31:22 by WhiteSands
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Some heads of state are zipping around Lisbon, host city of the NATO summit, in no-emission electric vehicles. Security dictates that Obama travel in the no-efficiency 'Beast,' a vehicle that fascinates the local press. Whoops, President Obama must have missed the memo on this one. While the Portuguese prime minister and the Portuguese president of the European Union’s executive commission are tooling around the NATO summit here in no-emission electric vehicles, Mr. Obama is fouling the Lisbon skies with his no-efficiency "Beast," the eight-ton, diesel-fueled behemoth of a limousine the president carts around the world with him. IN PICTURES: Tiny Cars Obama is ...
Rep. Maxine Waters' trial delayed indefinitely
Post Date: 2010-11-19 14:41:21 by WhiteSands
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A day after recommending censure for Rep. Charles Rangel, the House ethics committee announced Friday that it was not ready to hold its trial of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who was charged with inappropriately helping a bank in which her husband was a large shareholder. In a vaguely worded statement, the committee announced that there were "materials discovered that may have had an effect" on the initial investigation and the charges filed against Waters. She has said she did nothing wrong in helping the nation's largest minority-owned bank get a meeting with Treasury officials during the financial meltdown of 2008. The trial panel, formally known as an "adjudicatory ...
Joe Scarborough suspended from MSNBC for campaign donations
Post Date: 2010-11-19 14:35:22 by WhiteSands
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MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during his tenure at the network, a violation of parent NBC’s ban on political contributions by employees without specific permission from the network president. “I recognize that I have a responsibility to honor the guidelines and conditions of my employment, and I regret that I failed to do so in this matter,” Scarborough said in a statement. “I apologize to MSNBC and to anyone who has been negatively affected by my actions,” ...
Gibbs Has Been a Huge Problem for the Administration,' Says Pulitzer Prize Winner
Post Date: 2010-11-19 14:31:23 by WhiteSands
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has scaled back his on-camera daily briefing schedule compared to last year and also has only given 10 of them in October and November combined. His last and only on-camera briefing at the White House this month was November 4. Gibbs had one briefing in front of cameras on the president's recent Asia trip that included a couple of other senior advisers also answering questions. "I think they may just want to lay low with him," says Pulitzer Prize winner and media critic Dorothy Rabinowitz, who is also is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. "Gibbs has been a huge problem for the administration," ...
TSA Torment: ObamaGov Police State Tightening its Grip on We-the-People
Post Date: 2010-11-19 14:25:51 by WhiteSands
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by Sher Zieve, (Nov. 18, 2010) — The Obama & Co controlled TSA (“Transportation Safety Administration“) now demands either a full-body scan or a vigorous and intrusive “pat-down” (aka “sexual groping”) for all passengers boarding outbound planes in the USA. That is, everyone but the group that caused the reason for the illegal search in the first place. That would be Muslims, folks. It seems that the Islamic terrorist-supporting and USA-based CAIR has decided that “their” people–those following the “religious” practices that began the terror attacks in the first place and continue through today–must be exempt from these ...
George W. Bush–Forever My President
Post Date: 2010-11-19 14:03:13 by no gnu taxes
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President George W. Bush has come out of his long post-presidential silence this week to promote his memoirs. His book “Decision Points” has him granting interviews all over the place. I have made no secret how I feel about him. I love the man. I would go through a brick wall for him if he asked. I am one of the “true believers.” When other conservatives wavered and turned on him, I never did. After the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 1941, he responded to Islamofascism in a way that should have been the approach in the 1970s. His critics savaged him, but then again they hated him for existing and breathing. They never accepted the results of the 2000 ...
Our Economy Can’t Afford More GM “Success” Stories
Post Date: 2010-11-19 13:26:03 by WhiteSands
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Celebrating the company’s Wednesday initial public offering, President Barack Obama last night called his government takeover of General Motors a “success story.” “American taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM,” he said. Left unsaid is the fact that if the Obama Administration keeps selling their GM stock at the IPO price, the U.S. taxpayer will lose $10 billion on the deal, and that does not include the loans GM still owes, cash for clunkers, the Chevy Volt subsidies, or the millions of unseen costs the unprecedented intervention has inflicted on our economy. No matter what you hear from the President’s defenders, ...
TSA Makes Cancer Victim Remove Prosthetic Breast
Post Date: 2010-11-19 13:20:31 by WhiteSands
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Flight Attendant, Cancer Survivor Says She Was Required to Remove Prosthetic From Her Bra and Show It to Agent. A flight attendant and cancer survivor said she was forced to remove and show her prosthetic breast to a TSA agent during a security pat-down. Cathy Bossi of Charlotte, who has been a flight attendant for the past 32 years, told CBS Affiliate WBTV that in August she was asked to go through the new full-body scanners at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. As a 3-year breast cancer survivor Bossi said she didn't want the added radiation through her body, but reluctantly agreed. "The TSA agent told me to put my ID on my back," Boss told WBTV correspondent Molly ...
Obama to Give Highest Civilian Award to Union Boss
Post Date: 2010-11-19 13:11:31 by WhiteSands
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President Obama today named AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The award is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Sweeney was among 15 recipients, with President Obama stating that "these outstanding honorees come from a broad range of backgrounds and they've excelled in a broad range of fields," but all of them have lived extraordinary lives that have inspired us, enriched our culture, and made our ...
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