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Exclusive: Palin Emails ABC News to Push Back on 'Taliban Muslim' Twitter Controversy
Post Date: 2010-11-05 13:33:09 by go65
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin uses Facebook and Twitter to make political statements and communicate with her followers. Today reporters noted that she had apparently used Twitter to list as a “favorite” of hers a tweet from conservative commentator Ann Coulter showing a photo of a sign labeling President Barack Obama a “Taliban Muslim.” The image was a church called “The Blood of Jesus ATLAH World Missionary Church” with a sign reading “The blood of Jesus against Obama history made 4 Nov 2008 a Taliban Muslim illegally elected president USA: Hussein” “MY NEW CHURCH!” Coulter’s tweet declares. Asked for comment, Palin wrote to ABC ...
The Good News for Democrats Is That They Saw It Coming (Due to Rasmussen's polling)
Post Date: 2010-11-05 12:27:26 by no gnu taxes
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Back in December 2009, a full 11 months before Election Day, a Democratic strategist concluded that if the Rasmussen Reports Generic Congressional Ballot data was accurate, Republicans would gain 62 seats in the House during the 2010 elections. Polling at the time showed most Americans were opposed to the health care proposal working its way through Congress and that the president was losing the support of voters not affiliated with either major party. Republicans consistently maintained their lead on the Rasmussen Reports Generic Ballot all year, regardless of what events were dominating the news cycle. Early in the year, Rasmussen Reports polling showed that Democratic hopes of winning ...
Movie Planned On Longshot Kentucky Derby Winner
Post Date: 2010-11-05 12:26:30 by Murron
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Movie Planned On Longshot Kentucky Derby Winner Mine That Bird won the Derby in 2009 on 50-1 odds. The planned movie will tell the story of the horse, his cowboy owners, and trainer. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Hollywood has an eye on Mine That Bird. Plans are in the works for a movie about the New Mexico-based thoroughbred that won the 2009 Kentucky Derby as a 50-1 longshot. The director will be Jim Wilson, the Academy Award-winning producer of "Dances With Wolves." The production team also includes Santa Fe resident Tony Mark, who was executive producer for the Academy Award-winner, "The Hurt Locker." Among those being considered for roles are Mine That Bird himself ...
Obama should "pull a Clinton," but what does that mean?
Post Date: 2010-11-05 11:58:56 by go65
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Many commentators have responded to Tuesday's bloodbath by arguing that Obama now needs to "pull a Clinton." This appears to mean that in order to engineer his comeback, he needs to tack to the middle the way Clinton did with welfare reform and school uniforms, and maneuver GOP leaders into betraying their extremism. But on a conference call with reporters, two top Dem thinkers made a counter-intuitive case: Clinton's comeback, they argued, was also driven by his success in persuading struggling voters that he was "on their side," by drawing bright lines in defense of popular programs like Medicare and Social Security, and clearly articulating an expansive ...
Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly
Post Date: 2010-11-05 11:06:50 by go65
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Every election cycle has its winners and losers: not just the among the candidates, but also the pollsters. On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News — badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates. Other polling firms, like SurveyUSA and Quinnipiac University, produced more reliable results in Senate and gubernatorial races. A firm that conducts surveys by Internet, YouGov, also performed relatively well. What follows is a preliminary analysis of polls ...
Ex-President George W. Bush rips wisdom of Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and John McCain to friends [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-05 08:39:29 by go65
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WASHINGTON - Two years of retirement haven't dulled George W. Bush's political zest - and President Obama and Sarah Palin are among his under-the-radar targets. The 43rd President has told friends the ex-Alaska governor isn't qualified to be President and criticizes Arizona Sen. John McCain for putting Palin on the 2008 GOP ticket and handing her a national platform. "Naming Palin makes Bush think less of McCain as a man," a Republican official familiar with Bush's thinking told the Daily News. "He thinks McCain ran a lousy campaign with an unqualified running mate and destroyed any chance of winning by picking Palin." As he prepares for the Tuesday ...
Non-Farm Payrolls Increase More than Expected, Rising by 151,000 Unemployment Rate at 9.6% (story developing)
Post Date: 2010-11-05 08:36:55 by go65
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Just a headline for now...
Tech, telecom prep for sea change
Post Date: 2010-11-05 08:28:54 by go65
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Talk of net neutrality and high-speed Internet didn't exactly dominate campaign advertisements this midterm season. But that doesn't mean Tuesday night's results don't foretell huge changes for the tech and telecom industries. Election Day 2010 brought the defeat of one of Washington's most respected tech minds, and the election of one of its potential new antagonists. It also saw two prominent former tech CEOs falter out West. The election will spell big changes for the top House and Senate committees that handle tech and telecom issues, and it'll transform them politically and substantively at a time that a number of important debates are reaching a critical mass ...
Sen. Patty Murray wins fourth term
Post Date: 2010-11-04 21:22:21 by go65
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Sen. Patty Murray has won a fourth term, riding a wave of strong Democratic support in King County to defeat Republican challenger Dino Rossi. Rossi called Murray at about 6 p.m. to concede, according to Alex Glass, Murray's deputy campaign manager. As of Thursday evening, Murray was leading Rossi by more than 45,000 votes, taking 51 percent to Rossi's 49 percent. That's up from a 14,000-vote lead on Election Day. According to a Seattle Times analysis, Rossi would need to get about 54 percent of the estimated 591,000 uncounted ballots statewide to overcome Murray's lead. But nearly 264,000 of those ballots are in King County. Murray's already commanding lead there ...
Pentagon Dismisses Reports of 34 Warships for Obama Trip Security ("absolutely absurd”)
Post Date: 2010-11-04 20:17:42 by Brian S
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The Pentagon did not mince words in dismissing as “absolutely absurd” and “comical” media reports from Indian news outlets that the US Navy was sending 34 warships off the coast of Mumbai as part of the security preparations for President Obama’s upcoming trip to India. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell did not shy away from dismissing reports that appeared in Indian media outlets, such as the Press Trust of India and the television network NDTV. The Press Trust of India is that country’s largest news agency. Morrell told reporters he was making an exception to the practice of not discussing Presidential security details to shoot down the reports. ...
Official: $164M in Philly taxes could be missing
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:47:49 by WhiteSands
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Philadelphia's controller said Wednesday that city officials haven't been able to confirm if $164 million in real estate taxes has been transferred electronically to the city over the past five years. Officials are trying to confirm if the city received the money from title companies but can't say if it's missing or not, Controller Alan Butkovitz's spokesman Harvey Rice said. The city was due a total of $881.2 million in real estate transfer taxes over the past five years. About 60 percent of that is collected electronically. As recently as 2005, the city received less than 1 percent of its real estate transfer taxes electronically, Butkovitz said. "The ...
GM's Tax Break Worth as Much as $45 Billion: Filing
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:34:48 by WhiteSands
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co can get a tax break of up to $45 billion as part of its U.S. government-financed restructuring, documents filed with federal regulators earlier this year showed. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that GM would not have to pay federal taxes on up to $50 billion in profits. A later version of this story revised this figure to about $45 billion. This figure also includes $18.88 billion of carry-forwards, according to the automaker's annual filing from April. Under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, losses racked up by GM before its government-funded bankruptcy can be used to offset its future tax liabilities. (Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman, ...
How Did The Polls Do?
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:32:43 by go65
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WASHINGTON -- How did the polls do this year? And who was the most accurate pollster? While crowning a polling "winner" can be a dubious proposition on the day after the election, some immediate lessons are apparent: On average, the final statewide pre-election polls once again provided a largely unbiased measurement of the outcomes of most races, Congressional District polling had a slight Democratic skew, national polls that sampled both landline and cell phones measured national Congressional vote preference more accurately than those that sampled only landline phones and the venerable Gallup Poll took one on the chin. I have never been a fan of the usual rush to crown ...
Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn narrowly wins election to first full term
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:28:30 by go65
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D), the onetime lieutenant governor to disgraced Gov. RRod Blagojevich (D), has bested former state Sen. Bill Brady (R) to win election to his first full term in office. The Associated Press called the race for Quinn this afternoon. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Quinn received 1,721,812 votes to Brady's 1,702,399, a margin of victory of half a percentage point. Quinn's win comes despite the fact that he barely survived a tough primary earlier this year and stumbled badly in the general election; his campaign was marred by the departure of several of his top consultants. He also took over the office under difficult circumstances, ascending from ...
The ‘big dog’ in campaign spending
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:06:29 by jwpegler
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WHAT SPECIAL interest is spending the most money to influence the 2010 election? The answer isn’t the US Chamber of Commerce, notwithstanding President Obama’s recent attacks on the Chamber’s campaign contributions. Nor is it the Karl Rove- backed network of pro-Republican campaign organizations, including American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, that have also been assailed by the White House and the focus of critical media attention. In reality, the biggest outside spender is the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, which is pumping almost $88 million into TV commercials, phone banks, and mailings to promote Democratic candidates. “We’re ...
Tunnel for Obama near Mani Bhavan
Post Date: 2010-11-04 16:46:32 by WhiteSands
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Tunnel for Obama near Mani Bhavan Daily News & Analysis ^ | November 4, 2010 | Pandurang Mhaske Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:09:39 AM by maggief Since it is difficult to monitor such a congested area, they came up with a quick solution which left the Indians accompanying them amazed: A bomb-proof over-ground tunnel — to be installed by US military engineers in just an hour. The tunnel would be a kilometre long and measure 12ft by 12ft — enough to let Obama’s cavalcade pass through. The tunnel would be centrally air-conditioned, fitted with close-circuit television cameras, and will be heavily guarded at every point, including, of course, its entry and exit. ...
Claim that Barack Obama's India visit will cost $200m a day is 'wildly inflated' White House spokesman dismisses claim made by Indian news outlet and seized on by rightwing US talkshow hosts
Post Date: 2010-11-04 16:22:38 by WhiteSands
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White House officials have dismissed a claim made by an Indian news outlet that Barack Obama's trip to India would cost $200m (£122m) a day as "wildly inflated". The claim was seized upon by rightwing talkshow hosts in the US, but the Obama administration declined to put a figure on the cost of the three-day visit to Mumbai and Delhi. "The numbers reported in this article have no basis in reality," Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said. "Due to security concerns, we are unable to outline details associated with security procedures and costs, but it's safe to say these numbers are wildly inflated." Another news report claimed the US would ...
Election Doesn't End Major Discord for GOP, Obama: Senate's GOP leader had a blunt message: His party's main goal is "denying Obama re-election".
Post Date: 2010-11-04 16:16:02 by Murron
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Election Doesn't End Major Discord for GOP, Obama WASHINGTON – Barely an hour after President Barack Obama invited congressional Republicans to post-election talks to work together on major issues, the Senate's GOP leader had a blunt message: His party's main goal is denying Obama re-election. House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, center, accompanied by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, right, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. In a sign that combat and the 2012 elections rather than compromise could mark the next two years, Sen. Mitch McConnell on Thursday called for Senate votes to repeal or ...
Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg. Seats
Post Date: 2010-11-04 15:57:40 by WhiteSands
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While the Republican gains in the House and Senate are grabbing the most headlines, the most significant results on Tuesday came in state legislatures where Republicans wiped the floor with Democrats. Republicans picked up 680 seats in state legislatures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures -- the most in the modern era. To put that number in perspective: In the 1994 GOP wave, Republicans picked up 472 seats. The previous record was in the post-Watergate election of 1974, when Democrats picked up 628 seats. The GOP gained majorities in at least 14 state house chambers. They now have unified control -- meaning both chambers -- of 26 state legislatures. That control ...
Should surveillance cameras operated by police, schools and businesses be linked into one big state network?
Post Date: 2010-11-04 15:52:54 by A K A Stone
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Some emergency responders think it would be a good idea to link together surveillance cameras already operated by police, schools and businesses into one big state network. Others worry about privacy violations. What do you think? DANNY REMBERT, Huber Heights: “The use of surveillance cameras has grown so much over the past decade without really showing how beneficial they are. They lead to relatively few arrests for the number that are out there. I think combining them into one network would be a bad thing because of the potential for misuse.” ddnchatBillSpencer.JPG BILL SPENCER BILL SPENCER, Kettering: “It’d be a real good idea. The way the world is going, we’re ...
Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs
Post Date: 2010-11-04 15:33:37 by WhiteSands
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In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy -- with comedian Jon Stewart. Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” held an off-the-record meeting at Stewart’s office in New York on April 2, according to Geithner’s appointments calendar, updated through August on Treasury’s website. Geithner didn’t stay for a television interview with Stewart although other administration officials -- most notably President Barack Obama last week -- have turned up for on-camera chats. “Jon Stewart is influential in America, so ...
White House Reports That Cost Of Obama’s Trip To India Is Greatly Exaggerated
Post Date: 2010-11-04 15:15:42 by Brian S
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Thursday, the White House reported that the numbers being reported for the cost of President Obama’s upcoming trip to India are wildly inflated; many reports have shown that the trip will cost as much as $200 million per day. The $200 million cost was originally reported by a single Indian media outlet and quickly went viral and was even reported on conservative talk radio, but the White House insists that it is incorrect. They also said that the bulk of the cost of the trip is for security. "The numbers reported in this article have no basis in reality," said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor. "Due to security concerns, we are unable to outline details associated ...
34 warships sent from US for Obama visit
Post Date: 2010-11-04 13:58:51 by WhiteSands
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The White House will, of course, stay in Washington but the heart of the famous building will move to India when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday. Communications set-up and nuclear button and majority of the White House staff will be in India accompanying the President on this three-day visit that will cover Mumbai and Delhi. He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea. Arrangements have been put in place for emergency evacuation, if needed. Obama is ...
A Kenyan White House Resident in denial
Post Date: 2010-11-04 12:52:25 by no gnu taxes
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Election? What election? That seemed to be President Oba ma's reaction yesterday to the stun ning rout his party suffered Tuesday -- when voters sent Democrats packing by the truckload, handing the House to the GOP. And nearly the Senate as well. Memo to POTUS: Pretending nothing happened won't erase Tuesday's results. But it does make us wonder: Just what will it take to get this president to hear the anger of the American people? "Some election nights are more fun than others," Obama conceded. "Some are exhilarating; some are humbling." Eventually, he grudgingly termed Tuesday's results a "shellacking." But a repudiation of his policy ...
While we celebrate Alan Grayson’s loss, he blames the weather
Post Date: 2010-11-04 12:44:51 by no gnu taxes
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Idiot extraordinaire Rep. Alan Grayson, who held idiotic grudges, called his republican opponent in Florida’s 8th district, republican Daniel Webster, Taliban Dan in one of the most disgusting ads I’ve seen this political season. You have to laugh at the absurdity of this: He claimed republicans want sick people to die because of their opposition to Obamacare, the republicans want to starve children, and that Dick Cheney has “blood dripping from his teeth“. The guy is unhinged and really, how can someone so unstable represent anyone in congress? Finally, Grayson lost his congressional seat yesterday. Webster defeated Grayson with 56 percent of the vote to ...
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