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California tea party activists work to pass Proposition 23
Post Date: 2010-10-04 21:39:14 by lucysmom
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Tea party activists across the state are rallying in support of Proposition 23, a measure on the Nov. 2 ballot that would suspend California's landmark global warming legislation, known as AB 32. ... The Yes on 23 campaign is financed primarily by Valero Energy and Tesoro, two Texas-based oil refiners. The campaign also received a $1 million donation from Flint Hill Resources, a Kansas petrochemical company that is a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Brothers Charles and David Koch fund a complex web of tea party organizations, detailed in a recent article in The New Yorker magazine. ... However, Joe Wierzbicki, an executive at the Sacramento public relations firm Russo Marsh & ...
Pa. Homeland Security Boss Quits Over Israeli Firm
Post Date: 2010-10-04 20:03:34 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- Pennsylvania's homeland security director quit in the wake of revelations that he hired an Israeli-American agency that reported peaceful protests as potential terrorist threats. Jim Powers resigned two weeks after Gov. Ed Rendell said that he was "deeply embarrassed" by revelations of a $125,000 contract with the Philadelphia-based Institute of Terrorism Research and Response. Rendell announced the resignation at a news conference last Friday, although for weeks he had insisted that he wanted Powers to stay. "Jim is a good man who made a very significant mistake in judgment," the governor said at the news conference. Rendell terminated the contract with ...
House Resolution Aims To Help Holocaust Survivors In Need Of In-Home Care
Post Date: 2010-10-04 20:01:46 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- The House of Representatives has introduced a resolution aimed at helping Holocaust survivors in the United States in need of in-home care. U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Frank Wolf (R-Va.) introduced a resolution Sept. 29 to raise awareness of the social service needs of Holocaust survivors -- specifically the need for them to be able to age in place. The resolution, which was referred to the House Education and Labor Committee, expresses congressional support for efforts that help Holocaust survivors in America continue to live at home and applauds nonprofit organizations such as The Jewish Federations of North America for their work honoring and assisting ...
Schwarzenegger Vetoed Bill Requiring Companies Bidding On High-Speed Rail Contract To Disclose Roles In Transporting Jews to Nazi Camps
Post Date: 2010-10-04 19:57:12 by Brian S
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill requiring companies bidding on the state's high-speed rail contract to disclose their roles in transporting Jews to Nazi concentration camps. The legislation, which overwhelmingly passed the state's Assembly and Senate over the summer, did not name a specific company. However, the bill's chief sponsor, Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, made it clear that the main target was the French national railway SNCF. In vetoing the Holocaust Survivors Responsibility Act on Sept. 30, Schwarzenegger said he sympathized with victims of the Nazi deportations, but that the legislation "needlessly places the state in a ...
Consumer Bankruptcy Filings increase in September (More Double-Dip Evidence)
Post Date: 2010-10-04 17:57:32 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Consumer Bankruptcy Filings increase in September by CalculatedRisk on 10/04/2010 01:13:00 PM Via MarketWatch: Consumer bankruptcy filings climb 11% The American Bankruptcy Institute reported that there were 130,329 consumer bankruptcies filings in September, up 3.3% from August. Filings were up 11% over the first 9 months of the year compared to the first 9 months of 2009. "We expect that there will be nearly 1.6 million new bankruptcy filings by year end," ABI Executive Director Samuel Gerdano said. >calculatedriskimages.blogspot.com/2010/10/personal-bankruptcy-filings-sept-2010.html"> This graph shows the non-business bankruptcy filings by quarter using monthly ...
Manufactured Goods Orders Plummet in August: Another Sign the Economy is Collapsing
Post Date: 2010-10-04 16:58:15 by Nebuchadnezzar
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010, AT 10:00 A.M. EDT Chris Savage or Jessica Young Manufacturing and Construction Division (301) 763-4832 M3-2 (10)-08 CB10-150 Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders August 2010 Summary New orders for manufactured goods in August, down three of the last four months, decreased $2.2 billion or 0.5 percent to $408.9 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This followed a 0.5 percent July increase. Excluding transportation, new orders increased 0.9 percent. Shipments, also down three of the last four months, decreased $2.5 billion or 0.6 percent to $415.1 billion. This followed a 1.2 percent July increase. ...
From Our Readers.
Post Date: 2010-10-04 12:49:19 by Skip MacLure
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We have a really savvy bunch of readers. They really get it and they don’t need my, or anyone’s, prompting to carry the banner of Conservative patriotism forward. I don’t even know how many sites we’re on but it’s a lot, and then we get picked up from there by other outlets. We get mail from some of the most unlikely places, and we get a lot of comments. Most of them do get read. Dee’s really good about that. Sometimes there are just so many that we can’t get to them all. Recently, there has been a shift in the comments we’ve been getting. Up until now, the clarion call has been for victory against the DeMarxist government, with not a little flavor ...
Inwood man shot, killed by cops was hit with Taser - but yanked it out: cops (NYPD)
Post Date: 2010-10-03 20:48:13 by Hondo68
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Manhattan cops shot a knife-wielding man to death after he managed to pull a Taser out of his body early Sunday, police sources said. Emmanuel Paulino, 23, was hit by several rounds outside his Inwood home in the second police-involved shooting in as many days. An angry Paulino was waving a knife when four cops confronted him following a party on Vermilyea Ave. near 207th St. in Inwood, cops and witnesses said. They ordered him to drop the knife, but he refused, witnesses said. Then a sergeant fired a Taser at him. Two dart-like electrodes attached to wires hit Paulino, but the shock did not stop him, sources said. "The darts went into him. He's being shocked at the time, and ...
Liberal turn-out vs. Glenn Beck turn-out at the mall...in pictures...
Post Date: 2010-10-03 15:52:16 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Liberal turn-out: And Glenn Beck's rally in August:
Christine O'Donnell's 'Oxford' Tutor Speaks Out: 'Intelligent,' 'A Joy To Have' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-02 23:34:43 by Hondo68
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When she attended a Phoenix Institute program in 2001, Christine O'Donnell was "a joy to have," her former tutor says. Bruce W. Griffin is speaking out on his former student, and says that O'Donnell would "add intellectual and philosophical depth" to the United States Senate should she win in November. O'Donnell, the Republican nominee for Senate in Delaware, has represented herself as attending Oxford University on at least one and potentially many more occasions. Griffin, an instructor and not a professor, wrote a detailed blog item saying that O'Donnell's thesis on cloning stood out in his mind as "one of the two best papers written for me ...
Utah Residents Fear ‘Israeli Art Students’ Prying Into NSA Data Center
Post Date: 2010-10-02 20:08:01 by Brian S
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A local ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah has caused a stir online with a report suggesting that self-proclaimed Israeli art students, peddling their artwork from door to door, have been asking disturbing questions about plans to build an NSA data center in the area. "These salespeople say they're Israeli students," ABC4 reporter Brent Hunsaker explained. "They even produce Israeli passports. They say they're selling their own artwork to raise money to open a gallery. So why would the Israeli art students want to know about the National Security Agency?" According to Hunsaker, warnings about the students are being spread through blogs and church bulletins. ...
Sanchez Claims Jews Control Media, Gets Fired Less Than 24 Hours Later
Post Date: 2010-10-02 12:22:37 by Brian S
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CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez labeled Daily Show host Jon Stewart as a “bigot” and expressed his opinion that everyone in positions of power in the mainstream media is Jewish during his appearance on XM Sirius radio’s Stand-Up with Pete Dominick yesterday. One day later, CNN issued the following statement: “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.” After Sanchez claimed that Stewart is bigoted against “everybody who’s not like him,” Dominick, a former warm-up comic for Stewart, defended his friend and proclaimed that he is also a minority as a Jewish American. Dominick remained firm in ...
Meat made O'Donnell avoid being Hare Krishna
Post Date: 2010-10-02 09:27:09 by go65
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WILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell says with a laugh that she tried several religions but skipped becoming a Hare Krishna because she didn't want to be vegetarian in a 1999 interview. Bill Maher aired the clip of O'Donnell Friday night on his show "Real Time with Bill Maher." The short clip was from an interview on the comedian's former show "Politically Incorrect" from July 9, 1999. O'Donnell tells Maher that she had dabbled in "every other kind of religion," including witchcraft and Buddhism, before becoming a Christian. With a laugh, she said: "I would have become a Hare Krishna, but ...
Sunday Lunch.
Post Date: 2010-10-02 05:36:14 by Skip MacLure
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Has Skip’s editor decided to take a break from politics by publishing recipes? Or maybe it’s the announcement of a new weekend magazine program? No, we couldn’t compete with the excellent Chris Wallace and FNS. Last Sunday, I thought I’d partake of some lunch in the staff restaurant. I’m not a huge fan of British-style cooking. As Michael Savage exclaimed, when he discovered his inclusion on the ‘banned from Britain’ list, “Darn! And I was just planning a trip to England for their superior dental work and cuisine.” I know the feeling, Mike. Unless you have a preference for large quantities of pastry and batter, or large liver-based meatballs, ...
Why The ISM's Plunging Orders Less Inventories Means It's All Downhill From Here
Post Date: 2010-10-01 22:02:23 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Why The ISM's Plunging Orders Less Inventories Means It's All Downhill From Here Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/01/2010 15:22 -0500 Jim Grant Digging beneath the surface of today's ISM report revealed a complete economic disaster: bad components (Inventories and Price) were up, while good ones (Orders and Employment) were down, as we pointed out at our first view of the ISM. What this implies, as John Lohman highlights, is that the "best" indicator - Orders less Inventories, plunged lower. As John explains: "Statistically, orders minus inventories leads ISM composite by 3 months (i.e., the highest correlation is at lag 3). Even when smoothed 3 months (slowing ...
The Latest WSJ/NBC News Poll: 10 Headlines the Media Will Ignore
Post Date: 2010-10-01 17:20:29 by go65
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This week's NBC New/Wall Street Journal Survey of 1,000 adults (margin of error +-3.1%) provides some great data for political conversation. However, given the favored narrative about how bad things are in America, you're unlikely to see some of the more eyebrow-raising nuggets in the data. Here are 10 data-supported satirical headlines the WSJ/NBC poll could produce. 1. "Obama Job Approval Numbers Holding Steady for More Than a Year!" If we assume a 3% margin of error, Obama's job "approval" rating, which is now at 46% (i.e., it could be anywhere between 43% and 49%), has not changed since July of 2009. His aforementioned positivity rating has not changed ...
Fiscal EOY Update - Treasury
Post Date: 2010-10-01 17:00:27 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Fiscal EOY Update - Treasury The final month is now in the books on the fiscal, and here's the answer: >market-ticker.org/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=276"> This brings the monthly deficit to $111.970 billion. Thus far, on the current calendar year, the "run rate" is $1.667 trillion, essentially identical to last year. There isn't anything to say about this other than "they're not slowing down a damn bit." For whatever reason people keep coming to the Treasury Auctions and so far there have no wild "tails" on the Treasury offerings. Everyone seems so sanguine about a nation that's running 12% of its GDP in deficits - a level higher ...
Five hidden costs of gold
Post Date: 2010-10-01 16:04:44 by Skip Intro
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Five hidden costs of gold Investing in gold isn’t as easy as it looks. ROCKVILLE, Md. (MarketWatch) — There’s a lot of talk right now about how gold is booming, and how gold bugs who have been stashing bullion under their mattresses over the last decade or so have made a killing. That may be true if you look at the price of the yellow stuff per ounce. The price of an ounce of gold is up about 30% in the last year, or over 400% in the last 10 years. How does that relate to actual returns for investors? The truth is that gold has steep hidden costs, and that looking at the numbers on paper doesn’t tell the whole story. Here are big costs many investors overlook. ...
Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.)
Post Date: 2010-10-01 15:01:26 by Skip Intro
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Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.) Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, is an amateur historian. Very amateur. One day, he rhetorically asked his Fox News viewers: "Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s?" A good question -- because "we" purchased Alaska in 1867. Another day, he gave his version of European history: "We have the Age of Enlightenment, 1620 to 1871, uh, 1781. This was a time when people said, 'Wait a minute, wait a minute, we can think out of the box.' This is coming out of the Dark Ages." That was thinking outside of the box, because the Dark Ages ended in about 1000 AD, six ...
Schwarzenegger signs California marijuana decriminalization bill (from a misdemeanor to a civil infraction)
Post Date: 2010-10-01 14:18:23 by Hondo68
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wierd looking kb with bright green hairs amongst the yellow onrange white and red hued hairs you would normally find in kb but this picture looks loke its radioactive or some shit ill nick name it pottonium or ganjainium California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday morning that decriminalizes possession of marijuana in the state. Those caught with less than an ounce of marijuana will still receive a maximum penalty of $100. However, Senate Bill 1449 reduces the legal categorization of marijuana possession from a misdemeanor to a civil infraction. This means that those caught will not have to appear in court, pay court fees or receive a criminal record. Schwarzenegger ...
TARP Bailout to Cost Less Than Once Anticipated ($50 billion)
Post Date: 2010-10-01 14:10:33 by go65
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WASHINGTON — Even as voters rage and candidates put up ads against government bailouts, the reviled mother of them all — the $700 billion lifeline to banks, insurance and auto companies — will expire after Sunday at a fraction of that cost, and could conceivably earn taxpayers a profit. A final accounting of the government’s full range of interventions in the economy, including the bailouts of the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is years off and will most likely remain controversial and potentially costly. But the once-unthinkable possibility that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program could end up costing far less, or even nothing, became ...
Cornyn Punts On Chance To Defend O'Donnell
Post Date: 2010-10-01 13:52:31 by go65
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National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. John Cornyn told reporters that Delaware's Senate race still does not appear to be competitive for the GOP thanks to Christine O'Donnell. TPM spoke briefly with Cornyn following an event at the National Press Club Thursday, and asked about O'Donnell's recent snafu with her education history and how serious of a problem he deems that to be. Rather than defend her, Cornyn spoke generally. "All of those issues are litigated in every single campaign, obviously being candid and truthful is important, but I don't know enough about the details," Cornyn told TPM. "I'm not stating an opinion on ...
“Pledge to America” Not as Fiscally Responsible as It Claims Core Policies Would Increase the Federal Deficit and Debt
Post Date: 2010-10-01 13:39:50 by go65
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Republicans in Congress released “Pledge to America” today, a plan they characterize as laying out a “new governing agenda.” Integral to that plan is a new commitment to “fiscal responsibility.” Our analysis, however, shows that implementing the plan’s proposals would increase the federal budget deficit and accelerate growth in federal debt. The “Pledge to America” budget would mean $11.1 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years. By 2020, the federal budget deficit would be 6.3 percent of gross domestic product, the federal debt would exceed 93 percent of GDP, and interest payments on the debt would be more than $1 trillion a year. The budget ...
The 'Pledge to America' in one graph
Post Date: 2010-10-01 13:38:12 by go65
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