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That Was The Week That Was #4.
Post Date: 2010-08-28 13:02:49 by Skip MacLure
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After the excitement of the primaries at the start of the week, it was pretty much back to business-as-usual. The same old rhetoric, blame-shifting and outright lies from the doomed Democrats. The howler of the week was courtesy of none other than Joe Biden, gaffe-master extraordinaire. Stating that the economy recovery was slower than he would like, he insisted that we are headed in the right direction. So was the Titanic, Joe. It doesn’t take a master cartographer to read the economy map. If you take the Cartesian coordinates of unemployment, private sector expansion and market confidence, you’ll probably find yourself somewhere in the Bermuda triangle of failed stimuli. ...
Why Do Some of You Dumbasses Prefer Obama Over Bush [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-28 11:31:43 by no gnu taxes
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Why do some of you idiots think Obama is God-like and Bush was Satan-like? What are you basing this on? War on Terror? Frankly, I see the Kenyan pretty much continuing Bush's policies (the one thing to his credit). Illegal Immigrants? Do you think the Bush Administration would be filing lawsuits against Arizona? Deficits? Obama is Bush x 10. Obama was absolutely AWOL during the Gulf oil crisis (yeah, he made token appearances that even the leftards found pathetic) yet you want to excoriate Bush personally because it took the Federal Government 72 hours to fully respond to a local situation in New Orleans. Do you realize what fucking idiots you are? Please just slink away and ...
Ground Zero Muslim Center May Get Public Financing
Post Date: 2010-08-27 19:42:39 by Brian S
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Fri Aug 27, 3:54 pm ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy. The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack. "If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning ...
Veterans’ Group: CIA Blocking Lawsuit Over Experiments On Troops
Post Date: 2010-08-27 19:36:08 by Brian S
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An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. The Vietnam Veterans of America filed a lawsuit on behalf of six Vietnam War veterans in January, 2009, claiming that the CIA had used an estimated 7,800 US service members as "guinea pigs" in experiments involving "at least 250, but as many as 400 chemical and biological agents," according to Courthouse News. Among the chemicals the lawsuit alleges were used on the soldiers were LSD, sarin and phosgene nerve gases, cyanide, ...
Jews give Obama above average approval rating [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-27 16:36:54 by Skip Intro
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Jews give Obama above average approval rating August 27, 2010 (JTA)—Jews gave President Obama an above-average job approval rating compared to other religious groups in the U.S. A Gallup pole released Friday found that Muslims gave Obama the highest job approval rating out of the religious groups poled, while Mormons gave him the lowest. Jews and those affiliated with other non-Christian religions gave him above average ratings along with those who had no religious affiliation. From January to July 2010, Jews gave Obama a 61 percent approval rating, down from 66 percent from July to December 2009. Muslims gave him a 78 percent approval rating during the first half of 2010, and ...
Mike Brown, Former Head Of FEMA, Says Bush Administration Downplayed Severity Of Hurricane Katrina
Post Date: 2010-08-27 13:12:09 by Brian S
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The man George W. Bush praised as doing a "heck of a job" during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, now says the administration tried to downplay the severity of the massive storm. Mike Brown, the embattled former head of FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), said Friday there was a "disconnect" between what the White House said and the actual situation on the gulf coast. "There was a mentality in Washington which says you put the best face on everything," Brown said on the "Today" show. Friday marks the fifth anniversary of the deadly hurricane that killed more than 1,800 people and destroyed parts of New Orleans. As head of FEMA, Brown ...
Gov. Chris Christie fires N.J. schools chief Bret Schundler
Post Date: 2010-08-27 12:49:25 by Badeye
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Gov. Chris Christie fires N.J. schools chief Bret Schundler Published: Friday, August 27, 2010, 12:42 PM Updated: Friday, August 27, 2010, 12:43 PM Statehouse Bureau Staff TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie fired state education commissioner Bret Schundler this morning after Schundler refused to resign in the wake of the controversy over the state's loss of up to $400 million in federal school funding. "I was extremely disappointed to learn that the videotape of the Race to the Top presentation was not consistent with the information provided to me," Christie said in a press release. "As a result, I ordered an end to Bret Schundler’s service as New Jersey’s ...
Watching The Clock.
Post Date: 2010-08-27 12:36:01 by Skip MacLure
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I’ve figured it out… we’ve got this all wrong. There have been 3.5 million new and saved jobs since Obama took office. We know ’cause they told us so. The problem is, it’s not the truth. It’s not even close to the truth. The truth is that the American people aren’t buying the story lines any more. The spin scarcely has time to get started before we tear it apart and subject it to the ‘new media review’. By the time we unravel it, there’s not much spin. I guess we’re all sort of stunned out here, watching this administration self destruct. It’s not just that Barack Obama and that pack of amateurs he has in his government are ...
The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History (Zuckerman Rips Obama!)
Post Date: 2010-08-27 11:28:49 by Nebuchadnezzar
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The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History Current federal budget trends are capable of destroying this country By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: August 26, 2010 There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that President Obama's stimulus package has failed to create a sustained recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage applications; and there is a fear that a double-dip recession may very well be in the pipeline. The public perception, reflected in Pew Research/National Journal polls, is that the measures to combat the Great Recession have mostly helped large banks ...
NJ Governor Christie to Obama "Are You Guys Mindless Drones?"
Post Date: 2010-08-27 09:00:20 by no gnu taxes
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This is a great example of why videos of NJ Governor Chris Christie speaking are described as porn for conservatives, this guy says what the "common folk" are thinking. This time he goes after the Obama administration and federal bureaucracy. After making a bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education reform money, New Jersey fell three points short of receiving "Race to the Top" funding. The reason for falling shored was an error in one page the Christie administration's almost 2,000 page application. A question on the application asked for budget information comparing the 2008 and 2009 school years. However, the state submitted information ...
Meet Andrew Cuomo Obama
Post Date: 2010-08-26 17:31:34 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Meet Andrew Cuomo Obama Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 9:39 AM It was 2004 and no one was paying much attention to the star of the just completed Democratic Convention in Boston. Then State Senator Barack Obama was coasting to a win over the substitute Republican candidate in Illinois, Alan Keyes. Because the dynamic young orator from the Land of Lincoln could not be stopped, no effort was made to push for clarity on his positions or to expose his deep ideological leftism or to dig into his record or his ambitions. Republicans and many independents now regret that free pass given the president a moment where clarity as to his ambitions and agenda might have been available. No one could ...
545 People
Post Date: 2010-08-26 14:12:09 by sneakypete
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The article below is completely neutral,..not anti-republican or anti-democrat and about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. Charlie Reese, a journalist for 49 years and retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. Worth the read and remembering! EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE. 545 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create ...
Google has Obama's Number
Post Date: 2010-08-26 14:07:27 by no gnu taxes
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Go to Google and type "Obama is" in the search box and allow the site to do an auto complete. The list you get is a pretty good synopsis of the Kenyan. LOL
Tea Party primary wins give Dems hope for November
Post Date: 2010-08-26 13:35:29 by Ferret Mike
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Candidates endorsed by the Tea Party movement are racking up wins in the primary season but have left some Republicans wary about whether these "outsider" candidates can win in November's general election. Democrats on Tuesday were jubilant about the surprise results of Florida's Republican primary for governor. Former health insurance CEO Rick Scott handily defeated GOP establishment candidate Bill McCollum, 46 percent to 43 percent, leaving shellshocked Republican officials struggling to throw their support behind a Tea Party-backed candidate they spent months trying to defeat. Further complicating Scott's general election bid are the Medicare fraud charges incurred ...
U.S. Justice Department Tells Arpaio To Hand Over Documents By Friday
Post Date: 2010-08-26 13:22:07 by Brian S
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PHOENIX -- The U.S. Department of Justice has given Sheriff Joe Arpaio a new Deadline. Department officials said Arpaio has until Friday to "provide clear and unequivocal agreement to cooperate" with their investigation into alleged civil rights violations. The DOJ wants Arpaio to turn over documents and cooperate with its inquiry. PDF: Letter To Arpaio Arpaio's office is being investigated for alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having an English-only policy in his jails that allegedly discriminates against people with limited English skills. Arpaio believes the inquiry is focused on his immigration patrols. The DOJ threatened to sue the ...
Drunken Man Yells "Terrorists," Urinates on Mosque Rugs
Post Date: 2010-08-26 12:56:17 by Ferret Mike
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Incident comes one day after 21-year-old charged in attack on Muslim taxi driver A belligerent intoxicated man with a beer in hand strolled into a mosque in Queens, shouted the word "terrorists" and callously urinated on rugs as worshippers engaged in prayer, cops and witnesses said last night, according to published reports. The man, identified as Omar Rivera, reportedly yelled anti-Muslim slurs at those gathered for an evening service at the Iman Mosque in Astoria and defiled the rugs before two men subdued him and put him in a back room while they called 911. "He stuck up his middle finger and cursed at everyone," Mustapha Sadouki, who was at the mosque at the ...
Rubio Opens Up Double Digit lead in Florida Senate Race
Post Date: 2010-08-26 12:33:36 by no gnu taxes
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The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Florida shows Marco Rubio attracting 40% of the vote, while Charlie Crist picks up 30% in the race to become the state’s next U.S. senator. The new Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek earns 21% support. This is the first poll of the race following Tuesday’s primary. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. In the last survey before the primary, it was Rubio at 38%, Crist at 33% and Meek 21%. With the results of this new survey, Florida’s Senate race moves from Toss-Up to Leans Republican in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Balance of Power summary. Seventy-six ...
More Primary Portent.
Post Date: 2010-08-26 10:05:32 by Skip MacLure
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With the notable exception of John McCain, the national Patriot movement has had significant results backing strong Constitutional Conservatives. Rinos continue to pay the price again, with that one notable exception. To our Arizona friends. I hope you chose wisely. I can’t help thinking that people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain will revert to type. More than willing to sell out his principles, McCain is perfectly capable of secret deals with the DeMarxists, as is Graham. We have no choice but to watch them like hawks and force them to behave. Hey! Anybody out there want to lay any bets on how long it’s going to take our boy John to revert to type? I say one week. But he ...
Economy Caught in Obama Depression, Not Recession
Post Date: 2010-08-26 09:10:19 by no gnu taxes
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Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday. Writing in his daily briefing to investors, Rosenberg said the Great Depression also had its high points, with a series of positive GDP reports and sharp stock market gains. But then as now, those signs of recovery were unsustainable and only provided a false sense of stability, said Rosenberg. Rosenberg calls current economic conditions "a depression, and not just some garden-variety recession," and notes that any good news both during the initial 1929-33 recession and the one ...
IDIOT: DNC Spokesman Can’t Name Own Party’s Candidate in Alaska Senate Race
Post Date: 2010-08-26 09:02:56 by no gnu taxes
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For the record: His name is Scott McAdams.
Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay
Post Date: 2010-08-25 19:59:35 by Skip Intro
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Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8. "It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," said Mehlman, now an executive ...
Miller on verge of toppling Murkowski [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-25 17:48:59 by Mad Dog
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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is battling for her political life this morning against Republican primary challenger Joe Miller, the tea party-backed candidate who has a slim lead as ballots continue to be counted. Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, led from when the first returns came in Tuesday night and was on the verge of pulling off one of the biggest election upsets ever in Alaska. With 429 of 438 precincts counted this morning,, Miller had 45,909 votes (51 percent) to 43,949 (49 percent) for Murkowski. Miller credited the support of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his lead. "I'm absolutely certain that was pivotal," he said. Murkowski on Tuesday night took a shot at ...
The Old And The New.
Post Date: 2010-08-25 13:37:32 by Skip MacLure
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The latest batch of primary election results yielded few surprises. After some scathing attacks on rival JD Hayworth, and a no-less-than-spectacular turnaround on immigration policies, John McCain was to cruise home with a twenty four percentage point lead. While Hayworth is a largely unknown quantity in political circles, I think it is a safe assumption that he would not have been tempted to acquiesce to the Democrats in the Senate. The balance in the Senate, come November, will be a close call, probably too close to afford the luxury of defecting Republican votes. I am amazed that Arizona Republicans, whose current main concern is illegal immigration, could be taken in by a ...
Nevada Member Of Anti-Government Group Gets 18 Months Prison For Unregistered Machine Gun
Post Date: 2010-08-25 13:17:07 by Brian S
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LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas anti-government extremist has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for possession of an unregistered machine gun. Federal prosecutors say Harold Call was sentenced Tuesday, despite the 68-year-old's attempt to withdraw his plea and fire his lawyer. Call is one of four anti-government, anti-tax-movement followers arrested in 2009 after a three-year FBI investigation into a group who believed they were separate from the United States. Agents say they held seminars teaching followers how to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson says Call was his own worst enemy, filing frivolous documents the judge described as "stuff from outer space." He ...
Barry Cooper Fights The Law, Wins: Odessa Drops All ‘KopBusters’ Charges
Post Date: 2010-08-25 11:44:28 by Brian S
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Barry Cooper, a former Texas police officer who turned against the drug war and executed a reverse-sting operation against the Odessa police department, will walk free on all related charges, an attorney for Ector County announced Tuesday.Cooper, perhaps the nation's best-known drug war activist thanks to his "Never Get Busted" DVDs, set up a fake marijuana grow house in Odessa, wired it for sound and video, then used an anonymous letter to bait police into a Dec. 2008 raid.The letter was delivered to a local church, which eventually turned it over to police. Not long after that officers came crashing through the door.Cooper, his wife Candi and another individual who assisted ...
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