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Another GOP Incumbent Goes Down in Flames
Post Date: 2010-08-25 09:34:14 by jwpegler
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Scott Shakes Up Florida Governor Race With GOP Primary Win Over McCollum In a primary day upset, political newcomer Rick Scott narrowly defeated state Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican nomination in the Florida gubernatorial race. Recent polls had suggested McCollum was pulling ahead in the contest. The attorney general was making a name for himself on the national stage and had the backing of heavyweight Republicans like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush who are looking to keep the governor's office in GOP hands as incumbent Charlie Crist heads out on an independent bid for U.S. Senate. But low turnout on Tuesday, among other factors, gave outsized importance to ...
Third World homeboy headhunters on rampage at Iowa State Fair
Post Date: 2010-08-24 17:00:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Police say it's 'very possible' attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones Des Moines police are trying to determine what led to a series of attacks outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds over the weekend that included the assault of two police officers. At least three people were arrested Friday through early Monday morning. Other arrests may occur as officers investigate the incidents, officials said. There are indications that some of the fights - which appear to involve mostly teenagers and young adults - were racially motivated, police said. "We don't know if this was juveniles fighting or a group of kids singling out white citizens leaving the ...
Obama economic team should resign
Post Date: 2010-08-24 12:58:22 by no gnu taxes
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House Republican leader John Boehner on Tuesday called for the resignation of President Barack Obama's embattled economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Larry Summers. "It's time to put grown-ups in charge. It's time for people willing to accept responsibility," Boehner declared in remarks prepared for delivery in a speech in Cleveland. Boehner made his call for a "fresh start" on the economy 10 weeks before the November 2 congressional elections that have been dominated by the sour U.S. economy and near double-digit jobless rate. Republicans are expected to make inroads on the big majorities held by ...
McCain – Will They Fall For Him Again?
Post Date: 2010-08-24 10:58:10 by Skip MacLure
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Arizona has proven itself to be a pretty sane place. I hope that holds true through the primary election for the Senate race between JD Hayworth and John McCain. I’d like to hope that Arizona would have better sense than to fall for McCain’s chameleon-like transformation into a closed borders, anti-illegal alien guy. Or, that along with people like the ever-detestable Lindsey Graham, he was perfectly willing to sell the American people down the road with his carbon tax scheme. It cost twenty million dollars of McCain money to get the Senator this far. He did his best to destroy JD Hayworth with Arizona voters. What was disappointing was the support that McCain got from the Old ...
Officials Unveil High-Tech Ray Gun To Be Installed In County Jail
Post Date: 2010-08-24 00:07:22 by Brian S
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Senior Deputy David Judge talks about the Assault Intervention System (AIS) during a demonstration at the Pitchess Detention Center's North County Correction Facility, Friday, August 20, 2010. The device transmits a focused, invisible millimeter wave at a suspect which causes an intolerable heating sensation. The Sheriff's Department will conduct an operational evaluation with AIS to stop or lessen the severity of inmate assaults. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; ...
Watchdogs labor to expose liars about military exploits
Post Date: 2010-08-23 21:58:06 by Ferret Mike
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Army Capt. Joshua Howard, a physician’s assistant at Fort Riley, Kan., ran across the newspaper story online about a Korean War veteran who was to be inducted into the Kansas National Guard Hall of Fame. In the accompanying photo, the veteran wore a khaki shirt covered with ribbons and medals, black bars and stripes. The story told how this veteran had received the military’s No. 2 and 3 awards for valor — the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star — along with two Purple Hearts, one pinned on by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. And how he had been a prisoner of war in Korea for 5½ months. But the more Howard read, the more “those medals and his account ...
Mossad in America
Post Date: 2010-08-23 19:31:02 by VinnyTex
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Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America’s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records ...
Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures to Hit Chicago "Loop", First Since 1999; Big Wave of Commercial Foreclosures, Bank Failures Coming
Post Date: 2010-08-23 19:01:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures to Hit Chicago "Loop", First Since 1999; Big Wave of Commercial Foreclosures, Bank Failures Coming With office space selling 30% below the 2007 high in the top-10 US office markets, and with lease rates still falling, one should expect to see more foreclosures in major cities. Chicago is about to be hit says Crain's Chicago Business in Office tower at 500 W. Monroe flirts with foreclosure — again A Georgia firm that holds two junior mortgages on the 46-story tower at 500 W. Monroe St. says the building's loans went unpaid when they came due this month and that the company may foreclose and take control of the property. It would ...
Uninsured Slow To Sign Up For Coverage (Only 2 show up in NJ for coverage)
Post Date: 2010-08-23 18:51:46 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Uninsured Slow To Sign Up For Coverage Updated: Monday, 23 Aug 2010, 6:35 AM EDT Published : Monday, 23 Aug 2010, 6:33 AM EDT HACKENSACK, N.J. - Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms. NJ Protect plans are available to those who have been without insurance for at least six months and submit evidence of pre-existing health conditions. The state will receive $141 million in federal subsidies to cover claims that exceed the premiums paid by the beneficiaries. Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey spokesman Tom Vincz expects more people will enroll in the coming weeks. Vincz says more than 600 ...
FDIC Seizes ShoreBank; Reinstalls Failed Management (Obama Protects Friends-Corruption Personified)
Post Date: 2010-08-23 18:48:36 by Nebuchadnezzar
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FDIC Seizes ShoreBank; Reinstalls Failed Management Submitted by Paul Chesser on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 17:12 Shorebank logoOn Friday the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation momentarily took over politically-connected ShoreBank, just long enough to relieve it of some of its woes and then turn it back over to the same people to continue its same failed mission. According to a press release, the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund will take a $367.7 million hit in the transaction. Looks like FDIC chairman Sheila Bair succeeded in her pursuit to save her baby. The Wall Street firms she reportedly pressured to help save ShoreBank – Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, ...
Last Second Safety Creates Awkward Gambling Moment for Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth
Post Date: 2010-08-23 13:58:56 by no gnu taxes
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Last night, the 49ers were favored by 3.5 over the Vikings. The 49ers led by three with :09 left when this happened. Here’s the announcer reaction: Al Micahels: You know why I’m laughing, don’t you? Cris Collinsworth: Yeah. Michaels: Of course you do. Collinsworth: There are some people happy, and some not so happy. Michaels: And some going, “I can’t believe what just happened.” Collinsworth: To me. Michaels: Or for me. It wasn’t quite Pittsburgh-San Diego from Week 11 in 2008, but if this were the regular season, it’d be Monday’s sports talking point, for sure. All rookie Joe Webb (UAB) had to do was throw the ball away, and the ...
Republican Chuck Hagel Backs Democrat Joe Sestak In Pa. Senate Race
Post Date: 2010-08-23 13:26:05 by Brian S
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Republican Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska senator, will endorse Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's competitive U.S. Senate race. Hagel, who served in the Senate from 1997 through 2008, told the Associated Press that Sestak has demonstrated a willingness to put the nation's interests ahead of his party's. Hagel refused to comment about Sestak's Republican opponent, Pat Toomey. "The two-term Nebraska senator will speak about Joe's independence and focus on doing what's right not for Wall Street or Washington special interests but for Pennsylvania's working families," according to Sestak's campaign. Hagel and Sestak will appear together ...
This ‘Blame Bush’ Crap Has Just Got To End
Post Date: 2010-08-23 12:28:49 by no gnu taxes
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Are you sick of Obama and the left unrelentingly blaming Bush for everything that is happening going on two years after he left office? Do you think that Obama will ever man-up and actually become responsible for his presidency? Me too, and me neither, respectively. I went slightly off on a liberal who dredged up this demagogic rhetorical garbage: 2010/08/20 at 8:24 pm In Europe people laugh at us leaving in false dreams, wall streets spending false money, Bush starting a false war etc. America is the land of dreams, how come? Idiots like George Bush can get elected to president. If he can Become president, then what can the smart people do? Jump to pluto?. Do you really expect Obama ...
What he be say? Po Po be need Ebonics Experts
Post Date: 2010-08-23 08:44:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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Justice Department Seeks Ebonics ExpertsDEA wants “Black English” linguists to decipher bugged calls AUGUST 23--The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records. A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, ...
George W. Bush on the Rise Again
Post Date: 2010-08-23 08:38:53 by no gnu taxes
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When George W. Bush departed the White House on January 20, 2009, he left as one of the most unpopular presidents in history. At the time a Gallup poll found President Bush tallied a mere 34 percent approval. That put him only slightly above the two most unpopular presidents in the era of modern polling -- Harry Truman (32 percent when he left office), and Richard Nixon (22 percent when he resigned in disgrace in August 1974.) Close to two years into President Obama's term, Bush's mojo with the American public appears on the rise. The turnaround couldn't come at a better time for Republicans who were hoping voters would be forgetting about Obama's predecessor. Their ...
Barney! Say It Isn’t So.
Post Date: 2010-08-22 18:53:34 by Skip MacLure
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Barney Frank lauded, flacked and defended the two institutions many people feel were major factors in the collapse of the mortgage market and, through them, the housing and construction industries. Fannie and Freddie, the two government entities which had been producing most of the high-risk paper, bundling it and selling it to other mortgage banks. Eventually, the market turned toxic with bad mortgages and the actual and threatened failures of many of the banking institutions that had gambled on these billions of dollars of worthless bundled mortgages. Even in the face of the obvious disaster that befell us in 2008, just in time to panic an already nervous public into thinking the sky ...
ropical Storm Danielle forms in the Atlantic
Post Date: 2010-08-22 18:40:01 by Brian S
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MIAMI (AP) -- Tropical Storm Danielle has formed in the Atlantic, but the system is still far from land. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that Danielle had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and the storm is expected to strengthen over the next couple of days. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Frank developed in the Pacific off Mexico, and storm warnings have been issued for parts of the coast. Forecasters said the storm had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph). It was about 130 miles (205 km) south-southeast of Puerto Angel, Mexico. It was moving west at 8 mph (13 kph). Mexico has issued a tropical storm warning for the coast from Puerto Angel ...
LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation (We educate Mexico's and get taxed up the ass for it)
Post Date: 2010-08-22 17:47:45 by Nebuchadnezzar
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LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation By CHRISTINA HOAG Associated Press Writer AP Photo LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever. The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of "Taj Mahal" schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both ...
Howard Dean: I can’t shake the feeling that Obama’s advisors are out of touch with the country
Post Date: 2010-08-22 16:08:09 by WhiteSands
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Skip ahead to 5:00 for the key bit, which has me at a loss. On the one hand, this is the second time in four days that Dean-o is wildly off-message from the White House, which of course is why both CNN and The Hill are trumpeting his remarks here. Intriguing stuff, to be sure. On the other hand, the thrust of what he’s saying is that the White House is out of touch with … progressives. Note to Dean: It ain’t disaffected lefties who are preparing to destroy the Democrats in November. Or am I not giving him enough credit, and this is actually his way of acknowledging, however glancingly, that the White House is out of touch with center-right concerns too? Remember, this is the ...
How to Prolong a Recession: Tax Driveways
Post Date: 2010-08-22 15:16:54 by WhiteSands
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N.Y. Candidate: Prison Dorms For Welfare Recipients
Post Date: 2010-08-22 12:00:05 by Murron
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N.Y. Candidate: Prison Dorms For Welfare Recipients NEW YORK (AP) — Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene." Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S.Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14. Paladino first described the idea in June at a meeting of The Journal News of White Plains and spoke about it again this week with The Associated Press. Throughout his ...
Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History (Brace Yourselves....Obama Bens Over the American Worker, Again!)
Post Date: 2010-08-22 11:37:42 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History From Ryan Ellis on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 5:27 PM Add to Reddit Add to Stumbleupon Add to Delicious Add to Digg Add to Facebook Add to Twitter In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: (N.B. This version of the document contains even more tax hikes than the original version did) First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011: Personal income tax ...
Revealing the racial makeup of California's foreclosures (The truth hurts liberals) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-22 09:29:06 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Revealing the racial makeup of California's foreclosures 21 2 KALWNews.org By Hana Baba The Center for Responsible Lending-a non-profit research and public policy group-released a study, this week, focused on the racial makeup of foreclosures in California. It found that Latinos have experienced notably higher foreclosure rates than non-Hispanic borrowers in the state. In what's being called a "first of its kind," the report, entitled Dreams Deferred: Impact and Characteristics of the California Foreclosure Crisis, analyzed more than half a million statewide cases of foreclosures and found that the vast majority-48%-has been on Latinos. Whites totaled 35%, African ...
In striking shift, small investors flee stock markets
Post Date: 2010-08-22 04:04:40 by WhiteSands
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Renewed economic uncertainty is testing Americans’ generation-long love affair with the stock market. Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry trade group. Now many are choosing investments they deem safer, like bonds. If that pace continues, more money will be pulled out of these mutual funds in 2010 than in any year since the 1980s, with the exception of 2008, when the global financial crisis peaked. Small investors are “losing their appetite for risk,” a Credit Suisse analyst, Doug Cliggott, said in a report to ...
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