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Feds clear Tom DeLay after six years
Post Date: 2010-08-16 09:31:27 by no gnu taxes
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The Justice Department has informed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) that the government has ended a six-year investigation of his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to DeLay's lead counsel in the matter, Richard Cullen, chairman of McGuireWoods. The investigation lasted through two presidents and four attorneys general. Its demise provides a stark footnote to the lobbying scandals that helped Democrats regain the House majority they held for 40 years and lost in the Republican revolution of 1994, which eventually made the pugnacious DeLay one of Washington’s top power brokers. “The federal investigation of Tom DeLay is over and there ...
Obama bin failure! Obama has a new record low for approval for second day in a row
Post Date: 2010-08-16 08:51:57 by no gnu taxes
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Yesterday’s record low of 43% approval on Gallup’s daily tracking poll set a brand new record for Obama one day after endorsing the construction of the Ground Zero Mosque in front of a bunch of Muslims at a White House Ramadan dinner. After trying to backtrack on his comments on Saturday while showing he is doing nothing more than voting present again, the American people aren’t fooled. As of August 15th, 2010, Obama has hit a brand new low for approval ratings of 42% on Gallup’s daily tracking poll. The same poll finds Obama at his highest disapproval rating ever recorded on that poll at 49%. The Ground Zero Mosque endorsement can do wonders for one’s approval ...
Election 2010: Colorado Governor Colorado Governor: Hickenlooper (D) 43%, Maes (R) 31%, Tancredo (ACP) 18%
Post Date: 2010-08-16 08:24:45 by go65
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Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper now holds a double-digit lead in the three-way race for governor of Colorado. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Colorado Voters finds Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver, with 43% support. Businessman Dan Maes, the winner of Tuesday’s Republican Primary, captures 31% of the vote, while American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo trails with 18%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided. This is the first poll conducted since Maes won the Republican primary. It shows Maes with a bit more support than he had before the primary and Tancredo with a bit less support. ...
Rand Paul: Keep EPA out of Ky. affairs Candidate considers himself a friend of coal
Post Date: 2010-08-16 08:20:31 by A K A Stone
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HINDMAN — Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul took harsh digs at President Barack Obama while mining for votes in Kentucky coalfields Saturday, saying busybody regulators backed by the president are stifling the coal sector. Paul vowed to challenge Obama "every step of the way" if elected in November, seeking to capitalize on a political environment where flocks of voters have never warmed to the Democratic president. The Tea Party-backed Paul never mentioned his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, in his speech at a coal appreciation event in Knott County, instead reserving his attacks for Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and federal environmental regulators. 100 ...
President Goes For A Swim In The Gulf – Or Does He?
Post Date: 2010-08-15 23:15:42 by Brian S
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Monday, 16 August 2010 President Barack Obama wanted to convince America that the Gulf of Mexico remains open for business. But perhaps he didn't want the world to catch another glimpse of his hairless chest. So when he and his daughter, Sasha, took a dip in the sea off Florida this weekend, only the White House photographer was allowed to capture proceedings. The official picture was intended to provide evidence that the region's beaches are back to normal. Yet it soon emerged that the private beach on which it was taken, off Alligator Point in St Andrew Bay, north-west Florida, isn't technically in the gulf.
Zsa Zsa Gabor Calls In Priest For Final Rites
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:28:52 by Brian S
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Zsa Zsa Gabor, the 93-year-old Hollywood star who has been hospitalized due to complications from a broken hip, called a priest into her hospital room Sunday for her final rites, her publicist said. "Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has seen a priest and is not doing very well. She's in serious condition. She asked to see a priest and receive her last rites," publicist John Blanchette told AFP. Gabor "spent her 24th wedding anniversary (Saturday) hospitalized after surgery to remove two blood clots," Blanchette said. Her husband, Frederic von Anhalt "is at at her side. It is a very difficult time for her family," the spokesman said. The blood clot surgery Saturday ...
White House May Drop Deepwater Drilling Moratorium Early
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:19:28 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS -- Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to its moratorium on deepwater drilling. But four months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, regulators have only started to make good on promises to overhaul drilling. Tough measures are stalled in Congress. A $1 billion emergency response network proposed by the industry won't be operational for another year. And while doomsday scenarios from the BP spill, like oil washing up the East Coast, have not come to pass, there are no guarantees that drilling will be any safer once it does resume. What's changed is "not enough to ...
Sikhs Dispute Texas Ruling on Temple
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:14:38 by Ferret Mike
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A Texas appellate-court ruling that a newly built Sikh temple near Austin must be razed or moved has sparked an international outcry from members of the religious group, some of whom claim discrimination is at the heart of the case. The dispute began when a couple in the neighborhood filed a lawsuit on the grounds that the temple violated the subdivision's rules restricting construction to single-family dwellings. The couple, John and Leslie Bollier, say it isn't about religion, but rather the construction of a building that could bring down property values in a residential neighborhood. The Bolliers' newly constructed home has a taxable valuation of more than $600,000, ...
Ground Zero Mosque Imam: No, This Isn’t a Mosque, It’s an Islamic YMCA…
Post Date: 2010-08-15 15:01:50 by Ferret Mike
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Nice try, douchebag… NEW YORK - When Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf decided to build a Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan, the model he chose couldn’t have been more mainstream American — the Young Men’s Christian Association chapters found in cities across the United States. The institution he had in mind was the 92nd Street Y, a Jewish adaptation of the YMCA concept that is one of New York’s leading addresses for residents of all religions or none to visit for public lectures, debates, concerts or educational courses. But Imam Rauf’s project is better known here now as the “Ground Zero mosque,” after the term for the World Trade Center site. ...
The Obama Depression
Post Date: 2010-08-15 11:58:31 by no gnu taxes
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Home foreclosures and new unemployment claims hit new highs! According to Obama acolytes this was supposed to be "Recovery Summer". Obama promised millions of new jobs as the result of his massive and wasteful overspending. While Obama promised five million "green jobs" in the long term, Vice President Biden went further in suggesting that Recovery Summer would bring 700,000 to 1.4 million new jobs by the end of 2010. Time is running out! We now see the consquences of Obama's incompetenece and fealty to a hard left political agenda as job openings in the private sector drop for the second month in a row. Unemployment claims rise to the highest level since ...
Five myths about midterm elections
Post Date: 2010-08-15 11:17:02 by go65
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With Tuesday's elections in Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia and Minnesota over and the feuds that mark primary season finally winding down, voters and pundits can turn their attention to this year's real political fight: November's general election, when all 435 House seats, along with 37 Senate seats, will be up for grabs. Midterm elections are a uniquely American ritual -- most democracies choose their legislators and executive leaders at the same time -- and they have, over the years, given rise to their share of homegrown political wisdom. But not all of that wisdom is borne out by recent history. 1. Midterm votes foretell future election results. Midterm elections are ...
Deficit Shmeficit
Post Date: 2010-08-15 11:14:55 by go65
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Gallup polled the usual question: "What do you think is the most important problem facing American today?" Overwhelmingly, Americans said the economy and jobs. 58 percent, in fact. And the federal budget deficit? Seven percent. That's right. 58 percent versus 7 percent. But, of course, the old media, the Republicans and the conservadems will still screech about how the American people want the president to cut spending, reduce the deficit and cut taxes for the wealthiest two percent instead of, you know, creating jobs and stimulating the economy.
President Bush Still Acting Presidential- President Obama Still Acting Spoiled
Post Date: 2010-08-15 10:57:12 by no gnu taxes
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The President has been busy lately- he has been thinking and writing about his time in office, he has been touring businesses, he has been calling widow's to express condolences, and he has been surprising returning combat veterans at the airport to thank them for their service. Opps, I mean the 'former President' has been doing these things lately- our current President has been busy fundraising for candidates and vacationing and golfing and playing basketball with NBA stars and hanging out with celebrities and musicians. That's right- one President is acting Presidential, the other is acting like a spoiled child. Which one did you vote for?
Obama’s Inner Muslim Seeps Out.
Post Date: 2010-08-15 06:17:12 by Skip MacLure
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‘Inner Muslim’ is a term which has increasingly been applied with regard to Barack Hussein Obama. His latest exploit into anti-Americanism, by hiding behind ‘religious tolerance’, has drawn justifiable outrage from pretty much across the board, with not a few Democrats very uncomfortable and moving towards the right. Actions have consequences. A consequence of 9/11 is that despite the left’s concerted effort to do a ‘memory-wipe’ on the American people, it hasn’t worked. The greatest example of this historical revisionism I can recall was back on 9/11. The initial videos plainly showed people leaping out of office windows to keep from being burned ...
Obama under fire over support for mosque near Ground Zero- After a barrage of criticism, president appears to backtrack, saying: 'I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-14 22:52:09 by WhiteSands
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obama has come under attack from American conservatives for supporting plans to build a mosque two blocks from the site of one of the terror attacks of 11 September 2001. The proposal for a mosque and community centre near the site of the World Trade Centre has attracted a large opposition movement in a fierce argument over religious freedom. At a White House dinner marking Ramadan, Obama said: "As a citizen, and as president, I believe Muslims have the same right to practise their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This ...
Obama Swims In Gulf, Says Beaches Open For Business
Post Date: 2010-08-14 21:14:04 by Brian S
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Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama went swimming off the coast of Florida on Saturday and declared the Gulf area's beaches "open for business," trying to show by example that a region hit by the BP oil spill was safe for tourists to enjoy. Obama, on his fifth visit to the region since BP Plc's deep-sea well in the Gulf of Mexico ruptured in April, pledged to restore the economy and the environment in the aftermath of the world's worst offshore oil spill. "Oil is no longer flowing into the Gulf, and it has not been flowing for a month. But I'm here to tell you that our job is not finished, and we are not going anywhere until it is," he told ...
Shootings outside Buffalo, NY, restaurant kill 4, including newlywed, and wound 4 others
Post Date: 2010-08-14 16:46:24 by WhiteSands
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Eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo restaurant were shot early Saturday, four of them fatally, including a Texas man who had returned to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said. Managers had decided to close the City Grill in the city's business district after an altercation inside. The victims were leaving at about 2:30 a.m. when gunfire erupted, police said. "There were verbal things going on. Management apparently chose to close down and have everybody leave the restaurant," Chief of Detectives Dennis Richards said. "People were leaving when this shooting happened." Investigators did not know how many shooters there ...
The Miserable Failure, President Kenyan McTarball, Fall to His Lowest Approval Yet in the Gallup Poll
Post Date: 2010-08-14 16:07:12 by no gnu taxes
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43% Approval What a Fucking Loser. The idiots who voted for that asshole are starting to realize what dumbasses they were.
That Was The Week That Was #2.
Post Date: 2010-08-14 12:18:45 by Skip MacLure
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This week, it seemed that most of America’s (and much of the world’s) press was covering the antics of an airline flight attendant as the main headline story. Not to feel left out, I thought I would mention it. That’s about as far as I’m going with it, a mere mention. There are probably hundreds of people every week that quit their jobs and walk out, even in these times of high unemployment, although perhaps in not such a spectacular fashion. There must be many a Democrat that wished there was an escape chute to bail out from the Capitol. Grab a couple of beers, pull the lever and slide into the land of Independents. Probably an appealing idea, except to those leftist ...
Obama Repeatedly Called a “Nigger” and “Coon” by Black Participants in 2009 Rally Organized by NAACP Official…
Post Date: 2010-08-14 10:55:57 by no gnu taxes
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Rapper Head-Roc referred to President Obama as a “nigger” and a “coon” in a rap he performed for the crowd. In reference to Obama inviting the police officer who arrested Professor Henry Gates to the White House ”beer summit” (the rapper mistakenly calls Henry Gates “Bill Gates”), Head-Roc says of “the Prez:” “Man, I tuned out when that nigger went the ‘coon’ route.” Longtime radical activist Pam Africa, president of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (she had also been part of the MOVE black power cult) repeatedly called Obama a “nigger” as well, to the applause and cheers of the ...
KAGAN IS AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER!!!
Post Date: 2010-08-14 09:08:48 by A K A Stone
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Former federal prosecutor says her 'fraud' resulted in deaths of innocent LAW OF THE LAND Supremes' precedent cited in demand for Kagan indictment Former federal prosecutor says her 'fraud' resulted in deaths of innocent Posted: August 12, 2010 1:00 am Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2010 WorldNetDaily A former federal prosecutor turned into a watchdog on Washington's antics, legal and otherwise, is calling for a citizens' grand jury to seek an indictment against the newest Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan, for her "fraud" in changing the testimony of a medical organization. Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch and Judicial Watch, and the only ...
Conservative Internet shock jock Harold (Hal) Turner convicted of threatening to kill Chicago judges
Post Date: 2010-08-14 03:09:41 by Brian S
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A Brooklyn jury took less than two hours Friday to convict right-wing loudmouth Harold (Hal) Turner of threatening to kill three Chicago judges. Turner's mom and teenage son gasped and sobbed as the jury found the Internet shock jock guilty of a single charge of threatening to murder the judges - a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison. An ashen-faced Turner stripped off his tie and belt and handed his wallet to a clerk before he was led out of the courtroom in downtown Brooklyn. "I love you, dad," his son, Michael Turner, 16, said after the verdict was read. Relatives of Turner angrily denounced the lightning-quick verdict, which came on the fourth day of his ...
President Obama Backs Mosque Near Ground Zero
Post Date: 2010-08-13 22:07:08 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less. "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York City and the nation. "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances," he said. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable." ...
Israeli Elias Abuelazam Appears In US Court Accused Of Racist Murders
Post Date: 2010-08-13 18:16:23 by Brian S
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An Israeli suspected of five murders and other apparently racially motivated stabbings appeared in court in Atlanta, Georgia, today after being arrested as he allegedly tried to flee the US. Elias Abuelazam, 33, was accused in connection with killings in and around Flint, Michigan – which spread fear in the city for almost three months – as well as non-fatal attacks with knives or a hammer as far away as Virginia and Ohio. He agreed to be transferred to Michigan for trial. The authorities said that he drove up to his victims, pretended to ask for directions or help with his car, then repeatedly stabbed them. One was bludgeoned with the hammer. All but two of the 18 targets were ...
Feds Say Well's Not Dead Yet, More Drilling Needed
Post Date: 2010-08-13 18:02:49 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's broken oil well is not dead yet. The government's point man on the crisis said Friday that the blown-out well is not securely plugged to his satisfaction and that the drilling of the relief well - long regarded as the only way to ensure that the hole at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico never leaks oil again - must go forward. "The relief well will be finished," said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen. "We will kill the well." Work on the relief well was suspended earlier this week because of bad weather. Allen did not say when it would resume, but when the order comes, it could take four days to get the operation up and running again. ...
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