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Laura Ingraham Outs Howard Fineman for The Obama Cock Sucker That He Is
Post Date: 2010-08-11 14:31:55 by no gnu taxes
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Laura Ingraham had a great interview with Newsweeks Howard Fineman. The first 8 minutes is a pretty good analysis about how Obama miscalculated almost every decision he has made during his time in office. Fineman wasn’t as hard on Obama as Laura was of course, seeing as he carried the water for Obama. Around the 8 minute mark Laura takes him to task for just that: (h/t Newsbusters) INGRAHAM: How is it though with all these smart people at Newsweek – I went around the block with Evan Thomas about this as well. How did you all think that a guy who basically went from the Harvard Law Review, to some community leafleting, organizing, whatever you want to call it, to a short stint, a ...
Blackwater Guards Indicted For Murder
Post Date: 2010-08-11 13:30:16 by Brian S
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A federal grand jury has added an additional indictment to a former Blackwater employee involved in the murders of two Afghan civilians in May of 2009, according to The Virginian-Pilot.Two Blackwater guards have been charged with second-degree murder for the fatal shootings.The Virginian-Pilot reports,[Christopher] Drotleff, of Virginia Beach, and [Justin] Cannon, of Corpus Christi, Texas, were working for a subsidiary of Blackwater, also known as Xe, to train the Afghan police force in Kabul. The indictment alleges they were drinking that day when they became involved in a traffic accident and began firing their weapons at another car.Drotleff and Cannon say they fired in self-defense, in ...
Ben Quayle changes story on website
Post Date: 2010-08-11 12:37:26 by Skip Intro
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Ben Quayle changes story on website Ben Quayle had a hard time getting his story straight Tuesday. The son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and an Arizona Republican candidate for Congress admitted Tuesday night that he did, in fact, post comments on DirtyScottsdale.com, a website devoted to chronicling the trashy side of the Scottsdale nightclub scene. His admission came hours after a POLITICO story quoted him saying he “was not involved in the site,” which was the precursor to TheDirty.com., a popular national gossip site. In an interview with Phoenix’s 12News, Quayle, 33, denied Dirty Scottsdale founder Nik Richie’s claim that he posted under the pseudonym ...
Handel concedes GOP nomination for governor to Deal
Post Date: 2010-08-11 12:25:49 by Skip Intro
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Handel concedes GOP nomination for governor to Deal Aaron Gould Sheinin Yesterday, Karen Handel called Nathan Deal a “corrupt relic of Washington.” Today, however, Handel said she is endorsing him as the GOP nominee for governor. In a statement just released from the Handel campaign, she said she called Deal this morning to concede the nomination.The November ballot is now set. Deal will represent the GOP and face Democrat Roy Barnes and Libertarian John Monds. Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said that U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., coordinated the phone call between Handel and Deal. “They had a very good talk,” Robinson said. “Nathan congratulated her on a ...
Primary Night Yields Good News For President Obama And Democrats
Post Date: 2010-08-11 11:36:54 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, who have been starved for good news through much of 2010, finally received a generous helping Tuesday night. Republicans, meanwhile, were left with several new reasons to wonder whether all the favorable national trends showing in the polls are enough to overcome local candidates who are inspiring little confidence about their readiness for the general election 12 weeks from now. In each of the four states that held primaries Tuesday, the GOP either nominated or gave an overnight lead to candidates tarnished by scandal, gaffes or some other significant vulnerability. The headline victory belonged to Sen. Michael Bennet, the Colorado ...
Gulf Scientist: Justice Department Is Gagging Me From Studying Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-08-11 11:33:47 by Brian S
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The Justice Department continues to impose stifling restrictions on independent scientists seeking to study the catastrophic effects of Gulf spill, according to one scientist. In an opinion piece at The Scientist, ecosystem biologist Linda Hooper-Bui explains her frustration with corporations and government bureaucracies, both of which have been preventing independent scientists like her from accessing the Gulf of Mexico. "I want to collect data to answer scientific questions absent a corporate or governmental agenda. I won't collect data specifically to support the government's lawsuit against BP nor will I collect data only to be used in BP's defense," says ...
While Classless Obama is Taking a Swipe At The Former President, Bush And Daughter Jenna Are Visiting Haiti To Look At Post-Quake Reconstruction
Post Date: 2010-08-11 09:03:16 by no gnu taxes
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush and his daughter Jenna visit R. Perry Import-Export, an exporter of Haitian mangoes in Port-au-Prince during a check up on quake relief efforts
Failure in Iraq will be on Obama's watch, not predecessor's
Post Date: 2010-08-11 08:55:07 by no gnu taxes
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President Barack Obama claims to have kept his campaign promise to cease U.S. combat operations (though not U.S. troop presence) in Iraq by the end of this month. But it's not about his keeping promises about a war and an objective he never supported. It's about whether the mission has been a success. And the answer to that question is: We don't know yet. It will be fall at the earliest before a minimally functioning Iraqi government is formed. If the government and the country eventually collapse into chaos and terrorists overrun Iraq, effectively nullifying American and coalition efforts there, it will matter little about the president’s campaign promise. More important ...
RACIST: Harry Reid: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican."
Post Date: 2010-08-11 07:36:34 by A K A Stone
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While campaigning in Nevada Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told an audience of mostly Hispanic voters: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay. Do I need to say more?" Watch the video here: Reid's racially-charged comments come as the Nevada Democrat is trying to boost Hispanic turnout in his bid for reelection this November. Polls show, however, that Reid's positions on immigration are very unpopular with Nevada voters in general. Reid supports the Obama administration's lawsuit against Arizona over its immigration law, but 63 percent of Nevada voters oppose the lawsuit, according to a Rasmussen poll. Reid voted ...
Tropical Depression Forms In Gulf, Heads For Spill
Post Date: 2010-08-10 22:17:02 by Brian S
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MIAMI (AP) -- The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and it is heading toward the oil spill site off the coast of Louisiana. BP and Coast Guard officials had already decided to stop drilling on a relief well on Tuesday, before forecasters declared the storm off the southwestern part of Florida was a depression. A tropical storm warning was issued for much of the Gulf coast affected by the oil spill, from Destin, Fla., to Intracoastal City, La. The center of the storm was located about 375 miles (600 kilometers) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was moving northwest about 6 mph (9 kmh) with winds of 35 mph (55 kmh). It ...
Same-Sex Marriage Judge Finds That a Child Has Neither a Need Nor a Right to a Mother
Post Date: 2010-08-10 22:12:23 by Mad Dog
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(CNSNews.com) - U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who ruled last week that a voter-approved amendment to California’s constitution that limited marriage to the union of one man and one woman violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, based that ruling in part on his finding that a child does not need and has no right to a mother. Nor, he found, does a child have a need or a right to a father. “Children do not need to be raised by a male parent and a female parent to be well-adjusted, and having both a male and a female parent does not increase the likelihood that a child will be well- adjusted,” the judge wrote in finding of fact No. 71 in his opinion. ...
Judge dismisses Geronimo lawsuit
Post Date: 2010-08-10 21:23:23 by Mad Dog
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A lawsuit filed by descendants of the Native American chieftain Geronimo, who claimed some of his remains were stolen in 1918 by the secretive Skull and Bones society of Yale University, has been dismissed by a federal judge. Published: 5:17PM BST 10 Aug 2010 Geronimo died of pneumonia in 1909 as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill after decades spent fighting against US and Mexican expansion into Apache lands Photo: AFP/GETTY The lawsuit was filed last year in Washington by 20 descendants who want to rebury the Apache warrior near his New Mexico birthplace. It claimed that during the First World War, Skull and Bones members, including Prescott Bush, the grandfather of former US President ...
Gallup Predicts A Ruling Party Rout In The Midterms Based On Obama's Popularity Rating [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-10 20:06:33 by Capitalist Eric
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Gallup Predicts A Ruling Party Rout In The Midterms Based On Obama's Popularity RatingBy Tyler DurdenCreated 08/09/2010 - 17:15Gallup presents [1]some troubling statistics for the democrats as we approach mid-term elections (a mere three months away). In a nutshell, the party of a president who has a sub-50% rating into midterms, has lost, on average, 36 seats since 1946. Alternatively, presidents with a popularity rating over 50%, lose just 14. As Gallup says [1]: "The clear implication is that the Democrats are vulnerable to losing a significant number of House seats this fall with Barack Obama's approval rating averaging 45% during the last two full weeks of Gallup Daily ...
House Republicans Suggest Names for Democrats’ Untitled, $26-Billion ‘Second Stimulus’ Bill
Post Date: 2010-08-10 18:14:44 by Capitalist Eric
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Susan Jones, Senior Editor Congressional Democrats on Tuesday plan to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers. The cash infusion could save the jobs of people like Dave Ebersback who is one of 14 math teachers in the Toledo, Ohio, school district to receive a layoff notice. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)(CNSNews.com) - Washington Democrats are in such a rush to pass one more stimulus-type bill that the legislation to be voted on Tuesday doesn’t even have a name, Republicans note. As CNET reported, a watchdog Web site on Sunday evening noted that the Democrats’ $26-billion spending ...
US Govt Sending Ground Zero Mosque Imam To Mideast On A Religious Outreach Trip
Post Date: 2010-08-10 17:08:54 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is being sent by the State Department on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East, officials said Tuesday. The department is sponsoring Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's visit to Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, where he will discuss Muslim life in America and promote religious tolerance, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. He said the imam had been on two similar trips and that plans for the upcoming tour predated the mosque controversy. "We have a long-term relationship with him," Crowley told reporters, noting that Rauf had visited Bahrain, Morocco, ...
House Passes Bill To Help Teachers, Public Workers
Post Date: 2010-08-10 17:05:08 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama was to sign the measure by day's end. Lawmakers streamed back to Washington for a one-day session as Democrats declared a need to act before children return to classrooms minus teachers laid off because of budgetary crises in states that have been hard-hit by the recession. Republicans saw it differently, calling the bill a giveaway to teachers' unions and an example of wasteful Washington spending that voters will punish the Democrats for in this fall's ...
Tuesday's Primaries Test Political Establishment
Post Date: 2010-08-10 17:02:55 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a season of peril for establishment politicians, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet battled primary challenger Andrew Romanoff in Colorado on Tuesday, and voters in Connecticut, Minnesota and Georgia picked their parties' candidates for fall campaigns for Congress and governor. Bennet was the latest in a string of incumbents to face serious challenges from within their own parties. So far this year, two senators and four House members have fallen. Subplots on Tuesday also included presidential hopefuls bestowing endorsements in hopes of helping themselves in the 2012 race for the White House. Nowhere was that more evident than in Georgia, where former vice ...
Another General Says The Kenyan Should Produce Birth Certificate
Post Date: 2010-08-10 16:27:40 by no gnu taxes
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A second General has come out in support of former Greeley resident Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin, who is challenging in court President Obama’s eligibility to be President, saying a good leader would gladly produce the documentation and put this issue to rest. This past Friday, Lt. Col Lakin attended a military hearing to face several charges including missing a movement. Following the hearing, Lakin was ordered not to speak to the press and was immediately taken by military escort back to Walter Reed Medical Center without even being permitted to speak to his lawyer. Lakin is being represented by both military and civilian counsel. Margaret Hemenway, spokeswoman for Lt. Col. Lakin ...
Ted Stevens confirmed dead in plane crash
Post Date: 2010-08-10 15:53:33 by Ibluafartsky
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Ted Stevens confirmed dead in plane crash By BECKY BOHRER The Associated Press Published: August 10th, 2010 11:09 AM Last Modified: August 10th, 2010 11:25 AM A plane carrying former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and eight others crashed Monday in remote Southwest Alaska, killing the longtime Republican lawmaker and four other people, authorities said this morning. Ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe was also believed to be aboard, but it was unclear whether he was among the dead. Stevens' family has been notified that the 86-year-old was among those killed in the crash, family spokesman Mitch Rose said.. Rescuers arrived on helicopter early Tuesday and were giving medical care to ...
It's been four years since Bush was responsible for economic policy [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-10 14:48:52 by no gnu taxes
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It's been four years since President George W. Bush could be held responsible for the nation's economy, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Monday evening. DeMint dismissed a key part of Democrats' midterm messaging — warning voters against a return to Bush-era policies — reasoning that Democrats have been controlling U.S. economic policies during the past four years in which they've controlled Congress. "The president [Obama] keeps saying he inherited this, but the fact is that it's been four years since President Bush had anything to do with economic policy," DeMint said during an appearance on WVOC radio in South Carolina. The South Carolina ...
Manager: Levi Johnston to run for city office in Alaska
Post Date: 2010-08-10 14:15:46 by Skip Intro
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Manager: Levi Johnston to run for city office in Alaska JUNEAU, Alaska -- Levi Johnston may be following in Sarah Palin's footsteps. Johnston's manager, Tank Jones, on Monday confirmed a report on Variety magazine's website that Johnston is planning to run for city office in his hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, as part of a reality TV show. Wasilla is where Palin got her start in politics, moving up from City Council to mayor before winning election as Alaska's governor in 2006. Jones said Johnston is serious about a run, either for mayor or City Council. "Let me put it to you like this: If you live in a town and things are happening in that town, and you're ...
Tea Partier's Gay Cash Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2010-08-10 14:13:49 by Skip Intro
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Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada has pledged not to take campaign contributions from PACs that include donations from companies that provide health benefits to the partners of gay employees. But a Daily Beast analysis shows she’s already taken at least $37,000 from such political action committees. It was unclear whether Angle would return the money as an email statement from spokesman Jerry Stacy didn't address that question. "Companies and employees should be allowed to decide which coverage plans work best for them, not the government," Stacy wrote to The Daily Beast. "The important goal of stopping Senator Harry Reid's failed policies is ...
Please You Kenyan Asshole. Please STOP “Helping” The U.S. Economy
Post Date: 2010-08-10 13:53:00 by no gnu taxes
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For those of us who have been waiting for the “train” to leave the station on the United States Economy, I’ve got news for you. There is nothing barreling down the tracks waiting to hit the proverbial blockage on the tracks and explode our Economy into the largest Depression ever. Instead, QE2 is waiting at the docks “ready to sail”. “Quantitative Easing” part deux (QE2) was first publicly bandied about in debate last month spurred by St. Louis Fed President James Bullard’s comments: …who suggested the Fed may have to buy more Treasurys as he warned about Japan-style deflation. The idea gained momentum, but expectations for a quantitative ...
Not A Whole Lot Of Love – Eighty Five Days And Counting.
Post Date: 2010-08-10 13:47:45 by Skip MacLure
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I’ve never seen America act like this. The sense of purpose out there grows daily. I meet people on a daily basis where it’s seldom that the conversation doesn’t turn to the economy or where it might be headed. The consensus seems to be pessimistic about a recovery any time soon, and more people think that the recession may linger for two or more years than do not. But more than that. They are angry. They know what’s been done and by whom. Business isn’t thinking about expansion… it’s scared to death and just trying to hold what it’s got. They are not hiring and they are not going to hire… they’re too busy trying to figure out how not to ...
Former Senator Ted Stevens Believed To Be A Passenger Aboard Plane That Crashed In Alaska
Post Date: 2010-08-10 12:05:17 by Skip Intro
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JUNEAU, Alaska — A plane carrying nine people crashed amid southwest Alaska's remote mountains and lakes, killing five people on board, authorities said Tuesday. Former Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe were believed to be aboard, but it was unclear if they were among the dead. Reports from officials in Alaska were that nine people were aboard the aircraft and that "it appears that there are five fatalities," NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz told The Associated Press in Washington. A U.S. government official told The Associated Press that Alaska authorities have been told that the 86-year-old Stevens, a former longtime Republican senator, was on ...
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