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Retail sales drop 0.5 percent in June (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:25:06 by no gnu taxes
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Retail sales fell in June for the second straight month, more evidence that the recovery will slow in the second half of the year. Retail spending dropped 0.5 percent in June, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. That followed a 1.1 percent fall in May. Excluding autos, spending was down 0.1 percent in June. Much of the weakness last month came from a drop in auto sales and a decline in gasoline prices. Excluding autos and gasoline, sales would have risen 0.1 percent in June after having plunged 1 percent in May. Separately, the Commerce Department said that business inventories rose 0.1 percent in May. But sales dropped 0.9 percent, the first decline since March 2009. Americans ...
LIbtalker Meltdown Over President Tarball's Poll Collapse: Americans are spoiled
Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:01:00 by no gnu taxes
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We’re spoiled? If Bill Press’ argument holds water, then who spoiled us? If the answer is George W. Bush, then perhaps that means that liberals will shortly revise their estimations of his presidency as the last Golden Age … right? Brian Maloney catches Press reacting to the news that six in ten Americans somehow have lost confidence in a man who spent a trillion dollars only to see jobs bleed out of the American economy as an indictment of our ability to self-govern: It comes as no shock to hear a liberal talk about the American public as “children” who need scolding. (It also doesn’t come as a shock to see that Bill Press doesn’t check the data on ...
Day 86 In The Gulf: Oil Flows Into Gulf While Obama Administration Dithers
Post Date: 2010-07-14 10:41:37 by no gnu taxes
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The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and BP said further analysis must be done Wednesday before critical tests could proceed. No explanation was given for the decision, and no date was set for when testing would begin on the new, tighter-fitting cap BP installed on the blown-out well Monday. In the meantime, oil continued spewing into the Gulf.
Newt Gingrich for president? I'd rather not
Post Date: 2010-07-14 10:27:44 by Badeye
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Newt Gingrich for president? I'd rather not By: Rob Port Special to The Examiner 07/13/10 10:58 AM EDT Newt Gingrich is making noises about running for President. Again. Which is becoming a staple of presidential election cycles. One almost as predictable as exit polling and those red state/blue state electoral maps on election night. But let’s face it, as much as Newt may have accomplished for the limited government cause while leading Republcians in Congress back in the 1990’s, he’d be a terrible candidate for President. First, he’s old news. If there’s anything that could throw a wet blanket on the flames of the tea party movement it’s a national ...
Michelle Obma Visits Gulf. Wears an oil stained dress, or something.
Post Date: 2010-07-14 10:25:58 by no gnu taxes
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Who would ever wear this to a region that has been devastated by an oil spill? Seriously, did her Fashion Czar pick that out thinking it would be "slick chic" as in oil slick chic? Or was it a subliminal smack to the face to all those complaining about her husband's response, or lack of, to the spill?
Tea Party Favorite Loses GOP Runoff in Alabama
Post Date: 2010-07-14 00:57:54 by Brian S
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A mainstream Republican rolled past a tea party activist Tuesday in the GOP runoff for a southeast Alabama congressional seat that Republicans hope to reclaim. Montgomery City Councilwoman Martha Roby was drawing 60 percent in the unofficial count in the 2nd Congressional District GOP runoff Tuesday against Rick Barber, a former Marine who operates a Montgomery pool hall that hosts tea party meetings. Roby will face conservative Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright in the fall. Bright's win in 2008 marked the first time the GOP had lost the seat since 1964. In other races, self-described outsider state Rep. Robert Bentley won the Republican runoff for governor ...
Trashing Obama's Economic Team
Post Date: 2010-07-13 22:03:38 by reaganisright
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Reagan White House budget guru David Stockman talks to Lloyd Grove about the dangers of ignoring the deficit, why Bernanke, Geithner and Summers must be fired ASAP—and his support for Ron Paul. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke “is a math teacher, he’s not a central banker,” former White House Budget Director David Stockman scoffs. “He is so caught up in his equations that I think he’s extremely dangerous—the worst Fed chairman we’ve ever had.” In the flat, dry accents of the Michigan farm boy he once was, Stockman tells me: “How can he believe that stimulating more credit creation and more borrowing can possibly solve the problem of a ...
Republicans propose cutting Obama budget (by $20 billion)
Post Date: 2010-07-13 21:57:58 by go65
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WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Senate are backing a plan to shave $20 billion from President Barack Obama's budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The cuts amount to about a 2 percent trim from the $1.13 trillion requested by Obama for agency budgets annually funded by Congress. Senate Budget Committee Democrats have proposed a $4 billion cut. While small as a percentage of overall spending, the cuts represent an attempt by Republicans to respond to rising voter anger about spending and deficits. And it comes from an unlikely source: the Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee, many of whom are viewed with distrust by GOP conservatives as willing accomplices in spending ...
NAACP Resolution Condemns Tea Party Supporters For 'Explicitly Racist Behavior'
Post Date: 2010-07-13 20:10:14 by Brian S
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Members of the NAACP have overwhelmingly passed a resolution that condemns what the group calls "explicitly racist behavior" by supporters of the "tea party." The resolution has pitted the civil rights group against the conservative grass-roots movement, which has repeatedly denied allegations of racism and decried the NAACP's actions. The NAACP's action has already garnered scorn from conservatives. Sarah Palin became the latest to denounce it Tuesday, tweeting, "I'm busy today so notify me asap when NAACP renders verdict: are liberty-loving, equality-respecting patriots racist? Bated breath, waiting . . ." NAACP President Benjamin Jealous waded ...
US Indicts Six Police In Post-Hurricane Katrina Shooting
Post Date: 2010-07-13 20:04:31 by Brian S
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Six New Orleans police officers were indicted Tuesday in the shooting of unarmed civilians in the days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, the US Justice Department said. In the incident, known as the Danziger Bridge case, two civilians were shot dead and four others wounded in two separate shootings on September 4, 2005 -- one week after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, causing massive flooding and displacing thousands of people. The indictment follows guilty pleas from five former New Orleans Police Department officers who admitted to helping cover up the incident. Four officers -- Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Robert Faulcon and Anthony Villavaso -- are charged in ...
The Real Presidential List of the Greatest Presidents and Worst Presidents [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-13 16:43:00 by no gnu taxes
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As this blog has astutely noted, the historians of record in these United States are all frauds. They are not Americans as Francis Parkman in his epics nor of the accuracy of Theodore Roosevelt in his wonderful The Winning of the West or the War of 1812 which are two of the most complete histories, along with Parkman's epic, The Old Regime volumes. In that light of fact and the darkness of the reality that no factual accounting are taking place in American history, it is at this juncture that the 10 best and 10 worst Presidents* will hereby be listed accurately for historical purposes, to forever be a sounding point in what makes a Great President and what defines a worst President. ...
Yes, the oil on Gulf shores is Obama's fault
Post Date: 2010-07-13 15:51:25 by no gnu taxes
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In the oil-spill cleanup, Obama has been detached, while his fusspot bureaucrats have been all too busy. Crude oil has reached Lake Pontchartrain. How did it get there? Ask the listless Obama administration, which rarely misses a chance to put its collective feet up on the desk, even as petroleum batters the Gulf Coast, its wildlife, and the economies of the Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and (as of Sunday) Texas shorelines. Now that a half-ton of tar balls, oil sheen, and other waste has seeped into Lake Pontchartrain, the majestic city of New Orleans essentially is surrounded by a crescent of petroleum to its south, east, and north. This would be bad enough if the federal ...
Heritage Budget Expert Debunks Bush Tax Cuts-Deficit Myth [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-13 15:30:47 by no gnu taxes
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Brian Riedl, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, takes on the assertion made by many Democrats that it was the Bush Tax Cuts and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that drove our federal deficit to monstrous levels. Riedl writes that there was never an actual surplus that was removed by the cuts, and that President Obama’s assertions about the Bush administration’s impact on the size of the debt before he took office are simply incorrect. Instead, it is the decline in revenues from a down economy and increased government spending that have pushed the deficit to these levels. The Democrats routinely assert that the Bush tax cuts wiped out the budget surpluses that existed ...
U.S. Regulatory Bill Nears Passage With Republican Support (Scott Brown - AYE!)
Post Date: 2010-07-13 15:26:30 by go65
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The U.S. Senate plans to pass the financial-regulation bill on July 15 as Democrats secured the 60 votes needed to enact the biggest rewrite of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression. Majority Leader Harry Reid will file a procedural motion today that will permit the Senate to move forward, Jim Manley, a spokesman for the Nevada Democrat, said today in an e-mail. “We will finish our work on this bill this week to ensure that these critical protections and accountability for Wall Street are in place as soon as possible,” Reid said in a statement yesterday. The decision to seek a vote comes after Republicans Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, ...
God I Love Megyn Kelly - Town Hall Meeting
Post Date: 2010-07-13 14:57:16 by reaganisright
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This is too great! Smart great looking conservative chick beating the crap out of a bimbo. Reminds me of the the stupid bitch the Rats used to send to Fox News Business show at 10 on Sat morning. Note they don't put an R woman on. I've complained more than once about Quentin Hardy and this crap with the Rat party people who know nothing about business. Damn link doesn't seem to post, use the link provided in the header. Great smackdown, can't wait for football and some real hitting.
U.S. Budget Deficit Narrowed to $68.4 Billion in June on Higher Tax Income
Post Date: 2010-07-13 14:37:43 by go65
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The U.S. government posted a smaller budget deficit in June compared with the same month last year as the economic recovery brought in more tax revenue. The excess of spending over receipts fell to $68.4 billion last month from $94.3 billion in June 2009, according to a Treasury Department report issued today in Washington. It was the 21st consecutive shortfall. For the fiscal year to date, the budget deficit totaled $1 trillion compared with $1.42 trillion during the prior year to date. Even as the economy recovers from the deepest recession since the 1930s, the budget deficit is forecast to reach a record $1.6 trillion this fiscal year as the government funds efforts to revive growth ...
Imports Point to Pickup in U.S. Spending, Morgan Stanley Says
Post Date: 2010-07-13 14:36:07 by go65
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The gain in U.S. imports in May points to a pickup in business and consumer spending that indicates the U.S. economy last quarter was the healthiest in four years, according to economists at Morgan Stanley. The value of goods bought from abroad climbed by $5.5 billion in May, the biggest gain so far this year, to $194.5 billion, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Excluding a drop in demand for foreign petroleum, the increase was an even larger $7.6 billion, the biggest advance since comparable records began in 2000. The gain in imports exceeded the rise in exports, pushing the deficit with the rest of the world to the highest level in 18 months. Because ...
U.S., European Stocks Rise on Alcoa Profit
Post Date: 2010-07-13 14:33:39 by go65
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U.S. and European stocks climbed for a sixth day, commodities rallied and Treasuries declined as Alcoa Inc.’s forecast of growing global demand and Greece’s sale of debt bolstered optimism in the economic outlook. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 1.6 percent to 1,095.67 and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index increased 1.9 percent at 1 p.m. in New York. Oil surged 2.5 percent, recouping yesterday’s losses, and the S&P GSCI Index of commodities jumped 2 percent. Ten-year Treasury yields increased five basis points to 3.11 percent for a fifth straight gain, the longest streak in 11 months. The euro rose 0.9 percent to more than $1.27. All 10 industries in the S&P ...
David Vitter, Suddenly Scrambling
Post Date: 2010-07-13 14:01:35 by go65
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Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who for a while looked like he would escape the anti-incumbent pall leading up to November's midterms, is in for a tough reelection battle. Up until Friday, Vitter carried a solid 15-point lead over Democratic challenger Charlie Melancon and enjoyed a 62 percent favorability rating and 45 percent job approval (contrast that with 17.6 percent job approval for Congress as a whole). But with only a few minutes to spare before the filing deadline on Friday evening, a respected and well-connected former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice filed his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Vitter will now go up against Chet Traylor in the state's August 28 ...
Jindal: Sand Berm Worked -- Berm Stopped Oil From Going Farther Inland
Post Date: 2010-07-13 12:57:24 by no gnu taxes
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Gov. Bobby Jindal said the sand berm the state built in front of the Chandeleur islands has stopped oil from going farther inland. On Friday, the governor said Louisiana National Guard troops had collected 500 pounds of oiled debris on the sand berm. The governor said a dredge had renewed work on the berm after bad weather and high waves battered Louisiana in recent days. Environmentalists and coastal scientists have questioned how well the sand berm would work. They say it will be washed out quickly and do little to stop oil. Also, Jindal is pushing for more coastal defenses, such as rock barriers and sand barriers. He says Lafourche Parish -- in places like Grand Isle, Port Fourchon ...
GULF'S ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS ALREADY FAILING
Post Date: 2010-07-13 12:45:24 by go65
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A dramatic series of of aerial images show that plans to build artificial islands to block oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from reaching Louisiana's sensitive marshland appear to be crumbling. Literally. Two months ago, against the advice of many coastal scientists, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal began furiously campaigning for the construction of six artificial islands to hold back the advancing oil. The federal government quickly granted Jindal his wish, and construction on the islands has been continuing apace. But images taken of one construction site near the northern edge of the Chandeleur islands appear to show the sea washing away a giant sand berm over the course of ...
BP Starts Test To Determine Success Of New Cap
Post Date: 2010-07-13 11:31:38 by Brian S
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HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) will perform tests Tuesday to see if the recently placed sealing cap has the ability to shut in the well that is gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a company vice president said. The U.K. oil major placed the new device atop the well Monday night, raising the hopes the runaway well, which has caused a nearly three-month environmental and economic crisis in at least four coastal states, could be contained. On Tuesday, the company was running seismic testing and later in the day it plans to begin testing the integrity of the well, BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said in a teleconference. The tests could show that the cap could completely ...
2 Ga. Officers Out After Stun Gun Video Surfaces
Post Date: 2010-07-13 11:20:22 by Brian S
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One officer was fired and another quit after a rural Georgia woman who called police to complain of a prowler was zapped repeatedly with a stun gun.Ryan Smith of the Lumpkin Police Department has resigned and Tim Murphy, of Richland Police Department, was fired for using pepper spray on the woman, Janice Wells.Wells, 57, says she feared a prowler was outside her Richland house. A minute-long dashboard video from Smith's patrol car shows the officer pulling up to assist another officer.What happens is largely hidden by an open police cruiser door, but Wells can be heard screaming "Don't do that! Don't do that!" as a stun gun is heard repeatedly zapping.Authorities say ...
OBAMA IS AMERICA'S GREATEST DANGER
Post Date: 2010-07-13 10:50:27 by no gnu taxes
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MY ASSESSMENT OF OBAMA IS BASED ON HIS RECORD OF FAILURE. Obama has been cut throat, calculating, aloof, arrogant and divisive "from day one". He and his liberal political elites think they know what's best for the people and the bigger the government the better. He has routinely ignored the will of the people (debt, health care, borders), and while his most noticeable feature are his big ears, he lacks the common sense to use them. For most Americans, Obama means 13 trillion dollars in debt and rising to 17-19 trillion before he is through. Debt service of up to $ 1 trillion a year. A permanent reduction in the lifestyle of all of our descendants. The end of American ...
Obama’s Gulf Failure
Post Date: 2010-07-13 10:41:26 by no gnu taxes
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This video shows it better than anyone can write it. Warning, after watching you will be pissed: (video at link) http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2010/07/12/obamas-gulf-failure/ You don’t learn how to manage a crisis by working as a community organizer. This is not the fault of Barack, however. The American voters who elected this clown are to blame. Obama was just a foolish, eager-to-succeed, child of privilege who thought this gig would be the ultimate way to embellish his resume. But he is drowning. He’s over his head in deep water wearing concrete bunny slippers and can’t thrash his way to the surface. Heck of a job, Barry.
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