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Cynthia Tucker: 'Steele Would've Been Fired Long Time Ago Were He Not Black'
Post Date: 2010-07-04 17:55:52 by WhiteSands
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker on Sunday said that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele "is a self-aggrandizing, gaffe-prone incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black." Chatting with ABC's Jake Tapper during the Roundtable segment of today's "This Week" about Steele's recent remarks concerning Afghanistan, Tucker went even further with what many would consider overt racism. "The irony is that he never would have been voted in as Chairman of the Republican Party were he not black" (video follows with transcript and commentary): JAKE TAPPER, HOST: Cynthia, you once called, let me ...
We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident...
Post Date: 2010-07-04 12:35:38 by war
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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...
Obamanomic Illinoistan not paying bills, keeps spending billions
Post Date: 2010-07-03 19:29:13 by Happy Quanzaa
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CHICAGO — Even by the standards of this deficit-ridden state, Illinois’s comptroller, Daniel W. Hynes, faces an ugly balance sheet. Precisely how ugly becomes clear when he beckons you into his office to examine his daily briefing memo. He picks the papers off his desk and points to a figure in red: $5.01 billion. “This is what the state owes right now to schools, rehabilitation centers, child care, the state university — and it’s getting worse every single day,” he says in his downtown office. Mr. Hynes shakes his head. “This is not some esoteric budget issue; we are not paying bills for absolutely essential services,” he says. “That is ...
White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-07-03 17:26:07 by WhiteSands
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By Noel Sheppard Created 07/03/2010 - 11:28 The White House Thursday enacted stronger rules to prevent the media from showing what's happening with the oil spill in the Gulf Coast.CNN's Anderson Cooper reported that evening, "The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches -- 65 feet."He elaborated, "Now, in order to get closer, you have to get direct permission from the Coast Guard captain of the Port of New Orleans. You have to call up the guy. What this means is that oil-soaked birds on islands surrounded by boom, you ...
AP Quietly Lowers the 'Normal' Unemployment Bar to 6%
Post Date: 2010-07-03 17:17:10 by WhiteSands
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Those looking for evidence that there is a move afoot in the establishment press to lower the bar for whatever economic accomplishments might be accomplished during the Obama administration will be interested in how the Associated Press's report on the government's June jobs report defined "normal" unemployment. Perhaps it's valid for reporters Jeannine Aversa and Christopher Rugaber to refer to 6% unemployment as "normal," if by that they mean "typical non-recessionary" or "long-term average" unemployment. But I couldn't help but remember that during the Bush 43 and Reagan years, unemployment rates just above and occasionally even ...
Tea partiers ascend in many states
Post Date: 2010-07-03 17:09:38 by WhiteSands
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Rifle through a stack of tea party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller's will stand out. The man who wants to turn a fellow Republican, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, out of office is a graduate of Yale Law School and West Point, a decorated combat veteran and former judge. Many tea partiers share his disdain for Washington, its political gridlock and mounting debt, but not his credentials. The message he conveys, though, is straight from the tea party script: He fears the nation is veering toward socialism and insolvency. He says Murkowski is too liberal. To Miller, Alaska's senior senator is complicit in the ballooning U.S. debt and spending and has a voting record that would make a ...
Yes Michael, It Is Obama’s War.
Post Date: 2010-07-03 14:11:55 by Skip MacLure
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But first… Michael Steele. Those who read this column regularly will know that I have had some reservations about Michael Steele’s leadership of the RNC. These misgivings had more to do with what I perceived to be a lack of leadership qualities on his part, rather than some of the other criticisms that were cast about out there. Lately, it seems that he can’t open his mouth without putting his foot in it. His latest foray into shoe leather has produced a tempest that may not be shoved under the stoop so easily. Afghanistan is not Barack Obama’s war. Barack Obama made it his war. Afghanistan was treated like a sideshow during the early years of the Iraq war. After ...
Obama's Oil Spill Response -- It's Leagues Beyond Inept
Post Date: 2010-07-03 11:03:32 by no gnu taxes
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Back in May, a television news program asked me if I’d tell America the BP oil spill is President Obama’s Katrina. We discussed the spill’s causes, effects and cleanup effort, but I wouldn’t give them the “red meat” they were looking for. So I lost my 15 minutes of national fame. Since then, it has become obvious that the Katrina analogy is inappropriate. The 2005 hurricane was marked by abject failures by the New Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor, and initially inept responses by FEMA and the Bush administration. The 2010 oil spill is defined by yeoman’s efforts by Gulf Coast governors – and an Obama administration response that is leagues ...
Voters Still Trust GOP More on Key Issues
Post Date: 2010-07-03 10:44:46 by no gnu taxes
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Voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on nine out of 10 key issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows voters trust Republicans more by a 48% to 39% margin on the economy, an issue that has consistently been the most important among voters for several years. Republicans have held the advantage on the economy since May of last year. Democrats still hold a slight edge over the GOP on another top issue, government ethics and corruption. While 33% of voters trust Democrats more on these issues, 29% trust Republicans more. However, the plurality (38%) is not sure which party to trust more. Democrats have held modest leads ...
Palin Goes Rogue Against Tea Party Candidates
Post Date: 2010-07-03 02:20:13 by mininggold
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Palin Goes Rogue Against Tea Party Candidates Pop quiz: Which of the following Republican primary candidates is Sarah Palin most likely to endorse? (A) A solid conservative with the backing of local Tea Party groups and a track record of supporting limited government and lower taxes (B) A pro-life woman (C) Anyone remotely connected to John McCain. If you answered "A," you haven't been keeping up with Palin's recent rash of endorsements. Despite her image as the maverick queen of the Tea Party movement, Palin has passed on a number of conservative standard-bearers in favor of candidates with better connections to either McCain, the Republican Party or the Susan B. ...
Family sues Galveston-Houston Catholic Archdiocese
Post Date: 2010-07-02 23:04:10 by WhiteSands
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The abuse scandal in the Catholic church hits a little closer to home this week. The Houston Chronicle reports: "Male and female members of a former Houston family have sued the Galveston-Houston Catholic Archdiocese, alleging that a now-dead northeast Houston priest repeatedly molested them in the early 1970s." The church first heard of the complaints from the plaintiffs' lawyer in 2007. Archdiocese spokeswoman Jenny Faber said the archdiocese has not been served with the lawsuit and would not comment.
VIDEO: Rev. Wright's racist cult member B. Hussein Obama ties Bible to KKK leader Byrd (D, WV)'s legacy
Post Date: 2010-07-02 19:27:14 by Happy Quanzaa
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Byrd (D/KKK-WV): "I shall never fight in the armed forces w/ a Negro by my side...race mongrels... throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.""
Post Date: 2010-07-02 19:06:44 by Happy Quanzaa
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Democrats Laud Robert Byrd, Rewrite His History with the Klan BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Bill Clinton was at the funeral of Robert Byrd today and said that Robert Byrd joined the Klan to get elected, and that kind of made it okay for a while. CLINTON: There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned that he once had a fleeting association with the Klu (sic) Klux Klan and what does that mean. I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and the hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected, and maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life ...
Tropical Storm Could Develop Over BP Spill Area
Post Date: 2010-07-02 17:14:17 by Brian S
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(July 2) --The weather will continue to interfere with cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico heading into the Fourth of July weekend, even though Hurricane Alex moved inland and weakened. In a worst-case scenario, a tropical storm could develop near or directly over the area of the BP oil spill. The overall onshore flow that has resulted in large waves delivering tar into new areas along the Gulf Coast will not be as intense over the next couple of days, perhaps decreasing the intensity of the waves crashing ashore. According to The Associated Press, plate-sized tar lumps came ashore near Pensacola, Fla. Waves will remain higher than normal today and Saturday, especially near ...
Court Sides With Schwarzenegger On Minimum Wage
Post Date: 2010-07-02 17:04:46 by Brian S
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(07-02) 13:22 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- A state appellate court on Friday sided with the Schwarzenegger administration in its attempt to temporarily impose the federal minimum wage on tens of thousands of state workers. It was not immediately clear how the ruling would affect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order a day earlier to pay 200,000 state workers the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour as the state wrestles with a budget crisis. The state controller, who cuts state paychecks, has refused to comply with the order. The office declined to comment because it is still reviewing the ruling. Friday's ruling affirms a lower-court decision in favor of the administration in a ...
Left Wing Nutjob Paul Krugman is Going Insane
Post Date: 2010-07-02 16:03:28 by no gnu taxes
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Paul Krugman is known for throwing a bomb or two from his platform in the New York Times, but it's really tough to take him for a violent fellow. In his July 2 blog post, "I'm Gonna Haul Out The Next Guy Who Calls Me ‘Crude' And Punch Him In the Kisser," Krugman lamented criticism of his support for more stimulus spending. A July 1 editorial in The Economist noted that the economy needs more private spending, not more government spending. "Mr Krugman's crude Keynesianism underplays the link between firms' and households' behaviour and their expectations of future tax and spending policy," the editorial said. "For example, firms across ...
Sarah Palin's Bowling Trade Show Speech: This Time, She Didn't Annoy Everyone [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-02 15:09:25 by Skip Intro
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Sarah Palin's Bowling Trade Show Speech: This Time, She Didn't Annoy Everyone As you are no doubt well aware, sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has successfully leveraged her celebrity into a lucrative gig as a trade-show keynote speaker. It has not always gone well. In fact, at times, it's gone quite terribly. But this week, Palin appeared as the keynote speaker at the (hotly-anticipated) Bowling Proprietors' Association of America's International Bowl Expo 2010, and honestly, she seems to be getting better at it! Maybe she's taken previously panned performances seriously, maybe she's found in bowling a topic that's more up to her speed. But at the ...
Neo-con Editor William Kristol Calls For RNC Chairman Steele To Resign
Post Date: 2010-07-02 14:56:13 by Brian S
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William Kristol, the influential neo-conservative founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, is calling for the resignation of Republic Party chairman Michael Steele over the GOP chairman's comment that the war in Afghanistan is "a war of Obama's choosing" and is "not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."Here's how Kristol, a passionate supporter of both the Iraq and Afghan wars, puts it on the magazine's website:You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican Party."You can watch Steele's ...
Gore story goes mainstream (Crazed Sex Poodle Alert!)
Post Date: 2010-07-02 14:21:38 by Badeye
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Gore story goes mainstream By KEACH HAGEY | 7/2/10 12:48 PM EDT Text Size-+reset. The Gore story is following the well-worn path of other sex scandals into the tabloids. With the Portland police department’s announcement that it will re-open its investigation into a masseuse’s allegations against Al Gore, the Gore story has followed the well-worn path of other sex scandals, from National Enquirer exclusive to running story for a somewhat ambivalent mainstream media. The Enquirer’s scoops on John Edwards’s affair with Rielle Hunter led to much hand-wringing in media criticism circles, including at POLITICO over whether the press really vets presidential candidates, ...
We Don’t Want Kagan! Republican Senators, Who Are You Working For?
Post Date: 2010-07-02 12:25:01 by Skip MacLure
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You’d think that, after the millions and millions of telephone calls, letters, emails, faxes, personal visits to local and beltway offices… you’d think that after witnessing the millions upon millions of Americans taking their time and using their own rapidly diminishing personal treasure in literally tens of thousands of meetings across the country and in Washington DC, that the so-called Republican leadership would have gotten a clue. Elena Kagan has no more qualification for the Supreme Court than Minnie Mouse has for a physics laboratory. It took the NRA to bring attention to what we in the Patriot community have been literally shrieking at you Senators… that we ...
Despite oil spill, foreign-registered boats have tough time contributing
Post Date: 2010-07-02 12:19:52 by Badeye
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Despite oil spill, foreign-registered boats have tough time contributing Published: Friday, July 02, 2010, 5:00 AM Casandra Andrews, Press-Register Follow Share this story Story tools View full size(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)An oil skimmer collects oil in Gulf on April 27, 2010. Foreign-flagged vessels have had a difficult time getting into the fight against the Gulf oil spill. 1 1 9 Share MOBILE, Ala. -- In early May, about two weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf, barge owner Marlin Immel received a call from the U.S. Coast Guard station in Mobile, he said. An officer asked whether Immel's boat, "Duchess of Topsail," was busy. The 255-foot freight ...
The Last Refuge Of The Incompetent (That would be The Kenyan and his fellow Democrats)
Post Date: 2010-07-02 11:37:51 by no gnu taxes
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Recent events, along with the continued bleeding of the U.S. economy and Wall Street, underscore the desperation of the party in power to escape responsibility for its failures. Case in point: The president, speaking in Wisconsin on Wednesday, lashed out at Republicans: "We already tried the other side's ideas. We already know where their theories led us. And now we have a choice as a nation." We must have missed the Democrats' attempt to enact broad-based tax cuts, for instance, to boost the economy like they did each time they've been tried in the past. Truth is, "the other side's ideas" have been studiously ignored in our financial crisis and ...
U.S. Stocks Retreat After Factory Orders Fall
Post Date: 2010-07-02 11:20:42 by Badeye
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U.S. Stocks Retreat After Factory Orders Fall | Respond to Editor | Print By Kate Gibson MarketWatch Pulse NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks turned lower on Friday after data showing factory orders fell 1.4% in May. After meandering up and down in a limited range, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 19.33 points to 9,713.20. The S&P 500 declined 2.26 points to 1,025.11. The Nasdaq Composite fell 4.78 points to 2,096.58. Copyright © 2010 MarketWatch, Inc.
Schwarzenegger orders min wage for state workers
Post Date: 2010-07-02 11:06:21 by Badeye
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Schwarzenegger orders min wage for state workers By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Associated Press Writer – Fri Jul 2, 7:42 am ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday ordered about 200,000 state workers to be paid the federal minimum wage this month because the state Legislature has not passed a budget, but the state controller is refusing to comply. Department of Personnel Administration Director Debbie Endsley sent the order in a letter to the state controller, who refused a similar order two years ago. The matter is tied up in the appellate courts, leading the controller to say he will abide by whatever final ruling emerges, which could be years down the road. He ...
Survey of leftist dumbass historians: The Kenyan is the 15th greatest president of all time
Post Date: 2010-07-02 09:44:59 by no gnu taxes
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In office for barely two years, Obama entered the survey in the 15th position – two spots behind Bill Clinton and three spots ahead of Ronald Reagan. Obama got high marks for intelligence, ability to communicate and imagination, but his score was dragged down by his relative lack of experience and family background… [T]he scholars rated Dubya a dud as a president, ranking him in the bottom five at 39th place… Bush got docked for saddling Obama with two bloody wars and a recession, and he got low marks for “ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence,” according to the survey. Only Warren G. Harding, who was 41st on the list, scored ...
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