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President Obama Claims Victory In Financial Overhaul Deal
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:29:14 by Brian S
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House and Senate negotiators reached a dawn agreement Friday on legislation that redefines federal oversight of Wall Street and, following the signing of the health care act in March, adds another milestone to mark the Obama presidency. President Barack Obama declared victory Friday after congressional negotiators reached agreement on a sweeping overhaul of rules overseeing Wall Street. Lawmakers shook hands on the compromise legislation at 5:39 a.m. after Obama administration officials helped broker a deal that cracked the last impediment to the bill — a proposal to force banks to spin off their lucrative derivatives trading business. The legislation touches on an exhaustive range ...
More leaked Weigel emails
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:24:23 by Badeye
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More leaked Weigel emails June 25, 2010 David Weigel’s tough week continues. A day after Fishbowl DC published emails he wrote to the off-the-record list serve JournoList disparaging various conservatives, the Daily Caller digs up even more emails from the same source, suggesting a similar pattern of disdain for the people he covers. In them, he wishes for the death of Rush Limbaugh, accuses pundits and Republicans of “racism” and calls Matt Drudge an “amoral shut-in.” Weigel was hired this spring by the Post to cover the conservative movement. Almost from the beginning there have been complaints that his coverage betrays a personal animus toward conservatives. ...
Al Gore in enough hot water to melt an ice cap
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:21:47 by Badeye
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Al Gore in enough hot water to melt an ice cap He’s a ‘crazed sex poodle’ By Howie Carr Friday, June 25, 2010 - Updated 2m ago + Recent Articles Boston Herald Columnist Being a big lummox means never having to say you’re sorry. Yes, I know, Al Gore is innocent until proven guilty. Still, how can you not savor this moment: a 54-year-old female masseuse in Portland, Ore., tells the local constabulary, at excruciating length, about yet another example of moonbat hypocrisy. This time it’s the pope of global warming, or, as the masseuse calls him, “a crazed sex poodle” and a “big lummox.” Somewhere, Bill Clinton is smiling. The planet has a fever, ...
Drilling In Face Of Public Opinion, Republicans Continue Support For BP
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:04:16 by Brian S
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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll delivers the latest edition of “Today’s Awful News” for British Petroleum. The poll finds that BP’s favorability rating stands at a dismal 6 percent, lower than recent ratings for the likes of Phillip Morris (15 percent) and O.J. Simpson (11 percent), apparently one of the new standard-bearers for loathsome figures in America. But this bottom-of-barrel level of support doesn’t seem to impact many national Republicans. Republicans in races throughout the country are sticking to their support for either more offshore oil drilling or for BP’s sensitivities, if not both. Polling this month in Florida found a 48-point swing ...
How Does Barrack Obama Measure Up Against George W.bush In Critical Aspects Related To The Office Of President?
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:45:23 by no gnu taxes
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(1) Integrity – advantage BUSH (2) moral aptitude – advantage BUSH (3) executive leadership ability – advantage BUSH (4) being feared by dictators and tyrants – advantage BUSH (5) love of country – *** NOT APPLICABLE *** (Obama has not love for USA) (6) being presidential – advantage BUSH (7) being a true patriot – ** NOT APPLICABLE **(Obama cannot be a patriot, see # 5) (8) high family values – advantage BUSH (9) education – advantage BUSH (Obama has classified his transcripts therefore impossible to verify his claims) (10) speeches with teleprompter – advantage Obama (11) speeches without teleprompter – advantage BUSH (12) ...
Some Oil Spill Events From Friday, June 25, 2010
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:44:19 by Brian S
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A summary of events Friday, June 25, Day 66 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well. DIRTY EVIDENCE More dirty evidence of the massive oil spill washed ashore along the Gulf Coast for residents who don't need any more reminders of their frustration over failed efforts to stop the crude gushing from a blown-out undersea well. In Florida, officials on Thursday closed a quarter-mile stretch of Pensacola Beach not ...
Obama administration has disastrously mishandled AZ immigration situation
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:38:43 by no gnu taxes
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Late last week, news broke that the Justice Department, at the direction of the Obama Administration, would be suing Arizona for its recent immigration bill, SB 1070. This move was yet another misstep in what has been a disastrous mishandling of Arizona's considerable illegal immigration problem. Indeed, the Obama Administration even mishandled the very announcement of the lawsuit, with Secretary of State Clinton leaking the information during her appearance on an Ecuadorean news program. Instead of calling the Governor of Arizona (or any Arizona official, for that matter) directly, the people of Arizona had to find out this news secondhand, after the United States Secretary of State ...
Obama: The Greatest Traitor In American History
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:25:15 by no gnu taxes
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“Everywhere you look, wherever there is a crisis, Obama is not simply doing nothing. He’s making things worse. America is about to plunge into unsustainable deficit spending? Obama got us started early with the stimulus package and the health care bill. Big states are being bankrupted by public employee unions? Obama wants to increase the unions’ power. Not enough power plants? Obama wants to restrict them further. Iran is seeking nukes? Obama gave them a reprieve against a popular uprising. Karzai doubts America’s resolve in Afghanistan? Obama wavers on our strategy and declares our intention to bug out, no matter how much disarray there is in our strategy and command. ...
Gallup: Conservatives at record levels
Post Date: 2010-06-25 11:03:53 by Badeye
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Gallup: Conservatives at record levels By Shane D'Aprile - 06/25/10 08:29 AM ET The number of Americans identifying themselves as conservative or very conservative stands at 42 percent according to new Gallup numbers. That's compared to 35 percent who describes themselves as moderate and 20 percent who describe themselves as liberal. The results are based on eight Gallup surveys conducted over the past six months. According to Gallup's Lydia Saad: "The 42% identifying as conservative represents a continuation of the slight but statistically significant edge conservatives achieved over moderates in 2009. Should that figure hold for all of 2010, it would represent the ...
Obama Depression worsens
Post Date: 2010-06-25 10:56:48 by no gnu taxes
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Deutsche Bank has a new and improved index of U.S. financial conditions, and this index just slumped back towards the lows of our recent crisis. Deutsche Bank’s Peter Hooper: Financial conditions appear to have worsened substantially in recent quarters based on our update of the broad index of US financial variables presented earlier this year at the US Monetary Policy Forum. In the wake of recent developments in Europe, increased stress in financial markets has pushed that index halfway back to its immediate post- Lehman crisis lows.
New troubles at Al Gore's Current TV
Post Date: 2010-06-25 10:37:01 by Badeye
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New troubles at Al Gore's Current TV Andrew Wallenstein Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:04am EDTLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Al Gore, the world's pre-eminent environmentalist, has embarked on his toughest recycling challenge: his own cable channel. Entertainment | Television For much of the past year, Current TV has been quietly undergoing an overhaul that will change just about everything but the struggling channel's name. Current declined comment for this story. It's a revitalization project Gore & Co. embarked on after exhausting a more lucrative possibility: selling the channel. Current's founding partner, Joel Hyatt, spent much of 2009 shopping the network with a ...
Government Lowers Growth Estimate for First Quarter to 2.7 Percent
Post Date: 2010-06-25 09:52:45 by Badeye
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Government Lowers Growth Estimate for First Quarter to 2.7 Percent Published June 25, 2010 | Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The government lowered its estimate of how much the economy grew in the first quarter of the year, noting that consumers spent less than it previously thought. Gross domestic product rose by 2.7 percent in the January-to-March period, the Commerce Department said Friday. That was less than the 3 percent estimate for the quarter that the government released last month. It was also much slower than the 5.6 percent pace in the previous quarter. The department's report is the third of three estimates it makes for each quarter's GDP, the broadest measure of the ...
Classic Contest in Oregon's 4th
Post Date: 2010-06-25 09:32:43 by Badeye
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Classic Contest in Oregon's 4th By Tom Bethell on 6.24.10 @ 9:10AM Political newcomer Art Robinson won 79 percent of the vote to win the GOP primary in Oregon's 4th congressional district. He will face the 12-term incumbent, liberal Democrat Peter DeFazio. DeFazio is a high tax, big-spending progressive. Robinson is a small-government conservative with no previous involvement in politics. So the contest epitomizes the outsider vs. insider struggle of this political year. DeFazio's claim to fame is that he aspires to be the longest-serving Oregon representative. Art Robinson runs the self-funded Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine at his farm in southern Oregon. He ...
Charlie Crist staffer quits after fundraiser
Post Date: 2010-06-25 09:20:34 by Badeye
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June 23, 2010 Charlie Crist staffer quits after fundraiser Gov. Charlie Crist's special assistant in South Florida has resigned over the governor's attendance at a fundraiser for his U.S. Senate campaign attended by business leaders who back lifting sanctions on Cuba. The fundraiser -- story here -- was co-hosted by Alfredo Duran, a lawyer and prominent supporter of opening dialogue with the communist regime. Chris Miles, 20, joined the governor's office shortly before Crist left the Republican party to run as an independent in late April. He previously worked for Sen. George LeMieux and for U.S. Rep. Lincoln-Diaz Balart's re-election campaign. "I appreciate the ...
The Obama Cupboard Is Bare.
Post Date: 2010-06-25 08:10:34 by Skip MacLure
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The statist press is at its wits end. Their own spin machine is having a harder and harder time getting anyone to listen. So, the only thing left to them is to descend into the journalistic death-spiral of harsher and harsher invective, vituperation and baseless personal attack. As an aside, I think that our supposed journalism schools graduate few journalists, as we understand the term. What we see coming out of school, more often than not, are ideologically indoctrinated leftist political hacks, working in the guise, no matter how shallow, of objective reporting. In point of fact, the lame stream press is a victim of its own success. They carried the hard left’s water for so long ...
Gulf Coast Governors Leaving National Guard Idle; Thousands of Troops Called Up to Fight Oil Spill Haven't Been Deployed
Post Date: 2010-06-24 21:25:32 by Brian S
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(CBS) All along the Gulf coast, local officials have been demanding more help from the federal government to fight the spill, yet the Gulf states have deployed just a fraction of the National Guard troops the Pentagon has made available, CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. That's a particular problem for the state of Louisiana, where the Republican governor has been the most vocal about using all resources. Gov. Bobby Jindal's message has been loud and clear, using language such as "We will only be winning this war when we're actually deploying every resource," "They (the federal government) can provide more resources" and ...
Suspected Tornado Shatters Largest City In Conn.
Post Date: 2010-06-24 20:17:07 by Brian S
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A suspected tornado tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and collapsing several buildings as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported. Hundreds of bricks shook loose from buildings, trees split in half and crushed cars, and a billboard hung precariously several stories up over Main Street. Nine buildings were partially or fully collapsed, including three on East Main Street that were brought to their foundations. Rescuers searched the rubble to ensure no one had been inside. Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declared a state of emergency after the ...
As Oil Gushes In Gulf, All Eyes On Central Caribbean Tropical Wave
Post Date: 2010-06-24 20:02:43 by Brian S
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With oil still gushing in the Gulf, all eyes are on a tropical wave in the central Caribbean (map) that appears to be getting more organized. There is a 40 percent chance the strong tropical wave will become a tropical cyclone by Saturday, National Hurricane Center forecasters said Thursday morning. Conditions suggest a more powerful storm could form over the next few days. Meteorologists have been tracking the system throughout the week. The system has produced heavy rains in Jamaica and along the southern coast of Hispaniola. Thunderstorms are also forecast to drench the Cayman Islands and parts of Cuba. NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT THU JUN 24 2010 FOR THE ...
Most Despised President In History – US Military No Confidence.
Post Date: 2010-06-24 18:14:12 by Skip MacLure
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I want to thank my editor, Dee, for covering for me yesterday and delivering a really excellent article. I had a summer bug (summer?, what summer?) creep up and bite me hard. I’d forgotten the joys of childhood viruses (my daughter is five). I can’t wait for school start. The published lame stream reports are, as usual, full of baloney. There is a mystery here… so what I’m going to say is based on intimate knowledge of the military and military tradition. Obama had to get rid of McChrystal. He was not only a very fine theater commander, well liked by his soldiers and the Afghani government, but he was effective ultimately, that’s why he had to go. He makes Obama ...
Cuomo Accepts Millions From Interests He Assails
Post Date: 2010-06-24 16:50:29 by Badeye
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Cuomo Accepts Millions From Interests He Assails By SERGE F. KOVALESKI and GRIFFIN PALMER Published: June 23, 2010 Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Announcing his run for governor in May, Andrew M. Cuomo said, “The influence of lobbyists and their special interests must be drastically reduced.” “The influence of lobbyists and their special interests must be drastically reduced with new contribution limits,” Mr. Cuomo said last month. “We will be taking on very powerful special interests which have much to lose. We must change systems and cultures long in the making.” But as he delivered his announcement, Mr. Cuomo was sitting on millions in campaign ...
Venezuela seizes oil rigs owned by US company
Post Date: 2010-06-24 16:31:35 by Badeye
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Venezuela seizes oil rigs owned by US company By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Writer Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press Writer – 24 mins ago CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne, which shut them down because the state oil company was behind on payments. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez announced that Venezuela would nationalize the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company's rigs. He said in a statement Wednesday that Helmerich & Payne had rejected government demands to resume drilling operations for more than a year. Helmerich & Payne announced in January 2009 that it was halting ...
Methane In Gulf "Astonishingly High": U.S. Scientist
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:32:01 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday. Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are "astonishingly high." Kessler's crew took measurements of both surface and deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead. "There is an incredible amount of methane in there," Kessler told reporters in a telephone briefing. ...
CNN Poll: Majority Angry At Both Political Parties (continues to blame the GOP more than the Democrats for the country's current economic woes)
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:28:32 by Brian S
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Washington (CNN) - Americans are angry at both the Republican and Democratic parties, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Thursday. But the survey also indicates the public continues to blame the GOP more than the Democrats for the country's current economic woes even though the Democrats have controlled both the White House and Congress for a year and a half. Fifty-three percent of people questioned say when it comes to the way the Democrats and Republicans have been dealing with the nation's problems, they are angry at both parties, with nine percent saying they're mad only at the Republicans and seven percent angry only at the Democrats. Just ...
In Gulf Oil Spill 'War,' Cleanup Foot Soldiers Threaten Mutiny
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:13:19 by Brian S
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Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, President Obama's pointman on the Gulf oil spill, has called the effort to contain the runaway Macondo well and keep its crude release off beaches and out of marshes "an insidious war." But if the framing of the Deepwater Horizon accident and its aftermath has morphed from disaster rhetoric to war imagery, local officials say the shared BP and Washington response has suffered from a lack of situational awareness, racking up a long list of battlefield mistakes that is hampering efforts to keep tens of millions of gallons of gooey crude from coming ashore in the kind of "tarball attack" that hit Pensacola Beach Wednesday. ...
I Love This Anti Reid Comment at FR
Post Date: 2010-06-24 14:59:06 by no gnu taxes
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I've been hearing a lot of worried talk about Harry Reid and his zillion dollar war chest that he can use to bury Sharron Angle before November. To Nevadans, this isn't news. Harry Reid has been running TV commercials constantly going on two years already. Every commercial break there's Harry Reid and his scrotum face claiming to save jobs, wild horses, the environment, Medicare, and so on. Every Nevadan knows him and his sight pollution commercials on their tee-vees. You flip to any station with local commercial sponsorship and chances are there's a Harry Reid ad running: Harry in a duck blind shooting an elk, Harry up in antelope country shooting at a duck, Harry next to ...
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