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After Making ‘American English’ The Official Language Of Texas, GOP Recruits Latinos In Spanish
Post Date: 2010-06-15 17:03:42 by Brian S
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This weekend, delegates of the Texas Republican Party voted to include a provision in their state party platform advocating for an immigration law similar to Arizona’s SB-1070. The platform also proposes “making American English the official language of Texas and the United States.” Nonetheless, the first video of a YouTube campaign aimed at attracting more Latinos to the party that was launched yesterday…in Spanish. Watch it: The video doesn’t touch on the immigration issue, but it does feature a series of Latinos listing reasons why they are Republican. A belief in “the right to liberty and freedom,” “equality,” and the “American ...
Obama seeks to take charge of BP disaster
Post Date: 2010-06-15 16:59:17 by WhiteSands
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - President Barack Obama prepared to address the nation Tuesday with an "I'm in charge" message as a blown-out BP well deep in the Gulf of Mexico gushed crude oil for a 57th day, creating an unprecedented environmental and economic disaster. Obama's speech from the Oval Office comes as a new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of how he has handled the Gulf disaster, though far more blame BP for what people call a sluggish two-month response. On Capitol Hill, executives from other major oil companies turned on BP and defended their own drilling practices during a congressional hearing as they sought to stave off new government regulations in the ...
BP: Lightning Strikes Ship Collecting Oil, Sparks Fire
Post Date: 2010-06-15 15:52:00 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS - A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from a blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, igniting a fire that halted containment efforts in another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill, the company said. The fire was quickly extinguished and no one was injured. BP said it hopes to resume containing oil from the well sometime Tuesday afternoon. S The fire occurred on the Discoverer Enterprise, where engineers are siphoning about 630,000 gallons of oil a day through a cap on top of the well. "At the moment, there's no capture, no containment going on, but we'll start up the Enterprise when ...
Exclusive: Al Gore Cheats with Larry David's Ex
Post Date: 2010-06-15 14:48:16 by no gnu taxes
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Al Gore's split from wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage was a shock to everyone who thought theirs was the ideal marriage. Now Star can exclusively reveal that the former Vice President was having an affair with Larry David's ex-wife — for the past two years! In the June 28 issue of Star, on sale Wednesday, we report that Al and Tipper's breakup didn't come as much of a surprise to one Hollywood player — Laurie David. Star has learned that Al has been having an affair with Laurie, who divorced Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David in 2007 amidst reports she was cheating with the caretaker of their Martha's Vineyard summer home. ...
What will the liar in chief say tonight to cover his ass re: BP Spill?
Post Date: 2010-06-15 14:02:23 by no gnu taxes
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It is obvious that Obongoid and his minions have completely dropped the ball regarding the BP spill. He has been blasted by his former apostles on the left as vehemently as those on the right. So what kind of half assed excuses will this FAILURE of a leader come up with tonight? Here is a little tid bit to hold you over until tonight's teleprompter fueled speech: In politics, 2 things matter - perception and effective policy. President Obama has failed in both. The Administration claimed to be “on top of this since day one,” but the reality is that the President didn’t personally address the issue for many days until the public outcry was too loud to ignore. While ...
Obama: Seafood From Gulf is Safe, Nevermind The Oil and Corexit
Post Date: 2010-06-15 13:52:07 by no gnu taxes
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Its been nearly two months since the BP leased oil rig, Transocean Deepwater Horizon, burned and sank into the ocean. Its been nearly two months since the beginning of America's biggest environmental crisis... Yesterday, President Obama went down to the Gulf again. I keep hoping, somehow, some way, he is going to start telling the truth about this disaster. Apparently, its never going to happen. To tell lies is one thing. To be stupid and say stupid things, is another thing. To say something utterly dangerous, to an audience full of shell shocked Gulf residents...that is just scary. After strolling down the beach, oblivious to the oil and Corexit, only feet away from him, President ...
Pentagon Says It Has Twice Scolded [GOP] Senate Candidate Kirk For Mixing Politics, Military Service
Post Date: 2010-06-15 13:47:56 by Brian S
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Senate candidate Mark Kirk pushed back Tuesday against a Pentagon statement that he improperly mixed politics with his service in the Navy Reserve, while his Democratic opponent said Kirk wasn't being truthful. The Defense Department said it has twice warned Kirk after incidents in which he conducted political business while on duty — once by giving interviews about the arrest of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and once by posting a Twitter statement about his work at the Pentagon. "Commander Kirk was counseled about both of the incidents," according to a statement provided by Pentagon spokeswoman Maj. April Cunningham late Monday ...
GOP Gardner Cancels Colo. Campaign Appearance By Iowa's Rep. King After Remarks On Radio Show
Post Date: 2010-06-15 13:45:23 by Brian S
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Republican Cory Gardner's congressional campaign has canceled a fundraiser featuring U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa after King suggested that President Barack Obama favors blacks over whites. King made the remark Monday on G. Gordon Liddy's nationally syndicated radio talk show. The Republican criticized U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks earlier this year on race relations and added that Obama seems to have "a default mechanism" that favors blacks. Gardner campaign manager Chris Hansen said the $100 per-plate fundrasier featuring King Saturday has been canceled, but wouldn't say why. Hansen also didn't say how ...
Iowa Republican: Obama Favors Blacks Over Whites
Post Date: 2010-06-15 13:43:11 by Brian S
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(06-15) 10:07 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Democrats on Tuesday denounced an Iowa Republican congressman who says President Barack Obama favors blacks over whites, and a GOP candidate from Colorado canceled a fundraiser the Iowan was to keynote. Rep. Steve King, known for sometimes incendiary remarks about immigration, Abu Ghraib and other issues, criticized Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, who also is black, in an interview Monday on G. Gordon Liddy's nationally syndicated radio talk show. "I'm offended by Eric Holder and the president also, their posture," said King, 61. "It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to ...
OBAMA: AN INCOMPETENT EXECUTIVE
Post Date: 2010-06-15 12:58:18 by no gnu taxes
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Contrary to what the Constitution says, the president does not run the executive branch of the federal government. It runs itself. Following Newton’s Laws of Motion, it is “a body in motion that tends to remain in motion in the same direction and at the same speed unless acted upon by an outside force.” The bureaucracy keeps doing what it is programmed to do unless someone intervenes. And that intervention is the proper job of the president. He has to step in, ask the right questions, get inside and outside advice, and decide how to intervene to move the bureaucracy one way or the other. President Clinton had an excellent sense of how to do this and when to get involved. ...
Expert Suggests BP Is Hiding Oiled Animal Carcasses
Post Date: 2010-06-15 12:15:32 by Brian S
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Speaking on MSNBC's "Countdown" Monday night, Marine toxicologist Riki Ott alleged that oil giant BP is actively attempting to curb coverage of the recent oil spill by removing oiled animal carcasses from Gulf beaches."Turtle watch volunteers who walk the beaches consistently every morning at 6:00 a.m., they're saying the carcasses are disappearing," Ott told host Keith Olbermann. "People who walk the beaches at night, they've seen little baby dolphins wash up dead, flashlights, people descend out of nowhere, carcass gone in 15 minutes. There's reports from offshore of massive kills on the barrier islands from fishermen who have been working on the ...
BP Hires Private Security Contractors To Guard 'Black Water’
Post Date: 2010-06-15 12:12:07 by Brian S
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If they had hired Blackwater, the firm would have had a particularly appropriate sounding name for the job: guarding tar-stained beaches.In their latest eyebrow-raising PR move, multinational oil giant BP has enlisted private security contractors to keep onlookers away from oil cleanup sites. While the firm they hired apparently isn't Blackwater (the private security firm Blackwater changed their name to Xe Services after a spate of killings in Baghdad, and has now put itself up for sale), they certainly seem to have 'black water' in their sights.Wired's "Danger Room" blog dubbed BP's decision to hire private mercenaries in the Gulf "one of the bestest ...
6-Story Jesus Statue In Ohio Struck By Lightning, Burns To The Ground
Post Date: 2010-06-15 11:42:36 by Brian S
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MONROE, Ohio (AP) -- A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said. The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati. The lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police dispatchers said. The sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way the arms were raised, similar to a referee signaling a ...
General David Petraeus Collapses During Senate Hearing
Post Date: 2010-06-15 11:35:33 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Politically Illustrated) – U.S. General David Petraeus appeared to have passed out on Tuesday during a Senate hearing, but regained consciousness and left the room under his own authority. Mr. Petraeus, 57, finished answering a question from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during a hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee where he stopped talking suddenly and aides began to help him. He rose without help and was escorted out of the room. Mr. Petraeus was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in February 2009 and underwent two months of successful radiation treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Mr. Petraeus finished his testimony after, aides say, he passed ...
Can any Obama supporter defend why so many of his records are sealed?
Post Date: 2010-06-15 11:08:40 by no gnu taxes
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I am not a birther, but do have questions about a leader, president, champion of truth that would spend so much time and energy preventing anyone from looking at his pastrecords. To the best of my knowledge, all efforts to examine his HS, college, and other historical records have been blocked by legal action from the President. I can see no reason B.H.O., as ordinary person should have those records be made public, BUT as the POTUS, B.H.O. should be willing to prove his legal right to the office. There has been a growing number of strange issues that only raise doubt as to his background and ability to hold the office. This president who claimed to be "transparent" and open to ...
Obama Does His Baghdad Bob Imitation
Post Date: 2010-06-15 09:57:48 by no gnu taxes
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ALL IS WELL! ALL IS WELL! President Barack Obama sought to reassure nervous diners during his trip to the coastal town of Theodore, Alabama Monday that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is as tasty and safe as it ever was, despite the ever expanding oil spill blanketing the area. “I had some of that seafood for lunch, and it was delicious,” Obama said, “We want to make sure that the food industry down here, as much as possible, is getting the protection and certification that they need to continue their businesses.” The president said that multiple agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association are stepping up ...
Mr. President, You're Stuck on Stupid
Post Date: 2010-06-15 08:54:14 by no gnu taxes
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It is true that liberalism is cruel, corrupt, wasteful, and unjust. But one should never forget its delusion. The delusion is a simple one. It is a belief that government can be made rational and efficient. This delusion leads our liberal friends into disaster after disaster. Liberals were shocked that President Bush failed to get everyone tucked up in bed in a couple of days after Hurricane Katrina. They knew that a rational and efficient government, run by people like them who believed in government, could do better. Now President Obama is busy proving them wrong. Unfortunately, conservatives aren't helping. In pointing out the serious lapses in the president's leadership ...
Documents: BP Cut Corners In Days Before Blowout
Post Date: 2010-06-14 19:23:34 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill in a well that an engineer ominously described as a "nightmare" just six days before the blowout, according to documents released Monday that provide new insight into the causes of the disaster. The House Energy and Commerce Committee released dozens of internal documents that outline several problems on the deepsea rig in the days and weeks before the April 20 explosion that set in motion the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. The committee has been investigating the explosion and its aftermath. "Time after time, it ...
Michigan Woman Shoots Self to Get Medical Care
Post Date: 2010-06-14 17:10:14 by Brian S
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Uninsured, Unemployed, and Out of Luck, Mich. Woman, Saw Desperate Step as Only Way to Get Help for Shoulder Injury (AP/CBS) Uninsured and too broke to pay for medical care to treat her painful shoulder injury, a Niles, Mich., woman shot herself in the same shoulder and went to the E.R. in hopes of obtaining free medical care. By law, hospitals must treat emergency patients even if they don't have insurance. Kathy Myers' troubles started when her 80-lb Golden Lab yanked on his leash during a skirmish with her Chihuahuas. The big dog yanked Myer's shoulder as well, injuring her rotator cuff. After a month of agonizing pain, the unemployed 41-year-old used her in-laws' gun ...
Arianna Huffington Comes Out in Favor of Flat Tax -- for Greece
Post Date: 2010-06-14 17:06:01 by WhiteSands
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Sometimes even the seemingly most unreasonable characters as far public policy goes can be reasoned with if the circumstances are right. Just sometimes it takes someone like Steve Forbes to pull it off. On the June 14 broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Forbes explained that a flat tax might be the medicine that Greece, a country on the fiscal brink needs. "Well, when you engage in binge spending and the idea that going to revive an economy, you just get in a spiral on that," Forbes explained. "In terms of countries like Greece what should be done, in addition to the necessary austerity, is they haven't put in place policies, Joe that we did in the early ...
Anti-War Kooks Turn On Obama, Chant: “Obama You Prick, You Lied to Us You Dick” (Video)
Post Date: 2010-06-14 16:44:27 by no gnu taxes
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Antiwar Marxists from ANSWER Coalition and Code Pink turned on Obama at a rally yesterday. The antiwar kooks chanted: “Obama you prick. You lied to us you dick.”
Former guard sentenced in inmate-abuse case at Chino prison [ California
Post Date: 2010-06-14 16:35:09 by WhiteSands
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A former correctional officer at Chino State Prison was sentenced Monday to 51 months in federal prison for charges related to a 2002 incident during which he assaulted shackled inmates and then tried to cover up the crime, officials said. Robert McGowan, 51, who lives in the Bloomington area of San Bernardino County, was sentenced after a jury found him guilty on two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of authority for assaulting two prisoners, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said. Federal prosecutors said the abuse followed a brawl between inmates and guards at the San Bernardino County correctional facility. After the fight, prisoners were shackled and put in ...
U.S. human trafficking report includes U.S. cases for first time
Post Date: 2010-06-14 16:24:04 by WhiteSands
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(CNN) -- The U.S. government's annual worldwide human trafficking report, released Monday, for the first time includes an assessment of trafficking in the United States. The 373-page "Trafficking in Persons Report 2010" says some 12.3 million adults and children are in forced labor, bonded labor, and forced prostitution around the world. Only 4,166 trafficking prosecutions were successful last year, according to the report. The United States listed itself in the report's top tier of compliance with minimum standards set forth by the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000, but it is nonetheless "a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and ...
Congressman [ Democart N.C. ] apologizes for on-camera confrontation
Post Date: 2010-06-14 16:19:01 by WhiteSands
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Washington (CNN) -- North Carolina Rep. Bob Etheridge reiterated his apology Monday after an online video surfaced showing he was involved in a physical altercation with two young men who approached him on a Washington street and asked the Democrat whether he supported President Obama's agenda. "The truth is I had a long day, it was the end of the day, almost sunset," he told reporters on Capitol Hill. "But that's not the issue. The issue is I apologize for my actions and the people of North Carolina know me well and I apologize to these young men as well." Etheridge declined to say whether more words or actions were exchanged beyond those that were shown in ...
Flash Back - Soros reports 73.5% increase in Petrobras stake
Post Date: 2010-06-14 16:12:56 by WhiteSands
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By Tony Cooke Billionaire investor George Soros on Tuesday reported that during the fourth quarter he increased his already considerable stakes in Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. /quotes/comstock/13*!pbr/quotes/nls/pbr (PBR 37.68, +0.45, +1.22%) and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!pot/quotes/nls/pot (POT 98.89, +0.02, +0.02%) . Soros, through his Soros Fund Management LLC, reported holding 36.8 million American depositary receipts of the Brazilian oil company known as Petrobras as of Dec. 31 - a holding valued at about $900 million at the time. Soros held 21.2 million ADRs at Sept. 30, according to his disclosure filed with the ...
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