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Boehner to Bush-Bashing Beatle: Apologize!?
Post Date: 2010-06-05 13:39:36 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Boehner to Bush-Bashing Beatle: Apologize!? Sir Paul McCartney's cheap shot aimed at former President George W. Bush at a White House event on Wednesday has prompted House Minority Leader John Boehner to demand an apology from the Beatle. McCartney literally gushed over President Obama throughout his East Room concert. “Getting this prize would just be good enough, but getting it from this president…” McCartney said letting his praise trail off as if there were vast volumes left unsaid. The prize McCartney was given is the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, a lifetime achievement award bestowed by the Library of Congress. McCartney ended the evening taking a baseless ...
Oil Stains Beaches And Tourists As Slick Spreads
Post Date: 2010-06-05 12:36:16 by Brian S
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PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Driftwood and seashells glazed with rust-colored tar lined the surf along the Gulf Coast's once-pristine white sand beaches Saturday, the crude from a busted oil well deep underwater showing up in greater quantities and farther east. A cap placed over the gusher was collecting some of the oil, which had stained beaches with a waxy mess of tar balls and created an unusual orange foam in the surf. In Gulf Shores, Ala., wooden boardwalks leading to beachfront hotels were spotted with oil from beachgoers' feet, and some condominiums were providing solvents for guests smeared with the brown goo. At Pensacola Beach, the retreating high tide left an ...
The Kenyan's Voodoo Economics (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-06-05 09:52:37 by no gnu taxes
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President Obama hyped Friday's job-report numbers, claiming a slight drop in the unemployment rate as evidence that things were "moving in the right direction." The numbers hardly represent good news as Mr. Obama continues to ignore the creeping indications that his debt-fueled economic policies are hurling the country toward a historic collapse. Non-farm payrolls grew by 431,000 jobs, but more than 90 percent of the increase was from temporary Census Bureau hires; these people can expect to rejoin the ranks of the unemployed when the counting is finished. Private-sector job growth accounted for just 41,000 jobs, far below the expected 190,000. The drop in the unemployment ...
Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured
Post Date: 2010-06-05 04:23:07 by WhiteSands
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PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- Oil poured out of a cap that robots adjusted over the gusher in the Gulf, though some was being collected, as the slow-motion catastrophe spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states along the coast. The spreading slick arrived with the tide on the Florida Panhandle's white sands Friday as BP continued its desperate and untested bid to arrest what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. "Progress is being made, but we need to caution against overoptimism," said Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis. Early Friday, he guessed that the cap was collecting 42,000 gallons a day - less than ...
Oregon Police Officer Asked to Leave Vegan Coffee Shop
Post Date: 2010-06-04 20:44:25 by Murron
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Oregon Police Officer Asked to Leave Vegan Coffee Shop Police Officer James Crooker was asked to leave the vegan coffee shop in Portland, Ore., last month, a discriminatory move but not altogether uncommon at the java joint, a detective told FoxNews.com. Crooker, 36, a 2-year veteran of the force, entered the Red & Black Café on May 18 and bought a cup of coffee before a customer approached him and said she appreciated his efforts. That's when John Langley, one of the co-owners of the collectively managed shop, approached the cop and asked him to leave. Crooker left immediately. It was the first time something like this has happened to him in his nine-year law ...
Bush’s Katrina wasn’t Bush’s “Katrina”
Post Date: 2010-06-04 15:27:53 by no gnu taxes
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Over the past few weeks, as federal government confusion has become all too obvious in the Gulf, political commentators have delighted in debating whether the oil spill crisis has become Obama’s “Katrina.” The reason for this is simple. The argument allows those on the right to somehow demonstrate that all presidents make mistakes, while pointing out the other side’s hypocrisy. For those on the left, it’s another opportunity to drag President Bush’s name through the mud, blame him for a crisis he is two years removed from and to remind those on the left that the last guy would’ve made this all worse. For media members, this debate is pure journalistic ...
Laura Bush draws Gulf Coast parallel
Post Date: 2010-06-04 15:11:08 by Badeye
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Laura Bush draws Gulf Coast parallel By ANDY BARR | 6/4/10 2:45 PM EDT POLITICO 44Former first lady Laura Bush on Friday compared President Barack Obama’s response to the oil spill off the Gulf Coast to her husband’s action after Hurricane Katrina. Bush’s response to Katrina was widely derided as inadequate, just as Obama has been criticized for seeming too hands off in the more than a month since oil started gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. But the former first lady said that neither man deserves blame for either Katrina or the oil spill, arguing that some things are out of a president’s hands. “I think they're doing everything they can do — just ...
Kirk's embellishments let foe wriggle back into race
Post Date: 2010-06-04 13:50:52 by Badeye
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Kirk's embellishments let foe wriggle back into race John Kass 1:48 a.m. CDT, June 4, 2010 E-mail Print Share Text Size Watching Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk squirm before the Tribune editorial board on Thursday for embellishing his military record reminded me of something: Watching Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias squirm in the same chair a few months ago, for his role in his family's controversial and now failed Broadway Bank. So now both candidates in the race for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat have problems. On Thursday it was Kirk, a U.S. Naval Reserve officer, doing the wriggling, and it wasn't pretty. He kept a ...
BP’s Cap Is Recovering Gulf Oil, May Get 90% of Leak
Post Date: 2010-06-04 13:41:30 by war
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June 4 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc said its effort to divert oil leaking from its Gulf of Mexico well to a ship on the surface is working, with a goal of capturing more than 90 percent of the spill. Recovery of oil aboard the drillship began about midnight and may have reached a rate of 1,000 barrels a day, based on a BP estimate, U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said today during a conference call with reporters. Government scientists had estimated the well was leaking 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil a day, a figure that may have increased as much as 20 percent after London-based BP yesterday cut away a kinked riser pipe to install the cap. “I’d like to see us capture 90-plus ...
Dennis Miller on Obama and the Gulf Oil Spill; Sestak Job Offer; and the Creepy Palin Author – Video 6/3/10
Post Date: 2010-06-04 12:41:35 by no gnu taxes
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Here is video of Dennis Miller on “The O’Reilly Factor” where he and Bill went back and forth on whether it is right for Obama to be blamed for the Gulf Oil Spill mess. O’Reilly thinks he should get a pass, while Miller kept saying that Obama should be no different than any other President. It should be “The buck stops here.” But Miller said, with Obama, it is “The buck starts here.” In the line of the night, when Miller was commenting on the Sestak Job Offer scandal, he said: “If Sestak once again admits he was offered a job, they’re going to plug that hole with him, I guarantee it.” Miller absolutely blasted creepy author Joe ...
Governor Christie slams public teacher unions
Post Date: 2010-06-04 11:26:05 by Badeye
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Governor Christie slams public teacher unions By Greg Halvorson Friday, June 4, 2010 He’s done it again, Governor Christie of blue-turning-red-because-of-him New Jersey, made every American who loves leadership misty-eyed. Speaking to the Federation For Children in Washington D.C., the good governor tore into public teachers unions with customary resolve. For your HYPERLINK “tinyurl.com/2wbuxmn” pleasure: “Parents and children who are being failed by a public school system whose costs are exorbitant and whose results are insulting deserve a choice. We don’t have to look far around the country to know that vouchers and experiments in school choice are working, ...
Blue Ridge Parkway Turns 75
Post Date: 2010-06-04 10:19:47 by Badeye
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Blue Ridge Parkway Turns 75 Published June 03, 2010 | Associated Press FLOYD, Va. - The construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began as a project to put people back to work during the Depression. But 75 years later, the winding roadway has evolved into one of the United States' most-visited national park sites, drawing about 17 million people annually and bringing about $2 billion to surrounding areas. This year the National Park Service is celebrating the parkway's 75th anniversary with a variety of events, including a weekend festival in September. That makes this summer and fall a good time to enjoy hiking and camping, local arts, and small-town life along ...
S.C. Republicans condemn 'raghead' comment
Post Date: 2010-06-04 10:11:51 by go65
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South Carolina Republicans were quick Thursday evening to condemn the remarks of a prominent Republican State Senator, Jake Knotts, who referred to a gubernatorial candidate as a "raghead" on an online political show today. [Knotts also referred to President Obama with the same term.] Knotts, a foe of Governor Mark Sanford and his protege, State Rep. Nikki Haley, made the remark of Haley on the local webcast Pub Politics. Haley was born a Sikh, and the slur can refer to Arabs, Muslims, or those who -- like Sikh men -- wear turbans. She is a convert to Christianity. The video is not currently available. “The South Carolina Republican Party strongly condemns any use of ...
Another example of why Ron Paul is a phony conservative
Post Date: 2010-06-04 09:13:35 by no gnu taxes
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I make no secret of the fact that I LOATHE Ron Paul. There isn't a dime's worth of difference between Ron Paul and the far left when it comes to the Middle East and here is another example: Video: Ron Paul denounces Israel's flotilla raid, of course http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/03/video-ron-paul-denounces-israels-flotilla-raid-of-course/ Go ahead and watch it if you have the stomach, it's all there, but it's no surprise. I've had Ron Paul's number since he got busted in 2007/8 for newsletters he did in the 80s which were flagrantly anti-semite (among other things). Ron Paul's excuses that he didn't know what was in his own newsletter rang about ...
Hiring weak in May except for Census workers (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-06-04 08:58:51 by no gnu taxes
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U.S. nonfarm payrolls expanded by a seasonally adjusted 431,000 in May, but virtually all the new jobs were temporary jobs at the U.S. Census, leaving private-sector hiring very weak in May, the Labor Department reported Friday. Excluding 411,000 temporary Census workers, payrolls rose by 20,000 in May. According to the survey of 400,000 business establishments, private-sector payrolls increased by 41,000, the fifth straight gain. The report was weaker than the 540,000 increase expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch. The payroll count in March and April was revised lower by 22,000. Payrolls rose by 208,000 in March and 290,000 in April. The unemployment rate fell to a seasonally ...
Wow. The Washington Post Excoriates The Dumbass Paul McCartney for His Cheap Shot At President Bush
Post Date: 2010-06-04 08:46:03 by no gnu taxes
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We all know the first rule of polite society: If you can’t think of something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything at all. In certain bien pensant circles, however, there is a corollary: If you can’t think of anything nice to say -- say something bad about George W. Bush. Consider Paul McCartney. Last night, the ex-Beatle accepted the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at a White House ceremony, with President Obama and the first lady in attendance. Upon concluding his performance, McCartney aimed a bolt of sarcasm at Obama’s predecessor. “After the last eight years,” he quipped, “it’s great to have a president who knows ...
Palin Goes Rogue Against Tea Party Candidates
Post Date: 2010-06-03 23:26:24 by go65
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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. Anthony List. Her willingness to choose ...
BP CEO Touts 'Milestone' Maneuver in Efforts to Cap Gulf Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-06-03 15:45:50 by Badeye
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BP CEO Touts 'Milestone' Maneuver in Efforts to Cap Gulf Oil Spill Published June 03, 2010 | FOXNews.com via AP June 2: Underwater robots and other equipment swarm the blowout preventer, bottom left, as oil rises at the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill. BP CEO Tony Hayward said the company should know within 12 or 24 hours whether their latest attempt to cap the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is working, touting a "milestone" maneuver that he admitted was risky work. Hayward hailed the company's work Thursday after underwater robots successfully sheared off a busted oil pipe spewing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf, telling reporters that the company ...
Jan Brewer backs off war story
Post Date: 2010-06-03 15:39:35 by go65
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Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer is quickly backpedaling from her incorrect claim that her father “died fighting the Nazi regime.” The Arizona Guardian reported on Wednesday that Brewer had told another paper that “knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany,” she finds criticism hurtful that compares the state’s new immigration bill to Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. “I lost him when I was around 11 because of that,” Brewer said of her father’s service. The governor’s father, in fact, died in 1955 in California. In a statement Thursday, Brewer corrected the misstatement without apologizing for incorrectly saying her father ...
Is President Obama's Carter moment nearing? [ Not by Ann Coulter by Lifelong Wa Po Liberal David Broder ! ]
Post Date: 2010-06-03 14:57:15 by WhiteSands
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"This is the worst," a Democratic friend exclaimed over the phone on Tuesday, the first day back at work after the Memorial Day weekend. I knew without asking what he meant -- the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that dominated television coverage and was into its second month with no quick solution in sight. No, I told him. It's not yet the worst. They haven't built a popular new television program around it -- yet. No one has created a new media franchise for himself out of it. There isn't a name for it that has become part of popular culture. I was thinking back to when another Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, found himself stymied in another seemingly endless ...
'I'd do it again' former President Bush tells Grand Rapids crowd about waterboarding terrorists [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-03 14:27:03 by no gnu taxes
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Former President George W. Bush was by turns affable, relaxed -- and deadly serious in his local appearance Wednesday. "Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," Bush said of the terrorist who master-minded the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. He said that event shaped his presidency and convinced him the nation was in a war against terror. "I'd do it again to save lives." In a speech and question-and-answer session before the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Bush defended his decision to go to war in 2003 with Iraq. "Getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do and the world is a better place without him," Bush said. ...
Mortgage applications fall 40% in May, lowest level since April 1997 (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-06-03 13:22:30 by no gnu taxes
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Thanks to an expiring tax credit, the Obama administration got some good news from the housing markets in the last couple of months. However, the underlying numbers look positively grim, and CNBC’s Diana Olick believes they predict a double-dip recession in housing for later this year. With mortgage applications hitting their lowest level in over 13 years, she has good reason to worry: Everybody take a nice long look at today’s Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors, because it’s just about the last positive picture we’re going to see for a while. … This index is based on contracts signed in August, and that’s how the credit was ...
'Golden Girl' Rue McClanahan Dies
Post Date: 2010-06-03 11:53:40 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke. She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on "aging gracefully." In 2009, she had heart bypass surgery.
Legal Experts Debunk Hannity's Sestak "Crime" Claims Point-By-Point
Post Date: 2010-06-03 11:44:42 by Brian S
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Over the past week, Sean Hannity and his guests have cited six different statutes that they claim were violated when the White House offered a position on a panel to Rep. Joe Sestak. Legal experts have repudiated the claim that any of those statutes apply to the offer. 18 U.S.C. § 600: Promise of employment or other benefit for political activity The claim. Hannity has repeatedly claimed the Sestak offer violated 18 U.S.C. § 600. For example (accessed from Nexis): On the May 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity, discussing laws he believes were violated by the Sestak offer, Hannity said, "We have 18 U.S. Code 600 says that the -- a federal official cannot promise ...
"Those Morons Don't Know What They're Doing"
Post Date: 2010-06-03 11:06:30 by war
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PALOS VERDES, Calif (Reuters) – Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "Over the last few weeks I've watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what's happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don't know what they're doing," Cameron said at the All Things Digital technology conference. Cameron, the director of "Avatar" and "Titanic," has worked extensively with robot submarines and is considered an expert in undersea filming. He did not say explicitly who he meant when he referred to ...
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