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House Votes to Allow Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Law [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:17:38 by war
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WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to let the Defense Department repeal the ban on gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a major step toward dismantling the 1993 law widely known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The provision would allow military commanders to repeal the ban. The repeal would permit gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time. It was adopted as an amendment to the annual Pentagon policy bill, which the House is expected to vote on Friday. The repeal would be allowed 60 days after a Pentagon report is completed on the ramifications of allowing openly gay service members, and military leaders certify ...
Estimates Suggest Spill Is Biggest in U.S. History
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:16:13 by war
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Federal officials said Thursday that far more oil than they originally estimated was probably pouring into the Gulf of Mexico on a daily basis since the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The new estimate — 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day — is two to five times higher than the 5,000 barrels a day figure given by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on April 28, and establishes the oil spill as the largest in American history. The government has been harshly criticized by scientists for underestimating the rate of the flow and for what appears to be its reluctance to force BP, the oil giant that owned the lease on the well, to more precisely measure the ...
Oil Flow Is Stemmed, but Could Resume, Official Says
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:14:50 by war
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HOUSTON — By injecting solid objects as well as heavy drilling fluid into the stricken well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico overnight, engineers appeared to have stemmed the flow of oil, Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard, the leader of the government effort, said on Friday morning. But he stressed that the next 12 to 18 hours will be “very critical” in permanently stanching what is already the worst oil spill in United States history. Admiral Allen, who spoke on ABC’s Good Morning America show, said the biggest challenge will be to sustain the “top kill” effort, which involves pumping material into the well to counteract the upward pressure of the ...
U.S. trying to deport 'Son of Hamas' Feds see 'terrorist' in Christian convert who spied for Israel
Post Date: 2010-05-28 07:20:28 by A K A Stone
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The Department of Homeland Security is trying to deport the son of a Hamas founder who told of his conversion to Christianity and decade of spying for Israel in a New York Times best-seller. "Son of Hamas" author Mosab Hassan Yousef revealed on a blog hosted by his publisher he is scheduled to appear June 30 before Immigration Judge Rico J. Bartolomei at the DHS Immigration Court in San Diego. Yousef said the DHS informed him Feb. 23, 2009, he was barred from asylum in the U.S. because there were reasonable grounds for believing he was "a danger to the security of the United States" and "engaged in terrorist activity." An incredulous Yousef said the U.S. ...
Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the ‘Wild Wild West’ Internet Alone
Post Date: 2010-05-27 22:09:23 by A K A Stone
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Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday.
Defense Deputy Secretary William Lynn III, speaking at the Strategic Command Cyber Symposium in Nebraska, said we need to think imaginatively about how to use the National Security Agency’s Einstein monitoring systems on critical private-sector networks — such as those in the financial, utility and communication industries — in order to protect us.
“Operators of critical infrastructure ...
OPLAN 5027 (Korean war plan) Calls for 700,000 US Troops
Post Date: 2010-05-27 20:45:03 by WhiteSands
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OPLAN 5027 Major Theater War - West OPLAN 5027 is the US-ROK Combined Forces Command basic warplan. Under Operations Plan 5027 (CINCUNC/CFC OPLAN 5027), the United States plans to provide units to reinforce the Republic of Korea in the event of external armed attack. These units and their estimated arrival dates are listed in the Time Phased Force Deployment List (TPFDL), Appendix 6, to Annex A to CINCUNC/CFC OPLAN 5027. The TPFDL is updated biennially through U.S./ROK agreements. CINCUNC/CFC OPLAN 5027 is distributed with a SECRET-U.S./ROK classification. Pyongyang can credibly threaten the prompt destruction of Seoul with conventional arms alone. The North Korean military could also ...
Private Sector Fixes Oil Gusher
Post Date: 2010-05-27 15:42:47 by no gnu taxes
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Inexplicably, the deployment of bureaucrats and lawyers failed to contain the massive off shore oil spill. By all accounts, BP’s “top kill” strategy has been a success. Though to hear Obama tell it, he donned his frogman gear and plugged the leak single handedly. Next up: Obama learns people have been killed in a car accident, prompting him to sign an executive order outlawing motorized vehicles. With, of course, exemptions for his staff, congress and SEIU thugs. Why do we need cars or oil anyway? It’s not as if Americans have jobs to drive to anymore.
The Obama Depression
Post Date: 2010-05-27 15:17:50 by no gnu taxes
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Professor Tim Congdon of International Monetary Research says, “It’s frightening”! In an interview with the UK Telegraph, Congdon reacted to the latest estimates that the M3 money supply of the Federal Reserve has dropped from $14.2 Trillion to $13.9 Trillion dollars in just three months. “The plunge in M3 has no precedent since the Great Depression.” Despite the happy-slappy statistics emanating regularly from the Obama administration, the Federal Reserve stopped publicizing their M3 numbers years ago. But by tracking various other components, including the assets and debts of major banks, a crude estimate can be derived. The bottom-line is simple, Obama’s ...
The Costs of Illegal Immigration
Post Date: 2010-05-27 14:57:40 by sneakypete
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Subject: Why the US is broke ! Arizona is trying to fix it! Now if California, New Mexico & Texas would join them maybe it would get fixed. WHY ARE WE BANKRUPT? Informative, and mind boggling! You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this: Boy, was I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts. 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on ...
Big Spat on Rig Preceded Explosion
Post Date: 2010-05-27 13:27:41 by war
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KENNER, La.—More details emerged Wednesday about a disagreement between employees of rig operator Transocean Ltd. and oil giant BP PLC over how to begin shutting down the well just hours before it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last month. Testimony on Wednesday about the disagreement, in a hearing held by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service, which jointly regulate offshore drilling, was likely to bring increased scrutiny to the decisions BP made aboard the rig the day of the explosion, April 20. There was also likely to be more focus on whether Transocean should have done more to ensure proper procedures were carried out. Douglas H. Brown, Transocean's ...
Army Corps Eng: Barrier Plan Could Push Oil Onto MISS
Post Date: 2010-05-27 13:22:39 by war
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A wall of sand that Louisiana officials have requested to block the Gulf of Mexico slick could instead funnel oil into more unprotected areas and into neighboring Mississippi, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in documents released Wednesday. Gov. Bobby Jindal and leaders from several coastal parishes want to ring the state's southeastern coastline with a $350 million, 86-mile network of sand berms. However, the corps says the barrier could inadvertently alter tides and end up driving oil east - into Mississippi Sound, the Biloxi Marshes and Lake Borgne. A top Louisiana official said that scenario was unlikely and criticized the corps for coming up with excuses to delay the plan. ...
The Worst Money Supply Plunge Since The Depression Means A Double Dip Is Now A ‘Virtual Certainty’
Post Date: 2010-05-27 12:14:53 by no gnu taxes
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The stock of U.S. money as measured by ‘M382; money supply fell to $13.9 trillion from $14.2 trillion during the three months ending in April. This 9.6% annualized contraction is unprecedented in the post-Depression era, and shows how, in this sense, America isn’t printing more money. There are actually less dollars in the system since U.S. money supply is crashing, even well into the recent economic recovery. The positive take on this is that we don’t have to worry about either inflation or the Fed tightening significantly any time soon. The negative take is that this crashing money supply will lead to both deflation and a double dip recession: Telegraph: ...
Palin builds fence to block out biographer neighbor
Post Date: 2010-05-27 12:08:17 by Fred Mertz
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When Sarah Palin called into Glenn Beck's radio show yesterday, the conversation turned to her new neighbor, unauthorized biographer Joe McGinniss. So how's Palin dealing with the journalist next door? "Todd and his buddies started a fence yesterday and it's looking good," Palin said. "It's about 14 feet high. That's what we're going to have to do this summer, I guess." It looks like her husband Todd and his friends work quickly. Fox News host Greta Van Susteren has posted a photo of the finished fence on her blog, noting that it's there "to protect against the 'Wasilla Stalker.'" Beck, who blasted McGinniss and his ...
Obama’s Piss Poor Performance on BP Oil Spill Response
Post Date: 2010-05-27 12:02:24 by no gnu taxes
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Earlier this week, I watched Ken Salazar during a press conference from Louisiana promise that “we would not rest” until ALL the oil was cleaned up. “We” obviously does not include his boss, Obama. Who is taking his second vacation since the Deep Water Horizon exploded, killing 11 crew members. Hell, even his fans in the Liberal blogosphere are starting to doubt Obama’s response to the spill: I don’t know if it’s about money, or if it’s still about trying to play nice with Republicans and business interests who are already abandoning the Democratic Party in favor of the Republicans, but Barack Obama’s tin ear about making even symbolic ...
America’s Repudiation of the Obama Agenda Continues
Post Date: 2010-05-27 11:58:33 by no gnu taxes
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It began last November in statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey. Then it swept through Massachusetts in a stunning U.S. Senate special election this January. Most recently, it has spilled over into primary battles in Utah, Kentucky and Pennsylvania – growing more potent as the calendar year advances toward a climactic November 2010 showdown. “It” is the ongoing, unequivocal public repudiation of the agenda of President Barack Obama – a seismic shift in the thinking of the American electorate regarding the sort of “change” they want for their country. In several races “it” is also a direct rejection of Obama himself – as evidenced by the ...
‘Top Kill’ Effort Seems to Be Working, U.S. Says Cautiously
Post Date: 2010-05-27 11:17:01 by war
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HOUSTON — The latest effort to plug a gushing underwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be working, officials and engineers said on Thursday morning, though definitive word on its success was still hours away. At the same time, government experts said that the flow of oil from the well, which has been gushing since an explosion and fire wrecked a drilling rig in late April, was several times worse than the preliminary estimate by BP, the oil company responsible for the rig and the well. And The Associated Press reported on Thursday that the head of the agency responsible for regulating offshore oil drilling had been dismissed. BP began the well-plugging maneuver, known ...
A bloody summer of gang warfare ahead?
Post Date: 2010-05-27 10:46:18 by Badeye
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A bloody summer of gang warfare ahead? David Joles, Star Tribune Killing near Lake Calhoun: The shooting death of Derrick Martin on Monday was the city’s 20th homicide of 2010, already one more than in all of 2009. He was walking along a heavily used bike path when he was ambushed. New gangs trying to violently snatch respect on the streets have authorities and community members fearful of what lies ahead in Minneapolis. By MATT McKINNEY and DAVID CHANEN, Star Tribune Staff Writers Last update: May 26, 2010 - 9:47 PM Hours after he fell to the ground clutching his stomach Monday night near Lake Calhoun, Derrick Martin became more than the latest Minneapolis homicide victim. His ...
Hayakawa Spurns Job Offer Vows To Run For Re-election
Post Date: 2010-05-27 10:13:01 by war
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Way to stick to your guns, Senator. Click for Full Text!
NJ Teacher who complained to Gov. Chris Christie she deserved $83k actually makes $86k
Post Date: 2010-05-27 09:31:42 by Badeye
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NJ Teacher who complained to Gov. Chris Christie she deserved $83k actually makes $86k By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 05/26/10 3:48 PM EDT Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had a little dust-up with teacher Rita Wilson. Upset over Christie’s education budget, Wilson complained that she wasn’t paid enough and got sharp rebuke from the governor: But borough teacher Rita Wilson, a Kearny resident, argued that if she were paid $3 an hour for the 30 children in her class, she’d be earning $83,000, and she makes nothing near that. “You’re getting more than that if you include the cost of your benefits,” Christie interrupted. When Wilson, ...
US money supply plunges at Depression Era pace (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-05-27 09:08:16 by no gnu taxes
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The stock of money in the US fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc Photo: AFP The M3 figures - which include broad range of bank accounts and are tracked by British and European monetarists for warning signals about the direction of the US economy a year or so in advance - began shrinking last summer. The pace has since quickened. The stock of money fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc. The assets of insitutional money market funds fell at a 37pc rate, the sharpest drop ever. "It’s frightening," said ...
Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Legislative Encroachment On Private Business
Post Date: 2010-05-27 08:10:34 by war
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry late Wednesday vetoed an abortion bill that would put strict limits on when private health insurers can cover the procedure. The bill includes exceptions for cases of rape, incest or to prevent the death of the mother. Coverage for abortions could be obtained through a separate supplemental policy. The bill is meant to prevent state insurance exchanges, created under the new federal health care law, from covering most abortions, said state Rep. Skye McNiel, R-Bristow. But it also extends the ban to health insurance plans outside state exchanges that operate within Oklahoma. Henry, a Democrat, said the legislation would punish victims of rape ...
Guilty Pleas in Landrieu Incident
Post Date: 2010-05-27 08:07:36 by war
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The conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and three other men pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to a misdemeanor in a scheme in which they posed as telephone repairmen in Senator Mary L. Landrieu’s New Orleans office. Magistrate Daniel Knowles III, who cited the defendants’ potential as investigative journalists though he was critical of this incident, sentenced Mr. O’Keefe, 25, to three years of probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine. As Mr. O’Keefe was considered the ringleader, his fellow defendants, Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan, were given lesser sentences of two years of probation, 75 hours of community service ...
BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast
Post Date: 2010-05-27 08:04:22 by war
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WASHINGTON — Several days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options, according to a BP document. The concern with the method BP chose, the document said, was that if the cement around the casing pipe did not seal properly, gases could leak all the way to the wellhead, where only a single seal would serve as a barrier. Using a different type of casing would have provided two barriers, according to the document, which was provided to The New York Times by a Congressional investigator. Workers from the rig and company officials have ...
BP Exec: We'll Know We're Successful if the Drilling Mud Stops Flowing
Post Date: 2010-05-27 01:26:20 by Brian S
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As of late Wednesday night the success of BP's latest attempt to staunch the flow of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico remains unknown, but a top BP executive observing the live oil spill camera feed is saying tonight that what we're seeing leaking out now is mostly drilling mud. According to BP Chief Operating Officer, David Suttles, if we see that drilling mud stop flowing out the leak the operation will have been a success. Coined "Operation Top Kill" by BP, the plan is to pump oil drilling mud into the broken pipe to reverse the flow oil back into the well and then cap it. Here's the live feed, cross your fingers that by tomorrow night there is nothing ...
America Speaking Out - What's on America's Mind?
Post Date: 2010-05-27 00:34:37 by Skip Intro
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The Republican Party has created a web site where Americans can express themselves on various topics. Let's see what they have to say about "American Prosperity". We could save a lot of money through product standardization. For example, it should be illegal for stores to sell hot dogs in packs of 10 and buns in packs of 8. This site should only be open to Americans. Otherwise subversive outsiders may come in and post insidious ideas. I think it's high time that some of our most promising leaders like the brilliant Michele Bachman should have the guts stand up and loudly proclaim that we are One Nation under GOD, not under allah or socialism. It should be called RULE ...
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