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Carville Tears Into Obama's Oil Spill Response: 'We're About To Die Down Here'
Post Date: 2010-05-26 20:44:20 by no gnu taxes
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Democratic strategist James Carville, who is also a resident of New Orleans, attacked President Obama's response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast today, saying: "You got to get down and take control of this, put somebody in charge of this and get this thing moving. We're about to die down here." On Good Morning America, Carville said that "the political stupidity of this is just unbelievable," and that he has "no idea why their attitude was so hands-offy here." "The President of the United States," Carville continued, "could've come down here, he could've been involved with the families of these 11 people" who died in ...
Unchecked Oil Flow Would Cause Disaster ‘Heretofore Unseen By Humanity’
Post Date: 2010-05-26 19:39:44 by Brian S
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If BP fails to plug its ruptured offshore oil well, intense underground pressure would be enough to pump vast quantities of thick brown crude into the Gulf of Mexico for months, even years. If even BP’s backup plans fail, it would cause a pollution disaster "heretofore unseen by humanity," said one expert. It is this rapidly accelerating realization that is giving BP’s attempt Wednesday to cap the well new political and environmental urgency. The worst-case scenario is hoped and believed to be a continued flow of 5,000 barrels per day, and by some estimates vastly more, until August, when BP completes “relief wells” to intercept the damaged well. But, ...
Four Conservative Activists Plead Guilty In Phone Caper At Senator Landrieu's Office
Post Date: 2010-05-26 19:23:01 by Brian S
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NEW ORLEANS -- Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses. James O'Keefe, 25, famous for wearing a pimp costume in a video that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN, was sentenced to three years probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine. The FBI has said O'Keefe used his cell phone to try to capture video of two others who posed as telephone repairmen and asked to see the phones at Landrieu's office. O'Keefe has said the group was trying to investigate complaints that constituents ...
Lindsay Lohan Goes Back to Blonde
Post Date: 2010-05-26 16:44:22 by WhiteSands
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The old saying goes that blondes have more fun. Perhaps that’s what Lindsay Lohan was counting on when she said goodbye to her raven-colored hair and reverted back to golden tresses this week. The newly towheaded starlet-cum-designer–who was recently ordered to wear an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet after failing to appear in court on Thursday–sported similar buttery waves three years ago, around the same time she voluntarily wore another SCRAM ankle bracelet. Coincidence? We can’t be sure, but if the 23-year-old’s gone blonde for a little pick-me-up amid troubled times, she does seem to be enjoying her new do. Tell us: Do you like Lindsay Lohan’s new blonde ...
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Post Date: 2010-05-26 16:36:46 by Happy Quanzaa
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Economists Agree: Unemployment Will Stay High Through November
Post Date: 2010-05-26 16:11:01 by no gnu taxes
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Economists from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the centrist Brookings Institution, and the conservative Heritage Foundation may not all agree on much, but they agree on this: unemployment, which currently hovers around 10 percent, is not coming down significantly between now and November's midterm elections. "I'm not aware of labor-market economists who expect unemployment to drop significantly before the midterms," says James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation. "The average for the last generation has been around 5.5 percent or so, and it won't be anywhere near that." "My best guess is unemployment will be in November exactly what it ...
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie defends cuts, promotes property tax cap in Rutherford
Post Date: 2010-05-26 16:07:14 by Badeye
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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie defends cuts, promotes property tax cap in Rutherford Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Last updated: Tuesday May 25, 2010, 10:21 PM BY HERB JACKSON The Record Washington Correspondent RUTHERFORD — Governor Christie on Tuesday told a borough teacher to find another job if she did not feel she was compensated enough as he defended his state budget cuts and promoted a plan to cap annual growth in property tax collections. He also told an 89-year-old former mayor she'd have to wait until next spring for a rebate she'd been getting for more than a decade in the late summer. And he told a parent that cuts to services, including the local library, are needed because ...
TV's 'People Are Funny' Host Art Linkletter Dies, He Was 97
Post Date: 2010-05-26 15:27:04 by Brian S
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Art Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. His son-in-law Art Hershey says Linkletter died Wednesday at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. "Art Linkletter's House Party," one of television's longest-running variety shows, debuted on radio in 1944 and was seen on CBS-TV from 1952 to 1969. Though it had many features, the best known was the daily interviews with schoolchildren. "On `House Party' I would talk to you and bring out the fact that you had been letting your boss beat you at golf over a period of months as part ...
BP Begins `Top Kill' Operations in Attempt to Plug Leaking Gulf Oil Well
Post Date: 2010-05-26 15:22:22 by Brian S
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May 26 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc began its most ambitious attempt to plug a more than monthlong leak from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is aiming to tamp down the gusher of oil and natural gas with mud-like drilling fluid, then seal the well with cement. Success would bring to an end a leak that has poured millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf and soiled at least 70 miles (113 kilometers) of coastline. The so-called top kill process might take two days to complete, Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward said this morning on NBC’s “Today” show. Hayward put the chances of success at 60 percent to 70 percent two days ago. The well, about 40 miles off Louisiana’s ...
Obama’s Response to Gulf Oil Spill: Passive and Incompetent
Post Date: 2010-05-26 15:06:05 by no gnu taxes
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Over a month after an explosion caused a massive oil leak a mile under water, the Obama administration continues its inexplicable failure to help address the crisis. Rather than marshal the full resources of the federal government including military assets to alleviate the damage and participate in the work on stopping the leak, Obama’s focus has been on blaming Britsh Petroleum (BP). BP is certainly responsible for the accident. But when an accident like this threatens major portions of our coast across multiple states, the first response of the federal government should be to provide available resources to help stop the spill and to work on alleviating the damage. Instead Obama, in ...
Sarah Palin's strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge
Post Date: 2010-05-26 14:17:07 by Skip Intro
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Sarah Palin's strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge Sarah Palin took to her Facebook account today to inform her readers that Joe McGinniss, an award-winning reporter and author, had rented the house next door. I saw Ben Smith flag this earlier today but did not really appreciate how strange and, frankly, immature Palin's post was until I read it. Palin informs her readers that McGinniss is "overlooking my children’s play area" and "overlooking Piper’s bedroom." Alternately sounding angry and mocking, she refers to "the family’s swimming hole," which at first reference sounds like she's accusing McGinniss of checking out the ...
Democrats propose tax hikes in response to Schwarzenegger's fiscal plan
Post Date: 2010-05-26 14:02:48 by Badeye
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Democrats propose tax hikes in response to Schwarzenegger's fiscal plan The party's leaders in the Senate and Assembly agree that any rational plan to close the $19.1-billion deficit must include additional sources of revenue. By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2010 E-mail Print Share Text Size la-me-budget-taxes-20100526 Reporting from Sacramento The Democrats who control the Legislature have fired their opening salvo against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's spending blueprint, which proposed eliminating California's welfare program and cutting deeply into other state services, by proposing that the state rely instead on billions of dollars in new taxes to ...
The Reform Agenda: Changing Course in N.J.
Post Date: 2010-05-26 13:00:18 by reaganisright
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Fiscal Crisis: The Current Budget As An Example As you all know, we have a fiscal crisis in New Jersey: a $10.9 billion deficit on a $29.3 billion budget. At 37 percent, it's the worst budget deficit percentage in America-worse than California, worse than New York, worse than Illinois-and we need to take bold steps to deal with it. On March 16, we put forward a budget with $10.9 billion in reductions against proposed spending of the Corzine administration. This was not easy to do, so I want to start off by saying that while I stand firmly behind the cuts we proposed, please don't take my firm stance in favoring those cuts as meaning that I don't know how painful they are. ...
FBI: Violent Crime Rate In The U.S. Drops For Third Year In A Row
Post Date: 2010-05-26 12:23:00 by Brian S
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released preliminary data that indicates, for the third year in a row, that the rate of violent crime in the United States is down. It appears that property crime also declined, for the seventh straight year. The FBI’s final figures will not be available until the fall, but the Bureau’s just-released “Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, January to December 2009” shows some fairly significant decreases—5.5% for violent crime and 4.9% for property crime, as reported to the FBI by 13,237 law enforcement agencies from around the country that provided at least six months of data. Following are some more top line ...
Police Chiefs To AG: Arizona Immigration Law Will Actually Increase Crime, Contrary To Claims
Post Date: 2010-05-26 12:19:22 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police chiefs from around the country have told Attorney General Eric Holder that Arizona's new immigration law will divert law enforcement resources away from fighting crime. In an hourlong, closed-door meeting with Holder, the chiefs have said that being forced to determine whether a person is in the United States illegally will break down the trust that police have built with communities. One participant at the meeting, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, said the Arizona law and similar legislation proposed in other states will actually increase, rather than decrease, crime. Arizona immigration law empowers police to question anyone they suspect of being in ...
New Site for Boofer to Spam - New GOP Initiative Stumbles Early
Post Date: 2010-05-26 12:16:48 by Skip Intro
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New GOP Initiative Stumbles Early, Poster Calls For Repealing Civil Rights Act House Republican leadership unveiled a new interactive website on Tuesday which they hailed as "revolutionary" in its democratization of the political process. But while it may deserve some acclaim for presenting a new way for voters to join the debate, the GOP initiative is sure to invite mockery by stumbling minutes after the site launched. On Tuesday morning, GOP leaders unveiled americaspeakingout.com, a website that they pitched as a "giant step forward" towards popularizing the Republican platform. The idea is simple -- allow viewers to suggest legislative remedies that they and ...
President Obama To Add Homegrown Terror To Security Strategy
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:59:57 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to terror attacks like the Fort Hood shooting rampage and the failed Times Square bombing, President Barack Obama is adding homegrown terrorists to the administration's top national security priorities. Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Wednesday the administration's newly revised national security strategy document will place homegrown threats among the nation's top national security concerns. Presidents use the national security strategy document to set broad goals and priorities for keeping Americans safe. The document has far-reaching effects on spending, warcraft and security strategies. Obama's revision would ...
Despite Protests, Mosque Plan Near 9/11 Site Wins Key Vote
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:57:27 by Brian S
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May 26, 2010 Opponents called it an "insult," "demeaning" and a "house of evil," but the angry protests did not stop an advisory board from approving plans to build a mosque and Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In a heated, four hour meeting Tuesday night, Community Board 1, which represents the area of lower Manhattan that includes Ground Zero, voted 29-1 in favor of the proposal. There were 10 abstentions. At the raucous meeting, some relatives carried signs with the faces of 9/11 victims, reflecting still-raw emotions nearly a decade after the terrorist attacks. "This is an insult," said one ...
Sarah Palin's Pick In Idaho GOP Race, Vaughn Ward, Loses Bid For Congress
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:55:11 by Brian S
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By Michael SheridanDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, May 26th 2010, 11:21 AM Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Vaughn Ward during a rally for Ward at Qwest Arena. The Congressional hopeful lost his bid to become the Republican candidate. Sarah Palin's "golden touch" seems to be wearing off.The ex-Alaska governor and Tea Party poster girl could not use her clout to help Idaho outsider Vaughn Ward gain the Republican nomination to oust Rep. Walt Minnick, a Democrat.Despite Palin's pleadings, Ward lost by nearly 10 percentage points to Republican rival Raul Labrador, 48.1% to 38.8% in Tuesday's Idaho primary."I called Raul Labrador and ...
AP Exclusive: Witness Says BP Took 'Shortcuts'
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:46:56 by Brian S
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COVINGTON, La. (AP) -- Senior managers complained oil giant BP was "taking shortcuts" by replacing heavy drilling fluid with saltwater in the well that blew out, triggering the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to witness statements obtained by The Associated Press. Truitt Crawford, a roustabout for drilling rig owner Transocean Ltd., told Coast Guard investigators about the complaints. The seawater, which would have provided less weight to contain surging pressure from the ocean depths, was being used to prepare for dropping a final blob of cement into the well. "I overheard upper management talking saying that BP was taking shortcuts by displacing the ...
Dark Cloud Following Obama-Sestak Scandal (The Kenyan Needs to be Impeached)
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:35:23 by no gnu taxes
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If a Democratic member of Congress is to be believed, there’s someone in the Obama administration who has committed a crime – and if the president knew about it, analysts say it could be grounds for impeachment. “This scandal could be enormous,” said Dick Morris, a former White house adviser to President Bill Clinton, on the Fox News Sean Hannity show last night. “It’s Valerie Plame only 10 times bigger, because it’s illegal and Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime. “Obviously, the offer of a significant job in the White House could not be made unless it was by Rahm Emanuel or cleared with Rahm Emanuel,” he said. If ...
Obama: Golf Over Gulf
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:11:57 by no gnu taxes
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For an administration that said that Sarah Palin had no experience, is proving to be that the Obama Administration is not qualified to run this Country, because it seams that he lives in Air Force One, and not the White House where he belongs, he is ether campaigning for a second term or for another Democrat. I think it is time to throw every one of them out before we no longer have a free Country that is for the people not the Government. The excuses are wearing thin. The tough talk has been exposed as nonsense. At this point, it is clear that British Petroleum (BP) and the Obama Administration are making it up as they go along. Despite bravado from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...
The Kenyan White House Resident Has His Lowest Approval Index Rating To Date
Post Date: 2010-05-26 10:29:00 by no gnu taxes
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22. That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for this president
Author writing about Palin moves next door to her (Joe McGinnis) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-26 10:23:19 by Badeye
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Author writing about Palin moves next door to her May 25 07:53 PM US/Eastern By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to complain about her new neighbor—a writer penning a book about her. Author Joe McGinniss has taken up residence in a house next to Palin's lakeside home in Wasilla. McGinniss previously wrote a critical expose on Palin and her natural gas pipeline plan for the Conde Nast publication Portfolio last year, and is planning a book about the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate. It's tentatively titled, "Sarah Palin's Year of Living Dangerously" and could be ...
74 Democrats defy Obama man's net neut plans
Post Date: 2010-05-26 10:10:43 by Badeye
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74 Democrats defy Obama man's net neut plans The magic word: 'jobs' By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco Posted in Networks, 25th May 2010 19:51 GMT Seventy-four Democratic members of the US House of Representatives have sided with telcos in the ongoing dust-up over the Federal Communications Commission efforts to preserve net neutrality. "We urge you not to move forward with a proposal that undermines critically important investment in broadband and the jobs that come with it," reads a letter from Houston, Texas Rep Gene Green, signed by a total of 74 members of Obama's own party. The proposal that the letter derides is FCC chairman Julius Genachowski's ...
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