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Ron Paul's Legacy Lives on in His Son's Kentucky Senate Campaign
Post Date: 2010-05-18 11:59:40 by Brian S
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Rep. Ron Paul did not win a single Republican primary in the 2008 presidential race. But his son, ophthalmologist Rand Paul, is poised to become the GOP Senate nominee from Kentucky in what is shaping up to be the second major Tea Party victory this month. Even though Rand Paul is running for the GOP Senate nomination against Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the hand-picked candidate of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Paul is leading in nearly all the public polling and is widely expected to win on Tuesday. Paul credits the energy behind his candidacy to the Tea Party movement. "I feel a part of the Tea Party," Rand Paul told ABCNews.com's "Top ...
Sell Everything Liquid, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year
Post Date: 2010-05-18 11:51:32 by no gnu taxes
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WHOA! Richard Russell, the famous writer of the Dow Theory Letters, has a chilling line in today's note: Do your friends a favor. Tell them to "batten down the hatches" because there's a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don't need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won't recognize the country. They'll retort, "How the dickens does Russell know -- who told him?" Tell them the stock market told him. That's pretty intense! Update: By popular demand, here's more on what he sees in the market. The gist is that the markets recent ...
PA-12 special election today.
Post Date: 2010-05-18 09:09:17 by no gnu taxes
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Also the Pennsylvania, [Arkansas,] and Kentucky primaries, but hold that thought for a moment. There is a special election today between Tim Burns and Mark Critz. The Republican candidate is fighting a two-to-one registration advantage, a contested primary on the other side scheduled to boost the other side’s turnout, and a media environment that will grudgingly score a Republican win while eagerly waiting to score a Republican loss – but he’s still (barely) ahead anyway. So now is the time to finish the job. And remember: there is a primary and a special election today. So, if you can vote in PA-12, you have to vote twice. If you’re entitled to a Republican ballot, you ...
Obama's Hackneyed Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2010-05-18 08:59:58 by no gnu taxes
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Who the hell does Barack Obama, this morally preening, arrogant hypocrite, think he is? His vacuous, demagogic shtick about helping the "people" fight "the powerful" is getting so old from his lips, and already was so hackneyed even before he expropriated it, that it's a miracle that even he himself can say it anymore without getting nauseated by his own oleaginous triteness. Obama spewed the same old effluvia Monday when introducing Elena Kagan as his nominee for the Supreme Court. Let us count the inanities and dishonesties in his introductory remarks: "Behind law there are stories -- stories of people's lives as shaped by the law, stories of ...
Obama’s Fed Picks Spell Economic Disaster
Post Date: 2010-05-18 08:53:04 by no gnu taxes
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President Barack Obama’s nominations for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors — Janet Yellen, Peter Diamond, and Sarah Bloom Raskin — foreshadow failure at the Fed, and economic disaster for the United States, writes columnist Amity Shlaes. “This trio makes sense only if you believe the philosophy of John Maynard Keynes,” says Shlaes, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of a best-selling history of the Great Depression, "The Forgotten Man." “All hail Keynes. That’s the message.” According to Shlaes, what makes Obama’s picks “odd choices” is that the events of the past five years don’t ...
DOES ANYONE GET TIRED OF SEEING THAT SMIRKY OBAMA FACE ALL OVER THE NET???
Post Date: 2010-05-18 08:48:09 by no gnu taxes
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I know I am...Obama this..Obama that...I can tell when Im being manipulated.. We have never seen this with other presidents... Im know Im tired of seeing Obamahood...trying to redistributing our wealth.. the less I see of his face..the better.
‘Hey Obama, Give Me A Freakin’ Job’
Post Date: 2010-05-18 08:46:42 by no gnu taxes
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“I need a freakin’ job.” That’s the message President Obama saw as he arrived in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon for an event talking up the administration’s success in creating new jobs. He also pitched Congress on approving a $30 billion credit for small-business growth. Yet critics say Obama has been focusing his recovery efforts too narrowly and hasn’t done enough to help people find work. After all, the latest job figures show 9.9 percent of the country still out of work. That inspired a group of unemployed Buffalo residents — who also have a website called INAFJ.org — to appeal to the president in the form of a billboard along the route his ...
(The Real Miss America) Miss Oklahoma USA Defends Arizona’s Right to Pass Immigration Law
Post Date: 2010-05-18 07:10:46 by A K A Stone
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Morgan Elizabeth Woolard: "I'm a huge believer in states' rights. ..
Poster Comment:She is way hotter then the dogface arab. And smarter too. Where was the question to the Arab about Hamas?
AP: Some Oil Spill Events From Monday, May 17, 2010
Post Date: 2010-05-17 19:23:15 by Brian S
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Events May 17, Day 28 of a Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with an explosion and fire on April 20 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 at about 210,000 gallons per day. OIL SPILL REACH With BP finally gaining some control over the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are increasingly worried that huge plumes of crude already spilled could get caught in a current that would carry the mess all the way to the Florida Keys and beyond, damaging coral reefs and killing ...
US May Have To Divert The Mississippi To Fight Oil Slick’s Spread
Post Date: 2010-05-17 18:02:49 by Brian S
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For the US Coast Guard, the mighty Mississippi River is its "best friend" in the fight against the oil spill. Trying to keep the spreading oil at bay, authorities have diverted the river into dozens of canals. But fishermen and ecologists are concerned an environmental disaster could be in the offing. After crossing the United States from north to south, the 2,350-mile (3,800-kilometer) long river delivers its waters to the Gulf of Mexico through a sprawling delta formed by dozens of canals. With the outflow measuring between 7,000 and 20,000 cubic meters of water per second, the Mississippi represents a powerful natural ally of US authorities scrambling to control what could ...
Atty: Video Shows Police Fired Into Detroit Home [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-17 15:57:33 by Brian S
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(05-17) 12:41 PDT DETROIT, (AP) -- An attorney for the family of a 7-year-old girl slain during a weekend raid at their Detroit home says video footage contradicts the police department's version of events. Geoffrey Fieger (FI-ger) said Monday that footage shot by the A&E crime-reality show "The First 48" shows that police fired into the home at least once after lobbing a flash grenade through a window. He says that contradicts the police department's explanation that an officer's gun fired during a confrontation with a resident inside the home. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was shot in the neck and died. Fieger says he viewed three to four minutes of footage ...
Woody Allen says President Obama should be granted dictatorial powers (seriously)
Post Date: 2010-05-17 15:51:40 by no gnu taxes
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Woody Allen has a strange take on the democracy that allowed him to become rich and famous. The "Scoop" director said it would be a cool idea for President Barack Obama to be dictator for for a few years. Why? So he could get things done without all the hassle of opposing views getting in the way. In an interview published by Spanish language newspaper La Vanguardia (that we translated), Allen says “I am pleased with Obama. I think he’s brilliant. The Republican Party should get out of his way and stop trying to hurt him.” But wait - there's more! The director said "it would be good…if he could be a dictator for a few years because he could do a ...
Interior official who oversees offshore drilling for MMS resigns
Post Date: 2010-05-17 14:36:03 by war
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Chris Oynes, the top Interior Department official who oversees offshore oil and gas drilling for the Minerals Management Service, announced Monday that he will retire on May 31, The Washington Post has learned. Oynes, who has overseen oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico for 12 years before being promoted to MMS associate director for offshore energy and minerals management, has come under fire for being too close to the industry officials he regulated. His announcement comes as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar unveiled a series of reforms on how the department will conduct onshore oil and gas drilling. Click for Full Text!
Bill to Put Reagan on $50 Bill Opposed by 8 in 10, Poll Shows
Post Date: 2010-05-17 14:33:36 by Brian S
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Representative Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican, wants Ronald Reagan to replace Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill. Almost 8 in 10 Americans oppose the idea, a new poll shows. Reagan, a Republican, was the “last great president of the 20th century” who “rallied the nation and won the Cold War,” McHenry said in an interview. McHenry proposed a bill on March 2 seeking to redesign the $50 bill and substitute Reagan’s image for the likeness of the Civil War hero. McHenry’s bill is widely opposed, according to a Marist College poll. Seventy-nine percent said the suggestion is a bad idea, compared with 12 percent who supported the plan. Nine percent said ...
US Court Grants Asylum To Obama's African Aunt
Post Date: 2010-05-17 14:26:04 by Brian S
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(05-17) 11:17 PDT CLEVELAND, (AP) -- A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys announced Monday. The decision was mailed Friday and comes three months after Kenya native Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, testified at a closed hearing in Boston, where she arrived in a wheelchair and two doctors testified in support of her case. The basis for her asylum request hadn't been made public. People who seek asylum must show that they face persecution in their homeland on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group. Her ...
Dick Cheney: Whitman stronger Republican candidate
Post Date: 2010-05-17 14:22:14 by Skip Intro
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Dick Cheney: Whitman stronger Republican candidate I am proud to endorse Meg Whitman to be the next governor of California. Meg has the conservative values, leadership skills and vision to reform state government and usher in an era of strong economic growth and prosperity. There is a lot at stake in this election. What happens in California has a direct bearing on the health of the U.S. economy. America cannot afford to have its largest state teetering on the edge of financial collapse. California needs a proven executive who has the mettle to stand up to the entrenched special interests in Sacramento and cut spending. Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:What a load of horseshit.
Tube Suctioning One-Fifth Of Spewing Oil: BP Executive
Post Date: 2010-05-17 12:49:35 by Brian S
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The tube inserted by BP into a ruptured oil pipe is sucking up about one-fifth of the crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, a top company official said Monday. BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told CNN that about 1,000 barrels of oil per day is being suctioned up by the tube, out of about 5,000 barrels that the company believes is gushing out daily. "I'm really pleased we've had success now. We've actually had what we call this rise insertion tube working more than 24 hours now," he told CNN. "This morning we were producing over 1,000 barrels of oil into the drill ship. So it's good progress." Suttles acknowledged that most of the oil ...
Obama And Left Try To Blame Bush On The BP Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-05-17 12:46:38 by no gnu taxes
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It was inevitable that the left would try to pin the cause of the BP oil spill on George W. Bush. Friday, Obama painted a picture of a cozy relationship that existed with the oil companies going back 10 years. Hum? Ten years? Didn't Bush take office just about then? And, they can't let Cheney get off the hook either. After all, it was Halliburton that just completed the concrete slurry work on that BP oil rig that failed. But, here's the truth. It was Obama's Department of Interior's Minerals Management Services (MMS) agency that gave British Petroleum (BP) a "categorical exclusion" on safety and environmental impact studies for that very oil rig in April of ...
Should the American Flag Be Banned -- in America?
Post Date: 2010-05-17 12:19:51 by Skip Intro
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Arab-American From Michigan Crowned 2010 Miss USA
Post Date: 2010-05-17 11:32:18 by Brian S
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih recognized the look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title. It was the same one she'd seen him give to winners on his television game show. The 24-year-old Miss Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. She told reporters later that she believed she had won after glancing at pageant owner Trump as she awaited the results with the first runner-up, Miss Oklahoma USA Morgan Elizabeth Woolard. "That's the same look that he gives them when he says, 'You're hired,'" on Trump's reality show "The ...
High Court Limits Youth Life-Without-Parole Sentences
Post Date: 2010-05-17 11:21:07 by war
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May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Youths can’t be sentenced to life in prison without parole unless they are convicted of murder, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decision that may mean shorter jail terms for scores of inmates. The ruling, which split the court along ideological lines, extends a 2005 decision that outlawed the execution of murderers who were under 18 at the time of the crime. Both cases concerned the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. “A state need not guarantee the offender eventual release, but if it imposes a sentence of life it must provide him or her with some realistic opportunity to obtain release before the end of that term,” Justice ...
Eric Holder: The Most Imbecilic, Politicized Attorney General in Decades [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-17 10:33:17 by no gnu taxes
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He actually makes Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell look good by comparison! The Attorney General of the United States is the nation’s top law enforcement officer. His job description does not include, and in many ways specifically forbids any overtly political action. But Obama’s A.G. Holder mixes politics with a new low of imbecility not seen in the office. As Mark Steyn points out: At Ford Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan jumped on a table and gunned down his comrades while screaming, “Allahu Akbar,” which is Arabic for “nothing to see here” and an early indicator of pre-Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Times Square bomber, we are assured by The ...
Dad shot dead after placing Craigslist ad
Post Date: 2010-05-17 09:41:55 by no gnu taxes
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The Pieces of Shit Who Did This
It was just a simple sales transaction set up via Craigslist, the Internet classified ads site. The item being offered was valuable — a 1.07-carat diamond ring, with an asking price of $1,050 — but James Sanders, a trusting man, felt there was nothing to fear.
“He’s sold different things on Craigslist,” Charlene Sanders told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Tuesday from Puyallup, Wash.
Tragically, Charlene Sanders is a widow today and her husband, James, is dead. He died defending his family from four people who came to the house in response to his ad. They didn’t come to buy the ring; they came to steal it, along with anything else of value the family ...
Speedy New Traders Make Waves Far From Wall St.
Post Date: 2010-05-17 09:06:14 by war
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RED BANK, N.J. — Above the Restoration Hardware in this Jersey Shore town, not far from the Navesink River, lurks a Wall Street giant. Here, inside the humdrum offices of a tiny trading firm called Tradeworx, workers in their 20s and 30s in jeans and T-shirts quietly tend high-speed computers that typically buy and sell 80 million shares a day. But on the afternoon of May 6, as the stock market began to plunge in the “flash crash,” someone here walked up to one of those computers and typed the command HF STOP: sell everything, and shutdown. Across the country, several of Tradeworx’s counterparts did the same. In a blink, some of the most powerful players in the stock ...
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