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Dick Grasso Says Cross-Market Halts May Have Stopped May 6 Drop
Post Date: 2010-05-10 14:03:19 by war
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May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Circuit breakers that halted trading on as many as 50 equity markets that compete with the New York Stock Exchange in the U.S. may have kept last week’s stock market plunge from snowballing, Dick Grasso said. “Circuit breakers could have prevented a lot of what we saw last Thursday,” Grasso, the former chief executive officer of the New York Stock Exchange, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview. “The market fell 600 points and then recovered 600 points before anyone could finish their cup of coffee.” Almost 1.3 billion shares traded on U.S. markets in a 10- minute span starting at 2:40 p.m., six times the average, sending prices lower on ...
A ‘New Level’ Of Disaster: BP’s 70-Ton Oil Containment Dome Fails, No ‘Plan B’
Post Date: 2010-05-10 12:26:01 by Brian S
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Concern grew Sunday that the US Gulf coast is facing a whole new level of environmental disaster after the best short-term fix for a massive oil spill ran into serious trouble. BP's giant containment box lay idle on the seabed as engineers furiously tried to figure out how to stop it clogging with ice crystals. The British energy giant, which owns the lion's share of the leaking oil and has accepted responsibility for the clean-up, has tried to banish the notion that the dome is a "silver bullet" to end the crisis. But should efforts fail to make the giant funnel system effective, there is no solid plan B to prevent potentially tens of millions of gallons of crude from ...
Oil Spill ‘Likely To Dwarf’ Katrina In Terms Of Lawsuits
Post Date: 2010-05-10 12:17:52 by Brian S
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(AFP) – Armies of lawyers are turning their sights to the massive oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico, eagerly seeking damages from the companies at the center of the disaster. Lawyers who faced a massive onslaught of demands after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005 are now flooded with calls from oil workers and local fishermen eager to receive compensation for their losses. Judy Guice, an attorney based in Biloxi, Mississippi, said the oil spill "has the potential to dwarf Katrina" in terms of the number of lawsuits. "Katrina was a natural disaster. I had to deal with clients angry at their insurance companies. But the oil spill is a ...
Is it just me or does Elena Kagan look like Dick Morris in drag...??? (LOL)
Post Date: 2010-05-10 11:30:05 by no gnu taxes
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Is it just me or does Elena Kagan look like Dick Morris in drag...???
Is Obama using crack cocaine - two revealing incidents
Post Date: 2010-05-10 10:42:31 by no gnu taxes
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There have been recurring rumors of Obama using crack cocaine. Two recent reports are suggestive and revealing. I ran both of these by a good friend who was for a while a crack cocaine user and he agrees with my take on them. 1. It was recently reported that Obama left the White House for about an hour without his ususual retinue of reporters and went to a particularly nasty area of Washington where he stayed for a short while and then returned. He claimed that he had gone to watch a soccer game that one of his daughters was in, but he was lying since there was no such soccer game. Impression: He went to score some cocaine and cooked up a lie to cover it. It is absolutely typical of an ...
Obama Claims 10% Unemployment is Success
Post Date: 2010-05-10 10:39:17 by no gnu taxes
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Meanwhile many Americans don't seem to be finding jobs. Where's that truth meter? Hmm. Maybe it's the flush of Census jobs and fake stimulus eh? The best way to stimulate the economy is to get the government and their red tape the hell out of the way first. Obamanomics will continue to be a failure unfortunately.
Obama's supreme court pick - a radical commie lesbian!
Post Date: 2010-05-10 08:24:21 by A K A Stone
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A "perfect" candidate for the Supreme Court; she hates the military, and loves the perverts. Former Dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan is a strong LGBT advocate, according to Campus Progress: "Her most significant work is on the Solomon Amendment, legislation that withholds federal funds from colleges and universities when they ban military recruiters because the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy conflicts with many universities’ antidiscrimination policies. As dean, Kagan supported a lawsuit intended to overturn the legislation so military recruiters might be banned from the grounds of schools like Harvard. When a federal appeals court ruled ...
Obama to pick fat Jewish lesbian for Supreme Court!
Post Date: 2010-05-10 08:18:46 by A K A Stone
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If confirmed, the Supreme Court of the USA would have the following aboard: 1. Three Jews, Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Kagan, 2. Two lesbians, Sotomayor, Kagan 3. One Jewish homosexual, Justice Breyer. 4. One gentile eunuch, Justice Souter (The Justice has never dated, lived with mother for many years) Many believe the Court is now in a "tilt" position. Brad
Obama Set To Pick Justice That Looks like a Retartded Carpet Muncher
Post Date: 2010-05-10 08:03:52 by A K A Stone
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Looks like a Retard to me. If Obama picked her I'm sure she is a stupid woman. Probably likes killing little babies in the womb too.
What are we blaming Bush for again?
Post Date: 2010-05-09 13:47:02 by no gnu taxes
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Bush :) Strong dollar Obama :( Strong Yen Bush :) Booming economy Obama :( Depression Bush :) Low unemployment Obama :( Highest unemployment since 1940 Bush :) Few bank closures Obama :( Taxpayers supporting huge bonuses Bush :) Attacked terrorists on their home turf Obama :( Renamed terrorist's "misguided extremists" Bush :) Put Obama's terrorist bros in GITMO Obama :( Brought his terrorist bros to the US Bush :( $10.7 Trillion National Debt (8 years) Obama :( $12.3 Trillion National Debt (1 year and counting) Hmmmm... What are we blaming Bush for again?
The April jobs report -- The Obama Economy Sucks
Post Date: 2010-05-09 11:36:27 by no gnu taxes
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Pining for a glimmer of good economic news for their beloved President, the media cheered the report, which showed 290,000 new hires for April (60,000 coming from Census padding), while the unemployment rate creeped to 9.9%. The rate increased because more unemployed “entered” the work force by actively looking, as opposed to sitting out the search. So the increase in the rate while over 200,000 workers were hired is a statistical anomaly, but enough to get the administrations cheerleaders in the press all giddy. Buried towards the lower half of this AP piece however, a not-so-great indicator: Counting people who have given up looking for work and part-timers who would prefer ...
Team Obama Says If There’s a Successful Terror Attack – The US Will Attack Pakistan
Post Date: 2010-05-09 00:58:13 by A K A Stone
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He wasn’t kidding. The Obama Administration announced today that the US will attack Pakistan if there’s a successful terror attack in the US. The New York Times reported: The Obama administration has delivered new and stiff warnings to Pakistan after the failed Times Square car bombing that it must urgently move against the nexus of Islamic militancy in the country’s lawless tribal regions, American and Pakistani officials said. The American military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, met with the Pakistani military chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, at his headquarters here on Friday and urged Pakistan to move more quickly in beginning a military ...
Howard Stern Calls Democrats Communists
Post Date: 2010-05-09 00:40:23 by A K A Stone
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Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Howard Stern feels the pulse of a segment of the American people. The raunchy radio star typically leans to the left, but Barack Obama has change all that.
Guest Blogger: The Obama Eligibility Question
Post Date: 2010-05-09 00:29:21 by A K A Stone
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, I’ve been criticized for publishing posts about the case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, a career Army officer being court-martialed for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until President Barack Obama proves his eligibility under the Constitution to serve as president of the United States. Still, I published the posts. Why? Guest blogger Paul R. Hollrah offers the best explanation in his long-but-worthwhile piece below. By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Never in American history has a national leader served under a darker cloud of suspicion than Barack Hussein Obama. Was he born in Hawaii or in Kenya? Did he become an Indonesian citizen in 1967? Where did he spend ...
FL Sen Poll: Crist +6
Post Date: 2010-05-08 11:56:12 by Skip Intro
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FL Sen Poll: Crist +6 A new Mason Dixon poll conducted in Florida (625 LVs, 5/3-10, MoE +/- 4%) shows Gov. Charlie Crist leading a three-way race for Senate, with Marco Rubio just behind and Rep. Kendrick Meek a distant third. General Election Matchup Crist (I) 38 Rubio (R) 32 Meek (D) 19 The pollster suspects, however, that Crist's lead is very soft, and that Meek stands to make up serious ground as he improves name recognition and as Democrats come home. Per the Miami Herald: More than half of Crist's supporters are Democrats, who overwhelmingly approve of his defection from the GOP and recent veto of a controversial teacher tenure bill. Against the lesser-known Miami ...
Georgia Militia Member Arrested While Trying To Free Fellow Birther
Post Date: 2010-05-08 02:33:44 by Brian S
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wo men who belong to right wing fringe groups and believe that President Barack Obama isn't a U.S. citizen have managed to get themselves arrested in Tennessee.The first man, Walter Fitzpatrick, was taken into custody after he tried to perform a citizen's arrest of Grand Jury foreman Gary Pettway at the Madison County Courthouse. While his reasons for attempting to arrest Pettway are not clear, Fitzpatrick had previously tried to get a grand jury to indict Obama for treason.Fitzpatrick is a member of American Grand Jury. The group's website maintains that Obama was a CIA operative and plans to put him on "trial" May 14-19.The arrest of Fitzpatrick upset Darren Huff, a ...
Obama Court Pick Imminent, Kagan Called Favorite
Post Date: 2010-05-08 01:38:37 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court very soon, White House officials said Friday, as court watchers said Solicitor General Elena Kagan is most likely to be the pick. Although there is no guarantee she is the nominee, Kagan could be expected to pass fairly smoothly through the confirmation process, experts say. Administration officials are eager to avoid a bitter battle over the court pick ahead of congressional elections in November, where Obama's fellow Democrats will be fighting to keep their majorities in Congress. Considered one of the more moderate choices on Obama's short list of potential court nominees, Kagan has been ...
Army Wants Soldiers' Opinion Of 'Don't Ask'
Post Date: 2010-05-08 00:37:27 by Murron
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Army Wants Soldiers' Opinion Of 'Don't Ask' Military Considers System For Soldiers To Share Thoughts On Policy MARK NIESSE, Associated Press Writer (0)SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Army Secretary John McHugh said the military is considering a system for soldiers to anonymously express their opinions about the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay troops. McHugh spoke at Hawaii's Schofield Barracks on Friday at the end of a seven-day listening tour through Alaska, South Korea and Japan, where he met with soldiers and their families. He said he's not ready draw any conclusions about how the Army should change its policy on gays. ...
Lawsuit Filed Over Kentucky Derby Tickets
Post Date: 2010-05-08 00:21:09 by Murron
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Lawsuit Filed Over Kentucky Derby Tickets LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An Oldham County man who operates a Kentucky Derby ticket business alleges in a lawsuit that an assistant University of Louisville basketball coach kept $50,000 of his money that was supposed to be used to obtain Derby tickets for the broker. Scott Davis says in the lawsuit filed Friday in Jefferson County Circuit Court that he gave $70,000 in cash to the assistant coach, Steve Masiello. The lawsuit says Masiello provided $10,000 worth of tickets for Davis and returned $10,000 but kept the other $50,000. Masiello's attorney, Tim McCall, told The Courier-Journal that the allegations in the lawsuit are untrue. Another ...
A Poster Asks: Have We Heard From Any BP Survivors?
Post Date: 2010-05-07 21:11:16 by war
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Lawsuit filed in Gulf oil rig blast By Chris Paschenko The Daily News Published May 5, 2010 GALVESTON — Three crewmen aboard the Deepwater Horizon described injuries they suffered during an explosion that killed 11 workers in a lawsuit filed in Galveston on Tuesday. The lawsuit, filed in Galveston County Court No. 3 by Houston attorney Kurt B. Arnold, names BP, Halliburton and Cameron International among the defendants. The lawsuit claims Halliburton’s failures related to cementing the well contributed to the explosion. Halliburton, however, claims its work was consistent with normal oil field practices. The heirs of Aaron Dale Burkeen, one of the crewmen killed in the April ...
A Poster Asks: Where Is Obama On Nashville?
Post Date: 2010-05-07 20:39:35 by war
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30 Counties Approved For Disaster Relief Flood Victims Urged To Apply For Aid CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- President Barack Obama continues to approve counties in Gov. Phil Bredesen's request for federal disaster relief. As of Friday evening, 30 counties had been granted the disaster designation. Federal assistance is now available for Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Crockett, Davidson, Decatur, Dickson, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Madison, Maury, McNairy, Montgomery, Obion, Perry, Robertson, Rutherford, Shelby, Smith, Sumner, Tipton, Wilson and Williamson counties. FEMA officials said by Thursday afternoon about 8,500 people in Tennessee had ...
Bush to Tennessee–Tough Luck Cracker Honky Whitey (Oh wait, Obama is President now; Sorry ,my bad)
Post Date: 2010-05-07 20:29:10 by no gnu taxes
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Between the stock market collapsing with help from a “clerical error,” the New York terror plot, Greece going bankrupt, leftist protesters from Greece to America going bonkers, and of course JaMarcus Russell being released by the Oakland Raiders (ok, so good news does come in small doses), and the oil disaster that is soooo last week, it seems that much of the country has ignored the tragedy of the flooding in Tennessee. 30 people died in the torrential rainstorm, and Kentucky got belted hard as well. At least President Obama issued moving emotional remarks while touring the ravaged area. Oh wait…never mind. Barack Obama had a simple message to the people of Tennessee. In ...
Barack Obama Ignores Tennessee Flood Victims In Favor of Haiti and Chile
Post Date: 2010-05-07 20:24:41 by no gnu taxes
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For those of you who think this administration really is malicious — okay, when it comes to free markets, capitalism, and the greatest of the country I’m with you — we have greater examples that the President and his advisors really are just amateurish. On April 30th, Barack Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring today the National Day of Prayer. In it, he wrote, Let us remember in our thoughts and prayers those suffering from natural disasters in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere, and the people from those countries and from around the world who have worked tirelessly and selflessly to render aid. Let us pray for the families of the West Virginia miners, and the ...
Box To Contain Oil Leak Touches Down On Gulf Floor
Post Date: 2010-05-07 19:35:56 by Brian S
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(05-07) 16:25 PDT ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) -- A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, an important step in a delicate and unprecedented attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea. Underwater robots guided the 40-foot-tall box into place. Now that the contraption is on the seafloor, workers will need at least 12 hours to let it settle and make sure it's stable before the robots can hook up a pipe and hose that will funnel the oil up to a tanker. "It appears to be going exactly as we hoped," BP spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press on Friday afternoon, shortly after the ...
HUFFINGTON POST: Tennessee Flood Victims Need Your Help
Post Date: 2010-05-07 19:27:48 by Brian S
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With waters finally receding, those affected by the floods in Tennessee need your help now to begin repairing and rebuilding their lives. Thousands have seen their homes and businesses flooded. According to Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, "I think it's safe to say that the damage we're looking at will easily exceed $1 billion." Thousands in the Nashville area need your help. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee has two funds you can support to directly help those affected by the floods: Flood Relief - Metro Nashville Disaster Response Fund "In partnership with Davidson County's Office of Emergency Management, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee has ...
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