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The USDA has announced that it is dropping NAIS!
Post Date: 2010-02-06 11:30:44 by mininggold
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Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance The USDA has announced that it is dropping NAIS! This is a major victory for the grassroots!! Thank you to the thousands of people who called, wrote, organized meetings, and more. Dozens of organizations, from across the country and the full range of the political spectrum, worked together on this common cause. And we succeeded in making our voices heard. USDA has stated that it is refocusing its efforts on “a new, flexible framework” that will apply only to animals moved in interstate commerce and encourage the use of “lower-cost” technology. During today’s conference call with USDA, I asked whether the agency would continue using ...
Fresno tops list of 'drunkest' cities in America, according to magazine's new rankings
Post Date: 2010-02-06 02:01:46 by Ibluafartsky
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Fresno tops list of 'drunkest' cities in America, according to magazine's new rankings BY Rosemary Black DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, February 5th 2010, 12:40 PM Rankings of alcohol-fueled car crashes, death rates from alcoholic liver disease, number of DUI arrests and the frequency of binge-drinking make Fresno U.S.'s 'drunkest' city. Teetotalers may want to steer clear of Fresno, Calif. The city was just awarded the dubious distinction of being the No. 1 “drunkest” city in the United States by Men’s Health magazine, as reported in USA Today. The magazine will publish a list of 100 major cities in the March issue that range from ...
Tea Party Convention's Racial Brouhaha: Obama Won Because Jim Crow-era Law Not On Books - Tancredo [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-05 13:31:24 by Brian S
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The opening speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention called President Obama a "committed Socialist ideologue" who was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote." "You have launched the counter-revolution," the speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), told 600 or so delegates of the grassroots movement assembled at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville Wednesday night. "It is our nation. Tancredo also insisted on using Obama's middle name, Hussein, and said he was thankful Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona lost the 2008 presidential election because Obama has mobilized an uprising. ...
New Heinz ketchup package for dippers
Post Date: 2010-02-05 12:51:23 by war
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H.J. Heinz Co.Dip & Squeeze packets are scheduled to be in fast-food restaurants by the end of the year.The H.J. Heinz Co. made a bit of a splash Thursday unveiling a better single-serve package for ketchup. If the new Dip & Squeeze package can do for the Pittsburgh food company what upside-down ketchup bottles did, management could be onto something big. Meanwhile, the company is taking steps to address industry health trends, with plans to cut the sodium content of its main ketchup brand and to offer an alternative to those who don't want high fructose corn syrup on their hot dogs. In popping open its new ketchup packaging, Heinz said it had worked for two years to improve ...
Judge Declares Former Edwards Aide in Contempt, Demands Sex Tape
Post Date: 2010-02-05 12:46:16 by Badeye
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Judge Declares Former Edwards Aide in Contempt, Demands Sex Tape AP A judge has declared that a former aide to John Edwards is in contempt, demanding that he turn over a "personal" videotape being sought by Edwards' former mistress. print email share recommend (0) Rielle Hunter, with child, and former presidential candidate John Edwards. (AP photos) A judge declared Friday that a former aide to John Edwards was in contempt of court, demanding that he turn over a "personal" videotape being sought by Edwards' former mistress. Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones reprimanded Andrew Young in a court hearing Friday but declined to put him in custody. The ...
Military High Court Upholds Abu Ghraib Convictions
Post Date: 2010-02-05 12:05:14 by Brian S
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(02-05) 07:48 PST Hagerstown, Md. (AP) -- The U.S. military's highest court has upheld the convictions of two soldiers for abusing Abu Ghraib prison detainees in Iraq. In opinions released Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington affirmed the conviction of former Army Spc. Sabrina Harman, who helped place a hooded detainee atop a box with wires in his hands. He was told he would be electrocuted if he fell off. Harman, of Lorton, Va., also was photographed giving a smiling "thumbs-up" beside a pyramid of naked detainees. The court found no errors by the judge who presided over the court-martial of former Sgt. Michael Smith, an Army dog handler. ...
Obama Channels Reagan as Democrats Approach Election
Post Date: 2010-02-05 11:51:41 by Brian S
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Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s politics may be drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: Ronald Reagan. The late Republican president may become Democrat Obama’s most relevant role model as the U.S. economic and political climate mirrors Reagan’s first term, which began in 1981. While Republicans suffered losses in the congressional elections of 1982, the economy began to improve by 1983. That allowed Reagan to argue that things were moving in the right direction. By 1984, he won re-election on a “It’s Morning Again in America” theme. As January’s unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent a month earlier, ...
Jobs, Unemployment And “A Deficit Of Trust”
Post Date: 2010-02-05 10:54:59 by dont eat that
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Yesterday we were told the nation’s employers “unexpectedly” shed more jobs last month than forecast. Today we’re told that despite that, the unemployment rate “surprisingly” decreased to 9.7%. Unsurprisingly I don’t believe a word of it. Call me a cynic, call me a skeptic, but I just don’t believe much of anything coming out of the government these days (I know, let’s call it a “deficit of trust”). Don’t forget that 9.7% number comes on the heels of a report saying the government forgot to count over 800,000 lost jobs last year. When the government releases Friday’s unemployment report, nearly a million jobs could be ...
Friday Fun - Political Predictions 2010
Post Date: 2010-02-05 09:56:35 by war
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10 months out...let's have some fun with the upcoming cycle and make some predictions...my first prediction is that Scott Brown goes down to an UGLY sex scandal. My second one is that Palin blows up more candidates than she helps and, in an aside, a sex scandal blows up their marriage.
Sarah Palin's Got Ohio On Her Mind
Post Date: 2010-02-05 09:31:09 by Murron
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Sarah Palin's Got Ohio On Her Mind Reuters, David Catanese ESTPOLITICO (Washington) - Sarah Palin's political action committee has been selective and strategic in its donations to candidates over the past six months, but if money is any indication of where her heart lies, her political loyalties can be traced to Ohio. While SarahPAC has devoted just 5 percent of its total expenditures over that period to fellow GOP colleagues, four of the 17 candidates Palin contributed to hail from Ohio — the state where she held by far the most presidential campaign events in 2008, according to The Washington Post's candidate tracker. The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice ...
U.S. Unemployment Fell to 9.7% in January
Post Date: 2010-02-05 08:37:22 by war
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Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The unemployment rate in the U.S. unexpectedly declined in January to 9.7 percent, the lowest level since August, while payrolls dropped as companies boosted worker hours and overtime instead of taking on new hires. Payrolls fell 20,000 last month, reflecting a plunge in construction employment and a drop in state and local government hiring, figures from the Labor Department in Washington showed today. The factory workweek and overtime hours both increased. Companies like Cisco Systems Inc. plan to add staff as businesses update equipment and stimulus plans revive sales worldwide. The economy may be slow to overcome the 8.4 million jobs lost over the last two years, ...
Unemployment Report Set to Reflect the Bitter Face of a Jobless Recovery (The Obama Depression)
Post Date: 2010-02-04 18:51:30 by dont eat that
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The revision is reflective of the austerity of the jobless recovery that has plagued the average American while helping return many companies to profit. The U.S. unemployment rate peaked at 10.2% in October, but for months it has lingered in double-digits. And economists expect it to remain there for much of 2010. Adding to the somber tone permeating the labor market, the number of workers filing for first-time jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week. There were 480,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Jan. 30. That's the highest level since Dec. 12 and up 8,000 from an upwardly revised 472,000 the previous week. The four-week moving average of initial claims, which ...
Palin Camp Rips Limbaugh, Hits His “Retard” Comment As “Crude And Demeaning” [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-04 17:58:13 by go65
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Palin believes Limbaugh’s repeated use of the word “retard” yesterday was “crude and demeaning,” her spokesperson emails. In the wake of Palin’s demand that Rahm Emanuel be fired for saying the liberal activist strategy on health care was “f–king retarded,” a bunch of people have been asking how she’d react to Limbaugh’s tirade on the air yesterday. “Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards,” Rush said, adding that Rahm’s meeting yesterday with advocates for the mentally handicapped was a “retard summit at the White ...
NBC Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month With Fried Chicken/Collard Greens Special
Post Date: 2010-02-04 16:34:09 by dont eat that
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So who at NBC thought it would be a good idea for the special today to be, among other things, fried chicken, “in honor of Black History Month”? Because, spoiler alert – it wasn’t a good idea at all. And now NBCU employee Questlove is bringing it to the attention of his 1 million plus Twitter followers. Questlove, the band leader and drummer for The Roots (the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) tweeted this picture from the NBC Commissary at 30 Rock, with the comment: “Hmm HR?”
White City Worker Beat Down By Mob Of BlackTeens
Post Date: 2010-02-04 15:05:44 by dont eat that
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Dozens of teenagers saw it happen in broad daylight, but no one has come forward to identify the mob of young people who beat up a Vallejo city worker. Police have released surveillance video to generate tips.
The attack happened in front of two cameras on Feb. 1 at approximately 3:19 p.m.
Surveillance video from Britton’s Mini Mart near Vallejo High School shows the 46-year-old city of Vallejo worker in a back hoe being hit with rocks by some kids. He then drives back to the location at Nebraska and Broadway streets to confront the kids who begin attacking the man. The city worker gets knocked down and eventually a crowd of up to 40 people begin beating the man while he is on the ...
It Begins: Cash Strapped Cities Begin To Crumble
Post Date: 2010-02-04 14:44:49 by Badeye
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It Begins: Cash Strapped Cities Begin To Crumble John Carney | Feb. 4, 2010, 10:25 AM | 3,493 | 30 PrintTags: Financial Services, Debt Our nascent economic recovery may come too late to save many American cities from bankruptcy, which in turn will deal heavy losses to municipal bond investors and the companies that insure munis. The latest fright comes from Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The city is considering seeking bankruptcy protection—as well as tax hikes and asset sales—to address $68 million in debt service payments due this year. Harrisburg does not stand a chance at making its payments. The $68 million in debt service payments is four times what the city ...
Oaklawn announces $5 million Apple Blossom [Horse Race]
Post Date: 2010-02-04 14:34:59 by Fred Mertz
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Calling it "one of the most important moments at Oaklawn and in Arkansas sports," Oaklawn President Charles J. Cella announced Thursday that Oaklawn will increase the purse of the April 3 Apple Blossom H. (G1) to $5 million, provided Horse of the Year RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro) and dual champion ZENYATTA (Street Cry [Ire]) both start. At a morning press conference, Cella reported that he has spoken with the owners of both Rachel Alexandra (Jess Jackson) and Zenyatta (Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Moss). Both showed enthusiasm for bringing their champions to Oaklawn for the first Saturday of the famed Racing Festival of the South. Rachel Alexandra (three-year-old filly) and ...
Remember: President Bush defended America
Post Date: 2010-02-04 14:26:38 by dont eat that
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The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel Tuesday they are “certain” that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months. The warning came during the annual threat briefing to Congress in response to questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who asked, “What is the likelihood of another terrorist-attempted attack on the U.S. homeland in the next three to six months? High or low?” “An attempted attack, the priority is certain, I would say,” Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, a retired ...
Trace of Thought Is Found in ‘Vegetative’ Patient
Post Date: 2010-02-04 10:08:25 by war
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He emerged from the car accident alive but alone, there and not there: a young man whose eyes opened yet whose brain seemed shut down. For five years he lay mute and immobile beneath a diagnosis — “vegetative state” — that all but ruled out the possibility of thought, much less recovery. But in recent months at a clinic in Liège, Belgium, the patient, now 29, showed traces of brain activity in response to commands from doctors. Now, according to a new report, he has begun to communicate: in response to simple questions, like “Do you have any brothers?,” he showed distinct traces of activity on a brain imaging machine that represented either ...
Colin Powell Has Completely Devolved Into His Inherent Leftist Personna -- He Now Supports Faggots Getting It On In The Armed Forces
Post Date: 2010-02-04 09:09:16 by dont eat that
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Colin Powell, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 1990s led the opposition to letting gays serve openly in the military, said today he had changed his mind.
"In the almost 17 years since the 'don't ask, don't tell' legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed," the former secretary of state said in a statement. "I fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense (Robert) Gates and Admiral (Michael) Mullen."
Powell has been saying for two years that he thought the policy, which was devised as a compromise in 1993 after President Bill Clinton initially proposed lifting the military's ...
That Obama Punk Has Been Cooking the Books: U.S. May Lose 824,000 Jobs as Employment Data Revised
Post Date: 2010-02-03 13:18:06 by dont eat that
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The U.S. may lose 824,000 jobs when the government releases its annual revision to employment data on Feb. 5, showing the labor market was in worse shape during the recession than known at the time.
Stop Driving Recalled Toyotas, Says Agency Chief
Post Date: 2010-02-03 11:46:13 by Brian S
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Ray LaHood, the transportation secretary, said Wednesday morning during a House Appropriations panel hearing that owners of recalled Toyotas should stop driving them and take them to their dealers to be repaired. Mr. LaHood said his advice to owners of recalled Toyotas was to “stop driving it, take it to a Toyota dealer because they believe they have a fix for it.” “We need to fix the problem so people don’t have to worry about disengaging the engine or slamming the brakes on or put it in neutral," Mr. LaHood said in response to questions. His comments came shortly after Mr. LaHood told reporters that he planned to call the president of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, about ...
THE TEA PARTY PLEDGE
Post Date: 2010-02-03 11:32:08 by Murron
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Press Release Feb. 3, 2010 THE TEA PARTY PLEDGE The pledge reads as follows: The Tea Party Pledge We, the undersigned, pledge to vote only for sound candidates regardless of their party. We seek traditional candidates who favor an anti-globalist, America First platform. We shall only vote for a candidate who: (1) Supports reductions in legal immigration; favors attrition policies, ending birthright citizenship and terminating chain migration; and opposes amnesty and illegal immigration, especially from the Third World. (Both legal and illegal immigration are driving down American wages and undermining traditional demographics). (2) Supports America First economic policies, and ...
None of this is Bush’s fault [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-03 11:07:51 by dont eat that
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Let’s explode one of President Obama’s most egregious bits of nonsense concerning his profligate spending – the whole I-inherited-this-mess business. This is better known as the Blame Bush Defense. As Obama so helpfully explains, the day he walked into the Oval Office he was facing $1 trillion deficits as far as the eye could see, and there was nothing he could do about it. It was all George W. Bush’s fault. Balderdash. It is true that Bush did not restrain the out-of-control spending of the Republican Congress during his years in office, as he should have. And it’s true that the deficit when Obama took office exceeded $1 trillion. But that was true one time ...
Time to face failure of Head Start
Post Date: 2010-02-03 10:55:26 by dont eat that
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Among Washington's most sacred of cows is the Head Start program, which has enjoyed support from across the political spectrum since its inception in 1965. Today, even otherwise poles-apart politicians like George W. Bush and Barack Obama agree that spending billions of tax dollars on Head Start is a good thing. Bush and Obama also agree on something else about Head Start -- taxpayers need not be told that it is a colossal failure, a fact officials have known since at least 2006. Washington has spent hundreds of billions on Head Start as a Great Society program designed to ensure that at-risk kids from poor and minority communities start school on an equal footing with those from ...
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