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08-26-2010, 04:44 AM
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Bagels are a Jewish food. If they were a Muslim food you can bet they wouldn't tax them. |
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08-28-2010, 10:02 PM
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...on-healthcare-
Crist says he 'misspoke' on healthcare By Shane D'Aprile - 08/27/10 02:57 PM ET Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I) is walking back comments he made in an interview earlier today about the recently enacted healthcare law. Crist is mounting an independent bid for Senate against Republican Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek. Crist told a local TV station Friday that he would have voted in favor of President Obama's healthcare proposal were he in the Senate. That was a reversal of his previous position against the healthcare law. "I would have voted for it," Crist said in the interview. "But I think it can be done better, I really do." But now, Crist says he "misspoke" in that interview. His campaign sent out a statement Friday afternoon clarifying Crist's position on the healthcare law. "If I misspoke, I want to be abundantly clear: the health care bill was too big, too expensive, and expanded the role of government far too much," Crist said in a statement. "Had I been in the United States Senate at the time, I would have voted against the bill because of unacceptable provisions like the cuts to the Medicare Advantage program." |
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08-28-2010, 10:11 PM
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http://www.nature.com/news/2010/1008....2010.437.html
Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon. Anna Petherick The San Julián fish farm in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia lost 15 tonnes of pacú fish in the extreme cold. Never TejerinaWith high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere's recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country's tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins. Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history. "There's just a huge number of dead fish," says Michel Jégu, a researcher from the Institute for Developmental Research in Marseilles, France, who is currently working at the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. "In the rivers near Santa Cruz there's about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river." |
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08-28-2010, 10:17 PM
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ni...dinary-people/
The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: August 7th, 2010 What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity. It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. As The Telegraph reports, while the Obamas are covering their own vacation expenses such as accommodation, the trip may cost US taxpayers as much as $375,000 in terms of secret service security and flight costs on Air Force Two. The timing of this lavish European vacation could not have come at a worse moment, when unemployment in America stands at 10 percent, and large numbers of Americans are fighting to survive financially in the wake of the global economic downturn. It sends a message of indifference, even contempt, for the millions of Americans who are struggling just to feed their families on a daily basis and pay the mortgage, while the size of the national debt balloons to Greek-style proportions. Related link: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ni...s-in-meltdown/ |
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08-28-2010, 10:29 PM
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The weather extremes related to climate change manifest themselves in extreme heat, extreme cold and increasingly violent storms.
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08-28-2010, 10:32 PM
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As the Obama Regime's "Summer of Recovery" winds down we move into the "Autumn of Despair"
In the end, who is going to be left holding the bag for all these bad mortgages that should never have happened in the first place? The American Taxpayer, of course. Who else? Thank you Chris Dodd and Barney Frank (a.k.a. "Bonnie Fwank") http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/your_mone...e-10200826-apx One In 10 Faces Foreclosure Updated: Thursday, 26 Aug 2010, 10:55 PM EDT Published : Thursday, 26 Aug 2010, 10:31 AM EDT BY ALAN ZIBEL WASHINGTON - One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer as the government's efforts to help have had little impact stemming the housing crisis. About 9.9 percent of homeowners had missed at least one mortgage payment as of June 30, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday. That number, which is adjusted for seasonal factors, was down slightly from a record-high of more than 10 percent as of April 30. In a worrisome sign, the number of homeowners starting to have problems with their mortgages rose after trending downward last year. The number of homes in the foreclosure process fell slightly, the first drop in four years. More than 2.3 million homes have been repossessed by lenders since the recession began in December 2007, according to foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac Inc. Economists expect the number of foreclosures to grow well into next year. |
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08-28-2010, 10:49 PM
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How dare reporters interrupt Barry and Michelle Antoinette's vacation with trivial questions about Iraq? Come on, guys.
Hey, you guys know a good lobster place? Huh? What recession? How does Jake Tapper keep his job at uber-liberal ABC News??? http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...s-come-on.html Vacationing President to Press: "We're Buying Shrimp, Guys. Come On." August 25, 2010 3:05 PM President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their two daughters Sasha and Malia traveled to Nancy's Restaurant on the waterfront of the Oak Bluffs section of Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday afternoon. Crowds gathered to watch as the president, wearing his White Sox baseball cap, noted the abundance of Red Sox caps. He and the First Lady shook hands and posed for pictures with folks in the crowd. The president ordered from the take-out window of the snack bar section of the eatery. "I love your watch," one woman told the First Lady, referencing a purple watch on her left wrist. "Oh, thank you,” the First Lady said. “It was a gift.” She gestured towards her husband, who was shaking hands behind her. "I think somebody told him,” she said. "Where's my wife?" the president asked at one point. Crowds shouted for her attention. "How you guys doing?" she asked. "Drying off? Finally." As the president walked around the restaurant, some cordoned-off reporters shouted out to him questions, including one about the war in Iraq. Next Tuesday night, the president will deliver an Oval Office address at 8 pm ET, in which he will mark the occasion of the withdrawal of US combat troops from the country. But the president was in no mood today to discuss the issue with reporters in that setting. He ignored questions for a bit, then turned to the reporters. "We're buying shrimp, guys,” he said, smiling. “Come on." The president’s lunch companions included Dr. Eric and Cheryl Whittaker, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, George and Clarice Walker, George Walker IV, Cy Walker, Ann Walker Marchant, David Watkins and Elizabeth Alexander. - Jake Tapper |
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08-30-2010, 11:04 PM
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Of course, their goal is to have everyone on the public dole, then we're all dependent on Dear Leader for our needs and he can control our every waking moment.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...net30_ST_N.htm Record number in government anti-poverty programs Close to 10 million receive unemployment insurance, nearly four times the number from 2007. Benefits have been extended by Congress eight times beyond the basic 26-week program. By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY shows. That's up at least 17% since the recession began in December 2007. "Virtually every Medicaid director in the country would say that their current enrollment is the highest on record," says Vernon Smith of Health Management Associates, which surveys states for Kaiser Family Foundation. The program has grown even before the new health care law adds about 16 million people, beginning in 2014. That has strained doctors. "Private physicians are already indicating that they're at their limit," says Dan Hawkins of the National Association of Community Health Centers. More than 40 million people get food stamps, an increase of nearly 50% during the economic downturn, according to government data through May. The program has grown steadily for three years. |
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08-30-2010, 11:13 PM
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This is the Left's (and Richard Tafoya's) favorite site.
Before Glenn Beck joined the LDS (Mormon) Church he did just about everything you can imagine. He's a recovering alcoholic/drug addict who credits his faith for his new lease on life. If the Lefties wanna find dirt on him it won't be hard to find. But he has been clean as a whistle since his conversion. Wonder if the tolerant Lefties would offer $100,000 for a "sex tape" of that Imam in New York? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2579985/posts Editor's Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn't meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site. |
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08-30-2010, 11:16 PM
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...hatsNewsSecond
Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals By SUZANNE SATALINE Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort. A patient and care giver at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, where the government is considering a partnership with the for-profit LHP Hospital Group of Texas. .Officials in Lauderdale County, Ala., this spring opted to transfer their 91-year-old Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital and other properties to a for-profit company after struggling to satisfy an angry bond insurer. "We were next to knocking on bankruptcy's door,'' said Rhea Fulmer, a Lauderdale County commissioner who approved the deal with RegionalCare Hospital Partners, of Brentwood, Tenn, but with trepidation. She said the county had no guarantee the company would improve care in the decades to come. "Time will tell.'' Clinton County, Ohio, in May sold its hospital to the same company. Officials in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, are weighing a joint venture with a for-profit company, similar to one the same company made with Bannock County, Idaho. And Prince George's County, Md., is seeking a buyer for its medical complex. |
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08-30-2010, 11:20 PM
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Of course, their goal is to have everyone on the public dole, then we're all dependent on Dear Leader for our needs and he can control our every waking moment. |
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08-30-2010, 11:23 PM
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That's an interesting socioeconomic and political statement, Regis. Do you have anything to back it up? Anything at all? |
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08-30-2010, 11:24 PM
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Looks like they were testing the system to see what they could bring on board...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08...ago-amsterdam/ Two Detroit Men Arrested on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam Published August 30, 2010 | FoxNews.com Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, though it wasn't immediately clear what the men are suspected of doing. FBI agents in Chicago are assisting Dutch investigators as needed, an FBI spokesman told Fox News. Several non-functioning cell phones were found taped together in a piece of checked baggage of one of the men, the FBI said, though there was no immediate word on whether the men were carrying anything illegal. "It's still a fluid situation right now," the spokesman told Fox News. ABC News, which first reported the arrests, quoted an unnamed U.S. official saying that the pair were charged by the Dutch with "preparation of a terrorist attack." One of the men initially drew suspicion when boarding a flight from Birmingham, Ala., to Chicago, but authorities allowed him to board, ABC News reports. Sources told Fox News that the men posed no immediate danger to the flight, but U.S. officials are looking into whether the men were "testing the system." |
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08-30-2010, 11:31 PM
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*Waits for Richard Tafoya to change headline to say this volcano is funded by BP, Big Oil, Big Coal, The GOP, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity*
Indonesian Volcano Erupts Again, Spews Hot Ash http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...est=latestnews |
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08-31-2010, 12:30 AM
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Oh, no. I sure hope this isn't the beginning of the end of Communism in Utopia...er...Cuba. If that happens then Danny Glover/Harry Belafonte/Brad Pitt/Sean Penn/Kevin Spacy/Steven Spielberg/Chevy Chase/Kevin Costner/Naomi Campbell...and so on...will only have Venezuela to look up to. *sigh*
Cuba embraces 2 surprising free-market reforms http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...tnRpQD9HS3KT80 |
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08-31-2010, 12:42 AM
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If the GOP succeeds in taking back the Congress we will be watching to make sure they don't go back into RINO mode and start acting like Democrats. If they do, they'll be gone in 2012 too.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/142718/GO...ic-Ballot.aspx GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot Republicans also maintain wide gap in enthusiasm about voting by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress. These results are based on aggregated data from registered voters surveyed Aug. 23-29 as part of Gallup Daily tracking. This marks the fifth week in a row in which Republicans have held an advantage over Democrats -- one that has ranged between 3 and 10 points. The Republican leads of 6, 7, and 10 points this month are all higher than any previous midterm Republican advantage in Gallup's history of tracking the generic ballot, which dates to 1942. Prior to this year, the highest such gap was five points, measured in June 2002 and July 1994. Elections in both of these years resulted in significant Republican gains in House seats. |
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08-31-2010, 09:35 PM
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...a-full-salute/
Troops yet to give Obama full salute By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times Updated: 12:24 p.m. on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 As he winds down one war and escalates another, President Obama is struggling to win over the troops he's leading as commander in chief -- and military advocates say the real test will come as the nation approaches final timelines for withdrawal in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Obama has earned strong reviews from veterans groups, which praise his willingness to listen and his aggressive funding of the Veterans Affairs Department. His progress among members of the military, however, has been slower. A Military Times poll this year of its subscribers -- which include active-duty, reserves and guard troops, and some retirees and family members -- found that a majority disapproved of his leadership as their commander. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama will meet with some of those troops when he travels to the Army's Fort Bliss in Texas, hours before he delivers a prime-time speech from the Oval Office to mark the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraq - the conflict that defined the presidency of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Mr. Obama has largely escaped the criticisms of President Bush about underfunding troops and acting outside the chain of command, but detractors say he should approach timetables in both wars with more flexibility to account for conditions on the ground. |
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08-31-2010, 09:40 PM
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Poster's note: Senator John Forbes Kerry served in the Vietnam War.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/1...tered-in-2009- Wealthy lawmakers increased their riches as economy sputtered in '09 By Kevin Bogardus and Barbra Kim - 08/31/10 06:00 AM ET The wealthiest members of Congress grew richer in 2009 even as the economy struggled to recover from a deep recession. The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth almost $1.4 billion in 2009, about $85.1 million more than 12 months earlier, according to The Hill’s annual review of lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) tops the list for the second year in a row. His minimum net worth was $188.6 million at the end of 2009, up by more than $20 million from 2008, according to his financial disclosure form. While the economy struggled through a recession during much of 2009 and the nation’s unemployment rate soared to 10 percent, the stock market rebounded, helping lawmakers with large investments. The S&P 500 rose by about 28 percent in 2009. Total assets for the 50 wealthiest lawmakers in 2009 was $1.5 billion — that’s actually a nearly $36 million drop from a year ago. But lawmakers reduced their liabilities by even more, cutting debts by $120 million last year. There are various reasons why asset values dropped. Some lawmakers saw their real estate holdings fall as the housing crisis intensified. A handful of lawmakers also had other investments or businesses that turned sour. |
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