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[Susan43]

As 111th Senate Is Set to Begin, Four Seats Still Up in Air

As the gavel quietly fell yesterday on the final session of the 110th Senate, officials in several states sought to cut through the confusion surrounding a quartet of chamber seats whose future occupants remain undetermined amid succession fights and election recount disputes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202278.html

Well, dang!

[snookums1]

"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,"

http://us.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/obama.business/index.html

[daniel green]

It was the Instant the Earth Stood Still. Not since Klaatu landed in a flying saucer on the Ellipse has Washington been so mesmerized by an object whirring through the sky. But this one was departing, not arriving. As W. ceased to be president, he flew off over the Capitol and across the Mall en route to Andrews Air Force Base, and then back to Texas. I’ve seen many presidents come and go, but I’ve never watched a tableau like the one Tuesday, when four million eyes turned heavenward, following the helicopter’s path out of town. Everyone, it seemed, was waving goodbye, with one or two hands, a wave that moved westward down the Mall toward the Lincoln Memorial, and keeping their eyes fixed unwaveringly on that green bird.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/opinion/21dowd.html?em

[Lady_Jean_La]

Visitors Crash J. Crew’s Web Site

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/seeking-obama-fashions-visitors-crash-j-crews-web-site/?pagemode=print

People want first family fashions.

[Teeka]

VIENNA, Austria - It was just a scribble in the snow.

But the giant "YES, WE CAN!" that Norbert Aschenbrenner carved in huge block letters at the U.N. complex in Vienna on Tuesday was a poignant expression of how many people in the international community are embracing Barack Obama.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28754111/?GT1=43001


This is a phenomenon! The world is just as elated as we are.

[daniel green]

The new White House website unveiled by President Barack Obama’s team Tuesday includes a shot at former President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Under the “agenda” portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17700.html

[Susan43]

I thought that so many interesting things are happening that aren't important enough to have a thread could be posted here. I've already run across a couple I'd like to share.

A major Bush rule gets scrapped by Obama

(CNN) — It's the same Oval Office. The same desk. Even the same curtains. But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won't find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/21/a-major-bush-rule-gets-scrapped-by-obama/

Obama Will Get His Blackberry

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/obama_will_get_his_blackberry.php

Small things but interesting.

[Susan43]

Change In the Air(waves)

In one of many signs of “change” in the air, President Obama has officially tweaked the name of a White House institution, the Weekly Radio Address, which has been heard on stations across the nation each Saturday for years. Now it’s officially known as“President Barack Obama’s Weekly Video Address,” according to whitehouse.gov.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/21/change-in-the-airwaves/

Very cool! :thumbup: Very 21st Century!

[Susan43]

President Obama’s First Day

President Obama reported to work at 8:35 a.m. on Wednesday, walking into the Oval Office for the first time as the nation’s chief executive. Jeff Zeleny is following Mr. Obama’s first day on the job.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/reporting-for-duty/

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=68716&rnews_story_type=18

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/

White House blog, appointments, info, executive orders and more.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/896x504/44bo_header2.jpg

[Susan43]

This is terrific isn't it? And Obama is going to post a Sat video every week which I think is terrific.

Change In the Air(waves)

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/21/change-in-the-airwaves/'

20th Century president.

[Susan43]

Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I'm Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of the people who will be contributing to the blog.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/

[CaféAuLait's]

Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/

I hope they do remain transparent and will be quick to act on the economy.

[emdragon]

Version 44.0
President

* Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied.
* A bug has been fixed that allowed the President to ignore the effects of debuffs applied by the Legislative classes.
* Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug that allowed loot to be transferred from the treasury to anyone on the President's friends list, or in the President's party. We are investigating.
* Messages to and from the President will now be correctly saved to the chat log.
* Messages originating from the President were being misclassified as originating from The American People.
* A rendering error that frequently caused the President to appear wrapped in the American Flag texture has been addressed.

Vice President

* The Vice President has been correctly reclassified as a pet.
* No longer immune to damage from the Legislative and Judicial classes.
* The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.
* Reveal Identity: this debuff will no longer be able to target Covert Operatives.
* Messages to and from the Vice President will now be correctly saved to the chat log.
* A rendering bug was affecting the Vice President's visibility, making him virtually invisible to the rest of the server. This has been addressed.

Cabinet

* There was a bug in the last release that prevented the Cabinet from disagreeing with the President, which was the cause of a number of serious balance issues. This bug has been addressed, and we will continue to monitor the situation.

Judiciary

* Many concerns have been raised regarding balance issues in the Supreme Court. This system is maintained on a different patch schedule, and will require longer to address.
* A large number of NPCs in the Judiciary were incorrectly flagged "ideological." We are trying to identify these cases and rectify this situation.

Homeland Security

* Homeland Security Advisory System: We have identified a bug in this system that prevents the threat level from dropping below Elevated (Yellow). The code for Guarded (Blue) and Low (Green) has been commented out. We are testing the fix and hope to have it in by the next patch.
* Torture: This debuff is being removed after a record number of complaints.
* Item: Large Bottle of Water is incorrectly generating threat with TSA Agents when held in inventory. We are looking into the issue.
* Asking questions about Homeland Security was incorrectly triggering the Chain-Jingoism debuff.

Economy

* Serious on-going issues with server economy are still being addressed. We expect further roll-backs, and appreciate your help identifying and fixing bugs. We can't make these fixes without your help.

PVP

* Reputation with various factions are being rebalanced. The gradated reputation scale was erroneously being overwritten by the binary For Us/ Against Us flag.

Quests

* The" Desert Storm" quest chain was displaying an erroneous "Mission Accomplished" message near the beginning of the chain.
* The quest chain that begins with "There's no Cake like Yellow Cake" and terminates with "W-M-Denied" has been identified as uncompletable, and has been removed.

Reagents

* Many recipes that currently call for Crude Oil can now be made with Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Ethanol reagents. We hope to roll out even more sweeping changes in the next patch.

Events

* The "Axis of Evil" event is drawing to a close. Look forward to the "Rebuilding Bridges" event starting in January.

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(enjoy- all in good fun)


ETA; http://www.chromecow.com/2009/01/20/...ver-patch-day/

[Caje]

“...The Tribune reported in October that political connections helped Blagojevich land the job at the agency after she all but abandoned her real estate business amid questions about her commissions from state contractors and political supporters of her husband, Gov. Rod Blagojevich. She was making about $100,000 a year as fundraiser for the league, which has been struggling financially for years...”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-patti-blagojevich-fired-22-jan22,0,5077545.story

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/60475.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/349/story/60544.html

Mission accomplished

[snookums1]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09022/943746-100.stm

WOW. That opens the door for all the other death by electrocution victims. It is about time someone is held responsible.

[snookums1]

United States Army investigation has accused former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, along with contractors the company used and two of the firm's supervisors, of 'negligent homicide' in the electrocution of a soldier, according to a published report.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Army_accuses_KBR_contractors_of_negligent_0122.htm l

[TellitTrue]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/012209.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090123/od_afp/uspoliticsobamatoysoffbeat_20090123005942

"Marvelous Malia" and "Sweet Sasha."

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090121/pl_politico/28491_1

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/01/22/famed_quartet_played_inauguration_to_taped_music

[MercedesV]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_us/marines_iraq

AP article

Feels it isn't the best use of his men, and wants them in Afghanistan.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid71617.asp

Commercial was too controversial to run during inauguration. Some stations would not run ads that put President Obama in a defending position.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5576567.ece

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090124/wl_afp/uspoliticshealthabortionvatican_20090124181324

[snookums1]

http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=9736523&nav=menu505_2

It is going to take sending some executives of KBR to jail to make them wise up. It isn't as if they have not been told to straighten their acts out.

[Carol25]

President Obama is right on. He sees Congress as boorish and fighting over the petty things. Everything is a win for our team or a win for their team instead of a win for the country.

Although this article talks much about Pelosi, which is a good start on beginning of civility, it has to go through both the Senate and the House to each member. Listening and respecting all.

Let's stop blaming, living in the past and being petty. Let's look forward to the future..together.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aaX0MEqeCGjA

[snookums1]

KBR must be accountable for Iraq deaths: senators say

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090127/pl_nm/us_iraq_kbr_1

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703130.html?wprss=rss_politics%2Fadminist ration

[daniel green]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/colemans-supposedly-friendly-witnesses-backfire.php

[SwineFeld]

Any thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgzWt6p_4eQ

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/29/on_affirmative_action_obama_intriguing_but_vague/

[Hey Paula]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/18/lkl.01.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://morningjournal.com/articles/2009/01/28/news/doc4980836e7f75f059924586.txt

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?P20001939

Candidates for 2012

[Susan43]

Here is HR 1

The stimulus bill.

http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_bonuses

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://cbs5.com/local/prop.8.donors.2.921636.html

Let the sun shine in.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2009/01/28/sarah-palin-and-free-market-feminism.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jan/28/palin-alfalfa-club-dinner-offers-audience-obama/

Big names to attend dinner Saturday.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_china_strains_analysis_5

China holds most IOUs

[MercedesV]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

AP article

I hope they can have safe elections, but having to go to these extremes doesn't strike me as a working democracy. Or point to the huge surge success that keeps getting touted.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/

First Lady Michelle Obama Getting Used to a New City

[watcher2005]

Defense Department Establishes Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2009

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52840

[Hey Paula]

EXCERPT:

Every president has the right to portray himself as ushering in a new era of this or that. Obama wants to pursue new ties with Muslim nations, drawing on his own identity and associations. Good. But when his self-inflation as redeemer of U.S.-Muslim relations leads him to suggest that pre-Obama America was disrespectful or insensitive or uncaring of Muslims, he is engaging not just in fiction but in gratuitous disparagement of the country he is now privileged to lead.

http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/01/30/obama_just_flatters_himself?page=1

[Hey Paula]

Fox News just announced that CAIR, while bashing President Bush, wants to work with Obama. His inappropriate statements, as outlined in Charles Krauth ammer's article, are already causing problems.

CAIR supports terrorists:

http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/223

[Hey Paula]

EXCERPT:

RAMADHAN POHAN (RP): After the terrorist attack on the 11th of September 2001 (9/11), attention towards Islam and criticism of the Muslim community increased. We know that the perpetrators of 9/11 were all from Arab countries. All of them were Muslim. As a consequence Americans have focused their attention on the Muslim community.



http://islamlib.com/en/article/9-11-tragedy-as-a-blessing-in-disguise/

[Hey Paula]

Take a look at this: FBI Cuts Ties With CAIR Following Terror Financing Trial

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/30/fbi-cut-ties-cair-following-terror-financing-trial/

:ohmy: CAIR told FOXNews.com that it was hoping for improved ties with the new president. "We look forward to better relations with the Obama administration," the organization's D.C. office said in its statement.

[MiamiNice1]

Irritated Obama 'Stares Down' Reporter During Press Corps Visit

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/22/obama-suprises-white-house-press-corps-visit-briefing-room/


imo

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/61201.html

Power people meet.

[daniel green]

Vice President Biden is scheduled to speak at next week’s House Democratic retreat in Williamsburg, Va., according to Democratic officials.The announcement has not been made official, but members of the Democratic Caucus have been told to expect to hear from Biden, as well as from President Obama and a host of other party leaders.
Biden’s addition to the lineup of speakers will help Democrats fulfill their goal of focusing their retreat almost exclusively on economic issues, officials said.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/biden-to-speak-on-economy-at-dem-retreat-2009-01-31.html

[TellitTrue]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2

[snookums1]

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/01/military_obama_enlistedleaders_013009w/

That is the only way to gain knowledge of the average soldier's needs and concerns.

[starling]

Senator Thomas Gaffey's son found dead
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ny-bc-ct--senator-sonsdeat0203feb03,0,6657282.story
Connecticut state Sen. Thomas Gaffey's 16-year-old son was found dead at his home, and the medical examiner has ruled he committed suicide.

[snookums1]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/

[snookums1]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020604151.html?hpid=topnews

A US Attorney's office "erroneously" sent a confidential court document to The Washington Post after the Post requested a different file, exposing that the newly-elected chairman of the Republican National Committee had his 2006 Senate campaign pay his sister's defunct company for services that were potentially never performed -- including $37,000 for "catering/web services" paid to her company 11 months after she filed to have it dissolved.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/RNC_chairman_under_paid_sister_for_0207.html

[daniel green]

President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues. The result will be a "dramatically different" NSC from that of the Bush administration or any of its predecessors since the forum was established after World War II to advise the president on diplomatic and military matters, according to national security adviser James L. Jones, who described the changes in an interview. "The world that we live in has changed so dramatically in this decade that organizations that were created to meet a certain set of criteria no longer are terribly useful," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR2009020702076.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090208/us_nm/us_obama_michelle_mothers_1

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/?zsacategory=Politics&p=1&ac=1&cmp=32&wpsrc=AG0000486&KEYWORD=congress%20approval&cre=1803347736&st=s&s_kwcid=congress%20approval|1803347736

See how congress voted since 1991.

Search for your representative.

[eyebright]

The Stimulus health care:

http://www.theamericansentinel.com/jay-henderson/2009/2/10/the-big-brother-spendulus-package-kiss-your-health-care-good.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

[Lady_Jean_La]

Homeless woman's plea to Obama draws flood of support

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/henrietta.hughes/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[DenverDem]

Transcontinental Railroad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_the_United_States


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railway_Act

Land Grant Colleges Inexpensive college for the working class. Horrors!

Universal freedoms and voting and other rights for all races of people, (except women).

Freedmen's Bill, giving land and schooling to ex slaves?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Significance_of_Freedmen's_Bureau_bill

Was he a socialist?

Was Eisenhower a socialist for investing in the interstate highway system?

http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/publish/article_113.shtml

How does this compare to the Stimulus bill of 2009? Will we look back on this in 65 ot 150 years as the way Obama transformed America?

[daniel green]

The Obama administration has begun the process of reviewing files of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to determine who can be prosecuted and who can be transferred to other countries, officials said Friday, a crucial first step toward closing the prison. The review, begun this week, is also key to a decision on whether the administration can turn the page completely on the Bush administration's detention policies.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo14-2009feb14,0,1394765.story

[DenverDem]

Photo essay from the White House: Story in photos of Obama working the Stimulus bill through to completion.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photogallery/The-story-of-the-economic-recovery-package/

[barskin&co.]

Ellen DeGeneris calls Obama for President's Day. :laugh:

http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2009/02/ellen_calls_the_white_house.php

[snookums1]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/19/world/main4812790.shtml?tag=topStory

Iran, on the other hand, has backed off enriching uranium.

[Style_9346]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/President44/story?id=6916695&page=1

ITA ! Doom and Gloom is killing the Dow :thumbdown:

[AlohaRainbow]

an interesting history of changes to personal exemptions and individual income tax rates from 1913 through 2002.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02inpetr.pdf

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.ktva.com/iteam/ci_11437597

Web rumors debunked. Picture was not altered.

[watcher2005]

"Obama administration backs Bush..."

(c) RAW STORY
Published: Sunday February 22, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/ah7rp6


More change.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/02/does_the_economy_have_a_prayer.html

[daniel green]

A month into her husband’s presidency, Michelle Obama is viewed more positively than were other first ladies in the past 28 years at similar stages, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. 49 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Mrs. Obama, 5 percent view her unfavorably and 44 percent do not yet have an opinion. In a February 1993 Times/CBS poll, 44 percent expressed a favorable view of the first lady at the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton, while 16 percent viewed her unfavorably. And early into Ronald Reagan’s first term in office, 28 percent rated Nancy Reagan positively and 10 percent negatively, with the rest offering no opinion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24michelle.html?ref=us

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-michelle_24feb24,0,3965775.story

Michelle Obama is walking the tight rope in a perfect balance!

[Charms]

MICHELLE OBAMA 49 percent like her.Last updated: 10:22 am
February 24, 2009
Posted: 2:22 am
February 24, 2009

First Lady Michelle Obama is keeping pace with her hugely popular husband, earning positive ratings among more voters than previous first ladies have had at this stage in their husbands' terms.

Mrs. Obama gets favorable marks from 49 percent of voters in a CBS-New York Times poll out yesterday, with just 5 percent seeing her unfavorably.

httP://www.nypost.com/seven/02242006/news/politics/michelles_first_lady_od_us_poll_156658.htm

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=6950691&page=1

[ortiga]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/cpac-agenda-joe-the-plumb_n_170017.html

The whole CPAC gig sounds like a carnival side show to me, but what the hey.....

The don't mention the rappers or hip hoppers they were going to try to attract to the republican party, IIRC.

IMO

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500588,00.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/desidero/2009/02/rethinking-palin.php

[Wukong]

This video of Peter Schiff in different interviews about the economy from 2006-2008 is right on...he got every detail exactly right. This guy was warning everyone that the current economic problems would occur. In these clips he's on talking head shows and all the pompous financial geniuses were laughing at him...I don't think they're laughing any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw&feature=channel_page

[snookums1]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id=6977202&page=1

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090228/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/sebelius_hhs

[daniel green]

Travis McClure lives in a mobile home with no running water. His family – five adults and a child – uses a nearby portable toilet donated by a Rock Hill business. They carry water in large jugs from a nearby community center and heat it on their stove to wash. “When I was little this was known as Trashpile Road, and I'd be embarrassed to bring my friends down here,” said McClure, 20. “They'd be like, ‘How can you live in a place like this?' It was like we weren't even citizens of the same country.” The Blackmon Road community just south of Rock Hill has been home to poor people, mostly African Americans, since the 1940s...South Carolina still identifies Blackmon as one of the state's most “environmentally distressed” communities for water and sewer service. At least 10 homes have no indoor plumbing. Poverty is so extreme that local officials point to the community's current unemployment rate of 50 percent as an improvement – down from 75 percent in 2007. The majority of the 56 residents are elderly, or children. Average annual household income is about $7,000, more than $35,000 below the state average. As dire as life is, McClure and others believe his community is on the verge of a turnaround. He cites the community center – a double-wide trailer recently brought in by volunteers – and efforts of churches, other groups, and many of the residents themselves to haul off trash and shore up sagging houses. “I know people have been talking about improvements for a long time, but it's getting better… I know this might look bad to somebody who has never been down here before. But you gotta remember this is where we live,” McClure said. “If we could just get water and sewer, it wouldn't be perfect, but we'd be all right.”

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/569021.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/569021.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008803160_apkirktaxes.html?syndication=rss

$10,000...

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2009/03/03/brown-flies-in-for-talks-with-obama-84229-23048691/

The talks are expected to be dominated by the economic crisis.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_russia_15

Russia was hopeful Obama's administration's is ready to discuss Moscow's complaints.

[TellitTrue]

http://buzzflash.com/articles/node/7863

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xURfkSvTo&eurl=http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&q=proposition+8&feature=player_embedded

[watcher2005]

Treaties...


©2009 Crooks And Liars

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/secret-treaty-download-music-go-jail


"Renegotiating NAFTA on hold, Obama says"
Michael D. Shear, Washington Post

Friday, February 20, 2009

© 2009 Hearst Communications Inc.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/MNN516157K.DTL&type=politics

Spy Blimps over America

"Pentagon plans blimp to spy from new heights"
By Julian E. Barnes
March 13, 2009

Copyright 2009 Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-spyblimp13-2009mar13,0,4608400.story

"Terrorist" watch list still growing

"Terrorist watch list hits 1 million,"
By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
Copyright 2009 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-03-10-watchlist_N.htm

More ...

"Obama Justice Dept. defends Rumsfeld in torture case," Rachel Oswald
Copyright Rawstory Friday March 13, 2009

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_Justice_Dep._defends_Rumsfeld_in_0313.html

Wiretappings defense...

"Obama defends Bush-era secrets"
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 2/22/09 7:34 AM EST

© 2009 Capitol News Company LLC

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19114.html

"Obama sides with Bush on “extraordinary rendition”"
Collin Czarnecki
(c) 2009 College News

http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/article/obama_sides_with_bush_on_extraordinary_rendition_3 9428181/

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/sports-illustrateds-big-p_b_174986.html

The First Dude

[watcher2005]

5 days..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8GdxFYBU

"Huge bills often little read before quick votes"
Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:17 AM
By Jonathan Riskind and Jim Siegel

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

©2009, The Columbus Dispatch

http://dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2009/03/15/DIDNT_READ.ART_ART_03-15-09_A11_EID83KN.html?sid=101

"Democratic Senator Predicts None of His Colleagues 'Will Have the Chance' to Read Final Stimulus Bill Before Vote"
Friday, February 13, 2009
By Ryan Byrnes and Edwin Mora

copyright 1998-2009 Cybercast News Service

http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43478

[watcher2005]

"Senators slam plan for wounded vets to use private insurance,"

By Adam Levine
CNN

© 2009 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/veterans.health.insurance/



Come on, people! Remember this?


"Bush to Veterans: Pay More, Wait Longer, Receive Less Health Care,"


March 1, 2004

http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-new.cfm?doc_name=sr-108-2-56


"Bush Budget Raises Drug Prices for Many Veterans"
By ROBERT PEAR and CARL HULSE

Published: February 7, 2005

Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/politics/07budget.html

[Susan43]

Shinseki emphasized that this is only "a consideration" and not yet part of Obama's budget request. But members of the veterans' committees wanted Shinseki to know they won't support the proposal.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090315/NEWS02/903150306/1009

Obama’s proposed 2010 budget for the VA calls for a total budget of $113 billion, a $15 billion increase above 2009 levels. The request includes $52.5 billion in discretionary funding – an increase of $4.9 billion from 2009, or 10.3 percent. The bulk of discretionary spending goes to VA medical care.

http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/753-house-panel-seeks-additional-800-million-to-pay-for-veterans-health-care.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090316/pl_politico/20063_2

Sarah Palin has star power.

[watcher2005]

"The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment"

Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090316/pl_usnw/the_american_legion_strongly_opposed_to_president_ s_plan_to_charge_wounded_heroes_for_treatment

[interested]

Ya think she'll show up?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/02/montana-governo.html

Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer ribbed Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin Friday for announcing at the last minute that she will not be attending a Sunday discussion of energy policy that the two governors were scheduled to lead at this weekend's meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Washington.

(skip)

Palin and Schweitzer, a rancher-turned-politician, are the chairwoman and vice chairman, respectively, of the NGA's Natural Resources Committee.

[MercedesV]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Congressional Republican leaders made headlines on Monday when they announced that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be the keynote speaker at a major fundraising dinner in June. But it appears the former vice presidential nominee's political staff never told her.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/17/gop-announcement-of-palin-showing-proves-premature/#more-44144

One hand doesn't seem to know what the other is doing.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=aUoRTqRtwOPE

Governor Sarah Palin isn’t running for president, but if God should open the door to the White House, she will prayerfully enter.

JMO

[Lady_Jean_La]

Pro-Life Org Receives Donations in Name of Planned Parenthood (PP) President, following PP Sarah Palin Campaign

http://www.earnedmedia.org/lsn0317.htm

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S835882.shtml

150,000 requests waiting

[Not Telling]

NEW YORK - About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush’s speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20980625/


Bush Protesters Arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ef_1183415431


TAMPA -- Seven protesters were arrested Saturday outside the USF Sun Dome, where President Bush was speaking at a political rally for his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush .
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/11/03/TampaBay/7_protesters_arrested.shtml



Antiwar Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302185.html




On July 4th, 2004, Jeffery and Nicole Rank attended an public Independence Day event in Charleston, WV where President Bush was to speak. Despite the fact that the event was open to the public and was held on public land, the Ranks were arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts. On Monday's "Hardball" the couple told their astonishing story of being arrested, the charges that were filed against them and eventually dropped and why they decided to sue the United States government -- a suit they thankfully won.

http://crooksandliars.com/2007/08/21/wrongly-arrested-bush-protesters-talk-about-their-80k-government-settlement-on-hardball




WASHINGTON — A federal court ruled yesterday that the District of Columbia had unlawfully arrested about 70 people during an anti-war and anti-Bush protest march on Inauguration Day 2005. The arrestees are now entitled to a trial to determine the amount of the District's monetary liability to them.

http://www.privacydigest.com/2008/06/22/federal+court+rules+d+c+police+unlawfully+arrested +anti+bush+protesters+inauguration+day


At least six people were arrested Downtown last night as a diverse group of about 200 demonstrators protested the Bush administration's policies on domestic issues and the war in Iraq.
http://www.organizepittsburgh.org/node/189


Quarantining dissent
How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech

When President Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up "free speech zones" or "protest zones," where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event.

When Bush went to the Pittsburgh area on Labor Day 2002, 65-year-old retired steel worker Bill Neel was there to greet him with a sign proclaiming, "The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us." The local police, at the Secret Service's behest, set up a "designated free-speech zone" on a baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bush's speech. The police cleared the path of the motorcade of all critical signs, but folks with pro-Bush signs were permitted to line the president's path. Neel refused to go to the designated area and was arrested for disorderly conduct; the police also confiscated his sign.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTL&type=printable

[Susan43]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/SOU2007.jpg

President George W Bush's phonetic teleprompter revealed
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22484604-5012895,00.html

This might be part of the same meme that said that Bush demanded that everyone wear jackets in the Oval office.

[MercedesV]

In recent weeks, my friends across the aisle have expended a lot of breath proclaiming that the Democrats caused the present financial crisis by failing to pass legislation to regulate financial services companies in the years 1995 through 2006.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/is_there_an_antidote_to_the_re.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aEDT55KQ.95E&refer=europe

[Len]

From Portia De Rossi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMLV3jPQW44&eurl=


One can only wonder when some will realize that all humans are equal and deserve the same rights. It is very unfortunate that some dont get something so simple.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oZ_pe1MZ8

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3huRVrckY8

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfIKdRmWkBI&feature=related

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0duYuRmC1RI

[Len]

Here is more on that

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/19/inside-ellen-degeneres-an_n_119786.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/21/portia-de-rossi-apologize_n_177664.html

[daniel green]

Yet, as difficult as the likely outcome of the case will be for those of us who support gay marriage, the court's rationale will almost certainly strengthen a fundamental tenet of the progressive movement: the right of ordinary citizens to maintain authority over their state constitutions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032002773.html

[Susan43]

I bookmarked this cartoon 5 years ago, and it's still appropriate (and funny)

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/agenda.html

[Susan43]

I just went and checked out Fiore's website to see if there was anything new...and there was.

http://www.markfiore.com/quasimarriage_0

:biggrin:

[Casspian]

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/20/18579673.php

It is widely held that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints delayed disclosure or vastly under-reported other nonmonetary contributions to the campaign.

As many as 1,025 individuals and businesses in Utah donated $3.8 million to Proposition 8 efforts. Meanwhile only 2 per cent of the California population is of the Mormon faith.

Like I said before, too bad they didn't feed some starving children with that money. I guess they had more important ways to spend their time and money (and hid it too). :sneaky:

http://www.mormongate.com/

The Mormon Church appears to have created the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in the summer of 2007 to qualify California’s Proposition 8 for the November 2008 ballot. They set it up as a Mormon front group, exactly as they did with a very similar organization called Hawaii’s Future Today (HFT) in that state in 1995. HFT was established to pass a constitutional amendment in Hawaii to ban same-sex marriage. Sound familiar? They have now expanded NOM into seven more states, specifically to fight same-sex marriage in those states.

[Casspian]

Good arguments... and, I think this pic expresses another good one

http://atoday.com/files/uploads/marriage-equality_0.jpg

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/94586/Money_Sarah_Palin_doesnt_want

[charlie.chip]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20339.html

President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, which could touch off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”

His remarks came in a“60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asked at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft said.



Nice.

[Susan43]

JPMorgan Chase To Spend Millions on New Jets and Luxury Airport Hanger.

Embattled bank JPMorgan Chase, the recipient of $25 billion in TARP funds, is going ahead with a $138 million plan to buy two new luxury corporate jets and build "the premiere corporate aircraft hangar on the eastern seaboard" to house them, ABC News has learned....

http://www.americablog.com/2009/03/tarp-recipient-jpmorgan-chase-to-spend.html

What is wrong with these people? :flamemad:

And the CEO's compensation package in 2008 was $19M. Poor guy, must be a victim of class warfare.

[rubberneckin]

Actually, it wasn't until I turned off MSNBC and went to the computer for my information, that I began to see what was going on. This info I find disturbing.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/doj_supports_riaa/

In this case the Obama Administration has decided that Constitutional rights should be disregarded when it comes to copyright laws. The argument isn’t about whether copyright laws are wrong, it’s about the unconstitutional, heavy-handed damages allowed by the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copy Right Improvement Act of 1999.

This Act allows the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), a private entity, to inflict ruinous damages of up to $150,000 for each “willful” violation of copyright law. Considering that a download from iTunes costs about .99 c, it’s pretty obvious the punishment is far greater than the crime; and, in effect makes the RIAA a civil enforcement entity. (Be careful about copying sections of articles people. You may just get fined $150,000 for each “willful” attempt.)

There is more: Obama Administration Denies Request to Release ACTA Documents.

These documents are related to secretive international negotiations on an intellectual property rights enforcement treaty.

There is little information about the content of this document, but what is known indicates that this Act could impede access to affordable medicine, and it threatens to make non-commercial file sharing over the internet a crime.

http://ictsd.net/i/news/bridgesweekly/43452/

Here is more info on the ACTA. It's pretty scary. This is written from the Canadian's view point, but it explains pretty well what this Act would do for all countries involved, including the US.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/ACTA_trade_agreement_negotiation_lacks_transparenc y


They apparently have devised a way to strong-arm an "invitation."

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(200 7)

Everyone, do yourselves a favor, turn off your tv's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/1732511.html

On Tuesday, California's first lady, Maria Shriver, revealed she had caught the fever. She plans an 800-square-foot garden east of 13th Street between Capitol Avenue and L Street.

[daniel green]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/27/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4898635.shtml

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/27/obama_taps_mabus_for_navy_secr.html?wprss=44

President Obama will nominate former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus

[Hey Paula]

EXCERPT:

The United States has put a $5 million bounty on his head, and he says militants under his control are planning a terrorist attack in Washington that "will amaze everyone in the world."

And he isn't Usama bin Laden.

Baitullah Mehsud, commander of the Taliban in Pakistan, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that his group was responsible for Monday's attack on a police academy in his country that killed seven police officers and injured more than 90 others.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511873,00.html

[bagerroness]

http://transitioningovernance.org/enter/2008/09/23/obama-pledges-to-fire-managers-cut-redundant-programs/

Obama promised to do this.. Questions for Obama supporters...what Government Waste has been cut?

What Managers have been fired?

[ortiga]

Gingrich replaces Palin at DC GOP dinner

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/139955

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090403/capt.4e983f4e5a2643f18deacb5c66e83b52.obama_frad12 5.jpg

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie2a94edbc5b0a7c150de7b3bc1f82151

Raising millions of dollars!

[bagerroness]

http://digg.com/d1m5ct

article is from CNN.. March 11th

Democrats are even asking Obama to "hurry up and fix the Economy"...

[bagerroness]

http://www.agi.it/business/news/200904082044-eco-ren0065-crisis_fed_us_economy_is_det

This is a report from Italy.. they are reporting the US Economy is deteriorating. :sad:

[bagerroness]

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/us_world/Cheney-Interview.html?corder=&pg=1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090408/us_nm/us_cyberattack_usa

Power Grid attacked.. I'm afraid we are less safe and more vulnerable !

:sad:

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/white_house_wont_bow_to_realit.asp

White House Won't Bow to Reality

[Lady_Jean_La]

The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M has announced that the former president will host an “Economic Leadership Forum” next week that includes a panel of “distinguished leaders and recognized experts” — one of which is CNBC blowhard and former derivatives trader Rick Santelli:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/16/bush-expert-santelli/

[daniel green]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1005570.html

[YoYo]

How many more people is he going to appoint? :mad:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090418/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_performance_officer

[daniel green]

Regarding relations with Cuba, which many leaders here urged Obama to improve by lifting the economic embargo, the president said, "The policy that we've had in place for 50 years hasn't worked the way we want it to. The Cuban people are not free." Obama noted progress, citing Raúl Castro's recent statement that his country was willing to discuss human rights issues with the United States. Cuba, Obama said, should free political prisoners, reduces its tax on remittances to the island and grant new freedoms to its citizens as a next step in thawing relations with the United States.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041901730.html?hpid=topnews

[Banditta]

Excellent editorial by Frank Rich on homosexual fearmongering, the next worst "threat" after terrorism. :crying:

Published on Sunday, April 19, 2009 by The New York Times
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/19

[bagerroness]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/24/neighborhood.watch.economy/index.html

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/mar/17/0317_crime/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/10/economy_fuels_rise_in_crime_police_say/

The poor Economy is causing rise in crime throughout the United States. Money woes and desperation of criminals.. IMO

[snookums1]

Americans who in April 11-14 polling say economic conditions are getting better is not only the best showing since September but also the most positive since Gallup began tracking the economic outlook daily in January 2008.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/117526/Consumer-Measures-Show-Best-Signs-Start-Crisis.aspx

[daniel green]

Tens of thousands of letters, e-mail messages and faxes arrive at the White House every day. A few hundred are culled and end up each weekday afternoon on a round wooden table in the office of Mr. Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence.
He chooses 10 letters, which are slipped into a purple folder and put in the daily briefing book that is delivered to President Obama at the White House residence. Designed to offer a sampling of what Americans are thinking, the letters are read by the president, and he sometimes answers them by hand, in black ink on azure paper.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/us/politics/20letters.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_interrogation_memos

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2009/04/21/gay_marriage_focus_now_on_maine/

Gay rights activists are trying to get same-sex marriage laws passed in all six New England states by 2012. Maine lawmakers take up the proposal two weeks after Vermont's House overrode a gubernatorial veto and enacted the law. New Hampshire's Senate is expected to take up a House-approved gay marriage bill by the end of April.

[Freebird]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20090421/pl_rasmussen/magov20090421



A Dem governor in trouble.

[snookums1]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099&page=1

[snookums1]

Daryl Bristow of Baker Botts was Bush's Attorney in Bush V Gore.

http://www.legalcasedocs.com/120/243/610.html

[Freebird]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/poll-shows-trouble-for-corzine/

[daniel green]

No, it isn’t, because America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. In the past, our government has sometimes done an imperfect job of upholding those ideals. But never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for. “This government does not torture people,” declared former President Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it. And the only way we can regain our moral compass, not just for the sake of our position in the world, but for the sake of our own national conscience, is to investigate how that happened, and, if necessary, to prosecute those responsible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/opinion/24krugman.html?ref=opinion

[daniel green]

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week said she is working with governors to repeal the Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005 and went into effect last year. The bill is popular in Washington, but is scorned by many governors who bear the responsibility and cost of validating that holders of driver's licenses are citizens or legal residents of the United States. Napolitano, former governor of Arizona, said she has met with governors of both parties recently "to look at a way to repeal Real ID." She said she wants to substitute the federal law with "something else that pivots off of the driver's license but accomplishes some of the same goals. And we hope to be able to announce something on that fairly soon."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/22/real.ID.debate/index.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://sacbee.com/topstories/story/1805949.html

But as thousands of party delegates and guests convene in Sacramento today for their annual state convention, the party is splintering over the state budget crisis, cuts in social services and a slate of special election ballot initiatives intended to resolve the fiscal mess.

[snookums1]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-gitmo-release24-2009apr24,0,3355153.story?track=rss

They never should have been there in the first place.

[theal3]

http://know-thy-congressman.com/

Handy tool to look up anyone in Congress and ge info and bio.

[rubberneckin]

A BBC production. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm

Three parts and it's long. Treat yourself to this production some afternoon. It's worth it if you want a clear understanding of how we have gotten to this point in the "war on terror."

[Lady_Jean_La]

The following quote, which could be written today, is from the past:

"The president continues to be highly regarded. By solid majorities of 65 percent or more, those surveyed said he has a vision for the country's future, has brought dignity back to the White House and is a strong leader willing to make hard decisions," reported a CNN/Gallup Poll.

The time was the end of 2003 and the president was the now despised-by-many George W. Bush after he visited Iraq at Thanksgiving for the first time.



http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/09/rollins.obama/index.html?section=cnn_latest

A fascinating article about the feelings of a man who has been in the thick of it for some time.


jmo

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090426/wl_mideast_afp/usjordanmideastdiplomacy_20090426175427

AFP

[charlie.chip]

http://nrinstitute.org/mustread.php

Andy McCarthy was invited to join a roundtable meeting put on by The Presidents Task Force on Detention Policy. He declined and explains why in a public letter to AG Holder:

Read the letter at the link . . .

I completely support all his assertions in this letter. :thumbup:

[daniel green]

The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a cap-and-trade system on emissions, have risen sharply. But the opponents of action claim that limiting emissions would have devastating effects on the U.S. economy. So it’s important to understand that just as denials that climate change is happening are junk science, predictions of economic disaster if we try to do anything about climate change are junk economics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/opinion/01krugman.html?em

[snookums1]

The memo, entitled “Executive Branch Minders’ Intimidation of Witnesses,” complains that:

Minders “answer[ed] questions directed at witnesses;”
Minders acted as “monitors, reporting to their respective agencies on Commission staffs lines of inquiry and witnesses’ verbatim responses.” The staff thought this “conveys to witnesses that their superiors will review their statements and may engage in retribution;” and
Minders “positioned themselves physically and have conducted themselves in a manner that we believe intimidates witnesses from giving full and candid responses to our questions.”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Newly-Released-Memo-Gover-by-Kevin-Fenton-090428-407.html

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-peyronnin/hispanic-justice_b_195164.html

[daniel green]

Two bipartisan panels of nuclear weapons experts are endorsing much of President Obama's ambitious arms-control effort in advance of next week's nonproliferation talks here between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. A congressionally mandated commission will recommend next week that the United States resume the lead in international efforts to prevent further proliferation of nuclear weapons. The U.S. government should declare that it will rely less on such weapons and seek to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles through extension of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START), according to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. But, the commission said, it also should maintain "an appropriately effective nuclear deterrent force."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050103404.html?nav=hcmodule

[snookums1]

The campaign of Sen. Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., agreed to pay a $50,000 civil penalty after the Federal Election Commission concluded that the campaign repeatedly flouted the law in disbursing cash payments to volunteers during Lieberman's bruising Democratic primary against businessman Ned Lamont in 2006.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/01/lieberman-pays-50000-fine-for-passing-out-street-cash-in-2006/

[daniel green]

Marian Robinson, President Obama’s mother-in-law, moved into the White House “kicking and screaming,” said her son, Craig Robinson. She had never lived outside of Chicago and was reluctant to leave her beloved bungalow, her friends and family, her weekly yoga class and her familiar routines.But after three months in the Executive Mansion, Mrs. Robinson is unexpectedly and decidedly savoring her new life.
She entertains visitors from Chicago. She attends White House dinners and concerts hosted by her daughter, the first lady, Michelle Obama. She dines at local restaurants and delights in events at the Kennedy Center, where she often sits in the president’s box and chats with performers. In fact, Mrs. Robinson, 71, is so busy these days that the Obamas hired a baby sitter to watch their two daughters one evening because the nation’s first grandmother had plans. “She has a very full social life, so much so that sometimes we have to plan our schedule around her schedule,” Mrs. Obama said jokingly last week during a lunch she hosted for Congressional spouses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/us/politics/04robinson.html?_r=1&ref=us

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090504/ap_on_re_us/us_rice_fourth_grader

AP

We didn't torture.

[Freebird]

http://spiegel.de/international/world0,1518,622682,00.html



This is in German so you have to click on "English" and then scroll down.

[Lady_Jean_La]

Media Ignores Obama Error on Torture

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/04/obamas-torture-mistake-ignored-by-media/

This line, of course, was one of Obama's strongest moments ... The trouble is, as several blogs noted days ago, it was totally false. Regardless of what Prime Minister Churchill might have said, Britain did, in fact, torture ... that is, if you believe the The Guardian.

[daniel green]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has improperly kept nearly 24,000 people on a terrorist watch list based on outdated or sometimes irrelevant information, while it missed others with legitimate terror ties who should have been on the list, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday. The report said the mistakes posed a risk to national security, because of the failure to flag actual suspected terrorists, as well as an unnecessary nuisance for non-suspects who may be questioned at a traffic stops or stopped from boarding an airplane.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/us/07terror.html?ref=us

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://exceptionmag.com/entertainment/music/000862/maine-rocker-releases-music-video-inspired-tea-parties

Tea Party music video

Some signs may be objectionable.

[Charms]

And other collectibles

Companies have come up with nearly every conceivable way to create an Obama product. But one researcher took it to a new level, naming a new fungus after the president. (What is the name?)

We searched for the funniest, cutest and downright weirdest Obama goods:


http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Obama-Collectibles.aspx?cp-searchtext=Obama%20collectibles

[daniel green]

In his weekly address, President Obama addressed the challenges of growing a "clean energy economy, reforming the healthcare system and laying a new foundation for the long-term strength of our economy."

"For the first time, utility companies and corporate leaders are joining, not opposing, environmental advocates and labor leaders to create a new system of clean energy initiatives that will help unleash a new era of growth and prosperity," Obama said.

Obama added: "But we know that our families, our economy, and our nation itself will not succeed in the 21st century if we continue to be held down by the weight of rapidly rising health care costs and a broken health care system. That’s why I met with representatives of insurance and drug companies, doctors and hospitals, and labor unions who are pledging to do their part to reduce health care costs."


Full Text
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[rubberneckin]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.htm?_r=2

[Barbara2]

FBI tape: Burris pleads for Senate appointment
Conversation was with former Gov. Blagojevich's brother

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30950164/

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1897355.html

"I think the pro-side would have a significant challenge in 2010," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll. "I think it would be less of a challenge in 2012."

DiCamillo's observation was echoed by Mark Baldassare, director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California.

"It would seem that waiting two years would give them (supporters of same-sex marriage) a better potential electorate," Baldassare said.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/1903408.html

The point is, this is a deeply personal matter that is no one's business other than your own, which is why a poll question posed in a recent sacbee.com/live segment about gay marriage is so compelling and frankly, long overdue for discussion: "Should the state get out of the marriage business for straights and gays, and only offer civil unions for all?"

In that limited sampling, participants said yes, by a 58 percent-to-42 percent margin, larger than the margin of victory for Proposition 8.
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/04marriage.html?hp

BOSTON — The New Hampshire Legislature approved revisions to a same-sex marriage bill on Wednesday. If Gov. John Lynch signs the measure into law, the state will become the fifth in New England and the sixth nationally to allow same-sex marriage.

[daniel green]

Mr. Obama’s call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses. Radical groups can become legitimate political players in the democratic process if they accept core democratic principles and abandon the use of force as a political tool. Or they can maintain armed terrorist militias in order to threaten their neighbors and intimidate their people. The international community should not allow them to do both. Unless such groups are forced to choose between these conflicting identities, their participation in elections not only risks empowering extremists, it risks debasing the values of democracy itself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/opinion/05livni.html?ref=opinion

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Barney_walks_out_on_CNBC_This_interview_is_over.ht ml

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090612/pl_cq_politics/politics3142432

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, who has struggled with alcoholism and addiction, announced Friday that he has checked himself into a medical facility for treatment.

[daniel green]

The Dartmouth group estimates that up to 30 percent of Medicare spending is wasted on needless care. Although most experts think the Dartmouth research is essentially right, a few believe that other factors, including the health of individual patients, play a bigger role. Even if the over-treatment is less than the Dartmouth researchers believe, their findings point to areas and institutions where Medicare should be able to coax or push physicians to behave more prudently, for all their patients. When President Obama speaks at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association on Monday he will need all of his persuasive powers to bring doctors into the campaign for health care reform. Doctors have been complicit in driving up health care costs. They need to become part of the solution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14sun1.html?ref=opinion

NYT editorial board.

[Susan43]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14sun1.html?ref=opinion

NYT editorial board.

Here is the link to the article mentioned in the editorial. I wish everyone would read it.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/14/742460/-Wear-Green-tommorrow-to-stand-in-solidarity-with-Iranian-people!!!-

Let's make it clear that we stand with our brothers and sisters in Iran by wearing green tomorrow. Please Rec this diary and spread the idea everywhere you can think of if you agree. :patriot:

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090617/pl_politico/23828

Angered by White House decisions on everything from greenhouse gases to car dealerships, congressional Democrats from rural districts are threatening to revolt against parts of President Barack Obama’s ambitious first-year agenda.

[daniel green]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/20/steele-calls-obama-liar/

[YoYo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090621/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care

[Lady_Jean_La]

Several readers have made intelligent and thoughtful comments that deserve greater depth and a stronger factual basis on the 'under the radar' news that, for the first time in American history, an Army Infantry Combat Brigade has been "deployed" (the Army Times' wording, not mine) onto U.S. soil. The Department of Defense announced in the Fall of 2008 that it was assigning a full-time Army unit to be "on call to facilitate military cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security in the event of another terrorist attack and to help with civil unrest and crowd control."

http://www.examiner.com/x-13927-Dayton-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m6d21-Posse-Comitatus-II-Army-Combat-troops-on-our-streets-should-raise-eyebrows

Since 1878, the military has been forbidden from enforcing the laws on the streets of this country and yet, that is exactly the role they are beginning to assume. In fact, in March of 2009, active duty Army troops from Fort Rucker, Alabama were deployed to Samson, Alabama in response to a murder spree. It is still unclear under what authority they were deployed. The governor of Alabama did not request military assistance and President Obama did not authorize it. There is supposedly an investigation going on to determine possible violations of several federal laws in their deployment for law enforcement.


And some people wonder why gun sales are going up.

[daniel green]

The DNC, which has lagged its Republican counterpart in fundraising so far this year, outraised the RNC in May by almost $3M.The DNC took in $8.37M, compared with the RNC's $5.7M

http://www.mydd.com/

Good job! Gotta keep that going!

[Freebird]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090618/pl_bloomberg/a5dzveyytprm

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_re_us/us_blagojevich_fundraiser

AP

[fiver]

"Obama has already released a terrorist responsible for the brutal murders of five American soldiers in exchange for the remains of two deceased British hostages"

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODFkYTU2MjBmMTE5MDUzZTEzZWMyMTE5ZWZjNWI4Mjg=

:flamemad::cuss:

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20090628154559102C131091

[Veritas]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/26/palin_responds_to_sen_kerry_joke_why_the_long_face .html

[Susan43]

Graph of Global Military Spending.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dU1mFxzlRNA/SkU4vs5_ZSI/AAAAAAAAAi0/y_iVTV77ImI/s320/country-distribution-2007.png

[Veritas]

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmoS4cZ1p7Y

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkuy86jStQ

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5JX_t_Tl6I

Part 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2p1dTQ6Zo

Part 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmgdSw1Si0

Part 6:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejiQMRM60Y



What a great and very informative series done by John Stossel. :thumbsup:

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10629202

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070802635.html

Leaders meeting here for the Group of Eight summit said they would pledge to keep temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above average levels of more than a century ago, before large-scale industrial pollution occurred.

[Veritas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MjQ17kDng

[daniel green]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-20/the-obama-haters-next-move/?cid=bs:archive4

[ortiga]

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/871750.html

Palin implicated in ethics probe

[daniel green]

Top Republican senators involved in crafting health care reform legislation participated in a health-care specific fundraiser Monday evening. Guests were asked for a $2,000 contribution to the National Republican Senatorial Committee to attend a "Roundtable on Healthcare Issues" -- and $5,000 for both the roundtable and dinner with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). The nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation cited the event for its upfront offer of special-interest access. All three senators sit on key health committees. Grassley is the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, currently embroiled in negotiations with Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) over the pending reform bill. Enzi sits on the Finance Committee and serves as ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, of which Burr is a member as well

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/key-gop-senators-soak-up_n_246151.html

[Veritas]

http://mfile.akamai.com/6713/wma/glennbeck.download.akamai.com/6713/preview/09/07/072809free.asx


:thumbsup:

[Veritas]

Link (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGI0OWJhZGRmN2E1N2EzMzQ1YzA3ZjU4YjE2Y2E2OWI=)



This is a president on a mission to remake American society in every aspect, by whatever means are necessary and available. That requires taking all kinds of decisions out of the hands of ordinary Americans and transferring them to Washington elites — and ultimately the number one elite, Barack Obama himself.

Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and of what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power. Often this has been accompanied by an ignorance of history, including the history of how many people before him have tried similar things with disastrous results.


Great piece by Thomas Sowell.:thumbsup:

[Veritas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80zzW6Osyhs

[Veritas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc&NR=1

[Details]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2pg3n7WZPlmGI6nIp4Q2xjurESg

This is one brave woman. They give women lashes, if they are caught wearing pants, in Sudan. She was caught, in a cafe, wearing pants. Her employer, being the UN, was ready to protect her - but she has chosen to quit her job, and challenge the punishment in court. If she loses, it's 40 lashes.

A brave woman - and maybe someone who can help her country move forward, challenge the laws there. She wore the same slacks she was arrested for to court - this is someone who is not backing down!

[Truberry]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090731/ap_on_re_us/us_stimulus_bridges

This article caught my attention today and felt the need to share it. Proof to me that the Stimulus backfired, many people put at safety risk related to greed from a non-stimulus package that proves to be one failure after another. IMO

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.opensecrets.org/

OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government. Count cash and make change.

[logbump]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcIKZoNGd8

[Veritas]

LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KsEuVMw1w)


Go, girl! :thumbsup:

[Lady_Jean_La]

New Book Outlines Sarah Palin's Path to the Presidency

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2710074.htm

[watcher2005]

"Former copyright lobbyist is Obama’s top pick for US Attorney"

By Daniel Tencer

(c) Raw Story August 5, 2009

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/05/former-copyright-lobbyist-is-obamas/


Anybody keeping count?

[Freedom1]

Here's another one:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-healthcare-pharma4-2009aug04,0,3156176.story

Obama gives powerful drug lobby a seat at healthcare table

Reporting from Washington -- As a candidate for president, Barack Obama lambasted drug companies and the influence they wielded in Washington. He even ran a television ad targeting the industry's chief lobbyist, former Louisiana congressman Billy Tauzin, and the role Tauzin played in preventing Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices.

Since the election, Tauzin has morphed into the president's partner. He has been invited to the White House half a dozen times in recent months. There, he says, he eventually secured an agreement that the administration wouldn't try to overturn the very Medicare drug policy that Obama had criticized on the campaign trail.

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_on_go_co/us_senate_martinez_resigns;_ylt=Algp8EnUQmNjUa8CRN qa0Qms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM0NTg1MWVvBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMD kwODA3L3VzX3NlbmF0ZV9tYXJ0aW5lel9yZXNpZ25zBGNwb3MD MgRwb3MDNQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQ RzbGsDbWFydGluZXo-

AP

Turmoil in Florida.

[watcher2005]

"PASS ID: National ID v3.0?"

by State Rep. Paul Opsommer (MI-93)
10 August 2009

Copyright © Tenth Amendment Center

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/08/10/pass-id-national-id-v30/

[daniel green]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/10/alaska-lawmakers-override_n_256104.html

AP story

[daniel green]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/10/mark-sanford-broke-law-on_n_256073.html

AP wire story

[watcher2005]

"U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears"

By Spencer S. Hsu and Cecilia Kang
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

© 2009 The Washington Post Company

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002743_pf.html

Described as a "massive" change in the article.

[aproudmom]

Traumatised Iraq war veteran committed suicide days after watching coffins of eight soldiers returned home

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201916/Traumatised-young-soldier-committed-suicide-carrying-dead-babies-bombed-buildings-Iraq.html#ixzz0NwtyZrYZ


CNN: Multiple Bombings Slowly Destroy US Soldier's Brain - He Commits Suicide (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/cnn-multiple-bombings-slo_n_246673.html

CNN has a heartbreaking report of a U.S. soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was subjected to multiple bombings. Despite serious injuries, he was repeatedly sent back to duty. Doctors now believe that the bombs were slowly destroying his brain. He was eventually sent back to the U.S., but the full extent of his injuries were never treated, and he ended up committing suicide, police believe.

The story is devastating

[IaNsSyAlNuE]

Calif. farmers say feds make drought worse

By William M. Welch, USA TODAY


Three years into a drought that evokes fears of a modern-day dust bowl, Allen and others here say the culprit now isn't Mother Nature so much as the federal government. Court and regulatory rulings protecting endangered fish have choked the annual flow of water from California's Sierra mountains down to its people and irrigated fields, compounding a natural dry spell. Meantime, the roads along this farm area are filled with signs warning that less water means less food. "If you like foreign oil, you'll love foreign food," says a sticker on Allen's truck.

Copyright 2009 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/drought/2009-07-27-drycalifornia_N.htm

[aproudmom]

Funeral Honors team brings dignity, honor to fallen veterans

They describe themselves like doctors on call, but death, rather than life, is more apt to pop in a person's mind when they hear about them.

In their dealings with death, members of the Fort McPherson Funeral Honors team bring a dignity to tragedy, heal the hearts of grieving Family Members, and show that the Army cares for its fallen veterans.

[Veritas]

LINK (http://www.breitbart.tv/06-flashback-pelosi-tells-anti-war-protesters-im-a-fan-of-disruptors/)


:thumbdown::rolleyes::thumbdown:

[RedSocksFan]

Congressman Green’s Hypocrisy
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGNmYTQ5YWRjNmNmMzE1YWEwNDU2OTFhMTY5MWFjYjk=


Can't Make It Up: Dem Rep Who Opposes Photo ID To Vote Requiring Photo ID For Town Halls
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/08/11/cant-make-it-dem-rep-who-opposes-photo-id-vote-requiring-photo-id-town-h

[February]

Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists.

A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/213188?GT1=43002

[Veritas]

LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCHtw6WbbnM&feature=player_embedded)


:thumbsup: ITA! :thumbsup:

[Veritas]

LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMkrUOUMtjA&feature=player_embedded)

:thumbsup:

A must view video!

[snookums1]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/24/world/AP-AS-Koreas-Tension.html?_r=1

U.S. envoy plans nuclear talks with North in Sept.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2909210

Intelligence goes a lot further than stubborn bullheadedness.

[Veritas]

LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ8J2onxvk8&feature=player_embedded)


Conservative comedian Steven Crowder goes "undercover" with a hidden camera and infiltrates one of Southern California's premier liberal activist organizations.... and they offer him a job.

[Veritas]

LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0)

:smile:

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090830/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_today_bush;_ylt=AhKnwftmo3Keg_s8YnCD85is0NUE ;_ylu=X3oDMTMyZ2Zxcm5tBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODMwL3Vz X3R2X3RvZGF5X2J1c2gEY3BvcwM4BHBvcwM1BHB0A2hvbWVfY2 9rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDYnVzaGRhdWdo dGVy

AP

[snookums1]

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government’s improper use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 was “repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32695249/ns/us_news-security/

[daniel green]

The rise, to more than one million students without stable housing by last spring, has tested budget-battered school districts as they try to carry out their responsibilities — and the federal mandate — to salvage education for children whose lives are filled with insecurity and turmoil. The instability can be ruinous to schooling, educators say, adding multiple moves and lost class time to the inherent distress of homelessness. And so in accord with federal law, the Buncombe County district, where Charity attends, provides special bus service to shelters, motels, doubled-up houses, trailer parks and RV campgrounds to help children stay in their familiar schools as the families move about. Still, Charity said of her last semester, “I couldn’t go to sleep, I was worried about all the stuff,” and she often nodded off in class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/education/06homeless.html?_r=2

[Buckbo]

Link (http://www.drudgereport.com/)

Carter: Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter told "NBC Nightly News." "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shares the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans."

"That racism inclination still exists, and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of belief among many white people -- not just in the South but around the country -- that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply," Carter said.

link (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/15/carter.obama/index.html?section=cnn_latest)

Even though Carter is just echoing the far left's 'shift the focus' garbage, for a past president to make such an irresponsible comment is unforgivable. Carter needs to ride off into the sunset, he has obviously lost it.

[theal3]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him

By Alexander Zaitchik

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9PMsWO3Rw

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUC2rGj2VqE&NR=1&feature=fvwp

[cbhope]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/27248

“I don’t see this as a racial issue,” added Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). “There are a lot of people upset about how we on the Democratic side can engage like we have been, and there’s a lot of anger out there. So, I don’t see it as a racial issue."

More where that came from and thank God there are some dems with enough sense to know it is NOT about race.

[IaNsSyAlNuE]

'Racist' claims defuse once powerful word

With the word being used so often, it's harder to define its meaning

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32899516/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity

AP article

[Lady_Jean_La]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090919/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_omar_2

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar issued a statement Saturday telling people of the West not to listen to U.S. President Barack Obama's justifications of war and vowing to defeat NATO troops like other invaders of history.

[theal3]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/18/783895/-The-Teabagger-Socialist-Free-Purity-Pledge

[Veritas]

Steven Crowder goes undercover as a liberal student.


LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUybMMYmpxo&feature=player_embedded)

:tonguewag:

[IaNsSyAlNuE]

Al-Qaida video predicts Obama’s fall

New 106-minute clip marks eighth anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32973044/ns/world_news-terrorism

AP story

[watcher2005]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwmX5O-FAE&feature=player_embedded

Surely to be more footage.

[Hey Paula]

Teargas used on protesters at G20 summit in Pittsburgh

Police fire teargas after trash cans are rolled toward officers and road blocked as about 300 attend unauthorised march

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/24/teargas-protest-g20-summit-pittsburgh

[snookums1]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/The-President-on-the-Late-Show/

[watcher2005]

The media seems to play the scary masked people rolling the metal dumpsters a lot in comparison to regular folks just walking or chanting slogans.


It would seem the corporate media is making any protest of bigger government, or global governance look bad.

imo


But here's some more amateur videos for discussion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CNa_viKg0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exl2LqO7tCU&feature=player_embedded

[watcher2005]

Does this sound like something a small government, Laissez-faire capitalist, America First, national Sovereignty loving conservative should get behind:


"The G-20 operates without a permanent secretariat or staff. The chair rotates annually among the members and is selected from a different regional grouping of countries. The chair is part of a revolving three-member management group of past, present and future chairs referred to as the Troika. The incumbent chair establishes a temporary secretariat for the duration of its term, which coordinates the group's work and organizes its meetings. The role of the Troika is to ensure continuity in the G-20's work and management across host years."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-20_major_economies


Right cover, left cover, gatekeepers are leading us around by the nose.

[watcher2005]

Didn't see these on on the cable news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTTlfL1J0aw&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/user/snafupunk#play/all/uploads-all/1/mPeXRozN6vQ

[watcher2005]

Will they show this speech and footage on the national news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwjAjcQnqM

[watcher2005]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory#Basic_concepts

[Buckbo]

The "they" is Israel, IMO there was a lot of truth in what Traficant had to say. We complain about the left playing the race card but are there also many playing the "anti-Semite" card in Washington? Traficant's interview with Hannity was good, Hannity lost big time IMO.

TRAFICANT: All right. Let me respond to that. We're in a situation where the commission come out and they discussed the attack on America. There's no doubt about it. But our policies in the Mideast have been so one-sided and subjective, without objectivity, we've created so many enemies the only way we can strike back is we've imported the terrorists from those actions.

HANNITY: Congressman, wait a minute.

TRAFICANT: So if you're questioning it you're saying you're anti-Semite.

link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,557960,00.html)