Friday, January 22, 2010
Hugo Chavez Mouthpiece Says U.S. Hit Haiti With 'Earthquake Weapon'
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[Incorrect as usual. The Americans-caused earth quake was Massachusetts.]
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The Meaning of Brown
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Astonishing: 78 percent of Brown voters said their vote was intended to stop Obamacare.
More astonishing: Obama doesn't get it.
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[Obama's acting as if he doesn't get it - and he's not alone...
- Newsweek's Adler Waxes Poetic About How Brown Got the 'Shmuck' Vote In Mass.
- NBC's O'Donnell Refuses to View Scott Brown Win as a Victory for GOP
- Carol Costello: Republicans Fomented 'Fear and Confusion Among Voters'
- Globe Columnist: Mass. Electorate Was 'Drunk on Power'
[And of course;]
[and their favorite:]
Downplaying Brown's Win: Newsweek's Stone Says It's Just a Washington Obsession
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Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Is that the impression you're getting from some in the media regarding the results of yesterday's special election in Massachusetts?
That's definitely the one Newsweek's Daniel Stone wants to leave his readers.
From his The Gaggle blog post
"Does Most of America Even Care About the Mass. Election?":
[Is he really that stupid or just think we are?]
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Fox News' Wallace on White House Effort to Spin Brown Victory: 'I Have to Laugh'
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Since Republican Scott Brown won the special election Jan 19 to fill Massachusetts' U.S. Senate seat vacated after the death of Ted Kennedy, President Barack Obama and high-level White House staffers David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs have been on the media circuit in damage control mode.
But according to "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, efforts to spin this in a positive way are futile. Wallace appeared on the Fox Business Network's Jan. 21 "Imus in the Morning" program to explain their efforts to alter the news coverage to a favorable tone in the wake of this news is not the proper course of action.
"I think it means a big deal and I have to laugh, you know, somebody was saying yesterday, there's some events that are just un-spinable," ... "They're just too big, too dramatic, too obvious - you can't spin them and yet the White House clearly is trying to spin this."
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McConnell: Who Gave the Christmas Day Bomber the Right to Remain Silent?
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is pressing the Obama administration on questions about the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, and makes some news in the process. McConnell notes that several top national security officials offered disturbing testimony yesterday on Capitol Hill about the decisionmaking process on Abdulmutallab -- or why there wasn't one. This leads McConnell to seek answers to "several troubling questions."
First, why were Miranda rights given to the obvious terrorist after only a brief session of questioning, which predictably ended his cooperation?We know -- from the testimony yesterday -- that four of the nation's top counterterrorism officials were not asked for their views on handling Abdulmutallab as a criminal -- a group that includes Blair, Mueller, Michael Leiter, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, and Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
Second, at what level of authority was this decision taken to treat him as a criminal defendant instead of an unlawful enemy combatant? Who made this decision?
I asked this question last night of John Brennan, the President’s senior counterterrorism adviser, three times and he refused to answer. I think that the Senate is entitled to know precisely who authorized this.
A year ago the President decided to revise the Nation’s interrogation policies, and to restrict the CIA’s ability to question terrorists. The administration created a High Value Detainee Interrogation Group to question terrorists. Why wasn’t his group brought in once this terrorist was taken into custody?
Americans need to know these answers.
So who, exactly, was consulted? And who -- a name would be helpful -- made that final decision?
McConnell reveals that he took that question to John Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, who refused to answer three times ... ... that alone raises several additional troubling questions...
[UPDATE: this guy made the call {evidently in a vacuum}:]
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99-year-old Granny isn’t the problem
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A couple of days after the Christmas Day Pantybomber tried to light up his gusset on the approach to Detroit, I was at a small airport in Vermont shuffling through the line to what they call the “sterile” area. Anyway, I handed over my driver’s licence and, as he had done with all the previous passengers, the Transportation Security Administration agent examined it. And examined it.
And examined it some more...
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How Leftist 'peace groups' are helping terrorists
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This problem was highlighted in December, when a former officer of Colombia’s FARC rebels, one of the most vicious and murderous terrorist groups in the world, accused the Peace Brigades International, a human rights group monitoring Colombia’s decades-long civil war, of actively supporting the FARC terrorists.
Mary O’Grady tells the story in an article in the Wall Street Journal.
Although the Peace Brigades International has argued its innocence, the testimony of the former FARC officer is very plausible. If the allegations are true, the Peace Brigades International and related peace groups have the blood of many innocent civilians on their hands... [snip]
The actions and financial accounts of groups such as the Peace Brigades International in Colombia, as well as a host of organizations involved with violent movements, need to be thoroughly investigated and the finances they're funneling attacked to reduce terrorist activity.
Western nations need to consider much stronger laws to allow seizure of group assets and to allow victims of terrorism to bring civil suits against so-called “peace groups” that promote violence...
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Ransom paid for oil tanker
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Mogadishu - The largest ransom ever paid to Somali pirates was dropped on Sunday onto a Greek-flagged oil tanker with two million barrels of oil on board, pirates and maritime officials said. An aircraft dropped a ransom believed to be between $5.5 million and $7 million for the release of the tanker
[Idiots]
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Pulling the plug or counting the cash
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The German government has the upper hand as it meets with heads of major energy companies in Berlin. Should the government close Germany's aging nuclear plants, or collect money from the companies to keep them running?
According to a study conducted by the Bremen Energy Institute, the sum could be hundreds of billions of dollars, depending on how much longer the plants remain open and the price charged for the energy produced.
[Well, that certainly sounds like all decisions are being made in the interest of the people.
"Democratic Socialism" is still socialism.]
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World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
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A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report...
[Again and again: whenever anyone looks at the deceivers' claims they fall apart.
By all means, let's spend trillions on this unsubstantiated theory...]
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Chu Defends U.N. Climate Science, Admin Efforts on Nuclear Waste
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu today dismissed accusations of fraud in climate science generated by the release last year of leaked e-mails between researchers, saying e-mails showed "warts and bumps" in the scientific process.
Chu told a Senate panel that climate change is real and the Energy Department will continue to rely on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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[To "Hide the Decline"...]
Geithner Has Concerns About President’s Proposed New Bank Rules
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has reservations about President Obama's new proposal to limit the size and scope of the nation's banks, sources tell ABC News.
Specifically, the sources say, Geithner is worried that the proposed limits could damage the competitiveness of US firms with their global competitors...
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Stocks tumble as Obama pushes bank rules
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New York - A drop in financial shares pounded the stock market after President Barack Obama proposed greater restrictions on big banks. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 213 points after dropping 122 on Wednesday. The index has seen four straight triple-digit moves and the latest slide erased the Dow's gains for 2010.
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Reality Check re: Stock Politics
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The CliffsNotes version of the U.S. stock market over the past 45 years goes something like this:
As government interference in the economy grew between 1965 and 1982, the stock market remained stagnant, with the S&P 500 rising only 1.4% per year on average; then President Ronald Reagan cut the burden of government and the S&P 500 grew by an annualized 14.3% between August 1982 and August 1992...
The next two years were underwhelming as President Bill Clinton raised taxes and tried to nationalize health care (the S&P 500 increased only 3.7% annually between August 1992 and December 1994); a midcourse correction by the Clinton White House led to a five-year, 25% per year run on stocks; then the dot com crash...
The panic of 2008 and the big-government policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama created what many call the "lost decade": Despite a 60% rally since March 2009, the S&P 500 has lost about 2% per year over the past decade.
The moral? None of this is about politics, per se, but rather is about policy. Capitalism works, big government doesn't.
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Why English Is Not the "Official Language" of the United States
And why it should be
Nearly all leaders of foreign nations now speak English in order to communicate with the rest of the world, as do bond traders, tech geeks, scholars, diplomats, businesspeople -- just about every player in the world economy. Air traffic controllers exemplify this global usage of English. Ever wonder how an Air China pilot communicates to the tower while landing in Moscow? In English, proving it to be truly the first and foremost international lingua franca.
[And growing...]
Then why is it that English has been under attack by radicals of the Left since the 1960s? Why aren't we smiling broadly that our language is the dominant lingua franca, and likely to remain so well into the unknown future? It goes back to the Marxist-inspired campus activists of 35 years ago who signed on to the doctrine that America was a corrupt, racist, chauvinistic, and imperialistic evil power that needed to be brought down.
So English, while embraced worldwide as the modern lingua franca, is not our official language.
And Hayakawa knew why: anti-American activists see English as the language of oppression, not democracy and freedom, and they have maintained an undercurrent of opposition to it even in the wake of the American victory in the Cold War.
This explains why anti-American activists lobbied for federal monies to support English as a second language in our school systems -- not the first language for Spanish-speaking immigrants -- working behind the scenes in the labyrinth of the federal bureaucracy to alter the curriculum to their whim... [snip]
Early new Americans learned English out of pride for their new country -- and out of necessity to engage in the capitalistic system. It made sense then and it makes sense now, yet the movement to prevent the recent wave of immigrants, mostly from Latin America, from becoming integrated and successful citizens by not teaching them English as the foundation for their success is alive and well-funded [with your money...]
Imagine moving to a foreign country and discovering that the government allows you to enforce the use of your native tongue by law. It's ridiculous, yet it's happening in America today... [snip]
The US needs to adopt English as our official language before we lose our national identity, our cultural heritage, and our system of government. And it is far past time to investigate what is happening on our college campuses, where post-modern doctrine, radical deconstruction theory, multiculturalism, and the "politically correct" movement...and the thought police that go with it. The academy should be called on the carpet to explain why they are taking public money and private tuition to undermine and destroy our heritage.
Let's tell them in plain English that we want our language back.
[Historical specifics - Recommended > ]
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Air America Ceases Live Programming, Will File for Bankruptcy
From AirAmerica.com: It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business. The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America’s business.
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Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Congress has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early retirement, thus creating jobs and reducing unemployment.
This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).
Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to Congress to be considered for the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced Termination).
Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW program (System Covering Retired-Early Workers).
A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as Congress deems appropriate.
Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS (Additional Income for Dependants & Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).
Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by Congress.
Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. Congress has always prided themselves on the amount of SHIT they give our citizens.
Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring this to the attention of your Congressman, who has been trained to give you all the SHIT you can handle.
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