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Selected News For Sep 26 – Oct 2

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am. You can leave a response.

66 Responses to “Selected News For Sep 26 – Oct 2”

  1. BillK
    September 26, 2009 at 5:39 am

    Labor unions never disappoint.

    From the San Francisco Chronicle:

    Union pressuring hotels for new contract

    By Tom Abate

    The union representing 9,000 hospitality workers in San Francisco has taken to the streets in recent weeks in a series of rallies to call attention to its contract negotiations with the owners of the city’s largest hotels.

    The latest protest occurred Thursday, when 92 people were arrested during a peaceful rally at two Union Square hotels. The rally and civil disobedience were organized by Unite Here Local 2, whose contract with 62 San Francisco hotels expired last month.

    Police said 43 protesters were arrested for trespassing inside the Grand Hyatt while another 49 people were cited for blocking the street in front of the Westin St. Francis.

    The current union contract, signed in 2006, came after two years of fractious bargaining that included a two-week strike, a 53-day lockout and a union-organized boycott of San Francisco hotels.

    The hospitality industry is vital to San Francisco. The city’s approximately 33,000 hotel rooms hosted 16.4 million visitors last year, who spent an estimated $8.5 billion. Hotel taxes and fees contribute about $500 million annually to San Francisco’s government coffers.

    UnionPresident Mike Casey said 1,700 workers attended the rally. He said the turnout and the civil disobedience were meant to demonstrate the union’s resolve as contract renegotiation talks get under way and health care emerges as the central issue.

    “We’re on a collision course with the industry because of their state of denial,” said Casey, who wants to maintain current contract provisions under which hotel owners pay all premiums for union members and they pay $10 a month to cover their families.

    Attorney Richard Curiale, who represents Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, owner of the Westin St. Francis and three other local hotels, said the company is unwilling to continue paying the full cost of health care benefits that escalate 10 percent a year.

    “Something has to change,” he said.

    Casey said hotel workers, who earn an average of $33,000 a year, have chosen fully paid health care over larger raises in the past and that hotel chains are still profitable and able to maintain the practice.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....19SSVL.DTL

    See? As long as they’re making “a profit” it’s all OK.

    Hotels are obviously in denial if they think people will pay dollar one for health care.

    I hope these people like the idea of Obamacare, as they’ll be the first thrown over the fence…

  2. BillK
    September 26, 2009 at 5:48 am

    From an apologetic Associated Press:

    Ahmadinejad: Iran is not violating IAEA rules

    By John Heilprin

    NEW YORK, (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday his country has complied with U.N. rules that require it to inform the world body’s nuclear agency six months before a uranium enrichment facility becomes operational.

    The Iranian leader told a news conference that the new facility won’t be operational for 18 months so Iran has not violated any requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

    “What we did was completely legal, according to the law. We have informed the agency, the agency will come and take a look and produce a report and it’s nothing new,” he said.

    Ahmadinejad met Friday night with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said he expressed “grave concern” about Iran’s continued uranium enrichment “as demonstrated by the construction of a new uranium enrichment facility in the country.”

    “The burden of proof is on Iran” to convince the international community its nuclear program is peaceful, Ban said he told Ahmadinejad, and the country must comply with the IAEA and with U.N. Security Council demands to suspend enrichment and negotiate. Ban said he also told him of concerns about human rights and freedoms in Iran.

    President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Iran on Friday of constructing a secret underground uranium enrichment facility and of hiding its existence from international inspectors for years. The charges came at a meeting of the Group of 20 economic powers in Pittsburgh, and a week before direct talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.

    “We thought that in the discussions with the 5-plus-1 group, we’ll be able to lay the foundations for a long-term cooperation. I don’t think what happened was good. I hope they can make up for it,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to the Oct. 1 talks that will include the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — plus Germany.

    The disclosure puts heavy new pressure on Tehran to quickly disclose all its nuclear efforts — including any moves toward weapons development — “or be held accountable.”

    Iran acknowledged the facility’s existence for the first time in a letter Monday to the Vienna-based IAEA that said the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent, suitable only for peaceful purposes. Weapons-grade material is more than 90 percent enriched.

    But Ahmadinejad contended just hours later that, “Iran’s activities with respect to the peaceful use of nuclear technology are completely within the framework of IAEA rules and under its supervision.”

    He contended that enrichment facilities need not be disclosed until six months “before it is infused with gas” and operations begin.

    The International Atomic Energy Agency, however, has rejected Iran’s contention it must notify the agency of new facilities only six months before operations. The agency says Iran is obliged to make such a notification when it begins design of such facilities. …

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....259D32.DTL

    See? Nothing to worry about.

  3. canary
    September 26, 2009 at 6:13 am

    Obama warns Iran: `come clean’ on nukes
    By AP Writers Charles Babington And Robert Burns, Fri Sep 25, 2009

    PITTSBURGH –… President Barack Obama…. said he would
    not rule out military action if the Iranians refuse.

    … Iranian officials acknowledged the facility but insisted it had been reported to nuclear authorities as required.

    Unbowed, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had done nothing wrong and Obama would regret his accusations.

    At a news conference in New York, Ahmadinejad said…such armaments “are against humanity, they are inhumane,” and he said

    anyone who pursues them “is retarded politically.”

    The head of Iran’s nuclear program suggested U.N. inspectors would be allowed to visit the site.

    … apply sanctions that have bite,” Obama said…

    Obama said he was especially pleased that Russia and China agreed with him that Iran…Britain and France joined Obama at his morning announcement.

    Asked about the prospect of using military force to stop Iran from getting the bomb, Obama said,
    “With respect to the military, I’ve always said that we do not rule out any options when it comes to U.S. security interests,..

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking Friday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said it would be a mistake to rule out military action,…

    Obama’s European partners talked tough, too.

    National Security Writer Robert Burns reported from Washington. Also contributing were Associated Press writers George Jahn in Vienna, Ben Feller, Foster Klug, Lynn Berry and Michael Fischer in Pittsburgh, Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Ben Judah in Moscow, John Heilprin in New York and Pamela Hess and Desmond Butler in Washington.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....pcg–

    But,..Obama made fun of Reagan and Bush for their “axis of evil” labels.
    Slick timing for Obama to cut defense off in Europe. He has them begging for our help now. First it’s apologizing, and now it’s threatening. Obama is not mentally stable.

    • canary
      September 26, 2009 at 6:24 am

      and not one mention of Israel who knew of of the plant, being Iran’s main target. Obama knew this plant was there, but calculated to break our treaty with Europe, to take control of Europe. Bankrupt America, bankrupt Europe’s defense.

    • Liberals Demise
      September 26, 2009 at 11:06 am

      Why didn’t DingleBarry mention this at the UN the other day when it would have carried a ton more weight? Too busy apologizing?

      Further testimony that he is W-AAAAA-Y over his head when it comes to International affairs!
      What a ignoranus!

  4. Petra
    September 26, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    http://www.theobamafile.com/_i.....ascism.jpg

    Thomas Lifson says that socialism is out; fascism is in. Photographed by an American Thinker reader at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset Boulevard between the Hollywood Freeway and Gower, in Los Angeles, in the heart of Hollywood.

    Undoubtedly, there will be a federal task force formed immediately to investigate, aprehend {sic} and prosecute the evil-doers that have perpetrated this vicious hate-crime.

    I couldn’t stand it anywhere near me but it’s interesting they kept it up w/ no apparent sparks of rage – maybe they’re tired of him as well. One could only wish… I’ve got my TV turned off jsut in case he happens to come on…true story – I can’t stand to even visualize him – is there any escape? I’m thinking of the gobi desert…desperation.

  5. Rusty Shackleford
    September 26, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    From an impressed AP:

    US, allies seek ‘unfettered access’ to Iran site

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....obama_iran

    By JENNIFER LOVEN, AP White House Correspondent Jennifer Loven, Ap White House Correspondent – 16 mins ago

    WASHINGTON – The U.S. and its five allies trying to stop Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program plan to tell Tehran in a key meeting on Thursday that it must provide “unfettered access” to its previously secret Qom enrichment facility within weeks, a senior administration official says.

    —–NOTE: Language used by Bush administration in 2003:
    —–”Washington has insisted that Iraq agree unconditionally
    —– to such measures as surveillance overflights,
    —–destruction of certain missiles and unfettered access to
    —– scientists who might have knowledge of proscribed
    —– weapons programs.”

    Link: http://www.globalpolicy.org/co.....35212.html

    The allies — the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia — also will present in the Oct. 1 meeting a so-called transparency package covering all of Iran’s nuclear activities across the country, said the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss plans that are not yet ready to be announced.

    The allies will demand that Iran prove to the increasingly skeptical group that its intentions with its various sites are peaceful and energy-related, as Iran claims, and not for weapons development, as the West believes, the official said Saturday.

    These nations now agree that they are less inclined to listen to suspect arguments or incomplete evidence — viewing it as a stall tactic, the official said.

    But beyond the timeframe of “weeks” for coming clean on Qom, the allies will not give Iran a specific deadline to provide the information about its overall program, the official said.

    The development of such a timeframe will depend on the Iranians’ actions in the meeting and directly after it, the official said.

    The kind of transparency the group wants from Tehran is far-reaching, covering people, timeframes and facilities. This would include full access for the International Atomic Energy Agency to any and every site, notebooks, computers and documents related to nuclear development, and all scientists.

    The United States will be represented in Thursday’s meeting in Geneva by William Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs, a career diplomat.

    ——Now, I seem to recall that Obama said that Bush’s “handling” of Iraq was “all wrong”. Not to mention that “Iraq is a distraction”. Long article but it highlights the idiot’s speech he made in JUly of 2008 and said, specifically:

    “By any measure, our single-minded and open-ended focus on Iraq is not a sound strategy for keeping America safe. We’ve been distracted from our most pressing threats, and we’ve pushed the entire burden of our foreign policy on to the brave men and women of our military–while neglected the other elements of American power. And we’ve alienated ourselves from the world instead of strengthening our alliances.”

    http://blogs.suntimes.com/swee.....peech.html

    ——Hm, I’m detecting, right now a single-minded and open-ended focus on IRAN, in language very similar to what Bush used with Iraq and repeated demands for “unfettered access” to inspect suspected nuclear and biological sites.

    ——I will submit that, now that Blammo is convinced of Iran’s nuke capability, even though they admitted it freely versus an uber-sleuthy game of detection by the ONE…that if we end up in Iran…then I will put forth that Obama lied, people died.

    ——However, it is unlikely that Obama has the huevos to launch any kind of an attack based on sanctions violations, let alone stomp his little foot and stare angrily at them.

    ——But isn’t it interesting that the boy is “standing firm” and using very strong language against Achhhh-I-need-a-job?

    ——The real joke being that it’s all a sham. Words, really…like running outside, giving the bully the finger and then running back in before the screen door closes.

  6. pagar
    September 26, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    12 Democrat Senators have put themselves on public record as not being smart enough to put the Senate healthcare bill on line. Now remember, these Senators don’t even have to put the bill on line themselves. They only need to tell someone to put the bill on line. Apparently they are not smart enough to even do that.

    Link

    “A proposal by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., that would have required the Senate Finance Committee to post the final language of the $900 billion health care reform bill, as well as a Congressional Budget Office cost analysis, on the committee’s website for 72 hours prior to a vote was rejected 12-11.”

    Remember these 12 Senators are the majority writing the Senate Healthcare bill. A bill that will alter the entire US economy, and let they aren’t smart enough to figure out how to put a bill on line. This is insane.

    • Diane
      September 27, 2009 at 2:52 am

      Perhaps they’re smart enough not to put the thing online, given what the rumors of its content did at the Town Hall meetings. If no one can read it, they can continue to say anything they please about it and call the rest of us “liars”.

    • Rusty Shackleford
      September 27, 2009 at 2:35 pm

      Well, for Blammo, the boy king….that old issue of “transparency” comes up. Of course, it was among the first of his campaign “promises” that evaporated with the morning dew. However, he never had any intentions of being “transparent” in the sense that we understand it. His whole intention is to hide, camouflage, obfuscate, distract, divide, misguide and lie.

      Seems to be working.

    • proreason
      September 27, 2009 at 4:35 pm

      Conservatives should organize a group of people who can do rapid analysis of EVERY bill that is proposed by these criminals.

      Even with these 1000+ page monsters, if you had enough people, you could analyze the things within hours, even if they are published at 2 am in the morning.

      The people would have to at least have experience with contracts, and most would need to be lawyers.

      The rapid analysis would just highlight obvious things, like proposed taxes, penalties, new bureauracracies, agencies, surprise earmarks, passages totally unrelated to the bill’s objective, etc……things that wouldn’t require cross-referencing and looking at other bills. The first pass results could be published in a standard format on the Internet. i.e., Hi-level description of Section, Proposed Taxes, Proposed Fees, Implementation Timeframe, New Agencies, Unrelated clauses, etc.

      A second and third pass could then get into more depth, and the researchers could draw on the notes prepared by the people who did the first pass.

      100 people could do a decent 1st pass analysis of a 1000 page bill in an hour. 10 pages per person.

      Even the first pass would be enough to create firestorms in the public over the shit these criminals spit out of the bowels of Congress.

      Just publishing what these things mean might block more than 50% of the crap from ever seeing the light of day.

    • JohnMG
      September 27, 2009 at 5:02 pm

      Not a problem, Pro. Just look for the party affiliation behind the sponsor’s name and if it’s a “D”, immediately relegate it to the trash can.

      When the ‘Pubs are in power (if that ever happens again) you could probably do the same thing…..unless we throw the jerks out in ‘10 and start over with some real patriots.

      Don’t hold your breath, though.

  7. pagar
    September 27, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    Pro, (A) How do we get a copy of the proposed bill?
    (B) Can I copy your suggestion to some of the other blogs?
    It sounds to me like it would be a natural for a blog wanting to increase viewers/comments.

    An excellent review of things that the government is planning to insure that your end of life planning is conducted in order to meet the needs of the government is shown in the link. Apparently the initial planning is already under way to have your demise be at the direction of the government.

    Link

    “The health care plan advocated by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid and The Democratic Majority is hazardous to the health of every American.”

    • proreason
      September 27, 2009 at 7:59 pm

      Pagar,

      Here is the website:

      http://www.gpoaccess.gov/bills/index.html

      Feel free to copy the suggestion anywhere. It’s a non-partisan suggestion.

      Implementing the idea will take quite a bit of organization because it will need a substantial number of volunteers to be ready to do some analysis at the drop of a hat (plus somebody to ramrod the effort for each bill), but it seems to me that getting a few hundred volunteers in a country of 300 million is possible.

      Imagine if the country actually knew what these corrupt politicians are puttting in these bills, written in a way so that an average person could understand it.

      At the moment, all we reallly know is what these con men choose to tell us. And who has the time to research 100+ pieces of legislation a year?

      I don’t think Health Care destruction could possibly pass if the people had a synopsis of what the damn thing is supposed to do. Both the left and the right would be appalled. Less than 10% of the country would support it.

  8. Melly
    September 27, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    Obama Administration Frees Three More Gitmo Detainees

    The Department of Justice Saturday evening announced that two detainees had been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Ireland, and one had been transferred to Yemen.

    There are more than 220 detainees remaining at the prison. In the last couple months, the White House has made it increasingly clear that the President will not make his self-stated January 22, 2010 deadline to close to prison.

    Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a native of Yemen, was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and returned to Yemen today. The Yemeni Embassy to the US issued a statement saying the country welcomed, “with enthusiasm, the release and transfer of its citizen.”

    Known at Gitmo as Captive 692, the government labeled Ali Ahmed an “enemy combatant,” saying he “was associated with Al-Qaeda. He was present on the front lines in Bagram, Afghanistan. He was identified by a senior Al-Qaeda facilitator as having been a resident at a safehouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2000 (his individual also saw the detainee at a safehouse located in Faisalabad, Pakistan in February 2002 with a group of Yemenis who had fled Afghanistan). Finally, the Detainee was identified by another individual, a senior Al-Qaeda operational planner, as having resided at a safehouse located in Kandahar in 2001.”

    Al Ahmed denied almost all of the charges.

    “I never went to Afghanistan, ever. You have to prove how you came to the conclusion that I am a member of the Taliban,” he told a military commission.

    Al Ahmed claimed he left Sana’a, Yemen around 2000 for Karachi, Pakistan to learn about textiles, with $3,500 — most of which was from his mother — in his pocket.

    After several months of partying — “We spent the whole six months going out, having fun, ladies,” he says of one leg of his journey — he ended up in a house full of university students in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

    “I didn’t have any relationships with anyone in that house,” Al Ahmed testified. “They were trying to inspire me and to do the religious things, like look at my religion because most of the students were studying the Koran…They realized that we weren’t really in harmony together because I used to use drugs and hashish and things like that. I used to read magazine. Most of the time, I would stay in the backyard, so I was keeping my distance from them.”

    “I stayed two weeks and the Pakistani government came and captured all of us,” Ali Ahmed said.

    The government alleged that the home in which Ali Ahmed was residing was “run by a high-ranking al Qaida operative…Several of the individuals arrested in the March 2002 raid on the guesthouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan were identified as al Qaida associates who had received training in, or fought in, Afghanistan.”

    In May, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler found the government’s case rather wanting and ordered Ahmed released.

    In her ruling, Kessler said that “it is clear that the accuracy of much of the factual material contained in those exhibits is hotly contested for a host of different reasons ranging from the fact that it contains second- and third-hand hearsay to allegations that it was obtained by torture to the fact that no statement purports to be a verbatim account of what was said.”

    Evidence that Ali Ahmed had traveled to Afghanistan or was associated with al Qaeda came from four sources, Kessler said.

    One is “an individual whose credibility has been cast into serious doubt — and rejected — by another Judge in this District.” That witness, a Gitmo detainee, claimed to have overheard conversations at Gitmo about Ali Ahmed’s travels in Afghanistan. “He does not identify who made these statements and under what circumstances, or any details of the conversation.”

    The second statement was “riddled with equivocation and speculation,” she said.

    The third witness claims to have been tortured at Bagram or Dark Prison, and the “Government has presented no evidence to dispute the allegations of torture.” He had made the claim against Ali Ahmed, recanted it, then reaffirmed it.

    The fourth witness is believed to be Mohammed Al Qahtani — believed to be a member of al-Qaeda who was planning on taking part in the 9/11 attacks — though much of Kessler’s ruling has been redacted. Al Qahtani stated that Ali Ahmed “received military training in Afghanistan near Kabul.” But Kessler ruled that evidence to be a “nine word hearsay allegation” with no details to back it up.

    She ruled that the government failed to prove Ahmed was “part of, or substantially supported Taliban or al-Qaida forces or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.”

    **

    The Ireland deal has been in the works since at least March.

    On July 29, as we covered at the time, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced Ireland had agreed to accept two Uzbek detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

    Taoiseach Brian Cowen told CNN at the time that “it is incumbent on us, those who called for [Guantánamo’s] closure, to assist the United States now in ensuring that certain prisoners be relocated elsewhere.”

    “Obviously we will keep an eye on them very closely,” he said.

    Irish Justice Minister Demot Ahern said in July that Ireland would “adhere to the norms of official procedure in respecting the rights of the two men to their privacy.”

    The Obama administration did not name the detainees released to Ireland. “Pursuant to a request from the government of Ireland, the identities of these detainees are being withheld for security and privacy reasons,” read a statement from the Justice Department. Amnesty International has been lobbying Ireland to accept Uzbek national Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov, and another Uzbekh.

    At the time of his detention by U.S. forces in 2001, Jabbarov, now 31, lived with his pregnant wife, infant son, and mother lived with other Uzbek refugees in northern Afghanistan in 2001 when fighting broke out between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.

    “Oybek was not captured on the battlefield, nor was he armed,” his attorney Michael Mone testified before Congress in May 2008. “Instead, he accepted a ride from a group of Northern Alliance soldiers he met at a roadside teahouse who said they would give him a ride to Mazar-e-Sharif. Unfortunately, instead of driving him to Mazar-e-Sharif, the soldiers took Oybek to Bagram Air Base where they handed him over to U.S. forces, undoubtedly in exchange for a sizable bounty. In a desperately poor, war-torn country, Oybek was an easy mark for soldiers responding to leaflets dropped throughout Afghanistan by the U.S. military offering thousands of dollars in cash rewards to anyone who turned over a Taliban or foreign fighter.”

    Before the Combatant Status Review Board, Jabbarov was accused of having “supported the Taliban and al Qaida.”

    The U.S. government claimed that Jabbarov “admitted that he was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan,” which appears in the United States Department of Homeland Security ‘Terrorist Organization Reference Guide,’ and having attended IMU training camps. …….

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit.....inees.html

  9. pagar
    September 27, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks pro, I went to that site and did some checking, but as I understand the LINK, what they are saying is the bill has not been entered in to the system. Am I misunderstanding ? Is there an actual Senate bill on the internet some where?

    Link

    “A proposal by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., that would have required the Senate Finance Committee to post the final language of the $900 billion health care reform bill, as well as a Congressional Budget Office cost analysis, on the committee’s website for 72 hours prior to a vote was rejected 12-11.”

    As for the proposal to sit up a reading/comprehening panel to explain in ordinary, every day language, what each bill means is an excellent idea and I intend to post it on some of the blogs I comment on.

    • proreason
      September 27, 2009 at 10:01 pm

      I couldn’t find the senate version either, although the House Version is there.

      The Senate version seems to be a place-holder.

      But this link appears to be the senate version.

      http://help.senate.gov/BAI09A84_xml.pdf

      It would take more research to find out the process for how and when the bills get to the official spot. There is certainly a written description somewhere.

  10. caligirl9
    September 27, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Another brilliant solution to closing Gitmo … bring ‘em to the Left Coast! Thanks Dianne!!

    Calif. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s good with Guantanamo prisoners going to her state

    As one of its very first promises after the inaugural showing of Aretha Franklin’s huge hat last Jan. 20, the Obama Democratic administration promised to close the terrorist-housing facility in Guantanamo Bay within one year.

    They’re not going to make that deadline, Obama officials now admit. A big problem is where to put these fellows who want to kill Americans enmasse…

    Members of Congress have not exactly been jumping and down waving their hands to bring those guys to their home states.

    But on Fox News Sunday this Sunday, Dianne Feinstein, the ex-mayor and veteran California Democrat and Intelligence Committee chairman was asked if she’d be OK with those hardened terrorists being moved from the isolated maximum security detention facility in Cuba to a maximum security place in her state and she said, “Yes.”

    Her co-guest, Republican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri did not think Missouri was a good spot. He worries that terrorist prisoners will recruit new followers from an American prison population. But he too was OK with California.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....ornia.html

    Like this state doesn’t have enough problems with a bankrupt government, ridiculous taxes, illegals and libs messing it up. Let’s bring some terrorists and their families, who will no doubt be receiving visas so they can come on over and be supportive of their own little terrorist~

    Put it to a vote, Dianne. Bet most of the state agrees with me. The benefits (increase in hiring in corrections) are eclipsed by what it will cost California. Can’t you see that?

    • canary
      September 28, 2009 at 4:29 am

      Cali-girl/ How do the people feel about Obomies not turning the water on?

    • caligirl9
      September 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm

      The kool aid drinkers and tree huggers (one and the same I suppose…) are happy for the useless little inedible fish.

      The non-kool aid drinkers, and those who give a damn about farmers with no farms and farm workers with no work are mad as hell! The only semi-high profile Latino to speak out against the water policy is comedian Paul Rodriquez.

      We have many stupid people in California. Myself excluded. Usually.

  11. canary
    September 28, 2009 at 2:14 am

    AP: Attorney: OKC bombing tapes appear edited
    By Associated Press Writer Tim Talley Sep 27, 2009

    OKLAHOMA CITY – Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.

    “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.

    Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.

    The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.

    “Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain’t no such thing as a coincidence,” Trentadue said.

    He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because “they had run out of tape” or “the tape was being replaced.”

    “The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02,” he said. “The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn’t want anybody to see.”

    The FBI in the past refused to release the security camera recordings, leading Trentadue and others to contend the government was hiding evidence that others were involved in the attack.

    “It’s taken a lawsuit and years to get the tapes,” Trentadue said.

    “The more important thing they show is what they don’t show,” Trentadue said. “These cameras would have shown the various roads and approaches to the Murrah Building.”

    He was never a bombing suspect, but Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mistook his brother for one and beat him to death during an interrogation. The official cause of Kenneth Trentadue’s death is listed as suicide, but his body had 41 wounds and bruises that Jesse Trentadue believes could have come only from a beating.

    A judge in 2001 awarded Kenneth Trentadue’s family $1.1 million for extreme emotional distress in the government’s handling of his death.

    Trentadue said he is seeking more tapes along with a variety of bombing-related documents from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA request by Trentadue for 26 CIA documents was rejected in June. A letter from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the documents, said their release “could cause grave damage to our national security.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....bing_video

    • BillK
      September 28, 2009 at 11:46 pm

      As much as there may be something here, it may also be true that the security department/security firm replaced tapes on the hour, making the gap preceding 9:02 perfectly normal.

    • Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
      September 29, 2009 at 2:21 am

      BillK,

      These buildings were all within close proximity of the Murrah building I believe. I can’t say for sure but I doubt that the security teams would have worried about replacing video tape after hearing 4000 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate detonate down the block. Just my opinion. If the simultaneous blank spot on the tapes is true, that is troubling IMO.

    • canary
      September 29, 2009 at 3:24 am

      The initial reports and news from the moment it happened started changing. There was a lawsuit against Saddam Hussien for funding the bombing. Intitial reports were that an Islamic man in garb and beard was driving the truck. McVeigh and Nichols served in Desert Storm. It has been on National news several times that Jose Padilla (I forgot muslim name he was using when caught with dirty bomb (now in prison) was believed to be John Doe II. Also, the pilots that caused 9/11 all trained in Norman OK. One who failed flight suit (his photo is shown on this site, about the middle-eastern connection) went to Missouri and bribed a flight school with cash. He notified the FBI but the CIA refused to allow them
      warrants, and they would have discovered the plan. The 9/11 investigation team, felt the FBI/CIA power games, such as FBI and local law enforcement jurisdictions power games. I do not believe in any government conspiracy cover-up that our government did either. I think there is alot of miscommunication. Bush started Homeland Security and has done a good job of preventing many terrorist attacks. I have always blamed Clinton for the OKC bombing, as he did not make himself available to the FBI or CIA, because of his and Hillary’s on going legal troubles. I do not believe in all this site says, but some of it I do.
      http://www.apfn.org/apfn/okc_coverup.htm

  12. canary
    September 28, 2009 at 2:30 am

    TimesOnLine: No 10 asked Army to delay Afghan attack until after Gordon Brown’s Stephen Grey

    THE most senior army officer to resign
    after leading troops in Afghanistan claims that he was asked whether he could delay an attack on a Taliban stronghold until after Gordon Brown had visited the country.

    Major-General Andrew Mackay said before he quit that Britain’s contribution to the war was being undermined by a “tragic failure of leadership”…

    Senior Army officer resigns ‘over restructure’
    He described his sinking feeling on touring Whitehall that there was “no will to win”. ..

    When asked what strategy he was given when taking command of British forces, Mackay confessed it was “very little”.

    During the recapture of the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala, Mackay was furious to be asked by Downing Street if he could delay the operation and spare potential embarrassment to Brown, who was due to visit Afghanistan, if things went wrong. Mackay refused.

    Speaking to the army journal, Mackay argued that an effective counter-insurgency campaign depends on co-operation between the military and civilians.

    It did not rely on killing large numbers of the enemy but on influencing the population to reject the Taliban. Boasts of development projects implemented so far amounted only to a flea bite.

    A Downing Street spokeswoman said last night: “The suggestion that we asked for a delay, or indeed any change, to military plans before the prime minister visited is utterly untrue.”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....850938.ece

    Well, I guess Obama isn’t the only J.A. asking for a delay.

  13. canary
    September 28, 2009 at 2:49 am

    AFP: General complains about US bureaucracy Sep 27, 2009

    WASHINGTON (AFP) – The commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan bitterly complained in an interview Sunday about the Pentagon bureaucracy that he said was hampering his efforts to fight insurgents.

    In a profile on CBS television’s “60 minutes,” General Stanley McChrystal said he faced pressure to move quickly from Defense Secretary Robert Gates while the Pentagon had moved slowly to get officers assigned to his staff.

    “The secretary talks in terms of 12 to 18 months to show a significant change and then we eat up two or three months just on sort of getting the tools out of the tool box,” McChrystal said, …

    “The average organization when someone asks when you want something, they pull out a calendar,” he said.

    “But in a good organization, they look at their watch and we really got to get that way.”

    McChrystal said he was slightly surprised by the strength of the insurgency when he took over his post.

    “I think that in some areas that the breadth of violence, the geographic spread of violence — places to the north and to the west — are a little more than I would have gathered,” he said.

    “If the people view us as occupiers and the enemy, we can’t be successful and our casualties will go up dramatically,” he said.

    McChrystal said 265 civilians had been killed by US or allied forces in the past 12 months.

    Military officials have credited McChrystal with reducing civilian casualties in recent months by ordering a change in tactics, including scaling back the use of air strikes and artillery fire, as well as requiring soldiers to exercise more caution when driving on Afghan roads.

    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp.....ommander_1

    McChrystal is once again, siding with the enemy. His and Obama’s group hug b.s. is not working, we are on our 3rd month of our U.S. troops being slaughtered by women and children. He is suppose to defend the U.S. not the terrorists.

  14. canary
    September 28, 2009 at 3:25 am

    AP: Pentagon chief rejects Afghan withdrawal timelines
    By Jim Kuhnhenn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sept 27, 2009

    WASHINGTON – Defence Secretary Robert Gates is pushing back against liberal calls for withdrawal timelines from Afghanistan,…

    …Gates said the Islamic extremist Taliban and al-Qaida would perceive an early pullout as a victory over the United States as similar to

    the Soviet Union’s humiliating withdrawal in 1989 after a 10-year war.

    “Taliban and al-Qaida, as far as they’re concerned, defeated one superpower. For them to be seen to defeat a second,…”

    —-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Obama’s decisions will come after the election in Afghanistan is sorted out.

    “This is not like an election in Western Europe or the United States, to carry out an election in these circumstances was going to be difficult under any conditions. It’s not over yet,” Clinton told CBS…

    “We have to wait until it is resolved, hopefully very soon. Then make a new commitment on how to meet our strategic goals. And it’s going to be up to the president to determine how best to achieve that.”—————-

    Gates said…if Obama were to choose to increase combat forces, they would not be able to mobilize until January. —————–

    The prospect of sending additional soldiers has created a backlash among some Democrats in Congress and has angered anti-war activists on the left who rallied behind Obama’s presidential candidacy last year.

    Others, such as Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan, have not gone as far, but have urged Obama not to escalate the war.

    Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said he hopes Obama will decide to commit the necessary troops.

    Gates rejected suggestions of a split over troop levels between the Pentagon’s uniformed leadership on one side and Gates and Obama on the other.

    “Having the wrong strategy would put even more soldiers at risk,” he told ABC television’s “This Week.” “So I think it’s important to get the strategy right and then we can make the resources decision.”

    —–He said the strategy review would be “a matter of weeks,” but he said he would not submit McChrystal’s request for troops to the president “until I think – or the president thinks – it’s appropriate to bring that into the discussion of the national security principles.”————

    In veiled criticism of the Bush administration, which he also served as defence secretary, Gates said the United States was too preoccupied with Iraq to have a comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan.

    “The strategy that the president put forward in late March is the first real strategy we have had for Afghanistan since the early 1980s,” he said.

    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Wo.....51-ap.html

    Hillary Clinton has gone nuts like Bill.

    “Gates said…if Obama were to choose to increase combat forces, they would not be able to mobilize until January.”

    UGH. This is the 2nd delay Obama has done since last January, when he allowed Al-Qaida to rest up, regroup, and grow ! That’s what this is about

    Gates said he would not submit McChrystal’s request for troops to the president “until I think – or the president thinks.
    … Gates said the United States was too preoccupied with Iraq to have a comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan.

    Gates blames Bush, but see’s nothing wrong with Obama taking 3, and now 4 more monthes off from fighting the terrorist in Afganistan?

    “The strategy that the president put forward in late March is the first real strategy we have had for Afghanistan since the early 1980s,” he said.

    The stradegy of loosing more troops for 3 monthes than even the first month we went over there.

    Bleep bleep bleep the all.

  15. canary
    September 28, 2009 at 3:44 am

    AP: 3LiveNews: Top Afghan official threatens to quit after attack Sep 28 2009

    A powerful member of President Hamid Karzai’s Cabinet threatened to quit after a suicide car bomb attack targeted him, killing five people,…Two Americans were among six NATO troop deaths elsewhere.

    … a young man was hanged by militants only a couple kilometres outside a NATO base and Afghan government centre.

    Kidnappings of wealthy family members are on the rise, including the abduction of girls, he said.

    Taliban assassination attempts against Afghan officials have intensified this year, with more than 100 officials and pro-government tribal elders attacked – half of them fatally….

    The convoy carrying Khan,… when a suicide car bomb exploded outside a high school,…

    Two US service members died Saturday in the country’s south – one from a roadside bomb explosion and the other from an insurgent attack,…
    A British soldier died Sunday from a bomb explosion while patrolling ..

    …year has been the deadliest of the eight-year war for US and NATO troops…

    .. US Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has made protecting innocent Afghans a top priority.

    http://www.3news.co.nz/Top-Afg.....eID=122966

  16. nuthingbettertodo
    September 28, 2009 at 10:40 am

    I know this news story is well over a month old but how come it didn’t make national outrage? Can anyone guess?

    http://www.kypost.com/content/.....qprAQ.cspx

  17. BannedbytheTaliban
    September 28, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Are we still fighting a war in Iraq? Are the bombings and violence still escaliating since the American draw back? Who knows, I haven’t seen a story on Iraq in the MSM in over a month. It is almost like Obama won and Iraq is the peaceful utopia it was before the evil BushHitler war machine destoryed that idealic democracy.

    Now this from the BBC:

    Iraq hit by deadly bomb attacks

    At least 13 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq, local officials say.

    A lorry with explosives blew up at a police station near the central city of Ramadi, killing seven policemen.

    In southern Iraq, a bomb planted on a bus killed three people in the province of Qadisiya. In Baghdad, a series of bombs killed at least three people.

    Violence in Iraq saw a spike in August, with the highest number of violent deaths for more than a year.

    Iraqi government figures showed that 393 civilians were killed that month, along with about 60 police officers and soldiers.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8279056.stm

    Sorry SG, I didn’t post less than a third of the article, that is it in its entirety. What a difference a single letter makes. When there was a R president every death, and many non-deaths, were major headlines every day. Now that there a D in the Whitehouse, nothing. No other news outlet in America has any stories on Iraq save CNN. There story is about a solar power use in Iraq. Worst violence in a year I guess is not worth reporting.

  18. caligirl9
    September 28, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    To remind any California residents not to vote for this fruitcake for governor … are you sitting down? Good. From SF Gate.

    Newsom plans college ’savings bond’

    Mayor and new daddy Gavin Newsom will unveil a plan to provide every San Francisco kindergartener with a $50 “savings bond” for college – just as soon as he can figure out how to make sure illegal immigrants can qualify.

    The idea behind the Kindergarten to College program would be for San Francisco to seed an account for each of the 4,500 children who enter kindergarten in the city’s public schools each year. The students and their families would take it from there.

    The money could be used only for college and would come out of the general fund.

    Like the city’s health care program, the bonds would be open to all students regardless of their immigration status or the status of their parents. And therein lies the rub: How to provide money for children whose parents may be reluctant to put their names on a bank account.

    “What happens if a parent fails to sign them? Those are the type of issues we are looking at,” said David Augustine, policy and program manager for the city treasurer’s office, which would oversee the program.

    A pilot program is expected to rev up in 2010, with sign-ups beginning next spring – just in time for the governor’s race.

    And will Newsom take the program statewide if he wins?

    “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” said mayoral spokesman Nathan Ballard. “Right now we want to get it up and running in San Francisco.”

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....19SSEV.DTL

    Mind you, that city is as broke as the entire state. Newsom isn’t firmly grounded in reality. And remember, SF is a sanctuary city.

  19. proreason
    September 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    The guy filling Rove’s postion in the WH was the ACORN CEO’s Political Director for years.

    http://spectator.org/archives/.....hite-house

    “This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush’s White House. ”

    He also has ties to SEIU.

    Nifty huh?

    Our Prez sure is a swell leader of our country.

  20. Eagle334th
    September 28, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    From the Associated Press:

    Sex Offenders Set Up Camp in Woods

    By GREG BLUESTEIN, AP

    MARIETTA, Ga. (Sept. 28) — A small group of homeless sex offenders have set up camp in densely wooded area behind a suburban Atlanta office park, directed there by probation officers who say it’s a place of last resort for those with nowhere else to go.

    The nine sex offenders live in tents surrounding a makeshift fire pit in the trees behind a towering "no trespassing" sign, waiting out their probation sentences as they face numerous living restrictions under one of the nation’s toughest sex offender policies.

    ‘It’s Like ‘Survivor”

    At the direction of their probation officers, nine homeless sex offenders have set up a camp behind an Atlanta office park.

    … "It’s kind of like a mind-game, it’s like ‘Survivor,’" said William Hawkins, a 34-year-old who said he was directed to the campsite two weeks ago after being released from prison for violating probation for failing to register as a sex offender in Georgia.

    The muddy camp on the outskirts of prosperous Cobb County is an unintended consequence of Georgia’s sex offender law, which bans the state’s 16,000 sex offenders from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, parks and other spots where children gather.

    It’s not the only place in Cobb County where offenders can live – there are hundreds of other sex offenders throughout the county living in compliance with the law. But Ahmed Holt, manager of the state’s sex offender administration unit, calls the camp a "last resort" for homeless offenders who can’t find another place to live that complies with the law.

    He said probation officers direct them to the outpost if other options fail, such as transferring to another county or state or sending them to a relative’s place that meets the requirements. Homeless shelters and halfway houses are often not an option, he said, because of the restrictions that bar them from being near children.

    Critics say it’s an example of how laws designed to keep Georgia’s children out of harm’s way create a hazard where penniless sex offenders live largely unsupervised at the government’s urging.

    "The state needs to find a responsible way to deal with this problem," said Sarah Geraghty, an attorney with the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights who represents another man living in the camp. "Requiring people to live like animals in the woods is both inhumane and a terrible idea for public safety."

    The outpost also illustrates the unique dilemma the law creates for homeless sex offenders, who unlike other homeless people, cannot take shelter in a church or curl up in a park because they are barred from both.

    Geraghty said she has found only one homeless shelter in the state that meets the residency requirements for homeless sex offenders. The shelter, she said, is in the northwest Georgia city of Rome and has only two beds, which are often unavailable.

    The tent city is similar to one in south Florida, where dozens of sex offenders moved under a remote bridge because it was among the few places that complied with local ordinances. Florida officials say the sex offenders found the bridge on their own, while some residents of the camp dispute that.

    In Georgia, however, Holt said state probation officers have directed homeless offenders into the woods. "While having an offender located in a camp area is not ideal, the greater threat lies in homeless offenders that are not a specified location and eventually absconding supervision with there whereabouts unknown," he said.

    Several of the sex offenders in the camp said they did a double-take when their probation officers told them about the outpost. "Even the probation officer, he looked at me and said there’s nothing he can do," said Levertice Johnson, a 52-year-old who moved to the woods after he couldn’t find a job and couldn’t afford $60 a week for rent at an Atlanta shelter. "He knows it’s wrong."

    Holt said the sex offenders at the camp were monitored closely by their probation officials, adding public safety is a chief concern. He said sex offenders at the site are required to report once a week and the office sends a field agent to the camp at least twice a week.

    He added two of the sex offenders at the camp have landed jobs and are now moving toward more permanent housing, which he said is the department’s "goal for all the offenders residing at this location."

    Some of the homeless sex offenders living in the woods say the rugged conditions make life seem hopeless.

    "I’m living like an animal. It’s just bad," said Johnson, who was convicted in 2002 of child molestation. "You can’t clean up, you can’t clean yourself, you can’t do nothing. I’d rather be dead. I’m serious. I’d rather be dead."

    For Hawkins, it feels like an extension of his prison time. The former truck driver has been on the registry since he was convicted of attempted sexual battery of a 12-year-old in 1991 when he was 15. He said after he emerged from his latest stint behind bars without a place to live, he was directed to the forest despite pleas from his wife to allow him to live at the couple’s home in Swords Creek, Va.

    "I don’t understand how the state gets away with it," Mindy Hawkins said from her home in Virginia. "This is ridiculous – especially when he has a family, a home, a support system here. It’s inhumane."

    Her husband has tried to make the meager outpost feel as much like home as possible as he waits for his probation to end early next year.

    He wakes up each morning to brew coffee on a donated gas grill tied to a tree near his tent, showers under a bag of water he fills up at the office park and then treks into the suburban sprawl to search for a job. At night, he prepares meals like "hobo stew" – rice, sausage and veggies – purchased with food stamps.

    Hawkins and a few others have begun preparing for winter, with little hope that they will find an alternative place to live. They are gathering a supply of firewood to keep a blaze going for the coming cold and have requested warm clothes from their family. "You just live for the day, you live for the moment," said Hawkins. "It’s not living, though. It’s surviving."

    http://news.aol.com/article/ho.....tta/689669

    Sorry I didn’t really shorten it, but I just couldn’t find any parts that I could really leave out, given the situation…

    I really need some help with this. This is in my county. It hit the AOL pages today, thankfully, and I was surfing on my iPhone when I happened across it. Of course, the entire piece is slanted to make us feel sorry for the sex-offenders and to blame our strict laws in GA. I was outraged when I read this today.

    We’ve lived here for almost 2 years and had no idea this was going on, nor did anyone else I’ve talked to.

    I follow national politics, mostly, not local, and I have no idea how to address this. City Council? Mayor? Governor? I want to act on this and act on this NOW. I have a 2 year old, and this is completely un-sat!!

    Any help y’all could give would be GREATLY appreciative! I’m ready to put up a sandwich board on myself and my daughter and march around Marietta Square protesting this tomorrow!

    There is SO much farm-land in this county for sale, it’s sick. I’m talking acres and acres out in the boonies, and you mean to tell me they can’t set up some sort of ‘half-way’ house for them out there? What happens when that one sex-offender doesn’t check in and rapes or kills some child?

    I am so fuming mad, right now!!

    • Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
      September 29, 2009 at 2:40 am

      Eagle,

      I would start at the bottom and work my way up, City Council, Mayor, State Reps. & Gov. Find out when the next council meeting is, go there and unload (not literally) on them. Keep going until you get satisfaction and be a real pain in the a**. Good luck.

    • Steve
      September 29, 2009 at 1:41 pm

      Homeless Georgia Sex Offenders Ordered Out of Woods Camps – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News – FOXNews.com
      http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,556300,00.html

    • proreason
      September 29, 2009 at 1:52 pm

      See if you can catch O’Reilly’s attention.

      Nothing stirs him up like sex offenders and he gets results frequently with those stories.

    • canary
      September 29, 2009 at 3:40 pm

      ProReason, yes he did a piece on that rapist director. But, then he switched to subject where Congressman who said ‘you lie’ and said that Obama did not lie. O’Rielly will call Obama brilliant, and he makes me sick. I can’t believe he is Fox’s number one fan gatherer. I remember he also saw nothing wrong with Obama’s cozing up with Chavez trip. I was hoping with all the new exposure to Obama’s CZAR’s and all prehaps he’d changed. And his comment after CNN paid him a comment, that CNN was good at reporting, just not as good as FOX, I still think he’s plugging to get on CNN.

    • canary
      September 29, 2009 at 3:45 pm

      Maybe Georgia law enforcement should check the area for graves. They probably feel like real animals when they have their orgies.

    • proreason
      September 29, 2009 at 3:55 pm

      Canary, O’Reilly is either stupid, a closet Big Government liberal, or holding his tongue to get an interview with the Moron.

      He should want to be “fair and balanced” to Obamy, but he goes way too far, imho. I like that he says that nobody can understand the Health Care monstrosity, but he should point out to his audience the 8 taxes it contains, and be screaming about the trillions of dollars it will cost, and the millions of seniors who will suffer because of the hit to Medicare. And he should be pointing out the Moron’s incessant lying.

      He also doesn’t say enough about all of the other stuff; nationalizing industries, attacks on free speech, useless “stimulus”, corrupt administration, etc., etc., etc.

      Plus he says that Beck and Hannity are anti-Obamy, without actually naming them specifically.

      I think he’s continually soft-peddling the Moron’s crimes because he will never get another interview if he speaks the truth forthrightly.

      Which I find disgusting.

      I’ve heard a lot of people say that he is essentially a Populist with conservative values. That is pretty accurate. But I would add that he is also blind to what is right in front of his face.

    • Eagle334th
      October 1, 2009 at 11:37 pm

      Thank you so much, everyone! I’ve been trying to get all my ducks in a row, and I’ll keep you updated!

  21. canary
    September 29, 2009 at 3:49 am

    Congressman Rep Randy Forbes blasts Obama’s speech in Turkey . Submits resolution to stop Obama’s religious comments to other countries.
    Great speech for our Constitution and Fore-fathers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o

  22. canary
    September 29, 2009 at 4:20 am

    Ap Source: New York City Terror Plot Investigator Focus on Possible Accomplices Sep 28 2009

    NEW YORK (AP) — After interrupting what they believed was a terrorist plot on New York City with a series of raids and arrests, authorities have intensified their focus on possible accomplices of the suspected al-Qaida associate at the heart of the case, a law enforcement official said Monday.

    … confirmed that investigators know the identities of at least three people believed to be in on a bombing plot they say might have targeted mass transit in the New York area.

    The accomplices are suspected of traveling from New York City to suburban Denver this summer and using stolen credit cards to help Najibullah Zazi…

    Before the raids, police detectives showed a source, a Queens imam at a mosque where Zazi had once worshipped, photographs of him and three people considered possible suspects, court papers say. It was unclear whether those three were the same ones suspected of traveling to Denver.

    After initially being charged along with his father and the imam with lying to investigators, Zazi was due in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday..

    … The 24-year-old airport van driver has denied any wrongdoing.
    .. an Afghan immigrant with ties to Pakistan..

    Evidence gathered so far, including bomb-making instructions found on his laptop computer,..

    Prosecutors allege that Zazi has admitted that while living in Queens, he traveled last year to Pakistan and received explosives training from al-Qaida.
    Security videos and store receipts show that when he returned and moved to Aurora, Colo., he and three others bought several bottles of beauty products over the course of several weeks, court papers said.

    On Sept. 6, Zazi took some of his products into a Colorado hotel room outfitted with a stove on which he later left acetone residue, authorities said. He repeatedly sought another person’s help cooking up the bomb, “each communication more urgent in tone than the last,” the papers said.

    The FBI was listening to Zazi and becoming increasingly concerned as the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a New York visit by President Barack Obama approached, officials said. They decided to track him on Sept. 9 when he rented a car and drove to New York.

    On Sept. 10, Zazi told the Queens imam in an intercepted phone call that he feared he was being watched, court papers said. The imam later tipped Zazi off, saying police had come around and asked questions,…

    Zazi cut a five-day trip short and flew back to Denver on Sept. 12. He was arrested a week later.

    NYT’s description of an impoverished troubled man, now down the drain

  23. BillK
    September 29, 2009 at 6:56 am

    Your tax dollars at work.

    From the Washington Times:

    EXCLUSIVE: Workers’ porn surfing rampant at federal agency

    By Jim McElhatton

    Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times.

    The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency’s inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.

    “To manage this dramatic increase without an increase in staff required us to significantly reduce our efforts to investigate grant fraud,” the inspector general recently told Congress in a budget request. “We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years as a direct result.”

    The budget request doesn’t state the nature or number of the misconduct cases, but records obtained by The Times through the Freedom of Information Act laid bare the extent of the well-publicized porn problem inside the government-backed foundation.

    For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.

    When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official’s porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.

    “He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that,” investigators wrote in a memo.

    The independent foundation, funded by taxpayers to the tune of $6 billion in 2008, is tasked with handing out scientific grants to colleges, universities and research institutions nationwide. The projects it funds ranges from mapping the genome of the potato to exploring outer space with powerful new telescopes. It has a total of 1,200 career employees.

    Recent budget documents for the inspector general cite a “6-fold increase in employee misconduct cases and associated proactive management implication report activities.” The document doesn’t say how many cases were involved in the increase, and officials could not immediately provide a figure. …

    http://www.washingtontimes.com.....al-agency/

    After all, it’s not their money.

    As far as the “poor women” excuse, the NSF official must have learned that one from Bill…

  24. Rusty Shackleford
    September 29, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    Senate panel rejects gov’t-run insurance option

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....e_overhaul

    By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent David Espo, Ap Special Correspondent – 17 mins ago

    WASHINGTON – In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways.

    The two votes marked a victory for Montana Democrat Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee chairman, who is hoping to push his middle-of-the-road measure through the panel by week’s end. It also kept alive the possibility that at least one Republican may yet swing behind the overhaul, a key goal of both Baucus and the White House.

    The developments occurred as Democrats in the House sought savings to reduce their companion legislation to roughly $900 billion over a decade, the price tag President Barack Obama has suggested.

    One option under consideration would reduce the number of individuals and families eligible for federal health coverage subsidies to those earning less than 400 percent of poverty, or about $43,000 for a single person and $88,000 for a family of four, officials said, commenting only on condition of anonymity. The subsidies are designed to make insurance more affordable, and account for a significant percentage of spending in the bill.

    Without disclosing any of the details of a marathon closed-door leadership meeting, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters, “It’s hard work, but we’re determined to get it (the bill’s cost) down.”

    —————marathon closed-door meeting. Yup, real transparency, at real transparency prices.

    If anything, the health care debate was growing more intense. According to one independent organization, television advertising around the issue has been running at a level of more than $1.1 million a day for the past week and now stands over $100 million since the beginning of the year.

    Inside the Senate Finance Committee, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said his proposal to allow the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry was far from the federal takeover that critics portray. “It’s not. It’s optional,” he said, adding it was designed to offer competition and a lower-priced, reliable choice for consumers shopping for coverage.

    ————Yes, competition that will be artificially and ridiculously inexpensive, causing corporations to dump its workers onto the “public option” and thus, slamming the door on private medical insurance forever.

    “Washington is not the answer,” countered Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

    ————-THANK YOU! Sen Hatch. Those five words say all that need be said!

  25. BillK
    September 29, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Just in case anyone still cares, from the New York Post, proving that no matter what the facts, liberals will stick to a story for the rest of their lives:

    Judge tosses newsman’s $70M CBS claim

    By Dareh Gregorian

    Time’s up for Dan Rather.

    A state appeals court today dismissed the former “60 Minutes” correspondent’s $70 million lawsuit against his former bosses at CBS.

    Rather’s breach of contract and fraud suit charged that CBS ruined the “Evening News” anchor’s reputation by making him a scapegoat for a flawed 2004 story on then-President Bush’s Vietnam-era Texas Air National Guard service that infuriated the White House.

    Rather, 77, had hoped the suit would vindicate the report, and would also force CBS to pay for costing him job opportunities by effectively sidelining him in the wake of the controversy.

    “Rather’s claim that, but for CBS’ fraud, he could have had more remunerative employment than that which he ultimately obtained at HDNet is unavailing,” the ruling says.

    The panel noted that, “Rather admits that, the broadcast and its aftermath aside, CBS was already contemplating that he would step down from its anchor position in 2006 and assume a reduced role.” …

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/l.....PPggN5azTJ

    What’s the frequency now, Kenneth?

    • Rusty Shackleford
      September 29, 2009 at 7:19 pm

      Oh Danny Boyyyy, the pipes the pipes are callllllingggggg. From glen to glen……

      My god he’s truly off his nut.

  26. Rusty Shackleford
    September 29, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors’ kids

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....klash_mich

    By JAMES PRICHARD, Associated Press Writer James Prichard, Associated Press Writer – 43 mins ago

    IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.

    Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

    “I was freaked out. I was blown away,” she said. “I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls” — that is, the mothers whose kids she watches — “every one of them.”

    Snyder’s predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family.

    On Tuesday, agency Director Ismael Ahmed said good neighbors should be allowed to help each other ensure their children are safe. Gov. Jennifer Granholm instructed Ahmed to work with the state Legislature to change the law, he said.

    “Being a good neighbor means helping your neighbors who are in need,” Ahmed said in a written statement. “This could be as simple as providing a cup of sugar, monitoring their house while they’re on vacation or making sure their children are safe while they wait for the school bus.”

    Snyder learned that the agency was responding to a neighbor’s complaint.

    Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said the agency was following standard procedure in its response. “But we feel this (law) really gets in the way of common sense,” Boyd said.

    “We want to protect kids, but the law needs to be reasonable,” she said. “When the governor learned of this, she acted quickly and called the director personally to ask him to intervene.”

    State Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland, said he was working to draft legislation that would exempt situations like Snyder’s from coverage under Michigan’s current day care regulations.

    ————Of course, if the government hadn’t been involved in the FIRST place, they wouldn’t have to take some sort of costly legislative action and fix a problem they messed up to begin with. Layering laws upon laws is certainly far more efficient than letting the people decide what’s best.

  27. canary
    September 30, 2009 at 5:33 am

    Olympics Crony Watch: Protest in Chicago today; Daley mouths off in Copenhagen By Michelle Malkin Sep 29, 2009

    No Games Chicago is holding a protest against the Daley/Obama crony bid today at 5:30pm in Chicago. City Hall. 121 N. LaSalle St.

    ~~~~De facto Olympics czar and interest-conflicted real estate development mogul Valerie Jarrett “can’t imagine why anyone would be against it.”~~~~

    Well, the IOC is certainly watching Mayor Daley’s mouth:

    Could Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games be hurt by Mayor Richard M. Daley’s comments about the competition with Rio de Janeiro?

    Daley’s comments last week about Rio’s capabilities to host both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics are being taken by Rio as critical of Chicago’s presumed main rival in Friday’s International Olympic Committee vote for the 2016 Games. (You can read our original story about that by clicking here.)

    What Daley said about Tokyo and Madrid also could be viewed as critical of those two other finalists, since he minimized their chances based on geographical factors.

    The IOC prohibits bid cities from criticizing their rivals.

    Questions about whether Daley’s comments had breached that prohibition were raised at both the Rio and Chicago media conferences here this afternoon, and a Brazil bid leader promoted that idea.

    Responding to a question today about Daley’s comments, Rio 2016 bid chairman Carlos Nuzman said, through a translator, that such issues are “in the hands” of the IOC ethics commission.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2009.....ago-today/

  28. proreason
    September 30, 2009 at 11:02 am

    It’s good to see a media outlet with the prestige of the WSJ begin to call the Liars liars.

    “The public is not as dumb as it’s made out to be, and Mr. Obama’s public option died a bipartisan death yesterday in the Senate Finance Committee. What’s left is a package of “reforms” that are mere trite extensions of what we’ve been doing for decades. That is, piling up mandates on private insurers and then lying that this somehow isn’t driving up the cost of health insurance; piling up subsidies for health consumption and then lying that this somehow isn’t responsible for runaway health-care spending.”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/.....inion_main

  29. proreason
    September 30, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Stumbled onto this list of White House salaries. 29 pages, 17 people per page. About 1/3 appear to make more than $100K. But of course, government benefits double that, and anybody making over $100K in THIS White House is actually pulling in a million a year on up in graft and other criminal activities.

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/asse.....raft12.pdf

    And this list is as-of July 1. The hire rate appears to be about 100 per month.

    For the people on the list, I estimate the annual budget for salary and benefits alone to be 74 million. But of course, they need office space, will consume vast amounts of telecom, will have extravagent expense accounts, will travel frequently, many will have government paid cars and/or chaufers.

    There can be little doubt that the annual cost is well over $100 million……probably closer to $200 million, perhaps even higher.

  30. proreason
    September 30, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Poor poor government workers.

    “…Consider the lucrative lot of the men and women who work for Uncle Sam. In 2008, according to data from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, the 1.9 million civilian employees of the federal government earned an average salary of $79,197. The average private employee, by contrast, earned just $49,935. The difference between them came to more than $29,000 – a differential that has more than doubled since 2000….

    Americans increasingly fall into one of two camps. Those who work for the government – about 15 percent of the labor force – tend to enjoy sumptuous perks, virtually indestructible job security, and pensions that are guaranteed for life. The rest of us work in the private economy, where millions of jobs can be wiped out by a recession, defined-benefit pensions are disappearing, and competition and downsizing are facts of life…”

    http://www.boston.com/bostongl....._employee/

    Thank goodness bureaucrats are so capable, efficient and hard-working…….like postal workers. If they weren’t, the country might really be in trouble.

    Mrs. Reason happened to be at our local Post Office at quitting time yesterday. Fortunately, she wasn’t run over. But she reported back that almost every car racing out of the parking lot was a Mercedes or BMW. Now, Mrs. Reason does have a tendency to exagerate. But I like the story anyway.

  31. Rusty Shackleford
    September 30, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    GM to shut down Saturn after Penske walks away

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/.....amp;ccode=

    * By Kimberly S. Johnson, AP Auto Writer
    * On Wednesday September 30, 2009, 5:07 pm EDT

    DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. said Wednesday it would shut down its Saturn brand after an agreement with Penske Automotive Group Inc. to acquire it fell apart.

    Penske, citing concerns of whether it could continue to supply vehicles after a manufacturing contract with GM ran out, ended talks with GM Wednesday to acquire the brand.

    GM CEO Fritz Henderson said in statement that Saturn and its dealership network will be phased out.

    “This is very disappointing news and comes after months of hard work by hundreds of dedicated employees and Saturn retailers who tried to make the new Saturn a reality,” Henderson said in a written statement. “PAG’s announcement explained that their decision was not based on interactions with GM or Saturn retailers.”

    In a statement, the Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based auto retailer says an agreement with another manufacturer to continue producing Saturn vehicles after GM stopped making them fell through, leading Penske to terminate talks with GM.

    Penske said it negotiated terms and conditions to make Saturn cars with another manufacturer, but that company’s board of directors rejected the agreement. Penske spokesman Anthony Pordon would not identify the other manufacturer.

    “Without that agreement, the company has determined that the risks and uncertainties related to the availability of future products prohibit the company from moving forward with this transaction,” the company said in a statement.

    In June, GM and Penske agreed to take over the Saturn brand and related dealerships, although GM would produce the vehicles for a limited period of time.

    GM said Saturn vehicle owners can still go to their Saturn dealer for service and would be able to go to a certified GM dealer for service once Saturn dealerships are closed.

    It was expected that GM would announce the completion of Saturn’s sale to Penske in the coming days.

    Share of Penske fell $1.93 to $17.25 in after hours trading. They rose $1.32, or 7.4 percent to $19.18 in regular trading Wednesday.

    ——–What you may not be aware of is that this will put another nail in the coffin of Opel, Europe’s GM mainstay in Germany and where much of the Saturn cars are based from.

    ——-So, Barry, how’s that change workin’ for ya? Ya like owning a car company? Do ya? Huh? Do ya?

  32. Rusty Shackleford
    October 1, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    The AP strikes back:

    FACT CHECK: Loose facts in health horror story

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_....._opponents

    By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer – Wed Sep 30, 8:09 pm ET

    WASHINGTON – Shona Holmes is the Harry and Louise of this year’s health care debate, only unlike the fictional folks who memorably trashed the Clinton-era health plan in advocacy ads 15 years ago, Holmes is real.

    But her story? It’s not quite the slam-dunk indictment of socialized medicine that’s been portrayed by Republican lawmakers and their allies.

    Holmes, a Canadian living under that country’s single-payer system, has said flatly that her brain tumor would have killed her if she’d accepted her fate in Canada — a wait of four months for one specialist and six months for another. Instead she went to the U.S. and had successful surgery.

    But she never had cancer — a fact routinely omitted by the advocates who have seized on her case. Technically, she didn’t have a tumor, either. She had a benign cyst that was apparently threatening her eyesight.

    ——But the brilliant Canadian doctors told her it was a tumor. (oops)

    Holmes’ decision to come to the U.S. exposed her both to the best of American health care and the worst: its capacity for prompt, advanced treatment for complicated conditions, and its staggering expense.

    She and her husband took out a second mortgage on their Waterdown, Ontario, home and made other sacrifices to cover the nearly $100,000 in medical and travel bills from her visits to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.

    In that respect, she was much like the 40 million or so Americans who have no health insurance and are only one hospital bill away from financial peril.

    ——-But, as you so eloquently stated later, “had she waited, she wouldn’t have had to pay a dime. You want it both ways when you try to make your argument.

    Had she waited, the surgery would have cost her nothing back home. She says that was a risk she couldn’t take.

    ——-See, a risk she couldn’t take. But the doctors back home had the best info, right? Or, are you gonna blame it on a lying CIA and Bush because it was merely a cyst and not a brain tumor?

    ———-snip

    THE FACTS:

    The Mayo Clinic diagnosed Holmes with Rathke’s cleft cyst, which the clinic describes as a rare fluid-filled sac that grows near the pituitary gland near the base of the brain and can cause hormone and vision problems over time. The condition is not known to be fatal and the clinic, in trumpeting her treatment, makes no claim that her life was in danger.

    ———But again, the Canadian docs had it as a tumor.

    It does, though, say she would have eventually lost her sight without surgery.

    ———Oh, for sure I’d rather be blind than dead any day. So….give me the public healthcare option. It was the MAYO CLINIC docs who got it right. Something you repeatedly indicate in your watchdog presentation.

    ——–Before you go flaming a conservative notion…you first have to understand what we’re talking about. However, the diametric opposition is more likely to continue instead.

    ——–The last statement in the article says:

    Holmes was at first diagnosed in Arizona, then went back for the surgery after she failed to persuade health officials at home to speed up her treatment. She says her vision has been restored.

    ——–This is flatly untrue. She had an MRI after complaints of dizziness while in her home nation of Canada. Her doctor who reviewed the MRI results said he thought it was a brain tumor. That put her into motion to save her own life as she had only the doctor’s information to go on. Only when further diagnosis (something the Canadian government probably flatly prohibited [death-panel-esque]) indicated it was a cyst did she realize that her life was no longer in danger

  33. proreason
    October 1, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Great story.

    The propagandist is a fool and an idiot, or in other words………..

    He’s a journalist.

  34. Rusty Shackleford
    October 1, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    From the racially-centric TIME magazine:

    What Berlusconi’s Tan Obama ‘Jokes’ Say About Italy

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/0.....DMQ–

    By JEFF ISRAELY Jeff Israely – 2 hrs 1 min ago

    It was the gaffe heard around the globe. Last November, just two days after Barack Obama’s historic election victory, the world’s collective jaw dropped when Silvio Berlusconi quipped that the next U.S. President was “young, handsome and even has a good tan.” Though the Italian Prime Minister refused to apologize for the failed attempt at humor, Obama and his aides gave Berlusconi a pass. The incoming President was not going to be sidetracked by a diplomatic incident with a man already notorious as a loose cannon. Berlusconi kept his place that week on Obama’s initial round of phone calls to world leaders, with the “tan” remark firmly off the agenda and both sides hailing strong relations between the key transatlantic allies.

    Strangely, it is Berlusconi who has not let the incident rest. He called his critics “imbeciles,” saying the remark was meant as a compliment. “We’d all like to be tanned like Naomi Campbell and Obama,” he said two weeks after the original one-liner. He has made other references to it in the months since. (See Berlusconi’s worst gaffes.)

    And then on Sunday, he dropped the abbronzato bomb again. Having returned from the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, he told supporters in Milan that he carried greetings from “someone tan, what’s his name? Barack Obama!” Not satisfied, he continued, “You will not believe it, but the two of them went together to get some sun at the beach, because the wife is also tanned.”

    ——–To be quite honest….I think it’s funny as hell.

  35. canary
    October 2, 2009 at 3:26 am

    AP: By JULIE PACE – Julie Pace Oct 2 2009

    COPENHAGEN – In a quick dash of salesmanship, President Barack Obama is in the Danish capital, putting his personal powers of persuasion on the line to boost Chicago’s Olympics bid.

    The president arrived in Copenhagen on Friday morning for a whirlwind trip of less than five hours, with Chicago-backers hoping that would be sufficient to give Obama’s adopted home town the advantage …the host city of the 2016 Summer Games.

    Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo have been making their cases to the International Olympic Committee for more than a year, but many IOC members were believed to be undecided about which city they would vote for Friday. Some said they might not decide until after the cities made their final presentations in Copenhagen.

    Enter Obama. He was to take part in Chicago’s 45-minute presentation, although details about his role were kept secret. But anticipation — and expectations — ran high.

    The Chicago bid committee had asked the president to take part in the Copenhagen meeting several times. Despite being a longtime supporter of Chicago’s bid, Obama said the debate on health care overhaul in Congress might keep him from attending. He asked first lady Michelle Obama, a Chicago native, to go instead.

    Aides said the president only made the decision to make an overnight flight to Copenhagen after determining that a short trip wouldn’t take away from his work on health care.

    But the compressed time frame did not shield Obama from criticism that he shouldn’t be hopscotching to Europe in Air Force One when there were so many pressing issues to deal with in the U.S. such as health care, the war in Afghanistan and the financial meltdown.

    “The problems we have here at home affect all Americans, and that’s where his attention ought to be,” House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday.

    Though IOC President Jacques Rogge has said heads of state aren’t required to attend the IOC meeting, recent votes indicate their presence can make a difference.

    Obama is poised to be the first U.S. president to make an in-person appeal to the IOC on behalf of an American bid. Heads of state representing all of Chicago’s competitors also were to be in Copenhagen.

    In advance of Obama’s arrival, Mrs. Obama did some high-powered lobbying for Chicago. The first lady has been in Copenhagen since Wednesday, holding one-on-one meetings with IOC members. She also was to have a speaking role in Chicago’s presentation and was expected to focus on her personal experiences growing up and raising a family in the city.

    Mrs. Obama said she’s relying on lessons learned during the 2008 presidential campaign, when the Obama team focused on making personal connections with voters and rallying support up until the last possible moment.

    “You can’t take any vote for granted,” Mrs. Obama said Wednesday. “Nobody makes the decision until they’re sitting there.”

    Following the Chicago presentation, the Obamas were to meet with Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, and the president with Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen.

    By the time the winning bid is announced, the president should be back on his plane to Washington.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....VuaGFnZW4-

    “Aides said the president only made the decision to make an overnight flight to Copenhagen”

    Obama’s self-idolatry is becoming expensive

    • canary
      October 2, 2009 at 3:42 am

      Michelles’s VBG with many titles can brag to IOC how she got a million dollar bonus for not fixing up her real-estate Glove park slums living where sewage backs up, ready to be condemned and torn down. Oh, and I’m sure Daly will brag what a good job Michelle did while she worked for his office, until she got that hospital job that her girlfriend got her deferred pay for.

    • canary
      October 2, 2009 at 4:20 am

      Iranian President addressed the U.N. againg with a prayer he always says, that involves the twelver believers. Guest on Glenn Bleck discusses this, that Ahamadman’s beliefs is to fullfill the twelver idea. What’s bizarre is his he always begs Mohammad to come swiftly. So, much for Allah only. I’ve been hearing some talk about the twelvers but this segment the below essay shows what the danger of Ahamadman’s dangerous religious beliefs.
      show segment w/his prayer, and discussing what it meant.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue3OOGsImaA

      Here is an essay written that sheds more light on how far Ahamadma’s beliefs are. A possibility that Iran will strike as a way to push up the events of tribulation.

  36. canary
    October 2, 2009 at 4:42 am

    AP:Quotations of the day Oct 2 2009

    Barack Obama : “I urge you to choose Chicago. And if you do — if we walk this path together — then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud.” — President Barack Obama telling members of the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen why they should pick Chicago over Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo as the site of the 2016 Summer Games.
    —
    huh? America will make the world proud for or to who? little green men?

    David Letterman: “I was worried for myself, I was worried for my family. I felt menaced by this, and I had to tell them all of the creepy things that I had done. The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who work for me on this show.” — David Letterman, describing to his “Late Show” audience how he admitted having affairs with female employees to a grand jury investigating allegations that Letterman was the victim of a $2 million blackmail plot.

    hmm. no telling what creepy thing may have happened the recent night Obama was on Letterman’s show,

  37. BillK
    October 2, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Missed in all the other Polanski coverage, from a sycophantic Associated Press:

    Sharon Tate’s Sister Says Polanski Sex With 13-Year Old ‘Consensual’

    Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski’s second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a “good guy” and she doesn’t think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States.

    Tate told NBC television Wednesday that the U.S. justice system is broken.

    Polanski was arrested Saturday in Zurich. The U.S. has been seeking his extradition for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

    Tate says Polanski did not forcibly have sex with the girl, calling it a “consensual matter.” …

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,557824,00.html

    “Consensual.”

    Funny how that contradicts this:

    CAL. PEN. CODE § 269 : California Code – Section 269

    (a)Any person who commits any of the following acts upon a child who is under 14 years of age and seven or more years younger than the person is guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child:

    (1)Rape, in violation of paragraph (2) or (6) of subdivision (a) of Section 261.

    (2)Rape or sexual penetration, in concert, in violation of Section 264.1.

    (3)Sodomy, in violation of paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (c), or subdivision (d), of Section 286.

    (4)Oral copulation, in violation of paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (c), or subdivision (d), of Section 288a.

    (5)Sexual penetration, in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 289.

    (b)Any person who violates this section is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 15 years to life.

    (c)The court shall impose a consecutive sentence for each offense that results in a conviction under this section if the crimes involve separate victims or involve the same victim on separate occasions as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 667.6.

    http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/ca.....1/9/1/s269

    Silly me.

  38. rightwingmama
    October 2, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    From Fox News’ Karlie Pouliot :

    CDC: Nearly 1 in 3 Pregnant Women Who’ve Contracted H1N1 Have Died in U.S.
    A stark reminder about how deadly the new H1N1 virus can be. During a news briefing Thursday, U.S. health officials said the virus has hit pregnant women especially hard. Since it first surfaced in April, nearly 1 in 3 pregnant women who were hospitalized due to the virus have died.

    “Since the virus was first recognized in late April, early May, 100 pregnant women across the country have been hospitalized due to the novel H1N1 flu and 28 have died,” Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention told FOXNews.com.

    Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC said these numbers “are really upsetting” and urged pregnant women to get the seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine…

    Notice the headline is not truthful. The fact is, that out of 100 women in America who have been hospitalized 28 have died. The statistic doesn’t mean that 1/3 of all pregnant women who have contracted H1N1 have died. Sure does make H1N1 sound a lot scarier though, when you twist statistics into saying something that they certainly do not say.

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