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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 12:00 am. You can leave a response.

25 Responses to “Selected News For May 23 – May 29”

  1. Steve
    May 24, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    This is an editorial and it is a couple of days old, but it is still newsworthy enough to warrant posting.

    From the Washington Examiner:

    Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill stuffed full of unpleasant surprises

    05/22/09

    Congress is considering the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation and guess what? It’s stuffed full of unpleasant surprises for the unwary. But thank goodness for the eagle-eyed folks at the American Energy Alliance, who spotted this little gem on page 781 of the mammoth 946-page bill:

    “Title IV, Subtitle B, Part 2, Section 426, of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 states: ‘An eligible worker (specifically, workers who lose their jobs as a result of this measure) may receive a climate change adjustment allowance under this subsection for a period of not longer than 156 weeks…80 percent of the monthly premium of any health insurance coverage…up to a maximum payment of $1,500 in relocation allowance…and job search expenses not exceed[ing] $1,500.’”

    If cap-and-trade is an energy and global warming bill, why is a three-year package of unemployment benefits, job training and relocation expenses buried deep within its fine print? And why is a federally subsidized “job bank” needed if laid-off workers would quickly be rehired for higher-paying “green” jobs? The fact that generous unemployment benefits are buried in the bill means that “green jobs are bunk,” the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Ben Lieberman told The Examiner.

    A Heritage analysis also found that Waxman-Markey is the largest, most intrusive energy tax increase in American history. It would reduce the nation’s GDP by $7.4 trillion, raise electricity rates 90 percent and gasoline prices 74 percent. Apparently, the authors of this legislation were unaware that a recent poll found six out of 10 Americans oppose energy policies that raise their electricity bill by even one cent, much less practically double it. And the final kicker is that the bill’s effect on greenhouse gases emissions would be just barely measurable.

    It stands to reason that forcing companies and individuals to switch from using relatively cheap, abundant energy sources like oil, coal and natural gas to more expensive “alternative” sources will be a huge drag on the nation’s economy, especially during a deep recession. There’s no getting around it: Higher energy costs will inevitably lead to higher consumer prices and fewer jobs. And any new “green” jobs created will likely be lower-paid manual labor and service jobs, not higher-paid manufacturing positions. Any way you look at it, throwing millions of Americans out of work is an unacceptably high price to pay for a paltry two-tenths of a degree difference in temperature by the end of the century.

    http://tinyurl.com/o8bakf

    (Thanks to PeggyB for the heads up.)

    • proreason
      May 24, 2009 at 3:53 pm

      946 pages packed with details for trial lawyers to litigate.

      946 pages full of ways to steal from average Americans and redistibute to the TMCC’s political allies.

      946 pages brimming with new ways for empathic judges to control our lives.

      946 pages chock full of pork for congressmen to brag about to get votes in their districts.

      and global warming doesn’t even exist.

      We’re in an Ice Age that has now lasted over a million years. The ice will come back.

  2. Steve
    May 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Here is a site that is chronicling the political donations of the Chrysler dealerships that are being closed by Mr. Obama:

    Latest Research on Chrysler Dealerships

    Here is a link to the latest information on Chrysler’s dealerships. The first 3/4 of the dealerships have been analyzed so far. The rest will be done tomorrow.

    Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15760333/Chrysler-Report

    http://tinyurl.com/p8mgq3

    Of course it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that most of the dealers donated to Republicans.

    Most small businesses are run by Republicans.

    (Thanks to Suek for the heads up.)

    • proreason
      May 24, 2009 at 1:43 pm

      If they also track dealerships that were not discontinued and the results indicate an extreme bias toward Democrat contributors, this information could be pretty explosive. Without the other side of the equation, it’s hard to say whether the bias is there, even though this data seems to indicate a heavy Republican tilt for the dealerships that were cut.

      The thing with the bond-holders and the UAW was bad, but The Moron was able to get away with the Big Lie by deviously calling the bond-holders “speculators”……..which is pretty ironic, since bonds are one of the most conservative investment vehicles. But hey, it is already 100% clear that the American public is dumb as a lamp-post.

      The Moron is going to have a hard time tarring 700 local small business owners, since dealerships are a vital part of local economies and provide a lot of well-paying jobs.

      I’d love to see the study go forward and I’d love to see The Moron try to smear these dealerships.

    • Barbie
      May 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm

      PR says: But hey, it is already 100% clear that the American public is dumb as a lamp-post.

      PR, I think you’re being a trifle harsh on lamp-posts.

    • BannedbytheTaliban
      May 26, 2009 at 11:29 am

      I took a ride down Hwy. 70 in NC from Raleigh to Cherry Point Memorial day, a trip I have made dozens of times. The thing that stood out the most was all the car dealerships that were closed. I counted over a dozen, of all brands of cars. It is shame that small business is the hardest hit. With all the billions spent on bailing out the big three, you think there would have been some money to help the dealerships stay afloat. Not that I was for them spending the money to begin with, but since they didn’t consult me, it should have been done a little more effectively instead of going to pay off their Union allies.

    • proreason
      May 26, 2009 at 12:19 pm

      “It is shame that small business is the hardest hit. ”

      It’s deliberate and this is only the first step.

      Big Facist Governments prefer Big Business…..they are easier to control than small businesses.

      Moreover, small businesses pose other threats to the Facists. Small business owners are independent and have enough money to challenge authority. The businesses provide a supportive social framework for employees that helps them resist government edicts. And the businesses themselves are examples of individual success that prove people can succeed without government dependence.

      For those reasons, I think we will see a concerted effort to destroy as many small businesses as possible. That’s why you hear no response when people point out that Obamy’s famous tax increase on “only” the upper 5% has small businesses in the bulls eye.

  3. catie
    May 24, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Steve, thanks for posting this. I wondered about this when the list came out. The place I bought my Chrysler Le Baron Convertible from was on the list and I know they donate heavily to Republican and pro-Republican causes. I figured this was the case. Sad and disgusting.

  4. 12 Gauge Rage
    May 24, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Most Americans will think that the unemployment benefits of this package are a good deal when in reality they’re getting a raw deal. The only reason big government hates small businesses is because they’re private and not under their thumb.

  5. canary
    May 24, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Mexican Prison Director and guards aid 53 Mexican inmates to escape.

    Associated Press
    Top security officer quits after Mexican jailbreak Sat May 23, 2:31 pm ET

    MEXICO CITY – The top security chief of a central Mexican state has resigned after 53 inmates escaped from a prison with the alleged complicity of guards.

    Zacatecas Gov. Amalia Garcia announced the resignation of Alejandro Rojas in a statement Friday that was only one sentence long. Her government has not said whether he is being investigated in the jailbreak.

    Rojas had only been in the post for two months.

    Security camera footage shows that guards at the Cieneguillas prison stood by as 53 inmates walked out with an armed gang that had driven up in several vehicles. About a dozen of the fugitives are drug cartel suspects

    The prison director and all 44 guards on duty have been jailed pending an investigation into their possible complicity.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....on_break_2

  6. canary
    May 24, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Israel Prime Minister Announces Obama Broke Campaign Promise

    Israel News Sunday, May 24, 2009
    U.S.: Jerusalem’s status subject to negotiation
    http://zionism-israel.com/isra.....ct-to.html

    During the US election campaign, Barack Obama famously appeared at the AIPAC convention and declared his support for Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. That pledge lasted a few minutres and was quickly “clarified” as meaning the direct opposite.

    U.S.: Jerusalem’s status subject to negotiation
    By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent

    The U.S. State Department said Sunday that the future status of Jerusalem would be determined through peace negotiations, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration last week that the capital would “never again be partitioned and divided.”

    “Jerusalem is a final status issue. Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to resolve its status during negotiations. We will support their efforts to reach agreements on all final status issues,” a State Department spokesman said when asked to respond to Netanyahu’s proclamation that Jerusalem would always remain under Israeli sovereignty.

    The prime minister said he had made the same declaration during his recent visit to Washington, where he met with United States President Barack Obama over the peace process and Iran’s nuclear program.

    “Only under Israeli sovereignty will united Jerusalem ensure the freedom of religion and freedom of access for the three religions to the holy places,” Netanyahu added.

  7. canary
    May 25, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Obama’s Current Presidency, Senate, Supposed Professor days Spending, Scribbling,Selling,Still Selling & Promoting, Interviewing, 3 New Books on Way.

    New York Times May 18 2009
    THE LONG RUN; The Story of Obama, Written by Obama
    By JANNY SCOTT
    … As Ms. Hartman tells it,.. read the book, ”Dreams From My Father,” but chose not to review it.
    ”Barack would go to people one by one and say, ‘Here’s my book, I want you to read it, give me feedback.’ For me, as a publisher, he wanted me to write about it. He would call me every week and say, ‘Did you read my book?’ ”

    He finished his second book, ”The Audacity of Hope,” 18 months into his first term in the Senate, edited the proofs late at night on a Congressional fact-finding trip to Africa, plunged into campaigning for colleagues in the midterm elections, took time out for a 12-city book tour, appeared on programs like ”The Oprah Winfrey Show” .. then announced.. running for president.

    In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Obama said he would not be surprised if some people had gotten involved in his campaign ”because they feel they know me through my books.” But he said he was not even thinking about political consequences when he wrote the memoir. In fact, he said, one editor warned him back then that his references to drug use could come back to haunt him — if he were ever nominated for the Supreme Court.

    ”I don’t remember his exact words, but it was something to the effect that, ‘Well, in fact, I want to write this book.’ What he really wanted was the Virginia Woolf equivalent of a clean, well lighted room.” So Professor Baird got him one, a small office near the law library, along with a law school fellowship that Professor Baird hoped might later lead to his full-time teaching…

    half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said he eventually retreated to Bali for several months with his wife, Michelle, ”to find a peaceful sanctuary…”…” He showed drafts to a few close relatives including his grandmother, of whom Ms. Soetoro-Ng said, ”It probably made her a little nervous, having the family written about, just because you don’t do that in Kansas.”

    Two weeks before Mr. Obama’s swearing in, Crown announced that it had signed a contract with him for three more books. The first would offer ”a window into the political and spiritual convictions that propelled Obama’s recent U.S. Senate victory.” The second will be a children’s book about his life, and the third is yet to be defined.

    What happened between Mr. Obama and Ms. Dystel is not clear. Ms. Dystel declined to be interviewed for this article.

    ”Barack is worth millions now,” Mr. Osnos said. ”It’s almost all based on these two books, two books not based on a job of prodigious research or risking one’s life as a reporter in Iraq.

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f.....wanted=all

    • canary
      May 25, 2009 at 8:09 pm

      Rich at Tax dollars expense. You tired of being “Bamboozled and Oakie Doked” Obama asked? In Acknowledgments, Obama states “,,,Michelle.. helped me arrive at many of the ideas reflected. Obama gives much credit to “Rachel…who understood what I was trying to accomplish with the book before I did, and has gently but firmly brought me into line whenever I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.”

      So, blame many discrepentcies on Rachel and queen Michello.
      After Obama ruins this country, they’ll high tail it anywhere they want.

  8. canary
    May 26, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Analysis: NKorea widens threat, limits US options
    By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer Robert Burns, Ap National Security Writer

    WASHINGTON –
    The Obama administration, which said the North’s action invited stronger, unspecified international pressure, has consistently called for Korean denuclearization but seemed not to have anticipated a deepening nuclear crisis.

    Just two weeks ago, the administration’s special envoy for disarmament talks with North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, said during a visit to Asian capitals that “everyone is feeling relatively relaxed about where we are at this point in the process.”

    One of the first estimates of the size of Monday’s nuclear explosion came from the Russian defense ministry, which put the yield at between 10 and 20 kilotons — comparable to the U.S. bombs that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945.

    Graham Allison, an assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, said Monday that the international community regularly underestimates North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s willingness to do the unexpected.

    “Could this guy believe he could sell a nuclear bomb to Osama bin Laden?” Allison asked in a phone interview. “Why not?”

    EDITOR’S NOTE — Robert Burns has covered national security affairs for The Associated Press since 1990.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....Npc25rb3I-

  9. canary
    May 26, 2009 at 4:08 am

    N. Korea. 4 missles were shot Memorial Day. Tue. 3 more shot, more to come. Obama hunkered down in White House while Americans kept in dark.

    Assoicated Press P Reports: NKorea test-fires 2 short-range missiles
    By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer Hyung-jin Kim

    SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea launched tests Tuesday of two more short-range missiles a day after conducting a nuclear test, news reports said, pushing the regime’s confrontation with world powers further despite the threat of U.N. Security Council action.

    Two missiles — one ground-to-air, the other ground-to-ship — with a range of about 80 miles (130 kilometers) were test-fired Tuesday from an east coast launch pad, the Yonhap news agency and YTN television reported, citing unnamed South Korean officials.

    South Korea’s spy chief, Won Sei-hoon, had informed lawmakers earlier Tuesday that North Korea appeared to be preparing to test-fire more missiles, according to Park Young-sun, a legislator who attended the closed-door session.

    Pyongyang also test-fired three short-range missiles Monday in the hours after conducting an underground nuclear test in the northeast, Yonhap said.

    North Korea had threatened in recent weeks to carry out a nuclear test and fire long-range missiles unless the Security Council apologized for condemning Pyongyang’s April 5 launch of a rocket the U.S., Japan and other nations called a test of its long-range missile technology.

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

  10. canary
    May 26, 2009 at 5:00 am

    Secret Report pointing to Obama’s BBF Chavez in arming Iran w/uranium for nukes. May explain brotherly embraces & entertwined hand/arm clasps shared.

    Associated Press: Israeli document: Venezuela sends uranium to Iran
    By MARK LAVIE Associated Press Writer

    May 25th, 2009 | JERUSALEM — Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

    “There are reports that Venezuela supplies Iran with uranium for its nuclear program,” the Foreign Ministry document states, referring to previous Israeli intelligence conclusions. It added, “Bolivia also supplies uranium to Iran.”

    Venezuela and Bolivia are close allies, and both regimes have a history of opposing U.S. foreign policy and Israeli actions.

    The three-page document about Iranian activities in Latin America was prepared in advance of a visit to South America by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon,…

    Iran, under Ahmadinejad, has strengthened its ties with both Venezuela and Bolivia, where it opened an embassy last year. Its alliance with the left-led nations is based largely on their shared antagonism to the United States… isolation.

    Bolivia has uranium deposits. Venezuela….its own estimated 50,000 tons of untapped uranium reserves, …

    The Israeli government report also charges that the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon have set up cells in Latin America. It says Venezuela has issued permits that allow Iranian residents to travel freely in South America.

    The report concludes, “Since Ahmadinejad’s rise to power, Tehran has been promoting an aggressive policy aimed at bolstering its ties with Latin American countries with the declared goal of ‘bringing America to its knees.’”

    As allies against the U.S., Ahmadinejad and Chavez have set up a $200 billion fund aimed at garnering the support of more South American countries for the cause of “liberation from the American imperialism,” according to the report.

    http://forums.somethingawful.c.....erid=38332

  11. canary
    May 26, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    Associated Press: Burris pleads on taped call for Senate appointment
    By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer Mike Robinson

    CHICAGO – Sen. Roland Burris promised to “personally do something” for Rod Blagojevich’s campaign fund while pressing for the then-Illinois governor to appoint him to President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat, according to a wiretap transcript released Tuesday.

    The remark came after Robert Blagojevich urged Burris to “keep me in mind and you know if you guys can just write checks that’d be fine, if we can’t find a way for you to tie in.”

    “Okay, okay, well we, we, I, I will personally do something, okay,” Burris says.

    Earlier in the conversation, Burris and Robert Blagojevich explored the possibility that Burris might raise campaign money on a larger scale.

    “I know I could give him a check,” Burris said. “Myself.”

    “And therefore I can go off to, you know, wherever and do all these great things,” Burris adds. He says that he has “been trying to figure out what the heck, you know, I can do.”

    “We’ve had a number of conversations about, you know, anything you might be able to do,” Robert Blagojevich says a moment later.

    “And God knows number one, I, I wanna help Rod,” Burris says. “Number two, I also wanna, you know hope I get a consideration to get that appointment.”

    Burris gave the committee an affidavit denying any discussion with Blagojevich’s aides before being offered the seat. But when he testified, Burris acknowledged talking to one of Blagojevich’s friends and informal advisers about it.

    Burris did not admit talking to anyone else and said he could not recall any other contacts.

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

  12. canary
    May 27, 2009 at 5:45 am

    Sotomayor Ban Blonde Hair? Allowed prosecution of “Goldie Locks” & 3 Bears

    Associated Press: NY judge rises from projects to the Supreme Court
    By Associated Press Writer Larry Neumeister Wed May 27, 12:36 am ET
    NEW YORK – Sonia Sotomayor’s ascent to a U.S. Supreme Court nomination began in a Bronx housing project,…

    As a district judge, she advanced First Amendment religious claims by tossing out a state prison rule banning members of a religious sect from wearing colored beads to ward off evil spirits,

    and by rejecting a suburban law preventing the display of a 9-foot-high menorah in a park.

    Sotomayor, who has a brother who became a doctor, presided over a civil trial in 1996 in which the family of a lawyer who died from AIDS sued the makers of the movie “Philadelphia,” contending that Hollywood stole their story.

    Sotomayor owns a condominium in Greenwich Village…since at least 1998, and took out a $350,000 mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall,…

    John Siffert, a New York lawyer who has been a friend and teaching partner of Sotomayor over the last 18 years, said she continues to teach inner-city children, in one case bringing a program to the courthouse that lets children prosecute Goldilocks from “The Story of the Three Bears.”

    Assoicated Press Writer Sharon Theimer in Washington contributed to this story.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....or_profile

    So, Now can we prosecute Obombie’s “pasty blonde white” and “n” & “f” worded book book deal from public schools. How about his “brown kids” in schools.

  13. 12 Gauge Rage
    May 27, 2009 at 8:36 am

    What? Judge Sotomayor is going to limit the trial to just Goldilocks? She’s going to let those white supremacist kids Hansel unt Gretel off the hook for boiling that witch alive? She’s wasn’t a cannibalistic witch, she was just simply misunderstood.

  14. proreason
    May 27, 2009 at 10:55 am

    Nowadays the only way to learn the facts is to read commentary. Walt Williams has a great summary of the key points in Thomas Sowell’s new book about the housing “crisis”:

    The Housing Boom and Bust

    Hot off the press is my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell’s 43rd book, “The Housing Boom and Bust.” The book is an eye-opener for anyone interested in the truth about the collapse of the housing market that played a major role in our financial market crisis.

    The root of the problem lies in Washington. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, later given teeth during the Bush and Clinton administrations, forced financial institutions to make risky mortgage loans they otherwise would not have made. President Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno threatened legal action against lenders whose racial statistics raised her suspicions. Bank loan qualification standards, in general, came under criticism as being too stringent regarding down payments, credit histories, and income. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises, by lowering their standards for the kinds of mortgage paper they would purchase from banks and other mortgage lenders, gave financial institutions further incentive to make risky loans.

    In 2002, the George W. Bush administration urged Congress to enact the American Dream Down Payment Assistance Act, which subsidized down payments of homebuyers whose income was below a certain level. Bush also urged Congress to pass legislation requiring the Federal Housing Administration to make zero-down-payment loans at low-interest rates to low income Americans. Between 2005 and 2007, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac acquired an estimated trillion-dollar’s worth of subprime loans and guaranteed more than $2 trillion worth of mortgages. That, Sowell points out, is larger than the gross domestic product of all but four nations….

    Sowell provides numerous examples of government actions at both the federal and state levels that created the housing boom and bust and its devastating impact on domestic and foreign financial markets, but here’s what I don’t get: What can be said about the intelligence of the news media and the American people who buy into to congressionally created lies that our problems were caused by Wall Street greed and Bush administration deregulation? In the words of Barney Frank, “We are in a worldwide crisis now because of excessive deregulation” and “mortgages made and sold in the unregulated sector led to the crisis.” The fact of the matter is our financial sector is the most heavily regulated sector in our economy. In the banking and finance industries, regulatory spending between 1980 and 2007 almost tripled, rising from $725 million to $2.07 billion. I challenge anyone to come up with one thing banks can do that’s not covered by a regulation.

    For the Washington politicians to get away with spinning the financial crisis the way they have suggests that American people are either stupid or ignorant. I hope it’s ignorance because “The Housing Boom and Bust” is the cure.

    http://townhall.com/columnists.....m_and_bust

    The points about the Bush administration easing down payment requirement is one I hadn’t heard before.

    The summary omits the impact the Fed had by keeping interest rates artificially low. Perhaps that is covered in the book.

    Another thing omitted here but which may be in the book, is the government pressure on financial institutions to spread the risk, which resulted in the creation of AIG’s complex derivatives that spread the risk so far the entire system collapsed.

    But the most interesting aspect of “the crisis” is the success the left has had lying about the causes and shifting 100% of the blame to Wall Street, when the truth is that 99% of the blame is the government’s.

  15. canary
    May 29, 2009 at 2:08 am

    Wisconsin Right to Life Continues to Expose the Truth Behind the Madison Late-Term Abortion Plan
    Third in a Series of Ads Appears Today in Wisconsin State Journal

    Contact: Susan Armacost, Legislative Director, 877-855-5007, sarmacost@wrtl.org; Barbara L. Lyons, Executive Director, 877-855-5007, admin@wrtl.org; both with Wisconsin Right To Life

    MEDIA ADVISORY, May 28 /Standard Newswire/ — For the past two weeks, Wisconsin Right to Life has run ads in the Wisconsin State Journal that focus on the late-term abortion plan at the Madison Surgery Center. The ads are meant to educate the public about the realities associated with late-term abortions which involve the dismemberment of fully formed babies.

    This week’s ad, which appears today, exposes information contained in internal emails between various UW officials that were obtained through an open records request.

    Among the shocking revelations is that most of the late-term abortions will be performed simply because a woman wants one and that UW officials hope the Obama administration will give them wiggle room to decide whether employees will be forced to participate in late-term abortions.

    The entire ad can be viewed here. http://www.wrtl.org/pdf/Wiscon.....al_Ad3.pdf

    “The public has a right to know exactly what is at stake with the late-term abortion plan” said Barbara Lyons, Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life. “Tens of thousands have already signed petitions protesting the late-term abortion plan and current and prospective patients have changed their appointments and even their health care away from the Madison Surgery Center. Now we are taking the message to the public.”

    http://www.standardnewswire.co.....54191.html

  16. canary
    May 29, 2009 at 2:57 am

    Associated Press: Sotomayor’s views on abortion rights are unknown
    By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer Thu May 28,

    WASHINGTON – One of the few things conservatives and liberals agree on when it comes to Sonia Sotomayor is that her views on abortion rights are a mystery — and one that must be solved before she can be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

    She declined through a spokesman Thursday to comment further on the subject. The group is asking supporters to urge senators to ask Sotomayor about Roe and the right to privacy.

    The White House edged carefully around the issue Thursday in an animated question-and-answer session in which reporters pressed to know whether President Barack Obama had ascertained Sotomayor’s views before nominating her.

    Obama was “very comfortable with her interpretation of the Constitution being similar to that of his,” Gibbs said, declining to provide more specifics.

    The White House says Obama didn’t ask Sotomayor specifically about her view of Roe v. Wade or privacy rights, even though as a presidential candidate in 2007, he said, “I would not appoint somebody who doesn’t believe in the right to privacy.”

    Gibbs said he had “no reason to believe” any White House aide asked Sotomayor those questions either.

    In the latest such ruling — of major concern to abortion rights supporters — the court upheld a nationwide ban on a procedure its opponents call partial-birth abortion, a decision both sides said could pave the way for further restrictions. It was the first abortion ruling in which the court didn’t require an exception to preserve a woman’s health.

    Associated Press writers David Crary and Ben Feller contributed to this report.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....r_abortion

  17. JohnMG
    May 29, 2009 at 7:21 am

    …….”Gibbs said he had “no reason to believe” any White House aide asked Sotomayor those questions either…….”

    Which, in truth, means somebody has DEFINITELY asked those questions and got the answer they wanted. Gibbs is a singularly unimpressive liar.

    ……..Obama was “very comfortable with her interpretation of the Constitution being similar to that of his,” Gibbs said, declining to provide more specifics……

    Once again, meaning there won’t be a Souter-like double-cross to Obama once she’s seated. He’s got her word on it.

  18. BannedbytheTaliban
    May 29, 2009 at 9:41 am

    From CNN:

    Report: Climate change crisis ‘catastrophic’

    By Hilary Whiteman
    CNN

    LONDON, England (CNN) — The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a “silent crisis” that is killing 300,000 people each year.

    More than 300 million people are already seriously affected by the gradual warming of the earth and that number is set to double by 2030, the report from the Global Humanitarian Forum warns.

    …Around 45 million of the 900 million people estimated to be chronically hungry are suffering due to climate change, the report says. Within 20 years that number is expected to double. At the same time food production is expected to fall, driving food prices up 20%.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/.....index.html

    What a load of BS propaganda. What new made up statistics will the MSM parrot tomorrow?

    Also, for the reality impaired readers in the MSM, the rise in food prices is do to the rise in oil prices. Which are sure to go higher as more and more governments go after oil as the cause of global warming. So I guess in a round about way the idea of global warming is pushing food prices higher.

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