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CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - The Southern Republican Leadership Conference booked nearly every room in the Charleston Place hotel for the Republican primary in January, and then skipped out on the $227,872 bill, the luxury venue claims in the city's court of common pleas.CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - The Southern Republican Leadership Conference booked nearly... more
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This is definitely worth a look...
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In this series on land grabbing, I hope to shed light on how Africa, where land has been characterised as being plentiful and cheap, is becoming the new breadbasket for developing countries.
http://www.simbarusseau.com/kenya-indigenous-samburu-land/In this series on land grabbing, I hope to shed light on how Africa, where land has... more
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Having been damn lucky enough to escape Texas, I have witnessed the many terrible consequences of this no good S.O.B "Policies" for working people all over Texas and if you think things are bad now, if this corporate whore ever became president, it would make the eight year reign of idiocy and terror from Bush, look good by comparison, this creature is a true sociopath.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/18/news/economy/poverty_perry_texas/Having been damn lucky enough to escape Texas, I have witnessed the many terrible... more
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After PCW Extreme Political TV went off the air last night, it was time for the dark Main Event match between Republican Kevin Scott and ‘Foul Pole’ Andy Golatta (D).
Golatta gets on the mic first and says that when he was Mr. Nice Guy, he was allowed to do whatever he wanted. Now that he’s being himself and teaming with Malibu Dusty, people are acting like jerks to him. He claims he and Dusty were screwed out of the PCW Tag Team belts and vows to regain the title. The crowd ignores the argument and starts a “F*** You Golatta” chant.
Scott tells Golatta that he turned to the dark side with the treehuggers, big union thugs, and the Global Warming nutcases. He advises Golatta to cut back on the vast Left Wing conspiracy and return to the land of reality.
*Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” begins to play.*
‘The Extreme Environmental Hardcore Icon’ Al Gore (D) appears and does NOT do his full entrance. Gore appears enraged and sprints to the ring. He catches Scott by surprise with a Singapore caneshot and then hits another. And another. And another. Scott’s down. Gore and Golatta start laying the boots to him.
Gore looks down at Scott and takes a microphone. He tells the audience that much of the anti-global warming rhetoric came from a small group of people “washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again” who had made it unacceptable “to use the goddamn word ‘climate.’”
“And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!”
Scott tries to get back up. Gore whacks him two more times with the Singapore cane.
“You heard them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. There’s ‘no longer a shared reality’ from which to begin scientific study and that those that shared his reality were being hindered by the debate. It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word ‘climate!’”
Texas Jack (R), Farmer John (R), and Pizza Delivery Guy Josh Jackson (R) along with security run down to Scott’s rescue.
It will be interesting to see what the ramifications of this will be this coming Thursday evening on PCW Politics Is War on P-SPAN.After PCW Extreme Political TV went off the air last night, it was time for the dark... more
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The Liberal Mob is a politically oriented blog with an obvious liberal slant and a vaguely irreverent attitude. We would like to promote common sense progressive approaches to the problems facing America and the world today. We reserve the right to blog about additional topics, especially on slow news days.
http://theliberalmob.blogspot.com/The Liberal Mob is a politically oriented blog with an obvious liberal slant and a... more
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Check out the Goodometer and it's categories, add a category or specific issue, and rate it on it's social benefit.Check out the Goodometer and it's categories, add a category or specific issue,... more
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Too bad they didn’t just put the Governor’s job up on eBay, eh? Eh? Ha ha ha hah! Sometimes I crack myself up.Too bad they didn’t just put the Governor’s job up on eBay, eh? Eh? Ha ha... more
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Egypt has been embroiled in political turmoil since protests, inspired by those that overthrew the regime in Tunisia, started last week.While Egypt, and its Suez Canal, have been worry one for investors world wide since last week, the next big question is whether this dissent could spread to other countries around the region, and world.
It’s a challenge to state led authoritarian capitalism, but it is also a response to rising food costs and soaring unemployment. There is also the social media factor, which has allowed protesters to circumvent traditional state run media sources and organize more efficiently.
What countries offer a similar mixture to that found in Egypt? And what investments are at stake?
more at
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/388/975/Your_Cheat_Sheet_to_the_11_Countries_Which_Could_Follow_Egypt_s_Lead.htmlEgypt has been embroiled in political turmoil since protests, inspired by those that... more
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President Barack Obama, bracing for battles with Republicans over the budget and other issues, is weighing several staff changes, including the hiring of a new top economic adviser and the possible selection of a new chief of staff.
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/reuters/International/75927President Barack Obama, bracing for battles with Republicans over the budget and other... more
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Don't ask, Don't tell is government sponsored discrimination based upon sexual orientation (in my opinion). It should stop. In a decade or two we will look back upon it as we now look upon Jim Crow laws or denying women the right to vote.Don't ask, Don't tell is government sponsored discrimination based upon... more
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"Great" Britain???
We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Troops, Orphans, Homeless etc.
In the last month we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey, Greece, Pakistan .
Our Pensioners living on a 'fixed income'
Receive no aid or get any breaks while our
Government and religious organizations pour
Hundreds of Millions of ££££££'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
We have thousands of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
"Great" Britain a country where we have homeless without shelter, children and adults going to bed hungry,
Elderly going without 'needed' medication, and
Mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.
YET....................
They are requesting donations for the people of Pakistan
TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding,,
Doctors and medical supplies.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US'
The same support they give to other
Countries.
Sad isn't it?"Great" Britain???
We're "broke" & can't help our... more
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What do Bernie Sanders, Jeff Flake, Mitch Daniels, Cory Booker, and Al Franken have in common? This is not much of a hint, but that list is comprised, in order, of the following: the only Socialist in Congress, a Tea Party-minded Arizona Republican also in the House of Representatives, the can-do Republican governor from Indiana, the reform-minded African-American mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a formerly foul-mouthed liberal Hollywood comedian-turned-politician who now sits in the U.S. Senate representing a state where the highest compliment is to say that they are truly "Minnesota nice."
Here's the answer: Those gents, along with five other male politicians, were named by The Good Men Project, a new online men's magazine, as the Top 10 Good Politicians of 2010. "In list-making, as in politics, you can't make everyone happy, so we had to exclude some worthy men from our Top-10 Good Politicians list -- believe it or not, there are more than 10 good men in politics," the editors wrote. "We also excluded many worthy women -- we are the Good Men Project, after all."
"While we don't expect our list to restore your faith in America's political system, we do hope to bring your attention to elected officials worth respecting for their integrity, their passion and their ideas," the editors added. "As our political landscape grows ever more polarized -- and ordinary Americans feel increasingly alienated from the political process -- the conventional wisdom seems to be that when it comes to elected officials, a good man is hard to find. As legendary humorist Kin Hubbard once put it, 'We'd all love to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."
The proprietors of the Good Men Project Magazine beg to disagree -- and they placed two of Kin Hubbard's fellow Hoosiers on their list to bolster their case. Citing a "need" to believe that there are still good men in public life, they spent months looking for them. Their list is bipartisan, and has its share of surprises. The criteria cited by the magazine in its accompanying article included integrity, intellectual honesty, respect for their political opponents – as well as their constituents – a belief in open government and a willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion. At a premium were men with compelling ideas, along with the political skill to help advance those ideas.
Here is the full list:
1. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan
2. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin
3. Mayor Cory Booker, Newark Democrat
4. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-Louisiana
5. Sen. Al Franken. D-Minnesota
6. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona
7. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana
8. Rep. Mark Strama, D-Tex.
9. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont
10. Gov. Mitch Daniels, Indiana Republican
Working our way up the list, the fiscally prudent Mitch Daniels -- a former White House budget director who is sometimes mentioned as future GOP presidential material -- was cited for his sheer competence in cutting a huge state budget deficit in Indiana, and for doing so humanely and without stirring up much animosity among Democrats -- his job approval rating tops 70 percent.
Bernie Sanders was lauded for an independent streak that makes him "one of the most refreshingly atypical politicians in recent American history." As if to bolster the magazine's judgment, in his interview with the magazine, when Sanders was asked to name a politician from the other side of the aisle (Sanders caucuses with the Democrats) whom he respects for integrity and dedication to his ideas, the Vermont socialist instantly named Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, with whom he clashed -- and collaborated when he served in the House.
Likewise, one of the testimonials for conservative Jeff Flake was President George W. Bush's complaint that Flake was just "too dang independent." His colleagues know this all too well. At the end of budget debates, Flake sometimes invites sponsors of congressional pork to explain their "earmark" spending bill to their colleagues -- and, well -- to the American people watching on CSPAN. He famously dismissed a $250,000 earmark for weed management in Nevada, by quipping that the state should instead "get a goat." He's earned the enmity of some of his colleagues, but also the "Taxpayer Superhero" award from the Citizens Against Government Waste.
So clearly a strong ideology isn't a drawback for this list, although a willingness to compromise is key. Thus Paul Ryan, author of the GOP's "roadmap" to a balanced budget, makes it not so much for the contents of his plan, but for his willingness to be specific, which takes political courage these days, and for his openness to listen to others.
The most surprising name on the list, at least to conservatives, might be that of Al Franken. Known before running for office for his caustic wit, hyper-partisanship, and penchant for calling those with whom he disagreed "liars," Franken was narrowly elected to the Senate in 2008, and earned respect for being a hard worker, and a senator who reaches out to Southern conservatives on veterans' issues, and someone willing to hear out the grievances of Tea Party activists in Minnesota.
At a town hall meeting on health care the first summer he was a senator, Franken calmed an angry crowd mostly by just being willing to listen. "I thank you for your passion," he told them.
Franken was not one of the seven "good guys" who consented to answer questions via e-mail with the magazine (But, the editors wrote, "we're trying hard to forgive him.)
"Do we endorse everything they stand for? No. But we can respect those we disagree with," the editors wrote. "We looked for men who can see beyond the next election cycle and who have the political courage to lay the foundation for America's future success -- even if it means making unpopular decisions today."
Tagged: Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Carl Levin, Cory Booker, Jeff Flake, Mitch Daniels, Richard Lugar, Top 10 Good Politicians
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/12/the-top-10-good-politicians-of-2010-breaking-down-the-list/What do Bernie Sanders, Jeff Flake, Mitch Daniels, Cory Booker, and Al Franken have in... more
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America has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically outnumbered by the incompetents, are being corralled, restrained, confined and milked like barnyard cattle. The giants who created our skyscraper civilization are now ordered to obey Lilliputian bureaucrats. Common men—who owe their jobs to uncommon men who create jobs—gang together to shackle their providers.
Americans are becoming congenital dependents. Even as loafing relatives extort a livelihood by claiming they have a “right” to your money—so today eight million homegrown moochers insist that you are responsible for their welfare! Thus, we subsidize promiscuous mothers and their illegitimate babies and lazy feather bedders and goldbricking government pay rollers…While we penalize the strong, the purposeful, the productive with disproportionate burdens of taxes, pressures, red tape.
We praise ventures which are “non-profit” and grant them tax advantages and social acceptance, yet we damn the men who make the profits which make the “non-profit” ventures possible. Americans want to keep the electric lights but destroy the generators. What if the men of brains and initiative and industry should go on strike?
It happened once. “The Dark Ages” were a period of stagnation when men of exceptional ability gave up, figured “what’s the use?” and went underground—for a thousand years. Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged,” thinks it may have to happen that way again. Dr. Charles Mayo says, “I know of no individual, no nation, that ever did anything worthwhile on a five-day week.” Already many American industrialists are turning the keys on their corporations and going to Florida—either part-time or full-time—to become non-productive beachcombers.
Curiously, Russia is beginning to reward the uncommon men. Soviet scholar Vadim A. Trapeznikov—not without Kremlin sanction—is now referring to the Soviet system as “obsolete.” He says Russia’s economy must now rely on the “more productive profit motive.”
We, on the other hand, continue to play the democratic con-game which pretends that all men are equal and that anybody who demonstrates any inequality should be punished for it.
Any insolent beggar can wave his sores in your face and plead for help in the tone of a threat. You are expected to feel “guilty” for having more than he. Any barefoot bum from the pestholes of Asia or Africa cries out, “How dare you be rich!” And we beg them to be patient and we promise to give it all away as fast as possible.
The economic creed of “enlightened selfishness” which made our nation the powerhouse of this planet has been so maligned that now it sounds like heresy when I say:
Any man who claims you owe him a living is a cannibal.
Whether foreign or domestic, he is a cannibal.
If you choose to help him, that is one thing.
If he demands you “help” as his “right,” he is a leech,
a sycophant, a parasite.
He is a cannibal seeking to survive by consuming you.
~ Paul HarveyAmerica has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically... more
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From the article: "It's official: The Chevrolet Volt, the new plug-in electric hybrid car from General Motors, will cost $41,000—that's a four-seat hatchback for about the base price of a BMW 335i. To be sure, a $7,500 federal tax credit cuts that to $33,500, and electricity is cheaper per mile than gas. But barring some huge oil price spike or stiff new gas tax, it would take more than a decade to offset the higher purchase price. Some will pay a premium for the frisson of going green or being the first "early adopter" on the block. Still, this little runabout is a rich man's ride. "
Are we ever going to be free to choose in the USA?From the article: "It's official: The Chevrolet Volt, the new plug-in... more
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Beck responded to Keith Olbermann's special comment Thursday on his radio show.
Beck played audio of Olbermann, who had returned temporarily from vacation to comment on the Shirley Sherrod scandal and Fox News' role in driving the story..
Olbermann drew a comparison, which he admitted was a "stretch," between the slandered Sherrod and Alfred Dreyfus, the French military officer of Jewish descent who was falsely accused of treason in 1894 — only to be exonerated years later.
"Only Keith Olbermann would expect that you knew French history," Beck said, laughing.
Olbermann also ripped Fox News, calling the network a "perpetual fraud machine."
Beck repeatedly stopped Olbermann's 10-minute commentary to ridicule and personally attack Olbermann.
Beck even took a jab at Olbermann's alma mater, Cornell University.
* * * * * Beck is a little boy with a big voice and it's frightening he is being listened too.Beck responded to Keith Olbermann's special comment Thursday on his radio show.... more
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Help us at http://www.arrestthebilderbergs.co.cc/
Are you tired of voting in Puppets and tools of the Bilderberg Club, Rothschild family, Rockefeller family, and other horrible secret societies. It's about time we stop letting these criminal rape the America people and tell them that it's over for them.
We need to stand together, sign petitions, and get the World Court involved to arrest these criminals that wish to cause harm to children throughout the world, consolidate the worlds wealth and send it to offshore banks, and posion our food/water. We need to stand together as a Nation to no longer allow the voting in of useless puppets.
It's time we take a stand NOW!!!!
Obama is a puppet and tool, George Bush was a puppet and a too, Bill Gates is now a puppet and a tool, Bill Clinton was a puppet and a tool. When will this madness end.
It's time we stop the elite by sending them to the World Court for trial NOW!!!Help us at http://www.arrestthebilderbergs.co.cc/
Are you tired of voting in... more
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Step by step, President Barack Obama is building a record of major legislation that's sure to make a mark on history.
The most sweeping financial regulation since the Great Depression. A vast expansion of health care, which Democrats had wanted for more than six decades. An $862 billion stimulus package that locked in long-sought Democratic priorities.
Yet his job-approval rating remains low. Why doesn't he get any credit?
(more at link)Step by step, President Barack Obama is building a record of major legislation... more
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