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source:http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_17482598
"Six months ago, President Bush accepted an invitation to speak to the YPO Global Leadership Summit in Denver on February 26, 2011. This week, upon learning that Julian Assange had recently been invited to address the same summit, President Bush decided to cancel his appearance," said Bush spokesman David Sherzer. "The former president has no desire to share a forum with a man who has willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States."
I cannot stand hypocrites, do you?source:http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_17482598
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After a hilarious speech, President Obama pardoned the first turkey of his administration, continuing this delightful tradition that should probably be ended, immediately.
As Obama points out, it is not even an old tradition. Bush I started it. Nothing Bush I did should be carried on as a presidential tradition. And, even worse, Obama is continuing Bush Jr's tradition of sending the birds to Disneyland, to die.
Because these are eating turkeys, and so they have been bred too fat to walk, and with weak hearts.
But! That is not very fun, is it? Obama's speech actually had one very funny line, about "saving or creating four turkeys," and an official White House transcript was released that includes the following:
(Turkey gobbles.)
THE PRESIDENT: There you go (laughter.)
And man those kids are adorable. Our whole factory farming rage just melted away watching this clip.
http://gawker.com/5412911/obama-sends-turkey-to-die-in-california?skyline=true&s=xAfter a hilarious speech, President Obama pardoned the first turkey of his... more
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During the Democratic primary battle, blasting the private security firm Blackwater USA as a bunch of unaccountable trigger-happy mercenaries was an easy crowd pleaser – particularly after the September 2006 Nisoor Square incident and a subsequent congressional report that stated the company’s use of force was “frequent and extensive”.
Hillary Clinton announced she was sponsoring legislation banning the use of private security contractors. Barack Obama didn’t sign up to this and would not rule out using Blackwater and its ilk. But he made clear his disdain for the outfit, trumpeting in Iowa City last October his proposal for “tougher government reforms than any other candidate in this race – reforms that would eliminate the kind of no-bid contracts that this administration has given to Blackwater”.
He added: “Most contractors act as if the law doesn’t apply to them. Under my plan, if contractors break the law, they will be prosecuted.”
In Pennsylvania in March he stated that “we have to crack down on private contractors like Blackwater, because I don’t believe they should be able to run amok and put our own troops in danger and get paid three or four times or ten times what our soldiers are getting paid”.
So who do you think protected Obama and his fellow senators Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel during their recent and much ballyhooed congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan? Yep, that’s right – Blackwater.
In his Washington Whispers column, the well-connected Paul Bedard reports that Obama was overheard saying that “Blackwater is getting a bad rap”. A fairly startling alleged observation given his previous utterances about the company – though perhaps unsurprising given he was in a war zone and his life was in the hands of Blackwater guards.
A tight-lipped Anne Tyrrell, spokeswoman for Blackwater, said she could neither confirm nor deny that the company had been involved in the visits by the senators to Afghanistan or Iraq. My request to Bill Burton, Obama’s national spokesman, for comment on the Bedard story – including whether the alleged quote or its sentiment was genuine – went unanswered.
But a source familiar with Obama’s security arrangements told me that Blackwater, along with the Secret Service, did pull security for the three senators in Afghanistan, though not Iraq.
Deceiver describes this as Obama’s “Rosie O’Donnell moment” That’s maybe a tad harsh but it will be interesting to see whether Obama’s public position on Blackwater changes as a result of his up-close time with their personnel in Afghanistan.During the Democratic primary battle, blasting the private security firm Blackwater... more
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Al Gore?s Inconvenient Lifestyle. While the former veep and nouveau-$100 millionaire jets around the world squawking about the ?planet having a fever? and demanding that we all lower our standard of living, his own personal electricity use is 20 times the national average, including an indoor pool costing $500/month to heat.
While Gore deflected criticism of his inconvenient electric bill during March congressional testimony by saying he purchased ?green? electricity, the truth is, he didn?t start doing so until 2007.
Find the other leading hypocrites of 2007 at the below link.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315721,00.htmlAl Gore?s Inconvenient Lifestyle. While the former veep and nouveau-$100 millionaire... more
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Jon explains how torture such as waterboarding sounds so much more fun than simulated drowning.Jon explains how torture such as waterboarding sounds so much more fun than simulated... more
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Headlines for October 22, 2007
- Kurdish Militants Kill 17 Turkish Soldiers in Ambush
- Cheney: Iran Faces "Serious Consequences"
- Report: U.S. Wants to Build Military Bases in Lebanon
- Seven Protesters Arrested At Blackwater Headquarters
- Verizon, AT&T Executives Give Over $40,000 to Sen. Rockefeller
- South African Reggae Star Lucky Dube, 43, MurderedHeadlines for October 22, 2007
- Kurdish Militants Kill 17 Turkish Soldiers in... more
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