Giuliani's Obama-Nuke Critique Defies And Ignores Reagan

Giuliani's rhetorical technique resembles a toddler reaching into its diaper, grabbing a fistful of content, and hurling it about its playpen.
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Greenspan Testifies To Financial Crisis Commission, Blames Fannie, Freddie For Subprime Crisis (LIVEBLOG, VIDEO)

Greenspan is in CYA mode, pointing fingers in all directions. The bottom line is the economic system that he and his buddy Milton Friedman advocated for was a fraud. These guys made their fortune telling rich and powerful people exactly what they wanted to hear to the detriment of the rest of the US, and arguably global, population.
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A Sinking Ship of State

Since the patriots of Afghanistan now seem to be the Taliban it seems that Karzai is reading the tea leaves and playing politician to save his skin. Karzai was put in power due to his western appeal, former VP of Unocal and all, and as President of Afghanistan has never had much influence outside of the area of Kabul in which he resides. I wouldn't blame Obama for turning the Taliban from outcasts to major players after 9/11 attacks ... that was the Bush Administration's doing.



Karzai is hearing footsteps and there is nothing the United States can do to change that. The President of Afghanistan is definitely a problem for Obama, but not one of his own making.
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Greenspan Testifies To Financial Crisis Commission, Blames Fannie, Freddie For Subprime Crisis (LIVEBLOG, VIDEO)

"My experience has been, in the business I was in I was right 70 percent of the time, but I was wrong 30 percent of the time and there are an awful lot of mistakes in 21 years."



If a surgeon displayed same degree of excellence he would find himself on the Christmas lists of a whole lot of undertakers.
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Adam Carolla Angers Philippines With Rant About Pacquiao, Sex Tourism (AUDIO)

Question 1 - Who is Adam Carolla and why does anyone care what he has to say?



Question 2 - Why should the Filipinos care anymore about what an American has to say about their country than a Spaniard has to say about their country? Same difference.



Question 3 - Why is American Floyd Mayweather Jr afraid to fight Manny Pacquiao?
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Heidi Montag's Plastic Surgery Prevents Her From Hugging, Jogging

"Ms Montag, Madame Tussauds on line two."
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Tiger Woods Masters Press Conference: 'I Lied To Myself'

Professional Golf deserves Tiger Woods as its spokes model.
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U.S. Troops Killed Afghan Women, Then Dug Bullets Out Of Their Bodies To Cover It Up

I am a cynical person. My commentary on humanity tends to be dark. I knew the stories of Marines removing the gold teeth from their Japanese kills in the Pacific during WWII. I know about My Lai. This is so disgusting and soulless an act that it is beyond comprehension.



The wise thing would be for the United States to exit Afghanistan swiftly. Americans, however, aren't wise. We are incapable of doing good in Afghanistan. We are incapable of winning hearts and minds in the Islamic world. We are incapable of depriving Al Qaeda of safe havens and new recruits



We have failed. We should leave.



We won't.
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Geithner Delays Congressional Currency Report To Avoid Insulting China

China holds all the cards because the US Government of Wall Street marked the cards and gifted China with them and a blank rulebook.



I think whether the US or Iceland released a currency report China would act with the same public bluster, while understanding it holds the reins in the situation.
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Talx Corporation: Contesting Jobless Claims Becomes A Boom Industry

People have to think about what "Safety Net" really means. The "Safety Net" applies to the stability of society in general not to bailing out individuals who are down on their luck. In order for societies to function, especially ones with highly developed economies as the United States has, it is imperative that people continue to acknowledge and follow the rules and stay within the social boundaries. If you cutoff people form even a minimal source of income in order to pay for the bare necessities of life you imbue the dispossessed with a sense of desperation that it is difficult to control. People may think that the 2nd Amendment will protest them from transgressors, but if violence becomes commonplace then people with income are going to become less likely to risk trips into public, and even people going to work are going to have second thoughts ... how does that aide an unstable economic situation?



The "Safety Net's" purpose is to keep society civil, not to provide charity. No policing apparatus on earth is going to be successful keeping a lid on armed, desperate citizens with families deprived of food and shelter. Americans need to get down off their high horse and recognize human condition for what it is. If the US Government lets the stability of the country get away from them it is not going to lead to a return to prosperity anytime soon.
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iPad Goes On Sale

The long term impact of this tablet technology, especially in the areas of application in education, is profound and may signal the death of hard copy textbooks, and domination of K-12 educational curriculum developed for and by Texas, and inflicted on students across the country. In terms of personal use, however, I believe it to be an expensive novelty item.
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Top Fed Official Wants To Break Up Megabanks, Stop The Fed From Guaranteeing Wall Street's Profits [EXCLUSIVE]

"Called the idea that the U.S. needs megabanks to compete globally a "fantasy";"



The baseline problem is that in the era of globalism there are no "American Banks." There are banking brands that are historically associated with America, but are really no more American than Toyota is.
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More Evidence Emerges That Pope Benedict Helped Shield Pedophiles Before He Became Pope

None of this stuff is new. It was the abuses of the Spanish Friars in the Philippines that cost Spain its colony there in 1898. Inside the Vatican they are probably saying "What's the big deal?"
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Jamie Dimon: The Most Dangerous Man In America

Power is a Drug and Wall Street is a regular shooting gallery.



I doubt any American would allow a heroin addict to run their household, but we allow individuals of the same character and motivation to run our society.
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Obama Should Channel Roosevelt To Battle Wall Street

I had high hopes that Obama would emerge as a TR type President, but in reality it seems for Obama pragmatism trumps vision. Theodore Roosevelt was a visionary, who fought for what he perceived was necessary to manifest his vision for the United States. I think TR would view the Health Insurance 'Reform" debacle as an abysmal failure. When it was obvious that there was a problem with health and quality standards at American meatpacking plants, after reading Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle', he didn't ask permission of the industries' corrupt leaders to change things ... he pushed through the Pure Food and Drug Act over their screams and protests. When TR felt the need to protect America's dwindling natural frontier, he signed millions of acres into protected status, over the protests of industrialists, and until Congress voted to take the pen from his hand in terms of his right to protect lands. When JP Morgan came to the White House with a list of demands, TR stared him down and reminded him that the United States of America wasn't a junior partner to US Steel.



As I said, I had high hopes for Obama, but, like Bill Clinton, I fear he is more of a Grover Cleveland than an Theodore Roosevelt. Although Obama and TR both attended Harvard, I think that is where the similarities end.
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Media Drills Vapidity On Drilling Into Our Faces (VIDEO)

My problem with Obama is despite his marketing as a "Change President", practically speaking, he has only displayed interest in reinforcing and further entrenching the status quo. Furthermore, polls of Americans on oil drilling or any issue of importance to the United States are meaningless to me, because, to put a fine point on it, Americans are some of the most ignorant people on Earth, and while they might be for this or that odds are they can't explain to you why.



All that an expansion of oil drilling means is that there should be no expectation of any but the most cosmetic of innovations coming from then United States in terms of energy, This is sad, for without innovation America reverts to a pre-Spanish American War footprint in the world.



And why, at this point, we are expecting any coverage of value from the Private Press, and still respond as overawed when they blow yet another story's areas of relevance boggles me. We act as though the media works for us ... they don't.
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Rachel Maddow's 37th Birthday: What's Your Favorite Maddow Moment? (VIDEO)

Giving Rachel a show was one of the best moves MSNBC ever made.
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Are Moderates No Longer Welcome In The Republican Party?

I think the United States would be better off with multiple parties and a coalition style government. The two-party system freezes out new ideas and limits the influence of the population in favor of maintaining the status quo. There probably should be a Conservative Party in addition to the Republican Party, and, for that matter, there should probably be a Progressive Party in addition to the Democrats.
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Lieberman: "Nothing" Better Than Public Option (VIDEO)

Lieberman is a real piece of ... work.
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Geithner On Meet The Press: Worried Banks May Be Too Timid

"A bright spot in the recovery identified by Geithner is the banking system, which he said is "dramatically more stable" because of the government bailout."



As long as you ignore the trillions of dollars in bad paper the Bank's are holding but aren't required to report as part of their bottom line.
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"TARP on Steroids"

David, Wall Street and the US Government are responsible for a fraud cloud of 500 trillion plus dollars in derivatives infecting the Global Economy ... a bubble that they can't afford to allow to pop because it would indiscriminately wipe out fortunes and Government treasuries around the world. Even in a best case scenario where they could deflate that cloud in a controlled fashion ... with the help of US Taxpayer dollars ... there will be some huge losers. Currently the situation is like having ten thousand people thinking they have the same right to bite of a ham sandwich.



The cynic in me thinks that Wall Street, the Fed, and the Treasury know that there will be some monumental losers, but they want to use Taxpayer dollars as a sort of throttle in order to insure that payouts are made to a chosen few before the whole Ponzi Scheme collapses.



A scary thought, but then this is Halloween ... Trick or Treat?
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Ed Schultz: Obama Would "Sell His Soul" For GOP Support On Health Care (VIDEO)

How President Obama handles this will determine whether or not he will be a one or two term President. I see Rahm has got him moving into full DLC Triangulation mode and that is not what won the White House for Obama. I don't recall the campaign slogan being:



"The Audacity of Capitulation".



And before the Democrats think they can win in 2010 and 2012 without the Left, which is what the situation will be if the President caves on the Public Option, the White House better remember that in terms of grass root participation and energy "Moderate Activism" is an oxymoron.
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Dierdre Scozzafava Drops Out Of NY House Race

The Cockfight is over? Too bad. Now the Republicans of NY-23 have to decide if they want a Right-Wing Carpetbagger, with his Conservative Clown Cortege, who doesn't understand their District, representing them.



Do the Republicans of Upstate New York really have the mindset of those from South Carolina?
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A Sad Day for Californians: Gavin Newsom's Withdrawl from the Race for Governor

I think California really needs Jerry Brown at this point, primarily because having been Governor before he understands how to work with the unique challenges of the State's political process. We don't need a novice who is going to spend their whole term complaining about the system, we need a Governor who understands how to make the system work.
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Brian Williams From Afghanistan: How Kabul Changed Overnight, What The Troops Think, & Why He Had To Go

Excellent interview. I'm glad Huffpo was able to score it.



My instinct is that the United States would like to get to a state similar to South Korea, Japan or the Philippines in terms of occupying Afghanistan an Iraq. That would be that you keep troops in the countries for decades so that both the citizens in the occupied countries can't remember a time when they weren't occupied by the United States and the people of the United States forget they are occupying the country. Occupation becomes status quo for both sides. The US has an occupation force of 47000 in Japan. and 25000 in South Korea. There are only a few hundred stationed in the Philippines now, but from 1898 until 1992 the United States occupied the Philippines with multiple bases and tens of thousands of troops.



I'm sure the US Government wants to just create a situation in Afghanistan that isn't perfect, but is tolerable enough so the American people to put much thought into the situation any longer, and they can settle in for a decades long stay.
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Dennis Kucinich Wants His Single-Payer Provision Reinstated In Health Bill

The States should have the right to decide the best approach for their citizens, put Kucinich's Single-Payer provision back in ... why are the Democrats having such a hard time meeting the needs of the citizens who elected them to office?



If our elected officials would rather be Prostitutes than Public Servants let them move to Nevada and set up shop ... but if you are talking Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, or Joe Lieberman in fishnets, don't expect me buzzing the Cathouse doorbell anytime soon.
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Jeb Bush: Obama Trying To "Attack Capitalism"

The Bush Family has no sense and no shame.
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Fox News Ratings Undamaged By White House War

Let me get this straight here.



The millions of viewers of Fox "News", who hate the President of the United States to start with and likely represent the voters who didn't vote for him last November, are suddenly going to stop watching Fox "News" when the White House of the President they hate suddenly calls them on their Right Wing Propaganda? I mean, Fox "News" viewers are watching BECAUSE of the Right Wing propaganda. I doubt the opinion of the White House is going to change their viewing habits.
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Pelosi To Dems: Time To Take A Stand On Public Option

As far as the Public Option is concerned we simply can't accept "No" for an answer ... We should be fighting for Single Payer right now, but the President and the Democrats already ceded that ground to the opposition. Also, the Democrats have do understand that the excuse "We did the best we could" holds no water. If the Democrats cave on the Public Option the party becomes no more relevant than the Republicans.



And I am pretty sure I won't be the only Progressive taking note of Democrats that vote against the Publc Option. I will support any candidate from either party that delivers the "Vichy Dem" backstabbers their Pink Slips their next election cycle..
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Senate Finance Committee Health Care Vote Today

I think Senator Snowe did herself a favor. Even if she votes against the final bill she can say to her constituents that are pro Health Care Reform that it was her support that got the Bill out of committee (for how long do you think Baucus would have stalled the process trying to get a Republican to vote with him so he could claim it was a bi-partisan effort?).



And when she votes against the final Bill she can tell her constituents that are anti-reform that she just couldn't go through with supporting a Final Bill she couldn't believe in.



I don't think Senator Snowe is going to be much of a story on this going forward ... she already covered all her bases.
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Rahm: Dems Attacking Other Dems Are "Fucking Stupid"

Rahm is just being silly.



He knows this isn't about "Dems attacking other Dems", this is about a corporatis­t-conserva­tive DLC Chief of Staff to the President (Him) trying to intimidate Liberal/Progressive Activists into backing down on their obviously successful attack ads against his kennel of Blue Dog Vichy Dems. I'm sure Rahm believes that by dropping the F-Bomb he will be able to frighten the effete Libs into backing down and cowering in the corner with their glasses of Chardonnay ... but I don't think it works that way with the current batch of progressives. That's not the MO of MoveOn.



See, Conservative is Conservative whether it is of the Democrat or Republican variety, I feel Conservative Democrats and Republicans have done enough damage to this Nation over the last 30 years ... my guess is the Progressives Rahm was swearing at feel that way too.

I doubt they back down from his tantrum.



And just to make Rahm happy, I plan on sending a donation to the Republican opponent of Blue Dog Democrat Mike Ross of District 4 Arkansas who was just crowing with pride over killing Single Payer in the House Bill. See, Congressman Ross doesn't share my values so a Republican might as well have his seat.



Talk dirty to me, Rahm.
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Tampa Town Hall On Health Care Reform Disrupted By Violence (VIDEO)

America the Beautiful



"O beautiful, for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.



O beautiful, for pilgrim feet

Whose stern, impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw;

Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!



O beautiful, for heroes proved

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved

And mercy more than life!

America! America! May God thy gold refine,

Till all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine!



O beautiful, for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years,

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!"





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
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Limbaugh: "Adolf Hitler, Like Barack Obama, Ruled By Dictate" (AUDIO)

Double Think:



"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."



Rush Limbaugh is a master of it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
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DC Tea Party Protest Shut Down By Secret Service, Package Thrown Over White House Fence (VIDEO)

For those on the Right that thinks President Obama is such a Socialist/Fascist/Communist/Terrorist/Muslim/ Dictator ... let me give you a reality check.



I once met an Iraqi Exile who told me of an incident when Saddam was in power that is illustrative of how brutal dictators operate. According to this gentleman there was a well paved thoroughfare surrounding Saddam's Palace (one of the only smoothly paved roads in Baghdad, and the only road with stop lights as well). There was a driveway that led through the gates and up to the Palace. So the story goes a car turns off the road onto the driveway, past the guard station heading towards the palace. The guards at the gate start riddling the car with machine gun bullets, to be joined by guards on the palace roof that unleash on the unauthorized car with 50 caliber machine gun bullets. The smoking car, Swiss cheese at this point, slows to a stop in the middle of the driveway and a wounded individual exits the car and is quickly dispatched. Incident over.



The guards reward for their actions? The guards at the gate were ordered executed for allowing the car past them. The guards manning the 50 caliber machine guns were ordered executed because despite the number of bullets they pumped into the car someone was still capable to exit it.



This is an example of how a Brutal Fascist Dictator handles disturbances at his home.
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The Problems of Nationalizing the Banks Remain

Hale, my problem is that off book toxic assets are not factored into the true health picture of the banks, and without that data it makes it hard to gauge the proper approach to their fate. I mean, the Banks may seem to be in good shape sans the toxic assets data, but that is an unreasonably rosy picture.



I was for Nationalization of Banks initially, but your arguments adjusted my opinion on that. William K Black, in his interview with Bill Moyers, mentioned that receivership, which I believe the FDIC engaged in twice this weekend alone, never ceased to be an option for the Big Banks as well. I do not believe a prolonged period of Government Control would be appropriate for the Banks because of issues you raised, but going forward in the current approach isn't feasible in the long term either.



How about this? What if the Government were to take these big Financial Services Corporations into receivership long enough to split them up into their Banking, Insurance, and Investment lines and then relinquish control? Currently we have a situation where money is given to aid the banks but is finding its way into the Investment loss area ... I'm thinking that is why we aren't seeing the kind of success from TARP we had hoped. If we split the Banking units off, money given to the Banks will stay with the Banks.
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Cheney May Have Mole In Obama Government: Sy Hersh

Just one? And what's all the focus on Cheney? He's been nothing but a henchman for the Bush family his whole career. I'm sure the Bushes have no interest in reliquishing power even if they are out of the White House. Russ Baker's "Family of Secrets" is worth a read on how Poppy Bush surrounded Nixon in the White House with henchmen loyal to him (I wonder if the New York Times will ever review the book? Doubtful ... no spine in that organization any longer)



If I were President Obama I would be very cautious with Secretary Gates (A Poppy Bush choice for his son) and that guy, Austan Goolsbee, that Chris Matthews likes, who is on Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. Goolsbee was the member of the Obama Campaign Team during the primary that allegedly claimed at the Canadian Consulate in Chicago that Obama's comments on renegotiating NAFTA was just political rhetoric not meant to be taken seriously and gave Hillary's campaign life in Ohio. Goolsbee is also a member of Skull and Bones ... at least according to his Wiki page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austan_Goolsbee



Anyway, President Obama should be wise in terms of whom he trusts even in his inner circle ... to be prudent.
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The Real Crime in the Bailout -- Naked CDS Deals

Cenk, what we are watching is a Shadow Play that is covering for a good, old-fashioned Mexican Standoff.



The Banks say they are fine, showing profit ... doing better all the time, but, the thing is, under late 90's deregulation, the banks are allowed to hold their CDS exposure off the books. So the semi-miserable state the Banks are in is what is being portrayed, while the bank's catastrophic levels of exposure are out of sight. Basically, we are looking at two sets of books that tell different tales.



Why not just dump the Naked CDS Deals and call it a day? That's the 64 trillion dollar question. I believe there is a tremendous amount of fake wealth, supported by a pittance of actual wealth. This actual wealth is from the four corners of the world, and should the fake wealth collapse it would evaporate the real wealth with it ... the effect would be a level of ugly beyond belief with not just the little folks being devastated.



So in the small circle the Banks are looking at Wall Street, which is looking at the Fed, which is looking at the President, which is looking at the Treasury, etc ... while in the Great Circle the US is looking at England, looking at Japan, looking at the EU, looking at China ... each are waiting to see who will pull the trigger first.



We are living in interesting times.
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Krugman On Geithner's Toxic Asset Plan: "The Zombie Ideas Have Won"

There is no way the US can cover all the bad bets of Wall Street, and I'm certain that is exactly what Wall Street has in mind. We must not forget that these companies we are emptying our Treasury for are Multi-National Companies, not American Companies.



The way this game goes is these mega corporations play the "How Dare You, Sir!" card when the US Government wants to regulate them in good times ... using their Multi-National status as a tool of blackmail, but when they screw the entire World Economy up they crawl like beggars back to the US Treasury and defiantly state "You HAVE to help us ... if you DON'T help us we will BLOW UP THE WORLD ECONOMY!!!"



Multi-National business can't have it both ways. The Taxpayers of the United States can't be rendered serfs to the World due to the irresponsible antics of some bad actors of the corporate world.



I think the Administration actually gets it. It's subtle, but I like what I am seeing from the Administration in terms of directly backing SBA loans that have been frozen and the recent trillion dollar allocation that bypasses the bankers entirely.



cont:
About Barack Obama
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Feingold To Death Penalty: Drop Dead

Right on, Senator Finegold!!



The Death Penalty is a primitive ritual that legitimizes vengeance in the guise of Justice. With a Justice System as flawed and corrupt as we have in the United States, where Judges, DAs and Cops have all been found wanting of ethics and morality at one time or another, in a Nation where some States are willing to execute minorities or the retarded for the sheer pagentry of it ... there needs to be another way to punish the guilty besides a system where the accidental execution of an innocent is an acceptable byproduct.



Barry Sheck's "The Innocence Project" has already rescued 234 wrongfully convicted citizens from Prison, including a good percentage from Death Row. (www.innocenceproject.org/) so wrongfully convicted citizens on Death Row isn't a myth, and the bottom line is that the United States cannot murder the innocent due to Judicial incompetence or malfeasance.



Good for you, Senator Finegold.
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Heartbreaking Footage: Dateline Follows Police Evicting Families From Their Homes

There was a judge in Ohio that prevented the foreclosure of some properties by a Bank because the Bank couldn't furnish the paperwork for the properties in question because of the way they were sliced up for investment purposes. The Bank was shocked that the judge wanted to see the paperwork before allowing the foreclosure ... seems the Bank never had a judge ask for the paperwork before.



Maybe more people should demand to see the paperwork the Bank has for the property they are foreclosing on before they submit to leaving. And maybe Judges that are allowing Banks to foreclose on properties without the proper documentation should be removed from the bench.



Just a thought.
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Kathleen Parker: Limbaugh "Dittoheads" Killing Newspapers

I think Parker misses the point. Newpapers have lost their aura because of media consolidation. It's not like you are going to find an inherently different message in one Newspaper over another, and the Newspaper message overlaps with the message on cable or network news. It is all homogenized and staid. and frankly, limited in relevant scope. With the Internet, only the grasp of language limits the capacity to obtain other views of what is happening in the World. American News covers an American view of the World, which is tightly regulated by the interests of the corporate owners. My supporting example of this is how Al Jazeera became the mortal enemy of the Bush Administration because it was broadcasting an alternative view of the Iraq war from the ground which didn't support the American narrative, When Newspapers all fall under the same corporate umbrella, parallel the same narrative, and begin to appear as little more than social engineering tools their necessity is diminished.



If Newspapers want to avoid extinction they simply need to rediscover their core principles and reason for being ... then circulation won't be a problem.
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Rush Limbaugh Answers Me As Other Republicans Email Calling for Civil War

Frank. we live in a Nation of idiots ... that is our Achilles' heel. You. sir, fall in the category of individuals described by Plato in "The Allegory of the Cave". You have escaped the cave and seen the light of day, but when you return to the cave and try to describe what you have seen to the cave-dwellers, who are mesmerized by the dancing shadows on the cave wall which form their comprehension of reality, you are met with hate, scorn and ridicule. I don't envy your position, but I appreciate you for making a difficult stand. Thank you.
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Obama's New Strategy: Blaming Bush For Financial Mess

Of course the Republicans (and that Blue Dog/DLC Clinton) own this economy. It's not President Obama ... it's not the Liberals, or Progressives, or others on the Left who are responsible for what occurred in the United States since 1980.



The Republicans and Vichy Democrats own our economic predicament and are the reason for the low standing the United States has in the world today.



And the Vichy Democrats are still acting as obstructionists, putting their closet Republican ideology ahead of what is the best for the country.



A person would have to have a pretty low IQ (or be a Republican which is about equivalent) to blame President Obama for the dire economic crisis we are in.
About Barack Obama
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Majority of Voters View Limbaugh Negatively, 45 Percent "Very, Very Negatively": Study

I don't see how this can be accurate, I mean the Republicans made Rush the ideological leader of their party. Rush stands for what the GOP stands for.



This idea that Rush is unpopular strikes me as just some kind of tree-hugging Liberal plot to undermine him. I know that Rush is the man the GOP crawl to everyday and beg for direction. Rush is the GOP present and Rush is the GOP future.



I'm sure I am not alone when I say that I am very happy with Rush in his current role and I hope he is the leader of the GOP for decades to come.



I wouldn't take this poll too seriously. Rush is loved by the GOP ... he completes them.
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Christina Romer: Obama Not Overwhelmed By Bad Economy

The Right is used to a Democratic President picking one high-profile issue they could focus on and attack. The Obama Administration's inundation of ideas and initiatives makes it nearly impossible for the GOP and their fellow travelers in the MSM and Chamber of Commerce to mount an effective counter attack on the Obama Administration's agenda.



In short Obama Administration .... POUR IT ON!!!! MORE!!! MORE!!! MORE!!! FASTER!!! FASTER!!!FASTER!!! ... do not let up!



The Obama Administration has succeeded in reducing the opposition to Lucy and Ethel racing the conveyor belt in the chocolate factory.



SPEED IT UP ... we need more Nuts and Chews!!!!
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Alan Greenspan: The Fed Didn't Cause The Housing Bubble

The toothpaste is out of the tube, Mr. Greenspan, and you smell like Fresh Mint.
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McCaskill: I'm Not Sure We Have Votes On Employee Free Choice Act

American workers have been more than patient in terms of expanding and solidifying worker's rights. If the Democrats can't get the EFCA passed then it is time to work for the creation an activist Labor Party whose membership uses financial boycott as well as walkouts and strikes to get business to sing the proper tune.



Of course that would kill the Democratic Party, but if they aren't willing to get the job done, so be it.



And Mr Donohue knows that there has never been an easier time in the history of the Republic to organize people quickly ... and times they are a-changing.



I say the Chamber should wise up, expansion of the Unions is the least of their worries.
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Igor Panarin: U.S. Will Collapse By Next Year

If the United States were to collapse why would Panarin assume that whomever was controlling the US at the time (likely a Military/Industrial Politburo, that would have vanquished American Civil Authority and imposed martial law by Military Contractor) would allow any world economic competitor to survive unscathed if their own dreams of being rulers of the New World Order were destroyed? If I were China, Russia, India, the EU or any other competitor nation to the US I would be doing all I can to preserve US stability and cohesion, for there will be no winners should the US collapse. I am positive of that.



Remember the way messianic megalomaniacs and their brainwashed minions operate ... Hitler supposedly was constructing a "Doomsday Device" to shoot a warhead into the center of the earth in an attempt to destroy the earth should his plans fail, obviously it didn't work. Panarin should pray for the stability of the United States rather than muse over the fanciful beneficial outcomes for his country should American collapse come to pass.
About Barack Obama
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Obama Touts Main Street Success As Wall Street Plunges

"I'm not saying, 'Mr. President, go stare at the Bloomberg quote machine and come to your senses,'" said CNBC's Jim Kramer. "I just want some sign that Obama realizes the market is totally falling apart. And that his agenda has a big hand in that happening."



I call BULLSH*T!!!!



Cramer, President Obama is not responsible for the Securities Kiting/Ponzi Scheme that is now collapsing ... Wall Street is. There is nothing that this President ... or any President ... could do at this point to prevent this scam from collapsing and rescue investors from losing their shirts. The die is cast, Cramer, and it was you and your Wall Street buddies who were running the forge.



CNBC has no credibility. Nobody on CNBC warned their investor Viewers they were about to lose 40-60% of their wealth last year. The talking heads on CNBC with their faux bluster acted like carnival barkers getting the Savvy PC Investor Set into the big tent to see the bearded lady and the cat with two heads.



I know Cramer has a job to do ... and it isn't an easy one ... but you would think at some point conscience would come into play for some of these CNBC Corporate Breast-beaters and they would recognized they have far more to do with the people who have been financially wiped out than the President has.



Cramer, CNBC deal in reality once in a while, huh?
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Liberal Groups Pressure Congress On Foreclosure Bill (VIDEO)

To paraphrase John McCain ... take the names of the lawmakers, Democrat or Republican, that stand in the way of this and make them famous in their home districts through ads. Then start canvassing for challengers to these lawmakers in their next elections. Time to get as punitive with the Lawmakers as the Banks are with the mortgage holder's in default.
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"Slumdog" Kids Back To School, One Taken Ill, Father Demands More Cash (PHOTOS)

Is this a case of the "Butterfly Effect" or "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"?



I once saw a great Tagalog film by Kidlat Tahimik called "Turumba" of how the life in a Philippine Village is turned upside down when their local paper mache crafts are noticed by a German Tourist who hires the villagers to create souvenirs of the mascot of 1972 Munich games. It is really worth seeing the damage outsiders can cause when they interrupt the traditional dynamic of a people's culture. This is really the case with these slum kids, for life will never be the same for them again now that they have lived in another world.
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