Archive for August, 2009
Disabled Woman Describes Violent Confrontation With ACORN Group at Town Hall
Posted by JP in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009
“Right out of Alinsky’s playbook.”
Brashly shouting out his lyrics in crowded, smoky clubs, Alexei Nikonov zeroes in on provocative themes that most musicians here ignore — authoritari
Posted by JP in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009
Russian punk rockers rage against the Putin machine…Howz’ about we swap. You take Obama, we’ll take Putin….
White House Appears Ready to Drop ‘Public Option’…
Posted by JP in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate’s budget committee, pushed the co-op model as an alternative.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said Obama’s team is making a political calculation and embracing the co-op alternative as “a step away from the government takeover of the health care system” that the GOP has pummeled.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, said it would be difficult to pass any legislation through the Democratic-controlled Congress without the promised public plan.
Obama, writing an opinion piece in Sunday’s New York Times, said political maneuvers should be excluded from the debate.
“In all honesty, I don’t want a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats setting health care for my aged citizens in Utah,” Hatch said.
“We wanted to make sure doctors were reimbursed for that very important consultation if family members chose to make it, and instead it’s been turned into this scare tactic and probably will be off the table,” she said.
Iran: Arrested U.S. Hikers are CIA Agents. So is Rafsanjani, you dopes.
Posted by JP in Uncategorized on August 3, 2009
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AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed…This Obama Regime Is As Sharp as a Bowling Ball.
Posted by JP in Uncategorized on August 2, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.
Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al–Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
The officials outlined the plans – the latest effort to comply with President Barack Obama’s order to close the prison camp by Jan. 22, 2010, and satisfy congressional and public fears about incarcerating terror suspects on American soil – on condition of anonymity because the options are under review.
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Scott Silliman, director of Duke University’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, called the proposal “totally unprecedented” and said he doubts the plan would work without Congress’ involvement because new laws probably would be needed. Otherwise, “we gain nothing – all we do is create a Guantanamo in Kansas or wherever,” Silliman said.
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4,500-Year-Old Skeleton Found on Italian Beach…I thought Jimmy Hoffa was younger then that.
Posted by JP in Uncategorized on August 2, 2009
The man is believed to be a warrior killed by an arrow in the chest, Reuters reported.
Six small vases were also found buried near the man.
“We thought it was that of a Roman solider, but then the experts identified it as dating back to the third millennium B.C.,” said Raffaele Mancino, an official who oversees Italy’s cultural heritage.
The skeleton was discovered during a routine air patrol of areas of archaeological interest.