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President Obama’s drunk-ass uncle had Social Security ID
http://www.bostonherald.com/news…President Obama’s accused drunken-driving uncle — who was busted after a near collision with a Framingham cop — has had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya, the Herald has learned.
- Sup JazX!utopian
- Just saw that place on Bar Rescuelocustsloth
- please deport********
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EDITORIAL: Irene is Obama’s punishment
Too much regulation isn’t enough for radical greens
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Obama at a loss
Applying business sense to government can get U.S. back on track
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…When stock prices were plunging earlier this month, President Obama strode to the teleprompter and utterly failed to calm the markets or the American people. Sadly, they saw what I saw - and have come to exactly the same conclusion: Mr. Obama does not know what to do. He never did.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
We now have it from no less an authority than the chairman of the Federal Reserve: Washington's dysfunction isn't merely embarrassing. It's actually harming the American economy.
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- FAILukit
- nah, they make you have that crap on there now... sucks********
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- 74LEO0
BAD POPFODDERS!
You were doing so good today!
I'm going to start a thread called politics anonymous just for you.
- TheBlueOne0
In real news "the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has issued a resounding and unanimous opinion in support of the First Amendment right to record the actions of police in public."
- TheBlueOne0
In real news "the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has issued a resounding and unanimous opinion in support of the First Amendment right to record the actions of police in public."
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The Good Olde USA, USA, USA!
A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study.
The Guatemala experiments are already considered one of the darker episodes of medical research in U.S. history, but panel members say the new information indicates that the researchers were unusually unethical, even when placed into the historical context of a different era.
"The researchers put their own medical advancement first and human decency a far second," said Anita Allen, a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
From 1946-48, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau worked with several Guatemalan government agencies to do medical research — paid for by the U.S. government — that involved deliberately exposing people to sexually transmitted diseases.
The researchers apparently were trying to see if penicillin, then relatively new, could prevent infections in the 1,300 people exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea or chancroid. Those infected included soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis.
The commission revealed Monday that only about 700 of those infected received some sort of treatment. Also, 83 people died, although it's not clear if the deaths were directly due to the experiments.
The research came up with no useful medical information, according to some experts. It was hidden for decades but came to light last year, after a Wellesley College medical historian discovered records among the papers of Dr. John Cutler, who led the experiments.
President Barack Obama called Guatemala's president, Alvaro Colom, to apologize. He also ordered his bioethics commission to review the Guatemala experiments. That work is nearly done. Though the final report is not due until next month, commission members discussed some of the findings at a meeting Monday in Washington.
They revealed that some of the experiments were more shocking than was previously known.
For example, seven women with epilepsy, who were housed at Guatemala's Asilo de Alienados (Home for the Insane), were injected with syphilis below the back of the skull, a risky procedure. The researchers thought the new infection might somehow help cure epilepsy. The women each got bacterial meningitis, probably as a result of the unsterile injections, but were treated.
Perhaps the most disturbing details involved a female syphilis patient with an undisclosed terminal illness. The researchers, curious to see the impact of an additional infection, infected her with gonorrhea in her eyes and elsewhere. Six months later she died.Dr. Amy Gutmann, head of the commission, described the case as "chillingly egregious."
During that time, other researchers were also using people as human guinea pigs, in some cases infecting them with illnesses. Studies weren't as regulated then, and the planning-on-the-fly feel of Cutler's work was not unique, some experts have noted.But panel members concluded that the Guatemala research was bad even by the standards of the time. They compared the work to a 1943 experiment by Cutler and others in which prison inmates were infected with gonorrhea in Terre Haute, Ind. The inmates were volunteers who were told what was involved in the study and gave their consent. The Guatemalan participants — or many of them — received no such explanations and did not give informed consent, the commission said.
The commission is working on a second report examining federally funded international studies to make sure current research is being done ethically. That report is expected at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, the Guatemalan government has vowed to do its own investigation into the Cutler study. A spokesman for Vice President Rafael Espada said the report should be done by November.
FUCK YEAH AMERICA!
- wank, wank, wank... survival of the fittest. Here's a quarter go call some hippy that might care...********
- Cutler, hey I think I might be related to him! WOW********
- http://www.wellesley…********
- wank, wank, wank... survival of the fittest. Here's a quarter go call some hippy that might care...
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Obama to media: Drop references to al-Qaida
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…In the administration’s repeated use of that word – “resilience,” which refers to the ability to bounce back from adversity – one analyst discerned an ulterior motive.
“The president's in political trouble,” Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf told Fox News, in an interview from New York. “He wants to be resilient. And by telling the country to be ‘resilient,’ it's kind of a code word for saying, ‘Hey, I'm as good as you are. We'll all be resilient together.’ But that's not what 9/11 really ought to be about. The politics of it are less important than the lives of Americans lost.”
- You think Foxnews is unbiased.DrBombay
- It's the news that you don't like. Spin, spin, spin, *cough MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN. Make the sheep happy!********
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The entitlement tsunami is here
http://campaign2012.washingtonex…When President Obama announced the debt-limit deal with Congress in late July, he claimed the legislation would result in “the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was President.” We’re spending less now then we did over 50 years ago? How is that even possible? In short, it’s not.
The United States spent an inflation-adjusted $327 billion on non-defense spending in 1961, Eisenhower’s last fiscal year in office. In 2011, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday, we will spend $2.9 trillion. That’s almost 1000% more government spending! Even if we account for U.S. economic growth since 1961, Obama’s 2011 non-defense spending still far exceeds Eisnehower’s as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).
So how does Obama defend that fantastic claim? Simple. He ignores entitlement spending.
- Thats not a tsunami. That inside break at Waimea Bay.IRNlun6
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Did president's uncle benefit from 1980's Dukakis fake ID policy for illegals?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/b…- You think the Washtimes is an unbiased news source.DrBombay
- It's the news that you don't like. Spin, spin, spin, *cough MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN. Make the sheep happy!********
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No matter what your political party, I think we are all pretty sick of Congress’s shenanigans. Maybe if they were brought down a peg, they might feel more like taking better care of the American people instead of themselves and their next election chances.
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971... Before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
- before computers, before popfodders, etc.TheBlueOne
- Wow, //great comment********
- i actually agree with most of this. Congressman should not be a career, it should be a civic dutylocustsloth
- TheBlueOne0
E tu, popfodders?
"The trolls dominate or have neutralized every major institution in the country on behalf of their corporate paymasters. The press, education, Wall Street, labor and our political parties are managed by trolls or have been destroyed by them. Sometimes these trolls speak like liberals. Sometimes they speak like conservatives. Sometimes they are secular. Sometimes they are Christians. But the language they use is a cover for the relentless march toward a totalitarian capitalism and a kingdom where the trolls, if not the rest of us, live happily ever after. Rick Perry and John Boehner overtly make war on Social Security. Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi say they would like to save Social Security but are sadly powerless before the decisions of a congressional super committee they helped form. The result, of course, is the same. We get to choose the rhetoric and manner in which we are deceived and disempowered. Nothing more."
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Exactly, you just keep posting nonsense, promoting fear and hate, and cut off any chance at real conversation. Either you're paid to do it (if you're smarter than you seem) or you're doing this for free, thus proving you're a dumb, low-information serf.
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- Not in your dreams dickface, more fucking BS to try and give Dems som fuel for Obama and the crap he spews********
- You think the Washtimes is an unbiased news source.
– DrBombay1/2
It's the news that you don't like. Spin, spin, spin, *cough MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN. Make the sheep happy!******** - OOPS********
- It's the news that you don't like. Spin, spin, spin, *cough MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN. Make the sheep happy!********
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Tripoli Divided as Rebels Jostle to Fill Power Vacuum
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/3…
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And now the civil war starts. *cough
- BonSeff0
funny this idiot was blaming obama for all lack of legislation and now all the sudden he is a polisci expert on congress..
he trolls right wing forums and what ever gives his peepee a tingle he posts it here without any knowledge of context. just rapid fire bullshit.
this guy is a colossal piece of shit.
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Free tuition for illegals
California Democrats push taxpayers to subsidize higher ed for aliens
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…Democrats will do anything to pander for Hispanic votes in 2012. They’re even in favor of amnesty and cash handouts to illegal aliens, if that’s what it takes. The latest scheme from California liberals is a move to force over-burdened taxpayers to foot the bill to put illegals through college.
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While you and I pay for it. *COUGH
- "While you and I pay for it."
Get a job.TheBlueOne - hahahahahahha good one TBOzarkonite
- "While you and I pay for it."
