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Another Nightmarish Day: Economic Gloom Incites Dow's Worst 2-Day Plunge Since '08
http://www.foxbusiness.com/inves…
- DrBombay0
Your constant enthusiasm at bad news is what makes you a troll.
- zarkonite0
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-…
Prison officials in the US state of Texas have abolished the traditional last meal request for inmates who are facing execution.
- Beeswax0
It's time for Palestinian people to be escalated to humans from caged animals.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
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- now tell me how that FUCKING works, you hypocritical SCUM********
- You take a picture with just the book you want, publish a bullshit story and you're done.zarkonite
- It's kind of obvious.zarkonite
- No moron, you've missed the point entirely.********
- Only hypocrite here is popfodder!!.. Shocker!!!!Ramanisky2
- now tell me how that FUCKING works, you hypocritical SCUM
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- FUCKING OBUMMER!DrBombay
- Obviously a republican put it there... this is right-wing media bias!zarkonite
- who the fuck said that? I'm just saying he has one. LOL!********
- Popfodders lies... alwaysRamanisky2
- utopian0
"Conflicts may be good politics, but cooperation changes lives!"
- President Bill Clinton- has not worked for Obama.********
- cooperation on bad ideas doesnt change the outcome of bad ideas********
- yep deathboy********
- No!!! Bullshit!!!Ramanisky2
- has not worked for Obama.
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Perry Is Right: There Is a Texas Model for Fixing Social Security
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…To highlight the problems facing Social Security, Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is pointing to three Texas counties that decades ago opted out of Social Security by creating personal retirement accounts. Now, 30 years on, county workers in those three jurisdictions retire with more money and have better death and disability supplemental benefits. And those three counties—unlike almost all others in the United States—face no long-term unfunded pension liabilities.
Since 1981 and 1982, workers in Galveston, Matagorda and Brazoria Counties have seen their retirement savings grow every year, even during the Great Recession. The so-called Alternate Plan of these three counties doesn't follow the traditional defined-benefit or defined-contribution model. Employee and employer contributions are actively managed by a financial planner—in this case, First Financial Benefits, Inc., of Houston, which originated the plan in 1980 and has managed it since its adoption. I call it a "banking model."
As with Social Security, employees contribute 6.2% of their income, with the county matching the contribution (or, as in Galveston, providing a slightly larger share). Once the county makes its contribution, its financial obligation is done—that's why there are no long-term unfunded liabilities.
- Perry is done you!!!
Did you not see his awesome debate? .. Deer in fucking headlightsRamanisky2
- Perry is done you!!!
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Vote for Jon D. These other clowns are losers.
- Ramanisky20
^ drove someone ....shiiiiiiiiiiiiT
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Cain upsets Perry as winner of Florida straw poll
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's presidential campaign was dealt a worrying blow Saturday when he finished in a distant second place to businessman Herman Cain in a closely watched straw poll in Florida.
Cain won 37% of the 2,657 votes cast in the straw poll conducted at Presidency 5, a three-day convention sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida that brought thousands of party activists to Orlando.
Perry's campaign had courted Presidency 5 delegates for weeks and printed up glossy fliers that were distributed throughout the convention hall in Orlando, but the Texas governor captured just 410 votes, or 15.4% of the vote.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished third with 14%.
He was followed by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (10.9%), Texas Rep. Ron Paul (10.4%), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (8.4%), former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (2.26%) and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (1.5%).- PIZZA PIZZAukit
- I love this! Only problem is the real vote and in other States.********
- ukit says Pizza Pizza as if Obama has ever run a company in his life. Wow, that's actually humorous.********
- Look at the state of the US. I bet you own no stocks ukit, you fucking mid 20's idiot.********
- I say pizza pizza as in, go fuck your self!! You knob job!!!Ramanisky2
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New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad," Barack Obama.
That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge.
A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to France? Now, THAT would be a bridge!
It's yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate, overlooked by most media for whatever reason. Like Obama saying Abraham-Come-Lately Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party. Or Navy corpseman. Or the Austrian language. Fifty-seven states. The president of Canada. Etc.
If you talk as much as this guy likes to talk instead of governing, if you believe you are a Real Good Talker as much as this guy does, you're gonna blow a few lines. But this many?
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Holder’s hell week
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opi…The stench from Washington is getting stronger. Rep. Darrell Issa has called for a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the festering mess known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Hatched somewhere in the bowels of the Justice Department, that misbegotten scheme had the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives deliberately allowing high-powered guns to “walk” from Arizona and elsewhere into Mexico: Our agents turned a blind eye toward the straw purchasers who were funneling the weapons to the drug cartels.
The (dumb) idea was to trace cross-border arms trafficking, and so prove the (false) claim that 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexican drug war zones originate in the US. (The real figure is closer to 17 percent.) But, as Issa’s Oversight and Government Reform committee continues its investigation, that pretension has evaporated -- and a major international scandal has been born.
- utopian0
Two executives who made their traditionally weak political offices into power centers faced hostile audiences this past week: Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the UN, and Rick Perry, Texas’s governor, at the Republican party’s debates. But behind both bombastic men loom far more dangerous self-serving idealogues, and Americans should carefully consider how the lessons they’ve learned from one politician might apply to the other.
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