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Bam’s still pocketing MF money
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nat…President Obama is trying to put some distance between himself and the wreckage of bankrupt brokerage MF Global. But not too much distance.
After returning more than $70,000 to Jon Corzine, the CEO who led MF Global into bankruptcy, the president’s re-election organizations are still hanging onto nearly $150,000 connected to the firm, The Post has learned.
- sorry, should have been posted in the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy DC thread, which was deleted.********
- sorry, should have been posted in the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy DC thread, which was deleted.
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Obama may lose gay voters to Gary Johnson in 2012
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/2…Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announced Wednesday that he will run for president as a Libertarian Party candidate in 2012. He will almost certainly be the only presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Johnson’s support for same-sex marriage, and President Barack Obama’s opposition to it, could put the support and votes of gay Americans in play during the election.
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Cocky Romney strategist: ‘I don’t see any scenario where we’re not the nominee’
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/2…LOL!
- Gingrich himself was saying the same thing a couple weeks ago - that he (Gingrich) would be the nominee.mg33
- locustsloth0
Perry goes for troll/rapist vote by taking creepy picture under a bridge
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg738…
- TheBlueOne0
Anyone remember when Gingrich called Obama a "threat to American democracy" because of the supposed fake ACORN signatures?
Anyone? Media? JazX? Crickets?
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=31500…
And now that Gingrich's campaign has been shown to have collected false signatures in VA can we equally call Gingrich a "threat to American Democracy"?
Anyone? Media? JazX? Crickets....
Yeah. Liberal media at work.
- Ramanisky20
priceless ..
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Two claim Gingrich lobbied in '03
They say he urged them to vote for a Medicare prescription-drug plan.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com…
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Muslim Extremists in Uganda Throw Acid on Bishop
http://www.compassdirect.org/eng…Burns threaten eyesight of church leader who opposed Islamic courts.
KAMPALA, Uganda, December 28 (CDN) — Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other.
Bishop Umar Mulinde, 37, a sheikh (Islamic teacher) before his conversion to Christianity, was attacked on Saturday night (Dec. 24) outside his Gospel Life Church International building in Namasuba, about 10 kilometers (six miles) outside of Kampala. From his hospital bed in Kampala, he told Compass that he was on his way back to the site for a party with the entire congregation and hundreds of new converts to Christianity when a man who claimed to be a Christian approached him.
“I heard him say in a loud voice, ‘Pastor, pastor,’ and as I made a turn and looked at him, he poured the liquid onto my face as others poured more liquid on my back and then fled away shouting, ‘Allahu akbar [God is greater],’” Mulinde said, still visibly traumatized two days after the assault.
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Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn Report Shows Taxpayer Money Spent on Robots That Fold Laundry, Shrimp on Treadmills
$682,570 for 'shrimp running on a treadmill' study
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/o…
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http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/my…
Some of you have asked if my campaign for president of the United States is serious or a joke. It's both. It's also a third thing, which has something to do with being a protest vote against the general incompetence of both parties, and a fourth thing involving the usefulness of thinking about things differently. This is America, damn it, and I don't have to be just one thing.
I'm also a spoiler of spoilers. If a conservative runs an independent campaign, and people see me as less conservative than the independent - at least about social issues, which I call freedom - I could drain as many votes from Obama as the other guy drains from the Republican nominee.
I recently learned that there is some dumbass law against a presidential nominee naming his appointees before winning the election. Therefore, I hereby recant anything I ever said that sounded illegal. But I think it's legal to say I would nominate people who are similar to people you might know, just to give you a general sense of what might happen after my election. In my case, I would have as my main advisor someone similar to Bill Clinton or New Gingrich or Mitt Romney. And by that I mean someone who is brilliant, experienced, and has a history of being all over the political map.
After I'm elected, I will host a reality TV show in which the best minds in the country debate the important issues. I would moderate the debates with lots of interruptions, like a Supreme Court justice, while my panel of fact-checkers with laptops keeps things real. Every day would be like the Scopes Monkey Trial. I'd have trials on supply-side economics, climate change, states' rights, drug policy, and more. I'd bring entertainment to government.
In my view, the main job of the President, after security, is giving voters the right kind of information to control Congress. For starters, I'd publicly identify the least competent members of congress from both parties and ask voters to replace them. As an independent, I could pick on both parties without appearing biased. I'd only target the politicians that have views at odds with the verdicts of my Scopes Monkey Trials.
One of the first trials I'd schedule would be on the topic of capping CEO pay for public companies. Everyone is in favor of capitalism, but no one is in favor of weasels that find legal ways to screw stockholders. If capping the pay of CEOs drives the best people into starting their own companies, maybe that's a plus for capitalism. I'd like to hear arguments on both sides of that issue, and so would you.
Summarizing my views from this post and prior ones, as President of the United States, I would do the following:
- I would host public debates on important topics, and publish my verdicts.
- I would shine a bright light on incompetent members of Congress, especially the ones that are governing by superstition, bad math, or ignorance of science.
- I would host a debate on the topic of limiting inheritance to $50 million. That's enough money to turn anyone into an insufferable douche bag.
- I would use the power of the Internet to give voters a simple "dashboard" to help understand the issues and keep Congress honest.
- I would require all voting to be by Internet, and make sure everyone had access in one way or another.
- I would appoint Supreme Court justices that match the majority views in the country, even if my own views differed.
- I would govern for the majority, except in cases where the majority is trying to discriminate against a specific minority. I don't like bigots and bullies.
- I would keep foreign policy about the same.
- I would use states as test beds for programs that are being considered by the federal government.
- I would flip-flop whenever it was warranted by new information or clearer thinking.
- I would appoint brilliant, experienced advisors with a history of crossing party lines.
- I would accept only $1 per year in pay and make up the difference later in speaking fees, book deals, and licensing.
- I wouldn't spend a minute campaigning for myself or anyone else, unless it was in the service of getting rid of an incompetent member of Congress.
- I would favor raising all Federal taxes by 10%, and cutting all budgets by 10%, unless Congress comes up with a better idea, which seems unlikely.
- I would not be a good role model for your kids. That's your job.
Keep in mind that I would be a one-term president. I say that to reduce my chances of being assassinated. And I'd be eager to cash in after the first term. A second term would have rapidly diminishing returns for everyone involved.My prediction is that President Obama will easily win reelection by showing that he succeeded in many of the objectives he controlled (especially international stuff) and was thwarted by Republicans on domestic stuff. After President Obama is reelected, Democrats and Republicans will lock arms and march the economy off the cliff, plunging civilization into a thousand years of darkness.
Or you could vote for me. Realistically, I would be an awful leader, but I probably could keep us away from the abyss. A few years from now, if you're throwing rocks at birds just to get something to eat, don't say you didn't have a choice.
Dilbert (or Scott Adams)
- waterhouse0
They talk about the founding fathers.
They talk about traditional marriage.
They even talk about how today's impoverished have television sets and microwaves.Whatever the topic, they're subtextually talking about a bygone era; an era that will never return.
- that is why you fail, you underestimate your opponent********
- that is why you fail, you underestimate your opponent
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Vancouver health body begins free crack pipe program for addicts
http://news.nationalpost.com/201…
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http://thehill.com/video/in-the-…Comedy is not just a hobby Specter picked up in retirement after losing his seat in 2010. He said he has been performing for 30 years.
“I’ve been in comedy for 30, for 30 years. The only difference is it’s not stand up, we all have comfortable chairs. It costs, it costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one you like to sit down. It’s sit-down comedy.”
Specter represented Pennsylvania in the Senate from 1981 to 2011, switching from Republican to Democrat in 2009.
- ukit20
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
HAHAHAHA....what a fucking joke. Santorum?
Feel bad for Ron Paul supporters, he was favored to win and probably won't get another chance after this.
- Uhmmm you sacred Obama lost Iowa dude. Way to early for all that talk. Iowa means crap.********
- http://www.businessi…********
- Uhmmm you sacred Obama lost Iowa dude. Way to early for all that talk. Iowa means crap.
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Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum?: William D. Cohan
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20…It took a relatively obscure former British academic to propagate a theory of the financial crisis that would confirm what many people suspected all along: The “corporate psychopaths” at the helm of our financial institutions are to blame.
Clive R. Boddy, most recently a professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University, says psychopaths are the 1 percent of “people who, perhaps due to physical factors to do with abnormal brain connectivity and chemistry” lack a “conscience, have few emotions and display an inability to have any feelings, sympathy or empathy for other people.”
- Ramanisky20
Eric Cantor is a righteous Dude
- bullshit llip service. dude was all about obstructionBonSeff
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Ron Paul May Have Secretly Won The Iowa Caucuses
http://www.businessinsider.com/r…That's because Iowa's Republican caucuses are non-binding — they are technically just a straw poll, so once selected, delegates are free to vote for whichever presidential candidate they choose.
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German suspect in Los Angeles car arsons tells cops: ‘I hate America’
Neighbors say his mom was being deported
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/…The German man, from Chechnya, busted as the suspected firebug who torched more than 50 cars in Los Angeles had a message for the cop who cuffed him Monday: "I hate America."
Harry Burkhart, 24, spoke the smear after he was yanked from his minivan near the Sunset Strip about 3 a.m. by a Beverly Hills real estate attorney who moonlights as a reserve sheriff's deputy, witnesses told LA Weekly.
Shervin Lalezary, who earns a $1 a year as a part-time crime fighter, made the stop after noticing the minivan with Canadian plates matched the one mentioned in a tip from federal officials.
Cops found fire starter sticks inside the van, police said.
Burkhart, who has lived in southern California for several years and was carrying travel papers from Chechnya, was booked for investigation of arson of an inhabited dwelling and was being held without bail, authorities said.
