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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dale Peterson versus the "Lame Duck" Congress
It's over pretty quickly.

Posted by: Mike || 10/05/2010 12:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I loved it. I would have liked to see more feathers flying and a large cloud of gun smoke, though.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/05/2010 15:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Dale Peterson for President, 2010/2012
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/05/2010 16:15 Comments || Top||


Economy
Calif. high court upholds Schwarzenegger furloughs
[KGO-TV SAN FRANCISCO, CA] The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to furlough state workers, dealing a major victory to part of the governor's budgeting plans. In its unanimous ruling, the court concluded that the state Legislature's 2009 budget legislation "validated the governor's furlough program."
Posted by: Fred || 10/05/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Larger issue aside, amazing is it not, how those immune from "furlough" pass unanimous jugement upon those suscectible to furlough.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/05/2010 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, in California they have demonstrated by act that Supreme Court Judges can be furloughed by the people through recall. The people have no such mechanism with the bureaucracy other than indirectly by electing officials who will furlough them. I'd add by state constitutional amendment, but those who are unhappy with the results just appealed to some sympathetic federal judge who tells the people to stuff it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/05/2010 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Huh. Here I thought it might be an article about how The Gov had time to make a movie.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/05/2010 12:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Jerry Brown's Castro Problem
Suddenly Brown, in a state where Latinos cast 22 percent of the vote, has the five-point advantage. But as it turns out, Brown had his own Latin misadventure, one that may have skirted the law.

“Well, it makes it a crime!” Brown exclaimed. “The Treasury Department can prosecute me.”

Indeed, by the time Brown returned from his Cuban idyll on July 29, 2000, he had bonded with its Maximum Leader and lunched with the world’s most famous 6-year-old, Elian Gonzalez.

And all thanks to a trip planner who happened to be a former CIA officer-turned-double agent-turned-tour guide.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/05/2010 17:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, come on, GB. You know the laws are for the little people like us, not for important Democrats like Brown and others.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/05/2010 20:08 Comments || Top||


Sen. Murkowski warns Alaska stations not to Air Tea Party Express ads --or else!
Mark Hemingway, Washington Examiner

...Again, these ads better be really out of bounds. Otherwise, this move makes her look really arrogant and unjustifiably entitled — which is exactly the message the Tea Party Express ads were trying to send in the first place.

UPDATE — As far as political ads go, it doesn’t look at all egregrious:

Posted by: Mike || 10/05/2010 12:44 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh political elite, your doom approaches. Woe unto those that will not hear their master's will. You will be but dust.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/05/2010 15:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Darth,
You don't get rid of the narcissistic rent-seeking wreckers that easily.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/05/2010 18:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry bitch Princess, you lost. Entitlement has a smell, doesn't it? Like mothballs.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/05/2010 19:32 Comments || Top||

#4  BP, that is what the tar and feathers are for.

If they still don't get the hint... well, we have already dealt with that a couple times in our history.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/05/2010 20:47 Comments || Top||


Obama to host free vacation, beer, lobster, this week end for Cabinet members and their families
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/05/2010 12:37 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How is this news? Presidents have been doing this since before Camp David was established.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/05/2010 15:12 Comments || Top||

#2  D *** NG IT, does this mean there won't be any Hoagies or Pan Pizza???

* ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > US ECONOMY: CHINA HOLDS THE TRUMP CARD, NOT OBAMA OR THE US CONGRESS.

ARTIC > Historically,Govts-Nations in heavy Debt to other Countries either IMPOSE VARIOUS KINDS OF UNILATER ECON SANCTIONS, OR ELSE RESORT TO WAR - the "WAR OPTION" agz China is NOT likely to occur = chosen by Washington DC.

* FUTURE CUSTOMERS are found in DEVELOPED NATIONS, as opposed to Un-Developed Nations.

* ONLY EXTREME MEASURES CAN HALT US DECLINE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/06/2010 0:05 Comments || Top||


Rectal Robert sez..... 'I love my job.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/05/2010 12:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is an A$$ isn't he ?
Posted by: armyguy || 10/05/2010 12:41 Comments || Top||

#2  So we had Baghdad Bob and now Beltway Bob.

I like him where he is - for the amusement value.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/05/2010 13:02 Comments || Top||


Obama: 'I'd appreciate a little break' - This is too much like, like....work!
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/05/2010 12:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Give us a break, Obama. If you really want a break, resign your position & let Joe Biden take over. He's got more sense in his hair plugs than you have all through your carcass.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/05/2010 15:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Commander Zero strikes again!
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/05/2010 15:13 Comments || Top||

#3  We'd appreciate a little break, too, Bambi - from YOU.

Why don't you resign January 21, 2011? That would give you a looooong break.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/05/2010 16:00 Comments || Top||

#4  DOOD! you just got done with vacation. In fact, you just had 8 in one year. WTH?
Posted by: newc || 10/05/2010 17:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Kenya an Indonesia are looking for madrassa directors.. .
Posted by: jack salami || 10/05/2010 18:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember, the more vacation Obama takes the less time he's got to damage the country.
Posted by: DMFD || 10/05/2010 19:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
No Pay, No Spray
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.
Sounds like Crassius, the richest and most hated man in Rome. He made his money with a private fire department. His people would arrive at the scene and sit on their hands until the owner paid up; if they didn't he bought the ruins for back taxes and rebuilt. Of course, the public servants in this case refused to take the payment. Pour encourager les autres. Well, Crassius (ever wonder where the word "crass" came from?) got his - he got so rich he became one of the three "trimumvirs" ruling Rome along with Pompey and Caesar. Of course, as Richard Armour said, a Trimumvir is junta of three where two immediately start start talking trash about the third. Crass decided he needed a vacation surrounded by an army so he went to kick some Parthian butt. As the story goes, the Parthians ended up pouring molten gold down his throat since he liked it so much. Something symbolically similar may happen to the Mayor/Fire chief in TN.

Pls ignore reference to Olbermann - he doesn't have the chance to screw up the story.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/05/2010 20:01 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



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Tue 2010-10-05
  French police arrest 11 people with suspected Islamic extremists links
Mon 2010-10-04
  Six killed as NATO oil tankers ambushed in Islamabad
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  Drone strikes kill 18 in North Waziristan
Sat 2010-10-02
  US drone strike kills six in Pakistan
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  Imagine that: Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan
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  US walks out of Ahmadinejad UN speech
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  MILF drop separatist demands
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  Three drone strikes kill 28 in Waziristan
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  Chicago man arrested in foiled bomb plot


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