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At Least 26 Dead as Tens of Thousands Rally in Syria
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Even EUros catching on to Obama Bull
Video at link of Obama excluding Denmark from our strongest and closest allies.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 03/24/2012 09:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  apparently EVERYBODY "punches above their own weight". I see self-esteem-school has worked its' wonders on Obama and his idiot speechwriters
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2012 16:04 Comments || Top||

#2  It says a lot that the Danish media had to point this out to us. But now that they have, I'm sure the NYT and the Wapo will be all over it.
Posted by: Matt || 03/24/2012 16:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Watch the whole clip, worth it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2012 17:42 Comments || Top||


Economy
Friday Night Solyndra Document Dump
Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administration's messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show..
Posted by: Beavis || 03/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No special prosecuter available? No, we sent him to Florida to investigate a neighborhood shooting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2012 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  cookie
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/24/2012 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't the Special Prosecutor law expire? I thought all federal prosecution now has to go through the Dept of (in)Justice?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2012 9:47 Comments || Top||

#4  "This was not our program, per se"

Yes you did, you made it happen. And don't call me Percy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2012 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  HEH @ Per SE!
Posted by: newc || 03/24/2012 12:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe all the Special Prosecuters are busy investigating the NFL for Injury Bounties.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/24/2012 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  cookie
Posted by: Bunyip || 03/24/2012 17:14 Comments || Top||

#8  HEH @ Per SE!

Surely, you have seen that joke before.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2012 17:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Shirley? What the..... oh... I see your clever ploy. And don't call me Shirley
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2012 17:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama Says Tension with Iran Adding $20-30 to Oil Prices
[An Nahar] Tension with Iran and "uncertainty" in the region is adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices, pushing up gas prices for vehicle owners in the United States, President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
said.

"The key thing that is driving higher gas prices is actually the world's oil markets and uncertainty about what's going on in Iran and the Middle East, and that's adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices," Obama said in an interview with the American Automobile Association (AAA) published Friday.

Obama also said increasing demand for oil in China and India was driving prices.

"As more and more people around the world see their standards of living rising, they purchase cars, they have demand for oil, that creates a greater demand worldwide and that raises the price," Obama told AAA.

Pump prices are hovering near record highs as markets worry about tensions in the Middle East, with Obama moving to clamp down on criticism of his administration on the issue in an election year.

Amid a four-state tour to defend his energy plans this week, Obama stressed that his administration has approved "dozens" of new oil and gas pipelines, but new drilling was insufficient to lower rising gas prices.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran, China, India, Guam, Hawaii, Wales, Atlantis, Rhodesia.... all to blame. I'ze tell'n ya, nuttin I can DO!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2012 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Buying oil from the middle east causes problems with our security but drilling here won't help? The man is really dense....or ??
Posted by: tipover || 03/24/2012 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I can see using up THEIR oil, then selling OUR oil at a HIGH price to them.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/24/2012 1:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Wife saw $4.54 driving home in DuPage last night so Chicago should be higher.
Posted by: Water Modem || 03/24/2012 3:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Imagine the prices if somebody nukes all the oil transportation hubs in Persian Gulf.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2012 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  And speculators. And the Koch Brothers.

Absolutely nothing to do with an incoherant and scattered energy policy led by an administration bragging about the country being better off with $5+ per se gallon.

Gota problem wit that? Fill your tires and go buy a voltswagon.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2012 12:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Also ignore printing 1.6 trillion to 'pump' the economy followed by QE1, QE2, and on going stealth QE3. Inflation, what inflation?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2012 12:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Correct - Oil prices are not going up, the "value" of the Dollar is going down.
Posted by: newc || 03/24/2012 12:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Imagine the prices if somebody nukes all the oil transportation hubs in Persian Gulf. A single missile fired at, and missing, a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz would be enough to hike prices by 50%. Closing the strait for a month would likely cause shortages worldwide.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/24/2012 13:53 Comments || Top||

#10  World markets, supply and demand, limited sources, eh? So if there were more oil available from more places it would be cheaper, right?

Or is B-HO suggesting we should kick their asses and steal their oil?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2012 15:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Telecommute.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/24/2012 19:25 Comments || Top||


This is Sure to Turn Out Well
The state House of Representatives’ Hawaiian Affairs Committee on Wednesday recommended passage of a resolution recognizing Hawaiian nationals as a population residing lawfully in the islands.

“It just brings more awareness to Hawaiian people as a whole,” said Rep. Dee Morikawa, D-16th District. “It’s about everyone in Hawai‘i.”

House Resolution 68 formally recognizes the right of Hawaiian nationals — defined in the document as the authentic heirs, beneficiaries and body politic of the Hawaiian Kingdom — to organize and restore their national government in Hawai‘i.

It also commits to the state government to encourage courts and law enforcement to stop “nationality-based harassment and prosecution of Hawaiian nationals,” defined in the resolution as lineal descendants of Hawaiian Kingdom subjects, anyone born in Hawai‘i or naturalized through a formal process.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Haole's GO HOME! Please continue to send FREE STUFF.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2012 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  The prob for Native Hawaiians won't be getting China + PLA to come + save the poi, most likely via PLAN Missle Subs for now, but getting them to leave.

Ditto for Radical Islam + OWG CALIPHATE NAVY iff they ever set up in PACOAS - it may not look like it right now, but they're coming.

'TIS A THREE WAY NOW.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/24/2012 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Only full-blooded native Hawaiians may stay? ~Both of them?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2012 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Howzabout this radical idea?

You're either an American, or you're not. You're either a Hawaiian, or you're not. Period.
Posted by: Barbara || 03/24/2012 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  The Natives are having big problems with imported trailer trash. They do not have problems at all with being American, but there is this legal scope befalling them that is kind of foreign so to speak.
Posted by: newc || 03/24/2012 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Not so, Newc. The "reinstituted government of Hawai'i" is a separatist movement. Shortly after 9/11, I was in a local restauant when i heard the local head of the movement talking on a cell phone about how "the Americans got hurt, but it wasn't his problem". I talked to him a bit later at a local park about he was trying to accomplish. I stopped listening when he informed me that only "real" Hawaiians would be able to own the aina (land).
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/24/2012 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Is this like the movement to cut California in half? You know, the one that will NEVER HAPPEN.
Posted by: Charles || 03/24/2012 16:25 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2012-03-24
  At Least 26 Dead as Tens of Thousands Rally in Syria
Fri 2012-03-23
  German court gives online terror recruiter five year sentence
Thu 2012-03-22
  Gunman dead as French siege ends
Wed 2012-03-21
  French police in standoff with Jewish school killing suspect
Tue 2012-03-20
  Turkish Diplomat Says Two More Syrian Generals Defect
Mon 2012-03-19
  Heavy Shelling Kills 16 'Qaida' Fighters in Yemen
Sun 2012-03-18
  Five Killed In Bali Terror Raids
Sat 2012-03-17
  Qaeda suspects kidnap Swiss woman: Yemeni officials
Fri 2012-03-16
  Philly man arrested on charges of supporting Uzbeki terrorists
Thu 2012-03-15
   Karzai orders NATO out of all Afghan villages
Wed 2012-03-14
  Leon Panetta unhurt after suspected attack
Tue 2012-03-13
  U.S. Drone Attack In Pakistan Reportedly Kills 15 Suspected Militants
Mon 2012-03-12
  Army airstrikes kill 20 al-Qaeda militants in south Yemen
Sun 2012-03-11
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