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I was a little worried at first that this might be an attorney-client privileged document, but looking at the image on BigGovernment, I suspect not: (a) it's not marked privileged, and (b) it's sent to so many different organizations, it's doubtful it could be considered privileged.
Go Breitbart! :-D
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A Tuskegee woman is suing Milton McGregor's VictoryLand electronic bingo operation, alleging fraud when employees there escorted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford to specific machines last month when he won more than $50,000.
Sandra Howard's lawsuit in Macon County Circuit Court alleges that Langford won the money Aug. 28. That's 11 days after a federal magistrate in Birmingham ruled that Langford was unable to pay his attorneys in a federal bribery case, ordering the government to cover his legal bills.
The lawsuit names Macon County Greyhound Park Inc. and its operating names of VictoryLand and Quincy's 777 as defendants. Langford is not listed as a defendant, though most of the allegations revolve around him.
The lawsuit claims VictoryLand rigged the machines for Langford "in hopes of receiving political favor and to promote approval of business dealings" for affiliates of the Macon County Greyhound Park.
The suit echoes claims in an unresolved 2007 suit filed by Cynthia Teel against VictoryLand. In that case, an Oct. 23, 2008, affidavit from a VictoryLand employee says officials at the Shorter facility manipulated a machine to guarantee payouts to certain people, including Langford, from 2006 to 2008.
At the time, Langford called the Teel action "the most ridiculous lawsuit I have ever seen."
Birmingham lawyer Ted Mann represents both Howard and Teel. Efforts to reach Mann and attorneys for VictoryLand were unsuccessful Tuesday.
Michael Rasmussen, Langford's attorney in the federal criminal case, had no comment Tuesday on the claims in Howard's suit. Efforts to reach Langford were unsuccessful.
Langford is set to go on trial Oct. 19 in federal court in Tuscaloosa to face charges that he accepted bribes during his term as Jefferson County Commission president.
Prosecutors claim Langford steered county financing business and $7.1 million in fees to Montgomery investment banker Bill Blount. In return, prosecutors charge, Blount gave Langford $236,000 in cash, clothes and jewelry, sometimes using lobbyist and Langford friend Al LaPierre as a go-between.
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So,my comments are NOT being allowed, I'll look for Banned Words and try again.
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A couple of yeaars ago, Wife was playing a sl0t machine at one of the gulf coast Casin0s, when thee was something wrong with the machine developed some kind of problem.
The attendants were right on it and asked Missus to wait a moment then opened the machine, poked in it's innards and called a repairman, closed the front AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, the repair guy showed up, opened it up and checked something,AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, then he replaced something,AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, then they closed it and locked it, AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, yup that's 4 timres.
I told wife to get up and leave right now, she was being cheated, we left.
I'm familiar with CNC lathes and Milling machines repeating the same motions over and over thousands of times with a preciseness of one-ten thousandths of an inch accuracy.
Obviously the Slot Machines use the same programming.
CHEAT, well depends on whether or not you own the machine, obviously they CAN be programmed to give the results THEY WANT, t's NOT "Random" as claimed.
I'll also note the Sl0ts are hard wired into the Casin0s Office, so programming "On the Fly" is entirly posible, in fact Probable.
Did they "Cheat" and allow him to win, Probably, but there's no way to prove it, such progrmming is NOT RECORDED.
Second try
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Found it, the word S*L*O*T has to be spelled with a Zero.
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[ABC News] The controversy surrounding collapsed mortgage lender Countrywide took another turn Wednesday when the ranking Republican on a key House committee openly confronted the panel's chairman demanding he subpoena Bank of America for information about a murky program that involved public officials.
The challenge from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., comes in the wake of the recent revelation that Countrywide recorded phone calls with borrowers as part of the program and then those recordings were destroyed. The program, Issa has said, was used by the lender to provide sweetheart deals to federal government officials and members of Congress who worked on housing policy in an attempt to gain their support.
In a heated exchange at a hearing Wednesday morning, Issa told House Oversight and Government Reform committee chairman Edolphus Towns, D-Md., that Bank of America, which bought Countrywide last year, should be subpoenaed for all information related to the program.
"Mr. Chairman, I call on you today to issue that subpoena," Issa said to Towns. "It is that important that I bring it up at this hearing and I call for you if you cannot do it to step aside and allow this committee to have a vote."
Issa has requested before that Towns issue a subpoena, but elected to make his protests public at the televised Congressional hearing.
"What we do know is that there is a level of intended corruption by Countrywide that clearly had an effect on government's decisions for years and we are ignoring it," the California lawmaker said in his opening statement. "We cannot really understand the failure of government if we do not understand the failure of government officials led by, in fact, an attempt to bribe them."
Countrywide collapsed in 2008 in the midst of the subprime mortgage meltdown. In June, the company's former CEO Angelo Mozilo was charged by the Securities & Exchange Commission with civil fraud and insider trading. Mozilo, the highest-profile official to date faced with federal charges stemming from the financial crisis, has become the poster boy for predatory lending.
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[Fox News] President Obama's "safe schools czar," under fire from critics who say he's unfit for his job, acknowledged Wednesday that he "should have handled [the] situation differently" years ago when he was a schoolteacher and didn't report that a 15-year-old boy told him that he was having sex with an older man.
Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, was teaching high school in Concord, Mass., in 1988 when the boy, a sophomore, confessed an involvement with a man he had met in a bus station bathroom in Boston. Jennings has written that he told the boy, "I hope you knew to use a condom."
In a statement issued Wednesday, Jennings said: "Twenty one years later I can see how I should have handled this situation differently. I should have asked for more information and consulted legal or medical authorities."
Google Kevin Jennings and NAMBLA. It's interesting.
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The wheels on the bus go round and round.
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It's strange how these Obama folks suddenly seem to grow a conscience once they attain positions of power.
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...and closeness to the Treasury. However, the joke is on them, it's empty except for a lot of paper IOUs.
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"He is uniquely qualified for his job and I am honored to have him on our team.
How can you argue with that logic? After all, he was bullied as a youth for his sexuality and he turned to drugs as a result of those experiences. And besides, all that acceptance of man/boy rape stuff happned over two decades ago. Kinda like someone who cheats on his taxes must have the unique qualifications to become US Secretary of the Treasury.
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I'm disgusted, but not surprised. For many of the left-leaning power elite, there's nothing inherently wrong with getting it on with the underage as long as you follow "safe sex" procedures. (See, e.g., Roman Polanski.) Kevin Jennings was just reflecting the values of his milieu.
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Did he actually write Queering Elementary Education, or was that ghostwritten by Billy Ayres?
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...and closeness to the Treasury. However, the joke is on them, it's empty except for a lot of paper IOUs.
I was shocked to find out Valerie Jarrett's resume includes a stint on the board of the Chicago Fed as well as Mayor Daley's office, besides a connection to Rezko.
It's time for another opportunity to play, "Name That Party!"
[Des Moines Register] Phyllis Stevens' alleged embezzlement of nearly $6 million from Aviva USA left her political allies almost speechless Tuesday as they tried to reconcile whether the political activist who contributed thousands of dollars to candidates over the last four years and formed two Iowa political action committees might also be a crook.
What's the reconcile?
"I am just absolutely astounded by this," said Diane Krell, a fellow member of the Progressive Coalition of Central Iowa. "I am shocked and really have been since I have heard about it."
Others who knew Stevens, including former Iowa gubernatorial candidate Ed Fallon, also expressed shock about Stevens' arrest and the allegation by Aviva officials that the compensation specialist had spent most of the last five years embezzling an estimated $5.9 million from one of the world's largest insurance firms.
"She struck me as a passionate person who cared deeply about a number of issues," said Ione Shadduck, a Des Moines lawyer and a member of the Progressive Coalition Board. "She was a big help in getting our organization started. I am in shock."
Stevens, 58, has been accused by Aviva officials in a civil lawsuit of manipulating the company's computer system used to pay agent commissions. Aviva's lawsuit claims she had commissions paid in the name of former agents deposited in an account that she and her spouse, Marla, held in a bank in Indianapolis.
Formal federal charges have yet to be made public, but since news of her arrest broke Monday, a picture of Stevens has emerged as a political activist involved deeply involved in gay and other progressive issues.
Stevens established two Iowa political action committees - Rainbow Equality PAC and Queer Education PAC. She also apparently played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Progressive Coalition of Central Iowa in 2006, and remains listed as the chairwoman of that organization's board.
Phyllis and Marla Stevens, also gave more than $175,000 to state and federal candidates over the last two election cycles. Most of the contributions went to Democratic candidates and organizations like Moveon.org, but a few female Republican candidates in Iowa also received money.
Fallon, who received $4,875 from the couple to run for governor and another $4,600 in his 2008 primary challenge of Rep. Leonard Boswell, disclosed that he had been involved with them in a venture to establish a housing cooperative in the Sherman Hill district of Des Moines.
"We have known Phyllis Stevens since 2006, yet were totally shocked, as was everyone, at what has happened," Fallon said in a statement.
"We have received contributions from both Phyllis and Marla Stevens, as have many candidates and organizations, and recently worked with them on starting a housing cooperative, which never got off the ground."
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[Chicago Tribune] The one guy who should have been in Copenhagen telling the International Olympic Committee how Chicago works was busy in the federal building on Wednesday.
Marco Morales, the corrupt fugitive city contractor, is finally home after 12 years of hiding out in Mexico, running from federal investigators.
Marco was as puffy as a mushroom, sitting alone at the defense table, tired, waiting for his arraignment on drug charges, in his wrinkled lockup khakis.
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Smokers, Overweight People to Face Fine Under Health Bill (Newsmax)
The Senate Finance Committee approved an amendment to the healthcare bill Wednesday that would allow employers to charge workers with unhealthy lifestyles more for their insurance coverage. The amendment would permits employers to adjust premiums as much as 50 percent according to the level of workers' health habits, up from 20 percent now.
Opponents, including the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, counter that the new rule may spur insurers and companies to keep basing coverage decisions on pre-existing conditions, even though the bill itself prohibits that.
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Hah healthy lifestyle mandates are just one side of the coin. Wait till Health Care Affirmative Action stokes up. We need to start getting minority health rates on a level playing field. After all, we cant ignore the years of social injustice suffered by the historically clinically disadvantaged. Maybe they can call it Cash for Chronic illness.
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I can just imagine big, fat slobs like Michael Moore sitting in front of the death panels and listening to them tell him..."We're sorry, Mr. Moore, but in view of you refusal to control your weight we've determined that it isn't cost effective to allocate anymore of the nation's medical resources to your case."
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#5 I can just imagine big, fat slobs like Michael Moore sitting in front of the death panels and listening to them tell him..."We're sorry, Mr. Moore, but in view of you refusal to control your weight we've determined that it isn't cost effective to allocate anymore of the nation's medical resources to your case."
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-10-02 11:51
My thoughts exactly. However, I want to see the same standards applied to ALL elected officials as well as any libs who support this debacle known as ObamaCare.
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Gorb has a point, assuming the scientists don't change their minds on that sort of thing as they are want to do. Still, some people might have genetic predispositions to drive quickly or be distracted while driving and they are forced to pay more for car insurance.
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With regard to this issue, it's lucky for Ted that he checked out already. If Congress had leveled the playing field and got the same care as the just plain Joes, he would have been in deep sh*t.
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[ABC News] This fall while members of Congress toil in the U.S. Capitol, working to decide how or even whether to reform the country's health care system, one floor below them an elaborate Navy medical clinic -- described by those who have seen it as something akin to a modern community hospital -- will be standing by, on-call and ready to provide Congress with some of the country's best and most efficient government-run health care.
Formally called the Office of the Attending Physician, the clinic -- and at least six satellite offices it supports -- bills its mission as one of emergency preparedness and public health. Each day, it stands ready to handle medical emergencies, biological attacks and the occasional fainting tourist visiting Capitol Hill.
Officially, the office acknowledges these types of services, including providing physicals to Capitol police officers and offering flu shots to congressional staffers. But what is rarely discussed outside the halls of Congress is the office's other role -- providing a wealth of primary care medical services to senators, representatives and Supreme Court justices.
Through interviews with former employees and members of Congress, as well as extensive document searches, ABC News has learned new details about the services offered by the Office of Attending Physician to members of Congress over the past few years, from regular visits by a consulting chiropractor to on-site physical therapy.
"A member walked in and was generally walked right back into a physician's office. They get good care. They are not rushed. They are examined thoroughly," said Eduardo Balbona, an internist in Jacksonville, Fla., who worked as a staff physician in the OAP from 1993 to 1995.
"You have time to spend to get to know your patients and think about them and really think about how you preserve their health going forward," Balbona said. "We're not there to put on Band-Aids. We were there to make sure that everything possible that could be done [is done] to preserve that member of Congress."
Office of the Attending Physician Services
Services offered by the Office of the Attending Physician include physicals and routine examinations, on-site X-rays and lab work, physical therapy and referrals to medical specialists from military hospitals and private medical practices. According to congressional budget records, the office is staffed by at least four Navy doctors as well as at least a dozen medical and X-ray technicians, nurses and a pharmacist.
Sources said when specialists are needed, they are brought to the Capitol, often at no charge to members of Congress.
"If you had, for example, prostate cancer, you would go to one of the centers of excellence for the country, which would be Johns Hopkins. If you had coronary artery disease, we would engage specialists at the Cleveland Clinic. You would go to the best care in the country. And, for the most part, nobody asked what your insurance was," Balbona said.
In addition to Balbona, several former staff members and private physicians who have consulted at the OAP as recently as last year agreed to talk to ABC News on background. They described a culture centered on meeting the needs and whims of members of Congress, with almost no concern for cost.
Members of Congress do not pay for the individual services they receive at the OAP, nor do they submit claims through their federal employee health insurance policies. Instead, members pay a flat, annual fee of $503 for all the care they receive. The rest of the cost of their care, sources said, is subsidized by taxpayers.
Last year, Congress appropriated more than $3 million to reimburse the Navy for staff salaries at the office. Next year's budget allocates $3.8 million for the office, including more than half a million dollars to upgrade the Office's radiology suite. Sources said additional money to operate the office is included in the Navy's annual budget.
In 2008, 240 members paid the annual fee, though some sources say congressmen who didn't pay the fee were rarely prevented from using OAP services.
This article starring:
Lashkar-e-Taiba
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Psychiatric care is not provided at this venue ... too many members of Congress are qualify as "certifiable cases".
[The Washington Times] The U.S. Civil Rights Commission is not backing off its showdown with the Justice Department about mishandling the voter-intimidation case involving agents of the New Black Panther Party. Nor should it.
Yesterday, the commission sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. demanding that Justice "fully cooperate," according to specific legal authority vested in the commission, with the commission's inquiry about why Justice dropped the case after it had already been won. The commission wrote that Justice's replies to earlier commission requests either are "overdue," have been "largely non-responsive" or have provided "none of the documents we requested."
A Sept. 9 letter from Justice to the commission said the commission should wait until Justice's own internal investigation of the matter is complete. But as Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds wrote yesterday, "many aspects of the Commission's inquiry have no connection with the matter subject to [Justice's internal investigation]," and thus should not be delayed in any way. Among these broader inquiries are questions about Justice's "prior voting intimidation investigations," about whether dropping the Black Panther case "is consistent with departmental policy or practice in the past," whether dropping the current case "may encourage voter intimidation," and whether the Justice Department is properly enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
The subtext of this investigation is whether Mr. Holder is using civil rights laws to protect only citizens of color, while leaving everyone else unprotected. If so, then Mr. Holder, in effect, would be declaring open season on white voters while treating white citizens as somehow less equal than others. That would be racial discrimination, pure and simple.
Consider again the nature of the charges. The Black Panthers in question were videotaped standing in front of a polling place, nightstick in hand, in paramilitary garb, and were quoted multiple times using racial epithets and threatening language. The Panthers are deadly serious. At electionjournal.org, there is a National Geographic video clip of these same Black Panthers saying, "You want freedom, you're gonna have to kill some crackers. You're gonna have to kill some of they [sic] babies."
One of these menaces is a local Democratic official and was a registered Democratic poll watcher on the day in question. Three days after the case was dropped against him, he again served as an official poll watcher for Democratic municipal elections in Philadelphia.
Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, said in a floor speech yesterday that the Justice Department's dismissal of the case has "serious and dangerous consequences for future voter intimidation enforcement." The more Mr. Holder stonewalls, the more it looks as if he is trying to hide something noxious.
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EVEN the Democrats in Minnesota now realize their new US Sen. Al Franken was elected with the help of ACORN chicanery. The disgraced, pimp-friendly community organizing group claims it registered 43,000 new Minnesota voters. If just 1 percent were fraudulent but survived the recount process, that's 430 votes, almost all cast for Franken, who won by just 312 votes. Asks Katherine Kersten in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Did ACORN folks pull some fast ones to help get their favorite son Franken elected -- a win that handed Democrats the 60-vote, veto-proof majority that they needed to enact their liberal agenda?"
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Barney Frank, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha, John Edwards, Barbara Boxer, Sheila Jackson, Chris Dodd....a party to be proud of.
[The Hill] If he wants to remain in the Senate race, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) should resign "so he can cease being a burden to the taxpayers," his primary opponent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said on Thursday.
The alternative, according to Specter, would be to "go back to work in the House full time" and butt out of the Senate campaign.
Specter's comments represent his harshest attack on Sestak yet. In particular, the Republican-turned-Democrat has consistently criticized Sestak for skipping over 120 votes since the beginning of this year.
The veteran senator claims that many of the absences have been campaign-related.
"You are asking the voters for a promotion but are failing to perform the most basic duty of any Congressman, which is to vote on the floor of the House of Representatives," Specter wrote in a letter to Sestak dated today.
An interesting side note: In a tweet today, Specter accuses Sestak of missing 125 votes, while the letter claims he has skipped 122.
The two campaigns have often engaged each other using fiery rhetoric. Sestak has attacked Specter's votes during his time as a Republican senator.
The winner of the primary is likely to face Republican front-runner and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) A recent Quinnipiac poll shows Specter leading Sestak by a wide margin. But Toomey is running strong in a hypothetical match-up with either opponent.
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Was Obama in the Senate much at all in 2008? Hell, McCain wasn't around much, either... Not that it makes it OK, I guess. What committees or subcommittees is Sestak on, anyways? Committee work's generally more important than most floor votes, anyways. It isn't as if the House has filibusters.
Hmm. Armed Services, Education and Labor, Small Business. Supposedly he was highly productive in 2007. He also burns through staffers at a rate twice that of his freshmen peers, according to his Wiki entry. Sounds like a bit of a martinet.
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[The Hill] Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.
Grassley's amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.
The bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would require applicants to verify their names, places of birth and Social Security numbers. In addition, legal immigrants would have to wait five years, as under current law, after obtaining citizenship or legal residency to access federal healthcare benefits such as Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program or receive tax credits or purchase insurance through the exchange created by the legislation.
But the would not require them to show a photo ID, such as a drivers license. Without that requirement, the bill "remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification," Grassley said. "Frankly, I'm very perplexed as to why anyone would oppose this amendment," he said.
But Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman, who represents the border state of New Mexico, said that the type of fraud Grassley said he wants to prevent is highly uncommon. "The way I see the amendment, it's a solution without a problem," Bingaman said.
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"The way I see the amendment, it's a solution without a problem,"
So you won't have any objection to including the provision, right?
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I have a better idea. Toss the current bill and let the illegals buy their own private plan like everyone else. Portable, competitive nationwide policies would make it affordable. Offer a catastrophic plan so the young and healthy will participate. Make it a tax deduction so only taxpayers benefit but it gives a financial incentive(tax break) to have coverage. Small businesses wouldn't have to go bankrupt providing coverage if everyone bought their own private plan. No freebies--the poor could have their premiums subsidized but the states wouldn't have to reimburse the providers, cutting their expenditures. The states already have laws on the books regarding ID and if California wants to cover them, the rest of us won't have pay for it. There would be no federal dollars spent, as all policies would be private, ending the debate over abortion and illegal aliens.
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I hope they are able to fend off all compromise amendments. Let it be as radical left as they can make it. The stronger left it is, the stronger the reaction will be against it.
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I can't write a check for a book of stamps without photo ID. Can't buy tobacco without a photo ID.
But have access to thousends of other peoples' dollars, and choose policy makers and no ID required?
Illegals around here already have a health care plan, its called showing up to the ER room. Kansas has recently proposed a fine for those who use the ER for non-emergencies, but if ya can't verify who it is...
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I am one of those racists that insists that if people enroll their kids in school they should prove legal residency. Also to vote, get medical care, welfare, housing, and food stamps. But I am a racists.
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But Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman, who represents the border state of New Mexico, said that the type of fraud Grassley said he wants to prevent is highly uncommon. "The way I see the amendment, it's a solution without a problem," Bingaman said.
The way I see it Mr Bingaman, you are a Congressman without a Brain go see the Wizard of OZ.
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Hell I'd be suprised of Obama ever tells the truth....
The way I hear it - under this a LEGAL IMMIGRANT who naturalizes will have to wait 5 YEARS to qualify. However an ILLEGAL ALIEN (i.e. someone who is a lawbreaker) gets in right off the bat.
[Washington Examiner] In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" and "chit-chat buddy" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project, "so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."
"As first lady, as many of you know, I've made it a priority to bridge the gap between the White House and communities across D.C. and across the country," Mrs. Obama continued. "I've spent much of my first nine months trying to open the doors to the White House to kids who might not otherwise see themselves having access to these institutions, because that's where I came from -- communities like that where kids never dreamed that they could set foot in the White House, let alone live there...And Barack and I made a point of doing the same thing when we lived in Chicago -- making the concerns of kids in all sorts of communities our own."
Mrs. Obama said bringing the Olympics to Chicago is especially important right now because "athletics is becoming more of a fleeting opportunity." "Funds dry up so it becomes harder for kids to engage in sports, to learn how to swim, to even ride a bike," she said. In addition, with childhood obesity on the rise, "it is so important for us to raise up the platform of fitness and competition and fair play," the first lady said.
Finally, having the Olympics in Chicago would be important to "let people know that we understand that sports saves lives, that it makes dreams come true, that it creates visions in kids' heads to make them think they can be the next David Robinson, the next Barack Obama, the next Nadia Comaneci, the next Oprah Winfrey," Mrs. Obama said.
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A "sacrifice" to travel first class to Copenhagen, staying in a suite and talking a bit?
WW2 veterans will wonder how they should call their travel to Europe from now on.
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Next time, spare us the air fare, stay home, and console your husband while he actually does one thing he is Constitutionally authorized to do, like make a decision on Afghanistan.
Stay at home mom is strongly advised in this time.
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Check 'Valerie Jarett' out on Wiki. I know anyone can edit it but those who know them say they are a threesome! Makes you wonder why we really have to pay for 2 planes.
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...making the concerns of kids in all sorts of communities our own."
Then the "world citizen" feels the underprivileged of Rio should have the same opportunities of the "rich" American kids? Nahh, slumlord Jarrett owns the proposed site of the stadium, standing to profit some from the $6 billion investment.
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Who let the muzzle slip off the misses' face? Seems like whenever she tries to say something it comes out sounding ridiculous.
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Breaking news--Chicago and Tokyo eliminated. The trips weren't a total loss, however, as Obama managed to squeeze in 25 minutes with McChrystal and got to schmooze with King Juan Carlos.
(Anyone else here think that this article is best read with "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" softly playing in the background?)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-02 07:03
You nailed it Blondie. Lately I have been thinking that Bambi and Michelle could be the reincarnation of people like Juan and Evita Peron.
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I know we just deleted one category on Rantburg, and I really hate to add another, but could we file puff-pieces like this under "Completely Clueless"? This woman couldn't catch a clue if her life depended upon it. I didn't read the article - I find such undigested bovine feces raises my blood pressure.
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[Politico] Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been quietly assembling the blueprint of a presidential campaign and will announce Thursday the support of a group of high-level political strategists and donors, complemented by a handful of top new media consultants, POLITICO has learned.
Pawlenty, under the radar of D.C.'s political community, has locked up some of the key operatives who engineered then-President George W. Bush's reelection campaign -- a significant feat for a little-known Midwestern politician.
The moves underscore, and will lend credence to, the emerging belief among many establishment Republicans that Pawlenty is becoming the sole viable alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a potential Republican primary rival. The Minnesota governor has even gone so far as to contact some of Romney's former supporters.
Pawlenty, who previously has had little political infrastructure, is now being advised by a trio of GOP consultants with presidential experience: Terry Nelson, Sara Taylor and Phil Musser.
And in formally opening his political action committee, Freedom First, Thursday, Pawlenty will also announce two co-chairmen, William Strong, a Morgan Stanley vice chairman, and former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.), both of whom are heavyweight GOP figures, along with a list of prominent Minnesota donors.
In addition to a high-dollar gala launch for the PAC in Minneapolis in November, Pawlenty is planning a Washington fundraiser for late October designed to acquaint the governor with the Beltway's most influential Republicans. Helping to coordinate the governor's GOP outreach in the nation's capital is Sam Geduldig, a well-connected lobbyist and former senior aide to Reps. John Boehner and Roy Blunt.
Serving as the PAC's counsel is Michael Toner, a veteran campaign lawyer in Washington. Alex Conant, a native Minnesotan and former Republican National Committee spokesman, will serve as communications director.
The governor has also inked political technology consultants Patrick Ruffini, Mindy Finn, Patrick Hynes and Liz Mair to develop what Pawlenty advisers hope will be the most sophisticated new-media presence of any Republican in the nation. Pawlenty launches a new website, www.timpawlenty.com, Thursday.
The second-term Minnesota governor, who is not seeking reelection next year, is focused on twin political goals, his advisers say: helping elect two Republican governors this fall from his perch as Republican Governors Association vice chairman and using his PAC to aid like-minded candidates running in next year's midterm elections.
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He's not my dream candidate by any means, but he doesn't have any major flaws and his temperment is exceptional. He nevers loses his cool or shows frustration in public. That could be an important advantage for him against Romney.
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We have a dreamy president right now. I think a normal person would be great for a change.
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I voted for Romney over the cranky old man in the Illinois primary. I'm not adverse to Romney but Pawlenty looks good. Pawlenty/Palin? Might work.
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Palin/Pawlenty would work better.
The people want real change. And not the change Zero has delivered. The winner in 12 will be the candidate who runs against their own party as hard as tehy run against their opponent. I suspect Palin's book will start the processas she runs against the Republican party for it's nomination.
I believe he has made comments to this effect in the past.
If so, he's DOA, no matter what his other qualifications.
It bothers me not one whit if he is one. I'm not a large "C" creationist and I don't believe in Biblical literalism, but nor am I angry or offended or threatened by it. If that's what someone thinks, whatever. I simply disagree. I'd vote for someone who was a creationist without too much trouble.
But a person who is one can't win, guys.
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If you read the remarks carefully, youll see thats not what I said. I said those that had a personal vituperative attack [sic] on- on President Obama as a person- that was tinged with racism, but I recognize that people who disagree with him on health care or the environment, things like that- the vast majority of those are not tinged by racism.
This is the original statement -- which is also included in the second video clip in the playlist:
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American. I live in the south and Ive seen the south come a long way and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the south's attitude toward minority groups, at that time particularly African-Americans, that that racism [unintelligible word] still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of belief among many white people, not just in the south, but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.
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"Jimmah" recognizes that he may no longer be the "Worst President Ever" and he needs to walk this one back to burnish his "Almost Worst President Ever" image.....
There must be some nuance in his previous statements that didn't make it thru my tin-foil hat....
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A Tuskegee woman is suing Milton McGregor's VictoryLand electronic bingo operation, alleging fraud when employees there escorted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford to specific machines last month when he won more than $50,000.
[Fox News] President Obama's "safe schools czar," under fire from critics who say he's unfit for his job, acknowledged Wednesday that he "should have handled [the] situation differently" years ago when he was a schoolteacher and didn't report that a 15-year-old boy told him that he was having sex with an older man.
[Chicago Tribune] The one guy who should have been in Copenhagen telling the International Olympic Committee how Chicago works was busy in the federal building on Wednesday.
[ABC News] This fall while members of Congress toil in the U.S. Capitol, working to decide how or even whether to reform the country's health care system, one floor below them an elaborate Navy medical clinic -- described by those who have seen it as something akin to a modern community hospital -- will be standing by, on-call and ready to provide Congress with some of the country's best and most efficient government-run health care.
[The Washington Times] The U.S. Civil Rights Commission is not backing off its showdown with the Justice Department about mishandling the voter-intimidation case involving agents of the New Black Panther Party. Nor should it.
EVEN the Democrats in Minnesota now realize their new US Sen. Al Franken was elected with the help of ACORN chicanery. The disgraced, pimp-friendly community organizing group claims it registered 43,000 new Minnesota voters. If just 1 percent were fraudulent but survived the recount process, that's 430 votes, almost all cast for Franken, who won by just 312 votes. Asks Katherine Kersten in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Did ACORN folks pull some fast ones to help get their favorite son Franken elected -- a win that handed Democrats the 60-vote, veto-proof majority that they needed to enact their liberal agenda?"
[The Hill] If he wants to remain in the Senate race, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) should resign "so he can cease being a burden to the taxpayers," his primary opponent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said on Thursday. 
[The Hill] Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
[Washington Examiner] In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" and "chit-chat buddy" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project, "so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."
[Politico] Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been quietly assembling the blueprint of a presidential campaign and will announce Thursday the support of a group of high-level political strategists and donors, complemented by a handful of top new media consultants, POLITICO has learned.
