A judge branded former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick a liar Wednesday, ordering him to cough up $319,000 within three months toward the $1 million in restitution. Kilpatrick owes the city from his 2008 perjury conviction or face further punishment.
Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner ripped Kilpatrick at the court hearing over what the judge characterized as an intentional effort to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars from the court's scrutiny since Kilpatrick, 39, was placed on probation following his release from jail in February.
"You have not been credible in this courtroom and you, again, have not been honest to the city of Detroit." Groner said. He called Kilpatrick's conduct while on probation "reprehensible." Groner's ruling exceeded the $225,000 catch-up payment requested by prosecutors.
After the hearing, Kilpatrick said, "I'm just ready to get on and do what I have to do," the Associated Press reported.
Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges in September 2008 stemming from perjured testimony he offered in a 2007 police whistle-blower trial.
His lies were revealed after the Detroit Free Press obtained text messages Kilpatrick had exchanged with his lover and chief aide, Christine Beatty, on city-issued pagers. They showed that Kilpatrick and Beatty had lied in court testimony when they denied a sexual relationship.
The newspaper also revealed that Kilpatrick and city lawyers agreed to settle the whistle-blower cases for $8.4 million in an unsuccessful bid to keep the incriminating text messages private.
As part of Kilpatrick's guilty plea, he agreed to resign as mayor, serve four months in prison and pay the city of Detroit $1 million in restitution.
To date, Kilpatrick, who now lives and works in suburban Dallas, has repaid Detroit about $87,000.
On Wednesday, Groner ordered Kilpatrick to pay the city a large chunk of hundreds of thousands of dollars he and his family have received from various Detroit-area businessmen since his release from jail. Groner said that many of the transactions were paid in a manner to avoid the court's reach.
Kilpatrick also was ordered to complete his $1 million restitution duties within four years, instead of five.
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Oh, come on. With an administration that ignores the Black Panther suppression of civil rights, you think for a moment they're going to take time away from micro examining Scott Brown's returns to worry about another member of the Inner Party(c)? /rhet question.
Now that a Cosmo centerfold has been elected to the United States Senate, is Rep. Aaron Schock's status as HuffPost readers' Hottest Freshman in Congress under threat?
You be the judge.
See article, and some bitter comments for entertainment at link.
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Why are Puffington Hosters obsessed with the idea that Republicans might be secretly homosexual? I mean, there's the Log Cabin Republicans who are open about both their proclivities for a start -- even I know about them, so why don't the PH-ers?
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It's so they can say vicious things, of course. They use all the horrid anti-gay smears that they'd never get to use otherwise. The fact that this sort of disrespect is verboten to any homosexuals, known or unknown, makes no difference to them. If you pinned one of them down on the issue, your response would be something along the lines of "I don't care! I just like to bash the fascist assholes!" P.C. only works one way, of course.
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TW, homosexual references are a very common form of abuse from the Left.* Something else they have in common with Islamists.
* I once defined a Liberal as a person who needs someone else to tell him what to think. The homosexual references seems to stem from the general insecurity that characterizes Left Liberals - sexual instead of intellectual.
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The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break
With their love of authority to tell them what to think and do, the Left are the fascists. Of course the real fascists believed they were socialists, and they were right.
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There's also the very strong possibility that they are repressed homosexuals who are extremely uncomfortable with their true proclivities. (A sizable number of gay bashers...not verbal, but actual physical bashers...are that way. They are symbolically beating down a part of themselves that frightens them.)
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I personally don't care if the Browns all wear cowboy hats, diapers, and play Dixie on kazoos. As long as he helps stop this insanity in Washingon, he's good-to-go with me.
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A very handsome family. Scott carried P-Town, and I don't think it's because of his tax policy. Speaking of the gender-confused, didn't the HuffPo heiress make her fortune as the beard for some rich metrosexual?
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Heres wiki's take, I needed to look up the term 'beard' as slang because I didn't know what it meant. Im not sure, but it does appear that her rich husband was a self professed bisexual.
"Personal life
After graduation, she moved to London and lived with the journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin, whom she had met while the two were panelists on the TV show Face the Music. In 1980 she left Levin and moved to the United States, after he refused to marry her. After Levin's death in 2004, she called him "the big love of my life, [ ] a mentor as a writer, and a role model as a thinker".[15] During these years and around the time of her involvement with John-Roger's religious group, she was involved with Democratic politician and then-governor (currently Attorney General) of California, Jerry Brown. It was during this time that Huffington (then Stassinopoulos) was first known as a liberal Democrat, the position she returned to once again in the post-90s following the right-wing years of the 1980s to late 1990s.[citation needed]
She met oil millionaire Michael Huffington, a family friend of the Bushes, at a 1985 party hosted by Ann Getty in San Francisco. The couple was married in 1986 at a wedding paid for by Getty, who had declared that she needed to find Arianna a husband. They moved to Washington, D.C., when he was appointed to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. They later established residency in Santa Barbara, California, in order for him to run in 1992 as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won by a significant margin. He was a political conservative on most issues. Arianna campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. In 1994 he narrowly lost the race for the U.S. Senate seat from California to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.[16]
The couple divorced in 1997, and in 1998 Michael Huffington revealed that he was bisexual.[17] The financial terms of their divorce agreement remain undisclosed. Arianna Huffington chose to retain her former husband's surname, although she had been known as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington during the period of her marriage"
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Common complaint from the men in her life: "After listening to her talk for any length of time, I could no longer get it up" (needs citation)
Okay, I made that up. But you know it's true
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Leeesten, excuse me, Im not done heeere, --A.H.
Famous last words of A.H. God I love to rip on her a little too much. Especially now knowing that she used to bat for the Conservative team and defected.
...today in Ohio, it seemed like the president was way off his game. But I thought he was defensive, prickly, almost indignant that he's found himself in the tough spot that he's in.
He began by talking about how much he didn't like being in Washington, and apparently said something about the job being stifling. Sir, you spent two years trying to get this job.
One of his rallying cries as, "This is not about me!" Yes, Mr. President, but it's about the decisions you make and the policies you're trying to enact.
He made a reference to bankers who "click their heels and watch their stocks skyrocket." Was he going with a Dorothy in Oz metaphor? Do bankers click their heels?
"I won't stop fighting to bring back jobs here," worked as an applause line, but I wondered how it worked outside the venue. That insinuates he's been doing it for the first year, as unemployment has steadily increased. He's calling on Congress to "pass a jobs bill." I thought the stimulus was supposed to do that.
As Caleb Howe noticed, he said "I won't stop fighting to open up government" while breaking the promise about health care bill negotiations being on C-SPAN.
I realize he's using it to justify a new tax on banks, but I think "we want our money back" is a dangerous chant for a man who so steadily expands government spending.
UPDATE: A very out-of-rhythm speech was followed by some of the most obscure and unhelpful questions ever uttered at a town hall meeting. I was left with a bit of sympathy for President Obama, as questioner after questioner asked about their own specific concerns, often way out of the president's duties, responsibilities, and realm of expertise: one guy was an inventor who wanted to give him a sales pitch, one woman lamented the impatience of the American people before complaining about a slow response from the state environmental agency over her toddler's lead poisoning, one guy wanted to read the president a poem, a woman who talked about the problem of finding students for her truck driving school, an old lady who was upset that her Social Security didn't have a cost-of-living-increase, and a guy who had the patent for some wind turbine issue that was in a fight with some company about. One poor soul raised his hand and just wanted to shake Obama's hand.
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He made a reference to bankers who "click their heels and watch their stocks skyrocket." Was he going with a Dorothy in Oz metaphor? Do bankers click their heels?
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I wondered how that would go. I suspected that The One is not the most popular guy in Lorain and that they would have a hard time getting shills to ask set up questions. Sounds like they ended up with the followers who come to ask the anointed one to heal them. Sad for all.
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When a manager is promoted beyond their level of competence you often see them do start doing their last job rather then their current one. They regress to their comfort zone whether it's appropriate or not.
Obama knows how to campaign, but has no clue how to govern the country. Therefore, it's off to Ohio for a "campaign stop".
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my big bridge project has structural stainless steel railing being fabricated at an Elyria plant. I requested contamination testing today after hearing this tool would be spewing his lying jive. Ultrasonic and dye-penetrant testing doesn't pick up lying jive contamination. You just have to grind or air-gouge out the anomalies or it will bite you a year or two later...
/steel-geek-talk
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His talking about himself in the third person creeped me out. Admittedly, with him it doesn't take much to creep me out.
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His talking about himself in the third person creeped me out. Admittedly, with him it doesn't take much to creep me out.
you know he does it during sex too. "Do you like when Obama does this?....ah yeah, baby"
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This guy had a chance to listen to Town Hall meetings last August but they refused to listen and called the people "the mob". This evening on Drudge Report, Washington is now saying "Health Care" reform has "hit a buzz saw". CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!!?? What took you so long, Washington?
WASHINGTON -- As Democrats weigh options for health reform following a major setback in the Massachusetts election, the nation's leading womens' rights group blasted the legislation as "beyond outrageous." The National Organization for Women (NOW) harbors deep concerns with the Senate health legislation, and exclaims that "women will be better off with no bill whatsoever." I love it when they begin to eat their own.
"The Senate bill contains such fierce anti-abortion language, and there are other problems from the point of view of women," NOW's President Terry O'Neill told Raw Story in an interview. O'Neill said NOW "will not support candidates in 2010 if they vote for it."
House Democratic leaders have said they won't take up the Senate bill, citing party divisions, so NOW's immediate concern has been averted. But the group's staunch opposition shines a spotlight on the divisions Democrats will have to confront as they move forward on health care and other issues.
NOW's resolute opposition, she said, became inevitable after the anti-abortion provisions added in the 11th hour at the request of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE). O'Neill said as a result of Nelson's amendment, "insurance companies will in a few years stop offering abortion care even in private policies because it's too much of an administrative hassle," forcing women to "pay for abortions out of their own pockets." "That's the conclusion of the George Washington University School of Public Health," she added.
"The Nelson amendment achieved the same outcome -- through very different means -- as the Stupak-Pitts amendment over on the House side. It takes a little bit longer, maybe 2 to 4 years longer." "Health care is a basic human right, and both the Senate bill and the House bill presume to take this human right away only from women, and not from men. Only women are targeted. So we say, you know what, kill the health bill entirely."
O'Neill said the Republican Scott Brown's victory over Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday's Massachusetts election was "a referendum on business as usual in Washington" and "voter disappointment about change that has not happened."
"It's a lot about health care," she added. "The Senate bill is a giveaway to the insurance companies, and reminiscent of the bank bailout. People voted against that in 2008, they voted for change." O'Neill ripped the "the closed door negotiations" that many believe took place in the shaping of the bill, saying that "people want transparency." She said the Democratic leadership's actions on health care have been similar to the Bush administration's tendency to write legislation secretively and "jam it down the throats of Congress."
While accepting that the bill is flawed, many Democrats argue the process of passing it and extending coverage required regrettable giveaways. Progressives are divided as to whether the final outcome is worth supporting.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a highly respected progressive voice, has urged passage of the legislation despite its issues. "[L]et's all take a deep breath, and consider just how much good this bill would do, if passed and how much better it would be than anything that seemed possible just a few years ago," Krugman argued last month. "With all its flaws, the Senate health bill would be the biggest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare, greatly improving the lives of millions. Getting this bill would be much, much better than watching health care reform fail," he said.
O'Neill had high praise for Coakley, calling her a "true friend of women." "We strongly endorsed Coakley. She is a great leader, she is a good candidate. "We need more women like Martha Coakley to run for office. More women run, more women will win."
The NOW president said the "male-dominated Democratic Party" is not doing women any favors by bringing in anti-abortion zealots," slamming Nelson and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who amendment to restrict abortion coverage in the House health bill passed minutes before the final vote. "Women are clearly harmed" by these lawmakers, O'Neill said. "Shame on the male-dominated Democratic Party for supporting them. They hold themselves out as the party that is women-friendly; well they're not acting like it." "And that has a lot to do with why Martha Coakley lost this election," O'Neill alleged, explaining the Democrats' loss of Ted Kennedy's seat with an argument that few others have made.
The White House and DNC slammed Coakley on Tuesday for running a weak campaign and refused to take the blame for her loss.
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Kill it with fire!
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The rats have left the sinking ship, then the passengers & now the crew.
Republican Pat Toomey now leads incumbent Senator Arlen Specter 49% to 40% in Pennsylvania's race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters also finds Toomey with a 43% to 35% lead over Democratic challenger Joe Sestak.
A month ago Toomey led Specter by four and Sestak by six. In the state's Democratic Senate Primary race, Specter now leads Sestak by 21 points.
Just 41% of Pennsylvania voters favor the health care legislation currently before Congress while 57% are opposed. Those figures include 22% who Strongly Favor the legislation and 47% who are Strongly Opposed. Those who Strongly Oppose the health care plan overwhelmingly prefer Toomey over either Democrat. Those who Strongly Favor the plan prefer the Democrats.
Pennsylvania attitudes towards the health care plan are similar to the national average. The health care issue played a key role in Tuesday's stunning Massachusetts special Senate election.
Just five percent (5%) of Pennsylvania voters rate the economy as good or excellent while 51% say poor. Only 31% say it's getting better, while 42% say it's getting worse.
Political analyst Larry Sabato now rates the Pennsylvania Senate race as a toss-up, but, given the current political climate, he says Toomey would be the winner if the election were held today. Sabato also projects that if the election were held today, the Democrats' 59-seat majority in the Senate would be down to 52.
TVNewser has learned that NBC News has filed a formal complaint with the White House press office over the distribution of presidential interviews, specifically that several of the most recent broadcast TV interviews have gone to ABC News including George Stephanopoulos's interview yesterday and Charlie Gibson's December 15.
NBC is reportedly claiming Stephanopoulos' friendship with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has helped land the interviews. But insiders tell us those decisions are generally left to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
An NBC News spokesperson had no comment on the matter.
ABC News spokesperson Jeffrey Schneider tells TVNewser, "We are always aggressive in our booking efforts and we were glad to have an interview with the President on such a big news day."
The president hasn't only spoken to ABC, far from it. Since the Gibson interview in mid-December, Obama has been interviewed by Tom Joyner and April Ryan of Urban Radio Networks, Scott Wilson of The Washington Post, Adam Nagourney of The New York Times, PBS' Jim Lehrer, Roland Martin of CNN/TV One, Joe Klein of Time magazine as well as reporters from People and Essence.
Last year, NBC News got several days of access at the White House, including sit-down interviews with Pres. Obama for their "Inside the Obama White House" special a series NBC has participated in for the last 40 years.
> Update: An NBC News spokesperson now tells us, "NBC News did not file a formal or informal complaint about this interview."
It should be noted that complaints, in whatever form, are often made to the White House press office when one network feels another is getting too much access. That may have been the case here.
He did kind of take Olbermann to the woodshed, didn't he?
What's with the glasses routine?
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Olbermannsturmfurherputz is be a dope-smoking, closet case-wanna be obsessed tea-baggin, foaming at the mouth, drooling, penis-envying, intellectually-challenged, moonbat, moron.
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Jon Stewart, you are tonight's WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD. You were once a great man, but with this so-called commentary, this outrageous descent into the fetid sewers of Palinesque faux-discourse, these vile insults heaped on me, you have discredited yourself and the racist, sexist, teabagging morons in your audience for all eternity. (Plus, I've had more women than you ever will, and I don't even need little blue pills! So there!) Jon Stewart, if there remains within your body one pathetic cell which still contains a molecule or two of what remains of your conscience, I DEMAND that you RESIGN!
President Barack Obama will appear with politically embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in Las Vegas next month, according to a White House official.
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That model worked so well for:
* The Olympic bid
* Copenhagen
* "Teddy's Seat
Keep up the business model, Big O. Yer batting 1000 so far.
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AP, my thought exactly. Given O's track record in endorsing candidates, it looks like Reid is doomed.
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He's not going to help Harry, he's going to Vegas with the family to VACATION! It's been at least three weeks since he had one. Sorry Harry, maybe you can find a parking valet job on the strip.
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Turn out the (search)lights, the party's over!
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Hey guys, da fat lady in da corner is askin' to start singing some scales. Says she's warmin' up for later...and could you please have dat Viking costume she brought wid her freshened up? Thanks!
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior.
The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. And it's pronounced "gonna re-elect 'im.."
Many victims contracted it in 2008 .....
Now after having been screwed for the past two years, naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how destructive this disease has become since it is so easily cured......
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#9 Hey guys, da fat lady in da corner is askin' to start singing some scales. Says she's warmin' up for later...and could you please have dat Viking costume she brought wid her freshened up? Thanks!
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-22 07:18
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she lacks the votes to quickly move the Senate's sweeping health overhaul bill through the House, a potentially devastating blow to President Barack Obama's signature issue.
Pelosi, D-Calif., made the comment to reporters after House Democrats held a closed-door meeting at which participants vented frustration with the Senate's massive version of the legislation.
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Closed door meeting, ya say? So are you saying that it won't be aired on C-Span?
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The problem now for the elected left is how to back off from support for socialized medicine (in order to stay in office) without pissing off their base so much that they either don't show up in the next election cycle or nominate leftist newbies who can knock them out of their cushy positions.
Of course, some problems have no solution.
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Two of my wife's co-workers (teachers here in MA) admitted to her yesterday that they could not vote for a "republican"......SO THEY STAYED HOME!
Hard to get out the vote when such a staunch Dem union can't count on its members, no?
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#3 Two of my wife's co-workers (teachers here in MA) admitted to her yesterday that they could not vote for a "republican"......SO THEY STAYED HOME!
Please ask your lovely wife to extend to them my heartfelt thanks.
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I would love to hear what really happened in that closed door meeting. Must have been some real agonizing. Think somebody will ever write a book about it?
If Republicans can win a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, that bluest of blue states, they can win anywhere — including California. Republican Scott Brown's decisive and historic victory in the U.S. Senate race in the Bay State could be a bad sign for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's re-election chances in November.
Brown succeeded in making the Obama administration's policies — especially its plan to overhaul the country's health care system — a millstone around the neck of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. The same could happen to the liberal Boxer, given her support of health care reform and a host of other Obama initiatives.
This was not just a local race, but a national one. Many people in Massachusetts obviously feel the Obama administration is doing too much too fast at too high a cost to American taxpayers. And you will find the same sentiment in California.
Also, since Brown — who, as he pointed out in TV ads, drives a pickup truck — was able to reclaim populism for the GOP, it left Democrats open to the charge that they're elitists who represent the establishment. Those robes fit Boxer well. After all, during an appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball," she suggested that town hall protesters were too "well-dressed" to be authentic and so they had to be planted there by the GOP. My name is Senator Barbara Boxer, and I drive a broom...
In a recent poll of California voters by Rasmussen Reports, Boxer was favored by only 46 percent of respondents — less than a majority — regardless of which of her Republican challengers she was pitted against. Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina got 43 percent against Boxer. Former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell pulled down 42 percent. State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore got 40 percent.
Even before this week's Senate race in Massachusetts, Boxer clearly faced a difficult campaign. Now, it could be that her troubles have only intensified.
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Campbell's Win/Loss record is only slightly better than the St Louis Rams. He obviously doesn't think he can beat Governor Moonbeam so he switched races.
Boxer has traditionally beat the men running against her with a solid women's vote. Carly could cancel that edge. The question is HP Baggage?
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Most of the anger in California is aimed at the RINO governor, not the democratic legislature. The democrats here need to be more concerned about 2012 than 2010.
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I wish I could share your optimism. I'd love to see Boxer beaten but I think it would be a huge mistake to underestimate her. California ain't Massachusetts and Boxer ain't Coakley. Boxer is an entrenched incumbent. You can bet she'll have an ample war chest and she'll be a lot better at using it than Coakley was with hers. California's famous unions will rally to her support, not to mention the illegals who nobody seems to want to mention. It'll be a general election, not a special election, so it'll be easier to get the lazy, feeble minded Democrats out to vote. Whoever wins the Republican primary is gonna have a very tough fight on their hands.
I didn't follow the Massachusetts election very closely but from what I heard about Brown and his truck, he covered a lot of territory in a very energetic manner. That would be a lot easier and cheaper in a small state like Massachusetts than in California. If the distance didn't get you the traffic would. An airplane would be the best bet here.
Chuck DeVore seems a lot less like a RINO and a lot more likely to tell it like it is than either Fiorina or Campbell. But in this state money is extremely important and that probably means DeVore doesn't stand a chance.
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Sadly, with the massive demographic change in Hispanifornia, Reagan couldn't get elected. A RINO is the only hope. Trying to elect a conservative is suicide.
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As of 2008, white population 42.3% and sinking.
For a look into the future, check out the white demographics and economy of Zim and SA. If you are still unconvinced, examine the crime statistics and rural white genocide.
As Democrats on Capitol Hill and the White House contemplated the fallout of the special election results in Massachusetts on Tuesday, proponents of major climate change legislation said they would persist in their efforts to win passage of a bill this year, despite a hostile political environment. Just like ramming through the health care deal.
The effort to enact comprehensive energy and climate change legislation was in trouble even before the Republican, Scott Brown, won the Massachusetts special election for Senate. And another intelligent life-form reduces the chances of passage.
Senate leaders had put off until spring any consideration of a measure capping greenhouse gas emissions similar to that passed by the House last June, because Senate Democrats were deeply divided on it.
White House officials continued to insist that a cap-and-trade measure to limit carbon dioxide emissions coupled with incentives for clean energy development remained a top priority of President Obama. But administration officials and Senate Democratic leaders have been quietly negotiating a scaled-back package focusing more on job-creating technologies than on limiting climate-altering pollution in hopes of keeping Democratic votes and perhaps attracting a few Republicans. Attack from another direction!
Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, earlier this week declared cap-and-trade dead' for this session of Congress. He predicted the Senate would consider a more limited energy bill that provides incentives for nuclear power and oil drilling, sets energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances and forces utilities to shift to renewable power sources.
Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and co-sponsor of the Senate cap and trade bill, said that the hostile political climate does not change the need to deal with global warming scammers and the nation's dependence on foreign sources of oil. He said he would continue to seek bipartisan support for his broad energy and climate measure.
This is the single best opportunity to create jobs, reduce pollution and stop sending billions overseas for foreign oil from countries that would do us harm,' Mr. Kerry said. Sell those arguments and you've got a winning issue.' Actually, I find I agree with his goals...
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The civil engineers daily newletter e-mail(from whence I got the link to this article) is a bit like the NY Slimes. They know that 2/3 of their membership are in some stage of AGW denial - they did a survey of thier readers - yet they keep pushing.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Republican Pat Toomey now leads incumbent Senator Arlen Specter 49% to 40% in Pennsylvania's race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters also finds Toomey with a 43% to 35% lead over Democratic challenger Joe Sestak. 
TVNewser has learned that NBC News has filed a formal complaint with the White House press office over the distribution of presidential interviews, specifically that several of the most recent broadcast TV interviews have gone to ABC News including George Stephanopoulos's interview yesterday and Charlie Gibson's December 15. 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she lacks the votes to quickly move the Senate's sweeping health overhaul bill through the House, a potentially devastating blow to President Barack Obama's signature issue.
If Republicans can win a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, that bluest of blue states, they can win anywhere — including California. Republican Scott Brown's decisive and historic victory in the U.S. Senate race in the Bay State could be a bad sign for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's re-election chances in November.
As Democrats on Capitol Hill and the White House contemplated the fallout of the special election results in Massachusetts on Tuesday, proponents of major climate change legislation said they would persist in their efforts to win passage of a bill this year, despite a hostile political environment. 
Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and co-sponsor of the Senate cap and trade bill, said that the hostile political climate does not change the need to deal with global warming 
