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Can't believe they actually think four years for inciting riots that spread across the whole country is too tough.
These white kids turned a riot in one city that probably would have burned out in a day into a multi-city event that lasted days. Four years hardly seems sufficient.
Oh, they probably created a multiethnic character to the riots by brining white kids into it as well for what that is worth.
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"Baroness Hamwee, the Lib DemÂ’s home affairs spokeswoman in the Lords, said David Cameron's pledge of "zero tolerance" on criminality was not acceptable.
She told The Guardian that there should be "zero tolerance with zero tolerance"."
Maybe one of the most moronic blurbs ever to come out of a politician's mouth
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Karla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter. Washington, an undergraduate student, earns less than $11,000 a year from a part-time university job.
I'm entitled to get a degree. I'm entitled to have a child. Y'all are entitled to pay for it! [/Karla]
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"Welcome back Carter" We just need to add double digit inflation. Hostage crisis. Gas lines. Thank God I'm a country boy came out in 1975. We don't need another Tip O'Neil puh-lease!. Hey but Gunsmoke was still on. Last year 1975.
We HAVE double digit inflation - you just haven't seen it in the official numbers because of their peculiar accounting techniques. Check raw material prices - through the roof, and for over a year. Consumer prices have not gone up much, because profits are being squeezed out of the system, which is still inflation, and will show up before long. Oh, and interest rates are being held artificially low by any historical standard (by printing new money), which eliminates investment and savings income - which is another way of expressing inflation. That too will eventually come undone.
Take the annual deficit - say $1.5 trillion (low est.) - and divide by the GDP - say $15 trillion - and you get double digit inflation.
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Glenmore yes it does feel like it. I just had a bad thought, that Obama would be worse than Jimmy Carter. I don't recall unemployment being as bad as it is now. They play with the numbers as you demonstrated. Next we will have to wait and see what Ben has up his sleeve September 26th. Then budget fun and games September 30th.
As the president doubles down on regulation -- from labor, to carbon, to health care "reform" -- business owners are crying foul. Regulation and the costs associated with it are all but incalculable, and are killing the very job creation on which President Barack Obama says he is focused "like a laser."
See CKE Restaurants: according to a release from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's "American Job Creators" initiative, CKE owns or franchises 3,182 restaurants under the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's brand names nationwide, employing more than 70,000. Each new restaurant generates roughly 25 new jobs and pumps more than $1 million into the surrounding community.
According to the release, to comply with just one of the hundreds of new regulations in the health insurance law CKE will be forced to spend approximately $1.5 million to replace all restaurant menus. That equals 17 percent of what the company invested in new restaurants in 2010. Good article at link on why the regulations and taxes are killing the free market. Obama and congress are why the economy is sputtering and dying. They are the cause. They need to go.
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Don't you know once you employ someone you own their body and are therefore take on responsibility for the costs of maintaining it not the previous owner.
This is obviously superior aligning the costs with the person who: eats, exercises and makes other health impacting decisions about the use of the body.
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There are regulations and then there are regulations. Please draw distinctions between the FDA monitoring food safety & the FDA giving some company a monopoly on selling drugs (e.g., colchicine) in use by physicians for centuries. One type of regulation helps, the other hurts.
With a little noted remark at an appearance in Cannon Falls, Minn., on Monday, President Obama tacitly acknowledged that his signature legislative achievement won't meet its stated goal.
During a rant against Republican intransigence, Obama said that he could tackle the deficit tomorrow if his opponents would agree to raise taxes and "were willing to take on some of the long-term costs that we have on health care."
Sound familiar?
Back in February 2009, days after signing an economic stimulus package then valued at $787 billion, Obama convened a Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House.
At the time, the event was advertised as Obama's "pivot" to tackling the nation's debt burden, but it was really the opening pitch for imposing national health care on America.
"Health care reform is entitlement reform," said Peter Orszag, then Obama's budget director. "The path to fiscal responsibility must run directly through health care."
Obama amplified this message in his own remarks, calling rising health care costs "the single, most pressing fiscal challenge we face, by far." He added that in the 2008 election, Americans had rejected the "casual dishonesty of hiding irresponsible spending with clever accounting tricks."
It's undeniable that health care inflation -- which helps drive the ballooning cost of Medicare and Medicaid -- is the most significant fiscal challenge we face. The problem is, the health care plan that Obama rammed through Congress ended up making our problems worse, as it relied on the very type of accounting tricks he decried.
Read more at the Washington Examiner So... with Obamacare a complete failure... what has he got to run on in 2012 besides a record of complete failure?
"If you're the president of the United States, and the nation is in crisis -- and we're in a jobs crisis right now -- then you shouldn't be out vacationing," the former Massachusetts governor said. "Instead you should be focusing on getting the economy going again. And, yeah, go back to the office yourself, pull back members of Congress and focus on getting the job done." Oh, The One is working on his big speech to save us from His economy, but we'll have to wait until after Labor Day.
Donald Trump, appearing on Fox News earlier this week, complained, "the fact is, [Obama] takes more vacations than any human being I've ever seen."
"They used to complain about George Bush, but I understand he's already exceeded George Bush and we're not even through the year. ... I think it sends a very, very bad message," said Trump
White House press secretary Jay Carney doesn't think the public begrudges the president a break to recharge and spend time with his family. Sure. What about Virginia Beach? The Jersey Shore? Someplace middle-class. Why is it always London, Spain, and Martha's Vineyard?
Carney also argued that the president is never really off-duty since White House advisers go with him, and he still receives regular briefings on national security, the economy and other matters. Right. Even Bush wasn't off duty, says the Chicago Sun-Times:
But Mark Knoller of CBS, the unofficial and completly un-biased keeper of presidential work schedules, reported that President George W. Bush had taken more time off than Obama at this point in his first term. Yup. Texas ranch and Camp David, not London, Spain, and Martha's Vineyard. Say hello to Big Jawn, willya? He's on vacation, too!
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Scarborough said the current controversy reminds him of Memorial Day Weekend 2010, when Obama insisted on relaxing in Chicago when many of his advisers were urging him to fly to the Gulf to show solidarity with victims of the BP oil spill. “He refused to do it, and got hammered for it politically,” Scarborough recalled. “We were told that ‘the president doesn’t do theater.’ I’m sorry, the president needs to do theater, baby.”
He DOES do theater. Just not on his days off.
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A serious review in order. Plan A didn't work. Plan B fizzled. Plan C under review. Where's my other dart?. Sir we each only get three darts. Don't be silly it's my game so I make the rules.
Why yes...yes they did. And they looked liked idiots. Exactly the same way the people now complaining about the current President taking a vacation look like idiots.
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Does appear to be politically tone deaf doesn't he. Seemed so savvy during the 2008 campaign I thought that was at least one thing he was good at. Apparantly not.
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People are surprised that he is gone? Hasn't it been shown that this president and his advisers don't have the first fucking clue on how to govern?
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This President is very much so lazy. He delegates everything to his friends and then wonders why none of it works. He is so lazy that he still to this day has not learned or studies the matters he is supposed to preside over.
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The night of the Great Fire of Rome, Nero was playing the lute in (I think) what is now Anzio. So Bammer being out of town fits the analogy.
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Given the kind of "solutions" this president comes up with, I think we are all better off with him on vacation. Ideally, he will take 14.5 more months vacation, then retire.
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One thing I remember Hillary saying is, "I have a lot of plans, but we can't afford them all." Obama's plan is there is nothing that we can't afford. All we have to do is borrow and print money.
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Mr. Schwarz,
you said Seemed so savvy during the 2008 campaign
I have to ask, WHY? What did he ever do that was so savvy? He was created by and nurtured by the progressive left-wing media and elites. Other than being their chosen vessel he did nothing; or did I miss something?
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I believe he seemed savvy because he avoided any and all questions with style. Yes he had a lot of help from a fawning press back then but you can't come from nowhere and win a national election with no serious credentials without some kind of election savvy.
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Disagree Swartz. The one thing I think about during Obama's 2008 campaign in regards to "savy", or rather intelligence, is when during his big Race speech he threw his Grandmother "under the Bus". Nobody noticed though because his Baritone voice was so soothing...
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Unemployment. Inflation. Debt. And you say he has no plan? I'm afraid that is the plan.
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BO is mesmerized by his own image and the sound of his own voice. Does it really make any difference where he is. He doesn't do anything anyway. Is he hitting par yet?
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He didn't seem savvy to me, rj - he sounded evasive.
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savvy or evasive what's the difference? The difference is between those that fell for his pseudo-charisma and are only now realizing they are fools and those that did not.
Just because everyone on this board, and everyone on the right saw right through him doesn't mean he wasn't slick and pulling the wool over a ton of folks and shafting Hillary and her team when the time came. I still think it was savvy, he played them like a fiddle.
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rjschwarz, I agree. We all know people who voted for BO, and came to deeply regret it. Bumper stickers have been scraped off, sheepish apologies have been made. A few weeks ago, Ace of Spades posed the key corollary: does anyone know anyone who did NOT vote for BO, but now wishes they had?
[Iran Press TV] Top Republican politicians have rejected the US President Barack B.O. Obama administration's appeal for tax hikes on the rich and wealthy people.
House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor say the worst thing Washington can do for economy is raise taxes on the people we need.
"The worst thing Washington can do for our economy is raise taxes on the people we need to start hiring again," Cantor said.
In a USA Today opinion page, they also called for cuts to government-backed health and retirement programs.
This comes as a newly created Congressional committee faces a late-November deadline for recommending one-and-half trillion dollars in deficit cuts over ten years.
In a final deal reached to avoid a default this moth, President B.O. signed legislation that did not include tax increases.
But the embattled president, whose job approval ratings have slumped, has said he will renew his push for such measures.
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Sounds like he really wants the across the board automatic slashes.
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The best thing Obama could do is repeal all his regulations from all his agencies and let the free market be... well... free.
New troubles for Dominique Strauss-Kahn who thought the worse was over. The medical tests performed on the maid who accused him confirm she was raped. According to the French magazine l'Express, these are the conclusions of the testing done at the Saint Luke Hospital in Manhattan on Nafissatou Diallo immediately after her alleged rape on 14 May last. . .
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@Kojack -- Not to be too graphic, but a forcible rape results in bruising which consensual activity does not.
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Not to be too graphic, but a forcible rape results in bruising which consensual activity does not.
Yep. First the DNA and now this. Doesn't look too good, Dominique. You can slander this woman all you want but the forensic evidence is stacked against you.
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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.
As the president doubles down on regulation -- from labor, to carbon, to health care "reform" -- business owners are crying foul. Regulation and the costs associated with it are all but incalculable, and are killing the very job creation on which President Barack Obama says he is focused "like a laser."
With a little noted remark at an appearance in Cannon Falls, Minn., on Monday, President Obama tacitly acknowledged that his signature legislative achievement won't meet its stated goal.
[Iran Press TV] Top Republican 
