As Dominique Strauss-Kahn prepares to appear in court Tuesday, Aug. 23, for the first time since July 1, it looks likely that this will be his last trip to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. In the weeks since the latest hearing over his alleged sexual assault of a chambermaid at a midtown Manhattan hotel, in which Judge Michael J. Obus freed Strauss-Kahn and vacated his bail because of questions about the accuser's credibility, more and more signs have pointed toward prosecutors' dropping charges against Strauss-Kahn. On Monday afternoon, prosecutors filed a dismissal on recommendation - papers recommending that Obus drop the charges.
The apparent decision to end the case altogether comes after weeks during which the accuser and her attorneys tried to publicly pressure the prosecutors into continuing the case. On July 25, Diallo went forward in interviews with Newsweek and ABC News and told her side of the story of the alleged attack. Two weeks later, Diallo filed a civil suit in the Bronx, asking for unspecified monetary damages for what the complaint called a "violent and sadistic attack."
Barack Obama wants immediate action on three trade deals that he says will create jobs in the US. Congress, Obama says, is dragging its heels on these bills and making it harder for the White House to create jobs. Theres only one problem with this argument, which ABCs Devin Dwyer points out:
President Obama has touted three pending U.S. trade deals as measures that could immediately spur job growth, if only Congress would approve them to become law. The only problem: the White House has not yet formally sent the deals to Congress for a vote.
Besides, the do-nothing Congress meme Obama clearly wants to push has another problem: Republicans only control the House. Treaties are ratified in the Senate only, and thats been controlled by Harry Reid and the Democrats for more than four years. And its worth pointing out that these trade deals have actually been languishing for almost that long since they were originally negotiated and signed by George Bush and not Barack Obama:
All three trade agreements were signed during the George W. Bush administration, but none of them advanced in the Democratic-controlled Congress.
So yes, lets point out that we have a do-nothing Senate, which hasnt produced its own budget plan for only slightly less long than those treaties which could have created jobs in the US when we really needed them got blocked. By Democrats.
Kevin Mooney tabulates the damage that the Obama administration is doing to the Gulf economy, and to the energy industry generally:
Ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the Obama Administration imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in May 2010 and others could follow soon . The rigs have left the Gulf for locations in Egypt, Congo, French Guiana, Liberia, Nigeria and Brazil.
It gets worse.
Several of the remaining rigs could be relocating soon, according to the report. These include the Paul Romano, the Ocean Monarch and the Saratoga. Moreover, eight other rigs that were planned for the Gulf have been detoured away, Don Briggs, President of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA), points out.
Mooney also quotes Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research on the broader devastation being wrought by the Obama administrations energy policies:
What you are seeing in Louisiana is only a small piece of larger mosaic being put together by the Obama Administration to make affordable energy as inaccessible as possible, he said. From the administrations war on coal to the serious consideration it is giving to imposing a nationwide regulation of hydraulic fracturing, to its shut down of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, to its `endangerment finding from the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], the administration is practicing its own form of selected industrial sabotage.
If a hostile nation drove our drilling rigs out of the Gulf of Mexico, it would be an act of war.
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Obama and his EPA goons are also trying to shut down Texas refineries as well as older Texas coal fired electricity generators. Too many good paying jobs being created in Texas. $10/gal gas and blackouts courtesy of the Chicago Communist Club.
Well...the Times is surprised, anyways. Just like they are about the economy...
But it was there that Dale Weiss, a 64-year-old Democrat, approached the Republican running for Congress in a special election and, without provocation, blasted the president for failing to tame runaway federal spending. "We need to cut Medicaid," she declared, "but he won't do that." She shook her head in disgust. "He is a moron."
After nodding approvingly for a time, the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, signaled for an assistant to cut off Ms. Weiss. Frustration with Mr. Obama is so widespread, he explained later, that he tries to limit such rants to about 30 seconds, or else they will consume most of his day.
"It's endemic in the district," Mr. Turner said. "You can't stop them once they get started."
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Surprised? Why?
Seems entirely appropriate to me.
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Will Wiener dog Obama?
(yeah, it's a silly question. I just wanted to use "wiener dog" in a sentence) The surprising thing here is that the media is actually taking note of how the shine has rubbed off Mr. Hope & Change.
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IIRC STARS-N-STRIPES OPED > [DemoLeft]LIBERALS HAVE A BONE TO PICK WID OBAMA.
versus
* DEFENCENET.GR > WORLD POLICEMAN: NATO READY TO [militarily]INTERVENE AROUND THE WORLD TO PROTECT A SOVEREIGN NATION'S CITIZENS, espec from their own GOVT-LEADERS.
Aka the "OBAMA DOCTRINE".
As per "Globalism" + OWG-NWO, CAN US-LED NATO APPLY THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE" AGZ OTHER NATO MEMBERS IN TIMES OF CRISIS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE USA ITSELF???
given
* E.G. WORLD MIL FORUM > EXPERTS: FAILURE OF US TO CONTROL AND REDUCE ITS DEBTS MAY FORCE IT TO SCALE/CUTBACK USDOD OPERATIONS, DEPLOYMENTS + TRAINING + ACTIVITIES, THROUGHOUT THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONS + ULTIMATELY AROUND THE WORLD.
THE NORTHERN + WESTERN PACIFIC WILL NO LONGER BE PART OF THE "AMERICAN LAKE".
* SAME > JAPANESE "FOREIGN SCHOLAR" MAGAZINE: US WAR PLAN TO ENGAGE IN EAST, SE ASIA "STRATEGIC" OR THEATER DENIAL AGZ CHINA ENDANGERED BY DEBT-LED STEADY EROSION OF US ECONOMIC + TECHNOLOGICAL [Combat] POWER. HIGH RISK OF CONSEQUENTIAL US-CHINA NUCLEAR EXCHANGE [NucWar] AT THE BEGINNING OF A MAJOR US-CHINA CRISIS.
IOW, POOR ECONOMY = DON'T WAIT TO USE THE NUKES = USE 'EM + USE 'EM FIRST, OR ELSE LOSE 'EM???
* SAME > QATAR "GULF TIMES":US EXPERT ERIC MARGOLIS ARGUES THAT THE ERA OF THE HUGE AIRCRAFT CARRIER, NAVAL WARSHIP IS OVER. LT IMPROVEMENTS TO PLA DF-21 ASBMS + SIMILAR, POOR ECONOMY MAY FORCE THE US TO LIMIT THE OPERATIONS OF ITS COSTLY, HI-TECH MIL ASSETS TO CLOSE TO US SHORES.
IOW, whereas before RISING CHINA > COASTAL = SHALLOW/BROWN-WATER NAVY ONLY, + US NAVY > OCEAN = BLUE/DEEP-WATER NAVY, ITS NOW THE INVERSE, OR WILL BE SOON ENOUGH??
* GUAMPDN/GUAMPDN FORUMS > [Military.com] MILITARY BLAMED FOR [Poor]US CREDIT RATING | CONGRESS BLAMES MILITARY SPEDNING [e.g. on Guam] FOR US LOSING CREDIT RATING.
US Congresscritter Barney Frank.
* SAME > OKLAHOMA SENATOR CALLS FOR [Guam]BUILDUP CUTS.
Iff anything, desires that the Okinawa Marines be be relocated to CONUS instead of Guam.
* WORLD NEWS > JAPAN WARNED IT MUST DECIDE ON FUTURE OF OKINAWA MARINES' BASE.
ARTIC = the US still has the option of not relocating the Marines anywhere + staying put on Futenma MCAS + Okinawa iff the US-Nippon base deal collapses.
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But it was there that Dale Weiss, a 64-year-old Democrat, approached the Republican running for Congress in a special election and, without provocation, blasted the president for failing to tame runaway federal spending. "We need to cut Medicaid," she declared, "but he won't do that." She shook her head in disgust. "He is a moron."
That's the thing that thick-headed Paul Ryan just doesn't get - Medicaid cuts stomp on Democratic constituencies whereas Medicare cuts stomp on GOP constituencies. So what does Ryan propose? Medicare cuts.
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People in Brooklyn and Queens have more sense than people in Manhattan. Of course, people in the outer boroughs are more likely to read the New York Post or the Daily News; they don't count.
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The Biltmore's nice. And the unemployment rate in Providence is about 12%. Sounds like a perfect situation and place for government hacks to pat themselves on the back.
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Get ready. The Dems are fanning the winds of racism.Wilson (D-FL), Mad Maxine for example and Morgan Freeman. The unemployment is the Tea parties fault, big business, rich people and of course whitie. They are asking for a call to riot. I can see the rally now at the new memorial in DC. This is how they will protect Obama. The problem is the riots will be areas they frequent. Heavy Democrat controlled areas with high unemployment. Big sis will be everywhere but where she needs to be. Sorry but I was in DC and surrounding areas the last time. They will have no control. Black leaders will be called to help.
Obama will promise and apologize. He may even offer reparations. Right now many young people have moved back or are going to live in the cities like Baltimore and DC. The swarm of humanity will descend on these areas. They will be there to take from whomever they think has anything no matter the race. The swarm last time I called the migration. I remember the iron bars on windows and doors on the first levels of homes and businesses. I remember.
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Barack Obama wants immediate action on three trade deals that he says will create jobs in the US. Congress, Obama says, is dragging its heels on these bills and making it harder for the White House to create jobs. Theres only one problem with this argument, which ABCs Devin Dwyer points out:
