The [White House] press office issued credentials to those reporters and photojournalists who are covering the president's trip this week to Washington state, California, and Colorado. The credential even provides a handy graphic highlighting (in white) which states the president will visit. The only problem? Wyoming is highlighted, not Colorado. To be fair, both states are square, nearly identical in size, and stacked next to each other. But we doubt our third grade teachers would buy that! But they are the smartest and coolest people in the fucking world and your betters, you peasant slime.
#6
Mr. President, as you begin our descent into Cheyenne Colorado, you can look out of the window of your private jet and see the intercontinental divide.
#9
Wait....so he's coming to Wyoming?! Dammit, I don't have enough lysol for cootie prevention.......what if he touches things here?! Maybe bleach will be good.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division ||
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ok - #4 - wins the thread
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sorry AOS - I meant #6...dammit
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He has his boots on and is stuck on the "intercontinental" choo choo train.
The Intercontinental Railroad might be a grand idea, but given the administration's record of picking winners and losers, I suspect it would turn out to be the Incontinent Railroad.
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > MAKE PUERTO RICO INTO 51ST US STATE - ITS GOOD FOR BUSINESS.
ARTIC = Pre-Statehood, 1959 econ struggling Commonwealth of Hawaii did N-O-T become the world-famous tourism mecca it became until after it achieved formal US Statehood.
As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.
"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover," Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. "I really hope that someone can agree with me on that."
Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. "You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things," Perdue said.
North Carolina Republicans immediately scoffed at Perdue's proposal, pointing out to her that elections hold politicians accountable for their actions. Remember that governor. Elections hold politicians responsible, and you are next. Try to sidestep your bosses and you will find yourself on the wrong end of a rail.
#1
I suspect that the White House is behind this, as a trial balloon, because at an almost identical time, Peter Orszag, former OMB director under Obama, now an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (SPECTRE), and a Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, came out with a similar opinion in an op-ed in The Atlantic.
It also means that the WH thinks that the Democrats, and them in particular, are going to just get butchered in the next election.
#2
Ha ha ha. Just a joke. "Hyperbole", if you will...
Later Tuesday afternoon, Perdue's office clarified the remarks: "Come on," said spokeswoman Chris Mackey in a statement. "Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of whats best for the people they serve."
#4
I have an amusing notion. Why don't we just round up all these Leftists and hang them from the nearest light poles. Tar and feathers first...of course.
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New Delhi? I'm envious, Secret Asian
Man!
Back on topic: the only punishment needed is to vote them out of office as soon as the opportunity presents itself. The next few years are going to be even more interesting than the last several...
#10
That corrupt (democrat) enterprise needs to be purged from all levels of government before it conditionally revolts against the Citizens of this country. The leviathan will have nothing but political hacks in it bay the time this A-hole President is finished.
It is going to be dangerous and they will be treasonous. I have never seen it this bad in my lifetime.
Our governor is just one that has such thinking among armies squirreled away in Federal and State Government jobs.
#11
Not surprising that the Democrat Governor of one of the states in the Confederacy suggested overthrowing democracy: that what her ancestors did in North Carolina from 1861-1865.
#16
From the people who came up with 'Peoples Democratic Republic' which were neither democratic nor a republic. But hey, they're progressives, they simply 'reinterpret' the Newspeak language.
Coca-Cola now sees the US becoming a less friendly business environment than China, its chief executive has revealed, citing political gridlock and an antiquated tax structure as reasons its home market has become less competitive.
Muhtar Kent, Coke's chief executive, said "in many respects" it was easier doing business in China, which he likened to a well-managed company. "You have a one-stop shop in terms of the Chinese foreign investment agency and local governments are fighting for investment with each other," he told the Financial Times.
Mr Kent also pointed to Brazil as an example of an emerging economy that is making itself attractive to investment in ways that the US once did.
"They're learning very fast, these countries," he said. "In the west, we're forgetting what really worked 20 years ago. In China and other markets around the world, you see the kind of attention to detail about how business works and how business creates employment."
Mr Kent argued that US states did not compete enough with each other to attract businesses while Chinese provinces were clamouring to draw investment from international companies. Meanwhile, he said, China's budget discipline and rapid economic growth made it an appealing place to set up operations.
"If you talk about an American company doing business in the world today with its Chinese, Russian, European or Japanese counterparts, of course we're disadvantaged," Mr Kent said. "A Chinese or Swiss company can do whatever its wants with those funds [earned overseas]. When we want to bring them back, we are faced with a very large tax burden." Companies will continue to go Galt and move their operations and profits elsewhere unless we fix the damn tax code. No more loopholes for political chums and crony capitalism!
Obama Commerce pick awarded $1.37 billion in 'stimulus funds' for another risky solar plant
President Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary served as chairman of the board of a solar energy company that recently received a $1.37 billion federal loan guarantee the largest the Department of Energy has ever given for a solar power project.
Now that company, BrightSource Energy, is attempting to build the world's largest solar power plant amid concerns such ventures may be too risky an investment for the federal government.
In June, BrightSource Chairman John Bryson was nominated by Obama to head the Commerce Department.
WND reported in June that Bryson co-founded an environmental activist group that is a member and funder of the controversial Apollo Alliance.
Read what we'll need to accomplish to restore America to greatness.
Apollo is run by a slew of socialists and radicals, including Jeff Jones, a founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization. Jones himself boasts of doing work for the environmental group founded by Bryson, the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Bryson served until June as co-chairman of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a globalist organization whose members can be found throughout the Obama administration.
#3
Apollo's New York office is run by Jeff Jones, who founded the Weather Underground with terrorists Bill Ayers and radical Mark Rudd when the three signed an infamous statement calling for a revolution against the American government inside and outside the country to fight and defeat what the group called U.S. imperialism.
About this time the country is feeling like it has experienced a proctology exam with a roto-rooter.
Why do they think they'll succeed this time, when they've failed each time they tried this in the past?
THE World Bank and IMF are proposing global carbon taxes on aviation and ship fuels in developed economies to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to a draft proposal seen by AFP today.
These crooks? The ones who fly first class? Dine extravagantly? Stay in the five star resorts? Travel to Bali and Copenhagen for their conferences? Screw 'em. I don't want to hear one damned word from them about my carbon use.
The proposal suggests an international charge on aviation and maritime bunker fuels of $US25 per ton of CO2, which it said would "reduce CO2 emissions from each sector by around five to 10 per cent".
And plunge the world into poverty. We'll then need the World Bank and IMF to manage the austerity. They're good at that though they're not so good at, you know, creating prosperity.
Such a charge, if implemented well, could also bring in $US250 billion ($256.86 billion) in taxes in 2020, according to the report, which focuses on how funds to fight climate change can be mobilised.
Yes, 250 billion clams, all to be spent by the elites and their apparatchiks on all sorts of worthy causes. Ask them, they'll tell you how worthy they are. The causes.
The report recommends the plan for the "Annex II Countries" of the UN Climate Change Convention, including most developed economies.
The report stressed the difficulty of coordinating such a global tax, especially for bunker fuel, which ship operators can easily source in countries that would not be covered by any such agreement.
Which means we'd need an international carbon police, to be paid for by -- you guessed it! -- MORE carbon taxes!
The same report also urged governments to remove subsidies for fossil fuels in the Annex II countries, which it said were worth about $US40 billion to $US60 billion a year in 2005-2010.
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Well I for one believe the very rich should pay as much for C02 as the Joooooooooooos.
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So how much is the tax to turn all these wankers wanting the UN and IMF and crap to tax us into carbon?
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So.. would this make locally manufactured goods cheaper then Walmart's China Specials?
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#7
I think it is high past time to revolt against these so called "elites". Cut off all funding, throw them out of the US and wish them the best of fucking luck.
#12
All Truck, Rail, + Ocean Captains to become NT Dirigible + Hypervelocity Aircraft Pilots, + all of the latter to become NASA Astronauts = [proto]Starship Pilots-Capts.
STARFLEET COMMAND + the OWG-NWO that no American = Amerikan has yet voted for has to be funded
somehow.
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The [White House] press office issued credentials to those reporters and photojournalists who are covering the president's trip this week to Washington state, California, and Colorado. The credential even provides a handy graphic highlighting (in white) which states the president will visit. The only problem? Wyoming is highlighted, not Colorado. To be fair, both states are square, nearly identical in size, and stacked next to each other. But we doubt our third grade teachers would buy that!
As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.
