Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
01/30/2012 11:38 Comments ||
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In a time of economic strain and austerity in millions of American households, the First Lady shuts down Madison Avenue to go on a $50,000 shopping spree in a lingerie store.
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BO has TOTUS and is kept scripted most of the time. When he's not scripted he doesn't do so well. Most of the Donks are still with him. I don't know about the following groups: Jewish, student, independents. Some have strayed away: I just don't know how many. When one looks at the electoral vote, the election is out there to be won. There is a good chance the Pubs will keep the House and win the Senate contrary to what the pundits and polls are saying. So far the pundits have gotten things wrong much of the time. IMO that many are saying anyone but BO.
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Not sure, he has something up there to remember names, pick the right friends, and learn foux accents. I would say clumsy for sure.
I do not think he so much won as Hillary! lost. She forgot in the liberal hierarchy that race trumps gender, and that her experience does not trump race, so she could not recover from some of her statement being counter-narratived, as well as some other stuff. IIRC even poor ol McCain was making strides until the finance collapse, vote on the Bush stimulus fiasco, and full power of the media.
He gets into office, Dem Congress has items lined up right and left, polls start coming in and they realized that it needs to be sold, good thing they just elected the best salesman evah, right? Wrong. Congress needed a sell, President was off doddling in Beerfest, Peace Prize, Olympics, so forth. Such a poor job, even with the media, that not only did the Dems get trounced in '10, they didn't get nearly everything done and done right for their agenda, loose ends, and created an entire political opposition movement which catalized with his dismissals and repugnancy.
The Unions have had to pour a ton of money into putting out his fires. Hillary! has been on a plane nearly non-stop putting out fires caused by the dragging chain of limp diplomacy.
And if I were a collectivist, I'd be pissed too. All he had to do was show up to work, and it was done, and he blew it off for his own image and will quite honestly become such a parody of what the great leaders of collectivism do that they may never recover. If they had any guts they would run Hillary! but after 3 years of being drug about behind Obama's chariot can't blame her for being tired.
Its the half hypocrasy and half incompetence of a person who is simply waiting for the next promotion. And collectivists, you think the last two years has been a headbanger, if he does win you will see a lame duck go through at least the next two years as the last two years, likely without as much Dem in the Senate. So go vote for the machine, they don't care about you, in fact you OWS et all will be so shitcanned over the next 6 months you will actually have a real reason to be pissed.
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Every new generation has to learn, unfortunately the hard way, through experiencing poor decisions, even at the voting booth. Problem is, old dinosaurs like Pelosi and Reid and Soros lept at this golden opportunity to push through socialism. Future generations will pay dearly for it.
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He's not stupid at all, he just thinks we are.
Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili ||
01/30/2012 16:29 Comments ||
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The dark complected people I know will not vote Republican. Why, because "I don't see anything the Republicans have to offer". That's what the young adults have told me. Smart? doesn't matter.
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Ah, the usual militia or tribal model that comes when a country has failed such as Libya or Somalia. I can recall a time when most of the places that are in constant turmoil were not.
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I'm sorry, but this article does not offer a fair view of the situation. We may very well argue about official and non-official contacts the German government maintains with Iran, but Iran's Holocaust denial has always been strongly rejected by Germany.
Marcel Reich Ranicki's tale about his experience in the Warsaw ghetto was a very moving one and has left a deep impression.
Unfortunately the speech seems to be only available in German. (report in English)
MRR recalled how the Nazis in July 1942 informed members of the ghetto's Jewish Council (Judenrat) of plans for the inhabitants' "resettlement to the east".
He told lawmakers that those present "seemed to sense what had happened: that the sentence had been pronounced for the biggest Jewish city in Europe - the death sentence."
IThis was his last sentence and the Bundestag was quiet for half a minute before applause set in.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
01/30/2012 3:33 Comments ||
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[Dawn] TWO notices coming in rapid succession appear to be the first serious attempt to put an end to the extra-judicial prerogatives Pakistain's secret agencies have enjoyed for decades to run a clandestine empire the prime minister called "a state within a state". The judiciary's jurisdiction has now rightfully expanded to include institutions and elements till now considered beyond the reach of law. This message comes loud and clear from the Supreme Court's decision to issue notices to the ISI and the Military Intelligence in this regard. On Friday, the apex court directed the ISI and the Military Intelligence to submit reports to the SC on a petition that sought action on the law and order situation in the country's largest province. The petitioner, a former president of the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court Bar Association, had sought the court's help because, he said, the federal and provincial governments had failed to protect life and liberty in Balochistan. He referred especially to the widespread disappearances and mysterious killings. Taking note of the gravity of the situation, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said it was not the time to sit idle "with our fingers crossed", and asked the ISI and MI to give their view on the petition.
Two days earlier, the SC had summoned ISI chief Lt-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the MI director general, the judge advocate general and the army commanding officer concerned to respond to the petition of a woman who said that one of her sons, a suspect in the October 2009 attack on GHQ, had died in mysterious circumstances, and his body thrown on the road near a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar hospital. Petitioner Ruhaifa said three of her sons were among the eight taken in jug by the intelligence agencies, that there was no due process, and her son, Abdul Saboor, was among the four who were found murdered.
Since the days of Ziaul Haq, the intelligence agencies, especially the ISI, have arrogated to themselves political and 'legal' privileges which are in violation of the constitution and the penal code. They were emboldened in their brazenness because the compliant among the judges failed to uphold the law. Among the many examples of this encouragement by default of the invisible empire is Mehrangate, which involves the unauthorised disbursement of money by the ISI to its favourites to subvert the 1990 election. The judiciary must continue its pursuit of justice for all to prove to the people of Pakistain that 'accountability' is not a shibboleth used to persecute political dissent and that the guilty cannot escape justice because they are in uniform.
Posted by: Fred ||
01/30/2012 00:00 ||
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I like the "ISI Stories" image. :-)
The ISI is a "state within a state". The Tribal areas (i.e. the seven "agencies") are states outside the control of the state.
What a mess.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey ||
01/30/2012 8:02 Comments ||
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"Paki Supremes Feeling Their Oats, scheduled to Tour Glue Factory"
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mojo,
Good point. Given that the courts have some leverage regarding that decade-old Swiss corruption case involving President Asif Ali Zardari, it makes some sense to keep both sides guessing.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey ||
01/30/2012 15:30 Comments ||
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...the prospects are quite likely that Assad will be in power when the year ends. If the deadlock goes on without apparent end, the revolution might die down as it did in Iran. Syria will then be another case to show that revolutions usually succeed only when the elite is divided and loses its nerve, rather than being an inevitably victorious response to oppression.
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TWO notices coming in rapid succession appear to be the first serious attempt to put an end to the extra-judicial prerogatives Pakistain's secret agencies have enjoyed for decades to run a clandestine empire the prime minister called "a state within a state". The judiciary's jurisdiction has now rightfully expanded to include institutions and elements till now considered beyond the reach of law. This message comes loud and clear from the Supreme Court's decision to issue notices to the ISI and the Military Intelligence in this regard. On Friday, the apex court directed the ISI and the Military Intelligence to submit reports to the SC on a petition that sought action on the law and order situation in the country's largest province. The petitioner, a former president of the 
