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"Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge wants a federal judge to consider Jesse Jackson Jr.'s karaoke skills -- as well as his career in public service -- when the former congressman is sentenced for improperly using $750,000 in campaign cash for personal purposes."
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I ain't clicking the link, I been duck-rolled before. Glenmore is evidently working hand in glove with The Onion and lending his good name to what cannot be true.
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Instapropagandist slobbers incessantly over elon musk. We are told he's "privatizing" rocket launches while he rakes in boocoo taxpayer bucks. It does warm the heart a wee bit to see this crowd moving in different directions...
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Actually, I support the "outsourcing" to SpaceX, the main difference between him and the traditional aerospace contractors is that he's launching for a price per launch instead of the customized cost-plus contractors building stuff to NASA spec for roughly ten times the amount per launch.
From Wikipedia:
When all design and maintenance costs are taken into account, the final cost of the Space Shuttle program, averaged over all missions and adjusted for inflation, was estimated to come out to $1.5 billion per launch, or $60,000/kg to LEO.[5]
Falcon 9 costs $ 4,000.00/kg to LEO according to wikipedia.
NASA told us this was physically impossible in spite of it being only slightly less than the Russians accomplish with the Proton which is manufactured with SOVIET 1960's technology.
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I'm being generous in defending him, IMHO... he _does_ seem inclined to believe the same sort of half-truths and lies other people tell about him when it's directed at the industry I've been in for the past thirty years.
WRT SpaceX, it is the truth... even if he personally doesn't deserve it.
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On Tuesday, a coalition of liberal groups including MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters and Progressives United said it was suspending paid advertising on Facebook for at least two weeks.
It's nice to hear it said outlout, even if it's just on Front Page Mag.
The same Organizing For Action that sent out the 'tin foil hat' e-mail about global warming.
President Obama's supporters are discovering that winning a national election is easier than winning over Congress.
Organizing for Action, an advocacy group born from the remnants of Obama's victorious 2012 reelection campaign, has struggled in its attempts to help the president push through legislation on the economy, guns and other issues central to his second-term agenda.
The fledgling nonprofit group has spent its first four months staging rallies and generating local news coverage in an unsuccessful effort to get the Senate to strengthen background checks for gun sales.
It deployed technological efforts familiar from the 2012 campaign, collecting 1.4 million signatures on a gun-control petition delivered to Capitol Hill last week and producing a widely viewed Internet video mocking congressional Republicans for questioning humans' contribution to climate change.
The group also raised $4.9 million through March and is awaiting an influx of cash from liberal donors connected to George Soros's Democracy Alliance to expand its staff beyond the few dozen now on its payroll. Democracy must mean something different to Soros than the typical dictionary definition.
But despite its extensive voter-data files and White House connections, OFA has yet to make much of a mark on the nation's political landscape. Many of its efforts have been centered in liberal strongholds and Democratic-leaning swing states, with little impact on more conservative areas. Preaching to the acolytes.
But OFA Executive Director Jon Carson said that while the group itself is young, many of its members are longtime political activists. "Our volunteers did not hatch out of an egg in 2008," he said. "They've been fighting on issue campaigns for their whole wasted lives."
OFA is focused on promoting the president's agenda to reform immigration, strengthen gun control, strike a budget deal and address climate change. Carson said the combination of OFA rallies and local news coverage is helping change voter attitudes, which in turn places pressure on lawmakers to back Obama's legislative goals.
The group's organizers say they are particularly focused on six states that Obama won last year but that are represented by at least one GOP senator: Illinois, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio and Nevada. It is also targeting the red states of Arizona and Georgia, whose senators could be persuaded to back parts of the president's agenda, group officials said. They plan to hold 500 events focused on immigration by the end of May, according to Carson.
"You drive local press attention, and the citizens out there hear about it," he said. "That's the combination that it takes." You already have the media in the Fearless Leader's pocket. Can't you make a go of it?
OFA was formed in the wake of November's election as an independent nonprofit group able to raise unlimited funds, and it maintains control of Obama's massive campaign e-mail list. What's yet unclear is whether the group can transform support for Obama's reelection into activism on behalf of his policy agenda.
Some former Obama campaign volunteers said they've joined OFA to ensure the president succeeds, and now enjoy a greater sense of freedom. Penny North, a 64-year-old retired software consultant who worked on the president's reelection, said she used to have to read from a script when she went door to door on Obama's behalf. Now, she said, "we're telling our personal stories." I'm 64, but I will work for another three years. What's it like, on the gubbamint dole, Penny?
In some instances, however, the group has alienated people who otherwise support the president. OFA's decision to target four conservative Democrats who opposed background checks, for example, has angered local party officials in their states. Red on... No, waitaminute - Blue on Blue!
Alaska Democratic Party chair Michael Wenstrupwrote a letter to OFA last week asking the group to "cease its attacks on Democratic senators immediately." He said the decision to target Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who is up for reelection next year, with phone calls and e-mails to state residents criticizing his no vote on background checks is counterproductive.
The group has also gone after Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who opposed the bipartisan background checks bill, with similar calls. Chad Oban, executive director of North Dakota's Democratic-NPL Party, said he would have preferred if OFA had poured more resources into the state before the vote, rather than afterward.
Carson, for his part, said people shouldn't be surprised that OFA was unable to mobilize a major number of voters in red states represented by Democrats. "We've got supporters everywhere, especially in our own minds" he said, "but we've never claimed our major strength is in a place like North Dakota or Alaska."
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Since the majority of people know AGW is a scam. I'm sure the Republican's aren't horrified to not be part of the left's new kool-aid cult.
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Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the "second-term curse."
Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda through an unbudging Congress. Bad, bad Congress! Who put you there, anyway?
And over the past week, two flaring controversies -- one over his administration's handling of the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya, the other over Internal Revenue Service employees targeting tea party groups for special scrutiny -- have dominated the discussion in Washington. He 'splained that one away - it wuz Boosch. He ain't explained Benghazi.
It is far from clear how big a political liability either will turn out to be. The media will just ... LOOK! Squirrel!
On Friday, for instance, news of the IRS admission and developments surrounding the Benghazi attack turned White House press secretary Jay Carney's daily briefing into a feeding frenzy and drowned out coverage of a speech that Obama was giving that day on the implementation of the health-care law that stands as his biggest achievement.
White House officials acknowledge that the history of modern second-term presidencies is a sobering one, replete with scandal and failure. But they insist that they have seen nothing to suggest that Obama will fall into the traps that have ensnared so many of his predecessors: nothing that rivals the Watergate investigation that drove Richard M. Nixon out of office in 1974, the Iran-contra scandal that nearly derailed Ronald Reagan's presidency in 1986,or the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998.
The current furor will serve only to make Obama's opponents look bad, they predict. mmwwhahaHAHAHhahahah! Really! But even some of Obama's allies worry privately that his difficulties may be made worse by his narcissistic lack of deep relationships on Capitol Hill, notwithstanding his round of dinners with members lately. His congressional liaison, Miguel Rodriguez, came to the job virtually unknown by lawmakers. The president himself has a tendency to hunker down with a tight circle of loyalists. "I don't think he has adequate people questioning him on these things," said one close Obama ally.
"There is no evidence the White House is hiding the truth about what occurred in Benghazi," lefty journalist David Corn wrote in left-leaning Mother Jones magazine. "But the White House has indeed been caught not telling the full story."
"Benghazi and the IRS, each one taken in isolation is in the ankle-biting category," said historian David Kennedy. "But if you add up enough ducks, they can peck you to death. It's a sea of trouble."
Chris Lehane, one of the "masters of disaster" who ran the damage-control operation in the Clinton White House, where prevarication was the specialty of the house said Obama's staff has failed to follow some basic rules for dealing with a potential scandal: avoid putting out a narrative that will not be sustained by the facts and get in front of damaging information by making it public before your adversaries do. It took me until I was about 12 to learn that the first one with a credible story to Mommy was usually believed.
For instance, "if they had put those [Benghazi] e-mails out on their own terms, they would have gotten a little more of the benefit of the doubt," Lehane said. "There's no question that if they had basically applied the fundamentals of crisis management, they would be in a different situation today."
But with the attack happening less than two months before voters went to the polls last year, "they may have made the decision that it was better to win the presidential election and deal with the fallout on the other side," Lehane said.
History suggests that rocky terrain lay ahead on that other side. "Every second-term president, at least since Eisenhower with the U-2 [spy plane shot down in Soviet airspace] has somehow gone into a ditch," said Ken Duberstein, who was White House chief of staff during Reagan's second term.
"The suggestions that Obama is in a deep ditch are probably but maybe not premature," Duberstein added. "But when you get in a ditch, you need to stop digging. You need to put down the shovel." Sharpen that baby up, I say! Get another strong back into the ditch! Make room under the bus!
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In Champ's case, any 2nd term curse would be a blessing.
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"There is no evidence the White House is hiding the truth about what occurred in Benghazi," lefty journalist David Corn wrote in left-leaning Mother Jones magazine. "But the White House has indeed been caught not telling the full story."
WTF? I ended a relationship with someone who I "caught not telling the full story." In other words, he was "hiding the truth." How, exactly, is one distinct from the other?
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Democratic senator Max Baucus is retiring because he is fed up with the Affordable Care Act, according to his Republican colleague Chuck Grassley. Speaking at Friday nights Lincoln Day dinner in Iowa, Grassley told the audience the Montana senator is leaving office because hes so fed up with the possibility of the implementation of Obamacare being a train wreck.
Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, played a key role in writing the 2010 law.
Grassley said that dissatisfaction with the health-care bill exists across party lines, describing a bipartisan coalition in Washington that considers the implementation of the law a disaster. Its a shame that a trainwreck even left the station a couple years ago, he added, referring to Baucuss now-infamous statement of frustration.
The 79-year-old Iowa senator also used his remarks to inveigh against the Gang of Eights immigration bill. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley has been one of the most outspoken opponents of the legislation. Referring to the 1986 immigration act signed into law by President Reagan, which legalized millions of illegal immigrants, he said, I want you to know that we screwed up in 1986.
He concluded, Today, we have 11 million people who came into our country illegally. The lesson learned: You reward illegality, you get more of it.
"SeeBS News President David Rhodes and ABSee News President Ben Sherwood, both of them have spawn that not only work at the White House, that not only work for the Champ, but they work at the National Insecurity Council on foreign policy issues directly related to Benghazi."
For the record, Ben Sherwood's sister, Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, is the Special Assistant to the Champ. Virginia Moseley's husband, Tom Nides, is the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. Obviously control of the media matters.
Once the first trickle seeps through the dam, can the flood be far behind?
Also, Uncle Phester and USN, Ret. both posted links yesterday about the IRS having initiated this approach as far back as the second quarter of 2011 with senior management approval. See here.
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it wasn't Jewish 501 orgs, it was pro Israel 501s that were given the special inquisition
lord garth, from the article link:
And at least one purely religious Jewish organization, one not focused on Israel, was the recipient of bizarre and highly inappropriate questions about Israel. Those questions also came from the same non-profit division of the IRS at issue for inappropriately targeting politically conservative groups. The IRS required that Jewish organization to state whether [it] supports the existence of the land of Israel, and also demanded the organization [d]escribe [its] religious belief system toward the land of Israel.
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The problem for Champ is that most people who see this story will instantly grasp that he is a bad person. Not just a bad president. Not someone you disagree with. A nasty, bitter, petty, rotten, twisted mean guy.
This of course completely undermines the persona his MSM collaborators have created for him, but worse. It is a message the squishy middle will understand and care about.
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And at least one purely religious Jewish organization, one not focused on Israel, was the recipient of bizarre and highly inappropriate questions about Israel. Those questions also came from the same non-profit division of the IRS at issue for inappropriately targeting politically conservative groups. The IRS required that Jewish organization to state "whether [it] supports the existence of the land of Israel," and also demanded the organization "[d]escribe [its] religious belief system toward the land of Israel."
NOTE THE PHRASING.
They didn't ask "Do you support or oppose such and such an apartment block in Jerusalem" or "do you support or oppose such and such a settlement."
It's the existance of Israel itself that is the dividing line.
And it's the dividing line the Jug Eared Fuck pretends to be on the other side of in the light of day.
Maybe this will get through the bubbles of some people. Maybe it won't. I dunno.
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So, of course, the next time Chump gives a political speech in a church the IRS will investigate the church's tax exempt status. Right? Right? Oh, yeah. I guess not.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
But even some of Obama's allies worry privately that his difficulties may be made worse by his 
"SeeBS News President David Rhodes and ABSee News President Ben Sherwood, both of them have spawn that not only work at the White House, that not only work for the Champ, but they work at the National Insecurity Council on foreign policy issues directly related to Benghazi." 
