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Posted by: badanov || 09/05/2010 12:52 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should this be a link on the main page, with some kind of indicator as to when it was last updated? That way we would be less likely to miss it than if it gets buried in the article list and we miss it.
Posted by: gorb || 09/05/2010 21:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Trying to get that squared away as we speak.
Posted by: badanov || 09/05/2010 22:47 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Butts Arrested in Boob Killing - No, Really
Posted by: Phaimp Threreger7093 || 09/05/2010 15:05 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Ameer Ali's son involved in Sex-for-Marks scandal
As the Germans say, the apple doesn't fall far from the horse. An earthy people, in their own refined way, those Germans.
Posted by: tipper || 09/05/2010 12:53 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Dr Doom: Double dip risk for US economy
Posted by: tipper || 09/05/2010 15:21 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Update from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
Posted by: tipper || 09/05/2010 16:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Someday in the near future all nations will be Argentina for 15 months, or years depending on whether they recognize that their 'experts' aren't.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2010 18:02 Comments || Top||

#3  The unanswered question is who ends up paying for the trillions in debt that will never be repaid.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/05/2010 18:14 Comments || Top||

#4  The GIs who don't come home.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/05/2010 18:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Money represents the economy, so changing the representation doesn't do much to the economy.

It however DOES fool those measuring the economy.

Until you end the damaging system of taxation of incomes an non-taxation of rent-seeking you'll have economic problems.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2010 19:01 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 When George Meany complained that we gave the USSR money at 5% interest no response as I recall.
I bet it was forgiven. We gave Brazil money and as I recall it was not paid back. Who pays? nobody. Default most likely for us. Anything in the Bank is gone. We will be issued cards that we will use to purchase anything with a transaction fee applied. We will also be restricted to what we purchase as our medical histories for food items or adult beverages will be considered. We will all have an independence card (independence yea right). Having children, marriage, education, transportation,domicile, ad infinitum all regulated.
Posted by: Dale || 09/05/2010 20:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
How illegal immigrants are helping Social Security
What is the Obama administration up to now, leaking this info?
A major push for amnesty maybe.
Posted by: tipper || 09/05/2010 14:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any genuine cost benefit assessment of illegal immigration has to include the COSTS of illegal aliens. Services, hiospitalization, social services, education, legal system, prison system (in CA somewhere between 12-20% of the jail and prison residents have illegal status) not to mention the costs of border enforcement.
At the end of the day, they COST us much more than they give, not to mentioon the billions they mail south to Mexico, not spend here in our economy.
This is typical leftie BS!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/05/2010 16:49 Comments || Top||

#2  ...hospitalization....mention...
God I need spellcheck!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/05/2010 16:50 Comments || Top||

#3  How much does CA's education budget goes to Illegal ALIENS?

And won't the Amnesty dreams of McCain and OBumbles essentially give the illegals their 'contribution' back (or whatever contribution they *claim* to have made). Seems to me this guy is making a case *against* amnesty.

The decline in illegal immigration, plus tighter workplace enforcement, means that contributions from the unauthorized will decrease. But as Goss notes, they remain, because of larger families, a positive contributing factor to Social Security solvency.

Somebody ought to say thank you.


I'll settle for a F U! Get the hell out!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2010 17:28 Comments || Top||

#4  notice that many states allow in-state tuition rates for illegals. So, if you're from another state, but American, you pay more than a frigging illegal, who's from another country. Real f*cking smart. I hate La Raza politics and the pandering asshats in the Donk party. Boot illegals, NOW
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2010 17:48 Comments || Top||

#5  IIRC, Bush set up some sort of deal to pay SS benefits to illegal Mexicans who had moved back to Mexico to retire.
My son used to manage a fast food restaurant where most of the workers were wink-wink "legal". They would claim many dependents on their W-4, so that they had almost no income tax withheld. Then they wouldn't bother to file at the end of the year.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/05/2010 17:56 Comments || Top||

#6  New Suckers keep Ponzi Scheme going a short while longer.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2010 19:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
James Lee is Al Gore is Prince Charles is the Unabomber
Saving the environment and the remaining species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.

Not only do our schools teach our children this misanthropic – and deeply ahistoric – rot, but so also do broadcasters like the Discovery Channel. Their sister station, Animal Planet, for example, broadcasts a series called Whale Wars celebrating the real-life adventures of animal rights extremist Paul Watson. (H/T: MSher)

It’s time we woke up to the threat posed by this mass brainwashing of the younger generation. We worry, rightly, about those Muslim children who are being indoctrinated with the extreme Wahaabist version of their faith. Yet we seem astonishingly complacent that every day, in schools of every kind throughout the Western world, our children are being taught by well-meaning teachers to view their world and culture through exactly the same anti-capitalist, anti-human, anti-growth eyes as James Lee and the Unabomber.

The modern environmental movement is not kind, caring or gentle. It is a series of ticking time bombs waiting to blow up in our face.
Posted by: tipper || 09/05/2010 16:09 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well meaning? Try telling them you're 'right wing' and see the hate erupt.
Posted by: Bulldog || 09/05/2010 17:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Try explaining to them that extinction is perfectly natural and BENEFICIAL to the overall health of the environment. That the god of Evolution which they love to worship so much wouldn't work very well if species such as that spotted-tree-frog (OR the Spotted Owl) they keep whining about didn't go extinct.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2010 17:57 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2010-09-05
  Dronezap waxes five in North Wazoo
Sat 2010-09-04
  Suicide blast kills senior Tajik police officer: ministry
Fri 2010-09-03
  37 dead, 150 maimed in attack on Shiites in Lahore
Thu 2010-09-02
  At Least 25 Die in Nuevo Leon in Shootout
Wed 2010-09-01
  Gunman Holds 1 Hostage in Maryland
Tue 2010-08-31
  Molotov Cocktails Thrown: At Least 8 Killed In Cancun Bar Attack
Mon 2010-08-30
  Iran media brands Sarkozy's wife as 'prostitute'
Sun 2010-08-29
  Series of US drone attacks in Pakistan, at least six killed
Sat 2010-08-28
  Yemen officials, Houthis reach peace deal in Qatar
Fri 2010-08-27
  10 Tonnes of Bomb Chemicals found in E. Afghanistan
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  56 killed, 250 injured in string of Iraq attacks
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  Reports: 3 killed in Beirut clashes
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  MPs slain as Somali gunmen storm hotel
Mon 2010-08-23
  Israel says Iranian reactor use 'totally unacceptable'
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