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Suicide blast kills senior Tajik police officer: ministry
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Waters forms legal defense fund to wage fight against ethics charges
[The Hill] Rep. Comrade Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has established a legal defense fund to pay for any expenses associated with her full-throttled battle against ethics charges that she used her position to help a bank in which her husband owned stock.

Waters filed paperwork with the ethics committee to form the fund in late August. Her office did not comment about whether she had already held fundraisers to help fill the fund's coffers or has events planned.
Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  please God, let this nasty racist crook be thrown out
Posted by: Frank G || 09/04/2010 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I would love to know who, if anyone, donated to this "Fund".
Might provide the names of her accomplices.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 09/04/2010 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  When I have to pee, I tell people I need to take a maxine waters.

She is real gutter scum.
Posted by: newc || 09/04/2010 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  You probably should require pols to have legal defense fund---the way the rest of us have to buy car insurance when buying a car.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2010 16:48 Comments || Top||

#5  ...hhhmmmm....call it RangelwatersCare and make it mandatory for all members of Congress.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/04/2010 16:59 Comments || Top||

#6  newc - you need to apologize to gutter scum everywhere. What'd they ever do to you to deserve such an insult?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/04/2010 18:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Maxipad Waters is one of the most racist, corrupt member of Congress. Has been for years.
She doth protest too much.

She better realize that after November 3rd it's going to be a whole new ball game with even criminal charges going to be leveled against her.
She better wise up, end the denial and understand it's gonna get much worse for her.
Being Negro will be severely out of fashion after this next election.

Believe it.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/04/2010 23:23 Comments || Top||


Economy
U.S. Economy Lost 54,000 Jobs in August
[WSJ] The U.S. economy has shed jobs for three straight months, though the losses in August were about half the 110,000 predicted by economists in a Dow Jones Newswires survey.

The unemployment rate, calculated using a separate household survey, edged up to 9.6%, as expected, after holding at 9.5% for previous two months.

The report is likely to cause renewed debate during the long Labor Day weekend over what new steps the Federal Reserve and Congress should consider to jump-start the job market.
Asking themselves "How is this going to make us more competitive?" every time they consider a measure would be a good start. But the pols "debating" aren't real fond of business that's not located on Wall Street.
Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quick more money to the public sector unions and politician's relatives! That'll fix things! This time for sure.
Posted by: DMFD || 09/04/2010 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  All according to plan.
Unemployed become welfare recipients = liberal government's clients.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2010 3:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Want to solve unemployment and illegal immigration and out of control public sector slaries and pensions?

Cut the size of the public sector work force by 30% at all levels of government, cut the remaining workers pay by 25%, and put a cap on public sector salaries of $50,000 per year regardless of what they do. And limit public sector pensions to $50,000 per year. At the same time, limit unemployment to 12 weeks.

The out of work people resulting can take the jobs illegals do now. No demand for Mexicans, they go back to Mexico. Americans working. Public sector size and cost reset to reasonable level. Three problems solved.
Posted by: no mo uro || 09/04/2010 5:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Somehow Obummer spun this into the economy is headed in the right direction. That would be only if you are trying to take it down!
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/04/2010 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama just said that if it wasn't for him, things would be worse. That he had stopped the bleeding, didn't mention that another 54,000 jobs were lost. Worst President in the History of America.
Posted by: Angirong Hupaviger9578 || 09/04/2010 14:08 Comments || Top||

#6  How bout this? Deactivate the EPA, department oif transportation, the department of education, the department of energy, all the czars, half of congressional staff, all congressional military flight, and that racist department in charge of making sure reverse discrimination happens while suing the state of Arizona for enforcing federal law.
Put a mortorium on ALL earmarks until 2030, repeal obama care, enact fair tax, and repeal anything any democrat enacted for the last 60 years.
Yeah, 60 years.

I solved 1/4th of the problem in that screed alone.
Posted by: newc || 09/04/2010 14:55 Comments || Top||

#7  UNEXPECTEDLY!
Posted by: DMFD || 09/04/2010 21:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama Approval at 42%
Disapproval at 56%. "I won" = famous last words
Posted by: Frank G || 09/04/2010 13:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I figure 12-15% of that 42% are people so afraid of being thought of as racist that they cannot be honest about their feelings.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/04/2010 13:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I still can't believe 42% of people are still that stupid and blind to think Bambi is still a good president.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/04/2010 14:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Darth, probably those 42% either work for the Feds or suck at the gummint teat. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/04/2010 14:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Barb, xactly. It was bouncing between 45% and 42% for quite a while now. That is the only explanation that makes sense
Posted by: twobyfour || 09/04/2010 14:57 Comments || Top||

#5  42%! WOW, that high?
Posted by: Spearong Prince of the Bunions9034 || 09/04/2010 14:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Or they're overinvested from standing at the bitter cold at the inauguration and buying Obama paraphanalia to give him up
Posted by: Highefficiency || 09/04/2010 14:59 Comments || Top||

#7  To paraphrase what others have said, the Republic can survive a fool as president, but it cannot survive with a significant portion of the population foolish enough to elect such a president.

I'm more worried about that 42% than I am the idiot in the Oval Office.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/04/2010 15:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I still can't believe 42% of people are still that stupid and blind to think Bambi is still a good president. I just came back from a long road trip. I believe that 42% is still influential, and I am worried about them. Any country stupid enough to elect Obama once (and to put up with the biggest theft/fraud ring in the history of the world) is stupid enough to re-elect him.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/04/2010 15:31 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder if it is what is left of the Democrats that voted for him.
Posted by: miscellaneous || 09/04/2010 19:50 Comments || Top||

#10  He was only elected with 51% So his ratings are down 9%. He lost the independand and some of the center dems. He has not lost his hard core left at all. We must take the house and senate and then go after his left leaning base.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/04/2010 21:40 Comments || Top||

#11  After his firat year he stayed at or below 50%. This reads to me the independents are moving away from him as well as a few of the conservative dems. For these to really mean anything other than this nations is still firmly divided along party lines we have to see him dip into the mid 30's. My take he is doing fine in the polls as far as supporting his party is concerned.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/04/2010 21:44 Comments || Top||


Military Manual For Court Martial Changed By Executive Order, But Not Released
President Obama signed an Executive Order promulgating the 2010 changes to the Manual for Courts-Martial on August 31, 2010. The covering document is on the White House website, but the text of the changes is still neither there nor on the Federal Register and DoD websites as of 10:45 a.m., Sept. 2, 2010. The amendments take effect on September 30, 2010.
I can imagine why there might be some trepidation.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/04/2010 12:51 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  King Obama. So the question remains, will the military brass protect the constitution or their careers? Seems like the boys may have to choose.
Posted by: Martini || 09/04/2010 13:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Before we speculate too much we should see what the changes are. I assume there's a procedure for doing this and the White House is following SOP. If not, then there's a problem.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/04/2010 13:51 Comments || Top||

#3  While I don't put Bambi past fucking anything up, I am wanting to wait to see before I pass judgment. A lot of the terminology needed changing with the new deployments and tactics so it may just be a simple update.

However, knowing what Bambi's ego is like, I can see him putting his own "brand" on the changes and fucking shit up completely.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/04/2010 14:25 Comments || Top||

#4  That's nice, but.....Article I, Section 8, reads -

The Congress shall have Power...

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;


One of the issues King Charles lost his head over whether he or Parliament had that power. The writers of the Constitution made sure that little issue was written into the document so that no 'misunderstanding' could occur again.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/04/2010 15:56 Comments || Top||

#5  P2k, so what? Obama considers the Constitution to be a living document to be modified on the fly, at will.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/04/2010 16:41 Comments || Top||

#6  ..till the impeachment process begins.

Notice here

101. (a) (2) is altered by Public Law to quote - "Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]"

Remember, they didn't get Capone on racketeering but on income tax. Never give your opponent an opening.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/04/2010 16:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Nothing at all to do with MAJ Hansan or the Bradley Manning cases I am sure.......
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/04/2010 21:57 Comments || Top||


Feingold to skip Obama rally in Wisconsin
[Yahoo] It's true that Obama remains generally popular in the state, but his approval rating has dipped to 49 percent, according to the most recent University of Wisconsin Badger poll -- a drop of 11 points since last winter. That's a higher approval rating than in other key battleground states this fall, but it's unclear at this point whether Obama's standing would hurt or help Feingold, who is virtually tied in the polls with his GOP opponent, businessman Ron Johnson.

Johnson has gained in the polls by trashing Feingold's votes on Obama-led agenda items like health care reform and last year's federal stimulus bill. And he has proved to be a serious financial challenger. In July and most of August, Johnson outraised Feingold, reporting $1.2 million in contributions, compared with the incumbent Dem's $900,000. Feingold had more cash in the bank earlier this summer -- but Johnson has readily dipped into his own cash reserves to bridge that gap, loaning his campaign more than $4.4 million, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Craig Gilbert.
Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  but it's unclear at this point whether Obama's standing would hurt or help Feingold, who is virtually tied in the polls with his GOP opponent, businessman Ron Johnson.

I think it is becoming abundantly clear that Bambi's coat tails are a liability. I love watching the Dems implode and turn on each other.
C'mon November 2010 - 2012.
Posted by: WolfDog || 09/04/2010 10:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Rats, sinking ship.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 09/04/2010 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Drudge is reporting that Pelosi and the donks are planning a "firewall" to prevent a trunk takeover of the house. No details, so I'm a bit at a loss how they plan to do that. But, in the NYT, you have a political party hypothetically plotting to subvert the coming will of the people? If true, can there be a better proof of the Limbaugh assertion that our politicos have evolved into a "ruling class" with a self opinion that lets them feel free to try and subvert the will of the electorate? Somewhere along this line of reasoning doen't malfeasance in office and treason become reality?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/04/2010 20:49 Comments || Top||


B.O.'s day: The economy and a trip to Camp David
[USA Today] This afternoon, the first family heads to Camp David. But the president won't have the whole long weekend there. On Monday, it's Milwaukee for Laborfest, an annual event put on by the AFL-CIO. He'll also travel to Cleveland next week, on Wednesdsay, to talk about the economy.

On Friday, he'll have a press conference at the White House, his first solo session with reporters since his May news conference on the BP oil spill.
Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Me, I'm happy he distances himself from another attempt to force Israel to cut its own throat Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2010 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, now that combat in Iraq is over we all need to come together in unity... at Obama campaign/labor union rallies.
Posted by: American Delight || 09/04/2010 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Dang, he's coming to my part of the country and I'm out of rotten tomatoes.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/04/2010 15:35 Comments || Top||

#4  between Martha's Vineyard, he's put in a rambling unconvincing Oval Office speech, a couple Booosh-bashing campaign speeches, a couple meetings and rounds of golf, a lying economy speech, then he needs a vacation at Camp David. Gee, destroying a country is hard work
Posted by: Frank G || 09/04/2010 17:32 Comments || Top||



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  At Least 25 Die in Nuevo Leon in Shootout
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