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Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday July 31 -- Got news or an update?
If you have news or an update, leave it in comments. . . .
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With all the media attention on Global Warming gone crazy, the KC Star reported today about the cooler than normal July. The 2nd coolest on record since 1891.
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1356306.html
Can the newspapers realize that some of the liberal ideas such as Global Warming are not as real as they hyped?
Now if only they will really report about the sorry state of MNI, Obamacare, quadrupling of the deficit, loss of jobs and other news that will have an effect on people. (killing of the newspapers it owns on the MNI aspect) Sorry, had a wishful moment that they were going to get back to reporting news as it is with out the spin.
Sorority president sued over wax statue of herself AP
CHICAGO — Members of the country's oldest black sorority are suing to remove their president, alleging that she spent hundreds ($911,000)of thousands of dollars of the group's money on herself — some of it to pay for a wax statue in her own likeness.
In the suit filed in Washington, D.C., the Alpha Kappa Alpha members also alleged that international President Barbara McKinzie bought designer clothing, jewelry and lingerie with the sorority credit card. She then redeemed points the purchases earned on the card to buy a big-screen television and gym equipment, the lawsuit said.
Dear leader and McClcacthy hearts Ortega like Commies
Venezuela: 'Freedom of expression must be limited' AP--Drudge
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's top prosecutor insisted Thursday that freedom of expression in Venezuela "must be limited" and proposed legislation that would slap additional restrictions on the country's news media.
The new law would punish the owners of radio stations, television channels and newspapers that have attempted to "cause panic" and "disturb social peace," Attorney General Luisa Ortega said.
It also would punish media owners who "manipulate the news with the purpose of transmitting a false perception of the facts."
"Freedom of expression must be limited," Ortega said.
The Politics of Reverse Racism in America Pravda EVEN PRAVDA GETS IT
The incident concerning the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. in July 16 of 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts has a hidden (inconvenient) truth unsaid in contemporary American society.
It has to do with the rising tide of reverse racism (by minorities, or blacks in this case) after decades of hard work by those in the Civil Rights Movement, and the phenomenon of reverse-racism in this case also involves black nepotism.
Shortly after the incident, President Barack Obama, who regards himself as a black and a friend of Gates, called the arrest "stupid," even though he acknowledged of not knowing all the facts about the incident (and later had to call the arresting white police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, in order to to quell the public uproar against his biased remark).
Tactical Retreat, Not Waterloo, On ObamaCare "IBD Editorials"
Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead.
If you believed the first idiocy — and half the mainstream media did — you'll believe the second. Don't believe either.
Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong.
Yes, Obama's aura has diminished, in part because of overweening overexposure. But by year's end he will emerge with something he can call health care reform.
The Democrats in Congress will pass it because they must. Otherwise, they'll have slain their own savior in his first year in office.
But that bill will look nothing like the massive reform Obama originally intended. The beginning of the retreat was signaled by Obama's curious reference — made five times — to "health-insurance reform" in his July 22 news conference.
Reforming the health care system is dead. Cause of death? Blunt trauma administered not by Republicans, not even by Blue Dog Democrats, but by the green eyeshades at the Congressional Budget Office.
'They May Not Know What's Good For Them' Mark (Morning Joe)
The poor, benighted little people. They just don't understand what a wonderful hopey-changey world Pres. Obama is offering them . . .
Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them."
Mitchell made her condescending comment on today's Morning Joe.
Well, the two lonely, bitter old haters who show each day that they have nothing to do, are at it early again today, trying desperately to fill their empty lives and find someone or some group to blame for their perceived failures in life.
Jeremy (Sweetie) was refused entry to his high school prom when he arrived in a gown and makeup instead of a tuxedo.
KUAM, Guam’s news network, reports that officials at George Washington High School in Guam refunded the money Jeremy spent for a prom ticket, but are unsympathetic about the $400 he spent on clothing and other items, and will not issue him the apology that he wants for being unable to attend the prom.
Jeremy claims that he was discriminated against when he was denied entry.
Fitz has a good explanation of short selling and the newspaper stock run in progress. === @ E & P By Mark Fitzgerald
Thank Short Sellers for the Rally in Newspaper Stocks? Newspaper stocks have soared over the past two weeks. [Short sellers, the folks who bet against newspapers,] deserve at least a tip of the hat when you look at the numbers. [snip] Short sellers, those investors who profit when a stock price declines, could be called the unsung heroes of this rally.
Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, hoping the share price goes down so that when they buy shares to return them they can pocket the difference. But if the share price increases, "shorts" must quickly buy shares before they take big losses. Their efforts can run prices up rapidly.
It's called "short-covering," and it's the first explanation that occurred to Morningstar equity analyst Tom Corbett when newspaper stocks started soaring on July 15. That's the day Gannett reported a second-quarter profit that surprised analysts expecting a loss.
"I would attribute a good portion of the recent rally to what they call a 'short squeeze,'" he said Wednesday.
'Clunkers' Program Is Running Out of Cash... Car dealer: 'If they can't administer a program like this, I'd be a little concerned about my health insurance'...
Well, the two lonely, bitter old haters who show each day that they have nothing to do, are at it early again today, trying desperately to fill their empty lives and find someone or some group to blame for their perceived failures in life.
Glad you could make it, but where's the other one?
Talk about stinking politics! Oboonba could write a book on thuggery, the Black Panthers are some of his best friends, no doubt. === Hack Panthers Washington Times, by Staff
The Justice Department's decision to drop an already-won voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party merits multiple, independent investigations. On Tuesday, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, officially asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to refile the case. Mr. Holder should comply. So far, the Justice Department has stonewalled legitimate inquiry. It has yet to provide records sought by this newspaper.
...Next, Krugman is their Ultra lib left wing hack, who got a nobel for economics, but writes left wing drivel opinion almost better than our troll. ...
Did you find an error in this article? If so, what is it?
Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango is still laughing, all the way to the welfare office. She knows where the Bam was born! ---
-Barack Obama’s aunt at home in Southie digs-
Boston Herald by Laurel J. Sweet
With her deportation hearing still six months away, the controversial Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston, the Herald has learned. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango, 57, told the Herald yesterday with a mischievous smile, wearing a string of pearls and a sleeveless forest-green sheath she said her nephew bought her years before he became leader of the free world.
Hey, O'Reilly on Fox News now has more viewers that Katie Couric on network CBS! Obama has been good for one thing - galvanizing the conservative movement.
I do love McClatchy stock. Heck, I just sold it all for a $10k profit (not bad for a few seconds work). I have another 2k shares coming in for my ESPP at $.45 a share.
I am hoping that all of you haters/shorts out there will drop the price back down to the $.50 range and I will buy again, just to ride it back up when the quarterlies come out.
Oh...and as I said if it AVERAGES $1.70 for the next 7 days, that solves any delisting problems and starts the clock over again...where is the price now? $2.15.
COMING SOON WITH DEATHCARE UK Couples 'Forced To Go Abroad For IVF' (Sky News)
"Increasing numbers of childless British couples are being forced to have fertility treatment abroad because of patchy NHS provision and plummeting donor rates, campaigners have told Sky News.
National guidelines say all primary care trusts (PCTs) should offer three courses of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), but in reality more than two in three do not.
And even those who can afford to go private are finding the number of egg and sperm donors increasingly scarce.
The decline has been blamed on a change in the law ending donor anonymity and the lack of any payment as an incentive.
FREE SPEECH TV: The Sad State of Marxist “Journalism” (NewsReal Blog)
While the rest of the left wing media has gotten bored with the topic and has long since returned to its favorite subject – namely, the cult-like hero-worship directed toward Barack Obama – Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! still refuses to believe that in a small corner of Central America, an unpopular leader with Marxist tendencies has been soundly rejected and ousted from office. After weeks of airing story after story about Honduras, building up to a symphonic-like crescendo, Goodman treated us last night to an interview with Zelaya himself!
Cuba shuts factories, cuts energy to save economy. (China Daily)
HAVANA: It's hard to find a spare tire in Cuba these days, or a cup of yoghurt.
Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and workers go without their government-subsidized lunches.
Cuba has ordered austere energy savings this summer, and the Council of Ministers and Communist Party Central Committee met this week to consider more cuts to cope with budget deficits and plummeting export profits.
"The only thing I know is that we're screwed," said one 27-year-old who only gave the name Raul because he sells cement and housing materials on the black market. "I don't work. I find a way to survive."
As everyone else’s taxes rise, one favored outfit may not have to pay federal taxes for years: General Motors. In another sweet deal from its benefactors on Pennsylvania Avenue, the government-owned car company is set to profit from billions of dollars in tax breaks not available to other businesses in the same predicament.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends).
///Nobody on the right reads Krugman. He's the anti-Christ.///
Of course they don't. They don't want to read anything that shows their far-right radio gurus are lying. I'm waiting for one of them to point out an error in this.
Media ignores worst of Obama’s freefall (The Collins Report)
The media is glossing over the truth of Obama’s approval freefall. His situation is serious because of which groups are turning away.
July has been a disaster for Obama’s approval numbers.
Gallup says Obama’s numbers fell 4 points overall and 7 points among 18 to 29s. With voters over 65 only 48% approve of Obama. Young and old are realizing they were lied to.
Rasmussen says Obama’s approval index (strongly approve versus strongly disapprove) has fallen to -12 points.
Zogby says Obama’s approval is 48% the lowest he has recorded for him.
Obama has lost 9 points with Latinos; 15 % unemployment is killing hopes for change. Nevertheless, he can snap his fingers and get these fools back. They’re not capable of voting Republican.
Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge (dailyfinance.com)
When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But I'd wager that Sasha, Malia and Barack won't be getting arugula or tomatoes from this garden any time soon.
The likely source of the toxic sludge that has ruined Michelle's garden? The Clinton White House apparently used a sludge-based product to fertilize the lawn during the 1990s!
IPS teacher kept his job despite red flags(.indy.com)
School districts, state agency blamed in molestation case
Indiana child welfare officials and school districts in two states had a responsibility to protect children in Lee N. Tibbetts’ classroom, but a series of miscommunications and missteps among those agencies failed to catch a pattern of problematic behavior over three years.
That breakdown allowed Tibbetts to remain in the classroom despite multiple accusations, including one that eventually led to the math teacher being arrested on charges alleging he molested a student while teaching for Indianapolis Public Schools.
A review by The Indianapolis Star and The Cincinnati Enquirer shows that red flags were raised as early as 2007, two years before police say Tibbetts molested a 13-year-old Indianapolis boy.
New Black Panther Jerry Jackson's MySpace Page (Washington Times)
The Department of Justice recently dropped the conviction of Jerry Jackson member of the “New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” (NBPP)...more
There is no doubt they were intimidating voters when they stood outside, weapon in hand, at a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008 Presidential election. Even worse, they were chosen to be poll watchers by the Democrat Party and the Obama campaign.
Article has link to Jackson's MySpace page. Pretty sickening to think Dept of Justice drop the charges, even more so, after viewing his MySpace page.
I do love McClatchy stock. Heck, I just sold it all for a $10k profit (not bad for a few seconds work). I have another 2k shares coming in for my ESPP at $.45 a share.
Sure you do skippy. Last week you made enough profit to pay for your WSJ subscription and you were proud as punch, so tell us another one.
Why do you have to spend so much time trying to impress people who don't know you from Adam and quite frankly, don't give a damn about you one way or another?
"I'm waiting for one of them to point out an error in this."
Krugman's a socialist, so virtually everything he writes is one big error. However, because of time constraints, I'll limit my response to this one sentence:
"The key thing you need to know about health care is that it depends crucially on insurance."
Unless you're a socialist or a politician, this statement is pure fallacy. http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/07/08/insurance_is_no_answer
Battle Over NUMMI Escalates-UAW aiming to rally support to keep CA plant open (The Detroit Bureau)
The United Auto Workers and its union allies have quietly launched a campaign aimed at pressuring Toyota not to close the NUMMI plant in California now threatened by the break-up of a long-standing joint venture between the Japanese maker and General Motors.
Do UAW hacks ever ask WHY it's the last Car Plant in California?
They can’t strong arm Toyota, and there’s no more blood to squeeze from GM. Plant’s closing.
White House beer summit falls flat (The Australian) THE AUSSSIES GET IT
EVEN Barack Obama had trouble clearly articulating what was achieved by a much-hyped "beer summit" in the Rose Garden of the White House yesterday.
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It was Obama who injected himself into the incident last week by accusing police of "stupidity" for arresting Gates after the academic broke into his own home because he had lost his keys.
It was Obama who escalated public debate to national proportions by linking the incident to a pattern of racial profiling by police.
NY Gov out partying night before announcing massive state deficits...(New York Post)
ALBANY -- What's Gov. Paterson got to celebrate?
Just hours before delivering news of soaring budget deficits and lagging revenues from the recent millionaire's tax, the party-hearty Paterson was spotted hobnobbing at a Chelsea hot spot with "new BFF" Russell Simmons and others from the hip-hop set.
Barack Obama’s aunt at home in Southie digs (Boston Herald)
With her deportation hearing still six months away, the controversial Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston, the Herald has learned.
“Beggars can’t be choosers,” Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango, 57, told the Herald yesterday with a mischievous smile, wearing a string of pearls and a sleeveless forest-green sheath she said her nephew bought her years before he became leader of the free world.
DEMOCRAT Indicted NJ mayor resigns after 3 weeks on job (AP)
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) - Mayor Peter Cammarano III resigned Friday, just three weeks after taking office and a week after vowing to stay in office and fight federal corruption charges against him.
Cammarano, an election-law attorney, is accused of accepting $25,000 in bribes in exchange for help on a purported high-rise building project in the city. He is the second elected official to resign in the wake of the arrests.
Gov. Jon Corzine had praised Cammarano as a rising star in the Democratic Party. But that turned to disgust after Cammarano's arrest and Corzine announced on Thursday that the mayor would resign.
///Unless you're a socialist or a politician, this statement is pure fallacy.///
Sure glad TruthHurts001 is so independently wealthy that he/she can self-insure against any major medical expense he/she may have now or in the future. Most of us aren't that wealthy. Or maybe he/she received a message from his/her god that he/she will never have a major medical need.
First, TruthHurts writes: "Krugman's a socialist, so virtually everything he writes is one big error." Then, apparently thinking he is pointing out an error in Krugman's article, he cites a column on Townhall, whose home page says it is "the Source for Conservative Political News, Cartoons, Issues and Blogs" Well, to use his own argument, I guess that to a liberal, everything Stoessel writes "is one big error." But beyond such silliness, the bottom line is that TruthHurts (and Stoessel) still don't enlighten us on how someone with a severe chronic disease who isn't independently wealthy can find affordable medical insurance using "free market competition." Aren't for-profit insurance companies supposed to maximize profits? And don't they do this by weeding out people likely to need benefits?
Early this morning, www.sacbee.com showed a date of December 1, 2009. I called and emailed them to advise of this. After awhile, they finally changed it. Did today's paper print the incorrect date?
July has been the deadliest month for troops in Afghanistan. Where did the anti-war protesters go? Are they vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard too? Where are the Code Pink kooks? Where are the nightly TV news spots showing the rabid, and phony peace protests, so loved by the corrupt media? Obama has blood on his hands. He vowed to end these conflicts with a cup of tea, and a good speech or two by TOTUS. It seems he is too busy preparing his healthcare “Crap Sandwich” for the little folks. What a phony Barry is! === AP Report ^ | July deadliest month for troops in Afghanistan U.N. report says Afghan civilian deaths up by 24 percent….[snip.] Forty U.S. troops were killed in July, by far the heaviest monthly toll in the 8-year-old war.
"Then, apparently thinking he is pointing out an error in Krugman's article, he cites a column on Townhall, whose home page says it is "the Source for Conservative Political News, Cartoons, Issues and Blogs"
1. As stated, Krugman's article is one big fantasy that ignores basic reality. Quoting Stossel: "Health care "reformers" keep talking about getting us more health insurance. Then they talk about cutting costs. This is contradictory nonsense. Insurance, whether private or a government Ponzi scheme like Medicare, means third parties pay the bills. When someone else pays, costs always go up."
2. Yes/No...if Townhall posts something that is factually correct, would you disagree with it anyway, just because Townhall is "conservative"?
3. If you disagree with Stossel, then so be it, you're entitled. Freedom is a wonderful thing.
4. Government involvement is the primary reason for uncontrollable health care costs. If the government would get 99% OUT of the health care business...AND...if health insurance was used only for catastrophic circumstances, but NOT for office visits...(the same way auto insurance works)...then it would become affordable. Free market economics at its finest.
Again quoting Stossel: This shouldn't be a surprise. What holds costs down is patients acting like consumers, looking out for themselves in a competitive market. Providers fight to win business by keeping costs down and quality up.
3:13, the goal should be to make sure that everyone is insured, and that the costs and risks are shared among all of us, because nobody knows when any individual will need the benefits. You are entitled to disagree with this goal, but you haven't pointed out any error in Krugman's piece, other than you think the goal should be to cut costs. Fine -- but that still doesn't answer the question of how people with chronic diseases are going to get a for-profit company to insure them affordably.
The Democrats are fearful of their constituents disapproval of the ‘ObamaScare’ healthcare plan. It’s too bad for liberals that the socialist healthcare plan didn’t get rammed down our throats before any questions were asked. This might just be a peek at a town hall meeting. Question: How many illegal aliens will receive free healthcare? Skank politician says, a few million. Questioner asks if he could be waiting for healthcare in lines behind these illegal aliens? Skank says, that could happen, everyone will be equal. Questioner asks if it is fair that a working American is in line, waiting for a doctor, behind an illegal alien? Skank says, life isn’t always fair! Questioner asks, if you don’t know how many million illegal aliens will receive free health care, how can you predict what the costs will be? Skank says, we are expecting a few million.
How many is a few million? The Democrats don’t even want us to worry our little heads about such things!
I'm thinking Sweetie is more a Prius-driving, La Raza-supporting, wimp-wristed 30-something. He's not married and is a vegetarian into holistic medicine and medicinal marijuana. He cherishes his vintage Jimmy Carter poster and orgasms at the sound of Keith Olbermann and Bill Mahar's voices. Sweetie, is that yooooou....
Sounds as if you are. Looking for someone you know? I'd say it is more than likey consider over 90% of all prison inmates support democrats. Amazing statistic. Very telling.
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With all the media attention on Global Warming gone crazy, the KC Star reported today about the cooler than normal July. The 2nd coolest on record since 1891.
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1356306.html
Can the newspapers realize that some of the liberal ideas such as Global Warming are not as real as they hyped?
Now if only they will really report about the sorry state of MNI, Obamacare, quadrupling of the deficit, loss of jobs and other news that will have an effect on people. (killing of the newspapers it owns on the MNI aspect)
Sorry, had a wishful moment that they were going to get back to reporting news as it is with out the spin.
Just curious, but have all of you right wing idiots written into your will to not have your obit put into the newspaper?
I can find nothing funnier when you die for someone to add insult to injury and post about your life in something that you so vehemently hate.
Ken? Is that you? Why are you up so early? You do a little too much blow and can’t sleep?
Or did you almost OD last night, and that’s why you have death on the brain this early on this fine morning?
Noogies for Ken
I'll take one!
Does her narcissism remind you of someone?
Sorority president sued over wax statue of herself AP
CHICAGO — Members of the country's oldest black sorority are suing to remove their president, alleging that she spent hundreds ($911,000)of thousands of dollars of the group's money on herself — some of it to pay for a wax statue in her own likeness.
In the suit filed in Washington, D.C., the Alpha Kappa Alpha members also alleged that international President Barbara McKinzie bought designer clothing, jewelry and lingerie with the sorority credit card. She then redeemed points the purchases earned on the card to buy a big-screen television and gym equipment, the lawsuit said.
Dear leader and McClcacthy hearts Ortega like Commies
Venezuela: 'Freedom of expression must be limited' AP--Drudge
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's top prosecutor insisted Thursday that freedom of expression in Venezuela "must be limited" and proposed legislation that would slap additional restrictions on the country's news media.
The new law would punish the owners of radio stations, television channels and newspapers that have attempted to "cause panic" and "disturb social peace," Attorney General Luisa Ortega said.
It also would punish media owners who "manipulate the news with the purpose of transmitting a false perception of the facts."
"Freedom of expression must be limited," Ortega said.
The Politics of Reverse Racism in America Pravda EVEN PRAVDA GETS IT
The incident concerning the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. in July 16 of 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts has a hidden (inconvenient) truth unsaid in contemporary American society.
It has to do with the rising tide of reverse racism (by minorities, or blacks in this case) after decades of hard work by those in the Civil Rights Movement, and the phenomenon of reverse-racism in this case also involves black nepotism.
Shortly after the incident, President Barack Obama, who regards himself as a black and a friend of Gates, called the arrest "stupid," even though he acknowledged of not knowing all the facts about the incident (and later had to call the arresting white police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, in order to to quell the public uproar against his biased remark).
Reverse racism...or simply stated, racism, as practiced by the Obamantion himself.
"I may be a little biased here, and I don't know all the facts, but the Cambridge Police clearly acted stupidly."
Obama let his bias and underlying feelings be exposed with that statement.
In truth, underneath the sheen, and the thin venier...behind the TOTUS, Obama is just like Gates, Wright, Ayers, etc.
Tactical Retreat, Not Waterloo, On ObamaCare "IBD Editorials"
Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead.
If you believed the first idiocy — and half the mainstream media did — you'll believe the second. Don't believe either.
Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong.
Yes, Obama's aura has diminished, in part because of overweening overexposure. But by year's end he will emerge with something he can call health care reform.
The Democrats in Congress will pass it because they must. Otherwise, they'll have slain their own savior in his first year in office.
But that bill will look nothing like the massive reform Obama originally intended. The beginning of the retreat was signaled by Obama's curious reference — made five times — to "health-insurance reform" in his July 22 news conference.
Reforming the health care system is dead. Cause of death? Blunt trauma administered not by Republicans, not even by Blue Dog Democrats, but by the green eyeshades at the Congressional Budget Office.
Obozo has 'Reverse Racism' covered either way, being a half & halfer has its benefits.
BUT BIASED MEDIA KOOK ANDREA MITCHELL KNOWS?
'They May Not Know What's Good For Them' Mark (Morning Joe)
The poor, benighted little people. They just don't understand what a wonderful hopey-changey world Pres. Obama is offering them . . .
Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them."
Mitchell made her condescending comment on today's Morning Joe.
Well, the two lonely, bitter old haters who show each day that they have nothing to do, are at it early again today, trying desperately to fill their empty lives and find someone or some group to blame for their perceived failures in life.
Government Suspends 'Clunkers' Program (This also happen with DeathCare)
NYC Car Dealers: How Could Obama Administration Mess This Up?
"Cash for Clunkers" came to a screeching halt Thursday, after only six days on the road.
In a shocker, the government announced it would suspend the program at midnight because demand was too great.
It may have been the best $1 billion the government has spent so far this year.
NOW I KNOW WHY OUR TROLL OS SO UPSET TODAY!
Transgender student turned away from prom
Jeremy (Sweetie) was refused entry to his high school prom when he arrived in a gown and makeup instead of a tuxedo.
KUAM, Guam’s news network, reports that officials at George Washington High School in Guam refunded the money Jeremy spent for a prom ticket, but are unsympathetic about the $400 he spent on clothing and other items, and will not issue him the apology that he wants for being unable to attend the prom.
Jeremy claims that he was discriminated against when he was denied entry.
Fitz has a good explanation of short selling and the newspaper stock run in progress.
===
@ E & P
By Mark Fitzgerald
Thank Short Sellers for the Rally in Newspaper Stocks?
Newspaper stocks have soared over the past two weeks. [Short sellers, the folks who bet against newspapers,] deserve at least a tip of the hat when you look at the numbers.
[snip]
Short sellers, those investors who profit when a stock price declines, could be called the unsung heroes of this rally.
Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, hoping the share price goes down so that when they buy shares to return them they can pocket the difference. But if the share price increases, "shorts" must quickly buy shares before they take big losses. Their efforts can run prices up rapidly.
It's called "short-covering," and it's the first explanation that occurred to Morningstar equity analyst Tom Corbett when newspaper stocks started soaring on July 15. That's the day Gannett reported a second-quarter profit that surprised analysts expecting a loss.
"I would attribute a good portion of the recent rally to what they call a 'short squeeze,'" he said Wednesday.
I defy anyone to find any error in this.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/07/31/opinion/31krugman.html
Good comment this:
“Obama has painted himself into Jimmy Carter's corner.”
'Clunkers' Program Is Running Out of Cash...
Car dealer: 'If they can't administer a program like this, I'd be a little concerned about my health insurance'...
@ The Drudge Report:
Well, the two lonely, bitter old haters who show each day that they have nothing to do, are at it early again today, trying desperately to fill their empty lives and find someone or some group to blame for their perceived failures in life.
Glad you could make it, but where's the other one?
"I would attribute a good portion of the recent rally to what they call a 'short squeeze,'" he said Wednesday.
Don't tell this to the guy that loves McClatchy and thinks he knows all about the stock market. He'll go nuts.
I defy anyone to find any error in this (nytimes.com/opinion/krugman)
First, it’s a NY Times link (all propaganda all the time), on par with HuffPo or Kos.
Next, Krugman is their Ultra lib left wing hack, who got a nobel for economics, but writes left wing drivel opinion almost better than our troll.
So the better question is why bother?
Talk about stinking politics! Oboonba could write a book on thuggery, the Black Panthers are some of his best friends, no doubt.
===
Hack Panthers
Washington Times, by Staff
The Justice Department's decision to drop an already-won voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party merits multiple, independent investigations. On Tuesday, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, officially asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to refile the case. Mr. Holder should comply. So far, the Justice Department has stonewalled legitimate inquiry. It has yet to provide records sought by this newspaper.
Read Krugman? Why would any thinking person bother with a hopeless dolt like him? The NYT has less credibility than a tabloid.
///Read Krugman? Why would any thinking person bother with a hopeless dolt like him? The NYT has less credibility than a tabloid.///
OK -- so where's the error in this piece?
...Next, Krugman is their Ultra lib left wing hack, who got a nobel for economics, but writes left wing drivel opinion almost better than our troll. ...
Did you find an error in this article? If so, what is it?
Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango is still laughing, all the way to the welfare office. She knows where the Bam was born!
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-Barack Obama’s aunt at
home in Southie digs-
Boston Herald
by Laurel J. Sweet
With her deportation hearing still six months away, the controversial Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston, the Herald has learned. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango, 57, told the Herald yesterday with a mischievous smile, wearing a string of pearls and a sleeveless forest-green sheath she said her nephew bought her years before he became leader of the free world.
This headline "Clunkers Program Running Out Of Cash" could just as well describe Obama and the state of our country.
Nobody on the right reads Krugman. He's the anti-Christ.
Hey, O'Reilly on Fox News now has more viewers that Katie Couric on network CBS! Obama has been good for one thing - galvanizing the conservative movement.
I do love McClatchy stock. Heck, I just sold it all for a $10k profit (not bad for a few seconds work). I have another 2k shares coming in for my ESPP at $.45 a share.
I am hoping that all of you haters/shorts out there will drop the price back down to the $.50 range and I will buy again, just to ride it back up when the quarterlies come out.
Oh...and as I said if it AVERAGES $1.70 for the next 7 days, that solves any delisting problems and starts the clock over again...where is the price now? $2.15.
COMING SOON WITH DEATHCARE
UK Couples 'Forced To Go Abroad For IVF' (Sky News)
"Increasing numbers of childless British couples are being forced to have fertility treatment abroad because of patchy NHS provision and plummeting donor rates, campaigners have told Sky News.
National guidelines say all primary care trusts (PCTs) should offer three courses of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), but in reality more than two in three do not.
And even those who can afford to go private are finding the number of egg and sperm donors increasingly scarce.
The decline has been blamed on a change in the law ending donor anonymity and the lack of any payment as an incentive.
FREE SPEECH TV: The Sad State of Marxist “Journalism” (NewsReal Blog)
While the rest of the left wing media has gotten bored with the topic and has long since returned to its favorite subject – namely, the cult-like hero-worship directed toward Barack Obama – Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! still refuses to believe that in a small corner of Central America, an unpopular leader with Marxist tendencies has been soundly rejected and ousted from office. After weeks of airing story after story about Honduras, building up to a symphonic-like crescendo, Goodman treated us last night to an interview with Zelaya himself!
BUT CUBA HAS THE WORLD'S BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Cuba shuts factories, cuts energy to save economy. (China Daily)
HAVANA: It's hard to find a spare tire in Cuba these days, or a cup of yoghurt.
Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and workers go without their government-subsidized lunches.
Cuba has ordered austere energy savings this summer, and the Council of Ministers and Communist Party Central Committee met this week to consider more cuts to cope with budget deficits and plummeting export profits.
"The only thing I know is that we're screwed," said one 27-year-old who only gave the name Raul because he sells cement and housing materials on the black market. "I don't work. I find a way to survive."
GM’s Tax Shelter (wsj)GUBMINT MOTORS
As everyone else’s taxes rise, one favored outfit may not have to pay federal taxes for years: General Motors. In another sweet deal from its benefactors on Pennsylvania Avenue, the government-owned car company is set to profit from billions of dollars in tax breaks not available to other businesses in the same predicament.
"Just curious, but have all of you right wing idiots written into your will to not have your obit put into the newspaper?"
You really have a LOT of spare time on your hands, don't you?
"I can find nothing funnier when you die for someone to add insult to injury and post about your life in something that you so vehemently hate."
Nothing funnier??
In other words, this is the absolute funniest thing you can possibly think of.
How pathetic.
LIKE McCLCACTHY STOCK, THE TREND IS YOUR FRIEND
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
(7/31: -11)
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends).
///Nobody on the right reads Krugman. He's the anti-Christ.///
Of course they don't. They don't want to read anything that shows their far-right radio gurus are lying. I'm waiting for one of them to point out an error in this.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/07/31/opinion/31krugman.html
Media ignores worst of Obama’s freefall (The Collins Report)
The media is glossing over the truth of Obama’s approval freefall. His situation is serious because of which groups are turning away.
July has been a disaster for Obama’s approval numbers.
Gallup says Obama’s numbers fell 4 points overall and 7 points among 18 to 29s. With voters over 65 only 48% approve of Obama. Young and old are realizing they were lied to.
Rasmussen says Obama’s approval index (strongly approve versus strongly disapprove) has fallen to -12 points.
Zogby says Obama’s approval is 48% the lowest he has recorded for him.
Obama has lost 9 points with Latinos; 15 % unemployment is killing hopes for change. Nevertheless, he can snap his fingers and get these fools back. They’re not capable of voting Republican.
"I can find nothing funnier when you die for someone to add insult to injury and post about your life in something that you so vehemently hate."
Nothing funnier??
In other words, this is the absolute funniest thing you can possibly think of.
How pathetic.
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A little slow huh...it says "...nothing funnier WHEN YOU DIE..."e
Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
(dailyfinance.com)
When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But I'd wager that Sasha, Malia and Barack won't be getting arugula or tomatoes from this garden any time soon.
The likely source of the toxic sludge that has ruined Michelle's garden? The Clinton White House apparently used a sludge-based product to fertilize the lawn during the 1990s!
Ken/Sweetie, So krugman is the only arrow in your "quiver?"
That is, and this post?
Just curious, but have all of you right wing idiots written into your will to not have your obit put into the newspaper?
I can find nothing funnier when you die for someone to add insult to injury and post about your life in something that you so vehemently hate.
IPS teacher kept his job despite red flags(.indy.com)
School districts, state agency blamed in molestation case
Indiana child welfare officials and school districts in two states had a responsibility to protect children in Lee N. Tibbetts’ classroom, but a series of miscommunications and missteps among those agencies failed to catch a pattern of problematic behavior over three years.
That breakdown allowed Tibbetts to remain in the classroom despite multiple accusations, including one that eventually led to the math teacher being arrested on charges alleging he molested a student while teaching for Indianapolis Public Schools.
A review by The Indianapolis Star and The Cincinnati Enquirer shows that red flags were raised as early as 2007, two years before police say Tibbetts molested a 13-year-old Indianapolis boy.
8:47, did you find an error in the Krugman piece? What is it?
New Black Panther Jerry Jackson's MySpace Page (Washington Times)
The Department of Justice recently dropped the conviction of Jerry Jackson member of the “New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” (NBPP)...more
There is no doubt they were intimidating voters when they stood outside, weapon in hand, at a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008 Presidential election. Even worse, they were chosen to be poll watchers by the Democrat Party and the Obama campaign.
Article has link to Jackson's MySpace page. Pretty sickening to think Dept of Justice drop the charges, even more so, after viewing his MySpace page.
I do love McClatchy stock. Heck, I just sold it all for a $10k profit (not bad for a few seconds work). I have another 2k shares coming in for my ESPP at $.45 a share.
Sure you do skippy. Last week you made enough profit to pay for your WSJ subscription and you were proud as punch, so tell us another one.
Why do you have to spend so much time trying to impress people who don't know you from Adam and quite frankly, don't give a damn about you one way or another?
You need some help. The professional kind.
"I'm waiting for one of them to point out an error in this."
Krugman's a socialist, so virtually everything he writes is one big error. However, because of time constraints, I'll limit my response to this one sentence:
"The key thing you need to know about health care is that it depends crucially on insurance."
Unless you're a socialist or a politician, this statement is pure fallacy.
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/07/08/insurance_is_no_answer
"it says...nothing funnier WHEN YOU DIE..."
Nothing funnier when you die??
In other words, this is the absolute funniest thing you can possibly think of when you die.
How pathetic.
Battle Over NUMMI Escalates-UAW aiming to rally support to keep CA plant open (The Detroit Bureau)
The United Auto Workers and its union allies have quietly launched a campaign aimed at pressuring Toyota not to close the NUMMI plant in California now threatened by the break-up of a long-standing joint venture between the Japanese maker and General Motors.
Do UAW hacks ever ask WHY it's the last Car Plant in California?
They can’t strong arm Toyota, and there’s no more blood to squeeze from GM. Plant’s closing.
White House beer summit falls flat
(The Australian) THE AUSSSIES GET IT
EVEN Barack Obama had trouble clearly articulating what was achieved by a much-hyped "beer summit" in the Rose Garden of the White House yesterday.
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It was Obama who injected himself into the incident last week by accusing police of "stupidity" for arresting Gates after the academic broke into his own home because he had lost his keys.
It was Obama who escalated public debate to national proportions by linking the incident to a pattern of racial profiling by police.
JUST LIKE DEAR LEADERS DATE NIGHT!
NY Gov out partying night before announcing massive state deficits...(New York Post)
ALBANY -- What's Gov. Paterson got to celebrate?
Just hours before delivering news of soaring budget deficits and lagging revenues from the recent millionaire's tax, the party-hearty Paterson was spotted hobnobbing at a Chelsea hot spot with "new BFF" Russell Simmons and others from the hip-hop set.
Barack Obama’s aunt at home in Southie digs (Boston Herald)
With her deportation hearing still six months away, the controversial Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston, the Herald has learned.
“Beggars can’t be choosers,” Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango, 57, told the Herald yesterday with a mischievous smile, wearing a string of pearls and a sleeveless forest-green sheath she said her nephew bought her years before he became leader of the free world.
DEMOCRAT Indicted NJ mayor resigns after 3 weeks on job (AP)
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) - Mayor Peter Cammarano III resigned Friday, just three weeks after taking office and a week after vowing to stay in office and fight federal corruption charges against him.
Cammarano, an election-law attorney, is accused of accepting $25,000 in bribes in exchange for help on a purported high-rise building project in the city. He is the second elected official to resign in the wake of the arrests.
Gov. Jon Corzine had praised Cammarano as a rising star in the Democratic Party. But that turned to disgust after Cammarano's arrest and Corzine announced on Thursday that the mayor would resign.
///Unless you're a socialist or a politician, this statement is pure fallacy.///
Sure glad TruthHurts001 is so independently wealthy that he/she can self-insure against any major medical expense he/she may have now or in the future. Most of us aren't that wealthy. Or maybe he/she received a message from his/her god that he/she will never have a major medical need.
"Sure glad TruthHurts001 is so independently wealthy"
Either you didn't bother reading the article I cited...
Or you simply don't get it.
Our troll, Sweetie, Ken, or whatever he's calling himself at the moment, is way over his head on this blog.
Someone kindly referred to him as a pock marked adolescent, and I'm starting to agree with that wonderful assessment.
First, TruthHurts writes: "Krugman's a socialist, so virtually everything he writes is one big error."
Then, apparently thinking he is pointing out an error in Krugman's article, he cites a column on Townhall, whose home page says it is "the Source for Conservative Political News, Cartoons, Issues and Blogs"
Well, to use his own argument, I guess that to a liberal, everything Stoessel writes "is one big error."
But beyond such silliness, the bottom line is that TruthHurts (and Stoessel) still don't enlighten us on how someone with a severe chronic disease who isn't independently wealthy can find affordable medical insurance using "free market competition." Aren't for-profit insurance companies supposed to maximize profits? And don't they do this by weeding out people likely to need benefits?
Early this morning, www.sacbee.com showed a date of December 1, 2009. I called and emailed them to advise of this. After awhile, they finally changed it. Did today's paper print the incorrect date?
July has been the deadliest month for troops in Afghanistan. Where did the anti-war protesters go? Are they vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard too? Where are the Code Pink kooks? Where are the nightly TV news spots showing the rabid, and phony peace protests, so loved by the corrupt media? Obama has blood on his hands. He vowed to end these conflicts with a cup of tea, and a good speech or two by TOTUS. It seems he is too busy preparing his healthcare “Crap Sandwich” for the little folks. What a phony Barry is!
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AP Report ^ |
July deadliest month for troops in Afghanistan U.N. report says Afghan civilian deaths up by 24 percent….[snip.] Forty U.S. troops were killed in July, by far the heaviest monthly toll in the 8-year-old war.
"Then, apparently thinking he is pointing out an error in Krugman's article, he cites a column on Townhall, whose home page says it is "the Source for Conservative Political News, Cartoons, Issues and Blogs"
1. As stated, Krugman's article is one big fantasy that ignores basic reality.
Quoting Stossel:
"Health care "reformers" keep talking about getting us more health insurance. Then they talk about cutting costs. This is contradictory nonsense.
Insurance, whether private or a government Ponzi scheme like Medicare, means third parties pay the bills. When someone else pays, costs always go up."
2. Yes/No...if Townhall posts something that is factually correct, would you disagree with it anyway, just because Townhall is "conservative"?
3. If you disagree with Stossel, then so be it, you're entitled. Freedom is a wonderful thing.
4. Government involvement is the primary reason for uncontrollable health care costs. If the government would get 99% OUT of the health care business...AND...if health insurance was used only for catastrophic circumstances, but NOT for office visits...(the same way auto insurance works)...then it would become affordable.
Free market economics at its finest.
Again quoting Stossel:
This shouldn't be a surprise. What holds costs down is patients acting like consumers, looking out for themselves in a competitive market. Providers fight to win business by keeping costs down and quality up.
///Sweetheart/// Imploring others to read articles by Krugman, is like asking Albert Einstein to read Mad Magazine.
You vex me today.
Anon 3:18 and TruthHurts001
Bravo and Thank you! Maybe now Sweetie can stand down for the day
3:13, the goal should be to make sure that everyone is insured, and that the costs and risks are shared among all of us, because nobody knows when any individual will need the benefits. You are entitled to disagree with this goal, but you haven't pointed out any error in Krugman's piece, other than you think the goal should be to cut costs. Fine -- but that still doesn't answer the question of how people with chronic diseases are going to get a for-profit company to insure them affordably.
///2. Yes/No...if Townhall posts something that is factually correct, would you disagree with it anyway, just because Townhall is "conservative"?///
No, I wouldn't. If Krugman wrote something that is factually correct, would you disagree with it anyway, just because Krugman is a "socialist"?
Speaking of Mad Magazine,
Alfred E. Neuman has a good quip for Obama,
"Smoking helps you lose weight -- one lung at a time!"
The Democrats are fearful of their constituents disapproval of the ‘ObamaScare’ healthcare plan. It’s too bad for liberals that the socialist healthcare plan didn’t get rammed down our throats before any questions were asked. This might just be a peek at a town hall meeting.
Question: How many illegal aliens will receive free healthcare? Skank politician says, a few million. Questioner asks if he could be waiting for healthcare in lines behind these illegal aliens? Skank says, that could happen, everyone will be equal. Questioner asks if it is fair that a working American is in line, waiting for a doctor, behind an illegal alien? Skank says, life isn’t always fair! Questioner asks, if you don’t know how many million illegal aliens will receive free health care, how can you predict what the costs will be? Skank says, we are expecting a few million.
How many is a few million? The Democrats don’t even want us to worry our little heads about such things!
I'm thinking Sweetie is more a Prius-driving, La Raza-supporting, wimp-wristed 30-something. He's not married and is a vegetarian into holistic medicine and medicinal marijuana. He cherishes his vintage Jimmy Carter poster and orgasms at the sound of Keith Olbermann and Bill Mahar's voices. Sweetie, is that yooooou....
You know all of these "sweetie" comments by someone reminds me of movies where I see inmates hitting on other inmates.
Were you in prison? Just asking...please do not get mad if you are batting for the other team.
Makes no difference what Obama's approval ratings are. Once the Republicans nominate Palin he'll win with 60% of the vote.
Were you in prison?
Sounds as if you are. Looking for someone you know? I'd say it is more than likey consider over 90% of all prison inmates support democrats. Amazing statistic. Very telling.
LOL word verification: inacomie
///90% of all prison inmates support democrats.//
How about citing a source for this amazing statistic?
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