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Print it BABY!

Posted by Corthell on Monday, May 11, 2009 10:43:35 AM
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Rewarding crooks and incompetents

Posted by Corthell on Monday, May 11, 2009 8:43:43 AM

The Republican Party wants to 'reinvent' itself. What hogwash and it's all for public consumption to fool voters into reelecting incumbents or ousting a few Democrats.

Americans have been committing national suicide for decades. They vote the same incumbents back into office over one issue: More money for education! Save social security! Save Medicare! which is now $30 TRILLION in the hole. Protect abortion! Save sodomy! Save the whales! The list goes on and on.

I've seen the insanity repeat itself over and over and over.

People will "forgive" their House member or Senator because "the other side" is worse. They still can't see the truth because of blind loyalty to their party.

This emailer complained that GOP Chairman Michael Steele won't back a candidate like Lt. Col. Allen West. Lt. Col. West is a patriotic American and I thank him for his service. However, he offers up band aids for most of the issues. Not Devvy's solutions, but constitutional solutions. We don't need more band aids that treat the symptoms while the patient is dying on the operating table.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd443.htm

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Obama drops our collective pants

Posted by Corthell on Monday, May 11, 2009 6:25:38 AM

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday continued his verbal attack against President Obama, saying that the country is more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack since the Obama administration took power.

Mr. Cheney said that administration's dismantling of many of the policies and protections instituted by President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — including the planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and halting controversial prisoner interrogation techniques — have made the country more vulnerable to future attacks.

"That's my belief," Mr. Cheney said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "I think to the extent that those [Bush-era] policies were responsible for saving lives, that the administration is now trying to cancel those policies … means in the future we're not going to have the same safeguards we've had for the last eight years."

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/10/cheney-says-obama-endangers-nation/

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Obama cutting off Israel

Posted by Corthell on Monday, May 11, 2009 6:21:25 AM
 


Barack Hussein

JERUSALEM – Unlike the Bush administration, the staff of President Obama is not coordinating its policy on Iran or the greater Middle East with Israel and has not been informing the Jewish state of its plans or recent diplomatic developments in area, according to sources in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

The silence extends to U.S. talks with the Palestinians, the sources said.

"Our intention and our hope as we go to Washington is to establish close intimate cooperative relationships on these sensitive matters," a top Netanyahu official told WND yesterday.

The official was speaking about Netanyahu's May 18th visit to the White House.

According to other sources in the prime minister's office, Israel has been obtaining the vast majority of its information regarding U.S. plans and advances for the Middle East from third parties, mostly European diplomats.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97693 

Fate of Mideast in Obama's hands?
King Abdullah says Netanyahu meeting with president is key to future
--London Times

Obama more popular than U.S. among Arabs
48% like president, but only 33% have good view of America
--Reuters
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Obama/Soetoro and this Congress will continue to loot this country dry

Posted by Corthell on Monday, May 11, 2009 6:14:59 AM

Rewarding crooks and incompetents 
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” --Mark Twain
Obama/Soetoro and this Congress will continue to loot this country dry. That is the agenda and it's in hyper-drive. Even if Obama is removed and he must be, you can't put Biden in the Oval Office. He is in the first stages of dementia or Alzheimer's. I know, I have elderly family members who suffer from it and I know the signs. That leaves the fanatically insane Comrade Nancy Pelosi. All options are toxic for this constitutional republic, but we have to move forward because the Constitution matters.
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'Half-Gun will travel'

Posted by Corthell on Monday, May 11, 2009 6:13:46 AM

Wisdom of the Gun Shy
OK, if right-wingers are to be denied guns because they might be "potential" terrorists and kill someone, then in the spirit of fairness (and, fairness is what the Obama régime is all about, right?) then all Muslims cannot have guns because 9/11 was done by people who were Muslims. Suppose we can get United Nations help with that one and make an anti-gun policy for Muslims a worldwide event. And, since women sometimes kill their husbands or boyfriends, then all women (including Janet Napolitano and Nancy Pelosi) can no longer associate with men. This measure is to protect men, of course. It's for their own good. And, because men sometimes kill their wives or girlfriends, then all men (including Obama) are no longer allowed to be within 100 feet of a woman. Just think, domestic violence and unplanned pregnancy – solved forever! Men can only be with men and women can only be with women. Total fairness, right? 
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Pope angers Muslims again

Posted by Corthell on Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:11:47 PM
Jordanian clerics expressed disappointment that Pope Benedict XVI in an address to Muslim leaders on Saturday failed to offer a new apology for remarks seen as targeting Islam.

"We wanted him to clearly apologise," Sheikh Yusef Abu Hussein, mufti of the southern city of Karak, told AFP after the pope's address in Amman's huge Al-Hussein Mosque.

"What the pope said (in 2006) about the Prophet Mohammed is untrue. Islam did not spread through the power of sword. It's a religion of tolerance and faith," Hussein said.
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Susan Boyle: No Thanks Barack

Posted by Corthell on Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:08:20 PM
SORRY, MR PREZ: Susan snubs Obama
SORRY, BARACK: Susan snubs Obama
 

SUSAN Boyle turned down the chance of a dream dinner date with President Barack Obama in Washington . . . to stay at home and wash her hair, we can reveal.  

Britain's Got Talent's Hairy Angel confessed to being TOO NERVOUS to meet the American president - her most famous fan - at a glittering star-studded bash.  

A source told us: "She was shocked and thrilled by the invite - but it was all too much too soon for her so she said No."  

"She has been told President Obama has seen clips of her on TV and loved her singing. And she is delighted.  

"But instead she'll have no doubt stayed in with her cat Pebbles, washed her hair and watched Britain's Got Talent on telly."
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1st Roast beast of Whoville

Posted by Corthell on Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:14:16 AM

Obama noted that he and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had been political rivals, but he assured the audience "these days, we could not be closer."

"In fact the second she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug," the president said, playing off the threat of a spreading swine flu virus that has targeted Mexico the most.

Obama also turned serious and talked of the financially struggling media industry, praising journalists for holding government officials accountable. "A government without newspapers, a government without a tough and vibrant media of all sorts is not an option for the United States of America," he said.

The president wasn't the only one to tell jokes.

Tart-tongued comic Wanda Sykes, the dinner's entertainer, poked fun at Obama giving the Queen of England an iPhone during a recent visit. "What are you going to give the Pope, a Bluetooth," asked Sykes. And she questioned first lady Michelle Obama having patted the queen on the back "like she just slid into home plate -- way to go, queen!"

The $200-per-ticket dinner attracted plenty of VIPs from outside the Beltway.

Among those attending were Eva Longoria Parker, Ashton Kutcher, Christian Slater, Natalie Portman, Sting, Mariska Hargitay, Steven Spielberg and Jon Bon Jovi. Also there was Richard Phillips, who was held hostage by Somali pirates after his cargo ship was attacked.

Proceeds from the dinner will help feed the hungry and fund journalism scholarships. The association will donate more than $23,000 to the charity So Others Might Eat, including money raised by skipping formal dessert for guests.

Those honored at the dinner are several journalists:

-Sandra Sobieraj Westfall of People magazine and David Greene of National Public Radio, the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. Westfall won for her election night reporting. Greene won for digging into candidate Obama's speech that addressed the country's racial divide.

-Michael Abramowitz, formerly of The Washington Post, the Aldo Beckman award for his coverage of the final days of the Bush administration.

-Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of the Seattle Times, the Edgar A. Poe Award for excellence in coverage of news of national or regional significance, for a series exposing the failure of Washington state hospitals and others to handle the rise of the MRSA staph infection.

The White House Correspondents Association was formed in 1914 as a liaison between the press and the president. Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended the dinner.

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Federal Government to Regulate the Internet and Social Networking

Posted by Corthell on Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:07:59 AM

Congress will soon debate a bill that could lead to regulating the Internet in the name of protecting the children. Representative Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and 12 other lawmakers have signed onto a bill being considered by the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee Congress which may seriously threaten the First Amendment rights of every American who uses the Internet, blogs online, uses Twitter, Facebook and other social media........
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news144.htm
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Gov't. Incompetent in Handling Immigration

Posted by Corthell on Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:04:52 AM
Much of what politicians do should be seen as the creation of illusions. (In fact, I sometimes wonder why real illusionists such as David Copperfield don't run for elected office!) In order to attempt to assuage the fears of the citizens of our nation and to minimize concerns about the extreme national security risks that such a massive amnesty program would create tout the fact that each application would undergo a “security check.”......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cutler/michael159.htm
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Freedom is Not a Pendulum

Posted by Corthell on Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:09:23 AM

The periodic swings from one party to the other in control of our government often give rise to the analogy of a pendulum. A pendulum swings from one side to the other, always passing through the equilibrium position at its center. This flawed analogy leads to the illusion that our country's political swings from left to right also pass through a stable center that is fixed and permanent.

History belies that illusion. Throughout the history of civilization, there has never been a government that did not eventually come to an end, either through defeat in war or corrosion from within. The Roman Republic lasted 500 years before it gave way to the Roman Empire, and that too collapsed after a few hundred more years. Ancient history? Yes, indeed. But the rate of social, political, industrial, technological, and cultural changes on the global scale have accelerated, not decelerated, from ancient to modern times. Change happens much more rapidly than it used to.

We think of our government, and our nation, as permanent and impervious to destruction from without or within. That is a comfortable, but naive and historically insupportable, perspective. This country has only existed for a couple of hundred years. It will not exist forever. It too, like all other governments and nations, will someday decline or be overthrown by an enemy. Most of us cannot conceive of the demise of our country and the way of life we've taken for granted from birth, so we don't believe such a thing could happen, -- at least not in our lifetimes. But nobody ever realizes they're living in a historically significant period until it reaches the tipping point and cataclysmic change is suddenly thrust upon them.
 
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Mothers can inspire miracles

Posted by Corthell on Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:25:01 PM

Can't let this Mother's Day slip past without some remembrances. And a tribute.

Poets and philosophers and songwriters have long since decided there is no sweeter word in any language than "Mother." Well, maybe "Mama," my personal favorite. Even "Lord" or "God" may rank second, probably because, at least to those who don't know Him intimately, there are austere and ominous connotations in the name of the Creator who will eventually judge all mankind.

But most of us have few negative or fearful feelings about our mothers; we seem most to remember the loving, nurturing, encouraging, forgiving and self-sacrificing attributes of our moms. While Dad may have been demanding, exacting, short-tempered or distant at times, Mom was always understanding, supportive and easy to wheedle out of something extra. She expected the best of us, and sometimes actually seemed to get it.

I've always gotten such a kick out of the account of Jesus' first miracle at Cana in Galilee, the changing of water to wine at the wedding feast. The young apostle John, who was an eyewitness, describes the event in his Gospel, chapter 2.

There was no TV in those days, no movies or other entertainment of the type we're used to – so a big wedding, with food and wine plentiful, was a major thing. So, while the evening was far from over, running out of wine was a catastrophe. Jesus, the disciples he'd begun gathering and his mother had come to the wedding from Nazareth, probably because the hosts were close friends, and Mary was understandably concerned for those friends who were about to be terribly embarrassed.

She hurried to her son, took him aside and confided: "They have no more wine, son …"

"Dear woman, why are you telling me this?" Jesus answered. "My time has not yet come." We can only guess what Mary had already seen of Jesus' power or ability, but it's clear that she felt he could do something about the wine shortage, and it wasn't making a quick trip to a nearby 7 Eleven. At least he had "connections," a relationship with his real Father, and she hoped he could somehow save the day.

So Mama Mary said to the nearby servants, "Do whatever my boy tells you." And she walked away.
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THE FATS OF LIFE: Obesity 'caused by diet, not lack of exercise'

Posted by Corthell on Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:13:51 PM

Over-eating rather than more sedentary living is almost entirely to blame for the rise in obesity in the developed world, according to research.

A study of the US obesity “epidemic” — a precursor of world dietary trends — suggests that there has not been any significant reduction in levels of exercise in the past 30 years. It concludes that the surge in obesity is a result of excessive calories.

Researchers at the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, said that the findings would be reflected in other industrialised countries such as Britain.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6250968.ece
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Porn, cookies among U.K. lawmakers’ expenses

Posted by Corthell on Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:11:21 PM
Porn movies. Horse manure. A chocolate Santa Claus. Expense claims by British lawmakers to pay for an array of items were exposed by a newspaper Friday, stoking public anger over lawmaker excess amid the global recession.
Britain's Daily Telegraph published details of claims related to 13 ministers and offered examples of hundreds of other bills submitted by lawmakers to parliamentary authorities.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30641775/
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