Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is demanding $150,000 for "permanent injuries" he suffered from biting an olive pit in a sandwich wrap he bought at a House of Representatives cafeteria.
He is suing Restaurant Associates, which operates the cafeteria in the Longworth Office Building, its parent company, Compass Group USA, and food suppliers Performance Food Group Co. and Foodbuy LLC.
The congressman says the cafeteria asserted that the sandwich had pitted olives, but after biting the pit he "sustained serious and permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgical and dental procedures, and has sustained other damages as well, including significant pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment."
Kucinich says he was injured by the sandwich on April 17, 2008.
Imagine the media frenzy that would be unleashed if Sarah Palin did this. SNL would probably devote their whole next episode year to chipped-tooth Sarah-the-ambulance-chaser skits. Chris "Tingles" Matthews' head would explode on the air.
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This happened back in 2008, and he's only getting around to suing them NOW?
I mean, I know he was busy with his enormously successful campaign for Preznit back then, not to mention a couple very close re-election fights in quite possibly the dumbest Congressional district in Ohio, but he still waits nearly 3 years to file this?
Well, you know who was in the Wuite House then. So you know whose fault this is.
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WHITE House. PIMF.
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Rep. Kucinich is shopping for a new district; his current voters are going to be redistricted as a result of the recent census. He doesn't seem to be having much luck thus far.
[Iran Press TV] US President Barack B.O. Obama has announced plans to eliminate billions of dollars of oil subsidies to invest in a project to produce clean energy.
"I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own," Obama said in his State of the Union address, on Tuesday.
The president challenged the country to decrease its dependence on fossil fuels, stating that the US aims at producing 80 percent of its needed electricity from "clean energy sources" by 2035, AFP reported.
Obama's remarks come as the US is struggling with a budget deficit which exceeds 11 percent of gross domestic product, according to the International Monetary Fund. The total deficit for fiscal year 2010 was nearly USD 1.5 trillion, according to the Government Spending.
The national debt has grown from USD 8.6 trillion four years ago to more than USD 14 trillion now.
"We're telling America's scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we'll fund the Apollo Projects of our time," the US president said.
"Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all, and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen," he added.
Obama also pledged government support on conducting the necessary research projects in achieving breakthroughs in green energy.
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US aims at producing 80 percent of its needed electricity from "clean energy sources" by 2035 -- not a Chinaman's chance of doing that, unless the 'need' for electricity is cut by about 80%.
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Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all...
Liar. You have your EPA nazis fining Texas natural gas drillers every chance you can. The day you allow Nuclear plant construction will be the day hell freezes, over, and don't let me get started on what you think about coal plants. Two faced.
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The party that cancelled the Integral Fast Reactor (or whatever it was called in the 90's) and cancelled Yucca Mountain this time round is going to lead the Great Nuclear Rennaisance. Yeah. right.
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80% of our energy from 'clean' sources by 2035, eh? I am not enough of a civil engineer to do the back of the envelope calculation, but my SWAG is if we started now, using a known technology like coal-fired power plants, we would hard pressed to replace 80% of our generating capacity with new plants in 25 years.
Anyone who actually has a clue care to venture a guess? Leaving aside legal niceties like environmental impact reviews and NIMBY lawsuits, could we replace 80% of our present generating capacity in 25 years?
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I have a tough time listing any of my peers who would know what you mean by The Apollo Project, nevermind younger.
Iranian Revolution II, Sputnik II, Apollo II (no Mercury II? oh yes bad name might remind people about thier gov mandated lights), Palin Plan II (across the board energy).
Personally, Gemini II would be a more appropriate name as it would be the stage between initial work and conclusion.
Penguin, donworryaboutit, it is possible that this initiative will provide grants and/or bailouts to those students involved in green activities and/or promote the cause.
Four states are vowing to fight the federal government in a bid to preserve state measures that guarantee workers the right to secret ballots in union elections.
Attorneys general from Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah are pledging in a joint letter to "vigorously defend" changes to their state constitutions approved by voters on Nov. 2.
The National Labor Relations Board has threatened to sue the states, saying the constitutional amendments conflict with current federal law.
Business groups sought the constitutional amendments because they fear Congress could pass a new law requiring every employer to recognize a union if a majority of workers simply sign cards.
The attorneys general call the legal threat misguided. They say the federal agency should respect the will of voters in their states. Dem guys are gittin' to uppity for da'r own good. Send 'em Moe to talk some sense into 'em.
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secret ballots are an American tradition. The union thugs pushing this and the pols they've bought should be shamed into explaining that position while decrying the requirement to show valid ID to vote
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WASHINGTON -- Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates.
The massive retirement program has been suffering from the effects of the struggling economy for several years. It first went into deficit last year but had been projected to post surpluses for a few more years before permanently slipping into the red in 2016. With the revised update of a permanent deficit, expect the fund to dry up in a shorter time as more boomers "retire".
This year alone, Social Security will pay out $45 billion more in retirement, disability and survivors' benefits than it collects in payroll taxes, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. That figure nearly triples -- to $130 billion -- when the new one-year cut in payroll taxes is included.
Congress has promised to replenish any lost revenue from the tax cut, but that's hardly good news, either, adding to the federal budget deficit. In another sobering estimate, the congressional office said government red ink this year will increase to $1.5 trillion, the most in U.S. history. So basically, you retire on Social Security, you are fucked. If you have/had a 401k, you are fucked. If you want to put money away in a bank with the FDCC going broke and the bank goes belly up, you are fucked. I'm going for the "stuffing it in a mattress and hope the house doesn't burn down or I get robbed" strategy.
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I am not an accountant but: Since they are paying OUT more money than is coming in AND there is no wallet/lock-box/mattress that keeps that fund separated, wouldn't it be right to say it is ALREADY empty.
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Let's see: my state run (Arizona) pension and now my S.S. are possible goners for this Tucson based teacher. Guess I'll have to find a job with the cartels as a mule. :((
[Iran Press TV] Participants of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have voiced disapproval of US President Barack B.O. Obama's State of the Union address on curbing the US deficit.
Hours after Obama used his State of the Union address to propose a partial freeze on government spending, delegates at the conference in Davos said the US is lagging behind foreign counterparts in cutting a budget deficit of more than USD 1.2 trillion.
"We need a heck of a lot more action on it; [Obama's speech] lacked details," James Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young LLP noted.
The US failure to control the deficit that Obama called unsustainable was one of the biggest risks to the global economic growth, said Nouriel Roubini, chairman and founder of the New York-based Roubini Global Economics LLC and a Davos veteran, Business Week reported.
While acknowledging that the US deficit was "not sustainable," Obama proposed bare minimal countermeasures.
"I am proposing that starting this year, we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. This would reduce the deficit by more than USD 400 billion over the next decade and will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president," Obama said.
The US budget deficit, which exceeds 11 percent of the gross domestic product, is almost double the 6.5 percent average for the euro region, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Forty-three percent of respondents in this month's Bloomberg Global Poll said there is a moderate risk the US budget deficit will provoke a crisis of confidence in the next two years, a condition that sparks a surge in long-term interest rates.
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* GATEWAY PUNDIT > US COMMUNIST LEADER URGES UNIFICATION WID DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Obama intentionally did not mention gun control in his State of the Union, but aides say that in the next two weeks the administration will unveil a campaign to get Congress to toughen existing laws. Had to know this was coming
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I'm all in favor of gun control programs - teaching sight alignment and sight picture, BRASS, and weapons safety are huge steps in the education of America's youth. Will they be subsidizing new handgun purchases for our youth?
Or does this dumb cluck actually think this is something the American people want? If that nest of marxists in the White House actually have Oblahblah read this outloud, so much the better for 2012.
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He has to fire up his progressive base somehow.
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I've already noticed that this non-starter is getting some MSM trial balloons, with "news" stories, like:
"Arizona's gun-death rate among the worst in U.S."
"Students asked about toughening US gun laws"
"Is America's pro-gun resolve weakening?"
It's obvious that the Dems are off-balance, so want to start fortifying that part of their base that have low expectations. Even adamant gun controllers see that nobody wants gun control right now, so at least they aren't going to be shrieking at him about that.
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Considering that the pendulum is swaying the other way for most states with fewer gun control laws and more concealed weapons, the dhims prove that they are still more and more out of touch with the rest of America.
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Oblahblah's gamebook has only three plays: 1) never let a crisis go to waste, 2) keep em off balance by launching into something new every other day and 3) feed my wingnuts some red meat (or tofu)to keep em happy.
This doesn't work at any level -- no one's in crisis mode after the AZ shooter, no one's being baited by the new attack on the second amendment except for NRA fundraisers and the wingnuts will be bitterly disappointed when he drops this loser initiative.
I am officially changing my Oblahblah sobriquet to Obozo
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I figured they would get around to this sooner or later. Obama will have a little trouble in the House--probably the Senate. Moreover, SCOTUS has made some important pro Second Amendment decisions recently. Around 40 states have concealed carry laws that have been passed through legislatures. I don't see them doing this.
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Epic Failure = When everyday ordinary failure just isn't enough.
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I have two grandchildren I'm teaching guns tonow, they're 24 and 22 years I recently bought my 21(then)a brand new in the box glock 19 and he carries daily, My 24 Grnddaughter Is still learning,as soon as the weather co-operates we'll go target shooting (I have a bit of land that's hilly enough to be safe) they're both past he safety training, now the marksmanship training begins.
I don't mention My son and daughter, they've been proficient for years.
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New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly more than expected last week as harsh weather conditions in some parts of the country kept workers at home and caused a backlog in the processing of claims, a government report showed on Thursday. ...
Economists polled by Reuters had expected claims to be little changed at 405,000. Rather nice tearing by HotAir at link. Don't worry though. All the new Green Jobs and energy will fix this! We are saved!
(Yes gorb, I'm being sarcastic.:P )
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is demanding $150,000 for "permanent injuries" he suffered from biting an olive pit in a sandwich wrap he bought at a House of Representatives cafeteria.
Four states are vowing to fight the federal government in a bid to preserve state measures that guarantee workers the right to secret ballots in union elections.
WASHINGTON -- Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates.
Participants of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have voiced disapproval of US President 
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose 
