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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sharpton Blames Holder Contempt Charge On Racism
Posted by: Fred || 06/23/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the man that gave you Tawana Brawley and the "white interlopers" of Freddy's Fashion Mart...
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/23/2012 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  And the continuing slaughter on the streets of Chicago, what do you blamd that on Al ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/23/2012 6:48 Comments || Top||

#3  This is their racism on display. You say one thing and they will be contrary to what they believe. No matter what the truth is. Get used to it as I have. This goes back as far as I can remember. The riots to intergrated schools.
Like the Martin business. Some bragged how they ganged up on white people comming out of a bar. With the unemployment for youth where it is I expect more stories this summer will be told.
I lived it. I don't have to make it up.
Posted by: Dale || 06/23/2012 6:50 Comments || Top||

#4  My contempt of Holder and Sharpton have nothing to do with the color of their skin.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/23/2012 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Al, everything is racism to you. Better look in the mirror and check yourself re/racism. As one of our representatives said the race card is the last card in the deck.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/23/2012 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Al, dead white and hispanic gun shot victims on both sides of the border. Think about that for a moment, Al.
Posted by: Grock de Medici2604 || 06/23/2012 14:02 Comments || Top||

#7  'dead white and hispanic gun shot victims on both sides of the border"

What makes you think he gives a rat's ass in hell about white or hispanic people, alive or dead, Grock?

If all the dead people were black, on the other hand,

(wait for it)

he'd blame Bush. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 06/23/2012 17:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Wait wait wait...

Holder is Black?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/23/2012 21:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Supposedly. I've always thought he looked more like an Italian.
Posted by: Secret Master || 06/23/2012 22:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Not after letting the Black Panthers infringe on a bunch of old white folk's right to vote.
Posted by: gorb || 06/23/2012 23:31 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Panetta Says Political 'Dysfunction' Threatens U.S. Security
The "dysfunction" in the U.S. Congress, where Republicans and Democrats have failed to compromise on debt reduction, threatens U.S. national security, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
"One my greatest concerns as secretary is the dysfunction that we see in Washington," he said late Thursday at a ceremony in which he received an award for public service.

"It threatens our security and it raises questions about the capacity of our democracy to respond to crisis."

He went on to express concern over a round of automatic defense spending cuts set to take effect in January 2013 in the event that feuding politicians are unable to hammer out a deal to slash the country's $15.8 trillion debt.

"It will force the Department of Defense to throw our new defense strategy out the window. It will pose, I believe, an unacceptable risk to our ability to defend the country," Panetta said.

If Congress fails to agree on how to slash spending by January, dramatic defense reductions of about $500 billion would be automatically triggered under a law adopted last year.

Bitterly divided politicians have been struggling for the past year to reach a deal to rein in the debt, with Republicans demanding steep cuts in spending and Democrats calling for higher taxes on the wealthy.

The looming election-year showdown comes as President Barack Obama
B.O....
, a Democrat, fights for a second term in a campaign dominated by fears over the sluggish U.S. economic recovery.
Posted by: Fred || 06/23/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are we talking real cuts or a reduction in pre-programmed expansion?

"It will force the Department of Defense to throw our new defense strategy out the window.

Ignoring the continuation of past and present program of military welfare for first world countries in Europe and Asia.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/23/2012 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Former SecState James Baker would likely agree wid Leon ...

To wit,

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [CharlesRose.com = Video wid Hillary]FORMER US SECRETARY [SecState] JAMES BAKER SAYS US CANNOT BE A SUPERPOWER [anymore] IFF THE ECONOMY IS NOT CORRECTED.

Regressionism = implosion, USSA-STYLE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/23/2012 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Slightly off topic, but in the still within the realm of dysfunctional; as the former DCI, please tell us if you will Mr. Panetta, what you knew about F&F?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/23/2012 7:16 Comments || Top||


Gift Giving is Now Political
Show your friends and relatives how much this election means to you. Donate to Obama instead of giving wedding gifts, birthday gifts, or any other occasion.
And of course, the Right chimes in with Twitter fun here. The president's team must be feeling like the whacked mole.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/23/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow. What genius on his staff thought this one up?

These are much better...
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/23/2012 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  I give the idea a 5 on the Juche scale.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/23/2012 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  I have difficulty imagining that anyone, even those with Donk Derangement Syndrome, would be so far gone as to do this. Hey Obama, you got any aluminum siding for my trailer, any cash my clunkers, WH pots and pans, or any other WH memorabilia for sale or trade?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/23/2012 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Collect aluminum cans for Obama
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 06/23/2012 12:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Wasn't Uncle O just at a wedding?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/23/2012 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  The depths of delusion that someone must be in to think that this was a good idea, that people really would want their special day turned into money for this grifter is just unfathomable.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/23/2012 13:41 Comments || Top||

#7  The best one I saw was "sell the naming rights to the next gun running operation".
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/23/2012 14:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I give the idea a 5 on the Juche scale.

On a max 5 scale or a max 10 scale? If it's the latter I think you may be a little low.
Posted by: AzCat || 06/23/2012 14:40 Comments || Top||

#9  #ObamaGiftRegistrySlogans He's screwed your kid's future, why not let him screw their present as well?

Yikes! Did someone send him a blow-up sheep or something?
Posted by: gorb || 06/23/2012 15:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Better yet, a blow-up unicorn.
Posted by: gorb || 06/23/2012 15:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Instead of catering for a friend's bereaved family, send that money to Uncle O's bus tour.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/23/2012 16:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Golden Calf moment in 5...4...3...2...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/23/2012 17:57 Comments || Top||

#13  This pitch would offend the sensibilities of a Bourbon Street T-shirt vendor.
Posted by: Matt || 06/23/2012 18:10 Comments || Top||

#14  Next up will be an Executive Privilege Registry and a Pardon Registry.
Posted by: manversgwtw || 06/23/2012 19:43 Comments || Top||

#15  ..wasn't that Bill Clinton's modus operandi at the end?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/23/2012 20:28 Comments || Top||

#16  "Pardon Registry"

With this crowd of corruptocrats, manversgwtw, that would bring in BIG bucks. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 06/23/2012 20:29 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2012-06-23
  Turkish Warplane Vanishes over Syria Border
Fri 2012-06-22
  It's Over: A Dozen Dead After Taliban Take Hostages In Kabul Hotel
Thu 2012-06-21
  29 Soldiers among 58 Dead in Violence across Syria
Wed 2012-06-20
  'Al-Qaeda militant' takes hostages at bank in Toulouse
Tue 2012-06-19
  IDF hits terror cell near Gaza fence
Mon 2012-06-18
  Nigeria: 21 killed, 100 wounded in church blasts
Sun 2012-06-17
  Baghdad bombs target Shiite pilgrims, 32 killed
Sat 2012-06-16
  Yemen army seizes Shuqra after Qaeda pullout
Fri 2012-06-15
  Syria Violence Kills More Than 60
Thu 2012-06-14
  Army takes over in Egypt
Wed 2012-06-13
  At Least 73 Dead in Shelling and Clashes across Syria
Tue 2012-06-12
  Helicopter Gunships Deployed as More Than 100 Dead in Syria
Mon 2012-06-11
  Church Bombing Kills 15 in Nigeria
Sun 2012-06-10
  Syria Army Kills 70 Civilians in Protest Cities
Sat 2012-06-09
  Tuareg Rebels, Islamists, Clash in Northern Mali


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