#2
Al Qaeda has promised to blow up the stadium. This could make President Obama's visit there a good deal more interesting than planned. How good is South Africa's security apparatus against terror groups these days?
#4
yeah, but then it's Biden and we'd be that much closer to Pelosi, that's damn frightening.
Face it, we're suck with these guys for a few more years, I just hope we survive it all.
Posted by: Jan at work ||
04/17/2010 17:27 Comments ||
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#5
Face it, we're suck with these guys for a few more years, I just hope we survive it all.
Freudian slip, Jan, and I agree. They suck
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/17/2010 17:50 Comments ||
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#6
Players who cheat, no official review of calls, somebody else pays...should be right at home.
#3
If I read that right, it said $4E9 went to "smart grid" technology last year. Did any of it go to actually rebuilding the electrical grid--digging trenches, stringing wires...?
Never mind, I probably know the answer already.
Posted by: James ||
04/17/2010 12:24 Comments ||
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#4
Safe to assume that any legislation that gets passed is full of pork.
#5
Did any of it go to actually rebuilding the electrical grid--digging trenches, stringing wires...?
Wireless. But the still needs to massively upgrade electrical transmission lines and substations. The US been allowing all infrastructure to decay for almost two generations while swindling the public with massive financial scams.
Posted by: ed ||
04/17/2010 18:08 Comments ||
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In February Obama quietly signed Executive Order 13502 ordering federal agencies to accept only union shop bids for construction projects over $25 million. Since only 15% of construction workers are unionized this virtually guarantees: every union construction worker a job and that nonunion workers will be banging down the doors of union halls.
The $25 million' threshold will provide work for just enough non-union workers to give credibility to the lie that Oh no we don't hire ONLY union workers, why take a look at our books.'
In this worst economy since Democrat Franklin Roosevelt's Administration paying union workers merely because they are union workers makes no sense. The average weekly salary for a unionize construction worker is $908.00, but the average non-union worker earns just $710.00 or 22% less.
Obama's sellout will cost us more for each federal project because it slams a double edge sword into our heart. It means federal projects can only be completed with union work that always costs more, and actual free market costs have been obliterated as jobs will be regularly over bid.
The average union pension program has been looted and is only 62% funded. Plans with just 80% of necessary funding are labeled endangered' and those under 65% of funding are called critical' by the same federal auditors who will be ordered to look the other way when these contracts are signed. Bet on this.
#6
On that link, you can select donations for the 2010 election cycle.
Posted by: ed ||
04/17/2010 18:49 Comments ||
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Ed, that is fascinating. Basically, the unions are essentially buying elections. The 2010 cycle is the same--or at least they are trying to buy the 2010 election if I understand the contribution breakout. Are these contributions for all national, state, and local elections.
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The numbers on this page are based on contributions of $200 or more from PACs and individuals to federal candidates and from PAC, individual and soft money donors to political parties, as reported to the Federal Election Commission. While election cycles are shown in charts as 1996, 1998, 2000 etc. they actually represent two-year periods. For example, the 2002 election cycle runs from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002. NOTE: Soft money contributions were not publicly disclosed until the 1991-92 election cycle and were banned after the 2002 cycle.
Data for the current election cycle was released by the Federal Election Commission on March 21, 2010.
You can click on each donor for a further breakout: SEIU 2010 Total: $729,115
Dems: $730,115
Reps: $-11,000
-$11,000? Or is it -$1,000? Did SEIU demand a refund?
Posted by: ed ||
04/17/2010 19:05 Comments ||
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Long story at link, it's AP so we'd better not quote it all here or we'll go blind ... More Erik Holder BS. Be sure to read the comment from "Douglas" (9th down) which I beleive, says it all.
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
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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
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