Montvel-Cohen is managing director of a company that owns television stations on Guam. He also co-founded the liberal national radio network Air America you stay classy, libs!
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Classy? You mean like Mark Sanford, John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Christopher Ward, etc? Human frailty abounds in all ideologically persuasions and on both sides of the aisle.
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...yes, but its a mark of pride on the left. We've seen the body of followers and supporters turn on Trunks and conservatives when they do dirt, but as amply demonstrated by Dodd, Rangel, et al, it's not a particular problem with the card carriers in the other circus act.
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"Imagine if a similar effort had taken place at the turn of the 20th century with the auto industry and air quality," added Kraig Butrum, president and CEO of the American Wind Wildlife Institute, an umbrella organization for the wind energy industry and environmental groups. "We'd probably be in a completely different place when it comes to global climate change and energy dependence, because we considered environmental impact from the start."
We'd all be riding horses, like back at the turn of the century, when the stench from livery stables literally peeled paint.
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or imagine if the 'anti walking upright' tribe had been able to get a court to issue an injunction against those paleohumans
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We'd all be riding horses, like back at the turn of the century, when the stench from livery stables literally peeled paint.
An summers filled with skies blackened in urban areas by clouds of flies and other vectors sharing disease among the population. BTW, wonder if these geniuses would have done away with even the horse when the mountains of excrement became too large to 'recycle'? /rhetorical question
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Back at the time of the 70's gasoline panic, I remember some wit calculating that an effort to replace mechanical horsepower with real horsepower would raise the level of the San Jose Valley one foot deep in horse dung in one year!
Doesn't ANYONE read descriptions of how noisome and awful cities were, in the 19th century, with the dung and the dirt and the bodies of dead horses.
And hasn't any of these delicate flowers grasped how much s**t a horse produces in a day?
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a "This Week" exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, "We're going to have to do what's necessary." In other words, BOHICA!
Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn't do it. "We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically," Geithner told me. "And that's going to require some very hard choices."
"We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we convince the American people that we are going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established," he said.
While Geithner told me, "There are signs the recession is easing," he warned that, "We have a ways to go. I want to emphasize the basic reality that unemployment is very high in this country," the secretary said. But, he underlined that the administration is "going to do what is necessary to bring growth back on track."
Turning to the bank bailout, he told me it is "quite unlikely" that the U.S. Treasury will go back to Congress to ask for more funding for the financial rescue package.
"We do not plan to ask for more money and I think it's quite unlikely that we do," Geithner said in his most blunt language to date on TARP funding. The secretary said that today the TARP has roughly $130 billion, in part due to more than $70 billion that has already come back into the government.
Geithner also strongly endorsed legislation currently pending in the House that would increase the power of the SEC and give shareholders more rights to vote on executive compensation. He insisted that Republican criticism that the government is overly involved in the financial system is unfounded.
"Everybody understands that we cannot have our financial system go back to the practices that brought our biggest Democratic donors this economy to the brink of collapse," he told me. "It is going to take fundamental reform." Remember, when the tax hikes take effect, don't do as Timmy did, unless you are angling for a Cabinet post.
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"...and we might as well do it now so the retards voters will forget all about it by the time 2012 rolls around."
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"We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we convince the American people that we are going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established," he said.
Notice who doesn't understand and needs convincing?
A rebellion is brewing in home congressional districts of incumbent Democrats evidenced by the reaction at several town hall meetings.
Members are being forced to suspend meetings with their constituents, screaming protesters are being dragged out of events by police and officials are being greeted by protest signs and chants.
Carl Levin Retreats from Pledge of Allegiance
Rep Doggett meeting on Obamacare in south Austin, TX, 1 Aug 2009 gets him an escort from a crowd shouting "Just say NO."
And if you don't already know about it, the Tea Party Movement goes to Capitol Hill
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They're so use to manufactured astoturfed MoveOn.org publicity shills that pass for public show, that when the real thing shows up they can't grasp the significance or difference of real public demonstration of 'will'.
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those moments are beautiful, and will continue to bedevil Donks and Squishy Reps through their August. Keep it up and let them know that the next step is pitchforks and torches!
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Oh, all you elected Congress-critters ... you have only begun to taste of the cup that is in front of you.
The Tea Party is brewing up; if you think the last couple of weeks have been rough, just you wait. The Contract with the Constitution is launched, and armed. Sign it and continue existing, politically. Or don't. Your choice.
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IIRC, the so-called "FREE STATE" MOVEMENT, which repor proclaims to suppor Limited/minimalist Govt agendums, has been been steadily becom more popular despite allegations of suppor for SECESSIONISM???
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Fox is running a clip on a townhall meeting attemded by Sebelius and Spector. One brave lady lambasted both of them quite properly over this health care bill business. The audience cheered wildly while the slimeball pols grinned sheepishly.
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I am very happy with my Representative Kenny Marchant. While the vast majority of Reps. and Senators need to go, I'm worried that the baby is going to be tossed with the bath water.
These people that have been reelecting these Democrats election cycle after cycle...what did they think they were doing? I sure hope we can save the Republic with having to resort to force of arms, if so, I think this is going to be the death of the Democrat Party. I sure am hoping so anyway.
First the traitors, then the enemy.
The prospect of Al Franken as a United States Senator worried many, not only because he had no qualifications for the job but because he is temperamentally unsuited to high office. A bitter, angry man, Franken has a long history of confrontations and fisticuffs. He hasn't yet made much of an impression in Washington, but on Thursday his hostile, hyper-partisan temperament was on display.
The Senate Democrats invited Boone Pickens to address their weekly policy lunch on the subject of energy. With one exception, the Democrats treated their guests politely. The exception, of course, was Franken...
Posted by: Fred ||
08/02/2009 00:00 ||
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Send in the clowns. In this case, Senator Clown.
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I haven't followed a lot of this "inside baseball" stuff very much.
The Dems content that the Swift Boaters were exaggerating Kerry's faults in a coordinated attack. Hence the term, "Swiftboating."
Ideology aside, is there any truth to that allegation, that the swiftboaters went above and beyond a factually-based attack to smearing the Democratic candidate, or is this just a case of sour grapes?
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sour grapes. Kerry promised to release his DOD records in 2004 to refute their charges. They're still waiting. He's a liar, a fraud, and a traitor....or maybe just a horrible procrastinator
Posted by: Frank G ||
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I don't know if your picture is quite appropriate as he seems like a happy, friendly clown. Do you have any pictures of John Wayne Gacy in your archives?
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Mizzou Mafia,
The swiftboaters knew going in that they would be attacked on every factual mistake they made with John F'ing Kerry. Therefore they made sure that everything they said was corroberated from multiple sources. Of course, when the press couldn't find anything factually wrong with the book, they just smeared the swiftboaters.
It is important to remember that the 2 leaders of the swiftboaters were both Democrats and NOT Bush supporters (each supported a different Dem candidate).
Al (not the Senator)
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Kerry is a tool, and franken show's he's up to speed by trying to re-run the election of 5 years ago. Minnesota should be proud of this jagoff!
City Councilwoman Martha Reeves says she will not return campaign donations from a former sludge company executive who plead guilty to bribing city officials in connection with a billion dollar waste handling contract. Right. That Martha Reeves. The one with the Vandellas.
"The only way you can get into the political ring is by donations," Reeves said, explaining that her change in position from yes to no on the contract was a matter of conscience and good sense. "Am I going to give it back? No!" "Money is power, yeah yeah yeah!
It don't matter if it's your money, yeah yeah yeah!
As long as it's your power, yeah yeah yeah!".
Former Councilwoman Monica Conyers, who pleaded guilty to taking bribes in exchange for her vote on the $1.2 billion sludge deal, is "petrified" about the prospects of prison says her lawyer, Steve Fishman. He also says that Sam Riddle, Conyers' former associate who is also the subject of federal bribery investigations, should stop shooting his mouth off in the press and cut a deal with prosecutors.
"Far be it for me to tell anybody what to do," Fishman says. "But if I got trapped in a burning house, I would probably try to find the hose rather than the box of matches."
Aldolph Mongo, political strategist and rabid Detroit booster, says the city is "out of control" and believes that Mayor David Bing was right to unceremoniously dump his chief of police last week.
"Right thing to do, wrong way to do it," Mongo says. "We've got a lot of dysfunctional people running around. Criminals have really staked out the city and are really running parts of the city."
As a special treat, Reeves, the former Motown star, sings tribute to the late Michael Jackson as Fishman accompanies her on keyboards.
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08/02/2009 00:00 ||
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Follow the sludge money.
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And everybody thought "Robocop" was science fiction.
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
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Montvel-Cohen is managing director of a company that owns television stations on Guam. He also co-founded the liberal national radio network Air America
The prospect of Al Franken as a United States Senator worried many, not only because he had no qualifications for the job but because he is temperamentally unsuited to high office. A bitter, angry man, Franken has a long history of confrontations and fisticuffs. He hasn't yet made much of an impression in Washington, but on Thursday his hostile, hyper-partisan temperament was on display.
