When François Hollande cited Shakespeare during his biggest campaign speech on Sunday, it was one of the high points of an effort that helped cement himself as the front-runner in France's presidential race.
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"Nicholas Shakespeare, journalist, novelist, biographer and direct descendant of William's grandfather"
It is unlikely to help Mr Hollande's campaign to discover they were uttered by the novel's hero, Gabriel, a Maoist revolutionary who ends up a terrorist for the murderous Peruvian guerrilla group, Shining Path.
Mr Hollande should ask Nork refuges what they think of the results of leftest economic policies.
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Remember that one keyword that oddly enough never made it's way into the president's largely recycled SOTU address - "Solyndra"? It is about to make a double or nothing repeat appearance, now that Ener1, another company that was backed by Obama, this time a electric car battery-maker, has filed for bankruptcy. Net result: taxpayers lose $118.5 million.
The irony is that while Solyndra may have been missing from the SOTU, Ener1 made an indirect appearance: "In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries."
Uh, no. Actually, the correct phrasing is: "...positioned America to be the world's leading manufacturer of insolvent, bloated subsidized entities that are proof central planning at any level does not work but we can keep doing the same idiocy over and over hoping the final result will actually be different eventually."
We can't wait to find out just which of Obama's handlers was may have been responsible for this latest gross capital misallocation. In the meantime, the 1,700 jobs "created" with the fake creation of Ener1, have just been lost.
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fwiw, IIUC, this is a chapter 11 bankruptcy which means the company may successfully emerge and prosper
it all depends on whether their lithium battery technology (based on various patents and proprietary designs) can work in a real world situation and also be cost effective
the company has already burned it's way through about half of the $118M without producing a workable prototype but they have actually lined up some private equity who will invest post chapter 11
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I've noticed that ,amy start-up companies will get a producr with the capital and then Bankrupt, screwing the original investers and whatcanyoudoaboutit.
Un other wotds YOURGUJT.
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Obama only invests our money in projects or companies to benefit his backers. In truth his backers probably make money by the truck-load during the transactions - probably through some vehicle akin to a "commission" for obtaining the funding. The only people burned in theses bogus ventures are the true-believers that didn't understand that the business was a shell just for the purposes of bilking the suckers ... the tax payers.
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"they have actually lined up some private equity who will invest post chapter 11"
That's what they should have done in the first place, LG. >:-(
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North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) is set to announce today that she will not seek reelection in 2012, according to two sources familiar with her plans.
She's the one who 'suggested' that we 'postpone' elections for a while so that the Congress and the President could 'address our problems'. When she was called on it she said she was 'joking'; a careful review of the videotape shows that no one was laughing at the time. Guess we now know why she wanted elections postponed...
Perdue, who turned 65 earlier this month, was set for a rematch of her 2008 race with former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory (R), but she has been plagued by low approval ratings and faced some tough odds this year.
Sources say she has labored over her decision about whether to seek a second term. One source said she plans to announce she will step aside in a statement this afternoon. Perdue's office did not immediately response to a request for comment.
Names that are likely to be bandied about as possible Democratic replacements include Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, Attorney General Roy Cooper, former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx.
In addition, Rep. Brad Miller (D-ACORN N.C.) is set to announce today that he won't seek reelection.
How is it that Newt Gingrich, should he be nominated, would cause the Pubs to be blown out of the House, and yet Dem congress-critters are quitting anyways?
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too bad - a crushing defeat would demonstrate the popularity of her reign
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You can hide - but you can't run...
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Knowing when to fold em is key to maintaining your viability for commissions, consultancy dollars or cabinet level positions down the road. Bev is a little soft on the intellect for any of those options to be lucrative for her. She doesn't even really have the Grayson-esque nastiness to qualify as a contributor on MSNBC. Probably she should consider calling Bingo or organizing low level Non-denominational church functions.
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Oooooh! I want an atomic scalpel like Super Hose has.
[Al Ahram] US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... 's Republican foes listened mostly stone-faced to what they hoped would be his last State of the Union speech, then raced for the exits while he was still shaking hands.
Many Democrats didn't stick around either on Tuesday evening, and the House of Representatives was mostly -- and unusually -- empty by the time he was done receiving praise from cabinet members seated near the front of the chamber and began moving up the thin ranks of well-wishers flanking its main aisle.
The speech got off to an inauspicious start when the sergeant-at-arms tasked with announcing Obama's arrival did so apparently unaided by a microphone, his shout all but drowned out in the steady pre-speech buzz of chatting politicians.
And even before the embattled Democratic president had spoken a word, news hounds' email in-boxes overflowed with canned statements responding to the prime-time address with praise or scorn.
One of those commenting hours before Obama stood before the politicians in a time-honoured political ritual insisted that he had listened to the speech with "an open mind."
There were flickers of bipartisan truce: The chamber erupted in applause and shone with affectionate smiles as Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords slowly walked onto the floor to join her colleagues.
Giffords -- who plans to step down this week to focus on her recovery from an liquidation attempt last year in which she was shot in the head -- got a standing ovation from the crowd and a bear hug from Obama.
Lawmakers from both parties also applauded First Lady Michelle Obama, US troops, the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who has left the building... , US workers, putting the unemployed back to work, equal pay for women, keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, ties to Israel, and banning insider trading by members of Congress.
And they united in a mild chorus of stifled laughter mixed with groans when Obama attempted the sole joke of his 7,000-word speech, a comment about rolling back a four-decade rule requiring farmers to spend $10,000 to prove that they could contain a milk spill.
"With a rule like that, I guess it was worth crying over spilled milk," quipped Obama.
Republicans twice roared their approval, once when Obama quoted Republican president Abraham Lincoln's call for limited government, another when he called for an "all-of-the-above" approach to energy.
Obama often reached far beyond his immediate audience to court voters and engage the Republican presidential candidates who have spent months hammering his administration on the campaign trail.
Former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire Mitt Romney ...whose real first name is actually, no kidding, Willard, was governor of Massachussetts and is currently the front-runner for president on the Publican ticket. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's foot is in an ideological bucket because of Romneycare, a state-level experiment that should have been a warning against Obamacare if anyone had been paying attention. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field... has denounced the president's call for higher taxes on the richest Americans as "class warfare" fed by "envy" and enmity to "free enterprise."
Obama said: "You can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense."
"We don't begrudge financial success in this country. We admire it. When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it's not because they envy the rich," he added.
Romney has also accused Obama of crippling the US military and putting the United States on a course for national decline.
"America is back," Obama shot back. "Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about."
"America remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs, and as long as I'm president, I intend to keep it that way," he said.
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"America remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs, and as long as I'm president, I intend to keep it that way," he said.
Indispensible for all UN and trans-nazi schemes, that is. But hogtied when it comes to defending our national interests.
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I had the, uhem, pleasure of watching the (replay) SOU.
Some observations the talking crowd failed to mention.
First, it was perhaps the most militant address I have witnessed; 2002 made sense, but with things supposedly winding down and cuts to defense apparently inevitable there was a lot of call to service of the government going on: We will force you to complete school until 18, follow the example of the armed forces, and allusions to the civil defense force in order to secure government programs.
Second, I kept hearing the song We're Bringing Sexy Back during the most impassioned part of the speech, which was well delivered for the first third.
Third, his having flashbacks during the Operation No Brainer was a bit infuriating, like Hillary!s sniper story. I've been through the book Nightstalkers, I found that part almost a bit condencending.
And during the energy part I believe "Stand Up" Joe caughed what sounded like a *caugh bullshit caugh*, seemed purely accidental yet strangly appropriate, took The Man out of rhythm as he tried to figure out who behind him caughed and why.
As far as content, I'll let the experts talk about that, the rebute was great. His joke was a joke, like that counts as reigning in the EPA where real people spend real time and real money to come to real and expanded regs.
People need to recognize that the natural expansion of this whole narrative is an expansion of estate taxes, nevermind such suggestions as equal profit boards, yes death panals, and other equalization sporting measures.
And piss on a guy who thinks that by simply putting on a uniform does the trick. I am a volunteer firefighter, part of the 75%, and have come across plenty of jackwagons, and well intentioned, who have no business there. It is a culture. It is work. It is dedication. It is training. It is a mindset. It is sacrifice. It is love. People who do not have that are damn near a liability, at best a gopher. I probably wipe more soot from my eyes in 30 minutes than this classroom extrodinaire has ever had under his fingernails. It remminds me of the Greensburg Tornado, when my buddies were calling me and asking what can I do, I said don't come you would be in the way you have no mindset. I'm not some bad-ass, but that stuff is not for everyone, so forcing people into such role would just quite simply be debacle.
Now I got some rich guy on TV, broadcasting from Switzerland, telling me that it makes no difference whether somebody pays 20% or 60% or such and it makes no difference to start-up business, well that is total crap. It makes all the difference, because running a good business is not for everyone, it is a culture, it is tough, and if there is no reward for basically making it your life plus family from 3am to 9pm, plus travel and worry, then that middle class of dedicated (point, not those who cannot help but explore and on the other end those who are in essence peter princible) who generate that energy will eventually say F@ it. And I thought that before familiar with who John Galt is. Went to a deally recently, gov deal, opening joke was "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
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#9 Sorry to hear of the dog, but at least he doesn't have to suffer the 11 months of Obama's Presidential Re-Election Misery tour. Now that is the horse shit I am going to dread. Witnessing a failed President running for re-election.
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SOTU has always been Kabuki theater. Debates with pre-approved questions and other rules and stipulations to make them canned are lame as well. I would tune in to watch Newt give one if that ever happens. He may not prove to be viable as a candidate, but he might give a State of the Union off the cuff. There is no telling what bombs he might throw. It would be interesting to see Gingrich, Rumsfelt and Cheney perform in the debates that are more a part of British and Canadian parliamentary procedures.
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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.
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