[ABC News] Rielle Hunter was John Edwards' ...Former senator from North Carolina, former vice presidential candidate, former Democratic presidential contender. Edwards was noted for his Two Americas stump speech and for his pretty hair. People started to notice which of the two Americas he belonged to when he got a $400 haircut in his private plane. While his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer Breck Boy was porking a hussy named Riehl Hunter, with whom he fathered a child, then paid one of his aides to claim that the baby was his... most recent last mistress, but not his first or only one, she claims in a revealing tell-all memoir obtained by ABC News.
In the bombshell book, "What Really Happened" set to hit stores on June 26, Hunter reveals that Edwards, a two-time presidential candidate, had affairs with at least two other women dating back 20 years, and did not reveal the truth about his former relationships until 2011, two years after Hunter appeared before a grand jury.
The release of the book, which she wrote in an effort to explain her relationship with Edwards to their daughter, coincides with an exclusive interview with ABC's Chris Cuomo, which will air this Friday, June 22.
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The Don Corleone vid is very funny. I don't understand Italian but there was something about keeping your pepperoni on ice and not planting seeds in strange tomato patches.
PARIS - France's Socialists vowed on Monday to use a resounding victory in weekend parliamentary elections to pursue President Francois Hollande's drive for growth in Europe while sticking to promises to cut the budget deficit, mostly through taxation increases.
Hollande will use a special session of parliament next month to whittle down France's numerous tax exemptions and pass tax rises for large corporations, especially banks and energy firms, in a bid to cut the deficit to within the European Union's 3 percent limit by next year despite a stagnant economy.
All this will make the economy more stagnant, which will require more government programs, which will require more government workers, which will require higher taxes. Europeans call it 'socialism', Americans call it 'Obanomics'...
Economists expect the Socialist leader - who has also pledged a 75 percent tax rate on those earning over 1 million euros - to use an audit of the state's finances due early next month to water down his campaign pledges to increase spending on welfare and education and justify tax rises.
Final results from Sunday's election showed the Socialists won a comfortable majority of 314 seats in the 577-member National Assembly, freeing them from reliance on euroskeptic far-leftists opposed to more austerity measures.
Ahead of the vote, Hollande's government had insisted it could meet its deficit targets with only minor cuts to administrative spending, without resorting to the kinds of austerity programs seen in recession-stricken Greece or Spain.
Appearing to brace French voters for tough measures, however, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday that meeting France's EU commitments would involve sacrifices.
Except by the sacred cows and the Friends of Hollande...
"We need to sort out this country. Every Frenchman will need to make an effort but fairly, via tax reforms. It will be difficult but that is the task facing us," Valls told RTL radio.
France has one of the highest levels of government expenditure in Europe and posted a budget deficit of 5.2 percent of GDP last year.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault is due to outline the government's policy agenda to parliament on July 3, shortly after receiving the state auditor's report.
Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici recently said the government was heading for a 5 percent deficit this year -- requiring some 10 billion euros in additional measures over the to hit its 2012 target of 4.5 percent.
Economists said the Socialists' parliamentary majority on Sunday - its best ever parliamentary score - would allow the party the room to impose tougher austerity measures and structural reforms if needed.
Translation: higher taxes...
"These policies, which were not in the political program, would not be accepted by Communists members of parliament and by all Greens, but the support of the Socialists, who are much more faithful to the president, will now be enough," wrote Dominique Barbet, economist at BNP Paribas in Paris.
A spokeswoman for the audit office said its report had been postponed until July 2-4 from an initial release date on June 28. That allows Hollande to postpone the domestically sensitive discussion of how to plug France's deficit until after the June 28-29 EU summit at which he will press European leaders to back 120 billion euros of stimulus measures for euro zone economies.
Hollande was expected to press the case for the growth measures - which include joint bond issue to fund infrastructure projects and better use of EU structural funds - at a summit of G20 leaders in Mexico on Monday.
Because what the world needs is more publicly funded infrastructure projects...
He travels to Rome on Friday to meet Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and discuss closer political union and unified bank regulation in Europe, also on the EU summit agenda.
Translation: how do they best stick Germany with the tab...
Amid rising tensions between Paris and Berlin, Merkel has rebuffed Hollande's calls for joint euro zone bonds to resolve the crisis. She bluntly warned on Friday that France needed to urgently look to its own flagging competitiveness.
"The question everyone is asking is what will France do in terms of structural reforms and policies to stimulate growth, since there is a broad agreement that France has a serious competitiveness deficit," said Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels.
Many economists point to a sharp rise in wage costs over the last decade and the high level of welfare charges on salaries as the prime reason for France's rising trade deficit, which hit a record 70 billion euros last year. They note that salaries in Germany, France's main trade partner, have remained flat.
The Socialists, however, disagree. They say France's economy needs more investment in research and education, and they have also pledged to set up a new investment bank to lend to small- and medium-sized companies, which create most jobs.
So that French workers can retire at 60 instead of 62, while Germans retire at 67. That's not going to fly in Dusseldorf...
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Somebody's gotta do it...
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The Timothy Geithner global solution; tax exeryone at the highest rates possible to sustain the beast of big government.
President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... 's choice to be ambassador to Iraq has withdrawn from consideration for the post after a series of emails came to light detailing what critics called an improper relationship with a journalist during a previous tour in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Brett McGurk, who advised President George W. Bush on Iraq and helped negotiate the accord that paved the way for American troops to leave the war-torn country, pulled out just one day after senior Obama adviser David Plouffe pledged the White House's full support.
"No," Plouffe told CNN's "State of the Union" when asked whether the president would withdraw McGurk. "We've made this nomination, and we think he will ably serve as ambassador."
"We greatly appreciate Brett's years of service on behalf of the United States, to include tireless and effective leadership in Iraq from the height of the war to the moment our last troops left Iraq in December and through the challenging transition earlier this year," National Security Council front man Tommy Vietor said in a statement emailed to news hounds.
[Related: WSJ news hound resigns over nominee affair]
"He served in two administrations, and his commitment to the national interest and to the mission was always clear. He has proven himself to be a skilled diplomat willing to take on some of the toughest challenges at the toughest times in a difficult region," Vietor said. "While we regret to see Brett withdraw his candidacy there is no doubt that he will be called on again to serve the country."McGurk's nomination had faced serious opposition in the Senate, where Republican John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... charged he lacked the necessary experience to lead the huge American embassy in Storied Baghdad and six of the party's nine members on the Foreign Relations Committee wrote Obama urging him to drop the nomination.
The politicians said McGurk lacked the experience to run the country's largest embassy and cited "the public release of information detailing unprofessional conduct" that they said "demonstrates poor judgment and will affect the nominee's credibility in the country where he has been nominated to serve."
McGurk and Wall Street Journal news hound Gina Chon carried on an extramarital affair while both were in Storied Baghdad, according to media reports citing emails posted on the website www.cryptome.org. The two are now married. Chon resigned from the Wall Street Journal last week. The newspaper said she broke internal rules by showing McGurk "certain unpublished articles."
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1. Hussein Onyango, Barack's grandfather, wasn't really imprisoned and tortured by the British.
2. The father of his Indonesian stepfather, Soewarno Martodihardjo, wasn't killed by Dutch soldiers in the fight for independence.
3. Regina, a friend at Occidental who Obama writes about as a symbol of the authentic African-American experience turns out to be based on Carolina Boss, who is white. Regina was the name of her Swiss grandmother.
4. Obama projected a racial incident onto his New York girlfriend that he later told Maraniss had happened in Chicago.
5. Obama wrote that he broke up with his New York girlfriend in part because she was white. But his next girlfriend, an anthropologist in Chicago, was also white.
6. Obama cuts out two white college roommates entirely.
7. Obama wrote about his high school friends as an alienated, ne'er-do-well "club of disaffection." In fact, most members of the "Choom Gang" were "decent students and athletes" who went on to successful careers.
8. Obama's mother left his father, not the other way around.
9. In his memoir, Obama mentions he missed out on playing time in high school basketball because he coach preferred players who "play like white boys do." In fact, Obama had to work hard just to make the team, and race had nothing to do with it.
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The Tall Tales of Johnny Kaw. Johnny Kaw was invented as a way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Manhatten, KS. Johnny Kaw was know for digging the Kansas river system, invented sunflowers, and could control the weather by wringing out clouds and lopping off the tails of tornados.
---> Did you Know?
Barack Obama also seems to be a fiction somewhat involving the state of Kansas. He continues the literary tradition of fudging reality for entertainment, and also claims to be able to control the natural environment with the ability to lower sea level.
And this is news to anyone that has been paying attention? Oh, sorry MSM. I forgot you had your head so far up his ass your nose was in his adam's apple.
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Many good people died over the years for that "damn flag" and what it stands for so the likes of the Obamas could be free to do whatever it is they do.
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Unaccepting of the colonial miracle and dreams of America. Chicago south-side, tribal xenophobia at it's finest. Unfortunately they are not alone in their contempt for all things American.
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"All of this for a damn flag."First Lady of the United States of America 2009-2012
But Did You See the Patriot Riders of the Iron Horses
Standing in the Flag Line Yesterday 6/18/2012?
But Did You See SSgt Christopher Goski's Friends and Family
Make Their Final Walk Along That Flag Line to Say Good Bye to The Young Man?
But Did You Know The Young Man Toured Iraq and Afghanistan 6 Tours With The American Flag Patch on His Shoulder and Died the age of 31?
Did You See the 40 Patriot Riders on the Iron Horses
Some Old and Grey
But Who Came Anyway to Give Honor
To Stand Next to Old Glory That Morning
To Strap Old Glory to 40 Iron Horses
To Escort the Young Man, Family, And Friends
To The Young Man's Final Resting Place
And To Place Old Glory Upon The Young Man's Coffin?
No You Did Not.
But Never Was Honor, Love, America And Americans ALL THAT THE FLAG STANDS FOR,
ALL THAT MEN WOULD YOUNG AND OLD DIE FOR,
So Incredible to Behold!
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My daughter can read lips (she works with deaf students) and says that lip reading is very difficult to interpret correctly. If you are told what a person says you are most likely to "read" it the way you (then) see it.
She reads it in an unbiased way (I didn't tell her what Michelle is alleged to have said) and says she can't tell exactly what the first two words are but then she is positive that the remaining words are "if they flew that flag".
Definitely no damn she affirms.
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badlip reading.
As much as I hate to miss a chance to put the boot in, this seems like pretty thin evidence. Yes, I would be completely overcome with non-surprise if either of them expressed this opinion, but without some actual audio...
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My brother-in-law died a year ago. Taps were played for him. A Marine honor guard presented my sister with a flag. Even if he had not been a relative who I loved dearly, one cannot help tearing up when hearing taps and seeing the flag presented and knowing what it stands for.
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I saw a liberal website that had that translated as "Look how pretty they fold that flag" or something like that. Whatever it was, it comported better with the video than "All this for a damn flag".
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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