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Grab a Box of Tissues! * Open Thread

By Bronwyn's Harbor on February 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM in Current Affairs

Editor’s Note: Reverend Amy’s post — “What Our Teenagers Are Seeing” — is the spot for discussion. The New Agenda press release is a backgrounder with great links (below). This is also a WIDE-OPEN THREAD.

PRESS RELEASE: Before you press “play,” grab a box of tissues!

The New Agenda presents Episode 3 of our video series Searching for Sexism: Their Eyes Are Watching.

Watch how our pop culture impacts the self-images of our teenage girls.

February is

Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month ; and

Eating Disorder Awareness Month.

[VIDEO omitted -- see Reverend Amy's post to view the video, as well as Reverend Amy's excellent commentary.]

Some shocking, but true, statistics:

* 55% of 7- to 12-year-old girls say they want to be thinner;

* almost half of girls in 5th-12th grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures;

* 22% of teen girls have texted nude or semi-nude photos of themselves;

* 1 in 3 teens in relationships have experienced the most serious forms of dating violence and abuse.

For resources on starting a conversation with your child, visit our website (landing pad here)

The New Agenda is devoted to protecting our teenage girls. We hope you will join us.

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  • Diana L. C.

    Heck, eleven years ago when I was ten pounds lighter, I remember pulling out a magazine that had been left in the doctor’s waiting room.  It was some popular fashion magazine.  Just looking at it made me feel very fat at the time.  And I should say that at that time, I was not really skinny but was considered thin for my age (51).  I knew the magazine photographs had been tweaked and reworked and that the “women” in the photos were probably painted up pre-teen models, but I was surprised at how looking at it messed with my older mind at the time.

    Made a vow then never to look at fashion magazines again.

  • Diana L. C.

    And heavier though I am now, I am still in the range for a good body-fat ratio–not considered overweight.  Imagine how fat I would feel now.

  • Ferd Not-My-Site-(click to edit) Berfle

    This is part and parcel of the emphasis on the external and the deliberate indifference to the internal. Looks versus character, put in another way. If those who focused on looks to the exclusion of all else actually spent one-tenth of the same time improving their own character and pressuring others to do the same, this country might be in far better shape.

    But then we have an electorate that voted a yapping manboy who could speak lots of nice-sounding rhetorical rubbish without saying a damn thing of real meaning to run the most powerful country into the ground while those same who elected him cheered him on. Go figure.

  • AC

    Well gee wiz Ferd, if your going to be reasonable and logical about it….!

  • oowawa

    I have raised two girls (a daughter and a granddaughter) who struggled with bulimia, and fighting that problem is unimaginably difficult.  Anorexia is as bad, or worse.  As far as I know, these problems reached epidemic proportions around the “Valley Girl” years of the 70′s & 80′s, and were behind the “humorous” remark, “gag me with a spoon.”  Why didn’t we have these problems in the 50′s?

  • Breeze

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  • AC

    Why didn’t we have these problems in the 50′s
    ******************
    Television (the opiatre) was in it’s infancy and subliminal advertising was banned.  This may be only one of many reasons.

  • AC

    Why didn’t we have these problems in the 50′s
    ******************
    Television (the opiate) was in it’s infancy and subliminal advertising was banned.  This may be only one of many reasons.

  • Ferd Not-My-Site-(click to edit) Berfle

    This may be only one of many reasons.  
    =================
    That and Lucy and Gracie weren’t exactly the stuff boys dreams were made of. But I digress.

  • AbigailAdams
  • oowawa

    Come to think of it, the Bulimia/Anorexia problem began about the same time as Twiggy’s phenomenal success in the fashion world.  But I assume she was just symptomatic of a more general social malady . . .

  • helenk

    Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor were the women that most girls wanted to look like in the 1950s
    All sexy and well built. None looked like they needed a good meal.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

    Here is one problem on what young people are seeing a lot of now.
    hypocrites running for office. Remember this guy in 2008.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-perel/john-edwards-affair_b_816599.html

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Personally, I’ve always prefered women with a little meat on the bones. Personally, if you don’t have hips and a badunkadunk I ain’t interested. :) (and so do a lot of my friends too). I think it’s because instinctually you want a female with wide hips and some extra fat because that was helpful for bearing children and for literally surviving.I don’t know where all this twiggy stuff comes from.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Don’t forget Sophia Loren. She makes me proud to be italian. I saw her in a film with Peter Sellers recently….damn, what a body! Too many health nuts these days :-D

  • helenk

    Also Susan Hayward for the redheads

  • tango

    Oh my, this is why it’s good to have people in the WH who recognize a military uniform:

    “During an exclusive dinner hosted Monday by the Alfalfa Club, Obama adviser Valerie Jarret had just such a moment. And were it not for an irritated tipster, Jarret might have walked away from the dinner unblemished.
    According to our tipster, Jarrett was seated at the head table along with several other big-name politicians and a handful of high-ranking military officials. As an officer sporting several stars walked past Jarrett, she signaled for his attention and said, “I’d like another glass of wine.”
    Garçon!
    White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, who was seated next to Jarret, began “cracking up nervously,” our tipster said, but no one pointed out to Jarrett that the man sporting a chestful of medals was not her waiter.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/01/valerie-jarrett-to-uniformed-general-more-wine-garcon/#ixzz1ClwlC0Og

    How does a person confuse a waiter with a person wearing stars on their shoulders and multiple rows of ribbons and badges?  Especially if they’re having dinner with others dressed just like him?

  • tango

    I love these people at xtranormal and their videos.  They are so right about liberals.  Here are a bunch of them but start off with the one called “why Obamacare was ruled unconstitutional”:  (Sorry I don’t know how to imbed the video)

    http://www.youtube.com/user/Battlefield315

    I don’t see the one where they talk about Sarah Palin but the liberal kept saying all the same tired points (she’s stupid, she can see Alaska from her house, blah, blah, blah).  I love how the animators call Sarah Palin “The Sarah Palin”.

  • ~~JustMe~~
  • greenlantern
  • helenk

    If I remember correctly these actesses played roles showing strong women. They came off as very femine but not weak.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • TeakWoodKite

    She didn’t. She has no respect for the uniform.

  • Buzz Latte

    That’s the level of “affirmative action” slide on through the system people we have in the White House today.  They don’t need to know anything outside of their “specialness”.

  • TeakWoodKite

    ewww! BO knows ElBaradei “well”??? Just how is that Gibbs can state BO has worked closely with him? Bullshite!

    For its part, the Obama administration — which has made outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood and its American affiliates a policy priority — reciprocates ElBaradei’s admiration. Robert Gibbs said Friday that the president knows ElBaradei well and has worked closely with him. 
    By the way, ElBaradei also says “Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East,” and has expressed strong support for the Palestinian “resistance,” particularly in Hamas-controlled Gaza (which he calls “the world’s largest prison”), because, in his opinion, “the Israeli occupation only understands the language of violence.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258397/what-could-be-worse-elbaradei-andrew-c-mccarthy

  • NOOGAN!!

    As the Constitutionality of ObamaCare gets decided in the Courts, the states aren’t waiting for SCOTUS to rule: 

    South Dakota is the 11th state to introduce Nullification Legislation on ObamaCare:

    The Legislature find that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590; Pub. L. No. 111-148) as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872; Pub. L. No. 111-152) is not authorized by the United States Constitution and violates the true meaning and intent of the United States Constitution, and further finds that such law is invalid in this state, may not be recognized by this state, is specifically rejected by this state, and is considered null and void and of no effect in this state
    The bill also establishes penalties, including fines and jail time, for any agent seeking to enforce the federal health care bill within the state’s borders:
    No official, agent, or employee of the United States government nor any employee of any entity providing services to the United States government may enforce or attempt to enforce the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590; Pub. L. No. 111-148) as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872; Pub. L. No. 111-152) or any order, statute, rule, or regulation of the United States government established in connection with that Act. A violation of this section is a Class 5 felony
    State legislators in Maine, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming have already introduced similar bills.
    http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/02/11-and-counting-states-consider-obamacare-nullification/

  • getfitnow

    Barbara Stanwyck. :-D

  • NOOGAN!!

    OMG!  What a moron. =-O

    Whoever the “3-Star” was in this case, he clearly was the ONLY one with class. 

    It’s shocking to think these people are running this country. They are out of their depth and juvenile idiots. 

  • NOOGAN!!

    The mental health professional who profiled John Edwards could give us a very good picture of Barack Hussein Obama, too. 

    I have to confess, I was completely fooled by John Edwards; I think my admiration for Elizabeth Edwards [and my loathing for G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney] made me want to believe in John Edwards’ “persona.” Just goes to show, it’s easy to swallow that koolaid when you want so desperately to believe. Having been fooled, I don’t give time or money to any candidates anymore from either party, or to any activist cause, except humane treatment of animals. It’s a bitter pill to look back on those days now, since thanks to Kerry’s nincompoop pomposity and Edwards’ narcissism aided the rise of Barack Hussein Obama. In the end, they also aided my complete break with the Democratic Party forever. Good catch helenk! :)

  • AbigailAdams

    It’s not easy being The Reverend Al. 

    “Al Sharpton Amplifies Calls for FCC to Regulate Racism in Broadcasting”

    http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/141419-al-shartpon-tells-fcc-to-keep-racism-off-the-air-in-light-of-tucson-shootings

    It must be hard to compete this week with what’s going on in Egypt.  His sales numbers must be down.

    It’s noteworthy how Sharpton is utterly convinced that racism is a phenomenon that is only suffered by black people at the hands of white people.  When will Cone’s social theories on institutional racism be debunked and we stop teaching them in public schools?  We hear all about teaching our kids how to think critically, but apparently educators have no personal ability for passing that skill on to their students.

  • Breeze

    Egypt Restores Internet Service .
     
    Wall Street Journal,
    by Shereen al Gazzar   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    The Egyptian government restored Internet service to the country Wednesday, ending an unprecedented week-long shutdown aimed at making it harder for protesters to organize. In the end, the shutdown proved less an impediment than a source of fresh anger among ordinary Egyptians who suddenly lost contact with friends and family overseas. Protesters had no trouble pulling together larger and larger crowds, culminating with an estimated 250,000 people that gathered in central Cairo Tuesday to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade rule. The government restored Internet services back Wednesday, said Hassan Kabbani, chief executive of cellphone-service provider MobiNil.

  • Breeze

    Pro- and anti-Mubarak
    forces clash in Cairo

    Associated Press,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 
    CAIRO

    — Hundreds of pro-government supporters attacked protesters Wednesday in Cairo’s central square, where thousands were pushing ahead with demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

  • Breeze

    Radical Islam or Mainstream Islam?
     
    American Thinker,
    by Dave Gaubatz   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Radical Islam. What does this mean? Does it mean that there are a few Muslims who take Islam to the extreme and cause violence throughout the world?

    (Snip) What is most frightening is that my researchers and I have conducted research at over 250 Islamic centers in America. The vast majority desire to destroy America, yet our House, Senate, president, and senior law enforcement officials give them the opportunity to harm our country and children.

  • Breeze

    Obama’s antique vision of
    technological progress

    Washington Examiner,
    by Michael Barone   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static. “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” he said…..

  • Breeze

    Bill O’Reilly Blows Up At Alan Colmes,
    Challenges Sam Donaldson to Come on Fox
    and Defend Thanking Al Jazeera
     
    NewsBusters,
    by Noel Sheppard   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    As NewsBusters previously reported, Sam Donaldson on Sunday’s “This Week” actually thanked the anti-American television network Al Jazeera for what they do in the Middle East. On Tuesday, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly invited Alan Colmes and Monica Crowley on his program to discuss the matter, and by the end of the segment, O’Reilly was practically screaming at Sean Hannity’s former partner (video follows with commentary): It really is amazing how these guys at Fox put up with Colmes who just seems like nothing but a liberal antagonist.

  • Breeze

    Antiquities chief says
    sites are largely secure
     
    New York Times,
    by Kate Taylor   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    A vast majority of Egypt’s museums and archaeological sites are secure and have not been looted, Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief antiquities official, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. He also rejected comparisons between the current situation in Egypt and scenes of chaos and discord that resulted in the destruction of artifacts in Iraq and Afghanistan. “People are asking me, ‘Do you think Egypt will be like Afghanistan?’” he said. “And I say, ‘No, Egyptians are different — they love me because I protect antiquities.”

  • Breeze

    Can North Carolina deliver again?

    New York Times,
    by Jeff Zeleny   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011
    WASHINGTON

    — President Obama signaled Tuesday that he would try to follow the same path to re-election that he charted in his first campaign, selecting Charlotte, N.C., to host the 2012 Democratic convention in a decision that instantly confirmed the state as a new presidential battleground. In choosing Charlotte, Mr. Obama rejected bids from Cleveland, Minneapolis and St. Louis.

  • Breeze

    Leading From the Rear

    Power Line,
    by John Hinderaker   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    President Obama gave a brief speech on the situation in Egypt tonight; if you didn’t see it, the text is here. I’m not sure that any other administration could have done a materially better job of dealing with the crisis that began in Tunisia and continues in several Arab countries. What is happening in the Arab world is not about us. But I’m pretty sure that another administration could have adopted a less annoying tone.

  • Breeze

    O’s house of cards

    New York Post,
    by Michael A. Walsh   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Monday’s ruling by federal Judge Roger Vinson that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — a k a ObamaCare — is unconstitutional is a signal event in modern American history. For the first time since FDR browbeat the Supreme Court into accepting most of his New Deal, the Leviathan known as the federal government has been rocked back on its heels. If the administration and the Senate Democrats had any sense…..

  • Breeze

    Let There Be Light Bulb Choice

    Human Events,
    by Nicholas D. Loris   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Government loves to spend your money. Yet it’s also keen on telling you how to save money, particularly when it comes to energy use. Here’s how it works, allegedly: The government implements tighter energy efficiency standards on businesses, you save money, we reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and everyone goes home happy. Everyone except those who believe we have too much government in our lives, which is the majority of people. And they have a right to be upset.

  • Breeze

    The Goreacle: Snowstorms
    caused by global warming
     
    Daily Caller,
    by Anthony Watts   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Earlier today, Al Gore responded to a question posed last week by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly: Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question. As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question

  • Breeze

    Getting Ahead of the Curve in Egypt

    Commentary,
    by Max Boot   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    I sympathize with President Obama as he performs the extremely difficult act of dealing with Egypt’s revolution-in-progress. I don’t know that he is doing any worse than any previous president confronted with such a chaotic situation in an important ally. That said, he has been consistently behind the curve.

    In the first place…..

  • Breeze

    ‘Kennedys’ Miniseries Lands
    Home, Will Air on ReelzChannel

    Hollywood Reporter,
    by Matthew Belloni   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    After a three-week journey, The Kennedys has found a home. The controversial miniseries will world premiere on April 3 on the ReelzChannel, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

  • Breeze

    GOP Marching to a Senate Majority

    National Journal,
    by Jon Krashaar   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Republicans have spent the first month of the year landing a slate of top-tier Senate candidates for 2012, which has already put the majority tantalizingly in reach. The early successes are a clear sign the momentum from last year’s midterm wave is continuing in the recruitment process for 2012. Only one month into 2011, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already recruited three top-tier candidates against several of the most vulnerable Democrats. And Republicans start off with a significant edge in the contest for the seat of Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who announced his retirement last month.

  • Breeze

    Pelosi Plans Mock Hearing
    on Obama Priorities

    Wall Street Journal,
    by Patrick O’Connor   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi relinquished the speaker’s gavel earlier this year, but she still likes to call hearings. The California Democrat and other members of her leadership team plan to stage something of a mock hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday – a day when the House is officially in recess — to press Republicans to implement President Barack Obama’s calls for increased spending on infrastructure, education and research in the renewable energy sector.

  • Breeze

    Yippee ki yay, liberals! It’s Sarah
    Palin Month on Telegraph Blogs!

    Telegraph [UK],
    by James Delingpole   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Did any of you catch that brilliant Charlie Brooker demolition of Sarah Palin on Channel 4’s zappy, new, heavily promoted topical comedy/politics show 10 o’clock Live the other night? [Snip] Sarah Palin is dumb. Sarah Palin likes guns. Sarah Palin is right wing and American.

    [Snip] You’ve no idea what paroxysms of consensual, right-on ecstasy these observations induced in the audience. That’s because Sarah Palin is to leftie comedy in this Teens decade what Margaret Thatcher was to leftie comedy in the Eighties:

    [Snip] And that’s why I love Sarah Palin so much.

  • Breeze

    The Left and Their ‘Good Victims’

    American Thinker,
    by Robin of Berkeley   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    A number of years ago, I was the victim of a brutal street crime. Although I was left with a broken nose and two black eyes, I learned soon thereafter that I wasn’t a “good victim.” A progressive friend, Fran, clued me in. When I told her what happened, she said, “What you went through wasn’t half as bad as what he has suffered.” Fran was referring to the fact that I am white and the assailant was black. In other words, my suffering didn’t matter.

  • Breeze

    There’s no Abe Lincoln in the Muslim Hood
     
    American Thinker,
    by James Lewis   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Today, Egypt is under assault by the fascist Muslim Brotherhood, which is pushing that old IAEA crook, Mohammed El Baradei [Snip]. This guy’s a jewel.  El Baradei may be the figurehead of a new regime, but the Hoods will be in charge.  The only “moderate” in sight is the President of Egypt, Mubarak, who is not very moderate either — except compared to all the others.

  • Breeze

    Lawless Regime to Ignore Ruling

    Rush Limbaugh Show,
    by Rush Limbaugh   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    RUSH: It appears, ladies and gentlemen, the regime is just going to ignore the judge’s ruling. 

    (Snip)  See this is the key, and this is where, as I mentioned earlier, any one of the 26 attorney generals who have filed suit can move now and ask for an immediate ruling from Judge Vinson. The minute the signal is made that the regime is gonna ignore his ruling, somebody needs to consult him again, and that’s what this sounds like.  Well, you know, they’re just gonna keep going ’cause everybody knows it’s gonna go to the Supreme Court anyway.

  • Breeze

    Now besieged Jordanian king
    fires government

    Associated Press,
    by Joel Greenberg   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011
    AMMAN, Jordan

    – Jordan’s King Abdullah II yesterday dismissed Prime Minister Samir Rifai and his Cabinet after widespread protests by crowds inspired by demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. The monarch asked Marouf Bakhit — a well-regarded ex-general who is not tainted by allegations of corruption that plagued the former government — to form a new Cabinet. Abdullah, a key US ally…..

  • Breeze

    A kinder, gentler Year of the Rabbit

    Houston Chronicle,
    by Lana Berkowitz   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    So long, Tiger. Don’t let the door slam on your tail as you leave to make way for this year’s darling, Rabbit. Feb. 3 marks the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit on the lunar zodiac calendar, and the easygoing bunny is a welcome replacement for the restless, aggressive tiger, which ruled an erratic year.

    (Snip) Lau predicts this year will be calmer and move at a slower pace. “The Rabbit is one of the most gracious personalities of the zodiac,” she said.

  • Breeze

    Chechen leader wants women covered
    to prevent ‘distractions’

    Independent,
    by Shaun Walker   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Ramzan Kdyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, said this week that a local rule forcing women to wear headscarves was justified because the sight of female flesh prevents him from concentrating on his work. “If women go to work half-naked, then men won’t be able to work,” the Chechen leader continued. “I’ll look at you, and day and night I’ll be thinking about how to say salaam alaikum [hello] to you. Work will be the last thing on my mind.”

  • Breeze

    ‘Jihad Jane’ Terror Suspect
    Pleads Guilty in Pa.

    Associated Press,
    by Maryclaire Dale   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    A suburban woman who was the live-in caretaker for her boyfriend’s elderly father calmly told a U.S. judge Tuesday that she had worked feverishly online under the name “Jihad Jane” to support Islamic terrorists and moved overseas to further her plan to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims. Colleen LaRose, 47, faces the possibility of life in prison after pleading guilty to four federal charges, including conspiracy to murder a foreign target, conspiracy to support terrorists and lying to the FBI.

  • Breeze

    Immigration ‘activist’ busted for
    threatening FL. state Rep
     
    Miami Herald,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Massachusetts police have arrested a local man who allegedly sent a threatening email to Florida state Rep. Will Snyder over the Republican’s proposal to bring an Arizona-style immigration law to the Sunshine State. “You better just stop that ridiculous law if you value your and your family’s lives, a——,” the e-mail said.

  • Breeze

    Egypt crisis: Israel faces danger
    in every direction
     
    Telegraph [UK],
    by David Horovitz   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    The Middle East is in ferment at the moment–but despite the general excitement, the outcome could be a grim one for Israel, and for the West more generally. In the past few weeks, we have seen a president ousted in Tunisia. We’ve seen protests in Yemen. We’ve seen Iran essentially take control of Lebanon, where its proxy, Hizbollah, has ousted a relatively pro-Western prime minister and inserted its own candidate. We’ve seen the King of Jordan rush to sack his cabinet amid escalating protests. We’ve seen reports that similar demonstrations are planned for Syria…..

  • Breeze

    A Christian Business in
    the Left’s Crosshairs

    Creators Syndicate Inc.,
    by Michelle Malkin   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Here’s a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don’t comport with yours. I’m looking at you, New York Times. Chick-fil-A is an American success story. Founded by Georgian entrepreneur Truett Cathy in 1946, the family-owned chicken-sandwich chain is one of the country’s largest fast-food businesses.

    (Snip) Over the past month, several progressive activist blogs have waged an ugly war against Chick-fil-A. The company’s alleged atrocity: One of its independent outlets in Pennsylvania donated some sandwiches and brownies to a marriage seminar run by the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which…..

  • Breeze

    Saudi newborn’s father lands
    in trouble after kissing lady doc

    Asian News International [India],
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    A man almost ended up in a court of law after kissing a woman doctor in Saudi Arabia upon hearing that his wife had delivered a baby boy. The father was so overwhelmed with the “delightful” news that he could not hold himself and hugged and kissed the doctor on the cheeks in front of the medical staff at a private hospital in the industrial town of Jubail, according to media reports on Sunday. The doctor was shocked by the man’s reaction and asked her colleagues who witnessed the incident to act as witnesses in the case, the Gulf News reports…..

  • Breeze

    -
    FROM THE COMMENTS:

    There is no JOY in Islam.

    There is no BROTHERHOOD in Islam.

    There is no COMPASSION in Islam.

    There is no GENEROSITY in Islam.

    There is no CHARITY in Islam.

    There is no LOVE in Islam.

    What crappy, stupid, barbaric, cave-dwelling 11th-century LUNACY.

  • Breeze

    Russia loses new satellite
    in space: Interfax

    Reuters,
    by Amie Ferris-Rotman   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011

    Russia has most likely lost a newly launched military satellite, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday citing a source in the country’s space rocket industry. The GEO-IK-2 spacecraft, designed to measure the shape of the earth, was launched earlier on Tuesday from the Plesetsk launchpad in northern Russia.

  • Breeze

    President Obama Snubs Issa
    On First Major Document Deadline.

    The Daily Caller,
    by Jonathan Strong   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011
    TheDC Exclusive

    – The Obama administration snubbed top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa on his first major document deadline as new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sending a short letter promising to comply in response to a major information request that was due Saturday at noon. But Issa is hitting back Tuesday with a demand key documents be sent in two days. The Obama snub…..

  • Breeze

    New Congressional Intern Disillusioned
    With Politics and Democracy In
    Record 6 Minutes, 41 Seconds

    Onion,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011

    Once-idealistic Penn State senior Marc Leitman set a congressional internship record Tuesday when, within seven minutes of his arrival on Capitol Hill, he became hopelessly disillusioned with American politics, having overheard his sponsoring senator offer a government contract to a construction company in exchange for free home renovations. “I didn’t even get a chance to introduce myself before…..”

  • Breeze

    Keeping Carter’s home
    neat costs U.S. a tidy sum

    Washington Times,
    by Stephen Dinan   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011

    The tennis court at former President Jimmy Carter‘s private home is swept twice a day, his pool is cleaned daily and his grass cut, his flower beds weeded and his windows washed on a regular basis – all at taxpayers’ expense. Under an arrangement with the National Park Service, taxpayers are responsible for the exterior of Mr. Carter‘s home in Plains, Ga. – to the tune of $67,841 last year alone. In exchange, the government obtains the right to add the home to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site when he and his wife pass away.

  • Breeze

    U.S. unlikely to reach
    goal of 1 million
    electrics on the road
    by 2015, report says

    Washington Post,
    by Peter Whoriskey   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011 

    President Obama’s goal of putting 1 million plug-in electric cars on the road within four years is unlikely to be met because automakers are not planning to make enough cars due to uncertain consumer demand, auto industry leaders concluded in a report being released Wednesday. The finding is based on the manufacturers’ announced production numbers and an analysis of consumer demand.

  • Breeze

    Pinal sheriff expects armed
    conflict with cartels soon

    Arizona Republic,
    by Lindsey Collom   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011

    Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members within the next 30 to 60 days. Babeu made that prediction last week as he addressed an Ahwatukee Republican women’s club, and reiterated it Tuesday on the heels of a speech by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asserting that border communities are safer than ever. A gun battle is all but certain, Babeu told The Arizona Republic…..

  • Breeze

    Obama: Egyptian
    protesters ‘an inspiration’

    Associated Press,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011
    WASHINGTON

    – President Barack Obama says the passion and dignity demonstrated by the people of Egypt has been an inspiration. He says young protesters will reach their destiny. In brief remarks at the White House Tuesday evening, the president said, “We hear your voices.”

  • armymom

    I’ve had it with these bunch of trouble makers. I read that story and thought to myself, hm, guess I’ll have to frequent Chick-fil-A even more. There are businesses who do right by their employees because it’s the right thing to do and they are one of them. So does Hobby Lobby, who BTW does not open it’s stores on Sundays so that the employees can spend the day with their families.

  • Breeze

    Only Fox News and Don Imus
    Report Schumer’s Branches
    of Government Gaffe

    NewsBusters,
    by Noel Sheppard   

    Original Article

    2/1/2011

    On Monday, NewsBusters asked, “Will Chris Matthews and MSNBC Spend Week Bashing Schumer’s Branches of Government Gaffe?” It turns out that not only didn’t Matthews or MSNBC mention Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) blunder on that network’s extended prime time programs Monday, but a LexisNexis search identified that…..

  • Breeze

    Obama’s 1979

    National Review Online,
    by Victor Davis Hanson   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Obama’s deer-in-the-headlights, finger-to-the-wind, “I can’t believe this is happening to me” initial reaction to the Mubarak implosion has eerie precedents. After the debacle in Vietnam, Watergate, the Nixon resignation, and the Ford WIN buttons, voters were willing to bet on the smiling but unknown hope-and-change reformer from Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter’s campaign and his early presidential speeches on resetting foreign policy sounded uplifting. They were certainly a rebuke to the supposedly dark Nixon-Kissinger realpolitik and cloak-and-dagger intrigue. Indeed, Carter’s election marked a return to Wilsonian idealism that predicated American support for other nations on shared commitment…..

  • Breeze

    Getting Serious About
    Regulations — NOT!

    American Spectator,
    by Daniel Oliver   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    In a piece in the Wall Street Journal, President Obama has written that he wants to ensure that federal regulations “protect our safety, health, and environment while promoting economic growth.” He made a similar claim in his State of the Union address.  Before anyone starts calling him the “deregulation president,” it’s worth taking a closer look at his piece.  Hidden in the fluff, of course, is a lot of nonsense — even points he must think are nonsense.  Like: “…we have, from time to time, embraced common sense rules of the road…”

  • Breeze

    Ferlinghetti Isn’t the Only One Waiting
     
    Big Journalism,
    by Steve Grammatico   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    I am waiting for Ezra Klein to eat a copy of the Constitution and tell us if it’s binding and I am waiting for 60 Minutes to wind down and I am waiting for a presidential debate moderator to crack wise with Chris Christie and I am waiting for Old Media to request end-of-life counseling and I am really waiting for the Associated Press to screw up and forget to spin a story…..

  • Breeze

    Harry Reid’s imaginary $4 billion
    credit to the health care law

    Washington Post,
    by Glenn Kessler   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    The Senate majority leader made an impassioned plea on behalf of the new health care law on the Senate floor yesterday, one day after a federal judge struck down the law as unconstitutional.

  • Breeze
  • Breeze

    -
    FROM THE COMMENTS:

    “Anyone want to take a guess as to how long it will be before this little ‘slip’ of Valjar’s is on msnbc ?   

    The general should have slipped a 20 in her bodice and asked for a cigar.”

  • AbigailAdams

    I suppose he blames his girth on being “big boned”, too.

  • AbigailAdams

    Could Mock Hearing be any more apt?

  • NOOGAN!!

    Egyptians aren’t free; and neither are we. We’re all being manipulated and controlled by police states. 

    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/

  • NOOGAN!!

    They lie with impunity because they control the media. The only thing they care about is controlling the narrative, selling their “product” [hint: ObamaCare] and keeping Americans terrorized and in-line [TSA] using fake statistics and fear. It’s a miracle the Egyptian mass protests aren’t happening here in the US. But I think they will one day real soon, because Americans are growing as enraged as Egyptians about their own lack of freedom, rule of law, and government corruption/policies, which squeeze them from all sides to enrich elites in power.

  • armymom

    Half naked and they’re putting scarves on their head? How much “female flesh” can you see on the head? Why doesn’t this asshole just admit that it’s his problem, not the womans. With his reasoning, and there’s very little to suggest that he knows how to reason, women should just be put in a box and brought out only to screw. There should be a country for just the women of Islam and give the men blow up dolls that they dress however they want.

  • creeper

    I read somewhere that Marilyn Monroe was a perfect size 14.

  • creeper

    Oh, Noogan, I hear you.  I stood for John Edwards at the Iowa caucus in 2008.  Still can’t think about that without feeling total humiliation.

  • NOOGAN!!

    Read this article on Mexico’s economy and you’ll know the Pinal County Sheriff is right: When Mexico’s economy collapses, we’ll have a war on our southern border. Scary stuff. 

    Mexico will follow Egypt into Collapse: 

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/249799-mexico-will-follow-egypt-into-collapse?source=hp_wc&wc_num=2

  • FlDemFem

    What does racism have to do with a white paranoid schizophrenic shooting a white woman??? Is Loughner secretly black?? Or perhaps Giffords?? Sharpton is a ridiculous little man who should go away and shut the hell up.

  • creeper

    Admin, HELP!  My avatar has disappeared and there doesn’t seem to be anywhere on my profile to add it.  js-kit wants me to log in, though the comment window is already coming up with my name.  When I try logging in with my js-kit account, using the link next to my name, it won’t take any of my longins.

    This site is getting hinkier every day.

    Firefox on Windows XP.

  • FlDemFem

    Someone should tell Pelosi we are too broke to pay for all of that. Of course, being a mock hearing, perhaps they can figure out a way to pay for it with Monopoly money. I am sure we can find plenty of that. it’s the real stuff that is in short supply.

  • FlDemFem

    Actually, it’s a cultural thing. In the ME, the neck and nape of the neck are considered sexy areas of the female body. Showing them can be tempting to males, apparently. Of course, I think that Muslim males should learn to exercise self-control and not think with their willies. If they did that, even naked women wouldn’t bother them. I find it insulting that they demand women should cover up when it is their own lack of self-control that is the problem. Mind you, I am all for appropriate dress in the work-place and in public. But I see no reason to cover women head to toe just because men can’t control their libidos.

  • helenk

    Wouldn’t be nice to have people in charge who addressed facts and not go into personal attack mode when things do not go their way.
    Personal attacks seem to indicate lack of knowledge.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/obamateurism-of-the-day-441/

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • sowsear

    Confirmed sources on Capitol Hill report that Senate Minority
    Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will “force an up-or-down vote”
    on the repeal of ObamaCare today (Wednesday).

    + + Fax and Call your New York Senator and Rep. Today!

  • sowsear

    Confirmed sources on Capitol Hill report that Senate Minority  
    Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will “force an up-or-down vote”  
    on the repeal of ObamaCare today (Wednesday).  
     
    Fax or call your senator today.

  • sowsear

    BO would like an uprising here…martial law is the way to circumvent an election that he may not win.

  • sowsear

    this is from Onion…..

  • Breeze

    The Rest of the World and Obama

    By Steve McCann
    American Thinker

    One of the primary narratives of the Democrats and the media during the entire tenure of the George W. Bush’s term was that the United States was held in historically low regard throughout the rest of the world.  This became, after “Bush lied,” the second-most frequently repeated talking point.  Whether there was any basis for this claim was immaterial; it was a handy cudgel for defeating and humiliating the president.For the past twenty-five-plus years, I have been involved in the international marketplace, having dealt in countries as varied as the United Kingdom, China,…

    (Read Full Article)

  • Breeze

    -
    FROM THE COMMENTS:

    Posted by: TW in SC <!–
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    It all becomes elementary when one considers Occam’s Razor. The simplest answer is probably the correct one. And borrowing from Sir Arther Conan Doyle, “We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

    It is my position that Obama and his orchestrated criminal acts have but one purpose, to break the back of the US financially and force it to a position of servitude to other nations….as punishment for how he imagines the US has done to still other nations. It’s all 100% intentional and driven by his seething hatred of this nation. That is why the SOTU “speech” was all re-hashed old crapola. He is running out of material. But he is not done destroying this nation from within.

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    –>If I may add the provervial two coppers to the curb, Blackelkspeaks and Warrior seem bitter — but in my opinion their sentiment is righteous. One of my favorite monologues of all time is the Canadian Gordon Sinclair’s “The Americans”. Do yourself a favor and read it — it is as relevant today as it was when he first read it on a radio broadcast in 1974.

    On the matter of world business opinion of the One, I hear two distinct voices. The first is no different from the MSNBC talking points of praise. The second, larger and growing by the month, is in absolute agreement with Mr. McCann. It is interesting that while in Amsterdam 18 months ago, I was nearly motion-sick from the bowing adulation of Obama. So I was surprised (full disclosure: delighted) that on my last visit in October the mood was much more dire. In fact, I heard the word “dombo” used quite a bit (Dutch for “idiot”).

    In London, associates there who were at first “quite keen” on Obama now describe him as “mad as a box of ferrets” — and that’s about the most benign term that will make it through the AT screening process.

    The business people I deal with in India seem to me the most concerned but remain the most polite.

    So I can say without hesitation that in my business circle, in spite of so much of the world’s compulsion toward socialistic government, the bloom is off the Obama rose.

  • Breeze

    -  
    FROM THE COMMENTS:  
     
    Posted by: TW in SC  

    It all becomes elementary when one considers Occam’s Razor. The simplest answer is probably the correct one. And borrowing from Sir Arther Conan Doyle, “We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”  
     
    It is my position that Obama and his orchestrated criminal acts have but one purpose, to break the back of the US financially and force it to a position of servitude to other nations….as punishment for how he imagines the US has done to still other nations. It’s all 100% intentional and driven by his seething hatred of this nation. That is why the SOTU “speech” was all re-hashed old crapola. He is running out of material. But he is not done destroying this nation from within.  

    Posted by: Aldus 
      
    If I may add the provervial two coppers to the curb, Blackelkspeaks and Warrior seem bitter — but in my opinion their sentiment is righteous. One of my favorite monologues of all time is the Canadian Gordon Sinclair’s “The Americans”. Do yourself a favor and read it — it is as relevant today as it was when he first read it on a radio broadcast in 1974.  
     
    On the matter of world business opinion of the One, I hear two distinct voices. The first is no different from the MSNBC talking points of praise. The second, larger and growing by the month, is in absolute agreement with Mr. McCann. It is interesting that while in Amsterdam 18 months ago, I was nearly motion-sick from the bowing adulation of Obama. So I was surprised (full disclosure: delighted) that on my last visit in October the mood was much more dire. In fact, I heard the word “dombo” used quite a bit (Dutch for “idiot”).  
     
    In London, associates there who were at first “quite keen” on Obama now describe him as “mad as a box of ferrets” — and that’s about the most benign term that will make it through the AT screening process.  
     
    The business people I deal with in India seem to me the most concerned but remain the most polite.  
     
    So I can say without hesitation that in my business circle, in spite of so much of the world’s compulsion toward socialistic government, the bloom is off the Obama rose.

  • Breeze

    Reality Shatters Obama’s Happy-Talk Agenda
     
    AOL News,
    by Michael Medved   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011
    With America’s chief Arab ally teetering on the brink of chaos and collapse, with unemployment stubbornly stuck above 9 percent, with an entire economic system facing cataclysmic breakdown unless Congress simultaneously cuts spending and raises the debt ceiling, will President Barack Obama persist in his feeble efforts to rally the nation with expensive programs for solar panels and high-speed rail?

  • Diana L. C.

    Can’t go by sizes nowadays.  What used to be a 14 may be something etirely different now.

  • Breeze

    -

    Breaking News!

    The famed Egyptian Museum in Cairo reportedly
    catches fire from Molotov cocktail

    (Fox News)

  • sowsear

    When I was in high school and college, there were very few fat girls or boys either . We didn’t just sit around around eating, watching TV, and playing hand-held games, As i’ve mentioned before, we had very little money to blow on junk…Not one of us even had a car, boohoo.

  • AC

    Anche io.

  • AC

    Don’t forget Sophia Loren. She makes me proud to be italian.
    *************************
    Definetly a turn-on for youn Italian boys–You go girl!

  • Breeze

    -

    CAIRO,
    Feb 2

    (Reuters)

    - Petrol bombs were thrown in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said. An Egyptologist said some had landed in the gardens of a museum housing the world’s greatest collection of Pharaonic treasures.

    The Egyptian museum itself however was unscathed.

    The Egyptologist, who had been in contact with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said it seemed the petrol bombs were being thrown by protesters demonstrating in favour of President Hosni Mubarak. “So far the museum is safe, but we don’t know what’s going to happen, because the Mubarak supporters are out of control,” the Egyptologist, who declined to be identified, added.

    Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum on Friday evening, smashing several statues and damaging two mummies.

    The army moved to extinguish the flames, a source from the Ministry of Defence told Reuters. Army fire engines were called to the scene to ensure that fire did no damage to “army property”, the source said.

  • AC

    I read somewhere that Marilyn Monroe was a perfect size 14.
    +++++++++++++++
    Whatever size sure di look good to me–Twiggy was a turnoff–looked like an 8 year old.

  • sowsear

    There were no sizes like 0, 1, 2 etc. Junior sizes such as 7 and 9 were sold in specialty stores, if you could find one.
    My belt fit on my boyfriend’s head…16inches, but I wore size 10.

  • Breeze

    -
    FROM THE COMMENTS:

    Anonymous wrote:

    Wow. Nothing has changed for the Dems … they haven’t learned anything. They will be in the wilderness after 2012. The post above is correct in that most conservative didn’t like (hate is primarily and dem thing) Pelosi or the power she had.

    But now it’s more about pity as she has become truly a pathetic embarrassment to the whole legislative process.

    The idea that she could have become President, God forbid something should happen to the Pres or VP, is still a scary, scary , scary thought. It is hard to understand why her approval rating is not below its current 13% … they must be the only ones that believed she was reducing the federal debt and creating jobs these past 4 years while she was SOTHOR.

  • Breeze

    Michelle jumps the shark  
    on 2012 Democratic  
    National Convention      
       
    Canada Free Press,  
    by Judi McLeod     
     
    Original Article  
     
    2/2/2011  
     
    Mrs. Barry Soetoro has come out of the kitchen and gone into convention mode.  
     
    You may be hungry, worried about finding work or possible mortgage foreclosure, but not Michelle Obama, who, according to an email sent out to cyberspace yesterday, is “thrilled” to be so far ahead on the calendar.  Put aside all that silly worry and life’s struggle to think ahead to the week of September 3, 2012 and the (drum roll) 46th Democratic National Convention.

  • Breeze

    Obama’s Brotherhood Moment
     
    Front Page,
    by Robert Spencer   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Game over: Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt. This should come as no surprise. Obama has behaved consistently all along, from his refusal to back the protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against an Islamic Republic, to his backing of these protesters in Egypt, to whom he has just given a green light to establish a government that, given numerous historical precedents, will likely be the precursor to an Islamic Republic.

  • Breeze

    Keystone pipeline could end
    U.S. oil reliance on Mideast‎
     
    Reuters,
    by Timothy Gardner   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    A proposed pipeline from Canada’s oilsands to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico would help “essentially eliminate” U.S. oil imports from the Middle East in a decade or two, according to a new study commissioned by the Department of Energy. Oil deliveries from the $7 billion pipeline, combined with a projected drop in U.S. fuel demand, would potentially turn the United States into a net exporter of products like gasoline, jet fuel and diesel, said the report, called “Keystone XL Assessment.”

  • Breeze

    Mitch McConnell’s
    promise kept on ObamaCare
     
    Washington Post,
    by Jennifer Rubin   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    As The Post reported earlier today: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday introduced a measure aimed at repealing the national health-care overhaul as an amendment to the first Senate bill of the new Congress. McConnell proposed the repeal measure as an amendment to a Federal Aviation Administration funding bill. The move came one day after a federal judge in Florida ruled that Congress had overstepped its authority by mandating insurance for nearly all Americans.

  • Breeze

    Obama’s new push to confirm judges
     
    Washington Examiner,
    by David Freddoso   

     Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    From the Blog of the Legal Times: In a rare public appearance, White House Counsel Robert Bauer pleaded today for senators to allow confirmation votes on more of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees. Bauer, pictured above, spoke at an event organized by the liberal American Constitution Society and echoed what members of both parties have said for years, that the Senate confirmation process is broken.

  • Breeze

    Former Rep. Joe Kennedy
    teams up with Venezuela’s
    Hugo Chavez — again

    Daily Caller,
    by Caroline May   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    For the sixth straight year and with the help of Joseph Kennedy II’s non-profit Citizens Energy Corporation, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is again attempting to win over America’s less fortunate with the promise of free energy. The end of January marked the beginning of the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program, a Venezuelan initiative to provide energy for needy individuals throughout the United States.

  • Breeze

    Mark Kirk: Al Gore’s
    Personal Life Disproves
    Global Warming
     
    The New Republic Magazine,
    by Bradford Plumer   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Here’s how Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) explains his big about-face on climate change over the past year: “The consensus behind the climate change bill collapsed and then further deteriorated with the personal and political collapse of Vice President [Al] Gore,” Kirk said in a brief interview last week It was Gore’s fault! Once upon a time, Kirk was one of the handful of Republicans who believed in climate change.

  • Breeze

    Obama’s logic on Egypt

    American Thinker,
    by Joseph J. Aliotta   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Apparently, according to President Obama, the people of Egypt have the right to protest peacefully and demand change in their leadership. I agree with Mr. Obama, and I’m happy to discover that all we now need in America is a relatively large group of American citizens to gather in Washington and peacefully demand that our President step down. I didn’t know it was that easy, and with the President’s blessing I might add.

  • Breeze

    Egyptian Foreign Ministry Says Obama Inciting Violence!

    FoxNation.com,
    by Staff   

     Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    The Egyptian foreign ministry appears to be rejecting President Obama’s call for an immediate transition from the government of President Hosni Mubarak — and says that such calls are inciting violence. “What foreign parties are saying about ‘a period of transition beginning immediately’ in Egypt is rejected,” said foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki, adding that such calls “inflame the internal situation in Egypt.”

  • Breeze

    Fox Business Reporter’s Cairo
    Hotel Room Invaded by Security:
    ‘They’re Going to Kill Us!!’

    The Daily Caller,
    by Jeff Poor   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Covering the melee in Cairo as an American journalist has taken a turn for the worse in the last 24 hours. In addition to the dangers of reporting from an area where the government has failed to ensure basic safety, an alleged pro-Hosni Mubarak mob has infiltrated the protests and is turning violent on protesters and western journalists. Ashley Webster, the overseas market editor for the Fox Business Network, is the latest to face the threats from the pro-Mubarak demonstrators.

  • Breeze

    ABC’s Amanpour Comes
    Under Attack In Cairo

    Broadcasting & Cable,
    by Ben Grossman   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    ABC’s Christiane Amanpour said Wednesday that she and a crew came under attack from a “mob” on the same day CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported the same. Amanpour wrote in a reporter’s notebook released by ABC News that the attack came after trying to film on a bridge into Tahrir Square. “An angry mob surrounded us and chased us into the car shouting that they hate America,” she said. “They kicked in the car doors and broke our windshield as we drove away.”

  • Breeze

    Murdoch On Rumors Of
    Hiring Olbermann: ‘We Don’t
    Believe In Firing People Twice’

    Mediaite,
    by Matt Schneider   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Fox News host Neil Cavuto interviewed his boss Rupert Murdoch on a range of topics from the launch of The Daily to the Egyptian uprising, but most intriguing was hearing Murdoch’s thoughts on the recent controversial departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC. Although he wasn’t bothered by Comcast’s takeover of NBC, he did seem eager to dismiss any rumors that Olbermann might ever again work for him.

  • Breeze

    Egypt crisis:
    Mubarak supporters on horseback
    attack anti-government protesters

    Telegraph [UK],
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    In chaotic scenes, the two sides pelted each other with stones, and protesters dragged attackers off their horses. This is the first significant violence between supporters of the two camps in more than a week of anti-government protests. It erupted after President Mubarak went on national television on Tuesday night and rejected demands he step down immediately and said he would serve out the remaining seven months of his term. On Wednesday morning, a military spokesman appeared on state television and asked the protesters to disperse so life in Egypt could get back to normal.

  • Breeze

    Sen. Boxer says climate
    science hearings are
    ‘absolutely’ in the works
     
    The Hill [Washington, DC],
    by Ben Geman   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is issuing a challenge to skeptics of climate change science: Bring it on. Boxer said Wednesday that she’s expecting hearings on the issue. She said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who is expected to head the panel’s oversight subcommittee, “is working on getting us going with some hearings.” “We are going to absolutely look at the science of carbon pollution and its impact on our people, on our planet,” Boxer said…..

  • Breeze

    EPA chief slams bills
    to block climate rules,
    affirms Obama’s veto threat

    The Hill
    [Washington, DC],
    by Ben Geman   
    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson on Wednesday attacked bills piling up in Congress that would block the agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and reiterated the White House veto threat. Jackson, speaking to reporters, initially declined to address whether President Obama would veto bills that stop climate rules, but later said that past threats still stand.

  • Breeze

    ‘Death Panels’ Revisited

    Wall Street Journal,
    by James Taranto   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    “At a time when there is virtually unanimous agreement that health care reform is needed in this country, it is hard to invalidate and strike down a statute titled ‘The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,’ ” Judge Roger Vinson observed Monday in his ruling in Florida v. HHS, which did just that. It would have been a lot harder had ObamaCare enjoyed wide political support. But it did not and does not.

  • Breeze

    City Council Readies New Smoking Ban

    Wall Street Journal,
    by Michael Howard Saul   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Attention Times Square denizens and those out for a stroll in Central Park: It will soon be time to put out your smokes — forever. The New York City Council is slated Wednesday afternoon to approve a ban on smoking in parks, beaches, marinas, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas like Times Square. The legislation marks the most ambitious expansion of the city’s antismoking laws since Mayor Michael Bloomberg…..

  • Breeze

    President Carter named
    in $5 million lawsuit over
    his “Palestine” book

    Washington Post,
    by Stephen Lowman   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    More than four years after its publication, five disgruntled readers have filed a class-action lawsuit against President Jimmy Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” contained “numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised.”

  • Breeze

    Muslim imam, given award by
    Princess Anne, facing jail for raping
    boy, 12, at mosque

    Daily Mail [UK],
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    A Muslim cleric, once decorated by Buckingham Palace, is facing jail after being convicted of ‘preying on’ and ‘abusing’ two boys at his mosque. Mohammed Hanif Khan, 42, one of Britain’s most influential imams, became the first ever full-time Islamic minister in the history of the British prison service in 2001. Highly respected, in 2004 he visited the Palace to receive a Butlers’ Trust Award from Princess Anne for his work in diversity.

  • Breeze

    Rick Scott Proposes $2.8 Billion
    in State Pension Savings

    Sunshine State News,
    by Gray Rohrer   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Gov. Rick Scott unveiled his plan to reform the state’s employee pension system in Naples Tuesday, promising $2.8 billion in savings over the next two years. The savings would be achieved, Scott said, by requiring state workers in the Florida Retirement System to contribute 5 percent of their salaries to the system and have new workers join a defined contribution plan akin to a 401(k) retirement plan.

  • Breeze

    Tea Party groups
    put Dems under pressure
    to vote yes on repeal

    The Hill, by Shane D’Aprile   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Republican and Tea Party-affiliated groups are pressuring vulnerable Senate Democrats like Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) to support the GOP’s amendment to repeal the healthcare law. Democrats appear confident — privately, at least — that the party won’t see a single defection when the Senate votes Wednesday on repeal. But activists are warning Democratic senators who are facing tough reelection campaigns in 2012 that they will pay a price at the ballot box for continuing to support the healthcare law.

  • Breeze

    White House on time for Egyptian
    transition: ‘Now means now’

    The Hill [Washington, D.C.],
    by Sam Youngman   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    The White House appeared to be losing patience with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as democratic protests in the Middle Eastern country turned violent.


  • Breeze

    Islamic Radical Regimes
    and Western Ignorance

    Canada Free Press,
    by Elias Bejjani   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    On January 31/2011, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted this statement on his website: “there is no doubt that based on realities envisioned by God, a new Middle East will be formed and this Middle East will be an Islamic Middle East.” Apparently, the western world and its US leadership are walking blindly through a field of explosive mines in the entire Middle East.

  • Breeze

    White House Seems to
    Push Mubarak to Exit
     
    CBS News,
    by Brian Montopoli   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that “a time for a transition [in Egypt] has come, and that time is now.” He added: “Now means yesterday.” “It is not September,” Gibbs said.

  • Breeze

    Obama welcomes
    the Muslim Brotherhood

    Power Line,
    by Scott W. Johnson   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    I haven’t seen it noted much, but the Los Angeles Times reported the position of the Obama administration this past Monday on the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in a future Egyptian government: The Obama administration said for the first time that it supports a role for groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization, in a reformed Egyptian government.

  • Breeze

    Egypt’s blood on
    Obama’s hands?

    Washington Times,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    President Obama is signaling the Egyptian opposition that their time has come. In a terse statement last night, Mr. Obama announced a “moment of transformation” had arrived in Egypt, “the status quo is not sustainable” and a new government must begin to form “now.” An administration official later reiterated, “the key part of the statement was ‘now.’ ” Today the formerly peaceful protests in Egypt turned violent. It turns out that words do have consequences.

  • Breeze

    Former Sen. Kennedy staffer convicted
    of stealing from Senate

    The Hill [Washington, D.C.],
    by Jordy Yager   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) former office manager was convicted on Tuesday of stealing more than $75,000 from the Senate. Ngozi Pole was found guilty on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property. For at least 4 years, Pole submitted fraudulent paperwork that caused the Senate to pay him larger bonus…..

  • BINKY

    It’s extremely difficult to know the true character and motivations of any politician any more.  Scott Brown has disappointed me to the point I’m reluctant to make a donation to anyone’s campaign.  His first vote in Congress violated his stated core principle posted on his web site.  Then add to that failure of the 4th estate to do their jobs…  just a sad situation!

  • Breeze

    Who are the pro-Mubarak protesters?

    MSNBC,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Over the past week, thousands of Egyptians opposed to President Hosni Mubarak have led the way on demonstrations in Cairo, orchestrating huge crowds in a bid to get the U.S.-backed leader to step down after 30 years in power. That situation changed on Wednesday, when protesters faced push-back from those claiming to support the beleaguered president.

  • Breeze

    Egypt official: White House
    demands contradictory
     
    Associated Press,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011
    WASHINGTON

    – An Egyptian official says his government believes that White House demands for President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately are in “clear contradiction” with Obama administration calls for an orderly transition to a new government. The official, speaking for his government from a location outside Egypt, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Mubarak’s decision not to seek re-election in September was not a result of White House pressure.

  • sowsear

    Mohammed El Barade
    According to one article I read, he is the useful idiot in this case…

  • sowsear

    Feds seize sports websites before Super Bowl

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48692.html

  • oowawa

    ““This swift action by our Homeland Security Investigations New York special agents and analysts sends a clear message to website operators who mistakenly believe it’s worth the risk to take copyrighted programming and portray it as their own,”

    Uh, I don’t think that “Homeland Security” was intended to enforce copyrights on the internet . . . It’s time to shut down Big Sis and her entire out-of-control department.  We can live without it!  And maybe we’ll save ourselves some money and frustration . . .

  • Breeze

    -
    FROM HILLBUZZ:

    Bev Says:
    http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gazadelegation/2010/01/free-gaza-square-downtown-cairo

    Here is more proof that CODE PINK/OBAMA are at the heart of these problems in Egypt. 

    This article is from A MONTH AGO.

    Dig people, dig. This is a story that will take Obama out of office. 
    Bev Says:

    https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/424/t/8834/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=6790

    MORE PROOF. Socialist groups in Canada.

  • Breeze

    -
    FROM HILLBUZZ

    Lisette Says:
    House Dems are “targeting” 19 vulnerable Republicans:

    “I guess it’s okay to do this 23 days after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, but it was completely inappropriate for Sarah Palin to do virtually the exact same thing months before last year’s midterm elections.”

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/31/civility-update-house-democrats-target-19-republicans#ixzz1Co3vt5Zf

  • Breeze

    -
    Bev Says:
    OH…I don’t think he is innocent one bit. He meets with Code Pink every month.

    Research Code Pink and their involvement in destabilizing Egypt.

    This has been their goal. Egypt stopped them from protesting in Gaza. They vowed a year ago to destabilize Egypt with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood. They ran ads on the MB website for people to kidnap George and Laura Bush.

    So every month when Obama talks to their leader it never comes up in conversation??? HOGWASH!

  • Breeze

    Lisette Says:
    Obama reacts to the Florida ruling on Obamacare with the grace, decency and intelligence for which he has justly become famous:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/obamateurism-of-the-day-441/

  • Breeze

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    Tuesday, February 01, 2011<!– Begin .post –>ObamaCare Repeal: Harry Reid Confronted in Gourmet Market

  • Breeze

    U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) may never go grocery shopping for his wife again.
    While shopping this past Saturday afternoon amongst the food aisles at his local gourmet grocer in McLean, Virginia, Sen. Reid came across a fellow shopper who recognized him and asked a question that the senior senator from Nevada plainly did not want to answer.

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  • Breeze

    -
                  ObamaCare Repeal: Harry Reid Confronted in Gourmet Market
    U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) may never go grocery shopping for his wife again.  
    While shopping this past Saturday afternoon amongst the food aisles at his local gourmet grocer in McLean, Virginia, Sen. Reid came across a fellow shopper who recognized him and asked a question that the senior senator from Nevada plainly did not want to answer.  
     
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  • Breeze

    -  
                  ObamaCare Repeal: Harry Reid Confronted in Gourmet Market  

    U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) may never go grocery shopping for his wife again.    
    While shopping this past Saturday afternoon amongst the food aisles at his local gourmet grocer in McLean, Virginia, Sen. Reid came across a fellow shopper who recognized him and asked a question that the senior senator from Nevada plainly did not want to answer.    
       
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  • momule

    Oowawa – Some people in the 50s obviously did. Jane Fonda is about 72-73 now and she talked about having bulimia for years (most likely started as a teenager?)

  • Breeze

    Is That Barack Obama Selling KFC?
     
    AOL News,
    by Dave Thier   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    At first glance, it would seem that Barack Obama has returned to the passionate “change” rhetoric he deployed in his presidential campaign, except with a curious new focus: fish fillet sandwiches. “Change, not only for your mom, but for you, your stomach, for a better taste!” he proclaims in the video, before being tragically crushed by a giant sandwich.

  • Breeze

    Muslims seek change in their
    Hollywood story
     
    Associated Press,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    After years of watching Muslims portrayed as terrorists in mainstream TV and movies, an advocacy group hopes to change that image by grooming a crop of aspiring Muslim screenwriters who can bring their stories — and perspective — to Hollywood. The Muslim Public Affairs Council is hosting a series of workshops

  • Breeze

    Who are the pro-Mubarak protesters?

    MSNBC,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Over the past week, thousands of Egyptians opposed to President Hosni Mubarak have led the way on demonstrations in Cairo, orchestrating huge crowds in a bid to get the U.S.-backed leader to step down after 30 years in power. That situation changed on Wednesday, when protesters faced push-back from those claiming to support the beleaguered president.

  • Breeze

    Obama issues global warming rules in January,
    gives GE an exemption in February
     
    Examiner [Washington],
    by Timothy P. Carney   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Last month, the Obama EPA began enforcing new rules regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from any new or expanded power plants. This week, the EPA issued its first exemption, Environment & Energy News reports: The Obama administration will spare a stalled power plant project in California from the newest federal limits on…..

  • Breeze

    Nader to Obama: Why voting
    rights for Egypt,
    but not Washington, D.C.?

    The Hill (Washington D.C.),
    by Michael O’Brien   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Why does the Obama administration favor “free and fair elections” in Egypt but not in Washington, D.C., Ralph Nader wrote Wednesday in a letter to President Obama. Nader, the consumer advocate who twice ran on the Green Party’s presidential ticket, pressed Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on voting rights for D.C. residents, in light of the situation in Egypt.

  • Breeze

    Is The Obama Administration
    Throwing Us Into a Constitutional
    Crisis Over Health Care?
     
    CNBC,
    by John Carney   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Are we we experiencing a quiet constitutional crisis? It’s well known that Judge Roger Vinson ruled yesterday that the individual mandate exceeded the powers of the federal government under the Commerce Clause. But he also ruled that because the law lacked a severability clause and the law’s proponents had argued that the individual mandate was a necessary part of the scheme, the entire law was invalid. Wesley J. Smith explains the implications: That means that under the ruling, the law is void and cannot be implemented from this point forward. The Administration’s legal…..

  • sowsear
  • Breeze

    Senate Rejects Full
    ObamaCare Repeal; Votes
    To Kill ‘1099’ Provision
     
    Investor’s Business Daily,
    by Ed Carson   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    As expected, all 47 Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the sweeping health law, but no Democratic members joined them, leaving the GOP well short of the 60 needed to pass. But the bill, which easily cleared the GOP-led House last month, forced vulnerable Senate Dems to once again back the controversial legislation. Meanwhile, the Senate voted 81-17 to roll back the much-hated “1099” tax-reporting requirement.

  • Breeze

    Obama Invites Crisis
    If He Ignores Ruling
     
    Investor’s Business Daily,
    by Bill Wilson   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    The decision by federal judge Roger Vinson striking down President Obama’s signature health care law effectively ends ObamaCare unless some higher court overturns it. In spite of this overwhelming rebuke of the law, some Birkenstock-wearing legal analysts are trying to argue that Vinson’s ruling could be ignored by the administration. That’s why this week’s action by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is so significant. Van Hollen has taken the proper step of following the law, which now says that ObamaCare is unconstitutional in its entirety, relieving Wisconsin of any obligation to follow it.

  • Breeze

    Dems object to GOP
    gov’t transparency probe
     
    Associated Press,
    by Ted Bridis   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 
    WASHINGTON

    — Some Democrats in Congress objected Wednesday to early steps taken by the new Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to conduct a broad inquiry into President Barack Obama’s promises to improve government transparency. Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, Gerald Connolly of Virginia and Peter Welch of Vermont complained in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that his investigation will burden federal agencies responsible for producing government records under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act requested by citizens, journalists, companies and others.

  • Breeze

    Waking Up Tyrants

    Investor’s Business Daily,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011 

    Freedom: Egypt’s revolution has rattled dictators everywhere. Some are responding by moving toward reform, others by cracking down. Yes, there’s a difference between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Judging by the chain reaction of responses from as far away as Belarus, Venezuela and Thailand, it’s as if an invisible activating agent detectable only by dictators sounded an alarm. Seems no one wants to be “the next Egypt.” But they haven’t all acted alike, which calls to mind the distinction made by former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick in a 1978 essay titled “Dictatorship and Double Standards.” In the context of the Cold War,

  • Breeze

    Obama Stands by Muslim
    Brotherhood Endorsement

    Israel National News,
    by Hillel Fendel   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    For the first time, a U.S. government supports granting a government role to an extremist Islamic organization: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. On Monday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Egypt’s new government will have to include a “whole host of important non-secular actors.” Most prominent among these is clearly the Muslim Brotherhood – which has made Islamic world domination one of its ultimate goals.

  • Breeze

    Who Tossed Egypt
    (to the Wolves)?

    Big Peace,
    by Frank Gaffney   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Dick Morris has observed that President Obama’s tenure will be darkly remembered by our countrymen for his having “lost” Egypt. Since the effect of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak collapsing imminently and its replacement by one dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood will likely be a terrible regional war, it would be bad enough if the Obama administration were simply culpable of the sort of malign neglect that contributed in the past to the toppling of other friends of the United States. Unfortunately, the question to be pursued – presumably by the new Republican House of Representatives…..

  • Breeze

    California:Everybody Must Get Stoned

    Biggovernment.com,
    by Adam Sparks   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    From Bob Dylan’s lyrics to a real California workplace policy, progress is being made. Despite an economy on life support with only weeks, if not hours, remaining to survive fiscally before the State Treasurer of California begins issuing IOU’s for payments, legislators have come up with a plan. Their plan is now to force employers to accept employees who come to work stoned. This should really help light-up the ailing economy. It may sound like a joke, but it’s serious.

  • Breeze

    Ethel Kennedy: ‘It was my turkey’

    Cape Cod Times,
    by Eric Williams   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    The turkey that attacked a mail truck in Centerville last week may have a Kennedy connection. “It was my turkey,” said Ethel Kennedy in a phone conversation with the Cape Cod Times today. If Kennedy’s fowl hypothesis is correct, events leading to the mail-truck misadventure were set in motion when the Kennedy clan gathered in Hyannisport at Thanksgiving.

  • Breeze

    Peter Firstbrook traces
    Obama’s origins to Africa
     
    USA Today,
    by Craig Wilson   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    Where to begin? How about 1624? Peter Firstbrook has done what many might think impossible: traced President Obama’s African family back 23 generations.

    (Snip) The long line of warriors Obama is descended from; the 300-year migration Obama’s tribe (Luo) made from Sudan to Kenya, settling in villages on Lake Victoria’s eastern shore; explorer Henry Stanley’s encounter with the Luo and the Luo’s encounters with slave traders; the attempt by Obama’s grandfather to kill his wife; the split that led to Obama’s father being raised by “Mama Sarah,” who still lives in the family compound.

  • Breeze

    Utah ‘no longer bound’
    by health care reform,
    AG’s Office says

    Salt Lake Tribune (UT),
    by Kirsten Stewart &
    Robert Gehrke   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul is now unenforceable in Utah, the state’s top lawyer says.(snip) U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson determined that Congress overstepped its authority by compelling nearly all Americans to be insured or pay a fine. Because the insurance requirement can’t be separated from the rest of the law, the entire statute must be voided, Vinson said.

  • Breeze

    Michelle wants to visit
    India again, says Obama

    The Times of India,
    by Chidanand Rajghatta   

    Original Article

    2/2/2011

    WASHINGTON: American First Lady Michelle Obama wants to visit India again, this time with her daughters Malia and Sasha, President Obama told India’s national security advisor Shivshankar Menon when he dropped in on Menon’s meeting with his US counterpart Tom Donilon at the White House last week. There was more to the remark than politeness. As if to emphasize he was not saying it for form’s sake, Obama reportedly added that the First Lady is a “very determined” woman and she usually has her way. The Obama children did not make it to India during their parents’…..

  • Breeze

    Utah ‘no longer bound’    
    by health care reform,    
    AG’s Office says        
       
    Salt Lake Tribune (UT),    
    by Kirsten Stewart &    
    Robert Gehrke       
       
    Original Article    
       
    2/2/2011    
       
    President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul is now unenforceable in Utah, the state’s top lawyer says.(snip) U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson determined that Congress overstepped its authority by compelling nearly all Americans to be insured or pay a fine. Because the insurance requirement can’t be separated from the rest of the law, the entire statute must be voided, Vinson said.