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By Bronwyn on July 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM in Current Affairs

There’s “history” between former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Texas governor Rick Perry. In an e-mail to his large group of subscribers, Huckabee noted Perry’s “new-found hyper-conservatism.” Why the dig? Politico’s Mike Allen says that in 2004, Perry turned down Huckabee’s request to become Huck’s national campaign chairman. The embarrassed Huckabee was stunned that Perry then accepted the national chairmanship of Rudy Guiliani’s campaign. In yesterday’s e-mail, Huckabee demanded that Perry explain why he supported Guiliani’s “pro gay marriage” stance.

There’s nearly unanimous belief that Perry will announce that he’s a candidate for president. Will his past affiliation with Guiliani affect him? Will Mike Huckabee’s anger towards Perry hurt the Texas governor’s appeal to religious conservatives who love Huckabee?

On Morning Joe, Mort Zuckerman said that the powerful “in the world of finance and business” still want New Jersey governor Chris Christie to run because, Zuckerman said, they consider Christie a “real winner.”

Aren’t there any of the current GOP candidates who can be considered real winners?

I know that many of you have picked your winners. Can you make a case for their ability to win the general election?

Anonymous

UP-TO-DATENEWS ARTICLES IN LAST OPEN THREAD

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2011/07/21/muslims-get-reality-tv-show-open-thread/
Anonymous

Historic photo of Atlantis
returning to Earth — as seen from space

Los Angeles Times,
by Andrew Malcolm
7/22/2011

We’ve all seen five-million-pound U.S. space shuttles launch, 135 times to be exact.We’ve all seen them land back on Earth in Florida or California, 133 times to be exact. But not until the very last space shuttle flight did we ever get to see what the giant craft’s return to the atmosphere looks like — from space.The crew of the International Space Station caught this unprecedented view above of Atlantis’ fiery re-entry early Thursday morning, Eastern time. After this photo was taken Atlantis plummeted into and through the atmosphere where its wings…..

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/atlantis-return-from-space-nasa-rick-perry-.html

Anonymous

Here is the reentry picture from outer space:

Anonymous

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Lovely, isn’t it, sowsear?

Thank you!!!

Anonymous

Rick Perry:
Obama shutting down our legacy in space

Washington Examiner,
by Charlie Spiering
7/22/2011

Texas Governor Rick Perry sharply criticized the end of the space shuttle program yesterday, issuing the following statement:
“Forty-two years ago yesterday, America captured the world’s imagination by putting a man on the moon, highlighting an era of excellence in space exploration. Unfortunately, with the final landing of the Shuttle Atlantis and no indication of plans for future missions, this administration has set a significantly different milestone by shutting down our nation’s legacy of leadership in human spaceflight and exploration, leaving American astronauts with no alternative but to hitchhike into space.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/rick-perry-obama-shutting-down-our-legacy-space

Anonymous

Considering all the innovations that we now take for granted that came from the space race, I have to wonder how far back it will set us in the technology field.

Anonymous

No Deal, Because Obama Is the Only
One Who Never Thinks About
Getting Reelected, Or Something

Townhall,
by Erika Johnsen
7/23/2011

Good grief – who can keep up? There are so many possible deals, deadlines, and retractions floating around that these debt ceiling negotiations are getting downright bamboozling (although, it’s probably just the darn media’s fault, because they just won’t “let” the poor President “be clear,” as he is constantly reminding us).

(Snip) Besides some more clevermetaphors (truly, the President has a dizzying intellect!), Obama just offered up more of the usual tripe:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikajohnsen/2011/07/22/no_deal,_because_obama_is_the_only_one_who_never_thinks_about_getting_reelected,_or_something
Anonymous

Phone tag and wrong numbers :the collapse of the debt
talks

Politico, by Carrie Budoff Brown

7/23/2011

As he had done often during their weeks of budget
talks, President Barack Obama tried to get House Speaker John Boehner on the
phone late Thursday, but never heard back. The silence continued into Friday,
and White House aides began to wonder. It never took this long for the president
to get his phone calls returned, particularly from Boehner.(snip)Obama finally
heard from Boehner’s office at 3:30 p.m. Friday: Expect a call in two hours. No,
the president responded, how about right now? Not possible, Obama was told, the
speaker isn’t available.
Anonymous

Barack Obama’s approach to the budgettalks puts him well to
the leftof Franklin D Roosevelt

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley

7/23/2011

America has just edged a little closer to financial
disaster. On Friday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner walked out of talks
with the President over raising the debt-limit –a little over a week away from
the deadline when the US Treasury says the country will no longer be able to pay
its bills.[Snip]Boehner said that Obama pushed an unacceptable tax increase,
that, “Dealing with the White House is like dealing with a bowl of Jell-O”.
Anonymous

Armageddon On Or After Aug. 2
Not Very Likely

Investor’s Business Daily,
by Jogadeesh Gokhale
7/22/2011

The Treasury’s Aug. 2 deadline for reaching the federal
borrowing limit is rapidly approaching, but prospects of a budget deal remain unclear. House Republicans seem resolved to shun compromise until that deadline, perhaps until well beyond it. But dire warnings about financial Armageddon if the deadline is breached seem vastly exaggerated. As House Republicans proceeded to pass their Cut, Cap, and Balance legislation, President Obama has shifted his position with increasing frequency. He initially painted himself into a corner by ruling out a short-term budget deal. Later he embraced the McConnell plan,
only to soon…..

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=579217&p=1
Anonymous

Discovered: Another RottenObamacare Easter Egg

Townhall, by Guy Benson

7/23/2011

What was it that former Speaker Pelosi said about her
party’s unwieldy new healthcare beast, again? Right again, Nancy! Surprise: A
major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from
dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without
access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the
Obama administration and congressional Democrats, because it could leave
families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law
requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014.
Anonymous

How the White Housekilled the deal

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin

7/22/2011

In an aggressive move, the House speaker’s office has
put out a blow-by-blow on how the debt talks collapsed: The White House is
misleading reporters tonight by claiming that new revenue in the framework that
was discussed would have been generated by letting the current tax rates expire.
That is simply false. Under the framework, a CEILING was offered by the White
House that would generate $800 billion in new revenue over ten years. This would
be done through comprehensive tax reform that would clear out deductions,
credits, and loopholes in the system
Anonymous

Governor Palin:
Lame Duck President

Fox News,
by Greta Van Susteren
7/22/2011

It seems everyone has something to say about the debt crisis / Boehner / President Obama. I was just emailed by an FNC colleague Gov Palin’s Facebook posting ..so here it is:

Lame Duck President

by Sarah Palin on
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:11pm

After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following: This is the same president
who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president…..

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2011/07/22/now-governor-sarah-palins-turn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogs%2FGretawire+%28Internal+-+Gretawire+-+Blog%29

Anonymous

Oh my, did Greta actually take time off from her full blown obsession with Casey Anthony to cover something else? Whodathunkit?

Anonymous

Name That Party: NoMedia Report AcknowledgesThat
Embezzling Santa Fe,N.M. Sheriff Is a Democrat

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer

7/22/2011

It doesn’t get more obvious than this.Former Santa Fe
County Sheriff Greg Solano, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to five felony counts,
is a Democrat.What follows are the results of three searches demonstrating that
every media outlet which can be found by Google News which has tracked the story
in the past 30 days has failed to note Solano’s party affiliation.First a Google
News search on Solano’s full name (sorted by date, with duplicates) yields 90
results (the first page says “about 96,” but it’s really 90):
Anonymous

Blaming the Tea Party for America’s Debt Dilemma?
Better Get Your Facts Straight

Fox News,
by Neil Cavuto
7/23/2011

Fact One
– Tea Partiers’ opposition to tax hikes didn’t bring us to this brink. Washington’s indifference to spending did.

Fact Two
– Tea Partiers didn’t create these deficits. Washington did.

Fact Three —
Tea Partiers didn’t wreck the budget this year. Try Democrats, who had total control of Washington, not even offering a budget at all… last year.

Fact Four
– Tea Partiers aren’t the reason we’re up against another debt limit. Washington is.

Fact Five
– Tea Partiers aren’t suddenly to blame for the credit
ratings agencies now putting this country’s credit on watch.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-world-cavuto/2011/07/22/blaming-tea-party-americas-debt-dilemma-better-get-your-facts-straight

Anonymous

Love me some Cavuto!

Anonymous

Obama is Determined to Destroy America

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba

7/23/2011

It is astonishing that Barack Obama seemingly learned
nothing from the 2010 national elections in which the Republicans regained
control of the House with a net total of 63 seats. For the Democrats it
represented the greatest loss in the House midterm election since 1938, which
occurred nearly ten years into the Great Depression. It is the House that
determines the spending and borrowing to maintain the nation, though the
President traditionally sends a budget. Obama did not. Indeed, as Speaker of the
House, John Boehner, has said, Obama has never put anything on paper.
Negotiating Obama’s
Anonymous

Krauthammer:
‘This is Obama at his most sanctimonious,
demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant’

Daily Caller,
by Jeff Poor
7/23/2011

Late Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama went to the White House press room after House Speaker John Boehner reportedly walked away from the debt-ceiling negotiation. He had some very stern words about Boehner and the Republicans in the House. But Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wasn’t impressed with Obama’s anger. During Friday’s “Special
Report” on the Fox News Channel, Krauthammer said this was Obama at his worst.

“This is Obama at his most sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant,” Krauthammer said. “And given the baseline, it wasn’t a pretty sight.”

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/22/krauthammer-this-is-obama-at-his-most-sanctimonious-demagogic-self-righteous-and-arrogant/
Anonymous

Obama’s OMB ignores documentsubpoena; Upton/Stearns
Housepanel says Monday morning or else

Washington Examiner, by Mark Tapscott

7/23/2011

President Obama’s senior appointees at the U.S.
Office of Management and Budget took another step this week toward a potentially
epic confrontation with Congress by ignoring a document subpoena issued by a
subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The subpoena is for
thousands of documents requested months ago…..
Anonymous

Flash mob at Walmart demands….
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/anti-walmart-flash-mob-turns-up-at-store-demanding-pensions-benefits-for-employees-or-else/
Anonymous

The Obama Brown Shirts:
http://sadhillnews.com/2011/07/18/us-stability-police-force-obamas-brown-shirts
Anonymous

The Obama Brown Shirts:
http://sadhillnews.com/2011/07/18/us-stability-police-force-obamas-brown-shirts
Anonymous

Inspector General InvestigatesGun Walker
Retaliation

Human Events, by John Hayward

7/23/2011

NPR reports on the expanding cloud of fallout from
the Gun Walker scandal: The Justice Department’s inspector general has opened an
investigation into possible retaliation against a whistle-blowing agent at the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to two people
briefed on the inquiry. Update: Bob Owens at Pajamas Media says you ain’t seen
nothing yet. A former CIA operative is claiming the Obama Administration sold
military grade weapons – including grenade launchers – to the ultra-violent
Zetas drug cartel, using a program run out of the State Department.
Anonymous

Inspector General InvestigatesGun Walker
Retaliation

Human Events, by John Hayward

7/23/2011

NPR reports on the expanding cloud of fallout from
the Gun Walker scandal: The Justice Department’s inspector general has opened an
investigation into possible retaliation against a whistle-blowing agent at the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to two people
briefed on the inquiry. Update: Bob Owens at Pajamas Media says you ain’t seen
nothing yet. A former CIA operative is claiming the Obama Administration sold
military grade weapons – including grenade launchers – to the ultra-violent
Zetas drug cartel, using a program run out of the State Department.
Anonymous

Network Poll Coverage Ignores
Public Opposition to Debt Ceiling Raise

Newsbusters,
by Kyle Drennen
7/23/2011

NBC and CBS polls released earlier this week determined that a significant portion of the American public remain opposed to
any increase in the nation’s debt limit, but neither network has included that fact in their on-air reporting. And a poll released by ABC on Tuesday didn’t even bother to ask for public opinion on whether the raising the debt ceiling was a good idea or not.The networks’ selective coverage of their own polls corresponds with CNN on-air hosts scandalously ignoring the fact that their
polling found 66% of Americans supported the House GOP’s ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2011/07/23/network-poll-coverage-ignores-public-opposition-debt-ceiling-raise#ixzz1SwFswQUp
Anonymous

Walter Reed to close after more than a century

Associated Press,
by Kimberly Hefling
7/23/2011
WASHINGTON

— Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army’s flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, is closing its doors after more than a century. Hundreds of thousands of the
nation’s war wounded from World War I to today have received treatment at Walter Reed, including 18,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Dwight Eisenhower died there. So did Gens. John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur. It’s where countless celebrities, from Bob Hope to quarterback Tom Brady, have stopped to show their respect to the wounded.

http://news.yahoo.com/walter-reed-close-more-century-123205077.html
Anonymous

Walter Reed Army Hospital to close:
http://news.yahoo.com/walter-reed-close-more-century-123205077.html
Anonymous

America’s Human Space Flight Program 1961 to 2011: An Epitaph

RV-103 ^ | July 23, 2011 July 21st, 2011, just 42 years and one day after the first landing on the Moon, I sat and watched America’s Human Space Flight Program come to an end after more than 50 years. As the final “Wheels Stop” was announced by the Commander, I watched in tears as the Kennedy Space Center workers sprang into action to safe Atlantis and allow the astronauts to disembark from the shuttle affectionally known by the KSC workers as the “Penguin.” It was like watching a old family friend die far before their time from a terminal disease, while NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden…..
Anonymous

Is Jon Huntsman’s presidential bid already dead?
The Week – Fri, Jul 22, 2011

Raising eyebrows, the former Utah governor’s campaign manager calls it quits just weeks after Huntsman launches his runJon Huntsman’s campaign manager, Susie Wiles, is resigning, the campaign said Thursday, just a month after the former Utah governor jumped into the Republican presidential nomination with a much-hyped speech at the Statue of Liberty. The moderate Huntsman, once hailed as the Republican most feared by the Obama campaign, has flopped in nearly every state and national poll, and struggled to raise money. Has Huntsman, who stepped down as President Obama’s China ambassador to run, flamed out already?http://news.yahoo.com/jon-huntsmans-presidential-bid-already-dead-105200797.html

Anonymous

Yes,

Anonymous

President Obama’s July – No Golf orFundraisers, but Church,
Camp Davidand Lots of Debt Meetings

FOX News, by Kimberly Schwandt

7/23/2011

FOX news took a look at President Obama’s daily
movements in the month of July, and it reveals some interesting tidbits. The
president hasn’t partaken in one of his favorite outings — playing golf — in
the entire month, but has done some more rare activities like going to Camp
David twice, attending church, giving multiple press conferences and tweeting.
(Snip) Normally Obama has gone months without giving a press conference or
facing the media, so his multiple pressers and appearances to meet the press
have been unusual. Here’s the rundown of the rest of the markers of July.
Anonymous

No Smiles in Grim Scene at White House:Obama, Leaders Meet to
AvoidU.S. Default [Photos]

International Business Times [NYC, NY], by
Staff

7/23/2011

Top House and Senate leaders arrived at the White
House on Saturday in a meeting called by President Barack Obama with the aim of
advancing a negotiation to avert a federal default. Lawmakers have until Aug. 2
to raise the federal debt limit, which would allow the federal government to
borrow beyond the current $14.2 trillion level. Obama urged in his weekly radio
and Internet address that Republicans accept new revenues, a raise in taxes, to
counter cutbacks in federal spending.
Anonymous

Amy Winehouse Dead At 27….

I actually liked some of her songs….May she finally be at peace.

http://news.yahoo.com/police-singer-amy-winehouse-dies-age-27-170841681.html

“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

Anonymous

I just read that many of the tormented stars have died at age 27… Isn’t that strange?

Anonymous

Yep…..Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison, Cobain….

“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

Anonymous

MUST READ:

Learning From the Worst Presidents

By Ron Lipsman
American Thinker

An increasing number of Americans — and not just conservatives — are expressing the opinion that Barack Obama’s presidency is as calamitous for the United States as was that of Jimmy Carter. If so, then in the relatively short span of three decades, America has experienced two spectacularly flawed presidencies, each comparable to only a handful that have occurred over the life of the Republic. Could these two recent tragedies have been predicted? Are there any identifiable personality traits, past experiences, or political trajectories that might enable voters to foresee impending abject failure in a presidential candidate?
Anonymous

Raising Taxes Not Revenue
Tom Trinko
There’s a lot of talk about increasing taxes these days. But that’s not the real issue. The real issue is can, and should, we increase government revenues? More
Anonymous

A Trillion Here, a Trillion There…
By Mike Czuchnicki

For the United States, yesterday’s “a billion dollars here” is today’s “a trillion dollars there.” We owe over fourteen trillion dollars — that is a “14″ followed by “000,000,000,000.” Each man, woman or child in America today owes between a quarter and a half of a million dollars of the national debt. Senator Everett Dirksen was right: “eventually, it becomes a lot of money.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/a_trillion_here_a_trillion_there.html

Anonymous

Ya have to laugh every time someone suggests some “plan” that saves money and the media pooh-poohs it because it’s just a drop in the bucket. So nobody does nuttin.

Like you said “eventually” it becomes a lot of money.

I think eventually is here.

Anonymous

Report:
Islamic Jihad leader
killed in Gaza road accident

Haaretz
[Israel],
by Staff
7/23/2011

Four members of the Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades were killed when their car collided with a truck in the Gaza Strip on Friday,
the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported. According to the report, the Al-Quds Brigades confirmed that Abu Fadi Razayna, a leader in the group, was among the dead. The Al-Quds Brigades constitute the military wing of Islamic Jihad. The accident reportedly occurred near Khan Yunis when the car that the Islamic Jihad men were travelling in struck a truck travelling in the opposite direction.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-islamic-jihad-leader-killed-in-gaza-road-accident-1.374843
Anonymous

Norway bomb suspect bought 6 tonsof fertilizer before
attack

Chicago Sun-Times, by Bjoern H. Amland & Louise
Nordstrom

7/23/2011

Sundvollen, Norway — The 32-year-old man suspected in
bomb and shooting attacks that killed at least 91 people in Norway bought six
tons of fertilizer before the massacres, the supplier said Saturday as police
investigated witness accounts of a second shooter. (Snip) Oddny Estenstad, a
spokeswoman for agricultural material supplier Felleskjopet, confirmed Saturday
that the suspect in custody purchased six tons of fertilizer 10 weeks ago.
Artificial fertilizer is highly explosive and can be used in homemade bombs.
Estenstad said police were alerted to the purchase after it emerged the man was
suspected of the deadly attacks.
Anonymous

Congress working on
new debt legislation:
McConnell

Reuters,
by Steve Holland &
Alister Bull
7/23/2011

Washington – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday congressional leaders were working on fresh legislation to prevent the United States defaulting on its debt. “The bipartisan leadership in Congress is committed to working on new legislation that will prevent default while substantially reducing Washington spending,” he said in a statement after a meeting with President Barack Obama and other congressional leaders at the White House.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/23/us-usa-debt-meeting-mcconnell-idUSTRE76M2G420110723?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Anonymous

David Brooks turns on Obama:‘There’s a little arroganceand
self-superiority there’

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor

7/23/2011

After Friday night’s presidential press conference,
even one of the left’s favorite conservatives is scratching his head at
President Barack Obama’s demeanor. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who
once praised Obama for the crease in his pants, said he was upset with Obama for
being angry in public in an appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour” on Friday night.
“Shambles, a complete meltdown, apparently,” Brooks said. “I’ve never seen a
presidential press conference with the president so angry in public. And you
know, I sort of think he’s maybe mostly right on substance. He laid out
apparently in the next few

Anonymous

Isn’t he the one that admired the crease in Obama’s pants?

Anonymous

McConnell: Congresscommitted to prevent default

Associated Press, by Charles Babington

7/23/2011

Washington – President Barack Obama met for less than
an hour Saturday with congressional leaders in debt crisis talks, and a leading
Republican said afterward that top lawmakers were “committed to working on new
legislation” to cut federal spending and avert an unprecedented U.S. default.
There were no immediate signs of a breakthrough, however. The lawmakers and
Obama were unsmiling as the meeting began, and most of them avoided reporters
when they left the White House. In a statement released afterward, the White
House said,
Anonymous

NASA Reducing Space Shuttle
Workforce From 6,700 to 1,000

PC Magazine,
by David Murphy
7/23/2011

The landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the official ending
of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program marked a bittersweet
moment for the 6,700-some shuttle workers tasked with maintaining the space-faring fleet. NASA began issuing the first
of its layoff notices for approximately 3,200 contract workers Friday, the first in a series of cuts scheduled to occur between now and August. NASA plans to drop down to a shuttle
de-servicing staff of around 1,000 workers, which will be tasked with prepping the three main shuttles for their new homes in museums around the country.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388952,00.asp
Anonymous

Top 10 Obama Lies

Human Events, by Staff

7/23/2011

President Obama is becoming a veritable Pinocchio by
stretching the truth on a regular basis. Here are the Top 10 Obama Lies. 1.
Americans want higher taxes: During the debate over raising the debt ceiling,
President Obama said that 80% of Americans support including higher taxes as
part of the deal. But a Rasmussen poll taken the same week showed that only 34%
believe a tax hike should be included in a debt-ceiling agreement. (Snip) 6. No
lobbyists: During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama said: “We have the
chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them
Anonymous

Obama’s Whole Lotta Nothing

American Thinker,
by Jerry Shenk
7/23/2011

That was then; this is now: Now America is facing a sovereign debt crisis caused by excessive government borrowing and spending, exacerbated by a recession and by actuary-confirmed, financially unsustainable commitments to entitlements. The failure of government to budget and spend responsibly isn’t a Democratic or Republican issue. American politicians have taxed, borrowed and spent far too much money.

It’s irrational and purely ideological…..

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obamas_whole_lotta_nothing.html
Anonymous

Obama’s Whole Lotta Nothing

American Thinker,
by Jerry Shenk
7/23/2011

That was then; this is now: Now America is facing a sovereign debt crisis caused by excessive government borrowing and spending, exacerbated by a recession and by actuary-confirmed, financially unsustainable commitments to entitlements. The failure of government to budget and spend responsibly isn’t a Democratic or Republican issue. American politicians have taxed, borrowed and spent far too much money.

It’s irrational and purely ideological…..

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obamas_whole_lotta_nothing.html
Anonymous

Huckabee: Obama On DebtIs Like A ‘Cowboy Riding AStick
Horse In The Kentucky Derby’

Mediaite, by Frances Martel

7/23/2011

President Barack Obama was not exactly a happy camper
about his negotiations with the legislature collapsing entirely yesterday, with
the clock ticking towards a national debt default. On this morning’s Fox &
Friends, Mike Huckabee went as far as to call the President’s “visibly angry”
demeanor not befitting a president, lamenting his “amateur hour” speech and
comparing him to a “cowboy riding a stick horse in the Kentucky Derby.”“The
tempers are so hot,” Huckabee told the Fox & Friends crew, that he couldn’t
see a swift compromise, but he attributed the problem to the President.
Anonymous

Huckabee: Obama On DebtIs Like A ‘Cowboy Riding AStick
Horse In The Kentucky Derby’

Mediaite, by Frances Martel

7/23/2011

President Barack Obama was not exactly a happy camper
about his negotiations with the legislature collapsing entirely yesterday, with
the clock ticking towards a national debt default. On this morning’s Fox &
Friends, Mike Huckabee went as far as to call the President’s “visibly angry”
demeanor not befitting a president, lamenting his “amateur hour” speech and
comparing him to a “cowboy riding a stick horse in the Kentucky Derby.”“The
tempers are so hot,” Huckabee told the Fox & Friends crew, that he couldn’t
see a swift compromise, but he attributed the problem to the President.

Anonymous

Remember the comparison of Hillary to That one –work horse vs show horse. Well, That One is no longer that show horse. How about a stick horse?
Anonymous

“Obama On Debt Is Like A
‘Cowboy Riding A Stick
Horse In The Kentucky Derby”

I love it…

Anonymous

Obama’s Economic Brutality

American Thinker,
by Jen Kuznicki
7/23/2011

In a 2001 radio interview, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama lamented that our Constitution described a bunch of
negative rights–things government cannot do, as opposed to things government can do.

(snip)We have come to find out that Obama governs in a way that’s consistent with that lament. Instead of the Constitution telling his government what it can’t do, his government is telling us what we cannot do anymore–and provides the conditions to make us go along. In his own words, we cannot drive SUVs, build coal plants, eat what we want, or be comfortable in our own homes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obamas_economic_brutality.html
Anonymous

It’s All About the Senate

American Thinker,
by Herbert E. Meyer
7/23/2011

President Obama has done nothing to earn his Nobel peace prize, but after yesterday’s performance at the White House podium no one should begrudge him an Oscar. His performance was mean-spirited, petulant, more politically vicious than anything we ever heard from Richard Nixon — and altogether a total crock of you-know-what. But it served the president’s purpose, which is to avoid having to make the one choice he fears most: either
cutting back government entitlements, or going down in history as the American president who defaulted

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/its_all_about_the_senate.html
Anonymous

Inhibiting an Oil and Gas Boom

American Spectator, by Paul Chesser

7/23/2011

The fossil fuel shale extraction industry, where
technological advancements and discoveries of huge reserves of oil and natural
gas hold great promise for the nation’s future energy needs, is under attack. In
June the New York Times ran a dubiously sourced series of stories that sought to
show the bullishness on natural gas is overblown. The National Legal and Policy
Center exposed how reporter Ian Urbina seemed to rely heavily on a Texas-based
shale gas critic for his stories (others just called it “shoddy reporting”), and
asked the Times’ ombudsman Arthur Brisbane to address the stories’
credibility.
Anonymous

Obama shifts…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEBT_SHOWDOWN_OBAMA_SHIFTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-07-23-09-47-18
Anonymous

Walnuts are drugs….
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/8294-walnuts-are-drugs-says-fda
Anonymous

Justice says money too scarce to investigate Malcolm X death:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/justice-department-declines-to-reopen-malcolm-x-case/
Anonymous

Jeb Bush “softens” his stance on running for prez.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59717.html
Anonymous

Obama and NATO Turn Libya
and a $30B Check
Over to Jihadists

Human Events,
by Tara Servatius
7/24/2011

How would Americans feel if they knew the Obama administration just agreed to hand people affiliated with a designated terrorist
group a $30 billion dollar check and recognize them as the legitimate rulers of Libya?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44986
Anonymous

Dr. Bill Ayers:
Or how I learned to stop bombing and
destroy the system from within …

Daily Inter Lake
[Kalispell MT],
by Frank Miele
7/24/2011

By the mid-1960s, all hell had broken loose in the American education system, most obviously in the universities that were at the center of the Vietnam War protest movement, but more subtly in the public school system as well.

[SNIP]The anti-American fervor on college campuses during the
Vietnam era was the fuel that led teachers to give up their traditional role as the builders of culture and turned them instead into termites that ate away at the foundations of our society.

http://dailyinterlake.com/opinion/columns/frank/article_bc1d105c-b5a4-11e0-a58f-001cc4c03286.html
Anonymous

Angry Gays:
F-Bombs, Glitterbombs,
Phlegm Phones & Death Wishes

Townhall,
by Doug Giles
7/24/2011

(Reader warning: rough language ahead!)

What would happen if Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, Dr. Keith Ablow, or a conservative barbeque salesman, for that matter, expressed on national television the desire to “F— the sh-t out of” some powerful, prominent and accomplished liberal woman against her will? Or, in other words, rape said señorita? Do you think that would make the evening news? Do you think he would get fired from his job? Do you think that all conservatives far and wide would have to profusely apologize and go through sensitivity training for the next eight millennia?

http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2011/07/24/angry_gays_f-bombs,_glitterbombs,_phlegm_phones__death_wishes/page/full/
Anonymous

The Budget Talks:Edge of the Rim of the Cusp

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman

7/24/2011

I cannot imagine a more perilous undertaking than
predicting the outcome of the debt limit increase negotiations still underway as
I write this. To those who just prefer to ignore politics and blame both sides,
that’s all they’ll take away from this prolonged battle as the eleventh hour
draws near: Some uninformed, cynical notion that it’s a pity they can’t just get
along accompanied by tut tuts about how impotent Washington is and childish the
principals are. I don’t see it that way. This fight is long overdue in a nation
which has been ideologically rather evenly divided
Anonymous

Speaking with the enemy: how UScommanders fight the Taliban
duringthe day and dine with them at night

Telegraph [UK], by Colin Freeman

7/24/2011

US Marine commanders spend their days hunting Taliban
fighters but lay down their weapons to dine with insurgent leaders at night as
they try to negotiate an end to fighting in Afghanistan. Sitting in the spartan
parlour of the governor of Sangin’s office, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Savage waits
for his opposite number in the Taliban to turn up for tea. Fittingly, perhaps,
for a man whose day job is killing Lt Col Savage’s fellow US Marines, the
insurgent leader will only ever meet at night, and even then, it is a
cloak-and-dagger affair.
Anonymous

Congress is a profile in cowardice

Baltimore Sun,
by Arlen Specter
7/24/2011

Washington traditionally boasts about its’ profiles in courage. Today, facing arguably the greatest potential financial crisis in
American history, politics trumps economics as officials focus on the next election instead of the public interest. The leader of the parade in profiles in cowardice is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with his ingenious, diabolical proposal, which avoids tough votes for Republicans and places all the blame on Democrats. It’s all inside the beltway maneuvering and hard to explain, but it is indispensible for the American people to understand it so public opinion can be mobilized to stop it.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-specter-debt-limit-20110723,0,2905514.story

Anonymous

FROM THE COMMENTS:

The moment I saw Arlen Specter’s name having written about
“profiles in cowardice”, I was reminded that he will never escape the label of
“coward” himself for having changed Parties the moment his poll numbers tanked.
He lost anyway. There’s a lesson there.Re: the article, Specter has
colossal nerve reversing the truth, to wit:”The leader of the parade
in profiles in cowardice is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with his
ingenious, diabolical proposal, which avoids tough votes for Republicans and
places all the blame on Democrats.”Ever the liberal sympathizer,
Specter is blind to exactly the reverse: Who is it that has not put one word on
paper as to the Democrat proposal, whatever it is, to solve the debt
crisis.Obama talks a good game but hasn’t written one word the
GOP can reject. He hasn’t written anything because he doesn’t want his
fingerprints on any bill as catastrophic as every Democrat bill would
be.Specter lost it long ago, but this proves it.

Anonymous

Tim Pawlenty’s Illusion of Dullness

Townhall,
by Steve Chapman
7/24/2011
INDIANOLA,
Iowa

– When you pick up a glossy, multi-page color brochure at a presidential campaign event, you expect to see a candidate’s image on the front. The ones stacked on a table inside the Sports
Page Grill, where Tim Pawlenty is appearing this morning, do feature that sort of photo.

(Snip) It’s of Barack Obama. This choice does not reflect a heroic
sublimation of ego. The headline on the flier says, “Leadership isn’t about fancy speeches and empty promises.” Pawlenty wants to convey a simple message:

He is nothing like Obama, and that’s an excellent thing.

http://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2011/07/24/tim_pawlentys_illusion_of_dullness/page/full/
Anonymous

Congress ditches Obama on debt talks

Politico, by Manu Raju

7/24/2011

First came the Biden talks. When those blew up, the
Obama-Boehner talks took center stage. And when that failed, the McConnell-Reid
talks looked promising. And after they faltered, the Obama-Boehner talks tried
to find a new life. Now it’s all come down to the Boehner-Reid-Pelosi-McConnell
talks to solve the debt crisis. Notably absent? The president. (Snip) With the
president staying out of the picture, congressional leaders struggled to make
progress on a temporary two-step solution that raises the debt limit with some
offsetting cuts.
Anonymous

Barack the Mad

Human Events, by John Hayward

7/24/2011

On Friday, right after his Democrat colleagues in the
Senate used a procedural maneuver to kill the Cut, Cap and Balance Act without a
real vote, President Obama held a town hall meeting at the University of
Maryland before a carefully screened, very supportive audience. He said a few
interesting things in this relaxed and comfortable environment. Obama blamed
divided government for the debt ceiling crisis.
Anonymous

All Cornel West Wanted from
Obama Was One Phone Call

National Journal
(Washington, D.C.),
by Elspeth Reeve
7/24/2011

All the president had to do to keep Cornel West from going on his anti-Obama crusade was pick up the phone. West, once a strong Obama supporter, went on a tirade against him in May, saying the president was

“a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”

(snip) West:

“I think he had to keep me at a distance. There’s no doubt
that he didn’t want to be identified with a black leftist. But we’re talking about one phone call, man. That’s all. One private phone call.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/dailyfray/all-cornel-west-wanted-from-obama-was-one-phone-call-20110722
Anonymous

Kook Lefty Bloggers Say
SarahPalin, The Right, Caused
the Norway Massacres

The American Spectator,
by Matthew Vadum
7/24/2011

Often the Left is so predictable. While Norway mourns the deaths of the 92 (so far) shooting victims, kook bloggers at FireDogLake,
Democratic Underground, and elsewhere are already labelling the alleged killer to be “right wing.” This meme appears to have started with a comment made by a Norwegian political science professor who speculated that the shooter might be

“right wing.”

Even Sarah Palin is now being blamed for the shooting because the suspect reportedly favored the creation of a European Tea Party. The media keeps repeating the mantra that the shooter is “right wing.”

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/07/23/kook-lefty-bloggers-say-sarah#
Anonymous

G. Chambers Williams III:Getting U.S. drivers to go
electric

Express-News [San Antonio], by G. Chambers Williams
III

7/24/2011

The push to electrify the vehicles Americans drive,
in an effort to reduce air pollution and our dependence on foreign oil, moves
into high gear this year as automakers ramp up production of battery-operated
cars. These include the pure-electric Nissan Leaf, Ford Focus and Mitsubishi
iMiEV, as well as the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt and a new plug-in model of
the Toyota Prius (coming for 2013). All of these vehicles were on display and
available for media test drives at the Plug-In 2011 conference I attended this
past week in Raleigh, N.C.
Anonymous

West wows local GOP, doesn’t mention Wasserman Schultz exchange

By William March
TampaBayOnLine
July 23/2011
Tampa

— U.S. Rep. Allen West stirred up a
friendly, conservative crowd with a partisan speech Saturday night, making no
reference to his flap this week with fellow Fort Lauderdale-area Congress member
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. West refused to take questions from the media during
the event, and ignored a…

» Read More
Anonymous

West wows local GOP, doesn’t mention Wasserman Schultz exchange

By William March
TampaBayOnLine
July 23/2011
Tampa

— U.S. Rep. Allen West stirred up a
friendly, conservative crowd with a partisan speech Saturday night, making no
reference to his flap this week with fellow Fort Lauderdale-area Congress member
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. West refused to take questions from the media during
the event, and ignored a…

» Read More
Anonymous

Pandora’s Box in Norway

American Thinker,
by James Lewis
7/24/2011

If you destroy civilization, the monsters that fly out will surely destroy you. That is the lesson of the barbarian who killed
almost one hundred innocents in Norway last week. [Snip] In fact, it is the Left itself that has opened Pandora’s Box bysystematically
destroying the pillars of Western civilization, even bringing in Muslim terror preachers to speed up the destruction of civilized life. Saul Alinsky dedicated Rules for Radicals to Lucifer. Nothing better captures the destructive mind of the cultural Left, and we can see the results all around us.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/pandoras_box_in_norway.html
Anonymous

Rasmussen has Obama back down to minus21 today:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Anonymous

Obama’s Team:
CommieNight at US Cellular Field

American Thinker,
by Phil Boehmke
7/24/2011

Welcome once again to the People’s Republic of Chicago (PRC), home of Barack Obama and his favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox. Monday night, July 25th 2011 People’s World/Mundo Popular will be holding their 6th annual tailgate BBQ and fundraiser at US Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. Although Barack Obama will not be able to attend this
openly communist fundraising event, his rabid supporter Pepe Lozano will be on hand for the gala evening. Chicago native Pepe Lozano is a writer for CPUSA’s People’s World and a key leader…

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/obamas_team_commie_night_at_us_cellular_field.html
Anonymous

Responsibility movement grows

Denver Post [CO], by John Andrews

7/24/2011

Will Barack Obama go the way of Jimmy Carter and lose
re-election after demonstrating weak leadership in a troubled economy? One
Coloradan with a keen nose for the political wind signaled last week that he
thinks it might happen. Gov. John Hickenlooper told a reporter the president
would “have a hard time” carrying our state right now, because “there’s such
dissatisfaction over people who have been out of work” for months or even years.
Though Hick’s warning wasn’t an outright prediction of Obama’s defeat, it’s
significant because Colorado is widely considered
Anonymous

Boehner says debt deal will be 2 parts

Associated Press,
by Staff
7/24/2011
Washington

- House Speaker John Boehner says he’s working to get out a two-part plan to raise the nation’s debt limit, but he can’t say whether it will include Democratic support. Boehner tells “Fox News Sunday”
that he hopes to have a bipartisan approach to solve the problem, but he’s ready to move forward with a Republican plan if a deal couldn’t be reached.

The speaker flatly rejects the White House insistence that the plan get the country through the next election instead of offering a short-term fix while a longer-term solution can be worked out.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/24/national/w082331D64.DTL
Anonymous

Boehner: Obama’worried about his next election’

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Alicia M.
Cohn

7/24/2011

With his self-imposed deadline for releasing a
deficit plan before overseas markets open just a few hours away, House Speaker
John Boehner (R-Ohio) said both sides were “not there yet” and pushed for a
two-stage debt-limit vote. (Snip) Boehner also criticized President Obama for
recommending a debt ceiling deal be timed to last beyond the next election
season. “The president’s worried about his next election, but my God, shouldn’t
we be worried about the country?” Boehner said. “I’m not worried about the next
election. I told the president months ago: Forget about the next
election!”
Anonymous

The Boehner debt plan

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin

7/24/2011

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) was forced
to take matters into his own hands. The White House meeting with President Obama
on Saturday morning was brief and unproductive. The name of the game then became
for congressional Democratic and Republican leaders to make a deal that would be
ready to announce today. The image of the president’s angry press conference on
Friday made for a stark contrast with the bipartisan congressional efforts
throughout Saturday afternoon. Even Obama’s most fawning admirers had to admit
that he hadn’t improved his stature in the episode.

Anonymous

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Those of us who have worked in government for many years know that, with few exceptions, every government agency could absorb a 10-25% cut in funding and still get their primary job done. I remember, years ago, when we were told that we must use ”zero-based budgeting.” In other words, we could not ask for a budget based on previous year’s budgets. We were to justify all expenses. Well, you can guess how that went over, and how long
that lasted!

Anonymous

Trying to Move On MoveOn.Org

American Thinker, by Marion DS Dreyfus

7/24/2011

In the spirit of ecumenism, and convinced that there
is too much one-sidedness in the political discussion now riving the country, I
attended my first (and probably only) meeting of MoveOn.org, the radical
progressive organization that, backed by the billions of Richie Rich radical
mover and shaker George Soros, has spearheaded so much dissension since the
advent of Bush 43, and now continues to fulminate against those on the right who
stand against the dubious programs of President Barack Obama. Using a pseudonym,
I checked into the meeting held on East 49th.
Anonymous

American War Museum and Al-Jazeera

American Thinker,
by Eileen F. Toplansky
7/24/2011

Located in Maine, the General Henry Knox Museum finds
itself in the news lately as it is slated to honor Al-Jazeera’s Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara at its 2011
Gala event. According to the museum, “Foukara completed
a BA in English in his native Morocco before moving to the
UK where he completed a PhD in African studies.

(Snip) He has also been a “frequent guest on National Public Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
CNN, and MSNBC.” Yet, Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America is mobilizing to oppose the appearance of Al-Jazeera’s Bureau
Chief…..

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/american_war_museum_and_al-jazeera.html#disqus_thread
Anonymous

NYT Making the Motives Clear

American Thinker, by Richard N. Weltz

7/24/2011

It’s hardly any news to AT readers and other thinking
conservatives that the elitist left operates on the idea that only their coterie
of “educated” intelligentsia can possibly know what is good for the “unwashed”
masses – and ought, by right have the power to make life’s decisions and enforce
them on everyone else. It’s also hardly news that the New York Times is the
nation’s major mouthpiece for promotion of this thinking and simultaneously
propounds in its pages agendas intended to undermine traditional American
culture and morals.
Anonymous

Sarah Palin documentaryscreening a political lovefest for
supporters

Chicago Sun-Times, by Frank Main

7/24/2011

The Chicago screening of a new Sarah Palin
documentary Saturday was a political love fest for her conservative
supporters.But Tea Party members weren’t the only ones who came away from the
film with admiration for the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential
candidate.Eddie Bryant, who attended the screening of “The Undefeated” at
downtown’s Gene Siskel Film Center, is an African-American and Chicago Democrat.
The retired 67-year-old Union Pacific employee said he was surprised to find he
actually likes Palin.“I came because my friend is always talking about Sarah
Palin. People say this lady is brainless.

Anonymous

FROM THE COMMENTS

Bannon struck a deal with WalMart to sell the dvd after the
theatrical run, so you can get it for far less than $100 there.

Anonymous

Hillary’s Syria sellout

New York Post, by Staff

7/24/2011

President Obama won’t take meaningful action to speed
the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. But that doesn’t mean his secretary
of state should profane the situation with Orwellian distortions and
contradicting demands. Alas, that’s what Hillary Clinton’s been doing. And it
just makes matters worse. For example, after Damascus allowed a street mob to
attack the US embassy this month, Clinton declared that Assad had “lost
legitimacy.” But wait a minute: When, exactly, did he acquire legitimacy? He’s a
dictator, plain and simple, “elected” in a 2007 “landslide” in which he was the
only candidate.
Anonymous

Germany offers 100-million-euro
loan to Libyan rebels

Deutsche Welle,
by Andre Bowen
7/24/2011

Germany’s support for Libyan rebels has been much more reserved than other European and NATO allies, with Berlin keeping out of military involvement. Now it is offering 100 million euros to support the rebel council. Germany’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday said it would offer Libya’s National Transitional Council up to 100 million euros ($144 million) in loans for civil and humanitarian purposes.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15263076,00.html
Anonymous

Kyl: Obama prioritizingelection over economy

CBS News, by Lucy Madison

7/24/2011

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said Sunday he was “confident”
that Congress would reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling – but that
President Obama would first have to decide to put the nation’s economic
interests ahead of his re-election campaign.In an appearance on CBS’ “Face the
Nation,” Kyl argued that a short-term extension – which would increase the debt
limit ceiling into next year – was a viable option, but that the president
objected to it because “the single most important thing to [him] is extending
this beyond his re-election campaign.”
Anonymous

Look out, Scott Brown:
Potential challenger Elizabeth Warren
has friend$ in high places

Boston Herald,
by Howie Carr
7/24/2011

Scott Brown must be shaking in his boots — the candidate du jour against him is a 62-year-old moonbat from Oklahoma who blew in
to Massachusetts in 1995. Her name is Elizabeth Warren, and she is no relation to the previous candidate du jour, Setti Warren. She’s a professor at Harvard Law School, and she’s being “urged” to run by the usual trust-funded suspects currently clipping coupons on Nantucket. I’m not saying she’s not a mainstream
Democrat — in 2002, she donated $500 to Robert B. Reich, another carpetbagger who drifted into Harvard Square and…..

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1353763
Anonymous

What is Liberty, That We May Defend It?

Canada Free Press, by Kelly O’Connell

7/24/2011

Is American Liberty under attack? Perhaps more so
than any time since the Revolution. We see this daily in how our government
regularly misleads us; making foolhardy economic decisions, then treating
citizens alarmed at record deficits like madmen. It repeatedly tramples our
rights as if we were slaves. The Constitution is displayed as an elaborate,
ancient joke. Politicians present themselves as gods, above error, who dismiss
dissent as if it were the babble of infants.
Anonymous

Soros Making More Cash With Congress:

Big Government ^
| 7/24/11
| Capitol Confidential

As the Administration’s push for alternative fuels grows stronger, Congress is set to consider H.R. 1380, which would create very generous tax credits to manufacturers who retrofit existing work vehicles to run on natural gas rather than on that terrifying global menace known as oil, and very generous subsidies to natural gas vehicle consumers: $7500 per car and a whopping $64,000 for heavy-duty trucks and 18-wheelers. It’s common knowledge in DC that Texas hedge-fund operator and natural gas-magnate T. Boone Pickens is the force behind this bi-partisan, pork-laden legislation, possibly because his natural gas empire would greatly profit from the…

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2011/07/24/soros-making-more-cash-with-congress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29&utm_content=Twitter
HELENK

backtrack would screw up a one car funeral.

http://www.dailytopseven.com/readmore.php?newsid=NTA5MA==

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

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE
Anonymous

Boehner:
GOP ready to act alone on debt deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — With bipartisan debt-limit talks deadlocked, House Republicans and Senate Democrats readied rival emergency fallback plans Sunday in hopes of reassuring world financial markets the U.S. government will avoid an unprecedented default.Republicans said Speaker John Boehner had legislation under consideration to raise the nation’s debt limit by $1 trillion and enact slightly more in federal spending cuts, with the promise of additional progress on both sides of the ledger if Congress can agree.Across the Capitol, Democratic officials said Majority Leader Harry Reid was at work on legislation to raise the government’s debt limit by $2.4 trillion — enough to assure no recurrence of the current crisis until 2013 — and reduce spending by slightly more. They said that plan envisioned no higher taxes.The White House was largely consigned to a spectator’s role on a weekend that began with Boehner’s decision to call off talks with President Barack Obama.
Anonymous

Iconic World Trade Center cross
moved to permanent 9/11
Memorial site

CNN,
by Staff
7/24/2011

The iconic World Trade Center cross — two intersecting steel beams that held up when the Twin Towers collapsed on
September 11, 2001 — was moved Saturday to its new home at the nearby 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Recovery workers and their families were among those invited to attend a ceremonial blessing before the cross, which was uncovered in the rubble of the collapsed buildings. The service was led by Father Brian
Jordan, a Franciscan monk who ministered to workers clearing the area after the 9/11 attacks.

“After a 10-year journey of faith….”

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-23/us/new.york.wtc.cross_1_memorial-site-memorial-president-joe-daniels?_s=PM:US
Anonymous

Dhimmituding the U.S. military in Afghanistan

Washington Examiner, by Diana West

7/24/2011

In Britain this week, a former Royal Marine spoke out
after the inquest into the 2010 IED death of Sgt. Peter Rayner to tell the Sun
newspaper that soldiers were prevented from opening fire at Taliban in the act
of laying improvised explosive devices so as not to disturb the local
population. So as not to disturb … ? (Snip) In today’s war zone, fear of
giving offense is personally deadly, as noted above. But it also applies more
broadly as a basic principle of “dhimmitude,” the twisted state of non-Muslims
in thrall to Islam,
Anonymous

Dhimmituding the U.S. military in Afghanistan

Washington Examiner, by Diana West

7/24/2011

In Britain this week, a former Royal Marine spoke out
after the inquest into the 2010 IED death of Sgt. Peter Rayner to tell the Sun
newspaper that soldiers were prevented from opening fire at Taliban in the act
of laying improvised explosive devices so as not to disturb the local
population. So as not to disturb … ? (Snip) In today’s war zone, fear of
giving offense is personally deadly, as noted above. But it also applies more
broadly as a basic principle of “dhimmitude,” the twisted state of non-Muslims
in thrall to Islam,
Anonymous

This is a link to a fabulous Conservative ad on UTUBE. Check it out and forward it to everyone you know…including liberals. Its very clever and well done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBoYYc1APr8
Anonymous

Heilemann: Obama’s ‘Hope’in 2008 to be Replaced by’Fear’
of Republicans in 2012

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard

7/24/2011

Forget about 2008′s “Hope and Change” mantra.New York
magazine’s John Heilemann said on this weekend’s “Chris Matthews Show” Barack
Obama’s message in 2012 will all be about “fear” of the Republican candidate,
and the President will spend $500 million on negative attack ads against his
opponent to instill it (video follows with transcript and commentary):JOHN
HEILEMANN, NEW YORK MAGAZINE: To me the core difference between 2008 and 2012 is
going to be politics of hope which we saw in 2008 versus the politics of fear in
2012. They won’t call it that, but so much of this campaign
Anonymous

Dollar Drops As Asia Opens;
Debt Talks Weigh On Market

Wall Street Journal,
by Stephen L. Bernard
7/24/2011

The dollar fell broadly as Asian markets opened Monday as the apparent impasse in U.S. debt talks weighed on the greenback. The dollar was hurt after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) told fellow Republican lawmakers in a conference call that a “grand deal” on reducing the debt was not possible with President Barack Obama.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110724-703670.html
Anonymous

Media Myth Debunked: Almost NoTemperature Records Broken in
LastWeek’s ‘Record-Breaking Heat’

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard

7/24/2011

All last week, global warming-obsessed media were
rife with reports about record-breaking heat. Problem is, according to the
National Climatic Data Center, and marvelously reported by the Hockey Schtick
Sunday, almost no temperature records were actually broken: [T]he NOAA database
of all-time Max Temperature…shows that there were no records broken on July
17, July 18, July 19, or July 20th. A total of 4 stations broke records on July
21, 20 on July 22, and 10 on July 23, 2011. That’s right. There were only 34 new
all-time daily temperature records set during last week’s “record-breaking
heat.”
Anonymous

Exclusive: What Boehnersaid to the caucus

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin

7/24/2011

From a source familiar with the call, this is what
House Speaker John Boehner told House Republicans on Sunday: I went on “Fox News
Sunday” this morning because it was the most effective way to tell everyone
where things stand. It boils down to this: The president wants his $2.4 trillion
debt limit increase all at once, without any guarantees that we’re going to cut
more than $2.4 trillion in spending. The administration says they have to have
it all upfront so we don’t have to deal with this again until after
murray

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