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Christie ‘Still Very Satisfied’ With Obama’s Sandy Response
Post Date: 2012-11-03 19:39:19 by Brian S
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At a news conference Saturday in Little Ferry, N.J., the state's Gov. Chris Christie again praised the help he has received from President Obama in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. "I'm still very satisfied with the professional relationship I have with the President," Christie said. The governor said there were some things the federal government was initially slow to respond to this week. But after telling the President about them in a phone call, he said, federal officials called a short time later to take care of the issues.
‘Fox & Friends’: Delay NBC Hurricane Telethon Because It Might Help Obama
Post Date: 2012-11-03 11:34:39 by Brian S
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The hosts of Fox & Friends on Friday suggested that NBC should postpone a Hurricane Sandy telethon until after the election because making sure that the event did not benefit President Barack Obama was more important than helping storm victims. NBC announced earlier this week that Christina Aguilera, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Sting would all be performing a the Friday benefit concert, “Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together.” Money collected during the one-hour broadcast will go to the American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. But because most of the announced stars have supported Obama in the past, conservative media have panned the concert as ...
Flip-Flop Mittens: Mitt Romney offers answer on his FEMA stance
Post Date: 2012-10-31 23:09:58 by Brian S
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ASHINGTON There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. And so it turns out that after superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast, Mitt Romney is far more supportive of the government agency in charge of coordinating disaster relief. Only last year, as Romney hewed to the right while battling for the GOP nomination, he seemed to downplay the federal government's role in disaster response. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction," Romney said at a debate last June. "And if you can go even further, and ...
Bush’s FEMA Director (‘Heckuva job Brownie’) During Katrina Criticizes Obama For Responding To Sandy Too Quickly
Post Date: 2012-10-30 17:56:33 by Brian S
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Former FEMA Director Michael Brown offered criticism of President Obama’s early responses to Hurricane Sandy yesterday, including a dig at the administration’s response to last month’s attack in Libya. Yesterday, ahead of the storm’s pummeling of the eastern seaboard, Brown gave an interview to the local alternative paper, the Denver Westword, on how he believed the Obama administration was responding to Sandy too quickly and that Obama had spoken to the press about Sandy’s potential effect too early. Brown turned then to a reliable right-wing attack on the President’s response to the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that killed four Americans: ...
Conservative Media Attack Debate Question On Pay Equity As "Feminazi" Lie, Call Questioner "Tool"
Post Date: 2012-10-18 14:46:54 by Brian S
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Conservative media figures attacked debate questioner Katherine Fenton as a "feminazi" and "tool" for asking the candidates about their views on pay inequity. Fenton asked, "In what new ways do you intend to rectify inequalities in the workplace? Specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn." Conservative author Matthew Vadum attacked the premise of the question as a "feminazi leftist lie." Jim Geraghty of National Review wrote: "Oh bulls*** Katherine Fenton is an uncommitted voter." Michelle Malkin complained that the question was a "softball" and ...
Coulter Calls For ‘Disown Your Son Day’ In Response To ‘Coming Out Day’
Post Date: 2012-10-16 18:30:55 by Brian S
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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is calling for people to wear purple in support of LGBT youth after conservative columnist Ann Coulter joked that “Disown Your Son Day” should follow last week’s “National Coming Out Day.” In a post to Twitter earlier Tuesday morning, Coulter wrote, “Last Thursday was national ‘coming out’ day. This Monday is national ‘disown your son’ day.” Out of the dozens of people responding on Twitter, not one seemed to find any humor in Coulter’s joke. “You realize that people commit suicide because of comments like this right?” DoSomething.org Chief Marketing Officer ...
Nazi Propaganda Makes a Comeback on Twitter
Post Date: 2012-10-09 10:34:32 by Brian S
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The first time I met the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins was at a conference I was covering of Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis and paranoiacs (a redundancy, I suppose). Mullins was then in his 70s, and his general affect was that of an irate eccentric who stands outside government offices, screaming about the Rothschilds. (He actually accused me of being a part of the Rothschild “gang.” From your mouth to God’s ears, I said.) He seemed, in short, to be a self- marginalizing sort of fascist. Mullins, who died in 2010, was a protege of Ezra Pound, who helped him refine his hatred of Jews during their conversations together at St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric ...
Decline, Decay, Denial, Delusion, And Despair
Post Date: 2012-10-09 01:23:48 by Capitalist Eric
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The majority of Americans seem OK with just waddling through life, accepting the lies and misinformation blasted from the boob tube and their various iGadgets by their owners, gorging themselves to death on Twinkies and Cheetos, paying 15% interest on their $10,000 rolling credit card balance, and growing ever more dependent on the welfare/warfare state to provide and protect them from accepting personal responsibility for their lives. A minority of critical thinking people have chosen to question everything they see and hear being spewed at us by the propagandist mainstream media, the corporate fascist government, and the powerful banking cabal that has an iron grip upon our throats as ...
Union-Busting GOP Governor Scott Walker Demands Return Of Unionized NFL Referees
Post Date: 2012-09-25 11:45:52 by Brian S
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The National Football League’s decision to lock out its unionized officials at the beginning of this season has had serious consequences, as the incompetence of the replacement referees has jeopardized player safety, led to obvious mistakes, and drawn criticism from fans, the media, coaches, and players. And now, elected officials are getting their jabs in too. After the Green Bay Packers were robbed of a win by an blown call during Monday Night Football, union-busting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) — a Packers fan — took to Twitter this morning to demanded the return of the league’s unionized officials: Walker’s sudden support of union labor is surprising, given ...
Controversial 'Piss Christ' Art Back In New York
Post Date: 2012-09-22 18:33:10 by Brian S
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The controversial “Piss Christ” artwork Sen. Alfonse D’Amato once branded as a “deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity,” is coming to New York, and security is being heavily ramped- up at the gallery that will show the piece. Andres Serrano’s work — a “photograph of the crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine” — first ignited controversy in 1989 when D’Amato complained to the US Senate that it was an “outrage,” an “indignity” and a “piece of trash” that had been funded by taxpayers. Serrano had won a $15,000 prize for his work, backed in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. But the ...
Egypt: Death Penalty for Americans Who Blaspheme Mohammad! (And why the time for disengagement is now)
Post Date: 2012-09-22 14:05:16 by Capitalist Eric
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What was the Obama administration saying about the Muslim Brotherhood being 'moderates' again? Egypt's general prosecutor issued arrest warrants Tuesday for seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor and referred them to trial on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that has sparked riots across the Muslim world.... The prosecutor's office said in a statement that the accused, which includes the film's alleged producer, face charges of harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam and spreading false information. The office said they could face the death penalty, if convicted. The time has come for us to leave Muslim ...
Truth is the Ultimate Gaffe
Post Date: 2012-09-22 13:41:39 by Capitalist Eric
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Gaffe, a word that temporarily came to be associated with political misstatements, has returned to its origins as a social faux pas, such as saying something at a dinner party that everyone knows to be true, but that know mustn't be said out loud. The media is still doing its best to pretend that a gaffe is a mistake, when they are actually using it to mean the telling of inconvenient truths. Obama's reign of error is a constellation of inconvenient truths, economic, security and legal, that cannot be discussed in public. The telling of these inconvenient truths has been met with cries of racism, no matter how little they have to do with race. Now they are being met with cries of ...
Israel’s Shadow Hovers Over Anti-Islam Film
Post Date: 2012-09-21 17:42:43 by Brian S
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Zionists and right-wing Christian evangelists are exploiting freedom of speech in the United States by fuelling sedition and hate between two great religions, Islam and Christianity. Simultaneously, right-wing religious elements are manipulating Muslim indignation so that lawful protests turn into demented violence. In the US, it is argued that inflammatory speech is protected under the First Amendment of the constitution, but there is considerable hypocrisy here. For example, I know of eight people who were unjustly dragged through Los Angeles federal courts for 15 years, accused of distributing less than 50 copies of a news magazine. Nakoula, a bankrupt felon who spent 21 months in jail ...
Making Sense Out of the Great Unraveling
Post Date: 2012-09-20 14:09:24 by Capitalist Eric
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In 1999, I began to form a picture in my mind of what I termed "The Great Unraveling" - a period in which the economies of the First World would collapse. I believed that it would not all happen with one great crash, but would occur in fits and starts, with the relevant governments artificially propping up their economies as events unfolded, with a series of band-aid solutions that would delay the inevitable, but ultimately, would worsen the outcome considerably. Hence the choice of the word, "unraveling." I projected that the first major event in this debacle would be the breaking of the real estate bubble in the US, which I expected to happen in 2006. I was wrong. It ...
Where would you rather live and feel safer?
Post Date: 2012-09-16 00:51:02 by A K A Stone
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In a nice Jewish neighborhood? Or a Muslim Neighborhood? Answer and be honest
ACCEPT: Tonight Newport Music Center Friday Night Music
Post Date: 2012-09-14 15:31:25 by A K A Stone
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I dedicate this song to all the Obama supporters.
Rush Limbaugh Predicts ‘End Of Republican Party’ If Obama Wins Re-Election, "“There’s going to be a third party that’s going to be orientated "...
Post Date: 2012-09-11 00:35:19 by Brian S
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On his syndicated radio show Monday afternoon, conservative host Rush Limbaugh predicted that if President Barack Obama wins re-election, it will mean an end to the Republican Party and the triggering of economic collapse within 18 months. “How long does this country have if Obama wins?” Limbaugh asked. “We’re headed toward an economic collapse and we are the leader of the world. And when it happens to us, there are reverberations all over the world [...] How long is it going to take? I’m asking a serious question. 18 months? You throw ObamaCare onto what we know what we are going to get from Obama — more debt, more spending, the expansion of the welfare state. ...
Saturday Night Music Thread
Post Date: 2012-09-08 22:14:28 by A K A Stone
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Flash Back: Howdy All
Post Date: 2012-09-02 14:29:33 by A K A Stone
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Howdy Libery Post, Just a small intro about myself. First and foremost, I'm a news "junkie". Good or bad, if its "breaking" news and I'm reading it...I post it. I choose my issues to support, one at a time. Libertarian/conservative will be my main leanings with an exception now and then. I'm not a big "chatter". I read, listen and observe so getting into wordy exchanges is not my thing (unless of course...the "brew" is good). I was tossed from TOS just a couple of days ago because they couldn't handle the news, both good or bad. Kool-aid sipping isn't my game, besides...all that sugar will make your teeth rot. I hope you ...
Welcome Desert Death
Post Date: 2012-09-02 08:38:09 by A K A Stone
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Welcome to the site. How is that Desert?
TONIGHT: Motley Crue and Kiss....Riverbend...Fridy Night Music Thread
Post Date: 2012-08-31 16:15:36 by A K A Stone
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I'll be enjohying myself tonight at the Crue Kiss concert. I wish Motley Crue were the closers. Oh well it will be fun.
BLOOMBERG: Ronald Reagan Is A 'Socialist!'
Post Date: 2012-08-27 23:47:57 by Brian S
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Taking a page out of Newsweek's playbook, Bloomberg Insider went with a bold cover for Tuesday's edition of its daily magazine that it's distributing throughout the conventions: Courtesy of Bloomberg Insider The argument of the accompanying story, which will undoubtedly be a topic of conversation Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, is not that Reagan is actually a socialist. That term is used in a hyperbolic fashion, in a nod to the regular charges from Republicans that President Obama is a "socialist." The argument of Michael Tackett's piece is that under today's Republican Party, Reagan would be considered too moderate for ...
Ron Paul Declines A Speaking Spot At GOP Convention After Romney Demands To Review Remarks, Rand Paul’s Speech Has Not Yet Been Rescheduled
Post Date: 2012-08-26 19:16:36 by Brian S
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The libertarian Republican presidential candidate says he’s declined an opportunity to speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa because Mitt Romney’s campaign imposed two conditions on any Paul speech — that it be reviewed by the nominee-to-be’s team and that it include an endorsement without hesitation or reservation. “It wouldn’t be my speech,” the Texas congressman told the New York Times. “That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president.” Pundits noted that the uncompromising attitude that has won Paul a national following also limits his clout within the GOP. ...
Revisionist Christian Historian David Barton's Book Yanked For Inaccuracies. Will He Still Choose Texas' Social Studies Textbooks?
Post Date: 2012-08-10 14:26:01 by Brian S
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NPR ran a story on Wednesday about David Barton, the Aledo-based pseudo-historian who has built a career arguing that America was established on Christian principles. It found that his claims aren't particularly hard to debunk. For one, Barton has only a bachelor's in Christian education from Oral Roberts University, with no formal training as a historian. And all those parts of the Constitution he said were taken directly from the Bible, verbatim? They weren't. Still, Barton has remained a favorite of the far right. Mike Huckabee, for example, suggested that America would be a better place if everyone was forced, at gunpoint, to listen to Barton. Nor have his well-documented ...
Shep Smith Makes Apparent Slam Of Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day As ‘National Day Of Intolerance’
Post Date: 2012-08-02 06:19:48 by A K A Stone
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As one of the main charms of Fox News’ Studio B With Shepard Smith is that anything can happen, and it usually does. For example, as Smith was tossing to commercial Wednesday afternoon, he took what seemed like a hard shot at former Arkansas Governor and Fox stablemate Mike Huckabee‘s “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day,” invented to celebrate that restaurant chain’s opposition to marriage equality. Delivering one of those banal date-related factoids that news shows throw out there every so often, Smith said “It’s National Badminton Day,” then added “forget National Day of Intolerance, let’s just stay with badminton.” Smith has previously ...
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