Thursday, May 17, 2012

No Joke: George W. Bush Writing a Book on Economic Growth - Robert Schlesinger (usnews.com)

Sometimes you have to ask yourself if something is genuine or whether the keen minds behind The Onion have managed to hack reality. To wit: Former President George W. Bush is writing a book on—wait for it—strategies for economic growth.

The Center for American Progress's Pat Garofalo caught this little tidbit and nicely summarized why the idea of Bush writing a book on economic growth is ludicrous.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Obama did not take out Bin Laden!

 

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obama-did-not-take-out-bin-laden/question-2445277/

http://www.republicanpartygrantcounty.com/opinions.html

http://teabook.org/profiles/blogs/navy-seal-team-six

 

OBAMA'S OWN WORDS TRAP HIM:
2008: "Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team."
2011: "I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden."
2008: "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial."
2011: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden."
2008: " Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated."
2011: "Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden."
I HOPE THIS GETS SENT AROUND TO PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH!

The Morning Plum: Mitt Romney, the `amnesia candidate’ - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

The Morning Plum: Mitt Romney, the `amnesia candidate’ - The Plum Line - The Washington Post: "Ever since Mitt Romney began tarring Obama as a job destroyer based on a bogus metric — the “net” jobs lost on his watch — a few of us (see Steve Benen) have been trying to document every twist and turn in Romney’s dissembling. Much of Romney’s argument is based on the idea that Obama should be held responsible for the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the months just after he took office, when the economy was in free fall — before his policies took effect."

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Romney says he would have ordered bin Laden killed - seattlepi.com

Romney says he would have ordered bin Laden killed - seattlepi.com: "Romney pushed back Monday, saying "of course" he would have made the same decision.

"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said, referencing the former president in his answer to a reporter's question after a campaign appearance in New Hampshire.

Romney was scheduled to appear Tuesday in New York City with firefighters and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to help mark Wednesday's anniversary of bin Laden's death. Obama and his national security team will be featured in a NBC prime-time special Wednesday night that reconstructs the operation from inside the White House Situation Room."

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Mitt Romney undermines his own argument about Bin Laden - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

Mitt Romney undermines his own argument about Bin Laden - The Plum Line - The Washington Post: "“I am sure the ghost of Jimmy Carter’s decision was present in the room” as Obama and his advisers debated whether to launch the Bin Laden mission, says Breen, who is not a spokesman or surrogate for the Obama campaign, but supports Obama’s national security policies and is a registered Democrat.

“The president had the option to launch a high altitude bomber that could have destroyed the target, with low risk to the air crew,” continued Breen, a former Army Captain in Afghanistan and Iraq. “He made a decision that was much riskier — a long range helicopter mission with a small special ops force into a country that had not granted permission for the mission at all. That’s remarkably similar to what Carter did.”

“Romney is undermining his own point,” Breen says. “He’s invoking a decision that cost Carter his presidency. Obama bet his presidency on this operation. It’s troubling if Romney thinks it was an easy decision.”"

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Paul Ryan’s faith-based lesson - The Washington Post

Paul Ryan’s faith-based lesson - The Washington Post: "There is something un-Christian about the Gospel According to Paul Ryan. So, at least, says Ryan’s Catholic Church.

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody this month, Ryan, the author of the House Republican budget endorsed by Mitt Romney, said his program was crafted “using my Catholic faith” as inspiration. But the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was not about to bless that claim."

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Paul Ryan Challenged On Budget By Georgetown Faculty (UPDATED)

Paul Ryan Challenged On Budget By Georgetown Faculty (UPDATED):

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PolitiFact | Chain e-mail accuses Barack Obama of hypocrisy in raid on Osama bin Laden



PolitiFact | Chain e-mail accuses Barack Obama of hypocrisy in raid on Osama bin Laden: ""Short and  sweet…

"OBAMA'S OWN  WORDS TRAP HIM:

"2008: ‘Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team.’
"2011: ‘I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden.’

"2008: ‘Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial.’
"2011: ‘I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden.’

"2008: ‘Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated.’
"2011: ‘Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden.’

"I HOPE THIS  GETS SENT AROUND TO PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE  TRUTH!""

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Anti-Obama Flyers In Michigan Depict The President With Swastika, Proclaim 'The Holocaust Is Coming' - Business Insider

Anti-Obama Flyers In Michigan Depict The President With Swastika, Proclaim 'The Holocaust Is Coming' - Business Insider: "An anonymous group in Grand Rapids, Mich., is distributing flyers showing President Barack Obama next to a Nazi swastika and proclaiming "the Holocaust is coming."
"Obama is a puppet," the handout reads, according to UPI, decrying the 2-year-old health care reform law and the National Defense Authorization Act. "Hitler's Nazi Germany has been revived in the U.S. and the target is Americans.""

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In New Op-Ed, Romney Reiterates 'Let Detroit Go Bankrupt' | ThinkProgress

Mitt-ens!! Really.

In New Op-Ed, Romney Reiterates 'Let Detroit Go Bankrupt' | ThinkProgress:

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Friday, May 4, 2012

Jason Todd Ready, reputed neo-Nazi, among five dead in Arizona murder-suicide

Mass murderers tend to use First-Middle-Last Name.

The Daily Breast

A white-supremacist border vigilante who was ordained into the Mormon Church priesthood by the sponsor of Arizona’s immigration law apparently slaughtered a toddler and three others before killing himself in a quiet Phoenix suburb Wednesday.

In his final act of attention-getting, Jason Todd Ready, 39, evidently shot and killed his 47-year-old girlfriend, Lisa Lynn Mederos, a homemaker; her 23-year-old daughter, Amber Mederos, a Wendy’s worker; Amber’s 16-month-old toddler, Lily, and Jim “Jambob” Hiott, a 24-year-old veteran of the war in Afghanistan who had moved from South Carolina to be with girlfriend Amber.

He was a disgraced Marine, exiled Republican precinct committeeman, and failed city-council candidate who is most famous in Arizona for his publicity-seeking white supremacist stunts and his association with Arizona’s immigration-law sponsor, now-recalled state senator Russell Pearce.

Two years ago, Ready told me Pearce was his “mentor” and “surrogate father figure” who “groomed me” for a “national-level” political career. Pearce, Ready said, espoused “neo-Nazi philosophy completely.”

“We laughed at Mexican jokes right on his porch,” Ready said of Pearce.

CBSNews - Police said Thursday that they believe a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups shot four people and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home.

Pictures: Cops believe neo-Nazi killed 4, self, in Ariz.

Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, was the gunman in Wednesday's shootings in a home in Gilbert.

Media reports say that among the four others killed were Ready's girlfriend and the woman's daughter and granddaughter.

Ready was known in Arizona for organizing a militia in the desert with the goal of finding illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. Known as "J.T.," Ready led an outfit known as the U.S. Border guard that dressed in military fatigues and body armor and carried assault rifles during patrols for illegal immigrants in the desert south of Phoenix.

Authorities say the victims include 15-month-old Lily Lynn Mederos; 23-year-old Amber Nieve Mederos; 47-year-old Lisa Lynn Mederos and 24-year-old Jim Franklin Hiott.

8.1!!! U.S. unemployment update

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U.S. Added Only 115,000 Jobs in April; Rate Is 8.1%

 

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The nation’s employers produced a net gain of 115,000 positions, after adding 154,000 in March, the Labor Department said Friday. April’s job growth was less than economists had been predicting.

Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee,immediately seized on the numbers, arguing that the lackluster report demonstrated that President Obama’s stewardship over the economy was lacking. “We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month,” he said. “This is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery.”

The White House accentuated the positive in the report, while acknowledging that it fell short of what was needed. “Today’s employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,” said Alan B. Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, “but much more remains to be done to repair the damage caused by the financial crisis and the deep recession.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/business/economy/us-added-only-115000-jobs-in-april-rate-is-8-1.html?_r=1&hp#h[]

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Osama Bin Laden Hated Fox News And Thought MSNBC Is Not Neutral Because They Fired Keith Olbermann - Business Insider

Me too!! I hate FOXNEWS too. That's so ironic. Oh, wait.. We both hate FOX? Thinking about it, I .. Hilarious!
Osama Bin Laden Hated Fox News And Thought MSNBC Is Not Neutral Because They Fired Keith Olbermann - Business Insider: "Al-Qaida Hated Fox News And Thought MSNBC Is Not Neutral Because They Fired Keith Olbermann"

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Rangers 090408-008 by JHTNS-DMA on Flickr.

 

Stereotypical Truth

 

K-9 Freedom

Beagle puppy being liberated from an animal testing facility in Italy

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White Power!

This guy tried to stage a “white heritage(Klan)” rally in my town, I don’t think he got the turnout he was hoping for. - Imgur

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Ann Romney's $990 shirt - worth it?

The bird print top, made by Reed Krakoff costs $990, a saleswoman at the designer’s store in Manhattan told Styleite. The piece is part of the Krakoff’s spring 2012 ready-to-wear collection. A publicist for the line told ABC News that they “had nothing to do with” Romney wearing the item. “She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf’s, we definitely didn’t send it to her,” she said.

Romney wore the shirt (but not the matching pants made to go with it) during an appearance on “CBS This Morning” with her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/05/ann-romney-wears-shirt-122264.html

Obama Composite Girlfriend Admission Is A Myth - Business Insider

Obama Composite Girlfriend Admission Is A Myth - Business Insider: "No, he didn't. What he did admit to — 17 years ago, by the way — is exactly what is in the preface of "Dreams from My Father." This is from the Vanity Fair excerpt:
Like many characters in the memoir, he introduced her to advance a theme, another thread of thought in his musings about race. To that end, he distorted her attitudes and some of their experiences, emphasizing his sense that they came from different worlds. Decades later, during an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a “compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve when he lived in Chicago.
There it is. Obama knows this — he said it 17 years ago. It's right there, in the opening pages of the memoir. Still, it was missed in the Politico story, which has since been updated. "

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Obama makes surprise trip to Afghanistan

Obama is the man!! Spike that damn football.

President Barack Obama flew into Afghanistan Tuesday for a surprise whirlwind trip that will culminate in a live, televised address to the American people at 7:30 p.m.

Speaking on the first anniversary of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Obama will use the address from Bagram Air Force base to provide an update on Afghan withdrawal plans, administration officials tell POLITICO.

 

McDonnell's abortion stance, scrutinized - POLITICO.com

McDonnell's abortion stance, scrutinized - POLITICO.com: "In a potentially significant bit of veepstakes vetting, the Washington Post takes a magnifying glass this weekend to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's position on abortion, and asks whether the Republican has moderated his views for the benefit of a national audience:"

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Fox Nation Sees Trash In San Francisco, Fabricates Entire Story To Blame Green Activists: SFist

Fox Nation Sees Trash In San Francisco, Fabricates Entire Story To Blame Green Activists: SFist: "SFist's photos of a messier-than-usual aftermath at Fort Mason last Saturday got the right wingers frothing at the mouth, apparently. After the story was picked up by the Huffington Post, conservative bloggers from the Gateway Pundit and Fox Nation seized the opportunity to repurpose a couple photos along with an entirely fabricated story pinning the blame on Earth Day partiers and "Green Activists." Here's how the story appeared on Fox Nation:"

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