Officer Barret's email

Full 'Jungle Monkey' Email by Officer Justin Barrett

His first priority of effort should be to get off the phone and comply with the police, for if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin caseinate aka pepper gas] deserving of his belligerent non-compliance.

Further [5th paragraph], a reader may assume that crimes only happen in back alleys at 0300?! You're kidding me, right? Are you still in the 5th Grade, Catholic School?

That paragraph was a s pathetic as jungle monkey gibberish -- I might as well ax you the question, Is this your first test at reporting?"
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Your final statement reads, Gates, whose great success has allowed him to transcend the racial divide" to which I ask, when did he transcend?

He indeed has transcended back to a bumbling jungle monkey, thus he forever tremains [sic] amid this nation's great social/racial divide that makes it a free and great nation mixed with crazy awkward differences.

Go ahead, ax me what I think? Gates is a goddamned fool and you the article writer simply a poor follower and maybe worse, a poor writer.

Your article title should read CONDUCT UNBECOMING A JUNGLE MONKEY –BACK TO ONE'S ROOTS. JB

Like a banana eating What! - video

This guy is an Officer and in the National Guard!

Police chase: 7-Year-Old Drives Car

Conservatives Push 'End of Life' Smear - video: 2:45

FEAR MONGERING AT ITS HIGHEST!

Social Security is govenment controled

Beck: Obama has "exposed himself as a guy" with "a deep seated hatred for white people" - video

Beck - Does he have a problem or not?

Rush is positive? - video

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GOP soars to new heights - will kill senoirs

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PolitiFact | Private health insurance not banned on page 16 of the House bill

Is this a matter of msiinformation?

PolitiFact | Private health insurance not banned on page 16 of the House bill

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Gates - Police: Gates 911 call released 1:40 -video

Obama: 'Police acted stupidly' 3:22


Harvard professor on arrest 5:46


Obama 'offended officers' 2:09


Cop responds to Obama criticism 4:23

Final speech Former Gov Palin

The Language of Reform - audio

Republican Pollster and Wordsmith Frank Luntz
Luntz is the writer of the Republican talking points THE LANGUAGE OF HEALTHCARE 2009: THE 10 RULES FOR STOPPING THE “WASHINGTON TAKEOVER” OF HEALTHCARE

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Gov. Rick Perry now ask for a loan for money that he rejected.

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Earlier this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry was one of a handful of Republican governors who refused some federal stimulus funds from President Obama's economic recovery package on the grounds that there were too many strings attached to the money.

Now that the state is dire straits, however, Perry is asking the federal government for a loan to cover the very expenses the rejected stimulus money would have paid for.

While Perry accepted most of the roughly $17 billion in stimulus funds allocated for Texas, the governor in March rejected $555 million that would have covered state unemployment benefits. Perry said he was not accepting the money because the state would have been obligated to expand its unemployment coverage, creating too much of a long term tax burden.

At the time, Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken reportedly said the state's unemployment compensation trust fund could be operating at a deficit by October. Now that the state's unemployment funds are depleting faster than expected, the governor is asking for a $170 million loan from the federal government, News 8 Austin reports.

"This is nothing out of the ordinary," Perry reportedly said. "We're following protocol that we put in place."

Democratic legislators in Texas are speaking out against the governor's actions.

"That $555 million would that would have come with the stimulus money wouldn't have to be paid back to the federal government, and that would have saved business taxpayers money for the next 20 years," said Democratic State Rep. Mark Strama, according to News 8 Austin.

Investigator rules against Palin in ethics probe

The former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been hit with another ethics complaint by fellow Republican Andree McCleod.

AP_ - An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position as she sought money for lawyer fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week.
The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the Alaska Fund Trust, set up by supporters.
An investigator for the state Personnel Board says in his July 14 report that there is probable cause to believe Palin used or attempted to use her official position for personal gain because she authorized the creation of the trust as her legal defense fund.

Here's the Alaska State Statute 39.52.120(a):
AS 39.52.120. Misuse of Official Position.

(a) A public officer may not use, or attempt to use, an official position for personal gain, and may not intentionally secure or grant unwarranted benefits or treatment for any person.


This is a board she appointed.

Mike Castle on PeeBo's Birthcertificate: Video 2:55

Delaware GOP Rep. Mike Castle met by Birther!

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Colbert on Conservative Pundits For Claims Of Reverse Racism; Calls Buchanan A 'Reverse Civil Rights Leader' (VIDEO)

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Reverse Racism
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Republican Talking Point - Experiment!

Castellanos Memo: Health Care "Experiment" Is "Too Much, Too Soon, And Too Fast." According to the GOP Health Care Strategy memo written by Alex Castellanos, one way to stall health care reform is with the following language: "The Obama Experiment with our health could change everything we like about our health care - and our economy. This big a risk, that risky an experimentis not something leaders on either side should rush through Congress in a few days or weeks...Slowdown, Mr. President. We can't afford to get health care wrong. President Obama is experimenting with America, too much, too soon, and too fast." [GOP Health Care Strategy Memo by Alex Castellanos, 7/7/09, emphasis added]

GOP Health Care Strategy

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F-22 and rain?

F-22 Fighter Jet Has Major Shortcomings

The aircraft's radar-absorbing metallic skin is the principal cause of its maintenance troubles, with unexpected shortcomings -- such as vulnerability to rain and other abrasion -- challenging Air Force and contractor technicians since the mid-1990s, according to Pentagon officials, internal documents and a former engineer.

Pat Buchanan opens up the Bigot Spigot!

In case no one remembers Pat Buchanan worked for Nixon and Reagan, run in the Republican primaries in 1996 and 2000, and run as an Independant candidate for President in 2000 when he didn't get the Republican nod. In the videos below Pat opens up the old line -the Bigot Spigot - played in the 1980's of victimization and discriminization of white men. As a reality check review the class photo of the Presidents of the US and the photo of the Supreme Court.

This theory was played well with the line Reverse Discrimination! Or as Rush says it Reverse Racism. Please note the throwback to the 1980's by CM radio and FoxNews. This line of attack has been matured for years on Right leaning sites with the continual reference to Racism. From Jan 09 to Apr 09 G.O.S. and I proved the theory. Typically, every two weeks the sites will find ways to prove that someone other than them are racist. If anyone wants to check it out review the archive pages on Michelle Malkin, and like clockwork there is the word Racism in regards to something - anything.

State Tax Revenues Across U.S. Experience Largest Decline on Record, New Rockefeller Institute Report Shows

State Tax Revenues at Record Low, Rockefeller Institute Finds

The anemic economy decimated state tax collections during the first three months of the year, according to a report released Friday by the Rockefeller Institute of Government. The drop in revenues was the steepest in the 46 years that quarterly data has been available.
The blow to state coffers, which the report said appeared to worsen in the second quarter of the year, reflects the gravity of the recession and suggests the extent to which many states will probably have to resort to more spending cuts or tax increases to balance their budgets.
Over all, the report found that state tax collections dropped 11.7 percent in the first three months of 2009, compared with the same period last year. After adjusting for inflation, new changes in tax rates and other anomalies, the report found that tax revenues had declined in 47 of the 50 states in the quarter.
All the major sources of state tax revenue — sales taxes, personal income taxes and corporate income taxes — took serious blows, the report found.

Zell Miller states - President "O" needs some Gorilla Glue

Southern Governor Zell Miller.

Obama, “our globe-trotting president,” Miller said, “needs to stop and take a break and quit gallivanting all around. I think (chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair in the Oval Office and say ‘Sit here awhile.’”

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Decrying a federal government he says is out of control, former Georgia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller said Thursday that America is “spending like we’re Paris Hilton.”

But the comparison to the blonde socialite might not be the worst offense in Miller’s litany of all that’s wrong with the country.

Speaking to more than 1,000 conservative - overwhelmingly Republican - lawmakers from around the country, Miller said, “Today, we’re spending like we’re Paris Hilton, regulating like we’re Ralph Nader, nationalizing like we’re Hugo Chavez, printing money like we’re the Weimar Republic and taxing like we’re, well, the Democratic Congress.”

Texas Gov. Who Refused Stimulus Funds Asks for Loan - CBSNews

Earlier this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry was one of a handful of Republican governors who refused some federal stimulus funds from President Obama's economic recovery package on the grounds that there were too many strings attached to the money.

Now that the state is dire straits, however, Perry is asking the federal government for a loan to cover the very expenses the rejected stimulus money would have paid for.

While Perry accepted most of the roughly $17 billion in stimulus funds allocated for Texas, the governor in March rejected $555 million that would have covered state unemployment benefits. Perry said he was not accepting the money because the state would have been obligated to expand its unemployment coverage, creating too much of a long term tax burden.

At the time, Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken reportedly said the state's unemployment compensation trust fund could be operating at a deficit by October. Now that the state's unemployment funds are depleting faster than expected, the governor is asking for a $170 million loan from the federal government, News 8 Austin reports.

"This is nothing out of the ordinary," Perry reportedly said. "We're following protocol that we put in place."

Democratic legislators in Texas are speaking out against the governor's actions.

"That $555 million would that would have come with the stimulus money wouldn't have to be paid back to the federal government, and that would have saved business taxpayers money for the next 20 years," said Democratic State Rep. Mark Strama, according to News 8 Austin.

Johnston On Palin: Fame "Got To Her Head" (VIDEO)

The trailer park just isn't big enough for the both of them!

Sarah, just let the boy see his child. That'll shut him up.

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Former Governor Palin - videos

Juan Williams of FOX NEWS calls out the scare tactics used against health care/public option (Video)

JW didn't follow the Talking Points.

McCain: Palin's Resignation Consistent With Qualities Of Leadership (VIDEO)

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Stimulus Aid Is Said to Be Moving Faster - WSJ

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The Obama administration says it has been on a "learning curve" with the economic-stimulus package but has now figured out how to spend some of the available billions more quickly.

Many tax cuts, which account for a third of the $787 billion package, have already taken effect. But only $60.4 billion of the remaining $499 billion has been spent. Most of the money was always likely to be spent this summer at the earliest as departments wrestled with the increased workload and new requirements imposed by the bill. The White House isn't changing its goal of spending 70% of the funds by September 2010.

<em>Special Report</em> panel all clears Obama in photo ridiculousness

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Sanford's Affair Might Have Jeopardized Top-Secret Clearance

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's love-struck romp in Buenos Aires with his Argentine "soul mate" wasn't just a threat to his marriage, job, and presidential aspirations. It also jeopardizes his Department of Homeland Security clearance and raises new questions about his candor on the steamy affair. Didn't know the Republican had one? Well, as a chief of state and head of the South Carolina National Guard, Sanford has a top-secret security status that lets him in on classified information such as possible terrorist threats and emergency tips. But with that need to know come intelligence community rules of conduct, a key one being that relationships with foreigners must be revealed. The reason: Those in the know can leave themselves open to blackmail from rival intelligence services about a compromising dalliance.

Mom can your pay my mistress $96k? -- Thanks!

On Thursday, Ensign'sattorneysaid that the senator's parents gave Doug Hampton, Cynthia Hampton and their twochildrengiftsworth $96,000 in the form of a check. The attorney, Paul Coggins, said that each gift was limited to $12,000 and "complied with tax rules governing gifts."

The disclosure of the April 2008 payment seemed intended to head off growing questions about whether Ensign violated federal law by failing to report what Doug Hampton called a severance package worth more than $25,000 TO his wife Cynthia, who left Ensign's campaign staff on April 30, 2008.http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24748.html#ixzz0KnpXLzRi&D

FOXNews: The plot thickens, and gets increasingly bizarre, in the case of Sen. John Ensign's affair.
The Nevada Republican, through a written statement by his attorney, admitted Thursday that his parents paid the family of his mistress nearly $100,000 last year.
The admission came shortly after Doug Hampton, his mistress' husband, first told a Las Vegas reporter that the senator paid his wife a hefty severance. Hampton also said that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and others originally had urged Ensign to pay the Hamptons "millions."

Jacksonville Tea Party Protest Features Signs Comparing President Obama To Hitler

What's up with conservatives and Hitler?

During July 4th celebrations last weekend, anti-Obama protesters again assembled for tea parties across the country. The Washington Independent has noted that the tea party movement has lost steam since April, and that the protests last weekend were sporadic. In Jacksonville, FL, attendance was estimated to be 4,500 people for the April protest, but last week drew only 1,000.

The Duval County Republican Party, one of the organizers of the Jacksonville protest, has been engulfed in controversy because of numerous posters featured at the rallydepicting President Obama as Adolf Hitler:

The Palin rescue

Note: Let's watch what the supporting media for Governor Palin does today. After a weekend of reengineering the talking heads will try to publish a rework of Friday's latest blow to conservative thought, 'Palin quits early as Governor.' How do you flip that?

The lesson for listeners since 20 Jan 09 was LEADERSHIP. Do leaders quit when the pressure is on? Okay, that's hard, but not unfair. The perception of a woman quitting because people are picking on her is a step back for woman or at least a step back for republican Governors.

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Vatican runs deficit amid weak donations

The Vatican said Saturday it ran a deficit in 2008 as its finances and donations from across the world were hit by the global economic crisis.

The Vatican posted a budget deficit for a second straight year, though the figures improved strongly from 2007. The Holy See's 2008 deficit was around euro0.9 million ($1.28 million), compared with a loss of euro9.06 million a year earlier.

Sarah Palin says Hillary Clinton shouldn't whine about tough media coverage - Video:1:58

Obama Honors First Female Pilots - AWESOME

Their records were sealed until 1975. Now they are being honored by the President.

S.614 for the 111th Congress

Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, and Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, introduced the legislation, which they say will give long overdue public recognition to the pilots.

“The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II were trailblazers and true patriots,” said Ms. Mikulski in a release announcing the legislation. “They risked their lives in service to our nation, but for too long their contribution to the war effort has been undervalued or under recognized.”

Audio Report: WASP

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Air Force News: More than 1,000 women joined the WASP and 38 of them were killed during duty. Following World War II, these women were released from duty and returned home. During their time in the WASP, they held civilian status and were not members of the military. Their contributions went largely unrecognized and the women weren't afforded veteran status until 1977.

The groundbreaking steps taken by the WASP paved the way for today's generation of military female aircrew currently engaged in conflicts around the world.

The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest and most distinguished award Congress can award to a civilian. Since the American Revolution; Congress has commissioned gold medals as its highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. In 2000 and 2006, Congress awarded the Gold Medal to the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskegee Airmen, respectively.

Murkowksi Blasts Palin: You Abandoned Our State

“I am deeply disappointed that the Governor has decided to abandon the State and her constituents before her term has concluded.”

Sarah Quits! - Video 15:03

Governor Palin - video

Governor Palin resigns early

BREAKING NEWS!!

Bad timing, great idea. As her poll numbers continue to fall, and with her signature on the request for Stimulus funds, the Governor makes a power move she setups for her 2012 race. The Governor made a mistake by dropping this story on a long weekend. 'Her idea may be to bury the story on a long weekend wont work', is the assessment as seen by Carl Cammon - FoxNews.

Alaska Gov. SarahPalinannounced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her torun for presidentmore easily but also raises questions about herpolitical standing at home.
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Strike of the Sword! - U.S. Marines launch major Afghan assault

Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, which is part of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, clean their weapons Monday, while they prepare for operations in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan.

Thousands of helicopter-borne Marines launched a massive assault early Thursday morning in southern Afghanistan's Helmand River valley, a Taliban stronghold and the main source of its cash crop, the poppies that produce heroin.

About 4,000 troops of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade swept in during the pre-dawn hours to capture strategic points along the valley in an offensive dubbed Operation Khanjar (Strike of the Sword).