Who Do You Trust More, Obama, or the CIA?
A commentary by J. D. Longstreet
It is beginning to look as if those who warned the Obama Administration would be nothing more than a Chicago mob were correct in their assessment.
Frankly, I thought, at the time, that was stretching a little, but I have to say, their actions of late, especially their decision to go after the CIA for doing a superb job againstSource: Faultline USA RSS Feed
From the New York Post:
From left, Vance Jackson, Natalie Taylor and Benjamin Thompson were arrested and charged with first-degree burglary and second-degree attempted murder during a home invasion that took place Aug. 28, 2009, in Huntington, police said. LI ‘OBAMA CARE’ PLOY IN ROBBERY
By TAYLOR K. VECSEY and KIRSTEN FLEMING
August 30, 2009
Three people posed as insurance agents hawking President Obama’s health-care reform plan to gainSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi after stepping aboard the Libyan aircraft that would whisk him away to Libya, August 20.
Did ‘the powers that be’ decide that pursuing the best leads after the Lockerbie bombing, aka/Pan Am Flight 103, was politically inconvenient? According to this analysis by Pierre Prier of France’s Le Figaro, the need to keep Iran and Syria ‘on board’ during the first Gulf War may have resulted in resort to a convenient scape goat:Source: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed
Day By Day by Chris Muir
Yes, Chris, isn’t the emergency internet take-over bill in line with Obama’s game plan to neutralize any dissent to his “Hope and Change?”
I mean Obama already has NBC and ABC in his hip pocket – one example being their refusal to accept anti-Obamacare television ads.
This kind of government power grab of the internet is just plain scary.
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Foreigners smoke Shisha at Habibi.
Habibi on De Tham Road, District 1, HCM City is special for its Middle Eastern-style. But this cafe attracts many Saigonese for not the decoration, but its specialty, Shisha.
Shisha is imported from Egypt. It is a mixture of different kinds of leafs and tree roots scented with fruit or coffee flavors and mixed with bee honey. Smoking Shisha has become a popular fashion of young people in the city, who think that smoking Shisha isSource: Chao-Vietnam RSS Feed
NYTimes | Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program and trace its origins and purpose, exposing serious weaknesses in the world’s digital infrastructure.
The program, known as Conficker, uses flaws in Windows software to co-opt machines and link them into a virtual computer that can be commanded remotely by its authors. With more than five million of these zombies Source: subrealism RSS Feed
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University report that they have created baby monkeys with genetic material from two mothers. Basically, they took the nucleus from one female monkey's egg and installed into the egg of another monkey whose nucleus had been removed. The engineered egg was then fertilized with sperm. The goal of the experiment is to repair genetic defects found in mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria are the cellular powerhouses that are passed down to progeny only throughSource: Reason Magazine - Hit Run RSS Feed
From Iran’s Press TV:
Abdulaziz Hakim dies in Tehran
Abdulaziz Hakim, the head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, has died at 60 of lung cancer in a hospital in Tehran.
Earlier his son, Ammar, said that he was in ‘critical health condition’ due to lung cancer.
The death of Hakim will add to political uncertainty ahead of national polls in January and after a series of devastating bombings.
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Washington Wire breaks down lists of words which were found to work better with focus groups to sell health care reform. It is not clear whether this lists remains relevant at this point in the debate and to what degree the Obama administration is even following these guides, but they do raise some questions.
Public is found to be a better word than government. Somehow I doubt that conservatives who have a knee jerk opposition to any government plan would feelSource: Liberal Values RSS Feed
Every person’s life is like a kaleidoscope. Some pick up another’s life, hold it to the light and all the glass chips fall this way or that. And the person sighting through the cylinder puts it down and turns away, saying they’ve seen it all, when in fact, they’ve only seen one facet, one pattern in another’s life. Thus some remember only one thing or two about the life of another long lived.
But there are other ways to see most of a life in depth, thatSource: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed
What’s the politics if the UK lost its AAA credit rating?
While the Lockerbie release story has been dominating the news a more bread and butter issue has received scant coverage yet has the potential to have an even bigger impact on the election campaign.
The government’s borrowing figures for July were much worse than expected - and needless to say, expectations weren’t healthy to start with. The scale of the battering that the public finances have takenSource: Political Betting RSS Feed
In his latest capital report, Sen. Jack Goodman, R-Mount Vernon, a candidate for the Seventh District Congressional seat currently held by Roy Blunt, outlined legislation that he sponsored or co-sponsored that will become law Thursday:
August 28 is the day most bills passed by the Missouri Legislature and signed by the Governor are officially enacted into law. As we approach the enactment date, I will review some of the bills I was privileged to help advance this year.
Of theSource: The Turner Report RSS Feed
High-fat foods may have detrimental effects on muscle power and the brain
Eating fatty food appears to take an almost immediate toll on both short-term memory and exercise performance, according to new research on rats and people.
Other studies have suggested that that long-term consumption of a high-fat diet is associated with weight gain, heart disease and declines in cognitive function. But the new research shows how indulging in fatty foods over the course of a few days canSource: Vox Verax RSS Feed
Turtle Beach has launched their latest gaming headset for the Xbox 360, the Turtle Beach Ear Force X41, which is the third generation of the X41 headset. The Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 headset features a digital RF wireless CD quality sound, and 3D positional audio with an advanced chat booster. As well being compatible with the Xbox 360, the Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 Xbox 360 Gaming Headset can be used with other games consoles, and even your home cinema equipment. The Turtle Beach EarSource: British Blogs RSS Feed
I saw this live on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Katy Abram, a 35 year-old stay-at-home mom reading from a list of inane talking points, angrily berated Senator Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting at Lebanon, Pennsylvania in Sarah Palin “word salad” style. “We don’t want this country to turn into Russia,” Abram said, apropos of nothing. Also: “You have awakened a sleeping giant.” Then she tossed up some more word salad as she made the rounds on Faux News, CNN, Glenn Beck’s radioSource: One Utah RSS Feed
From Associated Press:
A man tries to prevent another man from shouting at the beginning of a town hall meeting on healthcare reform sponsored by Congressman Adam Schiff in Alhambra, California, August 11, 2009. Just who are these health care protesters?
By Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer Thu Aug 13
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Nancy Snyder says she kept quiet when abortion was legalized and prayer in schools was eliminated. Not thisSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Say it ain't so...he's too pretty to go to jail (maybe that could be his legal defense...it's been used before)!
"...John Edwards has secretly undergone a DNA test - and it proves he's the father of his mistress' love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
Multiple sources confirm the bombshell development, and reveal lawyers for the disgraced presidential candidate are privately hammering out child support payments with his former lover Rielle Hunter.
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In “informal conversations” with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues as he prepares his memoir, former Vice President Dick Cheney has “opened a second front” against his “White House partner of eight years, George W. Bush.” Cheney felt “that Bush had gone soft on him” in the second term, one participant said. “Or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney’s advice.”
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin doubled down yesterday on herSource: Think Progress RSS Feed
The guided-missile submarine USS Georgia transits the St. Marys River on her first operational deployment as a converted Guided-missile submarine. Georgia will deploy for approximately one year to the 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility before returning to homeport at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kimberly Clifford Date: 08.05.2009
The first four Ohio-class ballistic missile subs have been converted to cruise missile boatsSource: Murdoc Online RSS Feed
The Brazilian Thong Bathing Suit.
Lynn a local popular Vietnamese fashion designer says Vietnamese women are coming to terms with their bodies
and like to be seen and appreciated by men on Vietnam’s great beaches.
I’m getting more and more request from young women here for Brazilian Thong Bathing Suites, she said.
Vietnam women are very much aware of what’s out there for beautiful women and they want to join the club.
Lynn also stated that VietnameseSource: Chao-Vietnam RSS Feed
Alaska bloggers talk rather openly about it. A year ago, they decided to come together, one of them threw a party, and they agreed to join forces so as to ruin Governor Sarah Palin’s reputation.
Their goal: create (not report) controversies.
Sadly, the media fell for it. They reported every single thing these Alaskan bloggers wrote as truth. The bloggers may have been leftists, radical, Palin-haters but who cares? The media had new controversies to work with, soSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed
-by NOAH
“I am disappointed that the event was disrupted by a small but vocal group… I remember the days when folks who disagreed would do so respectfully and were still able to work together on the important issues to find solutions.”
-Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (Blue Dog-AZ) after she left her own town hall meeting
Calm, reasoned, intelligent discourse has now become roadkill in our country and right wing mobs have now targeted free speech itself throughSource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed
