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- 30. October 2009: Doug Hoffman- GOP News- Hoffman surges ahead of Dem and third party candidate Scozzafava- hotair
- 30. October 2009: Doug Hoffman- GOP News- Pataki's endorsement of Hoffman
- 30. October 2009: Doug Hoffman For Congress- Contribution Site
- 30. October 2009: Doug Hoffman- GOP News- Hoffman gains GOP leader endorsements
- 30. October 2009: Doug Hoffman- GOP News- Hoffman gets big defender, Rush Limbaugh- world net daily
- 30. October 2009: Business News- US- Green- Natural Gas- Exxon last Q losses trend for natural gas
- 30. October 2009: Business News- US- GDP jump tempered by unemployment highs- newser
- 30. October 2009: Business News- US- the case for the stimulus- editorial- wall street journal
- 30. October 2009: Business News- US- Small Business Lender CIT Group close to bankruptcy- Reuters
- 29. October 2009: Christian News- Larry David creates urine-weeping Christ- All Headline News
Archive for June 2009
6-26-9 Michael Jackson Dies- AEG LIVE Loses $500 mil insuring ailing Jackson- American Freedom Blog
26. June 2009 by admin.
6-26-9-iran udpate: the forgotten green revolution- don’t let jacko’s death dim twitter for iran
William Collier- the American Freedomist
According to a Time Magazine Article on March 5, 2009 the “King of Pop” had undergone “underwent rigorous health checks to prove his fitness.” AEG, the group that was sponsoring a series of concerts Jackson was going to perform in London, may indeed find itself in legal hot water if those “rigorous health checks” were not in fact as “rigorous” as claimed.
Again, according to the article, AEG “obtained insurance to protect against Jackson falling ill and canceling performances>’ This as a result of photos showing Jackson in a wheelchair being pushed by his children. AEG Live’s deal with Jackson was said to be worth just shy of half a billion dollars.
Jackson’s health problems, however, were no suprise. Back in February Vocley.com reported rumors of Jackson’s ill health, The cached page is here.
The website noted: ” The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, feels that he is close to dead and he has wanted his sister, Janet Jackson, to take care of his kids when he dies. “Michael feels the end is near. He’s terrified that if he dies, his children will end up with his aging parents or his brothers,” a source told National Enquirer, adding, “He knows Janet will give his kids a mother’s love and see that they grow up away from the showbiz spotlight.”
Even mnore damming for AEG’s insurance claims is this: “Michael is in bad shape. He has respiratory problems, heart palpitations, is losing weight rapidly and is now worried that he may have contracted the killer flesh-eating disease,” the source continued. “He’s been visiting a Beverly Hills clinic receiving antibiotics through an intravenous drip. Michael has difficulty walking, often has to use a wheelchair and spends most of his days in bed, at the doctor’s office or in the bathroom.”
6-26-9-iran udpate: the forgotten green revolution- don’t let jacko’s death dim twitter for iran
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6-17-9 US News- Detainee Photographic records protection act of 2009 passes Senate with unanimous voice vote
20. June 2009 by admin.
Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009
A bill to provide that certain photographic records relating to the treatment of any individual engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside the United States shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act), to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing exemptions, to ensure and open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes.
current 111st session of congress
senate passes bill by unanimous voice consent on June 17, 2009
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6-17-9 US News- Michelle Bachman refuses to take Census
20. June 2009 by admin.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/exclusive-minn-lawmaker-fears-census-abuse/
“Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s so worried that information from next year’s national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household. “
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6-19-9 US News- State income tax revenues decline 26%
20. June 2009 by admin.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/06/19/state_income_tax_revenues_plunge.html
“The Rockefeller Institute of Government reports that state individual income tax revenues fell 26% in in the first four months 2009 as compared with the same period last year.”
“Preliminary data for May indicated a continued decline of about 25% in income tax collections.”
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6-18-9 Gibbs uses ‘we won’ logic to shut down debate on foreign policy
20. June 2009 by admin.
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| “Responding to criticism from former President George W. Bush, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Obama’s victory last year was a repudiation of Bush’s policies.”
“In a speech this week, Bush came off the sidelines for the first time since the beginning of the Obama administration to lob criticisms at Obama for his economic policies and his decision to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” |
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6-14-9 Business News- ObamaCare spotlight- President Obama’s Healthcare Proposal
14. June 2009 by admin.
Business News- Obama Care spotlight:
6-14-9 Business News- review- on http://marketnewstweets.com http://tinyurl.com/business… #business #news #market #news
President Obama addresses Healthcare for the second week in a row.
Read the transcript:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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EMBARGOED UNTIL 6:00 AM ET, SATURDAY, June 13, 2009
WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Outlines More than $300 Billion in new Medicare and Medicaid Savings
WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced new Medicare and Medicaid savings proposals that will contribute more than $300 billion over 10 years to paying for health care reform, beyond the historic $635 billion down payment included in his FY 2010 Budget. The President stressed in the address that the health reform effort must be deficit neutral and that reform is a fundamental part of the solution to our long-term fiscal problems.
Please find attached a fact sheet detailing the new savings proposed by President Obama today.
The full audio of the address is HERE. The video can be viewed online at www.whitehouse.gov.
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Last week, I spoke to you about my commitment to work with Congress to pass health care reform this year. Today, I’d like to speak about how that effort is essential to restoring fiscal responsibility.
When it comes to the cost of health care, this much is clear: the status quo is unsustainable for families, businesses, and government. America spends nearly 50 percent more per person on health care than any other country. Health care premiums have doubled over the last decade, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs have skyrocketed, and many with preexisting conditions are denied coverage. More and more, Americans are being priced out of the care they need.
These costs are also hurting business, as some big businesses are at a competitive disadvantage with their foreign counterparts, and some small businesses are forced to cut benefits, drop coverage, or even lay off workers. Meanwhile, Medicare and Medicaid pose one of the greatest threats to our federal deficit, and could leave our children with a mountain of debt that they cannot pay.
We cannot continue down this path. I do not accept a future where Americans forego health care because they can’t pay for it, and more and more families go without coverage at all. And I don’t accept a future where American business is hurt and our government goes broke. We have a responsibility to act, and to act now. That is why I’m working with Congress to pass reform that lowers costs, improves quality and coverage, and protects consumer health care choices.
I know some question whether we can afford to act this year. But the unmistakable truth is that it would be irresponsible to not act. We can’t keep shifting a growing burden to future generations. With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation’s spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control. So let me be clear: health care reform is not part of the problem when it comes to our fiscal future, it is a fundamental part of the solution.
Real reform will mean reductions in our long term budget. And I have made a firm commitment that health care reform will not add to the federal deficit over the next decade. To keep that commitment, my Administration has already identified how to pay for the historic $635 billion down payment on reform detailed in our budget. This includes over $300 billion that we will save through changes like reducing Medicare overpayments to private insurers, and rooting out waste in Medicare and Medicaid.
However, any honest accounting must prepare for the fact that health care reform will require additional costs in the short term in order to reduce spending in the long-term. So today, I am announcing an additional $313 billion in savings that will rein in unnecessary spending, and increase efficiency and the quality of care – savings that will ensure that we have nearly $950 billion set aside to offset the cost of health care reform over the next ten years.
These savings will come from commonsense changes. For example – if more Americans are insured, we can cut payments that help hospitals treat patients without health insurance. If the drug makers pay their fair share, we can cut government spending on prescription drugs. And if doctors have incentives to provide the best care instead of more care, we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays, treatments, and tests that drive up costs. For more details about these and other savings, you can visit our website: www.whitehouse.gov.
These savings underscore the fact that securing quality, affordable health care for the American people is tied directly to insisting upon fiscal responsibility. And these savings are rooted in the same principle that must guide our broader approach to reform: we will fix what’s broken, while building upon what works. If you like your plan and your doctor, you can keep them – the only changes that you’ll see are lower costs and better health care.
For too long, we have stood by while our health care system has frayed at the seams. While there has been excuse after excuse to delay reform, the price of care has gone up for individuals, for business, and for the government. This time must be different. This is the moment when we must reform health care so that we can build a new foundation for our economy to grow; for our people to thrive; and for our country to pursue a responsible and sustainable path. Thank you.
REPUBLICAN Response
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6-14-9: Business News - The Stimulus Failure- two stunning visuals
14. June 2009 by admin.
6-14-9 Business News- review- on http://marketnewstweets.com http://tinyurl.com/business… #business #news #market #news
“A site called Innocent Bystanders is doing the wonderful service of tracking unemployment numbers against the projections that the Obama administration used to justify the $800 billion, pork-laden “stimulus” bill. The Obama administration projected what unemployment would be if the bill was passed, compared to what would happen if there was no “stimulus” package.”
The visual of the stimulus failure- graphs
This is the now-famous penny demonstration
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6-14-9: Green News: Weekly Report
14. June 2009 by admin.
Green News
Weekly Report
This week, a look at the world’s dividing line in the green debate
Summary: China’s reasons for green not the same as US- the cold war aspect of the green debate- US green-crazy, but common sense abandoned, causing waste, the cash for clunkers program (an example of the green hysteria throwing out common sense?), and China opposes U.S emissions rules.
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6-4-9 US News: Tweet Report
4. June 2009 by admin.
Business News:
Rising rates could threaten recovery
POLITICS: GOP Senators Say Bipartisan
Health Deal in Jeopardy.
Here’s the full story on Dodd buddy
Angelo Mozilo being charged w/fraud
Video: Another GM bankruptcy victim
The Hill Obama’s defense budgets
threaten to leave us vulnerable
(Rep. Eric Cantor)
obamacare linkblurb:
I see dead people…voting…in MN
U.S. to unveil regulatory reform plan
June 17: source
More Targets Found on Arkansas
Obama’s current position on gays
in the military is “Don’t Ask”
Cairo: Tough crowd: “Is this thing on?”
…spoke in Senate abt stimulus money in Florida.
Mr jobs for tchrs in Seminole County…
200,000 jobs
NBC Inside the Obama White House Part 1 -
Setting the Nation’s Agenda
USAToday: Dodd: Kennedy “fighting hard”
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America Died- Why weren’t we told?
3. June 2009 by admin.
The Death Of America- Bone Logic Salvation
Bone Logic
In the course of human history, it has been at times of ‘bone logic’ that great revolutions have occurred, that great discoveries have been made. This bone logic is the implicit meaning of the famous aphorism “necessity is the mother of invention”.
What is the driving force behind bone logic and how can we expand our internal sense of what defines our ‘line of bone’, our holy citadel, our inner chamber, that which we would protect above all other aspects of self?
Bone Logic is a process of stripping away all of the artifice that defines the overwhelming aspect of our lives, the guile of social masking, the seduction of the ordered, controlled world over the mess of bone sense, the visceral realities we work so hard to conceal at almost all cost.
As the bone, or the citadel, begins to become vulnerable, the self retreats from the veneer of the controlled universe and begins to deal with the visceral facts before them. It is a rejection of studies and emotions and patriotic rhetoric in favor of the action of bone preservation, crisis language, if you will.
This is that proverbial “FUCK” guttural, which is like a valve releasing a pulse of steam, a shattering of the social veneer to reveal the core bone threat, and to respond in like terms.
It is the dichotomy of societies that the harmony and security they create can also breed the creation of utopian guile, which goes further and further away from bone logic, until bone logic itself has become an untalked about vulgarity that ‘good people’ would be well to avoid.
In this environment, guile becomes almost the sole governor of lives, and the power to stalk the citadels of others is greatly increased, because less and less eyes are still looking at the citadel, even KNOW what the citadel is, what the bone of self is. Not knowing your holy of holies is like not knowing the rules of chess, so you have to trust the person who’s playing against you.
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