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POPSStern VISITED Whitehouse more than Biden! Stern touted his visits at the White House and with other lawmakers on his Twitter account, with messages that include “cocktails with prez and VP,” “lobbying with Mayor Bloomberg,” and “great discussions last two days with Senators.”
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POPSObama seeks $200M, just for security costs, to help cities host 9/11 trials It's like a nationwide tour for terrorists - coming to a city near you! Yay!!!! Democrats think that lap dancers at the strip club should be making the same .28 cents on the dollar as the doctor that saved you from dying of cancer; in the meantime, have no problem at all inventing new ways of spending other people's money. Stupid. Freaking ridiculous. It's horrific enough they've killed thousands of Americans already, but now we have to host them in our own backyards and pay millions and millions more to protect ourselves from them killing the rest of us. Dump the sick bastards into the ocean and let Aquaman deal with them.
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POPSSecret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows This insight is especially valuable given that the New York Fed is a quasi-governmental institution that isn’t subject to citizen intrusions such as freedom of information requests, unlike the Federal Reserve. This belies the culture of secrecy obviously pervasive within the New York Fed. Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns noted during the hearing that the bank initially refused to disclose even the names of other banks that benefited from its actions, arguing this information would somehow harm AIG. “In fact, when the information was finally released, under pressure from Congress, nothing happened,” Towns said. “It had absolutely no effect on AIG’s business or financial condition. But it did have an effect on the credibility of the Federal Reserve, and it called into question the Fed’s penchant for secrecy.”
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POPSTQ | Are Geithner, Paulson coming clean on this? Do you agree with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's testimony on the AIG bailout? He and his predecessor Hank Paulson head to Capitol Hill today to defend their roles in the government's massive financial bailout of Wall Street banks a year ago. Is their case going to be believed by Congress and the American people? ___ SOURCE | http://google.twi.bz/dz ___ SEARCH | http://googlelabs.twi.bz/m ___ iWeb Blogger | TQ: Truth TODAY | TRIVIA Tomorrow | http://me.twi.bz/u ALTACITIES | http://altacities.com | http://me.twi.bz/X ___ Help us reach 1,234 subscribers by 5:06 pm (7 sec) on 8-9-10 Matching the numerical sequence 12345678910 Details here | http://me.twi.bz/5
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POPSSenate Can Pass Health With 51 Votes Should Democrats take that route, the legislation would have to be scaled back because of Senate rules. He also said he expects Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley to win in Massachusetts. Van Hollen said Republican predictions that the political climate had changed so much that they can capture the 40 seats needed to regain control of the House was “pure hallucination.” ‘Into the Ditch’ “Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” Van Hollen said. “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I don’t think it’s a winner.” He said Democrats expect to see their majority shrink this year because the party that occupies the White House traditionally loses congressional seats in the first midterm election. more at Bloomberg.com http://bit.ly/6sWfq9
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POPSA Welcome Note To Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller, From Our Friend and Neighbor Arianna
That’s particularly true when the mainstream media are reporting and analyzing the news of the day in terms of right vs. left " the fallback canard of lazy journalism everywhere. Anyone looking at today’s political landscape with clear eyes can see that on issue after issue " the war in Afghanistan, the bailout, health care, the war on drugs, etc., etc. " the binary division of the debate into right vs. left obscures more than it reveals. John McCain and Maria Cantwell are joining forces to bring back Glass-Steagall-type banking regulations. Ron Paul and Alan Grayson are pushing through legislation to audit the Fed. George Will agrees with Russ Feingold that we should not escalate in Afghanistan. Howard Dean and Michael Bloomberg are both down on the health care bill. And on and on it goes. The outrageous news last week that the New York Fed under Tim Geithner told AIG to withhold from the public key details about payments that put billions of dollars into the coffers .....
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POPSRestaurant Chefs Boiling Over NYC Mayor's Salt Crackdown
Slow down, mayor Mike. I don't want you to get skidding. There is dangerous curve ahead. Don't trust your health advisers - they are dead wrong about salt. Swine flu is not enough? May be they mixing this vital necessary white substance with sugars, especially fructose from infamous High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)? The look alike...;) Sugars in our food are definitely deserve your powerful crackdown. Like smoking ban. But not sodium! Hard to say exactly where this trend coming from: moronic food pyramids or moronic Agenda 21. Only patients with developed cardio-vascular diseases must curb their sodium intake. Without salt our food taste... like it taste often now in fast food restaurants. With mood disorders, depressions, bipolar syndrome or even delirium... you name it. And we trying substitute dirt cheap natural Sodium with relative (neighboring in periodic chart) chemical element Lithium, expensive like gold and poisonous like medieval Mercury. Are we all still in Middle Age? Some
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POPSMYG | Salt banned in NY, Pot embraced in CA Two unrelated stories tell much about our times. In New York City, a seasoned mayor is tasting the flavor of a battle over salt with restaurant owners. While in California, an entrepreneur is making noise about selling marijuana via e-commerce. ___ YouTube: http://youtube.twi.bz/Qk __ SOURCE: http://foxnews.twi.bz/i ___ SEARCH: http://google.twi.bz/Rw ___ MYG | MY GOV WATCH | My iWEB Blogs | http://me.twi.bz/p ALTACITIES | http://altacities.com | http://me.twi.bz/X Help us reach 1,234 subscribers by 5:06 pm (7 sec) on 8-9-10 Matching the numerical sequence 12345678910 Details here | http://me.twi.bz/f ___ 224 | A2G | Today, Tomorrow, Forever | According to Google
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POPSHarry Reid and The "Social Justice" Brothers In a private conversation reported in a new book, Reid described Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Reid, D-Nev., apologized to Obama on Saturday, and the president issued a statement accepting the apology and saying the matter was closed. GOP Chairman Michael Steele, in appearances on two Sunday news programs, compared Reid's predicament with the circumstances that led Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to step down from that post in 2002. Lott had spoken favorably of the 1948 segregationist presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond, and in spite of apologies for those remarks at Thurmond's 100th birthday, Lott was forced out as leader.
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POPSFed. Reserve wants to keep everything in SECRET!! This makes me rather mad...just what do they have to hide?! Probably LOTS! Hence the law suite. It would probably make the "we the people" rather mad also!! I pray the US Court of Appeals will see through this and uphold what is left of our constitution! If they don't...the only thing left is for the fat lady to sing!
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POPSArizona Mayo Clinic No Longer Accepting Medicare Patients What good health insurance if it will not PURCHASE CARE? You see dimwits, there is a big difference to HEALTH insurance and health care. MOST reputable insurers PAY doctors and hospitals for the care they provide. THE US GOVERNMENT does not. They cheat doctors and hospitals out of billions of dollars each and every year and call it a WELL RUN PROGRAM! To a freeloader this may sound great, after all they reason as long as I do not have to pay who cares. Well those of us stuck paying the bill care and to these Arizona Seniors I bet they care now too.
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POPSU.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says “The situation is they are losing gobs of money, up to $400 billion in mortgages,” Wallison said in a Bloomberg Television interview. The Treasury Department recognized last week that losses will be more than $400 billion when it raised its limit on federal support for the two government-sponsored enterprises, he said. Lax regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the mortgage companies taking on too many risky loans, Wallison said. “It turns out it was impossible to regulate them,” he said. “They were too powerful.” He said no one knows how much will be needed to keep the companies solvent. U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says - Bloomberg.com http://bit.ly/8FhHPH
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POPSMost Ethical Democrats Evah! of course, its all just a simple accounting error (as long as you are a Democrat). However, if you weren't a member of Congress this kind of thing would put you in line for Prison stripes
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POPSOshkosh Award Raises Questions
Agree w/J. Gansler that job creation shouldn't be a criteria for Gov contracts--would result in labor intensive, inefficient bids (oink, oink!). BUT the DOD can't continue to ignore the drastic market shift over 20 years that has virtually destroyed the ability to conduct truly competitive bids for large contracts. Since Bill Perry's "Last Supper," we find only 1 company can build large acft, 2 or 3 can build satellites, 3 can build heavy duty trucks, etc. Budget realities mean that if a firm loses a big contract like this, the next opportunity may not come along for 5, 10, even 20 years. Few firms can afford to stay in the market on the hope that they'll win "next time." Unfortunately, the govies just don't get it, as evidenced in these 2 articles: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1289/1 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aIrSOQpbzRfc I haven't seen serious discussion of structural causes, and acquisition strategies to combat them anywhere.
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