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POPSSecret Service Overwhelmed By Death Threats Obama, who was given Secret Service protection 18 months before the election - the earliest ever for a presidential candidate - has been the target of more threats since his inauguration than his predecessors. Two days before Obama’s appearance at San Francisco fund-raisers on Thursday, a 59-year-old Northern California man was indicted on charges of sending a racist, profanity-filled e-mail threatening to kill Obama and his family. The rambling e-mail included specific references to Michelle Obama and the phrase, “do it to his children and family first in front of him,’’ according to the indictment.
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POPSWall Street Derivatives: So complex as to be "Computationall intractable" MORE: In principle, an alert buyer can detect tampering even if he doesn't know which asset classes are the lemons: he simply examines all 1000 CDOs and looks for a suspicious overrepresentation of some of the asset classes in some of the CDOs. What Arora et al. show is that is an NP-complete problem ("densest subgraph"). This problem is believed to be computationally intractable; thus, even the most alert buyer can't have enough computational power to do the analysis. Arora et al. show it's even worse than that: even after the buyer has lost a lot of money (because enough mortgages defaulted to devalue his "senior tranche"), he can't prove that that tampering occurred: he can't prove that the distribution of lemons wasn't random. This makes it hard to get recourse in court; it also makes it hard to regulate CDOs. Everyone on Wall Street... UP AGAINST THE WALL, THE LOT OF YOU BASTARDS!
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POPS The Battle Hymn of the Obamatons He started his career out thinking “ACORN’s really sweet!” He gave them lots of campaign funds, but He doesn’t know they cheat! They abet tax fraud and hookers but don’t lay that at his feet! Barack is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah! Barack Obama is our ruler! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Barack is marching on. When He speaks His soaring Voice is like the dawning of the day, Though His mighty TelePrompTer tells Him all the words to say, He offers many promises, and may get to them someday, His voice keeps droning on. (Chorus) Glory, glory, hallelujah! Barack Obama is our ruler! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His voice keeps droning on.
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POPSTaste Of Bethesda 2009 Taste Of Bethesda 2009: Fall fests galore, Oktoberfest beer everywhere you look, Crafty Bastards, Taste of Bethesda, and lots more going on in our jam-packed weekend guide. ... Taste of bethesda 2009, taste of bethesda, crafty bastards, crafty bastards 2009, auditorio miguel rios, autotron rosmalen.
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POPS They’re actually counting people. http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2009/09/12/they-will-be-heard/ ORIGINAL POST BELOW Just got off the phone with Stacy McCain, who’s trying his damnedest to get into DC for the big TEA Party march today. Stacy was calling in to tell me about his talk with Barbara Espinosa. She’s on the ground at 11th & Pennsylvania Avenue, where they’re metering the crowd. We’re not talking about taking sample counts from a helicopter than extrapolating some dumb figure. They’re actually counting people . And as of about noon Eastern, more than 450,000 people had walked by. And as Stacy can tell you from the traffic, there are more coming in. Many more. Barbara will have pictures and video in just a bit " check back here for links and/or pics and vids. FRIENDS? Could President Obama heal the rift… between economic conservatives and social conservatives? Stacy McCain ( the other mccain blogspot ) reports that the two groups are both out in force today,
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POPS9-11, Getting Even, Getting Out of Afghanistan
We meant well is about all you can ever say when you took on the mission to "get revenge" for someone - especially when the one you are getting revenge for is dead. Killing others or even the perpetrator does not honor the life of the one who was killed. Preventing similar deaths and nurturing peace seems more appropriate. Getting even. I more than understand the emotion. But starting a blood feud is exactly what bin Ladin and his ilk wanted to do. A blood feud is never efficient, innocents are always killed and new wannabe warriors are grown to help bin Ladin to reach his real goal - to establish his autocratic version of fundamentalistic Islam that would force his view of the universe on others. Staying in Afghanistan as we are, helps him reach his goal. If we focus on getting him out of his lair and into solitary confinement, then we might get a result that's not perfect but loses fewer lives and gives us more honor, as well as time to give honor to those who died on 9-11.
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POPSDear Republicans: An angry but heartfelt rant More: I'm sick of your rewriting of history. You've bleated so loud and long that Reagan was a great president, that the New Deal didn't work, that cutting taxes increases revenues, that you actually have the people believing this bullshit… I'm sick of your dragging the center ever further to the right. How many whackjob fringe ideas have you dragged into the mainstream? …you push these ideas through your corporate media and you do it so long and loud that they become part of the accepted political landscape and because it is easier to tell a lie than to debunk one, we never get away from this rancid shit… I'm sick of your casual criminality…all I've heard from my rightist friends for days is Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick. Your fucking golden boy raped the Constitution…and you bastards are obsessed with a fucking accident a Democrat had decades ago? Plus much more, too long to clip.
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POPSDownload Inglourious Basterds Movie Free Download the new movie Inglourious Basterds free online or burn it to DVD and watch Inglourious Basterds on your home entertainment center. You can also download and watch Inglourious Basterds on your iPod, Zune, or PSP. http://themoviedownloadz.com
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POPSTrue cost of chevron Another evil, ugly-American corporation. There is a series of photos at the site depicting what these unconscionable corporate zombies are doing to people around the world all in the name of profit. They are in Burma, Canada, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Philippines, and of course in the US. Please don’t give these unethical bastards your money. It only encourages them to continue ruining people’s lives everywhere.
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POPSCatholic Church Changes Stance On Abortion "We were just enjoying a family night out," said Billy Bob, "It's been tough feeding a family of eight little ones under 10 since since I lost my job at the foundry." "These folks should have stopped after the second kid," the Pope said, "The youngest one didn't even eat." In related news, conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly said he was initially appalled at the news, but would come around if the "abortion is okay" message is directed at "blacks and Jews".
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POPSMonsanto to Charge as Much as 42% More for New Seeds "Despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase US crop yields." Still Monsanto is going to claim yet a bigger piece of the non-existent pie. What greedy bastards. GM Fails To Boost Crop Yields
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POPS www.onecitizenspeaking.com “Such concerns are often conveyed to politicians by former colleagues or aides who have joined industry ranks. ‘They're talking to their friends,’ Grob said. But also, he said, the lobbyists ‘make really good arguments. They really know their stuff, and they understand the process. They know what the life cycle of a bill is, they know who to talk to, they know what they're talking about -- and they reach everybody.’" Lazy, incompetent bastards with their hands out … Truth be told, most legislators lack the type of technical expertise to craft a legislative initiative and are quite willing to allow lobbyists and their “staff” to write the bill. All overlaid with lawyerly loopholes, exceptions and ambiguous language which benefits the special interests over the citizens. Bottom line … The Obama Administration is hell-bent on making everything an emergency which requires legislation to be ramrodded through the legislative process.
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POPSThe illusion of control Some interesting insight into human psychology. Clipped from an article by Malcolm Gladwell discussing how psychology played a role in the recent Wall Street debacle. Personally, i think it was one thing - greedy bastards who didn't give a shit what happened to other people as long as they got rich.
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POPSIn opposition to Healthcare Reform Presenting a commentator who speaks for all the rich bastards that own the Health Insurance and Drug Companies that are gouging Americans with costs that, on average, are 50% higher than they need be (even taking into account package plans for employer-given health insurance). What do Americans want? Better, cheaper, inclusive healthcare where the patient and the doctor are the final word on what treatments are done, or death and massive profits for the rich, as bureaucrats and accountants with no medical knowhow decide whether you can get treated or not? It shouldn't be a hard decision.
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POPSTrial of Anti-Catholic Cult Leader In addition to his alleged sexual proclivities, Alamo frequently denigrated Catholics. He has blamed them for “every filthy thing,” including communism, Nazism, the two world wars, the Jonestown massacre, drugs, prostitution and pornography. He also spewed hatred toward gays, referring in a defense of polygamy to “these bastards, these homosexual Vaticanites, they condone homosexuals and they condemn marriage.” The SPLC lists his Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as a hate group. Alamo’s headquarters in Fouke, Ark., was raided last fall by dozens of federal and state law enforcement agents searching for evidence of child abuse. He was arrested on Sept. 25 at an Arizona motel. It’s not the first time he’s faced significant jail time: Alamo was convicted on tax evasion charges in 1994 and served four years of a six-year prison sentence.
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POPSThank You America – And Damn You, You Bastards This religion aims to destroy Iraq and return it to the days of minority rule. America canceled all of our debts and urged the rest of the world to do so, while the Arabs refused to do so and they even demanded payment for every Iraqi citizen living in their countries. America allowed Shias to ... DougM has it - says Go read it. Seriously. http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/dayum1/ After six years of liberation, we now know who our friend is and who our foe is. We should not give a chance to those idiots who claim that Iraq is part of the Arab Nation. These idiots should understand that Iraq is part the federal, free and democratic world. What ..? Wet stuff in eyes? Iraqi Columnist: Thank You, America http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/07/iraqi_columnist_thank_you_amer_1.asp
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POPSHow rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars No one should build so close to an ocean." But I built anyway. Why? As my eager-for-the-business architect said, "Why not? If the ocean destroys your house, the government will pay for a new one." What? Why would the government do that? Why would it encourage people to build in such risky places? That would be insane. But the architect was right. If the ocean took my house, Uncle Sam would pay to replace it under the National Flood Insurance Program. Since private insurers weren’t dumb enough to sell cheap insurance to people who built on the edges of oceans or rivers, Congress decided the government should step in and do it. So if the ocean ate what I built, I could rebuild and rebuild again and again -- there was no limit to the number of claims on the same property in the same location -- up to a maximum of $250,000 per house per flood. And you taxpayers would pay for it.
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POPSPunk Skateboarding in The White House!!! The skateboarding icon, also known for his popular brand of skateboarding video games, posted photos to his Web site and Twitter page. One photo shows Hawk on his skateboard with his hands in the air in what appears to be a hallway. Hawk joined other dads, athletes and celebrities at a Father's Day forum hosted by President Barack Obama. Celebrity chef Bobby Flay helped man the barbecue grills for a White House picnic for the attendees, which included NBA players Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat and Etan Thomas of the Washington Wizards. "The Prez addressing all of us fathers before we split up to visit DC charities," Hawk tweeted. "D Wade & Etan T make me feel short."
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POPSPhelps...the family that spews hate Since the mid-1990s, Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has spelled out its core message in neon-rainbow picket signs that read, “God Hate Fags.” In a series of outrageous stunts, members of WBC have disrupted the funerals of servicemen killed in Iraq for supporting a “Fag-loving” country, protested a memorial for victims of the 2006 Sago mine disaster claiming it was God’s punishment on the US for tolerating homosexuality, and picketed the University of Wisconsin, where three students had recently died in a house fire, claiming the parents were to blame for “teaching them to be whores and bastards.”
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