Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Suzu1

    There is a lot of backpedaling now that it is known the police have audio recording of the entire encounter. Strangely Gates is not pushing for release of the tape.........

    Posted in: Obama rushes to quell racial uproar

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    Suzu1

    The full video is here:

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ec_1248004999

    Hopefully he'll be rescued soon.

    Posted in: Soldier held in Afghanistan is 23-year-old Idahoan

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    Michael Jackson's Doctor sent a letter to his patients 11 days ago saying he was leaving his medical practice. Coincidence?

    No coincidence. The doctor had been hired by the company behind the London concerts to stay by Michael Jackson's side through the rehearsals and run of concerts. So he had to leave his practice.

    Posted in: Police search for Michael Jackson's doctor

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    I remember when the Thriller album came out and it was acceptable for rock fans to admit they liked it because Eddie Van Halen played the solo on Beat It. Brilliant marketing and music.

    Posted in: Michael Jackson dies of reported cardiac arrest at 50

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    Sotomayor's nomination is bringing to light some reality about her fabled background. Accrding to an article by the AP, Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale. She joined a law firm where her clients included the fashion maker Fendi. She now earns more than $200,000 a year and owns a condominium in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of million-dollar-plus homes. Her brother, Dr. Juan Sotomayor, is a physician in North Syracuse, N.Y., whose practice doesn't accept Medicaid or Medicare — programs for the poor and elderly — according to its Web site.

    Posted in: Sotomayor says she chose word poorly in 2001 speech

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    China owns just less than one quarter of the US debt held by foreigners. The US Treasury market is the only one in the world big enough to support its purchases. The Chinese talk about making changes but the reality is that they can't (it would disrupt any other market China went into and would devalue its US dollar holdings) and don't want to (they still correctly see the US as a relative safe haven compared to the rest of the world).

    Posted in: Pelosi silent on human rights during China visit

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    Farmboy - You are confusing the assault weapons ban which expired with ongoing restriction under the National Firearms Act (NFA)on machine guns.
    Badsey - The terms Class 2 and Class 3 refer to the type of tax payment made by either firearms dealers or manufactures to work with NFA firearms. The firearms themselves don't have that classification. Antiqure firearms are those manufactured before 1898. If you want to have a full auto firearm, then you better make the proper application and pay the tax - otherwise you are looking at a 10-year prison sentence.

    Posted in: U.S. liberals ask how they lost gun rights, Guantanamo votes

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    The idea of putting the worst Guantanamo detainees in "Supermax" prison sounds good until reality strikes - there is only one Supermax prison in the federal Bureau of Prison system - ADX Florence in Colorado and it has only 4 spaces left. And the reality of moving the prisoners in and out for court appearances would be impossible to do without huge cost - I was in Seattle during the initial court appearances of the Millenium Bomber, Ahmed Ressam. Everytime he moved in and out of the federal courthouse it shut down the downtown area for security reasons.
    The concealed guns bill in National Parks didn't face opposition because there is not a crime problem in the parks now and there is no reason to anticipate that lawfully carried firearms will create one. It is funny how defensive the Democrat strategists got to support Obama's signing of the bill. Paul Begala rushed onto CNN to announce that he's a hunter - why he was even going hunting this weekend - and how supportive Obama is of gun rights.

    Posted in: U.S. liberals ask how they lost gun rights, Guantanamo votes

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    dzimmerm - You are confusing the Gun Control Act of 1968 with the machine gun ban which took effect in May 1986.

    Posted in: U.S. liberals ask how they lost gun rights, Guantanamo votes

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    Suzu1

    I got my AMEX through Costco for no annual fee. I use it for every electronics and appliance purchases I make since AMEX automatically doubles the warranty on any purchase made with its card.

    Posted in: Line of credit

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    Suzu1

    A grand total of three detainees were waterboarded - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim Nashiri.

    Posted in: NYC terror case latest of many homegrown plots

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    Suzu1

    New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully just confirmed that New Zealand will be boycotting the conference as well.

    Posted in: U.S., others boycotting, Iran starring, at U.N. racism meeting

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    A lot of gays will love married life until they get divorced and have to pay another grown man alimony.

    Posted in: Are you in favor of same-sex marriages?

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    Suzu1

    This drunk driver, 32-year-old Chanton Jenkins, should have never been free in the first place. He had a criminal record dating back to 1994, when he was charged with possession of a prohibited firearm, a felony. He received deferred adjudication of guilt but his probation was revoked in 1995 after he was convicted of unauthorized absence from a community correctional facility, another felony. In 1997, Jenkins pleaded guilty to felony possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced to 10 months in state jail. Five years later, he was again convicted for felony possession of a controlled substance. This time he received a yearlong jail term. Most recently, he pleaded guilty to manufacturing and/or delivering a controlled substance and was sentenced to 10 months in state jail.

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6380742.html

    Posted in: 5 Houston children dead in swamped car

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    Tax day always brings out interesting revelations. One today is that Joe Biden is a lot more generous with other people's money than with his own. Between 1998 and 2006, Joe Biden contributed between $120 and $380 a year to charity, according to his tax returns, on AGIs of $210,000 to $321,100.

    http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/04/obama-and-biden-release-tax-returns.html

    Posted in: Anti-Obama 'tea party' protests mark U.S. tax day

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    Suzu1

    A military operation has been carried out and Phillips has been rescued. Three of the pirates were killed; one is in custody.

    Posted in: Crew retakes U.S. ship from Somali pirates; captain still held

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    Suzu1

    A military operation has been carried out and Phillips has been rescued. Three of the pirates were killed; one is in custody.

    Posted in: U.S. ship reaches Kenya minus kidnapped captain

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    Suzu1

    The Three Stooges worked because each episode was only as long as the premise could remain funny - 20 minutes.

    Posted in: Sean Penn to play Larry in 'Three Stooges' movie

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    Suzu1

    Now Democratic Senator Christopoher Dodd has admitted to CNN in an interview that he added the amendment in the stimulus bill allowing for the bonuses. But he now says that he did so at the direction of the Obama Administration - direction that Dodd characterized as "insistent". Obama himself received over $100,000 in donations from AIG in 2008, an amount second only to Dodd.
    Dodd's account has now been verified by a Treasury official:

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/18/aig.bonuses.congress/index.html

    And this is being reported by CNN - which doesn't even ask Obamba the hard questions.

    Posted in: AIG CEO says employees starting to return bonuses

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    Suzu1

    This headline and story are so slanted.

    While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, it was Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd who unexpectedly added an amendment providing an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,” which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are now seeking to tax after the fallout. The Dodd amendment is in the final version and is law.

    Senator Dodd was AIG’s largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100.

    Treasury Secretary Geitner was the head of the New York Federal Reserve while the intitial bailout was crafted. His failure to inform Obama of the bonuses until this week would warrant his termination. However, the Obama Administration is in a duck and cover mode and continues to muddle on.

    Posted in: White House, Congress knew AIG was planning to pay bonuses

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