Russia seems to see past star power. Obama was just seen as another dignitary and not a celebrity in Russia. I'm sure this did not go over well with Mr. Ego himself. He was not unliked, he just was seen as "eh". Good for Moscow for seeing through the Iron Curtain Obama has over America and the Media.
Read more...Holding acquitted prisoners at GITMO under Bush was the worst thing ever, until Obama took office, signed the order and then realized uhhh well maybe they were onto something. Could this have something to do with Ex-Gitmo inmates leading Taliban forces in Afghanistan? No......
Read more...Google is now competing with Microsoft! (I don't include Apple in this, because you can load windows on an apple machine with the new OS, but Apple software is specific to Apple hardware.) Will Google succeed or will Microsoft prevail? At the very least, it will force Microsoft to up its gain! Let the competition begin! I love computer competition, everyone wins! Now if only Congress would understand that about Healthcare....nah..
Through clever teleprompted footwork, Obama was able to state that the Catholic Church's social justice ideals had a profound influence on him early in his political career (which I would consider is still now, but apparently back in the day) WITHOUT saying that the religion did.
1) This avoids isolating non-Catholics
2) Avoids upsetting Reverend Wright again (maybe not)
3) Avoids stating that religion had an effect on his life, when clearly it did not
The IRS lost a battle to limit deductions investors can make in LLCs and LLPs to offset incomes. Poor IRS :(
I got a good 4:00 laugh out of this. (Thanks to Freedom Eden for the story). Apparently Obama needs to be making speeches praising Michael Jackson for his election, NOT democracy and the changes we've made as a country.
According to the Reverend:
Read more..."It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing ‘we are the world.' It was that comfort level that kids from Japan and Ghana and France and Iowa and Pennsylvania got comfortable enough with each other so later it wasn't strange to us to watch Oprah on television.
Those young kids grew up from being teenage comfortable fans of Michael to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a person of color to be the president of the United States of America. Michael did that, Michael made us love each other."And actually, little known fact, white people didn't listen to "black" music
until Michael Jackson (Motown, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong...non-existent).
Without Michael Jackson, white people would not have been comfortable enough
with black people to vote for Obama. Thank you for reducing my race to that, Al
Sharpton. Thank you.
BE SURE TO E-MAIL YOUR SENATORS. THIS CANNOT PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently the Senate clashed on whether it would hurt the economy or not. Really? You have to debate this? You can't see that this is a BAD idea for the economy and foreign policy?
Barbara Boxer (the "C-Word" Senator from California, yes she deserves something that harsh, and I apologize if I offend anyone by that) said of the cap & tax bill "There are no new taxes."
Has she read the bill? I be that would be beneath her. How can she say that, even the President admits it'll raise taxes. How can you say that. Oh I can't stand her.
England & Wales banned a man from intoxication for seven years after several disorderly and drunken offenses. How do you begin to enforce that? While I commend the sentence, the cost of putting up signs in EVERY place that sells alcohol saying...this man can drink alcohol, but he cannot get drunk. How do you measure drunkenness. BOA is not an accurate tester.
11 arrests in 6 months is excessive. To regulate, he was told not to enter pubs, which to me means he cannot drink....which isn't what the sentence was, but oh well. No more drinks for you!
So because the Senate does not have enough to do, it held a subcommittee meeting looking to the fairness of the BCS. Since when does the Senate have jurisdiction over 1) the BCS 2) A private entity 3) the "Fairness" of an issue. (OF course the article had a picture of Tebow...gag me). The BCS operates under an agreement of the football conferences.
The article of COURSE mentions poor little Utah saying it went undefeated and didn't have a shot to be annihilated by Florida. Suck it up. Auburn went undefeated and was pushed out in 2005. In 2007, Florida was kicked out of a BCS game, not because of rank, but because two other SEC teams were already in the the Title game and the Sugar Bowl, and you can't have the SEC over represented. Utah's couch also said, "If you can't beat them, eliminate them." What a pansy response. How about join a conference and beef up your schedule. If your schedule was a fraction of what the SEC's was, then we'd talk. Heck, if it was a fraction of what the Big 10 or Big 12 was, we'd talk. End of discussion.
And speaking of football, because I'm beyond antsy for September 5th, I read this article yesterday, "Tennessee AD doesn't expect to see black unis." WHAT THE HECK? Your color is PUTRID ORANGE. The coaches said they don't see black uniforms in the near future, but my anger comes from the fans who think they can have a black out for night games. It isn't going to chance the fact that your coach is a crook and not liked, not because he's great like Urban Meyer (yes I'm admitting that) or just ruthless like Spurrier, but because he's a jerk.
Last night I read this article, turned to my husband, and said, "I don't need you anymore." He tilted his head and said "What?" I said, "Your gender is now obsolete. The Feminists won today." Still confused, because of the lack of information I was giving, he asked again "What?" Then I handed him my phone which said "Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first."
The men-hating femi-nazis can now rejoice, they officially do not need men. They don't need sperm banks, they can get a lab-made sperm. This is a science-fiction film waiting to happen!
Remember that story about the mother who refused cancer treatment for her autistic son? Remember he died in March? Well she has been charged with attempted murder, child endagerment and permitting bodily injury to a disabled person.
Okay so when my parents adopted their newest kitten, they had to go through serious paperwork (mind you this was from a subsidiary of the humane society) making sure they wouldn't declaw the cat, keep it outside, and agree to pre- and post- visits to make sure the kitten was in a good environment. HOWEVER, we let people harm children like this? The child was diagnosed with leukemia in 2006, he may have lived to see his 10th or 12th birthdays. He may have lived to be 16 or 18, who knows. But to cancel chemotherapy treatments and live prescriptions unfilled, is just wrong. I don't understand why we don't punish these people harsher. I hope she gets life or how about her tubes tied or something.
So when I go to the Dentist, I always prefer to go without clothes. I mean, no one likes to go to the Dentist, it's uncomfortable. So why not make it more uncomfortable and go sans clothing? Well, Christopher Hoff slept all day, realized he was 5 days late for an appointment, walked into the dental office, the receptionist screamed, and then he went home. He's been charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency, and failure to comply with fingerprinting. How stupid do you have to be?
My Bologna has a first name...it's O-S-C-A-R..I don't remember the rest actually...But Oscar Meyer has passed away at the age of 95! The Cold Cut King and owner of Kraft Foods is no more. :( Sad.
It also makes me think of a GREAT comedian, Jim Gaffigan, does a skit about Bologna and spelling. Who came up with bologna? I mean it's not even remotely similar to the pronunciation, so either someone has a sense of humor or is just plain dumb!
So a woman in Russia has been working 15 years for this title. She set the record by lifting a 33lb glass ball with her "private" muscles. She had a smaller glass and a string and the 33lb glass ball. How do you bring that up in conversation? My husband does great impersonations, and I need him to do his eastern European voice for this. "Winter cold in Russia, so we must exercise our insides." Or something akin to that.
This song is constantly playing in my head while I read the numerous articles about, well about Obama in general, but especially the stimulus plans.
A report came out stating that many states have spent stimulus money on short-term shovel-ready projects rather than "long-term improvements." Obviously reading news articles, the stimulus hasn't worked, it's actually made things worse. A combination of filling budget gaps (rather than improvements), fraud, and well a crappy idea have made the economy worse.
Jamie Dupree said this morning that the current Administration is at a point where they can no longer blame those head of them for the mess, they have to start taking responsibility for their mistakes, but alas they are politicians and will not take place.
I still think axing federal withholding for two months is the best short-term solution. Will it be enough to generate the ball rolling so that growth can begin again, I'm not sure, but I think it will show a boost. In all honesty, had I been allowed to keep my extra withholding money in January & February I would have spent that money faster than you could've said "Stimulus." Now, I'd pay down debts, bills, and put money away. However, even paying off debts, gives money back to my creditors, allowing them to have money to spend elsewhere. So maybe my idea is just selfish now.
What to do now? Fortunately, Harry Reid, may have a little sense. While Obama & House Majority leader Steny Hoyer are open to a second stimulus...Harry Reid said "uhhh no!" His reasoning is that "We're doing fine," which isn't exactly true, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the reasoning, because we agree on the outcome.
Hoyer's logic is flawed however, because he says that it is too early to know if the first stimulus was enough to "jolt the nation's staggering economy back to life." However, he mentioned "Every economist I talk to believes we have flattened out." So, the first stimulus was a short-term fix, which didn't actually fix anything, and after 5ish months, when only a small amount of the money has been released, the stimulus is wearing off? To me that seems quite contradictory.
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