| Grassley says the President will have a healthcare bill by Thanksgiving The intrepid O. Kay Henderson at RadioIowa got him on the record. "If we get a bill on the senate floor by the third or fourth week of September, it's probably going to take two weeks. Probably take a month to negotiate the difference between the house and senate provisions, so I would suggest the middle of November," Grassley says.
Ford posts positive sales numbers Fueled by the 'cash for clunkers' government-sponsored buyers incentive program, the only one of the big three automakers to avoid bankruptcy, the automaker became the first major American manufacturer to report an increase of sales this year.
Juan Williams is offended by the grandstanding of Glenn Beck - just not enough to stop working for them Saying he was stunned by Beck's assertion that President Obama is a racist who hates white people, Williams unloaded on the weeping, blubbering propagandist for fear mongering and grandstanding on C-Span's In Depth this weekend. "I'm just stunned by it. I don't understand it. I think in that situation, people are just saying things to stir the pot or to create an audience for themselves, because I don't see it. There's no reality to that. ... So, I think a lot of that is simple grandstanding, making outrageous statements, provocateur Glenn Beck at his best. But I don't think there's any reality to it. There's a big difference between a personality show and a news show. And that's a personality-driven presentation." Pretty bold talk, but that is all it is, because Williams sure as hell doesn't have the integrity to quit his Fox News gig and cite the flaming propaganda and fear mongering by the likes of Beck as a reason, and until he does something more courageous than grousing about it, he's a hypocrite. A well-paid hypocrite, but a hypocrite just the same.
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Nelson will vote to confirm Sotomayor, saying he is impressed with her record as a judge and the endorsement of the American Bar Association. "The record shows she is not an activist," he said, and that she has "a great respect for the law."
If you thought that network neutrality was some kind of default position for the worldwide Internet, think again. A tech vendor says 90% of ISPs engage in traffic discrimination by using software sold by one Canadian company that makes deep packet inspection hardware that can identify and then block, shape or degrade user traffic coming from particular applications such as Skype or BitTorrent clients. The 160 worldwide ISPs that employ the company's products love this particular capability so much that a full 90 percent of them employ it to "manage" their networks in a discriminatory way.
Glenn Reynolds is easily amazed, apparently And gullible enough to believe that 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary, apparently. He claims to believe that the teabaggers disrupting Democratic town hall meetings are spontaneous and not the machinations of lobbyists in service of the status quo.
Durbin was absolutely right Bankers run the joint. It is despicable and venal and craven and disgusting, but that doesn't make it any less true. Now the Wall Street bandits are reaping outsized profits by trading with the Federal Reserve and the Fed isn't looking after our interests very well. "The resulting profits represent a relatively hidden form of support for banks, and Wall Street has geared up to take advantage," one former Treasury official said of the Fed. "Everyone games them. Their transparency hurts them. Everyone picks their pocket."
Australian police launch major anti-terrorism offensive and add yet one more incident to the growing pile of evidence that diligent police work is the most effective weapon against terrorism. Four men were arrested when 400 officers from across the law enforcement spectrum raided nineteen different locations in the pre-dawn hours. The police identified the men as members of a terrorist cell with ties to al Shahab in Somalia. The police allege that the men were planning to launch a series of suicide attacks on Army installations throughout Australia. according to a statement issued by Australian Federal Police Acting Commissioner Tony Negus told reporters at a presser held after the arrests that ''The men's intention was to actually go into the Army barracks and to kill as many soldiers as they could before they themselves were killed.''
Deep Thought We could make a significant down payment on health care for everyone for the money the defenders of the status quo are spending in an effort to stop reform.
Not even national news anymore. Same-sex couples in Milwaukee line up for licenses on the first day of Wisconsin's domestic partnership registry. Just one year ago, this would have been a bigger story than the election. How-times-change special note: the photo accompanying the story is of a same-sex, mixed-race couple.
Why is this the top story on the AJC's web page? Convicted felon and dog-torturer/murderer Michael Vick returns to the home of his former team, the Atlanta Falcons, for a - excuse me while I vomit - Humane Society Event. The recently released prison convict blew off a homecoming event in his hometown in Virginia to go to Atlanta and insult animal lovers with his very presence.
Where's my mass transporter? Airliner makes emergency landing in Miami after extreme turbulence injures 26 passengers. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing that the line between turbulence that injures 26 people strapped into their seats and turbulence that sends a plane crashing earthward is damn thin.
NOW can we have some stimulus money to restore conflict resolution training for the nation's cops? Relatives of a hatchet-wielding man shot and killed by an Oakland police officer say he was just holding a tool he uses as a handyman.
Typical cult behavior? From a cult? You don't say Slowly but surely, more and more individuals who worked as staffers for the El Ronners are coming forward to tell tales of physical and mental abuse at the hands of leaders of the "church" of Scientology, and to call the stories they are telling 'disturbing' is an understatement.
Sudanese journalist faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, a journalist with the media department of the UN Sudan Mission will be judged Tuesday for the crime of indecency because she wore trousers in public. Defiantly, she waived the immunity that UN workers are granted and stood before her judges as a citizen of her nation because she is fighting the absurd laws that dictate female dress. Hussein, a widow in her 30s told Agence France Press in a telephone interview that she is "ready for anything to happen. I'm absolutely not afraid of the verdict. If I'm sentenced to be whipped, or to anything else, I will appeal. I will see it through to the end, to the constitutional court if necessary," she said.
"And if the constitutional court says the law is constitutional, I'm ready to be whipped not 40 but 40,000 times." Did I mention she is defiant?
I don't know which emotion wins in this situation, anger or sadness Harvard has told Professor Gates that he should consider moving from the house he has leased from the university for years because of death threats that have been directed at him after his unfortunate and unreasonable arrest.
The latest birther 'evidence' sure was debunked fast That Kenyan birth certificate they claim to have laid their hands on? It was pulled off the web and altered, and it wasn't even Kenyan, but Australian.
And speaking of 'birther' nonsense Why is the Albuquerque Journal bending over backwards to act like those morons have a point by taking on the role of concern troll and asking the question "Why not get a certified copy and make it available for inspection by reporters?" and ignoring the fact that Factcheck.org has already proofed it and found it authentic. Respectable outlets like the Journal giving them a patina of legitimacy is simply disgusting. |
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