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[Terry]

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[Terry]

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[Terry]

Obama's Director of National Intelligence (oxymoron) James Clapper had no idea
Obama "snaps & snorets" @ one of his Czars~~!!
US intelligence on Arab unrest draws criticism
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. intelligence agencies are drawing criticism from the Oval Office and Capitol Hill that they failed to warn of revolts in Egypt and the downfall of an American ally in Tunisia. President Barack Obama has told National Intelligence Director James Clapper that he was "disappointed with the intelligence community" over its failure to predict the outbreak of demonstrations would lead to the ouster of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis, according to one U.S. official familiar with the exchanges, which were expressed to Clapper through White House staff.
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James R. Clapper, Jr. has extensive experience in intelligence matters, having worked in the field during his four-decade career in the U.S. Air Force and in the administration of President George W. Bush. However, his nomination by President Barack Obama on June 5, 2010, to be Director of National Intelligence was controversial due to Clapper's aggressive support for outsourcing intelligence work, including prisoner interrogations, to private contractors, and his multiple payroll connections with defense and intelligence contractors. On July 29, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to approve Clapper's nomination.

[Terry]

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YES! the topic for this thread is POLITICS:  subtitile:  "OBAMACARE"; ...but 'i'm
going to put a twist on it!


SPIN METER: Not much savings from stimulus money

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Republicans say they want to cut federal spending by raiding $45 billion from President Barack Obama's politically unpopular economic (((stimulus program))). But they won't be able to get their hands on most of that money." @" most, only about $7 billion of the $814 billion in economic recovery money awarded under the 2009 federal law hasn't already been spoken for,
IF! the Republicans wanted to get serious they'd investigate exactly where all that money went-'i' didn't get any DID 'U'?
according to the latest White House estimates. And Republican leaders now acknowledge they would be lucky to identify as much as ***$5 billion in stimulus-related spending cuts as part of a plan to save taxpayers $2.5 trillion over 10 years.
....Now 'i'm not sure 'i' understand exactly **what that said?**
$5 billion is going to cost taxpayers $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years?? ~~~O0ops! 'i' didn't see the secret words
"part of a plan"

***$5 billion goes in Obamas' secret savings account - O YEW! 'U' didn't know that (&) it's invested over seas...

[Terry]

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Iran's Khamenei says uprisings represent 'defeat' for U.S.
U.S. presses Egyptian army to bless talks with opposition
Protesters swarm Cairo for 'Day of Departure'
Speaking amid heightened security during a Friday sermon at Tehran University, Khamenei drew comparisons between Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and the recent Arab protest movements, characterizing the protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and around the region as an "Islamic awakening."

He also accused the United States of propping up corrupt leaders in the region to protect its interests and those of its ally Israel.

"This is a war between two willpowers: the willpower of the people and the willpower of their enemies," he said. "The Israelis and the U.S. are more concerned about what would happen to their interests in a post-Mubarak regime."

The protest movement in Tunisia was largely secular, while the anti-government opposition in Egypt is a loose but diverse coalition that includes the Muslim Brotherhood. Some have drawn comparisons between ousted Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the U.S.-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown in Iran's revolution.

Others, however, see more similarities between the recent Arab protests and the opposition "green movement" that swept Iran after a disputed presidential election in 2009. Footage of Mubarak supporters wielding rocks and sticks against Egyptian protesters Wednesday and Thursday was reminiscent of the violent crackdown carried out in Iran by security forces and plainclothes security forces known as the Basij, who are loyal to Khamenei.

- Los Angeles Times

This ol,boy is telling it exactly like it really is!
History has a way of repeating itself, that's what he's saying.
I won't even go into the number of times this has happened to "US"; but "WE" never seem to learn to keep "OUR" nose out of other peoples business ( which wouldn't be so bad it we backed ((( RIGHT! ))) all the time - but "WE" don't!!!
"WE" play games with other countries by forcing "OUR" will on them, [[ and YOU ]] wonder why "WE'RE" hated by so many?

How many times have "WE" backed the wrong guy and provided him with weapons to defend himself and then he gets kicked out of power only to have those same weapons used against "US"?

[Terry]

Ain't it the truth?  don't 'U' get tired of it?



When is the NEWS MEDIA! going to get real?  Report the news as it is and leave the forcasting to the Weather men, which are wrong 90% of the time also!

[Terry]

Freed young leader energizes Egyptian protests
CAIRO (AP) - A young leader of Egypt's anti-government protesters, newly released from detention, joined a massive crowd in Cairo's Tahrir Square for the first time Tuesday and was greeted with cheers, whistling and thunderous applause when he declared: "We will not abandon our demand and that is the departure of the regime." Many in the crowd said they were inspired by Wael Ghonim, the 30-year-old Google Inc. marketing manager who was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first protest on Jan. 25 to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Straight from his release from 12 days of detention, Ghonim gave an emotionally charged television interview Monday night where he sobbed over those who have been killed in two weeks of clashes and insisted, "We love Egypt ... and we have rights."

[Terry]

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Did'j here it? What Egyptian people had to say after Obama's spill! (3pm Fri. ). His mealy mouth comments concerning what was happening and what he thought should be done in the country was ignored by the people.

This was gratifying to me, because 'i' thought he had no business being in their business. "WE" can't even take care of "OURSELVES" why try to dictate to other countries what they should do?

When are "WE" going to learn to take care of "OURSELVES" and leave others alone. Contrary to current common government beliefs "WE" are no longer the voice of the [world] if "WE" ever where - how long does it take for "US" to learn this? What have "WE" accomplished by trying It?

It's ( way past time) "WE" looked out for ourselves first, and took care of our own problems and let the world do what it may!

Just one example: "OUR" 60.4 million deficit in commerce in December!

[Terry]

Dear Abby,

My husband has a long record of money problems.

He runs up huge credit-card bills and at the end of the month . If I try to
pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay
the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can
hardly keep up with the interest.

Also, he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of
them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch, to whom he
has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more.

Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the
next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he's
with Muslims.

Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in the
same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath.

It's just so horribly creepy!

Can you help?


Signed, Lost in D. C.

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Dear Lost:

Stop whining, Michelle. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. You're
getting to live in the White House for free, travel the world, and have
others pay for everything for you. The rest of us are stuck with the
bastard for two more years!


Abby

[Terry]

I keep wondering when conditions here will become so intolerable that Americans take to the streets. Nine percent unemployment, much worse than that for minorities and young people. Millions of homes foreclosed. Bankers raking in megabuck bonuses after having brought the economy to its knees. Tens of millions without access to health care. A crumbling infrastructure. Income disparity rivaling that of third world countries. Egypt has less of a gap between rich and poor than the United States. The top one percent in this country now takes in 26% of all income, and controls a third of the nation's personal wealth. Yet we continue to pursue policies that make the problems worse.

The Tea Party revolt is not what I'm talking about here. Tea Partiers, by and large, are richer, whiter and older than the general population, and hardly represent the downtrodden and the disposessed. If anything, they seem to be an extension of the angry white male phenomenon of a few decades ago, more worried about losing their place in a rapidly changing culture than about economic justice.

The deep cuts being proposed by Republicans are nothing short of cruel; aside from the obvious partisan agenda items (NPR, PBS, the EPA) they seem to be intent on cutting every program that might actually help people: preschool, higher education, health care for the poor, food safety, science funding, and the list goes on and on. Obama's budget, with its own set of cuts to essential programs, is not nearly as mean-spirited, and does include some funding for building for the future, but hardly qualifies as a responsible budget.

What disturbs me the most in both is that the Republicans seem to have succeeded in taking taxes completely off the table. In their words, "we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem," as if in the real world the two could possibly be separated. When we spend more than we make, we have both. In the past, both cuts and tax increases were always on the table. Even the sainted (and misremembered) Ronald Reagan raised taxes when it was necessary to reign in the deficit.

Missing from this discussion is the conversation we ought to be having first: what is our responsibility to each other as a society--the social contract. It's as though the only issue out there is the size of the deficit. Yes, it's huge, and we're in a pickle if we don't address it, but how can we address it in any rational way until we decide what programs are essential to the well-being of the citizens of this country? Only then can we decide if we spend too much or too little on education, on health care, on clean air and water, on Social Security, and create a tax base and a budget that accommodates our needs. That neither party even bothers to talk about it is what makes me want to man the barricades. Let's show those Egyptians what we can do. Anyone want to join me?

[size=12]I'M IN![/size]

[Terry]

February 21, 2011
The Real Revolution Has Begun
By J. Robert Smith
How delicious is irony, how fickle fate? 


Just a little more than two years ago, liberals were ecstatic about Barack Obama's election and Democrats' control of Congress.  Liberal pundits were all atwitter about the brand new Democratic Era that voters had ushered in.  America would finally become what America should have been years ago: a European-style social democracy. 


Boy, did Democrats misread their mandate!  With very little hindsight needed, it's apparent to all but ideologically-blinkered liberals that the Democrats' gross overreach isn't what voters wanted or expected.  Voters wanted a redo of the Clinton years.  Instead, in the person of Barack Obama, voters got an amalgam of FDR and LBJ with a dash of Neville Chamberlin thrown in. 


But here's the real kicker.  Two years of Obama-Reid-Pelosi overreach and excesses may have been the table-setter for the real revolution now unfolding.  Voters and taxpayers first needed to see the irresponsibility and recklessness of unalloyed liberalism to appreciate that conservative government is far superior.  Thank you, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.


Of course, the real revolution began last year with the 2010 midterm elections.  Yes, the GOP made the largest gains in U.S. House seats since 1948.  But the underappreciated story is that the GOP racked up huge gains in state legislative contests, and further down ballot, Republicans swept plenty of local offices.  State legislatures control congressional redistricting.  Republicans now dominate enough key statehouses to lock-in GOP congressional electoral advantages for a decade.     


Had voters limited their ballots to throwing out the rascals in Congress, a fair argument could be made that 2010 was just a protest vote -- an attempt by voters to shake up the Democrats.  But when voters drill down to change party control of legislatures, city halls, and county commissions, you can bet that they're thoroughly repudiating the party in power.  The 2010 repudiation of Democrats was a clear expression of what voters did and didn't want from government.


Move now to the present time.  Republicans are on the march in Congress.  Late last week, House Republicans passed a budget bill containing $61 billion in cuts.  It's not the $100 billion that conservatives aimed for, but it's substantial and can be considered a down payment.  The House Republican proposal now goes to the Senate.  The budget process wrangling is just in its first phase.  Moving forward, the GOP will have multiple opportunities to push more cuts. 


And look what else House Republicans are doing.  They're using the budget process to hamstring Obamacare by denying it funding.  Shutting down and then nixing ObamaCare would be an historic victory in the fight to end liberalism's nearly hundred-year dominance; it would be one of those critical turning points in history -- like Vicksburg and Gettysburg -- a momentum shifter that leads to other key victories, such as entitlements reform.


Also, Indiana Republican Mike Pence offered and passed an amendment cutting funding for the odious abortion mill called Planned Parenthood.  Another amendment, offered by Oregon Republican Greg Walden, that passed, chokes off funds for the Federal Communications Commission's net-neutrality gambit.  Net -neutrality would concentrate more power in the FCC's hands and stymie free speech across the internet.  Net-neutrality could well have been made in China. 


Of course, the revolution just beginning isn't confined to the Halls of Congress.  Chris Christie, New Jersey's intrepid Republican governor, fired the first shots last year in the burgeoning struggle to bring sanity back to state affairs.  Christie's efforts aren't limited to balancing state budgets and reining in taxes, important as those things are.  Christie is working to limit government and expand the playing field for the private sector.  As we're seeing, government without proper limits is a ruinous beast.  California is a prime example.     


Now newly elected Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is making headlines because he dares to say that his state is broke and that the public employees' gravy train needs to end.  Governor Walker wants to end collective bargaining for public employees, excepting police and firefighters, on the simple, common sense premise that employees shouldn't be negotiating the hours they work, among other things. 


In Ohio, Governor John Kasich is gearing up to slash budgets, rollback taxes, cut regulations, and confront the Buckeye State's public employee unions.  There'll be fireworks aplenty in Columbus. 


Thomas Jefferson is being proven right again.  The states are the laboratories of democracy.  Christie, Kasich, and Walker are seeking to demonstrate that limited, financially responsible government is best for economic and societal health.  If successful -- and we should all have high confidence that these governors will succeed -- the lessons will not be lost on voters and politicians in other states.  Revolutions are like that; it takes just a few courageous leaders to embolden others and for revolutions to spread.


A marvelous, if unintended, consequence of this burgeoning conservative revolution is what it's doing to liberalism.  The budding conservative revolution is starting to place strains on liberalism; beginning to make liberals and their allies fight defensive battles in multiple -- and multiplying -- places.  Call this a modified Cloward-Piven -- or Cloward-Piven turned on its masters. 


Challenging liberal governance, and pressing limited government reforms, will help bring down liberalism across the nation.  And that should be an indisputable aim of the new conservative revolution.  Liberalism became a pox on the nation years ago.  Marginalizing liberalism would be an incomparable service to generations to come -- and to those kids being lied to now by too many Wisconsin teachers. 


"Change We Can Believe In."  Mr. Obama's slogan always had a nice ring to it, but it was misapplied and a little ahead of its time.  With the conservative revolution, change we can really believe in has arrived.  How's that for rich irony?

[Terry]

The Supreme Court's decision to allow the Westboro Baptist Church to protest military funerals does set limits for such demonstrations, USA Today writes.

* Justice Alito was the only one to offer a dissenting opinion on the case, and he argued that "free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case,"

[Terry]






Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of Obama. It will be named the "Union Worker".

It doesn't work and you can't fire it.

[Terry]

 "LONG TERM Resolutions!"   

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I want to see some 'long term resolutions' for our current deficit situation and I want to see them now!
#"WE" can't wait any longer on Washington to do something!
* if they haven't got a plan to get "US" out of this mess ( THEY CAUSED! ) by the end of this year, it's time we joined the middle-east in a revolt!
(+) I'm serious, this has gone on long enough. This Nation is never going to make it if 'we' don't make plans now on what we're going to do!
No one wants to invest until there is some certainty in the market and a game plan for the future. This includes lowering the unemployment rate and stabilizing the economy. A forecast for the future would do this.
Our trade agreements, tariffs, and consumer agreements need to be looked @ closely and modified to fit our needs.
"WE" can no-longer afford to cater to foreign powers ( not from the US ) we must decide our own fate!
Be it [ fat or famine ] we have no choice!
It's now or never!