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The Obama File

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:40:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A wealth of information, much of it contradicting things the Obama campaign would have you believe.

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Religion

Politics

Islam

Lies

Race

The Wife

Barack Hussein Obama

A privileged African-American, who has not shared the black American experience
By birth, blood and training, a Muslim, who has been a member of a Black-African church for 20 years
A socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose tactics were conceived by Alinsky
A master at shaping his own mythology and completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief

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13 inch Waist

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:38:25 GMT

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Is there any end to what women will do to try to enhance their (perceived) beauty?

Toast of Kent

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:56:06 GMT

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It’s on of the most iconic symbols of Kent - a traditional oast house.

But you won’t have seen one quite like this before.

A food artist has recreated some of Britain’s best loved landmarks - on pieces of toast.

Dermot Flynn’s collection of bread sculptures marks the launch of a new advertising campaign by Warburtons.

The gallery of toasted landscapes includes the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Blackpool Tower, the Eden Project in Cornwall, the Angel of the North, the London Eye, and the Humber Bridge.

The oast house, representing Kent’s countryside - has been created with a slice of bread and chocolate spread.

A Warburtons spokesperson added: “We were spoilt for choice when it came to choosing the best landmarks as the UK is awash with stunning architecture and iconic landscapes.”

The Warburtons’ advert starring the t-oast house will air tonight on ITV.

The gallery of British landmarks recreated on toast

The Kentish t-oast house

Tags: art, bread, toast, landmarks, advert, food artist

Feds to look into Lee County Sheriff Scott's 'Hussein' Obama comment at Palin rally

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:06:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For the record, it's John Sidney McCain III and Sarah Louise Heath Palin.

Gee..."Heath"...does that mean she's a heathen?

And Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

The investigation, though, is not for what Sheriff Scott said, but that he was speaking ex cathedra as a law enforcement official, by virtue of the fact that he was in uniform and on duty at the time he spoke. Had he been in civvies and on his own time, it wouldn't be an issue.

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One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local ACLU and NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott’s action was racist.

On Monday, Scott appeared in his uniform in front of more than 9,000 people at a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and used Obama’s middle name, Hussein.

Scott did not refer to Palin or Republican presidential candidate John McCain by their full names at the event at Germain Arena in Estero.

A complaint sent to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel alleges that Scott violated the Hatch Act because his agency receives federal dollars, and Scott was engaging in political activity while on duty and in uniform. Erica S. Hamrick, senior attorney for the agency, said in an e-mail Tuesday that an investigation was being opened.

Tags: politics, election, mccain, palin, biden, obama

For All the Cookies

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:54:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This one makes you think... It did me.

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The Cookies

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Autumn Leaves

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:13:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A mixed bag.

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus

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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. (William Blake)

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Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes"

The film Autumn Leaves (1956) starring Joan Crawford featured the song, which was sung by Nat King Cole

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The Birch Wood, 1903 by Gustav Klimt

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Autumn Leaves by Georgia O'Keeffe

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Eliot)

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. (Edwin Teale)

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AP: Palin attack "exaggerated" or "outright false"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:01:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No evidence shows Ayers and Obama were "pals" or even close when they worked on community boards years ago

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In her character attack, Palin questions Obama's association with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground. Her reference was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were "pals" or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.

Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers' radical views and actions.

"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain's ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

Obama isn't above attacking McCain's character with loaded words

but not on the level of suggesting that a fellow senator is un-American and even a friend of terrorists.

Tags: palin, lies

New "currency" big in US prisons

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:12:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mackerel is hot in prisons in the U.S., but not so much anywhere else, says Mark Muntz, president of Global Source, which imports fillets of the oily, dark-fleshed fish from Asian canneries. Mr. Muntz says he's tried marketing mackerel to discount retailers. "We've even tried 99-cent stores," he says. "It never has done very well at all, regardless of the retailer, but it's very popular in the prisons."
Mr. Muntz says he sold more than $1 million of mackerel for federal prison commissaries last year. It accounted for about half his commissary sales, he says, outstripping the canned tuna, crab, chicken and oysters he offers.

Unlike those more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein -- want to eat it.

So inmates stash macks in lockers provided by the prison and use them to buy goods, including illicit ones such as stolen food and home-br

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When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, "I had a stack of macks."

Mr. Levine and his client were prisoners in California's Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel -- the "mack" in prison lingo -- was the standard currency.

"It's the coin of the realm," says Mark Bailey, who paid Mr. Levine in fish. Mr. Bailey was serving a two-year tax-fraud sentence in connection with a chain of strip clubs he owned. Mr. Levine was serving a nine-year term for drug dealing. Mr. Levine says he used his macks to get his beard trimmed, his clothes pressed and his shoes shined by other prisoners. "A haircut is two macks,"

There's been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004

That's when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default, the cigarette pack, which was the earlier gold standard.

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Fettuccine Hungry Girlfredo (80 calories!)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:00:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 1 point yummy alfredo...can't beat that!

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1 Point Alfredo?!

Fettuccine Hungry Girlfredo!

(80 Calories, 3g Fat, 242mg Sodium, 9g Carbs, 4g Fiber, <1g Sugars, 4g Protein = 1 Point!!!)

This recipe will rock your world. Share it with everyone you know...ASAP!

Ingredients:

1 Package Tofu Shirataki Fettuccine Shaped Tofu Noodles
1/2 Wedge The Laughing Cow Light Cheese
1 teaspoon Fat Free Sour Cream
2 teaspoons Kraft Reduced Fat Parmesan Cheese
Salt & Pepper (if desired)

Rinse fettuccine noodles VERY well. Microwave them for one minute, then drain them and pat dry. Add cheeses and sour cream. Mix thoroughly. Microwave to help melt cheese further, and mix some more. Add salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy. Serves 1.

This Fettucine Hungry Girlfredo has just 80 calories per serving, and is only 1 point on Weight Watchers (if you're counting). This is the guilt-free recipe of the century! After you try it, send us an email to let us know how you liked it.

"Oming" in on Happiness

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:07:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Compassion for others? Doesn't sound like a bad idea at all!

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Researchers Say Ancient Tibetan Practice May Improve Health & Happiness

Data from a new Emory University study suggests that individuals who engage in “compassion meditation” based on a thousand-year-old Tibetan Buddhist mind-training practice (called "lojong" in Tibetan), appears to effectively reduce the inflammatory and behavioral responses to stress that have been linked to depression and a number of physical illnesses. The practice revolves around fostering a sense of heightened compassion for others.

"Our findings suggest that meditation practices designed to foster compassion may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress and are relevant to disease," explains Charles L. Raison, MD, a lead author on the study.

The study focused on the effect of compassion meditation on inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress, and evaluated the degree to which engagement in meditation practice influenced stress reactivity.

Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:54:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Er..no comment

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Go to jail, go directly to jail. don't pass go.....

here's a video showing a car thief breaking into a car... he wasn't hard to find though...since his name and birth date were tattooed right on his neck... dumb people...

Obama Brushes Off Terrorist Ties, But CNN Digs Deeper...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:00:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whoa! If CNN is now searching...and finding...things are coming out that have been deeply buried.

Obama is so new to the political scene that most of his ties are recent and knowable. The man's character, his core values, and his concept of our United States are very, very important. Where an Obama Presidency and Administration would lead us could effect our very foundation and security.

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Obama Brushes Off Terrorist Ties, But CNN Digs Deeper & Finds There's More to the Story

Vice presidential candidate Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, said yesterday that Obama "didn't know the history" of domestic terrorist bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Undergroud movement when he attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995

CNN found the two having repeatedly crossed paths was Chicago's Annenberg Challenge project.

CNN also found that Ayers and Obama served "on the board" of a second organization, the Woods fund. "Among its receipients: Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church where Obama attended and a children and family justice center where Ayers' wife worked."

"The chairmanship of the $100 million Annenberg board helped volt him from southside Chicago lawyer to political player and that too has another connection to Bill Ayers.

“Where was that introduction made?”

“in the home of the 60s radicals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.”

The nightmare that is McCaskill

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:23:08 GMT

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October 07, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama

McCaskill's edge

I mentioned a few days ago that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill's mild affect masks a bit of a killer, and that she's perhaps the Obama campaign's deftest surrogate on the attack.

But I was still kind of amused by her brief interaction with Mitt Romney in the press file just now.

McCaskill was stepping out of her chair at the end of an MSNBC interview, and Romney was up next. She and a staffer unplugged her various wires, and she handed Romney the earpiece the guests use to hear the host.

"I spit on this before I put it in," she said to Romney, with a sweet smile.

UPDATE: Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom emails: "You should have seen what she did to the chair."

Barney is shameless

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:05:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So now Republicans hate black people and poor people? You helped cause this mess- you and your boyfriends- and now you divert the blame by calling others racist and anti-poor? This guy needs to get ran out of town on a rail.

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Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated

BOSTON (AP) - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated.

The Massachusetts Democrat, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the GOP is appealing to its base by blaming the country's mortgage foreclosure problem on efforts to expand affordable housing through the Community Reinvestment Act.

He said that blame is misplaced, because those loans are issued by regulated institutions, while far more foreclosures were triggered by high-cost loans made by unregulated entities.

"They get to take things out on poor people," Frank said at a mortgage foreclosure symposium in Boston. "Let's be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn't hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people."

Mentally Ill Killed by Medication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:02:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The gentle, artistic boy who played the cello and bass guitar was long gone.

"At 15 Daniel was being bullied at school and then started to have strange thoughts, anxiety and sleep problems. A doctor prescribed him a powerful drug called Stelazine and that was the start of a nightmare which eventually led to his death. He had bad physical reactions to the medication straight away but every symptom was seen as more evidence of schizophrenia and treated with more medication. Alternative treatments were never an option; keeping him calm was the priority.

"Daniel was really passive and never complained but my mum was convinced the medication was going to kill him. She changed GPs many times, went private, bought vitamins and demanded blood tests; getting better care for Daniel became her full-time occupation but she was accused of interfering. In the months before his death, Daniel suffered from three major epileptic fits brought on by drinking too much water. Why was he so thirsty? I

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Daniel Galvin died of a heart attack in August. He was six stone overweight and had high blood pressure; his hair was falling out and he was incapacitated by trembling legs. He was 29.

Daniel's family believe his symptoms, and his untimely death, were caused by side effects from the powerful psychiatric drugs he had been taking for 14 years. He is, they think, one of thousands of people with mental health problems who have died prematurely because their physical health was neglected.

People with mental health problems and learning disabilities die on average 10 years younger than the rest of the population, according to the Disability Rights Commission. Obesity, diabetes, certain cancers and heart disease are far more common among people taking psychiatric drugs

"When my big brother died at the age of 29, he was a fragment of the person I used to know. He was obese, had no energy; his legs were constantly restless and cigarettes had become his life.

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