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Corporate Welfare

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:36:46 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: End the corporate welfare, close up the loopholes, subsidies, and the offshore enabling, and it might be feasible to lower corporate taxes to between 15 and 25 percent, on the record. Not that most don't pay this percent now...

Clip Source: www.azlp.org

Are you aware that your government, using your tax dollars, provided a grant to McDonald's to help it advertise Big Macs in Europe? Are you aware that the funding totalled $1.6 million?

It was part of a the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Market Access Program that takes taxpayer money and funnels it to wealthy corporations in the name of "promoting" American products

McDonald's isn't the only corporation that gets taxpayer money. In recent years, politicans have doled out $300,000 to Campbell's Soup, $1.4 billion to IBM, $4.9 million to Ernest and Julio Gallo Wineries, $671 million to General Electric, and $3 million to the California Raisin Brand

It's called corporate welfare

All told, there are more than 100 corporate welfare programs on the books. These programs cost taxpayers an amazing $87 billion per year

Libertarians want to turn off the Washington D.C. money spigot that enriches multi-billion dollar companies at the expense of working people

Tags: taxes, waste, corpocracy

Three White People Who Won't Be Voting For Barak Obama

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:46:53 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: People still keep talking about how racism among "working class whites" (that's media code for "po' white trash") will not vote for Obama because he is black.

I'm getting seriously tired of this. Working class people in America aren't any more racist than the class of Americans who are too wealthy to work.

Sure, there are some people who are racist and won't vote for him, and that shocks people so it gets a lot of attention. But seriously, look at these three guys: do you think they vote AT ALL? (remember, something like 60% of America doesn't!)

Nobody is talking about all the working class whites who had trouble voting for John Kerry or Al Gore. If Obama loses, it will be because of the pathetic Democratic Party itself, not because he is black.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

From left, Shawn R. Adolf, Tharin R. Gartrell and Nathan D. Johnson were arrested Sunday on drug and weapons charges.

“We’re taking it very seriously,” said Troy Eid, the United States attorney for Colorado, at a news conference on Tuesday. But he said the racist rants that the men made after their arrests on Sunday — all three for possession of methamphetamine, and two of them on weapons charges — had not risen to the level of a “credible threat” that would have allowed federal charges of threatening Mr. Obama to be filed.

Tags: obama, methamphetemines, drugs, conspiracy, assassination, white working class voters

Obama's Commie Friends

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:27:45 GMT

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Clip Source: curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com

Товарищ откровенный MARSHALL ДЭВИС

Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s Communist Mentor

Add to the list of Obama's radical left mentors, Communist party member and sexual pervert. Frank Marshall Davis.

Marshall, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Rae Dohrn, Rev. Wright, Rev. Pfleger, and Louis Farrakhan. All professed haters of the United States, and all friends, associates and mentors to Barry Obama. Like the SHAMWOW
Sells Itself guy says, "I dunno, it sells itself."

Tags: frank davis, obama

For most people college is a waste of time

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:48:05 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Imagine that America had no system of post-secondary education, and you were a member of a task force assigned to create one from scratch. One of your colleagues submits this proposal:

First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach an economic reward to it that seldom has anything to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn't meet the goal. We will call the goal a "BA."

You would conclude that your colleague was cruel, not to say insane. But that's the system we have in place.

Finding a better way should be easy. The BA acquired its current inflated status by accident. Advanced skills for people with brains really did get more valuable over the course of the 20th century

Tags: education, college, certification

Buy stuff with your P.O.W. service record

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:34:33 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Apparently, you can cash in your heroism to dodge answering embarrassing questions.

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

POW as Crutch

Tell me how McCain's response here is in any way relevant to the question:

JAY LENO: Welcome back, Sen. McCain, for one million dollars, how many houses do you have? (Laughter)

JOHN MCCAIN: You know, could I just mention to you, Jay, and a moment of seriousness. I spent five and a half years in a prison cell, without—I didn’t have a house, I didn’t have a kitchen table, I didn’t have a table, I didn’t have a chair

Tags: mccain

2008 Virginia Republicans: Greek Columns

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:18:55 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Wingnuts working overtime to ridicule the stage for Obama's acceptance speech failed to criticize the 2008 VA Republicans for doing the same - not to mention the new Bush White House briefing room. This all ya got, McCainies?

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

2008 Virginia Republican Convention Featured Stage With Greek Columns»

Reuters reports that Barack Obama will deliver his Thursday night acceptance speech before an “elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple”:

Conservatives are mocking the stage as a “temple of Obama.” Ed Morrissey writes, “That this scales heights of presumptuousness can hardly be refuted.” One anonymous McCain adviser quipped, “Is this from the Onion?” No, but it may be inspired by the stage at the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention:

Watch some video highlights of Virginia conservatives presumptuously speaking before Greek columns:

[Video]

Former Sen. George Allen delivered the keynote before the Greek columns. Watch here and here.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Featured Comment: CitiDC says, "The newly redesigned multimillion dollar Bush White House press briefing room features Greek columns as well."

Tags: mccain, obama

The key to oil independence is a new electrical grid

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:17:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It seems that with alternative sources of energy, such as wind and solar, the United States has the potential means to substantially reduce our dependence on oil - especially once plug-in cars are on the market.

But until we substantially upgrade our nation's electrical grid with modern technology that will enable the energy created by these sources to be transmitted intelligently around the county, their impact will be limited.

It's going to take a greater commitment from Congress to jump start this. Making it happen will provide a huge boost to our economy, environment and political leverage with the Middle East, Russia, Venezuela and more.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.

The grid today, according to experts, is a system conceived 100 years ago to let utilities prop each other up, reducing blackouts and sharing power in small regions. It resembles a network of streets, avenues and country roads.

“We need an interstate transmission superhighway system,” said Suedeen G. Kelly, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

“The windiest sites have not been built, because there is no way to move that electricity from there to the load centers,” he said.

Tags: alternative energy, grid, electricity, wind, solar

Rosenberg on Glenn Beck

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:58:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ROSENBERG: I’m not saying that we are definitely going to see the total fulfillment of the Ezekiel 38 and 39 prophecy in our lifetime.

GLENN: But you are not not saying it, either.

ROSENBERG: You couldn’t rule it out based on the trajectory which seems to be accelerating. Look at it. That Bible prophecy that we’re talking about, Glenn, talks about Russia coming from the north with its allies to attack Israel. Now, take out a map. Go to Moscow. Go straight south and before you get to Israel, where do you drive right through? Georgia.

Transcript.

Clip Source: flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com

GLENN:

Do you, first of all, believe that Israel will attack Iran before Bush leaves office?

ROSENBERG: Well, I wouldn’t want to predict it, but the signs are looking increasingly like that’s what the Israelis are preparing for.

GLENN: Putin thinks that he can control? ?I really think he’s looking at the Middle East as fuel. Not only control of oil but I mean actual fuel. He will use the Middle East to get his, you know, his dirty dealings done, but he really believes that he can control these crazies in the Middle East, doesn’t he?

ROSENBERG: He does. Putin, like many in the West, fundamentally misunderstands the nature and threat of the evil that is this particular regime in Iran.

I distinguish the regime from the Iranian people, 70% of whom roughly have turned away from Islam and actually are quite pro American.

Now, Putin, I think because he is not a religious person and because he comes from a communist atheist system, just doesn’t understand that Ahmadinejad and Khomeini are crazy.

Tags: rosenberg, beck, epicenter, politics

Impossible to be against violence but in favor of abortion

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:43:04 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

Clip Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

Mexico City, Aug 26, 2008 / 12:54 pm (CNA).- During his homily on Sunday, the Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, said it was a contradiction to have a national accord against violence while at the same time legalizing abortion. Mexico’s Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether or not a law legalizing abortion in the capital is constitutional.

“Our Church not only applauds but will do everything possible to support the National Accord against Organized Violence,” the cardinal said. But “to me it is a contradiction to sign an accord against violence with great fanfare while at the same time we are threatened with the violence against the most innocent, those in the wombs of their mothers, being declared constitutional.”

Tags: abortion, prolife, catholic, church

Bill Clinton home run as DNC celebrates

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:02:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: A truly magnificent speech: "My fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world."

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Bill Clinton Throws His Full Weight Behind Obama, Blasts Bush/McCain Legacy

My fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world.

Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States.

People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.

In this decade, American workers have consistently given us rising productivity. That means, year after year, they work harder and produce more.

Now, what did they get in return? Declining wages, less than one-fourth as many new jobs as in the previous eight years, smaller health care and pension benefits, rising poverty, and the biggest increase in income inequality since the 1920s. American families by the millions are struggling with soaring health care costs and declining coverage.

Full transcript below:

[Video]

Tags: clinton, obama

Obama birth cert rumors debunked - again

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:43:49 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Includes FactCheck photos; A knock on libel-meister Jerome Corsi, whose recent book Obama Nation alleges it was a fake. FactCheck handles the document and swats every allegation. Not all are included in the clip - see the article. Also found: a birth announcement in a Honolulu newspaper from 1961. Give it up, conspiracists. It is and always was baloney, and you got used to spread it.

Clip Source: www.factcheck.org

author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake."

We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.

The Obama birth certificate, held by FactCheck writer Joe Miller

Alvin T. Onaka's signature stamp

The raised seal

Blowup of text

In fact, the conspiracy would need to be even deeper than our colleagues realized. In late July, a researcher looking to dig up dirt on Obama instead found a birth announcement that had been published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961:

Tags: obama birth cert

Korean Oil Spill

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:15:46 GMT

clipped by: nicholassorlien
clipper's remarks: Offshore drilling. Great idea. This was Korea's worst oil spill in its history.

Clip Source: www.oneinchpunch.net

Soldiers from the South Korean army clean up crude-oil spills over Mallipo Beach after an accident involving a Hong Kong-registered tanker in Taean, about 106 miles southwest of Seoul, on December 10, 2007.

Tags: south korean army, oil spill, malipo beach

Sean Hannity on "demoniz[ing]" Hillary Clinton: "That's my job"

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:33:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fair and balanced! HA!

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

Summary: On Fox News, Sean Hannity stated, "If Hillary was chosen [as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee], this would have electrified" the DNC. Juan Williams replied: "I agree, but I can't believe you are saying this. You demonized Hillary." Hannity then said: "That's my job ... I led the 'Stop Hillary Express.' By the way, now it's the 'Stop Obama Express.' "

Tags: faux news, fox, sean hannity, hillary, clinton, attack

McCain's endless supply of this one card.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:45:00 GMT

clipped by: boniface
clipper's remarks: And he plays it a lot.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Pelosi's Shameful Record of Voting Against Military

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:32:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Despite the calls for improved military absentee voting procedures by the people affected most, not a single Democrat crossed the aisle to co-sponsor a bill introduced by Rep. Roy Blunt that would have created a clearer path to having absentee military ballots counted in the 2008 election and beyond.

Democrats, led by Speaker Pelosi, ultimately killed efforts to improve GI suffrage instead of working to extend the most basic democratic right to the men and women serving our country overseas. America is not fooled by Pelosi's empty words.

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Charles Henry wrote in the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: 'While virtually everyone involved...seems to agree that military people deserve at least equal opportunity when it comes to having their votes counted, indications are that in November 2008, many thousands of service members who try to vote will do so in vain.' (Washington Post, 7/24/08)

Clip Source: blog.nrcc.org

Last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the podium and shamelessly pandered to members and veterans of America's military with empty lines intended to trick the American people into believing that the Democrat-controlled Congress might have accomplished something worthwhile over the course of the last two years. Unsurprisingly, Pelosi's words rang hollow, which is to be expected from the leader of the most unpopular Congress in the nation's history. Her tepid support for the military in last night's speech can't hide the Democrat majority's shameful record of voting against military members and veterans.

Though Pelosi would like veterans to think that, despite her previous record, she is now a great supporter of the American military, she refused to support a June 2008 bill that would have made overseas absentee voting easier for military members. According to a report in the Washington Post:

Tags: pelosi, u.s.troops, absentee voting, roy blunt's bill