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Britons too ugly for dating website

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:13:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Probably the news story of the week.

Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a dating website that says it only allows "beautiful people" to join.

Fewer than one in eight British men and just three in 20 women who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted, an emailed statement from the website showed.

Existing members of the "elite dating site" rate how attractive potential members are over a 48 hour period, after applicants upload a recent photo and personal profile.

Swedish men have proved the most successful, with 65 per cent being accepted, while Norwegian women are considered the most beautiful with 76 per cent accepted, the website said.

The way that BeautifulPeople.com accepts new members is simple. A potential member applies with a photo and a brief profile. Over 48 hours, existing members of the opposite sex vote whether or not to admit them, the site said.

Options are: "Yes definitely," "Hmm yes, OK" "Hmm no, not really" and "No definitely not."

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Is Rain Depressing? Vote

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:54:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Steve started it!

Clip Source: www.facebook.com

Peggy Kratzer

I can't believe grown people can waste so much time on stupid questions (and stupid answers) and not get paid for it! Our stupidity is being wasted, folks. I love Arkansas, but we could all move to Washington, DC. and get paid for writing stupid stuff like this. Who will join me? Onward and upward! But, I demand to be the Stupid Czar, since it's my idea...the guy who holds the post now is just out of luck, but remember, CHANGE is good!

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Democrat Ben Nelson Draws a Line in the Sand on Health Care

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:28:16 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Democrat Ben Nelson Draws a Line in the Sand on Health Care

In a warning sign for the White House, Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska tells ABC News that he'll vote to block any health care bill that looks like the bill passed by the House.

"Well, first of all, it has more than a robust public option, it's got a totally government-run plan, the costs are extraordinary associated with it, it increases taxes in a way that will not pass in the Senate and I could go on and on and on," Nelson said in an interview that is part of ABC News' Subway Series with Jonathan Karl.

"Faced with a decision about whether or not to move a bill that is bad, I won't vote to move it," he added. "For sure."

The $1.1 trillion price tag on the House bill, Nelson said, is "absolutely" too high.

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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:24:23 GMT

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What Goldstone says about the US

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:48:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: History is being altered as we speak.

Clip Source: english.aljazeera.net

Opponents of the Goldstone report might well be hoping that after its lopsided condemnation in the US House of Representatives and successful relegation back to the UN's Human Rights Commission, the report will become little more than an historical footnote in a decades-long conflict

But historians can do a great deal with footnotes

When the glare of history is finally shone upon the whole affair, it might well turn out that the reasons for such vehement opposition from US politicians, and only tepid (at best) support for it among other major powers, have far more to do with their own geostrategic interests than with protecting Israel

The report, written by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, has caused uproar in Israel and the US for its alleged bias against Israel and avoidance of serious criticism of Hamas. The condemnation, House Resolution 867, passed by a 344-36 vote

Before the vote on the resolution, Goldstone sent a letter to members of Congress refuting most of the allegations

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Newsflash! Independents Not All Moderates! Wow!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:01:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not surprisingly, David Brooks,"Tool for the mainstream meme-ology" pushes the old notion that all independents are moderates, the swing vote.
John Zogby (Co-authored by Zeljka Buturovic, PhD) writes in Huffington Post.................lays out numbers showing otherwise.

Clip Source: publicdisrespect.blogspot.com

Independents are increasingly the people who would like only to return "things" to a place where they just make sense.Greater numbers want to see a REAL new type of leadership and fewer of them care which party they are from. Unfortunately the lesser educated among them, with lower impulse control, have rushed to the front with their signs. The "news media" have only been too happy to get their snapshots on their derisive portrayals of the Independent movement.

Republicans and Democrats are both on a road (granted one is in each lane, right & left, respectively) but that road is off the ground, and leading off and away to some loonyland where ponzi schemes work out all-right, all that counts is if you SAY you work for the betterment of the people who elected you, and endless money printing will eventually overcome any degree of debt no matter how many $quadrillion it totals.

They both have driven us into a degree of debt that is not salvageable.

The Ruling Elite

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:45:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not having government run health care gives these people even more reason to get re-elected.
Leave no incumbent in office.

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – More than 200 amendments were rejected by the House Rules Committee ahead of Saturday's vote on the Democrats' health care bill, including 11 that would have required members of Congress and other government officials to be enrolled in the same federal insurance plan proposed for the American people.

Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.

“If it is good enough for American families, then it is more than good enough for Washington bureaucrats,” he said. “Therefore, I decided to offer an amendment which would mandate all members of Congress, their staff, and administration officials to participate in the public option.”

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Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:39:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.gallup.com

Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote

PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July and two points last month.

The Nov. 5-8 update comes just after Republican victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, which saw Republicans replace Democrats as governors of those states.

As was the case in last Tuesday's gubernatorial elections, independents are helping the Republicans' cause. In the latest poll, independent registered voters favor the Republican candidate by 52% to 30%. Both parties maintain similar loyalty from their bases, with 91% of Democratic registered voters preferring the Democratic candidate and 93% of Republican voters preferring the Republican.

Dems Rejected 11 Amendments Requiring Congress to Enroll in same Health Plan

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:37:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Lords & Ladies of Congress are exempt from the sorry bill they are thrusting us under. "Representatives" indeed!!!

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

Dems Rejected 11 Amendments Requiring Congress to Enroll in Gov’t-Run Health Plan

More than 200 amendments were rejected by the House Rules Committee ahead of Saturday's vote on the Democrats' health care bill, including 11 that would have required members of Congress and other government officials to be enrolled in the same federal insurance plan proposed for the American people.

“If Congress forces our constituents into a public option plan over time, then members of Congress should be expected to do the same,” Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.)

the second time McKeon had tried to amend the Democrats’ health plan to include legislators in the public option.

Young Voters

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:37:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They can't drink when they are 18 but they can vote at 18. Please let them drink at age 18 and vote at age 21. They will do less damage during presidential elections.

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

In November 2008, 658,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 782,000 did so in Virginia. In November 2009, 212,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 198,000 did so in Virginia. In other words, young-voter turnout this year was down two-thirds in New Jersey and three-quarters in Virginia.

The scary story for Republicans was plain a year ago. Young voters went 66 percent to 32 percent for Barack Obama, while voters over 30 went for Obama by only 50 percent to 49 percent. Some analysts projected an enduringly Democratic Millennial Generation that would send the Republican Party the way of the Whigs.

Young voters cast 441,000 votes for Obama in New Jersey but only 121,000 for Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine

Young voters cast 469,000 votes for Obama in Virginia and provided him with 70 percent of his statewide plurality, but they only cast 87,000 votes for the hapless Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds

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AP: House Healthcare bill Nowhere to go in Senate

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:18:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Liberals may have to swallow hard and accept a deal without a public plan in order to keep the legislation alive.

Clip Source: www.google.com

Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate

WASHINGTON — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said dismissively.

Democrats did not line up to challenge him. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has yet to schedule floor debate and hinted last week that senators may not be able to finish health care this year.

Tags: healthcare, politics

"One term" Obama's credibility SHOT!!!!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create new sources of campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions as possible. There are now a large number of private companies that have never made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the public trough that drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans with debt service obligations.

Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

Republic of Fools: The Evil Empire

by Paul Craig Roberts

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.

Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change, but has delivered none.

Voters are already recognizing the writing on the wall and are falling away from Obama and the Democrats. Independents who gave Obama his comfortable victory have now swung against him, recently electing Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia to succeed Democrats. This is a protest vote, not a confidence vote in Re-publicans.

Congressman Kucinich addresses vote on H.R. 3962

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:20:15 GMT

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Clip Source: kucinich.us

"This health care bill continues the redistribution of wealth to Wall Street at the expense of America's manufacturing and service economies which suffer from costs other countries do not have to bear, especially the cost of health care. America continues to stand out among all industrialized nations for its privatized health care system. As a result, we are less competitive in steel, automotive, aerospace and shipping while other countries subsidize their exports in these areas through socializing the cost of health care."

Congressman Kucinich addresses vote on H.R. 3962

(November 7, 2009)

Israeli Activists Criticize US House

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:28:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Transcript at the source, has more detail.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

The House is expected to overwhelmingly vote today to condemn a UN inquiry that found Israel committed scores of war crimes in its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip. Headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the inquiry also accused Hamas of war crimes and said both sides should investigate the allegations or face international prosecution. Over 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack, a majority of them civilians. Nine Israelis were killed by Palestinians and another four by so-called friendly fire. The bipartisan, non-binding House measure calls the Goldstone inquiry “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.” The vote comes one day before the United Nations General Assembly is expected to take up the inquiry’s findings. [includes rush transcript]

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Health Care Takeover Roll Call Vote — and What GOP Rep. Joseph Cao Got from Obama

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:29:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, since he was elected, Cao has backed the S-CHIP expansion, the $108 billion IMF bailout, and the omni-waste spending bill. And he voted to rebuke GOP Rep. Joe Wilson for calling out President Obama on his health care lies.

That is a steep price to pay for Rep. William Jefferson’s removal.

Can’t the GOP do better?

For what it is worth, here is the cheap price the Democrats paid for Cao’s vote:

Louisiana Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao on Sunday morning released a statement after he voted as the only Republican in favor of the Democratic health care reform bill.

The health care reform bill, dubbed the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” (H.R. 3962), passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a 220 " 215 vote.

“Tonight, I voted to keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortion and to deliver access to affordable health care to the people of Louisiana,” Cao said in a statement released by his office. “I read the versions of the House

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

The final 220-215 roll call vote on passage of the House Dems’ government health care takeover bill is here.

And here is the 240-194 roll call vote on the Stupak amendment to extend the ban on federal abortion subsidies to Obamacare/Pelosicare.

Thanks to Doug Powers for filling in while I spoke at the Foundation for Life event in Sugar Land, Texas tonight. What an incredible juxtaposition it was — meeting and talking with the true agents of Hope and Change, the true guardians of innocent life, and the true advocates for women and children outside the Beltway as the Democrat majority inside the Beltway rammed the massive, job-killing, high-taxing, bureaucracy-multiplying, generational debt-piling health care monstrosity down America’s throat.

One Republican voted for Pelosicare: GOP Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao of Louisiana.

Yes, he’s the one who took over corruptocrat Democrat William Jefferson’s seat.

I had reservations about him on election night because of his soft-on-immigration views.

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