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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68090)	7/8/2009 11:08:33 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224759

Biden Admission: Obama Plan Doomed KINGSTON, NY, 8 July 2009 -- Vice President Joseph Biden's admission that the Obama Administration's economic recovery plan was predicated on egregiously inaccurate forecasts consigns the entire effort to failure, predicts Gerald Celente. "The plan is based upon false premises," said Celente, Director of The Trends Research Institute, referring to White House projections used to sell the stimulus package to the nation. To make their case, Washington warned that without the Obama stimulus, unemployment, then at 7.2 percent, would rise above 8 percent in 2009 and peak at 9 percent in 2010. Yet, only midway through 2009, the unemployment rate is already 9.5 percent and rising. "This is an enormous miscalculation," contends Celente. "In real world terms, it means that 2.5 million more Americans than anticipated have lost their jobs. The inaccuracy of the forecast undermines the validity not only of the plan, but also of the planners." Joe Biden sidestepped blame, pleading "guilty with an explanation." Weaseled Biden, "The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy." NO! "Everyone else" did not "misread the economy." The Trends Research Institute read it correctly, and has been reading it correctly for decades. "How often does the government have to be wrong, and how wrong do they have to be before people and the media stop taking them seriously?" wondered Celente. "The first spending package didn't deliver as promised, and now Obama's advisors want another stimulus, as if doubling up on failure will achieve success." "If we made forecasts as inaccurate as the Obama team's and implemented similarly unsuccessful plans, and then tried to salvage the situation by repeating exactly the same mistakes, we'd have been laughed out of business long ago," Celente said. Celente contends there are but three possible explanations for President Obama and his "brilliant" team of economic advisors "misreading how bad the economy was": They're ignorant, despite PhD's and impressive resumes. They are so arrogant they are incapable of acknowledging that anyone outside the incestuous Beltway circle could possibly get it right ... when they've got it wrong. They actually do know better, but are lying. "None of these suffice as excuses," concluded Celente, "but the inability or unwillingness to make accurate forecasts appears to be a Vice Presidential prerequisite." This past January, departing VP Dick Cheney sloughed off his administration's central role in accelerating the financial crisis and failure to head it off, claiming, "Nobody anywhere was smart enough to figure it out."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68090)	7/8/2009 11:34:16 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224759

Afghanistan says 14 H1N1 cases on U.S. military base Wed Jul 8, 2009 8:42am EDT Email \| Print \| Share\| Reprints \| (Reuters) - Fourteen new cases of the H1N1 flu virus have been reported among U.S. citizens on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, the Afghan Health Ministry said on Wednesday, the second confirmed cases in three months. "In the past few days, 14 cases of the H1N1 flu have been reported from Bagram Air base among U.S. citizens. All of them were treated and have recovered and returned to work," ministry spokesman Farid Raaid told Reuters by telephone. Bagram is just north of the capital, Kabul. The ministry was conducting rapid assessments of health clinics in the area around Bagram but had so far not found any suspected cases, Raaid said. No cases of H1N1 had been detected among Afghans, he said. Raaid said the ministry had known of about four suspected cases of the virus, commonly known as swine flu, at Bagram Air Base but the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday told the health minister there had been 14 confirmed cases. The first confirmed case of the virus in Afghanistan was around three months ago, Raaid said, when a foreigner showed symptoms but returned to his country of origin. Raaid did not say what country the man was from. Bagram is the main U.S. military air base in the country, home to thousands of U.S. and other international soldiers as well as hundreds of civilian staff. On Saturday, Afghanistan's only known pig was released from quarantine, two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears. The pig, a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, was quarantined because visitors to the zoo were worried it could spread the virus to people. The World Health Organization declared on June 11 that the outbreak of the virus was a pandemic. More than 77,000 people have been infected worldwide. Most people who have caught the infection have suffered mild symptoms.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68090)	7/9/2009 7:26:43 AM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Why should they curb pollutants when the G-8 can cap temperatures! lol What a hilarious article. Evidence shows the planet temperatures went down a full degree. The entire greenhouse gas bugaboo is a socialist creation. Methane, co2 and water vapor are the greatest of greenhouse gases and co2 is the least of them. For control of methane and co2 you will have to end volcanic activity and also the release of methane hydrates, bicarbonates from vast areas of the ocean. One day perhaps the methane hydrates can be syphoned for use as fuel. However, the chasing of CO2 is nothing more than a Don Quixote windmill chasing expedition or better put exhibition performed by governments who need a boogeyman to keep citizens from looking under their beds.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68090)	7/9/2009 10:01:18 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224759

Main Content Independents begin to edge away from President Obama Tags:Barack Obama,Polls,David Axelrod,Independent VotersBack to top ListenPrintCommentEmailRecommend Subscribe.By BEN SMITH \| 7/9/09 4:32 AM EDT Text Size-+reset. President Obama?s job approval rating hits a -- still healthy -- low of 56 percent. .POLITICO 44 In a potentially alarming trend for the White House, independent voters are deserting President Barack Obama nationally and especially in key swing states, recent polls suggest. Obama’s job approval rating hit a — still healthy — low of 56 percent in the Gallup Poll on Wednesday. And pollsters are debating whether Obama’s expansive and expensive policy proposals or the ground-level realities of a still-faltering economy are driving the falling numbers. But a source of the shift appears to be independent voters, who seem to be responding to Republican complaints of excessive spending and government control. “This is a huge sea change that is playing itself out in American politics,” said Democratic pollster Doug Schoen. “Independents who had become effectively operational Democrats in 2006 and 2008 are now up for grabs and are trending Republican. “They’re saying, ‘Costing too much, no results, see the downside, not sure of the upside,’” he said. The White House denies there’s been any real shift. “The independent numbers I have seen, public and private, have been relatively steady,” Obama’s senior political adviser, David Axelrod, said in an e-mail. Another political adviser dismissed small state polls as statistically questionable and pointed out that Obama’s own numbers remain strong, by historical standards— with an average 59 percent approval rating among independents in June, according to Gallup. Pollsters from both parties debate the numbers’ meaning, but averages of public polls have shown a gentle downward trend. Obama retains extremely strong support from Democrats, and earlier this year lost much of the Republican support that followed a giddy Inauguration. It is the independents who appear to be currently on the move: Obama dropped 6 percentage points last week from the week before in Gallup’s tracking poll, and Quinnipiac University found a 5-percentage-point drop in approval from independents between early June and early July. Recent state polling shows drops over longer periods. A Quinnipiac University poll of voters in economically troubled Ohio, released Tuesday, showed Obama’s approval rating slipping 8 points, to below 50 percent, from a poll two months earlier, with a plurality of 48 percent of independent voters disapproving of his job performance. A Public Policy Polling survey in Virginia found Obama’s approval and disapproval numbers effectively tied, with independents disapproving of the president’s job performance, 52 percent to 38 percent. “That is fairly consistent with all our polling around the country — Obama tends to be really well-liked personally, but he’s starting to lose a majority of the independents,” said Public Policy’s Dean Debnam. Democrats have “had long enough in some voters’ minds that they’re getting blame for nothing happening, and Republicans are scaring them around health care and tax increases.” Pollsters differ on the degree to which the independents’ migration is driven by Obama’s policies, rather than the broader economic downturn. “Local politics is local politics, and I don’t see an awful lot of spillover from D.C. into the state races,” said Debnam. And Obama, of course, isn’t up for reelection anytime soon, and even nervous Democratic congressmen can keep their fingers crossed for economic recovery over the next year. “It’s been more or less inevitable that we’re going to see some decline in numbers for Democrats,” said Mark Mellman, another Democratic pollster. “For most folks, there’s not an election until 2010, and most economists suggest that by the time we get to 2010, we’re going to see the beginnings of an uptick in the economy.” politico.com politico.com