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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 (69613)7/30/2009 6:50:40 AM
From: TideGlider1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224729
 
The Weather changers are targeting the Seattle rats today. You are just experiencing El Nino and the stronger Japanese current. Don't worry, Antarctica is incredibly cold now. That is where we really care about temps ...right? An air conditioner and a little electricity and all will be fine.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 7:03:02 AM
From: Sedohr Nod5 Recommendations  Respond to of 224729
 
With all the sincerity of that great humanist Jimmy Carter....I implore you to take off your sweater.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 7:46:21 AM
From: longnshort1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224729
 
Drill for some of that wonderful black gold off the coast there, pipe it to the power plant and turn the AC on low, isn't tech. great, sure beats the caves where you want to take us.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 8:02:36 AM
From: lorne  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224729
 
Pelosi-district sex party XXX-rated
Street fair features nudity, despite police ‘warnings’
July 30, 2009
WorldNetDaily
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Posting warning against inappropriate behavior (Photo by Americans for Truth)

A sex party in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district is maintaining its XXX-rated character – with full nudity and public sex acts – despite promises from police that they would not allow participants to violate the various indecent exposure laws that are on the books.

A report from Americans for Truth About Homosexuality documented this year's results at the city's Up Your Alley street fair just days ago.

The San Francisco homosexual newspaper Bay Area Reporter had documented about three months ago San Francisco police promises to restrict public sex acts. They warned organizers if they do not control participants, the future of the festivities would be in doubt.

According to the report the promise from police came after two people filed multiple complaints with the city's Office of Citizen Complaints against more than a dozen officers assigned to the 2008 event.

The complaints raised questions about the officers' refusal to cite those who violated city laws by appearing nude and participating in public sex acts.

One website called Zombietime previously published a series of disturbing, explicit photographs of the events on San Francisco's streets.

Americans for Truth, run by Peter LaBarbera, also has documented the situations previously.


So this year, LaBarbera, accompanied by a volunteer, visited the "Up Your Alley" event.

"Men walked around in full frontal nudity and even engaged in oral sex acts on the streets of San Francisco at a sadomasochistic street fair here Sunday — belying reports that police and city authorities would crack down on public nudity and lewdness," he reported.

A volunteer, "Ron," with the St. Joseph's Men Society, took pictures of the event, he said.

"Ron's photos show that despite the reports that anti-nudity and -lewdness laws would be strictly enforced at this year's Up Your Alley street fair, they were not," LaBarbera's report said.

According to the volunteer photographer, who has documented the last two Up Your Alley events, "Last year, police were patrolling the UYA street fair. I encountered several police that were walking past men masturbating and exposing themselves, many completely nude. I asked the police why they were not enforcing the law. One policeman stated they were there to protect the attendees, not to enforce the laws, and were passive for political reasons. Another said that as long as the fair attendees were inside the fair they could do whatever they wanted – yet at that time I could clearly see nudity from across the street."

San Francisco police at recent street fair (Photo by Americans for Truth)

"This year, I did not see one policeman patrolling inside the fair. I did see several police talking amongst themselves at one entrance as though they were at a cocktail party. There was no attempt to patrol or enforce the laws against public nudity, sex and drug-use. One policeman told me that they were on 'fixed posts.' I did see one guy with a 'Folsom Security' vest wearing a skirt patrolling the area doing what the police were doing last year: nothing," he said.

This happened even though posted signs said, "Lewd behavior is illegal and will be interrupted."


A sex party in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district is maintaining its XXX-rated character – with full nudity and public sex acts – despite promises from police that they would not allow participants to violate the various indecent exposure laws that are on the books.

A report from Americans for Truth About Homosexuality documented this year's results at the city's Up Your Alley street fair just days ago.

The San Francisco homosexual newspaper Bay Area Reporter had documented about three months ago San Francisco police promises to restrict public sex acts. They warned organizers if they do not control participants, the future of the festivities would be in doubt.

According to the report the promise from police came after two people filed multiple complaints with the city's Office of Citizen Complaints against more than a dozen officers assigned to the 2008 event.

The complaints raised questions about the officers' refusal to cite those who violated city laws by appearing nude and participating in public sex acts.

One website called Zombietime previously published a series of disturbing, explicit photographs of the events on San Francisco's streets.

Americans for Truth, run by Peter LaBarbera, also has documented the situations previously.

So this year, LaBarbera, accompanied by a volunteer, visited the "Up Your Alley" event.

"Men walked around in full frontal nudity and even engaged in oral sex acts on the streets of San Francisco at a sadomasochistic street fair here Sunday — belying reports that police and city authorities would crack down on public nudity and lewdness," he reported.

A volunteer, "Ron," with the St. Joseph's Men Society, took pictures of the event, he said.

"Ron's photos show that despite the reports that anti-nudity and -lewdness laws would be strictly enforced at this year's Up Your Alley street fair, they were not," LaBarbera's report said.

According to the volunteer photographer, who has documented the last two Up Your Alley events, "Last year, police were patrolling the UYA street fair. I encountered several police that were walking past men masturbating and exposing themselves, many completely nude. I asked the police why they were not enforcing the law. One policeman stated they were there to protect the attendees, not to enforce the laws, and were passive for political reasons. Another said that as long as the fair attendees were inside the fair they could do whatever they wanted – yet at that time I could clearly see nudity from across the street."

San Francisco police at recent street fair (Photo by Americans for Truth)

"This year, I did not see one policeman patrolling inside the fair. I did see several police talking amongst themselves at one entrance as though they were at a cocktail party. There was no attempt to patrol or enforce the laws against public nudity, sex and drug-use. One policeman told me that they were on 'fixed posts.' I did see one guy with a 'Folsom Security' vest wearing a skirt patrolling the area doing what the police were doing last year: nothing," he said.

This happened even though posted signs said, "Lewd behavior is illegal and will be interrupted."



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 8:05:17 AM
From: Hope Praytochange1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224729
 
We can stop ObamaCare dead in its tracks if enough of you show Congress your outrage at what is being proposed. There will be plenty of time to come back later, when the economy is stronger and fix the real problems that exist with the current healthcare system without destroying it. There is no emergency, and the hype and hysteria the Obama Administration has stirred up is pure demagoguery designed to scare the American people into turning healthcare over to the government to run.

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 9:28:14 AM
From: FJB5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224729
 
That is the best possible place for a heat wave as most of the nutjobs that live there already believe in AGW. The rational people, who aren't stoned out of their minds, in the rest of the country have found out what a load of crap it is by experiencing the coldest summer ever.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 9:55:38 AM
From: FJB2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224729
 
Another record low from most trusted pollster Rasmussen - negative 12% Obama approval index. There is little doubt he will end up as the most despised President in history at this rate.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThis.Advertisement
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 28% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12. That’s the lowest rating yet recorded for President Obama (see trends).


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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 12:00:15 PM
From: longnshort3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224729
 
A Short Course in Brain Surgery

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 1:07:25 PM
From: Hope Praytochange2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224729
 
Obama’s Great Health Scare
The president resorts to the politics of fear.

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By KARL ROVE

On the campaign trail last year, Barack Obama promised to end the “politics of fear and cynicism.” Yet he is now trying to sell his health-care proposals on fear.

At his news conference last week, he said “Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage, or lose their job. . . . If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. If we do not act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day. These are the consequences of inaction.”

A Fox News Poll from last week shows that 84% of Americans who have health insurance are happy with their coverage. And because 91% of all Americans have insurance, that means that 76% of all Americans will be concerned about anything that threatens their current coverage. By a 2-1 margin, according to the Fox Poll, Americans want coverage from a private provider rather than the government.

Facing numbers like these, Mr. Obama is dropping his high-minded rhetoric and instead trying to scare voters. During last week’s news conference, for example, he said that doctors routinely perform unnecessary tonsillectomies on children simply to fatten their wallets. All that was missing was the suggestion that the operations were conducted without anesthesia.

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This is not a healthy way to wage a policy debate. It also risks making the president look desperate at a time when his proposals are looking increasingly too expensive for Americans to accept.

Last weekend, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) demolished Mr. Obama’s claims that his plan cuts the growth of future health spending and won’t add to the deficit. Responding to a White House proposal to create an independent panel to recommend Medicare cuts, the CBO said on Saturday that “The probability is high that no savings would be realized” in the next decade, while entitlement spending would rise $1.042 trillion. The CBO did say there might be $2 billion in savings in the second decade of the program—a pittance.

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag shot back at the CBO with a blog posting on the White House’s Web site arguing, “the point of the proposal . . . was never to generate savings over the next decade.” Really? The White House rolled out the proposal hoping to give cover to Blue Dog Democrats in Congress barking about the cost of overhauling health care.

The House version of ObamaCare adds to the deficit even though the new taxes to pay for part of it begin two years before the program itself kicks in. That head start puts ObamaCare in the black through 2013. But net new spending after that overwhelms future revenue to add to the deficit each year.

Keith Hennessey, who was a National Economic Council director for George W. Bush, estimates the annual deficits in Mr. Obama’s plan will grow to $64 billion a year by 2019. And this assumes that Mr. Obama gets all the tax increases and Medicare cuts he wants.

On Sunday, the CBO released another torpedo at the burning hull of USS ObamaCare. Responding to an inquiry by Rep. David Camp (R., Mich.) about whether the House bill would run a deficit in its second decade, the CBO reported it would “probably generate substantial increases in federal budget deficits during the decade beyond the current 10-year budget window.” The CBO does not believe that Mr. Obama’s proposal “bends” health-care spending down, as the president has repeatedly claimed it would. The CBO says it escalates above today’s rate.

By 2029, Mr. Hennessey estimates that new taxes will bring in $143 billion a year, while net new health spending will have increased by $348 billion a year.

Damaging reports from the CBO had earlier provoked some Chicago-style intimidation, with the president summoning CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf to the Oval Office. It’s safe to assume that they didn’t talk about the Chicago White Sox. Imagine if Mr. Bush had done that after the CBO released numbers that undercut the centerpiece of his domestic agenda. “White House thuggery” and “intimidation” would have been the theme of nearly every editorial writer in the country.

Team Obama’s pressure, however, might have caused the CBO to release its latest missives on a weekend, when fewer people are paying attention to the news.

Mr. Obama’s problem is that nine out of 10 Americans would likely get worse health care if ObamaCare goes through. Of those who do not have insurance—and who therefore might be better off—approximately one-fifth are illegal aliens, nearly three-fifths make $50,000 or more a year and can afford insurance, and just under a third are probably eligible for Medicaid or other government programs already.

For the slice of the uninsured that is left—perhaps about 2% of all American citizens—Team Obama would dismantle the world’s greatest health-care system. That’s a losing proposition, which is why Mr. Obama is increasingly resorting to fear and misleading claims. It’s all the candidate of hope has left.

Mr. Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (69613)7/30/2009 1:08:56 PM
From: FJB1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224729
 
Oh man! Another record low on Gallup - 52% approval. I wasn't expecting him to drop below 50% on these more liberally skewed polls for months and it is happening in days.

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